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Untangling the Web of Fraud | Episode 299
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A potential breakthrough with Iran; widening federal fraud investigations that could reach the highest levels; the expanding ANTIFA funding probe; mounting scrutiny over nonprofit money networks; a swatting threat targeting a Supreme Court justice; President Trump restores an iconic Washington landmark.
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Dan Bongino
Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vance on a Friday. So good to have you with us. As always, the best audience anywhere. Big show ahead for you. We'll talk about the latest in the president's considerations when it comes to Iran. He might be on the verge of signing off on a memorandum of understanding. Well, let's see what we can understand about that. We'll talk about that in just a moment. Also, the left continuing to be out of control. The attacks on that facility, that immigration facility in New Jersey continue. We'll take a closer look at that. Also, the administration's response to it. And will Tampon Tim be slapped with charges? Some more conversation on that subject, especially as those fraudsters keep getting caught by the Trump administration. We've got all the details, all ahead on this edition of. Vince, good to be with you as we head into Almighty American Weekend. Thanks for being here. We've got great sponsors who keep this show free and in this case, keep me well rested. 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Jesse Waters was using this, I guess last night on the Fox News channel. Is that right, Chad? Somebody told me that in the chat. That's, that's great. I love that. I love, I love that. Now you might say to yourself, but, but Vince, Jesse didn't mention you. He didn't mention that this idea came from you. And this is what I have to say about that. I don't care. I don't care. I love it. I love it. I'm doing this for the good of the country. I'm not doing it for the credit. I'm doing it for the good of the country. I'm the marketing manager, as you know, for the James Talafrico campaign. And I'm going to do everything I can to destroy that campaign, including getting them to write my catchphrases on their merchandise, which they started doing this week. Hilarious. But here's the update this morning. Have you guys seen I. Apparently this has been going on for a while. Maybe this was the old marketing manager or something, but I didn't know that James Talafrico campaign slogan includes identifying himself as a bottom. Yes, you heard me correctly. Did Vince just. Yes, you heard me correctly. Check this. This is like the crazy rumble dot com. Vince, you don't have to get the visual. I can just read this to you if you're listening on the audio podcast. But I'm telling you right now, this is on James Talafrico mailers that it's a picture of him just looking creepy. This is Talarico for Texas. The biggest divide in this country is not left versus right, says the mailer. It's top versus bottom. Did, did they think this through? Did, did anyone proofread this? Did anyone pause for a moment? They go, guys, this is the single gayest mailer that's ever been sent out by a political campaign. And just to be clear, this has been fact checked all over the place. This is totally real. This is not an AI thing. This is not like some stunt that somebody came up with. In fact, if you look out on the actual mailer. Let me, let me see if we can't zoom in here. This is. It's paid for by Talarico for Texas. Can we. Can we zoom? Hold up. Let's see. There it is. Paid for by Talarico for Texas. The biggest divide in this country is top versus bottom. That's it. There he is. Mr. Bottom. He's the. He's the. He's the voice of the bottom. He's the. He represents the bottom. I can't even believe. I can't believe this is a real campaign. Did Ken Paxton hire this guy to just easily defeat him? Is that what happened here? I have no idea. All I know is that it's bringing me great joy at how stupid they are. It's actually one of the funniest things. And my buddy Sean Davis noticed this, too. He was saying that the best part of this, he goes, Talarico's campaign message is that he's a bottom. Fascinating. Fascinating. So there we go. So that's how we start today. As, as we got James Talafrico campaign just absolutely getting destroyed by themselves, which is a. Which is a lot of fun. All right, we'll set that aside. We'll get back to Talafrico as that campaign continues to descend. But in the meantime, I'll tell you about the latest updates when it comes to the president and his efforts to get a deal with Iran. He's trying. He's really trying here. You know, look, for a million reasons. One, the primary reason is he wants to denuclearize the place. And then the other piece is that he wants to get the global economy back up and running, get American citizens back to a much more comfortable position, especially when it comes to energy prices. And we are on the verge of a breakthrough. Now, you may think to yourself, well, Vince, I feel like we've heard headlines on this a lot, that we're. That we're getting very close, that it could be any moment, it could be a day or two away. And that's true. I think a lot of this has been animated by optimism that we could get to a deal. But here's the other piece of this that you should. That should give you some comfort. President Trump is not going to take a bad deal, despite the fact that we have seen all sorts of kind of like flags going up saying, hey, we're on the verge of a deal. We have not yet secured one, because President Trump has not yet been Satisfied. So he's not just gonna roll over for a crap deal, he's fighting for a good one. And yesterday we got an update from Axios, Fox News, a couple of other sources that I do trust, and they said that the President is on. And by the way, I sent out some feelers too, yesterday and got confirmation that this is broadly correct. And here's what Axios reports. Scoop. U.S. and Iran reach deal, but need Trump's final approval, officials say. And in the piece, they basically said the President is right now reviewing a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States and that if he signs it, it would be the most. If he signs off on someone signing it, it would be the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the war even started. But a final agreement that tackles his nuclear demands is still going to require further intensive negotiations. Now, if you're hearing this right now, you're probably thinking to yourself, Vince already told me this, we talked about this at the beginning of the week. That's what this deal is going to look like. This just offers further confirmation that they're about to, to secure it. We'll see. U.S. officials said the terms of the deal are mostly agreed to. That was as of Tuesday of this week, so a couple days ago, in fact, that was the day I was telling you about it. But both sides still need approval from senior leadership. The US Officials claim the Iranians later came back and said they had the necessary approvals and they are prepared to sign. Iran has not publicly confirmed that. The U.S. negotiators briefed Trump on the details of the final deal, but he did not immediately sign off. The President relayed to the mediators he, he wants a couple of days to think about it. President Trump and his advisers thought they were close to a deal several times at earlier stages in the war, but talks repeatedly stalled. US officials say that the 60 day MoU will state that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will be unrestricted. That's right. Unmolested, not bothered, not no terror attacks, no mines, nothing like that, no fines, no fees, nothing. International shipping traffic can move through international waters without being stopped in any way by Iran or Oman, for that matter. If you look at a map of the Strait of Hormuz, on one side you've got Iran, the other side you've got Oman. And President Trump said earlier this week, if either country tries to mess with the shipping traffic that goes through the strait, we'll blow them up. Just to be clear, Oman's like, why am I catching strays? What did I Do. The President's like, don't worry, I'm just warning you, you won't get blown up if you don't screw with the traffic. It's a good warning. So they're going to try and they want to open up the whole strait. And that means no tolls, no harassment. Iran will have to remove any mines that are lingering in the strait within 30 days. You got 30 days to get rid of any threats whatsoever. The US naval blockade will also be lifted, but that will happen in proportion to the restoration of commercial shipping. Now, this goes back to another detail that I shared with you earlier this week. Whatever relief comes to Iran from the President of the United States will only arrive under the condition that they do what we want first. So if you want sanctions relief, turn over your enriched stockpile. If you want sanctions relief to continue, forgo any nuclear enrichment forever or for as long as we can secure a deal with these guys. If you want that blockade to end, stop screwing with the straight of Hormuz. If you stop, then we'll start to ease up on the blockade. It'll all be so, in other words, the punishment will be phased out as long as you start behaving. That's the way this has to work if you're actually going to have a deal. That's the only way this could possibly work. And so that's what they've got set up here. Allegedly, reportedly in this deal, a US Official saying the US Would also issue some sanction waivers to allow Iran to sell oil freely. Again, this is all conditioned on Iran behaving. The MOU will include an Iranian commitment not to pursue a nuclear weapon, the official said. It will also state that the first issues to be negotiated rather during this 60 day window will be how to get rid of all that highly enriched uranium. That's the key. How do we get it out of the country? Do they get it out of the way? Do we allow Americans in there? Do we have some other international force go in and grab this stuff? How do we get rid of it? But the commitment they need to make in the MoU is they're going to get rid of it. That's what the President demands. And of course, how to address long term Iranian enrichment. The US Will commit to discuss sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian funds as a part of the negotiations. This is the leverage.
