July 17th, 2025

On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, these self-proclaimed MAGA influencers had no role in President Trump’s election victories, the credit goes to the American people instead, and their divisive tactics could undermine Trump and lead to Republican losses in midterm elections. We’ve had weeks of these influencers who are angry with Trump over the ‘Epstein files’, yet Trump’s ratings have gone even higher since Epstein. We hoped the new media would be better, but some aspects are worse. Also, no other President could have achieved what Trump has. He supplied top U.S. military equipment to Ukraine with Europeans funding it, pressured NATO countries to raise defense spending from under 2% to 5% and negotiated U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. Trump’s tariffs are mostly absorbed by foreign producers, not U.S. consumers, contrary to expectations. The border is secure with zero illegals entering for the last two months. Trump is making the impossible, possible. Later, immigration laws, in place since 1952, mandate deporting all illegal immigrants—not just those committing heinous crimes—to uphold sovereignty and deter unlawful entry. Trump is following immigration law and the Democrats don’t like that. Afterward, the Dinah Project’s new report documents Hamas’s systematic sexual violence during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. It reveals patterns of gang rape, genital mutilation, and humiliation across sites like the Nova festival and kibbutzim, often targeting both living and dead victims. Driven by ideology, not collateral damage, the assaults hold all participants—especially commanders—responsible. In addition, a study by the Network Contagion Research Institute says that major U.S. and European news outlets, including MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, and Reuters, acted as uncritical megaphones for Hamas-linked narratives during the Gaza war by amplifying unverified claims from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry without disclosing its affiliations.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. Hello 877-381-3811. Welcome, welcome, and welcome again. What is an influencer? Where did this word come from? I can’t stand this for. It’s like cease fire. I can’t stay in that word, Mr. Producer. Victory is what I like. That’s a word I like victory. But an influencer. What does that mean? It’s progressives. They were progressives. No, you’re not. You’re Marxists. I’m an influencer. With whom? Even so, Mike Pence got in on the game and they need to release everything in the empty house. In Mark Davis. Ah, Mike Davis. He put a really great post and I will get to that in a little bit. We’re not going to spend all day on this, that’s for sure. But there’s this guy on CNN. He’s their data guy, Harry Enten. This guy. Makes poll numbers and data numbers exciting. Exciting. But he’s also a pro. He calls it as he sees it, even over at the Constipated News Network. And I want you to listen to what he has to say. Now, we’ve had two weeks, three weeks, this Epstein stuff, we had people pounding themselves on the check chests saying, I’ve told the president he asked to do this. I told the president he has to do that. He’s got to do this. He’s got to do that. The base is really angry with the president and really angry with the president. We’ve got to discuss these things. We’re really going to dig in. And Bondy needs to go. And that’s what needs to go. And the other ones that crack and that excuse me, slowdown. Oh, and the Jews, my side, they’re behind the whole thing. Okay, hold on. I’ve told you before. You, the American people, Mr. or Mrs. America. Are to be treated with respect. You deserve respect if you’re going to take the time to listen to some podcaster, whether they use subscriptions or whether they do hits or clicks or whatever they do. If you’re going to take the time to watch a television program or listen to a radio show, if you’re going to take the time out of your life where you can do a thousand other things, then you should be treated with respect, not manipulated, not talked down to, not fearmonger to. What is this influencer stuff? What does that mean, That they have this incredible influence on you, Mr. and Mrs. America? You don’t even know who 98% of these people are. Nor should you, because they don’t matter. So they’ve created this. There’s other world on the Internet, social media, this other world where they interview each other, where they post each other’s interviews. Or they think they’re God’s gift. Most of them have accomplished absolutely nothing. Most of them have done absolutely nothing for the country. But they know how to put together seminars and organize stuff. They know how to. Interview each other and get headlines on media and the Drudge Report and. And they work very closely now with the left wing media and the Democrat Party media that hate your guts. They’re literally exposing themselves. It’s not a very pretty picture either. I want you to listen to this gentleman, Harry Enten, and it’s CNN, and they have new poll numbers. And it’s not just them. All the polls. And you know what they’re showing, Mr. Producer? That since all this brouhaha that’s been created and the manipulation attempts against you aimed at you, targeting you. President Trump’s ratings. Among Republicans have gone even higher. They’re like at 90%. They’ve gone higher. Higher. It reminds me of when President Trump made the bold decision. To bomb those nuclear sites in Iran. Remember all that? Five weeks of attacks on him. Me, of course, but five weeks of attacks. 