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Speaker 1 (00:02):
News breaks out in every show, Mark Simone on seven
to ten work, Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Lots to get to this hour. You know a lot
of stuff is up there on that Amazon cloud. A
lot of business and all sorts of stuff operates through
that Amazon cloud. So there was a widespread disruption early
this morning of the Amazon Cloud computing service that took
out dozens of major airline services. Social media sites went
(00:37):
you know that Snapchat went out? Did you know there
still was a Snapchat? Do you know that somebody was
still using Snapchat Fortnite? Video games were disrupted. The Chat
app signal, which is that's used by a lot of
government officials, took three hours totally out and that slowly
(00:58):
started to recover and came back. Online outages included Snapchat fortnight,
the McDonald's app down detector. Well that's the problem. Everything,
you know, goes more and more and more digital. You
can knock got more stuff with one bad outage. So
(01:19):
the Mayor Oll Race, Hey, there was a Mayor Old debate.
Is this Saturday Night Live? Yeah, Saturday Night Live. You
know it was the first week on Saturday Night Live
where the opening sketch, the cold openers, they say not political.
It wasn't Trump bashing us the first time in years.
They didn't do any Trump bashing on it. But then
there's only two things anybody watches, that opening sketch and
(01:41):
then that fake newscast a weekend update. This is from
weekend update.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
During the first New York mayoral debate Andrew Cuomo attacks
are on mom Donnie's saying.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That he once gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue,
whereas Cuomo snuck up behind the statue and grabbed about hips.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
See, that's the thing. Even these Democrats can't stand Cuomo.
Remember he lost by a lot. He lost the Democratic primary.
Democrats rejected him in the primary. He's running as a
third party candidate now although we say running, but he's
not actively campaigning. There's been no there's no campaign headquartershed
He's taken like ten days off from the race. Now
(02:21):
here's Culomo right away.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
First one hundred days in office, five thousand new police officers,
fifteen hundred in the subway. Number two, We're gonna start
construction on eighty thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
New affordable units.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The only way you're going to get the rents down
is by increasing the supply. That's what has happened.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
We have been supplies rests on short term before you
start building.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You can't no now without a gimmick that comes back
and bite you in.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That took us later on. Yeah. See, he got all
kinds of plans. First hundred days, first one hundred day.
One of the reasons is he tends to leave office
early in disgrace. Last time mosing off the hat to
leave early in disgrace. So that's why the first hundred
days is important. Keep talking about this affordability problem, Housing affordability.
This is the problem. It's a crisis, big crisis, affordability.
(03:07):
Then why would you vote for the Democrats. They've been
running everything in New York for fifteen years. The mayor,
the governor, the legislature, the city council, everything is Democrat.
If they've created such a crisis, switch parties. That's enough.
President Trump, I think it's a joke. I looked at
the people.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
They're not representative of this conjact.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh, he's talking about the No King's rally. I think
it's a joke. I looked at the people. If they're
not representative of this CONJAYT Yeah, it was mostly senior citizens.
It's the people in the nursing homes that survived Cuomo.
They were the ones out there with no kings stuff. Now,
Trump is not a Curtis fan. He does not like Curtis.
But remember on the radio for years, Remember Curtis had
(03:49):
like the number one morning show for twenty years and
he was bashing Trump all the time and Trump was listing.
So he hasn't forgotten that this is Trump on sleeweay.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Am I a big fan. This isn't exactly ideal where
he wants to make Gracie Mansion a home for the cats.
You know, Gracie Mansion is a magnificent home of Fiorello
LaGuardia and the great Mayor's Rudy Julien. Here, Rudy Giuliani
was the greatest mayor in the history of New York.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, if that's the case, Rudy is telling everybody to
vote for Curtis. Rudy is saying that Curtis will keep
going what he started. Rudy Giuliani has one thousand percent
endorsed Curtis. So now as far as sending the National
Guard or troops into cities into states, why that's awful.
It's unheard of Trump talking about using the Insurrection Act.
(04:40):
Why that's unheard of. That's ridiculous, that's unlawful. Well, if
you check the record, it's done all the time. Every
president has sent troops into cities and states. Every president
has used the Insurrection Act. It's done all the time.
You could just google it. How many president Google how
many presidents used the Insurrection Act. You'll get hundreds and
(05:02):
hundreds of answers. How many times as a president send
troops into a city or a state. You'll get hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds. You know, when Kennedy wanted it,
was having trouble with these schools in the South. They
wouldn't let black students in. Even the Southern governors would
stand in the doorways to block it. When Kennedy was fighting,
at one point he had to send seventy five thousand
(05:25):
troops into the Southern States military to get that done.
