August 25, 2025 • 34 mins
1. IRS and Alleged Political Bias
- A Trump-era IRS lawyer is accused of being a radical leftist with anti-Trump views.
- The commentary criticizes his past social media posts and academic work advocating prison abolition and court-packing.
- The IRS is described as weaponized against conservatives.
2. Crime and Law Enforcement
- Trump’s federal intervention in Washington, D.C. is praised for reducing crime.
- The commentary highlights a drop in violent crime and robberies.
- Democrats are accused of undermining law enforcement and supporting criminals.
3. Urban Decline and Political Strategy
- Liberal cities (e.g., Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis) are described as “disaster cities” under Democratic control.
- The author suggests Democrats intentionally drive away political opponents by fostering poor living conditions.
4. Military Action Against Cartels
- The episode discusses a reported plan by Trump to use the military for strikes against Mexican drug cartels.
- This is framed as a bold and necessary move, despite its political sensitivity.
- The Mexican government is portrayed as corrupt and complicit with cartels.
5. Immigration and Deportation
- Ben celebrates Trump’s deportation numbers, citing figures like 400,000 deportations in a year.
- ICE’s increased activity and funding are portrayed as successes.
- The use of charter planes and new detention centers is framed as efficient use of taxpayer money.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Top IRS lawyer under Donald Trump pledged to quote resist
the president. We now know he is apparently a former
Democratic Aid quote screw going high pack the court argue
this IRIS lawyer Anthony Soacho. He is a top IRIS
(00:25):
lawyer involved in quote high level policy interpretations and his
advocated action to resist President Trump and holds radical, far
less left policy positions, pushing for Democrats to abolish prisons
for example, and anytime you don't get the ruling you
want at the Supreme Court, just pack the court to
(00:45):
quote defy Trump. Anthony Sako is an attorney for the
powerful IRS Office of Chief Counsel. He's openly advocated for
far left positions for years prior to joining the agency.
This coming from a Daily Wire review of his social
media that has been found. Soco, who holds a key
(01:07):
role in interpreting complicated federal tax law, has called for
people to quote resist the GOP and attacked the police.
Sounds exactly like what you would get in the Democratic
Party from socialist communists in Marxists right now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
SOCCO has co authored multiple.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Revenue rulings, including as recently as April the seventeenth of
this year. That would be three months into the Trump administration.
Revenue rulings are official IRS interpretations of how tax laws
are applied in specific situations and impact how government officials
are government officials, I should say, tax professionals and also you,
(01:48):
the taxpayers, maintain compliance with federal law now. Before joining
the IRS in September of twenty twenty two by the
Biden administration, Socco worked under the Oregon Democratic Senate under
Ron Wyden for the Senate Finance Committee. That's according to
his own LinkedIn profile. His social media activity demonstrated a
(02:09):
strong opposition to President Trump and his administration. In twenty twenty,
for example, he attacked Republicans ahead of the Senate vote
to confirm Amy Cony Barrett to the Supreme Court, saying this,
the Republican Party has completely obliterated principles, integrity and norms.
Screw going hi, pack the court. Hashtag resists, hashtag gop,
(02:31):
hashtag election, hashtag vote, hashtag pack the Court now. Shortly
after all of this came out, The Daily Wire reached
out to Saco for comment on his previous views. What
did he do exactly what liberals always do? He locked
his ex account restricted who can see his posts but
(02:53):
not before The Daily Wire archived and saved all of them.
SACO did not respond to the inquiry on the post
by The Daily Wire. Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton said
SOCCO should be fired immediately. With deep state leftists in
its leadership, it's no wonder the IRAS has repeatedly targeted
(03:13):
conservatives and conservative organizations, Cotton said to Daily Wire, this
individual should be fired immediately. SOCCO is currently one of
the main attorneys like not low level, not mid level,
one of the top docs right, the main attorneys in
the IRAF Chief Council Office who specializes in looking to
(03:34):
at pass through businesses, a tax structure where owners are
taxed at the individual rate than corporate levels. The revenue
ruling he drafted in April, for example, with drew one
he had written under Biden, which increased regulations on certain
business partnerships. It was based on an executive order from
Trump ordering his administration to cut unnecessary regulations, meaning a
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advocate for resisting Trump was left responsible for putting his
orders into effect. According to one senior Republican aid who
worked on finance issues in the Senate, saco's office was
viewsed as politicized as a politicized office in the financial
policy world. It was, for example, behind plans that would
(04:18):
supercharge the RS beyond its current current form. The AID
pointed to the irf's push for a quote direct file
program that was approved by the Chief Council's Office during
the Biden administration, which Republicans argued would have turned the
IRS into a tax preparer, tax elector, and tax enforcer.
The idea that a far left resistor who helped the
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Biden's IRS set policy is now setting policy for Trump
is deeply concerning, the AID told The Daily Wire, adding
that the Treasury Secretary Scott Descent should clean house to
get his well politication of this office out. Here's something
else that was said. I'm not surprised he said those
(05:01):
far left things, because that's how this has operated, how
the Chief Council's Office has operated. The AID added, we
shouldn't trust left wing ideologues at the IRS and light
of their weaponization of the agency during the Obama and
also the Biden administrations. Now outside by the way of
social media. Sacho helped prepare link the academic article arguing
(05:25):
that prison should be abolished. It was published by the
Harvard Law Review and the forward. The primary author argued
that quote white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric
of every legal institution in the United States of America. So,
in other words, if you're black, you should bild a
committee crime and not have to worry about the consequence,
apparently based on what the Harvard Law Review has In
(05:47):
a post discussing his work on the project, Sacho contemplated
the future of criminal justice in America by writing this,
it was truly amazing to work with Professor Roberts and
my fellow RAS on this piece over the past sum
It's not easy to imagine a society without prisons, but
I look at the prison system in mass incarceration completely
differently now after this experience. The author of the article
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also wrote that there is quote good reason to renounce
the Constitution because constitutional law has been critical to upholding
the interests of the radical capitalist regime while advancing legal
theories that justifies it's inhumanity. The article that he was
a part of also said this, Indeed, it is the
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realization the white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric
of every legal institution in the United States and upheld
by the US constitutional law that made me an abolitionist
in the first place, the author added. SAKO, by the way,
also frequently posts anti police messages on his account, including
(06:55):
a call for the Colin Kaepernick Neil guy. Remember that guy,
Colin can the quarterback that Neil did in the National anthem?
