The Highwire with Del Bigtree - INSIDE THE 2024 ELECTION WITH DEL BIGTREE

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Del details his personal experience as a citizen, and not as CEO of ICAN, where he worked behind the scenes for 18 months in the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign. Del chronicles his experience behind RFK, Jr.’s historic run for President, his decision to run as an independent, and the improbable move joining forces with Donald Trump. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

This is a nonprofit. This show is the high wire. It is an educational program. And so, as I said, when I met Aaron Siri, I had just finished touring the country with the film Vax that sort of put me in the middle, in front of the cameras. I was having to defend this film that they were saying was going to get babies killed. We got kicked out of Tribeca Film Festival. It became the biggest media news story in the world. And we traveled the entire year to nothing but sold out audiences. One of the biggest audiences that was ever sold out was by Kat and Patrick Layton. It's how I met them.

They've been with me on this show from the very beginning. That's how we met. I remember pulling up in the bus and getting out, and it was just, it was like, it was like, remember me when I saw Star Wars and it first opened up seven years old, just people wrapped around the block. I was like, what is going on here? What, I swear, I swear, I said, what feelings? is showing here. They're like, oh, that's your film. That's vaxed. I mean, we'd been in little tiny art houses up until then, show up in Orange County and thousands of people down the block.

We had that experience for an entire year. After that, I wanted more information. I want to go deeper into the vaccine conversation. So I started the informed consent action network, as I said, using Aaron Siri to get to the truth. Our mission statement for ICANN is dedicated to eradicating man-made disease. The mission statement is not dedicated to starting a nonprofit that will be here until the end of time and, you know, may get some stuff done, may not, who knows. We are dedicated to a mission. Every one of us that works here is dedicated to healing our children, to protecting our children,

to getting all the toxins and pesticides and all of that poison out of our food, our air, our water. We bring lawsuits to do it. We don't just report on it. We bring lawsuits. And you help make that possible. Now, all along the way, me and Aaron and those of us on our team, we bob, we weave, we're small, we're like a seal team. We try to find new ways to get to that victory, to get this stuff, to make a difference in the world. And sometimes those decisions won't necessarily fit, as I'm talking about right now, into the nonprofit space.

There's things that I can't do with I can that I wish I could, or with the high wire that I wish I could, things that I wish I could talk about. And so as I said at the top of the show, I'm going to take the opportunity because of the president's election that just happened and just finished off yesterday. And they've now declared that President Trump will be the President of the United States. I believe I have a window here where I cannot affect this election. There's nothing left to affect. And so I believe I can talk semi-freely about where I've been, what's been going on in the decisions I've made. Now, along the way, obviously, in the work that we've done, I got to meet a beautiful, powerful, hero of my Robert Kennedy Jr. who would grace stages with me. That's actually, I think,

the first time I met him in person up in Las Vegas. We had a meeting. Vaxed was touring the country. He said it's an incredible film. It's getting a lot of attention. Let's meet. We did. And we really have become fast and stronger friends, really brothers now for many, many years. But several years ago, before all of this, you know, I sat down and a few of us sat down with Bobby, said, man, would you ever consider running for president because I mean obviously you're so brilliant you're so knowledgeable you come from a powerful democratic family if you would run for president you could bring this work that we're all doing the transparency that we're trying to get in the government that you've been fighting for don't you feel like you could make that difference you know in the original conversations

it kind of flowed around and didn't go very far but I finally got a call just you know just about two years ago now and it was Bobby St. Dell you know that I idea we were talking about, I'm thinking of doing it. And so I started going to meetings with Robert Kennedy Jr. and many of his close confidants and friends. And we were discussing, should you do this, what would that look like? How would you do it? And so I'm going to talk about that relationship and where this all went over the last year. And so this is going to be my story. This is not the High Wire story. This is not I Can story. This is just my personal story. I'm glad that the highway is sort of imagine them interviewing me. Dell is interviewing

Dell today. Would you just bring it up one more time? So we all saw the caveat. There it is. I mean, I have to tell you, folks, I'm imagining sitting in a courtroom somewhere having to defend this. And this is why we're doing this. There's a lot of people do not like transparency, unfortunately here in the United States of America. I think we're about to get rid of a lot of them. But who knows where they're going to end up. Okay. So for those of you that, you know, are not following me on X, which you should. I wish you would just at Del Bintree. You would know where I've been, but I would do shows, you know, over the last year, and I'd see comments from some of you saying, why doesn't he talk about Bobby Kennedy? If Bobby Kennedy is such a great candidate and he's,

you know, into all the things Dells talk about, why doesn't Dell even talk about it? And be like, oh my God, I so wish I could. I so wish I could. I can't believe some people don't understand what's going on. In those early meetings, eventually Bobby decided he was going to run for president. I wasn't going to be a part of it. I was just there to help him as a friend, give him some ideas, some pointers. But then he was about, I knew that the date was decided, I'm going to announce. He literally gave himself two weeks. Within two weeks, I want to announce in Boston. I want to do a big thing.

