On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, how many times do we conservatives sit and watch the Democrat party, the media, and the ruling class in D.C. tear into and destroy our people? Now they’re going after Pete Hegseth because he would make a great Secretary of Defense – that’s why they want to stop him. Their other target, right now, is Kash Patel. They say that he will use the FBI to go after journalists. These attacks on Hegseth, Patel, and others are attacks on President-Elect Trump because they can’t get to Trump. Trump’s nominees need to stand strong. Also, the Biden administration is talking about preemptive pardons – just in case. If this isn’t the conduct of a dictator we don’t know what is. They are telling us that the Biden crime family circle is so big and involves so many people that they are working vigorously to figure out who to put on the list. Finally, our generation will be remembered for mutilating kids. During oral arguments, Liberal Justices compared transgender medical treatments to aspirin and also compared bans on sex changes for children to barring interracial marriage.
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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. We the people. We are at least putatively the reason this country exists. We are at least putatively in charge of this country. Politicians be damned. Now, I don’t know how many times we sit here, we conservatives, we constitutionalists. And watch the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party media. And the ruling class in Washington, D.C. and that includes certain Republicans, Toronto, our people. Try and destroy our people. And play along with the media. I don’t know how many more times we’re going to put up with these various individuals. See, it’s a very close Senate. 53 Republicans now, we gave them a majority. And yet a handful of them, two or three. Can throw a wrench in the works. Matt Gates dropped out. He was the headliner for about 3 minutes. Now they’re going after Pete Hegseth. You know Pete Hegseth. I know Pete Hegseth. They’re trying to say he’s a drunk. He’s not a drunk. They’re trying to say he drank on the job at Fox. He did not drink on the job at Fox. They’re trying to say he drank on the job in his prior position. He did not drink on the job. In his prior position, a letter was put out by a trustee. The organization said it never happened. And so now where are we? He’s controversial, quote unquote. Well, Donald Trump was said to be controversial. They indicted him 91 times. Their goal was to do what? To make him so controversial, he drop out, but he didn’t to make them so controversial that you wouldn’t support him, but you did to make him so controversial that he wouldn’t be president. But you voted for him overwhelmingly and he’s going to be president again. They threw criminal cases against him. Civil cases against him. They threw a libel case, this allegation of rape against him. He survived it all. The lesson here is stand strong. Now there are individuals who aren’t worth standing strong for. The guy with the DEA. I called him out first behind his microphone. Was a lousy choice. I don’t know who was involved in it. Now that he’s gone, you got all the tough guys in radio and TV saying that guy was a bad guy. Okay, great. I’ve raised questions about this Labor secretary appointment, but I said Donald Trump gets what he wants. I even said that with the D.A. He fired the guy who got rid of him. And in the end, that’s what he can do and will do. Joni Ernst of Iowa. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, certain other Republicans. Playing into the media. They live by the media despite their protestations. They love the media attention. They love people shoving microphones and cameras in their faces. They’re so consequential, you know. Pete Hegseth as a combat veteran, I mean, real combat, two Bronze Stars. How many Bronze Stars does Lindsey Graham have? None. And with all due respect. To Senator Ernst, who was in military combat. How many brown stars does she have? None that I’m aware of. Maybe she’s got one. I don’t know. But should the benefit of the doubt go to Pete Hegseth? Should the benefit of the doubt go to Pete Hegseth? I don’t care. He’s waiting in the wings. I don’t care about plan B. I’m talking about plan eight. And we the people, when we get behind these nominees, can have the rug pulled out from under us because the Democrats and their media and some of these rhino establishment Republicans start coughing up fur balls. Then we learned our lesson. It’s an amazing thing. We get people who are the most grotesque, immoral slobs out there. Like Swalwell, like AOC, like those people questioning Pete Hegseth. And you have politicians here who will look us in the eye through the camera, speak to us up to the microphone, who, as I speak, are cheating on their wives and cheating on their husbands. Probably a pretty good damn percentage of them and probably a bigger damn percentage of the media. The sleaze that goes on in the media. I hear about it all the time, right? CNN Right. MSNBC, Yes. Even some of our friends. I hear about it. It’s really none of my business. But now you see, they’re going to beat their chests. They think they’re Jerry Falwell. The same party that supported Ted Kennedy, a drunk and a womanizer. Chappaquiddick, Ted, the same party that supported Bill Clinton. Accused of rape in more than one instance. Harassing women. But they defended him and they backed him. Lyndon Johnson, a complete sleazeball and a racist on top of it. One of their great presidents, John Kennedy. Slept with an intern under age. All the facts are out now. Another womanizer. If it’s out of the closet, baby, it’s out of the closet. That’s the way it goes. And these media types, they know who they are and I know who some of them are, too. It’s disgusting. It’s disgusting. Here’s the bottom line. Pete Hague says, would make a tremendous secretary of defense. That’s why they’re trying to stop him. He’s not a good ol boy. He’s a good young man. He’s a reformer. Who’s looking out for the actual soldiers. In the field, in combat, in battle. He has nothing to do with wants nothing to do with these long in the tooth fat ass generals and admirals. Who’ve done horrific things to this country and