BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has never voted in a national election. He tells Glenn that he has never believed politics solved any problems. But while he still believes that, he has decided to cast his first-ever vote this November for Donald Trump. Jason joins Glenn to explain the 3 things that convinced him to head to the ballot box: the Democrats' persecution of January 6th defendants, the bravery of Elon Musk to stand up to global powers, and the courage of Donald Trump to get back up and stay in the fight after surviving an assassination attempt: "Men are taking real risks right now and for me to say it's not worth my time to register to vote and vote, I would be a coward, a hypocrite, and worthy of disparagement."
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GLENN: Mr. Jason Whitlock. I have a lot to talk to you about today.
But let me just start with, you're voting?
JASON: Yes, I'm voting. I've registered here in Tennessee. And I will be casting a vote for Donald Trump.
GLENN: Okay. So this is -- this is a big deal.
And we've talked about this for years, and there have been really important elections. Why did you never vote?
JASON: Because I've never believed the politics really solved any problems. That I always felt like, you know, there's no political solutions to spiritual problems.
I still believe that, but I -- I do believe the stakes and the consequences of this election and one particular issue that is just near and dear to my heart, if anybody has followed me for any period of time, on January 6th, 2021, I didn't wait until the 7th or the 8th or the 9th or a year later.
I -- I felt like those people were justified in their actions. I -- my instincts said, they've been set up.
There were agitators.
And that this was being overblown. And calling this an insurrection.
And I just -- Ashley Babette being murdered for no reason.
And the only way to provide those people, that they have put underneath prison. The only way to provide relief to them, is if Donald Trump gets reelected and pardons them.
And so I -- it's easier for me to see the consequences and/or benefits in this election. And -- and, you know, I could go on with all the other things, that the left are doing. That bothered me.
But I don't -- sometimes, I question whether, are the Republicans in on some of this other stuff, that the left is doing?
As it relates --
GLENN: You think?
JASON: As it relates to getting January 6 people out of these dungeons. Trump can, should, I hope will do it. And I can't sit on the sidelines. And say, I did nothing. When I'm -- you know, when I have an opportunity to do something.
GLENN: So, you know, what's really weird. With the things that are going on now.
Jason, where, you know, we talk about it before. And say, you know, looks like this might happen. This might happen. These things are happening. I mean, the way they're coming after Elon Musk, all over the world now in a coordinated effort, is a little terrifying. Don't you think?
JASON: It's -- it's terrifying. But I tend to look at it more of -- it's inspiring. Because that would be part two of, like, this -- this guy has pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table. He's Elon Musk. He's made himself an assassination candidate, a career financial suicide candidate. He's -- he's been very bold. And I can't stand on the sidelines.
And watch this guy risk everything.
And the third part of it would just be the shot that they took at Donald Trump is -- is -- I mean -- men are taking real risks right now.
And for me to say, it's not even worth my time to register to vote. And vote.
I would be a coward and hypocrite.
And worthy of, you know, disparagement.
GLENN: Wow. Good for you.
What do you think will happen with the jail time?
I think it's the 16th. The judge in New York has to decide, you know, what his sentence is.
If they put him in jail, Jason. How do you think that will play out?
JASON: I think it's going to inspire more of us. I think that, you know, I'll be praying for President Trump, but I -- I just think, it just -- it's just pushing more and more chips into the middle of the table. And making conflict more and more inevitable.
You know, I -- it's -- I have so little confidence in the integrity of the election process. We've clearly become a banana republic. And I -- there's a TV show called Narcos. It was popular on Netflix. And it was about, you know, drug cartels and their influence over politics and Colombia and other South American countries.
And I watch it now, or I remember it now, and go, holy cow. We're just like that.
The -- the corrupt criminals are actually -- we have Venezuelan gangs taking over neighborhoods and communities, that we have politicians doing nothing about it.
And today, Glenn, I'm going to -- on my show, I will get into a discussion about The Great Replacement. And I will use sports to -- to unpack it, so that people can perhaps hear it in a non-political way.
But this replacement thing that they have going on. That too many black people don't understand, and I know it's not just black people that don't understand it.
We've lost our reverence for American citizenship.
And we just think, hey. Anybody and everybody should just be able to come over here, and do whatever.
And we're so caught up. We lost site of like, religion.
Shared values based on religious belief.
Shared values based on our geography.
Shared values based on our language.
That's our identity. Not this other.
Who you have sex with.
How you have sex.
What skin color.
Those things are irrelevant. Your language. Your geology. And the values from your religion.
That is what you should be tying us together.
But we don't care. This whole people of color thing. Show me in the history of the world, where people have accomplished something great winning magnificent, healthy, based off of shared skin color.
No. It's shared values. It's shared language. It's shared geography. And we're just throwing it all away. Hey. Just let any and everybody in here. If they're from Somalia. If they practice some other form of religion. That's fine. That's great. And if there's some other skin color. Diversity is our strength. Shared values had been our strength. And we have to get back to that, or we're all throwing away our safety.