Episode 4378: Ridding Brazil And Wisconsin Of Communist Judges

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon's War Room Episode: Episode 4378: Ridding Brazil And Wisconsin Of Communist Judges
Release Date: March 31, 2025
Host: WarRoom.org (Stephen K. Bannon)

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Introduction

In Episode 4378 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon, alongside co-host Eric Bolling, delves into a series of critical political developments both within the United States and internationally. The episode primarily focuses on President Trump's impending executive orders on tariffs, pivotal election races in Wisconsin and Florida, and the political turmoil in Brazil involving former President Jair Bolsonaro. Throughout the discussion, Bannon and Bolling provide in-depth analysis, strategic insights, and actionable recommendations aimed at countering perceived communist influences within judicial and political arenas.

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US Tariffs and Executive Orders

Timeliness of Tariff Implementation

• Stephen K. Bannon (00:00 - 07:01): Bannon initiates the episode by highlighting the scheduled signing ceremony of President Trump's executive order on tariffs in the Oval Office, anticipated around 5:30 PM.

Details and Impact of Tariffs

• Dana Bash's Segment (01:23 - 02:46): The discussion begins with Dana Bash reporting on global market jitters due to Trump's new tariffs, dubbed "Liberation Day" (April 2). The tariffs are intended to reduce American dependence on foreign goods, but specifics remain vague.

• Peter Navarro's Analysis (03:00 - 04:44): Navarro elucidates that the tariffs will start with approximately 15 countries, encompassing sectors like autos, semiconductors, labor, steel, and aluminum. The expected revenue from these tariffs is projected at $600 billion in the first year, with an additional $100 billion from auto tariffs alone.

Economic Rationale and Consumer Impact

• Peter Navarro (04:44 - 07:01): Navarro emphasizes the necessity of tariffs to protect US industries and workers from unfair global trade practices, particularly those leading to factory closures and job losses in states like Wisconsin. He discusses the delicate balance of supporting US workers without adversely affecting consumers.

Notable Quote:

"Tariffs are a tool, an economic tool that's in a toolbox that President Trump's going to use." — Peter Navarro (04:44)

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Election Races in Wisconsin and Florida

Wisconsin Race Analysis

• Stephen K. Bannon (08:11 - 14:33): Bannon discusses the tight congressional race in Wisconsin, where conservative candidate Brad Schultz, endorsed by Trump, faces a significant funding advantage from liberal opponents. He underscores the importance of voter turnout, urging conservatives to not only vote but also mobilize others.

• Brian Shimming (08:34 - 14:33): Shimming provides insights into voter strategies, emphasizing early voting trends favoring red townships and the strategic importance of Wisconsin as a battleground state.

Florida Special Elections

• Jeff Zeleny (04:56 - 06:19): Zeleny presents an overview of Florida's special elections, noting that while seats are traditionally red, recent Democratic performances in special elections suggest energized voter bases and potential upsets.

Notable Quotes:

"If we're going to save this state and we're going to save this country, we got to have the attitude that we had back in November." — Stephen K. Bannon (08:10)
"These kind of special elections go beyond just winning a seat; they reflect the broader national political climate." — Jeff Zeleny (04:56)

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Political Turmoil in Brazil: Bolsonaro vs. Lula

Overview of Bolsonaro's Legal Challenges

• Paulo Figueredo (22:46 - 27:59): Figueredo outlines the legal battles faced by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, drawing parallels to President Trump's legal issues. He details accusations ranging from falsifying COVID vaccine cards to orchestrating coup attempts, emphasizing the use of "lawfare" to undermine Bolsonaro's political influence.

Comparison to Trump’s Legal Battles

• Eric Bolling (26:31 - 29:37): Bolling compares Bolsonaro's situation to Trump's numerous indictments, highlighting the orchestrated efforts by leftist judicial systems to dismantle populist leaders through legal manipulations.

Strategies for Countering Judicial Overreach

• Stephen K. Bannon (32:33 - 35:55): Bannon discusses potential US responses to Brazil's judicial actions against Bolsonaro, including sanctions, visa restrictions, and leveraging the Magnitsky Act to freeze assets of corrupt judges. He stresses the urgency of these measures to prevent Brazil from following Venezuela's destabilization path.

Notable Quotes:

"They can't defeat us on the ballots, so they have to use lawfare." — Paulo Figueredo (22:46)
"President Bolsonaro was behind it all the way. So it's a copy and paste of the Trump Insurrection case." — Paulo Figueredo (26:31)
"The United States has the Office of Foreign Asset Controls that can restrict business from US Companies with individuals." — Stephen K. Bannon (35:55)

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Geopolitical Significance of Brazil

Strategic Importance of Brazil

• Paulo Figueredo (35:55 - 41:34): Figueredo expounds on Brazil's critical role in geopolitics, highlighting its vast natural resources, including rare earth elements and oil, which are essential for global manufacturing and military industries. He underscores Brazil's pivotal position in countering Chinese influence and its potential to act as a bulwark against CCP expansion.

