April 25, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Tell the folks on the Rumble Chat. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| One day we're going to take the training wheels off while you're in the Rumble Chat after you've gone full pirate. | ||
| Have a good show, brother. | ||
| Have a good show and have some Kansas City barbecue. | ||
| Love you, brother. | ||
| Love you, Eric. | ||
| See, I'm here for an hour and Eric Bowling wants to get me run out of town here in Kansas City. | ||
| Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas are really honored to do the Hillsdale College Conference tonight and be the keynote speaker. | ||
| So we'll get folks fired up as we do here in the War Room. | ||
| We are jammed. | ||
| There's been so much going on this afternoon. | ||
| And Eric just said President Trump did put up. | ||
| Don't put it up yet. | ||
| I want to get to it. | ||
| I want to make a special thing. | ||
| The merch shop. | ||
| Trump 2028. | ||
| It was amazing. | ||
| I tell you what, we've got an incredible cold open, an incredible show, including some live guests here. | ||
| Let's go ahead and let it rip. | ||
| Take a look at the cover of The Economist. | ||
| Quote, only 1,361 days to go. | ||
| Showing America's national symbol, the bald eagle, battered and injured and bandaged. | ||
| A top Trump MAGA donor puts it this way. | ||
| Our national brand is at risk. | ||
| Take a listen to that. | ||
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America rose beyond just being a country. | |
| It was like an aspiration for most of the world. | ||
| And we're eroding that brand right now. | ||
| And if you think of your behavior as a consumer, how many times do you buy a product with a brand on it because you trust that brand? | ||
| In the financial markets, no brand compared to the brand of the U.S. Treasuries. | ||
| U.S. Treasury market, the strength of the U.S. dollar and the strength, the credit worthiness of U.S. Treasuries. | ||
| No brand came close. | ||
| We put that brand at risk. | ||
| And as you and I both know, it can take a very long time. | ||
| Very long time to remove the tarnish on a brand. | ||
| So the President and the Secretary of Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce need to be very thoughtful that when you have a brand, you need to behave in a way that respects that brand, that strengthens that brand. | ||
| Because when you tarnish that brand, it can be a lifetime to repair the damage that has been done. | ||
| To clarify with whom the US is speaking with China, they're saying it's fake news that trade talks are happening. | ||
| Well, they had a meeting this morning, so I can't tell you. | ||
| It doesn't matter who they is. | ||
| We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we've been meeting with China. | ||
| And so I think you have, Jeff, as usual, I think you have your reporting wrong. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We had a very successful bilateral meeting with the Republic of South Korea today. | ||
| We may be moving faster than I thought, and we will be talking technical terms as early as next week as we reach an agreement on understanding as soon as next week. | ||
| So South Koreans came early, they came with their A-game, and we will see if they follow through on that. | ||
| Mr. President, this morning you used the words"Vladimir stop." That seemed like a slightly different message or a personal message. | ||
| What is your level of frustration with President Putin? | ||
| I didn't like last night. | ||
| I wasn't happy with it. | ||
| And we're in the midst of talking peace and missiles were fired. | ||
| And I was not happy with it. | ||
| That's what I meant. | ||
| Do you still agree that Ukraine had to give some territory away to win peace? | ||
| Well, it depends what territory. | ||
| They've been fighting. | ||
| They've lost a lot of territory. | ||
| We'll do the best we can. | ||
| Working with Ukraine, we'll do the best we can. | ||
| But they lost a lot of territory. | ||
| When you say Crimea, that was handed over during a president named Barack Hussein Obama. | ||
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That had nothing to do with me, Crimea. | |
| That was 11 years ago with Obama. | ||
| They made a decision. | ||
| There wasn't a bullet fire. | ||
| There was no fighting. | ||
| There was no anything. | ||
| They just handed it over. | ||
| Now they say, well, can you get it back? | ||
| I think that's going to be a very difficult thing to do. | ||
| That was given by Barack Obama when he was president, not by Donald Trump. | ||
| A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has blocked Donald Trump's executive order trying to take over federal elections and impose an illegal and unconstitutional proof of citizenship requirement. | ||
| Welcome back to Democracy Docket. | ||
| I'm Mark Elias. | ||
| And I'm Paige Moskowitz. | ||
| Let's get started. | ||
| All right, Paige. | ||
| You know, there are a lot of lawsuits flying around these days against Donald Trump's various illegal activities. | ||
| Sometimes it's hard to keep track. | ||
| But there is one really big one for people who care about free and fair elections. | ||
| And that is a case brought by the Democratic Party, which in full disclosure, my firm and I represented in this case, as well as a parallel case brought by a group of nonpartisan plaintiffs challenging an executive order that Donald Trump issued to try to take over key aspects. | ||
| of Federal Election Administration. | ||
| At the heart of that was an effort on his part to impose or force the Election Assistance Commission to impose a proof of citizenship requirement to register to vote. | ||
| This is a hotly contested issue that Donald Trump has been beating the drum on in an effort to disenfranchise voters. | ||
| You and I have done videos about this in a number of different contexts. | ||
| This is also in the Voter Suppression Bill, the SAVE Act that Republicans are trying to pass. | ||
| So this is a big decision, a big victory for voters. | ||
