Hour 1 - An Exercise in Media Propaganda

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show – “An Exercise in Media Propaganda”

Date: November 18, 2025
Host: Buck Sexton (solo, Clay Travis on vacation)
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Buck Sexton helms the show solo, promising a deep dive into the day’s top political stories with his signature mix of analysis and humor. The hour focuses on media propaganda—particularly as it relates to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, attempts to link Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, and the broader tactics used by the left-wing media and Democrat politicians to manipulate public perception. Buck also previews discussions with future guests, including Miranda Devine on the Trump assassination attempt and Eric Trump on politics and economics. He introduces his forthcoming book, “Manufacturing Delusion,” about the history and tactics of mass psychosis and propaganda in modern America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Epstein Files Transparency Act and Media Spin

[03:09–06:44 | 11:10–12:51 | 12:51–19:05 | 22:11–23:00]

• Trump and the Epstein Files:

  • Buck highlights an imminent House vote on the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” predicting that the vote will succeed and result in the release of more documents about Jeffrey Epstein.

  • Donald Trump’s stance: He’s stated repeatedly that he has nothing to hide and supports releasing everything. Buck emphasizes that Trump has distanced himself from Epstein, even banning him from Mar-a-Lago before Epstein's major criminal exposure.

    “Trump has been making the point: If there was more in the files specifically about Trump, you think they'd hide it until now? That's a crazy belief, right, that the Democrats would have had full control, full ability to go through this. They don't want to release it all as it pertains to actual transparency because they'd much rather have little bits and pieces to try to insinuate that Donald Trump did something wrong.”
    — Buck Sexton [08:25]

• Democratic Ties:

  • Buck calls out the mainstream media for focusing Epstein conjecture disproportionately on Trump and Republicans, rather than the deeper, more established Democratic connections (Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman).

  • Warns against guilt by association unless there is clear proof, noting the risk of unfairly destroying reputations without evidence.

    “If you were creating a...link tree off of [Epstein], how many would be prominent Democrats? All of them basically. Isn't that interesting?”
    — Buck Sexton [22:11]

• Trump’s Response Quotes:

  • Trump: “We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this, Reid Hoffman, you look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, they went to his island all the time and many others, all Democrats.” [12:13]

• Buck's Summary:

  • Buck insists the media’s focus on tying Trump to Epstein is itself an act of propaganda, and that the absence of bombshells implicating Trump after years of investigation is telling:

    “The evidence, the smoking gun evidence of criminality, we don't have that yet. If we had it, I think you would see charges, but at least I haven't seen it. And we have to be very careful here, too.”
    — Buck Sexton [07:45]

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2. The Phenomenon of Manufactured Delusion & Buck’s Book

[24:01–31:53 | 31:53–40:54]

• “Manufacturing Delusion”:

  • Buck unveils his new book, “Manufacturing Delusion,” focused on how the American left uses mass delusion and psychological manipulation to mobilize and control segments of the population.

  • He traces the history of mind-control tactics from Pavlov through totalitarian regimes to modern American politics.

    “I think that left wing politics in America has created a, unfortunately a very dangerous new moment where mass delusion is the preferred weapon of mobilization. They make people crazy. They make them crazy on purpose… The history and science of mind control, it's a real thing.”
    — Buck Sexton [25:33]

• Trump Derangement Syndrome & Media-Induced Psychosis:

  • References a Fox News psychotherapist’s claim that 75% of his patients are hyper-fixated on Trump, suffering from trauma, loss of sleep, and anxiety about him.

    “This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time.”
    — Fox News guest Jonathan Alpert [Fox News clip, paraphrased by Buck, 31:53]

  • Buck links this mass fixation to deliberate efforts—akin to tactics in the Soviet Union or Maoist China—to induce conformity and break the public’s connection to reality:

    “This is a delusion that is being created intentionally for control, for political purposes. There are tactics, there is a playbook.”
    — Buck Sexton [33:15]

  • Examples Buck Cites:

    • Climate doomsday anxiety.
    • “Genocide” accusations around trans issues.
    • COVID-era groupthink.

  • Notable Analogy:

    “It’s not just getting them to do something, it’s getting them to change their perception of reality itself… There are people who are losing sleep at night because they think climate change is going to make us extinct. That’s a real phenomenon on the left. There’s no equivalent on the right.”
    — Buck Sexton [35:00]

• Call to Action:

  • Urges listeners to preorder his book, arguing the threat of “manufactured mass hysteria” is the greatest facing the country today.

