Aug. 21, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | |
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's not got a free shot on 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're trying to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | |
| MAGA Media. | ||
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | |
| Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | ||
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome to the War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters hosting today, Thursday, August 21st in the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
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We are awaiting John Solomon. | |
| He's got a new exclusive scoop out related to James Comey. | ||
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But we also got Mike Benz, Laura Loomer, Brian Harrison, the latest coming out of Texas, quite the packed show. | |
| I think we've got Mike Benz up. | ||
| Mike, there's a bit of breaking news. | ||
| The State Department is set to review all 55 million people with U.S. visas for, quote, deportable violations. | ||
| That seems like a rather large undertaking for the State Department, but I know you have been highlighting a lot of the initiatives that they've been doing. | ||
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I'd love to just get your sort of reaction to that, but also what you've been really hammering where they need to press, particularly on the USAID files. | |
| Well, the State Department has been very aggressive under Secretary Rubio on a whole range of initiatives. | ||
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Obviously, there was the mass firing of about 4,000 employees last month. | |
| There was the shutdown of the Censorship Center, the Global Engagement Center at the State Department. | ||
| There is a giant reorganization where about 130 different sub-bureaus are being zapped out. | ||
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And now there's the announcement of this giant undertaking. | |
| Obviously, 55 million people is about a sixth of the entire U.S. population and sort of speaks to the sheer size of how much this country has ingested over the course of our lifetime. | ||
| We'll see how much of that actually ends up being administered or reviewed. | ||
| Ironically, the State Department may have to hire a whole new flood of people to carry out that kind of investigation, but that would be a good opportunity for the Trump administration to staff the State Department with folks who are ideologically on sides with the foreign policy vision of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Adjacent to that is the building right next to the State Department, which is the U.S. Institute of Peace, which gets about $55 million a year from the U.S. taxpayers that has just been toppled in effectively, | ||
| it's a legal transition, but the U.S. Institute of Peace, which is a very almost 1984 named institution, it's just like in 1984 there was the Ministry of Peace that conducted war. | ||
| The U.S. Institute of Peace is very much a war front. | ||
| Its wall of donors. | ||
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I was just in the building last week. | |
| Its wall of donors are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, a bunch of oil companies like Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell. | ||
| It is a mandatory board seat for the Secretary of War, as well as the President of the National Defense University. | ||
| It's sort of war under the name of peace. | ||
| But effectively what the U.S. Institute of Peace has been doing has been promoting illegal narcotics and the production of them. | ||
| The U.S. Institute of Peace put out a memo in 2023 to the Taliban instructing them to keep the drugs flowing in Afghanistan. | ||
| That was, of course, very useful to the Biden administration because that drug money paid the ISIS fighters to effectively funded the insurgency al-Qaeda and ISIS forces who the following year would topple Bashar al-Assad and install a new government run by a former ISIS al-Qaeda leader, | ||
| Mohammed Al-Jalani, who previously had a $10 million bounty on his head under the Trump administration, but under the Biden administration, they made him the king of Syria. | ||
| And this is, again, sort of run out of the auspices of this State Department adjacent U.S. Institute of Peace. | ||
| The U.S. Institute of Peace also ran a global campaign for internet censorship, working to try to get judges and legislatures to ban hate speech or ban miss and disinformation. | ||
| They had a strategy that included going to the electoral management bodies, that is the courts that decide elections, to get them to say that speech about the election should be considered part of the judicial jurisdiction so that judges can censor speech the same way we saw happen in Brazil, where the judge, Morias, the head of the EMB, the electoral management body in Brazil, did the same thing. | ||
| So we see this as part of a government strategy under the Biden administration. | ||
| The U.S. Institute of Peace actually has whole training seminars on how to organize riots, how to occupy government buildings, how to block city intersections and block roads, how to blockade train tracks to prevent cargo from going from place to place when you're protesting something. | ||
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And even called in its instructions for the sponsored protest movements of it to deliberately seek to get arrested so that U.S.AID-sponsored media can hold up the arrested figures as being martyrs for the cause and can justify economic sanctions. | |
| So we have this real blob apparatus. | ||
| The U.S. Institute of Peace fought the mandatory turnover tooth and nail. | ||
| Guns were discovered in the building. | ||
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They knocked the bolts out of the doors. | |
| There had to be a showdown with federal police. | ||
| They tried to delete a terabyte of financial data, which fortunately was recovered by Doge. | ||
| But there is one big missing piece in all of this, which is the transparency about the files themselves from so much of this legacy behavior. | ||
| And I can talk about that now with things like the U.S. aid files and State Department files, but I'll pause there if you have any questions about what I just said. | ||
| No, no, keep going, but I'm curious if you can sort of put us inside the U.S. Institute of Peace what you saw there when you were touring it with, I don't know if Dr., or I guess he's a new title now, but Director Darren JV is with you, but what his sort of vision looks like for that institute. | ||
| Well, I think Darren's vision is to build it from the ground up and to do it in a way that restores trust without the diplomacy through duplicity that the U.S. Institute of Peace was known for. | ||
