Dec. 12, 2025 - Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer
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| There is a young female journalist, conservative journalist by the name of Laura Loomer. | ||
| If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems will be fixed in about five minutes. | ||
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Chained herself to Twitter. | |
| She chained herself to Twitter. | ||
| I don't put the assault like that. | ||
| I wanna call it niggas in my life with the bitch wow. | ||
| Young female journalist, conservative journalist by the name of Laura Loomer. | ||
| If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems will be fixed in about five minutes. | ||
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Chained herself to Twitter. | |
| Is she chained herself? | ||
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And welcome | |
| to tonight's episode of Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| I'm your host, Laura Loomer. | ||
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| And we want to make sure as many people as possible see it. | ||
| Lots to talk about tonight. | ||
| Ilhan Omar is finally being investigated for immigration fraud. | ||
| If you are a longtime viewer of Loomer Unleashed, then you know that, well, I'm one of the first people to call Ilhar. | ||
| I think I was the first person ever to confront Ilhan Omar about marrying her brother. | ||
| This was back in 2018 when she was running for Congress when nobody even knew who she was. | ||
| And I confronted Ilhan Omar at a campaign event that she was holding with Rashida Tlaip at a Palestinian restaurant called the Holy Land Deli in Minneapolis. | ||
| And I remember, it's so funny because I have this framed on my wall in my studio and I see it in the corner of my eye from when this happened. | ||
| There are articles about it. | ||
| I remember when I confronted her and I confronted her over her support for terrorist organizations, her support for female genital mutilation, and I called her out for using her campaign funds for getting a divorce from her brother, right? | ||
| Because she did in fact marry her brother, who is gay, was living in the UK at the time, and she married him so that he could get student loans at North Dakota State University. | ||
| All of these reports are available on my website from years ago, right? | ||
| We're talking 2018, 2019. | ||
| So I was the first person to really make this go mainstream with my reporting back in 2018 when I confronted Ilhan Omar. | ||
| And, you know, there had been rumblings about her, you know, marrying her brother. | ||
| And it wasn't until I confronted Ilhan Omar on video about this that it really started to get like interjected into the national discussion. | ||
| And now, of course, you know, years later, President Trump is now talking about it. | ||
| And look, he was president in 2018. | ||
| So he really should have been addressing this back when he was president during his first term and Ilhan Omar first got elected. | ||
| But now, only now, is Ilhan Omar actually getting called out by the president of the United States for marrying her brother? | ||
| We played the clips earlier this week of President Trump slamming Omar. | ||
| There's so many clips of Ilhan Omar just getting completely slammed by President Trump at his rally. | ||
| He had a rally in Pennsylvania the other evening and he called her out for marrying her brother, says that she's low IQ, says that she committed immigration fraud, says that she's an ungrateful Somali, that the Somalis need to go back to where they came from. | ||
| And while DHS ICE has now confirmed under Tom Homan, of course, our wonderful border czar Tom Homan, that Ilhan Omar is finally under investigation, all of this is coinciding. | ||
| Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not, coinciding with all of the Somali fraud, all of the Somali fraud in Minneapolis, where they say upwards of $8 billion, that's $8 billion with a B, was stolen from U.S. taxpayers and given to Somalis who were sending the funds overseas. | ||
| Many of them were sending the funds overseas to support al-Shabaab, to support ISIS, to support Islamic terrorism. | ||
| Secret money trail for Minnesota's $1 billion Somali fraud ring and the horrific acts it's now funding. | ||
| Perfect target. | ||
| So it's not just $1 billion. | ||
| Those are early estimates. | ||
| And there was a report that came out two days ago that said that the numbers are actually closer to $8 billion. | ||
| I want to go ahead and play this video before I continue and show you all the coverage on this. | ||
| And, you know, if you recall, I had Tom Homan on my show several months ago and I asked him whether or not he was going to be investigating Omar. | ||
| I even said you should investigate Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother. | ||
| And he wouldn't confirm whether or not that was taking place. | ||
| But before I show you that clip, I want to just show you the clip of when I first confronted Ilhan Omar. | ||
| This was before she was even elected. | ||
| Before she was even elected, I was the first person to call Omar into Libout, if you recall. | ||
| This was in 2018, before the midterm elections, before Rashida won her election, and before Ilhan Omar won her election. | ||
| They were campaigning together in Minneapolis. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play this clip. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hi, my name is Laura Lumer. | ||
| I just had a quick for you. | ||
| I was wondering if, since you're now going to become the first, I was wondering, congratulations on your primary. | ||
| Since you're going to be the first Palestinian Muslim. | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| Are you willing to? | ||
| I can tell. | ||
| I actually like her. | ||
| Rashida, are you willing to admit as a congresswoman that Hamas is a terrorist organization? | ||
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I really need to know that if this woman is going to be elected to Congress, it's a serious question. | |
| I heard about her. | ||
| No, she has heard. | ||
| to come together as one community what about your Jewish constituents I'm now going to be a member of Congress inshallah So most important thing is that we fight back by love coming from a place of love. | ||
| Then why are you campaigning with Linda Sarsour who called for jihad against President Trump? | ||
| So that is afforded to all of us. | ||
| What about justice for little girls, Elon? | ||
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You voted against legislation that would have made FGMI validate. | |
| Why is she so hateful against Israel? | ||
| Are they going to recognize the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? | ||
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She married her brother. | |
| Ilan, why did you marry your brother? | ||
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Elon Omar married your brother. | |
| She committed immigration crime so that her brother could get a green card. | ||
| That's up to the government. | ||
| Yeah, and the government has decided that immigration fraud is a crime and incest is illegal in the United States of America. | ||
| It is a violation of campaign finance rules to use your campaign funds to pay for your divorce from your brother. | ||
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CARE is recognized as a designated terrorist organization and United Arab Emirates. | |
| Both of these candidates have been endorsed by CARE, a terrorist organization. | ||
| The federal government found during the Holy Land Foundation trial that CARE had ties to terrorism. | ||
| They were funding Hamas, which Rashida, candidate for Congress, supports. | ||
| She needs to decide whether she's an American or a Muslim first. | ||
| Is she a Palestinian or is she an American first? | ||
| So, I was right, as always. | ||
| And as a first whole, I was permanently banned on social media for calling out Ilhan Omar just a couple weeks later after I had been publishing all these video reports and confronting her. | ||
| You'll recall I was permanently banned on Twitter for several years. | ||
| So it feels great to finally be vindicated because as you recall, I was permanently banned on multiple social media platforms and they used this fake allegation that I'm an Islamophobe, right? | ||
| I went after Ilhan Omar and said she was pro-Sharia, she married her brother, she was anti-Jewish. | ||
| And then I was completely shut down, debanked, banned on all social media. | ||
| And now the president is even saying this. | ||
| So let's go ahead and play clip number 32. | ||
| President Trump says Ilhan Omar married her brother and we need to get her the hell out of here. | ||
| Just great vindication. | ||
| Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the group? | ||
| Please raise your hand. | ||
| That's for Minnesota. | ||
| You know, that's called the great big Minnesota scam with one of the dumbest governors ever in history. | ||
| I love this Ilan Omar, whatever the hell it is, with the little ching, the little turban. | ||
| I love her. | ||
| She comes in, does nothing but bitch. | ||
| She's always complaining. | ||
| She comes from a country where, I mean, it's considered about the worst country in the world, right? | ||
| They have no military. | ||
| They have no nothing. | ||
| They have no parliament. | ||
| They don't know what the hell the word parliament means. | ||
| They have nothing. | ||
| They have no police. | ||
| They police themselves. | ||
| They kill each other all the time. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| She comes to our country and she's always complaining about the Constitution allows me to do this. | ||
| We ought to get her to hell out. | ||
| She married her brother in order to get in, right? | ||
| She married her brother. | ||
| Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister? | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
| She's a beautiful person. | ||
| If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about two hours or would it be something less than that? | ||
| She married her brother to get in. | ||
| Therefore, she's here illegally. | ||
| She should get the hell out, throw the hell out. | ||
| She does nothing but complain. | ||
| I love that chance of send her back, send her back, send her back. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play clip number 43. | ||
| President Trump saying that he doesn't want to see a woman who marries her brother in the United States. | ||
| I want to see people that contribute. | ||
| I don't want to see Somalia. | ||
| I don't want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman, does nothing but complain. | ||
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All she does is complain, complain, complain. | |
| And yet, her country is a mess. | ||
| You know, it's one of the worst in the world. | ||
| Let her go back, fix up her own country. | ||
| So, no, Somalia, and I was right about it. | ||
| You know, I started complaining about Somalia long before this scandal. | ||
| The horrible, the horrible things they're doing to Minnesota, it's incredible. | ||
| They have an incompetent governor there, too. | ||
| The Democrats are running some bad ships. | ||
| Completely out of control. | ||
| Well, now she is under investigation. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play clip 31 from when Tom Homan, Our Borders Are, was on my show a couple months ago. | ||
| And I asked, this was back in June of this year, and I asked him whether or not Ilhan Omar was going to be under investigation for marrying her brother. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play clip 31. | ||
| Now the Republicans are back in control. | ||
| Can we expect to see some type of immigration investigation into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar? | ||
| There was a report. | ||
| This was a story I broke, and it's since been confirmed that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud. | ||
| Can you speak to whether or not there's any investigations into Congresswoman Omar's immigration fraud via the marriage to her brother and whether or not her citizenship could potentially be revoked if you guys also find that she did in fact commit immigration fraud and student loan fraud? | ||
| I can't discuss any investigation. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, I figured I would just ask because a lot of people always wonder why we have jihadists serving in Congress, why we have anti-American immigrants serving in Congress who are perpetuating this open border. | ||
| We're aware of that situation, but I can't discuss it. | ||
| Oh, so you are aware of it. | ||
| Okay, great. | ||
| So you guys are aware. | ||
| So he's indeed aware. | ||
| And now he's confirmed on clip number three. | ||
| Tom Homan has confirmed that DHS is looking into claims that Ilhan Omar married her brother. | ||
| So who knows? | ||
| Perhaps we prompted that investigation live here on Loomer Unleash when I interviewed Tom Homan. | ||
| And I've been pushing this. | ||
| Like I said, I've been pushing this more than anybody, really, since 2018. | ||
| And that's a fact. | ||
| You can go back and you can look at the videos. | ||
| I mean, show me another video of somebody else confronting Omar on the campaign trail about marrying her brother. | ||
| That video that I just played for you is from 2018. | ||
| I don't know anybody else that confronted Ilhan Omar in 2018. | ||
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Just saying, just saying. | |
| Clip number three. | ||
| Mentioning the Daily Mail reporting from 2020 that Ilhan Omar married her brother to get into the country. | ||
| This was last week. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
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Look at their nation. | |
| Look how bad their nation is. | ||
| It's not even a nation. | ||
| It's just people walking around killing each other. | ||
| They've taken billions and billions of dollars. | ||
| They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother. | ||
| It's a fraud. | ||
| Calls that a fraud. | ||
| It's a story that has never been successfully refuted, even though it's now a five-year-old story. | ||
| That's clearly a deportable offense. | ||
| Is there an investigation into that? | ||
| You know, I just got advised by a fraud investigator the other day on that. | ||
| I asked the question, who reviewed the file? | ||
| It says, no, there was immigration fraud involved. | ||
| The statue limitation became an issue in the last four years when this was first brought up. | ||
| Who was president? | ||
| Who run DOJ? | ||
| So I'm pulling the records now, pulling the files, and we're looking at it. | ||
| But this fraud investigator, who I know personally, one of the best fraud investigators in HSI Homeland Security Investigations, said there's no doubt. | ||
| He reviewed the file. | ||
| So I'm running that down this week, matter of fact, and we'll see. | ||
| It's tremendous that, I mean, and according to the Secretary Christy Noam of DHS, you said nearly 50% of the visas are fraudulent in this community. | ||
| I mean, that would mean that half the Somali refugees are here in some way illegally. | ||
| What's going to happen? | ||
| Is something actually going to happen? | ||
| Are there going to be people stripped of their visas, deported? | ||
| Are we going to see that? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, those days are over. | ||
| Thank God President Trump's in the White House. | ||
| We're going to look at all of them. | ||
| I mean, we're going to look at the, you know, those who are illegally, of course. | ||
| We're going to look at those here under a visa or some sort of immigration process that are criminals. | ||
| We're going to look at the national security threats, but those who came to a process that weren't properly vetted, didn't provide documentation, who slipped through the Biden's week processes on giving visas and temporary, whether student visas or visitors' visa or whatever. | ||
| We're going the whole gamut. | ||
| President Trump has instructed us to go down and we're going to deep dive all of this and we're going to hold people accountable. | ||
| Yes, there are going to be multiple deportations coming. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| There's so many claims of so Ilhan Omara came to our country when she was a teenager, claimed she was a refugee. | ||
| But since then, she's gone back to Somalia multiple times. | ||
| I mean, you have to understand the definition of the word refugee means that you can't live in the place that you're born or the place that you come from because it is uninhabitable. | ||
| You can't return. | ||
| I mean, you're not going to be vacationing in a so-called war zone if you're truly a refugee. | ||
| So, what is this investigation finding? | ||
| What's the investigation into all of the Somali fraud in Minnesota finding? | ||
| Well, it's finding that the Somalis have scammed taxpayers over $8 billion and that they're sending millions of dollars back to Somalia. | ||
