Feb. 22, 2026 - InfoWars Sunday Briefing - Nick Sortor
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Sunday Briefing With Nick Sortor: Mar-a-Lago Gunman Identified After The Shooter Breached The Perimeter Of The Trump Resort With A Shotgun And Gas Can, The Latest On Trump Tariffs And More - Watch/Share Full Show @nicksortor https://t.co/QVP0MLivED
Nick Sortor and guests dissect Prince Andrew’s Epstein ties, citing 2010–2011 emails revealing shared UK intel and bizarre photos, while questioning why the establishment downplays his alleged misconduct. The Mar-a-Lago gunman, Austin Tucker Martin (21), breached security with a shotgun after vanishing from Carthage, NC, raising fears of a fourth assassination attempt amid unchecked Democratic rhetoric. Kentucky Rep. TJ Roberts pushes for Beshear’s impeachment over minors’ gender procedures and ICE-linked fraud schemes tied to fake IDs since November 2023, while defending Trump’s tariffs as legally sound under Sections 301/232/122—even suggesting consumption taxes over income tax. The USA hockey gold victory, led by Jack Hughes’s winning goal, contrasts with past anti-patriotic narratives, celebrating American dominance as proof of exceptionalism under the current administration. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, knowing him as I know him, and he's one of the greatest men I've ever met in my life, and my best friend, and great father to my children, I just thought, I don't understand in this day and age how people can make salacious lies up.
This is defamation of character of a person that is the opposite of how he's being portrayed.
The Epstein fallout, raining like molten disgust from the sky, is so widespread that the panic amongst the normies has cracked wide open, while the scramble to close Pandora's box by the ghoulish establishment continues to ramp up.
The pseudo-British monarch, ye pseudo, because they are actually German, is again under fire as King Charles, longtime pal of the late cadaver raping pedophile Jimmy Seville, watches his disgraced brother, Prince Andrew, get hauled in by police amid the latest Epstein-file dumps.
The UK elite, essentially a pedo class at this point.
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Oh, no, some people want the age of consent to be four.
What?
What country is this?
UK, our nation, yes.
If you look at the people who are involved in the pedophile information exchange, which was most, um, had most of its power probably from the 70s onwards, 80s, 90s.
They had funding from the Home Office in the 90s.
Those people are still around.
In fact, one of the members of the Pedophile Information Exchange is the treasurer of Edinburgh Pride.
Some of them are academics and they look very, very, you know, professional as they're talking about the importance of, you know, giving children their own autonomy.
Tom O'Carroll is a self-confessed, unrepentant pedophile and one of the founding members of the pedophile information exchange.
He knows shies away from advocating the age of four.
The age of four came into it, insofar as children by that age are normally verbal and can normally say whether they are liking a particular kind of activity or not.
Andrew Mountbotton Windsor was arrested on his ominous 66th birthday of suspicion of misconduct in public office tied to his Epstein connections and espionage against the state that can carry a life sentence.
Ghillene Maxwell's family have seen fit to comment.
Astonished to see Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arrested today over alleged misconduct in public office linked to material from the so-called so-called Epstein files.
You are related to a woman who has been charged with sex trafficking crimes and you are saying allegedly called the Epstein files.
He is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair process.
What fair process have any of the victims of your relative Ghelane Maxwell received?
Andrew was held for 12 hours, then released under investigation with cops raiding his former homes the next day.
Fresh emails show him allegedly sharing sensitive UK government information about trips to Southeast Asia and Afghan investments with Epstein back in 2010 to 2011 during his trade rep days.
It's lost in all the other stuff that I was supposed to be at the Olympics today.
That was a much more exciting story to cover.
I was just being totally honest with you.
So he identified him as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin.
His parents reported him last missing at about 7:51 p.m. last night.
That's when he was last seen.
And it seems like, yeah, I mean, he's came from the Carthage, North Carolina area.
So that's, he got there quite quickly, actually.
I didn't measure that part out to see how long it would take to get from Carthage, North Carolina to West Balm Beach.
I mean, not if he just beelined it or if he took a flight or what the hell happened, or maybe his parents didn't notice he was missing until seven third or so last night.
