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The American Journal: Comey’s Daughter Fired! Woman Behind Prosecutions Of Epstein, Maxwell & ‘Diddy’ FINALLY Removed By Trump DOJ - FULL SHOW - 07/17/2025

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	The Pacific Palisades fire, which, if the insane news cycle buried it from your memory, began on January 7th, 2025, and caused massive destruction across the Pacific Palisades, Topanga, and Malibu, with nearly every structure north of Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades being obliterated, causing severe air pollution in Los Angeles.
	The crisis was compounded by water supply issues as 20% of fire hydrants in the more elevated parts of Pacific Palisades ran dry.
	The containment efforts reached only 8% by January 31st of 2025 after 24 days of battling an inferno that seven months later is still being investigated as arson.
	In the aftermath, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 549 into law.
	This legislation grants Los Angeles County the authority to purchase fire-destroyed lots at minimal cost, a decision that directly contradicts Newsom's previous statements to homeowners that government-driven property conversions would not occur.
	I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor down in Hawaii, who had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like.
	So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward, and we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks.
	The bill mandates that from January 2026, 40% of the housing in affected areas must be affordable, and it establishes a, quote, resilient rebuilding authority, end quote, that overrides local community decisions on rebuilding efforts.
	This strips away local control, likely displacing original homeowners who don't fall under the criteria of Section 8 recipients and enables rezoning without their input.
	The people that are in charge of this bill, they're the people in charge of letting the whole town burn down, okay?
	You can say whatever you want, but all their decisions, all their negligence, all that, that's why we have no town in the Palestinians.
	Why would we ever have them in charge of rebuilding what they let burn down?
	With SB 549, the authority can buy back land and offer it first to original owners.
	But if they cannot afford it, they lose their homes permanently, setting the table for Smart LA 2028, led by the city of Los Angeles's Information Technology Agency, a government technocracy that is building the 2028 Olympics on the charred remains of its citizens' homes.
	Technology enables the city of LA to efficiently and ethically improve the quality of life for our residents, businesses, and visitors.
	In other words, when done right, technology makes us smarter.
	That's why the city of Los Angeles strives to be a smart city.
	And there's never been a more important time for Los Angeles to be smart than now, as we prepare to host the world in the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
	Meanwhile, the LA RISE's public outreach campaign launched by the survivors to support recovery efforts is undermined by Newsom's policy shifts, which prioritize government control over the restoration of homeowner rights and local autonomy.
	What they're proposing is a separate government entity to be comprised of political appointees, not people elected by you, who would have centralized authority over construction permitting, development, land acquisition, and other key decisions that will shape the future of the Palisades.
	In this brave new world, the people of Pacific Palisades are not rebuilding their lives.
	They are being rebuilt by a government that ignored their cries for help and sees opportunity in their suffering, an opportunity with motive.
	Just like California is being run by a criminal operation and the goal is the biggest land grab in the history of the United States of America.
	But the question isn't whether this was planned.
	It's whether the people of California will stand idly by as their homes, their rights, and their futures are consumed by the same fire that started it all.
	Their time to take a stand is today and it isn't tomorrow.
	John Bown reporting for Infowars.
	That, of course, is the latest from John Bound.
	Find and share that on X at Real Alex Jones.
	Newsom's SB 549 is criminal on its face.
	It's not the only place that's happening.
	We got similar plans for Gaza and Ukraine as well.
	It's Thursday, July 17th, in the year of our Lord 2025.
	And you're listening to the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
	Watch it live right now at band.video.
	Get everybody messed up together.
	Okay, three, two, one, this down.
	Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is the American Journal.
	I'm your host, Harrison Smith, coming to you live this Thursday morning from the InfoWars headquarters here in Austin, Texas.
	We got a lot of news to talk about today.
	We'll go out to your phone calls as well.
	Lots of videos to show you.
	The ongoing saga, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to spiral out of control.
	I'm getting a little annoyed at the Democrats laughing and MAGA about this.
	Maybe I'll have to pull in the video.
	I guess the Daily Show did a longer segment on Epstein yesterday.
	And it's just a reminder of how reliant the powers that be or the mainstream media or just the leftists in general, how reliant they are on ignorance.
	Without an ignorant population, they just couldn't get away with it.
	They really couldn't.
	And I'll have to show you the videos, but there are so many videos that, like, I've seen the videos before, so I know that when it's played on the daily show, they cut right before the line that changes the whole perspective of the clip.
	But if you don't know that, if you've never seen that video before, if your entire awareness of the world around you is being fed to you through a very constricted frame from people who are deliberately leaving things out in order to manipulate you, then you're just going to have a completely warped view of what's actually going on.
	So we'll get into it.
	It's kind of like MAGA's having this internal beef and is fighting with each other.
	Because let's be perfectly clear for the hundredth time.
	This was never a Democrat versus Republican thing.
	Democrats have always been on the sidelines here.
	This is a completely internal conflict happening in the Republican Party.
	The Democrats don't have any part of because they don't actually care about Jeffrey Epstein or elite pedophilia.
	They're the ones primarily involved in it.
	So it's just, it's Republicans fighting each other.
	It's like we have a little family TIF going on.
	We have an internal conflict happening.
	We can yell at each other.
	And you need to release the Epstein files.
	You're filing for a demand.
	We're just like yelling at each other and fighting.
	And the Democrats over there are like, yeah, guys, we're voters like, yeah, you shut up.
	No, you need to shut the hell up right now.
	You aren't even a part of this.
	That's how I feel about the Democrats right now.
	That's how I feel about the Liberals.
	You can all shut the hell up.
	You don't have a right to even have a part in this conversation.
	If you'd wanted to, you've had 10 years to go after Trump when it comes to Epstein, if that's what you wanted.
	You never did because, A, you know it's completely factually inaccurate.
	Trump was never conflicted when it came to Jeffrey Epstein.
	He was never involved.
	I'll have to show you.
	We'll have to do it.
	I didn't even want to because I don't even want to show, you know, give these guys the time of day.
	But we'll have to show you and get into it.
	Because they'll use clips like, you know, Donald Trump was neighbors with Jeffrey Epstein and he was actually for a time members at his Mar-a-Lago club.
	Like, until Donald Trump kicked him out and reported him to the police, right?
	Until that point.
	Right.
	He joined Mar-a-Lago because he was a spy and all of his activities were secret.
	And the moment Trump found out about him or just had a suspicion about him, he kicked him out of the club, specifically to protect the young girls that were working at the club, since Jeffrey Epstein was known to prey on the, you know, work staff of places that he frequented.
	But they leave that out.
	So if you don't know that, then all you hear is, yeah, Jeffrey Epstein was at Mar-a-Lago.
	He was a member of Mar-a-Lago.
	See, another connection to Trump.
	So again, if the American people actually looked into this stuff, just had a modicum of skepticism about the deceptive scumbags who just lie to them over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, then this wouldn't be an issue.
	But that's not the world we live in, I guess.
	So we'll have to show you that clip and we'll get into it a little bit more.
	We'll get more into it.
	Not that I particularly want to or anything.
	Again, I'm as sick of talking about Epstein as everybody else is, but there's a reason this is such a big deal.
	There's a reason that this is such a hotbutton issue.
	And if the Democrats in this country actually want to work together with right-wingers to extricate the American government from the quagmire that we find ourselves in, be constantly being pulled left and right by foreign actors.
	Like if we want to come together and put America first, then we could do that.
	But that's not going to happen, is it?
	I don't think that's actually going to happen anytime soon.
	So here we are.
	So here we are with this amazing, unprecedented opportunity to deal devastating blow after blow to a deep state that has secretly entangled our country for the last several decades.
	And probably we're not going to succeed.
	Probably what's going to happen is the Democrats are going to, I mean, they think they're relitigating the Civil War and think that they're fighting slavery and the Holocaust all at once.
	So they're completely out to lunch and absolutely no help.
	Half the Republican Party is completely compromised by Israel.
	So it seems like we've got about half of half of the engaged American populace actually awake and on the right side and principally opposed to the evil going on.
	I think that's more than enough, but only if we actually do something with it.
	We'll get into all of that and more.
	Take your phone calls on how exactly we make the best use of this opportunity, as well as anything else you guys want to talk about.
	We'll open up phone lines probably in the second hour, but we'll begin today as we do every day with our daily dispatch.
	Pewds sounds
	All right, here it is, folks.
	Your daily dispatch for Thursday, the 17th of July, 2025.
	James Comey's daughter, who worked on Epstein case, fired as federal prosecutor.
	Federal prosecutor Maureen Comey was fired today, and the reason for her firing was not immediately clear.
	Oh, it wasn't?
	This wasn't immediately clear.
	We'll try to clear that up for you, Ground News.
	The notice informing Maureen Comey of her termination cited the broad powers afforded to the president in the U.S. Constitution.
	Maureen Comey was a lead prosecutor in the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein and Gillane Maxwell and Sean P. Diddy Combs.
	Very coincidentally, just a complete coincidence, I'm sure, a source stated that being a Comey is untenable in this administration due to her father, James Comey's critiques of the administration.
	Being a Comey is untenable because of Donald Trump's hatred of her father.
	Why does she hate her father, though?
	Do you want to elaborate on that?
	Do you want to elaborate on whether there was a reason that James Comey was hated by Donald Trump?
	A lot of these sort of goes back to what I was saying about the, you know, the clips that they're showing.
	Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.
	It depends on where you start or end the timeline.
	You start the timeline of James Comey and Donald Trump with Comey's firing or Maureen Comey's firing, then it doesn't make a lot of sense.
	If you go back a little bit further and you actually discuss the blatantly treasonous activity that James Comey was involved in, the leaking to the press, violating orders about classified information, the fact that he tried to rig the election against Donald Trump,
	the fact that he buried a prosecutable offense of Hillary Clinton over the Benghazi emails in an attempt to help her win while simultaneously launching a deliberately and knowingly falsified FISA warrant to spy on Trump in an attempt to destroy him.
	Like you get there's a reason that Trump hates Comey.
	Again, there's got to be, I'm going to open up phone lines to college professors.
	There's got to be some sort of academic vocabulary that I'm lacking to describe this phenomenon that we see over and over and over again, day after day.
	I just don't know whatever Latin term would be used for this.
	But it's just this constant thing of Democrats portraying Trump like Trump's out for vengeance.
	Trump is just doing this because he's vindictive, just applying to Trump and by extension, all Republicans, that they just, they cannot have pure motives.
	They cannot be granted the right of just wanting things that are normal.
	Everything has to be characterized or portrayed as just some lowest common denominator brainless reaction, right?
	When it's like, if you just look at the full spec, like if you look at the full timeline, what actually happened here, you expect Trump not to be angry with the people that have tried to throw him in prison for the rest of his life?
	You expect Trump as president of the United States to sit quietly and reward the people who go in front of television cameras and tell blatant lies about him in an attempt to destroy his political career.
	Leak to the press, the Pfizer warrants, the lying under oath.
	And they all, I guess in their worldview, they should be able to do that to Trump.
	And Trump's reaction should be just quiet solicitude.
	Just, okay, whatever you want to do, you can do it.
	I won't ever respond because the response, no matter what it is, will be treated as insane because they completely forgot about the things they did to him.
	Again, there's got to be, I'm sure, I'm sure somebody out there listening to me is like, of course, this is, I don't, you know, this is ambiguous reflection.
	That's what this is called.
	Whatever it is.
	I don't know what the term is, but there's got to be something because we see it all the time, forever, constantly, all the time.
	All the time.
	Like literally everything we talk about in this show contains an aspect of this in one way or another.
	That's why I feel like we need a word to define it.
	Should you apply the same thing to something like Gaza and Israel?
	It depends on where in the timeline you start, what side you're on.
	Again, if everything is rainbows and unicorns and rosebeds on October 6th, and then suddenly October 7th, for no reason and without precedent or purpose, a bunch of Hamas people just flew into Israel to kill everybody for fun.
	Like, yeah, okay, now that's insane.
	If you go back a little bit and you ask, well, why would they do that?
	Well, why did they feel the need to launch such an insane and far-fetched military attack?
	There's got to be a reason to it, right?
	Maybe that's what we need.
	We all just need the minds of two-year-olds just asking why.
	Just why.
	Being a Comey is untenable in this administration due to her father, James Comey,'s critiques of the administration.
	Oh, his critiques.
	His critiques.
	That's the real problem is sometimes you ask why and they give you, they just lie to you.
	They just lie to you about why.
	Why does he hate James Comey?
	Because James Comey criticized him.
	Oh, it didn't have to do with the Pfizer warrants.
	It didn't have to do with the lying under oath.
	It didn't have to do with the leaking information to the press to damage his boss.
	It didn't have anything.
	Oh, it was the critiques.
	He criticized him.
	So literally in their world, it's just, you know, in a way, I almost envy it.
	But not really.
	But, you know, it's like they have a childlike view of the world.
	James Comey is just, he's just Santa Claus.
	He's just a nice, jolly man.
	Sure, he was the head of a ruthless federal law enforcement agency who's, by the very nature of their existence, required to participate in the most brutal and hard-hearted activities of anybody in the world.
	But he's just, he's just a nice, he's sort of a grandfatherly type guy.
	He would never hurt anybody.
	He just, he's doing his best.
	He's just following the rules.
	And then big bad Trump comes along, and James Comey, he's an honorable man.
	So he criticized him.
	He said, you know, I don't know if Trump should be doing this.
