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Protecting Home Field: Cartels on Notice, Plus Biden Autopen Scandal Goes From Bad to Worse | Triggered Ep.273
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Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
Football is back, the Department of War is back, and most importantly, our country is back.
And have you noticed that as America gets back on track, the swamp seems to panic more and more.
Why exactly is that?
Democrats and even a couple Republicans, air quotes, are now outraged.
They're outraged, guys, about the lack of due process for narco-terrorists.
I mean, fentanyl, drug traffickers, probably also sex traffickers.
But you know, they're outraged that we would take someone who's clearly running drugs and we have all that information and I don't know, blow up the boat that they're coming in on, right?
I guess they want them to come into America and maybe they'll assimilate and change their ways.
I'm sure they won't peddle the tens and hundreds of millions of human child life-killing drugs that they're smuggling with them.
I mean, I don't get it, but I imagine you don't either.
And some don't even want to see crime go down in major cities.
They would rather keep the status quo.
I'm serious.
You've seen some of them talking about it.
It's absolutely wild.
I mean, I know that Trump derangement syndrome is real.
Uh, but TDS is having a crippling effect on the minds of even some of the dumbest people in America.
But if you care about safety and security, the amount of winning happening right now is almost exhausting.
Almost.
I'm not quite sick of winning yet.
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Let's get into some of the top headlines.
And we begin with a story that has the Democrats and their media puppets absolutely melting down.
This week, my father ordered a military strike on a narco-terrorist drug cartel boat coming out of Venezuela.
11 Trendalaraguas narco-terrorists were taken out.
11.
No more poisoning our kids with drugs, no more destroying our cities, no more of the rampant crime that follows all of that insanity.
We are reorienting our military's mission, which is crushing America's adversaries.
Check this out.
You know, we won World War One.
And we won World War II.
Not with the Department of Defense, but with a war department.
We're focusing our military on its core mission, crushing America's adversaries.
We're in the business of warfighting.
We're in the business of warfighting.
Beware.
I love it.
Clean, succinct, and as it should be.
We're no longer gonna cede our hemisphere to hostile actors.
Okay?
While we focus on never-ending wars in far-off lands that no one understands why they're for, we're gonna focus on our backyard.
Make sure that's clean.
We're not gonna let hostile actors, criminals, foreign adversaries, and we're not gonna coddle them anymore.
We're not gonna let them get away with it.
We're protecting home field, and it's about damn time.
Take a look.
We have the strongest military in the world.
We have the greatest equipment in the world, we have the greatest manufacturers of equipment by far.
This name change is not just about renaming, it's about restoring.
At your direction, Mr. President, the war department is gonna fight decisively, not endless conflicts.
It's gonna fight to win, not to lose.
We're gonna go on offense, not just on defense.
Maximum lethality, not tepid legality.
Violent effect, not politically correct.
We're gonna raise up warriors, not just defenders.
So this war department, Mr. President, just like America is back.
Thank you for your leadership and your clarity.
We're gonna set the tone for this country, America First, peace through strength, brought to you by the war department.
It's why my father is renaming the Department of Defense to its original name, the Department of War.
The founders chose this name to signal our strength and resolve to the world.
You know, that strength and resolve that we haven't exactly been exuding over the last few years prior to my father and his administration coming in.
Okay, we brought it back to the Department of War.
The name Department of War ensures peace through strength.
Okay, we're not looking to start more wars, but if we're gonna get them, we're gonna win.
And America's ability and willingness to fight and actually win wars at a moment's notice is not just there to defend, okay?
If we have to, we can go on the offense to protect America.
We are there to protect and secure what is ours.
But of course, like I always say, my father is the 80-20 president.
And honestly, though, when you look at it, it's probably like 9910, 99-1, maybe even more, because many on the left, and even a couple Republicans just can't handle actually using American power to actually protect America.
It's it's wild to me.
It's wild.
No different than the people say we can't use America's economic might for the interests of Americans.
We must get taken advantage of by every nation who tariffed the crap out of our goods, who stole our jobs, who imported our American dream because that was our only export for so long.
It doesn't have to be that way, guys.
For example, a human rights activist named Kennis Roth posted, and I quote, drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war.
