Co-host/Commentator (3:13)

Well, and you look at this, this is exactly in line with the Trump How Trump does business, how the administration does business. They don't give a flying fact about the Ukrainian people. They don't give a shit about the allies in Europe. They care about making money, and doing it in a corrupt way is just more fun for them. So when I saw this, I was like, oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense, because they don't give a shit about anything except self enrichment.

Host (3:37)

Okay, and then here's some analysis. Pop this up, Kylie. Gary Kasparov says, as I said in my Halifax speech a few days before this damning Wall Street Journal report, this has always been personal business for Trump, not national interest. It's how Putin turned Russia into a mafia state. And it's been Trump's goal from day one of his new unleashed administration. David Frum also has an excerpt from this article. For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy hatched before Trump's inauguration to bypass the traditional US national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat, but as. But as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. So before the swearing in, before the inaugurations, the Russians colluded to. They knew. They have the psychological profile, and I believe they have compromising information on Trump. But you can try to point Trump a certain way, but you have to bring in others to get them on board with doing something so stupid and dangerous and evil. And of course, because Trump is surrounded by men who love money more than they do human beings, they are saying, oh, look, we have all of these natural resources. Remember all that business about Greenland? They wanted these rare earth minerals. Well, Putin is now offering them all of these things so that they can make their AI machines that modest and conservative reports are saying are going to wipe out 40% of the American workforce. 40%. It was never the immigrants that were going to come take your jobs, you guys. It's always been the oligarchs.

Co-host/Commentator (5:30)

And here's the thing. About it. Trump. I cannot stress this enough. Trump doesn't give a. He doesn't give a about blue collar workers. He doesn't give a about white collar workers. He really doesn't give a about the billionaires. He gives a about what he personally can get. I mean, we've seen it with the crypto stuff and all his meme coins and all that. He enriches himself and he leaves everybody else in his wake up.

Host (5:54)

Okay, and then this is a really interesting analysis. Kylie, pop this up. This is by Sir William Browder, and he says the Wall Street Journal alleges that the real motivation behind Trump's eagerness to force Ukraine into an ugly surrender is the idea that a lot of people close to him can make a lot of money doing business and deals in Russia. If this is true, beyond the disgusting morality of this and the huge geopolitical risks that it creates, none of these people salivating over their future riches are going to make a penny and perhaps do a lot worse. I was once the largest foreign investor in Russia, and I can say with certainty that the Russians aren't going to let anyone profit in any way. They will talk nice at the outset to attract the investment, but once it's there, they will steal it, defraud, arrest, torture, or even kill to make sure that no American makes any money. I've seen it so many times, it's almost universal. So this shocking initiative is not only terrible policy, it's spectacularly stupid business. So this man, Sir William Browder, has done business with the Russians, and you hear this time and time and time again. Pumps has a college friend whose brother lived in Moscow, did a lot of business with Putin. He ends up in prison. And this is what happens. Putin pushes people out windows. He killed Alexander Navalny. So these short sighted, idiotic, ignorant businessmen like Witkoff and others, and Jared Kushner and others that think that they're going to go do all of this business with Russia and somehow it's going to be on the up and up. It's so stupid and it's so dangerous. And they're not thinking about the American public. And I want to also remind you, MAGA voters, MAGA Christians, I doubt any of you listen to this podcast, but I knew. I know we do have a few hate listeners. Why is it that the Trump administration is always colluding with war criminals for business? Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prince of Saudi Arabia, and Vladimir Putin. These are people that should all be in jail. These are all murderers, mass murderers, all three of them. And The Trump administration somehow is rushing to do business with all of these people because the more immoral you are and the more willing you are to not have a backbone and to fleece off of working class people and dehumanize them to make money, the better, the better candidate you are to do business with the Trump administration.

Co-host/Commentator (8:51)

Well, and I look at all of these officials from the US and compare it to what Sir Bowden said. Here's the deal. They all think they're special. They all think they're unique, they're the smartest, they're, you know, Scott Bessant is the magic gay. They're going to be the magic people that do all this business and they're going to be the first Americans to turn a profit because they are so arrogant and they don't know history and they don't look at anything except what's in it for me. So this is going to happen and they are going to find out as much as they thought they were super special, they're not.

