Senator Chris Van Hollen faces scrutiny for his El Salvador trip to meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an MS-13 member the host deems a PR stunt involving doctored photos and taxpayer-funded travel. The discussion highlights legal barriers under the 1798 Aliens Act preventing extradition, while contrasting this with claims that Democrats spread disinformation about deportation policies. Beyond the border crisis, the episode covers IRS leadership turmoil involving Gary Shapely, federal worker tax non-compliance, and allegations against New York Attorney General Letitia James regarding mortgage fraud and her $454 million judgment against Donald Trump. Ultimately, these segments underscore a broader political conflict over immigration enforcement, fiscal responsibility, and media narratives surrounding government accountability. [Automatically generated summary]
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Van Hollen's PR Stunt00:14:48
Never a dull moment now, is there?
Wow, ladies and gentlemen, we've got Van Hollen to the rescue, apparently.
A Democrat senator finally, finally, after days of hanging out in El Salvador, gets to meet with the guy he's so enamored with.
The entire Democratic Party is so enamored with.
That would be one, Alberto Garcia, who was sent to the El Salvadorian prison.
Apparently, he never actually really spent much time in that particular prison because once everything was figured out, they escorted him into a new environment.
Anyway, it looks like a real PR stunt, if you would gone bad.
Here's the president speaking about it just moments ago.
He's a fake.
I know him.
I know them all.
They're all fake.
And they have no interest in that prisoner.
That prisoner's record is unbelievably bad.
They talk about how evil I am that this man would be thrown out of our country.
This man is a, according to certified statements that we get, a very violent person.
And they want this man to be brought back into our country where he can be free.
And to stay as a happily Maryland, you know, happily, they call him the Maryland man.
He's a Maryland father.
No, this is a violent person.
Yeah, he's getting at the record that this man is alleged to have had.
I shouldn't say alleged because, well, maybe alleged.
I mean, the wife is alleging quite a bit.
She's not doing that now, right?
She actually was like a deer in a headlights with the morning show this morning.
We're going to get to that in just a second.
But first of all, just understand what's going on.
You got Van Hollen.
kind of caught in the middle of this PR stunt, if you would.
I mean, Bukele is kind of laughing about the whole thing, sending out pictures of the two of them almost poolside.
If you listen to Chris Van Hollen, they were almost poolside there in El Salvador, but, you know, with fake margaritas, et cetera.
They're kind of having a little bit of fun with it along the way.
And Chris Van Hollen apparently is just too dumb.
Like, he thinks that this is the be-all, end-all.
He's got to stand with the migrant guy who is apparently the wife-beater who was apparently part of the MS 13 gang, and he's down there all, you know, sweating it out.
But he wants you to know he's back and he's got a report.
It took him almost 24 hours, by the way, to come forward with this.
All he did was tell us last night that he had met with the guy, and now here he is with a report.
It's good to be home.
Now we need to end the illegal abduction of Kilmar Arbego Garcia and bring him home, too.
We're joined by his wife, Jennifer, by his mother, Cecilia, by his brother, Cesar, and thank all of the rest of you who are joining us in solidarity with the Constitution and Kilmar.
Look, I'm a little sleep deprived.
And I want to be as clear as possible about what this is about and what it's not about.
So I'm going to read the remarks that I wrote on the plane ride home.
As the federal courts have said, we need to bring Mr. Abrego Garcia home to protect his constitutional rights to due process.
Hmm.
Of course, don't forget the elephant in the room, which is that the guy actually is not from here.
Originally and he came here illegally and they weren't even going to release him on bail.
They wouldn't even like offer bail up because they said he was a member of a very serious gang.
And then, of course, you had the Supreme Court come out and say they were allowing for this 1798 Aliens Act, deportation act, to stand and said that Donald Trump and the executive Branch had the power to deport people that they believed to be a threat.
And yet here we are.
So this guy Van Hollen, who's taking this up as his cause.
I mean, forget about the actual immigration issue itself.
You think about poor Patty Moran, right, who lost her daughter horrifically.
And she's like, where was he then?
Nowhere, right?
But now he just can't do enough for the guy.
Anyway, so he is kind of caught up in this sort of PR arm, if you would.
Here's Bukele saying last night, well, he said, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, this is on Twitter, miraculously risen from the death camps and torture.
now sipping margaritas with Senator Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador.
And then he tweeted out, now that he's confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.
Now, if you look at these pictures, let me see if I have the one with the margaritas.
So this was apparently kind of doctored.
I looked at it.
You know, one of my producers and I were talking about this and I was like, I don't buy it because one, that doesn't really look like a margarita to me.
Like it might be a little bit more tinted of a glass.
And there's no way, right, that you've got the sugary top.
And then we were debating, well, maybe they got some sugar drink that we're not aware of that isn't alcoholic.
Who the heck knows?
But I kind of had my suspicions, which were right when I looked at, say, what Van Hollen was tweeting out, which was something that was kind of different.
In fact, I think his picture, well, that's not it.
His picture didn't have those sort of sugary cup rims.
He explained the situation a little bit.
Again, he walked right into it, right?
Like, what are you expecting?
Apparently, they did want them to sit by the pool.
We were kind of surrounded by video cameras.
So I do want to say that that was the setting.
He was in.
I should also just say, you know, I mentioned the fake margarita scandal.
They actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool, right, in the hotel.
Just, right.
I mean, this is a guy who's been in CCOT.
This is a guy who's been detained.
They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which, of course, is a big fat lie.
Yeah.
Well, you know, they're not going to hurt him that bad under the circumstances, knowing how these things work, right?
Like, that's the last thing El Salvador or the Trump administration needs is for this guy to be, you know.
Tortured or beaten or any of that stuff.
In fact, if you actually look at the numbers and i'm getting, i'm gonna get in trouble with somebody for saying this, but I was looking at this like in 2020 they had something like a hundred thousand prisoners there in the El Salvador prison system and about a hundred of them or so died, which are far better statistics than we have here in the U.s.
Percentage wise.
Percentage wise, we're like double the number of people that we lose in U.s prison.
So i'm just saying i'm just saying I realize these are supposed to be really bad places, but they're also profit centers right for Bukele and they're trying to clean up the country.
And well, you know, i'm just looking at the stats and the stats are not necessarily in the U.s's favor over El Salvador.
I'll.
Leave that there anyway.
He does say that the guy was totally traumatized.
I get it right.
I mean it would be a traumatizing thing to be picked up and sent off to Seycott there in El Salvador, but he was moved pretty quickly to a different detention center and, as Bukele said, they're now not going to let him out.
