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Victor Davis Hanson
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Sammy Wink
Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Victor is the Martin and Neely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marcia Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. This is our Friday News roundup and we are going to talk about Trump's been in the news all week as he's traveled to the Middle east. So we're going to look at some of the deals he's made in the Middle east and those will be the first topics that we look at when we come back from these messages. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. You can find Victor at his website, victorhansen.com the name of the website is the Blade of Perseus. So please come join us there for all Victor's writing, his video recordings and also audio recordings. So we'd love to have you. We would love to have you as a subscriber as well for 650amonth or $65 a year. So Victor Trump has been in the Middle east and I'm anxious to hear your thoughts on all of the deals he's making, whether it is additional investment in the United States, he's got a Boeing deal with Qatar and he's got arms sales deals with the Saudis. If we put it all together, all the other deals he's made with other countries, it's coming to 8 trillion in production goods in the United States.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Yeah, that's got the left very angry, all that money coming in. So for every billion dollars, there's four or five thousand jobs. Thousand billion is a trillion. So you've got 7,000, you know, $7,000 billion dollars. And so there's going to be a lot of jobs here. And when you look at the deportation and closing the border, there's not going to be a lot of cheap labor. So the wages are going to go up. There's going to be a demand for workers as there was during the first term. And remember, Joe Biden had said that. He had said when he came into office, he had attacked the Saudi royal family because of the Turkish embassy incident. And he said he was a killer, I think, or something to that effect. And then the Saudis just said, fine. And they were estranged from Biden. And then during the 2022 midterms, they didn't pump oil as requested. They went Venezuela, they went to the Middle east and they begged people to pump oil because the price of gas got very high under the Biden hyperinflation. And then Biden drained a million barrels a day for 40 or 50 days out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Then he figured out you can't offend the Saudis. So then he wanted them to be friends with him. But recalling all this, they didn't like him and so they didn't respect him. Sort of what the Chinese were reportedly had said during the negotiations that they didn't respect Biden and they could do walk all over him. So they really couldn't negotiate with him because they knew that he didn't represent the strength of America, that he would be seen by Americans as too weak. So the Saudis say they're going to buy $140 billion worth of US military equipment, and in addition to that, they're going to invest $600 billion in the United States and then they go to Qatar and a rival of the Saudis, they want to outdo them, even though they're much smaller. They're going to spend somewhere well over a hundred billion, maybe $200 billion on buying Boeing jets. That's a slap in the face to Europe that is angry about all this. Europe is watching all These deal making and they are deer in the headlights. They don't know what to do because they're ideologically joined with the American left and they have been talking about cutting their own deals with China. They went up the same amount of trade deficits as we do, about a trillion dollars, but they pay for it because they have about a 300 billion dollar surplus with us. That helps them, but they're very angry because they're not going to be selling as many Airbuses and they don't know why. Donald Trump is American nationalist. They've never met a president in the modern era like that. So their attitude is why is he doing these things for America? He should be subsidizing our defense and running up a big trade deficit with us and give us primacy. And the only missing element is he didn't stop at, he didn't stop in Israel. I guess he didn't want to offend them. Now he's dealing with an ex Saudi, ex isis, ex terrorist, head of Syria, whatever Syria is today, it's been carved up. The Israelis are helping the Druze on their side. The Kurds have carved out a little bit. So it's a rump state, but he's going to recognize this government apparently. And so the danger with all of this is that take Gutter for example. They've given, along with communist China, As I said, $60 billion for higher education and they fund radical, pro Palestinian, anti American Middle east programs. And so he's really let them off the hook. The other thing is about the, I think what he's, what they're trying to do is they're doing, their contribution to the trip was airplanes because they gave this $400 million refurbished, elegant, plush 747 to the US Air Force. And then for Donald Trump's personal, I mean not personal, but use as president, because Air Force One was age and old and the Boeing did not come through. So you can see the subtext. Boeing's going to build 200 787s and 777s for Qatar when they're way back ordered and they couldn't even build two for their own government. And the other thing about it is Donald Trump can say, look, I didn't really want to get the 400 million dollar plane, but they're giving us so much business with these 200 jets they've ordered. This is just a token of our good friendship. And to get out of all the criticism, all he has to do is say, look, they gave us a billion dollar El Uday Air Force Base and they remodeled it. They spent another billion dollars. Plus we use it. We haven't paid anything for it. We don't pay rent. It was a gift for the government. All he has to do is saying, I'm going to use their jet until the Boeing comes on. And if the Boeing doesn't come on line when I'm president, then the next president can use it and then not give it to his foundation. At least running maybe just as like a Reagan artifact, you know, a museum piece. Park it outside the Trump library. But don't use it as a personal plane. And he'll have no ethical problems. If he doesn't do that and a foreign government gives a delayed gift to Trump himself via his foundation, he's going to have ethical questions. Already some conservatives are questioning why he can do it. I don't think anybody has a problem with if this regime wants to give us a free airfare, air base, so we use it as we please and they want to give us a free airplane and they want to give us 60 billion. I don't hear anybody saying Harvard shouldn't get money from gutter. They shouldn't, but nobody says that. They all get money from gutter governments, military, universities. But the problem is Trump has to protect himself and not eventually gain ownership through his foundation or library.
