RINGSIDE POLITICS WITH JEFF CROUERE - MAY 16TH, 2026

Summary

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Ringside Politics with Jeff Crouere — May 16, 2026

Real America’s Voice

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Jeff Crouere brings his signature “politics with a punch” to Real America’s Voice, examining current U.S. political issues, international crises, and cultural flashpoints. The show features interviews with thought leaders including General Wesley Clark, Dr. Torsten Trey (Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting), author Solomon Schmidt, and Michael Hichborn (Lepanto Institute)—each weighing in on national security, China, cultural controversies, the Catholic Church, and grassroots activism. Crouere also pushes for tangible political engagement through his Project Keep the Republic and invites listeners into ongoing debates on American values, security, and sovereignty.

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1. Grassroots Activism and the State of the Nation

Timestamps: [03:59] – [10:00]

• Project Keep the Republic:
  Inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s “A republic, if you can keep it,” Crouere highlights the importance of active citizenship:

  “…Never accepting defeat and we're never quitting. So we're organizing groups based on the days of the week…”
  — Jeff Crouere [05:14]

  • Outlines daily activism themes (Morning Prayers Monday, Cracken Tuesday, Sheepdog Wednesday, etc.).
  • Encourages listeners to start local groups and send updates/photos to his team.
• Political Engagement:
  • Urges signing a petition demanding immediate resignation of Senator Bill Cassidy.
  • Promotes transparency via slides and organizational plans available on his website.
• Upcoming Midterms Poll:
  • Polls audience on expected 2026 midterm outcomes.

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2. Spotlighting Conservative Heroes and Issues

Timestamps: [10:00] – [13:30]

• Pro-Trump Image of the Week:

  • Features listener-submitted meme about the need for a tough Attorney General.

• Champion of the Week:

  • Salutes the “Monumental Task Committee,” a volunteer group defending historical monuments “the left wishes to erase.”

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3. Current Political and Geopolitical Events

Timestamps: [13:30] – [20:00]

• Presidential Diplomacy with China:

  • Crouere supports dialogue with President Xi but condemns China's human rights abuses.
  • Urges continued U.S. support of Taiwan.

• Border and Security:

  • Praises 12 months without illegal immigrant releases, credits the administration's new “catch and release is over” policy.

• Military Policy:

  • Applauds canceling U.S. troop deployment to Poland:

    “I’d love to see all of our troops out… What does NATO do?...Why do we need NATO?”
    — Jeff Crouere [14:40]

• Foreign Policy Hot Takes:

  • Opposes “trolling” proposals to make Venezuela or other nations the 51st state.
  • Discusses Cuban oil crisis and regime change opportunities.

• Supreme Court News:

  • Cheers Supreme Court for upholding fairer congressional maps in Virginia.

• Louisiana Politics:

  • Analyzes Senate race and Bill Cassidy’s prospects.
  • Notes President Trump’s alternative endorsements in key Senate contests.

• Political Prisoners:

  • Celebrates reduced sentence and forthcoming release of Tina Peters, who he describes as a target of political prosecution.

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4. International Security and Iran: Interview with General Wesley Clark

Timestamps: [20:13] – [28:13]

• Rally for a Free Iran:

  “Ultimately… the way this has got to end is with the people of Iran taking charge of their own future. They've got to overthrow this regime.”
  — Gen. Wesley Clark [20:43]

  • Emphasizes internal revolution rather than U.S. military intervention.
  • Reports large numbers of protester casualties, advocates for arming Iranian resistance, but cautions against direct U.S. nation-building.

• Arming the Opposition:

  • Discusses failed weapon shipments intercepted by Kurds.
  • Believes Iranians must seize weapons from their military rulers themselves.

• On U.S. Strategy:

  “All the bombs and bullets in the world… it’s really up to the people of Iran to change this regime.”
  — Gen. Clark [21:14]

  • Envisions a post-uprising transitional government.
  • Advocates targeted military strikes to cripple the regime’s power, urges patience and steady U.S. support.

• Timeline Reality Check:

  “…when I ran the air campaign in Kosovo, it was 11 weeks…This is not Venezuela. So… stay with it.”
  — Gen. Clark [27:27]

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5. U.S.-China Relations and Trump’s Perspective

Timestamps: [28:13] – [31:57]

• Chinese Land Ownership & Students:
  • Plays recorded remarks from President Trump voicing skepticism about Chinese students and land investment:

    “China can’t be buying up farmland in this country. That’s… can’t be done. And I don't want any of these students in here because they're spies.”
    — Jeff Crouere [30:08]

• U.S. Role in Middle East Wars:
  • Trump remarks on why the U.S. is still involved in Mideast conflicts.
  • Crouere agrees the best solution is “for the Iranian people to overthrow [the] regime on their own.”

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6. Highlight: Young Conservative Author Solomon Schmidt

Timestamps: [32:48] – [39:44]

• Young Achievements:
  • Schmidt, 22, has published 10 books—including the “History Bites” series and upcoming J.K. Rowling biography.

  “I wanted to write a history book for kids my age to help them become excited about learning American history.”
  — Solomon Schmidt [33:02]

• JK Rowling Controversy:
  • Discusses Rowling’s public vilification for her gender-critical views and her shifting reputation:

    “She was the mother goddess of the left…Now a lot of those same people would be very troubled or concerned or angered by her stances.”
    — Schmidt [35:18]

  • Reveals sensational background: Rowling’s father allegedly involved in illicit activities; complex personal trauma fueling her stances.

