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Any and all Democrats, Well, it was maybe one or
two Republicans in name only pardoned by the Biden auto
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pen Why they're quaking in their boots this morning. President
Trump issuing that proclamation declaring all by autopin pardons to
be void, just trumped that grenade and dcs today declaring
them all those rubber stamped. You know, but half of
them they probably didn't even know who did them, that's
the thing. And they were probably selling these pardons and
(02:17):
access anyway to the highest bidder. That is what it
looks like, and that's what Trump has said. You know, look,
we're gonna go ahead and cut all these off. Now.
The best part about this is this is just the beginning.
This is the intro. The trap has been set. Let
me explain what happens next in just a moment. But
first work. The Trump administration will withhold snap. They say
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why because Michigan is hiding something. They refuse to go
along with showing everybody the data, the transparency. We've been
told they want to be transparent. We just want to
be transparent here now. Michigan and a handful of others
dates are ones that have been withholding that data. Who
gets the food steps? Have you gone through the proper checks,
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all of the balances, the things that need to happen
to make sure that we're not losing money due to
fraud and waste, etc. Well, people are in Michigan and
Whitmer states saying not gonna go along with all that.
In fact, I wonder what they have to high. The
plan announced to cut that off starting this week in
Michigan and other states during the President's Cabinet meeting afterday after,
(03:31):
Secretary of Eggs Brooke Rolins said the department would be
withholding those better. They've already done this. It looks like
eighty it said eighty. No, eight hundred thousand have officially
been removed eight hundred thousand of the forty two million
cut off. Why well, you'll hear right from her words.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Very much a part of the national conversation during the
Democrats shutdown was snap reform, food stamp reform. When all
of America saw, which so many of us know and
have been working on. But when you have so much
rampant fraud in a program that forty two million Americans
participate in. Now, big good piece of news that I
(04:16):
hope has written about. Since you became president, about eight
hundred thousand of those forty two million have moved off
of food stamps, which is hopefully the plan with better jobs,
higher wages, etc. But still, when we've found one hundred
and eighty six thousand dead people or dead people's Social
Security numbers being used, five hundred thousand people receiving benefits
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more than twice, we had a couple of people receiving
benefits in six states. In February of this year, we
asked for all the states for the first time to
turn over their data to the federal government to let
the USDA partner with them to root out this fraud,
to make sure that those who really need food stamps
are getting them, but also to ensure that the American
taxpayer is protected.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You know, it's interesting. The idea of compassion isn't just
to give everyone free everything. In fact, it's only to
take care of those people who need it most. And ultimately,
at the end of the program, the end of their
time on this thing, it would be for them to
get off so that they could thrive. That eight hundred
thousand number, those are folks who moved off the rolls
because they're back thriving.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
No breaking the.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
GOP in Tennessee holds on to a key and raising
the house there close but really, seriously, it was not
that close, and it was closer than it should have been.
And I'll explain why coming up. It may be a
warning for Republicans. We'll get to that, and what was
really wrong with the Democh By the way, the Democrats
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really biff this, and I'll explain. I think they could
have could have gotten closer, maybe could have even won
this thing, but they made a key error and there's
a lot to learn from it. We'll get into that
all coming up this morning. Plus that bridged ninety six
to uh one thirty one will be closed. It taken
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out by the semi truck yesterday is going to be
closed till April thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The news call Justin now at six one six seven
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Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio Wood thirteen
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Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, you want to use that talk back feature you
can on the iHeartRadio app. Just clicked a little microphone
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complaint all coming up here. We'll give you a chance
to get in talking with new candidate running for Senate
here in Michigan. Coming up at about nine thirty five
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this morning. You hear from them. Why twenty twenty six
is so important. By the way, this is this is key,
not just for the survival of the President's administration. Has
to be able to move forward. You got send the
folks to Congress to be able to do that. Indiana
yesterday moved to counter some of the things we're seeing
with California some of these other states moving their districting around.
(07:10):
Looks like in Indiana's gonna be all Red, which I
don't know how many seats that was that'll pick up,
but several Florida's gonna make the same move. You're gonna
say a lot of this up until the next year.
Why is it so important? It'll be important nationally twenty
twenty six to maintain so that the administration can move
for your Democrats get back in control. It's gonna be
it's all you know, what's gonna break loose again. They're
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gonna go move to impeach Trump. They're gonna come up
with all this fake mumbo jumbo. And of course you
talk about chaos as if we haven't seen it already.
I think they're all in on the chaos. So that's
why twenty twenty six is important from a national level,
from the state level here in Michigan, I think it
might be one of the most important of our state's history.
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If we don't come through, if we don't get together
and make the right decisions and make the right most
and weren't together for truthflot you can common sense, faith, family,
freedom here in Michigan. Guess what kiss the say goodbye?
As it important as it was in twenty four for
our nation to get the president elected. Uh, we dodged
you think about it, We really dodged that bullet with
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Kamala Harris could be in office right now. Tim Walls,
the corrupt Tim Walls from Minnesota. We've seen how much
they have. They're discovered in the fraud, the Somali fraud
of without That's another whole other story we got to
get to a little bit later as well. But you
see that that whole, that whole racket. That guy could
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be a heartbeat away. You can be the vice president
right now. But we were spared. So keep that in
mind as we move forward into twenty twenty six. Now
here's what I wanted to tell you and why this
is so important. The GOP and Tennessee won this this
(08:58):
House of the seventh district. I think the guy Matt
Vanims is his name, one by nine points. Now that's
a district. Think it used to run twenty points. In fact,
I think Trump won it by over twenty points in
twenty four Why is that important? It could be a signal. Now,
(09:18):
there's a couple of things here. It could be a
signal to Republicans that you're not doing things the way
you ought to be doing and that's messaging and whatnot.
Candidates selection that sort of thing as well. But it
also could be a signal to Democrats. This gal they
had running was like from the AOC left loon wing
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of the party. That's that's what Senator Kimmy calls it.
