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Two of Donald Trump's massive corruption schemes have been exposed this afternoon. The first details special treatment given to an ex Honduran president who you remember he pardoned last year. Despite being convicted of drug trafficking tons of cocaine to the United States of America. Trump is now revealed to have used your taxpayer dollars to send the Honduran president not to Honduras, but rather to a five star luxury hotel, the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. At the same time, a major bitcoin crypto conference is being held at Mar a Lago today. And while the Trump family corruption is on full display and neither Eric nor Don Jr. Are hiding the fact that it's blatant corruption, make sure to like, comment, share and subscribe. Spread the word. The more you like, the more people see this news, and this is important news people need to see. Please support my work. Subscribe to my subset. Click the link below. This afternoon, we're learning from ProPublica that the former Honduran president got some special treatment from this White House. His name is Juan Orlando Hernandez. You know that he was pardoned by Trump. He was tried and convicted in the United States in 2024, sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for taking bribes and allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. Now, Hernandez says that he's been quote, treated very harshly and unfairly, fairly, but the records show otherwise because when he was released, he didn't just walk out of prison. Despite budget and staffing shortages at the Bureau of Prisons, prison officials paid a specialized tactical team overtime to drive Hernandez from a highly secure facility in West Virginia to the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Before he left, according to reports, he was allowed to use the captain's government phone to talk to the federal prison's staff systems deputy director. Just, I mean, take a minute and imagine drug trafficker, 45 years in prison, pardoned. And instead of being sent back to Honduras, which is where he should have been sent back based on the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts, he was sent to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. And it comes as there is blatant open corruption within the Trump administration, or rather in the Trump family and their crypto dealings. And they're not even hiding it anymore. Take a listen Listen to what Eric TRUMP and Don Jr. Had to say.
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Today about, you know, the World Liberty Corporation, which has been in the news. And there was this big Wall Street Journal report about the 49% stake that was sold to an Emirati royal family member after your father was elected president. Raising, raising questions about whether they were doing that so they could get access to AI chips.
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A, my father has nothing to do with, B, it has nothing to do with AI chips. And C, we met in the Middle east the first time. There's not a person in that room, there's not a banker, there's not a fund manager that doesn't go to the Middle east and to the, you know, whether the sovereign wealth funds of the world. There's some of the biggest investors in every fund in America. To critique the one here and not talk about the others would be nonsense. It's literally what they do. And so they have done that. They invested in it and they've actually had already over 4x return on their investment. It's a great investment and has nothing to do with the other. We've been dealing with the conflict avengers stuff for years. I mean, they tried all this nonsense the first time around. Frankly, it's gotten old. They were the ones that put us into this position by creating legislation to try to put us out of business. We just fought back. We weren't willing to sit in the corner, curl up in a ball and die like they would love us to do. That's not how we function. That's not how we operate. And you can see that whether it's my father or us, that's never going to happen. We're going to do what we need.
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The optics of fight back.
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It's a great law of, like, unintended consequences. If you look at what they tried to do when they, my father off of Twitter and they did the same to Don and myself and pretty much everybody else in our family. They took us off of Twitter, Facebook, they took us off of Instagram. They took us.
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They were just talking about, oh, it's a conflict of interest. We've been handling this for years. It's a conflict of interest. If you don't know the story, Donald Trump's family received a massive hundreds, hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from a. The spy sheik in the uae. The spy sheik just days before his inauguration. And then a couple months later, spy chic in the UAE got access to highly specialized AI chips. Take a listen to Don Jr. And Eric here.
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Well, you know what, what the critics would say. They'd say that the credibility factor is the. The Trump name and the Trump White House and that everyone you know is here to curry favor.
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I think the great honor here is they didn't give us much of a choice when you had every.
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They created this monster.
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When you had every big bank in the world for doing nothing wrong, just based on the fact that we all wore a hat. That's a make America great again. My father happened to be running as a Republican, canceled us. I mean, I was getting these calls. 300 bank accounts, capital one.
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They created this monster. That's the excuse to continue doing it. Now, I did speak with Congresswoman Nellie Poe this afternoon, who represents East Rutherford, New Jersey. Why is that significant? Well, that's the location of the World cup finale. And, well, looks as though ice is about to be surged to World cup stadiums across America. And she is saying it's not acceptable. So make sure to, like, comment, share and subscribe. Spread the word. Here's my interview with the congresswoman. Super excited today to be joined by Congresswoman Nellie Poe from New Jersey. Now, Congresswoman, I really want to jump right in and talk about an issue that is galvanizing a lot of Americans and also folks worldwide, and that is ISIS presence at this year's World Cup. You represent East Rutherford, where the World cup finale will be held. What are you hearing, based on what you've spoken to members of. Other. Other members of Congress, members of the administration, based on what ISIS presence at the World cup will be?
