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| A lot to get to today. | |
| A lot of interesting news out there. | |
| Um a lot of it having to do with the Biden family syndicate and what we're now discovering. | |
| And by the way, and I'm not buying this lie. | |
| The Justice Department, Merrick Arlin out there, remember they they was they were giddy. | |
| We authorized the raid on Mar-a-Lago. | |
| Christopher Ray, Merrick Garland. | |
| They were proud of it. | |
| All of a sudden now, not once, not twice, three, four, five times. | |
| They, you know, we have documents in different locations with Joe Biden. | |
| And so the double standard is clear. | |
| It is obvious, it is transparent. | |
| Now, if you look at fake news CNN, they're reporting that the Justice Department, they were prepared to obtain a search warrant if Biden hadn't consented to the home search. | |
| Donald Trump consented to Mar-a-Lago search. | |
| How do we know that? | |
| We know that because the FBI was on the premises, invited in at Mar-a-Lago with unfettered access. | |
| They were in the very room where ultimately during the raid that the documents were found, nobody moved them after the FBI had gone in there when they were invited in there. | |
| They called back and said, put a padlock on. | |
| They did. | |
| So why would they think that they couldn't ask again? | |
| Can we go back and look at those documents just to make sure that none of them are classified? | |
| The FBI, I'm sure knew right then and there. | |
| Why didn't they take them at the time when they had easy access to them? | |
| Nobody was being uncooperative. | |
| Uh since then, uh the Trump people, according to my sources, hired a private firm, invited the DOJ, invited the FBI to go with them and search every crevice of every property uh where there might possibly be any documents related to Donald Trump's presidency. | |
| They declined that invitation. | |
| So the Justice Department is trying to make an excuse why they they raided Trump's property, but not Joe Biden's. | |
| So they're saying that if Joe Biden had objected to the Justice Department request to search his Wilmington home, why didn't they go to the Rehoboth Beach House home? | |
| When are they gonna raid that home? | |
| They say the DOJ would have sought a search warrant. | |
| Anyway, so assuming for a second that might be true, which it isn't, then why wasn't Trump given the exact same option, which would have been to voluntarily search his home, have unfettered access before Merrick Garland and Christopher Ray ordered 30 armed FBI agents to execute a surprise raid on Trump's home. | |
| And why didn't they allow Trump's lawyers to go along and and follow along just as Joe Biden's did? | |
| The FBI's unprecedented search of Biden's home and in Wilmington, Delaware resulted from quote, high stakes discussions according to CNN. | |
| No, CNN is running cover like they always do for you know fake news and anything, you know, democratic, radical socialist. | |
| Anyway, so it resulted in a discussions between the Justice Department, but Biden attorneys over when and how it would take place, and Biden's team stresses that they were cooperative. | |
| Well, then if the FBI is on the property at Mar-a-Lago in in Palm Beach, why and they are in the room where the classified documents ultimately were found, and they asked for a padlock to be put on. | |
| I doubt they would have asked for a padlock to be put on had they not saw uh that there were classified and and top secret documents there. | |
| It's really that simple. | |
| What they're telling us, what they're feeding fake news CNN is just total complete BS, and they're trying to run interference and portray the Justice Department of Joe Biden in the executive branch of Joe Biden and the FBI, part of the executive branch of Joe Biden. | |
| Uh that they're trying to cover up the double standard in terms of this is not equal justice under the law or application of our laws. | |
| They're treating it differently and bragging at first they were bragging about it. | |
| They had no idea that this Biden disaster would happen. | |
| You know, Justice Department never raised the possibility of a warrant during recent discussions, according to law enforcement sources, even though the possibility loomed. | |
| Okay, so if Friday's search was the result of negotiations, I want to know what the FBI's original search demands were, specifically what did the FBI give up in exchange for Biden's cooperation. | |
| Did the FBI intend to search through uh Joe Biden's uh closet and underwear draw as they did Melania Trump uh was was you know was that the issue the FBI would negotiated away because Donald Trump didn't get the same courtesy. | |
| Did the FBI search the rooms where Hunter lived? | |
| Or was that negotiated away as well? | |
| The fact is is that it is a double standard. | |
| Trump was not allowed to have any input whatsoever when the FBI searched the home. | |
| Then they demanded that the security cameras be turned off. | |
| Well, in fact, they were not turned off, which I think was a good decision on the part of the Trump people. | |
