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Grant Stinchfield
Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. I have good news to report. The war in Iran may end sooner than even expected. President Trump today, just moments before we came on, announcing that this war is virtually over.
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President Donald Trump
Listen, we're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective, and some people could say they're pretty well complete. We've wiped every single force in Iran out very completely. Most of Iran's naval power has been sunk. It's on the bottom of the sea. It's almost 50 ships. I was just notified. It's 51 ships. I didn't know they had that many. Didn't last very long.
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Grant Stinchfield
So everywhere I go, people ask me, grant, when is this going to end? And I've been telling them, I think by the end of the month, we'll see most of it pretty much wrapped up. It may be sooner than that. Now, what are we, March 9? Now, why can I say that? Because, as President Trump mentioned, the Iranian air force is wiped out. The Iranian navy is wiped out. Their ballistic missile systems are virtually wiped out, with a little cleaning up still left to do. But there's not much Iran can do to wreak havoc on the world anymore, not after all of this. And President Trump has made a lot of friends in the Middle East. Well, what happened today, we saw the markets rebound in a big way. Oil, yes. Went over $110 early on overnight. It's now, last I checked, before I came on back to $85 a barrel. President Trump's words matter, and I think the world trusts him when he says, this is all almost over. Here's President Trump again.
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President Donald Trump
On the very first day I came down the escalator in 2015, I said, quote, I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and all I'm doing is keeping my promise. Think of that. That was in 2015. I said it. It was a threat then and a much bigger threat now, but no longer a threat. Not for a long time anyway. We want to keep it that way.
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Grant Stinchfield
Now, whoever is at the helm of Iran right now I would say they're low IQ individuals, to use President Trump's terminology. President Trump says, do not pick the son of the now exterminated ayatollah to lead your nation. What did they do? They picked the son of the exterminated ayatollah to lead the nation. I saw reports that he, too had been injured in a strike, by the way. But this is a very bad idea. Now is not the time for Iran to be offering up any rebuke of President Trump. You could see what happens when you do. Now, the other issue that I think has everyone so concerned, of course, is the Straits of Hormuz, the oil. 20% of the world's oil supply goes through those straits. You have insurance companies refusing to insure just in that area. President Trump says, hey, we will pick that up and insure those, those ships. And we'll also make sure that we're escorting many of those oil tankers with our own navy. And remember, Iran is virtually wiped out. Here's President Trump again.
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President Donald Trump
Hormuz is going to remain safe. We have a lot of navy ships there. We have the best equipment in the world inspecting for mines. Again, most of their ships are down at the bottom of the sea. But we will, we will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world.
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Grant Stinchfield
And that makes the world a safer place. It makes the economy more predictable globally. That, too, is a good thing. And for good measure, here, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth backing the president up. Well, we're taking care of a lot of that. How? Well, American firepower, what was the Iranian navy is largely no more. There'll be more boats to be sunk for sure. So their ability to project any power in that area, in a naval sense, is diminishing. Diminishing, and will be increasingly diminished. Again, what I want your viewers to understand is this is only just the beginning, which is pretty amazing because it sure seems like the end. President Trump said, hey, we could virtually stop this now, and they're already devastated, but they're not, they're not going to make the mistake of previous administrations and not finishing the job. And that is what President Trump is planning on doing. Rest assured. All right, I want to bring in now former commander of the USS Cole. Kirk Lippold is with us. Commander, great to have you back on the program.
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President Donald Trump
Thanks, Grant.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Great to be back.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Commander, I guess I'll ask you first your reaction to President Trump's speech today. Just moments before we came on air.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Well, I think it was a great speech, very optimistic. I tend to be a little bit more guarded, given my 26 years in the Navy, and that I would say that Iran is still very dangerous. Their ability to project power clearly still exists in the eyes of the insurance industry and those maritime assets trying to get oil out of the Middle East. We're making significant progress. Secretary Hegseth alluded to that. But there's still more to be done. And until Iran's ability to project power out from their shores into the Strait of Hormuz is completely stopped so that you have maritime supremacy, maritime superiority, where they cannot do that, I think that they're going to still be somewhat guarded. But as we've seen, oil's coming down now, the price per barrel is beginning to decrease because I think the world is beginning to understand the United States is creating the conditions necessary for the flow of oil from the Middle east to begin and stabilize and allow economies around the world to continue to function and grow.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, if you were back at the Pentagon and Secretary of War Hegseth was asking you for your advice. Now, when you say Iran's ability to project power, Commander, where exactly is that coming from? Are there certain things that the United States military could hit to continue to diminish that power? What would you tell them to go after?
