February 5, 2026 • 60 mins
On Thursday, Rich shares his thoughts on the National Prayer Breakfast. Then, the latest—and final—document dump in the Epstein Files is released. Plus, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele confirms previous media reports that the MS-13 terrorist gang worships Satan.
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seven Valdez one, eight seven seven Valdez one and amigos.
We've got a stacked show ahead. President Trump kicked off
the day at the National Prayer Breakfast, reminding everybody that
faith is back in the way house bigley. We're doing
it bigly. No more sidelining prayer like it was, you know,
optional equipment on your new car. He's actually uniting people
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through the power of prayer, defending good people, and basically
telling the room, I need all the help I can get.
Classic Ed Trompito, humble, you know when he needs to
be right. It's refreshing to see a president who doesn't
treat God like a campaign donor that he only calls
when he's in a jam. I like that. He acknowledges
the big man upstairs quite often, and it's self deprecating oftentimes.
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He had a little tit for tat with the media
the other day saying, oh, the media, you know, I
think I got that audio. We'll play it for you
in a little bit. Then there's this the trump ourx
rollout Boom straight out of the gate, a website to
slash the really really high prescription drug prices so that
Americans aren't choosing between medication and meals. And I think
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that's great. For too long it's gone on, right, for
too long, people could get drugs cheaper overseas, shipping them
here and everything right contraband you'd have to smuggle and
drugs from overseas because they were getting better prices on drugs.
We developed. Leave it to Trumpito to figure it out.
The website trumparx dot gov is live and it's now
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hunting for the world's lowest prices on your prescriptions, paying
cash for discounts that big farm I hates, but they
got no choice but to play ball without Trumpito. He
did it yet again. Finally somebody's fighting the pharmacy cartels
like they're the real deep state. And he's it right.
I'm not saying he's the deep state. He's the one
fighting them like he's got the power of the deep
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state behind him. God bless him. Now, if you're tired
of getting, you know, price gouged like a tourist, then
it's time for I think you to celebrate what's going
on here, because I, for one, I don't use a
whole lot of prescription medicines, but when I have, and
when I do, I always try to find a good
deal Because for many years, just like you, I never asked.
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I thought every pharmacy charged the same price and that
was it. That's not always the case, and you'll find
that out once you start paying more and more for
insurance and that I am all right. I'm actually I'm
thinking of dumping my insurance and getting a job it
might be cheaper for me to get a job working
somewhere where I can get benefits than actually paying for
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a plan. And you know, the question is how much
time do you dedicate to that job and still maintain
your active career. I don't want to work like you know,
like like I don't have time to vacation, because that's
really what I'm here for. Let's be honest here right,
I'm here for Paul Jason sand And to talk on
this microphone God willing. Plus, I want to give you
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some information on this Nike lawsuit. I got a little
bit more of that on the latter part of the show.
But Nike has a lawsuit right now. They're saying they're
discriminating against white people. Federal investigators are all over the
sneaker giant right now looking into claims that their DEI
push went so far it turned into straight up bias
against white workers, hiring, promotions, mentoring, even who gets the
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golden ticket to leadership programs. Apparently if you check the
wrong box, you were out of luck. So the EEOC
is on it like white on rice pun intended students.
And it's about time that somebody's asking questions like this. Hey,
if diversity's the goal, why does it look like reverse
discrimination in nikes? Hmmm, good question. But wait, there's more.
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We've got chaos in the headlines today. Trump's team just
announced they're pulling back hundreds of federal immigration agents from
places like Minnesota after the locals threw a fit. But
the first thing they did was they threw in the towel.
That's right, Governor Tim Wallas and Mayor Freyfry, they said,
all right, we're gonna start handing over the bad guys
over to Tom Holman. Isn't that interesting You send in
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Tom Holman. Now nobody's getting shot in the streets. Things
are a lot calmer. They don't have to have all
these protests, and obviously that's why we don't need so
many federal workers. So kudos to the Trump administration, and
I'm gonna give kudos to Mayor Freyfryan, Tim and Tim
Walls as well. But the teachers' unions, the school districts,
even Frey Fry, you know, they're still saying get out,
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but they're playing ball. You know, Democrats are clashing on this,
and I feel like Republicans are just going to use
whatever power of the purse. They have to get their
way so that we can enforce the federal immigration law.
And to me that makes sense. It's the bottom line, right,
Immigration is a federal function. It's not something for Mayor
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Frey Fry to get involved in. Matter of fact, he
didn't interview. I don't know if I have this one,
but I know I saw it. He was doing one
of the Sunday shows and they basically asked him, Hey,
this really has nothing to do with and he said, well, look,
I'm not too sure because that's not something we're totally
involved in. Well then why are you always talking about it, sir?
I mean, wow. Anyway, it's very good to see what's happening,
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that things are getting better and moving in the right direction.
Then we got, let's see a little bit of international
affairs action. We got prisoner swaps that are happening right
here in the US between Ukraine and Russia as well,
agreeing to exchange hundreds of prisoners that are being held.
This is the first attempt in months that we've seen
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towards peace. This has put the war machine on pause temporarily,
very very temporarily. Trump's special envoys broker this deal and
suddenly everybody's taking a breath. Meanwhile, we got measles. Measles
is spiking in places like South Carolina on one of
the biggest outbreaks in years. I didn't even know we
still had measles. That's wild. Where does that come from?
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Probably got to bring in one of our experts, maybe
Dennis Gonzalez, who used to work for Secretary Kennedy until
he retired recently. Might bring him in to get his
take on this, because he knows exactly what's going on.
He was actually in charge of the federal team who
contained the zekavirus some years ago when it was spreading
out in the Caribbean. So make note of that. See
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if we can get Dennis Gonzales on to talk about this.
Thank you. And Kem Maladis that's right, Kavala Harris, former
vice president. She's back online. She's trying to rebrand her
old campaign into something of a youth mobilization, right, maybe
a headquarters for the midterms, sparking all kinds of twenty
twenty eight rumors. And I'm just thinking, man, let the
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cackling tour resume. I'm ready. I'm ready for the coconut
tree memes and all that stuff. She is the best.
Now listen, Familia, it's I don't know, day number whatever
of the Trump comeback, and the left like us. They
are melting down faster than ice cream in San Juan,
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if you know what I mean, right, I like Agua.
That stuff melts super quick on a hot day. Anyway,
Prayer in the morning. That's how the comeback is looking
cheaper drugs by lunchtime, and corporate wokeness getting a federal
reality check by dinner time. That's a day in the
life of an American if you look at the headlines,
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and that's the kind of Thursday that makes me proud
to be an American, to be here with each and
every one of you. So keep it locked right here.
We got some calls lined up, more on that Nike
mess when we come back, and of course your thoughts,
calls and opinions and trumpedo at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Don't go anywhere. I'm rich Veldz.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Oh he's so has someome what's his dad?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Rich Veldz?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
All right, thank you. I am here with you. Yes, yes,
I am the winner of the Best Head of Hair
and Radio six years in a row. Ain't nobody stoping
me now? Anyway? I want to get into a little
bit of what's happening with the National Prayer Breakfast. We
got a couple of clips. I saw a bunch of
really good footage from our friend Jenny Korn, the director
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of the White House Office of Faith, as well as
a bunch of stuff put out by the White House.
I want to give you as much of it as
I can give you my thoughts on it before we
move on. Let's start with this.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Last time I came was I got in at four
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They said, sir, you're going to be speaking at seven.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
They said, really, Oh, it's wonderful. I said, where National
Prayer Breakfast. I said, I'll be there. I'm afraid not
to be.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I need all the help I can get.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Of course, the crowd always happy to hear from President
Trump on these issues. And he went on to introduce
the first Lady of Nigeria who joined the President at
this prayer Breakfast, as did so many others. Let's go
to the next clip.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
To support this exciting renewals.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And I just want to remind you that the president really,
you know, going in there with little demo sleep and
not afraid to talk about God. Unlike many of his predecessors, some.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Major politicians refused to say the word God.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
They don't want to say it.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I say it that we are endowed with our sacred
rights to life, liberty, and not by government, but by
God Almighty himself. And those words rang out from Philadelphia
and launched their revolution, not just in America, but in
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the hearts of all humanity. The Principles of the Declaration
of Independence, which is one of three sitting right beautifully
in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I took it out of the vaults, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It's beautifully protected, and it's a magnificent document.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I stare at it all the time, and I read
it as often as I can, a true brilliant work
of art.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
They've stirred the spirit of patriots in every nation, liberated
millions from tyranny, and lifted billions from poverty. And it's
doing now more than ever before. We're doing better than
this country's ever done. In one year.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Think of what we can do. We just have to
keep it going. Mister Speaker of you don't mind okay,
got to keep it going.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Referencing speaker Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson also in attendance.
I have a clip from him as well as I
do from President bukayley from El Salvador who was also there.
But President Trump thanking the First Lady of Nigeria, as
I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Again, pretty hard.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
But we're honored to be joined today by the First
Lady of Nigeria who also happens to serve as a
Christian pastor at the largest church in Nigeria.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Very respected woman, First Lady, Please where are you? Thank
you very much. It's a great honor. Thank you very much.
Very respected person too, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And of course President Trump going into a number of things,
a number of topics, a number of issues that I
think are important. Going to play one more clip before
I get to the clip of Mike Johnson and give
you my thoughts on this. But really it was just
a lot of interesting things that were set.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I said, you know, it's a really smart guy.
If I ever get this thing, I got to get.
It wasn't easy. You know, they rigged the second election.
I had to win it, had to win it. I
needed it for my own ego. I would have had
a bad ego for the rest of the mint.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Now I really have a big ego. The beating these
beating these lunatics was incredible. What a great feeling winning
every swing, say, winning the popular vote the first time.
You know, they said I didn't win the popular vote.
I did, but they said so, they always say, we
always thought, did introduce me while Donald Trump did not
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win the popular vote. You know, I'm sitting up being
introduced by a Democrat or somebody, and.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He said, why Donald Trump did not win the popular vote?
He won? The brothers here he is. I said, I
was terrible. I said, we got to we won the
popular vote by a lot. We didn't want to play
any games. This has been a much different.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
We had a great first term, we had the greatest
economy in history.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But this one's going to blow it away already. It's
blown everything away. We have eighteen.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, that wasn't the clip that I wanted to go to.
But wise words. Nonetheless, I think this is the one
we were waiting for.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Go ahead now, no matter what we do, this moron,
no matter what it is, we could put them all together.
I think, Mike, what would you say the top five things.
Name them, we'll put them in one bill, and we'll
put them before we get one hundred percent. Except for
this guy named Thomas Massey. There's something wrong with him.
