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Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Etsy files and that is shocking. Okay. And then she went on in the same interview to slam President Trump for calling her a traitor even though again she has spent the last several months just beating up on President Trump over and over and over. The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a traitor. And that is, that is so extremely wrong. And those are the types of words use that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger. So again, the new line that's being retailed by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene is that criticism of her puts her life in danger. Okay, The President of the United States disagrees. Here's the President responding to that particular idea. Her life would be at danger because of the rhetoric. Her life is in danger. Who's that? Marjorie Taylor Greene. She says Marjorie Trader Green. I don't think her life is in danger. 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She, Thomas Massie and a wide variety of commentators seem to get very exercised about President Trump and the Epstein files by claiming that President Trump is in fact enthralled to Israel and that what is happening with the Epstein files, that it's some sort of Mossad agency operation and what made them mad is that President Trump actually is not anti Israel the same way that they are. And this is met with mainstream media approval, of course. I mean, listen, Marjorie Taylor Greene is making pretty clear what she thinks is happening here. Here she was blaming Israel for Jeffrey Epstein again, without any evidence. And if there's evidence present it. I'm all in favor of all Jeffrey Epstein files being released. All of it. The reason I think the President didn't want all of that released is because he was tired of talking about it. He and because his own FBI had told him there was no there there. But I'm all in favor of more transparency on the Epstein files and anybody who is involved if in fact there was as the sort of most ridiculous suppositions, evidence free suppositions suggest some sort of intelligence agency operation to sex traffic underage people in order to blackmail people, which is the theory here. If that's true, whoever engaged in it is evil, full stop, bar none. That's just basic morality. But again, the evidence free nature of this thing is the reason why it is being trafficked by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene. We saw Jeffrey Epstein with ties to Ehud Barak. We saw him making business deals with them also business deals that involved the Israeli government and seems to have led into their intel agencies. And I think the right question is to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel? Okay, so again, she's just putting that out there. No evidence whatsoever because she doesn't like Israel and also because she has some peculiar views, shall we say, about Jews. She of course believes that the United States is enthralled to the Israeli, particularly President Trump. She thinks that President Trump is somehow controlled by the Israelis. Here she was on Steve Bannon's show. Steve Bannon, of course, is on the same side of this argument because he too would like to seize control of the MAGA movement. There is a thing that is happening in the Republican Party, an assumption that President Trump is no longer president and no longer the head of maga. And now there ought to be a fight over the pieces of maga, that basically the, the ship is rudderless and somebody is going to grab control. Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks she is that person. Here she is suggesting that the President of the United States is somehow being manipulated by the Israelis. Six months in seed and here we are turning back on the campaign promises and we bombed Iran on behalf of Israel. Yes, it was on behalf of Israel. Well, I mean, that's kind of a strange supposition given the fact that again, Israel was doing the vast majority of the bombing. And it's always funny all the people who suggest that the President of the United States was being pushed into that by the Israelis, like full on pushed into it, that the Israelis got all their hearts desires from President Trump. Well, no, I assume that the Israeli government would have been fully on board with the idea of toppling the Iranian regime. The President was not. And that's that. These are the same people who suggested that bombing the Fordo nuclear reactor was somehow going to lead to World War 3 and full scale American involvement in Middle east warfare, which of course never happened. And again, it's not just Marjorie Taylor Greene. It is also Thomas Massey who takes the same viewpoint. This is the reason why they're focused on Epstein. Okay, let's be clear about this. It is not because of Epstein. The Epstein files have been out there, they've been in the possession. None of these people were screaming bloody murder about the Epstein files when Joe Biden was President of the United States. President Trump comes on the scene, doesn't do the foreign policy they want, and suddenly they start screaming at the top of their lungs about the Epstein files. Thomas Massie, of course, objects to many parts of the Trump agenda, which is why the President would like primary Thomas Massie as well. Here is Massie also accusing President Trump of some sort of COVID up on Epstein. You know, I've never said that these files will implicate Donald Trump. And I really don't Think that they will. I think he's trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends, billionaires, donors to his campaign, friends in his social circles. And that's my operating theory on why he's trying so hard to keep these files closed. Again, this is all part of an attempt to turn MAGA into something it isn't. And let's be clear about what MAGA is. MAGA is President Trump. Period. End of story. All attempts to reduce MAGA to some ideological form or fashion are bound to fail because President Trump is sui generis. He contains multitudes. That means that many people who voted for President Trump disagree with him on a lot of stuff that he does. Heard me on this program, disagree with the President of the United States quite frequently on matters ranging from foreign policy to domestic policy. The president defines what MAGA is. He always has defined what MAGA is. Now, you can say that there's a new movement afoot to try and cobble together pieces of Trump's coalition moving forward into something different. But to sort of claim the mantle of Trumpism without Trump is a bizarre move and a ridiculous move in a set sense. But that's one of the things that's happening here. One of the other people trying to grab control of the Trump movement