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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't touch that, Dow or Dare. Change the channel because
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The Hard Truth with John Deeton on ihearts WRKO six
eighty am. Good evening, everybody. I hope you had a
good week. I'm not going to claim that I had
a great week. Unfortunately I buried and said goodbye to
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my younger sister, Norma. I just want to say that
God bless you, Norma rest in peace. And to everyone
out there, just remember if we don't have our health,
we don't have anything.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And so.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
My sister, at fifty three years old, died of congestive
heart failure. It makes you wake up, you know, when
you get my age at fifty eight years old, you
start having family members die or friends pass away, and
it's just a realization of our very very short time
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on this planet.
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You can contact me at the Deeton Law Firm dot
Comdeton Law Firm dot com. All Right, with all of
that in me talking about the things to help pay
the bills, let's talk about what's going on. There's never
a slow week when we have President Donald Trump in office.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
One thing, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Very difficult for people to keep up with the man
we got to give him credit. For someone who is
pushing eighty years old, it's very difficult to keep up
with him and keep the pace that he keeps. It's
not a lie apparently that he only sleeps two or three,
maybe four hours a night. But he had a big week,
and I want to talk about that. But before we
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get to some very big successes that I think that
even the Democrats and the people on the far left
that hate Trump, they're going to have to start giving
some kind of admissions, if you will, that some of
the policies are at least not causing the catastrophic, you know,
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emergency the sky is falling kind of news that they
were saying that his tarist would cause, or that his
policies would cause, his foreign policy all of those things
we're going to unpack that. I'm going to start though,
because there is new more news on the Epstein stuff.
And the reason I want to do that, remember last
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week I played that clip where I challenged Senator Elizabeth
Warren when she didn't ask any questions of JP Morgan Chase,
the CEO. And remember JP Morgan Chase one of the
largest banks in the world. I actually think it is
the largest bank in the world. They financed the Epstein
child sex trafficking operation for decades, and their executives participated
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with bad stuff on the island. I went over all
that stuff, and I challenged Elizabeth Warren and said, you know,
JP Morgan Chase settled for two hundred and ninety million
dollars to Epstein victims. They had to pay seventy five
million to the US Virgin Islands. And when he was
available for questioning, how come you didn't ask him a
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single question about all that stuff? Why not add your
you oversee banks, you're on the banking committee in the Senate.
Why was this bank financing the child sex operation? And
I gotta tell you it's because Elizabeth Warren's husband is
on the logs, Elizabeth Warren's friends, Bill Clinton on the island,
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Bill Gates on the island, big donors people that she knows.
I set it to her face on the stage. If
you remember, and I said last week that the Epstein
situation is not gonna go away. I said that President
Donald Trump misjudged the Epstein issue. He's usually on point
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with his base, with the people who support him, but
when he was dismissive of it and said, forget about
it when you have all these inconsistencies, Dan Bongino, Cash Battel,
Pam Bondie, Donald Trump Junior, all of these people out
there saying, you know, we got a leashed the Epstein files.
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We got to unleash the Epstein files. All those people
saying he didn't commit suicide, and then all of a
sudden they get in office and say, yep, nothing to
look here. He committed suicide, no doubt. Here's a video tape.
Oh by the way, the video tape has two minutes missing,
completely edited from the government. We're not gonna give you that,
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but we're gonna show you, you know, a video of
nothing and tell you that we just proved that he
killed himself. It's nonsense. And I said, it's not gonna
go away. And it's not going away. Well, the Deputy
Attorney General, not Pam Bondy, but the the second person
under Pam Bondy at the Department of Justice. This guy
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has spent two full days with Maxwell. You know, remember
you're saying Maxwell is the girlfriend and you know, sort
of the pimp if you will. And a female version
of getting girls to Epstein Island for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse,
and she's been serving twenty year conviction because the government
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prosecuted her, and she got twenty years because she is
guilty as sin for breaks basically trafficking these young girls
to Jeffrey Epstein Island to be raped, to be abused.
But there's something that always stood out, which is why
wasn't anyone else prosecuted? So, yes, Epstein got arrested, he
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got a sweetheart deal.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No one knows why.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Some people said he was intelligence. Remember the federal prosecutor
who prosecuted Epstein gave him that sweetheart deal, that get
out of jail free card basically, and he was told
that he was told by higher ups the Department Justice
that Jeffrey Epstein was in fact belonged to intelligence agencies.
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Now whether that's Mossad from Israel or the CIA or
the FBI, I don't know, but that's what the guy said. Okay,
But then he gets arrested again, and you got to
remember there is a non prosecution agreement, non prosecution agreement.
His lawyers were going to invoke that non prosecution agreement
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saying that the government violated when they arrested him a
second time. Jeffrey Epstein thought he was getting out of jail.
And think about that, a narcissist like him who gets
out of jail the first time and then enters a
non prosecution agreement with the United States government and then
he gets arrested a second time, and he's sitting in
jail and his lawyer tells him, Yeah, I think you're
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gonna get out on bail in the next week. And
I think we got a really good chance, Jeffrey, that
this non prosecution agreement, they're gonna have to honor it.
I'm going to get these charges to from you, Jeffrey.
That's what his lawyer was saying to him. Now, people
want you to believe that, after hearing from his lawyer,
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that he's probably getting out on bill and that there's
a really good chance the whole case is going away
like the first one did, because of this non prosecution
agreement that Jeffrey Epstein then that night went into his
cell and he hung himself.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And when he hung.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Himself with a sheet over a bedpost that's like four
feet high, maybe five feet high, he fractured the bone
in his neck that normally doesn't get fractured when you
hang yourself from a sheet. That bone, hyoid bone in
your neck that floats right where Adam's apple is above
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the voice box. You know, it floats, So like a
sheet goes near, it's just gonna float and move away
from the sheet. That bone gets fractured a lot and
people get manually strangled, or there's a ligature involved. By ligature,
I mean a rope, I mean an extension cord, a
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broom handle, something very forceful that is applied to the
neck and fractures that bone.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And so then, of course his brother said he didn't
think he killed himself. Maxwell says she didn't think he
killed himself. But the government wants us to believe that
he killed himself and gave us that four minute video
that has two minutes missing proving nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay, And so look, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You can write into John at Hartruthshow dot com and
let me know what you think. When we come back
from the break, we're gonna get into this great week
that President Trump had and I'll finish this Epstein stuff.
You are listening to The Hard Truth with John Deaton
on Iheart's WRK.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, welcome back to the show. You listen to
the hard truth.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I am John Deaton and this is WRKO six eighty
am iHeart listen, guys. We were talking about Epstein just
before the break and the thing that we know, in
addition to all the unanswered questions surrounding his death and
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how he made his money, he went from a teacher
to a billionaire owning an island, right, so many unanswered questions.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Did he belong to intelligence? All that?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But let's go back up to Maxwell's prosecution for a minute.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
How come no one was prosecuted? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We know that people girls were trafficking it to that
island and to his Manhattan apartment, but not one single
person other than Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend. And so
we've heard about this list, and I've said to you
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that that doesn't mean that there's a black book, right
that has every name in it. Now, I would assume
that Maxwell would have something like that because she has
to have contacts, rollerdex whatever you want to be. The
list could be on the phone, could be your iPhone, whatever.
