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Dec. 9, 2024 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Daniel Penny Acquitted: What it Means, Plus Live with Breitbart’s Matt Boyle | TRIGGERED Ep.197
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Thank you.
huge episode of Triggered.
I hope everyone is doing great.
I hope you all had an awesome weekend.
What a news day.
Daniel Penny is acquitted.
But it should have never, ever gotten to this point in the first place.
Also, a person of interest is identified in the murder of health care CEO Brian Thompson.
We'll bring you the latest.
And tonight, we are just 40 days away from Inauguration Day.
And it cannot come soon enough.
Because on their way out, the Biden administration is doing literally everything they possibly can to start more wars and to create more chaos.
While my father is paving a path towards peace.
They're going to do that.
It's not going to stop.
And then the media is going to pretend like it was Trump's fault and he caused all of these things.
Of course, it's why it's so vital to get the cabinet nominees confirmed.
America gave America.
It gave Washington.
It gave my father a mandate to make it clear that business as usual inside the swamp is over once and for all.
Like I always say, there is no money in peace, and that's exactly why it's imperative that Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard get confirmed.
We're also told that Kash Patel had great meetings with senators today and that his confirmation is on the path towards success.
More on that coming up with Breitbart News investigative reporter Matt Boyle.
Matt's a great friend of the show, someone who's been very aggressively a part of this movement early on.
So I think we'll get a lot of insight into a lot of news going on all over the world.
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And we begin with a big one in New York City.
Where the jury finally got it right and justice prevailed.
I was a little worried.
I saw some of the sketches out of the jury room and I saw the one guy in a mask.
I'm saying, we probably got a problem.
Marine veteran Daniel Penny was found not guilty of negligent homicide today, ending a trial that should have never, ever happened in the first place.
I mean, think about it.
All the witnesses are there saying he saved our lives, he protected us, whatever it may be.
The guy has a rap sheet 50 pages long.
And they want to throw a good Samaritan, a Marine, in jail for life for stepping in and protecting them.
What kind of precedent would that set?
For those of you dads or bombs with kids or daughters, imagine someone was attacking your daughter and basically everyone was too afraid to ever step in, to get involved, to do the right thing, because insane lunatic morons in blue states Would rather, I don't know, embrace a criminal than a Marine doing the right thing, getting involved when it matters?
Now remember, the prosecution pulled one dirty trick after another on this case, okay?
That shouldn't surprise anyone.
You've seen what these people have tried to do to my father, what they've tried to do to our businesses as a family formerly from the People's Republic of New York.
The prosecution moved to dismiss the manslaughter charge after the jury said they couldn't come to a decision.
Their hope was that the jury would compromise and find him guilty on some of the lesser charges, basically trying to coerce the jury, trying to encourage them to get to a guilty verdict one way or the other.
But the jury stuck to the facts.
And they properly applied the law.
Daniel Penney is a hero, and he clearly committed no crime.
More broadly, though, this represents a larger shift in America following the election of my father.
I can almost guarantee you that if the election went the other way, This jury would have likely gone the other way as well.
Because people are afraid of the insanity that's going on.
They're afraid of speaking up against that system.
But hopefully that too is a thing of the past.
Americans are fed up with the race hustling, the BLM grifting, the pro-crime agenda, and more and more Americans.
Now have the courage to stand for the rule of law.
They have become unafraid.
They have been empowered by logic and reason and sanity, as opposed to the opposite, which was the prevailing thought for so long and far too long.
But this story shouldn't stop here, because we need a Justice Department investigation into the deprivation of rights by these far-left rogue prosecutors in jurisdictions across the country.
Alvin Bragg and his deputy district attorneys across Manhattan need to get the message that this corrupt lawfare agenda is in its last days.
It's done.
It's over.
It needs to stop.
And the people, even the people of New York City, have clearly had enough.
Or, perhaps guys, to use a phrase that they may understand a little bit better, we're not going back.
Cities and towns are safer when men like Daniel Penny are willing to intervene to protect others.
And I understand Soros backed DAs and others want to make sure that everyone is so afraid that they never actually step in.
But again, we hope that's a thing of the past.
Why was Daniel Penny ever charged in the first place, many may ask.
Everyone inside the Manhattan DA's office who was involved here needs to be held accountable.
These people are such sick, insane lunatics, and they should not have a place in public service.
But make no mistake, guys.
This verdict is a huge victory for the rule of law and for the trajectory of America.
But guys...
Left-leaning, left-wing agitators don't see it that way.
They are already calling for violence after Daniel Penney's acquittal.
Check this out.
No peace!
Guys, this is how the left acts.
The only reason Penny was charged in the first place was that Democrats in New York were probably worried that they would riot if they didn't charge Penny.
Now, if right-leaning people were doing this and the case was reversed and it was the opposite type of thing, the media would be outraged.
They would be disgusted that the flagrant calls for violence.
They would be disgusted that a media would platform people doing just that.
The left has been in hysteria over this case, saying that Penny was guilty of lynching.
Big if true, obviously it's total nonsense, but that doesn't matter.
That hasn't stopped them from doing it.
It's divorced from reality.
But then again, that's all the left has left.
They need censorship.
They need false narratives to maintain any semblance of control.
For example, here's Kamala Harris's deputy campaign manager, who is now outright admitting this.
It's actually something else.
It's actually almost hard to believe if you haven't actually been watching the left very closely for quite some time.
It's a challenge, I think, for Democrats and for the left in this media environment.
