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| We have a lot on the cover-up of Joe Biden's What did they know? | |
| Who who knew? | |
| What did they know? | |
| When do they they know it? | |
| About his cognitive decline. | |
| And who was in charge? | |
| Another question. | |
| And even fake Jake Tapper is admitting this is bigger than Watergator who has the potentially than Watergate. | |
| It's ba it you you literally had a president not capable of doing the job, other people making the decisions for him and covering it up. | |
| We'll get into that. | |
| Also, the Democratic Party, you know, headed towards a their own internal political civil war. | |
| Uh we'll get that today. | |
| We have good news on the economy, we will share with you today. | |
| Uh the president ratcheting up pressure on Vladimir Putin. | |
| That is important as well today. | |
| And I I can't even begin to touch the surface. | |
| I will say one thing to get started. | |
| One of the things that irritates me about the state-run legacy media mob more than anything else is how dishonest they are. | |
| And no matter and and this example of Joe Biden and covering for his cognitive decline and acting like we didn't know. | |
| And when we showed you Joe Biden, but they did not show you Joe Biden. | |
| We were showing you Joe Biden. | |
| We were playing you Joe Biden on the radio, and we were showing you him on TV, and we were pointing out what was a clear, obvious decline cognitively, and what a national security risk it was to the country. | |
| And the anyone that says they didn't see it is just outright lying. | |
| And and we're getting more and more information about this, and I'll share with you in a minute, but it's the media also claiming that they are journalists. | |
| The media claiming that they are fair and balanced. | |
| The media claiming that they are objective. | |
| It's it's it's nothing is further from the truth. | |
| You know, MSDNC and fake news CNN and ABC MBC CBS, they are all radical left. | |
| New York Times, Washington Post, I guess they're trying to make some improvements there. | |
| They're all radical left. | |
| And they're not journalists. | |
| They haven't been for a long time, and their agenda has been, and now it's being revealed to have been, you know. | |
| Saving democracy, and even if it means a compromise president, it's certainly better than Donald Trump. | |
| And not letting the American people decide what is in their best interest. | |
| Uh apparently 60 Minutes Anchor. | |
| Former uh what was Scott Pelley was running what? | |
| He was the the lead anchor on CBS evening news with Dan Rather, but he became the anchor there. | |
| He's supposed to be the face of objectivity. | |
| He's supposed to represent quote journalism. | |
| He gives a commencement speech this weekend, and he's angry and unhinged and delivers a fear laced tirade against Donald Trump during this commencement speech, warning the graduating class of the insidious fear that has infiltrated schools and businesses and homes across the nation, leaving America in a state of peril. | |
| What what is Scott Pelley who failed as an anchor? | |
| He didn't succeed in anchoring CBS evening news. | |
| They they dumped them off at sixty minutes. | |
| I mean, that show is uh is corrupt and abusively biased in my view, too. | |
| I mean, they'll they'll film you for three hours, five hours, however long they film you, and then they'll edit it down to a narrative that that they wanted and had a preconceived notion of. | |
| And they've gotten away with that game for a long time. | |
| Anyway, here's part of his commencement speech. | |
| To move forward, we debate, not demonize. | |
| We discuss, not destroy. | |
| But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. | |
| Journalism is under attack. | |
| Universities are under attack. | |
| Freedom of speech is under attack. | |
| And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. | |
| The fear to speak in America. | |
| If our government is in Lincoln's phrase, of the people, by the people, for the people, then why are we afraid to speak? | |
| Well, you I don't know why you're afraid to speak. | |
| I mean, your for your text messages weren't made public like mine, Mr. Pelle. | |
| What about my right to privacy, my right to freedom of speech? | |
| Uh, you didn't have and it happened to me multiple times, and not you or anybody else in the media had a thing to say about it. | |
| You want to talk about a lack of freedom of speech? | |
| Well, later in the program, we'll introduce you to Laurel Libby. | |
| She's a state legislator from Maine. | |
