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I WAS HACKED: What Happened? Plus Major Interview with Former Acting DNI Ric Grenell | TRIGGERED Ep.70

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	Guys, welcome to another awesome episode of Triggered.
	A lot to get into today because given all the news, I figured who better to interview today than former Acting Director of National Intelligence Rick Grinnell.
	So that's going to be ahead.
	He's at the UN.
	Also, our former ambassador to Germany, he's the one that stood up to the insanity of what Germany wanted and was a big actor in pushing back on NATO, making sure that we're not just the schmucks funding all of this stuff forever while they do nothing.
	So I think that'll be really important given that it's UN week and we're seeing some insanity out of there.
	Also guys, make sure to like, share, and subscribe to this episode.
	This show is only getting bigger and it's only getting better.
	And now, apparently, hackers are out to get me, too.
	As some of you may have seen, yesterday I was trending at the top of Twitter yet again.
	This time, not due to something I actually said, but my Twitter account got hacked, and it sparked quite the media reaction.
	Honestly, when I saw some of the stuff, I was like, you know, and yet,
	There's some of it, some of it totally inappropriate, I'm not allowed to condone it, and yet others that were like, you know, that's pretty good, so if you're the hacker, reach out, let me know.
	Uh, you know, I got back the account, so it's fine, but like, you had some good content.
	So, uh, some of it was pretty funny, uh, the one about Logan Paul was particularly good, uh, I think my brother wants me to be able to leave it- leave you in control of my social rather than me, I probably cause too many headaches for us, so, uh, good work, and, uh,
	You know, I guess I gotta go through the whole password thing and redo all of that nonsense.
	But it wasn't all humorous and terrible news.
	We got some good news.
	On Monday, I told you about Ukraine's psycho transgender spokesperson who literally threatened to kill so-called Russian propagandists.
	That means anyone who doesn't agree, I guess, with the propaganda being put out by Ukraine.
	I mean, seems like a big deal.
	Our good friend Senator J.D.
	Vance of Ohio sent a letter to the Pentagon about America's funding of this lunatic, and it got results.
	Shockingly, it got results.
	Ukraine announced yesterday that they are suspending the spokesperson.
	You probably remember this one.
	It was the one that looked like
	Well, you know, I say Zelensky in a wig, threatening people, apparently with hit squads.
	It was pretty ridiculous.
	I thought I was being punked for a moment, but apparently it was real.
	Ukraine is desperate for Congress and the Senate to approve billions of dollars in new funding, so they decided to throw us a bone, I guess.
	We should learn from this.
	We control the checkbook when it comes to Ukraine.
	We should use that power accordingly.
	Everyone wants us to fund every little thing for them around the world, and we do, and yet they want us then to sit back and say, well, it's their decision and it's their this when it's your money.
	We should secure all the concessions we can whenever we can.
	That should be leading from the front, not funding it.
	And while Biden sends all of our resources to secure Ukraine's border,
	America's border remains completely open and lawless.
	Look at this recent video from the border.
	It's a massive group of hundreds of young men.
	No women or children.
	Remember, we're told it's a humanitarian crisis.
	Please, the women, the children, the this.
	These are fighting-age men running across the border rampantly, right?
	If you're fleeing asylum in a country, you bring your wives, you bring your kids.
	If your motives are otherwise, you probably send fighting-age men.
	At this point, I think it's impossible to even think that there's good motives to what's going on here.
	All of the people you see in the video are waiting to be processed and released by the Border Patrol.
	Illegal immigrants don't have to run across the border in the middle of the night to get into their country.
	That's only in the movies.
	There's no need to be sneaky.
	You don't need to be covert.
	Under Joe Biden, illegal immigrants simply turn themselves into the Border Patrol and then they are released into the country never to be seen again.
	Some of these illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists.
	Trump was right about that in 2015 when he announced.
	That wasn't a problem when he first said it.
	It was only a couple weeks after, and that's what people don't understand.
	That's why you realize this is by design.
	It wasn't a problem the day he said it.
	But a couple weeks later, when he started gaining in the polls, when he started dominating the Republican field, and all of a sudden he became a threat, that's when it magically became racist!
	Some of these people could even be Chinese spies.
	There's been a 300% increase in Chinese nationals caught on the southern border.
	What the hell are they doing there?
	Adversaries are clearly taking advantage of our open border.
	Biden just doesn't care.
	As long as some of them are future Democrat Party voters, as long as they, whether illegal or legal, will be counted in a future sentence, it's all good.
	Come on in.
	It's about power.
	The Biden administration is not interested in forcing the law.
	Just look at Merrick Garland's performance on Capitol Hill yesterday.
	At one point, Congressman Matt Gaetz asked Garland if he's investigating whether Hunter Biden is selling access through his art.
	Remember Hunter selling paintings for like half a million dollars and some auctions he was actually outperforming Picasso?
	Picasso, folks!
	Journeyman artist, never heard of before, all of a sudden outperforming Picasso.
	You'd think that'd be a question that they asked.
	It's a good question.
	Imagine if I started selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	I'm sure a SWAT team, or maybe, since it's become commonplace, the FBI's hostage rescue team would be kicking down my door like they did my father's at Mar-a-Lago.
	Garland, though, has no interest whatsoever and said that he isn't investigating.
	Of course he's not.
	His job is to protect the Bidens.
	For all we know, he's probably in on it.
	That's 10% for a lot of big guys, in my opinion.
	Garland did so poorly that even CNN called him out.
	Obviously, it's very telegraphed to focus on Hunter Biden, the investigation and the indictment of Hunter Biden as well.
	What did we learn, though?
	Is there anything new that stood out to you?
	So, Merrick Garland struggled with this.
	I think there is more questions than answers provided yesterday about the Hunter Biden prosecution.
	Okay, folks.
	It's no coincidence.
	CNN is going after Biden right now.
	Right?
	We don't believe in coincidence anymore.
	If you do, you're an idiot.
	Candidly.
	Just last week, a CNN poll found that my father is beating Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup.
	The Democrats are panicking.
	Okay?
	They can't lose power.
	They can't open the door for the investigations.
	They can't give that up because we'll find out so much more about what's actually going on in our country to the detriment of the American citizenry and our populace.
	And I have a feeling a lot of people have been making a lot of deals and making a lot of money that aren't supposed to.
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	And with that now, joining me, my good friend, former Acting Director of National Intelligence, former Ambassador to Germany, all-round awesome guy, Rick Grinnell.
