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Jan. 7, 2026 - The David Knight Show
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The David Knight Show - 01/07/2026

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Maximizing Conflict Post-Office 00:04:13
Also, pointing out that just days before he did this invasion, back in December, remember, he pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, who was then convicted of drug trafficking.
Let's talk a little bit about that.
When did that happen and how did that happen?
That's interesting to look at.
This was, when I talked about extradition and what the internationally agreed upon process is, it's that you don't invade another country to take whoever you want.
You have treaties with people.
You have to have something that is a crime in both countries.
And the government of one country turns it over to another one.
You don't violate their sovereignty.
And if it's a head of state, you don't do anything at all about it unless that person is no longer head of state.
And so we see that Juan Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, after he left office, was arrested by the Honduran police.
And the Honduran government complied with an extradition order from the United States.
That happened in 2022.
He was convicted.
He was in prison.
And then Trump pardons him.
But notice how that happened.
It was after he left office.
And it was his own country that arrested him and extradited him to the United States.
Take a look at the guy that Trump loves and wants to pattern his own actions after, Duterte, Roberto Duterte out of the Philippines, who was doing extrajudicial killings like Trump just under the allegation that somebody is involved in drug stuff.
You think they're doing drugs?
Kill them.
And Trump's done that 150 times, they brag about it, right?
I think it's 150.
It's over 100 anyway.
And that's more murders than they've got against Duterte in the trial that he is currently going through right now.
But they did that after he left office and he was turned in and extradited by a government.
But Trump violates all the international rules and standards and sovereignties.
There are no borders for the Trump administration.
Just understand that.
They don't recognize legal borders, legal boundaries.
They don't recognize national boundaries.
They do whatever they wish.
And that's what is so dangerous about this.
Forget about oil, forget about geopolitics, forget about all the rest of this stuff.
Those are all the ends.
And people say, well, this is motivation of what he's trying to do.
And I think that that's a good thing.
Well, maybe it is.
But you have to understand that as conservatives, we don't embrace the idea that the end justifies the means.
Because the way that Trump is doing all this stuff, as I said so many times, even when you look at what's going on with ICE, right, the way that he is doing this, yes, we need to deport people who have defied our laws, people who come here who are on welfare and defiantly so, because this is, as we pointed out, this is a strategy to take down America.
And we've seen what it looks like in other countries as well.
But you do it with due process.
And you do it with not trying to maximize conflict.
That's what Trump is trying to do.
He's trying to maximize his mafia-like power because he wants to maximize conflict.
He deliberately goes to places that are going to oppose him in terms of deportation.
And he avoids until other people, until journalists point it out, he avoids going after the illegal truck drivers who can't even speak English driving 18-wheelers.
He ignores the Somalian corruption that's in Minneapolis until everybody kind of forces his hand and he can't ignore it anymore.
But he wanted the conflict.
Nobel Prize Controversy 00:04:23
And so the opposition leader, Edmondo Gonzalez, had won the election in 2024.
They had barred Machado from running.
But Trump is not going to put either one of them in power.
Those who, if they want to say, well, this is about a legitimate government, they're not going to put the people that they say legitimately won.
Whether they did or not, I don't know who won the election.
I don't really care.
It's not my country.
But the people they say won are the people they say are not going to be allowed to run the country.
How is that not regime change?
Trump had publicly torpedoed the idea of Machado as an interim replacement, saying, well, it'd be very tough for her to be the leader.
She doesn't have the support or the respect of the country.
No, she doesn't have the support or respect of Trump because of his ego.
But then what about Gonzalez?
You're not going to put him in?
Members of the Venezuelan opposition were stunned by Trump's brutal rejection of Machado.
Her acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize itself was viewed as the ultimate sin by a president who has loudly coveted it.
And her effusive praise for Trump at the time was inadequate to satisfy him.
She didn't suck up enough to him.
If she had turned it down and said, I can't accept it because it's Donald Trump's, she'd be president of Venezuela today, said a source for the Washington Post.
So she went on Monday with Sean Hannity.
They kicked off the segment by diving straight into the issue of succession.
Handy said, before running through a brief synopsis of her record, he said, having rose to prominence after winning the independently run opposition presidential primary with more than 92% of the vote before Maduro then dictated that she be taken off the ballot, Machado had also dedicated her Nobel Prize, quote, to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause, Hennity noted.