Tell that to the hundred thousand Americans that die of fentanyl overdoses every year.
Hundred thousand Americans.
Tell them that, Kenneth.
Moron.
Of course, these were designated terrorists seeking to invade our country with life-killing drugs.
But Kenneth doesn't care.
It's not really a crime.
I mean, you know, it's just thousands and thousands of pounds of stuff that even a little fraction of can kill you.
I mean, no big deal, right?
I wonder what his stance is on guns.
And Americans protecting themselves.
I imagine.
Uh it's probably as insane as you and I both know it probably is.
And if you really want to get into the legal weeds of it, the commander-in-chief has inherent authority under Article 2 of the Constitution to defend the nation from hostile actors and imminent threat.
Those who are attacking our country.
What could be a more hostile actor?
What could be a more imminent threat than a hundred thousand American deaths due to fentanyl?
Remember, I always say this because it's two Vietnams, two Vietnams a year in America, in our backyards.
Everyone knows someone who's been whose life was needlessly and prematurely taken from this poison, this crap pedal there.
But now they want to protect those people.
Man, uh imagine those people, imagine just for a second, they could put those their insanity aside, and actually maybe channel some of that energy for the good of America.
Imagine what would happen.
Imagine our potential.
Now, sadly, many of these critics are the same people who have had much, much less to say while those same hundred thousand Americans die from drug overdoses every year.
I wonder why.
Why are they silent about that?
Why don't they talk about that?
I guess they because they really want to protect the people who make billions of dollars selling it to people so that your kid and your friend and your neighbor's kid can die needlessly, not knowing what they're taking, even in most cases.
Under Biden, they actually enabled it with their open border policies and their sanctuary cities.
They encouraged them to come here.
They made it easy.
And just so we understand, the cartel, De La Solas, the cartel of the Suns, aren't just drug dealers, folks.
Okay, they're not just, you know, they're not dealing a little bit of pot to some kid in college.
It's probably gonna do it anyway.
No, no, no.
These are terrorists as designated by both the state and treasury departments.
Okay.
These are like their own nation states.
These are people more well-funded than most small armies, probably more than some big armies.
They're working directly at the direction of Nicolas Maduro's regime in Venezuela.
They're trafficking drugs.
They're trafficking young women, children, and weapons.
And for years, years, our government just let it happen.
Why?
Why did they allow it?
We were too worried about being politically correct.
Was that it?
I mean, God forbid, we gotta make sure.
I mean, it's only 100,000 deaths, right, guys?
Too worried about what maybe the UN might say?
Maybe we should stop funding them too.
Too worried about their cocktail party invitations, you know, you gotta get invited to the cool, you know, cool Lib Party.
Sure it'll be awesome.
Well, guess what?
Those days are over.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it best.
The cartels have been at war against us for decades.
It's time to end that status quo.
Okay?
When they're at war with you, you gotta be at war with them.
No different than the political game we play.
We can't play T ball while others play hardball.
It doesn't work.
We've seen that.
We've ran that playbook as on the conservative side for decades, and it got us nothing.
We can't keep doing it.
I've been saying it for years.
And when you're being attacked, you don't send strongly worded letters.
You send the United States military.
You send a message that if you mess with America, if you poison our children, if you traffic human beings, you're going to face the full might of the most powerful military in the history of the world.
Check out what Secretary Rubio had to say.
Venezuela is a major source, and the reason why is the following, and I've seen a lot of this reporting, and it's fake reporting, and I'll tell you why.
It says that somehow Venezuela's not involved in the drug trade because the UN says they're not involved in the U.S. I don't the Union.
I don't care what the UN says.
The UN doesn't know what they're talking about.
Maduro is indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York.
That means the Southern District of New York presented the evidence to a grand jury, and a grand jury indicted him.
And then a superseding indictment came out that was unsealed about a year and a half ago that specifically detailed Maduro's actions.
So number one, let there be no doubt, he Nicolas Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker in the United States, and he's a fugitive of American justice.
Now we've covered all of this extensively on this show, like almost every week.
Frankly, we're talking about this when the media didn't want to pay attention, or when they were purposefully ignoring it.
We interviewed Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Carina Machada, on these very issues.
