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Trump Speech in West Palm Beach Amid New Allegations. Aired 1:30-2p ET

Aired October 13, 2016 - 13:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


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AUDIENCE: Trump! Trump! Trump!

TRUMP: Thank you, thank you. But, let me state this as clearly as I can, these attacks are orchestrated by the Clintons and their media allies. The only thing Hillary Clinton has going for herself is the press, without the press, she is absolutely zero.

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TRUMP: And you saw that the other night in the debate, where some people said she made virtually a fool of herself. This is not presidential material, believe me. What they say is false and slanderous in virtually every respect. We are now less than a month from the most election of our lifetime. Indeed one of the most important elections in the history of our country. And the polls are showing us in a dead heat. Don't believe what you say (ph).

The new, highly respected Rasmussen poll just came out this morning. Just released. Shows up nationally 2 points ahead, Trump. Beautiful (ph).

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Just came out. So now the Clinton machine has put forward a small handful of people out of tens of thousands of people over the years that I've met, that I've worked with, that I've employed, in order to make wild and false allegations that fail to meet even the most basic test of common sense. Not even common sense.

Again, this is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government. When I declared my candidacy, I knew what bad shape our country was in. And believe me all you have to do is look at world events. All you have to do is look at the $1.7 billion that we sent to Iran in cash. In cash.

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All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq. All you have to do, all you have to do, is look at the 800 people that were very, very not good for our nation. They were going to be deported. Lo and behold, instead of being deported, they were made citizens of the United States. Just recently.

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And lo and behold, sadly, the 800 people is wrong. It turned out to be close to 1,800 people. Our president is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare and do all of the other things that are destroying ...

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He's led a very divided nation and it's only gotten worse. And the last thing our country needs is four more years of Barack Obama, believe me. I've seen first hand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics. You've seen it and I've seen it and we're all watching together.

They knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my loved ones. They knew they would stop at nothing to try to stop me. But I never knew, as bad as it would be, I never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious.

Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.

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[13:35:00] TRUMP: I take them for our movement so that we can have our country back.

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. We've seen it in the United Kingdom, where they voted to liberate themselves from global government and global trade deal, and global immigration deals that have destroyed their sovereignty and have destroyed many of those nations. But, the central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power behind the efforts at radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people. Their financial resources are virtually unlimited, their political resources are unlimited, their media resources are unmatched, and most importantly, the depths of their immorality is absolutely unlimited.

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They will allow radical Islamic terrorists to enter our country by the thousands.

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They will allow the great Trojan horse -- and I don't want people looking back in a hundred years and 200 years and have that story be told about us because we were led by inept, incompetent and corrupt people like Barack Obama and like Hillary Clinton. We don't want to be part of that history.

(APPLAUSE) And by the way, President Obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs, start working on getting our GDP up, start working on strengthening our borders.

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The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul. I knew these false attacks would come. I knew this day would arrive, it's only a question of when. And I knew the American people would rise above it and vote for the future they deserve.

(APPLAUSE) The only thing that can stop this corrupt machine is you. The only force strong enough to save our country is us. The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people

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We are going to have a policy, America first.

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AUDIENCE: USA! USA! USA!

TRUMP: They control incredibly, the Department of Justice.

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And they even secretly meet with the Attorney General of the United States.

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TRUMP: In the back of her airplane, while on the runway -- remember he was there -- he was going to play golf. There's the Attorney General. Let me go say hello -- plane's on the runway. Let me go say hello to the attorney general. He never got to play golf, I understand. And it was Arizona, a place I love, but, the weather was about a hundred and some odd degrees -- he's not gonna play. He was never there to play golf, folks, don't be foolish.

They met for 39 minutes and most likely it was to discuss her re- appointment, in a Clinton administration, as the Attorney General, just prior to making a decision over whether or not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. OK? That's what happened, that's called real life and that's pretty sad.

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They met for 39 minutes. Remember he said, we talked golf, and we talked about our grandchildren.

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[13:40:15] Three minutes for the grandchildren, two minutes for the golf, then they sat there and they twiddled their thumbs. Now I believe they talked about her remaining in her position under a crooked Hillary Clinton administration. That's what I believe -- that's what I believe folks. That's what I believe and I think that's what most people in this room believe.

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Likewise they've essentially corrupted the Director of the FBI to the point at which stories are already saying that the great -- and they are truly great -- men and women who work for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed of what he's done to one of our truly great institutions, the FBI itself.