	And then Trump said, fire his daughter.
	Fire his daughter immediately.
	He critiqued me.
	Fire who's what part of his family works in this government?
	Let's fire them and throw them in prison.
	Like, I mean, they literally have, and, you know, it'd be one thing if you're talking to like a, just a middle schooler who has his view of the world.
	And I'm putting sort of a, you know, a caricature spin on it.
	But that is literally what the mainstream media articles sound like.
	They are a child's view of the world, where they literally expect you to believe that Donald Trump fired Maureen Comey because James Comey innocently critiqued the president.
	It's just like, you know, again, if you're a baby, that makes sense.
	How is that the story that's being told in mainstream media for adults?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	How do people not know that?
	How do they not recognize?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	And the reality is because slowly but surely, they've been indoctrinated into this worldview against their cognizant knowledge, against their conscious will.
	In other words, you just tell people over and over and over and over and over and over again.
	You mislead people, you misconstrue the situation, portray it artificially, but you do that over and over and over again, and people start to think it's real.
	And then you can predicate other things on the lie that they've already accepted, and they'll accept those further lies.
	So it's taken a long time and a lot of discipline from the mainstream media for years on end telling the same lie over and over again, despite repeatedly being proven wrong.
	It takes a lot of discipline to do that.
	Anyway, moving on.
	We'll get more into Maureen Komi a little bit later, but I just take this situation literally any other time and place, just the barest facts that there have been not very many,
	a very small number of very high-profile cases of international pedophile rings incorporating aspects of the intelligence community in this country and in Israel.
	And that of these three cases, all three of them were handled by the same woman.
	And that woman happens to be the daughter of the disgraced former head of the FBI.
	Just that.
	Just that situation.
	The fact that it's the same woman, very suspicious.
	The fact that that woman is the daughter of the FBI director, really inexplicable.
	And the fact that that FBI director has been embroiled for a decade in the most egregious examples of really just blatantly treasonous activity, really just doing everything the Democrats claim to be fighting against, weaponizing their positions, abusing their power, controlling the media by feeding them false stories, falsifying reports in order to get warrants.
	I mean, just rampant criminality.
	You just go, how is this even the world that we live in?
	I mean, it really is just like beyond fiction.
	Moving on here.
	Trump tries to blame others as tensions rise around handling of Epstein case.
	Trump posts on social media, Truth Social Media, blaming Democrats for a new scam that we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein hoax.
	Trump claimed the Democrats and Comey tampered with documents related to Epstein's case, but presented no evidence.
	Several Democratic lawmakers are now calling for the release of all Epstein files, suggesting that Trump may be resisting due to personal connections.
	Trump and conservative influencers have spread unsubstantiated claims about Epstein for years.
	It just could not be more inverted.
	Could not be more backwards.
	Could not be more insane.
	I just don't even know what to do at this point.
	Trump and conservative influencers have spread unsubstantiated claims about Epstein for years.
	Like what exactly?
	What are these unsubstantiated claims?
	Anyway, it's just, it's just weird, man.
	It's just bizarre.
	It's just the Republicans.
	Well, I shouldn't even say the Republicans.
	The MAGA populist movement, us, the Infowar side of things, have been talking about Epstein for 20 years.
	Okay.
	It was in the early 2000s that we first reported on him and his sweetheart deal with Alex Acosta and Pam Bondi for that matter.
	She was involved in the early prosecution of Epstein in Florida as Attorney General there.
	So for like decades, it's just right-wingers talking about Jeffrey Epstein, pointing this out.
	Obviously, during the 2016 presidential race, you had Pizzagate and all the connections between Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and the various pedophile networks they were core members of.
	So Democrats decided that they didn't want to touch this with a 10-foot pole, that it was well worth the cost of little girls being destroyed by elite pedophiles as long as it didn't damage the Democrats' reputation.
	And then just for genuinely like no reason, the Trump administration just starts lying about Epstein and just handing this gigantic gift-wrapped prize to the Democrats.
	Here you go.
	Here's an attack vector against us.
	Here's something you've never cared about.
	But now it's a weapon in your hands.
	And now the Democrats are making absolutely unsubstantiated claims about Trump and Epstein, despite having spent the several decades rejecting the very substantiated and proven in-court claims about Epstein that we have been making.
	This is why I just, I can't, I can't even, I can't even understand this.
	The same article will claim that Trump and conservatives have made unsubstantiated claims about Epstein, despite the fact that he was on trial twice, that he killed himself in prison, that the people involved, the victims, have come out and talked about what happened to them.
	The documentation is all there.
	None of it is even remotely speculative, except in his official capacity as a Mossad agent, because that is the type of thing that will never have proof forever.
	The evidence doesn't exist.
	It is incumbent on being a spy that you don't have evidence of that existing, obviously.
	So why Trump's doing this, anybody could say.
	But the fact this is so far out of whack, maybe we just need to ground ourselves.
	We just need to like, from the beginning, somebody just woke up from a coma that they've been in for 10 years.
	We just need to explain what this whole Epstein thing even is, because nobody seems to even understand.
	All right, welcome back, folks.
	We got a lot of news still to get to.
	Trick gave up on the daily newspaper halfway through.
	This Epstein hoax.
	It's such nonsense.
	Here's the rest of the news.
	It just gets better.
	Trump announces American Coca-Cola to use real cane sugar.
	President Donald Trump announced Coca-Cola Company will soon begin using real cane sugar to sweeten its flagship beverage bottled in the U.S. Trump made the declaration on Wednesday revealing the high-fructose corn syrup sweetener typically used in the United States to sweeten the popular soft drink will be phased out.
	I've been speaking to Coca-Cola about using real cane sugar in Coke in the United States, and they've agreed to, which I think is good to see.
	The move could help the Coca-Cola company skirt tariffs on imports from Mexico, which bottles Coke sweetened with cane sugar, after Trump last week proposed a 30% tariff on all, on potentially all imported Mexican goods, effective August 1st.
	Yeah, obviously the introduction of high-fructose corn syrup has been a disaster for the human race.
	And well, sure isn't the best thing.
	It's certainly better than the industrial sludge they sweeten things with now.
	Just one in four U.S. adults say Trump's policies have helped them.
	A new AP NORC poll finds a recent poll of 1,437 U.S. adults conducted from July 10th through 14th by the Associated Press NORC Center indicates that roughly 25% of respondents feel that Trump's actions have positively impacted them since he began his presidency.
	This coming as a shock.
	As previously, the Jewish population was only thought to be 2% of America, but we're learning now it's upwards of a quarter.
	Following Trump's approval of a substantial budget bill on July 4th, Medicaid reductions included in the legislation are expected to increase the number of uninsured Americans by $11.8 million and contribute an additional $3.3 trillion to the national debt.
	The poll indicates that about half of U.S. adults feel Trump's policies have negatively affected them, while roughly 20% believe these policies have had little to no impact on their lives.
	Although only 43% approve of his immigration policies, a decline from 49% in March, around 60% of people believe Trump is somewhat effective at accomplishing tasks, yet 50% feel he does not have a good understanding of the challenges faced by individuals like themselves.
	The poll's results suggest persistent divisions over Trump's effectiveness and impact, with many Americans skeptical of his policies amid rising inflation and ongoing economic concerns.
	Which it's just all about perception.
	Obviously, inflation was significantly worse the entire time under Biden's presidency.
	Immigration has dropped dramatically since Trump got into office, something that they swore up and down that he would not be able to do.
	Sure, people are enjoying the price of eggs and the price of gas.
	I've even been seeing gas under $2 a gallon these days.
	But there's something weird in humanity, in human beings.
	People don't notice stuff like that.
	I don't know what it is.
	Again, this is the perennial issue that we contend with on InfoWars.
	Why do we have to explain things that are imminently observable to every human being on Earth?
	I don't know.
	I don't know why we have to explain this stuff, but apparently we do.
	Because apparently you can go to the store, you can see that prices are lower, you can fill up your car and notice that it's half as expensive as it was this time last year.
	And yet you go home, you turn on the TV, the TV tells you prices are higher, the economy's hurting people and gas prices are high.
	And they believe that.
	They literally, they believe what they're told on TV over what they actually observe.
	So, you know, it really just exposes like why we can't have a country anymore.
	Like why this doesn't work, why our system is a complete failure because our entire society has been hijacked by liars.
	Completely.
	The mainstream media is just sickeningly dishonest.
	And we'll have people believing genuinely just the complete opposite of what their own eyes tell them.
	And you can't run a country that way.
	How are you supposed to be an informed voter if you're not one?
	Like, it's not even that difficult to understand.
	You vote for a person.
	Like, you can imagine a world.
	You can imagine a world, at least I can, where the media is honest and it just tells the truth.
	And it just treats things like, I don't know, Infowars treats things.
	If you turn on TV and CNN, just regardless of the politics, said, here's what's happening.
	Here's what's going on.
	Here's one view.
	Here's the opposing view.
	Here's the news.
	Here's just what's happening in the world.
	Then you could vote on somebody.
	Then you could see the outcome of their policies.
	And then you could determine whether or not you want that policy to continue or you want to elect somebody with a different policy.
	It'd be very simple.
	It's all be very easy.
	Instead, you vote on somebody.
	They get into office.
	They can't get anything done because of made-up scandals that don't exist.
	Then the media blames the person that they're destroying for not, you know, succeeding despite their interference.
	And then they lie to you about the effects of the policies.
	And so you're just completely out to see.
	How are you supposed to make a decision?
	How are you supposed to even judge the competency of the people in charge if you have literally no way of measuring it or understanding the consequences of their policies?
	It's just, this is infeasible.
	It just doesn't work.
	This doesn't work.
	This doesn't make any sense.
	Then again, nobody in America, as far as I can tell, has been helped by Trump.
	So I'm not even saying this poll is necessarily inaccurate.
	I'm just saying it's not a not actually a poll judging whether or not Trump's policies are hurting Americans.
	This is strictly a poll of how many people in America believe the media and how many don't, right?
	This is a poll describing and quantifying the effectiveness of media propaganda, not of Trump's administration.
	Like, I don't know.
	The fact that prices have dropped on basic necessities like eggs and fuel means that, you know, incontrovertibly, not in a speculative way, not in a way that requires polling people or taking some small sample group and extrapolating out to the large.
	The fact that gas is under $2 a gallon when last year was upwards of $4 a gallon means every single person in America has tangibly benefited from Trump's policies.
	Whether they think it or not, it doesn't matter.
	They have.
	They have absolutely benefited from Trump's policies.
	People in L.A. who didn't spend four hours stuck in traffic over the weekend because the roads were clear because of the mass deportations.
	Everybody in L.A. has had their lives positively affected by Trump.
	Again, whether they like it or not, whether they admit it or not, whether they know it or recognize it or have the mental capacity to even observe it or not, they have benefited from Trump.
	U.S. egg prices fall for third straight month.
	Gas prices significantly lower.
	Again, they have.
	They have benefited from Trump.
	They just weren't told that they were.
	They just don't, they haven't been told that.
	The TV hasn't turned on and told them and implanted in their mind the idea that they're doing better because Trump's in office, so they are incapable of recognizing that for themselves.
	It's weird.
	It's weird how that works, but that is the case.
	And maybe, and this next story is sort of an addendum to what I was just saying, or a magnifier, a multiplier for what I was just saying.
	Again, if the mainstream media is just completely lying to you about everything and you genuinely have no ability to know the effectiveness of what you're doing.
	I'm trying to think of another example.
	If you were fighting a war and having to command your troops, you couldn't actually see the battlefield and had to rely on somebody telling you what the effectiveness was or take it out of war and put it in sports or something, right?
	You call a play on the football field and then they run the play, but you can't see it.
	You're blind.
	And somebody tells you, all right, they got 10 yards with that.
	But in reality, the quarterback was sacked and he lost 30 yards.
	It was a horrible play.
	It didn't work at all.
	Completely failed.
	But the guy whose job is to tell you what's happening goes, actually, that was great.
	That worked really well.
	Yeah, we got a lot of yards on that one.
	There were negative yards, but I won't mention that.
	We got a lot of yards on that one.
	So what are you going to do?
	You're going to call the play again, right?
	If you're relying on a liar to tell you the outcome of your decisions, how are you supposed to make the right decisions?
	This is like elementary.
	It's like obvious.
	It's very, you know, I shouldn't need to explain any of this.
	But this is sort of the situation that we're in right now.
	Where you got a bunch of American voters calling plays and then the reporters, the mainstream media, the people in charge of telling them the outcome of their decisions is just lying to them about the outcome of the decisions because they don't like the decisions.
	They're just lying and they just lie about it constantly.
	So nice people could recognize that every once in a while.
	And just not just ramble on this endlessly, but whatever.
	We'll move on.
	We'll move on.
	It's fine.
	It's just that when I say the media lies, I'm not saying that in a vague way.
	The reason it's so baffling is like you all lived through this.
	Everybody listening to my voice Has probably been alive for five years, probably been alive for 10 years.
	I'd say probably 99% of the people listening to my voice were alive and conscious and aware of what's going on around them from 2016 onward.
	And if that's the case, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
	I'm not saying that the mainstream media fudges things or doesn't quite present the right.
	No, they outright, blatantly, in your face, lie to you constantly about Russia, about COVID, about the lab leak, about the effectiveness of vaccines, about the safety of mail-in ballots, about what happened on January 6th, about the existence of Antifa.
