The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 5/31/24

Episode Date: May 31, 2024

It is a dark day in America. In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s guilty conviction, Glenn asked himself the same question Benjamin Franklin asked during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence: Is this a setting sun or a rising sun? Glenn, Jill, and Jason discuss the path the Left took to successfully charge and convict Trump. Glenn, Jason, and Jill give their thoughts on Trump’s first big speech.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, I was angry and really depressed. It's a way to work through all of our emotions when you just get to let it out for three hours. It's really kind of a therapy. therapy session today more than it is a podcast. But join us. You'll feel better once you lay down on the couch. I want to tell you about a man named John from New Jersey. John's a former Marine. He has been a volunteer firefighter for the past 19 years, heavily involved with his local branch of the American

Legion. He's also been chairman of the Memorial Day prepared for over a decade. He's involved in his small town local politics, serves both as the deputy mayor and the town committeemen. He's a busy guy in his community. The other thing he does full-time is he's a great real estate agent. And I'm proud to say that he's one of the guys that we would recommend you if you happen to be moving in or out of his area. We partner with the top sellers, but we also partner with good, solid people. That's why we practically do a rectal exam. I mean, it's the only we're one rubber glove shy from that. We want to know who these people are and know what sort of people that we're recommending and sending into your life. And I can tell you, we get letter after letter

after letter after letters going, I didn't have a real estate agent. I made a friend in the end. You have to be able to trust your real estate agent. And that's the kind of people that we will send your way. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Name says it all. Real estate agents. I trust.com. You're listening to. The best of the bliss. I asked myself something that Ben Franklin

asked himself as they were writing the Declaration of Independence and as they were going through what they went through, he sat in his chair after the Constitution and he had been looking at

John Hancock's chair and it had a son on it, half a son. And he said, this whole time I have been sitting here thinking, wondering, praying, is that a setting sun or a rising sun? He deemed at the end it was a rising sun. I asked myself yesterday, is this a setting sun or a rising sun? Is this the day historians will write down as the end of America, where it's the day, people were still asleep and just didn't really recognize it?

Or is it the beginning of a new chapter? We are in our history and in our lives faced with challenges that test our resolve all the time. Push us to the limits. And it's in these moments where everything seems unwinnable. Everything seems so steep. The odds are all against us. and those are the times you discover who you really are. Those are the times you forge your character.

We as a nation because we have been fat and lazy and we have had everything handed to us. Don't really know who we are. Most people never change because they're afraid. Lisa, I'll speak for myself. When I was at my worst, I was afraid there was. nothing good in me. There was nothing good to discover, so I was afraid to look. But you'll never find those things unless you look, unless you embrace the hard things. You have to understand that every trial, every setback will make you stronger, will make you wiser, will make you more

gentle. America, today is the day of choosing. Today is the day of choosing. Today is the the day. It is now our turn to step up and save the Republic. And the world, make no mistake, the world is watching. And I hope you feel the weight of that expectation. I hope you realize the sting of failure that will come if we don't step up. I thought a lot about Roger Kipling last night. I thought a lot of Teddy Roosevelt. If I may paraphrase his poem in the man in the arena, it is not the critic who counts, but the one who dares to step into the ring to risk everything,

who will fail over and over and over again, but continues to get up, tired, face marred with blood and mud. But he goes up again and again. and again. It's really easy to quit. It is. It's easy to say, well, we have no chance. Easy to be knocked down.

And as humiliating as it is to lie face down in the dirt, that's exactly what every bully wants you to do. That's why every bully, they command, stay down. Don't get up again. Stay down or I'll give you a bigger beating. but the man who inspires others to stand continues to get up, wobbly, barely able to fight, but he refuses to bend the knee, refuses to surrender to the bully. Failure is not the end.

