Eric Swalwell faces potential jail time amid allegations of inappropriate conduct with staffer Fang Fang and criminal activity involving an underage female, supported by forensic video analysis. The host criticizes Democrats for ignoring Swalwell's behavior on sensitive committees, noting his friend Senator Ruben Gallego's regret and donor Stephen Klubeck's party switch. Comparisons are drawn to Ilhan Omar regarding wealth accumulation and questionable earmarks, while international criticism targets NATO allies for failing defense obligations despite successful U.S. blockades of Iranian oil. Ultimately, the episode demands strict accountability for government fraud and waste. [Automatically generated summary]
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Why Did It Take So Long00:05:09
Eric Swalwell, that all went fast, right?
The Dems are ditching him just as fast as they can.
He is one hot potato.
But why did it take this long?
I mean, a lot of people are saying, oh, he kind of seemed like he had that Creepola vibe, which I think he pretty much gave off, right?
We can all agree.
He didn't really seem like he was on the up and up.
I don't know what it was.
Call it just my intuition.
But I got that feeling with Eric Swalwell.
And then you start to hear things.
Here and there, and they would be allegations, right?
Allegations, allegations.
And the left would tell us, oh, they're just phony allegations designed to try and take him down because he's going to be such a promising politician.
Oh, what a promising politician they had on their hands.
He's now going up in smoke.
As I told you yesterday, he'd have to resign from Congress.
And I would say within like 40 minutes of me saying that, sure enough, he did resign from Congress.
Nancy Pelosi allegedly making the final call, giving him the old heave ho.
But again, everybody's turning.
I mean, his best.
Friend is like, oh, you know, I can't believe this.
Everybody's disappointed in him, et cetera.
But they are running for the hills.
They don't want to be close to this guy at all.
I would just ask this question Why did it take so long?
Really?
I mean, why did it take so long?
If we all kind of thought, hey, you know, he's kind of a little bit sus, why did nobody report this out?
Oh, I think we know why.
I think that, you know, if you're a card carrying member of the Democrat Party, you don't get investigated in the same kind of way.
Now, I'm not forgiving anyone.
On the right, who has also, I mean, you think about the Gonzalez guy, for example, that got tossed as he rightly should have and did get tossed.
But you think about how Eric Swalwell was climbing the ranks and he's out there complaining about Trump and he's out there complaining about the Epstein stuff, all while allegedly doing some pretty sketchy stuff, I mean, sad stuff himself.
So, why aren't we holding leaders more accountable?
Think about that even vis a vis Ilhan Omar right now, because Ilhan Omar.
If you ask me, has done some pretty sus stuff.
And you don't go from negative $50,000 to $30 million in net worth in the span of a year and change unless you've done some pretty sketchy stuff.
So, what has come up right now as we speak?
You know what's going viral?
A video I showed you a couple of months ago, one in which Joni Ernst, Senator Joni Ernst, actually exposed that Ilhan Omar was trying to lock down another million bucks for one of her, I like to say, Coonies.
Remember when she called all of Trump's friends his coonies instead of cronies?
Anyway, so one of her coonies apparently in Minneapolis had a restaurant, has a restaurant with some mental health clinics right above that kitchen.
And she wanted to get a million bucks for him.
And so this is now circulating.
I'm going to show it to you again.
It's circulating online as people say, hey, you know what?
Why aren't we holding our leaders more accountable?
Why aren't we asking these really important questions?
We need to.
We need to root out all the fraud, all the waste, and all the abuse, including the kind of abuse that Eric Swabal allegedly engaged in.
I mean, you got victim after victim after victim now coming out, 50 staff members that say, he's a bad dude.
We got all these grifters and bad dudes here in the house.
Meanwhile, overseas, where I am in London right now, The UK doesn't apparently have a Navy.
No, it's six ships, four of which are getting serviced, two of which are really out of commission.
Leave it with basically nothing.
They had to ask Germany for a ship in order to meet their NATO obligations.
So you look around and you get Georgia Maloney, who seemed nice at one point, but maybe she was just batting her eyes at Elon.
Georgia Maloney in Italy, who is like, this is not our problem.
We're not going to have anything to do with this.
You get the UK, where I am right now.
Where the former members of the defense team are now coming out and sounding the alarm saying, this country has no way to defend itself, period.
You've got France, it's like, oh, we're not going to let you use our airspace.
You've got Spain, where I was just traveling to over the weekend.
