Jules Jones dissects a week of political chaos, contrasting Trump’s Middle East ceasefire, Venezuela CIA ops, and Ukraine-Russia talks with Democratic shutdowns over Obamacare funding. She highlights indictments against Letitia James (mortgage fraud), James Comey (obstruction), and ICE crackdowns in Chicago amid activist judges blocking enforcement. Oregon’s $1.3B healthcare for illegals and Biden’s Obamacare reversal for DACA recipients expose leftist priorities, while Trump’s record—1,600+ FBI arrests under Patel, revoked visas for anti-American foreigners—undercuts Democratic claims. The episode frames leftist "lawlessness" as a losing movement, with polls showing declining Democratic House odds and collapsing transgender trends, all while accusing Democrats of shielding Antifa, Hamas ties, and Epstein-linked figures like the Clintons. [Automatically generated summary]
Washington, D.C. A city where power is brokered in whispers, where secrets are currency, and where the stakes are nothing less than the soul of the republic.
This week, the nation's capital was a stage for high drama, bold moves, and a reckoning long overdue.
Buckle up, because this is a story of courts, cartels, and chaos, but also of justice, resilience, and the unshakable American spirit.
Let's start where the world was watching, the Middle East.
Against a backdrop of rocket and rubble, President Trump did what the naysayers said couldn't be done.
He led an international coalition to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Hostages were freed, prisoners exchanged, and for a moment the world exhaled.
It wasn't just a deal, it was a diplomatic masterpiece, a reminder that when America leads, peace follows.
Critics may grumble, but history will call it what it is, and that is a triumph.
And while the ink was drying on that ceasefire, Trump turned his attention to Venezuela, a covert CIA operation authorized at the highest level.
It sent shockwaves through the Maduro regime.
Freedom is on the march and dictators everywhere are on notice.
Meanwhile, renewed talks with Russia and Ukraine have skeptics raising eyebrows.
But let's be clear, this is a president who doesn't just talk about peace.
He pursues it relentlessly.
Back home, the Democrats' refusal to negotiate led to a government shutdown.
Let's not mince words.
This is their mess.
With 60 votes needed, the blame lies squarely at their feet.
But even amidst the gridlock, Trump found time to honor conservative icon Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It was a moment of solonymity and pride, a reminder of what values make this nation great.
And then there's the Justice Department.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
John Bolton indicted for mishandling classified information.
Letitia James charged with bank fraud.
James Comey facing obstruction charges.
These are the very people who once weaponized the system against Trump and now they find themselves caught in the gears of justice.
The irony is almost Shakespearean.
The message, no one is above the law.
Not even those who thought they were untouchable.
But this isn't just about accountability.
It's about restoring faith in our institutions.
For far too long, the American people have watched as the elite played by a different set of rules.
Those days are over.
The swamp is being drained and the rule of law is being reclaimed.
And let's talk about the economy.
Tariff revenues are up, the budget deficit is down, gold and silver are soaring.
The markets may be jittery, but the American spirit is anything but.
We are a nation of builders, dreamers, and doers.
Under Trump's leadership, we are reclaiming our destiny, one bold move at a time.
So as the sun sets on another week in Washington, remember this.
Amidst the courts, the cartels, and the chaos, there is a deeper story unfolding.
It's a story of resilience, of accountability, and of a nation rediscovering its purpose.
The road ahead won't be easy, but with courage and conviction, we will prevail.
This isn't just a moment.
It's a movement.
And the best, oh, the best is yet to come.
It's time for another political rendezvous.
Tea Spilling Saturdays00:08:28
Welcome to Tea Spilling Saturdays.
If you are new here, welcome to our tea room.
My name is Jules Jones, and on Saturdays, I go through the biggest political stories of the week.
If you are interested in news and politics, I recommend you follow our channel.
I throw a tea party every Saturday at 3 o'clock p.m. Eastern Time.
I also encourage you to visit our website, JulesJonesLive.com, for updates.
It has been quite a week, has it not?
Let's tag this President Donald Trump's week.
What an amazing week he had.
Truly, out of the park.
He blew everybody away.
Well, I know you all are feeling it.
And of course, you've got the protests today.
This is so funny.
The Democrats are just trying to remain relevant, and they are just really pathetic.
They're trying to rattle their bass and trying to get everybody on the page, making it look, you know, using optics like they've always used, like they actually still have a party.
Their party is collapsing before their very eyes.
Make no mistake about all of that.
Well, hello, gems.
Welcome, welcome to Saturday.
Welcome to day 18 of the Schumer shutdown.
I mean, that's really what we need to call this.
Similar to last week, of course, you had Schumer and the Democrats.
They continue to attempt and blame Republicans for the Schumer shutdown, but they're failing and they still look like fools, with or without their sombreros.
They are behaving like terrorists, holding the government hostage until all of their ridiculous demands are met.
Not surprisingly, Democrat approval continues to plummet.
The Schumer shutdown is definitely not working for them.
On this show one week ago, while speaking about President Trump, I said, I can't wait to see what he does next week.
Well, little did I know.
Let's take a look at what's been going on, shall we?
So over the past week, DHS has continued to deport illegals, right?
24-7, round the clock.
They are not backing off of that.
Kash Patel's FBI announced that they are locking up bad guys at an all-time record pace and may be going to San Francisco next.
Wow, I hope so.
Democrat midterm election prospects are cratering fast.
They are falling big time.
Fake News NBC fired all of their DEI staff, the entire group of them.
The fake news media, hmm, they lost all of their access to the Pentagon.
Russ Vogt, he continued to announce ways that he is shrinking the government.
John Bolton was indicted.
Duranged Jack Smith was referred for potential disbarment.
President Trump and the Department of War blew up two more narco-drug boats.
You had President Trump who freed the remaining living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and put Hamas on notice that they must disarm or be killed.
No ambiguity there.
Oh, and President Trump ended the Israel-Hamas war and immediately pivoted to stopping the Russia-Ukraine war.
Just a typical week in President Trump's wonderful second term.
However, as President Trump delivers win after win after win, the leftist Democrats are not going quietly into that good night.
They should, but they won't, no matter how ridiculous or extreme they appear to be.
This extreme, deranged leftist partisan and un-American behavior needs to be exposed to the sunlight.
So this show will be all about exposing the bad guys.
And that's why we named today's show Leftist Lawlessness, Courts, Cartels, and Chaos.
Among the topics of this vile leftist behavior, you got judicial tyranny.
It is continuing on.
The Supreme Court overturned them and warned them to stop, but it's clear the leftist judicial activists won't.
Congress needs to impeach activist judges.
That will stop it.
Democrats also continue to interfere with law enforcement in order to protect illegals and Antifa while putting Americans at risk.
In day 18 of the Schumer shutdown, Democrats are still pathetically attempting to blame Republicans when the simple math shows Democrats are causing it.
60 Senate votes are needed.
Republicans have, at best, 53.
Democrats are refusing to pass a clean CR and have rejected offers of standalone votes on Obamacare funding and funding to pay our servicemen and women.
Schumer rejected both.
This behavior would appear juvenile if it wasn't so serious.
Democrats continue to oppose President Trump and they look really stupid doing it.
Today, we're going to talk about all of this and more.
But before we get into the leftist lawlessness, the courts, cartels, and the chaos of the left, we'll begin today's show with our four starter segments, our top news story countdown, which takes a more tongue-in-cheek approach to this week's mostly wonderful news stories.
We'll review our current breaking news and ex-news for today.
Our What is Wrong with These People.
It is a segment showing how the left has dumbed down our society.
And then our In Case You Missed It segment, which provides updates on stories from past shows.
Now look, you know I love having you all here every Saturday at 3 o'clock p.m. Eastern Time, but I do know how important Saturdays can be.
And if for some reason you can't be here, or if you've missed any of our other live shows, you can always watch them later.
You can check them out on JulesJonesLive.com.
As always, a special thank you to all of our refugees for finding a new way to watch our live stream, different platforms.
I know that's not always easy to make a switch, but you can also find them on our website.
Each chat room is a little different.
They're all fun.
I get to see them all.
I'm a little spoiled over here, and it's just unique.
Each little group is different, so it's fun to see, but I truly appreciate you.
Then we'll spill the tea with this week's show, Leftist Lawlessness: Courts, Cartels, and Chaos.
Following that, I'll dish up some rumors from online chatter that you will not want to miss in our Daily Dish segment.
And then finally, we'll cover this week's question of the day, where you get to provide your answers in the show comments.
But for now, settle in, get comfortable with your beverage of choice, as we begin this week's political rendezvous.
Let's spill some tea, shall we?
And we begin, as we always do, with our top news stories for the week.
Coming in at number 10.
Trump's Peaceful Triumph00:05:22
Eight wars and conflicts ended.
Trump delivers peace, liberals still angry.
There was actually a time when Democrats and Republicans would cease hostilities when something truly good happened for the country and the world.
No more.
Leftists are simply too TDS afflicted to give President Trump credit for ending eight wars.
The rest of the world will give him credit, but leftists are petty and small.
It actually makes them angry when he succeeds.
Coming in at number nine, when Trump won the presidency, they stopped spitting on me.
This was a former hostage.
He tells how Hamas was scared of Trump.
This hostage's first-hand account tells you more about how the world views the strength of President Trump versus the weakness of his predecessor, Turnip Brain Biden.
