June 10, 2025 • 47 mins
In this debut episode, JohnDeaton shares his personal journey—from Marine to federal prosecutor to outspoken advocate for everyday Americans. Learn what drives him, why he’s unafraid to challenge powerful institutions, and what The Hard Truth is all about. This is your introduction to the man behind the mic—and the mission behind the message.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't even think of touching that Dow or changing the
channel because it's Sunday at seven pm on IHEARTWRKOAM six
't eighty and you're locked into the Hard Truth with
John Deaton. You can email the show at John at
Hardtruthshow dot com. John at Hardtruthshow dot com. We're videotaping
this so you can find it on YouTube. You can
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go to my ex channel John E. Deaton one. If
you miss the show, Good even everyone. I'm John Daton.
I'm a retired Marine officer at nineteen ninety five, graduate
of New England School of Law in Boston, a former
federal prosecutor and author A Food Stamp Warrior, a memoir
about overcoming extreme poverty, incredible levels of violence, addiction, cancer,
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and ultimately overcoming life's biggest obstacle, ourselves to never give
up and never quit fighting for the life.
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That you deserve.
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Some of you listening right now might know me by
my law practice, the Deep and Law Firm, taking on
some of the world's biggest and most powerful companies, companies
like Pfizer, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Travelers, Insurance, General Electric, Monsanto,
Union Card by you name a huge conglomerate, and I've
battled them and their high priced lawyers. I fought these
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companies because they poisoned regular hardworking people with one of
the world's most famous known poisons, asbestos. Now, asbestos causes
lung cancer, and it causes a disease called mesothelioma, a
rare form of cancer that's in the lining of the wrongs,
and unfortunately it's a death sentence. For the last twenty
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three years, I've been a lawyer here in Massachusetts and
I've had the honor of representing regular hard working people.
I'm talking plumbers, pipe fitters, insulators, electricians, engineers, boilermakers, sheet rockers, roofers,
brake mechanics, shipyard and iron workers all across the Commonwealth. Look,
I've represented turbine technicians at Canal Electric and Sandwich, boiler
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makers at Boston, Edison and Newton, maintenance workers at the
ge plant in Pittsfield, farmers in Southampton, textile workers out
of Fall River, and shipyard workers at Ford River Shipyard
and Quinsy. Sometimes it's not the worker who gets sick,
but a family member. I've represented dozens of wives who
got mezzathieleoma from the dust from Washington their husband's clothes.
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I've represented women who got mezathieleoma because of makeup they used.
It was contaminated with asbestos contaminated talc. I've represented professional
folks like accountants or bankers who only had one job
for one summer when the Prudential Center was being built.
Many of my clients have served on board ships serving
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in the United States Navy. I've represented a service member
who was a machinist mate on board the SS Constitution,
built right here in Quinsy. Now, don't confuse that with
the us USS Constitution or Old Ironside, which was launched
in seventeen ninety seven and is the world's oldest commissioned
naval vessel, still afloat today and docked in Boston at
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the Charleston Navy Shipyard. It's open to the public and
you should check it out if you have it. If
you don't know me for my law practice representing asbestos victims,
you might know me because of my legal work in
the world of cryptocurrencies, you know, Bitcoin, XRP, Theorium, and
the like. I sued the United States government, specifically the
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Security Exchange Commission, the SEC because government regulators had engaged
in some really bad acts and it was hurting regular people.
These bad government actors, working on behalf of a couple billionaires,
declared ethereum and bitcoin as legitimate tokens, but said XRP
was illegal. They did it despite knowing that innocent investors
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would be wiped out. These insiders made billions and XRP
holders were hurt really bad, and some people actually lost
their life savings. Now, look, I couldn't sit back and
do nothing, so I sued the government, and some phenomena happened.
Seventy five thousand XRP holds joined me in suing the government,
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including six hundred and twenty seven that live in Massachusetts.
We fought the government and we won, and mann am
I proud of it. I did that case pro bono,
and it helped shape crypto regulation in America. Because of
that work, I made a name for myself in crypto,
and I even founded a site called Crypto law dot us.
So if you're big in a bitcoin, etheryum, XRP, or crypto,
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you might recognize who I am. Now, lastly, some of
you may recognize my name because you may have voted
for me you might be one of the one point
three million voters who voted for me, or maybe you didn't.
But regardless, I was the twenty twenty four Republican nominee
for US Senate, going up against no other than Elizabeth
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Warren in last November. Well, I didn't win, and unfortunately
I'm not your US Senator, but I am proud that
I stepped up and put myself out there, especially in
this extremely politically divided world we now live in. Now,
as soon as you're running for public office, it seems
that some people, including the media, immediately look for reasons
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to cut you down against me. It really didn't work
because there's nothing to find that I haven't already admitted
to in my book, Food Stamp Warrior.
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In my book, I literally.
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Discuss every bad decision or bad thing I've done in
my life. My book is as real and as raw
as you will ever find on a bookstore or online,
and I am very proud of it.
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Now.
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Look, the explosion and growth of social media today has
made things even worse. People hide behind memes and avatars
and made up names, and they say mean stuff for
cruel things or lies that they would never say or
have the courage to say when they're face to face
with you. Before social media, it was word of mouth,
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but it had very limited reach. But today, somebody makes
something up about you or take something out of context.
They hit a button on their phone or on their laptop,
and all of a sudden, hundreds of people know, and
if they have a bigger following, all of a sudden,
thousands of people know. And what's even worse today is
your adversaries. They will pay someone who is an influencer
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on x or on Facebook or TikTok or whatever. You
pay them, and they say something bad or wrong or
something out of context, and before you know it, something
has a million views and it's completely not true.
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I'll give you an example.
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When I was seventeen years old, my best friend Derek
was killed by a drive by shooting. He was shot
four times and was dying in my arms, and the
gang bangers that shot him were backing up to finish
the job and they were going to kill me. Because
I was literally holding him kneeling on the ground, I
heard someone yell they're coming back now. I would never
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run away and leave my best friend to die alone
on the ground, so I grabbed his handgun. I stood
up and I shot fired the entire clip into the
car that was pointing AK forty seven at us. I
unloaded the clip, and I write about it in my book,
and I admit that I may have hit someone in
the back seat.
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Of that car.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't know well that story made the media, except
they never included that it was forty years ago. They
never included that had I not done what I did,
I'd be dead today. All they shared was John Deaton
may have shot and killed someone in a drug deal.
Another example I'll give you is also documented in my
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book Food Stamp Warrior. Between the ages of nine and eleven,
I was raped in one of the most brutal manners
imaginable by a child predator in the neighborhood. The predator
happened to be black because I lived in a predominantly
black neighborhood. It was like ninety four percent African American. Now,
I discuss and write about the rapes in my book,
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and in my book, I write about the things that
this predator would say to me as he beat me,
as he raped me, And he repeatedly used the in word.
In fact, he called me his little in word In
my book, I write about these things and I don't
edit it or asterisk any names or words. And of course,
when I ran for Senate, the people opposing me tried
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to paint me as a racist. Certain media outlets asked,
why didn't you edit your book. My answer was simple.
The child rapists didn't edit his words or his actions
as he was doing those things to me. So my
book and the reader reading it should read the way
it happened. They deserved the hard truth. And that's why
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I read name this show the Hard Truth. What world
do we live in when you're raped as a child,
and after forty years of keeping it inside, never telling
the soul about it, you find the courage to finally
admit it to the world. And because you tell it
just the way it happened, some people try to make
you the bad guy.
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But that's our politics today.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Unfortunately, now that experience running for public office is in
part why I'm doing this show, and it's certainly why
it's called the Hard Truth. There's so much bs and
nonsense going around, and now you add AI into the mix,
and you literally have no idea of what's truthful and
accurate anymore. So I decided to do this radio show.
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The other reason to do this show is because I
think I have something to offer you, the audience, but
ultimately you'll.
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Be the judge of that.
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I'm fifty seven years old and my life has.
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Been unique, to say the least.
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I have a genuine desire to try to help people,
and that's why I ran for senate. Be honest, my
life is pretty damn blessed now and the future looks bright,
but it wasn't all that way. In fact, I often
wondered why is life so hard as it is? Sometimes
maybe you and I can try to figure that out together. Now, Look,
this is a paid advertisement by the Deep and Law Firm,
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and if you are a loved one have been diagnosed
with mesothelioma, lung cancer, or aspestosis, I can definitely help you. Look,
I'm not running for public office right now, although I
haven't ruled it out in the future. So this is
a way for me to stay connected to the community
and learn what's on your mind and what's important to you.
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As this show moves forward.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I plan to know you and highlight regular people in
the community. I don't believe I'm the only one that
has something to say, so I want to hear from you.
In fact, I'll read your comments, both good and bad,
on the air. I'll even bring you on air to
dispute a challenge what I say. Because even if we
disagree with each other, we must start listening to each other.
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So write this down. You can email the show at
John at Hardtruthshow dot com. That's John at Hardtruthshow dot com.