| I mean, will they ever stop trying to undermine free and fair elections? | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| That is the Republican plan. | ||
| Now, what the judge explicitly ruled today was that Trump's executive order requiring this proof of citizen. | ||
| Requiring this proof of citizenship requirement on federal voter registration forms was unconstitutionally trying to get around Congress's power to regulate elections. | ||
| The judge reiterated throughout her opinion that our Constitution entrusts Congress and the states, not the president, with the authority to regulate federal elections. | ||
| No statutory delegation of authority to the executive branch permits the president to short-circuit Congress's deliberative process by executive order. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, I think the judge got it exactly right on this. | ||
| And, you know, I thought the place where she said it most plainly was when she said, quote, I mean, like, that's pretty much it in a nutshell. | ||
| The U.S. Constitution explicitly gives states Donald Trump is neither a state nor is he Congress. | ||
| He may think he is more powerful than them, but he's not. | ||
| He does not have the authority in this area. | ||
| He overstepped in a power grab because he wants to undermine free and fair elections. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| This one's not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| Thursday, April. | ||
| It's Thursday, 24 April, near Valor 2025. | ||
| We're here in Kansas City, Missouri. | ||
| We're on the road for the next couple of days with the Hillsdale College people. | ||
| Couldn't be more excited. | ||
| Some of the folks trying to get Sean Davis and Chris Caldwell and others. | ||
| Into the studio, our makeshift studio today. | ||
| I want to thank Real America's Voice for doing this on the road. | ||
| Always love it. | ||
| Great crew. | ||
| A lot to get to today in the next two hours. | ||
| All kind of news breaking right there. | ||
| Stephen Miller, head of policy for the president, really the president's right-hand man in all policy for the last seven or eight years, put up, tweeted up immediately when the ruling came out from the judge, judicial coup. | ||
| And I put up, I took that and re-put it up on Getter saying, yes, it's a coup d'etat, federal bench coup d'etat against the president of the United States. | ||
| This is where they're coming for Trump. | ||
| This is their lead tanks. | ||
| We talked about this this morning with Mike Davis heading towards a constitutional crisis. | ||
| They're driving, the left's driving, because the only thing they can do right now is in the courts. | ||
| We've blown back on them politically. | ||
| Their color revolution is sputtering. | ||
| This is where they're getting more aggressive as they see the Supreme Court have their backs on this kind of radicalness. | ||
| In going against the deep state and what President Trump's got to do, you think it's the scale of it. | ||
| And look, the Doge guys have been great in being a blunt force instrument. | ||
| What I'm trying to do is make sure that, Elon, we can actually get an accounting of all this. | ||
| But the deep state, the administrative state, the scale of it is absolutely massive. | ||
| Tyler O'Neill from Daily Signal, Rob Bluey's great news site, is going to join us. | ||
| Tyler, tell us about people that are just adamant about they're not going to implement President Trump's plans. | ||
| You've got some numbers, some polling of people who used to be called bureaucrats. | ||
| Now it's the administrative state. | ||
| How big a fight does President Trump have in just getting his executive orders and presidential memorandums executed, sir? | ||
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It's tremendous. | |
| And I mean, as you've noted, you know, this is a judicial coup that they're facing right now. | ||
| But in the actual bureaucracy, in the executive branch, people who are supposed to report to the president of the United States, these people are planning to oppose the president from within. | ||
| And there's a shocking new poll that found, and these numbers are almost unbelievable, it's 75 percent. | ||
| That's three-quarters of all the Washington, D.C.-based federal employees who make over $75,000 a year. | ||
| This is the deep state. | ||
| They said if Trump issued a lawful order that they disagreed with, that they thought was bad policy, they would not follow that order. | ||
| That's 75% of the bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris in the last election. | ||
| By the way, it's not 75% of all bureaucrats. | ||
| In D.C., at 75% of those who voted for Harris in the last election, only 16% of the bureaucrats who voted for Harris in the last election said they would follow a lawful Trump order if they thought it was bad policy. | ||
| This isn't like saying they're violating the law. | ||
| This is absolute opposition. | ||
| 90% of them voted for Harris. | ||
| I want to go back to this. | ||
| Because this is what Elon – and I don't think we've gotten the full report, although I hear it's a couple – it may be up to $100,000 or maybe even more, maybe $200,000. | ||
| And maybe they're freezing money for these people to get paid. | ||
| I'm sure the judges are going to get involved in this. | ||
| This is what Doge did most powerfully as a blunt force instrument went into some of these departments. | ||
| Now, that's not the fraud. | ||
| That's more programmatic, but we'll take what we can get. | ||
| I just want to make sure people understand what this poll says. | ||
| 75% of the administrative state people making over $75,000. | ||
| So they are more senior. | ||
| These are actual people that are at the mid-level managerial level and above. | ||
| But these are the people that you need in the bureaucracy to actually make things. | ||
| And President Trump, I tell folks, when he signs the executive order, it goes out to the cabinet head or to the alphabet agency head. | ||
