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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to The Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, the US took in twenty seven billion dollars
in June in.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Customs duties, Kelly Nash.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
So far this calendar year, the Treasury has taken in
eighty seven billion dollars in customs duties.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show woc.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Boy, the number sure look good for the Trump administration
with those kind of tariff numbers rolling in, because when
you if you analyze that, or if you annualize that,
you're looking at nearly a trillion dollars. What a great
broadcast moment that would be if you could hold a
press conference at the end of the first year of
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the tariffs rolling in that come money and more, because
we're about to talk about tariff's going up on some countries.
Brazil standby, you're going to get the heart. You don't
get the herd end of that paddle. If you were
able to show the deck clocket and roll it back
by trillion dollars with one check.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I mean, a trillion seems a bit of a reach
for us right now. I've heard some people talking like that,
but the reality I mean right now, I mean, when's
the fiscal year end end of October. Yeah, something like that.
And so we're here, we are at the middle of
July and we're at one hundred and thirteen billion for
the year, which is fantastic because we have never brought
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in one hundred billion dollars previously. We're up eighty six
percent year over year, which is again one hundred billion.
It's one hundred and thirteen billion dollars has been brought in,
which is again an astounding amount of money. But it's
still quite a ways sure to get to a trillion.
But again, we're Here's the thing I think that people
need to really sink in on. You continue to hear
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democrats and the media lie about the effects that the
tariffs are having. The effects are the math. The math
is two things have happened. The treasury has gone up
eighty six percent and inflation is down. So the other
two things. They said that nobody was going to pay
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the tariffs, so the treasury was going to go down
and inflation was going to skyrocket because nobody wanted to
do business with the US. If that was the rate,
they were wrong. Whether they intentionally tried to mislead or not,
they are wrong. Donald Trump has established that his methods
are working, and Americans, I think, for the most part,
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are like, I love the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, I mean they were the same people that told
you that inflation was transitory. I mean, they keep telling
you all kind of crap that they have no answer
for now, particularly as we're moving even further into the
OBBBA and the reviews of that are becoming more and
more interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The Democrats are upset. I love that poll.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
What was the percentage of Democrats who were proud to
be Americans?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's like twenty eight percent. Yes, it was a shockingly
low number. And if you go back just to twenty
fifteen and all previous polls, previous it was like they
were above sixty percent, sixty five, seventy five, eighty five percent.
Republicans always a little more proud to be patriots. I
think right now we're but like ninety two percent of
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Republicans or something like that say that they're proud to
be from America. But they have belittled this, the founding
of this nation and even our recent history, to the
point where most Democrats are ashamed of this place.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And it seems like there are just a couple of
issues that are pushing that number down, or issues that
the Democrats would say, why they're not proud we're deporting people.
That's an embarrassment. There's one guy on MSNBC this morning.
He wrote a column or a book. Okay, I'm embarrassed country,
We're good forgotten, whether it whatever he wrote.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I can't wait to read it, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But the the OBBBA is shut down the border. And
in the beginning, I love the fact that Donald Trump
was talking about building the wall with a big beautiful door.
He hasn't used the big beautiful door as a description.
We don't want a big beautiful door. Well, I mean,
I think it should be a narrow should be a
narrow like like a camera through a needle.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I I know, I recognize that Americans, probably due
to our falling birth rates, probably are going to need
to import some people. Because you know, I'm from the
gen X crew. The gen X crew was the smallest,
and we're now getting near that retirement age ourselves. The
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boomers are pretty much probably seventy five eighty percent of
the baby boomers have retired now and and gen X
is trying is struggling to keep up. There's a large,
a big part of the problem financially for this country
is that gen X is not big enough to produce
the money needed for the social security That's why social
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security is in a precarious position, is because gen X
and even the groups behind us, the millennials, are nowhere
near as big as the baby boomers. The baby boomers
are a problem in the sense that there's just so
many millions of them, and who's going to pay for
all this.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I love it when politicians trying to use that as
an explanation as to why we may have to carve
back on your social security benefits whatever. It's not like
math and timelines were never equated in DC. Whenever they
want to put together like even the big beautiful bill
talks about how many trillion dollars it's going to save
over ten years, So they always have that as a
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small disclaimer with a footnote over ten years whenever they
talk about any legislation that they pass. But nobody could
see this coming. We didn't have a sociological study and
what's going on in the country to know whether we
have a continued or a smaller group of people following
what was the largest group of people that after World
War two, the baby boomers that began to be born
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going through the system where they used all that money,
and we end up finding out the third rail was
being used to finance the other two rails. And now
they sit there and go, well, there's nothing we can do.
It's like here in Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil go
into a conference room together, have a bourbon to come
out and decide you can collect your money at a
later rage, or you're going to have less money to collect.
Nobody could see this coming, anybody in Washington. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, I mean, in all honesty, we've heard I specifically
remember George W. Bush, probably just because that's twenty five
years ago more, i'll call it recent memory. I'm guessing
if I looked back, I could find Reagan, I could
probably find hw Bush.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Definitely, no Obama.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It Clinton, I think if I remember right, Clinton was
talking about it, the fact that you know, Social Security
was going to become insolvent if we weren't careful with it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We needed to do things.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I remember John McCain made that a primary issue for him.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But the reality about Al Gore putting it in a
lot boh.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, but the but you know, to your point, everybody
who looks at it honestly recognizes that it is a
Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme can't work if more people
aren't paying into the Ponzi scheme than are taking out
of it. And for those of you who are currently
collecting Social Security or Medicare, Medicaid, whatever, and you're thinking, well,
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I paid into it, yes you did, and the agreement
was you would get more out of it than you
paid into it. Same agreement that they have with us.