You can follow me on exit Johnnydeaton. You can watch
this show on YouTube or on my X channel. I'm
hoping you'll think it's worth listening to and giving me
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one hour.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Of your week.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
After the break, I'll give you a synopsis of my life,
my life experience, so you know exactly who you're listening
to and why I think the way I think. I
promise you this, it won't be boring. Welcome back to
the Hard Truth. I'm John Daton and you can connect
at the show at John at Haardtruthshow dot com. That's
John at Hardtruthshow dot com. You can also follow me
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on exit Johnnydeaton. One look, One thing I've learned in
life is that each one of us is a sum
of our life experiences. It makes us who we are.
How we react to things how we view the world,
and we carry all these experiences around with us, and
sometimes times those experiences force us to carry burdens around.
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Where you're about to learn is that my life experiences
are pretty extreme. I wasn't born in Massachusetts. I was
born in Detroit, Michigan, a place called Highland Park, which
is basically a sub section of Detroit, And unfortunately it's
one of the poorest and most dangerous places in the
Detroit area, hell in all of America, to be honest
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with you, because for the last fifty years, Highland Park,
Detroit has been consistently ranked as one of America's worst
and most dangerous neighborhoods.
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Put it this way, not too far from.
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My childhood home is a sign that reads, quote enter
at your own risk.
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Police do not patrol the area. End quote.
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I was born in that area, Highland Park, in nineteen
sixty seven, single mother on welfare and food stamps, and
I was the fourth child my dad, a degenerate gambler
who abandoned us in that hell hole. When I was
six years years old, my mom was robbed and stabbed
in front of me. I remember watching blood squirt out
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of her back, and I was begging her at six
not to die. If my mom had died, my life
would have been over. I'd have ended up in foster cares,
and who knows what had happened to me. What made
things even worse more horrifying, is that the man who
stabbed my mom was also a neighborhood predator who repeatedly
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raped and beat me between the ages of nine and eleven. Now,
in my book fo Stamp Warrior, I discussed how horrific
it was, and I don't hold back on the details.
I won't discuss those details on the air, But imagine
the worst things possible that could happen to a child,
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and you'll get the picture.
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Now.
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The predator was able to keep me silent because he
said that if my mom or anyone else found out
what was happening and what he was doing to me,
he would kill my mother. He then drove by my
house a couple times, pointing at my mother sitting on
the porch as a way of reminding me of the
consequences if I told anything or anyone what he was
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doing to me. I have to watching my mom get
stabbed and almost die just a few years earlier. You
can see why I remained silent, and I kept that
dark secret inside me for forty years, not telling the
soul until I wrote my book. I tried my best
to pretend that it never happened, and for four decades
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I was able to do that until I could pretend
no more. What I learned firsthand is that unexamined trauma
will manifest itself one way or the other, and it'll
sneak up on you when you least expect it. Even
at a time when you're successful and you think you've
conquered all the demons that you need to conquer, it'll
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sneak up and catch you when you least expect it.
I learned it's okay to acknowledge and admit that I
was hurt, Admit that I got damaged, admit that I
got scarred. You also finally accept and realize that it's
not your fault that you didn't do anything wrong. When
kids go through sexual abuse like I did, you start
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believing something is wrong or bad about you, or this
wouldn't have happened. So if anyone who's listening out there
went through something similar, it's okay to acknowledge it. To
be hurt, to be scarred, to be damaged, just to
what makes us human. You don't have to run from it.
You don't have to pretend it didn't happen. Don't keep
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it inside like I did. Eating at you, look at me.
I didn't tell a soul for forty years, and now
I'm here talking about it on the radio, and I've
written about it in my book, and I've never been
more at peace about it my entire life. Now, what
you'll learn about me is that my life life is
the living, breathing embodiment of the American dream. For the
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first three or four years of months of high school,
I was a high school dropout. Was just like all
the siblings before me. I was the only white student
in my neighborhood. And on the very first day of
high school at Highland Park High I had a thirty
eight shoven in my mouth and the hammer cocked. That night,
I went across the street and I got a gun
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from my neighbor and I was headed back to school
the next day. But on the way to school, I
sat at a bench and I thought, I'm probably gonna
use this gun, and I'm either gonna end up dead
or I'm gonna end up in prison.
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So I didn't go back and I dropped out.
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So I'm fourteen years old and it's nineteen eighty one,
and you gotta remember there was no Google back then
to search nearby schools, and I couldn't find a high
school to go to, and time was running out. I
had already missed the first three months of high school,
and I had one last minute, and that that last
minute I would find my chance. What happened next proves
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that one single act of kindness and generosity can change
the trajectory of a person's life. The person who changed
my life was Terry Urkhart, a principal at a tiny
Catholic high school in the suburbs of Detroit. I sat
in his office waiting for him for four hours, and
I told him I needed to go to high school.
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And I asked him, how much is the tuition here
at Saint Mary's in Royal Oak, Michigan. Prince Borckart looked
at me and said, it's fourteen hundred dollars per year. Now,
this is nineteen eighty one, and fourteen hundred mine as
we've been fourteen thousand to me. I asked the principal
if I could make payments and I would find some
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way to pay for it, if he would just give
me a chance. And at that moment, that man could
have said, sorry, kid, there's nothing I can do for you.
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But he did.
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He gave me a shot. But he also made me
earn it. He said he would cut the tuition in half.
It'd be seven hundred dollars a year if I maintained
a three point five and played two sports, that I
was active in the church activities. So at fourteen years old,
I got a job washing dishes and eventually waiting tables,
and I began eighteen hour days commuting out of the
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hood to attend high school and work in the suburbs.
That one incredible act of kindness and generosity by a
high school principle saved my life, and I will never
forget the name of Terry Urkhard. My story proves one
act of kindness can change a person's life. I graduated
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high school and went on to college at Easter Mister University.
And after college, I came here to Boston to go
to law school. Now, let me be perfectly honest, I
had no connection to Boston or Massachusetts. Except for one thing.
I was the biggest Larry fan on the planet. I
lived and breathed the Boston Celtics, and I laugh at
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these young people and players today when they act like
Larry Bird wouldn't dominate today. I'd take Larry Bird over
Lebron James every day and twice on Sundays. Nineteen eighty four,
eighty five, and eighty six to three years in a
row that Bird won League MVP. I can tell you
no player in history has been more dominant in a
three year period than Larry Legend and the nineteen eighty
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six Celtics, one of the greatest teams ever assembled.
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But I digress.
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My first year of law school in Boston, I needed
cheap rent because money was very tight, as you can imagine,
so I lived in Roxbury.
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Now.
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People tried to tell me that Roxbury was dangerous, but
coming from the place I came from, it was pretty
damn nice. I still remember playing hoop at Washington Park.
Today it's called Malcolm X Park, but when I lived there,
it was Washington Park.
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Now.
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My second year of law school, I lived in East Boston,
a couple blocks from Santarpo's Pizza, which I admit it's
pretty good pizza. My last year of New England School
of Law, I lived in Malden, off the Orange Line.
Now in law school, I realized I was on my
way to achieving the American dream, and I wanted somehow
to honor it. So I signed up to serve in
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the Marine Corps between my second and third year law school.
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But even that.
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Didn't come easy, because in nineteen ninety two a blockbuster
movie came out called A Few Good Men with Jack
Nicholson and Tom Cruise, and all of a sudden, everybody
wanted to be a military jag lawyer. Massachusetts was competitive
as heck, considering we have so many good law schools Harvard,
b C, b U, Suffolk, New England School of Law,
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U mass Law, and more. In nineteen ninety four, the
Marine Corps had only one slot for all of Massachusetts,
and boy am I proud to say that although I
couldn't get into Harvard, and god knows I couldn't afford Harvard,
I beat out students at Harvard, bc BU, Suffolk in
the Marine Corps. Corse selected me to represent the entire
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Commonwealth for the nineteen ninety four Judge Advocate law contract
and it is one of the best honors of my life.
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Now.
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I spent seven years on active duty. I was first
stationed at the border in Yuma, Arizona, fighting drug cartels
from smuggling drugs and people across the border. While in Yuma,
I was a special assistant the United States Attorney for
the District of Arizona, and I got to be both
a criminal defense lawyer and a prosecutor. After Youma, I
was stationed in Newport, Rhode Island, teaching lawyers at the
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Naval Justice School and teaching generals and admirals at the
Naval War College. Unfortunately, during training, I got injured. Yes,
even though I was a lawyer in the Marines, you're
a rifleman first and you must complete all types of
combat and infantry training. After a couple of spinal surgeries
my back, my days of hiking fifteen miles with an
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eighty pound backpack were over and I was medically retired Marines.
I've been a lawyer in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and
other jurisdictions, fighting for working families, against the biggest companies
in the world, for people exposed to asbestos who get
lung cancer or the disease mesothelioma. I'm a proud father
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of three daughters. Olivia twenty five, who graduated at USC
lives in California, Jordan, who's twenty three graduated UMass Amhurst
lives in London and working on her master's degree in neuroscience.
