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Our guest today is c J. Pearson, National co chair
of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council, a rising
star in conservative politics who's an inauguration weekend victory party
for influencers was literally cropped out by the leftist New
York York magazine. We do mean literally cropped out, a
classic corporate media hit job to save the least from
New York Magazine. CJ, thank you so much for joining
us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure.
Speaker 1: This story is a part and parcel of what we've
seen from corporate media, the prov depress, the accomplice media
for so long now. But basically what it is is
it is a long form, as I said, hit piece
about anybody who supports Donald Trump, really conservatives, the mega
movement to the Republican Party, and it focuses on inauguration
weekend parties including yours. Give us a little background on
what it was you were hosting this party in Washington,
DC and what this piece attempted to do.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, Well, Matt, thank you again so much for having
me here to talk about this and to give you
some background on you know, what this event was.
Speaker 2: You know, throughout the election cycle.
Speaker 3: You know, Vami work on the RNC Youth Advisory Council,
where I was tasked with doing all that we could
do to help President Trump perform well with young people,
which we were super excited to have been able to achieve.
That young people supported President From resoundingly this past election cycle,
and it was in large part because the President actually
pushed the corporate media to the side and said, I'm
going to go directly to young people. And young people
aren't reading the newspapers, he stays, they're not even watching
cable news. But what they are doing is they're following
their favorite influencers on social media. They're listening to podcasts
and things like that, and so we actually organized these influencers,
organize these podcasters to get their audiences motivated to come
out and support President Trump.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, they were.
Speaker 3: A critical part of the of the President's victory, his
resounding victory, and a critical piece of the mandate that
he received from the America people. And so that was
sort of the catalyst for this hosting this event which
we call the Power thirty Awards, which we hosted in
partnership with TikTok and Call Shee and also the Daily Signal.
And what we wanted to do was honor the thirty
most impactful young conservative influencers from this past lifcense cycle,
the folks who sacrificed you know, their you know, their time,
their money, their careers in some cases because they realized
just how critical and crucial this election was going to be.
And so we hosted around I think it was four
hundred or five hundred or so people at a you know,
a club down in in DC during an honoation weekend.
It was a little bit of a swinky affair. It
was black tie and you know, everyone there, of course,
you know, was a similar belief system other than the
reporters in the room as we have come to see,
and we were just having a good time.
Speaker 2: We were happy. We were happy to be.
Speaker 3: Back in Washington and to be back in the driver's seat.
You know, for four years, we had kind of been
cast out into the wilderness. We had been treated as
second class citizens in our own country. We've seen a
weaponized DJ going after conservatives. We were finally back and
our future was once again in our hands, and there
was a lot to celebrate.
Speaker 2: And so that is exactly what we did.
Speaker 3: Until the wee hours of the night, until we you know,
on Monday when the president was inaugurated, and that was
the that was.
Speaker 2: The big celebration.
Speaker 3: But you know, the origin of this hit piece, and
I'm sure you'll get into it is truly interesting to
me because I think that the thing that probably makes
this man or I use man loosely, he identifies as
non binary and I want to be inclusive in twenty
twenty five, even though he failed to be inclusive of
the black people in the photo that he cropped, you know,
as he was trying to pedal the narrative that this
was some AKK pizza party. But you know, it's it's insane,
but I think again it goes to show why the
President actually did what he did. He cut out the
corporate me He went straightly direct consumer because he knows
all these people know how to do is lie, lie, Lie.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's interesting, CJ. Exactly what you said,
you know, and it's absolutely true. President Trump went around
this roadblock, this constant interfering presence that is the so
called mainstream media, corporate media in America. And I think
the people in that room the night before Inauguration Day
in your party represented all of the people that you know.