| The fact is the building is basically the territory of George Bush, Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright. | ||
| These are the figures that the wings of the building are named after. | ||
| And it's kind of the Confederacy of dunces when you sort of Trump surrounded by all of his enemies on the wall, everyone who tried to defeat him through lawfare, indictments, and CIA black ops are the figures who adorn the quite beautiful walls of the building. | ||
| I think it is the most stunning building in Washington, D.C. | ||
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It must have been a lot of fun to work there, especially when you had the godlike powers these people were bestowed. | |
| I'm sure they had quite a thrill ride. | ||
| But the fact is that thrill ride is now over and it's accountability time. | ||
| I think Darren's vision is likely to involve leveraging the legacy network that the institution has built up, but making it conform to the foreign policy vision of the State Department. | ||
| Darren is also presently the Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, and these are very similar functions given that the U.S. Institute of Peace is effectively an adjunct of the State Department. | ||
| But what's critical to all of this is a disclosure in order to have trust with other countries around the world and in order to give a full accounting to the American people of how their tax dollars were spent, these files have to be made public. | ||
| For example, the U.S. Institute of Peace is a program called the Program on Nonviolent Action. | ||
| Now, nonviolent is a code for mob violence. | ||
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I don't need to tell you, Natalie, that I'm speaking to you nonviolently. | |
| If I need to put that in the name, something is up. | ||
| And in fact, it is up at the U.S. Institute of Peace. | ||
| They openly promote property destruction as part of the tactics of the so-called nonviolent mob because they say that property destruction does not count as violence because we only define violence as bodily harm. | ||
| So you can set police cars on fire. | ||
| You can burn down police precincts. | ||
| You can destroy the parliament building as they've done in countries like Serbia and the like and Ukraine. | ||
| And that still counts as, quote, nonviolent action. | ||
| But I believe that every document that the Program on Nonviolent Action has ever internally produced should be made publicly available to the U.S. taxpayers who paid for it. | ||
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Every single person who worked there was paid by U.S. taxpayers. | |
| We have a right to know all the domestic touch points because the U.S. Institute of Peace is supposed to point outward. | ||
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Even the dirty deeds they do, the CIA work they do, and the CIA moves through them. | |
| They're an asset essentially that they create a network of assets for the CIA to play with abroad. | ||
| So when you see these color revolutions break out in Georgia or the Czech Republic or Ukraine or Syria or Libya, they had that hand in that, but they also, it was that exact same network that set about organizing the riots that we have seen in this country for the past 10 years. | ||
| Maria Stefan, the person who ran the program on nonviolent action, deliberately points to the U.S. as the source of the same democratic violations that she cites internationally. | ||
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Her work explicitly covers now the domestic affairs. | |
| She had an organizing role in countless riots from the protests and riots of the past eight years. | ||
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And given that she's leveraging this same taxpayer-funded network, I believe all those files need to be made public, even if it is an embarrassment at a certain diplomatic level that other countries get to see what the U.S. planned. | |
| This is how we get trust back by saying this is not how we do business anymore. | ||
| And I believe that's also going to lead to levels of accountability with how to reform these institutions once the network set is fully laid out. | ||
| And on that note, I have to mention that the USAID files are absolutely key to this. | ||
| If there's one thing that the CIA, the State Department, and the U.S. Institute of Peace all have in common, and that's U.S. aid. | ||
| U.S.AID was the great front for 60 years for this whole network. | ||
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And USAID formally shut down on July 1st. | |
| That's almost two months ago now. | ||
| It's been absorbed by the F branch of the State Department, the foreign assistance branch of the State Department. | ||
| So they are now administering the legacy grants. | ||
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It's about 30%-ish of the U.S. aid function. | |
| There have been 14,000 people who were laid off at USAID, and it's being administered by a much smaller crew of people. | ||
| But we need to see the USAID files, the internal analyst memos, the white papers, the emails, the text messages. | ||
| Everything from USAID employee to USAID employee or USAID employee to NGO or contractor has to be made public. | ||
| And I can give you some great examples of why this is such a necessity. | ||
| But the present blocking point, as I understand it, is that the State Department does not presently even have access to the USAID files because of the IT blockages. | ||
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That is, USAID people, I believe, simply didn't turn over the encryption or the passwords or the like. | |
| So we have, we're sitting on the library of Alexandria of historical knowledge of what the Biden administration and the blob have been doing, and nobody's even opened the door yet. | ||
| I find that shocking. | ||
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Mike, of course, if you can hang with us through the break, I want to get into more of this. | |
| We also got John Solomon, Warren Posse, don't go anywhere. | ||
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| We've still got my guns with us, but we are going to go to John Solomon, who has yet another wonderful breaking scoop, keeping, I guess, not just the deep state, but also their enablers on their toes. | ||
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Quote, exclusive prosecutors secured evidence. | |
| Comey authorized classified leaks, but declined charges. | ||
| Can you walk us through this new piece? | ||
| We sure could. | ||
| So these are new documents that were found by Kash Patel a few weeks ago. | ||
| The first time they were given to Congress, they were heavily redacted. | ||
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And this section of the memo was taken out by Justice Department lawyers. | |
