Rick DeSantis torches Trump and Biden in one short sentence

SUBSCRIBE LIKE ► (0:00) Here are six things you need to know about the candidates for president, (0:04) Republican candidates for president, sans Donald Trump. Number one is this, (0:09) DeSantis flat out scorched Trump and Biden in one short, concise, brief sentence. Effectively, (0:15) what he said, and I’m paraphrasing here, but he said, we need somebody younger than 80 years old. (0:22) We should not nominate somebody who’s almost 80 years old. (0:27) Well, that disqualifies Joe Biden. He’s already over 80 years old and it disqualifies Donald (0:33) Trump because if he’s elected within eight years, he too will be over 80 years old. Now I’m kind (0:40) of paraphrasing here, but he did say we need somebody younger. Number two, yes or no answers (0:47) are tricks of attorneys and the media. We have this principle, it’s called tell the truth, (0:55) the whole truth and nothing but the truth. A yes or no answer may be the truth. It may be (1:00) nothing but the truth, but it’s not the whole truth. I mean, you can’t answer a question with (1:06) whole truth, just a yes or no answer. That’s why they ask him. They didn’t want the whole truth. (1:10) They want to manipulate your answer. So they asked the candidates, is he too, or is he fit right? (1:17) And they wanted a yes or no answer. So Christie jumped in. (1:22) He’s afraid to answer. And he said, just give them a yes or no answer. Just give them (1:29) what they want. Give the media what they want. That is the worst thing you could do. You do not (1:35) want to give the media a yes or no answer. Be smarter than that. And I think DeSantis is. (1:41) Number three, they will ignore your answer as they did with DeSantis and they will keep on (1:47) asking. Do you remember 2016 campaign? Why did they keep asking Trump? He would answer him and (1:54) then ask him over and over again. It was always something to do with his racism. He’s not a racist, (1:59) but they would keep asking, are you a racist? When you said this, wasn’t that racist? Or some (2:05) iteration of the question, are you a racist? And they continue to do that for four years. (2:10) He would answer them over and over and over again. During the debates with Joe Biden people, (2:16) I would hear people say, why doesn’t he just flat out answer him? He did. And he did many times (2:21) over and over and over again. So we need to be aware that this is a trick of the media. (2:28) They want to manipulate your yes or no answer. And if they get anything other than a yes or (2:33) no answer, if they get the whole truth, that’s tough to manipulate. I think DeSantis was smart (2:39) enough to understand that. And he refused to give a yes or no answer. No, I don’t think Christie was (2:45) smart because he insisted on giving a yes or no answer. Even though I didn’t actually hear him (2:52) give a yes or no answer. Number four, you got to be able to translate the language of Donald Trump, (2:59) which is Trump and ease. I made that up, but it’s Trump and ease. When Trump says something, (3:05) what does he really mean? Well, not necessarily what he says. For example, Trump said, I will (3:11) build the wall. The president can’t unilaterally make that decision. People, I think, thinking (3:19) people understand that. So what did he mean? Well, what he meant was, I would like to build (3:24) a wall if we can get our ducks in a row. But here’s the problem with that. If you get before (3:30) a crowd of 10, 20, 30,000 people, and you say, you know, I’d like to build a wall (3:37) on the southern border, if we can all get our act together. That’s not going to energize your (3:43) audience. They’re not going to stomp the floor. They’re not going to throw popcorn in the air. (3:47) What did they do? That’s not going to happen. So Trump understands that. So he says, I will build (3:54) the wall. And then he says, Mexico will pay for it. And again, they stomp the floor, they stand (3:59) up and cheer, they throw popcorn in the air. But if he had said, wouldn’t it be really cool if we (4:03) make Mexico pay for it? People would just sit there dumbfaced, and they would vote for somebody (4:08) else. Trump understands that very well. He knows how to resonate. He knows how to energize the (4:16) electorate. Do you remember way back in the late 60s, maybe early 70s, the governor of Alabama (4:23) named George Wallace, when he ran for president, he knew how to energize a crowd. Now the truth of (4:30) the matter is, some experts, some analysts believe that George Wallace was the Hubert Humphrey of the (4:36) South. In other words, he was more of a moderate than a conservative, but he knew how to talk like (4:40) a conservative. Read the entire transcript here ▼