SPIRIT SHUTDOWN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EPIC FURY, DEMS’ REAL DHS MOTIVE | GRANT STINCHFIELD TONIGHT

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Spirit Shutdown Has Nothing to Do with Epic Fury, Dems’ Real DHS Motive"

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Grant Stinchfield
Date: May 5, 2026
Length: ~50 minutes

Episode Overview

This episode of "Grant Stinchfield Tonight" blends in-depth political commentary, current events, and guest analysis on pressing national concerns. Grant opens with immediate reporting on a shooting near the White House, then transitions through issues spanning the U.S. beef market, the Spirit Airlines shutdown, government regulation, election security, religious events in Texas, U.S. military health, the Iran conflict, and the potential of anti-parasitics in cancer treatment. The show features guest experts including Robert Bork Jr., Stephen Gardner, Rick De La Torre, Christopher Putnam, and Nicholas Hoelscher, providing multiple perspectives and drawing connections between seemingly disparate news developments.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Shooting Near the White House (00:54 – 03:10)

• Incident Recap: Grant reports on a shooting between the White House and Washington Monument involving Secret Service and a suspect. A child was injured but is stable.
• Immediate Reactions:
  • Voices concern about violence and "the left."
  • Criticizes a D.C. judge for apologizing to suspect Cole Allen, accused of attempting to assassinate the president.
• Quote:

  "You're going to apologize to him. He's on suicide watch. Why? Because he said he wasn't going to survive the night... These are not people we need to be apologizing to." – Grant Stinchfield (03:05)

• Questions why attempted murder charges are not applied.

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2. High Beef Prices & Government Regulation (03:10 – 09:08)

Beef Market Analysis

• Cites Attorney General Todd Blanche on anti-competitive practices in beef processing due to concentration of power among "big four" processors.
• Grant blames government regulatory overreach and environmentalism for driving small ranchers out of business and causing price hikes.

Rancher’s Perspective (06:50)

“This has been driven by years of mergers and acquisitions of multinational corporations and foreign meat conglomerates. That has created a level of economic and political power that too often escapes oversight and accountability.” – Rancher

Brooke Rollins' Data (07:49)

• Highlights decline in cattle herd sizes and ranching operations—lowest since the 1950s.
• Loss of over 100,000 ranches in a decade.

Grant’s Takeaway

• Urges removing regulatory barriers rather than increasing regulation or blaming “price gouging.”
• Demands accountability from Congress, not just corporations.

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3. Antitrust & Spirit Airlines Shutdown (09:10 – 13:59)

Guest: Robert Bork Jr. (President, Antitrust Education Project)

• Beef Market Solutions: Advocates for the consumer welfare standard and increased competition, not company breakups (10:14).
• Spirit Airlines Case:
  • Spirit’s collapse linked to breakdown of a merger with JetBlue, blocked by Biden administration and the FTC.
  • “Politicians, as I said, didn't create the storm, but they took away the lifeboat.” – Robert Bork Jr. (12:16)
  • Blocking merger caused job losses (17,000 lost, potential for 10,000 gained).
  • Stinchfield and Bork Jr. argue this is political, not market-driven.

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4. Democrats’ "DHS Shutdown" & the CISA Concern (14:01 – 20:17)

Workforce Losses

• Reports that CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) is down a third of its workforce.
• Suggests there is a deliberate motive behind this loss, notably election system vulnerabilities.

Guest: Stephen Gardner (16:15)

• Proposes that Democratic motives may include weakening CISA ahead of midterm elections.
• Points to foreign interference (Iran, China) in election rolls and the implications of agency understaffing.

Quote:

"What if the entire point of this was to shut down the government in this area and to have all of these people in SISA leave? ... All of us right now, over 60% of Americans believe that there was something wrong in the 2020 election." – Stephen Gardner (16:36)

Implications

• Grant agrees, suggesting Democrats are eager to exploit vulnerabilities in election infrastructure.
• Cites recent Chinese infiltration of voter rolls: “China was able to infiltrate the voter rolls of 18 different states.” (19:14)

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5. Free Speech & Higher Ed: SC State U Protest (20:18 – 23:10)

• Reports on South Carolina State University canceling commencement speech by Republican Lt. Governor after protests.
• Critiques suppression of dissenting views on campus.
• Lt. Governor's response:

  "Facts trump feelings. In the real world. President Trump and conservatives have done more for HBCUs than any administration in history. ... I'll never back down or bend a knee to the woke radicals.” – Lt. Governor (22:43)

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6. U.S. Military, Ozempic Spending & Iran Conflict (25:41 – 33:39)

Military Fitness Concerns

• Expresses frustration over military obesity and points out $700 million spent on Ozempic and similar drugs.
• “Why is 68% of our military reserves and National Guard labeled as overweight?” (25:41)

Iran & Strait of Hormuz

• U.S. blockades Iranian ports, destroys IRGC fast boats.
• Grant: “The Iranians do not have control of the strait. We have absolute control of the strait.” (28:30)
• Notes Iranian drone attacks continue but believes U.S. is winning.
• Critiques Senator Jack Reid’s comments on nuclear policy as naive.