Nor was this stain on American justice yesterday. It is simply a stepping stone to the path of greatness, a stepping stone to make America great again. That's not just a slogan for a campaign. That is true. We have lost our way. We have become an embarrassment for everything we say we stand for. Each fall teaches us resilience. Each setback strengthens our determination. Every, time the bully knocks us down and says stay down every time we get up there's someone in the crowd watching who then turns our way and sees the bully for who they really are oh lord hear the words of my mouth save our republic but he will only match us if we don't get up he will not help us. If we don't follow him, he will not, he cannot help us. So what we have in front of us

today is a decision. Do we get up or do we lie down face down in the dirt? What is possibly worth taking these beatings? Donald Trump is just a symbol. He's a symbol of what bullies do to anyone who refuses to play it my way. To stay down. Police come to town all the time, and they teach everybody in town, go along, get along, whisper. Don't you even whisper?

Don't you try to help that beaten man stand up? Don't do it. We must decide, will we stand idly by while the crowds chant Barabbas? We want Barabbas. Building anything of value, whether it's a country, a career, a relationship, or simply our own character requires unwavering dedication. We have to be willing to get back up time and time again.

To face our fears, to face our doubts, to press on no matter what happens to us, it is through that relentless effort that we become Americans. We discover our true potential, not just as people, but as a people the world has always known as Americans, not the kind of Americans we've become, but the kind of Americans we've all striven to be or thought we did. I've always believed the American was, defined by a can-do spirit.

The people who crossed the Rockies, tamed the West, changed the world, rescued and healed. I didn't realize how much until I studied history. Real history, not the crap they teach you in school. Real history. I never really understood how stained our name is

from those in power, those who only serve through corruption and greed and sometimes out and out evil. But I have truly always believed, and I still do today, that the American truly believes in honor and integrity and truth and justice, that that is the American way. I will tell you this. Yesterday, for those who live in the shadow of fear around the world, yesterday may have changed that belief for those people,

but it did not change it for me. I will not surrender to those words. I will not surrender to the belief that puts me and other Americans into action. Yesterday was a defeat, but we are not done. Each of us coming together, you're not going to do anything grand. I'm not going to

do anything grand. I'm not telling you today anything you don't know. We just have to remember every step forward, no matter how small, contributes to the journey where people who continue to stand up. Those people who refuse to give in always end up winning. The value is not in just the destination, but the courage and perseverance that we show along the way.

It wasn't that we always won with no cost. Americans have always paid a high cost for what we believed in. That's what's admirable. And quite honestly, I think that's what Americans have lost that put us into this position. By doing the hard things, by refusing to give up, we build a legacy of strength and integrity. And I fear we've squandered it because we didn't understand it. That's what we've lost. That is what the world will lose should we fail.

Should America fail? In today's world, everyone seems to get a trophy, which makes the trophy absolutely worthless. Because unless it's fought for, unless you struggle to earn it, it doesn't belong to you. The same for freedom, unfortunately. I've never earned our freedom. I fear I spent much too much of my life. Squandering it. And for what?

Ease? Money? Just to get along to go along? A trophy that everybody gets? There's a few statements that I want to make today that I hope you will echo. I do not accept, nor do I want that damn trophy. I want one that means something. Scriptures tell us there must, very important word,

there must be opposition in all things. That means freedom of speech is something that God commands us to do. There must be opposition in all things. So let us be led by the principles of the gospel and be that opposition. and worthy and ready to fight the darkness. I will never say we are finished. I will never utter the words we have lost. Because defeat is not an outcome.

Defeat is a choice. It always sucks before you get to the summit. The question is, as you're driving your wagon train over the Rocky mountains. Do you give up or do you press on? Let me ask you this. Do you actually have an unwavering belief in our republic? Do you even really know the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution? Do you know why we fight? Because if you don't know, you will lose. Will enough of us call upon that something that is Always been said is bred inside of us, and I no longer believe that.

