The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report.
In a few moments, I will speak with Kari Lake, the governor of Arizona. Well, that’s what she should be. But she didn’t get in office. Kari Lake has a new book out called Unafraid, Unafraid. And we’ll talk with her in a few moments. And a whole lot more.
But today I want to tell you and I want to spend some serious time on this. Speaking about writing, the power of the written word, and how important it is, because that’s what you need to know. What you need to know. The WYNK, today’s WYNK is on that topic. By the way. And make sure you go and visit proamericareport.com, proamericareport.com sign up there for the, they’ll kick you through. Sign up for the daily e-mail. There’ll be a pop up you can sign right up every morning. 8:00 AM East Coast time, 5:00 AM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday you will get an e-mail in your inbox. It’s the WYNK, what you need to know. It’s a few key links, a few key topics. What’s important to check out, and then a few of my thoughts just a couple of sentences and what you need to know. People love it. Sign up for the WYNK there, because what you need to know, it’s kind of my, it’s kind of my emblem. It’s kind of my motto. It’s kind of whatever you call it. My my theme, what you need to know, I’ll let you know.
Today’s WYNK here on the program is about writing, and here’s why. There you, I. Told you that. We, we I went up a few weeks ago to New Jersey and I was part of an effort to help raise support for the Patriot Freedom Project. Patriot Freedom Project is a nonprofit. That helps the families of the January 6 defendants, as well as the defendants. It helps the defendants with some legal fees, more than some, actually quite a bit, more than $1,000,000 worth to help all these different lawyers and then helps the families. And so we were up in New Jersey at the Trump National Golf Course, which is in Bedminster, NJ, and we are there. The event was a great success, and then President Trump came and it became this raucous celebration. He did a wonderful job of of spending time with the children, the kids, the sons and daughters of the of the January 6th defendants. It was just extraordinary to watch. It was a great event.
But in the midst of the event I was the MC. I said to Mr. Trump, I said, sir, over there is John Schlafly, about 30 feet away and he said, Ohh, is he really? I I’d like to, let me talk to him. And so I pointed and he walked over and the two of them had this exchange, there’s lots of photos of it. But the exchange typical John Schlafly. John was talking about. Whatever they did, I don’t even know for sure. And then John took out of his pocket a copy of the Phyllis Schlafly Report. Now, Phyllis Schlafly, the Phyllis Schlafly Report has been printed. Published by Phyllis Schlafly or her sons since 1967, think of that every every month, every month, and Phyllis did it for decades and decades until she passed away in 2016, she wrote about Donald Trump over 60 times. It’s compiled in a book of hers, Phyllis Schlafly Speaks, volume on Donald Trump and and then afterwards, after she passed away in September of 2016, Donald Trump came to her funeral. John and Andy Schlafly continued the column, excuse me. They continued the column, but also the Phyllis Schlafly Report and it the the the tag line on the Phyllis Schlafly Report is more facts in fewer words. Since 1967, Phyllis was a very concise writer and a very successful writer, and she called herself a writer. She tells that she told the famous she told the story famously about the time that she was 12 or 13 Years old and she had a teacher who said write a paragraph every night. And the next day you had to bring it into class and she became a writer. Phyllis never stopped writing. She was writing a column when she died. She died on a Monday column, the one of, her last column. Her last column came out on Tuesday. We had finished a book months before that came out on Tuesday after she died also. So anyway, she was a writer, but here’s what I. Want to tell you.
When she died, John and Andy Schlafly could have let. The column and the monthly Phyllis Schlafly Report fade away, and they didn’t. They still write it today, and here’s why it’s so important. When you hand someone a a newsletter, when you hand them a column, when you hand them a letter of your written words, the words you have written down are are, are your chance to frame what you’re talking about. To give them something to as a reference point, not just a conversation. And now I know there are thousands and thousands of websites where you can publish stuff. You can start your own. You can, you know, create your own website. You can create your own Twitter feed whatever you want. And,
But writing it down is so important, and frankly, creating a letter in this case a newsletter is pretty powerful. And here’s where it gets so interesting.