And in Cadiz, Spain, which is right near the Strait of Gibraltar, very important waterway, we have a naval base there called Rota.
And in Rota, You have something like 2,500 Americans that we're about to pull out because, hey, who needs it?
Why are we spending hundreds of millions of dollars on these bases overseas when they're not even willing to let us use them?
Anonymous Allegations Circulate00:15:00
You see, it's all kind of connected.
You got corruption everywhere.
People abusing the system and abusing the U.S. taxpayer.
And that has got to stop.
It's where we begin today.
Welcome to the Trish Regan Show.
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Usually I'm live, but we're having a few little internet challenges.
What'd I say?
Oh, I'm in the U.K. Maybe that's why.
Maybe that's why.
Anyway, we've got a lot going on at this moment because Democrats are running for the hills.
Running for the hills.
More and more and more is about to come out.
Eric Swalwell.
Eric Swalwell may actually be looking at prison time.
This is getting really serious.
I mean, it's pretty bad.
What I'm hearing, I want to actually go down to Paulina Luna, who was one of the first, first to call for Eric Swalwell to resign from Congress.
Sure enough, he did pretty quickly, I'd add, pretty darn quickly.
It's over.
It's over.
And they're going to have to find some new rising star.
Not really sure who that's going to be.
Really not sure.
Let's go to Ana, who's predicting more bad things to come, including possibly jail for one.
Eric Swabal.
Is that many people on the Hill knew about this?
Many reporters have come forward, even in talking to me, saying that they had heard stories about this.
But I do think that he has serious criminal problems on his hand.
And I do think that he might end up in jail, Jesse.
And if I could just share with you for a moment, not only did I receive forensic reporting showing that, you know, that infamous video of him in the hotel room was indeed him, it was not AI generated.
But I'm also being told that, A, more stuff is going to be dropping in the next 24 hours.
And then also, potentially, the individual that recorded that video in that hotel room, Jesse, was a female and she was underage.
Oh.
Just so the audience is aware, there's a video that's circulating.
Fox hasn't confirmed it yet.
It appears to show Swalwell on a bed with maybe another guy making out with a girl.
That's it.
That's all we know.
But if.
I want to just jump in.
So this video has been circulating.
Some people have said, oh, you know, maybe it's AI.
Anna Polina Luna saying, No, that it's not AI, it's actually him.
And this is really bad.
I mean, this is why it's rising to the level of possible criminality and jail time.
Here we go.
What you're saying is true, and we don't know, but if that's true, that is very, very, very bad news.
But back up.
You're saying reporters on the Hill knew Swallow was a shade ball, but didn't investigate?
Because why?
Because he was a Democrat?
I don't know why they didn't push this further.
I think that there's a lot of kind of back scratching taking place on the Hill in general because it's happening within our own party as well.
But yes, they knew about it.
They did not report on it.
And you're seeing now that, I mean, I don't know about you, Jesse, but I don't have 50 staffers, let alone 50 staffers that would come out and say that this is wrong and that you need to resign from office, right?
So it was clearly a pattern.
And as you're seeing with some of the text messages coming out, and I think, again, with this criminal investigation, There's a lot there with him.
So, yes, he resigned, I think, to maybe save his family going through this.
But ultimately, at the end of the day, when he did what he decided to do, just based on the grounds of him having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, but now we're looking at the criminal activity.
And I stand by what I said because I saw, again, the forensics report of that video.
And if that is true, I would suggest that the Manhattan DA look into that.
Okay.
So it's pretty serious.
You've got that going on and the allegation that she just made about an underage woman there, more stuff expected to.
Come out, and of course, you had the victim today who was saying how horrendous this whole experience was, and it was bad.
I mean, it's really, I'll play some of it for you.
It's just, I mean, I look at it and I just gotta say, guys, like, who does this?
Number one, okay, who's like, what kind of guy would do this stuff?
And two, you're a politician, okay, like, you have to know that they're coming for you, but he's so stupid, he was falling for Fang Fang, okay, so.
He's compromised.
Like, what the heck was he ever doing on the Intel Committee to begin with?
This is a compromised guy.
Fang Fang is enough.
Like, even if you're, and I actually believe this woman, but if you say, okay, I don't believe a word she's saying, Fang Fang's enough, okay?
He is a compromised dude.
But this is extremely sad and extremely bad for one, Mr. Eric Swalwell.
In 2018, while I was living and working as a model in Beverly Hills, And I also owned a fashion software company.
I had contact with Eric Svalwell on three separate occasions after meeting him socially.
