Fox News "Sunday Morning Features" - Transcript Interview with Donald Trump
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I talked about this and his concerns with President Trump last week during our exclusive interview on "Mornings With Maria" on FOX Business.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: They want $3.5 trillion -- billion for the mail-in votes, OK, universal mail-in ballots, $3.5 trillion.
They want $25 billion -- billion -- for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots.
Now, in the meantime, they aren't getting there. By the way, those are just two items. But if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting, because they're not equipped to have it.
And this is all over. I can give you...
BARTIROMO: So, this is what's holding it up? They want...
TRUMP: No, no, no. That's only one aspect of it.
BARTIROMO: So, Mr. President, this is what's holding up money for the American people? They want mail-in votings and they want money for the post office.
This is one of the sticking points that's holding back stimulus for Americans during this coronavirus...
TRUMP: Oh, yes, that's one of them.
BARTIROMO: ... the Democrats wanting money for the post office for mail-in voting?
TRUMP: That's one -- that's one of them. That's right.
They want $25 billion for the post office, because the post office is going to have to go to town to get these great, ridiculous ballots in.
BARTIROMO: What are the plans for the second-term agenda, Mr. President?
TRUMP: OK.
Well, I've done the payroll tax cut temporary -- you know, this is a temporary payroll tax cut, but this is a very substantial, positive jolt to the economy. I'm going to do a capital gains tax cut to 15 percent in second term.
We're going to get it down to 15. It's at 21. We'll get that down to 15 percent. And I'll get that done easily.
We're going to take the House. I believe we're going to take back the House, because Nancy Pelosi is stone-cold crazy. We're going to hold the presidency. And we're fighting very hard in the Senate.
I'll be honest. The Senate is tough. We have a couple of people that aren't as supportive of Trump as they should be. And those people are going to lose their elections. If they don't support Trump, they lose their elections. It's a very simple element.
I'm going to have over 300 judges by the end of the first term. Nobody's ever seen that before. I'm going to have two Supreme Court judges, justices, and we'll have literally over 300 judges, including court of appeals.
We've done things that nobody's ever done, the tax cuts, the regulation cuts, ANWR. Look at -- ANWR, they couldn't get ANWR done. Ronald Reagan couldn't get it done, Bushes. Nobody could get it done. And I got ANWR done.
BARTIROMO: But there was still a coup against you. There was still a coup against you, is my point.
TRUMP: Everybody -- that's true.
BARTIROMO: Where is John Durham, Mr. President? Is he -- I mean, where is John Durham? We know that there was criminality.
TRUMP: I hope he's -- where is he? I hope he's doing a great job.
And I hope they're not going to be politically correct. And I hope they do what -- because the fact is, this was -- President Obama knew everything. Vice President Biden, as dumb as he may be, he knew everything. And everybody else knew everything, Maria. And you know it.
And Comey and Brennan and Clapper, they all were terrible, and they lied to Congress. They spied on my campaign, which is treason. They spied both before and after I won. Think of that, using the intelligence apparatus of the United States...
BARTIROMO: Do you want to get a special counsel...
TRUMP: ... to take down a president, a legally elected president, a duly elected president of the United States. It's the single biggest...
BARTIROMO: That's right.
TRUMP: ... political crime in the history of our country. And I hope they're doing a job.
I hope they're not going to be politically correct and say, well, you know, we want to go -- just get -- let's get the lower guys that forged the documents going into FISA.
Bill Barr can go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country, or he can go down as just an average guy. It depends on what's going to happen.
BARTIROMO: Well, do you want to see a special counsel put in place to ensure that the American people find out what took place here?
We know that there was an FBI agent who actually changed documents, changed evidence. We know that there was lying to the court, lying to the Congress, leaking to the media.
What -- if you do not win in November, we're not going to hear another word about this. So, should...
TRUMP: That's right, probably.
BARTIROMO: ... A.G. Barr bring in a special counsel...
TRUMP: They'll probably cancel it out, almost definitely.
BARTIROMO: ... to ensure that this is...
TRUMP: They'll probably cancel it out, almost definitely.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
TRUMP: And it's a shame. It's a shame.
But we caught them. Look, we caught them. They don't need a special counsel. First of all, they have a special counsel working. And they have Durham working, so they don't need another special counsel. We've had enough special counsels.
And, frankly, everybody knows, if you didn't have one bit of evidence from what you already know from reading the newspapers, they're all guilty as hell.
BARTIROMO: But, Mr. President, we know that the FBI lied to the Senate in February of 2018. Christopher Wray was running the FBI, Mr. President. Is Christopher Wray hiding all of this stuff and protecting the FBI? Should he step down?
TRUMP: So, Christopher Wray was put there. We have an election coming up. I wish he was more forthcoming. He certainly hasn't been.
He was put there for a good reason. He was chosen by a certain person. And I said, go ahead, put whoever you want. I'm so honest that I said, you could put anybody you want. Let's see how Wray turns out. He's going to either turn out one way or the other.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
TRUMP: But I'll tell you, Bill Barr...
BARTIROMO: All right, before we -- yes.
TRUMP: ... and Durham have a chance to be -- Bill Barr has a chance to be the greatest of all time. But if he wants to be politically correct, he'll be just another guy, because he knows all the answers.
BARTIROMO: Mr. President, you...
TRUMP: He knows what they have. And it goes right to Obama and it goes right to Biden.
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BARTIROMO: My thanks to President Donald Trump.
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