David Knight argues President Trump betrays the Constitution by extending FISA surveillance laws, labeling the move authoritarian and enabling a police state through warrantless searches. He condemns the GOP for refusing to cut aid to Israel, which he calls genocide funding, while guest Tony Arderman links Federal Reserve currency expansion and Iranian war disruptions to rising inflation. The host critiques the military-industrial complex for prioritizing perpetual war over prosperity, citing historical NSA abuses by James Clapper and Michael Hayden where no criminal referrals followed admitted violations. Ultimately, Knight calls for removing both Trump and the GOP from power due to their corruption and attacks on civil liberties. [Automatically generated summary]
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A View of Deceit00:14:50
Here we are.
And in fact, if you look, come to think of it, well, I got to look at this myself.
Wow.
What a view of deceit.
the truth is a revolutionary act.
It's The David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 16th of April, year of our Lord, 2026.
Well, just when he thought Trump couldn't get any worse, any more authoritarian, any more of a betrayal of his campaign promises as well as the Constitution, he's out there telling everybody we've got to extend FISA for another 18 months after he'd called for ending it.
And of course, it's just another attack on the Constitution.
He says we've got to do it for national security.
And it's worth giving up our individual rights, he says.
No, it is not.
And his attacks on free speech just keep coming.
Reason, as a matter of fact, because the war and the other totalitarian actions, the Trump administration is saying we need to take the extraordinary step of a tax revolt in the style of David Thoreau.
Well, we'll take a look at that.
Meanwhile, the GOP is staunchly refusing to cut any charity to Israel.
Now, I guess we should call it.
Not foreign aid, but we should call it money bombs because it's money for bombs, for genocide.
And Tony Orderman will be joining us as well to talk about what's happening with the economy and with gold.
We'll be right back.
Well, as I said before, Trump is pushing what he calls a clean FISA reauthorization as the deadline is nearing.
Folks, there's nothing at all clean about FISA, it is a dirty denial of the Constitution.
As well as search warrants.
When it was being done against him, he understood.
This is what is so characteristic of both parties.
They embrace the tyranny when it's coming from their tribe, but they oppose it when it's coming from the other people, simply because they oppose the other people, not because they have any principles whatsoever.
It's just another lie, another betrayal of his campaign promises, as well as a betrayal of the Constitution and his oath to the Constitution.
Who would have thought that he would have betrayed his oath to the Constitution when he was on his third wife?
And it isn't just a divorce which has become very commonplace in our society.
No, no, no, not Trump.
When he divorces you or he fires you, he comes after you after the fact.
Trump, who just two years ago called on Congress to, quote, kill FISA, and he did it in all uppercase, is now pushing for his extension.
House Republicans are divided.
Some are seeking to attach the reauthorization to the Save America Act, which, as the New American correctly points out, is an unconstitutional proposal that would expand federal control over elections.
Yeah, we don't want federal control over elections.
And of course, what does he call it?
He calls this Save America Act.
That name came from his Save America pack that he set up to contest the election that he had turned into a vote by mail election.
He's the one who did that.
He's the one who locked everybody down.
He's the one who said, vote by mail.
And then he talks about it being corrupt and we got to stop it now.
Well, he should have never started it.
That is another piece to me that should put the nail in the coffin of, oh, he's a genius.
This is 4D chess.
This is the most obvious way they can steal the election.
And you're the one that instituted it.
That's right.
And I said that over and over again as we're coming up to the election.
And I wasn't the only one who was saying it.
Bernie Sanders said it.
Bob Barr said it.
It's going to be massive, you know, in terms of the fraud that's there.
I always thought, and I said it from 2016, because I never would have thought that they would have gotten away with something like the lockdown.
I thought the American people would push back against it.
I overestimated their backbones.
Anyway, I said in 2016, I said the next election in 2020.
Is going to be a hacking contest to see who can hack the machines better because everybody's going to these voting machines.
I was saying in 2016 how untrustworthy they were, but then he added a whole new level of rigging, and that is the vote by mail stuff.
He did that, he absolutely did that on his own.
Uh, so uh, Johnson does not want stronger privacy protection for Americans.
As a matter of fact, if you remember when he was talking about ICE and people were saying they need to get search warrants, they need to obey the law.
We don't need to have a Gestapo on the streets beating people, killing people.
They need to follow the law.
You know, the end does not justify these kinds of means.
And Mike Johnson's reply was, well, we can't get warrants.
Can you imagine all the hassle that would be?
That's the Speaker of the House for Republicans.
Folks, it's at the point now where the key goal for our country right now is to get rid of Trump.
And it's just as key to get rid of the GOP.
