🚨 JD Vance Assassination Attempt, Home ATTACKED! Suspect ARRESTED | Tim Walz QUITS Gov. Race, Jail?

Summary

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Episode: JD Vance Assassination Attempt, Home ATTACKED! Suspect ARRESTED | Tim Walz QUITS Gov. Race, Jail?
Host: Benny Johnson
Key Guests: Wesley Hunt (TX Congressman and Senate Candidate), Trisha McLaughlin (DHS Deputy Assistant), Emmanuel Rincon (Venezuelan dissident and consultant)
Date: January 5, 2026

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Episode Overview

Benny Johnson kicks off 2026 with an explosive episode, covering the attempted assassination and home attack on Vice President JD Vance, the dramatic resignation of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz amid a massive Somali fraud scandal, and the latest U.S. takedown of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The discussion weaves together a theme of America under siege from within and without, but buoyed by renewed accountability, a rising America First movement, and signs of cultural and spiritual renewal. Joined by political, security, and immigrant voices, Benny delivers high-energy analysis and signature culture-war commentary.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. JD Vance Assassination Attempt and Home Attack

Timestamps: 00:01–16:45

• Event Recap: An armed individual smashed the windows of JD Vance's (VP) home in Cincinnati with a hammer. The suspect was arrested; Vance and family were not home.

  • “I am sick of watching my friends get shot in the head. I am sick of watching my presidents take a bullet. I am sick of the assassination culture of the left and J.D. Vance was a victim of it.” – Benny Johnson [00:13]

• Context of Threats:

  • Benny frames the attack as part of a broader left-wing political violence and "assassination culture," citing previous attacks on right-wing public figures.
  • Draws parallel with other acts of political violence, emphasizing these are not isolated incidents but a trend by "the violent left."
  • Asserts the attacker pattern matches previous far-left, “terminally online zoomer” profiles.
  • “The bullets are only going one way and they went towards J.D. Vance last night.” – Benny Johnson [15:50]

• Vance's Statement:

  • “I appreciate everybody’s well wishes after the attack on our home… Grateful to the Secret Service, Cincinnati police… We weren’t home.” – JD Vance as read by Benny [~17:00]
  • Vance requests media avoid showing residence photos for family privacy.

• Reflections on Security & Radicalization:

  • Benny and guests discuss how close the attacker came and speculate on escalating intent if armed with a gun instead of a hammer.
  • References other recent attacks on politicians’ homes (Josh Shapiro, Melissa Hortman).
  • Benny insists: "This is terror. This is completely effed up." [13:19]

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2. Tim Walz Quits Governor’s Race: Fallout and Somali Fraud Scandal

Timestamps: 16:45–46:30

• Breaking News:

  • “Tim Walz has dropped out. Not expected… Tim Walz has dropped out of the governor’s race in total and complete humiliation after the exposure of mass Somali fraud in his state.” – Benny Johnson [23:23]

• Nature of the Fraud:

  • Benny describes vast election and welfare fraud by Somali “block votes” in Minneapolis, enabled by Walz’s political deals with Somali community leaders.
  • Nick Shirley’s independent reporting is lauded as the key driver forcing Walz’s resignation—likened to James O’Keefe’s “Acorn” exposé impact.
  • Benny details how authorities could “vouch” for hundreds/thousands in high-density Somali housing to swing elections: “This is how Tim Walz and Democrats win.” [25:47]

• Evidence & Reactions:

  • 138 million views on Nick Shirley’s viral X post, contrasted with silence from mainstream media.
  • Elon Musk praised for amplifying the story and supporting independent journalism.
  • Calls for further investigation, prosecution, denaturalization, and deportation of criminals involved.

• Ilhan Omar Connection:

  • Implicates Rep. Ilhan Omar as a central figure in the fraud networks, promising hearings and accountability.
  • “Ilhan Omar is now the face of this fraud. What should happen to your colleague in the House? … She needs to resign, period.” – Rep. Wesley Hunt [54:23]
  • Benny highlights Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing net worth ($65k debt to $30M wealth in 6 years), raising questions about sources and transparency.

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3. Venezuela: Maduro’s Capture and America First Doctrine

Timestamps: 35:11–47:14, 91:36–99:57

• U.S. Military Action:

  • Wesley Hunt (TX) provides a military and geopolitical analysis of the lightning Delta Force operation capturing Maduro.
  • The “America First” approach is contrasted with old neocon quagmires: “With Donald Trump, wars are over before you even get to decide if you like the war or not.” – Benny Johnson [39:06]
  • “We probably spent the equivalent of a pack of Newports and some Bubblicious to basically remove a dictator. And then guess what? We get oil on top of it.” – Wesley Hunt [36:50]

• Geopolitical Implications:

  • U.S. sending clear message to China, Russia, Cuba: U.S. will swiftly neutralize hemisphere threats.
  • “We are now in charge. And China was fighting a proxy war through rogue nations like Venezuela to kill and harm Americans.” – Wesley Hunt [45:28]

• Democrats’ Response:

  • Kamala Harris and progressive left criticized for defending Maduro; labeled as suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
  • “Your Trump derangement syndrome should not be more important than your care for this country. This was a righteous hit.” – Wesley Hunt [39:59]

• Venezuelan Perspective:

  • Emmanuel Rincon, having fled Venezuela, calls Maduro “the worst criminal this continent has had in the last 20 years,” and expresses Venezuelans’ “gratitude” and support for President Trump.
  • 90% of Venezuelans support Maduro’s removal, per Rincon: “He’s a hero for the Venezuelan people… We are really, really very happy that this nightmare is beginning to their end.” [92:30, 96:22]

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4. DHS & Immigration Enforcement: Crackdown on Fraud and Third-World Migration

Timestamps: 62:29–80:52

• Massive Federal Response in Minneapolis:

  • Trisha McLaughlin (DHS) reports over 1,000 Homeland Security investigators, hundreds of ICE agents deployed in Minneapolis post-fraud exposure.
  • Around 1,000 criminal illegal aliens arrested in weeks, with hundreds of businesses/daycares under scrutiny.

• Hotel Boycott Bombshell:

  • McLaughlin details Hilton Hotels systematically barring DHS agents from booking rooms—potentially impeding law enforcement. Plan for public exposure and possible boycott: “That is a concerted effort in the Minneapolis area… to really thwart and stonewall our efforts to root out this fraud.” [64:51]

• Legal Process: Denaturalization & Deportation:

  • Fraudulently acquired citizenship/visas will be revoked; Ilhan Omar’s status explicitly referenced as subject to ongoing legal review.
  • “If someone… engaged in immigration fraud—even Ilhan Omar—citizenship can be stripped under U.S. law.” – Trisha McLaughlin [69:46]

• National Immigration Strategy:

  • Massive surge in ICE agents (10k → 22k since Trump returned to office); 2+ million deportations/self-deportations; focus on illegal/abusive “Temporary Protected Status” programs.
  • “Americans can expect…an increase in arrest of criminal legal aliens… you’ll see our numbers skyrocket.” – Trisha McLaughlin [79:00]

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5. The “America First” Movement and Cultural Optimism

Timestamps: 99:57–107:21

• Positive Trends:

  • Benny spotlights major “wins” for America in 2025 and reasons for optimism:
    • Faith surging among youth (“young people… have higher belief in gods than their parent’s generation.”)
    • Record low murder rates, suicides, and overdoses; resurgence in American identity.
    • All job growth going to native-born Americans; shrinking foreign-born worker numbers.
    • Manufacturing “renaissance” and economic growth.
    • Border closures and mass deportations hailed as key to renewal.

• Message to Audience:

  • “Why do people decide to live longer? … Because they actually believe that there will be an America left for them. … This is the year of the American builder. This is the year 2026 of the dogged pursuit.” – Benny Johnson [106:49]
  • Spiritual close with Ephesians 6:11: “Put on the full armor of God… Take your stand against the devil’s schemes.” [107:21]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Infighting vs. Unity:

  • “There will be plenty of time for infighting after you win. The true enemy…is not those who we disagree with…but…the violent left that seeks to kill, not to debate, but to kill us.” – Benny Johnson [06:13]

• On Social Media’s Power:

  • “We are the media now. Didn’t need you. Didn’t need the corporate press to cover. And now…the Democrat nominee…is resigning in disgrace.” – Benny Johnson [28:50]

• On “Drama” in the Movement:

  • “I hate influencer drama. I hate it. I cannot stand is a distraction. It is an op. It is designed to wreck the movement. Good faith debate, fine. But having people attack each other just for the vibes…No.” – Benny Johnson [11:27]

• On Venezuela, Direct from Exile:

  • “We got 90% of poverty in our country, we got the largest oil reserve in all the world and still the people wasn't able to get milk or eggs for their kids.” – Emmanuel Rincon [91:36]

• On Service and Corruption:

  • “When you choose to serve this country, that doesn’t mean you enrich why you do it. That’s actually wrong. That’s not how this works…It may not be illegal, but it most certainly is immoral.” – Wesley Hunt [57:02]

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Segment Timestamps for Reference

• JD Vance Attack & Left-Wing Political Violence: 00:01–16:45
• Tim Walz Somali Fraud Scandal & Media Reaction: 16:45–46:30
• U.S. Operation in Venezuela & 'America First' Doctrine: 35:11–47:14, 91:36–99:57
• DHS Immigration Crackdown, Fraud Enforcement, Hotel Boycott: 62:29–80:52
• Cultural Wins, America First Optimism: 99:57–107:21

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Closing

Benny Johnson ends with a call to resilience and faith, highlighting what he sees as a historic American turnaround after a brutal year. The episode’s intensity, thematic unity, and unapologetic rhetorical style exemplify The Benny Show’s mission as “the media now”—a brash, culture-first, America First alternative to legacy outlets.

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For additional interviews and expert commentary in this episode, see segments with Rep. Wesley Hunt, Trisha McLaughlin (DHS), and Venezuelan consultant Emmanuel Rincon at [timestamps above].

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This summary captures the episode’s major talking points, thematic framing, and notable on-air exchanges, preserving the speakers’ intent, energy, and tone for listeners who missed the live broadcast.

Transcript

[Benny Johnson]

Monday, January 5, 2026. Tim Walls has resigned. Not from his office, I think that might come next, but from the governor's race. That is breaking news. As of right now, Tim Walls is out. We're going to cover it on the show. Somebody who we've become quite close with, J.D. vance. We were able to travel with him a little bit last year. We have a lot of really exciting things locked in for this year. He is a new VICT assassination attempt. We've seen enough. I mean, I got to tell you, if there's a bitter pill to swallow from 2025, it's losing my friend and our future president Charlie Kirk. And the downstream concussive effects of that have been very bad. And we've had to fight through them. It's been a spiritual battle. I am sick of watching my friends get shot in the head. I'm sick of watching my presidents take a bullet. I am sick of the assassination culture of the left and J.D. vance was a victim of it. Last night they have a suspect arrested. Seems like a mentally ill far left winger, tick tock, terminally online zoomer who sort of matches the archetype, the Thomas Crooks, you know, Robinson to archetype that you see. And I am sick of it. So we're going to talk about it here. J.D. vance's home was attacked. Thank God they got the guy.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

J.D.

