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Scott Perry

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first: 2025-06-27
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“And as you know, we like to say that we're trying to create a more perfect union. That's Abraham Lincoln. And so we're always seeking perfection. And this is more seeking that perfection. And I hope that Great Britain and its wonderful citizens, its great ally of the United States of America, will join us in that.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think we have become complacent in America and maybe around the world, maybe in Britain too, I don't know, so I'm not going to speak for our great friends across the ocean. But I think we've become complacent about our relationship, about taking advantage of one another, about taking advantage of not only our freedom, but the countries that we have in this life that we have. And I think it's high time and it's good news that we have a wake-up call about how dear this freedom is, this life is, how dear it is that we have these places to exist and how they were formed and the sacrifices that they were made to make them what they are and that we hold those things dear and preserve them and work to preserve them and that that doesn't happen on its own. Somebody must work at that.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Position respectfully and to state why. And I'm going to continue to do that. And I hope everybody does that and that we might disagree that we all recognize each other as Americans, as human beings, as people that we can respect even though we differ and go out and have a glass of tea together or a mug of beer and enjoy the blessings that God has given us.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I don't think that circumstance of inflamed tensions between political factions in America is going to subside anytime soon, certainly not while Donald Trump is in office. The hard left in our country simply can't countenance his presence or even his existence. And I don't need to walk you through everything they put him through in his road to the presidency and just general life. And so unfortunately, I think it's going to continue to be difficult to have a reasonable dialogue even among neighbors and friends and family members that disagree. But even as that is the case, it is my job, it is my duty to listen to dissenting opinions, opinions different than mine, wholly different, and to be respectful of them, even though I disagree. And it's also my job to state my”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely And I reserve the right to vote no because I am concerned about the bankrupting of America. We continued unbridled to spend money that we don't have. As you know, we fought a war over taxes, about 3%, as I recall. And now we're spending to the tune of $2 trillion a year more than the revenue that the federal government takes in. It's not only bankrupting America, but it is bankrupting its people and it is unacceptable”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we got politics is the art of the possible. We took it to the very limit as far as we could, and we knew we would have another crack at it in the Senate. And we still have another vote yet to come, which we're awaiting to see what the bill looks like. So it could improve. It could not improve. So part of this is getting what you can where you can, and then providing the opportunity for improvement or saying no when you disapprove. But you favorite mine.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think that stuff so here's what I said so I can just correct and clarify the record. This theory was proposed to a number of individuals and my response was why don't we just ask the Italian government? That seems to be a reasonable response to a theory that's proposed to someone like me in my position, yet foresaying why don't we just ask the Italian government now suddenly I'm involved in the conspiracy. And by the way, as far as I know, we never asked the Italian government. We never got any more information on it. And we moved on. But that thing has somehow been kept alive as some conspiracy and almost to the point that people act like I came up with the conspiracy. I just said, why don't we just ask the people that are involved in this and find out from them?”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Because that's how the media always characterize it. I characterizes it. I spent a month, yes, seeking the truth. We don't know what the outcome of finding the truth was going to be, but we were not allowed to find the truth. And I reject the opinion that, or the characterization that you make that was anything other than that. America is based American government is based on truth and transparency. And so seeking that is not only my job, it is my duty.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We can't really be convinced because we've never gotten the evidence. There's never been an evidentiary hearing regarding the 2020 election. The evidence was never allowed to be presented and now years on. Most of that evidence has been destroyed. However, I think it's reasonable to question things that were questionable that occurred. And I did do that on the floor of the House of Representatives. And just this week, the director of the FBI informed us that Chinese, that China, the Communist Party of China, sought to influence that election by flooding the electoral market, so to speak, with thousands of Chinese false identifications for the purpose of voting. And so I think it's reasonable to question these things that are not questions of fact. These things are fact. As you know, you didn't result.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is that your fear? What I'm saying is that the political enterprise, and that would be the left and the Democrat Party in particular here, doesn't have a view to bring them in because they seek a better life. They have a view to bring them in because they want to change the political landscape here. They can't win on their ideas talking to people that are in America who have suffered these ideas. So they bring in another cadre of individuals who are dependent upon these social systems who will vote for them. And that's what I'm saying. This is a political enterprise for the purpose of securing the left's victories in America, not American greatness.