The key to it, at least in my lens, is you need to have a group of advocates, partisans, whatever, who are aggressively pushing your message in a unified way, a cultural rung that sits one little bit out from it.
That you can sort of push stuff to.
And then that moves its way to persuadable voters.
That's kind of what I was talking about with the project 2025 thing.
You know, for the left, our amplification ecosystem is the mainstream media in Hollywood.
Amazing.
But while I was watching that, I was also reading the live chat, and Jez Heat said, Don Jr. for sexiest man alive.
So I have to break with the news to comment on that, because obviously, right?
I mean, is there anyone else that could possibly compete?
All kidding aside.
Back to the work.
Sorry.
Had to do it.
Can't help myself.
Flattery will get you everything.
But will the media ever really learn their lesson, right?
You see that insanity.
Will they actually learn?
Because last week, my father sat down with NBC News' Kristen Welker, where she went through the same routine.
She pushed the same lies we heard during the campaign, the same nonsense that they've thrown at us for nine years.
And my father at one point told her she's got big potential.
But she's just so consumed with the bias that it's not going to work out all that well for her.
If you haven't watched the rest of the interview, you should check it out.
Because despite that bias, I think you did an incredible job.
But see this clip for yourself.
Let me ask you this about January 6th.
You know, you have such potential.
If you could be just non-biased, you hurt yourself so badly.
I'm telling you, they deleted and destroyed all the evidence.
Everyone knows it.
And you slough it off like it doesn't mean anything.
No, I'm just saying they deny it.
That's all I'm saying.
Kristen, if I did it, you would be standing up in that chair shouting at me.
And you know what I'd do?
I'd say, you got me.
They have done something so illegal.
They have a committee sworn to.
And because it was so bad, the only reason they did it is because the testimony turned out to be...
Imagine.
I know it's gonna be a stretch, but imagine, if you will, the media focused on the core issues affecting the country rather than constantly just trying to do the left's bidding.
Imagine that.
I mean, it's so insane at this point.
Even so-called journalists like Taylor Lawrence were giddy over the assassination Or the assassin who murdered healthcare executive Brian Thompson.
I mean, something is seriously wrong with these people.
Listen, I'm not saying everyone should be thrilled with insurance companies and whatever is going on, but to outwardly cheer the cold-blooded murder of a person in the streets of New York to turn that person into a hero, much like they tried to do with my father's would-be assassins, is lunacy.
It's depravity.
It's absolutely insane.
Guys, also today, a person of interest was apprehended in that very case.
He was identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who was found at a Pennsylvania McDonald's with multiple IDs, a gun, and a silencer.
I wonder if my father was the fry cook that perhaps caught the witness.
I don't know.
Many have said that that could be it.
I don't know.
I don't want to go out there.
I don't know enough of the facts, but...
According to reports, he was literally an Ivy League grad from Maryland, went to a really well-off prep school down there, graduated from my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
So I guess another thing after the stuff we saw from the October 7th testimony stuff, another thing to be disappointed in, but He'd gone totally off the grid.
His friends hadn't seen him in months, and he was apparently motivated by a hatred of the healthcare industry.
There's still a lot of questions.
We'll continue to update as we learn more.
But the breaking news didn't stop there.
It's been a crazy one because over the weekend reports emerged that the Assad regime fell in Syria, plunging the Middle East into a new era of uncertainty.
To say the least.
Again, something that happened under Biden, happened under the instability and weakness of American leadership over the last four years, that I can promise you the media will try to turn into my father's problem in a very short period of Trump.
They'll try to blame him for these things happening, even though they happened under someone else's watch.
And it seems like America is trying to make all of these matters Much worse.
So they can drag my father into perpetual war.
So they can make it his war instead of Biden and the Democrat regime, as well as the warmongers in Washington, D.C. on the right.
And while Biden is rushing to start yet another war, my father is focused on peace and protecting lives in Syria, in Ukraine, and across the world.
Writing on Truth Social, he said, and I quote, too many lives are being so needlessly wasted.
Too many families destroyed.
And if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger.
A far worse problem.
I know, Vladimir, well, this is the time to act.
China can help.
The world is waiting.
With just weeks until the inauguration, guys, Biden is focused on more money for Ukraine and more bombs for so-called rebel groups in the Middle East.
Ah, you guys remember how many times that's worked out in the past?
Not so many.
Not so many, starting way back in the early 80s in Afghanistan.
They are trying to sow as much chaos as they possibly can on their way out.
It's yet another reason why we need these cabinet picks confirmed so we can get going full speed ahead on day one.
Now, apparently, Senator Joni Urist of Iowa did today release a statement suggesting that she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth for defense secretary.
Here's my father on why Hegseth is such a great choice.
Peter's doing well now.
I mean, people were a little bit concerned.
He's a young guy with a tremendous track record, actually.
He went to Princeton and went to Harvard.
He was a good student at both.
But he loves the military, and I think people are starting to see it.
So we'll be working on his nomination along with a lot of others.
Since you bring him up, do you still have confidence in Pete Hexas?
Yes, I do.
I really do.
He's a very smart guy.
I've known him through Fox, but I've known him for a long time.
And he's basically a military guy.
I mean, every time I talk to him, all he wants to talk about is the military.
He's a military guy.
And Kash Patel had meetings on Capitol Hill today with his confirmation looking stronger and stronger.
That's for FBI director.
Here's Texas Senator John Cornyn on why he's supporting Kash.
