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Hugh Hewitt Interview...

President Trump On A SCOTUS Vacancy, China, College Football, Joe Biden’s VP And
President Trump joined me this morning:

Transcript:

HH: Mr. President, how are you?

DJT: Hi, Hugh.

HH: Great to have you on. Thank you for joining me again.

DJT: My honor. Done it many times.

HH: You know…

DJT: And it’s my honor. It’s always fun.

HH: I’m a little superstitious. We talked 16 times during the 2016 election, so I think we need 15 more to make sure you win.

DJT: We’ll catch it. We’ll catch it. That’s an easy record. Look at the stock market today. It’s up 323 points after a big day yesterday. And we are up to 28,000. 28,000, just hit 28,000 for one second. Now it’s 27,997.

HH: Keep it going. Keep it goin.

DJT: Now, but think of that.

HH: You just weighed, you just weighed in on Jordan v. LeBron, so I’m going to start with an easy one for you since you’re friends with both Belichick and Tom Brady.

DJT: Okay.

HH: Which one has a better chance of winning the Super Bowl this year?

DJT: Wow, that’s a tough one. It’s always tougher, you know, when you have friend. It’s always tougher. Look, I would say this. It’ll be very interesting. It’s going to be very interesting to watch. But I won’t watch,
I won’t watch if
people don’t stand for the National Anthem. If they kneel, I don’t watch, including the Super Bowl. With that being said, we’re helping the NFL greatly
on getting going, etc., etc. But I won’t care and I won’t watch if they don’t stand for
the National Anthem, and that’s what’s happened to basketball. I don’t know if you’ve seen what’s going on with basketball. Their ratings are…

HH: But if they do stand…

DJT: Their ratings are down.

HH: Are you going with Belichick or Brady?

DJT: Well, I would say this. You’ve got, if you ask me coach on coach, I like
that as a better question. You always have to hit me with these very tough questions. I think they’re both going to do great. They’re both friends of mine. I’ll tell
you, Belichick is an incredible coach, and I think he’s going to do really well. This guy just knows how to win. And he’s a very good friend of mine. He’s a winner. You know, if I ever had a military battle, I’d call up Belichick and say what do
you think? What do you think? Give me a couple of ideas.

HH: I’ll tell you, he was not so great with the Browns, Mr. President.

DJT: And he’d be as good as any general out there. And I think Tom, you know,
Tom picked a team where they have a very good offensive line and supposedly great receivers, great receivers. And he did that on purpose. He didn’t pick a team just for the
dollars. He picked a team that really supposedly has some real talent that hasn’t quite gotten there, and in a long time. So I think Tom’s going to be
an interesting person to watch.

HH: Well, that sounded like a Belichick nod, though. Let me get serious, Mr. President. First serious question, in the last five months of this term, for the last five months of your second term if you get one, would you make a nomination to fill a
vacancy that occurred on the Supreme Court?

DJT: You mean if something happened like now?

HH: Yeah.

DJT: Absolutely, I’d do it. Sure. It depends…

HH: Someone in mind?

DJT: You know, I don’t know what you’re talking about, time, but if you’re talking about if something would happen now, no, I would move quickly.
Why not? I mean, they would. The Democrats would if they were in this position.
But you know, I’ll
be interested…

HH: Do you have someone in mind?

DJT: Oh, at the end of my term, I’ll be up to about 300, could be even a little bit more, 300 federal judges, including Court of Appeals, Appellate divisions. We’ll be at 300, think of that, 300 judges, probably a little bit more, and two Supreme
Court judges. Think of that. It’s not happened…

HH: No, no, you followed through. The 53 Appeals Court judges are all solid, and I hope you keep making them.

