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🗓️ 14 October 2021
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Sebastian is joined by his former White House colleague Andy Surabian, one of the earliest leading figures from President Trump's 2016 campaign, to talk about the campaign trail, what it was like working in the Trump White House, and more
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0:00.0 | Portions of the following program may contain pre-recorded material. |
0:14.0 | You're listening to America First with Dr. G. |
0:17.0 | We will not bend, we will not break, we will not yield, we will never give in, we will never give up, we will never back down, we will never ever surrender. |
0:29.0 | My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over, in fact our fight has only just begun. |
0:44.0 | That's a clip dear friends, that we usually save as our sign off every Friday afternoon to make sure that the millions of the listeners out there who are part of the MAGA movement are refilled or energized every single time they tune in. |
1:04.0 | I'm using it to open today's very special guest interview because it kind of embodies the spirit of the man who is going to join us today, an individual who I consider not just to be an honored former colleague but a great American, a great patriot who actually shared right next to me we had this little partition wall between us in the White House. |
1:27.0 | He's former special assistant to President Trump and deputy political strategist, my good buddy Andy Serapian welcome back to America First. |
1:40.0 | Thanks so much for having me today, Seth, it's been way too long. |
1:43.0 | It has been way too long but we know you're a busy guy, you're in the background, you're making sure that we get the right MAGA candidates and that they win and this freight train of America First not only trounces the Democrats in the midterms next year but also our old boss will win in 2024. |
2:04.0 | We have so much to discuss, you are a Republican strategist and you are the spokesperson for Donald Trump Jr. So I just want to get in there, this is what this, these are the little things that this guy does after he leaves the White House, hopefully we'll see him back there soon enough. |
2:24.0 | Andy, let's start because we have an unfettered discussion here, say a little bit about yourself, where do you hail from and how did you get into this, is my dad used to say politics, it's disgusting but it's so fascinating. |
2:41.0 | So if your audience isn't able to tell by the accent that I still have to this day, I was born and raised in the very conservative bastion of Massachusetts or the, you know, the, it had the long time nickname of tax of Massachusetts but this world has gotten so crazy that there's numerous states that have hired taxes today than Massachusetts. |
3:07.0 | I mean, that's how crazy this country has gone over the last several years or we can't even really call it tax of Massachusetts anymore but born and raised in Massachusetts, how did I get involved in politics, my lord, I mean that's, that's a kind of an interesting question. |
3:24.0 | I will give you this, the short version I was originally interested in politics via wrong calls presidential campaign in 2008 and I was just very interested and seeing someone come from outside the typical political system, someone that, you know, you don't have to agree with them on everything but was his own man, wasn't corrupt, wasn't part of the system, wasn't somebody who was influenced by the lobbyist. |
3:54.0 | But I could be describing someone else right now and that's where I'll make the connection but I was very, I was young, I was very interested in his campaign, I saw him as an honorable man who was trying to fight the system, not for his own benefit but for the benefit of the people. |
4:12.0 | And so I majored in political science in college, I fought with a lot of my college professors and then after I graduated, I took my first job with an organization in the Conservative Movement called the National Right to Work Committee. |
4:27.0 | I helped them fight big labor for over a year. After that, I took a job with a group called Tea Party Express, this was pretty much in the middle of the Tea Party boom lit. |
4:39.0 | In the 2010s, I was their political director for three years and that's really where I first started, you know, making my relationships in this movement. |
4:49.0 | And you were a teacher, what age, I just want to know how you're the political director in 2020, how old are you, what's your faunted age then Andy? |
4:56.0 | I was too, look, I've always been a little ahead of my age in politics, I was 23 when I got the job of a political director for Tea Party Express. |
5:06.0 | And it was there where, you know, we worked with a lot of insurgent candidates and that's really where I got a lot of my schooling in politics and strategy that I still use today. |
5:19.0 | After three years of doing that, I worked on some insurgent campaigns and then ended up on the Donald Trump campaign in the summer of 2016 Jason Miller had just taken over as communications director. |
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