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7. Forced Organ Harvesting in China: Interview with Dr. Torsten Trey

Timestamps: [40:30] – [46:58]

• Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting:
  • Medical NGO exposing and battling China’s industrial-scale harvesting from prisoners of conscience.
• Human Rights Evasion:

  “Human rights should be at the forefront to establish a real conversation…nothing good comes out of economic treaties.”
  — Dr. Trey [41:32]

• Scale and Suffering:

  “Estimates are that there are more than 20,000–30,000 prisoners of conscience being killed for organs every year.”
  — Dr. Trey [43:37]

• Industrialized Genocide:
  • Stresses that only China harvests organs systematically, with complicity at every institutional level.
• Profit and Control:
  • Patients: Wealthy Chinese & foreign transplant tourists.
  • Regime: Uses the practice for dissident eradication, not just profit.
• New Documentary Released:

  “Silent Harvest” tells the story—available at silentharvestmovie.com [46:50]

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8. The Vatican, Radicalism, and the New Papacy: Interview with Michael Hichborn

Timestamps: [47:00] – [52:47]

• Radical Influences at the Vatican:

  “The organizations that are heavily involved are self admitted communists…hammer and sickle, flag waving…supporting communists. Capital C.”
  — Michael Hichborn [48:21]

• Pope Leo vs Pope Francis:
  • Hichborn sees continuity of radical policies—socialist, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT activists at Vatican events.
  • Laments purported plan to excommunicate conservative Catholic groups while collaborating with radical leftists.
• Controversial Venues:
  • Describes Vatican event held in a leftist squatter venue festooned with Antifa and communist symbols.

    “To call a communist a champion of humanity is like saying that the wolves are champions of sheep.”
    — Hichborn [49:45]

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9. Listener Engagement & Final Moments

Timestamps: [52:47] – [End]

• Meme Review & Community Submissions:
  • Crouere shares listener-submitted memes lampooning political, media, and governmental figures.
  • Invites continued engagement—email, polls, radio shows.

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Notable Quotes

• “Never accepting defeat and we’re never quitting… that’s how you keep a republic.”
  — Jeff Crouere [05:15]
• “Ultimately… the way this has got to end is with the people of Iran taking charge of their own future.”
  — Gen. Wesley Clark [20:43]
• “She was the mother goddess of the left… now she’s become a hero to the right.”
  — Solomon Schmidt on J.K. Rowling [35:18]
• “It is genocide because it is focused on eradicating a population… Falun Gong practitioners for 20 years.”
  — Dr. Torsten Trey [42:26]
• “To call a communist a champion of humanity is like saying that the wolves are champions of sheep.”
  — Michael Hichborn [49:45]

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Key Themes and Takeaways

• Active Grassroots Engagement is essential to “keep the republic.”
• Populist critique of military, foreign policy, and “deep state” actors remains central.
• U.S.-China relations are fraught with human rights abuses, security threats, and cries for stronger protest from American leaders.
• Culture wars (e.g., Rowling bio) are viewed through the lens of free speech and “cancel culture” from the left.
• Catholic Church leadership is perceived by the right as captured by radical, globalist ideologies, sparking a new front in the cultural battle.
• Listener participation, meme culture, and alternative media form an interactive, activist community.

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For more resources, memes, and listener actions, see: [cruer.net] and [silentharvestmovie.com].

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End of summary.

Transcript

[Jeff Cruer]

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[Jeff Cruer]