Guest: Rick De La Torre (Retired CIA, Tower Strategy)

• Affirms U.S. control of Hormuz and posits administration is now “bent on breaking Iran.”
• Explains Iran uses disruption in the straits to maintain leverage and economic survival.
• Economic pressure is substantial—losing “half a billion to $600 million a day” (33:01).

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7. “Muslim-Only” Water Park Event Controversy (34:34 – 41:27)

Event Details

• Discussion over Dallas-area water park privately rented by a Muslim group for a “Muslim only” event.
• Criticizes exclusivity and contrasts with Christian community inclusivity.

Guest: Christopher Putnam (Dallas Express CEO)

• Explains this is the third such annual event and ties it to a pattern of dedicated Muslim community events in North Texas.
• Suggests a larger plan for “infiltration, not assimilation” and expresses anxiety about demographic shifts and Sharia advocacy in Texas.

Quotes:

“They're really infiltrate, not assimilate and then ultimately achieve some level of political control, just like they did in Minnesota.” – Christopher Putnam (37:10)

“I believe Texas is the target. Just like the Democrats know that if they can take Texas, they beat America.” – Grant Stinchfield (39:35)

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8. CIA, Antiparasitics, and Cancer Research (41:27 – 47:00)

Suppressed Medical Findings

• Claims CIA classified a Russian study from 1950s on anti-parasitics as anti-cancer agents.
• Criticizes pharmaceutical and academic resistance to researching drugs like ivermectin.

Guest: Nicholas Hoelscher (McCullough Foundation)

• Research indicates nearly half of cancer patients using their regimen had tumors shrink/disappear or went into remission (45:55).
• Journals initially tried to suppress publication but major cancer journal has accepted their findings.

"It's an anti-parasitic compound that was used many, many decades ago. ... Perhaps cancer research on anti-parasitics may have been decades ahead had they not classified it." – Nicholas Hoelscher (43:55)

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9. Patriotism at NASCAR (47:00 – 48:19)

• Uplifting segment from Texas Motor Speedway; Grant marvels at the patriotism, troop support, and community at NASCAR.
• Ties this environment to his vision of American values and resilience.

"If they think they're going to steal America from us, just come to a NASCAR race, walk the infield a little bit and talk to some of these great patriots out here." – Grant Stinchfield (48:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The government needs to incentivize ranching to be a fabulous business in America ... getting the regulatory environment out of the way so they can compete with the big guys.” – Grant Stinchfield (08:17)
• “Politicians ... didn't create the storm, but they took away the lifeboat.” – Robert Bork Jr. on Spirit Airlines (12:16)
• “CISA is over all of the hundreds or thousands of cyber attacks on America every day, but they're over something that President Trump calls critical infrastructure, which is the American election system.” – Stephen Gardner (16:36)
• “Bring it on. Just like President Trump. I'll never back down or bend a knee to the woke radicals.” – Lt. Governor of South Carolina (22:43)
• “We are in control of, of the Strait of Hormuz. ... This administration is no longer playing that [Iranian] game.” – Rick De La Torre (31:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Shooting Near White House: 00:54 – 03:10
• Beef Prices and Ranching Crisis: 03:10 – 09:08
• Antitrust & Spirit Shutdown with Bork Jr.: 09:10 – 13:59
• DHS/CISA Workforce Crisis with Stephen Gardner: 14:01 – 20:17
• SC State Protest & Free Speech Debate: 20:18 – 23:10
• Military Weight, Ozempic Spending & Iran Update: 25:41 – 33:39
• Muslim-Only Water Park Debate with Putnam: 34:34 – 41:27
• CIA/Anti-Parasitics & Cancer with Hoelscher: 41:27 – 47:00
• NASCAR Patriotism Clip: 47:00 – 48:19

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Summary Tone & Takeaway

The tone is contentious, combative, and focused on “fighting for American values” while critiquing perceived left-wing threats to freedom, security, and culture. Grant frames government intervention as the root of market and national woes and draws strong links between regulatory, cultural, and political issues. The episode weaves skepticism of institutions and advocacy for grassroots action, urging vigilance against both domestic and foreign threats.

This richly detailed episode is essential listening/reading for followers of populist, conservative news and those interested in alternative analysis of current events.

Transcript

[Grant Stitchfield]

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[Grant Stitchfield]

Well. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. President Trump is in more danger than we can even imagine. There was another shooting in Washington, D.C. about a half a mile from the White House. You could say this was near the White House, there's no doubt about it. In between the White House and the Washington Monument on 15th Street, a suspect seen with a gun ends up having an exchange of gunfire with the Secret Service. That suspect was hit. He is in custody, taken to the hospital. We don't know what the motive is, but right now, with the heightened state of where everything is and the violence being conducted on the left, you certainly have to think the worst. And maybe the most awful part of this shooting is a young child was hit, we are told is in stable condition, though. This is the deputy director of the Secret Service and I can tell you that at least one, we believe only one bystander was hit by the suspect. That individual, it's a juvenile, did not sustain any life threatening injuries, but he's

[Robert Bork Jr.]

also receiving treatment at the hospital.

