Conservative commentator Candace Owens speculated this week that the version of former President Donald Trump running for office this year isn’t the same as in 2016.
No, she didn’t mean that Trump has been replaced by a clone/duplicate. She meant rather that something had changed about the former president’s demeanor.
Owens offered up the interesting theory during a discussion with entrepreneur Andrew Tate.
Watch the whole back-and-forth exchange below:
(Video Credit: Candace Owens)
“It doesn’t feel to me like the same Trump from 2015,” she said. “Obviously, he’s the better candidate. I want Trump to win as well. But it does seem that now he’s accepted money that he can’t be as hardcore about certain topics and certain issues as he was back in 2015 when there was no chance he was gonna win.”
“Now it feels like, I don’t know, like they’ve kind of, I don’t wanna say, buck-broken him, but there’s definitely a lot of consultants around,” she added.
Buck-breaking someone means essentially whipping someone into submission, either literally or metaphorically.
Tate appeared to agree with Owens.
“I’m a fan of Trump — obviously, I hope he wins,” he said. “My view on it, if I had to guess, and of course, I have no data to back this up, I’ve just been around. Trump ran with a scorched earth policy and got into power, and they tried the whole RussiaGate garbage, and I think Trump actually in many ways was very soft in his first administration and he believed to a degree he could reason with these savages.”
“I think there was part of his mind that said, ‘You know what, I’m really gonna get back into administration and teach these guys a lesson,’ and then I think something happened. Someone came along at some point and I think perhaps that deal was done, they said, ‘You won’t go to jail, Trump Tower will stay standing, your kids will be safe in America, everything’s gonna be okay, but you’re gonna have to bend on these few things,'” he added.
Tate then made a reference to Napoleon Bonaparte, saying, “Napoleon said it: ‘Fatigue makes cowards of us all.’ And he’s certainly no coward, but it’s amazing how daily war can grind you down.”
“I’m still praying for a Trump victory,” Tate continued. “I still think he’s gonna be the best president. I still think he’s gonna do his very best. I just feel like somewhere along the line, something has been agreed to to prevent post-presidency or post-death for his empire and for his children. There seems to be some kind of deal somewhere… I don’t know exactly what the deal is. I’m not even gonna say that I blame the guy for taking it. But some kind of agreement’s been made.”
This part of the discussion concluded with Owens speculating that billionaire Elon Musk has also been “buck-broken” to some extent.
“I feel the same, and I’m wondering if you do as well, Elon Musk seems a little bit different too,” she said.
During the discussion, the two also bashed the bipartisan focus on Israel and its war against Hamas, with Tate in particular going after the argument that Israel is America’s number one ally.
Andrew Tate & Candace Owens Destroy The Slave Minded People Who Repeat What They’re Told & Explain Why Isreal In NOT The Ally Of The People
“You need to, first, understand the word “our”, who “our” is and secondly, understand the word “ally” because ally goes both ways” pic.twitter.com/F86WrGeXBH
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“Someone comes up to me [and says], ‘Andrew Tate, Israel is your number one ally,'” Tate said. “I say, well, they never paid my rent, so they’re not my ally. They don’t cut my grass. What do they do for me? Turns out nothing. So who are they allies to? Well, are they allies to the government, who are also it seems to be my enemy? Are they allies to the people who I don’t trust?”
“When the senators who are robbing everybody and stealing all of the money and inflating the currency stand up and say they are our number one ally, maybe they’re your number one ally because you can get an Israeli passport and disappear and hide because you’re a pedophile. Maybe they’re your ally, but they’re certainly not mine, so why is anybody even repeating this trope? Whose Ally are they?” he added.
Owens responded by comparing Jews who defend Israel “killing children” to black people defending deceased Minneapolis convict George Floyd just because of the color of his skin.
“You’re not required to defend the stuff that Theodore Herzl and Netanyahu were up to simply because you’re Jewish,” she said. “Many Jewish people that I grew up with have fallen victim to the same trap of BLM in black America where they teach you traumas about your history in the classroom, and then you have this like fear this like slavery is going to come back.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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