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We call him rand Paul Junior. You know, it's like
they just vote no. They love voting now they think
it's good politically. The guy's polling at about nine percent.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Also not the one I was looking for. What's going
on here is then your productor helped me out here? Anyway?
I think there was. Maybe we passed it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Some major politicians.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Now you let me know when it's ready. Until then
we will get.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
To support this exciting renewal.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
This morning, I'm praised to announce that on May seventeenth,
twenty six that we're inviting Americans from all across the
country to come together on our national mall to pray,
to give thanks, and to we are going to do
something that everyone said, like that's tough. We're going to
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rededicate America as one nation under God.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You know a lot of people now, thank you very much.
(15:39):
It's good. That's what I mean by that's what I
mean by the spirit. It's so incredible to see it.
I see it so much I never seen anything like it.
In one year.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I thought it would take two years, three years, four
years to be where we are. We've done it, and
I mean, really ten months, we're twelve. But now it's
just getting to a level that we've never read before
as a country. But that includes religion, I mean, and
maybe that's part of the reason that we're doing so well.
There's such great spirit. It's all spirit, and it includes religion.
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I've always said, you just can't have a great country
if you don't have religion.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You have to believe in something.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You have to believe that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What we're doing there's a reason for it. There has
to be a reason for it.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
We're all working and we're doing would behaving, I mean,
I behave because I'm afraid not to, Okay, because I
don't want.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
To get in trouble.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And President Trump looks up, of course when he says
I don't want to get in trouble. And that was
the clip I wanted to play. The other ones where
he's taking shots at everybody else that came afterwards, but
those comments there were part of the opening remarks. I'm
happy to see that this is a part of what
the United States is doing to bring prayer back into schools,
to a public love of God, and into the conversation
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this country. People think that the ideal position for the
country is to be one that is godless, where we
never talk about God, we never talk about anything that
has to do with faith, because that's somehow unconstitutional separation
of church and state. And well, that's quite frankly not
the case. It's not what the founders intended, and it's
not even what the lawses. As a matter of fact,
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the United States law and British common law, all of
this stuff is based on ten very simple principles known
as the Ten Commandments. Right, that is the basis for
British common law and American common law, which is a
bri byproduct, excuse me of that. So for President Trump
to kind of try and realign and re center this
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country on its truest intent, right, which was deism, which
was a belief in God that I think is unmistakable.
And I'm happy, happy to see that happening because I
think we need that. And it always shocks me. It
always did when people would come out and they would
be angry and vitriolic, because this is the government endorsing religion.
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This is I mean, come on, right, This country has
always always leaned on religion. The founders themselves were you know,
farmers and this and that, but they almost all went
to church, Almost all of them were leaders in their churches.
People like to point out that Ben Franklin was a
famous deist. He wasn't a part of any church or
anything like that, but even him, in fact he was.
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There's lots of writings where he himself admits to be
a God fearing man. He wasn't necessarily, you know, like
many of us, the most devout. But my point was
it wasn't a place where there was a multitude of
multiple religions. There was not right. It was pretty much
all Christianity all the time. And we've been tolerant over
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the years to accept everybody right. And we've made the
Constitution as such to say, look, there'll never be a
government endorsement of any religion, but it does mean that
the government won't acknowledge God right. These are two separate
things that have been supported by the Supreme Court. So anyway,
I bring that up to say, it's great that we
have a national Day of Prayer. I'm thinking, man, we
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should have a day of prayer every single day, Right,
I try to start my day in prayer. And I
say try to because you know, sometimes it's that oh,
thank you Lord, I can see again. Thanks for my kids.
You know, it's very brief and it's very rudimentary, and
then there's days where it's really intentional and thought out.
I guess that's okay. Right, We're all growing, and we
all grow at a different rate spiritually, and I'm probably
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behind the curve on that, just like I'm with a
lot of things.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I think I'm always behind the curve about something. But
all that being said, I think it's great that President
Trump puts a focus on this, and kudos to him.
Kudos to Jenny Korn who was there as well, the
co director of the White House Office on Faith, who
we found on the show a number of times and
we'll have on again soon. Last thing I want to
do here is play you a clip from Mike Johnson,
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the Speaker of the House, because Mike Johnson made some
comment as well at the prayer breakfast that I thought
were important and meaningful.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Listen to this hit that man, thank you so much.
My remarks will be shorter than the intro, I promise.
I'm just grateful to so many of my colleagues from
the House and Senate in both parties, for carrying on
this important tradition for more than seven decades. What a
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remarkable thing that is. And so many of them are
here today.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Thank you, guys, all of you. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
After he served as our sixth President, John Quincy Adams
ran for Congress. No one had done it before and
haven't since, but he ran for Congress with a mission.
He wanted to eradicate slavery. He brought the resolution to
accomplish that mission over and over, but the nation sadly
was not yet ready for it. And on about the
thirteenth try, as the story goes, a young member of
Congress went up to him on the floor in the housefoloor,
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and they said, mister President, why are you doing it again?
And he said, young man, listen, duty is ours results
for God's and it's a great and liberating way for
us to live. We believe that as we celebrate the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary or the greatest nation in
the history of the world, we're so blessed to be here.
We understand that it is a spiritual battle to keep
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it and to keep freedom, and we don't take that lightly.
Let's pray together, shall we? Hellnly, Father, thank you so
much for the opportunity. I'm charged with praying this morning
for the nation's leaders, and we just heard from the
most powerful man on the planet, the President of the
United States. God, we are reminded in scripture that you
are the one that raises up those in authority, and
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also the words the Truth of Proverbs twenty one says
the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
and as the rivers of the water, he turns it
wherever he wills, Father, turn his heart, lead him and
guide him, and protect him. What an important influence he
is on the entire planet. Be with him, walk with him,
and let us be an influence upon him. We pray
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that same prayer, or were our Vice President J. D. Vance,
over all of our cabinet secretaries, many of whom are
here with us today, and the heads of leaders of
all of our agencies. We pray for the leaders in
the House and the Sin and all the members who
faithfully and sacrificially serve to try to help and preserve
this great republic. Give us the wisdom and discernment and
the stamina to accomplish that mission. Father, we pray for
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all those who serve on the Supreme Court, our lower courts,
the federal courts around the country. We pray for our staffs,
and for the patriots who serve in all of our
agencies and departments. And Lord, I just conclude by the simple,
the simple requests, that you protect them all, that you
give us the wisdom to do the things you've called
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us to do, and that you remind us daily that
the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
and a nation that serves you as the one that
is blessed, and we always be that. I ask and
pray and believe it in Jesus' names.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Well, I think that's a really good thing, fantastic thing. Anyway,
that was Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, some really
wise words. We're going to continue with Speaker Mike Johnson
and pray that that prayer comes to fruition. Plus we've
got a lot more to discuss. Keep it locked right here.
I'm Rich Valdes.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
This is America. This is America.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
President Donald chicks Rump, Mister President, welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Sir, well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
I know you very well and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Well, I appreciate that too. Send you out, President, then
welcome back to America. I am Rich Valdez Valdeza and
an ass at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
and it's Thursday. I want to get into some of
this stuff because obviously there's still some National Prayer Breakfast
stuff I want to talk about, as well as what
happened with the Epstein files. Right, the Epstein files. That's
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the big story every day, every day, it's the big story.
And you know me, I've said this a lot of times.
I've probably lost a lot of friends, a lot of listeners.
There's so many levels to how I am so uninterested
in this and for so many reasons. I feel like
we apply these unreasonable standards. What do you mean on
reasonable standards? Richer a bunch of pedophiles and the government's
protecting them. Okay, have it your way. I have never
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lived a day of my life in a world where
there truly is justice. I'm going to start there. We
have a general sense and semblance of justice. But let's
make no mistake, most people most aren't in jail with
the sons and daughters of the most affluent and powerful.
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They're not. So if we start with that premise, now, yes,
on occasion, I have a friend that did some time,
and when he was in prison, he was either in
the cell next to or was some in some close
proximity to Jason Williams, the basketball player who had an
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accidental shooting in his house and shot one of his
own bodyguards and the guy died. It was a shotgun
and he went to jail for that. That's an example
of a powerful person that you know, a wealthy person
that ended up paying the price. But it's not always
the case.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
It doesn't mean it's exclusive, but for the most part,
there's a privilege that comes with having money and power.
And I'm not advocating for this right. If I tell
you every day in Chicago people are murdered, I'm not
advocating for anybody's murder in Chicago. I'm telling you the facts.
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These are the facts. Bad things happen, things that are
wrong happen, and they happen quite often. We have a
governmental system just as an example, right, one of the
best in the world in my opinion, Few governments, if any,
that I can think of, operate better than ours. Yet
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ours has so many problems in so many areas that
need improvement. So with that thinking, we understand that it's
not a perfect system, but it might be the best
one that there is.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Got it.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I could live with that. However, some people really apply
this unreasonable standard, like if they trust some sort of
plan that everything goes away, that if somehow if we
lock up Bill Clinton for being unkarifrico, Right, that's the
term I come up with a guy who likes to
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hang on again, I don't know what he did with
underage girls, And the term underage girls is one I
have to get my head around, right, because I don't
particularly have an affinity for girls that are eighteen, nineteen
or twenty or twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, girls
in their thirties for me, or even that young, right,
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But some guys do. I don't think that's pedophilia. I
think they'd like younger girls. That's my take on that.
It's not for me. But I'm not going to criticize
them for it being for them. Right, Some guys like
heavier set women, some people like very thin women. Everybody
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has a different taste. Now, if a girl is seventeen
years old and she's on one of these things, and
I think that was the case for many, that they
were in that range, this is to me, this is
not the same as saying, get me a six year
old that's sick. Somebody being attracted to a fully developed
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teenage girl that doesn't live at home. I'm not saying
it's right. I'm sure it's still illegal, it's statutory rape,
all of those things. But it doesn't make you, in
my opinion, a child predator. It makes you again unkatifrico.
It makes you, you know, a pervert, It makes you whatever,
you know, somebody who's into younger girls. I don't believe
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the even the medical and legal term is pedophile. Right.
These are not children, they're not pre pubescent. That's the
word I'm looking for. So again, Bill Clinton does not
strike me as somebody who enjoys doing things with children, right.
He strikes me as a tremendous playboy who had a
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tough time saying no, I knew somebody was a cameraman
who was in his presence once said that women were
on a receiving line to say hello to him in
a pretty major event, and more than one he could
hear them because he was in earshot, making very serious
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passes at him, like can you have a minute? Can
we go to the back? That time one even gave
the president undergarments in a handshake. Again, hearsake from this
cameraman who worked for a cable network. Interesting stuff. So,
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if it's getting thrown at you all the time and
you're Bill Clinton, hey, perhaps that there's a moment where
you're gonna say ah, right, okay, right, you know, and
you give in. I get it. I'm not saying I
condone that either. I'm just saying it's understandable. Right, He's
a man, he's human, it's the flesh. I get it.