He offered me connections to further my software company, and I also had an interest in local politics.
He invited me to two public events.
I knew he was married at the time and that his wife was pregnant.
He was my friend.
On the third occasion, I believe he drugged my drink.
I only had one glass of wine.
He was supposed to go to a political event, and he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room.
When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn't move my arms or my body.
He raped, and then she alleges that he raped her and that he choked her.
That she wrote about it in her diaries and that she told her friends, and later that she went to therapy to try to survive all this.
And it's awful.
And I'm stunned that he could have gotten that far in politics without this coming out earlier.
Now, one of the things that you keep hearing, and it's typical of so many of these women, because there's more victims, by the way, that are coming forward.
They were afraid.
They were consistently afraid because of who he was, his family.
Again, this idea that somebody's really, really powerful and that you're not going to stand up to them because they're too powerful and they're going to ruin you.
That has to change because these people that are in that power are not always the best people.
Because if these allegations are true, and again, you had me at Fang Fang, Eric Swall was not a good guy.
I don't think he's one.
I mean, you know, forget about any of this.
I mean, he was not a good guy just in the way he went after Trump.
He was not.
A good guy.
He's not a nice person.
He's a bad dude.
So, justice, which is why he may be looking at jail right now.
This is very, very serious.
And the Democrats don't want to have anything, anything to do with him.
Democrats running for cover, if you would, at this hour.
Yeah, they're like, oh, get us far, far away from him.
We don't want to even know or admit that we ever even knew him.
His own best friend, right?
His best friend, the Senator Gallego, is like, mad.
Oh, they're all acting mad.
You know, they're so righteous.
Please, you guys knew what was going on.
Don't tell me you didn't know what was going on.
Like I said, he gave off.
Creepola from like day one, from the minute he opened his mouth and the minute he looked at him, he was like Creepola, right?
Like he knew.
Who didn't know he was a bad guy?
Again, you know, maybe I got some intuition for this stuff, but he really kind of, you know, looked a little sus to me.
Anyway, Nancy Pelosi plays dumb.
She's out there saying, Oh no, I had no idea, no idea, no idea.
Look at her getting pressed by this reporter.
Some Republicans and others are saying that Democrats turned kind of a blind eye, that they knew what he was up to or what the allocation was.
No, I think that is absolutely positive.
It's true that they may say that.
But it is absolutely not true.
You had no idea.
None whatsoever.
None whatsoever.
I had none whatsoever.
What happens in California now?
He was, in many of the polls, the leading candidate.
Yes, he was.
That's gone.
There's an army of candidates out there.
And California has this quirky law, because it's ranked primaries, right?
Where you could end up with two Republicans on the ballot.
How does that?
I agree that it is a quirky law.
I do not agree that there'll be two Republicans at the top.
Nancy, you got trouble, girl, okay?
You knew he was bad news.
Everybody knew he was bad news.
And they're all trying to pretend like, oh, they had no clue.
No clue whatsoever.
I mean, even Hakeem Jeffries, who now at this point is finally getting rid of the lady in Florida, I guess they're trying to throw some fresh meat out there.
You know, the lady in Florida, the one who is alleged to have stolen millions of dollars from FEMA, but she said, don't come after me because, oh, I'm black.
Yeah, that's the excuse.
Eric Swalwell, you didn't have that excuse, okay?
You know, they should have taken you out a whole long time ago.
Anyway, Hakeem Jeffries is saying that they're looking, apparently, at this woman out of Florida, but being asked about Swalwell as well.
Listen to his response.
Did you push Swalwell to resign?
Did you push Swalwell to resign?
Member conversations that I've had will remain private.
Why did you call for him publicly to resign given these allegations?
You've made the right decision.
He doesn't want to admit anything.
He does not want to say that he was the guy.
Well, maybe he wasn't.
Maybe he would have actually clung to him.
Who knows?
I mean, I do think, though, the handwriting was certainly on the wall, and Nancy probably was the one who had to make the call.
After all, she was the one who made the call with Biden, too.
They had to get rid of a few of these people for different reasons, right?
Unbelievable stuff.
And then you get the best friend, the bestie, the bestie.
Eric Swalwalt's bestie, pretending like he had no idea.
He had just heard some stories about him being a little bit flirty.
Okay, he's a little flirty.
No, I think with what has come out, there had to have been more than just flirty accusations out there.
Let's go to the Democrat Senator, Ruben Gallego, trying to get away from this one as fast as he can.