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Sammy Wink
I just want to add that with the Syrian new leader, I think his name is Ahmed Al Sharar Sharrar. He's not only did he work for Al Qaeda etc, but also he, Trump has relinquished or taken off the sanctions against Syria. And he said he wants to do this because he wants to give the guy a chance to make something of his country. I love the way Trump. Yeah, that's, I mean, it's nice actually.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Yeah. And he says things like I like him and it's important that you like somebody. So they haven't seen this doesn't go down well with our elite. His colloquial, folksy way of business and these big momentous decisions. He's supposed to be a sober and judicious Republican, Romney esque type of president or maybe, you know, a John Kerry president type wannabe. And so he would have a committee and he would have a task force and they would make a position paper and then they would weigh the pros and cons and then in two years we'd see a recommendation that was full of all these professional diplomats verbiage and he just does it.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. Pete Hegseth apparently also signed a cooperation in defense with, I think the Qataris.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Yeah, well, they're right next to Saudi Arabia. But they're, they're a friend of Iran. And so they have a balancing act. They don't want Shia populations to overthrow these monarchies in the Gulf. So they, they try to cut deals with Iran to look the other way, but they've gone a little bit too far. They host Al Jazeera, which is a very anti American, anti Israeli hate organ. And then they are the headquarters of the Hamas leadership in exile. And they, as I said earlier with Jack, they think they're Switzerland, but they're not. They're very anti American, at least until Trump came in. He's got to be very careful, though, because. Well, he doesn't have to be careful because if they do anything, he can flip on a dime and he will flip on a dime.
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Sammy Wink
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
They don't need any nuclear facilities whatsoever. They have, I don't know, a hundred years of natural gas and oil to power whatever they want. So they don't need it. They can they can go, they have all the sun in the world. They want to go solar panel. So they're trying to enrich up to 90%. I think they've reached a lot of it at 60%. So that's way over what they need for a nuclear generator. So I don't know what Trump is up to other than I think he's trying to tell the world we're going to go back to maximum pressure. That's embargo their oil list them, delist them from the world's banking organizations so they can't really use foreign banks, put travel bans on them and then see if that pressure brings fundamental changes. And what does he want? He wants three things. Number one, he does not want them to try to overthrow the Gulf monarchies. Number two, he doesn't want them to fund the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas. And number three, he doesn't want to get a nuclear weapon. But that's all there is to the regime. It can't govern. And so it spent hundreds of billions of dollars on these terrorist organizations. And if you could neutralize them, then you'd have a calm Middle East. Most of the Arab countries have gone beyond or evolved beyond the Yom Kippur War. So they're not really engaged in a military conflict with Israel. They have no desire to. They would lose. And they get along fairly well. So it's just Iran and he's trying to get most of the Gulf money to recognize Israel and to make deals with the United States and then to tell Iran, you're going to be even poorer because you're going to be sanctioned, isolated, embargoed. So why don't you do the three things that the region wants? I don't think they're going to do that. And so he's going to have a rendezvous. He's got to be very careful when he says things like, I could solve the Ukraine war in a day or we're going to, we will probably get a cut a deal with Iran. I don't think they can cut a deal because that regime has never cut a deal with anybody. They don't tell the truth. The, the, the Iran deal with the Obama administration with a joke. So I think what's more likely, when he says you're going to have to let American inspectors go in there and certify that you don't have enriched uranium up to weapons grade levels, they're going to say no and the deal is going to be off and then they're going to take it out. Whether you like that or not it's going to happen because I just don't think they're going to voluntarily surrender or they're going to obfuscate and delay, delay, delay.
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Sammy Wink
Well, it seems to be a good week for Trump nonetheless, in terms of he's just everywhere across the world making deals and it seems to be mostly let's just all get along type of deals. So, you know, you got to admire him.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Get along and get rich.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, let's all get along.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Yeah. Talk, talk. Jaw. Jaws. Churchill said beats war, war. So the, the left doesn't know quite what to do with all this. They really don't. They haven't got a strategy because on the one hand he's got tariffs that they used to be for. On the other hand, most of the unionized American non governmental employees voted for him. On the other hand, the idea of taking tips off the tax rolls or taking Social Security exempted from taxes, that was something the Democrats always talked about. And then being a peacemaker abroad and trashing neoconservatives, which he did, he just said nation building, nation. He was talking about the Afghan and the Iraq war, maybe even first call, I don't know. But so how do you criticize him if you're a Democrat? I don't know. You say he's a racist or he's a fascist, but he stole the middle class from them and they are now the party of the very poor and the very wealthy. And he's a party of the middle class. And that's a bad thing if you're a Democrat, because the middle class is where elections are won.
