Rodney Glassman, Arizona Attorney General candidate, joins Robert Kiyosaki
to discuss law and elections, domestically and internationally.
Give us some insight into your background and why you want to be Attorney
General of Arizona?
“I am an Air Force prosecutor; I've prosecuted drug dealers and financial
crimes and protected victims of sexual assault. I'm now a major serving in
the United States Air Force JAG Corp, a reservist, but assigned on the
active-duty side. So, I work alongside the active-duty members and run the
legal offices there. But I'll tell you, Robert, I am also a private
attorney as you know.
So, in addition to being an Air Force prosecutor and now running
active-duty legal offices as a major in the JAG Corp reserve, also a
private attorney in town at law firm, Beus Gilbert McGroder.
I practice business law and high stakes litigation. So, I work for
companies like U-Haul, Mobile Mini, NASCAR, and also work for business
leaders suing for contract fraud. And frankly, I'm running for Attorney
General because I know the job of the Attorney General is to protect you
and your family. And frankly, my family from the government.
And this is an international show. So, I know probably when most people
here protect you from the government, the first thing we all think of is
the federal government, because no matter where you're coming from, whether
you flew through the United States and you were required to wear a mask on
the plane or if you just took your family to Disneyland or Disney world,
and you happened to take a bus to get there in the park, you had to wear a
mask that was all courtesy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and federal
overreach. But additionally, in Arizona and across the country, the number
one issue that we're facing right now is illegal immigration. The laws in
the United States were the same today as they were when my wife and I
graduated from law school in the late 2000s. If you came here illegally,
you're to be arrested, you're to be incarcerated and you're to be barred.
But we now live in a country where if you come here illegally Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris rent you hotel rooms in Scottsdale.”
Most Attorney Generals come from the Government service side of law,
correct?
“We live in a state right now where, where the Attorney General has never
had a career in the private sector. And as you know, I'm running to be the
Republican nominee for Attorney General, my website's rodneyglassman.com.
And we're in a six-way Republican primary, where I'm the only one who wrote
a check to Donald Trump. I'm the only one that could tell you the name of
my last three paying law clients. And if you go to a doctor or a lawyer,
you ask, who else have you done work for? And that's the problem. You have
to have reasonable expectations of people based on their history.”
Here in Arizona, we have illegal immigrants loading into vans and being
driven right past the police. Thoughts?
“We need to build the wall. We need to secure the border. I was just down
with the sheriff of Cochise County and Sierra Vista so Southern Arizona
and it's a catastrophe. We're under an invasion as a country and you go
down and you visit the border and first you see Barack Obama's wall,
because he built some wall. And then right next to it, 10 feet higher, you
see President Trump's wall. But then you see what's happened because of Joe
Biden's executive order. You see materials that were purchased with our tax
dollars for more wall that aren't allowed to be installed. You see a dirt
road that our border patrol has to drive down with a quarter mile of
decomposed granite next to the dirt road that Joe Biden won't let the
contractors spread to keep our guys safe. And then you see stadium lighting
all along the wall that Joe Biden won't let them plug in to keep our border
patrol safe, to keep these people from coming in our country illegally.”
This is what you mean when you say that your job is to protect us from our
government?
“It's from the federal government, but here in Arizona and across the
country, it's also about protecting citizens from the state. We live in a
state where, as you know, it was the government that shut down the
restaurants. It was the government that shut down the gyms. It was the
government that shut down the churches. And the only person that could have
said no, was the elected Attorney General.
And what's interesting, Robert and most people don't realize this, the
Attorney General provides all the legal services for every state agency.
So, whether it's the Department of Revenue or the Department of Gaming or
the real estate commissioner, or the Department of Health Services with all
their mandates or, if you have a family, the Department of Education, none
of those state agencies have their own attorneys. And so, who you elect is
the person in charge of all those at will employees. And you saw in
Virginia recently, the Attorney General there got elected and immediately
fired the entire civil rights division because they were woke, going left.
And that's why you get to hire the attorney you want as your Attorney
General.”
You’ve said, ‘the police are under attack’. Tell us what you mean.
“Well, two things are happening. In Arizona and across the country there's
a term called qualified immunity. It's a legal precedent and a legal
precedent means that one judge can change their mind and it goes away. It's
not law. And that qualified immunity is critical because when a police
officer has to make split second decisions to protect our families,
qualified immunity protects them. So as long as they're following the rules
of their department, they can't be sued civilly. In other words, they can
make split second decisions about protecting our homes without worrying
about being sued for theirs. And there are cities across the state and
across the country, Colorado's already done this, New Mexico's already done
this where they're trying to get rid of qualified immunity because they
don't want people signing up to be police officers. They don't want to keep
our community safe. I'm advocating for the codification meaning of law, to
make qualified immunity law in Arizona, to protect our police officers. And
that's why in a six way, Republican primary, every law enforcement
association in the state has endorsed my candidacy because they want an
Attorney General to protect them from the government too.”
What is Title 42?
“It’s an Executive order. It keeps people from coming in illegally. And
Biden, you have to remember the Democratic game plan, and you can look at
New York city, they've shown us their cards. They want people to come here
illegally so that they can vote. They're already letting people that are
illegal vote in New York. So, we know what the game plan is.