| She actually won her case and her role in Maine politics because of a Supreme Court ruling in her favor, but they don't even want her to speak on the floor of the House, and she's been ostracized by so many different people, even within her own party over the issue of men playing women's sports, which is being championed. | |
| I mean, do you not care about about women's sports and Title Nine? | |
| I mean, were we wrong all those years and you're okay with men playing women's sports? | |
| You're okay. | |
| Did you did you open your mouth to talk about the lawlessness that took place at our border with people that coming into this country unvetted, known terrorists and rapists and murderers? | |
| Have you told the stories of the Jocelyn Nungarys and Rachel Morens of the world and the Lakin Rileys of the world? | |
| Was that a big priority for 60 minutes? | |
| No, it was not. | |
| Did you talk about the abuse of power when in the double standard in our justice system and weaponizing our justice system? | |
| Or did you go along with the Russia collusion hoax, which you did, and go along with the FISA abuse, which you did, and go along with a double standard as it relates to top secret classified information that Joe Biden had, Hillary Clinton had, and only Mar-a-Lago was rated. | |
| Did sixty minutes or CBS News ever do an expose that Mar-a-Lago is not worth $18 million as determined by a judge that refused to hear from experts in Palm Beats on a property that was worth that's worth over a billion dollars? | |
| No, you did not. | |
| Did you care about the statute of limitations having run out in that case in New York and a novel legal theory created by a prosecutor that ran on a get Trump platform? | |
| You did not. | |
| You didn't care about any of these things. | |
| The cognitive decline of Joe Biden, you're part of the... | |
| Part of it. | |
| I mean, so you can rage against Trump all you want with the all your friends in the media, but it's not going to get you very far. | |
| You know, now we have, you know, this this battle now is raging in terms of now. | |
| We're beginning to know the depth of real democracy imperil. | |
| You have this longtime aid to Joe Biden admitting that insiders felt justified, acting undemocratically, keeping a president in power because they they determined, they determined, not we the people determined that Donald Trump represented an existential threat to democracy, and meanwhile that what they did was an existential threat to democracy. | |
| You know, this this whole health cover-up and lie. | |
| It's a big lie that that very few of us had the courage to go out there and talk about and show the American people and inform the American people. | |
| If it was Donald Trump's decline, I guarantee they would have covered it extensively, exhaustively. | |
| Jake Tapper telling Piers Morgan that this may be worse than it is worse than Watergate. | |
| And Jake Tapper knew better. | |
| And so did everyone else at his network. | |
| He goes, Well, Fox isn't letting me on. | |
| I'm like, no, well, why would I sell your book? | |
| Is we're competing cable channel. | |
| You're not a competing cable channel, because nobody watches you. | |
| Because nobody trusts you, and nobody trusts CBS or ABC or Georgie or David Muir or they did or Noro Donald or whoever's now doing MBC nightly news. | |
| Those days of trust are gone. | |
| The American people see through all of you. | |
| They know that you are frauds, that you claim to be something you you are not, fair, balanced, objective, discerning journalists. | |
| You're not as exemplified by this Biden cognitive decline cover-up of all of you. | |
| And it even gets worse than that. | |
| None of you opened your mouths. | |
| I mean, Miranda Devine has a piece in the New York Post today. | |
| You know, no justice in the FBI cover-up. | |
| You know, the FBI knew in March they confirmed the authenticity of the very real laptop from hell in March of 2020, long before the election. | |
| And what did they decide to do? | |
| They won't decided to go out and pre-bunk that that very real laptop by meeting weekly with big tech corporations. | |
| Why didn't why didn't 60 minutes cover that? | |
| And then we found out, you know, we learned they they tried to cast doubt on the authenticity of the laptop. | |
| Social media, you know, companies like Facebook at the time and and Twitter at the time, you know, went out there and said, Is this what you've been warning us about on in these weekly meetings that we might be victims of Russian disinformation? | |
| And then the FBI was asked straight up if this was real or fake. | |
| They knew it was real, and they refused to confirm the laptop's authenticity that they knew was real and instead allowed a false narrative to take hold because they wanted influence an election. | |
