July 24, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 523: TRUMP PIVOTS TO GENERAL WITH NEW RALLIES; BODY FOUND AT OBAMA COMPOUND
On today’s episode of Human Events with Jack Posobiec, Poso dives deep into the massive response to Sound of Freedom. The grass roots marketing of the film has yielded tremendous results, with Sound of Freedom generating more buzz and box office than a litany of supposed “blockbuster” films. Jack also reports on the breaking news coming out of Martha’s Vineyard and a dead body being found at the Obama compound. Poso is joined by President of the New York Young Republican Club, Gavin Wax for a...
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We are in a fifth generation.
For every lie they tell, we're going to get in their face and yell two truths.
This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
If they don't like Ron DeSanctimonious now, they won't like him any better six months from now with the start of primary season.
The more people get to know him, the lower his polls are going.
But he deserves it because he's a very disloyal person.
Just like you talk about people taking care of each other in small towns, we do the same thing in big towns.
Let's be very clear about one thing.
Not a single city, community, or individual besides the looters really benefited from the BLM protests.
They destroyed so many communities and so many livelihoods, yet we're supposed to just embrace them for that?
I don't want to see other agents, FBI, IRS, go through the same thing we went through.
We need to have an independent attorney assigned who has authority, who can go in there, bring the proper charges so that there can be some faith restored in our justice system.
Right now, the Justice Department is under a lot of pressure.
I mean, the argument here, essentially, is that Joe Biden is using the Justice Department to keep his son out of jail.
Government abuses every power that it's given.
And if government suddenly has the capacity to censor its critics, it has a license for any atrocity.
For Donald Trump himself, he got exactly what he wanted.
What we do know is that indictments don't hurt him.
Donald Trump is stronger than he was politically in 2016.
I mean, the odds markets had him at 9% of winning the presidency in 2016.
Right now, the betting markets have him at something like 30%.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Live with Jack Posobiec.
Today is July 24th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
Folks, what a weekend.
We got a lot to talk about, and so a lot of people are talking about the box office.
They're talking about the box office this weekend.
Oppenheimer or Barbie?
Going to see Oppenheimer or Barbie?
Spoiler alert, wasn't a fan of either.
But we need to talk about the actual story.
At the box office, and that is the Sound of Freedom.
Let me give you the numbers in full.
Sound of Freedom is now at 125 million U.S.
dollars, and that's only with U.S.
theaters.
Pretty much every other movie out there right now is opening internationally, is opening worldwide.
So worldwide numbers on this thing?
They haven't even come in yet.
When we were at Bedminster last week, we spoke to Eduardo Verastegui right here on this program, and he told us that they're not even projecting to go international until August, so potentially a month away from seeing even bigger numbers drop in, and they're gonna focus on Mexico and the Spanish-speaking world.
Why does this matter?
Because, well, obviously, most of the movie takes place in the Spanish-speaking world, I think.
Something like 60% of the dialogue in the actual film is obviously in Spanish.
But look at this list.
This is why Hollywood is losing their minds right now.
It's beating Scream 6, The Flash, Megan, Dungeons and Dragons, Evil Dead Rise, Insidious 5, Shazam, Air, Everything Everywhere All at Once, that was an Oscar winner, Fantastic Beasts, Scream 5, Halloween Ends, Woman King, Northman, The Menu, Kingsman, Godzilla vs. Kong!
It's actually beat Godzilla vs. Kong domestically.
Dune, Space Jam 2, The Matrix 4, Wonder Woman 2.
These are massive films.
Huge franchises.
Huge blockbusters.
And based on just the domestic numbers alone, just the domestic numbers, Sound of Freedom has beaten every single one of them.
I pulled that off of Box Office Mojo over the weekend.
I put it up.
Tweet went viral.
I'm gonna retweet it again right here.
This is a testament to the power of the Human Events audience, the power of the War Room Posse, and the movement to save our children in the United States.
President Trump last week, of course, going up Bedminster.
We did the show from there, historic screening of The Sound of Freedom.
We had the whole cast there, the producers, everyone was there.
That has kicked this into overdrive.
These numbers demand a response from Hollywood and there will be a response.
You notice they've stopped attacking it.
The attacks have actually wound down because they realized it's too late.
Sound of Freedom is already out there.
We've got your number.
We're coming for all of you.
You can't shut this movie down.
They had a chance.
They sat on this movie for five years.
Disney was sitting on this movie.
Why was it that Disney wouldn't let Sound of Freedom be released?
Kind of interesting.
I don't know.
But folks, I want to tell you something right now.
