The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Italy’s BETRAYAL BACKFIRES! Trump SLAMS Meloni — 13,000 Troops Head HOME?
Aired: 2026-04-21
Duration: 41:00


=== Italy Loses US Troops (11:42) ===

[00:00:01]  I'm back at home base, and my goodness, we're talking about some news.
[00:00:06]  Some news.
[00:00:06]  Italy may actually lose 13,000 U.S. troops.
[00:00:11]  Bring them home.
[00:00:12]  Bring them home.
[00:00:12]  We've got 100,000 troops over there for NATO.
[00:00:17]  And they're not doing us a whole lot of good right about now.
[00:00:19]  Well, the president's pretty mad at Georgia Maloney.
[00:00:21]  We're going to talk about that.
[00:00:22]  Plus, did you see this one?
[00:00:23]  My goodness, Ilhan Omar, I think you just made your situation worse.
[00:00:27]  Ilhan Omar, guys, she actually is saying that she.
[00:00:33]  Kind of screwed up on her accounting and because of that, you know, all should be forgiven.
[00:00:39]  I don't think so.
[00:00:39]  This actually raises a whole new set of questions and i'm going to get into those here today.
[00:00:44]  Welcome to the program.
[00:00:45]  I am Trishree, and make sure you subscribe share like, make a comment.
[00:00:47]  It's all good.
[00:00:48]  Here we are looking at a NATO that could be quite a bit weaker in the near future.
[00:00:52]  13 000 troops could be leaving Italy very, very soon.
[00:00:57]  A little dust up between Georgia, Maloney and the president of the United States as we watch to see what happens with those talks still scheduled over the weekend, the diplomatic talks on Iran.
[00:01:06]  We do have a deadline that's about to expire any moment.
[00:01:10]  And it looks like the president isn't willing at this hour to renew that deadline in any way.
[00:01:15]  It comes as we get word of an Iranian ship trying to, you know, skirt through our little blockade there.
[00:01:22]  Well, that didn't go over so well.
[00:01:24]  Now, we're going to talk about that.
[00:01:25]  I get some video to show you that the Pentagon released because we fired on that thing.
[00:01:29]  Oh, yeah.
[00:01:30]  Without NATO's help, certainly without Italy's help.
[00:01:33]  In fact, we couldn't even get to one of our bases.
[00:01:37]  I'm showing you a map here of Sigonella.
[00:01:40]  Sigonella, which is near Sicilia, right?
[00:01:43]  In Italy.
[00:01:44]  It's one of those bases that we were trying to use as a stopover point en route and route to the Middle East.
[00:01:50]  And Georgia Maloney out of Italy would not allow us to do so.
[00:01:55]  So this has really actually been quite damaging to our relationship with Maloney and with Italy.
[00:02:00]  She at the time said that she needed parliamentary approval for any combat related missions.
[00:02:07]  And Trump's response was sort of, you know, at the time, hey, That's not really right.
[00:02:11]  That's not really fair.
[00:02:12]  And France, by the way, was even worse because they wouldn't even let us use our airspace.
[00:02:16]  He's just about had it with all of these NATO members.
[00:02:19]  He's looking at how much money we spend.
[00:02:20]  He's like, no, I'm sorry.
[00:02:22]  Here he is with my former colleague, Maria Bartiromo, calling out Georgia Maloney on Friday Watch.
[00:02:31]  What Europe has done with immigration, most of the countries, not all, what they've done with immigration is horrible.
[00:02:38]  Do we still have the same relationship with Italy right now and Georgia Maloney?
[00:02:42]  No, no.
[00:02:43]  She's been negative.
[00:02:45]  Anybody that turned us down for helping with this Iran situation, we do not have the same relationship.
[00:02:53]  Just so you know.
[00:02:54]  Italy gets a lot of oil from the Strait.
[00:02:58]  You can call it the Strait of Hormuz or the Hormuz Strait.
[00:03:02]  I said, which is better?
[00:03:03]  They said either is okay, but you can call it either one.
[00:03:06]  The only thing you can't call it is the Trump Strait.
[00:03:09]  They don't like that idea.
[00:03:11]  Well, I'll tell you what NATO, right now, holding its little meeting, right, on the day, think about that, on Friday, the day that we confirmed that we had opened up the Strait, they had their meeting to say, hey, let's talk about opening up the Strait.
[00:03:27]  It was open.
[00:03:28]  It was open, of course.
[00:03:29]  I've said all along with Iran, you've got to be really, really careful.
[00:03:32]  They're very, very slippery.
[00:03:33]  They said it was open.
[00:03:35]  But then they tried, amazingly enough, to get one of their oil tankers, maybe because they assumed, oh, well, it's open.
[00:03:41]  You know, it's open.
[00:03:42]  Therefore, you know, everything's back to normal.
[00:03:44]  No, nothing's back to normal.
[00:03:45]  Nothing's back to normal until we know that we've got the uranium, until we know that there's an actual peace deal that's been signed.
[00:03:53]  And those negotiations are supposed to be happening in a couple of days.
[00:03:56]  So why would you think it's all back to normal?
[00:03:59]  Not smart.
[00:04:00]  Not smart.
[00:04:02]  Meanwhile, NATO is looking at itself being in a very, very reduced form only because 13,000 troops that are there in Italy right now very well could come out.
[00:04:13]  We've got a few bases over there, but the Sigonella base there in Sicilia, Sicily, that's the one that was of issue because they really needed that in order to stop and refuel, etc.
