Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Peace by Peace: Solving One Problem After Another

Aug. 19, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr

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Peace by Peace: Solving One Problem After Another | Triggered Ep.268

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	Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
	So much big breaking news to get into.
	We're doing this on a Tuesday because the travel has been non-stop and we wanted to bring you all of the most recent information as quickly as possible, as well as possible.
	Obviously yesterday, really big deal, meeting with Zelensky, so we wanted to wait, figure out where things were.
	Do it on Tuesday.
	So a little bit of an unusual episode, but we want to adjust on the fly to give you the absolute latest.
	So peace, guys.
	is now closer than ever in Ukraine.
	Some historic stuff is happening all across the globe.
	DC streets are getting safer and safer and common sense residents, not Republicans necessarily, probably almost none, could not be happier.
	So we'll get into all of it.
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	We saw my father as the undisputed global.
	global leader, the leader of the free world, sitting down with European leaders and President Zelensky to discuss a pathway forward for peace.
	And guys, it is historic.
	It follows the Alaska summit with Putin on Friday, and the images we saw yesterday inside the White House will surely have an impact on how the Russians approach this war moving forward.
	There is no auto pen here, folks.
	This is just the opposite.
	actual action.
	And when you look at the photos from the East Room and at the Oval Office yesterday, you can see how much confidence they always have.
	The guy that many of them probably talked about and certainly the mainstream media talked about being, you know, the future cause of World War III is actually the guy who's most likely to prevent it from ever happening.
	For example, here's Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Malone yesterday.
	So something is changing, something has changed, thanks to you.
	Thanks also to the Stalin in the battlefield, which was achieved with the bravery of Ukrainians and with the unity that we all provided to Ukraine.
	And did you notice Zelensky's change in posture and tone compared to, say, I don't know, his previous Oval Office meeting?
	He wore a suit.
	He was less adversarial.
	He seemed thankful and grateful for the efforts and money and everything that America has put leading this effort.
	And he had a totally different disposition.
	Most importantly, I guess...
	But, you know, minor details.
	Guys, here's a clip from when the Oval Office meeting.
	yesterday started.
	Check it out.
	Thank you very much for being here.
	Thank you so much, Mr. President.
	If I can, first of all, thank you for the invitation and thank you very much for your efforts, personal efforts to stop killings and stop this war.
	Thank you.
	And using this opportunity, many thanks to your wife, First Lady of the United States.
	She sent a letter to Putin about our children, adopted children, and my wife, First Lady of Ukraine, she gave the letter.
	It's not to you, it's to your wife.
	No, no, I want it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So we're thanking this sensitive topic.
	Yeah, please.
	And thanks to our partners and that you supported this format that after our meeting we can have leaders who are around us, the UK and France, Germany, Italy, Finland, EU, NATO, I mean all partners around Ukraine supporting us.
	Thanks to them.
	Thank you very much for the invitation.
	Thank you very much for being here.
	And a recent poll found out that nearly 70% of Ukrainians now support a negotiated peace deal.
	That's up from just over 20% at the start Remember, my United States is not in a war.
	Our United States is not in a war.
	We did not start the war, but my father is taking the lead on ending it.
	This war came from the weakness that was oozing out of the Biden White House.
	It's yet another example, though, guys, how you can change things and how important peace through strength actually is.
	Here's Secretary of State Marco Rubio laying out exactly what's next.
	next?
	Any sovereign country in the world has a right to enter into security alliances with other countries.
	You know, it's not just NATO.
	We have such alliances with South Korea.
	We have it with Japan.
	Other countries have it with each other.
	And so I think everyone would acknowledge, including, by the way, for the first time, the Russian side.
	under President Trump's sort of pressure or, you know, a suggestion is that in fact a Ukraine post-conflict has a right to enter into security agreements with other countries.
	And we will work with our European allies and non-European countries, by the way, to build such a security guarantee.
	We're working on that right now.
	We'll continue to work on that.
	And that'll be something that will have to be in place after a peace deal so that Ukraine can feel safe moving forward.
	And we're coordinating that as we speak.
	We're involved in the coordination of it.
	So yes, there are a number of countries that are willing to step forward and provide Ukraine security guarantees.
