With all the legal battles around President Trump's placement on ballots around the country, Sean reviews the days leading up to January 6th and reminds listeners just how much President Trump tried to prevent the protests in Washington. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| It's like Democratic disarray or an outright rebellion now happening with the Biden White House. | |
| They're going to throw a big like kumbaya party to try and unite everybody because everybody's, you know, mad at Joe for one reason or another. | |
| Uh now a new report. | |
| Uh the campaign volunteers working to re-elect Joe Biden. | |
| They're headed for the exits, quote, in droves. | |
| In an alarming development, OK magazine uh for Joe Biden and his re-election campaign, a group of his own campaign staffers issued a warning that volunteers are living, quote, in droves due to the concerns over the president's handling over the Israeli Gaza conflict. | |
| Well, uh Joe Biden has been pressuring almost from the get-go for Israel to have a permanent ceasefire. | |
| So that's what's happening behind the scenes. | |
| He's tried to take a very different posture publicly. | |
| Now, all this news comes at a time when Biden's already under immense pressure from members of his own radical party uh regarding the U.S. policy towards the conflict. | |
| Uh, but anyway, expressing their discontent. | |
| By the way, even interns now are rebelling against Joe and Joe's White House, but the campaign staffers published an anonymous letter uh and demanding that Joe Biden call for a ceasefire in Gaza. | |
| Could you imagine if one of our allies, if there was a day, again, you extrapolate population, and you look at the 1,400 Israelis killed the hundreds of other people taken hostage. | |
| That'd be the equivalent of losing about 40,000 Americans in a single day. | |
| How did America react when we lost 2,977 of our fellow Americans in a single day? | |
| Uh, and we're gonna be lectured, but that's what this White House, the people that work in this radical White House want Joe to do, and that Joe is now feeling full-on pressure to do. | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| Uh, we've got some insight into Joe's very, very busy schedule. | |
| Looks like Joe Biden's work schedule is lighter than we thought. | |
| Uh Joe Biden now facing a potential public relations disaster because Republicans found that the 80-year-old Democrat had nothing on his public schedule for 13 days in a row. | |
| I mean, Linda, I mean, I I got my long vacation of the year, and it went like that. | |
| You you know, in a blink of an eye, it's gone. | |
| You know, I'm I'm energized, ready to go. | |
| You know, it's the presidential election year. | |
| It's gonna be a roller coaster emotionally for everybody, and I'm back to work. | |
| I mean, these these people are off more than they ever work. | |
| Anyway, it follows research by a GOP run campaign group that showed that last year Biden spent a whopping 138 days away from Washington. | |
| That's almost 40% of the time. | |
| And that after spending just nine minutes on December 22nd at a children's national at children's national hospital, the president left for Camp David for vacation, a retreat for the commander in chief, as well as the federal government agents and their families. | |
| And after getting back from vacation, then they set off for the U.S. Virgin Islands. | |
| And Joe came back with a very bad sunburn. | |
| Probably forgot he was out there as long as he was out there. | |
| Um look, what did I say on Tuesday that you can expect for the year? | |
| I said, This is where, and I'm I'm going to repeat this a lot during the year. | |
| So save your calls that say Hannity is repeating himself because I'm doing it consciously. | |
| It is something I want to literally imprint in the brain of every American. | |
| I want to tattoo it into everybody's brain. | |
| And that is very simple. | |
| They don't want to talk about Joe's failed border policies. | |
| They don't want to talk about Joe's inflation. | |
| They don't want to talk about Bidenomics. | |
| They don't want to talk about his failed foreign policy. | |
| They don't want to talk about anything of substance. | |
| Democrats will only talk about Donald Trump and the danger to democracy. | |
| They'll only talk about January 6th, but they won't tell you the whole story of January 6th. | |
| They'll only talk about those things that benefit them. | |
| They're going to demagogue abortion, and then it's the usual Democratic Party handbook. | |
| Republicans, racists, sexists, misogynists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic, dirty air, dirty water, and uh, of course, throwing grandma and grandpa over the hook over the cliff. | |
| I say it all the time. | |
| Why? | |
| Because when you hear them doing this, and when you see that they can't talk about their record or their substance, you know what they're up to. | |
