The Nation: Patrick Gower interviews Mike Lindell
On The Nation: Patrick Gower interviews Mike
Lindell
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Trump
supporter and pillow entrepreneur Mike Lindell talks to
Newshub political editor Patrick Gower about how Donald
Trump won the
presidency.
Mike Lindell:
When he came in with his family behind him, when he came in
to announce that he’d been elected, you know, you could
see the humbleness. And all of them — from him all the way
down, even his children — were ready to cry. It was just
like a… it was just an amazing feeling. I’ve never…
You know, they’ve never been politicians, none of them,
and they’re just, like… It was a different— We all
felt it, and we all felt, you know… It was
amazing.
Patrick Gower: And what was so
amazing about it? The change that happened in America last
night, the victory by Donald
Trump?
You felt the whole
change. You felt the change of what, you know… This change
of this stuff we’ve been dealing with, it’s almost like
dragging us through mud, and we don’t have the answers,
and years go by, and then another four years go by, and we
don’t have the answers of what, you know… They make
promises. Politicians make promises — ‘We’re going to
do this for the inner cities. We’re going to help those
people. We’re going to help that people’ — just to get
votes, and then you don’t hear from them. They’re not
hands-on with the people, and we don’t hear from them for
four more years, and then this goes on again. And Mr Trump,
who I know personally, that’s not going to happen. We’re
going to hear from him all the time. He’s not going to
break his promises. That’s the
difference.
So how would you sum up what
happened, then?
When they
said it’s a movement, I would say what happened was,
because all the polls was wrong, this was a miracle; this
was from God. How else do you explain every poll being
wrong? These are polls done by everybody in the country,
everybody in the world, basically, doing their own polls,
going, ‘Oh, you know, Mr Trump’s going to lose. It’s
just by how much. It should be off by that much.’ It
wasn’t even close. This was divine intervention. This was
like, you know…
Well, how did he win, then?
Who voted for him? You know, who voted for
him?
The people who voted
for him are the silent majority. The people who voted are
the silent majority. Political correctness has just run so
rampant in this country, and everybody is afraid to say
anything any more, to stick up for themselves and to be who
they are. ‘You can’t do this. You can’t do that.’
Everybody lives in fear.
Sure. So Donald Trump
taps into that, doesn’t
he?
He taps into the silent
majority that have been the unheard. We’ve been unheard,
you know. I guess partially I bet there’s a big majority
that never voted, so we have no one to blame but ourselves
— some of us that didn’t vote in past elections.
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