Good day everyone. Jeff Corayer here. Welcome to Ringside Politics on Real America's Voice. Another stellar show, folks. Awesome guests, interesting clips, lots of topics we've been preparing. So let's welcome our friends joining us on Pluto TV channel 240, Dish Network, channel 219, the Roku channel, Roku and Vizio. All platforms associated with the Real America's Voice app, AmericasVoice News, Samsung TV Plus, Channel 1175, Freecast Channel 106, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and our friends online on Getter and True Social. Good to have you on board. You know when the 2020 election was stolen and it was stolen and we all know it was stolen, we started here a project that many others didn't do. It's called Project Keep the Republic and it's still rolling along. We're very happy to have people participating with it. And here it is. It was inspired by the end of the Constitutional Convention when Benjamin Franklin was asked, what kind of government have you given us? He replied, madam, a republic if you can keep it. Notice he didn't say democracy. What does it take to keep a republic? Real tangible action. Adopting the warrior ethos, blazing the mission. First, we're never accepting defeat and we're never quitting. So we're organizing groups based on the days of the week. We have morning prayers, Monday release a crack and Tuesday Sheepdog Wednesday, Tech Tribe Thursday, and our favorite fraud Busters Friday. Now people ask, how do we get started? Just two or more people. Gather your group from friends, family, neighbors, co workers or classmates and get, get bigger. Start small, get bigger. And as you do, send me your photos and videos to [e-mail] we'll share them with our friends. Include a short description of your group and the action depicted. Now, if you want a copy of our slides or the detailed Sheepdog organizational plan, you can email [e-mail] or better yet, just go to the website crewair.net my last name.net just download it from there. Also on the website, a lot of other good stuff. Okay, we have got this could be the last day, the last day for our petition for the immediate resignation of Bill Cassidy. He's going before the voters of Louisiana today. There's a good chance they're going to bounce him out. So our petition has in effect worked because the voters of Louisiana are going to say no. But I'm still gathering signatures anyway for his immediate resignation. Maybe he'll just resign after he loses the election. So you can go on the website career.net and sign the petition. Also, my note from President Trump and photos I think you'll enjoy. My latest video is the US is 39 trillion in debt. The bailout of Europe must end. These countries need to pay for themselves. Of course. Information about my first book, America's Last Chance, and looking forward to releasing the second one. We've got our midterm election countdown clock. This is the biggest one of all, the one for all the marbles. 171 days. Subscribe to my new podcast, on the Air with Jeff Crew. Air, ranked by an independent group, number two in the state of Louisiana. Sign up for my free newsletter and I'd love for you to take our web poll. And here is the question. We've got a QR code. You can just click right on it and go right there. Here is the question. What will be the outcome of the midterms? Will it be Republican landslide, Democrat landslide, Republicans buy a little, Democrats buy a little. Or will it be split? We'll keep it up for a few more days. Cast your [e-mail] you can contact me on the site. We have a contact form. You can also do so via [e-mail] or how about on our social media sites Gab, Getter x TrueSocial, FCRurer or Facebook Ringside Politics. Okay, when we gather, we share our favorite pro Trump image of the week. And this one is encouraging whoever the new Attorney General is to take action. This is from Susan in California. Number of arrests, all those different categories, zero. So whoever is the next Attorney general, get working person. Is it going to be Todd Blanche? Is it going to be somebody else? There's a lot that needs to be done. A lot of criminals that are on the loose, folks. We also give a shout out to our Ringside politics champion of the week. This is a group working hard to preserve history, working hard to preserve monuments. It's a Monumental task committee. They do work all over the Gulf South. All volunteer, no government money. They do it because they love history. They love to restore monuments that leftists love to destroy. So they restore, restore what the left does and they do it all without any government money. So go to monumentaltask.org to learn more. You know, our economy the way it is, folks. We still got to diversify. We still got to make sure that we look at all the different options. And one that I would recommend to you is Birch Gold. That's why I recommend them, because they're the best. 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So I'm all for the President meeting with President Xi. I do not condone what China does. I do want us to continue to support Taiwan. Hopefully we will. We're going to have a guest on later talking about the organ harvesting that China is engaged in. So we can never turn away from the cruelty and barbarity, barbaric nature of that regime. President is planning another round of Strikes on Iran could be happening anytime. Israel will probably be joining us. This is the president's response to their no response to our proposal. So they're not taking it seriously. A good way to make them serious about it is to again deliver another military strike. We're going to be talking to gentleman former Democrat presidential candidate. He's got different views, but he certainly agrees that Iran is a barbaric regime. That's General Wesley Clark will be joining us a little bit later on the program. Trump administration is canceling a brigade of 4,000 troops being sent to a Poland. I think that's a good idea. I mean, I'd love to see all of our troops out of there and I know General Clark's going to disagree with that. But I'm just asking you, what does NATO do? Why do we need NATO? Why do we prop up all these countries, all these organizations? I know a lot of the neocons in Congress want us to send troops to Poland. I think it's a good move. I don't think we should. President has been floating the idea of Venezuela as the 51st state. I think he's just trolling people. I personally don't want to add any more states. Okay. I don't want Puerto Rico. I don't want Washington D.C. i don't want Canada, for goodness sakes. They're a bunch of liberal losers. Not the good conservatives up there. I'm just talking about in general and then or Venezuela or anybody else. Okay. Greenland. I think we're perfect at 50, to be honest with you. That's my view. Speaking of other areas that could be getting more influence from the U.S. cuba. The CIA director is now visiting there as the nation has run out of oil. It is a corrupt regime that can't take care of itself. It's been dependent on Venezuela and Russia. Russia sent a tanker of oil there. It's lasted them for a few weeks. Now they have no oil. They're in desperate straits. The administration is looking to work with them if they'll change their regime from communism and have something that is based on vote of the people and freedom. That's what I would love for Cuba. Good news at the border. We've had 12 straight months without any illegals being released into the country. That is a tremendous accomplishment. Catch and release is over. And it shows you that I think of all the good things that have been done by this administration, border security to me ranks number one. Good news the Supreme Court, folks. Virginia Democrats were trying to get the Supreme Court to overrule the Virginia Supreme Court decision which threw at the bias gerrymandered congressional maps. This is a state that has about 45% Republican vote and they were trying to create one Republican district out of 11. I mean, that is horrible. And thankfully, that was discarded by their Supreme Court and now backed up by the US Supreme Court. All right, today is a day in Louisiana for elections. Hop along. Bill Cassidy. You know, I've been talking about him for years on this show. He would never come on my radio show here in Louisiana after he voted to convict President Trump. He used to come on before and talk about how he was friends with President Trump. He ran ads saying he was a Trump guy and then he bought the stupid line about January 6th and voted to convict him. Then for years he said he wasn't the right Republican. Then finally when he won again, he claimed to be his friend. President Trump doesn't buy it. He's for another candidate in the race. Congresswoman Letlow, there's another candidate in the race, State Treasurer Fleming. Those two will make the runoff. So for President Trump, it's a win win situation. Both of them would be strong MAGA senators, especially Dr. Fleming, who is the president's former deputy chief of staff in South Carolina, though, unfortunately, Lindsey Graham, the president's endorsed candidate, is, is leading. This is crazy. That's one endorsement I just shake my head about. Just can't believe. But he's still around and the president probably will push him across the finish line again. And good news in Colorado, a woman who I had the pleasure of interviewing thrown in jail, had a horrible sentence, definitely targeted because of her beliefs. Tina Peters, her sentence has now been cut in half by the governor. She will be released on June 1 after she made an apology. I'm glad she is going to be released. I've heard horror stories about how she's been treated behind bars. And this fine lady will now be free in a few weeks. So glad to hear it. All right, want to tell you about tomorrow. We're going to be doing extensive coverage of rededicate 250. You know, it's part of the great celebration that we have here for our nation's 250th anniversary. So you're going to want to tune in for all the coverage right here on Real America's Voice. We're going to have a full day live coordinated production of all the activities there on the National MALL In Washington, D.C. it's going to be a national jubilee of prayer, praise and Thanksgiving. We're thanking God for our great country. We're thanking God for all of our blessings. Our coverage is going to begin at 9am Eastern and extend all the way to 8pm so don't miss a minute of it right here on Real America's Voice. All right, quick timeout. A lot more coming your way right here on Ringside. Jeff Carrera with you. We'll be right back.