[Grant Stitchfield]

So thankfully, it appears that young child caught in the crossfire will survive. What the motive is, again, we'll take some time to figure out, but again, with the threats of violence being amped up by the left on a daily basis. Please pray for our president. It is imperative. Which brings us to the shooter from the White House correspondence dinner. The alleged shooter, um, he is in custody. He's also in court today, if you can believe this. The judge in D.C. apologized to this man, Cole Allen. Apologized to him for the way he's being treated. Fox reporter spelled this out for us today. Mike Emanuel. Roll it. The judge making it clear to the Department of Corrections that he wants answers by tomorrow morning about exactly what the housing determination will be made for the

[Robert Bork Jr.]

suspect in this case out of grave

[Grant Stitchfield]

concern about his constitutional rights. And that apology issued near the end of the hearing. Apology for a guy who literally stands accused of trying to assassinate the President. Jeanine Pirro now says they've recovered a piece of ballistics buckshot out of the Secret Service agent's vest from where that suspect allegedly burst through the security checkpoint and fired on that Secret Service officer. You're going to apologize to him. He's on suicide watch. Why? Because he said he, he wasn't going to survive the night. He fully went into this expecting to be killed. Well, he's been taken off suicide watch now because the judge has ordered it. But please, these are not people we need to be apologizing to. The Secret Service officer was shot needs an apology. And justice. President Trump needs an apology from the entire Democrat Party for pushing this stuff. Now, as for that revelation by Jeanine Pirro that this suspect had shot at the Secret Service agent, he's only charged with discharging a firearm while in the commission of a violent crime. Why isn't he charged with attempted murder? Maybe when this case goes in front of a grand jury, that charge will be added to the list. I want to turn now to the Department of Justice and its quest to bring down beef prices. Here's our Attorney General, Acting Todd Blanche. The big four processors control over 85% of the beef processing market. Two of the big four are primarily foreign owned. Multiple plant closures across the country. The current market structure and high concentration in in the industry indicate anti competitive activity. I hate to break the news to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch. The government created all of this. These big four meat processors didn't create it. Now, I would be more concerned that two of the largest or foreign owned. That is a national security risk that we ought to look into. But this isn't price fixing and price gouging. I'm sorry, when you drill down on this, it's government actions bowing to a left wing mob, putting ranchers out of business that caused beef prices in America to go up. Heck, even at this news conference with gurus like my buddy Peter Navarro, who's so smart, he basically, I don't know if he meant to, but in some respects he called Todd Blanche out. So it's not just price gouging and price fixing we have to worry about. It's also the influence of foreigners on our supply chain and the national security issues that are associated that we cannot tolerate that. No, he just said it's not just price gouging. What he's telling you is this isn't price gouging. I mean, when you have economics involved, when you have free markets involved, if they're so expensive, why wouldn't a meat processor who could do it cheaper, with more ingenuity, more efficiency come in and do it well, they can't because the government gets in the way of all of this. Listen to this rancher at the news conference. We have also lost 86,000 farmer feeders,

[Robert Bork Jr.]

which is 1,000 head and below.

[Grant Stitchfield]

This has been driven by years of mergers and acquisitions of multinational corporations and foreign meat conglomerates. That has created a level of economic and political power that too often escapes oversight and accountability. Who allowed all this? The government did. The government also bowed to a left wing mob that put so many environmental pressures on these smaller ranchers. They can't afford to ranch anymore. Talk to ranchers in California about the environmental regulations they have to go through about not being able to get water. If you can't get water for cattle, you don't think that's going to drive up the price of cattle. And Brooke Rollins, who I'm a big fan of, I think she's a great Secretary of agriculture. She too admitted that price gouging really isn't our problem right now.

[Lieutenant Governor]

Let's begin with the herd size. As of January 1st of this year, we have about 86.2 million head of cattle and calves in America. That is the lowest since the 1950s. And this year we are looking to be slightly down again. In the past decade alone, we've lost over 17% of our cattle ranchers. More than 100,000 ranches across this country are no more.

[Grant Stitchfield]

At one point there, she specifically says the environmentalists are responsible for a large part of that reduction. And that of course means government rolling over to the environmentalists. The government needs to incentivize ranching to be a fabulous business in America. And I'm not saying with money, but I'm saying getting the regulatory environment out of the way so they can compete with the big guys. This is all government driven. If Todd Blanch wants to charge anybody, he ought to go after members of Congress for screwing the whole thing up. I want to bring in now president of the Antitrust Education Project and author of the New paradox. Robert Bork Jr. Is with us. Mr. Bork, it's great to have you on the program.

[Robert Bork Jr.]

Thank you for inviting me on.

[Grant Stitchfield]

All right. What do you think of my assessment of government really creating the problem here more than these four meat processors colluding to fixed prices?

[Robert Bork Jr.]

Well, I think you're dead on. You know, government creates many, many problems because it tries to insert itself into the marketplace, replace the marketplace with government regulation. And ultimately all the contortions that happen in the marketplace really are the function of government, whether it's tariffs or

[Nicholas Hoelscher]

trying

[Robert Bork Jr.]

to apply onerous environmental regulations. OSHA regulations, other regulations. Ultimately, companies have to meet the consumer demand with basically carrying a lodestone on their back.