The United States is respected again.
Coming in at number eight, you've got Big Tish.
Well, she raises her fist and lashes out at Trump in the first public appearance since the federal indictment.
This took no time at all.
After years of Letitia's blatant, targeted campaigning and vicious lawfare against President Trump, Big Tish is now acting like a victim.
She says she is innocent.
Don't they all?
But the evidence very clearly says she is guilty, guilty, guilty.
Coming in at number seven, President Trump announces obliteration of another Venezuelan drug boat.
Six narco-terrorists killed.
Once again, boom, go the narcoterrorist.
And by the end of the week, yet another narcoterrorist drug boat was destroyed.
The families of every fentanyl overdose victim knows that the narco-terrorists, they deserve this fate and more.
Coming in at number six, you've got CNN's Harry Inton, who warned four Democrats the chance of taking the House in 2026 has plummeted.
Democrats had hoped to wait out President Trump's term until regaining control of the House in the midterms.
Their idiotic policies are making that outcome far more doubtful.
In at number five, Nancy Pelosi snaps at Reporter and puts her finger in her face after being asked about refusing deployment of the National Guard on January 6th.
This was fantastic and the memes were even better.
Shut up, Piglosi shouted.
No, Nancy, we are not going to shut up.
You staged a despicable setup and that will be your lasting legacy.
There's not enough vodka in the world to drown that out.
Coming in at number four, you have the former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund who confronts Pelosi on lies about January 6th and drops the receipts.
Piglosi lied and Chief Sund can prove it.
Game set match.
End of story.
In at number three, Mitch McConnell falls hard again.
I don't know what makes politicians stay in office for so long after they are unable to function, but it keeps happening.
There was Feinstein, now McConnell.
We are the only country on earth whose government has a special community for its impaired elderly members.
Term limits, Jims.
We need term limits.
Oh, this one was great.
Number two, Charlie Kirk was honored as a martyr for truth and freedom during White House ceremony.
Although this story is number two on our list, there was no story which carried a more powerful emotional impact than this one.
It was touching and sad and inspirational all at once.
Once again, Erica Kirk somehow found the strength and the poise to deliver comments that were touching, loving, and heart-wrenching.
President Trump flew back from the Middle East specifically for this moment.
It was a glowing tribute to a true patriot, and it will inspire millions over time.
Thank you, Charlie.
Well done.
Rest in peace.
And our number one biggest story for this week.
Widespread acclaim for President Trump's diplomatic triumph.
This is simply the biggest story in several centuries.
Everyone said it couldn't be done, but once Iran's nuclear ambitions were eliminated, President Trump wisely involved all the Middle East countries to establish a new vision for the Middle East.
The terrorists will no longer control Gaza, and the entire Middle East and the rest of the world will ensure the peace because of their shared interests.
It was a massive global success.
America is indeed the hottest country on the planet.
Congratulations, President Trump, and congratulations to all of us.
Widespread Acclaim for Trump's Triumph00:02:36
There you have it.
Our top news stories for the week.
And we are going to head on over to our X segment to see what's happening today.
And as always, there is.
But we're going to start with our question of the day, which I know a lot of you have already participated in.
But if you haven't, I hope you will.
All you have to do is visit Jules Jones Live on X and you can just answer.
It's at the very top of my page.
And since I'm running this show, I won't be posting.
It's going to remain in this position.
It will not move because I can only do a couple of things at once over here.
But the question is this.
Should members of Congress continue to get paid during the government shutdown?
Yes or no?
And at the end of this show, whatever you put down in your comments, I will give you a shout out and let the world know what you think.
We're not new to all of this.
I love hearing what you all have to say about this.
This is infuriating.
The fact that they get paid at all is infuriating.
They're supposed to be public servants, right?
Civil servants.
Night looks like they're making a killing all of them up there on the stock market.
So, anyway, that's the question.
I'm throwing it into your hands.
Then, I wanted to give a special shout out to Patriot Lioness, who always does such an amazing job of letting everybody know about this show, as to all of you.
Thank you so much, Gems, for getting the word out.
I really appreciate it.
I'm not able to post as much as I would like to because I'm always working on this show.
I don't know if you noticed a couple of the new things that I'm doing over here, but it has occupied a lot of my time.
So, I'm not able to get out there and let everybody know about the show itself.
So, I appreciate you for all of that.
At Patriot underscore Lioness, thank you so much for putting these out.
Also, in the litter box, she does that as well.
So, Kat Hurt, let's start out with him.
Here he has got it going.
Let's go.
Dork Cult Protest Day.
He has it trending on X as he is always able to do.
You've got the trending two things that are going on today: No Kings, and then Dork Cult Protest Day.
If you have not participated, please go do that.
It always helps.
It definitely does.
But get everybody out there posting Dork Cult Protest Day and make sure that everyone sees it because that's about what it is.
Gofundme Scandal00:07:09
So, I'll start out with one of the biggest dorks.
Okay, just to prove my point.
All right, here is this clown, and look at this hair.
Conway, all right, I am Antifa.
Okay, bad look.
I mean, seriously, this guy is wearing an I Am Antifa t-shirt and then a yellow bandana.
George Conway, I this clown is a clown, but it looks like his hair went to the salon and said, Surprise me.
Lay off that die, mister.
It's obviously going to your head.
Then, of course, there's trouble in New York.
You all are very aware of what's going on over there.
Laura Loomer did an exclusive on it.
You have Zoran Mam Danny, who brags about campaigning at a mosque with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
They're not even trying to hide who this person is.
This is one day after the New York City mayoral debate.
He is throwing his ties to Islamic terrorists in our faces.
So, Laura Loomer, she broke the story months ago about Ma'am Danny's ties to Wahaj Ziraj Wahaj Sr. and it was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
He has donated to Ma'am Danny's campaign, and he is still an imam in New York City to this day.
Linda Sarsour, I haven't heard that name in a while, calls Siraj her mentor.
In case you thought it couldn't get worse, Siraj Wahaj's son, Siraj Wahaj Jr., ran a jihadi compound in New Mexico where he trained kids to commit terrorist attacks.
He and his associates were arrested and jailed for life for training kids on a compound in New Mexico to kill Americans.
Authorities said they stockpiled weapons and planned to commit mass murder in the name of Islam.
The remains of dead children were also found on the compound.
These are the people who are backing Ma'am Danny.
This is who is trying to take over New York City.
This is what happens when we let jihadists into our country.
New York City is about to be engulfed by Islamic terrorism.
And she's got the receipts, all of them right here.
Imam, father of Muslim extremists who was found at New Mexico compound with 11 children, was linked to the 1993 bombing of World Trade Center and testified for a blind sheik who plotted it.
It's amazing, really incredible.
And you've got five New Mexico compound defendants sentenced to life in prison in connection with kidnapping and terrorism plot.
This is for immediate release.
And of course, all of these names are mentioned.
This is who their leading candidate is in New York.
This is really scary.
So he puts out the pictures.
Again, he's rubbing it into everyone's faces.
He's talking about how he had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Zaraj Wahaj, one of the nation's foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed Stewie community for nearly half a century.
I was also joined by CM Dr. Yusuf Salam of Harlem, a beautiful Jama.
And here are the pictures.
They're thrilled to have him, as you can imagine.
They're all on the same team because little by little they will be chipping away at our Constitutional Republic.
They are going to make this normal, just much like they did with London.
You can already see the writing on the wall on what's going to happen to New York.
This is really, really sad.
And I hope it doesn't happen, but I think the writing's on the wall over there.
Then you've got Mike Davis at Mr. DDMIA.
He says, Democrats illegally mass imported into New York City Islamists who hate America.
Now they are complaining about affordable housing.
After they drove up the price of housing with illegals, Ma'am Danny is going to conquer New York like his fellow Islamists are conquering London.
So here are his points.
He's going to freeze the rent, 200,000 new affordable homes, and he's going to make it easier to build.
Well, I'm proud to say that I, yes, will freeze the rent for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants.
And I will also build 200,000 truly affordable homes across the five boroughs over the next 10 years to ensure that tenants, whether rent-stabilized or market rate, can actually have more housing such that they are not being priced out of this city.
And finally, I'm also going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing in the city because what we see today is that it's not labor, it's not materials, it's the weight that is often costing so many so much to actually build the housing we need in this city.
Well, I'm proud to say that I, yes, we'll freeze the rent for more than 2 million rents stabilized.
This guy is so bad.
Come on, New York.
You know, you know better than this.
Then you've got from the Wall Street Apes.
You have GoFundMe caught creating over a million NGO pages and accepting donations without them knowing.
GoFundMe has taken it upon themselves to create a non-profit pages for 1.4 million 501c3 organizations using public IRS data along with information from trusted partners like PayPal.
GoFundMe has created nonprofit pages for more than 1 million charities using public data.
The corruption taking place in America is beyond comprehension and absolutely nobody ever goes to jail.
Tonight, 7 on your side is looking into a new product that GoFundMe uses to solicit donations for nonprofit organizations.
Except in one local case, the organization had no idea.
7 on Your Side Stephanie Sierra is live with a story tonight, Steph.
Yes, Alma and Dan, GoFundMe has created nonprofit pages for more than 1 million charities using public data.
But as we learned from a local 7 on your side viewer, some of these nonprofits are unaware these pages even exist.