	But as the Ukrainians have said to us, and I think have said publicly, the strongest security guarantee they can come up with for their future is to have a strong military moving forward and that's the other dynamic that's changed we're no longer giving ukraine weapons we're no longer giving ukraine money we are now selling them weapons and european countries are paying for it through nato they are using nato to buy the weapons and transfer them to ukraine that's another big change from the way this war was approached just a few you know just under the biden administration for example now the next focus will be on
	the parameters of the so-called security guarantees and what specific compromises Ukraine and Russia are both willing to make, like on land in eastern Ukraine that's currently controlled by Russian forces.
	But as my father said this morning, everyone is getting along just a little bit better.
	And it's why bilateral and then trilateral meetings are expected to take place.
	in the weeks ahead.
	Take a look at what my dad had to say.
	What has surprised you the most between Zelensky and Putin in terms of their strength or weakness of their position right now?
	Well, I think the fact that maybe they're getting along a little bit better than I thought.
	Otherwise, I wouldn't have set up the two meeting.
	I would have set up the three, a trilat.
	But I think they're doing a little bit better.
	There's been tremendous bad blood.
	And again, this was all worked out by an administration that didn't have a clue.
	And if you remember, they said, well, if you made a minor incursion, that would be okay.
	That was it.
	That was the end.
	The whole thing when Biden made that statement.
	But minor incursion, what does that mean?
	So I think they're doing okay.
	I wouldn't say they are.
	They are never going to be best friends, but they're doing okay.
	And we're just going to see.
	So we're setting up a meeting.
	I sort of set it up with Putin and Zelenskyy.
	And, you know, they're the ones that have to call the shots.
	We're seven thousand miles away, in all fairness, you know.
	We have we've spent through the previous administration, 350 billion dollars.
	Europe has spent a lot, also 100 billion, but it should be reversed if we should have been in for anything.
	But it wouldn't have happened.
	So that would have been much better because so many people died.
	This is the biggest this is the biggest bad situation since World War II.
	war too there's been nothing even close so mr. and what makes my father such a pragmatic peacemaker is the sense of urgency okay thousands and thousands tens of thousands of people are dying needlessly every week yesterday at the meetings one of the european diplomats suggested another round of meetings with putin in a month or two my father responded no i'm calling him tonight What a flex.
	He literally walked out of the meeting and just called him, came back in.
	Hey, we didn't have to wait a month or two.
	We didn't have to risk another 100,000 kids, some cases now older because they're It's over now because there are no kids left dying for no reason.
	Let's know what my father had to describe the sequence of events.
	And one of the things at the table was one of the gentlemen, who's a great guy, but he said, I hope I didn't insult him.
	He said, Well, let's meet in another month or two and let's see if we can start, you know, making some wealth.
	He said, A month or two?
	You can have another forty thousand people dead in a month or two.
	You have to do it tonight.
	And I did, actually.
	I called President Putin and we're trying to work out a meeting with President Zelensky.
	We'll see what happens there.
	And then if that works out, if it works out, then I'll go to the pol trilap and close it up.
	And my dad isn't just trying to create a safer world abroad.
	He's also doing it right here at home, right in our nation's capital.
	Because since launching a full-scale operation to secure D.C. streets, we've seen homeless encampments cleared out.
	We've seen arrests.
	We've seen violent crime drop.
	And it's clearly working.
	For example, In just the first few days, there have been more than 380 total arrests since the start of the operation.
	59 firearms have been seized, over 160.
	illegal aliens have been arrested, including known gang members and those with additional charges including assault, kidnapping, and burglary.
	And despite what you may hear from the regime media, residents in D.C., again, a very like 93% left-leaning city, residents in D.C. welcome the federal presence to clean up the city.
	Watch these D.C. residents in their own words.
	About 11 p.m., we noticed more D.E.A. agents patrolling, this time along the wharf, where Karen Smith was celebrating her birthday with friends.
	I enjoy having extra security.
	I think it's a good thing.
	I mean, you want to feel safe when you're out and about, especially females.
	And while major newspapers try to act like there's never been a crime problem to begin with, and Democrats are saying they feel perfectly safe, especially with their armed security details, it's just not true.
	And in fact, just this week, the DC Police Department settled with a whistleblower.
	who filed a lawsuit back in 2020 saying that the city was distorting crime statistics, including downgrading felonies to misdemeanors.
	So remember when they told you there's no no real crime.
	Crime in DC is really down.
	Well, you know, if you change the way you report crime, if you don't actually report any of it, if you pretend crimes aren't, if you change the way statistics are looked at, yeah, anyone can make it look like there's not a problem.