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Commander Kirk Lippold
I think, Grant, we would still go. What I would tell Secretary Hag Seth is continue to do what you're doing. We've already targeted all of their vessels. They're gone. We need to start targeting the infrastructure that they need, piers, fueling, depots, all those things that would allow them to get any type of vessel underway and out. Plus, clearly we've got a notice to mariners out where anything coming off Iran shores is going to be declared hostile and sunk. This is not a time to be going fishing. This is a time to be staying at home, hunkered down. Because if you get underway and you come out into the Strait of Hormuz or off the shores of Iran, you're going to be designated as hostile, taken under fire and sunk.
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Grant Stinchfield
You know, Commander, when I look at what's happening, I feel so proud of the United States military. I feel so proud of what President Trump and his whole team have been able to accomplish there in very short order. But I feel the Democrats don't feel the same way about this. Specifically Democrats in positions of power in Washington. Let me play a clip from Chris Murphy, Senator, Democrat, of course, which kind of leads me to believe what I'm saying to you. I want to play the clip and then let you respond. But what they fail to understand is that you can't bomb knowledge out of existence. Even if you were to do something wildly dangerous, like putting American ground forces in to try to extract some of their enriched uranium, there's still going to be the knowledge inside Iran, so that if you don't actually succeed in putting a new leader inside that country, they'll just be able to rebuild that capacity as soon as American forces are gone. Commander, I think to translate for everybody at home, what Murphy's saying is the United States just can't win this war. Iran will be back. I think he's wrong on this.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Commander Grant, I think you're absolutely right. I was stunned and listening over the weekend at the number of people from the Democrat Party, the senators and the House members who are speaking up. And it's almost like they are wishing for the military to die and for our country to fail in this operation against the number one state sponsor of terrorism, a country that has killed Americans since 1983. Hundreds of dead, thousands of maimed and injured. And they want to view it only through the lens of what's going on today. I don't know what's going on with their nuclear program. The bottom line is Iran has been and continues to be a threat to the U.S. israel, the Middle east and the world. The United States, under President Trump's leadership, took decisive action to eliminate that threat. If not now, when? And I asked, just like I did the other day, what's the number? How many more Americans would need to die before this country is willing to do something to stop that country from killing us? The bottom line is we're acting. We're acting now. Democrats need to get on board and support the military to completing their objectives and allowing our nation to prosper.
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Grant Stinchfield
Look, you just called it out that for 47 years Israel has been a threat to Americans. Anybody that's been blown up by a roadside IED in any of the conflicts we fought, that that roadside IED probably came from Iran. Yet this is Senator Mark Warner, also a Democrat. Before I let you go, I'll play one more just to get you fired up. Commander. There's been 47 years of this conflict with Iran. There been that pressure for much of the time there was no imminent threat. Do I believe justify starting this war? Yes. I'll give you the last word, Commander.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Unbelievable imminent threat. Let's talk about it in the lens through today. That means that what the Democrats are saying is all those families who suffered the Loss of a service member in Afghanistan or Iraq due to an IED or the Beirut barracks bombing or the embassy in 1983. Your lives mean nothing because, gee, I don't detect an imminent threat today that is clueless leadership and is totally unacceptable. At some point, that threat needed to be stopped.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yep. And it sure looks like President Trump has managed to do that and will continue until it's 100% completely snuffed out. Commander Kirk Leppold, we appreciate you coming on the program as always. So good to see you, sir. Thank you.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Thank you, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. You know, you talk about imminent threat, they're already here in the United States. Did you see what happened in New York City? So there were protesters outside of Gracie Mansion. That's where the mayor lives. Mom. Donnie. In. In New York, protesters that were that were protesting Sharia law, the Islam takeover of America. And you had to wannabe jihadists that through makeshift improvised explosive devices into those crowd of anti Muslim protesters. Thankfully, those explosives malfunctioned. Watch this. The moment it happened, we were born and raised in New York and we want everyone here to stay in New York. You don't get to come from outside
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Alexander Muse
and then tell everyone else.