Will you call on whatever it is deep inside of you, that unyielding spirit, to stand for those values that we've been told our whole lives are self-evident? Well, apparently they are not self-evident anymore. It is the greatest mission statement the world has ever seen. When you tell me and give me a choice, I will drop America in a heartbeat. If you can tell me we are fighting for something greater than the opportunity to create a country where all men are created equal

and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, where justice and freedom can be had by all. We've never, ever gotten there. So here we are on the side of the mountain, and we're asking ourselves today, do we just go back down? Is this as far as we go?

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All right. We have Jason. Buttrill on with us today. He's my head researcher. He is a guy who has been, we have been researching the Great Reset and the Color Revolution and all of this crap for, gosh, over a decade now together, have we? How are we sane from that? Oh, we are? Yeah, that's a good point. Okay, all right. And Jill Savage joins us. There's a new program starting on Blaze at the end of June, and I can't tell you how excited I am. for this. This is this I've seen this in the works here for eight months to a year and we're

really doing this one right and it's great to have you with us. You're going to be the host of the new program that begins in late June. They'll make an official announcement, I'm sure, soon. But welcome. Thank you. And a huge viewer of all of the chalkboards. I love them and I still somehow have my sanity even as a viewer of all of these years watching them. So you came from the sports world, right? I did. Yeah. What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you here? Why have you chosen to, to, you know, you're going to end up looking like me.

I hope not, Glenn. No offense. I hope not. But I think this was always part of my plan. I grew up sitting next to my dad and whatever he liked I liked. So it was sports history and politics. I knew, I would say things before they would, the announcers would say them on the game. And I was in junior high and I was like, that's so easy. I'm going to do that. Not realizing all the work that you have to put in behind the scenes. But then I always knew when I was 18 years old.

I said at some point I will turn over to politics. And I grew up watching your show and, you know, Butchroll was one of the first people that I saw when I got to come in here as a contributor for the first time. And just talking with you guys and seeing that this is what I feel like I was meant to be. be doing the whole time. Sports was fun and I got to do really cool things. But at the end of the day, if there's not a country left, the sports don't matter. Right. I have almost the same story, except it was alcoholism, not sports. Alcoholism was fun, but I had to give it up and do something of kidding. Can I go in reverse and get the job you left? Can I go to the sports world? I'll give you my connection. Don't worry. We'll put you in contact. You know what, it is. I mean, this,

the blaze, and I want to start with this and make sure this is, you understand, this is, I am not comparing myself or my situation or our situation in any way to the situation of Donald Trump. This is a little teeny example of it. But one of the things that has happened at the blaze is we have started so many careers here. I mean, a lot of people started with the blaze. And the influence is tremendous now. We are the largest conservative video, what is it? Video platform or video consumption. I can't remember what this stat is.

In the world. In the world. It's crazy. Here's why I bring this up. What they did to Donald Trump, Cheryl Atkinson in her book, will tell you, all of these things started and they thought they perfected it when they took me down.

Yep. Tried to take me down. Okay? And one of the things I said, the last show on the air, you will wish for the days when I was only on at 5 o'clock on Fox. Because I knew what we were going to build. Now, it's not just my voice. It's your voice.

It's your voice. It's hundreds of voices. Daily wire. All of these things sprouted up because we made that first move. That they don't understand. And they showed it again with what they did with Donald Trump. Every time they throw another charge at him, his ratings went up. Yeah.

Every time with this, do you think that's going to shake his voters? No. No. And I saw person after person after person last night on Twitter saying, I don't even like Donald Trump. I never voted for Donald Trump. But to hell with this, I see who they are now. I'm voting for Donald Trump or I'm contributing to Donald Trump.

Yeah, absolutely. And I pulled some of these tweets. Christine Flowers said, breaking news. Donald Trump just won the race, not because of him, despite him. My vote is going against the people that destroyed my faith in our judicial system. Wow. Daniel Bosick said, and I'm an RFK guy. And I can't believe I'm saying this.

