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Uh, we're really following three stories.
Around the country, you have these pro-Palestinian protests hitting cities.
Now, why that's important is it goes to the heart of two separate issues.
And that is one that Joe Biden, or we got I guess we could probably call him Neville Chamberlain, uh Joe Neville Chamberlain Biden, because you know, the the pressure after what happened on October 7th, what, 1,200 Israelis killed, uh another 240 or so taken hostage.
Uh among those hostages, we don't know how many have been killed.
There's only been 112 of them released.
We have no idea about the fate of many others.
But this is what the policies of appeasement will bring you.
And, you know, we have this trial unfolding in New York.
We'll get to that in the course of the program today.
And we're we just we just got a lot of news to cover.
Throughout all of today, I have yet to see any cops show up at the Golden Gate Bridge out in San Francisco to stop what has been a shutdown of traffic on the bridge.
Can you imagine Linda being in one of those cars?
How many hours now has this been going on?
And they're tracking.
Oh, it's it's and I'm only I think now finally maybe a cop has showed up.
Right, but they're not doing anything because they can't do anything.
They're completely and totally handcuffed.
Well, maybe they could learn from Ron DeSantis, because the first image that I saw in Miami of these protesters, uh, I saw cops on video right there at the time it was happening.
In real time.
He's not waiting.
So, you know, it's um I didn't mean to cut you off, by the way.
Um, you're right.
I mean, the problem is they got the support of the governor and everywhere else they don't.
You know, if you knew that as a cop you could do your job and you weren't gonna end up, you know, behind bars yourself for doing what you were, you know, elect, you know, your duty to do, give me a break.
They don't let them do anything.
Uh so we got all these stories we're gonna be on all day today.
Um now, if you watched on Saturday, I'll start with the Iranian attack.
You saw what happened.
You witnessed.
Now, my sources have been telling me on uh once I got off the air on this radio program on Friday, I was given a heads up by various sources of mine, and I will never divulge that in fact they they thought it could happen.
It was as imminent as the day is born, and that is that this attack by Iran, a direct attack, never happened in history against Israel was coming, and that it was going to be a big attack, and it turned out that it was a massive attack.
And so we have but but this all dovetails into what's going on now because if you look at these images and the people that are out protesting in cities around the country and and shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge and and other areas and other cities around the country, this is the base that that Joe Biden now finds himself in, needing if he has any political ambition to win this election in just two hundred and three days.
This is why, you know, Israel, the worst terrorist attack in their history.
You know, twelve hundred people killed, you know, hundreds of others taken hostage.
And what have we been hearing from this administration?
Oh, we need a truce.
Oh, uh Israel's too aggressive in fighting their war on terror.
Um no lectures have been given to Hamas, the terrorist organization.
This was an unprovoked attack killing innocent men, women, and children.
And then you add the rape stories on top of it and all the atrocities and all the video tapes that the IDF, I wish they'd release this these tapes that I have seen, because I'd like to show it to each and every American so they understand how the brutality of this terrorist organization.
A terrorist organization that has in their charter a call for the destruction of Israel.
And then we watch on Saturday night, 300 plus aerial threats launched from Iran and its and its proxies.
Now, they did intercept, thankfully, 99% of them.
That may not always be the case.
And then it's certain to me that the White House likely leaked the call with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Joe's admonition and lecture to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Uh, Well, we're not going to be with you if we if you respond offensively.
That was whatever response Israel has here would be a defensive response.
And what has gotten lost in all of this is any sense of moral clarity of right and wrong.
You know, I I guess that, you know, if Israel wants to fight against radical terrorists that invade their country and kill their countrymen and take others hostage, why are they getting lectured by the Biden administration to have a ceasefire?
How to fight back.
I mean, I hate to say it.
I mean, that's why he's Neville Chamberlain.
And then you look at the history of Joe Biden with Iran, and it's not a pretty picture.
I went back over the weekend, and I just put together his history of appeasement, starting with the Obama Biden administration.
This is the 2015 Iranian deal.
You know, they placed an amount of money that became available to the number one state sponsor of terror by allowing foreign banks to release up to 150 billion dollars, and then of course the 400 million in cash and other currency that they dropped right on the tarmac.
Well, what do you think the number one state sponsor of terror is going to do?
They're going to use it to foment more terror.
And that is exactly what has happened.
And according to every report, Hamas, that they were trained by Iranian revolutionary guard forces and cuds forces, that a lot of the ammunition that they used in this attack on October 7th came from Iran.