| But then it's got to go back down through the system to actually be executed. | ||
| What you're saying is that... | ||
| The overwhelming majority of these people voted for Harris. | ||
| Of those, 75% making more than $75,000, which is the key people that need to make stuff happen, said if it was a lawful executive order or presidential direction for action, lawful, | ||
| and they knew it was lawful, they still would not execute it, correct? | ||
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Yeah, well, and the interesting thing here, only about 47% We're already seeing some change in the new administration where there are a few more Republicans or people who voted for Trump in the administrative state than there were before. | |
| The last poll was taken in December. | ||
| But even so, this is 75% of that roughly half of the bureaucrats. | ||
| Who say they voted for Harris, say they're going to oppose. | ||
| So, like, yeah. | ||
| They're saying they voted for Trump. | ||
| I ain't buying that. | ||
| Hang over a second. | ||
| Tyler, just hang over. | ||
| Take a commercial break. | ||
| I had kind of a long cold open, and I had a big handoff from Eric Bolling today. | ||
| Laura Loomer's going to join us. | ||
| I think hopefully we get Sean Davis. | ||
| David Malpass, who's the head of the World Bank under President Trump, is going to be here. | ||
| Chris Caldwell, I think we've got an all-star cast. | ||
| We've got Tyler O'Neill from The Great Daily Signal. | ||
| We're going to get back to you with him. | ||
| And Laura Loom is going to be here. | ||
| Quite disturbing news out of Texas about Sharia law and what certain folks down there are calling Islamophobia about Sharia law. | ||
| Anyway, short commercial break. | ||
| Hey, take your phone out. | ||
| Text Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N, at 989898. | ||
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| Tyler, you've got some interesting observations about the people in these NGOs suing President Trump. | ||
| Because remember, to delay is to deny. | ||
| They've got to get groups to go in and sue and these federal judges sit there with the judicial insurrection and shut down President Trump's movement. | ||
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Yeah, most of these organizations are the same ones I name in my book, The Woktopus, The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. | |
| And this book is explaining all of the infrastructure of the left. | ||
| The woke NGOs that staffed and advised the Biden administration using the federal bureaucracy to force their ideology on the American people. | ||
| Some of these groups include, naturally, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign. | ||
| Some of these same groups... | ||
| Are now suing the Trump administration. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| They love the Biden administration. | ||
| They'd never sue them. | ||
| But they sue to block everything in the Trump administration. | ||
| And as you well know, choosing these judges, selecting them so that they can get these injunctions to block Trump's orders, and essentially have these judges make themselves the power in the executive branch. | ||
| And so this is a vast... | ||
| Network of organizations that staffed and advised the Biden administration, a dark money network funding them. | ||
| Many of the groups that funded them, by the way, the AFL-CIO, America's largest union, part of them is the AFGE, the American Federation of Government Employees. | ||
| And this union has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration. | ||
| The really shocking thing about this... | ||
| Federal bureaucrats who are members of this union can do work for this union and get paid by the taxpayer for the work they do for the union as opposed to the work they're hired by the American people to do. | ||
| And it is quite likely that some of this taxpayer funding is actually going toward the very lawsuits against the Trump administration that are blocking the president from fulfilling his promises to the American people. | ||
| Tyler, you're on top of this. | ||
| The guys over at Daily Signal, you've got the great Rob Bluey. | ||
| Where do people go to go to the news site? | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Yeah, you go to DailySignal.com. | ||
| You can find us on all platforms, TruthSocialX. | ||
| Facebook, Instagram. | ||
| We take no truck with the Chinese Communist Party, though, so you won't find us on TikTok. | ||
| But we are everywhere. | ||
| We're constantly covering the news. | ||
| And, of course, my colleague Elizabeth Mitchell, who is also a Hillsdale grad. | ||
| I graduated from Hillsdale. | ||
| Love to hear that you're speaking at a Hillsdale event. | ||
| But she is our... | ||
| Woman in the White House. | ||
| She's our White House correspondent. | ||
| She's doing excellent work. | ||
| You can follow me on Axe at Tyler2O'Neal, and you can find The Woketopus in my first book, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, on Amazon today. | ||
| The Woketopus has an audio version that is also available on Audible. | ||
| That's why we wanted to have you on here today, to kick the show off, Tyler, as we're out here with the good folks at Hillsdale, because it is the conservative Harvard. | ||
| Thank you so much, sir. | ||
| You're another rising star of the Hillsdale alumni. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thanks so much for having me. | |
| Guys are killers. | ||
| Love them. | ||
| Love Daily Signal. | ||
| I want to bring in Laura Loomer. | ||
| Assassin extraordinaire. | ||
| Laura. Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| Help me out here. | ||
| We've got a two-hour something that the Committee on the Present Danger, Frank Gaffney's group, did. | ||
| We do about the persecuted Christians on the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| I'm going to link to that in a second. | ||
| Laura Loomer, help me out here. | ||