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Hillary Clinton is guilty, of all the things that Director Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far more. He stated many things, but it's far more and he knows that. And yet, after reading all of these items, where she's so guilty, he let her off the hook. While other lives, including General Petraeus and many others, have been destroyed for doing far, far less. This is a conspiracy against you the American people and we cannot let this happen or continue.

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This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this, folks, believe me -- believe me. I built a great company, and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks -- who would have thought? I'm doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

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TRUMP: Many of my friends and many political experts warned me that this campaign would be a journey to hell. Said that. But they're wrong. It will be a journey to heaven, because we will help so many people that are so desperately in need of help.

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In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad, it's not bad. Now I'm being punished for leaving the special club and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having to do with our country. Because I used to be part of the club, I'm the only one that can fix it.

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I'm doing this for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

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The corrupt establishment knows that we are a great threat to their criminal enterprise. They know that if we win their power is gone, and it's returned to you, the people, will be. The dark clouds hanging over our government can be lifted and replaced with a bright future. But, it all depends on whether we let the corrupt media decide our future, or whether we let the American people decide our future.

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[13:46:16] If this Clinton campaign of destruction is allowed to work, then no other highly success -- and this is so true -- I mean I've seen this so many times, and I've heard this all of my life -- I've heard it all of my life. If we let this happen, then no other highly- successful person, which is what our country needs -- it needs a certain thinking. When you look at our trade deals that are so bad. When you look, as an example, on trade, we're going to lose almost $800 billion this year, trade deficit, almost $800 billion. Our debt has doubled in seven and a half years to almost $20 trillion, under Obama.

(BOOING) No other successful person, after watching this, and no other very successful person will ever again, ever -- and who can blame them? Even me, I'd say, you're right -- will ever again run for office. I've heard it for years, if you're very successful you can't run for high office, especially for President. I said, I don't care, I don't care. I've done so many deals, I've done so well. It's a certain mindset that we need in our country, at least for a period of time, we have to straighten our country out.

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TRUMP: I will not lie to you. These false attacks are absolutely hurtful. To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful. What is going on is egregious beyond any words. People that know the story, people that see the story, people that know the facts, they can't even believe it. It's reprehensible beyond description, it's totally corrupt.

But, I also know that it's not about me, it's about all of you and it's about our country, I know that, I fully understand that. That's why I got involved. It's about all of us together as a country. It's a movement the likes of which we have never in history in this country seen before, never in history. Even the pundits, even the media -- that truly dislikes Donald Trump for their own reasons -- will admit this is a movement the likes of which people have never seen before. And it's a movement about the veterans who need medical care.

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The mothers who've lost their beloved children to terrorism and to crime. It's about the inner cities and the border towns who desperately need our help. It's about the millions of jobless people in America. It's about the American workers who can't get jobs because our jobs have left for Mexico and so many other countries. (APPLAUSE)

This election is about the people being crushed by Obamacare. And it's about defeating ISIS and appointing a Supreme Court and a Supreme Court Justice -- it could be four or five -- who will defend and protect our Constitution.

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This election is also about, so importantly to me, African- American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty and failing schools by the policies of crooked Hillary Clinton. Believe me, she's crooked.

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They've robbed these citizens of their future and, if we win, I will give them their hope, their jobs, their education. I will give them their security back. The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

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[13:50:17] We're going to bring education local.

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But, you look at the inner cities and you see bad education, no jobs, no safety. You walk to the grocery store with your child and you get shot. You walk outside to look and see what's happening, and you get shot. In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all- time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken.

TRUMP: So they have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security, and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it -- I will fix it, I will make it good, I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education, we'll have great safety in the inner city.

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And we will help the Hispanic-American people, who have been treated so badly and so unfairly in our nation, we will help them.

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I will deliver like you've never seen before, I deliver. Whether people like Donald Trump or not, they all say he delivers.

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Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This election is about every man, woman and child in our country who deserves to live in safety, prosperity and peace, so true. We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters.

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We will vote for the country we want; we will vote for the future we want; we will vote for the politics we want; and we will vote to put this corrupt government cartel out of business and out of business immediately.

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We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power. They've betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms. We will save our sovereign rights as a nation. We will end the politics of profit; we will end the rule of special interests; we will end the raiding of our jobs by other countries; we will end the total disenfranchisement of the American voter and the American worker. Our Independence Day is at hand, and it arrives finally on November 8th.

(APPLAUSE) Join me in taking back our country and creating a bright, glorious, and prosperous new future for our people. We will make America great again, and it will happen quickly.

God bless you. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you.