And Layla, my six year old who goes to kindergarten
and Bolton, where I live with Christiana and Lala, and
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my two step kids, Jackson and Mackenzie, Nella, my dog
Penelope and Cornelius, my pigs, and my eleven chickens, and
once I have a barn built, I'm going to get
a couple of goats. So now you know who I
am and some of my life experiences. I've overcome poverty,
cancer and extreme violence, been through divorce, and even battled
addiction pain pills after the multiple bat surgeries. As this
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show moves forward, I plan to get to know you
and highlight regular people in the community. I don't believe
I'm the only one who has something to say. I
want to hear from you. In fact, I will read
your comments, both good and bad, on the air, even
if we disagree with each other. So write this down
John at Hartruthshow dot com, John Haardtruthshow dot Com. The
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radio show won't be like others, and when we come
back from the break, I'll go over what you can expect.
Don't you dare change that channel. Welcome back to the
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You can email me at
the show at John at hardtruthshow dot com. I mentioned
earlier that I made a name for myself in the
world of crypto. I sued the United States government on
behalf of seventy five thousand token holders. XRP was the
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token in question, and six hundred and twenty seven base
staters joined me in that lawsuit. We battled the government
and we won. Now, when doing so, let me tell
you what I learned about our financial system. It's one
hundred percent corrupt. People get these government positions and then
they sell out, or I should say they cash out,
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and they do things that benefit only a few people
at the expense of many. I uncovered an exposed regulatory
capture at the SEC. A couple billionaires told a few
regulators which tokens to bless and which tokens to sue,
And after the regulators did exactly what these billionaires told
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them them to do. The billionaires hired those regulators to
come work for them and make millions. We are simply
living in the corruption era. We have a system in
America where the chairman of the FDA can resign on
Friday and on Monday be on the board of Pfeiser
or SEC officials they leave the SEC and all of
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a sudden, they're working for the same companies that they
were just investigating. We have a revolving door at our
federal agencies and it's an absolute disgrace. They don't even
hide it anymore. And it's not just at the federal level.
Look what's going on here in Massachusetts. One hundred percent
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corruption in front of our faces. Governor Moraheey literally signed
a bill protecting her friend, the CEO of a company
called Blue Hub that praise on vulnerable homeowners in underserved
communities like Roxbury and Mattapan. Moraheey signed into a law
a bill that prevents homeowners from being able to sue
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her friend's company. Talk about corruption, and this is after
Morahelly appointed her ex lover to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Look,
define corruption in Massachusetts. You don't have to look any
further than Beacon Hill, the Governor's office and the office
of Attorney General. Seventy two percent of voters in Massachusetts
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demanded an audit of the state legislature. Overwhelmingly, the people
of Massachusetts made it law authorizing the state auditor to
audit the taxpayer books. Do you know how hard it
is in today's divided world to get seventy two percent
of the people degree on anything, but they did when
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it comes to this audit. But our elected leaders in
Beacon Hill won't allow the audit to move forward. They're
fighting at tooth and nail. And this isn't a Republican
or a Democrat issue. The state Auditor, Diana Dezaglio, is
a Democrat. The state legislature in Massachusetts is eighty eight
percent Democrat. The governor and Lieutenant governor Democrats. The Senate
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President Karen spik a Democrat. Speaker of the House Ron Mariano, Democrat,
Secretary of State Democrat, Attorney General Andrea Campbell Democrat, the
two US Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren Democrats. Every
Congression no seat in Massachusetts at the federal level Democrats.
What are these Democrats say? About the audit. They lie
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and say the audit is a Republican initiative meant to
harass the leadership. The state auditor is a Democrat. How
corrupt do you have to be to fight an audit
of taxpayer money? Governor Healy had eight billion dollars in
a rainy day fund and claimed that there was no
money available to save Carney Hospital in Dorchester or in
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the Shoba Valley Medical Center in Central mass Where the
money go? How much money is being spent to house, feed,
clothes and take care of illegal migrants? Have we spent
one billion dollars or has it been three billion dollars.
We've learned that hotels are getting five thousand dollars a
month per room, just for the room. We've heard that
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migrants are getting sixty four dollars a day for food
allowances and case mills. When you had the hotel rooms
and the catered mills alone, that's seventy eight thousand dollars
per migrant. In the meantime, an electrician apprentice makes fifty
five grand a year trying to feed a family while
working his butt off fifty hours a week. It's fricking insane.
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On what planet. Do these people think that we don't
have a right to know how and where our herd
earned tax dollars are being spent. Yet we can't get
an audit, and we have a governor and an attorney
general complicit in the corruption. Attorney General Andrea Campbell has
sued Donald Trump eleven times in three months, but she
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won't help force an audit and implement the will of
the people in the state in which she lives and serves.
It's crazy. It's corruption, plain and simple. Why are companies
being paid millions of dollars in no bid contracts? Who's
getting the kickbacks? Because you know what's happening. These people
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should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. And you need to
remember this come election day.
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Now.
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We started this segment talking about crypto and man has
crypto become a political issue? Unfortunately, technology and innovation should
never be a partisan issue. But a major reason it
has is because of the senior Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. Look,
I've been in crypto since twenty sixteen when I bought
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my first bitcoin. I'm obviously a true believer in the technology,
but I was shocked when Senator Warren announced that she
was running for a third term and focusing her attention
on building an anti crypto army.
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With all the.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Issues we face in Massachusetts and in America, why would
crypto be such a big deal for her?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Crypto is in a.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Top five or a top ten kitchen able for Massachusetts voters.
With illegal immigration bankrupting this state, with inflation pricing Americans
out of the ecountable economy, affordable housing crisis, and opioiated epidemic,
foreign wars Ukraine and Russia, Israel and God's bah hesbealah
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Iran and the hoodies in the Red Sea, climate change
versus siensible energy policy, a complete lack of confidence in
our institutions, the rise of anti Semitism on our college campuses,
and the list goes on. With all those things going on,
why would Elizabeth Warren be so fricking worried about crypto?
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I couldn't figure it out until she went on Meet
the Press and said we needed to ban Bitcoin and
implement a federal Reserve issued Central Bank digital currency aka CBDC.
George Odwell had to be spinning in his grave when
she said that, because a federal Reserve issued CBDC is
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big brother coming to life. In fact, a federal reserve
issued consumer CBDC is the single great is threat of
freedom of my lifetime, and it's a hell I will
die on. Approximately fifty two million Americans own crypto, and
some Bitcoin and crypto have become a central issue in
today's world. On one hand, you have Elizabeth Warren and
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people like or wanting to ban it. On the other hand,
President Trump, to an executive order, has created a strategic
bitcoin reserve for America. He's directed his Commerce and his
Treasury Secretary to buy bitcoin and acquire it in budget
neutral ways. There's a proposed bill in the United States
Senate authorizing the United States government to buy one million
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bitcoin in the next five years. Yet most people in
the world, including the folks listening to this show, don't
understand bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'll help you understand it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Before I explain bitcoin, let me share with you why
I was attracted to it and why today I have
eighty percent of my net worth invested in it. Remember
earlier when I said we're all of a sum of
our life experiences, and it's those experiences to shape how
we view the world and why we react the way
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we do to certain things. Well, that applies to me
and bitcoin. Bitcoin allows you to transfer value from one
person to another directly without using a bank or an
intermediary like a money gram or a Western Union. Bitcoin
was created in two thousand and nine after the two
thousand and eight financial crisis and all the bank failures.
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Except with bitcoin, there's no middleman, there's no bank. And
when I read the Bitcoin white paper.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I thought of my mom.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
My mom was on welfare and food stamps during the
nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, and got to remember,
there's no direct deposit back then. There's no electronic ebt cards.
Back then, the mailman brought the physical welfare check. But
my mom couldn't keep a bank account because she couldn't
keep a minimum balance. We needed every penny every month,
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and the banks would hit her with those predatory fees
because she would go below that minimum balance. That's how
poor people get treated in this country. They get charged
more money that they don't have when they don't play
by the rules. So my mom was forced to go
to these check cashing stores that you see in the hood,
these stores that have signs that say check cashing lott O,
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Western Union and liquor. Those stores would charge fifteen percent
to cash my mom's welfare check. I remember my mom
begging the store owners to charge less because we needed
the money to survive. At seven or eight years old,
I remember my beautiful, sweet mother debasing herself, begging these
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store owners to take less because we needed the money
to survive on I remember these store owners laughing at
my mom and even propositioning her that they would cut
the fee or give no fee if she would perform
sex acts on them. Of course, she never did. When
I got to college, I had a few extra bucks
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from working nights and weekends. I would send my mom
money to help with my younger siblings, but I would
have to go through Western Union, and Western Union would
take twelve percent. So if I wanted to send my
mom one hundred bucks, she gets eighty eight bucks after
Western Union takes their cut. And trust me, my mother
could take twelve dollars by pinto beans, corn meal for
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corn bread and potatoes and stretch that twelve bucks out
more than you could ever believe. So when I read
about bitcoin, I thought of my mom and how bitcoin
cuts out the banks and the middlemans, the check cashing stores,
and the Western unions. All you need is a smartphone
and an Internet connection and you could get money to
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a loved one quickly. I thought about how bitcoin could
help unbanked people and lift them out of pover and
spread capitalism around the world. And woman in Nigeria with
a phone and website can make hats and sell them
directly to customers and not need a bank account just
to accept bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I was hooked to me.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Bitcoin represented the new American dream. Before the commercial break,
remember you can email comments, questions, and criticisms at John
at Hard Truthshow dot com. We'll be right back. Welcome
back to the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. Email me
your comments, criticisms, and concerns. Tell me what's on your
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mind and what I should cover on the Hard Truth.