	But there's a problem.
	Crime.
	But according to a sergeant turned whistleblower, the numbers weren't always to be trusted.
	In this lawsuit from 2020, sergeant Charlotte Joseu claimed that MPD routinely misclassified crimes and that districts compete against each other to get the largest reduction in the crime statistics.
	Possibly paving the way to promotions and raises.
	She claimed higher up in the department told officers to do so, creating a long history of trying to distort crime statistics, including downgrading felonies to demeanor.
	Josu gave one striking example of a domestic violence case where a woman had a deep cut from her forehead to her chin.
	The officer on scene called it assault with a dangerous weapon, but the captain allegedly changed it to sick person to the hospital.
	Josu claimed there were also tendencies to relabel theft and shop stealing cases to taking property without right because that category wasn't tracked in the crime report.
	Despite the city's failed attempts to have the lawsuit dismissed along with allegations Josu was retaliated against for going public, it was set for a jury trial this summer and then quietly settled out of court last week.
	We know from local reporting that there's a police commander who has been suspended, is under investigation.
	The allegation is he was going into police databases, changing felonies to misdemeanors to keep those crime statistics down.
	And it sounds like the response is that that wasn't just some malicious rogue commander.
	It sounds like that's part, part and parcel of the directives of the command staff and that other commanders are engaged in the same behavior as well.
	The city had no comment on the settlement and it's unclear how much it may have paid former sergeant Josu, but in those court filings, the city denied that Josu is a whistleblower or that she was ever even retaliated against for exposing systemic fraud in crime reporting by the MPD for the National News.
	And beyond the raw numbers, this is about quality of life.
	This is our nation's capital.
	It shouldn't be filled with trash on the streets or needles or encampments or drug addicts, it's yet another 80-20 issue that Democrats are trying desperately to be on the wrong side of.
	Just watch this clip of homeless encampments being torn down and thrown in a garbage truck.
	is incredibly satisfying to watch America become cleaner and safer once again.
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	It reminds me, my father, I think, mentioned this on TV the other day, but he almost told a story about his grandfather saying, hey, if you walk into a hotel or a restaurant and the lobby is crappy and don't order the food, because the kitchen's probably even worse.
	If our capital city is a disaster, dirty, crime-riddled, not a safe place to be, what is it safe for the rest of our country?
	We can't be yet another shithole country.
	There's plenty of those abroad.
	That shouldn't happen in America.
	A broader point here is that peace through strength and understanding through pain can take on many different forms.
	Sometimes you need to sit down and talk it out.
	Sometimes you need to deliver an airstrike.
	And sometimes you need to tear down a homeless encampment.
	But what my father understands perhaps better than anyone is that to be a true peacemaker, you have to be pragmatic.
	Okay, you don't ever get everything that you want.
	That's not how it works in business or otherwise.
	And it's why a business guy is able to make peace deals and get things done.
	And while a bureaucrat probably can't, because they don't understand that.
	They're incapable of it.
	You have to be pragmatic and be willing to do whatever it takes to actually solve the problem.
	Not change the statistics, not get someone to report on it in a way that doesn't exemplify reality.
	You actually have to take it on head on.
	For example, We have covered repeatedly on this show the invasion and poisoning of our nation by fentanyl drug traffickers and that it cost this nation two Vietnams, okay?
	100,000 people a year, every single year.
	Two Vietnams.
	Think about that.
	It's insanity.
	And my father's administration is now taking on the root causes head on by going after the cartels directly.
	As we're now learning that three U.S. Navy destroyers will arrive off the coast of Venezuela in the next 24 hours as part of an effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels.
	and that the additional commitment of military assets in the region will reportedly include P-8 spy planes, warships, and at least one attack submarine.
	Recently, and perhaps not coincidentally, our Treasury and State Department designated the Maduro-led cartel de la Solis as a designated terrorist group, along with other major cartels across Latin America, because we're not going to allow our country to be invaded, poisoned, maimed, and killed any longer.
	Certainly not by foreign narco-terrorists who silence and kill their opposition and seek to do us harm.
	Well, first of all, we Venezuelans are deeply grateful to President Trump for his unwavering support to freedom and justice and his decisive actions to dismantle this criminal terrorist enterprise.
	This is a major step because certainly Maduro has not only destroyed the lives of millions of Venezuelans, he's growingly destabilizing the region and represents a real threat to the national security and to the lives of the American people.