But there are other people who participated. We know that
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in the civil lawsuit by the victims' names came up.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Leon Black was.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
The co founder of Apollo Group, a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He was involved. Jeff Stately, who vice president of JP
Morgan Chase, he was involved.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's the guy who emailed Epstein about snow White experience
and he wanted Bell from Beauty and the Beast the
next time he went to the island.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay, none of these people have been prosecuted. Well, the Deputy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Attorney General in the United State Dates spent two full
days and the reports are that Maxwell gave him a
hundred names of people you know, basically call it the
client list, and there's going to be more information being
released at a later time. There's also talks about for
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her cooperation, will President Trump pardon her, not necessarily pardon her,
will he commute her sentence. Remember, the president can do
a full pardon and your conviction is gone forever. Or
the president can commute your sentence. In other words, he
could say, listen, you've already been in prison for five years,
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time served is enough, and then you can be released.
If it's federal charges, state charges. President can't do that,
the governor of each state can.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So that's where we are with the Epstein situation.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I will keep track with it. Will report it. We're
not going to let it go.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Because Americans are tired of a two tier justice system.
We're tired of the haves and the super wealthy having
one system of justice and the rest of us have
another system of justice. And we're tired of politicians just
sweeping everything under the rug to protect the rich and
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the powerful.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We're sick of it.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Second, these girls who were victimized deserve justice. They deserve
someone fighting for him, and so we're going to continue
to fight for him. All right now, I want to
play you something here and this is was on CNBC
today CB or actually on Friday, but let me play
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it and check it out.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
The left and people that don't like the president and
don't want things to work, and you know, like Center
Elizabeth Warre will come out and say.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Inflation's out of control in the economy is getting killed
by what's happening by these tariffs, this three percent with
the market at new highs, and really we haven't seen inflation,
you know, go up back to.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Three for maybe it will this week, maybe we'll see it.
But none of these things, none of these horrible things
have happened. But they still talk like it's happening.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Well, the important there's an important lesson there. Don't pick
a congressman to be your money manager.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
At That's what I would say.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
But in the end, Congress has their own reasons to
point out certain things. And the Democrats, of course, as
you pointed out, really don't want to see the current
administration have some success. But there's no doubt that this
is some success. We're seeing more horse power, we're seeing
better equities, inflation, inflation really hasn't changed much in the last.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Year or so, all right, so there's some good things happening.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That was Joe Kerr on CNBC talking about how people
like Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Continue to say.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That the sky is falling, that America is crumbling, the
economy is crumbling, even though we just got a business
report that gross domestic product basically is at three percent,
it was significantly higher.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In addition to that.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We had a surplus from tarifs and the tears. Haven't
remember there was that fear that the tariffs were going
to destroy the economy when Trump announced that he was
putting all these tariffs unilaterally on these countries, and then
the market crashed and it was down two thousand points
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a day for a while, and then Trump said, well,
I'm going to suspend it, but we're going to work
on settlement deals.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Whether I approve or you approve of President Trump's methodology,
this is real data that we're talking about right now.
We're not talking about John Deaton's opinion. We're not talking
about Elizabeth Warren's opinion. We're talking about real data of
three percent GDP inflation is slightly ticked down, and that's
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great news for the economy.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
But you've got these people like Senator Warren.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Ed Markey mora Heally, they just were rooting against America. Listen, people,
I didn't vote for President Trump. Many of you know that.
Many of you hold it against me, and I understand
that many of you agree with me. But I will
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never root against my country. And although I didn't support
President Trump, I certainly didn't support commonly, you know that
I'm still going to root for my country, and I'm
going to root for the success of my president. I
want the president to be successful. If the President's successful,
America could be successful. And so I just don't get
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how these politicians like Warren and Markey They just won't
admit if there's anything good happening. You know, it's okay
to admit that it's good that the southern border is down.
Illegal crossings are.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Down ninety three percent, ninety three percent, that's good. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Even if you're a Democrat, you should be able to say,
you know, that's a good thing. It's a good thing
that we don't have continued, out of control, unsustainable illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We got twelve million illegals that came through the border
under the Biden administration in three and a half years.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
When I went to the border, when I ran for citing,
I was told that was twelve million people in three and.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
A half years. Well, you can't have.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Four million people illegals crossing the border every year. It's unsustainable.
So it's okay if you're a Democrat, if you're a liberal,
if you're a progressive, it's okay to say, you know what,
I don't agree with President Trump snatching people out of
the street.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You can say that. You can say that, but it
is good that our border is secured.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And it just kills me that politicians like Warren and
marketing them, they just can't bring themselves to admit anything
that is decent. So now I want to play something else.
This is Abby Philip from seeingn Okay and this is
what was predicted, you know, four months ago and all that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So check this out.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Palpable panic on Wall Street, red numbers and worries about
something else that starts with an R recession.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
What we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back
to America. That's a big thing.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
And there are always periods of it takes a little time.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It takes a little time.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
He's talking about that period of transition is what he
What he's talking about is his firm belief that tariffs
are going to be the main way that the United
States brings in revenue, never mind what they do to
the prices that people actually pay when they purchase goods
in a global economy. I mean, Scott, Virtually no one
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who understands economics believes that tariff is tariffs are a
good idea, including all those people that we played in
the clip to get into this conversation, most of whom
side with Trump. They believe in Trump, they're supporters of his.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Yeah, he firmly believes in it. It's his theory. And
guess what he ran on it, and he got elected
on it. And for his theory to take root, it
will take some period of time, and he will he
will rise and fall on this theory.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Comfortable with Trump rolling the dice on the United States's
economy based on his hunch that we should go back
to you know, the McKinley.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Are tariffs, Mike comfortable that the person who was duly
elected president of the United States be allowed to govern
in the way that he said he would in order
to win the election.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, okay, so, and that was Abby Phillip and
of course the infamous Scott Jennings on CNN, And of
course that was four months ago where Abby and the
people on the left CNN and MSNBC were saying that
the sky's falling, that the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Are going to destroy America.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And I gotta tell you, I believe in terroriffs if
they're strategic. I've said that from the beginning. If China
is stealing our intellectual property and we want to slap
them on some tariffs on them to stop that, or
if China is subsidizing there let's say they're electric car vehicles,
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making a Chinese car so much more cheaper, than a
test or a.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
General Motors electric car.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Not because the Chinese Automi manufacturer is doing a better job,
but because the Chinese government is subsidizing it just to
undercut American manufacturers. Then, of course, in situations like that,
I say slap them with a strategic tariff as well.
I was someone I didn't overtly criticize President Trump's tariff plan,
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but I was reserved about it. And you know, it's
still a little early, but it has not had the
catastrophic event that everybody was calling for, and it seems
to be winning. And we're going to talk about those
tariffs when we come back. Listen, you're listening to the
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You could reach the show
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at John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard
Truthshow dot com. Come back after the break. All right, everybody,
welcome back to the show. You listen to the Hard Truth.
I'm John Deaton.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I was gonna give you the address again.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard
Truthshow dot com. Please give me your comments, give me
your criticisms. Come on the show. Let's have a real conversation. Okay,
Now I want to play something else.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
For you here.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And it's about this week that Trump has had something
pretty big took place historic in the last week. And
it's even got the mainstream media reluctantly talking about it.
All right, check it out.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
The early reviews are in on the new trade deal
announced with the European Union. The Financial Time says the
deal marks a victory for Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Is this a fantastic deal then struck by Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Absolutely a victor on behalf of the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
All.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
The bottom line is this is the biggest trade deal
in President Trump's effort to effectively reshape the global trading order.