I was like, great, here's what you should be thinking about. We're all like weighing in what that event should look like. I went home. But then just out of curiosity, about three or four days out, I called, you know, the COO that put together to run the campaign. I said, I'm just out of curiosity, who's directing his announcement speech? And like, oh, well, we have a layout. We have it all storied out in a spreadsheet.

I'm like, there's a spreadsheet able to hold a walkie-talkie and say, we need the next person to come to the stage? Like, oh, no. I was like, you don't have anyone doing that? Like, no, we didn't. And I was like, oh, well, you probably should. They said, let me call you back. I got a call back an hour later.

And there's a bunch of people in the call. And they said, Dell's going to direct the announcement speech. Well, that's what happened. I didn't really have much of a choice. Obviously, I was proud to do it. And this is just a taste of Robert Kenny Jr.'s entry into the presidential run. I've come here today to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose. a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country, to commoditize our children, our Purple Mountains majesty, to poison our children and our people with chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs, to strip mine our assets, to hollow out the middle class, and keep us in a constant state of war.

In normal circumstances, I would not do this. But these are not normal circumstances. I'm watching my country being stolen from it. stolen from me. And I owe it to my children, to my family, and my legacy. I don't want, you know, the Democratic Party to be the party of fear and pharma and war and censorship. We have to be more than just neocons with woke bobbleheads. We need, you know, we need to stand up to corporations, we need to stand against war. We need to put our children. children first. We need to stop listening to the large corporation in many ways.

And that's what a Kennedy Democrat is. We need to bring this party back to the party of FDR, of JFK, of RFK, of Martin Luther King, and those values. In many ways, I have spent my lifetime preparing for this office because I've spent so much time suing these agencies. You give me a piece of ground and a sword, and I am going to take back this country with your help, the help of all the homeless Republicans and Democrats and independents, who are Americans first. Thank you all very much. That was just an amazing opportunity.

I have to say, like, you really, you know, there's been times, especially to set up, you know, for that experience driving to Hyana's port to meet with Bobby Kennedy on the Kennedy compound. I mean, you just, you can't imagine. I mean, I still can't, I still pinch myself when those experiences happen. And to get to be a part of that, I was just backstage with the headset on. We'd put the, pull the team together, just had an amazing event. And I was lucky enough to work on that. But the truth is, I walked away from there.

I still thought I got the high wire. I got I can. I got to focus on that. All right, you guys are up and run and do your thing. But about two weeks in, I wasn't seeing any videos from that event. And I called the same person at the campaign. He's like, where are the videos? Why am I not seeing short videos?

Like, I don't know. The guys we have, they keep saying they have easy. He's like, well, I got to, let me come in there. So I came in as a consultant, started trying to put together a media team for them. And that was all rolling and doing really well. But then, you know, as that was going, I was like, had the highway. So I'm trying to run the media team. I'm trying to, you know, keep the highway going.

And luckily, this team here is so fantastic that, you know, we have a groove. So it doesn't, it's not that hard to keep it all moving, trying to figure. out how media for politics, something I'd never done before in advertising and things like that was in all new space, but I was like, you know, juggling it all and doing pretty good, you know, doing pretty good. But then as you watch, those of you watch the campaign, censorship like we've never seen. I mean, when I say censorship, I mean, first of all, you know, Bobby has said this himself, you know, taking Fox aside every other network, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, you know, MSNBC, You need all of those lined up in the entire 19 months that Robert Kennedy Jr. ran, you know, for president.