In the beginning, you said when you first heard these rumors a few weeks ago, that's when you called him.
Then you said you've heard these rumors for years.
So, which one is it, Senator?
So, I heard rumors of him being flirty.
And that wasn't an issue enough for you to not trust him to watch your kids or be close with him?
Because, you know, you hear this, and then when you're close to somebody and you know his wife, you see this, you see that relationship, you know that, like, it maybe just isn't true.
When you first heard these rumors, Should you have acted when you first heard these rumors several years ago?
The rumors I heard were that he was just a flirty social guy.
That's it.
Yeah, he's just such a flirt, that little Eric.
I mean, I'd have to think if you're really his bestie, you've seen him at his worst after a few pops.
And so you've seen some stuff that you just, well, you just apparently don't even care about, right?
Let's go back to him because this is what I get a kick out of.
They're throwing him under a bus, like as fast as they can.
They're throwing him so hard because they know it's all gonna come boomerang back on them.
Mr. Gallegos, Senator Gallegos, for now, again.
So I wanna make a couple of things very clear.
Number one, Eric Swell lied to all of us.
He lied to the most powerful people in this country.
And they trusted him, they trusted him in some of the most sensitive spots in our government.
whether it was on judiciary committee, intel committee, impeaching Donald Trump.
And that clouded my judgment, my friendship with him, our family's friendship together with him, clouded my judgment.
And I was wrong.
I deeply, deeply regret that.
The women that came forward are courageous and they still deserve justice.
But to be clear again, I also had no knowledge of predatory behavior, sexual assault, or harassment.
And unfortunately right now, The same people that are attacking me in 2024 are using this horrible situation, this horrible situation that's been thrown upon these women, thrown upon Eric Swatwell's family, and using this as an excuse to attack me, lie about me, and lie about my family.
And I will not take that lightly.
But I was friends with him for years, and we hung out all the time, and I had literally no clue.
He lied to me, Jessica.
He lied to you.
Oh, come on.
Gallegos is scared.
I mean, it's very clear.
They are all running as fast as they can from this guy, right?
And do you know who's running from Eric Swalwell right now?
The guy who was his backer, like the guy who was giving him all his money for his campaigns, the guy who thought he was creating the next California governor, a guy named Stephen Clark.
Klubeck, who said not only is he running from Eric, he's running from the entire Democrat Party.
Uh huh.
He's becoming a libertarian.
Yeah.
Watch this one.
This is entertaining in and of itself.
Blown away.
A political explosion.
Blown away.
Billionaire Stephen Klubeck, once a major donor and supporter of Eric Swalwell, now publicly turning on him with rage.
Bad.
Amid sexual assault allegations.
I am no longer a Democrat.
I'm now a Libertarian Republican because that's what a blue dog Democrat used to be.
Billionaire Donor Turns on Swalwell00:11:23
A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.
Swalwell posting this video Friday from Klubeck's Beverly Hills mansion pushing back.
These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.
But since then, the fallout has only intensified.
The Democratic frontrunner for California governor dropping out of the race, resigning from Congress, and being kicked out of Klubeck's home.
And I said, pal, you busted the trust.
I'm disappointed and disgusted.
The f out of here.
You know how I could tell he was such a bad guy?
Because he'd say anything.
He'd go on cable news and he'd say anything to just get at Trump.
And it didn't matter what it was.
And I think that that just always struck me as a total lack of character combined with sort of his, well, I keep going back to Fang Fang, but I'm sorry you had me at that.
Right.
So he had this relationship.
Although he's never actually quite come out and said that, but I think we all know.
We can call a spade a spade, okay?
We're all adults here.
So he had this, he was having quite a time with Ms. Fang Fang.
And it turned out that Ms. Fang Fang was a Chinese spy.
And now the FBI has like a file this thick on him.
And they were actually going to come forward with this whole file because you ought to know, right?
If this guy's compromised, and clearly he's compromised.
I mean, we're talking Compromise City.
All these women, the Chinese spy, maybe there's some Russian spies in there too.
I mean, hey, I mean, and the women that were working for him, I mean, completely unfair, and they were not on the payroll, right?
Those were not the spies.
You have women that were allegedly assaulted by him, brutally assaulted by him.
And then you've got the people that might have been working for China.
So it's bad.
And I think that you can't have people in office like that.
We just have to hold people to a higher standard.
And the fact that he came out and said all the things that he did always struck me as insanely disingenuous and kind of rotten.
Like there's just something rotten about the guy.
I never liked him.
