INDICTED! $3M 'PAID EXTREMISTS' Scheme EXPOSED At Left-Wing Southern Poverty Law Center details a DOJ grand jury indictment alleging SPLC used donor funds to pay right-wing extremists, including National Alliance affiliates, to manufacture racism for the Charlottesville riots. The host connects this fraud to President Biden's political capital and Ilhan Omar's reduced net worth, while contrasting US energy independence with Europe's costly reliance on Russian gas. Advocating an "all of the above" approach to fuel AI demands, the segment calls for Senate permitting reforms to lower housing costs and food inflation, ultimately arguing that regulatory red tape hinders both economic liberty and technological advancement. [Automatically generated summary]
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DOJ Indicts SPLC for Fraud00:11:08
Breaking right now, a federal indictment that could shake one of the most powerful political organizations in this country.
With the DOJ and the FBI alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center actually worked with right-wing extremists to create what we saw as Charlottesville.
They are alleging that millions of dollars was passed on to these extremists to manufacture, manufacture.
False racism.
Unbelievable.
Okay, this is huge.
This should be like leading every single newspaper, and yet where is it today?
Barely anywhere.
At the same time, you get a rupture within the MAGA circle with President Trump exiling Tucker Carlson, who, by the way, pretty much deserved it.
I mean, when you're calling him the Antichrist.
And now people are picking sides.
And what does that mean, really, for the MAGA movement?
We're going to talk about that.
What does it mean for Tucker Carlson, who apparently is making a run for?
Don Lemon's audience.
And then you have Ilhan Omar.
Ilhan Omar, who is at this very moment getting really, really scared.
And I can tell you she's scared because she's actually gone so far as to dissolve that winery that she had.
Remember the winery that wasn't?
Well, now it's no more.
It's been dissolved.
She's taken her hubby's website down and she's running away from reporters.
I can't wait to show you all of that tonight.
We have a very, very big show.
It is good to have you guys here.
Thank you.
Remember, if you haven't subscribed, do me that favor of subscribing right now because all of these things are somewhat interconnected, right?
You've got the Southern Poverty Law Center with this major indictment that just came forward late yesterday.
And this is a big deal for Todd Blanche, right?
Because he's kind of trying out for the part as the head of the DOJ.
He's the acting director taking over for Pam Bondi, and he came out swinging, swinging big time.
Think about this.
If this is proven out and they really did what we think they did and they took $3 million of donor money and they paid these extremists to create and manufacture racism because they didn't have enough of it in this country.
And then they ran on that platform.
And by the way, did they make money on that platform?
I mean, this was good business.
They brought in two and a half times the money that they had already been getting.
I mean, this is big, big stuff, guys.
And they were paying out money to, oh, let's see, $1 million to an affiliate of the National Alliance, $300,000 to an affiliate of the Aryan Nations, $270,000 to a Unite the Right member.
Yeah, because they needed to get that Charlottesville thing going.
And then 73,000 to former Ku Klux Klan members.
I mean, come on.
You know, we always thought, we always thought that it was a little far fetched.
I mean, I'm not saying that there aren't pockets of racism in the country, but for the most part, I actually think America isn't a racist place.
And I mean, heck, we elected a black president twice.
Okay.
So I'd say that's a pretty good testament to what we are.
And I think we've, We've actually worked through a lot of the problems of the past.
But if you're something like the Southern Poverty Law Center and your entire livelihood is based on promoting this idea that you have to fight racism, well, what do you do when you can't find enough of it?
Apparently, you go out and you manufacture it, you create it according to the indictment.
And by the way, this is not just the DOJ and not just the FBI that's saying this.
This is a grand jury.
So, this is a grand jury indictment.
This is a big deal.
And this is an investigation that had been going on, by the way, all the way back to when it happened.
It's just that Biden had shelved it.
And now it's resurfaced and resurfaced in a big way because we got the indictment and the grand jury coming forward and handing this thing down.
Todd Blanch explaining it in yesterday's press conference.
Watch.
I just want to make sure I understand you're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups to continue.
Their operations?
Is that?
I'm not alleging it.
The grand jury returned an indictment that says that.
And so, what the investigation found, according to the indictment that was returned today, is that they were paying.
So, Southern Poverty Law Center is raising money, asking folks to give them money to dismantle racism.
And over a very long period of time, they were using some of the money they raised from donors to pay to, they called them field, you know, basically to informants, to.
For information, for access, to just pay them for certain things.
And so, yes, that's exactly what the indictment charges.
I mean, I'm looking at what Cat Crazy Sam is saying.
Just think about all the mileage that they've gotten out of that extreme right.
Biden got more than his money worth just in all the speeches he did.
You're totally right.
You're totally right.
I mean, they ran on this and he kept bringing it up.
Over and over and over.
In fact, he said it's one of the reasons why he ran.
I am sort of just astonished and disgusted by all of this.
Apparently, they had a bunch of informants.
F 37 was one, F 42 was another.
Now, F 37 is actually the one that is believed to have been connected somehow to Charlottesville, was part of that Unite the Right movement for the Charlottesville, Virginia rally that wound up killing three people over that weekend.
A member of the online leadership chat group.
This is according, by the way, to the filings.
from the DOJ.
I'm actually quoting from them.
F-37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, attended the rally at the SPLC's direction.
So planned it, attended it, and then made a bunch of racist postings under SPLC's supervision, helped coordinate transportation for attendees, and was secretly paid more than $270,000.
$70,000 by the SPLC between 2015 and 2023.
I mean, this is really bad, guys.
This is really, really bad.
Again, the grand jury handing down this indictment.
And I'm telling you, heads are going to roll on this one.
F-42 was another one from the National Alliance, a former chairman of the National Alliance, some kind of neo-Nazi organization.