I just donated to Trump 24. I can't take this anymore. These freaks are destroying our country. More when you look at Jeremy Tate, he says, I don't love Trump, but the far left just pushed me into his camp. What a joke. And this was echoed all night long. People who don't like Trump, right?

We know MAGA is out there. We know that they're in his corner. People who didn't like him are now saying, I can't believe what I'm seeing. what I'm seeing, what my country has turned into. I have to tell you, I wrote last night a couple of things on X. One, for a group of people who seem to love jihad, they seem to be in bed with Hamas and Al-Qaeda and everything else, what is this the worst thing you can do to a movement like that? What's the worst thing you can do?

Silent, try to silence it or suppress it. Kill their leader. Yeah. Okay. Wipe their leader out. You make them into a martyr. It's why we dumped Osama bin Laden's body into the ocean. So there would be no body to go and worship.

Okay. What are they thinking? You guys love that. You know that jihadists are like, go ahead, kill our leader. Do it. Do it. Do it. Yeah.

I tweeted the same kind of thought yesterday with, uh, watch episode Five of Star Wars. Go ahead. Strike me down. You will only make me more powerful. These people are morons. Well, are they? And that's what's even more concerning. Well, two things happened yesterday as a result of this. One, the biggest online source for funding the GOP was, you know, when Red, crashed because of this outcry and all the people donating. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Is that not? No, no, no, wait a minute. I heard on a news broadcast. Oh.

And I say news, in quotation marks, a cable news outlet, I think it was seen. I don't remember who it was. I don't want to blame anybody. But they said, well, that website crashed because they added a comment from Donald Trump, and it just hadn't reset, and so it caused it to crash. I'm like, yeah, that happens to news websites and big websites, all the, happens to glenbeck.com all the time. We'll add a line that I said and the whole thing crashes for an hour.

I think, well, I think it was either that excuse or the intern tripped over the power court. Right, right. Either or. Yeah. If it wasn't because of all of the donations coming in, it was because the deep state shut it down. Yeah. There's only two answers to that. The other thing that happened was, have you noticed that CNN, MSNBC, they refused to show anything from Donald Trump or they're censor it and say, oh, there's just too much, you know, inaccuracy.

So we're not going to, we're not even going to give him the time of day. We're out of platform. Every single one of them was covering his speech as he walked out of the courtroom. Yeah. Every single one. So the entire country got to hear directly from President Trump what is happening to him. That he's a political prisoner. You know, it's an amazing thing to see that this, the most important.

O.J. Simpson wasn't the most important trial of the century to America. Not even. This one really decides the health of the republic. And they were so confident in what they had, but you can't watch it. And none of them are, you heard Dershowitz. He's like, I was in the courtroom and he doesn't vote for Donald Trump. I was in the courtroom. room. And then I saw the reporting from the mainstream media. It's two different worlds.

Dershowitz said this was the weakest case he had seen in 60 years of teaching and practicing law. You know, last time I talked to Dershowitz, you know what he said? You know, I voted for Biden before. And I've always voted for Democrats. I haven't made up my mind yet who I'm voting for. Excuse me? Yeah. I thought that was massive. Massive. Yeah, massive. Glenn, so you said, are they morons? I think the scariest part of this is, you know, you talk about color revolution.

You talk about what I pointed out earlier when after the other cases get tried, and if this state case, which he cannot pardon himself for, will the sentencing get upgraded once he gets convicted of other crimes, and they try to put a sitting president in jail, that goes right along the color revolution step. Yes. I mean, I think I said at one point, and you came in, I think during a break on Wednesday night show, because I ad libbed something when we were looking at the seven steps. And I said, you know, Biden and unpopular. But it also works to Donald Trump or something. I don't remember exactly what. And I didn't have time because it was so tight of a show to really explain. And you said, what did you mean? by that. And what I meant was they might actually want him to win because color revolution is almost

guaranteed if he wins. And you don't even need to have, you could have him win 70-30. But you could have color revolution because people would, they would riot in the streets and say, he's a felon. You can't have a felon as president. Whatever it is. And this lawfare stuff is just going to continue and continue and continue. And people don't understand. On the left, they think, not on the left.

