When the Cover-Up Falls Apart

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Episode: When the Cover-Up Falls Apart
Date: July 9, 2026
Host: Rob Carson
Notable Guests and Contributors: Michael Charbonne (Newsmax Canada), Newt Gingrich, Graham Platner (via statement), Various co-hosts/producers

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show dives humorously and unflinchingly into the implosion of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign following a litany of scandals and damaging revelations. The show lambasts the Democratic Party and mainstream media for attempting to cover up Platner’s checkered past, and hosts a vibrant discussion regarding political accountability, media complicity, and the broader crisis of leadership facing the Democratic Party. Recurring comedic parody, rapid-fire analysis, and multiple special guests keep the tone lively but hard-hitting.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Graham Platner Implosion

[01:18-08:54]

• Rob Carson recaps the rise and abrupt fall of Graham Platner, whom the Democrats "chose for his rugged looks, not his character." Carson alleges the party knowingly overlooked:
  • A Totenkopf (Nazi SS) tattoo.
  • History of inappropriate behavior: alleged public indecency, questionable online profiles ("kick profile" associated with predatory behavior).
  • Sexual assault and rape allegations.
• Imagines a scenario: would any parent or employer ever accept someone with Platner’s record, lampooning the Dems' willingness to back him.
• Notable quote:
  • "The Democrat Party looked past all of these things, all of this monstrous background of this man... Even last year still had a kick profile which is a hookup site for pedophiles... And then of course the Nazi tattoo and all of that stuff..." (Rob Carson, [02:00])

2. Media & Democratic Party Complicity

[05:48-12:46]

• Argues Democrats and the left-leaning media knowingly ignored or hid Platner’s background, relying on media to "cover this up."
• Asserts Platner’s candidacy only ended when poll numbers collapsed, not when damaging facts came out.
• Parodies and satirical songs lampoon Sanders, Schumer, and the Democratic decision-makers who previously backed Platner.
• Notable quote:
  • "The Democrat Party is so desperate for power... when you're really desperate, you do crazy crap, right? Trust me, I've been there." (Rob Carson, [05:48])

3. Graham Platner’s Statement

[08:54-09:44]

• Platner’s pre-recorded defense: Denies all allegations, says he and his wife are "regular people" and targeted unfairly.
• Carson and co-hosts sarcastically interject, doubting Platner’s protestations of innocence.
• Memorable exchange:
  • Platner: "Amy and I are regular people. We were not looking for this."
    Carson: "Not say that. You guys not say. Not say. I would not say. Not say. Stop it. Are you a... not say. I would not say that. You're normal people." ([09:16-09:28])

4. Mainstream Media Self-Reflection (or Lack Thereof)

[15:37-18:59]

• Compilation of mainstream news reactions (notably from "Ms. Now") in which hosts admit the Platner coverage was "tumultuous" and "enraging."
• Carson calls out the media’s post-hoc rationalizing and hypocrisy: "You created it. That's it. It's not going to work this time."
• Notable quote:
  • "Every single time something was discovered that would ultimately should disqualify anyone from public office, you made excuses for it and you cover or you covered it up. That's what you did." (Rob Carson, [15:58])

5. Canadian Perspective: Michael Charbonne Interview

[24:04-36:03]

• Charbonne brings humor and insight: covers topics from Platner’s collapse, US-Canada relations under Trump, to lighter fare (e.g., "Spaceballs" washing ashore in Australia, value of whale vomit).
• Discussion on trade frictions, tariffs, interdependencies between U.S. and Canada, and domestic impacts.
• Rapid-fire comedic riff: Carson threatens to smuggle bourbon to whisky-deprived Canadians.
• Memorable moment:
  • Charbonne: "They were trying so hard, they got the wrong guy, projecting the right image. And when, like my dad would say, when you buy a used car, if you scrape it and the paint comes off and there's rust underneath, you know, you got problems." ([34:37])

6. Broader Crisis in the Democratic Party

[36:53-43:12]

• Concerns over Democratic leadership and recruitment: "No decent man, normal man, wants to run for office with the Democrat Party."
• Charbonne: "The Democrats were so desperate to get white men onto their side... they got the wrong guy, projecting the right image."
• Carson: "Well, I think they’ve chosen a very, very bad time for an attempted socialist communist takeover of the country..." ([36:53])
• Parallels Platner’s story to Democratic failures in candidate vetting and ideological drift.

