Speaker 1: Fox News host Mark Levin has been doing a series of Sunday night interviews
with the failed former president Donald Trump.
But last night's was so absurd that Levin couldn't possibly save Trump.
When Trump raises a conspiracy theory so insane that it obviously doesn't make any sense based
on the facts, but it is such a verbal inkblot that you couldn't possibly clean it up.
The topic was the pandemic and Chinese tariffs.
And Trump's claim is that China made and released COVID as punishment to Trump and the United
States of America because Trump charged China so much money in tariffs, which ignores the
fact that Trump still doesn't understand how tariffs work.
Listen to this.
This is Mark Levine.
Can't possibly do anything with this to save Trump.
Speaker 3: China.
I was very from I was probably the first one.
I said he came from the lab in Wuhan.
I knew that for one thing, you saw body bags all over the place, around that lab.
You know, there were body bags all over that area and nobody talks about it.
But Levin.
Speaker 1: Is trying to stay as still as possible to maybe blend into the background and not
even be visible.
Speaker 3: In Wuhan.
You had through satellite pictures and other things.
You had pictures.
Body bags all over the place.
And you can see little lines, you know, from way up, but they couldn't be anything else.
But I said and I've said right from the beginning, it was the lab and all they got out, it got
out of the lab.
I think it was incompetence.
I really believe it was incompetence.
More.
You know, people said I was charging China so much money and tariffs and taxes and a
lot of people said they did it to get me out.
But we did great in that election.
We did.
Speaker 1: I understand what Trump is saying.
Okay.
Think about how bonkers this is, the tariffs that he was charging China.
Angered them so much that China made and released COVID, mostly killing people in other countries.
Like, remember, most of the deaths were not in the United States.
In order to get Trump back now, there's a couple little problems with this.
One is that that's not how tariffs work.
Trump still doesn't get that when you put tariffs on Chinese products imported to the
United States.
American companies pay the tariffs.
You are charging American companies more.
You're not charging China.
So it makes no sense on principle.
But of course, of the 6.8 million official COVID deaths only and I say only like it's
not a lot.
It's an insane number.
But the point is, proportionately, of the 6.8 million COVID deaths, only 1.1 million
were in the United States.
So China, to get Trump back for tariffs that they didn't actually pay, did something to
kill 5.7 million people in other countries, including their own, in order to kill some
people in the U.S., many after Trump left office as punishment for Trump's tariffs,
which they didn't pay.
This is so stunning, stunningly stupid that even Mark Levin says nothing and is just motionless
like a statue.
Trump then brings up Abraham Lincoln and says that he has actually been treated worse than
Abraham Lincoln.
Remember, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Speaker 3: Saying that Andrew Jackson was the most vilified president.
It was his wife died during this thing.
And they said such horrible things.
And he had a very tough presidency.
He was a very good president.
He was a great general and a good president.
Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you know, he had a civil war going.
Speaker 1: They say it all right.
Speaker 3: But Abraham Lincoln had was just vilified.
He was.
But now they say Trump got treated the worst of all, really?
Because what they did is they came up with phony stuff Russia, Russia, Russia.
It was all hoaxes, the Mueller witch hunt, which turned out to be no collusion.
You know, after two and a half years, no collusion.
I couldn't tell them that the first day and they had the laptop.
They could have figured that out because of the laptop.
If you look at it, you could have figured that out easy.
But there's never been anything despite that.
Speaker 1: Is this the most demented, malignant narcissist public figure of all time?
They say that Trump was treated worse than Lincoln.
Lincoln was shot in the head and killed.
Trump was investigated for pretty obvious wrongdoing.
And then Trump claims that he sent former German Chancellor Angela merkel a white flag
of surrender to symbolize Germany, I guess, surrendering to Russia.
Speaker 3: I didn't allow Germany to get away with what they were doing.
I sent Angela merkel a white flag of surrender because they said when you made the deal with
Bolton, you're getting 68% of your energy from somebody that you've had numerous wars
with world wars.
I said, So I'm going to give you the white flag this way.
You don't have to look it up when you surrender to Russia someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be like the U.S. doing business with Germany.
Even though in the past we were on opposing sides of a war.
Oh, wait a second.
We do that all the time.
What kind of an argument is that?
Speaker 3: And if you remember, I made a speech at the United Nations and the Russian delegates.
Speaker 1: That's when everybody laughed.
Speaker 3: And thought it was extremely funny when I mentioned that they shouldn't be doing
it.
A year later, most of those guys were fired.
Speaker 1: It was actually the entire room that was laughing at Trump because that speech
was so ridiculous.
Lastly, Trump takes credit for the Olympics in South Korea being a sellout.
Speaker 3: It started off rough.
Remember that I was saying Little Rock, Ark.
And you're not going to get out?
And I was saying Little Rocket Man.
And he was saying, I've got a red button on my desk and I'm willing to use it.
And I say, I have a red button, too.
And mine's bigger and mine works and all sorts of things.
It was very nasty.
And then all of a sudden we get a phone call they want to meet.
And then I made the Olympic success.
Remember, in South Korea, we're having the Olympics in nine months and nobody was buying
a ticket because they didn't want to be have missiles shot at them during the Olympic opening
ceremonies.
Speaker 1: Under to understand what Trump is saying, he's saying the South Korean Olympics
would have been a failure had he not met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong un because
people would have been scared of missile attacks during the Olympics in South Korea.
But thanks to Trump meeting with Kim Jong un where nothing was accomplished, by the
way, that made the South Korean Olympics popular.
This is a good time to mention I mentioned it.
It mentioned it earlier in the show.
Bradley Hope has a new book called The Rebel in the Kingdom.
It's not about Trump.
It's actually about an activist related to North Korea.
Fascinating book, extremely well researched.
But because of the timing of when the book takes place, there is a lot in the book that
explains Trump's total failure when it comes to North Korea.
I will admit I learned in the book that some of Trump's instincts from the deal making
business world theoretically could have actually been effective with Kim Jong un.
They weren't because Trump's execution was a disaster, and it really built up a more
nuanced understanding for me of Trump dealing with North Korea.
But if you really want to understand, again, the book is not mostly about it, but the story
will give you an understanding of Trump's failures with North Korea and Kim Jong un.
Get the book The Rebel in the Kingdom by Bradley Hope.
I just finished reading it yesterday