You can reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com.
John at Hardtruthshow dot com. We were talking about crypto
and the rise of bitcoin. Now this isn't financial advice,
but in my opinion, I think it is way riskier
today to have no exposure to bitcoin and crypto than
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it is to allocate a small percentage of your net
worth in the asset.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You certainly don't have to do what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
But there's a reason I have eighty percent of my
net worth in this asset class, and I'll explain that
as we move forward in these shows. But first, let
me define bitcoin for you, and I'm going to give
you what I believe is the best technical definition that
you'll ever hear about bitcoin. That has a lot of adjectives,
and it's those individual adjectives cumulatively that show you why
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bitcoin is the greatest and best asset in the world today. Okay,
So bitcoin is a global, non sovereign, decentralized, verifiably scarce,
limited supply, immutable, impossible to counterfeit, divisible, portable, transferable, digital
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store of value. Bitcoin has been described as digital property
or digital gold, except it's better than gold because it's
more scarce than gold. It's more portable than gold because
you carry it around on your phone in a digital wallet,
and it's more divisible than gold because you can't divide
gold bars. But each bitcoin is made up of one
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hundred million stoshis. You could buy one dollars worth of
bitcoin today. Bitcoin's over one hundred thousand dollars per bitcoin,
and I'm telling you it's going to eventually go over
one million per coin. After Bitcoin, there's these other tokens
and blockchains that were created Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and many more.
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But let me make this clear. I need everybody out
there to please understand that there is a lot of
garbage in crypto. I don't own mean coins, NFTs or
pictures of monkeys, but certain coins like Bitcoin and XRP
will help improve the world. Don't listen to the people
like Elizabeth Warren and the nonsense and the gas lighting
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where she claims that only terrorists and drug cartels and
criminals use crypto.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Less than one percent of all crypto is used for
illicit purposes. Bitcoin is a public distributed ledger. Every transaction
is recorded forever on the blockchain. The FBI, CIA, NSSAY
have all come out and said that they hope criminals
and terrorists use bitcoin in other crypto because they can
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trace it on chain. Simply put, you'd have to be
a moron to use bitcoin or crypto for criminal activities.
Cash is still king, and when it comes to illegal activities,
the banks are still the number one culprit in the world.
When I ran against Elizabeth Warrens, she kept saying crypto
was being used by terrorists. So here's the hard truth.
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Hamas leadership put a directive out telling all its supporters
to not use crypto because it was so easily traceable
and it was being seized by the governments. Why do
you think the United the State's government is the fourth
largest holder of bitcoin in the world. It's because they
seized it after tracing it on the blockchain. I guarantee
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you one thing. Our elected leaders in Massachusetts don't want
blockchain technology being utilized. We should have all government spending
on the blockchain. Every single payment using taxpayer funds could
be seen, recorded, and viewed by each tax player on chain. Hell,
we wouldn't need an audit that we're fighting for because
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all the government payments would be on a public ledger.
Our Department of Defense hasn't passed an audit in twelve years.
The Pentagon can't find a trillion dollars of money or equipment.
Imagine if it was all on chain, on a public
ledger that we all could access. Now you see why
governments are so resistant. But enough about crypto for tonight's show.
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We will be moving forward and we have a crypto
corner segment do on future shows, but here, and let
me just make this clear, no matter how much Elizabeth
Warren doesn't like it, Crypto's here to stay. Now what
else can you expect here? On the hard Truth? As
we move forward, we will tackle national politics and bring
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you the unfiltered truth of what's really happening and what
you can and cannot trust. Although the twenty twenty six
midterms are far away, politics in Massachusetts is already heating up.
Governor Morriheeley has announced that she's running again for governor,
and so far too Republican challengers have already announced that
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they intend to defeat Moraheey. Mike Kanely, who served in
the Charlie Baker administration, first as Assistant Secretary for Business
Growth and later as Secretary of Housing in Economic Development,
has announced that he's running for governor. Venture capitalist Brian Shortsleeve,
who also served under Charlie Baker as acting MBTA General
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Manager in chief admitted illustrator, has also announced that he's
running for governor to replace Morihey, and it looks like
there'll be at least one more Republican challenger to enter
the governor's race. The Boston Herald has reported that mega
Republican donor Mike mcnogue is also considering a run to
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be the Republican nominee to take out Moriheey. Look, objectively speaking,
Moraheey has been a disaster from Massachusetts. Regardless of political affiliation,
one party rule is not healthy for a state. The
mere fact that there's no transparency alone is disqualifying. I
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would say the same thing if Republicans had a super
majority like the Democrats do here, and we're so arrogant
and from being in charge so long that they won't
allow an audit seventy two percent of the voters demanded.
So I can already tell you that I hope one
of these Republicans can make the case to the voters.
In fact, word twenty twenty five, I attended the first
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annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner, awards and ceremony put on by
several Republican town committees, and I got to meet and
listen to these potential candidates for governor. I truly believe
this next election is the best opportunity for Republicans to
win and make progress about this.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
One party rule.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
On this show, we will keep track of that Republican
primary race and invite each candidate for governor to come
on the show, answer some questions and make their case
and whether they're a friend or not. I will ask
the tough questions and we will get the hard truth
before the twenty twenty six midterms. There is a big
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race in Boston. Michelle wou the mayor, is running against
Josh Kraft, and we will offer each one of them
on the show to make their case. And the governor's
race isn't the only high profile race in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Get this.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Eighty year old US Senator Ed Markey has said he's
seeking another term as if fifty years in Washington wasn't enough.
Let me put it this way. I'm fifty seven years old,
and I'm not a young man by any standard. But
when Ed Markey first went to Washington, I was nine.
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The Red Sox was cursed and tickets at Fenway were
a dollar twenty five. If Ed Markey wins reelection, he
will be eighty six years old still in office. Ed
Markey's been in Washington so long. He was actually there
when Democrats were against foreign wars, and they fought for
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free speech, and they even waved American flags. Markey pushes
the Green New Deal, he votes against border security every time,
and he cheers biological men competing against women just to
score points with the woke elite.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And leave it to a.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Career politician who's been in office for half a century
to have the audacity to look voters in the face
and say, give me a chance. I think it's time
for term limits. What do you think now? I think
Marquy is very beatable. And to be candid with you,
supporters of mine commissioned a recent poll that showed that
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I could beat ed Markey if I get in the race.
But to be honest with you, I don't know if
I want to run again. Feel free to share your thoughts,
the good, the bad, and I'll read them on the air,
even the comments and criticisms. Each week we'll check on
Massachusetts politics and what's happening, because there seems always be
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something going on. Whether Ice is in town, their attorney
general suing Trump again, the governor and mayor of Boston
promising to not only not cooperate with Ice but make
it harder for Ice to find folks, or Trump taking
away Harvard's tax exempt status, there's always something moving forward.
We will check on the status of the audit and
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what needs to be done to implement the will of
the people. I have volunteered my services in my law firm,
the Deeton Law Firm, to help in any way, including
suing Attorney General Campbell to do her job or get
out of the way and let us taxpayers do the
job and sue the legislature. Would a radio show in
Massachusetts be without a Karen Reid trial update? Did Karen
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Read back the car into John O'Keeffe and leave him
for dead? Was it intentional or was she too damn
drunk to know one way or the other? Why would
the prosecutor charger with second degree murderer and not manslaughter?
Did she do it or was it a conspiracy born
out of that fateful night to frame Karen Read After
John O'Keefe was killed inside thirty four Fairview Road and
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Canton Are the wounds on John o'keef's arm dog bites?
Why did Brian Albert get rid of his dog? Why
did he renovate his basement and sell his house under
asking price? As a cop? Why Wouldney come outside after
he found a fellow cop was dead on his lawn?
How did all those shattered pieces of tailgate get missed
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for three weeks? How did the guy with the leaf
blower miss dozens of pieces of tail light if he
got hit by a car going twenty four miles an hour?
Where's the bruising on his body? Is Trooper Michael Proctor
a special needs cop? Is Jim McCabe truthful or a
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social path? Speaking of social path? Did Karen Reid really
run over John O'Keefe hitting him with a car, leaving
him to freeze to death, and then as he's dying
on the ground, call his cell phone and call him
an effing pervert as he's dying. As both a defense
attorney and a former federal prosecutor, I'll give insight on
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the chances of Karen Reid being found guilty. Remember, you
can email me comments, questions, criticisms or topics you want
to hear. All Right, people, that's it for the very
first show. Thank you for tuning in. I really appreciate you,
and I really do want to hear from you and
what you have to say about anything I said or
what you think I should cover in future shows. Please
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email me at John at Hartruthshow dot com. That's John
at Hartruthshow dot com. You can follow me on exit
Johnny Deaton one. I'll see you next week.