Rather, they're going to keep him there in El Salvador's custody.
Think about this just for one second, guys.
So they moved him to a better center, which makes all the sense in the world, right?
Once they realized he wasn't the person they thought he was, et cetera.
And also once he became so public in terms of his profile.
But now if they just let him go and he just roams around El Salvador, then you're at risk of being violently hurt by somebody on El Salvador that has maybe some ulterior motives, right?
They might try and get him and make it look like, oh, look what happened in El Salvador.
Look what Trump did, et cetera, et cetera.
So I think for his own safety, they're actually keeping him there now.
And we're going to see how this works its way out in the courts.
You know, the reality is we're not talking about somebody, as the president said, who was, you know, husband of the year, father of the year.
In fact, you have only to look at the records the government has put forward itself.
I mean, here's one judge who's saying we can't let him out on bail because he is alleged to be a member of MS-13.
So that's been disputed.
I get it.
He says I'm not.
And so that's the whole argument about due process.
How can you send someone out?
the administration would say, well, he shouldn't have been here to begin with.
And then you had the issue with the wife, right?
Don't forget the new intel that the DOJ just came out with yesterday, in which they showed sort of the rap sheet, if you would, of the accusations his wife was making against him because she wanted a restraining order.
Apparently twice she did this.
Here's Pamela.
To President Trump?
Well, I'm trying to understand that part.
And I'm looking at the timeline.
I'm looking at what the courts have said about him.
I'm looking about what ISA said about him.
I'm looking about at, even though I'm having a hard time understanding why his wife is advocating for him to come back.
Why is everybody saying he's a man from Maryland?
What do you make of Senator Van Hollen and, you know, this performative art that he's involved in in El Salvador?
of which he was unsuccessful today.
Well, America is safer because he is gone.
Maryland is safer because he is gone.
And that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her, they are safer tonight because he is out of our country and sitting in El Salvador where he belongs.
These people are there saying because we needed to do, the government needed to do one extra step, they're saying, of paperwork.
Here's why.
Because initially he claimed there was a rival gang.
So he's saying he's a gang member.
There's a rival gang in El Salvador, which no longer exists, by the way, that could have hurt him if he had gone back to El Salvador.
So there was no ending for him, none, where he would end up staying in this country.
And President Bukele made it crystal clear that he is not returning him to our country.
Our only job legally was to facilitate it if.
According to the Supreme Court, President Bukele wanted him to come back to our country and he does not want him back, and we do not want him back in our country.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Attorney General Pam.
So, considering all of that, right?
Bukele is saying we're going to keep him, we're not going to send him back.
How do you then, as a country, like intervene?
I think it's a really interesting legal question because at that point he's back in his home country, and how are you going to interfere with that?
We got more on that in just a moment because we need to dig in, I think, from a legal perspective.
But before I do, I want to get to the wife.
Okay.
So Jennifer Garcia is the wife of this guy.
And she's the one who had basically reached out to law enforcement and said, I need some protection here because I'm really concerned about him hurting me.
There were some graphic descriptions of what she alleged.
And so she went on, I believe, one of those morning shows, one of those network morning shows.
Maybe it was ABC.
I can't keep them straight.
It was either.
Yeah, I think it was ABC.
Good morning, America.
And she went on television today and she couldn't.
Say a thing like she's literally deer in the headlights when they ask her about this and it's like come on guys did nobody even prep her for that question and you know what's really annoying the reporter watch what he does watch what he does This tells you everything about once again how they're trying to control the narrative because he gives her this opportunity Look what she does and his reaction.
We're going to watch it together.
And how did you learn that he was detained?
He made a phone call to me, and what we thought was a regular traffic stop was not a regular traffic stop.
And we know that the administration, they're resisting a court order to bring your husband back to the U.S.
They say your husband's a member of the MS-13 gang.
Is he a member of the MS-13 gang or any other gang?
No, he's not.
Okie dokie.
Did you hear him say, like, this was like fragile territory, no-go territory?
Oh, I guess we can't talk about that?
Heck yeah, you ought to be able to talk about it.
She says nothing.
She's just waiting.
You don't bother following through as a journalist.
It tells you so much you need to know about ABC News.
I mean, here we are yet again, looking at such an incredibly biased media.
I don't know why he wouldn't say, hey, like, can you explain why you won't talk about it?
Instead, he just left it dangling out there, and we don't know.
But she clearly doesn't want to go there.
This is like raw, no-go territory, and he didn't bother.
He didn't bother to say boo, despite all of what we know now about her allegations about her husband.
Here's the real photo I wanted to show you.
So when I say it was a PR trap, you know, with the margaritas and the whole nine yards, this is the real one.
This is Van Hollen there sitting with this gentleman believed to be an MS-13 gang member and it has now just captured the country because it calls into question, okay, well, what do you do with somebody who is here illegally,
is accused of a crime, is not allowed out on bail because it's believed he's a gang member, and then is somehow applying for some kind of asylum based on his fear for his life because of gangs in El Salvador.
I hate to say this, and maybe we need to change the asylum rules.
I don't think we do, but I'm just saying, because legally speaking, There's, you know, there's like two ways you qualify for asylum.
You can qualify because of political prosecution or because of religious prosecution, but you're not going to qualify just because you live in a hellhole that has no economic opportunity and for which you feel extremely endangered.
I mean, the south side of Chicago, you might feel really, really endangered there, but, you know, that's that, right?
You live in El Salvador.
I'm sorry.
It's not perfect.
It sounds kind of mean to say, but how are we supposed to take in everyone from all over the world, really?
Okay, so this is the fake picture.
This is the margaritas, but you get a hand. to them.
It was kind of funny.
Oh, you want to speak about funny?
You want to speak about actually really handing it to these guys?
I got to show you a picture from the White House.
Trump Voters Regret Vote00:05:05
So of course, we know where the media is on all of this, do we not?
Well, the media is releasing headlines that the White House, of course, sees as very biased.
So I want to share with you what they put out earlier today.
Voila.
Okay, so this is the New York Times headline.
It's just kind of funny, where they're writing, Senator meets with wrongly deported Marilyn Mann in El Salvador.
Now they're kind of saying, okay, you know, maybe there was a mess up on the paperwork, but we actually feel because he was here illegally, we had the right to deport him.
So that's kind of a sticking point.
And they're like, hey, hey, hey, New York Times, guess what?
We corrected it for you.
Oh, and by the way, Chris Penholland, he's not coming back.
Everybody's up in an uproar.
Oh my gosh.
Well, guess what?
He's already back.
He's already out doing his press conference.
You know media, you know what that he is.