    “Manufactured delusion, I think that manufactured mass hysteria is the single greatest threat to humanity globally and the single biggest threat to the American Republic right now.”
    — Buck Sexton [38:37]

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3. Parting Thoughts on Trump, the Media, and Upcoming Guests

[44:32–46:37]

• Miranda Devine Preview:

  • Buck previews a segment with Miranda Devine about the would-be Trump assassin and failures in law enforcement’s monitoring.
  • He teases comments from Trump’s current Oval Office meeting, promising “spicy” soundbites in the next segment.

• Caller Insight:

  • A call-in message from Joseph in Georgia notes Trump’s growth in managing hostile reporters—a point Buck agrees with, suggesting Trump is “on offense” now and the media is running scared.

• Buck’s Promise:

  • He concludes Hour 1 promising more coverage on the Epstein files vote and a return to the story of the Trump assassination attempt in upcoming hours.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “Trump has been making the point: If there was more in the files specifically about Trump, you think they'd hide it until now? That's a crazy belief, right...”
  — Buck Sexton [08:25]

• “We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this, Reid Hoffman, you look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton...”
  — Donald Trump [12:13]

• “If you were creating a...link tree off of [Epstein], how many would be prominent Democrats? All of them basically. Isn't that interesting?”
  — Buck Sexton [22:11]

• “This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time.”
  — Fox News guest Jonathan Alpert (via Buck) [31:53]

• “Mass delusion is the preferred weapon of mobilization... The history and science of mind control, it's a real thing.”
  — Buck Sexton [25:33]

• “Manufactured delusion... is the single biggest threat to the American Republic right now.”
  — Buck Sexton [38:37]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Epstein Files Transparency Act/Trump sound and analysis:
  [06:05–12:51]
• Democratic Connections to Epstein & Propaganda:
  [12:51–19:05]
• Psychological Manipulation & “Manufacturing Delusion”:
  [24:01–40:54]
• Tease for Miranda Devine & Trump Oval Office update:
  [44:32–46:37]

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Tone & Style

• Direct, analytical, and conversational: Buck moves seamlessly between hard-hitting political commentary and personal anecdotes.
• Skeptical of mainstream media: The hour’s through-line is the insistence that the media’s obsessive focus on “scandals” is a window into broader ideological manipulation.
• Occasionally humorous and sarcastic: Solo host Buck riffs on everything from “schmo” Democrats to “jalapeño” Oval Office moments.
• Urgent and persuasive: Particularly when discussing his book, Buck’s tone becomes more urgent, framing the subject as existential for the Republic.

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Summary for New Listeners

If you missed this episode, Buck Sexton deftly dissected the latest in the Epstein files saga, called out the media’s relentless attempts to link Trump to scandal, and delved deep into how modern propaganda and mass hysteria are being weaponized in American politics. He introduced and promoted his upcoming book, “Manufacturing Delusion,” arguing that manufactured reality and media-induced mass psychosis are the greatest threats to the country’s future. If you want to understand how Buck sees the engine of modern media working—and why, in his view, so many on the left are losing touch with reality—this hour delivers a sharp, provocative overview.

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Some restrictions apply. See PureTalk.com for details. Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. Just me today. Mr. Buck, aka the Buckster, aka the 103 mile per hour serve tennis man as I'm known by many, many people are saying 103 miles an hour. Clay is out this week. He is on a super secret special mission. That is all I'm allowed to say. But he's with his family, he's having a great time and he may may be calling in later in the week from undisclosed places abroad to just say hi to everybody. He will miss all of you. But it is just me here. I have the con, as they say, and I plan on taking you on a wonderful journey here. A magical journey of all of the news stories of the day and the most important things that we need to be thinking about, learning about and discussing here. And to that end, 800-282-2882. You all know the phone lines. Love those talkbacks on the I Heart app as well. Our guests today, Miranda Devine in the second hour, one of my favorite voices in the world of audio. I will say that she's got a great voice, great just speaking voice and also a fantastic reporter, more importantly. So she'll talk to us about the New York Post reporting on the would be Trump assassin who almost plunged this country into the worst situation it would have seen since the Civil War. Missed by an inch. A literal inch. I know some of you say it was even less than an inch, but we can say an inch. How is it that not everything about this guy's online life was known? It seems unfathomable. We'll talk to Miranda about that. We've also got Eric Trump, son of one of the sons of the President. In the third hour we'll talk to him about the economy, trade deals and much more. But I know that there's going to be quite a bit of focus on this Today. So, yes, I will certainly speak about what is being called the Epstein Files Transparency act that is going to be voted on in the third hour of the show today. So I believe I'll be here live with you on the air as we find out where that's going. I think the vote is going to be successful and there will be more documents released relating to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. To be clear, Donald Trump has said in recent days, including yesterday, that, fine, they want to release more. Release whatever. Release whatever you got. This is cut four. And Trump, I think, has just recognized the only way to stop having to talk about this is to give whatever transparency anyone thinks they need. Fine. No problem there. Play for.