[Benny Johnson]

Vance obviously has two little children. This was his home in Ohio in Cincinnati. Now Trump names his next target after Maduro capture. We're going to talk about why this is a very good thing and why you shouldn't be calling him President Maduro. We're going to jump into all of it with a stacked show. We are so pumped about the show. Trish McLaughlin, who is the deputy assistant at the Department of Homeland Security will be live on the program. What a massive show to have her on with Tim Walls dropping out of the race in total and complete humiliation after the exposure of mass Somali fraud in his state. Trisha McLaughlin from DHS will be able to sound off on that. Wesley Hunt, American veteran Senate candidate in the state of Texas. Also on the program, somebody who's fought in our wars will be able to talk about Venezuela. And Emmanuel Rincon, also someone who has deep and thoughtful knowledge about South America will be locked and loaded to give us all of the dish on Venezuela. Get ready, ladies and gentlemen. Locked in. Show back a blazing for the new year. My name is Benny Johnson and this is the Benny Show. Okay, speaking of blazing, I think that there's dragons in this I don't know, actually, I'm not sure. I don't get time to watch a lot of tv, but if I did watch, well, I would watch something that is fantasy vibes. I mean, listen, man, I'm a massive Lord of the Ring fan. I'm not like, you know, it's like, what else can you be? Just the single greatest fantasy ever written. I'm, I'm repulsed by what they, what Hollywood has done with modern day fantasy series. They've tried to destroy Star Wars. They've done a great job of it. They tried to destroy the Lord of the Rings. Amazon's in the process of doing that right now. And so fight back with productions that are true to form, like the Pendragon cycle. Rise of Merlin at Daily Wire plus this is the latest original series from the Daily Wire. A seven part cinematic epic based on novels by Stephen R. Lawhead. This is just another fantasy series. It's a story of belief, redemption and the origins of Western civilization told through a fresh retelling of the Arthurian legend. It's the center of Merlin emerging at a bridge between the old world of darkness and the new world of light. Ladies and gentlemen, you can see the trailers here on screen. The production value is absolutely choice. Sweeping landscapes, authentic sets and practical effects bring the world to life. No AI slop. It is a wonderful thing that we are creating our own universe, our own content, our own entertainment. It's been long coming. Ladies and gentlemen, The Pendragon cycle is available exclusively on Daily Wire plus January 2020. Sorry, correction, January 22, 2026. There we go. You can watch the trailer [e-mail] okay, rocking and rolling. Sick of assassination culture. Some of the last live that I did was technically a live from the stage at Turning Point USA America Fest. I spent the entire show raging against those. Try not to name people. I did name some people. But raging against those who would seek to attack our movement from within. Our movement seems to be tearing at the seams. There'll be plenty of time for infighting. There's always plenty of time for infighting after you win. The true enemy in our movement is not those who we disagree with. And you can have good faith disagreements. And I said this on stage to like massive roars inside of the arena that was holding 30,000 people. I put up an image. Can you grab the image? I put up an image of Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson screaming at each other. Right? I popped that up and I said, yo, who wants to see this? This is good. It Is good. It is good to have debate, spirited debate. This is what Charlie Kirk believed in. Debate between sides. Great example. I also put up a photo of Candace and Tim Pool. They were raging at each other, like, ripping each other's throats out. Like, why not? You might need some bodyguards for these debates. Who cares? Charlie was always about that. Here's a good example. Charlie Kirk was the man who put together J.D. vance. We're just going to talk about the J.D. vance assassination here. Put together J.D. vance and Donald Trump. How could you do that? I mean, listen here. If you go back into J.D. vance's writings from, like, you know, four or five years ago, this guy had some pretty naughty things to say about Donald Trump. And these are like the. This is the reality that, like, sometimes people are not gonna get along. Sometimes people are going to change their opinions. And most importantly, sometimes people can be brought together by the right actors, by people who have the right focus, in order to narrow our focus to our true enemy. And our true enemy is the violent left. Our true enemy is the violent left that seeks to kill, not to debate, but to kill us. That is what we are fighting. Those who do not wish to engage in explaining themselves or trying to posit their opinions, but who instead has decided to silence our opinions with bullets. And so this is what I've said. Is this why. Guys, do you need me to go get it? Okay. Is Jamie not on? Is Jamie not on? Here you go, guys. Don't you worry. I gotcha. I gotcha. There you go. Okay. Don't you worry, boys here. I like watching Klein, like, search rabidly for this. This stuff. There you go, guys. There you go. Okay. There you go. You can't. You can't put it up an hour. Like, an hour from now. You got to get it up now. Here we go. This is fine. I'm fine with this. Everyone should be okay with this. This is what Charlie wanted. These are the. These are the images I put up at America Fest. Like, Charlie created an ecosystem where not only J.D. vance could be vice president, but also Elon Musk could join the administration. Elon Musk, back and forth with Donald Trump, has been a Trump fan, was a Trump hater a little bit. Charlie fused them together, you know, Also said a lot of really nasty things about Donald. RFK Jr. RFK Jr. Oh, there's, like, the photo. Give me the photo. Give me the. Ashley, give me the photo. Ashley, you have the photo from the stage. Not that one, the other one. You have the photo from the stage. It's like, great. Okay. You know, it's getting a little rusty at the break. The team gets a little rusty and you get the me you gotta get the gears. You gotta get. You pull the car out of the junkyard, you get the gears moving again. Get some WD40 guys. Get me the photo. Give me the photo. That got us all in trouble because everyone thought I was. It got all the. It got all the people coming, attacking. There's Tim Pool and Candace own. There you go. Okay. Charlie Kirk. There it is. Thank you, team. Thank you, guys. All right, there it is. Not getting in trouble. I'm not getting in trouble because I worked with Charlie for so long and I know exactly what the man wanted. I guess I saw this. I saw it. Charlie was. I did this build with Charlie for 10 years. Everyone's like, what would Charlie want? What would Charlie want? Well, I'm telling you, what Charlie would want is a laser focus good faith debate on our side. Fine. Charlie put together rfk, wasn't a huge Trump fan. Now serves in the Trump administration, doing an unbelievable job. Elon Musk wasn't a huge Trump fan. Charlie fused them together doing an unbelievable job. Attacking the left, attacking our common enemy. J.D. vance. You can go back and J.D. vance's writings and tweets and stuff and find some real anti Trump stuff. He's now Trump's vice president, doing a better job than any vice president in history. Why common enemies fuse them together to attack our common enemy. What is our common enemy? The Marxist leftist that does not believe in America's founding, that wants a refounding of America. They do not believe in God. We prove that in data. They do want us dead. And the cost of the bullet is the best investment they've ever made because the cost of the bullet is the cheapest and most efficient way for them to silence dissent, which is the goal. We all live through Covid together. We know that's the goal. I didn't like try and rant here, by the way. What do you think, Chat like, What do you think? I've grown out my January beard. What do you think?

[Wesley Hunt]

Here we go.

[Benny Johnson]

Here's Fresh Face. Here's Fresh Face. Benny or the January beard. What do you guys think? What do you guys think? Climb. I got to work on the lighting in the studio. Got some studio lighting issues. That's all right. We again, we kick it. We got all the Christmas ornaments out, but here we go. That's the question. I'm sorry for the rant here, but it's top of mind as we head into 2026. And it's what this show is going to do. I hate influencer drama. I hate it. I hate influencer drama. I cannot stand is a distraction. It is an op. It is designed to wreck the movement. Good faith debate, fine. But having people attack each other just for the mems, just for the vibes, just for the clicks, for the engagement, saying, I don't care about the midterms. No, this is probably our most viral tweet from last year. No, I do care about the midterms. I care about people trying to trans my children. I care about people coming to my home to attack my family. Yes, I care about that. I care about my friends getting shot. I care about my president getting shot. I care about my vice president getting attacked, which is. Maybe we should start talking about that. Maybe we can get into. Maybe we can get into it for a second. But, yes, I do care about your midterms. Yeah, I do care. I do care about the future of the country. I got a bunch of kids that I'm raising here, and they're Americans, and this is going to be their only country. This is it. This is it for us. So either fight for this place and save this place, or we got nothing. Christendom. Christendom the West. It will all fall. So it's to us to fight. So, yes, I care. I hate the drama. I disavow it. I put an end to it, and I was happy to do so on stage. Oh, look, we got another. I haven't actually seen this photo. This is great, everyone. Yeah. All right, very good. So we had a blast at America Fest blasting the drama and not wanting to engage in anything other than vision casting about what the true enemy is. The reason we're leading with the story of J.D. vance's assassination attempt, which is what it was this morning, is because J.D. vance is just one in a very long line of proof of who our true enemy is. If J.D. vance was home, this sociopath who attacked his house, who got so close that he was able to smash J.D. vance's windows. Well, if you're able to smash his windows, if you're able to attack his windows, smash into his windows, how close are you to getting into his house? Well, very close, actually. Go back, please. Show me that. Show me that. Show me the windows. So he was able to smash a hammer through J.D. vance's home. Well, that means that you could have pointed a gun directly at JD if he was standing in that room. His children, his wife, you know, Horrifying this is. I do multiple people in federal prison right now because they've done the same thing to my house in their own. In different ways, gone up to me, attacked my family, threatened my family, threatened to kill us. This is terror. This is completely effed up. It's terrible. And you need to take these kind of things extremely seriously. It's not just leftists, Benny. Remember Josh Shapiro? He's the governor of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. He had his house lit on fire by a leftist. They never tell you these kind of things, man. Melissa Hortman. No, dude, all of these guys are leftists. The guy who lit Delight, you know, so here's what they're gonna say to me. They're gonna say, well, this is not just a one side thing, Benny. You haven't talked about Melissa Hortman and you haven't talked about Josh Shapiro. Let's talk about him now. The guy who attacked Josh Shapiro was a Free Palestine activist who was going after a Jewish governor of Pennsylvania. Pretty clear what he was trying to accomplish there. He did light his house on fire. And here's a photo of him. They're like, trying to say, oh, he was maga. No, dude, this guy was actually so far left that he was attacking a Jewish governor who happened to be a Democrat. I don't think it would have mattered. Dude was like, trying to. That. This is why. This was what was motivating the guy. He was actually farther left than Josh Shapiro. Melissa Horman. We'll talk about that with Jay, with. In the Tim Walls. Why don't we say save it for the Tim Walls block. But Melissa Hortman is the exact same situation where a man who has very close ties to Tim Walls, who's clearly no Republican, who openly says that it was Tim Walls ordering these assassinations. I mean, I don't have any evidence of that. What I guess what I'm trying to. I have circumstantial evidence, I suppose. The guy worked with Tim Walls. The guy's wife worked with Tim Walls. The guy keeps saying it was Tim Walls. And he had no Kings flyers in the back of his car. Nobody's ever explained this. But also, like, there's no way to say that this guy was maga. He wasn't. He kills Melissa Hortman, who has a single vote that ended free health care for criminal aliens in Minnesota. And what we've learned is what a lucrative business that is over the break. And so, no, not going to accept your false paradigm. That is a both sides issue. Political violence is a both sides issue. No, the bullets are only going one way and they went towards J.D. vance last night. Let's read the top line here for the New York Post. Man arrested after using hammer to break windows at J.D. vance's home. A 26 year old Ohio man was arrested for smashing J.D. vance's house. William D. 4 is his name. He's charged with obstruction, official business, criminal damaging and endangering, criminal trespass, vandalism. According to the Hamilton County Jail records. His first court appearance is Tuesday. He's like a psychotic baby face loser. Here, look at this guy. The Associated Press citing two law enforcement officials reported that Secret Service agents heard loud noises at the home. Smashing of the windows, broken windows. With a hammer trying to get in the house. Dude was able to get right up to J.D. vs's house and enter his home. Thank God J.D. vance wasn't there. He said in a statement on X. I appreciate everybody's well wishes after the attack on our home. As far as I can tell is crazy dude trying to hammer out my windows. Grateful to the Secret Service Cincinnati police. Just call it what it is. Call it what it is. You're like you're attack like the guy was able to walk right up to JD Vance's window and to enter his house by smashing hammer through the glass. So that's a weapon that has, that is now, that is now like been inside of J.D. vance's private residence. It's terrifying. So what if it was a gun again? What if you smashed the window and then you had a pistol, right? You had a handgun and you could just you know, open fire into the house. What if JD's family was there? Thankfully they weren't. Let's go ahead and read the full JDB statement here up on screen. I appreciate everybody's well wishes about the attack on our home. As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in and hammering my windows. I'm grateful Secret Service in Cincinnati police for responding so quickly. We weren't home. We had returned to dc. One request the media, we try and protect our kids as much as possible from the realities of this life. Public service in that light. I'm skeptical of the news value of plastering images of our home with holes in the window. So he's saying don't put the photos up. I mean, I don't know man. Streisand effect. I guess it just is what it is. It's all over, you know, it's all over social media right now. William DeFore, let's just put up one more time the this image, you know, and ask yourself, what do you think is going on here exactly? Same thousand yard stare. Same completely like bugged out look, you know, acne, like bowl cut mullet, terminal loser. It's got that Tyler Robinson, Matthew Crooks vibe going on. Right? How many of these guys are ops? Yeah. So you can see the. You see the smash in windows. It's in a nice neighborhood of Cincinnati. And he bought the house. In 2018, DeFore pleaded guilty to two counts of vandalism that caused more than $2,000 worth of damage to an interior design company. He was sentenced to treatment at a mental health facility for two years, required to pay $5,000 restitution. So the guy's already committing vandalism. I guess that you could like, I guess we're just gonna have to see. But there's no way he doesn't know that this is the vice President's house. There's Secret Service there. Sorry, I'm not gonna buy that. Like, oh, it's just a random act. No, dude, no, no. It's J.D. vance's house. I remember J.D. vance was selected as vice president. They had all the cameras outside of this house. There's the live shot outside of the house. You could see the vehicles moving in and out. So, yeah, this is the enemy. This is the enemy. I disavow all drama. I disavow it. And these people will kill and continue to kill and continue to attack our families. Because this seems to be their only option now, as we're arresting communist dictators around the world, frog marching them through New York City, as we're ending voter fraud, as we're ending Somali fraud, as we're doing mass denaturalizations and deportations. President Trump gaining power, gaining popularity. He's won the Hispanic vote, let's just call what it is. Trump wins the Hispanic vote with his Maduro move. And now even like the most powerful Democrats on Earth, the guy who's supposed to be the second most powerful man on Earth, Tim Waltz, and probably would have been if it were, if the election rigging machines from Venezuela, which is really what it's all about. I'll tell you about that in just a second. The election rigging machines from Venezuela hadn't been stopped by Elon Musk and others. That's a fact. That story is 100% real. I have that from direct sources. Then we would probably have Tim Walls as our vice president instead. Tim Walls is dropping out. That is the breaking news from this morning, ladies and gentlemen. We'll get to it in just one moment. It is a new year. American Financing can make sure that you kick off your new year with better credit. Let's just say, like, we want a fresh start. We don't want you to be someone who is constantly bogged down or overweighted by high interest credit card loans. These are the kind of things that kill the American future, kill the American dream, and we want that to be over for you. A record amount of Americans are suffering from high interest credit card debt. Let American Financing work with you to help access the equity in your home at an interest rate in the low fives. The low fives much lower than the 20 or 30% from these credit card debts. That's a massive Savings per month, $10,000 raise per year. American Financing America's home loans called today, 888-528-1219. That's 888-528-12019. American financing.net Tim Walls has dropped out. That's right, Alex. He has dropped out. Not expected. Tim Walls has dropped out. Let's update everything, please. And get me the breaking FOX News report here on Tim Walls officially dropping out. We've now learned this. There were a lot of rumors this morning, but Tim Walls has now officially done it. Let's read his statement and then let's load up the FOX News, the FOX News report here. Minnesota has to come first.