So it's done all the time. You can find almost
every president in a riot in all sorts of situations.
You remember the George Floyd riots, for the troops were
sent into many many cities in those cases. Here's Trump
on the Insurrection Act.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. Fifty percent
of the presidents almost have used that, and that's unquestioned power.
I choose not to. I'd rather do this, but I
met constantly by fake politicians, politicians that think that you know,
(06:06):
it's not like part of the radical left movement to
have safety. These cities have to be safe. Are cities
that are Democrats run exclusively just about our unsafe cities.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, so we'll see no Kings. I think they enjoyed themselves.
They get to give them something to do. These angry,
crazy left wingers, mostly senior citizens. They were out there
yelling and screaming and chanting, maybe you shood every week.
Let me give them something to do every week. Set
up like a No King's field where they can go
do this every week. They did it all over the place.
(06:43):
If you were out in the suburbs, you'd see it
in your town. Connecticut, there was a No King's rally
in Greenwich, Connecticut, where the governor himself Ned Lamont, left
wing Democrat, although very often a common sense Democrat, but
there he was leading the No Kings march. It was
quite something. It must have been I don't know, thirty people,
(07:03):
forty people. It was quite a march right in front
of Restoration Hardware. They're rh store. Lasted a couple hours,
then they went home. Hey you know Twitter. Of course,
you know Twitter X. When Elon Musk bought it and
he took away the censorship. Under the old owners, conservatives
(07:25):
were getting censored. They would what they call shadow ban you.
They make sure nobody saw your feed. I had that
happened to me. Everybody had it happened to them. And
then there was out and out censorship where they removed
people's accounts. The New York Post they took away their
account because the Post published the story about Hunter's laptop.
So they let me think about this. This is hard
to believe this kind of censorship could exist in America.
(07:48):
They literally took down band, took away the New York
Post Twitter account. Even President Trump, the actual president the
United States, they took away his Twitter account. This is
unbelopable censorship. So Elon Musk bought it and took away
the censorship, the bias, and made it fair balanced. Well,
this drove liberals nuts. They wanted no part of this,
(08:12):
so they went and formed their own Twitter. It's called
Blue Sky. Most of the left wing people, most of
the liberals. Most of the Democrats don't go on Twitter anymore.
They go on blue Sky. That's their version of Twitter,
left wing Twitter. So this will be interesting to watch
what happens here. President Trump this weekend for the first time,
opened an account on blue Sky and started tweeting on
(08:35):
blue Sky. He made his debut. He took some of
his best memes and clips and put him into a montage.
That was his opening. He wrote, what's up blue Sky?
We thought you might have missed some of our greatest hits,
so we put this together for you. Now this is
taunting liberals. It'll be interesting to see what blue Sky does.
Do they ban him, do they remove his account? Do
(08:57):
they shadow ban him? Which means they leave you there.
But they can fix the algorithm so your feed doesn't
go to anybody, So keep an eye on that. James
call Me. His defense will make their first motions today
in court. Looks like with John Bolton, they absolutely have
him convicted. If you look at all the evidence, it
looks like there's no way out of this for Bolton.
(09:19):
Looks like a very easy conviction. Call me, should be convicted,
but you never know. It's a smaller charge there may
be more charges coming against call me. He's a very
bizarre guy. You know, he's a former Communist. You've seen
that Rush Limbaugh clip that's going around the internet. Yeah,
(09:40):
he was actual, he became he called himself a Republican.
Now most people think he was never ever really a Republican.
He just declared himself a Republican at one point, but
that was so he could be in the Bush administration
and it was more for you know, for his job
prospects to become a Republican. At that time, Republicans were
(10:02):
in power, So he declared himself a Republican. But he
admits he was actually an active communist to member the
Communist Party. Same thing with James Clapper, you know, the
CIA director, And these are two guys that were responsible
for all the dirty, sleazy stuff that went on in
the Deep State. Clapper was an actual member of the
Communist Party. He admits he voted for the Communist candidate
(10:23):
for president, so Coby as well. They were both actual
members of the Communist Party. We're just goes to show
you we came a long way from Joe McCarthy used
to be. If you went to a meeting of the
Communist Party. You were banned from everything forever. Now you
can be an actual registered Communist like Comy or Clapper,
and then you become the FBI director of the CIA director.