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Grant Stinchfield
That is frightening. You see them right there? Throw that container filled with explosives, nuts and bolts, screws. By the grace of God, it did not detonate. Whether he didn't have the concoction right, whether the formula wasn't just perfect, it didn't detonate. Neither one of them did. That is a very good thing. The two suspects are Emir Blatt, 18 years old, and Ibrahim K. Umiya, 19 years old. Federal charges have been made against them. We're told after they were taken into custody, they made statements that they were supportive of ice. Now, let me say this. The police officers there, New York's finest, sprang into action and ran towards those explosive devices, not knowing exactly what it was, taking those two into custody. This is Mom. Donnie. After it happened, apparently wanting to blame the protesters for forcing the terrorists to fight back against them. I guess. Let me also be clear about something else. New York City will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counter protests. Many of the counter protesters met this display of bigotry peacefully, with a vision of a city that is welcoming to all but a few. Did not. Two men, Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayoumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to bring violence to New York City. They are suspected of coming here to commit an act of terrorism. So he virtually calls the terrorists counter protesters. And over the weekend, over and over again, he basically blamed the protesters for inciting those would be terrorists. It is sick, but also very, very frightening. Now, this is the exact environment we're seeing play out with Mamdani, with Democrat lawmakers. That is the reason, in my belief, that sparked the most powerful political movement on earth. The left's divisiveness is what made MAGA what it is today. In many respects, it gave President Trump the lane to run for the presidency. Now, you could say Barack Obama is the architect of maga. Barack Obama is ground zero for maga. Barack Obama was the one who started this divisive pit. Americans against each other. Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals divide the nation until it falls. Well, what he did, his plan, it backfired because that set President Trump free. Now, Barack Obama brought all of this back at Jesse Jackson's funeral, of all places. He went right to the divisive rhetoric. Each day we wake up to some
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Commander Kirk Lippold
new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law.
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Grant Stinchfield
Oh, the hypocrisy is stunning. When you think about under the Obama Biden regime, the rule of law was thrown out. They weaponized it against all of us. An attack on our democracy is exactly what the Democrats have been doing. But he didn't stop there. An offense to common decency.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Every day you wake up to.
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Grant Stinchfield
To things you just didn't think
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Commander Kirk Lippold
were possible.
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Grant Stinchfield
Every day we wake up to things we didn't think were possible. Like little boys being forced to chop their nuts off to pretend to be women. You mean things like that. Going hog wild, crazy with transgender mania and LGBTQ flags flying just about everywhere you could find things like that. Throwing J6 political prisoners in the shoe. The whole solitary confinement for months and months and months on end while murderers in the streets go free. Like things like that. Barack Obama, again, the hypocrisy is stunning. And the attacks were on all of you. And what makes this so disgusting is that the attacks came after Jesse Jackson Jr. Said, Don't bring your political bull corn into my father's funeral. That before the funeral happened. Do not bring your politics. Out of respect to Reverend Jesse Jackson and the life that he lived. To these homegoing services come respectful and come to say thank you. But these homegoing services are welcome to all Democrat, Republican, liberal and conservative. Bravo. Goes on to say, left wing, right wing. Thank you, Jesse Jackson Jr. Now, I see that and I listen to Barack Obama and I think we're in the middle of a war. America is at war with enemies right now. And you have Democrats that Stoop to the level of Barack Obama and even worse, people like James Carville. Look, you fat Trump, if you listen to this, you listen good. Because what I'm getting ready to say is what a lot of people in this country speak for who I speak for, and I speak for a lot of people. You hear me, you fat. You don't speak for any of us with the spit flying out of your mouth, you disgusting human being. You don't come close to speaking for us.
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Alexander Muse
You.
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Grant Stinchfield
You're deranged. We'll get to that in a moment. But again, that kind of rhetoric is what sparked this political movement that we now call Mag. And I want to bring in now someone to discuss this who knows all about this political movement. And yes, the behavior of the left pushed him onto the national stage. I'm talking about J6 political prisoner and now Republican congressional candidate in Florida, John Strand is with us. John, welcome to the program.
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John Strand
Thank you so much for having me, Grant. It's always great to be with you, John.