So they they got a red pen out and they said senator meets with and they crossed out, wrongly meets with deported.
They took out Maryland man, MS13 gang member in El Salvador who's not coming back.
So they're having a little bit of fun with it too.
And you know it's sad.
I mean, I get it.
These are people's lives.
But Van Hollen is really just taking this side that I don't think the the rest of America is really embracing, because Donald Trump was.
He was elected for a reason.
He was elected because people wanted a cleanup of these issues.
And so when you look at all the polls, all the polls show that Donald Trump is getting the support of the American people when it comes to deporting criminals.
And even on this issue as well.
I mean, here was Harry Anton on CNN the other day saying, listen, you guys all keep talking about MAGA voters no longer supporting Trump in light of some of the recent events, including this.
And you are so dead wrong.
Like he's sick of hearing it because actually MAGA voters are with him all the way still.
Let's talk about Trump voters and how they feel.
Do they regret their vote?
I mean, this is the big question, right?
I hear all these stories, all these articles.
All the Trump voters, they regret what they did back in 2024.
I'm here to tell you, uh uh, very few of them regret what they did back in 2024.
What are we talking about?
Trump voters looking back at 2024.
We got a new poll out.
The poll was conducted this month.
What percentage would change their vote to a different candidate?
We're talking just 2%, just 2%.
That's not even a wide spawn on the road.
And then there's this additional 1%.
Who say they would rather not vote.
We're talking overall under 5% might or would have changed their vote, Donald Trump voters back in 2024.
And then you ask, okay, the same question of Kamala Harris voters, and it turns out the numbers are rather similar.
So if there was a repeat, if folks got to be able to redo their vote that they had back in 2024, would the result be any different?
I doubt it would be.
I doubt it would be, or it would still be extremely close.
The bottom line is, for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote, in the numbers, it really just doesn't show up, Joe.
So, so the stickiness with Trump voters and President Trump in this presidency, how does it compare to his first president?
Yeah, okay.
So, you know, I was interested in sort of a historical analogy here, sort of, does this look similar or different from back in 2017 looking at 2016?
Well, in February of 2017, 4%, 4% of Trump voters say they'd shift their vote.
That's actually slightly more than the 3% this time around.
So, you know, you look back, you say, okay, there's these Trump voters who really regret their vote.
Historically speaking, they really don't regret their vote.
And if anything, the number this time around is actually smaller than it was the first time around.
And it's certainly smaller than the number we saw coming out of 2020, of course, after the events of January 6th.
So the bottom line is this if there's some idea out there, that Trump voters are going around, man, I wish I had voted for Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump.
The numbers say that is a fanciful universe.
It really, for the most part, does not exist.
What about the yeah, he's right.
Like it is a fanciful universe.
And I think that what people just in the Democrat Party are starting to realize increasingly is that the whole point of bringing Donald Trump in was to, one, lessen inflation, which, by the way, he's done.
Like, just take a look.
Right, like egg prices are way down, gas prices are way down.
You got oil hanging out at 61 bucks a barrel.
I mean, these are numbers we have not seen now.
Hopefully it's because you know we're stabilizing here, we're not going into a recession or anything like that, because that would be a whole other can of worms.
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But the point is is you know what?
You've got people that elected Donald Trump for a reason right, they want to actually fix this immigration mask, they want to fix the inflation scenario.
Misinformation Machine Ruined00:06:02
So these two things are happening simultaneously.
And you had Tom Homan, who's a brave man because he went on Msnpc Morning Joe this morning.
Right, you got to give him some credit for that.
You know, that's like going into the lion's den Not exactly a fun group, shall we say, over there.
And he laid it out quite well.
Here's Mr. Homan.
Look, the American people voted for this.
American people voted for Donald Trump.
This is number one issue.
The vast majority of Americans want illegal aliens to move from this country.
And it's done humanely.
However, we've got to remember this.
There are millions of people standing in line, taking their tests, doing their background investigation, paying their fees to be part of the greatest nation on earth.
They're sitting in the back seat while 10.5 million illegal aliens came to this border.
Enter this country illegally, which is a violation of law.
There's the right way and the right way to come to this country legally.
The people who came across me, they call them asylum seekers, but you and I both know, if you look at the immigration court data, nine out of ten of those so called asylum seekers will end up with an order removal.
They overwhelm the system on purpose.
Why?
Because they know it's going to take five, seven, nine years to have a hearing, which they will lose, but now they have U.S. citizen kids.
Now they own equities.
Now there may be a Democratic administration in power which will award amnesty.
They're playing the long game, but we're enforcing laws as enacted by Congress, which you remember of.
We're not making this up.
We're enforcing laws on the books, including the Alien Enemies Act, which is an act created by Congress.
We're simply using the laws on the books to make this country safe again.
Okay?
And the Alien Enemies Act was held up by the Supreme Court on top of it all.
So the people want this.
This is what they voted for.
And yet you've got the Democrats trying to stand in the way.
And well, there's one guy who's even trying to impeach over this whole thing.
You know, Ben Ferguson, my friend, I've known him many, many years here.
He appeared on Fox.
He used to come on, I think, my CNBC show.
That was rare to have a conservative on that.
But anyway, here he is speaking.
And he articulated it well.
I want you to hear.
I mean, that's a pretty easy takeaway to make when you look at the contrast in these images.
But I mean, I'm really struggling to understand what is the motivation here for these members to go down and meet with these people and advocate to bring them back, even despite all of this evidence that we've seen come out.
I mean, why do they care about this one issue?
Why do they want to make this person the sort of poster of their argument in particular?
Look, you don't have a leader of the Democratic Party right now, so they're all jockeying for trying to get their moment in the sun.
And this goes back to the basic theme Orange man bad.
We hate Donald Trump.
He's terrible.
How do we undermine Donald Trump?
Oh, we're going to put out a story.
And let's be honest, in the past, they've gotten away with these types of disinformation stories.
They change the narrative.
They act like an MS 13 gang member is not one.
They then say he's a victim.
They say he's being tortured.
You put all these lies out there, and usually what happens?
The media sells the lie.
Many of them did in this case.
And this is the first time I feel like this new media and conservatives and places like Fox News Channel are winning by just telling you the honest facts.
Democrats- I'm going to add to that.
We're winning because we are being honest with you.
The spin.
Chelsea Gabbard actually was looking into that.
We'll bring you that story on Monday.
But she released some documents this week which really show the effort to which the Biden administration was going.
through to undermine what actually is truth, right?
Because they want to control the narrative.
They are so desperate to control the narrative.