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J.D. Vance
Of course.
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Dan Bongino
The MOU also included discussion of a mechanism to help Iran start receiving goods and humanitarian aid. The MoU would also state that the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon would End Hezbollah. That's the Iranian backed terror group in Lebanon. That's still causing crap. That's still firing missiles at Israel, still causing trouble. And the MOU reportedly says no more of that crap either. That ends too. That's an issue on which Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently had a very tense discussion recently. Yeah, because the president doesn't work for Netanyahu. In fact, President Trump said this past week that Netanyahu is going to do whatever I tell him to. Even as the negotiations were being finalized, the US and Iran had two skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 48 hours. All right, this is another detail that gets back to. This is why it's so good for us to talk together each week because it helps to sort through these like simple burps of sentences. So here's what's going on with Iran. The IRGC is still popping off. Remember I told you senior administration officials revealing to me and others this weekend that what they're dealing with is disparate factions inside of Iran. You've got people that are more pragmatic in the leadership structure that the Trump administration is working with to get a deal. Then you've got lunatics at the IRGC who are planting false stories in the international media, including American news media, and who keep trying to stir up trouble in an effort to stop a deal. In other words, there are senior IRGC commanders who are still trying to basically cause as much trouble as possible to prevent President Trump and any other Iranian leadership from signing a deal. And so be aware of that as you watch these idiots pop off. Now, of course, you may think, well, shouldn't the Iranian leadership of the country, to the extent that we can identify who that is, get control of these maniacs? Yeah, definitely. No question. And that's why you keep hearing the President of the United States saying like, hey, you screw this up, we're going to take you down. We're going to, we're just going to start blowing you up again. He's not going to suffer fools here, but it is important to realize that you have competing factions inside of Iran right now. And some of this is why you're watching this trouble play out in the Strait as they fire missiles or they're firing it in the direction of Kuwait. We're still blowing up their drone attacks. That continues. So this is tense. This is a fragile piece that the president is navigating towards. A US Official claimed Iran now has a chance to unshackle its economy and there are People in their system that understand that it is an opportunity to go in a different direction. We will find out during the 60 day negotiations if that's the case. And then finally, and then I'll move on to what the vice President's saying about this. But finally, this should bring you great relief. And this gets back to what I also told you on Tuesday. There's no pallets of cash here. There's no giving them money, just like emptying banks out in the United States like Obama did and then sending pallets of cash over to Iran. Nothing like that is going to take place. In fact, U.S. officials say there will be no side deals, no secret clauses about sanctions, no funds going to Iran in some sort of secret arrangement. The more the Iranians are willing to give, the source said, the more they will get. And when they, what that means is sanctions relief, not free cash, relief of sanctions. So we'll see, you know, we'll see the President's reviewing this right now. And in fact, the vice President of the United States offered this update yesterday standing on a tarmac about the President and what he's looking at. Here we have J.D. vance. Take a look.
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J.D. Vance
Well, I think it's hard to say exactly when or if the President's gonna sign the mou.
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Dan Bongino
We're going back and forth on a
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J.D. Vance
couple of language points. I do think that we've made a lot of progress here. It's very clear that I think the Iranians, they want to deal and they want to open the Straits of Hormuz. We want them to open this greats of Hormuz. There are a couple of issues on the nuclear stuff, the highly enriched stockpile and also the question of enrichment. So, you know, we're going back and forth with them. We do think they're negotiating at least so far in good faith and we're making some progress. Hopefully we'll continue to make progress to the President will be in a position where he can endorse the agreement. But obviously that's still tbd.
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Dan Bongino
That's TBD up to the President. If he likes it, he'll sign it. If he doesn't like it, bombs away. So we'll, we'll, we'll keep, keep an eye on what happens there. But that's, that's about as good of a source as you can get other than the president himself, J.D. vance, of course, in charge of managing these negotiations on behalf of the President. And so an update from him on that subject. Man, I, you know, I, I don't know about you, but I hope they get a deal, a real deal. I hope they can get to one. And I know the President's working very hard for that. And that deal should be no nuclear Iran strait or moves wide open and the American economy humming at levels that we've never seen before. Scott Besson just told us this week that if they can strike this deal soon, we're going to get oil prices down to below pre war levels. Below pre war levels. That would be massive. That would be absolutely massive. In fact, I've got Scott Besson updates coming up for you in a moment because Besson took over the White House press briefing yesterday, which is kind of cool to see. Remember Caroline Levitt still out on maternity leave? So they have a variety of top level officials coming in and doing the press briefing. Scott Bessant showed up yesterday and he had, he had one moment that I thought was so important that I want to dwell on it. And it was in an exchange with our White House correspondent Reagan Reese. So I've got that in just a second. Hold on tight. We got a lot more to get to right here on this edition of Vince on a Friday. It's always so good to have you with us. We've got the Bone Charge infrared sauna blanket in the Colonnades household and the Bon Charge red light face mask ever since they sent them to us. And boy, Allison and I can't recommend them enough. We love Bon Charge Bon Bon Charge Bon Charge. I try. I try and nail the French pronunciation of that bone. 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These statements and products have not been evaluated by the fda. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Yes, indeed. See, I don't know if you've noticed, but the way we try and do these shows, we have the topics, we have them try and flow. Sometimes it's a little herky jerky. We'll move between a topic that doesn't make sense to some other topic. But normally there's some connecting tissue between these things. So here's some connecting tissue. JD Vance is also in charge of fraud force. We just heard from jd. JD Vance is in charge of fraud force, and they're prosecuting these jackass fraudsters all across the country right now. They are locating hundreds of billions of dollars of stolen taxpayer money. They're doing everything they can to recuperate that money, get it back. But the key right now is just we got to punish the bad guys. And you've. You know, as we look at all this, you know, one of the. One of the things here that you probably have thought to yourself, because I think this to myself all the time is, you know, it's one thing to pick up some toothless Somali who's been stealing too much money and then buying fancy cars here in the United States or sending it all back to Somalia. That's one thing. But I want to see is Tampon Tim in handcuffs. Can we be honest about this now? I know. Let the criminal justice system play out. His constitutional rights need to be kept intact. Of course, we're the right, not the left. But I want to see accountability for government officials who not only allow this money to be stolen, but aid and abet the theft of this cash. Yeah. So like CJ Juggernaut, because I want Omar in cuffs. Yeah. Ilhan Omar, she married her brother to commit immigration fraud. It's like, how often do we have to see something like this play out? And we're like, ok, well, when you gonna arrest these Democrats who run these operations, these fraudulent operations? And they're the reason all this money's being stolen. They know Keith Ellison was caught on tape straight up saying that he was protecting fraudsters in exchange for campaign cash. He said, money buys freedom. Again, do we need a lot more evidence against these guys? The Justice Department's doing its thing. And before I get to. Before I get to our buddy Scott Besson, who was great this week, let's. Let's get to the attorney General of the United States first. Todd Blanche was sitting down yesterday with Will Kane over on the Fox News Channel. I guess he was down in Texas with Will. And, and Will asked him, hey, you know what's going to happen with these, like, Minnesota Democrats? Are we gonna see any of these guys arrested? Watch at the very pregnant suggestion from Todd Blanche about the fate that awaits these Democrats who allow all this fraud to happen.