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But I bring all this up not to defend Bill Clinton.
It's not my point. When I've defended anything that seems
like I'm defending the other side. It's because I'm trying
to get to the truth right and to make things
make sense, And for things to make sense, we have
to look at it for what it is. What benefit
comes from Bill Clinton coming to this trial a lot
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of political benefit. For sure. Trump gets to bring him in,
he gets to tweet, he gets to raise some money,
he gets to shift momentum to our side. That's right,
we're bringing them in. Next step orange jump suits. I
told you I was going to train the swamp. We're
getting results, right. This is all good political stuff. In actuality,
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it's not really much of anything, all right. James Comer
and his committees may get some information out of this.
I can't put my finger on exactly what is what.
If there were criminality here, it would be the FBI
and federal law enforcement that would be conducting these interrogations. Right,
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These are hearings. This is a political process. So I
know oftentimes people hear the word hearing and then they
hear criminal referral, and it gets certain people excited as
if this thing that we all desperately want justice is
going to be done. And perhaps it's me the jade
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of New Yorker. I just don't believe it's done. I
don't believe I live in a world where Bill Clinton
is somehow going to be jailed for going on private
jets with a guy that sold women of all ages
and somehow he's going to get in trouble for that.
I don't see it right. People said that Matt Gates
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did this. Now they're saying Congressman Corey Mills did this.
Not Epstein, but going on private jets with girls that
were younger than eighteen. Okay, I'm not here to say
they did or didn't do it. I am going to
say this seems to be a frequent allegation. We saw
this happen with Mike Tyson. We've seen this happen with
a lot of people, people saying that they did something
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when a person is wealthy and powerful. So bottom line here,
people are getting all bent out of shape because President
Trump tells a reporter in press conference that he, you know,
he doesn't like the idea that they're coming after Clinton.
And they're saying, oh, now President Trump's defending the pedophiles. No,
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he's not defending the pedophiles. Is that President Trump understands
that there's a whole world ahead of us and some
people are stuck looking in the rearview mirror. All right,
listen to this. It bothers me that somebody is going
after Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
NBC News broke the story today.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I don't know if you saw it that the Democrats
are already saying, if you bring President Bill Clinton and
he has to testify, we're bringing President Trump.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I think they might say that.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You know, it bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
See, I like Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I still like b What do you like about him?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I like, well, I liked his behavior towards me. I
thought he got me, he understood me. Why is the
president bothered that they're investigating Bill Clinton?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
So why is the president bothered? Well, I'll tell you why,
because again, President Trump, he's truly putting America first. He's
truly thinking like a businessman. When you're a businessman, right,
one of the things they tell you first and foremost
is the customer is always right. Now. Why do they
say that? Do they say that because they think the
customer truly is always right.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
You go to your fix your car, talk to the mechanic,
you don't like what the mechanic says. You start freaking out.
The customer's right now. Of course the customer is not
actually right, But you have to take the approach to
the customer's right why to stay in business? That's how
it works. You can't get in the business of pissing
customers off, because it's just like the eye for an
eye philosophy. Eventually everyone will be blind. There'll be no
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more eyes left. This is why we need forgiveness. This
is why we need the customers always right. President Trump
understands this because he understands when you're in business for yourself,
it's a long term thing. Nobody's paying your pension. When
you're in business for yourself, nobody does anything for you
but for your customers and your ability to earn money.
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And if you want to continue to earn money all
the time, forever and ever and ever. Amen, you have
to make sure that the customer is always right. You
have to focus on their satisfaction and their referrals and
make sure they come back. Now, you guys have heard
me talk about my business interest in a small jewelry
business in Bergen County, New Jersey, and that's one of
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those businesses. It's just like that somebody comes in. You
can't hit them over the head because you may never
see them again. It's actually quite the opposite. You want
to make sure that you give them the best service
because if they're coming in and buying a vintage Rolex watch.
If they're buying a gold ring, a bracelet and earring,
they're getting a piece of jewelry fixed, whatever it is.
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You may not make top dollar on this, but the
important thing is to start to forge a relationship so
they'll keep coming back to you. That's the whole game.
President Trump understands that. That's why he puts America first.
And he says, I'm bothered by this. It's not about
them coming after him. It's about this constant witch hunt.
(35:24):
What they did to him. He doesn't want to do
it to others. And it makes sense. If you're gonna
sit here and come after every last president, presidents won't
A they won't be able to govern, and B people
will qualified people will stop wanting to be president. It
will have a truly chilling effect. So it makes all
(35:45):
the sense in the world to me that he says, look,
I like Bill Clinton. You know, I think most people
like Bill Clinton. I think Bill Clinton is still and
I'm not saying I do. I don't know Bill Clinton.
And I was once invited to something and honestly I
didn't even go because I was just like, you know, what,
what am I gonna do? Sit there, and you know,
I was very young, and I thought to myself, I
(36:07):
don't agree with him on much. I don't see how
we're gonna get much done here, and I probably won't
have much face time with him. I'm going to be
in a room filled with Democrats. Doesn't sound like a
good time to me. So I opted not to go.
But it was one of those things where post president,
so you know, it was gonna be easier to speak
with him and probably get a picture and stuff like that.
But and looking back, I regret it. I probably should
(36:29):
have went. I probably knew half the Democrats in that
room because small world, you know. But anyway, long story short,
Trump gets it. And this this idea that we should
stay here and live on the Epstein files for me,
non starter. I know, change the channel. Valdez, he's one
(36:50):
of them. Yes, I am listen. I saw somebody today say,
don't let them fool you. All this gu three stuff
about this woman that was kidnapped. This is all but
distracting you from the Epstein files. I'm just gonna give
you my perspective, just an honest take from me. This
is the truth. I find zero entertainment value in talking
(37:11):
about this Bill Clinton stuff, I mean Epstein stuff. I truly, truly,
in my heart of hearts, I feel badly for any woman,
any boy, any human being that was trafficked and abused
and anything like that. I really do. But there are
so many people that go through that and we don't
(37:33):
talk about it all day. It's there's a fascination with
this one pimp and this one Madam Epstein and Geelane Maxwell.
Why why is there such a fascination with these two
in particular. I'm gonna use a line I use every
now and again, Blame the Jews, right, you always want
(37:54):
to blame the Jews, And that's usually what it is.
Because he's Mosad, because he's this, because he's because the CIA,
because the This is what Bongino talks about, right, the
black pillars. It's true, some people they took the red
pill just so that they could become black pillars. It's
a brilliant term that he's come up with. But and
(38:16):
he's one hundred percent right. Some people, and before that
it was Mark Levin always called them malcontents, and that's
that is what they're called, and that's what they are,
and it's it's a perfect descriptor. Some people are never happy,
like they thrive in being unhappy. This is what they
want whatever you tell them. They're upset. Perfect example. I
(38:39):
have the audio, but it's got curses in it, and
I didn't want to play it with curses. And I've
been having a lot of issues with production people and stuff,
so I said, you know what, let me not use
it just yet. But long story short. Robert Reich, he
was one of the Democrats economic people, and and an
organization called ap No not like lies but like sent
(39:02):
there for American progressivism or progress something like that. They
put out this thing and they said that's and it's
these people claim to be right. It's like a white
guy with a beard and long hair. He's driving to
pick up and he's like, you know Trump. He's got
like a Southern accent. He's like, you know Trump, I
voted for you, man, voted for you more than once.
But this time he done did it?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Man?
Speaker 4 (39:23):
You said we were gonna get no tax on tips.
You said no tax on overtime. Well guess what, Golly,
they're taxing us and our tips and overtime. And he
goes on this rant and then it's like a montage
of people going yeah, that's right, blah blah blah, and
of course, Q the panic gallery, you've got people all
(39:44):
in the comments saying yep, yep, Well I warned you.
You should have known. The guy's a fell in thirty
four counts. What do you expect he's he's been found
guilty of sexual abuse. Blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. Right, same old stuff that we usually
talk about. And why do I I say it that
way so flippantly minimizing it, because these were quite actually
(40:06):
manufactured offenses. There is not another human being on this earth,
not another country, not in this country, who was ever
found guilty of sexual abuse in a case that was
otherwise dismissed, in a case where he was otherwise found
not guilty of touching this woman, but the term they
(40:27):
gave it because he said she was ugly, was sexual abuse.
So now people are going to use this and say
that Trump was found guilty of sexual abuse, which I
guess on paper is technically accurate, but in reality it's
because some judge who didn't like Trump agreed that when
Trump said I would never mess with that lady, she's
(40:48):
ugly that that is somehow tantamount to sexual abuse. So yes,
when I say these are made up crimes, this is
not being a sycophantic of El Trumpito. This is just
calling a spade a spade. They made stuff up, and
(41:09):
they did it for this purpose. Thirty four felon accounts
for one crime, and it wasn't even a crime. It
was a misdemeanor that they couldn't prove that. The federal
government said, that's a federal issue, and we're choosing not
to prosecute because it's not a big deal. It was
a clerical thing. And guess what. The state of New
York decided to change their minds. The City of New
(41:31):
York went after him, pursuing this, changing their laws, having
a federal prosecutor resign his office to come and oversee
the prosecution as a city prosecutor. You're gonna tell me
they didn't jump through hoops to make this thing happen.
Why is it that Pump Trump had a public trial
(41:55):
in New York City? It was gridlocked, it was on TV,
the famous mugshot. All of that, right, remember that I
do like yesterday? And guess what all of that for?
Political purposes, so they could say he's a thirty four
count and blah blah blah to get what nothing. They
got nothing out of it, except every time they want
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AMMO to go after him for anything. It's this. So
bottom line here is this isn't about defending Epstein. This
isn't about defending Trump and his crimes. This is just
about a pursuit for the truth. If we're going to
say it about one, we got to say it about
the other. Right, Like the old saying, if it's good
for the goose, it's got to be good for the gander,
And that's what Trump is saying about Epstein, I mean
(42:37):
about Clinton. I never wanted to be lost on anyone
that Epstein was caught for his crimes, put in prison
for his crimes, and whether you believe it or not,
died in jail, whether he was murdered in jail, whether
he was body doubled and cloned, and all that. I
(43:00):
can never go down these rabbit holes. I'm not saying
it's not true. I'm just saying, when I start to
play that game where I say, well, of course it's possible, well,
if anything is possible, we could come up with a
story for anything, if that's the way you're gonna live life,
and say, well, it's possible that you know that they
went in there and the cameras didn't work. They could
have put somebody other body in there. This guy had
(43:22):
billions of dollars. He could just be sitting pretty somewhere.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
He could.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
But what does that do for anything? Doesn't do anything
for me, doesn't do anything for anybody, for us to
sit here and spend our lives thinking, you know, on
a daily basis, I talk to people, whether it's on
this program or in real life, in my private life,
my family, whomever. And some of the same people that
(43:47):
love the Q andon trust the plan minda some of
those same people will sit there and complain that, you know,
all Bill and Hillary don't want to come in for
a whatever. And then when they find out, yes, Bill
and Hillary are coming in, they've changed their mind, change
of heart. Now they're coming in because they want to
(44:08):
set the record straight. They turn right around and say yes.