| People are buying luxury cars. | ||
| They're buying property. | ||
| They're going on these luxurious vacations. | ||
| They're buying vehicles in the United States. | ||
| They're doing things that are fraudulent with the funds. | ||
| And so, when you look at a place like Minneapolis, and I don't know if any of you have ever been to Minneapolis, but I've been to Minneapolis a lot. | ||
| I practically lived there for about six months when I was investigating Ilhan Omar, just basically couch surfing, right? | ||
| When I was, you know, just completely broke as starting out as an independent journalist, but breaking pretty substantial, important stories, tracking Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, of course, who is now the first Muslim attorney general in America. | ||
| And I just remember nobody's speaking English. | ||
| I mean, the Somalis, they walk around in their burkas. | ||
| They have no need to assimilate. | ||
| They have their Somali grocery stores, their Somali communities, and they have no need or desire to speak English or even assimilate in their own communities, which is why the Somalis have become such a powerful voting bloc within Minneapolis and in places like Maine, because they don't assimilate and the politicians cater to them, right? | ||
| What happens is when you import the third world, you become the third world. | ||
| Minnesota, and just like Maine as well, has imported the third world. | ||
| There are hundreds of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota, and they have reproduced, and now they are a very large and mobilized voting block. | ||
| And they're so brazen in their refusal to assimilate that these politicians and their representatives are the people that are working on these campaigns for these Somali candidates, they don't even find a need to speak English. | ||
| So, in Ilhan Omar's district, where she has a very large Somali population and she's from Somalia herself, she goes to events and then she'll just be speaking a foreign language. | ||
| Her supporters, the guy that just ran, Omar Fata, who just ran for mayor of Minneapolis against Jacob Fry and almost won, he doesn't even speak English at his own campaign events. | ||
| He speaks Somali, he speaks Somali. | ||
| And that's the norm there in Minnesota now, unfortunately. | ||
| And you have to ask yourself, how are you as an American going to get any adequate representation if your own representative doesn't want to even speak your language? | ||
| How are you representing America if you're appealing to people from a foreign country? | ||
| And most of the time you're speaking, you're not even speaking in English. | ||
| And then we wonder why our country has been overrun by third world migrants and why we're seeing a rapid decline of white Christians, which is what the majority of our country used to be. | ||
| Now our country is less than 44% white. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play clip number five. | ||
| This is Ilhan Omar speaking in Somali at a rally, just showing once again that she's really not that interested in assimilating or representing American constituents. | ||
| She's interested more in representing these Somali transplants. | ||
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And as I said before, do you import the third world? | |
| You become the third world. | ||
| I personally think, and I said this when I ran for Congress as well, that it's long past the time to start creating legislation to make it illegal for foreigners to hold office in America. | ||
| If you were born in another country, I'm sorry, you should not be allowed to run for Congress or you shouldn't be allowed to run for the Senate. | ||
| It doesn't matter what position you're running for, local, state, federal, you shouldn't be allowed to hold office in America if you were not born on U.S. soil. | ||
| This is the rule that applies to the presidency. | ||
| So why are the rules different for the presidency? | ||
| Why is it that the rules to become a member of Congress or to become a mayor or to become a council member, whatever you may be? | ||
| Why are the rules so different from those of people who are running for president? | ||
| Why do you have to be a natural born U.S. citizen to be United States president, but you can be born in Uganda or you could be born in, I don't know, pick your hellhole in Africa, Somalia, right? | ||
| Whatever it may be. | ||
| You can be born in Kenya and yet you can hold office in America. | ||
| You can be born in India and you can hold office in America. | ||
| I mean, you had Shreeth Anadar today who was questioning Kirsty Noam, the DHS secretary, and telling her that she's in violation of the law. | ||
| It's like, hello, you are not even from our country. | ||
| Your eyebrows are severely microbladed into your forehead to the point where you look like a cartoon character and you got in trouble and your laboratory got shut down because you were torturing and abusing animals, right? | ||
| These people do not have the value system or, you know, even the moral and ethical compass to be an American, let alone the compass or the heritage or the knowledge of our history to represent Americans. | ||
| So I think it's completely inappropriate that we have foreign-born individuals representing Americans, whether it be, like I said, local office, state office, or federal office. | ||
| I think that there needs to be an immigration moratorium. | ||
| We need to have increased mass deportations. | ||
| And it also needs to be completely illegal. | ||
| It needs to be completely illegal to run for office in America if you were born in another country. | ||
| It's just completely unacceptable. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play clip number five, Ilhan Omar shouting in Somali at a rally in Minnesota. | ||
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On this topic, in Somali, I'm gonna go on to celebrate the rally. | |
| For that, I'mg the end of the church. | ||
| I'm not going to go on to Dr. I'm not going to go on to other things. | ||
| However, it is the same thing as the father of God. | ||
| Now, it is the same thing as the father of. | ||
| God. | ||
| It's completely out of control. | ||
| I don't understand when that became normal or when that became acceptable here in the United States of America, but we're definitely not getting any representation when we can't even understand our own members of Congress. | ||
| So, and then they wonder why they have Somali fraud rings funding al-Shabaab terrorists, funding ISIS coming out of Minnesota. | ||
| Did you know that according to FBI statistics that Minneapolis is the number one ISIS recruitment location in the entire United States? | ||
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Did you know that? | |
| Did you know that the number one ISIS recruitment location in our entire country is in Ilhano Mars district? | ||
| Is it any wonder why? | ||
| I mean, you have this representative who is campaigning in Islamic centers that are calling for people to join ISIS. | ||
| There's a center called Dar al-Farouk Islamic Center in Minneapolis. | ||
| I was actually trespassed when I went there. | ||
| I went there to confront the Imam and ask him on camera why so many men who were at his mosque were joining ISIS and fleeing the country and going to Somalia and Syria and joining groups like Al-Shabaab and ISIS. | ||
| And they called the police on me for simply asking them a question. | ||
| Is it any wonder why? | ||
| I mean, this has been going on for years. | ||
| There's reporting about this fraud ring in Minneapolis that's been going on for years. | ||
| I remember seeing stories about this fraud when I was in Minnesota in 2018. | ||
| So why has it taken over seven years for the truth to come out and the truth to be mainstream? | ||
| How come they weren't talking about this when Ilhan Omar was running for office? | ||
| When I was confronting her and asking her before anyone even knew who she was about marrying her brother. | ||
| There's a lot of stories like that. | ||
| There's a lot of stories in our country and country and stories really around the world where the media ignores them, politicians ignore them. | ||
| And really, it's up to independent journalists to report the truth in order for the truth to finally go mainstream. | ||
| It's pretty shocking that with all of the many billions of dollars that the mainstream media has at their fingertips to carry out their reports and to travel, they have hair and makeup teams. | ||
| They have professionals who travel with them. | ||
| All they have to do is sit there and focus on their content. | ||
| Whereas independent journalists have to actually focus on filming and editing and raising the money to do their work and platforming their work and editing their work, putting it on social media, uploading it, getting views for it, getting a marketing budget if you're going to market it. | ||
| I mean, these people have it so easy. | ||
| So you would expect that the least that they could do is actually work to deliver the truth to the American people. | ||
| And I'm about to introduce you to one of those independent journalists who is doing just that on the ground in Puerto Rico. | ||
| But before I get to that and we talk about the ongoing disastrous bankruptcy in Puerto Rico and the absolute abomination surrounding the fact that the Puerto Rican people have had rolling blackouts in their country for the last eight years, I want to take a moment to thank the sponsor of tonight's episode of Loomer Unleashed, Kirk Elliott, Precious Metals. | ||
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I mean, where the heck has she been? | |
| She has no money. | ||
| She's poor. | ||
| She's broke. | ||
| She has no... | ||
| She didn't invest in gold. | ||
| That's what happened. | ||
| Oh, so stupid. | ||
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I heard she lives in some kind of haunted house. | |
| She ain't got no money. | ||
| Working at some fat food restaurant or something. | ||
| Oh, I mean, seriously, what a loser. | ||
| Oh, damn, that was cold. | ||
| What can you say? | ||
| She's four. | ||
| She's old. | ||
| Yeah, I heard she collects cats or something. | ||
| I mean, come on, guys. | ||
| She's stinking. | ||
| I need to call Kirk Elliott. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Now, if you've been following my website, loomered.com, and you follow me on X, then you know that I've been covering the bankruptcy, the ongoing bankruptcy, never-ending bankruptcy in Puerto Rico. | ||
| You can pull up some of my tweets. | ||
| If you haven't seen them, I'll give you a little bit of a refresher before I bring my guest on tonight. | ||
| You had Hurricane Maria in 2017. | ||
| And since then, you know, the power grid in Puerto Rico is just completely, just completely destroyed. | ||
| And there's been a bankruptcy. | ||
| And ultimately, you know, there's a complete racket going on. | ||
| I like to call it USAID 2.0, USAID 2.0, where you have over $2 billion thus far that has been funneled to lawyers and consultants who are supposed to be tasked with the goal of restoring power to Puerto Rico, to the people of Puerto Rico over these last eight years. | ||
| And they haven't been able to figure it out. | ||
| There's extreme poverty in Puerto Rico. | ||
| People rarely have running water, rarely have electricity. | ||
| I mean, it's very common to have multiple blackouts per week. | ||
| Most people do not have constant electricity. | ||
| It's known to, you know, have constant rolling blackouts on the island. | ||
| And so you have to ask yourself, right? | ||
| When is enough enough? | ||
| When is enough enough? | ||
| And is there a point in time where consultants and lawyers who are getting paid, right, to be advisors for this bankruptcy, to handle the power grid in Puerto Rico, are they ever going to have a conscience, a soul, or a sense of shame to wake up and say, wow, you know, I'm being paid more than most people in Puerto Rico make in an entire year. | ||
| You know, the average person in Puerto Rico makes about $18,000 per year. | ||
| And some of these consultants have been paid millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| Again, over $2 billion thus far, as I've reported, you can see here has been shelled out just to lawyers and consultants. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Over $13.5 billion in FEMA funds have been allocated to rebuild the grid. | ||
| In 2020, President Trump's administration announced in an official White House statement that this was the largest amount of FEMA infrastructure grants ever awarded to Puerto Rico. | ||
| And yet the power grid still hasn't been restored. | ||
| People still don't have electricity. | ||
| People barely have heated water. | ||
| They have to survive with generators. | ||
| And the cost to run a generator costs more than some of these people are paying each year for their rent. | ||
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It's unbelievable. | |
| Joining me now to discuss this ongoing crisis, the never ending bankruptcy, just this endless pit of money in Puerto Rico and his new documentary that I mean, it's outstanding. | ||
| I watched this documentary and very entertaining. | ||
| It's really hard to keep people's attention on a subject, a subject that is this mundane and this tedious. | ||
| It's not exactly like a sexy subject. | ||
| Like, oh, wow, the power grid in Puerto Rico. | ||
| But this documentary is a must-watch documentary. | ||
| Very funny, very entertaining, but very serious and also very sad at the same time. | ||
| He did a very good job making you feel all of these emotions at the same time. | ||
| So joining me now is independent journalist Gary Foss, goes by the name of Street Gonzo on social media. | ||
| Gary, thank you so much for joining me tonight. | ||
| I think you did a fantastic job. | ||
| Your documentary is now out. | ||
| It's been out for a couple of days. | ||
| It's called Exposing the Shadow Government Controlling Puerto Rico. | ||
| Thanks for having me on. | ||
| And I'd like to point out that the reason I was actually going down there to look into the living conditions of the people that are struggling with the power problems was actually because of a tweet that you made about David Brownstein. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And yeah, his monthly retainer of $850,000, when I think you boiled it down to what he makes per day is roughly $28,000 a day, which is more than the median income of a Puerto Rican family is. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And it's sick. | ||
| It's sick. | ||
| It's actually insane because that's one person. | ||
| And there are other law firms and consulting agencies, McKinsey and Company, Proscower Rose. | ||
| There's a litany of entities involved in this. | ||
| And when we went down there, we basically found out that the financial board that was created by the ProMesa Act, which was signed by Obama, is essentially a shadow government that is controlling the entire island because they monitor and regulate all of the finances. | ||
| And given that they handle all the money, they can supersede legislation that's signed and they control the entire island. | ||
| So. | ||
| It's quite shameful. | ||
| And, you know, this is of interest to American citizens, right? | ||
| As people know, it's a territory of the United States and our taxpayer dollars have been going towards restoring this power grid that is never going to be restored, it seems, because these lawyers, these law firms and these consultants are just completely raping, not just the U.S. taxpayers, but they're also just completely raping our FEMA funds. | ||
| They're raping the people of Puerto Rico. | ||
| And it's created a very dangerous situation. | ||
| I mean, it's to the point where it's not just affecting people's ability to function in their day-to-day lives. | ||
| It's created a health crisis. | ||
| It's created third world health conditions there where people who are on oxygen or people who need to be connected to devices in order to, you know, to live, whether they are in hospice or whether they are, you know, people with breathing disorders or people, you know, struggling from ailments, life-threatening diseases, conditions, people getting surgery. | ||
| I mean, imagine living in a place when you have a life-threatening emergency and you don't even know if the power is going to be on when you need life-saving treatment or whether or not doctors are going to need to use a generator to give you life-saving treatment. | ||
| Imagine being a, you cover this extensively in your documentary. | ||
| The students there, it's literally dumbing down the territory. | ||
| It's dumbing down the people, the population. | ||
| They're literally getting dumber because the children are not able to actually get an education. | ||
| This has been ongoing for the last eight years. | ||
| So imagine being a student and not being able to stay in your classroom because it's too hot, right? | ||
| There's no air conditioning. | ||
| It's smeltering down there. | ||
| You're in a room that's 100 degrees. | ||
| You can't be in a classroom. | ||