| Did the King of Jordan in Jordan today or yesterday announce that CARE of the Muslim Brotherhood was designated as a terrorist organization, ma'am? | ||
| I didn't catch that, Steve. | ||
| But what I do know is that efforts in the Trump administration to designate the Muslim Brotherhood continue to go ignored. | ||
| It's such a fast-paced news cycle. | ||
| So if that did happen, I wouldn't be surprised because the Muslim Brotherhood has been designated as a terrorist organization in the UAE. | ||
| And Saudi Arabia also recognizes the Muslim Brotherhood as a designated Islamic terrorist organization. | ||
| And the Muslim Brotherhood, it's important for people to understand, is what is funding. | ||
| The Palestinian resistance movement here in the United States of America and abroad. | ||
| And so when people wanna know, oh, why do these groups have so much funding? | ||
| It seems like they have countless amounts of resources for organized bus rallies and signs and placards and even television commercials in some states we're now seeing. | ||
| And these very robust efforts in state legislatures, which I'm about to get into, it's because they are being funded by the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| This is something that the Trump administration had promised the American people that they were going to do, Steve, during the first Trump term. | ||
| And a lot of people are just sitting there scratching their heads, wondering why this didn't happen. | ||
| I was in charge the first time I was there. | ||
| And I tell you, of everything we got accomplished, the one thing I got no traction on, zero. | ||
| And this includes moving the embassy, getting out of TPP, climate accords. | ||
| I got zero traction on the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| The State Department, the Defense Department will shut down. | ||
| So it's amazing Jordan actually designated. | ||
| Is CARE, by the way, when you talk about UAE and these other Gulf Emirates, the UAE has designated CARE as a terrorist organization, have they not, ma'am? | ||
| Yes, and I will say, again, I am not allowed to speak about care because I have had a gag order issued against me by Judge Bruce Reinhart, who is the same judge who ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| And I will actually be held in contempt of court if I speak about care because I sued care several years ago. | ||
| People can go and look up the case themselves and read all about it. | ||
| And I was actually ordered to pay them their attorney's fees. | ||
| And so you'll have to be the one to inform your audience about care. | ||
| And of course, there's a lot of documentation online, as well as in the filings from the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial. | ||
| But it is correct that certain Muslim civil rights organizations in our country have been designated abroad and escaped. | ||
| Accountability under the Obama administration. | ||
| Let's play. | ||
| I think we have a clip. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the clip that's going to tee up Laura Loomer about the great state of Texas. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
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Recreation and Tourism. | |
| HCR 85 by Bojani, designating March 15th as the day to combat Islamophobia for a 10-year period ending in 2035. | ||
| Refer to the Committee on Culture, Recreation and Tourism. | ||
| HCR 86 by Hayes. | ||
| Laura Lumiere, did I hear that correctly? | ||
| In the Texas legislature, they're going to designate a day for anti-Islamophobia, ma'am? | ||
| That is correct, which is quite shocking given the fact that Texas has a so-called Republican state legislature, Speaker of the House Dustin Burroughs. | ||
| But I'm told by patriots in Texas that they're not too fond of him. | ||
| They describe him as a go-along-to-get-along rhino who does the bidding of the Democrats. | ||
| And so this resolution is called Texas House Resolution 85. It's called the Day to Combat Islamophobia. | ||
| And it's not the only Islamophobia and Islamic-related resolution. | ||
| Resolution that is currently up for a committee vote in the Texas legislature. | ||
| Steve, there's actually four different Islamic resolutions. | ||
| And mind you, all of this Islamification of the state of Texas is happening. | ||
| While there is discussions about the national security threats posed by these Islamic compounds that are being funded. | ||
| I mean, just massive amounts of funding. | ||
| I'm, of course, referring to the Epic Compound, which has now sparked national outcry. | ||
| I saw that Senator John Cornyn actually referred them for a DOJ investigation. | ||
| Ken Paxton, who's jumped in this race, the Attorney General of Texas, has also called for investigations into Epic, this Islamic compound, which many people are arguing is an effort to impose Sharia law and to have a- Sharia compliance community in the state of Texas. | ||
| I just want to read to you some of these resolutions so that you can see for yourself how far gone a lot of these RINO Republicans are in the state of Texas. | ||
| House resolution recognizing March 15th as the day to combat Islamophobia for a 10-year period, ending in 2035. | ||
| March 15th, of course, is the anniversary of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand. | ||
| So I don't know why we have to have a day of remembrance for something that took place in New Zealand. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| There's also House Resolution 34 recognizing the holy month of Ramadan. | ||
| So these are real resolutions, you guys. | ||
| House Resolution 36. I don't know why we have to have the House Resolution, | ||
| Steve, to recognize Pakistan Day, where they openly practice Sharia law. | ||
| And then, of course, like I said before, House Resolution 85. But I'm also told that they want to have another House Resolution for Bangladesh Day. | ||
| Not enough to just have Pakistan Day. | ||
| They have to have Bangladesh Day. | ||
| Maybe we'll have Gaza Day. | ||
| And maybe we'll have days for all of the other Islamic nations in the Texas state legislature. | ||
