June 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives deep into the escalating controversy surrounding President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen for presidential pardons, raising serious constitutional and legal questions. Buck scrutinizes whether Biden, allegedly suffering from cognitive decline, was mentally competent to authorize pardons, including those for Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of his own family. He argues that if Biden was unfit to stand trial for mishandling classified documents, he may also have been unfit to exercise the presidential pardon power—an issue now reportedly under investigation by the Department of Justice. President Donald Trump, currently serving his second term, is prominently featured throughout the hour. Buck highlights his reaction to the autopen scandal, calling it the “biggest political scandal in American history” on Truth Social. Buck emphasizes Trump’s ongoing influence and asserts that no other Republican figure matches his political charisma or impact. The discussion then shifts to broader political and cultural issues, including the erosion of trust in Democratic leadership, the alleged corruption of the “Biden crime family,” and the perceived weaponization of federal institutions. Buck draws parallels to past controversies involving the Clintons and criticizes the mainstream media, particularly CNN and MSNBC, for their role in shaping public perception. A significant portion of the hour is dedicated to the conservative movement’s victories under President Trump, including the dismantling of corporate wokeism and the reversal of discriminatory banking policies. Citigroup’s recent decision to drop its anti-firearms policy is cited as a major win for Second Amendment advocates and a sign of shifting corporate attitudes. Buck calls for greater accountability from major brands that advertise on left-leaning platforms while ignoring conservative media. Listener calls add grassroots perspectives on immigration, law enforcement, and media bias. Buck also previews an upcoming interview with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, promising insights into the ongoing air travel delays and infrastructure challenges inherited from the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in. Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off
right now, and a few things to dive into this hour.
One off the top here the auto pen controversy with
Joe Biden for anyone who and I don't really understand
this thinking because I believe that we, for example here
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spend a lot of time on the Trump agenda and
what's going on day in and day out. We talk
about immigration pretty much every day, the Big Beautiful Bill
pretty much every day, Trump economy constantly, right so, and
then also overseas negotiations to end the Russia Ukraine war,
and support for Israel and the war against some maas
right work. The things Trump is doing, we're looking at it.
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It's not a what about ism feeling right now where
we're looking at the Trump were looking at the Biden
administration saying, well, look what they did, Look what they did. No,
but there are some aspects of this that need to
be looked at, because there's still a live issue, if
you will it. One of them is given that we
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now have more knowledge than ever I should say, further proof.
We didn't need it. We already knew, but we have
further proof than we ever have had before. That Joe
Biden was not of sound mind when he was president,
certainly for two or three of the four years. And
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I think you could argue for the whole thing. I
thought the whole thing. In fact, I got wrong who
the Democrat nominee would be when I was doing my
solo Buck Sexton show in twenty twenty nineteen, because my
assumption was, it can't be Biden. That guy's got scrambled
eggs for brains. That everyone knows that. It didn't seem possible.
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It didn't seem possible to me. It didn't seem plausible
that they would be able to mobilize the Democrats around
somebody that so clearly had dementia and was so visibly
frail and too old for the job that they it
came back to bite them. But they did manage to
pull it off in twenty twenty, to my surprise. Well,
now they all admit, of course that it was a scam.
(02:09):
It was a sham, it was a lie. Joe Biden
didn't know what was going on, and behind closed doors
there were people who were doing more than they certainly
should have been doing, and perhaps more than they lawfully
had a right to do. In the name of the president,
which is a big deal. You're not allowed to have
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people pretending to be the president. Look, there's a vice president,
there's a chain of succession, and there's the twenty fifth Amendment.
But Democrats just wanted to cling on to power as
it was and not have to face the reality of
what they had done and the fraud that they had
perpetrated against the American people. So they got all deep
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into this. Right, what a tangled web we weave. And
here is another aspect of well, actually, let me do this.
We had mister Peter Deucy. Peter Deucy was talking about
the Biden pardon signatures. I wanted to get into the
pardons here, because if a president has the power, as
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we believe he does, to just pardon anyone he chooses to,
it is then absolutely essential that we are sure that
it is the president who is making that decision. The
power of pardon cannot be something that is in the
hands of other officials. So if a president does not know,
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for example, and has not made the decision to pardon someone,
that person cannot be considered to have been parted over
At Fox it is Peter Doucy spoke about this and
asked President Trump about the auto pen signatures on some
of these pardons. This has cut one play it minute.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Biden pardons, the big ones, Biden siblings, Fauci Canary, sixth
Committee Right, Most of the big ones had the same,
very neat signature. We would expect that probably to be.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The auto pen.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There is one that looks different. It looks authentic.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
In fact, if you look at the last name, it
almost looks like the President was having a hard time
spelling his last name. There is this White House of
the opinion that the only pardon that would count is
one that the presidents signed himself.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Very interesting props. If you want to bring them to
my office later so I can take a closer look,
I would like to do that. The President is making
a good point when he discusses the usage of the autopen.
Who was running the country for the past four years.
Perhaps those documents were signed with the autopen. Something that
this I believe the Department of Justice is looking into.
(04:50):
As you saw Ed Martin made an announcement at the Department
of Justice this morning to launch an investigation because the
American people deserve answers.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
If you want to know what Trump thinks about this. Uh,
he has been very clear, he says, with the this
is so trump man, He's the best. We're gonna politics
is not going to be as interesting when Trump is
not president. We're about to be president. I'm warning you
all now, I want to get you ready for that.
If we're still gonna have great shows. Unfortunately, we got
(05:22):
Trump for four years here, so we got a while.
But get you know, it's even if we have a
good Republican administration going forward, we are never going to
have as engrossing and entertaining a Republican president as Donald Trump.