to the Pentagon with their wokeism in their DNA and all the rest. That’s the truth. He would make a fantastic secretary of defense. So they want to stop him. And a lot of these people want to stop them. They treat the Pentagon like any other bureaucracy. It’s not like any other bureaucracy. Those people put their lives on the line, but they treat it that way. They’re being told by the generals and the admirals. They’re being told. By the upper echelon at the Pentagon. They don’t want Haig Seth. That’s what Lindsey Graham’s listening to. He didn’t care about these allegations. That’s what Joni Ernst is listening to. Unbelievable. Then there’s Cash Patel. Cash Patel. Well, can’t accuse him. A womanizing can accuse him of drinking. Not yet, anyway. So what do they accuse him of, of wanting to use the FBI to go after the journalists? He’s got a hit list, don’t you know? That’s right. Kash Patel. Suddenly he’s going to unleash the FBI and every FBI agent is going to do whatever he says. You say he’s going to direct the FBI to go after Trump’s political opponents, lock them up, go after the media. Based on what? Based on nothing. Just like Trump and the neo Nazis, just like Trump’s a dictator, just like Trump’s a fascist. Here we go again. Except now it’s Kash Patel. Let me tell you a little story. When I was in the Reagan administration and serve President Reagan and I was chief of staff to Attorney General Meese. Attorney General Meese was taking an awful lot of slings and arrows. In the lead up to the election of George H.W. Bush. He was very concerned. He was very friendly with George H.W. Bush that he was harming his election possibilities. And he decided that summer before the election. That’s summer before. The November 1st Tuesday of 1988, that he would resign, that he would step down. An innocent man who was under constant attack to independent counsel. One was good enough there to. One of the most honest, decent, ethical men I ever met. Never took a penny from anybody. Never got rich. None of it. Compare him to the Biden crime family. And he decided to step down. I want you to listen carefully to me. In addition to his family members, he invited a handful of staff. I was the chief of staff, invited me, invited the counselor, his counselor. Can career be invited? His executive secretary. Cathy invited maybe two others. That was it. And we were in the Oval Office. When he was meeting President Reagan and the first lady, Nancy Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the vice president popped in. Ed Meese was and is deeply admired. Deeply admired. And as I was standing there. And Ed Meese was saying goodbye. To his longtime friend and confidant Ronald Reagan. Among other things, President Reagan said to Ed Meese the following. I want you to know Ed and Ursula, his wife. How deeply sorry I am. That you’ve had to go through this. I know. Reagan said. This is word for word. I know. That the attacks on you were intended for me. I know that they tried to destroy you. Because they wanted to destroy me. But they couldn’t get to me. So they went after you. These attacks on Pete Hegseth Capital. There’ll be others. Our tax on Donald Trump. I hope his people understand this. Because they can’t get the Trump. Right now. He’s untouchable. Just won a landslide. Criminal cases are done. The one in Manhattan will be done by hook or by crook. So they want to weaken his presidency. They want to weaken his. His policy agenda. And so they’re targeting the individuals who they believe are the most dangerous to them, not the you. Not to democracy, but to them. Haig sits at the top of the list, Cash Patels right behind him. And there will be others. The ones who will slide through with bipartisan support. They’re obviously not worried about them. But if your principled. If you said things that are truthful. If you really want to do something. About what’s happening in our government. The ruling class, Democrats and Republicans alike, the media and their they’re all their surrogates. You’re public enemy number one. They will use whatever they can. They will use anonymous sources, anonymous staffers at Fox, they will use. Past relationships and associations or ugly divorces. They will do whatever they can. They will use whatever they can. I notice the media are very excited about showing what people used to say about Trump, and now Trump’s nominated them, or what they said about somebody else or somebody else said about Look at that. Look at the hypocrisy. This is amazing. Suddenly that matters. Suddenly it matters when when Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris, who accused him, of all things, of the fact of being a segregationist, but that didn’t seem to matter. We know primaries are tough. We know things are said. Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush as his running mate, who trashed Ronald Reagan, who, question is, is intelligence. But he chose him anyway. John Kennedy chose Lyndon Johnson. He couldn’t stand Lyndon Johnson, considered him a backwoods hillbilly, a foul mouth, no good for nothing. But he chose them. And I can go on and on and on. We’re not impressed with the modern American media any more than we’re press with Pravda or Al Jazeera. Cheap shot punks. I remember what Reagan said. They’re not out to get you, Ed. They’re out to get me. When they were out to get Reagan, they were out to get us. They’re not really out to get hacks that they’re out to get Trump. And he getting Trump. They’re out to get you. How dare you vote in a landslide to put Trump back in the presidency? That’s what this is all about. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
There’s not a conservative. There’s not a constitutionalist. None can pass the test that the Democrat Party and the Marxist jihadists. Not Islamist jihadists. Now, we’ve upgraded them, put out there for them because they’re out to sabotage them. The after Clarence Thomas, they go after Sam Alito. They go after Gorsuch. Doesn’t matter. They go after Reagan. They go after Meese. The way after the bushes. You have to trump. They go after her. They go after Patel. Nobody can meet their standards, even the people with the cleanest records. Then it’s their positions that are controversial, then their right wing, and they’re anti-democratic. More when I return.