In fact, his exit interview with USA Today, Susan Page, Biden said his biggest regret was that he didn't control the quote unquote misinformation enough.
I'm like, buddy, I mean, I guess you were, he thought it was misinformation.
I'm like, buddy, hey, what do you think that was?
The darn 51X spooks coming out about your son's laptop, trying to pretend like that thing was actually a hoax from Russia when it was all real.
Or what about how you wouldn't allow us to talk about the Wuhan virus coming from Wuhan, China from that lab, right?
We weren't allowed to talk about these things.
And I kept saying at the time, when you strangle a society and do not allow for an open discussion and for a debate and for alternative, alternative facts, remember when Kellyanne Conway got in trouble for that one?
When you don't allow for somebody else to talk about anything else, you've totally ruined that society and you've ruined any kind of faith and trust that the American people may have had it.
in you or with you.
I mean, the one amazing thing about this administration, I will just say, there are many amazing things, but they are not willing to allow for this lack of transparency that was so evident in the Biden administration.
Instead, you got cameras going all day long.
He'll answer any question.
He'll talk to anybody.
And that is very different than anything we've seen before.
And he is back and he is back with a vengeance.
In other words, he knows he's on a mission.
I saw him there.
with Mrs. Marin, right, who lost her daughter.
And you could feel the empathy and you could feel the sense of purpose.
And he was telling her, right, you've got a sense of purpose.
Here it is.
Beautiful.
Tell a dear friend.
She's a beautiful woman.
She's been through hell.
She's been through hell, right?
Oh, yes.
Your daughter's looking down proud of you.
You know that.
Just keep it going.
I know.
Keep it going.
Thank you so much.
Stay with that one.
It's like you said, we have a purpose.
It's a purpose.
She's proud of you.
It is a purpose, okay?
It's a purpose.
And so he feels this purpose.
He feels her anguish.
And he's committed.
He's committed to doing what he feels is right.
And he's going to tell you every step of the way exactly what he's doing.
Deportation Order Questions00:12:42
He's not going to allow for the misinformation, right?
I mean, that's what this was.
We saw a misinformation machine.
I've told you about that.
I almost said Smith-Hawley because a lot of these things are on my mind right now.
Not Smith-Hawley, but the Smith-Munt Act of 1948, which basically said, okay, taxpayer funds can go to propaganda that we're going to put overseas so that we can control the political regimes in all these various countries to the best of their ability, right?
And that's sort of what the CIA was engaged in.
And you had a leg up because, sure, the U.S. was all over radio and television and, of course, Hollywood and films.
And so if you could control the narrative that way overseas, then you could control the political regimes that came into power.
And that was advantageous because, let's face it, you didn't want to have to go to war every time you were going to have a fight over oil or this, that, or the other.
And so we did a lot.
On the edges or around the margins to inflict our view of what quote-unquote democracy was.
You notice, we only care about democracy in places that we care about.
Right, and we would push a certain narrative, but the Smith Munt Act of 1948 insisted that that could not be reversed on us.
In other words, you couldn't use taxpayer funds to reverse the propaganda that you were pushing overseas in the name of democracy here, back here at home.
But what happened?
Obama, Obama 2012, it went into effect in 2013 with the Defense Act said, well, you know, look, all these foreign actors can come over here and they can infiltrate our social media and they can put out a different narrative.
And so we have to stop that.
And so in stopping that, quote unquote stopping that, they allowed for those funds, USAID, et cetera, to actually go to news organizations that had their international operations to use that back here at home and kind of have a giant psychop, right?
So Americans, they saw through it.
We saw through it.
You wonder why countries all over the world kind of look at their governments like, hmm.
And I said this would happen.
I predicted it would happen.
I always said, you know, no one in Russia trusts the, the, no one in Russia trusts Putin.
Okay.
And you know why that is?
Because they have manipulated the news cycle.
And it's, you know, state media.
Well, what do you think went down with Biden?
What do you think went down with Obama?
I mean, it's partly where Trump came into office and then various circumstances.
He was out in 2020.
But you know what?
He's back and he's back, as I said, with a vengeance.
And listen, this double standard on migrants thing.
This is not going to fly.
You can't say, oh, we just care about migrants, but we don't care about people like Patty Moran who lost her daughter.
Or, you know, we don't care about girls who have to swim in the pool with boys or change in the locker room with boys because this is, this is, you know, this is not fair.
By the way, what I don't get it.
Like, weren't they supposed to be the party for women?
It's like they don't stand up for women at all.
I mean, you've got people that are illegally in the country.
You need law and order.
Do you not?
I mean, do you not?
I'm looking at all your comments here.
It's great to see you guys up and on this on a Friday afternoon ahead of Easter weekend.
So thank you for being here.
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Quick shout out again.
I see you talking about oil prices.
And Don, what do you think?
I mean, oil, it's come crashing down.
We have some views on that.
We've written a lot on it in terms of oil.
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I will say this, you know what?
You have a passionate team there in the White House, not just Donald Trump, but you look at some of the other members of the team like Stephen Miller.
So this is great.
I haven't shown you guys this.
He came out and he just torched the media.
We've seen like bits and pieces of him all week, but this one is unbelievable.
He's like, you guys just don't get this story at all.
He totally loses it on them.
He's like, you didn't do any research.
You don't know what the heck you're talking about.
Here we go.
Is the president going to ask for him to be returned to the United States or not?
Like, yes or no?
Let me ask you, what do you think would happen to him if he came back to this country?
As your understanding of immigration laws, what do you think would happen?
But I'm just asking you to talk about what the president is doing.
You're asking a lot of questions.
You're asking, you were all asking a lot of questions about this, and you all seem to care about it a lot.
So let's see if any of you who've researched anything about this issue at all can anyone here tell me what would happen to the illegal alien from El Salvador if he came back to the United States?
Does anyone here know?
Anyone want to guess?
Any of you?
He could be with his family.
What?
Do you know the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order?
Do you know the difference?
Any of you, please.
Do you?
Well, we're not in the government.
So you didn't spend, so you couldn't even spend 72 hours over the weekend learning the distinction, even though you've been writing and talking about it this whole time.
What I'm getting from this conversation, which is educational for me, is that not one person in the media knows the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order.
Is that a fair statement?
You're learning about this all for the first time right now?
I guess so.
Okay.
So the deportation order means the judge has said he must.
Be deported from the country.
He has no right to remain here any longer.
He must be removed from the country.
So his only options are to be deported to his home country or another country.
That's it.
There's no other option.
He doesn't get to stay here.
He doesn't get to live here.
He has no future here.
He has no right to be here.
He's an illegal alien.