	They just lie to your face over and over and over again.
	And everybody knows this.
	And then nobody changes their mind to comport with that reality.
	I don't get it.
	So congratulations.
	If you're watching InfoWars, you're one of the few who got blatantly lied to and decided to stop trusting the person in the organizations and the institutions that lied to you like that.
	Instead came to people that have been telling you the truth for decades and are proven right over and over and over and over and over again.
	Not that it matters, apparently.
	And so you've got this fake construct of democracy where people's decisions are completely and utterly disconnected from the consequences of their decisions.
	The policies they support just have nothing to do with their intentions.
	Democracy is ruled by the media.
	It's ruled by lies.
	It's simply a contest, not who has the better idea, but who has the capacity for tricking more people.
	And then on top of that, you've got this.
	Publicity firm offered $20 million to recruit for anti-Trump protests.
	Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, reveals he was offered $20 million to recruit for planned anti-Trump protests on July 17, 2025.
	Swart declined the offer, saying he believed the protests would not be effective and voiced concerns about potential violence.
	The protest, called Good Trouble Lives On, aims to honor civil rights leader John Lewis, who famously referred to protests as Good Trouble.
	The event is organized by various activist groups, including the SPLC and the Women's March, indicating a coalition of left-wing activist groups.
	So one would think that seeing a large crowd of people attending an anti-Trump protest would be a reflection of the population.
	It would be indicative of a wider mood in the American public.
	But what if it's just a big Hollywood set?
	What if the protest doesn't actually exist?
	What if it's just one billionaire with $20 million in spare change that he's able to use to pay to get tens or hundreds of thousands of people out on the street?
	$20 million is a crap ton of money.
	That's an insane amount of money.
	And like, you have to ask.
	Like, what would you do if you had $20 million to stage a protest?
	You could probably find a million people willing to accept $20 to go march around a square for a day.
	And you could probably, with that amount of money, you could probably have, at the very least, 100,000 people, just strictly cash.
	Like, I'm not even talking about the organization or anything that would like maximize that number and you can get people out for free by getting their, you know, said paying 10 people $20 a piece, pay one person $200 and say, you need to bring 20 people with you.
	And now it's their job to recruit 20 people who will volunteer to do it.
	That'd maybe be a better way of spending money.
	But you could just completely manufacture, you could summon out of whole cloth, conjure out of non-existence, a 100,000 person strong protest.
	You probably do it about anything.
	You could make it look like there is a nationwide, powerful, grassroots activist movement to whatever, to change stoplights from red to orange, right?
	But you could make the appearance.
	This could suddenly be, oh my God, this is a major issue.
	Everybody cares so much about this.
	We create out-of-the-box campaigns, audiences, and events to make an impact for our clients.
	So this is the modern American Republic.
	It is literally just billionaires and millionaires putting on theatrical shows to justify their tyrannical measures.
	That's literally all it is.
	And they're just companies.
	They're like, yeah, we crowds on demand.
	You pay us money.
	We will make you look popular.
	We'll make your idea look popular.
	And we'll bring people to you.
	If we can grab that video, I didn't realize there was a video interview of this guy, Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand.
	You know, isn't it weird that so many of these industries that were like crazy conspiracy theories 10 years ago are just admitted in the open now?
	I'm thinking of Augustus Dorico, the cloud seeding company, Maker.
	And he's just everywhere just being like, yeah, we manipulate the weather.
	We seed clouds.
	These people, it's like, oh, yeah, we create fake protests.
	We have crowds on demand.
	If you want to make your thing seem like it's got a diverse coalition of people supporting it, we provide actors to play those roles.
	All this stuff used to be secret because it's such a violation of everything we're supposed to believe or do.
	It's just such a, these are horrible things these people are doing.
	Really undermining the will of the people in the most deliberate way you could possibly imagine.
	There was a reason that, because they've always used these services, crowds on demand, paying people to protest.
	We've always reported on this.
	They always call us crazy until now when they're just like, oh yeah, I'm the CEO of a company that does that.
	You shouldn't be.
	That shouldn't be allowed.
	There's a reason that people thought you were a crazy conspiracy theorist when you talked about this because it's so crazy.
	It's such a bizarre thing to have happen.
	But they just are out here advertising it.
	Okay, great.
	So that's the modern American political landscape is you got a bunch of liars deceiving people about the outcomes of their policies because they want the policies to continue.
	And this is the real secret thing, the real conclusion at the end of this.
	The path you go down when you start asking why, why, why, why, why, why, why?
	Is the very simple question, why would they cover up the negative consequences of their policies?
	Why would they lie if the economy is doing better under Trump?
	Why would they deceive people about that?
	Why would they keep writing articles acting as if the economy is failing and faltering and going badly if it's not?
	Because they hate you.
	Because they like the bad policies because they want to hurt you.
	They want you weaker.
	There's no other motive to do this.
	I mean, if you put forward a policy and it makes life better, what would be the motive to lie about that?
	The only motive to lie about it is in an effort to stop the policy from happening.
	The only outcome of stopping the policy would be the life of the people affected would get worse.
	Therefore, follow my chain of logic here.
	The only reason you would lie about it would be the only motivation you could have would be to make the lives of the people worse.
	Like what other motivation could there be, honestly?
	So, I mean, it really is across the board in all of this.
	But it's hard to even elucidate any of this stuff because most people still listen to mainstream media and they'll see things like a giant crowd of people protesting Trump and think that it is indicative and reflective of the mood of the country when it is,
	in fact, a bunch of people who do not care about Trump, but are getting paid $100 to wave a sign for a couple minutes, and they're going to put it on their acting resume as they try to get background work in the latest sitcom.
	we just live in a completely fake and fraudulent fabricated world and it's insulting to me you Thank you.
	Like, I don't know.
	I'm trying to figure out right now, is it better to have the illusion of free speech and the ability to protest?
	Or would it be better just to be in an honest tyranny?
	I really don't know.
	I think if I was a tyrant, the more effective policy would be to allow people to think that protests are a thing.
	It just seems like extra work.
	I mean, I guess it makes sense.
	But it's just, it's like such a pain in the ass doing anything here.
	Like, if we were a tyranny and they wanted to, you know, let's just say hypothetically, just in my using my imagination, let's just pretend that we, you know, are occupied by a tyrannical force that has a deep-seated racial hatred of white people.
	And they just want to just hurt white people.
	But they know white people are more powerful than them, so they can't just come out and hurt them.
	So they want to just sort of subtly over generation over generation, weaken and disempower white people over time.
	If it was just a straight tyranny and we had no rights and we had no guns and they could just do whatever they wanted, then they could just say, well, you know, white people are, we're not going to, we're going to disadvantage white people going to college.
	We just think it's unfair.
	Out of, you know, equality, we're going to just not accept white people anymore and only accept non-white people.
	That might make people mad, but tough crap.
	It's a tyranny.
	You can't do anything about it.
	And opposing it is a crime.
	That's very efficient, simple, and the outcome is exactly the same as if you go through the rigmarole of what we have to do, which is that you fund activist groups to go to college campuses, to create talking points and hold seminars so that everybody is aligned on the same words they use to portray the vicious hatred of white people as some sort of actually beneficent and loving charity to non-white people.
	And then you have to stage a protest where you have a bunch of paid actors demanding something that you want to do anyway.
	And then you go to the, you know, the school board or whoever controls the college.
	And you have to have advertisers come along and say, well, we're going to withdraw our support if you don't comply to these protesters' demands.
	And then they have to negotiate with the protesters and come up with a solution.
	And eventually, at the end of the day, white people are disadvantaged.
	And it's like, is this really, let's just do the tyranny thing?
	If we're going to just have these horrible policies that nobody wants, just don't even worry about it.
	Don't even worry about doing the protests.
	Don't worry about hiring the crowds.
	Don't worry about writing the op-eds or funding the activist groups, just put your boot on our neck and stomp.
	It's just simpler and cleaner and honestly more respectable that way.
	because everything else is fake.
	All right, welcome back to We had that video of this CEO of Crowds on Demand talking about rejecting an offer to fund the protest.
	I guess it's happening today.
	Let's go to that video now.
	Here's the CEO of Crowds on Demand.
	Let's watch.
	Have the organizers of the July 17th demonstrations approached you?
	Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us.
	And in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million.
	$20 million?
	Correct.
	I mean, this is a nationwide thing, right?
	It's not to say I would have made $20 million personally, but the value of the contract would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the country.
	But personally, I just don't think it's effective.
	So it's not to, I'm not trying to call myself virtuous for rejecting it.
	What I'm saying is I'm saying I'm rejecting it not because I don't want to take the business, but because frankly, this is going to be ineffective.
	It's going to make us all look bad.
	So I asked Swart who exactly offered him the $20 million.
	That, of course, was the natural question, but he says he would not say, says he does not talk about who exactly his clients are, that it would be bad for business.
	And he's been in business for 15 years and he has to turn down a lot of contracts.
	But, you know, interesting, $20 million is a lot of money.
	Brian, quickly, before I let you go, did he explain about why he doesn't want to be involved with Thursday's protests?
	Well, he said he had some concern about violence based on what he's seen in the past, but mostly he just doesn't think that it's productive or really making a difference big picture about how the country feels about President Trump.
	And he says he just didn't want to get involved.
	Publicity firm offered $20 million to recruit for anti-Trump protest.
	So it's pretty hilarious, honestly.
	Because I'll tell you what, I doubt he was the only one they reached out to.
	I doubt he's the only corporation in America doing this type of thing.
	And it's one of those things where it's like, okay.
	So I'm trying to believe any of the protests today.
	I'm just going to assume that every crowd we see on TV today was paid for and is illegitimate.
	Sort of undercuts the legitimacy of everything that you do when you are so obviously trying to cheat.
	And again, you have to think about like the people that we're dealing with are rational actors.
	And that's one thing I think people don't get about conspiracy theories is all the people that we're discussing are human beings who are weighing pros and cons and you're not going to pull something off if you don't think it's worth it.
	One of the problems that I've had with a lot of like 9-11 conspiracy theories is it's like, okay, put yourself in the mindset of the conspirator.
	Are you really going to like risk everything by having like a holographic plane and you have to have the explosions go off at just the right time and you can't have any, it's like there's so much risk.
	Like I just, if it was me, if I was the planner of 9-11, they tasked me, the Mossad headquarters, all right, your job is to take down the World Trade Centers.
	You think I'm going to come up with, we're going to have a holographic machine and that's going to portray and we're going to have CGI established so all the news channels are all going to play our pre-fabricated and that we're going to expect everybody.
	No, I'm going to fly a plane into the building.
	And that's the simplest thing to do.
	No, I'm just going to hijack a plane to fly it into the building.
	It's actually very easy.
	I'll do it remotely.
	Just program it in and it'll just fly right into the building.
	Why would I make it all so much more complicated by doing this type of stuff?
	It just doesn't make any sense.
	And so when you're thinking about this, think about what would be behind a decision to spend $20 million on a single protest.
	These people aren't just in the business of giving away money.
	So what is it that they think it's worth?
	$20 million?
	What sort of return on investment do they think they're getting?
	Or what is it about Trump that even just fabricating the appearance of popular outrage is worth to these people $20 million?
	Who is spending that type of money and what are they getting for it?
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	Alright, we got a lot of news to get to.
	I'm going to open up the phone lines for your calls this hour.
	We've got a lot of videos to get to as well.
	And I think I want to go to a video from Owen Schroyer.
	He published this yesterday evening saying what the hell is wrong with Trump.
	And I think he does a good job of sort of laying out the message that we're all receiving from Trump.
	And I want to expand on it.
	So I probably won't play the whole thing.
	The whole thing's about seven minutes long.
	We'll play about two minutes of it here at the beginning.
	So I Want to sort of expand on and contextualize Trump's move here and who new MAGA is.
	So let's watch.
	Well, by now, you've likely seen President Trump's latest truth social post basically saying the Jeffrey Epstein story is a hoax, and those that are still talking about it are, from yesterday's comments, bad people and now his past supporters.
	So this is like Hillary calling us deplorables.
	This is President Trump basically signaling to his base, his original supporters that have been with him since 2015, that he's moving on.
	At least that's how I take it.
	So the people that have been fighting with him since 2015, the people that were in the streets for him, the people that were in prison for him, he's moved on from us.
	And so now we're his past supporters, we're hoaxers, we're bad people.
	And this Epstein post now is the worst yet.
	Nobody can seem to make any sense of it.
	The only conclusion I can land on at this time is that, again, he's just decided he's moved on from us and he's going to work with the political establishment now.
	He's going to work with the neocons now.
	He's going to be working with the warmongers now.
	And he has a new base of supporters, not his original supporters, but the new MAGA that popped up in 2024 that will just support him no matter what.
	So that's what the message reads to me, aside from just the tone-deaf nature of it with the Epstein story and not being able to read the room properly.
	That's how this message reads to me.
	Now, his approval rating will hit an all-time low by the end of the week.
	This slide began after the Iran strikes, and really that's when things started to go sideways with the Iran strikes and then the Elon Musk fallout over not getting the Doge results and then the big beautiful Bill dirty salesman techniques and now the Epstein, I don't know, cover-up, whatever you want to call it.
	Now his approval rating will be at an all-time low.
	And it all started with the Iran strikes.
	And we saw it all coming.
	You know, we saw it going sideways and we were attacked.
	And so now here we are.
	It's very unfortunate.
