Hello, this is Rumble with Michael Moore.
I'm Michael Moore. Welcome everyone.
Thanks for joining me again. I'm doing a few days in a row
here of my podcast. As I took a couple weeks off in
August and I have missed a number of things that I've
wanted to talk to you about today.
Today, we're going to talk about the raid at Mar-A-Lago.
Not the FBI raid from a couple of weeks ago.
But my raid on Mar-A-Lago, back in March of 2018 in the second
year of the Trump presidency. I thought I would try to see if
I could get into Mar-A-Lago and if I could, how far could I get,
and what I find anything in the basement.
So going to get into that here in just a couple of minutes, but
First of all, I mean are you still trying to get over the
fact that the Trump stole all of these classified documents?
And now we've learned, he was actually reading them, he went
through the boxes, I thought well know what the he didn't
know what to take down tomorrow, Lago.
They just grab stuff on the way out of the White House know and
it turns out there's so many more boxes so many more
documents. Remember, it started with there
were 11 boxes, then there were 15.
Then it got up to 20. S7.
I don't know. And now the between the
Washington Post the New York Times which are done excellent
reporting on this, there's like 300 more sets of documents that
they now learn that he has had in his possession.
What's he doing with all of that?
Well, I think we know the guy never read you know anything
while he was sitting there in the Oval Office, didn't attend
the daily meetings of our national security and all this.
There's memos they're sending to each other in the White House
that they had to bring down these daily reports from 10
pages. Way too much 7 was too much.
Give him bullet points on one page.
Maybe he'll read that. Maybe he'll read that.
But when he's leaving the White House, now he wants all the
documents want us to take them all with him.
Why would he want them? May be a little late night
reading while he's retired from the presidency?
No, no. We know why he took them first
of all. He's a traitor.
So his various expressions of love for Putin and Kim and
various other dictators or right-wing fascist that now hold
the presidencies of certain European countries, South
America Etc. Trump loves all fascists and God
knows what he shared with any of them.
You know, it and I know it and we're going to find this out.
We're going to find this out. What did he do?
Why did he want these documents? Remember for him, everything is
about leverage, right? That's how he's lived.
His whole life information, as leverage ownership is leverage.
And if you have these secret documents and some of these
documents are the transcripts of private phone calls with other
world leaders. The one we know about is is the
president of France. What does he want that for?
Who's he sharing that with? How is he going to use it to get
what he wants? For his Corporation.
To line his pockets and his family's pockets.
Nothing surprises us anymore. But it would be impossible for
me to take this too far into saying, what, what actually is
it easy going to do, or what was he going to do with these
documents? And as bad as of a thing, I
could think of right now to say you, you know, it's worse.
I know. It's worse.
It's always worse. This is incredible.
I don't understand how he is not going to be arrested. if they
don't act, if the justice department doesn't act on this
Then they are admitting that. Not only is it okay to break the
law? It's okay to be a traitor to the
people of this country. And to collude.
With others. Other leaders other fascist
dictators in other countries. My friends, you know, we cannot
be quiet about this and we have to demand, we have to insist the
truth be told and he pay the price.
And I have to be honest, a few months ago, I was thinking well,
it's never a good Optics, I guessed.
You know, I have the next president arrest, the last
president, you know, that is what happens in places that are
not very free are not democracies and you know he got
his comeuppance by millions of people voting him out of office.
But I don't think we could just let this go.
What's the message to Future presidents?
That you could just behave like this.
That you can put yourself first over the country that you can
violate your oath of office. Now, we can't let this go and we
have to be adamant and loud about this.
But that's not the raid. I wanted to talk to you about
today. I want to tell you about my raid
on Mar-A-Lago. So here's the situation.
So, it's, it's March of 2018. It's about not quite a year and
a half since Trump was elected in November of 2016 and elected.
You know what I mean by that? I don't mean we don't really
have Democratic elections where who gets the most votes becomes
the president. We have a you know the system we
have set up by the slave owners that Of this country wanted to
make sure the slave states had more representation.
And so they set up a system of the Electoral College was part
of that system, etc. Etc.
We will get rid of that someday, but in this case here with
Trump, so he's elected in. It's the second year of his
presidency, it's March of 2018 myself and my crew were down in
Florida, making Fahrenheit, 11:9 Well actually, we were there
just to a couple of weeks after the sad and tragic Massacre and
to Stoneman, Douglas High School and Parkland Florida and her
down there talking to the kids and the people that were
organizing. What would be the March for our
lives. Massive rally in DC and across
the country but on it was Saturday night and we were done
working and and you know I said we're only half hour from our
Lago. I mean, we're down here.
