The administration failed to protect January 6th prisoners
“He raised an enormous amount of money in the wilderness years, and he spent not a dollar of it for the benefit of those people. Didn't pay for their legal fees, didn't take out advertisements on their behalf, didn't do anything that he should have done, that anybody with a lot less resources would have done. I was upset that he said nothing on their behalf. Again, that's the power he could have wielded when he was in the wilderness. He could have talked about them first and foremost.”
MAGA shifted from a policy program to personal cult
“If you consider yourself to be allied with this political coalition that I created over a decade, then I don't need you. If you're insisting upon transparency and the things, you're insisting upon me making good on the promises that I made to you in this relationship that we have. I promise you something, you vote me into office so I can effectuate the change that you voted for. Then if you are insisting upon that, then you're a flippin kook and I don't need you.”
Trump’s texts to MTG revealed a shocking personal betrayal
“She texted Trump and she said, my son is getting threats because I've disagreed with you on the Epstein files. And Trump responded to her by text message and said, he deserves it. It's your fault. People are threatening the kid's life. And Trump says, no, no, no, you brought this on him. It's on you. It's disgusting. It's outrageous. I didn't know that. It's terrible. It's terrifying too, actually, to be so tone deaf, to be so evil, but to also be so tone deaf.”
“The Epstein files, the JFK files, the 9-11 files, all things that he had committed to showing to the American people who actually own it, and have every right to know the details about that huge terrorist attack and the assassination of our president. And obviously, the Epstein Network, which not only had a ton of victims, obviously represented hidden power over our elected leaders. Trump had committed to doing all three of those things. He's done none of them.”
Trump prioritizes himself over the MAGA movement's goals
“This is when he first started defining MAGA, Make America Great Again, as Donald Trump the man. Like investing within himself in almost biblical fashion. Like, no, MAGA is not what I articulated clearly and coherently for 10, 12 years in public life. And as President of the United States, MAGA is what I say it is today, tomorrow morning, anytime during the day because I'm Donald Trump. So, I will determine what is MAGA.”
A lack of investigation into Charlie Kirk's assassination
“Donald Trump should have gotten up and given a press conference and said, we are going to find out who's responsible for this. It doesn't matter what the end results show. We have a responsibility as a public figure who was publicly assassinated and we're not going to tolerate this. Whoever is responsible for it is going to be brought to justice. He totally failed to do that. I think he failed to articulate that and he failed to use the apparatus that is entrusted to him to do that.”
“It was a rebirth of America in November of 24. People felt that and the left was crushed definitively. And now, we're several months from the midterm elections, it seems very clear that the Republican Party hasn't delivered anything. Trump delivered a war and delivered higher prices and delivered misery. That's demonstrable that, and unless it's a corrupt election, which of course it will be, the Republicans are going to lose power. Trump's agenda, if there is one, is going to come to a halt.”
Establishment figures like Paul Ryan sabotaged the first term
“If you don't have people who understand the levers of power and how to propel your program forward, you will fail and especially Trump who had a very adversarial Republican Party, weasels like Paul Ryan who had been elevated by Trump's victory and was newly the Speaker of the House, hated Trump. And so why would Paul Ryan hate Trump? It's a really good question, especially because he should have been really grateful that Trump was in power and thereby his power derived from Trump's success.”