This story is really this hit piece that was written
by a reporter by the name of Brock Coliard, I
believe from New York Magazine. It's really one long screed,
a lament about the loss of power from leftists in
America being able to use their favorite useful idiots in
the corporate media to try to spin the narrative. And
that's what this story was about. So in the piece,
you have a couple of things, you know, you have
all kinds of mockery of the new conservative movement in America,
because that's what New York Magazine says. This is here
are the new young Conservatives, the new conservative movement in America,
and he does know. It's a bit. It's a bigger
tent than the Republican Party is used to for sure,
and that includes all kinds of people using all kinds
of different and new technologies. It What it tries to insist, though,
is that as you say, this is the party, and
I'm you know, I'm getting a sense of the story,
not necessarily direct quotes, but they're spinning this idea that
it's all you know, this white supremacy style. They even say,
you know, as it relates to your party and others,
you know, the vast majority of these folks are white.
At the same time, they have a photo from your
party and they literally.
Speaker 2: Crap out.
Speaker 1: The black Americans who are in that photo. It is amazing.
What did you think when you first saw this, when
you first read this hit piece?
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's diabolical, you know, to be
to be quite frank, for them to be so flagrant
about gaslighting the American people, I think is an indictment
upon the institution of journalism as a whole. It's embarrassing
and the fact that you don't see left wing reporters
also condemning this so called piece of journalism is also disconcerting,
but again part of the course and unsurprising. You know,
when I first saw, you know, the article. When I
first read the piece, it was really interesting to me.
You know, first he describes it as almost every everyone
there at the party is white and all these things, and.
Speaker 2: What was really weird. It's like, I'm like, Ok, you're
at my party. You're at my event.
Speaker 3: I was the only speaker at the event other than
Alex Vershwa too, you know, the senior advisor to President Trump.
You had ample opera tunity as a journalist, as a
reporter to do your job and to come up to
me and ask me questions about the event that you
were looking to cover. At no point did he make
any attempt to do that. And so curiously enough, after
I read the piece, I was like, Wow, this is
so weird that you wrote eight hundred plus words about
my party but at no point mentioned my name. And
so I shot him a message on Instagram because I
saw that he followed me on Instagram, which was also
kind of crazy, right, It's like, you follow me, you
knew this was my event, you were there, so you
heard me speak, and you still didn't reach out for comment.
That's a little bizarre and ethically dubious, but that's neither
here nor there. I DMed him and I said, hey, like,
would you mind, you know, correcting your piece and you know,
adding that this was an event hosted by me? And
he said, unfortunately, I can't do that at this point
in time. And I ran out of space in the
article to include your name. Now, Matt, my name is CJ.
And my last name is not too much longer. I
was like, that seems like, you know, one of those
basic things. I remember when I was doing book reports
in elementary school, it was always the who, what, the one,
and the wear. And it's like you would think that
the who he would have been able to lock down,
but he was not able to do it. And the
more I thought about it, it was all by intention.
It would have undermined his entire narrative. This was some
you know, white supremacist pep rally that he wanted to
insinuate that it was when he had to acknowledge and
admit that this was hosted by a black man, and
there were multiple black influencers there present. Because black men
were a critical constituency for President Trump going back to
the White House.
Speaker 2: So we had many black men that we were honoring there,
folks like.
Speaker 3: Terrence Williams, Representative Vernon Jones, Congressman Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 2: Waka Flakka, who's a prominent rapper, was our performer for
the night.
Speaker 3: So to act as if this was some racially homogeneous
you know shindig is just absolutely deceitful and it's actually
just downright false.
Speaker 1: Here's a salient point as well that I think is
lost in the piece. You are a black American, You
hosted the party, and they could not find space for you.
It's interesting, I'll tell you this. I reached out to
the New York magazine and I had a lot of questions,
as you do and others do, And I said, I'm
writing a story about New York Magazine's recent piece titled
the Cruel Kids Table. I have spoken to CJ. Pearson,
co chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council
and host of the event. He told me the hit
piece was a false characterization of the event, the attendees,
and then I go on to ask these questions. Mister
Pearson said that after the story published, he reached out
to the reporter who told him that there was no
space available to include mister Pearson's comments. Is that true?