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Sammy Wink
They seem to be the party of the absolutely insane and crazy, if you follow all of their protests. But we'll leave that for a little bit later. The last topic before we go to our ads are Africana refugees, as probably many of our audience know, are being accepted into the United States, though only the first are coming at about 47. It's turning the head of the left. They're going crazy. But their president of South Africa came out and said those refugees that are leaving are cowards. And this is the guy who actually signed the expropriation act in South Africa. I think he signed it in November. That said, the government has the right to take away with no compensation lands that the state can show are just for, are for just and equitable reasons. So everybody knows I was even the.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Western people or I was surprised, the BBC and all, they're all calling Trump a liar when he said, oh, they're taking Their land away. They are. But he said no, they can only they have a new law. Yes, they don't have to give compensation, but they won't take it unless it's for public purpose. In South Africa, anything can be for public purposes anytime, anywhere to anybody. So that's bogus. So they're stealing land. And there's only 7% of the population is white. It's shrinking. What he's worried about Ramposa, is that his name. What he's worried about is he's looked at what Mugabe did in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe and he understands he hates white people. He hates Africaners especially. But he understands that they make their expertise in agriculture and agribusiness make South Africa the wealthiest of all countries south of the Mediterranean. And everybody knows it. And he's going to drive out that group of people he ran on. You know, they played a song, Kill the boar, Kill the boar. So. And then, you know, when they talked about them, the people on the View said that this was racist, that we didn't want these white people coming in because they were from an apartheid regime. The left has a very strange idea. They have been racist for 50 years. The only people really coming in to the United States are Asians and Hispanics and people from Africa, period. There are no people from the former British Commonwealth or from the eu, basically. So when you have a few people coming in that don't fit, then they go hysterical and say, this is terrible. Which begs the question, why do they want only people coming that are very poor and non white? And why do they go hysterical when a measly 60 or 70 people are coming in who are real refugees? They've been threatened with physical violence. They've had family members killed, unlike the 10,000 a day that were coming here, were not refugees. They just wanted stuff. So. And the answer is they're racist. They are racist. They have a vision of the United States of being a socialist non white. And when you say that, they say you're just a racist yourself. You believe in the Great Replacement theory. That's the term. They accuse conservatives of conspiracies, but they're the ones that brag about demography as destiny and the new democratic majority. So they hate South African refugees coming because they were afraid that there'll be too many white people coming. And I'm talking. Who am I talking about? I'm talking about Presley, I'm talking about Jasmine Crockett, talking about the insanity on the View. I'm talking about the Black Caucus and the Congress. It's Just when you hear, as I said earlier, when you hear Jasmine Crockett talk about white boys and you hear about Ilyan Omar talk about white men are terrorists, and you just hear that all the time, white, white, white, white. It's, it's a racism that people are sick of.
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Sammy Wink
Well, since you mentioned that, we have, as we often do, read comments at the end and I have a few more, but there was one actually that addressed that she said, because you and Jack had talked about that day. Ketchum 11:48 was the viewer on YouTube and she said, or he said, you are 100% right. I am an American Christian veteran and black, black. And I'm tired of all this racism. I'm sick and tired of it. It's ridiculous. And yes, I voted for Trump and he's a great president. So that's one of many.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
He did. And According to Rasmussen, 39% of African Americans now support Trump's first hundred days. So all of this elite that the Democratic Party thinks that they have to promote the new aoc, the new Jasmine Crockett, their own constituencies don't. They don't have enough of their own constituencies, given that they've driven out the white working class. They have to win 90% of blacks, 65%. And they're not doing it. And I think it's gotten worse. So. And now we have that crazy Sri. Is that his name? The, is he a Sri Lankan congressman that he's going to impeach Trump?
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Sammy Wink
Victor, let's go to ads and then we'll talk about Sri when we come back. Stay with us and we'll be right back.
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Victor is on X. His handle is at VD Hansen. And on Facebook, he's Hanson's morning Cup. And there's also the Victor Davis Hansen fan club on Facebook, which is not associated with us, but they do a great job researching, especially the new stuff they do put on, but they research and put on old works of Victor's and they do a great job of that. So please find Victor in any of those spots. So back to sri and I think it's Tanadar. And yes, he's proposed using legislation that will impeach Trump on seven articles. So I was wondering, I, I think the Democrats are not on his side. So it does show a divide in the Democratic caucus. I was wondering what you thought.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Well, they've done it twice. Donald Trump's the only president to have been impeached twice. He's the only president to have been tried as a private citizen. He's the only ex president that had his home rated. He's the only president ex president to be the subject of state, local and federal prosecutions and indictments. He's the only major presidential candidate that there were efforts in 25 states to take him off the ballot. And so we've kind of forgotten all that. It's been, I don't know, six months, eight months ago during the campaign. And now he wants to revive that and just show you how crazy it is. And then the question is, did we ever hear of this man before this? I never had. I had never heard of Jasmine Crockett until about six weeks ago when she started screaming about white people. I didn't even know who the, I still don't know who he is. The mayor of Newark and he wants to be governor. So what is this all about? It's street theater. It's about getting name recognition and taking over from the old guard of the Democratic Party. And they're going to go full McGovern