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Grant Stinchfield
If they didn't go after you, you're the guy I'm talking about and others they threw in the shoe, the hole for many, many months on end, you wouldn't be running for Congress, probably. Am I correct?
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John Strand
I mean, all things could be different, Grant. But your point about Barack Obama being ground zero for the reign ignition of maga, I think is a good point. I think it's true. You know, Barack Obama was incredibly divisive and really destructive to our country. He racialized everything. But you know what, Grant? The war in America, the divide is not between black and white, okay? The war is between truth and fiction. There are red blooded Americans of all skin colors, but we all bleed red, white and blue. Red, literally, right? We bleed red. We're Americans and we believe in God and family values and the principles of the Constitution. That's what we believe in and that's what we fight for. But we are in a war against enemies that want to destroy those principles. And they believe that power can overwrite reality. So we are in a war to defend God and reality, which are the same thing, and to stand firm on those principles that created Western civilization itself and the greatest country that has ever existed on the planet, the United States of America, that allows all of us to be free, no matter what our skin color is. So that's the principles that we have to get back to.
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Grant Stinchfield
John, you bring such a up, such a great point. It really is a battle between truth and fiction. And because President Trump speaks the truth, that is what causes I believe this Trump Derangement Syndrome. Let me play just a little bit more from James Carville for you to hear exactly what we're up against when we talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome. You right, I got Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hate the mother. And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more. I pray to God in heaven, God reign the righteous reign of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Pray for me, Lord. I'm your vessel. You know, the crazy thing is, John. Yeah, I'll pray for James Carville. I don't hate him. And you know what? I don't think President Trump hates him either. That's a disease that you have hatred take over your heart like that so much. You know the difference between us and them? We pray for them. They want to literally kill us at times. Yeah, well, they.
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John Strand
They did literally kill Charlie Kirk, so there's no doubt about it. And, you know, that clip is quite revealing. Grant. Wow. James Carville, he's basically living out Romans 1. The apostle Paul in Romans 1 says that men denied the reality of God because reality comes from God, and their minds became dark and foolish. And that's what you just saw in that clip. So, remember, politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Byatt famously told us, but culture is downstream from the wellspring of the human heart and the sphere condition. So in America, you know, broadly speaking, I believe we've divorced ourselves from God, and that's why we are struggling. That's where the division ultimately is rooted in. We have to reclaim the Republic that's based on one nation under God. That's definitely why I'm running for Congress@johnstran.com and I'm really excited to ignite a whole new movement of young men and women that believe in America, that believe in God and his goodness and family values, that understand what's at stake and how valuable this country is. We will lose it if we don't fight for it. And I'm here to fight with you guys.
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Grant Stinchfield
Yeah. Well, you've become a great friend, and we wish you luck in all this. Primaries are rough because a lot of people I know are running for the same seat and all these things. But you are a good man, John Strand. And one of my other very good friends, General Michael Flynn, just offered up you his endorsement. That's pretty big. And you have event tomorrow night. Real quick, tell me about it.
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John Strand
Yeah, we're so excited to have General Flynn's endorsement, as well as Congressman Lauren Boebert from the Freedom caucus and Bob McEwen, excellent congressman from Ohio in the past and amazing endorsements, including Alfie Oaks, who's a really great patriot right here in Naples. So we have a big rally to celebrate that and get the campaign going strong. See the table tomorrow starting at 4pm you can find everything@johnstrand.com and find us on social media and X at John Strand usa. Join the fight today because we will take our country back together.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, my friend, always great work. We appreciate you coming on and good luck as you move forward with all that.
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John Strand
God bless you, Grant. Keep preaching the truth.
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Grant Stinchfield
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. A powerful movement is underway to oust John Cornyn as the King Senator from Texas. You may remember we first revealed here that it was leaked that President Trump was all set to endorse John Cornyn over our friend Ken Paxton, the Attorney General here. Well, that lit a fire under the conservative movement, not just in Texas, but really around the country. And I believe President Trump has made a pause on this. Remember, he said he's going to endorse. Whoever he doesn't endorse should step down. Here's Laura Loomer.