You know, over my lifetime they're going to take roughly,
what is it, something like eleven percent of your earnings
over your lifetime, and then because of inflation, I am
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going to expect back about twenty seven percent. So I'm
not going to just get the money I paid in.
You've got to more than double it in order to
get it back to me in order to keep me
what they would call whole.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So if you were only to.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Get back if you were working in the nineteen fifties
and you were paying in your eighteen dollars a month,
well good luck living off eighteen dollars a month in
the year twenty twenty. You weren't going to do it,
it wasn't going to make sense. But the people who
were behind you, or I should say I guess ahead
of you, the people who were retired in nineteen fifty
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seven that eighteen dollars a month, that was like, okay,
I can do something with this, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So we have.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And by the way, that also is a great I mean,
we always talk about the exploding debt. A huge part
of that is what's going on with Medicare, Medicaid and
Social Security, and a lot of that can't be changed,
but a lot of it can be if people would
just bravely go and I believe Trump is the guy
to bravely go and just say, look at what when
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you look at social Security and the originally the life
expectancy of a human being when they came up with
social Security, I think was sixty four years old, and
they allowed you to retire at sixty two and start
collecting social Security. So they were giving you like eighteen months, right,
and then you're supposed to die, do the patriotic thing
and dot stop dragging on the economy. But nobody, I
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mean I shouldn't say nobody. Heaven forbid people die early
deaths nowadays, we're extending the life expectancy into the eighties,
and in often cases like my age group is expected
to live into the nineties and the ones behind us
because they're living cleaner, better, healthier lives than we are,
they're going to be living into their hundreds. And with
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modern medicine breakthroughs and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So you can't retire it's sixty five and then just
collect money for forty years.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
My dad does point out, you hear all these television
commercials they always talk about if you're in your seventies
or eighties. Nobody ever says if you're in your seventies,
eighties or nineties. Yeah, because he's ninety one. And I'm like, well,
think about it. In this zip code, how many people
do you know and you knew all of them your age?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
How many people do you.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Know that are in their nineties?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Five?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Six?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is there even that many?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I haven't been to the nursing home in a while.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean, it was it was unthought of that anyone
in the working class would ever see that is true.
Eighty five was an unbelievable number.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
What a blessing it has been to see the investments
that Americans have made through the government and otherwise that
Americans have made to extend the life of our loved ones.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Got it. That is a blessing.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It does create a math problem, but again, we have
people living into their seventies in the eighties, you know,
twenty years ago. So at some point you had to
start adjusting the numbers because you saw the glood of
people coming through. But nobody in Washington ever did a
study on that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Really they I think they knew. They just didn't want
because think about it, like.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I kept spending it. The third rail was financing the
other two.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We know that at some point you have to go
to the American people and say, Jonathan, I know we
made you a promise sixty two you could start collecting
sixty five at the latest. We're now retracting that. It's
now seventy seven. So wait a second, hold on, I
was expecting to retire at sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You're telling me you just added a decade to my
work career.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes I did. We're the federal government. You can retire
whenever you want. But you're not getting a nickel till
you're seventy seven, right, WHOA that would.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Hurt your constituency, A lot of people would so go
f ententhusiasm for voting for you.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, not voting for you again, which is.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why you had Tip o' nail and Ronald Reagan, neither
facing a re election, to come out with that negotiation, and.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They were happy to have a beer on the taxpayer
at that beer that much valueed beer paid for by you.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Did they have a choice?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I don't know, maybe not, but the've been better off
coming out with a Jimmy Carter fire side chat and
explaining it to you. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
He didn't seem to.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Be able to pull those off very well with explaining anything.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, oh no, it's a math problem America has. But
the good news is Donald Trump is a rare individual.
We've never seen a president like him. I'm sure there
have been somebody like him in the past, but I
don't know who that individual was. But he will tell
you the hard truths. And you know, I'm waiting for
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him to tell me the hard truth on Epstein, but
that hard truth is not coming through his mouth yet.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
That is the thing that really is. As you said,
you sent Donald Trump to be a disruptor. Everybody loves
that you go to send the bull in the Chinese shop,
whatever word you want to use, whatever analogy you want
to that's why you send him there, because he's not
beholding to the political class. He's an outsider from inside
the Belta now trying to drain the swamp. All those
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great analogies and word pictures got it. So along comes
the JFK files MLK files. Do we have the area
fifty one full disclosure yet? I mean, all these things
are being released, but now we don't have even what
we knew to have by people who have said it
or given descriptions of Epstein's island, to know that there's
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an absolute list of people. You don't have the client list.
And I realized that a lot of people should be
screaming about the fact that there were victims who were hurt,
who are not going to be made whole, or some
of them dead, who were not going to have justification
or adjudicated their case. And those are the true victims
of Epstein. Okay, I get it. The rest of us
just political argumentation. And you've got Democrats and Republicans thinking
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that this client list is going to be better for
them politically than it will be for their enemies, which
is the way America is finally playing itself out. You
don't have political apt you have enemies. So it does
fly in the face that Donald Trump is not going
to be the guy who releases this list. And I
realized that, let's say, let's say this list is as
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ugly as you ever thought it could be plus fifteen percent.
So you've got half of Congress flying to Epstein Island.
Now you've got all of this disruption going on, which
could lead to empty seats and whatever and whatever and whatever.