Don't even think of touching that Dow or changing the
channel because it's Sunday at seven pm on IHEARTWRKOAM six
't eighty and you're locked into the Hard Truth with
John Deaton. You can email the show at John at
Hardtruthshow dot com. John at Hardtruthshow dot com. We're videotaping
this so you can find it on YouTube. You can
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go to my ex channel John E. Deaton one. If
you miss the show, Good even everyone. I'm John Daton.
I'm a retired Marine officer at nineteen ninety five, graduate
of New England School of Law in Boston, a former
federal prosecutor and author A Food Stamp Warrior, a memoir
about overcoming extreme poverty, incredible levels of violence, addiction, cancer,
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and ultimately overcoming life's biggest obstacle, ourselves to never give
up and never quit fighting for the life.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That you deserve.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Some of you listening right now might know me by
my law practice, the Deep and Law Firm, taking on
some of the world's biggest and most powerful companies, companies
like Pfizer, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Travelers, Insurance, General Electric, Monsanto,
Union Card by you name a huge conglomerate, and I've
battled them and their high priced lawyers. I fought these
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companies because they poisoned regular hardworking people with one of
the world's most famous known poisons, asbestos. Now, asbestos causes
lung cancer, and it causes a disease called mesothelioma, a
rare form of cancer that's in the lining of the wrongs,
and unfortunately it's a death sentence. For the last twenty
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three years, I've been a lawyer here in Massachusetts and
I've had the honor of representing regular hard working people.
I'm talking plumbers, pipe fitters, insulators, electricians, engineers, boilermakers, sheet rockers, roofers,
brake mechanics, shipyard and iron workers all across the Commonwealth. Look,
I've represented turbine technicians at Canal Electric and Sandwich, boiler
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makers at Boston, Edison and Newton, maintenance workers at the
ge plant in Pittsfield, farmers in Southampton, textile workers out
of Fall River, and shipyard workers at Ford River Shipyard
and Quinsy. Sometimes it's not the worker who gets sick,
but a family member. I've represented dozens of wives who
got mezzathieleoma from the dust from Washington their husband's clothes.
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I've represented women who got mezathieleoma because of makeup they used.
It was contaminated with asbestos contaminated talc. I've represented professional
folks like accountants or bankers who only had one job
for one summer when the Prudential Center was being built.
Many of my clients have served on board ships serving
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in the United States Navy. I've represented a service member
who was a machinist mate on board the SS Constitution,
built right here in Quinsy. Now, don't confuse that with
the us USS Constitution or Old Ironside, which was launched
in seventeen ninety seven and is the world's oldest commissioned
naval vessel, still afloat today and docked in Boston at
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the Charleston Navy Shipyard. It's open to the public and
you should check it out if you have it. If
you don't know me for my law practice representing asbestos victims,
you might know me because of my legal work in
the world of cryptocurrencies, you know, Bitcoin, XRP, Theorium, and
the like. I sued the United States government, specifically the
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Security Exchange Commission, the SEC because government regulators had engaged
in some really bad acts and it was hurting regular people.
These bad government actors, working on behalf of a couple billionaires,
declared ethereum and bitcoin as legitimate tokens, but said XRP
was illegal. They did it despite knowing that innocent investors
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would be wiped out. These insiders made billions and XRP
holders were hurt really bad, and some people actually lost
their life savings. Now, look, I couldn't sit back and
do nothing, so I sued the government, and some phenomena happened.
Seventy five thousand XRP holds joined me in suing the government,
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including six hundred and twenty seven that live in Massachusetts.
We fought the government and we won, and mann am
I proud of it. I did that case pro bono,
and it helped shape crypto regulation in America. Because of
that work, I made a name for myself in crypto,
and I even founded a site called Crypto law dot us.
So if you're big in a bitcoin, etheryum, XRP, or crypto,
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you might recognize who I am. Now, lastly, some of
you may recognize my name because you may have voted
for me you might be one of the one point
three million voters who voted for me, or maybe you didn't.
But regardless, I was the twenty twenty four Republican nominee
for US Senate, going up against no other than Elizabeth
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Warren in last November. Well, I didn't win, and unfortunately
I'm not your US Senator, but I am proud that
I stepped up and put myself out there, especially in
this extremely politically divided world we now live in. Now,
as soon as you're running for public office, it seems
that some people, including the media, immediately look for reasons
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to cut you down against me. It really didn't work
because there's nothing to find that I haven't already admitted
to in my book, Food Stamp Warrior.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
In my book, I literally.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Discuss every bad decision or bad thing I've done in
my life. My book is as real and as raw
as you will ever find on a bookstore or online,
and I am very proud of it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Look, the explosion and growth of social media today has
made things even worse. People hide behind memes and avatars
and made up names, and they say mean stuff for
cruel things or lies that they would never say or
have the courage to say when they're face to face
with you. Before social media, it was word of mouth,
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but it had very limited reach. But today, somebody makes
something up about you or take something out of context.
They hit a button on their phone or on their laptop,
and all of a sudden, hundreds of people know, and
if they have a bigger following, all of a sudden,
thousands of people know. And what's even worse today is
your adversaries. They will pay someone who is an influencer
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on x or on Facebook or TikTok or whatever. You
pay them, and they say something bad or wrong or
something out of context, and before you know it, something
has a million views and it's completely not true.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
When I was seventeen years old, my best friend Derek
was killed by a drive by shooting. He was shot
four times and was dying in my arms, and the
gang bangers that shot him were backing up to finish
the job and they were going to kill me. Because
I was literally holding him kneeling on the ground, I
heard someone yell they're coming back now. I would never
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run away and leave my best friend to die alone
on the ground, so I grabbed his handgun. I stood
up and I shot fired the entire clip into the
car that was pointing AK forty seven at us. I
unloaded the clip, and I write about it in my book,
and I admit that I may have hit someone in
the back seat.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Of that car.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't know well that story made the media, except
they never included that it was forty years ago. They
never included that had I not done what I did,
I'd be dead today. All they shared was John Deaton
may have shot and killed someone in a drug deal.
Another example I'll give you is also documented in my
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book Food Stamp Warrior. Between the ages of nine and eleven,
I was raped in one of the most brutal manners
imaginable by a child predator in the neighborhood. The predator
happened to be black because I lived in a predominantly
black neighborhood. It was like ninety four percent African American. Now,
I discuss and write about the rapes in my book,
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and in my book, I write about the things that
this predator would say to me as he beat me,
as he raped me, And he repeatedly used the in word.
In fact, he called me his little in word In
my book, I write about these things and I don't
edit it or asterisk any names or words. And of course,
when I ran for Senate, the people opposing me tried
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to paint me as a racist. Certain media outlets asked,
why didn't you edit your book. My answer was simple.
The child rapists didn't edit his words or his actions
as he was doing those things to me. So my
book and the reader reading it should read the way
it happened. They deserved the hard truth. And that's why
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I read name this show the Hard Truth. What world
do we live in when you're raped as a child,
and after forty years of keeping it inside, never telling
the soul about it, you find the courage to finally
admit it to the world. And because you tell it
just the way it happened, some people try to make
you the bad guy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But that's our politics today.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Unfortunately, now that experience running for public office is in
part why I'm doing this show, and it's certainly why
it's called the Hard Truth. There's so much bs and
nonsense going around, and now you add AI into the mix,
and you literally have no idea of what's truthful and
accurate anymore. So I decided to do this radio show.
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The other reason to do this show is because I
think I have something to offer you, the audience, but
ultimately you'll.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Be the judge of that.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm fifty seven years old and my life has.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Been unique, to say the least.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I have a genuine desire to try to help people,
and that's why I ran for senate. Be honest, my
life is pretty damn blessed now and the future looks bright,
but it wasn't all that way. In fact, I often
wondered why is life so hard as it is? Sometimes
maybe you and I can try to figure that out together. Now, Look,
this is a paid advertisement by the Deep and Law Firm,
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and if you are a loved one have been diagnosed
with mesothelioma, lung cancer, or aspestosis, I can definitely help you. Look,
I'm not running for public office right now, although I
haven't ruled it out in the future. So this is
a way for me to stay connected to the community
and learn what's on your mind and what's important to you.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
As this show moves forward.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I plan to know you and highlight regular people in
the community. I don't believe I'm the only one that
has something to say, so I want to hear from you.
In fact, I'll read your comments, both good and bad,
on the air. I'll even bring you on air to
dispute a challenge what I say. Because even if we
disagree with each other, we must start listening to each other.
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So write this down. You can email the show at
John at Hardtruthshow dot com. That's John at Hardtruthshow dot com.