They get excited. It's like a giddy feeling, like kids
in a candy store. They're excited. Why because this is
like watching sports for them, This is like hearing that
their team just made the playoffs, and it's headed to
the big game at the end. And this is why
(44:29):
I don't go into this stuff. This what about what
if it's possible. It's a zero sum game with zero winning.
There's no win at the end of that. Other than saying, yeah, yeah,
I can't trust my government. Oh you'll never understand. Oh
I don't expect you to understand. Right, You just minimize
(44:50):
other people. You maximize the issue that's in front of
you that isn't even affecting you. I mean, call me
selfish or crazy, but if I am not, Jeffrey Epstein
being dead or alive does zero for me. He was
getting the justice that was served to him. He was
(45:14):
in jail, and I doubt he was ever going to
get out boom if he now period the end. So anyway,
I'm not saying I'm not going to talk about it.
As it comes up, we'll talk about it. You know,
they pulled a few little tricks. Whoever pulled them, whether
it was the Democrats back in the days or the
Republicans deciding to include them, who knows, But people calling
(45:34):
the FBI tipline saying things so that the tip line
information could be released by the government that make it
look like it's part of the quote unquote Epstein files.
When these are just, in my opinion, staged calls and
reports so that they could be part of the public record.
What does that do for me? Nothing? I could care
(45:55):
less about that. Now it's true my own personal perspective,
I really just don't. I don't care. I mean, I
don't know how many ways I could say that, and
maybe it's it's wrong or crass. I care about these people,
but me caring about that doesn't mean anything for the other.
(46:17):
And this is why I think what we're conflating. I mean,
some people feel like they've got their panties in a
bunch because they're like, I can't believe these kids are
being trafficked and these people are monsters. And then it
goes a step further. They're eating the children, They're hurting
the children. Listen. I don't I don't put that past anybody.
I believe that these people are bad.
Speaker 7 (46:36):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
I mean a few months ago and several times over
the last few years. Every few months, I go back
to a clip and if we have it, I'm gonna
play for you today. It's a news clip. It's a
local news affiliate that says that in an arrest of
some MS thirteen gangsters, they discovered that they were actively
(47:00):
engaged in Satanic worship. Now this isn't just me telling
you that I got it from the news. All right,
let's see if you find the clip. All Right, you
got it? Okay, let her rip. I'm ready when you are.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
Go ahead to a developing story on a teenage girl
found dead off the Beltway. The two teen men arrested
in this case, alleged gang members, went before a judge
earlier today and we are now learning new details about
what led up to the murder. That girl was found
off of the Beltway on Sharp Crest, February sixteenth. Channel
Who's phill Archer live with what happened in court today, phil.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Well.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Police still don't know the victim's name. She is a
teenager allegedly murdered because she insulted Satan. Her accused killers
members of a notorious street gang that in recent months
seem to have grown even more violent. The case against
Miguel aghil A Loares Flores and Diego Alexander Hernandez Rivera
rusts on the testimony of a teenage girl a girl
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police say was abducted, raped, and then held as a
prisoner by the MS thirteen street gang.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
The Girl Toe Belice.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
She was held along with another young woman she knew
only by the name of Genesis, at an apartment where
the men lived and where they directed a Satanic shrine.
On February sixteenth, the Girl Toe police Genesis denounced the
shrine and a short time later disappeared. Her body was
found dumped in the street. She'd been shot in the
head and stomach. That killing allegedly ordered by Alvarez Flores
(48:31):
to appease the devil.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
He gave orders to the co definant to kill the
female that we know as Genesis. Codefindant Diego Rivera gave
a statement to police stating that he fired the weapon.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Defense attorney Emily Toto was appointing today to defend Hernandez Rivera.
Speaker 10 (48:48):
I'm really hesitant to ever call a statement of confession.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
It's just the latest round of violence attributed to MS thirteen,
a Salvadoran street gang declared by the US State Department
to be a terrorist group. Over the last year, about
half a dozen killings have been attributed to the gang
in Harris and Fort Benn County example, Omar Torres Rubio
charged with the murder of a rival gang member. Last year,
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he allegedly ordered the murder of a witness from his
cell inside the Harris County jail. He's now charged with capital.
Speaker 10 (49:19):
We're going to go after them hard, and that investigation
is ongoing. They're vicious and we're not going to talk
much about that investigation because it's extremely sensitive and we're
dealing with some pretty hardcore gang bangers.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
And four other alleged gang members were also arrested in
connection with the murder of the girl called Genesis. At
this point, they have not yet been charged in this case.
Reporting live in Southwest Houston, I'm Phil Archer KPRC Channel
two years.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
So, yeah, that was nearly eight years ago to the day,
right it February of twenty twenty six. That was in
February of twenty eighteen. Oh, how time flies now, listen.
I didn't make that up. These guys they were kidnapping
these girls and sacrificing them for Satan. That was their
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satanic ritual. I didn't make it up. That's the thing.
And that was CBS News in Houston reporting that story.
And you know who else is talking about this. Just
recently today the President of El Salvador himself, Naive bu
Keyley listen to this at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Speaker 7 (50:27):
Many people don't know that our enemy was not just
the flesh and blood, but it's spiritual as well. The
gangs didn't just murder, rape, extort, They also worshiped Satan
straight up. Literally, When we went to their homes to
arrest them, we discovered altars they'd be used for Satanic rituals.
(50:51):
This is well documented. We put up the pictures the
videos right away, but for some reason, the global mainstream
media didn't think it was worth it to cover it.
But we know gangs and an Salvador were Satanic and
they worshiped Satan, and some of those gangs are here
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Well, how you like them apples? Huh wow? Now listen.
I had really never listened to much of his commentary
on that before. I know he'd had a couple of
sit down interviews in the past discussing this. But it's
something I knew because I pay attention to the news,
and I thought it was wild. But this satanic ritual
stuff with the MS thirteen people is real and again
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not a rumor. So isn't it interesting how we start
with Jeffrey Epstein and we finished with satanic gangsters Salvadorians.
I guess it's fitting right now to me. I could
talk about the satanic stuff all day. Why because I
bet you, if you're listening to this program the Epstein stuff,
you could tune out. Man, it becomes white noise after
a while. But you start talking about satanic altars kidnapping,
(51:58):
you know, sixteen year old girls to sacrifice them. This
is very interesting stuff. Now do they go hand in
hand with the Epstein stuff? Sure they do. I have
no question that, no doubt. I should say in my
mind that these guys are hired to do the dirty work,
or are in charge of doing the dirty work, or
maybe they're the customers saying, hey, we need these girls
(52:20):
to do X, Y and Z. I don't know how
it works, but I can guarantee you birds of a
feather flock together. Whether you're a billionaire financier like Jeffrey
Epstein that owns an island then a private jet, or
a couple of common thugs with teardrop tattoos on their faces.
Either way, if you're both in the business of kidnapping
sixteen year olds and sacrifice them for one reason or another.
(52:42):
Then seems to me that you guys are birds of
a feather. Anyway, we're gonna wrap this thing up with
some of President Trump's final comments at the National Prayer Breakfast,
as well as a few other thoughts and what we
could look forward to tomorrow and next week. We're gonna
do some Guthrie tomorrow, talk a little bit about this
case and some of the developments that are goinging on
every day. There is a little bit more of a trickle.
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My thoughts and prayers are with the Guthrie family and
that woman, mainly the woman. My goodness, this woman's eighty
four years old. And uh, you know who even thinks
of things like this, of harming an eighty four year
old woman. Disgusting. Anyway, keep it locked right here on,
Rich valdesk.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
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Speaker 4 (53:48):
All right, he goes, I am here. We continue our
conversation and and trumpitos and all this. Magnus the forty
fifth and forty seventh President of these United States, president.
He had a couple of words about being street smart
at the at the National Prayer Breakfast. And I'm stalling
(54:11):
here because I'm buying some times, as you would think,
the audio isn't ready. Yes, sir, re all right, I
think we got it. Now stand by stand by for
El Trumpito discussing street smarts. And he's actually standing right
next to the President of El Salvador.
Speaker 5 (54:33):
Naive Bukeley, you will not send your good people to
the United States, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (54:40):
Look at him?
Speaker 5 (54:40):
He said one score there, but no, he sends bad
people to.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
The United States. And I'm gonna talk to him after this,
but I love him.
Speaker 5 (54:50):
He's done a great job, right, He's not gonna he's not.
There's one people and they're very street wise. You know,
when you're running some of these countries and South America,
Latin America, you gotta be street wise.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
You gotta be smart, you.
Speaker 4 (55:06):
Gotta be smart. Listen. El trouan Vito is a smart guy.
Sometimes I question what he's doing, and usually I understand it.
A little bit late doesn't mean I agree, but it
means I understand it right. And like, for the life
of me, I don't know why he extends an olive
branch to zorin Mamdani, but not one to Bad Bunny.
(55:26):
You would think, if your numbers are in the tank
with Hispanics, and you have an opportunity to potentially make
an ally of Bad Bunny, then why wouldn't you? And
the reason I say that as some of you who
are freaking out saying, what do you mean the guy
where his dresses listen? I actually listened to Bad Buddies music,
(55:47):
I really, do you know me? I listened to all
sorts of reggaetong in my free time. And I'll tell
you this. I did not listen to him when he
was wearing dresses some of the Yeah, but and again
it wasn't like he wore dresses every day. He did
a video and a couple of public performances, but that
(56:09):
was enough, right A couple of met galas wearing you know,
provocative dressed looking clothing to say, hey, this guy's packing
all sorts of fudgo here for lack of a better word,
but all homophobia as side. The thing here is that
Bad Bunny has typically been very pro Puerto Rico, and
(56:30):
so has President Trump. And I would think that there
are so many areas there. You know, over the summer,
President Trump fired a lot of people from the Puerto
Rico Power and Electric Authority. Well, Bad Bunny has a
whole song called Lagon the Blackout, the shut Off. It's
(56:51):
about the power going out on the island. And again,
this is his political statement. Right, most people just think, oh,
he's singing about the times and right, because he's not
a politician. He sings about what he sees. And shortly
after that song, they held the governor of the island accountable.