And I say that knowing that the Democrats have got massive gun control bills that are going in multiple states Colorado, Virginia, and other places like that.
They're attacking free speech as well.
They've got their crazy stuff in terms of LGBT, in terms of mutilating minors and all the rest of this stuff.
But people see that evil.
And from that standpoint, it's not as dangerous because it'll get opposition.
That'll wake people up to oppose some of this insanity.
Trump is the guy who puts you to sleep.
Trump is the guy who says he's behind you so he can get around you and stab you in the back, like with this, FISA stuff.
And the Republicans who are enabling this, you got people who have Jim Jordan.
Who was once a big critic of warrantless surveillance?
Now he's going along with all this because it's Donald Trump.
It's pathetic what has happened to these people.
So the GOP needs to be purged.
It really does.
Get rid of these people.
Get rid of people like Jim Jordan.
Get rid of people like Mike Johnson.
Get rid of the GOP majority.
And they need to reform themselves.
Maybe get some good people in.
Maybe they learn a lesson.
Maybe.
Who knows?
But you can't continue to go down this path.
They are becoming a closeted version of the Democrat Party, if ever there was one.
So, Johnson's going to determine what comes to the floor.
And these people no longer care about their oath to the Constitution.
They no longer care about their campaign promises.
They no longer care about the issues that they used to care about before.
Again, Jim Jordan completely corrupted by Trump in terms of the principles that are out there.
And I don't know that he ever had any.
I mean, this is another one of these guys like Trey Gowdy, who grandstanded.
I guess that's the right word.
Grandstood.
Well, they're all always sitting.
Yeah.
So anyway, he did that.
He was grandstanding about Benghazi for the longest time, never did anything.
And Jim Jordan is cut from the same mold.
They love to have show trials, dog and pony shows, and talk about things, and they never do them.
And this is another example of just how unserious.
Jim Jordan is.
Trump acknowledged past abuses.
You know, when he was not in power, FISA was an abusive thing, and he was concerned about it.
We should all be concerned about it because it's Mr. and Mrs. America that are out there.
FISA Title I targets specific individuals inside the United States and requires a warrant from the FISA court.
Section 702, by contrast, authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign targets abroad.
With Americans' communications also being collected.
Trump is now treating that distinction as if it were sufficient.
It's not.
Despite the comprehensive record of abuses that have been tied to Section 702 itself.
I think it was a big tell, by the way, you know, when we had.
James Clapper got on, and James Clapper said, You know, it was asked directly by Ron Wyden.
And again, I mentioned Ron Wyden, and I'll just say this for people who are listening who don't write me about how bad Ron Wyden is.
I know he's bad in a lot of different ways.
But he got that one thing right.
And he asked him that question point blank, and you all remember how James Clapper hemmed and hawed, and, uh, uh, well, Senator, uh, uh, not intentionally.
And then you had Michael Hayden, he said, I blame Ron Wyden.
He and his staff and every one of the staff and senators on that committee knew we were doing that.
knew they were violating the law and the Constitution.
And he said, and he put him on the spot.
Yeah, but you know what they didn't do?
They never had a criminal referral for him committing perjury in his testimony to Congress, and he did.
They never had a criminal referral for him violating the law and the Constitution, and he did.
And Michael Hayden said that he did.
Michael Hayden was upset with Ron Wyden for pointing out that James Clapper had violated that.
And we found out right away within a couple of months, we had the Snowden leaks that showed over and over again.
What they were actually doing.
But there were never any consequences.
The statute of limitations expired.
I mean, that was in 2013.
Statute of limitations expired in 2018.
Expired seven years ago.
Nothing has changed.
And they're still wanting to reauthorize this.
Just to review real quickly, why do we have FISA?
Well, you remember the, everybody remembers the Frank Church Committee hearings on the CIA where they held up the heart attack gun and they talked about assassination attempts.
In Cuba and other places that the CIA had been doing, that was sensationalist misdirection.
Because the hearings began because the government was doing warrantless searches.
They were doing it right after World War II.
As soon as they crafted this vicious thing called national security, everything must be sacrificed to national security our lives, our economy, our freedoms, everything.
Sacrificed this thing called national security, which is not about security at all.
It's about continuity of government.
It's about an American empire.
It's about the military industrial complex, or as I prefer to call it, the Machiavellian industrial complex.
That's what national security is about.
And so they had these hearings, and in the Senate, it was Frank Church who did it.
And they had hearings at the same time in the House, and it was the Pike Committee hearings.
And they were in the House, they were looking at the NSA.
In the Senate, they were looking at the CIA.
Nobody really covered the NSA because you're not supposed to know that it existed at that point in time.