Yeah that guy to quote abolish the white supremacist institution
of policing, and another post that claimed policing is based
on race and that the job itself is racist if
you are a policeman, So how does that work? Just
(07:16):
out of curiosity if you're like Asian or Hispanic or black, Like,
are you a racist cop if you were those races?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Like, I'm just asking for a friend.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I want to know socco's account, by the way, now, Locke,
because this is what the left does, right, They get
caught saying what they believe, and then they shut it down.
They don't stand by it. No, no, no, we're gonna We're
gonna lock it down. And satsy's currently focused on tax policy,
racial and criminal justice. The IRS, by the way, is
not respond to requests for comment on soaco's status at
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the end of at the agency, and this goes back
to the point that I said earlier in twenty sixteen.
I don't think Donald Trump understood just how many people
hated him. I don't think he realized how much the
deep state had dug into our government. This guy's a
great example of that. And how many people are like, oh,
we can just undermine Donald Trump anytime we want to, Like,
(08:09):
we don't have to worry about Donald Trump. We will
just wait him out. We'll undermine every single thing that
he does. And when we do that, then we will
still win eventually, because we're not going anywhere. That, my friends,
is the problem with all of this. You have these
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radicals that are in our government, these extremists in our government,
and they say these things openly. I want you to
just think about the arrogance of this top person. You
have an individual here that is so arrogant, that is
so cocky that he's willing to write this down and
(08:53):
put it online for anyone to read it for years.
But as soon as he gets caught by the masses,
he felt let me let me rephrase that he felt
comfortable enough to write it, He felt comfortable enough to
put it out there, thinking that he could claim he's
some nonpartisan irs agent when in reality, he hates conservatives.
(09:18):
He's an extreme radical, a hardcore leftist at an organization
that has been weaponized to go after conservatives. When I
tell you stories like this, I mean it. You don't
hate the left enough right now, because what I can
tell you is they hate you. They hate your family values,
(09:40):
they hate your faith, they hate who you vote for,
and they want to undermine it, and they want to
silence you. And they want you to become extinct. And oh,
by the way, they also want you to be poor.
They don't want you to succeed, they won't want your
kids to succeed. They want to destroy your way of life.
Never ever, ever, forget that. Share this podcasts with your
(10:01):
family and friends, share it on social media, please, and
I'll see you back here tomorrow. Promises made, Promises kept.
That for me is the theme of Donald Trump's time
in office so far. The Trump administration, we're now being told,
is on pace to deport four hundred thousand illegal immigrants
(10:25):
in one year. The Trump administration is deporting about one
thousand and five hundred people per day and is on
track to deport more than four and one thousand people
in his first year in office. The New York Times
is now reporting now. Of course they're criticizing the president
for doing it. That's how you know the president's doing
a damn good job. At least one hundred and eighty
(10:46):
thousand people have been deported by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
under President Donald Trump. The Time states deportations have increased
as ICE got a massive increase in funding from the
big beautiful bill that was signed into law. Again, the
bill that they said was going to ruin America. So
much for that lie. At its current pace, ICE would
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deport more than four hundred thousand people. That is a
sharp increase from the two hundred and seventy one thousand
people removed last year by ICE, though far short of
the goal of one hundred or of one million set
by the Trump administration. Now, the Department of All Insecurity
says the total number of deportations so far under Trump
(11:32):
is three hundred and twenty two thousand. That figure includes
people who are turned around or quickly deported at the
US borders by Customs and Border Protection. The Times also
states ICE is using a dozen charter planes per day.
If that's not taxpayer money used the right way, I
don't know. What is to conduct deportations and transport detainees.
(11:56):
That's double the number used in January. According to Tom Cartwright,
an immigration advocate who is tracking the ICE flights, yes
they're angry. There are more than sixty thousand people in custody.
The Times reported ICE is at at least fifty new
detention centers since Trump took office as well, and more
(12:18):
than six thousand people being held there. The White House
for months has emphasized the administration's broader strategy on immigration
as the deportation tally has ticked upward. Through its Project
Homecoming initiative announce in May, the administration has offered financial
incentives and streamlined processes to encourage voluntary departures, with aggressive
(12:45):
enforcement measures for those who remain. That according to a
White House fact sheet that was put out in public messaging,
officials have described the deportation campaign as historic, an aggressive
effort highlight record breaking numbers of arrests and expanded capacity
for detaining and removing undocumented immigrants. So here we are,
(13:10):
the President the United States of America, promising to clean
up the immigration problem in this country. And what we're
witnessing right now is that Trump administration is on pace
to deport more than four hundred thousand people in year one.
This is also happening as liberals are fighting every time
they get a chance to stop the President and Ice
(13:33):
from doing their jobs. Could the numbers go up yes?
Could they go even higher next year?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
One thing is for sure. The President is sending a
message that while he's in office, well what happened under
Joe Biden will never happen again. He wants to fix
the rate you're allowed to charge for rent. He wants
to again take companies and take away money from wealthy individuals.
He wants to run off the quote millionaires and billionaires. So,
(14:06):
I mean, I really don't know any other way to
put it. Is just we're gonna we're robin hooding. We're
gonna go after the poor or go after the rich,
I say, and give to the poor. Well, if you
pass it locally, and this is the part that's scary.
If you do a local ordinance, for example, when it's
local and the people vote for you and they agree
(14:26):
with it, it's gonna be extremely hard to say, uh no, right,
like this is it. Can you tax people at high rate?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes? Can you do rent control? Yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's a lot of local governments have a lot of
power to do things like this. So yeah, a lot
of what he's saying I don't think is illegal as
long as they pass it the right way. That and
and look, I also go back to what I said
earlier on crime. In all these cities. One of the
things democrats do is they decide that the easiest way
(15:04):
to continue to hold power is to get rid of
their political adversaries, to get rid of their political enemies.