The first, I guess, six or so of which were as a Democrat and got all the way up to 20 to 25 percent, polling that high in all that time. All those networks interviewed him twice. He had two interviews of all those networks, of all of them, only two networks interviewed him twice. a guy that was clearly going to affect the election, and I believe just did. But they ignored him. They thought if we ignore him and we block him so that no Democrat knows he's even running, we can rig this thing so that we can keep Joe Biden in office, and that's what happened. Also, they were passing rules that, you know, Bobby Kennedy, we knew that he was strong in New Hampshire

and that every single election or a primary starts in New Hampshire. If Bobby could win New Hampshire, maybe you could create a sweep and get a tank. that way. What did they do? The DNC passed a law, a rule inside the DNC that because Bobby Kennedy, but they said anybody that campaigned in New Hampshire, the DNC is saying that's illegal in this primary battle. If you went in there and tried to campaign all of your votes in the primary automatically go to Joe Biden. I'm not making that up. So if you're a Democrat right now, that should really bother. Sure bothered me. I still have it. I'm still a registered Democrat. This will be the last year.

I'm finally going to purge myself of that experience. But that was what was going on. And so because of that, Robert Kennedy Jr. decided he wanted to do another big show. This time, he was going to talk about leaving the Democrat Party. And he said, Del, could you do the same thing? Can we put it on? So I said, I would be honored to. And I brought in a brilliant team this time with a little bit more thinking.

I think this time we had maybe 15 days to put it together. And it looked like this. This is a day of affirmation. a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom. We are committed to peaceful and non-violent change. We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people. Not just to those of a particular religion.

Not just to those of a particular race. Not just to the wealthy, but to all of the people. We must do it for the people. single and fundamental reason, that it is the right thing to do. This morning for the country's most famous political dynasty. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on October night in the state of... That is time to heal a divided nation and return the power to the people.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. We are told today that our nation is hopelessly divided, but I found something different as I travel this. country. I have witnessed an upwelling of optimism that I've never seen before. Something is stirring in us that says it doesn't have to be this way. And so I've come here today to declare our independence from the tyranny of corruption, which robs us of affordable lives, our belief in the future, and our respect for each other. But to do that, I must first declare my own independence.

Independence from the Democratic Party and from all other political parties. I haven't made this decision lightly. It's very painful for me to let go of the party of my uncles, my father, my grandfather, and both of my great-grandfathers. But my sacrifice is nothing compared to the risk our founding fathers took when they signed the Declaration of Independence 247 years ago. They knew that if their revolution failed, every last one of them would be hanged. They chose to place everything on the line.

When John Adams put his pen down, after adding his signature to the declaration, he turned to those present and he said to them, sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish. From this day on, I am with my country. Well, an amazing event, by the way, you know, you want to make yourself look good as a producer or a media person. just bringing Mickey Willis to direct a video. That video is so incredible. I get choked up in tears of my eyes every time I watch it. That was an amazing moment.

So to take you through it, up until that moment, I'm still just running the media team, doing these events when they asked me to do them, still doing the highway, running I can. And I still think, you know, doing some of the best shows we had ever done. But I was sitting with Amarilis Kennedy, who also was much like me. She had two kids.

She was, you know, Bobby Kennedy's daughter-in-law. And, you know, I kept saying her, Amarilis, like, you're so brilliant. You should be running this campaign. And I don't mean that as any slight. For those of you, like Dennis Kucinich, who's really, he was doing it so talented, so great. But there's just certain things about Amarilis and the way that she could crunch numbers and ideas that she had. Said, you should really be running this campaign. And she had been saying for some time, you know, I got two kids dealt.

It's really a lot to do all just what I'm doing already. He's like, yeah, I know, I know. But so after the independence that night, I was saying to Amarles, once again, Amarles, I really feel like you should be, you know, running this. She's like, well, as it turns out, you know, Bobby's starting to pressure me on that too. And I was like, oh, you know, good. Well, the next day he announced that she was going to be the campaign manager. And almost immediately after it, she called me and said, if I am going to do this,

and by the way, I feel like you dragged me into it, Del. I want you to be director of communications. In all honesty, that was one of the first. the hardest moments of my life I spent about three days over a weekend, you know, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And I was really, I just thought, how am I going to do everything? And frankly, I didn't want to let the campaign down. Bobby deserves someone that could give 150 percent. And, you know, I wanted to make sure that this worked, that we never dropped the ball, that we kept delivering the lawsuits and all the media and everything that we do here.

but I just thought, and I've told this story so many times in my life, that, you know, I really just started saying yes. I believe that, you know, that God is looking out for me. I believe it's looking out for all of us. And I've just had this experience that if it's being, the door's being open, I'm supposed to walk through it. And I just sat there all weekend and said, how am I going to do all of that all at the same time? But the message just kept coming back. You've been chosen to do that, Del. You've got to say yes.

and you're going to figure out a way. So I said to Amarilis, you know, I think you need someone that can deliver 150% here. I'm going to give it everything I take, but I do have this nonprofit. I do have the high wire. I'm not going to drop the ball there. And she said, I love that. That is going to keep you up on, you know, the breaking news. It's going to keep you fresh and on top of it.

