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Buck Sexton
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All right, welcome into the second hour of Clay and Buck and let's talk about this. We had President Trump hosting the families of crime victims angel families at the White House. Yes. I'm sorry, this morning. Wait, is it yesterday or today? I think it was this morning. He participated in. Oh, yeah, it was this morning. That's right. In an angel family's remembrance ceremony in the East Room. This event honored angel families, relatives of individuals killed or harmed in crimes allegedly committed by. Oh, gosh. When you read the official description of this, as I was just doing, they go to undocumented immigrants, often referred to as legal aliens. No, referred to as legal aliens because that is the proper legal term. This is. I was actually not going to think of this as an opportunity to sell manufacturing delusion copies, but on the propaganda section, I said there's a whole. All the stuff about immigration and the change in our language that has been in the service of pushing for illegal immigration has been profound. And you'll notice it went from illegal alien to illegal immigrant to undocumented immigrant to undocumented to now, I don't know, like non citizen, soon to be American or something. So they do this on purpose, obviously. They change the words that are used so that you have essentially ceded ground in the debate before you've even had it. If you're undocumented. Well, how do you fix that? Well, get them the documents. Right? That's the way you. If you're undocumented, how do you fix it? Get them documents. That shouldn't be too hard. You see the way that this works, and that's always been the plan. The American people have been put through one of the most sustained campaigns of lies around immigration on any major policy issue in this country. It's up there with whatever else you think. The Democrat left has been spreading untruth mistruths about Democrat media and really, unfortunately, a lot of Republicans, too. We were led to believe so many things, even though, for example, I think it was John McCain was a sponsor of the Secure Fences Act. You go back to the early 2000s, there were all these moments where Republicans would say that they were going to build the dang fence and things like that. But the Bush administration was terrible on this stuff. The Obama administration was very bad The Biden administration, though, was in a class by itself. The Biden administration just decided, you know what, we've gotten to a critical mass here of illegals coming into the country where we might as well just. Just sort of take the gloves off and just let it rip. Just let them all in. Just let them all in. Everybody wants to come in. And remember there were videos of illegals coming to our border. And the occasional journalists would say, hey, what are you doing here? And they would say, like, I'm here because Biden is going to let me stay. That really happened. I forget what exact words were used, but that really happened. Oh, speaking of Biden, we actually, the team did pull this because I brought it up before. What did Biden say about Obama? Here we go. This is 28. There's a flashback to 2007. Play 28 for me. You got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and. Cut out there. Did he say clean? Because that's also in the nice looking guy there. There you go. Yeah, that's a strange thing to say. Didn't Biden ended up being his vp? This is what I'm saying. Democrats, this is part of the advantage, part of the privilege package of being a Democrat in politics or just somebody who the Democrat Party finds useful. That's really what it is, dude. It's not about loyalty. It's not about what you stand for. It's, are you useful to the power and the interest of the Democratic Party? If the answer is yes, racism, it doesn't matter. That doesn't affect you, really, because there's always a chance for you to beg forgiveness later or to do more for the oppressed groups that you've offended or something like that. No, really, racism, predominantly in political discourse in this country in the last, well, few decades at least, is just something that you, you particularly try to weaponize in bad faith against Republicans, to scare them and shut them down and stop them from doing things that would be good policy, including, and disproportionately for the black community in this country, things like safer streets, more support for cops, more enforcement of the law. You've got the left saying that that stuff is racist. Meanwhile, it's not racist. And actually it really does in major cities, for example, help black people more than anybody else. So there's all that happening in the background here of this discussion on immigration. And Trump, Trump decided, you know, one thing I've been saying that there's all these lies around this one, one of the big lies or one of the things that they will do. I should say part of the propaganda around immigration has been, you know, we have to, this is the founder of the next founder of Google. Or they do the jobs Americans won't do, or they're more law abiding than