MUST SEE: Donald Trump “The Outlier”

I want to share with you a FANTASTIC new documentary video that just went live….

It’s from Troy Black who we’ve covered here from time-to-time.

He has over half a million followers on YouTube and he says God told him to pause all his other work to make this video.

If that’s true, then I want to do my part to make sure as many people see it as possible!

I just got finished watching it and it’s fantastic.

If you’ve been a die-hard Trump supporter since 2015, there might not be a lot new in here that you didn’t already know.

But that’s not who this video is made for.

This video is made for the masses….

The people who haven’t followed every detail of President Trump’s career and Presidency over the last 10 years.

This is for the people who, perhaps, still don’t know how they’re going to vote in November.

So please help me get this video out to as many of those people as possible!

Enjoy:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Troy Black:

They said he couldn’t win, and maybe in another dimension, they were right. But this story wasn’t written by Marvel, it seems. Perhaps this story was written by a maven, a puppet master, a grand coordinator of unlikely events. But was it really all that unlikely? In this case, hindsight offers its treasure of insight, potentially revealing an even more sensational story than previously thought.

When I learned he was going to run for office, I thought it was just something to get attention, and I didn’t really take him seriously. Even when he actually launched his campaign, I didn’t take him seriously. If you remember early on, in the beginning, it was a joke. Nobody took him seriously. Nobody saw him as a threat. Many people, including Obama, said, “Trump will never be president.” They laughed at the idea, which really just goes to show how out of touch they were with the people. Because Trump hit the ground and got that support.

I don’t think anybody thought he was going to actually win. All the news media outlets, everyone, kind of thought it was a joke. It was one of the greatest upsets in the history of America. The question on everyone’s mind that fateful night, as America sat on the edge of her seat, was: how did we get here?

(Breaking news) Donald Trump is President.

Even the ecstatic Trump supporters couldn’t hide the surprise on their faces. The disparity between the polar ends of the spectrum was unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Who is this man who thinks he can run the world’s most powerful country? And why would he want to?

(Trump audio) I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.

When recalling the 2016 election, one can hardly see the forest for the trees. Between the heavy throttling of information by the gatekeepers of knowledge we refer to as search engines and the media pandering opinions as facts, we are left with a vague picture of what really happened. What caused this shakeup? How could an outsider like Trump situate himself in the center of power, prying the prize of the White House from the death grip of so many self-appointed heirs?

The statistics simply were not in his favor, and yet Trump overcame the norm. In gathering statistics for a set of data, numbers that unquestionably stand outside the acceptable range are considered outliers. Some outliers are considered true, meaning they are close enough that they make sense. Others are considered false, landing so far outside the expected range that they are attributed to user error and then discarded. For example, a website developer might want to know the age range of visitors to their website to improve advertising. They would design a poll with the expectation of that range being from age 15 to 95. If a response came back outside that range, say at 7 or 102, they would be considered a true outlier—possible but uncommon. However, if the outlier is one or 137, it is clearly user error and thus discarded. These are the untrue outliers.

Shortly into Trump’s 2016 campaign, it became clear to the public that this man was an outlier. He certainly sat outside the expected range. However, the lingering question on everyone’s mind was whether or not Trump was an untrue outlier that should be discarded, or a true outlier—an anomaly requiring serious accommodation and counted as a statistical fact.

However, nowadays it seems facts are merely approved statements by powerful conglomerates and shadow figures with hidden agendas. Have we been given the whole truth about Trump? I’m going to tell you a story, and then I’m going to let you decide for yourself.

Why did Trump win? What was his proverbial trump card? What exactly did we discover?

Well, it’s a big story, one that tells itself.

Troy Black:

I had not spent my career as a politician but as a builder, looking at open skylines and imagining infinite possibilities. I came to Washington as the only true outsider ever to win the presidency.

(Trump audio) I worked on the Reagan campaign when I was younger. I found out firsthand what politicians typically act like—they’re always kind of positioning themselves for the audience. There is a move to create division in America. Many feel disenfranchised, abandoned by their government. They feel they’re at the effect of unfair laws or unfair politicians who just want to get the vote and are in it for themselves.

In politics, we look so hard for somebody that’s going to speak on our behalf. And when we finally find somebody that does, we put them up on a pedestal. And when they disappoint us, we knock them off and walk away. I think all of us are human, especially in politics. We do watch for character; we do watch for integrity. We’ve all elected somebody and been disappointed.