You you know it, and I know it. It's just
it's obvious. Okay, this guy's okay here. It is on
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truth Social, he writes, with the exception of the rigged
presidential election of twenty twenty, the auto pen is the
biggest political scandal in American history. Okay, that was I
think that was earlier today actually, whereas recent whatever it
was clear it was recently put out on truth Social
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and all caps of course, in case you wanted to
know whether he thinks this is an all cap situation, Oh,
it is biggest political scandal in American history. Now, I
think that the Biden cover up in the dementia hiding
was the biggest scandal. I would agree with that. The
auto pen that remains to be seen whether or not
Biden knew. Now, this is tough. How would you prove
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whether he knew or not? And then you also get
to the same way. You could have somebody who is
not fit to stand trial because they are not of
sound mind. Right, that's a very high bar. By the way,
it's pleading insanity is from my understanding, if you're on
a defense team, is one of the hardest. Guy's got
to be really crazy, as in not able to know
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right from wrong level of crazy. But if somebody has
really severe sinility. Let's remember there was the investigation of
Biden's hands of the classified documents, which the investigator, the
head investigator is a federal prosecutor, said, well, we can't
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think anyone's going to prosecute this guy because he'll just
come across as a forgetful and kindly old man who
clearly doesn't remember stuff, which is a polite way of
saying not really of sound mind to stand trial, not
really of the ability to be able to answer questions
and even be held accountable for what he has done here. Well,
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if that is true, and we know that they accepted
that as true at the time because it was essentially
treated as exculpatory for Biden. They just said, oh yeah, see,
no problem with the classified stuff that Biden has because
he's just sort of too old and confused, and you know,
move along, people, move along. Well, if he's too old
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and confused to be held accountable for the mishandling of
classified information, how can he be in a position intellectually
to know who he is pardoning and whether or not
this person is someone that he actually wishes to use
that incredibly broad power that only presidents have of pardon.
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You know, now you start to see hold on this.
This is a this could be an issue. It's not
only did Biden know, it's when Biden supposedly knew. Was
he even capable of being in a mental state where
knowing for him was possible? I don't know. I don't know.
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It's not an easy question to answer, and that raises
some issues because, oh, who are some of the people
who got pardoned.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Doctor Fauci In the waiting hours of the Biden administration.
You could just imagine a little fouch calling in to
one of his masked henchmen, actually preferably double masked in
the office, and making sure that there is a pardon
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for him, so that whatever shenanigans in the name of
mitigation he engaged in with the tyranny of the COVID madness.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He would not be held responsible. Fauci got a full
and unconditional pardon from Biden. Biden's family got a full
and unconditional pardon from Biden, which remember didn't just didn't
even cover named conduct. Biden didn't even feel the need
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to say for the following, you know, for the following reasons,
or the following things, or the following areas of conduct, anything,
anything done, we are to believe is now outside at
least in federal law, outside the realm of federal law
to take accountability against any of Biden's individuals. The Biden
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crime family was a real thing. As we know. It
was all graft. It was all corruption, payoffs, bribes, Hunter's paintings.
Do you think Hunter's paintings are selling for half a
million dollars of painting anymore? What happened? He just lost
his muse no more, the creative genius that he had
been we saw the same thing with the Clintons. I
(10:30):
thought the Clintons were running a global charity. Where did
all that charitable money go? Well, as soon as Hillary
lost the election, the Clinton Global Initiative collapses. No one
wants to give them money. That's so strange because now
the Clintons could have been in a position to devote
even more of their energy and time to the causes
that they pretended to care about, to create a massive
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slush fund so they could fly private and engage in
massive corruption in plain sight. Right, So we've seen this
play out before. Do I think it is likely that
any of these pardons will be overturned officially? Probably not?
Probably not, And it's because of It's not because they
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shouldn't be. I believe it is the challenges to get
to the level of proof needed to show that Biden,
that Biden did not know, and that somebody else. But
maybe they get to that level of proof. I don't know,
it is possible. But what a mess of a White House,
and honestly, what a tragedy. The whole thing was four
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years of damage done to American institutions, and none more
so really than the presidency itself. If Democrats could all
look at each other and look at us and lie
about the baseline capability of a human being to do
the job of president of the United States. They are
capable of doing the same thing and lie in the
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most obvious and blatant way about anything as long as
it keeps them in power. The only limit to what
they will lie about is is this effective for keeping
us in power? The answer is yes, they will do it.
And that is a sad place for the country to be.
And it is the reason that so many have lost
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faith in the Democrat Party, including Democrats, because they have
no principles that they stand for. There are some who
just want the raw exercise of power. There are some
who just want the street rabble to gather around them
and let them get away with what they want. Fine,
plenty of Democrats fall into that category. But for any
of them who believe that there was something bigger, something
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tell you? We've got some calls coming in Steven in Lincoln, Alabama.
(14:57):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
A big shout out to my wife, She's so wonderful
and beautiful. All the school bus drivers out there, Okay,
so here we are. I never got my Rush Limbaugh
gold watch and our phone. I'm sorry phone, and what
I was thinking, maybe you should give away Trump watches
(15:19):
and I'll take orange. Now. The real thing I called
for was back in the first hour, you were talking
about ICE agents wearing masks.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, and all the.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Other Antifa and Black Lives Matter and all that. Whenever
they showed up to cause their destructions, they all wore masks.
That's really all I wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, thank you. Yeah, I mean they're not law enforcement officers,
which is what the Democrats would say, But I will
point out that they certainly believe that people should be
able to rally publicly and not have their identity shown.
And I actually disagree with that. There are plenty of
this is this is something that got forgotten very quickly
during COVID. There are a lot of jurisdictions where it
was stat a local statute that you could not have
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your face covered unless you're engaged in construction or you know,
there's some professional need for right. I mean, you don't
need people inhaling sawdust all day, but you couldn't just
walk around masked up. I completely agree with that. I
think being able to see people's faces is generally and
for the public important, especially in the era of cameras
everywhere in facial recognition. I also think that for law
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enforcement purposes. You know a lot of people, if you're
active special forces, if your active duty special operations, military,
they don't want their photos out there. And that's why
you have a lot of friends of mine who are
former seals, for example, they'll post a photo of themselves
they're out and they want their public with it. That's fine.