I want you to keep your voice. I think that that's important. And I said, okay, but if anyone else comes along that can do a better job, I mean it, hire them immediately. I will not take it personally. Think of me as a placeholder. Well, I made it all the way through the campaign as Director of Communications. It was a real honor. But when it came time to the debates, Bobby Kennedy was polling at 20 to 25 percent.

He should have been on that debate stage at CNN. But President Biden said he refused. He would not show up for a debate if Bobby Kennedy was there. And this is where I started seeing a shift. President Trump, Donald Trump said, I think Bobby Kennedy should be on this stage. Said it publicly and also behind the scenes, said it to CNN. We knew that was going on. I think people need to know that.

When they think of like a dictator, a guy that's trying to control everything, this is a guy that actually really did believe in free speech and stood up for it in the moments that counted even when, in that moment, Bobby was polling evenly between the two of them. The same from Biden, the same from Trump. So it wasn't like Trump was safe and knew he was hurting Biden. He didn't care. He just said, this guy is out there. He has a voice that people want to hear. He's making good points. Let him on the stage.

It didn't happen. And in that moment, we started realizing that this is going to get very hard. to win. I'm proud of the real debate that we put on. One of the greatest technical feats in media to take a live stream feed and then interact with it with Bobby. If you haven't watched it, he was spectacular. Anyone that watched it knew that Bobby Kennedy actually won the debate that night. And had that happened on CNN, I believe he would have been the president of the United States. The world would have seen him. He would have been unstoppable. That wasn't the case. And then that incredible moment where the bullet just grazed President Trump's year that was aimed at

his head a real bullet, really aimed at his head, really fired out of a gun, went whizzing by, and actually killed people on the stage, something that only lasted three days in the news, where the fake line about Liz Cheney, I think, lasted a week. But after this moment, Robert Kennedy Jr. told all of us on the campaign, I need to reach out to President Trump immediately. He got his phone number, and they connected, and he basically, I mean, just think about that moment. Robert Kennedy Jr., you know, saying to President, first of all, are you okay? And then he said, but I'm really concerned about your family. I mean, I lost my uncle, John F. Kennedy, when I was 10 years old. I lost my father when I was 13. And,

you know, that has an effect on a family. There's this real trauma to that fear and that concern for your father, for the people you love, the possibility of losing them. And they just had this beautiful conversation, and they started talking about unity, that this country had become so divided that something like this could even happen. And frankly, I have heard friends of mine sort of secretly wish that it had hit President Trump. And anyone that has allowed that thought, it just shows you how far away we've gotten from our humanity. But humanity was found between these two guys that then spent a conversation, not just that day, but day upon day, we're interacting for weeks. You know, how would we unite? How many things do we, you know,

share common ground on. And in the end, Bobby Kennedy realized that they certainly shared ground on the most important things, which is the freedom of speech, you know, the right to body autonomy, the right to be able to reject a vaccine or take a vaccine, the need for transparency in science, and an ability to put an end to these crazy wars that people in government love to just send our children into without thought, never putting their own kids or themselves at risk. And on that, he decided, finally, after a meeting in Hiana's port, I think I've got to do this. And I think gave one of the most profound speeches in political history. Many, many big policy wonks have said the same thing.

If you haven't watched it, watched the whole thing, but here's just a piece of what that was like. 16 months ago, in April of 2023, I launched my campaign for President of the United States. I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledge my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote. In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic past electoral victory in the face of this relentless systematic censorship and media control. So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working their lives. long hours or ask my donors to keep giving, it's with a sense of victory and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities. Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we changed the national political conversation forever. Chronic disease, free

speech, government corruption, breaking our addiction to war, have moved to the center of politics. Last summer it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end of the Ukraine war to tackle chronic disease epidemic, to protect free speech, our constitutional freedoms, to clean corporate influence out of our government, or to defy the neocons in their agenda of endless military adventurism. But now one of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration. I'm speaking of course of Donald Trump. In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues.

In those meetings, he suggested that we joined forces as a unity party. Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of Democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and neocon power. and our children will be the ones who suffer most. I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to or wanted to. It was essentially thrust upon me. It was widely ignored by all the institutions, including the NGOs, who should have been protecting our kids against toxins. It was an orphan issue, and I had a weakness for orphans.