Keep seeing this movie.
Keep buying tickets.
If you find someone in your life that hasn't seen Sound of Freedom yet, drag them to the movie theater and have them watch it.
Buy their ticket for them if you have to.
Use the pay-it-forward system.
Continue pushing this movie because we don't know yet.
We don't know how far it's going to go.
We don't know how much it's going to go, but word of mouth is amazing on this.
It's gone up week on week.
So we've seen an increase into week two, increase into week three.
That's not usually what happens.
People like this because beyond the subject material, it's actually a good movie and they're freaking out because they don't know what to do.
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I would like to Welcome back to Human Events, first time back in a little bit since we've been going live.
Ladies and gentlemen, Gavin Wax, the chairman of the New York Young Republicans, who was also there last week with us in Bedminster at the Sound of Freedom.
Gavin, how did you like that event last week?
Jack, it was great seeing you there.
It was a great event.
The energy was fantastic.
It was a private screening, largely for members of Trump's Bedminster Club, but it was a larger event than anything we've seen on the primary trail from many of his opponents thus far.
You could feel the emotion.
You could feel the sentiments in the... I can't even say the room because it was outside, but you get my drift.
You could feel the sentiments from people watching this film and how it really touches people's hearts, how it really inflames the emotions.
And we saw President Trump in the front row, watching the entire thing from beginning to end, arms crossed, took it in.
And as you pointed out on Twitter, the very next day, or maybe two days later, I forget the timeline, he came out, he said, "Death penalty for child traffickers." So we love to see this happening.
We love to see the radicalization continue, if you will, But the movie was beautiful.
It was incredibly well made.
It's a shame that it took this long to hit movie theaters, especially since it's been a unifying type of film.
It hasn't been really a partisan film.
It's been a film that's been bringing the country together on what many should accept as a very reprehensible, disgusting facet of modern society, which is this human trafficking crisis coming through our porous southern border.
And we need to get real about it.
We need to tackle it and we need to understand the victims and all the lives impacted by this horrible, horrible plague on modern society.
So Gavin, you were up there with the president.
You know, I shared my recollections and my observations.
Obviously, members of the campaign were there.
I had a chance to speak with some.
I'm sure you would speak to some as well.
I think the general sense within the Trump campaign is that the primary is over.
That was my assessment.
And that they're starting to move into general election focus.
Obviously, you're seeing that this weekend because President Trump is announcing a rally up in Pennsylvania.
Now, Pennsylvania is not an early state when it comes to the primaries, but it is an important state for, it is probably one of the most important states for the general, that Rust Belt, Erie County area, where he's going to be drawing in people, potentially from Ohio, because it's right across the border.
So, that being said, what is the next phase of the campaign for President Trump, if he's able, or at least in terms of how they're thinking based on your recollections and assessments, Do you think they're prepared for everything, not just that Joe Biden and his team are going to throw at him, but the regime is going to throw at him?
Gavin Wax.
Well, listen, I agree with everything how you laid it out.
I think the primary is effectively over.
I think on the DeSantis side, they've entered kamikaze stage, just trying to take down as many people with them and they're sinking poll numbers.
And I think the Trump campaign is happy to, you know, take some funny dunks here or there.
But effectively, effectively, as you said, this primary is over and they are now repositioning themselves for the general, which I think is a great strategy.
We've seen the polls been pretty neck and neck.
We've never seen a Trump poll like this in 16 or 2020.
So I think we have a historical basis to believe that his coalition going into 2024 will be his most robust to date, incumbent versus incumbent.
We haven't seen this type of election since Grover Cleveland.
And you bring up the rally in Erie.
I mean, this is a purple county in a purple state.
And this is really the keystone, the keystone, if you will, to flipping the country back into the hands of Republicans at the presidential level.
So what I'm seeing is they are making that shift.
They are beginning to reposition themselves, but again, this is going to be a very, uh, unique election cycle.
We're not just focused on the primary.
We're not just focused on the general election.
We're also focused on the co-current fight with the deep state apparatus, with the regime Uh, you know, the weaponized DOJ where they're indicting him left, right and center.
I've yet to hear an argument why they would be doing that unless they were scared of him.
But, you know, that's for another time.
But yes, the DOJ, all these politicized indictments, the weaponized judicial system coming after the president.
I don't believe it's going to, you know, keep him off the ballot, but I certainly think it's going to be designed to drain his coffers, to drain his resources and to drain his time.
It's being used as a stunting mechanism to stunt the campaign.
you know, before it can really even take off into the general election.
I don't think it's worked like they would have intended from a PR perspective.