Everybody would joke and say it was no such agency.
That was still the case in the early 1980s when I worked with a guy who used to work for the NSA and was then working with Texas Instruments, and he would just joke about it.
I can't talk about it.
And it was created by executive order, NSA was, of Harry Truman.
And the head of the NSA was called in by.
Pike and he said, I'd like to see your charter.
I'm not going to show that to you, Congressman.
Really?
You're not even going to show it?
No, I'm not even going to show you the charter.
And the press obligingly said nothing about that hearing.
Both of those hearings were about warrantless surveillance of Americans.
And so they came up with the FISA Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We said, well, we need to be able to do intelligence on foreigners and spies and that type of thing.
However, you're going to have to get a search warrant.
If you're going to spy on foreigners in America.
You can't do warrantless surveillance even on foreigners that you suspect of spying without a search warrant.
And so we're going to, we don't want to have that in a public court.
So we're going to create a secret court for you to get your search warrant.
And then it turned into what Rand Paul pointed out is a search warrant for Mr. and Mrs. Verizon.
It's just a blanket general warrant for them to do whatever they wish.
And it's very easy in these star chamber situations.
The so called FISA court is just a single judge.
And you go before that judge and say, I'd like to.
Getting Rid of Warrants00:05:19
Oh, sure.
You know, it's just a rubber stamp process.
It doesn't mean anything.
And it gets even worse when you look at Section 702.
As William Benny, when I interviewed him about this, he said, Well, you know, they claim that they can do search warrants with one or two hops or whatever from the person that they're looking at that is abroad.
And he goes, Well, when you look at that, you can go one or two hops.
That gets to be a large number of people.
And it's basically not having any restriction at all.
So, Trump, when he was talking about it, he said, Well, this is, he said, the military desperately needs FISA 702.
I don't care.
You know, you can always make these cases.
We need to get rid of the due process.
We need to get rid of warrants.
Because, you know, the military, not just the military, but the police need to be able to do their work.
We don't want to put obstacles in their way.
No, actually, you do want to put obstacles in their way.
You don't want to have a government.
Whose objective is to make the work of the police effortless.
That creates a police state by definition.
And so he says the military, quote, desperately needs FISA 702.
And he went on and he said it is vital.
And he claimed that generals support it without exception.
I don't care.
The generals are nothing but bureaucrats at this point.
And they don't respect freedom, they don't respect the rule of law.
I mean, if you're still a general in the Trump regime, You're somebody who's willing to follow illegal orders, unlawful orders, orders in violation of the Constitution.
Those are the generals that we have now.
So he says he tied it to battlefield success, including the unconstitutional war against Iran, says the New American, and it is an unconstitutional war.
And that's not going to give them success.
They're not having success.
Here's the situation, right?
I thought he'd already succeeded.
He keeps telling us he's won the war, and then he keeps attacking people for not helping him.
He demands to have the ability to do warrantless searches on American citizens so they can win an unconstitutional war in Iran.
How is that anything other than a non sequitur?
While parts of FISA were illegal and unfortunately used against me, I am willing to risk that as a citizen in order to do what is right for our country.
I'm willing to risk your rights as citizens.
I'm willing to deny your rights as citizens.
I'm willing to destroy the Constitution for the military.
Peace president, my behind.
This guy is Lindsey Graham.
Somewhere they killed him and replaced him with Lindsey Graham in a mask, I think.
Or maybe they.
Resurrected John McCain, and that's what I was about to say.
Yeah, he didn't die, it was all a plot.
Yeah, it's uh, this is John McCain and drag.
Uh, yeah, Trump needs to be removed, the GOP needs to be removed as well.
You could just start over.
It'd be great if we had third party and independent choices, but the two parties have been so corrupt for so long that they made sure that they weren't going to have any competition from third parties or from independents.
So, the only thing you can do is vote them out in mass and hope that when the replacements come in.
They will have learned a lesson and they'll be different people.
I mean, that's the way I see it.
Maybe you see it differently.
But I've never been more burn it down in my life.
I wouldn't just burn this party down, the GOP.
Freedom Caucus, as a matter of fact, is the House GOP's hardline conservative bloc, says the New American.
But they're not such hardline conservatives after all.
It turns out that although they've got 32 members, only about 12 of the 32 will vote for conservative principles.
The rest of them want to toe the party line.
Now, you know, this is a kind of a big tent House Freedom Caucus because it includes people like Randy Fine, this congressman, this Zionist extraordinaire from Florida, Randy Fine, who wants to destroy people's free speech and punish, you know, create hate speech if you criticize the foreign government.
That's Randy Fine.
He's a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
So they don't really check your credentials at the door.
