I’m honestly glad to be here. For so many reasons. First and foremost, I’m fascinated to see how Joe can do when jacked up by a staggeringly potent cocktail of drugs to try to project a different energy level than we’ve seen from him these last few years. I am truly interested in this. Look, everyone watching knows he’s got dementia. The moderators here tonight know he has dementia. His wife Jill knows he has dementia. His staff, Barack Obama, and all the world leaders know he has dementia. Only Joe himself doesn’t know he has dementia. All he knows is that he is angry all the time and he needs to say and do whatever others tell him to do. And the Democrats want him - HIM - to be president for the next four years. What a crazy political time this is.

Now tonight is going to be unfairly slanted toward old Joe. Which makes sense. Both our moderators are well on the record for 8 straight years calling me Hitler and saying I will destroy our democracy. They desperately want Joe to win and tonight gives them lots of power to try to help that cause. They are loving this. CNN has created rules tonight that tilt the optics in Joe’s favor. Do a drinking game at home for all the times the moderators try to help Joe by turning off my microphone or trying to fact check me with some unproven alleged set of self serving facts.

For the moderators and all the unhinged Trump haters out there, I dare you to answer how this demented president ruined the economy, started wars, opened the border to tens of millions (of which easily 1 million who wish to and will do us harm), made us dependent on foreign oil again, and spent more money on Ukraine’s corrupt military than we’ve spent on our own military in the last year, who has used the DOJ to persecute his political enemies, and who raided a former president’s home with orders to kill in order to plant evidence there, how can anyone support this kind of presidency in America? What has happened to people when they see that as supportable?

Folks, they are portraying me as the man who threatens democracy. But here’s the unassailable counterpoint. You’ve seen me as president for four full years. Did I destroy our democracy? Did I start a war? Did I trash the economy? Did I persecute my political opponents? No, no, no and no. Don’t let them tell you I’m something you know with your own eyes that I am not. Instead, ask why they are lying about what I will do. Ask why you believe them against your own ability to perceive things for what they are.

The answer is clear but it is hard to hear. Government spends $5 trillion a year. Whoever controls that spending has $5 trillion of power, $20 trillion over four years. And your political class has decades ago learned that siphoning off just 5% off that over four years is $250 billion. It is enough for everyone in the political class to become wildly rich. Al Gore left DC with a net worth of $2 million. Within two years he was a billionaire. Same with Barack. Do the simple math people. Politics is a giant scam and those in power are afraid to lose it. Or get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They know I can’t be bought, I’ve earned y own money. They can’t buy me. And they can’t control me. So they attack me.

Joe’s people know this. The moderators tonight know this. Joe “used” to know this. They are fighting against me for this simple reason. But they aren’t really fighting me. They are really fighting YOU and finding out and I am in their way.

Let’s see how tonight plays out. It is theater, that’s all it is. The truth is, when are we going to stop empowering the ruling class who is out to steal from us all? November 4 is your chance to tell them we’ve had it with a political class that is out for themselves rather than for Americans. This is what I mean when I say make America great again. Make our government work for all of us rather than themselves.