I mean, I think the donor class, the super PACs, you know, the people backing DeSantis really convinced themselves that these indictments would have had an impact of, you know, sinking his approval rating, sinking his poll numbers in the primary and the general.
We actually haven't seen that.
It actually hasn't hurt him from a polling perspective.
If anything, it's strengthened him, certainly within the Republican Party as a martyr.
But what I think it's really now being designed to do, I think their secondary task is to drain much needed resources from this campaign.
And I think that's really the fight that we're in.
I have the full confidence of the campaign to be able to tackle this, to be able to fight back against it.
I mean, this has been a very lean operation, the Trump campaign so far.
It's a lean, effective operation where they've just hit the ground running, gone against these well-funded opponents, not just Ron DeSantis, but also the Tim Scotts of the world and whoever.
And they've just been able to crush them with sort of a skeleton crew, a very effective, confident skeleton crew.
You haven't seen any unforced errors in the primary or even as far as the general election posturing.
So this leaves a lot of room to be optimistic.
And again, if we look at the historical analysis, if you're To bring up the polls, it goes to show that he's going into 2024 in the strongest position he's ever been going into one of his elections.
And I think, you know, the only variable here that's a little novel that's new are these indictments.
But I think overall, the impact on the general election will be negligible outside of the drain of the resources and money and funds from the Trump campaign.
Well, that being said, it's going to be more than just funds because, and I'm just going to say it, that in the same way that they went after Steve Bannon in Washington, D.C., they've gone after Stone and Flynn and Papadopoulos.
Everybody knows the list.
Everybody knows the list at this point.
Manafort.
If they're able to get Donald Trump in a courtroom in Washington, D.C.
over this January 6th or one of these other things, I don't think there is any chance that a D.C.
jury acquits Donald Trump of anything.
They could charge him with jaywalking.
They could charge him with, you know, shooting somebody without evidence.
They would find him guilty in Washington, D.C.
because there's so much palpable Trump hatred there.
So is he prepared?
And to your point, I don't think they'll be able to get him off the ballot.
That might go to the Supreme Court.
What should conservatives be prepared for, though, if Trump is actually convicted in any of these cases?
No, listen, I absolutely agree with you.
I mean, legally speaking, it's definitely going to be tough.
I think this is a race against time.
I think, you know, delaying action here is really the name of the game.
You know, pushing these trials back, pushing, you know, all of these matters back as far as possible to make sure that he's won the primary.
He's on the ballot for the general election and fighting many of the separate measures that could be happening through rules changes, bylaw changes, through fights at the conventions.
Anything the establishment can sort of dig up to tie his candidacy and tie his ability to be on the ballot to the status of these cases.
I think those are something that we can't let fall by the wayside.
But listen, I think.
Right now, we need to get him into the White House.
We need to get him elected.
I think that is the best guarantee going forward, because I agree with you.
I think he's never going to get a fair trial, and I think a lot of these things, we're going to need injunctions.
We're going to need to move straight to the Supreme Court, where I think a lot of these matters will end up.
It's going to be a long, rocky road.
It's certainly going to be very messy.
It's really going to destroy the last ounces of legitimacy Most Americans have in our judicial and legal system.
But, you know, at the end of the day, I think it's a wake up call for most Americans.
And I think we need to continue to stand by the president.
We need to show his support.
We need to get behind him.
We need a rally for him.
We need to peacefully assemble all exercising all of our rights that we have as Americans and not be scared to do so.
But it's certainly going to be a rocky road.
I think ultimately he will prevail.
I am optimistic.
And I think that's the best thing we could be right now, because I think a lot of this is designed to be a demoralization campaign.
They want you to think it's over.
They want you to think that the battle is already done, that there's nothing we can do.
And to go home, to stay home, to not support the president, to not come out and voice your opinion.
They want you to think the game is up.
It's rigged.
I think that's part of their power projection.
And I think there's actually a lot of holes in their legal arguments, obviously.
Whether or not we could get a fair jury or a fair judge is another question.
But again, there's always recourse.
There's legal recourse.
And moving these things up to the Supreme Court is always going to be on the table.
So it's going to be a rocky road.
I'm sure they have a lot more up their sleeve, not just for the legal cases, but also for things that could come down to, you know, manipulating results in terms of how they're going to have the voter law structured.
You know what they're going to do to reform or not reform, rather, some of the systems in place going into 2024.
I mean, this is going to be the battle, this like boss battle, if you will, for the heart and soul of our republic.
And they're going to pull out all the stops this cycle to ensure that they can try to defeat Trump and his new coalition.