| The lights flicker, right? | ||
| You can't stay in a classroom because the lights aren't on and you need light in order to, you know, to go to school. | ||
| What can you, what can you, what can you tell the viewers about just the level of poverty that you saw and maybe just some of the most egregious examples of people not having power when they absolutely needed power? | ||
| So this is how I would say that it's, it's the most, the way that this can be framed that's the most understandable to people here in the mainland is that the poverty rate down there is dramatically higher than it is on the mainland, even though Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. | ||
| 54% of children in Puerto Rico live in poverty. | ||
| And like you said, the typical income of a Puerto Rican individual is $18,000, which is dramatically lower than it is here. | ||
| And as such, a lot of people down there are relying on food stamps, right? | ||
| And what happens is when the power goes out, your meat, your dairy, your eggs, all that stuff spoils and it goes bad. | ||
| And then people can't eat until the next month when they have food stamps again. | ||
| So it's a lot more dire than I think what I was ever expecting. | ||
| And the level of corruption is like totally out of control. | ||
| And also, this has been going on a lot longer than Hurricane Maria, which was another thing that blew my mind. | ||
| So when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, it knocked out power for essentially 100% of the island. | ||
| Nobody had power. | ||
| And since then, there's been rolling blackouts, like you said, and everybody basically has to have a generator. | ||
| But this has been a problem in Puerto Rico since I'd say it started in the late 70s, but we were talking to people. | ||
| I'm 32 years old. | ||
| We were talking to people that were my age and even older that were in their 40s. | ||
| And I was asking when this started. | ||
| And they said, one guy whose house we went to, he still doesn't have a roof. | ||
| And he said, this has been a problem since I've had common sense. | ||
| I mean, he's essentially saying it's been a problem since he's been alive. | ||
| And there's a litany of reasons for that, which we get into into the documentary. | ||
| But it's, it's, these are American citizens. | ||
| I think people forget that. | ||
| I think I even kind of forgot that before I went down there. | ||
| These are American citizens and they're not living like Americans. | ||
| They're living like people in a third world. | ||
| We have a civics problem. | ||
| We have a civics problem in our country. | ||
| And so there's a lot of people out there who think that Puerto Rico is a country. | ||
| They think that Puerto Rico is a country and they forget that it's a U.S. territory. | ||
| So you're right. | ||
| These are U.S. citizens. | ||
| And I mean, it may sound laughable to some people, but if you were to do like a man on the street interview and maybe you should do this sometime and you should ask people whether or not Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory or if it's a separate country, I'm sure that you would find a lot of people would say, oh, it's a country. | ||
| It's a country. | ||
| So, you know, just imagine if U.S. citizens were subjected to these types of, imagine if you had rolling blackouts in New York City. | ||
| That would not be tolerated. | ||
| There was a blackout in New York City a couple years ago for about a week, if you recall. | ||
| And it was all over the news 24-7, non-stop coverage. | ||
| Look at what happened during Hurricane Katrina and how, you know, President Bush was shamed nonstop because people didn't have power and, you know, there was sewage backing up into the streets and people didn't have running hot water. | ||
| So it's crazy that The same level of outrage isn't being expressed by the media over not just the siphoning of all the funds to the consultants and the lawyers, but the fact that U.S. citizens are just living in absolute squalor and filth. | ||
| I have a theory why people don't know about this on the mainland as much. | ||
| And it's sort of a two-part theory here, but I think part of it is a language barrier because all of the reporting that's done on this, outside of what a handful of independent journalists have covered, is mostly in Spanish. | ||
| And 78% of the mainland only speaks English. | ||
| So I think a lot of the news is being reported, but it's being isolated to the island. | ||
| And then the other thing is that it's being only certain aspects of it are being reported. | ||
| I have not really seen anything outside of, like I said, there's probably some smaller outlets on the island and, you know, like maybe some podcasts and social media personalities talking about this, but I've not seen anybody outside of you and I basically call these people out by name. | ||
| And that is probably because I think that there is a relative level of fear regarding calling people out like this that are very powerful because there are, you know, it's part of America, but there are dead bodies connected to some of this, some of these conspiracies. | ||
| I'm not saying connected to the specific people that we're speaking about, but there's been a lot of corruption and a lot of people that were investigating corruption in Puerto Rico that have been found drowned or shot or something along those lines. | ||
| And a lot of people actually told me that I shouldn't go back down to Puerto Rico ever since I put this out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Which is kind of concerning. | |
| Well, yeah, I believe it. | ||
| I mean, since I started talking about this, I've had hit pieces written about me. | ||
| I had the Wall Street Journal wrote a nasty hit piece about me saying that, you know, I didn't know what I was talking about. | ||
| I mean, people speaking out, attacking me, lobbyists and other lawyers posting nasty tweets about me. | ||
| So that's what happens when you start to ruffle feathers. | ||
| I mean, the Wall Street Journal started, you know, attacking me for what? | ||
| For standing up for people who don't have electricity? | ||
| Like, what exactly am I doing? | ||
| That's so wrong? | ||
| Reporting on reporting on a waste of taxpayer dollars, reporting on a depletion of $13.5 billion of federal funds? | ||
| Like, what are we doing that is so wrong? | ||
| What do you think that we're doing, Gary, that is so wrong? | ||
| You know, it's interesting that you say that too. | ||
| The more I looked into this, because like I said, I saw the tweet that you made and I was like, well, holy shit, that's kind of crazy. | ||
| So I looked really deeply into this. | ||
| And like you said, Trump put out $13 billion roughly in 2020. | ||
| And that was at the time, and it still remains the largest FEMA expenditure ever obligated to anyone for a single project, ever, not just Puerto Rico. | ||
| He even went down there. | ||
| He even went down there. | ||
| Remember when he was tossing paper towels and then they got mad at him for tossing paper towels and they said he was insensitive. | ||
| So while the Democrats go down there and they're partying it up, they're staying in resorts. | ||
| President Trump is passing out life-saving aid and supply. | ||
| And the Democrats, I mean, I saw a report this morning that said the AOC spent over $50,000 in Puerto Rico on luxury hotels. | ||
| How many people's salaries is that per year in Puerto Rico? | ||
| The average salary is $18,000 per year. | ||
| She was there. | ||
| That was actually when we were there. | ||
| It was during the Bad Bunny residency. | ||
| But the reason I was bringing up the FEMA expenditure is because there's been more money on top of that. | ||
| It's actually more than $13 billion. | ||
| And less than a quarter of that money has been spent because it's been obligated but not dispersed. | ||
| And there's a big problem there with, you know, there's this FEMA reimbursement model, but there's a big problem with corruption in the government too, outside of the actual financial board. | ||
| And then there's these law firms on top of this. | ||
| Sorry, I get a little bit choked up talking about this because we talked to these people who their families are like, these are all really good people and they're poor and they really have no, they have no viable alternative. | ||
| And it's really sad. | ||
| I mean, we talked to this kid who, I mean, he's like literally, his life is intrinsically connected to the power grid. | ||
| I mean, he's like literally plugged into the power grid. | ||
| He doesn't, he can't breathe on his own. | ||
| And every time the power goes out, his mom has to use these batteries. | ||
| And if the batteries run out of power, the aunt has to go to the store to get gas. | ||
| And it's just like, it's like a real life nightmare. | ||
| And it's just not really being spoken about. | ||
| And all this money that's being siphoned off the island is, it's, I mean, the island's been bankrupt for almost 10 years. | ||
| It's that's that's Puerto Rican taxpayer dollars. | ||
| That's the stuff that's supposed to be going to fix this. | ||
| And it's going into the pockets of Wall Street lawyers that are already wealthy anyways. | ||
| How does that make any sense? | ||
| Buying multiple homes. | ||
| It's shocking. | ||
| I want to go ahead and play the trailer because this is about a two hour long film. | ||
| I encourage people to watch it. | ||
| I mean, it's phenomenal. | ||
| Very well produced. | ||
| Very art. | ||
| I mean, it's just incredible. | ||
| You did a, it's so artistic. | ||
| It's so full of, it's funny, you know, it's, you're not like pretending to be someone you're not. | ||
| You're showing, you know, outtakes from your time there, your own personality. | ||
| It's like vlogging meets professional documentary movie. | ||
| I mean, it really honestly looks like something that you would see on Netflix. | ||
| Not that I'm a big Netflix flanner, anything like that, but it is so well produced. | ||
| And I guess like what I could compare it to, maybe something that would come out of Vice, right? | ||
| Something that's kind of like edgy, but has like that kind of pop culture vibe to it too. | ||
| But also, you know, you're not watching a boring documentary about a power grid. | ||
| It's very entertaining and it like keeps your, you know, keeps your attention. | ||
| I didn't get bored. | ||
| It's, it's kind of out of control too at times. | ||
| I mean, I obviously, I have a little bit of an insane personality, but I think that that's. | ||
| But it's unique. | ||
| It's your style. | ||
| It's, it's, it's what makes you you, right? | ||
| If you're going to be an independent reporter, you have to be, you have to have your selling point or something that makes you unique because if you haven't noticed, it's a very oversaturated market. | ||
| But I want to go ahead and play the trailer. | ||
| Again, the documentary itself is over two hours and I'm going to show you all where you can watch it. | ||
| But let's go ahead and play this trailer in the meantime. | ||
| We went to Puerto Rico to investigate the power problems and discovered a shadow government siphoned $2 billion off the island to Wall Street lawyers in New York. | ||
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Well, a lot of people were literally going hungry. | |
| People died. | ||
| I was going crazy. | ||
| I almost shoot myself. | ||
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You're like a shadow government of Puerto Rico. | |
| You have been living without power. | ||
| How long has that been going on? | ||
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Since 2018, basically. | |
| The population has been literally dumbed down. | ||
| My entire career, these people have had no power here. | ||
| I'm tired of it. | ||
| My kids come to the surface. | ||
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I think it's because of money. | |
| This keeps her son alive. | ||
| When it turns off, he will begin hyperventilating. | ||
| See? | ||
| Luma came. | ||
| He's holding not to be pigged. | ||
| I hate him. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Oh, my heart. | ||
| I hate them. | ||
| Do I have time to smoke a bone real quick? | ||
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I'm not telling you what to do, but since you're trying to be healthier, I'm just going to suggest that you quit smoking bones. | |
| I've been. | ||
| Well, Joel, here we are down on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico of beautiful brown women and sandy beaches. | ||
| And we're down here to ask people about the power grid failures that the island has been experiencing for the past eight years after Hurricane Maria in 2017. | ||
| The power grid, PREPA, has been bankrupt since July of 2017. | ||
| They've been going through bankruptcy proceedings and experiencing rolling blackouts ever since then. | ||
| We're going into the shit tomorrow, buddy. | ||
| We were told specifically to avoid a neighborhood called La Perla. | ||
| Apparently, an American was set on fire there a few years back. | ||
| Not to mention the tourist who was shot and killed there the day we landed. | ||
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So down, down that way, don't take pictures. | |
| If you don't respect the rules here at La Perla, you have a very big problem. | ||
| Fuck Luma. | ||
| Fuck the government. | ||
| When's the last time there was a power outage that was for 24 hours? | ||
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Bro, yesterday. | |
| In Puerto Rico, was where the first place do they try the bill control bills? | ||
| She's saying that Puerto Rico is ground zero for birth control testing and population control. | ||
| She didn't even want to talk about this because she's scared of the power company. | ||
| It sounds like a bomb going off. | ||
| You know, in other areas, it's even worse. | ||
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They're scared to talk the truth because they here get it at the head, you know, like kill them. | |
| If you still do the right thing, for sure. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Believe me. | ||
| Okay, well, fuck. | ||
| Watch our documentary, Exposing Corruption in Puerto Rico, now on the Street Gonzo YouTube channel. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Did you have security when you went, or did you just go by yourself? | ||
| You have a very eccentric, zany personality. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| But did you go? | ||
| Because I'm kind of similar, right? | ||
| Like people tell me I'm eccentric and kind of crazy, but you know, I've definitely gone places before without security when I probably should have brought security. | ||
| But I didn't really see any big security guards around you. | ||
| Did you have security? | ||
| No, no, we just shoot from the hip. | ||
| And, you know, I walk with God and hope that everything just works out generally, which, you know, sometimes we've gone on a lot of excursions, Joel and I, and sometimes they get pretty dicey. | ||
| But yeah, it is what it is. | ||
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No, it's great. | |
| Would you say that Puerto Rico is a similar case to what we're seeing in Democrat-led cities like Portland, Chicago, Detroit, where it's just gross incompetence in all these Democrat-led areas? | ||
| I mean, we know that Puerto Rico really has a lot of Democrat influence, more Democrat influence there than Republican, I'd say. | ||
| Do you think that this is, you know, this transcends party lines? | ||
| Or do you think that this is a direct result of Democrat policies and the fact that this was initiated at the end of Obama's administration under Obama? | ||
| Do you think that do you think that there's a partisan angle to this corruption? | ||
| So I would say that innately the blame would be placed on the people who passed Pro Mesa and created the financial board because that's what it boils back to. | ||
| But I mean, I don't even know if it's the same thing as what we're seeing with incompetence in American cities. | ||
| I think this has been largely done on purpose, dare I say. | ||
| And I think that Puerto Rico, I mean, in the documentary, we go into a lot of things like the birth control testing and some other stuff and the creation of Luma, the joint American-Canadian energy venture that was created with the sole purpose to modernize the power grid, specifically the transmission and distribution of it. | ||
| And they didn't do that. | ||
| And it essentially seems like the company was created to make more money because the power problems have remained the same, but the price of electricity has gone up. | ||
| So I think they're just trying to make more money. | ||
| And I think this is basically a big scam. | ||
| That's my take. | ||
| I don't think it's incompetence. | ||
| Do I think it's partisan? | ||
| I mean, it probably, like I said, it's innately, you have to basically blame Obama and the people that signed this, which I, I, I don't, I don't, I think that it probably transcends party lines a little bit, to be honest with you. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, some of the, some of the lawyers and some of the consultants are Republicans too. | ||
