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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. You know what I love about the current moment we're living through? I love that we don't really give a shit anymore what the legacy media have to say. The reason we talk about it at all is just to acknowledge that there are still some people who are falling for this garbage. And because there are people within our government who try and use these legacy media hoaxes as a predicate to advance their own power. But we can cut through them like that. I don't know anybody who falls for this crap anymore. God bless you for it. More ahead on this edition events. It is great to have you with us. This episode is brought to you by the great people over at American Financing. You know what if you could delay your next two mortgage payments to two mortgage payments. That's right. Imagine putting those two payments in your pocket and finally getting a little bit of breathing room ahead of Christmas. It's possible. When you call American Financing today. 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Have they offered you anything that will improve your life? Have they offered anything that will make it more affordable? Have they offered anything that's going to bring down the cost of health care, bring down the cost of housing or slow down the rise taxes or bring down the cost of energy or improve the quality of your child's education? Have they offered you literally anything that you can use? The answer to that is no. All they've done is serve you heaping helpings of chaos at every opportunity. And because they can't actually convince voters of the merits of why they should support Democrats. They tell you Donald Trump is evil and they rig elections and then they hope the chips will fall in their direction. That's really the way that they operate. So it was just a few weeks ago. Remember the left as a part of its, its never ending series of hoaxes. They were pushing a different wrap up smear. They were saying that Donald Trump was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Remember all of that. Trump's in the Epstein files, Trump's in the Epstein files. Release the Epstein files. And sure enough, we saw the Epstein files begin to be released, at least more of them. We saw emails in fact released by House Republicans who were looking to rebut the chopped up versions that Democrats were releasing. And what do those emails reveal? Who they reveal? The Democrats are in bed with Epstein to include Hakeem Jeffries. It became really clear really quickly once again, that all of the rakes that were being stepped on were being stepped on by Democrats and they were hitting them clear in the head. And as a result, Democrats have tried to cook up yet another distraction designed to smear Donald Trump and the people around him in order to run away from the accountability that they so richly deserve. The latest round of this has been claiming that Donald Trump is giving the troops illegal orders, that he's doing something unconstitutional, forcing them into a very perilous position, that is the troops. And now they've been telling the troops, hey, you should ignore the commander in Chief. We got that from the seditious six. We got that from people like Alyssa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, who've been telling the troops to stage insurrections. And they've continued to double down on that very thing up until this very day. And going into the weekend, we had that big Washington Post report claiming that Donald Trump and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who they refused to call the Secretary of War, they still call him the Secretary of Defense, have in fact been giving illegal orders. They referenced a Sept. 2 strike on a Venezuelan drug boat, claiming that Pete Hegseth said, kill them all. And they implied that after one strike didn't kill the narco terrorists. And as they were clinging to the wreckage and what was left of their lives, that Pete Hegseth fired more missiles just to make sure that those helpless, now disarmed combatants would meet their end, would die. Because he's cruel and disgusting and he's committing war crimes. That's what the left told us. So, of course, throughout the weekend, the media and the People in Washington to include, by the way, Republicans. I'll get into that in a moment. Were being hysterical. About time to investigate Pete Hegseth. We have to investigate the Department of Defense is what they keep calling it. We have to investigate the Trump administration. They are doing something wrong. You can smell the bullshit in the air. You know what this is? This is yet another Russia hoax. This is an attempt to bog down the administration in a pile of nonsense, the end of which will be the obvious exonerating conclusion, which is that Pete Hegseth is merely doing his job. Donald Trump is the duly elected President of the United States. And for once, the American military is directly protecting your interests and not dancing off somewhere else in the world to advance the interests of the military industrial complex. Got it? Yeah, yeah. You can tell instinctively. You smell that instantly. And so now yesterday we get an addition to this story. Now, interestingly, it comes to us from the New York Times. But credit where it's due, I'm perfectly happy to have something like this pop up in the New York Times or anywhere else for that matter. The New York Times is now jumping