| So I want you to recognize it when you see it, when you hear it. | |
| You'll see their willing accomplices in the media basically doing the same exact thing. | |
| Just like Biden is speaking at a campaign event near Valley Forge today to mark what, three years since January 6th. | |
| How convenient that nobody ever investigated. | |
| There was no congressional committee into the 574 riots that killed a couple of dozen Americans that wounded thousands of cops that were pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, or the billions in property damage. | |
| Nobody got arrested, even though we had a wealth of evidence, videotaped evidence that could have put a lot of these insurrectionists, if you will, rioters, if you will, in jail, whatever term you prefer. | |
| Uh, but there's never been any interest at all whatsoever in and holding those people accountable. | |
| And then, of course, the big lie told to us by both the media and by the Democrats. | |
| Oh, they're mostly peaceful. | |
| They're not mostly peaceful. | |
| They're anything but peaceful. | |
| And when they talk about January 6th, they they kind of forget that Donald Trump said that day, many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices can be heard. | |
| Uh guess what? | |
| Uh he didn't talk about, you know, raiding the Capitol, which can never happen, should never happen. | |
| The saddest part of this stupid committee that had a predetermined outcome is they never came up with any agenda and plans to prevent this from ever happening again, which they should have been a big part of their mission. | |
| So then they're not going to talk about all the people that I had on tape that were with President Trump in the days before January 6th that said that, yeah, he he wanted to call in the National Guard anywhere between 10 and 20,000. | |
| I've got four people that were that say they were in the same exact meeting with Donald Trump, including Trump himself, and he wanted to authorize it. | |
| They never brought in, you know, Mayor Bowser and asked why in writing she she rejected outright any any calling up of the National Guard that day or the fact that we learned from people like the Capitol Police Chief Sunned that there was actionable intelligence in the days leading up to January 6th, | |
| and that he was reaching out and begging for help with the sergeant of arms that never got questioned, whose phone never got taken, whose text messages and phone calls were never examined, or Nancy Pelosi, same thing, she's in charge of safety at the house, or Chuck Schumer. | |
| That never happened. | |
| Uh even Lester Holt at NBC News reported, oh, turns out there was actionable intelligence that people had planned, you know, to raid the Capitol that day. | |
| Well, why didn't they take measures to prevent it? | |
| You know, why did they re why did the mayor reject the National Guard? | |
| Why did they never talk to the sergeant at arms? | |
| Why didn't they ever talk to Nancy Pelosi? | |
| So again, it's The three new things, demagogue abortion, January 6th, and Donald Trump is a danger to the democracy. | |
| That's all you're going to hear from them this year. | |
| So get used to it. | |
| It's not just going to be me. | |
| I'm just telling you what's happening, as evidenced by Joe's first campaign speech. | |
| It's all about MAGA Republicans, January 6th, and Donald Trump being a danger to democracy. | |
| By the way, young women, they are now abandoning Biden along with Hispanic Americans and African Americans and young male voters as well. | |
| Biden now female voters is support under 30% has plummeted 18 points in six short months. | |
| That is not a good sign going into an election year. | |
| It's not a good sign that he has the lowest approval rating of any sitting president heading into a re-election cycle. | |
| Biden and his first campaign ad, of course, it was about the danger to democracy. | |
| The same thing that we keep hearing again and again and again. | |
| We are learning some things. | |
| We know that Biden's energy loans are apparently was a major investor in a nearly bankrupt energy company. | |
| Oh, guess what? | |
| That company's set to receive 1.5 billion from his office. | |
| His energy loans are great. | |
| And every one of these projects that they've invested in, billions of dollars, not one of them is successful to date. | |
| And it's and neither, and none of them are showing any signs of any potential success. | |
| It's pretty unbelievable. | |
| By the way, no top U.S. government official has an approval rating over 50%. | |
| One story about Palace Intrigue, if you will, uh the Washington Examiner reported this. | |
| Vice President Kamala Harris, one seen is the obvious choice to succeed. | |
| Joe Biden apparently is viewed as so bad by them at her job that the first family and key aides have been freezing her out of all major decisions and consider her ability to help the president's agenda, quote, a joke, according to a new bio biography, | |
