December 16, 2025 • 60 mins
On Tuesday, Rich reacts to the two soldiers and an interpreter who were murdered in an ambush in Syria. Then, the Trump Administration sank three more dug boats, killing all 8 narco-terrorists on board, further escalating tensions with the Venezuelan communist narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro. Plus, the Trump savings accounts for every child in America get some billionaire backing from Michael Dell.
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the show a little bit later. But I want to
start with the charging of that monster in the Bandai
Beach Hanukka massacre. Am he goes today in Sydney. The
surviving gunman, Navid Akram was hit with fifty nine charges,
including fifteen counts of murder and terrorism offenses. This isis
inspired coward along with his deceased accomplished dad, right, because
(01:22):
I remember it's a father and son duo that did this
heinous act on Hanukkah. They turned this joyful Hanukkah celebration
into hell, killing fifteen, actually now sixteen innocent people, including
kids and rabbis. The funerals did begin today Tuesday, and
the stories are gut wrenching. A ten year old girl,
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a Holocaust survivor, literally pure evil targeting Jews during the
Festival of Lights. And you guys know how I feel
about this. I grew up with the Jews in Brooklyn,
New York, and it was normal, right there was normal
to see the Jews around, It was normal to see
them praying. This is the childhood that I knew when
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I lived in New York and I moved to Jersey
and there was very few Jews. Everybody was Hispanic. But
the point is this is crazy to me, definitely crazy.
And the Australian officials are now admitting that radicalization tied
to the online jihadi movement that exists in their country
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is part of what contributed to this. But they're still
trying to push gun control, right, I mean, really, it's
just out of control anyway.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Oh, by the.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Way, Jake Lang, the former J sixth imprisoned activist, he's
going to be joining us. He's doing a march against
radical Islam, and he's going to be joining us. Give
us an update on what he's doing. Not today tomorrow,
he'll be joining us. On Wednesday night, he will be
joining us. So keep it locked right here for that.
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Plus Wednesday night, we've got President Trump, President presidentxcuse me
take two. President Trump giving his speech on what America
deserves when it comes to affordability, when it comes to
the economy, when it comes to migrants in our country,
when it comes to earning money for this country. And
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I'm looking forward to hearing President Trump outline all of that.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Now. There's plenty of stuff that we're going to get
into today.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
The Trump accounts, right, there's some additional stuff coming out
with that. Billionaires are jumping in, Michael Dell jumping in,
others jumping in because this is going to help kids
when they grow up. I saw an article yesterday six
hundred thousand dollars is what a thousand dollars initial Trump
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account would look like for a baby once it's fully amortized,
when it's fully matured. Can't beat that, right, It's not
a bad deal at all. Let me see what else
do I got here? There's another thing I wanted to
talk about. Eight more drug boats were exploded, destroyed, crushed, killed,
a trompeto striking at another eight drug boats. Doubling down
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on his commitment to end narco trafficking into the United
States by the Narco terrorists, The blockade continues on the
Venezuela and tanker Madudu is expected. President Nicolas Maduro is
expected to react or respond.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Haven't heard from him yet.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Plenty plenty plenty that we're going to be getting into
this evening, so I do want you to keep it
locked right here. Of course, I am looking forward to
sharing a little bit more about my family's Christmas traditions.
Will be doing that towards the end of the program.
But there is still a lot of updating to do
with the Vondai Beach, with the Brown University manhunt and
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the situation on that where that's going there, I think
was a person of interest in the police chief called custody.
The Colonel and it wasn't custody. It was someone that
was detained, and they actually corrected him a well live
while he was saying it. They said, no, no, it's
the wrong word. It's detained. And it was pretty funny.
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It doesn't seem like they have their arms around this
or like they're used to this type of level of
press scrutiny. So very interesting to see what's going on. Anyway,
more to come straight ahead, and if you want to
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How about that. Gotta love technology.