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All right, we're very pleased to have a guest who had the pleasure of meeting years ago when he visited New Orleans. Today he's in Washington, D.C. just finished a big rally. He's a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Of course, I'm talking about retired four star General Wesley Clark, who's joining us here on the Ringside Politics program. General, how are you, sir? Welcome.

[General Wesley Clark]

Good, thanks, Jeff. Great to be with you.

[Jeff Cruer]

Tell us about the rally today, General. How successful was it?

[General Wesley Clark]

I think it was very successful. We had several thousand people here up by the Russell Office Building by the National Capitol and they've moved down through D.C. a lot of spirit, a lot of flags and broadcast all over the world and giving hope, we believe, to the people of Iran. Because ultimately, Jeff, the way this has got to end is with the people of Iran taking charge of their own future. They've got to overthrow this regime. You know, we can bomb, we can blockade, we can, I hope, take the Strait of Hormuz away from the mullahs. But ultimately, unless we change the regime, we're going to end up in a bigger problem later on. These people have been after us for 47 years. They've been very strategic. They've built their armed forces. They've built these elaborate missile complexes underground that we can't seem to take out. They've developed their missile program. They've got. They're going after nuclear weapons. I mean, it' swe're halfway there, but all the bombs and bullets in the world, it's really up to the people of Iran to change this regime.

[Jeff Cruer]

And I couldn't agree with you more, General. You know, back in January, I heard reports that they killed up to, what, 50,000 protesters, just a brutal slaying of those who were protesting this insidious regime. Are those numbers accurate?

[General Wesley Clark]

I think they're accurate. Nobody knows for sure, but certainly more than 30,000. I heard higher numbers. I heard up to 90,000 at one point. No one knows really, but people are really intimidated by the regime. They've got the guns. Nobody else does. And so I think the time for peaceful protest is over, really. I think the people in Iran are fed up with this. I think they're going to move to a series of armed uprisings.

[Jeff Cruer]

So let me ask you about our role, because, you know, we haven't had a very good track record, as you know, General, as far as nation building, as far as Iraq and Afghanistan and so many other places. So the president had talked about trying to get arms to the Iranians, and he said that the Kurds confiscated them. What do you know about that?

[General Wesley Clark]

I think that's true. I think the Kurds had their own interests and they've been betrayed by the United States once before. So they know they're a threat to Turkey. They're a threat to the regime in Tehran, too. And they're a big group of people who've been stateless for more than a century. And so the other countries look at them and they go, no. So, yeah, the Kurds like the arms. They kept them. But I think there's plenty of arms in Iran. You just got to take them away from the Basij and the Iranian military and ultimately from the irgc. And I think that's happening. It's going to happen more and more.

[Jeff Cruer]

So we got to arm the people that will rise up against this regime because obviously this regime is a murderous, evil regime. Can we do any kind of deals with people like that? Can we trust any kind of deals with people like that, General?

[General Wesley Clark]

You know, I think if you went to Tehran and you said, look, why do you people want to kill millions of people in Israel and attack the United States? And why, why, why? What's what's it all about? This is crazy. Why are you doing this? You know, maybe you get through, but the odds are you wouldn't get through. And so we're in this loggerheads and really the only answer to this is got to get rid of the people in charge in Iran. And it can only be done by Iranians. We can't go in there and do it. We know that. We know we can't do nation building. You can't, you cannot build someone else's nation for them. I can just imagine putting a battalion of troops in there and, you know, nobody speaks Farsi, nobody knows what's going on. We just played this game in Afghanistan. Didn't go too well. Iraq, didn't go too well. Let's don't repeat it. But these people can get their own arms. They're smart. And this is a civilization that's an ancient civilization. It's historic. They're well educated, got 92 million people and maybe there's a million people who are against them, maybe, maybe less than that. And they found out that peaceful protests don't work. Okay, take them down, get the arms, right? You take them down. We don't have to drop arms in there. We don't want the CIA in there dropping arms and all that stuff. Let the Iranian people themselves do it. They're capable of doing it and then they own it and then they'll be responsible.