Ricardo Rossigio and I talked about this on the show
(57:12):
in the past, and they
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We've got a stacked show ahead. President Trump kicked off
the day at the National Prayer Breakfast, reminding everybody that
faith is back in the way house bigley. We're doing
it bigly. No more sidelining prayer like it was, you know,
optional equipment on your new car. He's actually uniting people
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through the power of prayer, defending good people, and basically
telling the room, I need all the help I can get.
Classic Ed Trompito, humble, you know when he needs to
be right. It's refreshing to see a president who doesn't
treat God like a campaign donor that he only calls
when he's in a jam. I like that. He acknowledges
the big man upstairs quite often, and it's self deprecating oftentimes.
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He had a little tit for tat with the media
the other day saying, oh, the media, you know, I
think I got that audio. We'll play it for you
in a little bit. Then there's this the trump ourx
rollout Boom straight out of the gate, a website to
slash the really really high prescription drug prices so that
Americans aren't choosing between medication and meals. And I think
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that's great. For too long it's gone on, right, for
too long, people could get drugs cheaper overseas, shipping them
here and everything right contraband you'd have to smuggle and
drugs from overseas because they were getting better prices on drugs.
We developed. Leave it to Trumpito to figure it out.
The website trumparx dot gov is live and it's now
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hunting for the world's lowest prices on your prescriptions, paying
cash for discounts that big farm I hates, but they
got no choice but to play ball without Trumpito. He
did it yet again. Finally somebody's fighting the pharmacy cartels
like they're the real deep state. And he's it right.
I'm not saying he's the deep state. He's the one
fighting them like he's got the power of the deep
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state behind him. God bless him. Now, if you're tired
of getting, you know, price gouged like a tourist, then
it's time for I think you to celebrate what's going
on here, because I, for one, I don't use a
whole lot of prescription medicines, but when I have, and
when I do, I always try to find a good
deal Because for many years, just like you, I never asked.
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I thought every pharmacy charged the same price and that
was it. That's not always the case, and you'll find
that out once you start paying more and more for
insurance and that I am all right. I'm actually I'm
thinking of dumping my insurance and getting a job it
might be cheaper for me to get a job working
somewhere where I can get benefits than actually paying for
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a plan. And you know, the question is how much
time do you dedicate to that job and still maintain
your active career. I don't want to work like you know,
like like I don't have time to vacation, because that's
really what I'm here for. Let's be honest here right,
I'm here for Paul Jason sand And to talk on
this microphone God willing. Plus, I want to give you
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some information on this Nike lawsuit. I got a little
bit more of that on the latter part of the show.
But Nike has a lawsuit right now. They're saying they're
discriminating against white people. Federal investigators are all over the
sneaker giant right now looking into claims that their DEI
push went so far it turned into straight up bias
against white workers, hiring, promotions, mentoring, even who gets the
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golden ticket to leadership programs. Apparently if you check the
wrong box, you were out of luck. So the EEOC
is on it like white on rice pun intended students.
And it's about time that somebody's asking questions like this. Hey,
if diversity's the goal, why does it look like reverse
discrimination in nikes? Hmmm, good question. But wait, there's more.
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We've got chaos in the headlines today. Trump's team just
announced they're pulling back hundreds of federal immigration agents from
places like Minnesota after the locals threw a fit. But
the first thing they did was they threw in the towel.
That's right, Governor Tim Wallas and Mayor Freyfry, they said,
all right, we're gonna start handing over the bad guys
over to Tom Holman. Isn't that interesting You send in
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Tom Holman. Now nobody's getting shot in the streets. Things
are a lot calmer. They don't have to have all
these protests, and obviously that's why we don't need so
many federal workers. So kudos to the Trump administration, and
I'm gonna give kudos to Mayor Freyfryan, Tim and Tim
Walls as well. But the teachers' unions, the school districts,
even Frey Fry, you know, they're still saying get out,
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but they're playing ball. You know, Democrats are clashing on this,
and I feel like Republicans are just going to use
whatever power of the purse. They have to get their
way so that we can enforce the federal immigration law.
And to me that makes sense. It's the bottom line, right,
Immigration is a federal function. It's not something for Mayor
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Frey Fry to get involved in. Matter of fact, he
didn't interview. I don't know if I have this one,
but I know I saw it. He was doing one
of the Sunday shows and they basically asked him, Hey,
this really has nothing to do with and he said, well, look,
I'm not too sure because that's not something we're totally
involved in. Well then why are you always talking about it, sir?
I mean, wow. Anyway, it's very good to see what's happening,
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that things are getting better and moving in the right direction.
Then we got, let's see a little bit of international
affairs action. We got prisoner swaps that are happening right
here in the US between Ukraine and Russia as well,
agreeing to exchange hundreds of prisoners that are being held.
This is the first attempt in months that we've seen
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towards peace. This has put the war machine on pause temporarily,
very very temporarily. Trump's special envoys broker this deal and
suddenly everybody's taking a breath. Meanwhile, we got measles. Measles
is spiking in places like South Carolina on one of
the biggest outbreaks in years. I didn't even know we
still had measles. That's wild. Where does that come from?
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Probably got to bring in one of our experts, maybe
Dennis Gonzalez, who used to work for Secretary Kennedy until
he retired recently. Might bring him in to get his
take on this, because he knows exactly what's going on.
He was actually in charge of the federal team who
contained the zekavirus some years ago when it was spreading
out in the Caribbean. So make note of that. See
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if we can get Dennis Gonzales on to talk about this.
Thank you. And Kem Maladis that's right, Kavala Harris, former
vice president. She's back online. She's trying to rebrand her
old campaign into something of a youth mobilization, right, maybe
a headquarters for the midterms, sparking all kinds of twenty
twenty eight rumors. And I'm just thinking, man, let the
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cackling tour resume. I'm ready. I'm ready for the coconut
tree memes and all that stuff. She is the best.
Now listen, Familia, it's I don't know, day number whatever
of the Trump comeback, and the left like us. They
are melting down faster than ice cream in San Juan,
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if you know what I mean, right, I like Agua.
That stuff melts super quick on a hot day. Anyway,
Prayer in the morning. That's how the comeback is looking
cheaper drugs by lunchtime, and corporate wokeness getting a federal
reality check by dinner time. That's a day in the
life of an American if you look at the headlines,
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and that's the kind of Thursday that makes me proud
to be an American, to be here with each and
every one of you. So keep it locked right here.
We got some calls lined up, more on that Nike
mess when we come back, and of course your thoughts,
calls and opinions and trumpedo at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Don't go anywhere. I'm rich Veldz.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
This is America. This is America. He's brown, he's bald,
and he's breaking it down.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Oh he's so has someome what's his dad?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Rich Veldz?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
All right, thank you. I am here with you. Yes, yes,
I am the winner of the Best Head of Hair
and Radio six years in a row. Ain't nobody stoping
me now? Anyway? I want to get into a little
bit of what's happening with the National Prayer Breakfast. We
got a couple of clips. I saw a bunch of
really good footage from our friend Jenny Korn, the director
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of the White House Office of Faith, as well as
a bunch of stuff put out by the White House.
I want to give you as much of it as
I can give you my thoughts on it before we
move on. Let's start with this.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Last time I came was I got in at four
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They said, sir, you're going to be speaking at seven.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
They said, really, Oh, it's wonderful. I said, where National
Prayer Breakfast. I said, I'll be there. I'm afraid not
to be.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I need all the help I can get.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Of course, the crowd always happy to hear from President
Trump on these issues. And he went on to introduce
the first Lady of Nigeria who joined the President at
this prayer Breakfast, as did so many others. Let's go
to the next clip.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
To support this exciting renewals.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And I just want to remind you that the president really,
you know, going in there with little demo sleep and
not afraid to talk about God. Unlike many of his predecessors, some.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Major politicians refused to say the word God.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
They don't want to say it.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I say it that we are endowed with our sacred
rights to life, liberty, and not by government, but by
God Almighty himself. And those words rang out from Philadelphia
and launched their revolution, not just in America, but in
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the hearts of all humanity. The Principles of the Declaration
of Independence, which is one of three sitting right beautifully
in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I took it out of the vaults, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It's beautifully protected, and it's a magnificent document.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I stare at it all the time, and I read
it as often as I can, a true brilliant work
of art.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
They've stirred the spirit of patriots in every nation, liberated
millions from tyranny, and lifted billions from poverty. And it's
doing now more than ever before. We're doing better than
this country's ever done. In one year.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Think of what we can do. We just have to
keep it going. Mister Speaker of you don't mind okay,
got to keep it going.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Referencing speaker Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson also in attendance.
I have a clip from him as well as I
do from President bukayley from El Salvador who was also there.
But President Trump thanking the First Lady of Nigeria, as
I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Again, pretty hard.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
But we're honored to be joined today by the First
Lady of Nigeria who also happens to serve as a
Christian pastor at the largest church in Nigeria.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Very respected woman, First Lady, Please where are you? Thank
you very much. It's a great honor. Thank you very much.
Very respected person too, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And of course President Trump going into a number of things,
a number of topics, a number of issues that I
think are important. Going to play one more clip before
I get to the clip of Mike Johnson and give
you my thoughts on this. But really it was just
a lot of interesting things that were set.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I said, you know, it's a really smart guy.
If I ever get this thing, I got to get.
It wasn't easy. You know, they rigged the second election.
I had to win it, had to win it. I
needed it for my own ego. I would have had
a bad ego for the rest of the mint.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Now I really have a big ego. The beating these
beating these lunatics was incredible. What a great feeling winning
every swing, say, winning the popular vote the first time.
You know, they said I didn't win the popular vote.
I did, but they said so, they always say, we
always thought, did introduce me while Donald Trump did not
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win the popular vote. You know, I'm sitting up being
introduced by a Democrat or somebody, and.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He said, why Donald Trump did not win the popular vote?
He won? The brothers here he is. I said, I
was terrible. I said, we got to we won the
popular vote by a lot. We didn't want to play
any games. This has been a much different.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
We had a great first term, we had the greatest
economy in history.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But this one's going to blow it away already. It's
blown everything away. We have eighteen.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, that wasn't the clip that I wanted to go to.
But wise words. Nonetheless, I think this is the one
we were waiting for.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Go ahead now, no matter what we do, this moron,
no matter what it is, we could put them all together.
I think, Mike, what would you say the top five things.
Name them, we'll put them in one bill, and we'll
put them before we get one hundred percent. Except for
this guy named Thomas Massey. There's something wrong with him.
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We call him rand Paul Junior. You know, it's like
they just vote no. They love voting now they think
it's good politically. The guy's polling at about nine percent.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Also not the one I was looking for. What's going
on here is then your productor helped me out here? Anyway?