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Will Kane
Cut to watch this not enough of a form of accountability for the people out there that are having thousands, millions, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from them through fraud.
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Todd Blanche
Yes, that's right. So here's how we talk about accountability. We talk about arrests, we talk about prosecutions, we talk about jail sentences. And that's what we're doing at the Department of Justice. We're working with inspector, FBI, DHS and HSI agents. And just a few, a few examples, a jury convicted a Florida man of over $8 billion in Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud. Just last week, there was a man sentenced in Minnesota to 41 years in prison for fraud. And these are, these cases are fraud of the worst kind. Fraud against our most needy or the people who deserve the money the most. Children who need money for their lunches when they're at school, elderly who are having all kinds of medical procedures done in their name when they're not even asking for them. And this is money coming from the federal government. It's your tax dollars. It's my tax dollars. The only way we can hold them accountable is by putting them in jail.
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Will Kane
Does that include politicians? Well, know that we're in the investigative process. And I know that your answer to me probably will be you need to let the investigation play out. But if this lands and this can be proven that politicians were in some way culpable, overseeing it, negligent in some way, political accountability just isn't enough for the American people.
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Todd Blanche
That's consistent with the president's absolute directive to his Department of Justice. It does not matter if you're a politician or if you're a fraudster from Somalia. We cannot tolerate it. And Governor Waltz is a great example. He has done, or Ilhan Omar done nothing but sue us. Ok? Sue the Department of Justice for trying to get records to understand the fraud happening in his state. Okay, so that is his reaction to us trying to save the government's money. Money and recover against fraudsters. Is filing lawsuits against us.
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Dan Bongino
Now, you wonder is as, as governor, if he's filing suit to prevent federal investigators from knowing more about the fraud, is there any chance that that can be Considered a criminal count. Is that something that they can charge him with? Like orchestrating a cover up of what's happening in his state because of his role in not just allowing, but enabling it to happen? All that theft of, of government money? I don't know. But I do find it interesting. You find that interesting chat that Todd Blanch straight up brought, brought up, straight brought up Tim Walls when he was asked about, hey, what about politicians who can be held accountable? He goes, this is the President's directive. It doesn't matter if you're a politician. Anybody who's involved in this can be held criminally accountable. Makes me think of Tim Walls, he says, and then Will kind of throws in Ilhan Omar. He throws it, but, but it almost looked like Todd Blanche was undeterred. He didn't get to the Ilhan Omar thing as much as we might want to see that he straight up stayed on Tim Walls in the answer. Now, am I reading between the lines? Yeah, sure, I'm reading, I'm reading, I'm doing some line reading. But I find it very interesting and fascinating. And this is consistent with the fact that we already know that these guys are under federal investigation. It's not actually a secret that they're under federal investigation. Tim Walls, Jacob Fry, he's the mayor, the Mayor of Minneapolis, and Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of the State, they've all been receiving subpoenas for information about their behavior. What comes next? Well, it's anybody's guess, but I do like where it seems to be heading. And that's the Attorney General of the United States, not some mere legal commentator. So we'll, we'll keep our eye on that. But that, that caught my attention yesterday and I thought, well, if it catches my attention, I should share it with you. So, so there it is, there it is. Love that. We gotta, we gotta take down the politicians. You wanna stop this, you gotta take down the leadership structures. You have to. In fact, taking down the leadership structures of the violent left is also a priority. And yesterday, Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, spoke at the White House press briefing. And as I so often do, I spoke to our White House correspondent Reagan Reese yesterday morning. And she was, she said, vince, we'll have Treasury Secretary Besson in today. What do you think? What do you want to know about? And of course, top of mind for a lot of people right now, the Treasury Department, what they're up to, they got the Trump accounts, they're rolling out the app for the Trump accounts for the kids so that they can Save some money and have something that they can rely on as they get older, which is great. That was part of the big beautiful bill. Also, the Treasury Department deals with sanctions with Iran. So I knew that that would be a huge issue yesterday at the press briefing. But I said, you know, Reagan, something I remember from last year. Do you guys remember this chat that the Treasury Department announced that they would be digging into the funding for Antifa? Remember this, that all of these guys who are committing these acts of violence across the country, it's interesting that they all kind of wear the same uniforms. They all have the same tactics, they've got the same. The weaponry keeps showing up at each of these sites. The destruction is happening kind of in the same ways. There are identifiable patterns that demonstrate some continuity, some unity of purpose across all of these violent actions across the country. And in October of last year, the Treasury Department, the Treasury Secretary launched its investigation into. Okay, we're going to tap into the funding sources. We're going to figure out how the hell these guys are being funded and then we'll, we'll basically, we'll make them accountable. So I told Reagan, I was like, you know what? Can we resuscitate that? Can we get back to that? Just get an update, if you would, on how the hell that investigation's going. Are we going to finally take down these violent lefty organizations for good? And to be clear, they've made a lot of arrests of these jackasses, but so much more is needed. We're watching. I'll show you some clips in a minute. We're watching ongoing terror attacks on an immigration facility in Newark, New Jersey. So let's get an update on that. And sure enough, the great Reagan Reese asks Scott Bessant yesterday this very question. Cut three. Take a look. Here's the Treasury Secretary, Reagan Reese with the Daily Caller. I want to ask you about Antifa. In October, the Treasury Department started working with the FBI to investigate who's funding Antifa. Can you give us an update on that investigation? How close are you guys finding out who's funding Antifa?
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Scott Bessant
It is ongoing. We made substantial progress and I think in the weeks and months ahead, we are going to have a lot to report. One thing that did go the under underreported that I would point out to all of you is the IRS is now giving guidance on the Form 990 which nonprofits they have to file. And we are going to encourage our demand that nonprofits know their grant recipients. So if a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people rights, then you are responsible for that. And I think that's a very good first step.