	Now we could talk about what could happen in the midterms.
	I think we all kind of see where this is trending, but we'll not talk about that for now.
	I think what's going to start happening is Trump's age and health is going to become a big story.
	And I will just say this.
	He's wearing more makeup than he normally does, including on his hands now.
	He's wearing makeup on his hands for whatever reason.
	So things are just getting weird.
	And I just don't understand why President Trump would do this.
	It doesn't make any sense to anybody.
	Like, do you really want us to start talking about what else is going on in the administration?
	Do you really want us to start talking about Howard Lutnick and his relations with Epstein and being his neighbor and Larry Silverstein and September 11th?
	Like, do you really want us to go there?
	Do you really want us to start talking about Cash Patel and the new FBI jet?
	By the way, you know, I don't scoop other people's stories.
	And who knows, maybe Trump is trying to throw people off the scent of this other story out of D.C. that's about to break big that I know you're trying to bury right now about a certain congressman.
	I know you're trying to bury it.
	It's not going to happen.
	I know for a fact you're not going to be able to buy this story off.
	It will come out.
	And it could implicate Cash Patel and others.
	And it's going to be bad about a very popular congressman.
	And some stuff has started to leak in both of these instances.
	But this is not where it's going to go.
	And the people that would ride or die with you and make sure that these stories don't become the big news and distract from what you're doing, now they will.
	Now these will be the big stories and we'll be forced to cover them because we're not winning.
	And now you've just decided to throw us overboard.
	So I don't know what you expect people to do at this point.
	But it's going to be bad.
	And I would be shocked at this point if Dan Bongino lasts much longer.
	I think Dan Bongino is going to have the same realization that Jen Saki had, which is the longer I stick around this administration, the worse my integrity looks and the harder it's going to be for me to have a career in the political media when I'm done here.
	I think Bongino is going to realize that if he hasn't already, and I'd be stunned if he lasts much longer after all of this.
	However he feels about it or Trump, I just think he's going to realize self-preservation.
	I've got to get out of here.
	Now, I don't regret voting for President Trump.
	I don't regret supporting President Trump.
	And I'll always be grateful for President Trump for freeing innocent people from prison and for pardoning me and all the great things that he's done.
	But I just feel like we've crossed the point of no return now.
	And to me, this latest post is he's over us.
	He's done.
	He doesn't care about our support anymore.
	He's got new people he's wanting to ride with now.
	And it's not us.
	And to do it over the Epstein story is a strange phenomenon.
	But now the fallout is inevitable.
	All right.
	So I don't know if he's getting bad advice.
	You can find it on his ex account, of course.
	I'm just reading the, I'm reading the comments to all this.
	It just says, what the hell is wrong with Trump?
	Owen Schroer 1776.
	But I thought in the beginning of that, you know, he listed some things out.
	And there's just, there's the elephant in the room, right?
	That it's all Israel.
	That all of these things are surrounding Israel.
	All of These inexplicable decisions from Trump are inexplicable precisely because they benefit Israel and not America.
	He talks about Trump's approval rating cratering out, and that that decline first began with the Iran strikes.
	Right?
	And that was the first major thing that infuriated me with Trump.
	I mean, I've been disappointed in most of the entirety of his second administration, but the Iran strikes were really a slap in the face.
	Even though I think we can understand now that it was Israeli pressure that really didn't give him a lot of choice, although it's just impossible to say.
	Because again, it's one of these inexplicable things where it's like, okay, Israel bombed Iran.
	We put out a statement.
	Secretary of State says this was a unilateral thing by Israel.
	We had nothing to do with this.
	And the next day, Trump's going, yeah, actually, this was us.
	We told him to do it because we gave Iran an ultimatum and they didn't meet the deadline.
	So then we did it.
	It's just like, but why even you were scot-free.
	You were in the clear.
	You didn't have to pretend or you didn't have to associate yourselves with this vicious attack against a country that we're not technically at war with.
	So just why?
	So it's like, okay, the Iran strikes.
	And then Owen describes him as new MAGA, this new MAGA coalition that joined up in 2024.
	Well, who is the new MAGA coalition that showed up in 2024?
	Elon Musk was one of them.
	But he came with a whole bunch of other people.
	And I think Elon Musk had his own personal reasons for doing what he did, his own reasons for supporting Trump.
	But for most of the other people, it was entirely a just practical decision as to what's best for Israel.
	They saw that following the Hamas attacks, the Democrat base was deeply anti-Israel, that the Democratic Party would have to temper some of their pro-Israel actions to reflect the attitude of their constituents.
	They ran the calculus and said, A, Trump is going to win.
	I think what really happened is they determined Trump was going to win.
	So they thought, okay, we want to be on the side of the winning side so that it will benefit us.
	This is just an obvious calculus that you'd run, right?
	You got all the AI predictive programming stuff.
	You run the simulation.
	You go, okay, Trump has a 99% chance of winning.
	This is a good bet.
	I'm going to pretend to be MAGA now to get something, to get what I want from it, so that then I can take credit for the victory and claim that Trump owes me something for his victory, even though it was inevitable.
	And my help wasn't necessarily required.
	So all that's happened here is that Israel is in bigger trouble now than it's been in in a long time.
	The American Israeli political movers in this country chose Trump as the horse that they would back.
	They backed him and helped him get into office, even though I think he would have done it anyway.
	And now they're calling due the favors that they're putting down.
	So again, this is the elephant in the room.
	It's the thing that combines all of these different scandals.
	And it's the one thing that Trump seems incapable of handling correctly.
	Now, part of that might be because they've got blackmail on him.
	And not even necessarily blackmail of like him on video doing something bad.
	You know, blackmail could be we're going to crash the economy.
	The blackmail could be, you know, we're going to false flag aircraft carrier.
	Right.
	We're going to get into World War III.
	We're going to drop a nuke on Iran.
	We're going to, I mean, blackmail can be a number of different things.
	It's just a threat.
	It's a threat that's hanging over you.
	And so when Owen is like, you know, Trump is now working with the establishment, the neocons, the warmongers, this new MAGA coalition.
	These are the Zionist Republicans.
	He mentions Howard Luttnick.
	Howard Luttnick is a little bit.
	People were talking about Howard Luttnick yesterday.
	I mentioned it.
	I didn't get into it because I don't think there's as much there as some people are suggesting.
	Like apparently Howard Luttnick had an office in the World Trade Center and didn't go to work that day.
	He happened to be out on September 11th.
	Everybody else in his office died, but he happened to survive.
	He was business partners with lucky Larry Silverstein, who had just purchased the buildings and insured them two times over for terrorist attacks and would have put out billions of dollars because of the asbestos that would have been required.
	And they would have had to tear down the buildings anyway.
	There's a lot of connections there.
	However, there's a detail that makes me doubt howard Lutnick had any foresight into 9-11, which is that his brother died in 9-11, as far as I know.
	Not to laugh at it, but it's like, okay.
	Yeah, it's a little suspicious that he wasn't at work that day.
	A little suspicious that, you know, you make money from it.
	He's friends with lucky Larry Silverstein that seemed to have some foreknowledge of it.
	But his brother died in it.
	So I don't know.
	To me, that sort of goes, well, you think he was willing to let his brother.
	Why wouldn't he tell his brother if he knew it was going to happen?
	So I don't think he necessarily had any bad behavior when it came to 9-11.
	But look at the people like Howard Lutnick and look at everything else that this guy's been involved in.
	Look at the things Peter Thiel has been involved in.
	In fact, I just had a note here because it was Jeffrey.
	I just want to get it right.
	I just want to make sure I'm getting it right.
	It was I believe it was Howard Lutnick.
	I must not have saved it.
	We'll find it here in just a second.
	But it was a, oh, you know what?
	It was a video.
	That's what it was.
	So I'll play the video.
	Clip number, it's James Lee.
	Clip number 12.
	So this is something, you know.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sure of all our places.
	The point I'm trying to make here is that when Owen is expressing confusion and outrage at what Trump's doing, I think we all get that and we understand that.
	But when you look at the unifying aspects of all these different scandals, all these different mistakes, all these different bizarre decisions that they're making, why are they going after students on visas because they wrote anti-Israel stuff?
	That's outrageous, totally, I think, an abuse of power and completely off the mark for what Americans want when we say we want deportations in this country.
	You've got the anti-Semitism monitoring advisors going up everywhere to the extent that it is actually destroying the First Amendment.
	Do you know they just made it illegal in Virginia to display a swastika?
	They just passed a law in Virginia that it is illegal to display a shape, display a symbol.
	Okay, just blatant violation of the First Amendment.
	Impossible to even understand how we got to this point.
	So the First Amendment is being destroyed.
	We're not happy about that.
	We're not happy about the wars being fought for Israel.
	We're not happy about the deportations not being prioritized because they're prioritizing anti-Semitism.
	We're not happy about the Epstein situation entirely evolved around Israel.
	Cash Patel is dating, and I think is engaged to, a woman who is working for Prager University, which is managed by, and the CEO is a member of Israel's Unit 8200, their psychological operations campaign.
	So in other words, Cash Patel has a fiancé who's under the direct command of Mossad.
	That might be a bit of an issue.
	Got people like Howard Luttnick being involved in all these groups.
	Mark Andreessen, Mark Andreessen, however you say his name, he's another one where we were reading about, I can't remember what the business was we were reading about the other day, but you know, just something horrible and tyrannical and globalist and scanning your eye to get online or whatever it is.
	And it's, you know, these are the types of things that Mark Andreessen invests in.
	Peter Thiel, another one, you know, basically created J.D. Vance in his whole career, brought him in.
	And in this clip, James Lee reports that Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and several others, including the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, were invested in an Israeli tech company that was able to get access to real-time surveillance of every microphone, of every cell phone in America.
	Let's watch.
	Okay, so I haven't even told you who funded this thing.
	Who?
	Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel.
	Have you heard of this company called Carbon?
	No.
	Okay, so Carbon is an Israeli-founded tech company that develops real-time surveillance for emergency response systems.
	They market themselves as a next-gen 911 platform with software that gives governments and agencies the ability to access your smartphone, camera, and mic in real time, ostensibly during an emergency call.
	What they do is they integrate biometric tracking, geolocation, and live streaming into a single feed sent directly to law enforcement and intelligence hubs.
	Now you have the Facebook cataloging everything we do, and you also have everything that we say.
	Okay, so I haven't even told you who funded this thing.
	Who?
	Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel.
	There it is.
	You know, what better way to blackmail than being directly in their phones?
	Yeah, I don't know that there is one.
	For emergency response purposes, for your safety.
	It's always for your safety.
	I mean, of course, it always is.
	To source your news where we source ours, head on over to ground.news slash todayish.
	All right, so again, that's James Lee, one of my favorite creators on X. And so, you know, in a word, in a very simple phrase, MAGA has been hijacked by Israel.
	And that's basically where we're at.
	All of this stuff, Epstein, Iran, all of it, it's all just various aspects of that fact.
	Now, whether that's because Trump is aligned with them or being paid to or doesn't even realize that's what's happening, I don't really know.
	I don't really know.
	I don't think that Trump has just always been a double agent.
	I think he's always been America first.
	And I think this has been sort of almost an operation that's been carried out over the last year or more where all these Zionist billionaires who have always been the biggest thorns in the side for Donald Trump.
	I mean, one of the people that I'm talking about here is Mark Zuckerberg, right?
	Mark Zuckerberg, who offered Xi Jinping, offered to let Xi Jinping name his first child, suddenly at the end of last year became MAGA, right?
	Jeff Bezos is MAGA now?
	If you believe this, you're an idiot, right?
	They're just putting on a show for you.
	They just recognize that to achieve their own ends, it's best to have Trump on their side.
	And so they carried out a campaign of ingratiation, bending the knee to Trump, pretending to be on his side, helping him win, with the understanding that they would then be in control of MAGA, and they are.
	So there's no reason to be confused.
	It's all perfectly obvious how this happened.
	And it's all centered around Israel.
	It's about their existential crisis that they're in right now.
	Following their campaign of genocide in Gaza, they realized that Trump was the better horse to back.
	So they co-opted his movement and have now turned all of Trump's interests towards their interest.
	It's in the interest of the American people that the Epstein files be released, but that's not in the interest of Israel.
	So it's not going to happen.
	And the Israeli capture of MAGA is really horrifying and devastating to the last remaining hope that the American people of having somebody with the ability and the funding and everything else to break the system, buck the system, and make the system work for the American people.
	Instead, it's been hijacked.
	It's been twisted.
	It's all these people around Trump.
	It's the Howard Lutnicks, Scott Bessants, the Mark Zuckerbergs, and even the Elon Musks that are either blackmailing him or warping his views.
	So I think Owen is exactly right.
	I just think you need to understand when we say new MAGA, the MAGA that Trump has sided with, we're not talking about MAGA at all.
	We're talking about MIGA.
	We're talking about MIGA.
	We're talking about making Israel great again.
	And that's their movement.
	And it's going to have the establishment support.
	And it's going to be more friendly looking on Fox News.
	It's just not going to do anything for the American people.
	And it doesn't disturb us.
	And we should break free.
	I'm going to open up the headlines for your calls for the second half of this show.
	Number to dial is 1-877-789-2539.
	1877-789-2539.
	We can go through some other headlines here.
	There's more to talk about when it comes to Epstein, but on Taker calls help dictate where the second half of this show goes.
	Actually, this is kind of an interesting.