7. Historical Perspective: Newt Gingrich on the Party’s Collapse

[40:29-41:59]

• Newt Gingrich (audio clip): Democrats, he asserts, are in "collapse," having drifted into radical, unworkable policies.
• "You're watching the collapse of the oldest political party in the world... Nobody who has common sense has the courage to stand up to people who are objectively crazy." (Newt Gingrich, [40:29])
• Carson agrees, predicting a "decisively defined" election year and an American political backlash.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Rob Carson:
  • "The Democrat Party looked past all of these things, all of this monstrous background of this man..." ([02:00])
  • "If this were a Republican candidate, it would have been over, right? Day one, Day one. And they would have said, see, Trump's a Nazi." ([05:26])
• Graham Platner:
  • "Over the past couple days I have faced some very serious allegations. I just want to make it clear. Yeah, this is all false." ([08:54])
• Michael Charbonne:
  • "They were trying so hard, they got the wrong guy, projecting the right image. ...if you scrape it and the paint comes off and there's rust underneath, you know, you got problems." ([34:37])
• Newt Gingrich:
  • "You're watching the collapse of the oldest political party in the world. ...What you're seeing right now is that nobody who has common sense has the courage to stand up to people who are objectively crazy." ([40:29])

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Time | Segment | Topic | |---------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------| | 01:18-08:54 | Main Monologue | Graham Platner's scandals and Democratic desperation | | 08:54-09:44 | Platner Statement | Platner's response (with skeptical commentary) | | 10:23-11:36 | Satirical Parody | Jim Gossett as Bernie Sanders on Democratic regret | | 15:26-16:36 | Media Analysis | Mainstream news soundbites, media's role in the cover-up | | 24:04-36:03 | Michael Charbonne Interview | Foreign perspective, US-Canada relations, Platner’s candidacy | | 40:29-41:59 | Gingrich Soundbite | Historical perspective on Democratic Party collapse |

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Tone & Style

• The show blends biting satire with a populist, skeptical take on politics.
• Rob Carson uses rapid-fire jokes, impersonations, and direct listener address to both entertain and convey outrage.

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Summary for New Listeners

If you missed the episode, here’s what you need to know:

• Rob Carson explores how the Democratic Party's gamble on a deeply flawed candidate, Graham Platner, has spectacularly failed, due largely to ignored red flags and media complicity.
• Platner’s own statement is met with disbelief and sharp mockery.
• The episode broadens to critique broader Democratic leadership failings, with insight (and humor) from Canadian correspondent Michael Charbonne.
• Historical context (via Newt Gingrich) frames this as symptomatic of a party in existential crisis.
• Throughout, Carson and guests mix sharp-tongued comedy, cultural asides, and a recurring message: The American electorate and common sense will prevail amid elite blunders and media bias.

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For more, tune in for the next hour of The Rob Carson Show, with further discussion on geopolitics, the Iran ceasefire, and the future of American elections.

Transcript

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[Rob Carson]

This is the Rob Carson Show. Welcome to a already Thursday edition of the show. That didn't take very long, did it? I was hoping that Graham Planter was going to fight it out, but I think because he's never had a real job, a real paycheck, he made $5,000 selling oysters to his mom. I mean, that's how he, like, made a living. He sold $5,000 worth of oysters to

[Co-host or Producer]

his mom

[Rob Carson]

and his dad bought him a house. And he's a spoiled, entitled child who went to private school and then he went off to, to the military. Has no sense of humor whatsoever and a terrible, terrible background. This is an awful human being, Frankenstein monster of awfulness. That is Graham Platner. And the reason why the Democrat party chose it wasn't the Democrat party was a couple of people who I understand now. That really creepy dude, he get like 15% of the campaign war chest. And he's the guy who went out to find Graham Platner and they just needed somebody to fit the profile. Oh, he wears a plaid shirt. Can this just become a little bit less obvious? Plaid shirt chopping wood? I mean, honestly, not everybody. I don't have a plaid shirt chopping wood. You know, really, do we need a plaid shirt chopping wood? But anyway, he obviously was doing something else with some wood. But that, that's beside the point. But Graham Platner fit this, you know, rugged, whatever the hell he bench presses, you know, and he works out. And he has this really bad mustache that looks like, you know, it Looks like the leather clad guy from the Village People meets the motorcycle cop, you know, and they thought that was enough. That's really because they couldn't find a masculine decent man who wants to be a part of the Democrat party because it's so friggin nuts. And they had to have somebody who was a super communist and all of that because that's where the party is headed and has to be for socialized madness and all that. And they just thought that young men would want this guy because he looks so rugged. But honestly, what a joke. What a joke. Now I was thinking about this in the parking garage this morning, was driving in and I was like, okay, so the Democrat party looked past all of these things, all of this monstrous background of this man. Even last year still had a kick profile which is a hookup site for pedophiles essentially. And they hook up with younger girls. And he's had a kick profile for decades and he didn't. Or a decade and he didn't get rid of it when he got married. All right. And then of course the Nazi tattoo and all of that stuff and likes to pleasure himself in porta potties. Okay. I mean really. So if you were, for instance, let's. I'm just going to talk to the, I'll tell them both parents, men and women in the, in the audience, if you were going to screen out possible suitors for your daughter, all right, at what point would you stop and say I don't think so? Okay, so let's just go ahead and start here and see what, what it would be has a Totenkoff tattoo which is the symbol of the SS who, who, who presided over the Nazi concentration camps. Okay.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

