Matt Walsh (4:00)
Now, true to Trump's word, this is exactly what began to take place on Tuesday night. Attorneys with the National Security Division of the DOJ polled an all nighter going through various documents. They responded to Trump's directive immediately. And yesterday many of those files were released. And apparently more files are going to come today. And so then, you know, what we have is not the final set of documents. There are a lot of documents, so more are coming even. So there is some new information here that's worth talking about, but, and there's, there's a lot more that just hasn't been seen yet because again, it's 30, you know, whatever it is, 30,000 pages. So no one's, no one's had a chance to go through all of it yet. But the first thing you notice as you look through the materials is how obscenely over broad our classification system actually is. One of the previously classified documents, just for example, is an article from the magazine Ramparts, which hasn't been published since the 1970s. And this article states that, quote, the day after the assassination, CIA agent Gary Underhill left Washington a small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and would probably have to leave the country. Less than six months later, Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it a suicide. Close quote. Now, there's no independent verification in these JFK files that at least that I've seen, at least that corroborate any of this. It's just a copy paste from a publicly available article in some magazine that no one's ever heard of. But it was marked Secrets and CIA employees were told not to copy it, even though, again, it was a magazine article. This is the kind of thing that might seem trivial, but recall that the DOJ attempted to imprison Donald Trump for allegedly storing classified information at Mar a Lago. If the intelligence agencies are going to abuse their classification authority to such an extent that they're classifying magazine articles, then they shouldn't be able to prosecute political candidates for storing materials that are supposedly classified. It seems like a pretty fair compromise going forward, but the ideal solution is to do what the Trump administration is doing, which is to declassify everything that they possibly can. Most of it, as we're finding out, isn't even that interesting and it's certainly not worth jailing people over. That said, as you dig through the JFK files, and again, this is all preliminary because there's so much to go through. So it's. No one has seen all of it yet, but as you go through what we've seen, you do begin to find some interesting information. Some of this was already out there in some capacity, but now we have a bunch of mostly unredacted documents in one place. For instance, in mid December of 1963, shortly after Kennedy's assassination, the CIA issued a telegram about Castro's attitude towards the United States. It's two pages long. It reads. It begins by quoting a high level Cuban diplomat in Western Europe, quote, unquote, someone who the CIA has deemed highly reliable as saying that Castro was, quote, very upset about the fact that Kennedy had been replaced. That's because, quote, top Cuban leadership was sure President Kennedy would not invade Cuba, and also because Cuba determined that Kennedy's economic blockade of Cuba would not overthrow Castro's regime. Then the telegram concludes with this line. According to Cuban government leaders, Castro wants to wait and see what President Johnson says and does about Cuba and give him an opportunity to improve, if he feels so inclined, relations between the two countries. So, in other words, the perception of Cuba's government, even after the Bay of Pigs was that Kennedy would never attempt a full scale invasion. At the same time, they weren't so sure that Kennedy's replacement or the CIA would be so reluctant. And as you read further in the JFK files, that seems like a reasonable concern. Some of the documents, for example, show that Cuban diplomats immediately concluded that the CIA had killed Kennedy. If the Yankees or CIA assassinated Kennedy to resume the assault on Cuba, then a third world war would start. Then there are statements from an American official indicating that assets connected to a CIA agent had spread misinformation about Cuba's involvement in the assassination. So no one involved in the scenario believed the lone gunman theory. At any point it would seem. Meanwhile, the CIA was drawing up various plans to attack Cuba. Plans that presumably had a better chance of being implemented with Kennedy out of the way. Take a look at this previously classified file in which the CIA talks about their plans to destroy crops in Cuba. It reads, quote, plans for inducing the failure of crops will be submitted by 15th of February. These plans will envisage both the use of controlled assets who can be infiltrated and exfiltrated and the provision of encouragement and guidance to the resistance so that it will undertake acts of sabotage, some of which are to be directed against crops, particularly rice. Separately, the agency discussed efforts to sabotage Cuba's nickel supply using various methods, including open attack. They also discussed the use of torpedoes and mines as well as attacks on primary and secondary sources of Cuban nickel. These attacks would apparently be carried out by external assets. And additionally the CIA wrote about efforts to deploy a large number of spies to Cuba while pretending that they're students. Quote, an assessment of more than 100 persons to determine their suitability for return to Cuba as agents in the guise of students is also being conducted. Then there's this noteworthy passage in which the CIA admits that it staged mass demonstrations all over the region, quote in support of states efforts. CIA has conducted propaganda operations including a number of mass demonstrations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. So they pretty much orchestrated mass demonstrations at will in nearly a dozen countries. You know, according to these files and reading that memo, it's not hard to conclude that the CIA probably never stopped doing this. I mean, you're not crazy for concluding that anytime you see a mass protest movement anywhere in the world, including here, there's a very good chance that our intelligence agencies could have been involved. I mean, think about the so called Orange Revolution in Ukraine that led to conflict with Russia that as we all know has ended in open Warfare. Now, moving on through the files, there's also this previously classified memo from June of 1961. It was written by Arthur Schlesinger, is a close advisor of jfk. And this is a memo that already has been discussed publicly in other contexts. But the idea of the memo, which was written just a couple of years before Kennedy was murdered, was that the CIA has essentially gone rogue. They're running their own foreign policy, and therefore, according