	I thought this was an interesting post from Reddit.
	It says, change my view.
	Reddit does a fairly good job of pushing men towards the political right.
	I've noticed for years, this user notes, I've noticed for years that Reddit, despite leaning heavily liberal slash progressive in most of its mainstream subreddits, often ends up pushing young men, especially those who feel isolated or frustrated, further towards a political right.
	I don't mean Reddit is intentionally doing this, but the way certain ideas dominate discussions while others are aggressively shut down creates a pipeline effect.
	Here's what I believe happens.
	Here's why I believe this happens.
	One, blatant misingery is tolerated, even celebrated.
	So that would be the opposite of whatever the other word.
	It's hatred of men.
	Misogyny.
	Misogyny is hatred of women.
	Misingery is hatred of men.
	There are threads and comments often upvoted that generalize men as toxic, dangerous, lazy, incompetent, or inherently privileged.
	It's seen as punching up an empowerment, but I don't see how it's useful in any case other than pushing men farther away from your cause.
	If someone dares to push back, even with nuance, they often get downvoted or banned.
	This can create resentment, especially in young men who already feel invisible or villainized.
	I just wonder how a world survives where this type of thing needs to be explained.
	I mean, is it not sort of illustrative to anybody that these people have to be told that blatant hatred of a group will not ingratiate that group to you?
	It's pretty crazy.
	What does this person say there are that they generalize men as toxic, dangerous, lazy, incompetent, or inherently privileged, and that blatant misingery is tolerated.
	And that when they're insulting and demonizing and labeling men all these horrible things, they tell you it's because they're being empowered.
	They're punching up.
	Because you're so powerful and untouchable, it's okay.
	Nothing they do to you is bad.
	They're able to do anything, commit any evil against you, and they're still the good guys because you are man.
	You're ontologically evil.
	You're toxic masculine.
	Again, it's not even necessarily about the masculinity.
	It's about the mindset that we're at war with.
	I mean, do they not know this?
	Do they not realize that just like openly hating men is not going to bring men to your cause?
	I genuinely, I just can't fathom these people.
	Number two, censorship of alternative views.
	While Reddit prides itself on open discourse, what?
	While Reddit prides itself on open discourse, many subs like politics, pics, news, 2x chromosomes, have strict moderation policies that lean left.
	Posts offering centrist or mildly conservative takes often get removed or massively downvoted, which only fuels the sense that right-leaning voices are being silenced rather than debated.
	Now, if you are like new to Reddit, you might think this is just the way that it is.
	And it's especially pernicious because the upvote system gives the illusion of popular will.
	Right?
	What it looks like is that the left-wing stuff just gets more upvotes.
	Upvotes, it's just more popular.
	You post something on the left, you get a lot of upvotes, you shoot to the top of the page, and people really like it.
	You post something from the right, everybody downvotes it, and it goes away.
	That gives the illusion that that is reflective of popular consciousness.
	It's entirely fabricated.
	It's entirely manipulated top-down on Reddit.
	We know this because if you were on Reddit 10 years ago, it was, well, 15 years ago, Reddit was libertarian completely.
	Every day there was a story on the front page about Ron Paul.
	It was like the Ron Paul site.
	Bitcoin started there.
	It was libertarian.
	And then throughout 2016, the Donald was the most popular sub on the site.
	It was always on the front page.
	Every single day, there was just constantly a post from The Donald, meaning it was the most popular.
	It got the most upvotes.
	And it dictated the conversation for a lot of 2016 and was one of the primary generators of the meme warfare that won 2016.
	So when you go to Reddit now and you see how liberal it is and you see how popular all of the socialist progressive posts are, understand that that is in no way natural.
	It is in no way reflective of open discourse and popular will.
	That is the very carefully manufactured outcome of top-down policies implemented after 2016 in direct response to the popularity of the MAGA movement and the power of Reddit to get conservative topics in the mainstream.
	So it's just people actually going to Reddit and operating under the delusion that it's just open discourse and good votes, good posts will get votes and they'll go up to the, like, no, no, it is all completely censored entirely.
	By the way, one of the main people doing the censoring back in 2016 and beyond was Ghislaine Maxwell, of all people.
	Echo chambers that amplify bitterness.
	When men express frustration with societal or gender dynamics, they're told to cope, be better, or shut up.
	They're called incels and misogynists.
	So instead of being heard, they're mocked.
	Hence, they leave or retreat to smaller communities and even some anti-feminist or red-pill adjacent spaces where they feel validated.
	These can sometimes push them further right over time.
	Again, how can you not know this?
	It's just really just illustrating the truly offensive double standard that men, white men, Christians, like the fact that we, I don't know, man.
	Honestly, it's just like, it genuinely makes me feel like dizzy when you really think about how messed up all this is.
	And nobody can refute this guy.
	Everybody knows what this guy is saying is true.
	Right?
	Nobody, no leftist on Reddit actually believes that right-wingers are given a fair chance there and just can't succeed.
	Like they all get, they all know, but they don't care.
	And so you just have to, you like, I don't know.
	The fact that, as this guy points out, there is just vicious hatred against people for their immutable characteristics.
	And even when these people are struggling or need help or just confused and asking questions, they just get abuse.
	They just get insulted and brushed off and dehumanized.
	And so if that was happening in a vacuum, if that was the only thing that's happening, it would still be like, what the hell is going on here?
	Why is this allowed?
	How is this the case?
	But then you understand that that's the situation, not just on Reddit, but on mainstream media, on social media, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
	And you see it when you start looking for it.
	It's more subtle on mainstream media, but there's still this idea, you know, the classic, just example after example.
	Just going, well, he's a man, so we can deal with it.
	So it'd be crazy enough if this was just accepted as normal in this country.
	But then to be constantly told that this is a white supremacist Nazi country where white men in particular have all of the benefit.
	And again, this goes back to what I was saying at the beginning that we need a term for this.
	This disequality, this total inversion of reality.
	That's always, you always start the feedback loop in the middle, right?
	So anyway.
	We'll go to a video.
	I put a video in there, guys.
	Because apparently just earlier this week, Congress held its ninth anti-Semitism hearing.
	Nine anti-Semitism hearings.
	Now, this is at a time when you go to Barnes and Noble and they'll have an entire bookshelf just full of anti-white books, just where the books are called anti-white, right?
	They're just why white people are bad, the trouble with whiteness, why we need to get rid of whiteness, why white people are evil.
	I mean, just entire bookshelves of a category.
	It'll be fantasy, young adult novel, history, anti-white activism, right?
	Nine hearings on anti-Semitism.
	At a time where on Reddit, in social media, and mainstream media, and in schools and classrooms, men, and in particular white men, are just viciously demonized, constantly disregarded, dehumanized, insulted, and expected to feel like it was just, feel like you deserve it.
	You're supposed to actually be happy that you're being demonized because of how you were born.
	And this is what they're talking about at the anti-Semitism hearing.
	Let's watch.
	Combating anti-Semitism, like all forms of hatred and bigotry, must be a moral and civic priority.
	But I'd be remiss if I did not point out that this is our ninth hearing on anti-Semitism in 18 months.
	Also note that since this committee's first anti-Semitism hearing in December 2023, we've not held a single hearing addressing racism, xenophobia, sexism, Islamophobia, or other challenges affecting other student groups on American college campuses.
	Yeah, that's the real problem.
	That's the real problem is that the anti-Semitism hearings aren't focusing on, let me see if I get this right, racism, sexism, misogyny, Islamophobia.
	I imagine homophobia is in there too.
	And this is what I mean where like, how are you, how are you even supposed to deal with this?
	Like, I genuinely, I got nothing.
	I got nothing.
	What are you supposed to do here?
	When you're in a country whose official organs, the corporate organs, the mainstream media, every method of communication is all viciously, openly antagonistic and hateful towards certain identity groups, white men.
	And yet, we are constantly told every single day the narrative that white men are the bad guys, white men are the hateful ones, white men are the bigoted ones, and white men have all the power.
	You want to talk about cognitive dissonance.
	This is beyond comprehension.
	But here we are.
	Nine anti-Semitism hearings in 18 months.
	Why is anti-Semitism rising?
	Depends on where you start.
	Depends on where you start to observe the feedback loop.
	Why are white men going to the right wing?
	Is it because they have a deep-seated hatred of people not like them?
	Or is it because the entire society has decided they're the bad guys, and everywhere they turn, they're met with looks of hatred and disgust and vindictive jealousy.
	And you expect them not to go to the people that simply don't hate them.
	It's just, again, this is just the frustrating part about having to talk about all this stuff is it is not something anybody should have to point out.
	It is just insane.
	And finally in this list, so he talks about the blaze.
	So here's why I think the Reddit and other censored media outlets are pushing men to the right.
	Well, for one, they openly and blatantly hate men.
	So there's that.
	Two, you censor them for disagreeing, even moderately, even nicely, even though you're right, they will still censor you.
	Echo Chamber amplifies bitterness because even when people try to disagree or even just express their own personal view, they're told to shut up, cope.
	Your opinion is invalid and you should accept that.
	And four, progressivism is increasingly associated with double standards.
	Many men see Reddit pushing for empathy, compassion, and equality, but only selectively.
	For example, if a woman slaps a man in a viral video, the top comment is often laughter or justification, flip the genders, and it's outrage.
	These inconsistencies make progressive ideas seem hollow or hypocritical.
	Well, guess what?
	Yeah, they're hollow and hypocritical.
	You know why it seems that way?
	Because it is that way.
	And that maybe is the final conclusion to this post.
	And the final, like, bizarre, nonsensical twist to this story is that the person can write all of this, recognize all of this, and still think that it's just sort of a mistake.
	Never once think about the fact that maybe, just maybe, all of these hateful, vicious, hypocritical, double standards that he himself is describing or she herself is describing are not just like an accident or a mistake or just like a problem with the rhetoric.
	It's incumbent in the morals that you support.
	It's foundational to your ideology that the ideology itself is vicious and hypocritical and bad and wrong and unempathetic and in a word, evil.
	And that's kind of the answer to the question is that this person can see that the progressive ideal and the way that Reddit operates under a leftist paradigm leaves certain groups of people having bigotry posed against them, being told they're evil, being viciously hated.
	He can see exactly how bad this ideology is in practice, in real life, with his own eyes, and yet he never seems to make the connection that that's something bad about that ideology.
	It's always this like confusion that's like, why is it that men are demonized whenever they come here?
	It's because that's the core value of your ideology.
	What are you talking about?
	What are you talking about?
	The thread was deleted by the moderators.
	Not surprised.
	Not surprised.
	After all, it's a Reddit called Change My View.
	Right?
	Because on top of it all, the left cannot meme and cannot exist without right-wing creativity to hijack.
	Right?
	The meme is Steven Crowder, change my mind.
	They're like, oh, that's a good idea.
	We'll call it change my view.
	So it's a little bit different.
	Just creatively bankrupt, hateful, vicious, short-sighted, hypocritical, feminine, weak.
	And people actually see this and they can tell all of these things.
	And then the outcome of this, their ultimate conclusion is like, we just need better messaging.
	You know, we just need to, like, in their minds, like, it's okay that all this is happening.
	The only reason it's bad, the only reason that they actually have objections to any of these things, does this make sense to you?
	They make this list of horrible things that Reddit does to men, but they aren't actually mad about those things.
	The only reason they don't like them is because they think it's going to push men to the right.
	That's all they really care about.
	They want to be able to mistreat men and have men stay with them.
	And if they could do that, if they could abuse men, demonize men, silence men, and still have men vote Democrat, that would be, they'd have their cake and eat it too.
	They're only against these things, not because they have a principled stance against these things, which they constantly profess to have, constantly.
	We're the empathetic ones.
	We're the loving ones.
	But they just clearly aren't.
	So it's not that they are actually sincere.
	They're going, hey, we say everybody deserves to be heard.
	That includes these guys.
	I don't care what color their skin is.
	When we say everyone, we mean everyone.
	They don't care.
	They don't actually believe that.
	They are just mad that men aren't accepting the abuse.
	They're mad that their fellow communists are being a little bit too blatant with what they believe.
	You guys need to trick people more.
	You need to pretend to be nicer.
	So people can't see through our facade of friendliness.
	I'm telling you, this is what they say.
	To be clear, I don't believe Reddit is evil or entirely responsible for people's ideological shifts, but I do believe it contributes more than it realizes to the alienation of young men and ironically ends up pushing them towards the very side it mocks.
	Nobody has no objection to the way the men are treated, just an objection to the fact that it's pushing men to the right.
	Again, it's just another illustration of what we're up against, who these people are, why we're in the situation that we're in, and why it's so difficult to get out of it.
	Because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, these people, the people that this guy was talking about in this post, are like energized and driven and motivated by their hatred.
	They thrive on it.
	They live on it.
	They wake up in the morning eager to find out whose lives they're destroying next.
	And I'm not just saying that.
	We've shown you the clips before.
	I mean, people who, saw one guy, a comedian guy, I can't remember his name right now, but he got canceled by Me Too, ironically, because he had been canceling people with Me Too.
	And he describes, he's like, yeah, you wake up every morning and it's like, who we canceling today?
	Who made a mistake in their past that we can exploit to destroy their lives?
	And they have this delusion.
	They think they're fighting a war.
	And he says he's like, but we all, but both sides do that.
	And we have to remind them, we don't do that.
	No, we don't do that.
	The right wing doesn't do that.