| Now that's something that would be Pulitzer Prize winning, which by the way, we also revealed a long time ago. | |
| John Solomon broke that story. | |
| You know, there was one moment, by the way, the after the laptop was released, you know, came out just weeks before the election. | |
| Actually, what kind of case is the laptop thing? | |
| FBI agent Elvis Chan asked the FBI analyst Peter uh Courtney at 528 PM on October 14th, corruption, campaign financing, question mark, quote, close hold. | |
| It's a money laundering case on Hunter Biden. | |
| Oh crap. | |
| Okay, it ends here. | |
| Earlier in the day, an FBI meeting with Twitter about election interference. | |
| A Twitter employee asked about the authenticity of the laptop. | |
| This is just this is after the New York Post story broke, weeks before an election. | |
| They had confirmed its authenticity in March. | |
| Anyway, uh yet Courtney began to Respond that the laptop was in fact real when an FBI lawyer interrupted to say the FBI had no further comment. | |
| According to a later congressional testimony, then FBI's foreign influence task force second uh chief went before Congress. | |
| You know, Courtney messed up an attorney from the FBI's office claimed at the time. | |
| The FBI lawyers believed to have worked under former FBI general counsel James Baker. | |
| You know, did they care about any of the, you know, we've got a backup plan and you know, uh to stop Trump and those the Russian smear? | |
| Oh, urinating on a bed in Russia. | |
| Oh, that happened. | |
| Who was pulling the strings of Joe Biden? | |
| There's an article in the New York Post about that. | |
| You know, Mike Donlin, a senior advisor, Steve Roschetti, counselor to the president. | |
| Was it Jill Biden? | |
| Was it Hunter Biden? | |
| And by the way, now I'm glad Dan Bangino's opening up an investigation in all these other cases. | |
| Like the cocaine. | |
| Well, they did an exhaustive 10-day investigation, and they found nothing, no evidence at all, whatsoever. | |
| Oh, okay, cocaine in the White House, but we're not going to find out who brought it in there. | |
| Was it Ron Klain? | |
| Biden's first chief of staff. | |
| Was he in charge? | |
| Was it Bruce Reid, Deputy Chief of Staff? | |
| Was it Joe Biden, Dr. Jill? | |
| Was it Hunter Biden? | |
| Because they all knew. | |
| And I'm sure they knew a lot more than we did. | |
| And the media claims ignorance. | |
| So this it's ridiculous. | |
| By the way, we've learning more about Mr. 8647 James Comey, Mr. Higher Honor. | |
| He called the Republican Party white supremacist Jason. | |
| Is interviewed by uh circle back, Jen Saki on MSDNC. | |
| One of the things that is happening now is that the Trump administration, of course, is testing the system in ways that's never been tested before. | |
| In the law enforcement sense, do you think that there are laws that should be put in place that would help better manage this that aren't in place now? | |
| I mean, are we equipped? | |
| Is the law enforcement system and the legal system equipped to deal with what we're seeing? | |
| Well, call me, probably there could be changes at the margins, but in the main, we have the tools. | |
| There are cultural impediments to doing this work. | |
| Let's say you work for the FBI, you know one of the two political parties is, let me put it nicely, white supremacist adjacent at a minimum. | |
| Wow. | |
| Why would you want to throw your career on that side of the line and be summoned to Capitol Hill and ask why you're pursuing innocent groups? | |
| Well, why were they pursuing pro-life, peaceful pro-life protesters? | |
| Why were they going after moms and dads at school board meetings? | |
| And by the way, even on MSD and why would anyone believe a Biden cabinet member now because they all hid their decline? | |
| One Georgia gubernatorial candidate, Heesha Lance Bottoms, is claiming no indication at all that Joe Biden was declining. | |
| She was the former White House advisor. | |
| Such a lie. | |
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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? | |
| 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? | |
| Yes, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
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| Yes, Linda, they I'll get into it more later. | |
| But yes, they spent Democrats spend 20 million dollars on a study examining how to speak to American men after losing ground with the demographic during the 2024 election cycle. | |
| Speaking with American men, a strategic plan, a 20 million dollar project crafted by Democrats to study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention in these spaces of male voters. | |
| This is their problem. | |