There was no space left on the inner New York Magazine,
if I'm not mistaken, is published online as of this recording,
I've seen nothing in the way of attempting to add
your comments, your statements, at the very least to the
online publication. It's just amazing to me their response, by
the way, and I'll I want you to have the
opportunity to comment on this. This was from Lauren Stark,
who is the senior vice president of Communications at the
parent company of New York Magazine. She said the magazine's
most recent cover story explores the new class of conservatives
taking Washington by storm through the lens of Inauguration weekend.
The cover was cropped to the center of a picture
that was published in full online, and we believe both
the cover and story provide an accurate impression of the weekend. Well,
that may be the case online, but it only drives
home the point that they had some more space to
enter the comments of the host of the event. But
what do you think about her particular characters?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I think it's a deflection, you know,
from some very direct questions that you asked her that unfortunately,
I think she realizes that there's not much stable ground
for her to stand on. That would have been an
easy thing for them to correct and to fix and
to update, but they chose not to because again, they
care more about the narrative than the actual truth. And
I know, I don't think it's an accurate reflection of
the weekend to act as if you know, this was
some cruel gathering of everyone just coming together to you know,
plot world domination is absolutely insane. No, we were there
because we were happy to celebrate the resounding victory of
President Trump. That was the reason that we were all
gathered at that venue on that night, and there was
nothing else to it.
Speaker 2: To you know, to be quite frank, well, we.
Speaker 3: Were gonna have the strategy meeting tomorrow, but for that day,
we were celebrating. And so, you know, for her to
pretend or him to pretend, both of them, to pretend
that this was you know, some type of diabolical plot, uh,
it's just it's so crazy.
Speaker 2: But again it's unsurprising.
Speaker 3: It's part of the course, and I'm actually glad that
they still don't get it.
Speaker 2: I'm actually really really glad.
Speaker 3: That they still don't get it, because, you know, growing up,
my grandma would always tell me, you know, when someone
when someone is in the process of destroying themselves, let them,
let them do it. You know, it's not on you anymore,
you know, don't let like, don't intervene when the enemy
is undoing themselves. And that's exactly what they are continuing
to do. They continue to not get it. They continue
to understand why President Trump won in the way in
which she did across demographics that Republicans have long struggled with. Somehow,
the most racist, sexist, most homophobic president to ever occupy
the White House was the president who performed record amounts
of support among those grew managed to do it. They
so don't get it, And I'm okay with them not
getting it because I hope they don't get it when
Jade Vance is the next nominee too.
Speaker 1: So I think it will be a great good point.
Your grandmother a very wise woman, and it is interesting
they talk about these kinds of things. Let me share
a little bit, and this is I think the point,
one of the many points of contention. But I think
this drives at home this from the piece. From an
esthetic standpoint, the new class of Conservatives is willing to
top off a perfectly stylish outfit with a mega hat,
which now comes in lots of colors red yes, but
also yellow, green, orange, or black, the dark mega kind
that Elon Musk wears. Almost everyone is white, the reporter states, falsely.
The men look like Pete Hegseth in bow ties and
black suits with clean shaven faces. The women are almost
all out of their league. As I was once informed,
these young conservative parties are eighty percent men and twenty
percent the most beautiful women you've ever seen. This is
another I will excuse my language, but I will call
it what it is, a bitchy piece from areas from
a leftist. I mean, it goes on and on like this,
and I think it drives home your point precisely. They're
at the inauguration of a president who absolutely smashed the
Democrat competition, and at this party there are all kinds
of different Americans there, including gay Americans, and yet you
know they're trying desperately to create this narrative that only mean, awful,
privileged white supremacist could possibly vote and sustain Donald Trump
as far away from the actual truth as possible, and
that they'rein lies what we're talking about today, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're You're exactly right.
Speaker 3: And it's that same resentment you know for half of
America too, is I think, really fueling their inability to
understand why they lost and also is going to prevent
them from ever being able to win again. But you know,
you're right the pit the piece was bitchy, like you
read the entire thing, and it's essentially them seething that
they can't be us.
Speaker 2: Actually is the way I took it.
Speaker 3: I took it as you know, hating from outside the
club because they can't get in. I took it as
that they hate us because they ain't us. Like that
is how the piece read. You know, you're shaming people
for being handsome, you're shaming women for being beautiful and
well dressed and for smelling nice. Like I understand he's
probably used to covering, you know, Antifa rallies and where
they all smell absolutely.
