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Don't you dare touch the channel or change the dial,
because it's Sunday at seven pm on Ihearts WRKO. I'm
John Deaton and you're listening to the Hard Truth. Listen.
As usual, it's been a very busy week. We've had
Trump news obviously nationwide. We've had tragic news just take
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place with a shooting in an elementary church where children
were praying and worshiping, and then two children lost their lives,
seventeen people injured. Our thoughts and prayers obviously go out
to the families, and every week there just seems to
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be a lot of news. I hope everybody had a
good week. Yesterday school started for my family. My daughter
Layla started first grade, so it was a big exciting
day for the Deatons. Proud of my little girl. Can't
believe that she's already first grader. So yes, for you
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out there, to remind you, I have three daughters, Olivia
twenty five, Jordan twenty three, and Layla six be seven
in February. Also have a stepdaughter McKenzie who's thirteen, and
a step son, Jackson, who's sixteen. So crazy week. Listen,
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let's talk about some of the news right, We've got
redistricting going on across the country. We've got here in
Massachusetts still a failure to comply with the audit. We've
also got state employees using credit cards for luxury hotels
being paid by taxpayers. With John Bolton, the National Security
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advisor under Trump's first administration, and a search warrant for
his home and his office. So lots of claims out
there of political retribution by Trump and that he's using
law fare and all those things. America took a ten
percent interest in Intel, a private company, which is crazy.
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So first thing I want to talk about is the audit.
It is absolutely shocking that are elected officials in Massachusetts
continue to violate the law. That's what they're doing. They
are breaking the law voters put on the ballot. The
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question of whether the state auditor, who is a Democrat
by the way, who's been on the show Diana Desaglio,
whether that state audit should audit the state legislature. And
what that means is where is our taxpayer dollars going,
who's getting the contracts or how many bids are there
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no bid contracts? How are things being spent by our
tax dollars? It is the most fundamental thing that we
have a right to, and it was on the ballot
in twenty twenty four. I voted for it, and seventy
two percent of the voters voted to make it law,
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to make it official that the state auditor is to
audit the state legislature. Now, Attorney General Campbell approved the ballot,
basically looked it over and said, yes, it meets constitutionality.
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It is proper to be placed on the ballot for
the public to give their vote, and we did and
overwhelmingly it was voted. Yet Karen Spilker, President of the Senate,
Ron Marianne, Speaker of the House in Massachusetts, they're crooks,
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that's what I call them, because they're now claiming, although
the Attorney General blessed the ballot, they're claiming some constitution
that you and I we don't have a right to
know how our tax dollars are being spent by these
career corrupt politicians. So let me make it clear they're corrupt,
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because there's only one reason that these officials do not
want us learning how they're spending our money is because
they don't want us to see it. They don't want
us to know because they're cooking the books, they're playing
with it. There's kickbacks, I guarantee you there's one. No
big contracts, contracts going to donors, things of that nature.
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It's taking place, and they don't want you to know
them at it. They don't want me to know about it,
and so we're going to fight. In fact, I've been
talking to some taxpayers and I'm willing to basically file
a taxpayer lawsuit and sue the state legislature to comply
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with the law. The fact that excuse me, the fact
that I'm getting upset, because you should be upset. The
fact that the Attorney General isn't helping the state order
is an absolute disgrace. But yeah, her and her staff
they can go to those luxury hotels and they can
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live high off the hog, can't they when they're on
our taxpayer dollars. The fact that Mari Heally as governor
hasn't stepped in to say to force the legislature to
comply with the law, it's outrageous and all of you
should be upset, and it should drive you to vote
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these incumbents out. When you become so arrogant that you
don't believe that we have a right to know how
our money's being spent. And you're so arrogant because you
can just say, here's the middle finger to everyone, because
you're not gonna vote us out. That's what they're saying
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to you. You're not gonna vote us out. We're gonna
stay in power. We're gonna do what we want. F you,
Massachusetts voter, that's what they're saying. It's a big middle
finger to all the voters and residents and citizens of
this commonwealth. So please, I hope you do what they
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don't think you'll do. You'll get active, you'll vote, you'll
vote these corrupt people out. Okay, now let's talk about
this real quickly. This redistricting. Now, basically Texas is redistricting Texas,
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and it looks like when they're done with this redistricting
that Texas will pick up five more congressional seats. And
it appears, based on the demographics of those voters that
it is presumed that those seats would favor conservative voters
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would favor Republican candidates. Therefore, the thought is that Republicans
will pick up five seats, okay, or could pick up
five seats. Now, understand this that the House, and now
I'm talking about the federal government. The House of Representatives,
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Republicans have the slightest majority since nineteen thirties. We're talking
about like three seats. So in the midterm elections in
twenty twenty six Congress, the House is definitely in play.
