Ben Carson Reflects on Divine Protection, American Greatness, and the Battle to Reelect President Trump

[00:05] thank

[00:07] you thank you so much thank

[00:10] you you

[00:13] know Sarah hucke always says to me I

[00:17] hate to follow you but I think she

[00:19] turned the table on me

[00:22] tonight I want to thank you all for

[00:25] being here and for being involved like

[00:28] many of you last week I watched with

[00:31] horror as the events unfolded in that

[00:33] Pennsylvania field I saw president Trump

[00:38] a dear friend escaped death by mere

[00:41] inches and my thoughts immediately

[00:44] turned to the book of Isaiah that says

[00:48] no weapon formed against you shall

[00:57] prosper well let me tell you the weapons

[01:00] that they used first they tried to ruin

[01:02] his reputation and he's more popular now

[01:05] than

[01:10] ever and then they tried to bankrupt him

[01:14] and he's got more money now than he had

[01:20] before and then they tried to put him in

[01:23] prison and he's Freer and has made other

[01:26] people free with him and then

[01:31] and then last weekend they tried to kill

[01:33] him and there he is over there alive and

[01:35] well

[02:00] you

[02:02] know I have no doubt that God lowered a

[02:06] shield of protection over president

[02:08] Trump and I join millions of Americans

[02:12] in Thanksgiving for president Trump's

[02:14] safety and I encourage you to join me in

[02:17] praying each day for his continued

[02:21] protection you know our hearts our

[02:24] hearts go out to the victims in the

[02:26] audience let's also pray for them and

[02:28] their families these events have brought

[02:31] unusual Clarity to the times we are

[02:35] living in we have all harbored the

[02:38] nagging feeling that everything we love

[02:42] is slipping away all you have to do is

[02:45] turn on the

[02:46] television the Free Press a pillar of

[02:49] any free Society has abused the TR

[02:53] public trust and resorted to lies

[02:55] deception and disinformation

[03:01] they divide us along lines of race class

[03:06] and gender rather than uniting us around

[03:09] our shared Bond as Americans our

[03:13] government has been no better shredding

[03:16] our Constitution and upending the rule

[03:18] of law we have a wide openen border a

[03:21] broken education system and Chaos

[03:24] breaking out around the world and on top

[03:27] of it all we have a president

[03:30] who well if you can't say anything good

[03:32] don't say anything at

[03:37] all but ask anyone around the world what

[03:41] it what does it mean to be an American

[03:43] most will tell you that it means

[03:46] unlimited

[03:48] opportunity that where you begin in life

[03:50] doesn't dictate where you will end that

[03:55] that's the America I grew up in and no

[03:58] other country

[04:00] could a poor inner city kid raised by a

[04:04] single

[04:05] mom make it to an ivy leak school then

[04:08] to medical school become a successful

[04:11] neurosurgeon run for president and

[04:13] eventually become a member of the

[04:15] president's

[04:25] cabinet you know and as a member of his

[04:27] cabinet I had a chance to work closely

[04:30] with him and I got to tell you this is a

[04:34] man who is a gift to us as a nation he

[04:37] is very gifted he is very smart he is

[04:40] very compassionate he cares about people

[04:43] and I tell you the first time I met him

[04:45] it was before either of us got into the

[04:47] political Arena and someone I we were at

[04:50] Mar Lago and someone came up to him and

[04:52] said Mr Trump Rod Stewart just walked in

[04:56] and he said I don't care this is Ben

[04:58] Carson

[05:05] but I feel blessed that I've been able

[05:08] to live the American dream but my story

[05:12] is moving further Out Of Reach in

[05:15] America today the lessons my mother

[05:18] taught me like hard work and the value

[05:20] of well-rounded patriotic education and

[05:24] faith in God above all else are being

[05:27] forced out of the Public Square

[05:30] but we're all here today because we know

[05:32] we can bring these things

[05:37] back by God's

[05:40] grace we live in a country where the

[05:43] people rule we have a power to choose

[05:46] the kind of nation we will be and the

[05:48] kind of men and women that will lead us

[05:51] and today the choice could not be more

[05:53] clear the most repeated phrase in the

[05:57] Bible is this do not be afraid or fear

[06:01] not it appears 365 times in scripture a

[06:05] reminder to live each day with faith

[06:09] hope and joy as joyful Warriors for

[06:19] Christ

[06:21] and and when God is with us nobody can

[06:25] stand against

[06:26] us with this assurance from the all

[06:29] Mighty even the face of evil itself

[06:33] cannot shake our resolve we will keep

[06:35] fighting we will keep praying and by the

[06:39] grace of God we will save our country

[06:42] and reelect president Trump together

[06:45] with vice president Vance this

[06:48] November and I want you to remember this

[06:51] in 1831 elexus the duck fil came to

[06:55] America to study our nation because the

[06:57] Europeans were fascinated they wanted to

[06:59] know How could a nation barely 50 years

[07:02] old already compete with them on

[07:04] virtually every level so he looked at

[07:07] our government he was duly impressed by

[07:09] our checks and balances and separation

[07:11] of powers and then he looked at our

[07:14] business environment he was duly

[07:15] impressed by how we encourage

[07:17] entrepreneurship and Innovation and he

[07:19] looked at our educational system and he

[07:22] was blown away by the fact that he could

[07:23] find a mountain man in the middle of the

[07:25] woods who could read who could tell him

[07:27] about the Declaration of Independence

[07:29] but the thing that impressed him the

[07:32] most was when he went to our churches

[07:35] and he heard those inspirational sermons

[07:38] from the pulpits that inspired a ragtag

[07:40] bunch of militia men to defeat the most

[07:43] powerful army in the world and gave the

[07:45] American people a moral

[07:50] basis

[07:54] and and he concluded his two volume set

[07:57] Democracy in America with these words he

[08:01] said America is great because America is

[08:06] good and if America ever ceases to be

[08:09] good she will cease to be great it is

[08:11] our job to make America good and let's

[08:14] do this by reelecting President Trump so

[08:17] we can make America great thank you very

[08:19] much