[Grant Stitchfield]

What do you think needs to be done to bring beef prices down in America?

[Robert Bork Jr.]

Well, first of all, I think more competition. Now, that doesn't mean necessarily breaking up these companies, but it means allowing, you know, consumers to seek products and services in other markets that they prefer. You know, I am a huge advocate of something called the consumer welfare standard, which has been the operating system of antitrust for the last 47 years until the Biden administration came in and tried to destroy it. It still happens to be the operating system that the courts apply when trying to consider competition issues. And so I really believe that the answer lies with the consumer and the consumer's ability to walk. And if it doesn't like what it's

[Grant Stitchfield]

getting, and that would be because it would have other choices. Which I guess brings us to the Spirit situation of Spirit closing shop over the weekend, just flat out going out of business at 3:00 in the morning. They wanted a big time bailout from the government. And we, you talked about the Biden administration, them not allowing this merger, which I think really hurt Spirit. The merger probably should have gone through. The left wants to blame gas prices. The left wants to blame President Trump for not bailing them out. Let me play you a clip. This is what I blame actually, Spirit for going out of business. So, Robert, what you're seeing here is Spirit at work. I mean, I don't know anybody that wants to fly Spirit. Spirit became basically the butt of all jokes. I think bad business practices through and drew Spirit out of business more than anything else. Your thoughts?

[Robert Bork Jr.]

Well, look, it was ultra low cost airlines. Everything for an airline like that has to operate absolutely perfectly. They have no room for error. You know, they can't raise their prices, they can't make other adjustments. And if gas currently, you know, jet fuel prices are too high for them, that's what really, at the last moment, pushed them over the edge. But look, Spirit didn't just fail in the marketplace. It was pushed there by politicians. You know, politicians, as I said, didn't create the storm, but they took away the lifeboat. And that'd be politicians like Elizabeth Warren and FTC chair Lena Khan during the Biden administration and the White House competition czar, Tim Wu. All of these people absolutely despised mergers and acquisitions. They tried to get in front of every single one for the four years of the Biden presidency and shut it down or make it too difficult so that they would have to walk away. In the case of Spirit, they went to court. You know, they had. Spirit had a lifeline, this merger with JetBlue. But when the government sued to block that deal, the judge blocked it. And the airline, you know, that was the only realistic path to survival at that point. It was just. It was just on the glide slope to death at that point.

[Grant Stitchfield]

By all accounts, they would have created 10,000 new jobs with this merger. Instead, they're going to lose 17,000 jobs out of all of this. Blocking that merger was a big mistake on the Biden administration has had nothing to do with Trump. Robert Bork, Jr. I appreciate you coming on the program. I want you to check out his book, the New Paradox. Thank you, sir.

[Robert Bork Jr.]

Thank you very much.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Absolutely. All right, I want to turn now to the Democrats. And what was their real reason behind the DHS shutdown? Did it really have anything to do with ice, or was there something more sinister here? We are just aware. We are not a mob. We are just aware. Hashtag pamout. Pamout. No, we're going to go to Mark Wayne Mullen. Maybe I gave the wrong number to the crew. Please. Is that 14? This TSA, we lost almost 8% of the workforce, which is almost double what

[Rick De La Torre]

our attrition rate typically is.

[Lieutenant Governor]

Yeah.

[Christopher Putnam]

So how do you replace those people?

[Grant Stitchfield]

Well, it takes four months. Well, not really. It takes about four months to onboard people. Just cisa, who's over cisa, by the way, takes care of our Cybersecurity.

[Rick De La Torre]

We're down 1100 people.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Down, down. So almost a third of the workforce is no longer with us. Wait a second. Sisa, that's the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency. SISA handles election security, and they're down a third of the workforce. Maybe this explains the comments from Chuck Schumer. We're united, we're strong. They're tied in a knot. They're twisting themselves in a pretzel. They're giving us an opportunity to emphasize the number one issue facing the American people in terms of reconciliation. So we Democrats are staunch and united in what we did. Staunch and united in what they did. A lot of gobbledygook before that. You just need to hear the end. They're proud of it all. But sisa, maybe that was the ultimate goal, to destroy that for election security. Now, this was not my idea, by the way. I wish I came up with it. It's a great assessment, though. The man who did come up with it was on his podcast, me as a guest, and I heard it, and I said, you know what? You need to come and tell Stitchfield's army about this. This is YouTuber independent journalist, political analyst Stephen Gardner is with us. Stephen, welcome to the program.

[Stephen Gardner]

Thank you. Thank you for having me on.

[Grant Stitchfield]

You know, I so enjoy coming on your YouTube show, and you have such a fabulous audience. When you said this, Stephen, I thought, wow, you know, they're always one step ahead of us, and in this case, I think they got me. Tell me now, what tipped you off to this and your assessment overall?