The Democrats could flip the House and gain control, so
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Ha King Jeffries right would become the Leader of the
House if the Democrats flip it. Now, the Senate does
not look like it's in play, meaning the Republicans would
have to have an absolute disaster of a midterm election
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if the Senate were to flip. And the reason being
is that some Democrats have resigned retired and now, for example,
there are seats for example in New Hampshire, Scott Brown
is running as a Republican in New Hampshire because the
person who beat Scott Brown last time is retiring and
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that person's a Democrat. So that was a seat that
would have been secured by the Democrat comfortably. But now
it's in play it could go Republican. But there are
basically this Senate cycle thirty three seats that are up
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and a lot of them are Democrats. So the chances
of the Democrats flipping the Senate and gaining like four
Senate seats is slim to none. That's the conventional wisdom.
So all the focus is on the House because the
Democrats can flip the House. And if they do, of course,
that's going to impact President Trump because we would have
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divided government. And some people think that's a good thing.
Some people think that's a bad thing. Obviously, President Trump
thinks it's a bad thing because he wants the House
and the Senate to be Republican controlled along with the presidency.
And so Texas did that. Now you should know that
Illinois redistrict before in favor of the Democrats. So both
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sides do this redistricting. It is a fight for power.
I don't like it because I believe that when politicians
start drawing the lines and not voters, then you really
are in jeopardy. It really is undemocratic. And the Democrats
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did it in Illinois, and now the Republicans are doing
it in Texas. And now, of course the governor of California,
Gavin Newsom, has now put an initiative on the ballot
in California for them to readdistrict sooner than they anticipated,
and normally it's done by an independent agency, but he's
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put five seats in play, so in a special election,
if the voters of California approve it, then California will redistrict.
And they're trying to negate what Texas is doing, and
what ends up happening is a domino effect. I mean
Governor Healy in Massachusetts literally got up and said, yeah,
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Massachusetts might have to do that, and I spit out
my coffee, like, what do you mean redistrict? We don't
have any Republicans in office right now in Massachusetts, every
state wide office, all nine congressmen, both senators, Democrats. What
are you going to do? I got forty percent of
the vote, the forty percent of the people who voted
for me. They don't have one Republican representative in federal government.
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It's insane, but that's what they do. Stick with me.
We'll come back from the break. You're listening to the
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. Welcome back to the show.
You listen to the Hard Truth. I'm John Deton. Remember
you can reach the show John at Hard Truthshow dot com.
John at Hard Truthshow dot com. We're talking about the
redistricting the fact that Governor Healy was, you know, laughable
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saying that she's going to somehow redistrict Massachusetts to make
it more favorable for Democrats. It couldn't be. I got
forty percent of the vote, yet there is not a
single Republican representative or senator. I'm hoping that changes in
twenty twenty six, but that's what happens. Listen. I don't
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like all this stuff because we already are so divided
in this country. We already have election integrity issues in
this country. People don't trust the electoral process. When people
lose faith that their vote doesn't count, then democracy loses
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right our constitutional republic because that's what we have. We
technically don't have a democracy. Democracy is majority rule. Technically
we have a constitutional republic. So why we have the
electoral college. But it would be in jeopardy when the
public loses faith that their vote doesn't count. And so
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I don't like all this But the fact that you
have someone like Mara Heally, you know, trying to get
involved and be relevant in this discussion is laughable. Okay,
let's move on to another subject. A lot of people
in the media, especially on the left, are saying that
this raid, the search warrant on John Bolton's residence and
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his office is political revenge by President Trump. People are
outraged about it. Put I'm watching people who cheered when
President Trump Sa Mayor Larger was raided by the FBI
because of classified document because they said President Trump was
hoarding classified documents. When that happened, everybody cheered it. They said,
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nobody's above the law. This is great. John Bolten got
on TV. Okay, who was the national security advisor under Trump.