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All right, amigos, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's Rich Valdez Valdest with an ask at Rich Valdest
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out at rich valdest dot com. And I want to
get into something President Trump said today. He has declared
war on a narco terrorist time and again, but today
he is labeled fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Listen to this boy.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Today, I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from
the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country with
this historic executive order I will sign today for formably
classed or fine fentol is a weapon of mass destruction,
which is what it is. No bomb does what this
is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand people die
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every year that we know, so we're formally classifying fentanyl
as a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
That's why now eight eight more.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Ships not necessarily carrying fentanyl, probably carrying cocaine, but whatever
the case is, we're blown up as of Tuesday, and
the Left has their proverbial panties in a bunch. Now,
I have to say, I'm all supportive of this policy.
I'm all for it, I really am, because it's part
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of the larger strategy. Right, Venezuela is in cahoots with
Russia and Iran and China. Those are the same people
that we need to remind whose boss. Venezuela is a
failed narco state that is illegitimately elected, stealing elections to
remain in power. And President Trump is calling them out
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on it. Good for him. I'm glad he's got the
big oil tanker blockaded. I'm glad that he's putting Maduro
on notice, threatening him to say, hey, look, you need
to get out of office. You need to leave these
people alone, allow your country to have a fair election,
and stop with the drug trafficking. But Maduru doesn't want
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to go down without a fight, it seems. But it's
a larger strategy. Somebody who nailed it, somebody who understands
the stuff. Former CIA director as well as a former
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. I think he called it
out pretty pretty expertly when he was on the Fox
News channel, And we have a clip of it courtesy
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of mister producer media stand by, all right, check this out.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
We all know this.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Sanctions without enforcement are meaningless. You can write it down
on a piece of paper or past that executive order,
but if you're not willing to do the hard work
of actually stopping the flow of whatever it is narcotics
or oil or whatever it is that's been sanctioned, and
it's not very meaningful. Think what President Trump is demonstrating
is that you can do this, You can do it
away with tactical excellence. That was quite something to watch, yea.
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And importantly, I think what he's really trying to do
is put pressure on the regime, economic pressure. And so
if you begin to take I think the tanker had
something short of a million barrels of crude oil.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Do the math.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Pretty fast, Maduro will be out of money and out
of the ability to continue to pay the thugs that
are destroying the lives of Venezuelan people and putting America
at risk. If you do this at some scale, you
can pretty pretty quickly put pressure on the regime in
a way, they will give the Venezuelan people a chance
to change the government that they live under.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
But how about that giving them an opportunity Now, I
know a lot of people don't like this idea of
regime change, right people, they cringe at regime change. That's
the buzzword that people don't like.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I'm a hawkish regime change kind of guy. I think
when you have government like Maduro, like the Communists before him, chavs,
this stuff does nothing good for our hemisphere, nothing good
for their neighboring countries. If you talk to the Colombians
that share a border with the Venezuelans, they'll tell you
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they keep coming into our country looking for an opportunity
because their country sucks. If you talk to the Venezuelans,
if you've been to Colombia, I have every cab driver
I had was Venezuelan. Matter of fact, the valet guy
at the Colombian restaurant I frequent pretty regularly, he's also Venezuelan.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
And listen to this.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
He left a career as a stuntman and as an
extra as a young guy, but working in the Hollywood
of Colombia because he had left Venezuela to find a
job in Colombia, and he left Colombia to come here
because he wanted more opportunity and the money just wasn't there.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
So people are running away. They are running.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Away from the bedlam, the chaos, the poverty that is
communism in Venezuela. So I'm happy that President Trump is
applying this pressure because we need it, right.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I mean, what are you going to do with that?
Just keep allowing them to operate.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
This is I think the point of the pressure that
he's putting them under, and I think that's a good thing. Now,
let me see if I can find you this report
that I wanted to share with you on the drug boats,
and I think I got one here.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Just hours before Secretaries heg Seth and Rubio were expected
to come here to Capitol Hill to answer lawmakers questions
on this mounting series of strikes on alleged drug boats.