94% of MAGA Republicans supported what he did. 94%. You can’t do better than 94%. There’s no better than 94%. And now 90% of Republicans backed Donald Trump. And the media and the lefties and the Democrats. And now these influencers, as my wife calls them, and I think I’ll call them now these the influencers. Have no impact. As a matter of fact, the impact is the opposite of what they’re hoping for. I want you to listen to this. Very important. These are facts. This is information. Cut. 16. Go. I mean, look, I think this one surprised me a bit because of all these complaints online going after Trump and the Epstein Files, you might think his approval ratings were going down. Republicans, if anything, they’re going up. Republicans who approve of Trump. Look at our CNN poll, the prior one, 86%, the one out this week, 88% for Republicans. How about Quinnipiac? The prior poll, 87% approve of Republicans this week out, 90% with Republicans. If anything, Donald Trump’s approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started. He is at the apex or close there to in terms of his popularity with Republican voters. Epstein files complaints or not, you just prove that not everything online is real in real life. Now, let’s stop there. I’m amazed CNN is doing this. We ought to be doing this. Fox ought to be doing. All of us ought to be doing this. I told you before, this online stuff, the social media stuff is a cesspool. It’s a cesspool. And so bigots and racists and anti-Semites, they rise to the top. They don’t need money to have a following and to make millions. They don’t need much. They don’t need much. And listen to these people. Self-aggrandizing. They’re narcissists. They’re egomaniacs about all this influence they have. They have no influence. None. They have no influence. I told you yesterday, Donald Trump got elected president because Donald Trump got elected president. It had nothing to do with these self anointed self-identified influencers. They did it. No podcaster. I don’t care how big they are. You elected Donald Trump, you wanted Donald Trump. It didn’t matter what these Lilliputians or these reprobates had to say, and it doesn’t matter today what they have to say because, you know, he’s doing the things that need to be done to save this republic from the border. From the economy to the military. Deportation, supporting the cops, cutting taxes. You and I know that. But for Donald Trump, this country would be dying. Can you imagine? And we’re going to let some punk ass with a microphone and a video tell us what to think. Whatever happens to the Epstein matter happens to the Epstein matter. It’s not going to determine whether we are a free country. Whether the economy is robust. Whether we can deport criminals. Nothing. Zero. Zero. Go ahead, Mr. Producer. Amazing. Twitter reality. Is there any reason that you can find it? This how you understand what he’s saying? Because he’s correct. Social media is not reality. It’s not. Now it can be a good livelihood, a good career for these influencers. I got it. They can get very wealthy off it. I got it. But what did I explain to you last week and the week before? They have to get increasingly radical, increasingly extreme. In order to draw attention to themselves. They’ve got to draw attention. They’ve got to have eyes and hits and clicks and subscribers. They’ve got to draw attention to themselves any way they possibly can. They monitor it not only on a daily basis, on an hourly basis. And so they’re not focused on 330 million Americans. They’re focused on maybe 1 million Americans, maybe 5 billion Americans, whatever it is. And then you have these websites like Mediocre, Right, or the Sludge Report. They’re not focused on 330 million Americans either. They just need enough hits and interviews and so forth and so on to make their business profitable. That’s it. There’s a whole underworld going on here. They call it new media. We hope that new media would be better, but big aspects of new media are even worse. They’re even worse. They have ridden Donald Trump. Ridden Donald Trump. They’ve held on to his suit jacket so they can be noticed. So they can be noticed. They’re trying to exploit him. They claim that they’re responsible for his victory and that he is answerable to them, Meaning you and I are answerable to them. No, we’re not. Nowadays, punk