But we've got more to this.
Luckily, they amped up security around Mar-a-Haga recently.
That was for Dan Bongino that was on Fox News this morning.
And look, guys, at some point, at some point, if the Democrats were serious about stopping this stuff, if this was another attempt on President Trump's life, and now we're looking at what, the fourth attempt, and they're still not going to tone back the rhetoric.
I mean, they didn't tone back the rhetoric after Charlie Kirk was killed either.
So I don't expect them to do it this time.
And that's unfortunate because, you know, we're being told that we're the ones that need to tone down the rhetoric.
Like when we go and cover the ICE riots and the, you know, the immigration enforcement and such and what we're saying along those lines.
And we're not the ones going out there and attempting to assassinate people like President Trump and Charlie Kirk.
And there have been independent journalists that have been out on the streets that have had similar issues and have to worry about being, you know, just stabbed to death, whatever, by these people that are led to believe by the Democrats that they're waging some sort of holy war against people like us, against people like President Trump, against Charlie Kirk,
and that them taking one for the team by taking out somebody like Charlie Kirk is your patriotic duty.
I hate to even use that word because patriotism is like a, I mean, it's one of the worst words in the dictionary for leftists, but it's sad that you wake up to this news, you see it, and it doesn't hit like it used to.
It's not surprising.
It doesn't give you that same feeling of like terror that it used to because it feels like it happens all the time now.
It feels like it's just a heart of life.
And then everybody moves on.
You saw how the left reacted when Ilhan Omar was sported with salad dressing.
And she came out like, I'm a survivor, I'm a survivor.
Like, you guys, the left doesn't deal with any of it.
It's only people on the right that have to be worried about being killed just for walking outside.
But sorry, we had a few technical glitches when we were starting the show here, guys.
We're going to come back here in just a couple of minutes with Representative TJ Roberts with Kentucky.
The governor of Kentucky apparently still wants to mutilate kids.
And welcome back to Meaningful War Sunday briefing live here again remotely.
So sorry if my feed's a little bit choppy.
I'm pretty much never in a studio when I do these shows.
I'm always on the road.
This is the one and only time that you're going to see me on any sort of vacation type footing, just because you have to see your family every once in a while, I guess.
But I want to go ahead and bring in TJ Roberts, representative from Kentucky, because the governor of Kentucky is once again pretty much anger to the people of the end, pretending like the boy king himself, and that his opinion is the only thing that matters.
Just trying to make sure that Kentucky remains conservative despite our governor.
And as we're seeing from these latest reports about his desire to mutilate Kentucky children and his near-religious use of tax dollars to get his own name ID out in light of his 2028 presidential run, as I was calling it a couple months ago, it's just shameful.
And we have to make sure that there's accountability moving forward.
Uh, for this, for people that don't know, Andy Bashir recently went on the view and said that faith is driving him to push gender mutilism, mutiless mutilation uh, and so I just want to roll that clip.
It sounds like we're just making this up right, but it's it's.
Clip number nine, guys, but we rarely talk about the why.
People want to know what drives us, especially in a world with social media where everyone's looking for the next authentic thing.
Uh, for me, that's my faith.
Uh, most of the decisions I make are based on that golden rule that says we love our neighbor as ourself, and that parable of the good samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor.
And so when i've taken actions like vetoing the nastiest piece of Anti-lgbtq legislation that ever came through my state, I described it in those terms.
I said, my faith teaches me that all children are children of god, and I didn't want people picking on those kids.
Yeah, so I just wanted to Tj, I want to ask you this real quick uh, and and just say you know, i'll let you, let you comment on the video as well but uh, he's citing his faith, saying that his faith guides him.
Other, you're a man of faith.
I know you're pretty religious.
The guy that actually sued him because Andy Bashir didn't want to let you go to church on easter sunday, say you're probably more of a man of faith than the guy that tried to put churchgoers in jail.
You know, just give me your overall thoughts, man.
Yeah, I have no doubt that Andy Bashir's faith guides his decisions.
I'm not sure what that faith is, but what I am sure of is that that faith is not Christianity.
Christianity does not teach that it is okay to mutilate children for the sexual gratification of another person.