[Donald Trump]

It's just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax as it pertains to the Republicans. Now, I believe that many of the people that we, some of the people that we mentioned are being looked at very seriously for their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, but they were with them all the time. I wasn't. I wasn't at all. And we'll see what happens. What I just don't want Epstein to do is detract from the great success of the Republican Party, including the fact that the Democrats are totally blamed for the shutdown. You know, they cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars with that and a lot of inconvenience.

[Buck Sexton]

So very important. First of all, Trump is obviously got a cold. His voice a little raspy there, or maybe he was just speaking too much. I know that can happen in the radio world, but it's funny. So how many Trump is going to be 80 soon? I know he's like 78, I think be 79 maybe. But how many times have you heard him being sick in the time he's been president? It's very, very rare. The guy is a dynamo. Everybody around him recognizes it. I just, I just marvel at the amount of energy and focus and drive that he has at his age. It is true what everyone thinks of Trump's policies. I obviously think they're pretty awesome. It's incredible to be his age and to have that level of energy and all the rest. But what Trump said there, I think this is very important. You'll notice he said, as it pertains to Republicans, the Jeffrey Epstein thing is a hoax. And this is what I think some people have missed and gotten a little upset about, even some Trump supporters. Obviously, there's not. The Jeffrey Epstein situation, Trump doesn't think is a hoax. He was a. A sex criminal, a human trafficker, you know, an exploiter of underage women. I mean, all these terrible things. But the Democrats are trying to create a story and to use the story for pure distraction purposes of, well, this. It's really about. It's really about Trump or any Republican. Now, I just saw you had, you know, Larry Summers, who was the former Treasury Secretary under Clinton. Right. Or is it Obama? I can't remember now. It's been a while. But his former treasury secretary, I think he's stepping back after some of these emails have come out. There's nothing, there's nothing that is alleged that is criminal, but there certainly is stuff that looks bad for him. I think you may see some more of that. What I think Trump wants everyone to be very clear on is look at the people who have continuous and deep associations with Epstein, not who, you know, bumped into him at parties. He went to a lot of parties, a lot of parties in Palm Beach, a lot of parties in New York and other places where he was going to rub elbows. The guy had hundreds of millions of dollars. He was able to get tremendous access to the absolute elites in our society. So that was happening. We all know that. That's a matter of public record. Oh, no wonder. This was confusing for me. Larry Summers served under both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama's administrations. He was. What was he? He was Secretary of the Treasury. Yup. Under Clinton. I was right. Deputy Secretary of the treasury and under. And whatever. Point is, he's a big, big guy in Democrat politics under Democrat administrations. Look at the other figures who have gotten at least big PR damage. And I know a lot of you are saying, well, that's not, you know, that we're looking for criminality. The evidence, the smoking gun evidence of criminality. We don't have that yet. We had it. I think you would see, you would see charges, but at least I haven't seen it. And we have to be very careful here, too. You know, people, they're trying to smear Trump by association. There are other people they want to smear by association, too. And this is the kind of stuff that could really, in some cases, unfairly destroy someone's reputation. So you gotta be sure. You gotta be sure on this stuff. Right. This isn't, oh, did somebody cheat a little bit on their taxes? This is, this goes to the core and the reputations and the freedom, meaning they could go to prison of individuals. So that's, I think, not going to be addressed by anything that are in the, in this release. I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, I'll say so. I obviously haven't seen all the files, I don't know. But Trump has been making the point. If there was more in the files specifically about Trump, you think they'd hide it until now? That's a crazy belief, right, that the Democrats would have had full control, full ability to go through this. They don't want to release it all as it pertains to actual transparency because they'd much rather have little bits and pieces to try to insinuate that Donald Trump did something wrong. And I have a firm belief and all the evidence supports what I've said and all of the trajectory of the revelations around Epstein's support that Donald Trump did nothing wrong. Ok? In fact, you can argue Trump is the good guy because he kicked Epstein out of his club for being a creepy. Did anybody else do, you know, was there anybody else who was stepping up and saying, this guy's a, you know. And that was before the, the big criminal stuff against him. So that's where I think this is. Here is Trump saying just, just to, to hammer this home here. This is cut five. He's just saying, look, the Democrat, Epstein's top connections, Epstein's close associates. I'm not saying anyone did anything specifically or I'm not naming any individual with criminality because we don't have proof of that. You need proof of these things. But the people who were gross and around him a lot, they were Democrats. Play five.