| I mean, look, it happened under a Democrat administration for sure under Obama, but there are people on both sides of the aisle who are complicit in this for sure. | ||
| Are people on the ground in Puerto Rico who you spoke with aware of the hundreds of millions of dollars? | ||
| I mean, they're really over $2.2 billion precisely. | ||
| Are people aware of how much money these consultants and these lawyers are making? | ||
| I know you said you first found out about this when you read my tweet exposing the lawyers and these consultants, but do the average Puerto Ricans know the extent of how much money these people are being paid? | ||
| So that's interesting you say that. | ||
| I think that they're all aware that this financial board, the Financial Oversight Management Board, which is they refer to as La Junta, which is a derogatory term. | ||
| That's not a happy term. | ||
| That's Spanish for the board. | ||
| They're aware that the board is basically siphoning their money. | ||
| But do they realize how much it is? | ||
| I don't even know because a lot of these people down there didn't realize that Trump even gave the $13 billion obligated the money for the grid. | ||
| Like they didn't even know that that happened. | ||
| So they didn't know the money was basically frozen and less than a quarter of it's been spent. | ||
| So that's probably why they're not aware of it because they're not seeing it in their day-to-day. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Makes sense. | ||
| I know that recently, though, President Trump recently fired several members of the board, and then they were complaining and saying that he couldn't do that. | ||
| What are some of the top, I guess, two or three steps that you think the Trump administration needs to take in order to get this issue fixed for the people of Puerto Rico? | ||
| And what do you think are the biggest obstacles in terms of restoring the power grid and reducing the cost of electricity for the people of Puerto Rico, but also just ending this endless money pit, this endless money pit that is just siphoning so much, so much money from the people of Puerto Rico and creating a crisis that, in my opinion, is now worse than the original crisis that all of these programs were created to fix to begin with? | ||
| I mean, I don't really think that the situation has improved. | ||
| I think it's actually gotten worse. | ||
| It absolutely has gotten worse. | ||
| I would agree with that. | ||
| And I think that the number one step has essentially already been taken, which would be to fire all the members of the financial board. | ||
| Because like you said, he fired damn near the entire board actually when we were there. | ||
| And number two would be to. | ||
| Yeah, shortly after I put out my tweet, it was kind of interesting. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Robert Mojica, the executive director, he needs to be replaced. | ||
| He makes $625,000 a year. | ||
| That's 34 times the typical Puerto Rican salary. | ||
| So that guy needs to be replaced. | ||
| And then they need to resolve the bankruptcy. | ||
| And however, they manage that with the bondholders. | ||
| And the, I'm not an economist, so I don't know how exactly that would work. | ||
| But basically, the bankruptcy needs to be resolved immediately so that the actual work on the grid can get repaired. | ||
| And to be honest with you, I think that with the military presence there right now, with this pending conflict in Venezuela, maybe they could use the Army Corps of Engineers to start fixing things down there. | ||
| Because I would say that this is, you're, we're at the, if this was in America, it would be a state of emergency. | ||
| And it is in America, so it should be considered an emergency. | ||
| It should be handled immediately. | ||
| And I would also say that some of these people related to the board need to be held accountable, probably use congressional authority to investigate all of this. | ||
| And if there is, you know, financial mismanagement, whatever you want to call it, the people need to be held accountable. | ||
| And that money needs to be returned to Puerto Ricans because, like I said, this is that $2 billion, that's not the, those aren't FEMA funds. | ||
| Those are, that's Puerto Rican tax dollars, and they need to be returned to those people in the form of physical checks like we did during during COVID with the stimulus because they didn't PREPA hasn't even been, they're still bankrupt. | ||
| I mean, what the hell is going on? | ||
| You know, we have a clip here actually of Robert Mujica, the executive director, testifying. | ||
| And this is when, you know, one of the things that really got my attention is when I was watching some of the video from these congressional testimonies and I was like listening to some of these numbers and I was like, whoa, this reminds me of like USAID, right? | ||
| This is literally the next USAID scandal. | ||
| People were so outraged when Elon Musk came into the Trump administration and was dismantling USAID and people were exposing all of the corruption and how much money all these NGOs were making and how much money all these media organizations were making. | ||
| And it just, it just like completely blew open the scam. | ||
| Yeah, send Doge down there. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| We need to send Doge down, right, to examine, to examine the board. | ||
| But this is what caught my attention. | ||
| And I just like, when you listen to these numbers during this testimony, it just, it just blows your mind. | ||
| It just blows your mind when you think that this has been going on for over a decade now. | ||
| This has been going on for over a decade, right? | ||
| With these allocations of funds and just, like I said before, it's just a complete money pit. | ||
| And how much deeper of a hole are we going to dig ourselves into? | ||
| How much more storm hits? | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's kind of unpredictable. | ||
| What happens when there's another huge hurricane or if there's another huge storm? | ||
| What happens next? | ||
| What happens next? | ||
| You're going to start over again from ground from zero? | ||
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You're going to start over again from zero? | |
| I mean, nobody even thinks about that. | ||
| Nobody talks about that. | ||
| A lot of these people are already at zero, unfortunately. | ||
| Right, but imagine what's going to happen if a huge storm comes in and wipes out what they already have over these last few years. | ||
| They say that they've somehow made progress. | ||
| This is supposed to be progress. | ||
| What's going to happen to that young child in the bed who's on the ventilator who has to use a generator and then gasoline when the batteries don't work for the generator for the generator? | ||
| What's going to happen to him if another storm hits? | ||
| And even more damage is done. | ||
| I got a piece of information I found out that you'll definitely find interesting as a journalist. | ||
| Did you know that in 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court actually ruled that the financial board has sovereign immunity and they cannot be sued for public records? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Isn't that insane? | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| I mean, the fact that you can't get public records, why not? | ||
| I mean, why would you not be able to get public records? | ||
| I mean, I would be inclined to say that anytime a government, especially, I mean, that's the antithesis to a constitutional republic, right? | ||
| To a democracy, but I would say they're probably trying to hide something or cover something up. | ||
| I mean, certainly. | ||
| After we left, they were trying to push an anti-transparency bill as well that was amending the already established transparency law. | ||
| So there's so much corruption down there. | ||
| And honestly, like I said, I think a lot of this stuff, the issues of the power grid have been going on long before Maria. | ||
| And I think a lot of the corruption has as well. | ||
| And yeah, like you said, maybe Elon Musk or somebody needs to like audit the entire, I mean, the entire island. | ||
| It's not just the power grid. | ||
| This, when we went down there, everything was so much worse in terms of the living conditions and what the locals had to say about the government and the power company and everything related to the money. | ||
| It was, it was like, I just couldn't believe that around every corner, there was more corruption, more conspiracy, more just everything. | ||
| Well, here's a clip of the executive director, Robert Mujica, testifying a couple months ago. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play this clip. | ||
| The board has imposed austerity, raised the cost of living, dragged out PrEPA's bankruptcy, and it has enriched consultants who have no incentive for the board to cease its functions. | ||
| Mr. Mojica, Congress promised the board would cost under $400 million in 10 years. | ||
| Can you tell me how much the board has actually spent during this period? | ||
| The restructuring overall has cost over, and I think just the CBO estimate actually said that it would be done in the first two years, and then it would end after four consecutive years. | ||
| So the reality is that it has taken much longer. | ||
| It's taken much longer, partially because the government resisted the reforms. | ||
| You had Hurricane Maria, you had the hurricanes, you had, I mean, I'm sorry, you had Hurricane Maria, you had earthquakes, you had COVID, all of these things intervening, and the government acted as a result of the rest of the world. | ||
| I'm sorry to interrupt because we have limited time. | ||
| What's the amount? | ||
| The total amount is about $1.4 billion is the cost of the restructuring. | ||
| But we've heard about consultants costing over $2 billion. | ||
| The restructuring has cost about $1.4 billion. | ||
| That's not all consultant costs. | ||
| That would also include the numbers, the cost of the actual board itself, the board staff. | ||
| But let's be clear. | ||
| Okay, so it's more than five times what Congress estimated this would cost. | ||
| You understand that this is creating a lot of distrust in Puerto Rico because it appears that, especially when it comes to the excessive spending on consultants, the board is imposing austerity on the people of Puerto Rico. | ||
| But then when it comes to its own expenses, it's not setting an example. | ||
| And you see, you just see the way he doesn't want to actually answer the question. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it's not all consultants. | ||
| No, that's 2.2 billion just for consultants. | ||
| He wasn't even being honest. | ||
| And did you hear him mention that they were imposing austerity? | ||
| I completely forgot to mention this. | ||
| So they've, while they've been spending $2 billion on law firms, consultants, et cetera, they've also cut spending on healthcare and education, which is the, I would argue, two of the sectors that are most affected by the lack of power. | ||
| And also, he said there's no incentive for these lawyers to resolve this bankruptcy. | ||
| And that's because lawyers get paid by the hour. | ||
| So the longer the bankruptcy, the more they get paid. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, what's going on here? | ||
| It's such bullshit. | ||
| I also want to point something else out that's very interesting. | ||
| So the lawyer that we spoke with, Alfonso Fernandez, his professional opinion was that this should have been resolved over a period of like three or four years, five years, max. | ||
| So he was in agreement with what that guy was saying in the clip. | ||
| And he also mentioned to me that the original executive director of the financial board was a lady named Natalie Jurasco, who is from Chicago. | ||
| And she was formerly the minister of finance in Ukraine, who recently had a large corruption scandal regarding the energy uh grid with the nuclear energy. | ||
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So it's there's just a lot of coincidences here, Laura. | |
| I don't know if they uh, if you believe in coincidences, but a lot of conspiracy. | ||
| I don't think it's a coincidence at all. | ||
| Given all of these ties to the Democrats and given the ongoing corruption, and just given the absurdity of this entire situation, does it seem like President Trump and Republicans could win over Puerto Ricans, both here in the mainland? | ||
| but also on the island in Puerto Rico if the Trump administration puts an end to this never-ending bankruptcy and also fixes the dilapidated infrastructure on the island? | ||
| Do you think that these people are more likely to support Republicans or to support the Trump administration if the president were to completely get rid of this board and I guess take a more hands-on approach to managing the bankruptcy? | ||
| Well, I would say that that's the number one issue in Puerto Rico for sure. | ||
| So if Trump was and company was able to actually start to fix it and get the bankruptcy resolved, well, yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, when I was talking to people down there about how he fired the board members, they were all happy about that, whether they were, you know, more liberal or more conservative or whatever. | ||
| But that's issue number one for Puerto Ricans from what I was experiencing. | ||
| And it's something that it's, it's like a, it's a generational problem. | ||
| You know, I don't think there's any issues that I've had in my life as a an American. | ||
| I'm from Ohio. | ||
| The only problem that I've dealt with in my life that I think has gone on generationally is sort of the, in my hometown, the heroin problem. | ||
| There's a big heroin problem where I grew up and that has affected generations of people. | ||
| But that's something that dramatically affected my life when I was younger. | ||
| And this is dramatically worse than that. | ||
| So yeah, I would say that if he was able to actually get the electric grid and the infrastructure and start to get it modernized and weed out some of the corruption and mitigate the bankruptcy, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah, it sounds like, sounds like, like you just said, it's the number one issue right now with Puerto Ricans. | ||
| So it'll be interesting to see going into 2026 with these midterm elections and then also going into 2028, how this could affect our elections if the president were to take a more hands-on approach. | ||
| I mean, he's already fired a lot of the board, but again, I don't think it's going to end with just firing some of the board members. | ||
| There definitely needs to be an audit. | ||
| It'd be really interesting to see if they would do some kind of a USAID-like audit. | ||
| I've been saying since day one, I personally think that this is the next USAID scandal. | ||
| This is USAID 2.0. | ||
| You get an audit of this. | ||
| You fire the board members. | ||
| You could probably even have people indicted. | ||
| You could probably have people indicted for corruption. | ||
| I guarantee a lot of money's been stolen. | ||
| A lot of money's been probably slushed around. | ||
| Well, you know, let's go. | ||
| We were told that there were no more FEMA funds for people. | ||
| Remember when they had the storms in North Carolina, the floods in North Carolina, and people were living in tents and it was snowing, it was freezing cold. | ||
| And we were told, no more FEMA funds, no more FEMA funds. | ||
| So there's FEMA funds for illegal aliens. | ||
| There's FEMA funds for consultants and lawyers who want to, you know, who want to basically steal from the people of Puerto Rico who have no power while kids are on ventilators, not able to breathe. | ||
| I mean, it really is a story of greed, not just a story of corruption, but you really get to see how depraved the consultant class of our country truly is. | ||
| And it's not a Republican issue and it's not a Democrat issue. | ||
| I would say, yes, this corruption began with the Democrats. | ||
| I mean, that's undeniable, given the fact that this board and the whole process of fixing and restoring the power grid began under Barack Hussein Obama. | ||
| But I'm sure that you could cross-reference all the consultants and lawyers and find out who's like, if you really were to do an audit of every single penny that's been spent on this, you'd find that it transcends party lines. | ||
| There's probably a lot of people, a lot of Wall Street types, right? | ||
| Republicans, Democrats, who are on the take while people are suffering. | ||
| So, you know, another thing, the only reason that Robert Mojica has not been fired is because he can only be fired by the board itself. | ||
| It's not a presidential appointment. | ||
| So, and given that the board is all gone, he basically cannot be fired. | ||
| And his salary is actually determined by the members of the board that he controls. | ||
| It's really insane. | ||