Let's go see if Trump's there. Let's see if I can somehow sneak
in you know, knowing full well of course that chance of that
happening is pretty slim is the president United States is
probably surrounded by a lot of secret service and you know but
yet a few days after he was elected, I went over to Trump
Tower in New York so we selected on a Tuesday.
Saturday, I just walked in to Trump Tower, just me.
And I was doing a live thing on Facebook, just holding my phone
in front of me, I walk in, nobody stops me, I go over to
the escalators, you know is a big Atrium Trump Tower.
So I get on the escalator and I ride the escalator up to the
second floor and nobody stopped me.
No secret service, don't cops? They'll security and I'm like,
wow. I wonder how far I can get.
And so I took the next escalator up to the third floor.
Again untouched. And I'm not wearing a disguise
or anything, it looks like me, I mean people are noticing and
they're like, oh, what are you doing here?
And I'm gonna go see Trump. I got on the next escalator up
to the fourth floor. I think I got as high as the
fifth floor and I was finally stopped by Secret Service.
May recognize me. And, you know, I don't think I
look too scary. Of course, I don't carry any
weapons or anything and then they said when he doing so I'd
like to see the president-elect And I said, oh well you can't
you can't get in here. I'm already like five stories
above Fifth Avenue. I said, yeah, I got this far.
And I said, don't you have to go down to the front desk and make
an appointment? Oh, okay.
So I got back on the escalator. They didn't escort me or
anything. I just got on by myself.
When all the way back down to the first floor in the lobby,
went up to the guy and tried to make an Appointment he even
called up to say that I was there to see him really weird
somewhere that exists, I think on Facebook live or maybe our
YouTube that you know I'll find it and I'll put a link here on
the site if you want to just watch that half hour 45 minutes,
escopeta mine but anyways. But I figured okay that's five
days after he's elected. They didn't have their shit
together yet. So, but now here I am.
We're actually in Palm Beach West Palm Beach and we're
driving down the road. And we come up across the
driveway entrance to Mar-A-Lago. No, gate, no security.
Nobody stopping our car, we just drive right in And I'm thinking
how can this be? you know and thinking back now
when you know, when they say Trump as boxes and boxes of
classified top secret documents That he's storing there at
Mar-A-Lago. And Giuliani the other day
saying oh those boxes were safe there as they would have been in
the National Archives. But here I am, I have now pulled
in tomorrow Lago and we go all the way up to the little
circular drive. That's at the very front door of
Mar-A-Lago. Big brass plated door big you
know beveled glass and all the stuff people like that have.
And I said the crew. I I'm just going to see how far
I get here. You guys stay in the car where
I'm at because I didn't think I was gonna get two feet solid ice
of here. Let me wire you up.
You're not going to get very far anyway.
So just let me just put a little microphone underneath your
shirt. Here, I'll be able to record the
sound. Okay.
All right. That sounds like a good idea so
I get out of this car. I'm right there at the front
steps. And I go up the steps.
And the doorman sees me recognizes me is that all mr.
Moore and the other dorm and opens the door for me.
Still, there's no security, there's no secret service.
I walk in tomorrow, Lago. I walk into the main lobby with
all that stuff that you see at Trump Tower.
If you ever go into Trump Tower all this fake gold stuff that
just it's very, you know, very gaudy I guess is the word.
It's still a word. And the Saturday night dinner is
happening in the dining room. And I asked one of the people
that are at the desk. Hey, is just wondering if, if
the president is here. No, no, no, he's not here
tonight, but but Don jr. Is here in there having dinner.
Oh, yeah. Now I said I owed on Juniors,
hero, we annoy. I know.
Don jr. And and so I start, I start
walking in, you know, toward the dining room.
Well, Number of people were coming out, because dinner was
sort of over when I was there probably 10:00, or so at night,
but they're coming out and they one after the another course
they recognized. I shouldn't say of course but
they recognize me actually they these these people they should
recognize me. And but instead of being like
get him out of here, what's he doing here?
What are you doing here? None of that.
Oh, Michael Moore. Oh welcome.
