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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Welcome in Friday Edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I hope all of you are ready for the weekend and looking forward to hanging out with me as we roll into the weekend with three fun hours. Buck in New York City celebrating his dad's birthday. Happy birthday to Papa Sexton. Also, I meant to say producer Ali's birthday was yesterday and I forgot to mention it on the show. So birthdays abound everywh and we hope you guys are ready to have some fun with us. Trump has hopped onto Air Force One and is now on his way to Scotland to visit several of his properties over there, predominantly golf courses. He addressed the media as he left the White House and made a lot of news after yesterday's show. He also toured the site of the Fed construction that they are spending a couple of billion dollars, $3 billion actually on, and met with Jerome Powell face to face where he made the case that they needed to lower the interest rates. Which, by the way, Trump is correct about. We will dive into all of that. But we began with something that we told you early this week, and I didn't hear very many other people out there saying it. But when a lot of people were saying, oh, Obama's gonna be arrested. Oh, he's gonna be perp walked. We've got the 2016 intelligence briefings that prove Obama committed a crime. I told you, look, the Supreme Court ruling that said Trump had the power as president to act as he did in 2020 and could not be charged criminally as a result those expansive presidential powers. The Supreme Court held 6, 3 in Trump's favor. We told you that that ruling was likely to come. It now has come. And guess what? It applies to Bill Clinton. It applies to Barack Obama. It applies to George W. Bush. It applies to Donald Trump, any living president, any current president, any future president. And Trump was actually asked about that, given the revelations from Tulsi Gabbard. He said, hey, look, Obama owes me big because he's probably protected by the same ruling. Let me play that cut. Trump just said this a little bit ago. Listen, how do you think that the Supreme Court's Ruling that benefited you on presidential immunity would apply to former President Barack Obama and what you're accusing him of doing.
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David Fromm
It probably helps him a lot.
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Clay Travis
Probably helps him a lot, the immunity ruling, but it doesn't help the people.
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David Fromm
Around him at all. But it probably helps him a lot. He's done criminals, there's no question about it. But he has immunity, and it probably.
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Clay Travis
Helps him a lot. He owes me big. Obama owes me big. Obama owes me big. That is Trump talking about the situation there where Obama is now protected, likely by the larger ruling that the Supreme Court made on presidential privilege. And we told you back when this ruling came down, you may not like it at some point in the future. It reminds me of Mitch McConnell when they changed the filibuster rules for the Supreme Court, saying, hey, you may not like the results and it may happen sooner than you think. There you go. The benefit sometimes of precedent set by the Supreme Court. You think, oh, this is great. And then there's another situation that comes down the road and the precedent is applied evenly. Whether Democrat or Republican or frankly, Independent or Whig or Tory or whatever future parties may exist in the years, decades, hundreds of years into the future in the United States, the Supreme Court ruling will apply to every president when it comes to the president having the powers to exercise the prerogative of the presidency without worrying about being charged with criminal related incidents going forward. And so I would say in general, this week, if you look at the entirety of the week, has largely been characterized by revelations relating to the 2016 intelligence community's attempt to create the Russiagate fervor and ongoing discussion surrounding the Epstein files and what has been uncovered there. This morning, as part of my prep, as I always do, I read the New York Times. There is a huge, multi thousand word piece in the New York Times that goes into the review of all of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice under Trump. And the fact that, frankly, they haven't been able to find anything and about how frustrated that made Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino and Cash Patel, who desperately wanted to find people that they could charge based on the information that was inside of those files. And according to that New York Times report, there just isn't anything there, doesn't mean that there might not have been in the past. Uh, 90% of people out there believe that these files should be released. Again, there are challenges because some of these people are victims. Uh, but I suspect that they're gonna try to release everything that they can, and there's just not gonna be much there. Jelaine Maxwell interviewed yesterday by the Deputy AG to see if she knew anything else. One thing that I think I have not done a good job talking with you guys about from the Epstein perspective, is remember that there were hundreds of millions of dollars paid out to the alleged Epstein victims by his estate by all these other different large investment banks that also had interactions and dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. In other words, people say, well, what happened to all the victims? Well, a lot of those victims came forward, raised their hand, remained anonymous, but said, hey, we are a part of this class action lawsuit alleging that we were mistreated by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and many of those women, they got paid hundreds of millions of dollars by Epstein's estate. It doesn't get talked about very much, but there were hundreds of millions of dollars paid out to those victims of Epstein and Jolaine Maxwell. And I do think that that has kind of slid under the radar and it hasn't gotten that much attention. But people said, well, what happened to all these victims? A lot of them came forward and said, hey, this was what was done to me. And we are filing a class action lawsuit civilly seeking damages from Jeffrey Epstein's estate in the wake of his death. And the estate team in New York, maybe you can look out and see if there's a. A full dollar value. But I know they paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in claims against individuals who purport that they were mistreated. So again, two different scandals to me. And I asked this question I asked you guys earlier this week, hey, which do you think is the bigger story? Epstein or the Epstein fallout or Russiagate? And overwhelmingly, you guys said Russiagate. And also I gave a third option in that poll, and the third option was, I don't care about any of this, just get my costs down. In other words, I'm just focused on the economy. And it actually outrated the Epstein drama as well. In other words, the majority of you said, Russiagate's a really, really big story. That was the winner of the poll. Second place was, I don't care about any of this, just get my costs down. And then third was Epstein. But I would say we basically have dueling controversies, for lack of a better way to describe it, with the Russiagate, which I believe is actually a huge story, the Russiagate hoax, and then also the fallout of Epstein, all taking place simultaneously. And of course, Democrats are saying, well, this is just Trump's desire to distract from the Epstein related cases. Uh, but I actually don't Think that's true? Um, I. I think that what happened with Russia has been an obsession of Trump's for a long time. And in particular, I wanted to play some of this because these are flashbacks and I know some of you remember it, but remember what happened the first time Trump met with Putin and what the reaction was as the media had bought into the idea that Trump was a Manchurian candidate. I want to play a couple of these cuts. Here's cut seven. Chris Cuomo, back when he was still on CNN screaming about President Trump and the Russia hoax to his audience. This was in 2018. Some of you will remember it. This is what Trump 1.0 was dealing with. All lies. Cut 7. The world witnessed a betrayal the likes of which we've never seen. America's president sided with its enemy. Today, shock has turned to a national shunning as America finds unity in President Trump's perfidy. It was the simplest of all questions regarding Russia's attacks on our democracy. Did it happen?