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Dan Bongino
Okay. Quite a bit was said there in a very short period of time. All right, so great question from Reagan. Give us an update on this. Scott Besson says the following. Here's what stands out to me. He says we're making, quote, substantial progress and we are going to have a lot to report in the weeks and months ahead. Okay. So in other words, the results of the Treasury Department's investigation are imminent. And we, we might include the, the role that the Justice Department plays because this is a joint operation. This is the Treasury Department and the FBI. This is a full blown investigation into the funding sources of the American left's most violent radicals. So standby for news is the position of Scott Bessen. Good to hear from him. A Treasury Secretary who has been, he's just been absolutely wonderful. The guy does not suffer fools and I guarantee you he's not interested in suffering antifa any longer. So that's a good update. The other piece of this is he said the media has completely ignored that we have changed the terms for nonprofit groups and their tax filings in the United States of America. He said that we have. The IRS is now giving guidance on Form 990. For those of you in the tax exempt space, you will be familiar with a Form 990. Any 501C3 tax exempt organization has to file an annual form called a 990 that includes, you know, basically financial details about the workings of their organization. And that is a transparent disclosure so that taxpayers like you and me can look at whether or not these organizations are legit, essentially, and that they're not, you know, just simple whatever. I mean, like that they're not criminal enterprises, that these are real charities. And now there's all sorts of idiot organizations that have set up under 501C3, call themselves Tax exempt, pretend they exist for some charitable purpose. Media Matters, for instance, the left wing George Soros funded operation is a 501C3. Isn't that hilarious? Like, what charitable purpose did they serve? Their. They're morons. They're just, they don't actually produce anything of value. But again, they call themselves a tax exempt operation, which is very suspect. But having said all that, what, what he's getting at, I want to, I want to explore this in a moment with you a little bit in a little more detail. What he's getting at is you've got all these operations who are taking money, calling themselves tax exempt. People are getting tax deductions by giving money to these left wing operations and then they're turning around and giving that money to very violent organizations. Now that is a very suggestive, a very suggestive description by the Treasury Secretary. He seems to be tipping his hand quite a bit that what they have found is that the left is exploiting once again tax exempt operations in order to fund violent organizations like Antifa. I've got more on this in just a moment. Hang tight for it because I want to, I want to walk through what we might see in the weeks ahead. And in a recent case, that tells us a lot about how the left operates. That's, that's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Want to thank our final sponsors today of the program, Beams Dream Powder, which is I talk about all these like sleep hacks and what it takes to get a great night's sleep. Beams Dream Powder is a secret ingredient. It's so good because it really changed how I sleep. It helps me sleep so well all the way through the night. And Beam is American made in a world where it feels like everything is made somewhere, somewhere else that really matters to me. Dream is transformative when it comes to your sleep. 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Take lean.com. these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Not a substitute or alternative for care from a health care provider. Thank you, Brickhouse. Thank you. Take lean.com. you guys are awesome. Yes, indeed. People like the. Oh, you guys like this shirt? I gotta, I have a fun shirt on today. It's, it says please be round, please be round, please be round. And the quote is attributed to Christopher Columbus. Now we don't know for certain that Christopher Columbus said this, but he definitely thought it was a. It's a fun shirt. A listener gave me this actually a couple weeks ago when we were at the, the Free Speech Forum in Northern Virginia. Wmal, which is the radio station I started at here in Washington, D.C. area, they have a Free Speech forum every year where we get a bunch of the hosts on stage together. All of us, at least four of us. We've got Chris Plant, we got Larry o', Connor, we have Derek Hunter, and we have yours truly. We all got together and then these great listeners came by and they said, Vincent, we've got something for you. And they gave me this shirt and I said, I love this. And chances are I'm going to wear this this year on Italian People's Day. I can't wait for that too. It's going to be very exciting. But please be round. Please be round. Christopher Columbus. Thank you. Vincent laguardia Gambini. The best name Columbus didn't speak English. I, I know, we know the shirts translated. Okay, let's see, what else do I have? Okay, so the, the, the changes that Scott Bestin has made at the Treasury Department in order to stop these left wing radicals from using tax exempt status to fund violence. How are they doing that exactly? Well, the media has not really told you this story. In fact, it's kind of, I looked this up yesterday after Besson was talking about it. And I remembered some of the changes they were making. But I was thinking, you know, this didn't really get much coverage. In fact, the only places it really got covered was like in the industry tax press, like for, for tax accountants. That's where most like the kind of places where they have these paywalls that, that cost a lot of money to get through. But on the Treasury Department's website, they did have details about this. This is from April 23rd, a month ago, and here's what they reported. The treasury announces Form 990 Transparency Initiative to Expose Hidden Funding and Strengthen Oversight here's the change that the Trump administration made. The Treasury Department today announced that the Internal revenue service, the IRS, plans to revise the Form 990. This is the, the thing that all these tax exempt groups have to file to improve transparency, strengthen tax administration, and provide clearer reporting on certain activities of tax exempt organizations described in 501c3 of the the Internal Revenue Code, including government contracts, government grants and fiscal sponsorship arrangements. The changes are intended to detect misconduct and hold wrongdoers accountable. Accountable. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen says that public money and tax exempt status demand public accountability. We are ending the days of hiding fraud, abuse and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements. When bad actors misuse charitable structures, directors and officers should understand that transparency can lead to scrutiny, accountability and liability under the law. This is, by the way, this is a huge red flag for George Soros, who uses a lot of these tax exempt operations to cause the chaos we're seeing in the country right now. Fiscal sponsorship is an umbrella term for several long standing and lawful structures through which a tax exempt organization may support charitable projects and initiatives. Recent congressional oversight has raised concerns that some fiscal sponsorship arrangements may be used to obscure who is operating a project, who controls project funds and how those funds are being used. Increased reporting can help address those concerns and make it harder for rogue organizations to hide behind opaque arrangements. So the Treasury Department, the IRS are going to be issuing all sorts of new rules here and they end with this statement. Tax exempt status is not immunity from scrutiny. If an organization receives public funds or tax deductible donations, it should be prepared to show who controls the money and where it goes. Let me give you an example of where we've seen this in recent weeks. The Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law center is a 501 organization, tax exempt nonprofit. For years now, for many years, they've been taking all sorts of money tax free people get tax deductions for giving it to them. And then what have they been turning around and doing with that donor money? You know, chat, you know what they're doing. They've been funding the kkk, they've been funding neo Nazis, they've been funding the very hate organizations that they claim to be fighting. They've been generating the bigotry that they say is endemic to the United States of America. It's a scam organization, prosecutors say, and this has all been exposed by the Trump administration. So are we going after the funding sources of the left? Are we going after their corrupt schemes? Are we going after their opaque funding arrangements? Hell, yes. In fact, those cases are already ongoing. So whatever we get about Antifa in the weeks and months ahead, according to Treasury Secretary Bessant, will only be the latest in what has been a successful streak of going after some of the left's most vile funding arrangements. And I am rooting these guys on to continue. This is a massive, massive story and I can't wait for the next developments in it. So a good update from Scott Bessen yesterday, and interesting that he's calling our attention to the 990 changes here, because I truly believe that the reason he brought that up in the context of Reagan's question. When Reagan goes, hey, you're