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Chris LaCivita

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first: 2024-11-21
most recent: 2024-11-21
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“I think some of them were, but I also know that. That a lot of the stuff that President Trump had said on that particular day, he came out and made it perfectly clear. It just doesn't fit with the timeline that everybody else wants.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, look, there were some people that did things that day that were bad that I didn't like. But the overwhelming majority of the people that were there did, didn't do any of that stuff. And that's life. There are people that do in politics stupid shit every single day.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How do you think people interpret that? I think there are, I think that, as a matter of fact, I know that President Trump called a lot of those people or a handful of those people anyway that were actually involved in the violence that burned stuff thugs, right? Well, it didn't that day. Well, I mean, but there were a lot of people there, I dare say 98% of the people that were there never went near the capital and weren't engaged in any of those things. But yet the left will paint every single person who was there as one, you know, in one particular, oh, they're all trying to do X, Y, and Z. And the left made a very concerted effort to make that a very central part of this campaign. And the American probably just wasn't buying it. That doesn't mean it's...”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My phones. And we were just like, oh shit, what, you know, what, you know, and as I have often said, retweets and or likes do not constitute endorsements. I just don't. I mean, I like a lot of stuff”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's funny, January 6th, the day of January 6th, I was on the Potomac River with my son and two buddies of mine, Duck Hunting. And we were watching all this stuff happen.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Motivation to give you the attention. But, you know, I'm not going to, you know, I sit down with these guys. They put their hand on the oath and they do it. That's all I need.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it wasn't so much that. I knew a lot of veterans that came back and became anti war. He came back and disparaged a whole generation of veterans as what he did. And they suffered with a stigma for decades. And he did that. And he paid a price for it. And I was just glad to be a part of him paying that.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I will tell you, I do it again tomorrow. And I know a lot of those guys, and I think the Vietnam veterans in large part were motivated by what we did because of when John Kerry came. Yeah, he came back and he...”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First line of his convention speech, he led with it. So that right then and there, I knew we had something. Matter of fact, because I had showed my mom and dad the ads a couple days earlier, my mother called me that night and she goes, I sure as hell hope your phone number is unlisted, which foreshadowing, I guess, to some extent what was to come. But we ended up. It was very important to me that we accurately portray in those ads every single thing that the guys, I mean, there were 40 of these guys that served with them. Every single one of them put their statements down in writing, in an affidavit, under oath, and said, this is the truth as I remember it. And so they bring that to me and I'm like, this is all I need.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So look, what I remember is this. And I believe that, I believe to this day that John Kerry gained the system, which is easy to do in the military to put himself in a position to be awarded decorations. When we did the ads, like we had the first two ads already done before the convention. Before the convention. And John Edwards, Senator Edwards had said, if you want to know what John Kerry is made of, just ask the people that served with him in Vietnam. Well, when he said that, and I got that clip, I was like, oh boy, this is going in the front of the ad. And then when we went to, and then when John Kerry stood up and said, I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty. That was the first line.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not in the war. I was also doing in 2004. Senate race with Jason Miller against some dude named Barack Obama in Illinois. Yeah, yeah, I remember that.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I had cruisers trying to play a game, and the goal is, you know, in every convention, just like I said during this campaign, if you control the rules, you control it, which is the reason why in Trump world in 2024, we went to California and rolled with everybody at their state convention and locked up rules that were favorable to us. Delegate selection, and of course, you know, it was a very, again, a very detailed, organizationally driven process. That experience in Virginia through, you know, 16, you know, really paid off, at least going into this one.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“16. I'm sorry. In 16. I did the floor. I was responsible for floor operations and I ran the rules committee. Which was not.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had the Southside Central area, basically Georgia's home turf. Geographically, the area that I was responsible for was larger than the state of New Jersey. And each county has certain weighted delegate votes. And so each county would have different smaller conventions to send their delegations to the state convention. So very, very detailed organizationally driven exercises that you had to do that required you to have conversations with people. It required you to go to people's homes and sit down and it required you to go to all the meetings and give it a little speech and do all of this stuff. And you would put together lists of people and make sure they turned out at the mass meeting. And then once the mass meeting voted on the delegations and you had to make sure the delegation showed up at the”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While he was redistricted out of his seat. We ran for governor and, you know, in Virginia at that point, we still nominated by conventions So we nominate a George by convention, which were you or you.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“George Allen was running for a special election for Congress in Charlottesville, Virginia, and I hitched with him. He won the special election, and I ended up going to Washington with him on the hill for 14 months as a legislative aide.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot. I mean, it just here's your job, here's your mission, show up and do it. And don't, the word can't doesn't exist. And the consultant on the race was this guy named Mike Thomas. He was giving me that guidance to, you know, basically teach me the ropes. But, you know, it was a low-paying client. I mean, I was paid $500 and was given $50 for expenses. And, you know, we ended up winning in a pretty convincing way. But the candidate had come down with kidney stones. And like two days before the nomination and there was this big debate. And so I subbed for the candidate and I'm having the bullshit about water quality issues. And what the hell did I know about water quality issues?”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. And it was funny because it was a Republican nomination, but it was highly contested. It wasn't a Republican area in the suburbs of Richmond and Chesterfield County. And, you know, I just had boundless energy.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, board of supervisors worked with my dad. He was a planner, emergency planner, and he wanted around for the board of supervisors, which is county commissioners. So I did his race. It was a Republican nomination. It was called a canvas.