December 21, 2025 • 28 mins
1. Fentanyl Classified as Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Action: President Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a WMD, equating its impact to nuclear or chemical weapons.
- Rationale: Trump cited overdose deaths (200k–300k annually) and national security threats from narco-terrorists.
- Military Measures:
- U.S. strikes on drug-smuggling boats since September, killing ~90 people.
- Deployment of the world’s largest aircraft carrier and warships in the Caribbean.
- Geopolitical Angle:
- Venezuela’s leader Maduro accused the U.S. of using anti-drug operations as a pretext for regime change.
- Trump offered a $50 million reward for Maduro’s capture.
2. DOJ/FBI and Mar-a-Lago Raid Controversy
- New Revelations:
- Internal FBI emails show doubts about probable cause for the 2022 raid.
- Agents suggested alternative solutions and warned against optics; DOJ pushed forward regardless.
- Allegations:
- Evidence tampering and staged photos admitted in court by Jack Smith’s team.
- Merrick Garland personally approved the warrant despite internal objections.
- Narrative: Portrayed as political weaponization to prevent Trump’s return to office.
3. Trump’s Prime-Time Address
- Tone: Optimistic, forward-looking, and celebratory.
- Key Announcements:
- Tax Relief: No tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security starting 2026; projected largest refund season ever.
- Military Bonus: $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” for 1.45 million service members as a patriotic gesture.
- Economic Agenda:
- Aggressive housing reforms to improve affordability.
- Lower interest rates via new Fed leadership.
- Expanded energy production to cut costs.
- Healthcare: Plans to dismantle ACA, reduce drug prices, and redirect funds to individuals for better coverage.
- Immigration: Framed Biden-era border policies as catastrophic; touted Trump’s enforcement as restoring law and order.
- Foreign Policy: Claimed progress in reducing global tensions and restoring U.S. leadership.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
President Trump has made it very clear that he believes
that fetnyl is a national security threat. It is killing,
in essence a plane of Americans every single day. No
one in this country would stand for a plane crash
every day, of innocent Americans crashing to the ground. But
(00:21):
that's the equivalent of what is happening at the hands
of Narco Terris.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Donald Trump is moving forward with an idea of classifying
fetnyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That's right, President
Trump saying on Monday that he was classifying fetnol as
a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration's campaign
against drug cartels in Latin America. Quote, no bomb does
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what this is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand
people die every year that we know of, Trump said
at the signing of an executive order that places fetnah
in the same category as new clear and chemical weapons.
In twenty twenty four, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention report an estimated total of about eighty thousand overdose
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deaths in the country, with some forty eight thousand of
those due to synthetic opioids. The executive order set illicit
fetnyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,
and that it threatens our national security and fuels lawlessness
in our hemisphere and at our borders. The fetanyl classification
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ties in with the Trump administration's war against alleged narco terrists,
which has included a military campaign targeting drug smuggling boats
with strikes that have left nearly ninety people dead since
early September. While Trump argues that destroying each of the
more than twenty intercepted vessels saves twenty five thousand American lives,
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the left is furious that the president would actually go
after boats carrying cocaine and feyl and other synthetic opioids
driving the overdose crisis. Leave it to the Democratic Party
to defend the terrorists instead of protecting American citizens. Trump
is a coming to strikes with a massive military build
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up as well in the Caribbean that includes the world's
largest aircraft carrier and a slew of other warships, While
a string of US military aircraft have flown along Venezuela's
coast in recent weeks now. While Trump and his administration
say the target of the military build up is drug trafficking.