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David Fromm
I have great confidence in my intelligence.
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Clay Travis
People, but I will tell you that.
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David Fromm
President Putin was extremely strong and powerful.
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Christina Quinn
In his denial today.
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Clay Travis
That was the President of the United States. Answer. A kick in the groin to his counterintelligence men and women to his country, and most to the truth. With the world watching. The leader of the free world sided with the man who directly ordered a sophisticated attack on America's electoral system. End of discussion. That's what happened. Russia did it all. That's false. And remember, CNN cut away from Tulsi Gabbard when she was laying out the fact that the intelligence agencies manufactured this great Russia hoax as a way to delegitimize the Trump presidency. They're still not allowing their audience to understand what actually happened. And again, this is another flashback. I think it's important to remember the unbelievable histrionics that were at here. Cut 8. Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said it was the most tragic day in the history of the presidency when Trump said, hey, I'm not really convinced that Russia was rigging our election. Cut 8. This is probably the most tragic day in the history of the presidency. So what do we do now? I mean, what is the rule book for when a president betrays his own country and sides with an enemy? So I think it's up to the American people to make clear that we will not tolerate a president who does not defend the United States of America. Probably the worst cyber attack against the United States to undermine our election system. These are bad people. They're bad Guys, they're the enemy. They're the adversary. Okay? The most tragic day in the history of the presidency. Leon Panetta, remember a thing called Ford's Theater. John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln, the back of the head. Feels like a pretty tragic day for the presidency. FDR dies in office in the middle of World War II, near the end of World War II. Feels like a pretty tragic day in the history of the presidency. There it's how about when the. How about when the British burned down the White House? Feels like kind of a tragic day in the history of the presidency. The degree of lying that was built around this Russian disinformation campaign. Russia could have never dreamed of having America's own institutions turn on America to the degree that it did to try to tear down Donald Trump. And so I don't blame Trump, who spent four years basically screaming into the wind, there's nothing to this. I won. And they just can't figure out how Hillary lost. And now, to her credit, Tulsi Gabbard lays out in a calculated fashion exactly what went on inside of the intelligence agencies and demonstrates that this Russia hoax happened. Now, a lot of you out there are throwing up your hands and saying, what's going to happen? That's the challenge. And I think to his credit, Trump even acknowledged basically nothing can happen to Obama. I think it's almost impossible to charge him with anything. And I think it's also very hard to charge others because the time has passed to such an extent. Now, I do think leaks of these intelligence documents that the Washington Post and the New York Times, among other, among others, used as their method to win Pulitzer Prizes and see this idea that this untruth was, in fact, a truth. I do think there should be consequences there. And at an absolute minimum, I think this is very significant because it's correcting the historic record and making people slowly aware of exactly what went on. I will take your calls. You guys can react to all of this. We've got a ton as we roll through the program. No guests scheduled right now. 282-2882. That's 800-282-2882. We can also have some fun if you've got talkbacks and you want to weigh in on anything that happened all week long, we will play some of those as well. In the meantime, uncertainty almost always causes a reaction, particularly in our markets. And right now, there's uncertainty about the value of the dollar, about how much inflation there is going to be. 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That's Clay to 98-9898 to get started today. Making America great again isn't just one man, it's many. The Team 47 podcast Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
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David Fromm
Clay, have you heard of the Rio reset?
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Clay Travis
Sounds like a trendy new workout, Buck.
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David Fromm
It does, but it's actually, actually a big summit going on in Brazil. The formal name is brics, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But they've just added five new members.
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Clay Travis
Smart move to stick with brics. We know what happens when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.
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David Fromm
Well, that's an understatement. BRICS is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase their sway in the global financial order.
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Clay Travis
Now that sounds like the plotline of a movie. I'm listening.
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David Fromm
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Clay Travis
Can he give us some inside intel? Absolutely.
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David Fromm
He's been there since day one. In fact, a major theme at the summit is how BRICS nations aim to reduce reliance on the US Dollar in global trade.
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Clay Travis
Yikes. That doesn't sound good. We gotta get Philip on the line, stat.
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David Fromm
Already did. And he left the Clay and Buck audience this message.
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Clay Travis
The world is moving on from the dollar. Quietly but steadily, these nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade. And the US Dollar is no longer the centerpiece. That shift doesn't happen overnight, but make no mistake, it's already begun.
