Jim DeMint

It's going to be upa- it's not gonna be easy.

Um, South Carolina has not voted for a Democrat in the Senate, um, uh, since Jim DeMint, and I can't tell you how old I was when that was.

Um, so it is, it, it's, it's also, and you see even like David Beasley who, you know, came out publicly condemning, um, he was a Republican, um, governor in South Carolina, he came out condemning Trump and his comments about Annie Andrews.

I think you're seeing more Republicans even kind of create a permission structure for Republicans in South Carolina to say, you know, "This is enough." Like, "We're tired of this.

Uh-

But the Republican leadership, in particular Mitch McConnell, was, was very adamant about ensuring that Thad Cochran's primary opponent would not prevail and come to the Senate and strengthen that conservative Jim Demint wing of the party.

And the key way to do that was to get someone who was well-known, like Thad Cochran, even though he wasn't lucid and, right, um, to run again.

Yeah.

They are loaded with money.

The former CEO of Boeing almost became the president of the Heritage Foundation after DeMint left.

Then they found this black woman to take the position, who's sort of, you know, sort of nondescript.

That sort of makes them appear to be sort of reaching out to minorities.

I've even, I've talked to people, like some of the nicest people in DC, you know? I mean, like the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the people that managed to not get kind of sucked into the DC black hole.

Some of those, like a former, uh, senator of this nature, uh, uh, Senator Jim DeMint.

I think he's kind of one of, one of the best people to come through DC.

He told me, "I believed it at one point." Right? And, and, um- We saw it happen in places like Taiwan or Japan, right, or South Korea, where a dictatorship turned into a democracy, right? And in Taiwan's case, one of the most vibrant democracies we have right now.

Um, it's connected again to, to, it's actually connected to a, to, uh, what I would consider a cult is called the family, um, But this, again, some people might have seen in the Netflix documentary.

But again, what the Netflix documentary does tell you is that that particular family was set up by Billy Graham, Billy Graham, and with help by a gentleman called Jim DeMint.

Billy Graham and Jim DeMint are both CMP.

So the CMP is actually a higher and more secretive think tank.

It's bizarre.

I gave another speech last night.

We'll have clips later over at CPI, Jim DeMint and Mark Meadows, where I threw down once again on the Chinese Communist Party that it's ridic- it's absurd that we are allowing them and funding them and selling them chips and, um, letting them have what we call distillation, steal our intellectual property.

That's gotta be stopped.

But your thoughts overall of this, uh, state visit.

But ultimately, he's like, OK, I'm going to hand this off to somebody else.

Senator Jim DeMint had just been he was a pretty, pretty new senator, but decided that he would take it on.

And so I went to the senator's staff and said, listen, I'm happy to turn in my resignation if you guys want to bring some.

He had a really good staff.

DeMint.

I'm sorry, Jim DeMint.

And you were the first then elected African American from South Carolina since Reconstruction.

So here's, with that in mind, here's my long-winded question, because...