You're not gonna date my daughter. Get. You see what I mean? You see what I mean? Let's go ahead. Job interview you, you own a business and, and you're gonna look at a laundry list of things about someone to consider for their employment. You're sitting there and you say, hello, Mr. Platner, couldn't help but notice you have a tattoo. Can you tell us about it? Yeah, Potenkopf tattoo. It. It was the official tattoo of the SS who presided and guarded the prison camps in the death camps in Germany. All right, well thanks for coming in today there, Mr. Plattner. And we'll be in touch with you and decide if we're gonna hire you. And then just after he leaves, lock the door. Okay, so let's just put it that perspective. Cause that. Right. Am I right? Am I right? But the Democrat Party and Democrat voters. That didn't stop him. If this were a Republican candidate,

[Newt Gingrich]

it

[Rob Carson]

would have been over, right? Day one, Day one. And they would have said, see, Trump's a Nazi. The Republican Party is Nazi. And this guy. And he would have been gone on day one. And the Republican Party would have ousted him on day one. Actually, they would have never made the candidate because they would have screened them. They would have said, okay, Nazi tattoo by.

[Co-host or Producer]

Bye.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. But the Democrat Party is so desperate for power. And so, I mean. I mean, when you're really desperate, you do crazy crap, right? Trust me, I've been there. But when you're. When you're really desperate, you do crazy crap. And so they were willing to overlook everything and just say, don't worry about it. The media will cover this up. You know, everybody will just cover this up. Nobody's gonna pay attention to it. We'll come up with all sorts of excuses. We'll say, he's moved on in his life, he made a lot of mistakes, he had ptsd, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, And. And we'll be fine. And then what happened was they got to grotesque thing number 25, which was credible allegations of rape by a woman who he dated five years ago. And that still didn't do it. What did it was the poll numbers. Right before that was announced, his poll numbers, he was down by four, which means he was probably going to lose by 20, because Republicans never are ahead in races like this before the elections, because the Democrat Party uses polls and the liberal media uses polls to suppress the vote and make you feel like the candidate, the Republican candidate, has already lost. So that's why it was. That's why it was. Your Democrat Party would have allowed your daughter to date a guy with a Nazi tattoo who pleasured himself in Porta Potties, had a kick profile that, you know attracts predators, and he's wearing a towel. Said purple heart recipient should have. Should have died, said terrible things about black people, and then, of course, sexually assaulted one woman, potentially raped one woman, and then assaulted several others. And the Democrat Party say, that's fine. You could take my daughter out, or you could take your daughter out. That's perfectly fine. So there's the synopsis. I think it's a pretty good analysis, right? In fact, I would venture to say it is perfect. But the unapproached, unapologetic Graham Platner, who will be ghosted like Eric swallows, well, he will be ghosted. He will no longer exist. He will have no sway whatsoever in The Democrat Party. There will be no mention of him before the election. There will be no endorsement by him recognized. Nobody wants his endorsement because he's done. He's absolutely done. I kind of wonder, because he only, you know, he lived on disability. Okay, that's, that's the way he made a living. He said he was an oyster farmer, but he only sold $5,000 worth of oysters to his own mom. I would imagine he would have been pretty easy to buy off, don't you think? Don't you think? How much do you suppose would it be like a pack of cigarettes and $3 for the votes in L. A? Would it be something like that? Or would it be something more substantial, like, more imaginable than he could ever imagine, like a double wide mobile home, you know, and maybe $10,000, that would be a lot, but I bet he probably going to get millions of dollars out of it. But again, listen to Graham Platner because you're not going to be hearing much of him from here on out.

[Graham Platner]

Hey, everyone, it's Graham Platner here. I think as many of you know, over the past couple days I have faced some very serious allegations. I just want to make it clear. Yeah, this is all false.

[Rob Carson]

Of course it is.

[Graham Platner]

The things that have been claimed. Did not.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, we believe you.

[Graham Platner]

It's not real.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Graham Platner]

It has placed an immense amount of weight on me as I think about what needs to happen now. Amy and I are regular people.

[Newt Gingrich]

Oh.

[Graham Platner]

We were not looking for this.

[Rob Carson]

Not say that. You guys not see. Not say. I would not say. Not say. Stop it.

[Graham Platner]

Are you a.

[Rob Carson]

Not say. I would not say that. You're normal people.