To me, the American dream is being able to raise your family, being able to work where you want to work—whether it’s starting a business as an entrepreneur, working for a company, or homeschooling your kids. Whatever it is you want to do, it’s not just about the white picket fence, a nice car, and all the materialistic stuff. It’s about freedom.

Yes, being on American Idol, especially during the time frame I was on—it was 2009—the media was still mostly focused in Hollywood, and I was turned into a household name almost overnight. In many people’s eyes, it was the American dream. I did get the record deal. I did tour.

I think American culture has absolutely shifted, and now the number one focus is being famous. Anybody has a chance. But if your character doesn’t support that, I think it’s detrimental to our culture.

Well, I think if you look at just the history, the eyes of the world have always been on America. We’re a melting pot. People come from all over the world. America is one of the most diverse places there is, so obviously, we’ve been doing something right. Not perfect, no. But people love America. People are always paying attention to what’s going on. And people love to come here.

The country is in a downward spiral. So, we either stop the spiral, or it continues, and America ceases to be the country we all grew up in. Argentina in the 1920s was the seventh most prosperous country in the West, and look what happened under Perón and what’s happened since. Venezuela was the most prosperous country in South America; it went socialist. You know, it has happened before. America is too strong to be overcome from without, so there’s an effort to change it from within. It’s scary, and we can’t be passive and say it’ll never happen.

What if I told you that Trump was not the first outlier on the U.S. political scene? That some came before him who, historically, seem acceptable now but at the time were considered highly controversial outsiders, dealing with many similar issues as Trump did with his run for office?

There was a man who, according to many historians, was a very unpopular figure. If polling had been done at the time that he became president, he would have had less than 40% of the popular vote. And of course, his name was Abraham Lincoln.

I mean, there are few things in America that will make you a part of history more than being President of the United States. Trump had succeeded in just about everything he tried, going all the way back to high school. Maybe he wanted to add “President of the United States” to that list. Are we going to ask if Roosevelt was motivated by that? What about Eisenhower or Truman or Kennedy? All these men had motivations. What about Reagan?

Reagan was another outlier. We look back on his story and find it amusing that he was an actor-turned-politician, but at the time, his run was laughable.

(Reagan audio) The manner in which the other team has been campaigning—it’s time that some people were reminded that actors are people.

He enjoyed talking about the fact and professing himself as the “B” list actor. And yet, history reflects on him as the man for the job, and generally praises his time in office.

I think that Ronald Reagan was a game-changer. The Republicans had become very, very wimpy. There was a sort of muscular, masculine leadership style that Reagan portrayed.

(Reagan audio) During these last four years, not one square inch of territory has been lost to communist aggression.

I was in the audience listening to Ronald Reagan, and I realized that this man was a maverick. He wasn’t so much concerned about getting the vote as he was espousing his ideas. When I saw Trump, that was the first time I had actually seen a politician I thought was very similar to Reagan in that aspect.

(Reagan audio) Learn to cherish words like duty, honor, God, and country.

He wasn’t just speaking to get the vote; he was speaking about what he believed was needed for the country. That was very, very unique between the two.

Troy Black: I’ve been listening to some of the things the governor says he’ll do now in the next four years that he hasn’t been able to do in the last eight.

Roger Stone, Trump’s 2016 campaign adviser, makes an interesting comparison while speculating on his own life choices when he says, “I no longer wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be in politics. Little did I know how similar they are.”

So, we can question and speculate. That’s what historians do after it’s over. But I think he loves America. I really do.

(Trump audio) We must never forget that while Americans will always have our disagreements, we are a nation of incredibly decent, faithful, and peace-loving citizens.

I think we can see it. He was in office for four years. He has a good record. I think he accomplished a lot of good.

(Trump audio) We all want our country to thrive, flourish, and be very, very successful and good. We are a truly magnificent nation.

All Americans were horrified by the assault on our Capitol. Political violence is an attack on everything we cherish as Americans. It can never be tolerated.

Interestingly enough, while there are many presidents who have been targeted for assassination, only a fraction have experienced an actual attempt. However, out of all the major presidents who are considered outliers, every single one has been a target. Those presidents were Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Ronald Reagan, and now Donald Trump.

There is debate as to whether or not JFK was an outlier of any kind due to the fact that his family was steeped in politics at the time.

(JFK audio) Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Yet because of his active aggression against the powers that be, history views him as a different type of outlier—simply that of one with many connections, someone who was trying to break the mold, perhaps even a black sheep.

There’s a JFK responsibility to spark up this program. When you say spark up the program, we first have to make a judgment based on the best information we can get—whether we can be ahead of the Russians to the moon.