Anybody can get in.
This is easier to get in than a speakeasy.
Of course, Randy Fine doesn't want you to be able to speak easily, does he?
More than a dozen House GOP holdouts have expressed opposition to the extension, citing concerns that the law undermines Americans' privacy if their data is inadvertently swept up while the U.S. government is collecting texts and emails of foreigners abroad.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants it.
Dan Kane, the guy who is the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wants it.
He described Section 702 as critical to U.S. warfighters.
Weaponization of Power00:12:41
I just got to say, though, of all the weapons and all the computers and everything these guys have got, if they can't win a war without spying on the American people, shut down the Pentagon.
You guys haven't won a war since World War II.
You ought to all be gone anyway.
You're nothing but a bunch of grifting bureaucrats, in my opinion.
Grifting bureaucrats that are willing to send young Americans into the meat grinder over and over and over.
And destroy the Constitution and the rule of law.
National security, folks, has been the hammer that they have used to crush, to dust the Constitution over and over again.
One thing that confuses me is that over time, people learned that the Vietnam War was bad, that it wasn't a war worth fighting.
But we haven't seemed to come to that realization over Desert Storm or any of the conflicts in the Middle East.
Mm hmm.
I don't understand how people can't look at that and say, this was a bad war.
All these people died or were maimed for nothing.
Well, yeah, but you look at Desert Storm, that was portrayed as a huge victory because they came in initially.
And I remember the phrase from National Review, the conservative organization, very clearly.
We can and should reduce their military to rubble, right?
Or to twisted metal.
That was the phrase they used twisted metal.
And they did that.
And that was seen as a victory.
But then the rebuilding of Iraq, the nation building and all the rest of the stuff, and all the people who died from improvised explosive devices as we occupied that country, they forget about that loss that was there.
They look at Afghanistan.
They see us going into Afghanistan and throwing out the Taliban right away.
But what happened?
We stayed there for 20 years and we left in disarray, left millions of dollars stashed on pallets.
I mean, literally the cash, the weapons.
It was just unbelievable.
I see that as a defeat.
But I think the general public, because the press helps the military industrial complex, helps them with the imagery of this, they see both of those operations as successes because we went in and blew a bunch of stuff up all at once.
That is kind of the mentality that we see happening here in Iran.
If we go in and we blow a bunch of stuff up, set everything on fire, that's a victory.
No, it's just a marauding band of criminals as far as I see this.
It's not.
Justified, and it's not a victory.
Chip Roy ultimately caved on this as well.
Just so you know, Representatives Andy Biggs and Eli Crane, both of Arizona, filed an amendment to the committee to require a warrant for person queries.
Well, wouldn't that be nice?
You got to have an amendment for something that is a core value of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
That's where we are today, folks.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are dead.
Unless we have some kind of a rider that's put in to resurrect part of it, the Democrat position is shifting.
Democrats like Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, who previously supported Section 702, is now calling for tighter constraints under a Republican administration.
So Trump opposes it when the Democrats are in charge, Jamie Raskin opposes it when the Republicans are in charge.
It's nothing other than partisan gamesmanship.
Neither of them have any principles.
Not Trump, not Jamie Raskin.
Jamie Raskin is looking at this and saying, Well, I don't like what the Trump administration was doing with ICE.
He calls it domestic terrorism.
I agree.
I agree.
But you understand that this can happen with anyone, any political party.
And they're not willing to stand on principle and they're not willing to obey the Constitution.
That they took an oath to as a condition of their office.
Mike Johnson can afford to lose only two Republicans on a procedural vote that is taking place.
Now, I think they say today.
That might have been yesterday.
I don't know.
I grabbed that last night.
So I don't know how that worked out.
I don't know if that was yesterday or today.
I should have looked that up.
I just thought about that here.
Yeah, this was from yesterday, April 15th.
Oh, okay.
Well, I wonder what happened with that.
I guess they're going ahead, probably, because, you know, we have to.
Everything has to be moved out of the way, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for our Machiavellian industrial complex so we can continue to have war, perpetual war, because war is the lifeblood of the state, always has been, especially as now.
Trump says it's worth risking those rights to keep a surveillance state.
That's right.
It's not a risk of your rights if you support a warrantless surveillance state.
That's an eradication of your rights.
That's why.
Removing Trump needs to be the number one priority.
I don't know how that's going to happen, but it needs to happen.
The president had previously called the Congress to kill FISA in 2024, saying it was illegally used against his campaign.
He only thinks about these rights when it's used against them.
Meanwhile, when we look at ICE under Trump, it's one of the things I honestly didn't think, even though we could see these trends coming, I honestly didn't think it would accelerate to the point where it happened in my lifetime.