Americans. Or a big part of immigration discourse has been they are better than us illegals. I'm not talking about legal migrants, I'm talking about illegal migrants. People who just come here and break the law. They're better than the Americans who are actually here. Which is quite a thing to say for an American and especially an American politician. But that was very common. Doing the jobs Americans won't do. Yeah, not for, not if, if the choice is being here or being in, you know, Nicaragua, a lot of people would rather be here even if they're being paid below market wages. This is a better country. That's not some huge mystery. It doesn't go to the inherent work ethic of any group of people one way or the other. But the other part of this is I used to say this when I would debate people years ago. This has been a big issue for me for a long time, certainly for the last, really? Well, really since Trump came into office, since 2016 and since Ann Coulter's excellent Adios America was published. Very, very good book. And you see the way that the immigration story was laid out for so many people in this country and it was just a big lie, it wasn't true. And one of the things that I would ask people when I would debate them on this, especially at CNN places like that is, is there any downside to illegal immigration? Because if you ask somebody from like the Cato Institute, which is an open borders shill, lunatic factory, if you ask people from places like this, libertarians, you know, far left, bleeding heart types, any, any and all of the above, they never have an answer for you. And so then I always say to them, if there's no downside to illegal immigration, why don't we just go open borders? They oh, we can't do that. Why? You won't identify a downside. You won't tell me what the trade off is. Ah, well, Trump will tell you what the trade off is. One of the trade offs is that there are thousands and thousands of people in this country who aren't supposed to be here, who kill people, who rape people, who steal, who commit armed robberies, all of the above, all these kinds of things. And this is Trump here at the ceremony honoring these families. This is cut one from this morning for the angel families play it.
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Donald Trump
We're willing to tell the story and that. I don't know why the news doesn't want to hear it. The Democrats don't want to hear it. The radical left, they don't want to hear it. What's not to hear? We want to stop murderers and criminals from coming into our country. I watched the mayor of Minneapolis, I watch these people saying, we want to protect murderers. I don't get something sick, they're sick. Can't have a country like that. So we appreciate the bravery of everybody in this room, actually,
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Buck Sexton
Again, this is something that the media overall will not tell you about. This is the, the other side of, you know, they love to run these stories, particularly if it's that they'll run some story about a, a dreamer. They used to. You notice the dreamer thing has fallen away a little bit. But it says some dreamers, like this dreamer is a valedictorian. Isn't this amazing? You know, dreamer being somebody who allegedly was brought here when they were still a minor by their parents. And as I have to note, and this sounds kind of harsh to some people, but it's true. You know, if, if my, if, if dad steals a million dollars from a bank and gives it to me to fund my, you know, my laboratory where I'm going to do great things for researching different medicines, it's still stolen money. You're not supposed to benefit from criminal activity. And entering the country illegally is, in fact, illegal. But you would always hear these stories about the valedictorian. You would never hear the story about the illegal who had been arrested 10 times and drunk driving five times and then finally killed a family of three on the highway. Media won't tell that story. In fact, if anything, they'll do the, it's such and such. You know, it's a Michigan man or a, or a Florida man or a, whatever kills three people in a car accident. Well, actually, this guy is not an American at all. He's, you know, from some third world country and has been in this country nothing but a drain on our resources and breaking our laws and a giant net negative for us. Trump spoke about how much, also the, how much pain there has been as a result of the, as a result of some of these illegals, the things that they've done. This is cut to where he just says to these angel families, look, your loss is infinite. And I'm very sorry, very sorry for what's happened. Play two.
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Donald Trump
Everyone in this room not only suffered an infinite loss, they were the victims of Politicians who put the comfort of foreign criminals before the safety of American citizens and American patriots. Their stories were censored and suppressed like maybe almost never before so that the politicians could open our borders and allow our nation to be invaded. If we didn't win the election, our nation would right now be destroyed.