Dave Dornless is the treasurer for the Friends of the San Bruno Public Library and the president of the San Bruno Amateur Radio Club.
Recently, he got a call from the library that left him puzzled.
One of our patrons at the library wanted to make a donation in someone's name who had passed away.
He says the person went online and found a GoFundMe page tied to the library's nonprofit and wanted to know if it was legit.
And it's something that we did not set up.
We weren't sure what was going on.
Donation Dilemma00:13:16
So it looks like you've got the Department of Justice and the FBI that are going to have even more work on their hands because I guarantee you they're going to see a lot of leftist organizations that are going to become of interest to them.
Well, this is a bit of good news.
You've got the secretary, Linda McMahon, who is the Education Secretary.
She says, 46 years of the Department of Education, over $3 trillion in spending, falling reading and math scores, bloated bureaucracy.
We don't need a birthday cake.
We need an eviction notice.
Well, it's really true.
She has slashed it.
This is fabulous.
It looks like the Department of Education is getting a lesson in subtraction.
Half the staff just got sent to permanent detention.
Then you've got Caroline Levitt.
She hits the mark.
Jeffries lashes out because he knows the truth that Democrats prioritize extremist illegal aliens and criminals over hardworking Americans, less name-calling, more governing, open the government, and serve the people.
You know what?
She's fabulous.
She is doing an amazing job, but she did not let up on this one.
She basically put it right to Sean Hannity the way it needed to be put.
Sure would, Sean, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so.
Look, Hakeem Jeffries is simply lashing out because he knows that I am telling the truth about the modern-day Democrat Party.
What I said, and it is a fact, is that the Democrat Party caters more to pro-Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.
And let me walk Hakeem through the facts of that statement.
When it comes to pro-Hamas terrorists, it was Hakeem's House Democrat caucus that voted against a resolution condemning the October 7th attack on Israel.
It was Hakeem Jeffries Democrat caucus that supported and encouraged the pro-Hamas protests that ravaged college campuses and engaged in illegal harassment of Jewish students across the United States of America under Joe Biden's administration.
When it comes to illegal aliens, the American people know the truth about that.
The Democrats allowed them to flood our country.
Why?
Because they view that constituency as their future voters.
And when it comes to violent criminals, look at what the Democrats support in terms of crime.
Soft on crime policies like cashless bail, like letting violent criminals out back into the streets so they can recommit violent offenses against law-abiding American citizens.
The Democrat Party puts Americans last.
That's why they overwhelmingly lost the election to President Trump and the Republican Party.
And that's why they're holding this country hostage right now from law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens who want the government to be open.
So Hakeem Jeffries should stop calling me names.
He should stop trying to fight my boss, President Trump, and he should go back to doing what he was elected to do: the business of the American people in Congress, and encourage Senate Democrats to open the government.
And I see Hakeem Jeffries saying, House Republicans are out, they're not even here.
Yeah, because they did their jobs and they passed a clean, continuing resolution at the behest of President Trump to keep the government open.
And now, Senate, Senate Democrats, and Chuck Schumer are blocking that to fight Donald Trump, and it's despicable.
Gosh, isn't it great to have somebody that is articulate?
This is coming on the heels of turnip brain Biden.
I mean, my gosh, and his entire administration.
But believe me, I mean, they put those people in there for a reason, and it's just good to see this.
I mean, the whole administration is just truly doing great.
They really are, with an exception to one that we want to go ahead and push along a little bit further.
But hopefully, she's getting the people in there that she needs.
So, you've got the No Kings Day, October 18th.
Well, according to Lori Ann, Lori Ann25, she calls it out.
She says it's nothing more than the losing party throwing a temper tantrum because they lost.
Their losing strategy was hate Trump, target Trump, and that is their own fault.
And they will continue to lose.
And it is true.
President Trump has got it going on.
This is the map of our No Kings march.
And as you can see, President Trump is dancing in front of it.
We wanted a complete landslide, a total trifecta.
This was a message to the left.
That was where we marched.
We marched to the voting booths and we voted and we handed him the everything.
And we're going to do that again during midterms.
But that is not going to stop the left.
They are going to throw these little tantrums.
And a lot of people are just there because they have nothing to do.
They just want to go hang out and see what's going on.
But a lot of these things, as you know, are paid for.
They're funded by all of these different groups, and especially in New York.
I hear Times Square is really having a go at it.
They're doing everything that they can to shake up their base.
We saw this with President Trump's first term.
These are the same tactics.
It's the same groups.
I mean, you've got communist groups that are out there with their names right on right there, front and center, showing that they're the ones sponsoring these events.
It's not news how they work or how they, you know, control these events, but they know that midterms are right around the corner and they are trying to rattle their base.
It is for optics, like I say.
But you've got Greg Gutfeld, who dropped a massive truth nuke ahead of the No Kings protest.
Said, it says something that no kings is happening while Trump is brokering peace around the world.
He's done like seven or eight, actually eight.
I can clarify that.
It shows that that doesn't matter.
I mean, they're over there waving Palestinian flags.
I mean, do they not know who their daddy is?
Let's go.
I mean, really.
Well, it goes on to say anger requires no thought, no labor, no risk.
Remember how Biden played the rage card whenever he did anything else?
Remember the rioting and looting after George Floyd?
It was a replacement for thoughtful action.
The media indulges this idea that passion equals effort.
It's an imaginary solution for an imaginary problem.
The media decided to redefine it as a struggle.
That whenever anybody did something violent, it had something to do with some kind of struggle.
It's a full-blown emotional vendetta.
It's taken over their lives.
Doesn't matter what he does.
So how is this possible?
How can you have good things happening around the world and people participating in mass hysteria?
Because it's easy and it's fun.
Having the no-kings event after Trump figures out the Middle East peace is like holding a wedding after the couple broke off the engagement the night before.
A lot of these people just don't have family.
Oh, they don't just, I mean, it's not just that.
It's a lot of it.
It's just they have nothing better to do.
They want to go see and hook up and meet people and see what's going on.
It's kind of like they've created the circus-like environment, right?
We're out here protesting, but you're not going to see those people out at the polls.
This is really for optics' sake.
They're just throwing their type of party.
A communist party.
Oh, good.
Well, one person that has gotten Washington D. Sleazy all rattled was President Trump's pick.
You've heard the name.
Well, Lindsay Halligan is running circles around everyone, and this is why President Trump was so insistent, even posted about it on Truth.
He said, let's go ahead and get her in.
Don't send me any more rhinos.
Well, you've got this Ken Dillanan who says three people familiar with the matter tell MSNBC that the two top criminal prosecutors in the Norfolk office of the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired after expressing skepticism about the case against the New York Attorney General.
Well, Julie Kelly goes a little bit further with this.
She says that sources tell her that Elizabeth Yussie and Kristen Bird were fired and escorted from the building and stripped of security clearances for leaking information on sensitive investigative matters to MSNBC and Fusion and Ken in particular.
So this is how the whole game has been played up to this point.
And Lindsay Halligan, she is taking control.
She is cleaning house at the Justice Department.
Deep state prosecutors in Virginia are being exposed.
They're being fired.
They're being indicted with Comey already charged.
She handled that one herself, by the way.
You had all these people saying, oh no, we're not going to be able to get him.
Oh, yes.
She had an ironclad case.
She was not going to let the statute of limitations run out.
She went in there, guns a blazing and said, indict, and they did.
So, of course, with Comey already charged, this is just the beginning of a long overdue reckoning.
Change is here.
The swamp is being drained.
Then you have Stephen Miller, and he is talking about the National Guard's mission in Chicago.
It is to protect federal lives and property that are facing constant criminal assault.
The guard protecting DHS is activated under federal control, and therefore, like any federal troops, can emanuate from any state if such resources prove necessary to DHS.
The way troops are pulled from any base, they are operating as federal force protecting federal assets.
Significantly, the federal mission that they are protecting is the core mission of the federal government, the defense of our national and territorial sovereignty from an invasion by millions of unvetted foreign aliens and sophisticated criminal cartels.
In Chicago, these foreign gangs have established a hub to distribute deadly narcotics and criminal enterprises, just like human trafficking, across the United States.
The drugs and weapons that are trafficked through Chicago do not stay in Chicago.
Chicago and Illinois leaders are committing a crime against every other state by obstructing ICE in order to facilitate this foreign criminal invasion across the entire United States.
Texas has shown supreme patriotism by offering troops into federal service who have unique and extensive experience in this specific mission so that ICE officers can safely conduct their federal duties without being subjected to domestic terrorism, planned violence, and possible assassination.
He nails it.
He truly does.
I mean, you have got the left.
Well, this Justice Barrett gave Illinois until Monday at 5 p.m.
And this is Amy Camey, as we like to call her sometimes.
Just depends on what she's up to.
They gave Illinois until Monday at 5 p.m. to reply, but denied Trump's team stay, leaving them hanging.
The court saw no rebellion.
Maybe they should let them walk the streets of Chicago for a perspective or get a better sense of urgency on the matter, but she gave them until Monday.
Now you hear about the numbers in Chicago.
I mean, every weekend, it's like a massacre.
I don't know what the holdup is, but hey, you know what?
You've got a lot of activist judges that are trying to get in the way of what President Trump is doing.
Again, I've got catered.
And another reminder that if you have not posted Dork Colt Protest Day, then make sure you get on your little computer right now, whether it be on your phone or on your laptop or on your desktop.