Speaker 2: Petrick, But you know this is a little bit of
a different crowd.
Speaker 3: You know, we do dress nice, we do care about,
you know, how we look and how we present ourselves
because we actually have jobs, you know, here in the
Republican Party, and so so.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's something out of side of their comfort zone,
but it truly was an interesting, interesting piece to read,
so much so to the the first time I read it,
until I realized it had cropped out all of these
people and done all these like nefarious, like little small things.
When I first read the piece, it was just a typical,
like I think it just leftists columnist piece. I was like, okay,
like what's new, what's different about this?
Speaker 2: But then I was just kind of like, okay, wait, no,
this is like something like way deeper.
Speaker 3: Than I thought initially, and we got to call this out.
Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's I think it's interesting because you're on
the front line of the youth movement in America in
conservative politics. You have seen as a young person in
America along with members of your generation, exactly what has
happened over the last four years. What has happened to
the promise of America. You know, you suffered through inflation,
you suffered through a borderless country and the rise in
crime and violence, the lawlessness, the law fair the censorship,
you you know, the worries deep sea worries about national
security and our relationship and reputation around the world.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: And this piece is so resentful of the fact that
Americans woke up to this and in large part, they
woke up to the things that this reporter absolutely despises.
Any resistance to the diversity, equity, inclusion, and the whole
woke agenda. And I think the influencers in that room,
including yourself, you know, really pulled the scales off the
eyes of the American people. Particularly the young voters in
America today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was that was definitely our goal.
Speaker 3: And I think, you know, I've always said, as a
young person, I'm twenty two years old, that you know,
if anyone has skinned needs to have skin the game,
it's going to be us, because no one's going to
fight for our future like the future. So I think
it's so critical and it's actually, I think, you know,
really heartwarming to see so many young people pull themselves
off the sidelines this past election say I'm going to
fight like hell.
Speaker 2: For the America that I know that I deserve.
Speaker 3: And the America that I deserve is not Kamala Harris's America.
It's not Ancy Pelosi's America. It's not Joe Biden's America.
But it's Donald Trump's America. And you know, I was
old enough to remember, like, you know, when I my
first election I was legible to vote in was President
Trump's first selection, or in twenty twenty when he ran
for re election, and I remember just how good things were,
you know, obviously, you know, we were navigating the pandemic
which had.
Speaker 2: Never happened before.
Speaker 3: But I remember in high school the economy being stronger
than it ever was. I remember, you know, our enemies,
you know, being afraid of us, our allies, you know.
Speaker 2: Being able to rely on us.
Speaker 3: These were just facts of life under President Trump, and
I was desperate to have those days back.
Speaker 2: I was eager to.
Speaker 3: Have at the beginning of my collegiate career because I
knew i'd be graduating and I'd be going into a
Donald J. Trump workedforce. Unfortunately didn't have that opportunity. But now, thankfully,
I think younger folks they will, and so I think that,
you know, for a long time under Biden, it felt
like America was in decline, which I think gave rise
to a lot of anxiety among young people, especially those
who were just about to step into the real world,
whether or not that was going to college or leaving
college or just getting a job. They didn't know what
to expect. They didn't know if one day we're going
to be in World War three because we had a
you know, a president who didn't know he was president,
or they didn't know if.
Speaker 2: They would be able to afford groceries.
Speaker 3: Which doesn't matter if you're thirteen or thirty three or
ninety three. It's a factive life that you have to navigate,
and so I think the president's victory was a testament
to the fact that America's young people were sick and
tired of being sick and tired. They were sick and
tired of the media gas sighting us about a president
who was failing every single day delivered for the American people.
Speaker 2: They asked like he was loocid. We knew he was.
Speaker 3: They acted like inflation was a figment of our imagination.
Speaker 2: We knew it.
Speaker 3: It wasn't every time we went to the grocery store
and swiped our credit card. We knew that it was
not a figment of our imagination.