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Grainger Announcer
Senator John Cornyn is extorting the president and he's had a terrible record. I mean, this guy, this is a guy who supported the Islamic invasion of Texas. He supported legislation to bring in Afghanis
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Grant Stinchfield
into the state of Texas. This is a guy who said that
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Grainger Announcer
Donald Trump's time had passed him in 2024 when he was running and he was being, you know, subjected to all this lawfare. Cornyn is anti second Amendment.
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Grant Stinchfield
So Laura Loomer does have poll with the administration. I would like to think we on this program have poll with the administration. Someone like Caroline Wrenn and Steve Bannon have poll with the administration. This is Caroline on War Room.
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Alexander Muse
When the Sham E Jean Carroll verdict came out, Cornyn ran to MSNBC to say that this because of this verdict, Donald Trump was unelectable and shouldn't run again. When Alvin Bragg was indicting Trump, John Cornyn defended Bragg and said the process was necessary and needed to play out. Regarding January 6th, John Cornyn compared it to 9 11, then called the J6 attendees, quote, white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionist and anarchist.
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Grant Stinchfield
If you don't believe her, I've got the clip. Roll it. Of John Cornyn.
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President Donald Trump
And it strikes me that the events
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Grant Stinchfield
of January 6th share something in common
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President Donald Trump
with 911 in the sense that seemed
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Grant Stinchfield
like there was a failure of imagination. That's not to point the finger at any one buddy to blame, but merely to try to describe what I. There's Nothing compared to 911 in January 6th. I was there on 9 11. Two buildings fell and 3,000 people died. The only people that died on January 6th were great patriots. That's it. And they were taking an unorganized tour of the capitol. Large majority, 95% of them. It's disgusting. One more from Cornyn. Oh, this is a doozy called Foushee, a national treasure.
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Grainger Announcer
Do you still have confidence in Dr.
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Grant Stinchfield
Fauci after his testimony yesterday?
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Christina Bob
Obviously, Senator Paul Braun, I mean, Dr.
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Grant Stinchfield
Fauci is a very. He's a national treasurer like a lot of the healthcare providers we've been hearing from. Fouch is a national treasure, literally. He's the most prolific serial killer on the face of the earth. And I don't say that lightly. This is why we cannot have this man in. And I urge President Trump, if you're watching, do not endorse this man. This whole idea of him helping you with the SAVE act, it's a setup job. They won't, he will not help you. This is a Bush guy. He's a Bush plant and has been from the very start. Well, I want to bring in now to discuss all of this. Independent publisher, political pundit, got a great platform on social media. My friend Alexander Muse is with us. Alexander, great to have you on the program.
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Alexander Muse
Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
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President Donald Trump
All right.
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Grant Stinchfield
I should say you were really instrumental in breaking some of the news about the behind the scenes working of Trump's possible endorsement of Cornyn. What is your assessment now, Alexander? It's been a few days and he's not made an endorsement. To me, that's a good sign.
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Alexander Muse
I do, I agree. You know, we, on, on, at the, at the watch party, we kind of got the indication that Wesley Hunt was going to endorse Ken. I think there were three phone calls. And then ultimately we learned that there was White House involvement to tell Wesley to sort of wave off that the President was going to go ahead and make an endorsement. And he wanted Wesley to wait until after that. And that kind of concerned us all because that implied that the, the endorsement was going to go the other way. And so we, we were, we were kind of, we were a little concerned about that. And then the next day when the, the Truth Social post came out that sort of explained the process by which he would endorse one of them and then ultimately asked the other to drop out, we were even more shocked, particularly because he hadn't called anyone, hadn't really set this, set the table at all. And then we learned that perhaps that message was sent out prematurely and he was quite perturbed by that. And then ultimately I think that the conversations began and we have, you know, we have some ideas of why those, why those things happened and, and what happened. But ultimately, if you are a Paxton supporter, this is great news, I think, as you, as you point out.
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Grant Stinchfield
So the, the, the thought was that somebody released that truth Social post before President Trump was ready to release it from inside the White House. And then you had mentioned in one of your reporting on this that he was angry that conservative leaders in Texas didn't call him to voice their anger over a possible Corny endorsement. Was he talking about Dan Patrick, the Lieutenant governor? Who's he talking about here?
