Trump Targets 'TRAITORS'--Ilhan's FAMILY Linked to China Funded NGO, where the host alleges President Trump avoided catastrophe by considering reopening the Strait of Hormuz while accusing Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and AOC of foreign influence from China, Iran, and Cuba. Specific claims include Omar's daughter traveling to Cuba with Code Pink during power outages and the organization's alleged shift to Chinese funding under Jodie Evans. The segment details accusations of immigration fraud regarding Omar's father, USAID corruption, and the radicalization of youth via TikTok, before introducing Buck Sexton to discuss the history of brainwashing tactics originating from Chinese thought reform programs used globally. Ultimately, the episode argues that current political narratives are manufactured delusions designed to manipulate American public opinion through psychological warfare. [Automatically generated summary]
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USAID Influence and Political Pressures00:12:20
Iran gets to live another day.
Lucky for Iran.
Things came down to the 11th hour.
They pleaded for negotiations.
It is our understanding that the president made the decision based on the idea of good faith that they would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
And this is where we are right now.
The administration considering it a victory lap.
But as we speak, I will say this.
The jury is still out.
I told you yesterday, we will not be fooled.
We will not be Europe.
We will not turn into the next France while China claims the mantle as the next USA.
We will not succumb to globalist demands.
So at this moment in time, yes, I'm happy we avoided a catastrophe.
I'm sure you are as well.
But I will tell you this.
I take it all with one grain of salt, knowing that there is an effort underway in this country to change how we think.
To try to manipulate our public opinion.
And we have seen this over and over and over again, most especially from the left.
Well, at this moment in time, it is being examined.
It is being looked at as it has to be.
I'll tell you, in times of war, you don't mess around with this kind of stuff.
And you got to think long and hard about who are your friends, who are your allies, who you can trust, and who's trying to swindle you and take an entire country down.
There are a lot of people whose loyalties I question.
Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, seemingly on the side of anybody that's not the United States of America, seemingly hating on our country while just wishing we would roll over and play dead for Iran.
How many times have they told us they want this war to end?
We look at Chuck Schumer out there, who the president says might as well just be a Palestinian at this point, because any previous. allegiances, alliances, or respect he may have had for Israel is like poof because of political pressures.
So where are these political pressures coming from?
That's what you have to ask yourself right now.
Because these political pressures are in many ways coming from outside influencers that do not have the best interest of America at heart.
outside influencers like China, like Iran, like Venezuela, formerly, though we took care of that pretty easily, and like Cuba.
And they have gathered and they have colluded to try and manipulate the thinking and minds of America's West.
And they've done so, frankly, quite successfully.
Ilhan Omar coming on strong, trying to get the President of the United States.
To be removed, right?
She wants to impeach him.
She wants to remove him.
She wants to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Hate to remind you, but you kind of need JD's cooperation on that one, Ilhan.
This was her this week.
And I'm going to ask you this.
As you consider her position, as you consider the position of some of her friends, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, the woman in Boston, Ayanna Presley, ask yourself this.
Why do they believe what they believe?
Why are they trying to push a communist socialist agenda?
Why do we have a Mamdami here trying to say he's going to equalize the world by saying, okay, we're going to do this and that and the other to make sure that we make up for the discrepancy in salaries between black Americans and white Americans in the New York City area, which, by the way, the DOJ is taking on with one Hermite Dillon saying, yeah, what you're talking about sounds a little fishy, just a little illegal.
But then again, where does he come from?
The Democrat Socialists of America.
Who backs that party?
China.
And who sent Ilhan Omar's daughter down to Cuba last week when we were taking out the power grids and she was living up in a five-star hotel with her other little dem buddies like Hassan Piker?
Quite a mouth on him.
He's got some pretty bad stuff.
White House actually tweeted some of it out yesterday.
I didn't have time to remove all the obscenities, otherwise, I'd show you.
But he's one disgusting dude.