We've talked about it with Secretary Rubio, with deputy CIA director Michael Ellis, with Senator Rick Scott, with Eric Prince, and so many others.
It's honestly a great example of why legacy media is dying.
They weren't even paying attention to their own hemisphere.
They weren't even paying attention to something that kills such a huge amount of Americans.
I don't know why.
I think we all probably do, maybe, deep down.
They just hate our country.
They don't care.
They're not going to be affected.
I'll figure out how to get away from it.
You know, they get to hide behind their walls and they have their security.
It's just different for them.
They don't have to live in the streets of some of these cities that are overrun with crime and death and mayhem and destruction.
They were too busy asking for the millionth time.
What about security guarantees in Ukraine?
Or asking why my father didn't hold a press conference for a day last week.
And then suggesting that he was probably dead.
I mean, you know, the same people who had no problem with Joe Biden going missing for weeks on end, sometimes months, who didn't ask a single question when he couldn't get out a complete sentence, you know, those guys.
But I wish I could say this was just a problem with the media and the left.
But we still have a couple of weak Republicans who think they're not being compassionate enough to our enemies.
Because Rand Paul was literally this week attacking vice president J.D. Vance for being too tough on drug cartels.
Come on.
I mean, I like Rand.
I've known him a long time, but are we serious?
Too tough on the drug cartels?
Again, we gotta make sure they get a chance to get their drugs into the country, and they probably won't sell them.
Maybe we can convert them.
I mean, what are we talking about?
What could be a more clear and present danger to the United States than drug traffickers being allowed needlessly into our borders?
I mean, think about it.
You think Ukraine's more Ukraine, Russia, you think that's more of a threat?
I think not.
Okay?
Not even close.
Now it all started when some left-wing troll called the strike, a war crime, to which JD responded, and I agree with fully, I don't give a shit what you call it.
He's right.
He's right.
You take out narco-terrorists smuggling thousands of pounds of fentanyl or whatever it is they're trafficking into America, that's a war crime.
No, no, no.
Them even thinking about doing it is a war crime.
Taking them out is what we're supposed to do.
That's defense.
That's someone who understands that when drug cartels are killing 300 Americans every single day, every day, you don't worry about what some far-left freak thinks on social media.
You act, you take them out.
You protect American citizens and children and women and our neighborhoods and our cities.
That's protecting our country.
Here's Border Czar Tom Homan with more on the clear and present danger from these cartels.
Well, one of the things we're doing, Jason, no one's talking about is that you know, there's been several studies done so far this year that over 1.5 million, 1.5 million illegal aliens have left this country.
And why have they left this country?
Because of President Trump and his policies.
There's like I said a few minutes ago, we're showing the world our consequences.
Every day the world sees over a thousand ice teams on the street, enforcing the law, applying consequences.
It's it's a crime to enter this country illegally.
And when you get order removed by your federal judge, we're looking for you.
And if you're in the country legally, maybe you haven't been ordered removed, but you're in the country lately, we're looking for you too.
So the this message, this this message we send to the whole world is a big part of the reason we're the most secure border in in the war in the history of this nation, and people don't want to make that journey make the risk.
And also, it's it's it's it's it's forcing illegal aliens to make a choice.
Do you want to be uh sought out and arrested by ice and be formally deported, which means you can't come back in the country under certain statutory bars from five years to never, or do you want to leave on your own and give yourself an opportunity to come back under legal program as a visitor visa, work visa, maybe have a U.S. citizen child that can petition from you.
So one point over over 1.5 million illegal aliens already left.
I'm counting the probably close to 400,000 deportation we're gonna do by the end of the the the uh this fiscal year.
This is amazing.
It's unprecedented, and it's because of the leadership of this president.
But then, despite all of this, here comes Rand Paul, who responded to JD's quote what a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial, referencing the book to kill a mockingbird.
So, really, guys, we're we're gonna quote to kill a mockingbird and talking about due process for narco-terrorists, due process.
These aren't American citizens.
We're not talking about Americans.
These are foreign terrorists actively engaged in chemical warfare against the United States.
When they're on a boat full of poison heading to kill Americans.
And that's not the time for pulling out your eighth grade reading list, guys.
That's the time for action.
That's the time for protecting our borders.
