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Donald Trump
This is an iHeart podcast. You, President Trump. Thank you. Sure. Thank you.
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Cash Patel
Thank you, Mr. President. So this is a great day. And I think there's stats that the director talked about which are important, but I want to give two examples of what Summer Heat has done that, that actually will apply hopefully to everybody in this room. The first is, for over four years, during the last administration, there was a hotel in a town, the middle of a town in Alaska that was being run as a drug den. There were over 1,000 calls to 91 1. Over four, four and a half year period, there were multiple violent crimes, drug dealers, overdoses, and murders at this one hotel, ruining a community. Summer Heat went in there, not only arrested all the participants that were controlling the hotel, but seized the hotel. And so that's one example of what Summer Heat means to everyday Americans that just want to live in peace. The second example is a large narcotics trafficking group that was selling fentanyl in the state of Washington. They were shipping fentanyl using commercial aircraft, putting fentanyl pills and powder onto. In suitcases, flying them from the southwest border, mostly Arizona, all the way to Washington. It had been going on for an extremely long time, and the entire organization was arrested. And I say those two examples because it's easy to look at the board and see a thousand arrests. How much different is our communities now compared to the past four years? But there's actual life examples. Every one of these arrests means that our streets are safer, and that's, that's because of the work of this administration of President Trump and, and Director Patel. So I will tell you, Attorney General Bondi and I are together every day with Director Patel, figuring out ways that we can continue to do this work. And, and it's not going to stop. Like, like the Attorney General said, like the President said, this is just the beginning or phase one, or start, whatever you want to say, but it will continue on. So thank you, Mr. President. And thank you very much, Director Patel. And Mr. President, just one last thank you from the men and women at the FBI. You found a way to get these individuals paid during a government shutdown. Our 1811 agents, on behalf of the FBI, it's a great debt that we owe you, sir. They're now allowed to pay for their families. So thank you.
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Donald Trump
And the military. That's right. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much. Any questions, please, Brian, go ahead. First of all, I know the feedback I'm getting from the American people, and they want to say thank you. Law and order is not an option in this country, it's a mandate. So I know the American people. Thank you for that. In terms of the guns that have.
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Cash Patel
Been taken off the street, do you.
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Donald Trump
Have a number of how many guns were taken away from someone that had a prior felony or a previous crime that perhaps we can prosecute that? Because I know that wasn't the case under Joe Biden.
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Cash Patel
We don't take guns off the streets of people that are allowed to have guns. So every gun that we're taking off the street, it's because it belongs to somebody who is not allowed to have it. Could be a felon, could be somebody who hears illegally. There's all sorts of conditions. But we, if there's a gun taken off the streets by the FBI, it's because the person who has it is not allowed to. It's not somebody who's lawfully allowed to have it. So every single one of those guns were taken off of people that are not allowed to have them.
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Donald Trump
And not including the FBI, all of the other agents. ATF alone since January 20th has removed.
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Cash Patel
Over 25,000 illegal guns off our streets.
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Donald Trump
Just since President Trump's been in office. Mr. President, if I could follow up.
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Pam Bondi
On that, could there be any further.
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Donald Trump
Conversation to have national concealed carry apply to actual DC like, if you had.
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Pam Bondi
A driver's license in Texas and you had a permit, of course you could drive.
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Donald Trump
Well, as you know, they've been talking about that for a long time. It's, it's an interesting question. A lot of people feel strongly both ways, but we are talking about that. Brian. Thank you, Mr. President.
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Cash Patel
On Venezuelan votes, I want to ask you, why not have the Coast Guard.
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Donald Trump
Stop them, which it is empowered by law to do? You know, this way you can confirm who's on the boat and ensure that they're doing what they, what you suspect? Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective. They have faster boats. Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world class speedboats and, but they're not faster than missiles. But we've been trying to do that for years. And so much of the drugs, 25, 30% would come in through the seas. Right now we have, I would say, none coming in through the seas. In fact, I don't know about the fishing industry. If you want to go fishing, a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing. We've almost totally stopped it by sea, but now we'll stop it by land. What's the next step? But it never worked. It never worked. When. When, you know, when you did it in a very politically correct manner, what's.
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Cash Patel
The next step in this war on cartels?
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Donald Trump
And are you considering options? Are you considering strikes on land? Well, I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control. We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found, and that. I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing. But we had tremendous amounts coming in by boats, by very expensive boats. You know, they have a lot of very fast, very expensive boats that were pretty big. And the way you look at it is every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000American lives. So every time you see a boat and you feel badly, you say, wow, that's rough. It is rough. But if you lose three people and save 25,000 people, these are people that are killing our population. Every boat is saving 25,000 lives. And you can see it. The boats get hit, and you see that fentanyl all over the ocean. It's like floating in bags. It's all over the place. And it's a tremendous. We're saving tremendous amounts of lives. Mr. President, on that issue, I know you've talked about. I have a question for you, and then I also have a question for Director Patel. I know you talked about having some distaste for Boston recently. Is this one of the cities that you might be looking into? And can you give us a hint about other cities that you might be. You're saying for where? For where? For Boston? Yeah, well, Boston has a. A bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. You know, most of them are low iq, but. And they're so bad. I mean, what's going on in Chicago is this. You think the guy would say, hey, look, we have a problem, Mr. President, could you come in and straighten it out? I could have that. We could have that done in a month if we had their cooperation. It's going to be done anyway, but we could have it done in a month. Yeah, Boston, she's got four areas that are, you know, wrong. And, you know, somebody said, would we take. Would we think about taking the World cup away from Boston if they don't straighten it out? And the answer is, yes, we have the right to do that with FIFA. So if we think that L. A is going to be bad, or we think that applies a little bit to the Olympics, too. But we'll talk about FIFA first. You know, FIFA is very Hot. If we think there's any reason that, whether it's Boston or anywhere else, that they're not doing their job, we're going to take that, those World cup games, and move them someplace else.