So, I mean, these organizations exist, apparently, right?
So they exist, but they're being fueled.
by the liberal groups.
This would be like, oh, I don't know, APAC, you know, paying people to go out and put swastikas all over the kids' dorm rooms, right?
When we were dealing with the height of the craziness on the campuses.
I mean, come on.
So you couldn't find enough racism, so you had to go out and recruit some crazies and pay them big time.
So this guy, you know, was the former chairman of the National Alliance.
The SBLC's own extremist file webpage featured him while the organization was out there secretly paying him.
It's like they got the bad guys on staff.
I can't believe this.
$140,000 between 2016 and 2023 overlapping with his public listing as an extremist.
So here you are, like you're donating to SPLC.
You think you're doing a good thing.
You're going to help fight racism with them.
So, you know, you donate this money.
And it turns out the money is going to the bad guys to do bad stuff and to make other people do bad stuff.
Look at this.
This number is shocking.
I'm going to keep showing it to you over and over and over again because take a look.
In October 2016.
This is before you know the Charlottesville thing, they had $51.8 million that they raised.
Woohoo, that's a lot, right?
But check it out by October 2017, those numbers were like two and a half times the size at $133.4 million.
Nice, guys!
$3.4 million.
Nice guys.
Wow, you got an $81.5 million increase because you paid a bunch of informants something like three.
I mean, that's what I call a return on your money, right?
Not to mention Biden was able to run for office based off of this.
And you had people all over the country.
I mean, they came up with hate maps.
They were naming all these organizations, all these individuals.
You had Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point, Dennis Prager's organization in there, a bunch of individuals.
I mean, This was a bad group and they were doing this just to shut down the other side.
And it turns out they were paying people to create this commotion, according to the grand jury.
Let's go back to Todd and to Cash talking about this.
Watch.
Thank you, Mr. Acting Attorney General.
Can you explain again what the fraud is here exactly?
Are you saying it's illegal for the SPLC to pay money to people that are in hate groups or something about the way this was done?
Makes it illegal because it's not automatically illegal, is it?
No, that's right.
It's a good question.
So, again, I summarized the indictment and it's now public for everybody to read, but the Southern Poverty Law Center is a 501c3.
Okay, they're required to, under the laws associated with a nonprofit, to have certain transparency and honesty in what they're telling donors they're going to spend money on and what their mission statement is and what they're raising money doing.
And so, as the indictment points out, there's different ways that they raise money and in no And no fundraising efforts that the investigation found did they say, oh, and by the way, we're going to give a million bucks to the Ku Klux Klan.
So that's fraud.
So that's wire fraud.
And then the bank fraud part of it is you have KYC, you have an obligation to tell your financial institution what the corporation or the entity that you're opening an account for does.
And the allegations in the indictment are that these were fictitious companies that were set up.
And so there was certain information sworn to by SPLC executives about what the entities were doing that.
That we allege is false.
Can I just follow up on the hiring of Joe DeGenova to work for the department?
Can you just tell us a little bit?
That's a big deal.
What he's talking about, the know your customer rules for banking, they didn't tell the banks that the money was going to these crazy agitators and they didn't tell their donors that it was going to these people.
So that's like not okay.
You can't be sending out money to groups like this.
To pay for deliberate agitation, all because you're trying to raise money from donors.
They created it.
JD Vance and Anti-Semitic Support00:11:39
I remember I kept saying at the time, like, you know what?
I've been around.
Like, I've been all over this country.
I've been to all kinds of different places and pockets and small towns throughout this country.
I have traveled a lot as a journalist.
I've been a journalist for a while.
I used to be a network correspondent at CBS News.
They'd send me to all these random places, right?
And all these stories.
I'd be on hurricane duty.
And you really see some stuff.
I'm just telling you, I've been a lot of places.
And what we seem to suddenly have happened was this talk of constant white supremacy and racism.
And I'm like, you know, I don't know.
I just don't see it.
And I meet people everywhere, wonderful, wonderful people.
And conservatives come up to me all the time and they very quietly say, you know, thank you for what you're doing.
I still get that.
Thank you for what you're doing, although we're able to do it a little bit more out in the open right now.
But I was like, what is going on?
Because the extremism that I felt anyway.
Was coming from the other side, right?
Like, it's like you're afraid to say, it's like they would say to me, conservatives all the time, I'd be on an airplane and somebody would come up and just very quietly whisper, Thank you, thank you for what you do.
And I'm like, Why do we have to be quiet about it?
You had to be quiet, you see, because of groups like Southern Poverty Law Center that were drawing these like hate maps, like heat maps, and trying to say, Well, there's a person here and a person there, and da And they were making it all up, according to the grand jury, because they were trying to score more and more political capital.
And by the way, it was working.
I mean, what do you think the left?
Was running on.
They only had one thing and one thing only, and that's what Joe just kept telling us about over and over and over and over again.
I promise I won't play much of it, but he actually sounds sort of coherent here.
This is actually from 2024.
Remember?
I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville in August of 2017.
Extremists coming out of the woods carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks, carrying Nazi swastikas.
They're chanting the same exact anti Semitic bile that was heard in Germany in the early 30s.
Okay, there we go.
Right back to, they like that comparison, the 30s again.
But hey, it was good for business.
Check it out.
They made $81.5 million more thanks to that little ruse.
And no one's talking about it.
No one is talking about this.
Remember how they characterized Charlottesville?
How Donald Trump was all wrong.
They misquoted him over and over and over and over again.
And I think even like Snopes and places like that online have corrected the record by now.
But didn't stop Kamala.
No, He still won.
Let's remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti Semitic hate.
And what did the president then at the time say?
There were fine people on each side.
Remember, he did not actually technically say that.
They misquoted him.