John handed to. Now let me pause about 6 or 8 weeks ago, when I was in Florida at Mar-a-lago and I saw Mr. Trump, he said, hey, you know, those Schlafly boys wrote a column last week on election interference. I saw that it was really good and I said, Oh yeah, they they’ve been writing on that topic quite a bit about how Georgia’s prosecutor in that county, Fulton County. Is abusing the process abusing the system. So we had this exchange. He was reading their column. Their column publishes at townhall.com and also was archived at PhyllisSchlafly.com. You could see it there, but my point was he had seen their writings, their columns.
Now flash forward to this meeting just a week or two ago in New Jersey. Different Trump National Golf Club or different Trump club. And in this case, Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster and John hands Mr. Trump, the Phyllis Schlafly Report from April 2017. It wasn’t the it wasn’t the, you know, the newest to Phyllis Schlafly report. There was one for June. There is one we’re working on for July. It was 2017 April and it was the title is 100 Reasons to Celebrate the First 100 Days and it was a a it was a description as it just sounds a listing of all the kinds that kinds of the ways that Donald Trump was able to, in his first hundred days to change things and to do to succeed. 100 reasons to celebrate. It was the reasons that the Andy and John came up with in the in the Phyllis Schlafly Report. John Schlafly is the publisher of the Phyllis Schlafly Report, I should say. But Andy is one of the writers. They work together on it. And so executive orders, all these kinds of things.
Anyway, where my point where it gets interesting the, the, the Phyllis Schlafly Report, itself is interesting to read April of of 2017, you can go look it up on our website, PhyllisSchlafly.com. But what here’s where it gets really interesting. John hands this newsletter the Phyllis Schlafly Report to Mr. Trump. He opens it up and read it. They’re talking about it and then he says, Mr. Trump, can I keep this and he takes it and puts it in his pocket. And you say, well, again, if you’re a public figure, head of an organization like I am, more more impressively or more dynamically, a candidate like Trump or former president or a governor or a congressman or anybody, you know, at that event. Cynthia Hughes, the founder of the Patriot Freedom Project, was there. People come up, came up to her and gave her a card, gave her this, gave her, people give you stuff all the time. And if you’re a guy wearing a suit coat, you put it in your suit coat pocket. If you can’t, you know, give It to one of your colleagues who might need it. If you in the case of Donald Trump, he has a guy with him all the time and a lot of times you’ll see him hand him something. He put that right in his pocket.
Four days after that meeting, he posted it on his Truth Social feed. Donald Trump did.
Now, why? Well, you have to think that he went back and looked at it, right? He didn’t just post it without looking at it. He looked at it, he liked it. He probably thought, look at these hundred reasons. It’s a good reminder. He’s running for president again. Of what you can do. And he knew President Trump did, that it would get a ton of attention to John and Andy Schlafly and myself and our work.
All because of the written word, all because John, Andy Schlafly and myself take the time to create this letter. This document, this report.
My encouragement to people is in a world where you think that communication is really great, you can tweet, you can put it up on Instagram, you can create a reel you can Create a story. And there’s nothing like writing it down, framing it out, putting it together, and then having it on a piece of paper. And and sometimes handing it to the right person.
Now the real secret of this is it’s hard. It’s hard work. I remember Phyllis Schlafly telling me. She said some famous person was retiring from public life. Retiring from public office and was going to write a column. Then Phyllis chuckled and said it’s harder than everyone thinks. You don’t just tell a staffer to draft something you can’t in order to write a column and write a a a letter and put some meat into it and get things right. You gotta think, you gotta write, you gotta edit. And it’s it’s harder than people think, but when it’s done and when you have it, it can be really among the most powerful tools you have. Especially as a lead behind. Think about it. President Trump met John, saw John Schlafly. He’s met him before, at an event. They interacted for 5 minutes, but because John had something to give him, framed up, you know, when I say framed, I mean written in a way that was concise, readable, smart, Mr. Trump took it with him, reviewed it later, shared it with other people, and then put it Up on his true so. The power which you need to know, the power of writing cannot be cannot be overstated. It’s unbelievable.
Alright, we gotta take a break. We’ll come back and talk to a writer, Kari Lake. She’s got a new book called Unafraid, Be right back, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report – back in a moment.