| Identity politics. | |
| It's called SAM for short. | |
| Studying specifically young male voters and how the party can connect with them and with the demographic. | |
| Additionally, the study is advising rolling out pro-democratic ads and video games. | |
| Because young men play video games. | |
| And the study's revelation was made in an what are you going to do? | |
| Are you going to run an ad in favor of men playing women's sports? | |
| Oh, that's going to attract a lot of young men. | |
| You're going to, you know, you're going to bring back the uh Dylan Mulvaney. | |
| And let you know, go ahead, bring that back. | |
| That'll work. | |
| I mean, what is this? | |
| The study. | |
| The study's revelation made by an overreaching article detailing the uphill battle for Democrats, which, by the way, is getting interesting as we speak, because they're all about to kill each other. | |
| And they're all looking, you know, to run for president. | |
| And they all think that they're well, we're going to study bro talk. | |
| What is he, bro? | |
| How are you? | |
| What's happening? | |
| Uh, what's going on? | |
| Hey, man. | |
| How are you doing, dude? | |
| What's up, dude? | |
| You know, uh, maybe they'll study your show. | |
| What's up? | |
| And we use some slang and some cuss words like Linda. | |
| It's uh, you know, MFR. | |
| I mean, what is it? | |
| What are they supposed to find here? | |
| Hey, did you have to do that? | |
| I don't think first of all, first of all, first of all. | |
| Cursing is not something that we attribute to either gender. | |
| It's just people who have a point to get across and they want to do it with authority. | |
| Oh, you're an expert at it. | |
| Oh, absolutely. | |
| You're the professional at it. | |
| I could teach a class. | |
| In fact, I should. | |
| If I give them Harvard money to me, I'm going to create a trade school on how to live your life and be a grown-up. | |
| I'm going to be, I think I'd be full of the world. | |
| Well, how are 20 million dollars to win over male voters? | |
| I don't even need 20 million. | |
| Just give me a million dollars. | |
| Study the syntax. | |
| First of all, there is no. | |
| How does a man talk? | |
| I mean, I think I talk like a regular guy. | |
| No, regular guys are very simple. | |
| Yes, it's no, it's high, and it's goodbye. | |
| That's it. | |
| By the way, when I meet people that I don't know, like at the Panthers game last night, they've lost last night, which pissed me off. | |
| I hate losing. | |
| Um, but they're up three of one in the series. | |
| But anyway, you know, it's it's kind of like I just say, hey, very nice to meet you. | |
| Yes, ma'am. | |
| Hey. | |
| Sir, how are you? | |
| Thank you so much for watching. | |
| People go after I mean, I'm polite. | |
| I mean, am I not speaking bro talk? | |
| Am I not using it? | |
| Well, Dems are not polite, so it's not that's not even a part of their vernacular. | |
| Oh. | |
| Big article about how Schumer is in big trouble. | |
| The squad member AOC would trounce Schumer in a primary as the Democratic leader is bleeding support from the party and with Jewish voters. | |
| I don't know how she's gonna win over Jewish voters, considering the squad is the squad, but socialist AOC leads five-term incumbent Schumer, 54-33. | |
| 21 points. | |
| She would smoke him. | |
| Although I will tell you, New York City, get ready. | |
| Your next mayor is going to be Andrew Cuomo, whether you like it or not. | |
| Rom Rombo Deadfish is telling the Wall Street Journal that Democrats must move to the center to win. | |
| The party brand is toxic. | |
| It is weak. | |
| It is woke. | |
| Is this the same guy that was mayor of Chicago? | |
| Is this the same guy that didn't lift a finger to stop the violence in Chicago? | |
| That I'm wondering. | |
| That's the same guy. | |
| So he wants to triangulate, and he appears to be laying the groundwork for a presidential bid, but was also thinking about running for Illinois governor. | |
| It depends on the current governor, J.B. Fritzker, what he decides to do next. | |
| He could run for a third term or throw his hat in the presidential primary ring. | |
| Pritzker's running for president. | |
| So that's that's amazing. | |
| The Atlantic had a very interesting piece how the coming Democratic Civil War. | |
| That's the headline. | |
| And, you know, the the critics decry it as a scheme to infiltrate the Democratic Party. | |
| But this this this political civil war is real. | |
| And anyway, it is um, you know, you have the radical left that's taken over the party. | |
| Jasmine Crockett, the squad, AOC, Grandpa Bernie, and anyway, Democratic, but then they want a Democratic Party of corporate a lot with corporate aligned interests and gambit by center right think tank and libertarian donors, | |