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Cash Patel
Thank you.
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Donald Trump
And then, Director Patel, there's been so many conspiracy theories swirling around about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Do you have any updates for us, especially in light of all the online content that everyone's been talking about?
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Cash Patel
The only thing we deal with at the FBI and the Department of Justice is facts. We delivered, at record speed a manhunt to capture Charlie Kirk's alleged session in 33 hours. If you put that in perspective, Luigi Mangian with a Boston bomber. They took them five days. And a police officer lost their life and their man on. We are running out absolutely every single lead. And the best thing we can do to honor my friend Charlie Kirk's life is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And that's what we're focused on, investigating the facts, not trading and conspiracy theories.
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Donald Trump
Okay. Mr. President, thank you so much. Thank you. In light of China's export curbs on rare Earths, do you view India as a reliable partner going forward? And are you planning to meet Prime Minister Modi in Malaysia? Are you open to talks in terms of. Yeah, sure. He's a friend of mine. We have a great relationship. He just said that two days ago. As you know, we have a great relationship. No, we were not happy with him buying oil from Russia because that lets Russia continue on with this ridiculous war where they've lost a million and a half people, by the way, Russia's lost a million and a half people. Soldiers mostly. This is a war that should have never started, but it's a war that Russia should have won in the first week, and they're going into the fourth year, and I want to see it stop. So I was not happy that India was buying oil, and he assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia. That's a big stop. Now I got to get China to do the same thing. You know, that is relatively easy compared to what we just did over the last week in the Middle East. Middle east was 3,000 years, and we got it done. This is three years, and I think we'll get it done. I think that Putin. President Putin, I think, is going to. I think he wants to get it done. We'll see. There's a great animosity between him and Zelensky. You probably have noticed, right? And it's I think it's hurting the process. Yeah, yeah. Please, Mr. President. Thank you. Curious, why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela and is there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged. Well, I can't do that. I authorize for two reasons really. Water. They came in because we had an open border policy. And as soon as I heard that, I said a lot of these countries, they're not the only country, but they're the worst abuser in. And they've entered their. They've allowed thousands and thousands of prisoners, mental institution people from mental institutions, insane asylums emptied out into the United States. We're bringing them back. But that's a really bad. And they did it at a level that probably many, many countries have done it, but not like Venezuela. They were down and dirty. And the other thing are drugs. We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so you get to see that. But we're going to stop them by land also. Does the CIA have authority to take out Maduro? Oh, I don't want to answer a question like that. That's a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not really a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat, but I think a lot of other countries are feeling heat too. We're not going to let this country, our country, be ruined because other people want to drop, as you say, their worst. They have given us their worst. They've loaded up our country with prisoners, with mentally ill people that are seriously ill, criminally ill, and we're not going to take it. And so, I mean it's just one of those things. And I can tell you we've taken care of the sea. There's nobody. And we're watching, we're watching. And if we see it, we'll save it. Yeah, please. On the ships though, sir, there are Republicans and Democrats up on the Hill concerned that in the briefings they've gotten about those attacks, they're not necessarily getting information about who was on them and what exactly was on those ships. Can you. Well, but they are giving information that they were loaded up with drugs. And that's the thing that matters. When they're loaded up with drugs, they're fair game. And every one of those ships were. They're not ships, they're boats. They're speedboats. They're extremely fast, record setting type speedboats that cost a lot of money and they have a Lot of money because they're drug sellers. But they know one thing, and they all have the same thing in common. There's. There's drug dust. They call it drug dust. They call it fentanyl dust. All over the boat after those bombs go off. And you can take along that. They're. We know. We know before. We know when they go out, we know. We have much information about each boat that goes out. Deep, strong information. Yeah, please.
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Pam Bondi
Sir, you're going to have Zelensky here this week.
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Cash Patel
What is your message at this stage.
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Pam Bondi
Of the war for him and shy.
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Donald Trump
Of tomats to who is it for.
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Cash Patel
Zelensky, shy of Tomas for Ukraine.
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Donald Trump
Are you considering other options?
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Cash Patel
And will you speak with Vladimir Putin?
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Donald Trump
No, we're looking at other options. We are. President Zelensky is coming in. I'm not a fan of the war. I'm not a fan of the way it started. It should have never happened. It wouldn't have started if I were president. The election was rigged, and because of that, we lost. A lot of lives have been lost because of that war, not American lives. But if I can save a lot of lives, that's why I'm in it. I want to save lives. I've had eight wars. The Prime Minister of Pakistan got up the other day, said so beautifully. He says you saved millions of lives. He told that to a group of people right in this office. He said the president saved millions of lives. And I think what he's referring to is the fact that that would have been with India, nuclear war. That was getting very close. You know, seven planes. They don't talk about it, but seven aircraft were shot. In fact, we have the new ambassador to India right here. They're well represented. You better represent us, not them. Okay, but Sergio is going to do a great job. He's going to do a great job. But, no, we'll be talking about the war with. With him. And we'll be talking about. I mean, they want to go offensive. I'll make a determination on that. But they would like to go offensive. You know that. And we'll have to make a determination.
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Cash Patel
Given you have the FBI director and Attorney General here today. Jim Jordan has asked Jack Smith to appear in front of the House Judiciary.
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Donald Trump
You mean deranged, Jack. He's a deranged individual. Yeah. He's asked him to. Well, they should. I'm surprised it takes so long. You know, we're talking about violent crime. What about the crime against a political opponent? That's what we have to talk about, too.
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Cash Patel
Would like to understand the full extent to which the Biden Harris Justice Department weaponized federal law enforcement. What do you think the committee will find out?