He said, she has thanked President Trump for his support and committed his resolve to help the people of Venezuela many times, publicly on X and elsewhere.
So let's all kiss his behind.
And Sean Hennity is very experienced at doing that.
Machado began by thanking Hennedy and Fox News for the incredible support you have given to us throughout this long journey for the cause of democracy of our people in Venezuela.
After discussing how Maduro had banned her from the ballot and the opposition had organized to support Gonzalez and had defeated Maduro by a landslide, it was what they said.
They said it was incredible under extreme conditions, unfair conditions.
And so Hennity asked her about dedicating her Nobel Prize to Trump.
Hennity said, it's not very usual that people will dedicate the Nobel Prize to the leader of a different country and say publicly that he deserves this more than I do, said Hennity.
But you did that.
Machado said, let me be very clear.
As soon as I learned that we'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I dedicated it to Trump because I knew at that point he deserved it.
And a lot of people, most people, said it was impossible to achieve what he'd just done on Saturday, January the 3rd.
And so I believe he deserved it.
Bow, scrape, bow, scrape.
Trump had proven to the world what he means, Machado continued.
Because January the 3rd will go down in history as the day justice defeated tyranny, a milestone that was a huge step for the Venezuelan people for humanity, freedom, and human dignity.
Except that we destroy the rule of law, the Constitution, all the rest of it.
Hannity said, did you at any point offer to give him the Nobel Peace Prize?
Did that actually happen?
I had read that somewhere.
I wasn't sure if it was true.
Machado said, Well, it hasn't happened yet, but I would certainly love to be able to personally tell him that we believe the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, we certainly want to give it to him and share it with him.
Fake Narratives and Propaganda 00:11:20
Oh, please let us do that.
And so we look at all the different fake narratives, whether it's people saying, Well, now, see, it didn't work about fentanyl, it doesn't work about the drug stuff.
These people weren't coming to America that they blew up without any due process.
And so, let's come up with a different rationale.
Oh, let's make it about the elections stuff.
Yeah, let's do make it about the elections, Alex.
Let's talk about why Trump is not putting in the people that Trump and the administration said were the legitimate winners.
What about that contradiction?
And then we talk about all of the CIA narrative from Tom Clancy to Glenn Beck.
And just understand that there was also a lot of garbage out there about the cheering people who said that with tears.
Remember that?
All the crowds with tears.
Well, it turns out that that was AI slop.
This went viral as well, this video here.
Venezuelans take to the streets to celebrate Maduro's downfall.
There's an elderly lady crying.
And there's many indications from a lot of people that this is simply AI.
And it is.
It's AI slop.
This is new level propaganda, folks.
Hey, he finally fell.
We are free, as they cry.
Viva, Venezuela, Libra.
Thank you, God.
Thank you.
All this stuff.
Yeah, it goes on and on and on.
And the person who helped put that out, they filtered this out with a big influencer, Wall Street Apes.
I don't know if this guy was one of the people that they gave the Epstein documents to or not, but he's got just under 6 million people.
And he made this go viral, that fake AI video.
And here's his comments.
He said, Venezuelans are crying on their knees, thanking Trump and America for freeing them from Maduro.
I added English subtitles so that you can understand them.
The people cry for their freedom.
Thanks to the United States for freeing us.
The hero.
Thank you, Donald Trump.
Well, it turns out it was all AI.
These people are manufacturing support.
And it's just another tool of propaganda and control.
And they run it through these influencers, these propagandists, people like Wall Street Apes.
They go to him and say, hey, we got this great video.
And he puts it up.
Those impacted by the attacks, Venezuelans living and working in Venezuela, are resolutely opposed to the strikes, with thousands mobilizing in numerous Venezuelan cities to protest.
The death toll from the U.S. strikes currently stands at 80 soldiers and civilians, a figure which will likely go up as the dust settles, right?
Futurism.
A November survey found that 86% of Venezuelans preferred for Maduro to remain head of state to resolve the country's economic woes.
Only 8% favored the far-right opposition party, which has support from Trump.
So is that why he's not putting in Machado or Gonzalez?
Because maybe they don't have the support that they say that they did.