	Rick Grinnell, I was an early adapter on Grinnell in like 2015, mostly because the Twitter rivaled that of mine.
	It was hot, it was aggressive, and we saw you take that
	To the U.N., we saw you take that to an ambassadorship in Germany where you held NATO accountable and were like, you know, enough of the nonsense.
	But you're in New York for U.N.
	Week.
	Obviously, former, very high level diplomat, ambassador to Germany.
	That's a big deal.
	We'll talk about that one in a little bit as well, because your going away party is when they outed Kim and I dating.
	That was a fun one, but talk about what you're seeing at the UN right now.
	What are the major takeaways, and America standing in the world under Joe Biden, because I'm watching, but this is not my world, right?
	I talk shit online, I fight, it's a little different.
	I'm not a diplomat, and I don't pretend to be.
	What do you see right now?
	You know, Don, the opposite of America first, if you want to know the polar opposite of America first when it comes to diplomacy, is consensus with the world.
	So there's 15 members of the Security Council and there are five permanent members of the Security Council, which means 10 of those Security Council members get elected and they rotate.
	The lowest common denominator of 15 countries is what the global policy is.
	When you think about what's globalism, what do we do to kind of make this third world UN government?
	It's the lowest common denominator of what 15 countries believe.
	And at the UN, they believe every country is equal.
	And I don't believe every country is equal.
	I think every person is equal.
	But I don't believe that every country is equal.
	If every country was equal, then you wouldn't be asking the United States of America to pay a quarter of the bill at the UN.
	So I think what we're seeing right now, it's a long answer to say, we're seeing this idea of consensus, which is pushing the United States off the leadership role, not recognizing us as a superpower.
	And Joe Biden is really comfortable with that.
	He likes consensus.
	He certainly likes consensus with the Europeans.
	But what that means is that when you have these UN weeks, UK head of state doesn't show up.
	France head of state doesn't show up.
	China, Russia head of states, they don't show up.
	The permanent members of the Security Council literally snubbed
	Joe Biden.
	There's no mention of this in the legacy media, and yet we look like we're just another country, you know?
	Talk about that further, because that's a big deal, right?
	If the five or four other members of the permanent U.N.
	Security Council
	Don't show up to hear the President of the United States speak.
	That's a big deal.
	And I remember it was a really big deal when Trump spoke at the UN and called out the globalists to their face.
	He called out Germany.
	I'm sure that created some headaches for you, but you believed in the policy, so it worked.
	And they were laughing about, you know,
	Well, Russia's not going to ever own us because of energy, and we're going to go 100% green, and that's going to be total sense.
	And by the way, NATO, we'd like you to raise the spending to defend us from the enemy, Russia, that we're enriching by taking their natural gas and becoming fully dependent on them.
	And they laughed about it, and the media had a field day.
	Oh, it was so funny, so cute.
	And now?
	Trump was right.
	Like everything else, Trump was right.
	But anyone with a brain would have seen that then and been able to call it out.
	But I guess it was just convenient to go after Trump.
	But what does this say, you know, beyond sort of the basics of clearly we're just losing our standing in the world?
	But what's the endgame for America here?
	Look, I think it's really important to remember that whether we're talking about Washington, D.C., Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Bogota, it doesn't matter.
	But the capitals are controlled by elites.
	Right.
	You look at Brussels, which is the capital of Europe, and all of the NGOs that are based in Brussels, the NGOs that are based in Washington, D.C., they're filled with elites.
	They don't want to hear from the people who are paying the bills, the people who don't have power in those cities.
	They don't want to hear from them.
	They think they know everything.
	They think that they can control everything.
	So I believe that this is really a fight of elites versus the rest of us.
	And elites doesn't necessarily mean rich, doesn't necessarily mean uneducated, right?
	The instead of having the power with people, the powers with a few people.
	And so I think the answer to.
	What's happening around the world is that the elites are allowed to control the system when people like Joe Biden are in charge because he's an elite and he wants, you know, just the few people in Washington, D.C.
	to make the decision.
	I'll give you an example of this consensus elite idea.
	We in the Trump administration.
	felt very strongly, as you were inferring, that Chancellor Merkel, leading the Germans, made terrible decisions on energy policy.
	She put herself in a corner where they got rid of nuclear energy, they got rid of coal, or started to get rid of, made a policy to get rid of it,
	And that was because the Green Party was coming on Merkel and she wanted to keep power.
	This elite system was like, well, I got to keep power, so I'm going to grab these issues from the Green Party.
	She took on the Green Party policies, got rid of this energy, put herself in a hole.
	Germany as a manufacturing country cannot just have wind and solar power.
	That's not enough for them.
	So what she did is, oh, I got to have a second
	Yes, I think so.
	President Trump made it clear.
	He said, you're feeding the beast.
	Why are you allowing Russia to have this leverage over you?
	Chancellor Merkel's response was, oh, Donald, you don't understand.
	We can control Russia.
	We're Germany.
	I'm Chancellor Merkel.
	We have a different relationship with Russia.
	They're never going to over-leverage us.
	But we stood firm.
	President Trump said, no, I'm going to sanction that Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2.
	I'm not going to allow that to be operational.
	We were very successful.
	We took a lot of heat from the Germans
	But what was missing all along is that the rest of the of Europe thought we were right.
	They were afraid to stand up to Germany, but they knew we were right.
	They did not want Germany having this pipeline.
	Merkel gave up after after Joe Biden took over.
	Went straight to Joe Biden and the Democrats and said, please drop these sanctions.
	I need this Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
	Joe Biden calculated consensus with Merkel, consensus with the Europeans is a higher priority.
	So I'm going to give them what they want.
	So the Democrats and Joe Biden dropped the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline early in this administration.
	That was such a signal to Vladimir Putin that Joe Biden would be weak.
	Joe Biden put Vladimir Putin's Russian pipeline back online and operational.
	He's the one who dropped the sanctions.
	I could argue all day that the Democrats
	Because the war in Ukraine, when they dropped the sanctions on Nord Stream 2 pipeline, they welcomed this move from Putin.
	And if you go back, Don, and you look at the floor speeches from Democratic senators when they were arguing to drop the sanctions, it's frightening.
	They say things like, oh, we don't want to make Russia angry.
	We don't want to stick it in Russia's eye.
	Their calculation, their strategy was so wrong, the opposite happened.
	You encouraged Putin, once again, through the Obama-Biden era of grabbing Crimea, you encouraged Putin, come in and do something in Ukraine, start a war because Joe Biden is weak.