The Pentagon released a new video overnight showing that it
hit three more, killing at least eight people in the
Eastern Pacific. That brings the total number of these strikes
in September to at least twenty five. The Trump administration
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saying that these are strikes on what they alleged to
be drug smuggling vessels. At least ninety five people killed,
but the administration has never publicly provided evidence that these
boats are smuggling drugs, and they have never publicly identified
any of the people killed in these strikes. Lawmakers up
here on Capitol Hill have a series of questions they
will get that briefing today, and there are also growing
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bipartisan calls for the Pentagon to release the classified video
of a controversial September second strike where the US, after
destroying one of these boats in a follow up strike,
then killed two survivors. While the Pentagon has put out
clips of these more than two dozen strikes, they have
never released full unedited video of any.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Diane, of any bla blah blah. Now listen again. This
reporter seemingly is presenting this as somehow the military's job
has always been to provide US receipts, to provide US
with the names and social security numbers of every terrorist
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they've ever killed in an operation. I don't remember that
ever happening. Yet he somehow is like, I can't believe
they haven't done this, Diana. I don't know where this
guy gets off. Honestly, ABC News guy, I don't know
his name, but let me tell you.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Clownish.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
It's clownish the way that the media pretends either they
fall for things hook line and sinker, or they're really
really that naive and have not been alive the last
twenty or thirty years, where we've had actions just like these.
Obama actually killed an American and Biden killed a whole family.
They were all innocent. All he said was my bad
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and not even right. He didn't really apologize. It was
the national security advice that I ultimately apologized, not the president,
but the left hast There are panties in a twist
here they don't want and earlier I misspoke. I said
eight more drug boats. I meant eight more narco terrorists
and three more drug boats. But you get the point.
Two dozen boats later, lots of action being taken somehow.
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This is bad, right because the left, the left within
the media, the left within our government, the left within
the Democrat Party, they've never met a criminal or an
enemy of our country that they didn't love. And this
is sad. I understand. It's the Machiavellian idea or principle,
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if you will, of the enemy of my enemy as
my friend. But that's the problem. They shouldn't be viewing
us as the enemy. They shouldn't view MAGA or their
fellow Americans or a Republican led government as their enemy.
That shouldn't be happening at all, But sadly, it is happening.
And this is part of the issue I think that
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we're facing culturally as a country, as a society, this
cultural rot where we are thinning out or destroying the
fabric of what holds us together. The part of America
that we all kind of agree on that we shouldn't
have drugs, we shouldn't do bad things, we shouldn't disseminate
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drugs to children. I think we should all agree on
those things. People shouldn't be dying two to three hundred
thousand Americans a year from fentanyl overdoses or accidental deaths.
Like those little kids who touched it, who touched something
that was laced because the lady who was running the
daycare had a husband who was in the drug dealing business,
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and there was some stuff that you know, again, it
just had some residue on it. Kids touched it. They're tiny,
they died. Remember that happened in the Bronx. I think
the kid was two or three years old. It's happened
more than once. Horrible, absolutely horrible. Yet the left within
the media, the left within the government, and the left
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within the Democrat Party will come up with a reason
to tell you why Trump is bad, why I am bad,
why you are bad? But how kil Marl Brigo Garcia
just deserves due process. The man who's gotten due process
more than anybody I know. He's been deported like three
or four times, keeps coming back. You talk about due process.
How much process does this man do? I don't know,
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but he's getting a whole lot of it. Anyway, we
continue straight ahead. I'm Rich Valdez.
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All right, that's me and Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Welcome back, and I want you to hear a quick
clip from Let's see who's it from posting note these
things security security. It's from the Fox News channel and
it's talking about a continued decline in fentanyl pills and
their potency.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
Check this out a courageing sign in the fight against fentanyl.