	So this is a clear signal that has already reached Maduro and the few top-rass individuals that still support him and are robbing Venezuela and pretend to stay by force illegitimately in government.
	But these days are counted undoubtedly.
	And just breaking guys, today, 30 gang members, including Trendalaragua members, have been charged in Colorado with sick and gruesome crimes, including a barbaric murder for a higher plot and a return of literal human heads as proof of the murders.
	Remember when Democrats told you this didn't exist?
	It didn't happen.
	It's only a couple of buildings that these guys took over, you know, in your cities.
	It's a couple of buildings.
	Who cares if they threw out innocent Americans?
	It's not really happening.
	It's not really a big deal.
	Watch this news segment.
	See for yourself.
	The TDA gang investigation that focused on the Denver metro area has so far led to 30 people being charged with what investigators are calling brutal crimes.
	It all started at an apartment complex, an Arapahoe County apartment complex, with the sheriff's department noticing a concerning spike in crime there.
	Fox 31's Vicente Arena is joining us now live tonight with the latest details here.
	Vicente.
	Christine, they gave us a lot of details about this investigation and they even used the word barbaric when they were talking about the different types of crimes that were committed.
	In some cases, they said that some of the suspects offered to bring back severed heads in exchange for money.
	The Ivy Crossing apartments in Arapahoe County on South Quebec Street and East Harvard Place quickly became the focus of a massive investigation after crime spiked there in October of last year.
	After an investigation by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, APD, Denver's ATF and DEA, and Homeland Security investigations, 30 people now face charges.
	The charges include firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, and a barbaric murder for hire plot in which several of the defendants agreed to kill two people for $15,000 and return their severed heads as proof of the murders for just an extra $5,000.
	Crimes at the complex began to worsen after TDA gang activity was noticed at an Aurora apartment complex.
	During the investigation, law enforcement confiscated 69 weapons, one of them a small pistol that investigators say had a machine gun conversion device.
	By removing these firearms from the street, we've disrupted a dangerous cycle of violence, preventing further harm to our communities and sending a clear message to criminal networks.
	We will bring you to justice.
	A large amount of drugs were also confiscated.
	Arapahoe County Sheriff Tyler Brown says there's been a 75% drop in calls for service at Ivy Crossing during the first eight months of this year compared to the same time last year.
	This work has not only targeted those who bring harm to our neighborhoods, but has also strengthened the foundation for a safer and more hopeful future for the families in Ivy Crossing.
	In Aurora, investigators also made strides to stop crimes investigators say Trendautagua gang members were committing.
	So one of the things that we've done in the city of Aurora, as you all know, we closed down the Edge of Laurie apartments.
	of Lowry Apartments and we are working towards trying to get that completely shut down.
	Investigators say more arrests are expected in the case.
	And in all these arrests that have taken place so far, we were told today that three TDA gang leaders were arrested, five members, and a number of other associates of that gang.
	Now, given all that we've covered so far, you may be wondering, so what does the Democrat Party think about all of this?
	Well, instead of telling you, Let me show you by playing a fast clip from a recent event for the far-left radical Omar Fattah, who's been leading candidate running for the mayor of Minneapolis.
	This is the Democrat Party.
	This is today's Democrat Party.
	These are the people who are the thought leaders of the Democrat Party.
	Imagine if this mindset takes hold throughout the rest of the country.
	So guys, what is the leading candidate for the mayor of Minneapolis.
	And in New York, frankly, there's a full-fledged communist leading the mayor's race.
	And he's winning by a lot.
	But even as radical and as unhinged as those candidates are, they still pale in comparison to the liar, the leaker, and the far-left lunatic, Adam Schiff.
	Because Schiff is now caught doing what he was doing.
	all along.
	We all knew it.
	I called him, you know, the biggest leaker in the world.
	When I was doing my House Intelligence Committee meeting, you know, they took my.
	cell phones.
	They took my lawyer's cell phones.
	We had to keep them in a, you know, lockbox separate room.
	We had no access through them throughout the day.
	I got out at like 7 p.m.
	And shockingly, coinciding with literally every bathroom break that we took, there was leaks, not entirely accurate ones, but leaks that served Adam Schiff and the Democrats very well with every bathroom break along the way.
	So we knew he was doing it all along.
	It's sort of obvious.
	Frankly, I can't imagine it was anyone else.