[Wesley Hunt]

Always.

[Benny Johnson]

Today I'm proud of the work that we've done to make Minnesota the best place to raise kids. I've decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work. Okay, look at this statement. Too long. Didn't read. But I'm happy for you or I'm really sorry. That's how it goes, right? Happy for you or really sorry that happened? Look at this. Not gonna read all this complete garbage. He's getting completely ratioed 7,000 comments to 2,000 repost. He's got more comments than he has likes on this post. Tim Walls completely and totally exposed, ladies and gentlemen. And this is the single most devastating action by an independent journalist since acorn. Since acorn. Now, if you're old enough to remember, you're old enough to remember. It was James O' Keefe breaking the Acorn scandal back in 2008. 2009, right when Barack Obama took office. ACORN was of course, a money laundering fraudulent organization that got tons of federal dollars in order to rig elections. And this is what Tim Walls was just caught doing. Let me explain how it works from people on the ground in Minnesota. And we've been doing nothing but phone calls over this break and doing a lot of work on building up our own. Oh, Klein, did you post that? Did you? I ain't reading that, but I'm happy for you. Or sorry it happened. That's right. So we called our sources on the ground in Minnesota, and here's what they tell us. You know, Somalis live in, like, two buildings. You know, they're in, like, two massive skyscrapers that were effectively built for them. It's like this giant death star of Somalis. And they. These two house these. They're. They're compact, right in the perfect location for them to be able to sway a massive amount of the internal politics. In Minneapolis and in St. Paul, the two Twin Cities, as they're called, these Somalis vote, of course, in a block. They don't even vote. How it works is Tim Walls makes a deal with the Somali leaders that Somalians will be able to commit piracy. Reminder, the top profession, the sole profession of the collapsed failed Somali state is pirate. That is the chosen profession of the people of Somalia. Pirate. They'll get to do their chosen profession, pirate here in this country. Tim Walls will look the other way. He will do zero investigation. The money will flow. As long as the ballots keep flowing back to Tim Walls. This is how it's done. This is how it's been done in Minneapolis, and this is how Tim Walls and Democrats win. If you go through and you check these Minnesota elections, they always happen by a whisker. Just a couple hundred votes here and there. Just a few votes here and there. Sometimes it's like Joe Biden winning with 100,000 votes. Well, there's 100,000 Somalis in Minneapolis. How many of them are vouch votes? You know, an individual can show up at a precinct on election day in Minnesota and vouch for eight of his friends.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

8.

[Benny Johnson]

Somebody who runs a business, a building, somebody who works inside of a tenant building, like some of the massive death star tenant housing for Somalis in Minneapolis can vouch for unlimited numbers of building residents. Do you understand, like, the level of fraud that is occurring in Minnesota? Not just the billions of dollars stolen and exposed by Nick Shirley that we've been covering aggressively over the break, but also the election fraud. I mean, imagine how bad that is. So you have a tenant housing. You have tenant housing with. With hundreds of thousands, hundreds of tens of thousands of smallies living in it. One employee of that housing can walk up to the precinct and said, I am vouching for all of them. They are all in my building. Here's 10,000 more votes. And how many precincts can they do that in? They can just run around and do that everywhere. All throughout Minneapolis, all throughout St. Paul, in the surrounding areas. Minnesota is a red state that is swamped and overwhelmed with third world fraud. And now, in the single greatest achievement in the history arguably of independent journalism, rivaling only the ACORN investigation by James o' Keefe over a decade ago, Nick Shirley has done it. He has stopped, stopped the Somali fraud and ended Tim Walls political career. I ended Tim Walls. Elon Musk responding. Thank God. Amen. And it wouldn't have been possible without X. What a. What a remarkable moment here. The corporate media didn't report on this. This got no coverage from the ap, from cnn. It's got no coverage from the Washington Post, from New York Times. Nobody covered Nick Shirley's report.

[Wesley Hunt]

Here we go.

[Benny Johnson]

Please put it up. We didn't need it. Check the views on this. What are they, Klein? What do we got here? 138 million on X alone. 138 million. Didn't need them. Didn't need you, didn't need. We are the media now. Didn't need you. Didn't need the corporate press to cover. And now the man who was batter up to be president, batter up to be the Democrat nominee, a heartbeat away from the presidency, is resigning in disgrace. The value of what we are building here, huge shout out to Nick Shirley. Elon Musk coming in over the top saying, and so we bid ado or whatever they say in Somali to traitor tampon. Tim. Ooh. Oh, it is spicy. Let's go ahead and play that report, shall we? Go.

[News Reporter]

Major breaking political news out of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tim Walls will not seek reelection as governor. And what a fall from grace this has been for him. You might recall in the spring of 2023, he pushed through several progressive ideas through the state legislature. That caught the attention of Barack Obama, who went to Twitter to give his endorsement for the programs, which eventually caught the attention of people like Kamala Harris, who chose him to be his her running mate as the vice president. Introduced in Chicago at the convention in August of last year, a debate that was an absolute disaster with JD Vance at one point called himself a knucklehead. But after reportedly billions of dollars have been stolen from taxpayers by way of the state of Minnesota, Tim Walz says he will not seek a third term. What a remarkable two years in the national spotlight has been for him.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Dana and Walz hit Trump in his.

[Benny Johnson]

Want to note this that we're close with Nick Shirley. I just texted him, see if he wants to pop on the stream. We're close with Nick Shirley and it's a total oversight to have not booked him for this show. I can't believe we didn't do that. He must not be. Maybe he's not available, I don't know. Well, I'm checking with the producers right now. We have an amazing lineup nonetheless with Wesley hunt and Trisha McLaughlin. But I was on the phone with him a couple days ago and Nick Shirley says, no, no, I think that Tim Wall is going to drop out. I'm like, bro, you know, I'm like, I'm like twice your age. Like, bro, that's not going to happen. You know, you don't understand. These Democrats, they don't drop out for nothing. Boy, was I wrong. Have I been proven wrong. This 23 year old. I was like, my instincts, my instincts were like, oh, you know, they dish. Democrats like never ever resign. They never, they are so insulated by the media. They never ever have to answer for this stuff. Here we are, ladies and gentlemen, in a new year with new power proving that America first is the dominant force in American politics. And those who stand in our way will get bulldozed. Oh, man. Anything else here on this? I mean, listen, the, the, the Somali. Okay, just, we're just really fast. The Somalis day. This turned away from Somali daycare. Is this the super cut of all of them? Okay, this is the question.

[Wesley Hunt]

How do you enroll, how do you.

[Benny Johnson]

Enroll your children here? You can't do that. You cannot come to my house. Forgive me as I talk over this just a little bit. You lower the audio.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

I was trying to find.

[Benny Johnson]

What you're going to see here is what are now hundreds of examples of Somali daycares turning away customers, slamming the doors in their faces because their businesses are fragile. They just literally pushed me out. Business in America turns away customers. It's never happened in the history of capitalism. You don't do it. Unless of course you're from a piracy culture that wants to pirate and is clearly getting caught.