The DEA says pills seized by their agents are seeing
a dramatic decline in potency, and President Trump may be
the one to thank for that. Our Fox and You
senior correspondent Alicia Ocunya has got more season Denver. Now,
at Alicia, these are some staggering reductions.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
John, This is draw jaw dropping. Data from the Drug
Enforcement Administration National lab test results on illegal fentanyl pills
show a drop in the lethal potency of pills on
the street from seventy six percent two years ago to
twenty nine percent today. The DA says it's because the
Trump administration is all hands on deck.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
We are targeting the global supply network of precursor chemicals
that go from China into Mexico, and if we can
impact that supply making its way to the Mexican cartels,
there's less precursor chemicals available for them to make this product.
Speaker 11 (18:10):
The DEA says, the cartels are being forced to dilute
their product and even charge more per pill. They credit
the administration for hitting the illicit drug trade from every direction.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
While DEA is focused on the enforcement aspects of the
drug trafficking world, there's also other aspects with the Administration
of SAMI area of expertise, where there's diplomatic efforts by
our state Department, the White House engaging with China on
this topic.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Add to this, US Customs and Border Patrol report fentanyl
seizures that the southern border are down by more than
fifty percent. Colorado is one of the top three states
in the nation with the highest amount of seizures. One example,
you see in this bodycam video where the Douglas County
Sheriff's Department recently was alerted to a storage facility where
they found one point seven million fentanyl pillow.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
So that's where we are with fentanyl, and that's a
big deal, no question that that's.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
A big deal.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You're talking about a couple one hundred thousand deaths a
year from fentanyl in America and that number goes up.
Yet you got liberal Democrats that are more worried about
drug smugglers who are bringing in this poison than they
are about our own communities or about our troops. Right,
I mean, if we don't have to look too far
to see that we had a whole troop situation, right,
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and their families are speaking, These American soldiers that were
ambushed by ISIS and Syria.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
This was horrible.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
But the families of the slain Iowa guardsmen, Sergeant Torres
Tovar and Sergeant Howard twenty five years old and twenty
nine years old, respectively, and an interpreter shared what they
had to say. And these guys ambushed by these ISIS infiltrators.
(20:05):
There were apparently one ISIS infiltrator. And President Trump promised
overwhelming force and response in uh retaliation, and rightfully so
that needs to happen.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
So we've warned the loss of three great patriots in Syria.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
We know how it happened.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
There was an ambush, terrible. We also a three wounded.
They seemed to be doing pretty well, so we warned
the laws. These are great, three great people, and it's
just a terrible thing. Syria, by the way, was fighting
along with us.
Speaker 13 (20:40):
The president, the new president of Syria is as they
told me, and I'm not surprised.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
He's devastated by what has happened. There was an ISIS
attack on US and Syria.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Again yeah again President Trump saying yeah, we will retaliate
against ISIS, and again putting on true social more formally
or less formally.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
However, you want to look at it.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
We mourn the loss of three great American patriots in Syria,
two soldiers and one civilian interpreter. Likewise, we pray for
the three injured soldiers who it's been just confirmed that
they are doing well. This was an ISIS attack against
the United States and Syria and a very dangerous part
of Syria that is not fully controlled by them. The
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President of Syria, Ahmed al Sharra, is extremely angry and
disturbed by this attack. There will be very serious retaliation.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Donald J.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Trump, President of the United States of America, and President
Trump again doubling down on that on the.