| So very concerning stuff happening. | ||
| And you have to ask yourself, why is this happening under the Trump administration? | ||
| It's not President Trump's fault. | ||
| But perhaps President Trump should intervene here and light a fire under the ass of this rhino. | ||
| I'm the Speaker of the House in Texas, this Dustin Burroughs individual, because if we allow for Texas to be Islamified and conquered under the Islamic crescent, Steve, then we have truly failed as a nation. | ||
| Laura, hang on for one second. | ||
| I know you've got to bounce, but I'm just going to hold you a couple minutes on the side because I want to talk to you. | ||
| George Soros targeted Texas. | ||
| The great Glenn story and people in Tarrant County all over Texas. | ||
| MAGA fought back. | ||
| President Trump, after spending $350 million, President Trump won by 14 points. | ||
| He got Ted Cruz to win by 9 points. | ||
| President of Texas is MAGA country. | ||
| Arizona. There is definitely something going on in Texas. | ||
| And President Trump and obviously the guys at the National Security Council and others ought to be focused on this Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| However, Governor Abbott and the folks in Texas, what in the hell is going on down there? | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Laura Loomer on the other side. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| I'm in jail. | ||
| I'm in war. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| Okay. Welcome back. | ||
| Laura, what is going on? | ||
| What's the situation in Texas and why isn't Abbott that engaged in this situation with these massive developments down there? | ||
| Ma'am. | ||
| Talk in Texas right now that a lot of these Republican lawmakers are actually on the take from some of these developers and organizations that are involved in building these massive Islamic compounds. | ||
| The same thing with Colony Ridge. | ||
| We saw the same type of controversy take place as it relates to all of these illegal alien encampments. | ||
| But this is very concerning because this is a massive compound. | ||
| We're talking about 400 acres, which is what this epic compound is. | ||
| Is going to be built upon. | ||
| As I said before, Senator John Cornyn has already referred Epic for a DOJ investigation. | ||
| Ken Paxton is involved. | ||
| We really haven't seen Governor Abbott speak out about this much. | ||
| But I hope that this can become an issue of focus in the time remaining in the Texas legislature, Steve. | ||
| Because it's very concerning that instead of addressing these concerns, we're talking about the Islamification of the state of Texas. | ||
| They went from come and take it to please don't. | ||
| Eat bacon and please don't say anything that offends Muslims. | ||
| I mean, we're talking about an extreme culture shift in a state that is representative of what it means to be free here in America. | ||
| And so there's a lot of symbolism too at the bottom of We're really at the core, Steve, of what these Islamic compounds are trying to accomplish when they resurrect in places like Texas, okay? | ||
| We're talking about states that have been historically red and progressively over time, they've seen a shift to becoming more purple as a result of illegal immigration and these massive Democrat influence operations funded by people like George Soros. | ||
| I wanna hit on something, though, before we go. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| It's really important that when President Trump goes on his tour of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. | ||
| Which is upcoming in May, that he bring this issue up. | ||
| It's kind of ironic, isn't it, that Qatar is funding the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| Qatar is funding all of these lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Washington DC. | ||
| They're funding all of these institutions and galas and events and all types of different groups in Washington DC, our nation's capital, Steve. | ||
| President Trump needs to be clear that there's going to be a zero tolerance for Qatar funding the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| And I think that he should make it clear that it's going to be the policy of the United We're gonna designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. | ||
| Think about this, President Trump is going to be visiting UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. | ||
| Saudi Arabia and UAE have already designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and have both been very critical of Qatar's continued funding of the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| So why are we still entertaining the funding of the Muslim Brotherhood here on U.S. soil? | ||
| As I said before, the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial was supposed to result in groups like the Muslim Brotherhood being designated, which would have then resulted in all of these 501c3s, these Islamic charities that are really just slush funds. | ||
| Foundation terrorism trial already proved that they were being funded by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| That's a way to shut down all of these Palestinian organizations on college campuses. | ||
| You don't need to get in these contentious arguments with federal judges who wanna engage in a judicial coup. | ||
| The quickest way to bypass all of them so that you can deport Mahmoud Khalil and other students, so that you can revoke their visas, so that you can shut down SJP and shut down other Islamic organizations that are literally designated as a C3 tax. | ||
| Tax deductible, charitable status, Steve, is by designating the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| I don't really understand why this hasn't been done. | ||