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David Fromm
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Clay Travis
They've taken the first trip with the baby. He did not cry on the airplane, which is good for Buck because at some point we're going to have to pull back up the audio of Buck talking about how babies should never cry on air airplanes. I think it was like the first year that we were together, before he was married, before he had a kid of his own. Now, his baby has so far been very good on an airplane. But I, I told him, I texted, I was like, dude, at some point, every one of my kids has thrown up on me on an airplane, all three of them, and at different times when they were young. And I told him, at some point the wheels are going to come off and you're going to come on, you're going to tell me about it and I'm going to pull the audio of you talking about. I don't know why the parents just don't stop that baby from crying. Like I what's the deal? Just tell the baby to stop crying. So, so far, baby boy Sexton has not cried on the airplane. But I'm telling you, this is coming. We've been talking about the fallout of Russiagate, also the continued discussion surrounding the Epstein files and everything going on there. And we've got ton of you that want to weigh in. But I do want to go back to something that I said yesterday, because I think it actually goes to the root of how all of this started. You ever go back to the root of things and say, how do we ever get in this mess to start with? I think it's super instructive. It reminds me of my golf game. I don't play golf that often, but what I love about golf is you have to constantly follow what you did before. And that, to me, is why golf is a perfect distillation of life. If you hit a bad shot, you have to deal with the consequences of the bad shot. And trust me, I deal with the consequences of a lot of bad shots. In my golf game. When you shank a shot off to the right and you're in the trees, presuming that you are playing golf as it is intended to get play, sometimes you don't. You don't get to pick the ball up and throw it back into the center of the fairway, you have to play the ball where it lies. You have to deal with a really difficult second shot. And sometimes you get the choice to make. Do you try to hit a hero shot on that second shot or do you take your medicine and just Knock it back in the fairway and be prepared for the third. And I understand some of you don't play golf, but I think the metaphor of life and golf interplays very well. And if you finish the round, you go back and you can say, boy, where did my game really go fall apart? Some of it may be like, you just stink a golf and that's me. And so there's no one thing that you did wrong. But if you're a really good golfer, you can go back and you can say, boy, on eight, I really had the wrong club there. I didn't factor in the wind. And that's when my round kind of fell apart and I never really came back from it. I think about this as it pertains to Russiagate, and I think this is so important. Why did Russia gate happen? Because Democrats couldn't figure out how Trump won. They thought Hillary was a shoe in. They wanted to shatter the glass ceiling. They wanted all of the balloons to come falling and they couldn't comprehend that they lost to Trump. This reality television show guy, this what in their mind, thoroughly unserious candidate. I was thinking about it this week and I came up with an analogy that some of you may think is crazy, but others of you, you're going to be like, you know what? Yeah, I totally see it. Tom Brady is the best quarterback in the history of the NFL. Now, some of you may be out there die hard Colts or Broncos fans, you might be arguing Peyton Manning, some of you are Kansas City Chiefs fans, you may arg you for Patrick Mahomes. But I want to take you back to the inception of Tom Brady for a moment. In 2002, Tom Brady won his first Super bowl and they beat Rush's heavily favored at the time. Still in St. Louis Rams football team. Some of you are going to remember that game. And a lot of people said, how in the world did this happen? How did Kirk Warner, NFL mvp, probably the best quarterback in the NFL at that point in time, greatest show on turf, best offense. The Rams were a huge favorite in that game to win their second straight super bowl or nearly the second straight super bowl, and instead they lost. And everybody said, how in the world did this happen? How did the Rams, who were so good, Kurt Warner throws for over 300 yards. I was actually during the commercial break, I was looking up the stats on this game because I thought it was interesting. And Kurt Warner threw for over 300 yards. Tom Brady didn't do hardly anything. Kurt Warner, 365 yards passing Tom Brady 145 yards passing. There's a big difference in numbers. People said, man, this is a huge upset. I don't know how this happened. How did Tom Brady beat Kurt Warner? Well, then come to find out, actually, Tom Brady's one of the greatest of all time. And he would go on and he would win six more Super Bowls play in 10 total Super Bowls. And in retrospect, you go back and you look at that 2002 Super bowl, and you say, boy, that was just the first sign that this guy was built different. And over time, everybody came to see, oh, yeah, Kurt Warner, he's a good quarterback, but Brady was different. I would submit to you that the 2016 election, a lot of people didn't get yet that Donald Trump was built different. And so in the immediate aftermath, they're saying, boy, Hillary Clinton, she's Kurt Warner, she's the Ram, she's the favorite. She should never lose this election. And the original sin of all of Russiagate was a disbelief in Donald Trump's innate political gifts. Think about where we are right now. I loved watching Tom Brady when he played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because I knew we didn't have a lot of time left with Tom Brady, and I just wanted to celebrate his career. I feel that way about Trump right now. People are climbing all over attacking him and everything else. But the reason Russiagate happened was because Democrats hadn't seen yet that Trump was built different. I think the best president since Reagan on the Republican side, generational political talent. And so much like when Brady won that first super bowl, they didn't know what was to come. They went back and they said something had to happen. Other than just Trump being the politician that he is, the political talent that he is, they thought that he was just a total schmuck. And so they said something had to happen here. There's no way that Hillary really lost this election to that guy. There's no way Kurt Warner just lost the super bowl to Tom Brady. And now, as we sit in 2025, I am telling you, we are rapidly accelerating towards instead of being Hitler soon, you're going to start here. Democrats acknowledge Trump is actually the greatest political talent of the Republican Party in two generations. They're going to pivot really quickly from the guys Hitler to. They're never going to be able to replicate what this guy is capable of. Why do I bring all this to bear? Don't take for granted the immense, incredible good fortune that we have with Donald Trump in office right now, because he's not perfection. I think there is an element out there, and I think the Epstein case is a part of it, where we have, I think, the greatest six months that we have ever seen in my life of a president doing exactly