	Yeah, so, I mean, that one is crazy to me, because when you look at everyone screaming about Russia, Russia, Russia now, you know, whether it's driving them into the arms of the Saudis, driving them into the arms of the Chinese, you know, getting off the US dollar as the global reserve currency, I mean,
	It was caused because of decisions like this.
	We empowered them.
	And so the irony, like, how come there's no one calling out all these people that were essentially, you know, pro-Russia energy, pro-Russia monetarily, give them this power.
	I mean, these are the same people on TV with a straight face saying, Putin's an evil dictator.
	How did he think this could happen?
	I mean, they welcomed it with open arms.
	What did they think was going to happen?
	Listen, like I said, I'm no diplomat.
	I don't pretend to be one.
	I don't even play one on TV.
	I think you're pretty good.
	You're a pretty good diplomat.
	But, you know, it was obvious.
	It was, you know, like my children would understand that you don't empower, you know,
	You don't hear mainstream media calling out the Democrats for that.
	You don't hear them saying Biden did this.
	It's not a coincidence that Russia didn't invade any of their neighbors under Trump, but they did under Biden, they did under Bush, they did under Obama.
	Why is that not a thing?
	And yet Trump was the one that was apparently weak on Russia, which is nonsense if you actually look at the policies.
	But no one seems to.
	No one seems to.
	It's total nonsense.
	We had the strongest sanctions on Putin.
	And he understands strength.
	He also understands weakness and he saw weakness.
	I mean, the Democrats and the media will never be able to answer the question, why did Putin invade twice under a Biden president, vice president situation?
	Why did he do that twice?
	And yet he didn't do it under Donald Trump.
	Look, I believe that one of the reasons they kicked President Trump off Twitter
	was because he was being wildly effective in going around the filter of the media and going straight to the people, reaching the people, not the elites.
	But big tech and Fortune 500 companies, and you know this about me because we talk regularly,
	I believe that Fortune 500 companies right now are so far gone left that Republicans should not be helping them.
	We should not be talking about tax cuts and this UAW situation.
	I'm all for the workers.
	I'm not for big government because when big I mean big big corporations because when big corporations
	are allowed to do what they want to do.
	They give money to the Democrats.
	They have these terrible woke policies.
	The elites in charge get paid millions, tens of millions of dollars.
	Why are we helping them?
	Why are we getting behind?
	Donald Trump, President Trump has reorientated the Republican Party to the workers, not to the elites, which is why Mitt Romney does not like him.
	Because Mitt Romney, remember, is a total elite.
	George Bush, who I worked for, they love the elites.
	They have their their elite game.
	And they don't want a party like a Reagan, like a Trump party that really concentrates on the workers.
	And so I'll finish with this is I think that the elites are being defeated.
	I think we've got to keep calling out the media for being a protector of the ruling party and this club, this club of elites in Washington, D.C., because the people are beginning to speak.
	The people have social media.
	We can get our message out.
	We are winning.
	It's just the elites are pretending like we're not.
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, they're trying so hard.
	We saw that this week.
	I mean, Trump basically took the side of the autoworkers.
	And yet, the union that represents, you know, when I say represents, it's like, you know, they represent themselves, just like the elites represent themselves.
	So, I mean, it's not just in government.
	It's in big corporations.
	It's in, you know, it's in everything.
	The United Auto Workers Union basically started taking shots at Trump.
	I'm like, so one of the biggest people in the world, with one of the largest platforms in the world, with one of the largest followings in the world, is taking your side?
	And you're like, well,
	I mean, no, we don't want that.
	We want to do it for Joe Biden.
	And it's because they know, too, that probably the vast majority of the autoworkers are actually America first.
	They understand that the policies put forth by the Biden administration and EV, you know, electric vehicles and all that stuff is going to send their jobs abroad as Democrat policy.
	And frankly, American policy has done for the past few decades.
	America first is the opposite of that.
	And yet the people representing the stakeholders
	Are spitting in the face of the guy that's actually got the best chance of representing those stakeholders, doing the most, has a consistent track record of doing so, and probably has the vast majority of those actual people, meaning the workers, not the union folks, the union workers who just pay their dues to watch it get spent to, you know, bolster Democrat policy in a trans agenda somewhere else.
	It doesn't make any sense, and yet it's exactly what you're talking about.
	Look, the union bosses are the elites.
	There are a few people making decisions for massive amounts of people.
	And this is nothing new.
	When the leadership of an organization loses touch with the actual membership, that organization goes into turmoil.
	I mean, we are confident that if you did a vote of the union members, Donald Trump would come out as the leader.
	There's no question about it.
	How did he win Michigan and Wisconsin in 16?
	It's like, because those people are manga.
	Those people are not voting for Joe Biden.
	They see Joe Biden like, frankly, the rest of the world sees Joe Biden, as a bumbling dolt, you know, and a corrupt one at that.
	You know, they're going to vote for Trump again this time.
	And yet,
	To, again, have the leadership shun Trump.
	You're not welcome to come here to defend the people.
	Like, with arguably the largest platform in all of American politics, if not by far, it's so insane, but it speaks such volumes about exactly what you're talking about.
	And people, you know, the media carries it like, oh, the auto workers are snubbing Trump.
	No, no, no.
	Like, two or three people in union leadership who are making seven figures.
	Exactly right.
	Who are okay with them going on strike.
	And these people, if they lose their jobs, if they lose this, if their jobs get shipped abroad, you know, that's all well and good.
	It doesn't matter.
	We'll keep 10% of the jobs here in America.
	We'll get those people a little bit of a raise.
	The rest will go to Mexico and China and elsewhere.
	We'll open the doors for China's manufacturing of vehicles to come into our country because you won't be able to afford to buy them.
	It's lunacy.
	I think next week we're going to see a big shift.
	I think that when President Trump goes to Detroit and campaigns with the workers, that this is going to open up a rift between the workers and the union bosses.
	I think that's very clear that's coming.
	I hear constantly, I was born in Michigan, I'm originally from Michigan, and Michigan
	is all about auto manufacturers and those who supply auto parts.
	And these individuals, many of them have voted for Democrats traditionally, but they love President Trump.
	This is the new party.
	This is what... Well, the roles have reversed, right?
	The roles have reversed, you know, entirely.
	Yeah, and this is why people like Mitt Romney, the elites, they don't like President Trump because they want to see him reflexively help, you know, the CEO of Ford, the CEO of GM.