He went back and he specified I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and the racist people.
I'm talking about the people that were organizing the march because it was about preserving General Lee's statue.
And a lot of people wanted to keep that statue because, you know, I mean, look, all those statues were still built after the Civil War in an attempt to kind of bring the country together.
And they wanted the South to still have some heritage and some history.
And, you know, some other people are trying to wipe it out.
So that's what that was about.
And that was, he was trying to explain that.
But they just totally, totally took him out of context.
And that's what we're dealing with still today.
So the.
SPLC was paying right wing groups, extremists, individuals to gin up controversy, to manufacture hate.
They paid a lot of money to these groups.
And it kind of makes you wonder because I think this is like, as I said, you know, if you had a group representing the Israel lobby suddenly going out and hiring people to paint swastikas in college campus dorm rooms or on building sides, or it would be like, I don't know, if.
The conservative movement decided to put Hassan Piker, you know, that crazy, crazy, crazy leftist who's pretty anti Semitic, actually, himself, on the payroll.
Or I don't know, it would be like, can you imagine if the left was putting Tucker Carlson on the payroll to try to divide MAGA?
Would that be the same as. the SPLC putting extreme right-wingers on their payroll to gin up controversy?
Now that's a question worth asking.
And it might explain something because Tucker Carlson's kind of going off the rails and one has to think there might be an economic motive.
Click, Or ka-ching.
Or maybe like a combo of both.
I mean, I don't know how many clicks he's getting.
I'm going to be honest about that because I don't think Don Lemon's audience is so sizable.
And that's basically what he's marketing himself to at this moment in time.
Unless he thinks he's going to get a bunch of lefties over there watching his show, I don't think that they'd be able to tolerate him too long.
The laugh alone, right?
So what is the motive?
I don't know, but I think it's a worthwhile question.
I mean, he did go over to Qatar, right, to speak and got an apartment there and everything.
Trust me.
Trust me.
He says he's not taking any money from Qatar.
You don't go over and do those speaking gigs for free.
No, you charge.
You know what?
We all get paid to speak.
Like that's a business for pretty much everyone in this business.
You get paid to speak.
So somebody paid him.
And now you got to ask yourself, With the Southern Poverty Law Center coming out as having paid right-wingers to gin up controversy, is somebody paying him?
I'm just asking the question because I want to follow the money here.
That's what I do.
I follow the money.
Financial journalism background comes in handy now.
And then Tucker Carlson says he's tormented by his past support for Donald Trump.
That's a headline in the New York Times today.
Oh, boy.
Well, we told you about that yesterday.
He's tormented.
You know, the demons are really getting to him.
Scratching away.
Scratch, scratch, scratch.
Wonder what's going to happen tonight, Tucker.
Anyway, he's pretty happy because he's getting big articles in the NEW YORK Times.
He volunteered that he.
He wants to say he's very sorry, very sorry for misleading people.
He's actually tormented by it because he never should have told you to vote for Donald Trump.
Oh, you know, you're kind of ratcheting up the drama too much for Pokes Guy.
He's Tucker, i'm.
I'm sorry you, you're gonna, you're gonna get exposed here.
Um it's, it's interesting.
He's kind of gone off the rails and it's gotten worse ever since Donald Trump came back and attacked Him in a very lengthy, TRUE Social post.
We have it?
I think we do.
Okay, so this was, I believe, last Friday, and he wrote about how CNN had come out with that new poll showing that Tucker Carlson basically had no support and Donald Trump had all the support.
Like I said, I think Tucker's competing for Don Lemon's audience, you know, all five of them.
And he wrote here on True Social it's easy to explain why this is happening.
Tucker is a low IQ person, always easy to beat and highly overrated.
Then he went on about a few other podcasters calling them dumb and mentally ill and one of them bankrupt.
And then he said, we do have some good people on the MAGA side that are quite smart.
And then some in the middle, maybe I should make a list.
But Tucker is, you know, maybe he's low IQ, but I think he understands where his bread is buttered.
Yes, he does.
And he knows, you know, if I can get some money out of the left, maybe it's worth it.
Oh, and I'm getting lots of attention.
Right now, all of a sudden, I am.
I'm the big cheese.
Oh my gosh, NEW YORK Times loves me for a day.
They're all I mean.
Like if I looked at my facebook feed earlier today and I was like you got to be kidding me.
Like every single article, the NEW Yorkers writing about him, NEW YORK Magazine, of course, every media publication and he's got to be in heaven.
But there's a method to the madness.
I mean.
I think that you need to think about the money here and what's really going on because, as we consider what just happened with Southern Poverty LAW Center and we now know that they were dishing out millions And the return was fantastic, right?
The return was fantastic, both in terms of political capital and then in terms of what they were actually able to earn from their donor base.
I would just say, who's funding Tucker, right?
I know he says, no, it's not Cutter, but I mean, Tucker, if you're doing those speeches for free, we got to talk.
You need a better agent, man.
Ah, his son, his poor son, is ousted.
Buckley.
They really like their last names in that family, huh?
It's like they all went to Harvard or something, but they didn't.
No, no, he didn't.
Anyway, Tucker Carlson's son exits JD Vance's White House team amid Trump's attack on the political pundit.
There he is, Buckley.
Nice young thing, right?
I was kind of thrown off when I saw the podcast.
I played you guys a clip from it.
And I'm like, I'm so confused because the guy on the podcast is also named Buckley.
And I'm looking at this Buckley and I'm like, damn, you know, Tucker must have some really good lights in that studio.
I mean, those lights are really good for him and not so good for the guest.
Because you look at the guest and he looks like Tucker's dad.
It's actually Tucker's brother.
I don't know if it's his older brother or his younger brother or whatever.
I guess that would it looks like his older brother, but you never know.