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Alexander Muse
Well, ironically, I know exactly who he was talking about. It wasn't one of those folks. It was someone kind of more like yourself, I think, but, but based here in Texas. And I heard this directly from the source, basically describing the circumstances of the call. And the President just seemed to be unaware of some of the problems of Cornyn that Cornyn represents and how the grassroots would have a really negative reaction to an endorsement. And, and as the, as this party kind of went through some of the just the top line issues, I think the President suddenly realized that, you know, he was being kind of advised in a way that that might not be, you know, would not be accepted. Well, among Texas Republicans, especially the grassroots.
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Grant Stinchfield
Look, before I let you go, just to hammer the point home, let's do another lowlight of John Cornyn. Cut five.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
I was listening with interest to our friend and colleague from Minnesota talk about the Russian investigation.
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Grant Stinchfield
And I agree with her 100% that it is our responsibility to get to the bottom of what exactly happened due to Russian involvement in our election. Alexander. Russian collusion. I mean he was right there on that page with every democr.
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Alexander Muse
Every time. The clips are endless and, and they're just coming out and in my, the word that I'm getting is, is that they are. The campaign is really feeling the pressure. They're being hit a lot harder, a lot faster than they thought that they would and the reaction is a lot stronger than I think they would. And even I don't know if you've seen but there are some allegations made that his name appears in the so called Congress sexual slush fund settlement report and that his camp or that his office may have been one of the recipients of that of, of a settlement with one of his victims. And you know, and then the fact that he will not authorize the release of any of the information I think is concerning a lot of people as well. So there's a lot to come, I think. And, and you know, and I think the, it's going to be tough, tough road ahead for Cornyn, I suspect.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, I urge everyone to follow you on X a Muse M U S E. Great platform, great stuff. Alexander, it's great having you on the program. I appreciate you coming on today.
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Alexander Muse
Appreciate it anytime.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. You know, it was Anna Paulina Luna that just last week told all her congressmen to their faces, hey, release the details of this congressional slush fund. None of them want to do it. How disgusting is that it's a bail, it's a payoff plan for sexual harassment claims and that type of thing inside the halls of Congress. All right, a big development coming out of Arizona as the FBI is seizing election records from Maricopa County. That's next. But first, just a quick reminder of RAV's coming coverage of CPAC 2026. From March 25th through the 28th, we'll have back to back coverage. The largest conservative gathering in the country. Check this out. Get ready, America. March 25th through 28th, CPAC USA 2026
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back, everyone. The very thing that I was calling for on the night of the election in 2020 is finally happening. I wanted the FBI, FBI raids in the days following the stolen election from President Trump. Instead, we're getting the FBI going in now. We're now getting word that the FBI has seized data from Maricopa county in Arizona. This is John Solomon who broke the news.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
And so the focus in this grand jury subpoena that went in the last few days to Maricopa county sees the many gigabytes of election Data is the 2024 election, which is interesting because President 1 there. But there is a discovery that was made by congressional observers.
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Grant Stinchfield
This is great news to me. I Want to bring in now to discuss all of this Judicial Watch attorney, former Trump attorney and author of Defiant. Christina, Bob is here. Christina, welcome to the program.
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Christina Bob
Thanks for having me, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Christina, you and I have been talking about this all the way back to when this was happening, days after the election of 2020. And I always thought, where are the agents? Why aren't they going in in Detroit and Milwaukee and Arizona and Atlanta? Why isn't. And nothing happened. Now we're finally getting this. But this is a long time coming. Christina, your thoughts about finally going into Arizona, this after they seized records in Georgia?
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Christina Bob
Yeah, this has been a very long, long time coming. So I'm glad that it's actually happening. I'll be very curious to see what comes of it. Some of my favorite things, as John Solomon said in that clip, this is from the 2024 election. They did not go all the way back to 2020, likely, because those records have probably been destroyed. And apparently the information that they have is leading them to believe there's continued irregularities in 2024. But Donald Trump won Arizona in 2024. And this is a grand jury subpoena. This is not from a judge or this is not somehow hacked up from the Department of Justice. So this means it's a group of Arizona voters who likely voted for Donald Trump. He had an overwhelming majority in Arizona and that he won that race. So this is not clearly not an attempt to overturn election results, but just to get to the bottom of what actually is going on in Arizona's elections, because any objective person can look at them and say, no, there's some problems
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Grant Stinchfield
here, which is really what anybody, what anybody should want is let's just get to the bottom of it.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Right.