On this deal the European Union, this is a big
win for.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
The bigger picture is that Trump is still very much
pursuing his longer term goal of achieving what he seems
to be fanus for America.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
It's a triumph of a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Certainly the President got to take a victory lap. I
think it's I think it ends up being good for
the European Union.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
It's a blow against the conventional wisdom.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's a blow against conventional wisdom what everybody's talking about.
Just so you know, those channels that was SEEINGBC, that
was MSNBC. Look, that was CNBC, that was MSNBC, that
was CNN, that was mainstream media reluctantly saying this deal
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that President Trump just struck is a great deal. It's fantastic.
I mean, it's going to be very difficult to come
up with some any kind of bad, negative way to
approach it. But I'm sure that Senator Elizabeth Warren or
Senator Ed Martin or Maura Healey or Michelle Woo or
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I'm sure these politicians who just can't give any credit
to anyone unless it fits their far left agenda narrative,
I'm sure they could come up with some criticism. But basically,
this is what happened, and that is President Trump just
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went over to the EU, the European Union, and he
struck a deal.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And this is the deal.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I just want to give you some highlights. Okay, the
European Union has agreed to purchase seven hundred and fifty
billion dollars worth of our American energy. Okay, six seven
hundred and fifty billion of American energy. In addition to that,
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they have agreed to invest another six hundred billion dollars
into America. So you have seven hundred and fifty billion.
You're going to buy our energy. You know, we're talking
about our natural gas. We're talking about oil. And in addition,
at seven hund fifty billion, you're going to invest six
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hundred billion into American investments, American manufacturing or whatever you Okay,
ladies and gentlemen. That is obviously we're talking about one
point four to one point five trillion dollars, talking about
a lot of money. Talk him a lot of investments.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Now, on addition to that, there is a fifteen percent
tariff on.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
EU products and that's.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It, and there'll be a fifteen percent tariff for American
and they can't raise it. Basically, that imbalance that existed
is gone. And what we did to get the one
point four or five trillion dollars in investments was that
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we allowed the EU to buy are a military equipment,
American made military equipment, military munitions, missiles, rockets, protective gear, technology, drones.
Whatever they want to buy from American military contractors, they
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can buy. But the key word there, ladies and gentlemen, is.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
The word buy.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
President Trump didn't say, well, if you invest all this
money and you keep the tariffs at this level equal
to the United States, we're going to give you, he said, no,
we're going to allow you to spend more money of
yours buying American made military equipment. Now, that is an
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extraordinary accomplishment. And even if you suffer from TDS Trump
derangement syndrome, even if you hate President Trump, you have
to be able to say, you know, that's a pretty
damn good deal for America.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
And so.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Here at the hard truth we're going to call it.
I could see it.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And I'm not going to say I was wrong on
the tariffs yet, because you know, some products have went
up and some American manufacturers have eaten some of the tears.
But you know, it's only been six months. I can
say it's been a very good six months for President
Trump and as far as his successes, and there have
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been lots of good news. The trillions of dollars, you know,
whether it's ge gonna make make their washing machines in
America or whether it's Honda's moving some of their manufacturing
back to America. Look, I'm not suggesting that we're going
to return you back to the sixties for automotive industry
here in America, and that manufacturing is going.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
To be where we lead.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But you have to give credit where credit is doing,
and that's what I'm attempting to do. So very good week,
Very good news on that. Now, let's talk about something
that has been a big controversy this week. And I
got to tell you, I can't believe it. Every time
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I think that the far left can't get more out
of touch with reality and with everyday Americans, they end
up surprising me. And every time I say, okay, they
can't surprise me more they've hit rock bottom with their woes,
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they end up going woker.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Than they did before.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
And what I'm referencing a lot of you know what
I'm talking about, it is this Sydney Sweeney, you know,
gene commercial. American Eagle has got Sidney Sweeney, who is
an American actress in an American model, She's an attractive woman,
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and she's got a new commercials for jeans, blue jeans,
you know, the genes you wear every day, and it
shows her in these commercials. And these commercials are using
a play on words. They're using the word genes as
far as the genes that make up your DNA and
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the genes that you wear as pants and basically Sidney
Sweeney in this commercial says that she has good jeans.
Get it, She's an attractive woman and she has good jeans.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
But she's wearing.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Blue jeans, and it's a very effective commercial. The genes
that she's advertising in the commercial have sold out across America.
She is the best thing that could ever happen to
hear this. I can't believe it's a controversy, but you know,
her following shot up incredibly. Hundreds of thousands of people
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started following her because people on the left said that
that commercial is racist, and that commercial is a Nazi commercial,
that it favors naziism, and it makes your head spin around.
(33:04):
It's just an attractive female wearing a pair of blue
jeans bragging that she likes her genes, and it's a
play on words about the jeens, her blue eyes, and
you know, her skin tone or her teeth. You know,
whatever good that was handed down, it could be your skin.
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You know, some people who have great genetics, genes and
they have the great skin.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Some people don't.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But all of a sudden, people started saying, Oh, what
they're saying is that only white girls have good genes,
and that that is somehow suggesting that women of color
or black women don't have good genes. And as soon
as I heard that nonsense, I started I remember someone
(33:56):
that I think is beautiful is Beyonce. I remember Beyonce
basically having a gene commercial, and I remember thinking as
a man that that was a good commercial because Beyonce
has got good jeans.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
She's beautiful, she looks good in jeans. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
But now because it's a white, blonde haired, blue eyed, attractive,
thin woman, all of a sudden, people want to make
it seem like, oh my god, look it's a slight
on women of color, or it's Nazism because they're suggesting
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that you only have good genes if you have blonde
hair and blue eyes. I guarantee you, I'll bet dimes
to donuts that Sidney Sweeney's natural hair color isn't blonde. Right,
She's an actress, she's a model and that, and she
died it. So it's just nonsense. And that's where we've
gotten in this country. And I think that's very bad
(35:02):
news for the Democrats. And I think it's bad news
because it shows you that they've went so far left,
and they went so far woke that they're losing touch
with regular people. I challenge you, if you haven't seen it,
(35:22):
put in that Sydney Sweny commercial, go to YouTube or wherever,
TikTok YouTube, wherever put it up, listen to it, and
I challenge anyone out there, write me if you disagree.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
There is no way that a normal.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Rational human being would think that this was a Nazi
commercial or think that this was somehow a negative on
women of color. Okay, when we come back, we'll unpack
more at the Hard Truth. All right, welcome back to
the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You are listening to
iHeart WRKO. Remember John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John
(35:57):
at Hard Truthshow dot Com we were talking about the
Sydney Sweeney ad and how nonsense it is.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And listen.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I want everyone to know if you read my book
Food Stamp Warrior, you're going to understand that I've had experience,
and I believe that I understand race in a way
that most middle age. Well I'm getting older than middle aged,
I guess, but I guess I can't say I'm middle aged.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'm fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, I'm not going to live, you know, to one
hundred and fourteen or one hundred and sixteen. So but anyways,
I digress. Listen, I've lived a unique lifestyle. I grew
up in a predominantly black neighborhood. I think it was
ninety two percent black. I was surrounded by people of
(36:49):
color in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I you know, went to high school.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
When I was in school, there was one I was
only one of three white kids in this school.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
For the first eighteen years of my life, I wished
I was black.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I joke about that in the book Food Stamp Warrior,
where I say that, you know, if you exclude rappers,
and you exclude football players and sports stars and actors
and entertainers, that I might be one of the few successful,
white male millionaires living in America who wished for the
(37:27):
first two decades of his life that he was black.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
I was.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Called a wigger, you know white with the in word,
because people said that they I was pretending to be black.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I was growing up in the community I was growing
up with. So yes, I love rap music and I
love hip hop. I also love country because when I
got home from being on the streets in Detroit listening
to rap and hip hop, my mother was listening to country,
Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, all of the greats,
and so I like all kinds of music. But the
(38:06):
point is that I think I have a sensitivity to
race that a lot of people don't have. I understand
the power of racial identity, and I understand the race dynamic,
you know, in ways that a lot of people in
my position, my age, my color, don't understand. And with
(38:33):
that said, I still look at that Sydney commercial and
the only way that you could read into that commercial
that there's something negative about anyone else is if it's
something inside.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
You that you're working with and dealing with, because.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Then two things can be equal. You know, Beyonce can
do a gene commercial and look beautiful, which she did,
and Sidney Sweeney can do a gene commercial and look
beautiful like she did. And I just think this is
a reaction because if we go back, there was this
(39:22):
effort where advertisers wouldn't even want to put women that
were blonde, blue eyed, and thin on commercials. They wanted
to celebrate, you know, heavier women. And that's okay, But
when you go woke to the point that people are
(39:44):
going woke, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Lose touch with reality.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And so you know, if you disagree with me and
you think that that commercial that I'm missing something, then
you reach and I'll bring you on the show and
we'll have an honest discussion about it, because you know,
maybe I am I'm missing something.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I don't think I am.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I think I'm pretty sensitive to these issues, but I
don't see it.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Now, something else that happened this week. Another victory for
President Trump to be honest with you deals with NATAL.