And I think it's going to come down to the wire, but we have to be vigilant.
We have to stay on top of all these different issues and how they're all interconnected.
And going forward, that's just going to be the name of the game for Republicans.
And again, if you simply think, if you're someone on the sidelines who doesn't like Trump and you think it's going to end with Trump, I mean, you're deluded.
I mean, this is a trial run, if you will.
This is something that they are testing.
to see if they can set a precedent, if they can set a game plan going forward to knock out anyone who'd be a threat to the system at large.
And if they succeed with Trump, you know, it's going to put us in a really, really tough place as a nation if we weren't already there.
So we can't allow them to set that kind of horrible precedent with these cases, with whatever they're doing in the courts and in the state legislatures.
Gavin, we're coming up on a break, but I want to hold you on that because I think that's exactly right.
Because people need to understand, if the Department of Justice is able to decide who was allowed to run for office in the United States, if they decide that they can do this to any candidate, any future leader, then that means that every other future leader will not be one who is a threat to the then that means that every other future leader will not be one who is a So Stay tuned, coming up next with more from Gavin Wax.
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When you get back to our interview with Gavin Wax, the head of the New York Young Republicans.
Now, Gavin, when you're talking to people across the country, you interface with a lot of other young Republican chapters, a lot of other groups around, young adults, activists, like we had at Turning Point last week.
One thing that I want people to understand is that and I hear this all the time that they say well you know Trump's got too much baggage and if you nominate Trump there's going to be no way to win the general because independence will be turned off if he is found convicted In one or multiples of these cases.
And I'm saying right now, people need to understand that is what's coming.
The media will have a steady drumbeat of convicted criminal, convicted criminal, convicted criminal.
That is their playbook.
How do you go to somebody then, who's one of those voters that says, I don't know about this guy, and get them to come on board?
Well, listen, I reject their narrative.
I mean, I'm not seeing that in the numbers.
Again, it's going to show that he has been gaining ground, that he has been strengthening his position in the general election as time has gone on.
He's been neck and neck in the RCP average.
Will an actual conviction change that?
I suppose you could make an argument, but we're really getting into hypotheticals here.
I think at the end of the day, for these people on the sidelines, you have to make it very clear to them what time they're living in.
And it doesn't matter who is going to be running.
Anyone who is an actual threat, anyone who's actually going to bring about real positive change in the way President Trump did in his first term, his first term under massive duress, I may add, is they're going to come up with baggage.
They're going to construct baggage.
They're going to nail them one way or another.
And that's what really these indictments are.
I mean, the New York indictment is is absolutely pathetic.
I mean, if you look at it, I mean, they're charging him for the furtherance of a crime, but they don't even state what the underlying crime is.
I mean, it's all just legalistic nonsense and unproven legal theory.
So at the end of the day, we are entering a period of time in our country where they are trying to set a precedent that they can knock out a political opponent, the leader of the opposition and come up with any no pun intended trumped up charges to do it.
And if you are allowing that to happen, if you're going to seed ground, if you're going to accept the left's frame, the establishment's frame, then we're never going to be in a position again to retake the reins of government and power in this country.
We're never going to be in a position to bring about an American national renewal because any figure in a post-Trump America will be subject to the same tactics and the same playbook that they have now used against the president.
So we need to set the stage now that this cannot happen, that this will not work, that it will not be allowed to continue.
And I honestly would love to see some serious reforms passed legislatively to protect I think that would be a common sense reform, but we're not even at that stage in terms of talking about it.
But it is a sad state of affairs, and I think most people need to realize that they are trying to create the narrative that this makes them unelectable.
And I think fundamentally, to answer your question, there's no quantitative data to back that up.
What we are seeing is that he's only been strengthened in the primary, in the general, and he is the best candidate in the Republican field to retake the White House, bar none.
Well, look, and to be honest, I think that's why you can see from the campaign's perspective, they know that Biden only won, and you know, to get into the fact that all of the mail-in ballot laws were thrown completely out the window during COVID, that he only won by marginal votes in marginal margins in these areas.
Marginal margins, that's a great word.
That when you talk about 10,000, 12,000, 15,000 in a few of these areas, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan.
Well, Michigan was more, but Wisconsin.
That you would have the ability, that's why I think the campaign is willing to take time and effort and resources away from some of those early voting states, like Iowa, like South Carolina, like New Hampshire, that they're going directly back to the Rust Belt to start building the infrastructure there in order to win over those specific states.
Because I think there's I think there's a disconnect here of people saying, talking about the election as if it's in some kind of vacuum, when it's not in a vacuum.