and full Dukakis. I hope they do. And they're going to run that party on the ground because nobody's going to vote for this agenda. What Trump is doing also, it's really important to point out he's doing two things. He's saying that things that can't go on won't go on. You can't print $37 trillion and rack up that much debt. You can't print 1.1 trillion. You can't give to our competitors $1.2 trillion in trade surpluses every year. And you cannot run up a budget deficit of, of $2 trillion after you've borrowed 7 trillion. And you can't just keep fueling the Chinese military with trade surpluses and foreign exchange. And you can't just keep letting in 10,000 people a year. So everybody knows that. But the second existential question is, why did they do all that and how did they pull it off? Because their positions on transgender, not very popular. Open border, not very popular. Afghanistan, not very popular. Soros crime policy, not very popular. Hyper economy, not very popular. So how does the left exercise power? And Trump has come up with a solution. He says the project, the progressive project does not rely on popular support. All of the issues do not poll 50%. So what do they do? Oh, they rely on the bureaucracies, the lowest learners, the Anthony Fauci's, the James Comeys, Right. So he's going after that by cutting them. And then he says, oh, they're the big mega foundations, Tides foundation, gates. So we're going to start taxing their income, their endowments. I think that he should have an exemption up to 10 billion. Because if you look at the mega mega foundations, 100 billion and plus, they're all left wing. But our little Bradley foundation is 1 billion. But they need to exempt some of the smaller ones. And then he's saying, where else did they get their power? Oh, they train all of our future leaders in the university and they rely on federal money. And Mr. Garber, the president of Harvard, I think he's saying to the Trump administration, do we use race? Don't ask that question. Because we have racially segregated graduation ceremonies, dorms and our admissions are race weighted. Do we report all the gifts from China? No, we don't want to go there and get our, we haven't reported all that money. Do we gouge the federal government 50 to 60% in surcharges? We don't want to go there. We do. Do we protect speakers who come on campus as invited guests with first Amendment? No, we don't want to talk about that. So he's going after the universities and he's on the right side of that. So foundations, universities, media, fake news, fake news. He's always attacking the media. Caroline Levitt has got the new media in there and kicked some of the old ones out. She's a little bulldog, that big bulldog. I don't mean physically, but her stature, her ability to take them on is pretty amazing. So what I'm getting at is part of the Trump counter revolution is actually having these issues and policies and agenda. The other half is saying, how did we get these terrible things on the border and overseas? Oh, I know what it was. The foundations fund dei. Oh, the higher education lobby indoctrinates people. Oh, the media warps the news. Oh, pollsters do this. Oh, and he's going after every one of these institutions at the root, the root causes, and that's why they're getting so angry. It's a real counter revolution.
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Sammy Wink
Yes. And we're all hoping he's very successful in what he's doing. So let's, since we're on the Democrats, we might as well talk about some of the news about potential candidates for 2028. Oh, Pete Buttigieg is out giving campaign speeches to audiences and sporting a beard, apparently, as though it's going to make him more amiable to the average Joe crowd, I guess, if I can put it that way. And then the other one is Gavin Newsom, who has decided against allowing illegal aliens to get California medical and putting.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Them on scrambling as fast as they can. And Pete Buttigieg, when they're ultimately they're going to be judged on whom they support and what was their record when they had power. Pete Buddjig was Secretary of Transportation. He was lecturing us on racist cloverleaves, remember? And on ramps. And he was, he drove up in an suv, then pulled out a bike and then got the cameras there and he rode a bike to work. So he's a sanctimonious fraud. He always was self righteous, sanctimonious, going nowhere. Gavin Newsom's got a problem because he knows that he's got to move to the center. So he's doing that rhetorically. But he can't deal with a homeless problem. He said, come on, you cities, stop it. And then he knows that, that 40% of the state's residents are on Medi Cal and he wants to grandstand, say, I'm going to pay for their Medi Cal and he doesn't have any money and he can't raise taxes because it's 13.3%. He's losing 300,000 people a year and he's got the highest poverty rate in the United States at 20% of the population. One quarter of Californians can't pay their power bill. So what he's trying to tell the legislature and Silicon Valley and all of his constituencies calm down because we've got about 20 million Appalachian Californians. They're poorer than Appalachia and they can't afford $5 to $6 gas. They can't afford 30 to 40 cents a kilowatt energy. They can't afford a home. We're driven all the insurance companies out, we're driving out the oil refiner, we drove out the timber company. So how's he going to was driving today from. I spoke for the Hoover Institution. I'm kind of sleepy because it was a 250 mile trip each way. And my point is the 99 Freeway. When you get to Delano, California and you're cruising along at six lanes, three each direction and it goes down to two and it's exactly the same as when I was so almost 55 years ago. He hasn't done a thing. It's a blood alley. It's the most dangerous freeway. So why doesn't he just cancel his podcast and just fix it? Why doesn't he build a new reservoir and just cancel his podcast? Why doesn't he just close the border and say to eyes, we're here to help you and we're going to deport illegal alien? He can't do any of that.
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Sammy Wink
You mean why doesn't he just get to work, huh, Victor?
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Or why doesn't he just be a technocrat or, I don't know, an effective guy. But he can't. A, he's incompetent and B, his entire life he's faked his way through with his looks and his little shtick. You know, he kind of goes like this when he talks and he reminds me of Justin Trudeau a lot. And so there's nothing there. There's no there there with Gavin. And, and so he can't do the issues that he wants to. And so I don't think he's going to make it. I really don't. And I don't think Pete Buttigieg is going to make it. I don't know about Josh Shapiro. I don't think Governor Pritzer is going to make it. He's a buffoonish type of character. He comes across as a spoiled Nepo baby.