So when you keep saying return, because you've been spun up by the open borders advocates, you all seem to be operating under the illusion that he would be able to come to the United States and just continue to live here illegally.
That's not an option available to him.
His only choices in life are to live in El Salvador or to live in another country.
That's it.
There's no other option, legally or otherwise, because he came to our country illegally.
Do you understand that?
He would be arrested.
He'd be put in confinement.
He would be deported the second time to El Salvador again because there's no withholding order for an alien who's a member of a foreign terrorist organization, number one.
Number two is the gang that he's a member of doesn't exist in El Salvador anymore.
So what you're asking for is to be deported twice.
But additionally, if we chose to.
Pretend, just pretend that the withholding order was real, he would be deported to a different country.
So, for example, he could be deported to Egypt.
So, I'm just trying to understand is it your view, in other words, you define a country that would be willing to take a MS-13 member from El Salvador?
So, I'm trying to understand from you all is so, if he came back and under our laws, he was then deported to Egypt or to Somalia, would you then be saying, great, I'm so glad that you deported him to another country?
Is that what you'd all be saying?
Yeah, my gosh.
So Miller is absolutely furious with all of this and it's wild, right?
It's totally wild.
He's like, you guys, you don't do your homework.
You don't do your research.
You have no clue, right?
No clue what's actually really going down here.
I mean, I'll tell you this.
Some of you have seen this already, so just bear with me.
I thought the best sound of the week, like the very best sound, maybe we should have a segment called the best sound of the week because you know that Trish is just going to run it.
and run it and run it was Miller talking to the Fox reporter who's kind of trying to poke holes in his argument here.
And he's like, no, no, no, you just don't get it.
You guys are like, you're morons.
Like, I'm sorry, I like you, buddy, but you don't get this.
And I think the reporter in his defense was probably just trying to, you know, that's what you do.
You like ask questions because you need to make sure that the viewer understands it.
Well, let me tell you, everybody understood it after Steven Miller got off the set on Fox or off his remote on Fox.
Number one, DOJ said a federal court cannot compel the executive branch to engage in any mandated act of diplomacy or incursion upon the sovereignty of another nation.
So, your argument is that you don't have to bring him back home, but will you?
So, I want to correct.
I hate to do it, Bill, but I got to correct you on every single thing that you said because it was all wrong.
First, we won the Supreme Court case.
Clearly, 9 0.
A district court judge said unconscionably that the president and his administration.
Have to go into El Salvador and extradite one of their citizens, an El Salvadorian citizen, so that would be kidnapping.
That we have to kidnap an El Salvadorian citizen against the will of his government and fly him back to America, which would be an unimaginable act and an invasion of El Salvador's sovereignty.
So he appealed to the Supreme Court and it said clearly no district court can compel the president to exercise his Article II foreign powers in any way whatsoever.
DOJ called me after that Supreme Court ruling and they said, This is amazing.
We won this case 9 0.
We are an Excellent standing here.
So, this has been portrayed wrong for 72 hours in the media.
They said the most a court could ever compel you to do would be to facilitate return, which would basically mean if El Salvador voluntarily sends him back, we wouldn't block him at the airport.
We would put him back into ICE detention, and then he would be deported either back to El Salvador or somewhere else.
The Supreme Court said that is the most the government can be expected to do.
So, we won the case handily.
The misreporting on this has been atrocious.
Secondly, he was not mistakenly sent.
To El Salvador.
So, do you still believe that he's an illegal alien from El Salvador?
Hold on, this is important.
In 2019, he was ordered deported.
He has a final removal order from the United States.
These are things that no one disputes.
Where is he from?
El Salvador.
Where is he a resident and citizen of?
El Salvador.
Is he here illegally?
Yes.
Does he have a deportation order?
Yes.
A DOJ lawyer who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing incorrectly.
That this was a mistaken removal.
It was not.
This was the right person sent to the right place.
Now, some have said, well, but he had a thing called a withholding order.
So, a withholding order means you've been ordered deported, but an immigration judge is saying you cannot go back to a particular country.
Here's the thing if you are a member of a foreign terrorist organization, you cannot have a withholding order.
Since he's in MS 13, there is no withholding order.
Furthermore, the gang that he is accused of being persecuted by doesn't exist anymore in El Salvador.
The 18th Street gang is gone.
So, you have an illegal alien from El Salvador.
Bill, where are we supposed to send the illegal alien from El Salvador?
To what country?
I'm going to ask you a question.
Are you convinced he is still a member of MS-13?
That was your original charge.
Yes, but here's the thing, Bill.
Yes, but not only am I convinced of it, not only is El Salvador convinced of it, Bill, he's an illegal alien from El Salvador with a deportation order.
So his only options in life, Bill, his only options in life are to be deported to El Salvador or to be deported to some other country.
That's it.
He has a deportation order.
So, Bill, you tell me, what country should we deport him to?
Tell me, please, tell me.
So Marco Rubio on Sunday morning said this.
On Saturday night, another 10 criminals from wow, right?
And I loved how Bill was like, and Marco Rubio had to say this because what were you going to do to get out?
He's like, tell me, tell me, tell me.
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He loves America and he loves the rule of law.
And he's a guy, if you go back and you look at his record, I don't know why I knew, but I knew that.
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And I got to meet some of the parents of those kids.
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But you know what?
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And he got on there.
I think he was a law student at the time there at Duke.
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And it was sort of amazing because.
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I'll tell you, James Comer, he's not having any of this.
So Van Hollen goes off from Maryland, flies down to El Salvador, and then he wants to stick taxpayers with the bill?
Kid you not.
So he apparently applied for this expense.
And James Comer there immediately said, by the way, he's chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
He said, in response to your letter on April 15th, that was earlier in the week, you know, on your official travel to go after this foreign MS-13 gang member whose wife accused him of crimes and who is strongly suspected of human trafficking.
It is absurd that you both displayed active hostility, active hostility for over two years towards the committee's oversight of the Biden border crisis and the consequences of millions of illegal aliens coming into the country.
And yet now you're trying to actually get us to pay for your travel to El Salvador?
Like talking about salt in the wound there.
Oh, James Gore's, like we're not doing that.
I just want to know, we're on record.
We are not paying for you to go and stay in a hotel and your flight down to El Salvador.
I'll tell you, it's amazing because you saw Bernie Sanders and Aoc out at that big, big rally on the West coast recently.
They had another one in Colorado recently and it turns out they were flying in uber expensive private jets.
Private jets, i'm sure, like the donors or somebody paid for that one.
But you know, these people are so out of touch.