• Economic Leverage and U.S. Interests: Figueredo emphasizes Brazil's capacity to significantly impact China's economy through its food production capabilities and rare earth exports, making it a strategic ally for the U.S. in maintaining global economic stability and security.

Domestic Political Dynamics

• Democratic Challenges: Figueredo points out the challenges within Brazilian politics, where leftist factions support entities like Hamas and Iran, and how Bolsonaro's conservative movement aligns closely with Trump's MAGA agenda. He stresses the need for U.S. involvement to support pro-democracy forces in Brazil.

Notable Quotes:

"Brazil has more energy, produce more energy than most OPEC countries." — Paulo Figueredo (35:55)
"Brazil has everything that you need. It's important." — Paulo Figueredo (36:17)
"The Brazilian diaspora will be deciding key seats in the Congress." — Paulo Figueredo (36:17)

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Strategic Recommendations and Actions

Executive Orders and Legislative Measures

• Stephen K. Bannon (29:45 - 36:17): Bannon outlines the anticipated executive orders aimed at enforcing stricter tariffs and combating unfair trade practices. He urges the audience to stay informed through social media channels and official party websites to ensure widespread awareness and participation.

Sanctions and Diplomatic Pressure

• Paulo Figueredo (35:55 - 41:34): Figueredo advocates for robust sanctions against corrupt Brazilian judges and officials, leveraging tools like the Magnitsky Act and visa restrictions to curb judicial overreach and protect democratic institutions.

Engagement and Mobilization

• Stephen K. Bannon (08:11 - 14:33): Emphasizes grassroots mobilization, encouraging voters to actively participate in the electoral process to support conservative candidates and uphold national integrity.

Notable Quotes:

"The window for the United States to act is very short." — Paulo Figueredo (35:55)
"It's time to stop this nonsense. You already heard where Caroline Levitt is finally going to restructure the White House press area briefing room." — Stephen K. Bannon (29:45)

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Conclusion

In this episode, Bannon's War Room presents a multifaceted analysis of current political and economic challenges facing the United States and its allies. The discussions underscore the urgency of implementing strategic tariffs to protect American industries, the critical nature of upcoming elections in swing states like Wisconsin and Florida, and the international implications of Brazil's internal political strife. Through expert insights and strategic recommendations, Bannon and his guests advocate for robust action to counteract what they perceive as communist and globalist influences undermining democratic and economic stability.

Closing Quote:

"It's a premium market in the world because of you. Because of you." — Eric Bolling (29:37)

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Transcript

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Stuff and get some real, get some, some, some dirt on these folks.

[Eric Bolling]

I'll turn it over to you, my friend.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

It's your, it's your hour, Misty on Friday.

[Eric Bolling]

Let's Eric, ERIC I went to Colorado to give a speech to the great GOP there on Friday. For timing I had to miss of a man. My day didn't seem fulfilled unless I'm doing a handover, unless you're handing the show over to me. It's like a relay race. We got it. Eric Bolling, thank you brother. Appreciate you bowling out the great Eric. Bo here's what's going to happen today. We believe at 5:30 there's going to be a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of an executive order. We anticipate that executive order may be deliberation day about, about tariffs, about reciprocity. We think that's going to happen right now. We're told it is going to happen live. There's going to be a major signing ceremony. Our own Brian Glenn is so close. We actually can't do we're going to try to do a hit to tee it up. We're not going to be able to do that. Here's what we are going to do. We have a lot of business we have to get done before 5:30. And what we're going to do, we're going to go to Florida for Florida one in Florida six and we're going to Wisconsin, get updates on these very tight, very important races. Then we're also going to talk to Bolsonar's team. But first, we have a summary of what the news has been this afternoon since we left you guys this morning. Let's go ahead and play it.

[Dana Bash]

We start with jittery global markets bracing for President Trump's new barrage of tariffs set to take effect this week. He dubbed Wednesday, April 2, quote, Liberation Day, claiming his new plan will free Americans from a dependence on foreign goods. But how is that going to happen? What kind of tariffs are actually coming? Which countries will take the biggest hit? The answers to these questions and more, no one really knows. CNN's Jeff Zeleny is at the White House. Maybe Jeff Zeleny knows. Jeff. I mean, Dana, there is no question that for all the whiplash that we have seen here at the White House in the first 66 or so days of this administration, the front and center to all that is the president's view on on global trade and what these tariff policies have done. We've seen an on again, off again, on again, off again. But the president and the White House are talking about Wednesday being the day for these reciprocal tariffs. That is essentially the US Charging what other countries are charging the US For a tariff. So essentially it's a tax, though, on goods that American consumers will pay. The question will this be across the board, will this be sort of country by country, sector by sector? That is an open question. The President last night flying back to Washington, offered little clarity.

[Eric Bolling]

How many countries will be in that initial tranche?

[Brian Shimming]

It start with all countries.