[Graham Platner]

Experience. We were not looking to get into politics. Yeah, we had no desire to run

[Rob Carson]

for office, but we, the money was going to be so good.

[Graham Platner]

I just want you to think about, like, what you would do as a

[Rob Carson]

regular person, stay in the race and defend yourself and say there's no evidence

[Graham Platner]

position where a much larger world, large forces were working against you personally to accuse you of the worst thing that a person could do, and it was not remotely true.

[Rob Carson]

Then, then why did Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren, who said you were my kind of man, you're my kind of man. You're my kind of man. With a Nazi tattoo. Plain yourself with a porta potty. You're, you're my kind of man. Boy, I gotta tell you what, I, I, I don't even know what to say about that. But, but why did everybody then abandon you, Graham Platner, if you were so Believable because you weren't gonna win.

[Michael Charbonne]

I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator.

[Co-host or Producer]

Chuck Schumer and I, we back this guy. Grand platinum and its Nazi tattoo.

[Rob Carson]

Jim Gossett is Bernie Sanders.

[Co-host or Producer]

We weren't enthused by platinum, though we knew it was true. We have no shame except no blame. Though we know that it was wrong.

[Rob Carson]

What a terrible party.

[Co-host or Producer]

It's a safe bet folks will forget their memories are not that long. Graham had friends in Democrat places.

[Graham Platner]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Producer]

Even though there were many cases made against Graham, we didn't give a damn, didn't care.

[Rob Carson]

He can win, right? Okay, that's fine. Don't worry about it.

[Co-host or Producer]

The allegations we were ignoring, instead for Graham, we were out who now we got egg

[Rob Carson]

on all of our faces. Oh, majorly, majorly, majorly, majorly. Fortunately, Donald Trump has brought down the price of eggs. So there's enough eggs that the entire Democrat party can have eggs on their faces because. Wow, they certainly did. This is, this is a delicious chapter in Democrat history. I mean, really, really amazing. Coming up on the show, some of the people who could replace a grand Platinum, they're saying there's going to be a convention. All right. So they're trying to allay some of the fears of Democrats who had their candidate in Joe Biden replaced by Kamala Harris without any say whatsoever. And then also in 2016, they bought off Bernie Sanders so Hillary Clinton would be the candidate. And then of course, they chose Joe Biden with that, you know what I'm saying? You haven't had a choice for president in a while. But they wanted to allay those fears. So they're gonna, I guess, have some sort of convention. We'll run through the list of some of the people are gonna be there and we've got much, much, much, much more. The number is 800-922-6680. This, my friends, is the Rob Carson show.

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[Michael Charbonne]

What?

[Rob Carson]

I know, I know, I know. And the reason being, I think, is obvious. Other than me, you know me, we do things a little bit different here. We, we not only do leading edge commentary on, on politics and whatnot, we throw in some other stuff. We got a lot of great guests and we do comedy. We do comedy. That's very, very important, I think, in. In this day and age with all of the negativity and all of the desk pounding out there and all of the shrill voices. That's why we do it. So anyway, enough promoting me. Let's talk about something. El. You guys ready for some hot sake? Jen Psaki's got a TV show on Ms. Now,

[Co-host or Producer]

and.

[Rob Carson]

And she was just fit to be tied, which is the way Graham Platner likes his women, by the way. And here she is yesterday on Ms. Now after he prematurely withdrew.

[Molly Jones]

It is an end to what has been an unpredictable, incredibly tumultuous, at times, fascinating simply because of the political story and ultimately deeply enraging political career for Graham Platner. Enraging for all of us. And we have covered this race from the very beginning on purpose.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

And every single time something was discovered that would ultimately should disqualify anyone from public office, you made excuses for it and you cover or you covered it up. That's what you did.

[Molly Jones]

Because I think it's important that we don't put our heads in the sand and just project upon all of you what we think, and only talk to people at a table in Washington, D.C.

[Rob Carson]

which is what you always do.

[Molly Jones]

I think one of the most important things we can do is listen to voters.

[Rob Carson]

How about stop being so bet guano crazy? You could do that too.

[Molly Jones]

To watch and to try to understand what is happening in this country, even if it doesn't totally make sense.