Get on over there and make sure that you type out Dork Colt Protest Day.
He's got it at number two.
This is fabulous.
So anyway, there's a lot going on today.
Let there be no doubt about it.
Incredible things are happening.
I mean, every single week, when I say, I wonder what's going to go down next week, I truly mean it because it's wild.
But as far as the left is concerned, we move on into that segment, and it's a real fun one.
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It is what is wrong with these people?
Well, I'm going to give you a spoiler alert.
Plenty is wrong with them.
This is how the left has dumbed down society.
Okay, so rules for thee, fraud for me.
Letitia James prosecuted mortgage fraud case mirroring the charges against her.
Wild, isn't it?
Convictions of Brooklyn couple for $1.3 million mortgage fraud scheme.
This is Letitia James, which we have covered time and time again.
You all know Big Tish.
Well, Attorney General Letitia James and state police superintendent Corlette announced convictions of Brooklyn couple for $1.3 million mortgage fraud.
This happened in June of 2019.
New York Attorney General Letitia James stood before the cameras to hail a conviction that she called in a triumph against mortgage fraud.
The case involved $1.3 million scheme by a Brooklyn couple.
The name of them, it's John F. Lacano and Shapreska Jekvik.
You know I messed up that name.
Whom James accused of a deliberate scheme to enrich themselves at the expense of hardworking New Yorkers.
So at the time, she declared that the prosecution was proof that no one was above the law.
But today, now under indictment for mortgage fraud, she herself, the speech reads less like a moment of triumph and more like an act of projection.
So you've got Letitia James.
She remains striking for its tone of moral absolutism.
And you have these two that falsified a document, just like Tish did, after an order to pad their own pockets, which is what she did it, the reason why she did it.
She says, let this serve as a warning to all of those who try to carry out such deliberate schemes.
There is no place in this state for individuals who try to cash in at the expense of hardworking New Yorkers.
Those words, no place in this state, once echoed across newsrooms as a declaration of a moral crusader.
Not anymore.
So of course, you've got the combating upstate financial frauds and schemes.
They were marketed as a model for restoring faith in financial integrity and pairing state police with prosecutors to expose deceitful plots and reinforce the public trust.
And according to her office, this was a 2019 press release, those two orchestrated an elaborate scheme between April 2016 and March 2017 using phony bank records to secure over $1.3 million in fraudulent loans to defraud lenders across upstate New York.
So if you fast forward to the present, this is the same Letitia James who condemned others for falsifying mortgage documents.
Well, now she's accused of doing the same, but on a far broader scale.
So you've seen the documents.
You know what this case looks like.
Incredible.
Letitia James engaged in 24 years of mortgage fraud and housing regulation violations in connection with her five-unit Brooklyn apartment building.
James obtained lower interest rates by falsely representing her building as having less than five units.
This is a key threshold for obtaining lower residential lending terms and avoiding more expensive commercial rates and closing costs.
James also failed to register her apartment building and tenant leases for rent stabilization as required, which deprived New York City of regulatory oversight and tenants of lawful protections.
James even lied on her very first mortgage application, claiming to be married to her own father to qualify for a loan.
So this has been wild.
Then, of course, you have James, who falsely declared a property in Virginia she co-purchased in 2023 with her niece as her primary residence, thereby obtaining a lower interest rate.
This woman is a criminal.
They've got all of the receipts.
You had people in the Virginia office who were saying, oh, no, we don't have a case against her with all of the evidence.
They were doing everything they could to stop this case from getting to court and to throw a wrench in it.
Well, guess what?
Those people we are saying bye-bye to because Lindsay Halligan is doing an incredible job of cleaning up that place, and she is the one that got this thing going.
So hats off to her.
But even more troubling, you've got James who publicly stated that the property was purchased to provide shelter for her niece's daughter, Nakia Monique Thompson, a fugitive who was wanted on parole violations in North Carolina with an active arrest warrant.
So she's harboring fugitives now.
This whole thing is just wild.
Her self-enrichment, manipulation of financial institutions, the whole deal.
This is great.
So now all of a sudden she's playing victim.
Like every, you know, none of this is real, that she is just being that it's politically motivated, that it's retaliation against President Trump is retaliating against her for her going after him when you've got the receipts.
So, of course, no one is above the law and no one's going to know that better than Letitia James when all of this gets through the pipe.
I'm so excited about it.
I truly am.
We did a show on Letitia James and we highlighted all of this stuff.
So if you want to go back at the website and look at it, you can.
All of our shows are there and you can watch them.
All right, so we head into our in case you missed it segment.
Comey.
Comey, comey, comey.
This is fabulous.
Comey moves to challenge appointment of U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan.
Like I said, this woman is a rock star.
He is challenging her appointment because he knows he is, he should be afraid, very afraid.
So a grand jury has indicted him.
The former FBI fired former FBI director James Comey, and it happened last month.
He was indicted on two counts, false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
And you've got all of the documents right here.
And Comey confirms a plan to challenge the legality of Trump's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney for EDVA EDVA.
He cites rulings in New Jersey, Nevada, disqualifying U.S. attorneys there.
Motion coming October 20th.
So if he is this concerned about it, you know how good she actually is.
This is wonderful.
And these are the two rulings that he is trying to use to disqualify her.
Good luck with that, Comey.
It's not going to work.
He is terrified.
Then you've got the deep state prosecutors.
They attack DOJ's investigation into whether Biden's FBI secretly destroyed classified documents in burn bags to protect Comey.
Now, you've heard about these burn bags.
They're being found all over the place and they're in these different rooms.
Well, deep state career prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia are attacking the DOJ's investigation into whether Biden's FBI secretly destroyed classified documents and burn bags to protect James Comey with leaks to the New York Times.
Well, they're investigating it.
It happened during Joe Biden's residency, secretly destroyed documents to protect James Comey and John Brennan.
James Comey served, of course, in the FBI from 2013 to 2017 when Trump fired him.
John Brennan served as the director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017.
And according to the Times, the investigation is related to a report that revealed that Kash Patel found thousands of Russian hoax documents in burn bags in a secret room at the FBI.
So over the summer, Fox reported that FBI Director Cash found these.
You saw Cash even talking about it.
One of the documents in the burn bag included the classified annex to the John Durham report that includes the underlying intelligence that he investigated.
This is big stuff.
These people are criminals.
They have been at the very top of the pyramid running the show.
And it is so good to finally be at this point.
So you've got CIA director John Ratcliffe, who recently declassified the annex to the Durham final report, and he sent it over to Senator Grassley, who released it to us finally.
We all knew the stuff was going on.
We just needed the receipts.
So you also have other reports that Kash Patel and his team of investigators discovered a previously undisclosed skiff at the FBI headquarters.
This is wild.
I mean, in August, you had Trump appointed interim U.S. attorney Todd Gilbert, who was overseeing the bird bag case in the Western District of Virginia.
He was forced out after he reportedly refused to remove a high-ranking prosecutor who claimed the evidence in the case was flimsy.
The new U.S. attorney appointed by Trump has now taken over the case.
This is the rock star I've been talking to you all about.
And now career prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia are leaking to the media constantly for damage control.
And they are also trying to hurt the investigation.
So all of this is going down and Lindsay is no stranger to it.
You have a new leak to the New York Times that career prosecutors do not believe criminal charges are warranted in the DOJ investigation into the burn bags.
They don't want it.
This is another reason why those elections that we have been talking about, of course, the Jay Jones and then the Abigail Spanberger are so important.
We've got to get Virginia back on track.
And I really do believe, I do believe we can do it.
So I've been working on trying to repost a lot of what Winsom Sears has been posting and trying to expose Jay Jones as much as possible because all of this affects all of us.
We can get to the center, to the core of this whole thing if we get the proper people in place.
So you've got prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia.
They also leaked to the media ahead of Comey's indictment.
And that is why Lindsay put it in her own hands and said, hey, hey, hey, I am here for one purpose.
I'm indicting this guy and I'm going to get the job done, which she did.
So we're in good hands there.
This is another reason why President Trump, I don't know if you remember that post that he put out there.
He says, you know, hey, he went out on a post and he was like, look, I need you to go ahead and confirm this, Pam Bondi.
You really need to do this.
So hopefully that's going on.
I mean, and he got it done, but that's going to happen with a whole bunch of other people that they want confirmed and out with the old and with the new.
Then you've got a Clinton judge who blocks Trump administration from firing federal workers during the Schumer shutdown.
This is a federal judge on Wednesday who temporarily blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown.
This is all just to slow the roll.
The judicial tyranny just continues on, and it is wild.
So we are going to begin spilling the tea on all of this and more.
This is the judicial part of the show.
We're going to start with that and it's going to go into the chaos and all of the confusion of the left.
Let's begin spilling.
Okay, so this is huge.
When you have got all of these judges that are working just to slow the role of President Trump, you know that the deep state is even deeper than you may have thought it was.
I mean, I think we all pretty much knew that they had their tentacles everywhere, but now it is becoming how clear it really is and how deep it goes.
So, you have a federal judge on Wednesday who temporarily blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown.
This judge was U.S. District Judge Susan Ilston, a Clinton appointee.
They issued a temporary restraining order, a TRO, on Wednesday and stopped the Trump administration from firing federal workers.
The Schumer shutdown began on October 1st, which makes it really easy for us to count the days, by the way.