I love that terminology. It's from the loon wing of
the party. And she didn't do them any favors, by
the way. Those candidates don't. People want truth, logic and
common sense, and this is this is one of the
biggest flaws they had, is running somebody like that. This
(10:00):
is this is going to be a problem for them
in the primaries in some way. So it's a one
of the Democrats, but Republicans as well. Got to make
sure your messaging's on points.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I think that's the wrong lesson to take away here.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
This is a what Trump did win it by twenty
two but Marshall Blackburn in the mid term in twenty
eighteen when Trump was unpopular, only won the district bout
half a point.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
So Matt van Pips is going to win it by
nine tonight.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
The lesson to take away from this is Democrats picked
their wrong candidate. They had three state representatives running they
picked the liberal wing nut, the person who said she
hated country music. She did in Nashville, she was uncomfortable
with prayer. She went to bully state troopers. That's the
problem Democrats face in primaries all over the country in
the twenty six that.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
They may nominate left wing nut who can't win the general.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, we need adults in the room, folks that are
going to be truth, logic and common sense, and that's
that's that's it. By the way, if Democrats want to win,
that's what they'll do. But they're not going to be
able to do that because of the most radical aoc
Bernie side of the party, the Mom Donnis. They've hijacked
the Democrat Party. It's it's it's really bad news for them.
(11:05):
So I say this to the GOP, I say this
to Republicans, this is yours to lose. What does that mean,
don't squander the opportunity? What does that mean? Put people
out that are truth logic and common sense and can
communicate messaging to the American people that they're gonna go
in and they're gonna fix the problems that the American
people care about. Now, this is a lot easier said
(11:29):
than done. It's tough because you got to fight the
media twenty four to seven. Who tells you things aren't
working out, who tells you all the pain you're experiencing
now is Donald Trump's fault. Forget all the jug that
Biden did in the four years previously to cause this
massive inflation and all the rest of it. Trump' said
are yesterday during the cabinet meeting, he said, you know
(11:51):
what I'm actually you don't people forget I inherited this
mess and I am I am dealing with it, trying
to get it now. He did say some things probably
not the right thing to say about affordability, talking about
how affordability it's not it's a hoax. And what he
means by that is the media is using it as
a hoax. He's not saying people aren't having issues affording things.
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What he's saying is that the way the media is
portraying is that it is his fault. That's that's the
real that's the real problem. We've seen gas prices actually
the best they've been in four years. Everything else is
starting to slowly move in the right direction, But question
is is it going to be fast enough? Now I've
(12:35):
got some good news about investments for children, and of
course some of the economy stuff is really starting to
shape up. We got interest rates coming down, We got
all those good things. A little then on direction, But
the one thing we've got to make sure that we
do is make sure we sell this tell people about it.
And when I say we, I'm just mean truth, logic
and common sense, whoever you are running, And I'm not
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like a particular party guy. I'm just telling telling you
I stand for truth, logic and common sense. And there's
really only one party that that line's lines with these days,
one electable party anyway. So what about the Biden autopen scandal.
This thing is going to go nuclear because I believe
it's a trap. I believe Democrats are going to step
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right into it. Trump has said it. In fact, you
can mark my words. In the coming days, we're going
to start hearing about how the lawsuits are going to
fly that that's exactly what he wants. I'll explain what
could happen coming up after this, but first, if you're able,
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please join us with the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
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Speaker 8 (15:44):
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I didn't do a news conference, there's something wrong with
the president.
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Speaker 2 (16:09):
New it's a trap. What do I mean? I think
Trump's set a trap for him with the Fauci, the Milly,
the Chaney pardons. You remember that whole that whole committee,
the January sixth community got they all got partner. I
whanted these people get partner if they didn't do anything wrong.
(16:33):
Trump said, all the pardons signed with auto pins, the
ones that were are going to be null and void.
Now why do I say this is a trap? And
I'll tell you why this is? This is it, folks,
this is people talk about the three D chests. This
is it. So Democrats can't help themselves and the media.
But I repeat myself, but here's the deal. You're going
to see the law suits start rolling in. Now this
(16:56):
you might say, this is this? This of course it Judges,
they're gonna constantly law fare. They always try to throw
a kink in the plans, et cetera. No, this is
exactly what Trump wants. What what do you mean, why
why could he possibly want to get sued? Trump wants
to get sued because now they'll have to defend them all.
(17:21):
All of this information will come out in the lawsuits.
All of it will come out in the fight about Biden.
Who he was, how he was, how the pardons got done,
who contributed for what, how it worked inside the inner workings,
and all of that's just going to support his this
(17:41):
theory that Biden really wasn't it was. It's forty five
dash forty seven. We may not have even had a
forty six president during that time. I'm telling you this
is expert level trolling, and it is strategicy. As w
(18:02):
used to say, I don't you don't think we've ever
seen before anyway, That's one of the ways to look
at these things. We got more in fact coming up,
we'll talk with some of the folks that's running for Senate.
Another candidate will join us in just moments nine thirty
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coming up in a second. Oh, hang in there with us, folks.
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Democrats in Tennessee, they they they really they lost a
race that maybe could have been closer at least the
way things look last night. But they put and they've
been doing a lot of this lately, put a very
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radical candidate up. All three of the folks running for
Senate here as Democrats on the other side of the aisle,
very radical as well as it appears, so as as
it stands for us, put somebody up who's the truth, logic,
common sense and got to excite people here in Michigan.
Is it really seems to be the key? She says,
(21:18):
She's the one for the job. Genevieve Peter Scott joins
us right now, and we appreciate you taking the time
to be here with us today.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Thanks so much, Justin, it's great to see you again.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Absolutely, you too. So I got to ask, and I
do everyone, what you know, what was it that that
initially that really urged you, that you said, look, this
is a this is a big issue. We've had Democrats
in these seats for far too long, and I got
to get involved.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Yeah. So I've been in this fight for four decades
and just fighting for America, our liberties, our freedoms. And
when President Trump became president in twenty sixteen, I felt
like we had another chance at a Maria, getting back
to our founding fathers, getting back to a constitutional republic.