Segment 3
Experience is important when you’ve lived a little while. Another thing I remember about Reagan, he never back down. Oh, he’d compromise here and there on issues. But on the principles he pushed what he wanted to do, whether it was strategic defense initiative, huge increase in defense spending that was needed. That’s right. The destruction of the Soviet Union. The Trident missile. And he never backed down on his nominees. I will tell you this to. I see this as a positive thing, as a good example to the Trump folks and other folks. When Bob Bork got into trouble with the Democrats when they were trying to destroy him. Reagan refused to pull his ticket. In fact, he said to Bork, You don’t have the votes in the Senate. Our people tell us. But I’m not going to withdraw your name unless you want me to withdraw your name. And he said no. Mr. President, let’s make them have a roll call vote. Let’s force them to have a vote. President Reagan said, okay, absolutely, I’m not withdrawing you. Maybe there’s somebody who withdrew that that I don’t remember, but I don’t remember him withdrawing. Certainly not many, if any. He knew that they would try to create controversies around them. He talked about the iron triangle. The media, the Democrat Party, and the special interests. He knew because they tried to create controversy around him all the time. He understood all that. But he stood by Bork. Thick and thin. As he did other nominees, as he did other individuals. He stood by Attorney General Meese, who came under blistering attack from two independent counsel, constant harassment from committees of Congress. Endless. I know. I was there. And he stood by me, said, No, no, I know what’s going on. I’m back. And my attorney general, my friend, I know what’s going on with Pete Hegseth. Folks. I’ve seen it before. Now you know this. I know you know this because you’re my radio audience and we’re a big family here. Nobody, but nobody has been more aggressive. More substantive, more thoughtful. In their defense. President Trump. Who was wrongly attacked when he came down an escalator. Nobody. Now they’ll bring out quotes for me saying I could never support Trump this, that we know what happened there. I did it on radio. President Trump. As I said over and over again, he sent me a note and said, I have nothing to do over Roger Stone said, and Roger Stone. And I don’t talk to him that much. I like Roger Stone. I think we get along great right now. I think what was done to Roger Stone was disgusting. And I’ve said it over and over again, and I believe Roger’s been on the program a couple of years back. So none of that matters. Oh, but look what he said back. Doesn’t matter. When the rubber hits the road, you can determine who’s who’s going to stand with you and who’s not. And not just out of loyalty, although that’s good. But at a substance and purpose. And principal. In principle. It’s important. In your own lives. Look at your own life. When you’ve gone through hard times. Maybe you’ve had some unpleasant issues. Maybe you did something you shouldn’t have done. And you regret it. I must confess, I don’t have a lot of that in my background, but some people do. I get it. Things you would have done differently. There is some of that. I sometimes I shouldn’t have done it that way. I should have done it this way. But maybe there’s issues of moral turpitude. Which is not good. But you can’t take it back. But you live your life a new way. Maybe you were an addict. And you live your life in a way. That’s important. Are we to believe that these members of Congress have never experienced this? And we do believe these Democrats and, yes, these Republicans. Ah, so pure. Not just when it comes to morality, but when it comes to anything else that they’re so consistent. When you listen to this Joni Ernst or when you listen to this Lindsey Graham, you think to yourself, really, who are these people? They think they’re God’s gift. They think they’re so brilliant, they think they can predict the future. If people would just listen to them. They’re politicians. Now, with all due respect. Politicians are on the lowest ladder. When it comes to morality and ethics, and not just in their personal lives, but in the way they treat and talk to us the way they say one thing and do another. I would remind Ernst, I would remind Graham, and I’d remind the rest of them you wouldn’t be in a majority. But for we the people. Who voted and supported Donald Trump. And. Support. Keith Headset. Pete Hegseth. Cash Patel. It’s not a matter of an appointee getting along with Democrats and Republicans and the Republican establishment in the Senate. That’s not the test. It’s never been the test. There was a Tea Party movement that rose up against Obama and Bush of the past rose up against Mitch McConnell and Boehner. There was a Reagan revolution that rose up against the Republican establishment. We the people, we rise up from time to time. They confront this and we win in massive landslides. We, the people, rose up again to defend and support Donald Trump. It’s really the third time. Reagan. The Tea Party. Trump. In a half century. And they still don’t listen to us. And they