| It seems like a really big waste of President Trump's time for his administration to be getting in these judicial tit-for-tats with these radical Marxist judges who are sympathetic to Muslim invaders in our country when he could just win with a swipe of his pen designating the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| Laura, where do people go to get your, by the way, quite profound, the president goes May 13th to 15th. | ||
| We're going to have wall-to-wall coverage on it, and Laura will be back to give her assessment. | ||
| Laura, where do people go to get your podcast, and particularly your Twitter feed, which is always on fire, ma'am? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes, my show is called Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| It's every Tuesday and Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern live on Rumble. | ||
| So please be sure you're following me on Rumble, rumble.com slash Laura Loomer. | ||
| You can watch my show tonight. | ||
| I'm actually going to be having an individual who works for a Texas legislator on my show tonight to talk about how Texas is being Islamified and why your state might be next. | ||
| And then you can follow me on X at Laura Loomer and on X at Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| By the way, this is very important. | ||
| I want to give all our vast audience in Texas a heads up. | ||
| If you think Soros was tough to beat back with his $350 million, you ain't seen nothing. | ||
| These folks are very determined and they play the long game. | ||
| You need to call your Texas legislature. | ||
| Thank you so much for being on here. | ||
| Call your representatives in Texas and demand that they do not support these resolutions because the media should be talking about this more, but there's little to no coverage at all about these Islamic resolutions. | ||
| So be sure that if you live in Texas, you call them. | ||
| They see what happened to you. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Love you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The Hammer. | ||
| Laura Loomer on a Thursday. | ||
| Sean Davis. | ||
| Wow. The Federalist. | ||
| God, I'm so excited about this. | ||
| A couple things. | ||
| Number one, Stephen Miller has a tweet up talking about a judicial coup. | ||
| A federal judge has just come out and overruled President Trump's trying to get illegal aliens to the country to make sure they have to register to vote for voter IDs in the nation. | ||
| Talk to me about this judicial – and he put up a judicial coup. | ||
| I actually took it and retweeted or reposted on Getter saying it's a federal bench coup to tie against the president of the United States. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| He's exactly right. | ||
| You're exactly right. | ||
| So the Constitution's set up so that we've got three branches of government, got the executive, the president, got Congress is the legislative, and then we have the judiciary. | ||
| Everyone knows this. | ||
| People like to use the term co-equal branches, which is nonsense. | ||
| There's three of them, but they're not equal in any way. | ||
| So Congress controls all the money. | ||
| At one point, they controlled whether you could declare war or not. | ||
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| Exactly. But we'll get to that. | ||
| They control the power of the purse and attacks, theoretically. | ||
| And then the president runs the military. | ||
| So he's got the army. | ||
| Congress has the money. | ||
| What does the judiciary have? | ||
| I actually liken it a lot to the – it's kind of like the government equivalent of fiat currency. | ||
| It only has legitimacy and value as long as people think it has legitimacy and value. | ||
| It's based entirely on perception. | ||
| So if the president wants to go and start a war, the judiciary, they could come in and say, no, you can't do that. | ||
| And he's like, all right, stop me. | ||
| They can't do it. | ||
| So it's the weakest form. | ||
| It's the weakest branch in our government by design. | ||
| It was really just created to settle. | ||
| Not to be the ultimate referee over the president in Congress. | ||
| There was no judicial supremacy. | ||
| Thought about the framers of the Constitution, the founders of the nation? | ||
| None. So what we've actually had over the past 50, maybe 100, 100 years is you have Congress kind of slowly giving up its power. | ||
| So the executive gets a little more. | ||
| And at some point, the judiciary just decided, you know, we should get in on this game too. | ||
| Like if everyone's just grabbing power that's not theirs, let's have at it. | ||
| And they've gotten out of control recently where it doesn't matter how crazy the issue is, how obviously they don't have the authority to do it. | ||
| You can go judge shop for a lefty judge in D.C. | ||
| Why were you censured? | ||
| For the crime of telling the truth. | ||
| By the way, I love the Federalists. | ||
| We're going to talk about how you started it. | ||
| But what did you do? | ||
| What did they say you do? | ||
| Somebody took you to court and sued you and then they censored? | ||
| We sued them. | ||
| They were censoring us using our money with the explicit goal of bankrupting us and shutting us down. | ||
| It was for saying things like COVID came from a lab in China and the election wasn't on the up and up. | ||
| Yeah, that really was Hunter's laptop. | ||
| So they create this entire, we call it the censorship industrial complex, to come and destroy us. | ||
| And it had foreign entities, domestic entities, NGOs, government organizations. | ||
| We've been trying to get our day and get our relief in court for a year and a half. | ||
| And yet these people, many of whom aren't even citizens, just roll into court in D.C. and bam, they've got a TRO protecting them in like a week. | ||
| It's outrageous. | ||
| It's not how our system was designed. | ||
| Are we hurtling towards a constitutional crisis about this situation with the human trafficker, which now we've proven John Solomon and Todd Bensman and Michael Patrick Leigh is showing he's a human trafficker coming out of Houston. | ||
| This individual in the jail down in El Salvador. | ||