Thank you for starting on October 1st because we know exactly how many days it has been, and it has been, of course, 18.
And then you've got the Senate, who has voted nine times.
This is such a bad look for Democrats.
They have voted nine times and failed nine to reopen the government because Schumer wants to give illegal aliens health care.
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That's what this is all about.
The layoffs of the federal government employees began last Friday as the U.S. government shutdown entered another tense phase, according to the Trump administration.
Budget Chief Russell Vogt, who confirmed the sweeping reductions in a social media post.
This really razzed the left.
They got all heated over this post.
He said the RIFs have begun.
Well, this is the acronym for reductions in force.
He is using this as a tool, and I think it's great.
You've got Norm Eason, the deep state's favorite lawyer.
He spearheaded the color revolution and more than 180 lawsuits.
Think about that.
That is what that guy was doing.
Norm Eason, 180 lawsuits against President Trump.
He sued the Trump administration to stop the RIFs because these are his friends, right?
You remember there was a time when President Trump could not get a lawyer.
There is a reason, especially in Washington, D. Sleazy, where he needed it the most, it's because they ran that town.
And these different law offices, they are entities.
They are partners in this whole deep state debacle that we have found ourselves in.
These are the power players.
In some cases, they are just as powerful as some of the lobbyists.
That is the kind of power that they have.
So Norm Eason, he filed a lawsuit on behalf of federal labor unions and judge shopped to make sure his case was assigned to Judge Ilston because she ruled in favor of labor unions in a RIF case in the past.
So that's how they've been doing it, and they've been able to get away with it.
So of course, you've got Norm Eason who says, we are going to court to stop the Trump administration's abuse of the coming shutdown to illegally RIF employees.
So proud to be part of this lawsuit with AFGE National, AFSC, ME, and Democracy Forward, and Altschuler Burzon.
So you've got the paperwork here.
That's their complaint.
Well, on Wednesday, you had Judge Ilston, who issued, of course, as expected, a TRO because she said the firings appear politically motivated.
Well, so do the filings.
Not just the firings, like they are claiming.
It's the filings to make sure that they keep all of these people in place.
So you've got CBS News and others that are reporting it.
No, but of course, you know, that's going to be the spin that they are using.
They're using politically motivated when they went after our president like nobody's business.
I cannot even believe the nerve of these people, but here we are.
Then you've got Cook County chief judge who bans ICE and Border Patrol from making civil arrests of illegal aliens at Chicago courthouses.
This is the wildest thing.
I mean, each one of these stories are just crazy bizarre because this is really what we have with this administration.
These people are lawless and we're seeing it time and time again.
So with this particular case, so now you've got courthouses.
They are safe spaces for lawbreakers.
You have Cook County's chief judge Timothy Effens.
He has decided that ICE and Border Patrol can't make civil arrests near courthouses because apparently enforcing the law is just too scary for some.
This isn't about justice.
It's about turning a blind eye.
The message is loud and clear.
If you break the law, don't worry.
Cook County's got your back.
Or should we call it Crook County?
The rest of us are here left wondering when following the rules became optional.
I mean, this is how we feel.
It's like, what is going on with these courts?
Nuts.
But this is what happens.
Then you've got an Illinois activist judge who orders ICE to tear down security fence protecting federal facility.
Okay, a Biden-appointed judge just handed the anti-ICE protesters a win by ordering the removal of a security fence meant to protect an ICE facility from chaos and violence.
Apparently, the safety of federal officers and detainees takes a back seat to local politics.
The fence, which was put up after the protest turned destructive, is now deemed a public safety hazard because nothing says safety like leaving federal property wide open to mob rule.
Okay, this isn't just a rub and just overreach.
It's a masterclass in misplaced priorities.
And you're watching it unfold at all of these different ICE facilities.
I mean, this is mob rule.
This is what it looks like.
So, of course, you've got this U.S. District Court judge, LaShonda Hunt, Biden appointed, who has ruled that the fencing surrounding the ICE facility and broadview must be torn down.
Now, I didn't see anybody complaining on the left, right?
I mean, when they put all of these barbed wire and everything else, and they were guarding the Capitol for something they staged.
Do you remember that?
I remember that.
I'm old enough to remember that.
Interesting the way this whole thing gets played.
Then, of course, you've got a judge.
This is Judge Immergut.
Interesting name.
Immergut extends a block on Trump's troop deployment in Portland.
These are all activist judges.
So, Judge Karengut has once again overstepped her bounds, extending her block on President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.
This is blatant interference with efforts to restore order in a city that has been plagued by chaos and violence.
Immergut, a Trump appointee, no less, issued a restraining order that not only undermines the president's authority, but also jeopardizes public safety.
Her justification is a flimsy claim that deploying troops could lead to a constitutional crisis.
Meanwhile, Antifa radicals and far-left agitators continue to wreak havoc unchecked.
It's not justice.
This is political obstruction at its worst.
And you're saying it over and over and over again with these activist judges.
You've got Margot Cleveland that is also talking about it.
Unreal.
Unreal.
So they're doing everything they can to slow down our president because they know that he is going full steam ahead.
Here's another.
Now, this one was fun.
Okay, because we always need a little bit of fun on this show, but this was outrageous.
Okay, so I don't know how she continues to show us how dumb she actually is, but she does.
She proves it every single day.
I mean, you know, when Biden said, hey, we need a DEI hire, that's what we got, apparently.
I mean, he didn't try to make a secret out of it.
He's like, look, I need her to be a woman and I need her to be black.
And I'm going to be fishing from that pool.
I'm not going to be fishing for anything else.
So he delivered.
Okay.
One of the things that he delivered on anyway.
Shock.
Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson compares black people to disabled people during arguments on race-based voting districts.
I kid you not.
She actually did this.
This is like the craziest thing.
We talked about it on the show during the week and it was everything I could do to stay focused.
I was like, do you realize how she just insulted pretty much everyone?
I mean, you don't talk about a racist.
This is a prime example.
So Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's comment during the Supreme Court hearing on race-based voting districts are beyond outrageous.
I mean, anybody should have been.
Comparing black American voting challenges to the struggles of disabled individuals trying to access buildings.
I mean, hello, really?
This is just a truly stunning display of, you know, condensation, of bigotry, of low expectations.
I've never seen anything like it.
I mean, such a comparison diminishes like the dignity of both groups.
And it insults the intelligence of voters.
I mean, it's a blatant attempt to justify race-based gerrymandering under the guise of, you know, equity.
So this is so divisive.
It is so ugly.
But who gets to make us laugh?
To the rescue comes the Babylon B.
I just love them.
Clarence Thomas gently explains to KBJ that not all black people are mentally disabled.
Just her.
I thought you would enjoy that one.
I did when I saw that.
I went, you know what?
Sometimes they just nail it.
So now we move into Democrats who have been protecting illegals in Antifa.
No, they don't care about the American people.
This is their new crew now.
We've been pushed aside.
So Los Angeles County, that's mine.
They declare state of emergency over ICE raids.
They mobilize taxpayer-funded relief efforts.
I kid you not, this town is a mess.
So Los Angeles's latest stunt, it is an absolute disgrace.
Declaring a state of emergency over ICE raids targeting criminal, illegal aliens.
Really?
Instead of backing law enforcement, they're funneling taxpayer dollars into legal aid and eviction protections for those breaking the law.
This is my town.
This is my hood.
This isn't about safety.
It's about pandering to a radical agenda while us hardworking citizens have been footing this bill.
Prioritizing lawlessness over the well-being of Americans is beyond outrageous, completely.
And yet they're using our money to do it, as usual, because these are their future voters.
Then you have got two illegals who They ram border patrol during a violent clash with rioters.
This happened in Chicago.
So in Chicago, you had two illegal immigrants from Venezuela.
They rammed a border patrol vehicle during an enforcement operation.
Then they fled before being apprehended.
The situation escalated as you had radical agitators who swarmed the scenes.
They started throwing objects, blocking roads, forcing officers to use tear gas for control.
And by the way, this is not an isolated incident.
It is a, and it reflects a growing trend of violent resistance against law enforcement.
This is the message that they are trying to send out, right?
I mean, just get violent.
So it's been fueled by permissive policies and political interference.
I mean, you saw all the leftists.
I mean, even with this protest that's going on today, the no-kings, they're like, oh, make sure you show up.
You know, make sure that you use your voice, your speech is free, all this stuff, right?
Well, this is sad because our officers are facing increasing danger while enforcing the law.
And it's clear we have got to strengthen support and accountability to protect those who protect us.
It's just got to be the way it is.
I mean, this is bad.
They are in terrible, terrible situations as a result of all of this.
You seriously cannot make some of this stuff up, though.
In 2022, we warned about Salesforce this week.
It has been outed for indirectly funding, guess who?
Antifa.
Is it Antifa or Antifa?
I say Antifa, anyhow.
Everybody has a different way they say it, I guess.
But it's outrageous.
You've got Salesforce, which is a company that was handpicked by Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Rafsenberger.
Remember him?
We've covered him a lot on this show.
To manage voter roles, has been exposed for funneling millions of dollars into organizations tied to left-wing extremism.
Let's not forget that Rafsenberger's decision to bring Salesforce on board was already suspect, given their complete lack of experience in handling voter roles.