what he said he was going to do. Economy, border, crime. He could not have delivered better than he has. And we have an innate tendency to decide to fixate on the one thing that's not perfect, the two things that aren't exactly what we would have done if we were in that position and not enjoy and appreciate the good fortune that we actually find ourselves in right now. And I think Democrats, if you go back and look at the origination of why Russiagate happened, it was simply because they couldn't comprehend that Trump was as good of a political thoroughbred as he was. Now, look, I decided some of you are going to be upset about this. I decided once and for all when Trump took a bullet that I was not going to take him for granted. When he got his ear clipped, I said, I will run through a wall for this guy. I have got his back for this entire term. Doesn't mean he's going to be perfect. Doesn't mean that we're not going to come on this show and sometimes say, boy, I wish he'd done that a little bit different. I wish he'd been less of a bull in a china shop. I wish they had communicated on this issue a little bit better. But I focus a lot on intent. What is the goal? And if your intent is a good place, sometimes you're going to screw things up. And I think sports is another good analogy of this. It's frustrating when a player jumps off sides on third down, but it's an error of trying to do too much. I would rather somebody try to do too much and sometimes screw up than not be able to take aggressive action and not do enough. Trump's errors, if you go look at him, are almost always going to be trying to do too much. He's trying to make too much happen. He's trying to change too much. He's trying to do as much as he possibly can in what is a relatively short period of time. I'm a history nerd. The older I get, the more I sit around and say, boy, you know, a four year presidential term is really not very much time. And even eight years, it's really not very much time. We got Supreme Court justices with lifetime tenure. We got senators that are going to be in office for 40 years, eight years. Any one man, any one president is automatically circumscribed Trump, if he is guilty of anything right now, is guilty of trying to do too much simultaneously. And I just think again, be careful in trying to attack someone who is doing so much immense good right now. The top attack of Democrats actually originated with Republicans. They're coming after Trump over Epstein. Not because the Democrats have been right on Epstein. God forbid. They sat on the files for four years, they didn't release anything, they barely even mentioned it. And now they're going to come after Trump who just got into office six months ago over Epstein. Be very, very careful when you are playing into the hands of the people that hate Trump. In the back of your mind be thinking that primary Democrat attack now on Trump is related to Epstein. Are their hands clean on this? Have they actually done anything? All they're doing is using right wing attacks on Trump to actually use and mobilize the left against him again. I'm going to take a bunch of your calls. We're going to weigh in. But I just want you to think about that. The origination, where did Russiagate come from? It came from. Trump can't actually have won. It's like Brady when he beat Kurt Warner. Before we knew how good Tom Brady was. Now I understand some of you knew that in 16, some of you had your eyes open in 15 when Trump came down the escalator. Other people came on board different times. Some of you voted Trump 20, some of you voted Trump 24 in the first time. I think most of you out there listening have come to see his unique political skill and talents again. I think he's the greatest Republican president since Reagan. And I think Trump in his mind is making a run for the ages. His aspiration is not to be the best since Reagan. I think he wants to be better than Reagan. This guy's ambition is not, as we all know, to be pretty good. It's to be the greatest ever. We'll take your calls. Just like Tom Brady, in my opinion is the greatest quarterback of all time. I want to tell you trust and will look was just downstairs. My boys are running around like crazy. It is still summer break. I've got a 14 year old, 10 year old at home. I got a 17 year old away at summer camp. Everything that I do by and large on a day to day basis is about trying to help make sure that they have a great future life for them. I'm 46 years old. I hope that I got 40 years still to go. I hope that I got 50 years still to go. I hope that it is a very very long time in the future before my family has to think anything about what might happen to me. But who knows? Hulk Hogan, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, three icons all lost their lives this week. Are you prepared if something awful happens in your life? Kids, grandkids, they're fighting, they're squabbling. What if you weren't there to help rectify and keep them from fighting about everything? What if you just want them to know everything that you would want to happen after you die? You spend your whole life trying to take care of your kids and your grandkids. Have you done a trust and a will to make sure that they know exactly what you want when you that day comes, when we never have any idea when it's going to come? I understand it's a little bit uncomfortable sometimes to talk about, but I have a trust in a will. I took care of it, even though hopefully I've still got decades to go before I have to worry about any of those implications. But if I get in a car and I have an accident tomorrow, my family is set. They're taken care of. I made sure that the trust in will is done. Wife has done the same. Have you? Are you prepared for that day that is inevitable for all of us to make sure that your family is taken care of after you're gone, just like you're trying to take care of them right now. If you aren't, just give a few minutes. It doesn't take very long. Go to trustandwill.com again, that website, trustandwill.com you can get hooked up. You'll get 20% off right now. I understand it's not fun, but it is peace of mind for you to know that you've done everything for your family, for your kids, your grandkids, everybody out there that you care about to know exactly what you want. Keep them from fighting after you're gone. Trustinwill.com Clay 20% off right now. Trusted experts trustinwill.com Clay Stories of freedom. Stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all. Each day, spend time with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Cut 30 I think it's important to remember just how aggressive the lies all were that were used against Trump. Here is Bernie Sanders saying Russia may be blackmailing Trump. We need Buck's Bernie impersonation. But I promise this is actually Bernie. This is cut 30. Trump doesn't understand what Russia has done.
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Christina Quinn
Not only to our elections, but to.
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Clay Travis
Cyber attacks against all parts of our infrastructure.
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Christina Quinn
Either he doesn't understand it, or perhaps he is being blackmailed by Russia because they may have compromising information about him.
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Clay Travis
Or perhaps also you have a president who really does have strong authoritarian tendencies, and maybe he admires the kind of.