But again, you can't have it both ways.
Oh, yes, you can if you're Donald Trump.
You can have it both ways.
You can say that they won the election and Maduro stole it from him.
So he's not the legitimate president.
But they're not popular enough for us to put them in to run the government.
How can both of those things be true?
Well, they can both be true if you are someone who lies like Hillary Clinton and has a massive entourage of people who are going to push those lies for you.
As a matter of fact, Dan Bongino, now that he's out, he's going to come after all those black pillars.
You know, all the people blackpilling the public, telling them that Trump has betrayed them, that he's lied to them, that he's doing the wrong things.
Shut up.
Get in line.
We don't have time for this kind of stuff.
We got midterms coming up in 2026, says Dan Bongino.
He's going to go to war with the people who criticize Trump.
After he completely discredited himself, it'll be interesting to see if he's got an audience after he discredited himself with the Epstein lies that he sold.
So only 8% favored the far-right opposition, which has the support of Trump.
Even many Venezuelans who oppose Maduro are opposed to the U.S. incursion to oust him.
Yet, if you ask the American Trump supporters, Venezuelans are actually thrilled about the invasion.
And we can see it right there.
The evidence is the AI video that had more than 5 million views.
Wall Street Apes shared the minute-long video and pushed it, saying he translated it for them.
Of course, as anyone versed in the visual language of AI will quickly notice, it is a compilation of low-quality AI clips.
The people cry for their freedom.
Thanks to the U.S. for freeing us, said the narrator.
The hero, thank you, Donald Trump, a U.S. account with nearly 140,000 followers, replied to the video from Wall Street Apes, which has got millions, said, I'm so jealous.
I want the same freedom and the same joy for Iran and the Iranian people.
Well, I'm jealous too.
I would like to have that kind of freedom here in America, which we don't have.
See, that's the whole thing.
You're supposed to cheer the Republicans because they're not Democrats.
And we're supposed to be really happy for an accepting of the tyranny that is being imposed on us by both the Republicans and the Democrats.
Because, hey, we're not Venezuelan.
So can I get that kind of freedom from the U.S. government?
The U.S. Empire's war propaganda is getting much more sophisticated.
You can bet the U.S. government will use AI to justify its many more wars of aggression.
Plenty more AI-generated misinformation has surfaced following the attacks spread by conservative politicians like Vince Lago, mayor of Coral Gables, Florida.
AI-generated images of Maduro and various U.S. custody centers began to circulate in the hours immediately after his kidnapping, well before the authentic images were released by the Trump administration on his social media platform, the Ministry of Truth.
Ministry of Truth Social.
Mexican politician and political journalist, I'm sorry, observed that the AI slop follows decades of efforts by the U.S. government and media to manufacture consent among the Western masses for intervention in oil-rich South American state.
And of course, that's what Patrick Byrne and Alex Jones were doing.
Yeah, we should do this.
We can win in South America.
Let's go there for a win.
We can kick those people around.
They're there to manufacture consent for aggression in other countries.
In 2002, Venezuelan President Chavez was briefly ousted in what came to be called the world's first media coup, where lies said on TV paved the road.
It shouldn't be a surprise that in 2025, this new tech and these fake AI videos are being used for similar ends because that's what they always do.
Well, we've got a couple of comments here before we take a break.
S.A. Miller, 123, Beck and Jones are both very good actors.
Their crying faces really pierce my heart.
And they will both do this con job on it.
Look, it's necessary.
I see people say, well, you know, Alex told the truth about this and that, and I'm really grateful to him for it.
That's how he gets your confidence.
That's how a con game works.
You know, somebody's going to con you.
What do they do?
If it's an investment con or something like that, they'll give you some things that are going to work out for you.
And at the very beginning, beginning of the con, the person is telling the truth or the stuff that they're, you know, they make sure that you make money off of something or whatever.
And then the back end comes.
And that's when they do the rug pull.
That's what's called controlled opposition.
It's classic.
Jerry Alitalo.
As if it were already very difficult to battle and stop the corrupt liar, mass murderer, fascists.
Now warriors fighting the good fight have to battle fascist AI deceptions.
That's right.
The Empowered Solutions says, I love that.
The Ministry of Truth Social.
That's really what this is about.
