vox | Thank you very much, everybody. We’ve all been through a
lot together, and we probably deserve that hand for all of us because
it’s been a very unfair situation. I invited some of our very good
friends, and we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come. We kept
it down to a minimum, and believe it or not, this is a minimum.
But a tremendous thing was done over the last number of
months, but really, if you go back to it, over the last number of years.
We had the witch hunt. It started from the day we came down the
elevator, myself and our future first lady, who is with us right now.
Thank you, Melania. [Cheers and applause]
And it never really stopped. We’ve been going through
this now for over three years. It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty
cops, it was leakers and liars, and this should never, ever happen to
another president, ever. I don’t know that other presidents would have
been able to take it. Some people said, no, they wouldn’t have.
But I can tell you, at a minimum, you have to focus on
this because it can get away very quickly no matter who you have with
you. It can get away very quickly. It was a disgrace. Had I not fired
James Comey, who was a disaster, by the way, it’s possible I wouldn’t
even be standing here right now. We caught him in the act. Dirty cops.
Bad people. If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would
have been in jail for a long time already. Many, many years.
I want to start by thanking — I call them friends
because, you know, you develop friendships and relationships when you’re
in battle and war much more so than in a normal situation.
We’ve gone through more than any president or
administration, and really, I say for the most part, Republican
congressmen, congresswomen and Republican senators, we’ve done more than
any administration in the first few years. You look at all of the
things we’ve done. I watched this morning as they tried to take credit
for the stock market from — let me tell you, if we didn’t win, the stock
market would have crashed.