We’re now talking about a program which may be many years away.

Ultimately, at least to an extent, JFK was upsetting the establishment. Many people still view alternate theories about his assassination as no more than conspiracy theories. However, there are a lot of unanswered questions. Historically, JFK battled the CIA by pushing back against them, specifically calling them out on corrupt practices.

In similar fashion, Trump also butted heads with the FBI over the Russian interference investigation. It is odd that both JFK and Trump fought against the letter agencies, then experienced questionable assassination attempts. Could this merely be coincidence?

(Crowd cheers, applause)

There were so many mistakes made, and there are lots of questions around whether it was really a lone gunman, or if he was acting on his own, or were the agencies involved in it? And I think we’re right to question all these things.

(Trump audio) There is no place in America for this kind of violence, or any violence for that matter.

Recently, I interviewed a CIA operative—a former CIA operative—who said on air, “It couldn’t have happened by mistake.” You don’t leave that line of vision open to have that gaping hole. He did not feel it was accidental. He even said it was an inside job. Now, we can get into that another time, but it was horrific.

When I heard about the assassination attempt on Trump, that he was actually shot, I was shocked that it happened, but I wasn’t surprised because I sort of saw this coming. And when we compare it to previous presidents, we do see a common thread. Politicians who stay in their lanes, the inliers, tend to have a comparatively quiet life.

You get shot at in a situation like that, you know there’s some kind of level of fear there. You’re scared of losing your life. I’ve been overseas, been to Iraq, been to Afghanistan. There’s a lot of stuff going on in your mind in that moment. For him to stand up? Some people wouldn’t have gotten up. Any person looking at that objectively knows that was a brave moment.

You’ve seen the videos when he just turned his head at the right moment, or the timing—and just, I mean, it was set up to really take him out. And he was protected.

Everything was lending itself toward him being assassinated, except for less than an inch or whatever of his turning his head—happenstance.

Happenstance in our world is probably given too much credit. We, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we’ve had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

(Reagan audio) In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

We’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.

(JFK audio) The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

It’s no secret, the U.S. was in trouble on all fronts leading up to the election cycle of 2016. Threats of terrorism, authoritarianism, and potential conflicts with other nations had grown. To many, the economy seemed propped up and shaky at best, with only a facade of recovery from the 2008 recession. Some people were desperate for real positive change.

The booming 90s had officially died, leaving too fresh a memory behind. Being a veteran, there are certain places—the West Side, the South Side of Chicago—where it’s so bad that that atmosphere you feel when going to Iraq, I never forget when I got to Iraq, you know, we locked and loaded, getting ready because it’s getting real. When you go to certain parts of Chicago, that same kind of warfare feeling is in the atmosphere.

Unlike in the 1900s, politicians were no longer trying to keep their closet doors closed. Whether it was bold sex scandals or corrupt war schemes, it seemed they had grown accustomed to getting away with anything.

(News clip) Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will not serve time behind bars for money laundering accusations that date back more than a decade.

The search triggered calls from both conservative and liberal voices for Holder to resign. The one thing Holder has been able to count on? The support of the president.

As presidential election cycles go, many Americans, as well as those in other countries directly affected by American policies, were desperate for a candidate they could view as a hero riding in on a white horse. The politicians politicized, and the people groaned.

A lot of people in Washington—the deep state—are absolutely looking out after their own interest. Many members of Congress, too. You get elected to Congress, and it’s almost a career path to get rich. I mean, the statistics about how many went in with ordinary salaries and came out rich—almost all come out rich. People just got tired of the game. We’d rather just have somebody that’s real. We’re going to see if something’s going to change, instead of just playing the game and prettying it up while nothing changes.

Then, something preposterous happened that was comical at first.

(Trump audio) I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear…

But when the laughter turned into awkward silence…

(Trump audio) …that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States.

The world was struck with the strangest sense of curiosity… and a healthy amount of concern.

(Trump audio) …so help me God. Congratulations, Mr. President.

Love him or hate him, the story of Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency arguably follows literature’s classic hero formula—up until a certain point. Now, to be fair, some would relate the tale as a villain’s origin story. Either way, what if Trump wasn’t the puppet master over his own destiny? What if the facts actually showed a greater hand behind the curtain—one of providence?

From what I could gather, Winston Churchill was bold, brash, and sometimes ill-behaved. Being so close to Trump’s campaign in 2015 and 2016, I saw a lot of similarities.