[Rob Carson]

You, you don't care about average people. You are a political elite, coastal elite. You, you wouldn't know. I mean, you would, you would not even know where anything in a Walmart. You'd walk into Walmart, it would like the first time you entered another country, you wouldn't know where to go. You wouldn't know that generally the groceries on the right, you go over there and then you go back and then you go left and there's dog food. You go in the middle there. You know, next comes the baby products medicine on the left and then right in the middle, you're going to have the clothing sections. Then you go over to the camping goods on the other end there and automotive. Then you head south to the toys and then you go back to like the storage stuff, Tupperware and whatnot, kitchen stuff, and then the cash register. That's real, by the way. Thank you very much. That's just one Walmart. I know it like the back of my hand, for crying out loud. Anyway, she. So, you know, enough, enough with your we're relatable now. Or she's trying to make up for the fact that they, they really, really misled everyone about this checkweed. That's what she's trying to do. She's trying to make up for the fact that, that the media lied, misled and made fools of themselves again. Once again, they did it and it's not gonna work. This is why CNN and Ms. Now and all the letter networks are effectively dead because of stupid crap like this. This is Molly Jones fast. I don't even know who she is. But anyway, she's on Ms. Now again. Ms. Now with some platinum regret.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

You know, a lot of us, I interviewed him for my podcast. I've talked to his team. I. When the first New York Times article came out, I said this reads sort of funny. What else is there? Is there something else?

[Rob Carson]

Sure you did. Sure you did. You were all cheerleaders for coming out.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

And everyone told me up and down, absolutely not.

[Rob Carson]

And everybody told me that Hunter's laptop was real and Donald Trump colluded with

[Interviewer or Journalist]

the Russians and I, and I think all of us heard that same thing from him, from his Team. Nothing else coming out good enough for us.

[Rob Carson]

As long as the guy with the Nazi tattoo says there's nothing else, we're cool.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

This is clearly a misunderstanding. There's nothing more coming out.

[Rob Carson]

We were rape, shmap.

[Newt Gingrich]

Sold a.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

An arc, right? A character.

[Rob Carson]

Porta Potties. Who has a. Who has a pleasure themselves at a porta Potty. I mean, what the hell?

[Interviewer or Journalist]

Had blacked out.

[Rob Carson]

But now, no, I went to one down on the Potomac, and I tell you what.

[Co-host or Producer]

Ooh.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

He longer did that behavior now. I should have asked him when I interviewed him if he was drinking again.

[Rob Carson]

Again, here she is trying to make up for the fact that they intentionally misled their audience because they thought this guy could be elected.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

Because there's only one way you get those blackouts, and that's from drinking. And so the idea. We were sold this. This character arc, this.

[Newt Gingrich]

This.

[Interviewer or Journalist]

This person who gets better, who got better, but he wasn't.

[Rob Carson]

You were sold it. You didn't sell it. You created it. You created it. That's it. You know, it's not going to work this time. It's not going to work this time. I think this is just so marvelous. And again, I will tell you, you're not going to hear another thing from Graham Platner. He is going to be ghosted like Eric Swallows. Well, he is going to dis. Have you heard of Eric Swallows? Well, lately he's gone. He's nowhere to be found.

[Newt Gingrich]

There you go.

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[Rob Carson]

Take off, it's a beauty way to go.

[Michael Charbonne]

Take off to the great

[Rob Carson]

from the land where even in July you only need an SPF of about 1. Ladies and gentlemen, we present the one and only Michael Charbonne, the host of the Charbonne Report, Newsmax official Canadian correspondent. Hello my friend. How are you?

[Michael Charbonne]

Rob Carson. It's an honor to be between your nationally syndicated radio listeners across America as well as streaming live on Newsmax. I've got a problem here.

[Graham Platner]

Why?

[Michael Charbonne]

They found Spaceballs.

[Rob Carson]

Rob, I heard about this.

[Michael Charbonne]

Okay, now wait a second. I'm not talking about your ill adventures on the Potomac in a plastic. I'm talking about Spaceballs. And this has nothing to do with that poor guy, Wesley Warren Jr.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Tell me about. No, I, I don't. But I know, but I know Mel, Mel Brooks had a movie called Spaceballs that my ex wife absolutely loves.

[Michael Charbonne]

Yeah, you were like 35 years old. It was in 1987. You had Rick Moran, John Candy.

[Rob Carson]

I was in high school actually. Tell me about the Spaceballs. What about the Spaceballs?

[Michael Charbonne]

Okay, so Spaceballs they found. So this guy in Australia is walking on a beach and he sees these large metallic balls. And you know, Australians are quite, you know, strong people.

[Rob Carson]

They're ballsy.

[Michael Charbonne]

I'm wondering how to phrase that. And they were wondering what these things were. They thought it was something from other space. And that's exactly what it was. These Spaceballs are actually objects that help with the liquid fuel to help to take up some of the pressure. And when the rocket disintegrates in space because they're made of this from high formed stuff, they come back to Earth. So they found Spaceballs on an Australian bee truck.

[Rob Carson]

That is fantastic. Now you know the one thing you want to find on a beach is whale vomit. Did you know about that?

[Michael Charbonne]

Isn't that what you spread over top of yourself before you go into a porta potty?