Some of these anchors have really good lights.
So it's now turned into a family affair, a family affair where they're all piling on, right?
The son gets ousted.
I don't know if he was fired or he finally decided to leave.
I mean, really, he should have left a while ago.
It was getting a little bit awkward, like really awkward, because his dad just kept attacking Donald Trump.
And this kid's working there in JD Vance's office.
I think a lot of people are a little bit soured on JD Vance as well, because JD Vance became the darling.
Of these podcasters are all tied to Tucker.
Oh, and don't forget, the company that sells Tucker's show, as well as a few of those others, I believe, is owned by Fox.
You know, it's a small world.
So, you know, the people that aren't attacking Tucker right now would be those on Fox.
You know, you're not going to hit out at your own, right?
You're not going to punch within the tent.
No, no, he's safe from them.
And then the liberal media just absolutely loves it.
And now the whole family is involved because, as I said, the brother, that they're thank goodness is not the son because, you know, that would have been some very unfortunate genetics, went on Tucker's show so they could all gang up together and talk about the 25th Amendment.
Financial Disclosure Nightmares00:12:29
Watch.
We do have remedies for an out of control, megalomaniacal, you know, destructive president.
I think, you know, Honest people who have that power should consider taking it.
So, looking back, being because I mean, you and I and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him.
I mean, we're implicated in this for sure.
It's not enough to say, well, I changed my mind or like, oh, this is bad, I'm out.
It's like in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.
Yes.
So, I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences.
You know, we'll be tormented by it for a long time.
I will be.
Like I said, those demons are coming for you.
It's going to be a rough night.
You know, the scratching.
I'm sorry.
I can't take it seriously.
I really can't.
I mean, I think he's just gone off the deep end.
I think he was always kind of like teetering on the edge.
I think that's why when prior management was there at Fox, they never actually gave him a very big role.
He was siphoned off to Saturday mornings with an occasional fill-in spot now and then.
I remember hosting a primetime show as a fill-in myself, although I had my own show on Fox Business, and he was one of the guests.
I was like, okay, you know, he seemed kind of amped up, but whatever.
He was a rarity in that he actually understood what the Federal Reserve was, so I was encouraged.
But then at some point, we were up against each other.
Eight o'clock and eight o'clock.
And boy, this guy did not want me on at eight o'clock.
I'm going to just tell you the way it was.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
I mean, my little 200,000 viewers that were tuning in, it was Fox Business.
After all, I was on the Redheaded Stepchild Network.
And nobody wanted to really watch anything about the Fed at night.
But he started flipping out because I was gaining and gaining and gaining and gaining.
And as, you know, if I had one viewer, he assumed that that was one viewer less.
Than he had.
Now, in fairness to him, it probably was.
And in fairness to him, management should have thought that one through.
And in fairness to me, frankly, management really should have thought that one through because the last thing I needed was an eight o'clock show at night away from my family, away from my kids, when I could be talking about the markets at two o'clock in the afternoon, right?
So I was doing this because they made me an offer I could not refuse.
And I was like, when this is over, man, I'm out of here.
Like, out, out, out, out.
Of course, they got to me first.
So Tucker, I know how it feels.
I dared to say, I dared to say that people were a little crazy for getting as crazy as they did in March 2020.
Mainly I was ticked off at the stock market, I got to tell you, because when you drop 2,000 points like that in one day, come on, come on.
And that was that.
All right.
That was that, folks.
That was the end of my time on Fox.
Now, technically, they couldn't fire me because I was under contract.
So I got to build this little show, right?
For you.
So it all worked out in the end.
But for him, I think it's all worked out to a certain extent.
I think he's probably making more money.
I think a lot of us are, right?
It's better to be on your own than to be at a network where they're controlling everything.
It's also a lot more freedom just individually, right?
I don't have to sit here and follow a prompter.
I get to talk to you directly.
I get to actually see your comments in real time.
So it's a very different experience.
And all of that is wonderful and great.
And I love it.
I would think he loves it too.
But maybe he doesn't like not being tuned into every night at eight o'clock or maybe he doesn't like not being.
in all these mainstream media publications, even if they're picking on you.
Because, you know, if you're an attention hog, some of these people in this business are.
I'm just saying they don't always do it for the right reasons.
If you're an attention hog, you need that adrenaline.
You need that fix.
You need that constant, okay, I'm in the news.
I'm in the news.
And I think it always bothered him that Trump was in the news more than him.
I couldn't believe it.
When he came out, started his own company, what did he do?
Immediately gravitated straight to Trump, the guy who hated Trump.
And believe me, he did.
You saw the text that came out with Dominion.
And I know this because I always wanted to take the Trump rally.
When I was on at eight o'clock because that was like I'd go from 200,000 viewers to 500,000 viewers and that would make my monthly average look really good So I was no fool right I was like let's take the Trump rally plus my friend Lou Dobbs at seven o'clock had built up his entire show Basically taking the Trump rallies and then coming out of the Trump rallies and talking to viewers etc and doing the debrief I was like that's a good formula plus they're entertaining as heck right Well,
I had to wait to find out if Tucker was gonna take it or not before I could ever take it one night they said he was gonna take it And so my team planned no show.
We had no show.
We had no guests, no sound bites, nothing.
But you know, I'm okay with that.
I mean, what do you think?
I talk here a lot, right?
I can fill air like nobody's business.
So two minutes before air, they say to me, Tucker decided to take it.
I still wonder if that was deliberate.
So we were scrambling.
It was like the most fun I ever had.
We did great in the ratings, by the way.
We did great in the ratings nonetheless.
But I suspect my hunch is that there's some money involved.
Okay.
I don't have any proof, but I think he's in this as a business and for attention.
But it's a business.
And apparently the brother's in it as a business as well.