And this is another example. The small countries, the Baltic
states that are on the border of Russia and Belarus, Okay,
(40:28):
Lithuania and other countries. They have come out and told
President Trump that not only are they going to pay
at least two percent of the country's GDP for national
defense according to the targets set by NATAL, but they're
(40:53):
going to do five percent. They went and said, look,
President Trump, we're not going to do two percent. We're
going to do five percent. We're going to do more
than double. Now, you got to remember President Trump at
one point went abroad and he shamed our allies, countries
(41:15):
like Germany. He said, look, since nineteen forty nine, America
has been the pocket book for NATAL. America has been
funding NATAL and disproportionately paying for all of your defense.
(41:36):
And that's going to stop. You're going to have to
pay your fair share. America is not going to continue
to let you skate on your own national defense. And
America is going to just pick up the bill for
you and do it. And so when President Trump said that,
(41:57):
people on the left went nuts. They were like, you're
bashing our allies, and you.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
Humiliated Germany and Trump doesn't believe in NATO, and Trump
said things like he said things like he was reconsidering
America's role.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
In NATO, and people thought he lost his mind.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
And turns out that it was part of negotiation, sort
of like the terrafs where you sound like you're crazy
and you're gonna slap all these arbitrary high tariffs on
countries like Canada, Mexico, and they panic because they're thinking, wow,
(42:43):
this guy might actually do it, and then they come
to the table. So Trump, basically, what I believe, bluffed,
you know, was it a bluff, I don't know, But
he basically said, hey, America is rethinking NATO, and if
you don't pay for your own defense.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
And you got to remember in NATO, and a lot
of people think NATO should be abolished because it doesn't
apply like it did then that was the Code War,
the Soviet Union, blah blah blah. The bottom line is
Trump made them think that he was going to leave NATO,
which would mean that they're on their own. Because remember
(43:26):
with NATO, the most important thing to understand is Article
five of NATO, and Article five basically says an attack
against one member of NATO is an attack against all
members of NATO. It's this collective defense. Therefore, if a
(43:49):
small country gets invaded by Russia and that small country
is a member of NATO, then that small country is
going to say Article five, Article five, an attack against
US is an attack against all of NATAL and is
then going to expect America, Germany, France, Canada and the
(44:13):
whole world that belongs to NATO, all the countries that
are NATAL members, to come to their aid and rescue them,
defend them, all.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Of those things.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
And President Trump said, hey, if you don't pay your share,
then guess what America might leave NATO. Well. President Trump
also said something about Ukraine. More, he said that not
only was it going to end it, but he said that,
you know, he had to rethink it, and so a
(44:44):
lot of people said, oh my god, you're abandoning Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
And then what did he get?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
There is a minerals deal where the reconstruction of Ukraine
that has invaluable minerals, where earth minerals, things of that nature,
were going to to get some of that. And America
is going to benefit because America.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Gave you money.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well, Trump now is sending and he stopped some weapons
to Ukraine, and then he now is sending weapons to Ukraine,
but NATO members are buying it. So America is being
paid for it, and it goes to help Ukraine defend themselves. Well,
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the same concept of these small countries. Now they're going
to pay five percent of GDP. And the reason is
they're worried because Russia went into Ukraine. Now, remember Ukraine
was not a member of NATO. Zelensky was trying to
become a member of NATO so he could invoke that
Article five provision. Now these countries see that Russia is
(45:51):
not coming to the table for peace and they're worried,
and they're worried that Trump might leave NATO. So they're
now paying five percent. They're now paying money to American manufacturers,
military contractors and all those things, and they're more than
(46:13):
doubling their money on defense because they're saying, hey, look,
President Trump, we're helping defend ourselves. So if we get invaded,
we expect America to be there for us.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
And so.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Very interesting, this whole Ukraine thing is a pushback because
a lot of people in the base are disappointed that
President Trump. Actually Pete Hegseth just came out and reaffirmed
that America is strengthening natal So here's an example where
with the left realized at first, oh, he's going to
(46:52):
leave NATO, you fast forward six months and NATO is
sort of getting stronger.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
If you look at the terrorists.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Oh my god, the world's coming down. American economy is
going to crash. Everybody's gonna lose all their for a
one case, we're gonna go bankrupt. And now we have
a serve plus for the first time from tariffs. The
GDP is at three percent, inflation is down, the southern
border is secured, and there's this renewal of American manufacturing. Listen,
(47:25):
there's a long ways to go to the midterms.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
But if this.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Continues, it's gonna be bad news for the Democrats and somebody,
I don't know who it could be, but somebody is
going to have to take on Ed Markey. God, that's
been there for fifty years. Maybe we'll talk about that
next week. This is John Deane listening to the hard truth.
Don't touch that, Dow or Dare. Change the channel because
it is Sunday at seven pm and you're listening to
The Hard Truth with John Deeton on ihearts WRKO six
eighty am. Good evening, everybody. I hope you had a
good week. I'm not going to claim that I had
a great week. Unfortunately I buried and said goodbye to
(00:21):
my younger sister, Norma. I just want to say that
God bless you, Norma rest in peace. And to everyone
out there, just remember if we don't have our health,
we don't have anything.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And so.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
My sister, at fifty three years old, died of congestive
heart failure. It makes you wake up, you know, when
you get my age at fifty eight years old, you
start having family members die or friends pass away, and
it's just a realization of our very very short time
(01:00):
on this planet.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So listen.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
If you want to reach me, remember you can reach
me at John at Hardtruthshow dot com. John at Hard
Truthshow dot com. I sometimes read your comments or your emails.