You don't need citizenship anymore. And you spend a lot of time traveling I
know. When you go to the airport and you try to go through TSA, when you
used to have to wear the mask, you show them your ID, and then they make
you pull down the mask. And you're very well-known so maybe they only
harass you three times instead of the normal six like they do the rest of
us. But it's up, it's down. It's up, it's down. It's up. If you come to the
United States illegally under Joe Biden, you get arrested briefly. You get
a ticket, not an ID, nothing with your picture on it, you get a ticket. And
an illegal person in the United States because of Joe Biden can take that
illegal ticket to the same airport that's harassing you, the same TSA
person that's making you go up and down with your mask and all they do is
show them that piece of paper and they let them get on a plane. And they
let them fly out of Phoenix or wherever they are and fly to New York so
they can vote or fly to Seattle so they can protest. That is what's going
on right now.”
So, the game plan is to stack the deck with human beings?
“That is exactly the Democratic game plan. And I'm not going out on a
ledger. You already see them doing it in New York. They're letting them
vote. This is what they want. They want as many illegals here as possible,
but the challenges and the problems are, and you mentioned the wall, we
know, and you know what happens at the border doesn't stop at the border.”
Was the national election and even the Arizona election honest and fair in
your opinion?
We saw the only people that day after day and hour after hour kept saying,
this is the cleanest fairest election in the history of our country were
who the liberal Democrat media. And my wife has taught me, I've been
married 12 years now, no matter how many times I say the same thing over
and over and over again, it doesn't make it true. And that's the joke of
this last election. You had legislators across the country and judges
across the country, liberal judges relaxing the voting rules. Here in
Arizona, we had two valid forms of ID to register to vote, no one was
enforcing it. Ballot harvesting people collecting from strangers and
retirement communities and dumping them into boxes, dead people voting all
of this and the person whose job it is to enforce the law, the Attorney
General was asleep at the wheel here in Arizona. Other places, they were
trying to double our state income taxes.
The teacher’s union was dumping 25 million of out-of-state funding. And my
record is clear of the six Republicans that are running for Attorney
General, I'm the only one that supported President Trump that wrote him a
check that did not want Joe Biden in the White House. And so, we need
someone who who's going to push back on all these things, because they're
just going to keep trying to do it again and again, and now they're reaping
the benefits of what they did because they're controlling the government.
Here in Arizona, they wanted to double the income taxes, correct?
“Out-of-state Teachers Union spent 25 million, it went to the Arizona
Supreme court. One of my opponents was on the Supreme court at the time.
And believe it or not, what they said was we will wait to determine if this
is constitutional only if the voters pass it. And because they left it on
there, the Teachers Union spent $25 million at a Washington state. 50,000
teachers were going door to door. And if you believe the numbers and I'll
say it again, because I know you and I probably don't. If you believe the
numbers, President Trump in Arizona still only might have fell short by
10,500 votes, which in politics is a 50/250 vote swing. And $25 million
moves 5,000 votes. So, because of them, many of the things that happened in
Arizona happened, the only person that could have done something about it,
is the Attorney General, but were lucky Robert, because Governor Ducey and
the legislature did just pass a flat tax here in Arizona, it's now the new
law. That same teacher's union collected signatures to try to refer that to
the ballot for 2022 is the wedge issue. But the good news is one of the
guys I'm running against, that retired judge, he quit the court to now run
for Attorney General to get a $90,000 year law job, because he is never had
one before. But what's exciting about that is because he's gone, the new
court, guess what they did? They proactively tossed it off the ballot. So,
we do not have to worry about it in 2022.”
What are your thoughts on the Supreme Court ‘leak’ regarding Roe V. Wade?
“Well, what I know is the Democrats are getting the Supreme Court confused
with the court of public opinion. I believe it was an intentional Democrat
leak to put pressure on the court to change their draft decision, to
restore rights back to the states. That's what overturning Roe V. Wade
does. It restores the rights where they belong back to the individual
states. Roe V. Wade, just like we were talking earlier about qualified
immunity. Roe V. Wade was never law, just like qualified immunity is on, it
was a legal president. A bunch of judges got together and decided that they
were going to act like legislators and passed a ruling. And what this new
Trump appointed, and I'll say it again because I like saying it, Trump
appointed Supreme court.
The Trump appointed Supreme court, what they say in their draft opinion and
what we're hoping they're going to say in their final opinion is, no. That
the Supreme court does not legislate. This goes back to the states and the
individual states who can determine individually how they're going to
protect the lives of both the born and unborn citizens of their states
because this is not something that the Supreme court should have done.”
What did Roe V. Wade do?
“The Roe V. Wade tried to create law around the issue of abortion and take
that right away from the states to pass their own laws. We have a rich
tradition in Arizona of being pro life. In fact, in 1873, the Territorial
Legislature of Arizona passed an outright prohibition on abortion. It was
codified in 1901, that's the law of the land. Recently, our Arizona state
legislature just a few weeks ago, passed a law signed by the governor that
prohibits abortion except in cases of medical emergency after 15 weeks,
because it's the state who's supposed to pass those kinds of laws. Each
state's supposed to pass those kinds of laws.
The law depending on the state, will be determined by each legislature. And
what the overturning of Roe V Wade will do is it will restore making
decisions about those rights to the states. The danger of activist courts
like you saw when they didn't throw 2008 off the ballot, the doubling of
our income taxes here, or when you saw a former Supreme court trying to
pass laws under the guise of legal precedent like Roe V. Wade is once
again, you have the wrong branch creeping at the judiciary branch, creeping
in and trying to act like legislators. These people that are appointed by
governor, by the president, whoever it is, these appointed officials not
hired, not accountable to you, the voter and the taxpayer, these judges
trying to pass laws through their robes. And that's very dangerous. It's
very dangerous for the future of our country.”
You can read more from Rodney Glassman at rodneyglassman.com.