(10:44):
So things have definitely changed. Government shutdown continues. I just
mentioned that because most people won't notice. The Democrats kept saying, well, right,
we can't do anything until the No Kings March. Well
they did the No Kings March. Let's see if they
make any progress this week. The New York Jets, should
they be allowed to continue to play? There's a debate
(11:06):
going on. Should the New York Jets just stop playing?
Give up? Nobody knows what to do. There's an actual movement.
The problem is Woody Johnson is a very nice guy
and does a lot of great things in the real world.
But he bought the New York Jets years ago, and
he is, without question, I think everybody agrees on this,
the single worst owner in the history of sports. Nobody
(11:30):
has been. There's never been an owner this bad. They
just lose every game this season. They're zero to seven.
There are people yelling and screaming in the sports world
that there should be some mechanism to remove a team
from its owner to force an owner out if he
really stinks as an owner, and it wouldn't be a
(11:51):
bad thing for Woody Johnson. I think he bought the team.
I think for I think it was six hundred or
seven hundred million, and they say now the team is
probably worth eight billion, possibly ten billion, So it'd be
a great deal for him to get out. Were people
were praying Trump would appoint him to something or make
(12:12):
him an ambassador, just to give him the hell out
of here. But that won't work either. Last time that happened,
his son took over and the Sun was just as
bad as an owner. But it's a total disaster, zero
and seven. They lose every game, doesn't matter. He said,
well maybe they should get some better players, doesn't matter.
Whoever they get, they ruin them. Remember Aaron Rodgers or
whoever they bring in, they ruin. It's it's just the
(12:33):
worst owner ever, the worst team ever. Hey, George Santos,
this was surprised to everybody. President Trump commuted his sentence.
A lot of people were pressuring him to do it. Santos.
He says, it's a nice guy. He's a cute guy. Santos.
He you know he lied in the race, he lied
about his resume, lied about everything well, so that Tim Waltz.
(12:55):
But and the problem was in the congressional race he
was in. He was up against a whole bunch of
amateurs who there was no real opposition, and they forgot
to do opposition research. They would have discovered these lives,
but they didn't until he got elected. Then people started
looking at him. But the bad part was he did
stuff where he defrauded people to get money out of them.
(13:20):
He did defraud people to get money. So that's the
criminal problem, and that's the criminal charge. But he went
through hell in prison for a month or two, a
couple of months, three months, I think, and apparently the
warden headed in for him and was really rough on him.
People were appealing to President Trump over and over, political people,
congress people, friends. Finally Trump decided the guy was being
(13:43):
traded treated in humanely in prison, so commuted his sentence. Now,
the other thing that got commuted, he did have to
pay a six hundred thousand dollars fine that got commuted
as well, So may have been a little over commuting there.
But here's George Santas. He got out of prison and.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Was I thank you to President Trump for clemency and
for having such an amazing will for second chances.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
So I've made some poor choices in my life, but
nothing would warrant a insane, arbitrary sentence. But on top
of that, a sentence that no one else would have gotten,
a treatment that no one else would have gotten, forty
one days in isolation in the shoe.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, they put him on solitary for forty one days.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I understand people want to make this into a He's
getting away with it. I'm not getting away with it.
I was the first person to ever go to federal
prison for this type of civil FEC violation. These are
usually solved in penalties, and I don't want to focus
on trying to rehash the pass. I want to take
this experience and do good and move on with the future.
(14:49):
Repentance is an understatement. It's like I have been dealt
a second chance. I have a lot to prove to
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I have to make sure.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And Trump understands that I am not going to disappoint him.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now, he did, you know, the fraud people, and get
a lot of money, and he spent it on luxuries,
on clothes, on cars, on watches, all this stuff. But
he has been telling people after he got out of
prison now that it changed everything as far as wealth goes.
And he realized, you know, when you get out of prison,
he said, just to have your own toilet, just to
(15:26):
have your own bathroom, to be able to go to
the bathroom in private and closed doors, to have your
own shower and do it privately, and to have eat
actual real food instead of the worst food in the world.
To be able to, you know, go to bed when
you want. And he said, they realized that's the real wealth.