What Christianity does teach is that, for those who would do such a thing to a child, it is better that a millstone be attached to their neck and they be dropped to the bottom of the ocean, and for someone to cite faith as the grounds for doing this to a child.
I can't think of any faith that allows that.
I can't also think about a faith that authorizes the jailing of people for expressing their faith.
There is one true church.
It is the one that was instituted on this earth by Jesus Christ.
Neil Gorsuch called it the greatest intrusion upon civil liberties in the peacetime history of this nation.
Neil Gorsuch was right.
Um, it's shameful that the governor is doing this and there's so much more coming about out about him that shows the outrageous use of Kentucky resources.
He just recently said he doesn't care what Kentuckians think about this.
He's going to continue to advocate for the mutilation of children and we're going to put a stop to it.
The good news is, in Kentucky it only takes a majority to override any of his vetoes.
We passed how senate bill 150 to ban the gender mutilation of minors.
He vetoed it.
We immediately overrode that veto.
That is the law of the land, whether Andy Bashir Want likes it or not Beautiful.
Rick Vicki, the defendants who appeared in court pleaded not guilty today.
The fifth suspect does not have any record of his arrest just yet, but all are accused of working together, charging immigrants hundreds of dollars for illegal licenses.
A new indictment describes the elaborate scheme targeting people who didn't know how to get a driver's license in Kentucky.
The document says starting no later than November 1st, 2023, Raul Talez Ojeda, Lozaro Alejandro, Castello, Rojas, and Robert Danger Correa recruited people who were immigrants and offered to get them a license by avoiding a line and bypassing testing requirements at the driver licensing regional office at the NIA Center.
Those applicants were allegedly told fees ranged from $200 to $1,500 and were made to believe the process was legal.
The indictment says the suspects often escorted applicants on the day of their appointment and told them where to wait and when to enter the NIA Center.
Many of the applicants had difficulty speaking English.
As part of the scheme, Danita Wilson and Arielle Matthews, who worked as temp workers at the NIA Center, are accused of manually changing the status of driver's license records so the system would recognize licenses that did not exist.
According to the indictment, a duplicate license would be printed even though an original had never been issued.
It also says the scheme involved kickbacks and bribes to other workers within the licensing office so that certain customers were directed to Wilson and Matthews issuing stations.
The suspects are accused of running the scheme through October of 2024.
They're now charged with dozens of counts of mail fraud, unlawful production of identification documents, and money laundering conspiracy.
Raul Talez Ojeda was not in court today, and there is no record of his arrest just yet.
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum of 20 years for each count of charges filed.
So, again, sorry about the connection, but I am glad that we have TJ Roberts here on the line as well to go back and talk about this Supreme Court ruling that we just saw come down yesterday, where you've got everything from people panicking over the fact that, hey, we might have to give back all this money via refunds, hundreds of billions of dollars.
TJ, your thoughts on the ruling, we have a few clips here as well, but I want to ask you, because you are an attorney, you work with a firm that's been at the Supreme Court level before.
You may have even had a case or two at the Supreme Court level as a plaintiff.
So what are your thoughts on this?
Was this the correct ruling here, these tariffs that have been struck down?
And then we'll talk a little bit about what President Trump said.
His next steps have been, obviously, he's implemented or signed executive orders for new tariffs since then.
Yeah, so when I look to a case in front of a federal court, one of the fundamentals of Article 3 is the notion of redressability, whether we can actually fix the problem that is addressed.
I don't think you have a redressability in this case.
So I'm not sure how the Supreme Court can actually fix this, even if they were right on the substantive law.
I think the dissenters got it right when they said even if the IEEPA doesn't authorize the president to implement tariffs, there are plenty of other sources of law that do.
And consequently, you're not going to be able to do this refund issue.
You're not going to be able to undo any price increases anyone incurred.
So I'm not sure how the court actually had Article III jurisdiction in the first place to decide the merits of this issue.
It seems to me that they overstepped their bounds on it.
And I think that the three dissenters ultimately got it right on the fact that there are so many other sources of law that warrant what the president did.