I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker. I had 11 siblings and I had seven kids myself. I was conscious of what was happening in their classrooms and to their friends. And I watched these sick kids, these damaged kids. In that generation, almost all of them are damaged. And nobody in power seemed to care or to even notice. For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president.

If I'm given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years, we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically. We will make Americans healthy again. Within four years, America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic, and happier. I won't fail in doing this. Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more

than we hate each other. A most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve. It feels like yesterday. I remember watching that speech.

And, you know, I got to have a hand in putting a few words into some of these speeches. It was a great speechwriter and great author and thought leader Charles Eisenstein. Always had a huge part in writing those speeches. But I'd seen a draft the night before. I'd seen a draft in the morning. I thought it was done. I had all the cameras lined up. All the news agencies were there.

we're ready to go. Bobby was in a hotel 20 minutes away. And about an hour before, I was like, where are you guys? We got to rehearse with the teleprompoms. It's like Bobby's still rewriting the speech. And then 30 minutes before, where are you guys? Bobby's still rewriting the speech. It's time now. It's in the moment.

We're going live. The feed is live. Where is Bobby? He's still writing the speech. He's like, you guys are 20 minutes away. What are you doing? 20 minutes later, I finally get a call. All right, he's done.

He's on his way. I mean, so when he came to the door, remember saying, you know, Bobby, there's over the there's nearly 500,000, half a million people that have been waiting online for 40 minutes for this speech. If for no other reason when we asked you, when we talked about running for president, this is it, the world is now watching. They're here to listen to what you have to say. Let them have it. And he did. And you should watch that speech.

It's incredible. And it really lays out the issues that this country was in the middle of then. So, you know, this incredibly passionate, you know, painful, heartfelt moment for all of us. It was the end of the campaign. And then that evening, we knew that there was one more event that Trump happened to be at, and he wanted to have Bobby come out on stage. It was put on by Turning Point, which is just an incredible organization. I've had the opportunity to work with amazing production value that they put in the shows.

But I was standing there. Place was packed, 20,000 people. And I remember asking Bobby's son, we call him Bobby 3. He was like, has your dad ever spoke to an audience like this? He's like, as big as this? I mean, yeah, like Berlin and, you know, defeat him. the mandate, things like this, he's like, but to this audience, no. I mean, it was just red hats and the whole experience. None of us knew what to expect. Do they even know who Bobby Kennedy is?

Well, when they announced his name, we realized that something incredible was happening. That moment was just like this. Tonight, I'm very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share, and we've shared them for a long time. Robert F. Kennedy, Eddie Jr. Bobby's decades of work as an advocate for the health of our families and our children. Nobody's done more. Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our food. That's why today I'm repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems

and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility, and many more. But he is a phenomenal person, a phenomenal man who loves the people of this country as much as anybody can love the people of this country. So Bobby, please say a few words. Thank you very much. after the assassination attempt at Butler, I got a call from a safe food advocate named Kelly Means. He'd been advising me for many years and on my campaign, and he told me that night that he was also advising President Trump. And he asked if I would talk to President Trump. And I said, of course, and about a few minutes later, I got a call from the call from the president. the president and we talked, we had a very good talk, and then he invited me to come see

him the next day and I went to Minneapolis and saw him. We met again a couple of weeks later in Florida and we talked about, not about the things that separate us because we don't agree on everything, but on the values and the issues that bind us together. And one of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic. Our children are the healthiest, sickest children in the world. Don't you want healthy children?

And don't you want the chemicals out of our food? And don't you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption? And that's what President Trump told me that he wanted. Don't you want a safe environment for your children? Don't you want to know that the food that you're feeding them is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease? And don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again? Thank you all very, very much, and God bless you and God bless America. I can't tell you what that day was like.