Now, Ohio Senator Bernie Marino, also a great friend of the show, said it perfectly.
These drug traffickers are directly responsible for a hundreds of thousands of American deaths in Kentucky, in Ohio, every single year.
Randpaul needs to understand something.
This isn't a book club.
This is about saving American lives.
This is about a teenager in Kentucky who won't overdose on fentanyl next week because that boat never made it to shore.
This is about a mother in Ohio who won't have to identify her son's body because we stopped the poison before it got here in the first place.
This is real life.
And I do give credit, hard to believe.
Maybe one of the few sane people on the Democrat side.
But I gotta give credit to Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who wrote, fully support confronting the scourge of cartel drug trafficking to our nation.
Maybe there is a Democrat that's still not totally insane.
It's hard to believe as John Fetterman, but every once in a while, it's like, wow, we haven't lost them all.
They haven't taken the 1% on the 99% issues.
Not all of them.
He may be the only one, but at least it's a start.
And this ties into something bigger, guys, that's happening right now.
Something the established media doesn't want to talk about as usual.
My father is reviving the Monroe Doctrine.
For those of you who might not remember your history, the Monroe Doctrine basically said that the Western Hemisphere is our sphere of influence.
It's our home court.
No hostile foreign actors messing around in our backyard or our front yard.
It's not gonna happen.
For decades, we let that principle die.
We let China build ports in Panama, we let Russia and Iran set up shop in Venezuela.
We let cartels take over entire regions across Latin America.
We essentially surrendered our own hemisphere while we were playing world police in the Middle East.
Well, those days are over.
We're not gonna let China control the Panama Canal.
We built it.
We lost a lot of American lives building it.
We're not gonna let Iran and Russia use Venezuela as a launching pad.
And we're sure as hell not gonna let drug cartels operate with reckless abandon like they own the place.
That's not happening anymore.
This is called putting America first, folks.
This is called actually defending our borders and our interests.
And the globalists hate it.
They absolutely despise it.
Because for them, America is just another country.
For them, we should be managed by the UN and the World Economic Forum and all these international bodies that no one elected.
But for us, this is our country.
This is our hemisphere, and we're gonna start acting like it.
Speaking of taking things back and calling them what they are, how about the Department of War?
My father just signed an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense back to its original name.
You gotta remember that.
Our founding fathers called it the Department of War.
The Department of War.
Okay?
Because guess what, guys?
If we're gonna be in a war, we better plan on winning.
We're not just playing defense.
We don't want to go to endless wars.
We certainly don't want to start new ones, and no one's been more clear about that than my father, because I don't know that anyone's achieved more peace than him in history.
And of course, the left is also having A complete meltdown about this one.
Take a look.
Good morning and welcome to this week.
On Friday, President Trump rebranded the Department of Defense, the Department of War.
Saturday, he announced the department's first target, an American city.
The President's words.
Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War.
What they're essentially saying is, oh, it sounds too aggressive.
It's not diplomatic.
Give me a break.
War is not diplomatic.
No one wants to be in them, but if you're going to be in them, you damn sure better be playing to win.
You know what's not diplomatic, guys?
Having our enemies smell weakness.
Exuding incompetence.
Okay, that's not diplomatic.
That's pathetic.
Having China laugh at us while they build military bases on artificial islands.
Having Iran fund terrorism while we send them pallets of cash.
That's not diplomatic.
That's incompetent.
The Department of War won World War One.
The Department of War won World War II.
The Department of War built the most powerful military force in human history.
It was only when we changed it to the Department of Defense that things started going sideways.
Pete Heggseth, our Secretary of War, said we need to restore the warrior ethos.
We need warriors, not social justice activists in uniform.
We need people who understand how to project strength and win wars, not people who are worried about preferred pronouns in the barracks.
My father perhaps said it even better.
We need offense, not just defense.
We need our enemies to fear us and our allies to actually respect us.
And changing the name back to the Department of War sends a clear message.
America is done playing games.
We're done with the weakness.
We're done with the apologies.
We're a serious country once again.
Watch.
So uh great job, Dan.
And we've been talking about this uh Department of War.
So we won the first World War, we won the second world war, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke and we change the name to Department of Defense.
So we're going Department of War.