says, no, we’re not responsible to them. We don’t answer to them. I want to play this from the top, then we’re going to move on. But this is very, very important. Start at the top. Cut 16, please go. I mean, look, I think this one surprised me a bit because of all of these complaints online going after Trump and the Epstein Files, you might think his approval ratings were going down. Republicans, if anything, they’re going up. Republicans who approve of Trump. Look at our CNN poll, the prior one, 86%, the one out this week, 88% were Republicans. How about Quinnipiac? The prior poll, 87% approval of Republicans. This week out, 90% were Republican. Keep in mind, these are not friendly pollsters, CNN equipment. They’re not. They’re not friendly to Trump or Republicans. Go ahead. Approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started. He is at the apex or close there to in terms of his popularity with Republican voters. Epstein files complaints or not. You just prove that not everything online is real in real life who have amazing Twitter reality. Is there any reason that you can find that this hasn’t taken hold and hurt him? Yeah. I mean, Onex, all you hear about is the Epstein files. But how about out in the real public? Republicans have said the top issue was Epstein case. The answer is one one and not 1%. One responded, This is a great little finding that Ariel Edwards Levy, who of course, is part of our polling unit, found just one single report. You understand that with all the people they interviewed for the polling, one person said this was the top of the list, One, probably one of these D influencers. Go ahead. Problem is, in fact, the Epstein case. Not much of a surprise that therefore, Donald Trump’s approval rating has not suffered with Republicans because of the Epstein case. Because the bottom line is most Americans say it’s not high up on their priority list and this is how we lose a midterm election if we don’t focus on the Trump victories. If we lose the midterm elections, I’m going to blame these influencers because they’re undermining us right now. Trump is at the apex. At the apex of his presidency. Mike Davis, a good man, a lawyer. You’ve seen him on TV. Smart guy says here’s the problem with the Epstein mess. The FBI doesn’t have the evidence. Many thought it did. There are no tapes with powerful men raping kids. There is no list. Epstein’s Rolodex is already public, by the way. This is him. The fire was largely on releasable for many reasons. Number one, grand jury materials. Number two, court records under seal. Number three, child pornography, which cannot be made public number for the protection of victims and their names. Number five, unsubstantiated, even double or triple hearsay, bogus claims like we saw during the Kavanaugh proceedings, which would permanently destroy the reputation of innocent people if released. Does anyone really believe Bondy and Patel and Bongino would cover up for the likes of Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? If they had that evidence? The Trump Justice Department wanted to be fully transparent, but it can’t for the reasons above. This is a case of no good deed goes unpunished. This is no doubt unsatisfying to many, but that’s the hard truth. And Mike Davis is right. That’s the hard truth. They can go back and listen to the influencers. And the other hard truth is that this effort to claim that our intelligence services. The CIA. Who’s now led by a great patriot. And the the Israeli intelligence Mossad. And anything to do with Epstein is such a bald faced lie. And the basis they use it on, as I’ve told you over and over again, is The Daily Beast, a reporter who stated that I was told by somebody who was told who said they told that that that the U.S. attorney told them that Epstein had intelligence connections. That’s double hearsay. And I don’t remember the word Mossad even coming up. These people are frauds, America. They’re con men. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Yeah. And it was Trump who ordered a review of all this. That’s what Davis means by no good deed goes unanswered. He could have blown it off altogether. Three attorneys general, two Republicans, one Democrat. They said Epstein committed suicide. Why would they lie about that? And by the way, I can’t think of a better outcome. Mr. Produce, I don’t mean to be harsh, but given what this man was up to. Given what this man was up to and his girlfriend who was involved in it. She’s doing 20 years in prison. So what is a special prosecutor going to do? These people don’t really know what they’re asking for. They don’t want a special prosecutor. A special prosecutor prosecute. One guy’s dead. The woman’s in prison is a five year statute of limitations for most of this stuff. What are they going to prosecute exactly? What do they mean, an independent investigation? Because we can’t trust Pam Bondi, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino. Is that what they’re saying?