And the reason why they get rid of their adversaries
and their enemies is actually pretty simple. They do it
because then no one's up against them. If all the
people that vote against you don't stay and fight you,
they just leave and disappear. And that's what they seem
(15:28):
to be doing often in these liberal cities. Like how
many parents want their kid in a failing school in
a high crime neighborhood. We can be killed just by
being outside playing, or you can get shot by a
stray bullet sleeping in your bed.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Like there's a lot of people, like a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, there is a lot of people that as soon
as that they have the means to get out, they're
gonna get out. They're gonna get out as fast as
they can, and they're like, we don't care if you move,
that's just one last person that's going to be voting
against me, that's going to be advocating for policies that
I don't like. I don't think these guys care if
everyone runs away. It's what they want to happen, and
(16:09):
it's part of I think their game plan moving forward
is that we will we will eliminate any of our
political threats. We will eliminate the people with money, will
eliminate the people that are that are out there that
we can't stand, so that we control power. It's easier
now than ever for a liberal Democrat with no resume okay,
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to get elected. It is easier now than it's ever
been in these hardcore leftist, high crime, high poverty cities
because the same voters got out, they're getting out as
soon as they have the financial means to do it.
They run out of these cities. Why do you think
so many of these liberal cities have suburbs that are
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extremely safe and extremely conservative, because when you have the means,
you say, I'm out of here, I'm out of the
crime I'm out of the poverty. I'm out of these liberals.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'm done, I'm moving, I'm running, I'm gone. Goodbye. It's
a self fulfilling prophecy. But Democrats don't want to rule
great cities. They want to dictate to disaster cities. Detroit, Baltimore,
New Orleans, Memphis, DC. The list goes on. What do
they all have in common? They have total control of
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the local government, and that's what they're there for. They're
there for the control. Donald Trump treating police and the
National Guard to dinner while thanking them for the DC
crime cleanup. President Trump doing what Trump does, bringing pizza
and Hamburgers for members of law enforcement the National Guard
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on Thursday and saying thank you for cracking down on
crime and keeping Americans safe. Trump a company the Attorney
General Pam Bondi, and the Interior Secretary Doug Bergham. He
met with law enforcement from various ages, ranging from the
US Marshall Service to the DC Metropolitan Police Department at
the United States Park Police Headquarters. According to the White
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House Press Pool reports, We're now seeing. Trump commented on
just how amazing the officers are for doing what he
said was an amazing job since he took federal control
of the city due to out of control crime. The
President also making it clear to law enforcement, saying this,
I just want to thank everybody very much for being here.
(18:32):
We've had some incredible results. It's like a different place.
It's like a different city. It's the capital. It's going
to be the best in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He said.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
We appreciate you. And the numbers are down like we
wouldn't believe, but we believe it. He said, We've had
some incredible results. It's like a different place. The Vice
President J. D. Vans also noted there has been a
thirty five percent drop in violent crime and a fifty
percent drop in robberies in the first nine days since
Trump took federal control of law enforcement. Trump Offa also
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emphasized his efforts to restore DC to greatness will not
end with a crime crackdown. He will seek money from
Congress to spruce up the city. He said, quote, We're
going to do what we're doing with law enforcement, and
very importantly also we're going to physically do it. We're
going back to Congress for some money, and we're going
to redo a lot of the pavement a lot of
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the medians, a lot of the graffiti all coming off
real fast. We're going to be not so much building.
It's going to be cleaning and fixing and redoing and
putting brand new services down on our roads and our streets,
he added. Trump brought White House burgers and pizza from
a quote undisclosed business for the members of law enforcement
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in attendance. He said, we'll eat, and I'll eat with you.
We're going to have a little fun. We're going to celebrate,
but then we're going to get back to work, and
we're going to take care of these criminals. We're going
to put them where they have to be. Bergham also
celebrating the President, saying, quote, thank you for bringing respect
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back to law enforcement professionals. Bondy committed law enforcement officers
for working midnights every night because they love our country,
they love our city, and the President. Trump then returned
to the White House after praising law enforcement, something that
Democrats apparently could never ever bring themselves to actually do.
(20:34):
Why Because they hate police, they hate law and order.
They love the criminals, the drug dealers, the gang bangers,
the illegal immigrants. And if you want to know why
this country is in such a mess. Look get any
democratic city in America and if you want to know
why so many cities that are safe have conservative leaders,
well imagine if Donald Trump got to do this in
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other major cities as well well. And this is the
reason why I think think these numbers are just so important,
that they are just so important because they prove what
we've been saying for a long time, right, Like they
prove that law and order when put in action, can
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have a massive impact, not in six months, not in
a year, not in three years, but now immediately when
it's done and surge the right way. I think this
is going to be extremely hard for now governors and
mayors to look at their citizens and say I care
more about politics and I care about saving your life
for the lives of your loved ones or this city.
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Like that's our newest problem, that's our biggest problem. It's
the scariest part of all with this, it's the worst
part of it is that this is happening. I go
back to another story that actually was really interesting, and
it was one that was up earlier today and they
were trying to use it like it was a that
was negative and it's that Donald Trump is apparently preparing
(22:05):
in a very quiet but a very real way to
use the military to go after terrorist organizations that have
been i should say, cartels that have been designated as
terrorists organizations. And there was like this woke liberal that
like was freaking out over this, acting like he was
like exposing Donald Trump, and it made me laugh. I'm
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going to talk about it coming up because it really did.
It made me laugh. It was funny. I'm like, this
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article just so you understand. Now again, Democrats actually believe
what I'm reading to you is like bad news, like
like damning news to Donald Trump and the Trump administration,
and I'm like, I'm jacked.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
The Trump administration has directed the military to prepare for
lethal strikes like We're going to kill them folks against
cartel targets inside of Mexico. Hell, yes, that's me. Three
military sources are telling us the top secret planning order
issued in late spring directs in Northern Command called NORTHCOMB
(25:25):
to manage the attack plans, which are to be ready
by mid September. Though US military US Mexico military relations
are broad and cooperative, any military action south of the
border is considered extremely sensitive for both Washington and the
Mexican federal government, and is rarely discussed in public.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Not only has DONLD Trump uniquely focused on transnational criminal
organizations the official name for cartels, having designated them terrorists
in one of his first executive orders, but he has
shown himself to be willing to take unilateral action to
by potentially negative political ramification. I say ratifications, says one
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senior intelligence official.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Again, like they're acting like this is bad news.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'm like this amazing, Like this is what I voted for,
Like direct line this into my veins. He and other
sources say the military action could be unilateral, that is,
without the involvement or approval of the Mexican government. Well,
hell yeah, because the Mexican government's totally corrupted by the cartels.