We know that the Houthi rebels, they are also getting their arms and logistical support from Iran.
We know that Hezbollah in the north that has been firing missiles, now Israel's been involved really in a two-front war, Hamas in the south and Hezbollah out of Lebanon in the north.
We saw that unfold also on Saturday.
And now Iran is getting now Israel's being lectured.
Why isn't Iran being lectured?
You know, and Netanyahu warned back when they'd made this first idiotic deal with Iran.
In the coming decade, the deal with the deal will reward Iran, the terrorist regime in Tehran with hundreds of billions of dollars.
This cash bonanza will fuel Iran's terrorism worldwide.
Its aggression in the region and its efforts to destroy Israel, which are ongoing.
He called it then in 2015 a historic mistake.
He was right then.
And then Biden played a big role.
And when Republicans put out, you know, a letter on how stupid this deal was.
Oh, this is beneath the dignity of the U.S. Senate.
It's beneath the dignity of this institution I revere.
Well, then you look at, okay, so he's now become president.
Well, Donald Trump got rid of that idiotic Iranian deal, just like he got rid of America being in the Paris Accords, and what did Joe Biden?
What was the new policy of appeasement towards Iran?
Well, the U.S. has been importing crude oil and petroleum products from Iran since March of 2021 when we were at that time literally taking in 66,000 barrels of oil a day.
The sanctions were supposedly in place that they were not allowed to sell their oil on the world market, but they've been selling it to countries like North America, um sorry, North Korea and China, and and apparently even up until October of last year selling it to the United States.
Well, all that's gonna do is make the Iranian mullahs rich, which then funds their terror.
This is a terrorist state, the number one state sponsor of terror.
Now, whether Joe Biden, like he has been doing, is pressuring Israel not to win its war with Hamas in Gaza, or is warning Israel, well, we're not gonna help you if you you respond to the 300 rocket attacks that took place, 170 UAVs, uh, 120 ballistic missiles, 30 cruise missiles fired right at Israel.
Thankfully they were able to stop this round.
I'm not sure they're gonna be able to stop the next round.
And at some point, this is gonna keep escalating.
But to tell Israel that they cannot defend themselves Or that they are supposed to retreat in the war on terrorism?
Well, you know, the pressure's coming in every day.
You have the likes of Michael Moore out there saying that if, well, if Joe continues to do this, uh, he's going to lose the election.
So it's all about Joe Biden now has put on the back burner the moral clear, the morally superior, clear stand of fighting radical Islamists that believe in this ideology of convert or die over, you know, he's put his blind personal political ambition.
Because he's got to give it give in to the people just like these lunatic lunatics around the country that are, you know, closing bridges and not being stopped.
The very people that have been pressuring the Biden administration.
You know, what scared the hell out of him is the 18.9% of Democratic primary voters in Michigan, a lot of them out of Dearborn, where we heard that chant death to America and death to Israel, that he has chosen to go after that base which represents the radicalized Democratic Party of which he is the head of.
And losing those votes is way more important to Joe Biden than standing up with moral clarity against radical terrorism and convert or die.
And that means even Iran.
And it's the same Biden administration that allowed the $10 billion to be transferred by waiving sanctions and Iraqi payments for Iranian electricity.
He was the same guy that was willing to make a deal of six billion dollars for the release of hostages.
I mean, six billion dollars.
I'm not sure that I thought that money might have got frozen, but the 10 billion from Iraq did not.
All the money, the estimates are that it's anywhere between a hundred plus billion dollars in profits.
All of this that all this has done is allowed the Iranians to build up their terror network and continue to fund these proxy wars around the world.
And they're doing it with impunity.
And now they're doing it with Biden's pretty much seal of approval because he's not going to stand with the innocent victims of radical terrorism.
Biden administration extended sanctions, the sanctions waiver so that they can allow Iraq to continue to purchase their electricity.
That's after the $10 billion, and just six weeks after the Iran-backed drone strike killed three American soldiers in Jordan.
Well, then it was only six weeks later, Biden approved the sanctions waiver, giving Tehran that that access to the $10 billion.
How many times has Biden called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza?
The message should be clear.
Go win your war on terror.
And if you want to buy weapons for us, we will be here for you.
If they launch any any, if they try to escalate with anything more than a conventional war, we will stand with you.
That should be the message.
Biden said that, you know, immediate ceasefire is essential.
Why is it essential?
All it does is embolden more of this terrorism.
All is it, all it does is strengthen Iran.
