Ezra LeVant attended a Toronto protest claiming to represent Gazan refugees but found none—just a white Anglican minister who’d visited Gaza in 2015–2016 and a Palestinian woman blaming "Zionist machinations" for Arab nations’ refusal to shelter them. He mocked Trudeau’s $540B federal spending (up from $296B in 2015) and bizarre cultural grants like $8,100 for LGBTQ DJ workshops or $1,700 for a "lesbian pirate" musical, framing them as part of an "export feminism" agenda. While praising Trump’s trade deals and dismissing Epstein’s alleged ties to spy networks, LeVant concluded by suggesting Canada’s refugee policies are politically weaponized, with Gazans still unradicalized—though Hamas-controlled institutions make vetting impossible. [Automatically generated summary]
I heard there was going to be a protest by refugees from Gaza in Toronto.
And I wanted to see, is that true?
Have they been weaponized already?
Are they ungrateful?
What do they have to say?
So I went down there and we had a lot of bodyguards and we thought it was going to be a big fraca, but well, I'll show you what we saw instead.
It was very unusual, very interesting, and it was a bit of a surprise.
That's ahead.
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Tonight, I went to a protest by people from Gaza, except there was no one there from Gaza.
I'll show you what I saw.
It's July 15th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Hey, everybody, it's Andrew Levin.
I am in Toronto on this hot, hazy summer day.
I'm at a location on St. Clair Avenue, which is a lovely broad street in the city.
I'm outside an immigration office.
This is the federal government's immigration office.
And I'm here because I was told that there would be a mass rally for and by Gaza refugees who want less red tape, want more funds, want more.
They're technical demands that I suppose any immigrant group could make.
But in the back of my mind, I thought, are Gazans who have come here as refugees, are they really in Canada protesting already?
Are they really making more demands of Canada so soon?
Or my hunch was, is it just going to be the same old pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests that we've seen over the last two years?
The Gazans were supposed to muster here on St. Clair Avenue and in Scarborough, part of the Greater Toronto area.
But I'm here to report at neither location has really anybody showed up.
So where is everybody?
Yeah, I can see you, but...
I heard that there was also nobody at the Scarborough location.
Yes, yes, yes.
Now, I don't know if you saw what happened earlier.
There was a white Anglican minister, if I heard him correctly, who was sitting here showing his solidarity with Gazans.
And he actually told me he's been to Gaza twice.
He was quite polite, and I was polite to him, and I tried to engage him in some basic conversation.
He didn't tell me much because there was a Palestinian activist with him who was telling him not to talk to me.
I've been to Gaza twice.
The hospital.
You been to Gaza?
I've been to the hospital.
I'm an Anglican priest.
Oh, yeah?
We have a hospital in Gaza, the Halloween Hospital.
I'm not sure why we're being built for cleaning off small people.
Well, it's a public protest.
Yes, we don't want to talk to you.
We don't want to be a camera.
At least I'll speak for myself.
I don't want to be a camera.
So when were you there?
When were you in Gaza?
2015, 2016.
But he did say, and I think he was joking, that the Jews should move from Israel to Florida.
And of course, a lot of Jews love Florida.
I think the Israelis should all move to Florida.
I think that would be the best solution.
I'd like to move to Florida.
I mean, it's already protected on all sides.
There's only many Jewish people there.
It could be the new...
I know you're joking around.
I think you're joking.
No, no, I'm thinking.
I'm serious.
The Jews should all leave for Florida?
Why not?
Don't talk to him.
He's going to twist your words.
How am I going to twist his words?
But I think he was just joking around.
I tried to ask him why no other Arab countries in the region will take these Palestinian refugees.
And that's not a trick question.
It's a real question.
Because I heard that in Syria, the new government has offered citizenship to Palestinians from Gaza.
Have you heard of that?
You'd like them all to move to Jordan.
If you are Palestinian, you are most likely Muslim.
You speak Arabic.
You're from that part of the world.
Everything from your food to your language to your cultural traditions to your job skills are a fit for Arabia.
Not so much so for Canada.
Why wouldn't Palestinians, if they were offered refuge, why wouldn't they take it in the area?
And he said it's because there were Zionist machinations by the leaders of those countries.
I didn't quite get his details from that.
One question, I know you're sort of busy.
Why are other Arab countries in the region not taking Palestinian refugees?
Do you know why that might be?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, they all have leaders who are supported by the West.
Is it going to be appearing on your channel somewhere?