| But to her credit, Pam Bondi reversed that decision and got this block inside this long history of leaks inside the FBI unredacted. | ||
| And what did we learn? | ||
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We learn that prosecutors and U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents interviewed James Comey's deputies and confirmed that he had authorized the leak of classified information to the New York Times right before the 2016 election. | |
| So putting his thumb on the scale of the 2016 election. | ||
| And despite this knowledge, despite that there was a leak of classified information, they know who leaked it. | ||
| They know who authorized it. | ||
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They know who their star witnesses would have been if you brought a prosecution. | |
| You would have brought in James Comey's chief of staff, James Rubicke, and his former chief counsel, James Baker, because they're the ones who confirmed that this happened. | ||
| They decided not to bring any charges at all. | ||
| They let James Comey walk and they kept this a secret. | ||
| And this decision, by the way, was made at the beginning of, or in the middle of President Trump's first term under the Justice Department, under Jeff Sessions. | ||
| The U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. declined. | ||
| The soon-to-be special prosecutor, but at that time, the Connecticut U.S. Attorney, John Durham, also declined to bring charges. | ||
| And so James Comey walked. | ||
| And they will say, well, what's the difference? | ||
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Why should we care now? | |
| Well, there's some statutes on classified intentional leaking of information that harms the national interest, i.e. espionage. | ||
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Actually, it's 10 years, which means that Pam Bondi could theoretically reopen an investigation today. | |
| I talked to our good friend Mike Davis, great legal expert. | ||
| He said, I think the DOJ will open up on this information right away. | ||
| I talked to Pam Bondi, and she says, I intend to bring accountability to this abhorrent behavior by James Comey and his team. | ||
| That's probably not a good sign for James Comey. | ||
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Talk to the FBI director, Kash Patel. | |
| He said that it is a shame to the FBI that its former leader authorized the leak and his leadership leaked classified national secrets harming the public interest. | ||
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And that he hopes accountability will come from the Justice Department. | |
| So everybody is in action on this tonight. | ||
| The document's up. | ||
| You don't have to take my word for it. | ||
| You can read it. | ||
| It's embedded in our story. | ||
| But James Comey has got perhaps some new legal headaches tonight. | ||
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And I want to remind everybody, there was a famous moment in May 2017 where Chuck Grassy confronted Comey and said, have you ever been an anonymous story for a news story? | |
| No. | ||
| Have you ever authorized someone to be anonymous source for a story? | ||
| No. | ||
| Did you ever authorize or allow anyone on your staff to leak classified information? | ||
| No. | ||
| Well, people are going to look back and look at this and say, I don't think those three things match. | ||
| And we'll have to see what happens now inside the Justice Department. | ||
| But all the information is now out there for the public to see, thanks to Pam Bondi and to Kash Patel, who worked together to get this information to the public today. | ||
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And John, where can people go one more time to read this story and follow you to stay up to date with everything you've got breaking over at Just the News? | |
| You bet. | ||
| The story just went up. | ||
| It's at justthenews.com. | ||
| You can follow me on social media, Jay Solomon Reports. | ||
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And at 6 o'clock, I follow you right here on Real America's Voice, and we'll have a full show looking at this great new information. | |
| And hopefully people understand a little bit better by the end of the night. | ||
| Thank you, sir, for joining us, and thank you for yesterday. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| We still got Mike Benz. | ||
| Mike, I want to sort of piece this together, right? | ||
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Which is the deep state, the permanent political class, the in your face state, however you want to couch it. | |
| Frankly, in this paradigm, I think maybe just likening it more to the kind of ossified career civil servant mentality in a lot of these departments or agencies, institutions, take your pick. | ||
| But how they cover up the actions of a lot of these very rogue politicals. | ||
| So, my question is: you know, why haven't these USAID files that you were talking about, why haven't they been released? | ||
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What is the holdup there? | |
| Well, my understanding is that it's a technical issue. | ||
| That, you know, when you're talking about documents that are stored in a digitized way, you know, there's encryption, there's passwords, there's access codes. | ||
| And when, remember, USAID fought tooth and nail to the very last courtroom they could humanly litigate in in order to stave off the Trump administration. | ||
| USAID was shut down, actually, not primarily for its bad behavior, but because it refused to turn over documents. | ||
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It was really the only agency in the federal government that just straight up refused to allow the new administration. | |
| It's a U.S. government agency under the executive branch, and it just refused to give the executive branch the documents, the emails, any of that. | ||
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And while we still have the State Department, it is still administering the grants, all of the legacy information, for example, USAID has a country office in every country, whether it's in Africa, whether it's in Europe, whether it's in Asia, or whether it's in Central or South America. | |
| Every country has a mission. | ||
| There's email traffic and files and analyst papers and classified documents in all of those countries. | ||
| There's also the bureaus within USAID. | ||
| For example, probably the worst of them was the bureau called DRG within USAID, that's Democracy, Rights and Governance. | ||
| That was for the democracy promotion, the regime change, and paying the media and paying the unions and paying the NGOs and governance, which is effectively when USAID has programs to take control over elements of your government. | ||