Now, even more staffers are coming forward.
CBS News sitting down with a group of women saying that now's the time and they're not going to give up.
They don't care that he's no longer got a political career, they're out.
For vengeance.
The fact that he has now dropped out of the governor's race and resigned from Congress, is that justice in your view?
No, it's just the beginning.
It's just the very beginning.
And I know personally that we're not walking away from this fight.
For me, justice won't be until he can't ever harm a woman ever again and he has faced the consequences for the women that he has harmed.
I think, in regards to the governor's race, he never should have ran for governor to begin with.
Knowing the kind of history and receipts that are out there.
So that's a non starter.
And then in terms of Congress, I think he absolutely should have resigned.
I think we just prevented another 30 to 40 years potentially of him harming people if he were to stay in Congress.
Yeah.
So in that sense, I.
Well, but you heard them say they're not finished.
In other words, this is what gets us back to what Ana Paulina Luna was talking about earlier with the jail time.
Because he very well could find himself put away for a lot of years.
And you gotta think about the ego on these people, right?
If you had all of those skeletons in your closet, why would you be running for California governor?
I mean, why would you even be in Congress?
And if you knew you were gonna be a politician like that, wouldn't you live kind of, you know, I don't know, like a priestly life of some sort?
Like, you know, you're married with kids and that's that?
What do they think they're going to get away with between the cell phones and the communication style these days and a media that's right?
Oh, well, maybe it's because He figured he could get away with it because the media was on his side.
And that's what has to change.
Ilhan Omar thought the media was on her side.
Ilhan Omar thought that she was totally untouchable.
Ilhan Omar said, Don't you dare come after me.
If you come after me, then we just know that you're a racist.
I can do all I want.
I can go after Donald Trump.
I can go after.
Israel, I can go after Jews.
I can, I mean, she's making an appearance with that Hassan Piker, who's bad news, guys.
Total anti Semite.
She's going on his podcast saying, like, he's the be all, end all.
He's the future of the Democrat Party.
It's like, what?
The big issue, the big controversy should be his opponent's records.
Yeah.
It should be, you know, what his opponent said.
It should be a lack of interest in identifying some of these issues.
Yes, but it should be about how they're, like, in secret chats, right?
You know, capitulating.
And saying, I don't want to publicly say anything, but after the election, I will do A, B, and C.
That should be the problem.
The problem shouldn't be the streamer who understands where the base is, who's coming from a place of integrity and honesty and supporting a candidate that really fits that 90 10 issue the exact way that it should.
Because if we are to have a representative democracy, the people have to represent.
The interest of those that they are seeking to govern.
Yeah.
I see.
And she believes that Hassan Piker, who has said some really abhorrent stuff, I'm in really bad, is somehow representative of the Democrat Party today.
Well, Ilhan, I don't know what kind of Democrat Party you're in.
I mean, this is a Democrat Party from Somalia.
This is a Democrat Party in your little district out there in Minneapolis where they got a good thing going, or they did, right?
Until you got found out.
You got found out.
And now, a lot of people are going to be doing a lot of digging.
Here she is going after the president because she didn't like what he was doing with Iran.
By the way, huge success.
The blockade is working.
This is great news.
Great news for the U.S., great news, frankly, for the world, great news for Europe.
Although, don't tell Europe they have to contribute in any way because they're not interested.
In other words, they're like the Ilhans of the world, right?
The grifters, for goodness sakes.
Ilhan Omar, you know, calling out the president every chance she can get.
Fine.
All right.
That's your prerogative.
But Don't be a thief.
And that's what it's alleged.
She really is.
This is now coming back into focus in a huge way, guys.
Huge, huge, huge.
Because I want to tell you about something I mentioned a couple of months ago.
And that was what Joni Ernst had found out.
Senator Ernst came forward and said they just squashed a whole bunch of funding, including to programs like Ilhan Omar was advancing for a Somali restaurant owner who wanted to have.
A mental health clinic right above his kitchen.
A million bucks, a million bucks that they were going to give this guy.
Well, this is making the rounds.
It's going totally viral.
And everybody's like, whoa, did we dodge a bullet?
But not only did we dodge a bullet, we have to make sure that we get to the bottom of this.
Because the feeding our future thing was $250 million for a whole bunch of people right there in her district.
And now she was, as recently as not too long ago, I mean, after the whole scandal had broken, she was still trying to score an extra million bucks.
For a Somali restaurant owner who wanted to have a mental health clinic above the kitchen.