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I acknowledge that and I agree with that. Of course, everybody in the world wants a better life and we all want to help. But there's a process and if you're going to disrespect a country's laws by your first act, why would anybody believe that you're not going to continue to disrespect the other laws and the other provisions of that nation, hard-fought, hard-earned every single day, not only by the people that shed their blood, but by the people that get up every morning and work so that they can provide for their family, but also pay the taxes that pay for these people that came here illegally to be housed, to be sure, sure. But you seem to be saying something wrong.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. Language, music, food. Yes, yes, all of that. Yes. And we lived, when we lived in Florida, we lived in a Cuban neighborhood. It was all very familiar to me. My mother spoke Spanish. She didn't speak us Spanish because she said, you live in America. You're going to speak English because she knew that was the path to success. And she knew that a common language is one of the things that binds a society and shared success and shared struggle. It's one of those things that binds different people from different cultures and different worlds. It binds them together.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because my sense when you talk. I'm critical of illegal immigration. Understand, I'm the product of legal immigration. My great-grandmother and grandmother's name are on the wall at Ellis Island. They came legally through a process. And America is built with immigrants that became Americans, not people that came to America to enjoy and steal from the largest of the people that made this country, made it great, and work hard every day to keep it great. And I'm affronted and offended for the sake of my family who came here with only the shirts on their back and worked hard to be part of America and become Americans.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To a certain extent, yeah, America has been great. And I feel like many people, even President Obama described it as America in decline. But it doesn't have to be in decline. Those are choices that we're making that we don't have to make. One of the greatest, I'll just give you one example. America is great because we have an abundance of energy, yet we're choosing. Right now we're in Washington, D.C. in one of the hottest times of the year, and our power grid is strained to its limits. Not because we can't produce and distribute power in America, but we're choosing lesser options of lesser reliability and more expense. We're choosing that.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we didn't, our house didn't have any electricity, we had no running water. We had, I think you would call it a privy. We called it an outhouse. It's very cold in the winters of Pennsylvania. You know, when you're going out in the morning to do your business. And we loved each other and we had each other. And that was what mattered. And we lived in America. And you could go from a situation where you got two pair of pants to wear every year. That was kind of allotment. That's what we could afford to work.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I love that I live in America and America is supposed to, you're supposed to be able to succeed and better yourself based on your merit, based on your effort, not based on the color of your skin, your social status or any of those things. And of course, I am the living example of that in many ways.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Greater than themselves. And you give up many things in that circumstance. You don't get to wear your hair the way you want to. You don't get to sleep in every day. You march the same way. You eat the same food as everybody else. And you give up some of your freedoms to serve. And if we were going to then change that to address everybody's individual desire, I felt that very much weakened what the military is about. And the reason we call it the uniform services, understand uniform is short for uni or one form. Well, if we're going to have many forms and they're going to be decided individual by individual, I thought that that was going to be very corrosive to the force and I couldn't support that. And I thought it was going to be damaging and that leadership was going to be unable to lead appropriately.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I came up in the Army, started out as a private, and it really molded to a great extent who I am. It's not just a place where you work. It becomes part of you and you part of it. You reflect it. It reflects you. And unfortunately for me over time, the military changed and no longer reflected my core values. My last, one of my last assignments as a general officer was to enforce the gender reassignment policy. And the army's a place, the military's a place where you take orders. And if you can't take orders, you either defy those orders, which would be unbefitting of an officer or it's your time to leave. And I decided that I could not execute that order. So it must be time for me to leave. And it didn't reflect who I am. For me, people joined the military to serve a cause.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do think it was worth it. But for nothing else for the person next to you, for the person that was depending on you to do your job so that they could live through their job and vice versa was worth it for that. But I do feel like our political leadership, and I don't mean to get political, but it's just the reality of it, our political leadership sacrificed at the end, in the end gave away all those sacrifices, all those lives lost, all those people that came home damaged forever for nothing. What did we get for it? Iraq is out there as, and Afghanistan is complete loss. We have no intelligence gathering there. We handed every, it's absolutely unconscionable. Not only did we not gain anything, our enemies actually gained from our presence there and now have one of the largest armies on the planet.