Oh, thank you, Dallas. And they're all dressed like,
you know, indecent attire because they're having dinner at
Mar-A-Lago. I'm in my cargo shorts a T-shirt
and a ball cap. Many of these faces were
familiar. I couldn't necessarily tell you
their their names because I'm, you know, they're just there
people you've seen on the news. Let me put it that way and I
because I don't obviously run in Trump's Circle.
I don't know these people, but I know them.
I knew them by sight and and then there were.
But then there were media, people there to, there were, you
know, people that work in television, work in the press,
the great author Ken Allen. Was there and he came up to me.
Oh, how's it going? And we talked to a little bitty
told me about the book he's working on and, you know, we're
just having a conversation here. They're in the outside, the
private dining room at Mar-A-Lago and then somebody
else came out. How it's, what are you doing
here? That's this guy.
Can't believe my a Michael Moore's here and again I'm
looking around. Where's the security?
Where's the Secret Service? I don't see anybody.
I mean, I see people that look like they should be security,
but they're not doing anything. I mean, you gotta look if you've
seen my films when I go someplace I don't belong if I
show up at some corporate headquarters or whatever, I get
the bum's rush, I'm there maybe a minute now.
I've been in here for five minutes nothing's happened.
More people talking to me woman comes up, introduces herself as
a She was an executive at one of these private jet companies and
gives me her card, if I ever need a private jet call her and
I'm like, this is surreal and I'm wondering if, you know, out
in the van, you know, my car there.
Are they getting this on this microphone?
That's underneath my t-shirt here.
And then the guy at the desk is I'm going to go in and tell Don
jr. You're here.
I'd like what is going on here? Another five minutes and now
it's 10 minutes. I'm in there.
I'm talking to more people. I'm just we're just talking
about what's going on in the world and the country, you know,
and and nobody's mad. And then that started to bother
me these these wealthy people. Whoever, these people are that I
recognized from television are not upset that I'm there.
And then I took it personally, I thought, wow, they're not upset,
They're Not Afraid, not afraid that I'm seeing them here with
the Trump family. Can I start to think, how far
can I get? Let's just I'm just going to go
roam around Mar-A-Lago, until somebody stops me.
I mean they're almost 15 minutes now still inside.
Until? Somebody who works for the Trump
organization, a security person comes up and says mr.
Moore I think you've gone far enough.
It's a yes, I think so, too, I guess.
Of course I didn't know anything about there.
Were boxes being stored in the basement, or in his office, or
whatever. I would have asked, if I could
just take a peek at some of that.
But, of course, we didn't know any of that, that he was a thief
of documents back. Then we knew we, there's other
thievery, and other criminal activities have been going on
for many years. With the Trump organization, the
Trump family, but so the security guy still very polite.
People are now wanting to take pictures with me because they're
guests of our Lago, so he doesn't want to stop them.
So he steps back and lets them take their selfies.
And then you know when every time a selfie was done, he'd say
okay we should we should probably go out.
I said we have no no problem somewhere in this in this time
period he says to me your microphone is falling off you
and I looked at the little tiny hidden microphone that was under
taped underneath my t-shirt that had fallen off and was dangling
down by my cargo. Shorts.
I said, oh yeah, we've been filming today.
I forgot to I forgot to take this off feeling like such an
idiot boy, don't ever send me in for any kind of spy operation.
So we see that we keep, you know, walking back out into the
lobby and to the front door. And, you know, I have I have
some grainy photos of this, that they were.
They were my crew was taking through the car window and into
the door of the you see. It's me, but it's, they're
pretty grainy. I'm going to post them here on
the podcast site, just as some evidence that I was actually in
there and And I and you know, I'd stop every few feet and just
say that the security guy you know, I really would love to
talk to Don jr. If that's they were they were
just going in to tell him I was here.
I'm sure he wants would want to see me and then security go guy.
He says yeah, I don't think so and so we keep walking to the
front door. People are still snapping
pictures coming up shaking my hand.
Shaking my hand. We get to the front door.
I thank the security guy for his polite behavior and I promised,
you know, don't worry where we're going to head out now.
And, and then that was it. and what open the door, went out
down the steps, got in the car, I got in and, you know, my
camera and sound are in their basil.
Our producer was in there in the car and I said, can you believe
what just happens? Like, that was the longest I've
ever been in anywhere, where I shouldn't be.
And that there is like no security here.