I don't know if this guy took a private jet or what he did or how he got to El Salvador.
But no, we taxpayers should not have to pay for any of it.
You go do that and, you know, try and tout your own political whatever on your own dime, right?
Do that on your own dime.
I'll tell you, he's all proud of how he tried and tried and tried and tried to get a meeting.
He told us how this guy was so traumatized.
But I'll tell you, Van Hollen, I think he was traumatized because he had to keep asking for the meeting.
And then he wants to say, Oh, but I'm so good because I finally got it.
Now, getting a meeting with Kilmar was not easy.
On Wednesday, I met with the vice president of El Salvador and asked if I could meet with him.
The answer was no.
I asked if I returned the following week whether I could meet with him.
The answer was no.
I asked if I could call him on the phone.
The answer was no.
And then eventually somehow somebody gave in and decided, well, we're going to help this guy out.
But you know, don't forget, he's there on your dime or trying to be there on your dime.
But James Comer's like, we're not paying for this.
Like you do you.
Okay.
Like you get some group to pay for you.
We're not paying for this out of the American taxpayer's wallet.
And that's good because you know what?
American taxpayers don't have a whole lot of money.
We just were paying our taxes right this week.
That was the big tax day.
And I'll tell you this, guys, you know what?
More tax cuts, they're in jeopardy right now.
You've heard me talk about this.
I've had some guests on the show.
I mean, I hate to go like 501 fire on you, but they are in jeopardy.
And you wouldn't think so, right?
Because you have the House, you have the Senate, you get the White House.
But Donald Trump's tax cuts, they are set to expire.
And if they don't get renewed, I am telling you, all bets are off for this economy.
How do you get a more prosperous economy?
How do you actually grow this whole thing?
Lower taxes, less regulation.
It's a pretty simple formula.
We've said it for years.
Anyway, there's concern out there, legitimate concern.
I'm actually going to be in.
Savannah, Georgia, in a couple of weeks.
I told you about that.
And I'm going to speak with a lot of cabinet members and my friend Grover Norquist, I think, is going to be on my panel.
We've got Kellyanne Conway, a whole bunch of people.
You can actually go and be part of that if you're interested in that.
I will remember to put that in the show notes, actually, where you should go because you can get a special discount on your second ticket if you would like to attend.
But I'm talking about this very issue because I'm so concerned that actually they're not going to actually renew these things.
If you're concerned, if you want to get involved, AFP has a great grassroots level where they're really just embracing this head on.
And I encourage you to go to protectprosperity.com and sign up for some of their research and hopefully sign up for some of that grassroots effort that they're engaging in right now.
Because, you know, we pay a lot in taxes.
Big news today, the head of the IRS, interim head of the IRS, Gary Shapely, he is out.
He is out because, well, you know, he may have topped Scaramucci.
I think he just went in this week when the IRS lady decided to resign because she was upset.
About what was going on on the deportation front and she didn't want the IRS to have anything to do with it.
And so she left and that created a vacancy and apparently Elon Musk wanted Gary Shapely to go in.
So Shapely was the guy remember who was the whistleblower who came forward and said I don't understand, like why is the IRS just dropping all these charges against Hunter Biden?
I wonder why right, and so he was the guy who spoke out and Musk wanted him in the seat, but you had the Treasury secretary in the background saying hey hey, wait a second.
Like I run Treasury and the IRS reports to Treasury.
So it was a little bit of a power thing.
Look, I get it, right?
Like probably Elon should have gone through Scott Besant and Donald Trump in order to get Gary Shapely in.
Don't forget, there's a little bit of bad blood there, right?
Because Elon wanted Howard Lutnick to be the Treasury Secretary.
And Donald Trump eventually picked Scott Besant, which I think was a very wise move.
Nothing against Howard, but Besant is really, really smart as a financier.
And Howard is too.
But Howard wound up with the job as commerce secretary.
And so that was seen as sort of like a bit of a push down to Elon.
And so I think Besson's like, wait a second.
He doesn't necessarily trust everything that's coming out of Elon.
Gary Shapely, you know, so he was there, what, three days or something?
So here's the good news.
He can say, I beat Scaramucci.
It had nothing to do with him.
It was all just internal politics.
The White House actually even came out and admitted it.
Caroline Levitt said, yeah, you know, you get some internal politics stuff going on.
Anyway, here's the big story I want to tell you about with the IRS.
Unbelievable.
I couldn't believe this one.
Unbelievable.
Remember, didn't they hire like 80,000 new IRS agents during the Biden administration?
Well, there's a new report today that says those IRS agents apparently haven't, in many cases, been paying their taxes for like years.
That's a little weird, right?
While most Americans had to write a big fat check to the government today to pay their taxes, over 100,000 federal workers are not paying their taxes.
In 2021, the IRS found that almost 150,000 federal workers Oh, about $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.
Over 5,000 of them work at the IRS and owe $50 million in overdue taxes.
Even though the IRS can fire its workers that are not paying their taxes, only 20 people have been terminated.
That double standard is something Senator Joni Ernst, Senate Doge Caucus chair, wants to stop.
She's introducing several bills aimed at cleaning up the IRS.
One bill would require IRS employees to be audited every year and fired if they don't pay their taxes.
But while the IRS is not catching the tax cheats on their own payroll, they are busy arming their workforce.
Ernst is also calling out 10 million taxpayer dollars the IRS has spent on guns and ammo, stockpiling 4,500 guns, 5 million rams of ammo, even 15 machine guns.
So why does the IRS need all that ammo?
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It's a little weird, right?
Like who knew that being an IRS agent required you to be able to be a sharpshooter as well?
I'm just saying, it's a little strange.
And government agents should pay their taxes just like everyone else.
Unless, of course, we just get rid of the IRS and we have the XRS.
That would mean we need a lot of tariff.
money, right, coming in.
We'd need a fair amount of that because we're going to have to make up for some of this somehow, some way.
I don't think you possibly could with tariffs, actually.
I think that that might be a little bit of wishful thinking.
We'll see how this all shakes out on the tariff front.
But really and truly, I think the big story that the media has just gotten so brainwashed on, right, brainwashed, is this idea that somehow Van Hollen is rescuing a guy who's just a poor little, poor little migrant who's trying to, you know, I don't buy all this.
And you know what?
I've been there before.
Think about it.
I mean, we've all been there with whatever narrative that they were trying to spin.
And they thought it would help them succeed politically.
The Maine lawsuit, right?
That's a great example.
They want to insist in Maine that people that are born as boys can compete as girls.
And Pam Bondi's like, no, you know, I don't care if it's just one girl that I'm defending, but you just can't do that.