| And there's some other stuff we go into in the doc as well about this old U.S. Puerto Rican economic initiative from the 60s called Operation Bootstrap that sort of set up the island for all the issues that it's facing today, as well as some other stuff like the birth control testing and stuff like that. | ||
| We go deep on a bunch of different things. | ||
| Like I said, originally we were going down there to just kind of see what the living conditions have been like since Maria and see what was going on with the power grid. | ||
| And we ended up stumbling across a ton of stuff. | ||
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And how long did you spend down there? | |
| A week. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So you filmed this entire documentary in one week. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then I got pneumonia when we were editing it. | ||
| So it took, it took a while to get it finished because I was doing the voiceovers with pneumonia, you know. | ||
| But it's become something that's kind of important to me because, well, a few reasons, but primarily because these are Americans and I care about America. | ||
| And also, you know, they're fun. | ||
| They're fun to party with. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I had a good time down there. | ||
| They're very welcoming people. | ||
| Yeah, I saw you. | ||
| I saw you checking out all those Puerto Rican ladies. | ||
| I saw you. | ||
| Yeah, I've got a soft spot for the really a weakness, I could say, for the women of Latin descent. | ||
| But y'all have to go make some more documentaries. | ||
| You'll have to go back to Puerto Rico. | ||
| You'll have to go, you know. | ||
| Well, I mean, yeah, I, you know, I really should go back down there. | ||
| I should bring Elon Musk down there with me and show him what's going on. | ||
| I actually think that somebody like him who has the capital to invest in the grid could actually make a difference. | ||
| But, you know, I do want to go back down there, but I've been getting text messages from people that are like, yeah, my uncle works for Luma, and he said that you need to be careful. | ||
| And somebody else was saying that, you know, Quanta Services has all this power, you know, like political power, I guess. | ||
| And he's like, you know, this guy needs to be careful. | ||
| He's not safe in Puerto Rico. | ||
| And I get messages like that. | ||
| And I'm like, yeah, I want to talk about that because you got a threat on Instagram too, right? | ||
| You got a threat on Instagram or you got some kind of death threat. | ||
| Let's go ahead and get that pulled up too. | ||
| Yeah, not really like a threat directly or anything like that. | ||
| It's just people from Puerto Rico have been telling me repeatedly, like over and over again, that I need to be careful. | ||
| And I think they mean be careful of, you know, going back down there and potentially. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't want to think about that. | ||
| But you got something on your Instagram though, right? | ||
| Tell us about what you received on Instagram. | ||
| You're talking about the reel I made. | ||
| Yeah, I'm going to play the real too, but just you could tell the viewers what happened to put it into context for everybody. | ||
| Oh, I just, it's comment after comment after comment of people saying Gary Faust is not suicidal. | ||
| Don't get murdered. | ||
| Be careful if you go back down there. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the real too so people can see it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I mean, that must be pretty alarming. | ||
| So do you think that some of these threats are legitimate or do you think that a lot of them are trolls or the people that are reaching out? | ||
| Like when they say their uncle works for the power company or so, do you think that they're saying that to intimidate you or because they actually are sympathetic to your cause? | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| These are all people that are that are very much so looking out for me because they're very happy about what I'm doing. | ||
| It is kind of concerning, though, when I get a bunch of them, like hundreds of messages of people being like, hey, dude, I love what you're doing, but please be careful. | ||
| I guess I just, I didn't really realize how big of a pile of shit that I stepped in. | ||
| But, you know. | ||
| They did good work. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play your reel. | ||
| Puerto Ricans have been telling me my life is in danger because of the documentary that we made exposing corruption on the island. | ||
| I've been getting a lot of messages like this and comments like these. | ||
| And I want everybody to know that I have no plans of hurting myself and I'm in perfect health kind of. | ||
| But more so, it goes to show how many Puerto Ricans are fearful to speak about things like this. | ||
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They're scared to talk the truth. | |
| Why is that? | ||
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Fear for get it out of the head, you know, like kill them or put him in the yellow or something like that. | |
| They're living in fear of retaliation. | ||
| They could be jailed or killed or sued into oblivion. | ||
| And that's because the government entities and law firms and consulting agencies and corporations that are behind this are very powerful and they are dangerous. | ||
| And exposing corruption is a dangerous game. | ||
| And I think that's why knowledge of the corruption on the island has largely remained isolated to the island. | ||
| And we don't know about it on the mainland because the local news, the media outlets, and just people in general are fearful to speak on it. | ||
| So share this around just in case I'm found hanging from my ceiling fan in like a week. | ||
| But more importantly, so that people can go see this documentary because we lay it all out. | ||
| We name all the names and these people need to be held accountable. | ||
| It's on the Street Gonzo YouTube page and the link is in my bio. | ||
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God bless Puerto Rico. | |
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You also started a change.org petition too, right? | ||
| What was the purpose of your petition? | ||
| So that was basically my best shot at the solution to the problem. | ||
| And I've been actually experiencing a lot of issues with people being able to access that, weirdly enough. | ||
| We have the link here. | ||
| We will get it up on the screen here. | ||
| But what are you trying to accomplish with your petition? | ||
| I mean, it used to be a really big thing. | ||
| I don't know how much the government listens to these, but there used to be a whole big thing where change, I think it was like the change.org petitions where if you got enough signatures, like 100,000 signatures, these were really popular during the Obama administration, where if you got over 100,000 signatures on your petition, the White House would release like an official statement about it. | ||
| So these became very popular because people would use these petitions to have like grassroot responses for issues that people cared about. | ||
| Most of the time, it was like social justice issues. | ||
| But in your case, you can see here that you're using yours. | ||
| Let's get it full screen. | ||
| Rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid. | ||
| And you're encouraging people to sign the petition. | ||
| It's hard to see, you know, the backdrop. | ||
| I think they changed the color from white to black. | ||
| So it's kind of hard to see all of the text, but we have it up here. | ||
| I'll put it up on the TV. | ||
| You can see it better. | ||
| Rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid by saving it from big city pirates. | ||
| Sign the petition. | ||
| You've only gotten about 6,386 signatures, but this is a grassroots initiative. | ||
| And you were saying earlier that one of the challenges that you had is that most of the reporting in this is in Spanish. | ||
| And so you decided to take it upon yourself to really have, you know, a long form documentary that could reach people in the United States or just really any English speaker around the world. | ||
| I mean, your video, I think, is probably going to get millions of views once people start really sharing it around social media. | ||
| I wouldn't even be surprised if, who knows, maybe President Trump will end up sharing it. | ||
| You never know, right? | ||
| I mean, I'm certainly going to share it. | ||
| And I know a lot of people in the White House watch my account and follow my, you know, my content and watch my show. | ||
| But this is the power of independent journalism. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I, I generally just like going on adventures and telling stories. | ||
| And then when we come across stuff like this that's serious, where these people don't really have a voice, then that's when I think it becomes a different thing. | ||
| And it becomes important to be the vessel to move the needle for them. | ||
| But, you know, I was telling you that the, I'm having, I'm having issues with people being able to access that petition. | ||
| And these reels I've been making, they're getting hundreds of thousands and millions of views. | ||
| And I'm getting like, I've probably had a thousand messages, no exaggeration of people from Puerto Rico saying when they click the link to go to that petition, it's saying, this is a forbidden page. | ||
| You don't have access to this. | ||
| And I reached out to change.org and got some like bullshit response. | ||
| But yeah, it's, I almost wonder if it's being throttled. | ||
| Maybe I'm going too conspiratorial there, but it's something that I would like to get shared because maybe people will, maybe somebody at the White House will see it. | ||
| Maybe it'll pop onto Trump's desk. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| That'd be insane if that happened. | ||
| I think at that point, there probably would be some sort of change that would enact, you know, in terms of like real, real political power being wielded towards fixing this problem. | ||
| I just followed you on Instagram too. | ||
| I don't really use Instagram much because, like I said, I used to have a really large account and then I got banned in 2019 and I had this massive account. | ||
| I had like half a million followers. | ||
| So I just restarted it. | ||
| I mostly just use it for research now, but I'll do what I can to share it around with people. | ||
| I think that everybody needs to see this. | ||
| I've been saying from day one, this is going to be something that people pick up on in like a year from now, maybe two years. | ||
| Like it's going to take, in my opinion, sadly, like another huge hurricane or another big storm and there's going to be a huge catastrophe. | ||
| And then they're going to say, oh my God, look at this. | ||
| Look at all this corruption. | ||
| And then you'll have all these mainstream media pundits or larger independent journalists going out there and doing exactly what you did. | ||
| And it's like, okay, well, I told you so. | ||
| I mean, that's kind of what always happens to me, where, you know, you're ahead of the curve and then people go out when it's too late. | ||
| And it's like, look, I was warning you. | ||
| You produced this whole documentary. | ||
| I put out my reports. | ||
| I put out my tweets. | ||
| But, you know, what's it going to take for people to wake up? | ||
| Sadly, we see things have to kind of become more catastrophic in order for people's eyes to truly be opened. | ||
| Yeah, you're totally right. | ||
| It seems like the only time there's ever really a lot of coverage down there is when there's a storm. | ||
| And, you know, there was Hurricane Maria. | ||
| And then since then, there was an earthquake and another hurricane. | ||
| And then when we were there, when we were leaving, there was another hurricane that almost hit. | ||
| I mean, that's, that's why you're right. | ||
| It's, you know, when you're saying something like, well, what if what they barely, what they do have left gets knocked back down to zero again? | ||
| It's like they're just having to restart over and over again because the infrastructure is not there. | ||
| And this is an antiquated power grid, by the way. | ||
| It was built a long time ago. | ||
| And in the 80s, there was a bunch of, there were like bombings to transmission towers because of these pro-independence groups. | ||
| Some people refer to them as terrorist organizations. | ||
| I guess it really just decides what your perspective is. | ||
| But they blew up some transmission towers and there was union violence and the union was wildly out of control in terms of how expensive they were. | ||
| They became financially unmanageable. | ||
| And the union for PREPA, I mean, the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority, that's the government entity that is the one that's bankrupt. | ||
| And now Luma's taken over. | ||
| And as and that's Luma operates the transmission and distribution, and then Henra PR operates the generation of electricity in the actual power plants. | ||
| But then PREPA still owns the grid assets, like the substations, the power lines, the power stations themselves, the plants. | ||
| So yeah, it's just, it's a mess. | ||
| And if they're struggling to modernize this antiquated power system with the money that's been sent down there because the money can't be accessed, then every time a storm hits, yeah, they pretty much are starting from zero again in terms of repairing it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do you do this full-time? | ||
| I mean, I think your work is incredible, especially this documentary. | ||
| Are you a full-time independent journalist or what? | ||
| How do you know how do people support you? | ||
| What's your because I really honestly didn't know who you were until I started seeing your reports on the ground in Puerto Rico. | ||
| But since since then, I mean, I think your content's great. | ||
| But I really honestly, I had no idea who you were until you started producing all this incredible work out of Puerto Rico. | ||
| So I've been a journalist, so to speak, for probably about eight years. | ||
| Now, I went to J school at UT Austin, which is just, you know, J school is just like brainwashing propaganda camp. | ||
| But I was always kind of interested in filmmaking and I like writing, even though I'm not really that great of a writer, but I'm interested in storytelling, essentially. | ||
| And, you know, I can talk for three hours without shutting up. | ||
| And so I just sort of put those skills to use. | ||
| And I was originally working in the 2A community. | ||
| I was producing a radio show and I was the field correspondent for a show called Come and Talk It with Michael Cargill out of Austin, Texas. | ||
| And we, well, he sued the ATF for the bump stock lawsuit, the bump stock ban. | ||
| Yeah, that was after the Las Vegas shooting. | ||
| I was on the ground covering that extensively in Nevada. | ||
| And, you know, that was another cover-up. | ||
| Don't get me started on that shooting. | ||
| It has nothing to even do with bump stocks. | ||
| I mean, that was a terrorist attack. | ||
| And that was probably some kind of a gun running operation from what I found on the ground, a gun running operation involving ISIS that went wrong. | ||
| And the government just didn't want anybody knowing that, you know, one of their assets was involved in a shooting that ended up going so terribly wrong. | ||
| An operation, like I said, almost like a fast and furious style operation, but involving ISIS terrorists. | ||
| And ultimately, it ended up resulting in their asset getting killed and over 50 other people getting slaughtered as well. | ||
| So, and then they tried to say, oh, well, we need to ban bump stocks. | ||
| What do bump stocks have anything to do with this? | ||
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| They don't want to answer any other questions. | ||
| Well, fortunately, we beat we beat the ATF's ass in court and that was great. | ||
| And then, and I've done some other stuff too. | ||
| I worked adjacent to comedy for a while, not as a comedian, but as a producer. | ||
| I was producing podcasts and stuff. | ||
| But yeah, I've been working in a journalistic capacity by trade for about eight years, I think. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not, I have a horrible memory in terms of, you know, a timeline of what I've done because it's just been all over the place. | ||
| Are you based out of Texas? | ||
| Austin, Texas. | ||
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| And this is the kind of stuff that I like to do is the stuff that's sort of Telling a story that is big picture because a lot of the times, I mean, you know how it is. | ||
| Sometimes when you're covering a story, it's like it's kind of cut and dry. | ||
| But this one, there was a lot to dig into, and it's something that I don't think a lot of people have actually touched physically. | ||
| Like, I like to go places to physically experience what's going on, like Vice used to do before they sucked. | ||