I did read emails that people sent offering their condolences
for my sister and my loss. I appreciate that more
(01:24):
than you can imagine. Unfortunately, you know, all of us
are going to experience those kinds of losses in our
lives and it's tough. But thank you so much for
the for the warm wishes and the condolences. Sometimes you
email me and you criticize me. I'll read those as
(01:46):
well and listen. If you want to come on the show,
ordinary person, ordinary listener. You want to take issue with
something I said, You want to challenge me on something
I said. If you want to show me that I
got it wrong, I will bring you on the show.
We can have a great discussion. We've got to get
back to talking to each other instead of having this
(02:10):
division where you're told that the other side that disagrees
with you doesn't love America and that they're not patriots
and that they're bad people.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We have to end this toxic division that is eating
this country from the inside. So if you disagree with
me and you want to come on here and respectfully
have a civil debate or discussion, I will do that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I will bring you on.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
As you know, sometimes I highlight some of you out there,
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(02:58):
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Stamp Warrior at Amazon. And finally, unfortunately, I hope you
don't have to contact me this way, but if you
have a loved one that is suffering from lung cancer
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(03:18):
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Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean, the list just goes on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You can contact me at the Deeton Law Firm dot
Comdeton Law Firm dot com. All Right, with all of
that in me talking about the things to help pay
the bills, let's talk about what's going on. There's never
a slow week when we have President Donald Trump in office.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
One thing, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Very difficult for people to keep up with the man
we got to give him credit. For someone who is
pushing eighty years old, it's very difficult to keep up
with him and keep the pace that he keeps. It's
not a lie apparently that he only sleeps two or three,
maybe four hours a night. But he had a big week,
and I want to talk about that. But before we
(04:25):
get to some very big successes that I think that
even the Democrats and the people on the far left
that hate Trump, they're going to have to start giving
some kind of admissions, if you will, that some of
the policies are at least not causing the catastrophic, you know,
(04:47):
emergency the sky is falling kind of news that they
were saying that his tarist would cause, or that his
policies would cause, his foreign policy all of those things
we're going to unpack that. I'm going to start though,
because there is new more news on the Epstein stuff.
And the reason I want to do that, remember last
(05:08):
week I played that clip where I challenged Senator Elizabeth
Warren when she didn't ask any questions of JP Morgan Chase,
the CEO. And remember JP Morgan Chase one of the
largest banks in the world. I actually think it is
the largest bank in the world. They financed the Epstein
child sex trafficking operation for decades, and their executives participated
(05:34):
with bad stuff on the island. I went over all
that stuff, and I challenged Elizabeth Warren and said, you know,
JP Morgan Chase settled for two hundred and ninety million
dollars to Epstein victims. They had to pay seventy five
million to the US Virgin Islands. And when he was
available for questioning, how come you didn't ask him a
(05:55):
single question about all that stuff? Why not add your
you oversee banks, you're on the banking committee in the Senate.
Why was this bank financing the child sex operation? And
I gotta tell you it's because Elizabeth Warren's husband is
on the logs, Elizabeth Warren's friends, Bill Clinton on the island,
(06:18):
Bill Gates on the island, big donors people that she knows.
I set it to her face on the stage. If
you remember, and I said last week that the Epstein
situation is not gonna go away. I said that President
Donald Trump misjudged the Epstein issue. He's usually on point
(06:40):
with his base, with the people who support him, but
when he was dismissive of it and said, forget about
it when you have all these inconsistencies, Dan Bongino, Cash Battel,
Pam Bondie, Donald Trump Junior, all of these people out
there saying, you know, we got a leashed the Epstein files.
(07:02):
We got to unleash the Epstein files. All those people
saying he didn't commit suicide, and then all of a
sudden they get in office and say, yep, nothing to
look here. He committed suicide, no doubt. Here's a video tape.
Oh by the way, the video tape has two minutes missing,
completely edited from the government. We're not gonna give you that,
(07:23):
but we're gonna show you, you know, a video of
nothing and tell you that we just proved that he
killed himself. It's nonsense. And I said, it's not gonna
go away. And it's not going away. Well, the Deputy
Attorney General, not Pam Bondy, but the the second person
under Pam Bondy at the Department of Justice. This guy
(07:47):
has spent two full days with Maxwell. You know, remember
you're saying Maxwell is the girlfriend and you know, sort
of the pimp if you will. And a female version
of getting girls to Epstein Island for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse,
and she's been serving twenty year conviction because the government
(08:13):
prosecuted her, and she got twenty years because she is
guilty as sin for breaks basically trafficking these young girls
to Jeffrey Epstein Island to be raped, to be abused.
But there's something that always stood out, which is why
wasn't anyone else prosecuted? So, yes, Epstein got arrested, he
(08:38):
got a sweetheart deal.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No one knows why.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Some people said he was intelligence. Remember the federal prosecutor
who prosecuted Epstein gave him that sweetheart deal, that get
out of jail free card basically, and he was told
that he was told by higher ups the Department Justice
that Jeffrey Epstein was in fact belonged to intelligence agencies.
(09:02):
Now whether that's Mossad from Israel or the CIA or
the FBI, I don't know, but that's what the guy said. Okay,
But then he gets arrested again, and you got to
remember there is a non prosecution agreement, non prosecution agreement.
His lawyers were going to invoke that non prosecution agreement
(09:23):
saying that the government violated when they arrested him a
second time. Jeffrey Epstein thought he was getting out of jail.
And think about that, a narcissist like him who gets
out of jail the first time and then enters a
non prosecution agreement with the United States government and then
he gets arrested a second time, and he's sitting in
jail and his lawyer tells him, Yeah, I think you're
(09:45):
gonna get out on bail in the next week. And
I think we got a really good chance, Jeffrey, that
this non prosecution agreement, they're gonna have to honor it.
I'm going to get these charges to from you, Jeffrey.
That's what his lawyer was saying to him. Now, people
want you to believe that, after hearing from his lawyer,
(10:09):
that he's probably getting out on bill and that there's
a really good chance the whole case is going away
like the first one did, because of this non prosecution
agreement that Jeffrey Epstein then that night went into his
cell and he hung himself.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And when he hung.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Himself with a sheet over a bedpost that's like four
feet high, maybe five feet high, he fractured the bone
in his neck that normally doesn't get fractured when you
hang yourself from a sheet. That bone, hyoid bone in
your neck that floats right where Adam's apple is above
(10:48):
the voice box. You know, it floats, So like a
sheet goes near, it's just gonna float and move away
from the sheet. That bone gets fractured a lot and
people get manually strangled, or there's a ligature involved. By ligature,
I mean a rope, I mean an extension cord, a
(11:11):
broom handle, something very forceful that is applied to the
neck and fractures that bone.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And so then, of course his brother said he didn't
think he killed himself. Maxwell says she didn't think he
killed himself. But the government wants us to believe that
he killed himself and gave us that four minute video
that has two minutes missing proving nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay, And so look, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You can write into John at Hartruthshow dot com and
let me know what you think. When we come back
from the break, we're gonna get into this great week
that President Trump had and I'll finish this Epstein stuff.
You are listening to The Hard Truth with John Deaton
on Iheart's WRK.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, welcome back to the show. You listen to
the hard truth.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I am John Deaton and this is WRKO six eighty
am iHeart listen, guys. We were talking about Epstein just
before the break and the thing that we know, in
addition to all the unanswered questions surrounding his death and
(12:24):
how he made his money, he went from a teacher
to a billionaire owning an island, right, so many unanswered questions.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Did he belong to intelligence? All that?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But let's go back up to Maxwell's prosecution for a minute.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
How come no one was prosecuted? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We know that people girls were trafficking it to that
island and to his Manhattan apartment, but not one single
person other than Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend. And so
we've heard about this list, and I've said to you
(13:08):
that that doesn't mean that there's a black book, right
that has every name in it. Now, I would assume
that Maxwell would have something like that because she has
to have contacts, rollerdex whatever you want to be. The
list could be on the phone, could be your iPhone, whatever.