Like the Mexican government is the cartel's bag men running
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the country. Like, just understand that quote. The unprecedented order
was discussed at July meeting at Northcomb headquarters in Colorado Springs.
It was led by Colby Jenkins, the unconfirmed Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Within days,
General Gregory Gullet, commander of Northcomb, hosted the two highest
(26:58):
ranking Mexican mil terry officials, and they're like, Wow, this
is a big deal, right, the Secretary of National Defense
and Admiral, a guy by the name of Angellis, the
Secretary of the Navy from Mexico quote today, more than
ever the challenges we face to man a joint, coordinated,
an adaptive response is what Morales, all right, the Secretary
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of the Navy for Mexico said after the calorad A visit,
trying to impress upon Pentagon and military leaders let any
potential operation be conducted by the two nations together. Now
here's the problem. If you do it with Mexico. I
promise you any until you give them about where we're
going to hit, or what we're going to hit, or
who we're going after, will immediately be linked to the
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cartel members, to these terrorist organizations. They want to work
with us because they want to warn the people that
give them their money and power that hey, you're about
to be exterminated. Back to the article. To address the
extreme political sensitivities and to honor Mexico's sovereignty, operations inside
Mexico have previously been conducted by the CIA and the
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Joint Special Operations Command known as JAYSOCK. It's the clandestine
arm of the US military that has been involved in
targeting killings, targeted killings, I say, in the Middle East.
The New York Times has reported that the CIA has
increased reconnaissance operations over Mexico with its own drones. Other
indicators have increased preparations for operations. Now, why is this happening?
(28:27):
I can answer that question because the present's ordering it,
the President saying this is what we're doing. Northcom was
previously sidelined in any Mexico planning. The conventional Special Operations
component mostly involved in joint training with their Mexican counterparts
and non lethal missions which are meaningless such as at
see you know, interactions of shipments, they say. But now
(28:50):
it is being tasked to be the synchronizer of a
far larger magnitude operation and possible attack. That is what
senior intelligence officials are saying. Now, is anything I've told
you so far like sound bad to you? Or does
it all sound like amazing? Because for me this is incredible.
One reason is that perspective attacks, the article says, have
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also also have to coordinate with the intelligence community at large.
The FBI, and various homeland security agencies such as Border
Patrol and ICE, who all now are focused on Mexico
and are conducting their own operations inside Mexico. NORTHCOM is
already involved in Mexico in a host of ways, including
and combating the cartels. That is what General Gilias said
(29:39):
alluded to in a recent testimony to Congress, where he
said that his cooperation with Mexico is already closer than
at any point in history. Okay, again, is there anything
that I've just told you that sounds like bad news?
Because they wrote this article like this is like Donald
Trump going rogue. I'm like, no, no, this is literally what
I voted for. I want to go to the testimony
(30:00):
for Congress. Okay, quote, it is already apparent to military
to military relationships, but the relationship between the United States
and Mexico is robust and expanding it both as both
nations address the challenges posed by common threats to our
citizens and shared interests. These bonds between US north COMB
and our Mexican military partners are broad, resilient, and focused
(30:20):
on expanding or combating capability combined I state capability to
defend and secure North America from the Madrid state and
nonstate threats. Countering competitor influence in the region remains a
key priority for US northcomm and our Mexican military partners,
and as a direct result, the US and Mexican militaries
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are more operationally combative and compatible than at any point
in our shared history. Okay, so let's be clear about
what they're saying, these guys that are woke going up
there to Congress, like, Hey, you need to make sure
Mexico is involved in like everything we do, because if
we don't, they may find other allies. So in other words,
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it's better to live in the hell we have now
where the cartels run the country than actually go after
the cartels and kill them. And we should do that
because their terrorist organization who is also killing Americans, Like,
make no mistake over it. And what they're saying is, well,
hold on a second that the other side, this is
we got to counter Chinese influence and investment in Mexico.
(31:23):
We got to thwart Russian influence and operations. We got
to stem the flow of drugs and the and the
chemicals and even weapons of mass destruction components that are
coming through Mexico. And the only way to do that,
they say, is if we just accept the corruption in
the cartels of Mexico. I would argue, screw you, Okay,
if Mexico wants to run to Russia, knock yourself out
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and we'll knock out all the cartels and you'll lose
your power. You know, Chinese influence. Yes, that's real, But
I'd rather not have Americans dying at record numbers from
fetnyl overdoses. And that's coming where from China and then
through mex go into America. Now Northcom we've also been
told as tasks it's subordinate special Operations Command called SOCK
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North to undertake quote operational preparations of the battle space
inside Mexico, set the stage for quote future military operations,
and to prepare cartel related targeting packages for potential strikes
and direct action attacks on the ground against high value individuals, compounds,
and supply chain targets associated in particular with the Cineloa
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cartel and the new Generation cartel. Direct attacks could also
involve air and drone strikes like this. Again, they're acting
like this as bad news. This is what I voted
for quote direct actions. The term special operations forces used
to describe small scale offensive operations carried out by Army
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green berets, Navy seals, or Marine Corps raiders. Think of
the air strikes on Iran this summer as kind of
a direct action against discrete targets, whether a strategic or
national purpose. That's exactly what Donald Trump is now advocating
for as well. The article says that this is there
is one major difference when it comes to Mexico. The
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political sensitivity is involved, so they're.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Telling you don't do it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Unlike Iran, Mexico is a rich country, which of course
borders the US and cooperates with it in countless ways.
I don't believe that's true, all right. I just want
to be clear about that. Mexico, by the way, is
not a rich country. It's a poor country. That's a lie.