When asked to make a comment on the threat of Iran attacking Israel, you know, what was in the days leading up to this weekend, or don't.
Don't.
Oh, well, they did, Joe.
And they did because they knew they'd get away with it.
And who knows?
The fact that everybody knew that this was coming makes me really suspicious.
Okay, we understand you have to respond.
Send slow moving drones so that they can shoot most of them out of the sky.
And then the Iranians make the comment, well, we consider the matter closed.
No, it's not closed.
Because Israel should not be listening to Joe Biden and the United States when it comes to the survival of their country and their battle against a war on terrorism.
You know, Biden waived the sanctions on Iranian civilian nuclear activity.
Biden waived the sanction on Iranian oil trade.
You know, why would he do any of this?
All you're doing is making rich.
And then the rest of the Democrats, they saw what happened in Michigan.
Why do you think Chuck Schumer came out and called for new elections in Israel?
Because they know Bibi Netanyahu is not going to sit idly by while his country survival is hanging in the balance.
Or why do you think Pelosi called for Biden to stop the transfer Of U.S. weapons to Israel.
Why do you think you got people like squad member Congresswoman Talib posting videos accusing Biden of supporting genocide?
What is all of this pressure from the squad and AOC and Schumer and Pelosi?
What is it created?
An environment where Joe Biden feels emboldened.
In the end, these policies only embolden terrorists like Hamas and terrorist states like Iran.
And we will pay a horrible price down the road for all of this appeasement.
And why would why is the we have wide open borders?
Why do you think tens of thousands come from China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan?
You think they all want a better life for themselves and their families?
I don't think so.
That'd be pretty damn naive.
No, the message, if we were the United States, if we had moral clarity, it would be win your war on radical Islamists that have attacked you, unprovoked attacks on October 7th, and an unprovoked attack on last this past Saturday night.
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Why is Joe Biden literally lecturing Israel, threatening Israel, abandoning Israel while they lost after they lost 1,200 of their citizens.
You extrapolate out the population, that'd be like losing 40,000 Americans in a day.
Never mind the people that are still hostage, still being held hostage.
I'll tell you why.
And just like all these people that are protesting around the country today, that's why the Golden State, the Golden Gate Bridge has been closed.
That's why they're all over now marching in the streets of New York.
The absolute Adam Schif hole that that is.
And Michael Moore sums it up best, warning Biden that his Israel support will make him Hillary 2.0.
And what happened in Michigan and what happened in places like Wisconsin, all he cares about is getting re-elected.
And if it means having to take a tough stand against radical Islamic terrorism and supporting an ally that is a victim of radical Islamic terrorists who have pledged the destruction of the state of Israel, he clearly is choosing the latter.
And he's adopted nothing but policies of appeasement when it comes to the number one state sponsor of terror.
And that, of course, of course, would be Iran and the Mullers in Iran that he's helped make rich.
You know, I'm gonna tell you something.
This this just when you think it couldn't get any more crazy or worse.
The first thing that I saw today is the Biden White House and thought like they're trying to blame the bad Biden economy and Biden's inflation and Biden's border disaster all on Donald Trump.
Now they're actually trying to blame Trump for Iran's attack on Israel.
You know, they're their propagandist John Kirby, you know, blaming Trump for emboldening Iran.
I just went through the history of emboldening Iran, and that was done by Obama and Biden, and to a much greater extent By Biden since he was elected.
And now he's now gotten to the point where he has to appease the Michael Moore base that is the Democratic Party, warning that Biden, if he gives any support to Israel will make him Hillary 2.0.
That's what's going to happen to you.
You better not support Israel, which is why the pressure for Israel to stop its war on terror after they were attacked, an unprovoked attack on October 7th, 1,200 dead people, hundreds of hostages, and a never-ending, you know, never ending days of rockets being fired from the North and Lebanon and Hezbollah and the South and Hamas and Gaza, never ending.
And this is where they've been.
Now that Kirby blamed Trump for emboldening Iran.
Okay, that's a lie.
I just went through the history of all of the appeasement policies of Biden versus Obama and Biden.
Now Biden alone and the billions of dollars Joe Biden has made Iran rich again.
When Kirby was there, he denied knowing about unfreezing billions of dollars.
He's just flat out lying to us.
Just like they're blaming Trump, flat out lying.
The border's secure, the borders closed.
No, it's Trump's fault.
When all else fails, that's what you've got.
They have emboldened Iran to do this.
They made Iran rich by allowing them to sell their oil even to this country, waiving sanctions so Iraq can give them $10 billion.