But there are other people who participated. We know that
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in the civil lawsuit by the victims' names came up.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Leon Black was.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
The co founder of Apollo Group, a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He was involved. Jeff Stately, who vice president of JP
Morgan Chase, he was involved.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's the guy who emailed Epstein about snow White experience
and he wanted Bell from Beauty and the Beast the
next time he went to the island.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay, none of these people have been prosecuted. Well, the Deputy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Attorney General in the United State Dates spent two full
days and the reports are that Maxwell gave him a
hundred names of people you know, basically call it the
client list, and there's going to be more information being
released at a later time. There's also talks about for
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her cooperation, will President Trump pardon her, not necessarily pardon her,
will he commute her sentence. Remember, the president can do
a full pardon and your conviction is gone forever. Or
the president can commute your sentence. In other words, he
could say, listen, you've already been in prison for five years,
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time served is enough, and then you can be released.
If it's federal charges, state charges. President can't do that,
the governor of each state can.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So that's where we are with the Epstein situation.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I will keep track with it. Will report it. We're
not going to let it go.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Because Americans are tired of a two tier justice system.
We're tired of the haves and the super wealthy having
one system of justice and the rest of us have
another system of justice. And we're tired of politicians just
sweeping everything under the rug to protect the rich and
(15:24):
the powerful.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We're sick of it.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Second, these girls who were victimized deserve justice. They deserve
someone fighting for him, and so we're going to continue
to fight for him. All right now, I want to
play you something here and this is was on CNBC
today CB or actually on Friday, but let me play
(15:52):
it and check it out.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
The left and people that don't like the president and
don't want things to work, and you know, like Center
Elizabeth Warre will come out and say.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Inflation's out of control in the economy is getting killed
by what's happening by these tariffs, this three percent with
the market at new highs, and really we haven't seen inflation,
you know, go up back to.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Three for maybe it will this week, maybe we'll see it.
But none of these things, none of these horrible things
have happened. But they still talk like it's happening.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Well, the important there's an important lesson there. Don't pick
a congressman to be your money manager.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
At That's what I would say.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
But in the end, Congress has their own reasons to
point out certain things. And the Democrats, of course, as
you pointed out, really don't want to see the current
administration have some success. But there's no doubt that this
is some success. We're seeing more horse power, we're seeing
better equities, inflation, inflation really hasn't changed much in the last.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Year or so, all right, so there's some good things happening.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That was Joe Kerr on CNBC talking about how people
like Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Continue to say.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That the sky is falling, that America is crumbling, the
economy is crumbling, even though we just got a business
report that gross domestic product basically is at three percent,
it was significantly higher.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In addition to that.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We had a surplus from tarifs and the tears. Haven't
remember there was that fear that the tariffs were going
to destroy the economy when Trump announced that he was
putting all these tariffs unilaterally on these countries, and then
the market crashed and it was down two thousand points
(17:49):
a day for a while, and then Trump said, well,
I'm going to suspend it, but we're going to work
on settlement deals.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Whether I approve or you approve of President Trump's methodology,
this is real data that we're talking about right now.
We're not talking about John Deaton's opinion. We're not talking
about Elizabeth Warren's opinion. We're talking about real data of
three percent GDP inflation is slightly ticked down, and that's
(18:20):
great news for the economy.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
But you've got these people like Senator Warren.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Ed Markey mora Heally, they just were rooting against America. Listen, people,
I didn't vote for President Trump. Many of you know that.
Many of you hold it against me, and I understand
that many of you agree with me. But I will
(18:45):
never root against my country. And although I didn't support
President Trump, I certainly didn't support commonly, you know that
I'm still going to root for my country, and I'm
going to root for the success of my president. I
want the president to be successful. If the President's successful,
America could be successful. And so I just don't get
(19:08):
how these politicians like Warren and Markey They just won't
admit if there's anything good happening. You know, it's okay
to admit that it's good that the southern border is down.
Illegal crossings are.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Down ninety three percent, ninety three percent, that's good. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Even if you're a Democrat, you should be able to say,
you know, that's a good thing. It's a good thing
that we don't have continued, out of control, unsustainable illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We got twelve million illegals that came through the border
under the Biden administration in three and a half years.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
When I went to the border, when I ran for citing,
I was told that was twelve million people in three and.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
A half years. Well, you can't have.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Four million people illegals crossing the border every year. It's unsustainable.
So it's okay if you're a Democrat, if you're a liberal,
if you're a progressive, it's okay to say, you know what,
I don't agree with President Trump snatching people out of
the street.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You can say that. You can say that, but it
is good that our border is secured.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And it just kills me that politicians like Warren and
marketing them, they just can't bring themselves to admit anything
that is decent. So now I want to play something else.
This is Abby Philip from seeingn Okay and this is
what was predicted, you know, four months ago and all that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So check this out.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Palpable panic on Wall Street, red numbers and worries about
something else that starts with an R recession.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
What we're doing is very big. We're bringing wealth back
to America. That's a big thing.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
And there are always periods of it takes a little time.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It takes a little time.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
He's talking about that period of transition is what he
What he's talking about is his firm belief that tariffs
are going to be the main way that the United
States brings in revenue, never mind what they do to
the prices that people actually pay when they purchase goods
in a global economy. I mean, Scott, Virtually no one
(21:24):
who understands economics believes that tariff is tariffs are a
good idea, including all those people that we played in
the clip to get into this conversation, most of whom
side with Trump. They believe in Trump, they're supporters of his.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Yeah, he firmly believes in it. It's his theory. And
guess what he ran on it, and he got elected
on it. And for his theory to take root, it
will take some period of time, and he will he
will rise and fall on this theory.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Comfortable with Trump rolling the dice on the United States's
economy based on his hunch that we should go back
to you know, the McKinley.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Are tariffs, Mike comfortable that the person who was duly
elected president of the United States be allowed to govern
in the way that he said he would in order
to win the election.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, okay, so, and that was Abby Phillip and
of course the infamous Scott Jennings on CNN, And of
course that was four months ago where Abby and the
people on the left CNN and MSNBC were saying that
the sky's falling, that the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Are going to destroy America.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And I gotta tell you, I believe in terroriffs if
they're strategic. I've said that from the beginning. If China
is stealing our intellectual property and we want to slap
them on some tariffs on them to stop that, or
if China is subsidizing there let's say they're electric car vehicles,
(22:55):
making a Chinese car so much more cheaper, than a
test or a.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
General Motors electric car.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Not because the Chinese Automi manufacturer is doing a better job,
but because the Chinese government is subsidizing it just to
undercut American manufacturers. Then, of course, in situations like that,
I say slap them with a strategic tariff as well.
I was someone I didn't overtly criticize President Trump's tariff plan,
(23:27):
but I was reserved about it. And you know, it's
still a little early, but it has not had the
catastrophic event that everybody was calling for, and it seems
to be winning. And we're going to talk about those
tariffs when we come back. Listen, you're listening to the
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You could reach the show
(23:47):
at John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard
Truthshow dot com. Come back after the break. All right, everybody,
welcome back to the show. You listen to the Hard Truth.