Independence from America is a major issue domestically, not to
mention the large Mexican American population. So they're also saying
(33:43):
don't do it because there's Americans there and they may
turn on set Americans, and so therefore that's why you
shouldn't do the operations against the cartels. This report is
truly hysterical, to me because I read it and I'm like,
give me more of this every day, please, like give
me more of this each and every day. Okay, Like
(34:05):
I want this. It's what I voted for, Donald Trump,
securing this country and going after the cartels. You couldn't
say anything that would get me more excited than what
is in this report. And they're acting like this is
some sort of just horrible moment, horrible thing.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's the greatest thing I've ever heard, and I think
most Americans voted for this and support it. Make sure
you share this podcast with your family and friends, put
it up on social media wherever you are, and we
appreciate you listening every day. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
Top IRS lawyer under Donald Trump pledged to quote resist
the president. We now know he is apparently a former
Democratic Aid quote screw going high pack the court argue
this IRIS lawyer Anthony Soacho. He is a top IRIS
(00:25):
lawyer involved in quote high level policy interpretations and his
advocated action to resist President Trump and holds radical, far
less left policy positions, pushing for Democrats to abolish prisons
for example, and anytime you don't get the ruling you
want at the Supreme Court, just pack the court to
(00:45):
quote defy Trump. Anthony Sako is an attorney for the
powerful IRS Office of Chief Counsel. He's openly advocated for
far left positions for years prior to joining the agency.
This coming from a Daily Wire review of his social
media that has been found. Soco, who holds a key
(01:07):
role in interpreting complicated federal tax law, has called for
people to quote resist the GOP and attacked the police.
Sounds exactly like what you would get in the Democratic
Party from socialist communists in Marxists right now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
SOCCO has co authored multiple.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Revenue rulings, including as recently as April the seventeenth of
this year. That would be three months into the Trump administration.
Revenue rulings are official IRS interpretations of how tax laws
are applied in specific situations and impact how government officials
are government officials, I should say, tax professionals and also you,
(01:48):
the taxpayers, maintain compliance with federal law now. Before joining
the IRS in September of twenty twenty two by the
Biden administration, Socco worked under the Oregon Democratic Senate under
Ron Wyden for the Senate Finance Committee. That's according to
his own LinkedIn profile. His social media activity demonstrated a
(02:09):
strong opposition to President Trump and his administration. In twenty twenty,
for example, he attacked Republicans ahead of the Senate vote
to confirm Amy Cony Barrett to the Supreme Court, saying this,
the Republican Party has completely obliterated principles, integrity and norms.
Screw going hi, pack the court. Hashtag resists, hashtag gop,
(02:31):
hashtag election, hashtag vote, hashtag pack the Court now. Shortly
after all of this came out, The Daily Wire reached
out to Saco for comment on his previous views. What
did he do exactly what liberals always do? He locked
his ex account restricted who can see his posts but
(02:53):
not before The Daily Wire archived and saved all of them.
SACO did not respond to the inquiry on the post
by The Daily Wire. Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton said
SOCCO should be fired immediately. With deep state leftists in
its leadership, it's no wonder the IRAS has repeatedly targeted
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conservatives and conservative organizations, Cotton said to Daily Wire, this
individual should be fired immediately. SOCCO is currently one of
the main attorneys like not low level, not mid level,
one of the top docs right, the main attorneys in
the IRAF Chief Council Office who specializes in looking to
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at pass through businesses, a tax structure where owners are
taxed at the individual rate than corporate levels. The revenue
ruling he drafted in April, for example, with drew one
he had written under Biden, which increased regulations on certain
business partnerships. It was based on an executive order from
Trump ordering his administration to cut unnecessary regulations, meaning a
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advocate for resisting Trump was left responsible for putting his
orders into effect. According to one senior Republican aid who
worked on finance issues in the Senate, saco's office was
viewsed as politicized as a politicized office in the financial
policy world. It was, for example, behind plans that would
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supercharge the RS beyond its current current form. The AID
pointed to the irf's push for a quote direct file
program that was approved by the Chief Council's Office during
the Biden administration, which Republicans argued would have turned the
IRS into a tax preparer, tax elector, and tax enforcer.
The idea that a far left resistor who helped the
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Biden's IRS set policy is now setting policy for Trump
is deeply concerning, the AID told The Daily Wire, adding
that the Treasury Secretary Scott Descent should clean house to
get his well politication of this office out. Here's something
else that was said. I'm not surprised he said those
(05:01):
far left things, because that's how this has operated, how
the Chief Council's Office has operated. The AID added, we
shouldn't trust left wing ideologues at the IRS and light
of their weaponization of the agency during the Obama and
also the Biden administrations. Now outside by the way of
social media. Sacho helped prepare link the academic article arguing
(05:25):
that prison should be abolished. It was published by the
Harvard Law Review and the forward. The primary author argued
that quote white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric
of every legal institution in the United States of America. So,
in other words, if you're black, you should bild a
committee crime and not have to worry about the consequence,
apparently based on what the Harvard Law Review has In
(05:47):
a post discussing his work on the project, Sacho contemplated
the future of criminal justice in America by writing this,
it was truly amazing to work with Professor Roberts and
my fellow RAS on this piece over the past sum
It's not easy to imagine a society without prisons, but
I look at the prison system in mass incarceration completely
differently now after this experience. The author of the article
(06:11):
also wrote that there is quote good reason to renounce
the Constitution because constitutional law has been critical to upholding
the interests of the radical capitalist regime while advancing legal
theories that justifies it's inhumanity. The article that he was
a part of also said this, Indeed, it is the
(06:34):
realization the white supremacy is deeply woven into the fabric
of every legal institution in the United States and upheld
by the US constitutional law that made me an abolitionist
in the first place, the author added. SAKO, by the way,
also frequently posts anti police messages on his account, including
(06:55):
a call for the Colin Kaepernick Neil guy. Remember that guy,
Colin can the quarterback that Neil did in the National anthem?
Yeah that guy to quote abolish the white supremacist institution
of policing, and another post that claimed policing is based
on race and that the job itself is racist if
you are a policeman, So how does that work? Just
(07:16):
out of curiosity if you're like Asian or Hispanic or black, Like,
are you a racist cop if you were those races?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Like, I'm just asking for a friend.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I want to know socco's account, by the way, now, Locke,
because this is what the left does, right, They get
caught saying what they believe, and then they shut it down.