[Eric Bolling]

So let's see what happens.

[Brian Shimming]

There are many countries I haven't heard a rumor about. 15 countries.

[Eric Bolling]

10 or 15. So you're starting with all countries.

[Brian Shimming]

Essentially all of the countries that we're.

[Eric Bolling]

Talking about would be talking about all countries. It's not a cutoff.

[Peter Navarro]

The administration estimates the Trump tariffs will bring in $600 billion in the first year to the Treasury General Fund. The president's extra 25% tariffs on autos alone expected to generate $100 billion on top of the reciprocal tariffs. So those tariffs on just about all countries is meant to level the trade playing field. The extra 25% tariffs on autos and others meant to protect seven industries the President has deemed. You see those industries there? Autos on the list along with semiconductors, labor, steel, aluminum and the others.

[Dana Bash]

Donald Trump says he doesn't care about tariffs on foreign cars. It's going to force people to buy American More Sin Fein seems to be in agreement with him on that. Bring that into the conversation.

[Eric Bolling]

Sure.

[Peter Navarro]

Look, unions have for a very long time objected to US Trade policy. In fact, it's almost the touchstone of the contemporary trade union movement in the United States, is that our trade policies have led to layoffs of workers, shutterings of factories, really the hollowing out of many manufacturing towns, including towns in Wisconsin that have lost major plants. And so the tariff issue does play both ways. There are many working class people who really do believe that, that the government, the federal government should be putting its thumb on the scale to, to help U.S. workers, to help U.S. industries. The question, as we've talked about before, is how do you do that in a smart way that helps US Workers, but that doesn' harm US Consumers and that that makes things work. And I think that that in Wisconsin in this election, things will play, you know, kind of both ways. To the extent that tariffs are an.

[Dana Bash]

Issue, tests that we're seeing not just in Wisconsin, but also in Florida with these two open house races. If you're a Democrat and you're watching to see these results, what are you watching for specifically?

[Jeff Zeleny]

Well, and thanks for that. One of the things I want to say is level set for, for our viewers here. You know, those Florida seats are deeply, are deeply red seats. Yeah, they're, they've not been really competitive seats and sometimes we can read too much into these special elections. Now that said, I'm going to read too much into the special elections. If you look at the, at the 14 special elections that we've had thus far, Democrats have overperformed in 13 of them. And I suspect what you'll see in Florida, look, I think Democrats have good candidates down there, they've run good campaigns, but it is a deep, they're deeply red seats. And I think you'll see Democrats probably do better than expectations because we've seen that before and Lord help Republicans if Democrats actually win one or both those seats. But I think it's very telling also that, you know, Republicans, that president pulled his ambassador to be the United Nations. United nations ambassador, because Republicans are clearly concerned about how they're, how they're seeing special elections go and how they're seeing Democratic base being energized and how you're seeing at these town halls where middle of the road voters are not at all happy with what they're seeing coming out of Washington. And Donald Trump.

[Eric Bolling]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go.

[Dana Bash]

To share the big lie?

[Paulo Figueredo]

MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.

[Eric Bolling]

I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

WAR ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.

[Eric Bolling]

It's Monday 31st March. Air for 2025 in approximately 30 minutes and we stay on schedule with the White House. We'll be in the Oval Office. President Trump will be signing an executive order live. And then I think he'll open up for some questions from the press. Our own Brian Glenn is there and we're going to turn there immediately or momentarily. Right now we have three men of the hour. I want to start first in Florida, one Jimmy Petronas. Jimmy, what's the current state of the race Obviously, you and Randy Fine have been on TV nonstop on MSNBC and cnn is that these are two bellwethers for President Trump's policies. Everything from his policy in Ukraine to, to, to what he's doing in. What he's doing in. In. In tariffs. What do you have to say? Sir, can you hear me? This is Jimmy Patronus.

[Peter Navarro]

I can barely.

[Eric Bolling]

I hear you, Jimmy.

[Peter Navarro]

Put my earbuds.

[Eric Bolling]

Go ahead. I'm not sure what's going on. Hold on a second. It's not the people.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

We'Ve been following.

[Eric Bolling]

Rain, can you hear me better now, Jimmy? Let's, let's go and cut. And we'll go to. Okay, we'll get back to Jimmy Petros. Let's get him dialed by. Can we get him by phone? We've got Brian Shimming from Wisconsin. Brian, right now, Poly's coming out showing that we're running behind in Wisconsin, I think two points. Is this all about turnout on Election Day?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Thanks, Steve. It is about turnout. I think the race is very close. It's margin of error. But the truth of the matter is I think the Liberal opponent put 5.7 million up on TV just in one week last week. And so really what it is, President Trump endorsed the conservative candidate here, Brad Schummel, the former Attorney General, last week. If you are a Trump voter in Wisconsin and want to save this state and help the president, you only have one job between now and tomorrow night at 8:00, and that is to go vote for Brad Schimmel. Actually, I should say, Steve, you have two jobs. You go get five or 10 people to go do it as well. Just voting yourself is great, but the truth of the matter is, if we're going to save this state and we're going to save this country, we got to have the attitude that we had back in November. And that is, I'm part. I, the voter, the I, the conservative voter, I, the MAGA voter, are going to do what it takes. And that means voting. Very simple.