I'm John Deaton.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I was gonna give you the address again.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It's John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard
Truthshow dot com. Please give me your comments, give me
your criticisms. Come on the show. Let's have a real conversation. Okay,
Now I want to play something else.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
For you here.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And it's about this week that Trump has had something
pretty big took place historic in the last week. And
it's even got the mainstream media reluctantly talking about it.
All right, check it out.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
The early reviews are in on the new trade deal
announced with the European Union. The Financial Time says the
deal marks a victory for Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Is this a fantastic deal then struck by Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Absolutely a victor on behalf of the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
All.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
The bottom line is this is the biggest trade deal
in President Trump's effort to effectively reshape the global trading order.
On this deal the European Union, this is a big
win for.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
The bigger picture is that Trump is still very much
pursuing his longer term goal of achieving what he seems
to be fanus for America.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
It's a triumph of a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Certainly the President got to take a victory lap. I
think it's I think it ends up being good for
the European Union.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
It's a blow against the conventional wisdom.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's a blow against conventional wisdom what everybody's talking about.
Just so you know, those channels that was SEEINGBC, that
was MSNBC. Look, that was CNBC, that was MSNBC, that
was CNN, that was mainstream media reluctantly saying this deal
(25:40):
that President Trump just struck is a great deal. It's fantastic.
I mean, it's going to be very difficult to come
up with some any kind of bad, negative way to
approach it. But I'm sure that Senator Elizabeth Warren or
Senator Ed Martin or Maura Healey or Michelle Woo or
(26:03):
I'm sure these politicians who just can't give any credit
to anyone unless it fits their far left agenda narrative,
I'm sure they could come up with some criticism. But basically,
this is what happened, and that is President Trump just
(26:28):
went over to the EU, the European Union, and he
struck a deal.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And this is the deal.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I just want to give you some highlights. Okay, the
European Union has agreed to purchase seven hundred and fifty
billion dollars worth of our American energy. Okay, six seven
hundred and fifty billion of American energy. In addition to that,
(26:59):
they have agreed to invest another six hundred billion dollars
into America. So you have seven hundred and fifty billion.
You're going to buy our energy. You know, we're talking
about our natural gas. We're talking about oil. And in addition,
at seven hund fifty billion, you're going to invest six
(27:21):
hundred billion into American investments, American manufacturing or whatever you Okay,
ladies and gentlemen. That is obviously we're talking about one
point four to one point five trillion dollars, talking about
a lot of money. Talk him a lot of investments.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Now, on addition to that, there is a fifteen percent
tariff on.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
EU products and that's.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It, and there'll be a fifteen percent tariff for American
and they can't raise it. Basically, that imbalance that existed
is gone. And what we did to get the one
point four or five trillion dollars in investments was that
(28:12):
we allowed the EU to buy are a military equipment,
American made military equipment, military munitions, missiles, rockets, protective gear, technology, drones.
Whatever they want to buy from American military contractors, they
(28:38):
can buy. But the key word there, ladies and gentlemen, is.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
The word buy.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
President Trump didn't say, well, if you invest all this
money and you keep the tariffs at this level equal
to the United States, we're going to give you, he said, no,
we're going to allow you to spend more money of
yours buying American made military equipment. Now, that is an
(29:08):
extraordinary accomplishment. And even if you suffer from TDS Trump
derangement syndrome, even if you hate President Trump, you have
to be able to say, you know, that's a pretty
damn good deal for America.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
And so.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Here at the hard truth we're going to call it.
I could see it.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And I'm not going to say I was wrong on
the tariffs yet, because you know, some products have went
up and some American manufacturers have eaten some of the tears.
But you know, it's only been six months. I can
say it's been a very good six months for President
Trump and as far as his successes, and there have
(29:55):
been lots of good news. The trillions of dollars, you know,
whether it's ge gonna make make their washing machines in
America or whether it's Honda's moving some of their manufacturing
back to America. Look, I'm not suggesting that we're going
to return you back to the sixties for automotive industry
here in America, and that manufacturing is going.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
To be where we lead.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But you have to give credit where credit is doing,
and that's what I'm attempting to do. So very good week,
Very good news on that. Now, let's talk about something
that has been a big controversy this week. And I
got to tell you, I can't believe it. Every time
(30:42):
I think that the far left can't get more out
of touch with reality and with everyday Americans, they end
up surprising me. And every time I say, okay, they
can't surprise me more they've hit rock bottom with their woes,
(31:06):
they end up going woker.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Than they did before.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
And what I'm referencing a lot of you know what
I'm talking about, it is this Sydney Sweeney, you know,
gene commercial. American Eagle has got Sidney Sweeney, who is
an American actress in an American model, She's an attractive woman,
(31:35):
and she's got a new commercials for jeans, blue jeans,
you know, the genes you wear every day, and it
shows her in these commercials. And these commercials are using
a play on words. They're using the word genes as
far as the genes that make up your DNA and
(31:59):
the genes that you wear as pants and basically Sidney
Sweeney in this commercial says that she has good jeans.
Get it, She's an attractive woman and she has good jeans.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
But she's wearing.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Blue jeans, and it's a very effective commercial. The genes
that she's advertising in the commercial have sold out across America.
She is the best thing that could ever happen to
hear this. I can't believe it's a controversy, but you know,
her following shot up incredibly. Hundreds of thousands of people
(32:40):
started following her because people on the left said that
that commercial is racist, and that commercial is a Nazi commercial,
that it favors naziism, and it makes your head spin around.
(33:04):
It's just an attractive female wearing a pair of blue
jeans bragging that she likes her genes, and it's a
play on words about the jeens, her blue eyes, and
you know, her skin tone or her teeth. You know,
whatever good that was handed down, it could be your skin.