Sent Ilhan Omar's daughter down there with Hassan and a bunch of other lefty libs, all paid for by Code Pink, which just happens to be run by one Jodie Evans, who just happens to be married to the guy who's orchestrating all of China's propaganda.
A guy by the name of Neville Singman.
who the Congress is calling on for testimony.
But he doesn't come back to the country because you see, the minute he does, he'd be held in contempt.
He'd be thrown in jail because he refuses to answer any of these questions.
Don't take my word for it.
The New York Times did a giant expose on him, too.
Novel Singman.
He's a big part of all these protests, the No Kings protests going on.
That's all him.
Code Pink is his wife.
CODE PINK used to be, you see, very, very Anti-china, but then it suddenly decided that since she was married to him or dating him, it couldn't be Anti-china anymore.
Plus, there was a heck of a lot of money coming in from China.
So they, they just abandoned the whole Uyghurs platform and they embraced what they do oh so well, manipulation of Western minds, tick tock.
None of this is by accident, guys.
Iran, so proud of its memes.
In fact, New York Magazine just did a big, big cover article on this thing, you know?
The amazing memes of Iran.
Thank you.
I'd rather have an amazing army, navy, and a little bit more than a few memes, but we'll give them that.
They are trying to peddle their influence.
And Ilhan Omar is part of it.
Her daughter, seemingly on the take.
Not a smart woman.
Not a smart family.
Not a smart group of people at all, as the president has reminded us.
A lot of the news doesn't talk about that.
They talk about, oh, women's rights.
You want to see women's rights?
You're not going to see it there.
It's amazing when I see some of the stupid people like, you know, AOC plus three, all that group.
They talk about, oh, freedom for Iran.
They don't tell you the real facts.
Women, men, gays.
How about gays for Iran?
They kill the gays.
They throw them off buildings.
So I wonder what's going on.
What is going on?
I think what we know what's going on, I think that's a giant influence campaign and these morons, because they are morons, they can't think for themselves either that or on the take and they're making a lot of money in the process, they fall for it.
And unfortunately, America's youth is falling for it.
And unfortunately, half the country's falling for it.
I mean, how could so many people have TDS?
When I was furious at Biden, okay, let's go back in time.
No matter how mad I got at Biden, did you ever see me losing it to the point of utter implosion?
Like you see the likes of, oh, I don't know, Rosie O'Donnell and who's that woman that they fired from MSNBC?
Joy Reid?
Joy Reid?
Or losing it?
Like the ladies on The View?
I mean, that's a little bizarre, don't you think?
But there's a reason for all this.
You see, there's a reason for this.
And I brought my friend Buck on to talk with us today.
He's a former CIA analyst.
I've known Buck for many, many years, just a wonderful guy.
He's the host of the Buck and Clay Show.
And he's got a new book out that deals with all of this.
And so I said, you know what?
I think it's time that we take a step back and think and look and examine.
Because all of this is by design.
They are trying to manipulate you.
And it's got to stop.
When I think about all the money that was going to USAID, when I think about how that money was actually being used to then campaign against us internally, remember the old rules, and we've talked about this maybe about a year ago, I was talking to you about this, how they had all these laws and rules in place that you could spend money on influence campaigns overseas, but that money could never be turned around and used as an influence campaign against us.
your own people here in the US of A.
But Barack Obama changed all that.
And he made the decision that sure you could spend a little money overseas and you could spend a little money back here at home, you see, because they wanted to corrupt a nation for their own benefit.
And that is what they did.
Trust me, no one wanted a political subscription to the tune of $10,000, but everyone in D.C. would get one.
The government bought them.
$10,000 Politico subscriptions.
And guess what?
When they needed to plant a story about how Hunter Biden's laptop was nothing but Russian misinformation, disinformation fed to you courtesy of Hunter, oh, forgive me, fed to fed to you by Rudy Giuliani.
What did they do?
They took it to Politico, the organization that effectively was on the payroll.
I mean, woo!
I mean, so much for journalism, right?