Now you've totally disrupted it to the point where there
is chaos inside DC, particularly with the House of Representatives,
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because the Senate gets turned over pretty easily with due
appointments with the governors. But it could be the most
disruptive thing anybody's ever done to a system of government.
And Trump's like, hold your horses for a second. And
by the way, Pam Bondy's doing a great job. That
doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, and you know she's not doing a great job
because she built this up to such a fevered pitch.
She's the one who hyped everybody up about it. And
oh yeah, there's going to be some big names on
that list and blah blah blah, and then to say
that it's over the way, she very dismissively said, and
that's all we're saying about that the case is closed
moving forward. That that really pissed off a lot of people.
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And if you saw over the weekend they had the
Charlie Kirk had his big event and the booze that
came out when they started talking about the Epstein case
that it's not gonna go away. But Donald Trump's bigger
point is still true. This does not alter the destiny
of the country. We have readjusted. The path that we
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were on under Joe Biden was an unbelievable, unsustainable trajectory.
The country was about to become insolvent. We were losing everything,
you know, to to what's his name, the House member
from Georgia, our country was about to capsize. That never
mind Guam, our country would capsize.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Financially, we would yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And so I mean, we have done a one point
eighty and now things are going in the right direction
and we're going to get better and better and better
Americans who are under the age of thirty if we
continue this, Because I would, I would argue that my
life financially, even though I make more money now financially,
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and I'll say harmonically, meaning like the races and that
sort of thing probably peaked in the nineteen nineties. So
that was the best America version that I got was
the nineteen nineties, ironically in the Bill Clinton administration. But
thankfully the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans kept the
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tight leash on them. But the country was in a
great place. Since September eleventh, it's been downward and we
had that little three year reprieve, almost a year and
a half reprieve with Donald Trump, and then COVID came
in and all the other problems that came during the
end of that administration. This this is your first glimpse
of what America can be like and what it was
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like twenty five thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And I would say that you people, if you can
keep it, was that.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
A republic. It's a great look. If you can keep it,
If you can keep this trajectory going, the lifestyle that
is going to be available to the American citizens in
twenty forty five will be unimaginable to us here in
twenty twenty five. It's going to be amazing, But there
are some things that we would like Donald Trump to
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clean up, specifically the Epstein case. We'd also like to
clean up. It's been over.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The weekend was the one year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Donald Trump said that he is satisfied with the explanation
given to him by the Secret Service and the FBI
and others. Well, then tell us what it is. Because
he said he said that they had a bad day.
That's what he said. They had a bad day.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Everybody has. Everybody has a bad day. They had a
bad day.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Almost got Look, it'serous job being the president. I get
all that, But what how can the widow of Corey
what was his last name Campanano, the firefighter who was killed,
says she has not heard a word from anybody at
the Secret Service. She has not been able to put
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any closure on his death. Why did this happen?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And for Trump to say, yeah, they should have had
somebody on that building, well, no flipping duh. I knew
that when it was happening.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
When I saw the shots and then they just pan
over to a building, I'm like that would have been
a good spot for somebody from.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You can't say it was a bad day, It was
a bad week, it was a bad everything. Somebody, it
feels like, intentionally did not allow the Secret Service to
do their jobs. And for you to say it's a
bad day and you're satisfied with that diminishes the impact.
And I'm not I understand you were the one that
got shot President Trump, but the nation what's his face?
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Who's the Fetterman. Fetterman put it in perfect words when
he said, the unimaginable loss and the tragedy and the
shock that the country would still be feeling if Donald
Trump had been assassinated that day cannot be allowed to
not have a deeper investigation.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, it truly is amazing when you look back and
now you've seen the complete review of it. I don't
even know until over the weekend unless I knew it
and forgotten it. But I think I would have remembered
this where not only all of the things that we
know to be true, like there was no sniper from
the Secret Service or local or anybody on that one
position on that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Roof, the closest to the president. I'm m's just give
him an elevated shot at him.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I don't know either about security policing or nothing. I
don't even know. I'm I can't even be a mall security.
But I tell you this, that's the place I have started.
If I get to flip a coin where you want
to be, I want to be there.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You're saying, I canna have any spot. You'll have to
hide in a tree for like three days.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You see all those things that we knew to be
true when it was unfolding, because we're asking ourselves the
questions that were still pointed out at the end of
this review. And then they added in there was even
a known threat two weeks prior to the event. I'm like,
wait a minute, what we even knew it going in?
And we sent a rookie manager to be the property manager,
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to be in charge of the secret Service, who dolled
out all this responsibility to the locals who got there,
and we didn't secure that spot. We didn't have that
Oh my god. I mean, you look at the Epstein
file and you look at the review of that agency.
I mean, how many people are we protecting here outside
of not you, Donald Trump, because you almost got your
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brain blown out?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And how many shots did the kid that we know
nothing about. I mean, a year later, I know more
about you know, John Wilkes booth Yo died over one
hundred years ago. I know more about him that I
know about the kid who tried to kill Donald Trump
on national television, which is an unbelievable development as well.
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And he ends up killing one, hitting several others.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
He shot. It seemed wod you say? Eight shots?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And why the crowd As we all remember if you've
seen any of the videotapes, the crowd was pointing at
the kid on the building before he started firing, and
the people in the crowd are saying, gun, there's a
guy would have done Why did the Secret Service not
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shoot him?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Then?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Why did the guy with the the telescopic lens? Who
could have They said, he could have told you what
hour that kid shaved with that scope. He knows that
he shaved three hours ago or six. That guy he
looks and then he had to like talk into his
arm to get some sort of clearance.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
There's somebody firing at the president. I need clearance. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And then to make it even uglier, when we start
talking about unfortunately the disruptor that seems to be protecting
somebody here. Now you know they came out with the
Komi and the Brennan story last week, right as they
released the fact that we're not going to have any
more information on Epstein. So it just looks like a
bait and switch and are politics as usual, which is
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not what we sent Donald Trump to Washington to do.