Kash Patel, the president's nominee for FBI director.
We still don't know what Director Ray's plans are, but eventually I assume that Mr. Patel will be confirmed as the next FBI director.
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And joining me now, guys, Breitbart News investigative reporter, great friend of mine, Mr. Matt Boyle.
How's it going, Matt?
How's everything going?
Dawn, it's going great.
We're super excited here a month or a little over a month after the historic election day.
You know what's interesting about this election?
It wasn't really surprising to us.
2016 was a shock, even though we thought it was going to happen.
This time we kind of knew, and so now it's very business-like.
Right, like afterwards in terms of getting things done and getting ready and getting in line.
You know, it's kind of like we've been here before.
It's like a, you know, like a sports team, you know, after your first, you know, championship, right?
Like we've won before.
We've done this before.
We know what to do now.
So now it's about going back and doing it again.
Yeah, I see that.
It's sort of interesting.
It's like, while we went through four years of hell, while America suffered greatly for it, our economy, the wars, that I'm saying for the future of America to actually make real change, if you just rolled over the same guys from 2020 that were slow rolling you, the unelected bureaucrats who were, they thought they knew better than the duly elected president of the United States.
This four years of insanity, it's almost like you hit rock bottom.
America got it.
They understand it now.
And we can be so much more effective than had we actually just, you know, kept office in 2020. I don't even want to say we lost because I don't think anyone actually believes that anymore.
But it almost doesn't matter.
I think the efficacy of this next administration is so much more because we're starting from scratch and we have all of this time, all of this experience to actually put people in there who can make a difference.
Yeah, and I really feel like what happened on election night demonstrates that the Biden presidency and administration really is an error, not an error, right?
And what we did was we ended the error on election night, and now we can get back to doing things even better and more professionally, I think, than even the first time around.
The first time around was great.
I think this time around is going to be even better, as demonstrated by The picks that your dad is making so far.
I'm very pleased with all of them.
I think that all of them are great.
I know a lot of them personally.
We've done stories with them over the course of the last several years, and they're exciting.
And this process with the Senate is, in some cases more than others, a little bit challenging, but I think that they're all going to get there.
So I'm feeling very confident As we're going through this, we've been doing a lot of reporting on Pete Hegseth over the last week, and things are looking very strong for him right now.
Give us the latest on the cabinet nominees, the confirmation process.
What do you think that latest news are?
What are the latest developments?
It seems like the swamp was doing its thing for a while, but I think the America First movement seemed to really jump in and sort of put them in their place.
It seems like people are coming back around to the mandate that the American people really showed on November 5th.
Yeah, I think Hegseth is really the tip of the spear here in that very much like how he led his guys into war, into battle.
He's leading Trump's cabinet picks into confirmation here, right?
And so I very much feel like he's the tip of the spear.
If he gets through, they all get through.
If he doesn't, If the swamp gets him, then I think that some of the other picks are going to have a really tough time.
But what's happened over the course of the last week, I mean, look, a week ago right now, things were looking pretty dark for Pete Heggseth.
And I think that he's massively turned it around.
How'd he do it?
He started fighting, right?
Like, I mean, he wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
He did an interview with Megyn Kelly, which was fantastic.
And he's been taking the message Directly into meetings with senators and he's winning them over one by one.
They're all seeing the same thing your dad did in Pete.
And many of these senators have known them for a long time.
You know, they know concerned veterans for America.
When you see these fake establishment media attacks with all based on anonymous sources, It's backfiring in a big way.
And senators remember, I mean, look, for a senator a month, you know, since the election, that's like a blink of an eye to them, right?
They serve six year terms.
But they remember the Kavanaugh smear.
They remember what it was like going through that and what it was, you know, a total hoax.
They know what it's like having gone through all of this stuff.
And I think that having gone through a lot of these hoaxes and smears from the establishment media, I was watching the opening of your show there where you were talking about the establishment media.
They've never been weaker, right?
So I think that they've lost so much influence.
The New York Times, Washington Post, the major networks, etc.
And your dad's comment there, Kristen Welker.
I mean, he's right.
She could be still great.
It's insane.
They tried tanking a guy.
He has two bronze stars.
So they're like, he's not qualified.
I'm looking at Lloyd Austin in a triple mast.
I'm saying, I don't know.
I see Milley with the badge of medals.
He's never won a war.
He's got more medals than Eisenhower who won World War II. And I'm saying, wait, they're going to tank a guy from anonymous sources and the Republicans are still going to buy into this?
Haven't you lived through Russia, Russia?
Haven't you lived through impeachment one and two, the scams, the hoaxes?
I mean, it is a little disheartening that we haven't quite learned.
But hopefully, yeah, it seems like they've been properly motivated by, you know, the people who will ultimately, you know, either primary them or, you know, vote for them when they come around.
So hopefully they're waking up to that process.
It's one thing if there was like legitimacy to this, but it's literally, you know, Unnamed, anonymous sources who aren't willing to go on the record, but this definitely happened, just like Russia, Russia definitely happened, and every other scam we've been lied about for the last decade has definitely happened, except we have no evidence or proof, and we're not willing to put our name to it.
Right, and then also all the on-the-record people are backing him up, right?
Like, so again, I think that the latest news- It's not even like that's also anonymous, right?
The on-the-record people are like, I was there.
I was the person at this place.
Like, that didn't happen, and here's what it is.
He's nothing but an honorable guy.