| And the DRG branch of USAID is who ran the censorship syndicate that was funded to the tune of billions of dollars over the past eight years by USAID. | ||
| All of the traffic between the NGOs and USAID, because every grant recipient from USAID had to file reports, had to file annual reports, had to do quarterly updates, had to correspond with their grant administrator about how they were fulfilling their milestones. | ||
| Most of these grants are for absolutely atrocious things, and nothing that USAID did was honest. | ||
| It's always dual purpose. | ||
| It's always some nominal thing that it says it does, and then some CIA covert subpurpose. | ||
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That's the only reason to run it through USAID as opposed to the State Department. | |
| But you can't understand the history of the history of these countries and what you're inheriting at the State Department unless you have the USAID side of the story. | ||
| I'll give you an example. | ||
| Earlier this month, I testified for about six hours in front of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Brazilian Senate. | ||
| And I went over for about five and a half of those hours how USAID built the censorship syndicate within Brazil, how it funded dozens of censorship organizations, how it worked directly with the Brazilian court in order to get the judges to combat disinformation, so to speak, to take down posts, to throttle narratives, to rule things as illegal to say in Brazil. | ||
| Now, all of this will be in what I have is five and a half hours worth of open source information, things that at the time I culled from grants, I culled from the work of USAID-sponsored entities. | ||
| But the real guts of this are ultimately going to lie in the USAID communications themselves. | ||
| Donald Trump and Mark and Secretary Rubio are locked in horns right now with the country of Brazil. | ||
| Brazil has gone full China. | ||
| They've divested from many American contracts and given China control over their agriculture, their energy, their IT. | ||
| There's currently sanctions on Brazil's chief justice of their election court. | ||
| And Brazil is now trying to defy those sanctions by ordering their banks not to honor the American sanctions policy, which if that goes through, could upend hundreds of different sanctions regimes that the U.S. has in place. | ||
| And the State Department does not even understand what they've inherited because they don't have the USAID side of the story. | ||
| The USAID mission in Brazil, all those files from the past eight years have to be made available, have to be made public. | ||
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They at least have to be reviewed by the State Department. | |
| But we have more transparency into the CIA than we do USAID. | ||
| In theory, Tulsi can ask for and declassify any CIA document, but neither Tulsi at ODNI nor the State Department can even get into the USAID files. | ||
| They need an IT expert in there immediately to decrypt this and make it public. | ||
| Are you available? | ||
| I think that's what the audience is asking, Mike. | ||
| We've got a bounce. | ||
| Obviously, we'll have you back on soon. | ||
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In the meantime, though, where can people go to follow you and stay up to date with all your wonderful work? | |
| Follow me on X at MikeBenCyber, also on YouTube and Rumble. | ||
| Back on YouTube. | ||
| Can't relate because we're banned. | ||
| I'm sure you'll probably get banned pretty soon. | ||
| But thank you for coming on. | ||
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It's just an archive. | |
| Thank you, Mike. | ||
| Have a good one. | ||
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We got Laura Loomer after the break. | |
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| We got Laura Loomer with a new scoop about this time the NSA. | ||
| Big, big deal. | ||
| We'll be right back after this short break. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to the war room. | ||
| Honored to be joined by perhaps the most feared investigating reporter, not just in Washington, D.C., regularly in the United States, but the entire world. | ||
| That is none other than Laura Loomer, who is busy breaking story after story. | ||
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Laura, you have a new scoop out today about a very important position. | |
| That is, of course, the deputy director of the NSA. | ||
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That's obviously an agency when we talk about what we saw, the weaponization of government against the American people. | |
| This is something that I think personnel really, really, really matters on. | ||
| And you have some concerning information about the person who was just selected by the Trump administration for this position. | ||
| Can you sort of walk us through who this individual is and why the audience should care? | ||
| Yeah, well, thanks so much for having me on, Natalie. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| So I broke this story last night while I was getting ready for bed. | ||
| It's funny, right? | ||
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I love how the independent media don't work nine to five, do we, Natalie? | |
| So his name is Joseph Franceskin, and he actually worked during the first Trump administration, and he has been nominated to serve as the deputy NSA director. | ||
| And if you pull up my tweets, you can see that he currently works as the chief external affairs officer at a place called DZYNE Technologies, which is a drone technology company. | ||
| And upon reviewing his LinkedIn and doing some, you know, digging into his background, his credentials, it shows that he worked as the deputy assistant to the Secretary of Defense for special operations and combating terrorism during the first Trump administration. | ||
| He also worked at the National Security Council for two years. | ||
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And he also worked as an intelligence analyst at the NSA. | |
| And what's concerning about this is, you know, you see people that say, and this is how a lot of these turncoats are getting into the second administration. | ||
| They'll say things like, well, I worked in the Trump administration in the first term. | ||
| So obviously I'm qualified to work in the second term. | ||
| Well, what have we seen, Natalie? | ||
| We've seen that some of the biggest turncoats and traders working in the Trump administration are people who did work in the first term and somehow they've been able to sneak past the vetting process or the lack of vetting because we all know that this administration is having a bit of a hard time with vetting. | ||
| A lot of deficiencies that they need to address immediately because we're eight months into this administration and it's unacceptable that the vetting is this atrocious as far in. | ||