Reuters, Bloomberg, all of these companies.
I mean, they had big contracts you see with USAID.
So you wonder why the likes of Ilhan Omar and her cronies, or coonies, as she likes to call them.
That's what she calls Trumps.
We're really upset when USAID went up in smoke because we're slashing and we're getting rid of fraud.
We're getting rid of USAID and we're getting rid of a whole lot of fraudsters right here in the USA as well.
I am exceptionally upset about USAID.
I lived in a refugee camp for four years as a child surviving civil war.
It is the essential programs that USAID provided that kept my family and I fit.
And save.
It is the resources that so many people around the world rely on.
And it is our soft power.
Oftentimes, people interact with our country through the military.
That does not create love for.
No, no.
You know what creates love?
The gay opera in Colombia, or the transgender comic book in Peru.
They're all on the take, including, by the way, her ex-husband, aka alleged brother, who's now living in South Africa, apparently.
Isn't that the place that she and her hubby, Timmy Minette, were trying to do business, putting solar panels in in South Africa in his venture capital firm that isn't?
Soft Power Creeping Into Schools00:10:16
Oh, but apparently is worth $25 million.
Yeah, the ex-husband, alleged brother, living in South Africa, the high life.
And what is he focused on?
He's apparently some kind of academic.
Focused on transgender and queer studies.
Because you know he needs a little of that USAID money.
Hey, hey, keep it coming.
Plus, why not some solar panels?
This is one big giant scheme.
And they don't care.
They don't care about turning Americans against each other.
They want to do that.
All while taking everything they can every step of the way.
But Code Pink is finishing her off, taking her down to Cuba so she can live it up with Hassan Piker and a few others.
Again, bad news guy.
So bad news.
We're on early today with the live show and I didn't have time to, you know, I don't like to bombard you with all those obscenities.
We try and keep it clean here for the kids.
I didn't have time to take all his F-bombs and other bombs.
But let's just say he's a bad dude and he actually said something and this is why I wanted to show it to you.
Yesterday, about comparing Asian Americans to dogs, and it was actually just disgusting.
It needs to come with a warning label.
I don't even think I can do it in a live show, but suffice it to say, the guy is bad, bad news, and this is who the Democrats are looking to, right, as their savior.
And they got him down there with code pink, and they've got this young woman, Hersey is her name, Isra Hersey, 23 years old.
Look at her, I circled her.
Poor thing.
Going down to Cuba.
Of course, she's living in style.
She's at a five-star hotel.
Fox did an interesting report on this.
Five-star hotel while the rest of the island is without power.
They're there for campaigns like China is not our enemy or hands off Iran.
They actually organized protests in favor of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.
I know a lot about Venezuela.
I've been covering that thing forever.
I mean, that was my first job actually at Goldman Sachs.
I was on the emerging debt markets desk in the fixed income division.
And what were we trading?
Venezuelan debt along with Argentine Brazilian and Mexico's debt.
There was some China in there too, but I specialized in Latin America.
And I will tell you, ever since the Chavismas came into power, it has been disaster from day one.
And Maduro is known as a pretty bad dude.
His wife really liked the money, though, that she was getting from the likes of China, Russia, and Iran, which is why they clung on as long as they did.
Mistakenly so, because we ended that pretty fast now, didn't we?
Delcy has apparently a little bit more sense.
But you see, they're funded.
These groups, these NGOs, like the one that Ilhan's daughter is part of, Ms. Hearsy, from the first husband, whom she never actually legally married.
That would be the second husband that she legally married.
aka alleged brother.
And then I guess she went back to her seat while she was with the second guy and had another kid.
I don't know if it was this girl.
I mean, it's really complicated, especially for allegedly a religious Muslim woman, right?
It's kind of like, gee, like the nieces, Soleimani's nieces who come here and have a grand old time with their skimpy little dresses and living the life of rally, all while women back in Iran have to cover up, aren't allowed to be educated, aren't allowed any of the same freedoms you understand once again, a double standard.