I noted in the news the other day that the new regime in Syria has mused about accepting a million migrants from Gaza, which, you know, I wonder if that's part of some larger Trump deal.
Of course, Trump managed the Abraham Accords in his first term, where he made peace between Israel and Bahrain and United Arab Emirates and Sudan.
Is there a new peace deal in the making?
I don't know, but I am curious how that might go.
Oh, sorry, I'm being interrupted.
Tell me your name properly.
I'm going to ask you off camera.
Well, I'm busy recording a show, but you can ask me.
That's the Palestinian lady who was sort of telling the white chaplain not to talk to me, which is too bad because I thought he had some mildly interesting things to say.
He said, I think it'd be better for the people who are going to be able to do that.
But do not talk to this man.
DeSantis, isn't he the governor of Florida?
Yeah.
He's already welcomed all these Jews to come back after these.
No point in the reason they went.
To come back from where?
Remember they were during when they were bombing Iran and they couldn't get out of Tel Aviv Airport.
Oh, right.
So DeSantis, come on to Florida.
So they all flew to Florida and got out of there.
So I think that's the best thing we can see.
Anyhow, back to the reason I'm here on the street.
I saw the sign that said there was going to be a protest.
And of course, we brought our beautiful billboard truck.
And that's just a straight fact on the side there.
Polling shows that 75% of residents in Gaza actually support Hamas.
That's one of the reasons I think the countries around the world are so cautious about taking migrants from Gaza or the West Bank is what if they actually support Hamas?
Hamas has ruled over Gaza with an iron fist for more than 20 years.
I don't know if you know this, but Gaza used to be occupied by Israel.
But in 2005, they removed every single Jew from Gaza, withdrew every single Israeli soldier, and gave the land back to the people.
They had one election and only won.
The Hamas terrorist group won it and of course never had another election since.
So for 20 years, Gaza has been run as a sort of dictatorship.
Islamic extremism is part of that.
Sharia law is in effect in Gaza.
But more than that, they have turned Gaza into a terrorist base camp.
They've taken billions of dollars in Western aid, but instead of spending that on infrastructure for the people, they built underground tunnels and rockets, as you know.
That all came to a head on October 7th, 2023, when terrorists flooded into southern Israel, massacring over a thousand Jews and taking more than 200 hostage.
I've been to Tel Aviv, which is the beach on Israel, and I've had the pleasure in my life to be in other beaches in the Mediterranean, and it's one of the loveliest bodies of water around.
I wish I could daydream about Gaza if it had taken another path in sort of an alternate history.
If they had seized the moment and actually, when Israel left 20 years ago, decided to become, I don't know, like a new Dubai.
They surely would have had support not only from the West, but from moderate Arab leaders who would prefer to have a peaceful, prosperous, safe, and maybe even free Palestinian region rather than the terrorist hotbed.
Imagine if that money, instead of building underground tunnels, built towers like Dubai.
Imagine if that money, instead of equipping and arming soldiers, was equipping and launching small businesses.
Imagine a lovely beach rather than a terrorist campground.
I don't know if that dream is possible at all.
But anyways, we came down here because we wanted to talk to the Gazans who we were told would be protesting.
But there aren't any.
There aren't any here, and there aren't any at the other location in Scarborough.
And in a way, that's good news because it tells me that the Gazans, the actual real migrants who came here from Gaza, are not becoming weaponized by the political partisans in Canada yet.
They've only been here a number of months.
You can see, let's go back to that billboard sign before the Palestinian lady came up.
It's impossible to vet migrants from Gaza because what database do you check?
The police in Gaza are Hamas.
The schools are Hamas.
The courts are Hamas.
Partisans would say, well, there's the civilian side of Hamas.
It's the same entity.
So if someone actually was up to no good, if someone actually was a terrorist in Gaza, it would be impossible for us to know.
Who do you check against?
If someone were to come to Canada from another country, you could at least check with their police, check with their records, check with the courts.
None of that exists in Gaza.
In fact, the one thing you do know is that the people who would be permitted out of that place have the approval of Hamas itself.
Hamas controls the people there still.
Israel has not completely eradicated them.
So that is our billboard truck.
And I've heard a couple of people respond to it, some positively, some negatively.
Our petition is clear, no Gaza Refugees.com.
If Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Lebanon and Syria and Egypt, well, Syria might be open-minded, but it hasn't been so far.