And uh I'd like to ask our Let's talk about what's happening in Chicago.
I was there just last week.
Because this is a perfect example of everything that's wrong with Democrat governance.
Labor Day weekend, guys.
Fifty-eight people shot.
58.
And what does Governor J.B. Pritzker say?
What does Mayor Brandon Johnson say?
They say they don't want federal help.
They say it's Trump that's the problem.
Yeah, it's Trump.
I don't know.
I think it's the 58 people being shot in a long weekend in your city.
I think that's the problem, guys.
But you know, clearly they're not that bright.
I think everyone understands what the problem is.
But think about that for a second, guys.
American citizens are being gunned down in the streets.
And these Democrat politicians would rather see more bloodshed than accept help from President Trump.
It's sick.
It's absolutely insane.
Here's a former Chicago police chief, okay?
Not a current one.
You're not gonna get a current one to say because they'll lose their jobs for speaking the truth.
But here's a former one laying out just how bad this failure of leadership in in Illinois really is.
Watch.
Let's look at the numbers because to me, if you don't want the Fed help, then you must be happy with the numbers you have in crime.
And we all know the only acceptable number for murder would be zero.
But you just quoted some numbers.
Think about that in a Labor Day weekend.
54 people shot, seven killed.
And let's look at the year-to-date numbers.
Do you realize that every 19 hours and 58 minutes, someone is murdered in Chicago?
Every four hours and 19 minutes, someone is shot.
And the sad part, you ask yourself, who's shooting who?
Who's killing each other?
78% of the victims are black.
81% of the offenders are black.
So you've got black and black crime, and Yet the governor and the mayor say they don't want any help.
So to me, when you refuse help, you're saying you're happy with the numbers, and that is absolutely unacceptable in Chicago right now.
And Pritzker, this billionaire with his private security detail, he has the nerve to go on TV and basically say, well, guys, big cities have crime.
Oh, like it's just something we have to accept.
You know, oh we just gotta accept it.
Just roll over and die.
Give up, folks.
Just let them take over your cities, right?
Like when we talked about Trendalaragua taking over buildings all over the place in Colorado and in Austin.
It's just a couple of buildings, you know, it's just gonna happen.
Like it's the weather or something.
It's it's that wild.
It's like, oh well, you're gonna have rain every once in a while, guys.
Cities have crime when you eliminate cash bail and let violent offenders walk free and coddle repeat offenders.
That's when you get crime.
When you don't do anything about it, you encourage crime.
Crime goes up.
Okay?
Just because you change the way you record the crime or you change the way statistics are measured, doesn't mean crime stops, okay?
Despite what they'd love to have you believe, and the MSM will definitely try to sell you.
Cities have crime when you demonize police and when you downplay violence.
Now, Pritzker tried to deflect that by saying this is a form of election interference.
I mean, here we go again, right?
Now, why would that be, guys?
Why would deportations affect who's voting?
If I recall correctly, illegals aren't supposed to vote.
I recall Gavin Newsom saying something very similar.
Huh.
Is it election interference?
Why to have ICE around if legal people are voting?
It's almost like, I don't know, what we've all been saying for a long time that Democrats clearly rely on illegal immigrant voting.
Democrats tell us illegals never vote in elections, but these are Pritzker's words, not mine.
Watch.
We know what it's about, and it has nothing to do with fighting crime.
And it has honestly sending National Guard in has nothing to do with immigration either.
It what it has to do with is he's trying to set the stage for interference in the elections in 2026 and in 2028.
The truth is, my father already proved this works in Washington, D.C. He federalized the police, sent in the National Guard.
And guess what, guys?
Huh?
Wow, it's a miracle.
Crime plummeted.
Even Democrat mayor Muriel Bowser had to admit that it worked.
Watch.
And we greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.
The most uh significant thing uh that we are highlighting today is the area of crime that was most troubling for us in 2023.
Now we have driven it down over the last years.
Um, but I'm gonna get my glasses so I can make sure I can see it correctly.
Um, but for carjackings, uh, the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year, um, represents a 87% reduction in carjackings in Washington, DC.
We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer.
So this surge has been But Chicago Democrats, they would rather play politics with people's lives.