| Are we hurtling towards a constitutional crisis at the Supreme Court where they're going to basically have the back? | ||
| They're going to get in the middle. | ||
| You said the number one power of the presidency is to be commander-in-chief. | ||
| In the unitary theory of the executive and or what Mike Davis calls the Article II powers, that they're going to challenge Trump's... | ||
| Position as commander-in-chief, and then we're going to have a crisis. | ||
| Are we hurtling to that right now? | ||
| Yeah, I think we're there already. | ||
| In the game they're playing, you saw this with Bosberg in the D.C. Circuit, where he clearly was trying to bait Trump into doing certain things so he could slap him with contempt, create this narrative that Trump is going rogue and destroying the judiciary. | ||
| It's the exact opposite. | ||
| What do you mean it's the exact opposite? | ||
| The judiciary is the one deliberately causing the crisis. | ||
| Why do you say that? | ||
| You brought up Article 2. The president has the power, has the obligation, in fact, to protect the U.S., to protect her borders. | ||
| He swears an oath to defend the Constitution and the country. | ||
| In the unitary theory, or Article 2, he's the chief executive for us, so he can fire people and... | ||
| Impound money if he has to. | ||
| Number two, he's commander-in-chief. | ||
| He's the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. | ||
| Nobody can between that. | ||
| Number three, he is the chief magistrate and the chief law enforcement officer. | ||
| They've wanted to, since Watergate, hive off the Justice Department. | ||
| Those three powers, he has peddled down to say, hey... | ||
| These are my powers and I'm going to use them. | ||
| Right. That's where this war is right now. | ||
| Exactly. Don't you like how they call it the independent DOJ? | ||
| It's not independent. | ||
| It reports to the president. | ||
| It's an organ of executive power. | ||
| So, yeah, you have the courts absolutely trying to usurp the power of the presidency. | ||
| You know, in one instance, you had a judge ordering the president to turn around a military plane. | ||
| Not even knowing if it had enough gas in it to turn around. | ||
| That's madness. | ||
| In mid-flight. | ||
| The example I would give is to what I think the judiciary is doing. | ||
| If you've ever had siblings or took a car trip, or you were the younger sibling, and you'd have someone start poking you, they'd maybe take your hand, start hitting you in the face, stop hitting yourself, and then as soon as you strike back, you get in trouble. | ||
| That's what the judiciary is doing to Trump right now. | ||
| They're practically begging for him to respond so that they can play the victim and then act as if they're somehow the bulwark protecting the country. | ||
| Because I think by mid-June we're going to be there. | ||
| When they get to the Supreme Court and even some of the Trump nominees don't back him as commander-in-chief. | ||
| Then we're going to have your issue that for many decades we have looked the other way or allowed this judicial supremacy. | ||
| We're going to be in a dilemma, right? | ||
| Because they're going to rule that he can't take these criminals and particularly these alien invaders and send them out of the country as commander-in-chief. | ||
| And then we're going to be in a dilemma, correct? | ||
| That's absolutely correct. | ||
| And they're trying to set up the narrative that they are the defenders of the democratic order and he is the one who's aggressing against them. | ||
| And that's not what's happening. | ||
| And I think he needs to frame it properly. | ||
| He has an obligation to defend the country and defend the Constitution. | ||
| And to the extent that judges are trying to steal authority that's not theirs, he isn't just authorized to ignore them. | ||
| He is obligated. | ||
| He is duty-bound to ignore them. | ||
| He's taken an oath to heaven, has he not? | ||
| Yes. So he has no wiggle room here, correct? | ||
| None. Do you think we've got about 30 seconds, and we're going to hold you through the break. | ||
| Do you think we're presenting that case? | ||
| Appropriately enough, as they're sitting there going, we're the defenders of due process, we're the defenders of the Democratic order. | ||
| You know, we've always got the battle that we have a completely corrupt corporate media, legacy media, propaganda press, whatever you want to call them. | ||
| All they do is lie. | ||
| They lie for the purpose of Democrat political activism. | ||
| We're always fighting them. | ||
| I actually think on the right now, our side understands the messaging and the battle better than it ever has before. | ||
| Tougher. Okay, Sean Davis of the Federalists, the founder of the Federalists, is with us. | ||
| A short commercial break. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| Okay, I'm here with Sean Davis, the founder of The Federalist. | ||
| Why did you – walk us through it. | ||
| The site's amazing. | ||
| Why did you decide to do it and how did you get so many great writers? | ||
| So I – before we started The Federalist, I had worked in politics for a while on the Hill, kind of got sick of it, went to business school, caught the entrepreneurship bug. | ||
| Ended up going to work at Daily Caller for a couple years as their CFO. | ||
| And that's kind of how this was. | ||
| Was Tucker still there? | ||
| He already punched out. | ||
| Early on. | ||
| This was'09. | ||
| Summer of'09. | ||
| This is when Breitbart and Daily Caller, Andrew and I, were going daily. | ||
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We were so viciously competitive back then. | |
| Remember Caitlin Collins worked there. | ||
| You guys had... | ||
| I think we hired Matt Boyle, everybody from, you know, eventually all the great hires Tucker brought in and trained, we hired eventually. | ||
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It was vicious. | |
| Tucker was competitive. | ||
| Andrew, those two guys were so competitive. | ||
| So you were the CFO over there. | ||