is, of course, Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon. Sloppy Steve, as the President has called him in the past, who has glommed. He spent his entire career just glomming onto more powerful people and then using them as essentially a raft in order to jump on a bigger raft. That is Steve Bannon's entire career trajectory. Well, now he has become sort of the most quoted man in media because the media love to use Bannon as a sort of Darth Vader figure hidden behind the scenes and manipulating Republican politics. Now, the media love a good false narrative. In any case, here was Steve Bannon over the weekend, for example, praising Nick Fuentes. Again, the reason this is happening, we should point out, is because there is an attempt to GLA to glaze pretty much everybody who is on the anti Israel and yes, anti. I mean, Fuentes is just an anti Semite, anti Semitic side in order to shift policy priorities away from what President Trump is attempting to do. Alex Jones had a debate with Nick Fuentes and Dinesh d', Souza, and you cannot. You see right there the laziness, the lack of argument, the just their attitude that they just own this. Fuentes takes this guy apart brick by brick. It's a full takedown. It's a full takedown because the kid shows up, he's prepped, he's ready. Not only is he on point and he's always on attack, he happens to have something called facts. And he just overwhelms Dinesh. Dinesh goes back and it shows you this old guard who has nothing. Again, it's fascinating to watch as all these people make quasi allies of people like Nick Fuentes, who again stumped against the President of the United States in the last election cycle. It really is an amazing thing and it is part of a broader effort to tear away at President Trump's coalition. That's what this is, to build something else for the future, I assume. It is worth noting here that Steve Bannon again being part of the the Epstein scandal team and these sort of. There must be something going on with Jeff. Steve Bannon ran ops for Jeffrey Epstein. He had a long standing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein because again, Steve Bannon is a leech on other powerful people. That's what he does for a living. According to the BBC, Epstein and Bannon were frequent correspondence. They worked together. He has apparently hours and hours of footage of Jeffrey Epstein who's trying to make some sort of documentary about Jeffrey Epstein. And all of that has been hidden. So again, that's the thing that President Trump is fighting back against when he is slapping at Marjorie Taylor Greene this attempt to basically declare his administration a lame duck administration and then grab control of MAGA as a movement and then pretend that the President is somehow betraying MAGA in some fundamental way. That is a unique claim, but it's a claim being made softly and not so softly by a wide variety of figures on the quasi right tearing apart the Trump coalition for their own particular purposes. And again, there's a difference between criticizing the things President Trump does. We all do that he's the President of the United States, and suggesting that he has somehow betrayed the movement he built, which of course is just silly already coming up, affordability remains the top of mind issue for the Trump administration. So what should they do next? 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Meanwhile, concerns about affordability continue to plague the administration. According to the Wall Street Journal, a proposal to give Americans direct payments of $2,000 or more an antitrust probe into allegations that meatpacking companies are colluding to drive up beef prices. A new plan to lower tariffs on coffee, fruit and other popular products. President Trump and his advisors are rushing to try to lower prices for American consumers after voters sent a warning shot to Republicans this month over the high cost of living following the recent election. Trump's aides have urged the President to focus on affordability. Now, as I pointed out for weeks and legitimately my entire career, the only way to achieve affordability truly is to have a robust economy built on private property and free market economics. That is the way that affordability becomes a thing. It is why products that are subject to, to private property rights and to open competition, reduce in price and improve in quality that is the chief hallmark of a capitalist economy. Any attempt by the government to intervene in the economy directly, to, quote, unquote, make things cheaper, is likely to achieve precisely the opposite effect. And unwillingness to acknowledge that is likely to lead to pretty poor outcomes. So the President of the United States has put out there that maybe there will be $2,000 tariff checks. They come back to people. He gave an update on that Friday night. I'll be giving back $2,000 or so to middle income people, low income people, everybody but the rich. How soon could Americans see those checks? Will that be in time for Christmas holiday shopping? No, no, not for this year. It'll be next year sometime. Do you have a time frame sometime during the year next year? It's a lot of money, but we've taken in a lot of money from tariffs. The tariffs allow us to give a dividend. If we want to do that now we're going to do a dividend. And we're also going to be reducing debt. We have because of Biden and others, we have 37 trillion in debt. Okay, so again, he's kind of walking it back a little bit. But let's be real about this. That is not going to solve the price of living problem. That is just helicopter money. Helicopter money increases prices. Now, I've seen the administration passing around a study from the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. This was originally reported by Breitbart and the headline was Fed Study Vindicates Trump trade policy. 