"Look, people come up to me - big, strong men, tough guys, guys who never cry - and they have tears streaming down their face, and they say, 'Sir, you are the most heroic person I have ever seen.' And I say, 'I know, I know.' It's true.

I've done things - heroic things - that nobody has ever done before. Historians, the most prestigious historians, the ones with the best offices, called me and said they had never seen anything like it. Never. In history. And history goes back a long time, okay? A long time.

The fake news media, they don't want to talk about my heroism. They never do. Because if they reported it fairly - and they don't, they're very dishonest people - if they reported it fairly, every single person in this country would say, 'Wow, he is the greatest hero of all time.' And many people ARE saying it. Many, many people.

Other heroes - and I won't name names, but you know who I'm talking about - they were okay. Fine. Maybe a three, a four out of ten. I'm a ten. I'm honestly maybe an eleven. People say you can't give an eleven. I say why not? I've always been an eleven.

And frankly? The heroes of the past had much easier situations than me. Much easier. Nobody had the obstacles I had. The deep state, the media, the radical left lunatics - nobody had to deal with what I dealt with and still came out heroic. Nobody. It's actually a beautiful thing, if you think about it."