They'd rather virtue signal about fascism and military occupation while their citizens live in fear.
It's disgusting.
And it's exactly why my father won in a landslide.
And speaking of Democrat corruption, guys, we need to talk about what's being uncovered with the Biden autopen scandal.
This story keeps getting worse.
I know that's hard to believe.
It's it was pretty bad when we heard about it from the beginning, but it keeps getting worse.
And the media keeps trying to ignore it.
But we're not gonna let them.
New emails just dropped showing that Biden's staff was running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to figure out if Biden even knew what he was supposedly signing.
We're talking about pardons for really bad ombres, clemencies for major criminals, executive orders, major presidential decisions, and his own staff, Joe Biden's own staff didn't know if he was even aware of them.
Huh?
Think about that.
If they don't know if he's even aware of them, who the hell was pulling the levers?
Who was actually in charge?
It clearly wasn't the then president of the United States.
Someone was, they didn't know if he even knew about it.
Did they even know?
There's an email from early January where Biden's staff secretary is asking for proof that Biden actually approved communications for crack cocaine offenders.
The response?
They basically said, well, somebody who works for him said he was probably intending to do it, so you know, it's probably fine.
Are you kidding me?
You really think, and by the way, even if we put on like our pragmatic hat, and like, you know, Joe Biden's clearly lost it.
He's clearly not been there for a long time, probably his entire presidency, probably even before that.
You really think the 80-something year old Irish dude really wanted to pardon serious drug dealers?
You think that yeah, I don't know.
Doesn't sound right.
You think he wanted to grant clemency to people, perhaps who committed murder?
Do you really think that's something that that guy in his right mind would do?
I don't.
I don't think anyone else does.
And get this, it turns out Kamala Harris was essentially making presidential decisions.
There's a memo from February 2024 that says the vice president's approval was sufficient to get Biden's approval.
Yeah, guys, uh, that's not how it works.
The president and only the president has the power to grant pardons.
Not the VP, not the chief of staff, not some random aide with an auto pen.
That's not how it works.
And yet it was happening in front of our very eyes.
Watch.
This reports White House lawyers and the Justice Department were unsure about how to enact the president's clemency grants in his final days in office.
On January 17th, Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted on nonviolent drug charges.
The post reports the debate over who to include in the pardons and how to modify their sentences came to a head on the evening of January 16th.
Internal emails obtained by the New York Post show White House Staff Secretary Steph Feldman sent an email to West Wing lawyers saying she needs evidence Biden consented before authorizing a mechanical signature.
One of the people who received the email, deputy White House counsel Taysha Dixon, reportedly sent the message to the chief of staff to the White House counsel's office, Michael Posadas, saying, Michael, thoughts on how to handle this?
He does not review the warrants.
Biden told the New York Times earlier this year that he verbally verbally approved every clemency decision, even if he did not personally sign the warrants because he says there were a lot of them.
This is a constitutional crisis, folks.
Okay?
You want to talk about a threat to democracy?
I know they love that as a soundbite.
What's a bigger threat to democracy than someone controlling the president's signature without his knowledge?
We had a president who wasn't mentally capable of doing his job.
And his staff covered it up.
The media covered it up.
They defrauded the American people.
They violated their oath of office.
And now we found out that violent criminals, including people involved in hurting children, got their sentences commuted in all of the chaos.
How can this stand?
One aide apparently wrote an email impersonating the chief of staff to approve autopens for Biden family pardons.
What?
Yeah, you heard me.
It looks like they were forging approvals.
This is banana republic stuff on every level.
And every single person involved needs to be prosecuted.
But here's what really gets me.
The media knew.
They all knew Biden wasn't running things.
You know, I know they write their books.
Oh my god, I can't believe it.
We did We had no idea.
It's like all you had to do was look at the guy.
All you had to do was try to watch him walk or talk.
Or remember the one person he had to introduce the few times he gave a speech during his four years.
They covered for him.
They ran an operation to cover it all up.
They called us conspiracy theorists when we pointed out the obvious.
They said we were age shaming.
We were agists, you know, ages.
Oh my God, guess what?
If the guy's 80 and competent, I'm totally fine with it.