[Eric Bolling]

Is this. Why do we not, I mean, Wisconsin, and you laid out the blueprint for us throughout the spring, the summer and the fall of what had to happen in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, I think even if Pennsylvania and Michigan was the hardest of the three to pierce in the blue wall, why does it seem that we can't get that same traction that we had? Is it simply that President Trump's not at the top of the ticket?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Well, that's certainly part of it, Steve. I think here in Wisconsin, which is kind of the, you know, if, if of the seven targets, there was one with the bluest tint. It probably historically is Wisconsin. As I've said to you, we've had 13 races in 26 years in this state that have been decided by less than 30,000 votes going back to W. George Bush Jr. So we have had several close races. The two folks who have won it are the same person, Donald Trump. So, you know, to have him not on the top of the, you know, ticket this year certainly hurts. But look, you know, President Trump won Wisconsin with 1.7 million votes back in November. Traditionally, Steve, we kind of have about 2 million or a little bit less than that show up for Supreme Court races. So if you're a Trump voter in Wisconsin or, you know, Trump voters in Wisconsin and want to help the President, somebody. I was on the rally tour, about 20 cities in the last five days, and somebody came up and asked me, does this really help the President? I said, yeah, it helps the President because we could lose two congressional seats in Wisconsin. The flat out plan here, I have zero doubt about this. You can bring me on three months from now and I guarantee it will happen. If the liberals control the court after tomorrow, they will throw out our current congressional map and two Republican seats from Wisconsin, Derek Van Orden and Brian Stile will be gone. If they redo that map and they've shown, I mean, this is one case where you can take the liberals at their word last, you know, two years ago when they won the court initially after the conservatives had controlled it for 15 years, what did they do? A lefty third party group comes in, challenges the legislative map, not the congressional map, but the legislative map. And the legislative map ends up getting changed. So we're heading. This is deja vu all over again.

[Eric Bolling]

What do you Recommend? We have 24 hours. What time do polls open in the morning?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Polls generally in the morning in Wisconsin Open at 7am tomorrow. Stay open until 8pm tomorrow night. If you have gotten an absentee ballot, didn't get a chance to send it back, you can take it to your polling place and drop it off. Then if you didn't get a chance to send it back, our early voting, that is to say early in person voting, effectively closed down on Friday. Big numbers across the state, not just in our areas, but theirs as well. I think the rise in early voting is more on our end. I was an early proponent of early voting in the presidential race last year, talked to the President about it, I've talked to other folks about it. We can't keep going into election day. 100,000 votes down and expect to make it up in 13 hours. So I've always been a big push on early voting, even though it's not great, a lot of people don't love it. But the truth of the matter is there's a fair increase in early vote. We've seen statewide a larger increase in red townships and villages than we have in the blue areas. About 37. Get this, about 37% of the liberal vote in Wisconsin is in two places, Madison and Milwaukee. Those are easier places to organize.

[Peter Navarro]

Yeah.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Isn't that incredible?

[Eric Bolling]

Incredible does not shock me. Incredible.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Eric Bolling]

Brian, where do people go tonight to find out about tomorrow?

[Kid Rock]

Where they go?

[Eric Bolling]

Information, social media, all of it. Where they go?

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Yeah, they go to my X account which is at Brian Shimming. B R I A N S C H I M M I N G Right there. And join me tonight because I'm going to be doing almost constant on this thing and also to the state party [e-mail] wisgop.org, but better to follow me on Twitter with constant feed of information. This what stays what happens in Wisconsin tomorrow, Steve, does not stay in Wisconsin. It will affect President Trump if it helps knock the House majority a little bit closer. Democrats, I don't want to go through another impeachment resolution and the President doesn't deserve.

[Eric Bolling]

Yeah. Brian Scheming, thank you very much. We look forward to seeing tomorrow, sir.

[Kid Rock]

Everybody get grace.

[Eric Bolling]

Let's get everybody on his Twitter account tonight. Tonight's a work night. Another nail biter, this one in Wisconsin. Johnny Khan takes us out with American Heart. Short commercial break Randy Fine Florida 6 is next in the war room. I got American Babe.