[Stephen Gardner]

When I saw the new Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen say that CISA had lost one third of their workforce, 1100 people lost, and that it takes months and months to retrain people and bring them back on, I started realizing, wait a minute, SISA is over the elections. The Democrats are mad at ICE for removing their future voters. What if the entire point of this was to shut down the government in this area and to have all of these people in SISA leave? CISA is over all of the hundreds or thousands of cyber attacks on America every day, but they're over something that President Trump calls critical infrastructure, which is the American election system. I mean, all of us. Right now, over 60% of Americans believe that there was something wrong in the 2020 election. Joe Biden won one of the 19 bellwether states. He lost Ohio. He also lost Florida. Now, you're telling me that the very agency that protects our elections, that does the cyber hygiene, scans for bugs, threat, intelligence and vulnerability, is suddenly down 33% of its workforce, and we're only months away from the 2020 midterms, which the Democrats are saying, don't worry, we're guaranteed to win those. I don't know.

[Christopher Putnam]

I've got.

[Stephen Gardner]

I've got bells going off. At the same time, Grant, you've got. This agency is being run by a acting director. Why? Because the U.S. senate refuses to put Sean Plenty in, which is President Trump's CISA secretary. So all of this just stinks. We know for a fact that they used Covid as cover to mail in millions and millions of ballots. They counted them in the middle of the night. This is what happened. Now you have CISA down 33% of their workforce.

[Grant Stitchfield]

You know, it's amazing when you lay it out for us, because we know for a fact that these election systems are vulnerable. I can't tell you that the election machines flipped votes or not. I can't tell you that. But what I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt are there are vulnerabilities there. And if we're not looking out over the vulnerabilities. The danger is there, and I think the Democrats know that, and I think they would love to exploit the vulnerabilities, if they haven't already. Stephen.

[Rick De La Torre]

Yeah.

[Stephen Gardner]

We know for a fact that Iran and China both meddled in our election systems. It came out just in the last 60 days that China was able to infiltrate the voter rolls of 18 different states. that same time, they start quietly shipping in tens of thousands of fake driver's licenses so that those. Those driver's licenses could vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. So I think we have to be really careful. I don't know whether they were flipping votes or satellites in Italy, none of that stuff. But I can tell you something was wrong with the election. And the very agency that has been tasked just took a major financial hit months before the most consequential election in our history.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Yeah. Great assessment. Stephen Garner. That's the kind of stuff you get from his YouTube channel where he's the host, Stephen Gardner 1. I urge people to check it out. As always, I appreciate you coming on and laying this out. Nobody else is talking about this. Stephen, great work, my friend.

[Stephen Gardner]

Thank you so much.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Absolutely. Let's hope somebody notices. Maybe some of the Republicans will wake up when they hear Stephen Gardner's assessment there. We know the Democrats love to shut down speech. There's no doubt about that. Did you see what happened at South Carolina State University? This is one of the historically black universities. They stopped the lieutenant governor, a Republican, from speaking there because, I don't know, I think because she's white, she's successful, and most of all, she's conservative. Listen to this. We are just aware. We are not a mob. We are just aware. Hashtag Pam out. Pam out. Pam out. Pam out. So that is a mob. Whether they want to say they're a mob or not, that's them protesting the potential commencement address by the state's sitting lieutenant governor. Who cares what party she's with? Maybe you might learn something. Maybe you hate her speech so much you say, I don't ever want to be like that. But you take something away from it. America was built on dissent and listening to the other side, and that's what education is about. Well, they canceled the speech. Bowing to the mob here. South Carolina State University. I certainly would never intentionally place our students, our faculty, our staff, our visitors in harm's way. And with that being said, because of that, because of the unknown, because of we don't know how everyone thinks. I've made the Decision to rescind the invitation to the lieutenant governor to speak at your commencement. Foreign. It's sickening to me. Bowing to the mob is an understatement. They made threats. You didn't know if it would be safe. Bring in more cops. Once you start. Once you start laying down to potential would be terrorists, the threats of violence. We've lost this country. So what did the lieutenant governor have to say about all of this?

[Lieutenant Governor]

Lets be clear. Facts trump feelings. In the real world. President Trump and conservatives have done more for HBCUs than any administration in history. I must be doing something right because woke mobs are coming after me for being a champion of eliminating radical DEI scams on college campuses. So bring it on. Just like President Trump. I'll never back down or bend a knee to the woke radicals.

[Grant Stitchfield]

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[Grant Stitchfield]