They don't stand by it. No, no, no, we're gonna We're
gonna lock it down. And satsy's currently focused on tax policy,
racial and criminal justice. The IRS, by the way, is
not respond to requests for comment on soaco's status at
(07:46):
the end of at the agency, and this goes back
to the point that I said earlier in twenty sixteen.
I don't think Donald Trump understood just how many people
hated him. I don't think he realized how much the
deep state had dug into our government. This guy's a
great example of that. And how many people are like, oh,
we can just undermine Donald Trump anytime we want to, Like,
(08:09):
we don't have to worry about Donald Trump. We will
just wait him out. We'll undermine every single thing that
he does. And when we do that, then we will
still win eventually, because we're not going anywhere. That, my friends,
is the problem with all of this. You have these
(08:31):
radicals that are in our government, these extremists in our government,
and they say these things openly. I want you to
just think about the arrogance of this top person. You
have an individual here that is so arrogant, that is
so cocky that he's willing to write this down and
(08:53):
put it online for anyone to read it for years.
But as soon as he gets caught by the masses,
he felt let me let me rephrase that he felt
comfortable enough to write it, He felt comfortable enough to
put it out there, thinking that he could claim he's
some nonpartisan irs agent when in reality, he hates conservatives.
(09:18):
He's an extreme radical, a hardcore leftist at an organization
that has been weaponized to go after conservatives. When I
tell you stories like this, I mean it. You don't
hate the left enough right now, because what I can
tell you is they hate you. They hate your family values,
(09:40):
they hate your faith, they hate who you vote for,
and they want to undermine it, and they want to
silence you. And they want you to become extinct. And oh,
by the way, they also want you to be poor.
They don't want you to succeed, they won't want your
kids to succeed. They want to destroy your way of life.
Never ever, ever, forget that. Share this podcasts with your
(10:01):
family and friends, share it on social media, please, and
I'll see you back here tomorrow. Promises made, Promises kept.
That for me is the theme of Donald Trump's time
in office so far. The Trump administration, we're now being told,
is on pace to deport four hundred thousand illegal immigrants
(10:25):
in one year. The Trump administration is deporting about one
thousand and five hundred people per day and is on
track to deport more than four and one thousand people
in his first year in office. The New York Times
is now reporting now. Of course they're criticizing the president
for doing it. That's how you know the president's doing
a damn good job. At least one hundred and eighty
(10:46):
thousand people have been deported by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
under President Donald Trump. The Time states deportations have increased
as ICE got a massive increase in funding from the
big beautiful bill that was signed into law. Again, the
bill that they said was going to ruin America. So
much for that lie. At its current pace, ICE would
(11:10):
deport more than four hundred thousand people. That is a
sharp increase from the two hundred and seventy one thousand
people removed last year by ICE, though far short of
the goal of one hundred or of one million set
by the Trump administration. Now, the Department of All Insecurity
says the total number of deportations so far under Trump
(11:32):
is three hundred and twenty two thousand. That figure includes
people who are turned around or quickly deported at the
US borders by Customs and Border Protection. The Times also
states ICE is using a dozen charter planes per day.
If that's not taxpayer money used the right way, I
don't know. What is to conduct deportations and transport detainees.
(11:56):
That's double the number used in January. According to Tom Cartwright,
an immigration advocate who is tracking the ICE flights, yes
they're angry. There are more than sixty thousand people in custody.
The Times reported ICE is at at least fifty new
detention centers since Trump took office as well, and more
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than six thousand people being held there. The White House
for months has emphasized the administration's broader strategy on immigration
as the deportation tally has ticked upward. Through its Project
Homecoming initiative announce in May, the administration has offered financial
incentives and streamlined processes to encourage voluntary departures, with aggressive
(12:45):
enforcement measures for those who remain. That according to a
White House fact sheet that was put out in public messaging,
officials have described the deportation campaign as historic, an aggressive
effort highlight record breaking numbers of arrests and expanded capacity
for detaining and removing undocumented immigrants. So here we are,
(13:10):
the President the United States of America, promising to clean
up the immigration problem in this country. And what we're
witnessing right now is that Trump administration is on pace
to deport more than four hundred thousand people in year one.
This is also happening as liberals are fighting every time
they get a chance to stop the President and Ice
(13:33):
from doing their jobs. Could the numbers go up yes?
Could they go even higher next year?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
One thing is for sure. The President is sending a
message that while he's in office, well what happened under
Joe Biden will never happen again. He wants to fix
the rate you're allowed to charge for rent. He wants
to again take companies and take away money from wealthy individuals.
He wants to run off the quote millionaires and billionaires. So,
(14:06):
I mean, I really don't know any other way to
put it. Is just we're gonna we're robin hooding. We're
gonna go after the poor or go after the rich,
I say, and give to the poor. Well, if you
pass it locally, and this is the part that's scary.
If you do a local ordinance, for example, when it's
local and the people vote for you and they agree
(14:26):
with it, it's gonna be extremely hard to say, uh no, right,
like this is it. Can you tax people at high rate?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes? Can you do rent control? Yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's a lot of local governments have a lot of
power to do things like this. So yeah, a lot
of what he's saying I don't think is illegal as
long as they pass it the right way. That and
and look, I also go back to what I said
earlier on crime. In all these cities. One of the
things democrats do is they decide that the easiest way
(15:04):
to continue to hold power is to get rid of
their political adversaries, to get rid of their political enemies.
And the reason why they get rid of their adversaries
and their enemies is actually pretty simple. They do it
because then no one's up against them. If all the
people that vote against you don't stay and fight you,
they just leave and disappear. And that's what they seem
(15:28):
to be doing often in these liberal cities. Like how
many parents want their kid in a failing school in
a high crime neighborhood. We can be killed just by
being outside playing, or you can get shot by a
stray bullet sleeping in your bed.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Like there's a lot of people, like a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Okay, there is a lot of people that as soon
as that they have the means to get out, they're
gonna get out. They're gonna get out as fast as
they can, and they're like, we don't care if you move,
that's just one last person that's going to be voting
against me, that's going to be advocating for policies that
I don't like. I don't think these guys care if
everyone runs away. It's what they want to happen, and
(16:09):
it's part of I think their game plan moving forward
is that we will we will eliminate any of our
political threats. We will eliminate the people with money, will
eliminate the people that are that are out there that
we can't stand, so that we control power. It's easier
now than ever for a liberal Democrat with no resume okay,
(16:32):
to get elected. It is easier now than it's ever
been in these hardcore leftist, high crime, high poverty cities
because the same voters got out, they're getting out as
soon as they have the financial means to do it.
