Ashley St. Clair Drops Bombshells About MAGA, Elon Musk & Don Lemon's Case | Part 1

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How did Ashley St. Clair describe leaving the MAGA movement and why was it difficult?

Ashley St. Clair 0:00
After that interview you did with him and that fell apart, they then needed to smear Don Lemon. He was reaching out to me and other influencers and providing us confidential information about your contract negotiations.
Don Lemon 0:13
Are you serious?
Ashley St. Clair 0:14
I would hand up be on the stand for you.
Don Lemon 0:18
I am shocked. I probably shouldn't be.
Ashley St. Clair 0:21
You cannot just punch the most powerful people in the world in the face and then wonder why they're upset.
Don Lemon 0:28
Do you fear for your life?
Ashley St. Clair 0:29
Yes.
Don Lemon 0:30
That's a fucking cult.
Ashley St. Clair 0:31
You can't just change your mind once you're in that deep. You have to blow up your whole life.
Unknown 0:36
Elon Musk, people are going to go, what were you doing? Like, what were you thinking?
Ashley St. Clair 0:43
He seems rather confident that he had some sort of impact in the election.
Don Lemon 0:50
You've really opened my eyes to a lot.
Ashley St. Clair 0:53
And if I'm lying, please sue me because I would love discovery.
Don Lemon 0:57
Ashley Sinclair, boy, what a turn this is.
Ashley St. Clair 1:01
Is this our last episode before one of us ends up in jail?
Don Lemon 1:07
Why, thank you. So I have to ask you, you know, I have to ask you some tough questions.
Ashley St. Clair 1:11
Of course.
Don Lemon 1:12
Why should we believe you? Because you were a MAGA influencer.
Ashley St. Clair 1:16
You don't have to. You don't have to believe me. You can, I think trust is something that you build. And over time, I hope that people come to see that what I'm doing is genuine and that MAGA has called me many things and a liar is not one of them. So I'm not asking for anyone to believe or forgive me right away. I think that takes time.
Don Lemon 1:41
Yeah. I'm going to play some clips of you, things that you said before you became, right? Okay. Let's listen.
Unknown 1:48
Ashley St. Clair joins me now. Is this a trend among young women to celebrate not having a family?
Ashley St. Clair 1:55
It is. It's the Chelsea Handler culture of it all, where they just want to pursue pleasure and drinking all night, going to Beyonce concerts. The reality is you could send your son to school and come back with a daughter now.
Unknown 2:07
I feel like these men who then transition and start playing in women's sports are rather pathetic. And if they can make us believe that there is no gender, men can be women, men can give birth, men can have uteruses. What else won't we believe? It's all part of an inherent war on truth. They are showing porn in children's schools. This is actually what's happening. They are doing these perverted things.
Ashley St. Clair 2:28
He doesn't quite understand the larger picture and, you know, the Marxist roots of DEI and what's happening here and the deliberate exclusion, the reverse racism that's happening with DEI.
Don Lemon 2:42
When you watch that, how do you feel?
Ashley St. Clair 2:44
I there's a few feelings. Like, first of all, it's disgust and remorse and also like a sense of dissociation. Like, I feel like it's not me, even though I know it's me. But I feel remorse that that's out there for my kids to see that they're going to see that I am. said things that were so harmful that I didn't consider how it would be perceived by other people who were impacted by those things, that I was speaking on things that I had no business speaking on.
Don Lemon 3:13
Why'd you do it though?
Ashley St. Clair 3:15
I think that's such a multifaceted question. Why did I get involved in this at 18? I think I was incredibly broken. I think hurt people hurt people. I think I really wanted some sense of belonging, and that's where I found myself at that age was with MAGA. There was a lot of reasons I did it, and then once you get to a certain point, Where you're in deep, and even if you want to change your mind, you can't just change your mind once you're in that deep. You have to blow up your whole life because it's where your finances are, your social community. It's very much a cult in the way that the entire architecture of it, you are enwrapped in this. And they don't let you leave gracefully. They don't let you leave kindly.
Unknown 4:01
This is a cult.
Ashley St. Clair 4:02
Yeah. They're not kind people. I always say, you know, there's so many people who are like, why didn't you leave sooner? Well, they're simultaneously saying that these people are violent tyrants who shoot people in the streets and arrest their enemies. That's exactly part of the reason why I didn't leave sooner. There's this aspect of fear that overtakes you because they are scary individuals.

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