I mean, come on.
You think we're that dumb?
Apparently we were.
But guess what?
We're starting to get smarter every single day.
Watch this.
One of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic.
Which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork.
Tons of red flags.
So, this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers.
Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.
So, I raised the issue, and fortunately, the House has now stripped.
That earmark out of that spending bill.
But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota.
And she's still trying to get it.
I mean, think about that.
Why wasn't she doing any due diligence to maybe figure out whether or not the Somali restaurant owner really was running a mental health clinic?
Well, maybe she didn't want to know the answer, right?
Maybe she didn't want to know the answer because here's the answer, and it's right here in her filings.
You see, she's gone from negative $50 some odd thousand to suddenly having a net worth of $30 million only in America, right?
Not.
And so whether it's Swawal Or Gonzalez or Ilhan Omar.
I don't care what side of the party aisle you're on here.
It just so happens that a lot of the fraudsters seem to be from Minnesota, overwhelmingly of Somali descent, and from Ilhan Omar's district, Democrats.
I think you've got to get to the bottom of that.
And I think that knowing what we've learned about Swalwell, it puts a very specific spotlight on all of these people, including.
Here we go.
This is a story that I've showed you already, but they're going global here.
They're trying to figure out where all this money has gone.
And if any of that was going through those venture capital accounts that her hubby was running.
Remember, he had the venture capital firm that isn't, that wasn't.
I mean, it's kind of like the winery that isn't or wasn't, that had no grapes.
So there's a venture capital firm that's allegedly worth $25 million, a winery with no grapes, no vineyard, no phone number, no website, nothing.
That's supposed to be worth $5 million.
So that's where you start saying, okay, is this a money laundering operation?
Because I think it is.
I mean, this is how money laundering would work, right?
You've got to have some kind of inflated value for all these shares in the venture capital firm because if somebody's going to buy into that and you're going to cleanse their money up, you know, buying solar panels in South Africa, I wonder if the ex hubby, AKA allegedly the brother, who now lives in South Africa, has anything to do with that.
Is This Money Laundering00:05:44
Just saying.
I don't know, but somebody's got to start connecting these dots.
And you can get these bank records.
It's actually remarkably easy to get these bank records.
And as soon as they go to Kenya and Dubai and Somalia and they say, we need these bank records, they're going to have to turn them over.
And what they've got to figure out is whether or not any of the money was going to the fraudsters and then going through that VC or any of these various ventures that they had going on around the world.
So this is a bad day for Democrats in general.
It's a bad day, obviously, for.
Eric Swalwell, but it's also very bad for Ilhan Omar because it's renewing the spotlight on her, which is coming in an important time.
It's a good thing for America.
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I'm in the UK right now, doing a lot of reporting on what's happening with NATO, and wanted to make sure that I could bring this show to you, whether it was via a premiere or whether it was live.
There's a theme, okay?
So you've got these ingrates, these people that just sort of think that they're holier than now and that they can do whatever they want, whether it's stealing from you, allegedly, whether it's assaulting young women, allegedly, or whether it's, and we don't have to say allegedly here, because this is a fact, giving you the middle finger and stiffening you on the bill, right?
When it comes time for your NATO obligations to be.
Coming into play and at least allow us to use the bases that we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars setting up, Spain, or fly over a country with whom we have a NATO treaty, France, or France, or like expect you to contribute a little something.
Hey, hey, UK.
When they're not doing their fair share, we got a big problem going on worldwide.
I mean, heck, we're pretty good, right?
We got the world's greatest Navy and things are going okay so far, but come on, give me a break.
And Italy, where are you when we need you?
Oh, Georgia Maloney, she's now taking down Trump.
This is a strange one from my perspective because they seemed kind of chummy.
I mean, she was just, yeah, she.
She seemed to love Elon.
I'm like, that might not go so well.
You know, and I think he's pretty busy, like very busy on the women front, on the kid front, and on the company front.
But George just really seemed to like Elon, and she seemed to be very gracious with the present, and they seemed to have a good relationship.
And then all of a sudden, he sends out a true social post about him healing, which Maybe she thought the Italians wouldn't like, so she jumped all over that one.
And now, whoa, their relationship is falling apart in real time.
But then again, she never wanted to have anything to do with paying her fair share with NATO or doing anything with the strikes of Iran either.
Now, did she?
Watch.
Took a shot at the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Maloney, who you see the two of them there.
They have had pretty friendly relations up until this moment in time.