Venezuela is radical narco terrorist leader Maduro is accusing Washington
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of using narcotics smuggling as a pretext for what he
says is regime change in Caracas. The United States has
sought to link the two issues, and Donald Trump is
leading on it, accusing Madua of leading the alleged Cartel
of the Suns, which is declared to narco terrorist organization,
and now offering a fifty million a reward for information
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leading to Maduro's capture. So this is yet again another
campaign promise that has now turned into reality. President Trump
said he was going to do everything he could to
keep American safe from fetnol, and this is one step
forward in classifying the drug in a way that now
allows him even more authority to go after those that
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are selling it, those that are shipping it, and those
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compassion dot com. New files are revealing that the Department
of Justice and the FBI did not have cause to
raid mar Lago. That coming now from shocking information that
has been released by Senator Chuck Grassley. The newly released
emails and records that were made public show that FBI
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officials internally, in writing where question whether they had probable
causes seek a search warrant from a Lago In August
of twenty twenty two. Emails state that the FBI's own
Washington Field office did not believe the evidence established probable
cause for a raid at that time. Despite these written
(05:16):
doubts in writing, the Department of Justice leadership said screw it,
We're going to move forward anyway and obtained a warrant
from a federal magistrate judge. One senior FBI agent reportedly
said the effort to build probable cause was time consuming,
quote unquote, and not productive without additional evidence. Grassly characterized
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the disclosures as a miscarriage of justice and claimed the
Biden DOJ push forward despite internal resistance based on the facts. Now,
these internal emails were not previously public, and they contradict
pass these public assertions about the confidence levels before the
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raid on the former president's home. It's important to note
that the FBI's public stance was that a judge found
probable cause even though they didn't believe it was there,
and authorize the warrant. That is something Democrats are pointing
to right now to try to save themselves. Now, let
me also remind you about what happened during that raid
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When there's no evidence. What do you have to do
when you're raiding someone to home if you want to
go after them? And why did they raid? We all
know the reason why. The FBI raided the DOJ. They
were trying to make sure that Donald Trump never made
it back to the White House. Let me remind you
what now, CIA director John Radcliffe had to say about
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this quite some time ago after the raid happened.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, so that famous photograph. What we have now learned
and the government has had Jack Smith and his prosecutors
have had to admit that that was staged and those
topsy g classified sheets that all the public songs said,
Oh my god, look at those top secret documents. Those
were placed there by the FBI. And what Jacksmith admitted
in court this week was that, in his word, they
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mishandled the classified documents and misrepresented those to the court. WHEA.
That's a kind way of saying, we tampered with the evidence.
Then we lied to the court about it. And they
got caught when President Trump's lawyers and the other co
defendants raised this issue and said, look, the documents here
don't match up. The documents that were presented to us
don't match the digitally scanned records of when they were
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taken from mar A Lago. And Jack Smith not only
did they tamper with that and lie to the court
about it. But he's now admitted to the court that
he doesn't know how that happened. He's only offered a
number of possible explanations for how that could have happened.
So he's absolutely blown the chain of custody. And again
he has a prosecutor lead prosecutor in this case, Jay Bratt,
who met with White House counsel and a representative of
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the National Archives in several times in the weeks before
Jacksmith was even appointed. This reeks of crossfire hurricane when
the Biden when the Obama Biden administration fabricated evidence before
the pies of court, lied to the court about it
to pursue Donald Trump, and now we're seeing it again
in this classified documents case.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So not only was this thing crooked from the beginning
and fabricated out of thin air, we also now know
that those men and women at the FBI and the
DOJ that were on the ground said there is nothing there,
there's no probable cause. And so that's where the politics
and the corruption of the Biden regime comes in. Let
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me remind you of what the Attorney General Merrick Garland
had to say as he went on TV before the
election of course, delivering his remarks on the search warn't
executed at President Trump's Marlago resident and what did he say?
And again put this in perspective, it's now coming out
the FBI warned the Biden administration that there was not
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probable cause to raid mar Lago and they rated President
Trump anyway. So who made that decision? Well, we know
exactly who it was. It was Merrick Garland. How do
we know it because he said it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
There are, however, certain points I want you to know. First,
I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant
in this matter. Second, the department does not take such
a decision lately.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Which brings us back to the issue of accountability. If
you look at the FBI doubting problem cause for Marlago raid,
then push forward because the man in charge, Merrick Garland,
says I'm telling you you're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm personally authorizing it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And then you have emails showing that this is a massive, massive,
massive problem and they're telling you don't do it. Then
how is there not accountability? And let's just talk a
little bit more about accountability. We're now getting reporting from
Fox News Digital that they're saying the FBI not only
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do they not believe they had probable cause to raid
President Donald Trump, TOMRL and go home in twenty twenty two,
but they moved forward amid pressure directly from the Biden
Justice Department, with an official saying he didn't give a
damn quote unquote about the optics of the search. Now
this is all coming from these newly declassified documents. Fox
(10:32):
News Digital revealed emails between the FBI and the Justice
Department officials in the months leading up to the August
twenty twenty two raid of the president home, with FBI
officials expressing grave concerns about a lack of probable cause
to execute the search warrant on then front runner President
Donald Trump and his residence in Palm Beach. Quote very
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little has been developed related to who might be culpable
for mishandling the documents. And FBI official serving as an
assistant Special Agent in charge wrote to another FBI official
from the interviews the who has gathered information suggesting that
there may be additional boxes, presumably of the same type
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as we're sent back to nar in January at mar Lago,
who has been drafting a search warrant affidavit related to
these potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information
is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated.
