Fox & Friends hosts gush over Trump's first 2024 rally
“A rally like that last night and a crowd like that is a demonstration of the front-runner status of Donald Trump and the reservoir of enthusiasm he still holds over the base of the Republican Party”
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Citation From the March 26, 2023, edition of Fox's Fox & Friends Sunday
WILL CAIN (FOX NEWS HOST): Well, yesterday in Waco, Texas, President Donald Trump held a remarkable rally, a huge turnout there in Waco for former President Trump. I think he was asked or he made a statement yesterday when he was referencing a question he was asked, who's the greatest threat to the United States of America? Is it China? Is it Russia? And I believe his answer was it's actually high officials in the United States government that represent a threat to the United States of America. He talked a lot about the deep state and the threat that it represents to America. As part of that, as an example, he also talked about Alvin Bragg, and he said that in the end, as you've heard him say before, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you. And I'm just in the way. Watch.
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DONALD TRUMP: So, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you. And I'm just standing in their way. And I'm going to be standing in their way for a long time. And eventually, I won't have to stand in their way because in 2024, we're going to have the greatest victory of them all.
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TRUMP: The Biden regime's weaponization of law enforcement against their political opponent is something straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show. And, you know, we go Stalinist Russia. That's what it was. This was where it seems to have begun from the standpoint of us watching it in semi-modern day history. You go back to communist China or look at a third-world banana republic. That's what we become between our borders, our elections, and the weaponization of law enforcement. Banana republic, That's what we have become.
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CAIN: You know, you're tempted to say and then we've had the discussion, is this narrowly targeted? Is this an obsession with Donald Trump? But then you remember, and Mark Levin mentioned it on our program last weekend, classifying school board parents as domestic terrorists, censoring people that would question a vaccine on social media at the behest of the FBI. It really does lend credence to the idea. It's not just me, it's you. And I'm in the way.
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX NEWS HOST): And the different way that, for example, January six protesters were treated versus the peace, somewhat peaceful, mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful. I forget what they tried to tell us. It was, you know, summer of love that had, you know, billions of dollars of destruction, and cops actually hurt and killed in that one. So, I mean, I think a lot of people who are going to this rally wonder, does the FBI know I'm at this rally? A lot of people are not trusting of any of the institutions and they agree with Donald Trump when they say when he says they're coming after you.
PETE HEGSETH: That's what you can't discount about his candidacy. They saw what was done to him before he ran during his presidency, post-presidency. What a disaster Biden has been. The double standard of how Hunter and Joe are treated versus his family. And they feel that viscerally. And they say, now you're going to arrest the guy over a payment in New York? We're with him. And if he'll fight that hard on those things and persevere, then he'll fight that hard for our country. A rally like that last night and a crowd like that is a demonstration of the front-runner status of Donald Trump and the reservoir of enthusiasm he still holds over the base of the Republican Party, which anyone trying to challenge him, it's, you know, you're standing in front of a freight train here. How are you going to stop it remains to be seen.