DJT: And they’re solid, and the Appeals Court judges are, you know, I’m getting rave reviews that even some of the, those on the left are saying well, we don’t agree with them, but they are very powerful picks. So we’re getting rave reviews on
judges. I will say that. But you know, who’s had so many? Now I was given a gift, because I had 142 when I first came in. I said you know, I’ve always heard, and you’ve always said, and I’ve always heard the mot important thing you can do are
Supreme Court justices and judges, you know, a combination, really, both. And I
said how many do I have my first day? Sir, you have 142. I said you’ve got to
be kidding. So I started off with 142. Most presidents start off with none. I would say very
rarely do you have one. I had 142, got them filled with really talented, very, very great people, very highly-respected people. And from there, I’ve gone on
to continue to fill a lot of judgeships. A lot of people have retired because they got to a
certain age and they retired. We didn’t discourage that. And we, we’re up to, we’ll be over 300. And it’s hard to believe, but we’ll be over 300…

HH: It is, it’s a great achievement. If there is a vacancy this year or early
next year or anytime in your second term, do you have a choice already in mind to nominate?

DJT: I do. I have somebody that I think would be excellent. I do.

HH: Is she named Amy Coney Barrett?

DJT: No, I can’t, I can’t name who, but I have somebody that I think would be really well-received, would be excellent, highly-respected. I mean, that’s
subject to change, but somebody that really would be, I think, I think great.

HH: All right, let me switch over to foreign affairs. Secretary Azar’s visit to Taiwan was significant. Was this a trial run for something bigger? Have you considered or are you considering a historic visit to Taiwan yourself before the end of this
year?

DJT: No, I’m not. No, it wasn’t, you know, anything like that. It wasn’t,
it was just something we were talking about COVID. They’ve done well. We’ve
done well also. We get no credit for it. You know, we do so much testing, so we
end up with,
when you do testing, you have cases. You know, we tested more than, I guess, about 65 million tests. India’s at 11, Germany’s at 3, and we’re at 65. When you test, you have cases. But we’ve done very well, and that was really a visit on COVID, or
as I call it, the China plague or the China virus, which is what it is.

HH: Well, given China’s recklessness with the virus, and its aggressiveness, especially with its new deal with Iran, should Japan, South Korea or even Taiwan seek nuclear weapons or hypersonic missile capacity, Mr. President?

DJT: Well, I’m not going to suggest anything, but I will tell you it causes problems. And it’s a big point of discussion for us over the next two months.
I will tell you that. It’s going to be a big, a very big point of discussion.

HH: And do you find their alliance with Iran to be particularly troubling and their pattern of recklessness?

DJT: I don’t like it. I don’t like it. Not at all. And my relationship is much, I had a very good relationship with President Xi. But once it turned to, once we got hit with the virus that they didn’t get hit, you know, they contained it in China.
Now they’ve had outbreaks like everyone else, but they contained it essentially in China. But they didn’t contain it from the U.S. and Europe and
the rest of the world. 188 countries, Hugh, 188 countries. And it’s frustrating.

HH: You told me in 2015, Mr. President, that you would get up to speed on all the terrorists, and you did. Was it a hard call for you to order Soleimani killed even though he had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. servicemen and women in
Iraq? Was it still hard to order the hit?

DJT: It’s never an easy call. It’s always a, you know, you’re talking about human life. One way or the other, you don’t know where it leads, it’s
turned out. And al-Baghdadi, don’t forget, took out the founder and leader of
ISIS who was
trying to build it again. When I took over, ISIS was prevalent. It was all over
the place. And I wiped out ISIS in Syria and Iraq, 100% of the caliphate. And we found that al-Baghdadi, now he’s the one that was stood, I always say, the
one with the fan.
He always had the fan. You know, it was the old picture, but he always had the
fan behind him. And I said why can’t you find him? And I was looking for him from the beginning, and we knocked out him, as you know. That was big, and then
we did
Soleimani. And there are those that say that the Soleimani was the biggest move
made in the Middle East of anything. And I don’t even view it that way. What he did to our soldiers, what he did to people, he was the king of the roadside bomb. He loved
the roadside bomb. He loved blowing people’s brains out, loved blowing people’s legs off and arms. And I see them in the hospital. I go over to Walter Reed where I think you have the greatest doctors in the world, by the way, because I see what they
can do. It’s incredible. But I go over and visit these soldiers a lot, and they are badly, you know, just bad, the military, they are badly, badly injured. And that was really a Soleimani thing.

HH: Yes, it was.

DJT: A large, large percentage of those bombs were even directly or indirectly put there by Soleimani.

HH: You mentioned destroying ISIS, Mr. President. And ISIS grew up under President Obama, and Susan Rice was his national security advisor.