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And when he got elected again in twenty twenty, and
that whole fiasco. We had to sit on our hands.
There was so much disaster that was happening in the
White House. And then when he got re elected in
twenty twenty four, and again, you know, the people that
are not supporting America or America first were totally demonizing
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our president and everything that he was doing that we
all voted for. I said, you know what I have been,
you know, on the front lines of this fight. I've
been behind the scenes of this fight, and now I
need to join him in this fight.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, that's that's a very good point. We need somebody
who's going to work with the president. We sending people
to Washington. We see how twenty six is going to
be so important. Twenty four was important to get him there.
Twenty six is going to be important to not only
keep him there, but make sure that his agenda and
have the full chat says, we have a little bit
(23:01):
of time to get things through in this term here
and that agenda, and they're making massive, massive changes and
lots of lots of really great things are happening so far.
But boy, again, you got to make sure that agenda
stays on track. That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Well, that's exactly right. And it's so important, you know,
because what the Senate can do, what Congress can do,
is actually start codifying more of these executive orders. So
what's happening right now is that our president is doing
everything that we voted for. He's literally taking on every
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big institution, he's taking on every bit of the alphabet agencies.
He's really exposing what has not been done for so
many years. And these executive orders, what we definitely want
your listeners to realize is they're only effective for the
federal government and federal agencies. And what Congress, the Senate,
(23:58):
and the House of Representative must do is codify these
because the next person is God forbid, it's not someone
that you know supports America first can completely eliminate and
rescind all of his executive orders, which is thank goodness,
what President Trump is doing right now to rescind all
of President Biden's orders. They can do the same for his.
(24:22):
So we've got to get in there. And as the
next United States Senator, I am a fighter with grit
and heart from Detroit born and raised, and I will
make sure that I work with all people to make
sure that these executive orders that are so critical to
moving America first and forward. Are codified and created into law,
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and that's the job of these representatives, House of Representatives, Senators,
and they're basically sitting back right now. You know, they
codify twenty eight of his executive our president executive orders
with the big beautiful bill, and that's just the beginning.
He has now over two hundred and fifty executive orders
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that need to be codified, and we need to prioritize them.
We need to have a legislative priority, and we need
to sit down, and we need to solve problems, and
we need to work and represent the people of Michigan.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I couldn't agree more. Genevieve. Peter Scott is here with
this right now. Gpsfor Senate dot com, the website running
for senator in Michigan. Is a Republican and I've got
to ask you. You very much align with and support
President Trump, but you don't have his endorsement.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I imagine that this number of reasons for this, but
a lot of it is probably because Mike Rodgers announced
early and secured that endorsement early, and this was before
that you'd probably even announced. But walk us through how
that challenge plays out and how you plan to address it.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Yeah, thank you. So endorsements in Michigan really don't mean
a whole lot. We're very independent thinkers. We want to
make sure that the people that are elected are actually
people light and salt of the earth for Michigan Anders,
not someone that was handpicked. And although our president has
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every right to put his endorsement as early as he did,
we believe, and I'm a firm believer, that the people,
the amazing people in Michigan want to see who's actually
running and who's going to actually serve them best. And
unfortunately for President Trump, he's one and eleven with his
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endorsements and in all reality, and this is just the fact.
You know, my you know, the opponent that ran last time,
he had Trump's endorsement and he was on the ticket
with Trump and he's still lost.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Genevieve Peter Scott GPS First Senate dot com is the website.
So what are you hearing from people? I know you're
out there talking to folks, You're out there doing all
the you know, all the events and meeting people. What
are you hearing are the biggest stories for folks right now?
The things that are really the most important to people.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Well, I think again, you know, they're you know, we
we don't want to spend you know, eight dollars for eggs.
We don't want to decide between buying meat or paying
our electric bill. We want our young people to be
able to have home ownership. We want to be able
to build businesses and not have you know, stranglehold of regulations.
(27:38):
We want our families respected. We want to be able
to choose to raise our families as we choose, not
by any mandates. These are the things that people are
concerned about. They don't, you know, they're they're frustrated with
all of this spending, all of this waste, broad and abuse,
the fact that we have the incredible debt. You know,
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these are things that affect everyday Americans. Every day people
in this great state of Michigan. They have to they
have to count on the people that are representing them,
and unfortunately they're losing trust. And that's a problem. You know,
we cannot allow people that we elect to go up
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to Washington and not serve the people. That is what
our founding fathers created our constitution for is not to
give us our rights, but protect our rights and That's
what I plan on doing when I go up to Washington.
Is the next United States Senator from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I got to ask you, Genev. Peter Scottwold is right
now running for Senate here in Michigan. One of the
questions that you might have to address here as a
Senator from Michigan would be this filibuster. There's been a
lot to talk about this lately, to get rid of
it in order to this role, in order to be
able to push things through quickly, as you just mentioned,
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to codify some of those things in the president's agenda.
Where do you stand on that?
Speaker 9 (29:03):
I think that the filibuster comes and goes, as we
all know, it's something that was created by, obviously the legislature,
and I think that the president has so many things
so obviously, as you know, justin the process is so arduous,
and we also have to look at that. You know
that to even get a bill passed, there's so many
(29:24):
levers and layers that the legislature has to go through,
and right now, there's so many things that have to
be backtracked, there's so many things that have to be
put in place, and now that we have a president
with the kind of spine and the kind of iron
spine that he has, and the ability to take on
the powerful and take on the deep state and take
(29:45):
on people that just are waiting for the next president
to come in. We actually need to do something about that.