If you watch this program long enough. Folks, you know I love to state the obvious. And the obvious to me is I really don't want fat soldiers marching around going into battle. It doesn't do me or this military any good. And then I learned that the United states military spent $700 million on Ozempic and other GLP1 weight loss drugs to cut the weight of our soldiers. Why is 68% of our military reserves and National Guard labeled as overweight? 68%. And why is the government paying for Ozempic? How about you go for a run, eat some vegetables and load up on protein. You'll cut weight. You're in the military, for crying out loud. Hagseth knows this. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in the world. It's a bad look. It is bad. And it's not who we are. Over 100,000 times they ordered Ozempic to the tune of, as I said, $700 million. Now I'm told that the Secretary of War is outraged about that as well. There's nothing like some good pt. How we got to this point, you only have to look at those on the left. Now with that said, we do have some amazing members of the military and what they're doing right now, I believe in theater over in Iran, Straits of Hormuz and all the other areas affected by this, they are winning and winning big. The US Navy apparently shot out of the ocean seven of those small, quote, fast boats that are loaded with explosives to take out shipping, even US Navy boats. This is Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessen. The Iranians do not have control of the strait. We have absolute control of the strait. We have blockaded the ships going into or out of Iranian ports. Their economy is in free fall and everyone says they have a High tolerance for pain. Well, their soldiers will not have a high tolerance for not getting paid. All right, so here's where it gets tough, though, because they use these fast boats. Iran has drones still, and drones are very easy to sneak in and out of the country. Apparently they hit a UAE oil refinery, causing quite a bit of damage to show you that the drones are still working. But, you know, all they do here is motivate Arab nations to join the United States and Israel against Iran. And that really is what's happening. And you can thank, in many respects, President Trump for that as well. But how does the left see this? Here's Senator Jack Reid. Here's one of the ironies after this attack. And we were negotiating with Iranians at the time of the attack, and I think they feel that their only defense might be a nuclear weapon. So we've, ironically, I think, given them more reasons to push for a nuclear weapon. What a stupid individual serving the United States Senate. Does he not understand these people want us dead? They would love a nuclear weapon. Not just because we had had some attack or took out drone boats or any of these things. They want a nuclear weapon to kill us, and they've always wanted a nuclear weapon to kill us. How dumb does you have to be to think they need more motivation for that? I want to bring in retired CIA senior operations officer and founder of Tower Strategy llc. Rick De La Torre is with us. Rick, welcome back.

[Rick De La Torre]

Thanks for having me.

[Grant Stitchfield]

All right, Rick. It's a ridiculous statement on behalf of the Senator there, isn't it?

[Christopher Putnam]

Yeah.

[Rick De La Torre]

I mean, it presupposes somehow that the entire, you know, Iran went south today, that we decided to actually hold them accountable after 47 some odd years of us saying as a nation that we would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. It seems to me that many folks in D.C. on this, particularly that side of the party, weren't ever serious about that. And when you look at Iran being the number one exporter of terrorism globally, the most unstable political regime in that area, one that has consistently called for the death and destruction of not just Israel, but of the United States, and has actually tried to act out on some of these threats by hiring folks to kill President Trump or to try to kill former National Security Council Bolton or former director CIA and Secretary of State Pompeo. So if you don't think the threat is real, if you don't think that they were motivated and that somehow now they've decided to actually do something that just, you know, that just doesn't track

[Grant Stitchfield]

with reality, Rick, tell me your CIA sources without giving classified information away, of course. But do we control the straits? This seems to be the big debate. Where are we on that and why has it been so hard?

[Rick De La Torre]

Well, look, you know, what's happening right now is, you know, is that continued direct fight for the control of. And I do agree with Secretary Besson, we are in control of, of the Strait of Hormuz. But what's happening is this is something that's for the first time in years, Right. The United States is now no longer tolerating Iran's game. And it seems to me that this administration is bent on breaking Iran. Their entire strategy has been built around one reality, and that reality is that they cannot defeat the United States militarily. So they use a disproportionate. So what they use is some sort of disruption as a substitute for that power. They harass the shipping, they threaten the mines, as you said, they use the drones and fast boats. And what they're doing is they're just injecting just enough instability into that strait to drive up the global energy risk. That instability becomes their leverage. It forces negotiations, it forces concessions, it keeps their economy alive and it buys them the time that they need to rebuild, build their military program. That's how that system is built. Now what's changed is that this administration is no longer playing that game. So what you're seeing is that system being dismantled in real time. The United States has moved from reacting to Iranian harassment and to physically overriding it. So as we escort ships and as we engage Iranian assets, that's going to continue to prove that we do have control over the straits.

[Grant Stitchfield]

All right, real quick, if you can, how close is Iran to breaking where the regime has no control anymore with the economic pressure we're putting on and they basically cut off and really like 30 seconds, if you can, for me?

[Rick De La Torre]

Yeah, of course. Look, I think they're losing close to about somewhere between half a billion to $600 million a year, excuse me, a day for not being able to get their oil out. That's real hard money. That's no joke. And ultimately IRGC mois, you know, the workers are going to need to get paid and if there's no money to pay them, then there's really no motivation to do the stuff that they need to keep doing in Iran.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Great stuff. Look, I guess even in Iran, money will motivate the actions of some and we're really banking on that right now. Rick De La Tore, I appreciate the work that you do. Thank you. For your work at the CIA and thank you for coming on the program.