going after Antifa's funding sources here, he said, I just want to call everybody's attention to a story that the rest of you in this room missed, which is we just changed Form 990 requirements and that's designed to catch these jackasses. And I think he's talking about Antifa here. I think we're going to find out more about how Antifa is funded and how they're using our tax system as a means to do it. Keep an eye on that. All right, that's coming. Also, of course, the left continued their attacks on Thursday. Last night, Thursday night, the attacks on that Newark facility in New Jersey continued. They just don't stop the Delaney Hall ICE facility. And this story is driving me absolutely crazy because I don't want to see these attacks. I want every one of these guys arrested. I want them face planted. I want them roughed up a little bit, and I want them arrested because I don't want to see attacks on ICE facilities. I want our border patrol and our ICE guys to be able to do the job of getting these illegal aliens, especially these very violent illegals, these rapists, these murderers, these child abusers who are being held in that Delaney facility. I want them out of our Country. I don't want them here anymore. That's who the left is standing up for. Here's Nick Sorter with video from last night. Delaney Hall ICE facility. As these maniacs continue to riot outside the building and then build trash walls to try and impede law enforcement from doing his job. Look at these guys. They're carrying garbage. Bricks. They're carrying bricks. This is who I want, Scott Bestin, to take down these opposite operations. And not just the street urchins who are doing this garbage. I'm talking about the tops of these funding structures. We have to destroy them. Look at this. Carrying wood to build walls. They love walls. When it comes to upending our sovereignty, they use walls to attack sovereignty, not to protect it. Of course, they're lefties, so they leave trash everywhere. Yeah. All right, so thanks to Nick Sorter, always capturing really important footage of what the hell's going on in the United States of America right now. So that just continues. And yesterday there was a message that came out from the DHS secretary that I was both grateful for the transparency and frustrated by the reality of the message. Let me just share this with you. And look, I'm grateful for anybody who's going to serve in the Trump administration. And the President obviously picks Mark Wayne Mullen for a reason to be the DHS secretary. But I got to say, Secretary Mullen, this is a real test of your leadership ability. Can you do the job really well? This is the moment where you need to demonstrate that to the American people and the President of the United States, because here's what he said yesterday. This is midday yesterday. He was revealing what happened. This would have been Wednesday night, May 27. On the evening of May 27, he said approximately 100 anti ice rioters gathered around the Delaney hall ice facility. Rioters assaulted and threw objects at law enforcement throughout the night. Six rioters were arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers. Local police refused to help our officers. Assaulting and obstructing ICE law enforcement is a crime and a felony. Anyone who assaults law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Law and order will prevail. Okay, but here's my problem with this message. Look, I get it. One of the massive problems that the DHS continues to face is local Democrats are screwing over federal law enforcement. No question about it. You got local cops in Newark who are being told to stand down by their corrupt leadership and not to arrest agents of chaos in their own city. How disgraceful. Can you imagine? How many guys in law enforcement do we have in the chat. We have any law enforcement people in the chat, Any veterans of law enforcement in the chat, you know, because my suspicion is that when you signed up, it was to safeguard your community. It wasn't to allow it to become chaotic. It must be maddening to be an officer and then be looking across the street, watching an assault playing out, watching a riot play out and then being told stand down. It's infuriating. So that's obviously a huge problem. And a lot of this involves violations of local laws. So you need local law enforcement to enforce it. But here's the big issue I have with this statement. 100 anti ice rioters. These are people who are destroying, defacing, obstructing, assaulting. A hundred of them. Six rioters were arrested. Six. Now you don't need to be a math genius to figure out what percent of the rioters were arrested. Out of 106 were arrested, let's see, 6%. 6% of the rioters were arrested the other night, 94% went free so that they could attack the next night. What the hell is this? Now, again, I'm not the legal guy on this question. I'm not going to be able to tell you if federal law enforcement has the means to be able to do this if they can place them under arrest. We've got to do something, though. We can't just sit here and let this like garbage happen. Every night, 100 people you've identified as anti ICE rioters who are destroying everything, obstructing everything, assaulting law enforcement, and 94 of them run free. No bueno. Not good. That's not going to work for me. It's not working for this chat. It's not working for any audience anywhere who cares about the United States of America and its peace and well being. This can't happen. And so, Mark Wayne, Mullen, I don't know what you need to do, but you need to grab whatever shirt collar is necessary and jack up the right people so that I don't get a report from you that says 100 violent lunatics were going crazy on the streets of an American city and only six of them were arrested. The report I would like is that we arrested 100 of them and then the riots stopped. That's the report I want. This needs to be put down. I don't know how many times can we have this conversation? This needs to be put down. We need to protect our sovereignty. And so, look, I'm grateful for updates, perfectly grateful for updates, but this, this nonsense needs to be Put down and quickly. Six people out of a hundred. That's not. That's not a. That's not a big victory. It's. That's awful. That's an awful update. That's an. I hate to bring you an awful update. It's an awful update. I hate that. And if. What do we need? We need to arrest some of these Democrats who are refusing to protect their cities. Can we do that? What can we do? What can we do? Give us a course of action and let's do it. Let's do it. It's enough. It's over. And the threats from these lefties, they don't stop. Look at them. Yeah, look, Taser. There you go. There's one. One. See, they tased one of these guys outside of Delaney hall, took him into custody. See, that's what we want. Consequence culture. That's fa. That's fo. You got. We got to see some fo. We need to see some more fo. That's all. There's a lot of faing going on and not enough foing going on. That's. That's what we need. Is it the good face plant there? Yeah, excellent face plant. That's what I. That's what I was asking for. That's all I'm asking for. I'm a simple man. I just want. I just want some justice, you know? These lefties and their threats continue. Did you see that? Some whack job just. Just tried to get a Supreme Court justice killed again. Again. One of President Trump's picks for the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. Check this out. This happened yesterday. May 28th. Yesterday at 4:06pm Local reporter in Washington D.C. alison Papson, who works for the local Fox affiliate Fox 5. She says Justice Amy Coney Barrett was swatted yesterday. Yesterday evening, that would have been Wednesday evening, approximately 9:02pm, officers responded to a swatting call at the residence of U.S. supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The call was received through the department's non emergency line. Officers immediately coordinated with Supreme Court police personnel assigned to the residents and quickly determined that the report was fictitious. No additional police resources were utilized. Yeah, but you. These swatting incidents are not. This is not like a ding dong ditch situation. It's not like a, you know, an annoying prank. That's not what this is. You. When you swat somebody, you run the risk of getting them killed. And perhaps that's the point by these lefties. The violence never stops with these people. So you've got to put it Down. You have to put it down. Justice Amy Coney Barrett threatened this week in a little. A little detected story, but yours, true, I detected it for you. So here we are talking about it. Thank you to Allison Pavson for covering it at that Fox 5 News operation. It's just awful. So how about a palate cleanser? You ready for a palate cleanser now? So the left. The left, you know, we talk about the kind of the spiritual conflict we have going on between the right and the left, and there's some detectable elements to it. When, you know, in. In terms of the spiritual reality of. Of the United States and our existence as humans. You can detect eternity in beauty, can't you? Like, if you see something beautiful, you know, C.S. lewis wrote about this. It's not really a subjective measurement. It's an objective measurement, measurement that beauty is innate to the thing that you're consuming, this thing you're looking at. And in beauty actually is a language that. That transcends all spoken words. You see something, it doesn't even matter if you and I speak the same language, you and I can both detect something that is beautiful. Like. Yes, I recognize that. I recognize that. And so beauty, again, is