If none of the people closest to Gaza who know Gaza the best, if none of them want to take Gaza refugees, why would we do so in Canada?
far away from home the weather is inclement compared to the mediterranean everything from the culture to the food to the language to interactions it's a very different canada is about as opposite from gaza as it gets It makes no sense other than as the political weaponization of migration, which is what the liberals have done.
Recently, Mark Carney has said Islamic values are Canadian values.
These are Muslim values.
These are Canadian values.
And there is a way to look at that, that he was being generous and referring to the noble precepts that can be found in any holy book, including the Quran.
And I think perhaps we should give Mark Carney the benefit of the doubt that he meant that in a good way.
The same as I'm sure he said that when he's at a Sikh temple or a Jewish Canada, a Jewish synagogue.
I wouldn't read too much into that.
And I think it was probably Mark Carney trying to be welcoming.
But why has Canada welcomed so many millions of people?
It's the political weaponization of migration.
Well, I came here with a series of questions to ask any protesters if they really were from Gaza, if they have gratitude to Canada for taking them, what demands, if any, they actually have from the government, why they would be protesting outside the building.
But like I say, there are actually no Gazans here.
We saw one white Anglican pastor who says he visited Gaza a decade ago, and I believe him, and his minder, his handler, a Palestinian woman who didn't want us to talk.
Well, I think that's it.
There's not much more to say.
Toronto is an interesting place.
There's been anti-Semitic marches every week on the streets of this city going back more than a year.
The hate encampments at the University of Toronto, low-level crime, and I'm not talking about hate crime.
I'm talking about kinetic crimes, trespass, arson, assault, uttering threats.
I think that Canada is changing.
How could it not if you bring in 2 million people a year?
It's going to change the country.
No one asked Canadians if we want to take Gazans.
No one asked how we possibly vet them from a terrorist-infested place like Gaza.
What do you think?
To follow this story or learn more, go to nogazzarefugees.com.
That's nogazzarefugees.com.
And if you like this truck, if you think it's a conversation starter, if you think it says things that we ought to be able to talk about in Canada while we're still free, then chip in a few dollars to keep this truck on the road.
It won't surprise you to learn that we actually brought security with the truck because we didn't know what we would find here today.
In the past, when we've driven the truck around, the truck itself has been attacked.
So no need for the security today, but better safe than sorry.
From Toronto, for Rebel News, I'm Ezra LeVant.
Budget Bureaucracy Battles00:11:04
I don't know if I should believe it, but there are rumors, or maybe it's propaganda, that Mark Carney, the new Prime Minister, actually intends to cut spending.
I am a skeptic.
I do not believe it.
I think that when he uses the word cut spending, he often follows it up immediately with make investments.
So he's just renaming spending as investments.
Sorry, when the government spends something, that's not an investment.
You're taking away from real investments by taxing real Canadians.
I am a hyperskeptic, but I do see headlines and I see people lamenting that the 10-year party in Ottawa might be coming to an end.
So to get to the bottom of it, there's only one guy I really trust.
He's not a member of any political party.
He takes no government funding.
And his job is literally to be the champion of taxpayers.
You know who I'm talking about.
His name is Franco Terrazano, and he's the boss of the Tax Federation.
And thank goodness we managed to get him today.
Franco, great to see you.
Frankly, I really need your advice here because there are some people who are trying to convince me that Mark Carney is going to cut the government.
And I don't want to close my eyes to the possibility of a miracle.
We have to always be ready for miracles, but I simply don't believe that Mark Carney is a cutter.
His entire team is the same as it ever was.
His advisors are the same as it ever was.
And he, by definition, is a government interventionist.
Will you tell me the truth?
Well, look, spending cuts, I'll believe it when I see it.
Okay.
Like, I do think you're right to be skeptical.
But let's just start here.
We do need spending cuts, right?
We should have spending cuts to the bloated federal government and its bloated bureaucracy.
Let me just give you a couple numbers here.
2015, the government spent $296 billion.
Okay.
2024, $540 billion.
That's nuts.
That's nuts.
So from $296 billion in 2015 to $540 billion in 2024.
So yeah, we need some spending cuts.
Now, you asked the question: are we actually going to see spending go down?
I'm skeptical just like you are, Ezra.
And here's why.
Because guess what?
Fool me once.
What is it?
Shame on you.
Fool me twice.
Shame on me.
Well, in 2023, a lot of people didn't see this in the budget.
It was buried, but the government actually said it was going to find $15 billion in savings over five years.
That was the 2023 budget.