But if they've got you know, if they've got former
brothers and the teams who are still in, they obscure
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their faces, right. That's for a reason, Kevin in Western
New York. What's going on, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
The Times? A lot of these Democrats you're having with
this idea of what all these immigrants in is. We
all know they want them to hear for votes, They
want to give them citizenship they can vote, but most
of them do not want to be citizens because as
soon as they get that valid Social Security number, they
got to pay the taxes.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well yeah, and also, thank you a good point here.
A lot of them would actually get a tax benefit,
believe it or not. They basically be paid by the
federal governm when they file their taxes. But the problem
for their employer is now the employer has to pay
them properly, and that means they have to abide by
wage laws in that state. They have to pay you know,
social Security, Medicare, tax all this different stuff. You know,
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there's a lot that goes into it. The reason that
illegal labor is so they'll tell you, oh, it's because
they work so hard. No, just like with the H
one B visa scam, when you look into this, there's
a lot of exploitation going on both sides of the equation.
A lot of big numbers being thrown around Washington, DC
this week as the Big Beautiful Bill. It's being contemplated
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we should always remember that some of the things that
we see going on right now that are even a
bit in the background of what Trump is doing, what
this administration is making a reality, are things that those
of us who have been in the conservative movement or
just ideologically conservative for quite some time, in my case
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working in conservative media fourteen years. Sorry I told you.
I saw my friend Glenn Beck, a friend and mentor
Glenn Beck, yesterday and he pointed out it was fourteen
years ago that we linked up at the Blaze. He
hired me, and so fourteen years of that. But I've
been a conservative for as long as I can remember.
It would seem like the stuff of dreams to be
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in the place we are in on some of these issues.
And I do not believe that's an exaggeration. We've been
waiting a very long time, a very long time for
someone who would essentially dismember the CNN propaganda organization, which
is what Trump has done. There was a time when CNN,
and especially I think because I lived in New York City,
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it really was able to wield, unfortunately, this gravitas and
credibility among a lot of well intentioned and good and
well informed people. They said, well CNN. I would know
people who I would even describe as right of center
who would say things like CNN is pretty neutral, and
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I would look at them like, no, it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now they wouldn't say that anymore. Everyone's realizing and is
completely insane. But if you're going back fifteen or twenty years,
people would have said a lot of people, you know,
I mean, think about it. I mean Tucker Carlson started
his career at CNN on TV with crossfire right, it
used to be less insane, is what I'm saying. They
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used to have actual conservatives on but that somebody could
come along as CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times,
and these the premiere propaganda outlets of the Democrat Party
as they reached the pinnacle of their power, which I
would really say was the second Obama term. And then
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you get into Trump and they they basically went too
far against Trump, and then Trump has brought them to
heal and essentially and brought them low. But that's a
dream come true for those of us who are on
the right that there is a there are a number
of social media platforms now where you can share your
thoughts and not have it be explicitly centered. One of
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my great frustrations during COVID was I YouTube. I had
multiple YouTube channels banned just for talking about COVID stuff.
You know, you know me, I'm not. I'm not some
provocateur on the right. I just like this mask stuff
in the lockdowns. This is moronic. There's no basis for it.
I was completely right. People who disagree with me were wrong,
not as smart as they thought they were. Including you know, Google,
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one of the most powerful companies on Earth. But now
we have X and now we have truth Social and
Rumble and you know other things other places too, So
that and it's easy for us to have these wins
that we don't necessarily take a moment to appreciate and
to con and to to push for more of them,
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right or to push more in these areas. I'm speaking
about this because we're seeing a people call it a
vibe shift. I know that's a little bit of the
contemporary lingo with the kids these days, but it is
something of a vibe shift right now from corporate America. Actually,
it's i would argue, a powerful vibe shift. It's not
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a little bit, it's a lot. And we're entering a
new period here where oppress half the country's ideas and
they'll still come back and shop with you, They'll still
come back and buy your product. That's a much diceer
proposition than it was before Trump won this last election.
We are not in twenty twenty anymore where you would
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just have the most blatant, I mean the most just
thuggish suppression of conservative ideas by companies, by platforms. I'm
not saying the pendulum has swung totally of the direction.
It is beginning to swing in the other direction, and
that is a win. And we are starting to see
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these changes. I give you for example, City Group, which
is one of the largest financial institutions in the world,
has reversed its policy on restricting banking services for gun
companies and firearms clients. In a statement on June third,
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the bank said a decision had been made over fair
access to banking services. City Group will no longer have
a specific policy as it results to firearms. This is
a step back from the d banking that was going
on for years and is one of the most pernicious
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and undermining and really aggressive things that the Left was
doing in the private sector to suppress ideas that didn't
like and to just politically bludgeon the other side. So
in twenty eighteen, they implemented a firearms policy that basically
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meant they wouldn't well, the policy is they wouldn't work
people that sold guns. They had all these rules and
they were they had to restrict firearms on all these
different bases. If you don't do it, they won't work
with you. So that, I think is just one of
many things that we're going to see here where these
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companies are are no longer confident enough, even if they
I don't think that they like conservatives. I want to
be clear. I don't think that the people in charge
have changed their mind about a lot of this. Maybe
some have, some haven't. It's too large of an issue
and too many people involved to say that definitively. But
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what I do know is that they recognize there could
be consequences to discriminating against the right with their business.
Now things have changed. And this is also after a
dozen In April of twenty twenty four, a dozen Republican
state attorney generals state attorneys general rather wrote a letter
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to Bank of America with regard to their debanking policies
and the systemic biases that they have, and that to
think about this banks, which we do think of I
know they're private, but you think of banking services as
being non should be non political in nature, right. So
if you went into Bank of America, or you went
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into you know, any of these financial institutions and they
and you said, hey, I'd like to open a checking
account with you, And they said, who'd you vote for
in the last election, And you said, well, I'm not
a communist, so I voted for Trump and they said,
I'm sorry, we can't take your business. We'd all recognize
that's a that's a that's a big deal, that's a
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big problem, right, And that this kind of political discrimination
discrimination was going on for as many years as it
did without any meaningful pushback from the judiciary or from
Congress is appalling, absolutely appalling. Trump Organizations sued Capital One,
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accusing the bank of closing hundreds of accounts belonging to
the company. Trump Organization said that Capital One's unilateral decision
came about as a result of political and social motivations
and woke beliefs. Banks. Banks are now left wing, woke enforcers. Well,
they have been for years, and now it's finally turning around.