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Donald Trump
I think it was the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world, let alone this country. And I hope that everybody's, you know, they're involved in it. I'm not. I'm the one that had to suffer through it and ultimately win. But what they did was criminal, deranged. Jack Smith, in my opinion, is a criminal. And I noticed his interviewer was. I think that was Weisman. And I hope they're going to look into Weisman, too. Weisman's a bad guy, and he had somebody in Lisa, who was his puppet, worked in the office, really as the top person. And I think that she should be looked at very strongly. There was tremendous criminal activity having to do. If we don't have fair elections in this country, we're not going to have a country. And I've said it from the beginning, fair elections and border borders. And we need also fair press, because if you don't have fair press, it's very tough. And we've got the strongest border of anybody. Nobody has a border. We have a border where the numbers just came out again. You saw zero people came in illegally. Now, we do take people into our country legally, but zero people. But, you know, you're talking about a different subject. You're talking about political crime. They have committed massive political crime. I hope they're looking at Shifty Schiff. I hope they're looking at all these people and I'm allowed to find out. I'm allowed to, you know, I'm in theory the chief law enforcement officer, but I have a very good, talented group. This is about something else. But I hope they're looking at political crime because there's never been so much political crime against a political opponent as what I had to go through. They raided my house in Florida. It was an illegal raid. I have a lawsuit that was doing very well. And when I became president, I said, I'm sort of suing myself. I don't know what. How do you settle the lawsuit? I'll say, give me X dollars. Right. And I don't know what to do with the lawsuit. It's a great lawsuit, and now I won. It sort of looks bad. I'm suing myself. Right? So I don't know. But that was a lawsuit that was very strong, very powerful. They raided illegally my house in Florida, Mar a Lago. They went through the drawers of my young Son, they went through all of the cabinets and drawers of the first lady. She walked in, she said, wow, what happened? Because she's very meticulous and this wasn't so meticulous as she looked into the drawers and she saw everything a mess. It's what they did against a person that just got out of office. And then you look at these corrupt people, you look at Hunter Biden, you look at the signature as an example, the Yodo pen. I just signed so many different things. An admiral, a four star general. I'm signing them left and right, the commissions. And by the way, I want to compliment John Thune and also Mike, our great speaker. But John Thune, all of a sudden I'm getting these things by the hundreds. I was getting one every two weeks. It would have been four years before you got him in war. You would have had some that didn't even get in. All because of Democrat obstruction. So John Thune did a great job. I signed, I must have signed 200 into the administration. We're just about caught up. It's amazing. And so compliments to John. He had to do some things that were very tough to do that he didn't want to do, but he was forced to do it by the Democrats. And as far as the shutdown is concerned, this is a Democrat Schumer shutdown. And he's trying to do it to get relevance back into the party. Because he's a loser. I've known him all his life. He's always been sort of a loser, but an intelligent one. But I think he's losing IQ points with time. I think that happens. I hope it hasn't happened with me. I know if it did, you guys will let me know about it. Very quickly.
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Cash Patel
Sir, here in D.C. a judge has given the two teenagers that beat up ex doge staffer big balls.
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Donald Trump
Probation. That's incredible.
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Cash Patel
No jail time. Is this justice?
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Donald Trump
Jeanine Pirro is doing a fantastic job and she is beside herself because you have these radical left judges that they beat the hell out of this guy. And it was many people against this one guy who was really trying to protect his girlfriend. He didn't want to hooded over the door because. But they really beat him up badly. That just happened, right? Wow, that's terrible. I think the judge should be ashamed of himself. That's a big problem. You know, they can do their job and then they go into a court and the people are protected by these. I don't know where they come from. Where do these people come from? Where did the Judges come from. I want to compliment on behalf of Pam and Todd and all of us because Cash, I think that Jeanine has done a fantastic job. And the case I heard was like flawless. It's a flawless case. They have them on tape, they have everything. And then a judge gives them a little probation. These are, these are rough guys and they're young. And if that happens, they're going to grow up, they're going to be real bad. They're going to cause, they're going to cause a lot of problems. Yeah, please, go ahead. Has just gotten back from India. What were the conversations like with Prime Minister Modi and the other. I think they were great. He reported to me that you're great. He's a great man. You know, Modi is a great man that he, he loves Trump. Now, I don't know if the word love, I don't want you to take that any different. I don't want to destroy his political career. Okay. But you have to understand, I've watched India for years. It's an incredible country. And every single year you'd have a new leader. I mean, some would be in there for a few months. And this was year after year after year. And my friend has been there now for a long time and he is, and he's assured me there will be no oil purchased from Russia. I don't know, maybe that's a breaking story. Can I say that? Would you say there will be no oil? He's not buying his oil from Russia. It started, you know, he can't do it immediately. It's a little bit of a process, but the process is going to be over with soon. And all we want from President Putin is stop this, stop killing Ukraine's and stop killing Russians because he's killing a lot of Russians again. It doesn't make him look good. It's a war that he should have won in one week and he's now going into his fourth year. That does not look this, make this big so called war machine look good. But he could make a settlement. We're willing to settle. I thought we had a deal. The hatred of the two leaders is very, you know, it's an obstacle. It's an obstacle. There's no question about it. But I thought we had a deal two months ago. Who would think I created peace in the Middle east and can't get the two guys to settle, But I think we'll get them. But if India doesn't buy oil, it makes it much easier and they're not going to Buy. They assured me they will, within a short period of time, they will not be buying oil from Russia and they'll go back to Russia after the war is open over. Jennifer, on the shutdown, sir, are FBI officials being paid right now?
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Pam Bondi
Are all the FBI employees being paid.
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Cash Patel
And are all the.
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Donald Trump
Well, that's what I understand. I hope so.
