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May 3, 2025 • 11 mins
  1. Media Coverage of Donald Trump:

    • Ben discusses two major instances where the media allegedly misrepresented Donald Trump. One involved his attire at Pope Francis's funeral, where he wore a blue suit while others wore black. The media implied he was the only one in blue, but the actual picture showed several men, including Joe Biden, in blue suits.
    • The second instance involved speculation about Trump's weight loss, with CNN suggesting there might be a secret or cover-up behind it.
  2. Chuck Schumer's Senate Speech:

    • We criticize a speech by Chuck Schumer, suggesting it could have been written by the Chinese Communist Party. Schumer's speech condemned Trump's tariffs, claiming they were isolating the US and causing economic chaos. The file counters these claims by highlighting positive impacts of the tariffs on American manufacturing.
  3. Department of Justice Findings:

    • Ben reveals findings by DOJ staffers about waste, fraud, and abuse within the Institute of Peace. It mentions money being spent on private jets and contracts with former Taliban members. Additionally, it discusses the deletion of accounting records and misuse of funds intended for COVID relief.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I see if it's your all time favorite president, and
I just want to congratulate you on your new and
probably a handstroll. I just think you're a fantastic guy.
You've always treated me fairly. Thank you for all of
your service, because truly it was service. Just take care
of yourself. Say hello to your family, especially your wife.
I know she's going to be feeling better really soon.

(00:21):
And you're a special guy. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Steve.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
these are some of the stories that you may have
missed that we talked about this week on the forty
seven Morning Update. First up, the media goes all in
on two big conspiracies against Donald Trump. One that he
wore a blue suit to the Vatican, breaking protocol even

(00:48):
though Joe Biden wore the same color suit. And they're
also saying that there could be some mystery illness for
the president since he's lost weight and gotten in better shape.
Up next, shocking speech from the floor of the Senate
by Chuck Schumer, which basically could have been written by
the Chinese Communist Party on tariffs. I'll have that for

(01:09):
you in just a second. And finally, Elon Musk and
his dog's team have been hard at work day after
day after day, and now the staff is revealing that
the Institute of Peace was not peaceful at all, in
fact giving six figure contracts to former members of the Taliban.
That story as well. It's the forty seven morning update,

(01:31):
and it starts right now.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Story number one.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
If you were watching the media, they told you two
massive lies about Donald Trump in the last forty eight hours.
One of them involved the Vatican asking Pope Francis funeral
attendees to wear all black, and the hit on the
President was he wore a blue suit. They then posted
a picture showing Donald Trump in the blue suit only

(01:55):
with people around him wearing black, implying that he was
the only one to win a blue suit. Well, if
you look at the actual picture of a larger group
of individuals at the funeral, it is very clear that
there were quite a few men wearing blue suits, including
Joe Biden. But that didn't stop CNN from telling the

(02:17):
big lie and plying that Donald Trump did something terrible
by wearing a blue suit. But that wasn't the only
lie they were talking about as well. There was another
one that there's some big conspiracy over Donald Trump getting
in better shape. Yes, Donald Trump is lost weight. In fact,
they released this information from the White House saying he

(02:38):
was in better shape than he was a year ago.
But leave it to CNN to imply that there's some deep,
dark secret to Trump's weight loss or some massive cover up,
and that's why you don't know what's really going on.
They combined the two stories into one. This is real
and it actually played on CNN.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Was so fascinated by the whole sort of playing out
of the Pope's funeral. I guess right, as opposed to
memorial Donald Trump in a blue suit when we know
he has a black suit because he was wearing a
black suit the last time he met the Pope, so
why wasn't he wearing it this time? Lots of suspicion
because he's lost a lot of weight. Who knows how

(03:21):
he's lost weight. We know that Robert Kennedy Junior, his
health minister, doesn't approve of people taking a zempic because
he thinks it shows a lack of moral power. So
who knows how Trumps lost weight, but I found the
suit color very interesting, and for someone like me, who
is a boss is a huge believer in getting people
together as opposed to doing things remotely, I think you

(03:43):
see the power of bringing world leaders together to have
impromptu meetings. Whether or not Macarol refused his handshake in
the initial meeting, during the peace they actually shook hands,
which felt like a step forward.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Isn't it amazing just how much the media will lie
to try to hurt President Donald Trump, And when they
do lie, we will make sure that you hear it.
And that's exactly why we do this show and make
sure that you share it so other people know that
this is nothing more than a hit job on the
President of the United States of America trying to act
like he did some horrible thing by wearing the same

(04:17):
color suit as Joe Biden, or the fact that somehow
something nefarious is going on with his health because he's
actually gotten healthier and lost weight.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Now, story number two.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
It was a speech from the floor of the Senate
by the Senate leadership of the Democratic Party, Chuck Schumer,
and it was a speech that very well could have
been written by the Chinese Communist Party If you want
to know just how much they hate American workers and
they hate the idea of America standing firm or standing
up to China, well just listen to Chuck Schumer's own words.