	But according to a newly declassified 302 report from the FBI, a former Democrat.
	staffer on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence says back in 2017 that then-ranking member Adam Schiff called a meeting.
	Now, in this meeting, according to the staffer whose name is redacted, he said that Schiff told the group that they would leak classified information, which was derogatory to the president.
	and that the information would be used to indict President Trump and I guess presumably myself because I think they tried to do that one too.
	And remember, guys, this was all the way back in 2017.
	The staffer allegedly objected, saying it would be illegal, but was reassured that they, quote, would not be caught leaking classified information, close quote.
	Do you believe this stuff?
	Again, everything we knew, but now it's actually out there with witnesses.
	This staffer was so disturbed by the meeting that they went to the FBI to sit for an interview.
	And we're now finally seeing those transcripts.
	You know, it only took eight years, but...
	I guess it's better late than never.
	They may have slowed down my father.
	They may have used his cause for two fake impeachments.
	May have cost the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, but at least hopefully we'll get to the truth and we'll see how bad these guys really were.
	This really has to be a tipping point, and if it's not, we got bigger problems.
	Now, I want to play an old clip from Bill Maher's show where Schiff was asked about getting a pardon, and Schiff said he didn't know why he got one and clearly didn't need one.
	Check this out.
	Given the ongoing political tensions and Trump's actions toward his critics, do you think President Biden's preemptive pardons turned out to be more important than initially expected?
	Let's first tell people what that means, preemptive pardons.
	That was pretty unprecedented, right?
	Before he left office, Joe Biden pardoned you and a number of people who he thought Trump would go after.
	No, I take the opposite view.
	I don't think he should have given the pardons at all.
	Really?
	No, I don't think he should have, and I was vocal about that at the time.
	and you refuse a pardon?
	That's less clear because in the case of the General Six Committee, I see.
	But I didn't like it both because we were enormously proud of our work on the January 6 committee, but more than that, establishing a precedent.
	that on the way out the door you're going to pardon any number of people gave him even greater latitude on his way out the door to pardon everyone around him.
	Chief Justice Roberts in that immunity decision, I think, which will go down in infamy, already gave this president permission to be lawless.
	But the abuse of the pardon power essentially gives him an opportunity to tell everyone around him that when I'm on the way out the door, I've got your back.
	And so I think part of why you see such willingness among the people around him to engage in lawless action is their confidence.
	is they're confident they'll get a partnership on the way out the door.
	And guys, we'll never forget Shifty Shift's lies about fony Russia collusion that the media breathlessly repeated like a bunch of stupid clapping seals.
	Here's a little refresh in case you forgot this one.
	My counterpart in the Senate, the Republican chair of the Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, said that his committee has found nothing to suggest collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
	You said, quote, that's not our view in the House.
	But, you know, Burr hasn't exactly been a rabid partisan on this.
	Until the last couple of weeks, he's been working very closely with the Democrats.
	So why do you think he's wrong?
	Well, it's not just that I think he's wrong.
	Mark Warner, the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee in the Senate, also disagrees with that assessment.
	But look, you can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion, pretty compelling evidence now.
	And of course, this isn't Schiff's only scandal because he's also under investigation for apparently lying on a mortgage application to get a better interest rate, falsely claiming that his primary residence was Maryland.
	But guys, don't take my word for it.
	Here's Schiff in his own words.
	But our principal residence, our primary residence is California.
	It always has been and always will be.
	And this is the guy, guys.
	This is the guy the Democrats look up to.
	He goes on MSDNC all the time, not that anyone's watching.
	He's on CNN.
	He's never met a camera he didn't love.
	And he doesn't stop.
	But speaking of low-rated fake news, I want to end the show by pouring one out for MSNBC, which now apparently no longer exists and will re-operate and reopen under a new title, MS News, which stands for My Source.
	I wonder if their sources are still going to be Adam Shift because that seemed to be all it was for a few years.
	Now, my source says that this network will still be a complete train wreck and a disaster 24 hours a day because changing the name doesn't change the mentality.
	It doesn't change the insanity.
	It doesn't exchange the bias.
	It does nothing new.
	And with a new name, I'm sure will come new ways that they will embarrass themselves on an ongoing daily basis.
	And there will be much more to come on all of these major stories, guys.
	Remember to stay in the fight.
	Stay engaged.
	Never let up.
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	It's to combat the censorship, the corruption, all of the false narratives and the fake news, and to get it out there.
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	Nothing's going to change there.
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