Anyway, this young woman is part of the Code Pink effort.
Speaking after her Cuba trip, Ms. Hersey said the experience of living through numerous blackouts on the socialist island, quote, truly changed me.
Oh, you had a revelation, huh?
The group sent, as I said, all kinds of people down there, including Democrat representative from Minneapolis under a lot of scrutiny and a lot of heat right now because she's the one that introduced the $250 million Feeding Our Future program, that program that didn't feed anyone other than the fraudsters and their families.
Right?
Simultaneously, her husband's business went from being worth nothing, like $43 in the bank account, to suddenly being worth $30 million overall.
I have a feeling I know exactly who it was feeding.
Jodi Evans is the woman who's running the whole thing, a radical Hollywood filmmaker, 71 years old, the wife of millionaire Maoist Neville Singman.
told you about him.
He's the guy the New York Times said is dangerous, bad news, massive influence campaign.
In other words, we don't always fight wars with tanks and missiles.
Sometimes these wars are fought with words, with influence that you may not even understand is creeping into your country via your schools and via your kids' social media accounts.
And then they put up kids like this.
I guess she's somehow supposedly seen as cool.
Quote, as Americans bringing aid to Cuba is the least we can do, as the U.S. has long bullied Cuba with its sanctions, and now this oil blockade is killing people, said the Barnard graduate on Instagram.
on Instagram.
By the way, as a Columbia graduate, I can tell you, no offense against these Barnard girls, but it's the same school.
It just means you couldn't get into Columbia.
All right, I'm being petty now.
I know I'm being petty, but I have no use for Ilhan Omar and her communist daughter hanging out in Cuba and getting paid.
Yeah.
There's some exchange going on, if only the five-star hotel that's being paid for by the likes of China.
Whose side are you people on?
It's not us.
It's not ours.
And we don't need people who are not on our side at a moment of crisis like this.
We've got to root them out.
We've got to deport anybody who committed immigration fraud.
It's believed that Ilhan Omar's father, this girl's grandfather, may not have been what he said he was.
If that's in case.
If that's in fact the case, and Somaliland has done quite a bit of reporting on this themselves, accusing him of being a ruthless general that participated in the horrible genocide that transpired.
Well, if he lied, that makes his immigration fraudulent.
That makes his citizenship fraudulent and void, which makes her citizenship fraudulent and void, and it makes this young woman who's hanging out with the Code Pink team Her citizenship, fraudulent and void.
So maybe China will take her.
I mean, hey.
By the way, China doesn't even practice communism the way they're trying to get you to.
Like Cuba's communism and China's communism are two totally different things.
China's got a little capitalism threaded in there with its communism because they're no fools.
They just want everybody else to be fools.
Code pink, Neville and Jodi.
Cute little couple that they are nuts.
Anyway, there they are.
They get funded also by Ben and Jerry's.
China and Ben and Jerry's.
There you have it.
In 2024, Code Pink ran the Gaza Summer School, a summer-long online education series that empowers you to become a powerful advocate for Palestine.
I'm quoting the New York Post here, who's done some good reporting on this.
I've mentioned it in the past.
I just haven't had quite the time to bring so much of this to you.
And it's important to devote this time because you need to understand how they're trying to infiltrate.
from within.
Code Pink tries to influence our policies and brainwash our kids, said U.S. Senator Tom Cotton not too long ago.
He's demanding an investigation into the group, and I'm telling you, it's long overdue.
I'm with you, Tom.
We need an investigation into this group.
We need an investigation into every single NGO, because guess what?
They are able to get foreign funds.
They are able to get foreign funds, and they use those foreign funds to influence things here in our country.
And that is so flat out wrong.
Think about it.
They get a tax deduction from us.
It's like we're like, hey, hey, Iran, we can help you influence things.
Hey, hey, hey, China, we can help you influence things.
We'll even make it worth everybody's while.