(04:52):
And I'm not kidding when I say this. You gotta
wonder did the speech come directly from the CCP.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
One thing is clear, Donald trump tariffs have been a
total failure. Instead of isolating China, Donald Trump's tariffs are
isolating US. Instead of spurring American manufacturing, Trump's tariffs are
raising costs and driving US into recession. There's no strategy
with Trump's tariffs, only chaos. One day Donald Trump says

(05:20):
yes to tariffs, the next day no to tariffs. One day,
tariff's on this country, the next day tariff's on that country.
Even Donald Trump's own policy advisors are struggling to explain
his flip flopping. The only thing Donald Trump's tariffs have
succeeded in is raising the odds of recession and sending

(05:42):
markets into his tailspin.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
If you want to file that speech under Chinese propaganda,
it'd be a perfect place to put it. And there
was also many things that were just flat out lies.
For example, he said it was destroying manufacturing these tariffs
in America. Well, that's actually not true. US manufacturers are
now reporting major benefits from the tariffs. Whirlpool, for instance,

(06:06):
has indicated that the new trade policies helped level the
playing field by reducing foreign competitors' cost advantages and bolstering
domestic production. New Corp, a leading still producer, also saying
now they have strong demand and increase order backlogs, attributing
this to reduce reliance on imported steel. The tariffs have

(06:27):
prompted companies to consider reshoring production, including Apple, for example,
is expected to exceed earnings projections, partly due to increased
consumer demand ahead of potential tariffs and its effort to
shift production from China to India and other countries. Yes,
the President is making progress on tariff negotiations, as the

(06:49):
administration says, be patient. Many countries have lined up to
talk with the White House and are currently in negotiations.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
Wine.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
The White House statement said very clearly, tariffs are aiming
to rebuild the economy, restore national and economic security, and
make sure that American workers have great paying manufacturing jobs. Yes,
all of this indicates that there are major outcomes that
could come in the days and weeks ahead that will

(07:20):
be good for America. So why did the man in
charge of the Democratic Party put a propaganda speech out
there from the four of the Senate. Well, you got
to look at maybe just how close the Democratic Party
really is to the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
And lastly, story number three, there is one story.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
That maybe hasn't been getting that many headlines lately, and
that is the fact that DOGE is still finding waste, fraud,
and abuse. It's certainly a story that the media doesn't
want you to know about, and that's exactly why Elon
Muss brought many of his staffers together to tell what
they are now finding. They did this with Jesse Waters
on Fox News Channel. Now, the DOGE staffers revealed something

(08:02):
shocking that the Institute of Peace is not actually that peaceful.
In fact, some of their money was going to members
of the Taliban.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
Take a listen to this, Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
So it was by far the least peaceful agency that
we've worked with. Ironically, of course, Additionally, we found that
they were spending money on things like private jets, and
they even had a one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
contract with a former member of the Taliban.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
This is real.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
We don't encounter that in most agencies.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
What was the money going to the Taliban for? So
it was a contractor.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
They received one hundred and thirty thousand dollars for generic services.
And to Elon's point, there was not actually a clear
description of what the contractor services were for. But was
it for opium unclear?

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Or weapons?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (08:48):
Or nothing for a broad or yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
And you actually have to ask the question how did
we get here? Like when the country was founded, there
were only four agencies. Today there are over four hundred,
so there's been a one hundred uc increase. And then
i'm of agencies since the founding of the nation. And
thanks to President Trump, he's now signed two executive orders
to start to reduce the number of agencies in the government,
and the institute Apiece was one of them, which is
why our team went into try and understand what was
going on, and that's when we found all the craziness,

(09:12):
like the weapons and their armory. We found the payments
to the Taliban.

Speaker 7 (09:18):
Oh yeah, idea of right.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
So just a few hours after we got into their headquarters,
we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over
a terabyte of accounting records from several leaders, So you'd
have to ask the question, well, why would.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Somebody do that?

Speaker 2 (09:30):
If the Doch team fortunately was able to recover that
data with the help of a few great employees at
the Institute a piece. And I think the most troubling
thing was they received fifty five million dollars a year
from Congress, and any money that went unspent, instead of
returning that to Congress, they would sweep it into a
private bank account which had no Congressional oversight, and that's
what they would use to fund things like events at
their headquarters and the private jets. And so I think

(09:51):
it's a great example because most Americans don't know what's
going on at a lot of these smaller agencies, and
this is a I think the most extreme case of
some of the a wasteful spend that we're finding.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
So the agencies are hiding money from you, they're sending
it to the Taliban.

Speaker 7 (10:05):
They have loaded weapons in the department.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Buildings at the Institute of Peace.

Speaker 8 (10:10):
At the Institute of Peace, that's right, So this is
a cover up.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
When you guys roll in if this wanted to cover
up the delete a vast amount of financial information. That's
really a definition of a cover up. Isn't that illegal
to delete evidence? Yes, shred documents.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's certainly illegal to delete accounting records that the Congress
would certainly want to know where the congressionally appropriated funds
are going from taxpayers.

Speaker 8 (10:35):
When you catch them going Hillary style on their computers,
do you refer this to the Department of Justice?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
In this case, we did refer the evidence in the
accounting example to the FBI and DJ We're proud to
do that.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
So yes we did.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Not only did they say it was a cover up,
but it may have actually been criminal, and that is
exactly why they have references to the Department of Justice.
So if you think that dough and still digging, don't
worry they are in fact. The Doge team also says
there was a four billion dollar COVID fund in the
Department of Education that had no receipts required, so government

(11:12):
employees could draw down on it and use the money
for parties and to rent out venues like Caesar's Palace.
Another example of why so many are fighting against Donald
Trump in the deep state and doing everything they can
to get rid of their receipts, and thank goodness, Elon
Muskin Doge keeps fighting them.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
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