Not politics as usual but the ultimate disruptor. And I
get it. Maybe there are valid reasons when you're sitting
in the Oval Office and you have all the information
at your fingertips, where you have to put on your
kid gloves to protect somebody, to keep from Washington going
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complete chaos. But it seems like those kid gloves now
has come between him being able to have his finger
on the pulse of the American people, because even with
the announcement a day on Russia, there's still gonna be
that voice that will echo forever, the widow of Corey.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And I will not.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Disrespect him by mispronouncing his name or even trying it.
But you know who I'm talking about. When she says
I lost the love of my life, my children lost
their dad, I mean that voice is not going to
be silenced, And if she never says it again, we
will steal her. Hear her voice echoing well.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And just for giggles, I just went and googled John
Wilkes Booth. Next to the kid. How many people could
name the guy who tried to kill Trump? Just say
his name Crooks. Can you say his first Crooks, Thomas
Matthew Crooks. You're probably one of I would guess in
the upper one percentile. Thomas Matthew Crooks. If you were
to go, if you were to look at his Wikipedia page,
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it would take you, I'm guessing, twenty five seconds to
read his Wikipedia page. You go to John Wilkes Booth,
it's like reading a novel. A bit John Wilkes Booth.
You can talk about what he did in the Union Army,
what he did for the Army of Tennessee, what he
did about his parents. We could talk about his father,
Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress, Marianne Holmes, who moved
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to the United We know, we got we got background
for days on John Wilkes Booth. You got nothing on
Thomas Matthew Crooks. Thomas Matthew Crooks went to high school.
Thomas Matthew Crooks developed some political ideology while at the
Community College of Allegheny County, and then he decided to
assassinate Donald Trump. That's pretty much the Wikipedia page on
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this kid. Here's the gun that he used. Here's the
building he was on. Here's the air conditioning unit that
he climbed on. Here he is walking around for several
hours with a gun at a Donald Trump rally. Nobody
says crap.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
To this kid. Yeah, no explanation as to why.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
How is it he's walking How is he in the
area with a gun after you've already been told two
weeks prior there's a threat, none of it, none of it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And you're absolutely the right.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I mean, when you look at the what's going to
affect the American people, and they always vote their pocketbook,
I got it. You're looking at great tariffs, so be
rolling in. That's certainly going to help us with not
just the deficit. Although hopefully as we do another bill
com up here later in the year, as we'll begin
talking about that in the Senate, you're going to be
able to save the American people leaving more money and
hopefully those will continue to save on the backside with
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all of our spending, and we'll actually get Jay Powell
to come down with a interest rate that really should
have been in place a month ago, while he doesn't
spend two billion dollars building a new palace to himself
with his name on it. I'm sure you take it
all into context and you say, okay, things are much better.
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Donald Trump did go in and his policies were great.
But you know, this kind of thing with the Epstein
in particular, that's the kind of thing that's just going
to stick out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Again, the bigger picture, Donald Trump is absolutely right. The
country is going gangbusters. We're doing fantastic right now. I
hope that Maga because the only ones who could bring
him down is Maga, right the Democrats. The Democrats are
just piling on, but nobody gives a crap what the
Democrats say. It's if Maga gets ugly about this, this
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could this. And again, if I was Donald Trump, I'm
not Donald Trump. He's got better political instincts than anybody
who's ever lived, because he's done some things that seem
unsurvivable politically, and he comes out even better than when
he before the controversy. But if it was me, I'm
cutting Pambondi loose.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Even with knowing that the process obviously he's going to
be painstaking because then you've got to have confirmation from
the Senate on another attorney general.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The rumor has been that that next attorney general would
be when Ron DeSantis. That would be an upgrade in
my opinion. I don't know if Ron DeSantis would be
in interested, but the rumor has been it is Rond
de Santis that there have been talks. I would love
Rond de Santis to come in. I think that when
you look, I mean Rond de Sants has done a
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great job as a Florida governor and is a great
nominee right now, a potential nominee for the presidency of
the United States. But Marco Rubio completely rehabbed his image
over the last six months without doubt, and I thought
he was a kind of a fool for taking that job, Like,
why do you want to go be Donald Trump's whipping boy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, he's not his whipping boy. He is standing out
on his own two feet. Jobs.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Now he's gonna do a job job. Maybe he'll be
the next attorney general too.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, I gotta say, if you're JD. Vance, you're looking
at Rubio going wow, this could be a tough race.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, those those are the two fire.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Fashion Rubio's I would think would be leading in that race,
might be say the experience he's picked up internationally.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
By the way you throw it, the guy who went
nuts down in Kentucky over the weekend and killed those
poor people at the church. One of his last online
posts was him posing in front of a photo I
don't know where he was. I'm going to guess a
post office or something like that. It had the picture
of the President and vice president on the wall, and
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he was trying to mock Trump's photo. But he did
have a pretty good line on JD.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Vance.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
He goes, and you got jd out here looking like
he's the local owner of the Renas Center.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Who would have thought we could have found comedy in
the last postings of this look of a lunatic
Welcome to The Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, the US took in twenty seven billion dollars
in June in.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Customs duties, Kelly Nash.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
So far this calendar year, the Treasury has taken in
eighty seven billion dollars in customs duties.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show woc.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Boy, the number sure look good for the Trump administration
with those kind of tariff numbers rolling in, because when
you if you analyze that, or if you annualize that,
you're looking at nearly a trillion dollars. What a great
broadcast moment that would be if you could hold a
press conference at the end of the first year of
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the tariffs rolling in that come money and more, because
we're about to talk about tariff's going up on some countries.