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Buck Sexton
Let's just take that last part for a second. If Biden. Well, in this case, it would have been Kamala, right? If Kamala had won the election, we would have gone back to the posture. Remember, they would have told us it's impossible to secure the border, which was always a lie, a lie that Trump has now exposed once and for all. But they would have told us it's impossible to secure the border. And we would have had millions and millions of more people coming into the country and staying here and availing themselves of all kinds of benefits and really just taking from the American people. I mean, this is the, the part of it that was a wake up call for so many, I think was when, and give Texas Governor Greg Abbott credit, when he just started saying, fine, we're just going to bust these illegals to where they want to go. We'll send them to New York, we'll send them to Chicago. And then you see what happens in these cities. They're not coming here because as they're about to start the next great tech company, they're coming here because they think that there's a free lunch. In many cases, this is what these illegals are doing. If they were coming here because they thought that they could contribute right away, you'd think the legal immigration process might be more to their liking. And beyond that, there's also the issue of how do you have a country that has anything that feels cohesive about it? If you're going to be bringing millions of different people in year after year after year from all over the world, disparate cultures, different languages, different religions, different political beliefs and everything else, you could say, well, that's always been the story of America. That's actually not true. Another lie that they tell, the story of America is temporary waves of migration, legal migration, followed by real clampdowns, like, all right, now we all get to live. Now we've let some more people into the house. Now we all live in the house together for a while. We get to know each other. It's not supposed to be just open door policy forever. That's actually not how immigration has worked in America. And it's also quite a different thing to show up here as a, a settler or a pioneer than it is to show up, get chauffeured around a taxpayer expense, be given a, you know, EBT card, free health care, and effectively told that you are now going to be taken care of by the people who are already here just by virtue of our sense of guilt or obligation or something. It's a very different thing. They're not hacking it out of the wilderness with their own two hands here in this country. Okay? This is a different thing. So if we look at the immigration, immigration waves that have come in the 21st century illegally, the, the American economy is, or rather the American system is already straining under the weight of the promises we've made to Americans, you really think that you're going to be paying more? Or rather they're, this is when they go. The GDP is growing. GDP is not, that's not, that's not everything. Of course GDP grows. If you have a million more people, what is the quality of life of those people? How, how are they contributing to the society around them and how are they assimilating into that society? These are all the questions. But this is why Trump, he just needs to tell these stories. People understand there are in fact huge costs to illegal immigration, including the loss of life and something that should be taken into account whenever we discuss this. Protecting yourself and your family is the number one job for every parent. The moment I became a father, that sense of protection, it just became front and center in my mind. In our home, we have tools to protect ourselves from an intruder. Put aside the contents of our gun safes we keep locked. We have sabers non lethal products as well, including their home defense launchers. It's the kind of protection you need in your home as well. Now's a good time to secure your home with a Sabre home defense launcher. They make several. Some that look like pistols, other that look like rifles. The Sabre home defense launcher delivers powerful impact pepper projectiles. That's two more than most competitors. And that matters in the moment you need it most. When fear hits and you have to defend yourself, having extra stopping power can change everything. Protection doesn't stop at your front door when you're on the move. Sabre pepper sprays, pepper gels and stun guns gives you compact, reliable protection wherever life takes you. When safety matters, America chooses Sabre, the number one brand trusted by police and millions worldwide. Sabre is how it's spelled. Don't wait for a close call. Get protection now@sabreradio.com that's S A B R E radio.com or call 844-824 safe stories of freedom, Stories of America, inspirational stories that unite us all each day. Spend time with Clay and Vi. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We have some calls coming in, some talk backs. Want to get to more of those. Something that I thought would be worth chatting about just for a second here. Fareed Zakaria over at cnn, which is still a thing, still exists. Fareed Zakaria pointing out that Democrats really bad at the whole running cities thing like New York and LA. This is cut 15. Listen to this.