Speaker 2: And I think you get to a certain point where people.
Speaker 3: Are sick and tired of being gas lit, and they're like, no,
I know what I know, and I'm going to go
fix the problem that Liza ahead, and their solution was
voting for President Trump, and I think that was the
right one.
Speaker 1: Inflation is just transitory. I remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently so apparently, so.
Speaker 1: That's what we got from the last administration. I will
note that I'm a wee bit older, and so my
first presidential election was George HW. Bush going up against
William Jefferson Clinton and eventually h ross parole. It was
with the exception perhaps of parole and an election of
the UNA Party, and in the words of Virginia Slims,
we've come. I'm a long way baby on that front.
Of course. Our guest today is C. J. Pearson, National
co Chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council.
You give me so much hope and faith in the future.
I can't begin to tell you how so much now.
I'm wonderful it is to talk to you, and I've talked,
you know, I've talked to many younger Americans who, you know,
either they were Conservatives to begin with or change their minds.
I remember talking to so many young conservatives at the
GOP convention where Donald Trump was nominated. Remember that was
just days after the man took a bullet in the
side of his head and survived and stood up and
said fight, fight, fight. Exactly The usual suspects in the
accomplish media forgot that moment. How important was that moment
to young voters in America?
Speaker 2: No, it was.
Speaker 3: I think that was such a big moment, and I
think it just confirmed everything that we already knew about
the president, that he was a fighter, that he was resilient,
and then if that man could take a bullet for us,
then the least we could do is show up and
vote for him. And I think that's always the big
thing about the youth vote, is that the President's always
had a tremendous amount of support among young voters. He
is a cultural phenom. He's an icon in every sense
of the word. The problem is just getting young people
to go vote and getting them to turn in their
absentee values being to show up to the polls. But
I think that because this election had so much drama
around it and so much writing on it, that young
people were like, Okay, if there's anything I'm doing, I'm
gonna go vote. And I saw it, you know, in
adotely with so many of my friends who are not political,
people who are super excited and proud to post their
voting sticker. I saw it, you know, of course, in
the exit polls that we saw after election day.
Speaker 2: Young people realize that our future was at stake.
Speaker 3: Our future was a lot and if we were going
to secure the future that we knew we deserve, we
need to fight like hell for it. And the bare
minimum was going to be showing up and voting, and
I'm glad we did it.
Speaker 1: No, indeed you did. And a little bit let me
ask you this. I mean, jeez, the New York Magazine
and the New York Times and the Washington Post and
CNN and the rest of their ilk. It's just they're
ashamed of you guys. I mean young people, young voters,
people in their twenties, their early thirties. They're supposed to
hate Donald Trump. So what happened? What happened to that
formula of the leftist success c J.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's one of those things where I
think they just bet on a lot of these constituencies.
They've always used an abuse to just always be that way.
And I think what they failed to realize is that
a lot of young people, a lot of black people,
a lot of suburban women, were sick and tired of
being sick and tired. They were sick and tired of
skyrocketing crime, they were sick and tired of record high inflation,
they were sick and tired of you know, heartburn every
time they went to can fill up their gas tank.
And eventually, I think people can only take so much.
And thankfully people realize that the solution to their woes
h was President Trump returning to the White House. And
so I think, you know, that's the thing the left,
you know, their entire way of keeping their hand and
their grip on power is just through you know, using
and abusing, you know, people that think like sheep. But
I think that there were a lot less people who
were inclined to do that this time around. Now, we
still have to remain vigilant, and we still have to,
you know, let keep people aware of the fact the
media is, you know, their strategy is still the same.
They're gonna live out but the president. They're gonna live
out as a gender. They're gonna live out of supporters.
This story that we're talking about today is indicative of
that fact. They're still trying to draw into people's heads
that being maga means you're racist, being maga means your
white supremacist, or any of these things.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not true.
Speaker 3: President Trump was alike to a diverse coalition of Americans
who again were sick and tired of being sick and
tired and chose a new way forward, and that way
was by voting for President Trump and Vice President JD.