Brazil standby, you're going to get the heart. You don't
get the herd end of that paddle. If you were
able to show the deck clocket and roll it back
by trillion dollars with one check.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I mean, a trillion seems a bit of a reach
for us right now. I've heard some people talking like that,
but the reality I mean right now, I mean, when's
the fiscal year end end of October. Yeah, something like that.
And so we're here, we are at the middle of
July and we're at one hundred and thirteen billion for
the year, which is fantastic because we have never brought
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in one hundred billion dollars previously. We're up eighty six
percent year over year, which is again one hundred billion.
It's one hundred and thirteen billion dollars has been brought in,
which is again an astounding amount of money. But it's
still quite a ways sure to get to a trillion.
But again, we're Here's the thing I think that people
need to really sink in on. You continue to hear
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democrats and the media lie about the effects that the
tariffs are having. The effects are the math. The math
is two things have happened. The treasury has gone up
eighty six percent and inflation is down. So the other
two things. They said that nobody was going to pay
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the tariffs, so the treasury was going to go down
and inflation was going to skyrocket because nobody wanted to
do business with the US. If that was the rate,
they were wrong. Whether they intentionally tried to mislead or not,
they are wrong. Donald Trump has established that his methods
are working, and Americans, I think, for the most part,
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are like, I love the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, I mean they were the same people that told
you that inflation was transitory. I mean, they keep telling
you all kind of crap that they have no answer
for now, particularly as we're moving even further into the
OBBBA and the reviews of that are becoming more and
more interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The Democrats are upset. I love that poll.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
What was the percentage of Democrats who were proud to
be Americans?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's like twenty eight percent. Yes, it was a shockingly
low number. And if you go back just to twenty
fifteen and all previous polls, previous it was like they
were above sixty percent, sixty five, seventy five, eighty five percent.
Republicans always a little more proud to be patriots. I
think right now we're but like ninety two percent of
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Republicans or something like that say that they're proud to
be from America. But they have belittled this, the founding
of this nation and even our recent history, to the
point where most Democrats are ashamed of this place.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And it seems like there are just a couple of
issues that are pushing that number down, or issues that
the Democrats would say, why they're not proud we're deporting people.
That's an embarrassment. There's one guy on MSNBC this morning.
He wrote a column or a book. Okay, I'm embarrassed country,
We're good forgotten, whether it whatever he wrote.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I can't wait to read it, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But the the OBBBA is shut down the border. And
in the beginning, I love the fact that Donald Trump
was talking about building the wall with a big beautiful door.
He hasn't used the big beautiful door as a description.
We don't want a big beautiful door. Well, I mean,
I think it should be a narrow should be a
narrow like like a camera through a needle.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I I know, I recognize that Americans, probably due
to our falling birth rates, probably are going to need
to import some people. Because you know, I'm from the
gen X crew. The gen X crew was the smallest,
and we're now getting near that retirement age ourselves. The
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boomers are pretty much probably seventy five eighty percent of
the baby boomers have retired now and and gen X
is trying is struggling to keep up. There's a large,
a big part of the problem financially for this country
is that gen X is not big enough to produce
the money needed for the social security That's why social
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security is in a precarious position, is because gen X
and even the groups behind us, the millennials, are nowhere
near as big as the baby boomers. The baby boomers
are a problem in the sense that there's just so
many millions of them, and who's going to pay for
all this.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I love it when politicians trying to use that as
an explanation as to why we may have to carve
back on your social security benefits whatever. It's not like
math and timelines were never equated in DC. Whenever they
want to put together like even the big beautiful bill
talks about how many trillion dollars it's going to save
over ten years, So they always have that as a
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small disclaimer with a footnote over ten years whenever they
talk about any legislation that they pass. But nobody could
see this coming. We didn't have a sociological study and
what's going on in the country to know whether we
have a continued or a smaller group of people following
what was the largest group of people that after World
War two, the baby boomers that began to be born
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going through the system where they used all that money,
and we end up finding out the third rail was
being used to finance the other two rails. And now
they sit there and go, well, there's nothing we can do.
It's like here in Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil go
into a conference room together, have a bourbon to come
out and decide you can collect your money at a
later rage, or you're going to have less money to collect.
Nobody could see this coming, anybody in Washington. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, I mean, in all honesty, we've heard I specifically
remember George W. Bush, probably just because that's twenty five
years ago more, i'll call it recent memory. I'm guessing
if I looked back, I could find Reagan, I could
probably find hw Bush.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Definitely, no Obama.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It Clinton, I think if I remember right, Clinton was
talking about it, the fact that you know, Social Security
was going to become insolvent if we weren't careful with it.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We needed to do things.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I remember John McCain made that a primary issue for him.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But the reality about Al Gore putting it in a
lot boh.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, but the but you know, to your point, everybody
who looks at it honestly recognizes that it is a
Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme can't work if more people
aren't paying into the Ponzi scheme than are taking out
of it. And for those of you who are currently
collecting Social Security or Medicare, Medicaid, whatever, and you're thinking, well,
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I paid into it, yes you did, and the agreement
was you would get more out of it than you
paid into it. Same agreement that they have with us.