I have some great sound I want to show you.
Here's Pam really making the case because the DOJ is now suing, suing the state of Maine civilly over this issue.
And she's absolutely right.
The reporter's like, well, why does it matter, right?
Like there's only apparently two trans students in the state of Maine.
They're competing as girls.
Why are you making a big deal out of this?
And I'll tell you, her response is phenomenal.
This, I really need to show you.
You may have to turn up the sound a little bit.
I'll see what I can do to manage the audio here.
So, Maine's governor yesterday said there were maybe at most two trans athletes in Maine schools right now.
It's hard to hear the reporter.
Maybe you could talk a little bit about the sort of amount of federal resources that you're putting into this and why that's worth it given the small impact in Maine.
I haven't heard Janet Mills' comment.
Governor Mills said it's only a couple trans athletes.
Well, I think those are boys who identify as girls wanting to beat girls in girls' sports.
Well, if one Young woman is in jeopardy.
One, that's enough for us to be standing up here.
One, no boy will be undressing in a girl's locker room.
No boy will be walking in a woman's restroom.
And no boy, when we're finished with this, will be beating young girls in sports.
These young women have, many of them have trained what, since you were in elementary school for your sport?
Riley, when did you start swimming?
Four years old.
They have trained their entire lives.
Some of them have lost scholarships.
They have lost regionals, they have lost state because of boys.
I don't care if it's one.
I don't care if it's two.
I don't care if it's 100.
It's going to stop and it's going to stop in every single state.
Good for her.
You know what?
It has to stop.
So again, as we cover this migrant story, there's another big story that I have spent a lot of time on and I want to get to because Leticia James is back in the news, ladies and gentlemen.
She's back in the news because of this alleged mortgage fraud.
Okay.
So Leticia.
Apparently did some funny things with her documentation.
Let me go to the allegations here.
They're referring New York attorney Letitia James for possible prosecution over allegations of mortgage fraud.
This is a huge story.
And you know what?
No one's actually covering it except for us here and maybe a few others sort of sparingly.
I was on Newsmax just last night talking about this.
It's really insane.
So she apparently According to these allegations, she claimed that her home in Virginia was her primary residence, which couldn't be the case, right?
Because you actually, if you're the attorney general in New York, have to have a home in New York.
And she allegedly said that her father was her husband in order to help secure herself a better interest rate on the loan.
Kind of sounds familiar, right?
I mean, this is something.
So, this is the FHFA director, William Pultey.
He had a letter that he put out to Pam Bondi this week saying that James appears to have falsified records to meet certain lending requirements and received favorable loan terms.
I mean, what the heck?
In other words, if you are the attorney general in the state of New York, you need to actually be in New York, right?
You actually have to have your primary residence be in New York.
So why did nobody pick up on this?
And why is this just being shoved under the rug?
Why isn't the media? actually reporting on this.
I got to hand it to the Daily Caller because they sent a reporter out to Letitia's supposed home, right?
Supposed home there in the state of New York.
And apparently the people that answered the door, it sounded like they kind of knew she was coming.
If you watch this video, that's what it suggests to me.
It suggests that they absolutely knew she was coming.
And I'm pulling it up for you because I think you should see this.
It's basically a couple of reporters that are trying to figure out what's going on here with Letitia, and they can't get to first base.
The woman starts accusing them of trespassing.
It's come on, come on.
All right.
This might take a minute here, but basically the bottom line here is Letitia James is being accused of mortgage fraud.
And she claimed to have this four unit structure instead of five, which he says meant she could get a different and more favorable loan.
This is a property in Virginia that James allegedly claimed as her principal residence.
And yet, of course, she bought a property in New York as well, which she had this discrepancy on the claim.
It kind of feels like she went after Donald Trump for the square footage thing, right?
And here she is saying, okay, it's a four-unit structure instead of a five-unit structure because it meant that she could get a more favorable loan.
It's like when she was like, oh, well, he said it was square footage was this instead of that, so he could get a more favorable loan from Deutsche Bank.
Except that I think that this somehow is involving federal housing.
And so this is even more serious.
So she's been out there doing all her stuff, right?
It was trying to say, oh, I'm protecting New Yorkers, et cetera, et cetera.
And yet the whole time is guilty of something like this.
Roger Stone was the first to actually say this back in February, that she was in some deep, deep, you know what, campaign finance fraud.
I have some records on that I can share with you, as well as personal financial fraud.
That would be the mortgage thing and a cover-up of a sexual assault.
That one I'm not familiar with.
that is eventually going to take her down.
And so at the time we reported on this, we're like, okay, it's Roger.
But, you know, then it came out that apparently they're hanging out in Martha's Vineyard for her campaign and they're spending all this money in Martha's Vineyard on hotel bills and they're charging it to the campaign.
It's like, what is she doing?
Really, really, what is she doing?
And yet, you know, here she is trying to say, I'm going to go after Donald Trump for insider trading after she's already gone after him for mortgage fraud.
And I think somebody actually needs to take a really hard look at Leticia James herself.
She sounds nervous to me, really nervous.
Here she is this week.
My mission is clear.
I'm focused.
I'm prepared.
I'm ready.
I've been trained by the best.
I went to Howard University that overturned legal segregation in this country.
I've been taught in those classrooms where Thurgood Marshall once taught.
I'm not afraid of no president.
Donald Trump, we're ready for you.
We're coming for you.
We're standing up for you.
We're fighting on.
We're not going down silent.
My friends, it's clear.
It's now, and I'm not waiting four years.
I'm waiting two until a speaker by the name of Hakeem Jeffries comes to bring us some rest.
Come on, ladies.
It's up to us.
We saved this democracy before.
We'll save it now.
Let's go.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, so she seems to be upset.
Here she is going after Donald Trump, threatening a new lawsuit.
But, you know, I think she might actually.
Want to focus on herself for just a short moment in time.
She did respond to these allegations.
I want to play you her sound here, insisting on her innocence.
Good to see you, Miss James.
Thanks for joining us.
This is new territory for Trish.
So let's see if we can actually get you to see this here.
This is coming to us off of Twitter from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Let's give it a shot, okay?
You're good.
No comment?
No, you're trespassing.
Okay, who lives here?
Who lives here, ma'am?
No comment.
No comment.
Okay.
She did respond to these allegations.
I want to play you her sound here, insisting on her innocence.
Good to see you, Miss James.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you for having me, Harold.
Absolutely.
What is going on here?
Did anybody contact you before this letter went out, accusing you of this, that, and the other, and making a criminal referral about real estate transactions?
No, not at all.