to Schedzinger, the CIA should be split up. Again. You can maybe see why this was classified at the time, but the idea that it should have been hidden for decades is obviously absurd. And there was never any reason to hide information like this from the public for as long as it was hidden. And there are many more files that I haven't been able to review and that no one has been able to review at this point. Again, it's too much information at the moment, and again, some of the information is still incomplete. Summing up his findings on the this first batch of files, the writer Gerald Posner wrote, quote, I don't see the tax files of Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby. Nothing yet on some of the grand jury proceedings from New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison's miscarriage of justice. Maybe I'm running on empty and missing them, but they're not popping up. There are some files I've been looking forward to, one called Special Intelligence package. It includes 37 blank pages and might tell us more about Mexican intelligence and what they sent to the CIA about Oswald after the assassination. I don't see that in today's release. There are other CIA documents I was hoping to see. Maybe they'll be in tomorrow's release, close quote. So we'll obviously be awaiting those documents and reviewing them when they become available. The same is true for the next release of the Epstein files that we have been promised. We haven't seen yet. But already, based on what's been released so far, it's clear that the Trump administration has truly been, as they promised, extraordinarily transparent. In fact, you can make the case that Trump is possibly the single most radically transparent politician in American history. Even aside from these documents being released. You just look at the way that he conducts himself, and we kind of take it for granted at this point. But I've already lost track of the number of times he's taken questions from the press since being inaugurated. You don't get the sense that Trump cares to hide anything from the public, really. So the contrast between him and Biden on this point could not be more stark. In fact, it's not just a contrast with Biden. The reflex of every public official in my lifetime, in any of our lifetimes, has been to hide things and to lie about everything, even when there's no obvious strategic benefits in doing that. On the other hand, Donald Trump, without being prompted, will walk out to the press and announce a historic declassification document dump. And then the next day, he delivers it. Now, can we expect to learn from these documents with certainty? Who exactly killed jfk? Is there going to be a document in there that that actually says this is the person who killed them and this is the group that killed? Probably not. It's simply been too long, if we're being honest about it. At the same time, at this point, there's no reason to believe that the Trump administration is responsible for hiding that information from the public. And that's significant for a lot of reasons. We have far more insight into how our intelligence agencies operate than ever before. And as a result, we can assume that these agencies are now probably a lot less likely to think about assassinating domestic political targets, because if they do that, they run a very high risk of exposure. They certainly run a higher risk of exposure than they did under the Biden administration when assassins were, you know, taking pot shots at Trump and the federal government didn't even pretend to care about it. This is the value of transparency. And less than three months into his term, as much as it probably drives the CIA crazy, Donald Trump is delivering it. Now let's get to our five headlines. Success is not built on resolutions. Those are made to break. As we know, it's built on taking action and building unstoppable momentum. When it comes to optimizing your health span, living better and longer, certain things are non negotiable. Quality sits at the top of that list. And in the world of performance focused supplements, Momentous stands alone. 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The Hill reports a federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked implementation of President Trump's executive order, effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, a stark blow to the administration's efforts to curb transgender rights. U.S. district Judge Anna Rice, an appointee of former President Biden, barred Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other military officials from implementing Trump's order or otherwise putting new policy into place effectuating it. She also said the plaintiff's military statuses must remain unchanged until further order of the court. The judge said her order intends to maintain the status quo of military policy regarding transgender service that existed before Trump signed the order titled Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness. She stayed her order until Friday to give the administration time to appeal. Trump's order suggests that the transgender people cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service because they threaten the lethality of the lethality of the armed forces and undermine unit cohesion, an argument long used to keep marginalized communities from serving. So a little bit more editorializing from the Hill in this what is supposed to be a supposed to be a news article. The executive order states a man's assertion that he's a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member. The judge wrote in her opinion that the president has both the power and obligation to ensure military readiness, but noted that leaders of the armed forces have long used that justification to, quote, deny marginalized persons the privilege of serving. Okay, so Trump, you know, the guy that, you know, who actually runs the country and runs the military. That guy, the President of the United States, I think, is the title that he uses. Trump believes that it threatens unit cohesion and military readiness to have people in the military who are totally disconnected from reality, people who are not living in the real world, people who are in some fantasy land of their own mental construction. He thinks that having people like that in the military is a threat to unit cohesion and the lethality of our forces. That's what Trump thinks. This random federal judge happens to personally disagree. She personally feels that it's actually a great idea to invite people in who are deeply confused about the basic facts of our physical reality and to invite them into the military. That's how she feels. So the two of them feel different ways about it. Now, obviously, Trump is right. He's correct about this, clearly. Yes. When you have a Man in the military who is pretending to be a woman, that does, among other things, threaten the cohesion of everyone else in his unit. You know, we want everyone