Host (9:26)

Okay, so this is some really interesting analysis. So when it was revealed, all of this stuff about the peace plan, y' all remember we, I reported on it last week with Josh, that the points of the peace plan were from the Kremlin, were from Russia, and were not from the United States. Marco Rubio confirmed this and then backtracked. Well, now it's being reported that one of our former allies, and I say former allies because Western Europe is, they're not sharing information with us anymore. And they shouldn't because we have a bigoted, anti Democratic, compromised president surrounded by a bunch of white nationalists in the Oval Office. Our allies should absolutely should not share information with us. But they're the ones who leaked this to the American press to try to apply pressure to the cowardice, spineless Republicans like Moses, Mike Grindr Johnson in Congress. Well, what is Europe going to do if the United States keeps forging ahead to do all of these shakedowns with these Russian businessmen who in turn, everybody who's ever done business with Russia and Putin. These Americans that are playing this game are going to get so hard. But here's some analysis on Twitter that I think is interesting and worthy of a read. Yasmina tweets, if Trump chooses to legitimize Russian aggression, Europe is prepared to respond with economic force powerful enough to shake the American financial system at its foundation. This is per the Wall Street Journal. And then she goes on here to say, Europe is totally freaking out over Trump. They are convinced he's cooking up some Secret deal with dictator Putin that basically sells out Europe's security to Russia. They are not messing around this time. They're calling it a strategic emergency and they've got nuclear option ready to go. Their plan? If Trump gives Putin the nod, Europe is going to deliberately crash the American financial system. They'll do it by dumping trillions of US Government debt, which they all own. This wouldn't just be bad, it would be an absolute catastrophe, worse than the 2008 crisis. The result would be total economic meltdown. The dollar would tank, banks would freeze up, and the American borrowing costs would shoot through the roof. And politically, the fallout would be a guaranteed disaster for Trump and the Republicans, proving he picked a shady deal with Russia, whose economy, by the way, is smaller than Italy's, over the stability of the entire free world. And I'm going to read that sentence again because this is so important. The fallout would be guaranteed disaster for Trump and the Republicans, proving he picked a shady deal with Russia, whose economy is smaller than Italy's, over the stability of the entire free world. Basically, our president will collude with a war criminal, mass murderer, fraudster, and sell out all of Western democracy. She closes with, the message is simple. Europe doesn't trust the US anymore, and they are ready to hit them with a financial weapon if Trump steps one foot over the line.

Co-host/Commentator (12:45)

Here's the thing. Donald Trump is compromised. He's compromised by Putin. He's thinking, oh, I'm going to make a bunch of money. Witkoff's a complete fucking bozo. They don't know what they're doing. And Europe actually has serious problems with Ukraine going to Putin. They have, you know, the. Poland, the borders, all of that. So it is no surprise that they have a plan going forward. Because if we know it sitting in your apartment in New York City, they know it. They know Trump is going to cave like a cheap suit. They know all of these people are totally unqualified, and they know Putin's going to fuck him. So it doesn't surprise me. And they have, you know, they have physical interests to protect.

Host (13:27)

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Co-host/Commentator (16:37)

He's the most corrupt president in the history of the United States. It surprises me. Zero and one thing, he pardons criminals because he is a criminal. He likes the corruption. And I just want to say not only is he pardoning all these people, he also is they have owed hundreds or tens of billions of dollars to the United States for their corruption. He's wiping that off the table too. So they're not paying financially and they're not paying with criminal penalties. It's just, it's stunning, yet predictable.

Host (17:07)

Predictable because people voted for a criminal to be president of the United States. And when you vote for a criminal, you get a criminal president. And so we have the executive branch that has turned into a mafia style run organization that is colluding with other mafia style organizations. I'm talking about Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel, I'm talking about Viktor Orban's Hungary. I'm talking about Vladimir Putin's Russia, Bukele, El Salvador and on and on and on Saudi Arabia. This is an alliance that would make a traditional conservative Republican that wasn't brainwashed roll over in their graves like Ronald Reagan. And I just know so many Republicans from our home state of Oklahoma that would just be like, I just believe in national security and the Constitution and the rule of law. And when you think about how radicalized they've become and how far and how morally depraved they've become, I just think when you vote for Trump, the first time something slightly breaks, the second time it breaks even more. But that third triple Trump vote, it broke people at the top of the government to people in your family. When you saw what you saw on January 6th and you know that he's a convicted felon and you vote for him anyway, it broke something in people that I don't. It's going to take generations to get over that breakage because I have never seen somebody on such a mass scale like he's a cult leader. And then you have millions of people whose whole identity is whatever this man says and will change. And they're so malleable morally, it's really repulsive. All right, buy our book. Life is a lazy Susan of shit sandwiches. Linked right below in the show Notes. Subscribe like comment to feed the algorithm and we'll be back later with more news.

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