So now we find out that the Salesforce Foundation, under the leadership of Mark Benioff, this is a World Economic Forum insider, I'll have you know, has been pumping over 27 million into Tides entities.
These groups are accused of funding radical organizations like Antifa or Antifa, defending, all under the guise of this vague cause like youth development and solving homelessness.
So it's not just incompetence.
It's complete deliberate betrayal.
Benioff, who has a history of pushing far-left agendas, as you can imagine, including threatening to pull his company out of Texas over abortion laws, is now at the center of this scandal.
And yet we're supposed to believe that this is all just philanthropy, right?
Won't give me a break.
This is corporate America funding the destruction of our country.
Plain and simple as that.
It is time to call this out what it is.
It is an attack on the values of our nation.
I am so sick of these people.
Enough is enough.
When are they going to open up a investigation on Rafsenberger?
He's a crooked little soldier, I think anyway.
I don't know.
Then you've got Secretary Besant, who reveals the IRS is now following the money.
It's behind Antifa's coordinated violence after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Big stuff here.
So the Treasury Secretary, he has revealed that the government is digging deep to uncover who's funding violent groups like Antifa, Antifa.
They're following the money trail.
It looks, and they're looking especially at the nonprofits that might be secretly funneling cash to support riots and attacks.
So you can think of it like this.
These groups don't just show up with signs and chants.
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They've got expensive gear.
You've seen the bricks.
They've got organized transportation.
They even have legal help to bail people out quickly.
All of this takes money.
And the government is determined to find out where it's coming from.
And that's a good thing.
Follow the money.
So Besent has compared this effort to what happened after 9-11 when investigators tracked down how terrorist groups were funded.
So now they're doing the same thing here at home.
They're mapping out all the connections between different organizations, stopping illegal funding disguised as charity.
The goal, well, it is to protect free speech and peaceful protest while shutting down violence.
It's about making sure no one is using tax-exempt dollars to fuel the chaos.
And we all know that they have been.
I mean, they show up and they are so organized.
I mean, they've got their little page.
They've got their little chant.
They're all, you know, fed.
And, you know, they've got this whole thing organized for days.
They've got the team leaders out there, all of this stuff.
Then you've got the other crimes, the lies and the chaos.
There's plenty of that too.
You've got a State Department employee who steals thousands of pages of top secret classified documents.
Well, they meet with Chinese officials.
This is huge stuff.
I kid you not.
The scary part is, is that these people, by the time they get caught, the damage has been done.
So you have a State Department contractor, Ashley Tellis, is accused of stealing thousands of pages of top secret classified documents and meeting with Chinese officials.
Tellis is an expert on South Asian affairs.
Allegedly, allegedly, they say, removed sensitive documents from secure locations and was found with them during a raid at his home in Virginia.
Prosecutors have claimed that he met with Chinese officials multiple times, even bringing classified materials to a restaurant meeting in 2022.
TELUS, who held a top secret clearance, worked as an unpaid senior advisor and a contractor for the Department of Defense.
This is an alarming breach and it has raised serious concerns about national security and the handling of classified information.
Unfortunately, again, breaches like this often go undetected until significant damage is done, which is why robust security measures and regular audits are critical.
So as for the punishment, the unauthorized removal and sharing of classified information, it is a very serious federal crime in the United States.
If convicted, individuals can face severe penalties, including hefty fines and lengthy prison sentences.
For example, under the Espionage Act, penalties can range for up to 10 years per offense, depending on the severity and intent.
So in cases involving national defense information, the consequences can be even more severe, potentially including life imprisonment.
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Hmm.
Oof.
So this is how it's got to be handled.
I am all for it.
You know, you do something like this and you've got to do the time for the crime.
This is serious stuff.
Then, of course, we have got blue state governors.
They are attempting to undermine RFK Jr. by setting up a shadow health alliance.
I kid you not.
So you've got 15 demoncratic government governors.
All right.
I call them demons for a reason, including those from New York, California, of course, and Illinois, who are blatantly undermining RFK Jr. by forming their own public health alliance.
This is nothing short than an outrageous power grab.
We know that, driven by their refusal to work with federal leadership.
They claim federal funding cuts and policy changes are putting public health at risk, right?
But let's not forget, these are the same people who imposed some of the most draconian lockdowns and mandates during COVID.
I mean, I had my groceries delivered.
I was not going to present a card.
If I walked into a store, I had somebody running after me with a mask.
If I tried to walk down the street, they were running after me with a mask.
And I'm like, whatever.
They still haven't recovered because guess what?
There are still people in my town that are wearing two and three masks.
You can blame the smog all day long, but that is not the reason.
They have scared these poor people to death.
They are terrified.
They can be by themselves in a convertible and they've got three and four masks on.
I kid you not.
That is still going on.
But anyway, so now they are doubling down on their arrogance.
They have created a shadow health coalition to push their own agenda.
You have RFK Jr., who has been working to clean the mess up of the left by these so-called leaders, firing ineffective CDC officials and cutting bloated programs.
But instead of supporting much-needed reform, these governors are choosing to sow division and politicize public health even further.
Anything that they can to separate themselves.
It's truly appalling.
We've seen this before, but this is what they're doing.
They are politicizing and playing political games over the well-being of the American people.
This is a slap in the face to anybody who has values and accountability and real leadership in public health.
They are going to form their own coalition.
They are going to separate.
I say we defund them.
Defund them.
Why should they get any money at all?
Seriously.
And I'm shooting myself in my own foot because, of course, you all know I'm Los Angeles here in Los Angeles.
But this is ridiculous.
Can you imagine if President Trump was calling for any of that or any of the other governors in any of these red states?
Oh my gosh, they would be crucified for doing something like that.
Oh, but no, the media will not report on any of that.
They're just going to act like, oh, no, they're just creating their own entity.
Everything's fine.
Nothing to see here.
Then you've got the state of Oregon to spend more on a program that offers free health care to illegal aliens than the entire budget of the state police.
I'm not kidding.
These people are just about as sick as they can be.
So Oregon is set to spend a jaw dropping, get this, $1.3 billion on a health care program that provides free coverage to individuals regardless of immigration status, an amount that overshadows the state police budget by over $500 million.
Okay, let that sink in.
More money for this program than for the safety and the security of the entire state.
Since its launch in 2022, the program's cost, it has skyrocketed by 100th%.
It's hard to even fathom how anyone could justify such a lopsided, you know, allocation of resources.
Just insane.
It's not just a budget decision.
It is a glaring example of priorities gone completely off the rails.
Yes, and this is Governor Tina Kotek.
Remember, we wanted to put last week, we wanted to put Tampon Tim and Tina Kotek together to run for president.
We thought that that would be a great match.
Oh man, you cannot make this stuff up.
Just weird.
Okay, then we've got a flashback, which you will all remember this quite well, because this is why our government is, of course, shut down in the first place.
Crazy stuff.
They lied to you.
Biden regime issues a rule change to give taxpayer-funded Obamacare to illegal aliens.
Obama promised you and me and everybody else that this would never happen.
And here we are.
So allowing DACA recipients to access Obamacare is a slap in the face to all of us working Americans who are already struggling to make ends meet.
This policy, just so you all know, it could cost taxpayers up to $300 million.
This is money that could be used to help citizens who can't afford health care, who are facing eviction, or are trying to recover from financial hardship.
It is so incredible and frustrating to see resources stretched even thinner when so many people here at home are in desperate need of support.
I mean, what's even more upsetting is that this goes against promises made when Obamacare was introduced that it wouldn't be extended to undocumented individuals.
So it's hard not to feel like trust is being broken.
But here's the deal.
With so many challenges on our borders and within our communities, shouldn't we be focusing on taking care of Americans first?
I mean, that's what I voted for.
And yet the Democrats still don't get it.
They are still trying to appeal to their new base because if you live here, you know exactly what demons the Democrats are.
We've all seen it for ourselves.
But yeah, the very thing that he said he was never going to do, he did crazy stuff.
So, as far as President Trump is concerned, we had many, many victories this week.
Let's head on into Trump's victory vault.
Fun stuff.
All right.
So, Kash Patel, he celebrates a major FBI achievement and the record seizures during Trump's first 200 days in office.
This was huge, just amazing.
He did incredible.
They have been getting all of this stuff off the streets: human trafficking, seizing fentanyl, and identifying child victims.
He also expressed gratitude to President Trump for providing new authorities to the FBI.
Just big stuff.
This was a huge celebration, and he's thrilled.
The first 200 days of the Trump administration, he took to social media and he said, Look, I am so thrilled.
This is what we have done.
We have arrested over 1,600 people for violent crimes against children to include 270 arrests for human trafficking.
And he put that out on his ex page.
He also added that 1,500 kilos of fentanyl, enough lethal doses to kill 113,850,000 Americans, has also been seized in that time, which he said was a 25% increase from the same time last year and the most ever.
Yay, you're doing your job.
Finally, you're not going after all of us, right?
I mean, mama bears, papa bears.
I mean, we were the targets.
Conservatives, MAGA.
No, they're actually doing their job.
They are going after the people that are trafficking this stuff and killing our kids and our friends and our family members.
Good stuff.
Then you've got ICE partnership with Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
It leads to 120 illegal alien arrests, including 91 driving big rigs with CDLs.
This was big.
President Trump is just killing it, truly killing it, even on our highways.
You have Pentagon reporters from every major fake news media organization who lose their press badges after they refuse to sign Hexa security rules.