150 years of evidence shows tariffs lower inflation. Okay, that is not what the study says. That is not what the study says. What the study actually says is that tariffs eventually lower inflation by leading to economic depression. That's what it actually says. What it says is that prices temporarily increase and then demand levels off and then begins to decline as there is job loss and inability to pay for the inflated prices. And then the prices decline. So, yes, it turns out higher unemployment, unemployment and deflation is typically the result of tariff policy, which is bad. That's bad. Like you will get a temporary price spike, and then because things are more expensive, fewer people can afford them. And then your demand goes down. And when your demand goes down, your price goes down. But the problem is that people are losing their jobs because they no longer have jobs in industries that require the inputs that tariffs have now made more expensive, and now they can't pay for anything. And you enter a deflationary spiral. That's the actual report, but that's not the report that is being promoted by Breitbart and by the Trump administration, which is that tariffs somehow magically lower prices. That would be, as the kids say, huge if true. But in fact, it is not true. In fact, that that is not. That is not true. Tariff shocks act through an aggregate demand channel is what the study actually suggests. And what does that mean? What that means is that as demand craters, what you end up with is an inflationary spiral. Tariff hikes raise unemployment, lowers economic activity, and lowers inflation. I'm not sure the President wants to lower economic activity. I'm not sure that's what he's looking for. So the argument that it lowers inflation by, you know, destroying the economy, I don't think that that's the thing that you're looking for. Quote, regardless of our identification approach, we obtain the same result. A tariff hike lowers CPI inflation and raises unemployment. Higher tariffs lead to lower economic activity and lower inflation in the short run. That is not, in fact, against the prediction of standard models. Tariff shocks appear to act as aggregate demand shocks, moving inflation and unemployment in the same directions. This, I'm not sure why this person labeled this anti sort of traditional economics. No, traditional economics says that it's hairful in the immediate term. Spike prices and then the demand will go down and then the prices will go down. So, yes, it turns out that government intervention in the economy leads to unworkability. Meanwhile, Scott Besant, the Treasury of the Secretary, he says that the, the costs are going to come down. Here he was explaining on MSNBC's Morning Joe over the weekend, we inherited an affordability crisis. We have slowed the price increases down and they are going to continue to slow down and that real working class wages will go up and that that will address the fall affordability issue. There are many aspects of affordability that have gotten better under President Trump. They're going to continue to get better. I mean, unbelievably, Bloomberg had an article yesterday that said, oh, mortgages, mortgage rates aren't down that much. Well, on an Inauguration Day a 30 year mortgage was 7.8%. Yesterday was 6.22%. That is the single biggest component of, of buying a new home. And that is a gigantic drop. Okay, so again, maybe the prices come down, but in order for prices to truly come down, you need less government involvement in the economy. That's what you need. Now meanwhile, Democrats are involved in business of blackmail, economic blackmail. So the basic idea here is that if you won't pay everybody's benefits, we are then going to yell at you for making everybody's life worse. This is the beauty of big government policy. You propose a policy, that policy drives up prices. In education, in housing, yes, in food. You subsidize all those things, the prices go up. And then when somebody cuts back and they say hey, we can't afford all of this, it's actually creating economic unworkability. Then you step in and say if you won't subsidize it, then you're making people's lives worse. We actually need more government funding. This is the magic opiate that is government spending. Once you get people used to a certain level of government spending, then it starts to fl. The effect starts to flatten out and you need more government spending in order to achieve the same high. This is what's currently happening with food stamps. According to Politico, millions of Americans greeted the end of the government shutdown with relief. But others are learning they could soon lose federal food aid permanently. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins directed USDA staff during the record setting 43 day shutdown to continue ushering states toward compliance with Republicans signature tax and spending law which is projected to kick millions out of the nation's largest anti hunger program in the next few months. Those changes, combined with other provisions in the new law will represent the most significant cuts to the social safety net in decades. And it all comes as low income families are confronting stagnating wages that aren't keeping up with the skyrocketing cost of living. Now again, one of the things that that contributes to the skyrocketing cost of living are gigantic food subsidies, which is what SNAP is. That's also why wages stagnate by the way. Snap, effectively speaking, is a subsidy to low wage enterprises like for example, McDonald's. McDonald's can afford to pay people 8 bucks, 9 bucks an hour because SNAP is filling in the other side of what the salary would have to be if SNAP didn't exist. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides an average of six bucks per day for nearly 42 million people, which is again an insane number. It has only grown dramatically under Joe Biden. And this is the game that Republicans keep playing. And it's a stupid game. Win play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They keep playing this dumb game where they think they can somehow outbid Democrats on big government redistributionist programs. Good luck with that. Seriously, good luck with that. At a certain point, people are going to get tired of the diluted drug of government spending from Republicans and instead turn to the full scale uncut stuff from Democrats. If the only distinction between Republican policy and Democratic policy is the dollar amount and the Democrats can outbid you like on the Price is Right, then you're going to lose. You will. And again, this is the Democrats game. They design programs that are bound to fail unless you have to keep the subsidies up. And then the minute the subsidies go away, they blame you. Tim Kaine, the senator from Virginia, he's doing this with regard to Obamacare. Of course, the costs of Obamacare have risen dramatically ever since the implementation of Obamacare, one of the worst government programs in existence. But here is Senator Tim Kaine saying that Republicans now have to sign off on larger subsidies or be blamed for the fallout from a failed Democratic program. It would be political malpractice of the highest order for the House to not take up a bipartisan bill coming out of the Senate. And if they don't take it up, I'll give you a prediction. The November 2026 elections are going to look a whole lot worse for Republicans than the November 2025 elections did when we just saw swept Virginia in a historic way and won big races in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, all over the country. Americans will see who's standing with them and who's standing them against them on affordability of health care. That will be clarifying.