We'll give them a tax deduction on top of it.
How stupid can we be?
Here's another, I don't know who this woman is, Kala Walsh, Welsh, Walsh, another activist they're trying to prop up through another company that Code Pink has.
Jodie Evans got something called Global Girl Media.
They take young girls as young as 15 and trying to turn them into filmmaking stars to push propaganda.
Propaganda that's not in our interests.
And this is why at this moment in time it is so critical that we purge our nation of these radicals.
This is what is happening in real time.
The President of the United States making it clear three to 4,000 people that are here in this country connected to the Iranian regime, they're out.
They're gone.
And we're moving in real time to get rid of them.
Purging Iranian Regime Connections00:04:59
You think about Act Blue and all that Act Blue has done in terms of money raising.
You'd think they'd come up with a better candidate than Kamala Harris or Joe Biden, but, you know, maybe it's a language barrier that they have in China.
They didn't quite get that she has literally no je ne sais quoi.
Anyway, Acts Blue, they're in a whole lot of trouble now because they were out there raising money without making sure that all that money that's allegedly coming from individual donors was actually coming from individual donors here in the U.S.
They could have been coming from all kinds of little bucks.
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Look, I'm telling you, we got to get really serious about what's happening in this country right now.
I mean, you've got Ilhan Omar, which may have been, you know, looking like she got into the country perhaps illegally or committed some kind of immigration fraud on the way and is now trying to influence our country, in my viewpoint, in a very, very negative way.
Now, you're free to have your own opinion.
You know that.
I'm a big believer in the First Amendment.
But I get really nervous when I start seeing that there's foreign operations involved.
The Method To Their Madness00:07:08
and that there is a method to the madness.
My friend Buck, he had some similar concerns and he decided to write a book on it.
And he wrote the whole thing himself.
He and I were joking a little bit because it's a big deal to write a book and it's like less than McDonald's wages when it's all said and done because it's hard work, hard, hard, hard work.
I know I wrote one when I had just delivered Twin Girls.
That was a lot of years ago.
I swear to God I'd never do it again.
Anyway, I love that Buck did it.
He's just a brilliant, smart guy.
So I want to get his insights on things.
We sat down moments ago, watch.
So glad to have my great friend, Buck Sexton, with me.
Buck out with a brand new book.
He wrote the entire thing.
You know, it's hard writing a book.
There we go.
Manufacturing Delusion, how the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against you.
Buck, a lot of people don't know this about you.
They know you from the radio show and from your podcast.
And I know you host that with Clay every day.
But what they may not know is that you have a background in the CIA.
So when it comes to understanding propaganda, let's just say you understand how this works from the inside out.
Oh, we call it information operations or psyops, even on the military, paramilitary side, intel operations.
You know, Trish, like you, I like to write books that I say I've written.
Not everybody in our business does.
I never call people out for that because I'm not trying to throw shade, but I just, it's really such a labor of love.
And for this book, not only did I write it, and I want to get into obviously the basic thesis behind it, which is why is everyone going so crazy these days, particularly on the left?
A little bit on the right, too, sometimes we can talk about that.
But why are people nuts?
Why do they believe things that aren't true?
There's a long history, and people are being made or rather being pushed to this.
It's not just like happening spontaneously.
So I want to talk about some of that.
I want to get into it.
But with this book, the funniest thing was first of all, I wrote it.
And then, you know, I had to go to CIA review for six months.
But because it went through CIA, yeah, because I talk about CIA stuff in the book.
And I have a, you know, I take that everyone who goes to the agency has to work to the agency has to be very serious about that because you sign a lifelong commitment.
But anyway, I cleared my first ever mission.
And it's actually the start of the book my first ever mission to Nigeria, Trish, which I have never talked to anyone about before publicly because it was classified.
So I start off with a classified mission.
That obviously declassified now.
It's been years and years and years, and the agency said it was okay.
But I get into the beginnings of a mass delusion in Nigeria, in this case, a jihadist mass delusion.