So that's something that I absolutely will look at and
want to examine. There's pros and cons obviously for the filibuster. Obviously,
you know, a you vote makes it a little bit
more ironclad to make sure everyone's on board. But in
this day and age and what we have to deal
(30:06):
with right now, justin it looks more likely that killing
the filibuster is the answer for right now.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, I appreciate the candidateness on that. Yeah, I think
you're right. I mean I've looked at this as well,
and you know they're going to do it. Democrats get controlled,
they're going to do it, so we might as well
take a look at it as well. Gennevie's Peter Scott
and look, folks want to find out probably more about you,
who you are, and maybe even where they can meet
you and ask you questions in person, shake your hand.
(30:37):
What's the best way for them to do that. I
know you've got the great website, gpsfor Senate dot Com
events and the like, and maybe just to stay in touch.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Yeah. Absolutely, we would love for them to reach out
so that we can get them on our mailing list.
We can let them know all of our events and
things that we're what we're doing, we're speaking, We've been
all over the state. We continue to go all out
over the state. We love meeting you, we love being
you know where you're at to see exactly what's on
your mind. And that's how representative government works. You know,
(31:08):
I can't represent people in a state if I don't
meet them and talk to them and see what their
concerns are. And that's exactly what I want to do.
I am guided by truth, I'm driven to serve, and
I am absolutely answerable to each and every one of
the people of this great state.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Genevieve Peter Scott, always a pleasure. Thank you for taking
the time to speak to the folks here in Michigan.
Very very good. We want to take you back. We'll
have you back when you get a chance to come
back and talk about these issues. But we really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, love.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
It, Thanks so much. Justin God bless you you too.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, folks, we're rolling right. I had, by the
way I mentioned, I got good news. We've had some
bad news previously with that closure of the REMP ninety
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of that semi accident yesterday. Well, the latest on traffic
for you coming up as well, but I wanted to
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make sure we hit this story because this is goodness.
Put you right in your fields when we come back.
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But we've got more coming up, and I do have
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you this story. This is an incredible story about it.
I don't I don't know if you saw the guy.
This is a veteran eighty eight years old. He's been
There's a splash been made on social media for this guy.
In fact, I sent this off to a friend, uh,
somebody that's got a little pull, a little sway in situations,
(35:51):
and he gave me some background on it, which I
just I couldn't believe something that I that I heard
this guy. He's he works at a myer here in Michigan,
and you know that, I thought, really interesting story the
guy has. You've probably been through this yourself or know
(36:12):
somebody is, but he's been through the ringer in fact,
lost his pension years ago, worked for GM and this
guy interviews him and asks him skinning this.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Thank you? What was your name? Ed? I'm Sam Okay.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I actually had someone nominate you from this store and.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Said you're very hard working.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Well, I try to be May I ask how old
you are?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I made I'm still working.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yes, I have to.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
What story is heartbreaking? By the way, you have to
keep working.
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Retired from General Mortars in ninety nine twenty told them
at bankrupt and they took.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
My pension away from it. Do you have a wife?
She'd passed away seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Seven years ago.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
She was sick when I lost my pension. So you've
been struggling a bit, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
You said that you lost your pension.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yes, sir, I did. I was in the Army bank
in sixty sixty six, so you're a veteran too.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
Yes, I think that hurt me the most with my
wife was real sick, and they when they took the pension,
they also took the healthcare coverage and all but ten
thousand dollars of my life insurance. So I sold the house,
sold with property I had, and we made it through.
(37:30):
My wife died seven years ago. Test then I've been
trying to re establish myself.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
And you're working here.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
How many days a week?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I worked five days a week, eight hours.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
A day, and you do that because you have.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
To, or yeah, I don't have enough income. What's your dream?
Lives somewhat the life I was hoping for.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
You know, his story is captivated people on social media.
He's eighty eight years old. He's a veteran ed works
at the Mere in Brighton. By the way, he took
that job after being retired for more than a decade
to help pay his bills. And of course you heard
the story about his wife there as well. By the way,
this story come out of the blue, he said, out
(38:10):
of the clear blue. I really truly mean that, he
said about all the sudden attention. The video of him
working at the job has been viewed nearly four million
times on TikTok, just one of the places, and all
over in other places as well. And they set up
a GoFundMe for the guy. And from what I understand,
and I'll put this up if you want to, if
(38:31):
you want to contribute to it, but I'll put it
up online. I'm kind of blown away by what they
were able to accomplish. I think the latest I read
was over a million. I think it was over a
million dollars that they had raised for Is that right?
(38:52):
Holy smokes? And I got that, by the way, I
got that information with somebody the last name of Meyer
told me that, which is which. It's just pretty incredible.
So if you'd like to help Ed, I think he's
probably doing all right now, but you can. But I
just wanted to share the story with you because that's
one that'll give you some of those warm and fuzzies,
(39:14):
especially this time of year when we can use him.
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two Republicans in name only pardoned by the Biden auto
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pen Why they're quaking in their boots this morning. President
Trump issuing that proclamation declaring all by autopin pardons to
be void, just trumped that grenade and dcs today declaring
them all those rubber stamped. You know, but half of
them they probably didn't even know who did them, that's
the thing. And they were probably selling these pardons and
(02:17):
access anyway to the highest bidder. That is what it
looks like, and that's what Trump has said. You know, look,
we're gonna go ahead and cut all these off. Now.
The best part about this is this is just the beginning.
This is the intro. The trap has been set. Let
me explain what happens next in just a moment. But
first work. The Trump administration will withhold snap. They say
(02:44):
why because Michigan is hiding something. They refuse to go
along with showing everybody the data, the transparency. We've been
told they want to be transparent. We just want to
be transparent here now. Michigan and a handful of others
dates are ones that have been withholding that data. Who
gets the food steps? Have you gone through the proper checks,
(03:08):
all of the balances, the things that need to happen
to make sure that we're not losing money due to
fraud and waste, etc. Well, people are in Michigan and
Whitmer states saying not gonna go along with all that.