[Donald Trump]

We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this, Reid Hoffman, you look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, they went to his island all the time and many others, all Democrats. All I want is, I want for people to recognize a great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down, but they go way lower on energy, on ending eight wars and another one coming pretty soon. I believe we've done a great job and I hate to see that deflect from the great job we've done.

[Buck Sexton]

I think that's all spot on. I think that's exactly where the situation is right now. And to be clear, Trump has said, release it all. Fine, release it all, whatever it is. He's not opposing the release. He's saying, fine, release it all. Because he also knows, even if he doesn't specifically know what's in those files, he knows what he did and didn't do. He knows he didn't do anything wrong. Ok? And beyond that, he also knows that his enemies, who manufactured crimes against him, manufactured them, they would have if they had anything deployed this to destroy him. Even if there was a, forget about a smoking gun, if there was a, a scintilla of evidence that Trump was even in the immediate vicinity of any kind of, you know, criminal conspiracy with regard to Epstein, they would have been running with that non stop. They don't have it. They don't have it. So fine, we'll get to this point. I do think it has been an exercise in media propaganda by focus, as in how much they focus on something itself is the propaganda tool. They focus so much they try to connect to Donald Trump and they did before as well. Look at all, all the top associates of Epstein. Again, associates, friends, not imputing criminality to anybody because we don't have evidence against these individuals. Right. Trump isn't saying that they were criminal, he's just saying they were gross and they were around him. Gross as in they should have known that this guy was sleazy and they spent too much time alone with him. I know a lot of you, you know, there's what we can, there's what you know, remember Denzel Washington and Training Day? There's what you know and there's what you can prove. We have to operate in the realm of what we can prove if we're going to make a specific accusation against an individual that would destroy them. Notice that's not what Trump is doing. He's saying, listen to the names of these individuals. We know they hung out with him a lot. They're all Democrats, they're all big Democrat donors. They're all very left wing in their politics or generally left wing in their politics. Certainly they're Democrats and there's no focus on that whatsoever. Bill Clinton spent a lot of time with this guy on the planes. A lot of time. We know that. Ok, that's a fact. That's a, that's an understood fact. Larry Summers was asking this guy for advice on, I believe, like how he could step, stepping out on his wife with a, a Asian or Chinese mentee, like a mentor mentee relationship who has a close relationship with the ccp, with the Chinese Communist Party, you know, so, so there's, there's the criminal, there's also just the unethical and the sleazy. These are, you have to parse all these things. And look, I hope we just get whatever information we need to know, everything about this that we can know. And I'm going to tell you this, I don't think there's a lot that's in those files that's going to be released. I have, I think they absolutely should be released at this point. Fine. Trump says they should be released. Fine. And I think that anything that would have been smoking gun has long since been, and I don't even know at what part in the, in the chain, so to speak, but has long since been covered up and erased. And whatever the, whatever the tapes were, et cetera, all that I think has, has occurred here. So we have to, we have to be specific. We have to be clear. I also completely agree with Trump that there must be a real degree of frustration, there must be considerable frustration from his administration for the things that they are doing that affect all Americans. And Democrats get to play this, you know, chase the shiny object game with, oh, but look at, there's a, there's a Trump Epstein email or something. He knows the shutdown was a disaster for Democrats. They're used to winning those kind of battles, at least in the public's view, because of the advantage they have with propaganda in the media. That didn't happen this time. Schumer, Schumer looks like a schmo. And that's something that Democrats weren't anticipating going into the midterm election year. But affordability, prices, the border, the war on drugs, the war on fentanyl, there's a lot that's happening right now that is really, really important. And I do think that is where we should spend a good portion of our time today here. But by all means, if you have something that you want to weigh in with, you can let us know. You can email us about this release of these files and. All right, let's, let's see what they've got. Considering that we spend about a third of our lives in bed, you want to be really comfortable. Okay. And our sponsor, Cozy Earth, can help with that. You know, I got my mom for her birthday a Cozy Earth bubble cuddle blanket. This blanket's amazing. 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As I said, there's going to be a vote today on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. It'll happen during the show, so we'll bring that to you live. But just a few more notes on this before I move to some other topics that we have in the hopper for today. Speaker of the House Johnson is saying straight up, this is just democrats playing politics play 27 with so many pressing issues on our plate, just very frustratingly to us, the Democrats are delaying that work even further with a political show vote. They're forcing a political show vote on the Epstein file. So we're just going to address that right at the top here this morning because they've spent so much, so much time, the Democrats have spinning the facts and trying to confuse the people. It's true. It's true. You'll notice that there's really very little discussion about how the, if you were creating a, we used to do these link charts back in my NYPD days, right? Well, people link charts all the time. But I remember we use link charts usually for terrorist cells, criminal conspiracy of any kind. Of. If you were creating the, the, you know, if Epstein is the, is the kingpin of the criminal conspiracy, which he is, and then you were creating an associates link tree off of him. How many of them would be prominent Democrats? All of them basically. Is there, is there anybody. Isn't that interesting? You look at people, who is the, who is the really big right? Oh, they're going to say Donald Trump first of All Donald Trump is, you know, used to be a Democrat and second of all, a long time ago. And second of all, what exactly is the, is the association that they're referring to? Where is the close and continuing proximity that you've seen with people like Bill Clinton? Doesn't exist. So I just think that we need to put this in the realm of facts, in reality at all times. And like I said, we'll see where this vote goes and we'll bring this to you later on. 