I think there was. Maybe we passed it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Some major politicians.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Now you let me know when it's ready. Until then
we will get.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
To support this exciting renewal.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
This morning, I'm praised to announce that on May seventeenth,
twenty six that we're inviting Americans from all across the
country to come together on our national mall to pray,
to give thanks, and to we are going to do
something that everyone said, like that's tough. We're going to
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rededicate America as one nation under God.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You know a lot of people now, thank you very much.
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It's good. That's what I mean by that's what I
mean by the spirit. It's so incredible to see it.
I see it so much I never seen anything like it.
In one year.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
I thought it would take two years, three years, four
years to be where we are. We've done it, and
I mean, really ten months, we're twelve. But now it's
just getting to a level that we've never read before
as a country. But that includes religion, I mean, and
maybe that's part of the reason that we're doing so well.
There's such great spirit. It's all spirit, and it includes religion.
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I've always said, you just can't have a great country
if you don't have religion.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You have to believe in something.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
You have to believe that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What we're doing there's a reason for it. There has
to be a reason for it.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
We're all working and we're doing would behaving, I mean,
I behave because I'm afraid not to, Okay, because I
don't want.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
To get in trouble.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And President Trump looks up, of course when he says
I don't want to get in trouble. And that was
the clip I wanted to play. The other ones where
he's taking shots at everybody else that came afterwards, but
those comments there were part of the opening remarks. I'm
happy to see that this is a part of what
the United States is doing to bring prayer back into schools,
to a public love of God, and into the conversation
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this country. People think that the ideal position for the
country is to be one that is godless, where we
never talk about God, we never talk about anything that
has to do with faith, because that's somehow unconstitutional separation
of church and state. And well, that's quite frankly not
the case. It's not what the founders intended, and it's
not even what the lawses. As a matter of fact,
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the United States law and British common law, all of
this stuff is based on ten very simple principles known
as the Ten Commandments. Right, that is the basis for
British common law and American common law, which is a
bri byproduct, excuse me of that. So for President Trump
to kind of try and realign and re center this
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country on its truest intent, right, which was deism, which
was a belief in God that I think is unmistakable.
And I'm happy, happy to see that happening because I
think we need that. And it always shocks me. It
always did when people would come out and they would
be angry and vitriolic, because this is the government endorsing religion.
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This is I mean, come on, right, This country has
always always leaned on religion. The founders themselves were you know,
farmers and this and that, but they almost all went
to church, Almost all of them were leaders in their churches.
People like to point out that Ben Franklin was a
famous deist. He wasn't a part of any church or
anything like that, but even him, in fact he was.
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There's lots of writings where he himself admits to be
a God fearing man. He wasn't necessarily, you know, like
many of us, the most devout. But my point was
it wasn't a place where there was a multitude of
multiple religions. There was not right. It was pretty much
all Christianity all the time. And we've been tolerant over
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the years to accept everybody right. And we've made the
Constitution as such to say, look, there'll never be a
government endorsement of any religion, but it does mean that
the government won't acknowledge God right. These are two separate
things that have been supported by the Supreme Court. So anyway,
I bring that up to say, it's great that we
have a national Day of Prayer. I'm thinking, man, we
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should have a day of prayer every single day, Right,
I try to start my day in prayer. And I
say try to because you know, sometimes it's that oh,
thank you Lord, I can see again. Thanks for my kids.
You know, it's very brief and it's very rudimentary, and
then there's days where it's really intentional and thought out.
I guess that's okay. Right, We're all growing, and we
all grow at a different rate spiritually, and I'm probably
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behind the curve on that, just like I'm with a
lot of things.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I think I'm always behind the curve about something. But
all that being said, I think it's great that President
Trump puts a focus on this, and kudos to him.
Kudos to Jenny Korn who was there as well, the
co director of the White House Office on Faith, who
we found on the show a number of times and
we'll have on again soon. Last thing I want to
do here is play you a clip from Mike Johnson,
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the Speaker of the House, because Mike Johnson made some
comment as well at the prayer breakfast that I thought
were important and meaningful.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Listen to this hit that man, thank you so much.
My remarks will be shorter than the intro, I promise.
I'm just grateful to so many of my colleagues from
the House and Senate in both parties, for carrying on
this important tradition for more than seven decades. What a
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remarkable thing that is. And so many of them are
here today.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Thank you, guys, all of you. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
After he served as our sixth President, John Quincy Adams
ran for Congress. No one had done it before and
haven't since, but he ran for Congress with a mission.
He wanted to eradicate slavery. He brought the resolution to
accomplish that mission over and over, but the nation sadly
was not yet ready for it. And on about the
thirteenth try, as the story goes, a young member of
Congress went up to him on the floor in the housefoloor,
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and they said, mister President, why are you doing it again?
And he said, young man, listen, duty is ours results
for God's and it's a great and liberating way for
us to live. We believe that as we celebrate the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary or the greatest nation in
the history of the world, we're so blessed to be here.
We understand that it is a spiritual battle to keep
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it and to keep freedom, and we don't take that lightly.
Let's pray together, shall we? Hellnly, Father, thank you so
much for the opportunity. I'm charged with praying this morning
for the nation's leaders, and we just heard from the
most powerful man on the planet, the President of the
United States. God, we are reminded in scripture that you
are the one that raises up those in authority, and
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also the words the Truth of Proverbs twenty one says
the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
and as the rivers of the water, he turns it
wherever he wills, Father, turn his heart, lead him and
guide him, and protect him. What an important influence he
is on the entire planet. Be with him, walk with him,
and let us be an influence upon him. We pray
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that same prayer, or were our Vice President J. D. Vance,
over all of our cabinet secretaries, many of whom are
here with us today, and the heads of leaders of
all of our agencies. We pray for the leaders in
the House and the Sin and all the members who
faithfully and sacrificially serve to try to help and preserve
this great republic. Give us the wisdom and discernment and
the stamina to accomplish that mission. Father, we pray for
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all those who serve on the Supreme Court, our lower courts,
the federal courts around the country. We pray for our staffs,
and for the patriots who serve in all of our
agencies and departments. And Lord, I just conclude by the simple,
the simple requests, that you protect them all, that you
give us the wisdom to do the things you've called
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us to do, and that you remind us daily that
the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
and a nation that serves you as the one that
is blessed, and we always be that. I ask and
pray and believe it in Jesus' names.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Well, I think that's a really good thing, fantastic thing. Anyway,
that was Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, some really
wise words. We're going to continue with Speaker Mike Johnson
and pray that that prayer comes to fruition. Plus we've
got a lot more to discuss. Keep it locked right here.
I'm Rich Valdes.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
This is America. This is America.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
President Donald chicks Rump, Mister President, welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Sir, well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
I know you very well and I have I listen,
but I have a lot of people that listen and
they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Well, I appreciate that too. Send you out, President, then
welcome back to America. I am Rich Valdez Valdeza and
an ass at Rich Valdez on all of the social media,
and it's Thursday. I want to get into some of
this stuff because obviously there's still some National Prayer Breakfast
stuff I want to talk about, as well as what
happened with the Epstein files. Right, the Epstein files. That's
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the big story every day, every day, it's the big story.
And you know me, I've said this a lot of times.
I've probably lost a lot of friends, a lot of listeners.
There's so many levels to how I am so uninterested
in this and for so many reasons. I feel like
we apply these unreasonable standards. What do you mean on
reasonable standards? Richer a bunch of pedophiles and the government's
protecting them. Okay, have it your way. I have never
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lived a day of my life in a world where
there truly is justice. I'm going to start there. We
have a general sense and semblance of justice. But let's
make no mistake, most people most aren't in jail with
the sons and daughters of the most affluent and powerful.
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They're not. So if we start with that premise, now, yes,
on occasion, I have a friend that did some time,
and when he was in prison, he was either in
the cell next to or was some in some close
proximity to Jason Williams, the basketball player who had an
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accidental shooting in his house and shot one of his
own bodyguards and the guy died. It was a shotgun
and he went to jail for that. That's an example
of a powerful person that you know, a wealthy person
that ended up paying the price. But it's not always
the case.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
It doesn't mean it's exclusive, but for the most part,
there's a privilege that comes with having money and power.
And I'm not advocating for this right. If I tell
you every day in Chicago people are murdered, I'm not
advocating for anybody's murder in Chicago. I'm telling you the facts.
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These are the facts. Bad things happen, things that are
wrong happen, and they happen quite often. We have a
governmental system just as an example, right, one of the
best in the world in my opinion, Few governments, if any,
that I can think of, operate better than ours. Yet
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ours has so many problems in so many areas that
need improvement. So with that thinking, we understand that it's
not a perfect system, but it might be the best
one that there is.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Got it.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I could live with that. However, some people really apply
this unreasonable standard, like if they trust some sort of
plan that everything goes away, that if somehow if we
lock up Bill Clinton for being unkarifrico, Right, that's the
term I come up with a guy who likes to
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hang on again, I don't know what he did with
underage girls, And the term underage girls is one I
have to get my head around, right, because I don't
particularly have an affinity for girls that are eighteen, nineteen
or twenty or twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, girls
in their thirties for me, or even that young, right,
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But some guys do. I don't think that's pedophilia. I
think they'd like younger girls. That's my take on that.
It's not for me. But I'm not going to criticize
them for it being for them. Right, Some guys like
heavier set women, some people like very thin women. Everybody
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has a different taste. Now, if a girl is seventeen
years old and she's on one of these things, and
I think that was the case for many, that they
were in that range, this is to me, this is
not the same as saying, get me a six year
old that's sick. Somebody being attracted to a fully developed
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teenage girl that doesn't live at home. I'm not saying
it's right. I'm sure it's still illegal, it's statutory rape,
all of those things. But it doesn't make you, in
my opinion, a child predator. It makes you again unkatifrico.
It makes you, you know, a pervert, It makes you whatever,
you know, somebody who's into younger girls. I don't believe
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the even the medical and legal term is pedophile. Right.
These are not children, they're not pre pubescent. That's the
word I'm looking for. So again, Bill Clinton does not
strike me as somebody who enjoys doing things with children, right.
He strikes me as a tremendous playboy who had a
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tough time saying no, I knew somebody was a cameraman
who was in his presence once said that women were
on a receiving line to say hello to him in
a pretty major event, and more than one he could
hear them because he was in earshot, making very serious
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passes at him, like can you have a minute? Can
we go to the back? That time one even gave
the president undergarments in a handshake. Again, hearsake from this
cameraman who worked for a cable network. Interesting stuff. So,
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if it's getting thrown at you all the time and
you're Bill Clinton, hey, perhaps that there's a moment where
you're gonna say ah, right, okay, right, you know, and
you give in. I get it. I'm not saying I
condone that either. I'm just saying it's understandable. Right, He's
a man, he's human, it's the flesh. I get it.
(29:56):
But I bring all this up not to defend Bill Clinton.