It looks like the vote hasn't taken place yet.
I'm not seeing anything.
Okay.
Well, ICE, as I pointed out yesterday, the fact that you had a guy on Reddit who criticized ICE and criticized TSA.
So, they decided they would come after him with a totally disconnected law about imports, so that, you know, customs and immigration stuff.
So, they came after him with a customs law, which was a total perversion, a total twist of the lie, of the law, a lie that was there.
The same way that Trump is doing this twisting and perversion for tariffs and other things, he doesn't have any authority to do this stuff.
So, it's a total prevarication.
They came after the guy and Reddit went public with it and they kind of laughed at it and said, You're coming after this guy who's never gone abroad.
He's never imported or exported anything.
And you're trying to come after him with a custom law.
We know that what you're coming after him for is his speech.
And they just ignored it.
And so what they did was they were embarrassed about that.
But they come back and do it secretly, secretly in a grand jury, trying to get that there.
So this is the Trump administration.
They have absolutely no respect.
For anything that has to do with our rights, our right to not have warrantless searches, our right to be able to speak freely.
He hates the free press.
He sues the free press over frivolous things.
You know, a $10 billion lawsuit he's got over the birthday card that was real.
It's another example of his ego coming after people.
But he absolutely despises the free press.
He has no respect for the free exercise of religion.
He set up a religious liberty commission and then kicked off somebody who was not a Zionist because you're going to say that anti Semitism, that racism, it's racism to criticize a foreign government.
They kicked her off.
He doesn't support free exercise of religion, individual free speech.
He doesn't support free press.
He despises every aspect of the Constitution.
He doesn't respect the Second Amendment either.
Fortunately, I can ban whatever guns or accessories I feel like I should be able to do.
Yeah, this is the weaponization of power.
It's not lawfare.
Let's call it what it is the weaponization of power, the lawless weaponization of power.
That is what characterizes the Trump administration.
Government critics are not suspects.
Free speech is not a crime.
So, the legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights, which is an expression which goes by the acronym FIRE, he's absolutely right.
Meanwhile, you have just to show how politicized the Pentagon is.
You got a left wing congresswoman, Tammy Duckworth, who I disagree with on pretty much everything, I guess.
But she is a double amputee or more.
I don't know how many limbs she's lost, but she was a military person.
She's a vet who lost both legs.
She's got her arms, but she lost both legs.
And she's a member of Congress.
She's had issues with the Army Secretary, Dan Driscoll.
She pushed back against his confirmation and voted against him.
She pushed back against confirmation of Pete Hegsat and voted against him.
And so now it's payback time.
Somebody had posted something on the Pentagon's social media showing a picture of her and doing a profile of her time in the military.
They didn't like that.
So, uh, Dan Driscoll shuts all the uh social media down for the army.
So, uh, this is where it's all political, right?
I don't like your politics, I don't like your speech, I don't like Amy Duckworth's politics either.
But, um, It's free speech.
These people have a problem.
I have some bad news about probably every war hero from about World War II back, maybe even forward, how they would feel about the policies that are going on right now.
Yeah.
If you think Alvin York would be on board with what's happening now, Sergeant York, yeah.
Well, Trump promised to deport a million migrants a year, but they haven't even come close to that, even with all of the over the top Gestapo tactics that they had.
And again, If you wanted to, and I've said this from the very beginning, I hate the means that they did.
And part of it is the fact that he's got these goals that then turned into quotas.
That's why they're doing the types of things that they're doing.
But it's easy to get people to self deport if you stop the welfare magnet.
Instead, the Trump administration has increased the welfare magnet, especially when you look at Minnesota.
What became the raison d'etre for what they're doing there?
Well, we got all these Somalis who are here and they are engaged in massive fraud.
Well, they didn't come across the border.
They came in as refugees.
And the Trump administration nearly doubled the amount of money for refugees, raised it by 80%, went from $6 billion to $11 billion, that program.
So they want more of that.
So they're giving more money to people like the Somalis to come in.
At the same time, the Trump administration, all this stuff broke really during the first Trump administration.
He did nothing about it, the first Trump administration.
I talked about it.
But he didn't do a thing about it and didn't mention anything about it.
And they were not looking at it this time until Nick Shirley did his investigation.
Then, after it got some attention, they started talking about it, but they still didn't go in after these people who were involved in fraud.
Instead, they start going around and picking fights with people who have been here peacefully and lawfully for the longest time.
They leave the worst of the worst in place while they're doing this and violate the Constitution as well.
But it's not just the Republicans who are against free speech, of course.