in to admit what you already knew, which is Pete Hegseth didn't commit any war crimes. That is and was always a hoax. Check this out. Pete Hegseth ordered a lethal attack, but not the killing of survivors, officials say. Oh, do tell, do tell. The Trump administration on Monday defended the legality of the September 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea in. As calls grew in Congress. Thanks. Congress, which I believe is controlled by Republicans. Remind me about that. I'm pretty sure Republicans control Congress. Why are they playing this game? Calls are going in Congress to examine whether a follow up missile strike that killed survivors amounted to a crime. The lethal attack was the first in President Trump's legally disputed campaign of killing people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea as if they were combatants in a war. I don't know. They kill over 100,000Americans a year, so I think they probably qualify. It has started coming under intense bipartisan scrutiny in recent days. There's that word bipartisan. Amid questions about the decision to kill the initial survivors and what orders were issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They go on to cite Caroline Levitt and the things that she's saying. But here is what the. Here's the. Here's the news of the piece. According to five U.S. officials. These are the ones who spoke to the New York Times. Five U.S. officials who spoke separately and on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation. Mr. Hegseth, ahead of the attack on September 2, ordered a strike that would kill people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs. Guys, this is the most important thing. They want to destroy the vessel and the drugs. That's the most important element of this whole story. Keep that in mind. That's the point. We're trying to stop the weapons of war, the stuff that's pouring into our country and killing American citizens. But each official said Mr. Hegseth's directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out to not fully accomplish all of those things. And the official said his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing that at least two people on the boat survived the first blast. Oh, okay, so Hegseth didn't commit any war crimes. Hegseth wasn't even involved in the decision to fire a second missile, although it would be his right to be. He's the secretary of War, after all. And so the entire Washington post piece was a Nancy Pelosi wrap up smear designed to defame and bog down the top officials in the Trump administration. Here's the New York Times admitting as much that their colleagues at the Washington Post. Well, they were lying to you. Going into the weekend, Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. As that operation unfolded, they said Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him. The officials clarified the sequence of events amid the political and legal uproar that followed the Washington Post piece through the weekend. Now, additionally, they talk about what the process here was, why this guy made this decision, Admiral Bradley, that is. Two officials suggested that the surviving people may not have even been Admiral Bradley's intended target in the second strike. Instead, they said it was the purported drugs and the disabled vessel. That gets right back to what I was talking about, which is that the boat and the drug shipment, they were merely disabled, not destroyed. The job of the military is to destroy that threat. It wasn't done yet. And so Admiral Bradley ordered another strike to complete the mission. This is not hard, is it, fellas? Not hard at all. The sources argued that the purported cargo remained a threat and a lawful military target because another cartel associated boat might have come to retrieve it. One of the officials said the United States military intercepted radio communications from one of the survivors. Oh, so somebody who survived the first strike grabbed the radio to radio back to the narco traffickers that they were working with. As a result, they say members of Congress could request these communications as a part of their oversight investigation. So anyway, the long and short of the New York Times piece is that the New York Times is now jumping in to admit that Pete Hegseth and the Department of War didn't commit any war crimes. That all of this is a gigantic dumpster fire. It's a pile of garbage. In fact, military legal experts have been pointing out the fact that the boat was disabled and not yet destroyed is an entirely legitimate predicate for a second strike. Here's Dr. Brian L. Cox. He's an adjunct professor at Cornell Law. He's also a retired Army. He's an expert on military law. And he said the following this week about these decisions and how it doesn't appear that they violate the Geneva Convention or commit any war crimes or anything like that. He says if the boat were destroyed, there would be nothing serviceable left of it. But if it's disabled, that is, if the decision maker believed it could still be used to call other narco traffickers to retrieve their cargo. The boat still qualifies as a military objective, and military objectives can be intentionally attacked. That's it. Or as Caroline Levitt put it yesterday, the job of the military was to, quote, ensure that the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States was eliminated. Take a look at the fabulous White House press secretary yesterday. Cut one.