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Christina Quinn
Government that Putin is running in Russia.
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Clay Travis
And I think all of that is.
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Christina Quinn
A disgrace and a disservice to the American people. And we have got the make sure that Russia does not interfere, not only.
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Clay Travis
In our elections, but in other aspects of our lives. Bernie took his honeymoon in Russia. The idea that he would be, hey, maybe he admires Russia. This guy during the Cold War, got married and decided, there's anywhere in the world I could go. I think I want to go to Russia. And then he's going to accuse Trump of having a soft spot for Russia. I just think it's so funny. But it is important to remember, maybe he. Maybe he's a Russian asset. You know, how aggressive and crazy that is to say about the President of the United States. And, you know, they don't really have an answer for the question, hey, this really simple question. If Trump were an asset of Russia, why did Vladimir Putin wait until Joe Biden was in office to invade Ukraine? If he had Trump by. Well, I'll just say it. The balls. If he had Trump dead to rights because of some sort of compromising information, why didn't he invade Ukraine when Trump was in office? Nobody can explain that. Why did he wait until Joe Biden was in office to invade Ukraine? And here's the other thing I. Nobody's ever really explained this to me either. What would Russia have on Trump then that is worse than what the Democrats have said about Trump for the last decade? You slept with a porn star while your wife had a baby at home. Not a great thing to have people say about you. Just gonna throw it out there. You raped somebody at a dressing room in New York City. Not something that I would want people to be saying about me. Is there really anything that Russia could have ever said about Trump that was actually worse than what Democrats were already saying about Trump? Like, that's the part. Why didn't they invade while he was there? Okay. They don't have an answer for that. What could be worse than what you're already saying about Trump? You're a racist Nazi who slept with a porn star while your wife had a baby at home. And also, you raped a woman in a dressing room in a New York City department store. I don't know what else you could say that's worse. Oh, you slept with some random girl in Russia. Okay, like there.
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Unknown
What.
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Clay Travis
What did we think that Russia had on. Nobody can ever answer this. What was so debilitating that Trump was so terrified of that would actually have been worse than what Democrats were already saying about him? I don't know about you, but when somebody says, hey, you're a racist Nazi, and they attack you, who you slept with, accused you of sexual assault, all these other different things, what else is left?
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Christina Quinn
That.
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Clay Travis
That's honestly the result of 2024. I knew Democrats were in trouble when they started saying, oh, he's a, he's an oligarch. Oh, he's a fascist. They were having to go further down the awful things to say about you food chain, because racist, Hitler, all that stuff wasn't working anymore. And they were panicking and they were actually insulting him with less insulting things that they could say about him. But again, what was this compromising information that was worse than what Russia was, than what the Democrats were already saying? Never made any sense. Why wouldn't they have invaded at that point in time? Tommy in Michigan, what you got for me?
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Christina Quinn
Hey, you forgot one thing. Remember what Hillary put out there? They claimed Donald Trump was given golden showers to Russian hookers. Remember that?
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Clay Travis
Yeah, but I'm. Well, totally. I mean, that was in the Steele dossier. But my point is. Hold on. My point is even that. Is that worse than saying, hey, you slept with a porn star while your wife was home with a baby or you raped somebody in a, in a dressing room? I like they all. When you go that way, at some point, people are just like, either you don't believe it, or you kind of end up in a situation where you're like, there's just so many accusations. Whatever opinion you have of Trump is already baked in. And I think that's the problem that Democrats have, have run into. And that's my point. On the Russian compromising information. If somebody said, hey, Clay, and trust me, there are people who say, Clay Travis is a racist Nazi, supporting, philandering, wife beating, you know, child abusing, like every awful thing that could be said about me, somebody has said on the Internet, right? At some point in time, a fraction as often as they've said it about Trump. But at some point in time, you just have to say, well, if you're only attacking the guy for personal issues, what are you so afraid of about the political arguments that he's making? And I think that's where the American public got. I'm not saying Trump's a saint. He certainly isn't. He screwed up and made a lot of awful decisions in his life, both personal, private, business, like every single person on the planet. But he is also right on a ton of political issues. And I think the American public eventually says, well, if you're attacking Trump personally, instead of addressing the substance of the political arguments that he's making, at some point in time, the American public is smart enough to say, wait a minute, why can't they just go toe to toe with him on the actual political issues? Let's just presume that nobody is perfect, that everybody in politics is screwed up in their life, just like everybody else in the whole world has screwed up at some point in their life. And hey, the fact that they can't actually debate him on the issues is a sign that they're not right on the issue. Sorry to cut you off. What you got for us, though, additionally.
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Christina Quinn
About the Obama thing? It's like, you know what? This whole, this whole Russian collusion, it was debunked a year ago with Jake Capper on cnn. He came out and said it was all a hoax. The whole Russian, you know, the Russian dossier, the whole, it was all created by Hillary Clinton. Jake Tapper from CNN came out, said it was a hoax, it was debunked on cnn. And now the Democrats are trying to bring up this. Oh, well, you know what? Because they knew this was, they're the masters at the versionary tactics. They knew Trump was coming out with this thing against Obama and how they tried to, you know, Brennan and Comey, those guys are going down. Obama's got presidential immunity, but the other guys are probably going down and they know this.
