The Fox News Town Hall with former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity was a lively and animated 60 minutes. You would have thought that they had told the audience Taylor Swift was coming, but it was Trump himself that had the hall excited and enthused. Hannity had a tough time asking questions amidst the cheers, applause, and spontaneous chants of USA.
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With the murder of six October 7 hostages, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Hannity asked Trump about Vice President and selected Democrat nominee Kamala Harris‘ statement after the murders and her measured stance in dealing with Hamas and calling for a ceasefire:
HANNITY: We just heard Kamala Harris, our country’s Border Czar talking about you need the courage to never say “Radical Islamist terrorism,” or “Illegal alien.” President Trump is back with us. What is your reaction to that? Because who attacked us on 9-11 and who is crossing our border?
Trump responded, “She wants to be politically correct, and we can’t be politically correct anymore.”
The audience erupted into cheers and some even gave Trump a standing ovation. Trump continued,
We have October 7, people saw it. We have things going on in the world right now with Israel, and with the Middle East is blowing up. It’s blowing up. We have Ukraine and Russia. It would have never happened. That would have never happened, October 7 would have never happened. If I were the president it would have never happened, and everybody knew it.
Iran was broke, they didn’t have the money for Hamas and for Hezbollah, they didn’t have the money for anybody they wanted to get by. We would have made a fair deal with them, I was only looking to make a fair deal with them. I wanted to say so much during my term: We went four years without any blowups. We had no World Trade Center blowup, we had no radical Islamic terror. We had no radical Islamic terror. Because we were very tough at the border and we were very tough with our statements, and we, the whole world was a safe place.
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Trump went into comments made by Hungarian President Viktor Orbán ahead of a July meeting with the former president at Mar-a-Lago.
Mr Orbán told German media earlier this week that the former US president was a “self-made man” with a “different approach to everything”.
A Trump victory in the US election would be “good for the world politics”, he added.
“He [Trump] is a man of peace. Under his four-year term he did not initiate a single war, and he did a lot in order to create peace in old conflicts in very complicated areas of the world.”
Trump spoke about that meeting.
That was the question that he asked Viktor Orbán, who is really considered very strong. They said, “He’s a strong man, sometimes you need a strong man, he’s a strong man.” He’s the prime minister of Hungary, and he said, “You bring back Trump–” Everybody–now I’m not saying it, but he said it, because I’d rather say, “respect.” But he said, “Everybody was afraid of Trump. You bring him back, you’re not going to have any problems, it’s all going to go away.” The world is blowing up.
The audience once again erupted into applause and agreement, causing Trump to pause. He continued:
The world is blowing up. When you look at Ukraine and you look at Russia, you look at all the things that are happening. We are potentially getting ready, I’m telling you, and I’ve made a lot of predictions, and this is not a prediction because it’s so bad. I don’t want it to be a prediction. We’re heading into World War III territory. And because of the power of weapons, nuclear weapons in particular, but other weapons also. And I know the weapons better than anybody, because I’m the one that bought ’em—we rebuilt our entire military, we upgraded our entire program. The one program I hated to upgrade. Hated it. Was the nuclear program, and I understand it better than anybody.
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Trump elaborated on his trepidation in upgrading nuclear technology.
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My uncle was at MIT, a professor, the longest-serving professor at MIT, very smart guy. We have a smart family—it pays to have a smart family. But, I understood nuclear for a long time. The power of nuclear weapons, you need a president who is not going to be taking you into war. We won’t have World War III when I’m elected. But with these clowns that you have in there, you’re going to end up having World War III, it’s going to be a war like no other.
Hannity pivoted to what the message of this election is, and Trump affirmed that it was still about the forgotten man and reiterated, “It’s very simply, the message, ‘Make America Great Again.'”
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