[Wesley Hunt]

Can you show me proof you're a daycare?

[Donald Trump]

I'm not proving anything for you.

[Wesley Hunt]

Are you government?

[Benny Johnson]

I would like to see if I.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Can bring a little joey myself here. Is there a paperwork or can I.

[Benny Johnson]

Check out the daycare? I would like to check a child in the daycare. There you go again. Why just a massive shout out to Nick Shirley who did, who exposed this and showed how easy it would be you just walk up and try and check your child in. Every other daycare in the world would say, oh, yeah, sure, another customer. Here's the paperwork. Not the Somali daycares. The only business in the history of the world impervious to not having any customers, any children, any prospects, and screams, slams the door in your face and calls the cops if you try and be a customer of theirs. Yeah, it's all fraud. They all have to go to jail and they should be. Perp walked, frog marched. Just like Trump just did with Nicolas Maduro. Joining us live now is the great congressman from the state of Texas and candidate for U.S. senate, Wesley Hunt. Congressman, welcome back. After a break. You've got to be whistling Dixie, you know, when it comes to the last, the last 48 hours, you've, like, spent your entire life fighting for an America that is as strong as what we've just witnessed in Venezuela. And there's so many things to talk about. But why don't we just start there since I know that that is your cup of tea. Somebody who's flown Apache helicopters, you've got to get you. You must have been freaking bursting when you saw those helicopters and Fortunate Son playing in the background flying over Caracas as the bombs dropped. The floor is yours, Congressman. Tell me about the last 48 hours.

[Wesley Hunt]

When it unfolded early in the morning. I was paying attention and I was watching it from two o' clock in the morning.

[Benny Johnson]

I didn't go back to sleep monitoring the situation.

[Wesley Hunt]

Oh, my God. And I was looking at my boys going there, going there, getting after. And I was like, yes, please go, go get some. This is the whole point of what it means to be America first. And I want people to understand something. A lot of people that think that now we're getting endless quagmires and endless wars. That's not what's happening. Let's listen to Democrats that were talking so much trash about Iran and how we're going to get into World War Three. And now we hear crickets. Now we see a strategic, precise operation that can only be done by the greatest fighting force that exists on planet Earth to remove Maduro. And it was nothing short of majestic. I've never seen anything like this, this kind of precision, basically, in the history of the entire country. And when I watched Marco Rubio and I watched the secretary of War talk about this, you know, f around and find out if you don't know now, you know, if you think about the warning that he gave to Maduro months ago, Maduro should have taken the deal. But this is what America first is all about. If you've noticed, we're not going to be involved in the endless war. I am somebody that was involved in the endless war. This is strateg. This is positioning us as leaders in the world. And we're not going to spend trillions of dollars doing this. In fact, we probably spent the equivalent of a pack of Newports and some Bubblicious to basically remove a dictator. And then guess what? We get oil on top of it. Let's go. If you're watching, paying attention, we are not going to end up in an endless war. This is positioning, positioning ourselves in the world to let everybody know that we are in charge. Look at us. We are the captains now. This is what it means to be America first. To lead from the front and not get in endless wars. This is the message that's been shot across the bow. And now the world's going to have to pay attention to us. President Trump is in charge. Daddy's home. And now you have to understand that this is what America first means. And I'll end with this, brother. A lot of people feel like, well, you know, why would we know, go and attack Venezuela? Why would we do that? Why would we remove a dictator? You know, is this really the whole point of this? Hold on. This is America leading. And then you watch and see the fallout. We're not going to spend trillions of dollars in this quagmire. We are not going to spend our own treasure and our own resources. In fact, we're going to spend their own treasure. We're going to spend and use their oil to pay for this. And on top of that, we are ending narco terrorism that's absolutely destroying the very heart and soul of this country. And guess what? That's what it means to keep America First.

[Benny Johnson]

My man, I love. You know what? These. The meme references will never be lost on this host. We this streamer will. We appreciate the. I am the captain now. We appreciate that. In fact, we have an on staff meme team that is actually growing right now. We've done some major hires and so I'm going to request that meme be made of Wesley Hunt before the end of this interview. I want to get it up. We boys get to work. Let's get a face swap. Wesley Hunt, I am the captain now. We got to do it. Okay, so I want to ask you a question. Given the fact that you served under the leadership of Commander in chief George W. Bush, I believe those I have the right Timeline, Right. And Barack Obama or George W. Bush?

[Wesley Hunt]

Just George W. Bush. It was George W. Bush.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay, so with George W. Bush, you have 170,000 troops deployed and on the ground in Iraq, you have nearly 5,000 U.S. casualties. It takes eight years to find and capture Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. It takes even longer. It takes 10 years. And these wars with Donald Trump in contrast, are over before you even get to decide whether you like the war or not.

[Wesley Hunt]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

I mean, the Delta Force is back having dominoes, you know, double pepperoni, back at base before libs even get a chance to cry on TikTok about this. And so can you explain the contrast, please, Congress?

[Wesley Hunt]

It's actually unbelievable. It's actually remarkable to watch. It's when you're looking at what happens when we use a strategic, precise operation to achieve a, to achieve an objective, that's that that's been identified and clearly stated. Let's get this job done and then we could just move on. And by the way this was done, I was up at 2 o' clock in the morning watching it. And by the time I had a cup of coffee in the morning, a Maduro was on the USS Iwo Jima. That's exactly the point. That's, that's the capabilities that we have when we have strong leaders. But here's the funny part about this. I am watching my Democrat colleagues and liberals have a complete meltdown over this. These are the same people that we're talking about. No, kings. These are the same people that are talking about President Trump being a king. We literally remove a ruthless narco terror dictator and then now you're defending him. See, this is what we start having silly season in politics and silly season amongst us, because these are not serious people. At the end of the day, your Trump derangement syndrome should not be more important than your care for this country. Guess what? This was a righteous hit. This was a good idea. This is going to work out not just for us, but for the entire world. We warned this guy and he didn't heed the warning. And then now you paid the consequences. And under the Obama administration, how many times have President Obama threatened somebody but then didn't take any action and then they just rolled over us. That is not the America that we have today. And watching my liberal colleagues have a complete meltdown over getting rid of Maduro. Oh my gosh, this is exactly the point. And going into the midterms, that, that this is the position of strength that we are leading from. And this is how the America first agenda needs to continue to be. And then watch and see what happens. Benny, we are not going to be in the endless War. We're not going to spend trillions of dollars. We're not going to lose 5,000 soldiers. I mean 14 of those 5,000 or some of my West Point classmates that gave their lives for this great nation, by the way, their sacrifice was not wasted. Obviously, giving your life for this great nation is a way to die in honor. But let's make sure that we have leaders that, that if we're going to use our greatest resource, which is our sons and daughters, that we let that go into battle and fight for freedom and fight for our country. We use it for the right reasons. Not a helicopter was shot down. Not an American life was lost. This is the definition of precision. We've seen it two times in one year. We saw it in Iran, we're seeing it here. And this is what we voted for.

[Benny Johnson]

What I also voted for was communists getting black bagged in the dark of night, thrown into the back of a helicopter, watching us lob a couple heaters in the Hugo Chavez tomb. And then frog marched through New York City as Zorhan Mandami watches. I love this footage. I love the fact that it's all happening in 4K. And also signing away the waiver and variants for them to fly right over the Statue of Liberty. What a, what a elegant touch for President Trump. Talk to me about this, Congressman. The footage of Maduro every single second chained and dragged through New York. A humiliation ritual. There it is. What an unbelievable footage. Flying Maduro, the communist dictator, over the Statue of Liberty while Zorhan Mandami and AOC sit there and watch helplessly learning about all of it on X. It seems to be also a political strategy and masterclass by the President.

[Wesley Hunt]

You know, he was blindfolded, Maduro was blindfolded. And I would like to think that as they flew over the Statue of Liberty, they lifted up his blindfold and said, look at old Lady Liberty right there. Looking the beautiful in our great state of New York. This is absolutely unbelievable. This is what freedom is all about. Welcome to America. And check out that perp walk on top of it. Let's perp walk this guy. After you called us cowards, after you said, come and get me, you're never going to do that. America doesn't have that kind of might America have that kind of power? And then I listened to General Raisin Kane's description of what happened. Bro, we knew what you had for breakfast, lunch and Dinner. We knew where you were. We knew where your family lived. We knew exactly where you were going to be at any time. And we can get you whenever we want. That's exactly what we did. This is the definition of American strength. This is the definition of American might. And we don't have to get in endless wars when we behave this way, but because people will just simply respect us. The reason why, you know, you watch President Trump, you know, basically missing boats off the coast, narco boats off the coast of America, is because of this. Imagine being a narco terrorist, and you're sitting there trying to smuggle drugs into this country. You might wake up and eat a missile in the morning. See, that's called the ultimate act of deterrence. And people have to understand that there are people in this world that want to see the end of this great nation. They want to kill every last one of us. This is the kind of strength that we have to display. That's the definition of peace through strength. And then we're going to perp walk this leader through the streets of New York as a. As a humiliation ritual, which is a great way of putting it, to let everybody know that this, too can be you if you don't heed the warning. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. And this is how it's going to be for the next three years. So buckle up.

[Benny Johnson]

Now, real quickly, you understand, sort of the geopolitics of all this in your many committees in the House, some of them encompass these global affairs. But Venezuela wasn't really a true state. It was simply a proxy actor for Russia and Iran and China in order to wage.

[Wesley Hunt]

And Cuba. And Cuba.

[Benny Johnson]

And Cuba in order to wage biological warfare and chemical warfare on America. This was a state actor that was actively attacking our nation. The biological warfare is obviously facilitating the criminal invasion of this country in hand and in league with Democrats. And then the chemical warfare is fentanyl, and all the drugs, which of course need to be. Need to be sophisticatedly made in order to be as lethal as they are. And so what does this say to China, to the Don Road doctrine, I guess we're going to call it now, which is the mastery of our own hemisphere.

[Wesley Hunt]

Can you.

[Benny Johnson]

Can you sort of break that down for us, Congressman?

[Wesley Hunt]

I mean, just like I said, we are now. We are now in charge. And China was fighting a proxy war through rogue nations like Venezuela to kill, to kill and harm Americans. And they've been doing it for the last, for the last few years since the president's President, Biden was in charge and we sat by idly and did nothing about it. And so again, they were given a blank check to arbitrarily murder and kill innocent Americans. And this has been an issue that popped up during the Biden administration because there was no respect, and make no mistake about it, that this was purposely done to harm and kill our young people. Again, fentanyl will smoke into this country, and enough fentanyl will smoke into this country to kill every single American five times. And we had a president that did nothing about it. And as I stated earlier, Maduro was given a chance to cut a deal. He didn't want to cut a deal because he thought this was the same feckless leadership that we had during the Biden Harris administration. And then now he has found out, well, I made a critical error and a critical mistake. And again, this puts the world on notice. We are not playing around. But I can't reiterate this to you enough. This is not the beginning of a long, endless war. Again, the 82nd Airborne, 1st Cav, I don't see them deploying en masse to Iran. I don't see them deploying en masse to Venezuela. We are going to take care of this and handle this from an economic standpoint. We're going to use natural resources to. To fight these kinds of wars. This is the way you do it. You strike fast, you strike hard, you get in, you get out, and then you use other levers to continue to control these countries and fight these wars, not the levers of occupation. This is brilliant. This is the way forward for all presidents in the future. And I hope JD Vance will be next to continue this kind of strong leadership.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes. Okay, so real quickly, I'm just going to bring up one of your absolute besties who lost her vice presidential candidate just earlier today, Tim Walls dropping out. Kamala Harris sounding off on Nicholas Maduro defending Maduro, which is make your enemies defend the indefensible. Right. So Kamala Harris is sitting there saying, like, how dare, how dare we go take out Maduro when her and Biden had a $25 million warrant out for the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, which, again, this is. It's nonsensical. She's saying here that President Trump is putting troops at risk, spending billions and destabilizing the region, and there's no benefit to America. That's what Kamala Harris says of this action. Your response to Kamala Harris, Congressman?