Okay, my father and Joe Biden aren't that much different in age, and yet, you know, when you hear about competence, when you hear them speak, when you listen to them recall events, let's just say there's a big difference between chicken shit and chicken salad.
Okay?
It ain't the same, folks.
When we noted that the guy couldn't string two sentences together, they were all in on the lie.
Here's another little trip down memory lane for those who've perhaps forgotten.
To tell you the truth.
F you if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden is the best Biden ever.
She knows it.
She knows so long as he was died.
In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
President Biden has a photographic memory.
His understanding and mastery of a complicated geopolitical situation.
Remarkable.
He is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused.
Jackie, are you here?
Where's Jackie?
Sure.
It was sitting, you know, two feet from him across the table, and he was, you know, intense.
Have trouble walking sometimes.
Yeah, so did FDR.
He wanted GD war.
But he's totally focused leads.
Very sharp.
They say he's sharp in meetings and so on.
Very lucid.
Very well done for him.
Biden is stately, and he comes with gravitas.
It hasn't been, as far as I know, a single claim that Biden made a mistake.
I want to think to take on government if we get out of line, which they're talking again about.
and here I was...
They're not just biased, they're complicit.
They're active participants in the destruction of our country.
Look at how they're covering the cartel strike.
Instead of celebrating the fact that we took out narco-terrorists, they're wringing their hands about alleged international law.
Instead of asking why Democrats won't accept help in Chicago, they're calling my father an authoritarian.
They knew Biden was mentally gone and they covered it up.
They knew Russia Gate was a hoax and they pushed it anyway.
They knew the Biden border was a disaster and they called it secure.
They know crime is out of control in Democrat cities, and they blame Republicans who haven't been in power there in many cases in decades.
This isn't journalism, guys.
It's propaganda.
These people are actively working against against the interests of the American people.
They're deliberately lying to advance their political agenda, which seems to be the destruction of America.
And they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.
They wonder why their ratings are in the toilet.
They wonder why they have to rebrand age-old stations.
They wonder why alternative media is eating their lunch.
It's because people aren't stupid.
People can see what's happening with their own two eyes.
And when the media tells them not to believe what they're seeing, people tune out.
But the good news is we are winning against the woke mind virus.
Why was he invited in the first place?
West Point should be focused on training the next generation of war fighters, not celebrating woke left-wing celebrities with more awards.
West Point shouldn't be giving awards To a partisan Hollywood liberal who mocks half of the country.
That's not what our military academies stand for.
You know.
As I look at everything that's happening, the drug cartels, the crime in our cities, the deep state corruption, it's all connected.
It's all part of the same war.
It's the war between the America First movement and the globalist establishment.
It's the war between the people and the swamp.
On one side, you've got my father and hundreds of millions of Americans who believe this country is worth fighting for.
People who believe in borders, law and order, and putting American citizens first.
People who think that our government should work for us, not against us.
On the other side, you've got the Democrats, the Rhinos, the media, the deep state, and all of their globalist puppet masters.
People who think America is the problem and not the solution.
People who want to manage our decline rather than restore our greatness.
People who would rather see American cities burn than admit their policies have failed us for decades.
This warrant isn't going to be won in a day or a week or even a year.
The establishment has had decades to entrench themselves, to burrow in deep.
They control the bureaucracy.
They control the media.
They control the universities.
They control big tech.
They're not going to give up without a fight, guys.
But here's what they don't understand.
We're not giving up either.
We're not going back to the days of managed decline in America last.
We're not going back to accepting crime as normal and corruption as inevitable.
We're not going back to be told that we have to accept the destruction of our country in the name of political correctness.
And my father is working around the clock to fulfill this mission.
And I mean that pretty much literally.
Here's JD Vance talking about 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. phone calls with DJT.
One thing I've learned just working with him like every day is he doesn't have an off switch.
Like sometimes the president will call you at 12:30 or 2 in the morning, and then he'll call you at six in the morning about a totally different topic.
It's like, Mr. President, did you go to sleep last night?
Like what is going on here?
And you know, he says, that's been one surprise.
I think the second, I don't know if I call it a surprise, but certainly something that I've learned is is a little bit related to what I said earlier.
He really does empower his people to do things.
Right?
And that that's you know, the vice president's the weirdest role in the government because the president's clearly defined, the cabinet secretaries are clearly defined, you know, House and Senate members.