In fact, I wonder what they have to high. The
plan announced to cut that off starting this week in
Michigan and other states during the President's Cabinet meeting afterday after,
(03:31):
Secretary of Eggs Brooke Rolins said the department would be
withholding those better. They've already done this. It looks like
eighty it said eighty. No, eight hundred thousand have officially
been removed eight hundred thousand of the forty two million
cut off. Why well, you'll hear right from her words.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Very much a part of the national conversation during the
Democrats shutdown was snap reform, food stamp reform. When all
of America saw, which so many of us know and
have been working on. But when you have so much
rampant fraud in a program that forty two million Americans
participate in. Now, big good piece of news that I
(04:16):
hope has written about. Since you became president, about eight
hundred thousand of those forty two million have moved off
of food stamps, which is hopefully the plan with better jobs,
higher wages, etc. But still, when we've found one hundred
and eighty six thousand dead people or dead people's Social
Security numbers being used, five hundred thousand people receiving benefits
(04:37):
more than twice, we had a couple of people receiving
benefits in six states. In February of this year, we
asked for all the states for the first time to
turn over their data to the federal government to let
the USDA partner with them to root out this fraud,
to make sure that those who really need food stamps
are getting them, but also to ensure that the American
taxpayer is protected.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You know, it's interesting. The idea of compassion isn't just
to give everyone free everything. In fact, it's only to
take care of those people who need it most. And ultimately,
at the end of the program, the end of their
time on this thing, it would be for them to
get off so that they could thrive. That eight hundred
thousand number, those are folks who moved off the rolls
because they're back thriving.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
No breaking the.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
GOP in Tennessee holds on to a key and raising
the house there close but really, seriously, it was not
that close, and it was closer than it should have been.
And I'll explain why coming up. It may be a
warning for Republicans. We'll get to that, and what was
really wrong with the Democh By the way, the Democrats
(05:47):
really biff this, and I'll explain. I think they could
have could have gotten closer, maybe could have even won
this thing, but they made a key error and there's
a lot to learn from it. We'll get into that
all coming up this morning. Plus that bridged ninety six
to uh one thirty one will be closed. It taken
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out by the semi truck yesterday is going to be
closed till April thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
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Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, you want to use that talk back feature you
can on the iHeartRadio app. Just clicked a little microphone
button there. Let it rip rant raves, sound off, comment,
complaint all coming up here. We'll give you a chance
to get in talking with new candidate running for Senate
here in Michigan. Coming up at about nine thirty five
(06:49):
this morning. You hear from them. Why twenty twenty six
is so important. By the way, this is this is key,
not just for the survival of the President's administration. Has
to be able to move forward. You got send the
folks to Congress to be able to do that. Indiana
yesterday moved to counter some of the things we're seeing
with California some of these other states moving their districting around.
(07:10):
Looks like in Indiana's gonna be all Red, which I
don't know how many seats that was that'll pick up,
but several Florida's gonna make the same move. You're gonna
say a lot of this up until the next year.
Why is it so important? It'll be important nationally twenty
twenty six to maintain so that the administration can move
for your Democrats get back in control. It's gonna be
it's all you know, what's gonna break loose again. They're
(07:31):
gonna go move to impeach Trump. They're gonna come up
with all this fake mumbo jumbo. And of course you
talk about chaos as if we haven't seen it already.
I think they're all in on the chaos. So that's
why twenty twenty six is important from a national level,
from the state level here in Michigan, I think it
might be one of the most important of our state's history.
(07:53):
If we don't come through, if we don't get together
and make the right decisions and make the right most
and weren't together for truthflot you can common sense, faith, family,
freedom here in Michigan. Guess what kiss the say goodbye?
As it important as it was in twenty four for
our nation to get the president elected. Uh, we dodged
you think about it, We really dodged that bullet with
(08:15):
Kamala Harris could be in office right now. Tim Walls,
the corrupt Tim Walls from Minnesota. We've seen how much
they have. They're discovered in the fraud, the Somali fraud
of without That's another whole other story we got to
get to a little bit later as well. But you
see that that whole, that whole racket. That guy could
(08:35):
be a heartbeat away. You can be the vice president
right now. But we were spared. So keep that in
mind as we move forward into twenty twenty six. Now
here's what I wanted to tell you and why this
is so important. The GOP and Tennessee won this this
(08:58):
House of the seventh district. I think the guy Matt
Vanims is his name, one by nine points. Now that's
a district. Think it used to run twenty points. In fact,
I think Trump won it by over twenty points in
twenty four Why is that important? It could be a signal. Now,
(09:18):
there's a couple of things here. It could be a
signal to Republicans that you're not doing things the way
you ought to be doing and that's messaging and whatnot.
Candidates selection that sort of thing as well. But it
also could be a signal to Democrats. This gal they
had running was like from the AOC left loon wing
(09:39):
of the party. That's that's what Senator Kimmy calls it.
I love that terminology. It's from the loon wing of
the party. And she didn't do them any favors, by
the way. Those candidates don't. People want truth, logic and
common sense, and this is this is one of the
biggest flaws they had, is running somebody like that. This
(10:00):
is this is going to be a problem for them
in the primaries in some way. So it's a one
of the Democrats, but Republicans as well. Got to make
sure your messaging's on points.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I think that's the wrong lesson to take away here.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
This is a what Trump did win it by twenty
two but Marshall Blackburn in the mid term in twenty
eighteen when Trump was unpopular, only won the district bout
half a point.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
So Matt van Pips is going to win it by
nine tonight.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
The lesson to take away from this is Democrats picked
their wrong candidate. They had three state representatives running they
picked the liberal wing nut, the person who said she
hated country music. She did in Nashville, she was uncomfortable
with prayer. She went to bully state troopers. That's the
problem Democrats face in primaries all over the country in
the twenty six that.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
They may nominate left wing nut who can't win the general.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, we need adults in the room, folks that are
going to be truth, logic and common sense, and that's
that's that's it. By the way, if Democrats want to win,
that's what they'll do. But they're not going to be
able to do that because of the most radical aoc
Bernie side of the party, the Mom Donnis. They've hijacked
the Democrat Party. It's it's it's really bad news for them.
