Citation From an April 3, 2024, Twitter/X Space
MIKE SMITH (DIRECTOR, OUT OF SHADOWS AND INTO THE LIGHT): I told everybody before you came on that you — Gen. Flynn gave President Trump an award for fighting human trafficking, for doing more than anyone —
MARY FLYNN O’NEILL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AMERICA’S FUTURE): Children. With children, yeah, that’s right. He's the only president that has ever done anything for human traffic but for children. And it was just a beautiful award. If I had it in front of me, I’d read it to you. But he was really taken by it. He didn’t know it was going to happen, you know, so —
SMITH: Yeah.
O’NEILL: — it was cool. It was really — and it was really cool to see you and Mike and Donald Trump on the stage. It was nice. It was cool.
SMITH: I could — if your brother would not have helped me, I would’ve — I don’t know what I would’ve done because I was literally — I’ll be honest with you. I didn’t expect President Trump to come in, and I’m standing there and I could see him coming in the room and I’m like, what do you say to —
O’NEILL: Yeah
SMITH: — President Trump? I’m like, welcome home?
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SMITH: And then, you know, I looked over to your brother and I’m like, “Mike, can you help me?” I was like, you know, God’s done some crazy stuff to me in my life, but that was probably one of the biggest God things ever. Like, that was —
O’NEILL: That was awesome.
SMITH: I was like, I cannot believe this moment. I mean, like how cool is it to just have that moment? I mean, I would — I mean, you can’t —
O’NEILL: Well, it was. It was cool. I’m going to call his secretary, there’s an assistant there, because we also — we gave him one of Gen. Flynn’s bats with a inscription on it. And I’m going to follow up and see because he want — he was supposed to — he’s supposed to watch that movie. He’s supposed to watch Into the Light, so I’m going to follow up and and see if he’s —
SMITH: Well, hopefully, he will. I know he whispered to me —
O’NEILL: Oh, he will.
SMITH: He said to me, I don’t know if you saw when he left the stage, but he leaned over and he goes, “I guess I — that’s a thank you, and I’m going to watch — I’m going to watch it.”
O’NEILL: I’ll follow up. I’ll follow up.
SMITH: Well, that’d be great.