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Clay Travis
I think you're skipping in and out. We're losing a little bit of the audience. I think that the intelligence agency apparatus, CIA, FBI, all those guys, I think they're in more legal peril for sure than Obama is. I think Obama's gonna skate because he has presidential privilege again. Trump said that. We played that audio for you earlier. We've been telling you that all week. I don't want to over promise and under deliver to you guys because I trust all of you to be intelligent, an analyst of all of the news that's out there. And I think you should listen to people like me and Buck and over time say, hey, are they being honest with us? Are they analyzing the larger news arena and telling us exactly what we think doesn't mean we're going to be perfect. I thought we were going to get a red wave in 2020, 200% wrong. Didn't happen. And by the way, I think that's the reason Obama, sorry that Biden got to stay in office. And I think that's the reason we got the red wave in 2024. But we were early on that we saw the wave building. That was the one that I got completely wrong. Had to come in and tell you guys, hey, that I was wrong on this. We Got it in 24. We were early on it. We didn't get it in 22. Got it wrong. I'll own it. Buck had to own it when he said, hey, they'll never kick Biden to the curb. I ended up getting that one right. One or the other of us going to be right sometimes. Most of the time I think one of the other of us going to be wrong sometimes. Rarely will we both be wrong. I think on everything like Biden was in his presidency. Ted in Nebraska, what you got for us?
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Christina Quinn
I think your analysis of how shocked the Democrats were because of a neo fight winning is all true. November, once they knew everything changed and they, I mean it wasn't benign. They just hated them. He was an existential threat from immigration in the whole nine yards. They started with Sessions, got him out of the way so they could legally attack him. Flynn, they didn't want him in the Pentagon with all of that. It's not that they, they tried to perpetrate this Russian hoax, it's the fact they perpetrated the Russian hoax with the deep state. His own party was part of it, the media was part of it, the deep state, the Democrats. This is the biggest scandal in the history of the United States and everyone involved in this has to go down. I don't agree with the other caller. I think everyone's going to skate on this because of statute of limitations and everything else, but this is just over the top.
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Clay Travis
I appreciate the call. I unfortunately think that it's more likely they're going to skate than they're going to be prosecuted. I do think this matters in a big way for the historical record. And I also think, look, I went off a little bit yesterday. I also think we have to accept that intelligence agencies are very often intensely political. And I think one of the legacies of the Trump era is going to be establishing just how political our government is on a day to day basis. Everything is political. And so this idea, well, we're going to be completely balanced in intelligence agencies or the Department of Justice or anywhere else. Sadly, that's not the case. I think Trump has Brought it back closer to balance, to evenness. But when you have an entire agency that would vote 80% Democrat and 20% Republican, it's impossible to have balance. And by the way, I think this is true of all the universities, too. In order to have balance, you basically have to have half the people that believe one thing, half the people that believe the other thing. That is the very essence of balance. And then you let those people fight it out inside of your company, or even better. And this is what Google has finally started to do. They just say, hey, work is not where politics should happen. That's kind of where we were for most of the 80s and the 90s and the early 2000s. I think we had reached this sort of grudging status quo, and we weren't trying to influence politics on everything. And then Trump got elected and broke everybody's brain. And I mentioned, as we went to break, we had the caller that was on talking about how her daughter reacted to Hillary. I think it was Lori in South Carolina that we had on there. I said I would mention Hillary. I think Hillary's brain was broken by the loss in 2016. And I think she was like Kurt Warner losing to Tom Brady before we realized how good of a talent Brady was. The analogy that I made that explains how all of Russia collusion, in my mind, came to happen. They had to come up with a reason other than Trump's innate talents why the result happened as it did. And I think they delegitimized and de Emphasized the talents of Trump. I think Hillary secretly was super ecstatic when she saw Kamala get swamped in 2024. Because I think at that point in time, she, even if she won't say it publicly, could start to think, hey, maybe I didn't completely screw up everything. Maybe Trump's just a really good politician. And I think when he swamped Kamala and he knocked Biden out of the race, I think she will never say it, but I think Hillary got some peace for the trauma that she felt from losing that race. I think it spiraled her out of control. I think she had to look at external factors. Whenever something bad happens, the first thing that most people do is look for other people that are the cause of the bad thing happening. This is just life. If you just got divorced, it's very rare that the first thought you have is, you know what? I completely screwed that up. This is all on me. I should have been way better. You may work through that eventually and be like, boy, I wasn't a great Husband, I wasn't a great wife. If you're fighting with your kids, it's very rare that you're like, hey, maybe I wasn't as good of a parent. Maybe I've screwed some of this relationship up. Self analysis is really hard. And even tougher than that is recognizing that you may well have caused most of the problems that externally surround you. No, I say, I think the phrase energy vampire is real. But if you're a person and you're like, boy, everybody around me is a jerk, and everything is always screwed up and why? You ever think maybe it's you? This is what I always say. Football coaches are great on this. There's a phrase that I also like. I like energy vampire. You're sucking all the energy out of other people. I also love the phrase that coaches share with me. Sometimes they say, you know, being a coach is really interesting. College, same thing in the draft, but college in particular. Phrases. We recruit our problems. You ever think about how powerful that phrase is? Most of life, you create and recruit the own problems that you will face. And once you take ownership of that. And I don't think Hillary could take ownership of her loss. Oh, it's Russia. Oh, it's. They cheated. Until you can look at internally and say, boy, I screwed that up, that's on me. My bad. You can't get over whatever happened to you. You. Because there's always an external excuse. There's always someone else to blame. In all of life. I think Hillary lost in 16, and I think she couldn't comprehend that she could have lost to Trump. And I think when Trump kicked Kamala's ass and knocked Joe Biden out of office, I think Hillary was secretly smiling and loving all of it, because in her mind, she maybe started to recognize, hey, I lost to a thoroughbred political talent in 2016. That stinks. But it wasn't just that I failed. It's that Trump's really good. And I bet if you talk to Kurt Warner now, I bet he felt really bad about losing that first super bowl to Tom Brady. I bet when he saw Tom Brady win six more Super Bowls, he was like, dude, this guy's legit. I just lost to the goat. I didn't play well. We could have done better. But there's no harm in losing to somebody who's excellent in all of life. And I think Hillary's come to grips with that a little bit. Maybe not publicly, but I bet she has privately. One of the hardest challenges you'll face as a parent. 