The official continues, again, this is all in writing. Doj csopines, however,
(11:41):
that the sws meet the problem cause standard. Then it
says this, even as we continue down the path towards
a search warrant, WFO believes that a reasonable conversation with
the former president attorney they're talking about Donald Trump, that
the FBI and the DOJ are reading a search warrant
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and have developed information that there are more documents in
Marlago ought.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Not to be discounted.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
The official road, in other words, are saying, don't do this,
don't go rate it. Talk to his lawyers. We can
probably make all this go away. Then it says in
this document this, at a minimum, even if the former
president's attorney is correct and the documents were all declassified
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or believed to be disclassified, it can be reasonably argued
that the documents remain sensitive and should be properly secured
until the matter of classification is sorted out. The official continued,
this conversation could easily be accomplished. At the same time,
that the who presses forward with the investigation and continues
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building out a search warrant. In other words, Hey, if
you guys are over reacting, you don't want to go
raid mar Lago. There's not probable cause. I'm telling you
that this call can be done through lawyers. This is
a mistake. I'm telling you we don't have what we
need to go in raid mar Lago. And now we
understand going back to Radcliffe, why they were placing these
folders out in the floor and taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It was all a setup. We know that. Now, now
here's something else is interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Weeks later, an FBI agent writes an email stating this quote,
we haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given
draft after draft after draft. In other words, you're going
to raid this thing. I don't care what you found. Then,
the FBI agent writes this absent a witness coming forward
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with recent information about classified documents on site, At what
point is it fair to table this question mark? The
agent rights it is time consuming for the team and
not productive if there are no new facts supporting probable cause.
(14:07):
Another email revealed that the FBI's Washington Field office did
not believe, as has articulated to the DOJ and the
CS that we have established probable cause for the search
warrant for classified records at mar Lago.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Then there's another line.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
This is what it says, quote the DOJ is a
pie that they do not have probable cause, requesting a
wide scope including residents, office storage space. Another agent wrote
the FBI believe that a raid would be counterproductive their
words in writing, and suggested alternatives, less intrusive and likelier
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quicker options for resolution to reclaim any potential classified records.
The process moved forward regardless of all of these concerns
that were put in writing. There's even another email on
August fourth of twenty twenty two, revealed the plan for
the execution of the warrant, saying this, the FBI intends
(15:10):
for the execution of the warrant to be handled in
a professional, low key manner and to be mindful of
the optics of the search. An agent rights The agent
quotes then Deputy Assistant Attorney General in a meeting saying, quote,
since we heard mister Tosca say yesterday in the call
that he quote frankly doesn't give a damn about the optics,
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And mister Brown has already built an antagonistic relationship with
Trump attorneys. I think it is more than fair to
say that the DOJ contact with Trump attorneys just prior
to the execution of the warrant will not go well.
DOJ said as much yesterday. The agent writes, it also
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thinks that it is fair to say that if FBI calls,
having in mind officers safety to the optics of the search,
and the desire to conduct the search in a professional
and low key manner, there is a far better chance
that the execution will go more smoothly and we may
actually gain some measure of cooperation which could go some
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way to resolving the mishandling of classified records and the
investigation that is being conducted. The agent added, I understand
that this request may not go well at DOJ. However,
it is the FBI serving and executing the search, and
it will be our personnel who have to deal with
the reaction to that first contact. So what happened The
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FBI rated mar Lago execute the search Horns is part
of the investigation into alleged improper retention of classified records
that they, in writing said, there's no probable cause for
this and why do they do it? For one reason,
because the Biden administration weaponized the government to try to
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take out their political opponent and put in jail the
sitting president now of the United States of America, a
guy by the name of Donald Trump. President Donald Trump
delivered a primetime of address to the nation, and in
the nationally televised address, the President presented a forward looking
and optimistic message about the direction of the country and
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the policies that his administration has pursued over the last
just eleven months. To put in perspective, he emphasized that
in the last year it has been a period of
meaningful progress and growing strength for the United States, and
that the best is yet to come as the nation moves.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Now you may ask yourself this question, why, Well, much
of what the President has enacted actually hasn't taken effect
yet it starts in twenty twenty six. No tax on tips,
for example, no tax on overtime, and no tax on
social security for the majority of Americans will have a
massive impact for many Americans and how much money is
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in their bank accounts. The President also talked about the
incredible impact of stopping immigration into this country illegal immigration,
and how it's now actually lowering home prices and rental prices,
prices that are expected to come down even more in
twenty twenty six, which brings us to the key achievements
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and the policy highlights of economic growth. In investment, President
Trump highlighted the significant economic progress, including what he described
as record level of investment that is flowing into the
United States of America, which he has tied to job
creation growth, much of this coming from the leverage with tariffs.