[Wesley Hunt]

Well, first of all, you're putting troops at risk. This is actually what we signed up for to put us at risk, to ensure that we carry out the needs, wants and desires of this great nation. This is the definition of America first. This is kind of the whole point of it. And again, this is not a long, endless quagmire. We're not talking about World War Three. We weren't talking about World War III like they were talking about after the Iran strike. Here we are again. Round two of this. I can't wait to see what, what the third act of this play is going to be. I'm here, I'm. I'm here for it at the end of the day. But to watch them have this bad case of Trump derangement syndrome, instead of looking at them tipping the cap and saying this, for four years we had 25 million dollar bounty on this guy and we were able to get them. And you mean to tell me in a couple of hours this guy is sitting on the USS Iwo Jima, flying over the Statue of Liberty and getting perped, walk through the streets of New York. Hey, that's good work. This is kind of the point. This is President Trump doing what most presidents always talk about doing, but they never execute it. They're all bluster. It's all about getting clicks. It's all about being on the next show, but there's no actual action. And that's why we weren't respected until President Trump came back in office again and again. Keep in mind, where would we be right now with a Harris Walls administration? None of this would happen. Keep in mind, President Trump has saved us from a complete and utter disaster. Where would we be right now? You know where we would be? You know what? More young people would still be dying. We would not be striking these narco terror boats. We would not be stopping Fentanyl. We would not be stopping China having a proxy war through Venezuela, continuing to harm and maim and kill our young innocent people. Let me tell you something. Respect is back in this country because of the Trump administration. And kudos to General Raisin Cain, kudos to our Secretary of State Marco Rubio, our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and God bless the President, United States, Donald Trump. This is leadership at its best. We've got to have more of it. And I know this is just a prequel to what we're going to continue to see for the next three years, but as long as Democrats continue to talk like this and not pay homage and give credit where credit is clearly due, and to watch them defend dictators, this is how we're going to continue to Win in the midterms too. Let them keep talking. I love, I love X posts like this that expose how they really feel about this great nation.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, X. X posts like this. I Love this from 2019, Kamala Harris. What's happening in Venezuela is a crisis. That's why I support permanent protected status for all Venezuelans in America. Got it. The action is like, let all the criminal aliens come into America. Let's have more. Lake and Riley's. This is what, like, this was Kamala Harris's solution. Thank God. Like just thank God that we have President Trump in office. Somebody who has just fled office or at the very least dropped out is Tim Walls. And before we go here, I just wanted to get your take on this. Tim Walls, of course, is his political career is over. I think he'll be lucky if he avoids jail and I'd like to have your thoughts on that. And also his partner in crime, Ilhan Omar. Boy, oh boy, it sure seems like the Walls are closing in on the Minnesota fraud scams. So many of those scams were run by your colleague in the House, Ilhan Omar. What should become of her? What should become of Tim Walls? This can't be the end.

[Wesley Hunt]

Certainly we need to see handcuffs. At the end of the day, we need to see handcuffs. And this is again a derelictive duty of leadership of Tim Walls. And this is exactly where President Trump spared us from. And the fact that we have been able to end this guy's career without the help of legacy media is what this country is all about. This is why Elon Musk bought Twitter. This is why we have people like you that are fighting the good fight. This is why we have investigative journalists that are willing to go to social media and expose all this crap. Even though cnn, Ms, lsd, I mean MSNBC and the rest of them are never going to cover it. We were still able to get justice by, to get this guy to not run for reelection. Now, obviously I want to see the next step here because this goes deep and there's a reason why he's resigning. This is just the very tip of the iceberg. You are right. Democrats don't ever resign. But where there is smoke, there is a five alarm fire here. This is just the beginning. We, we need to continue to dig. We need to get to the bottom of this. I sit on the House Judiciary Committee. We need to have hearings. We need to have investigations. This needs to go to the Senate. This has got to be exposed. And again, this is kind of the beginning of the cratering of The Democrat Party and this is the beginning of the America first movement, putting enough pressure on them without the help of legacy media to get this done. That guy could have been our vice president. Instead we have J.D. vance. I would consider that to be, be a serious upgrade.

[Benny Johnson]

What's going to happen with Ilhan Omar? I mean this, you know, is a moment I've spent a break on the horn, just my phone melting down, calling administration officials, saying, you have to understand, I mean, we've missed a few moments here and there. You have to understand the energy of this moment. There's never been a greater crisis for the American people than watching a bunch of off the boat Somali pirates loot and steal a our children's inheritance in our faces and laugh about it and then try. And then that one Somali, you know, influencer claiming that she's going to kill Elon Musk. I mean, this, it's flagrant, it's in our faces and it's disgusting to people. There's like trending was like, I don't want to pay taxes anymore because people are losing faith in the system. You have to restore faith in the system through handcuffs, prosecutions, denaturalization, deportation. You need to see action. Like there needed to be like full action. I think it's been good. I think they've been, they've been doing well, nothing. It's not better than nothing.

[Wesley Hunt]

Yes, you're right.

[Benny Johnson]

But like you're a member of Congress, you want to run for Senate. Ilhan Omar is sort of the poster child of this. So now that Tim Walls, the pressure on Tim Walls is going to dissipate now that he's starting to retreat. Right. He's just going to lawyer up. Like Ilhan Omar is now the face of this fraud. What should happen to your colleague in the House? She's a sitting member. I know this is hard to do, investigations on sitting members of Congress, but it's not unprecedented. What should happen?

[Wesley Hunt]

Well, pending the findings of an investigation and given some of the proof that we have already seen, that we already know exists, she needs to resign.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Period.

[Wesley Hunt]

We have a full investigation and she does not need to be serving in the halls of Congress. That's it. How in God's name is she wanted 435 people who clearly hate this country, who, who behaves this way, who Again, you're right. Robbing and stealing my children's inheritance, our hard earned taxpaying dollars, going to a Ponzi scheme, something like this from her area, from her state, from her district. It's federal Money. This is criminal and pending a full investigation. Because like I said, we actually have to go through our process. This is a constitutional republic and people have to get their day in court. She's a resign. And my guess, and my hope is that over time we, we see the full truth in a full extent and how nefarious this really was to see how deep it runs. And then we need heads to roll. That's what has to happen. And again, the wheels of justice churn slowly. It's not going to happen as quickly as we would like. But keep in mind, even though some people may be frustrated with how slow things work, we could have had Kamala Harris and Tim Walls running this country. The alternative is exponentially worse than what we have right now. If they were president and vice president, we wouldn't even be hearing about this scheme at all. It would all be swept under the carpet. So, again, let's get the investigations done. We must have hearings. Let's get to the bottom of this. Let's return the money back to the American taxpayer and let's make sure that those who are responsible for this, pay for it.

[Benny Johnson]

Just very quickly here, last question. President Trump, it's always an honor when this happened. Shared our reporting on Ilhan Omar's very strange net worth. You know, she entered Congress way poorer than even you and me. She entered Congress $65,000 in debt. In. In debt. I know you come from a military family. I know you're very working class congressman. But 65 grand in debt, and now she's worth $30 million in just six short years. And that's according, by the way, not. I'm not doing that math. She's the one doing that math on her own disclosures.

[Wesley Hunt]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

And so maybe it's, maybe it's significantly higher than that. I just wanted to get your take on, like. Well, that seems really in your face. Right? This seems like extremely egregious and grotesque for a member of Congress to enrich themselves in such a manner.

[Wesley Hunt]

Like this is the point of service. That's just, that's a massive problem. And you shouldn't be enriching yourselves while you are serving this nation, while you are supposed to serve this nation. To kind of give you an example, I've made a pledge that I will not trade a single stock while I am a United States Congressman and the next United States Senator from Texas. This is not my job to get paid and get rich while I'm in this job. I could do that when I'm, when I'm, when I'm done. So to watch somebody's net worth climb in that manner, basically, from what I can tell, from what it looks like, because of the American taxpayer and because of a potential Ponzi scheme, that, again, we need to have a full investigation that gets done. But you are right to go from being. Go from being worth, you know, 60, negative, $65,000 to. To 30 million. That should certainly raise eyebrows when you are, quote unquote, a public servant. The one thing that I love about my family is. Brother, you touched on it. You know, my mom, that. My. My excuse. My mom. My mom served, too, while her family served. But. But my dad's retired colonel, sister, brother, all of us, me, we're all West Point graduates, 60 years worth of military service in my family. Operative word service. When you choose to serve this country, that doesn't mean you enrich why you do it. That's actually wrong. That's not how this works. And by the way, it may not be illegal, but it most certainly is immoral.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

So.

[Wesley Hunt]

So instead of just turning a blind eye and watching people enrich themselves in this manner, we need to really clamp down on this. And this is why people don't trust politicians. This is why people don't trust what we're doing up in D.C. this is why people like me are running in the age as a young man to ensure that I serve this country. And, you know, someday I'll make more money later, but I cannot do it while I am serving you and we, the people in this constitutional republic. Again, full investigation needs to be done. And those that break the law and those that break the trust of the American public, they must resign or they must see time.

[Benny Johnson]

Must resign or they must see time. That's great. It's something that you could say as a catchphrase. You could also say, this is a catchphrase, Congressman, I'm the captain now.

[Wesley Hunt]

Oh, my team.

[Benny Johnson]

Look at me.

[Wesley Hunt]

This is beautiful.

[Benny Johnson]

Look at me. I'm the captain now. Look at me. That's.

[Wesley Hunt]

This is. Oh, my gosh.

[Benny Johnson]

You send this to. Send this to John Cornyn. Corny, look at me.

[News Reporter]

There you go.

[Benny Johnson]

That's right. I'll never like that guy. I don't care. I'll never like that guy. They attacked his little team. Attacked my team. I. On social media, petty little bitchy fights. I can't stand it. You should never. Should never attack your own side like that. So he lost my. Lost my faith entirely. But, Congressman, we certainly hope. You are the captain of the Texas Senate. Everybody go follow the congressman right here, he's got 500,000 followers strong on X, running for Senate. Godspeed.

[Wesley Hunt]

God bless you, brother. Happy New Year.