Well, 2024 comes around and what happened?
The government increased spending by $25 billion.
So you know what?
When you increase spending by $25 billion, you're saving money wrong.
Now, Ezra, will Carney make spending cuts?
Honestly, I'm skeptical.
We'll have to wait and see to know for sure.
But what I think is going to happen is likely they will continue to increase spending, but spending growth won't be as high as what it was under the Trudeau era.
Yeah.
I'm looking right now at a tweet you published, which included a graph called Full-Time Equivalence in the Federal Public Service.
So obviously, that's not just people in Ottawa, but that is where a lot of bureaucrats are.
And it shows what some would say is a prediction that the number of, and by the way, the graph is slightly misleading, and I'm sure it was not generated by you because it makes it look like a much more dramatic cut because the graph starts at 300,000 instead of starting at zero.
So it really emphasizes the modest cuts that are coming.
But you can see that that's just predictions.
And their past four predictions in a row, they've blown through them.
So, yeah, I would love it if we started to ease the size of the public sector that's on everyone's back.
But this very chart shows the government's trying to mislead even in their promise.
And you can see that their predictions in 2022, 2023, and 2024 have all been blown through.
That's why I don't believe it, Franco.
Well, yeah, I mean, great point.
I mean, first of all, look, I don't give much credit to the government ever.
Any government, doesn't really matter, political stripes.
They don't really give us much reason to give them credit.
But one agency or department that I think I will give credit to is the parliamentary budget officer, right?
And it's the parliamentary budget officer's report that says, hey, hold on a second.
The bureaucracy increased again last year, okay?
And it's increased crazy amounts over a decade plus.
And what the PBO report shows, and kudos to the PBO, it shows exactly that.
That even when the government says they're going to rein in the size of the bureaucracy, they go over budget.
And even if, and the PBO is very clear, even if the so-called savings materialize, the bureaucracy will still be bigger after those savings than what it was during the height of the pandemic.
So even if these savings come true, they're very, very marginal.
And Canadians are still paying for way too many paper pushers, way too many tax agents, way too many bureaucrats.
That is such a crazy point that even if they make the cuts, it's more bloated than at the height of COVID.
And I'm looking at that chart and Stephen Harper left us with a modest, I mean, it was still too big, but the size of government declined year after year, 2010, 11, 12.
If we are still bigger than the COVID deepest moments, that's insane.
I think COVID broke a taboo.
It smashed the psychological barrier of out-of-control, insane spending and borrowing.
Because I think people say, well, it's a never-before crisis.
We have to do it temporarily.
Well, just like the income tax, I suppose, was temporary till we get through this great war.
You know, that was World War I.
I think that there is no longer a political media consensus that you have to be a prudent business person in government.
You have to be prudent with the money.
I think that the media no longer holds government to account.
And even other parties, it's, I mean, I suppose the conservatives are the least worst, but it used to be, show me your plan for balanced budgets.
Show me your costed plans.
I mean, there was a time even in the liberal government where they actually did balance the budget.
I'm thinking of Paul Martin and Jean-Critian.
I'm showing my age now.
That was more than 20 years ago.
That's gone.
Can we get it back?
Oh, we most certainly can get it back.
I mean, it's not, things aren't too far gone that we can't correct this ship.
But look, to your point, unfortunately, we don't have a political consensus.
I think the people are sick and tired of these politicians, you know, hiking our taxes and wasting our money.
I think the ordinary Canadian is sick and tired.
But look, the political elites, I mean, wouldn't they, they would just love to spend your money on themselves.
I mean, look at all the trips.
They go lavish trips all around the world.
But like, to your point, even the conservatives, right?
In the last election, if we're going to call a spade a spade, the Conservative Party was not promising to balance the budget, right?
Let's just call a spade a spade.
And hey, Ezra, let me just dive a little bit deeper into these bureaucracy numbers to show you how crazy it is, okay?
So you are now paying for 99,000 more federal bureaucrats today than you were in 2016.
99,000 more federal bureaucrats.
But it's not just the size that has gone up.
So has the cost because the extra pay raises, the bonuses, all the other perks.
Folks, in a decade, the cost of the bureaucracy has gone up 73%, a 73% increase in the cost of the bureaucracy.
Are you getting anywhere close to 73% better services from the federal government?
I mean, come on.
Yeah.
You know, there's a saying in government in the deep state, and I don't mean that in terms of spycraft.