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Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. So Trump is in the Oval right now. I think he's speaking with the Saudis. Am I correct in that one? So he's having a conversation that we may. Saudi crown Prince. Yes, of course. And we, we may join some of that. Actually, you know what we're going to do? We're going to, we're going to take it piece by piece. The team is going to monitor it. It's happening live right now and any of the important takeaways from it we will bring to you momentarily. So see, we sift through. We bring you only the best. You know what I mean? We, it's like we're in the grocery store only picking from the good part of the, of the fruit and the vegetables or whatever. We bring you only the best. But I, because right now it's a lot of pleasantries and stuff. You know, all Trump meetings are interesting but it's, you know, he's great, I'm great, great relationship. We love each other. You know, the whole thing. So we will get into that. But in the meantime, this I thought was really interesting. I think we mentioned this to you, we mentioned this to you last week, but I don't think we played this. And I wanted to play it because I have been making this case for a long time and actually it's a good moment to bring it up because my book is now available for presale and we'll have a link up there. The book is Manufacturing Delusion. It comes out officially February 17th of next year, which I know it seems like it's a ways away, but we're about to be in the holidays, gonna fly by and look, I'll tell you this, pre sales are really important. I have waited this long to put out a book, a real full length book because I insisted on writing it myself. I only wanted to write if I could do something that I thought was important and worthwhile. And I'll be telling you, oh, it's up. It's up now at clay and buck.com you can go get some preorder copies. Like I said, preorder matters because that's how much the publisher then prepares for that run. And we don't want to run out of books because it's. Books are a lot like movies now in that they live or die in the first few days of release. That's really how it, how it goes. And I really want this to. I think this book is important. I'll be honest. I got, I got it cleared by the CIA, obviously because I talked about some of my CIA history. So I got it cleared by the CIA. There is some stuff in there that I've never talked about publicly before from my time in the CIA. Those. You've asked me for some stories or what can you tell me? There's some pretty interesting stuff in there. Not a lot because it's mostly about the subject matter, but I brought in some anecdotes too. So it's up at clay and buck.com you can get that link or you can click that link and, and please go, go buy some copies of this early and that way it'll be a huge success. Why am I writing. Why was I writing a Manufacturing delusion? I think that left wing politics in America has created a, unfortunately a very dangerous new moment where mass delusion is the preferred weapon of mobilization. They make people crazy. They make them crazy on purpose. Totalitarian regimes have been doing this for a long time. In fact, the history and science of mind control, it's a real thing And I get into this in the book History and Science of Mind control and its implementation and perfecting, if you will, over time by totalitarian regimes have gone hand in hand over the last hundred years. And you had just at the beginnings of us understanding. I mean, I start in the book with the celebrated scientist Pavlov. People always talk about Pavlovian, well, what did this guy really study? What was he really doing? What was he up to? And interestingly enough, Pavlov comes into, into scientific focus in the early 1900s and is a Nobel laureate and is studying, hey, how is it that things that you observe can affect you physically? How is it that outside stimuli, you think of the, of the bell, it actually was a metronome or a buzzer. It wasn't, no one was hitting a bell. And the experiments he did on dogs were actually in some cases quite grisly. So there's some stuff that you did, they didn't teach you about Pavlov in 8th grade science class that I get into. But understanding how propaganda, how outside stimuli, how brainwashing actually scientifically and in practice works is what the book is about. And I think that's very important, not just in general in America right now, but it's important. This week we saw this guy who, and we'll talk to Miranda Devine about this at one o', clock. This guy who became a, according to the latest reporting, a they them furry obsessed left wing tran tifa lunatic tried to kill the President of the United States. Came very, very close, right? It's not just a guy who was writing insane stuff in his basement somewhere. It's a guy who came an inch away, an inch away from killing a United States President, stopping a US election from happening in real time, changing the course of the country. And I just, I don't know how better to say it than plunging us into the abyss. I don't know what happens to this country. We're still reeling, we're still processing and grieving for the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, the most important conservative activist in the country. We were an inch away from losing the most important conservative politician or right wing politician and leader of our lifetime as well. Within a 12 month span. Something very wrong is happening here and we're all very aware of it. And I saw a lot of this, I can't say the specifics obviously of, of the individuals that they've targeted, although we all knew they were targeting Trump. But I saw a lot of this madness unfolding and that is why I wrote the book on Fox News, though, just a few days ago, they had a, a psychiatrist or psychotherapist who was on, who was speaking about this. This is not hyperbole. This is not, you know, talk radio rage or something. Not, by the way, this show. We don't do rage here, right? We're just Clay and I, we tell you, we just give you, give you what we think is true and important every day.