So I suppose if we got into the merits and there was some way to redress it, maybe, but you have to ask the constitutional questions first, namely, can the court actually fix the problem that the plaintiffs are suing over?
Yeah, and so obviously, you know, right after this happened, we saw President Trump immediately had a press conference at the White House, called a press conference at the White House and announced that he was going to put a 10% tariff on all countries immediately.
Therefore, effective immediately, all national security tariffs under Section 232 and existing Section 301 tariffs, they're existing, they're there, remain in place, fully in place and in full force and effect.
Today, I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged.
And we're also initiating several Section 301 and other investigations to protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies.
And as of this morning, those have been bumped up to now 15%.
Is that something that you believe is legally sound?
It seems like to me, TJ, Justice Kavanaugh, I believe it was 60, 70 age, pretty much giving an outline as to what President Trump could do to make it legal and keep tariffs in effect.
Yeah, I mean, what you know with that dissent is that there are three Supreme Court justices who are ready to affirm the tariffs under any of those avenues that Justice Kavanaugh wrote about.
You just have to convince one of the six of the six others, and that flies.
So I think it's doable.
I think following that guidance is actually worthwhile, especially whenever you look to how the composition of the court was, because Justices Gorsuch and Barrett did not join anything past parts 2A of the decision of the majority.
And so only parts one and part two A are actually binding where there's five members that have conclusively established it.
So whether there are other avenues, it's entirely feasible, especially when you look to the time of the founding.
Tariffs was the main way that the federal government funded itself.
If we didn't have the income tax, and that's one of the things I would actually be fully supportive of this, I would be fully supportive of replacing the income tax with tariffs.
Yeah, I mean, look, so consumption taxes is actually a more appropriate model for this when you look to the fact that an individual is capable of deciding how much they are taxed because they get to decide how much they consume.
Income taxes, they discourage productivity.
They discourage you from working.
It is the government claiming entitlement to a portion of what you earn.
That is highly destructive to a production-based economy, especially a savings-based economy.
Property taxation is the most immoral form of taxation.
It is the government claiming a portion of what you own.
The federal government doesn't do property-based taxation.
Thank goodness.
I hope it never happens.
But every state does, every single state.
I'm the sponsor of House Bill 75 in Kentucky, which would exempt your primary residence and your primary vehicle from property-based taxation.
And that would be the ultimate form of economic stimulus to the American people to make sure that they truly own their home.
They truly own their vehicle.
They truly own the means necessary to the American dream.
Obviously, there are necessary expenditures that the government must make, roads, ports, national defense, law enforcement, the obvious issues, right?
But you cannot disparage the property of another in order to fund that.
I fully support switching to a consumption-based model.
Several states are in the process to do that.
I believe it's Florida.
They just abolished all property taxes for everything except for school-based property taxes.
And that is what you're going to see from that is you're going to see an unbelievable amount of new economic activity out of Florida as they switch to a consumption-based model.
It's going to encourage people to work.
It's going to encourage people to save.
It's going to encourage people to own property to pass off to the next generation.
And we have to make sure these countries that are ripping us off by imposing unbelievable tariffs on us is not capable of continuing to do so without us responding in kind.
So I am fully in support of the federal government going back to the original way of how we collected revenue, and that was through a consumption-based model, especially on foreign imports, to ensure that we could have good production at the home front so people were able to make things.
And in the event of an international crisis, it didn't have an effect on the day-to-day lives of the average American.
That's one of the most important issues we can address today and we have to address it now.
Justice Thomas said so brilliantly and eloquently.
The language of the statute is clear.
Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the president has the authority to regulate foreign trade.
And going back to the founding of our country, the term regulate has always meant and included the power to levy duties.
But here's the good news, Laura.
As cowardly, as horrendous as the Supreme Court ruling was, as poorly as it reflects on John Roberts' court and the continued torturing of our statutes and our Constitution, here's the good news.
The court also affirmed the president has the authority under Section 301, Section 232, Section 122, Section 338, and many other provisions of federal law that the president can levy tariffs on foreign nations.
So his program will not only be fully reconstituted but it will be expanded.
And one more point, Laura, the Supreme Court also affirmed that under Ipa, the president has authority to restrict impede, deny license or even fully embargo any foreign trade.