Right.
And so the big news that happened this afternoon is obviously as Pete met with Senator Ernst again.
I think this was their third conversation in their second in-person meeting.
And the Senator Ernst came out and said that she's backing Pete Hegseth and she doesn't believe the anonymous sources.
And, you know, and it set the stage for a yes vote here.
Right.
Like, so she didn't explicitly say yes vote, but let's put it this way.
She's voting yes after that statement tonight.
I think so.
I mean, I watched over the weekend and, you know, I'm trying to, you know, obviously do whatever I can for Pete, but, you know, man, the internet went after her hard.
I think she saw that and probably finally got it, right?
Yeah, I think so.
And look, I know Senator Ernst for a long time.
I've done plenty of stuff with her.
She does her big roasting ride in Iowa with all the candidates and stuff.
You know, she's an interesting character, and I think she might have just got swept up in some of this establishment media stuff inside the Bellway.
But again, I think the message here to all the senators is that the establishment media has no influence, period.
Don't trust them.
Listen to us, right?
Like, you know, the Breitbards, the Don Juniors of the world, The X, I guess that's what they call it, not Twitter anymore, like Elon.
By the way, it's very hard.
I spent a lot of time with Elon, but I still call it Twitter, even to him, and you can see him cringe every time I do it, but I'm like, I don't know, man.
I've been on the platform literally, I don't know, 15 years or something like that.
It's hard to break.
There's an old habit that dies hard.
Yeah, I have to catch myself, and I'm starting to a little bit, right, like coming around to calling it X. But by the way, I was on Twitter for a long time, you know, back in the very early days of all of this, and then I didn't tweet at all for years, and I didn't go on the platform.
And then after seeing how Elon's done, you know, turning the place around about 100 days, I think it was exactly 100 days before the election, I decided, you know what, it's time to start engaging again.
And so I started doing it.
And it's been great.
I think that it's a fantastic platform and it gives the regular people the voice.
In addition to TrueSocial, which I'm also on, and I think that all of these grassroots places are fantastic and podcasts and conservative talk radio, which is kind of the OG thing of Of, you know, grassroots communications.
But I think that the establishment media had never been weaker.
And the message to the senators through all of this is don't trust them.
Don't don't get swept up at all and trust us because we know what we're doing.
Yeah, listen, it's sort of funny.
All the leftists pretending to leave X, they're back usually within 24 hours, but pretending to leave X. And it's not because you can't find plenty of leftist garbage and propaganda on X. It's still there.
But because they don't totally dominate it, because the other side actually has a chance to clap back.
They're outraged because they're actually in a fair fight, a war of wits, and they can't possibly win because they've lost their minds.
It's really funny seeing them just trying to flee the platform for what seems like pedophile-infested blue sky.
It's like, Kash Patel's FBI should just investigate everyone on there because they're probably part of a pedo ring, in my opinion.
I'm not saying everyone, but it seems like a place where they'd go to hide.
Yeah, Reid Hoffman, right?
Like, yeah, that guy.
But no, the fact is that I think the reason why the right wins these fights when it's a fair fight is because the facts are on our side, right?
Like, it's really that simple, right?
Like, the left's positions are insane.
They don't work.
And the rights positions work.
It's a battle between common sense and insanity.
And I think I've heard your dad talk about that a little bit, right?
He always talks about, I think he's called it, you know, it's a question over what's common sense.
And I'm probably paraphrasing him there.
The point is that that's really the discussion here.
It's not like we're some right-wing extremists or anything like that.
Yeah, by the way, my father's called out the extreme stuff in some of the Republican politics, the stuff that I'm like, you know, it matters to 3% or 4% of the Republican base, but it's just not something that...
It concerns everyone.
If we stop giving the left every opportunity to destroy us on those issues, we could actually get back to common sense, come up with things that actually matter for the country, get a lot done, not to lose elections over things that aren't all that significant.
There's quite a few of those issues out there, frankly.
As conservative as he is on many things, I think he's actually called out the nonsense on both sides on that one, quite candidly.
Yeah, and I think that this is a big part of why he won the election, right?
So yes, the immigration stuff, yes, the economic stuff, which he's very much on the right on, but also standing up to the Warhawks, right?
So I think those three things are the major planks of Trump's agenda, right?
And again, saying no to I think, along with securing our border and, you know, using our trade policy and economic policy and not getting pushed around anymore are the reason why he's the president again, right?
I mean, he wielded sanctions around, just the idea of sanctions and got Mexico to come to terms, you know, on the border.
I mean, it's like, it's amazing like what America can do if you actually use Like, the economic might of America, if you use the things that we have in our arsenal that aren't freaking missiles and bullets and are young men for no reason, you know, you can do so much.
And it's so sad that Washington's either unwilling or incompetent to utilize those things for either ulterior motives or just sheer lack of competence and overall stupidity.
It's sort of amazing, and I think that's why the cabinet stuff is so important.
You see big war.
They definitely don't want a warfighter in there.
They want someone who's on the Raytheon or Boeing board or whatever it may be so they can keep selling missiles, and that's how they keep enriching themselves.
So can you shed some light on where the confirmation process goes to here?
What does that look like?
It goes into committee, and then it goes into a full vote on the floor of the United States Senate.
How does that work?
How does it work between the different cabinet positions, et cetera?
Yeah, so the process is, obviously, your dad, who is the president-elect, again, makes his various nominations.
The nominees go and meet with senators, which is what you're seeing play out right now.