It happens in the 50 states.
We know where the swing states are.
We know where the purple states are.
We know where the battlegrounds are.
That's why that's exactly where they're going.
Where are you, and I know this has been a debated topic, but where are you on this question of early voting, ballot harvesting, ballot chase, all of the rest of that, the Scott Pressler question?
Listen, my view has remained the same.
Anything that is a legal electoral strategy, we should be taking advantage of.
And then once we're in a position of power to change the laws, I'm absolutely in favor of changing them.
But we can't complain about the rules of the game as they've been set and try to win with our hand tied behind their back.
That's us going into a gunfight with a knife.
And that's how the Democrats want us to play, with one hand tied behind our back and bringing the wrong weapon to said fight.
Right now, if there are states that allow you know, the ballot harvesting, if they allow certain mail-in rules, whatever it may be, take advantage of them to the fullest extent possible.
And we have seen a record of Republican parties in various states where these things have been allowed and they have taken advantage of them, see some success.
Now, I totally understand the argument that these are not, you know, great systems to have for an election.
And we should certainly reform them when and where we can.
But in the interim, we have to use all the tools at our disposal and fight, you know, to tooth and nail on the margins to make sure that this race is timed up.
And I also want to bring up the point that you opened with that.
Yeah.
2020 was a historic race.
It was an unprecedented race.
You know, you had basically a color revolution in this country.
You had a global pandemic, plandemic, whatever you want to call it.
And, you know, the summer of love, you know, I don't think any incumbent president would have fared better than President Trump did under those circumstances.
And we are not going to have a 2020 style election.
In 2024, we are going to have an incumbent whose favorability continues to tank with an economy that continues to remain sluggish with a global foreign policy situation in shambles.
All of these things are going to work to President Trump's advantage, particularly in the Rust Belt.
And like you mentioned, we're talking about 40,000 votes split across three states.
This is not some electoral insurmountable odds that we're facing here.
This is a matter of You know, running a campaign well, tackling all these issues, you know, in a coherent manner.
And we could certainly win this election if we stay united.
But I think there is a concerted effort by the establishment, by the left, to divide the Republican Party in this primary and to put President Trump in the weakest possible position going into to the general, because they know he fares the best out of anyone against Biden.
And I think the Rust Belt will again prove to be the path for him to retake.
the White House.
And there's simply no other candidate who has the appeal to the Rust Belt, who has the appeal to these nonpartisan voters, these voters who are really just Trump voters.
They are, you know, first time voters.
And at the end of the day, Trump recreated the electoral map.
He brought entire new cohorts into the coalition, entire new cohorts in to the electoral landscape.
He didn't just look at the pieces on the table and say, what pieces I have to take.
He picked up handfuls of new pieces and threw them on the table and won that way.
And no one has that strategy.
It's not going to be suburban reversion in Northern Virginia or the Atlanta suburbs.
It's going to be a strategy of broadening the coalition, creating this emerging populist coalition in places like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
And that's going to be the acceleration of the realignment that allows Republicans to actually have comfortable wins at the national level again, rather than relying on old and 20 years out of date coalitions that are no longer voting for us.
And that's going to be the acceleration of the realignment that allows Republicans to actually have comfortable wins at the national level again, rather than relying on old and 20 years out of date coalitions that are no longer voting for us.
And I think there's a lot of lag in the understanding within the Republican hierarchy about where the pulse of the party is at the present.
It's not in the country clubs.
It's not in these wealthy upper middle class suburbs.
It's in these working class Rust Belt towns, these working class areas in Appalachia, the Deep South.
That is the new coalition that we need to move forward with.
And we can start winning elections again if we embrace it.
But up until now, no one has embraced it except President Donald J. Trump.
Gavin, a couple of minutes left.
What do the young Republicans have coming up throughout this year to get ready for 2024?
Do you have any elections?
Do you have any organizations going on?
Any movements?
What's in the cards?
Absolutely.
Well, here locally in New York City, we have local elections for City Council.
The club has been at the forefront of electing many members of the City Council in Queens and Brooklyn, the Outer Boroughs.
You know, most of them are members of the club now.
Their offices are staffed with club members.
We're going to be continuing that tradition.
We have several races.
that we are hitting the ground, running on, deploying for, door knocking for, canvassing for.
So it's going to be a fun electoral cycle.
But on the fun side, we have a lot of great events coming up, namely our 111th annual gala.
This is going to be our last gala before the election.
So hopefully it's going to be a good one.
We're going to have a great sendoff going into 2024.