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Now it is finally changing where they don't feel comfortable
doing this. This is really meaningful. And note the next
the next phase of this needs to be we need
to demand if there is an ad that runs on MSNBC, Okay,
I want to know why that company isn't running ads
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on Fox News. And we need to start to hold
these companies to account. If Mercedes and BMW and I
don't know I mean, you know, who are some of
those Wow, star We've got our own coffee company here,
thank you very much, and to talk about Starbucks. But
if some of these major international brands, you know, Apple,
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if they're willing to put money in advertising to reach
an audience that will watch MSNBC, I want to know
on what basis they're not putting money with with with
Fox News, with NEWSMAC, with talk radio. Why why is
it that left wing podcasters who are wrong about everything
and who are lunatics can count on corporate dollars and
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on the right, it's always that there's always this concern
about brand safety. Why are they safe? But we're not safe?
Are people? Just won the election? We're in charge, we
run the country brand safety, you know. I mean, look,
I understand free market, private market people can do what
they want, but we can also do what we want
and say to any company that's out there that's putting
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real money on left wing programming, hey what's going on here?
And force them to answer the question. Force some of
these companies, you know, for forced like Ford Motors or
you know whoever it is. I'm just coming up with big,
big companies, but force them to say you know what,
half the country can go, you know, can go take
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a long walk off a short peer with their politics,
and we think they'll just buy our stuff anyway, you jerks.
Let's hear them say that. Now, let's let's force them
out a little bit, because this matters. This matters the left.
One of the great things about this Trump administration has
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been disassembling the forever regime of the universities and the
the you know, corporate HR Woke DEEI apparatus, and and
the way that the the NGOs that suckle at the
teat of places like US, A, I, D and NPR.
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This this needed to be done. And I've talked about
being a conservative for a long time. We've dreamt of
this fight finally happening for decades, and now it's finally here.
And Trump is doing so many things. This administration is
moving on so many fronts that I think it's easy
to have some of this stuff get a little bit lost.
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It's easy for us not to put enough focus on
all of these different things because there's so many of them.
But forcing companies to end as a matter of policy,
and I mean the biggest companies in America, the biggest
companies in the world, forcing them to end political discrimination
right down in their company by laws. We will not
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as a company deny services, deny product to people because
of lawful political belief, which, whether they want to accept
or not. Voting for Trump is a lawful political belief.
The right to bear arms the Second Amendment, being a
gun owner and wanting to have a constitutional right, that
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is a lawful belief. And any institution that is going
to discriminate on a political basis, the Trump administration should
immediately take whatever legal actions are possible, sue them and
let the courts figure it out. Oh but buck, isn't
that that's what they do. Let's see, Let's see how
it shakes out. Sue them. And also the public should
(31:17):
start to demand accountability and openness about what's going on here.
So City Group no longer says that we're going to
have these weird policies when it comes to guns, because
the idiot leftists who are busy, i'm sure counting their
huge bonuses who run that place realize this is not
going to be a good look for us. We need
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this to extend to all companies and any I'm just
gonna say it to you, any company that will put money,
okay on Rachel Maddow's show, and not not talk radio,
not conservative conservative content is not your friend. And they're
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getting away with not being your friend. They're getting away
with spitting in your face. And I think we put
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Now is the time to make demands. Sell your stuff
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Sean Duffy. I'm sure a lot of you are going
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to be flying this summer traveling, you know, summertime, right,
people go to places, And if you have been paying
attention in recent months, the air traffic control situation has
been a mess. Yes, it is well was inherited by
this administration from the Biden disaster. I know they're trying
to fix it. So we'll talk to Sean Duffy, Secretary
(34:07):
Duffy about that. And I certainly want to know there
is just my perception is that flying somehow just keeps
getting worse, That there's more delays, that there's less efficiency,
that customer service is getting worse. I think it's the
only area that I'm trying to think. What else just
(34:31):
keeps getting worse every year? While technology gets better and
everything should be streamlining and improving. How is it possible
that flying is more stressful than I can ever remember
it being. Maybe that's just a perception thing, but I
do know that there's so much time, you know. The
one that really drives me in some ways the most
(34:52):
insane is the when you land and you think you're
about to get off the plane and then you sit
there for forty five minutes because there's no ground crew
to let you out of the plane. Well, let's be honest.
You start to have little thoughts in your head about
like what if I just like hit that slide and
you know, just sort of hopped out, you know what
I mean. You start to have some crazy thoughts because
you want to get off that plane because it landed
(35:14):
and everyone's safe, and you want to get off, and
but you know, there we are sitting there waiting, waiting.
It really test your patience so that I want to
get some answers, and I know Sean's going to have
updates for us. Sorry, he plumps. I've known Sean Secretary
Duffy for years now and this is a thing for me.
(35:34):
A lot of these guys who run the country now
or cabinet level secretaries, I've had beers with in the past,
and sometimes many times, and so it's I have to
remember the formal title. But yes, Secretary duff would be
with this. We'll talk to him about this. I think
that's going to be important if you're on hold and
or you want to send it a talk back. We'll
get to a lot of that in the next hour.
(35:55):
After you take some coming up here in the top,
I'll just give you kind of a run down to
the top new stories and then we'll get some calls.
So stay with us on hold there, want to hear
from you. And if you want to call an eight
hundred two eighty two two eight a two and word
is from Clay. You'll have to get a full update
from him on Friday. But I'm hearing that maybe he
(36:16):
was at par today on that golf course. I can
neither confirm nor deny, but is Clay, a scratch golfer.
There are rumors that I am starting, so we'll have
to see if those rumors are correct. And no, no, he
had a great time today and he's doing important things
for the show out there on the links. We'll be
back here, talk to Secretary Duffy. We'll get into some
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more news stories. Basically, we have a fantastic show in
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of coffee, come back, sit down here, right with you.