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“World, it was funny. I had changed, but nothing around me had. I remember I went back, I went home to my parents' house and they had my room set up exactly the way it was when I left. It took a lot of time to get used to that. I couldn't sleep. No, I was pretty jacked all the time. Yeah, y”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I mean, and that was a harsh. Dose of reality, but I guess the way it changed me, it just gives me a different perspective. life and stress and nothing really bothers me. I mean shit bothers me, right? But I get pissed off like everybody else, but I kind of let a lot of stuff roll off my back.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That experience in itself was life-changing, but the real, I guess, experience was watching a friend of mine die, you know, there. Was one of those things that you don't forget. You know, a guy in our unit stepped onto mine. And our understanding was they had given them a bunch of Cumidin. And then when they brought him back to the rear and we were pulling them off a helicopter and I was with them, they pulled the tourniquet off and ended up bleeding out because they couldn't stop them. And those are one of the mistakes that are made in combat that then save multiple lives going forward. It's just, you know.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a piece that went through my face, and then I had a piece that stuck in my flack jacket, which was made by DuPont DuPont. God bless them. It's the first or second maybe iteration of the Kevlar jacket, but it shredded it, broke my ribs. So pretty bad day.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're shooting at targets at 150 yards. So it's kind of a, you know, it was a bad day. I got hit with shrapnel from, I guess it was a BTR or BMP, which is a Russian armored vehicle with a gun on it. And it shot around, it landed at my feet, and just covered me in shrapnel.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I said, I was in this Marine Artillery Unit and Hotel Battery 3rd Battalion, 14th Marines out of Richmond of Virginia. And we deployed with the 1st Marines out of Camp Pendleton, California. And our unit was the Abaguano field on that particular day. And it's oil field in Kuwait. If you wanted to ever have a visualization of what Dante's Inferno looked like, this was it. Imagine rolling in and just there's hundreds of oil wells all around you and they're all on fire. And the ones that aren't on fire just blowing pure oil. So loud, you can't hear yourself think, blotting out the sun. I mean, it was just miserable, but we ended up engaging Iraqi armor and rocket-propelled BTRs, multiple launch rocket systems, all this stuff at point-blank grange with cannons. The cannons shoot 18 miles.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I was in grad school and was activated. And I remember they came to us and said, look, if you sign this piece of paper, you can stay finish. And I was like, yeah, no, I'm not. And there were more than a handful, probably at least a dozen of us in our unit that were given that opportunity and all of us were like, no, we're going. We had 100% retention everybody deployed. It was a marine artillery unit.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was in grad school and I had high hopes of possibly going into getting my MPA going into the administration of government, something like that.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But, you know, I just, I don't know. I guess I was just predisposed that way. But yeah, I mean, I grew up in a great house. I mean, great family, great parents, great brothers, great, you know, I went to Catholic school raised by German nuns in Pittsburgh, moved to Virginia. It was great. It was a great experience. But joined the military, which I thought was a good thing for me because I was a little, I'm not going to say I was wild, but I was a bit of a hell raiser, mischievous, nothing crazy, but today I've used that.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, my uncle was a crimine, my godfather, Joe Gallaghan from the Irish side of the family, and a big guy, gregarious guy. And he spent 30-some years in the Marine Corps. And I just remember as a kid, you know, when he was in Vietnam, we would always say prayers, please bring Uncle John safe, you know, literally, it's like one of these things I always remember.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was in an active duty and then I was in reserves for the vast majority of my time. And then I was. Activated when I was in grad school.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, it was, you know, it's a great school, it's a great liberal arts school. But I had a little streak in me, a little, you know, that I wasn't a conformist, if you will. And so my first year, and of course, I was in the Marine Corps. So that kind of...”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember that was the one thing that she was always concerned about. But no, I was not, did not grow up in a really a political family at all.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, because it's funny, my mom was always scared to death of Reagan because she felt that Reagan was going to force her to send her five boys to war. Of course, I ended up doing it voluntarily. You did, yes. Yeah, for a Bush, but during the Bush years. But my mom still ended up voting for him.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really, and yeah, when he was the guy who's emergency number two with emergency services and stayed there his entire career.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And of course, the only thing I knew about Virginia in 1978 was what I saw on the Waltons. So we were all like, they don't even have a football team. I mean, to us, that was like, what? No football. There's no hockey. So, but when we moved, and then my dad was appointed by, I think it was then Governor Rob.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my dad in Pittsburgh, he was a PR guy for equitable gas, which of course is now Dominion owned by Dominion Energy. But that was the major power company in Pittsburgh at the time. And we moved to Virginia, and my dad was working for, took a job with Reynolds. And we moved from Pittsburgh. All our family was in Pittsburgh. We moved to the south, what was considered the south. Richmond, yeah, in 78.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was the head mechanic for the Philadelphia transit system. And he was, he didn't know a damn thing about being a mechanic, but, you know, managed to get a job in the trolleys, the old trolley cars in downtown Philly, and he worked on those his entire life. His second job to pay off the mortgage was he was a night watchman at the Bubble Yum Bubblegum factory because we always had tons of bubble yum when we were kids. That's a pretty good deal. Yeah, it was a good deal.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For everybody that was living in this particular area. And then my mom's father, my Irish grandfather, a massive man, huge hands, was, you know, so this is genetic. He used to raise horses and that kind of stuff.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My grandfather, my Italian grandfather worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and he was the only, one of the very few people as Family Legend has it on their entire street block that worked during the Great Depression.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My dad's family, it was right around it was like 19, I want to say, in the early 20s Right after the first to when my family”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Italy and Ireland. In Ireland, yeah, my dad's family from Italy. My mom's family from Ireland. I'm the second oldest of five boys, born and raised in McKeith, Pennsylvania, moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1979.”
2024-11-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 602 — Chris LaCivita · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source