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He framed the recent policies as driving lower prices and
stronger wages for American families. Trump referred to the current
economic trajectory as laying the ground for what he cast
as the greatest economy in history. He also did something
that was truly incredible, a Christmas present that men and
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women in the military will never forget. As part of
his holiday season message, he announced a one time seventeen
seventy six that's right, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy
six Warrior Dividend check to honor and support US service
members that have been under attack by the left for
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many years. I wan listen to the President in his
own words on this incredible moment.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Along with the just past one Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Tonight, I am also proud to announce that more than
one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, Think of this, one million,
four hundred and fifty thousand military.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Service members will receive a.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas. Warrior Dividend in
honor of our nations founding in seventeen seventy six, we
are sending every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and seventy
six dollars. Think of that, and the checks are already
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on the way. Nobody understood that one until about thirty
minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Not only was the President celebrating our men and women
in military, but he also said that you, as an American,
have something to celebrate coming next spring. Next spring, he says,
it's projected to be the largest tax refund season of
all time.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Here's the President in his own words.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Next year, you will also see the results of the
largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished
through our great, big Beautiful Bill, perhaps the most sweeping
legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped twelve different bills
up into one beautiful bill. That includes goods, no tax
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on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on
social Security for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many
families will be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand
dollars a year, and next spring is projected to be
the largest tax refund season of all time.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Not only does the President know that you need more
money in your pocket and the Left has been taking
far too much of it and wasting it for far
too long, but he also talked about healthcare, which is
actually a very important point for many Americans. He promised
future reductions in drug prices and improvements and affordability for
healthcare as part of the upcoming year's agenda.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that
have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
That should go directly to the people.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
The money should go to the people, that's you, so
they can buy their own health insurance, which will give
far better benefits at much lower costs. It will be
far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care Act was
created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health
care at much too higher cost. And you see that
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now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by
the Democrats, and they are demanding those increases, and.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
It's their fault.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
It is not the Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault.
It's the Unaffordable Care Act, and everybody knew it. Again.
I want the money to go directly to the people,
so you can buy your own health care. You'll get
much better health care at a much lower price. The
only losers will be insurance companies that have gotten rich
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in the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those
same insurance companies. They will not be happy, But that's
okay with me, because you, the people, are finally going
to be getting great health care at a lower cost.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Not only will you be getting great health care to
lower costs, the number one donor the Democrats in Congress
have literally been the healthcare industry. The President then moved
from that issue to another one, immigration and border security.
President Trump townting enhanced border enforcement and immigration control as
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part of his administration's accomplishments.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Our border was open, and because of this, our country
was being invaded by an army of twenty five million people,
many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions and
insane asylums.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
They were drug dealers, gang members, and even.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Eleven thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight murders, more than
fifty percent of whom killed more than one person. This
is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country,
and it can never be allowed to happen again. We
had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime
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at record levels, with law enforcement and words such as
that just absolutely forbidden.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
We had the worst trade deals ever made.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And our country was laughed at from all over the world.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But they're not laughing anymore.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Over the past eleven months, we have brought more positive
change to Washington than any administration in American history. There's
never been anything like it, and I think most would agree.
I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote
and all seven swing states and everything else, with a
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mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that
XTRA really just took the wealth from people.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
And crushed the dreams of the American people. For the
last four years.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
The United States was ruled by politicians who fought only
for insiders, illegal aliens. Career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists,
and above all, foreign nations which took advantage of US
at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and
towns with illegal aliens.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
They decimated your hard earned savings.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Released really,
I mean, they just released a level of violent felons
that we had never seen to prey on innocent They
caused war, they caused mayhem, They caused a horrible situation
all over the globe. But now you have a president
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who fights for the law abiding, hardworking people of our country,
the ones who make this nation run, who make this
nation work.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And not only did the President talk about immigration border security,
he also talked about foreign policy and peace efforts. He
underscored diplomatic progress, including his administration's role in brokering stability
and regions of conflict and reducing global tensions. These diplomatic
themes fed into broader messaging about America's renewed international leadership
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and also what it means about security at home. Throughout
the speech, the President framed the future with optimism, previewing
initiatives he intends to pursue in twenty twenty six, including
lower drug costs through the Trump RX program, broad tax
cuts aimed at benefiting working American families, expanded energy production
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to reduce costs for consumers, continued efforts to address housing
affordability and rent relief, and commitment to appointing a Federal
Reserve chair who's focused on lower interest rates to support
economic expansion, which brings us to one thing that many
Americans are going to love. The President also announcing some
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of the most aggressive housing reforms so that more Americans
can get in the game, can own a house and
not have to wait till they're much older to be
first time home buyers.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
This in the new year, I will announce some of
the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history. A
major factor in driving up housing costs was the colossal
border invasion.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
We have never been invaded. This is the worst.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Thing that Frankly, in my opinion, the worst thing that
the Biden administration did to our country is the invasion
at the border. The last administration and their allies in
Congress brought in millions and millions of migrants and gave
them taxpayer funded housing, while your rent and housing costs chirocketed.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So there it is the President United States of America
making it very clear that he believes that this next
year is actually going to be the best year in
our history when it comes to our economy. In this address,
not only do spotlight our men and women in uniform,
also making it clear we're going back to law and order.