(33:26):
You know, some people who have great genetics, genes and
they have the great skin.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Some people don't.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But all of a sudden, people started saying, Oh, what
they're saying is that only white girls have good genes,
and that that is somehow suggesting that women of color
or black women don't have good genes. And as soon
as I heard that nonsense, I started I remember someone
(33:56):
that I think is beautiful is Beyonce. I remember Beyonce
basically having a gene commercial, and I remember thinking as
a man that that was a good commercial because Beyonce
has got good jeans.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
She's beautiful, she looks good in jeans. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
But now because it's a white, blonde haired, blue eyed, attractive,
thin woman, all of a sudden, people want to make
it seem like, oh my god, look it's a slight
on women of color, or it's Nazism because they're suggesting
(34:40):
that you only have good genes if you have blonde
hair and blue eyes. I guarantee you, I'll bet dimes
to donuts that Sidney Sweeney's natural hair color isn't blonde. Right,
She's an actress, she's a model and that, and she
died it. So it's just nonsense. And that's where we've
gotten in this country. And I think that's very bad
(35:02):
news for the Democrats. And I think it's bad news
because it shows you that they've went so far left,
and they went so far woke that they're losing touch
with regular people. I challenge you, if you haven't seen it,
(35:22):
put in that Sydney Sweny commercial, go to YouTube or wherever,
TikTok YouTube, wherever put it up, listen to it, and
I challenge anyone out there, write me if you disagree.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
There is no way that a normal.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Rational human being would think that this was a Nazi
commercial or think that this was somehow a negative on
women of color. Okay, when we come back, we'll unpack
more at the Hard Truth. All right, welcome back to
the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You are listening to
iHeart WRKO. Remember John at Hard Truthshow dot com. John
(35:57):
at Hard Truthshow dot Com we were talking about the
Sydney Sweeney ad and how nonsense it is.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And listen.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I want everyone to know if you read my book
Food Stamp Warrior, you're going to understand that I've had experience,
and I believe that I understand race in a way
that most middle age. Well I'm getting older than middle aged,
I guess, but I guess I can't say I'm middle aged.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'm fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, I'm not going to live, you know, to one
hundred and fourteen or one hundred and sixteen. So but anyways,
I digress. Listen, I've lived a unique lifestyle. I grew
up in a predominantly black neighborhood. I think it was
ninety two percent black. I was surrounded by people of
(36:49):
color in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I you know, went to high school.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
When I was in school, there was one I was
only one of three white kids in this school.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
For the first eighteen years of my life, I wished
I was black.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I joke about that in the book Food Stamp Warrior,
where I say that, you know, if you exclude rappers,
and you exclude football players and sports stars and actors
and entertainers, that I might be one of the few successful,
white male millionaires living in America who wished for the
(37:27):
first two decades of his life that he was black.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
I was.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Called a wigger, you know white with the in word,
because people said that they I was pretending to be black.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I was growing up in the community I was growing
up with. So yes, I love rap music and I
love hip hop. I also love country because when I
got home from being on the streets in Detroit listening
to rap and hip hop, my mother was listening to country,
Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, all of the greats,
and so I like all kinds of music. But the
(38:06):
point is that I think I have a sensitivity to
race that a lot of people don't have. I understand
the power of racial identity, and I understand the race dynamic,
you know, in ways that a lot of people in
my position, my age, my color, don't understand. And with
(38:33):
that said, I still look at that Sydney commercial and
the only way that you could read into that commercial
that there's something negative about anyone else is if it's
something inside.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
You that you're working with and dealing with, because.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Then two things can be equal. You know, Beyonce can
do a gene commercial and look beautiful, which she did,
and Sidney Sweeney can do a gene commercial and look
beautiful like she did. And I just think this is
a reaction because if we go back, there was this
(39:22):
effort where advertisers wouldn't even want to put women that
were blonde, blue eyed, and thin on commercials. They wanted
to celebrate, you know, heavier women. And that's okay, But
when you go woke to the point that people are
(39:44):
going woke, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Lose touch with reality.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And so you know, if you disagree with me and
you think that that commercial that I'm missing something, then
you reach and I'll bring you on the show and
we'll have an honest discussion about it, because you know,
maybe I am I'm missing something.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I don't think I am.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I think I'm pretty sensitive to these issues, but I
don't see it.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Now, something else that happened this week. Another victory for
President Trump to be honest with you deals with NATAL.
And this is another example. The small countries, the Baltic
states that are on the border of Russia and Belarus, Okay,
(40:28):
Lithuania and other countries. They have come out and told
President Trump that not only are they going to pay
at least two percent of the country's GDP for national
defense according to the targets set by NATAL, but they're
(40:53):
going to do five percent. They went and said, look,
President Trump, we're not going to do two percent. We're
going to do five percent. We're going to do more
than double. Now, you got to remember President Trump at
one point went abroad and he shamed our allies, countries
(41:15):
like Germany. He said, look, since nineteen forty nine, America
has been the pocket book for NATAL. America has been
funding NATAL and disproportionately paying for all of your defense.
(41:36):
And that's going to stop. You're going to have to
pay your fair share. America is not going to continue
to let you skate on your own national defense. And
America is going to just pick up the bill for
you and do it. And so when President Trump said that,
(41:57):
people on the left went nuts. They were like, you're
bashing our allies, and you.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
Humiliated Germany and Trump doesn't believe in NATO, and Trump
said things like he said things like he was reconsidering
America's role.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
In NATO, and people thought he lost his mind.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
And turns out that it was part of negotiation, sort
of like the terrafs where you sound like you're crazy
and you're gonna slap all these arbitrary high tariffs on
countries like Canada, Mexico, and they panic because they're thinking, wow,
(42:43):
this guy might actually do it, and then they come
to the table. So Trump, basically, what I believe, bluffed,
you know, was it a bluff, I don't know, But
he basically said, hey, America is rethinking NATO, and if
you don't pay for your own defense.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
And you got to remember in NATO, and a lot
of people think NATO should be abolished because it doesn't
apply like it did then that was the Code War,
the Soviet Union, blah blah blah. The bottom line is
Trump made them think that he was going to leave NATO,
which would mean that they're on their own. Because remember
(43:26):
with NATO, the most important thing to understand is Article
five of NATO, and Article five basically says an attack
against one member of NATO is an attack against all
members of NATO. It's this collective defense. Therefore, if a
(43:49):
small country gets invaded by Russia and that small country
is a member of NATO, then that small country is
going to say Article five, Article five, an attack against
US is an attack against all of NATAL and is
then going to expect America, Germany, France, Canada and the
(44:13):
whole world that belongs to NATO, all the countries that
are NATAL members, to come to their aid and rescue them,
defend them, all.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Of those things.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
And President Trump said, hey, if you don't pay your share,
then guess what America might leave NATO. Well. President Trump
also said something about Ukraine. More, he said that not
only was it going to end it, but he said that,
you know, he had to rethink it, and so a
(44:44):
lot of people said, oh my god, you're abandoning Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
And then what did he get?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
There is a minerals deal where the reconstruction of Ukraine
that has invaluable minerals, where earth minerals, things of that nature,
were going to to get some of that. And America
is going to benefit because America.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Gave you money.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well, Trump now is sending and he stopped some weapons
to Ukraine, and then he now is sending weapons to Ukraine,
but NATO members are buying it. So America is being
paid for it, and it goes to help Ukraine defend themselves. Well,
(45:25):
the same concept of these small countries. Now they're going
to pay five percent of GDP. And the reason is
they're worried because Russia went into Ukraine. Now, remember Ukraine
was not a member of NATO. Zelensky was trying to
become a member of NATO so he could invoke that
Article five provision. Now these countries see that Russia is
(45:51):
not coming to the table for peace and they're worried,
and they're worried that Trump might leave NATO. So they're
now paying five percent. They're now paying money to American manufacturers,
military contractors and all those things, and they're more than
(46:13):
doubling their money on defense because they're saying, hey, look,
President Trump, we're helping defend ourselves. So if we get invaded,
we expect America to be there for us.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
And so.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Very interesting, this whole Ukraine thing is a pushback because
a lot of people in the base are disappointed that
President Trump. Actually Pete Hegseth just came out and reaffirmed
that America is strengthening natal So here's an example where
with the left realized at first, oh, he's going to
(46:52):
leave NATO, you fast forward six months and NATO is
sort of getting stronger.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
If you look at the terrorists.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Oh my god, the world's coming down. American economy is
going to crash. Everybody's gonna lose all their for a
one case, we're gonna go bankrupt. And now we have
a serve plus for the first time from tariffs. The
GDP is at three percent, inflation is down, the southern
border is secured, and there's this renewal of American manufacturing. Listen,
(47:25):
there's a long ways to go to the midterms.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
But if this.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Continues, it's gonna be bad news for the Democrats and somebody,
I don't know who it could be, but somebody is
going to have to take on Ed Markey. God, that's
been there for fifty years. Maybe we'll talk about that
next week. This is John Deane listening to the hard truth.
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