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Well, let me just say, first of all, and thank you so much for. For putting, you know, giving me the opportunity to speak to you and to your audience. But let me just say that I was very surprised, in fact, kind of shocked. And, and maybe I shouldn't be, because this appears to be the kind of thing that is happening in this administration, their policy. But I was. I was at the Homeland Security Committee. As a member of the Homeland Security Committee, I, Todd Lyons, came before our committee, and I asked the question, you know, you know, with the. The World cup coming before us, where it's going to generate 10 million people from all over the world, so many different countries involved. How, you know, how are we going to make sure that we are saying that we have a welcoming country, that we indeed want to make sure that they are doing everything in our. In their. Everything within their power to. To give this one of the most largest, the biggest event in our country and all throughout the world to make sure that. That we're letting people know that America is Ready, is prepared and is also looking to make sure to welcome you, to make sure that they don't have the fear of having to deal with some unmasked, unknown and absolutely, I would say, based on just the past behavior, the lawlessness of this group to come out and be able to prevent people from enjoying the game and feeling safe and protected. I have real concern. I was surprised of his response. I was surprised that his response was that they're going to be present because they want to make sure to provide that kind of security. Quite honestly, I want to make sure that we make this sport, this World cup, the best that we can possibly do in our country. And that absolutely doesn't appear to be the number one area or concern of ice at this moment.
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Well, I got to ask you, do you know what present means? Right. Does that mean that they're going to be patrolling outside of stadiums? Does that mean that they will be allowed inside of a stadium, for example? What does that mean?
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You know, that's a great question. Your guess is as good as mine because I actually asked that and on the contrary, there was really very little answer. It was a well rehearsed answer that was given to me as opposed to really giving us an idea. What's their plan? How do they intend to do that? How do they make sure that they're not just doing, you know, target. Because just think about this, Think about this. For example, one of the things, you have two countries, let's say that you have. I'm just going to make it up. Let's say it's Mexico and Argentina. Everybody in that audience is going to be able to relate to the game. They're going to speak Spanish in most cases, or they're going to wear their flag in support of their country or what have you. What does that mean? That ice is going to be at the very forefront of making sure to go through everyone and not make it safe for them. I'm really concerned about that. If you also think about one of the things that they're looking to do and try to create the policy, and this is the most outrageous, it's obscure. I can't believe that this is happening. What they want to do is to make, to require that anyone coming to the United States that they prefer provide a five year social media information about their social media because they want to be able to review it or so what are they going to do with that information? What are they going to do? More importantly, where the hell do you think that they're going to store that information? What is it really? Think about it. It's just, it's absurd.
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Do you recommend American citizens carry paperwork if they're going to go to a World cup match?
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You know, that question was also asked and clearly Mr. Lyon indicated his response was no. That American citizens should not have to feel as though that they have to walk around with their passport. Well, let's make sure that his, that he puts his, you know, that he really follows through with that. Let's make sure. I don't believe it. I don't think that that's the case. I think that they are going to do what they've been doing. We know what they. We know that this has been an outrage all throughout the country. We know that United States citizens have been unfortunately and sadly a target of ice. We know that because we, we saw with our own ey, United States citizen, two Americans murdered. Murdered for just simply raising an awareness and being present at that. So do I think that they are going to do the. To. To not behave in the way that they have? I'm really concerned about it and I don't know. I don't know. Which is why I've asked for a meeting of the Homeland Security. As you know, I serve on as a ranking member for the World Cup Task Force. I want to have a meeting and I've asked the Chairman to call for a meeting so that we can actually find out what their actual plans are. What are they planning to do, how do they intend to put this out there, and what can we tell the rest of the world? That, that the United States is prepared to welcome them to the World Cup. This is the most important event coming up and, and, and right in my district. And quite honestly, we should make sure that we have everything in place and I will be fighting and, and, and advocating for nothing less than that.
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Now we are in a partial government shutdown, ICE funding, DHS funding, partial government shutdown. Right now. Do you see an off ramp for that ending anytime soon?
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I will tell you that I know both House, the House of Representative as well as the Senate and its leadership are working towards that end. But we have made it very clear there are some very important policy directors that we want to make sure. I strongly believe that the ICE needs to, and DHS needs to reform and change its policies. There's no question that I completely support, you know, the unmasking of agents, the body cameras to be worn. I absolutely. There are 10 differing categories that's been put out there. They are common sense policies that should be incorporated or should be implemented. And I strongly believe that unless those things are put in place that we will continue to speak out and not take any action. Now, I'm not in any position to speak for the leadership, but I know strongly that our leaders are looking within our caucus to make that happen.
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Now, before I let you go, President, State of the Union is in less than a week. He'll be talking about immigration, probably for part of that speech. Do you plan, as it currently stands, to attend the State of the union?
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Oh, absolutely. 100%. It's my job. It's what I was sworn into office. I I will be there representing my constituents. I will be there listening carefully to what is being said. I know the rhetoric that may in fact take place. But I am prepared to represent my the 9th congressional district. So ye I plan on being there.
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Congresswoman, thanks so much for taking the time.
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Thank you so very much.
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