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Cash Patel
Thank you. Thanks to your great work, Mr. President. Special agents at the FBI are going to receive their paychecks.
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Donald Trump
Got a lot of people paid. Actually, we got the people that we want paid paid. Okay? And we want the FBI paid. We want the military paid. We got the people that we want paid. And I'll tell you, the Democrats, they don't talk about this. You know, we're getting rid of programs that we didn't like, but that were negotiated in, but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs, and they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis. And it's thousands of people, and it's. It's, you know, billions of dollars. We're getting rid of a lot of things that we never wanted because of the fact that they made this stupid move and they don't want to talk about it. You know, they have their day coming up. I hear very few people are going to be there, by the way, but they have their day coming up, and they want to have their day in the sun. But they should really make a deal. So what we're doing, I mean, they call him Darth Vader, but he's actually a very nice person. Russell Vote, but Russell Vote is. Is really terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects. There's not only jobs. I mean, the project in Manhattan, the project in New York, it's billions and billions of dollars that schumer has worked 20 years to get. It's terminated. Tell him it's terminated, Jennifer. All right, Mr. President, Hamas. Sir, what is your understanding of the pace of returning the deceased hostages? Are you. Please. Well, they're looking for. Absolutely. They're looking. So we have the living hostages all back. They returned some more today. It's a gruesome process. I almost hate to talk about it. So. But they're digging. They're actually digging. There are areas where they're digging and they're finding a lot of bodies. Then they have to separate the bodies. You wouldn't believe this. This is. And some of those bodies have been in there a long time, and some of them are under rubble. They have to remove rubble. But there are graves, and some are. Some are in tunnels that are. That died in Tunnels that are way down under the earth. And the tunnels are like three feet. Can you believe it? Three feet high. They lived like this for a long period of time. It's a horrible. It's a horrible atrocity. At the same time, we, meaning Israel. But I knew everything they were doing. Pretty much I knew most of the things they were doing, but they've killed probably 70,000 of these people. Hamas and I said, it's time now, so we'll see what happens. We'll also see what happens. Your next question is going to be the weapons. We want the weapons to be given up, sacrificed. And they've agreed to do it. Now they have to do it. And if they don't do it, we'll do it. We had the head of CENTCOM today suggest that Hamas needs to hurry up.
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Cash Patel
And disarm and follow your comprehensive plan.
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Donald Trump
That it was the head of CENTCOM saying that. Is that not a signal to Hamas.
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Cash Patel
To the rest of the world, that.
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Donald Trump
At some point the US Military more directly engaged, we won't need the US Military. So then why haven't. We won't need it? Why not just need. Because we're very much involved in it. If we weren't involved, there wouldn't be peace. If we didn't destroy the nuclear capability of Iran, that deal would have never happened for two reasons. The Arab nations would not have felt bold enough to do it. Because you have a very powerful, at that time, Iran, it's not powerful anymore. Between what we. What Israel and US did, because, you know, the attack was. Was, if you look at it, we helped them very much. They will be the first to tell you. Including shooting down thousands of drones that were coming into Israel. You know, we shot them down. We were shooting them down like it was target practice. But we shot down thousands of drones and missiles also going into Israel. But between what we did to Iran that way, with the, you know, conventional, we will call it, and what that beauty. See that beautiful plane, that B2, I noticed it on the desk. I always thought it was beautiful, but I never understood it. Now I understand it took in hundreds of thousands of bombs in the form of two. But hundreds of thousands of pounds of bombs and every single bomb hit perfectly. Then they sent Tomahawks and they sent 30 tomahawks on top of it. And that was totally, you know, CNN said, well, maybe it wasn't as bad as, you know, as Trump said, because I said obliterated. Obliterated is not a strong enough word, actually. And you saw the atomic energy Commission came out and said the word obliteration is very, very. Think of it. They came in under potential fire. They entered Iran airspace late at night in the dark, no moon. The moon was low for a reason. Was what time we picked it, couldn't see anything. And they hit every target. And they weren't hit. Nobody saw that plane. That plane is stealth. Nobody saw. The problem with that is it may be stealth today, but tomorrow it won't be. And we just ordered about 20 brand new B2 bombers. It's unbelievable as a weapon. I know Putin, when I was riding with him in Alaska, we passed a lot of them. And he said, that really did the trick. I said, yeah, it did. It's amazing, the flying wing. Are you seeing no reason for the US Military to get involved in Gaza? No, I don't see that. No. I don't think we're going to handle it very well. We'll be helping Israel, but we have other countries that are now, you know, we signed. Many, many countries signed, and many of those countries relatively, are very strong military powers. And Hamas has no support. See, Hamas had the support of Iran, and now Iran says, don't get us involved. The last time they got them involved didn't work out too well. So they used to have the support of Iran. Today, Iran is. They're trying to survive. You know, when I heard the reports two weeks ago, Iran's looking to build a nuclear weapon, I said, don't worry about it. They got a lot of things they want to do before nuclear weapons. I said, the last thing they want to do is a nuclear weapon. It didn't work out. And if they did a nuclear weapon before they got even close, that site would be attacked and it would be wiped out. Yes.
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Cash Patel
Mr. President, you're meeting with President Xi.