[00:04:24]  But you can't even use your bases.
[00:04:26]  It's the same story over in Spain.
[00:04:28]  So this is now becoming a bigger and bigger clash.
[00:04:30]  And it's too bad, right?
[00:04:31]  It's too bad because don't forget Georgia Maloney.
[00:04:33]  Was someone who kind of seemed like she was on our side, like she was a conservative, and we don't have a lot of conservatives or members that are right of center, shall we say, in lefty Europe.
[00:04:44]  I know, I was just there.
[00:04:45]  I mean, it's very, very clear that entire continent seems to be quite lost, if you would.
[00:04:51]  I'll go that far.
[00:04:53]  I was in London, I was in Spain, and neither of these places are like they used to be.
[00:04:57]  They've shifted so dramatically over the last decade, last two decades, and it's becoming more and more so.
[00:05:05]  I mean, the progressive movement has really caught on.
[00:05:07]  And it's problematic.
[00:05:08]  The NEW YORK SUN posting this, the Trump Maloney breakup, that's what they're calling it.
[00:05:13]  So again it it appears that things are just not progressing, perhaps the way Italy would have liked to.
[00:05:20]  I can tell you, I was there last summer and the Italians were all telling me, this is fantastic, they love Maloney and they love Trump.
[00:05:28]  And they thought, you know, this is really an opportunity for Italy to become one of the new leaders in Europe, to maybe take over some space from the likes of France or the likes of the Uk or Germany.
[00:05:40]  And granted, Italy doesn't have an economy that's quite the size of Germany or even UK or France.
[00:05:47]  But given Georgia Maloney's seemingly strong relationship with Donald Trump, they were hopeful.
[00:05:55]  And now it looks like a lot of that hope is being dashed.
[00:05:58]  So I think that that's kind of a concern.
[00:06:01]  Here she is talking about, if you would, Georgia Maloney, talking about the Pope and the situation that unfolded there, because the president came out pretty forceful against.
[00:06:13]  Pope Leo?
[00:06:15]  Penso que quello que ho detto.
[00:06:18]  Eh, Pence, okay.
[00:06:20]  Eh, Pence, okay.
[00:06:21]  You know.
[00:06:22]  Yo parlo un po' di italiano, so I like to work it in now and then.
[00:06:25]  I do speak a little bit of Italian.
[00:06:26]  Anyway, here she is.
[00:06:28]  I'm just going to translate for you.
[00:06:29]  She's basically saying that she doesn't think that the president, President Trump, should have criticized Pope Leo the way he did.
[00:06:39]  And she thinks that it is really important to have sort of a separation, if you would, of what the pope is saying versus.
[00:06:47]  What any political leaders are saying, and she wants to respect that space.
[00:06:51]  I've said all along, and some people are like, What do you mean she's talking her book?
[00:06:53]  She's talking her book.
[00:06:54]  She's talking her book.
[00:06:55]  We're talking her book, like they say in finance, you know, when a bond trader comes on and they're telling you it's all going to hell.
[00:07:02]  And, you know, it's called talking your book.
[00:07:05]  So she's talking her book because the Vatican is obviously a very important constituent, if you would.
[00:07:10]  I don't think that the people are overly religious these days in Italy, but the Vatican is kind of a big player and she doesn't really want to tick them off.
[00:07:19]  So she's trying to have it all ways.
[00:07:22]  And it's not really working, obviously, with Donald Trump, given what he told Maria Bartiromo there on Friday.
[00:07:29]  Meanwhile, you know how angry he is.
[00:07:30]  He's so angry at NATO right now.
[00:07:33]  He's like, you know, I've just about had it with these people because they're never there for us, for goodness sakes.
[00:07:38]  So what are we doing?
[00:07:39]  Like, why are we spending so much?
[00:07:40]  I'm doing a great job for the country and for the world.
[00:07:43]  You know, we've had no help, zero from NATO.
[00:07:48]  We're there for them.
[00:07:49]  They're not there for us.
[00:07:50]  We spend, you saw the chart that came out a couple of days ago.
[00:07:53]  With a big monster red ball that was us and all these little satellite balls, and it represented the money spent on military and NATO.
[00:08:04]  And it's ridiculous.
[00:08:06]  And they should have been better.
[00:08:07]  They should have said, we'll send somebody.
[00:08:09]  It's a small operation compared to a big operation.
[00:08:13]  But NATO was not there for us.
[00:08:15]  And what it means, if they're not there for us here, they're not going to be there for us.
[00:08:19]  So why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO?
[00:08:25]  if they're not going to be with us.
[00:08:27]  If they're not going to be with us on Iran, they're not going to be with us on a much bigger subject than Iran.
[00:08:34]  So in other words, you've got to be kind of careful with these people.
[00:08:37]  He wants them to stay away from any peace talks we're having again, peace talks theoretically happening as soon as this weekend, but we're going to get to what's just transpired there in the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:08:51]  I just want to point out, though, that overall, you know, you've got this progressive movement, a progressive movement in Europe, which is something that the progressives here are all about, right?
[00:09:01]  They love this.
[00:09:02]  In fact, I saw Timmy Walsh campaigning, I mean, campaigning in Barcelona over the weekend.
[00:09:10]  So they were having this big shindig for all the progressives.
[00:09:13]  You know, let's invite them all.
[00:09:15]  You get the liberal guy who's now the PM, the prime minister of Spain.
[00:09:21]  And so he brings them all to hang out in Barcelona.