They wanted to give six billion in ransom payments.
Iran needs to pay a very dear price.
And then to say to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel, you're on your own if you if you if you defend yourself and fight back, and you should take it as a great victory.
You stop the 300 plus aerial attacks on Saturday.
Well, what do you think they're going to do again?
They'll do it again if there's not consequences to be paid.
And for Iran to say, well, through their UN spokesperson, the matter is deemed completed.
No, it'll be complete when Israel decides it's complete.
And that would include a proportional response at a minimum.
And to me, that would be to take out their refineries and I'd cut off their money supply.
And if if we had a real U.S. president, this would be the opportunity to take out their nuclear sites.
Because if that day ever comes, and we keep reading they're getting closer and closer to nuclear weapons, this radical regime and their radical ideology, they're the ones that would use nuclear weapons.
That day comes, we will rue the day, as my mother used to say, that we didn't prevent it.
One top House Republican says Biden's Iran appeasement led to Saturday's attack.
Mike Waltz, I was actually watching all the coverage on Saturday night.
Stayed up working all of Saturday night.
There's no other way to describe the Obama Biden's Middle Eastern policies except a disaster, an utter calamity.
Just a few years ago, under President Trump, ISIS was destroyed.
Iran was broke, and on their back foot.
Young people were showing every signs that they were ready to rise up against this Iranian regime.
You know, we had the Abraham Accords.
Trump was able to put together a coalition.
I never thought we'd see in our lifetime.
Israel, the U.S., Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates.
And this appeasement strategy has just made Iran rich yet again.
You have a thuggish regime launching drone and missile attacks.
Imagine if they did it to our homeland.
Would you not want your government to fight back?
If they killed, again, extrapolated out for population, 40,000 Americans in a day when they killed 1,200 Israelis in a day and took hundreds hostage.
They have less than 10 million people occupy Israel.
But anyway, Israel, yeah, with the help of allies, took out the 99%.
But there's got to be a price that they pay for doing this.
Or it's going to happen again and again and again.
And the U.S. is just lecturing Israel to stop their war against an unprovoked terrorist attack on October 7th, and they're warning Iran and the U and Joe Biden's administration is warning against retaliation.
Well, they're starting a war against their country.
What the hell do you expect them to do?
Joe Neville Chamberlain.
All of this will result in nothing but more attacks.
How hard is this for him to comprehend?
I know he's dumb, but is he really that dumb or is this really based in politics?
Now Netanyahu, you know, has said he doesn't care what Joe Biden is warning.
He says there will be an appropriate response.
There should be an appropriate response.
And I'd say the first thing I'd go for, and then everybody, oh, they're predicting World War III, World War III.
Well, if the if you keep appeasing radical Islamists that believe in convert or die, guess what?
That war's already been started.
They're attacking innocent countries as we speak.
But all Joe cares about is the admonition of Michigan in the in the Democratic presidential primary and the admonition of Wisconsin and the Democratic presidential primary, and Michael Moore saying you keep supporting Israel, you'll be Hillary 2.0.
There's an interesting telegraph article.
The West needs to remember how to fight.
It may already be too late.
You know why it may be too late?
I'll tell you why.
Because Iran is claiming they had hypersonic missile technology in this attack.
Iran is claiming that.
Well, how come they have it?
And this new axis of evil Russia, Iran, and uh China has it, they all have it.
Why don't we have it?
Why are we so far behind the eight ball?
I love what Senator Kennedy said.
Go to Amazon and buy a spine talking about how wobbly Biden has gone on supporting Israel.
And the GOP rightly is saying that the price must be paid.
They will respond.
Senator Marco Rubio said Israel doesn't need Biden's help or permission to respond to this unprovoked attack.
And if anything, it'd be the right time.
The only Democrat that actually showed common sense, I got to tip my hat to him.
Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
He said we should have Israel's back.
He's very clear.
I'll play it later in the program.
I don't have time now.
Accusing the U.S. of not standing firmly with Israel with no conditions attached.
Right.
If you're going to fight a war, unfortunately, a war started by them.
Any anybody that dies in Gaza dies because of Israel.
That dies because of Hamas, not because of Israel.
By Hamas's attack on Israel.
Russia, China, now Iran have hypersonic missiles, but according to DefenseNews.com, we don't have it.
Our program is struggling.
Iran claiming they launched several hypersonic missiles.
Unbelievable.
We're going to have a lot more on this throughout the program today.
Now we're watching the shutdown of the Golden State Bridge and protests around the country, these pro-Palestinian protests.