You know, over my lifetime they're going to take roughly,
what is it, something like eleven percent of your earnings
over your lifetime, and then because of inflation, I am
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going to expect back about twenty seven percent. So I'm
not going to just get the money I paid in.
You've got to more than double it in order to
get it back to me in order to keep me
what they would call whole.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So if you were only to.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Get back if you were working in the nineteen fifties
and you were paying in your eighteen dollars a month,
well good luck living off eighteen dollars a month in
the year twenty twenty. You weren't going to do it,
it wasn't going to make sense. But the people who
were behind you, or I should say I guess ahead
of you, the people who were retired in nineteen fifty
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seven that eighteen dollars a month, that was like, okay,
I can do something with this, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So we have.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And by the way, that also is a great I mean,
we always talk about the exploding debt. A huge part
of that is what's going on with Medicare, Medicaid and
Social Security, and a lot of that can't be changed,
but a lot of it can be if people would
just bravely go and I believe Trump is the guy
to bravely go and just say, look at what when
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you look at social Security and the originally the life
expectancy of a human being when they came up with
social Security, I think was sixty four years old, and
they allowed you to retire at sixty two and start
collecting social Security. So they were giving you like eighteen months, right,
and then you're supposed to die, do the patriotic thing
and dot stop dragging on the economy. But nobody, I
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mean I shouldn't say nobody. Heaven forbid people die early
deaths nowadays, we're extending the life expectancy into the eighties,
and in often cases like my age group is expected
to live into the nineties and the ones behind us
because they're living cleaner, better, healthier lives than we are,
they're going to be living into their hundreds. And with
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modern medicine breakthroughs and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So you can't retire it's sixty five and then just
collect money for forty years.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
My dad does point out, you hear all these television
commercials they always talk about if you're in your seventies
or eighties. Nobody ever says if you're in your seventies,
eighties or nineties. Yeah, because he's ninety one. And I'm like, well,
think about it. In this zip code, how many people
do you know and you knew all of them your age?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
How many people do you.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Know that are in their nineties?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Five?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Six?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is there even that many?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I haven't been to the nursing home in a while.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean, it was it was unthought of that anyone
in the working class would ever see that is true.
Eighty five was an unbelievable number.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
What a blessing it has been to see the investments
that Americans have made through the government and otherwise that
Americans have made to extend the life of our loved ones.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Got it. That is a blessing.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It does create a math problem, but again, we have
people living into their seventies in the eighties, you know,
twenty years ago. So at some point you had to
start adjusting the numbers because you saw the glood of
people coming through. But nobody in Washington ever did a
study on that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Really they I think they knew. They just didn't want
because think about it, like.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I kept spending it. The third rail was financing the
other two.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We know that at some point you have to go
to the American people and say, Jonathan, I know we
made you a promise sixty two you could start collecting
sixty five at the latest. We're now retracting that. It's
now seventy seven. So wait a second, hold on, I
was expecting to retire at sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You're telling me you just added a decade to my
work career.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes I did. We're the federal government. You can retire
whenever you want. But you're not getting a nickel till
you're seventy seven, right, WHOA that would.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Hurt your constituency, A lot of people would so go
f ententhusiasm for voting for you.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, not voting for you again, which is.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why you had Tip o' nail and Ronald Reagan, neither
facing a re election, to come out with that negotiation, and.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They were happy to have a beer on the taxpayer
at that beer that much valueed beer paid for by you.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Did they have a choice?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I don't know, maybe not, but the've been better off
coming out with a Jimmy Carter fire side chat and
explaining it to you. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
He didn't seem to.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Be able to pull those off very well with explaining anything.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, oh no, it's a math problem America has. But
the good news is Donald Trump is a rare individual.
We've never seen a president like him. I'm sure there
have been somebody like him in the past, but I
don't know who that individual was. But he will tell
you the hard truths. And you know, I'm waiting for
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him to tell me the hard truth on Epstein, but
that hard truth is not coming through his mouth yet.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
That is the thing that really is. As you said,
you sent Donald Trump to be a disruptor. Everybody loves
that you go to send the bull in the Chinese shop,
whatever word you want to use, whatever analogy you want
to that's why you send him there, because he's not
beholding to the political class. He's an outsider from inside
the Belta now trying to drain the swamp. All those
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great analogies and word pictures got it. So along comes
the JFK files MLK files. Do we have the area
fifty one full disclosure yet? I mean, all these things
are being released, but now we don't have even what
we knew to have by people who have said it
or given descriptions of Epstein's island, to know that there's
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an absolute list of people. You don't have the client list.
And I realized that a lot of people should be
screaming about the fact that there were victims who were hurt,
who are not going to be made whole, or some
of them dead, who were not going to have justification
or adjudicated their case. And those are the true victims
of Epstein. Okay, I get it. The rest of us
just political argumentation. And you've got Democrats and Republicans thinking
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that this client list is going to be better for
them politically than it will be for their enemies, which
is the way America is finally playing itself out. You
don't have political apt you have enemies. So it does
fly in the face that Donald Trump is not going
to be the guy who releases this list. And I
realized that, let's say, let's say this list is as
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ugly as you ever thought it could be plus fifteen percent.
So you've got half of Congress flying to Epstein Island.
Now you've got all of this disruption going on, which
could lead to empty seats and whatever and whatever and whatever.