Then January 3rd comes around, and that's when the new Senate takes office, right?
So the new Congress is sworn in on January 3rd.
There'll be a bunch of pomp and circumstance.
They'll have a bunch of parties that night.
Then the next day they start getting to work, right?
Then the date that's been burned into our minds forever, since four years ago, January 6th, is when the Electoral College will meet with the Congress, and the Congress will certify your father's victory, obviously, in this election.
And then probably sometime in the timeframe thereafter in the January 20th, which is Inauguration Day, you will see confirmation hearings before the relevant committees Uh, for these various nominees, right?
So what you'll see is Pete Hegseth go before armed services.
You'll see Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, uh, et cetera, go before, uh, judiciary.
You'll see Marco Rubio go before foreign affairs and so on and so forth, right?
They all go before the relevant committees.
The committees will hold a confirmation hearing.
Sometimes they might have two, but usually it's just one big hearing where the senators will all ask questions.
It's all televised so everybody can see it, so we can see the answers back and forth.
And then the committees themselves will hold a vote on whether or not to approve the nominees.
Usually if you get to that point, the committees, because it's a Republican-controlled Senate, are going to pass the nominees.
And after that happens, Then your dad gets sworn in at noon on January 20th as the 47th President of the United States.
And then sometime in the hours thereafter, the most critical national security focus nominees are going to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Usually they're going to do Secretary of Defense first, right?
So, I mean, that is, you know, because, I mean, again, you're talking about A transition from one government to the other.
So what you need to have is you need to have the Pentagon operational and functional as fast and as quickly as possible.
So they're usually going to confirm like that afternoon or that evening.
So when the rest of us are going off to inaugural balls or going around downtown in D.C. and celebrating the huge moment of Donald Trump becoming the 47th president again, The U.S. Senate is going to be in all afternoon and evening confirming Donald Trump's various picks, especially the national security focused ones.
So again, you want to get the Secretary of Defense, probably your Attorney General, probably your Director of National Intelligence, Those ones in as quickly as possible.
And then over the course of the next week or so, you'll see maybe the next couple of weeks, some of the other ones like Treasury Secretary, HHS, like so on and so forth.
The rest of them will all be confirmed by the Senate.
But the core national security ones you do right away.
If you get to a vote in the modern era, A president-elect whose party controls the Senate during the transition process, like what we're talking about right now,
and by modern era I mean back to Bill Clinton in 1992, 1992 into 93. When a president-elect's party controls the Senate, a total of zero times when a nominee has made it to the vote, has a nominee been voted down by his own party.
I thought I heard two somewhere, but still, I think it's like 72 cabinet-level positions, and I think...
Yeah, that means they've lost votes, but they were still confirmed, right?
So Betsy DeVos, the education secretary in your dad's first term, and then Tim Geithner, the treasury secretary back during Obama's first term, both lost votes from their party, right?
So DeVos lost, I think, a couple Republicans and Geithner lost a few Democrats, but they still were confirmed, right?
So never has it happened that a nominee has been voted down.
Now, sometimes they've withdrawn during the process, earlier in the process, right?
That happens.
You remember back in the beginning of Biden, Neera Tanden never made it as OMB director.
And so that tends to happen sometimes, but usually if you get to, not usually, always, if you get to the vote, you get confirmed.
So I can't see senators not voting for Pete Hegseth if we have a vote after the inauguration on Inauguration Day.
Well, we also do have people who would be seen by the swamp as disruptors.
That's not normally the case.
It's normally one bureaucrat gets switched out with another bureaucrat.
Maybe they have a little bit of a difference in opinion, conservative versus liberal.
But I think this is a groundbreaking cabinet.
This is a cabinet of diverse Even political ideologies, at least historically, this is a cabinet that actually wants to take on a lot of the insanity.
You add in Elon Musk with what he wants to do with Doge.
It's a really big deal.
So do you think it goes as smoothly or do you think the swamp, even a Republican-controlled Senate, tries to push back on a lot of those people that are clearly wanted by the American people to be involved as well?
Well, to your first point there, it is the most ideologically diverse cabinet I think we've ever seen in American history.
And it was reflective of the coalition your dad put together, right?
Like, I mean, you know, your historic numbers of Black voters voting for Republicans and numbers we haven't seen in generations, Hispanic voters, women, literally every single working class voters, every single demographic, I think, across the board.
It's just incredible numbers.
And so, and I think that that's reflected well in the cabinet selections, right?
Like, and again, like I said, many of these people, you know, look at Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, two former Democrats, right?
Like, I mean, so again, really reflective of the coalition that he put together.
As for the second question there, The process be going smoothly.
I think it goes pretty smoothly.
Yeah.
So, I mean, look, you're going to see a couple bumps in the road and like senators.
Well, they've tried to take scalps early and it was great to watch the base just step up and kind of smack people back into their place.
And I think they're less willing to risk it than they were, you know, to do the bidding of the mainstream media than they were, let's call it a week ago.
That's true, yeah.
And look, you'll see this continue, you know, because senators like to assert themselves and feel important, right?
Like, and someone's, okay, fine, right?
They can have their meaning, they can ask their questions, they can push their issues, but then they've got to get to yet, right?
Like, and so as we see that process play out, it'll be interesting.
But I do think that with some of these picks, you might see some pretty broad Democrat support as well, right?
Like beyond just the Republicans.
I think with Laurie Chavez Zarema for Labor, I've talked to some Democrats.