The vice president is very much at the discretion of the president.
Like if the president wants to empower the vice president, then he can do that.
If the president wants to like not talk to the vice president at all, he could do that.
And what the president, what's made this so much fun is the president all the time is just saying, JD, you go and do this, or JD, you go and talk to these leaders about this particular issue, or oh, you really care about this?
No, no, no, you can do it.
I'm not, you don't, you don't you don't have to have me looking over you all the time.
And there is this trust, and you see it with with the president Secretary Rubio, you see it with the President Susie Wiles with Steve Whitkoff, our special envoy who's done such a good job, is he's very willing to say, this is what I want done, you go and do it, report back, or ask me for help if you need it.
But that that ability to delegate and trust his people has been really amazing.
My father started this movement, but it's bigger than any one person.
It's millions of Americans who have had enough.
Millions of Americans who want their country back, and we're gonna take it back one victory at a time.
So what can you do?
First, stay informed.
Don't rely on the mainstream media for your news.
There's nothing but propaganda outlets.
Okay, that's what they do.
They're nothing but propaganda outlets for the Democrat Party.
Follow the independent journalists, Alternative media, podcasts like this one.
Get your news from people who aren't afraid to tell the truth, who will break from the narrative.
Share that.
Like it.
Send it to your friends.
Make sure we get the message out.
You guys are a critical part of that.
We cannot sit on the sidelines and let apathy take over.
Our silence, that apathy, that's what will let them win.
Stay in the game.
Second, get involved locally.
Run for your school board.
Run for city council.
Get involved in your local Republican party.
Become the dog catcher.
I don't care.
If they win the seat, they're gonna figure out how to weaponize it.
Win everything.
Let's build our power from the bottom up, and let's make sure we keep building a bench.
Third, support the fighters.
Support the politicians who are actually fighting for America first polities.
Not just talking about them, okay?
There's plenty that'll tell you what you want to hear.
Then you look at their voting record.
You hear what they do when they're in the swamp.
Support the businesses that stand up to woke corporate tyranny.
Support the media outlets and personalities who tell the truth even when it costs them.
Support them, especially when it costs them.
Fourth, don't be silent.
The left wins through intimidation.
They make you think you're alone.
That you're the only one who sees what's happening.
You are not alone.
Okay?
Become the unsilent majority.
Speak your mind.
Too much is at stake to not do the same.
And finally, guys, never ever give up.
They want you demoralized.
They want you to think it's hopeless, that the corruption is too deep, that the swamp is too powerful.
It's not.
We've already proven we can win.
My father's back in the White House.
The Swamp's crimes are being exposed and the tide is turning.
Keep going.
Democrat politicians are more concerned about opposing Trump than protecting their people.
They'd rather see blood in the streets than admit their policies have failed.
Well, guess what?
My father doesn't need their permission to enforce federal law.
He doesn't need their permission to go after drug cartels and criminal gangs.
The days of federal authorities standing back while American cities descend into chaos are over.
The mayhem is over.
The days of tolerating violent crime as just another part of urban life are over.
Law and order is coming back, whether the Democrat mayors and governors like it or not.
This is a cultural battle for the soul of America.
It's about whether we're going to be a serious country or a joke.
And we were close to becoming a joke for a while there.
Whether we're going to stand for something or fall for everything.
The left has spent decades undermining American culture.
They've taught our kids to hate their country.
They've told us our history is evil, our values are oppressive, and our flag is a symbol of hatred.
They've tried to destroy everything that makes America great.
That's why something like renaming the department of war matters.
It's a statement about who we are.
We're not ashamed of our strength.
We're not apologizing for our power.
We're proud to be Americans and we're proud of our military might.
The left wants us weak and apoplectic.
They want us to be just another country in the global community.
They want us managed by international bureaucrats and constrained by foreign opinions.
That's not happening.
Not on our watch.
My kids are going to grow up in an America we're building now.
and your kids are too.
We're going to leave them an America that's strong, prosperous, and free.
An America that stands for something.
An America they can be proud of.
And maybe one that we can recognize again.
Stay strong, stay informed, stay engaged, maybe even stay a little bit triggered.
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