[Rick De La Torre]

Thanks for having me.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Absolutely. All right, folks, a taxpayer funded water park is getting splashback for hosting a Muslim only event. That's right. That's in Texas. By the way,

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[Grant Stitchfield]

Welcome back everyone. A taxpayer funded water park not far from where I broadcast from here in Dallas, Texas, in Grand Prairie, Texas, has apparently been rented out by a Muslim organization that is going to hold a quote, muslim only. Quote, Muslim only. Thank you, Muslim only event. Now the flyer you see on your screen confirms it all. There was so much pushback, splashback, as we said, concerning this water park, that it's a civil rights violation. Can you imagine if it said whites only or blacks only? I mean, it'd be complete outrage. They changed the flyer so it doesn't read Muslim only, but it does say modest dress is required. And then this site that's holding this event at a taxpayer funded water park, closing it down for Muslims only, gives examples of what you can wear to the water park. Burka style swimsuits. You can't make this stuff up. On the Frequently Asked questions page of the website, it reads, and I quote, the entire water park has been exclusively reserved for Muslims, creating a private and comfortable environment. The organizer of the event responded to the criticism, writing, the core intention behind this event is create a space where individuals and families who value modest dress and modest environment can come together and feel comfortable enjoying a recreational space that often doesn't naturally accommodate these preferences. Now, I'm just going to say this. The church that I go to, if it has a Sunday barbecue, I'm going to tell you, anybody is invited. Now, they may talk to you about Christianity and Jesus, but everybody's invited. I promise you that. And I promise you that's at every church across America. I have problems with this whole event. What they're doing may not be illegal, but I got big problems with it because it sets the tone of what's happening in Texas right now. I want to bring in Dallas Express CEO and editorial board member Christopher Putnam. He's been outspoken on this is his organization. The Dallas Express has been covering this issue. Chris, welcome to the program.

[Christopher Putnam]

Thanks, Grant. Great to be back.

[Grant Stitchfield]

All right, Chris, why does this story matter? Tell me.

[Christopher Putnam]

It matters for a lot of reasons. By the way, part of the story that you missed is this is actually the third annual event. So these things have been flying under the radar for quite some time, actually right here in North Texas. Just last year, we learned about Islamic games event that was being held and sponsored and on taxpayer property. In this case, it happened to be a prominent school district in the area. And people were unaware that that event had gone on, you know, the prior year as well. And so I think part of it is that people are just kind of waking up, you know, to what's been going on here. And that's this very purposeful effort by these communities to, you know, really infiltrate, not assimilate and then ultimately achieve some level of political control, just like they did in Minnesota. And, you know, it's, it's actually stunning, you know, the level of naivety that people have had. And look, a lot of us were sleeping as this has been going on for the past couple of years now.

[Grant Stitchfield]

We're aware, you know, a total honesty here, and I'm always honest, but if you would've told me this story six years ago, I'd say, oh, let the Muslims do what they want. And you know, I don't want to be tolerant of, of this, but what I have learned from listening to them talk about Sharia law, their own courts that they want to institute in Texas, that this is bigger than just about tolerance. And, oh, I don't like the Muslim religion because of what it preaches. This is about them telling us on camera at their sermons that they want to take all of America. Christopher Putnam, am I wrong on that?

[Christopher Putnam]

No, you're not wrong at all. And actually, I couldn't agree with you more. It wasn't anything that was really hitting the top of my radar either, in the same way. But, you know, we saw what's been happening in some of these other states and some of these other communities, and I think we understand the plan now. And that's the difference. Right. And again, like, if, by the way, I think a lot of politicians in Texas, very senior politicians in Texas, you know, we're thrown off by the same thing. And, you know, Texas is very proud of our economic development capacity. So they in some cases encourage these people to come here to build these dedicated Muslim communities. And it wasn't until in the last year or so that they became aware that there's, there's, there's really more of an insidious objective here on the part of these groups.

[Grant Stitchfield]

You know, the Muslim population in Texas is exploding. If you go north from where I am, up in Frisco, Texas, they almost control almost all of of Frisco, Texas. Now, you can go out to Arlington. You got to Irving. These are all suburbs of, of Dallas. I believe Texas is the target. Just like the Democrats know that if they can take Texas, they beat America. I think the hardcore Muslim Sharia law pushers believe if they can take Texas, they take America. Chris.

[Christopher Putnam]

No, that's. I've actually arrived at the precise same conclusion. The only difference here is, you know, how our political class is going to react, you know, in the legislature and, and what we're seeing and feeling as a result of what you just described is palpable. And when you combine it with what's happening on the H1B front, particularly here in North Texas, you'll see that it's the absolute largest by a large percentage growth population in this area. And it does feel purposeful. It does feel like, you know, we've been targeted. The good news is that a lot of those same politicians that, you know, might have previously encouraged a lot, a lot of this growth do seem to have at least publicly acknowledged. We'll, we'll see what they do from a legislative point of view, but they do seem to have publicly acknowledged that this is a real issue and, and a real threat. And the people that don't, again, they're just being naive. And because of all the reasons that you just explained, they have said it themselves over and over and over publicly. They've made their intentions clear.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Well, I urge people to go to the Dallas Express. You guys do a great job of covering this issue and so many other real issues that not just Texans are concerned about, but really concerned about across the nation. Christopher Putnam, thank you for coming on tonight.