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[Shannon Bream]

Trump. We have the example from the first term. We know that we imposed historically high tariffs on China. We impose aluminum and steel tariffs. We impose on washing machines, on solar. And all we got out of that, Shannon, all we got out of that was prosperity and price stability. And the reason why we're not going to see inflation is because the foreigners are going to eat most of it. They have to. We're the biggest market in the world, Shannon, and they have to be here, here. They have to be here. And so they're going to cut their prices to absorb that. But the bigger picture here, the bigger picture here is restoring the American manufacturing base. We don't have that. We're an assembly thing. You remember something called the arsenal democracy back in World War II. That was how we beat the Japanese and the Germans with our military might. When Patton went to Berlin, it was with, with trucks, jeeps and tanks that were made in the auto plants of the Midwest. And right now the only thing that looks like the Midwest back then is Mexico. You go across a diaspora of cities in Mexico. There's football field size 50 football field size assembly plants that are down there making the engines for here. We can't do that. The Germans and the Japanese and South Koreans and the Mexicans have taken our manufacturing capabilities. So we've got to get that back. We're going to do it in a way which is going to protect American consumers and create jobs for American workers. There's going to be over a million jobs in the greater auto industry.

[Eric Bolling]

We are ecstatic to see an administration finally address the unfair trade laws in this country. These laws have destroyed the American working class. They've destroyed communities in this country and virtually every state for decades. Peter Navarro and then the president of the uaw, United Auto Workers. There was supposed to be meltdown last week. A financial turbulence, chaos. All of it a little choppy for a couple of days. Everything's fine. By close the market on Friday. Friday was a kind of a downtick, but not the end of the world, folks. A lot of that market that we lost in the week before had come back. Gold's on a run. But that's not because of the tariffs. They're trying to blame everything on the tariffs. They're trying to Take Wall Street. They're all running dogs for Wall Street. Every time you hear, oh, it's a tax, it's the price gonna go up over and over again. Aoc, Bernie, you've run for president twice. You think you would learn something about this. When Bernie Sanders, oh, these terrorists are terrible. He's out there. This phony populism. Cosplay. Cosplaying a populist. And then the union that's making the cars say, we love this. Trade policy has worked against the working class and the middle class in this country for decade after decade after decade, even before nafta. NAFTA was bad enough. Peter Navarro, let me give you a buried lead. Take your number two pencil out. He says, we assemble because all they're sitting there running. Oh, we do all this manufacturing. No, we assemble, we do final assembly and then marketing and sales. And then after sales support. Sales support, marketing support. The actual manufacturing of the high value added components is not done. That's done in Germany still. Or they farm it out to Mexico, or they farm it out to. They farm it out to Canada, then bring it here and then assemble. President Trump's saying something quite different. If you don't make it, manufacture it, put it together here in the United States of America, you're going to pay a fee for that. And it makes sense. This is the premium market in the world because of you. Because of you. Not because of the oligarchs, not because of Wall street, because of you. It's a premium market. You got to pay up. You got to pay a price to get into a premium market. And that price does not get paid. That price does not get paid by. By consumers. Did the Chinese goods go up? We put the biggest tariffs ever on China in the first term. No, it did not. Prices. In the fall of 19, before the pandemic, we'd already had the tariffs on China. Prices, fine. Almost no inflation. Right. Low interest rates. Wasn't the fall of 2019 kind of nirvana? Blue collar wages rising faster than white collar wages, Non college graduates rising higher than college graduates. The credentialed class finally getting a little push from the middle class. And the working class seemed to be fine. Tariffs are a tool, an economic tool that's in a toolbox that President Trump's going to use. We believe that in a few minutes he's going to sign the tariff policy of reciprocity, or there's even rumored that it could be 20% across the board. No questions asked, not picking out. He's not going to give any Exemptions. It's still up in the air. They may wait till tomorrow to do that. They may wait till Wednesday morning to do that. Because these, I don't think the terrorists themselves actually cut in over to customs until Thursday is my belief. But I would like to see some, I would like to see some organized effort here to kind of roll this out. I think it's very important. So we're going to spend the rest of the evening on this in and out. I want to go now to Brazil. Paulo Figuerate is with us. Paolo, just can you get us up to date? Because we start the show this morning. Le Pen was found guilty of this ridiculous charge of fraud or misappropriate money. It was about a couple of staffers she had from the European Parliament that she kept, that she had working in Paris. They gave her four years in prison and plus excluded her from running for office. She's up by 12 to 15 points. This is what they're doing to President Trump every day and what they're particularly doing to President Bolsonaro, who's up, I believe 15 or 20 points. And he's on trial now, a trial that's a total show trial, if any indication of last week, a show trial that will end up him going to prison and I believe to almost certainly being assassinated by the forces of Lula in this radical chief judge. Before we get President Trump up, can you give us an update, sir?