| and this dispute, you know, is tearing up the party apart, but in recent years, the party's internals uh divides have defined almost but they they're in full agreement because the Democrats had a chance to stand up for women in men's sports, and they didn't do it. | |
| They had a chance to stop illegal immigration. | |
| They didn't do it. | |
| They chose Kamala Harris and they covered up for Joe Biden, and they can't undo the damage that they've done. | |
| And Jasmine Crockett, you know, is now the loudest voice for the Democratic Party. | |
| By the way, there was a Kansas protest several weeks ago. | |
| The FBI director, former FBI director Comey said 8647, and then shared his seashells on Instagram or wherever he put it. | |
| And anyway, it is um it's just interesting that the former top lawman pleaded ignorance. | |
| I had no idea. | |
| I thought it meant 86 is like and cancel something, and my wife thought, you know, 86 a meal at a restaurant if the uh it's just a crocker crap. | |
| By the way, did you hear about this bank of uh Ben Carson and John Rich and Larry Elder called Old Glory Bank? | |
| They're opened a bank for conservatives. | |
| I think that's pretty cool. | |
| It is cool. | |
| I think anything we can do to protect our money from people who want to spend it on stupid things is a good thing. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh now let me get to the president. | |
| We haven't talked about him yet today. | |
| So the percentage of Americans who say the country is now on the right track has hit an all-time high for the first time in its twenty-nine-year polling history. | |
| Rasmussen is showing that 50% of the country believes America's on the right track. | |
| And anyway, Rasmussen's Mark Mitchell announced on X saying for the first time in our polling history, a majority says the country is on the right track. | |
| Well, the Trump FBI has reopened investigations into the Supreme Court abortion decision leak, the Biden White House cocaine scandal, and the January 6th pipe bomber mystery. | |
| That's good news. | |
| I really want to get to the bottom of the cocaine issue. | |
| I re that was such a farce, that investigation. | |
| Trump is threatened to yank all of Havid's remaining taxpayer subsidies and send the money to trade schools. | |
| the ivy league institution has over 53 billion dollars in endowments why do they deserve one One penny from taxpayers. | |
| Now, anyway, the cuts believed to be worth a hundred million dollars. | |
| Well, why did they get over what, six hundred million in fiscal year twenty-four? | |
| This is insane. | |
| What are we doing? | |
| That is an insane amount of money. | |
| Social Security officially removed twelve point three million individuals listed age 120, thanks to Doge. | |
| Uh the Supreme Court lets Trump fire agency officials, but moves to protect the Fed, meaning the Federal Reserve will remain independent, aiming to ease financial market concern, I guess, which is unfortunate because Jerome Powell is not my favorite person. | |
| Interest rate should be lower. | |
| At West Point, the president lauded the future leaders of America's army. | |
| President Trump unleashed nuclear energy to power the future and signed executive actions to accelerate nuclear energy development, reduce regulatory barriers, and strengthen U.S. energy independence. | |
| And the president also ordered to usher in a nuclear renaissance and restore the gold standard in science. | |
| That's all good. | |
| He said we're waiting for the foreign student list from Harvard so we can determine after a ridiculous expenditure of billions of dollars how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all should not be let back in our country. | |
| Harvard's very slow in the presentation of these documents, probably for good reason. | |
| The best thing going for Harvard is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best judge for them, but have no fear we'll win in the end. | |
| The president honoring yesterday, American Fallen Heroes, which was amazing. | |
| And he slammed the slammed military drag shows and social projects and his West Point speech, those days are over. | |
| And Trump schools West Point graduates, you know, in so many different ways. | |
| It's a new error, and we need a new error. | |
| He railed against the anti-Semitic Harvard and threatens to divert funding to the trade schools. | |
| Well, why do these schools get away with this? | |
| You can't you can't discriminate based on race, sex, national origin. | |
| Go through the list, and you have to use the right pronoun. | |
| I'm just trying to understand why it's acceptable to be anti-Semitic on these college campuses. | |