This was great.
It was just fun to watch them walking out.
They were like writing all their sob stories.
I have been here seven years.
I have been here 11 years.
Nothing like this has ever happened to us before.
All I have to say to that is learn to code.
Then, of course, you have the State Department who revokes visas of foreigners who celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder, says that they wish death on Americans.
So they are taking care of that.
This is wonderful.
Then President Trump hits hard at the cartels and revokes visas of 50 Mexican politicians and government officials.
It doesn't matter about your title at all.
Then you have CNN Harry Eaton, who has warned for Democrats' chances of taking the House in 2026 that it has plummeted.
As we said, this is the best news, and this is why now you are starting to see them march.
The No Kings March is all about optics and rallying their base.
Democrats once had an 83% chance of taking the House.
This is per Calci odds, but that dropped to 63%.
Meanwhile, GOP odds have surged from 17% to 37%, turning likely Democrat win into a near toss-up.
They really see the writing on the wall now, and it's just getting worse for them daily.
Great stuff.
Then, the transgender trend is dying, thank goodness.
College students ditching trans and non-binary identity in a massive wave.
I mean, the trans ideology, it is now laughable.
It's time to make it unthinkable.
Well, what's going to happen when this happens?
I mean, when people start saying, whoa, I mean, you know, what's happening with all of this?
Well, when it's no longer cool, they're hoping for prosecutions.
And I think there should be because so many parents, so many kids were led to the slaughter.
So this is great stuff.
Really, really great stuff.
So President Trump has had a very, very busy week, and that is why we're so proud of him.
I don't know how we keep up with him.
It's very difficult.
But that's the Trump victory vault.
Okay, and now we are going to head into our daily dish where we dish about some of the things that are happening and being talked about on the street, as we say.
Bill and Hillary Clinton, they have postponed depositions in House Oversight Committees.
Jeffrey Epstein probe.
You've got to love it.
You really have to love that.
So Bill and Hillary Clinton, they have postponed.
This is what they were scheduled to talk about was Epstein.
And so they have put it off.
According to Johnny St. Pete at John McClowy, the Clintons were supposed to testify regarding Epstein on October 9th and 14th.
And Comey was set for the 7th after the August subpoenas.
Lucky them.
That is because it has been postponed without a set date because of the shutdown.
So now all of a sudden, what are they doing?
They're praising President Trump.
Oh, didn't he do such a great job with the peace plan?
And oh, wow, isn't he wonderful?
She really thinks that this is going to work after she did what she did to our president.
I don't think so.
I mean, he has honestly said, look, I didn't want to go after Hillary because, hey, you know, this is a former president's wife.
But here they are talking.
She thinks all this stuff is going to help her out, and it's just not.
So here you've got, of course, the man of the hour, the man of Lolita Express.
And here he is with Epstein.
Epstein visited the Clinton White House over 17 times.
And Bill has acknowledged traveling abroad aboard the Epstein infamous Lolita Express.
We did a whole thing on Epstein.
If you haven't seen it, you can go over to the website over 20 times.
And so, of course, they are trying to bury this.
And they think that if they appeal to President Trump, that if they start bragging on him, because they think, oh, yeah, you know, all we have to do is just brag on him a little bit and say what a great job he did.
And we're not going to have to testify.
Oh, no, you're going to have to testify.
And this is not going to be easy.
Another thing that was interesting, you have Tucker, who claims politicians are having a lot of orgies and congressmen's personal lives are getting weirder.
This was very bizarre.
All right.
So in the most recent episode of Tucker Carlson Show, well, we know this stuff goes on, right?
Apparently, there's like there's some kind of cell at the Capitol where it's not a cell.
Okay.
I don't know.
It's like a storage facility down there where people go to, I don't know, get it on.
And it's common knowledge.
People from the media go down there, just their boyfriends, girlfriends, what have you.
You also saw, you know, there was like that porn that was filmed on a desk at the Capitol.
And of course, nobody did anything about it.
They just kind of shooed that one under the rug.
Anywho, so this happened in the most recent episode of the Tucker Carlson show.
The former Fox News host, he didn't hold back when discussing the increasing bizarre underbelly of Washington, D.C. politics.
Capitol's Hidden Storage Facility00:02:14
The only thing that we wish is that he started naming names.
I mean, that's kind of what we were hoping would happen.
So he goes on to say, Look, I have noticed, having spent my entire life in D.C., that people's personal lives are getting weirder in Congress.
Have you noticed that without implicating anyone by name?
I don't think I'm imagining this.
It's not just sleeping with your scheduler.
It's weirder than that.
Have you noticed that?
He says, and Burchette is who he was interviewing.
He responded, I try to stay in my office as much as possible.
I don't know if you all recognize Tim Burchette, but he's the one that always says thank you for sending me here when he does those really great videos.
I love that guy.
I think he is so great because the way he says it is like, I'm really doing you a favor.
You know, thanks for sending me, you know, to ground zero, the belly of the beast.
Well, Carlson described the DC political scene as involving a lot of orgies and that the nation's capital is becoming kinkier by the day.
Burchette says that he hopes that this is not actually the case and said he has never been invited if it is.
He wanted to make sure that was on the table.
Well, the conversation also touched on the recently busted Chinese run prostitution ring in DC.
You can talk to Eric Fartwell, as Cat Tier likes to call him, about that one, that received minimal media coverage as well as tactics used to influence lawmakers, such as employing their spouses or girlfriends in high-paying jobs to own them.
I mean, the whole deal.
It's just a racket up there.
So, of course, you know, there's a lot of things with Chinese spies and all that stuff, but it's all coming to light.
It is.
It's all being cleaned out, but that was just kind of fun.
All right.
Well, have you all answered the question of the day?
That's what I am wondering because we are at that point of the show where we get to find out what you think because you are the stars of the show.
You're the gems, by the way.
So, you know, I mean, this is your show.
Question Of The Day00:15:42
So here's the question.
If you haven't answered, you better hurry and get on over there.
It's time for today's question of the day.
Should Congress continue to get paid during the government shutdown?
Yes or no?
Share your thoughts.
And you're here.
So hopefully you have shared your thoughts.
You probably shared them on all these different platforms.
I've been trying to send them out everywhere because I am curious about what you have to say about this stuff.
The fact that they are being paid right now is infuriating.
So should they be paid during government shutdowns?
That is the question.
And let's see how you answered.
All right, Cyborg at Cyborg001 says no.
They already have enough coming in from their ongoing grift.
The funds we are paying them shouldn't be continued until they start doing what we are paying them for.
I totally agree.
You have Sig Tor, YTTP, who says absolutely no.
You have at Emerald Coast O who says, I'm a no.
I think congressional salaries should be collected and distributed to military and homeland security.
You have Zoe Grant at Zoe at Grant underscore Zoe, who says definitely no.
You have at PK10 who says, no, absolutely not.
They don't work enough as it is.
I know.
Have you seen their holiday schedule?
It's amazing.
You have at Kimber Tucson who says, no, stop their checks and maybe just maybe they'll get to work for the people.
You have at Granny underscore Annie1 who says no, they should not.
If they can't figure out a way to solve problems and bridge differences, then that is what we're paying them for.
And if you don't do your job, you don't get paid.
You have a black hobby horse who says no, they are not essential.
Just look at how much they don't work in a given year.
You have it Jolene, M-A-H-S-T, who says, no, absolutely not.
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
She's got this up there.
This is a quote from Harry S. Truman.
Thank you, Jolene.
Then you have at Spear 01369872, who says, absolutely not.
It would make them more accountable.
Just like they should have to rely on Social Security, not their undeserving retirement payout on taxpayer dime.
Then you have at Lakes, Eileen, who says no.
At Ron Blasco, no.
If they cannot do their job at hand, then they should be removed.
Certainly not paid.
At Grateful, Susan and Grateful is spelled with an 8.
Absolutely not.
You have Kit 0604.
Why should the people who caused the shutdown be paid?
I don't even know how this is a thing.
Then you have Zeta underscore Alicia who says no.
And here are some signs.
Congress doesn't deserve any taxpayer money.
They don't work for us.
Here's another.
They're all here.
They don't work for us.
They've been working for themselves, and it's very clear.
Then you have at Bang It Out 007, no.
They have put themselves first for far too long.
Maybe the shutdown will teach them something on how to get along and negotiate.
And besides, they are not hurting for money.
They all make a lot.
But another avenue that would be hilarious is to pay all the ones who voted yes.
That's a good idea.
You have Deborah Milan, Deborah Milan, 6, who says no.
At Sick and Tired, Joe 2 says, hell no, they shouldn't be paid at all.
You have at Kevin S. Johnson, 80, who says no.
You have Sharon Jack, 86, 86, 72, 0, who says no.
That's Sharon J at Sharon Jack 86720.
You have at Mima Kim 0812, who says, in a normal person's life, if they were laid off, they would get unemployment.
This is what Congress should get.
Only partial payment, because in reality, they are laid off, not fired.
Once they leave office, they should get no pay period.
They can find a new job like the rest of us.
And then you've got at Pumpergirl who says no.
You have at Kevin S. Johnson 80.
They don't earn what they get paid now.
You have at Love Bug072.
Absolutely not.
I think those who want to shut it down should reap the repercussions from it.
At Hood, CPA says no.
At Kim Mellow 1, who says no, absolutely not.
