Mr. President, we're now in the backstretch under 50 days. Is there a closing plan to close out the battleground states that's different from the previous 300? Well, there is a plan about closing. It's called closing the border, and we're going to do that immediately. And we're going to drill, baby, drill, and we're going to bring down inflation.
We're going to bring it. We're going to cut prices. You have to cut prices, not just bring them to a level. You have to cut prices. But we're going to end up with the strongest economy anywhere in the world, and we're going to do it very quickly.
We have more liquid gold under our feet than anybody. We're going to use it, and we're going to pay down debt. We're going to reduce taxes still further, and we're going to have a country back again. But most importantly and immediately, we're going to close our border because we have millions and millions of people pouring in from jails and prisons and mental institutions and terrorists, and we're not going to stand for it anymore. 18,000 people out there, about another 18,000 on the outside in Nassau County, Long Island, and you probably made a lot of them happy by saying, hey, I know I had tax reform.
I got rid of the salt. But now you want to add that. Allow them to take their state and local taxes off their tax returns. We're really looking to do that, and we want to do it for New York. We also want to win New York.
We think we can because of what's happened with the migrant crisis. Everybody's coming into New York. People that, frankly, that just got out of prisons from the Congo and from the Middle East and from lots of other places and the people of New York. Look, I left here.
This was a great place. Now it's a place that's overrun by people that shouldn't be in our country, by very dangerous people, street gangs. You see what's happening in other states.
It's not only in New York, but I look at what's going on with the Venezuelan taking over the real estate in Colorado with guns like even our military doesn't have guns and rifles. So no, we got to turn it around. We're going to turn it around fast.
We have to deport all of these criminals that have been brought in, and we will. First time since 1988, the Teamsters have not endorsed a Democratic candidate. They didn't endorse anyone, but they released a poll. The poll shows their membership voted by for votes for is going to vote for you by about 20 points. Yeah, they're going to be what does that mean?
We're up to almost 60% of the vote. Well, it's a great honor. The Teamsters have been with me for a long time. We did a lot of buildings in New York. I did concrete buildings.
They were the truck drivers for the concrete. So you had no problems with the unions ever? I got along with the unions and I got along with non unions, too. I got along with everybody.
I was very good at building things. And, you know, you go to different parts of the country, you go down south and you don't have unions. And in New York, you have very strong unions. But I always got along with them. I got along with the Teamsters. Look, this is the first time in many decades that they haven't endorsed a Democrat. But they went out and they actually took a poll of the members and I was at 60%. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good. After seeing Kamala Harris vice president for the first time and debating it for the first time, and then seeing some of her follow up interviews, what kind of opponent is she? Well, I thought that she had a debate, which was interesting because she wasn't answering any questions. And I thought it was a great debate for me. I thought it was one of my best debates that I've ever had. And some people disagreed, but I felt it was the strongest debate I ever had. I thought I was treated very unfairly by ABC. They had it was three on one. But that was OK, but that was OK, too.
I thought we did really well. We exposed it. She told a lot of things that weren't true. And I told things that weren't true. Like, as an example, when I said we have massive crime, I was interrupted by David Meir saying that crime has actually gone down.
Well, no, the Justice Department, I don't know why they did this, but somebody maybe likes me over there. They just released, as you saw, numbers saying that crime is up 44 percent and beyond that in some categories. So I was right.
And ABC hasn't apologized yet. No, I thought the debate was very good. My poll numbers are great. We just had a Rasmussen poll that I'm up six. And I think we're doing very well.
Don't forget, it's a very unfair process. They did a coup of Biden. The Biden thing was over. We had the debate. It was a good debate. And he was down either 19 or 21 points, depending on which poll you look. And I figured that was going to be a win. And they told him that was going to be a winner. We want you out. And they actually did a coup and they put her in.
And I actually believe if they when the people find out what she stands for, all of the things that she stands for, I think that we will do as well or better than we would have done against Biden. Mark Penn, a Democratic pollster, is calling for an investigation of ABC and the moderators. He wants the communications poll to see if they were talking to each other because of the fact check on you and none on them and the questions and topics. Do you join in those questions? Sure, I do. I think they should be investigated.