| And it really reminds me of Vice. | ||
| When I was watching your documentary, I was like, wow, this looks something, this looks like something you would have seen on Vice 10 years ago. | ||
| Yeah, maybe we'll start. | ||
| I mean, we're trying to get our production company up off the ground, the Fifth Estate. | ||
| The Fifth Estate is what we're calling it, you know, because the old saying about the Fourth Estate, how they're supposed to check the three branches of government and yada yada. | ||
| The fourth estate's fucking dead. | ||
| It's the fifth estate, is that's what you are. | ||
| That's what I am. | ||
| We're all the independent citizen journalists, the YouTubers and vloggers and anything. | ||
| We've replaced them. | ||
| We've replaced the fourth estate. | ||
| We have replaced the fourth estate. | ||
| They don't think that we're a part of them. | ||
| So I actually think that's a really creative term. | ||
| You're right, Fifth Estate, because we have transcended them. | ||
| They're a joke and good that they're a joke now because they've not been doing their job. | ||
| I think the USAID scandal was the nail in the coffin for them, to be quite honest with you. | ||
| Yeah, but this is USAID 2.0. | ||
| So just imagine what's going to come out from this as well when it finally gets opened up. | ||
| And it will eventually. | ||
| I think you're ahead of the curve. | ||
| I mean, I think that this will certainly get people's interest. | ||
| I could see your film getting millions of views online, especially once people start, you know, there's a lot of people in Austin, Texas, too. | ||
| I mean, you should try to, you know, get on all the different podcasts and big shows out in Austin. | ||
| There's some of the biggest shows out there in Austin, Texas, but this is something that needs to, in my opinion, be addressed more by the Trump administration. | ||
| I mean, we saw him fire some of the board members, but I predict that this is going to be the next big scandal that really rocks people to their core, just like USAID, right? | ||
| I think that once you start peeling back layers of the onion, you're going to see that there's probably a lot of connections to a lot of high-profile people. | ||
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It probably transcends international borders as well, as you were saying before, with all these people's ties to Ukraine and a lot of ties to Chicago and New York and Ukraine, primarily New York. | |
| But yeah, you know, when you say that and you say USAID 2.0, I don't know if people really understand the breadth of what you're talking about because USAID was this, I mean, unimaginably massive scandal. | ||
| And when you look at Puerto Rico, you're like, well, how could something that big come out of Puerto Rico? | ||
| Well, you got to realize that the $2 billion that's been siphoned off the island is that's the largest extraction of wealth from that island since the conquistadors took all the gold, you know, in the early 16th century. | ||
| So I think that it is possible, very possible, that what we've uncovered is really just the tip of the iceberg. | ||
| It could be a lot worse. | ||
| I mean, $2 billion is what we are aware of, you know. | ||
| Just for lawyers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure there's even more. | ||
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| That's just for lawyers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm not going to, you know, theorize about stuff that I don't know about, but I, it's $2 billion that we know about. | ||
| That's what I'll leave it at. | ||
| And there's a lot of these, like this Operation Bootstrap stuff that I was looking into is really interesting because it, it essentially, and I'll spare you all the long details, but it essentially was this economic initiative that was aimed at modernizing and industrializing Puerto Rico's economy because it used to be sort of an agricultural farming economy. | ||
| And it was an attempt to shift it towards a more modern manufacturing-based economy and tourism for that matter. | ||
| And it resulted in this heavy reliance on federal funding and tax incentives and stuff like that. | ||
| And that's sort of what you're seeing with the island. | ||
| Like these people down there, these Puerto Ricans, they're not really able to fix things themselves because of the way their economy has been structured by this previous economic initiative. | ||
| So it's not like these people are helpless. | ||
| Their hands have kind of been tied. | ||
| It's like how, you know, I was talking about the food stamp thing. | ||
| You know, 54% of children live in poverty down there. | ||
| The poverty rate's way higher than it is on the mainland. | ||
| The average typical salary is $18,000. | ||
| They don't really have the ability to economically support themselves. | ||
| And they have a declining population because of this Operation Bootstrap. | ||
| There was some sterilization by the early 80s. | ||
| A third of the island's women were sterilized, which is, that's a whole other insane thing. | ||
| But my point is that when you have all these factors combining together, including an inverted population pyramid, there's no, all the most productive people, the workers, the younger people, the taxpayers, they're all moving to Florida and New York and to the mainland so that they can make money because they don't want to stay there. | ||
| And then there's nobody to pay for the social programs like the pensions and social security and the power grid. | ||
| So that makes this $2 billion that's been siphoned off. | ||
| It makes it even more egregious. | ||
| It's what I'm getting at. | ||
| No, it's very egregious. | ||
| Is there anything else that you wanted to share? | ||
| Anything else that you wanted the viewers to know? | ||
| Again, I would play your whole documentary, but it's literally two hours long. | ||
| I mean, it's a great documentary, but people will have to just go watch it themselves. | ||
| Let's go ahead and get that pulled up, though. | ||
| It's on YouTube, so people can go and watch it on YouTube. | ||
| Your social media is at Street Gonzo. | ||
| But is there anything else that you wanted to add about your film or about your travels to Puerto Rico or anything that you want people to know about you? | ||
| Well, just that independent journalism is very important. | ||
| I think at a time like the zeitgeist we're living through right now, it's especially important. | ||
| And I think that, yeah, just, you know, sharing this documentary around, I guess, is probably the thing I'm most concerned with right now, because I think that if it actually would really get a lot of views blow up and bring attention to the matter, then something might actually get done because this is an issue that's very important to the people that live down there. | ||
| And by proxy is now important to me. | ||
| And also, I might tease something else we're working on right now as a way to maybe hook you to bring me back on here in maybe a month or so. | ||
| But we went up to Dearborn, Michigan and did a similar expose. | ||
| On all the Islamic stuff? | ||
| Yeah, I was very surprised by what all went down. | ||
| I don't want to talk about it. | ||
| I'm still wrapping my mind around all my thoughts. | ||
| Just the Islamic invasion in Dearborn. | ||
| Yeah, that requires a really extensive documentary. | ||
| That's out of control there. | ||
| We went up there and had some conversations on a more intimate level because we weren't protesting or anything like that. | ||
| We went in, we had some hidden cameras, we infiltrated some mosques and we actually got a tip that there was a jihadi safe house and we staked out this building and then we ended up threw a ski mask on and we broke in and we found something in there, which I'm not going to tell you what it is. | ||
| I was told by the guy that hired us to go up there, my friend Davey Jackson, he's actually a comedian. | ||
| He wants me to not talk about what we found because he wants to tease the doc. | ||
| But uh, is that criminal, though? | ||
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Like, what you found is a criminal, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely it was. | |
| It was a bizarre experience, though. | ||
| Um, as usual, the news is I I, the news just does such a bad job it's. | ||
| It is wild. | ||
| My friend, Chris Williamson, once said in a podcast that uh and i'm gonna butcher this quote but he basically said that when the news's only job is to be informed and they're not informed, then there's got to be some level of, it's not just incompetence. | ||
| It's got to be at some level, like, you know, being done on purpose, essentially. | ||
| I mean, I think that we heard a, well, give me, give you an example. | ||
| When we were in Puerto Rico, someone told me that the media down there, like the local news outlets, they'd been getting paid off by the government. | ||
| This is, I did not confirm this. | ||
| But that's what I'm saying about USA 2.0, USA 2.0. | ||
| That's USAID was paying off reporters too. | ||
| We found out that the money was subsidizing Politico. | ||
| I mean, like, this is literally going to be USA 2.0. | ||
| I'm telling you, in like a year or two from now, they're going to do an audit. | ||
| There's going to be some huge storm. | ||
| And then we're going to find out. | ||
| And then we're going to be playing clips from our interview and be like, we told you this two years ago. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what's going to happen. | ||
| That's what happens to me. | ||
| I mean, I opened up my show tonight, speaking of Muslims. | ||
| You know, now the president's talking about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother. | ||
| I remember going down to Minnesota in 2018 and exposing all the Somali fraud, right? | ||
| Working with James O'Keefe when I worked at Veritas, exposing the Somalis voting illegally in the elections, bussing people in, exposing Omar for marrying her brother, talking about the G, I went down to Dearborn, Michigan in 2018 when I confronted Rashida Tlaib. | ||
| And I was telling people that there's going to be, you know, Sharia law, call to prayer five times a day, ISIS compounds, ISIS flags. | ||
| You know, there, when you, when you talked about a safe house, I know a woman who I interviewed when I was down there who runs a safe house for women who are trying to escape jihadi families. | ||
| And basically they help these women plot their escape. | ||
| They have these women that come and they don't want to be Muslim anymore and they're in abusive marriages or they're living in these very abusive Islamic households and they come to her location, which it's a church and they lock the doors and they paint the girls' nails and they show them what life is like without living under Islamic suppression. | ||
| They let them take off their hijab, let them have normal conversations with each other. | ||
| And then they help them find a way to leave. | ||
| They help them find a sponsor, get them some money, and they help them literally abandon their families and leave and flee in abusive situations. | ||
| This is when you were in Dearborn. | ||
| This is when I was in Dearborn. | ||
| There's a woman I know, a great woman, who helps Muslim women who are living in Dearborn, who are living under Islamic suppression, because they are, I mean, you go there, it is sharia law. | ||
| I mean even the police department in Dearborn, Michigan. | ||
| They now have their little Islamic patches. | ||
| Everybody on the city council, everybody in the sheriff's department there, they're all Muslim. | ||
| And so if you know anything about Islamic Islamic law or Islamic code well, what happens if you respond to a domestic violence call? | ||
| What happens if you respond to a domestic violence call? | ||
| There's no concept of domestic violence in those cultures because they believe that women are property. | ||
| So yeah it's, it's. | ||
| It was really crazy to think that there's actually a location in Dearborn Michigan, where women are being rescued from their community and they're plotting their escape, and that nobody else no, nobody in the local government there will help these women, because the entire place has been completely Islamified. | ||
| And we'll have to talk off off uh, off the show, because I could connect you with a lot of people out in Dearborn, Michigan. | ||
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You know, I spent a lot of time down in Dearborn, but that's, that's interesting. | |
| I, I wonder um, I want, I want to connect you with my friend Davey, because he is uh, attempting to raise some more money so that we can basically finish that project as well, and he's very interested in this kind of stuff and I think you and him would click on that. | ||
| I uh, I was, I was just there as basically as a production to to get the documentary done but um, I I think it would be interesting if we could make a large-scale documentary, not just Dearborn um but, like you know, Epic City in Texas and Minnesota and Dearborn pattern, New Jersey, some of these places where there's these large Muslim populations and uh, and kind of compare and contrast, because I think we did have New York City as well. | ||
| I mean, you have a Muslim mayor. | ||
| We're going to have our own version of Sadiq Khan now as or a Mamdami. | ||
| So it's happening all across America and Texas is ground zero too, in addition to places like Minneapolis and places like Dearborn Hamtramic, Michigan's, another place. | ||
| You have a lot of places you have. | ||
| You have uh, a place in New York City where it's literally called Islamberg. | ||
| You could look at this one too in New York, Upstate New York. | ||
| It's called Islamberg. | ||
| It's an Islamic compound and there was a group that did some undercover journalism and they uh, they actually snuck into the forest near the compound and they secretly recorded them and they were doing military training, so they were literally training for jihad. | ||
| Well, you could look it up. | ||
| This happened, I think, in like the early, like the mid 2000s. | ||
| This has been going on for a long time and they've just suppressed it and suppressed it. | ||
| It's funny watching all these conspiracy theorists online say that the one thing you're not allowed to talk about is, like Israel and Jews. | ||
| The one thing that I found doing journalism as an independent journalist that you're really not allowed to talk about is Islam. | ||
| Seriously, that's the one thing that will get you banned quicker than anything else. | ||
| I am still banned on nearly every single social media site. | ||
| I I don't have a monetized youtube channel I. I'm still banned technically, like I follow you on instagram, but I never got my large Instagram account back. | ||
| I never caught my facebook back, so these are issues that they they want to suppress. | ||
| They want to suppress because they want to fundamentally transform not just our country, but really just Western civilization. | ||
| They don't want us to be able to have free speech, freedom of association, freedom of the press. | ||
| They truly want us living in an Islamic and Islamic society. | ||
| And that's why you have the jihadists now uniting with the radical left in this red-green alliance. | ||
| And it all ties in. | ||
| The corrupt machine, the corrupt machine that is controlled by the globalists and the elites, all, I mean, it really all ties together. | ||
| When they keep people poor and they keep people impoverished in places like Puerto Rico and they steal our tax dollars and they're funding themselves and, you know, kind of like neglecting, neglecting the country, neglecting, you know, the everyday people, they're creating the groundwork. | ||
| They're really laying the groundwork for political violence, in my opinion, because eventually people are only going to take so much before they revolt, right? | ||
| Before they eventually engage in acts of violence. | ||
| And you see this through your own film, right? | ||
| Some people talking about, oh, if you don't follow the rules, there was a really interesting point in your film where they're like, if you don't follow the rules here in La Perla, it's going to be very bad for you, right? | ||
| Like they want to have everybody on edge all around the world. | ||
| So it's basically just like one big powder keg waiting to explode. | ||
| You combine it with the political corruption, the extreme differences in wealth, mass migration, Islamification, the erosion of free speech, the erosion of our rights. | ||
| I mean, we saw this during COVID. | ||
| It all comes together to create the perfect cocktail of social tension until our country just explodes. | ||
| You know what's funny is my friend Davey, he was canceled from a doing a comedy show up in New York because he made a joke about Muhammad being gay and like having sex with these black guys or something. | ||
| I don't remember what the joke was. | ||
| It's the quickest way to get canceled. | ||
| I mean, you can literally joke about everything but Muslims. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Here's what was funny, though. | ||