He got on TV saying, cheered, celebrated it. Now here's
the truth, because this is the hard truth. Let me
tell you what the truth is. The truth is that
John Bolten and Trump had a falling out. John Bolten
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was a national security advisor. John Bolten wanted Trump to
bomb Iran. I mean, he's talked about even nukes right
to get rid of Iran, just wipe them completely out.
That's his stance. It's always been his stance. He's a warmonger,
and Trump didn't go that way. Trump is more transactional
in his foreign policy. What can America get in the
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deal with Canada, with the UK, with Australia, with Russia? Whatever.
Trump is a businessman. He's transactional, right the art of
the deal. He just wants to cut a deal. Bolton
doesn't like that. So they had a falling out. Bolton
says he resigned. Trump says he fired him and then Bolton.
But this is what happened. Bolton wrote a book called
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The Room in Which It Happened, and he disclosed classified
information about the Ukraine War, about North Korea. But while
he was National Security Advisor under Trump, he sent sensitive
classified information to family members via a private server, not
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a government server. So the Trump administration the first time
had tried to stop his book and stop the classified information,
and a federal judge allowed it, but did say that
Bolton likely violated national security. And so we have one
federal judge saying Bolten mishandled classified information. Listen, all of
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these people do it. Hillary Clinton under thirty three thousand
emails and wiping the phones and destroying the phones, and
all these other people. Trump took classified information. Biden had
classified information in his garage that Hunter Biden had access to.
Hunter Biden was a crackhead. I'm not saying it to
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be mean, that's a fact. He was a crackhead. And
so he had a crackhead who was going in and
out of the garage where all this classified information was,
and it was there for years. So all of these
people do it, and Bolten did it too, and Trump
had a criminal investigation. But then the twenty twenty election happened.
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Biden became the president, and guess what he does. He
dropped the criminal probe against Bolton, but did reduced it
to a civil find Bolton had to pay a couple
million dollars in royalties and then looked like they almost
cut a deal because then Bolton went on national TV
and started bad mouth and Trump in every situation he could,
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called Trumps stupid, called Trump incoherent, didn't know what he
was doing, all these things. And so then the classified
raid on Mari Laga and they all celebrated. Well, Trump
wins twenty twenty four, and Cash Pattel asked what happened
to the Bolton investigation. Found out that the Biden administration
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had dropped the criminal probe, so he redid it. But
here's what needs to know is that the first judge
said that Bolton violated national security, mishanded classified information and
he leaked information. And then a second judge authorized to
search horns. So it's not like Trump said, go raid
his office and home and they did. A federal judge
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had to find cause that they would find evidence in
Bolton's home in his office, and that's what happened. So
there's real meat on the bones as it relates to Bolton.
And we've got to do something with these people the
way they handle and mishandle classify information. Okay. So I
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believe he'll be indicted by a grand jury and you know,
he'll have a trial, and whether he gets convicted or not,
who knows. But that's really I think what's going to
end up happening with Bolton. And but these claims that hey,
he uh, this is just political retribution. You know, maybe
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it is a little bit, but that doesn't change the
facts that Bolton did do this stuff, okay. And when
you turn classified sensitive information over via private server, not
a government, you actually could be in violation of the
Espionage Act and so serious stuff. We've got to protect
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our national security. And so I support the fact that
in this case they move forward. I don't view it
as strictly political retribution myself. Okay, what else happened big
in the last week since we talked, well, Trump federalized
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the police in the district of Columbia, and he can
do that for thirty days, and he puts some National
Guard out on the streets of our nation's capital. And
a lot of people are taking issue with this. A
lot of political pundits, a lot of political experts are upset.
They're saying that this is uncalled for, that the crime
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rate was down, that this is political theater. Governor Healy
called it political theater. But you want to know who
welcomes it the residence. You have people literally putting tiktoks
out there. There was a guy who's a black guy.
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He was wearing all his bling, he had his jewelry on,
and he was like, this is the safest the city
has ever been. I can walk blocks and no one's
going to try to steal my rolex on my necklace.