They expected dozens of Democrats in the U.S. Senate to support her because of her support for Labor, right?
And then I've talked to some other folks that think that Some of my Democrat sources say that Bernie Sanders may vote for RFK because he's interested in the health stuff and taking on some of the big companies and that stuff.
I think you could see some real interesting stuff play out here over the course of the next few weeks.
You mentioned Doge.
We saw the meeting that Vivek and Elon had on Capitol Hill last week.
Uh, several Democrats apparently showed up to the main, right?
Like, and, you know, you saw, uh, I think, uh, Congressman Swozi, uh, from New York, uh, who's a kind of an interesting kind of a guy as a Democrat.
He was the chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus in his first go around in Congress before his comeback.
Um, you know, we might see some interesting stuff from some of these people, right?
Like, so, um, you know, and hopefully we'll be, uh, we'll, you know, we'll, we'll, some of these, uh, traditions and norms maybe of partisan camps get broken a little bit this time.
A hundred percent.
I think that'd be great.
So, you know, Matt, you've been breaking some big news at Breitbart pretty much every week.
And last week you unveiled and uncovered a huge scandal about an actual orgy.
Okay.
At the VA hospital.
Okay.
Just so we're clear.
I've been playing for the last few weeks.
If you guys haven't seen them yet, go back and look at like my opening monologue for like the last three weeks where I'm playing like the woke, you know, Trans-agenda, you know, VA videos that they spend millions of taxpayer, you know, thing going through pronouns and all this other nonsense, but an orgy at a VA hospital, it just keeps getting worse.
Can you share the details of this one with us?
Yeah, so I was kind of blown away when I had a source who's familiar with the investigation call me about this last week.
And I was like, are you serious?
They're like, yeah.
And so what happened is that some of this has been out there, right?
Like that there were investigations by Congress.
I think it was the House Administration Committee or one of the committees.
He's chaired by Mike Bost.
He's a congressman from Illinois.
And they were investigating stuff at this facility.
In Tennessee, it's called the Mountain Home VA. It's in like the Nashville area.
And there were allegations of sexual impropriety and stuff that were happening there.
And the press releases that they had put out were kind of bland.
But then when I talked to the source who told me what they found, it's pretty wild.
So apparently there's one guy who had sex with at least 32 different co-workers at the hospital.
Some of this happened on the hospital grounds, some of it off the hospital grounds.
And then there was also another instance of an orgy.
It's literally an orgy with at least 12 different people that work there.
We aren't sure if the orgy happened on the VA hospital grounds or offsite, but the one thing we do know is that many of these staffers were bragging about their exports, the women, the men, etc., on a government-controlled Communications portal that they're supposed to be using to discuss how they treat patients, the veterans who come into the facility, and how they run the facility, the operations, etc.
So one would think that This is maybe getting in the way of Veterans Care.
There are some people who have resigned.
There's also some people who haven't resigned and that are fighting back.
The director of this one facility is gone.
He resigned, but there's other people That apparently knew about it throughout the chain of command at this VA facility and up into leadership at the VA nationally.
Of course, the VA is run by Barack Obama's former White House Chief of Staff, which is just sad.
So just terrible stuff.
So I hope that when we get your dad's VA secretary confirmed that we're going to be able to get more to the bottom of some of this stuff and That fix a lot of it because it's a major problem.
But there's apparently many of these people that still work there.
And I don't know what's going on.
So it's bad.
So, you know, maybe while not as graphic, you also uncovered how the Biden team is trying to cover their tracks in their last days, including a solar energy scam tied to the Biden DOJ. You know, why would an energy scam be tied to the DOJ in the first place?
And what more can you tell us about this?
It shouldn't surprise us at all.
I wonder, you know, is it 10% for the big guy this time or is it a little bit more now he's not president and not BP? Yeah, so this one dates back as well, by the way, to the Obama years and carries through into the Biden years.
So basically what happened is back during the Obama administration, this one's a little complicated, but back during the Obama administration, you had the federal government across various departments really pushing these solar energy projects.
I remember some of them.
They just were like total scams in some cases.
This one is called Crescent Dunes.
It's in the middle of the desert in Nevada.
This one's different than Cylindra.
It's not solar panels.
What they use at Crescent Dunes is a bunch of mirrors.
They use a bunch of mirrors to reflect sunlight in a big circle into a salt tank in the middle that heats molten salt that then creates gas that they use to create energy.
The problem with this is that the technology didn't end up working.
So there were gas leaks of the chemicals from the salt tank.
The lines were not working.
And then at one point, apparently at several points, there have been reports of birds catching fire in midair from the reflected sunlight.
So birds that fly through it, they're just totally burning up in the middle of the thing.
So the technology didn't work.
But they used hundreds of millions of dollars back then during the Obama administration in federal taxpayer-funded loan guarantees from the federal government to stand this whole thing up.
And then at the end of the Obama administration, the Treasury Department gave another 200-something million dollars, north of 200, about 250, maybe a little bit shy of that, In what are called cash grants from the Treasury Department.
To get those cash grants from the Treasury Department, they had to claim that the technology was working and the facility was operational.
They lied about that, right?
So the facility was not operational.
In fact, it went bankrupt and then was offline for a whole year, then later finally got It was taken over by new ownership and stood up and it kind of operates, but way less than the numbers that we're talking about here.