And look, you know, he sets up his own propaganda organization.
That's what social media is.
It's an organization that is set there to propagandize you.
But even more importantly, as I've said so many times, one of the reasons why the intelligence agencies, geospatial intelligence is its own agency within the intelligence forces there.
That's where James Clapper rose.
And it was the fastest growing part of the intelligence community.
That was put together in the late 1990s as they were putting together Incutel, their venture capital firm, openly supporting these various companies because it was going to give them so much control.
And just look at the history of mass communication.
You know, the printing press allowed them to do a lot with propaganda, the newspapers and things like that.
You know, William Randolph Hearst saying, you know, let me know where the war is and I'll sell it for you, that type of thing.
Then it got better when you had radio.
Then you could bring in this kind of emotion and adding video to it made it even more visceral.
But with all of those things, whether it was newspaper, whether it was audio, whether it was audio and video, they didn't have a way to really tell how effective their propaganda was.
They had polling and that could help them, but it didn't give them the kind of instantaneous feedback and the kind of detailed information that social media does.
Social media can tell them if people are paying attention.
Does that get their attention to have crying Venezuelans there?
Are people believing it?
Look at their comments.
They'll even tell you.
This is a propagandist dream, social media is.
And so that's why I call it Truth Social, Ministry of Truth Social.
Well, let's take a quick break, folks, and we'll be right back.
I promise I'm not going to spend the entire time on this, but it is very important because of the precedents that are being set.
Operation Warped Corruption 00:06:25
It's a very dangerous time right now.
The end of the fourth turning.
And Trump is their guy for chaos and for the overturn of our civilization and our institutions.
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Well, again, let's take a look at how this nation building is going to work.
And it's already starting to show some very ugly fractures as well as some very ugly plans.
Trump said he's going to run the country, but there weren't any details about that.
But now, one of the interesting things that's coming out, and I mentioned this the very first day, he says, well, the oil companies will go in and do that.
If they want to get reimbursed, I thought, reimbursed, remember that?
I talked about it.
So what kind of money is he going to give them?
Well, we're starting to see the lines of that scam start to come into clarity here.
Trump says the U.S. government may reimburse oil companies for rebuilding Venezuela's infrastructure.
He's going to have to bribe them because, again, flooding the world with oil is counter to their interests.
Always has been.
So they're going to get reimbursed by us or through revenue.
And again, you know, the very fact that you go back and look at 1979 OPEC and all the rest of the stuff, they had record profits with that.
They liked that fact that oil got scarce and the price went high.
You know, it's like the De Beers family with diamonds.
They want it to be rare and they want to have a monopoly on it.
They want it to be rare.
And, you know, the worst thing that happened to the diamond cartel is that people came up with very good ways to synthetically make real diamonds, not just cubic zirconium.
So, you know, they're manufacturing instead of mining diamonds now.
So the oil companies don't want to have a glut of the product that they're doing.
They want to have a monopoly on it, but they don't want to have a glut of their product out there.
And so they're not on board with this.
But just like Pfizer-Moderna, Trump is going to give them public money to do what is counter to the public interest.
And he is going to let them profit off of this.
Trump said that he believes the U.S. oil industry could get expanded operations in Venezuela up and running in fewer than 18 months.
So now we've got another warp speed thing here.
Maybe we call this Operation Warped Corruption.
A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent, he said.
And the oil companies will spend it.
And then they'll get reimbursed by us or through revenue.
So look at the things that Trump is really focused on as he wants to run our country, run Venezuela.
He's going to unleash our credit card, our national credit card, for AI, right?
No expense is too great.
We have to have something that is bigger than the Manhattan Project, bigger than the space race.
That's for AI.
They get whatever they want.
And we're going to clear the decks.
Nobody is going to have any rules or regulations to get in their way.
They can do whatever they want, and they're going to have a blank check, a blank credit card from the federal government.
Just like we did with the bioweapon shots that he's so proud of.
And so now we're going to do that for the oil companies as well.
Trump said he believed that tapping Venezuela's oil reserves is going to reduce oil prices.
Again, he's going to have to pay the oil companies because it will.
He may be stupid economically, but he's not that stupid.
He knows that's going to happen.
Asked if the administration had briefed any oil companies ahead of Saturday's military operation.
