Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript Interview with Andy Biggs
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CHAFFETZ: Congressman Biggs, I want to go to you. You know, politicians of all sorts, every end of the political spectrum, they wrap themselves in the flag. They do things like visit Mount Rushmore.
I mean, we had Hillary Clinton visit Mount Rushmore. You had Barack Obama visit Mount Rushmore. You had Bernie Sanders visit Mount Rushmore. I never heard any of this from the Democrats.
And now, all of a sudden, this is some sort of white supremacy event?
REP. ANDY BIGGS (R-AZ): Yes. I mean, Donald Trump has had so much success and he's living in their heads.
I mean, you've got an iconic president going to an iconic monument, and he's going to give an iconic speech about how great America is, and all they've got for this is they're going to play the race card, they're going to yell and scream, and bellyache.
CHAFFETZ: Congressman Biggs, I want to go to you. You know, politicians of all sorts, every end of the political spectrum, they wrap themselves in the flag. They do things like visit Mount Rushmore.
I mean, we had Hillary Clinton visit Mount Rushmore. You had Barack Obama visit Mount Rushmore. You had Bernie Sanders visit Mount Rushmore. I never heard any of this from the Democrats.
And now, all of a sudden, this is some sort of white supremacy event?
REP. ANDY BIGGS (R-AZ): Yes. I mean, Donald Trump has had so much success and he's living in their heads.
I mean, you've got an iconic president going to an iconic monument, and he's going to give an iconic speech about how great America is, and all they've got for this is they're going to play the race card, they're going to yell and scream, and bellyache.
But the reality is, this what the president should be doing and if -- if we were in a rational time, I would say this is a time that he can emphasize a more perfect union and really -- and this would typify that as opposed to the division that they're trying to sow.
CHAFFETZ: Jenna, I've got to tell you, you were with the Trump campaign. When I was a member of Congress and Kristi Noem, who's now the governor of South Dakota, when she was serving in Congress, she told me about a meeting she had with Donald Trump when she very first went in there, Donald -- this is 2017, and she said she invited Donald Trump.
She said, when I become the governor of South Dakota, I want you to come here for Fourth of July. And she said it was amazing, have this great conversation with the president talking about hopefully when I become governor, you can come out.
Now, it's actually coming to fruition, and the Democrats are trying to change the reality of what actually happened and how that invitation even started.
JENNA ELLIS, SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR TO THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN: Yes, they are.
And, you know, Jason, it's such an amazing honor to be here with the president, and I think we're going to hear from him a spirit of optimism and the generally the American spirit because, you know, truly, the truth on the founding of our country is not built upon perfect men, but that they served a perfect God, and that our American optimism and the opportunity we have for providence, for liberty, and truly prosperity is because of our founding principles and values.
President Trump is such a citizen president because he understands that, he is bringing in that spirit of optimism and opportunity back to Americans. I'm surrounded by thousands of people here who are so excited to be Trump supporters.
You know, as my dad and I were coming in today, we saw all of the flags, all of the Trump 2020.
If you get out of the swamp, you get out of the fake news media, you get out of Joe Biden's basement, you see that America loves President Trump because he has emboldened us with true and genuine leadership as the Republican Party, but even more as Americans because we're built on that eternal truth and that recognition that we're all created equal.
And it's only through that equality and prosperity that our principles and our rights have been endowed by God, our Creator, that then we can genuinely be so proud to be Americans.
And I'm proud of an American, standing in front of Mount Rushmore. This is not a symbol of white supremacy. This is a symbol of imperfect men who recognize the truth of God.
CHAFFETZ: Now, Jenna is there on the ground there in South Dakota.
But, Leo, but this is just but what seems like a daily string of the Democrats telling good old-fashioned Americans that what they do, what they believe in, their country and patriotism is wrong.
At what point do the Democrats overstep their bounds?
I think Americans are tired of being told that you can't love America and if you do, that there's something wrong with you.
TERRELL: I think you're absolutely right. I think you're going to see a shift in the polls because this Democratic rhetoric does not sell to the general public. What's wrong with loving God and country and putting America first?
Jason, I'm going to tell you the truth and I'm just going to be very honest -- the Democrats do not want the president to succeed. They will do everything in their power to defeat this president not because he's not accomplishing things. They are just power-hungry and they are using race, the most -- the most vile thing you can do, race, race, race, every day to portray Trump as a racist.
Donald Trump is not a racist, Democrats. He is not. You are. You need to stop playing the race card and give the American voters some policies and stop the race card. It's ridiculous.
CHAFFETZ: Now, Congressman, I guess part of what bothers me and a lot of Americans is the hypocrisy because like I said, when Clinton and Obama and Bernie Sanders, they all went and visited Mount Rushmore, and nobody said a peep. Nobody -- nobody ever even thought that this was part of, you know, being racist by going to Mount Rushmore, for goodness' sakes.
BIGGS: No. And, Jason, that's the biggest problem I've seen, the biggest exposure of the Democrats is that problem of hypocrisy that they have. I mean, you've got -- you've got everything from this allegation, so, yes, it's OK for Democrats to come but a Republican can't, and you start laying that down on a whole series of violations of what I would call moral code of the United States in our country. It's OK for the Democrats to violate that moral code, but if they're going to attack the president and the Republicans every way they can.
And quite frankly, I think Leo is right. What happens is, they don't have any kind of policy initiatives to make this country a more perfect union. So what they're going to do is castigate everybody else and attack those who love this country, who believe that we are founded on greatness and that's where they're going to be. And that's the hypocrisy is how they live and choose to campaign and do everything that they condemn.
If you want to know what they're doing, look at what the Democrats are condemning us for. That's what they're doing, that's the hypocrisy, that's the evidence of hypocrisy.
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