Speaker 1: Vance, you noted it. You have to be vigilant, ever vigilant.
You have to sustain what you were able to accomplish,
what so many on the left and in the accomplished
media kept at least telling us, if they ultimately believe that,
I'm not convinced of that yet, that there's no way
that a in their words, as false as it is
at a central level, that a convicted felon could ever
be president of the United States. Forget the fact that
the President of the United States was convicted on lawfare
in the most excuse me, but trumped up charges, bogus
charges that we have seen in this country as part
of a targeted strategy to silence and to take out
the biggest threat to the left in America, Donald Trump.
And all of that said, you guys built a great coalition.
I talked to people in the Republican Party and conservative
activists who worked so diligently and found so much success
in targeting those low propensity, low turnout voters like young
people in America. How do you sustain all of that
for the next four years and build out to maintain
this victory that you have in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we got to continue ron like you know,
you know.
Speaker 3: We're we're ten points behind, and I think we've got
to continue this work in the off years as well,
continuing to have a presence in our college campuses, continuing
to you know, go and embracing alternative media and so
that they can hear the truth because again, the core
media is going to continue to lie. I lie, but
we need to make sure that our supporters at our
base are well informed so that they know a lie
when they see it. And so I think that's going
to be really critical. And I think just also too
doing what you know, folks like Scott Presler, you know,
is best known for going out registering people to vote.
Winning some of these states and these off years is important,
you know that. I think that's when we can really
reap the reap this, uh, you know, the fruits of
our labor. And you look at what you know, Scott
did in Pennsylvania, like he had been there for I
think two or three years before the election. Uh, just
doing the work being president, being visible, and I think
that we've got to do the same thing as it
relates to young people. We've got to be visible. We've
got to be on offense. And we've just got to
make sure that they're hearing, you know, our message, because
you know, in their college campuses and their lecture halls,
they're hearing that all Republicans are white, old and racist,
and so we've got to give them a counter narrative
to that. And uh and if we do that, I
think that we have a we have a hell of
a chance. I think that you know, the President Trump
like he's gonna deliver, He's gonna put wins on the board.
But we've got to make sure they know about those
winds and maybe also to make sure they can deliference
between you know, misinformation that the media is so eager
to spread.
Speaker 2: You know, I just saw a little while.
Speaker 3: Ago that AOC tweeted that Trump shut off Medicaid while
the website is glitching, and so they're working on getting.
Speaker 2: That website back up.
Speaker 3: But of course AOC just you know, just pulled a
fire alarm, you know, to send people into an absolute frenzy.
And so like, these are the types of things that
we're gonna have to be super vigilant about and just
you know, rapid in how we respond to them so
that they don't take root in the people's people's minds,
and we.
Speaker 1: Know that Democrat House members are not opposed to pulling
a fire alarm from.
Speaker 2: Time exactly that exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, I think about, you know, the mission, the
agenda of the Mega movement, and that begins, I believe,
with making sure that America is safe. And you know,
this has been obviously a different administration than the previous one.
We saw, you know, and the first week plus of
President Trump's administration what we expected a robust, energetic presidency
as opposed to whatever that was over the last previous
four years. But you know, because you're the victim of
it today, the gas lighting, the leftist narrative that's being
pushed out there, this is coming fast and furious will
be from the left again in the whole illegal immigrant
border battle. Do you believe young voters who supported changes
from what we saw under the Biden years is the
open border, borderless Biden gears, can they sustain through the
optics that will certainly come out. It's already happened. It
will continue from from the corporate media about immigration reform
and border restoration in America.
Speaker 3: You know, I think so, and I think that the
administration is doing a really good job at you know,
staying in front of the issue, and I'm just being
honestly incredibly transparent and accessible when it comes to questions
regarding it. You know, already on TikTok, I see it
all the time of you know, folks making these videos
perpetuating these narratives that you know, ices that's running into
these schools and scooping up every Hispanic child that they
can see, which is obviously, you know, untrue and completely false.
But you know, I feel like I see a Tom
Homan interview every day, multiple times a day, which I
think is incredible because it's there's no one more knowledgeable
about the issue. He is literally clown the play and
running the football on this, and so I think that
you know, him being out for on this is super helpful.