You had other residents celebrating that they can walk their
dog because listen, the murder rate's pretty high in the
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nation's capital. We've got to go back to some law
and order in this country now. I don't think this
can be sustained. Trump can do it for thirty days
and then under the law. Congress has to enact it,
but the residents are welcoming. And so that's what I
want to focus on, because we have a public safety
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crisis in this country. In Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Louisiana,
there's crime rampant. Listen, in Boston, Mayor Woo's walking around
saying that Boston is the safest city in the world. Listen,
you've got open drug use going on a mass and cash.
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You've got these zombies that just stand there. They're drugged
out on Fenton or whatever, and they just stand in there.
If you go to Boston Commons, you can see drug
needles on the ground. And so the crime has ticked up,
and so we've got to get back to a law
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and order kind of situation because an elected leader's number
one obligation other than following the constitution is public safety.
And people need to feel safe to walk down the
streets of Boston or the com or anyone else. So
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I just make that distinction because I agree that if
we don't want to see marines and soldiers National Guard
in camouflage, like just you know, walking our streets, we
don't want to look like we're under martial law. I
get all that, I agree with all that, but at
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the same time, we got to focus on law and
order and establishing safety for our streets. And so always
ask this question, what are the residents? Are they welcoming this?
Not the political experts. Okay, Now, another issue is I
think Trump's frustrated related to the Ukraine War. I think
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he genuinely is surprised that he has not been able
to negotiate a settlement between Zelenski and between Putin, and
I know he wants to, and I think he genuinely
wants to because I think he genuinely hates war. I
think when he talks about a million people dying and
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casualties combined, that that bothers him. I think he detests war.
People should detest war. That's an admirable thing. And I
also think selfishly he wouldn't mind getting the Nobel Peace
Prize if he was able to negotiate a settlement. And
many people believe if he does negotiate a settlement between
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Zelenski and Putin, that he would be deserving of the
Nobel Peace Prize. You know, they've given it away to
other people. So I'm sure that's part of his motivation,
but I do think he sincerely wants to do it,
and he's frustrated. And when we come back from the break,
we'll talk why this is such a difficult situation to
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solve this war. He listen to the hard truth. I'm John.
Welcome back to the show. You're listening to the hard truth.
I'm John Deaton. Before the break, we were talking about
Ukraine and Russia and the fact that President Trump has
not been able to negotiate a settlement, and that I
do think that it's causing the President to have a
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certain frustration. I think he's going to have frustration with Zelensky.
I think he's going to have frustration with Putin. I
think he's had frustration with Putin because before he met
with Putin, Trump was calling for a a basically put
the weapons down, right, a cease fire. That's the words
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I was trying to think of. I couldn't cease fire.
That's the first step whenever you're talking about negotiating a
peace deal. Put the guns down, stop killing each other.
So I agree with President Trump. But a Zelensky called
for a ceasefire, but Putin didn't. And there's a very
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specific reason that Putin didn't. Putin's winning, and there's a
lot of people that don't want to tell you that.
But Russia currently is in control of twenty percent, so
one fifth, twenty percent of all Ukraine land and territory. Right. Obviously,
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they annexed Crimea in twenty fourteen under Barack Obama. Now
they're partially in control of some of the best areas
where you have the industrial base of Ukraine, you have
rare minerals, all of those things. And so Putin a
ceasefire doesn't help him. He's making advancements on the ground.
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The battlefield is edged in Putin's favor right now. So
it makes sense from a strategic standpoint. Now I'm not
talking about a moral standpoint. I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about from a pure militaristic strategic standpoint. Why
would you want to give up the edge on the battlefield,
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that's your leverage, right, And so I think Trump got
a little confused by that, or at least surprised that
Putin wouldn't even entertain a ceasefire. Zelensky, it's all about
survival at this point. Ukraine's losing. Americans are exhausted from
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funding fore and more. Europeans are going to get it
more and more exhausted about funding a non ending, forever war,
and Zelensky senses that, and he needs the money and
he needs weapons, and so there's a big incentive for
him to want to cease fire. Now. The other thing
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is Putin isn't budgeting right, He's keeping Zelensky says, you
got to give crimea back. So there's gonna be no
deal until Zelensky accepts the fact that Russia's not giving
crimea back. It was taken in twenty fourteen under Obama.