| The joke was about Muslims. | ||
| And then I guess this Muslim guy online who was a lawyer got mad at him and called the club. | ||
| And then the club was owned by a Jewish guy. | ||
| So it was actually like a two-pronged threat there. | ||
| It was funny watching something that you would normally see as two groups that have issues working together to cancel this guy from telling a joke. | ||
| I mean, I don't know if the dude was like super Jewish or anything or if he was secular or what. | ||
| You know what I'm trying to say. | ||
| Well, a lot of these Jews are liberal. | ||
| Like a lot of the people that are supporting these causes, yeah, I mean, they're liberal. | ||
| So, I mean, I'm Jewish and a lot of the people in the Jewish community didn't really come to my defense when I got canceled for speaking truth about Ilhan Omar. | ||
| So, I mean, you have this discrepancy politically speaking, of course, in the Jewish community. | ||
| And, you know, predominantly most of these people are voting Democrat, although many are hardcore conservatives like myself. | ||
| Jews mostly vote Democrat. | ||
| I don't know much about the voting colours of the Jewish community. | ||
| Really? | ||
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Like 70. | |
| It used to be about 80, 20, like 80% Democrat, 20% Republican. | ||
| And then President Trump was able to increase the Jewish vote for Republicans. | ||
| So now it's about like 70, 30, which is still kind of crazy given the fact that it doesn't really make much sense. | ||
| But besides the point, it's just, it's interesting how you're not, it's independent reporters that are having to tell these stories, right? | ||
| They're now finally talking today about investigating Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother. | ||
| Much like you went down to Dearborn, I went down to Minneapolis with a camera and started asking questions and confronting people about this in 2018. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And here we are seven years later. | ||
| Seven years later. | ||
| That was an old story. | ||
| I remember hearing about that like, yeah, probably about six or seven years ago. | ||
| But maybe that's what's going to happen with your documentary, right? | ||
| Like maybe seven years from now, we'll see somebody, whoever's president in seven years from now, talking about Puerto Rico and the corruption of their power company and the corruption of the board. | ||
| And then that's, that's, that's the world that we're living in now, where the people, like you said, the fourth estate, the people that are supposed to actually be leading the charge, being watchdogs, serving as a check for, you know, the corrupt, corrupt elites, serving as, as a, as a watchdog or, you know, a form of accountability for people on both sides of the aisle. | ||
| A lot of these people are now just paid off to turn and turn the other, turn the other way. | ||
| Yeah, let's turn their cheek. | ||
| That's what we were hearing about some of the news and media down in Puerto Rico was basically not reporting on stuff like this because of that potentially. | ||
| I got a question for you. | ||
| When's the last time that you recall some somebody from Wall Street or an executive or a consulting firm or something like that really being held accountable and charged with serious crimes? | ||
| I mean, maybe Bernie Madoff, does he count? | ||
| I mean, the last time I remember somebody actually being held accountable, I wouldn't necessarily call them like Wall Street, but somebody like financial tied to all of the political elites was Sam Bankman Freed, right? | ||
| Sam Bankman Freed and FTX. | ||
| But they're now trying to buy him a pardon. | ||
| I mean, there's a whole effort right now to try to pardon him. | ||
| The Obamas through their, through their production company, Higher Ground Productions, they're making this whole salacious film. | ||
| It's supposed to be some like Bonnie and Clyde love story between Sam Bankman Freed and his ugly girlfriend to go and talk about how they're, you know, their whole, the whole scheme, their whole little like fraudulent scheme that they ran on everybody in our country, all the money that they stole, all the people they defrauded was some kind of romance. | ||
| But that's the only person I can really think of. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| And they're making like this whole romantic film about it, the Obamas. | ||
| That's again, when you talk about corruption, you look at the fact that Sam Bankman Freed, I mean, I know that we're, we're really diverting now from the Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico subject, but again, it's exactly what you're talking about, about people, you know, using funds or trying to use the media. | ||
| And it's actually really relevant to what we're seeing right now, because you see the Netflix merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. | ||
| That's exactly what's going to happen, right, with this merger, where you have Netflix now merging with Warner Bros. Discovery. | ||
| Well, what's going to happen? | ||
| You're going to have essentially CNN become the Obama news network and you're going to have all of these elites essentially controlling streaming services because they know that the independent media and podcast culture and streaming culture is the way to To fight back against these corrupt politicians and these, | ||
| you know, these, these, these, these higher forces that like to keep common people down, suppress the truth, control narratives, and silence anybody that gets out of line. | ||
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Yeah, it's you should look into that, though. | |
| That's, it's pretty crazy. | ||
| It's like a form of preemptive programming. | ||
| Yeah, you know, I think that's what I call it. | ||
| You know, it's like preemptive, predictive programming. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Like what Hollywood kind of does in regards to cultural conditioning. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But to like make you think that these are sympathetic figures. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| I would just say that that's just straight propaganda, personally. | ||
| Well, that's what it is. | ||
| That's that's kind of what Hollywood has been doing for a long time, in my opinion. | ||
| And that's concerning that, you know, every time you think that we start to sort of slip out of the grip of the stranglehold of these, these, you know, what, like 12 companies, corporations rather, that own everything. | ||
| And then next thing you know, they own everything still. | ||
| They really do. | ||
| They still own everything. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Man. | ||
| That's really interesting. | ||
| But I will definitely have you back on the show when you come out with your Dearborn documentary. | ||
| I encourage everybody to watch your film. | ||
| It's called Exposing the Shadow Government Controlling Puerto Rico. | ||
| Your social media is at Street Gonzo. | ||
| People can follow you on X. | ||
| They can follow you on YouTube. | ||
| They can follow you on Instagram. | ||
| Any other sites that you wanted to plug? | ||
| We have a Patreon that's patreon.com slash streetgonzo that I barely ever put anything on there because we're pretty busy, but it's 10 bucks a month. | ||
| It's more so like, hey, if you like independent journalism and people that are giving the real raw stories that the real news, you know, the real news, that we are the real news that the institutional media is not providing to people, you know, just sign up for that so we can keep doing this. | ||
| Because it's not just, I'm not just doing this on my own. | ||
| I do this with my partner, and not in a gay way, my partner, Joel Hodge Benner. | ||
| He's a filmmaker by trade. | ||
| And he basically, we like sort of jammed our creative philosophies together. | ||
| He's a filmmaker and I'm a journalist and I do more of the social media stuff. | ||
| So he actually is basically the one that forced me into making films. | ||
| And it was like a natural evolution. | ||
| If you go back on the, I used to work for Drinking Bros. | ||
| If you go back on there and look up some of the old stuff we did, we did a whole season flyer that we were trying to get onto Netflix on Drinking Bros. | ||
| And it used to be like a 20-minute show, 30-minute show sometimes. | ||
| And it just evolved over time into doing documentaries. | ||
| But it's pretty out of control, though. | ||
| I used to have a pretty hardcore drug problem. | ||
| And it's entertaining, but it's more so like a warning not to do drugs. | ||
| But yeah, it's fun. | ||
| It was fun. | ||
| Now it's a lot more serious now that I'm sober, you know? | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| It's definitely an accomplishment. | ||
| Well, I hope that everybody supports your work, supports your Patreon. | ||
| I'm banned on Patreon. | ||
| Otherwise, I would go support you on Patreon. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah, I got banned on Patreon a few years ago when they were banning a bunch of independent journalists. | ||
| I got banned for speaking truth about Islam, actually, after I exposed Yohan Omar. | ||
| So I got banned everywhere. | ||
| Patreon, GoFundMe. | ||
| I got banned on Cash App, Venmo, Uber, Lyft, Uber, Facebook, like everything. | ||
| Yeah, that's bad. | ||
| That's for speaking truth about Islam. | ||
| Was this, did all that happen around COVID? | ||
| I'm curious. | ||
| No, this happened between 2017 and 2019. | ||
| And then I continued to be banned all the way until like, well, I'm still banned everywhere, but I was able to get my X account back in December of 2022 when Elon purchased X. | ||
| But if I had Patreon, I would support you over there on Patreon. | ||
| The Elon Musk purchasing Twitter is the single most important thing for free speech that's happened probably since the Constitution. | ||
| Seriously. | ||
| I mean, we. | ||
| I think COVID was basically the death of free speech for the most part. | ||
| But I think it's making a comeback, fortunately. | ||
| People are sick of the woke bullshit and all the, you know, what would you call it? | ||
| Like, you know, just people like pandering and trying to be sensitive with language instead of telling the truth. | ||
| I mean, the truth is ugly. | ||
| It's not really something that you can say. | ||
| You don't wear kid gloves and handle somebody like a child when you're telling them something that's supposed to be the truth. | ||
| So, but yeah, that's that's that's crazy that you got banned from all that shit. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There's also buymeacoffee.com. | ||
| So you could check out buymeacoffee.com as well. | ||
| That's a good site as well as for independent journalists. | ||
| You may want to check that as out as well. | ||
| I'm always trying to invite independent reporters on my show to share their news reports and documentaries because I just find that the most consequential stories in our country right now are all being broken by independent reporters. | ||
| I mean, I think it's been that way for several years now. | ||
| I'd say the past decade. | ||
| I mean, when I was in journalism school, it was already, I know we're wrapping up, but if when I was in journalism school, it was already like nobody listened to the news. | ||
| And if you, did you go to journalism school? | ||
| So I went to college and I majored in broadcast, broadcast journalism, broadcast media, and then I minored in political science. | ||
| So I just did, I just did undergrad. | ||
| And then I ended up getting kicked out of college a month before graduation for doing a journalistic expose on some corruption at my university with Project Ramitas. | ||
| So I get a degree in journalism and then I get banned from going to my own graduation and kicked out of college for doing journalism. | ||
| Well, that's a step above graduating. | ||
| I just graduated. | ||
| You know, I was, I, anyways, my point was just that when we were, when I was in journalism school, it was like I was watching the, not every teacher. | ||
| I had some decent teachers, but it was like watching a pro it was like watching programming happen in real time. | ||
| Like you, this is how you tell a story. | ||
| You can't talk about these things. | ||
| You have to talk about these things. | ||
| There's a certain number of sources you need to get. | ||
| And I was like, this is the most robotic bullshit I've ever seen. | ||
| This is not at all how you tell a story because that's essentially what we're doing. | ||
| That's what journalists are. | ||
| We tell stories. | ||
| And just, you know, going through J school, I was like, oh, yeah, I can see why all the mainstream news is dead. | ||
| Yeah, completely out of control. | ||
| Well, I really enjoyed your documentary. | ||
| I think it's very well produced, very entertaining, and also very educational. | ||
| And I would encourage everybody to check it out. | ||
| So thank you so much for all the time and effort that you poured into it. | ||
| And look forward to having you on the show again. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| And yeah, everybody go share that with, if everybody shared it with like five people, I think maybe it would, it would blow up and hopefully really enact some change down there in Puerto Rico because it's a sad situation that I don't think Americans should be dealing with. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Completely agree. | ||
| Gary, thank you so much for coming on tonight. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Have a great night. | ||
| You too. | ||
| Very good documentary. | ||
| Highly recommend it. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| We're going to talk a lot, or just continue our conversation tonight about immigration, right? | ||
| Talking about Ilohan Omar talking about how now she's under investigation for immigration fraud. | ||
| You may have recalled a couple months ago that I broke a story about the Ice Block app founder. | ||
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| A couple months ago on Loomer Unleashed, broke a story about the founder of the Ice Block app. | ||
| Remember the Ice Block app, the app that was doxing ICE agents and doxing the locations of ICE raids. | ||
| Well, you'll recall that I ended up exposing the wife of the founder of the Ice Block app, a woman by the name of Carolyn Feinstein. | ||
| And she, of course, was married to a guy named Joshua Aaron Feinstein. | ||
| And she was an employee of the DOJ. | ||
| Long story short, following my expose of this woman who was living in the same house as her husband, obviously they're married. | ||
| The founder of the Ice Block app, right? | ||
| Involved in the company that actually published the Ice Block app. | ||
| I ended up exposing the fact that she works for the DOJ and she ends up getting fired. | ||
| So now she's suing the Trump administration for firing her. | ||
| And now you can see here, this is the story from the website. | ||
| This was back in July, right? | ||
| So we're all already at the end of the year in December. | ||
| This was back in July. | ||
| So just goes to show you that when you break a big story or when you break a good story as an independent journalist, it's the gift that keeps on giving. | ||
| Here we are months later, still talking about the story. | ||
| DOJ auditor fired after Loomer exposes her marriage to violent Antifa sympathizer behind the IceBlock app that endangers federal agents. | ||
| And now today there's a report out about how her husband is suing the Trump administration for violating his free speech rights. | ||
| Apparently, he says that it's a First Amendment violation because they're banning his app from the app store. | ||
| IceBlock app files lawsuit against Trump administration for censorship. | ||
| The developer of ICEBlock, an app that tracks U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agents, has sued the Trump administration for supposed free speech violations after Apple removed the app store from its app store after government pressure. | ||
| Now, you'll recall that I did an entire episode about all of these different doxing apps that focus on doxing the locations of the ICE raids and doxing ICE agents. | ||
| And literally, less than 48 hours after my episode went extremely viral, Attorney General Pam Bondi, who I know for a fact saw my report and saw my episode, ended up ordering Google and Apple to ban all of these ICE tracking apps from the app store. | ||
| And they were all banned. | ||
| They were all shut down, which is great because we have seen that multiple individuals have used these apps to try to find the location of ICE agents to carry out acts of violence, whether it's the car ramming that we saw, I believe that was in Chicago, or whether it's the shooting that we saw of ICE agents in Dallas or just outside of Dallas, Texas. | ||
| These apps are dangerous. | ||
| These apps incite violence. | ||
| These apps promote doxing. | ||
| And these apps endanger the lives of our law enforcement. | ||