| amateur hour, the president first lady have been so standoffish that they've yet to host a family dinner for Harris and her second husband, Doug Doug, whatever his name is, and the president is reneged on his promise to have weekly lunches with with uh the vice president. | |
| And Biden, by the way, the administration spent over $60 million, though, on diversity training. | |
| I have a I have a qu I have a very cheap way for a diversity training. | |
| I could rewrite every HR department's rules, and I can do it on one page. | |
| The golden rule. | |
| Now, maybe this part is optional, depending on which company it is. | |
| Love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul, and your neighbor as yourself, and I'll add treat others the way you want to be treated. | |
| Is it that hard? | |
| Not that hard. | |
| You follow that. | |
| Guess what? | |
| You don't need all the specifics and all those HR booklets and all those training sessions that they're paying for. | |
| Apparently, report today that Corinne Jean-Pierre and National Security Council's spokesperson, John Kirby, that frequently split the podium at these media briefings. | |
| Apparently, behind the scenes, their relationship is fraught with tension. | |
| Did you know that, Linda? | |
| Now that bad. | |
| That is, but I mean, it's the blind leading the blind. | |
| Biden now heads into this tough reelection and his top-ranking spokespeople apparently at odds while navigating a situation in which there's one press secretary in name, but two that practice, one for domestic, one for foreign policy. | |
| Apparently they don't like each other. | |
| Greg Jarrett had a great piece, the evidence of corruption as that continues to build. | |
| Joe Biden might decide to quit the presidential race. | |
| You've got to look at that as a real possibility. | |
| House Republicans are now moving to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. | |
| Well, if they held Steve Bannon in contempt and Peter Navarro in contempt, why wouldn't why wouldn't zero experience Hunter be held in contempt? | |
| Sounds only fair to me. | |
| You know, it is interesting to watch the media and the way the media works because they're so corrupt in every way imaginable. | |
| I mean, if you just look at the way they cover pretty much everything, uh, it's pretty amazing. | |
| You know, it's um, you know, look at what they're trying to do with Donald Trump and remove him from the ballot. | |
| Look at all that. | |
| That's not working out well. | |
| Um, and we're just learning more and more about all this stuff every day. | |
| Let me just it was a lot about the jobs numbers today. | |
| And we know the Biden administration has been inflating their jobs numbers for at least the last eight months. | |
| Monthly job reports, downward revisions going back to April. | |
| The Biden administration has issued another glowing jobs report today, claiming the economy added 216,000 jobs in December. | |
| And by the way, I would I would want this to be true for the sake of our country. | |
| It's not that I want America to fail. | |
| I want America to succeed. | |
| Here's the problem. | |
| When you dig a little deeper into this Bureau of Labor Statistics report, full-time workers fell by over 1.5 million from November to December. | |
| That's a dramatic number. | |
| Part-time workers rose by 762,000 from November to December. | |
| Multiple job holders are now the highest on record with 8.5 plus million. | |
| That's up 222,000 from November to December. | |
| When you dig deeper into these numbers, it's not as it's not as rosy as it looks. | |
| Revisions made for the October-November non-uh farm payroll employee employment numbers show a much more stagnant job growth than initially reported. | |
| Looks to me like they might be artificially cooking the books, and then they when they have the revisions, nobody pays attention to it. | |
| October revised from 150,000 to 105,000. | |
| November revised from 199 to 173. | |
| In total, these revisions on employment in October, that's nearly 100,000 lower than initially reported. | |
| And government employee employment continues to be the major contributor to any job growth. | |
| Government employment increased by 52,000 in December. | |
| Wow. | |
| That's a pretty big number. | |
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| What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
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| 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? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
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| When 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? | |
| Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. | |
| I'm Leon Mayfock 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. | |
| Hey there. | |
| I'm Mary Catherine Hamm. | |