I mean, just think about it. The Democrats could have had Robert Kennedy Jr. as their candidate. From the very beginning, he pulled above Harris, above Biden, above any other Democrat. They knew it. We sent them to polls. He actually pulled in a head-to-head matchup against Donald Trump just barely ahead of him, but he showed he could beat him when nobody else could. And still, the Democrats didn't want a lifelong environmentalist, a Kennedy,

the namesake of one of the greatest figures in the Democratic Party. Why? made no sense except that he said he wanted to clean up the regulatory agencies and kick all of the corporate funding and corruption out of government. I guess the Democratic Party didn't want that to happen. Instead, they took the option of potentially losing to a man that they said was the end of the world than to have a guy that clearly had an opportunity and may have been able to win the presidency of the United States for the Democrats. That was the journey that I was on. It was incredible and shortly after that unbelievable moment,

where he'd been tared and feathered by the Democratic Party, ignored, slandered, lied about for 18 months. Suddenly we stepped into a room full of conservatives and Republicans, didn't know what they would say, and when Robert Kennedy Jr.'s name was said, the place exploded. Even Donald Trump remarked several times, I have never heard anything like this

for anyone I have ever introduced. There was no jealousy from, I was watching Trump, there's no jealouses. He stood there, gave him his spotlight and the chance of Bobby, Bobby, and USA, USA for Robert Kennedy Jr. He had clearly found his home. That's all I can say. Bobby found his home. And we'd been searching for it in all the wrong places in many ways for nearly 18 months shortly after that. We realized that the Maha movement had started, Make America Healthy again, which was the words that came out of Bobby's mouth in that moment where he endorsed President Trump, a movement was ignited, you know, sort of combining all of the medical freedom movement with this new idea about food being an issue. The toxins in our food really resonating with so many people. I decided to leave the campaign so that I could advertise exactly that.

We knew that we couldn't get Bobby Kennedy off of all the ballots. We needed to get the message out if you want Kennedy to do his life's work, to finish it out, and clean up these regulatory agencies. You're going to have to vote for Donald Trump. I took a powerful team of my best creatives to go and make commercials that would target exactly those spaces. So a brand new venture there left the campaign for the first time ever ran a super PAC called Maha Alliance. And this is just one of the ads to get a sense. Imagine you're going to make ads. They're only going to run to the battleground states where the TV is just absolutely saturated with political ads.

I thought we should make ads that don't look like anything else. I want things that jump out of the television and you go, what the heck am I looking at? This is just one of those ads. We call it poison. Manufacturers selling baby food with high levels of toxic heavy metals. Cereals marketed to children contain a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities link to cancer. The tap water in the United States contains. James forever chemicals. American consumers exposed to chemicals and additives that have been banned in other countries.

Thank you for the healthy day. Well, that was one of the ads we put out of many. I'm very proud of the work that we did. And in the end, that election ended yesterday morning, the conversations are exactly that. How did so many women? How did we have the polling wrong? It was supposed to be this giant gender gap that didn't happen. I believe that Robert Kennedy Jr. had a huge part of that.

the advertising that the Maha Alliance was doing had a big part. We went and tried to get through to the moms. Do you want to keep letting this government poison your kids? Do you want to continue the lies or do you want the truth? Do you want to know what's going on? Do you, I mean, you realize we've talked with Vani Hari on this show. How is that Kellogg's is allowed to have toxic poisons in a cereal fruit loops that is illegal for them to have in a box of fruit loops, which they make, they have plants that

can make it for all the other countries but ours. That has got to stop. And that messaging, I do, did sweep this country. I do believe, Maha, make America healthy again, Robert Kennedy Jr. When you watched the victory coming in, Trump won the states, usually by two, three, four percent. That's exactly the amount that when we saw in the polls Robert Kennedy Jr. was holding even after Kamlo was in and Donald Trump. We thought if we can move that three to five percent, Donald Trump will sweep this election. And he did.

So that's been my journey. That is my personal journey, Del Bigtree. It was not funded by ICANN in any way. I did not talk about it on the high wire because I did not want to affect how you voted. And frankly, I don't want to have any judgment. We all move forward from here. However you voted, you voted. One thing's for sure.

Our system works. Our system still works. The vote works. So for all of you out there that would really, you know, Debbie Downs, like, oh, they're going to rig it. Oh, they're going to fix it. Negative, negative, negative. You know what? It worked.

We still have a free country. Our democracy worked. Many, many people on all sides are recognizing this. Now, I'm sure some of you have questions probably don't have anything to do with that. This is something I rarely do. But I just really because I think I felt so pent up having to hold all that in a room better. I mean, I can't even tell you what it's like. I mean, it's literally like schizophrenia.

I'd be like, okay, wait, what am I doing? What room am I going into? You know, I was still even doing talks, you know, doing some of the nonprofit work I do going, okay, wait a minute, who's funding this airline? What am I going into? And just these multiple lives all happening at once, I feel incredibly blessed by God that I had all these opportunities converging all at once.