You can follow me on exit Johnnydeaton. You can watch
this show on YouTube or on my X channel. I'm
hoping you'll think it's worth listening to and giving me
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one hour.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Of your week.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
After the break, I'll give you a synopsis of my life,
my life experience, so you know exactly who you're listening
to and why I think the way I think. I
promise you this, it won't be boring. Welcome back to
the Hard Truth. I'm John Daton and you can connect
at the show at John at Haardtruthshow dot com. That's
John at Hardtruthshow dot com. You can also follow me
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on exit Johnnydeaton. One look, One thing I've learned in
life is that each one of us is a sum
of our life experiences. It makes us who we are.
How we react to things how we view the world,
and we carry all these experiences around with us, and
sometimes times those experiences force us to carry burdens around.
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Where you're about to learn is that my life experiences
are pretty extreme. I wasn't born in Massachusetts. I was
born in Detroit, Michigan, a place called Highland Park, which
is basically a sub section of Detroit, And unfortunately it's
one of the poorest and most dangerous places in the
Detroit area, hell in all of America, to be honest
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with you, because for the last fifty years, Highland Park,
Detroit has been consistently ranked as one of America's worst
and most dangerous neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Put it this way, not too far from.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
My childhood home is a sign that reads, quote enter
at your own risk.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Police do not patrol the area. End quote.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I was born in that area, Highland Park, in nineteen
sixty seven, single mother on welfare and food stamps, and
I was the fourth child my dad, a degenerate gambler
who abandoned us in that hell hole. When I was
six years years old, my mom was robbed and stabbed
in front of me. I remember watching blood squirt out
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of her back, and I was begging her at six
not to die. If my mom had died, my life
would have been over. I'd have ended up in foster cares,
and who knows what had happened to me. What made
things even worse more horrifying, is that the man who
stabbed my mom was also a neighborhood predator who repeatedly
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raped and beat me between the ages of nine and eleven. Now,
in my book fo Stamp Warrior, I discussed how horrific
it was, and I don't hold back on the details.
I won't discuss those details on the air, But imagine
the worst things possible that could happen to a child,
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and you'll get the picture.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
The predator was able to keep me silent because he
said that if my mom or anyone else found out
what was happening and what he was doing to me,
he would kill my mother. He then drove by my
house a couple times, pointing at my mother sitting on
the porch as a way of reminding me of the
consequences if I told anything or anyone what he was
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doing to me. I have to watching my mom get
stabbed and almost die just a few years earlier. You
can see why I remained silent, and I kept that
dark secret inside me for forty years, not telling the
soul until I wrote my book. I tried my best
to pretend that it never happened, and for four decades
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I was able to do that until I could pretend
no more. What I learned firsthand is that unexamined trauma
will manifest itself one way or the other, and it'll
sneak up on you when you least expect it. Even
at a time when you're successful and you think you've
conquered all the demons that you need to conquer, it'll
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sneak up and catch you when you least expect it.
I learned it's okay to acknowledge and admit that I
was hurt, Admit that I got damaged, admit that I
got scarred. You also finally accept and realize that it's
not your fault that you didn't do anything wrong. When
kids go through sexual abuse like I did, you start
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believing something is wrong or bad about you, or this
wouldn't have happened. So if anyone who's listening out there
went through something similar, it's okay to acknowledge it. To
be hurt, to be scarred, to be damaged, just to
what makes us human. You don't have to run from it.
You don't have to pretend it didn't happen. Don't keep
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it inside like I did. Eating at you, look at me.
I didn't tell a soul for forty years, and now
I'm here talking about it on the radio, and I've
written about it in my book, and I've never been
more at peace about it my entire life. Now, what
you'll learn about me is that my life life is
the living, breathing embodiment of the American dream. For the
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first three or four years of months of high school,
I was a high school dropout. Was just like all
the siblings before me. I was the only white student
in my neighborhood. And on the very first day of
high school at Highland Park High I had a thirty
eight shoven in my mouth and the hammer cocked. That night,
I went across the street and I got a gun
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from my neighbor and I was headed back to school
the next day. But on the way to school, I
sat at a bench and I thought, I'm probably gonna
use this gun, and I'm either gonna end up dead
or I'm gonna end up in prison.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So I didn't go back and I dropped out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So I'm fourteen years old and it's nineteen eighty one,
and you gotta remember there was no Google back then
to search nearby schools, and I couldn't find a high
school to go to, and time was running out. I
had already missed the first three months of high school,
and I had one last minute, and that that last
minute I would find my chance. What happened next proves
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that one single act of kindness and generosity can change
the trajectory of a person's life. The person who changed
my life was Terry Urkhart, a principal at a tiny
Catholic high school in the suburbs of Detroit. I sat
in his office waiting for him for four hours, and
I told him I needed to go to high school.
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And I asked him, how much is the tuition here
at Saint Mary's in Royal Oak, Michigan. Prince Borckart looked
at me and said, it's fourteen hundred dollars per year. Now,
this is nineteen eighty one, and fourteen hundred mine as
we've been fourteen thousand to me. I asked the principal
if I could make payments and I would find some
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way to pay for it, if he would just give
me a chance. And at that moment, that man could
have said, sorry, kid, there's nothing I can do for you.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But he did.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He gave me a shot. But he also made me
earn it. He said he would cut the tuition in half.
It'd be seven hundred dollars a year if I maintained
a three point five and played two sports, that I
was active in the church activities. So at fourteen years old,
I got a job washing dishes and eventually waiting tables,
and I began eighteen hour days commuting out of the
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hood to attend high school and work in the suburbs.
That one incredible act of kindness and generosity by a
high school principle saved my life, and I will never
forget the name of Terry Urkhard. My story proves one
act of kindness can change a person's life. I graduated
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high school and went on to college at Easter Mister University.
And after college, I came here to Boston to go
to law school. Now, let me be perfectly honest, I
had no connection to Boston or Massachusetts. Except for one thing.
I was the biggest Larry fan on the planet. I
lived and breathed the Boston Celtics, and I laugh at
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these young people and players today when they act like
Larry Bird wouldn't dominate today. I'd take Larry Bird over
Lebron James every day and twice on Sundays. Nineteen eighty four,
eighty five, and eighty six to three years in a
row that Bird won League MVP. I can tell you
no player in history has been more dominant in a
three year period than Larry Legend and the nineteen eighty
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six Celtics, one of the greatest teams ever assembled.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
My first year of law school in Boston, I needed
cheap rent because money was very tight, as you can imagine,
so I lived in Roxbury.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
People tried to tell me that Roxbury was dangerous, but
coming from the place I came from, it was pretty
damn nice. I still remember playing hoop at Washington Park.
Today it's called Malcolm X Park, but when I lived there,
it was Washington Park.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
My second year of law school, I lived in East Boston,
a couple blocks from Santarpo's Pizza, which I admit it's
pretty good pizza. My last year of New England School
of Law, I lived in Malden, off the Orange Line.
Now in law school, I realized I was on my
way to achieving the American dream, and I wanted somehow
to honor it. So I signed up to serve in
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the Marine Corps between my second and third year law school.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
But even that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Didn't come easy, because in nineteen ninety two a blockbuster
movie came out called A Few Good Men with Jack
Nicholson and Tom Cruise, and all of a sudden, everybody
wanted to be a military jag lawyer. Massachusetts was competitive
as heck, considering we have so many good law schools Harvard,
b C, b U, Suffolk, New England School of Law,
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U mass Law, and more. In nineteen ninety four, the
Marine Corps had only one slot for all of Massachusetts,
and boy am I proud to say that although I
couldn't get into Harvard, and god knows I couldn't afford Harvard,
I beat out students at Harvard, bc BU, Suffolk in
the Marine Corps. Corse selected me to represent the entire
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Commonwealth for the nineteen ninety four Judge Advocate law contract
and it is one of the best honors of my life.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I spent seven years on active duty. I was first
stationed at the border in Yuma, Arizona, fighting drug cartels
from smuggling drugs and people across the border. While in Yuma,
I was a special assistant the United States Attorney for
the District of Arizona, and I got to be both
a criminal defense lawyer and a prosecutor. After Youma, I
was stationed in Newport, Rhode Island, teaching lawyers at the
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Naval Justice School and teaching generals and admirals at the
Naval War College. Unfortunately, during training, I got injured. Yes,
even though I was a lawyer in the Marines, you're
a rifleman first and you must complete all types of
combat and infantry training. After a couple of spinal surgeries
my back, my days of hiking fifteen miles with an
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eighty pound backpack were over and I was medically retired Marines.
I've been a lawyer in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and
other jurisdictions, fighting for working families, against the biggest companies
in the world, for people exposed to asbestos who get
lung cancer or the disease mesothelioma. I'm a proud father
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of three daughters. Olivia twenty five, who graduated at USC
lives in California, Jordan, who's twenty three graduated UMass Amhurst
lives in London and working on her master's degree in neuroscience.