Winston Churchill gave up a lot of privilege. If you see the family palace or castle where he grew up, and he walked away from that to serve in the war in a bunker, I think he had a bucket for hygiene. It was very primitive. He did it because he knew what was necessary to save that nation—bold, brash, ill-behaved. Because of him, millions lived that wouldn’t have otherwise.

Trump—bold, brash, sometimes ill-behaved—thankfully doesn’t listen to the protocol of “the way we’ve always done things.” He steps out. He’s done things differently. And I think millions have been saved because of it, across the globe.

Is Donald Trump just another blip on the radar, gum under the people’s shoe? Or will he follow the same historical path that many famous leaders before him traversed? One thing we know for certain: his name is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, whether it’s tainted with honey or venom. No one in our current time is talked about more than Donald Trump.

You know, I think Donald Trump’s win had more to do with the times—it has more to do with history. Some people believe that when times are really desperate, a great leader will rise. A Churchill will rise, or even a Roosevelt during the Depression. And I think that’s what happened: Donald Trump is the one who has risen to the occasion.

(Trump rally music)

And I think what happened in 2016 was that all of these politicians looked like politicians. They acted like politicians. They spoke of the same things. Then there was this guy who kind of stuck out, and he didn’t speak like a politician. He didn’t look like a politician because he wasn’t a politician.

Well, I think the thing about Donald Trump being an outsider is that he wasn’t tainted by the system. You know, there gets to be a groupthink among people in Washington—whether they’re bureaucrats (most of them are bureaucrats) or whether they’re Republicans or Democrats—they start thinking alike. We’d vote in Republicans, and nothing changed. We’d vote in Democrats, and nothing changed. And Donald Trump was an outsider, and people were desperate for something to change.

The first thing I just felt about President Trump was that what you see is what you get. And I like people like that. He’s not polished. He’s not a politician. He’s just saying what he feels.

(Trump debate audio) You’re never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the nomination.

I’m at 42, and you’re at three. So far, I’m doing better.

Doesn’t matter whether you agree with everything he says or not, at least it’s real.

You started off over here, Jeb. You’re moving further and further. Pretty soon, you’ll be off the end.

One of my biggest issues with politicians is that they have this camera face—like, this is what we show you for the camera, but behind the scenes, I’m a completely different person. I think Trump won in 2016 because he was representing the interests of the voter, actually bringing government back to “we the people” and doing what we want the government to be doing—protecting our rights.

(Trump audio) I know my competitors. I know who I’m dealing with. They’re politicians—all talk, no action. That’s what a politician is—all talk, no action.

And not going off and pursuing special interests of his own or of his donors. He was speaking exactly what my wife and I talk about at the kitchen table, or what my dad and I talk about in the garage, or whatever it is I’m talking about with my buddies at work. I mean, that’s how he talked from the platform at his rallies.

I’ve really never seen a politician in my life who hasn’t sold out. Maybe this is a guy who’s going to be the exception. Maybe he’s going to be the president who will work for the people because he’s demonstrated it in his business, pre-politics.

People admired Donald Trump—or at least respected him. He was known as a real estate mogul, builder, businessman, ladies’ man, entertainer. It was not uncommon to catch a glimpse of the charismatic figure in the spotlight.

(Music playing)

Anybody could go back to the 1980s, 1990s, early 2000s—everybody loved President Trump. In a sense, he was a hood hero. That’s why the lyrics were, “We’re going to get money like Trump,” or “Be a boss like Trump.”

I kind of knew that he was this billionaire playboy. He did the show The Apprentice, and he was kind of like the Simon Cowell of business—just said what he thought and didn’t think much about it. I didn’t pay much attention at all to Donald Trump. He was in Home Alone movies—I thought that was great when he met Kevin in New York.

As a matter of fact, when he and Hillary went to run in the race together, my initial reaction was, “This is a joke.” And you remember that saying? You know, “Mom says you could be anything you want to be when you grow up if you put your mind to it”? That was the going joke: “I guess anyone can be president.”

The ’90s and early 2000s served as Trump’s stomping grounds, driven by the American dream. During this era, American idealism was at its height—you could be whoever or whatever you wanted to be in America, especially if you already had money.

However, it wasn’t all fun and games over the years. Still, somehow, this icon managed to utilize even some of the most scandalous stories to his advantage. It was as if he had personally coined the phrase, “All publicity is good publicity.”

And not much has changed. Before politics, even if you didn’t like Donald Trump, you still wanted to know what he was up to. At the time, even celebrities seemed smitten with “The Donald.” His acumen for business slowly began to bleed more into the political realm, and it became clear that he had an invested interest in the fate of the country.