[00:09:23]  And we got to hear Timmy Walsh just like rip on the president.
[00:09:26]  I mean, in Barcelona, whatever happened?
[00:09:29]  I'm just going to ask you, like, whatever happened to the common decency of being thoughtful when you're on foreign ground, right?
[00:09:36]  Of not just torching your own country.
[00:09:39]  Like, nobody has that decency anymore, clearly.
[00:09:41]  And certainly not this guy who's up a creek without a paddle in more ways than one, especially when you hear what happened with Ilhan Omar's accounting.
[00:09:50]  We've got a feeble-minded, trigger-happy president who plunged us into a war where no threat was present, with no clear objectives and no exit plan.
[00:10:06]  We need to call that what it is.
[00:10:07]  That's fascism.
[00:10:09]  Or at least it's fascist curious, as they would be.
[00:10:14]  Fascist curious?
[00:10:15]  What is that?
[00:10:17]  Anyway, it's interesting that this whole shindig happened and they invited some Dems to come over and speak.
[00:10:22]  In Spain, of all places, Spain, which is going increasingly left, so left that they have 500,000 migrants that they just invited to become Spanish this week.
[00:10:36]  In fact, that was like last Tuesday.
[00:10:38]  So they had like lines like you wouldn't believe going outside and around the Moroccan embassy in Madrid.
[00:10:42]  And I found it kind of interesting because I was looking at all the pictures of this that were coming in.
[00:10:46]  I didn't see any women.
[00:10:48]  No, no, just a lot of male migrants, I guess, coming into Spain.
[00:10:54]  Trump, meanwhile, Is sick of it.
[00:10:56]  You heard him tell Maria earlier, hey, you know, they've got a real problem on the immigration front.
[00:11:03]  And they just haven't been there for us.
[00:11:04]  I mean, any of these countries.
[00:11:07]  And so as a result, they're now looking at pulling a couple of Spanish bases.
[00:11:10]  We've talked about this in Rota and Morones, our bases where we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
[00:11:17]  And I don't think we need to.
[00:11:20]  Not if we can't use them, right?
[00:11:21]  I mean, we've got serious problems there.
[00:11:23]  And so now the concern or the thought is, well, why don't we just relocate some of these assets to other areas?
[00:11:29]  And maybe some of those eastern countries like Poland or Romania would make a lot more sense.
[00:11:34]  And i'm just going to tell you this, guys, of course it would make more sense, of course it would make more sense.
[00:11:37]  You know why.
[00:11:38]  Those are the ones that are actually going to be more threatened by Vladimir Putin.

=== Hardline Regime in Iran (09:49) ===

[00:11:44]  Okay, so if you, if you believe in the reason for NATO being which, given that there is no more cold war, you might have to ask yourself, is there really a reason for NATO being?
[00:11:55]  But let's go with the assumption that there is and you're trying to protect yourself from the Great Russia, well then, Why are we like dancing around in the UK and Germany and France?
[00:12:07]  I mean, why wouldn't we be putting more resources into the likes of Poland or Romania?
[00:12:12]  That kind of seems like a smart, dare I say, just kind of a smart thing to do, right?
[00:12:17]  Hey, reminder to subscribe to the show, everyone subscribe, make a comment.
[00:12:21]  I see them all.
[00:12:22]  I really, really do.
[00:12:24]  So the Pentagon is releasing brand new video, brand new video, guys, of an Iranian ship trying to sneak past.
[00:12:32]  Us, you know, we put the blockade in.
[00:12:34]  We said, Hey, we'll have talks with you.
[00:12:36]  That's great that you're opening up the strait.
[00:12:37]  That's terrific.
[00:12:38]  It's great that you're giving us all the uranium.
[00:12:40]  But hang on here.
[00:12:41]  We're not going to stop the blockade until we have something really formal.
[00:12:46]  It's just a ceasefire.
[00:12:47]  That's all, right?
[00:12:49]  But apparently, they don't speak English in more ways than one.
[00:12:53]  And so they decided to actually try to slip by us, an Iranian ship.
[00:12:59]  And our Navy kept saying, Hey, hey, stop, stop.
[00:13:02]  You can't.
[00:13:03]  It's a blockade.
[00:13:04]  And they kept going.
[00:13:05]  And so now the Pentagon has released this video I want to show you coming in today, and Donald Trump putting this video out on True Social Watch.
[00:13:22]  Motor Vessel Tosca, Motor Vessel Tosca, vacate your engine room.
[00:13:26]  Vacate your engine room.
[00:13:28]  We're prepared to subject you to disabling fire.
[00:13:31]  Okay, we gave the flare.
[00:13:51]  So the president put this out saying today an Iranian flagged cargo ship named Tosca, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our naval blockade and it did not go well for them.
[00:14:04]  The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, USS Suprance, decided to intercept this in the Gulf of Oman and gave them fair warning to stop.
[00:14:13]  The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room.
[00:14:21]  Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.
[00:14:24]  La Tusca is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity.
[00:14:29]  We have full custody of the ship.
[00:14:30]  So this happening over the weekend, the president putting out the video and then Iran's president saying, oh, well, you know, we're not happy.
[00:14:39]  This is what he tweeted out just a couple hours ago.
[00:14:43]  Honoring commitments is the basis of meaningful dialogue.
[00:14:46]  Deep historical mistrust in Iran towards U.S. government conduct remains, while unconstructive and contradictory signals from Americans.
[00:14:56]  Officials carry a bitter message.
[00:14:58]  They seek Iran's surrender.