| And I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| We've been in political media for a long time. | |
| Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. | |
| That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. | |
| We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. | |
| We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. | |
| So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional SAS, you're our kind of people. | |
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| I'm Ben Ferguson. | |
| And I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
| Nationwide, we have millions of listeners. | |
| Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court. | |
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| Finally, and we'll get into more detail later. | |
| There is a great group that has now been formed. | |
| It's called Border 911, and it's been formed by former acting ICE Director Tom Holman and Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner. | |
| Um, and by the way, uh this is now real clear, you know, national security threat to every American. | |
| Because you're not going to ever convince me ever that people coming from Iran, Syria, or Iran, whatever you prefer, Syria, uh, Egypt, Afghanistan, Russia, and China are all coming here because they want a better life for themselves and their families. | |
| I'm not going to really be convinced of that. | |
| Because I don't believe it. | |
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| Uh, anyways, so they're gonna be here later, and it really is. | |
| I'm just telling you right now, there's I am 100% certain. | |
| Hannity, there's no way you could be 100% certain. | |
| I'm certain. | |
| I don't believe people coming from these hostile regimes are top geopolitical foes are showing up at our southern border with the best of intentions or a desire to build a better life for themselves and their families. | |
| And this is a form of madness, and it is a clear, real clear present danger to every American. | |
| And Biden's open border czar, homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorgus, even need even now he is saying of the 8.5 million estimated, including Ghadaways that have shown up at our border, hundreds And hundreds from Iran and Syria, thousands from Egypt and Afghanistan, 12,000 from Russia, 26,000 from China. | |
| And he's saying that 70% of those people are being released into communities after they encounter our border patrol. | |
| Well, why wouldn't you send them back home? | |
| They're breaking our laws. | |
| Why are you facilitating the law breaking by providing free transportation? | |
| Why are you burdening states and cities with the cost of having to take care of people that don't have money? | |
| They don't have a roof under their head, they don't have food in their stomach, they don't have health care, and now they're allowing them into our schools, and now it's being institutionalized in states like California as of January 1, adopting a law mandating that in fact uh illegal immigrants that they get free access to California health care. | |
| That's nuts. | |
| That's crazy. | |
| Anyway, New York uh city is now suing bus companies that transport immigrants from Texas. | |
| Over 700 million dollars. | |
| Oh, that's their way to stop Governor Abbott. | |
| You're gonna sue the bus company? | |
| Well, the but that now think of the situation the bus company's at. | |
| They're hired to take people, but they're not allowed to ask for any ID. | |
| And now if they bring people to the destination. | |
| Now, can you imagine that the lawsuit, if they don't bring people, they they reject them from getting on the bus. | |
| They have no choice. | |
| That lawsuit is DOA, the debt on arrival on arrival. | |
| But Eric Adams' plan is to block illegal migrant buses or immigrant buses. | |
| It's it's completely becoming unraveled. | |
| Uh, New Jersey, where most of the illegals ended up, they have figured out a way to get around the new restrictions, and what they're doing is they're now putting them on trains. | |
| The buses literally from New Jersey just to New York City. | |
| You gotta laugh. | |
| I mean, they're two, you know, the state, they're neighboring states, and they obviously don't care about each other. | |
| New Jersey Democratic governor Phil Murphy is making it clear that he does not want illegal immigrants sent to his state, just like the Massachusetts governor is saying. | |
| Uh, even New York City Mayor Adams has said he's had it. | |
| The buses have dumped hundreds and hundreds of new arrivals at transit stations in Secaucus and Edison in Trenton, New Jersey, and then they're giving, you know, free train rides uh to people to take them to New York City, circumventing Adams' rule require requiring 32 hours notice and limiting drop-off hours to weekday mornings. | |
| Anyway, this now this new rule is designed to slow the waves of newcomers, 162,000 in New York City alone. | |
| By the way, 85% of them came directly from Joe Biden. | |