I mean, here he was, a playboy billionaire, a Democrat, a darling of the left back then, a darling of the press. And for reasons that are hard to understand, he saw what was going on in the world and in our country, and he felt he had to do something.

I’ve seen some past interviews of him on Oprah, talking about the presidency. I didn’t realize how much this man loved our country.

(Trump on Oprah) I would never want to rule it out totally because I really am tired of seeing what’s happening with this country—how we’re making other people live like kings, and we’re not.

Despite solid rebuttals to inquiries about running for president in the ’80s and ’90s, Trump’s actions seemed to have suggested a different story. Either way, he was obviously concerned with the way the country was being run.

Could his interest be more than simple patriotism? A man like Trump was assumed to always have an angle, but regardless of any potential hidden intentions, something was unique about Trump’s political interest.

Clearly, if you look at his early interviews, he had been asked a couple of times if he would ever run for president. So, obviously, people thought that maybe one day he would actually be a good presidential candidate.

(Trump interview) You have flirted with the idea of politics. Now you’re here at your first national convention. Does that get you interested in possibly making the plunge?

You have to tell me something: who told you I flirted? I didn’t know that.

Trump had around $500 million to over a billion dollars at the time. We’re not quite sure, because he’s been accused of fudging the numbers when it comes to his estimated net worth. And despite being pressed by the media to reveal his worth, he remained firm.

(Interview) Let’s get back to the essence of your wealth for a second. If you had to liquidate, how big would that check be that you put in your pocket when you headed west for the trailer?

Well, I hate to disappoint, but I have zero idea, David. How come this seat is at such a low level? You know, I’m looking at it.

Whatever the number was, why would someone with that bankroll be tempted by such an apparent demotion? Wouldn’t the race for presidency be a distraction from more financially beneficial endeavors?

A lot of politicians—they don’t come in so wealthy. They come to the White House, and then they leave wealthy. Trump didn’t do it for the money; he had the money. So, you think that when he did it, it was just because he loved the country.

And then for him to come back a second time, after all the fake news, the slander, the impeachments, everything they’ve tried to do—it just says to me that he loves the country. Look at all he’s lost just by running for office. He’d have been much better off staying at his golf course, enjoying the life he had—the pomp and circumstance, and the respect that people gave him.

Presidents only make about $400,000 a year, which, if you’re working in a factory, seems like a lot of money. But it’s not really riches, and somehow, they come out millionaires and buy mansions on Martha’s Vineyard, like Obama did.

Trump, on the other hand, sacrificed his net worth. It went down. His family was attacked. In more recent days, he’s been attacked with trials and lawsuits and all kinds of things—unprecedented in American history.

Donald Trump is the only president that became more poor after becoming president, and I think that speaks volumes. I think he counted the cost. He knew that he didn’t need the popularity because he was already popular. That didn’t matter to him. He was investing his own money in the first election in 2016, so he wasn’t beholden to anyone.

(Trump audio) I don’t need money, so the beautiful thing is I don’t have people giving me—I don’t owe anybody any favors.

Was it Trump’s internal drive to conquer something new, or was it as simple as desiring the spotlight on a major scale? Or is it possible that something completely outside of his own will drove Trump forward?

In the early days of Trump’s notoriety, he made his intentions clear about his political aspirations—specifically that he had none.

(Trump audio) And you don’t want it to be Donald Trump.

I do not want it to be Donald Trump. But I do want the problems to be solved.

You know, there are a lot of people they speculate will run for president. In fact, someone said that all 100 Senators hum “Hail to the Chief” every morning when they look in the mirror, seeing if it feels right. You know, indicating that the Senators are always running for president, and every governor, etc., etc. So, I would lump Trump into that category.

The year is 1999, and Trump quietly slips into the presidential race, after much back-and-forth between running with the Reform Party under Governor Jesse Ventura’s sponsorship or under the Republican Party, where he would have to battle against then-Governor George Bush.

(Trump audio) I am absolutely serious about conceivably running for the office of President.

He finally had enough. And I think that’s when he said, “Okay, I have to run.” I think God put something in him where he just had to do it.

(Trump audio) If I won, I think I’d be a really good president.

He eventually chose the former, having a stronger alignment with the Reform Party, and even went so far as to propose his ideal presidential cabinet.

(Trump audio) You have a vice presidential candidate in mind? Oprah. Oprah would always be my first choice. She’d be fantastic. She’s popular, she’s brilliant, she’s a wonderful woman.