That is December 9th, 2023.
You in the past have been an honoree, an awardee, a guest speaker, a keynote at our gala.
Very honored.
Yes, a beautiful black tie affair We're expecting six, seven hundred people.
We're going to be at Cipriani Wall Street, which is the largest and frankly, I think most prestigious venue in the city of New York.
We're going to have a great line of speakers.
You're going to be a returning as an honored guest along with the greats like Steve Bannon and many others that are soon to be announced.
So we're looking forward to a great A great event to send off the new year and hopefully celebrate a primary that will be wrapping up very soon and a general election that we will be securing with great gusto, which I fully expect to happen.
So if you're interested, NYYRC's 111th annual gala, December 9th in New York City, in the belly of the beast.
Wear your finest and come and show support and rub shoulders with all the right wing's biggest villains and anti-heroes.
The biggest heroes and anti-heroes.
Man, I remember the last time we held the event there, MSNBC lost their minds for a week, Gavin!
They lost their minds for a week.
Gavin Wax, you continue to trigger all the right people.
Thank you for your time today.
Thank you for being on and joining us here at Human Events.
Thank you, sir.
God bless.
All right, God bless.
All right, next up, folks, we've got Raheem Kassam.
He is going to be on the road.
Stay tuned, because we are going to walk through some of the numbers and the new data that have come out to us over the weekend.
Some things, we had corroboration on information.
Other places, we've got new information, and we're only, at least you can find it, is human events.
Stay tuned.
Stop buzzing in my ear about the boring people at your office.
I'm trying to listen to the new human events with Jack Posobiec.
All right, Jack Posobiec, we're working on getting Raheem Kassam.
Breaking news out of the Obama's Martha's Vineyard Compound, a 9-1-1 call, so I'll just give you the news as it is.
This is obviously a breaking situation, so stay tuned for any potential updates in this.
A paddleboarder, black male, 43, Missing in Martha's Vineyard, paddling outside the Edgartown Great Pond.
A 911 call was made from the Obama compound, Martha's Vineyard, late last night while they were looking for this individual who I do not believe has yet to be named.
He was paddleboarding.
He was not wearing a life jacket.
His paddleboard and hat were recovered on Sunday.
About a hundred feet away from the shore, earlier this morning, the dispatch address for the incident came from Obama's Martha's Vineyard waterfront home, and it is unclear if the former president, 61, is currently staying at the estate.
A massive response force from local law enforcement, from the Coast Guard, from others, went in, multiple agencies, I imagine Secret Service would have been involved with this to some extent as well because of course we are talking about a former president.
Some of the information that came out to us, the investigation into what they are now calling a fatality, was being conducted and is being conducted by the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit for the Cape and Islands District and Eggertown Police.
The U.S.
Coast Guard, the Eggertown Fire, Air Wing Detectives, Dukes County Sheriff's Department were all part of the rescue mission.
So it does say now that a body was discovered early this morning, mid-morning around 10 a.m.
So at 10 a.m.
a body was found and this is in that same area about a hundred feet away from the shoreline.
It said that the individual, black male, 43, with still no ID, no ID on this individual.
So we're gonna see if there is a way to pull this up because we'd like to obviously know who this was.
Was this a house guest?
Was this someone who was staying for The summer with Barack Obama and the Obama family was it a you know was it a friend potential or potentially was it someone who could have been involved either in politics or one of the one of the campaigns or just a completely separate other family friend of the Obamas but obviously anything going on with this the Obama's Martha's Vineyard
situation is going to get high scrutiny.
It does seem that there has been a fatality at Barack Obama's home there, the compound in Martha's Vineyard.
The Obama Foundation has yet to release a comment yet.
So we're going to stay tuned with this as it develops here, human events.
I'm told that we do have Rahim Kassamon.
Rahim, do we have you?
No, guys, I'm not hearing Rahim there.
Alright, so now we're going to continue on with this because, folks, here's the situation that we're looking at.
We're going to work on getting Raheem, but there were some articles that came out over the weekend, I was going to ask Raheem about this, when he was on, particularly describing the mood within the DeSantis camp, the mood within the DeSantis campaign.
So we've heard multiple times about reboots, we've heard multiple times now about the potential for rebranding, restructuring, There was a speech, a series really, of events and speeches that were given last week and held last week about rebooting.
But at the same time, we have yet to see, we've yet to see any response in the polls off of this.