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He wants a FED chair that will back lower interest rates.
He wants to keep the focus on the economy. And
also he did not bring up Venezuela. Why because clearly
that's not the focal point of the administration. He said,
we're bringing the economy back from ruin, and the economy
on prices is going to be ease for you. So
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there is the president. He said, America, you're going to
feel relief in a bountiful twenty twenty six. And that
is this President's Christmas present to every American. Don't forget
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Speaker 2 (28:47):
Button, and I'll talk to you again tomorrow.
President Trump has made it very clear that he believes
that fetnyl is a national security threat. It is killing,
in essence a plane of Americans every single day. No
one in this country would stand for a plane crash
every day, of innocent Americans crashing to the ground. But
(00:21):
that's the equivalent of what is happening at the hands
of Narco Terris.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Donald Trump is moving forward with an idea of classifying
fetnyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That's right, President
Trump saying on Monday that he was classifying fetnol as
a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration's campaign
against drug cartels in Latin America. Quote, no bomb does
(00:48):
what this is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand
people die every year that we know of, Trump said
at the signing of an executive order that places fetnah
in the same category as new clear and chemical weapons.
In twenty twenty four, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention report an estimated total of about eighty thousand overdose
(01:09):
deaths in the country, with some forty eight thousand of
those due to synthetic opioids. The executive order set illicit
fetnyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,
and that it threatens our national security and fuels lawlessness
in our hemisphere and at our borders. The fetanyl classification
(01:31):
ties in with the Trump administration's war against alleged narco terrists,
which has included a military campaign targeting drug smuggling boats
with strikes that have left nearly ninety people dead since
early September. While Trump argues that destroying each of the
more than twenty intercepted vessels saves twenty five thousand American lives,
(01:54):
the left is furious that the president would actually go
after boats carrying cocaine and feyl and other synthetic opioids
driving the overdose crisis. Leave it to the Democratic Party
to defend the terrorists instead of protecting American citizens. Trump
is a coming to strikes with a massive military build
(02:14):
up as well in the Caribbean that includes the world's
largest aircraft carrier and a slew of other warships, While
a string of US military aircraft have flown along Venezuela's
coast in recent weeks now. While Trump and his administration
say the target of the military build up is drug trafficking.
Venezuela is radical narco terrorist leader Maduro is accusing Washington
(02:39):
of using narcotics smuggling as a pretext for what he
says is regime change in Caracas. The United States has
sought to link the two issues, and Donald Trump is
leading on it, accusing Madua of leading the alleged Cartel
of the Suns, which is declared to narco terrorist organization,
and now offering a fifty million a reward for information
(03:02):
leading to Maduro's capture. So this is yet again another
campaign promise that has now turned into reality. President Trump
said he was going to do everything he could to
keep American safe from fetnol, and this is one step
forward in classifying the drug in a way that now
allows him even more authority to go after those that
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are selling it, those that are shipping it, and those
that are producing it. I want you to just pause
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compassion dot com. New files are revealing that the Department
of Justice and the FBI did not have cause to
raid mar Lago. That coming now from shocking information that
has been released by Senator Chuck Grassley. The newly released
emails and records that were made public show that FBI
(04:53):
officials internally, in writing where question whether they had probable
causes seek a search warrant from a Lago In August
of twenty twenty two. Emails state that the FBI's own
Washington Field office did not believe the evidence established probable
cause for a raid at that time. Despite these written
(05:16):
doubts in writing, the Department of Justice leadership said screw it,
We're going to move forward anyway and obtained a warrant
from a federal magistrate judge. One senior FBI agent reportedly
said the effort to build probable cause was time consuming,
quote unquote, and not productive without additional evidence. Grassly characterized
(05:43):
the disclosures as a miscarriage of justice and claimed the
Biden DOJ push forward despite internal resistance based on the facts. Now,
these internal emails were not previously public, and they contradict
pass these public assertions about the confidence levels before the
(06:04):
raid on the former president's home. It's important to note
that the FBI's public stance was that a judge found
probable cause even though they didn't believe it was there,
and authorize the warrant. That is something Democrats are pointing
to right now to try to save themselves. Now, let
me also remind you about what happened during that raid
(06:26):
When there's no evidence. What do you have to do
when you're raiding someone to home if you want to
go after them? And why did they raid? We all
know the reason why. The FBI raided the DOJ. They
were trying to make sure that Donald Trump never made
it back to the White House. Let me remind you
what now, CIA director John Radcliffe had to say about
(06:47):
this quite some time ago after the raid happened.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, so that famous photograph. What we have now learned
and the government has had Jack Smith and his prosecutors
have had to admit that that was staged and those
topsy g classified sheets that all the public songs said,
Oh my god, look at those top secret documents. Those
were placed there by the FBI. And what Jacksmith admitted
in court this week was that, in his word, they
(07:11):
mishandled the classified documents and misrepresented those to the court. WHEA.