(11:05):
So I say this to the GOP, I say this
to Republicans, this is yours to lose. What does that mean,
don't squander the opportunity? What does that mean? Put people
out that are truth logic and common sense and can
communicate messaging to the American people that they're gonna go
in and they're gonna fix the problems that the American
people care about. Now, this is a lot easier said
(11:29):
than done. It's tough because you got to fight the
media twenty four to seven. Who tells you things aren't
working out, who tells you all the pain you're experiencing
now is Donald Trump's fault. Forget all the jug that
Biden did in the four years previously to cause this
massive inflation and all the rest of it. Trump' said
are yesterday during the cabinet meeting, he said, you know
(11:51):
what I'm actually you don't people forget I inherited this
mess and I am I am dealing with it, trying
to get it now. He did say some things probably
not the right thing to say about affordability, talking about
how affordability it's not it's a hoax. And what he
means by that is the media is using it as
a hoax. He's not saying people aren't having issues affording things.
(12:14):
What he's saying is that the way the media is
portraying is that it is his fault. That's that's the
real that's the real problem. We've seen gas prices actually
the best they've been in four years. Everything else is
starting to slowly move in the right direction, But question
is is it going to be fast enough? Now I've
(12:35):
got some good news about investments for children, and of
course some of the economy stuff is really starting to
shape up. We got interest rates coming down, We got
all those good things. A little then on direction, But
the one thing we've got to make sure that we
do is make sure we sell this tell people about it.
And when I say we, I'm just mean truth, logic
and common sense, whoever you are running, And I'm not
(12:58):
like a particular party guy. I'm just telling telling you
I stand for truth, logic and common sense. And there's
really only one party that that line's lines with these days,
one electable party anyway. So what about the Biden autopen scandal.
This thing is going to go nuclear because I believe
it's a trap. I believe Democrats are going to step
(13:21):
right into it. Trump has said it. In fact, you
can mark my words. In the coming days, we're going
to start hearing about how the lawsuits are going to
fly that that's exactly what he wants. I'll explain what
could happen coming up after this, but first, if you're able,
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here in Michigan. A connection to George Soros and his son.
A recent federal tax filing exposing how dark money groups
are influencing Michigan politics by pouring millions of dollars into
progressive groups to steer our state to the left. A
(15:33):
tax filing submitted by the sixteen thirty Fund shows that
the DC based nonprofit linked to Soorros pumped more than
three million dollars into more than a dozen progressive groups
right here in Michigan.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
If I go one day, I had one day where
I didn't do a news conference, there's something wrong with
the president.
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Few people crazy. I'll let you know with this upthing wrong,
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Speaker 2 (16:09):
New it's a trap. What do I mean? I think
Trump's set a trap for him with the Fauci, the Milly,
the Chaney pardons. You remember that whole that whole committee,
the January sixth community got they all got partner. I
whanted these people get partner if they didn't do anything wrong.
(16:33):
Trump said, all the pardons signed with auto pins, the
ones that were are going to be null and void.
Now why do I say this is a trap? And
I'll tell you why this is? This is it, folks,
this is people talk about the three D chests. This
is it. So Democrats can't help themselves and the media.
But I repeat myself, but here's the deal. You're going
to see the law suits start rolling in. Now this
(16:56):
you might say, this is this? This of course it Judges,
they're gonna constantly law fare. They always try to throw
a kink in the plans, et cetera. No, this is
exactly what Trump wants. What what do you mean, why
why could he possibly want to get sued? Trump wants
to get sued because now they'll have to defend them all.
(17:21):
All of this information will come out in the lawsuits.
All of it will come out in the fight about Biden.
Who he was, how he was, how the pardons got done,
who contributed for what, how it worked inside the inner workings,
and all of that's just going to support his this
(17:41):
theory that Biden really wasn't it was. It's forty five
dash forty seven. We may not have even had a
forty six president during that time. I'm telling you this
is expert level trolling, and it is strategicy. As w
(18:02):
used to say, I don't you don't think we've ever
seen before anyway, That's one of the ways to look
at these things. We got more in fact coming up,
we'll talk with some of the folks that's running for Senate.
Another candidate will join us in just moments nine thirty
five at the well. At the other side of the
(18:25):
news Bottom Hour will bring you up the headlines, the
latest on that exit or that entrance ramp one thirty
one and holy cow, uh some of the news you
probably don't even want to hear. We're gonna get your
coming up in a second. Oh, hang in there with us, folks.
(18:46):
You know, I've got some goodness to that the bad
news about that that entrance on the that ramp there
being closed till April thirtieth. It's not that's something that
you want to you want to hear. But I do
have good news. I think help put a nice camp
on the shows. They give you some warm and fuzzies today.
We'll get to that coming up in just moments. Want
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going to get the pictures done for Christmas and Santa,
you know feeding. I think we got some reindeer feeding
or something like that we're gonna do this year, go
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them I sent you. Uh. The Senate race is really
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heating up here in Missing The primary is Republicans try
and grab hold thats you know, we're just talking about this.
Democrats in Tennessee, they they they really they lost a
race that maybe could have been closer at least the
way things look last night. But they put and they've
been doing a lot of this lately, put a very
(20:57):
radical candidate up. All three of the folks running for
Senate here as Democrats on the other side of the aisle,
very radical as well as it appears, so as as
it stands for us, put somebody up who's the truth, logic,
common sense and got to excite people here in Michigan.
Is it really seems to be the key? She says,
(21:18):
She's the one for the job. Genevieve Peter Scott joins
us right now, and we appreciate you taking the time
to be here with us today.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Thanks so much, Justin, it's great to see you again.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Absolutely, you too. So I got to ask, and I
do everyone, what you know, what was it that that
initially that really urged you, that you said, look, this
is a this is a big issue. We've had Democrats
in these seats for far too long, and I got
to get involved.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Yeah. So I've been in this fight for four decades
and just fighting for America, our liberties, our freedoms. And
when President Trump became president in twenty sixteen, I felt
like we had another chance at a Maria, getting back
to our founding fathers, getting back to a constitutional republic.