Welcome in. Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off
right now, and a few things to dive into this hour.
One off the top here the auto pen controversy with
Joe Biden for anyone who and I don't really understand
this thinking because I believe that we, for example here
(00:23):
spend a lot of time on the Trump agenda and
what's going on day in and day out. We talk
about immigration pretty much every day, the Big Beautiful Bill
pretty much every day, Trump economy constantly, right so, and
then also overseas negotiations to end the Russia Ukraine war,
and support for Israel and the war against some maas
right work. The things Trump is doing, we're looking at it.
(00:44):
It's not a what about ism feeling right now where
we're looking at the Trump were looking at the Biden
administration saying, well, look what they did, Look what they did. No,
but there are some aspects of this that need to
be looked at, because there's still a live issue, if
you will it. One of them is given that we
(01:05):
now have more knowledge than ever I should say, further proof.
We didn't need it. We already knew, but we have
further proof than we ever have had before. That Joe
Biden was not of sound mind when he was president,
certainly for two or three of the four years. And
(01:25):
I think you could argue for the whole thing. I
thought the whole thing. In fact, I got wrong who
the Democrat nominee would be when I was doing my
solo Buck Sexton show in twenty twenty nineteen, because my
assumption was, it can't be Biden. That guy's got scrambled
eggs for brains. That everyone knows that. It didn't seem possible.
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It didn't seem possible to me. It didn't seem plausible
that they would be able to mobilize the Democrats around
somebody that so clearly had dementia and was so visibly
frail and too old for the job that they it
came back to bite them. But they did manage to
pull it off in twenty twenty, to my surprise. Well,
now they all admit, of course that it was a scam.
(02:09):
It was a sham, it was a lie. Joe Biden
didn't know what was going on, and behind closed doors
there were people who were doing more than they certainly
should have been doing, and perhaps more than they lawfully
had a right to do. In the name of the president,
which is a big deal. You're not allowed to have
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people pretending to be the president. Look, there's a vice president,
there's a chain of succession, and there's the twenty fifth Amendment.
But Democrats just wanted to cling on to power as
it was and not have to face the reality of
what they had done and the fraud that they had
perpetrated against the American people. So they got all deep
(02:54):
into this. Right, what a tangled web we weave. And
here is another aspect of well, actually, let me do this.
We had mister Peter Deucy. Peter Deucy was talking about
the Biden pardon signatures. I wanted to get into the
pardons here, because if a president has the power, as
(03:18):
we believe he does, to just pardon anyone he chooses to,
it is then absolutely essential that we are sure that
it is the president who is making that decision. The
power of pardon cannot be something that is in the
hands of other officials. So if a president does not know,
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for example, and has not made the decision to pardon someone,
that person cannot be considered to have been parted over
At Fox it is Peter Doucy spoke about this and
asked President Trump about the auto pen signatures on some
of these pardons. This has cut one play it minute.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Biden pardons, the big ones, Biden siblings, Fauci Canary, sixth
Committee Right, Most of the big ones had the same,
very neat signature. We would expect that probably to be.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The auto pen.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There is one that looks different. It looks authentic.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
In fact, if you look at the last name, it
almost looks like the President was having a hard time
spelling his last name. There is this White House of
the opinion that the only pardon that would count is
one that the presidents signed himself.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Very interesting props. If you want to bring them to
my office later so I can take a closer look,
I would like to do that. The President is making
a good point when he discusses the usage of the autopen.
Who was running the country for the past four years.
Perhaps those documents were signed with the autopen. Something that
this I believe the Department of Justice is looking into.
(04:50):
As you saw Ed Martin made an announcement at the Department
of Justice this morning to launch an investigation because the
American people deserve answers.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
If you want to know what Trump thinks about this. Uh,
he has been very clear, he says, with the this
is so trump man, He's the best. We're gonna politics
is not going to be as interesting when Trump is
not president. We're about to be president. I'm warning you
all now, I want to get you ready for that.
If we're still gonna have great shows. Unfortunately, we got
(05:22):
Trump for four years here, so we got a while.
But get you know, it's even if we have a
good Republican administration going forward, we are never going to
have as engrossing and entertaining a Republican president as Donald Trump.
You you know it, and I know it. It's just
it's obvious. Okay, this guy's okay here. It is on
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truth Social, he writes, with the exception of the rigged
presidential election of twenty twenty, the auto pen is the
biggest political scandal in American history. Okay, that was I
think that was earlier today actually, whereas recent whatever it
was clear it was recently put out on truth Social
(06:05):
and all caps of course, in case you wanted to
know whether he thinks this is an all cap situation, Oh,
it is biggest political scandal in American history. Now, I
think that the Biden cover up in the dementia hiding
was the biggest scandal. I would agree with that. The
auto pen that remains to be seen whether or not
Biden knew. Now, this is tough. How would you prove
(06:27):
whether he knew or not? And then you also get
to the same way. You could have somebody who is
not fit to stand trial because they are not of
sound mind. Right, that's a very high bar. By the way,
it's pleading insanity is from my understanding, if you're on
a defense team, is one of the hardest. Guy's got
to be really crazy, as in not able to know
(06:49):
right from wrong level of crazy. But if somebody has
really severe sinility. Let's remember there was the investigation of
Biden's hands of the classified documents, which the investigator, the
head investigator is a federal prosecutor, said, well, we can't
(07:09):
think anyone's going to prosecute this guy because he'll just
come across as a forgetful and kindly old man who
clearly doesn't remember stuff, which is a polite way of
saying not really of sound mind to stand trial, not
really of the ability to be able to answer questions
and even be held accountable for what he has done here. Well,
(07:33):
if that is true, and we know that they accepted
that as true at the time because it was essentially
treated as exculpatory for Biden. They just said, oh yeah, see,
no problem with the classified stuff that Biden has because
he's just sort of too old and confused, and you know,
move along, people, move along. Well, if he's too old
(07:54):
and confused to be held accountable for the mishandling of
classified information, how can he be in a position intellectually
to know who he is pardoning and whether or not
this person is someone that he actually wishes to use
that incredibly broad power that only presidents have of pardon.