[00:15:00]  Iranians do not submit to force.
[00:15:02]  Okay, guys, again, there was a ceasefire.
[00:15:06]  All right, so if there's a ceasefire, why are you trying to get your ships through?
[00:15:11]  You can't.
[00:15:12]  It's a ceasefire, but we never said we were stopping the blockade.
[00:15:15]  We made that super clear on Friday.
[00:15:16]  We said the blockade is still in action.
[00:15:18]  And yet this weekend, what did you try and do?
[00:15:21]  So that's just not going to fly.
[00:15:23]  Meanwhile, the Democrats are out there trying to rally up the Europeans, trying to rally up any support they can get all over the world, right?
[00:15:31]  Because they want this president, no matter what, to look bad.
[00:15:35]  There was a moment, a really terrific moment on Fox Business this morning.
[00:15:43]  So the Democrat, Ro Khanna, from California is like, okay, I'm going to talk up Obama's Iran deal.
[00:15:49]  Like, we all need to go back to Obama's Iran deal.
[00:15:52]  And my former colleague there, Maria, is like, I don't think so.
[00:15:56]  Like, we're talking about a lot of money that wound up going to illicit.
[00:16:03]  Terror organizations' accounts.
[00:16:05]  Okay, that's what actually happened during the Obama years.
[00:16:08]  So, why are you going to try and take us back to those times?
[00:16:11]  And she just totally smacked him down.
[00:16:13]  I mean, she let him have it.
[00:16:14]  And this was just fantastic.
[00:16:16]  I got to play it for you.
[00:16:18]  Okay, so Maria Bartiromo and Ro Khanna here, 14 wire transfers, $1.7 billion.
[00:16:22]  She's like, How was that a good deal?
[00:16:24]  How was that ever a good deal?
[00:16:25]  Right?
[00:16:25]  For us, watch.
[00:16:26]  Are you suggesting that Obama's leadership on Iran was better?
[00:16:32]  Because under President Obama, there were 14 wire transfers to a.
[00:16:36]  Hold on, hold on.
[00:16:37]  There were 14 wire transfers to a Swiss account linked to Hezbollah between 2014 and 2016.
[00:16:42]  That was a total of $1.7 billion.
[00:16:44]  The same $1.7 billion he told Congress was frozen Iranian assets.
[00:16:50]  Now, there was a back channel to Tehran through Valerie Jarrett, active from 2012 to 2024.
[00:16:56]  This was after he left office.
[00:16:59]  So, you know, it was almost like a shadow government.
[00:17:01]  He also sent pellets of cash in a plane to Iran.
[00:17:06]  Now, why would you send money to Iran?
[00:17:08]  Knowing that they are building a nuclear weapon and they are the leading sponsor of terrorism.
[00:17:15]  Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer.
[00:17:19]  I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph.
[00:17:23]  The reality is, when President Obama left, because of the great efforts of people like Valerie Jarrett, we had 97% of the enriched uranium out.
[00:17:31]  The reality is, we didn't have 13 American service members dead.
[00:17:34]  The reality is, we never had gas go up from $2.30 to $4.
[00:17:37]  The reality is, we did not give China.
[00:17:40]  Like I said, wait for it.
[00:17:41]  She's got them.
[00:17:42]  She's got them.
[00:17:42]  I mean, I've never seen Maria this angry.
[00:17:46]  I got to tell you, like, I've known her a lot of years.
[00:17:48]  We worked at CNBC.
[00:17:49]  By the way, she's one of the nicest people, one of the nicest people in this business.
[00:17:53]  And I adore her.
[00:17:54]  But I don't think I've ever seen her so angry.
[00:17:57]  And, you know, she wears her heart on her sleeve.
[00:17:59]  So she let this guy have it.
[00:18:01]  Take a listen.
[00:18:02]  More role in the region.
[00:18:03]  Let me finish, Maria.
[00:18:04]  I'll let you finish.
[00:18:05]  We didn't give China more role in the region.
[00:18:08]  We did not give the IRGC.
[00:18:11]  A more hardline regime in there.
[00:18:12]  You know why?
[00:18:13]  Because Obama actually did his homework.
[00:18:14]  He actually tried to engage in statesmanship.
[00:18:17]  He had gotten China, Russia, the entire European allies on board with getting Iran on a path to not having a nuclear weapon.
[00:18:26]  All Trump did is listen to Netanyahu.
[00:18:29]  That's his entire foreign policy.
[00:18:32]  You know what?
[00:18:32]  I resent the fact that Israel is going to tell the United States what to do.
[00:18:36]  The American president should call the shots in this country.
[00:18:40]  Well, the American president should.
[00:18:42]  Call the shots in this country, but you and your college are trying to clip his wings right now with this war powers vote.
[00:18:48]  I agree, the president is in charge.
[00:18:50]  But look, a lot of the things that you just said are just not true, Congressman.
[00:18:55]  I mean, look, we have to look at this realistically.
[00:18:57]  And President Obama sent money to the Iranians, and what did they do?
[00:19:01]  They resumed their buildup of enrichment.
[00:19:06]  That's not true.
[00:19:08]  What's not true?
[00:19:11]  What specifically about that sentence is not true?
[00:19:15]  There was a deal that we reached to get 97% of the enriched uranium out.
[00:19:20]  In the process of that, Iran had certain assets that were Iranian assets, wasn't our money, that was unfrozen.
[00:19:27]  And that was a deal that China, Russia, France, UK, Canada, the United States all agreed to.