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Sammy Wink
Just one thing though. If you're thinking that of them running against Donald Trump, I could see that. But they may, they may be, they will be running against somebody else, a JD Vance or a Marco Rubio, and you still think all of Those guys like Pritzer couldn't toe the line.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Maybe a Josh Shapiro.
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Sammy Wink
Josh Shapiro, yeah.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Andy Bashar, the governor of Kentucky. But they're going to go. They're looking for a Bill Clinton, they're not looking for a Barack Obama leftist. They've been there, done that and they went, they're looking for a Bill Clinton centrist. And that's going to be hard because the MAGA agenda cut a lot of their constituencies out from under them. And the Republican never Trumpers who got angry about tariffs or supporting unions are, you know, not getting involved on the ground in various conflicts. They're just irrelevant now. They're marginal. The Bulwark constituency is very small. The Dispatch constituency, it's not. Not, it's not a constituency. There is no never Trump constituency anymore. They've been absorbed by either the left or they're irrelevant.
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Sammy Wink
Well, Victor, maybe just a small topic. Hannah Dugan, the judge that snuck an illegal alien out her back door to avoid ice, has been indicted by a federal grand jury this week and it looks like a very strong case against her. What do you think her fate is?
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
She'll be convicted if they have a jury that's open minded. I mean if you're a federal judge and there's federal officers, both uniformed and un uniformed and they have a warrant for someone who broke the law and he's an illegal alien and she cancels her trial right in the middle of it, she just delays it. She leaves the victims who came there to see justice. She, she and this crazy public defender kind of facilitate his secret exit out of a jury side door which I guess the non uniform ICE people saw. But the point was she was, she didn't care if he went out there and somebody tossed him a gun or he was, somebody was waiting for him, they could have injured officers. She was aiding and abetting a felon and she should go to jail. And especially if you're a Democrat and you lecture the country as no one's above the law, including Letitia James. I found out that that statue is not hers.
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Sammy Wink
Jack told you that looks like Letitia James.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
It does look like her.
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Sammy Wink
Well, that's one more topic that was good this week was the inflation rate according to the Labor Department statistics is at an all time low at 2.3. So if nothing else, cheers to Donald.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Trump for his There is no inflation to speak of. And corporate profits, profits are up, jobs are up, they're going to readjust the GDP it looks like. So it will be more or might be over 2%. There's no bad news except on the Wall Street Journal and the left wing press that say the recession, recession, recession, stock market. Stock market's back where Donald Trump was when he was inaugurated. So now everybody is listening. What was all that about the hysteria? Donald Trump ruined it. He's ruined his. He's all over. I would ask some of the Wall Street Journal writers and op ed, would you please now come forward and say that you apologize for telling the country that he destroyed his administration and that we had destroyed the stock market and we were headed toward a recession. That was not true. I said that on our podcast. Why don't you just take a deep breath and not judge something right in the middle of the, of the effort? And that's what they did because they hated him so much. And we don't know what the effect of this is. We have never ever seen in 100 days commitments for seven, $8 trillion. We don't know if they're going to honor that. We don't know if the money's going to be actualized. We don't know any of it. But if it is, and it comes at a time when you have a president that's cutting taxes, deregulating and yet addressing debt and all of the indicators on jobs and economic growth are good and you put that into it, Newt, you could have an explosively robust something you've never seen before. And that is what destroys the Democratic, I mean, they can't handle, they can't process it. They can't imagine that. So they have to be against foreign investment. They have to be against deporting illegal alien felons. So they're, I've never seen anything like it. Hikem Jeffries commented on the judge, but he also commented on the representatives that were assaulting ICE members. He said that's a red line. If you, if Speaker Johnson takes them off committees. And I'm thinking, well, you did when you had the January 6th committee, there were nominations that the minority leader at the time, Kevin McCarthy, he has a prerogative to make his nominee. And Nancy Pelosi said, nope, not him. He's a real Republican and he's nope, not him. Nope, not her. Liz Cheney, yes, she voted for Trump's impeachment and she's not politically viable anymore. And the Republicans hate her. And Adam Kissinger, ditto, ditto, ditto. He's not going to be in office anymore. The Republicans hate him and he voted for impeachment. So there you got it. And so I come Jeffries is very strange. He says that's a red line. What's he going to do if these representatives assaulted federal officers? I thought he said that no one was above the law on the lawfare matters. So is he now saying that if you're a member, member of the House of Representatives, you can go into a federal building and assault the security there and just walk in and you add the other consideration that he's doing all of this on behalf of felons and murderers and rapists, and then he says this is a red line. What are you going to do? What does he mean by that red line? Are you going to get Al Green to shake his cane again? Are you going to cut another video video of kickboxing female representatives? Are you going to go full potty mouth with more of the shi blank blank videos? Or you're going to have the F blank videos again? Or you're going to get Tim Waltz to say that he's delighted when the Tesla stock drops or that Elon Musk is a dip shit or an ash. Is that what you mean by a red line? What does he mean? Does he mean what Cory Booker, or we're all going to go out in the street?