Now you've totally disrupted it to the point where there
is chaos inside DC, particularly with the House of Representatives,
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because the Senate gets turned over pretty easily with due
appointments with the governors. But it could be the most
disruptive thing anybody's ever done to a system of government.
And Trump's like, hold your horses for a second. And
by the way, Pam Bondy's doing a great job. That
doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Well, and you know she's not doing a great job
because she built this up to such a fevered pitch.
She's the one who hyped everybody up about it. And
oh yeah, there's going to be some big names on
that list and blah blah blah, and then to say
that it's over the way, she very dismissively said, and
that's all we're saying about that the case is closed
moving forward. That that really pissed off a lot of people.
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And if you saw over the weekend they had the
Charlie Kirk had his big event and the booze that
came out when they started talking about the Epstein case
that it's not gonna go away. But Donald Trump's bigger
point is still true. This does not alter the destiny
of the country. We have readjusted. The path that we
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were on under Joe Biden was an unbelievable, unsustainable trajectory.
The country was about to become insolvent. We were losing everything,
you know, to to what's his name, the House member
from Georgia, our country was about to capsize. That never
mind Guam, our country would capsize.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Financially, we would yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And so I mean, we have done a one point
eighty and now things are going in the right direction
and we're going to get better and better and better
Americans who are under the age of thirty if we
continue this, Because I would, I would argue that my
life financially, even though I make more money now financially,
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and I'll say harmonically, meaning like the races and that
sort of thing probably peaked in the nineteen nineties. So
that was the best America version that I got was
the nineteen nineties, ironically in the Bill Clinton administration. But
thankfully the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans kept the
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tight leash on them. But the country was in a
great place. Since September eleventh, it's been downward and we
had that little three year reprieve, almost a year and
a half reprieve with Donald Trump, and then COVID came
in and all the other problems that came during the
end of that administration. This this is your first glimpse
of what America can be like and what it was
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like twenty five thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And I would say that you people, if you can
keep it, was that.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
A republic. It's a great look. If you can keep it,
If you can keep this trajectory going, the lifestyle that
is going to be available to the American citizens in
twenty forty five will be unimaginable to us here in
twenty twenty five. It's going to be amazing, But there
are some things that we would like Donald Trump to
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clean up, specifically the Epstein case. We'd also like to
clean up. It's been over.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The weekend was the one year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Donald Trump said that he is satisfied with the explanation
given to him by the Secret Service and the FBI
and others. Well, then tell us what it is. Because
he said he said that they had a bad day.
That's what he said. They had a bad day.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Everybody has. Everybody has a bad day. They had a
bad day.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Almost got Look, it'serous job being the president. I get
all that, But what how can the widow of Corey
what was his last name Campanano, the firefighter who was killed,
says she has not heard a word from anybody at
the Secret Service. She has not been able to put
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any closure on his death. Why did this happen?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And for Trump to say, yeah, they should have had
somebody on that building, well, no flipping duh. I knew
that when it was happening.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
When I saw the shots and then they just pan
over to a building, I'm like that would have been
a good spot for somebody from.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The Secret Service.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
You can't say it was a bad day, It was
a bad week, it was a bad everything. Somebody, it
feels like, intentionally did not allow the Secret Service to
do their jobs. And for you to say it's a
bad day and you're satisfied with that diminishes the impact.
And I'm not I understand you were the one that
got shot President Trump, but the nation what's his face?
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Who's the Fetterman. Fetterman put it in perfect words when
he said, the unimaginable loss and the tragedy and the
shock that the country would still be feeling if Donald
Trump had been assassinated that day cannot be allowed to
not have a deeper investigation.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, it truly is amazing when you look back and
now you've seen the complete review of it. I don't
even know until over the weekend unless I knew it
and forgotten it. But I think I would have remembered
this where not only all of the things that we
know to be true, like there was no sniper from
the Secret Service or local or anybody on that one
position on that.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Roof, the closest to the president. I'm m's just give
him an elevated shot at him.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I don't know either about security policing or nothing. I
don't even know. I'm I can't even be a mall security.
But I tell you this, that's the place I have started.
If I get to flip a coin where you want
to be, I want to be there.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You're saying, I canna have any spot. You'll have to
hide in a tree for like three days.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You see all those things that we knew to be
true when it was unfolding, because we're asking ourselves the
questions that were still pointed out at the end of
this review. And then they added in there was even
a known threat two weeks prior to the event. I'm like,
wait a minute, what we even knew it going in?
And we sent a rookie manager to be the property manager,
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to be in charge of the secret Service, who dolled
out all this responsibility to the locals who got there,
and we didn't secure that spot. We didn't have that
Oh my god. I mean, you look at the Epstein
file and you look at the review of that agency.
I mean, how many people are we protecting here outside
of not you, Donald Trump, because you almost got your
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brain blown out?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And how many shots did the kid that we know
nothing about. I mean, a year later, I know more
about you know, John Wilkes booth Yo died over one
hundred years ago. I know more about him that I
know about the kid who tried to kill Donald Trump
on national television, which is an unbelievable development as well.
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And he ends up killing one, hitting several others.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
He shot. It seemed wod you say? Eight shots?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And why the crowd As we all remember if you've
seen any of the videotapes, the crowd was pointing at
the kid on the building before he started firing, and
the people in the crowd are saying, gun, there's a
guy would have done Why did the Secret Service not
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shoot him?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Then?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Why did the guy with the the telescopic lens? Who
could have They said, he could have told you what
hour that kid shaved with that scope. He knows that
he shaved three hours ago or six. That guy he
looks and then he had to like talk into his
arm to get some sort of clearance.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
There's somebody firing at the president. I need clearance. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
And then to make it even uglier, when we start
talking about unfortunately the disruptor that seems to be protecting
somebody here. Now you know they came out with the
Komi and the Brennan story last week, right as they
released the fact that we're not going to have any
more information on Epstein. So it just looks like a
bait and switch and are politics as usual, which is
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not what we sent Donald Trump to Washington to do.