| Why should they turn off security cameras? | |
| Why? | |
| Because it keeps them honest. | |
| Anyway, the White House won't say now if Biden will cooperate if the Justice Department decides to search his University of Delaware records. | |
| The quote completely cooperating Biden White House, they won't say they won't answer whether they will cooperate with the Justice Department if they decide to search the treasure trove of secret Biden records hidden away at the University of Delaware. | |
| Well, that sounds to me like a place that they ought to be raiding tomorrow, maybe today even. | |
| Senator Cruz called the search Monday after the FBI's Friday hunt through Biden's home, turning up even more sensitive items dating from his Senate years, you know, and vice president years. | |
| The post uh anyway, asked the New York Post asked Colleen Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing for a response to Senator Cruz's call to pour over the 1,850 boxes of Biden's Senate papers and 415 gigabytes, gigabytes of electronic files that Biden gifted in 2012 to his under undergraduate alma mater. | |
| When it comes to documents on this ongoing legal matter, I refer you to the White House's counsel office. | |
| They don't want to answer that question. | |
| Apparently they won't even say. | |
| Why won't they answer? | |
| By the way, the 2014 Hunter Biden email about Ukraine might have and looks like it must it has been. | |
| Miranda Devine has a great piece about this. | |
| Classified information. | |
| Now, yesterday we covered a 2015 email of the executive assistant of Joe Biden recommended by Hunter Biden, uh Kathy Chunk, she's a top aid to them, was a top aid of them Vice President Joe Biden sent by Hunter Biden. | |
| Anyway, the email included the private cell phone numbers of almost every member of the of Barack Obama's cabinet, along with cell phone numbers for the top House and U.S. Senate Democrats, even Secret Service agents. | |
| Well, that would be extremely sensitive information and certainly would be classified. | |
| Now, today we have a report that Hunter Biden included extremely you know prescient inside information about Ukraine in a 2014 email to one of his business partners. | |
| In other words, the the information that was sent to Hunter was was classified. | |
| And I referred to the law yesterday that was applicable to this. | |
| Anyway, so uh the New York Post points out that a 2014 Hunter Biden email about Ukraine looks suspiciously like it could have come from classified information, at least according to one GOP senator, uh Ron Johnson said from Wisconsin that the April 12, 2014 message to one of the one of Hunter Biden's business partners resembles documents that the State Department gives members of the Senate when they travel overseas. | |
| Quote, it reads like one of those scene setters, highly detailed information in terms of Ukraine, according to Senator Johnson. | |
| The email from Hunter to his partner, Devin Archer, includes a granular 22-point memo where Hunter described his thoughts after doing, quote, some research. | |
| Well, those thoughts include the prescient prediction, if you will, of Petro Poroshenko, who would be elected Ukraine's president the following month, and that some sort of decentralization will likely occur in the East. | |
| Quote, if it doesn't, the Russians will continue to escalate their destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full-scale takeover of the eastern region. | |
| Most critically, the Donsack region, Hunter Biden wrote, the strategic value is to create a land bridge for uh Russia to Crimea. | |
| Wow. | |
| Hunter knew all that at a time we believe, which connects to his time uh of his personal troubles. | |
| 1,300 word email, far more detailed and lengthy than anything else found on Hunter's laptop, referenced an upcoming trip to Ukraine by then Vice President Joe Biden. | |
| Not sure if this is the one where he demanded leveraged the billion taxpayer dollars to get the prosecutor investigating Hunter fired uh in six hours, which he accomplished and bragged about. | |
| The same guy that was paying Hunter, you know, the same guy investigating Hunter and his connection to Baris Maholdings, which was paying Hunter millions of dollars when he has no experience in energy or Ukraine. | |
| Anyway, so the email was written about the same time when Devin Archer and Hunter Biden were trying to get on the board of Barisma and get the you know three, four million dollar payday. | |
| Uh and three days later, Vice President Biden met with Devin Archer in the White House. | |
| Then Joe Biden goes to Ukraine and is listed as the face of the Obama administration in Ukraine. | |
| I'm not sure if this is the time where he leveraged the billion taxpayer dollars. | |
| But it's obvious, by the way, that once again the lie, the big lie of Joe Biden, which is he never once spoke to Hunter or any family member about his foreign business dealings is a lie. | |
| But it is obvious that Hunter Biden is selling access to information according to Senator Johnson. | |
| That's a direct quote. | |