And Layla, my six year old who goes to kindergarten
and Bolton, where I live with Christiana and Lala, and
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my two step kids, Jackson and Mackenzie, Nella, my dog
Penelope and Cornelius, my pigs, and my eleven chickens, and
once I have a barn built, I'm going to get
a couple of goats. So now you know who I
am and some of my life experiences. I've overcome poverty,
cancer and extreme violence, been through divorce, and even battled
addiction pain pills after the multiple bat surgeries. As this
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show moves forward, I plan to get to know you
and highlight regular people in the community. I don't believe
I'm the only one who has something to say. I
want to hear from you. In fact, I will read
your comments, both good and bad, on the air, even
if we disagree with each other. So write this down
John at Hartruthshow dot com, John Haardtruthshow dot Com. The
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radio show won't be like others, and when we come
back from the break, I'll go over what you can expect.
Don't you dare change that channel. Welcome back to the
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. You can email me at
the show at John at hardtruthshow dot com. I mentioned
earlier that I made a name for myself in the
world of crypto. I sued the United States government on
behalf of seventy five thousand token holders. XRP was the
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token in question, and six hundred and twenty seven base
staters joined me in that lawsuit. We battled the government
and we won. Now, when doing so, let me tell
you what I learned about our financial system. It's one
hundred percent corrupt. People get these government positions and then
they sell out, or I should say they cash out,
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and they do things that benefit only a few people
at the expense of many. I uncovered an exposed regulatory
capture at the SEC. A couple billionaires told a few
regulators which tokens to bless and which tokens to sue,
And after the regulators did exactly what these billionaires told
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them them to do. The billionaires hired those regulators to
come work for them and make millions. We are simply
living in the corruption era. We have a system in
America where the chairman of the FDA can resign on
Friday and on Monday be on the board of Pfeiser
or SEC officials they leave the SEC and all of
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a sudden, they're working for the same companies that they
were just investigating. We have a revolving door at our
federal agencies and it's an absolute disgrace. They don't even
hide it anymore. And it's not just at the federal level.
Look what's going on here in Massachusetts. One hundred percent
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corruption in front of our faces. Governor Moraheey literally signed
a bill protecting her friend, the CEO of a company
called Blue Hub that praise on vulnerable homeowners in underserved
communities like Roxbury and Mattapan. Moraheey signed into a law
a bill that prevents homeowners from being able to sue
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her friend's company. Talk about corruption, and this is after
Morahelly appointed her ex lover to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Look,
define corruption in Massachusetts. You don't have to look any
further than Beacon Hill, the Governor's office and the office
of Attorney General. Seventy two percent of voters in Massachusetts
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demanded an audit of the state legislature. Overwhelmingly, the people
of Massachusetts made it law authorizing the state auditor to
audit the taxpayer books. Do you know how hard it
is in today's divided world to get seventy two percent
of the people degree on anything, but they did when
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it comes to this audit. But our elected leaders in
Beacon Hill won't allow the audit to move forward. They're
fighting at tooth and nail. And this isn't a Republican
or a Democrat issue. The state Auditor, Diana Dezaglio, is
a Democrat. The state legislature in Massachusetts is eighty eight
percent Democrat. The governor and Lieutenant governor Democrats. The Senate
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President Karen spik a Democrat. Speaker of the House Ron Mariano, Democrat,
Secretary of State Democrat, Attorney General Andrea Campbell Democrat, the
two US Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren Democrats. Every
Congression no seat in Massachusetts at the federal level Democrats.
What are these Democrats say? About the audit. They lie
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and say the audit is a Republican initiative meant to
harass the leadership. The state auditor is a Democrat. How
corrupt do you have to be to fight an audit
of taxpayer money? Governor Healy had eight billion dollars in
a rainy day fund and claimed that there was no
money available to save Carney Hospital in Dorchester or in
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the Shoba Valley Medical Center in Central mass Where the
money go? How much money is being spent to house, feed,
clothes and take care of illegal migrants? Have we spent
one billion dollars or has it been three billion dollars.
We've learned that hotels are getting five thousand dollars a
month per room, just for the room. We've heard that
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migrants are getting sixty four dollars a day for food
allowances and case mills. When you had the hotel rooms
and the catered mills alone, that's seventy eight thousand dollars
per migrant. In the meantime, an electrician apprentice makes fifty
five grand a year trying to feed a family while
working his butt off fifty hours a week. It's fricking insane.
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On what planet. Do these people think that we don't
have a right to know how and where our herd
earned tax dollars are being spent. Yet we can't get
an audit, and we have a governor and an attorney
general complicit in the corruption. Attorney General Andrea Campbell has
sued Donald Trump eleven times in three months, but she
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won't help force an audit and implement the will of
the people in the state in which she lives and serves.
It's crazy. It's corruption, plain and simple. Why are companies
being paid millions of dollars in no bid contracts? Who's
getting the kickbacks? Because you know what's happening. These people
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should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. And you need to
remember this come election day.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
We started this segment talking about crypto and man has
crypto become a political issue? Unfortunately, technology and innovation should
never be a partisan issue. But a major reason it
has is because of the senior Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. Look,
I've been in crypto since twenty sixteen when I bought
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my first bitcoin. I'm obviously a true believer in the technology,
but I was shocked when Senator Warren announced that she
was running for a third term and focusing her attention
on building an anti crypto army.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
With all the.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Issues we face in Massachusetts and in America, why would
crypto be such a big deal for her?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Crypto is in a.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Top five or a top ten kitchen able for Massachusetts voters.
With illegal immigration bankrupting this state, with inflation pricing Americans
out of the ecountable economy, affordable housing crisis, and opioiated epidemic,
foreign wars Ukraine and Russia, Israel and God's bah hesbealah
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Iran and the hoodies in the Red Sea, climate change
versus siensible energy policy, a complete lack of confidence in
our institutions, the rise of anti Semitism on our college campuses,
and the list goes on. With all those things going on,
why would Elizabeth Warren be so fricking worried about crypto?
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I couldn't figure it out until she went on Meet
the Press and said we needed to ban Bitcoin and
implement a federal Reserve issued Central Bank digital currency aka CBDC.
George Odwell had to be spinning in his grave when
she said that, because a federal Reserve issued CBDC is
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big brother coming to life. In fact, a federal reserve
issued consumer CBDC is the single great is threat of
freedom of my lifetime, and it's a hell I will
die on. Approximately fifty two million Americans own crypto, and
some Bitcoin and crypto have become a central issue in
today's world. On one hand, you have Elizabeth Warren and
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people like or wanting to ban it. On the other hand,
President Trump, to an executive order, has created a strategic
bitcoin reserve for America. He's directed his Commerce and his
Treasury Secretary to buy bitcoin and acquire it in budget
neutral ways. There's a proposed bill in the United States
Senate authorizing the United States government to buy one million
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bitcoin in the next five years. Yet most people in
the world, including the folks listening to this show, don't
understand bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'll help you understand it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Before I explain bitcoin, let me share with you why
I was attracted to it and why today I have
eighty percent of my net worth invested in it. Remember
earlier when I said we're all of a sum of
our life experiences, and it's those experiences to shape how
we view the world and why we react the way
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we do to certain things. Well, that applies to me
and bitcoin. Bitcoin allows you to transfer value from one
person to another directly without using a bank or an
intermediary like a money gram or a Western Union. Bitcoin
was created in two thousand and nine after the two
thousand and eight financial crisis and all the bank failures.
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Except with bitcoin, there's no middleman, there's no bank. And
when I read the Bitcoin white paper.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I thought of my mom.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
My mom was on welfare and food stamps during the
nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, and got to remember,
there's no direct deposit back then. There's no electronic ebt cards.
Back then, the mailman brought the physical welfare check. But
my mom couldn't keep a bank account because she couldn't
keep a minimum balance. We needed every penny every month,
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and the banks would hit her with those predatory fees
because she would go below that minimum balance. That's how
poor people get treated in this country. They get charged
more money that they don't have when they don't play
by the rules. So my mom was forced to go
to these check cashing stores that you see in the hood,
these stores that have signs that say check cashing lott O,
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Western Union and liquor. Those stores would charge fifteen percent
to cash my mom's welfare check. I remember my mom
begging the store owners to charge less because we needed
the money to survive. At seven or eight years old,
I remember my beautiful, sweet mother debasing herself, begging these
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store owners to take less because we needed the money
to survive on I remember these store owners laughing at
my mom and even propositioning her that they would cut
the fee or give no fee if she would perform
sex acts on them. Of course, she never did. When
I got to college, I had a few extra bucks
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from working nights and weekends. I would send my mom
money to help with my younger siblings, but I would
have to go through Western Union, and Western Union would
take twelve percent. So if I wanted to send my
mom one hundred bucks, she gets eighty eight bucks after
Western Union takes their cut. And trust me, my mother
could take twelve dollars by pinto beans, corn meal for
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corn bread and potatoes and stretch that twelve bucks out
more than you could ever believe. So when I read
about bitcoin, I thought of my mom and how bitcoin
cuts out the banks and the middlemans, the check cashing stores,
and the Western unions. All you need is a smartphone
and an Internet connection and you could get money to
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a loved one quickly. I thought about how bitcoin could
help unbanked people and lift them out of pover and
spread capitalism around the world. And woman in Nigeria with
a phone and website can make hats and sell them
directly to customers and not need a bank account just
to accept bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I was hooked to me.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Bitcoin represented the new American dream. Before the commercial break,
remember you can email comments, questions, and criticisms at John
at Hard Truthshow dot com. We'll be right back. Welcome
back to the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. Email me
your comments, criticisms, and concerns. Tell me what's on your
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mind and what I should cover on the Hard Truth.