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Grant Stinchfield
And. And finally, it seems like that's happening. John Solomon also reported that in, in Georgia that FBI agents were claiming that they have found irregularities. That's a quote. As to how they were counting the votes in Georgia.
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Christina Bob
Yeah, yeah, shocker. I mean, we've known that since November 3rd of 2020. I mean, there's a plethora of evidence of that. So the fact that they're saying now, almost five and a half years later, it's like, well, welcome to the party. So, yeah, it's great that they're admitting it. It's great that they're going forward with it now President Trump is back in office. It matters to the extent that we need our elections cleaned out. Every American wants the elections cleaned out. I think it's like 70 to 80% of Americans want voter ID they want secure elections, and our government is working against us to do that. So I'm really grateful that the FBI has stepped up and done this. But, you know, investigating is one thing and then actually correcting the action is something else. And so we've got to see both. Both things happen.
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Yeah.
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Grant Stinchfield
It's one of the things that we've not been happy about so far. We have not seen the corrections yet and the retribution of the people that I believe certainly deserve some of that. The Save America act is on everybody's mind, including President Trump's. President Trump made indications that he would not sign any bill, even the budget bill, unless they pass the Save America Act. Let me run a clip. Cut seven for the guys behind the glass for Christina, and then I'll get your response.
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President Donald Trump
With Republicans, you're at 98%, but Democrats are at 86. Except for the people that run the Democrat Party because they want to try and win elections illegally. The only reason you vote against voter idea is because you want to cheat. There's no other reason. They come up with reasons. They say it's racist. That's their number one racist. Then you have to explain it. And they're just sitting there mumbling. They can't explain.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Christina, I'm going to ask you, because you've been around this game a while, you've been so intimately close with President Trump, his team, the administration, now Judicial Watch. How do we get the Save America act passed? I'm not convinced there's a path.
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Christina Bob
Yeah, I don't. Quite honestly, I don't know that there is either. I hope there is. But if we didn't get it passed already, I mean, by the time midterms roll around, it will be almost two years that Donald Trump has been in office. They've had plenty of time to do it. It's clearly Republicans that are stonewalling. Republicans could pass it. They could make it happen. And, you know, no shocker there. Republicans are working against what their constituents voted for. So I think they're going to have to get shellacked, quite honestly. And I'm not hoping for that. I'm not hoping for a bloodbath during the midterms, but I think that's what Republicans are in for. If they had an overwhelming majority in 2024, the American people said, we don't want what the Democratic Party is doing. We are giving control and authority to Republicans. And Republicans threw it in our faces and did nothing with it. Even the simplest thing like voter id, they haven't done So I think Republicans are going to get some, you know, bloody, bloody noses, black and blue eyes in the midterms because they're not doing the basics.
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Grant Stinchfield
It's awful and frustrating because the future of this country really does depend on the Save America act as, as we found out. Christina, Bob, as always, it's great having you on the program at Christina Underscore, Bob, is where you can find her on X. Thank you.
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Christina Bob
Thanks, Grant.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. All right, folks, are the stock markets preparing for a quick and successful end to Operation Epic Fury? We'll talk about it. Big rebound today.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back, everyone. I want to remind you something. CNBC and all the financial so called gurus out there were wrong. Wrong when they talk about what would happen when Trump went into Venezuela. I believe they're wrong when they tell you it's going to be doom and gloom. President Trump and the situation in Iran today. We already saw the markets correct in a big way. Oil prices as I mentioned, the top of the show down to $85 a barrel now, down from $110 a barrel. I want to bring in now from vertical research advisory CEO Kip Herridge. He's got the great website called vrainsider.com that I urge everyone to check out. Kip, welcome to the program.
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Kip Herridge
Hey, Grant, good to see you again.
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Grant Stinchfield
Kip, you and I were talking about this. They love the doom and gloom. How do you feel about everything that's gone on over the weekend into today and maybe where the stock market's headed?