It changed everything. He no longer cares about the material
(15:48):
luxuries that he understands what real wealth is. Have your family,
your friends with you. So it's an interesting lesson for
everybody to remember. Hey, we'll take some calls in a moment.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
News breaks out in every show, Mark Simone on seven
to ten work, Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Lots to get to this hour. You know a lot
of stuff is up there on that Amazon cloud. A
lot of business and all sorts of stuff operates through
that Amazon cloud. So there was a widespread disruption early
this morning of the Amazon Cloud computing service that took
out dozens of major airline services. Social media sites went
(00:37):
you know that Snapchat went out? Did you know there
still was a Snapchat? Do you know that somebody was
still using Snapchat Fortnite? Video games were disrupted. The Chat
app signal, which is that's used by a lot of
government officials, took three hours totally out and that slowly
(00:58):
started to recover and came back. Online outages included Snapchat fortnight,
the McDonald's app down detector. Well that's the problem. Everything,
you know, goes more and more and more digital. You
can knock got more stuff with one bad outage. So
(01:19):
the Mayor Oll Race, Hey, there was a Mayor Old debate.
Is this Saturday Night Live? Yeah, Saturday Night Live. You
know it was the first week on Saturday Night Live
where the opening sketch, the cold openers, they say not political.
It wasn't Trump bashing us the first time in years.
They didn't do any Trump bashing on it. But then
there's only two things anybody watches, that opening sketch and
(01:41):
then that fake newscast a weekend update. This is from
weekend update.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
During the first New York mayoral debate Andrew Cuomo attacks
are on mom Donnie's saying.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That he once gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue,
whereas Cuomo snuck up behind the statue and grabbed about hips.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
See, that's the thing. Even these Democrats can't stand Cuomo.
Remember he lost by a lot. He lost the Democratic primary.
Democrats rejected him in the primary. He's running as a
third party candidate now although we say running, but he's
not actively campaigning. There's been no there's no campaign headquartershed
He's taken like ten days off from the race. Now
(02:21):
here's Culomo right away.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
First one hundred days in office, five thousand new police officers,
fifteen hundred in the subway. Number two, We're gonna start
construction on eighty thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
New affordable units.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The only way you're going to get the rents down
is by increasing the supply. That's what has happened.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
We have been supplies rests on short term before you
start building.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You can't no now without a gimmick that comes back
and bite you in.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That took us later on. Yeah. See, he got all
kinds of plans. First hundred days, first one hundred day.
One of the reasons is he tends to leave office
early in disgrace. Last time mosing off the hat to
leave early in disgrace. So that's why the first hundred
days is important. Keep talking about this affordability problem, Housing affordability.
This is the problem. It's a crisis, big crisis, affordability.
(03:07):
Then why would you vote for the Democrats. They've been
running everything in New York for fifteen years. The mayor,
the governor, the legislature, the city council, everything is Democrat.
If they've created such a crisis, switch parties. That's enough.
President Trump, I think it's a joke. I looked at
the people.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
They're not representative of this conjact.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh, he's talking about the No King's rally. I think
it's a joke. I looked at the people. If they're
not representative of this CONJAYT Yeah, it was mostly senior citizens.
It's the people in the nursing homes that survived Cuomo.
They were the ones out there with no kings stuff. Now,
Trump is not a Curtis fan. He does not like Curtis.
But remember on the radio for years, Remember Curtis had
(03:49):
like the number one morning show for twenty years and
he was bashing Trump all the time and Trump was listing.
So he hasn't forgotten that this is Trump on sleeweay.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Am I a big fan. This isn't exactly ideal where
he wants to make Gracie Mansion a home for the cats.
You know, Gracie Mansion is a magnificent home of Fiorello
LaGuardia and the great Mayor's Rudy Julien. Here, Rudy Giuliani
was the greatest mayor in the history of New York.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, if that's the case, Rudy is telling everybody to
vote for Curtis. Rudy is saying that Curtis will keep
going what he started. Rudy Giuliani has one thousand percent
endorsed Curtis. So now as far as sending the National
Guard or troops into cities into states, why that's awful.
It's unheard of Trump talking about using the Insurrection Act.
(04:40):
Why that's unheard of. That's ridiculous, that's unlawful. Well, if
you check the record, it's done all the time. Every
president has sent troops into cities and states. Every president
has used the Insurrection Act. It's done all the time.
You could just google it. How many president Google how
many presidents used the Insurrection Act. You'll get hundreds and
(05:02):
hundreds of answers. How many times as a president send
troops into a city or a state. You'll get hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds. You know, when Kennedy wanted it,
was having trouble with these schools in the South. They
wouldn't let black students in. Even the Southern governors would
stand in the doorways to block it. When Kennedy was fighting,
at one point he had to send seventy five thousand
(05:25):
troops into the Southern States military to get that done.