[00:19:33]  So, again, President Netanyahu came in and tried to torpedo it, and AIPAC tried to torpedo that deal.
[00:19:41]  We were on a path to having a denuclear Iran.
[00:19:44]  But what happened is it wasn't in Netanyahu's interests and APEC's interests, and they've dragged us into another war in the Middle East.
[00:19:51]  They've hurt American people, and the American people are tired of it.
[00:19:54]  They want people who are going to be Team America.
[00:19:56]  They want people who are going to bring gas prices down here and care about our nation and get us out of these wars.
[00:20:01]  And that's why Obama won.
[00:20:02]  He was against the Iraq war.
[00:20:04]  That's why he was on a path to normalization in terms of getting Iran to be denuclear and had the whole world on our side.
[00:20:11]  And APEC Netanyahu tore that up.
[00:20:14]  Relax.
[00:20:15]  Congressman, it doesn't change the.
[00:20:16]  Did you hear her?
[00:20:17]  She just said, Congressman, relax, relax.
[00:20:21]  Okay, so now get ready for it because this guy's going down and this was brutal.
[00:20:25]  The fact that 10 presidents before President Trump all said the same thing.
[00:20:29]  I'm having trouble hearing you.
[00:20:30]  I think there's something wrong with that issue.
[00:20:31]  Congressman.
[00:20:33]  Now I can hear you.
[00:20:35]  Congressman, it doesn't change the fact that 10 presidents before President Trump all said the same thing Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[00:20:43]  They are the leading state sponsor of terrorism.
[00:20:46]  They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[00:20:48]  And one president delivered it.
[00:20:49]  That was Barack Obama.
[00:20:51]  No, that's.
[00:20:51]  That's not true.
[00:20:52]  Not one of them.
[00:20:53]  Barack Obama is the only one who delivered.
[00:20:55]  Congressman, you're talking fantasy.
[00:20:57]  97% out.
[00:20:57]  And he did nothing about it.
[00:20:58]  You're talking fantasy.
[00:21:00]  Obama did nothing about it.
[00:21:02]  That's true.
[00:21:04]  Other than send money to the Iranians.
[00:21:06]  He had the whole world.
[00:21:06]  He didn't send money to them.
[00:21:07]  That's just factually false.
[00:21:08]  He unfroze Iranian assets, but he had the whole world behind us.
[00:21:11]  How many countries do we have behind us now?
[00:21:13]  Obama had Russia, China, Canada, UK, France, the whole world on board, and they lost 97%.
[00:21:20]  Congressman, now you lost me.
[00:21:24]  Saying Obama had Russia and China in their corner.
[00:21:26]  I think you know better than most that Russia and China are not in our corner.
[00:21:30]  Congressman, we will continue this discussion, and we appreciate you.

=== Long-Term Gold Investing (03:55) ===

[00:21:34]  Thank you so much, Rohana.
[00:21:36]  Thank you, Maria.
[00:21:37]  You got it.
[00:21:39]  Like I said, like I said, I mean, she kind of had it and she just came in.
[00:21:44]  I wanted to play it with some full context so that you also could have your blood pressure just go up and up and up and up.
[00:21:51]  And I'm sure hers was at that moment in time.
[00:21:54]  But, you know, great.
[00:21:56]  I'm glad that they're able to get a Democrat on because that's not an easy thing to do on Fox.
[00:22:00]  So we give them credit.
[00:22:01]  Now that Eric Swallow is gone, right?
[00:22:03]  What are you going to do?
[00:22:03]  I mean, Swallow was their go to.
[00:22:07]  Now they got Rokhanna.
[00:22:09]  Going on there and getting himself shot down pretty aggressively, pretty brilliantly by Maria.
[00:22:14]  So, good, good, good stuff.
[00:22:16]  I want to get to Ilhan Omar.
[00:22:18]  Ilhan Omar, who a lot of us have sort of questioned in all of this, right?
[00:22:22]  You know, just as we questioned Barack Obama and his allegiances, Valerie Jarrett, her allegiances, allegiances vis a vis one Ilhan Omar have certainly come into question, especially on Iran and her position on Iran.
[00:22:36]  But also, what's coming into question is.
[00:22:40]  Whether or not there was money laundering going on.
[00:22:42]  And so she made a big mea culpa.
[00:22:44]  She came forward and she released her new tax filings to the Wall Street Journal and said, oopsie daisy, oopsie daisy.
[00:22:51]  Like, I just, I don't know what happened.
[00:22:53]  Like, there was an accounting slip up.
[00:22:55]  For some reason, we thought we were worth $30 million.
[00:22:57]  I'm like, really?
[00:23:01]  Ilhan, Timmy, I mean, we knew you guys weren't that smart, but that, we're going to get to that in a second.
[00:23:07]  But quickly, I just want to point out we've got the markets that, Ended the day off just a little bit.
[00:23:12]  You've got oil that's been moving up.
[00:23:14]  You've got gold off about nine tenths of a percent right now.
[00:23:18]  We have a new CEO, a new CEO, if you would, at Apple.
[00:23:21]  So that's the big story breaking this afternoon.
[00:23:26]  Apple hardware executive John Turnus is about to become the CEO.
[00:23:29]  He's going to be replacing Tim Cook, of course, who will become the executive chairman.
[00:23:34]  So big after hours news there.
[00:23:37]  We did have the market, though, as I said, you know, ending.
[00:23:40]  Dow is pretty much flat.