They run out of these cities. Why do you think
so many of these liberal cities have suburbs that are
(16:53):
extremely safe and extremely conservative, because when you have the means,
you say, I'm out of here, I'm out of the
crime I'm out of the poverty. I'm out of these liberals.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'm done, I'm moving, I'm running, I'm gone. Goodbye. It's
a self fulfilling prophecy. But Democrats don't want to rule
great cities. They want to dictate to disaster cities. Detroit, Baltimore,
New Orleans, Memphis, DC. The list goes on. What do
they all have in common? They have total control of
(17:25):
the local government, and that's what they're there for. They're
there for the control. Donald Trump treating police and the
National Guard to dinner while thanking them for the DC
crime cleanup. President Trump doing what Trump does, bringing pizza
and Hamburgers for members of law enforcement the National Guard
(17:46):
on Thursday and saying thank you for cracking down on
crime and keeping Americans safe. Trump a company the Attorney
General Pam Bondi, and the Interior Secretary Doug Bergham. He
met with law enforcement from various ages, ranging from the
US Marshall Service to the DC Metropolitan Police Department at
the United States Park Police Headquarters. According to the White
(18:08):
House Press Pool reports, We're now seeing. Trump commented on
just how amazing the officers are for doing what he
said was an amazing job since he took federal control
of the city due to out of control crime. The
President also making it clear to law enforcement, saying this,
I just want to thank everybody very much for being here.
(18:32):
We've had some incredible results. It's like a different place.
It's like a different city. It's the capital. It's going
to be the best in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He said.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
We appreciate you. And the numbers are down like we
wouldn't believe, but we believe it. He said, We've had
some incredible results. It's like a different place. The Vice
President J. D. Vans also noted there has been a
thirty five percent drop in violent crime and a fifty
percent drop in robberies in the first nine days since
Trump took federal control of law enforcement. Trump Offa also
(19:07):
emphasized his efforts to restore DC to greatness will not
end with a crime crackdown. He will seek money from
Congress to spruce up the city. He said, quote, We're
going to do what we're doing with law enforcement, and
very importantly also we're going to physically do it. We're
going back to Congress for some money, and we're going
to redo a lot of the pavement a lot of
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the medians, a lot of the graffiti all coming off
real fast. We're going to be not so much building.
It's going to be cleaning and fixing and redoing and
putting brand new services down on our roads and our streets,
he added. Trump brought White House burgers and pizza from
a quote undisclosed business for the members of law enforcement
(19:53):
in attendance. He said, we'll eat, and I'll eat with you.
We're going to have a little fun. We're going to celebrate,
but then we're going to get back to work, and
we're going to take care of these criminals. We're going
to put them where they have to be. Bergham also
celebrating the President, saying, quote, thank you for bringing respect
(20:13):
back to law enforcement professionals. Bondy committed law enforcement officers
for working midnights every night because they love our country,
they love our city, and the President. Trump then returned
to the White House after praising law enforcement, something that
Democrats apparently could never ever bring themselves to actually do.
(20:34):
Why Because they hate police, they hate law and order.
They love the criminals, the drug dealers, the gang bangers,
the illegal immigrants. And if you want to know why
this country is in such a mess. Look get any
democratic city in America and if you want to know
why so many cities that are safe have conservative leaders,
well imagine if Donald Trump got to do this in
(20:55):
other major cities as well well. And this is the
reason why I think think these numbers are just so important,
that they are just so important because they prove what
we've been saying for a long time, right, Like they
prove that law and order when put in action, can
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have a massive impact, not in six months, not in
a year, not in three years, but now immediately when
it's done and surge the right way. I think this
is going to be extremely hard for now governors and
mayors to look at their citizens and say I care
more about politics and I care about saving your life
for the lives of your loved ones or this city.
(21:40):
Like that's our newest problem, that's our biggest problem. It's
the scariest part of all with this, it's the worst
part of it is that this is happening. I go
back to another story that actually was really interesting, and
it was one that was up earlier today and they
were trying to use it like it was a that
was negative and it's that Donald Trump is apparently preparing
(22:05):
in a very quiet but a very real way to
use the military to go after terrorist organizations that have
been i should say, cartels that have been designated as
terrorists organizations. And there was like this woke liberal that
like was freaking out over this, acting like he was
like exposing Donald Trump, and it made me laugh. I'm
(22:30):
going to talk about it coming up because it really did.
It made me laugh. It was funny. I'm like, this
is good news. This isn't bad news, this is great news.
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article just so you understand. Now again, Democrats actually believe
what I'm reading to you is like bad news, like
like damning news to Donald Trump and the Trump administration,
and I'm like, I'm jacked.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
The Trump administration has directed the military to prepare for
lethal strikes like We're going to kill them folks against
cartel targets inside of Mexico. Hell, yes, that's me. Three
military sources are telling us the top secret planning order
issued in late spring directs in Northern Command called NORTHCOMB
(25:25):
to manage the attack plans, which are to be ready
by mid September. Though US military US Mexico military relations
are broad and cooperative, any military action south of the
border is considered extremely sensitive for both Washington and the
Mexican federal government, and is rarely discussed in public.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Not only has DONLD Trump uniquely focused on transnational criminal
organizations the official name for cartels, having designated them terrorists
in one of his first executive orders, but he has
shown himself to be willing to take unilateral action to
by potentially negative political ramification. I say ratifications, says one
(26:06):
senior intelligence official.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Again, like they're acting like this is bad news.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'm like this amazing, Like this is what I voted for,
Like direct line this into my veins. He and other
sources say the military action could be unilateral, that is,
without the involvement or approval of the Mexican government. Well,
hell yeah, because the Mexican government's totally corrupted by the cartels.
Like the Mexican government is the cartel's bag men running
(26:33):
the country. Like, just understand that quote. The unprecedented order
was discussed at July meeting at Northcomb headquarters in Colorado Springs.