We had Vivek Ramaswamy here on this show on Friday and I asked him tough questions, I asked him serious questions, I was respectful, I wasn't trying to, I didn't ask any gotcha questions, you know, I didn't say, you know, who are the top five
Worst, you know members of the CCP or something that no I'm not trying to do the gotcha thing But we have some serious questions about his position on vaccines his position on red flag laws his position on legal immigration not just illegal immigration, but also legal immigration because I've said before that in the new right The two defining issues of the new right are trade and immigration.
Trade and immigration.
And whether you listen to Michael Savage in the past, Border Language Culture, whether you listen to Rush Limbaugh, who was of course the Institute of Democracy, the EIB, this is the intellectual bedrock of the new right, as well as Andrew Reitbart.
But when it comes down to an issues-based focus, those are the two issues at the core of the movement.
And I believe, and I said this at CPAC with David Marcus, I said it at AmericaFest, these are the two main issues.
that are the bedrock of what makes the MAGA movement and the New Right separate from your old school Republican politics.
And your old school Republican politics is basically this.
We're conservative, they're liberal.
We're conservative, they're liberal.
It's very ideology driven.
It's not exactly pragmatic.
And this was a difference between, I believe, Where Trump came in using his clout, his social renown, his celebrity status, his business status to be able to come forward and then also state that he wasn't going to talk about specifically ideological issues, that he was going to come in and talk about practical issues, kitchen table issues, they're called in politics.
So things like tax rates, while they're important, they weren't necessarily the centerpiece of the MAGA movement, and they certainly weren't the centerpiece of Trump 2016.
And that's why you're starting now to see a Trump 2024 campaign that's built along the lines of that 2016 campaign, but in full.
Why?
Because people understand that if you are going to be a conservative in 2024, you must be against wokeness.
You have to be against wokeness.
It is the prerequisite.
If there is an R next to your name, or if you're running as a populist in any way, then you have to be against wokeness.
That's what gets you through the door.
That's the entry fee.
And so if you're going to brand your entire campaign as, I'm against wokeness, It's good, but it's not good enough.
Because there aren't enough players involved.
Because they've found what it is to be different.
They've found a politician, and they've seen a politician, hold that practical difference and hold that leadership differently than all other political career politician creatures that came before.
When President Trump came in, he talked about what?
He talked about the price of gas.
And he tied it directly to geopolitics.
That's something that we're seeing right now.
In the middle of this summer, as gas prices are currently going up, as gas prices are currently going up, this is an issue.
So, what does the electorate do?
My interview with Breitbart dropped over the weekend and I'm going to repeat it again here.
I believe that the DeSantis campaign fundamentally misread the Republican electorate.
They thought that the Republican electorate would be more interested in a candidate that was more ideologically driven like Previous politicians, like a Ted Cruz, like maybe a Rick Santorum.
Full disclosure, used to work for Rick Santorum.
My first job, first boss in politics.
Years and years ago, almost 16 years ago now.
But that's just it.
And the Fox News poll bears this out over the weekend.
The Fox News poll that came out focusing on Iowa and South Carolina, what did it say?
Top issue.
51% of primary voters.
Economy.
This was the top issue.
Trade and immigration obviously are both focused on economy.
War, by the way.
So every time I bring this up about my thesis of the two The two issues.
People say, what about war?
What about foreign policy?
Ah.
War is a function of trade policy.
War is a function of trade policy.
Why is this?
Now we know that immigration is a function of war and foreign policy because obviously the last time that Europe and many of the United States were forced to take in so many migrants was because of the Syrian crisis.
But it turned out they weren't even Syrians that were coming across the border.
These were people that were just trying to come in across the border on economic migration.
The same way they do across the southern border.
The same people that Barack Obama took away the DNA requirements because they called it family separation before.
No, there were DNA requirements to make sure that these weren't trafficked children.
That's another story.
But when I tie to it, because trade directly defines your relationship with other countries.
And for the longest time, the United States and the West pushed this one world government vision of the World Trade Organization, the IMF.
And Ukraine was going to be sucked into that and everybody was going to be part of it.
And we were all going to live together under the one world government.
And guess what?
It is completely collapsing all around us.
That is why we are in the situation we're in right now.
now.
So you're doing right back.
When I grew up in the hood, I rolled with bloods and them boys had a saying.
You can't be listening to all that slappy whack trimatazolitsabam ship, nippy bam, bam, like human events with Jack Posobiec.
Now, speaking of when we were talking about the fact that America is now in a state of collapse, I do think that that is a fundamental misread that many Republican strategists have been making over the timeframe where people are saying, oh, well, they want someone who's more ideologically driven.
They want someone who's more ideologically They want someone who's focused on conservative ideology.