| In terms of the economy, Trump tariffs now have foreign car companies scrambling to open factories here in the United States. | |
| Mercedes Ben says they will produce new cars in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, starting in 27. | |
| Iende announced the new $20 billion investment in steel and auto production in the U.S. Honda will ramp up production of their civic model in Indiana. | |
| Toyota is boosting hybrid vehicle output at a West Virginia plant. | |
| BMW is considering new shifts at a plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. | |
| They want it all made in America. | |
| Good. | |
| To avoid the tariffs, high-paying career jobs for Americans. | |
| Now, most Americans have finally realized that the media mob's tariff hysteria was nothing, just one of their hoaxes. | |
| Consumer confidence has now increased after a five-month decline, reaching 98 points in May, up from 85.7 in April, according to the Consumer Confidence Index. | |
| Oh, I thought this was I thought everyone was panicked. | |
| Either way, did you see uh McCrone get slapped in the face by his wife on the airplane when they opened the door? | |
| I don't know that I would call it a slap. | |
| That was more of a two-handed shove. | |
| Two-handed shove, push, punch, I don't care, whatever you want to call it, reaching out, pushing McCrone away in the face, though. | |
| One hand covering his mouth and part of his nose. | |
| Like you're I mean, let's be honest. | |
| If you were that close to McCron, you might be, you know. | |
| You might feel the same. | |
| Lord knows what the man is. | |
| Uh oh, you're blaming it on the man. | |
| Well, yeah. | |
| Why not? | |
| I mean, I think he's an idiot, so I would blame him. | |
| He's my default blame. | |
| I doubt she's that bright either. | |
| How come I never get offered commencements features? | |
| I've done two in my life. | |
| Oh, they're not. | |
| I mean, if you're gonna have Scott Pelley and Jerome Powell, Powell at Princeton urging grads to protect U.S. democracies. | |
| He sounds a lot like Scott Pelley. | |
| By the way, gas prices hit their lowest Memorial Day level in four years, despite, you know, everything. | |
| By the way, Sean Duffy following through on his promise. | |
| He's offering air traffic controllers 20% and a bonus to delay retirement, which we need to do. | |
| Now, we are going to get into in the next hour this whole issue with Russia. | |
| I mean, Vladimir Putin has gotten more aggressive, more aggressive, and I think there's really only one thing to do, and now it's gonna probably happen. | |
| You know, President Trump seriously considering lifting all war fighting restrictions on Ukraine. | |
| Let him attack Russia. | |
| They're attacking Ukraine. | |
| I don't think there should be any restrictions. | |
| 81 senators now back a plan to impose crippling sanctions. | |
| But really, the cure for this has got to start with Europe. | |
| Europe is, you know, they're making Putin rich by buying his gas and oil. | |
| And they've been funding his war machine the entire time. | |
| President Trump said Putin has gone absolutely crazy after this weekend. | |
| I mean, it's it's insane. | |
| He's just indiscriminately taking out civilians left, right, and sideways. | |
| Um, and Russia is declaring Trump's peace deal is dead. | |
| Okay, fine if it's dead, then let the world stand against Putin, especially Europe. | |
| Stop making the guy rich. | |
| Just like in the Middle East. | |
| You know, stop turning a blind eye to the sanctions that that work and cut off the Iranian mullah's funding. | |
| And don't let them sell oil. | |
| Don't give them waivers like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did. | |
| And then if they continue with their nuclear program, then it'll be inevitable. | |
| The president said he will take it out. | |
| 800 941 Shauna's a number in the book of Genesis. | |
| God makes a promise. | |
| To your offspring, I promise this land. | |
| Now that promise is the foundation of Israel, a land the Jewish people have returned to after centuries of exile, bondage, even the horrors of the Holocaust. | |
| But the promise is still under threat, especially we know that they are fighting for their very survival since October the 7th, 23. | |
| And tens and tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced. | |
| They need humanitarian assistance, everything imaginable food, water, medicines, shelter, you name it, clothing. | |
| And Israel's safety is, you know, defended by the IDF. | |
| Every single citizen in Israel is required to serve. | |
| And anyway, help the ID IFCJ 888-488-IFCJ. | |
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