DJT: Right.

HH: If Joe Biden picks her, will that be an issue, what happened with ISIS under her watch as NSA?

DJT: Sure. Not only ISIS, was spying on my campaign. We caught them spying on my campaign, Hugh. And I used to watch you on all those liberal lefty shows with Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and…

HH: Chuck’s a great host. You know that, but…

DJT: And I said you know, “[Hugh] just doesn’t, he just doesn’t fit into that group.” But somehow, he, Hugh, you wanted to be honest, and you have to be honest. I know you very well, very well. It’s always interesting. They name you. I know you
very well, Hugh. But I will tell you that you’ve been terrific. But I watch you on those shows with a few of our friends like Sleepy Eyes, and it was a very interesting, it was a very interesting group. I don’t think you felt too
comfortable.

HH: Well, I always feel, I like Chuck. Chuck knows, he’d probably talk sports
with you longer than me. But I want to go back to Rice. She was one of the unmaskers of Michael Flynn. Will that be an issue if she’s the vice presidential selection?

DJT: 100%. Look, not only, I mean literally not only that, we’re talking about unmasking, yes. That was a big deal. Horrible deal where they unmasked him so many times. I think he’s got to have the record for unmasking. Maybe I
do, you know, because
we’re still looking how many times did they unmask me. Let’s find that out,
too, because look, they were spying on our campaign. They were using him and others, and they were spying on my campaign. So was I unmasked? So far, they haven’t said, but
let’s see what happens. I think you’re going to have a very interesting report coming out with Durham. Not report, I hope it’s not going to be a report. The last thing I want is another report. We’ve had enough reports. We
had the report on Comey,
which told you he was a dirty cop. What a report that was by Horowitz.

HH: Have you spoken with John Durham, Mr. President?

DJT: I have not, specifically not, no.

HH: Have you spoken to Barr about Durham and whether or not we can expect a decision on indictments before the election?

DJT: I, you know, we have a great Attorney General. I leave him to his thing. I
will ask him every once in a while when is it coming, when? I can only say this. I believe it’s bigger and far more, far reaching and far more powerful than anyone ever
thought possible.

HH: Is it outside of the FBI, Mr. President? Did it get into the intelligence community?

DJT: It’s into every community. This thing was prevalent. It was all over the
place, and it was a disgrace. They spied on our campaign. They tried to take me
down both before and after the election. They wrote a fake dossier with hookers
and all of the
disgusting things, and it was a total work of fiction, and that’s been proven
now many times. It’s been, and they wanted to use that. And the only thing they couldn’t do, for whatever reason, I’ll tell you, probably the only time I’ve respected
the media in the last ten years is they were unable to get the fake dossier printed in mainstream media or at all. Nobody would take it, because they all knew it was phony. They all knew it was fake. Today, they’d take it, because they’ve gotten
worse, far worse than they were four years ago. They couldn’t get it printed,
because they wanted to get it printed before the election. And after the election, it didn’t mean so much. But they wanted to get this fake document printed before the
election, and they couldn’t do it.

HH: Let me ask you about the dossier…

DJT: And by the way, and John McCain tried, and they all tried. John McCain, you know, I’m supposed to think wonderful things about John McCain. But they brought it to John McCain. They all tried. And they couldn’t get it done. And
for that, I
respect the media.

HH: If Joe Biden somehow beats you, Mr. President, do you think he’ll bury this investigation into the Bureau, the intelligence community, the dossier? Do
you think it’ll be gone?

DJT: Probably. I mean, probably. I think it’s another reason we should win. And we’re doing very well. I don’t know if you’ve seen, the polls have been going up like a rocket ship. Hey, I was, George Washington would have had a hard time beating
me before the plague came in, before the China plague. And then, you know, like
every other nation, like other countries, when you get hit, it affects you, and
we went down a little bit. And then we went down a little bit more, and now we’re coming up
at a level that we haven’t seen. I just got back from Texas, Ohio and Florida. We’ve got all law enforcement awards, everything. We got the endorsement from all of them. But I just got back, and they’re the largest crowds on the highway I’ve ever
seen. I’d love to do the rallies. We can’t because of the COVID. You know, you can’t have people sitting next to each other.


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