(08:19):
You know, now you start to see hold on this.
This is a this could be an issue. It's not
only did Biden know, it's when Biden supposedly knew. Was
he even capable of being in a mental state where
knowing for him was possible? I don't know. I don't know.
(08:41):
It's not an easy question to answer, and that raises
some issues because, oh, who are some of the people
who got pardoned.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Doctor Fauci In the waiting hours of the Biden administration.
You could just imagine a little fouch calling in to
one of his masked henchmen, actually preferably double masked in
the office, and making sure that there is a pardon
(09:12):
for him, so that whatever shenanigans in the name of
mitigation he engaged in with the tyranny of the COVID madness.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He would not be held responsible. Fauci got a full
and unconditional pardon from Biden. Biden's family got a full
and unconditional pardon from Biden, which remember didn't just didn't
even cover named conduct. Biden didn't even feel the need
(09:45):
to say for the following, you know, for the following reasons,
or the following things, or the following areas of conduct, anything,
anything done, we are to believe is now outside at
least in federal law, outside the realm of federal law
to take accountability against any of Biden's individuals. The Biden
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crime family was a real thing. As we know. It
was all graft. It was all corruption, payoffs, bribes, Hunter's paintings.
Do you think Hunter's paintings are selling for half a
million dollars of painting anymore? What happened? He just lost
his muse no more, the creative genius that he had
been we saw the same thing with the Clintons. I
(10:30):
thought the Clintons were running a global charity. Where did
all that charitable money go? Well, as soon as Hillary
lost the election, the Clinton Global Initiative collapses. No one
wants to give them money. That's so strange because now
the Clintons could have been in a position to devote
even more of their energy and time to the causes
that they pretended to care about, to create a massive
(10:53):
slush fund so they could fly private and engage in
massive corruption in plain sight. Right, So we've seen this
play out before. Do I think it is likely that
any of these pardons will be overturned officially? Probably not?
Probably not, And it's because of It's not because they
(11:15):
shouldn't be. I believe it is the challenges to get
to the level of proof needed to show that Biden,
that Biden did not know, and that somebody else. But
maybe they get to that level of proof. I don't know,
it is possible. But what a mess of a White House,
and honestly, what a tragedy. The whole thing was four
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years of damage done to American institutions, and none more
so really than the presidency itself. If Democrats could all
look at each other and look at us and lie
about the baseline capability of a human being to do
the job of president of the United States. They are
capable of doing the same thing and lie in the
(12:00):
most obvious and blatant way about anything as long as
it keeps them in power. The only limit to what
they will lie about is is this effective for keeping
us in power? The answer is yes, they will do it.
And that is a sad place for the country to be.
And it is the reason that so many have lost
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faith in the Democrat Party, including Democrats, because they have
no principles that they stand for. There are some who
just want the raw exercise of power. There are some
who just want the street rabble to gather around them
and let them get away with what they want. Fine,
plenty of Democrats fall into that category. But for any
of them who believe that there was something bigger, something
(12:46):
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Let's get to some calls and some talkbacks. Chat with
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(14:13):
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I want to listen to some pop music, which apparently
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it's called. But I'm just theoretically, if I wanted to
listen to some some pop music, perhaps some country. Actually
like E d M, which I know is a lot
of you. You're like, you've got to be kidding me, Buck,
but you know I like EDM music. What can I
tell you? We've got some calls coming in Steven in Lincoln, Alabama.
(14:57):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
A big shout out to my wife, She's so wonderful
and beautiful. All the school bus drivers out there, Okay,
so here we are. I never got my Rush Limbaugh
gold watch and our phone. I'm sorry phone, and what
I was thinking, maybe you should give away Trump watches
(15:19):
and I'll take orange. Now. The real thing I called
for was back in the first hour, you were talking
about ICE agents wearing masks.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, and all the.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Other Antifa and Black Lives Matter and all that. Whenever
they showed up to cause their destructions, they all wore masks.
That's really all I wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, thank you. Yeah, I mean they're not law enforcement officers,
which is what the Democrats would say, But I will
point out that they certainly believe that people should be
able to rally publicly and not have their identity shown.
And I actually disagree with that. There are plenty of
this is this is something that got forgotten very quickly
during COVID. There are a lot of jurisdictions where it
was stat a local statute that you could not have
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your face covered unless you're engaged in construction or you know,
there's some professional need for right. I mean, you don't
need people inhaling sawdust all day, but you couldn't just
walk around masked up. I completely agree with that. I
think being able to see people's faces is generally and
for the public important, especially in the era of cameras
everywhere in facial recognition. I also think that for law
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enforcement purposes. You know a lot of people, if you're
active special forces, if your active duty special operations, military,
they don't want their photos out there. And that's why
you have a lot of friends of mine who are
former seals, for example, they'll post a photo of themselves
they're out and they want their public with it. That's fine.
But if they've got you know, if they've got former
brothers and the teams who are still in, they obscure
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their faces, right. That's for a reason, Kevin in Western
New York. What's going on, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
The Times? A lot of these Democrats you're having with
this idea of what all these immigrants in is. We
all know they want them to hear for votes, They
want to give them citizenship they can vote, but most
of them do not want to be citizens because as
soon as they get that valid Social Security number, they
got to pay the taxes.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well yeah, and also, thank you a good point here.
A lot of them would actually get a tax benefit,
believe it or not. They basically be paid by the
federal governm when they file their taxes. But the problem
for their employer is now the employer has to pay
them properly, and that means they have to abide by
wage laws in that state. They have to pay you know,
social Security, Medicare, tax all this different stuff. You know,
(17:37):
there's a lot that goes into it. The reason that
illegal labor is so they'll tell you, oh, it's because
they work so hard. No, just like with the H
one B visa scam, when you look into this, there's
a lot of exploitation going on both sides of the equation.