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He's not going to turn around a decade after having
it and say, okay, here you can have it back.
It's just never gonna happen. The other thing that's never
going to happen, and Trump made this clear, is that
Ukraine is not going to become a member of NATAL period.
There are several things in order for a deal to
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take place that needs to be done. Okay, several things.
And think about this. We have spent seven I mean
two three hundred billion dollars, right, two three hundred billion dollars,
and there's a stalemate, a stalemate at best, except Russi
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is winning and we could spend another four hundred billion,
and it's going to be the same situation. Okay, But
in order for a deal to happen, this is what
I believe, and I wrote it down. No NATO membership
Ukraine will not host NATO bases within Ukraine, and they
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will not host certain weapons systems that could reach Moscow
and threaten Russia even more. I think in order for
Trump to get a deal, in addition to those things,
Putin's gonna want sanctions lifted from America off Russia. And
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then the final thing is the land situation. They're going
to have to agree that Russia is going to keep Crimea.
And the question is is Russia going to just leave
it at Crimea? And I think where Trump's going to
have to do as negotiation is with those sanctions and
try to convince Putin that all he gets is Crimea
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and America lifts sanctions and he gets the fact that
they're not a member of NATO and no basis will
be in Ukraine, et cetera, et cetera. Because Trump's going
to want those minerals for America to be repaid, There's
no doubt. And I think Zelenski's going to have to
accept the fact that the best deal he can get
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is guarantees by the United States that if Russia invades again,
we'll supply weapons to be paid but for by other
nations like Europe, okay, and that Russia gives back all
the other land it took except for Crimea. I mean,
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I think that's really what it's going to come down to.
Reach me at John at Hard Truthshow dot com, John
at Hardtruthshow dot com, and let me know what you think.
Let me know if you think that my suggestions are
out of line or whatever. And like I said, maybe
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I'll get you on the show and we could talk
about it. But listen, a million people have been killed
or wounded, and we got to bring an end to this.
Europe p and leaders want this to come to an
end as well, because they're paying more of their fair
share of the war now than they were before. In fact,
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they have to purchase the weapons from American contractors. We're
not just giving those weapons anymore, and so this is
going to affect their economies. Second of all, they want
assurances that Russia isn't going to invade any other areas
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within Europe Okay. In addition to that, you got all
these refugees, more refugees that need that are displaced, that
are looking to move into Europe. So it's a real problem.
And you know, I don't think it's going to end soon.
Trump's going to need to get Zelenski and putin in
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a room together and just say no one's leaving until
we have a deal. Okay. So that's the Ukraine War. Now, unfortunately,
we got to talk about something that is tragic, and
that is shooting in Minneapolis. Two children are dead, seventeen
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are wounded, and I got to tell you some disturbing
stuff that's happened. So this tragedy related to the shooting
in this church of children, it turns out that the
shooter who is dead, was found dead by a self
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inflicted gun wound, was a transgender person. Now, this is
gonna trigger two things. It's going to trigger the conversation
on trans and then it's going to trigger guns, and
you're gonna have cause for obviously gun control across the
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nation another example, and you're gonna have a more heated
debate related to the trans issue. And the reason I
say that is because there have been several trans individuals
who have engaged in these kind of mass shootings. But
I was watching CNN or I was on X and
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something popped up that just discuss me. It disgusts me,
and it just shows you how crazy our society has become.
This is Jake Tapper of CNN. Check this out.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Another piece of the puzzle as to who the shooter
was in Minneapolis, Star Debuting says, according to court records,
because there's been some confusion about what the shooter's name was,
Robin Westman's mother applied to change her child's name in
twenty nineteen. It was at one point Robert Paul Westman.
But since she identifies as a female and wants her
name to reflect that identification was underage, it's now Robin.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I mean, Jake Tapper just went out of his way
to say, we got to get the name right. Is
it Robert or is it Robin? Because we don't want
to misidentify a killer of children.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
God forbid that we miss id this trans person who's dead,
who killed two children, injured seventeen others as they prayed
to God, God.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Forbid if we get the name wrong. The level of
wokeness that has taken place in this country is shocking
to me, and I am not the most you know,
I supported gay marriage before Barack Obama, before Hillary Clinton.