(22:05):
And when he got elected again in twenty twenty, and
that whole fiasco. We had to sit on our hands.
There was so much disaster that was happening in the
White House. And then when he got re elected in
twenty twenty four, and again, you know, the people that
are not supporting America or America first were totally demonizing
(22:27):
our president and everything that he was doing that we
all voted for. I said, you know what I have been,
you know, on the front lines of this fight. I've
been behind the scenes of this fight, and now I
need to join him in this fight.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, that's that's a very good point. We need somebody
who's going to work with the president. We sending people
to Washington. We see how twenty six is going to
be so important. Twenty four was important to get him there.
Twenty six is going to be important to not only
keep him there, but make sure that his agenda and
have the full chat says, we have a little bit
(23:01):
of time to get things through in this term here
and that agenda, and they're making massive, massive changes and
lots of lots of really great things are happening so far.
But boy, again, you got to make sure that agenda
stays on track. That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Well, that's exactly right. And it's so important, you know,
because what the Senate can do, what Congress can do,
is actually start codifying more of these executive orders. So
what's happening right now is that our president is doing
everything that we voted for. He's literally taking on every
(23:37):
big institution, he's taking on every bit of the alphabet agencies.
He's really exposing what has not been done for so
many years. And these executive orders, what we definitely want
your listeners to realize is they're only effective for the
federal government and federal agencies. And what Congress, the Senate,
(23:58):
and the House of Representative must do is codify these
because the next person is God forbid, it's not someone
that you know supports America first can completely eliminate and
rescind all of his executive orders, which is thank goodness,
what President Trump is doing right now to rescind all
of President Biden's orders. They can do the same for his.
(24:22):
So we've got to get in there. And as the
next United States Senator, I am a fighter with grit
and heart from Detroit born and raised, and I will
make sure that I work with all people to make
sure that these executive orders that are so critical to
moving America first and forward. Are codified and created into law,
(24:46):
and that's the job of these representatives, House of Representatives, Senators,
and they're basically sitting back right now. You know, they
codify twenty eight of his executive our president executive orders
with the big beautiful bill, and that's just the beginning.
He has now over two hundred and fifty executive orders
(25:08):
that need to be codified, and we need to prioritize them.
We need to have a legislative priority, and we need
to sit down, and we need to solve problems, and
we need to work and represent the people of Michigan.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I couldn't agree more. Genevieve. Peter Scott is here with
this right now. Gpsfor Senate dot com, the website running
for senator in Michigan. Is a Republican and I've got
to ask you. You very much align with and support
President Trump, but you don't have his endorsement.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I imagine that this number of reasons for this, but
a lot of it is probably because Mike Rodgers announced
early and secured that endorsement early, and this was before
that you'd probably even announced. But walk us through how
that challenge plays out and how you plan to address it.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Yeah, thank you. So endorsements in Michigan really don't mean
a whole lot. We're very independent thinkers. We want to
make sure that the people that are elected are actually
people light and salt of the earth for Michigan Anders,
not someone that was handpicked. And although our president has
(26:17):
every right to put his endorsement as early as he did,
we believe, and I'm a firm believer, that the people,
the amazing people in Michigan want to see who's actually
running and who's going to actually serve them best. And
unfortunately for President Trump, he's one and eleven with his
(26:38):
endorsements and in all reality, and this is just the fact.
You know, my you know, the opponent that ran last time,
he had Trump's endorsement and he was on the ticket
with Trump and he's still lost.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Genevieve Peter Scott GPS First Senate dot com is the website.
So what are you hearing from people? I know you're
out there talking to folks, You're out there doing all
the you know, all the events and meeting people. What
are you hearing are the biggest stories for folks right now?
The things that are really the most important to people.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Well, I think again, you know, they're you know, we
we don't want to spend you know, eight dollars for eggs.
We don't want to decide between buying meat or paying
our electric bill. We want our young people to be
able to have home ownership. We want to be able
to build businesses and not have you know, stranglehold of regulations.
(27:38):
We want our families respected. We want to be able
to choose to raise our families as we choose, not
by any mandates. These are the things that people are
concerned about. They don't, you know, they're they're frustrated with
all of this spending, all of this waste, broad and abuse,
the fact that we have the incredible debt. You know,
(28:00):
these are things that affect everyday Americans. Every day people
in this great state of Michigan. They have to they
have to count on the people that are representing them,
and unfortunately they're losing trust. And that's a problem. You know,
we cannot allow people that we elect to go up
(28:20):
to Washington and not serve the people. That is what
our founding fathers created our constitution for is not to
give us our rights, but protect our rights and That's
what I plan on doing when I go up to Washington.
Is the next United States Senator from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I got to ask you, Genev. Peter Scottwold is right
now running for Senate here in Michigan. One of the
questions that you might have to address here as a
Senator from Michigan would be this filibuster. There's been a
lot to talk about this lately, to get rid of
it in order to this role, in order to be
able to push things through quickly, as you just mentioned,
(28:56):
to codify some of those things in the president's agenda.
Where do you stand on that?
Speaker 9 (29:03):
I think that the filibuster comes and goes, as we
all know, it's something that was created by, obviously the legislature,
and I think that the president has so many things
so obviously, as you know, justin the process is so arduous,
and we also have to look at that. You know
that to even get a bill passed, there's so many
(29:24):
levers and layers that the legislature has to go through,
and right now, there's so many things that have to
be backtracked, there's so many things that have to be
put in place, and now that we have a president
with the kind of spine and the kind of iron
spine that he has, and the ability to take on
the powerful and take on the deep state and take
(29:45):
on people that just are waiting for the next president
to come in. We actually need to do something about that.