[Jeff Cruer]

Okay, so I think there's a program,

[General Wesley Clark]

yeah, I think there's a program under the mek, the National Council on Resistance for Iran, that calls for a six month democratic transition, elections and so forth. That's the right program. And I think people want it, but they're going to have to fight for it.

[Jeff Cruer]

So how do we help? How do we help these people in Iran that want to bring freedom to their country to get rid of this murderous regime? What's the best way that the US can assist those people?

[General Wesley Clark]

Well, I think we need to go ahead and finish what we're trying to do with the air campaign. I think we've got to get the strait open one way or the other. I think we have to protect our allies in the Gulf. I think when we take military action again, which I think the President will, we've got to make sure we protected the people who count on us and invested really billions and billions of dollars in the United States for that protection. So take your time, get it right and then start. But we've got plenty of military targets that have been refurbished. Go after those. I'D say leave the energy stuff alone. If you want to occupy Carg island or cut the pipelines, yeah, feel free to do that. But don't blow up everything in the country. Focus on the military stuff and get the strait open. That's the most important way you can take leverage away from the government. Once they lose control of the strait and the Iranian people see they've lost it, and they understand the United States is not going to let them get a nuclear weapon, they're going to overthrow this government, and that's the real solution.

[Jeff Cruer]

And in my final 30 seconds with you, General, what kind of timeline are we looking at here?

[General Wesley Clark]

I think we've got to be patient. You know, when I ran the air campaign in kosovo, it was 11 weeks, and that was just against a little Serbia of 10 million people. So you can't snap your finger and think it's going to be like Venezuela. This is not like Venezuela. So I think, I hope the President will come on tv, explain to the American people the importance of this. Stay with it. Keep our Navy out there, keep our air force in readiness, put the budget behind it that needs to be, develop the drone technology we need so we're safe from these fiber optic drones that they're bringing in from Russia, and then squeeze. Cut off the supplies from Pakistan, cut off the Russian supplies, the Chinese supplies, keep the blockade in place, cut off the money, and let the Iranian people do the work.

[Jeff Cruer]

General, it's been a pleasure. Good to see you again, sir. Thanks for being with us here on the Ringside Politics program, and thank you for your service, sir. Okay, General Wesley Clark with us. Very interesting points on what we need to do there in Iran. All right, the President just got back from China discussing some of the things that have been sort of controversial. Chinese buying farmland, Chinese students coming in here. Let's see what the President had to say. Let's go to clip number one.

[DISH Network Advertiser / Clip of President Trump]

I would assume I'm in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of their military installations. I don't think President Xi wouldn't let you. I don't. Look, it's not that I love it. You want to see farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market. But they've had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot of it during the Obama administration. He did nothing about it. As far as the students, it's 500,000 students. They come, good students. I could tell them, I don't want Any students is a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China. But if you don't have those students, good students, by the way, if you don't and we do another thing, you know, if they're good and they want to stay in America, we won't give them a green card and things like that, you know, I. And that not only them, but other, other countries. But if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it and you know, the ones that won't be hurt are the top schools. The top schools will do fine, but your lower schools, your lower, the ones that don't do quite as well, those two, they'll be dying all over the place.

[Jeff Cruer]

I mean, I just opposed to both of those ideas. China can't be buying up farmland in this country. That's, that's, that can't be done. And I don't want any of these students in here because they're spies. And if some of these schools have to close, so be it. They're indoctrination camps anyway. There's no education going on in most of these schools. They're indoctrinating. So we'll see. But this is something that have to say I'm definitely opposed to. Let's check out what the President had to say about the war. Let's go to clip and number two,

[DISH Network Advertiser / Clip of President Trump]

we don't need it. We don't need it at all. We don't need it at all.

[General Wesley Clark]

Fair enough.

[DISH Network Advertiser / Clip of President Trump]

So I mean, you could make the case, you know, like, why are we even. We're doing it to help Israel and to help Saudi Arabia and to help Qatar and UAE and you know, Kuwait and other countries. Bahrain. It also helps China. We're actually, I told him today, I said, you know, we're helping you and we're helping you in another way because I don't think they want, I don't think China wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon either. I said this don't go crazy. You don't need them having a nuclear weapon. What did he say? What did he say? Well, he's not going to respond too much. He's a pretty cool guy. He's not going to say, oh gee, that's a good point.

[General Wesley Clark]

I think he might.

[DISH Network Advertiser / Clip of President Trump]

What's he going to do? What a wonderful point. You think he agreed? Yeah, I think that was the impression. I don't think he wants him to have. No, he would like to see it end, but he's been good about it, you know?

[Jeff Cruer]

Well, I think the best idea is for the Iranian people to overthrow this regime on their own. That's, that's the only way it's going to happen, as we discussed earlier. So we'll see where this goes and hope and pray for a conclusion where these tyrants are not in power.

[General Wesley Clark]

All right.