| And you got photos now of New Jersey cops putting illegal immigrants on New York City bound trains. | |
| This is what it's all come down to. | |
| It's like just like when they went to Matha's Vineyard. | |
| You know, we can't get rid of these people fast enough. | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| Uh Mayorcus did punt on the impeachment question that whether or not he would leave office if he's impeached. | |
| But um it's I I don't even know how you make this worse. | |
| You can't make it any worse than it is right now. | |
| And this then you have to ask the question why? | |
| What is the benefit here? | |
| What do you why would you allow unvetted millions of unvetted people into your country? | |
| What is why would you invite them to come the way Joe Biden invited them to come? | |
| And why would you then put this unfunded burden on states? | |
| Why would you put the financial burden on the American taxpayer when you have 34 trillion in debt, 6.2 of that trillion just in three years under Biden? | |
| I mean, you just can't make this up. | |
| Uh as we look ahead, uh here come the dirty tricks campaigns. | |
| You have David Plouf, if you remember him from the Obama campaign, he was his campaign manager. | |
| He's now suggesting if liberal voters support Nikki Haley in the primary, by the way, she's not a part of this effort. | |
| Want to be very fair. | |
| It could sabotage former President Donald Trump's chances of becoming president. | |
| I think it's probably too distasteful for a lot of people. | |
| Plough said it intentionally casting a vote for Haley to hurt hurt Trump. | |
| Uh, but for those who would be up for it, it could be a good tactical move. | |
| Wow. | |
| That's how much they hate Donald Trump. | |
| We did learn the team prosecuting Trump discouraged the FBI from investigating the Clinton Foundation. | |
| Gee, I thought we had equal justice, equal application of our laws, not in America anymore. | |
| Maine Republicans are now fighting back on this use of the 14th Amendment, Article 3, and Republic officials in that state are turning the tables on the Secretary of State, Jenna Bellows. | |
| That's the Democrat that banned Donald Trump from the state ballot last week. | |
| And one state representative in Maine, John Andrews announced that he's filed a request with the Maine revisor's office for a joint order to impeach. | |
| I wish to impeach Secretary Bellows on the grounds that she's barring an American citizen and the 45th president of the United States who is convicted of no crime or impeachment from appearing on a main Republican primary ballot. | |
| Banana Republic isn't just a store at the mall. | |
| It's now we now have become a post-rule of law society. | |
| First person I heard say that, a post-constitutional America was Levin. | |
| He was not wrong. | |
| More right probably than he even knew at the time. | |
| Activist groups are suing to remove Trump from the ballot in Illinois. | |
| This trend will continue until the U.S. Supreme Court steps up. | |
| They're going to have to step in, step up, and they're going to have to weigh in on this because it should be a 9-0 slam dunk decision. | |
| I don't see any scenario into which they would go along with this. | |
| Now, if you're using the argument that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist, well, was he ever convicted of insurrection? | |
| No. | |
| Was he ever charged with insurrection? | |
| No. | |
| Is he being charged now with insurrection? | |
| No. | |
| Is insurrection a violation of law? | |
| Could they charge him? | |
| Yes, they can. | |
| Why haven't they? | |
| Oh, maybe it has a lot to do with everything else. | |
| There is something comical happening, because we've been covering, you know, Joe Biden, Barisma, CEFC, the big oil giant in China, the big oil giant in Ukraine, and Joe Biden taking official action as vice president, and you know, uh against Obama administration policy. | |
| Let me take you back. | |
| It was October of 2015. | |
| In October of 2015, interagency policy became in the Obama administration that they felt that Ukraine had made enough progress on the issue of corruption that would warrant the administration giving them one billion dollars in loan guarantees. | |
| Now you fast forward to December, same year, 2015. | |
| And just a week before Joe Biden goes, or maybe five days before he goes to Ukraine, he gets a phone call, a panic phone call from his son Hunter, who's in Dubai. | |
| He's in Dubai with Barisma executives. | |
| The same Barisma executives that are paying him millions of dollars for being on a board, even though in his own words he admitted he had no experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or Ukraine. | |
| Also at a time when he admits that he was addicted to drugs, serious drugs, hard drugs. | |
| And anyway, the call comes in. | |
| Joe Biden then makes his trip to Ukraine. | |