| And they also endanger our national security by giving people enhanced information about the location of ICE raids. | ||
| Law enforcement officers should be allowed to do their investigations and apprehend dangerous criminal, illegal aliens in our country who are here to endanger our lives and threaten American citizens without having to worry that some lunatic is hanging out on a roof with a sniper, right? | ||
| Tyler Robinson style, to shoot them in the head because they're apprehending illegal aliens. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| So the lawsuit was filed this week in Washington, D.C., following Apple's removal of the app in October. | ||
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| We view that as an admission that she engaged in coercion in her official role as a government official to get Apple to remove this app, said the lawyer. | ||
| How is it coercion? | ||
| The executives for these, I'll tell you exactly how this went down. | ||
| The executives from these companies were schmoozing with President Trump in the Oval Office and hanging out with him at one of these, you know, Ritzy dinners. | ||
| I blew it up. | ||
| I'm like, this is ridiculous. | ||
| These people are having dinner with Donald Trump, kissing his ass, pretending like they're supporting his administration. | ||
| Meanwhile, they are literally obstructing his immigration policies by allowing for these apps to be present in the app store. | ||
| I blow it up. | ||
| Attorney General Pam Bondi sees it. | ||
| And I know for a fact that the Trump administration took action after they saw my report. | ||
| I know that for a fact. | ||
| That's been confirmed. | ||
| So coercion, you are endangering people's lives. | ||
| What happens if somebody ends up murdering an ICE agent because they use the ICE block app? | ||
| You know, the concept of kill by association. | ||
| At some point in time, people do need to be held accountable for their associations if their association is providing a platform to enable a crime. | ||
| Liability, right? | ||
| This concept of liability. | ||
| Did these app creators ever keep the concept of liability in mind when they were thinking of who was going to be their clientele or be their, you know, be their main customer base, people that actually want to interact with this app? | ||
| Lunatics, leftists, violent members of Antifa. | ||
| I think that they should be held criminally accountable for the shootings. | ||
| They could be charged. | ||
| I think that they should be investigated and charged as accessories to murder or accessories to attempted murder. | ||
| That's what I think. | ||
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That's what I think. | |
| Let's go to the chat. | ||
| I want to see what the chat thinks because I think that if you're going to create an ICE tracking app and you are going to try to get ICE agents docks and you are trying to dox the locations of ongoing ICE raids, you should be criminally held accountable. | ||
| So I'm proud I saved people's lives. | ||
| I think that what I did saved lives. | ||
| I know it saved lives because when I go to DC, I was just in the Pentagon this last weekend and one of the Border Patrol agents who was there who was assisting the Pentagon as an advisor. | ||
| This is one of the guys. | ||
| He was one of like the lead Border Patrol agents out in California. | ||
| And now he's serving as a full-time advisor at the Pentagon. | ||
| He came up to me and he thanked me for my work. | ||
| He says it's saving lives. | ||
| He literally stopped me at the Pentagon on Media Row and he said, thank you for what you do. | ||
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So I hope they lose their lawsuit. | |
| I hope they lose their lawsuit. | ||
| They need to be banned and Google needs to be sued into oblivion. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely right. | ||
| Apple needs to be sued as well. | ||
| If an ICE officer dies or somebody else gets shot, absolutely. | ||
| They need to be held accountable. | ||
| So again, cry, oh, my free speech, my free speech, all you want. | ||
| You don't have a free speech right to incite violence against law enforcement officers. | ||
| You don't. | ||
| You don't have a free speech right. | ||
| I don't know where people went wrong when they were taking their civics classes or taking their course understanding the Constitution when they were in what, like middle school history. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But somebody needs to tell these radical leftists that inciting violence against federal immigration officers is not protected speech. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| There's a difference between free speech and incitements. | ||
| And incitements is not protected speech. | ||
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| I mean, it's just completely crazy. | ||
| Miguel said, Laura, do you ever think of Rashida and how she caressed your hand? | ||
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I actually sued her for assault. | |
| I did. | ||
| I sued her. | ||
| And of course, you know, in Minneapolis, the cop was Somali. | ||
| Even the freaking police officer was Somali when I went to go file my police report against Rashida Talib. | ||
| And they didn't want to take my police report. | ||
| If you play that clip again, go ahead and play that clip so people know what he's talking about. | ||
| She physically assaulted me when I confronted Ilhan Omar. | ||
| When I confronted Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib grabbed my phone and she physically assaulted me. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play that clip one more time. | ||
| She physically assaulted me when I was in Minneapolis in 2018 and I was asking Ilhan Omar why she married her brother. | ||
| Scroll down a little bit. | ||
| I just saw it. | ||
| Let's go ahead and get that clip. | ||
| Right there. | ||
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I'm Laura Loomer. | |
| I just want to quick for you. | ||
| I was wondering if, since you're now going to become the first. | ||
| Oh, no, my hands are cold. | ||
| It's so cold in there. | ||
| I was wondering, since, oh, congratulations on your primary. | ||
| Since you're going to be the first Palestinian Muslim, I'm so sorry. | ||
| Are you willing to? | ||
| I can tell. | ||
| Oh, I actually are young. | ||
| Rashida, are you willing to admit as a congresswoman that Hamas is a terrorist organization? | ||
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I really need to know that if this woman is going to be elected to Congress, it's a serious question. | |
| I heard about her. | ||
| Double opportunity for us to be able to come together as one community. | ||
| What about your choice that you're going to be talking about? | ||
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The so most important thing is that we fight back by love coming from a place of love. | |
| Then why are you campaigning with Linda Sarsour who felt for jihad against President Trump? | ||
| So that is afforded to all of us. | ||
| What about justice for little girls, Elon? | ||
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You voted against legislation that would have made FGM a felony. | |
| Why is she so hateful against Israel? | ||
| Are they going to recognize the United States' decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? | ||
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She married her brother. | |
| Elon, why did you marry your brother? | ||
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Elon Omar married her brother. | |
| She committed immigration fraud so that her brother could get a green card. | ||
| That's up to the government. | ||
| Yeah, and the government has decided that immigration fraud is a crime and incest is illegal in the United States of America. | ||
| It is a violation of campaign finance rules to use your campaign funds to pay for your divorce from your brother. | ||
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CARE is recognized as a designated terrorist organization and United Arab Emirates. | |
| Both of these candidates have been endorsed by CARE, a terrorist organization. | ||
| The federal government found during the Holy Land Foundation trial that CARE had ties to terrorism. | ||
| They were funding Hamas, which Rashida, candidate for Congress, supports. | ||
| She needs to decide whether she's an American or a Muslim first. | ||
| Is she a Palestinian or is she an American person? | ||
| And you can see here, conservative activist Laura Loomer filed a $2 million lawsuit over a phone-grabbing incident at Ilhan Omar event. | ||
| What's the date on that? | ||
| 2019. | ||
| So the video was filmed in 2018. | ||
| The lawsuit was filed in 2019. | ||
| You can scroll down. | ||
| You can see for yourself. | ||
| Conservative activist Laura Loomer is suing Rashida Tlaib over an incident that happened at a campaign event last year in Minneapolis. | ||
| So 2018, again, I was calling Ilhan Omar out for marrying her brother in 2018. | ||
| And now Trump is only doing it for the first time in 2025. | ||
| So you gained $2 million in damages for alleged assault and battery. | ||
| Loomer, who's currently running for Congress in Florida's 21st district, claims the Michigan Congresswoman assaulted her when she grabbed her phone at a campaign event for Ilhan Omar at the Holy Land Delhi last August. | ||
| Talib was campaigning at a northeast Minneapolis restaurant for Omar, who was then running for Minnesota's 5th District. | ||
| Both Talib and Omar were elected to the U.S. House that November, right? | ||
| So this admits it was before they even became members of Congress. | ||
| Becoming the first Muslim women in Congress. | ||
| The two are half of the progressive group lawmakers now call the squad. | ||
| Video of the campaign event at Holy Land shows Tlaib grabbing Loomer's phone as she records her, asking if Talib considers Hamas a terrorist organization. | ||
| So now everyone's talking about how all these people are pro-Hamas. | ||
| I called them the Hamas caucus. | ||
| Well, again, I was way ahead of this in 2018, and they called me crazy. | ||
| They said I was crazy and anti-Muslim. | ||
| They said that I was an Islamophobe and that I deserve to be banned everywhere because I dared to say that these women support Hamas. | ||
| And now that's what everybody's saying, calling them out for supporting Hamas. | ||
| And yet I had to lose my livelihood for years for being ahead of the curve. | ||
| And I still haven't been compensated. | ||
| I still haven't gotten my YouTube channel back or my Instagram back or my Facebook back or any of the shit they took from me. | ||
| But again, it's just to show you the power of independent journalism. | ||
| What's happened has already happened, right? | ||
| There's no sense on dwelling on it. | ||
| According to the lawsuit, Talib violently grabbed the phone as Loomer was working as a journalist seeking to understand Tlaib's positions on Israel and Palestine. | ||
| Talib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. | ||
| Loomer is Jewish. | ||
| Freedom Watch, the conservative group that filed the lawsuit, says that Loomer is suing Talib not for political purposes, but to hold the congresswoman accountable for her unhinged hatred of Jews and Israel and also political violence. | ||
| So you can see there. | ||
| Oh, and then Larry Klayman, this is my lawyer, of course. | ||
| You can see the founder of Freedom Watch also filed a complaint against Omar earlier this year, seeking a Justice Department investigation in Minnesota congresswoman for marriage fraud. | ||
| So when this was all happening, and Larry saw my video, right, he was inspired to then file this investigation as a result of my independent journalism. | ||
| And when he filed this as well, he even cited my reporting too. | ||
| So again, once again, independent journalism leading the way. | ||
| Take a couple more questions. | ||
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Got the receipts. | |
| Mindy said, Laura, you're always going to be ahead of the curve. | ||
| It's a frustrating place to be, but someone has to do it and you do a great job. | ||
| Marnie Hockenberg, who is from Minnesota originally and ended up moving because the Somalis were threatening her life. | ||
| I met her when I was down there. | ||
| Steve Simon, who was the Secretary of State, he publicly stated that Laura was not welcome in Minneapolis because she was an Islamophobe. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| The Secretary of State, after I exposed Yilhan Omar and after I went to all of these ISIS-tied Islamic centers in Minneapolis, the Secretary of State of Minnesota spoke at a Muslim American Society event, which is literally a Muslim Brotherhood organization. | ||
| And he said, Laura Loomer should leave Minnesota. | ||
| She is not welcome in our state and she is not welcome in Minneapolis because she is an Islamophobe. | ||
| The Secretary of State of Minnesota said that about me. | ||
| For reporting what now, eight years later, the president of the United States is saying. | ||
| So look at all the suppression and intimidation. | ||
| We were just talking to Gary, this really intrepid investigative reporter, about how he's being told, oh, you know, you shouldn't come back to Puerto Rico. | ||
| You shouldn't do this. | ||
| They try to silence journalists. | ||
| Assault. | ||
| They try to assault me. | ||
| They tried to physically attack me. | ||
| They had me thrown out of the deli. | ||
| You have government officials threatening me, putting a target on my back, saying I'm not allowed to be there. | ||
| But regardless, you have to just keep on pushing forward. | ||
| You cannot let these people slow you down. | ||
| You must not be afraid. | ||
| And you can never let these people silence you, no matter what they threaten to do to you. | ||
| And now Steve Simon's running for a fourth term. | ||
| And he's best buddies with Keith Ellison, the first Muslim attorney general in Minnesota. | ||
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Imagine that. | |
| Imagine that more questions and we'll close out. | ||
| There's so much to talk about. | ||
| I mean, I didn't even get to go through my whole show doc tonight, but there's so many stories, so many reports. | ||
| Gonna talk about that next week on my show as well. | ||
| Be posting a lot more stories this weekend. | ||
| Be sure that you're following me on X at Laura Loomer and on X at Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| Working on several investigative reports. | ||
| So you're going to want to be sure you're following me on social media to get all of those updates. | ||
| But also be sure that you're following me on rumble, rumble.com slash Laura Loomer. | ||
| Hit the green button as well. | ||
| Oh, looks like we got a super chat. | ||
| Joe Jolena 2022. | ||
| Thank you for a great show. | ||
| Stay safe and stay strong. | ||
| Thank you for your support. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| And if you also want to support my work, you can also send super chats. | ||
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| This is an independent publication, independent broadcast. | ||
| Go to lumered.com as well, lumered.com to read all of the exclusive updates and reports. | ||
| We don't report on things that other people report on at lumered.com. | ||
| It's all original investigative reporting. | ||
| So be sure that you check it out. | ||
| I was talking about the merger tonight about how Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros and how this is going to turn CNN into the Obama news network. | ||
| So read all about that. | ||
| Several articles up on my website, lumered.com, about the Netflix merger. | ||
| If you missed the Doha forum last weekend and you want to see all of the ties to Islamic terrorism, go to the Read More section. | ||
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There's a couple articles about that as well. | |
| Read about the Trump administration officials who were on stage at Doha with Islamic terrorists. | ||
| Another report about the dangers of Netflix merging with Warner Bros. | ||
| All stuff that you're not going to see in the mainstream media. | ||
| So definitely be sure that you check it out. | ||
| Thank you so much for tuning in to tonight's episode of Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
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| Be sure that you share the live stream from tonight's episode. | ||
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| With that, thank you so much for tuning in tonight and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. | ||
| There is a young female journalist, conservative journalist by the name of Laura Loomer. | ||
| If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems will be fixed in about five minutes. | ||
| Chained herself to Twitter. | ||
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She chained herself to Twitter. | |
| I can put her ass to the exit now. | ||
| When I'm all in niggas, you're lying with the bitch wow. |
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