[Paulo Figueredo]

Yes, Steve. It's exactly the same playbook. They can't defeat us on the ballots, so they have to use lawfare. Just the latest chapter in Brazil is that the Prosecutor General asked for the dismissal of the absurd other case that they had against former President Bolsonaro regarding alleged falsification of his COVID vaccine cards. And the so called investigation was never about justice or public health. It was a fishing expedition, a pretext to go after Bolsonaro and his inner circle. I know it sounds familiar because we've seen the exact same playbook used against President Trump. We saw fabricated accusations, baseless legal maneuvers, and the relentless use of lawfare to achieve what the left can't accomplish at the ballot box. In Bolsonaro's case, this case that I mentioned, they raided the home of one of his top eights, seizing his phone and pouring over every piece of information they could find. And again, that was just a backdoor. It wasn't about vaccine card. Nobody cares about COVID vaccine card. President Bolsonaro said he never took the vaccine and so why would he falsify a COVID Vaccine card. So after two years of slandering on the media every day, they finally said, well, this case is not important anymore because you got you on something else. They were able to go to this eight house and just lean on that until he broke, forcing him to plea bargain and conveniently helping them to fabricate a new story, the so called coup attempt. So now that they don't need this case anymore, they just said after two years of slandering, well, we never had any proof, so we're going to dismiss it. Same thing about, I'm sure you heard of a case the Bolsonaro was being prosecuted for disturbing a whale. I mean an actual whale. He was playing with a jet ski near a whale. And the former Minister of, actually the current Minister of Environment of Lula asked the federal police to investigate him for disturbing a whale. They also, the Prosecutor General also asked this case to be dismissed. But they used it to pretty much push him and slander him and get evidences and searching, seizures of warrants and all that for two years. So what's going on is that they're very confident now that they're going to send him to prison on the alleged coup d'etat case.

[Eric Bolling]

But that's what I want to go back to. I just want to make sure the American audience understands the direct parallels. I mean, Bolsonaro was kind of Trump came first and then Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro is called. The way he governed was the Trump of the tropics. He leads a populist nationalist movement, has a strong religious fervor underpinning to it. Walk me through his charges because, you know, here President Trump was what had 92 indictments, eventually 32 felonies. But that didn't even get to what they, they wanted to try him for insurrection. I think it was 372 years in prison potentially. They came after President Trump for standing up for the stone election of 2020. Walk us through the actual charges. We've got about a minute. Tell the American audience what the exact charges are against President Bolsonaro.

[Paulo Figueredo]

You see, the same corrupt tactics are on full display. The left throw everything at Trump from Russia collusion hoax to sham impeachments. And with Bolsonaro, it's the same thing. They started with saying that he falsified COVID vaccine cards so he could come the United States. He never needed a COVID vaccine card. He was the President of Brazil when he came here and there was a waiver for sitting presidents. And then they said, well, you got some presents from other Leaders of different nations. And you didn't report on these. And he did. And they say, well, they're probably gonna dismiss this case as well. But they used this to come up with a bigger case, which is a case that is on trial right now that he tried a coup d'etat, although he was here in the United States in 20002022 when he left the presidency. Brazil had January 8, which was very similar to January 6 in the United States. People revolted, the protests went out of control. We don't know why exactly. A lot of evidence of agents provocateurs. This is the same playbook, destroyed evidences, special committee. It's almost the same. And they say President Bolsonaro was behind it all the way. So it's a copy and paste of the Trump Insurrection case. Remember that? And that's what they're using to supposedly throw him on prison, which they will unless the United States sanctions corrupt judges.

[Eric Bolling]

Hang on one second. I'm gonna hold you through the break. Before we go to awful the Oval, I want to talk about those sanctions next in the war room.

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Action. Action.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

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[Eric Bolling]

Okay, we're being informed. We don't think that the EO is finished yet for the tariffs. This may be another EO signing, but the President is going to be there. We're going to get, I think Brian Glenn's going to get in there and I do believe he's going to take questions from the press. Just for you that haven't had the pleasure of following this today. I kid you not. The mainstream media all day has been absolutely obsessed by what topic, with everything else going on in the world, what topics has obsessed them? If you said the signal chat, you would be correct. The top 30 minutes of each hour in the news, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, all of them just obsessed. Folks, it's a no scalps policy. It's time to move on. We're not going to address it. Nothing happened. The operation went off flawlessly. President Trump's team ought to focus on the business at hand, not spend a second on this nonsense. In fact, if any journalist ask a question tonight, when the president does the presser, to me, they ought to be tossed out of the Oval and not let back in. I mean, it's time to stop this nonsense. You already heard where Caroline Levitt is finally going to restructure the White House press area briefing room. And the mainstream media, particularly the snarky ones, are going to go to the back. They'll probably stop showing up because they're not on camera. They don't want to do any real reporting. So I think it's a brilliant move, way too long in coming. And I hope tonight the president takes questions from all comers because we really want to see and I think it's an easier environment for him to answer questions as these things have been so amazing when he sent it at the Resolute desk, then on the plane, what's kind of hard to hear and you can't hear the question, Paolo Figueroto, what are the solutions here? The United States, given that the closeness of President Bolsonaro to President Trump, there's a lot that can be done. There's a lot that Congress can do. And quite frankly, to be brutally honest about it, not simply Lula, but this chief justice is such a, is such, I believe, a criminal that you could immediately go to OFAC restrictions on him, visa restrictions, travel restrictions, financial restrictions, moving money, tell people what OFAC is. What are the tools in the toolbox for the United States to show that we have Bolsonaro's back and actually take some action, sir. Because I know my phone blows up every time I have you guys on. People are saying in the chat room to me personally, why are we not doing more? Why is the United States not stepping up Here Bolsonaro is a good man. He's essentially President Trump in Brazil. And these guys are coming after him, are the exact same people coming after President Trump. Paolo, your thoughts?