Yet, only convincing a mere 15,000 people to vote for him in the Reform Party’s California primary, from there on, throughout the entire probing campaign, he remained on the fence, regularly reminding the public that he wasn’t fully committed to running for president. Even though it may have looked serious, he was only exploring potential.

His exploration process concluded as the Reform Party suffered internal conflicts too great to overcome, causing Trump to reconsider his involvement.

(Trump audio) I’m not going to be running. The party is, as you know, self-destructing.

In February of 2000, Trump officially announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, fading into the political ether while remaining at the forefront of American culture. Accusations that his political interest was a publicity stunt splattered the headlines.

(Trump audio) They say a job like President requires a big ego. I’m not sure my ego is big enough.

(Interviewer) That’s one of the things I can really… can I write that down? (Trump) You can write it down.

I don’t think Donald accepts any bad press. I think, just as long as you spell his name right, he’s pleased. I think he sees it as a help to his business because it also helps Trump the brand.

Not only did Trump gain attention, but his involvement in the Reform Party left a whirlwind behind that ultimately sent the party into irrelevant oblivion—a likely result, with or without him. Trump himself even denounced the Reform Party at the end of its demise, criticizing it as not conducive to victory.

Was Trump merely testing the waters? Could he have been planting a seed for later? Or did he really think his persona and money were enough to overcome the power of the two-party system? Either way, he suddenly pushed pause on his political career.

In 2002, a famous televangelist pastor received a surprising phone call. Her curiosity was piqued when her assistant informed her that Donald Trump was on the line. He was watching Christian television and called up and said, “Hey, you’re fantastic,” and repeated almost verbatim three of my sermons on the value of vision. A friendship formed, and a relationship—not just with Donald, but also with his staff, his family, his children, and his friends.

Moments later, she agreed to fly to New York to answer some questions and ultimately became Trump’s spiritual advisor—perhaps, for once in his life, giving Trump a small taste of what it feels like to be The Apprentice in the room.

Pastor Paula White’s story is the classic rags-to-riches tale, replete with miracles and controversy. Born in Tupelo, Missouri, in 1966, she suffered the pains of poverty and abuse. At five years old, her mother separated from her biological father, followed closely by the eventual suicide of her father. White recounts having experienced a range of abuses until her mother remarried a two-star admiral and moved the family to Washington, D.C.

At age 18, she became a Christian, claiming to have received a vision from God to head up a national ministry. Armed with this vision, she worked in the inner cities of D.C., impacting thousands of people—but not without its troubles. Throughout her ministry, she has been accused of fraud, laundering, adultery, blasphemy, and general deception. These accusations provided fuel for the rhetoric against Trump and his campaign years later.

As his advisor, televangelist White has a lot in common with Trump. Both are in their third marriage and have endured decades of moral and financial scandal. They labeled me “muddy authenticity.” I said, “Yes, I have mud on me. Some of it was thrown on me, and some of it I fell down in. But thank God for the grace of God.”

Regardless of the history, one thing is certain—with Pastor White added to the Trump equation, events unraveled that some have dared to call miraculous.

(Trump audio) He asked his friend Paula White to get some of her preacher friends together to pray. Should he run for president? He said, “I’m not going to ask for their endorsement.” And they got together. They had a time where they talked to him, and they prayed together for several hours. This is fairly well-documented by people who were there.

Once he made up his mind in 2016 to run for presidency, there was no stopping him.

Was Trump’s partnership with Pastor White the key to his popularity with evangelicals? Why would this morally superior audience give a man like Donald Trump a pass, considering his questionable background? And what about the ones who did not give him that pass?

Unfortunately, a great divide occurred in the church at this time.

Perhaps the better question is: what key did Trump hold that unlocked the doors to a Christian America? Or did he simply open a door that was always unlocked—one that his predecessors never even bothered to try? Or was this door bolted shut by former politicians wanting to barricade American citizens from the promises of the Constitution?

Trump takes pride in overcoming challenges that appear to be impossible. Could the presidency have been the next level up from previous challenges?

I don’t remember the exact year, but when he was a businessman in New York City, they wanted to build an ice skating rink, and it took forever. There were all kinds of cost overruns and all this kind of stuff. And he got the contract, and it came in on time and under budget. He showed up the bureaucracy. He’s a leader. When he makes up his mind to do something, he actually does it.

The silent years begin. Did Trump still have a strategy in mind?

Some would say he acted like a seasoned illusionist, dangling his new 2004 reality show, The Apprentice, with one hand, while setting up his next trick with the other.