	They want corporations.
	To actually win in this situation.
	And I think what we've seen with the woke policies and their, you know, elitist attitudes of working towards the Democrats.
	Why?
	Why are Republicans helping these people get more money at the expense of the workers?
	I'm 100% convinced that we've got to be on the side of the workers.
	Give them more money.
	They're the ones that are doing the job.
	And, you know, the elites getting tens of millions of dollars, forget it.
	I'm not going to come down on that side.
	I don't disagree.
	For those of you who don't know, Trump's actually going to Detroit.
	He's counter-programming the next, you know, vice presidential potential, maybe, you know, dog catcher debate.
	And so he's going to be there at the same time with those autoworkers.
	And so watching the union try to stop that
	Again, it's mind-blowing, again, to create a platform of power for the people they're supposedly representing, but then snubbing it at the same time is crazy.
	But it is one of those things, right?
	It's sort of like the black community in America.
	You're like, well, what has the Democrat Party done for them in the last 50 years?
	And the answer is really, you know, nothing.
	You know, virtually nothing.
	And yet, you know, you say, oh, well, they got to come to you this time.
	They got to be coming over because finally it has to make sense.
	I mean, a lot of that's similar with the unions, meaning, you know, even, you know, from the start of MAGA, it started doing this.
	What has Democrat policy really gotten them?
	All of these globalist policies push their American dream to China.
	You know, there's someone over there living their dream, you know, pulled out of poverty and stuff like that.
	That's great for China, terrible for America.
	Terrible for those people.
	You compile that with a terrible education system because of the teacher's union.
	And you have a recurring theme where the unions seem to be representing themselves really well.
	Meaning, for the union leadership.
	At the expense of the people who they're supposed to be representing.
	And this is just another.
	This look, this is this is the world over right now in Trump world, whether it's Hispanics, Asians, women.
	It's happening.
	Gays.
	I'll put gays in there.
	You put 10 homos in a room and I'm telling you, five of them are voting for Trump.
	That is just the fact.
	The left is going to attack me for it.
	The gay left will go crazy with that.
	But it is true because we've seen the leadership doesn't speak for us anymore.
	And I think we're seeing that with the unions as well.
	The leadership doesn't speak.
	They're out of touch with what the real life experiences are of the members of their community.
	Okay, so talk about that, you know, on the gay side of things a little bit, because you're right, the leadership there doesn't seem to, we've had this conversation before, but it, the leadership there, when I, you know, leadership loosely, it's like, they're all about the trans agenda.
	Now, you want to talk about, you know, warring factions, you know, people from, and I've seen this, and they'll call me out for it as well, you're a little bit more clear on this one.
	But, like,
	It seems like the people who actually fought for real rights and stuff like that, who really were discriminated against, I don't think that many people really give a shit anymore, candidly.
	I think it's, like, this is just one of those, like, you know, even in conservative politics, obviously there's some people that do, or the religious, right, on certain things, but I don't think it's nearly as much an issue as the left would want you to believe it is, even remotely, as evidenced by, like, you know, when Peter Thiel spoke at the RNC in 2016, he got a beggar-standing ovation talking about those issues from
	Hardcore Republicans at the Republican National Convention.
	I was like, oh, so it's not even an issue really.
	The left continues to make it an issue, but there does seem to be, perhaps the biggest warring faction would be between just the regular gays who want to live life and the trans community, indoctrinating our children, wanting to mutilate minors and infants and toddlers.
	That's the leadership, for the most part, that I see in today's left.
	They're fighting for insanity.
	It's not about equality anymore.
	They want equality, plus, plus, plus, Q, P, L, you know, whatever other acronyms they want to throw in there.
	It's not about equality.
	It's not about being left alone to do their own thing.
	It's about power and money.
	It's about power and money.
	Why though?
	Where's the money in that one?
	Where's the money in pushing for a child to be mutilated?
	Well, it's broader than that.
	What it is, is that it's generational and it's about power and money.
	So first of all, you have Gay Inc., which is controlled by Democrat operatives.
	This is an arm of the Democratic Party.
	Gay Inc.
	is literally a wing of the Democratic Party.
	They recycle all of these people who are activists within the Democratic Party, happen to be gay, and then they put them in charge of one of these gay lefty groups.
	So they want this to be a partisan issue for the Democrats.
	So they look constantly for wedge issues.
	When we achieve equality, they look for another wedge issue.
	HRC has a huge building that they have to pay for in Washington with a huge budget of personnel.
	And they will constantly look for a wedge issue.
	They don't want to solve this issue.
	They don't want Republicans to be good.
	Because if the issue goes away, their jobs go away.
	Gay Inc.
	works really hard to keep the issue partisan.
	That is a generational thing.
	Well, if you're an older gay person, you struggled to come out or you came out in your 20s.
	And so when you were coming out, you had to secretly go to these websites like The Advocate.
	And you had to go and look at, you know, gay news because you weren't out.
	And so it's this secret thing.
	As the new generation comes forward and they're comfortable being out, they're not partisan.
	They don't have the same experiences as the older gays to think, oh, it's a secret or it's a negative.
	All their friends know, their family knows, and it truly is not a big deal.
	And so they don't see this issue as the wedge issue that the older people do.
	So it's totally going away.
	Young people can think about the border.
	They can think about global affairs and not wanting to have wars because Donald Trump is absolutely for equality.
	And Republicans have moved.
	I've said this before, and I really believe it.
	There's not a Republican
	Yeah.
	I think that's 100% right.
	So, okay, so how does, you know, I call it sort of the trans mafia, right?
	They're representing, let's call it, you know, 0.01%, 1% of probably the gay community.
	I don't know exactly what the numbers are.
	Someone's going to fact check me and we've got to deal with it.
	But like, let's just say it's the most powerful
	Minute.
	Like, minutiae minority, probably in the world today.
	You know, on this show, I have a feeling, like, if you're trans, like, you are beyond reproach.
	You could, you know, to quote Donald Trump, you could walk down Fifth Avenue, murder someone in cold blood, and everyone would be fine with it.
	How did that happen, though?
	Because, I mean, I understand the power, and they're always looking for an issue, but
	Even, even amongst the left, even amongst the gay community that I know, they see, you know, sure a three-year-old, you know, I mean you couldn't get a tattoo or smoke a cigarette for another 15 years, but I mean obviously you can chop off your dick, right?
	Why, why wouldn't you be able to do that?
	That's...
	Insanity.