He said she had said that his attacks on the Pope were unacceptable.
President Trump responded to that, saying it's her who's unacceptable because she doesn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if they had a chance.
Well, he's not wrong, okay?
He's definitely not wrong.
That's sort of the whole point of this.
We can't let Iran get a nuclear weapon.
And for some reason, Europe, like they historically have always been, just runs and hides.
And here we are picking up the tab again and doing the dirty work because nobody else is willing to do what needs to be done to protect the world and civilization.
Anyway, Donald Trump had a response on that whole thing that's caused kind of a snafu in a lot of religious communities, especially Catholics.
Don't forget, by the way, Catholics have a near socialist mentality.
I mean, they really do.
I was, you know, I'm Irish Catholic, born and raised as an Irish Catholic.
And actually, when I decided to have my own kids, decided to become Congregationalist because what I didn't like is how the Catholic Church wants to impose the rule of the Pope, the rule of the priest upon the parishioners.
And you are not to read the Bible yourself, you are expected to get it translated from a guy who, let's face it, they don't even, I mean, probably foreign, right?
Here in the US, who jumps around.
From parish to parish all over the world, right?
They cycle through these guys like every two years.
And that's who I have to rely on to interpret the word of God.
No, no, no.
I want to have a direct relationship with God.
Thank you very much.
And I want my kids to have a direct relationship with God.
And it's one of the things that I appreciated about the Congregationalist Church where they encouraged that.
Anyway, I digress.
The point being that the Pope doesn't really love Trump.
And the Catholic Church doesn't really love Trump.
And so they're jumping on this one pretty darn hard.
Watch.
Mr. President, did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?
Well, it wasn't depicted.
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It was.
Me, I did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support.
And only the fake news could come up with that one.
So I just heard about it, and I said, How did they come up with that?
It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better.
And I do make people better.
I make people a lot better.
Yeah, you know, I don't know.
I don't really even care.
I mean, you might have seen it and said, Well, that's a nice picture of me.
I kind of like it.
And you know, I'm making people better, I'm healing the world, I'm healing this.
And he may have not even thought twice about it and then put it out on True Social.
And the next thing you know, you got everybody going bonkers.
I don't know what the specifics are, and I frankly don't really even care.
But I do think it's a little bit weird that Georgia Maloney is trying to pick a fight with us right now, just as Spain is trying to pick a fight with us right now, just as the UK and France and everybody's trying to pick a fight with us right now.
Really, guys, that's not smart.
Not smart.
Because we have a lot of control over a whole lot of stuff, including how much money we're going to spend to help you in Ukraine.
Yeah, so think about where your bread is buttered next time.
I want to get to that with an update for you.
Good stuff that you need to think about happening right now in NATO and how this is changing the world for the better.
The U.S. is back on top.
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NATO's in trouble.
Okay, NATO's in a lot of trouble.
They are refusing to help us in any way.
They want to wait until everything's like fine and dandy.
It's like, well, what good is it then, guys?
I mean, come on.
We build all this up.
We build the bases in Spain.
We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars there in Spain alone, a big part of their economy.
And they're like, F you.
I mean, really, truly, F you.
It's a capital F, too.
And I don't think we're going to put up with it too much anymore.
I mean, granted, we'll be careful here, right?
You got to think long term and the reasons why we have NATO and the reasons why it came into existence.
I would say one of the problems that we have with NATO right now is its entire reason for being is not as necessary anymore because we're no longer fighting a Cold War.
And so when you keep expanding, expanding, expanding NATO and then you keep encroaching on Russia's territory, Russia doesn't really appreciate it.
And you understand, naturally, you have this friction.
So, NATO has been getting more and more expansive.
NATO has been getting more and more expensive.
And NATO has basically been pulling a Democrat politician move and saying, well, we don't want to have to pay any of this.
You know, we just want to live high off the hog, but we don't actually want to have to do anything.
And oh, by the way, when you try to actually use these bases or the airspace, we're going running for the hills.
We're not going to let you do it.
And so, this is kind of a problem, don't you think?
I mean, a really, really, really big problem.
I will say this the blockade is working.
That's the big news that we've got in the US.
The US saying not one single ship has gotten through there.
Those Iranian ports, we basically blocked off those Iranian ports, big one being Karg, right, so that no ships can come through there.
And that's important because, let's face it, Iran has been kind of loving this.
I mean, they're charging more, right?
They were trying to charge tolls, millions of dollars for any of these ships to go through the strait, on top of which they were getting a pretty premium for the oil that they were trying to send to China.