In the Democrats, the average Democrat actually thinks that maybe justice was done here. Are you that blind that you cannot see what's happening? And you really think we'll have a two-party system? I mean, we barely have a two-party system now. But you, the, both parties are happy with him going away. Have you ever seen anyone, anyone, serial killers, ever been hunted like this before? No, and they would absolutely be rioting in the streets. If this was reversed, if this was against Joe Biden today, we would see rioting and looting.

No, I think if he. would have been found innocent of the 34-July. They would have been rioting yesterday. Absolutely. And I would say that this is probably Soros' money paying dividends this week, right? He put in all of the money to get the DAs in all of the different states, right? He's out there. He has so much money to go ahead and use at his discretion.

But this is what is paying off the most for him because we see the illegals going out there and beating up the New York police officers. They don't go to jail. They aren't going to jail. Donald Trump is going to jail today. So that is exactly the outcome that he wanted with his money when he put them in place. I can't believe because I lived in New York. And Donald Trump was revered by everybody.

Everybody loved him. Everybody loved him. And the reason why was he got crap done. You know, when something, when the city would fail, he would step in with his own money. be like, oh, God, let me just finish this. And it'd be finished and it'd be great. And everybody loved him. And now New York hates him that much. It's, it's an incredible PR job that they have done on him. Not only that, Hollywood loved him. The music industry loved him. Everybody loved him. Everybody loved him.

The Best of the Glenn Beck program. It's my honor to be doing this. It really is. It's a very unpleasant thing, to be honest. But it's a great, great honor. We're going to do what I have to do. I'm going to do it. And the support has been, that's why I mentioned the number of $39 million. That's why I mentioned we're up six points. And we went up a lot over the last month because everybody saw it was a rig deal. It was a rigged trial. But we're going to make America great again. We're going to make it better than ever before. November 5th, remember, November 5th is the most important day in the history of our country. Thank you very much, everybody.

Well, as he walks away in the Trump Tower, I think there was one miss, and that was right at the beginning. He should have walked down with Melania down the escalator exactly the same way he did in 2016. I noticed that speech ran about 34 minutes. And within the first 10, the mainstream media had already broken away except for Fox. He was telling his story and doing what Trump does best, just goes out and just wings it. I wish he would have been a little more focused towards the beginning when everybody was watching. But it was a real embarrassment for our country, the things that he was. saying and I took pages and pages of notes here of it and we're not going to have time to go over

at all but we're going to move the three of us into the TV studio after this and we'll record a special Friday episode of Glenbeck TV and you'll be able to download that as soon as we're done with it. We have Steve Dase coming up next so we can't do it live. What were your impressions? I loved the way that he did come out and say, you know, they, they, they were coming after me and and he called them a group of fascists and he was he was using very strong language at the beginning. But then it felt like he hasn't been on the campaign trail for so long and he wanted to get back out there that it felt like everything was just spewing out of his mouth, things that he wished that he could have been saying instead of talking about

the trial for the last month. We got all of it in one speech. But this wasn't necessarily the time for that. This was I am a political prisoner. I thought the first few minutes, maybe the first five, were very effective because he said things that were powerful like fascist. I can't talk about this because of a gag order. You know, what's happening in the country between our finances, our economy, and the border. I thought those were all really, really strong. He said this is bigger than my presidency, which is really strong. That was really strong.

Several times he said it is my honor. It's not pleasant, but it is my honor to do this because somebody, Somebody has to. Somebody has to. Yeah. Democrats and Bragg released the Cracken. Absolutely did. I saw a couple of Twitter posts, I think one from the Trump campaign, that it took screenshots of every single network that was covering this. And they said, wall to wall, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC. Everyone had this at least the first 10 minutes of this. Everyone. And it's been complete blackout on him for what? Years now since he left office, a complete blackout. Now they're forced to cover it.