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We always shoot straight with you, you know. Oh, it's more talk radio stuff, though. That's just what let's just leftist agit prop. That's nonsense, you know. Oh, they said the same thing about Rush for 30 years, but here he is saying this, Fox News guest Jonathan Alpert saying that 75% of the patients that he sees are hyper fixated on Trump. Listen to this play. 19 people are obsessed with Trump. They're fixated. They're hyper fixated on Trump. And they talk about some of the features of this disorder. They can't sleep. They feel traumatized by Mr. Trump. They feel restless. I had one patient who said she couldn't enjoy a vacation because anytime she, she saw Trump in the news or on her device, she felt triggered. So this is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time. Defining pathology of our time that, that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mass psychosis, a mass psychosis that has been manufactured, manufactured, using similar tactics to what you would see in an authoritarian regime like communist China and the Cultural Revolution, like the Soviet Union and Stalinism, like North Korea and the worship of the Kim Dynasty. This is the book, my friends. I lay it out for you. This is what is happening. This, this gentleman, this psychotherapist. It is clear. It is clear that something has gone very wrong in our politics. People are obsessive, clinically obsessive in their hatred for Donald Trump. And that's why I wrote Manufacturing Delusion. This is a delusion that is being created intentionally for control, for political purposes. There are tactics, there is a playbook. And they're doing this very unfortunately for us successfully. And we see some of the worst outcomes, some of the worst effects of this process with things like these trantifomaniacs are going out there because things like the constant lies about men becoming women, for example, and how, remember, that's just the first step of the process. And the first step of the process is to get you to say something that you know to be untrue, to break your tether, if you will, to Reality. I mean, there's a, there's a quote that I came across in my research for the book that the real sort of, the real scale out there is not convincing people that they should, that they should scale a mountain. It's convincing people that there is no mountain. Right? That's real control. It's not just getting them to do something, it's getting them to change their perception of reality itself. There are people who are losing sleep at night because they think the, that climate change is going to make us extinct. That's a real phenomenon on the left. There's no equivalent on the right. Think about that. Climate, extinction anxiety. There are people who won't have children now because of what the left has done to them. There are people who think that there is a genocide and that is the term they use against trans people because we don't think that a 200 pound bearded man should be having a bench press contest with girls. Think about the beliefs. And then I, of course I get into some of this with COVID The madness of the Fauci ism, that was all part of the playbook. It was all meant to condition, by the way. Condition reflex. The actual Pavlovian. The actual Pavlovian, you know, term and history. Conditional reflex. In fact, it was in the original Russian. Like I said, you will learn a lot in this book. I did a ton of research in this book. It is called Manufacturing Delusion. It is available for pre sale now and I would ask you to please get a copy now so that we don't run out when everyone's trying to get it the week that it's released, which I know is in February, but just do it now while you're thinking about it. I'll be talking about it more on the show. But this stuff really matters. I think that manufactured delusion, I think that manufactured mass hysteria is the single greatest threat to humanity globally and the single biggest threat to the American Republic right now. We're not going to starve to death. We can handle all the, you know, we can handle whatever pandemics. We just went through. One, we all know what the reality was of that. We can handle everything else. The world is