I mean, in terms of the permanent bureaucracy that never goes away, there's a phrase, maybe you've, I'm sure you've heard it, firemen first, which is if you insist that a bureaucracy cut spending, they will cut firemen first because that'll freak everybody out.
And they say, oh my God, we can't spend, cut any money.
We've got to keep the firemen.
Another move they do in the States is they shut down national parks because that'll get people squawking.
They don't cut the crazy stuff.
They cut the one or two things that people actually love, depend on, feel are essential, like firemen.
And let me make a reference to a story by Clayton DeMaine, our friend over at True North, who has a story, exclusive, leaked email shows liberals to cut $98 million annually from RCMP budget.
Now, I believe that the RCMP is bloated.
They have so many DEI officers.
The other day, you probably saw that one lady saying if someone suddenly starts talking about traditional family values, they might be a violent extremist.
Like they've got, they're so woke.
Well, radicalization in general quite often will show by people isolating themselves and changing their behavior, like changing what they're saying on a subject, like becoming more extremists.
Like, and if someone you know was very believed in equal gender rights, but all of a sudden are leaning towards like traditional values, and that might be a sign that they're becoming more extremist.
It's it's a liberal move.
It's like a fireman first move to say, oh, we have to cut.
Well, we have to cut from the police 100 million.
We're not going to cut bureaucrats.
We're not going to cut insane foreign aid.
We got to cut the cops.
I know there's room to tighten the belt at every institution, including the RCMP, but that's such a fireman-first move, isn't it?
Oh, it's the oldest trick in the book, right?
Oh, you want a little bit of savings?
Well, let's go after the thing that people actually want.
Right.
That is the oldest trick in the government playbook.
All governments do it.
All bureaucrats do it because they don't want to let go of your wallet, right?
So they want to fear you into thinking that there is no fat on the government steak to cut.
But boy, let me tell you, there's lots of fat in Ottawa, right?
So you're totally right, Ezra.
This is the oldest trick in the government book.
But, you know, to a point that you raised too, or maybe a point that I'll really nail home is like, look, no disrespect to any service member, you know, whether that's in the police or in the forces.
But, you know, like after 10 years of a Trudeau government, I think that you should be able to find savings in every single area of the budget, regardless of what it is, right?
After the Trudeau government's crazy spending spree, savings should be found everywhere.
Like, let me just give you an example about Department of National Defense, right?
$1,700 on Lesbian Pirates00:03:40
Where the Department of National Defense spent, what, $30 million on sleeping bags that didn't work because they weren't warm enough for the Canadian winter?
Really?
Military intelligence didn't see it coming that it gets kind of cold in Canada during the winter?
Yeah.
You know, I'm looking at your tweet.
You've got a great tweet out there with sometimes it's the small examples that are more persuasive than even the big examples.
It's tough to wrap your mind around the word billion, but then you read, and I'm looking at your tweet here, $8,100 to organized DJ, like disc jockey workshops in Turkey and Georgia for the LGBTQ community to quote, bring more diversity into the world of DJing.
Now, I haven't been in a nightclub in a long time, I have to tell you, but I don't think that the LGBTQ community is underrepresented in DJing.
And if it is, I don't know if it's Canada's role to be sending foreign aid to Turkey and Georgia to fix that.
That's just so insane.
I wish we had a Canadian version of what Elon Musk and his Doge team were doing.
Just by the hundred, just saying, nope, nope, nope, nope.
All these are interesting ideas.
None of them are important or more important than letting taxpayers keep their money.
And you've got like half a dozen examples just in this one tweet.
And that is not even 1% or 1% or 1% of the problem here.
Oh, we got the receipts.
And look, hey, look, you want to put on this DJ workshop?
I got an idea.
Pay for it with your own money, right?
Like, I don't care.
You know, fill your boots with your own money, not with taxpayers.
Here's a couple other good ones, Ezra.
Global Affairs spent 8,800 bucks on a sex toy show in Germany called Whose Jizz Is This?
Oh my God.
Now, Ezra, I don't know.
Maybe I'm a little old-fashioned, but if the Germans want to throw a little sex toy show, how about they pay for it themselves?
You know, not with our money.
Or how about this one?
Global Affairs, 12 grand.
So seniors in other countries could talk about their sex lives in front of live audiences.
And these aren't even Canadian seniors.
The government is outsourcing old people's sex stories.
Oh my God.
You know what?
I don't know why there's such a focus on sex.
I think it's because Trudeau said he's going to export feminism and export his cultural views around the world.