And we know the son was in it as a business too.
I mean, he was working in the White House.
So, you know, it's called family business.
And now the family business is going to go anti MAGA and try and create a whole new wing of the.
conservative movement and we wish them all the luck.
Like I said, Don Lemon's audience is primed, ready and waiting.
You go for it, Tucker baby.
Don't forget to subscribe, share, like.
Oh, we got to get to another one of my favorites, Ilhan Omar, who's in deep trouble right now and panicking as we speak because Ilhan Omar is getting caught.
She had to amend those filings.
She just, we found out today, dissolved Her winery, I love saying that the Muslim woman with the winery, and she has taken down her hubby's venture capital firm from the internet, all while getting kind of snippy and rattling off obscenities.
Filthy mouth, she has to reporters watch.
The last time I spoke to you, you said that I was stupid for asking you about your financial disclosure, but there's some discrepancies on there.
Would you like to explain that?
How do you make mistakes?
I'm absolutely not stupid for asking me anything.
I have?
Yes.
Well, what about the American people who are wondering how you need such a big deal?
I have to explain to the American people.
What's the explanation?
I have given them the explanation.
Do you want to tell our viewers?
I don't want to tell you, judge.
How about that?
Okay.
Have a good day.
Okay.
I love that reporter.
She works for Mike Lindell.
I just absolutely positively love her.
Okay?
I love her.
She's like, have a good day.
She's always super polite.
And somehow she gets Ilhan to talk because that's not always easy to do.
I'm going to show you another soundbite coming up where another reporter has a little bit of a difficulty getting Ilhan to.
Even acknowledge he's there, but check this out.
We just found this.
I just found this.
Okay, check it out the certificate of cancellation, termination for her LLC Easy Street, Easy Street.
You know, the E Street crew.
It's the song from Annie.
If you listen to me regularly, you've heard it a few times because every time I see E Street crew, at first, I'll tell you, I thought it was like some fancy French name.
I'm like, Escrew?
Like, is that what it is?
Escrew?
And I kept looking at him like, it's Easy Street.
Easy Street Crew.
Because it's an easy street to make them big bucks if you just have a winery that is in name only, which apparently this was.
So now she's decided to dissolve it.
Look at that.
It's been dissolved because there was a vote by all of the members of the California Limited Liability Company.
And it is signed by William Haler.
That is the business partner du jour of one Timmy Minette, the husband of Ilhan Omar.
Timmy Minette and Will Haler, they own this.
You see this lovely little Rose Lake Capitol.
What is it with the lake and the rose?
Like the Democrats always work those things into the.
Didn't the Bidens have something similar?
Exclusive partnerships for global operators.
What's that about?
Well, it's gone, okay?
No website anymore.
No more VC firm.
This is all you see when you go to the website.
So she's definitely nervous.
She's amending her forms.
No longer are they worth 30 million bucks.
It's more like maybe 18 to 98,000.
I mean, that's a pretty big difference, right?
Which this reporter started asking one Ilhan Omar about.
And she just walks away like nothing's happening.
Are you kidding me?
Look at her face.
Look at this, guys.
Tell us about your net worth dropping, dropping down to about $100,000.
Could you just elaborate on what mistake was made, Congresswoman?
What mistake was made on your financial disclosure forms to bring it down to $100,000 from up to $30 million?
Just want to give you a chance to clear it up because people are wondering why it dropped so far down.
Does your husband still have the consulting business worth about $8 million?
She's having a rough, rough go of it, right?
Between Mike Lindell's reporter and this guy, I mean, they just, they're all over her.
They're all over her.
And it's getting kind of hard.
For her to take.
Is this another soundbite we have?
Yes, this is my question.
I was stupid for asking you about your financial disclosure, but there's some discrepancies on there.
Would you like to explain that?
How he makes such a big mistake?
I'm absolutely not stupid for asking me anything.
I have?
Yes.
We're seeing again.
I have to explain to the American people.
What's the explanation?
I have given them the explanation.
Do you want to tell our viewers?
I don't want to tell you, Jack.
How about that?
Okay.
I don't owe you, Jack.
Oh, gosh, lady, you're really struggling, huh?
You know, Comer.
He's out for blood.
Well, look, who makes a multi million dollar mistake on their financial disclosure form?
Either her accountant went to one of those quality leering centers in Minnesota or she lied about it.
If she lied about it, that's a felony, Sean.
If her accountant went to one of the quality leering centers, then she should work with us as a whistleblower to help us prosecute all of her fellow Somalis who were involved in this massive.
Welfare scheme in Minnesota.
Either way, she's never explained to the public how her net worth was $30 million and if she made a mistake, how the mistake happened.
I mean, it's not possible.
You review that financial disclosure form.
Before you hit enter, you enter all the assets in and then it pops up and you review it and you hit it again.
So it's highly unlikely that she made a mistake.
This isn't going to go away from her.
So we're going to continue to try to push for answers and see if her name pops up in any of these.
Frauds that Vice President Vance and the House Oversight Committee are detecting in Minnesota.
I have a feeling that's what they're looking for.
And you know what they might find?
They might find that some of the people that have been jailed and that have admitted to these crimes might have invested with the Hubby's VC firm.
And that's what's going to be really interesting to see.
You know the deal 30 million they thought they had.
Now it's more like maybe 100,000.
But one of the weird things in all of this was there's an email between him and and his accountant stating that his VC firm is actually worth nearly $8 million, well, between $1.5 and $8 million.
And now they're telling us it's worth zero and it has a whole bunch of liabilities, which doesn't make any sense because somehow they took distributions of over $200,000 from it.
thousand dollars from it and you cannot take distributions from a company that's worth nothing.
Green Energy Blockade Concerns00:14:50
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I'm looking at all your comments.
I see every single one.