| Does that have anything to do with some of the classified documents that Biden was squirreling away in his residence? | |
| He said, I don't know, but it looks incredibly suspicious to him. | |
| Well, certainly it makes sense on paper. | |
| Now the National Archives apparently now is trying to I guess cover their tracks because they have failed spectacularly and stung by all these discoveries of all this classified information. | |
| Anyway, the Washington Times is reporting that archivists are now considering sending letters to other chief executives, in other words, former presidents, vice presidents, asking all of them to review all of their records to ensure that classified material is not mixed in, according to sources familiar with the deliberations telling CNN. | |
| Representatives for former President Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, the late George Herbert Walker Bush all told the outlet they turned over their records to the archives upon leaving office. | |
| However, none said that they were considering new searches of their homes and their offices. | |
| Presidential Records Act says that any records created or received by the president as part of constitutional statutory or ceremonial duties should be considered property of the U.S. government and managed by the National Archives at the end of the administration. | |
| So we'll see which way this goes. | |
| But it's getting pretty interesting here. | |
| One thing we are waiting for, California judge last night has ordered the release of footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi. | |
| Now remember what we do know about this. | |
| I'm I'm dying to see this video. | |
| Now, if if he calls 911 and the police show up as they did, and they he opens the door for the police. | |
| He had not been injured up to that point, is my understanding. | |
| And then he says, Oh, yeah, come on in, guys. | |
| The guy's right back here. | |
| That seems like very, very odd, extremely odd, almost unbelievably odd behavior of somebody calling 911 feeling in distress. | |
| Because if if somebody broke into your house and you called 911 and the police knock on the door and you get to get the door open, isn't the first thing you're gonna say is he's in there, he's right in there. | |
| Go get him, go get him. | |
| That's what I do. | |
| Well, if it was still the situation by the time the cops got there. | |
| Likely would not be. | |
| Well, especially if somebody had a weapon like this guy did. | |
| But then apparently Paul Pelosi walks back in front of the police and they watch him get hit in the head with the hammer. | |
| Now, why didn't he run the hell out of the house and tell the police to do their job? | |
| Doesn't make sense to me. | |
| So I'm wondering what the camcorder footage might show us. | |
| To me, that's going to be pretty interesting. | |
| And by the way, uh, we discovered today this is why Josh Hawley's bill, the Pelosi Act, uh, is needed. | |
| It seems like the Pelosi's have the greatest timing in the world. | |
| Paul Pelosi sold Google shares just prior to the DOJ antitrust suit. | |
| Wow. | |
| Mere coincidence. | |
| That happens seemingly all the time. | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why. | |
| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
| It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. | |
| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
| You put two and two together. | |
| Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? | |
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| What difference at this point does it make? | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why. | |
| It's almost a dirty word. | |
| One that connotes conspiracy theory. | |
| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
| You put two and two together. | |
| Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? | |
| Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. | |
| I'm Leon Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is Fiasco Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
| Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| As we roll along 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, uh, aren't you as interested as I am to see this footage of this? | |
| Listen, I'm sorry, by the way, that this attack happened against Paul Pelosi. | |
| I I deplore violence. | |
| Um, I think a speaker of the House ought to have arm protection. | |
| You know, just like they wasted the January 6th committee because they never brought in uh, let's see, the sergeant of arms, uh, Nancy Pelosi is in charge of security. | |
| Uh, the Capitol Police Chief that had requested the guard on six separate occasions, uh, Muriel Bowser that rejected any use of the guard on that day. | |
| They never brought up what could be done to prevent anything like that from ever happening in the future. | |
| We got we've got to protect our elected officials, our institutions that matter should matter to everybody, and you ought to have learned from it and make sure it didn't happen again. | |