[Christopher Putnam]

Thank you, Grant. Have a good evening.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Absolutely. And I'm going to do my best to get Senator Bob hall on. He is a state senator who's been fabulous on this issue. He has a plan to go recruit church leaders to spread the word about how important this is because so many people feel bad about pushing back against a certain religion that's going to take pastors to speak out about this, about why this is so dangerous. I'm going to get Senator hall on to talk about his plan as well. And maybe we use that as a model across the country where this is going on to help push back against all of this. All right. For decades, the CIA has sat on a report which observed that anti parasitics could play a role in fighting cancer. The question is why? We'll talk about it next. I'll tell you what. It seems like everything's a cover up in this country. Maybe because everything is. So we want a cure for cancer. We may have found one. Actually not me, but the folks over at the Wellness company in this great study they conducted. And then it turns out I saw this in Newsweek. This was a Russian study in 1950. Take a look at this. It said endoparasites and malignant tumors resemble each other in many respects. Out of this study that was classified by the CIA, the CIA gets a hold of this. It says in 1938 H Mouse synthesized Miracel D which was found effective both against Bilizaria and malignant tumors. Parasite and tumors. Mirasol D was an anti parasitic. We knew this in 1950. We wouldn't start studying this big pharma in the way all the way back to 1950. That's my assessment. But let's bring in one of the authors of this study by the Wellness Company that found that anti parasitics could be beneficial when it comes to cancer. Epidemiologist and Administrator at the McCullough Foundation, Nicholas Hoelscher is with us. Nick, it's great to have you back on.

[Nicholas Hoelscher]

Thanks for having me.

[Grant Stitchfield]

All right, I guess first question. Mirasol D. Not Membendazole and ivermectin, but what is it?

[Nicholas Hoelscher]

Yeah, it is an anti parasitic compound that was used many, many decades ago. It's not really used anymore, but that's what they had back then. And again like you just laid out that antiparasitic like other antiparasitics exert anti cancer activity. And they found that in the 1950s the Soviet scientists did. Our CIA classified it. Kept it buried for over half a century. Unfortunately. You know, perhaps the cancer research on anti parasitics may have been, you know, decades ahead had they not classified it.

[Grant Stitchfield]

So the Wellness Company has this membendazole and ivermectin formulation which had shown great clinical benefit to people with cancer. That's great. And you can get it at TWC Health. RAV and I would urge people to take a look at that. Besides the parasite cleanse, which is fabulous, what it's used for as well. But you mentioned that it was, it was classified for half a century. Well, that would still mean that it was unclassified a while ago. Once it became unclassified, we still didn't act upon it, did we?

[Nicholas Hoelscher]

No, we didn't it was unclassified in 2011, so. And yeah, we did not see any large human trials after that. None of that occurred. And so in fact there's really been no human trials at all on ivermectin and Bendazole other than the one we just did. It's not a trial trial, it's an observational study. But regardless, we published the first large scale human real world study on these compounds. We had 197 cancer patients with diverse cancers and we found after six months of them taking the ivermectin and manbendazole, nearly half reported their cancers disappeared, they went into remission or their tumors were shrinking. And the 36% reported that their cancers stopped, stabilized.

[Grant Stitchfield]

All right. Those are unbelievable outcomes. I've said before we need to find a big time donor. As I talked to you about, donate a million dollars so you can go and really do a full blown study on this to prove it once and once and for all. Now what about the, the journals you had told me the last time you were on the program they were really suppressing this. Everybody basically got angry. That's my assessment that you, that you guys came up with this findings. They don't like this. They want to suppress it. Is there any news on that front about the journals finally coming on board?

[Nicholas Hoelscher]

Well, we do have some good news. I don't want to say the exact journal just in case, but it has been accepted for publication after peer review in a major cancer journal. This journal appears to be very favorable for anti parasitics and cancer. So we expect that to be breaking very soon and, and mainstream oncologists, oncology communities will begin to acknowledge it, we believe.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Well, that is all good news. Nicholas Hoelscher, please keep us posted on that. I'm going to tell people where they can get this Ivermectin and then Bendazole and a whole slew of other fabulous products from the wellness company. Go to TWC Health Voice where you can get the prescription medical kits, the ivermectin. Go do that today. TWC Health Forward slash voice. Use the promo code voice to save 10%. All right folks, if you think a Trump rally is full of patriots, wait till you see a NASCAR event, especially one in Texas. That's where I was. Up next, Foreign. A Sunday afternoon. There is no better place to be than Texas Motor Speedway for a NASCAR race. The worth 400. I had such a great time thanks to Patriot Mobile inviting me out there. They were fabulous. So I put this together. Think a Trump rally is filled with Patriots. Try coming to a NASCAR race. Are you proud to be an American? Yes, I am. You love this country? Yes, I do. That's what this is all about, isn't it? Exactly. 85,000 people that love America. America, Beers, mass cars.

[Robert Bork Jr.]

It's great.

[Grant Stitchfield]

Love our troops, love God, Love guns, love fast cars. You walk around here in that uniform, is there how many thumbs up high fives you get online? I'm from Texas, and it's always been nothing but love from Texas. Any of the residents, they've always showed support for their troops. This is what America's about. This is what Texas is about. And if they think they're going to steal America from us, just come to a NASCAR race, walk the infield a little bit and talk to some of these great patriots out here. Nascar, God, country, service, take care of, showing everything great. Give thanks for our country. Thanks to God and proud to be an American man. I'll tell you what, what a great time it was out there. Stitchfield's army rolls and reels.