California, speaking of Nick Shirley, Has just put in what many people are characterizing as the Stop Nick Shirley Act that would penalize journalism, investigative journalism, like he did, because he was finding welfare fraud in California.
So their response was to pass a law to criminalize that.
A bill that would criminalize, he said, investigative journalism with misdemeanors, with $10,000 fines, with imprisonment, and with content takedown.
Under AB 2624, government funded entities like the Somali Leering Daycare Centers, right?
They can't even spell learning at the daycare center, would be protected from being exposed if they operated inside of California.
You know, this is not really something that's new.
Criminalizing Journalism00:03:33
Remember, for over a decade, David Delidan with the Center for Medical Progress has been fighting the abuse of power that began with Lala Harris when he exposed the trafficking in baby body parts that Planned Parenthood was doing.
They did nothing to Planned Parenthood.
Instead, what they did was they came after the guy who exposed it, David DeLeiden.
He has fought that since 2015, and he just finally got that settled, and they didn't do anything about it.
But it was Lala Harris, who was Attorney General in California at the time.
She came after him.
Then she became Senator, and the person who replaced her, Javier Becerra, continued coming after David DeLeiden.
And of course, she became Vice President in the Biden administration, and Javier Becerra was rewarded with being put in charge of HHS.
And so that's where we stand with this stuff.
I think we're, do we have Tony?
We do have Tony.
We've also got a couple of comments I want to run through real quickly.
Okay.
We've got, I'm Marty.
And we always want to thank Marty.
He's a very faithful supporter.
And he says, Donald is the cholesterol president clogging the world's main artery.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The world is going, the global economy is going to have a stroke soon.
We're well on our way.
And Mark on YouTube says, Good afternoon from Berlin, Germany.
Well, good morning from the United States.
Good to see you.
Yeah.
Tennessee.
Yeah.
And Markie Mark from New Jersey, thank you very much.
He says, How are the press friends of the military industrial complex when they constantly criticize its programs and weapon systems?
Would friends of the military industrial complex do that?
Well, they want to have access.
Everybody wants to have access.
And yeah, they are, I mean, you look at what they say, and they really are pulling their punches, I think.
I also think it's hard.
They're just not the kind of direct polemicist that I am, but I see, Even the establishment media really pulling their punches, even on this illegal war that's going on now.
I also see it as part of the ratcheting effect.
Most people, or at least people on the Republican side of things, hate the press to the point where anything they say against something, they'll immediately run in the opposite direction.
They've been exposed over and over again as such highly partisan hacks that Republicans basically, like I said, the press says one thing, they do the opposite.
And we also have N. M8 on YouTube.
He says, Adi Murphy is flipping in his grave.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, they couch these wars, they don't really come after the direct issues with it.
And, you know, they'll talk about, well, that's pretty amazing that, you know, Trump hit a new record.
I mean, we never had over a trillion dollars in the budget for the military before.
And now he wants to increase it immediately again by 50%.
But, you know, hey, well, that's it, you know.
And, I mean, to me, it's a very mild response, if any at all, that we get.
From these people.
Yes.
And again, DG8, thank you.
He says, David, Trumpet out a Truth Social Post stating, I'm willing to give up rights and privileges as a citizen for our military and country to pass FISA 702.
You're giving up my rights.
That's unconstitutional.
That's right.
Yeah.
I'm willing to give up your life for my war.
I'm willing to give up your rights for my military strategy that I have there.
He's more than willing to give up our lives for his military operation warp speed as well.
You know, that was something that was also vital for the military.
Let's not forget that.
We'll be right back.
Currency Expansion Disaster00:05:51
Welcome to
The David Knight SHOW.
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Welcome back, and joining us now is Tony Arderman.
It's always great having Tony on.
And of course, he has Wise Wolf Gold, and if he's also set up David Knight Gold, which would take you to Wise Wolf.
And we really do appreciate Tony's support of this program.
And it's always great to talk to Tony about what's happening with the economy.
There's a lot that is happening with the economy now, as we all know.
What's on your radar there, Tony?
As I was saying off air, not without comedy here in this dystopia, I was looking at an article that came out that Janet Yellen was interviewed.
And of course, she was head of the Federal Reserve, she was the treasurer of the United States.
And she came out and said, if you print, if you create currency to service debt, you also create inflation.
And then she went on to say that we're turning into a banana republic.
So I thought that was interesting.
Someone who actually pushed us over the.
Up for the cliffs was saying that we're going to fall.
So, yeah, I think that's where we are right now.
And I think Gore Vidal called us years and years ago, we were a banana republic with nuclear weapons, unfortunately.
Can you imagine what he'd say about ICE and the Iran war now?