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Kip Herridge
Yeah, I can tell you that the, the New York investment group, they all have tds. And it's so clear in times like these, this is when you see maximum fear. You know, be very afraid. Be very afraid. And that's when you should be buying. You know, my first mentor, ted Parsons in 1986 taught me a very valuable lesson. Never sell on a Monday. And just held up throughout my career we've been buying, beginning last week we started adding to positions. We're buying now. We think the lows are in. We think that the highs and oils are in. And Grant, we have four very reliable technical signals that point to that being the fact we called that this morning. We thought today's highs would be the highs. Oil is in severe backwardation, which means that it's really got nowhere to go but down. And if the studies hold up that the we that we look at, we're looking at oil being at least 15% lower in the next two months and 30% lower by year end.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so everyone that invests wakes up this morning. The futures markets are down. It looks like it's going to be awful. I get an email from Kip Herrich, an email that goes to everybody. By the way, this wasn't a personal email that you said, hey, calm down, everything's going to be fine. Basically, long story short, and sure enough, by the end of the day, we were in the green. Kip, you called that at like 7 o' clock in the morning.
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Kip Herridge
Yeah. I also think, you know, like we do fundamental and technical research. I also thought there was, there was a pivot coming from Trump. You could just feel it. I think the country's kind of gotten to a point where we don't want forever wars, we don't want any Trump. We didn't elect this man for that. And I think he feels that. So he was looking for the win. I think he's got the win. The Straits Open oil prices are going down. The lows are in.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, vrainsider.com Right now, the special you have going is a free two week trial. You get access to, to your predictions, your portfolio. Why don't you explain to people how it actually works? Because I have made a sizable portion of my portfolio directly committed to the VRA Insider portfolio. And I couldn't be happier. Tell people how it works, Kip.
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Kip Herridge
Right, so we're not a brokerage firm. I did that, you know, for 15 years on wall Street. We're an investment newsletter. We tell you what we're doing with our money. We have for the last 22 years beaten the market 19 to 22 years. Pretty proud of that. Basically, we write every morning, we tell you what we're doing. We're not day traders, we're position builders and we take advantage of short term opportunities. But that's what we do. We limit it to no more than 15 positions. Again, we're showing you what we do with our money. So you're free to do with it if you wish.
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Grant Stinchfield
And when you get this free trial, you get access to you never more than really 15 positions for the most Part. You get access to all of that, everything during this two weeks, correct?
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Commander Kirk Lippold
Yeah.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, Kip, do you think we've turned the corner here with this whole Iran craziness in the stock markets? You think it's. Are we going to see some more crazy wild swings low again?
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Kip Herridge
Yeah, I think we may see some more volatility. That's pretty normal. But we'll be buying those dips. And I think if you got new money to put in the markets, you want to buy those debts. Because this is a structural market. Most people don't understand this. This market bull market's going to. Because of fundamental reasons. Right. Because of, again, everything. Corporate earnings. Right. The strength of the economy. We see GDP growth, GDP growth going to 5% this year and 8% by 2028. We think most people have no clue what's coming. We're extraordinarily bullish. Looking for a move to 100,000 of the Dow by 2030.
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Grant Stinchfield
Wow. Well, I love what you guys do over there. And it's one of my first reads every morning, the newsletter I get from you all. I'm going to tell people, people, Kip, how to find you and your team and appreciate you coming on. Here's what you do, folks. Go to vrainsider.com that's V R A insider dot com. Go there right now to get a free two week membership. You get a look at everything, the entire back end. And by the way, they post every trade they've made for like the last 20 years. You can go look at every single trade they've made. I don't know of any other group like this has that kind of transparency. Transparency. Vrainsider.com that's vrainsider.com all right. Today, President Trump shared with us the origins of maga. That's next.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back, everyone. You know, bringing the show full circle. We talked about Barack Obama being the architect protective maga basically his divisiveness is what made the lane for President Trump and this populist movement that has become the most powerful movement on earth. But it's President Trump who conceptualized the MAGA movement. How did he come up with this
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President Donald Trump
Make America Great Again maga? It just worked, you know, I had something Keep America Great. It was good, but it didn't have that maga, you know, there was nothing you could see. I had cag, cag and cag. I said, you know, no longer. That's not good.
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Grant Stinchfield
MAG is way better than CAG, Mr. President. And, you know, getting serious about it. Keep America great. Remember when President Trump burst on the scene? America wasn't great. Greatest nation in the world still, even under Barack Obama. But it wasn't as great as it could could be. Make America Great Again. Brilliant. That's going to do it for us. Thanks for watching, everybody. Stitchfield's army rolls. We will see you back.
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