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I said, we live in America free. I'm for civil rights, man,
I'm for gay rights. But they've gotten to this level
of wokeness that is absurd. Shame on Jake Tapper. That's
not just identify the killer. It's insane, man, I'm telling you,
it's insane. And the New York Times does an article
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and the one thing they leave out is that this
person happened to be trans. And now you have the
mayor of Minneapolis out there saying, nobody better use talk
about trans people and use this tragedy as a way
to denigrate the trans community. But you want to know
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what they won't talk about. They won't talk about the
fact that this individual, this trans individual, had written a
manifesto that he was tired of being trans. In his words,
he said, I wished that wouldn't have been brainwashed. I mean,
those were his words, so are arguably his trans issue
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in this crisis was a contributing factor to his murderous impulses.
It's crazy, but we can't talk about it. You listen
to the hard truth, all right, welcome back to the show.
You listen to the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. So
let's just pray for the families of the victims of
this shooting. You know, this is going to spark a
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debate about gun control in the country, mental health, whether
trans it's a mental health issue or not mental health issue.
People are going to, you know, not want to discuss
the fact that this person not only was struggling with
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his her identity, but was upset and regretted the transition.
And I can tell you that this is going to
be a topic of the twenty twenty six elections and
the gubernatory race in the Senate race, and the senator
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up for reelection in Massachusetts is Senator Ed Markey. Many
of you know that Ed Markey has been in Washington
four five zero fifty not fifteen people fifty years. He
went to Washington in nineteen seventy six Jimmy Carter was
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running for president and one and became the president. And
Ed Markey is outlast at Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush,
the Senior, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Trump
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won Biden Trump two fifty years half a century and
he's up for reelection and you can't get any more
left than this guy. Yes, he's someone who supports biological
men competing against women. Now, he doesn't have any kids,
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he doesn't have three daughters like I have. I have.
Leila is starting softball next week, and she's going to
do other sports, no doubt. I taught and was the
coach for my daughter's basketball team. And so I'm off
for fairness. And because I'm for fairness, I don't support
biological men competing against women, especially in sports, and especially
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combat sports, Okay. And so that doesn't make me transphobic,
it just makes me common sense. Okay. Now I'm going
to read an email from me one of you. This
is from Sarah. Sarah Newton asked, John, are you going
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to run for public office again? And if you do,
what office would you consider? Governor? And So when I
ran against Elizabeth Warren, listen, everybody, I knew what the
odds were. It was February first to twenty twenty four.
No one was stepping up. Elizabeth Warren is a fraud.
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She's always been a fraud. And I'm not even talking
about her heritage. That's just one example of her being
a fraud I'm talking about. She claims to be against
the banks when the banks support her. Her bill against
crypto was written by the banks. She pretends to be
for poor people, but her policies crush poor people. She
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wanted to ban bitcoin, and so I just said, you
know what I'm going to get in the race. I
didn't necessarily think that, you know, it was a career
path or anything like that. I knew what the odds were,
and you know, I got forty percent. No one knew
who I was when I started, but one point three
million voters voted for me, and I do want to
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make a difference. I know that my independence and my
lack of loyalty to a party or a person, my
loyalty to America the Massachusetts would guide me to make
the right decisions, and so I think I would be
good at it, certainly better than Ed Markey or Elizabeth Warren.
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I'm not going to run for governor, that's for sure.
We have Brian Shortsleeve who's on the show, Mike Kaneely
who's been on this show. They're running for governor as Republicans,
and there's a third party person who hasn't announced yet.
But I believe he will announce Mike mcnogue a self funder,
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and so you're going to have three credible Republicans running
in a Republican primary to take on more Healy. I'm
not going to add a fourth person to that. Even
if I thought I could win, I wouldn't. At this point,
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the question is would I consider running against Ed Markey?
And the Boston Herald interviewed me, and I said that
if it was Marquee, for sure, and I thought I
could raise money, and I wouldn't as long as I
wasn't going against you know, if the President Trump didn't
want me to run because he's in charge of the
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Republican Party and picked someone else, I could beat him.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a competitive guy. I got
sixty five percent of the vote last time with three
people on the ballot, two other people on the ballot,
one who was a big Trump supporter, and I crushed them.