[Paulo Figueredo]

It puzzles me as well, so because the Biden administration is very much responsible for what's going on in Brazil. Joe Biden used USAID money to fund all the disinformation programs in Brazil. And he was the one that financially backed this corrupt judge Moraes, which is the one that had the beef with Elon Musk. The bald guy looks like a James Bond villain. He was backed by the Biden administration. All the disinformation programs financed by usaid. He got training from the FBI, from the United States Deep State. And when he was going to be challenged, the United States Biden administration sent Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, Bill Burns, Victoria Nuland, J. Sullivan. They sent the whole gang to Brazil to threaten Brazilian public and military officials not to challenge this guy's Morais. So this was done by the Biden administration. Then we got Donald Trump. We thought, well, maybe now the table has flipped, right? And now Donald Trump is gonna do a lot. But we haven't seen anything very concrete. Donald Trump never said anything about Brazil, about Lula da Silva and about. About Moraes. So there are several things that they can do first, and obviously visa cancellations. We're seeing judges coming here, as we talked last week, getting awards and all this to protect the democracy in Brazil. These guys should not be allowed to get in the United States. That's easy. The Secretary of State can do this at any moment. It doesn't need authorization from anyone. It's at his own will. So the other thing that can be done, and Trump did that for the ICC prosecutor, is are financial sanctions, OFAC sanctions. The United States has the Office of Foreign Asset Controls that can restrict business from US Companies with individuals. And there's a specific law for that, which is the Magnitsky Global act of 2016. So the President has authority of signing executive orders saying U.S. companies should not do business with this guy. What happens is that the bank accounts or any credit card or anything gets immediately shut down and frozen anywhere in the world. So this would be a very good measure to be taken. And I do not understand why the action hasn't been taken with a guy that's violating democracy and free speech in Brazil, imprisoning journalists, coming after opposition, and pretty much controlling the country. And they are consolidating power very fast. So the window for the United States to act is very short. Otherwise, we're going to have another Venezuela. And when you come to the point that Venezuela came, there's not much you can do. So it's like you're treating cancer, you have a narrow window to use chemotherapy or even smaller actions. And what's going to happen, what's going to work now will not work in one year, after they consolidate power, after they send Bolsonaro to prison, the sanctions will not work anymore. And then what's left? Military action. It's the same situation Venezuela and the same thing that happened to Cuba in the late 50s and early 60s.

[Eric Bolling]

Paolo, what is it about Brazil that after the United States that this is like the jewel in the crown for the globalists? Why are they so obsessed? Biden administration working with Lula, who's obviously a puppet of the ccp. But then you have these judges. What is it through the globalist eyes? Why is Brazil such a high value added target for them, Sir?

[Paulo Figueredo]

Well, it's everything that you want from a geopolitical perspective. The defense of the Western hemisphere. You have all the five things that you need to do from a geopolitical perspective. Brazil has more energy, produce more energy than most OPEC countries. Brazil is the second ore producer in the world. You need iron for the war machines. Not only that, Brazil has the best iron war on the planet, has all the rare earth out of the 20 something rare earth that United States needs. Brazil has most of them. The United States currently depend on China could depend on Brazil. Brazil has also fifth largest population. And if Brazil stops sending food to China, China will starve in three months. So Brazil is pretty much the pathway to choke China in terms of food. So it has everything that you need. Not only that, that Brazil is also a very big antagonistic of every single US policy. Brazil is pro Hamas, openly pro Hamas. Brazil is pro Iran, Brazil is pro Venezuela, obviously pro China. Brazil is doing everything through the brics, which is presided by Brazil. Right now, it's chaired by Brazil to undermine the dollar as a global currency. So everything the globalists and the Chinese want are in Brazil. And what's I think mind blowing is that conservatives, they don't care very much. They don't seem to understand how important it is. Brazil in terms of geopolitics, they're thrilled with Mili in Argentina and we all are. We love Argentina. But just to give you a perspective, Steve, the whole country of Argentina is the size of the state of Sao Paulo in terms of GDP and population. Brazil is half the population, GDP and territory of South America and also the largest population in the United States from the Americas after, obviously Mexico and Canada. There are more Brazilians in the United States now than Cubans. So you have everything. It's important. The Brazilian diaspora will be deciding key seats in the Congress. And I'll give you a quick example. Donald Trump lost, supposedly, allegedly Georgia for roughly 11,000 votes in 2020. There are 200,000 Brazilians in the Atlanta region alone. And they're not being reached out by the conservatives, the Republicans or anything. So there are so many reasons for people to take a look at Brazil. Politically, geopolitically, economically, everything.