	The young men that are like trying to engage in conversation that are going, hey, you know, I think you're being a little misogynistic here.
	And if we're all about equality, they aren't motivated by hate.
	They aren't out to destroy you.
	They don't even want politics to be a part of their lives.
	They want to watch sports and have a family and just hang out.
	Like they don't care.
	And like, that's the issue is that you've got half the population that thinks they're in a war, that is acting like they're in a war, that is waging war on the other half of the population that just that doesn't have hate in their heart, that isn't motivated or energized.
	It drains us to have to interact with you people.
	It's exhausting having to debunk your lies or point out your hypocrisies.
	We don't want to do this.
	We don't have time or energy for it.
	We just want you to go away so we can just be normal.
	So, you know, that's the issue is that you got all these young men out there that are being abused and are falling into like Stockholm syndrome where they're just going, if I just capitulate, will you let me play video games?
	If I just admit that I'm bad and my skin is bad, if I promise to castrate myself and never have any offspring, if I just go extinct, will you just leave me alone?
	Will you just stop calling me names?
	Will you stop hating me?
	We don't want to be hated.
	We don't hate you.
	It hurts when you go hate somebody and they hate you.
	And you want to do something to stop them from hating you because you're a good person.
	They're bitches.
	Hypocritical.
	You need to recognize that, not try to get their permission.
	Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is the American Journal.
	We're going to take your calls this segment.
	Just before we do, the music...
	I have a musical treat for everybody.
	I'm not sure what this kid's name is.
	I gotta find it, though.
	Give him credit.
	Sweeping the nation, the new pop hit called The List.
	Let's watch.
	Be an optimist, not a pessimist.
	If you wish to persist, it's probably best to forget that list.
	And what were we talking about?
	I don't remember.
	But I can sleep a lot better tonight.
	Yeah, like it just go along.
	There's 10,000 hours of sunshine and flowers.
	And nobody doing a damn thing wrong.
	Hear, no C, no damn fun G, no cash to tell you what I wouldn't need to be sweating with the bulging eyes.
	Tell me them fellas ain't compromised.
	We ain't implicated.
	Anybody on the fix this fellow?
	Just how far the folks in charge go to get the status quo.
	So when the warbell rings, the song that they'll sing is a song that we well know.
	So it's up to four I go.
	They said he's going to fix it, but now they're all complicit.
	They owe, they owe, they owe, they owe, they owe.
	So it's off to war we go.
	It's in the poor of the war.
	What else are we for?
	They owe, they owe, they owe, they owe.
	Ah, That was incredible.
	Jesse Wells.
	Jesse Wells on TikTok.
	J-E-S-S-E-W-E-L-L-E-S.
	That's Jesse Wells with an E-S on the end of Wells.
	That was great.
	That was so good.
	I got to find more of this guy's stuff.
	That was just awesome.
	All right.
	Out to your phone calls now.
	We'll go first to Dennis in Florida.
	Thank you for calling in.
	Dennis, you're on the air.
	Thanks, Harrison.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you again.
	I've talked to you a couple of times before, and I'm the guy that's behind the plans for New America and the Global Republic, 10 Americas based on the original U.S. Constitution.
	But I do have to say that I was running for president in 2016 As a libertarian, and I used it's time to make America great again, less evil rule in the bottom of my campaign speech.
	And I dropped out to support Trump, and sure enough, right away, they started using MAGA, and that came from me, guys.
	So it's time that I come on the show now.
	You've got to have me on.
	Well, you're on right now.
	I mean, I know Ronald Reagan used Make America Great Again in the 80s as one of his statements.
	Yeah, so it's a great senatorial campaign.
	So, but what do you think is happening with the Trump administration?
	I mean, how has it gone so far off the rails?
	Well, I think that he's compromised, unfortunately.
	Something's gone wrong with Epstein.
	We all know that that's the center of, that's the heart of the hydra, that they control the world governments and science through that mechanism of blackmail, through sexual misbehavior, however you want to term it.
	So we're caught in this conundrum and we have to unite now, guys.
	Everyone knows who I am.
	I had college scores at six, but what they don't know is I'm very devout to Christ.
	It's time for us to come together now, guys.
	This is it.
	I'm here to do this.
	We make the 10 Americas now based on the original U.S. Constitution.
	The elite can have Antarctica.
	The plans that I have cover everything and will pay for everything.
	We're going to use bonds to cover our debt and asteroid mining to back the bonds.
	We'll have a new world dollar that's going to, that'll actually work.
	We'll be able to connect the dots forward and backward with my plans.
	Enough of this bullshit with digital currency that'll just shut down when the electricity fails.
	They're trying to kill us.
	We know what they're doing.
	The jig is up.
	So now we unite.
	The jig is up.
	I don't know, man.
	I mean, we need something drastic.
	Again, just have me on the show, Harrison.
	I would like you to end it.
	I'm sure right now.
	All right.
	Thank you for the call today.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	The Pope is now calling for an immediate ceasefire after Israel struck the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing two and injuring several others.
	An Israeli strike on Gaza's only Catholic church killed two people on July 17th, according to the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem.
	on.
	The Israeli military stated it does not target religious sites and is investigating the incident.
	Oh, well, good.
	Oh, well, okay, then.
	One of the things, isn't it?
	They say they don't target religious institutions every time they bomb a religious institution.
	Isn't that amazing?
	So there's one Catholic church in Gaza.
	Apparently, the Pope used to call them every day during the bombardment of Gaza.
	And apparently the priest that Pope Francis would speak to, so it's from Muhammad Shahada, Israel just bombed the very Gazan church.
	Pope Francis used to call daily during the genocide.
	They injured the very priest, Gabriel Romanelli, who used to update the Pope on the situation.
	Two churchgoers were killed, six wounded.
	This comes after last week when Israel firebombed one of the oldest churches in existence, a place where Jesus himself ministered.
	Israel strikes in Damascus.
	Assyrian forces clash with Druze groups as that conflict continues.
	And Israel continues to just viciously attack everyone around them with no end in sight, including the countries like Syria, who were overthrown by a partnership between NATO, Israel, and Turkey.
	It's now been doing everything it possibly can to help Israel, including allowing it to take over and militarize the Golan Heights.
	But it's just not enough.
	But it's not quite enough.
	And so now Damascus is being bombed.
	This would be like us.
	This would be like America bombing the Canadian Parliament building.
	It's like, we're not enemies.
	We're not at war.
	But we are neighbors.
	So.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, we actually.
	Oh, this is an older story.
	Is this updated today?
	Okay, I was kind of confused at this.
	New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites.
	One of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States last month was mostly destroyed, setting work back significantly.
	But two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months if Iran wants it.
	According to a recent U.S. assessment of the destruction caused by the military operation, five current and former U.S. officials familiar with the assessment told NBC News.
	The assessment, part of Trump's administration's ongoing effort to determine the status of Iran's nuclear program since the facilities were struck, was briefed to some U.S. lawmakers, Defense Department officials, and allied countries in recent days for what those people said.
	And again, this is not a surprise.
	We've been saying this since the day it happened.
	And it wasn't even necessarily about the nuke sites, whether they were hit or not, even though we told you that they weren't, they weren't destroyed, material had been moved, it had all been orchestrated and coordinated and been a big show.
	But see, they hadn't overthrown the Iranian regime and installed a puppet, so they're not done.
	That's really as simple as it is.
	So they have a goal, which is to utterly decapitate Iran and have it become Syria 2.0 or be put under the control of the American puppet.
	I just came up with a brilliant idea.
	Speaking of Iran.
	What's your brilliant idea?
	We just disguise all the nuclear sites as churches.
	There you go.
	And then they can get bombed.
	That could work.
	We get two birds stoned at the same time.
	I could see it.
	Yeah, no, it turns out it's a lot easier to destroy churches than nuclear sites.
	Who knew?
	So that's their ultimate goal.
	So their ultimate goal is to eradicate the Iranian leadership and turn Iran into Syria or Gaza 2.0 or whatever.
	But they didn't do that.
	They didn't achieve that.
	So obviously they have to keep going.
	They're not going to stop.
	They're not going to slow down.
	They don't actually want peace.
	They want destruction.
	They want the Greater Israel Project.
	They want World War III.
	And so they're going to have to keep attacking.
	Well, you can't just attack without an excuse.
	So they're going to need an excuse.
	So therefore, the nukesites didn't get destroyed.
	You see what I mean?
	We could tell the nukesites didn't get destroyed because the powers that be need an excuse to go to war, and that's the excuse that they're going to use.
	None of this is a surprise.
	U.S. NBC News has also learned the U.S. Central Command has developed a much more comprehensive plan to strike Iran.
	That would have involved hitting three additional sites in an operation that would have stretched over several weeks instead of a single night, according to current U.S. official and two former U.S. officials.
	President Trump was briefed on that plan, but it was rejected because it was at odds with his foreign policy instincts to extract the United States from conflicts abroad, not dig deeper into them, as well as possibility of a high number of catch tees on both sides, both of the current officials and one of the former officials said.
	So, I mean, that's good news.
	And, you know, obviously that would have been the plan that they were pushing for.
	Obviously, Israel wanted America involved against Iran in a very big way.
	And it would have been a very different situation if we had weeks of bombing on Iran rather than a single bombing campaign that we didn't even find out about until it was already over.
	So good on Trump not getting us involved in a quagmire in the Middle East.
	Still doesn't mean I'm happy with his bombing of Iran.
	But we knew from the beginning that the whole point was to get America involved in a war with Iran in a very real way, not just with an offhanded bombing one time.
	And so since they didn't achieve that, they're going to have to go for it a different way.
	So obviously they're going to need there to be nuclear material.
	So that's what's being reported now.
	I hope everybody understands that.
	We'll go out to your calls again.
	I don't know if there's any more information in this article was just delivered to me.
	The U.S. strikes targeted three enrichment sites, Fordo, Natants, and Isfahan.
	U.S. officials believe the attack on Fordo, which has long been viewed as a critical component of Iran's nuclear ambitions, was successful in setting back Iranian enrichment capabilities by as much as two years.
	Honestly, who cares?
	It's not about the nuclear sites, and it never was.
	So they're going to come up with whatever they need to say to get us into war.
	The point is war, not the nuclear sites.
	Cut to your calls now.
	Let's go to Matt in Ohio on line three as a unique take on the Epstein debacle.
	Debacle, go ahead.
	You're on the air.
	Matt in Ohio.
	Good.
	How are you doing?
	Good.
	Thank you.
	Is my audio good?
	You sound all right.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	First of all, I actually looked at it with our Austin's razor making the least amount of assumptions.
	So in my mind, that leads me to there's either intelligence that Trump can't speak, like can't let the world know, and no one's talking about, you know, what is the CIA, and no one's asked Tulsi to, you know, gather information.
	And what if, you know, not going out too conspiratorial here, but what if what's really going on and the worst of it is something that would shake up the foundation, like, you know, satanic ritualistic and child, you know, child, you know, as bad as, you know, what is obvious, you know, child titling and whatnot, that's bad enough.
	And who else is involved?
	We have strong indications that Israeli intelligence has something to do with it.
	You know, somebody actually put a question for that made me like, I don't know, it made me rethink the whole thing.
	Here's a question for parents out there.
	And, you know, you could incorporate it to whatever your relationship status is.
	But would you, if you could make a deal, have the Epstein, everything about the Epstein list and its operations uncovered and made public, it would all be made public.
	It would all be an open book for everybody so you'd be absolutely guaranteed to be the real information.
	But you had to sacrifice your kids.
	Would you do it?
	I wouldn't.
	Sorry.
	As much as I understand the implications of Epstein, my kids are more important to me.
	Sorry.
	That's just how it is.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	So I don't know.
	That put it in a perspective for me.
	Again, I'm not saying that's necessarily what's happening, but it's probably something like that.
	Right?
	It's probably like, yeah, you can release the documents, Trump.
	But then we're going to nuke Iran, you know, or then we're going to kill Trump.
	Maybe they'll just kill him.
	But, you know, that is why this is why blackmail works.
	This is why this intimidation works because you're dealing with ruthless, violent intelligence agents who aren't just willing to start wars.
	They literally have.
	They're doing it right now.
	Okay?
	So that to me has been one of The only things that's made me sort of go, maybe Trump's in more of a difficult position than we give him credit for.
	And maybe it's not so easy to make this decision.
	Of course, I want the Epstein files released.
	In a moment, of course, I would.
	If it meant that my kids were sacrificed for it, hell no.
	I don't know what the situation is with Trump, but even if it's not a threat, even if it's not blackmail, if the situation is, hey, you release the Epstein files and all these businesses are going to go down and all these banks are going to go down, all the CEOs of all these companies are going to go down and the economy is going to crash and that's going to cause widespread starvation and devastation.
	And there could be a situation where he's weighing the pros and cons and he's going, yeah, I want to put the list out, but look at what it would cause.
	Look at the damage it would have.
	And I do think there's a case to be made that you got to weigh the pros and cons.
	And what I'm saying here is not even contradictory to anything that I've said before, because as I've said, I started the show on Monday talking about how they could have handled this.
	Because it's not even necessarily about the fact that they're not releasing the list.
	It is the abysmal way that they're handling this.
	There are ways to do it.
	There are ways to release what you can about Epstein, downplay it a little bit, explain to people why it can't be released.
	As I've done on this show multiple times, there would be ways to do it.
	It's not even necessarily that it's like, hey, he's the president.