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Donald Trump
In a few weeks. Yeah. If you can't come to an agreement or a deal at that meeting, are we in for a sustained trade war with China? Well, you're in one now. Look, we have 100% tariff. If we didn't have tariffs, we would be exposed as being a nothing. We would have no defense. You know, they've used tariffs on us, but we've never had anybody sitting in that chair that felt the need to do it. And they've allowed us to be $37 trillion in debt, et cetera, et cetera. We. Tariffs are a very important tool for our defense, for our national security. If we don't have tariffs, we're not going to have national security. As an example, if you look at Pakistan and Iran. I told them I was in the midst of negotiating a trade deal with actually with Iran, and Pakistan was going to be in line. And because of tariffs, they all want to negotiate much differently and we're making a good deal. And then I heard that they're shooting at each other. And I said during one of my conversations, are you guys going to go to war? Two nuclear powers we are thinking about. I said, here's the deal. You go to war, I'm going to put a 200% tariff. I'm going to stop you from doing any business in the United States. I said it to both of them. Within 24 hours, the war ended. That would have been a nuclear war. And again, the prime minister of Pakistan who was here two weeks ago, said that that man saved many millions of lives in front of a whole group of people because he thought it was going to be war. But when it came to war or having to pay massive tariffs, the tariffs overrode. That's why it's so important. Not only the money, we're taking in trillions of dollars. Not only the money, the power to keep peace, the power to be used for good is enormous. But a lot of people didn't understand tariffs. It's also made us very rich. We have a big case coming up in the Supreme Court, and I will tell you that's one of the most important cases in the history of our country, because if we don't win that case, we will be a weakened, troubled financial mess for many, many years to come. I don't even know if survival, you know, survivable is a good term. And if we do, we're going to be the most powerful economic country in the world. And all we're doing is using them as a defense against what's what took place. For many years. China would charge U.S. tariffs. It was incredible. But we weren't allowed to charge. We were so we're allowed to do whatever we want. We just had presidents that didn't want to do it for whatever reason, and it was nothing but. Of the eight wars, I was saying seven of the eight wars, I would say tariffs are directly responsible for me ending six of them, five or six without the tariffs. You have wars raging all over the world with the tariffs. Other than Russia, we have no wars out there. And we've made a lot of good friends, too. Tariffs are so important to our national security. If we don't have tariffs, we don't have national security. Our country would. Would suffer a level that because they use so strongly on us as an example, the European Union, they won't take our cars. They won't take our agriculture. They won't take anything. But they send their cars in. Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, by the millions. We don't send any cars. They don't take them. They were tariffing us out, agricultural product. They don't take our agriculture. They want their farmers to do it. I understand that, but it was very unfair. And they were tariffing our product. They're keeping out by using tariffs. And we didn't use them, but I used them. And now we made one of the great deals with your $650 billion they pay us, and we've evened it out. It's really a good thing to see. And you have to understand, they've all signed Japan, South Korea. I mean, South Korea, $350 billion up front. Japan, $650 billion. And they've all agreed to it. They're all happy. But before, it was a total ripoff. And if we don't have the use of tariffs, we have no national security. This country will have no financial security, will not have national security. And the people that brought the lawsuit are people that are aligned with foreign nations that are now being treated fairly as opposed to just ripping us off and ripping us asunder. So. But if we don't, if we are not allowed to use what other people use against us, there's no defense. It would be a disaster for America. That's why I think I'm going to go to the Supreme Court to watch it. I've not done that. And I had some pretty big cases. This is. I think it's. I think it's one of the most important cases ever brought because we will be defenseless against the world. Okay. Did you have one? Yes, please. Thank you. Mr. President, I want to ask you about the Georgia Senate race. I know it's very early, but there's several Republicans in that field that are.
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Pam Bondi
Vying for your endorsement.
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Donald Trump
A lot of good people in that field. Yes, I know all of them. Actually, I haven't made a decision on that. But you have some very good people in the Georgia Senate race. Well, governor has endorsed. I know the governor has. He's talking to me about it a lot. He likes that candidate a lot. And I understand that. I haven't made a decision yet, but I'm following that race very carefully. I think it's very important for Georgia to get a real senator, because the senator they have now is a horrible senator. He. He allows all the crime, all the borders you have open Borders. I mean, his whole philosophy is a disaster. That's not representative of the people of Georgia. I know the people of Georgia. I won Georg three times, but they say twice. Okay. I won it very big the last time, and I won it big the first time, and I won it big the second time. But we had criminals that didn't allow. I mean, they. I hope they're going to go into that. I hope they go into the votes which are being stored in Fulton county and take a look at a real look at those votes. Okay. Because I won it the second time, too. But I know Georgia very well. I love Georgia. Those people are great, and they deserve a good senator because the man they have now is a weak, ineffective person. Okay. By the way, you won Georgia three times. Yeah, I agree. Do you agree with me? He's the media. For someone that spends a lot of time in Georgia, I believe you won that. I really have a question. You know, the word believe isn't strong enough. Right. You know, there you go. It's true. I know. I won, too. Oh, we have the great Newt Gingrich. Newt, you agree with us. Good. Otherwise I'd have him dismissed immediately. You know, his wife, as you know, is becoming an ambassador to a great country. Calista. So congratulations. And we're going to take a picture. And the only reason I'm doing. He speaks so well of me. He said, I'll go down as the greatest president in history. And then he blew it. He said, I'm not sure if I put him above Washington or Lincoln. So I'm not that happy about that. Dude, I've got a question about the weaponization of the doj. The media often says your department is weaponizing the doj. That's the opposite.
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Pam Bondi
It's the opposite. Todd, you represented President Trump and probably the greatest weaponization of the DOJ by Alvin Bragg.
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Donald Trump
You know firsthand, if you can describe.
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Pam Bondi
What you saw under the Biden administration.
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Donald Trump
And how they weaponized the doj.
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Cash Patel
Well, I mean, I think it's hard to describe what happened those last four years against President Trump. Alvin Bragg, a local prosecutor, his office staffed by somebody from doj. Jack Smith, picked as a special counselor, staffs his entire office with DOJ prosecutors. And then there are countless things that happen, all, all in writing, most of them on the docket, that require no explanation except for a complete abomination of the place that the Attorney General and I run now and Director Patel. So when people talk about this department weaponizing, it's embarrassing because there's no scenario.