[Rob Carson]

And Potomac, you know, let's not go there. I took my bike, I rode my e bike down the Potomac towards Roosevelt island and I went into this porta potty. It was the porta potty from hell. It was a zombie porta potty. There was, it was no bathroom tissue, there was no seat. And I was, it smelled so bad that I was retching. But that's beside the point. Whale vomit is very expensive and it is very highly valued because I use, they make it like cosmetics or perfume on it. Did you know that?

[Michael Charbonne]

You know, I'm just. No, Rob. I didn't know that.

[Rob Carson]

Didn't know that.

[Michael Charbonne]

That is interesting sharing that.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you bet.

[Michael Charbonne]

Rob Parson. You know, I gotta tell you, though, you guys in the States, you had a wonderful celebration. That was absolutely amazing. I thought all the fireworks once the, once the rain went away and everything, I thought that was really cool. You guys showed yourself. Well. And I think you should be. I know you're in Washington a lot now.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Michael Charbonne]

Fountains. You see the security and it's, it's finally nice that people are acknowledging some of the good stuff that's happening down there.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it is. And it's going to be so overwhelming that the left can't deny it. By the way, I hear the guy who. The canoeist, Olympic canoeist, pled guilty to vandalizing the, the reflecting pool. That's how terrible the, the Democrat Party is that said. No, it is, it is very lovely here. I want to mention something to you. Your, your said something good about Donald Trump dealing with NATO. And I want to actually play his words for you. Part of the point I made to President Trump when we spoke a few days ago is that it's not just he's winning the argument. He's won the argument. Countries recognize that they need to take more responsibility. See the direct threats. Wow, that's kind of a big deal, man. That's kind of a little mea culpa from your prime minister, let alone knowing that he actually had a conversation with Donald Trump. Do you find that to be kind of, kind of good news?

[Michael Charbonne]

So let's acknowledge what Donald Trump did, what forced NATO to pony up because they weren't doing things. He threatened to take Greenland and now everybody's all concerned about Greenland. That may have been a Trumpy ism, but he, he achieved what he needed to do.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Michael Charbonne]

And that's what he's doing. And people don't like the way that he does it because it's a little bombastic and it's a little, little New York real estate. I got a big stick. But let's look at the end result here. And Prime Minister Carney is correct. And you look at the way that the United Nations. What's his name? Kurt Volmer or what's his name with,

[Rob Carson]

with the United Nations? Not sure I know the, the head

[Michael Charbonne]

of NATO, but yeah, the head of NATO. Because they're talking. Look at all the positive stuff he's done. It's going to be really difficult when people start writing in history all the stuff that Donald Trump has done and they can't avoid the positiveness because they hate him so much.

[Rob Carson]

I know, I know. But I think it's going to, when we retain both houses of Congress and he's able to do much more, then people will begin to really realize that all of the griping and the protestations were folderol. Do you suppose now it almost kind of sounded like maybe your prime minister might be warming up a little. Do you think that maybe things might thaw out between him and Trump and we can work a little bit on these tariffs?

[Michael Charbonne]

I would hope so because they've had it rolled over now. July 1st was the deadline. There are so many things, Rob, that were integrated. It's about $3.3 billion worth of electricity Canada supplies to New York, New England, Minnesota, Michigan and the Northwest. I mean, part of parts, the car parts, et cetera. There is a point of contention where it's interesting when the US Guys are negotiating. They were saying that they have problems with alcohol. And one of the things that Canada protested was we took all the American booze off our show. I can't get bourbon here. I can't make a proper old Fashioned anymore. I know you don't drink, but I'm just saying so there's no so. That's around a billion dollars worth of product that you can't sell to Canada. And in Ontario alone, it's about 965 million. So there are some sticks in the mud that need to be resolved. And I don't know why we don't. And particularly with the midterms coming up, those northern states and a lot of the businesses on border states are seeing that there's been some reduce of trade and travel back and forth that would solve the whole thing. So I hope they do, Rob.

[Rob Carson]

I'm gonna get a trunk full of bourbon and I'm gonna drive to Canada in a 69 charger and jump a washed out bridge like the Dukes of Hazzard. And then I'm gonna sell it like they used to sell blue jeans to Russians back in the 80s. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna quadruple the price and sell American bourbon to Canadians because they're desperate for it.

[Michael Charbonne]

The truth.

[Rob Carson]

All right, so listen, we've got more we want to cover on the other side of the break, including illegals who are afraid of deportation are self deporting, trying to get into Canada, among other things. We've got more with the great Michael Charbonne. Go to Michael A. Charbonne on X. That's Michael A. Charbonne on X. Let's take a break and come back. You're listening to the Rob Carson Show. But what would you say to a Republican who says, James, if there was a Republican combat veteran who had a Nazi tattoo, a Totenkoff tattoo, you wouldn't be so forgiving. What would you say to that?