So it's done all the time. You can find almost
every president in a riot in all sorts of situations.
You remember the George Floyd riots, for the troops were
sent into many many cities in those cases. Here's Trump
on the Insurrection Act.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. Fifty percent
of the presidents almost have used that, and that's unquestioned power.
I choose not to. I'd rather do this, but I
met constantly by fake politicians, politicians that think that you know,
(06:06):
it's not like part of the radical left movement to
have safety. These cities have to be safe. Are cities
that are Democrats run exclusively just about our unsafe cities.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, so we'll see no Kings. I think they enjoyed themselves.
They get to give them something to do. These angry,
crazy left wingers, mostly senior citizens. They were out there
yelling and screaming and chanting, maybe you shood every week.
Let me give them something to do every week. Set
up like a No King's field where they can go
do this every week. They did it all over the place.
(06:43):
If you were out in the suburbs, you'd see it
in your town. Connecticut, there was a No King's rally
in Greenwich, Connecticut, where the governor himself Ned Lamont, left
wing Democrat, although very often a common sense Democrat, but
there he was leading the No Kings march. It was
quite something. It must have been I don't know, thirty people,
(07:03):
forty people. It was quite a march right in front
of Restoration Hardware. They're rh store. Lasted a couple hours,
then they went home. Hey you know Twitter. Of course,
you know Twitter X. When Elon Musk bought it and
he took away the censorship. Under the old owners, conservatives
(07:25):
were getting censored. They would what they call shadow ban you.
They make sure nobody saw your feed. I had that
happened to me. Everybody had it happened to them. And
then there was out and out censorship where they removed
people's accounts. The New York Post they took away their
account because the Post published the story about Hunter's laptop.
So they let me think about this. This is hard
to believe this kind of censorship could exist in America.
(07:48):
They literally took down band, took away the New York
Post Twitter account. Even President Trump, the actual president the
United States, they took away his Twitter account. This is
unbelopable censorship. So Elon Musk bought it and took away
the censorship, the bias, and made it fair balanced. Well,
this drove liberals nuts. They wanted no part of this,
(08:12):
so they went and formed their own Twitter. It's called
Blue Sky. Most of the left wing people, most of
the liberals. Most of the Democrats don't go on Twitter anymore.
They go on blue Sky. That's their version of Twitter,
left wing Twitter. So this will be interesting to watch
what happens here. President Trump this weekend for the first time,
opened an account on blue Sky and started tweeting on
(08:35):
blue Sky. He made his debut. He took some of
his best memes and clips and put him into a montage.
That was his opening. He wrote, what's up blue Sky?
We thought you might have missed some of our greatest hits,
so we put this together for you. Now this is
taunting liberals. It'll be interesting to see what blue Sky does.
Do they ban him, do they remove his account? Do
(08:57):
they shadow ban him? Which means they leave you there.
But they can fix the algorithm so your feed doesn't
go to anybody, So keep an eye on that. James
call Me. His defense will make their first motions today
in court. Looks like with John Bolton, they absolutely have
him convicted. If you look at all the evidence, it
looks like there's no way out of this for Bolton.
(09:19):
Looks like a very easy conviction. Call me, should be convicted,
but you never know. It's a smaller charge there may
be more charges coming against call me. He's a very
bizarre guy. You know, he's a former Communist. You've seen
that Rush Limbaugh clip that's going around the internet. Yeah,
(09:40):
he was actual, he became he called himself a Republican.
Now most people think he was never ever really a Republican.
He just declared himself a Republican at one point, but
that was so he could be in the Bush administration
and it was more for you know, for his job
prospects to become a Republican. At that time, Republicans were
(10:02):
in power, So he declared himself a Republican. But he
admits he was actually an active communist to member the
Communist Party. Same thing with James Clapper, you know, the
CIA director, And these are two guys that were responsible
for all the dirty, sleazy stuff that went on in
the Deep State. Clapper was an actual member of the
Communist Party. He admits he voted for the Communist candidate
(10:23):
for president, so Coby as well. They were both actual
members of the Communist Party. We're just goes to show
you we came a long way from Joe McCarthy used
to be. If you went to a meeting of the
Communist Party. You were banned from everything forever. Now you
can be an actual registered Communist like Comy or Clapper,
and then you become the FBI director of the CIA director.