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That being said, you know, just this week, just this week, Tulsi Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 individuals, most of whose individuals had worked during the first Trump administration. | |
| 29 of the 37 people who had their security clearances were individuals identified by me whose names I personally submitted to the White House for review. | ||
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And so a lot of these people, even if they're not working in the administration, some of them were, some of them were working on the outside, and they had active government contracts with the current Trump administration. | |
| So we have people who are profiteering. | ||
| I hate to interrupt you, but your favorite person, President Trump, is actually live speaking at the mic, so we've got to go to him. | ||
| But hang on, we'll come back to you. | ||
| When people come in from the airport all the way to the Capitol, the White House, or any place else they go, they're going to say, Boy, this place is spotless. | ||
| So we're doing that. | ||
| Most importantly, though, we're going to have a crowd of people that are going to be happy. | ||
| You know, I've received more phone calls from people in the last four days than I ever have. | ||
| I've been here now four years plus. | ||
| And by the way, I think we had about the best seven months they're saying that any president's had. | ||
| We've done a lot of work. | ||
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We've done a lot of good work, including the biggest tax cuts that you've ever had. | |
| I know you guys don't care about taxes, so you don't care about saving a little tax, but you saved a lot of tax, actually. | ||
| But we've had a great period of time, but I've never received so many phone calls thanking me for what we've done in Washington, D.C., from people that haven't gone to a restaurant in literally in four years. | ||
| And they said, you know, what you've done is it's unprecedented because what they said it was just unsafe. | ||
| We couldn't do it. | ||
| We'd go out and you'd see the stories, you'd read the stories, you'd see all of the things that are happening. | ||
| And they said we just, we couldn't, we couldn't stand it, sir. | ||
| Now, I take my wife and my kids to dinner. | ||
| One of them said he's gone out four nights in a row, and he hadn't gone out for four years. | ||
| So it's a great tribute to you. | ||
| And when I look at you people, I understand why, because there's no games, right? | ||
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We're not playing games. | |
| We're going to make it safe. | ||
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And we're going to then go on to other places. | |
| But we're going to stay here for a while. | ||
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We want to make this absolutely perfect. | |
| It's our capital. | ||
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And I guess it used to be many years ago, say, but it's certainly not had a very good run. | |
| And you've got to be strong. | ||
| You've got to be tough. | ||
| You've got to do your job. | ||
| Whatever it takes to do your job, you've got to do your job. | ||
| But the crime numbers are way down. | ||
| I'm looking at, you saw some of the stats. | ||
| They just read them out to me inside. | ||
| They're numbers that we haven't seen here ever, actually ever. | ||
| And I think it's probably right now. | ||
| To me, I feel very safe now, and I'm hearing people are very safe, but I know within two weeks it's going to be, Pam, it's going to be at a level that's even far superior. | ||
| So I just came, I just wanted to thank you all. | ||
| You're doing incredible. | ||
| You're incredible people. | ||
| You make the country run, frankly. | ||
| You make the whole place run. | ||
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We're going to have the best capital ever. | |
| We're going to have the, it's going to look better than it ever did. | ||
| Even at the White House, I'm building a ballroom. | ||
| They've been after a ballroom for 150 years, but they never had a real estate guy as a president. | ||
| You know, I've done a lot of ballrooms, and we're going to make this one the best of them all. | ||
| But we're doing a real job. | ||
| As far as the country is concerned, we're respected again. | ||
| We had a country that was laughed at a year ago. | ||
| They thought they couldn't understand what was happening. | ||
| And it's about leadership. | ||
| But we had a country that was a dead country in many ways. | ||
| Went to Saudi Arabia. | ||
| I went to Qatar. | ||
| I went to UAE. | ||
| We came back with $5.1 trillion of investment in this country. | ||
| And we're over $17 trillion. | ||
| Now, a lot of you don't know what that means. | ||
| And nobody knows what it means because it's never happened before. | ||
| In five months, because really it's a five-month, even though we're here seven, but we started five months ago in terms of investment. | ||
| And we have, because they see what's happened to our country, we're going to be over $17 trillion trillion with the T dollars of investment. | ||
| There's never been anything close. | ||
| If we did $1 trillion in a year, and we're talking about over a five-month period, maybe six months if you look at it, but over $17 trillion, we're building plants, auto plants, AI plants, all sorts of plants all over the country. | ||
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I'm giving them the right. | |
| Lee Zeldon's done a fantastic job. | ||
| We're giving the right to build electric plants. | ||
| They become almost like a public utility because we have old grids. | ||
| We have a lot of stuff that's old. | ||
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We wouldn't be able to compete with China AI. | |
| And now we're totally leading the AI race and the artificial intelligence. | ||
| It's a big deal. | ||
| And it's the hottest thing there is for probably in 35, 40 years. | ||
| A lot of people don't know what it is. | ||
| Just trust me, it's very hot. | ||
| It's big. | ||
| But they need massive amounts of electricity. | ||
| They need more electricity than we have right now in the whole country surfacing everything. | ||
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In other words, we have to at least double it up to be competitive and to be leading. | |
| And we're more than doubling it up. | ||
| And what I'm doing is I'm letting all of these very rich companies, and they've got nothing but they've got a lot of money, and they want to invest it in the United States. | ||
| And they're building big plants, but they're building electric plants with it. | ||
| I said, you build your building. | ||