And, you know, they have to get a license from the federal government. They they asked me nine or 11 different times about things that I was right on in virtually every case. I was absolutely right.
Like the crime, like Charlottesville, like a lot of other things. They asked me about things that I was right on. And they didn't ask her anything about things that she was wrong on. And they knew that she bloodbath, as an example, she knew they all knew that she was wrong on these things. You were talking finances. And so so what is so sad is that they're allowed to do that. So they interrupted me, but they didn't interrupt her.
And she was the one that was wrong. You have a 50, 50 percent cut, 0.5 percent cut, a massive cut of the Fed right before the election is the first one. You know, it's the biggest one in a long time. Do you think politics plays a role in it or is it because inflation is tamed? Well, I think it's two things. I think our economy is terrible.
So you could make the case for them or its politics or maybe it's a combination of both. But the economy is bad. Inflation is killing people. We're going to get the inflation way down. I'm going to reduce energy bills for people by 50 percent within the first 12 months. That's the kind of stuff we have. We have more liquid gold under our feet than any country in the world.
Saudi Arabia, Russia. I'm going to reduce energy costs for people. That means air conditioning, heating, cars, everything by 50 percent.
And we'll do that within 12 months and I'll be able to do it easily. I understand I missed this. I was here, but you did make history today with Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency purchase.
I don't even get it. Do you understand what you bought? Hamburgers? Well, I did. I bought a hamburger with Bitcoin.
This was the first purchase ever made, I guess, of a hamburger or something. And now look, I'm a believer in staying at the top. This is a hot thing. And rather than having giving it to China like the A.I. stuff, you know, artificial intelligence, China is going crazy about it. They're also going crazy on Bitcoin and crypto cryptocurrency.
And I do understand it. I think it's going to be a very hot industry. And it already is. Actually, the former first lady has a book coming out, a memoir. What do we get from that book?
I haven't read it yet. How important is it for her to put that out? Well, she's a tremendous person, very precise, very accurate. And I do believe she loves her husband.
That's probably the biggest surprise to a lot of people, come to think of it. But she loves her husband. She's a terrific woman, a terrific first lady.
No matter where I go, they just go crazy over Melania. And lastly, do you where I know you and your safety in the special Secret Service, but you worry about your family, too? I do. I do.
I don't talk about it, but I do. I have to worry about family. I have to worry about everybody. I worry about you. I worry about everybody because, look, we're under siege and no country has ever suffered like we have for the last three and a half, almost four years when they allow millions of people to come into our country from prisons.
Right. From prisons and terrorists and people from mental institutions. And they take over our parks. Look at New York.
You can't play little league baseball anymore. You know, that doesn't sound serious, but it is serious when they take away your whole lifestyle, when they live in hotels better than our incredible veterans who are lying on the street opposite the main entrance to a hotel. And in that hotel, you have illegal aliens that have come in and, by the way, destroying the hotel, fighting at levels that the police don't even want to go into the hotels. When you have that happening in this city and this country, I do. I want to protect everybody. Lastly, JD's got a debate coming up.
CBS, Margaret Brennan, Norah O'Donnell. Do you think he'll get a fair shot? What advice do you give him? He won't get a fair shot, but he will handle it very good. Very smart. I think he's done great. People are really liking him. He's tough, smart. He loves our country.
He's going to have no trouble. That guy is a whack job. The whacko, this guy to be president someday. The vice president picked. I thought it was a terrible, absolutely.
I thought it was a terrible pick. I thought there were, I would have put him last on the list. How she could have picked him, but she was actually last. You know, they put her in the list too and she ended up behind him. This was a coup of Joe Biden. Joe Biden, whether you like him or not, had 14 million votes. She had none and they threw him out. That's a coup.
That is not democracy. You got 18,000 people waiting for you. 10,000 on the outside. You ready? I'm ready. I'm all set.
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