still resist the will of the people. They still tell us we don’t have a mandate. There’s something wrong with you and me. The idea that Eric Swalwell remains in the House of Representatives and wasn’t expelled for having an affair with a communist Chinese spy and they go after Pete Hague said, Ladies and gentlemen, are we to take this seriously? A combat veteran with two damn Bronze Stars fought in two theaters, Iraq and Iran. And there’s Swalwell. Are you kidding me? It’s time to speak out. It’s time to be heard. Right now I am not a special Peter from Pete Hegseth. I’ve never socialized with him. But I know him professionally. I know him. When we’ve sat down and we’ve done interviews together, When he’s interviewed me, when I’ve interviewed him. I know him. He’s a man who seeks the truth. He’s a man who’s put his life on the line for his country. He’s a man he’s willing to serve, and he’s under vicious, brutal, horrendous smear attacks right now by the Washington establishment machine, by the media, the Democrats and the rhinos. He’s under attack. What are we going to do? Leave this war here on the battlefield. Is that what he would do? We got a plan B, they tell us maybe they got a plan C and D, I don’t care. It’s not a Kate situation. There’s a different. This is different. Maybe he’ll survive. Maybe he won’t. But it’s important that those of us who are moral, who do have principles, who do understand what’s taking place. And we put down our marker. Whatever may come. That doesn’t mean there aren’t great men and women in the wings. I didn’t say that. That’s not the point. This isn’t intended to disparage anybody else. Who might be an outstanding secretary of defense or secretary of state or secretary, this administrator for that. It’s not the point. Sometimes you go down fighting. Because you do what’s right. I haven’t talked to Pete Hegseth since he’s been nominated. Who did what’s her name? Megyn Kelly did. Right, Mr. Brady. I happened. I don’t even want to put them on the spot. I don’t want to interview him because then it would be all over an interview with him live in the same crowd. I don’t want to hurt him. I don’t want to hurt him. I am not liked by a majority the Republicans on Capitol Hill. I am not liked by virtually every Democrat on Capitol Hill. I wear it as a badge of honor. I’m despised by the media, even friendly media. I don’t care. It’s okay by me when I’m on my death bed. At least I know I live my life the way I wanted to live it. I didn’t compromise, but fools and phonies and politicians. And I’m not going to. I don’t seek their approval. I don’t want it. There are a host on TV and radio who die for it. A conga line of guests that they bring on and the text and the emails they send and the parties they go to, I don’t do it. I don’t want to do it. I just live differently. Just the way I am. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
You know, it’s amazing, folks, as this regime is conducting itself as a fascistic regime with a father, gives a pardon to the son in order to cover the father and the father’s crimes. The use of the FBI and the Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors to go after political opponents. Open borders in order to change the demographics and change. The number of Democrats who have safe seats in the House represented, by the way they stole two seats in California. Drives me nuts that there’s no reporting on this. A month after the elections over. This is how it goes. Totally under the radar. It’s just pathetic. And yes, they did. And I can prove it if anybody has any questions. That aside. Now they’re talking about preemptive pardons. Mr. Producer, what’s a preemptive pardon? Nobody’s ever heard of it. They want to pardon all their political friends and people who are in the buying regime just in case. The new Department of Justice decides to look under the sheets. You understand? Now, if this isn’t the conduct of a mobster, a fascistic dictator, I don’t know what is. The attack on free speech, the attack on social platforms, the attack on freedom of assembly and and freedom of speech in front of Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics. The attack on parental rights and parental free speech at school board meetings. I mean, I can go on and on and on of the civil liberties that this regime, this Biden police state are exercising, have exercised and are doing it right now. And yet we can’t keep hearing about what Kash Patel might do or what Donald Trump might do or what somebody else might do. They haven’t done it. They’re not going to do it. But it’s being done right now. And Politico. One of Joe Biden’s favorite leak recipients. The Cash Patel nomination, who has vowed to pursue Trump’s critics as FBI director, has heightened concerns with the president’s inner circle. This is written by a guy by the name of Jonathan Martin. He’s a hemorrhagic. He’s a human hemorrhoid. That’s what I am. Erotic is. He’s a human hemorrhoid on the inner thigh of the Washington, D.C. ruling class body politic. That’s who he is. He’s a mouthpiece. He’s a propagandist. I’m going to get to this article after the break at the top of the hour. I’ll be right back.