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Yesterday Bill O'Reilly came on and he dunked on us and said, hey, I've got a million YouTube subscribers. And he wasn't even trying to dunk on us. He was just kind of just dropping it in there like, hey, no big deal. Million YouTube subscribers and we don't even have a hundred thousand yet. And I don't know, he's still going to be dunking on us at a million to 100,000, but at least it's a really bit more respectable. And eventually we're going to have all three hours of the show up on the site and I would appreciate if all of you would go and subscribe today. You type in my name, Clay Travis. You type in Buck Sexton. You can get the latest videos. We're posting clips from the show constantly. If you want to be able to share clips with maybe your kids or your grandkids or you are young yourself and you're out and about on the road, maybe you don't get to listen to the show every day, but you think to yourself, boy, you know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to see what T shirt Clay Travis is in today. The only way you can do that is be on YouTube. Maybe you want to know what t shirt Buck's in. Only way you can do that is to be on YouTube. So let's get over 100,000 subscribers and we will make Buck do a TikTok dance for over a hundred thousand at some point in time. And look, you can just catch up with the show and you can watch it on video. We want you to be subscribed to the podcast as well. But this is crazy. I was reading recently. That's why I've gotten so fired up about the YouTube channel. More people now watch videos of radio shows than actually listen to podcasts. Is that kind of crazy? And I understand if maybe you're not in that community that. That you're listening on the radio. 555 stations nationwide. We love all of you, all 50 states. Thank you. But people are busy and I was kind of blown away that more people watch podcast video now than actually listen to podcast audio. So, look, we want to catch up with the where the world is going. And I would ask that you would go and join us. It's free. Just click like and subscribe and you can put some questions in on the comments there. And we're going to start to do YouTube focused videos where we respond, Buck and I, to your questions. And you can only find that on YouTube. So go subscribe. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, Click subscribe. And also like the channel. So we appreciate all of you. Okay, I don't know how many of you saw this, but I was over yesterday. I was scrolling through and I don't even know how the algorithm works, but somehow my social media algorithms saw Sydney Sweeney in a tank top and tight jeans at a car. And they were like, hey, let's feed this to Clay. I don't know what could. I don't know how that happened. I really. I have no idea how algorithms work. I don't know why they thought a girl in a tight shirt and tight jeans would somehow that I would be like, oh, I'm gonna that V. It just ended up on my timeline. And it turned into a huge story yesterday because a store called American Eagle decided that they were going to sign Sydney Sweeney as their chief spokesperson. And this thing went mega viral. The stock was up like a couple of hundred million dollars since they've announced it. And I was laughing about it because basically the very first job I ever had was working in an American Eagle clothing store. And yesterday going viral somehow, I don't know how it ended up on my timeline. Again, I don't know how algorithms work. I don't know why they thought that I would be interested in an attractive woman. Not very much. Close. I don't know how that happened, but. So Sydney Sweeney stock is skyrocketing. Thing goes mega viral. Somehow ends up on my timeline for my very first job when I was like 16 years old. And you know what they've decided to do? They replaced fat, unattractive models with attractive models. And you're going to think this is ridiculous, but I actually think it's evidence of the culture healing. And let me explain why, and I'll share some funny stories about that job that I used to have back in the day. But do you remember when a few years ago, Victoria's Secret decided, hey, I know the whole Victoria's Secret model thing. You walk by in a mall, and they have a gorgeous woman not wearing very much clothes. And it turns out that putting gorgeous women in not very much clothes convinces women to go buy more underwear than they otherwise would and, like, body lotion and whatever else Victoria's Secret sells. And I'm not putting myself out of this category either. My wife still makes fun of me. I watched the Victoria's Secret, like, the Christmas special that they have, and then I went and bought, like, 200 of lingerie, like, the next day. So, yes, I am susceptible to advertising. My wife was like, I, too. Like, you bought everything in the whole store. Basically, I was all, I think you're gonna look amazing in it. And she was like, you watched the Victoria's Secret fashion show, didn't you? And I said, yes, and it was incredibly useful. And there's a lot of men out there that know exactly what I'm talking about. Like, you see an attractive girl in that outfit, and you're like, I want my wife or my girlfriend in that attractive outfit. Boom. It works. Because advertising, by and large, is aspirational. People want to look better than they actually do. You ever watch a romantic comedy? It's never the case that the guy and the girl in the romantic comedy are both ugly because nobody would go, I don't know why you just don't believe that two really fat people should get together and spend money to go watch it. You want to watch a guy that's typically sometimes better looking than you, a woman who's always better looking than the guy deserves. That is like the romantic comedy writ large. And Hollywood knows it. And that's why it works. Somehow Victoria's Secret decided, you know what? I think we'll sell more lingerie if we put fat people in lingerie. I just got to tell you, it didn't work. In fact, the company almost went bankrupt. And then they went back and they said, hey, you know what? We should put. Put more attractive people in our clothes, because people want to think that they're going to look