[13:54:39] WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: So there you have Donald Trump, a very, very defiant speech at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is responding to the latest accusations from women accusing him of making unwanted sexual advances and inappropriately touching them. He's denying the allegations in very, very strong terms. He says these slanders and libels, they are vicious claims that are totally false. He says he will release evidence to back him up at the appropriate time.

Our panel is still with us, Gloria Borger, Nia-Malika Henderson, Susan Page and Jackie Kucinich. Also our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, is there in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Jim, he basically said the survival of the United States is at stake, this is the last chance to save it, and that the Clintons, he said, are criminals. What was the reaction where you are?

JIM ACOSTA, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump basically put his arms around his supporters in this room, put his arms around his supporters and said it's us versus them. In going after the media and the Clinton campaign, he accused the media and Clinton campaign of working in cahoots to stop his campaign to destroy it. And time and again, when he was going off and trashing the press, I can tell you, from standing inside the press pen at this event in Palm Beach County, that the crowd was essentially joining in. They were all around us, hurling insults at us, going off on us, demanding we tell the truth, demanding we investigate the Clintons, as much as we talk about Donald Trump. So as Donald Trump was delivering this very personal point by point defense of his character and reputation, saying the stories in "The New York Times" and "People" magazine are false, this crowd was eating every second of it right up. They're right there with him. Wolf, I can tell you, from being at these rallies over the last few

days, ever since the "Access Hollywood" tape came out on Friday, we have seen no drop off in enthusiasm among his supporters. Wolf, it seems like it's only going up, the enthusiasm is only going up as he is on the defensive -- Wolf?

BLITZER: And, Gloria, he went after these women, the most recent women who accused him of the inappropriate sexual advances.

GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: At one point, he said about the "People" magazine reporter -- and I'm quoting here -- "Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me. I don't think so." Was he saying there look at her, because if you look at her, it can't be true?

You know, what we heard from Donald Trump was not only a point-by- point defense but it was apocalyptic. It was a sense that the Clinton machine and the big media are in cahoots against him, and if he loses, that's it for the country.

It was a Manichean struggle between good and evil. That's what we heard

BLITZER: He said these women are horrible people, horrible liars, and he went after the news media. He said they're out to get them and they're in cahoots.

NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: In cahoots, yeah, in collusion with the Clinton campaign. There, of course, is no evidence of that at all. These women came forward because Donald Trump has said about himself and his behavior in terms of women.

But you have a sense today that Donald Trump isn't going there. Even if he loses, which is likely, he'll win in the sense that he's got this movement that he's built and it's based on Donald Trump being like the Messiah-like figure to the folks in that crowd, somebody who, he says, is willing to take on the slings and arrows that the establishment is dishing out for him and sacrifice for the people, that crowd, for the country. So, yeah, I think it's only going to make those people more viscerally attached to Donald Trump.

BLITZER: He also went after "The New York Times" for the story, saying he will file a lawsuit.

"The New York Times," Susan, just issued a statement saying, in effect, bring it on.

SUSAN PAGE, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, USA TODAY: They basically say, you've set your reputation, we haven't done anything to affect your reputation.

Here's the question I have, the first interesting strategy, you're attacked on all sides from sexual misconduct, so you repeat it charge- by-charge in case you missed it. Then deny it all. My question is, does this mean if there are other women who have been groped or sexually mistreated, does this mean they're more likely to speak out because they're angry to see his denial or are they less likely because they see the costs o4 having him attack them?

BLITZER: Jackie, your reaction?

JACKIE KUCINICH, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I mean, this -- it's going to be a long 26 day, guys, because this only keeps getting worse every single day. And when I say worse, I mean more caustic. And it's a long road from here.

BLITZER: But he guaranteed the story will continue by addressing it so boldly and at length today.

KUCINICH: Absolutely. As, Susan said, he repeated every allegation and went through them and dismissed every single one, and there are quite a few at this point.

HENDERSON: And said he was going to have new information that would come out at some point that would prove he's innocent and that these women are lying.

BLITZER: He said, we will release the evidence at the appropriate time. This was a very, very important speech by Donald Trump showing he's not, Gloria, backing down.

BORGER: And Michelle Obama, too, by the way, saying this is a challenge to our basic human decency, and Donald Trump saying this is a challenge to me because these are false, these are lies, and I'll prove it.

BLITZER: All right, out special coverage of this truly extraordinary day in politics continues with the fiery speeches from both Donald Trump and the First Lady Michelle Obama.

Brooke Baldwin picks up our coverage right now.

[14:00:11] BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, thank you so much.

Just moments ago, we watched --