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And these are buildings that cost $30, $40, $50 billion when you include everything that's inside, all the technology. | |
| I said, I'm going to let you build electric plants to fire your own electricity. | ||
| And anything that you have left over, you sell it back into the grid. | ||
| So all of these big factories that are being built are building their own electric plants fired by oil and gas. | ||
| They're not fired by wind, by the way, because wind doesn't work, but we won't say that. | ||
| It destroys everything. | ||
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It looks terrible. | |
| It's a very expensive form of energy. | ||
| And we're not doing the wind. | ||
| We're going back to fossil fuel. | ||
| I hope not too many of you people are going to be upset, but we have to go back to what works. | ||
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We can't be foolish. | |
| But we're building massive electric plants all over the country. | ||
| The companies are building, and then they sell it back into the grid. | ||
| But we're building numbers that nobody's ever seen. | ||
| We're auto plants. | ||
| We have many auto plants going up, whereas during the last four years, as you know, we had like none. | ||
| People weren't investing here. | ||
| So where they weren't investing and they were leaving. | ||
| But I just finished by saying this. | ||
| So I was with the king of Saudi Arabia. | ||
| I was with all of the NATO leaders a couple of weeks ago. | ||
| And they are putting up not 2%, but 5%. | ||
| They said 5% of GDP. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| They'll have trillions of dollars put up. | ||
| They were putting up two, but they weren't paying it. | ||
| Now they're putting up five and they're all paying it. | ||
| And they all said the same thing. | ||
| They said, one year ago, your country was dead. | ||
| We never thought it was coming back. | ||
| And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. | ||
| These are the leaders of other countries, the prime ministers and the presidents, all, every one of them, said essentially the same thing, said we had a dead country. | ||
| And we were. | ||
| We felt that way. | ||
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And we were. | |
| And this place was emblematic of it with the crime, the horrible crime. | ||
| And, you know, I watch these phony reports. | ||
| Oh, we were on the way back. | ||
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They weren't on the way back. | |
| It was worse than ever just a short while ago. | ||
| But now it's going to be, I think now, right now, it's better than it has been in years. | ||
| And in a couple of weeks, it's going to be even far better than that. | ||
| And everybody's safe now. | ||
| Everybody feels safe. | ||
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And they're all coming in. | |
| And people are now coming in. | ||
| They're making reservations to come in. | ||
| They want to be in Washington, D.C. One of the things we're going to be redoing is your parks. | ||
| I'm very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. | ||
| I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world. | ||
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And we're going to be regrassing all of your parks, all brand new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy, just like Augusta. | |
| It'll look like Augusta. | ||
| It'll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club. | ||
| That's even better. | ||
| But we're going to look, we're going to have all brand new, beautiful grass. | ||
| You know, like everything else, grass has a life. | ||
| Do you know that? | ||
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Grass has a life. | |
| You know, we have a life and grass has a life. | ||
| And the grass here died about 40 years ago. | ||
| So we're going to be rebuilding all of your parks and it's going to happen fast. | ||
| It's going to go up like a miracle. | ||
| So you do the job on safety and I'll get this place fixed up physically and we're going to be so proud of it. | ||
| At the end of six months, but let's say at the end of a year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty. | ||
| You'll have all new surfaces. | ||
| You'll have all new medians. | ||
| Everything's going to look beautiful. | ||
| A lot of your signs are going to be taken down. | ||
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They've been up for 40 years. | |
| They look like hell. | ||
| They look like they're barely standing up. | ||
| They're falling off their holders. | ||
| And we're going to have all new everything. | ||
| And I want to just thank Doug for doing such an incredible job. | ||
| You've been unbelievable. | ||
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You're a popular guy. | |
| No, he's an amazing guy. | ||
| He's an amazing guy. | ||
| Everybody love it. | ||
| We love you. | ||
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And his wife is so incredible. | |
| But thank you very much. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| And Pam, thank you very much. | ||
| What a job. | ||
| People don't realize. | ||
| They're going to see. | ||
| She'll go down as the greatest Attorney General we've had. | ||
| I really mean it too. | ||
| And where's my Christie? | ||
| You dear? | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| She's been incredible. | ||
| And she can ride a horse like nobody. | ||
| She gets on those horses. | ||
| She rips those horses around. | ||
| But I want to thank you very much. | ||
| And Steve Miller, so fantastic. | ||
| And Todd Blanche, who's been with me so long, and he's one of the best lawyers you'll ever find. | ||
| And we're having a lot of victories. | ||
| I had a victory today. | ||
| You know, they stole $550 million from me with a fake case, and it was overturned. | ||
| They said this was a fake case. | ||
| It's a terrible thing. | ||
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But it's a nice victory, you know. | |
| I mean, it's not bad. | ||
| You know, we all have our limits, but this was a terrible thing that it was a witch hunt. | ||
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And I've had more witch hunts than any human being, I think, in history. | |
| And here we are with the President of the United States. | ||
| So it didn't work out too well for them. | ||
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But maybe now it's turned a little bit. | |
| These are very dishonest people. | ||
| We have to fight. | ||
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We have to win because we have to win. | |
| And you people are winners. | ||
| And I just think it's really such an honor to be with you. | ||
| And we're going to make Washington, D.C. great again. | ||
| We're making our country great again. | ||