You have at Diva B Wine Me, who says absolutely not.
They need to feel the squeeze just like everyone else.
They are not better than us.
They are not above us.
They represent us, or at least they are supposed to.
That's it.
They should not be exempt from anything.
I completely agree with you.
Then we have Texas Debbie at Unique 59 who says, absolutely not.
That money should go to pay our military families.
And while we're at it, let's add term limits into the BBB.
At Wilson3 underscore J says no.
At Jenny underscore Kirchner, no way.
At Donna J0659, big ol' X there.
You have at my big bloke Effie1, who says, I don't see how Congress salaries are a high priority line item than the military.
So I'd have to say no.
Nancy Pelosi could always just drink domestic vodka during the shutdown.
At G Susie 63, no.
They also shouldn't be able to raise their own pay or take bribes and call it lobbying.
Good point, Susie.
At CAS 1776 says, no, no, no.
Congress is a drain on we the people.
They are our representatives, not our leaders.
They do not deserve any pay nor perks.
Congress was set up only to be part-time by our founding fathers, not a career.
You have at King Bob0011, absolutely no.
However, I will say yes under one condition.
For each day paid under shutdown, you lose 10 days vacation or time off.
What business allows you to get paid and not work?
I will wait.
King Bob, not on YouTube.
Okay, thanks, King Bob.
Then we have at WCF Trish 37372 who says no at SL Undersword.
Grib, who I saw in chat today, says no.
Congress was paid per diem for almost 100 years from the founding of this country only when they were in session.
Congress should get a pen, should not, shouldn't get a pension either.
Then you've got Libby 1644099391.
They actually voted not to pay the military.
So heck no, let them go without a check.
Then you've got at Okie Market, no.
You have at Lucco Teresa, who says no.
You have at Michael 1956J, who says no, they shouldn't, but they will not vote to suspend their pay.
You have at Patriot underscore Linus, no.
Congress is notorious for exempting themselves from anything that may cause them discomfort.
Their elitist attitude, their arrogant belief that they are more important than Americans, and are owed exemption from whatever they strap Americans with, should never apply to them.
Then you have at Billy J. Harden, who says no.
You have at CME Laugh N1 who says no, and they shouldn't get pay, and they shouldn't get back pay when it reopens.
Fleet Admiral James at Mighty Mouse 200 says no, if they didn't, I believe the horse and pony show would stop.
President Trump is and has proven to the American people he puts America first.
Likewise, Democrats and the rhinos hate America and prefer violence.
You have at Martha J, hello, Miss Martha.
She says, no, notsoever.
They've failed at their job while innocent people suffer at the hands of Chucky.
Oh my goodness, they're so pathetic and disgusting and evil.
I agree, Martha J.
It's Martha Johnson 1776.
You all know Martha.
Randy Stack at RStack29 says no, they should not get paid.
Our representatives need to live out of a bubble and miss a paycheck and no payback.
Senators and representatives need a dose of reality.
At BJ Column 77570727 says no, of course not.
If the Congress critters are not doing their jobs, they should not get paid.
And in fact, get docked.
They're paychecks for the duration.
You have at my SNZ mommy who says no.
And it's mom Y, by the way.
No, why should they get paid if they are not doing their job?
Not working, no pay.
Proudly deplorable.
Ed Rob Plegram Sr. says no.
If they don't get paid, there will never be another shutdown.
Ed Cheryl underscore Lynn says no, and they shouldn't get paid for their 52 yearly vacations either.
They should make an hourly wage starting at minimum and only get raises for an exceptional job performance, just like everybody else.
It's only fair.
Then you have at LA of Symphony One who says no.
Also, Republicans have refused their pay, but not Democrats.
Isn't that interesting the way that goes?
I see that one a lot, actually.
It's always fun to see how the Democrats, how they work.
And I'm moving you all over here because you know what?
I believe that we should have some of this done with, because we can, with music, right?
So I'm going to turn our music back on so we can have this in the background.
Now that we've got music everywhere these days, it's kind of fun.
Huh.
Put a little, you know, jump in our step while we're going through all of this.
Might as well.
Okay, so here we go.
Back to seriousness of this whole thing.
We have at Daniel GRH 43456, who says no, they should not be paid if they do not pass the multiple spending bills.
Then you have at Free Dukelly, who says X, which means no.
You have at G85012, who says no.
You have D-R-N-R-P-O-D, who says no.
You have at Loopy Hippie D6541.
Absolutely not.
I'm so tired of Congress holding our troops hostage while sipping their champagne in Napa Valley.
You have at Sisty's username, no.
It never made any sense that they always got paid.
They should be the first to not get paid.
You have at Adam War47131028, who says they shouldn't get paid anyway.
They're public servants.
It's not a job.
It's a privilege.
Then you have Kate Leroux, who is at Sodium Podium.
No.
I believe the original guidelines, including members of Congress, only being paid for the days they actually worked.
I think it was around $35 a day, but that was before my time.
Then you have Dana Mill 60432229, who says their pay is the tip of the iceberg.
Cut their staff and expenses.
Then you have at Bo Nose 16718 who says hell no.
And I also think we shouldn't have to pay taxes when the government is shut down.
What do you think about that?
Then we have at CA HML who says hell no.
have at Alex Grady Webb who says no.
We have Brenda Geist at Brenda G E I S 71729 who says no.
And then of course we have got our lovely YouTube channel and I know there were a few over there that had some comments so I'm gonna go over and find you all on that page.
Gosh, multiple platforms.
Never knew it was gonna be this difficult.
It is it's always something happening around here.
I will tell you that right now.
All right, so let me get this on up here for you.
Here's our question of the day.
Okay, and let's see what you had to say.
Oh, Tony H101 says no.
And we have at Ray Hall5329 who says nope.
So there we go.
I think I've covered our basis for today.
I try not to just do X.
I try to go all over the place.
My problem is with truth.
When I go over there and I repost it, something happens to the whole thing.
I lose a lot of the comments, so it gets a little bit crazy, but that's okay.
I mean, I always try to make sure that I put them out there, but just sometimes I lose the comments when it's reposted.
So I'm kind of like, it's at the very top and I'll only have from when it dropped.
I don't know what that's about, but anyway, that's my dilemma on truth.
Because a lot of people will be like, how come you don't go and give shout outs on truth?
Well, that's the reason.
Anyway, I hope I've cleared my name.
Well, I want to thank you all for being here.
You all are just amazing.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week.
I want to give a big shout out to my incredible team.
They are amazing.
They always have been.
They work tirelessly on this show.
A huge round of applause for the incredible team that works tirelessly behind the scenes.
Endless gratitude to the brilliant Patriot Penzi for crafting insightful articles and conducting meticulous research.
And to the storytelling virtuoso, of course, that's Rob Plegram Sr. for delivering engaging monologues.
Rob is just, he is such a hoop.
When he was off vacation, we all knew we had to get totally serious about what was going on around here.
We're like, uh-oh, we got to make Rob proud.
What are we going to do without Rob?
That was kind of the census.
We did survive, but barely.
And he works on the amazing monologues and curates the top stories for the week with unmatched precision.
A special thanks to Fleet Admiral James.
You all know Fleet Admiral.
Thank you so much for keeping him in your thoughts and prayers.
He is doing so well.
Just such a dear friend of mine.
His contributions enrich every aspect of what we do here on this show.
And to Megavolt007 for the invaluable ideas and the countless efforts that helped drive us forward.
Finally, a standing ovation to our amazing mods.
Thank you so much for creating just an awesome atmosphere, a welcoming space where we can all connect, share, and spill the tea.
We're so grateful for everything that you all do.
Lemon Twist Tribute00:03:23
Well, just so you know, this live stream, this has been, you know, the music is amazing and it's from my dearest friends.
They're truly awesome.
Appreciate them so much.
It is the music of Bobby Troop featuring the track Lemon Twist alongside additional selections by Julie London.
These timeless melodies, they have been generously shared by them, by Nick Twit, who you also have had in your prayers.
He was doing very well, mind you.
Also put this music together for me.
He has my maestro.
And then Lank London.
Thank you so much for your contributions.
For the complete playlist, everybody's always asking me for it.
You can check it out in the video description below.
So here we are.
It is a week that has tested the metal of a president and a nation.
And yet, through it all, President Trump has stood tall, a beacon of strength and determination.
He is a man who understands that leadership is not about popularity.
It's about principle.
It's about doing what is right, even when it's hard.
And in this moment, as the music swells and the lights dim, we are reminded of one simple truth.
Greatness is not given.
It is earned.
And Donald J. Trump has earned his place in the annals of history.
This is Washington, D.C.
This is the stage where legends are made.
And this week, the spotlight belongs to President Trump.
All right, everybody.
Well, this week's tea, it has been spilled and served.
Thank you so much for watching and for following.
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If you haven't already, please hit that follow button.
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Be kind to one another.
And we will see you later.
Toodly-doo.
Skeptic Sips Lemoniced Drink00:00:46
Even the skeptic replies that here's a suggestion you can't resist a cool drink with ice is improved with some slices of lemon twist.
It isn't merely circumstantial evidence that the lemon is a highly healthful citrus fruit.
The most respected scientists agree with the physiologists that here's one fact you can't dispute.
Why don't you open your eyes?
Your psychosomatic ills won't persist If quick like a rabbit, you latch to the habit of lemon twist.