Blaze Media CEO Glenn Beck told “Pod Force One” that President Trump once made him sign a non-disclosure agreement after giving him a private tour of the Lincoln Bedroom and telling him “some stuff.”
Following an interview, Trump asked the conservative media tycoon whether he’d ever seen the Lincoln Bedroom and delayed a National Security Council meeting to give him one personally, according to Beck.
“We get up, and we walk, but he doesn’t take me the fast way,” Beck recounted to The Post’s Miranda Devine.
“He’s showing me all of these things about the White House.”
“We go up, he shows me some stuff in the Lincoln Bedroom, he tells me some stuff that I have to sign a non-disclosure on, and it’s all the stuff, I’m walking out of the Lincoln Bedroom,” he went on. “I look at him, I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Nobody needs to know.’”
“It wasn’t a secret. It was just him. It was something that I can’t go into,” Beck teased, noting that Trump didn’t want that information publicly because “It’s weak, it shows weakness.”
Beck argued that it actually “shows humanity.”
The Post contacted the White House for comment.
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The veteran conservative pundit also opened up about a conversation he had with Trump after the July 13, 2024, Butler, Pa., assassination attempt during a meeting they had at Mar-a-Lago.
Beck had asked Trump about his mindset when he was down on the floor of the stage with multiple Secret Service agents piled on top of him after a bullet came within a quarter inch of killing him.
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“I said, ‘What was going through your mind?’ And he [Trump] said, ‘Get up, get up. You’re pathetic. This is not you; you want to be the President of the United States, you’re not afraid of anything, you’re not afraid of these people. Get up.’”
Trump later got up and defiantly pumped his fist in the air against the wishes of his security detail, which was keen on whisking him out of there as quickly as possible.
Beck, who was once skeptical of Trump in the 2016 campaign cycle, recounted how Trump called him up before launching his campaign and gave him condolences over the death of his father.
“I had been around so many smarmy people that are always angling for stuff, it really bothered me,” Beck recalled. “And I thought, this guy is about to announce he’s going to [run for] president, he hadn’t yet.”
“And I didn’t believe that he was a conservative at all. He’s a New Yorker. … I thought the guy is corrupt, the guy will say and do anything,” he added. “Honestly, I have apologized to him once already about misjudging him on that, and this haunts me probably at least once a month.”