	Even in the community, there can't be a lot of agreement on this.
	And I certainly don't see it, but again, I think mostly if I, my gay friends are conservative gays, but like, but even still, how did they amass, you know, the trans mafia, how do they have much more power than, you know, what would have been even like, you know, the Hollywood or the, you know, a strong, you know, gay representation cabal, you know what I mean?
	I mean, there was disproportionate power there, but the trans thing overwhelms it all.
	And even to the detriment and expense of people who are openly gay and coming out, like Martina Navratilova, when she came out as a gay activist for 30 years, way before it was cool, 25 years before it was cool, and it was actually probably a serious liability at that time, she says, hey, you know what?
	My hand is raised, too.
	It was a serious liability when I came out.
	No, and I believe that, but, you know, this is someone who's an advocate for so much of what that cause was, and she says, as one of the greatest female athletes in the history of sports, hey, like, I don't know, I don't think, you know, dudes should be playing women's sports.
	Like, cancelled!
	Like, 30 years of work!
	Like, fuck you, you're out!
	Like, it was lunacy to me.
	How did that happen?
	It's Gay Inc.
	It's Gay Inc.
	who decided to have another wedge issue.
	Look, I think we as a society will really pay a price, and we already are, but we're going to pay a bigger price for allowing
	Kids under the age of 18 to do this permanent to their body, to have hormones that block puberty, it's outrageous.
	And I literally see this as the majority of gay people don't think that that is right.
	The majority of my Democratic friends don't think that that's right.
	But they're silent.
	But they're still silent.
	Maybe to you they're not, but they're still... Why can't someone take that on from that side?
	Because, honestly, I feel like it's a winning issue.
	And I know that because if I'm on Twitter, not Truth, where it's going to be more conservative or whatever, but if I'm on Twitter and I'm like, hey man, an 18-year-old dude that became a girl three days ago wins the Connecticut State Track Championship.
	I'm like, that's bullshit.
	And the comments are not what I'm used to on Twitter.
	I hate Don Jr.
	with a passion.
	You are the bigot, you are the scum of the, and I can't believe I actually agree with you on something.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, so if on Twitter, which is 90%, let's call it the other side, even still, you know what I mean?
	This is even before sort of Twitter 2, but it's still, you know, the user base is still going to be more heavily left.
	90% of those people are agreeing with me 100%, and that's already of a heavily left-skewed base.
	Like, this can't be a winning issue in the long run, and yet they still have that power.
	Well, Gay Inc.
	has this power.
	They have the power.
	And look, this goes back to corporations are funding Gay Inc.
	You have all of these corporations tripping over themselves to give money to HRC or the Victory Fund or whatever it is, because there's been a shakedown.
	They say, well, we'll say that your anti-gay will score you low if you don't give this.
	So it's now morphed into this trans movement.
	Look, I'm proud of the Log Cabin Republicans, which are the gay Republican group, because they now have a message of under 18, over 18.
	And what they're trying to say is if you're under the age of 18, we need to aggressively protect kids.
	Let kids be kids.
	No permanent decisions.
	No hormone replacements.
	If you're over the age of 18,
	Knock yourself out.
	But you still don't get to go into the men's bathroom if you're a biological female.
	And you don't get to play in sports if you're a biological man, biological male, in the female sports.
	So we have this common sense approach to these issues, which I think is exactly what the majority of people want.
	Most people that I know, if you're over the age of 18, and as long as you're not trying to get into a woman's sports or a woman's bathroom, they say, you know, go live your life.
	There's a whole bunch of things that people do that I don't agree with, but I have the attitude of like, if you're an adult, you get to choose your own way.
	Just don't, you know, go after somebody else.
	Don't go into their bathroom.
	I always say like, and I think the vast majority of, you know, the people I see, you know,
	I don't want to pay for it.
	I don't want to hear about it ad nauseum.
	I don't want to be forced to do that.
	And I don't want to be forced to sort of comply to someone's ever-changing whims.
	Well, today I'm a boy and you must address me.
	And if you don't address me as a boy, even though I was a woman five seconds ago, you're committing a hate crime.
	Uh, you know, but, I mean, and, you know, it sounds far-fetched, but if you look at Europe, if you look at the UK, I mean, people are being put in jail for misgendering people.
	You know, that's, that's a serious thing.
	So, again, if someone wants to, like, hey, I've gotten in trouble for even saying, you know,
	I don't even care.
	Do whatever you want when you're an adult.
	Again, as long as I don't pay for it.
	I don't have to hear about it ad nauseum.
	And I don't have to bend the knee to whatever the hell the ever-changing whims are.
	I'm just not gonna do that.
	You do whatever the hell you want and leave me the hell alone.
	Yeah, look, I agree with you.
	The fact of the matter is this misgendering thing is so ridiculous.
	If somebody misgenders somebody by mistake or for whatever, it's not the end of the world.
	I think if you're truly offended, which you shouldn't be, but if you're truly offended, you can say, you know what, I'd like to be called this or something.
	And then it's a negotiation.
	You can't demand, you know, I'd like to be called 29.
	I can't demand that people on social media stop calling me an asshole.
	They think I'm a huge asshole.
	I'm just a little asshole.
	There's much bigger assholes out there than me.
	But I can't dictate those terms.
	That's sort of, I don't know, let's just call it a First Amendment issue.
	And it's fine.
	My life doesn't revolve around that.
	And yet, there are people actively doing that.
	They'd love to be able to persecute those.
	By the way, who even get it wrong?
	Unknowingly.
	I mean, you know, in all fairness, you see some of the, it's ma'am.
	I'm like, I don't know, dude.
	Like relax.
	It doesn't look like a ma'am to me.
	It's not the end of the world.
	That's the whole thing is, is that, but we've created the system that like, if you misgender, you're, you're a horrible, terrible person.
	And it's just like, you know what?
	Everyone's really busy and they've got a whole bunch of things to do.
	And life is a crisis.
	You've got family members with cancer and you've got to pay your bills and you know, life is not perfect.
	The idea that misgendering somebody is like a big deal?
	I think it's, once again, it's gay ink trying to have a wedge issue, trying to create a problem so that they can garner more money, more power within the political system.
	And the Democrats fan it.
	They applaud it.
	They want it because they get votes.
	The more that they can define it as a black and white issue, Republicans bad, Democrats good, then the sheep hear that and they just vote that way.
	Which is why I gotta give another shout out to Log Cabin.
	I think that group is so brave and doing great work.