He said, no, but we've been talking to them about the concept of what if we did it.
Well, other people who are on the inside, as we look at who was it that made $400,000 in just a couple of hours on the polymarket prediction thing by predicting when the invasion was going to happen.
Well, we know that the New York Times and the Washington Post had advanced information about the timing.
People in the Pentagon and the Trump administration had advanced information about the timing.
A few people at the very top, and they're bragging about how this is kept so tightly and so closely, they should be able to find out who it was that used that insider information.
But also the oil companies, it was said at the time, knew that this was going to happen, knew that it was very, very close to happening.
So he's playing word games with them.
You know, well, we didn't exactly tell them we're going to do it at this particular time.
He said, what if we did this?
You know, how are we going to war game?
So they know that it's going to happen.
It's going to happen very soon.
The oil companies were absolutely aware that we were thinking about doing something, said Trump.
But we didn't tell them we were going to do it.
Trump told MPC News it was too soon to say whether he had personally spoken to top executives at America's three largest oil producers, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips.
He said, I speak to everybody.
Well, ConocoPhillips declined to comment.
Chevron declined to comment.
Exxon declined to comment.
And so he is putting Energy Secretary Chris Wright in charge of this.
Gorilla War Headline 00:03:55
He's going to give these people who don't want to talk about it massive blank checks.
Maduro's motorcycle thugs going door to door in a hunt for Trump supporters in Venezuela.
As a matter of fact, this headline was at InfoWars.
I fell on my chair laughing.
This is former Navy SEAL, that's Matt Bracken, issues emergency warning to Trump.
A guerrilla war.
G-O-R-I-L-L-A.
And Venezuela could be 10 times worse than Vietnam.
Well, look, it's not Matt Bracken's fault.
It's whoever did that headline.
They know the difference between a gorilla and a gorilla, right?
Or whatever, a gay rilla, I guess we should call it.
Yeah, a war in Venezuela could be bananas.
That's right.
They're really going ape over there.
You know, we have these.
I'm sick of all this monkey business.
Yeah, you might go on and find out, right?
So what Matt Bracken was saying, he says, look, you know, there's a lot of people there.
There's jungles like Vietnam.
This is not, if they turn this into a war, a domestic asymmetric war, it's going to be very difficult to win that.
And he's absolutely right.
But I saw a guerrilla war.
And it was actually picked up by another news aggregator who, that's where I first saw it.
News aggregator picked it up and picked up the headline verbatim.
They didn't change the headline either.
They didn't know.
The news aggregator didn't.
So they copied that headline.
That was their link.
I thought, who in the world is so stupid to call it a gorilla war?
And sure enough, it was Infowars and their headline thing there.
But I started laughing about thinking about some of these drug cartels.
I think it was El Chapo who brought in some exotic African animals or whatever, big cats.
They had hippopotami and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
Well, maybe they brought in gorillas and they're now roaming the jungles of Venezuela.
I think that was the other guy.
The other guy?
Which guy was?
I'm not up on all my drug dealer cartel leader names.
I forget exactly, but also famous for, like you said, releasing these hippopotamus and other African animals into the local fauna.
Yeah, the CIA, ultimately, right?
The Caracas Highway, choked with cars.
But far from typical rush hour traffic, a highway running alongside the national park in Venezuela's capital has ground to a halt because masked men holding Kalishnikovs are stopping drivers and demanding to search their phones and their cars.
Is this ICE?
Is this the TSA?
Who is this?
These gangs of armed men wearing masks are actually part of Maduro's militias.
See, we are not at all like Venezuela, are we?
Except we look exactly like them.
Yeah, our armed guys, our ICE agents do the same type of thing.
These people call themselves collectivos.
They're collectivists, right?
Communists, in other words.
They scoured the vehicles and hastily erected checkpoints following a government directive to root out Venezuelans who support the U.S.'s brazen capture of Maduro.
Venezuelans have been left fearing what could come next as mobs of men dressed in civilian clothes with assault rifles swung over their shoulders roam the streets.
Again, this is just like ICE.
As a matter of fact, I thought it was really funny that Jon Stewart had a comment about how much this is like ICE.
He said, Maduro got reverse iced.
They actually imported him instead of deporting him.
Well, let's get right to the big story.
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