Isn't it really that they don't want Israel to defend itself?
I mean, Joe Biden has chosen sides here.
And he has chosen to put handcuffs on an innocent country that is a victim of terrorism.
And he's done it for his own political expediency here.
Anyway, jury selection expected to take up to two weeks in this ridiculous case being brought by Alvin Bragg in in New York.
The judge warning Donald Trump he's going to be jailed if he doesn't show up to court every day of this trial.
Trump's hush money trial, as they call it.
Might, by the way, it's not illegal for corporations do it every day.
They go into non uh confidentiality agreements, NDAs, nondisclosure agreements every day with people over allegations true or not true, but maybe financially just better off to make it go away.
By the way, it might make uh the president misses Sons Barons High School graduation ceremony.
You gotta be kidding me.
We're gonna have uh Doug uh David Schoen and uh Greg Jarrett on about this.
Jonathan Turley nailed it in his article.
Bragg's lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before this upcoming election in 203 days.
So a case that dates back to what, 2015 or 16?
Now is is being tried 203 days before election day.
It just shows the damage, the utter damage in how the weaponized our political justice system is in this country.
Bragg is bringing a case, what it's taken eight long years to bring.
And by the way, before the 2016 election, and the and what he's even charging is a misdemeanor, which under state law had already expired under the statute of limitations.
It's beyond a legal mess.
So then, as a means of getting around this, Bragg used an alleged federal crime to bootstrap a defunct misdemeanor charge into a felony charge in this current case, arguing that Trump intentionally lied when his former lawyer listed the payments to Stormy Daniels as retainer costs rather than a payment.
Be it simply if he had simply had Cohn's report the payment as quote, hush money, there'd be no crime.
I mean, this is this is the most repellent case.
And their lead witness was just recently called by a judge.
This was in Jonathan Turley's column.
Cohn recently denounced by a judge as a quote, serial perjurer.
Well, he's their star witness in this case.
He's going to convert a dead state misdemeanor that had passed the statute of limitations into a felony based on an alleged federal election crime that even the feds themselves rejected.
Very similar to the case with John Edwards that they lost and they lost fairly spectacularly.
The only problem is this is a venue where only 12% of the population in New York City voted for Donald Trump.
Want to see how crazy they are?
Just take a look now at all these people that are protesting all over New York City today.
It's pretty unbelievable.
You know, the Trump trial is a spectacle.
This is not justice or equal justice.
This is what Trump calls it.
This is a way to weaponize the justice system, and only 203 days before an election as a means of helping Joe Biden, because he certainly can't run on his record.
And ABC, MBC, CBS, they all fail to identify Trump prosecutors as Democrats.
And that this guy ran on a platform to get Trump just like the attorney general of New York did.
So he's going to have a deep blue jury pool as this case begins.
Pretty unbelievable times we're living in.
And the issue of recusal is front and center in this case.
You got a judge in this case, in spite of very clear language that would force him to recuse himself in this case.
He has an adult daughter, political activist, runs a prominent Democratic Democrat consulting firm, including representing people like Adam Schiff, fundraising off the case that her dad is presiding over.
Her clients racked up, according to reports, of $93 million in donations.
Okay, well, that would be excuse me, a means for recusal, just based on the law, but the law is only applied to the full extent if you're a conservative or a Republican.
It doesn't apply if your last name's Clinton or Biden.
But if it's Trump, if you're a registered or prominent Republican or conservative, then all caution to the wind goes away.
Pretty unbelievable.
The code, by the way, NYC R 100.3, 22 NYC RR 100.3, paragraph E, Section 1D, Article 3, requires recusal and a relative to the sixth degree could substantially affect the be affected by the proceedings.
Well, that's not really an issue in question based on everything I've been reading at these fundraisers based off the case would be an absolute cause.
By the way, uh remember, Michael Cohn waived the attorney client privilege on Bob Costello, and apparently he would undercut a lot of his testimony.
Let's see if he gets called into this case.
I'd imagine he has to be.
And now Donald Trump has to be in court or the judge says you're going to put him in jail.
That's what the judge says.
So God forbid he wants to take a day and campaign in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, or maybe Arizona, Nevada, maybe Georgia, North Carolina.
No, he better be in the courtroom every day.
I saw one liberal.
Well, you can he can certainly could take his off days of being on trial for a month before an election.
I mean, a prior Republican National Convention.
203 days before an election.
Country's doomed if this if we don't win in 203 days, I hate to imagine where this country's headed.
I can't even guess.
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