And as I think about these people that are so extreme on the left, whether I guess we can count Tucker as being on the left now, Tucker, Ilhan, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and we all wonder about, you know, where the money is coming from.
I'll tell you this, Iran is feeling the pressure right now.
So they want all the friends they can have, whether that means cozying up to Tucker or cozying up to Ilhan or cozying up to anyone they can get to because they're losing badly.
Look at these.
I was looking at the numbers and I just can't believe it.
$435 million Iran is losing every single day as we put that blockade in place.
That's $13 billion a month, okay?
So you've got this Navy blockade that's not allowing any ships in or out.
Now they're trying to sneak around.
We've had some skirmishes today.
And look, it's like, guys.
We just said we'll extend the ceasefire.
And what do they do?
They fire on our ships.
Now, that may be because they have this like mosaic thing they got going on, right?
Where the top in command don't actually talk to the people on the ground, but I don't care.
I'm not really forgiving them for any of this.
And I think that's a big problem.
So you get your little mosaic thing with all your little guerrilla groups out there and they're doing their own thing while you need to have somebody in charge that can control the place.
Well, then I don't know how we deal with you.
I don't know how we actually have anything to do with you or can even engage in these talks because you can't follow through on anything.
And so guess what?
We're going to make your life a living hell, bleeding you $1 at a time.
$13 billion per month.
U.S. naval blockade impact.
Take a look at this.
$276 million of lost exports, mainly oil.
This is according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a former treasury person in charge of all of this.
Actually, I think this person was in the Biden administration.
$159 million disrupted from imports and industries.
So combined, you're looking at $435 million a day.
That's what we call a good old-fashioned squeeze, okay?
We're squeezing them.
We're squeezing them hard.
And we're going to keep on squeezing them.
And so they can pull all the crapola that they want.
Guess what?
We're hitting them where it hurts.
So we hit them militarily, we hit them financially.
And this is why they are freaking out.
Hey, you guys try and get through our blockade.
We're coming for you.
As we showed you the other day, this is the Tosca ship.
And the president put this out Motor vessel Tosca, motor vessel Tosca, vacate your engine room.
Vacate your engine room.
We're prepared to subject you to disabling fire.
And so we fired.
Because they tried to get through.
And And again, you see, you can't actually do that.
You can't try and break the blockade and expect us to sit back and say, oh, no big deal.
And on top of that, it turns out this was a ship, the Tosca cargo ship, that had been making stops in China and apparently was loaded up with a bunch of chemicals that you would need for ballistic weapons.
Now, China is claiming they don't know anything about this, and you know, not my problem.
I don't know what.
What ports they could have possibly stopped in?
We wouldn't have given them anything.
Yeah, right.
Don't forget, like, China gets 90% of its oil all from Iran.
So this is effectively much bigger than Iran in the Middle East.
This is a play for the future of energy, the future of oil.
And this is basically the US versus China.
So again, you got to think about this.
When you think about some of these people and some of these podcasters, why is it that they are suddenly so vehemently against this?
Excursion.
We'll call it an excursion, right?
To use the president's words.
And I question whether other factors, players, whether it's the left, whether it's China, whether it's Iran itself, are involved.
I'm just saying, because, you know, Iran is very, very good at this sort of social media stuff.
That's what they pride themselves on.
They're better at social media warfare, they claim, than they are at the real stuff.
So you've got China, which is also very good at social media warfare.
China's saying, oh, no, we'll get along.
You know, we're not going to do anything.
And then they're sending this ship in.
For goodness sakes, give me a break.
Okay, we're onto it.
We're onto it.
But you know what?
We're going to keep up the pressure.
You better believe it.
One dollar at a time, and every day China doesn't get its oil.
It's a hard day for China.
And obviously, it's a hard day for Iran.
Might be a hard few weeks for Iran, maybe even a hard few months for Iran.
I know people are worried about what it means for Republicans with midterms.
So, why don't the Democrats actually try to push forward energy policy that would make us more energy independent, right?
Why?
We can do it.
We absolutely can.
And yet, they don't want it.
California out there suing the administration because they don't want any drilling.
It's like, guys, you want lower energy, but you throw all these taxes on your energy.
I guess you're trying to increase the chance that people are going to go green, right?
Like my green sweater, green energy.
You know, they'll buy EVs.
Oh, you're just putting money in Elon's pocket.
Oh, you don't want to do that.
That didn't work out so well for you.
I mean, you got the energy right here.
Go for it, right?
Why are you going to be dependent on anybody else?
This is a matter of national security.
I sat down earlier today with my friend Kent Strang from AFP to talk about this very, very issue.
He is a whiz on policy.
I'm telling you, an absolute whiz.
He knows everybody on Capitol Hill.
He knows exactly what's coming up.
He's like, you know, Trish, there are like 600 and some odd bills that are energy bills that are still waiting to get greenlit.
We can fix this.
Believe me, we can.
Watch.
Joining me with more on Iran, on oil, on the need for more energy here in the United States of America, I welcome back to the show, my friend Kent Strang from AFP, Americans for Prosperity.
Good to see you.
Great to be back, Trish.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
I mean, we've been swamped with all this news.
I got so many questions for you, but I think, you know, right off the gate, I want to ask you about how we prevent something like this from happening in the future in terms of our vulnerability, right?
Places like Iran and any other big energy producer.
I mean, isn't this kind of a wake up call in some ways for us?
It absolutely is a wake up call.
And if we have learned anything from this conflict, it is that energy security is national security.
And so if I'm looking at this through the eyes of a member of Congress, I would think, what can we do to make America more competitive to ensure that we have the grid, the energy, and everything we need to make sure that we are insulated?
From conflicts that increase prices for Americans, so we can have a low cost of living and live our American dream.