[Jeff Cruer]

A lot more to get to as we roll on. It's Ringside Politics right here in real America's Voice. Jeff Carrera with you. We'll be right back. All right. We're back. And you know, folks, I'm proud of the book I've written, America's Last Chance, working on my second one. It's not easy, but this guy that we're going to be bringing on, man, he is prolific. He's 22 years old and he's written 10 books. I mean, my gosh, I'm amazed. Including the History Bites series. And he's got a new one about a very famous author. Let's bring on Solomon Schmidt here on the Ringside Politics program. Hey, Solomon, how are you? Welcome.

[General Wesley Clark]

Great.

[Solomon Schmidt]

Jeff, thanks so much. Good to see you. Thanks for having me on.

[Jeff Cruer]

Yeah, Good. Good to see you. And congrats on all your, your books. I mean, my gosh, you started at this, what, at age 12? Tell us about it.

[Solomon Schmidt]

Yeah. So actually I wrote my first book from the chair in the room that I'm sitting in right now from my home in Buffalo, New York. I had a great mom who was always giving me books from the time I was very young and a dad who supported my passions. And I wanted to write a history book for kids my age to help them become excited about learning American history. So that was US History Bites, which I wrote from this room. There's 30 chapters that overview major events from American history from Columbus to modern day. And my goal was to make the books accessible for kids and not make them sort of a scary textbook sitting on a shelf getting dusty. So there's lots of pictures and fun facts and vocabulary and review questions in the sections. And I wrote eight books in that series before turning to a very different kind of book. I did a biography on Alan Dershowitz, which was a fascinating project. He's quite an interesting guy. And then most recently, I published or am releasing a biography on J.K. rowling, the author of Harry Potter, which is coming out next month, June 23rd, and which I'm really excited about. It's going to be the first complete biography of her telling her rags to riches rise from being a single mother. On welfare, battling depression and abuse and poverty, and becoming a billionaire, the world's first billionaire author and writing Harry Potter, through all this personal trauma and turmoil, which, of course, then led her to speak out in the recent years over the controversy over sex and gender in England.

[Jeff Cruer]

And correct me if I'm wrong, but because she's spoken out, she's really become, like, enemy number one to the transgender community. Right. In. In the uk Very much so.

[Solomon Schmidt]

There are crowds of people in London who will chant at concerts for her demise. Her death is called for in the same breath as President Trump. You know, same kind of people who were happy about Charlie Kirk getting killed are the same people who would like.

[Jeff Cruer]

And this lady and. And Solomon. This lady's no conservative, right? No, she's very liberal, isn't she?

[Solomon Schmidt]

She's very liberal. She was the mother goddess of the left, Jeff, for years. She was an icon of the left. She was, you know, finalist for Time magazine. She made Dumbledore gay, which was a. In some people's minds, a landmark moment in the cultural acceptance of the LGBTQ movement. She was the kind of woman who young. Young people would fall down in sobs when. When they were in her presence. And. And now a lot of those same people were. Would be very troubled or concerned or angered by her stances. But there's also an enormous amount of people who have found her intriguing, and now, of course, she's become a hero to the right side of the aisle. The interesting question to me was, why does this person who has everything to lose deliberately tank their reputation and legacy among the same groups of people that they've lived with?

[Jeff Cruer]

So, for her, she must feel it's a very important issue to speak out on. Right, that.

[Solomon Schmidt]

And it also ties, unfortunately, deeply into her personal life. She is a survivor of domestic abuse. There is a whole saga to her life involving her first marriage and a sexual assault she experienced in her twenties that directly led into her feelings about this. I actually interviewed her first husband in Porto, Portugal. I managed to track him down, and they had a very tortured relationship, which not only impacted her stance on this transgender question, but also Harry Potter and her further novels. She also. The origins of this go back to her childhood as well, with a very tortured relationship with her father, which is unfortunate, but played right into this because he wanted a son and she turned out to be a girl, which hugely impacted her psyche.

[Jeff Cruer]

And isn't there a big revelation concerning the kind of operation that the dad has? I mean, tell us about that. What. What has he been involved in? Solomon?

[Solomon Schmidt]

Yeah. So, Pete, who is J.K. rowling's father? It was kind of alluded to in one of JK's own books that he. He in some ways had a shady past. Not necessarily about this specific story, but it was broken by the New York Post yesterday from my book that it is claimed by a family member, a close family member, that J.K. rowling's father was running a large marijuana growing operation out of her childhood home, which has never been known before. And the. There were other things I stumbled upon during my research that were troubling to come across, but also interesting in terms of the background they provided on J.K. rowling's own family history.

[Michael Hichborn]

And did JK Rowling.

[Jeff Cruer]

Were you able to interview her, Solomon?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

No.

[Solomon Schmidt]

She told me early on through her team that it was nothing personal, but that she had no interest in authorizing a biography. And as I did my research without trying to read into her motives, it kind of became obvious to me why perhaps she might not want to revisit certain moments from her past. She's had a lot of trauma and troubled times in her past. And I, for whatever reason, over the last 25 years, there hasn't been a biography of her. And I explained her through her team that I was simply passionate about understanding how she created Harry Potter and the impact that her stances have had on the world. And there's billions of people that have been impacted by her, as she very well knows. And then during the course of my research, without trying to uncover dirt, I came across whole elements to her past and to her family's past that I wasn't expecting. And one of the main interesting things to me was JK published a novel called the Casual Vacancy, which, it turns out, contains deliberate allusions to her personal life, some of which will be revealed over the next few weeks as we get closer to publication date, and totally revealed in the book.