And basil said you know? Well cheese I know is we could
see some of it through the door and and we saw the famous author
come out and and a couple of media people and I said, I know,
right? You guys you saw you recognize
those faces, right? We just we just don't know who
they are and and I and then I said to the crew, I said you
know I got to tell you though this last 15-20 minutes here, it
really bothered me because Why were they so welcoming?
These are people, you know, are the political opposites of me,
and they know that our films and the things that we do wear out,
if we're out to bring them down, return our country to its
people. And and then it kind of dawned
on me and I said, you know, I think it's I think it's because,
you know, they're celebrities themselves their famous.
They're well known and they didn't look at me as the enemy.
They looked at me. I'm sad to say, as essentially
one of them that, you know, all of a sudden, they saw a another
celebrity, not one like them, but it was still sort of it just
had that feeling all the pictures in the handshaking and
the harrumphing and and they were kind of weirdly admiring
how I got away with being in there.
They shouldn't be admiring anything about me.
That's what I said to the curve. I said, this is really, this is
bothersome in that sense that I should be.
Kept away from any place like this.
Frankly, I don't even know why they still put me on TV.
Let me say these things I say. Is it just?
That is it just because? Well, I may quote celebrity
quasi celebrity. You know, is it because you know
well they know how many millions.
See my films or follow me on social media.
Do they just? Is that?
Is that why? I'm so given a microphone a
platform. It's kind of disgusting in a way
because shouldn't everybody have that access to all platform to a
microphone to be able to speak to millions of people?
I don't know, you know, here it is now it's 34 years later, I'm
still, I'm still trying to Grapple with the fact that when
powerful people when corporate Titans when media people like
that, see me. They should be Shouting
security, you know, that would be, I think I said that to out
people in the apartment building, might be worried like,
homework, just shouted security. I could hear him in his
apartment. but that's at least that's what I want them to feel
like, Or is it that in spite of all these movies and all the
work I've done and things, things haven't really changed
that much. The Richer still richer, they're
still in power, they're still in control.
That even though the majority of Americans vote for Democrats and
seven of the last presidential elections, the Democrat won the
popular vote. That ultimately, it doesn't
matter because we're still struggling for basic things.
Like debt relief for students, like women's rights, like a
whole bunch of things and we still have to fight so hard for
that, we should have by now. I went, I went on the ride back.
I just said, I kind of sat there looking out the window at South
Florida and thinking, Man, I want to believe this is worth
it. What I do, I want to believe
what you do. All of you listening to this as
worth it? We get very few victories, don't
lie. and when the people doing this, to us, the ones dining out
there in Trump's private dining room, they should be disgusted
and appalled at the sight of me, not asking me for a selfie.
What do I need to do to change that?
What do we all need to do to change that, that sense of
security? That the wealthy have that
nothing's going to change. The people are never going to
vote us out. We control the Supreme Court.
Now we do, you know, they are just so smug, so smug about how
no one is going to remove them from Power.
To the point where even me showing up with my secret
microphone dangling, Aunt out of the bottom of my shirt.
And nobody's nobody's worried there that night at Mar-A-Lago.
Hmm. You get what I'm saying?
Don't you? It's good for me to think about
it. The greater Point, as it relates
to the rate of couple of weeks ago by the FBI, is what took
them so long to conduct The Raid?
They've known, he's had these boxes these documents since he
left the White House. Since he left the White House.
Almost two years ago now going on two years.
What took them so long. Because as I showed on that
night back in 2018, the security was virtually non-existent
Secret Service. Nowhere to be found and if I'd
known those boxes were in the basement, it's always easy to
find the basement stairs. All you smokers are former
smokers know how to find that backs.
A back stairway go grab your cigarette.
That's all I would have needed to do is just find that one
stairwell. Down in the basement, and all of
a sudden, I mean, I'm in Banker box heaven.
How dangerous, how stupid, or how smart of a move by Trump to
steal all these documents and keep them at a place that I was
just able to walk into and hang out in for 15 minutes or so.
I hope the justice department. Does their job.
And all of us should be making our voices heard about it.
That's the story of my rate at Mar-A-Lago.
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That's very important regarding the upcoming midterm elections.
So until then this is Michael Moore, this is Rumble.
My thanks to my producer and my editor, Angela Fargo's, my
thanks to basil hamdan, and all the people that were with me at
Mar-A-Lago, I still haven't taken that executive up.
On that free jet ride, I probably never will I'll talk to
you again tomorrow. Everybody take care.
Thanks bye.