Congressman Dan Crenshaw confronts Shawn Ryan's allegations of a fabricated assault conspiracy, dismissing them as engagement-baiting while clarifying his brokerage held only $40,000. He defends U.S. kinetic strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific as necessary counter-terrorism measures against Venezuelan-backed networks, justifying "double tap" protocols used to eliminate survivors. Crenshaw also outlines legislative priorities including flood mitigation funding, blocking federal transgender treatments for minors, and streamlining oil pipeline permits, while warning that midterms hinge on communicating the Working Families Tax Cut Act's benefits to prevent government shutdowns. [Automatically generated summary]
So, okay, so having seen the intelligence, having just come from this hearing, did you see the or I don't even know if you're allowed to say, but have you seen the classified video that deals with the double tap that got everybody freaked out?
So do you think this is just a little bit of people falling for the mainstream narrative?
Like it just came out so quickly, like, oh my God, something so illegal must have happened here.
And it's like, they must have been waving a white flag and da, da, da.
Where to me, it seems, again, putting aside the morality, not well, not exactly putting aside the morality, but the basic direction of it is that people agree with Trump.
We've just had it with drugs coming to our shores illegally.
This idea that I've gotten very rich off of Congress.
There's no evidence for that whatsoever.
People just make up numbers and they post them.
And, you know, Stan Crane Trust gets, it's clickbait.
It's pure clickbait.
It's pretty easy to disprove.
You know, since we, since we actually disclose all of our trades and all of our financial disclosures, the most I've ever had in a brokerage account is about $40,000.
And I have a lot less than that now.
So that just puts it in perspective.
Like this idea of making millions.
And he said, I hired the famous DJ, Steve Aoki, for my birthday party.
Not sure at all.
I reached out to him privately when he said this like a year ago.
And I'm like, you know, you can just reach out to your fellow team guy.
And he never did, never asked any questions.
And but then recently said that that message was a threat.
And it's funny because it's like, you know, we can just pull up the message.
And so he says that, well, because you said SEAL team six, it means you threatened me.
I'm like, no, I just said they told me that.
Literally, it's like we can read this.
It's not like we misunderstood a conversation here.
And so, you know, look, man, I have better things to do.
You know, we're about to go vote on a bill that streamlines permitting that we desperately need in our district for building oil and gas pipelines, for building infrastructure.
On Thursday, I'll be putting up my bill to stop funding for hospital children's hospitals that do transgender treatments on minors.
Like, this is big stuff that we're trying to work on.
I work on flood mitigation, right?
Like, you know, we've been able to get $200 million or so back to my district for flood mitigation projects.
Because remember, when I ran for Congress, that was in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
Every single day, we are trying to do something that actually matters.
I mean, this month, it's all about healthcare.
And, you know, I'm on the Health Subcommittee for Energy and Commerce.
Like, I hate these dumb, these, these ridiculous social media fights that media people just like to create.
Well, this guy's lost multiple elections, lost Kevin Brady, has lost Montgomery County's current county judge.
And he'll lose again.
Look, because once people see the record and understand, look, what are we really voting on?
We're voting on what I'm going to do for you, not some stuff that somebody else is making up or what you're going to, or this tit for tat about reputational assaults.
It's about what I'm going to do.
And people know what I'm going to do.
I'm the lead on everything that has to do with the cartels and the fentanyl problem.
I'm the one who goes and creates that legislation and leads that and has led that task force in the past.
I work on defense intelligence.
I literally chair the subcommittee.
It's a huge responsibility keeping America safe.
I work the energy issues for my state because I'm on energy and commerce.
I work the healthcare issues for my state and energy and commerce.
I had the chance to be hugely influential when we did the Medicaid reform that really saved us over a trillion dollars in the long term without really hurting the system itself, even though Democrats claim that.
Longer story.
We can debunk everything they say about it.
So that's real work.
That's stuff that like, that's the reason you run because there's a lot of cons to running in politics, as you well know, right?
Especially if you would go on Saturday Night Live.
But when it comes to like the Sean Ryan thing, it's look, I expect a huge degree of criticism, people making things up, but you can't lie about me committing a crime, whether it's insider trading or whether it's conspiring to assault you.
Like these are criminal things.
And I do have to defend my reputation.
My daughter is going to read this stuff one day.
And so I do it in a, I do it with what I, where I try to put the least amount of effort possible into it so I can continue to do the job that I was sent here to do by my constituents.
Well, the thing is, is what it did was stop your taxes from increasing.
They were automatically, by law, going to increase.
And I bet you most Americans weren't prepared for that.
And I think we need to say that more often.
The Democrats are literally running on the midterms on the idea that your taxes should have been raised because they all wanted that.
They did not want the 2017 tax cuts to be extended.
That's effectively what we did.
We've got to say that more.
I think that's why the president changed the name from Big Beautiful Bill to, I think, something more accurate, which was Working Families Tax Cut Act.
Because that's really what it was.
And there was more to it than just not increasing your taxes.
There's no tax on tips.
There was no taxes on Social Security, salt deductions, but also not for the rich.
So when Democrats are like, well, you just cut taxes for billionaires, I always just say, tell me which provision does that?
Because in fact, we managed to make every single tax, if there was a tax cut, only apply to the middle class.
So we just got to say that more.
We got to say what we're doing.
We got to be confident about it and deliver on the agenda because the agenda is popular.
And the infighting is terrible and shouldn't happen.
We go into all the things we're watching right now in our own movement.
But in the end, our job in Congress is deliver on the agenda, deliver on Trump's agenda because the agenda is popular and it works for the American people.