So I could beat it. But it's not a recipe
for winning because, unfortunately in Massachusetts is a very incumbent
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friendly system. The primary is September third. That gives you
eight weeks after you win the primary to try to
win in the general against an incumbent who's well funded
like Elizabeth Warren or an Ed Markey. So if you
spend all your time and your money and your energy
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like to win the primary, you could be out of money.
And all you've been doing is trying to win over Republicans.
You're not talking to lifelong Democrats. You're not talking to
independence who if they got to know me, would be
able to have trust in me. They could say, hey,
I mean, the Boston Globe is not a bastion of conservativism.
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They called me a reasonable alternative to Elizabeth Warren. So yeah,
I would think about taking on Ed Markey because he
is the epitome of what's wrong in this country. I mean,
this man has been in office for fifty years and
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he talks nonsense. He says the same old stuff. Got
a care for all? It's not gonna happen. One hundred
and eighty seven million people in America have private insurance.
Seventy percent of them are very happy. They're not gonna
give up their private insurance to try a government run,
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one bill fit all kind of approach like Canada or
other places have where you have to wait six months
to get an MRI it's not gonna happen. But that's
what he does. He gets up and says, the Green
New Deal, the Green New Deal, It's never gonna happen.
It's a fantasy sprinkled with unicorn dust. It's not gonna happen.
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And these alternative energy mandates are crushing working people and
they think the answer is off win short. Are you
kidding me? It's not enough. The Green New Deal and
Marque's energy plant actually causes us to be more dependent
on fossil fuels. Ed Marky once said that coal, which
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is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, that coal was
a lesser evil than nuclear. Do you know how out
of touch you have to be to say that we
have these small nuclear module reactors now that can be
placed on one or two acres that are zero carbon emissions,
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that will power three hundred and fifty thousand homes. So
we should have nuclear limited nuclear small nodules at certain
locations in Massachusetts as part of a multifaceted energy transition approach.
But Markie just wants to talk pie in the sky nonsense.
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So it'd be a fantasy to get on stage with
that guy. I think he wouldn't be ready for someone
like me. If want me to be honest and listen,
a poll showed that I could win. There was a
poll done in February, people that want me to run.
It showed that I could beat Marquee between five and
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seven points. Now, a Republican hasn't beat a sitting Democrat
in Massachusetts over one hundred years and so, but it
can be done. And after that poll that showed that
I could beat Marquy, the Democrats did a poll on
who could primary Marquee and they listed all of the
Democrats in Congress, Seth Molten, Jake Ouchin Claus, Lorie Trey
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hand all of them. Guess what, everybody guess who's the
only one that beat Markey in a primary. I ain't
a Presley. That's how left you gotta be man to
win a Democratic primary in Massachusetts. So Markey, you know,
he got on stage against Joe Kennedy and argued over
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which one of them was more pro Black lives matter,
which one of them was more pro reparations. I threw
up in my mouth because Marky actually fought bussing. The
very first reparations in this country was black kids being
bussed to white schools, and Marky fought against it. He
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didn't want it. He said, keep the black people in
the hood, right. He's all for black people, just not
in his neighborhood, not in his schools. He's a hypocrite,
He's a political opportunist. He was pro life, he wanted
a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. Then he decided to
run for Senate, looked at the polls in Massachusetts, realized
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that seventy to eighty percent of Massachusetts voters support a
woman's choice for an abortion. All of a sudden, he
became pro abortion right. He became pro choice now right
because he looked at a pole. He was part of
the fossil few industry, but he latched on to AOC
in the Green New Deal because he wanted to stay
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relevant again. A guy who said cole was better than
nuclear and so yeah, I'm thinking about it. I mean,
this guy's never lives in Massachusetts anymore. I've lived in Roxbury,
East Boston, Maulden, Swansea, Bolton. I've been a lawyer here
for twenty five years. Marky couldn't be a judge, I could.
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He couldn't be a judge in Massachusetts. Because we require
mandatory retirement at age seventy and so I think Marky's
so far left that he's beatable. Fifty years is way
too long. I'm thinking about it. John at Hartruso dot com,
John at Hartruthshow dot com. Tell me what you think.
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I'll see you next week.