a way in which you can detect the eternal. The right, conservatives, normal people, we love order, we love beauty, we love cleanliness. They say cleanliness is next to Godliness. We love these things because an ordered life is a much more peaceful life, and a more peaceful and ordered and beautiful life is one that recognizes our eternal purpose. Right? Whereas the left, have you noticed that they're kind of interested in only destroying, tearing down, creating chaos. There's a spiritual battle going on, and it's expressed in those two views of the world and how to conduct your life. In fact, this week, the left is sharing all sorts of images of President Trump doing these construction projects at the White House. That includes the East Wing being built right now, the brand new gorgeous ballroom, and that UFC temporary facility that's being put up on the South Lawn right now, which is very cool. That's for the June 14th UFC fight. And they're sharing them halfway through construction. They're sharing images of them halfway through construction. So you can see the scaffolding and the mess of the construction and what a construction site looks like before the thing is actually built. And. And it's. It's kind of funny because the left is telling on itself here because they recognize that seeing something that looks chaotic is something that kind of wounds the soul. You see the chaos, and you're like that. I don't like that. Now, what, of course, they're misleading you on is that it's construction. They're equating construction with destruction, which is idiotic. But when you're actually building something, it's great. When you're tearing it down, that's awful. And that's what the left is known for. The left doesn't get upset when their police precincts are burned down. They don't get upset when their people are smashing storefronts in cities all across America in 2020. They're not getting upset when their people are tearing down statues or putting graffiti all over them. In fact, they're encouraged by that kind of chaos, which again, gets back to the point that I've. That I'm always making with you and that you can detect. It's a spiritual battle. You can tell it's a spiritual battle. And this week, we got yet another expression of this as this. Again, this is a wonderful moment. President Trump has cleaned up another aspect of Washington, D.C. union Station. Union Station is a. Is a beautiful building in D.C. it's kind of the arrival point for all of the trains that come into the city. The Amtrak trains arrive there, and a lot of tourists, as a result, when they come by train to Washington, these are their first steps into the city. And it's a gorgeous building to enter. But for years, it's been in total disrepair because of the left's destruction. You'd be walking through and out of Union Station, and what you would see is all sorts of empty storefronts. There was too much crime and violence. There were drug addicts everywhere. Fentanyl zombies collapsed on the ground outside of the building. Kind of a horrific welcome to the nation's capital, making you think, man, this is like a third world country. A terrible way to see your nation's capital. The president's cleaned that up. In fact, the building has been restored to its former beauty. It's much more peaceful and wonderful now. Shops are bustling again. People are eating and dining there on a routine basis. And just outside the building, we got a big update yesterday, Columbus Circle, which is why I'm wearing my Christopher Columbus shirt today. Columbus Circle has been now fully cleaned up and restored, and that includes a gorgeous fountain that has not been operational, as in, it hasn't had water flowing through it in now two decades at least. The last time this fountain had water flowing through it reportedly was 2007. Now, that was before I ever arrived in Washington, D.C. and I, for years, I would walk by that fountain that Was especially when I was commuting there many years ago, I would commute there to go to the Heritage foundation on a daily basis and I would walk past it. I didn't know it was a fountain. I just thought it was some kind of weird empty basin. I didn't even think that. Maybe I was just being stupid, but I was like, I just didn't recognize that a fountain was there. It was often covered in graffiti and homeless people. So I didn't spend a lot of time staring at it. Now look at it. Here's Reagan Reese yesterday at the ribbon cutting as the Trump administration has both repaired, restored, and beautified it. Take a look. Nice ribbon cutting. Everybody applauding all right, now take a look, if we can. This is the, here's the, the video that Reagan put together a little close up of the fountain. Watch as she gets closer. Here you got this beautiful, clean, freshly poured water. Look at that. And then you can see the water features are, are pouring out water from the back. It's flowing for the first time in two decades. America 250 is approaching. We're going to come up on it on Independence Day. And now Washingtonians and anybody else, the nation's capital. Our visitors are going to be able to enter the city and be greeted by this beautiful sight and these beautiful sounds of the water cascading down the fountain. And all it took was a new president. All it took was a new president. And there's Christopher Columbus, a hero in our nation's history, in the history of Western civilization, bringing civilization to the Western Hemisphere. Amazing. Just amazing. Look again. The left is very different. We are not the same. Do you know what it looked like when the left had control of it? Do you remember that, Josh, do you have that or should I put that up on screen? Let me show this. Okay, good. Take a look at this. This is what it looked like. For Those of you rumble.com Vince, onto the left, this is Columbia Bugle, who shared this. Look at the garbage. Look at this. That was Columbus Circle under Joe Biden, covered in tents and garbage and human waste. This like pro Hamas propaganda being spray painted. There it is. That's the statue. That's the fountain destroyed. That's what it looked like under the left, under Joe Biden. And now look at it. Go ahead, show Reagan's video again. There, Josh. Now look at what it looks like. Night and day. Night and day. Now, a beautiful sight, the kind of sight that uplifts the human spirit, that speaks to the eternal, that makes you feel good about your country that maybe wells up inside of your heart a little bit of patriotism, huh? And that's not just happening there. It's happening all over the nation's capital right now. The president's beautifying and restoring and rebuilding everything. Now, think about this. You know, the left often accuses President Trump of doing this for his own vanity. And there's no question President Trump's got an ego. It's kind of amusing, actually. But this isn't for him. This is for us. This is just generous. This stuff really matters. And Democrats, they run the city of Washington, D.C. so a lot of the problems you see in D.C. are the results of the Democrats who've been running it into the ground. But even if you were to say, well, this is federal responsibility, okay, well, then why didn't Joe Biden fix this? Why didn't President Auto Pen tackle this? It's because they don't care. They don't care. Biden was very interested in enriching his own family with his access to government. He had very little regard for whether or not you had a safe and uplifting experience in your own country. In fact, he kicked open our borders and made it more chaotic. You think he cared? No, he didn't care. He barely knew what was going on. You know, in fact, Jill Biden is out this week. We know she's. She's hawking a new book that nobody should read. To hell with Joe Biden. But she. I shared a clip with you yesterday of her being like, I would. I thought Joe was having a stroke when he gave that debate performance. I didn't know. That's the one time I've ever seen him fail to be able to speak English. Sentences. And we're like, what, you never turn on your television at any other point? Are you serious right now? You're a liar. Jill Biden is a liar. She always has been. And here she is doing it again as she's hawking a book. And, you know, President Trump reacted to this this morning. He weighed in on this on Truth Social, and he said the following about. About Dr. Jill. Ridiculous. The fake doctor. He said, jill Biden is now out there finally admitting she did not know what went wrong with Sleepy Joe during our spectacular and highly rated 2024 presidential debate where Joe was not exactly performing to the highest level of debate standards. She said she thought he was having a, quote, stroke and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband. Yeah, exactly. As any good wife would do. I was saying this with you yesterday, it's like, what? She didn't intervene. She didn't step up. She was like, my husband's having a stroke. Well, let him burn. What? The only thing she failed to mention says President Trump, was how well I was doing prior to his near total collapse. In other words, as many have asked, did my strong performance in that debate caused him to, plain and simple, choke, leading to his ignominious defeat, or were other reasons the cause? Nobody else knows the answer to that, but I do, says President Trump. I love that. I love that President Trump. His claim is I ran such circles around Joe that. That his brain stopped working. Now, this is one of the few moments where I think the President may be giving himself too much credit, because I don't think Joe's brain was working before he even got to that st. He was always destined for failure. But. But the President did do a great job.