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Donald Trump
In which you can look at what.
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Cash Patel
We'Re doing, restoring justice, doing the right thing in every single case and say that that's weaponization, and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three years. I mean, you read these articles and giggle because it cannot be true that people really think that what they did to him, not once, not twice. I'm still counting three, four times. But we're the ones that are weaponizing. So this man is not weaponizing the Department of Justice. We're not weaponizing the Department of Justice. It's the opposite.
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Donald Trump
I mean.
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Cash Patel
And also, nobody questions what I'm saying, because it's true, because we all lived the past four years. So listen, they never want to bring.
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Donald Trump
Up the details, but I watch the fake news and, oh, he's weaponized. And he wants to send them to prison. He wants all these. They indicted me like five times. I took a mug shot. Who would have thought? It turned out to my favor because it was a good shot, but I had to take a mug shot. It's right out there in the door. New York Post, front page of the. Every paper in the world. I had a mugshot they wanted to send me. Nobody says that. They say he's acting very, very tough. He's acting unfair. Let me tell you, if they've been nice to anybody, it's to those criminals because they are so good, having to do with all of the things we're talking about today with violent crime. But if anything, I think this Justice Department has been so respectful of the law because the other Justice Department, with Rita or Lisa and all of that scum, real scum, what they did to the political opponent of a guy that has a seriously low iq. Now, in his case, it was low based on his career, but it got real low. Okay, it was descending rapidly. But what they did to go after his political opponent is legendary. Worse than any third world country, banana republic. And what we're doing is nothing. Are you kidding? Nothing. They write stories. Why aren't they doing this, this. And we'll leave. I don't have to leave it up to them, but I choose to at this moment, at least. But there's never been anybody treated in the history of politics. You know, they say the two worst treated presidents by the media, et cetera, was that man right there, the late, great Abraham Lincoln. And this guy right there, Andrew Jackson. They say Andrew Jackson was treated terribly. They give him number one and number two. But that was before I came along, Newt. I say I have number one times 10 nobody has been treated like I've been treated. And I did a great job. You know, we had a great first term and we had one of the most successful economies in history, et cetera. I rebuilt the military. We did a tremendous amount. The last part, we had a horrible thing called Covid and we handled that well. We made ventilators for nations every, all over the world. I mean, we did a great job. Probably never get credit for it. Look at the therapeutics, the regeneron, all the different things, the vaccines, all the things we did. We did a great job. But we had a focus on that. But we had this. We had the best economy in the history of our country. We're blowing it away right now. Look at the stock market hit another all time high today. That's 48 days out of the few days that I've served. 48 days have already hit record highs. And we have, maybe most importantly the number we have now, we're saying 17. It's over $18 trillion is being poured into our country. It's because of the election and because of tariffs. Without the tariffs, you wouldn't have probably 18 cents. It's because of the tariffs, because there are no tariffs. If they build in our, on our country, in our country. And they understand that. So we have medical companies coming over, we have the AI. We're dominating China in AI. Everybody said that's impossible. We're dominating. I'm letting these massive plants build their own electric generating plants. They're becoming utilities. In addition, maybe they'll make more money with that, who knows? But they're building their own electric because we have an old grid. You wouldn't be able to do that. And we're dominating China, we're dominating with AI which seems to be the new big thing. That's the new Internet, that's the new whatever. So we're very happy with the job we're doing. I'm very happy with the job they're doing. But when you tell me about attacking a political opponent, there's never been. And I'm a legitimate opponent. I watch my son, he's got the number one bestselling book. Now my son Eric, he's a wonderful kid. That guy spent so much time with subpoenas. He got more subpoenas than anybody in the history of our country. Think of it. And he's an innocent, good boy. He's a good kid. He's always been a good kid. All of my children are good. They went through hell. My children went through federal grand juries on A hoax. Think of it. You have Adam Schiff and Hillary Clinton and others make up a hoax and then wanting to put. So they know it's a hoax. And they go before the press, say Donald Trump Jr. Will go to jail because of what he's done with Russia. I'll never forget, I get a call from my son, Don, and he said, dad, I'm being accused of something with Russia. I don't know anything about Russia. He didn't know anything about. Think of it, how bad they are. They say he'll go to prison for the rest of his life. He knew nothing about it. On a hoax, the Russian hoax. Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. On a story that they made up. And they made it up in order to explain why Hillary Clinton lost an election that she lost by pretty good numbers. The second one, that this one actually, the second one was even better. But the third one, this one was too big to rig. It was just too big to rig. They would have rigged. They tried to rig it, but think of it. They want to send my children to jail, but they were after Don in particular. I'll never forget Adam Shifty Schiff, a total crooked guy lying in Congress making up a phone conversation that I have with you. Totally made up. Then when he heard it was taped, he wanted to disappear. And Nancy Pelosi went crazy because they wanted to impeach me based on the conversation that was made up when they heard the tape. Everybody, you know, I won it unanimously in the Republican Party. I got every single vote. Something that never happens, and I beat it. But think of it. They want to put my son in jail for something that they made up. So they know they made it up. And they say he will serve the rest of his life in prison. These are sick, bad people. And don't tell me about us going after them. If anything, where we've been very, very soft. I wouldn't be that soft, I'll tell you that. Thank you very much, everybody.