You can reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com.
John at Hardtruthshow dot com. We were talking about crypto
and the rise of bitcoin. Now this isn't financial advice,
but in my opinion, I think it is way riskier
today to have no exposure to bitcoin and crypto than
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it is to allocate a small percentage of your net
worth in the asset.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You certainly don't have to do what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
But there's a reason I have eighty percent of my
net worth in this asset class, and I'll explain that
as we move forward in these shows. But first, let
me define bitcoin for you, and I'm going to give
you what I believe is the best technical definition that
you'll ever hear about bitcoin. That has a lot of adjectives,
and it's those individual adjectives cumulatively that show you why
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bitcoin is the greatest and best asset in the world today. Okay,
So bitcoin is a global, non sovereign, decentralized, verifiably scarce,
limited supply, immutable, impossible to counterfeit, divisible, portable, transferable, digital
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store of value. Bitcoin has been described as digital property
or digital gold, except it's better than gold because it's
more scarce than gold. It's more portable than gold because
you carry it around on your phone in a digital wallet,
and it's more divisible than gold because you can't divide
gold bars. But each bitcoin is made up of one
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hundred million stoshis. You could buy one dollars worth of
bitcoin today. Bitcoin's over one hundred thousand dollars per bitcoin,
and I'm telling you it's going to eventually go over
one million per coin. After Bitcoin, there's these other tokens
and blockchains that were created Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and many more.
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But let me make this clear. I need everybody out
there to please understand that there is a lot of
garbage in crypto. I don't own mean coins, NFTs or
pictures of monkeys, but certain coins like Bitcoin and XRP
will help improve the world. Don't listen to the people
like Elizabeth Warren and the nonsense and the gas lighting
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where she claims that only terrorists and drug cartels and
criminals use crypto.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Less than one percent of all crypto is used for
illicit purposes. Bitcoin is a public distributed ledger. Every transaction
is recorded forever on the blockchain. The FBI, CIA, NSSAY
have all come out and said that they hope criminals
and terrorists use bitcoin in other crypto because they can
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trace it on chain. Simply put, you'd have to be
a moron to use bitcoin or crypto for criminal activities.
Cash is still king, and when it comes to illegal activities,
the banks are still the number one culprit in the world.
When I ran against Elizabeth Warrens, she kept saying crypto
was being used by terrorists. So here's the hard truth.
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Hamas leadership put a directive out telling all its supporters
to not use crypto because it was so easily traceable
and it was being seized by the governments. Why do
you think the United the State's government is the fourth
largest holder of bitcoin in the world. It's because they
seized it after tracing it on the blockchain. I guarantee
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you one thing. Our elected leaders in Massachusetts don't want
blockchain technology being utilized. We should have all government spending
on the blockchain. Every single payment using taxpayer funds could
be seen, recorded, and viewed by each tax player on chain. Hell,
we wouldn't need an audit that we're fighting for because
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all the government payments would be on a public ledger.
Our Department of Defense hasn't passed an audit in twelve years.
The Pentagon can't find a trillion dollars of money or equipment.
Imagine if it was all on chain, on a public
ledger that we all could access. Now you see why
governments are so resistant. But enough about crypto for tonight's show.
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We will be moving forward and we have a crypto
corner segment do on future shows, but here, and let
me just make this clear, no matter how much Elizabeth
Warren doesn't like it, Crypto's here to stay. Now what
else can you expect here? On the hard Truth? As
we move forward, we will tackle national politics and bring
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you the unfiltered truth of what's really happening and what
you can and cannot trust. Although the twenty twenty six
midterms are far away, politics in Massachusetts is already heating up.
Governor Morriheeley has announced that she's running again for governor,
and so far too Republican challengers have already announced that
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they intend to defeat Moraheey. Mike Kanely, who served in
the Charlie Baker administration, first as Assistant Secretary for Business
Growth and later as Secretary of Housing in Economic Development,
has announced that he's running for governor. Venture capitalist Brian Shortsleeve,
who also served under Charlie Baker as acting MBTA General
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Manager in chief admitted illustrator, has also announced that he's
running for governor to replace Morihey, and it looks like
there'll be at least one more Republican challenger to enter
the governor's race. The Boston Herald has reported that mega
Republican donor Mike mcnogue is also considering a run to
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be the Republican nominee to take out Moriheey. Look, objectively speaking,
Moraheey has been a disaster from Massachusetts. Regardless of political affiliation,
one party rule is not healthy for a state. The
mere fact that there's no transparency alone is disqualifying. I
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would say the same thing if Republicans had a super
majority like the Democrats do here, and we're so arrogant
and from being in charge so long that they won't
allow an audit seventy two percent of the voters demanded.
So I can already tell you that I hope one
of these Republicans can make the case to the voters.
In fact, word twenty twenty five, I attended the first
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annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner, awards and ceremony put on by
several Republican town committees, and I got to meet and
listen to these potential candidates for governor. I truly believe
this next election is the best opportunity for Republicans to
win and make progress about this.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
One party rule.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
On this show, we will keep track of that Republican
primary race and invite each candidate for governor to come
on the show, answer some questions and make their case
and whether they're a friend or not. I will ask
the tough questions and we will get the hard truth
before the twenty twenty six midterms. There is a big
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race in Boston. Michelle wou the mayor, is running against
Josh Kraft, and we will offer each one of them
on the show to make their case. And the governor's
race isn't the only high profile race in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Get this.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Eighty year old US Senator Ed Markey has said he's
seeking another term as if fifty years in Washington wasn't enough.
Let me put it this way. I'm fifty seven years old,
and I'm not a young man by any standard. But
when Ed Markey first went to Washington, I was nine.
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The Red Sox was cursed and tickets at Fenway were
a dollar twenty five. If Ed Markey wins reelection, he
will be eighty six years old still in office. Ed
Markey's been in Washington so long. He was actually there
when Democrats were against foreign wars, and they fought for
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free speech, and they even waved American flags. Markey pushes
the Green New Deal, he votes against border security every time,
and he cheers biological men competing against women just to
score points with the woke elite.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And leave it to a.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Career politician who's been in office for half a century
to have the audacity to look voters in the face
and say, give me a chance. I think it's time
for term limits. What do you think now? I think
Marquy is very beatable. And to be candid with you,
supporters of mine commissioned a recent poll that showed that
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I could beat ed Markey if I get in the race.
But to be honest with you, I don't know if
I want to run again. Feel free to share your thoughts,
the good, the bad, and I'll read them on the air,
even the comments and criticisms. Each week we'll check on
Massachusetts politics and what's happening, because there seems always be
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something going on. Whether Ice is in town, their attorney
general suing Trump again, the governor and mayor of Boston
promising to not only not cooperate with Ice but make
it harder for Ice to find folks, or Trump taking
away Harvard's tax exempt status, there's always something moving forward.
We will check on the status of the audit and
(45:06):
what needs to be done to implement the will of
the people. I have volunteered my services in my law firm,
the Deeton Law Firm, to help in any way, including
suing Attorney General Campbell to do her job or get
out of the way and let us taxpayers do the
job and sue the legislature. Would a radio show in
Massachusetts be without a Karen Reid trial update? Did Karen
(45:29):
Read back the car into John O'Keeffe and leave him
for dead? Was it intentional or was she too damn
drunk to know one way or the other? Why would
the prosecutor charger with second degree murderer and not manslaughter?
Did she do it or was it a conspiracy born
out of that fateful night to frame Karen Read After
John O'Keefe was killed inside thirty four Fairview Road and
(45:52):
Canton Are the wounds on John o'keef's arm dog bites?
Why did Brian Albert get rid of his dog? Why
did he renovate his basement and sell his house under
asking price? As a cop? Why Wouldney come outside after
he found a fellow cop was dead on his lawn?
How did all those shattered pieces of tailgate get missed
(46:12):
for three weeks? How did the guy with the leaf
blower miss dozens of pieces of tail light if he
got hit by a car going twenty four miles an hour?
Where's the bruising on his body? Is Trooper Michael Proctor
a special needs cop? Is Jim McCabe truthful or a
(46:32):
social path? Speaking of social path? Did Karen Reid really
run over John O'Keefe hitting him with a car, leaving
him to freeze to death, and then as he's dying
on the ground, call his cell phone and call him
an effing pervert as he's dying. As both a defense
attorney and a former federal prosecutor, I'll give insight on
(46:54):
the chances of Karen Reid being found guilty. Remember, you
can email me comments, questions, criticisms or topics you want
to hear. All Right, people, that's it for the very
first show. Thank you for tuning in. I really appreciate you,
and I really do want to hear from you and
what you have to say about anything I said or
what you think I should cover in future shows. Please
(47:17):
email me at John at Hartruthshow dot com. That's John
at Hartruthshow dot com. You can follow me on exit
Johnny Deaton one. I'll see you next week.
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