And let me just say to all New Yorkers and to all Americans the allegations are baseless.
The allegations are nothing more than a revenge tour.
And as you mentioned, my office was successful in securing a $454 million judgment against Donald Trump and others for exaggerating the value of his assets.
He engaged in a pattern and practice of fraud.
And the interest is accruing each and every day while the case is on appeal.
In the first department.
It's important that individuals know that this is nothing more than the continuation of the tour.
We went after law firms, universities, immigrants, women.
Thousands of federal employees right now are unemployed.
Our government is in chaos and in disarray.
Medicaid, Social Security, CFPB, and the list goes on and on and on.
And as you know, as you mentioned, each and every day, my office is leading the fight against these executive orders, which have no legal import at all.
Have no legal significance.
And we are standing up for the rights and privileges of New Yorkers and Americans.
I will not be silenced.
I will not be bullied.
I will not bend.
I will not break.
And I will not bow to anyone.
No one is above the law, including the president of these United States.
And the office of the attorney general will continue to stand up.
Let me follow up on some of what's in this letter.
It says that, according to media reports, which for us in the media is kind of a red flag, Meaning that it seems to be based on some social media posts that I know were made by partisan political actors.
But just let me ask you about some of the specifics in the letter.
They're saying that your house in Brooklyn is a legal five family and the mortgage on it is for a four family house.
Is that true?
So let me just say that, Errol, you know, as any good attorney, I will not litigate this case in a camera.
It's important that we will respond.
To these allegations at the appropriate time and in an appropriate way.
But I will not go back and forth with respect to these baseless allegations.
I am more focused again on standing up for the freedoms, the liberties, and for the rule of law in the state of New York.
I was under the impression by all of this that what they were really looking for is what they got, which is a headline saying, you know, Tish James is under a criminal investigation.
Is that pretty much what's going on here?
Yeah, that's what they got.
That's what they got.
And it's unfortunate that you have some of these right wing conservative individuals who are camped out in front of my home and in front of the homes of my relatives in Virginia, harassing them each and every day.
And it's unfortunate, knocking on the doors of my neighbors and the neighbors of my relatives in the state of Virginia.
And it is nothing more than a headline, nothing more than, again, retaliation.
Against all of the actions that I have taken successfully against Donald Trump.
Okay.
Unbelievable, right?
This is just really, really epic.
I mean, epic, epic, epic, epic stuff because we have now learned that apparently Letitia's residence there in New York is actually empty.
And that's kind of sort of really amazing.
Gosh, I wish I could get this video actually to show you guys because this is just.
Maybe I can pull this off.
All right, bear with me.
Bear with me.
I'm going to try this.
This is new territory for Trish.
So let's see if we can actually get you to see this here.
This is coming to us off of Twitter from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Let's give it a shot, okay?
Bear with me.
Here we go.
You got to see it.
It's actually really good.
No comment?
No, you're not.
Here, who lives here, ma'am?
No comment, okay.
Yep, that's that.
I did it, I did it.
Okay, that's technology for you.
So they couldn't get any comment.
They're like, Who lives here?
Nobody knows who lives there.
She's mad because she's like, You're out there harassing my peeps, blah blah blah blah.
I will say, I think she's in a fair amount of trouble.
If they're actually able to prove this out, she's, I mean, she wasn't able to answer the reporter's questions.
Did you notice that?
She's like, She's like soundbite maven.
She's always saying the same thing.
I would not be harassed.
I would not be bullied.
She always has the same stuff.
Like the ultimate politician.
But she's not smart enough, dare I say, even though she tells us, oh, I went to Howard University.
I'm brilliant.
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I'm this, that, and the other.
If you were that brilliant, you wouldn't have brought a stupid case like you did, which actually is going to get thrown out by the appellate court.
I'm waiting on it.
Should have happened by now.
Allegedly, according to a new report in the New York Post, apparently Kathy Hochul communicated to Donald Trump, or he inferred this anyway, that she quote unquote controls the judges.
This is the governor of New York.
So she was sort of saying, yeah, that $500 million, half a billion dollar judgment against you that's sitting there in the appeals court of New York, I can actually do something on that.
I control the judges.
And they were having this conversation about the surcharge, right, in midtown Manhattan.
And he took that to be a veiled threat.
And then the New York Post reported on that, et cetera.
She's denying it.
That's not the case.
But I do wonder why the heck that thing is still stuck in the appellate court.
If you listen to the court case and we've played it here on the show and you hear the judges, they're like, this doesn't make any sense.
You've got a case with absolutely no victims.
But in Letitia's case, I do think that they may be onto something here.
So if this property in Virginia was being cited as her primary home when it wasn't, in fact, her primary home, if she's actually saying that her father was her husband, then what the heck is going down?
And why isn't the media actually paying more attention to it?
I want to show you a member of the media who's highlighting that, and rightly so.
His name is Dan Abrams, and he used to work at ABC and MSNBC, and he's probably pretty liberal.
But here he is on a podcast saying exactly what I've said that this needs to have some attention paid to it.
I mean, that's a pretty easy takeaway to make when you look at the contrast in these.
Good to see you, Ms. James.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you for having me, Harold.
Absolutely.
What is going on here?
Did anybody contact you before this letter went out accusing you of this, that, and the other and making a criminal referral about real estate transactions?
No, not at all.
And let me just say to all New Yorkers and to all Americans the allegations are baseless.
The allegations are nothing more than a revenge tour.
And as you mentioned, my office was successful.
In securing a $454 million judgment against Donald Trump and others for exaggerating the value of his assets.
Okay, we don't need to hear that again, right?
Here she is.
Here he is, Dan Abrams speaking on it.
Joe, so one of the most undercover, in my view, legal stories right now.
Good to see you, Ms. James.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
Joe, so one of the.
Good to see you.
You can tell it's Friday before a holiday weekend.
And you can tell by the myriad of sound that you just heard.
Anyway, long story short, I'll just paraphrase what he said was, yeah, they're not covering this.
And they should be covering this.
This story is actually a really important one.
So thank you for your patience right now as I cover this, because we've been covering it all along, all along.
And it's a critical, critical, critical story to cover.
I think it's pot, call, and kettle at this moment in time.
And Letitia.
She should be careful.
You know, we said that she ought to be careful, but she's too drunk on her own power.
I mean, people that are so drunk on their own power obviously run certain kinds of risks, and she's part of that risk right now.
And so I have a feeling it's not going to be a happy ending, not a happy ending for one Letitia James.
And that's, you know what, that's fine by me because I think it actually is a real risk to the system when you have people doing what she did.
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