That's a kind way of saying, we tampered with the evidence.
Then we lied to the court about it. And they
got caught when President Trump's lawyers and the other co
defendants raised this issue and said, look, the documents here
don't match up. The documents that were presented to us
don't match the digitally scanned records of when they were
(07:33):
taken from mar A Lago. And Jack Smith not only
did they tamper with that and lie to the court
about it. But he's now admitted to the court that
he doesn't know how that happened. He's only offered a
number of possible explanations for how that could have happened.
So he's absolutely blown the chain of custody. And again
he has a prosecutor lead prosecutor in this case, Jay Bratt,
who met with White House counsel and a representative of
(07:56):
the National Archives in several times in the weeks before
Jacksmith was even appointed. This reeks of crossfire hurricane when
the Biden when the Obama Biden administration fabricated evidence before
the pies of court, lied to the court about it
to pursue Donald Trump, and now we're seeing it again
in this classified documents case.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So not only was this thing crooked from the beginning
and fabricated out of thin air, we also now know
that those men and women at the FBI and the
DOJ that were on the ground said there is nothing there,
there's no probable cause. And so that's where the politics
and the corruption of the Biden regime comes in. Let
(08:36):
me remind you of what the Attorney General Merrick Garland
had to say as he went on TV before the
election of course, delivering his remarks on the search warn't
executed at President Trump's Marlago resident and what did he say?
And again put this in perspective, it's now coming out
the FBI warned the Biden administration that there was not
(09:00):
probable cause to raid mar Lago and they rated President
Trump anyway. So who made that decision? Well, we know
exactly who it was. It was Merrick Garland. How do
we know it because he said it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
There are, however, certain points I want you to know. First,
I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant
in this matter. Second, the department does not take such
a decision lately.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Which brings us back to the issue of accountability. If
you look at the FBI doubting problem cause for Marlago raid,
then push forward because the man in charge, Merrick Garland,
says I'm telling you you're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm personally authorizing it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And then you have emails showing that this is a massive, massive,
massive problem and they're telling you don't do it. Then
how is there not accountability? And let's just talk a
little bit more about accountability. We're now getting reporting from
Fox News Digital that they're saying the FBI not only
(10:11):
do they not believe they had probable cause to raid
President Donald Trump, TOMRL and go home in twenty twenty two,
but they moved forward amid pressure directly from the Biden
Justice Department, with an official saying he didn't give a
damn quote unquote about the optics of the search. Now
this is all coming from these newly declassified documents. Fox
(10:32):
News Digital revealed emails between the FBI and the Justice
Department officials in the months leading up to the August
twenty twenty two raid of the president home, with FBI
officials expressing grave concerns about a lack of probable cause
to execute the search warrant on then front runner President
Donald Trump and his residence in Palm Beach. Quote very
(10:54):
little has been developed related to who might be culpable
for mishandling the documents. And FBI official serving as an
assistant Special Agent in charge wrote to another FBI official
from the interviews the who has gathered information suggesting that
there may be additional boxes, presumably of the same type
(11:17):
as we're sent back to nar in January at mar Lago,
who has been drafting a search warrant affidavit related to
these potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information
is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated.
The official continues, again, this is all in writing. Doj csopines, however,
(11:41):
that the sws meet the problem cause standard. Then it
says this, even as we continue down the path towards
a search warrant, WFO believes that a reasonable conversation with
the former president attorney they're talking about Donald Trump, that
the FBI and the DOJ are reading a search warrant
(12:04):
and have developed information that there are more documents in
Marlago ought.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Not to be discounted.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
The official road, in other words, are saying, don't do this,
don't go rate it. Talk to his lawyers. We can
probably make all this go away. Then it says in
this document this, at a minimum, even if the former
president's attorney is correct and the documents were all declassified
(12:33):
or believed to be disclassified, it can be reasonably argued
that the documents remain sensitive and should be properly secured
until the matter of classification is sorted out. The official continued,
this conversation could easily be accomplished. At the same time,
that the who presses forward with the investigation and continues
(12:56):
building out a search warrant. In other words, Hey, if
you guys are over reacting, you don't want to go
raid mar Lago. There's not probable cause. I'm telling you
that this call can be done through lawyers. This is
a mistake. I'm telling you we don't have what we
need to go in raid mar Lago. And now we
understand going back to Radcliffe, why they were placing these
folders out in the floor and taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It was all a setup. We know that. Now, now
here's something else is interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Weeks later, an FBI agent writes an email stating this quote,
we haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given
draft after draft after draft. In other words, you're going
to raid this thing. I don't care what you found. Then,
the FBI agent writes this absent a witness coming forward
(13:46):
with recent information about classified documents on site, At what
point is it fair to table this question mark? The
agent rights it is time consuming for the team and
not productive if there are no new facts supporting probable cause.
