Joel Pollak
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2,500 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Joel Pollak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He said, look, half of them are standing.
The other ones aren't.
But anyway, so I think that was a way of making this speech different and better and more effective than the other ones was basically framing it as a victory speech.
I'm not trying to make the case for you that I'm better or that I'm succeeding and that you should vote for my party in November.
The case I'm making is we've all already won.
And that was, I think, what made it very effective.
And that's why people are upbeat about it today if they like the president and why Democrats are trying to find a better answer.
for it.
And they may just try to forget about it and move on because they think they have the upper hand as the opposition party in the midterm year.
But it was a very effective speech.
You know, the remark about changing the law to give himself the Medal of Honor, it may have had to do with the fact that the gentleman who won the Medal of Honor right before he said that, whose name escapes me right now, I can look it up quickly, the centenarian who had flown in the Korean War, his name is... I have it on the other computer, sorry...
He is from San Diego or the San Diego suburbs.
His name is Royce Williams.
And Royce Williams had flown that mission, but it was a secret mission.
And the reason that it was secret, Trump kind of alluded to the fact that it was secret, was that we did not want to acknowledge
that the Soviet Union had actually been in combat with our troops because it would have had massive implications for the Cold War when both countries at that point had nuclear weapons.
And so the rule for the Congressional Medal of Honor is you have to be
um nominated for it within three years of the event that causes you to win the medal and the only exceptions that are allowed is if there's an act of congress that actually says okay this individual should get it that's why it's the congressional medal of honor congress actually has the final say and so they did actually pass an amendment in the national defense authorization act that allowed royce williams to to receive a medal of honor so that might have been what trump was doing but how did they even get to that point it was because a bunch of his neighbors
in Encinitas in San Diego, decided, you know what, this is our neighbor.
He's never talked about this, but he's kind of a legend.
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