[00:23:41]  You had the SP off about a quarter percent, NASDAQ off similarly a quarter of a percent, and gold off a touch.
[00:23:48]  And again, this is people just being a little bit nervous, right, about what's happening there in Iran.
[00:23:54]  I'm going to reiterate what I keep reiterating, which is like, stay calm, okay?
[00:23:58]  Stay calm.
[00:23:59]  It's all going to be okay.
[00:24:00]  And I think if it wasn't going to be okay, the markets would actually be way down and then they would be overreacting anyway.
[00:24:06]  But nonetheless, you know, there's one way to kind of hopefully, as a long-term investor, even out some of these fluctuations in your portfolio.
[00:24:14]  Sometimes, You know, when things get really, really scary, that actually means gold goes up.
[00:24:18]  And you know what?
[00:24:19]  Even when things don't really get scary, even when you're just dealing with the basic inflation that we're always dealing with, which has been a lot, let's face it, over the last several years because of, and I'll just say it, one, Joe Biden, his lousy economic policies.
[00:24:31]  But right now, yes, you're dealing with some inflationary pressures as a result of higher oil prices.
[00:24:36]  I do think that they're going to be temporary, which is perhaps what you saw gold go down a little bit today.
[00:24:41]  But the other reality is just as you think about your portfolio, Do you have a place for something like gold or silver in it?
[00:24:48]  And I, for one, I for one do, especially as a long term holder.
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=== Venture Capital Scandal (10:43) ===

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[00:25:33]  Okay, Ilhan, Ilhan, Omar, I don't know what to tell you.
[00:25:38]  I mean, how do you have an accounting error of $30 million?
[00:25:43]  I mean, you know, you don't think like you know whether you're worth like a few thousand or 30 mil?
[00:25:53]  And you expect us to believe this?
[00:25:56]  Are you kidding me?
[00:25:57]  She's not.
[00:25:58]  She's not.
[00:25:59]  She actually, over the weekend, came forward saying, you know what?
[00:26:03]  She's only worth about 100K.
[00:26:06]  Forget the 30 million figure, okay?
[00:26:07]  That 30 million.
[00:26:09]  Oh, that was just some funny accounting by her accountant.
[00:26:14]  I mean, I'm just, this one floored me.
[00:26:17]  I mean, I've kind of wondered how she was going to get out of this, but she didn't get herself out of this, okay?
[00:26:22]  And I'm going to tell you why.
[00:26:23]  She actually just raised a whole lot more questions.
[00:26:26]  Again, she's got this venture capital firm to jog your memory with her hubby, Timmy Minot, who, by the way, has a history of being accused of fraud on several occasions before.
[00:26:40]  In part due to his cannabis business dealings, as well as his winery that apparently doesn't have any vineyards or even a website or a phone number.
[00:26:51]  And we're all asking, like, did the accountant go to accounting school at the Learning Center?
[00:26:56]  Because this is one of those moves that just doesn't make any sense, like, really does not make any sense.
[00:27:04]  And when you find out that she's getting income from the venture capital firm, then you start to say, okay, this is really getting messy and we're going to get there.
[00:27:11]  But First of all, she came out, big story, gave her tax filings to the Wall Street Journal on Friday and said, you know, it's just an accounting error.
[00:27:20]  Like, you know, everybody should just move on.
[00:27:24]  Except that you can't move on from this because you can't have an accounting error of that magnitude.
[00:27:29]  Now you need to have the IRS in there looking at all her books, like heavily looking at all her books.
[00:27:37]  Timmy, that's got the venture capital firm, he said his winery was worth up to a, I think it was.
[00:27:44]  Between one and five million, and then his business was somewhere up to 25 million dollars.
[00:27:51]  And so everybody's like, What the heck?
[00:27:53]  And so just last month, you had the open letter going to the ethics review committee, and James Comer demanding this ethics review.
[00:28:02]  And they're all like, We need more information, we need more information.
[00:28:05]  And apparently, he was stonewalling maybe because he's you know scrambling with his accountant to figure out how they're going to make this one make sense.
[00:28:12]  And now they're saying, Oopsie daisy, it's no big deal, no big deal.
[00:28:18]  Right.
[00:28:19]  Okay.
[00:28:19]  So the original filing showed that she had assets between $6 million and $30 million.
[00:28:24]  And that would be like a big deal, right?
[00:28:26]  Because she used to be worth like negative $30,000 or negative $50,000.
[00:28:32]  So that was a huge jump.
[00:28:34]  And now they're saying, according to the Wall Street Journal, it's just somewhere in the vicinity of 18,000 to 95,000.
[00:28:42]  Okay.
[00:28:47]  Six million to 30 million versus 18,000 to 95,000.
[00:28:51]  Okay.
[00:28:51]  Like this is like first grade math.
[00:28:53]  These are wildly different numbers, wildly different numbers.
[00:28:58]  And so this doesn't really add up.
[00:29:02]  And you know what?
[00:29:04]  It gets worse because apparently, Documentation attached to that filing showed that the hubby had $213,000 in distributions from his venture capital fund and another $3,000 from the winery.
[00:29:22]  So, where are those distributions coming from?
[00:29:24]  Like, how do you make money?
[00:29:25]  And this is someone in the Wall Street Journal asking, and this is exactly the truth where does one find assets that have no value but can generate $216,200 in annual income?
[00:29:36]  Inquiring investors want to know, right?
[00:29:39]  Like, we need to know where.
[00:29:42]  Where Ilhan, you are able to have an investment that's worth zip zero nada now, because this is how she amended it.