| The country is very close to being great. | ||
| When they say it's the hottest country in the world, they mean it. | ||
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And this capital is right now, after four days, five days, it's at a level that you haven't seen in a long time. | |
| And it's all because of you. | ||
| So I want to thank you all very much. | ||
| It's an honor to be with you. | ||
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And we'll always be with you. | |
| We're going to be with you for as long as I'm around. | ||
| You're going to be treated as nobody more important. | ||
| And thank you all very much for being here. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Doug, would you like to say something? | |
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| President Trump, on behalf of everybody that's here in law enforcement, I think I absolutely want to extend gratitude to you because under your leadership, you're bringing back respect for this profession. | ||
| I know that wherever you go, and some of these folks know, wherever you go in the country, whenever I've been with you, backstage before you speak, who do you get a picture with? | ||
| Local law enforcement, the federal folks that are there. | ||
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You have always, in turn, your entire life supported law enforcement, and that makes a difference. | |
| These people know that. | ||
| And the other thing, of course, for everybody here, President Trump's ended six wars. | ||
| He's brought taxes down, regulations down. | ||
| He's brought record foreign investment, like he was talking about. | ||
| He's done all of those things in six months. | ||
| But what does he really care about? | ||
| You hear him talk about the wars. | ||
| He wants to end the killing. | ||
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And here in D.C., he wants to end the killing. | |
| He wants to end it in every city in America because if we're the greatest country in the world, you shouldn't be afraid to be able to go out for dinner. | ||
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He cares about the people that live in this city and in every city. | |
| And that's why this is happening right now. | ||
| And this is what leadership looks like: that in a matter of a week, this is a message to every city in the country, and it's a message to every capital in the world that America, the greatest country in the world, is going to have the most beautiful capital and the safest capital in the world because of all of you. | ||
| So thank you, everybody, that's here tonight. | ||
| Thank you, President Trump, for making it all possible. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| President, I'm looking at all these faces. | ||
| They're out here every single night. | ||
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I'm getting to know everyone on a first-name basis. | |
| All of our great Metro PD General Blanchard with the Guard. | ||
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All of our federal agencies are out here. | |
| Our amazing park police. | ||
| They are working hand in hand to make DC safe. | ||
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They're out here working midnights every night because they love our country. | |
| They love our city. | ||
| And they love you. | ||
| They're all telling me that. | ||
| Are we going to get the meat? | ||
| Look at him getting a thumbs up. | ||
| They're all out here going, Are we going to meet the president? | ||
| I told you. | ||
| So, and I think you brought some food for them, didn't you, President? | ||
| So, we have great hamburgers cooked by the White House, and we have pizza that I said, don't do it in the White House because we went to a place that makes the best pizza. | ||
| So, we'll concede. | ||
| But we have a lot of it, so we're going to have some fun. | ||
| We'll eat and I'll eat with you, and we're going to have a little fun. | ||
| We're going to celebrate, but then we're going to get back to work and we're going to take care of these criminals. | ||
| We're going to put them where they have to be. | ||
| We're going to, you're going to say, don't play around with us. | ||
| Don't play around with us. | ||
| So, let's go have something to eat. | ||
| You're going to like the hamburgers? | ||
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Would you rather have hamburgers from the White House or pizzas from a good place? | |
| I think you want, oh, they want the hamburgers. | ||
| Have a good time, everybody. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Christy, thank you very much, darling. | ||
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Thank you, everybody. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Peace out, Laura. | ||
| Judge Shanita's here. | ||
| She's unbelievable. | ||
| Oh, we have Leo, Leo 2.0. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Judge, I didn't see you over there. | ||
| It's lucky I spotted her. | ||
| It's lucky I spotted her. | ||
| I would have been in big trouble. | ||
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And Leo, you know, Leo 2.0, we love Leo. | |
| He's a great prosecutor, that's for sure. | ||
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You know, they both started off really as law enforcement and top lawyers and judges and law enforcement. | |
| And that's how they became famous. | ||
| Then they went into show business and everyone thought, gee, were they real? | ||
| But they were the real deal. | ||
| And you're both doing great. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Pam, do you want to say something, Janine? | |
| Yeah, I just want to say thank you to all of you. | ||
| Every night when you hit the street, you make a difference not just for us, but for everyone in the district. | ||
| They are grateful for what you do. | ||
| They are thankful. | ||
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And I am making sure that we back the blue to the hilt. | |
| Every arrest you make, we're going to the longest way to make sure that we charge in those cases. | ||
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So God bless you and thank you for what you do. | |
| You're making a difference. | ||
| And Mr. President, without you, no one would even have tried. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
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| We have the greatest president in our lifetime protecting this country, and you guys have done a great job. | ||
| And I've had the privilege to work with the greatest Attorney General and Pam Bondi. | ||
| This team really appreciates you. | ||
| We want to thank you. | ||
| You are doing the work that makes this country great, protecting America. | ||
| Thank you very much, and God bless you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The U.S. State Department is stopping all visitor visas for anybody traveling from Gaza. | ||
| Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the government has evidence that some organizations arranging the medical and humanitarian visas have ties to terror groups like Hamas. | ||
| Far-right activist Laura Loomer is claiming credit for the decision after posting on social media without any evidence that these were an excuse to bring in Palestinian refugees. | ||
| Loomer specifically criticized an American nonprofit, Heal Palestine, which brings children suffering from injuries, malnourishment, and psychological trauma to the U.S. for treatment temporarily. | ||
| Several aid agencies are condemning this decision, calling it intentionally cruel. | ||
| Obviously, quite the euphemistic spin as to what is, I think, the ultimate fear all of us have had about what is going on or a result of what is going on in the Middle East, which is a way to just jam and ram Gazan refugees into the West. | ||
| But of course, here in the United States, Laura Loomer always ahead of the curve and on the case. | ||
| Laura, can you walk us through what was going on, what you sort of uncovered, what the State Department did, and just where we sort of stand in ensuring that none of these refugees are allowed, refugees and quotes, are allowed to come here. | ||
| Yeah, so it's funny. | ||
| I was actually on vacation and I was just looking online and I follow a lot of, you know, these kind of like obscure accounts for Islamic organizations. | ||
| And I saw videos of Palestinians coming into the San Francisco airport and the Houston airport and the Atlanta airport. | ||
| And then also saw a flyer on their social media page for Heal Palestine that said that they were going to be having more Palestinian so-called refugees, right? | ||
| These Gazans coming into the St. Louis airport. | ||
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And I was thinking, oh, God, this can't be real. | |
| They're not actually importing Gazans under the Trump administration. | ||
| These must be old videos from the Biden administration when you remember Joe Biden said they were allowing Gazans to come in. | ||
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But nope, lo and behold, these videos, Natalie, were from the Trump administration. | |
| And so I posted the videos, about six videos, showing these Gazans coming into airports all across the country. | ||
| And no, they're not just medical missions for children with blown-off limbs. | ||
| They have 10 family members apiece accompanying them. | ||
| So why is it that we need to have an act of chain migration at some of the largest, busiest airports and some of the most, I guess you could say, important cities across our country, right? | ||
| These are massive hubs, very metropolitan cities with very large airports. | ||
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And if you think to yourself, well, what would an Islamic terrorist attack at one of these large airports do to our country? | |
| It would cause absolute chaos. | ||
| I mean, we saw what happened on 9-11 and how our country was severely disrupted in the aftermath of Islamic terrorist attacks involving our airplanes and our airport infrastructure, Natalie. | ||
| This is what these people want to do. | ||
| They want to bring chaos and destruction and death to our country. | ||
| And so I posted the videos. | ||
| I sent them to Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. | ||
| He was on his way back from the summit with President Trump, the Alaska summit, and he told me that he was going to be reviewing it immediately. | ||
| And within less than 24 hours of me posting my exclusive report and sending it to Secretary of State Rubio, the State Department issued a statement saying that they were immediately halting and reviewing the Gaza visa program. | ||
| So while this is nice, Natalie, it's not a complete affirmation or promise from the State Department to end and terminate the program altogether. | ||
| They said they're reviewing it. | ||
| We need to put pressure on the State Department to say that they're adding Gazans, Palestinians, terrorists, whatever you want to call these people to the travel ban permanently. | ||
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President Trump has an Islamic travel ban. | |
| Certain people from certain countries are not allowed to come into our country. | ||
| No exceptions, period, end of discussion. | ||
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He needs to add the Gazans and the Palestinians to that list as well. | |
| And we need a, you know, a strong statement and commitment from Secretary of State Rubio, promising that this program is not just under review, but completely terminated. | ||
| Laura Loomer, you are the best. | ||
| We are lucky to have you. | ||
| We're definitely going to keep following this story. | ||
| Before we have you back on, where can people go to follow you, check out, support your work? | ||
| People can follow me on my website, loomered.com. | ||
| You can also subscribe to me on X at Laura Loomer. | ||
| But Natalie, I know we got cut off because we had to cut to President Trump, but it's important for people to know that this Joe Francescan individual who's been nominated to be the next NSA deputy director has made contributions to Democrat members of Congress. | ||
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If you pull up my ex account, you'll see that I've posted the receipts and you can see that he made a 2023 donation to Jason Crowe, who's a Democrat. | |
| He was one of the impeachment managers for President Trump's first impeachment trial. | ||
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I actually attached a video. | |
| It's not that long. | ||
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It's actually like 40 seconds if your producer wants to play it. | |
| But just to take your viewers through this, here's some statements made by rep Jason Crow about President Trump. | ||
| Quote, Trump's presidency was a rough four years. | ||
| Trump is a pathological liar and an existential threat to democracy, end quote. | ||
| Second statement, quote, Trump's long history of disparaging our troops and veterans is abhorrent. | ||
| He simply doesn't understand or respect service. | ||
| The comments of this president are the last full measure of his disgrace, end quote. | ||
| Crowe also called Trump a lying sociopath after the 2024 presidential debate between himself and Joe Biden. | ||
| And Laura, we're coming up against the end of the show, so people are going to have to go read the rest. | ||
| I'm sure there are a litany of them. | ||
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I don't know why these people keep getting jammed through. | |
| Laura, thank you so much, Imposse. | ||
| Thank you for hanging with me. |
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