(Trump interview audio) Do you want the court, including the justices that you will name, to overturn Roe v. Wade, which includes, in fact, states’ rights to abortion?

Well, if that would happen, because I am pro-life and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

During this time frame, Trump shifted sides on certain sensitive issues, most notably abortion rights.

Well, first off, in politics, we use the word “flip,” and any other time, we just talk about someone changing their mind or having a revelation. I think that’s somewhat the case here with Trump. I believe he said it was something about a family friend, and seeing someone grow up, and I think that can make quite an impression when you realize we’re not just talking about a “clump” as the left or Planned Parenthood would have you think. We’re talking about a life.

Was this political strategy or a genuine change of heart? If we wanted to be crass, we would say that answer lies between Trump and his publicist. Ultimately though, it is between Trump and God.

Well, obviously, I’m very pleased that he changed his decision to be more pro-life, and we saw from what he did in his first four years in office, the judges that he set forward were constitutional judges that upheld, or reversed, some of the bad decisions that we thought needed to take place.

(News audio) Roe v. Wade has been widely called bad law by many people on different sides of the equation. During the era of Ronald Reagan, who was pro-life, he appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, who was pro-choice. Now we see Donald J. Trump appointing some who are supportive of the right to life, at least from a constitutional side, for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

(Hearing audio) These proceedings, I believe, lack legitimacy in the eyes of the people of our country. They are scared that allowing President Trump to jam this confirmation through would roll back rights for generations—scared about what it means to the future of voting rights, the climate change, and the right to a safe and legal abortion.

The Constitution says nothing about abortion—nothing. The Founding Fathers would spin in their graves to know that that was done. It should have always been according to the states. In fact, it was according to the states. There were a few states—New York allowed abortion. I know that Washington, D.C. allowed abortion. I know it’s not a state, but if you ever watch the movie Roe v. Wade, they tell the story. I was alive when that happened, but I wasn’t really aware of it. They decided to go for the big enchilada. They just knew that fighting state by state was going to take forever, so they took a chance before the Supreme Court, and it was a split decision.

So Trump put in judges that just looked at the Constitution, and they said the Constitution does not allow this.

Regardless, Trump, in some ways, began displaying Christian values. Whether real or fake, those values spoke volumes to the American Christian audience.

Was Trump working under the commandeering of a higher calling, like many presidents before him had claimed?

(Trump audio) Millions of Americans seek guidance every day in prayer to the Almighty God. I am one of them.

Or was this simply a tactic spruced up with Christian lingo in order to sway the audience?

After a decade of tutelage under Pastor White, his stance on Christian values appeared to grow stronger and better defined. Despite his ultimate reasons behind running for office, there were those within the evangelical circles who predicted his presidency long before his official announcement. Could it be that something beyond Trump’s control, or even his comprehension, was at work?

(Prophecy audio) Now God says, a president that I will bring into the White House, they will say, “He is ungodly.” God says, the one that is chosen shall go in, and they shall say, “He has hot blood.” Trump shall become a trumpet, says the Lord!

I found the Kim Clement prophecies, and I’m going to tell you, I was completely shocked when I heard these prophecies. I was pretty fascinated with the video of Kim Clement prophesying clearly about President Trump. And if you look at just the detail, there’s no denying that some of the detail of what he said has clearly come to pass.

The idea that someone prophesied Trump’s presidency ahead of time may sound like an extreme view to some, but you can’t deny how strange of a timeline we’re working with here. The clip you just watched was recorded in 2007—Trump didn’t even announce his campaign until 2015.

I’m going to let that sit for a while.

(Obama speech) This week, I traveled to Chicago to deliver my final farewell address to the nation, following in the tradition of presidents before me.

The Obama era has ended. A new contender has entered the stage with ferocious opposition to core conservative values.

(Hillary audio) I don’t think most Americans want the kind of divisive and dark change Donald Trump is offering—rolling back marriage equality, defunding Planned Parenthood.

Who could oppose such a stoic figure with this much power and leverage? And what could they possibly do to stop her from getting what she always assumed to be rightfully hers?

(Hillary audio) Imagine him in the Oval Office, facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust.

I don’t have to tell you the difference between the left and the right. Some people are so entrenched that they never question their party or its stances. Yet, not everyone is like that.

Well, I think sometimes people are just programmed to think a certain way. A lot of times, if you ask people in that community, “Why are you voting this way?” they can’t tell you why. It’s just, “I know I’m supposed to vote Democrat.” So, when you have that kind of programming already, it’s hard to challenge that. People stick to tradition. They stick to what they’ve been taught: “Well, my dad did this. My mom did that.” If people don’t take the time to research for themselves, we know the media is full of propaganda. We know the media has a lot of agendas.