| I was, and so kind of got a taste of conservative digital media, really liked it, and surveyed the landscape. | ||
| Looking at more of the thoughtful, longer-form stuff and realized how much of it on the right was total garbage. | ||
| It was based entirely out of D.C., D.C. stocked with D.C. thinkers, people who wanted more D.C. jobs. | ||
| The D.C. consensus. | ||
| Yep. Let's do the opposite. | ||
| So let's have most of our people, most of our writers come from outside of D.C. with normal jobs and normal lives. | ||
| It took off, kind of took on a life of its own. | ||
| First person we hired was Molly Hemingway, who's just the best. | ||
| Pretty good hire. | ||
| I think we nailed it. | ||
| Pretty good hire. | ||
| And, you know, I think we've been in business now 11 and a half years. | ||
| And going well, despite the best efforts of people trying to kill us. | ||
| If you thought about it every day, what's the center of gravity of your coverage for the audience? | ||
| What do you guys specialize in? | ||
| So I think the best thing we do is we are able to see the narrative that's forming from the other side before it's fully formed, and then we try and go and crush it. | ||
| There are times where... | ||
| The Federalist is the advance guard in the narrative wars. | ||
| Yeah, and we talk about it. | ||
| It's an information war. | ||
| And tip of the spear, front lines, whatever you want to call it, we go in, we take the bullets. | ||
| I, for one, don't particularly give a crap what... | ||
| People in D.C. or in the establishment think about us so it doesn't bother me. | ||
| And we go and take the bullets and do the hard work. | ||
| Sometimes we're able to set the narrative ourselves. | ||
| That's a lot harder. | ||
| But most of the time we're trying to look at what nonsense are they peddling and then what can we do to blast that out of the sky and kind of reset back to neutral. | ||
| Your business model, and people should go, and Grace and Mo, we ought to put up in the chat today the link to the Federalist. | ||
| Curb me if I'm wrong, your business model, you don't have a paywall. | ||
| When I go there, I can get the articles. | ||
| You have ads on them. | ||
| But you're ad sponsored because a lot of people go into the paywall or different aspects of the paywall or they have to give certain information. | ||
| You provide all this information to the reader. | ||
| What is it about your model that's different than other people? | ||
| Because most people have gone off of the model that you're on. | ||
| Yeah, and we do have one little paywall thing. | ||
| If you want to contribute to the comments or not have ads, we give you the ability to do that. | ||
| When I started it, the whole point was we want to save America. | ||
| We're in this to change minds and influence people, and you can't do that when you put all your stuff behind a paywall. | ||
| So we've got a hybrid. | ||
| That's what I'm convinced too. | ||
| You've got to be ubiquitous. | ||
| You've got to be out there everywhere. | ||
| You've got to figure out how to pay for it, which is not easy in today's environment. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| It's a tough... | ||
| Business to be in. | ||
| We've gone to a hybrid, profit, non-profit model. | ||
| But all I care about is saving the country. | ||
| It's why I get up every day. | ||
| It's what I think about every day. | ||
| And you can't do that if you're hiding all your content and charging people a buttload of money to read it. | ||
| You're going to stick with me through the break, and also Chris Caldwell is going to be here. | ||
| Talk to me about this moment in time, about the intensity of just information. | ||
| I mean, every day it's flood the zone, but there are 10 or 15 things that we could do as top stories every day, and we get to maybe four of them, right, or five of them. | ||
| It's just so much. | ||
| How do you guys decipher that? | ||
| Yeah, it's more of an art than a science. | ||
| I think... | ||
| At least to me, it's usually pretty obvious what the main narrative is going to be. | ||
| Right now, it's the judicial coup against the president. | ||
| That's the through line for the whole first two years. | ||
| Because that's their lead tanks, and they know that they've got some traction there. | ||
| The color revolution they're trying, the political thing is a disaster for them, the oligarch tour. | ||
| But this is where they think they stopped Trump, right? | ||
| It is, and you can see how much Trump learned between the first term. | ||
| In this one, when he came in, he didn't know how dead-set the bureaucracy and the administrative state was against him, and it was like a sheep to the slaughter. | ||
| This time around, he understood, and he came in on day one and just did a red wedding and absolutely crushed them. | ||
| It's why they all lost their minds, like the USAID stuff. | ||
| That apparently was what was funding all of the left-wing shockers. | ||
| 100%. So he comes in and just neuters that right out of the gate, and I think they realize no one likes us. | ||
| We can't use the bureaucracy against them. | ||
| All we have are the media and these rogue judges, so I guess that's how we're going to fight this war. | ||
| Sean Davis is going to hang around through the break. | ||
| Mike Lindell is with us. | ||
| Mike, really appreciate what you're doing for Tina Peters. | ||
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| Mike Lindell, thank you very much. | ||
| Get that voice to get better, brother. | ||
| You're starting to worry me. | ||
| Got to talk to you afterwards. | ||
| The Mike Lindell. | ||
| The backer of Tina Peters. | ||
| Tina Peters, a big throwdown out there in Colorado. | ||
| She is a political prisoner. | ||
| Just transferred her to another woman's prison. | ||
| Sharona Bishop's all over it. | ||
| Pat McSweeney's all over it. | ||
| President of the United States is all over it. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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