| But these are the same people that either were supportive of the 574 riots in the summer of 2020 that killed dozens of Americans, injured thousands of cops, and resulted in billions in property damage. | |
| You know, people like Kamala Harris tweeting out the bail fund, or they were just silent and they said nothing because they didn't want to anger what they thought was their base with the pending election. | |
| So they just said, not a thing. | |
| No investigations into those riots. | |
| Why is that? | |
| That's wrong. | |
| Uh we'll get back into Swalwell and Schiff. | |
| Um, and it just they're such hypocrites. | |
| It's like you can't even make up how bad it is. | |
| We'll get to that. | |
| We have the other news of the day as well. | |
| Uh Congressman Jimenez of uh Florida will join us today, as well as New Gingrich, and we'll get to your calls 800-941 as uh we continue today. | |
| All right, now let's get back to our news. | |
| So Eric Swalwell is calling Adam Schiff his fearless leader. | |
| He was on with Joy Reed over at MSDNC, and he pointed it to the steadfast resolve held by himself and Adam Schiff as they as the main motivation of the House Speaker for rejecting the nomination. | |
| That's not it. | |
| If you have a girlfriend that turns out to be a Chinese spy named Fang Fang or friend, I don't know what the nature of the relationship is. | |
| We never got the true story, but certainly seemed like they were very close for a long extended period of time. | |
| Eric Swalwell couldn't get a simple clearance uh by the FBI if he needed one in the private sector. | |
| So how does he get to sit on the all-important intel committee with the information that is disclosed in there is not even shared with other members of Congress. | |
| That's how sensitive it is. | |
| In other words, intelligence. | |
| What are our intelligence communities picking up about Russia, China, hostile regimes, North Korea, Iran. | |
| I mean, these these are too important. | |
| And you the congenital liar is trying to create victimhood because he wants to run for Senate out in California. | |
| Probably could win in California. | |
| Anyway, lying left coast liberal, the congenital liar Adam Schiff said that he's ready to replace Diane Feinstein, even though the 89 year old Democrat has not said a word about retiring. | |
| my sources say she's not doing well health wise and And I think the last time I saw her, it was it was pretty apparent she's taken a pretty significant decline in her health. | |
| So that's what they're doing. | |
| All of this is, and meanwhile, this guy is wants to be on the Intel committee, but he's on TikTok. | |
| Why are all these states banning TikTok? | |
| Because of the intelligence belief that the communist Chinese are number one geopolitical foe is using it as a spying mechanism. | |
| Anyway, the White House says Shift and Swalwell, they bring expertise to the Intel community committee. | |
| Nah, not exactly because they've leaked classified information and they've lied about what they've seen in committee. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Tom Cotton blasts Biden officials for stonewalling his requests on Biden and Trump documents. | |
| Ron Johnson is really suspicious, as I mentioned of this Hunter Biden email that it might be based on classified information. | |
| Uh and Hunter Biden's art dealer must hand over sales information. | |
| They've wanted that to remain private. | |
| I mean, sir, did you see the art? | |
| We actually showed some of it on TV last night. | |
| Now, Linda, I'm not an art critic, expert, professional. | |
| I don't know why some artists are more famous than other artists, why people pay so much for art. | |
| It's not my thing. | |
| I I can admire great paintings, some of the the greatest artists of all time, Picasso, Matisse. | |
| I sure it's beautiful. | |
| Uh is it a good investment for many people? | |
| I assume that it is, considering the prices keep going up. | |
| However, portraits of a crack addict don't really impress me that much. | |
| Some of it even looks like it's, you know, paint by numbers to me. | |
| Uh Schiff, by the way, got totally roasted after posting the TikTok video about losing his committee spot. | |
| Quote, China is laughing at us, was probably the best comment that I saw of anybody. | |
| Um, one other development, I know that we had this. | |
| I never got mad at anybody. | |
| I don't know why people thought I got mad at Matt Gates or we did have a contentious battle because I uh on TV with Lauren Boebert, I'd vote for Lauren Bovert in a heartbeat tomorrow, and we'll support her candidacy. | |
| Um I think she's been a good Congresswoman. | |
| She has these tough races. | |
| She doesn't have the best district in the world uh in terms of it's it's a 50-50 district by every measure. | |
| Anyway, um, but Republicans, my argument had been is I spoken to many of those people, connected with many of those people, uh, and advised many of these people like are you guys gonna get a deal done before January 3rd and show the country you're ready to lead on day one? | |
| Because it in many ways it set back a lot of the movement, probably by a month or two, but it's neither here nor there. | |