[Jeff Cruer]

Well, I'm excited to read it. I'm excited for all your success, Solomon, and we look forward to having you back on. I can't wait for all these projects to continue to roll out for you. We certainly applaud you for all your success, sir. And thanks for being with us, Solomon.

[Solomon Schmidt]

Absolutely. A real pleasure. Thanks for having me. Good to see you.

[Jeff Cruer]

Have a good day. Thank you, sir. You know, that's inspiring. That's fantastic. You know, that's. Yeah, that's really exciting news. All right, let's shift gears and talk about something that's not as pleasant, something that's horrible going on. You know, we talked to General Clark, about the Iranians, their dictatorship. There's another one that is, of course, the Chinese. The president, just back from that visit. And our next guest is the founder and executive director of Doctors against forced organ harvesting. Dr. Torsten Trey is with us here on the Ringside Politics program. Hey, Doctor, how are you? Welcome.

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Thank you for having me. I'm doing well. We had today our premiere of our new documentary, Silent Harvest. So I'm doing okay.

[Jeff Cruer]

Tell us about your organization, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting is a medical organization founded in 2006 with the intention to provide the medical community and the public about objective findings and information about forced organ harvesting, mainly in China. Forced organ harvesting is something that hasn't been really defined at that. At that time, back then, in 2006, we define it as the killing of prisoners or killing of people with a purpose to harvest their organs for transplantation.

[Jeff Cruer]

You know, the president just got back from China, and I don't know if this issue was addressed. I don't think it was. Should it have been, Doctor?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Of course, as far as I know, human rights violations were not addressed, and that's a big mistake in foreign policy when it comes to China. Human rights should be at the forefront to establish a real conversation. If two countries are not aligned on the same values, ethical values, then nothing good comes out of economic treaties.

[Jeff Cruer]

You know, this is a regime that has been brutalizing people within their borders for years. The Tibetans, Hong Kongers, of course, the Uyghurs. And I interviewed on my radio show a representative of that community, and he was explaining how severe this treatment is of this Uyghur population. It's been called a genocide. Would you agree, Doctor?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Yes, it is a genocide because it is focused on eradicating a population. But what is problematic here is that the genocide, the co. Genocide against Falun gong practitioners for 20 years is not represented. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice based on good values, on truthfulness, compassion, forbearance. They were persecuted in 1999, and over the past 25 years, a quarter century, and China has managed to divert the attention in terms of human rights violation, to divert the attention from the genocide against Falun Gong practitioners towards the Uighurst population. Of course, all genocides are despicable. But we cannot forget about the core genocide against falun Gong. In 1999, there were maybe 100 million people.

[Jeff Cruer]

Yeah, all of it needs to be addressed, right, Doctor? I mean, every. Every population that's being abused, how many individuals are being killed and how many organs are Being harvested. Do we have numbers?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

We don't have confirmed number numbers because it's very difficult to get concrete numbers from China. But the estimates are that there are more than 20, 30,000 prisoners of conscience who are being killed for organs every year.

[Jeff Cruer]

And of course, this is getting what, a little slap on the wrist? Do they ever pay any price for what they're doing? Is this the worst example of a country doing this in the world? Are there other countries doing this, doctor?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Well, when we talk about taking organs, there are other countries in other countries in which individuals or organized crimes certainly try to harvest organs, but it is never on an industrial scale, on a systematic scale. In order to do that, you need the whole country behind the practice so that police, judges, etc. Are not going after you. So only in China you will find this industrial scope of forced organ harvesting where not. It's almost like a clockwork where 200, 300 transplant centers get organs. Literally they can order it from detention camps and say, today I need a liver. Do you have somebody with a liver? And then that person will be killed.

[Jeff Cruer]

So they harvest these organs and then they're given to what preferred people in China? Members of the party. Who benefits from these forced organ harvesting?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Yeah, there are different groups who benefit from it. There are of course Chinese patients who are benefiting from it. However, the cost for transplant is almost like an annual salary. So there are not many Chinese citizens who can benefit from it then? Foreigners, that's a big issue. Foreigners pay a high price, for example, for liver or heart. They pay 300, $400,000 to get a heart or liver transplant. And then there's another group, as you said, those are the political leaders within the ccp. They also benefit from this organ.

[Jeff Cruer]

So Doctor, we only have a minute. So this is a money making operation for the Communist Chinese?

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Not really. It's not so much about the money. For the doctors it is about the money. But for the party it is about to eradicating dissidents to eradicate undesired people. Instead of using firing squads and gas chambers, they use forced organ harvesting in transplant centers to eliminate this group.

[Jeff Cruer]

And tell us in our final 30 seconds about your documentary.

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Yeah, we combined all our research over 20 years in this documentary, Silent Harvest, which is describing and outlaying the issue behind forced organ harvesting. This film has been released today. It is available on the website silentharvestmovie.com

[Jeff Cruer]

Doctor, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your leadership and courage in speaking out on this issue. And we appreciate you joining us, sir. Thank you.

[Dr. Torsten Trey]

Thank you.