So then what happened is at the beginning of the Biden administration, this other firm that does EB-5 visas and other foreign entity stuff, and the reason why this firm was even tangentially involved in the whole thing, they had like separate deals is because it was a foreign company that was running this.
Of course it was a foreign company, right?
I'm shocked to hear this, Matt.
I'm shocked.
So this foreign company or this firm that does foreign investments in visas and whatnot was screwed out of their money.
So what they did was they filed what's called a key TAM lawsuit.
Now, a key TAM lawsuit is when a private entity sues another entity on behalf of the federal government, on behalf of the Justice Department.
Attempting to recoup alleged fraudulently wasted tax dollars, etc.
And the lawsuit proceeds at no cost to the taxpayers, but the Justice Department has to greenlight it.
So for years during the Biden administration, The Biden Justice Department kept kicking the can down the road and not saying one way or the other whether they could go forward.
But then finally last summer, the Biden administration in the summer of 2023 greenlit this thing to go forward.
And then, you know, after a few more months of legal battles in court, it started going forward.
In January 2024, then all of a sudden, on election night, and this is the big thing that we uncovered, is that there are emails that the Justice Department's, the Biden DOJ, one of their top lawyers, sent to one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs of this Ketam lawsuit.
Basically saying, take these backsies, we're not actually going, we're going to move away from, you guys can't do this anymore.
The thinking of why that's the case is because, well, this project is kind of already kaput and already in trouble in a big way and everything about this one is going to be picked apart piece by piece.
The Biden administration just a few months ago, right before the election, Announced a massive expansion of that Obama-era solar federal land stuff, right?
So what we're talking about here is that they are trying to use millions and millions of federal acres of land out in western states.
They expanded this to more than a dozen states out west.
where they're going to try to push solar energy projects, right?
Like this one, like Cylindra, like other ones, all sorts of different stuff backed by the federal government, backed by loan guarantees and tax grants and cash grants and whatnot from the government.
So I think what they're afraid of is that if this KeyTam lawsuit were to go forward, that they would shut down, that you guys coming in, the Trump team, would be able to, you know, when you've got Secretary Bergman is would be able to, you know, when you've got Secretary Bergman is going to run interior, when you've got, you know, Secretary Wright, I think is going to
And Secretary Besson at Treasury, you're going to see the Trump team uncover all of this stuff and put an end to the leftist insanity on the green energy agenda.
So what they did was literally on election night, like I said, at 5.20 p.m.
Eastern Time, so like 40 minutes before, less than an hour before the first polls closed, And at this point, by the way, everybody in the know has exit polls, right?
Senior media people, the campaigns, right?
The White House, right?
Like people know what's going to happen, right?
Yeah, we have to wait until the votes get counted, but we kind of knew around five o'clock that your dad was going to win this election, right?
And so based off that stuff- It certainly looked good, yeah.
They knew too.
So what they did was they sent this email saying that they were going to take it back.
And then the next morning it comes out that they go to court and do it.
So literally, as they are losing the election, they're trying to cover up this whole thing.
Crazy.
Meanwhile, we just dished out another 900 million bucks to Ukraine.
It never ends.
I mean, it never ends.
It's like, you know, there's a mandate.
No one's interested.
As long as we keep the money flowing there, no one's ever coming to the table.
You're not going to get to peace.
All you're doing is creating escalation.
You know, every time Ukraine shoots a Russian, you know, Jeep, they're like, it's a major victory for Ukraine.
You know, Russia takes over like another quadrant of the country, which they're doing every week.
And it's like, it was a strategic withdrawal.
I mean, Have you ever been able to uncover where this money is actually going?
Is there a way to find out?
Because we're being sold a bill of goods by the media, you know, across the board, like Ukraine's winning this thing and they're getting their asses handed to them right now.
Like it's so clear to anyone who knows what's going on, but they're trying to create the optical illusion of like Ukraine's winning so that when you come to it, you know, a peace agreement in time and Ukraine has to actually concede something, It's like, it was a major loss.
They would have won it had we just spent another $200 trillion.
Have you ever been able to find out where this money is going?
Is there a way to find out?
I think we need to appoint a Special Inspector General.
So this would be something that the State Department and probably the Pentagon would do.
So again, if we get a Secretary Rubio and a Secretary Hegseth, which I think we're going to get both of them, this would be hopefully something that they do.
I think that you're right about the lack of peace here.
I mean, again, look at our current commander-in-chief is not really even with us anymore, right?
He just kind of wanders off into the jungle, right?
Like when he's supposed to be meeting with world leaders.
And then compare that to your dad this weekend at Notre Dame, right?
Like at the reopening there, where every single world leader, one by one, lined up to shake his hand, right?
Yeah, well, you see the look that Jill Biden gave him?
I mean, I was like a dog looking at a bone.
I was like, you know, there's something to that red dress that she wore on, you know, election day or whatever it was the day after.
I mean, I am virtually certain that Jill Biden, if not Jill and Joe, voted for Trump after what Kamala Harris and the rest of the Democrat partied to us.
If there was ever any doubt, if you weren't 100% sure, that picture spoke very loudly.
I think I posted it on my Instagram.
That was pretty amazing.
What did you think?
Yeah, compare that to her reaction to Kamala Harris at the Kennedy Center the other night.
So I think we know where Jill's loyalties lie.
But the point is that, again, what you have is a totally weak loser in the outgoing president, Joe Biden.
We have a strong, firm leader in your dad.
And I think that that...
You know, that inspires confidence on the world stage that I think that when your dad is...