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, for me, obviously, this was worth it. I'm very frustrated about my time in Iraq, not because I don't think it was worth it, but at the end, President Obama essentially ceded the country and all our gains over to Iran as Iraq is now a proxy of Iran. And I thought about those 4,500 lives lost. I thought about the funerals I attended, the crying faces that I saw, the memories of friends that I have. Same thing with Afghanistan. And that is very hurtful. It is very disappointing. And it is very discouraging. And that shapes your viewpoint of commanders. Forgive me. Pushing you a little bit.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's obviously our lives are very dear, and that is the cost of freedom. It is the cost of security. And you learn that firsthand, especially when those lives are in your hand. I not only got to fly at the honor and the privilege of flying with the service members that I served with, but I commanded them as well. And I was going to be the person that would have to deliver the news to their family members had they not come home. And so it's a very personal level of involvement. And when you're on the policy side of it, it really colors your decision making. Is this a worthy cause? Is it worthy of the loss of life? Is it, you know, unfortunately, many don't lose their life, but they come home forever changed? Is it worthy of that? And those are the things that you think about.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of a terrorist state. And it's nothing more than that, and that's absolutely what it is. For decades upon decades, not only our country, but the world has been apologizing and appeasing Iran while Iran has been playing for time and building what is inarguably a nuclear weapons program meant to deliver that payload to Israel, United States. Congressman, many of its adversaries.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've learned from the mistakes that our country has made in places like in Iraq or in Vietnam where the mission continues to extend far beyond what its original intent was and success is not well defined. I support the president and I'm surprised and somewhat disappointed, I guess, in friends because I think Steve Bannon is a friend. I think Tucker Carlson is a friend. Their view of what the president's actions were and their opinion on it, I think the president averted a greater conflict, a much greater conflict and the world should be thanking him for it. And he did so at little expense of life, obviously to the crews that conducted the military and the staff that conducted the mission. But quite honestly in Iran itself, minimum loss of life. But we're talking about nuclear weapons in the hands of the”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's absurd. Who are the eyes? A battle damage assessment must be conducted before you can really make that assessment within hours. It was some kind of bona fide. They haven't really gotten the job done. These people that are saying this absolutely have no actionable intelligence for which to base their opinion and assessment on. And so it's completely political. It's derived out of just political ideology and the disdain for President Trump”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Our society has become so polarized that we seem to think that President Trump, because he is Donald Trump, shouldn't be afforded that opportunity to deceive the enemy so that we can complete the mission and return safely. And they would rather see him fail than be able to be successful, even if it means being more disciplined in his public messaging.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think that we all have, if you're not in the inner circle, if you're not in the briefings at the White House and the situation room, there's going to be a certain amount of guesswork. But knowing a little bit about the president, I also feel that while in the Army or the military, you can have these discussions behind closed doors. The information that gets out of the public is very scripted for a reason. It's very defined. It has a purpose and a goal. The president, of course, like you said, has to do that at all in public. And one of his goals or one of any goal as a commander is to deceive the enemy so that you have the element of surprise. And so I think the president does that very adroitly in public. And it's one of the things that frustrates our enemies, our allies, and his critics that he is kind of, as we would say all over the highway. But I think there is a purpose to it. And quite honestly,”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think we are in an official ceasefire, but it's more like a pause. And quite honestly, I think we're waiting to see what both Iran and Israel are going to do. And if you take it from Iran's viewpoint, they want to be the regional hegemon. They want to control the region and they feel like they have to have nuclear weapons to be bona fide and to attain their political and military and geographic regional goals.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Course, he has a point. That's one of the general precepts of military combat, military life, no matter how much you plan, no matter how much you consider and the branches and sequels of events that you might consider, the enemy always gets a vote and the enemy oftentimes doesn't do what you hope, certainly what you hope, but even what you think the enemy is going to do. And the enemy oftentimes or most times doesn't tell you what that's going to be. So I can't say I'm the biggest fan of General Mattis, but I do agree with that assessment.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very nice to see you. Thanks so much for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to a conversation that maybe isn't so newsy.”
2025-06-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Trump's America: The Scott Perry One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source