A lot of big numbers being thrown around Washington, DC
this week as the Big Beautiful Bill. It's being contemplated
(17:58):
by the Senate. But there's a bigger that's being contemplated
by Jim Rickards. Look, Jim Rickards is a guy who
thinks that our country has an asset that could be
worth as much as one hundred and fifty trillion dollars.
This asset has been buried under American soil and may
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we should always remember that some of the things that
we see going on right now that are even a
bit in the background of what Trump is doing, what
this administration is making a reality, are things that those
of us who have been in the conservative movement or
just ideologically conservative for quite some time, in my case
(19:25):
working in conservative media fourteen years. Sorry I told you.
I saw my friend Glenn Beck, a friend and mentor
Glenn Beck, yesterday and he pointed out it was fourteen
years ago that we linked up at the Blaze. He
hired me, and so fourteen years of that. But I've
been a conservative for as long as I can remember.
It would seem like the stuff of dreams to be
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in the place we are in on some of these issues.
And I do not believe that's an exaggeration. We've been
waiting a very long time, a very long time for
someone who would essentially dismember the CNN propaganda organization, which
is what Trump has done. There was a time when CNN,
and especially I think because I lived in New York City,
(20:07):
it really was able to wield, unfortunately, this gravitas and
credibility among a lot of well intentioned and good and
well informed people. They said, well CNN. I would know
people who I would even describe as right of center
who would say things like CNN is pretty neutral, and
(20:29):
I would look at them like, no, it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now they wouldn't say that anymore. Everyone's realizing and is
completely insane. But if you're going back fifteen or twenty years,
people would have said a lot of people, you know,
I mean, think about it. I mean Tucker Carlson started
his career at CNN on TV with crossfire right, it
used to be less insane, is what I'm saying. They
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used to have actual conservatives on but that somebody could
come along as CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times,
and these the premiere propaganda outlets of the Democrat Party
as they reached the pinnacle of their power, which I
would really say was the second Obama term. And then
(21:14):
you get into Trump and they they basically went too
far against Trump, and then Trump has brought them to
heal and essentially and brought them low. But that's a
dream come true for those of us who are on
the right that there is a there are a number
of social media platforms now where you can share your
thoughts and not have it be explicitly centered. One of
(21:36):
my great frustrations during COVID was I YouTube. I had
multiple YouTube channels banned just for talking about COVID stuff.
You know, you know me, I'm not. I'm not some
provocateur on the right. I just like this mask stuff
in the lockdowns. This is moronic. There's no basis for it.
I was completely right. People who disagree with me were wrong,
not as smart as they thought they were. Including you know, Google,
(22:01):
one of the most powerful companies on Earth. But now
we have X and now we have truth Social and
Rumble and you know other things other places too, So
that and it's easy for us to have these wins
that we don't necessarily take a moment to appreciate and
to con and to to push for more of them,
(22:23):
right or to push more in these areas. I'm speaking
about this because we're seeing a people call it a
vibe shift. I know that's a little bit of the
contemporary lingo with the kids these days, but it is
something of a vibe shift right now from corporate America. Actually,
it's i would argue, a powerful vibe shift. It's not
(22:45):
a little bit, it's a lot. And we're entering a
new period here where oppress half the country's ideas and
they'll still come back and shop with you, They'll still
come back and buy your product. That's a much diceer
proposition than it was before Trump won this last election.
We are not in twenty twenty anymore where you would
(23:08):
just have the most blatant, I mean the most just
thuggish suppression of conservative ideas by companies, by platforms. I'm
not saying the pendulum has swung totally of the direction.
It is beginning to swing in the other direction, and
that is a win. And we are starting to see
(23:29):
these changes. I give you for example, City Group, which
is one of the largest financial institutions in the world,
has reversed its policy on restricting banking services for gun
companies and firearms clients. In a statement on June third,
(23:51):
the bank said a decision had been made over fair
access to banking services. City Group will no longer have
a specific policy as it results to firearms. This is
a step back from the d banking that was going
on for years and is one of the most pernicious
(24:13):
and undermining and really aggressive things that the Left was
doing in the private sector to suppress ideas that didn't
like and to just politically bludgeon the other side. So
in twenty eighteen, they implemented a firearms policy that basically
(24:35):
meant they wouldn't well, the policy is they wouldn't work
people that sold guns. They had all these rules and
they were they had to restrict firearms on all these
different bases. If you don't do it, they won't work
with you. So that, I think is just one of
many things that we're going to see here where these
(24:58):
companies are are no longer confident enough, even if they
I don't think that they like conservatives. I want to
be clear. I don't think that the people in charge
have changed their mind about a lot of this. Maybe
some have, some haven't. It's too large of an issue
and too many people involved to say that definitively. But
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what I do know is that they recognize there could
be consequences to discriminating against the right with their business.
Now things have changed. And this is also after a
dozen In April of twenty twenty four, a dozen Republican
state attorney generals state attorneys general rather wrote a letter
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to Bank of America with regard to their debanking policies
and the systemic biases that they have, and that to
think about this banks, which we do think of I
know they're private, but you think of banking services as
being non should be non political in nature, right. So
if you went into Bank of America, or you went
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into you know, any of these financial institutions and they
and you said, hey, I'd like to open a checking
account with you, And they said, who'd you vote for
in the last election, And you said, well, I'm not
a communist, so I voted for Trump and they said,
I'm sorry, we can't take your business. We'd all recognize
that's a that's a that's a big deal, that's a
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big problem, right, And that this kind of political discrimination
discrimination was going on for as many years as it
did without any meaningful pushback from the judiciary or from
Congress is appalling, absolutely appalling. Trump Organizations sued Capital One,
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accusing the bank of closing hundreds of accounts belonging to
the company. Trump Organization said that Capital One's unilateral decision
came about as a result of political and social motivations
and woke beliefs. Banks. Banks are now left wing, woke enforcers. Well,
they have been for years, and now it's finally turning around.