(14:07):
Another email revealed that the FBI's Washington Field office did
not believe, as has articulated to the DOJ and the
CS that we have established probable cause for the search
warrant for classified records at mar Lago.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Then there's another line.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
This is what it says, quote the DOJ is a
pie that they do not have probable cause, requesting a
wide scope including residents, office storage space. Another agent wrote
the FBI believe that a raid would be counterproductive their
words in writing, and suggested alternatives, less intrusive and likelier
(14:48):
quicker options for resolution to reclaim any potential classified records.
The process moved forward regardless of all of these concerns
that were put in writing. There's even another email on
August fourth of twenty twenty two, revealed the plan for
the execution of the warrant, saying this, the FBI intends
(15:10):
for the execution of the warrant to be handled in
a professional, low key manner and to be mindful of
the optics of the search. An agent rights The agent
quotes then Deputy Assistant Attorney General in a meeting saying, quote,
since we heard mister Tosca say yesterday in the call
that he quote frankly doesn't give a damn about the optics,
(15:33):
And mister Brown has already built an antagonistic relationship with
Trump attorneys. I think it is more than fair to
say that the DOJ contact with Trump attorneys just prior
to the execution of the warrant will not go well.
DOJ said as much yesterday. The agent writes, it also
(15:54):
thinks that it is fair to say that if FBI calls,
having in mind officers safety to the optics of the search,
and the desire to conduct the search in a professional
and low key manner, there is a far better chance
that the execution will go more smoothly and we may
actually gain some measure of cooperation which could go some
(16:16):
way to resolving the mishandling of classified records and the
investigation that is being conducted. The agent added, I understand
that this request may not go well at DOJ. However,
it is the FBI serving and executing the search, and
it will be our personnel who have to deal with
the reaction to that first contact. So what happened The
(16:41):
FBI rated mar Lago execute the search Horns is part
of the investigation into alleged improper retention of classified records
that they, in writing said, there's no probable cause for
this and why do they do it? For one reason,
because the Biden administration weaponized the government to try to
(17:01):
take out their political opponent and put in jail the
sitting president now of the United States of America, a
guy by the name of Donald Trump. President Donald Trump
delivered a primetime of address to the nation, and in
the nationally televised address, the President presented a forward looking
and optimistic message about the direction of the country and
(17:24):
the policies that his administration has pursued over the last
just eleven months. To put in perspective, he emphasized that
in the last year it has been a period of
meaningful progress and growing strength for the United States, and
that the best is yet to come as the nation moves.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Now you may ask yourself this question, why, Well, much
of what the President has enacted actually hasn't taken effect
yet it starts in twenty twenty six. No tax on tips,
for example, no tax on overtime, and no tax on
social security for the majority of Americans will have a
massive impact for many Americans and how much money is
(18:06):
in their bank accounts. The President also talked about the
incredible impact of stopping immigration into this country illegal immigration,
and how it's now actually lowering home prices and rental prices,
prices that are expected to come down even more in
twenty twenty six, which brings us to the key achievements
(18:28):
and the policy highlights of economic growth. In investment, President
Trump highlighted the significant economic progress, including what he described
as record level of investment that is flowing into the
United States of America, which he has tied to job
creation growth, much of this coming from the leverage with tariffs.
(18:49):
He framed the recent policies as driving lower prices and
stronger wages for American families. Trump referred to the current
economic trajectory as laying the ground for what he cast
as the greatest economy in history. He also did something
that was truly incredible, a Christmas present that men and
(19:09):
women in the military will never forget. As part of
his holiday season message, he announced a one time seventeen
seventy six that's right, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy
six Warrior Dividend check to honor and support US service
members that have been under attack by the left for
(19:32):
many years. I wan listen to the President in his
own words on this incredible moment.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Along with the just past one Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Tonight, I am also proud to announce that more than
one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, Think of this, one million,
four hundred and fifty thousand military.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Service members will receive a.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas. Warrior Dividend in
honor of our nations founding in seventeen seventy six, we
are sending every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and seventy
six dollars. Think of that, and the checks are already
(20:16):
on the way. Nobody understood that one until about thirty
minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Not only was the President celebrating our men and women
in military, but he also said that you, as an American,
have something to celebrate coming next spring. Next spring, he says,
it's projected to be the largest tax refund season of
all time.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Here's the President in his own words.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Next year, you will also see the results of the
largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished
through our great, big Beautiful Bill, perhaps the most sweeping
legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped twelve different bills
up into one beautiful bill. That includes goods, no tax
(21:01):
on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on
social Security for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many
families will be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand
dollars a year, and next spring is projected to be
the largest tax refund season of all time.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Not only does the President know that you need more
money in your pocket and the Left has been taking
far too much of it and wasting it for far
too long, but he also talked about healthcare, which is
actually a very important point for many Americans. He promised
future reductions in drug prices and improvements and affordability for
healthcare as part of the upcoming year's agenda.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that
have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
That should go directly to the people.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
The money should go to the people, that's you, so
they can buy their own health insurance, which will give
far better benefits at much lower costs. It will be
far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care Act was
created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health
care at much too higher cost. And you see that
(22:17):
now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by
the Democrats, and they are demanding those increases, and.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
It's their fault.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
It is not the Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault.