We just say, hey, you're not going to send any more oil to China.
We're going to make sure of it.
We're going to actually blockade All of your ports.
So we do this really well.
You know, we get a heck of a navy and we can actually go after all those little vessels that they get to because you saw the video of us doing that as the drug wars were going on and we were trying to make sure we took out all those drug boats speeding towards the US.
So we can go after the little guys, we can go after the big guys.
And as a result, no one is getting their Iranian oil.
That's costing a lot of money to the Iranian economy hundreds of millions of dollars a day, with some estimates predicting this is like a $300 billion loss.
Whoa, okay.
Like, how long can they handle that one for?
Not too long.
And this is why a lot of people now believe we're getting closer and closer and closer to some kind of deal.
The president actually coming out and admitting what I said yesterday, which is I didn't like the 20 year thing either.
I want 50 years or 100 years or never.
They're never going to get a nuclear weapon.
Now, apparently, JD and company went in with a 20 year proposition.
You guys are not going to get a nuclear weapon for 20 years.
And they came back and said five years.
So, I think we're sticking to 20.
And I think we're probably going to get that.
And that's why you're seeing markets right now respond in kind.
You get the UN Secretary General for whatever use the UN is, which is basically no use, no use at all.
The UN Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, says that after the meeting with Pakistan, it looks like the indication is highly probable that these talks will restart.
So they think that something is going to happen.
In the meantime, yep, no one's getting through any Iranian oil.
So, China, tough luck.
I've seen some reports in the European press that China was able to still get some of its oil out of those Iranian reports.
That's not true, according to the U.S. Defense Department, U.S. Central Command, saying for 24 hours this blockade has been in effect and no one is getting anything from Iran because those ports are locked up.
Now, the president has been calling on NATO to step it up, you know, and for whatever reason, they really are inclined not to.
I would say this, we don't need them.
And eventually, when they figure that out, maybe they'll come crawling back.
But the blockade, as of now, is working.
Is it your anticipation, Mr. President, that other countries will assist in this effort to blockade Iran?
Yeah, other countries are going to also.
We don't need other countries, frankly, but they've offered the services.
We'll let it be known probably tomorrow.
Has the blockade started, sir?
Yeah, started.
10 o'clock.
They've offered their services.
Let me be specific on that.
They've offered their services once everything's a okay, right?
They don't want to do anything in the here and now when it might actually be dicey.
So, as far as I think we're all concerned, NATO has dropped the ball.
And it's not something that any of us are going to forget, especially the big guy.
You know, we spent trillions of dollars on NATO to help them.
Guard really against Russia.
When you think of it, we're guarding against Russia.
And I've long thought it was a little ridiculous, but we spent trillions of dollars doing it.
And I think that's going to be under very serious examination.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
And that's all, folks, right?
Very much under serious consideration.
Spain is on the outs right now.
We're looking at closing two bases there.
Rota and Moron.
We had some fun with that the other day, right?
Moron.
Fancy way of saying moron.
Looks like those two could be going away.
And France, you know, I don't think we need to keep spending all this money on all these bases.
We can just bring these troops home.
Or if we are going to spend the money, we better have some kind of contract in place that we know that if we need to use these bases and if we need to fly over this airspace, then we actually can.
That matters.
It's important.
And it's important to know that our allies are actually our allies.
The administration is thinking about diverting resources to NATO countries it believes really are our allies.
I mean, think about Poland.
They're giving more money to NATO than anybody else, even more than us, as a percentage of GDP.
So maybe we need to be thinking through this so that if there is a country there, some of the Eastern countries that are friendlier with us, maybe there's an opportunity there as we divert some of the resources away from the Western countries that frankly don't even need it.
And by the way, can't.
Find their way out of a paper bag.
I mean, think of the Syrians that had been brought into Germany, right?
And now they get a big problem in Germany.
They have a huge problem in Belgium when you think about all the people that they brought in there.
And now 70% of the community in Brussels is all migrant.
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And the majority of them are living off of social welfare programs, which, by the way, we help to write the checks for.
So what are we doing writing the checks?
Whether it be in Minneapolis for Ilhan Omar's program, whether it be out in California for the Estimated $180 billion in Medicaid and other kinds of frauds that they're alleging right there, or whether it be for NATO.
Let's think long and hard about how we're spending our money, shall we?
That is what is happening right now.
And that's why this is such a significant moment, a significant moment in time that I think is going to mark a major transition for the better.
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