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Todd Blanche
He did.
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Dan Bongino
He did do a very good job in that debate. It's pretty funny, but, like, it's like. It's so crazy. I can't even believe now. Now Jill is doing this media tour. I miss the fact that she. Maybe this just came out later in the day yesterday. Maybe that's why I missed it. But cbs, in their interview with Jill Biden, did get her to admit that Joe was basically not there at all. But listen to the way she admits it, because the reporter gives her the. Really? Really. You think Joe Biden is with it? Isn't he kind of like, not really there anymore? Listen to Jill's answer as she talked about this.
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Jill Biden
Did you ever see signs that he was falling into cognitive decline? No, no, no. True. No. I mean, people were saying he wasn't the same Joe Biden. Well, I don't think that's true. He was the same. The essence of the same Joe Biden. But, yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older. I mean, we all observe that when, you know, it's a very intense job. I think it ages you quickly.
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Dan Bongino
What is the. What is the essence of Joe Biden? He was. There was a. There was a slight scent of Joe. There was. Oh, de. Joe. The. The essence of Joe Biden. That's her admitting that that guy wasn't even there. He wasn't even present in the room. Yeah, he kind of looked like Joe. The essence of Joe. The essence of Joe Biden. Yeah. That's. That is pathetic. That's pathetic. And I love that. I love. I don't know who this woman is, but she's like, are you serious? Right now, you never once detected his cognitive decline. She's being very gentle. And then Jill see the shift. You see the shift that she's talking about it. Well, the essence of Joe is there. You know, there's, there's a, there's a very pale imitation of Joe that's present. What a con artist. A whole family of con artists. That's how they ended up in the White House. That was the whole scheme. Just, that's the whole reason the Bidens wanted to come to the White House is to keep the con going and to cover up the extent to which the con occurred. Why do you think President Otto Penn gave pardons to his entire family before he left office? The whole scheme, I love the left. Has accused President Trump of doing this for years. Like he only ran for president so that he can't be held criminally accountable. You tried to slap him with crimes to prevent them from becoming president. That really happened. And then in Joe Biden's case, the guy was committing crimes and he ran for president at Jill Biden's behest. Jill doesn't care about his well being. She cares about their finances. She cares about the Biden family getting away with it. That's why they did it. And they get into office, they give sweetheart plea deals to Hunter, they try and suppress any investigation into Joe Biden's finances by way of the irs. And in the closing days of his stupid administration, the one that sold out the American people, they pardoned the entire Biden family because that's what they were up to. So, once again, as always, is projection, where the left accuses the right of doing exactly what they're doing, which is taking power in order to cover up their own crimes. The essence of Joe. The essence of Joe, it's, it's really, really spectacular stuff. It, it's, it's phenomenal. Let's continue, shall we, you guys? Following this week, the saga of Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart, the quarterback for the New York Giants, who had the temerity to introduce the President of the United States at a New York rally last week. Can you believe it? Jackson Dart showed up last week and he said, hey, this, this President Trump, he's a great guy. What an honor it is to be able to, to introduce him, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. And normal people would see that and be like, man, what a, what a high honor. Isn't that great? You get to introduce the President. That's pretty cool. Well, what ensued after that was some of the most mentally ill idiocy. That any of us have ever seen. It's like, so stupid. So suddenly after Jackson Dart did that, you had his teammates start attacking him on social media, including, you know, one like. Like some idiot linebacker was like, I, this is terrible. I can't even believe what I'm seeing. Is this AI like, what are you talking about? It's terrible. The guy got to introduce the President. You should be super pumped for your teammate. You should. You should be celebrating this with. How many times have you hit your head? Slow down, dude. Who gave you access to social media? Well, here's what happened, apparently this week. NFL Network reporter Mike Garofalo reports that this became a big struggle session for the New York Football Giants. Mike Garofalo says Giants quarterback Jackson Dart addressed his teammates in a meeting this week to discuss his introduction of President Trump last week. Other team leaders spoke up as well, and Dart and the players worked through it. They are moving forward now, of course, a story like this, you know what this is? This is the Giants organization trying to mitigate the fallout of having idiot players on the team who just attacked their own quarterback for doing something that anybody would be honored to do, which is to stand up and introduce the President of the United States. But I see this. You guys get the same feeling I do. This is a struggle session. This is like a Chinese Cultural revolution struggle session, a Soviet style struggle session where now where I, you know, I don't know how Jackson Dart comported himself. I'm just making some assumptions here. But the idea that he has to sit and talk to his team to settle everybody down and, and I don't know, maybe say things like, I'm not trying to offend anybody. I just felt like it was a great honor to be able to do it. Even just the act of having to go through that sort of, like, ridiculous struggle session. It's. The whole thing is so freaking gross. It's gross. First of all, man up. You guys wear pads. You're like tackling dudes. How about man up, be the men you're pretending to be on the football field in real life? Would you do that, please? You got to be like, crazy. You don't have to like Trump. I'm not demanding these guys all like Trump. It'd be great if they did. They don't have to like Trump if they got a beef with Jackson Dart. Just give them shit in the locker room. Yo, dude, can't believe you support Orange, man. And that's it. And then they move on. Like, just be dudes about it. This whole, like, moping around and crying and whining, being fragile and weak and pathetic. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing that Jackson Dart had to deal with any of that crap. Now, as a leader of that team, he's obviously trying to keep the chemistry of it alive, but it is just absolutely pathetic that they tried to subject him to a struggle session over all of this. He supports the President. So what? Look at him shaking hands with the President of the United States. What a great honor. You know how many Americans would kill to be in that position who would love to be able to do that? How neat would that be? What a high honor that would be. And Jackson Dart recognized it and he took it. And I hope he looks back on this for the rest of his life and is proud of this moment. It's a great one. But holy cow, the left is Soviet. They're completely Soviet. And that continues. And they demand that you conform to their attitudes. Good for Jackson Dart for supporting the President to begin with. But, you know what's happening now is speaking of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Now the left is plowing through Jackson Dart's social media pages trying to find evidence that he's a bad person. Yeah, check this out. There's a left wing operation. They call themselves Patriot Takes. Of course, that's. That's not true. And they say Jackson Darts, Trump. Instagram likes, exposed. You got that? His Instagram likes. They're going through his Instagram likes now. What does he like on Instagram? The Giants quarterback has liked posts including the promotion of mass deportation, anti LGBTQ rhetoric, and attacks on racial curriculum in schools. Stop. Stop. I already like Jackson Dart. You don't have to convince me. He promotes mass deportation. Ladies and gentlemen, think back to the 2024 election. Was mass deportation popular or not? It was wildly popular. Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. Ladies and gentlemen, this is. This is really key. He supports mass deportation. He's been promoting anti LGBTQ rhetoric, and he's been attacking racial curriculum in schools. It's so great. I love it. I love it so much. So. So Jackson Dart is as cool as we thought he is. He supports the single most popular political position in the country, which is to restore our sovereignty. Mass deportation. Yeah. Just like the rest of the country. Do you remember the surveys in 2024? How dare you. You remember the surveys on this subject? Everybody supports mass deportation. He's got a pretty conventional view, actually, for a normal person. Anti LGBTQ rhetoric, I guarantee you. Look, I don't even need to dive through the ridiculous things that they like. Here's what do you like? Here's what do you like? I know exactly what that means. You know what? You know what that means? Jackson Dart supports biological women. It's because. Because that guy's a normal man. He supports biological women. So they say it's anti LGBTQ rhetoric. And he's been. He's been liking, quote, attacks on racial curriculum in schools. Well, yeah. Who wants racial curriculum in schools? What kind of psychopath thinks that we need to racialize our students? Are you serious right now? So he supports teaching children to read instead of to be racist? Yeah, I'm on Jackson Dart's side. This is hilarious. But the left thinks this is a big gotcha, that we've exposed him, we've revealed who he truly is. We're gonna. They would really try and destroy him on this basis. I'm gonna tell you right now, I would not be shocked if Jackson Dart's jersey is one of the single bestselling jerseys in the entire country this year. I would not be shocked at all, because that guy is just a normal dude. And how old is. He's like 23 years old. He's a young man. These are. And, like, you know, and some of these. Some of these other dudes on the Giants are all young. It's like that. You know, by and large, now, not everybody gets to be, like, 40 and stay in the NFL. That's a pretty rare situation. These guys are very young. They're just out of college, and some of them have just come out of the propaganda machine of schools. So, of course, they're part of that Soviet mentality where they're like, we have to attack you for wanting borders or to deracialize our school system. Of course, they're still. They are carrying that propagandistic garbage as they arrive. But somehow this Jackson Dart, he was able to transcend all of that. He was able to defeat all of that, and here he is supporting the President of the United States, supporting biological women, supporting sovereignty, and supporting treating people like human beings instead of judging them on the basis of their race. And for that reason, I applaud Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart, you win this week's Great American of the Week Award. And please, please continue to fight for yourself, fight for your country. Appreciate the work that you're doing. That's. That's an amazing thing. Let's see. Finally here, some breaking news overnight. We had. Did you guys see this rocket explosion on your social media feeds? Jeff. So there's a tale of a Couple of billionaires, Elon Musk has been firing rockets up into the air and then bringing them back down and then catching them with chopsticks, which has been amazing to see. But there's another billionaire who keeps sending people up into space and sending things up in the space trying to anyway, and that's Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos has a rocket operation called Blue Origin. Of course, you know Jeff Bezos from such things as Amazon and the Washington Post. His rocket yesterday exploded in incredible fashion to the point that there was a straight up mushroom cloud in the air over Cape Canaveral yesterday. Watch this explosion. And as you watch it, no, there were no human beings or anything on board. Nobody was injured in this explosion. This was a test firing of the rocket. And if you want to see how the test went. Well, cut seven, take a look. We see the rocket starting to go off and then the rock and just explode. That's crazy. What a sight. Can you imagine seeing that in person? It's got to be freaky. We have other clips of this. Give me another angle on this one. Holy crap, look at that. And you can see the fuel keeps to. Continues to burn up as it rises in the air. I mean, it must have been so much flammable content continuing to rise into the air as you get this like mushroom cloud. They said this. There was so much severe damage to the platform and to the, the adjoining stands that are right next to the rockets. I'm not a rocket guy, so I don't, I'm not properly naming these things, but you could see why. Just immense damage as a result of this explosion yesterday. We have another angle on this, Josh. Oh man. What are these people watching from like a tiki bar or something in Florida? I don't think that's a rocket launch. Well, certainly not. Failure to launch. What an explosion. Holy cow. The, the, the report that we have, CBS Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad in Florida. A powerful New Glenn rocket owned by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin exploded in a spectacular fireball. Yeah, you can only describe it as spectacular if nobody dies on it. If, if somebody had died on this thing, it'd be weird to describe the explosion as spectacular. Thursday sending billowing clouds of fire, smoke and flaming debris into the night sky. And a tremendous conflagration visible for miles around. The explosion occurring around 9pm Eastern Time last night. Engineers were counting down to a brief test firing of The New Glenn's 7 methane fueled BE4 first stage engines at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin was gearing up for a June launch. I don't think that's going to happen to put a batch of Amazon LEO Internet satellites into orbit. As the engines appeared to begin firing, something clearly went wrong, they said in the understatement of the evening. At the base of The Rocket, the 188 foot tall first stage became enveloped in a rapidly growing fire. Moments later, the 86 foot tall upper stage could be seen tilting and starting to fall as the first stage apparently began collapsing. Then the vehicle suddenly exploded as its load of methane fuel and liquid oxygen ignited in a roiling fireball. Mmm, methane. Don't you love the smell of methane? The essence of Biden. It exploded. It explode. Oh my goodness, what an explosion. Pretty epic explosion yesterday. Jeff. Jeff Bezos. Look at that. The essence of Biden being lit ablaze. Dunzo Bezos did post to social media last night that everybody's safe. He said all the personnel are accounted for and safe. It's too early to know the root cause, but we're already working to find it. Very rough day, but we will rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It's worth it. You can see the first comment here. It's from Elon Musk. Responding ad astra per aspera. Ad astra per aspera. Which is Latin apparently for through hardship to the stars. So a nice message from his billionaire competitor. Is Elon still a billionaire or is he at trillionaire status yet? I think I thought he was en route to that. At any rate, through hardship to the stars, a good message for the rest of us. Through hardship to the stars. As always, interesting to watch. I hope these guys succeed though. I really do. I mean, it's pretty cool to see the technology. And Elon Musk has had all sorts of trial and error too. These guys always do. And that's just the way this, this space exploration goes. You're going to have disasters like this from time to time. The goal is not to have any humans impacted by them. We hate to see that and maybe may they have immense success. That would be wonderful. As always, it's been great to spend this week with you. I love doing it this. It's been very cool. 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