[Jeff Cruer]

All right, we'll have a lot to talk about with our next guest. Is Pope Leo a radical or is he someone we can work with? Is he the same as Pope Francis or is he someone who just loves baseball and America and just a average American? We'll get the whole scoop next right here on Rigsad. Politics. We report the news to you up front. Ringside Politics, Politics with the plunge. Ringside Politics analysis made crystal clear. Ringside Politics with your host, Jeff Cru Ayer. Our next guest, Michael Hichborn is president and founder of the Lepanto Institute. And we're gonna be talking about Pope Leo. And Michael, welcome aboard, sir. How are you?

[Michael Hichborn]

Thanks so much for having me on.

[Jeff Cruer]

Yeah, my pleasure. So you've just released a bombshell, a new deeply sourced report documenting the presence and influence of radical revolutionary groups at the 2025 World Meeting of Popular Movements, a Vatican led gathering where church officials were instructed to collaborate with these activists. Tell us more, Michael.

[Michael Hichborn]

So the World Meeting of Popular Movements was started by Pope Francis In 2014, just a year after he became the Pope. And they've had a series of meetings, five formal meetings and then a series of sub meetings. But the fifth meeting took place last year in October, and for the first time was headed up by Pope Leo and not Pope Francis. The problem is that the participants, the attendees, the organizations that are heavily involved are self admitted communists. And I'm not talking about your pot smoking variety, college campus student Marxist. We're talking about hammer and sickle, flag waving, Karl Marx reading and, and supporting communists, Capital C, Communists. They are also radical pro abortion activists. They are radical pro LGBT activists. And Pope Leo, in his address to these organizations, he said, I am here, I am with you. He called them social poets. He called them champions for humanity. I'm sorry, but you know, I, I hope that Pope Leo had no idea who these organizations were. Because to call a communist a champion of humanity is like saying that the wolves are champions of sheep.

[Jeff Cruer]

You know, Michael, it just reaffirms what, what I'm now thinking about Pope Leo, that he's no moderate, that he's just the same as Pope Francis. And it makes sense because Pope Francis stacked the College of Cardinals and they wouldn't elect a conservative. I mean, they're going to elect someone that's going to follow through on Pope Francis's policies, right? I mean, isn't he pretty much very similar to Pope Francis? I mean, have you noticed any major differences between the two?

[Michael Hichborn]

No, in fact, he's getting ready to excommunicate the Society of St. Pius X, which, you know, it's a strange juxtaposition because Communists are actually automatically excommunicated as apostates. So for him to call them champions of justice and social poets and talk about how the Church needs to work together with these popular movements who are actual communists, who are, who are excommunicated from the faith as apostates, but then to turn around and tell the Society of St. Pius X if you ordain bishops, you know, because you want to practice the Catholic faith in the traditional manner, well, then you are an excommunicant because you're, you're in schism. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless your disposition is against tradition. And I think that we'll know the answer by how he responds.

[Jeff Cruer]

You know, I've seen him speak out against, you know, climate change and, you know, immigration controls. You know, I don't know if he's been as vocal against capitalism as Pope Francis was, but certainly he seems to be in the same line as far as climate change as far as mass illegal immigration. He recently got into it with the President concerning Iran. The president said that he was surrounded by radicals. Do you think that's true?

[Michael Hichborn]

I think that's absolutely true. Cardinal Fernandez is himself a radical. The organizations that he was speaking to. Let me, let me kind of give you a rundown of what we found. The organ, the venue by which the World Meeting of Popular Movements was held in Rome is a squatter, occupied building that the government of Italy has been trying to evict for more than 12 years. And these, these individuals who are occupying the building, they have had the, the Communist Party of Italy host their meetings at their building in their venue. They, they regularly have these performances that are extremely vile, completely nude. And, and in fact, the coordinator, Father Don Matei Ferrari was. He actually attended one of these live nude performances at Spin Time Labs, which is where they held this meeting. Well, Spend Time Labs has stickers and logos all over the building that are, you know, antifa and for communism. It's. It's very clear what that organization is about.

[Jeff Cruer]

Well, Michael, you've outlined it well. Thank you for your research. Thank you for being with us, folks. Go to Michael's site to learn more. Lepanto Institute. And we look forward to having you back on, sir, because this issue is not going to be going away. Thank you so much. All right, let's check out some of these memes. We've got Presented by our friend Robert in Virginia. All right, the first one here. Yeah. How to protect yourself from the hantavirus. Yeah. Earplugs. That's a good one. Number two is. Yes. The vaccination line. A bunch of sheep with mass. That's a good one. Well done. And the third one here. Yeah. Trump should be able to direct the attorney General. Just ask my wingman. Remember when Eric Holder said he was Barack Obama's wingman? Very famous statement that he made. All right, let's check out what our Denver meme is. We've got one from the crew in Denver. There we go. I've been waiting for the Rizzler. And now we've got the Rizzler. Okay, let's check out our clip of the week. And this one was submitted by Paul in Houston. Let's check it out. Took a trip way off the map

[Michael Hichborn]

While the hills caught fire.

[Jeff Cruer]

All right, Spencer Pratt is doing great in la. I hope he wins. All right, if you've got a video, if you got a meme, if you've got a Trump image, email [e-mail] A big thank you to our great team in Denver for all their hard work, all of our great guests. Check me out during the radio, during the week on the radio on WGSO. WGSO. Com. 7 to 9 in the morning, 6 to 7 in the evening. Email me [e-mail]. thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions? Have a great week, everyone, and we'll see you next Saturday right here on Real America's Voice.