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Sammy Wink
Well, since you're there, Victor, I did want to ask you something. Not so much about the case itself and Sean Diddy Combs, but the reflection it has on our culture. And I think it kind of fits in with the rhetoric coming out of the left as well, at least the crass rhetoric coming out. But let's first go to some, some messages and then we'll come right back to talk about that. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. You can catch Victor on YouTube and on Rumble and Spotify. And on Spotify. Remember, it is the Victor Davis Hansen podcast on Spotify is the full name of it. So, Victor, I, I don't want to ask you about the salacious and disgusting details of the Sha Diddy Combs case, but he was a entertainment mogul as well and put out lots of music that was crass and of the same sort of culture that his that sprung his own freakout parties. And I thought, you know, that kind of goes along with the Democrats resorting to the rhetoric of cussing. I guess I would say it also is kind of concerning in the broader cultural culture of a young population that finds that stuff entertaining. And that is increasingly because of AI because of DEI becoming less and less educated and less and less skilled.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Remember, Obama had rappers at the White House and one of their ankle bracelets went off and then he said his favorite rapper was Lamar Kendrick, how to Pimp a Butterfly. And then in one of those lyrics, I looked at the one that Obama was one of his favorite songs, he said, kill Popo the police, kill the police. So it's a very crass rapper culture and no one wants to suggest that it's deleterious to women, to anybody gay. They make. It's homophobic, it's misogynistic, it's nihilistic. And in Diddy's life, that's what he did. He was the rapper version, the cruder version of Jeffrey Epstein. And he's going to meet the same fate. Because what the prosecutors are doing, fairly or not, they're just saying, well, we're not even going to get into the question of whether these people were coerced. They're all on drugs. We're just going to show you tapes and get testimonies. And it's going to be so primitive, so foul, so pre civilization, you know, defecating, urinating in people's mouths, just horrible things that are beyond your imagination. Pimping his own girlfriend out, and the poor woman is there pregnant, and it's just one colossal horror story. And the jury's going to hear all that and they're going to say, you know what? I don't really, I'm not condoning this. I don't really care whether they proved beyond a reasonable bout that everybody was coerced. But this guy is sick and what he's doing is sick. And he's destroying people's lives that went to these parties. And I think they're going to convict him. And I think the evidence, unfortunately, Cassie Ventura should have never. She was 21 when she met this guy. But she tried to run out of that hotel and he beat the proverbial daylights out of her. But I don't know why she ever went back with him. She should never. I mean, it's sick. And all these people that show up these parties, that's what's even sicker. So you know that he is sick. You know that he coerces women. You know that he does the most foul, horrific, horrific things at these parties. And yet you go to. And they're famous. And there were some celebrities that went there just to show up and be seen. And it's. His brand, was appealing to African American youth, Hispanic youth, white youth who thought it was cool to talk about raping women, beating up people, the bitch killing cow, all of that stuff, thug stuff. And I think. I think we're in a new ERA now where people are sick of it.
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Sammy Wink
I hope so. Because if you continue it and you see these people, these young kids, not really getting education because AI is doing all their writing, it's doing all their reading for them. They don't have skills and they can't process. They just go with whatever they're told they're supposed to like. And that could be anybody. It doesn't have to be. Obviously it's not going to be Sean Diddy Combs anymore, but the next guy will come in with the same grass culture that will attract them. So isn't it scary? I think.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
And what is Harvard and Yale doing about it? They're training the teachers in their schools of education. They're not doing anything. They're, they're aiding and they're pouring gasoline on the fire. With DEI, we should have a Marshall Plan K through 12 about reading, writing, math, strict guidelines, strict homework assignments, strict, strict discipline, strict attendance so that when they go to college, they at least can emulate their grandparents. Preparation, but we just pass it on. I mean, Harvard has remedial math at Harvard. Stanford has remedial math. And then they lie about what they've been doing. They threw out the SAT, they threw out comparative evaluations of GPAs. And, and they went full DEI. And they still want us to think that they're turning out the smartest people. And if you're not, I'm sorry, they're not very well educated. I met them. I deal with them at Stanford. They're not very impressive this last four or five years. These students are not impressive. Not like they were in the past.