I mean, look, we've done a lot already, but I hear there's more we can do, right?
I mean, look at California.
California is fighting with the administration because they don't want any more drilling out in California.
It's like, guys, you want lower energy costs, but you don't actually want to have any of the energy here.
This doesn't make any sense.
That's right.
And California is an absolute disaster, and that's why they have nearly $6 a gallon gas.
But let's take a look at what we actually have done.
We saw Four years of failed policies on energy from Bidenomics that led to $5 gasoline, out of control prices for energy that left Americans paying more and getting less.
And so, thankfully, when President Trump came to office, he went in and he repealed a lot of the bad Green New Deal executive orders of the Biden administration.
Then Congress comes along and in the working families tax cuts, they extend offshore drilling to bring on more additional energy policies for America.
And so, this is smart policy, but still.
Is there more we can do?
Absolutely.
I can tell you the number one thought of Americans right now is affordability and cost of living.
And they don't want to pay $4 a gallon of gas and they don't want higher prices of grocery stores because the gas prices and energy prices impact the price of everything.
So, what can we do?
We have to see more energy supply, right?
And we need more.
You've told me before, there's something like 600 projects that are still sitting there waiting for green lighting.
I mean, the Trump administration has greenlit a ton, but you still are running into these roadblocks, are you not?
That's right.
There are 650 energy projects that are stopped or stalled due to permitting delays.
So there is still too much red tape.
There's still many bureaucrats stopping it.
There are too many lawsuits, and we need to make sure that it doesn't take longer to get a permit than it does to build the infrastructure that we need, that grid that we need to be able to do transmission lines, to be able to move product.
That is what's stifling innovation in America so we can have the energy we need to be successful, not just oil and gas projects, but also to drive the AI revolution that we're looking at to lower costs for American families.
This is so incumbent for us to be competitive, not only as a nation, but in the world, because we need to be able to compete with countries like China on the AI race.
Otherwise, we're going to be left in the dust.
This is an American competitive issue, and we need Senate Democrats to get off the sidelines and see this as an American issue.
Well, they're too obsessed, right, with green energy, green energy, green energy.
And, like, don't get me wrong, like, I'll take all the energy I can get, all right?
You bring nuclear, and, you know, maybe I'm not as big a fan of some of the windmills, but, you know, I will take all the energy I can get, period, full stop.
But I'm not even seeing the green energy getting greenlit.
So, you know, with nuclear, et cetera, there's still, for whatever reason, they're very resistant to the idea of being energy independent.
I'm like, guys, it is exactly to your point, Kent, the future because.
You need a lot of energy for all these GPUs, and that's AI, and that's the future.
Let me go to what the Europeans are paying because I was just overseas.
I was actually in London and in Spain, and I was stunned by the cost of an Uber to get anywhere.
And then I saw this article in today's Wall Street Journal on the front page.
Let me put it up.
Oh, I got a big graphic.
It's going to cover us all up here, but the viewer can see here.
This is the Wall Street Journal reporting on gas prices around the world.
Okay, you know, it's still under four bucks here, which is good.
I know everybody pays a different amount wherever you live, whatever you're paying more in California.
But if you look at, say, Canada, they're still faring a little bit better.
Of course, they have access to our energy and their own.
And then you look at, like, say, France, okay, above eight dollars a gallon.
Or then take a look at Germany Germany, who decided to import all its natural gas, liquefied natural gas from Russia.
Like, that was a smart move, right?
To become dependent on Russia.
Now they can't do that anymore.
So They are feeling a lot of pain, but I'm like, Europe, you know, it's to be expected.
You decided to kind of throw your head in the sand and bury it there and go on and on about green energy, green energy, green energy.
And look where that's getting you.
You're 100% right.
And this is why you need an all of the above energy approach.
And I am glad to say that the United States is the number one producer of LNG in the world.
And we need to continue to do that.
But we still have those hurdles.
And look, I'm glad that we're number one on that list.
And thankfully, the president and Congress have made so many important steps to do it.
But I really think that we can go further.
We need to streamline those processes.
We need to cut the red tape.
We need to get the bureaucrats out of the way.
But it also impacts things like housing costs.
Trish, a quarter of the cost to build a new house in America comes down to red tape and permitting.
We talk about the housing crisis we have in America that we can't build anymore.
It all comes back to red tape, regulatory burdens, and we can streamline that.
That's not just a federal issue, that's a state issue.
You get the water issues, you get the, I mean, and, Like, look, I'm not suggesting we have contaminated water, okay, before anybody.
No, obviously, you want to have safe communities and a safe country, and we want to do things the right way, but it is getting a little crazy.
That's absolutely right.
And then I look at agriculture.
I grew up on a farm, my dad farms to this day.
And I look at the Strait of Hermuz, which is responsible for 30% of all of our fertilizer costs.
And what do we need to produce food here in America?
We need fertilizer and we need diesel fuel.
And when fertilizer and diesel fuel is two of the primary inputs of producing food and putting it on our table to ship our food as well as grow it, it's going to make food costs more expensive.
And so, what we don't want is we don't want another round of high cost, high inflation.
And so, we can produce that here.
It's 100%, but there are still so many regulatory burdens to being able to do that.
And then, when it comes down to like feeding cattle, you need corn to do that, which takes a lot of nitrogen, which is a lot of energy and fertilizer.
So, we need to be able to drive costs down so we can make sure that.
Families are not paying more at the grocery store.
And so there's so much we can do, but we need Senate Democrats to get off the sidelines.
Yes.
Pass permitting reform.
They're already done a lot of that work in the House.
So thank you to the House members who have passed things like the Speed Act.
I know that Senate McCormick in Pennsylvania is going to offer some good bills here to do that in the Senate.