I mean, look, I've talked to him about this, right?
Last time I was with him in person was at Mar-a-Lago in August, and we did a big interview with him there.
And he literally said that, you know, he's going to be working to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine during the transition.
And that's what he's doing right now, right?
And I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't end...
On Inauguration Day or very soon thereafter, right?
So speaking of healing, and I know you have another appointment.
Speaking of healing, what do you think of the Daniel Penny verdict?
I mean, obviously, in my opinion, I should have never gotten to the point where this guy was never even on trial.
But do you think that that's showing something finally?
Or even, you know, deep blue New York, are they coming to their senses understanding what it means if a good Samaritan can't feel comfortable being a good Samaritan?
I just think that this whole thing just shows you how sick and twisted our justice system is.
This never should have been charged to begin with.
Thank God there's some jurors on that jury who did the right thing here.
We got serious problems with our justice system and they're focused on all the wrong things.
I think we need some real serious top to bottom reform.
Let's put it this way.
Attorney General Bondi has her work cut out for it.
So does FBI Director Cash Mattel, right?
Like we got a lot of work ahead of us on this front.
And so do all these state attorneys general and whatnot and all across the board.
I mean, again, this was just a total perversion of justice.
So I'm glad to see the outcome the way that it came.
And hopefully we will see some real change moving forward as a result afterwards.
100%.
So I know you got to go, but I want to encourage the audience, you know, stay active, stay vocal, make sure, you know, the leaders in D.C. and your congressmen, they understand where you guys are on these things.
It's super important.
So Matt, thank you guys.
Thank you so much for doing what you're doing.
Look forward to seeing you soon.
Keep up the good work.
By the way, you mentioned you're back on Twitter.
I've been watching you for a while.
I just sort of always, you know, I followed you since before you even dropped off.
But give these guys your handle on Twitter, on Truth, so that people can follow you and check you out.
And also give us the times of your show on Saturday where people can listen to you on Breitbart Radio.
Yeah, first of all, and thank you for having me, Don, and for spending all this time hashing all this stuff out, because I think this is so important that we're doing this, right?
And Merry Christmas to you and your family if I don't see you again until then.
Thank you, buddy.
But again, the X handle is mboyl1, and then it's at Real Matt Boyle on True Social.
And then Breitbart News Saturday is my radio show on Sirius XM 125. The Patriot Channel airs 10 to 1. Eastern Time, 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Eastern Time.
And then just Breitbart.com.
I've got a team of great reporters.
They're working around the clock all over Washington, all around the country.
And we're making some shifts and tweaks to things so that way we're ready to cover the Trump administration.
We're super excited about that.
So it's going to be fun next year.
Awesome, Matt.
Thank you very much for joining us.
I look forward to seeing you soon, guys.
I'm going to take a couple questions before I have to go to a dinner.
So we'll do that now.
So if you have some good ones, get them in there.
Noel 2024, no more of our money going to goddamn corrupt Ukraine.
Not wrong.
Not wrong.
Daniel Canty, official, any chance?
Well, it just scrolled up.
Now the questions start going.
Go back up further.
Any chance?
It was about the...
Oh.
Well, it was about getting invited to another one of the Trump...
I guess you heard my father on Andrew Schultz, or Andrew Schultz, a buddy of mine, comedian, had my father on his podcast.
Andrew called me the day before having him on.
He was like, hey, you got any funny stories?
I told him about the time my father sort of, I said I was going to have a couple people over to his apartment for Fourth of July on top of Trump Tower to watch the fireworks.
It was like, I think I said seven people.
It was like 200. Got a little wild.
Instead of staying somewhere else where he was supposed to be, he came home at like 4 in the morning and it was aggressive.
So was there any chance of getting invited to another one of those parties?
And the answer is no.
Now, if that party happens, it's going to probably happen in my house, and it's going to be done by my kids, which is a serious problem.
And the big joke was, like, literally, my father came up.
He's like, get out of my apartment.
What's going on here?
Everyone, it was a late night and, you know, early college, so kind of rough.
And literally, so I spent, like, 36 hours cleaning this apartment literally by myself.
All my friends, they would have stayed, but they were basically thrown out by my father.
They would have helped.
Literally, I'm just waiting for the shoe to drop.
When am I getting punished?
Literally, he never brought it up again.
It's been 25 years.
I still have no idea.
I got to the point where I was like, did that really happen?
Then I call my friends and be like, oh dude, that really happened.
It definitely happened.
No, Daniel, there is no chance of another 4th of July party at Trump Tower.
That was a permanent no-go.
I'm probably not even allowed there by myself at night anymore, though there was no official punishment.
The official punishment was that he never brought it up, and I was waiting for the shoe to drop for far longer than if he just punished me, and I would have had some closure.
So 25 years later, still no closure.
I'm going to have to deal with that one.
Let's see.
DJT is sexy.
Alpha men are sexy.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
I assume that means me, not my dad, but, you know, if it's the other way around, I guess I'll take it.
Let's see.
What's going on with Rumble?
That's a question point.
I don't know.
I don't think anything's going wrong with Rumble.
I think it's doing great.
Super psyched.
Did we lose the feed?
Is that what they're asking?
Ah, okay.
Sorry.
We lost the feed there.
Well, I think the feed's still going, but the comments are not going.
We lost live chat.
Okay, guys.
You see it?
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I got to go to a dinner anyway, guys.
I'll do some more questions later in the week or next week.
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