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Donald Trump
New York is really a prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront. Blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off the fiscal problems to some future day. Take Los Angeles, another one party metropolis wrestling with affordability and disorder. The city's homelessness budget for fiscal year 202526 totals about $950 million. Or take Chicago, with a mayor whose approval rating is is deep underwater where the pension promises are so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at some point. What is the theory of good government here?
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Buck Sexton
There is no theory of good government. I mean he he he walks right up to the conclusion but doesn't really give it, which is that yeah, Democrats fundamental belief systems when it comes to the governance of a city are failures, fails, cannot work, will not work. You cannot spend constantly more than you take in. You cannot have a massive bloated bureaucracy. You cannot tax people into submission and then they have to leave. These are all bad ideas. You cannot encourage homelessness and wonder why people are unhappy with disorder on the streets. All right, what does comfort feel like to you? For me, it's Cozy Earth. They're incredibly soft. Sheets are how Carrie and I were first introduced to Cozy Earth. But they have to tons of other products too, like cuddle, blankets, clothes and more. 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And El Mencho, unlike El Chapo, he wasn't a Sinaloa head. He was C. Jalisco New generation cartel. So C.N. what is it? C? I always mess up the acronym. Klisco New Generation, JNCJ or whatever. Hold on. He's, he's. El Mencho is the very big bad guy. We're going to give 15 million if someone takes him out. So this is what happened over the weekend. He was taken out? Yeah. J, N G sir. J N G, C. It's not an easy one. It's not an easy acronym. Jay Jalisco New Generation Cartel. So I knew the name, but the acronym was giving me some trouble. So this is considered these days the most ultra violent and awful of the cartels, which is really saying something. You can read about the kind of things that they have done. I don't recommend you do. Just think ISIS level mutilation, beheading, setting people on fire. I mean the worst kind of stuff. These are the absolute. These people and these cartels, these hitman sicarios and these cartels, they're vermin, they are a disgrace to humanity and they should be met with the full force of the state. And that means come out with your hands up or get carried out. And that's it. So this is what happened. There was an operation over the weekend. Nemesio Aceguara Cervantes. That is El Mencho's name of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. He and a joint Mexican military US Intelligence assisted operation. I'm just going to take a guess here that we helped a lot. Just a guess, I don't know, but a lot of help. Like more help than anyone's Talking about kind of help, you know what I mean? Maybe not just a guess, but this guy got taken out and all hell broke loose. Not really a big surprise there. Guadalajara plunged into chaos. The cartel retaliated. There was violence that spread to cities and beach resorts. Gunmen torched stores and banks. They blockaded highways. And this is essentially the cartel saying, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna rain holy hell down on you if you think you can get away with this kind of stuff. Jalisco New Generation Cartel is interesting. It doesn't just do the extreme violence I talked to you a little bit about, but it really is a. All of the above criminal enterprise. Human trafficking gets. Gets into the avocado game, believe it or not. Smuggles migrants, like I said, all kinds of things. Oil theft, by the way, this is what. When the Islamic Islamic State did this too. But Al Qaeda in Iraq, people always think of it as a terrorist group. From my time working Iraq on the CIA desk. Iraq desk, rather, at the CIA. AQI at the time would do. And all of you serve the military. Know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah, they would blow up a marketplace and say they're doing this for jihad, but they would kidnap people for ransom and saw their head off even if the ransom was paid. They would steal oil from oil trucks. They would just take the truck, take all the oil. They would do protection rackets to stores. You know, give us money or we'll just blow up your store and kill everybody in it. So just criminal enterprises, just. Just violence to get what they want, violence to advance their interests. So this Jalisco New Generation Cartel operates like that. They finally took this guy El Mentor out, like I said, $15 million bounty on his head. So that's pretty considerable. And the Mexican government now is trying to figure out, okay, well, what's next here? I see this and I say,
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Buck Sexton