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Pam Bondi
All right, you're watching the Congress inclusion of President Trump in the Oval Office. He had Cash Patel there, FBI Director. He had Pam Bondi, the Attorney general, and he had Todd Blanch, the deputy Attorney general there. They were talking about all the things that are, that they're, they're bringing. And there was about a 30 minute Q& A session, but Trump was telling us all the things that they, they got in the plates and what they're doing and they're going. He actually brought it, widened it out to some Israel discussion, a little bit of discussion about what they're doing with the narco terrorists from Venezuela. There's a good amount of discussion about that that, you know, I think he's taken out his third narco terrorist boat yesterday, if I'm not mistaken. And he just went through the reasons behind it. Pretty interesting stuff there. Just like to note that he just does love the 4 o' clock hour. All right. Democrats are in a frenzy over the fact that the those on the left who have dedicated themselves, completely dedicated themselves to lawfare for the past, I don't know, eight years since Trump was originally running for president, 10 years or so. Well, they're actually themselves the real lawbreakers. And now that they're being held to account for their crimes, you know, because no one is above the law. Tish James. Right. They're promising to answer the so called lawfare with more lawfare. You really can't make this stuff up, folks.
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Donald Trump
We're going to call for accountability. And indeed, you know, the tables will turn someday. These people should recognize that maybe they're.
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Cash Patel
Not going to get prosecuted today, although.
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Donald Trump
We'Re looking at doing that. But they may get prosecuted after the.
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Cash Patel
Trump administration for the things that they.
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Donald Trump
Did because the statute of limitations won't have run.
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Cash Patel
There are so many different corrupt sycophants within the Trump administration, including but not limited to within the Department of Justice. Now, these people don't have immunity. And the reality is the statute of limitations is five years. And there will be accountability with the next administration, if not before, when Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives.
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Pam Bondi
We are making it clear that we're going into the majority a year from now. We have every intention to do that.
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Cash Patel
And so we will bring oversight, accountability. We will subpoena the Department of Justice, but also private actors who have done.
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Pam Bondi
These drug deals with the administration, college campuses, entertainment companies, law firms. And so accountability is. I find it fascinating that Democrats are like blaming Trump for this. Trump is the victim of the law fair over the last eight years, certainly last four years specifically. And to say that, oh, Democrats are all, if Trump doesn't just wait till we get power back. I will tell you, folks, this is the exact reason why elections have consequences in every single vote matters. Don't give them that opportunity because whatever Trump is doing, they will. They'll do it 10 times worse, which means every citizen is at risk. If you say something they don't like, they might haul your butt up into some courtroom and just bleed you dry trying to defend yourself. That's what they did with Trump. And they say they're going to go out even worse next time. Vote with your wallet, believe me. And yet another installment of Democrat having a total lack of self awareness. Quotein none other than Nancy Pelosi talking to fellow dishonest leftist hack Jen Circleback. Psaki says that the Trump family are a bunch of grifters and somehow says it without a hint of irony. Think about her and her husband making $300 million since she's been in Congress.
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Donald Trump
You wonder why the American people tolerate a grifter like this in the White House. A grifter family, they, they, you put money into their account and then they say you can buy chips, high powered chips from the United States. That's, that's again, that's an emolument. Cause of the Constitution.
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Pam Bondi
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, my dear. $300 million because you traded behind the Stock act, which means you cannot be thrown in jail for things that I would be thrown in jail for as a trader if I was trading on insider information within companies. You have the best Insider information in D.C. you make the laws. You, you'll know which companies will be affected by that. Therefore, your stock trading is highly successful. And I have to compete with that. Well, speaking of actual grifters, watch this sad little insurrection where House Democrats stormed the Capitol heading for Speaker Mike Johnson's office to demand he swear in Congresswoman elect Adelita Grijalva, even though he wasn't even there. So I have an opinion on this. Look, I don't know if you can swear that person in or not, but I will tell you that, you know, when you shut down the government, Trump should be able to make recess appointments. Right? Because those clowns are the ones who shut the government down. I'd love Trump to put in all his people, all his judges and whatnot. Recess appointment while they're shut down. I'd love to see that. I know it's not constitutional, but probably likely it's not constitutional while the government shut down to swear in a congresswoman elect. I know what you're doing. You just want that vote. Just want that vote. They need that vote. Tampon Timmy Walls, known as a big spending, high tax governor. His state lags behind the rest of the country when it comes to GDP growth. But Tampon Tim has the gall to critique the business acumen of our billionaire president who wrote the Art of the Deal.
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Donald Trump
Of all of Donald Trump's failures and the biggest myth that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business. And this whole policy around this is a failure. And the only way to get off this is, is to let the markets go back. And the IR is calling Democrats socialists.
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Cash Patel
When I am begging for free markets here.
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Pam Bondi
So, yeah, you, Timmy Walls, again, these politicians, they've never had to earn a paycheck because you, the taxpayer, have provided them their paycheck for sometimes decades. Like in the case of Tim Walls. Tim Walls, decades ago, got married, flew to China and he got married in China, by the way, and has lived his life off of Chinese support and the taxpayer support. Trump, on the other hand, made his billions, well, billion dollars maybe on his own. On his own. It's pretty high hypocrisy by you. All right, folks, do you owe back taxes? Are your tax returns still unfiled? Did you forget to file the extension? By the way, today's October 15th. That's the deadline. I'll say it's approaching very fast. End of business today. Time's running out. If you haven't gathered all your documents or made any estimated payments, you could soon be targeted by the irs. They can get this, garnish your wages, they can freeze your bank accounts, and this one, seize your property. But there's help available. Tax Network usa, a nationwide tax firm, has helped taxpayers save over a billion dollars in tax debt. They filed hundreds of thousands of tax returns and assisted thousands in reducing their tax burdens. And they can help you, too. Do, don't wait. There's no reason to wait. Visit tnusa.com ravrav or call 800-905-8000 for a 100 free consultation. In one short call, the experts at Tax Network USA will guide you through some simple questions to determine how much you can save. Take action now before it's too late. Visit tnusa.com rev or call call 1-800-905-8000. All right, take a look at this. This is the edge. Just three weeks ago, three weeks and four days ago since we launched. That is stacked. That's on that orange area is stacked against the average brand new YouTube channel. Ours is brand new. That's the average one. You didn't just come out of the box swing. You came out swinging for the fences. 21,000 views against the average of a couple hundred views. And the subscribers, the same type, 5 to 1 versus a typical brand new edge show. Amazing. All because of you. All because of you. And I appreciate it. Here's what I do. Go that on the screen, the QR code. Just take your phone, open the camera, aim the camera, that QR and just Hit the yellow. Yellow button. Will subscribe you. You're not getting charged. Anything will never be a penny. I'll never use anything other than sending you the weekly show, which is killing it. People are loving it. I appreciate you. I thank you for your support. I thank you for your watch, and I thank you for your subscription. We'll be back, folks. I'll do it again. Take a look at this chart very quickly. The subscribers are insane. We're hitting almost 2,000 subscribers in three weeks. It's. The average is like three or four a day. That's you. I'm thanking you because you are the ones who are doing it. Quick QR code screen. You can either hit that QR code with your phone, which is great, or just. YouTube.com Eric Bowling the Edge. Sign up, subscribe. No money involved. Just you getting the edge. It's insane content and I love you guys for doing it. I appreciate your support very much. Subscribing right there. Set your phone on that qr code or YouTube.com ericbulling the edge. Hit subscribe. It helps us out a lot. And you will get all the.