It was led by Colby Jenkins, the unconfirmed Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Within days,
General Gregory Gullet, commander of Northcomb, hosted the two highest
(26:58):
ranking Mexican mil terry officials, and they're like, Wow, this
is a big deal, right, the Secretary of National Defense
and Admiral, a guy by the name of Angellis, the
Secretary of the Navy from Mexico quote today, more than
ever the challenges we face to man a joint, coordinated,
an adaptive response is what Morales, all right, the Secretary
(27:21):
of the Navy for Mexico said after the calorad A visit,
trying to impress upon Pentagon and military leaders let any
potential operation be conducted by the two nations together. Now
here's the problem. If you do it with Mexico. I
promise you any until you give them about where we're
going to hit, or what we're going to hit, or
who we're going after, will immediately be linked to the
(27:42):
cartel members, to these terrorist organizations. They want to work
with us because they want to warn the people that
give them their money and power that hey, you're about
to be exterminated. Back to the article. To address the
extreme political sensitivities and to honor Mexico's sovereignty, operations inside
Mexico have previously been conducted by the CIA and the
(28:05):
Joint Special Operations Command known as JAYSOCK. It's the clandestine
arm of the US military that has been involved in
targeting killings, targeted killings, I say, in the Middle East.
The New York Times has reported that the CIA has
increased reconnaissance operations over Mexico with its own drones. Other
indicators have increased preparations for operations. Now, why is this happening?
(28:27):
I can answer that question because the present's ordering it,
the President saying this is what we're doing. Northcom was
previously sidelined in any Mexico planning. The conventional Special Operations
component mostly involved in joint training with their Mexican counterparts
and non lethal missions which are meaningless such as at
see you know, interactions of shipments, they say. But now
(28:50):
it is being tasked to be the synchronizer of a
far larger magnitude operation and possible attack. That is what
senior intelligence officials are saying. Now, is anything I've told
you so far like sound bad to you? Or does
it all sound like amazing? Because for me this is incredible.
One reason is that perspective attacks, the article says, have
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also also have to coordinate with the intelligence community at large.
The FBI, and various homeland security agencies such as Border
Patrol and ICE, who all now are focused on Mexico
and are conducting their own operations inside Mexico. NORTHCOM is
already involved in Mexico in a host of ways, including
and combating the cartels. That is what General Gilias said
(29:39):
alluded to in a recent testimony to Congress, where he
said that his cooperation with Mexico is already closer than
at any point in history. Okay, again, is there anything
that I've just told you that sounds like bad news?
Because they wrote this article like this is like Donald
Trump going rogue. I'm like, no, no, this is literally what
I voted for. I want to go to the testimony
(30:00):
for Congress. Okay, quote, it is already apparent to military
to military relationships, but the relationship between the United States
and Mexico is robust and expanding it both as both
nations address the challenges posed by common threats to our
citizens and shared interests. These bonds between US north COMB
and our Mexican military partners are broad, resilient, and focused
(30:20):
on expanding or combating capability combined I state capability to
defend and secure North America from the Madrid state and
nonstate threats. Countering competitor influence in the region remains a
key priority for US northcomm and our Mexican military partners,
and as a direct result, the US and Mexican militaries
(30:41):
are more operationally combative and compatible than at any point
in our shared history. Okay, so let's be clear about
what they're saying, these guys that are woke going up
there to Congress, like, Hey, you need to make sure
Mexico is involved in like everything we do, because if
we don't, they may find other allies. So in other words,
(31:01):
it's better to live in the hell we have now
where the cartels run the country than actually go after
the cartels and kill them. And we should do that
because their terrorist organization who is also killing Americans, Like,
make no mistake over it. And what they're saying is, well,
hold on a second that the other side, this is
we got to counter Chinese influence and investment in Mexico.
(31:23):
We got to thwart Russian influence and operations. We got
to stem the flow of drugs and the and the
chemicals and even weapons of mass destruction components that are
coming through Mexico. And the only way to do that,
they say, is if we just accept the corruption in
the cartels of Mexico. I would argue, screw you, Okay,
if Mexico wants to run to Russia, knock yourself out
(31:45):
and we'll knock out all the cartels and you'll lose
your power. You know, Chinese influence. Yes, that's real, But
I'd rather not have Americans dying at record numbers from
fetnyl overdoses. And that's coming where from China and then
through mex go into America. Now Northcom we've also been
told as tasks it's subordinate special Operations Command called SOCK
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North to undertake quote operational preparations of the battle space
inside Mexico, set the stage for quote future military operations,
and to prepare cartel related targeting packages for potential strikes
and direct action attacks on the ground against high value individuals, compounds,
and supply chain targets associated in particular with the Cineloa
(32:34):
cartel and the new Generation cartel. Direct attacks could also
involve air and drone strikes like this. Again, they're acting
like this as bad news. This is what I voted
for quote direct actions. The term special operations forces used
to describe small scale offensive operations carried out by Army
(32:55):
green berets, Navy seals, or Marine Corps raiders. Think of
the air strikes on Iran this summer as kind of
a direct action against discrete targets, whether a strategic or
national purpose. That's exactly what Donald Trump is now advocating
for as well. The article says that this is there
is one major difference when it comes to Mexico. The
(33:17):
political sensitivity is involved, so they're.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Telling you don't do it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Unlike Iran, Mexico is a rich country, which of course
borders the US and cooperates with it in countless ways.
I don't believe that's true, all right. I just want
to be clear about that. Mexico, by the way, is
not a rich country. It's a poor country. That's a lie.
Independence from America is a major issue domestically, not to
mention the large Mexican American population. So they're also saying
(33:43):
don't do it because there's Americans there and they may
turn on set Americans, and so therefore that's why you
shouldn't do the operations against the cartels. This report is
truly hysterical, to me because I read it and I'm like,
give me more of this every day, please, like give
me more of this each and every day. Okay, Like
(34:05):
I want this. It's what I voted for, Donald Trump,
securing this country and going after the cartels. You couldn't
say anything that would get me more excited than what
is in this report. And they're acting like this is
some sort of just horrible moment, horrible thing.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's the greatest thing I've ever heard, and I think
most Americans voted for this and support it. Make sure
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