of all, this is a big win for the anti cartel side of things. And I think that this is only possible because of American interest and American help in this situation. That's what I think. And as I said, I think our help and our interest is probably considerably higher than anything that has been yet reported. Although I'm not. Not able to say any more than that's just my hunch, but I think it could be the beginning of us getting far more involved in this. Because what is the primary financial activity of Jalisco New Generation Cartel? Just like Sinaloa and the Zetas and all these others. It's drug. It's drug smuggling. And what is the primary market, the United States. So they're the ones who are putting fentanyl on the streets of America. And we have all these overdoses year in and year out, less than 100,000 last year. So the number has gone down a bit. But tens of thousands of people a year are dying. And Trump has said, enough is enough, enough is enough. So the war on drugs under this administration is certainly looks a little bit more like a war than what we've seen in previous administrations. We've been blowing up the narco boats in the Caribbean. Interestingly enough, those narco boats coming from Venezuela are almost 100% cocaine carrying, not actually fentanyl carrying. So they carry cocaine. And it's mostly for transshipment from the Caribbean into European markets. But we also wanted it, it's quite clear now, we wanted to put pressure on the Venezuelan government, too, and the narco trafficker Maduro, who was running that government, who is now in prison. So this was all part of a broader strategy. But in the case of this holistic new generation cartel, these are the guys who are just running fentanyl through every major American city and engaged in unbelievable, unbelievably hideous violence. Mexico has something like 30,000 murders a year. Think about that for a second. 30,000 murders a year. It's a country considerably smaller than the United States, and there are areas of the country that it's just not safe to go to. Oh, speaking of that, because I said, I hope you're not trying to travel these places. They shut down airports and air travel into a whole bunch because of all the disorder and unrest on the streets and the burning. They'll set up a bus and they'll light it on fire. You know, they'll steal a bus, they'll light it on fire, and they'll block the highway on the way to the airport. They do all kinds of stuff, shoot off their guns, shoot at people. So people who were planning to go on vacation to some of these areas, yeah, they had a. They had a rough, a rough situation going on here because the airlines have to take into account, can we reliably safely land, Are we at risk? Or are our people, our staff and our passengers, are they at risk? So this is, this is a big hit. You know, some of the stuff that we'd seen up to this point had been elder member, sort of over the hill cartel bosses who had been transferred into U.S. custody. That had happened under the Trump administration early on. But this is taking out a big fish. And this could certainly, this could certainly Rattle some cages over there. This could create real challenges and problems that I think we might end up. Well, let's just say this. I don't think Trump is bluffing when he says that we're going to go after the cartels. Given that we've been willing to blow up these ships in the Caribbean, do we think that there's any reason that Trump would not be willing to order strikes on high level targets in Mexico? The Mexican president, Sheinbaum. Right. She's already said that the war on the narcos is contrary to Mexican law and contrary to human rights. I think she's paid off. I mean, I think she's. I don't. Look, I can't pretend that I follow the ins and outs of daily Mexican politics, but this, this woman. First of all, the, the amount of money that these narco groups have, think about the ways that they can launder this money and get it into seemingly legitimate businesses and then funnel it to politicians. We've all seen the narco show, right? Or at least a lot of you have seen the narco show. I've certainly seen it. This stuff is real. There are ways that the corruption reaches all the way to the top. And it seems that the Mexican government, as it stands right now, the agreement is, whether it's spoken or unspoken, as long as the cartels are just focused mostly on poisoning Americans and creating all of that destruction and decay on our streets. Right. Remember, it's not just the drugs. It's not just the overdoses. It's the criminal enterprises that flourish in America because without the money, people wouldn't do this stuff. So people sell the drugs, these street gangs, the famous ones that we've all heard of before, the ones that are talked about in rap songs and stuff, you know, all these different gangs, they're selling drugs. So think about the amount of. And if you look at the homicide numbers in this country, how many people are being shot in drug turf war feuds, how many people are shot as a result of gang activity of some kind or another is very high. And that's when you look at the full scope of the damage that's done to this country because of the illicit sale of fentanyl by these cartels into our borders. It's vast. And Trump is just