[Eric Bolling]

When Bolsonaro was even President Macron and the French remember they were going to do something. They were concerned about his management of the Amazon. Lula, what is it about the Amazon? How value. Because you guys are like stewards of this natural phenomena. How important is the control of the Amazon to both the Chinese Communist Party and the globalists?

[Paulo Figueredo]

Sir, it is crucial not only from an environmental standpoint, which is also important. The. There are richness there that we don't even understand, but in terms of rare earth, it's unbelievable. I don't know if people know this, but a few months ago, the Chinese bought a mine in Brazil that it is connected to the largest uranium mine that we have in South America. The Chinese bought it, Chinese company bought it. So most likely Chinese will, unless we can stop them, explore uranium in Brazil. So the Amazon also has more oil than the Gulf of America, former Gulf of Mexico. So it's crucial. That whole region is crucial in so many aspects. And the Chinese are pretty much taking over. I have reports in Brazil from my friends that work on the infrastructure sector saying, Paolo, most of the meetings we have to do here now we have to have a. Mentoring a Chinese translators. That's how much they're controlling off our infrastructure in terms of cars, cars, industry. The Chinese electric cars are taking over Brazil. And sadly for Elon Musk, Tesla is not even in Brazil yet.

[Eric Bolling]

Wow. Unbelievable. Paulo, where do we want. If people want to go and get the updates on what's happening to President Bolsonaro every day, if they want to hear more about ofac. Because. Because our Congress, I guess, Judiciary, the Congress could move. I know the administration could, but the Congress could start pushing this too. We have many different options in the Senate, in the House. We just need some people that understand the geopolitical importance of Brazil and particularly how close the Bolsonaro movement and President Bolsonaro is to MAGA and the Trump movement. So I want to make sure people go to your site Every day you're kind of a central log on for everything that's going on. So where do folks go?

[Paulo Figueredo]

They can go to my axe at Rio Pfigerido or my website, www.paulofigueiriodeshow.com and everything is in English there. So they can follow everything that's ongoing in Brazil in English there.

[Eric Bolling]

Fantastic. Thank you very much. I only want to add Paulo is also. You're not on trial, you're not tried in absentia, but I think you're one of the 10 or 11 guys that were also indicted or quasi indicted along as basically President Bolsonaro's inner circle.

[Paulo Figueredo]

They're actually decided that they are going to try me in abstention. So, yeah, I'll probably be convicted without a chance to defend myself.

[Eric Bolling]

Hey, hey. I don't want to say Bannon called it again, but I told you I think they're going to try in abstention because I don't know.

[Paulo Figueredo]

He did.

[Eric Bolling]

Of course they are. Of course they are. They're Marxist judges. Of course they are.

[Paulo Figueredo]

It's because the law says it's so explicit. The law says if you are not there and if they can't serve you, they should suspend the trial. But they decided, yeah, we don't actually need to follow the law. So let's try this guy in abstention.

[Eric Bolling]

Unbelievable. Paolo, you're a hero. Look forward to getting another update from you the next couple days. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.

[Paulo Figueredo]

Thanks for having me.

[Eric Bolling]

Romania, France, what's happened in Pakistan with Khan? Remember the populace, the cricket, the great cricket player that's in prison now. Darren Beatty did such a great job when he was at Revolver. That would be Darren Beatty, who's interim Under Secretary of State making things happen now, of course, the United States and Bolsonaro in, in Brazil and many, many, many, many other places. Short commercial break. We're waiting for the President to enter the Oval Office or. Let us in. Short commercial break. Back in a moment.

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[Brian Shimming]

A friend of mine, Kid Rock, sometimes referred to as Bob, I know him as Bob, but he's been a good friend for a long time, many years. And he's been after something that is for the good of a lot of people, including in particular the public and having to do with ticket sales and scalping and all of the gouging that you have been reading about that's gotten worse and worse with time. And I didn't know too much about it, but I checked it out and it is a big problem. And I thought, I think you've been trying to get this done for 20 years or something. He said Trump got it done in two weeks. But we came up with a very serious EO and I'm going to sign it now and maybe I'll ask you will to explain a little bit about it, please.

[J]

Of course, sir. So this is an executive order. As you said, the date deals with the ticket reselling business for fans of live entertainment and for entertainers as well. The ticket reselling industry has become a huge issue. These people use bots and computer algorithms to buy up huge blocks of tickets and then jack up the price so that fans of live entertainers like Mr. Richie, I almost called him Mr. Rock, don't have access to concerts the way that they should. And when they do, it's at exorbitantly high prices. So what this executive order does, it charges the FTC and the Department of Justice with rigorously enforcing laws on the books in collaboration with state attorneys general that have power over consumer protection and other people who have the power to really crack down on this issue so that entertainers and fans won't be subject to these abusive and oftentimes illustration legal practices.

[Brian Shimming]

Good. Thank you very much. Bob, you want to say something?

[Shannon Bream]

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