	He's having to make difficult decisions and this is the decision that he made and we're all outraged.
	It's the fact that he's saying that it doesn't exist, that they're gaslighting us and telling us this is a democratic hoax.
	It's the outrageous lies that they're telling in an effort to get away with not releasing the list that is really the thing that matters here.
	I thought that was an interesting question.
	People saying, hey, you're so willing to be cavalier about releasing the list.
	What if in exchange, you know, a loved one of yours had to pay the ultimate price?
	Suddenly the list isn't all that important when you're talking about human lives.
	I don't know.
	So I don't know.
	But that question did make me think a little bit.
	Let's go to James in Oregon because he, I think, is reflecting what I was just talking about in terms of the blackmail or de facto blackmail that Israel is holding over Trump's head.
	Go ahead, James.
	You're on the air.
	Hey, Erison, good morning.
	Howdy.
	And I just thought that, you know, if Israel ran by the Mossad and, you know, if Epstein was one of their agents and probably have everyone in their government, their back pocket on that blackmail list.
	And if they released it, I'm sure Israel wouldn't want that.
	So they'd probably threaten Trump with launching nukes in every direction they could think of.
	That's the only option that makes sense to me why they wouldn't release it.
	They almost like they have guns at their head.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	I completely agree.
	Israel holding a World War III over the head of Trump or economic collapse, right?
	I mean, that could be the thing.
	I mean, all these, all the, you know, the Fed and the BlackRock, I mean, all these guys are die-hard Zionists who are willing to use their power to achieve their end.
	So, you know.
	I assume the Rothschilds owned Israel anyway, and that they would just flip the board over if the game wasn't working in their favor.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Pretty much.
	Thank you for the call, James.
	Let's go to Daryl in North Carolina talking about some of the weird weather situations around the globe.
	Go ahead, Daryl.
	You're on the air.
	Hey, I think you guys are right on target about that Zionist thing.
	They seem to be the strongest mafia right now.
	And we are aware of the floods that have happened in this country, but dude, how about this?
	Within the last week and a half, Beijing, Moscow, and New York City have been hit with once-in-a-lifetime floods that happen the same thing.
	They get a month's worth of rain in two hours.
	So what I'm thinking is, who's dominating right now?
	Really, the Israelis, the Zionists.
	They're dominating not just the Middle East, but our own governments, not here, but also in Europe.
	And what if they're the ones that control these weather weapons?
	Because if China, Russia, and us are getting hit at the same time, to me, that's somebody saying, hey, look what we got.
	Look what we can do at any time.
	Now let's negotiate.
	Hmm.
	It's an interesting thought.
	I didn't know about the floods in Moscow.
	Three days ago.
	I always have a hard time determining whether what we're experiencing is actually unique or whether it's just being reported on a lot.
	I've told the story before, like you think there's a lot of plane crashes happening right now, but then you can go back and look at lists on Wikipedia and it's like, wait, 45 planes crashed in 2019?
	I didn't hear about any one of those.
	So it's like, okay, it does seem right now there's flooding in New Mexico.
	Obviously, the flooding in Texas is completely insane.
	There's flooding in North Carolina.
	There's flooding in New York with the subways filling up.
	I guess there's flooding in Beijing and Moscow.
	I hadn't heard of that.
	Is this, it seems unique.
	This seems unprecedented.
	This seems like out of the ordinary, but is it?
	I don't really know.
	I don't really know if it is.
	Now, that being said, that does remind me of something that I wanted to mention earlier when we were talking about the palisades that burned down in California being rebuilt to be low-income housing in a smart city and how the same thing happened in Lahaina.
	Whether it's weather or wars, this has become a very useful technique and tactic for the globalists, where they are having trouble getting their fingerholds or getting their footholds in some of these communities that they want to take over and reimagine in their own design.
	And so they just destroy them.
	And there's a very distinct similarity between the way this happens with weather and the way this happens with war.
	So Senate bill that would have turned Lost Palisades homes into affordable housing put on pause.
	That's good.
	Apparently the outrage From people figuring out what they were trying to do has caused them to pause that policy.
	But we'll see.
	But when you look at what people say about the wars that are being waged around right now, they have the same response as they do to natural disasters.
	Right?
	You've got palisades burning down, and they go, oh, this is a great opportunity to build a smart city.
	The Lahaina burning down.
	Well, what a great opportunity we have to rezone this into low income.
	And they do exactly the same in the wars that they wage.
	So I just searched Ukraine's smart city, Gaza smart city, Ukraine's capacity for reconstruction to advance with World Bank support.
	The World Bank announced a $750 million support package through supporting reconstruction through smart fiscal governance that aims to assist the government of Ukraine in improving its public investment management system at the central level and enhancing public financial management and fiscal government at local and regional levels.
	And we've talked about this before.
	You've got the World Bank, Goldman Sachs, and a number of other globalist institutions that are announcing their plans for Ukraine rebuilding once it's all destroyed.
	First, they'll destroy it, and then they'll rebuild it.
	Of course, all the people there will be killed, so they'll have to import a bunch of people.
	So they'll import a bunch of foreigners.
	They'll have a very diverse and eclectic population, all under the control of a centralized digital smartphone-based government for the profit of Goldman Sachs and under the direction of the World Bank.
	And they're doing the same thing in Gaza.
	So in a very real way, this is a very simple and very easily, easy to understand process, attack pattern that the globalists go through.
	It was funny because I forgot how my wife asked it yesterday, but obviously, you know, conspiracy theories about, especially things like the Texas floods are running rampant.
	And my wife is like, so are they doing that?
	I can't remember how she asked it.
	She was like, are they just, you know, would they just do this to like punish people they don't like?
	Like when it comes to weather weapons, why would they use weather weapons the way that they're using them?
	It's just to hurt people because they think Trump supporters live in the country, so they're destroying the country.
	And I said, no, it's to clear out land for redevelopment into low-income housing in smart cities.
	She was just like, oh, right.
	Right?
	It's like no explanation needed.
	It's like, it just makes perfect sense.
	It just clicks, right?
	It's like, why, they burned down this place?
	It's like, well, they want to buy the land cheap, so they're destroying the land to buy it up cheap to rebuild it as low-income, you know, single, multifamily units and, you know, Section 8 housing for their smart city agenda.
	It's like, oh, right.
	Okay.
	That makes perfect sense.
	No further elaboration necessary.
	Perfectly understandable.
	Why and how they're doing this.
	The state and a smartphone are how Zelensky's digital dream is coming true.
	Amid nine years of war and over 365 days of ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government has managed to implement significant digital reforms that have transformed the country's economy, governance, and public services.
	Moreover, all these efforts have made Ukraine one of the global leaders in digitization process speed.
	It was the first country in the world to officially recognize a digital ID as a legal document and the first country to implement a digital COVID-19 certificate in Europe, ranked sixth in Europe for open data and took fourth place in the number of qualified IT specialists.
	So they're going to rebuild Ukraine as a smart country in line with the C40 cities and the 15-minute zones, ULES restrictions like they have in the UK.
	And they're going to do the same thing to Gaza.
	Building Gaza as a smart city, a vision for peace and prosperity was published in June.
	A vision rooted in hope.
	Rebuilding Gaza as a smart city is more than a technological project.
	It's a symbol of hope.
	It's a commitment to give people access to clean energy, digital services, safe and modern homes, efficient transport, smart schools, hospitals, and most importantly, a chance at dignified life.
	Well, you could just stop killing them.
	You could do that.
	But suffice it to say, you know, whether this is the intention of the people starting these catastrophes or whether this is just opportunistic seizing of an opening by the powers that be, it's a pretty well-established pattern at this point that you have some sort of disaster, a war, a man-made catastrophe, or a natural, so-called natural disaster.
	It destroys huge portions of the land, and they then claim that land to build smart cities and digitize from the ground up.
	It could just be a coincidence.
	Could just be opportunism.
	Or it could be the Hegelian dialectic at work.
	Guess whether you believe in conspiracies or not.
	Let's go to William in Dallas.
	William in Dallas, thanks for calling in.
	You're on the air with an allegory for us about Trump.
	Go ahead, William.
	Good morning.
	Well, everyone knows the Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring.
	And in the beginning of the movie, Bilbo gives a speech.
	And just like Trump, he welcomes everyone, thanks everyone.
	And then he surprises everyone by saying, I know all of you half as well as I like, but I like half of you half as well as you deserve.
	And the crowd just goes silent.
	And everyone's just wondering what the world is going on.
	And that's where we're at right now.
	And Alex Jones's the Gandalfs of the world are saying, we're not trying to rob you.
	We're trying to help you.
	And thank God we have someone like that.
	And that's how the American people feel.
	And the next generation is going to pick up the torch.
	And we're going to go all the way to Mount Doom and destroy this new world order.
	And it's probably going to be Christ himself who does that.
	But we're going to have to carry the torch until that moment arises.
	Yeah, that is really funny.
	And in the books, it's even more, you know, it explains it even more where Gandalf actually casts a spell, right?
	When he realizes what Bilbo's doing when he's about to disappear by putting the ring on.
	And he casts a spell.
	So there's like a flash of light.
	And so people think, oh, this was just, you know, an illusion, a magic trick.
	So they don't know that he actually went invisible because Gandalf doesn't want the knowledge of the ring to get out.
	I don't know.
	I think there's something there.
	There's something to that of, yeah, Trump acting recklessly and maybe not understanding the powers that he's up against and the Gandalfs of the Alex Joneses of the world like Gandalf trying to help him while also defeat him in a way or not defeat him, but just get him on the right path, get him out of his delusion that he seems to be operating under.
	I don't know, man.
	It's really inexplicable.
	It really is.
	I don't understand what Trump thinks he's doing here.
	And he's only making it worse with every iteration.
	And it's not getting any clearer and it's not going away.
	And we're certainly not going to drop it.
	And now the Democrats are on it.
	Now the Democrats are jumping on the meat and having a feeding frenzy.
	So it just completely created his own problem from whole cloth.
	Never mind.
	We get back on the menu, boys.
	All right.
	Maybe we need a king.
	Thank you very much for that, William.
	Let's go to Mitch and Cape Cod now.
	Go ahead.
	Mitch, you're on the air.
	Hey, Harrison, are we coming through all right?
	Yes, sir.
	Are you on the ocean right now?
	I'm on the back of a boat, Harrison.
	I'm on the lobster boat today.
	I just wanted to let you guys know that your Vestamarine blue product is absolutely unbelievable.
	I've been working 18, 20 hours today.
	I had to put a drop in my Red Bull yesterday, but boy, that's the first time I've had to do that.
	And I'll tell you what, it really starts the fire up.
	I want to talk to you about drops in these Epstein files.
	I mean, it's pretty clear that that first file we got, you know, that that leak on Twitter or Reddit, wherever anyone saw it, you know, that was probably the real list, right?
	I mean, all those celebrities and everything.
	Why was that denied so far?
	You know, there have been a couple of lists that have come out and black books that have been published and this sort of thing.
	So, you know, it's not even really necessarily about the client list.
	It's more about the evidence that was collected.
	It's the terabytes of information and the videos and the photos and the communications that we're talking about.
	So there have been lists that were put out.
	Lists don't really prove anything.
	I mean, everybody in politics has a client list.
	Everybody, everybody, everybody.
	My aunt was a fundraiser for the Republicans for years.
	She hasn't done in like 20 years.
	But at one point, I was helping her to reorganize her office.
	I found her little black book, her client list.
	And it's cool because it's like, oh, look, it's the home addresses of every living president.
	Oh, look, it's all of the billionaires that have ever donated to Republicans.
	So lists aren't necessarily, I mean, it's not a conviction having a list.
	Being on a list is not necessarily indicative of anything bad.
	It's all of the information, all of the evidence, all of the collected data and documents and videos and photos and communications and phone calls and text messages and emails that went around and the financial networks that funded him and paid for all of his stuff.
	That's the stuff that we want.
	The list of clients is not as informative as we would like.
	That's what I'd say about that.
	What's your take there, Mitch?
	Yeah, I'd be nice to see those videos, but I don't think we're ever going to see anything like that.
	I mean, I think he's in with them, you know, Zionism and everything.
	I think, you know, everyone, you know, all my friends voted for him.
	Everyone's kind of regretting it.
	I hope we see a change here.
	I hope he does something because, you know, he's such an absolute hammer.
	I mean, his press conferences and everything.
	And, you know, shout out to Caroline by the, you know, she's just unbelievable.
	I mean, he could have asked for a better press secretary.
	He's doing great work, Harrison.
	You're getting better every day, man.
	Your show's on, but keep it up.
	Oh, thank you, man.
	And I'm jealous of you living in Cape Cod.
	Where in Cape Cod are you, if you don't mind me asking?
	Go eat a lobster.
	I'm right at the bridge.
	Right at the bridge.
	I have family in Orleans.
	It's a very, very, very beautiful part of the country.
	Thank you for the call, Mitch, and stay safe out there.
	Let's go to Kevin in Kentucky now.
	Wants to talk about the Epstein files.
	Go ahead, Kevin.
	You're on the air.
	Yeah, can you hear me okay?
	I can hear you fine.
	Okay, so I think really the Epstein Operation 2.0 is pretty much over, and I think it's going just like they wanted it to.
	I mean, it kind of peed in the pool.
	So basically at this point, anything they release, I mean, here's the credible news.
	Are we going to really believe anything Pam Bondi releases or cash Patel?