[Benny Johnson]

Happy New Year. And gentlemen, again President Trump sharing our reporting on Ilhan Omar. I wanted to pop it up one more time. It's always such an honor. The president, we're, we have built a brand new video product. This is a brand new asset class for us that is short form and very authentic and straight to camera and utilizes sort of the medium of short form storytelling. And we explain like how strange it is that Ilhan Omar, not only is she worth now $30 million, but all of that money. There's no sense to it. We, we went through her financial disclosures form. Ilhan Omar is like getting paid by a winery that's out of business. In here's the financial disclosure form, by the way. It's not secret documents we have. It's out of business. $5 million from a winery that doesn't have a functional phone number.

[Wesley Hunt]

Call it.

[Benny Johnson]

We did. It doesn't have a functional phone number. It's last social media post from 2022. Ilhan Omar gets $5 million from an from an out of business winery. What the hell is that? Can somebody investigate that? It's another $30 million from a venture capital firm run by her shady ass husband with a bunch of other DNC apparatus and Obama people that wiped out their website clean as soon as the Somali fraud hit. That's a matter of fact. Nobody can explain where the money comes from. Where's all their investment money coming from? What venture capital firm? It went from $0 to millions and millions of dollars under management like overnight in 2022 when a lot of the fraud was occurring. This is just a matter of fact. You know, if you look up their address, it's a WeWork location in D.C. you'd think if it was this really prominent prestigious hedge fund that you'd have like a little building in Georgetown or something. Nope. We work. It's not even an office. It's like a rental desk. Something shady is going on here and there's a perfect person to talk about it. Somebody who's been such a champion and a fighter for immigration, lawful immigration and thoughtful immigration from countries that, well, will actually make America a better place and not a worse place is the incredible Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant deputy Secretary the Department of Homeland Security joining us now. Trisha, welcome back to the program. Happy New Year.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Happy New Year, Benny. Thanks so much for having me back.

[Benny Johnson]

What tidings of great joy you bring to our program that Tim Walls has now resigned in disgrace. In part, I believe, to broken immigration policies and the federal government being incapable of truly understanding that when you bring in the third world to America, you become the third world. That scandal really got out of control. Something you've been warning about for a long time.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Yeah, good riddance. But this is certainly good news for the American people. Good news for his constituents. This looks like generational fraud, rampant fraud. But I will say, Benny, we have surged federal resources to Minneapolis. We have over 1,000 Homeland Security investigators on the ground as we speak, as well as hundreds of additional ICE agents. And more and more are coming. So far, we've had a thousand arrests of criminal legal aliens just in the last few weeks alone. But then this is a three prong approach as well. Our Homeland Security investigators are going door to door, following leads going to local businesses, suspected fraud sites, whether it be daycares, health care centers, or other organizations that get taxpayer dollars. And then, of course, we also have had an ongoing immigration fraud or a really wide scale investigation, Benny. About 1300 cases, 40% of which we've seen that there's been some sort of fraud going on. But I also want to talk about what's happening to our law enforcement there on the ground. We are seeing a widespread campaign, primarily by Hilton Hotels, to try and bar our law enforcement from being on the ground. What's happening is we were seeing that our law enforcement officers, when they were using their government emails to try and get a government rate for their rooms, they were being turned away, told that they could not get a. At these Hilton Hotels. And then they started using their personal emails. Benny. What they were doing and what Hilton Hotels has admitted to doing. We will bring these receipts. Is the hotels were googling the names of the guests, finding out that they were involved with immigration enforcement work and saying that they couldn't stay there. So we will have more coming on that. But that is a concerted effort in the Minneapolis area by Hilton Hotels, which is of course owned by J.B. pritzker, his family, to try and really thwart and stonewall our efforts to root out this fraud and root these criminal legal aliens.

[Benny Johnson]

This is remarkable. So Hilton and not. Not Hyatt. The Hilton Hotels.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Hilton Hotels, yes.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay, so this is because I believe J.B. pritchker is Hyatt. Please, producers, check with that.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Yeah, let's check on that.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, so. So, yeah, producers, please check that. I know that JB Pritcher owns the Hyatt hotel brand. JB Pritcher does own The Hyatt Hotel brand. But you're saying that these are the Hilton hotels?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

These are Hilton hotels, yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Well, this area.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

We'll share the receipts with your producers after this.

[Benny Johnson]

That's, that's atrocious. We're going to blow this up because that's in its own way impeding federal law enforcement and a massive, massive national brand trying to make our country less safe. Has, has Hilton, like, have you reached out to them for comment on this? Anybody made contact with them? They're not letting your agent, they're not letting your agents book rooms.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Yes. And this isn't one or two instances. This is a collective concerted effort. Not just our law enforcement agents, but any government official affiliated with Department of Homeland Security.

[Benny Johnson]

Wow, that's atrocious. We, we may have to start our own little boycott here for Hilton if they are indeed engaging in this kind of activity. That's, that's awful. So please, yeah, send that along. We'll be happy to work with you and run a boycott against Hilton. I use Hilton hotels all the time. I had no idea that this was happening.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Yeah, it's atrocious. And they're trying to thwart our work. They're trying to keep these law enforcement agents out so they don't have a place to stay, so they can't do their work. And it shouldn't be. Benny, as we've talked about before, this should not be a political issue. Rampant fraud in stealing from the US Taxpayer should be a bipartisan issue. No one should want this.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

No one should want the fraud that we saw exposed by the smaller community in Minneapolis. What is your agents finding on the ground? I know that there were some videos, some very, very pleasant agents, DHS agents and Homeland Security investigation agents going door to door. What have you, what have you been finding? I mean, have you shut down any of these fraudulent locations? Have you, have you found any evidence of mass fraud? I mean, it seems pretty self evident, right? With the daycares with no children in them.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Oh, certainly. And Nick Shirley, I mean, did remarkable work. And our Homeland Security investigators, I mean, this is a wide scale investigation, so I can't get too far ahead of what exactly that they're finding as we're getting these warrants, criminal warrants, and starting to make these arrests on the ground. But the American people should demand, and they do demand, that there's accountability and there's answers for what has happened on the ground, ground there. So we will deliver that. And like I said, we are surging resources, really unprecedented on the ground. There in Minneapolis.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay, so we're getting reports, another one dropped from CBS News last night about the kind of egregious wealth that was and has been created by the Somali community. Sometimes $50 million with a fraud per individual. $50 million. I mean, a lot of NFL quarterbacks don't get paid that Somali pirate fraudsters can come here and steal that from the American taxpayers, from our children and the future of our children in this nation. It is something that is blackpilled a lot of the American public and they just want action on it. DHS came out and said, you know, we're really considering denaturalization action against some of these major criminals. Can you explain that? I mean, I think that would really save stick. A lot of people would say, wow, the Trump administration is really serious if they start denaturalizing people in this country.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Yeah. Under U.S. law, if you procure citizenship or a visa, a green card, on fraudulent grounds, that is basis for denaturalization or removal of that visa or green card. So, of course, President Trump has directed the Department of Homeland Security. We're doing a massive scale audit on these countries of concern, Somalia being among them. And so we're looking at how are these citizenship procured, how are these visas procured? We know that the past administration, basic mechanisms were not being done, basic checks were not being done. And so we did see wide scale fraud, we did see wide scale abuse of our legal immigration system. And so it's really incumbent upon us to go back, see how this was procured. And if that means denaturalization, that's a route that's certainly on the table.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay, what is the. So the legal process there? I mean, a lot of people say that Ilhan Omar engaged in immigration fraud as well. I mean, the White House is out posting articles about it. What you're saying is that if somebody like Ilhan Omar was engaged in immigration fraud, that they could be. They could have their American citizenship stripped away and there's a legal process for that?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Oh, absolutely. That's under U.S. law. If they have procured their citizenship, this could be anyone, including Ilhan Omer, on a fraudulent grounds that could be revoked.

[Benny Johnson]

Do you have success in those actions? I mean, we've read the New York Times piece. We've seen some of the, some of the buildup to this. We've seen the messaging on it. But are you seeing actual success? I know that this is a legal process, right?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Absolutely. This is a case by case basis, a legal process. This is something that President Trump has been Very focused on. Secretary Noem has been incredibly focused on. But I do, Benny, if you wouldn't mind, I want to back up to also what we're seeing on the ground as far as some of these suspected fraudsters. What we're seeing, and I think that there has been some coverage of it actually from you all, is that these people are really scrambling to cover up their tracks and trying to create the illusion that there are legitimate business operations and business practices going on when it's all a fugazi. So that's something that I think we're going to see more and more of and those viewers watching should be aware of. But our Homeland and Security investigators, our FBI and other law enforcement on the ground are also aware that this is going on. And they're not going to be, you know, it's not going to be pulled over. Their eyes.

[Benny Johnson]

Are you going to be fooled by the child actors who now have. Craig. Craigslist postings throughout Minneapolis where they're. The daycares are asking for child actors to come in and try and be stated, try and be staged at the daycare. I got the post up right here submitted by Liz Collins. She's a reporter in Minneapolis for Alpha News. Craigslist post in search of child actors for daycare site to help hurry the state vetting process. We're looking for 20 child actors. Is this going to fool DHS?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

No, absolutely not. That is. That's the first I'm seeing of that, Benny, and that is absolutely despicable. But I do have to say the media's culpability in this. I mean, we've seen the CNN reporting, we've seen other mainstream news outlets where they wanted really to cover for these fraudsters and pretend. Don't believe your lying eyes that this has not been going on. And it took an independent journalist and Nick Shirley to actually see and root out and unearth the fraud that was right before our very eyes.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes. Okay. Well, I mean that's all positive. It's all well and good. We would love to see as many arrests as possible. It does seem to be incredibly widespread. Again, we have this super cut of independent journalists, dozens of them going door to door to these Somali daycares. And what's remarkable about this business, and I run a small, small business and we want as many customers as possible. Right. And for us, that's just like gaining audience. Right. Building the size of the media company. There's. Every American business always wants a customer except for these Somali daycares. The first business in history that is impervious having no customers and no children. And every time you try and sign your kid up, you get the door slammed in your face, you get screamed at and the cops called on you. And this is has seems to be something that is happening around the country. And I guess I just want to talk your strategy, DHS strategy for how, how is this going to, how are you going to scale this? Because it seems endemic in the community. Washington State, Columbus, Ohio. How's do HS going to approach fraud at a state level?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Well, absolutely, completely correct. I'm from Columbus, Ohio and we are seeing a lot of this is copy paste tactics, similar networks quite frankly. I mean I think it does take that three prong approach though. First of all, we have the immigration fraud nexus, of course with the uscis. We have the immigration, actual illegal immigration and procurement of that that is with ERO Homeland Security investigations. But, but we also have to look broadly at the federal government sba, the action that they're taking with hhs Treasury. Scott Besson has been fantastic on this issue following the money. But it's also going to take a degree of local cooperation. Of course we're not going to get that out of Minneapolis. We are hoping we're going to get that out of Columbus. The mayor, Mayor Gunther has been anything but helpful there. But it really is, it's all hands on deck with the Trump administration on this issue because we are seeing how rampant this fraud, it really is, generational fraud that's being stolen from the American people and they demand and will get accountability and justice.