They want someone who Perhaps as more of a history in government, but at the same time, you have to understand America is in a state of collapse, a fundamental state of collapse.
This is why crime is up.
This is why when you look out on the street, there's anger.
There's just more anger in everyday life, whether you're Going out for fast food, whether you're in a drive-thru line, whether you're driving around, road rage incidents are completely up.
Policing, by the way, is down, which is a function of the racial reckoning of George Floyd.
So policing is down.
Policing on the roadways is down.
People are angry.
Go look at air travel, by the way.
Air travel is a complete mess.
We've got to get... Hey, Producer Faz, we've got to get Savannah Hernandez on this week to talk about air travel because she couldn't even get out of the state of Florida over the weekend.
She couldn't even get out.
Couldn't get out for days.
Stuck in Florida.
Bouncing between Miami and Orlando and everything else.
All of this is occurring while America's military and America's foreign policy are so completely overextended that we're now far more worried about what's going on in the Donbass region, what's happening in the Suvalki Gap, what's happening in the Sea of Azov, what's happening on the Danube River, which was bombed last night by
By Russian forces, we don't focus on what's important to American citizens, what's important here at home.
Why?
Because we've put so many interests ahead of those of Americans.
And this is why in places like the Rust Belt, in places like Appalachia, in places like the Midwest, the South, you've seen the United States completely gutted out.
And how do I tie the two together?
It's very simple.
It's actually extremely simple.
What you do is you say, well, if NATO equipment is being sent to Ukraine to fight on behalf of the Ukrainian army, essentially operating as a proxy force for NATO against Russia, that equipment is destroyed.
Tanks, bombs, munitions, artillery, as President Biden mentioned to us last week.
The question then becomes, how is it replenished?
How are our stockpiles replenished?
Now, in the parlance of the neocons, they'll say, oh, well, we're degrading Russia.
We're degrading Russia.
We're taking down, you know, our relative gain, our relative standing is going up because we're degrading the Russian military.
And as the Washington Post said over the weekend, all it costs is a few Ukrainian lives.
They actually said that.
They actually said that in the weekend.
But here's another cost.
What about the cost to the United States?
We don't have the manufacturing base in this country that we used to have.
We outsourced it.
We decided that we were going to drop our comparative labor for the comparative labor advantage of the slave labor of China.
And in the China files, we broke all this down.
So we went for the slave labor of China over American workers.
That directly affected America's not only capacity to build this equipment for the future, but it also affects America's capacity to retain wealth and maintain wealth here at home.
And you look at the crisis that we're in.
The crisis of the millennium.
The millennium crisis.
Whether you want to say it started all the way back on 9-11 or whether it started during the financial crisis, 07-08.
And the way we respond to that with massive reinvestment, money printing at the Fed.
Quantitative easing.
Remember they called it quantitative easing.
At the end of the day, the dollar is only going to stretch so far because it floats artificially.
It is not tied to anything like the gold standard.
No, I don't think BRICS is necessarily going to be a threat to the dollar directly.
But the system is the problem right now.
This is why we're seeing the polarization in the country.
This is why we're seeing jobs and basic issues of stability collapse around the country.
Whether you're left or right, there is an understanding that something is wrong with the system.
Something is wrong with the system.
And then the question is, Which side is going to right the wrongs?
Which side is going to establish a new American Republic?
And that is why it is incumbent upon us To find a leader and find leaders, plural, that understand what is going on, that understand that this establishment cannot continue in the United States because they are corrupt.
We've seen it.
I don't need Jim Jordan and a million different hearings on TV every day to explain to me that the institutions are corrupt.
I don't need to read articles and find more information.
Oh, you know, the institutions are taken over by the left.
I know.
Okay, I know.
Right?
We get it.
We understand it.
But we need the political fulcrum of someone with enough critical mass to actually be able to change that.
I don't want to reform the system.
I want to smash it.
I want to annihilate the system.
I want to eradicate the system.
And I want to replace the system.
This is the fundamental difference.
And what they're trying to do with these indictments on President Trump is lay down a gauntlet, not just for him, but for any Republican president.
Or any, I'll just say any president, independent, etc, other, that wants to come up and has ideas that are outside of the mainstream.
Ideas that threaten the status quo.
Challenge us and we'll put you behind bars.
So every potential future candidate, anywhere in the country, is now faced with this issue Of the police state, the establishment, the national security agencies, the permanent state, as the late great Angelo Coteville once said, if you do not fix this, if you do not wage direct political war against them,
They will be in power for the next generation, and they will remake the next American Republic.