It's the Unaffordable Care Act, and everybody knew it. Again.
I want the money to go directly to the people,
so you can buy your own health care. You'll get
much better health care at a much lower price. The
only losers will be insurance companies that have gotten rich
(22:45):
in the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those
same insurance companies. They will not be happy, But that's
okay with me, because you, the people, are finally going
to be getting great health care at a lower cost.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Not only will you be getting great health care to
lower costs, the number one donor the Democrats in Congress
have literally been the healthcare industry. The President then moved
from that issue to another one, immigration and border security.
President Trump townting enhanced border enforcement and immigration control as
(23:18):
part of his administration's accomplishments.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Our border was open, and because of this, our country
was being invaded by an army of twenty five million people,
many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions and
insane asylums.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
They were drug dealers, gang members, and even.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Eleven thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight murders, more than
fifty percent of whom killed more than one person. This
is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country,
and it can never be allowed to happen again. We
had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime
(24:00):
at record levels, with law enforcement and words such as
that just absolutely forbidden.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
We had the worst trade deals ever made.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And our country was laughed at from all over the world.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But they're not laughing anymore.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Over the past eleven months, we have brought more positive
change to Washington than any administration in American history. There's
never been anything like it, and I think most would agree.
I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote
and all seven swing states and everything else, with a
(24:39):
mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that
XTRA really just took the wealth from people.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
And crushed the dreams of the American people. For the
last four years.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
The United States was ruled by politicians who fought only
for insiders, illegal aliens. Career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists,
and above all, foreign nations which took advantage of US
at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and
towns with illegal aliens.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
They decimated your hard earned savings.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
They indoctrinated your children with hate for America. Released really,
I mean, they just released a level of violent felons
that we had never seen to prey on innocent They
caused war, they caused mayhem, They caused a horrible situation
all over the globe. But now you have a president
(25:36):
who fights for the law abiding, hardworking people of our country,
the ones who make this nation run, who make this
nation work.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And not only did the President talk about immigration border security,
he also talked about foreign policy and peace efforts. He
underscored diplomatic progress, including his administration's role in brokering stability
and regions of conflict and reducing global tensions. These diplomatic
themes fed into broader messaging about America's renewed international leadership
(26:09):
and also what it means about security at home. Throughout
the speech, the President framed the future with optimism, previewing
initiatives he intends to pursue in twenty twenty six, including
lower drug costs through the Trump RX program, broad tax
cuts aimed at benefiting working American families, expanded energy production
(26:32):
to reduce costs for consumers, continued efforts to address housing
affordability and rent relief, and commitment to appointing a Federal
Reserve chair who's focused on lower interest rates to support
economic expansion, which brings us to one thing that many
Americans are going to love. The President also announcing some
(26:54):
of the most aggressive housing reforms so that more Americans
can get in the game, can own a house and
not have to wait till they're much older to be
first time home buyers.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
This in the new year, I will announce some of
the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history. A
major factor in driving up housing costs was the colossal
border invasion.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
We have never been invaded. This is the worst.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Thing that Frankly, in my opinion, the worst thing that
the Biden administration did to our country is the invasion
at the border. The last administration and their allies in
Congress brought in millions and millions of migrants and gave
them taxpayer funded housing, while your rent and housing costs chirocketed.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So there it is the President United States of America
making it very clear that he believes that this next
year is actually going to be the best year in
our history when it comes to our economy. In this address,
not only do spotlight our men and women in uniform,
also making it clear we're going back to law and order.
(28:04):
He wants a FED chair that will back lower interest rates.
He wants to keep the focus on the economy. And
also he did not bring up Venezuela. Why because clearly
that's not the focal point of the administration. He said,
we're bringing the economy back from ruin, and the economy
on prices is going to be ease for you. So
(28:27):
there is the president. He said, America, you're going to
feel relief in a bountiful twenty twenty six. And that
is this President's Christmas present to every American. Don't forget
to share this podcast, by the way, with your family
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