	And certainly our work in the Middle East, which is in Arabic and Farsi of trying to push decriminalization is noble.
	Yeah, I mean, they do do great work and that was like one of the great ironies.
	I remember watching Secretary Blinken with all the Biden nonsense right after the Afghan withdrawal when he got up on a world stage and told them, you know, the world that he's shocked and dismayed that the Taliban government didn't install a more diverse and inclusive government.
	I was like, I mean, did like,
	You know, these are supposed to be the serious people, right?
	The adults were back in charge.
	This is what we were told.
	And yet, the people that we've been fighting for 20 years that were throwing homosexuals off buildings, dousing jerks, like, they didn't have like a trans coalition.
	And he's, he's, he's shocked.
	I mean, you know, if you're dismayed, fine, I forgive you for that.
	I mean, you know, you may, you know, we all want to believe in Santa Claus, but like, you're, you're shocked?
	You're shocked that they didn't take your,
	Insane ideology and just adapt it immediately and have this, you know, they're gonna have Leah Thomas from the Penn Swim Team, very, you know, dominant female swimmer, happened to be a female for about two weeks before winning all the NCAA awards, and, you know, give her a big platform to bring up the Taliban trans coalition.
	It's mind-boggling.
	Look, we're talking about the top diplomat, Anthony Blinken, who literally has been a disaster.
	And I would argue that Joe Biden knows that Blinken is a disaster.
	He's not allowing him to do anything.
	He's been pushed aside to do culinary diplomacy and the art and embassy program.
	And he's not bringing a peace plan forward.
	We got the Chinese bringing a peace plan forward.
	We don't have anybody else.
	I also think it's pretty important that we mention that Zelensky, Ukrainian President Zelensky, has asked Donald Trump for a peace plan, but he hasn't asked Joe Biden for a peace plan.
	Now what does that say?
	Well, I think it says a lot, but let's transition over, no pun intended, to the Ukraine for a little bit, and with America's involvement there.
	I mean, this is maybe where these issues overlap.
	We saw last week, they literally had a trans spokesperson that we're apparently funding threatening to kill
	Anyone who doesn't agree, spreading maybe Russian propaganda, meaning they don't agree with the talking points coming out of Ukraine, they're being funded apparently by the United States of America, they're doing this on a world stage, dressed up as like a trans-Zelensky.
	How can that be happening?
	If that was happening under Trump, and we were paying someone, and they were representing the American taxpayer, and they were threatening, you know, remember Russian bounties?
	I mean, this sounds like Ukrainian bounties.
	You'd think that'd be a story, but what's going on right now?
	You just dropped Trans-Zelensky.
	That's hilarious.
	I mean, it was literally like Zelensky in a wig, right?
	I was like, what the... I saw it, but that's the point, Rick.
	The adults are back in charge, and yet a guy like me feels like I'm being punked.
	I saw it, and I was like, this has to be a Saturday Night Live skit from when it was funny.
	And it's not.
	But, again...
	Well, we need a trans person representing us there, because if we have the trans representation, the whole world is just gonna bend over, and they're gonna give us another trillion dollars in aid, and they're gonna go after the Russians, and we can start a ground war in Europe because we have a trans spokesperson, therefore we are beyond reproach.
	It literally feels like that's the game they're trying to play to me, which is insane.
	Yeah.
	You know, we talked about this.
	The first time I saw it, I thought, this is not real.
	This is an SNL skit.
	This cannot be real.
	And it went days for people thinking this is not real.
	I tweeted about it because our friend JD Vance was leading on this issue.
	And I tweeted something about it.
	Ukrainian officials reached out to me
	And said, hey, let me just tell you, this person was hired officially by the military, that the president's office, President Zelensky did not approve this.
	And and as of yesterday, President Zelensky put this person on suspension.
	And I thought, well, how is that happening?
	How is it that the president's office is not watching for two weeks the trans person from America, sounds like a robot, really going after anybody who doesn't support the line that the Ukrainian government wants.
	And yet it was happening.
	I mean, Zelensky is all over social media.
	And certainly all over America.
	But then he comes to the UN and he waves his finger at the world and says climate change is the most important problem.
	So I think when Zelensky has climate change
	And the English spokesperson is trans.
	I think it is an admission that the Democrats are giving him all the money.
	He's going to do their talking points.
	You know, he's going to talk about open borders here soon.
	And then he can't complain that he has a problem with Republicans who think that this is just a big political operation.
	Well, listen, I think you're 100% right.
	I guess that's probably where I was going with it.
	Like, you had the trans representation check, you have the this, we're talking about climate change.
	I mean, you'd think, I mean, you know, I've seen the pictures, I guess, I've seen the stories, like, you'd think that he would have bigger things to worry about than climate change.
	I'm sure a war of this many missiles probably isn't awesome for the environment.
	And yet, that became, like, a huge component of his UN address.
	Not actually stopping the war, not anything like that, but
	Yeah, I mean... We should point out one thing, though, about his address.
	He also put in there, which I think was like a WMD type of moment where he was like, look, they're coming for Poland, Poland's next.
	And that was very calculating from Zelensky to imply that a NATO ally is about to be attacked.
	Somehow he has proof or, you know, whatever his reasoning is, that a NATO ally is about to be attacked.
	That's a serious moment.
	And he made that claim at the UN.
	Within hours, the Polish President, President Duda, stood up and literally made an analogy of Zelensky and Ukraine like a drowning victim
	Just grabbing on and possibly pulling down the rescuers.
	That was the analogy that he made.
	I think that when a NATO ally like Poland stands up and says we're not going to supply all of this, we have concerns about the way that they're acting.
	That's a warning sign.
	And Zelensky is in Washington, D.C.
	today.
	There needs to be an immediate check on that money.
	We've already seen corruption inside Ukraine.
	And let's be honest, that country was very corrupt.
	Well, by many, you know, sort of, you know, people who do this, not like, you know, conservative reporting, but by many, Ukraine would have been ranked a more corrupt nation than Russia prior to this conflict.
	I think the other component that, you know, no one talks about in this war was that, you know, I sort of feel like we gave Putin every excuse in the book by saying, hey, we're going to take this little buffer zone
	You know, let's call it 500,000 miles of Ukraine, and we're just going to move NATO's border right up onto yours.
	Like, to me, you know, these talking points are overlooked in this.
	I mean, so you had a stalemate, a buffer zone, a no man's land, let's call it, that was not part of NATO, that was, you know, ethnically very Russian in many respects.