I really think that's part of it.
If I recall, he said he had spent $11 billion promoting feminism.
So maybe that's where I'm quoting again from your tweet here: $1,700 on a musical about lesbian pirates.
That feels like it's made up.
That feels like that can't be true.
It's like, you know, those mad libs where you just ask people for a random adjective or like that just can't.
I find that really crazy.
And I've seen a lot of crazy stuff.
Were there really a musical on lesbian pirates that got $1,700?
Oh, we got the receipts.
Access to information requests.
Look, Ezra, I don't even have a joke for you.
I'm just going to read you the description of the musical that we got from the government.
Okay.
The musical tells the untold story of the ruthless Maverick and lesbian pirates who met while cross-dressing as male pirates, fell in love, slaughtered swaths of men, stole treasure, and escaped persecution of the law.
There you have it, folks.
You know what?
I got nothing.
That nothing will stop that, Franco.
Oh, boy.
Well, I'm so glad you're out there fighting the good fight.
You know, I want to let you know that I'm more partisan than you are, of course, and I'm no fan of Mark Carney.
If he actually does make cuts, real cuts, I'll say it and I'll thank him for it.
Nothing Will Stop That00:02:38
But I am not yet persuaded that he will.
I think it's part of a trick.
I don't think he is, I think that you have really a reheated, revived, exhumed version of Trudeau's government.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
Franco, great to catch up with you.
Thanks for your time.
Hey, thank you so much.
There he is, Franco Terrazano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Stay with us.
More ahead.
just gonna go check out some pirate musical now if you don't mind oh hey everybody i I am back in the studio now, of course, after having been out at this protest for Gaza.
And we thought it was going to be a big deal.
And I think the cops did too.
They had six police cars parked on the street by the time it was obvious that nothing was going to happen.
Three of them left.
But to have a serious police presence, both in downtown Toronto and in Scarborough, and we took it seriously too.
We had four big bodyguards, partly to guard the truck and partly to guard me, I guess, because I thought it was going to be a big brouhaha, like the anti-Semitic pro-Hamas protests every week at Bathurst and Shepherd, which is in a Jewish neighborhood where the pro-Hamas types drive in.
Didn't happen.
There were just two people there, and they were very ideologically different.
One was sort of an elderly Anglican guy who seemed like sort of a left-wing do-gooder.
I don't have anything mean to say about the guy.
And there was someone who seemed like a Palestinian social worker, but I'm not sure if she was Palestinian herself.
It was very different than the paid professional protester types that we're used to seeing.
And it was an interesting thing.
I was prepared to ask some real questions of people from Gaza, but I guess the good news is they're busy building a life here.
They're not becoming radicalized and weaponized into protesters.
I guess, thank God for small miracles.
I'm not sure what to make of Syria's idea of bringing a million Gazans to Syria.
I'm not sure if people in Syria would like that too much.
But it suggests that possibilities are being floated as trial balloons in the region.
And that's because things are shaken up.
Things are disrupted.
Bashar Assad of Syria, gone.
Hezbollah, extirpated from Lebanon.
The heads of Hezbollah, gone.
2,000 of them blown up with pagers.
Iran, neutered.
I think there is a short window of possibility in the Middle East.
Trump's Unprecedented Victories00:01:31
I think the Saudis and other Sunni Muslims want a deal done.
It'll be interesting to see if Trump can do it.
You know, there's a lot of chatter these days about Trump, including about things like the Epstein files, which I believe are important.
But just every day, Trump is scoring an enormous, huge, important victory of sorts that maybe are just as important as the Epstein files.
By the way, I believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a rapist.
It's not even a matter of question.
He was convicted of saying.
And I think the sophistication of his operations suggests he was working for one or more international spy agencies.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if he was working for the CIA and the FBI and Israel and the five eyes.
I think that's sort of how it works.
We'll find out.
But in the meantime, Donald Trump is proving that he can chew a bubblegum and walk at the same time, as the kids say.
I mean, he just announced a huge new trade deal with Indonesia, where they're dropping all their tariffs for American goods.
Indonesia is an enormous country, almost a third of a billion people there.
How is that not an important accomplishment?
That alone, more than Biden achieved in his entire term.
So yeah, I think that Donald Trump has had the most consequential and most successful first six months of any presidency, perhaps other than Lincoln.
And, you know, I'm a Canadian, he's an American, but I can say on behalf of the rest of the world, Donald Trump is improving the place, don't you think?