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Donald Trump
This.
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Pam Bondi
This is a platform. This isn't just a show. It's going to get really, really, really big. All right, let's do some voicemails. Mad Dog, talk to me. What do we got?
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Donald Trump
We got this.
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Cash Patel
Viewer says, God gives everything. Dems take anything.
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Pam Bondi
Okay, let's hear it, Eric.
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Caller/Mad Dog
I just passed through Asheville, North Carolina, today in a wonderful billboard that God gives everything. Democrats take anything. See you.
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Pam Bondi
Yeah, it's very good. Short and sweet. And I tend to agree with you. They will take everything they can get their grimy little hands on. Yeah, don't disagree with that one. By the way, we had an interview with Victor Davis Hansen. We're gonna air a few tomorrow, and we're talking about just that. It's gonna be good. Make sure you stick around for that one, too, Maddox. What else you got?
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Cash Patel
This one is Lisa Cook is doing mortgage fraud, too. Mm.
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Caller/Mad Dog
Hey, buddy. Giving you a big shot down here in Texas. Listen, I've been talking this idea about, you know, the same with Leticia. James is great. It's great. Call me also. But now let's go after this Lisa Cook. I think that's her name. She's with Ted. She's guilty. Doing the same stuff. Mortgage fraud. Just an idea, brother. You all keep powering. Bye.
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Pam Bondi
You know, you are so right, and I love what they're doing. They got Comey on the ropes now. He's been indicted. John Bolton indicted. This is amazing. This is fantastic. Letitia James giving Leticia a little taste of her own medicine. No one is above the law. Letitia James. Remember, she put that on her Twitter account. Nobody's above the law when she's going after Trump for nothing. She said he wasn't above the law then. Guess what, Tish? Funny thing about Democrat hypocrisy sometimes comes around, bites you in the backside. You know I'm saying? And also, this guy, this woman, Lisa Cook of the Fed, has been doing this. You want someone who's dictating the money flow in this country, cheating on her taxes? No.
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Donald Trump
Let's get rid of her, too.
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Pam Bondi
The guy's absolutely right. Another one. Mad Dog.
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Cash Patel
This viewer has some comments.
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Caller/Mad Dog
Oh, hey, this is Barn for Louisiana again, which you never put me on tv. Oh, you were bragging on your damn president. Your president done a damn thing for the working company, working people. You're bragging on him and goes up on this, goes up on that, when your ass is benefiting from it. What about the American average person? Every day starving to death because he's still giving all that away. The. All them damn illegals ain't done a damn thing, ain't put nobody in jail, abandoned. Oh, every day. Oh, I hear all this crap from y'. All. Y' all don't do crap for nobody. And I'm sick of it here. Now. How you gonna protect the American people? You don't protect us. That the people that vote for him. Oh, no, we're never gonna get justice. How about January 6th? Bowling? How about January 6th? What about those poor people? Those poor people ain't got no justice. And you sit up there and you sit, oh, well, my Bitcoin is going up this, that and other. When you get rich and all the rest of you sitting out there, damn, O stupid ass. You'll never put me on TV show fake.
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Pam Bondi
First of all, you don't even know where to start. Thank you for your. Thanks for that lovely voicemail, sir. Hope you're having a good day. My damn. Our president. Can I remind you, he's the president of all Americans. Oh, so. My damn president. As for the. He's still spending money on illegals. He's deporting as many as the federal judicial branch will allow him to. He's trying to deport him, and he's getting activist judges stopping him. The more we deport, the less we're going to support. Hello. Let's deport so we don't have to support. Right, Got it. Money I just talk money because I know a strong economy is good for reelection. It's good for the midterm elections coming up. We presidents typically lose the House in their midterm election of their presidency. We need to hold the House. A good strong economy will take that off the table for the Democrats. Remember when Biden ran up prices, the economy crashed. Prices were going up. We don't want that. We stopped doing that. And as for January 6, sir, there is no one bigger supporter. I can't say no one bigger. But real America's voice, I'm here. I support the January 6th, folks. I absolutely do. To the end of the day, however we can. It was BS Lawfare that they threw at them. They were treated poorly. We will fix it. Rav is very, very welcoming of January 6th, folks. Sir, I think you may not be watching the show. You might be watching MSNBC or something by accident. All right, I vented a little bit. But thank you for your comments. Always keep them coming, folks. We'll see you again tomorrow. War Room's coming up next. Have a great evening. I will see you again either here.
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Donald Trump
This is an I Heart podcast.