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Sammy Wink
Yes. And they shouldn't allow in this Marshall Plan for Education. They shouldn't allow phones or computers in school. These students should have to come in and perform without those aids, those aids @ all. So, so speaking of criminal cases, I just thought, and I'm not sure I. This is a surprise for you. Do you have any thoughts on that Menendez brothers case? Has been in the news all week. They are trying to, after 35 years in jail, to get out. And their, their argument was always that the, their father had molested them. And I don't know how strong they.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Also, their original argument was they never shot him. If somebody else came in and shot him, now they admit they shot him. They lied about everything. They shot their mother when he was, she was preparing their college applications. If you believed that your father was a molester, why'd you shoot your mother? Why'd you shoot your father? Why don't you just call the authorities, there's no evidence. So somebody dies and he can't speak from the grave. And then you say that you try to tell the world that you shot him because he was having sex with his own children. I never believed anything they said. I think they were. There's lots of cases. We had one not too long ago in Fresno, California, of a very privileged, wealthy kid who had affluent parents. And he went in and shot. Shot his parents to get the. And then he claimed somebody else did it. It's a very common phenomenon, actually, as murders go. And so I think they really wanted the inheritance because they were lazy, spoiled, rotten kids. And I wouldn't let them out of jail, no way, no how, not for what they did. They're lucky they didn't get the gas chamber.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it seems like they did a lot of damage while they were shooting them. So now also, there's been tales of spies found, Chinese spies found at Stanford. Again, is that true? I can't believe it.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Stanford Review is running a long series, very long article detailing from some sources that there's three categories of Chinese national students. There are the small percentage that are actively engaged in espionage. They are the other ones that are not actual agents of the People's Liberation army, but they are subtly threatened. Their parents, their family, unless they cooperate and they reluctantly pass on information. And then there's the rest of everybody that have to go through a routine debriefing when they leave campus. And they are obligated by law to tell the Chinese government anything they want to know about American technology expertise. So Stanford had a Confucius Center Institute, which was a front for espionage. They had a neurophysicist visiting lecturer who was actually, I think, a lieutenant colonel in the Communist Party's People's Liberation Army. They were fined by Betty DeVos for not divulging all the money that they had been receiving from Communist China. And I think, again, we're all tired of it because we know what they did with COVID the Chinese government. We know what they did when these Confucius Institutes were exposed. We know what they do when we expel. They say it's racist. You're just like the Yellow Peril again. You're racist. And I don't think that works anymore. Nowhere not racist. But we want to ask ourselves, would the world fall apart if there were not 300,000 Chinese Communist students here? I don't mean that they're all Communists, but the vast majority are the children of party elites and provincial officials. So I just don't see why we have to have 300,000 potential spies in the United States. It doesn't make any sense other than their price gouging them. And they, and they want the money, the universities do. It's a very bad investment. And I think if you just sent them home, China's scared. I mean, they talk a tough game, but if we just don't buy their products, they're in big trouble. If we were just to say, you know what, expel all of our students from China, we'll expel all of yours, it would be, I don't know, 10 to 1, I don't think. No, it'd be more than that. We only have 10 to 12,000 students left, you know, so it would be 30 to 1. And I don't know why we don't do it. I know why we don't do it. They want the money, the universities do. But why would we let 1 or 2% be active spies? You know, 2 or 3,000, 4,000 students roaming around, sending all of our. And then when you look at their new latest jet fighter or you look at their newest tank or their newest military vessel, they all look like ours. Their uniforms look like ours. Their caps look like ours. Everything is all right.
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Sammy Wink
And then since we're into the salacious, I don't know how much credit credence I put into this, but the Business Insider apparently has made an argument that Donald Trump Jr. Is the hunter Biden of the Trump administration because he has a investment firm, 1789 Capital, it's called. And. And the Business Insider claims he was. He's doing business in China, in Ukraine, and they never asked on this particular article for Donald Trump Jr. To give a response to it. They didn't even allow. They just slandered him.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
So I'm surprised he's not Hunter Biden because he pays his taxes, number one. Number two, he's not sending checks to his sisters or his father with a little fake note on the bottom of the check. Loan repayment number three, he's not a cokehead. Number four, he doesn't lose laptops. He doesn't lose the family doesn't lose their diaries. They don't lose their firearms and dumpsters. He's not peddling his art and blowing paint through his nose and trying to get donors to give money so they can get access to his dad. He's a business person and he knows that the Middle east is worth the money. And he and Jared Kushner are going over there to make money and the degree to Which Donald Trump is going to be a beneficiary of that. That's not right. I don't think he is. So it has to be separated. But my life, I can just tell you that there was a lot of Kennedy hangers on. There was Donald Nixon, Richard Nixon's brother, and there were a lot of Billy Carter. Billy Carter, trying to remember Bill Clinton's brother, he was a cokehead, but not that anybody in the Trump family uses drugs. But anyway, Clinton's brother, who was. I think he died finally and he was pardoned by Clinton. And John Kerry's son was a partner of Hunters. And Obama had all sorts of problems with anti soma. What was the one woman that should have been deported and she was in Boston or something on welfare and she was given a visa. And then there was supporter. I mean, he had his brother come over and they just basically waved immigration laws for the Obama family. And so it. Hunter is in a sui generous. He's a special case. He was flagrant, and he probably raked in $30 million. And it's all on the laptop. All you have to do is look at those messages. Mr. Big, Mr. 10%. I'm paying his power bill. He doesn't appreciate me. The only mystery with Hunter was Hunter was kind of playing a sick blackmail with his dad. When he was up on the IRS charges, his lawyer threatened to bring his dad, the President of the United States, to testify on his behalf that he'd paid his taxes, which is meaning he was saying, look, dad, unless you get me out of this, you're going to have to testify and you're going to perjure yourself. You're going to have a choice of either lying to protect me or telling the truth and putting your own son in the can. Now, you want that? So you get these crooked lawyers and judges and then. And then you could see that, oh, I lost my crack pipe in a rental car. Oh, I've lost a third laptop. Oh, Ashley lost her diary talking about dad showering with her when it was too. Oh, my hand gun turned up in a dumpster. Oh, I am blowing paint through my nose and I'm selling them to lobby. Oh, dad, is that a little bit too much conflict of interest for you? In other words, he was saying, yes, I'm a cokehead and yes, I am erratic, and yes, I may have had cocaine brought into the White House and they found it. But you know what? I made all of you people money. $30 million, and it was old. And I'm just quoting him liberal verbally now literally when he on the laptop, you know when he said I'm getting sick and tired of this family that I, I pay for everything and I've been paying for dad and they always said that he was at, you know, the black sheep. Well the black sheep was the money man. And now dad is not there and Hunter has no money and the all the body Biden's lifestyles and expenses caught up to them.