It's not my point. When I've defended anything that seems
like I'm defending the other side. It's because I'm trying
to get to the truth right and to make things
make sense, And for things to make sense, we have
to look at it for what it is. What benefit
comes from Bill Clinton coming to this trial a lot
(30:17):
of political benefit. For sure. Trump gets to bring him in,
he gets to tweet, he gets to raise some money,
he gets to shift momentum to our side. That's right,
we're bringing them in. Next step orange jump suits. I
told you I was going to train the swamp. We're
getting results, right. This is all good political stuff. In actuality,
(30:38):
it's not really much of anything, all right. James Comer
and his committees may get some information out of this.
I can't put my finger on exactly what is what.
If there were criminality here, it would be the FBI
and federal law enforcement that would be conducting these interrogations. Right,
(31:01):
These are hearings. This is a political process. So I
know oftentimes people hear the word hearing and then they
hear criminal referral, and it gets certain people excited as
if this thing that we all desperately want justice is
going to be done. And perhaps it's me the jade
(31:23):
of New Yorker. I just don't believe it's done. I
don't believe I live in a world where Bill Clinton
is somehow going to be jailed for going on private
jets with a guy that sold women of all ages
and somehow he's going to get in trouble for that.
I don't see it right. People said that Matt Gates
(31:45):
did this. Now they're saying Congressman Corey Mills did this.
Not Epstein, but going on private jets with girls that
were younger than eighteen. Okay, I'm not here to say
they did or didn't do it. I am going to
say this seems to be a frequent allegation. We saw
this happen with Mike Tyson. We've seen this happen with
a lot of people, people saying that they did something
(32:06):
when a person is wealthy and powerful. So bottom line here,
people are getting all bent out of shape because President
Trump tells a reporter in press conference that he, you know,
he doesn't like the idea that they're coming after Clinton.
And they're saying, oh, now President Trump's defending the pedophiles. No,
(32:26):
he's not defending the pedophiles. Is that President Trump understands
that there's a whole world ahead of us and some
people are stuck looking in the rearview mirror. All right,
listen to this. It bothers me that somebody is going
after Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
NBC News broke the story today.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I don't know if you saw it that the Democrats
are already saying, if you bring President Bill Clinton and
he has to testify, we're bringing President Trump.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I think they might say that.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You know, it bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
See, I like Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I still like b What do you like about him?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I like, well, I liked his behavior towards me. I
thought he got me, he understood me. Why is the
president bothered that they're investigating Bill Clinton?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
So why is the president bothered? Well, I'll tell you why,
because again, President Trump, he's truly putting America first. He's
truly thinking like a businessman. When you're a businessman, right,
one of the things they tell you first and foremost
is the customer is always right. Now. Why do they
say that? Do they say that because they think the
customer truly is always right.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
You go to your fix your car, talk to the mechanic,
you don't like what the mechanic says. You start freaking out.
The customer's right now. Of course the customer is not
actually right, But you have to take the approach to
the customer's right why to stay in business? That's how
it works. You can't get in the business of pissing
customers off, because it's just like the eye for an
eye philosophy. Eventually everyone will be blind. There'll be no
(33:56):
more eyes left. This is why we need forgiveness. This
is why we need the customers always right. President Trump
understands this because he understands when you're in business for yourself,
it's a long term thing. Nobody's paying your pension. When
you're in business for yourself, nobody does anything for you
but for your customers and your ability to earn money.
(34:16):
And if you want to continue to earn money all
the time, forever and ever and ever. Amen, you have
to make sure that the customer is always right. You
have to focus on their satisfaction and their referrals and
make sure they come back. Now, you guys have heard
me talk about my business interest in a small jewelry
business in Bergen County, New Jersey, and that's one of
(34:40):
those businesses. It's just like that somebody comes in. You
can't hit them over the head because you may never
see them again. It's actually quite the opposite. You want
to make sure that you give them the best service
because if they're coming in and buying a vintage Rolex watch.
If they're buying a gold ring, a bracelet and earring,
they're getting a piece of jewelry fixed, whatever it is.
(35:01):
You may not make top dollar on this, but the
important thing is to start to forge a relationship so
they'll keep coming back to you. That's the whole game.
President Trump understands that. That's why he puts America first.
And he says, I'm bothered by this. It's not about
them coming after him. It's about this constant witch hunt.
(35:24):
What they did to him. He doesn't want to do
it to others. And it makes sense. If you're gonna
sit here and come after every last president, presidents won't
A they won't be able to govern, and B people
will qualified people will stop wanting to be president. It
will have a truly chilling effect. So it makes all
(35:45):
the sense in the world to me that he says, look,
I like Bill Clinton. You know, I think most people
like Bill Clinton. I think Bill Clinton is still and
I'm not saying I do. I don't know Bill Clinton.
And I was once invited to something and honestly I
didn't even go because I was just like, you know, what,
what am I gonna do? Sit there, and you know,
I was very young, and I thought to myself, I
(36:07):
don't agree with him on much. I don't see how
we're gonna get much done here, and I probably won't
have much face time with him. I'm going to be
in a room filled with Democrats. Doesn't sound like a
good time to me. So I opted not to go.
But it was one of those things where post president,
so you know, it was gonna be easier to speak
with him and probably get a picture and stuff like that.
But and looking back, I regret it. I probably should
(36:29):
have went. I probably knew half the Democrats in that
room because small world, you know. But anyway, long story short,
Trump gets it. And this this idea that we should
stay here and live on the Epstein files for me,
non starter. I know, change the channel. Valdez, he's one
(36:50):
of them. Yes, I am listen. I saw somebody today say,
don't let them fool you. All this gu three stuff
about this woman that was kidnapped. This is all but
distracting you from the Epstein files. I'm just gonna give
you my perspective, just an honest take from me. This
is the truth. I find zero entertainment value in talking
(37:11):
about this Bill Clinton stuff, I mean Epstein stuff. I truly, truly,
in my heart of hearts, I feel badly for any woman,
any boy, any human being that was trafficked and abused
and anything like that. I really do. But there are
so many people that go through that and we don't
(37:33):
talk about it all day. It's there's a fascination with
this one pimp and this one Madam Epstein and Geelane Maxwell.
Why why is there such a fascination with these two
in particular. I'm gonna use a line I use every
now and again, Blame the Jews, right, you always want
(37:54):
to blame the Jews, And that's usually what it is.
Because he's Mosad, because he's this, because he's because the CIA,
because the This is what Bongino talks about, right, the
black pillars. It's true, some people they took the red
pill just so that they could become black pillars. It's
a brilliant term that he's come up with. But and
(38:16):
he's one hundred percent right. Some people, and before that
it was Mark Levin always called them malcontents, and that's
that is what they're called, and that's what they are,
and it's it's a perfect descriptor. Some people are never happy,
like they thrive in being unhappy. This is what they
want whatever you tell them. They're upset. Perfect example. I
(38:39):
have the audio, but it's got curses in it, and
I didn't want to play it with curses. And I've
been having a lot of issues with production people and stuff,
so I said, you know what, let me not use
it just yet. But long story short. Robert Reich, he
was one of the Democrats economic people, and and an
organization called ap No not like lies but like sent
(39:02):
there for American progressivism or progress something like that. They
put out this thing and they said that's and it's
these people claim to be right. It's like a white
guy with a beard and long hair. He's driving to
pick up and he's like, you know Trump. He's got
like a Southern accent. He's like, you know Trump, I
voted for you, man, voted for you more than once.
But this time he done did it?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Man?
Speaker 4 (39:23):
You said we were gonna get no tax on tips.
You said no tax on overtime. Well guess what, Golly,
they're taxing us and our tips and overtime. And he
goes on this rant and then it's like a montage
of people going yeah, that's right, blah blah blah, and
of course, Q the panic gallery, you've got people all
(39:44):
in the comments saying yep, yep, Well I warned you.
You should have known. The guy's a fell in thirty
four counts. What do you expect he's he's been found
guilty of sexual abuse. Blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. Right, same old stuff that we usually
talk about. And why do I I say it that
way so flippantly minimizing it, because these were quite actually
(40:06):
manufactured offenses. There is not another human being on this earth,
not another country, not in this country, who was ever
found guilty of sexual abuse in a case that was
otherwise dismissed, in a case where he was otherwise found
not guilty of touching this woman, but the term they
(40:27):
gave it because he said she was ugly, was sexual abuse.
So now people are going to use this and say
that Trump was found guilty of sexual abuse, which I
guess on paper is technically accurate, but in reality it's
because some judge who didn't like Trump agreed that when
Trump said I would never mess with that lady, she's
(40:48):
ugly that that is somehow tantamount to sexual abuse. So yes,
when I say these are made up crimes, this is
not being a sycophantic of El Trumpito. This is just
calling a spade a spade. They made stuff up, and
(41:09):
they did it for this purpose. Thirty four felon accounts
for one crime, and it wasn't even a crime. It
was a misdemeanor that they couldn't prove that. The federal
government said, that's a federal issue, and we're choosing not
to prosecute because it's not a big deal. It was
a clerical thing. And guess what. The state of New
York decided to change their minds. The City of New
(41:31):
York went after him, pursuing this, changing their laws, having
a federal prosecutor resign his office to come and oversee
the prosecution as a city prosecutor. You're gonna tell me
they didn't jump through hoops to make this thing happen.
Why is it that Pump Trump had a public trial
(41:55):
in New York City? It was gridlocked, it was on TV,
the famous mugshot. All of that, right, remember that I
do like yesterday? And guess what all of that for?
Political purposes, so they could say he's a thirty four
count and blah blah blah to get what nothing. They
got nothing out of it, except every time they want
(42:16):
AMMO to go after him for anything. It's this. So
bottom line here is this isn't about defending Epstein. This
isn't about defending Trump and his crimes. This is just
about a pursuit for the truth. If we're going to
say it about one, we got to say it about
the other. Right, Like the old saying, if it's good
for the goose, it's got to be good for the gander,
And that's what Trump is saying about Epstein, I mean
(42:37):
about Clinton. I never wanted to be lost on anyone
that Epstein was caught for his crimes, put in prison
for his crimes, and whether you believe it or not,
died in jail, whether he was murdered in jail, whether
he was body doubled and cloned, and all that. I
(43:00):
can never go down these rabbit holes. I'm not saying
it's not true. I'm just saying, when I start to
play that game where I say, well, of course it's possible, well,
if anything is possible, we could come up with a
story for anything, if that's the way you're gonna live life,
and say, well, it's possible that you know that they
went in there and the cameras didn't work. They could
have put somebody other body in there. This guy had
(43:22):
billions of dollars. He could just be sitting pretty somewhere.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
He could.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
But what does that do for anything? Doesn't do anything
for me, doesn't do anything for anybody, for us to
sit here and spend our lives thinking, you know, on
a daily basis, I talk to people, whether it's on
this program or in real life, in my private life,
my family, whomever. And some of the same people that
(43:47):
love the Q andon trust the plan minda some of
those same people will sit there and complain that, you know,
all Bill and Hillary don't want to come in for
a whatever. And then when they find out, yes, Bill
and Hillary are coming in, they've changed their mind, change
of heart. Now they're coming in because they want to
(44:08):
set the record straight. They turn right around and say yes.