But, you know, speaking of Janet Yellen, of course, one of the key things that she was doing was running the printers, the printing presses, and creating more money.
And they quietly have started doing that again.
Let me just play this real quickly.
Inflation is back with the Fed admitting money growth.
Doubled in February.
Note that is before the war and the spike in oil prices.
Will we look back with nostalgia upon Biden's inflation?
Last week, the FedNL's February money growth doubled to $198 billion, up from just $82 billion in January.
That's precisely double the $93 billion monthly run since Trump took office.
Isn't that interesting?
I don't know if you heard that or not, Tony, but he was saying that the money growth doubled from January to February.
They've turned on the printing presses again, and we all know what that means.
You know, you have a lot of economists, a lot of the Austrian school say, well, inflation is only about the money supply.
Well, that certainly is a big part of it.
But we've also added now the obvious inflation that is going to be there once you cut off the supply of energy.
That's a value added tax that raises the price of everything.
And again, when you make something scarce, supply and demand is going to raise the price.
So that's where we are right now.
They've turned on the printing presses even before this Iran war happened.
With the Iran war, we're going to get a major amount of price inflation as well.
Yeah, that's the hidden tax in everything.
And, you know, economists are wrong about so much.
I mean, obviously, but they're not pricing in currency expansion.
I've used a metric for years.
I'm sure it's wrong now, but it was like, I think since 1980, there's 56 times more currency on Earth today than there was then.
I woke up this morning and I actually did a little bit of research because it just came to my mind that this is the subject that I was thinking about the currency expansion versus GDP.
If you look at the world economy, David, it's about a.
126 trillion, if you talk about like companies and assets and things like that, supposedly.
But if you go and you search further, like what is the actual valuation?
If you add in the currency, it's 800 trillion.
So there's that much currency and wealth funds as opposed to what actual businesses are.
So then I went and looked at the metrics of gold as a share of the world's economy in 1979 versus now.
And it was like 20%.
Of the share of the world economy in 1979.
Now it's three.
So you've got all this new currency creation, which is supposed value, but we know it's really not.
It's just the, it's an extension of central banks.
It's an extension of the fiat system, which is a psychological valuation, but not real value.
And that's the house of cards.
So as soon as you add something, that's like gas on a fire, too.
If you have currency expansion, Plus the rise in the price of energy, like, or if you cut off the supply chain and then you have rising prices with currency expansion, that's a recipe for absolute disaster.
So I don't think, and that's a surefire way to even cut off the sequence of events that usually happens when you have an economic downturn is you have the price of energy will come down because there's less usage.
The price of, we saw that in the 2008, 2009 great financial crisis.
So Oil came down to like $40 a barrel.
I don't think that'll happen now.
So we'll have inflation with rising energy prices, which.
Self-Serving Security State00:02:49
Right.
Well, the problem with this is because this blockage has been so major.
This is worse than the OPEC oil embargo considerably because what they're seeing is.
Demand is going down for oil.
People are already starting to cut off because it's getting expensive.
And they think this is going to happen over a very long period of time.
So people are starting to cut down consumption.
And yet it's still going up significantly because the price is still rising, even though demand is falling, because this blockage is so bad.
And we've got a GOP senator, Roger Marshall, who says the Iran war is worth higher gas prices.
He said, Your national security.
It's even more important than your pocketbook.
Again, whether it's FISA, your rights are not important.
The military's objectives are, and they say they can't win this without being able to spy on everybody without a warrant.
And same thing with this national security.
What is national security?
Is the economy not something that is a part of national security?
Wasn't the thing that helped us to win wars having a vital economy?
If we're going to strangle the economy, we're not going to be able to win wars.
And if we're going to strangle our rights, There's no point in us winning the war, is there?
What is that for that scene from Shrek with Lord Farquhar when he comes out and says, Some of you may die.
That's a risk I'm willing to take.
It's the national security state, David.
I mean, since 1947, you had that document NSC 68 that created the CIA, the NSA, the Air Force, all the national security apparatus was 1947 and onward.
And since then, they preserved themselves.
It has nothing to do with the nation, has nothing to do with our liberty or our security or our prosperity.
It's secondary to that.
And that's the same.
Does anybody think that the prosperity of the United States is the goal of our central bank overlords of the Federal Reserve?
Absolutely not.
They're self serving.
The national security state serves itself, even at the detriment of the American people.
That's for sure.
Was that group of things there?
Was that where Truman created the NSA in his executive order?
I don't.
I know he did it.
Okay.
Yeah.
There you go.
The guy that gave us the idea that we're going to become policemen of the world laid all the foundation of the police state at home.
This is what we were warned about.
