At a campaign rally in West Palm Beach, Florida last week, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) spoke about former President Trump.
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Congressman Mike Waltz.
00:20Alright, show everybody, let's show everybody who we're going to get elected.
00:40Donald J. Trump.
00:44Listen, I stand before you proudly, as a 27-year Army veteran and the first Green Beret ever elected to the United States Congress.
00:56And, just returned from Normandy, from the 80th anniversary of D-Day,
01:04my wingman Cory Mills was right there with me when we jumped 10 veteran members of Congress out of a World War II aircraft
01:14in vintage uniforms to honor our forefathers that at 18, 19 years old, literally saved the world on the beaches of Normandy.
01:25Now, Speaker Johnson was a little bit nervous.
01:28He said, you know, Michael, we only have a one-seat majority and you're taking 10 Republicans with you.
01:35I said, Mr. Speaker, the uniforms are vintage, the plane is 81 years old, but don't worry, the parachutes are new.
01:43And he said, still, I said, well, I've got a backup plan, we're taking a Democrat with us, so if we lose one,
01:52No, in all seriousness, in all seriousness, I want to tell you a story about Donald J. Trump that you'll never hear in the media
02:04because the mainstream media just doesn't want to talk about what an incredible man President Trump is.
02:13The world is on fire right now and the world is on fire for all kinds of reasons, but mainly because of weakness in the White House.
02:22And it all started with the despicable, disgraceful stain on America's consciousness that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was.
02:34And just a few several months ago, we had the 13 Abigail Goldstar families to the House for a hearing.
02:47And one of the dads said, you know, I've been quiet for years because he was desperate to get answers from the Biden administration.
02:57By the time he got to us, he had had it. He said, I am neck deep in Biden's bullshit. I have had it. I am over it.
03:05You remember the dad that stood up in the State of the Union because Biden won't even say Afghanistan, much less the names of their sons and daughters that they lost.
03:17Well, Biden wouldn't even give them a meeting. So I called up President Trump and said, I told him what was going on.
03:24He said, get him up here, Michael, get him up here. He was supposed to spend an hour with him.
03:29He ended up spending six hours with them, met with each one individually, signed anything that they wanted.
03:38And importantly, promised them when he gets back into the White House, he is going to release all the tapes, all the video, all the everything that they deserve.
03:51He will drive accountability for their loss. No one's been fired to date.
03:57Donald J. Trump gets in. We're going to clean house in the Pentagon and in the deep state.
04:06After it was all over, then he invited him for dinner and we shut down the restaurant.
04:11Three of the moms, they were laughing, they were crying.
04:14They came up to me afterwards and said, this is the best thing that's happened to me since I lost my son.
04:18That's the Donald J. Trump that we know. That's the Donald J.
04:22Trump that we are going to elect into the White House again and that the media never wants to show you.
04:28But look at where we and I guarantee you as commander in chief, he won't be checking his watch as a flag draped coffin.
04:37It goes by. But just look at where we are now.
04:40Just in a few years, the world is on fire.
04:43And the number one job of the present United States is to keep us safe as commander in chief.
04:49We had a commander in chief in Trump that had ISIS defeated.
04:53Iran broke Abraham Accords, breaking out and stood with our ally Israel no matter what, as they faced the threats that they face.
05:03And now we have the world on fire. We had a commander in chief that was putting tariffs on China.
05:08Now we have one with spy balloons floating over our nuclear sites.
05:12We had a commander in chief that told Putin, don't you dare. I'll take the tops off the Kremlin.
05:17I hope President Trump tells that story tonight.
05:19And now you have Putin sending warships right off the coast of Florida and down into Cuba again.
05:26And I think the thing that pisses me off is when it comes around the world, President Trump and our allies,
05:35President Trump saying you all got to pay up. NATO, you need to pay up.
05:39What is Biden saying? Biden's telling the American taxpayer to pay up.
05:45But the thing that's so upsetting is President Trump, I can tell you as a veteran,
05:49he made sure that our military had the planes, the tanks, the missiles, everything that they need.
05:55What's Biden's people doing?
05:57They're running around renaming bases, putting solar panels on, trying to trying to generate electric tanks.
06:04Electric tanks. I kid you not. There's no charging stations in the Middle East.
06:08The last I checked, this is what we're dealing with.
06:12And most of all, you've got Joe Biden who lost his secretary of defense for a week.
06:18He gets lost on the stage. But you remember, his secretary of defense just disappeared and zero accountability.
06:26Look, folks, we need a commander in chief that cares.
06:32We need a commander in chief that is strong.
06:35We need a commander in chief, most of all, that our enemies respect and that our enemies fear.
06:43And you all are going to get that commander in chief back in office.
06:48It's easy to yell at the television. It's easy to post on social media.
06:52But you all, the ground troops of the MAGA movement, of the America first movement, are going to get Donald J.
07:00Trump elected again. We need Donald J.
07:04Trump in that White House. Our allies need Donald J.
07:07Trump in that White House. The world needs Donald J.
07:10Trump in that White House. And you all are going to do it.
07:14And we stand squarely behind him.
07:17Look, I'm going to hand this over. We are on the front lines with the progressive left in the House every day, day in and day out.
07:28We are fighting the squad. And this next speaker is in the trenches, too, over in the Senate.
07:35We have great senators. We have a great team up in Washington, D.C.
07:40And I don't know, maybe Florida might have a new vice president. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.
07:50But let me hand this off and introduce our great Senator Marco Rubio.
07:57We'll see what President Trump decides, but it is a team effort. It is a team fight.
08:02It's got to happen at the local level, at the state level, at the federal level to make America great again.
08:08God bless you. I salute you. Let's win.