[Michael Charbonne]

So you're exactly right. What if that person was a four time combat veteran? I'd say I'd never vote for him. Or maybe it's her. Now we have women in combat. But, but you know, you can't. But I wouldn't vote. I wouldn't vote. But I think the greatest danger we face right now is from Donald Trump there.

[Rob Carson]

Okay. Of course he pivots to Donald Trump. He shows a little contrition and then of course pivots to Donald Trump is utterly ridiculous. Michael Charbone, host of the the Charbonne Report and Newsmax, official Canadian correspondent. Have you been following this story much?

[Michael Charbonne]

Yeah, I think the raging Cajun is, he's a little crabby, but I mean it's always extreme against Donald Trump. It's got nothing to do with facts sometimes.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Now let me ask you this. Do you have children?

[Michael Charbonne]

Yes, two that I know of.

[Rob Carson]

Do you have a daughter?

[Michael Charbonne]

Yes, I do.

[Rob Carson]

Okay, I'm going to read a litany of things that you are interviewing a potential suitor for your daughter. You tell me what makes you go done. Okay, you ready? I'm going to start, I'm going to start the list of things about grand planner. You tell me when you're not going to allow your daughter to, to have this guy go out. Okay. Has a Totenkoff tattoo, the official tattoo of the Nazi SS on his chest.

[Michael Charbonne]

Not happening.

[Newt Gingrich]

There you go.

[Rob Carson]

Okay. That's all I needed.

[Michael Charbonne]

Did you see the two people who did the exploration on him? I think CNN has put it on a couple times. So is Newsmax. And this guy, he's got a voice like this.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, this guy.

[Michael Charbonne]

This guy. Seriously, this guy. The ones that vetted him.

[Graham Platner]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Let me see. I can find that video. Listen to this. No, that isn't it. I, I don't have them. He had that squeaky voice. Like he's almost like a debt, like a demon. Did you know that guy for finding a candidate got 15% of the war chest of Graham Platner? So he could have made millions of dollars for choosing Graham Platinum. Is that remarkable? Rather than, I don't know, how about maybe Mr. Smith saying, I really hate what's going on in Washington. I want to get elected. I'm going to run for office. Instead, they chose somebody who fits some sort of perverse stereotype of a white guy and then kind of forgot about all of the other things about him because they thought they could, you know, cover up whatever issues he has. I think that's pretty remarkable.

[Michael Charbonne]

They were, they were. The Democrats were so desperate to get white men onto their side that they thought, let's get an oyster farmer. Guy's got rough looking. He has a beard. He's that kind of a guy. Oh, great. And the problem is that they were trying so hard, they got the wrong guy, projecting the right image. And when, like my dad would say, when you buy a used car, if you scrape it and the paint comes off and there's rust underneath, you know, you got problems.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah. His entire life is Bondo covered with paint. Here are the creeps who discovered this grand Platner you were talking about. How did you find Graham Platner?

[Michael Charbonne]

Well, so, I mean, we went through thousands and thousands of prospects. Then, you know, Leanne pulled up this video of this guy with an oyster farm.

[Graham Platner]

My name is Graham.

[Co-host or Producer]

Wow.

[Rob Carson]

I mean, that guy. Who the hell this is? Here, here. Here's the deal, Michael. No decent man, normal man, wants to run for office with the Democrat Party. I said that Kamala Harris, her constituency was crazy cat ladies with, with college degrees and the emasculated men in their lives. That's why I think they have these terrible candidates like James Talarico, this el sad or whatever the hell in Michigan. They can't get a good and decent man who has common sense and values to run in the democr. What do you think?

[Michael Charbonne]

But Rob, you've got to say, thank goodness. Let them self destruct. Let the media take those examples and show them to common Americans and say, guys, is this really what you want? Are you okay? Does this make sense? You know what? America's got to stand up for people like Navy Lieutenant Arthur Rose. He was the guy who was 107 years old and stood up and saluted. That's the kind of Americans you want to admire. I don't understand what the Democratic Party is trying to do. And they're self destructing. I mean, if you, if you look at who their candidates are and you're a red blooded American that's got a bit of capitalist and works and has kids and paying people and having to go to school. How can you do that? I don't know, but.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I think they've chosen a very, very bad time for an attempted socialist communist takeover of the country because it's a 250th anniversary our birth. Donald Trump is in office. Harvey Dillon is cleaning voter rolls. Cash Patel is doing this. They close the southern border. They are making sure that people who are voting are the people they say they are, although the, the SAVE act has still not been passed. And then also you've got candidates who literally say that we deserve 9 11. And about a month and a half out of the election. There they is, the 25th anniversary of 9 11. How do you think those things going to play going into November?