So the net result of all this is we're going to keep and grow the tariffs to bring back American manufacturing, which keeps prices low by incentivizing products to be made here in America, but it also means that president Trump has even more tools when it comes to dealing with foreign countries that undermine our security.
TJ, is Stephen Miller right on that topic, President Trump?
After this ruling that came out, does he still have the authority to implement tariffs by himself through his executive authority under sections 301 and 232?
Congress have already acted on this matter and given the president ample authority to impose duties upon foreign nations when they are jeopardizing our security, when they are ripping us off on trade matters.
The president has that authority.
Congress has delegated that authority to the president.
It was traditionally a legislative authority, but Congress is able to say, we're giving the president this authority.
It's called conditional legislation.
Ever since the time of the founding, that has always been constitutional.
And so just to summarize your opinion here, do you believe that the American taxpayer is going to have to write checks for $100 something billion dollars in refunds on these tariffs?
Or do you think the argument is pretty sound as to other ways that the president can put the tariffs in?
And I mean, obviously, this two things are separate, though.
So you could still possibly see refunds because the Supreme Court is saying that the statutes that were used were incorrect.
So there is no way under the current law that the taxpayer would be held liable for this.
That is not permitted under the law.
But that's also why we have to keep the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Because if you elect a blue Congress and a blue Senate, I guarantee you they will pass a law to punish the American people, especially in the states that elected Donald Trump, to require those refunds.
Okay, so if the Democrats were to potentially take the House of Representatives come November, they could pass a law that would refund, or I say refund, but really just write checks to whoever they want to, saying that it's a refund of the tariffs.
Obviously, you'd have to get that through the Senate as well, but the president would end up vetoing that, and it probably wouldn't happen very well.
So the chances are that the U.S. taxpayer is going to be on the hook for tariff refunds to companies and foreign importers and such that had to pay these duties.
Yeah, I want to move to another topic, a little bit of a better topic.
A lot of us got to watch it this morning.
Millions and millions of people tuned in in these last few minutes that I have you, TJ, before we're over for the day.
But I want to talk about the Olympics.
You had so many videos coming out of here.
I mean, first of all, I want to roll the clip of Besant and his comments on Eileen Gu, you know, the woman that was born and raised in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the United States of America that ended up defecting to communist China.
So right um, but well, let's stay if you wouldn't yeah, so I mean, obviously it's, it's.
It's something that a lot of people were upset about, especially people that feel a sense of patriotism, with team Usa doing pretty well in the uh Olympics.
And you have this woman uh, that is an American uh, just keep in mind China.
In China, dual citizenship is banned.
That's one of the things that I think that we should probably bring to this country uh, but so she either is breaking the law over there they've given her an exemption maybe, uh or uh, she renounced her U.s.
Citizenship and she shouldn't be allowed back in the country.
But I I want to move past that a little bit and get into today, where people were actually able to feel patriotic rather than just being mad at somebody able to feel some uh patriotism here with, let's see, with um number 21 guys, you can really get that one ready with a shot scene around the world where Jack Hughes scored the winning goal for team Usa against Canada today.
Go and roll that with sound.
I mean, you can hear that crowd going absolutely wild for this.
I got to watch it live.
Uh, you can't.
You can't help but get.
Get some chills when you watch this TJ.
You know what.
What are you thinking like?
Why have we moved that?
Why is this such a rare thing to see?
Now, the the patriotism that has come out of that, and actually, before you answer that, let's, let's roll some more context here, clip number 18, and then we'll get you on the uh on the other side, this is all about our country right now.
Yeah, I mean look, hockey is the only game that Canadians play and they just lost to a country where it's of extremely minute interest.
And that's American exceptionalism.
Right there, even in the less than popular issues, America is the best, even For the things that every other country is theoretically the best at.
And that's why this is such a rare thing where we've lived for four years where we had a regime actively telling us that we should be ashamed of our heritage.
We should be ashamed of our excellence.
And that is no more.
For whatever policies come about these next couple of years, we can at least know that we have an administration that wants you to be proud to be an American.
That's a good thing.
It is okay to be honored to be part of this community.
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