| It's in the past. | |
| Uh but anyway, so McCarthy this week, not only did he take on the medium pound them, which we showed you yesterday, he said this week that Republican members will work to shift power back to the American people, announcing assignments for the House Intelligence Rules and China competitiveness committees. | |
| Now the House Rules Committee, extremely influential committee that decides if and when legislation is to receive floor votes and how the House votes on the bill, and if lawmakers can attach amendments to the bill on the House floor. | |
| And a lot of conservatives now have been put on that committee. | |
| People that I like, people like Chip Roy and Tom Massey and Ralph Norman. | |
| I mean, they are three stalwart House conservatives. | |
| They got assignments to provide more conservative voices on the rules committee. | |
| And historically, allies of House leadership typically get those assignments. | |
| Now Norman and Roy, who initially opposed McCarthy's bid for speakership. | |
| You know what? | |
| They've got to work as a team at this point. | |
| And this is what bothers me overall about conservatives, Republicans in general. | |
| Linda, tell me if I'm wrong. | |
| You know, it was Reagan that said if you're 80% in agreement, you're a friend. | |
| You're not a twenty percent traitor just because you might have a disagreement on on whatever the issue happens to be. | |
| You know, eighty percent is eighty percent. | |
| We have enough eighty twenty issues out there like energy independence, fixing the economy, uh, border security that everybody can agree on. | |
| I think everybody agrees that Republicans need to be united in standing against the debt ceiling, and whatever plan they finally unite behind, because there's at least 15 of them that I know about my sources, whatever plan they ultimately agree on, I believe they have to be united, and I think they will be united. | |
| And it's got to be a check and a balance because Democrats are banking on the fact that Republicans will be that there won't be unity in the House. | |
| Well, if they don't have unity, then that means Joe Biden's position of he will not negotiate, the opposite of what he said in 2011, uh, will win the day. | |
| And that means they're not using the power of the purse as effectively as they can. | |
| They've got to decide what it is that they want, and then they got to go for it. | |
| It's really that simple. | |
| It's not that complicated. | |
| Um it's complicated because you have different people with different points of view. | |
| And you know, at the end of the day, aren't you all against radical democratic socialism? | |
| The Green New Deal. | |
| Aren't you against where they're taking the country? | |
| Don't you see the damage that is being done? | |
| You know, Republicans create a circular firing squad. | |
| Democrats, they circle the wagons. | |
| And, you know, at some point, yeah, of course there's going to be compromise in some way. | |
| You're never going to get 22 people to fully completely agree on anything. | |
| But if you have a number of plans out there, you throw it out there as long as it deals with in general the principle of reckless spending in Washington and shows fiscal responsibility, you're keeping a promise that you made to the American people. | |
| But it takes everybody. | |
| It's not, it's not McCarthy that can handle that alone. | |
| It's going to be every congressman and every congresswoman on the Republican side sticking together. | |
| Democrats do it all the time. | |
| Republicans want to kill each other. | |
| How many times, Linda, in the course of this radio program, you know, do we watch with amazement at the attacks not coming from the left? | |
| But, you know, look, when I first supported Donald Trump, perfect example. | |
| I mean, what was it, a year, year and a half, two years? | |
| You know, being excoriated. | |
| And by the way, I like Lund Beck, but it was a pretty regular daily attack by him and his team or Ben Shapiro, who I think was great. | |
| That's pretty bad. | |
| And then all of a sudden they become more Trumpian than me. | |
| You know, people that were never there for the Russia hoax, and we were literally unpeeling every layer of the onion for three years and ended up being proven right. | |
| So many of those people, Johnny come lately, you know, they they jump on board as if they're super MAGA people. | |
| Like, where were you when we needed you then? | |
| Where were you during the first impeachment or the second impeachment? | |
| You know, it's well, if Hannity doesn't agree with everything that we say about election interference, I'm the one that has been saying we've got to change. | |
| You know, I was the one pointing out that constitutions, state constitutions were not being adhered to. | |
| I was the one pointing out repeatedly that laws that govern elections in states were completely ignored, one law in particular, partisan observers watching the vote count. | |
| Democrats in 2020 use COVID as an excuse to prevent partisan observers from seeing anything. | |