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Now it is finally changing where they don't feel comfortable
doing this. This is really meaningful. And note the next
the next phase of this needs to be we need
to demand if there is an ad that runs on MSNBC, Okay,
I want to know why that company isn't running ads
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on Fox News. And we need to start to hold
these companies to account. If Mercedes and BMW and I
don't know I mean, you know, who are some of
those Wow, star We've got our own coffee company here,
thank you very much, and to talk about Starbucks. But
if some of these major international brands, you know, Apple,
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if they're willing to put money in advertising to reach
an audience that will watch MSNBC, I want to know
on what basis they're not putting money with with with
Fox News, with NEWSMAC, with talk radio. Why why is
it that left wing podcasters who are wrong about everything
and who are lunatics can count on corporate dollars and
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on the right, it's always that there's always this concern
about brand safety. Why are they safe? But we're not safe?
Are people? Just won the election? We're in charge, we
run the country brand safety, you know. I mean, look,
I understand free market, private market people can do what
they want, but we can also do what we want
and say to any company that's out there that's putting
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real money on left wing programming, hey what's going on here?
And force them to answer the question. Force some of
these companies, you know, for forced like Ford Motors or
you know whoever it is. I'm just coming up with big,
big companies, but force them to say you know what,
half the country can go, you know, can go take
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a long walk off a short peer with their politics,
and we think they'll just buy our stuff anyway, you jerks.
Let's hear them say that. Now, let's let's force them
out a little bit, because this matters. This matters the left.
One of the great things about this Trump administration has
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been disassembling the forever regime of the universities and the
the you know, corporate HR Woke DEEI apparatus, and and
the way that the the NGOs that suckle at the
teat of places like US, A, I, D and NPR.
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This this needed to be done. And I've talked about
being a conservative for a long time. We've dreamt of
this fight finally happening for decades, and now it's finally here.
And Trump is doing so many things. This administration is
moving on so many fronts that I think it's easy
to have some of this stuff get a little bit lost.
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It's easy for us not to put enough focus on
all of these different things because there's so many of them.
But forcing companies to end as a matter of policy,
and I mean the biggest companies in America, the biggest
companies in the world, forcing them to end political discrimination
right down in their company by laws. We will not
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as a company deny services, deny product to people because
of lawful political belief, which, whether they want to accept
or not. Voting for Trump is a lawful political belief.
The right to bear arms the Second Amendment, being a
gun owner and wanting to have a constitutional right, that
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is a lawful belief. And any institution that is going
to discriminate on a political basis, the Trump administration should
immediately take whatever legal actions are possible, sue them and
let the courts figure it out. Oh but buck, isn't
that that's what they do. Let's see, Let's see how
it shakes out. Sue them. And also the public should
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start to demand accountability and openness about what's going on here.
So City Group no longer says that we're going to
have these weird policies when it comes to guns, because
the idiot leftists who are busy, i'm sure counting their
huge bonuses who run that place realize this is not
going to be a good look for us. We need
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this to extend to all companies and any I'm just
gonna say it to you, any company that will put money,
okay on Rachel Maddow's show, and not not talk radio,
not conservative conservative content is not your friend. And they're
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getting away with not being your friend. They're getting away
with spitting in your face. And I think we put
an end to that. This is a different moment. Now,
this is a changed moment. They don't have the same
control they used to. Now is the time to push.
Now is the time to make demands. Sell your stuff
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to everybody, or there will be consequences. Treat all Americans
who want access to your goods and services like the
customers they are, irrespective of their own political beliefs, or
there will be bad things happening to your share price.
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to get to the next hour, including Secretary of Transportation
Sean Duffy. I'm sure a lot of you are going
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to be flying this summer traveling, you know, summertime, right,
people go to places, And if you have been paying
attention in recent months, the air traffic control situation has
been a mess. Yes, it is well was inherited by
this administration from the Biden disaster. I know they're trying
to fix it. So we'll talk to Sean Duffy, Secretary
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Duffy about that. And I certainly want to know there
is just my perception is that flying somehow just keeps
getting worse, That there's more delays, that there's less efficiency,
that customer service is getting worse. I think it's the
only area that I'm trying to think. What else just
(34:31):
keeps getting worse every year? While technology gets better and
everything should be streamlining and improving. How is it possible
that flying is more stressful than I can ever remember
it being. Maybe that's just a perception thing, but I
do know that there's so much time, you know. The
one that really drives me in some ways the most
(34:52):
insane is the when you land and you think you're
about to get off the plane and then you sit
there for forty five minutes because there's no ground crew
to let you out of the plane. Well, let's be honest.
You start to have little thoughts in your head about
like what if I just like hit that slide and
you know, just sort of hopped out, you know what
I mean. You start to have some crazy thoughts because
you want to get off that plane because it landed
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and everyone's safe, and you want to get off, and
but you know, there we are sitting there waiting, waiting.
It really test your patience so that I want to
get some answers, and I know Sean's going to have
updates for us. Sorry, he plumps. I've known Sean Secretary
Duffy for years now and this is a thing for me.
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A lot of these guys who run the country now
or cabinet level secretaries, I've had beers with in the past,
and sometimes many times, and so it's I have to
remember the formal title. But yes, Secretary duff would be
with this. We'll talk to him about this. I think
that's going to be important if you're on hold and
or you want to send it a talk back. We'll
get to a lot of that in the next hour.
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After you take some coming up here in the top,
I'll just give you kind of a run down to
the top new stories and then we'll get some calls.
So stay with us on hold there, want to hear
from you. And if you want to call an eight
hundred two eighty two two eight a two and word
is from Clay. You'll have to get a full update
from him on Friday. But I'm hearing that maybe he
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was at par today on that golf course. I can
neither confirm nor deny, but is Clay, a scratch golfer.
There are rumors that I am starting, so we'll have
to see if those rumors are correct. And no, no, he
had a great time today and he's doing important things
for the show out there on the links. We'll be
back here, talk to Secretary Duffy. We'll get into some
(36:38):
more news stories. Basically, we have a fantastic show in
the third hour coming your way, So get some crock
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