[Benny Johnson]

Are we going to see waves of third world migrants swamping the shores of America anytime soon? I've seen obviously Stephen Miller has been really hitting hard on that over the Christmas break and asking the question like has anybody ever made the case as to why bringing in people from cultures that are incompatible with America? And what I mean by that is child brides, cousin marriages, Sharia law, you know, zero women's rights. Like these are things, these are societies that you probably don't want to live in, right? Like nobody would want Somalia to be a 51st state. You wouldn't, you wouldn't want the country to be attached to America, right? You, you wouldn't want to visit that place. So why would you be bringing people in from there? Trisha, can you like give me any explanation? Has anybody ever tried to explain why there are so many Somalis here in America?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Betty, I'm not the person to tell you certainly, but I will say from a DHS perspective, of course, all the oxygen is so often around illegal immigration. I mean, about 20 million people come to this country illegally in the last four years alone. But what's talked about last, and I think that you and other independent journalists are doing a great job of speaking about, is what happened the last four years with our illegal immigration system. And honestly, probably even longer than that is programs like chnv, Temporary Protected status, which was built to be temporary and yet it's being exploited and people are coming in for 20, 25 years. I mean, we saw about half a million people come in from Venezuela alone using temporary protected status. We're talking about hundreds of members of Trende Aragua who came in using that. People with vicious, horrendous rap sheets who came into our country legally using that program. It's a huge battle ahead of us for the Trump administration that we really have to go back. We have to look at who was legally led into this country, quote, unquote. And I mean, it's like they rubber stamped people and they said it's like legalizing murder and saying you got rid of violent crime. What's happened to our legal immigration system is as really despicable.

[Benny Johnson]

So in closing here, Tricia, could you please talk about Nicolas Maduro? Because I don't think that people quite understand exactly how destabilizing Venezuela led to so much of the migrant crisis. Obviously, people are familiar with Lake and Riley and that story, but there are millions of Venezuelans who have flooded not just America, but a lot of other countries in South America. And just how devastating Maduro's reign was there and how the immigration crisis was caused by the communist dictatorship.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Absolutely. About 8 million people fled Venezuela and that include hundreds of thousands, if not millions coming to the US Illegally. What Nicolas Maduro did to enrich himself, really creating a narco terrorist state, he is the world's largest dictator. We've all experienced friends, family members, colleagues we know who have been impacted by the fentanyl crisis by overdoses. He is culpable in that crisis. And I think that yesterday was one step closer to justice for the American people, for American families. It's a day of hope for the Venezuelan people. But also, I mean, we talked before about temporary protected status. Those who came to the United States of America from Venezuela, they can leave the United States now, go home to the country that they love and a day of hope that it's a much safer, more prosperous country for them.

[Benny Johnson]

We love it when you bring the receipts. Here's Tricia from back in May. Back in May, CNN pushing Venezuela dictator Maduro's propaganda calling House CNN deported mom says toddlers return to Venezuela was separation by US Authorities. It's a miracle. It does seem to be a full like I guess the left doesn't quite know how to, quite know how to go after this one. So maybe you could write the headlines forum. Trisha, in closing here, what are, what are the major immigration headlines now that we're entering a new year for the Trump administration when it comes to mass deportations, when it comes to stabilizing of South America and when it comes to the immigration outlook for our country?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Well, when President Trump entered office on January 20, we had a broken ICE agency, just 10,000 officers. Now we are up to 22,000 officers and 120% increase in our workforce. Americans can expect and they can demand an increase in arrest of criminal legal aliens or around the country. You're going to be seeing our numbers skyrocket. I think we can certainly commit to that and you'll see more and more of it.

[Benny Johnson]

What are the total deportation numbers? Is it around 2 million, 2.5 million with like self deportations?

[Trisha McLaughlin]

If you include self deportations, it's over 2 million. And I do think that that is such a bright spot and something that we probably don't talk enough about is self deportation, how it is a huge savings for the U.S. taxpayer. It's about $17,000 to arrest and deport someone. That's very much on the conservative end. So even with that offer, the CBP home app to give an individual in the country illegally $1,000 and a free flight home, that's still a massive, massive savings. So we're hoping that, you know, it's a virtuous cycle. The more people we arrest, the more people are going to self deport because they see that's their only option.

[Benny Johnson]

Well, it's been working.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

It is.

[Benny Johnson]

And we're. If you do two, if you, if you do two, if you ramp that up and you're talking about 20 million criminal aliens, boy, you just might, you just, you just might really take a, a chunk out of that. And so we wish you good luck in the new year, Trisha, and we'll be there to support you doing this. God's work in our country. Everybody follow Trisha McLaughlin. And then also let's get the official account up, please, ladies and gentlemen. I want to make sure that you're following her official DHS account. This is Trisha's personal, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, Trisha, we appreciate your time here and we'll be sure to Put up your. Yeah, thanks guys. Okay.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Anything.

[Benny Johnson]

So a little rusty here. You're getting back after two weeks. Godspeed, Trisha.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Thank you.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Thank you. Have a great day.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay. Well, ladies and gentlemen, again, we appreciate you sticking with it while we, ah, well we, while we knock off the rust on the old, on the old show here and get the, get the. Is it not.

[Wesley Hunt]

Are we.

[Benny Johnson]

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[Wesley Hunt]

Yep.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay, let's go.

[Donald Trump]

Colombia is very sick, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he's not going to be doing it very long. Let me tell you.

[Benny Johnson]

What is that not going to be doing it very well.

[Donald Trump]

He's not doing it very well. He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories. He's not going to be doing it very well.

[Benny Johnson]

So there will be an operation by.

[Donald Trump]

The U.S. it sounds good to me. You know why? Because they kill a lot of people.

[Benny Johnson]

President Trump also sounding off on Cuba, saying Cuba could be the next country also to fall. The Don Row doctrine marching strong. Here we go.

[Donald Trump]

You know, one of the things that is happening, and I think you see it, you see it all the time, Howard. You've seen it, that Cuba is ready to fall. You know, Cuba looks like it's ready to fall. I don't know how they, if they're gonna hold out. But Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They're not getting any of it. And Cuba literally is ready to fall at. You have a lot of great Cuban Americans that are going to be very happy.

[Benny Johnson]

I mean, I think that's true. We live in a city filled with Cuban Americans here in Tampa. And they. The first thing that happened when I moved to Tampa was actually a march against Fidel Castro through these streets right in front of my house. It's like, awesome. I was telling my wife, like, we have moved to a great place. We have moved to a wonderful city. This is the kind of city that I want to raise my kids in where there's anti communist marches. Just randomly on Saturday mornings, my kids can sit there and watch.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Wait.

[Benny Johnson]

There's little flags. President Trump on Mexico saying that Claudia Sheinbaum, who is a total and complete asset of the cartels in Mexico, better watch your ass as well.

[Donald Trump]

And by the way, you have to do something with Mexico. Mexico has to get there, act together because they're boring through Mexico and we're gonna have to do something. We love Mexico to do it. They're capable of this. But unfortunately, the cartels are very strong in this.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

I remember one time actually speaking of Mexico, I asked you about Claudia Scheinbomb.

[Wesley Hunt]

You told me at one point you.

[Benny Johnson]

Had offered to send US troops in.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

To ensued that drug trafficking there.

[Benny Johnson]

Is that something you.

[Donald Trump]

I like Claudia. I think she's a terrific person. I would say every single time I talk to her, I offer dissenters.

[Benny Johnson]

And she's just not willing.

[Donald Trump]

She's concerned the political trade the cartels are running, whether you like it or not.

[Benny Johnson]

Don Row Doctrine. What is the Monroe Doctrine? Monroe, I mean, Monroe was president in 1823, so people don't remember much. But Monroe Doctrine says pretty simply that we are not going to allow colonization of the West. You will not be allowed to colonize the Western Hemisphere. So it was originally about European powers coming here to continue to colonize in South America or in the Americas. And the Monroe document says we, we will be the masters of this hemisphere. We will not take kindly to at that time, again, old, the old world, old European powers coming here and trying to stake claims and gobble up pieces of our hemisphere. We'll fight you and we did. We'll fight you and we'll actually seize your colonies. We'll force you to protect your colonies. This is a very aggressive approach. I mean, America was only like 30 years old at this time. Wasn't a particularly old country, like maybe like 50 years old. It was just getting its feet underneath us. But this doctrine was actually helped and enforced by some European powers that didn't want other European powers. It was really smart doctrine and it is now being reformatted to the Donro Doctrine. While it's not Europe that is colonizing the west any longer, it certainly is Russia, China, and emissaries of global Marxism that is trying to seize power and control in our hemisphere. Here we go, the Don Row Doctrine. President Trump talking about Greenland. You see Greenland right there. Trump up again on Greenland, saying, it's ours, it's ours.

[Donald Trump]

Let's go against Greenland. I don't want to talk about Greenland. Let's talk about Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine. Don't worry about Greenland in about two months. Let's talk about Greenland in 20 days. By the way, I Have to. I will say this about Greenland. We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security. And Denmark is not going to be able to do it, I can tell you. You know what Denmark did recently? It boost up security in Greenland. They added one more dome sled. It's true. They thought that was a great move.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. I don't want to talk about. I don't want to talk about Greenland. Let's talk about Greenland. We need Greenland. We must have it. President Trump probably inspired by a conversation that he had with Elon Musk. Just letting you guys know the boys are back in town. Trump and Musk share a lovely dinner at Mar a Lago after public feud. Elon Musk has been loving this. Elon Musk wants to be part. He's a dominant personality. He's an alpha personality. He wants to be part of, of the alpha energy of the new American empire. Something that you should clearly be in favor of if you are an American. Because strength means good things for our children, our grandchildren and for this hemisphere, quite frankly, it means peace and stability. It's what you want. Should be in favor of it. You got to show the footage. You got to show the footage. Where's Trump and Elon? Let's go. Let's see the boys. There they are.

[News Reporter]

There you go.

[Benny Johnson]

Trump having dinner with Elon. Melania joining. That is an epic dinner. Normally Trump packs the table with a bunch of people, you know, sort of a rogues gallery. But this is just a one on one dinner with Melania, the highest honor. What would you be saying in this scenario? Who would you be talking to? Melania, Elon. Here's the footage of them coming in to cheers. Were rowdy cheers throughout. Can we hear him? The master, the master of the universe, President Trump, ladies and gentlemen. Joining us right now is somebody who understands the Maduro regime about as well as anyone, Emmanuel Rincon, who fled Venezuela as the founder of the regional Renaissance consulting firm. And he's worked very, very hard on making sure that Maduro has no future. And he must be happy as a clam today. Joining us for the first time, Emmanuel Rukon. Emmanuel, welcome to the program. This must have some major significance to you. Tell me about what was life like under Nicholas Maduro.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

How can I begin? It was the worst nightmare that our country has had, I think, in all our history. I mean, we were devastated. We got 90% of poverty in Our country, we got the largest oil reserve in all the world and still the people wasn't able to get milk or eggs for their kids. So it was really a disaster. The people of Venezuela are really crying right now because they are so happy that the President Trump took that killer out.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes, maybe you could speak to some of the leftists who I think get all their news from teenagers on TikTok who are crying about Nicolas Maduro being arrested, saying that this is an attack on Venezuela. Kamala Harris included in all that. She of course ran for president as a Democrat criticizing President Trump for arresting Nicolas Maduro. What do the people of Venezuela say about this?

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Look Benny, 90% of the people of Venezuela wanted Maduro out. And actually we vote for a, for, for, for a regime change in Venezuela. That didn't happen because they began to kill people that were trying to manifest that we really wanted a change. So they've been killing people by thousands for the last 20 years. They've been sending drugs to United States, they've been sending criminals, they have been doing all this stuff in all the regions. So I mean he has been the worst criminal that maybe this continent has had in the last 20 years. And we are really, really very happy that this nightmare is beginning to their end.