| And meanwhile, they should have made, could have made, had they wanted to make accommodations for observers to see the vote count up close and personal. | |
| I'm not going to stop with my mantra that Republicans better change their attitude towards voting. | |
| And they better get on board. | |
| They better, you know, get rid of this resistance towards voting by mail, voting early. | |
| They've got to fight hard in their states to get signature verification, voter ID, chain of custody controls, uh, partisan observers being able to observe updated voter roles, all these things. | |
| They've got to fight for these things. | |
| You know, would I prefer same-day voting, election day and national holiday, uh partisan observers watching the vote all day, uh, and the vote counting as soon as the polls close, paper ballots. | |
| Yeah, that's what I'd prefer, but it's not going to happen by 2024. | |
| So you've got to get into the game that the Democrats have taken on, which is they don't shake hands, they don't kiss babies, they don't hold town halls, press of veils, they don't do rallies. | |
| They hide in their basement, they get hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads, and then they're involved in whatever state law allows ballot harvesting. | |
| And Republicans can't start elections or election day down hundreds of thousands, if not millions of votes uh at the start of election day, hoping that oh, all these people will come out that day. | |
| What if it's raining? | |
| What if it's snowy? | |
| What if you just you gotta play the ballot harvesting game as allowed by law in your individual state, and then fight to hopefully one day go back to paper balance. | |
| But it's not happening in the near future. | |
| By the way, gas prices, no end in sight, no exit in sight, pump prices keep riding higher. | |
| That's triple A's website, by the way, this morning doesn't bode well for future inflation, also. | |
| National average price for unleaded gasoline up a whopping 40 cents a gallon from just you know, just a short time ago, and it's getting very expensive in a lot of states. | |
| Um, one guy that did meet with McCarthy on the debt ceiling limit was uh Joe Manchin. | |
| He thinks it's insane the White House's you know cavalier, we're not gonna negotiate attitude. | |
| Um home prices continue to decline around the country, which is not good for anybody, and it's hurting the country. | |
| Uh Biden's sending tanks now upping his aunt in Ukraine. | |
| Uh, to what end? | |
| To what end? | |
| By the way, the new chief of staff of Joe Biden replacing Ron Klain. | |
| What's his name? | |
| Jeff what is it? | |
| Zentz? | |
| I don't even know how to say it. | |
| I'm pretty sure it's Zion's Zions? | |
| Yeah, like science. | |
| COVID advisor with Anthony Fauci. | |
| Well, apparently the new chief of staff met with Hunter Biden repeatedly. | |
| Oh, that's great news. | |
| That's really good news. | |
| How did Hunter Biden write an email uh ahead of landing the Barisma gig, which I just pointed out earlier today? | |
| What about the emails I brought up yesterday? | |
| Because it's very suspicious to me. | |
| All of it's very suspicious. | |
| Ron Johnson is incredibly suspicious, as I said. | |
| And why don't we know the people that are buying Hunter's artwork? | |
| Don't we have a right to know? | |
| Especially in light of all the foreign business dealings he was involved in. | |
| I think we have a right to know all that. | |
| I saw a couple of headlines about Ron DeSantis. | |
| And this is one thing I've been telling everybody that says, well, Donald Trump, the media hates him. | |
| The media hates any conservative. | |
| They hate Ron DeSantis. | |
| They hate the success that he's had in Florida. | |
| They hate Donald Trump. | |
| They hate any Republican that's gonna be the nominee in 2024. | |
| They hate any Republican. | |
| Everybody needs to understand this. | |
| When Ron DeSantis, for the reasons I've gone into great detail with, especially last night on TV, his rejection of the AP course, you know, dealing with CRT and transgender and African American and Q word theory and all this other stuff. | |
| He said, No, that's that's not allowed by law in this country. | |
| We're abandoning woke education. | |
| Well, if you look at the Boston Globe, it says his cancellation carries the stench of white slave owners. | |
| So do you see my point on this? | |
| It doesn't matter who the Republican is. | |
| You could be pristine like Mitt Romney for crying out loud, and you're still gonna get the living crap beaten out of you, as he did. | |
| Uh, but this is what the Washington Post similarly branding Governor DeSantis, a full-blown white supremacist for banning this controversial class. | |
| Does everybody understand they hate all of us? | |
| If you're conservative, if you're a Republican, even if you have 20% disagreement. | |
| That's why, you know, the circular firing squads need to end. | |
| There needs to be some unity and understanding we're all in this together. | |
| All right, when we come back, we'll check in with New Kingrich straight ahead. | |
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