You know, the instruments, the means of defense abroad will become instruments of tyranny at home.
And that's what the national security state is it's an instrument of tyranny at home.
And now they're openly saying it and they're not getting any pushback.
The Patriot Trade00:05:16
That's the amazing thing on this.
So, yeah, it's worth it.
If we crash the economy, If we destroy individual liberty and the rule of law, it's all going to be done for the national security state, which is really nothing other than a continuity of government for the Machiavellian industrial complex.
Yeah, it's long since abandoned whatever you ever had a mission of protecting the American people.
It's completely self serving at this point.
The wars we fight are not for the American people or prosperity.
Clearly, we're not doing well.
And, you know, if you, if you back out all of the funds that were printed, we're in a real economic crisis right now.
And we will be headed into one.
It's going to be far worse that we didn't do the corrections that we overspent and, you know, that built things that shouldn't have been built.
We funded things that shouldn't have been funded.
And that's going to generate, might be a generational crisis.
Uh, downturn here, and whenever this does finally drop out of this, which I don't wish for, but I don't see any other way around it at this point.
That's right, I don't either.
As a matter of fact, I love this headline from Brian Shahabi at Health Impact News.
He said, The entire world is watching an insane president destroying the global financial economy.
This is what Roger Marshall, when he reduces all this, well, it's just about higher prices at the gas pump.
You know, what a myopic tunnel vision of what is really happening here.
It truly is amazing, and I've seen some people.
Who are trying to make excuses for Trump and say, well, this is really 4D chess because he's going to have the global oil supply cornered here.
Well, you know, as we were talking off air, you know, the Chevron executive says, well, your prices are going to go up.
You know, there's a global shortage on this stuff.
This is how the marketplace works.
I mean, if somebody is desperate in Asia, they can't get any oil or gas at all, they're going to bid the price up.
And guess what?
Chevron's going to sell it to them at a higher price.
And you're going to pay more money here domestically.
It doesn't matter that we've got American oil that is being pulled out of the ground.
It's going to be sold somewhere else, and the price is still going to go up if we've taken a 20% hit to the world's oil supply.
And that's the thing these guys don't understand.
This is indicative of the insanity of Trump's tariff program from the very beginning.
The idea that we, oh, well, we got to have made in America on everything.
And that just doesn't work when you cut off the supplies that you need to make things in America.
Whether you're cutting off the supply of aluminum, or you're cutting off the supply of semiconductors, or he's cutting off the supply of energy.
How are you going to make stuff in America without these vital things?
This is what Trump and his clowns don't understand.
Well, maybe they do.
I mean, you don't reset the supply chain with extortion.
Yeah.
It's not a good start.
And you realize, too, that I was just listening to an interview with Jim Rickards.
And he said, look, the first wave of the impact on the energy market in Asia starts about two days from now because those ships that left the Strait of Hormuz, it takes about six weeks.
To get to South.
So, all that the ships that aren't coming now, and they've offloaded it.
You're talking about all that crude oil that supplies so much of the world.
And you go back to the 90s, we outsourced everything, Dave.
That's part of the free trade, the God that these so called conservatives worshiped.
And they worship this free trade.
Everything's got to be free trade.
And we got to get rid of barriers and tariffs.
And look, we've seen the clown show that is tariffs now.
So, we can't really make that argument anymore, I guess.
With rationality.
Well, and you can't just turn off, you can't just abruptly do a U turn.
It's like you're going down the highway at 100 miles an hour and you decide you're going to do some kind of a Rockford turn, you know?
And this has been going on for decades.
We outsourced everything.
Who was that senator from the 90s?
He says, It doesn't matter whether you make computer chips or potato chips, you can buy them from anywhere.
Well, the problem is that it takes like 12 different countries to make a Patriot missile.
And this is going back to the 90s.
Yeah.
It may probably take more now, but all of those intricate supply chains get disrupted.
And especially when you have rising costs of energy and all over the world, especially in Asia and other places, it makes so much.
We've not even begun to feel the impact of the stupidity of all of this, which seems to me.
But what use is that when 30% or 40% of the world's economy goes into a massive slump and prices rise and there's broken supply lines?
I mean, that.
That's just chaos.
That's not the art of the deal or whatever that's supposed to be.
You're absolutely right.
And you started talking about military stuff and how the supply chain for the Patriot missiles is distributed over several different countries.
Even when you look at stuff like rare earth materials, right?
Minerals.
And that is something, anything, nothing is planned.
It's just like I was saying before you're driving down the road at 100 miles an hour.
You decide you got to go the other direction.
Just pull up the handbrake and start spinning around, but it's going to keep spinning.