[00:29:50]  Okay.
[00:29:51]  Like, so she, oh, it's not worth $30 million, but we did manage to somehow take 216K out of it.
[00:30:01]  This is a problem, guys.
[00:30:02]  I think she just made it worse because now it may, dare I say, confirm my suspicions.
[00:30:13]  Which is that the venture capital firm is some kind of money laundering operation?
[00:30:17]  I'm sorry, but like it didn't make any sense to begin with.
[00:30:20]  And now we know that she's making money off of this thing, a couple hundred grand.
[00:30:24]  So what's that about?
[00:30:25]  They're like trying to say, okay, well, our income's not worth it.
[00:30:29]  We didn't have that much income, but we did have income.
[00:30:32]  We're just lower net worth.
[00:30:34]  I mean, none of this adds up.
[00:30:35]  Okay.
[00:30:36]  So Tom Emmer, who is a Republican representative in the state of Minnesota where Ilhan Omar is from, he went on to Fox over the weekend and he's like, yeah.
[00:30:45]  None of this makes sense.
[00:30:46]  And by the way, she needs to be fired.
[00:30:48]  Like she needs to fire her accountant and she needs to be fired.
[00:30:51]  And by the way, not only that, we need to hold her fully, totally responsible because now there are even bigger questions about whether or not there was any funny business going on vis a vis feeding our future and a few other things.
[00:31:05]  Here, listen to Representative Emmer.
[00:31:08]  They're being impacted by these Democrats who have allowed the fraudsters to run wild in my state.
[00:31:14]  And by the way, when we talk about Ms. Omar, I mean, she went from $65,000 net worth that she was reporting on her congressional disclosures to reporting over $30 million in net worth in just a few years.
[00:31:27]  And guess what?
[00:31:27]  Now she comes out and says, oh, that was a mistake on our disclosures.
[00:31:33]  I just took a quick look at it and missed it.
[00:31:35]  You know, not only should her accountant be fired, But that girl should be fired and she does not deserve to be in Congress.
[00:31:41]  Quite frankly, if she is discovered to be involved in any of this fraud personally, that she benefited from it, even by her actions of promoting it and trying to resist investigations, she should be held accountable to the fullest extent.
[00:31:56]  Yeah, definitely.
[00:31:59]  And so I think that she was feeling the pressure.
[00:32:02]  I'm guessing she was certainly because it was like $30 million.
[00:32:05]  How is this asset worth $30 million?
[00:32:07]  Again, why would anybody say that?
[00:32:10]  Because I remember at the time, I'm like, why would she even bother?
[00:32:12]  Like, shouldn't she have known that this would cause all kinds of controversy?
[00:32:16]  But the theory is if you're actually getting distributions out of there, if there's money that's actually something that they can trace to an actual bank account, you have to account for this somehow.
[00:32:27]  And so maybe the answer was to tell everyone, oh, the venture capital firm is worth a lot of money.
[00:32:32]  Therefore, you know, that's where this is all coming from.
[00:32:34]  I mean, it's super sketchy stuff.
[00:32:36]  And they're going to have to investigate this one.
[00:32:40]  Like, you need.
[00:32:41]  The IRS and Scott Besson's team in there now because I think it's super sus.
[00:32:47]  Like, again, like, I just, I'm like, how do you not know you're worth 30 million bucks when you're only worth 18 to 95?
[00:32:56]  Come on.
[00:32:57]  Listen.
[00:32:57]  She's ultimately saying, well, I'm not as wealthy as these documents reveal I am.
[00:33:04]  This is the Wall Street Journal story from Omar's financial disclosure.
[00:33:08]  And Omar's disclosure filed last year showed she and her husband held assets.
[00:33:12]  Between six and thirty million, a massive rise in wealth from her previous annual filing.
[00:33:18]  An amended filing viewed by the Wall Street Journal shows the couple's assets to be just eighteen thousand dollars to ninety five thousand dollars.
[00:33:27]  I don't know, Ari, that's a big difference.
[00:33:28]  Omar's husband, the former political consultant, is involved with a variety of businesses.
[00:33:32]  In the amended filing, those businesses are shown as having no value once liabilities are factored in.
[00:33:40]  What is going on here, Ari?
[00:33:41]  Can you make that big of a mistake in a filing?
[00:33:44]  Well, this is the first thing she's ever done that makes me think she's qualified for Congress because she knows how to make money disappear.
[00:33:51]  She knows how to do things that have no value.
[00:33:52]  This is outrageous.
[00:33:54]  This needs to go to the House Ethics Committee.
[00:33:58]  This needs to be thoroughly investigated.
[00:34:00]  It looks like she got caught and she didn't like what she put down.
[00:34:03]  And so now she's trying to make it go away.
[00:34:05]  These filings are supposed to have meaning, they're supposed to have value, they're supposed to be accurate.
[00:34:10]  And for her to make that type of mistake, this is a mistake of embarrassment.
[00:34:14]  It's not a mistake likely because she just got it wrong the first time.
[00:34:18]  So, yeah, this does need a thorough investigation to find out what numbers are accurate.
[00:34:23]  And that should be easily obtainable.
[00:34:25]  This should not be something that a congressman or congresswoman can hide.
[00:34:28]  Not just talking one or two zeros, a whole bunch of them.
[00:34:31]  Ari, good to have you on.
[00:34:32]  Thank you very much.
[00:34:33]  Again, Ari Fleischer, Republican strategist.
[00:34:35]  I mean, this is bonkers.