We need Senate Dems to come alongside and make that happen for America.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
I worry that the Senate Dems, And all the dams, for that matter, are trying to emulate Europe.
So, you know, the next thing you know, we're going to turn into France.
China's going to be the next US of A if we stay on this path.
I want to go to some sound coming out of Europe today.
This is the guy who's like the chief energy guy for the EU.
He's touting how great green energy is for them.
And he says, listen, you know, we'd be in a much worse spot today if it hadn't been for our green energy reforms in 2022.
Okay, okay.
But then he's getting a reality check.
I'm going to play this sound for you and want your reaction.
Here we go.
I mean, we do deploy every year record numbers of new renewables.
The year before last, it was 78 gigawatts.
Last year, we haven't got the numbers yet, but I expect it to be close to 90.
This year we will probably break records again.
Grid Investment and AI Revolution00:03:15
This is all good.
And this is one of the reasons why we're better situated at dealing with this crisis than we were in 22.
But if this is to continue, and not only continue, but actually, if we actually want to speed up this process, we need to fundamentally also speed up the enlargement of our grids, the deployment of new grids, the flexibility of the ones we have.
Am I hearing him right?
He wants to actually invest in energy, the grids.
I'm not sure if he means green grids or what he's talking about, but I'm like, it's kind of hitting them.
It's taking a while, but it's kind of hitting them.
If I saw this full speech here, but if he's talking about expanding grids, I'm 100% with him, right?
Because we have to do this.
Americans are paying more for energy, and the grids absolutely matter.
We've talked about AI together a lot over the years, and we have an AI revolution coming.
It's the next wheel, it's the next internet, it's the next industrial revolution.
And if we want to be the leader like we always have been in innovation in America, think of all the wonderful things this country has created because of the freedom that we have to create.
We better be the world leader in AI.
And if we don't have the grids that can do it and the energy transmission that can do it, we are in trouble.
You mentioned innovation.
Ha ha.
That leads me to where I'm going to see you this weekend, right?
In North Carolina.
Both Kent and I are going to be there on stage at a free event.
AFP has a great barbecue for everyone.
We've got some face painting, I think.
For the kids.
I'm bringing one of my kids with me and we're going to talk innovation, right?
I can't wait.
We're going to be in Greensboro, North Carolina this Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m.
We have Senator Ted Budd, three members of Congress, Guy Benson from Fox News, Trish, yourself, and you and I. We're going to turn the tables a little bit.
I'm going to interview you, which is going to be crazy.
And we're going to talk about how America has liberty and freedom and how that liberty and freedom turns into Innovation and some of the great things that have come from permissionless innovation in America.
I'm so excited to talk to you about it.
Meet the great activists of North Carolina.
Hear from our great lineup of speakers and members of Congress.
It's going to be so much fun.
We do these events right to celebrate 250 years of the greatest nation in the history of the planet.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, America, and get the party started, right?
So, hey, if anybody's in North Carolina, Greensboro at the Coliseum.
This Saturday, go to firstinfreedom250.org for tickets.
It's a free event.
We can't wait to see you there.
Again, firstinfreedom250.org.
Kent, I'll see you Saturday.
See you Saturday.
Thank you, Always great to see him.
Always great.
And I'll see him this weekend.
I'll see him this weekend.
Again, if anybody's in Greensboro, you should stop by.
Make sure you go to the link and then you can sign up.
It's firstinfreedom250.org.
Anyway, as we think about all this right now, like everything is so connected.
IRS Investigation into Buying00:03:10
And I think what freaks the left out the most is that there's accountability for the first time, both domestically and globally.
This was a big deal with this grand jury indictment.
Even though you don't hear about it from the leftist media, I'm telling you, they'll tell you the opposite.
They'll say, oh, this is, you know, this is just an example of Donald Trump trying to get vindication and payback and this, that, and the other.
No, this organization was labeling a lot of great groups that just have a difference of opinion as racist groups, as hate groups, et cetera.
All while we now know, according to this grand jury indictment, Apparently paying some total crazies to go and gin up controversy.
Like that's got to have consequences.
Ilhan Omar lying somehow.
I mean, you can tell me that's a mistake, but you don't have a multi million dollar, tens of million dollar mistake, okay?
That's not possible.
I'm not buying that.
And I'm not buying this VC firm that had operations in some 80 countries.
with five diplomats on staff that apparently, you know, collectively between them, they had managed $60 billion.
Like that doesn't even make sense, right?
It just doesn't make any sense.
They would be like one of the biggest private venture capital firms in the world if that was the case.
So I'm not buying any of that.
And I think she's going to actually be facing some consequences.
Everybody's like, well, why hasn't the IRS started an investigation?
I think the IRS has started an investigation.
They actually don't tell you.
Like that would not be information that we would be privy to.
They're not going to come out and say that until like it's a fait accompli.
So stay tuned on that one.
And then you get Tucker, you know, with his little dust up trying to get some attention.
Me, as I said the other day.
And he's getting some attention all right.
And probably some money too.
That's going to get investigated.
Interesting things happening.
Interesting things.
I saw somebody going after Joe Rogan because I guess Joe is kind of soured on the president.
You know what's funny?
I saw something from Tucker where he was taking aim at Joe the other day too.
It's like he's just trying to, you know, I think grab everybody's audience.
I don't think it's really going to work.
I don't think it's actually much of a ploy because I don't think he's that interesting.
I really don't.
Like I never talk about this.
It's like the first day I have to because it's in the New York Times.
Huh.
He'd be happy.
But I just don't think he's that interesting.
I don't think he's that talented a broadcaster.
I think he's a sensationalist and it's a little bit circus.
And if you want circus, it's funny to listen to.
And they, you know, they pick on everybody.
But is that really worth your time?
You tell me.
Really, tell me.
I'm curious.
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