not going to melt. But we can't handle insanity, mass insanity that seizes control of the apparatus, that forces you to lie, that forces you to live by lies that can destroy us entirely. And you'll notice the notice, we're living in it. The reality of anti Trumpism day in and day out is rooted in his absurdity lies. A constant Russia collusion, hoax, the preposterous prosecutions, the lies that he's, you know, that he has something to hide with Epstein, all of this stuff, to a lot of us, it's just annoying because you. You choose to listen to this show. You choose to stay firmly rooted in reality. But how many people that you know who voted for Kamala Harris in this last election, how many leftists, for those of you especially who live in big blue states, how many leftists do you come across who believe the most absurd and insane things because they've been told to and become irrational, become enraged, almost like they've been brought into a cult? Because that's actually what has happened. And I get into some of those processes too. The whole point is to override that connection to reality that the listener, that the subject, the target has, because then you can rewrite the underlying programming. Then you can. This is. This is China. This is Maoist revolution. Break people down, break them down with fear, break them down with isolation, a constant assault on their senses of lies. And then you try to rewrite what's there. Then you try to build them into the new Soviet man, which was the whole project of the Soviet Union. This has all been done before, and you need to know how it was done then and how it is being done now. And that is manufacturing delusion. That is my book, and I want you to please. It's up at Clay and Buck, but you can get it on Amazon, Clay and Buck.com, but you can get on Amazon, get it anywhere. Please get the pre sales. It took me two years to write this. Two years to write this book and get it cleared by the CIA and, you know, do everything. So this was not slapdash. It's very important to me that this message get out there. And I know you'll spread the word. And I appreciate you letting me talk to you about it. All right. 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Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Oh man, we got a lot happening so let me tell you where we're going. Miranda Devine who had that huge report New York Post about the truth of the would be Trump assassin. Remember there it's a little confusing when we talk about this. There were two would be Trump assassins but one got shots off and shot him through the year. That one as we know who got killed obviously in the attempt information about him that how is it possible the FBI could have missed this? We're going to talk about that also. You're going to have to just bear with me here. We don't have time to play for you right now. Trump getting a little spicy, a little spicy in the Oval Office, some people are saying, adding a little spice, little jalapeno, perhaps delicious jalapeno. We will bring you some of those sound bites here coming up. And also in the back of the next hour, we'll get to some more, some more of the talkbacks and things we have DD here. Joseph from Columbus, Georgia. Let's play it. What I take away from all of this is that Trump has learned considerably from his first term in office and how to deal with the media. He shuts down the hostile reporters and zeroes right in on the heart of the matter where they try to take him out in left field and make him look bad. And I think that he's also surrounded himself with some sharp, savvy people that protect him and help him to navigate the shark infested waters. Well, yes, I mean, I think, I think Trump was always a phenomenon of his own at dealing with the media, but now he's, he was fighting an uphill battle against them in the first term. Now he's on offense and they're trying to run away in a route. So it's a different dynamic now. But I hear what you're saying and you know Trump, his ability to deal with the media is incredible. All right, Miranda Devine, coming up next, big reporting on the almost assassin of Donald Trump. We will discuss that. Stay around for that coming up.

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