saying, you know, enough is enough. The problem they have in Mexico is going to be the cartels are very, you know, each one of these cartels has thousands and thousands of sicario, assassin, soldier types, whatever you want to call them, you know, gunmen who work for the cartels, and they'll do anything and they will start to attack the very infrastructure and the underlying foundational elements of Mexican society if they're pressed hard enough. So that will hold us back at some level. But maybe we start to turn parts of Mexico into something a little more approximating the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. Remember that NWFP or Waziristan Fatah, the Federally Administered Tribal Area, all parts of Pakistan along the Afghan border where there would just be these mysterious explosions that would happen. Mysterious explosion would happen. And then some guy who was a senior member of the Haqqani network, maybe with some ties to Al Qaeda or some guy who was doing something sketchy for the Taliban or whatever it may be, would be no more. We might start to have a bit of that going on. I think the Mexican government, no matter what, is going to be telling us that they don't want us to do this and if we do it, they're going to be saying, how dare you? How dare you. But they also know that Trump is not going to allow this to just continue on where we have the flourishing of drug groups, you know, drug gangs on our streets and the people who are overdosing and all the loss of life and all the loss of people's futures and the destruction of families that comes from this stuff. So taking out a guy with a $15 million bounty on his head is, is significant. They'll replace them. I get all that. But it's significant insofar as I think it might be the beginning of something far more sustained and more systematic, if you will. 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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to play in buck and let me get some of your talk backs. Start with C. Lynn from Houston who listens on ktrh. Play it Here we are on the west side of Houston again at said brick and mortar bookstore. I did rifle through and find a singular copy of yours. I pulled it off the shelf and set it out in front of Clay's book, which was still on display and I just wanted to give him a
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Buck Sexton
There we go. Thank you so much and thank you for finding the book, the brick and mortar store that seems to be hiding it even though it's outselling 90% of the other books that they have on display right now on the in the front. So there you go. But it's outselling them because of all of you. And I greatly appreciate the support and the book has been doing well because of all of you. You are the, you are my tribe, you are my people. You are the ones that I need to make this a success. And so you've been stepping up. But if you haven't yet, please, please go get your copy of Manufacturing Delusion. It's, it's, it's not a big book. It's, it's pretty small. It's very readable. It's meant to be something you can sit down with and finish in a weekend easily. You know, it's not, not sitting here with a three part biography of the or you know, three parts history of the Russian Civil War or something. You know, this is like gets right to it. D Adam in Fresno, California. Play it. Wanted to let you know I went out and bought Buck's new book Manufacturing Delusion and I like to go to the Barnes and Noble and ask for it by name just to let the lefties know that it exists. And I'm here for that. I love it. Thank you. Gotta keep those lefties on their toes there. Yeah, they're, they're being, they're being difficult on, on this one. In some places they're, you know, look, they never get tired of trying to tilt the playing field in their favor. That much I will say. Won't give credit where it's due. Timothy from Sacramento listens on KFBK E. Hit it. When are you gonna have a paperback? Man can't take a hard back to work on a job site. Need that paperback? Good question. I don't know when the paperback will come out but I will say the audiobook is out, which you can definitely listen on your drive to the word and I narrate the audiobook or I read the audiobook for you so you can go get the audiobook for sure and I recommend you do so. And I will get back to you on that paperback comment up here we'll take talk a little bit about Scott Besson on the tariffs. Maybe have a little more fun talking about how great it was that America won the gold medal, men's and women's gold medal in ice hockey. And we've also got Trump at the governor's dinner. You've got some other good stuff going on. Basically. It's going to be great. Third hour of the show. Going to be great. That I can promise you. Some people are saying it's going to be used. Be back with you here in a few minutes. Take a little break, drink some Crockett coffee. Come back, we'll dive into it. Stay with me.
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Okta Advertiser / Cindy Crawford
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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