Segment 3
Let me ask you folks a question. You got this Mark Halperin out there now saying I understand there’s some stuff here that he upset Donald Trump. Well, let me just ask you question. They tried to take out Donald Trump. They did not, Mr. Producer. They threw everything in the kitchen, sink it in civil suits, criminal suits, five different jurisdictions. Everything they could think of. They did more than that. They smeared him. They lied about him. Don’t you think if the Biden Justice Department had something on Donald Trump as to produce, they would have released it? I mean, America, this is just basic common sense. Basic common sense. You just have all these people who now have access given the new technologies and communication and broadcasting and platforms and so forth. They could be as stupid as hell. They can be negative IQ territory. They could be frauds. I mean, we have the fraud room, calls it the war room, but we know what that’s all about. They can be guys that have paid for prostitutes, many of them. We know about that guy. You’d be a guy that was a libertarian, a liberal, a neocon, and a conservative, and now a nutjob. We know who that is. Somebody who couldn’t hold a job had many. Previous jobs and now they wind up with a subscription service. Well, there’s several of them. And I can go on and on and on. Complete whack jobs. But their influencers. Influencers. Well, they’re not influencing you. Now, it may well be there’s a lot of people who live on social media in the Internet, but there’s a hell of a lot of people who dabble in it, but they don’t live there. I’m one of them. I don’t live there. There is a radio in every single vehicle on the road. Doesn’t mean you listen to radio. Maybe. Listen up. iPods. Okay. But there is a connection in every single newer vehicle and not that new but newer vehicle. We can plug in your handheld phone, you know, your Android or your iPhone or whatever we use. And listen. Or you can stream it and listen. This show is everywhere. Everywhere. It’s on satellite. It’s on AM and F.M.. It’s on live streaming on a computer, a laptop, what have you. It’s on YouTube. It’s on the Mark Levin app, the iHeartRadio App. There are other platforms that only we know what the hell they are. We are everywhere. Everywhere. In fact, the audience is so huge, we can’t even do an accurate count of it. Nielsen can’t do an accurate count of it. They can’t accurately count it. That’s how big it is. That’s how ubiquitous this audience is. It’s impossible to keep track of it. It’s impossible to really know, except we know because of the market system. Because we have fantastic, fantastic radio stations with a fantastic satellite partner. On the Internet. We’re all over the place. All over the place. We don’t just do one thing. We don’t just do a podcast. We don’t just do a radio show. We don’t just do a TV show. We use all the platforms. All of them. And do I come behind this microphone? I’m an influencer. That the dumbest damn thing you’ve ever heard? People who you don’t even really know they’re influencers because they influence each other. They have a small, relatively small Gabba. Tell you something else. When they. Let’s see how many followers you have to lie. Yeah. 20 million. 16 million. What is a follower? Let’s take Twitter as an example. We’ve gone on Twitter maybe is say, I follow this guy, maybe don’t last name ever again, but forever more. Even when you’re dead and gone, you’re Canada as a follower. For that podcaster. Right, Mr. Producer? There’s no way to clean up that list. So whatever the number is, it’s smaller. It’s smaller. If I wanted to be. A podcaster and only a podcaster. Can you imagine the number of quote unquote, followers this program would have? But that’s not what I want to do. We have a bigger reach. Because we’ve decided that we want to use all the platforms. We are ubiquitous. Whereas others decide they’re only going to be a podcaster or a subscription service or whatever the hell they are. Not me. I want to get the word out all over the place. We have a country to save, a country to promote. All right, enough of this for now. This weekend. We’re going to have two great shows on Fox. I’m telling you this for a reason. As you know, it’s 8 p.m. Eastern Time. It’s the toughest time on the weekends. We’re up against sports, we’re up against specials. We’re up against some of the highest rated programming on network TV. But we don’t care. We do the very best we can and we do very well. And so. On Saturday, 8 p.m. Eastern, we have Elise Stefanik and we have Dan Huffman. And there are two fantastic guests. Hoffman was the CIA station chief in Moscow. You’ve seen him on Fox before, but you haven’t seen me question him before. I’ve never spoken to him in my life. And Elise Stefanik. Look, there are people who do interviews and people who do interviews. I do a different type of interview. Number one, I try to ask a question that I think is important, not just one that’s superficial. And then I actually let the guest finish and provide an answer. This is different. This is a long form interview program. This is what I grew up enjoying, whether it was Milton Friedman or Bill Buckley and so forth and so on. I’ve guests on so we can learn from them and listen to them. Right. That’s why your host, if guests want to listen to them. And then Sunday, 8 p.m. Eastern, we had the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. And I want to thank Mike Johnson because. It a very busy schedule, but he moved his events around in order to come on. And. And same with Jack Keane. General Keane, I want to talk about the