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FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump Addresses Moms for Liberty 2024 Summit

Read here the full transcript of a conversation between former president Donald Trump and Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice at the third annual National “Joyful Warriors” Summit in Washington, DC, as a special guest on Friday, August 30, 2024.

Listen to the audio version here:

TRANSCRIPT:

DONALD TRUMP: Well, thank you so much, and it’s an honor to be here with that nice group. We just left Pennsylvania, we had a big rally and a big speech. I said, okay, that’s it for the day, right? No, sir, you’re going to D.C. now, congratulations. But it’s what I heard, exactly the group I knew anyway. But when they reminded me this was it, this is so important. The job you’ve done is incredible, really, and it’s an honor to be here. Thank you.

TIFFANY JUSTICE: Mr. President, we just want to say how thankful we are that you’re doing okay. What a scary day that was in Pennsylvania, and you are looking great, and we’re so happy that you were able to join us.

You and I were talking a little bit backstage and you were sharing with me a lot of the concerns you have about the border and what you’re seeing happen with illegal immigrants across the United States, and I thought I’d give you an opportunity to talk a little bit about that to start off.

Border and Immigration Concerns

DONALD TRUMP: Sure, because you’re talking about moms and you’re talking about family, such a big factor for you, just about everything. And when you look at what’s happening in our country, this is so tough. You know, it’s one thing you don’t grill oil and you don’t do something that you can do with a new group coming in, but millions and millions of people, 21 million people, I think the real number is, you hear 13, 14, 15, like that’s not a big number, but it is, but 21 million people.

And many of these people are criminals. Many of these people are coming out of the roughest countries in the world, and they’re coming from all over the world. They’re not just coming from South America. You know, everyone thinks they’re coming from like Guatemala, El Salvador. They’re coming from Mexico. They’re coming from everywhere. I was speaking to the Border Patrol. They said in the last 12 months, 159 different countries were represented by people having come in illegally, and that’s some number.

But these are tough people. They’re coming out of the jails. They’re coming out of the mental institutions. They’re coming out of prisons, and they’re coming—I mean, they’re just coming out of— there’s a difference between a prison and jail. It’s subtle. But I say that they come out of mental institutions and insane asylums. There’s a difference there also. And they’re coming into our country at levels that nobody’s ever seen.

Escalating Situation in Colorado

And I’ve been saying for two years that this has got to stop. I’ve been saying for longer than that, but for two and a half, three years, I said this has to stop, and now it’s catching up with us. And you see what’s going on in Colorado. I don’t know if anybody got to see Aurora. I mean, they’re taking over the city. They’re taking over apartment complexes. These are young, very tough people. These are tough. They make our criminals look nice. That’s the only thing good about them. Our criminals are like nice people by comparison.

And if you saw the Colorado thing—and this is happening all over, just not Colorado. But the Colorado thing caught the imagination because there were many of them with the biggest weapons that you’ve ever seen. And these came from Venezuela, which is emptying out all of its criminals. You know what? Venezuela crime is down like 72 percent because they’re bringing all of their criminals from Caracas and everywhere else. They’re bringing them to the beautiful USA. Thank you very much, Venezuela. We appreciate it. And we’re allowing it to happen because we have open borders.

Global Origins of Immigrants

And again, this is happening with every continent. We have Africa, well represented, coming out from the Congo. Twenty-two people came in recently from the Congo. Where do you come from? We come from prison. What did you do to get into prison? We will not tell you. Bad stuff. And we have them here. No intention of bringing them back. None whatsoever. And they’re all over the country.

But now what they’re doing— You know, if you think 21 million— So if you say a certain large percentage of them are bad because when you empty out your prisons and you empty out your mental institutions, it’s a lot of people. It’s bigger than most armies are in our country, if you add them up totally. So we had 159 countries, let’s say. But we have massive numbers of people.

Impact on Communities and Law Enforcement

And what happened in Aurora today is incredible because they basically have just taken over a swath in the building, and the people are petrified. The people living in the building, they’re leaving. And when they tell the police about it— I mean, the police, you know, they don’t need AK-47s. That’s a very powerful weapon. I learned a lot about weapons over the last six weeks I worked there.

There’s a big difference between different weapons. But they’re coming in with very powerful weapons. And the police, you know, you have a few policemen that are saying, wait a minute, we’re totally outnumbered. Plus they have guns that are, you know, many times the power of what we carry. We don’t carry rifles and machine guns and things like that. They’re wielding around pretty freely and know how to use them.

Effect on Schools

And this is affecting our schools because we want to talk about schools. And they’re taking over schools. We have MS-13 gangs. They’re the toughest gangs, they say, in the world, probably are.