RADIOJanuary 06, 2025

Why Trump Supporters Should "THANK" Fani Willis?!

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been disqualified from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump – and BlazeTV host ‪@lizwheeler‬ says Trump supporters should THANK her?! Liz and Glenn discuss how Fani Willis has been a “gift” to Trump, thanks to her scandals. But is her removal from the case enough to end it? Glenn and Liz also discuss another blessing that looked bad at first: Donald Trump’s loss in 2020 …

Transcript

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GLENN: I want to talk about a couple of things that have been in the news this week. That we haven't really had a chance to focus on.

And the first one is Fani Willis.

Fani has been kicked off the case with -- with Donald Trump for -- what was it? Conflicting interest. That's not what they say.

What was it, Liz? She was kicked off -- for I don't know.

Completing --

LIZ: Yeah. This is what Trump's attorney said. It was a conflict of interest. She was having an affair with the prosecutor that she appointed to go after Trump. Just a smidge of a conflict of interest.

GLENN: Yeah. Kind of a conflict of interest.

LIZ: Yeah. A little one.

GLENN: Yeah. Barrel even noticed.

LIZ: This is what Trump's attorney Steve Sadow said. He said, as the courts rightfully noted, only the remedy of disqualification are suffice to restore public confidence. That's correct.

GLENN: Yep. Yep.

It's absolutely correct. By the way, people of Georgia should fire her.

I mean, in my opinion, she absolutely perjured herself, and is just not -- not somebody that I would want and feel comfortable, even if I agreed with her.

I wouldn't feel comfortable that she would apply justice equally, to every man, including me.

So that looks -- you don't think they will bring it up, and assign somebody else to the case. And keep doing this, do you?

LIZ: I don't think they can.

Because they lost public trust. Not that that should be an indicator of whether justice is served or not.

It actually shows you it's a kangaroo court. Because they're just monitoring public opinion.

Do people think we're okay? Can we push it a little further?

I don't think they can.

I mean, especially given the fact that other cases against Trump, brought by the special counsel have been dismissed and dropped because he's going to be the sitting president.

I actually would like to take a moment and thank Fani Willis. Because as corrupt as she was, she was the biggest gift that had been given to the Trump campaign.

GLENN: All of these were!

LIZ: Imagine if she had been a buttoned up, smart, ethical, competent person. I mean, Trump didn't have to do anything. He just had to sit back, shh. And let her do her thing.

GLENN: And they were all like that.

You know, the one thing I really learned, I learned this during my alcoholic years. I'm sorry. It's so noisy here. I'm at AmFest.

The doors are not even open yet. And there's just a crazy sound everywhere. When I was an alcoholic, the thing that I had to do, was surrender.

I had to surrender my will. And stop trying to force my will.

Thinking, I know better than God.

Well, I'm still learning that over and over again.

For instance, in 2020, I was convinced, we were doomed. We were doomed. You know, and we've got to -- we've got to do everything we can. That part was true. What the Democrats failed to learn is what I learned in 2020.

Sometimes failure isn't bad. In fact, it's usually not bad. If you learn the lesson, and the lesson I learned in that failure was.

Oh, my gosh. God is not neutral. That happened for a reason.

And now he's coming back, stronger, more informed. Ready to fight another four years.

Where it would have been just more of the same for the last four years. America changed and put us in this position to actually have transformative change coming our way right now.

Stop forcing your will.

When you just say, you know what, I'm not smarter than God.

I'm not smarter than the American people.

I trust the American people.

It will work out, in the end. And they just won't learn that. They -- they tried everything they could, by hook or by crook, to convince the American people, that he was a fascistic, racist, monster. Who should be in jail.

And the more they pushed that lie, the more people on their side went, I don't -- this is ridiculous.

They were the biggest gift to the Republican Party. The Democrats. And the strategists.

LIZ: Isn't that the thing about Trump though. He actually does surrender himself, in the case of Fani Willis. Quite literally. That mug shot was probably his biggest in-kind campaign donation that we've ever seen.

But Trump does surrender himself, and trust the American people whom he represents, in a way that I've not seen any other politician do.

He listens, and is humble enough to change his mind.

STU: Ronald Reagan was the closest to that. But I think the -- you know, Ronald Reagan said, he need has their time.

And he said, I haven't changed since the 1960s.

But it wasn't my time.

And then all of a sudden, time catches up with you.

And you lock into a slot. And how much time, that lasts. You know, you don't know.

That's one of the problems with the media. Is they might lock in. And they will get their fame and fortune.

And then their time stops, but they force their will. And they start compromising. And selling themselves.

And it doesn't get any better. Look at the mainstream media.

Their time is up. But they're doing everything they can. And they've become prostitutes. Complete and hotel whores.

Because they -- they won't accept it. Ronald Reagan accepted it. But it was his time, I think the people kind of caught up to him.