	This was a buffer zone.
	And we're like, no, no, we're just going to go right up on the Russian border.
	I mean, is that not sort of the
	You know, act of aggression that, you know, whether it was an excuse, it would be a very viable one for Putin to use, or the act of aggression itself that actually started this conflict.
	Look, it's out of control right now.
	We're only talking about war and war options.
	That's the only thing we're talking about.
	And look, as a diplomat, Don, I know you've heard me say this, but I really am passionate about it, is that I believe that the President of the United States needs to have two options in front of them.
	A really good war plan from DOD,
	and a really good diplomatic plan from the State Department.
	We don't have this one.
	We don't have a peace plan or an option.
	All we have is war and more money for war.
	There's no other option.
	I can't conclude anything other than Joe Biden has shoved Anthony Blinken off
	We're good to go.
	You better have diplomats who are really tough, not these wimpy diplomats who do culinary diplomacy like Lincoln keeps pushing, but really serious diplomats.
	That is how you avoid war.
	Tough diplomats at the table.
	Instead, the left keeps mocking the tough diplomats that Trump put in place.
	Yeah, well, you see that.
	You saw that with, you know, whether it's Yellen or otherwise, they're bowing to China.
	China shows up, they send a third-rate team of people, give them five minutes and then they leave.
	I mean, they're insulting us across the board, but it feels like, you know, Blinken isn't actually, or never really was a diplomat.
	He was a guy that orchestrated the 52 intelligence officers to sign off that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
	We know that now to all be bullshit, but
	You know, that was the quid pro quo.
	We're going to give you a big boy position for making that happen.
	And this is the results.
	I mean, when you do that and you put someone in place that has no business being there, these are the results.
	But how does the conflict end?
	I mean, if Zelensky, I mean, you said this, and this is a really big deal.
	If Zelensky is asking Trump for a peace plan, but not asking Biden for one,
	What is it about?
	I mean, is the only way this war ends if 2024 Trump gets to the table?
	Because the problem is, a Trump plan, whatever it is, in my mind, won't be effective if you have feckless leadership like Joe Biden in there.
	Meaning, Putin, you know, like all bullies, Putin, he understands weakness and he will prey on it.
	That's the nature of predation.
	You know, predators, I don't care if you're a wolf, a lion, you know, whatever it may, an insect, a vulture, you know, that is the nature.
	You see weakness, you see the weak and dying, and you prey on them.
	That's what's going on right now.
	So the Trump deal, there's no doubt my father could actually get this done, but you can't do it without the power to actually get it done, without that office, because you look at what's behind it and go, yeah, whatever it is, they're not going to actually stand by it.
	They're not going to actually do this.
	We'll get Joe Biden to roll.
	Which is probably the more plausible side of things, which is they probably have more information on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the dealings, since everyone else has it, that they would just roll that out.
	Or Joe knows that they have it, and so he's incapable of actually taking an aggressive position against these adversaries.
	Look, I think Zelensky is desperate right now.
	He needs to have some sort of an outside leader pushing a peace plan.
	Remember a while ago when the Chinese put forward a peace plan, Zelensky immediately made a comment that was positive about it.
	He said, wow, the Chinese have offered a peace plan envisioning territorial integrity for Ukraine.
	That's what he said.
	Quickly, the White House was like, shut up.
	You can't be talking about the Chinese peace plan.
	And they slapped him and he shut up about it.
	And now we've gone nowhere.
	I'll say this, and it gets a little controversial, but that Chinese peace plan was a very good start.
	It was not perfect.
	It needs change.
	But it did talk about territorial integrity.
	Let's remember that the Minsk Agreement, which was the agreement that Obama and Merkel tried to, although Obama blames Merkel, tried to do after the first grabbing of Crimea.
	There was also an inability to say territorial integrity for sure.
	There was this nebulous area of Crimea.
	And, you know, autonomous or was it autonomous?
	There was all sorts of questions.
	They were not clear about it.
	And it quickly fell apart because there was no clarity.
	And so we do have a basis for this.
	But I think the lesson is the Europeans, by evidence of the Minsk agreement, they can't negotiate this.
	I could talk all day about Kosovo, Serbia.
	When the Europeans come forward and try to put together a deal, it's analysis paralysis.
	There is no action on this.
	And so President Trump could absolutely negotiate a deal because both sides fear and respect him.
	And that is the truth.
	But I think both sides don't like him.
	Both sides say, ah, like he's too powerful.
	But what he has behind him is a credible threat of military action, a credible threat of trade action, a credible threat of economic action.
	He would immediately institute, look what he did with Erdogan when there was Pastor Brunson situation.
	The reason we got Pastor Brunson back without paying any money,
	It's because President Trump said to President Erdogan, I'll ruin your economy.
	You don't give this guy back and we're gonna have tariffs on tomorrow.
	Now,
	That is a credible statement coming from President Trump.
	Erdogan believed President Trump would do something.
	The credibility of President Trump on these issues is great.
	I'll finish with this.
	I once was told by Chancellor Merkel at a cocktail reception when we were just chatting about different situations.
	She said, you know, one of the problems with your president
	Is that we just can't figure him out.
	We don't know what he's going to do next.
	That's the biggest advantage.
	And I remember sitting there thinking, don't smile too big.
	I ended up saying to her, I said, you know, Madam Chancellor, with all due respect, that's exactly where the United States wants to be, is we want to be in a position where you don't know what's next and therefore you can't predict us.
	So, you know, you sort of mentioned, you know, not giving money for some of these things.
	This week we saw a disastrous deal, right?
	And yet the media touted it as this big victory.
	Biden recently made a deal to get back five American hostages from Iran while giving back, I guess it was five, to Iran of their people.
	It wasn't like 5 and 5, it was 5 and 5 plus 6 billion dollars.
	They tout this as a win.
	Why did they need to give Iran a release of 6 billion dollars?
	Because you're like, oh wow, it's a win.
	Trump was able to get back people for nothing.
	Not even in exchange for things because of that power, because of that unknown that you're talking about.
	Joe Biden makes a deal that people are like, OK, well, fine, it's equal.
	It's like, oh, well, here's the fine print.
	Equal plus six billion dollars to the world's leading state sponsor of terror.
	That's insane to me.
	It's insane.
	It's outrageous.
	And what's even more outrageous is that they're trying to claim that somehow
	Oh, this is, you know, their money and, you know, we owe it to them.
	Well, that was the deal.
	It's a good deal.