And then I talk about Iraq and Afghanistan and the NYPD Intelligence Division.
So some of it is like my process of seeing political madness play out in different parts of the world as a CIA officer, as an intelligence analyst.
And then the book is also a lot of history about the different tactics, the processes that I've seen.
Either in the counterterrorism field with jihadism or radical Islam, whatever you want to call it, but things like menticide, brainwashing, thought reform, forced phobia, isolation, atomized subjects, all these different things.
And these are all chapters in the book of how people are made crazy, basically, or how people are manipulated psychologically as part of mass movements.
And COVID obviously was a huge part of this.
I mean, the real question when I talked to my publisher to start this out was.
How did people go so nuts during COVID?
And I wanted to really dig into this, not just like, oh, people are crazy, but what happens?
And I start with Pavlov and conditioning.
And that's the first actual chapter of the book.
And then compare that to Dr. Fauci.
So we go from Pavlov, the scientist, to Fauci, the scientist.
And then we take it from there.
I mean, they really terrified people during that time.
And, you know, it's crazy to me that anybody can be that worked up, right, about Donald Trump.
I'm sorry, like when you start comparing him to Adolf Hitler, you're just losing me.
You're losing me because it's sort of destructive, frankly, and insulting to history, all the millions of people that died.
And yet that's exactly where they keep going.
And so I thought about this and thought, well, you know, if somebody said to you, gee, you have an opportunity to get rid of Hitler, if you can go back in time and you have the opportunity to get rid of him.
Yeah, you'd take that opportunity, right?
You'd take that opportunity all day long.
And so now they're trying to make it about that, even though, like, I mean, you're just not even close.
And it's bizarre to me that they would go to the worst possible place.
But, you know, as you explain in your book, there's a method to the madness and there's a method to their madness.
And there's a method, by the way, to China's madness and Russia's madness and anybody else out there who's trying to infiltrate our psychological well being as a nation.
Well, you know, again, in manufacturing delusion, which I hope.
People get it's a great beach read, by the way.
Don't think that it's a don't think that it's going to be too heavy or whatever.
It's 200 and I don't know, 230 pages or something.
It's it's really an easy read.
It's meant to be an easy read.
I get into the history of this.
You talk about China, uh, that's where brainwashing truly comes from.
It was a Chinese program that they called a communist Chinese program, they called thought reform.
And then an American journalist named Edward Hunter took a created a neologism, uh, called based off of wash brain in the Mandarin, which is what people that had been through this process were said by other Chinese.
To have gone through, like, oh, they had a wash brain, brainwashing.
Obviously, they switched the words around from the Mandarin, but the point is it comes from China, brainwashing.
And this then gave us things like Richard Condon's novel, The Manchurian Candidate, which, of course, is made into a movie.
It was kind of a phenomenon all on its own.
And this whole notion of being able to program people's minds.
But that whole impulse does go back to Pavlovian conditioning of dogs and the Soviets being very interested in it.
It was actually conditional reflex.
People just call it conditioning now, but conditional reflex was the Russian.
You'll learn all this stuff in the book.
I did a tremendous amount of research.
I did all the research.
You'll learn cool things that you can tell people at cocktail parties in this book that you'll be like, wow, I know interesting stuff and really important stuff.
Because if you want to know why your neighbor is crazy, you know, your neighbor's walking around like, I love the No Kings protest and like Fauci is still a hero to me.
It's because they are subject to or they have been subject to a manufactured delusion, which is again the title of the book.
And I really hope people go get it.
It was amazing.
Is it just because people are like absorbing all this on social media?
I mean, for all that I do on social media, Full disclosure, I don't consume it a lot, right?
And there's been a lot of talk of how people consume, consume, consume.
So you're scrolling through Instagram nonstop and all your friends keep perpetuating something.
And so if you want to be kind of in with the cool kids, so to speak, you've got to embrace that as well.
And so it's a kind of groupthink that's influencing people.