[Michael Charbonne]

Yeah, I mean I just did, I did a piece called America are you okay? And it's talking about debate on voter laws. Of 196 civilized countries in the world, 176 have mandatory voter ID.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Michael Charbonne]

And of those hundred and seventy six, 63 global countries, Rob, have same day voting and same day results. So when you look at what's happening in Cat, California, when you look at the voter fraud in Minnesota and some of the other states who have had problems with mail in votes, how could someone go against the SAVE Act? Do you think it's a bad thing to eliminate dead people from the voters world? I mean, they always show up.

[Rob Carson]

Well, obviously, obviously it's because they cheat. You know, I'm tired of not being told I can't say they cheat. Dear God in heaven, it should be obvious. You know why I know that Democrats choose cheat? Because I'm not stupid, Michael. There you go. That's, that's what I say in all of these. You know why I knew that Graham Platner was an idiot or a creep? Because I'm not stupid, Michael.

[Michael Charbonne]

You're not stupid, Rob. But there is one, there is one problem. What the problem is the Democrats keep saying no one has ever showed us any proof, no one has ever done anything. I think they're investigating a whole bunch of voter files, et cetera. There has to be a cohesive presentation, give America a clear idea of what went down so that it doesn't, it doesn't keep saying Donald Trump is promoting the lie, the Republicans are promoting the lie. Even if you look at the number of people who lived in the states and how many of those people voted, there's a problem.

[Rob Carson]

And 100%. Listen, Michael, we gotta run, my brother. But as always, enlightening and enjoying talking to you today. Tell everybody where they can find your. Your awesome web presence and your show.

[Michael Charbonne]

Awesome web presence. I'm on the. I'm on Newsmax Weekly. I'[e-mail] in the charbone Report. Rob, thank you for you. And keep doing what you do because we love listening to you, brother.

[Rob Carson]

I appreciate you, brother. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. This is not an ev. And it never will be. Graham Blattner has pulled out prematurely and he is doing longer. Going to be running for Senate in the state of Maine. A bad decision followed by, you know, the media trying to cover it up and then ultimately poor polling that ultimately caused him to pull out early, which he has been known to do over the years. I was looking for. I've got a sound bite from Newt Gingrich about the Democrat Party. Yeah. The collapse of the Democrat Party. Now, you may recall I've been talking about how the Democrat Party was doing a death spiral into hell. And. And yes, of course, I use verbal flourishes to make a point, but it's true. And here is Newt Gingrich to talk about that.

[Newt Gingrich]

You're watching the collapse of the oldest political party in the world. Democratic Party goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. And what you're seeing right now is that nobody who has common sense has the courage to stand up to people who are objectively crazy. I mean, it's not like they have the wrong ideas or the wrong ideology. They live on a planet that doesn't exist.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Newt Gingrich]

You start talking about seeking the means of production, which was a great phrase if you're Vladimir Lenin or if you're.

[Rob Carson]

Yes. Seizing the means of production, which they will never do because business owners, American America will not stand for it.

[Newt Gingrich]

They don't. But who in America is going to vote for that? They talk about they want totally open borders. We ran that experiment.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Newt Gingrich]

Was called the Biden administration.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah.

[Newt Gingrich]

It was totally repudiated.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Newt Gingrich]

They wanted one of their platform planks, totally eliminate the police.

[Rob Carson]

Police.

[Newt Gingrich]

Anybody who lives in a big city.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah.

[Newt Gingrich]

That has lots of criminals.

[Rob Carson]

That's insane.

[Newt Gingrich]

To save themselves. Who.

[Rob Carson]

Who in their right mind says that

[Newt Gingrich]

really be safer if in fact my left wing crazy friends abolish the police. And of course the answer is going to be no. So I think you could be drifting towards one of the most decisively defined elections in American history.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. 100%. This is what I've been saying. This is what I've been saying. You know, when. When they named Kamala Harris the candidate you'll recall if you were listening to the show that I laughed out loud. I said no way. And, and the reason being is because I have faith in you. I have faith in our country. I have faith in people who are patriotic Americans. I know they've tried to destroy people and destroy their concept of America, but it hasn't worked. And we are the reaction to the action of evil that had taken us down that road. And we're back, and it's our 250th year and it's the 25th anniversary of 9 11. And we're not going to let these petulant children throw a temper tantrum and take over our country. It's not going to happen. We will deliver such a massive and resounding spanking, they'll never be able to sin again. How's that sound? I think it sounds great. Coming up, the ceasefire with Iran is, is over and Donald Trump is taking him to town. Matthew Farace is going to join us to talk about that and other things in the second hour of the Rob Carson Show. Don't go anywhere.

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