Not politics as usual but the ultimate disruptor. And I
get it. Maybe there are valid reasons when you're sitting
in the Oval Office and you have all the information
at your fingertips, where you have to put on your
kid gloves to protect somebody, to keep from Washington going
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complete chaos. But it seems like those kid gloves now
has come between him being able to have his finger
on the pulse of the American people, because even with
the announcement a day on Russia, there's still gonna be
that voice that will echo forever, the widow of Corey.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And I will not.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Disrespect him by mispronouncing his name or even trying it.
But you know who I'm talking about. When she says
I lost the love of my life, my children lost
their dad, I mean that voice is not going to
be silenced, And if she never says it again, we
will steal her. Hear her voice echoing well.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And just for giggles, I just went and googled John
Wilkes Booth. Next to the kid. How many people could
name the guy who tried to kill Trump? Just say
his name Crooks. Can you say his first Crooks, Thomas
Matthew Crooks. You're probably one of I would guess in
the upper one percentile. Thomas Matthew Crooks. If you were
to go, if you were to look at his Wikipedia page,
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it would take you, I'm guessing, twenty five seconds to
read his Wikipedia page. You go to John Wilkes Booth,
it's like reading a novel. A bit John Wilkes Booth.
You can talk about what he did in the Union Army,
what he did for the Army of Tennessee, what he
did about his parents. We could talk about his father,
Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress, Marianne Holmes, who moved
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to the United We know, we got we got background
for days on John Wilkes Booth. You got nothing on
Thomas Matthew Crooks. Thomas Matthew Crooks went to high school.
Thomas Matthew Crooks developed some political ideology while at the
Community College of Allegheny County, and then he decided to
assassinate Donald Trump. That's pretty much the Wikipedia page on
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this kid. Here's the gun that he used. Here's the
building he was on. Here's the air conditioning unit that
he climbed on. Here he is walking around for several
hours with a gun at a Donald Trump rally. Nobody
says crap.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
To this kid. Yeah, no explanation as to why.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
How is it he's walking How is he in the
area with a gun after you've already been told two
weeks prior there's a threat, none of it, none of it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And you're absolutely the right.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I mean, when you look at the what's going to
affect the American people, and they always vote their pocketbook,
I got it. You're looking at great tariffs, so be
rolling in. That's certainly going to help us with not
just the deficit. Although hopefully as we do another bill
com up here later in the year, as we'll begin
talking about that in the Senate, you're going to be
able to save the American people leaving more money and
hopefully those will continue to save on the backside with
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all of our spending, and we'll actually get Jay Powell
to come down with a interest rate that really should
have been in place a month ago, while he doesn't
spend two billion dollars building a new palace to himself
with his name on it. I'm sure you take it
all into context and you say, okay, things are much better.
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Donald Trump did go in and his policies were great.
But you know, this kind of thing with the Epstein
in particular, that's the kind of thing that's just going
to stick out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Again, the bigger picture, Donald Trump is absolutely right. The
country is going gangbusters. We're doing fantastic right now. I
hope that Maga because the only ones who could bring
him down is Maga, right the Democrats. The Democrats are
just piling on, but nobody gives a crap what the
Democrats say. It's if Maga gets ugly about this, this
(26:21):
could this. And again, if I was Donald Trump, I'm
not Donald Trump. He's got better political instincts than anybody
who's ever lived, because he's done some things that seem
unsurvivable politically, and he comes out even better than when
he before the controversy. But if it was me, I'm
cutting Pambondi loose.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Even with knowing that the process obviously he's going to
be painstaking because then you've got to have confirmation from
the Senate on another attorney general.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The rumor has been that that next attorney general would
be when Ron DeSantis. That would be an upgrade in
my opinion. I don't know if Ron DeSantis would be
in interested, but the rumor has been it is Rond
de Santis that there have been talks. I would love
Rond de Santis to come in. I think that when
you look, I mean Rond de Sants has done a
(27:09):
great job as a Florida governor and is a great
nominee right now, a potential nominee for the presidency of
the United States. But Marco Rubio completely rehabbed his image
over the last six months without doubt, and I thought
he was a kind of a fool for taking that job, Like,
why do you want to go be Donald Trump's whipping boy.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, he's not his whipping boy. He is standing out
on his own two feet. Jobs.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Now he's gonna do a job job. Maybe he'll be
the next attorney general too.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, I gotta say, if you're JD. Vance, you're looking
at Rubio going wow, this could be a tough race.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, those those are the two fire.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Fashion Rubio's I would think would be leading in that race,
might be say the experience he's picked up internationally.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
By the way you throw it, the guy who went
nuts down in Kentucky over the weekend and killed those
poor people at the church. One of his last online
posts was him posing in front of a photo I
don't know where he was. I'm going to guess a
post office or something like that. It had the picture
of the President and vice president on the wall, and
(28:14):
he was trying to mock Trump's photo. But he did
have a pretty good line on JD.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Vance.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
He goes, and you got jd out here looking like
he's the local owner of the Renas Center.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Who would have thought we could have found comedy in
the last postings of this look of a lunatic
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