You know, them inviting you know, members of the media
along for ride alongs is super helpful because I don't
think there's anything wrong with what's going on. We're taking
criminals off the street who don't have any business being
here to begin with, and I think that, you know,
it's going to be one of those things where like obviously,
again to your point, the media is gonna lie, lie,
lie about this as much as they can. They're going
to demonize us and and you know, call us heartless
and many other things. But when you look at people
that they're actually arresting, like these are people that are rapists, pedophiles,
you know, criminals, assaulters, gang bangers, these are the types
of people that the American citizens are going to have
much empathy for. And so I think we just got
to be confident in our argument. We got to be
confident in the facts.
Speaker 2: The truth is on.
Speaker 3: Our side and we shouldn't back down from a fight
to use it when it is.
Speaker 1: And let's tell the stories of the people who are
being rounded up, the worst of the worst, criminals allowed
to be free and allowed to victimize over and over
again where in sanctuary cities. And so I think, you know,
the Federalist has and will continue to tell those stories
and other conservative news outlets. But critical in all of
that is to do what you have done, what young
conservatives influencers in this country have done. How important will
that be moving forward? And we talk about the people
you were celebrating the night before Inauguration.
Speaker 2: Day, definitely, definitely, and they're.
Speaker 3: Going to be a critical you know critical part of
the White House communications strategy. You know, we saw today
in Caroline Lovett's first White House Press briefing that they're
actually opening up the briefing room to influencers and content
creators for the first time ever in White House history.
Speaker 2: So super excited about that.
Speaker 3: Super excited for the opportunity to go visit the briefing
room myself, and I think that we are in a
new ara of accessibility. You know, we before we had
a president who ran away from the media, and now
we have a President Donald Trump who speaks to them
every single day and speaks to them directly, and I
think that's going.
Speaker 2: To cut out a lot of this information, a lot
of the lies.
Speaker 3: But again, we've got to continue to train up the
next generation of these influencers. We need to continue to
make sure that they know what they're talking about, that
they're well equipped.
Speaker 2: And if we do that, I think we're in good shape.
Speaker 1: The First Amendment gives reporters and news outlets of pretty
wide birth when it comes to distributing and reporting on
the news. We've seen plenty of lies. We've seen abject spin,
of course for a long time. But when you're starting
to manipulate that becomes a problem. Have you considered or
those surrounding you involved in this pre inauguration day party
of influencers, have you considered potential legal action against New
York Magazine for you know, what has been I think
rightly described as a hit piece.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're definitely looking at all of our options, you know,
for sure, because I think at the end of the day,
the media gets away with this stuff far too often,
and they won't stop doing it until you know, I
think you, uh, you do something about it. And so
we're taking a look at all of our options and seeing,
you know, what recourses you know, there may be, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, we'll make a decision on that soon.
Speaker 3: But as of now, I'm just so glad to see that,
you know, people have really wised up.
Speaker 2: I think people were very quick to note that, you.
Speaker 3: Know, something was afoot here, and they've they've called it out.
Speaker 2: You know, everyone from Vice President jd.
Speaker 3: Vance to Elon Musk and so many more incredible conservative
luminaries have you know, come out and said that this,
you know, is absolutely disgraceful what happened here, And so
we're definitely grateful to have their support.
Speaker 2: Of so many folks that we look.
Speaker 3: Up to, and uh uh, but yeah, no.
Speaker 2: We're keeping we're keeping it out on all of our options.
Then I we'll have more on that soon.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're doing great work, and it's not easy work.
You know that better than any of you over the
last several years, devoting your time and attention to getting
the word out and my hunches. You will continue to
do that for a good long time and you'll have
a significant impact in that. I really enjoyed our conversation
and I wish you the very best of luck moving forward.
Speaker 2: Definitely, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: You bet. Thanks to my guest again today, C J. Pearson,
National co Chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council.
You've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist. We'll
be back soon with more. Until then, stay lovers of
freedom and anxious for the Fray.