	It's like, no, no, no, that's not a good deal.
	Like, by no stretch of the imagination, is it a good deal?
	But they try to sell that one to us.
	Yeah.
	And look, the money has been in this account.
	It wasn't going to Iran.
	It certainly wasn't going to Iran under the Trump administration.
	But the Biden administration changed accounts.
	to be able to move it.
	And they're telling themselves that, oh, we're going to watch how they spend it.
	Well, you know, you can watch how they spend that money, but you just freed up a whole bunch of more money in a different area.
	And we're not stupid.
	I mean, you have these Biden spokespeople trying to defend this, and it's laughable.
	What this deal has done is created instability in Europe,
	Made America less safe.
	There will absolutely be more hostages with a higher price because of the ransom that the Biden team has just paid.
	Yeah, it's a learned behavior.
	It's like training a dog.
	Like, you give them a treat, you're going to continue that behavior, except in this case, you're training them that you can get billions from the U.S., you can get them to roll over on policy issues, you can get them to roll over this.
	I mean, I can't think of a thing that would encourage more kidnappings around the world than seemingly just Biden administration policy today.
	I couldn't agree more.
	It's really a dangerous slippery slope.
	What's next?
	I have no idea what could be next, but I will tell you that this weakness coming from the Biden team is training people to test the United States.
	So I know you got a wrap up soon, but I wanted to understand
	You know, just for you guys and for the people watching, you're going to have a good take on both the power and the manipulation of America's intelligence agencies, as well as, let's take that all the way into DOJ and what's going on with Jack Smith.
	As someone who's seen it, as someone who's seen it weaponized against us, how severe is that power?
	How badly is it being used?
	And what's the endgame there?
	Because I think there's a lot of stuff going on that the American people at any other time in history would be outraged about, and yet they've become so normalized.
	Yeah.
	To these extreme reactions from whether it's the intelligence community, whether it's the Department of Justice, weaponized against their own citizenry.
	Look, we used to say 20 years ago that intelligence was an estimate.
	We were very proud of that.
	Intelligence is just an estimate.
	Sometimes we get it right.
	Sometimes we get it wrong.
	Sometimes we're way off.
	Sometimes we're right on.
	And we need to get back to the point where we keep telling the public that intelligence is an estimate.
	The entire
	The reason that we have intelligence is to brief and prepare public policy officials so that our U.S.
	policy is really good, that we know how to push U.S.
	policy forward.
	It's been manipulated over time.
	You take raw intelligence and, you know, I could go into great detail of what that is in terms of how we collect it and what types of intelligence we have.
	But I want to focus for a second on the analysts and the analytical pieces, because a CIA analyst, an intelligence analyst, is somebody who writes a predictive analysis.
	Using raw intelligence.
	So it literally is an opinion writer.
	They take intelligence and they say, oh, I see A, B and C. And you know what?
	This is what I think it means.
	And this is what I think is going to happen.
	We have to be so careful about taking that analysis and not overemphasize it as the truth.
	That is someone's opinion.
	Sometimes it's one person's opinion.
	It might be a couple of people's opinion, but it's usually just an opinion.
	Imagine if you would read the opinion pages of the New York Times.
	And there were no names on the opinion pieces.
	You didn't know if it was, you know, an actress or a specialist, right?
	It was just literally an opinion there and you're like, hmm.
	Who is this?
	And what did they say?
	Well, that's what we have from the intelligence community.
	And we've seen them get it wildly wrong.
	When I was acting DNI, I famously, you know, people didn't like it, but I told the Israeli analysts that they had a real credibility problem.
	They had just told the U.S.
	officials for years that if we moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the U.S.
	embassy, that we would start World War III.
	And they were adamant about that.
	And that caused the U.S.
	policy.
	The slowdown and to take a second look and it really impacted in a negative way because people believed hook line and sinker that analysis that analysis turned out to be not only wrong but completely wrong and the opposite was true.
	No, Rick.
	No, Rick.
	The media told me there were like three people that threw rocks for about seven seconds.
	So it was a very big deal.
	Almost, almost World War III.
	But when we moved the embassy and we showed that we were willing to do big deals,
	That ushered in the Abraham Accords.
	We were able to produce peace between Arabs and Israelis because we moved the embassy.
	And I will go toe-to-toe with anybody to say those big moves are what makes people believe that you are willing to do big things.
	And so we have world peace.
	Because of that, and I said to the analysts, you have a credibility problem, which is crucial to your job.
	No one's gonna believe you anymore.
	Something's gotta change.
	Maybe we gotta change the team, and we started to change the team.
	But the reason why I said that is because I wanted them to know that there are consequences for bad analysis.
	And there are negative consequences for U.S.
	public policy officials.
	I knew a ton of public policy officials who suddenly would question everything that the analysts were saying because they got it so wrong.
	So we've got to fix this.
	We've got to get rid of opinions.
	We need to do less of the forced opinions and more of the here's
	It is an estimate of what we think and the media have to not take raw intelligence or little pieces of an analyst's talking points and somehow make sweeping judgments about facts on it.
	It is an estimate and people need to go back to that.
	Well, I think the media is maybe the worst culprit in all of that because they take the narrative that they want to see, right?
	You could have two conflicting opinions, you know, one with a total credibility crisis and one, you know, backed by thousands of people.
	And if the other one, the one that has no credibility, actually gets them where they would like to be, that is the gospel.
	That becomes the gospel regardless of anything.
	We saw that during Russia, Russia, Russia.
	We saw that during Trump impeachment one and two.
	You know, the truth didn't actually matter.
	As the saying goes, you know, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
	And, you know, it's why they have the credibility crisis they themselves have.
	So you're right.
	I mean, I think we do have to get back
	To fixing all of those problems because why would we trust our government for anything?
	Whether that's now in the age of COVID and after vaccinations and what we were told about masks and listening to Fauci who's been wrong about everything for 40 years and all of these things.
	I think we have a severe credibility crisis across the board in government.
	But they're fixable.
	They're fixable.
	I want to leave people with hope.
	They are fixable if you have people who can go in and make big ideas and not be seat warmers in some of these seats.
	But to recognize a problem and to fix it, you can fix these.
	Well, that's a big deal, and I'm glad, because God knows, watching what's going on, we need some hope.
	So Rick Riddell, thank you so much for joining us.
	Get back to training to fix the UN and the disaster that's there.
	And we'll look forward to seeing you soon, man.
	Thanks again.
	All the best, Tom.
	Thanks.
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