president’s brilliant stroke in dealing with Russia and Neda. I met folks. Seriously, do you understand how smart this guy is? Do you understand what he’s doing for the country? I am serious about this. He’s doing things you’d never even imagined before. He’s getting American military equipment, the best in the world, to Ukraine. And the Europeans are paying for. He’s gotten them to do something no president’s been able to get them to do to increase the percentage that they contribute to their own defense and rs2 to 5%. They weren’t even doing 2%, some of these countries. He’s also managed to negotiate a deal with Ukraine where we have access to these rare earth minerals. Now, think about all this. Is there another person who could be president of the United States that would have done any of that? No, there is not. There’s not. There’s a study out today that proved all of us wrong except him. That in fact, tariffs. For the most part, are not being paid by consumers, you and me. They are, in fact, being eaten by most of the producers overseas. That’s what the study said. Did you see that Mr. Pitt is here? You don’t hear about it. You don’t hear about it. So if there’s any price increase going on, for the most part, it’s not due to the tariffs. Because these other countries and their businesses are eating them. Now that is unexpected to people like me, but not to Trump. Okay. Is there another president that would be doing what he’s doing? Here’s the other thing. Reagan defeated the Soviet Union. Defeated the Soviet Union. Economically. And then it fell militarily. Donald Trump has taken that that model and it’s applied it across the world. Not to defeat countries, but to force them to invest in America. And yes, to defeat enemy countries. Yes. Donald Trump saw an America. That was losing. Its status as a superpower. We had nuclear weapons, but our industrial heartland. We were losing our industries. We were losing our skilled labor force. And he said, I got to fix this. I get to fix this or we’re going to become a paper tiger economically here. The entire establishment opposed him. The entire establishment opposed him. Both parties. Now you have Langone, the billionaire from Home Depot, a rhino. He says this guy has the potential of being one of the greatest presidents. I’m a I’m a believer now because he’s seen what he’s done. He’s seen what he has done. He has secured the border. Do you understand? Now, one illegal alien came into the country last month and one came into the country the month before. At least according to the authorities who monitor these. Not one. Not one. Two months in a row. Did you ever imagine that? Ever. Of course not. Neither did I. Not one. That’s stunning. He just gets a bill passed. That triples the size of ice, that triples the size of the Border Patrol, that gets them the technology and the equipment they need even before they get any of that. Not one. I think he’s making the impossible possible and people are getting. Used to it. So it doesn’t seem like a great feat. But these are great accomplishments. Great accomplishments. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
You know, America, Mr.. Mrs.. America talking to you. And I told all the others. You, Mr.. Mrs.. America. Put a big smile on your face. Get the right man in the Oval Office at the right time. He’s doing the right things. You did this. You elected him. You’re the real influences. You, we the people. We the people. And you did the right thing. Against all odds. I am blessed, man. Let me look. Yes, a man. To be behind this microphone and to have you in this audience who think enough of me to listen to this program. And I think enough of you to treat you with respect. They call this the nation’s national town hall meeting. We do this every evening. Five days a week. This is the nation’s. Town hall meeting right here. And we have trust in each other. We respect each other. We’re on the same sheet of music. Same sheet of music. Don’t forget, I would say the three greatest books I’ve ever written. I’ve written 11 of them. Putting. Rescuing Sprite aside. Ten of them. Liberty and tyranny, which helped launch the Tea Party movement. American Marxism. In my latest book on power. My book on power comes out in 11 days. It will be launched on Hannity’s Friday show. It will be further launched on my weekend show and will be in New York. Doing several shows on Fox. I’ll come back to base. And I’ll be doing scores of interviews on radio. In other platforms. Many of our friends are wonderful affiliates, syndicated programs and so forth and so on. I want you to get your foot in the door first. I want you to get your copy of this book. So the day it comes out, it winds up on your doorstep. You go to Amazon.com, you’ll pay less than $24. Yeah, less than $24 for this book is loaded. Loaded with I think is compelling. Compelling information, a different way to think about liberty and rights. Conversely, tyranny and the denial of rights. The word power. It’s more than a word. It’s more than a term. It’s a fact. And what you’re going to find when you read this book is a different way to look at things. There are different ways to look at freedom in unalienable rights. Different ways to look at consensual representative government. Different ways to look at Marxism and Islamism and other forms of autocracy. It will really sharpen the way that you look at the world. And I think it’s crucially important to counter so much of what’s going on on the dark side of the political spectrum. So you can go to Amazon.com and grab your copy right now and encourage you to do that. And we’ll be right back.