They get excited. It's like a giddy feeling, like kids
in a candy store. They're excited. Why because this is
like watching sports for them, This is like hearing that
their team just made the playoffs, and it's headed to
the big game at the end. And this is why
(44:29):
I don't go into this stuff. This what about what
if it's possible. It's a zero sum game with zero winning.
There's no win at the end of that. Other than saying, yeah, yeah,
I can't trust my government. Oh you'll never understand. Oh
I don't expect you to understand. Right, You just minimize
(44:50):
other people. You maximize the issue that's in front of
you that isn't even affecting you. I mean, call me
selfish or crazy, but if I am not, Jeffrey Epstein
being dead or alive does zero for me. He was
getting the justice that was served to him. He was
(45:14):
in jail, and I doubt he was ever going to
get out boom if he now period the end. So anyway,
I'm not saying I'm not going to talk about it.
As it comes up, we'll talk about it. You know,
they pulled a few little tricks. Whoever pulled them, whether
it was the Democrats back in the days or the
Republicans deciding to include them, who knows, But people calling
(45:34):
the FBI tipline saying things so that the tip line
information could be released by the government that make it
look like it's part of the quote unquote Epstein files.
When these are just, in my opinion, staged calls and
reports so that they could be part of the public record.
What does that do for me? Nothing? I could care
(45:55):
less about that. Now it's true my own personal perspective,
I really just don't. I don't care. I mean, I
don't know how many ways I could say that, and
maybe it's it's wrong or crass. I care about these people,
but me caring about that doesn't mean anything for the other.
(46:17):
And this is why I think what we're conflating. I mean,
some people feel like they've got their panties in a
bunch because they're like, I can't believe these kids are
being trafficked and these people are monsters. And then it
goes a step further. They're eating the children, They're hurting
the children. Listen. I don't I don't put that past anybody.
I believe that these people are bad.
Speaker 7 (46:36):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
I mean a few months ago and several times over
the last few years. Every few months, I go back
to a clip and if we have it, I'm gonna
play for you today. It's a news clip. It's a
local news affiliate that says that in an arrest of
some MS thirteen gangsters, they discovered that they were actively
(47:00):
engaged in Satanic worship. Now this isn't just me telling
you that I got it from the news. All right,
let's see if you find the clip. All Right, you
got it? Okay, let her rip. I'm ready when you are.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
Go ahead to a developing story on a teenage girl
found dead off the Beltway. The two teen men arrested
in this case, alleged gang members, went before a judge
earlier today and we are now learning new details about
what led up to the murder. That girl was found
off of the Beltway on Sharp Crest, February sixteenth. Channel
Who's phill Archer live with what happened in court today, phil.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Well.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Police still don't know the victim's name. She is a
teenager allegedly murdered because she insulted Satan. Her accused killers
members of a notorious street gang that in recent months
seem to have grown even more violent. The case against
Miguel aghil A Loares Flores and Diego Alexander Hernandez Rivera
rusts on the testimony of a teenage girl a girl
(48:01):
police say was abducted, raped, and then held as a
prisoner by the MS thirteen street gang.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
The Girl Toe Belice.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
She was held along with another young woman she knew
only by the name of Genesis, at an apartment where
the men lived and where they directed a Satanic shrine.
On February sixteenth, the Girl Toe police Genesis denounced the
shrine and a short time later disappeared. Her body was
found dumped in the street. She'd been shot in the
head and stomach. That killing allegedly ordered by Alvarez Flores
(48:31):
to appease the devil.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
He gave orders to the co definant to kill the
female that we know as Genesis. Codefindant Diego Rivera gave
a statement to police stating that he fired the weapon.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Defense attorney Emily Toto was appointing today to defend Hernandez Rivera.
Speaker 10 (48:48):
I'm really hesitant to ever call a statement of confession.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
It's just the latest round of violence attributed to MS thirteen,
a Salvadoran street gang declared by the US State Department
to be a terrorist group. Over the last year, about
half a dozen killings have been attributed to the gang
in Harris and Fort Benn County example, Omar Torres Rubio
charged with the murder of a rival gang member. Last year,
(49:12):
he allegedly ordered the murder of a witness from his
cell inside the Harris County jail. He's now charged with capital.
Speaker 10 (49:19):
We're going to go after them hard, and that investigation
is ongoing. They're vicious and we're not going to talk
much about that investigation because it's extremely sensitive and we're
dealing with some pretty hardcore gang bangers.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
And four other alleged gang members were also arrested in
connection with the murder of the girl called Genesis. At
this point, they have not yet been charged in this case.
Reporting live in Southwest Houston, I'm Phil Archer KPRC Channel
two years.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
So, yeah, that was nearly eight years ago to the day,
right it February of twenty twenty six. That was in
February of twenty eighteen. Oh, how time flies now, listen.
I didn't make that up. These guys they were kidnapping
these girls and sacrificing them for Satan. That was their
(50:07):
satanic ritual. I didn't make it up. That's the thing.
And that was CBS News in Houston reporting that story.
And you know who else is talking about this. Just
recently today the President of El Salvador himself, Naive bu
Keyley listen to this at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Speaker 7 (50:27):
Many people don't know that our enemy was not just
the flesh and blood, but it's spiritual as well. The
gangs didn't just murder, rape, extort, They also worshiped Satan
straight up. Literally, When we went to their homes to
arrest them, we discovered altars they'd be used for Satanic rituals.
(50:51):
This is well documented. We put up the pictures the
videos right away, but for some reason, the global mainstream
media didn't think it was worth it to cover it.
But we know gangs and an Salvador were Satanic and
they worshiped Satan, and some of those gangs are here
in the United States.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Well, how you like them apples? Huh wow? Now listen.
I had really never listened to much of his commentary
on that before. I know he'd had a couple of
sit down interviews in the past discussing this. But it's
something I knew because I pay attention to the news,
and I thought it was wild. But this satanic ritual
stuff with the MS thirteen people is real and again
(51:36):
not a rumor. So isn't it interesting how we start
with Jeffrey Epstein and we finished with satanic gangsters Salvadorians.
I guess it's fitting right now to me. I could
talk about the satanic stuff all day. Why because I
bet you, if you're listening to this program the Epstein stuff,
you could tune out. Man, it becomes white noise after
a while. But you start talking about satanic altars kidnapping,
(51:58):
you know, sixteen year old girls to sacrifice them. This
is very interesting stuff. Now do they go hand in
hand with the Epstein stuff? Sure they do. I have
no question that, no doubt. I should say in my
mind that these guys are hired to do the dirty work,
or are in charge of doing the dirty work, or
maybe they're the customers saying, hey, we need these girls
(52:20):
to do X, Y and Z. I don't know how
it works, but I can guarantee you birds of a
feather flock together. Whether you're a billionaire financier like Jeffrey
Epstein that owns an island then a private jet, or
a couple of common thugs with teardrop tattoos on their faces.
Either way, if you're both in the business of kidnapping
sixteen year olds and sacrifice them for one reason or another.
(52:42):
Then seems to me that you guys are birds of
a feather. Anyway, we're gonna wrap this thing up with
some of President Trump's final comments at the National Prayer Breakfast,
as well as a few other thoughts and what we
could look forward to tomorrow and next week. We're gonna
do some Guthrie tomorrow, talk a little bit about this
case and some of the developments that are goinging on
every day. There is a little bit more of a trickle.
(53:02):
My thoughts and prayers are with the Guthrie family and
that woman, mainly the woman. My goodness, this woman's eighty
four years old. And uh, you know who even thinks
of things like this, of harming an eighty four year
old woman. Disgusting. Anyway, keep it locked right here on,
Rich valdesk.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
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Speaker 4 (53:48):
All right, he goes, I am here. We continue our
conversation and and trumpitos and all this. Magnus the forty
fifth and forty seventh President of these United States, president.
He had a couple of words about being street smart
at the at the National Prayer Breakfast. And I'm stalling
(54:11):
here because I'm buying some times, as you would think,
the audio isn't ready. Yes, sir, re all right, I
think we got it. Now stand by stand by for
El Trumpito discussing street smarts. And he's actually standing right
next to the President of El Salvador.
Speaker 5 (54:33):
Naive Bukeley, you will not send your good people to
the United States, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 2 (54:40):
Look at him?
Speaker 5 (54:40):
He said one score there, but no, he sends bad
people to.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
The United States. And I'm gonna talk to him after this,
but I love him.
Speaker 5 (54:50):
He's done a great job, right, He's not gonna he's not.
There's one people and they're very street wise. You know,
when you're running some of these countries and South America,
Latin America, you gotta be street wise.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
You gotta be smart, you.
Speaker 4 (55:06):
Gotta be smart. Listen. El trouan Vito is a smart guy.
Sometimes I question what he's doing, and usually I understand it.
A little bit late doesn't mean I agree, but it
means I understand it right. And like, for the life
of me, I don't know why he extends an olive
branch to zorin Mamdani, but not one to Bad Bunny.
(55:26):
You would think, if your numbers are in the tank
with Hispanics, and you have an opportunity to potentially make
an ally of Bad Bunny, then why wouldn't you? And
the reason I say that as some of you who
are freaking out saying, what do you mean the guy
where his dresses listen? I actually listened to Bad Buddies music,
(55:47):
I really, do you know me? I listened to all
sorts of reggaetong in my free time. And I'll tell
you this. I did not listen to him when he
was wearing dresses some of the Yeah, but and again
it wasn't like he wore dresses every day. He did
a video and a couple of public performances, but that
(56:09):
was enough, right A couple of met galas wearing you know,
provocative dressed looking clothing to say, hey, this guy's packing
all sorts of fudgo here for lack of a better word,
but all homophobia as side. The thing here is that
Bad Bunny has typically been very pro Puerto Rico, and
(56:30):
so has President Trump. And I would think that there
are so many areas there. You know, over the summer,
President Trump fired a lot of people from the Puerto
Rico Power and Electric Authority. Well, Bad Bunny has a
whole song called Lagon the Blackout, the shut Off. It's
(56:51):
about the power going out on the island. And again,
this is his political statement. Right, most people just think, oh,
he's singing about the times and right, because he's not
a politician. He sings about what he sees. And shortly
after that song, they held the governor of the island accountable.
Ricardo Rossigio and I talked about this on the show
(57:12):
in the past, and they
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