So that's something that I absolutely will look at and
want to examine. There's pros and cons obviously for the filibuster. Obviously,
you know, a you vote makes it a little bit
more ironclad to make sure everyone's on board. But in
this day and age and what we have to deal
(30:06):
with right now, justin it looks more likely that killing
the filibuster is the answer for right now.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, I appreciate the candidateness on that. Yeah, I think
you're right. I mean I've looked at this as well,
and you know they're going to do it. Democrats get controlled,
they're going to do it, so we might as well
take a look at it as well. Gennevie's Peter Scott
and look, folks want to find out probably more about you,
who you are, and maybe even where they can meet
you and ask you questions in person, shake your hand.
(30:37):
What's the best way for them to do that. I
know you've got the great website, gpsfor Senate dot Com
events and the like, and maybe just to stay in touch.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Yeah. Absolutely, we would love for them to reach out
so that we can get them on our mailing list.
We can let them know all of our events and
things that we're what we're doing, we're speaking, We've been
all over the state. We continue to go all out
over the state. We love meeting you, we love being
you know where you're at to see exactly what's on
your mind. And that's how representative government works. You know,
(31:08):
I can't represent people in a state if I don't
meet them and talk to them and see what their
concerns are. And that's exactly what I want to do.
I am guided by truth, I'm driven to serve, and
I am absolutely answerable to each and every one of
the people of this great state.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Genevieve Peter Scott, always a pleasure. Thank you for taking
the time to speak to the folks here in Michigan.
Very very good. We want to take you back. We'll
have you back when you get a chance to come
back and talk about these issues. But we really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, love.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
It, Thanks so much. Justin God bless you you too.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
All right, folks, we're rolling right. I had, by the
way I mentioned, I got good news. We've had some
bad news previously with that closure of the REMP ninety
sixty one thirty one there closure until April thirtieth because
of that semi accident yesterday. Well, the latest on traffic
for you coming up as well, but I wanted to
(32:12):
make sure we hit this story because this is goodness.
Put you right in your fields when we come back.
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
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Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Wednesday, December third.
I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News original story.
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, who recently moved
to Lansing, is receiving significant support in her Democrat bid
to unseat Republican Congressman Tom Barrett. Filing show the majority
of money coming in is from other states, including Utah.
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Bing serving as President Biden's ambassador to Ukraine from twenty
twenty two, to April of twenty twenty five and other
news borders are. Tom Homan says he'll be sending ICE
agents to Minneapolis, where there's a huge scandal unfolding involving
Somali's and involves a ton of COVID related money that
was apparently funneled back to a terrorist group in Somalia.
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President Trump says those here illegally must be deported.
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Speaker 2 (33:42):
Full speed ahead, here we go. I uh, I got
to tell the fastest starred radio just flies by each
and every day, never enough time to get to all.
But we've got more coming up, and I do have
some good news before we get out of here. The
(34:03):
After Show is on the way. We'll make sure we
fill you in on the latest this whole affordability issue.
Scott Adams has some interesting points about what Trump's doing
with that affordability issue, and you got to hear this.
We'll get into that and more in minutes, but first,
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you this story. This is an incredible story about it.
I don't I don't know if you saw the guy.
This is a veteran eighty eight years old. He's been
There's a splash been made on social media for this guy.
In fact, I sent this off to a friend, uh,
somebody that's got a little pull, a little sway in situations,
(35:51):
and he gave me some background on it, which I
just I couldn't believe something that I that I heard
this guy. He's he works at a myer here in Michigan,
and you know that, I thought, really interesting story the
guy has. You've probably been through this yourself or know
(36:12):
somebody is, but he's been through the ringer in fact,
lost his pension years ago, worked for GM and this
guy interviews him and asks him skinning this.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Thank you? What was your name? Ed? I'm Sam Okay.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
I actually had someone nominate you from this store and.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Said you're very hard working.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Well, I try to be May I ask how old
you are?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I made I'm still working.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yes, I have to.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
What story is heartbreaking? By the way, you have to
keep working.
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Retired from General Mortars in ninety nine twenty told them
at bankrupt and they took.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
My pension away from it. Do you have a wife?
She'd passed away seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Seven years ago.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
She was sick when I lost my pension. So you've
been struggling a bit, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
You said that you lost your pension.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yes, sir, I did. I was in the Army bank
in sixty sixty six, so you're a veteran too.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
Yes, I think that hurt me the most with my
wife was real sick, and they when they took the pension,
they also took the healthcare coverage and all but ten
thousand dollars of my life insurance. So I sold the house,
sold with property I had, and we made it through.
(37:30):
My wife died seven years ago. Test then I've been
trying to re establish myself.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
And you're working here.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
How many days a week?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I worked five days a week, eight hours.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
A day, and you do that because you have.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
To, or yeah, I don't have enough income. What's your dream?
Lives somewhat the life I was hoping for.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
You know, his story is captivated people on social media.
He's eighty eight years old. He's a veteran ed works
at the Mere in Brighton. By the way, he took
that job after being retired for more than a decade
to help pay his bills. And of course you heard
the story about his wife there as well. By the way,
this story come out of the blue, he said, out
(38:10):
of the clear blue. I really truly mean that, he
said about all the sudden attention. The video of him
working at the job has been viewed nearly four million
times on TikTok, just one of the places, and all
over in other places as well. And they set up
a GoFundMe for the guy. And from what I understand,
and I'll put this up if you want to, if
(38:31):
you want to contribute to it, but I'll put it
up online. I'm kind of blown away by what they
were able to accomplish. I think the latest I read
was over a million. I think it was over a
million dollars that they had raised for Is that right?
(38:52):
Holy smokes? And I got that, by the way, I
got that information with somebody the last name of Meyer
told me that, which is which. It's just pretty incredible.
So if you'd like to help Ed, I think he's
probably doing all right now, but you can. But I
just wanted to share the story with you because that's
one that'll give you some of those warm and fuzzies,
(39:14):
especially this time of year when we can use him.
The After Show is on the way, folks, The Show
After the Show, that story and the rest in our
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