more attractive. I'm fat and not particularly good looking. I don't see somebody in an underwear store and think, hey, I want them to look like me. I wish I was in better shape. I wish I was more ripped. That's how everybody is. Okay, so American Eagle, where I used to work, they went with the fat model thing, and basically the entire brand collapsed. And so now they're Pivoting. And they should fire everybody who said, hey, you know what we need? Fat models, unattractive women. Nike did the same thing. Hey, let's put Dylan Mulvaney in a sports bra. Hey, let's put fat people in yoga pants. That'll make people want to buy yoga pants. No, it doesn't work. Okay? Throughout history, attractive people, women in particular, in clothing, makes people want to buy more clothing. So Sydney Sweeney is now the spokesperson for American Eagle. And this happens almost identical, with Nike suddenly deciding, did you guys see Scottie Scheffler won the British Open, the Open golf championship over the weekend. His insanely cute toddler kid, he's like 10 months old, 11 months old, roughly a year old, was crawling around on the green. And Nike's new advertisement replacing trans people in women's gear, men pretending to be women and fat people in yoga pants is Scotty Scheffler with his son crawling. And it basically says, you've already won, but now you've won again. Hey, fatherhood is good. It's good to aspire to win a championship. But ultimately, the most important job, I certainly feel this way, is when you have kids, raising them to be productive members of society. So I'm looking at that Sydney Sweeney ad because, again, I don't know how it happened, but it ended up in my timeline. And it's reminding me of the 90s when I worked in the American Eagle store and in the Abercrombie and Fitch store. Back in the day. I made $4.50 an hour at American Eagle, Rivergate Mall, Goodlettsville, Tennessee. $4.50 an hour. Probably the most fun job I've ever had because I was 16, 17, 18 years old, and all I had to do all day long was fold shirts and talk to pretty girls when they walked into the store. I had an excuse to talk to every pretty girl on the north and the east side of Nashville that came to Rivergate Mall. In fact, if you are listening to this right now in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, if you were a cute girl that went into that store between 1996 and 1999, there's almost 100% chance I hit on you because I had an excuse to walk up and talk to you. That was the best job ever. $4.50. Got to eat Chick fil a every day for lunch, on my lunch break or my dinner break, got to just hang out in the mall. Every teenager in America is there at that point in time. And do you know how they sold gear at both American Eagle and Abercrombie and Fitch, good looking people in the ads, wearing the clothes. And then we entered this weird world, this weird world where we were supposed to pretend that hey, instead of everybody aspiring to be bigger, stronger, faster versions of themselves or in better shape versions of themselves, that we should all just be body positive, that there should be no aspiration anymore, that the meritocracy shouldn't exist and that we should just take people as they were and put them in ads. And it failed utterly. And I was actually thinking about this not only in the context of what American Eagle is doing and how successful it already appears to be, but in the way that society shifts. It feels quite clear to me that we are trying to turn back time and go back to the 80s, the 90s and the early 2000s after a generation where we tried to pretend things were not real, right? That your grandparents world didn't exist anymore, that your parents world didn't exist anymore. And now we're turning back the clock and going back to the era of the 80s and 90s and even the early 2000s when by and large most people got along. And I was thinking about this in the context of social media because I shared over this week, race relations suddenly collapsed about 2014. I'm saying, what caused all this? Why did we suddenly decide, hey, let's put fat people in spandex, let's put fat people in bras in the windows at Victoria's Secret. Social media. Social media came close to breaking this country. And everything that social media advocated for actually made things worse. Starting about 2014, overall happiness in this country collapsed. 30% of teenage girls suddenly want to commit suicide. Why? They're looking at Instagram. They've got zits and braces and they're looking at Instagram. They're like, I'm so unhappy. They're seeing this world that doesn't actually exist. And it's not a far away world like celebrities have always existed. It's hey, whatever your life is, somebody in your school has a way better life. They went on a better vacation, they've got a better car, they look better in that dress. Gratitude is the enemy of competition. And suddenly everything is collapsing. Black people, white people, suddenly race relations are collapsing. Why? BLM comes up and says, hey, every, the whole world's racist. Cops are unnecessary. Murder rates skyrocket, violent crime skyrockets. All of it, I think, is connected directly to social media. And I think it broke the brains of lots of people. And I think society as a whole is paying the price. And we're slowly coming out of that fever and recognizing that everything that happened before 2014 was actually pretty good in this country and we were on a good trajectory. And I think what Trump represents is that acknowledgement that America is the greatest country that's ever existed and what we were sold was a bill of goods. Now, I've got a big theory on this. I think the problem was people tried to be too responsive to social media. Except social media is to real life what a carnival funhouse mirror is. You know how you stand in front of a carnival funhouse mirror back in the day? It makes you look fatter or skinnier than you actually are. It isn't reflective of reality. But we all know that. And that's what makes the carnival funhouse mirror make sense, because it's humorous, because it's showing you what you actually aren't. My argument is social media is the carnival funhouse mirror. Imagine if you adjusted your diet entirely based on what you saw in a carnival funhouse mirror. You would actually be making worse decisions for yourself than if you had never stood in front of the mirror at all. My argument is we're starting to come out of that carnival funhouse mirror era because the nation as a whole looked at the reflection we saw in social media and we thought it was the real world. And we started adjusting policy as a result. And I think it explains almost everything over the past decade. And that's why we got so much wrong and that's why we're starting to fix so much right now. Want to talk about that more? We'll take some of your calls. Also want to tell you the IFCJ does incredible work. I want you to go to check out the work that they're doing right now. They're doing something very simple. They're just putting bomb shelters to try to save people from bombs. People of Israel have to constantly be rushing to bomb shelters. I saw it for myself. 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