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Sammy Wink
It's all going downhill for Hunter, Jill.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Biden, they're saying Jill, we're crooks but we have no grift anymore because Joe's not in a position of power and Hunters can't leverage everybody. So you've got to step up and pay all their bills and you can have to write a tell all memoir and how we covered up Joe Joe. And that's what she's doing.
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Sammy Wink
And they're all writing tell all memoirs about their lives. Not the, not the Bidens but all of the left wing. Which brings me to yes.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
How many times Jake Tapper I think is on tape 11 times be rating somebody who suggested that Joe Biden was non compos mentez. Remember when Laura Trump did it about the stutter. Oh that's oh that. And now he's writing a book about people like himself and he's going to make money on it. And they're all that way. They all at first they blame when they couldn't hide it anymore after the debate then it was a scramble to the exits. Who's going to be the first truth teller? So then at first they blamed the Bidens. Oh we didn't know they had a wall around him. I don't think that was Joe Biden I talked to. It must have been somebody else else. He was fit as a fiddle. Remember Joe score. Well this is the most coherent Biden I've ever met. And then when that didn't work then it was the media did it. The media was for and now they don't know what to say.
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Sammy Wink
Ah, but Chuck, Chuck Todd does. So he was out in the news this week claiming that it was Chuck Schumer's fault for allowing Joe and Chuck Schumer said we're moving forward. We don't even want to talk about this anym. He's probably the smartest of them all I'd say.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
All of what, what does it all boil down to? It was all boils down to we don't really care about the United States. We don't care that he has a nuclear codes. We don't care he's going to let in thousands. All we want is a waxen effigy and we want him there in that chair maybe two or three hours a day, three days a week. And then we're going to turn the whole thing over to the open Obama people, their prior administration. And they're going to make every judicial appointment, they're going to make every key decision on the border, on Afghanistan, on the economy, on. And they're just going to go DEI crazy, ESG crazy. You name it. Green new, green deal, Green new deal. They're going to go crazy.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. The sad thing is, is that they haven't let out what unelected official was actually making all the calls. I think we're all angry.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Yeah. I think it was all of the aides that around that work for Obama. They had all the Obama people. Susan Rice was in the administration. That's why she was so angry when she got fired from a board. You know, she said that Pete Hexis was a white male cisgender. Da, da da, da da. But she was there and she's Michelle's best friend. And they were, they were just, if you go look at them, they were all there. Anita Dunn, she was there. Jen Psaki, she was there. It was all Obama retreads, all of them. Jake Sullivan, he was working for Biden when he was working for Obama, when Biden was the vice president. Anthony, they were all retread Obama people and they just called Barack up for instructions. He said that. He said he'd like to be a third term president if he could phone it in and didn't have to be seen. And he got his wish.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, I was going to say. You think he got his wish there?
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
He did. And he ruined the country. Almost.
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Sammy Wink
Well, Victor, we're at the end of our show and we're going to hear a few more. I know I read you earlier a comment from one of the YouTubes I was looking. This one says and it's from F16 Weave and it says, Mr. Fowler, you don't get enough credit. You come prepared every day and it doesn't go unnoticed. Thank you for making VDH and yourself a must watch on my daily watch YouTube channel.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Everybody should know that. I don't really know all of the topics that come up. Some of them he's given me advanced, but he's always researching. So my job is to react extemporaneously. And sometimes he sends me that day and I try to research them, but he's the one that does all of the Background.
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Sammy Wink
All right. And then from still learning 8360, like Trump asks if we're tired winning, I ask are we tired learning so much every time we listen to. Thanks to Jack and Victor for each and every wonderful episode. So two very nice and reflective of other comments as well.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Well, we drove 250 miles today from Newport, so I'm kind of not up to my game with my sinus infection. I spoke last night to a group who were very nice group of people. Beautiful country club and at five in the morning. I mean Los Angeles, the 405 was a mess.
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Sammy Wink
No, that must have been brutal coming at five in the morning.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Yeah, I didn't sleep very much. I got back at 9:30 and I thought, oh, I'm so tired. And then like a clock at midnight, that's that thumping in your sinus that.
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Sammy Wink
But you're here and you did it.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
I'm here and we're at the end of the show. I didn't do a very good job because I'm happy.
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Sammy Wink
You did an excellent job. So thank you for all your words of wisdom today. Thanks to our audience for choosing to join us here at the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Please come back for the next episode. Jack and Victor do their show on Tuesday and Thursday and Sammy Wink is who I am. Victor and I talk on the Friday news roundup and his special weekend episodes. So we'll have have one. We'll probably produce it tomorrow for the weekend. So please join us.
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Unnamed Guest Speaker
Thank you everybody for listening and watching. See you next time.
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Sammy Wink
This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen and we're signing off.