	I mean, what are we really going to believe?
	It's kind of like we already know the truth.
	And unfortunately, for the victims, we have to kind of roll with that because they're never going to really give us the meat and potatoes, I don't believe.
	And the silver lining to that is I think it's exposing Israel, really, to how our government is controlled.
	So it is kind of, it's kind of a check in the belt buckle on the InfoWar.
	It's good for us in the knowledge point, but I don't think we're ever going to get anything.
	And Trump, he's a man, and that's what he is.
	And he has grandkids and kids and assets that, you know, he's got to be looking after too.
	And just looking at him, he looks beat down anymore when I've seen.
	So there's something that's gotten to him.
	I'm sure of it.
	But like I said, I mean, even if they release the truth, are we really going to believe it based on who it's coming from?
	No, That's exactly right.
	I believe I made that point Monday that, like, and we're never going to get a list, and anything that we got would be manufactured for a certain reason.
	Like, I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with a list of Epstein's clients and it's all anti-Israel activists, right?
	They're like, ah, gee, it turns out Mahmoud Khalil or whatever that guy's name is, he was on the Epstein list.
	And Zohar, Mamdani, he's on the Epstein list.
	Gee, what do you know?
	Turns out we have to go around and arrest all the anti-Israel people because they were on the Epstein list.
	Yeah, we're not getting the Epstein list.
	We're never going to get the Epstein list.
	But you're right.
	It's not even about the Epstein list.
	It's about whether or not we're in control of our country or if another country is.
	Whether elite people in this country can be protected, even if they're pedophiles and rapists and kidnappers, or whether we have the rule of law, whether nobody is above the law or whether, well, a certain type of person is above the law, actually.
	And we will, you know, bend, we will go to the ends of the earth and we will destroy our own country to protect them from ever being held to account for their activities.
	I think you're exactly right.
	I don't have a lot of hope that we'll get anything.
	Anything that we do get, I won't trust.
	What I would trust would be people going to jail.
	I think Owen said this on the show yesterday.
	I saw a post.
	I didn't watch the video of it, but I agree with the sentiment of the only hope for Trump now is some high-profile arrests.
	A lot of them.
	A lot of high-profile arrests.
	I mean, if by the end of the year, I'd settle with three.
	If we could have three high-profile arrests of the people that we know have committed crimes against humanity, I'd be willing to stay on the Trump train.
	That being said, I don't know how you can regret your vote for Trump.
	I mean, what's happening with Epstein is just baffling and confusing, mostly because Trump was the one pushing Epstein during the campaign.
	I mean, he's on video saying we'll release the documents.
	He's the one that put Cash Protel and Dan Bongino in charge.
	They're the ones who said the whole reason they were going was to release this information.
	So this isn't even like a, we told you so.
	It's like Trump was the one that was pushing Epstein.
	He's the one that's bungled all of this.
	This is inexplicable.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	The way he handled Iran turns out to have been pretty masterful.
	You have to admit, I don't think anybody out there was as, you know, heartbroken or, you know, felt as betrayed or as critical as I was of Trump's Iranian attack.
	But yeah, I got to admit, it didn't spiral into wider war.
	It was what it took at that point to stop the outbreak of that conflict.
	You had Israel bombing it for weeks on end.
	You know, Trump put an end to that.
	You got to give him credit for that.
	So, you know, I'm not, I think it's kind of ridiculous to say like Trump is doing everything that Israel wants him to, but clearly they have a stranglehold.
	Clearly, the Zepstein thing is a major wedge issue that's exposing more and more of that.
	But I don't know how you can regret your vote for Trump.
	I mean, is there any world where Kamala Harris is putting us in any better situation?
	I mean, would we not say what you want about the lack of mass deportations?
	Some numbers show that the number of illegal immigrants is actually significantly lower.
	Like millions of people have left this country.
	Some of them have deported.
	A lot of them have self-deported.
	That's actually been a pretty successful movement.
	Regardless, if Kamala Harris was in charge, we wouldn't have deported anybody, and there'd be a million more people in our country in the last six months, at least 2 million maybe, depending on how rapidly they could get in here.
	And then there's the pardoning of the January 6ers, of course, on top of that.
	The tariffs are having success as well.
	Manufacturing is returning to America from Coca-Cola to Dell to all the, you know, Honda and all these big corporations investing billions and billions of dollars in American manufacturing to get around the tariffs.
	And they say, yeah, it's the tariffs that are making us do this.
	Coke putting cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
	They say this is to get around the tariffs to Mexico.
	So I don't know how you can regret voting for Trump or act like, you know, what Trump is doing now is something that could have been predicted.
	But it still doesn't mean it's not disappointing.
	It doesn't mean it's not, you know, failing to live up to what he needs to get done.
	And that maybe to me is the most inexplicable thing about it is that he knows, and we all know, we have Trump's back.
	We want him to destroy the system.
	We want him to put our enemies in prison.
	We need him to put our enemies in prison.
	We need him to get vengeance on these people, to hold them to account for their crimes, for the damage they've done to our country and us personally.
	So like, you know, so what is he scared of?
	What power outweighs 77 heavily armed American patriots?
	The pager, a golden pager Netanyahu gave him?
	Like, it just doesn't make any sense because Trump could literally come out and say, he could show us, he could say, here's me on the island with Epstein with kids.
	He could say, it's true.
	I'm in the files.
	I'm on the video.
	I was tricked by Jeffrey Epstein into sleeping with a girl I thought was 19.
	She turned out to be 16.
	And they've been holding this over my head.
	And I'm not going to let them anymore.
	And I regret it.
	And I feel terrible.
	And I've done everything I can to, you know, help the girl out now.
	It was, I was an idiot.
	And I fell for a trap.
	And they've been using it to distort.
	But you know what?
	This isn't about me.
	And if my reputation has to go down in flames, that's a small price to pay.
	We need to free America from this level of control.
	And I understand it because I was a victim of it.
	Like if he came out and said, do you really think anybody would, wow, he, We want to be free.
	We want our country back.
	We don't want to go to war for Israel.
	We don't want our quality of life denigrated until we're living in a third world slum surrounded by people who despise us.
	So, what is stopping him?
	What is stopping Trump?
	Maybe he's playing a long game.
	Maybe this is 5D chess.
	It doesn't look like it.
	It doesn't feel like it.
	Republicans are just setting us up for absolute abject failure in the midterms.
	And from that point on, it'll be twiddling our thumbs until Supreme Chancellor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez puts us all in concentration camps.
	So it's infuriating, but I don't understand the idea that you would regret voting for Trump because of what's happening with Epstein.
	I think it's ridiculous.
	I think it's hugely damaging.
	I think he's kind of being an idiot, but you think Kamala Harris would release the Epstein files?
	You think Trump's unable to stand up against Israel, but Kamala Harris and her Jewish husband, they would be the stalwarts who would have the wherewithal and institutional authority to combat the deeply entrenched Israeli influence networks currently running circles around Donald J. Trump.
	Sure.
	Sure.
	It's ridiculous.
	Let's go to Billy in Oklahoma because I think he's going to disagree with me.
	Go ahead, Billy.
	You're on the air.
	Hey, Harrison, I won't ask how you're doing because I know you're doing good.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I just had an idea for a shirt.
	Nick Fuentez was right.
	About what?
	Generally, about everything that he's gotten canceled for, I would say.
	The more time goes on, the more that seems to be true.
	So I do want to comment on the Epstein files and not get caught off on Nick Fuentez.
	I think the point that I've heard no one make yet is it's not about the list.
	It's not about the victims.
	What did they do with the blackmail?
	What bills were voted for or not for using the blackmail?
	What laws have been passed or not passed by using the blackmail?
	We'll never find that out.
	And everything is a distraction from that.
	Yeah, no, I think you're exactly right.
	And that would be a very interesting, very interesting question to ask.
	And, you know, that would be the type of thing that you probably use AI pretty efficiently for.
	If you had all the information and the timing and everything, you could go, okay, correlate decisions, you know, voting decisions versus their appearance on Epstein Island.
	You could probably get some very interesting correlations there.
	Yeah.
	And that's the kind of information that will never be found out, let alone who was on the island or what they did.
	The decisions that they made regarding the blackmail will never come out.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	Mario Knoffal has a pretty interesting post on this that we'll go to.
	I don't know.
	I'm fighting the temptation to keep arguing about whether Nick Fuentez was right.
	I don't know.
	Are we at war with Iran, Billy?
	No.
	No.
	Does Israel want us to be at war with Iran?
	Certainly.
	Yeah, but we're not.
	So is Trump serving Israel with everything he's got?
	Certainly so.
	Is he?
	Wouldn't we be at war with Iran then?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I concede to that.
	It was more of just a funny.
	No, I know.
	That one kind of fell flat.
	I know.
	But no, but it's just, it's, I don't know.
	It is frustrating because, like, we have been right.
	We have been right the entire time.
	InfoWar has been right the entire time.
	We, you know, laid out exactly how this would go.
	And the only thing I, you know, said about Trump was, yeah, he clearly is way too friendly to Israel constantly, all the time about everything.
	But that he wouldn't get America into direct war with Iran because he doesn't want American people to die, American soldiers to actually pay the ultimate price.
	And that is a necessary component to the Greater Israel project because they don't have the manpower.
	They require American boots on the ground.
	So as long as he is not putting American boots on the ground to go to war with Iran, then he's not complying with Israel and he's not putting their plans forward.
	He's obviously being way too nice to them.
	That's because he's an American president and we've got to just get used to that at a certain point.
	Not really.
	No, we shouldn't get used to it.
	In fact, we should probably have a revolution to correct it.
	But regardless, anybody that says they would have not voted for Trump, like just spend a minute to think about what that would mean.
	Just think about what it would be like if we were seven months into Kamala Harris's administration.
	And if you think any part of your life would be better because of that, or that we would be any closer to like, you know, total victory over the Israeli influence, explain how that happens.
	Explain how Kamala Harris would have done better than Trump in this regard.
	It's just a ridiculous idea.
	Anybody saying they regret voting for Trump, I think, is being a little bit hysterical at this point.
	Here's what Mario Knoffal said.
	What happened to all the evidence against Epstein?
	The FBI's chain of custody for evidence is a meticulously documented process designed to ensure integrity, authenticity, and admissibility of physical or digital items from the moment they're collected until they're presented in court or disposed of.
	It serves as a chronological record that tracks every interaction with the evidence, preventing tampering, contamination, loss, or unauthorized access.
	This protocol is critical in criminal investigations as any break in the chain can render evidence inadmissible or undermine a case.
	The process is governed by strict guidelines outlined in resources like the FBI's Handbook of Forensic Sciences, or services rather.
	Each item is documented with details such as date, time, location, collector name, case number, and unique evidence number.
	For digital evidence like videos or list, items are sealed in tamper evident packaging to preserve their state.
	Photographs or videos of the evidence in situ are often taken for verification.
	And basically, it's just laying out the incredibly stringent requirements for evidence as collected by the FBI.
	And then he presents all of the evidence that was collected from Epstein's, you know, temple or island or house or ranch and how there's just no actual chain of custody for any of this.
	Official reviews, including a 2025 DOJ FBI memo, confirmed the seizure of over 300 gigabytes of data, including victim images, videos, over 10,000 downloaded child sexual abuse materials, and pornography.
	The FBI's chain of custody protocols makes accidental loss virtually impossible without deliberate interference.
	Every item should be logged.
	Transfers require signed forms, digital evidence, cataloged and secured databases.
	And yet, it's all gone.
	And yet somehow it's just all gone.
	Somehow.
	Somehow it's all gone.
	Accidental loss, e.g.
	misplacement, is improbable due to inventories and surveillance.
	If lost, it would imply somebody accidentally intentionally removed or deleted it with access, intentionally removed or deleted it.
	E.g., a 2025 whistleblower alleged FBI agents systematically deleted Epstein-linked files, and a 2021 court hearing reveals safe contents temporarily went missing after the raid.
	But I guess that's the issue when you have agents in the FBI that are getting orders from Mossad.
	So that's going to happen, I guess.
	I guess that's just going to happen.
	And really, you know, it's almost like the reason it's like the most terrifying for me is knowing that I get up every day and talk about Israel being evil and expose the Mossad and Uted AD 200.
	And I can just see a future where I'm murdered in cold blood by some Israeli assassins.
	And if Jeffrey Epstein can't get an appropriate investigation, you think I could?
	You think I could?
	You think they'd do a thorough investigation?
	Or do you think some guy with a black hat shows up on the crime scene and says, this is our crime scene now?
	We're from the Central Bureau, and this is above your pay grade.
	And the local police go, ooh, I don't want anything to do with this.
	See ya.
	And then they get away with it.
	I just worry about, in general, the ability of foreign spies to embed themselves in our law enforcement and other federal or local agencies and manipulate evidence and data and information to their own ends and get away with committing crimes.
	So, you know, Jeffrey Epstein is like, if we can't handle that, what else could they get away with?
	What else could they get up to?
	What other evidence could go missing from the evidence lockers?
	What other intelligence community?
	What other activity could be concealed by the cooperation of the agents inside?
	And I'll just say on a final note, you know, they say that Jeffrey Epstein downloaded material.
	I bet he did.
	And I bet he paid good money for it.
	I bet you could get their whole networks if you just look into it a little bit.
	While other networks lie to you about what's happening now, InfoWars tells you the truth about what's happening next.
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