Donald Trump trusts two things: His gut, which I have to tell you, is one of the best guts I've ever seen. And the second is the American people. He knows. He just knows. They get it. And if they don't, they will. Which is powerful.

LIZ: Think about his most powerful moments from this year. Think about when -- I mean, think about when -- who didn't get that thrill of excitement seeing Donald Trump working at McDonald's.

It didn't feel inauthentic the way that politicians kissing babies sometimes does.

It felt like him saying, no. I'm a billionaire. I don't actually work at McDonald's. I'm not pretending that I was raised in a middle class household like Kamala pretended.

But he's saying, I see you. I feel what you're going through, and I'm here to be your champion. Because I get it.

GLENN: And you know why that was so authentic? Two reasons: He likes people. Okay?

He likes -- he likes the American people.

He likes -- I think he probably likes, you know, the average person, that works at McDonald's, more than he likes some of the rich fat cats that hang out in Mar-a-Lago. You know what I mean? Honestly, I really think so.

He likes people. That is very unusual for a politician. He likes people.

Then he's also a McDonald's eater. He loves McDonald's.

And he enjoyed his time, you know, figuring out the fryolater.

Oh. I finally get to make the fries that I love so much!

You know, so it was all genuine, even though, he was a billionaire, working an hourly job.

LIZ: Well, he's intellectually curious. He was interested in the promise that went into something that he liked.

Which is why he was such a successful. Or is a successful businessman and an architect and builder. Because he cares about those details.

Did you see that video of him? I think it was from last week, where he was so involved in the design of his set. That he had them put a table, put water on the table, put the doily under the water.
Then take it away.

And he genuinely cared about what the setup looked like. It was lovely.

I watched it like three times.

GLENN: I did. Oh. He is such a freak about that. I did not know that.

I know he was a freak on just about everything. But he's obviously -- I know he's a television guy.

I mean, he gave a speech. I was in the audience. I don't remember where this was.

He gave a speech. Any of us the audience.

So was Mark Burnett.

And it was like part of that speech, he was just talking to me and Mark about how television work. And I was like, you know, there are other people here.

Because he kept looking at me, right, Glenn?

Right, Mark?

And I realized, this guy doesn't just go on a television show. This is the difference between stars and -- and genuine phenomenas. Phenoms come from somebody who comes in and doesn't want to be a star, is excited by the process. Has something to say. Knows their own self, and then explores.

And the American people have always traditionally liked explorers. Even if it's just somebody exploring this job. And exploring this new thing, that I've never done before.

But I want to learn everything about it.

That's -- that's what he has.

And if you have that curiosity, and the soul of an explorer, in everything you do.

From building a building. Or working the fryolator at McDonald's. You're going to be a phenom. I'm convince it of.

LIZ: Plus, I think when we see a politician that is a celebrity, and this is true for me. I always want to know what they're like, quote, unquote, as a real person.

How do you interact with your wife? What are you like with your children? Are you a present part of your grandchildren's life?

How do you treat your employees. And we hear all these gossipy stories out of Washington, DC, about Kamala Harris' staff. This huge turnover. Being annoyed because she's rude to them, always glued to her phone. Never present.

Gets 50 people to get a hold of her.

And then you see the way Donald Trump talked to the production assistance in that video.

He wasn't barking at them.

He wasn't dehumanizing them. He was being respectful of their craft, and taking part in it.

And I think that's such a public measure of someone's character.

How they talk to people who are in much lower subordinate positions.

GLENN: Yes!

I told my daughter when she walked offstage this week. I said: Go, and thank all of the stagehands, when they're not busy.

Thank them. They just made you look good. Thank them.

Care about them.

And to go back to Donald Trump, when I was at Mar-a-Lago first time doing an interview with him there.

After it was over, he said, what are you doing for dinner?

And I thought he was talking to me, and it was uncomfortable because everybody else was in the room, that was with me.

And most of them were wearing like black pants and a black T-shirt.

They were dressed to be, you know, people on the set.

Not to be seen.

And I said, well, I think we'll all probably go to McDonald's.

And he said, no, no, no, no. And he looked at the room and said, you're all coming with me to have turn. We're having dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

The place was packed. Absolutely packed. And you don't go to Mar-a-Lago without a jacket or a tie. You know, these guys were in jeans and T-shirts.

He did -- I thought when he said that, he was talking to me.

He was talking to everybody in the room. They were just as important to him, as I was. And I thought, wow!

That's a real man! That's a really good guy!

So all right. Let me come back here in just a second.

More. We have, by the way -- we will be talking to Chip Roy.

He just got out of a meeting with Vance. I think this will be the only interview he's going to give. And he's going to give us the inside scoop of what happened this morning.

I'm against what he did yesterday. But I'm for it, in principle.

I just think it's a matter of time.

Give Donald Trump what Donald Trump is asking for, right now.

Until he proves us wrong. Until he proves us wrong.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.