| He brags about it later at the Council on Foreign Relations that he leveraged a billion dollars to get a prosecutor fired. | |
| That is exactly what Barisma wanted to happen. | |
| And as a result of his official action, son of a bee, they fired the prosecutor, a guy by the name of Victor Shokin. | |
| And as a result of Joe's actions, well, Hunter continued to get paid with no experience. | |
| Now, Democrats have ignored that story. | |
| The mob and the media have ignored that story. | |
| They've just said there's no evidence at all that Joe benefited. | |
| Well, the bribery statute doesn't require that Joe benefit. | |
| But if family members benefit, that would be within the statute statutory language on the bribery statute. | |
| So, oh, somebody benefited from Joe taking action against administration policy at the time. | |
| Now House Democrats, they they've come out with this pretty pathetic 155-page report trying to draw some kind of equivalence between Donald Trump's very successful, entirely legitimate hotel business and apartment business, | |
| and the foreign shakedown racket and accusations of influence peddling and the Biden family syndicate peddling that have been made, those allegations, and all those, you know, uh shell corporations and the ten Biden family members that are paid, the lack of experience in any of the field of endeavor, | |
| no services ever described as being rendered, but they're trying to allege that, well, Donald Trump, he owned a hotel in Washington, D.C. And in that hotel, people from China and Saudi Arabia and Qatar actually rented rooms in the hotel, and they paid for services, and they actually got services. | |
| I mean, did they really think the president of the United States was getting a list of every guest that stayed at his Washington hotel or every single tenant that was in his any one of his buildings in New York, and they're trying to say that this is the moral equivalent? | |
| I mean, all this is, let me tell you what this is. | |
| This is how corrupt the mob and the media is. | |
| They want to take this story and they want to use it to muddy the waters. | |
| You talk about what about ism. | |
| This is the biggest phonyest what about ism that I've ever seen or heard in my life. | |
| Washington Post investigation, Trump's businesses. | |
| That in fact, um, and Democrats and the minority in the House come out with this big hundred and fifty-five-page document, and they claim that it would violate the U.S. Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, which prevents federal officials, including presidents, from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments. | |
| He wasn't running the company. | |
| When Eric Trump was asked about it, he pushed back and said it was ridiculous and insane, and that quote, no president in the United States history was tougher on China than Donald Trump. | |
| And then he went on to point out, which I didn't know, each dollar that former President Trump accepted, you know, this idea of the the violated the Constitution's prohibition on payments, etc. | |
| He points out that all foreign government profits for stays at our hotels and other properties while my father was in office were voluntarily donated to the United States Treasury. | |
| He said this on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling the reports a counter-narrative for the most corrupt family in political history, that being the Biden's. | |
| Don't let facts get in the way of a good story. | |
| This will be the media's way and the Democratic Party's way to bludgeon what is a very damaging story to the Biden family. | |
| By the way, we're learning from the Epic Times today. | |
| The prosecutors with the attorney general's office in New York are now saying that with the civil trial that they want Donald Trump to pay $370 million in damages up from the $250 million fine that they originally wanted to impose. | |
| Let's go for everything. | |
| After all, the judge is still standing by his valuation of Mar-a-Lago at $18 million. | |
| You know, you've got uh 20 some odd acres, you got a historic property and a club associated with it. | |
| And on top of that, you have the intercoastal and the ocean. | |
| But if you get a two-acre plot of land, there's one for sale in Palm Beach, not far from Mar-a-Lago for 200 million dollars. | |
| That's an empty lot, but Mar-a-Lago's only worth 18. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
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| It's called Border 911. | |
| Uh, yes, this is now a clear and present danger for every American. | |
| And I I pray to God that I'm wrong, but I think I'm 100% right. | |
| That terror sells under Joe Biden and his open borders policy, Joe Biden's illegal immigrants among the groups that have come here. | |
| I'm sure there are terror cells that have entered our country that'll plot, plan, scheme that uh their next attack. | |
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