[Benny Johnson]

Why are Democrats so upset about this?

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Because they are socialists also. I mean there is no other reason. I cannot understand how anybody can be mad because an Arco terrorist is in jail right now. It's absurd.

[Benny Johnson]

What about the socialists here in America like Sorhan Mandami, AOC Bernie Sanders. They are all defending Nicolas Maduro and are very upset that he's being frog marched through Manhattan. What do you say to them from somebody who had to flee Nicolas Maduro?

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Look Wendy, this is something that we have to take care in the usa. I mean you mostly are not going to find most conservative people than the Cubans and the Venezuelan here in the U.S. the Venezuelan population, the Venezuelan Americans voted for President TRUMP Like 90% of the Venezuelan American voted for President Trump is almost the same with the Cubans. So the Hispanic population are the most pro conservative pro Americans that you ever find. And we have to take care to. I mean we don't want socialists in the usa. We live through this and we were running through this. And I mean those people doesn't really understand what is to live in a socialist country. And I don't understand why if they want a socialist country they don't move to Cuba or to Venezuela to really find out what is to live in like that in Poverty without being able to buy food and with the government to tell you what can you eat, what can you say and how do you need to live your life?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, I mean, I guess there are like socialist countries in the world. Why not just move to those countries if you love it so much? Zorhan Mandame, he's the flavor of the week. He's a socialist now in charge of the center of capital in the world, which is very strange in New York City, who's very upset when Nicolas Maduro was being frog marched through the city. Happened again this morning. A humiliation ritual for sure. Something that's got to actually make you pretty happy. What's your message to Zorhan Mandami?

[Emmanuel Rincon]

I don't know how even I can begin. I mean, they came for countries that was devastated by the same reason that they are voting right now. And they are defending some policies that had never been implemented in the usa. If you follow what the founding fathers established by the usa. We are a country here with freedom. We are a country that doesn't believe in collectivism. We are a country that doesn't believe in socialism. And they are really a mess. I mean, I think that the USA needs really, really, really to work and expel the socialists and the communists in this country. Because if that doesn't happen, we are not going to have a future here too.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes. What is your message to President Trump in all of this? You know, he's certainly being attacked by some. What is the message from Venezuelans to President Trump? You said 90% of Venezuelans support this.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Yeah, yeah, 100%, Benny. Look, the Venezuelans are really grateful with President Trump. The regime is still in charge in Venezuela. I mean, it's a long process. We have to spell every one of them. Because until that doesn't happen, we're still going to have this narco trafficking crisis and all that stuff. I mean, it's not an easy job. I mean, to take out Maduro, it was a huge thing. But I think that we still have some work to do. But we are super grateful with President Trump. He's a hero for the Venezuelan people. And I think that we are going to have some statue of the President Trump in the main street of Caracas.

[Benny Johnson]

There's going to be a statue of Trump in Caracas.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

100%.

[Benny Johnson]

You're going to replace the mausoleum of Hugo Chavez, the one that was bombed?

[Emmanuel Rincon]

It was already destroyed. It will be hilarious.

[Benny Johnson]

Hey, you're going to have to demolish it. Okay, so yeah, just real quickly here, what's next for Venezuela, then, you know, what's. What, what, what is the road back to being a functional democracy and a functional first world country? Venezuela was the richest and most profitable country in all of South America not too long ago, just a few decades ago, before communists took it over and ruined everything.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Yeah, for sure. Look, I'm, I'm. I mean the, the Venezuelan people is, is, is a little bit concerned because as I was saying, the regime is still in charge, but we got Secretary of State Marco Rubio that we believe that is the best Secretary of State that the US have in the last century. He's great. And he's going to take care of everything with the Venezuelan people. Actually, President Trump said yesterday that they are running Venezuela. So I think that we are in good hands and I think that once everything is settled, we're going to have our leaders backs in Venezuela. We are going to be the best ally that the US has ever had.

[Benny Johnson]

Explain that. Would that mean just like economic cooperation, military cooperation? Obviously these are like really this is critically important because Venezuela is right there on the Caribbean, not too far from off the coast of America. It's really bad to have China, Iran, Russia, Hezbollah being able to, you know, have operations inside of that.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

They have to be in kick out. They have to be in kick out of Venezuela, for sure. We, we want to work with, with USA companies. We want to have like the best ally in our hemisphere. We can work in, in every stop. Not only in security, but also in, in energy. We got all these minerals, we got oil, we got everything. And we want to, to, to work with a USA company for sure.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay. Looks like the future is bright. I'm glad to hear it. I'm sorry for what your family had to go through. I hope that people heed your warning. There are millions and millions and millions of Venezuelans who are celebrating right now. And I think that's kind of all that matters, actually. For sure. And not, not a bunch of like angry teenage communists soy boys on TikTok crying that there's one less communist dictator in the world. Okay, well, thank you very much for being on our program. Everybody follow Emmanuel Rincon. Here he is. He has almost 600,000 subscribers on X. Fighting for a free world and a free Venezuela. Godspeed, sir.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Thank you very much, Manny.

[Benny Johnson]

Thank you. Boy, I gotta tell you, conversations like this, all about South America make me hungry. When we have fajita night at the Johnson household is masa chips that we eat. We do eat fajitas quite a bit. Masa chips are the chip of The Johnson household because, well, it is an actual healthy chip for you. Made with three all natural ingredients, just corn and salt and beef tallow. And that's means that it's better for you. It means it doesn't fill you up with a bunch of chemical bloat. It means it's tasty and delicious. It's crisp, and it avoids all the bad stuff. While supporting a company that wants to make America healthy again. My personal favorite is their spicy chip. They also have a churro chip that is delicious as well. For dessert, Masa chips, ladies and gentlemen. The only chips allowed inside of the Johnson household. My wife is extremely picky with what our children are eating, and this is something you can find on our table virtually every single dinner. If you want to give Masa a try, go to masachips.com benny and use the code BENNY for 25% off your order. That's masachips.com benny code BENNY for 25% off YOUR first order. And if you don't want to order online, go pick up a bag at Sprouts Market. You can find them nationwide wide. Okay. It is a. It is a wonderful thing to see the team back together again. Trump and Musk, all of the good vibes. Nicholas Maduro in jail. Tim Walls resigning. Massive, massive wins for the administration throughout the year of 2025. And that's something that I do want to chat about here, and I want you guys to. Or maybe I can find it. Just something We. We pulled some data. I wanted to talk about it for the, you know, the top line of where the country's headed and why we are going to swing and fight so freaking hard for the future of this nation. Because I believe that we are at the precipice right now of something pretty remarkable happening. I got it, Klein. Don't you worry, buddy. I got it. I. I got it, friend. There you go, friend. We pulled some data. I want to tell. You know, obviously we. We. We hopped on sort of the bandwagon at the top of the show about, like, doomerism from 2025. There are a lot of people who wanted 2025 to end, and you're probably one of them. It was a tough year. But I want to talk you through at the end of this show, which we always try and share positive news at the end of the show, and we were successful in that because we have our verse of the day. But I wanted to share with you some of the positive energy that we have going into 2026 so that you're Locked in for what we are fighting for here is where we're headed. Okay, let's start. Faith is surging among young people right now. Young people for the first time in history are going to church and have higher belief in gods than their parents generation. That's never happened in modernity, hasn't happened. It's truly historic. Murders in America are at record lows because we've been locking up criminals and throwing them in prison for good. We've been arresting criminals, drug dealers, getting the filth off our streets. Thank you Dan Bongino who also is done at the FBI as of yesterday. Dan Bongino signing off yesterday from what I believe to be a excellent tenure at the FBI. Good and bad and ugly, but nonetheless an impossible job done as skillfully as possible by Dan. We're proud of Dan. Talk about a man who actually sacrificed for his nation. Life expectancy in America is at an all time high. Suicide rates are plummeting. Overdose rates are plummeting. Give me that data. Give me the data, Jack. I know you got it. Life expectancy at an all time high. Families are growing. American child populations are up. Native born American populations are skyrocketing. Foreign born populations are collapsing. Native born jobs are skyrocketing. 100% of the jobs last year went to native born Americans. While foreign born workers lost 3 million jobs in this country. 3 million jobs. Native born jobs up 2.7 million. All job growth going to actual Americans. Historic manufacturing resurgence in our country happening in the United States of America. True, truly. On onshoring of the American dream back into our country. The restarting of manufacturing. The renaissance of our economy. Where we build things again. This is the year of the builder. Historic restoring of American jobs and reshoring of American jobs from overseas. Inflation collapsing. GDP is skyrocketing. Very healthy indicators for the economy. The border is closed. There were 2.5 million total deportations. Some of those were self deportation, Some of those were forcible deportations. Do it yourself. It'll be easier. You'll make more money. And there's been a resurgence in American identity and optimism. Primarily among young people. Primarily among young people. Pop it up. There you go. Look at this. We've decided not to kill ourselves anymore. Isn't that nice? I mean this is partially closing the border and limiting the drug supply. But it's also, I believe people finding hope. You just decide you're not going to commit suicide. You decide you're not going to od. Look at these OD rates. They're collapsing. The murder Rates look exactly the same then. On an absolute upward trajectory for your entire life. A parabolic upward trajectory. And it's now collapsing. Why? Why do people decide to not commit suicide? Why do people decide to live longer? Why do people decide to get healthier? Because they actually believe that there will be an America left for them. They believe in something. They believe that the country is going to provide them some opportunity. They're not distraught. They're not hopeless any longer. They're not addicted to pills or alcohol. They're not slobs. They're not obese. They can take care of themselves. They can stand upright and fight. And they have something to fight for, and that is spiritual. That's something bigger than you or me. That's something that is God's providence for our nation. That's why I included this piece of classic artwork here of the American dream. Uncle Sam rolling up his sleeves. Factories booming, trains running, tanks rolling and the steamworks the build. This will be the year of the American builder. This is the year 2026 of the dogged pursuit. This is the year where the people who have been punched again and again and again in the face and refused to quit, where we finally break.

[News Reporter]

Out.

[Benny Johnson]

Of our captivity, where we finally punch back. The people who said, you won't stop me. This is the year of the breakthrough. This is the year of seizing your American dream. And you should seize it together with us on this show. We will fight for you. Fight back with us. We will always stand by you, and we'll give you the ammunition to fight. The verse of the day, ladies and gentlemen, from Ephesians 6:11, put on the full armor of God. You can take your stand against the devil's schemes. Boom. There it is. Start the year off. Get your armor on. There's going to be spiritual attacks. There's going to be battles that we can't even perceive of that are on the horizon. You got to be ready and you got to be locked in. This is how you do it. With faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and with the strength to carry on, we march forward together to victory. That is 100% assured, ladies and gentlemen. Onward, Christian soldiers. In the end, we win. It's your boy, Benny. See you.

[Wesley Hunt]

Happy New Year.

[Benny Johnson]

Clipper one taking off.

[Emmanuel Rincon]

Runway two.

[Donald Trump]

Roll.

[Benny Johnson]

Sam. Wow. Hey, grock. Put him in a bikini.

[Trisha McLaughlin]

Screen.

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