in the military to be focused solely on defending the country and killing the enemy. That's what the military is for. That's their job. That should be their sole focus. Anything that does not assist in that effort, anything that is not pointed at that objective, anything that doesn't advance the mission is not good. Their focus should, should then not be on affirming some guy's female self identity. And for the trans people themselves, we know that their top priority personally will never be defending the nation and killing the bad guy. Their top priority will always be the affirmation and reinforcement of their false identities. You know, if I showed up to the recruitment office to sign up for the army or the Marines and I was filling out the paperwork, and on the paperwork I wrote that I'm a zebra, I would not be accepted into the military, and nobody would expect that I would be. Even if I said the fact that I'm a zebra is not a major focus of mine. Even if I said, you know, I'm a zebra, but it's not a big deal, you know, it's just I happen to be one, I happen to be a zebra. I don't make a big thing of it. But just so you guys know, before I sign up, I want you to know I am a zebra. Even if I'm, I'm a patriot. I want to, I want to fight for the country. Even if that was the case, I say, don't worry, I won't make a big thing of it. I just happen to be a zebra. None of that would matter. Having someone in the unit who thinks he's a zebra is a completely unnecessary and totally egregious distraction. Not to mention that there are now very serious questions about my own stability and my own mental clarity and resilience. How can the United States government issue me a weapon as a man who thinks I'm a zebra? And why would they do this? Yes, there, there, there might be some recruitment shortages and that that situation is getting better, but there are still plenty of potential recruits out there who don't think that they're zebras. So we don't need to start recruiting from the zoo just yet. So that's why Trump's order makes sense, for that reason. But here's the thing. All of that is almost irrelevant, really. The fact that Trump is right on the merits here is it's good that he's Right. But when it comes to what this judge is doing, it's almost irrelevant because the point is that Trump runs the military. He's the commander in chief. He's allowed to determine these kinds of policies. You don't have to agree with them. You don't have to agree with the way that he operates as commander in chief, but he is the commander in chief. The fact that the judge personally disagrees with his policy is totally irrelevant because she doesn't get to determine the policy for military recruitment. She is not the president. These judges are not the president. So if you're on the left and you're listening to this, try to understand, okay, try to understand this very basic point. These judges are not the president, which means there must be some powers that the president has that the judges don't. Because if there's nothing, if the judges can just override anything Trump does with the stroke of a pen, then the judges are, are the, are, they're all the president. All together. Each, each federal judge is the president. The branches of government. Now for all these leftists who are going on about constitutional crisis, like, what do you know about the Constitution? And since when did you give a damn about it anyway? Well, you know what the Constitution says? The Constitution says that the branches of the government are co, Equal, separate but equal. Have you heard about that phrase? You know, it's very, very, hopefully you learn that in, in civics in grade school, which means that judges cannot supersede the president in every case. None of these people were voted into office to set policy. None of these people were voted into office at all. These are unelected judges trying to override not just the president, but the will of the people. The people voted for Trump so that he would put policies like this in place. Yes. Even the trans ban in the military, Trump put that in place in his first term. People that voted for him knew that, you know, when you vote for a guy who was already in office once, what you're saying your message is, yeah, I'd like more of that. So I, I want, I want him to continue doing what he was, I might want him to do other things as well. But I, I, I approve of, of how he governed, and I'd like to have more of that, please. That's what the voters are saying. So you have the president as the commander in chief. You have the voters who put him into play, who, who elected him to set these policies. And, and then some, some unelected, random federal judge can just come along and say, nope, sorry, you can't do any of that. You know why you can't do it? Because I personally don't like it. I'm a judge. I personally think that it's bad. And so you can't do it. Now these judges are illegitimate at this point. They're trying to upend the Constitution and our entire system of government. Trump should ignore them, ignore all of them. I mean, ignore this woman and her does enforce the ban anyway. So you say to her, oh, you think we should not ban trans. Well, okay, I'm glad. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for letting us know. Your opinion is very interesting, but we're going to go ahead and do what we want to do anyway. There, there needs to be an all out war at this point against activist judges. And what does that war look like? Well, it begins with this, by just ignoring them, drawing the line in the sand and saying, okay, the judges, judges have certain powers, certain responsibilities, a certain jurisdiction, but their powers and jurisdiction do not encompass everything. Okay. If we're going to delineate what their powers are, it cannot be. The delineation is not, oh, they can do everything. That's not it. And so you draw the line and you say, well, here's what judges are allowed to do. Anything over that line, we are not going to listen to. We are just going to ignore it. And where does it go from there? What's the next, what happens next? I don't know exactly. I mean, eventually this ends up at the Supreme Court, but which is. So Trump's hand is forced here. That's where this needs to end up. But in the meantime, I think you got to draw this line and, and make it very clear. Okay, this is fun. I don't know. I don't know when this video was made. I, I happened to see it on X yesterday. This is a video made by the outlet. Now this, and it's about yours truly. It's about, it's about me. And apparently now this is very troubled that I was invited to the joint session speech a couple of weeks ago. They made this video after the fact to expose my extremism. And I don't know, I just happened to see this pop up on, on X and I thought it was pretty great. So here it is. Watch. I am literally a theocratic fascist. I do indeed believe that my religious beliefs should be forced on people by the government.