[00:34:39]  And I think that she did get caught.
[00:34:41]  And I think that she's trying to backpedal.
[00:34:43]  And so now we just have to figure out what she was caught in.
[00:34:46]  Okay.
[00:34:47]  But you don't have an investment that's generating a couple hundred grand in distributions that is worth zero.
[00:34:56]  That does not add up.
[00:34:58]  Doesn't make any sense.
[00:34:59]  And by the way, yeah, you don't go out there and say, I'm worth 30 mil when you're only worth 18 to 95.
[00:35:05]  That doesn't make sense.
[00:35:06]  Nick Shirley, right, who did all that investigating into the Leering Center initially, he commented on this as well.
[00:35:12]  And, you know, we're all getting to chuckle, but this is very, very serious stuff.
[00:35:15]  Watch.
[00:35:17]  Bit suspicious to have your net worth go up by millions and then just recently say that it's an error.
[00:35:22]  I mean, I don't think I've ever put two extra zeros as an error when I file any report.
[00:35:28]  So Ilhan Omar, we know who she is.
[00:35:30]  We know that she's like the king, the queen of the fraud, actually.
[00:35:34]  And so Ilhan Omar, no respect to her whatsoever.
[00:35:38]  The queen of fraud.
[00:35:42]  Well, she's the queen of that community where they had a ton of fraud.
[00:35:45]  That's for sure.
[00:35:46]  She says, no, no, I'm innocent.
[00:35:47]  You know, there's nothing to see here, but everybody's kind of asking, okay, there was $250 million.
[00:35:52]  This was your program.
[00:35:54]  You were putting it through.
[00:35:55]  And some of these people actually contributed to your campaign.
[00:35:58]  Actually, one of the people used to work on your campaign with your hobby.
[00:36:04]  So that's a little sus.
[00:36:06]  And, you know, you start to ask some questions.
[00:36:08]  And I think this is exactly what the feds are doing, and this is exactly why she's scared.

=== Balance Nature and Fun (04:47) ===

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[00:36:14]  But when she amended the filing, she admitted that she was making a couple hundred grand off an asset that's allegedly worth zero.
[00:36:23]  So that doesn't make sense.
[00:36:25]  We got some more reporting to do on this one.
[00:36:28]  You know it, because none of this is making much sense, my friends, at all.
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[00:38:06]  But you've got to admit, guys, I mean, this Ilhan Omar thing is totally, totally wild.
[00:38:15]  I'm actually just trying to see some of your comments as I am live right now.
[00:38:19]  Good to be back home.
[00:38:20]  It was great to be overseas and get a little perspective there, but very, very good to be back home.
[00:38:25]  And yeah, I think you're with me.
[00:38:27]  It's just as bizarre as can be.
[00:38:30]  But you know what?
[00:38:31]  She's pretty bizarre.
[00:38:32]  And she's also probably, I mean, this reinforces the low IQ, dare I say, right?
[00:38:37]  Because if she doesn't even know if she's worth 18,000 to 95,000 or maybe 30 million, and she's obviously not very smart.
[00:38:47]  But I think that we have to give her a little bit more credit.
[00:38:49]  She's smarter than she looks.
[00:38:51]  And there's a method to the madness here.
[00:38:53]  And she may have just opened a whole new Pandora's box.
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[00:39:20]  All right, we're going to talk more about Ilhan Omar tomorrow.
[00:39:26]  But again, with everything happening in Iran right now and this deal kind of on the brinks, for whatever reason, they just don't get the picture, right?
[00:39:34]  They just don't get the picture there in Iran.
[00:39:36]  They don't really get the picture over in Europe either.
[00:39:39]  But I think that they're going to start to get some sense knocked into him one way or the other.
[00:39:45]  The president's very impatient.
[00:39:47]  He's not like other presidents.
[00:39:48]  I mean, this is a president that just wants everything done yesterday.
[00:39:51]  And so he wants this thing over.
[00:39:53]  And he's concerned, naturally, it's going to be costly to the American people in terms of oil prices, at least in the near term.
[00:40:01]  And the whole idea here is you're going to get further and further out in the next couple of weeks.
[00:40:06]  And what you should see is a plummet in oil prices.
[00:40:07]  Don't forget, they plummeted on Friday.
[00:40:10]  Now we're up 6% today.
[00:40:12]  So that's where we're just going to have to watch things over the next.
[00:40:14]  And it's going to be volatile and it's not fun.
[00:40:17]  I get it.
[00:40:17]  But here's the reality.
[00:40:19]  You know what's really not fun?
[00:40:20]  Iran with a nuclear weapon.
[00:40:22]  That's really not fun.
[00:40:23]  And we'd be in a really different position.
[00:40:26]  If that were the case today.
[00:40:27]  So, thumbs up for what they're doing.
[00:40:30]  We'll see how this transpires.
[00:40:31]  But we've got more coming, if you would, on Ilhan Omar, the story that keeps on giving.
[00:40:37]  I mean, for goodness sakes, lady.
[00:40:41]  Learn your place value.
[00:40:42]  Don't they teach that in like third or fourth grade?
[00:40:46]  Were you not here for third or fourth grade?
[00:40:48]  Maybe that was the problem.
[00:40:49]  Place value, you know, zeros.
[00:40:52]  Ilhan, not good.
[00:40:55]  All right, guys, I will see you right back here.
[00:40:57]  It's great to be home.
[00:40:58]  I'll see you back here on the Trish Weekend Show tomorrow.