They're forced to allow the American people to listen to what they did to him. It's a big screw up, in my opinion. You know, the one thing that would have made this much more fair is if they would have covered the trial. One thing I would like to see if it could ever be done is to release the video footage that we know was taken in the courtroom. They were watching it, some of the press watching it in the hallway. days. But we weren't allowed to see it. What could be more important to the American people? And that is why they didn't do it because they know if Americans actually pay attention to this and go, well, is anything that he's saying, is that true? And they go and they actually look for the

information themselves. They'll be horrified. And they will understand how much trouble the Republic is in. We're running out of time. It goes back to your point of storytelling and why that is so important. If you were able to sit there and watch it for yourself, you have a completely different view of what this trial would have been, but they have the ability to manipulate it and spin it in a way before they present it to you. And that is a completely different viewing experience. You know, when you're watching somebody with a biased agenda giving you the facts, quote unquote facts, of the case, you're not going to say, okay, this is, this is exactly from the mouth of the judge, from the mouth of the judge, from the mouth of the Donald Trump. It's completely different.

You know, and I found it interesting that because he just speaks, and you can show that, you can see that there was so much for him to say. You know, I had an experience with George Bush towards the end of his presidency, and, you know, we were, we were just, he was underwater and, you know, he was like, and another thing, shoes. And you were like, what? Every time he would talk, he was just all over the board. And he said to me, because he was talking in the Oval Office privately, and there were a few of us in there.

And I was sitting right next to his chair on the couch. And, man, he was strong and told me what was going on in the ground and everything else. And I said, no offense, Mr. President. but this is what the American people need to hear, what you just said. And he gave a couple of caveats that aren't worth getting into now. But the one thing he said was everything a president says is watched and monitored by Intel all over the world. And they interpret my shift of my eyes, the shift of my weight when I say it. He said, there are so many things that I can't say that I'm calculating all the time.

time. Donald Trump never seems to calculate. However, you could see the subtle calculation there. He, when he was talking about, when he was talking about, you know, that very great guy that that was just raked over the coals and yada, yada, yada. That was Bob Costello. He said it later, but I think that is again him, where is the line on what will get me in trouble? Bob Costello, when they cleared the courtroom, I talked to Alan Dershowitz the very next day. He was sitting in the front row and he was allowed to see what nobody else saw. They cleared the courtroom. And he berated him because when the judge made a ruling that was an unusual ruling. In fact, Alan Derswitz said one of the only, I've never heard a ruling like that. It just, it made no sense. He said, Bob looked up at the judge and raised his eyes. eyebrows like, really? And then he cleared the courtroom and berated him. You will, you will not do that. I think he might have threatened him with jail if he raises his eyebrows again. This guy is unhinged, just unhinged. And, you know, Donald Trump is going to continue to tell the story as much

as he can, but the American people should have seen it themselves. The other things that think we're important that he said he continued to come back to the border. He continued to talk about the terrorists that are in. He said something I've never heard him say before. You know, 2019, and this was good for me, but they said in 2019, no terrorist entered the country, but I don't believe that to be true. I've never heard him take a compliment and say, I don't believe that. But I agree with him. I don't either. But now we're at the highest level. He also talked about our debt, our dependence on oil. He not only called Biden stupid and the worst president we've ever had, he referred to the president and those who are in the administration as fascists, which I thought was really strong language and appropriate, but shocking to hear.

It'll be shocking for many people on the left that don't even know the definition of that word that have been throwing it around willy-nilly to hear that about themselves. I hope there's a little bit of self-reflection. There won't be. There won't be. But the definition of a fascist is an authoritarian state that partners with corporations and the media to control. And that's exactly what we're doing. It's exactly what Biden is doing. He is technically 100% accurate on his labeling of this administration, fascistic.

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