(10:44):
So things have definitely changed. Government shutdown continues. I just
mentioned that because most people won't notice. The Democrats kept saying, well, right,
we can't do anything until the No Kings March. Well
they did the No Kings March. Let's see if they
make any progress this week. The New York Jets, should
they be allowed to continue to play? There's a debate
(11:06):
going on. Should the New York Jets just stop playing?
Give up? Nobody knows what to do. There's an actual movement.
The problem is Woody Johnson is a very nice guy
and does a lot of great things in the real world.
But he bought the New York Jets years ago, and
he is, without question, I think everybody agrees on this,
the single worst owner in the history of sports. Nobody
(11:30):
has been. There's never been an owner this bad. They
just lose every game this season. They're zero to seven.
There are people yelling and screaming in the sports world
that there should be some mechanism to remove a team
from its owner to force an owner out if he
really stinks as an owner, and it wouldn't be a
(11:51):
bad thing for Woody Johnson. I think he bought the team.
I think for I think it was six hundred or
seven hundred million, and they say now the team is
probably worth eight billion, possibly ten billion, So it'd be
a great deal for him to get out. Were people
were praying Trump would appoint him to something or make
(12:12):
him an ambassador, just to give him the hell out
of here. But that won't work either. Last time that happened,
his son took over and the Sun was just as
bad as an owner. But it's a total disaster, zero
and seven. They lose every game, doesn't matter. He said,
well maybe they should get some better players, doesn't matter.
Whoever they get, they ruin them. Remember Aaron Rodgers or
whoever they bring in, they ruin. It's it's just the
(12:33):
worst owner ever, the worst team ever. Hey, George Santos,
this was surprised to everybody. President Trump commuted his sentence.
A lot of people were pressuring him to do it. Santos.
He says, it's a nice guy. He's a cute guy. Santos.
He you know he lied in the race, he lied
about his resume, lied about everything well, so that Tim Waltz.
(12:55):
But and the problem was in the congressional race he
was in. He was up against a whole bunch of
amateurs who there was no real opposition, and they forgot
to do opposition research. They would have discovered these lives,
but they didn't until he got elected. Then people started
looking at him. But the bad part was he did
stuff where he defrauded people to get money out of them.
(13:20):
He did defraud people to get money. So that's the
criminal problem, and that's the criminal charge. But he went
through hell in prison for a month or two, a
couple of months, three months, I think, and apparently the
warden headed in for him and was really rough on him.
People were appealing to President Trump over and over, political people,
congress people, friends. Finally Trump decided the guy was being
(13:43):
traded treated in humanely in prison, so commuted his sentence. Now,
the other thing that got commuted, he did have to
pay a six hundred thousand dollars fine that got commuted
as well, So may have been a little over commuting there.
But here's George Santas. He got out of prison and.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Was I thank you to President Trump for clemency and
for having such an amazing will for second chances.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
So I've made some poor choices in my life, but
nothing would warrant a insane, arbitrary sentence. But on top
of that, a sentence that no one else would have gotten,
a treatment that no one else would have gotten, forty
one days in isolation in the shoe.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah, they put him on solitary for forty one days.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I understand people want to make this into a He's
getting away with it. I'm not getting away with it.
I was the first person to ever go to federal
prison for this type of civil FEC violation. These are
usually solved in penalties, and I don't want to focus
on trying to rehash the pass. I want to take
this experience and do good and move on with the future.
(14:49):
Repentance is an understatement. It's like I have been dealt
a second chance. I have a lot to prove to
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I have to make sure.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And Trump understands that I am not going to disappoint him.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now, he did, you know, the fraud people, and get
a lot of money, and he spent it on luxuries,
on clothes, on cars, on watches, all this stuff. But
he has been telling people after he got out of
prison now that it changed everything as far as wealth goes.
And he realized, you know, when you get out of prison,
he said, just to have your own toilet, just to
(15:26):
have your own bathroom, to be able to go to
the bathroom in private and closed doors, to have your
own shower and do it privately, and to have eat
actual real food instead of the worst food in the world.
To be able to, you know, go to bed when
you want. And he said, they realized that's the real wealth.
It changed everything. He no longer cares about the material
(15:48):
luxuries that he understands what real wealth is. Have your family,
your friends with you. So it's an interesting lesson for
everybody to remember. Hey, we'll take some calls in a moment.
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