Some can still be persuaded.

(Trump debate audio) The critical question we’re attempting to answer is: how would Trump convince the in-between crowd to lean a little bit? Could it be a socially liberal, fiscally conservative approach from Trump that would cause so many to swing their feet over to his side of the fence? Or was there something else that gave Trump a better fighting chance against a figure as big as Hillary Clinton?

There was something rare about Trump that made the difference. There’s an awful lot of people in the middle who are being won over because they don’t like the way things are going in America.

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So we can question and speculate—that’s what historians do after it’s over. But I personally believe that he’s a good man. I met him personally, I interviewed him. He was very respectful to me. There was no protocol that would have demanded that he do that. None. My impression was that during that interview, I had his attention, and he was respectful. I expected that he would just treat me like one more member of the press. He had never met me before, but he didn’t.

Trump took a stance as an anti-establishment figurehead. Would this last, or would he become just another illusion of choice in the charade of politics?

(News audio) 100% it’s real, there’s no doubt about it. People talk about deep state, Illuminati, Freemasons, and all of that kind of stuff. Essentially, the simplest way that I would break it down is: you’re in the good boys’ club. A perfect example—you look at what happened with Hillary Clinton. I was in the military, and how you handle classified information is important. When they subpoena her and she destroyed the cell phones and the laptops, anybody else that wasn’t in the good boys’ club probably would be in jail.

The way to prove that is whether or not someone took steps to conceal or destroy what they’ve done. That is the best evidence you have that they knew it was wrong—that they lied about it. It’s often very good evidence.

When I think of the deep state, I think of the people behind the scenes who are really puppeteering. They are the ones getting things done that they want, and it could be people inside these three-letter agencies or people in business pushing agendas. It could be Attorneys General being placed in certain states—all those sorts of things. The deep state is this behind-the-scenes cabal that is really pushing and controlling to get their agenda represented, which is ultimately moving towards more control of the people.

Donald Trump, remember, he took on regulations—something that’s usually not a campaign slogan. A lot of Americans probably haven’t ever thought about regulations, but they stop so much of what we do.

I think there was a book written about it—something like Three Felonies a Day, where it says you break laws you don’t even know exist because of all the ridiculous over-regulation from bureaucracies—not even elected officials, but unaccountable bureaucracies.

(Trump audio) Nearly four years ago, we ended this regulatory assault on the American worker, and we launched the most dramatic regulatory relief campaign in American history, by far. No other administration has done anywhere near this.

A few years ago, I had never heard the expression “deep state.” Then when I started hearing it, we always heard it was a right-wing conspiracy or whatever. It’s kind of entered our language. And what it is, is there’s a permanent bureaucracy—they’re unelected. They work for the departments in Washington, D.C., mostly, but other parts of the country as well. They have their jobs, no matter who the president is. Things kind of go their way regardless. So, they’re unelected, doing unpopular things, and quite possibly wrong. Why should you ever give us your support?

That’s the question.

There are people we’ll never see who have a lot of money, a lot of influence, and a lot of power. They’ll never be presidents, but they actually can control governments, movements of presidents, world leaders, and financial institutions. It’s just this self-feeding thing. The Republicans don’t want to be in power because then they have no excuse for not doing what they’re doing, and if they’re not in power, they can blame the Democrats. The Democrats want to be in power because they’re pushing their agenda. So you have this group—this uni-party—working together to stay in power and to enrich themselves, not represent the interest of the people, which is what they were elected to do.

What chances did this bull in a china shop have against a polished, heavily supported career politician who already had a foot in the door? It would take a miracle, indeed, to overcome this adversary. Hillary Clinton checked every box on the political qualification list.

(Hillary audio) It is my distinct pleasure and distinct honor to turn the microphone over to my friend, to my colleague, the 67th Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton.

Her resume practically guaranteed her seat in the White House, having spent most of her adult life in the shadow of her husband, only to be transferred to the shadow of President Obama. She was determined to step into the spotlight, and she wasn’t alone in this.

They anointed Barack Obama—they wanted to have the first black president, which is nothing wrong with that. But then, I believe that in their minds, Hillary Clinton was already anointed to be next. It was set in stone: we had a black president, now we’re going to have our first woman president. It was almost like it was a done deal—like, who’s going to run against the Clinton name?

Was the decision for Hillary to run for president the final cue for Trump to step up to the fight, just a few months later?

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