Speaker 15 (21:46):
Syria ambush of yeah forces. Do you still have confidence
in the Syrian president? I do.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I mean, this has nothing to do with him.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
This is a part of Syria that they really don't
have much control over, and it was a surprise. He
feels very badly about it. He's working on it. He's
a strong man. And now this had nothing to do
with the Syrian government. This had to do This had
to do with ISIS.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Now many don't trust mister al Jalani, now known as
Al Sharah, the former leader of al Qaeda, who's now
the legitimately democratically elected president of Syria who replaced Mashi
al Assan. But President Trump seems to like him, and
I guess he's got to work with them more than
I do. But I don't know how much we can
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trust any of these people, right. It's kind of like
going with the lesser of two evils when you're dealing
with a foreign country in another part of the world.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Not a job I envy at all. Anyway, I want
to continue our conversation because there's still more that I
want to get into. There's plenty of clips that I've
been wanting to go over with you. And man, I
got some Second Amendment stuff. I got some abortion stuff.
(23:04):
I'll save that for a little bit later. I want
to get to the more pressing and breaking news stuff,
which really it's more continuation of the news. It's not
necessarily breaking news. But let me see here, there was
some Minnesota. Where was the other story here?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Hmm? There with me?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Oh, I got that Cardi B that I wanted to
share with you, and I think I'm gonna go with
the Cardi B.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
You're gonna switch gears right here.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Because Cardi b she was getting angry, kind of like
the people in the Mexico Parliament. I don't know if
you saw that brawl breakout. There was a brawl that
broke out in the Mexican government and there was one guy.
I don't know if he's like the Senate pro tem
leader or whatever, but it's like a bunch of women,
all legislators, maybe other staff, but it's one guy almost
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kind of looks like Nicolas Madulo, right, that kind of look,
you know, at the mustache and whatnot. And these women
just start fighting and arguing and pulling each other's hair,
and then another one jumps in, and then a third
one jumps in, then a fourth one jumps in, and
everybody's pulling each other's.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Hair rear rear.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
It's just a hair pulling extravaganza. That was in the
Mexico City hearings and again these lawmakers just pulling each
other's hair. I thought it was wild. That's one of
those things where you really need to watch the video.
I did post it on my Instagram at rich Valdes
with an s at rich Valdez if you want to
take a look at that.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
That was interesting, But let me see where do I start.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Do I start with Congresswoman Mana Abdi or do I
start with Cardi B. Right, Well, I think Cardi B
is more entertaining, so I'm gonna start with Cardi B.
She says, you know, she's a rapper, and she says
that she's gonna need people to beg her to stay.
Convince her now because I think she's out of the country,
and she says they treat her better out of the
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country than they treat her here.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Listen to this.
Speaker 16 (24:47):
I'm starting out to like America. America made me pay taxes,
the vice president.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
So hold on a second.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
If liking America has to do it paying taxes, then
I don't think I like that either. But I love
America despite having play taxes, pay taxes. Cardi I think
Cardi B is like bad Bunny. She's like El Trumpezo
in some ways. These people are professional show people. She's
a showman. She knows if she says certain things, it's
gonna rub people a certain way, and it's going to
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keep her front and center in the media, in popular culture,
in the current discussions. So that's what Trump does too, right,
I mean, he'll put out a provocative truth social and
then when they see him, mister president, did you say?
And then he'll tone it down, play it all. This
is how he beats the media at their own game,
and Cardi b is no different.
Speaker 16 (25:33):
Go ahead, Twitter like, I don't know. I don't feel
we appreciated on America. Yeah, I need to convince me
to come back. I don't know if I want to
go back. Convince me now, beg me to come back,
beg me to come back to America.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I don't think I might go back.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Nobody's begging you, Carti, and you know it, or maybe
your fans are. I don't know, and I'm a fan.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You know.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I like her songs. I think you know.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I don't really buy them or download them, but if
I hear it, I bought my head to it. Every
now and again. She's got a banger that you'll learn
the words too, because you know, you can't get away
from it, at least in my circles, my friends, my people,
my whatever, you know, my contemporaries, the clubs I go to.
You're gonna hear some of this, definitely gonna hear about it.
But Cardi, come on, I need you to love America.
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It's made you a multi millionaire. Surely you can't be serious.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 16 (26:16):
I'm not feeling in America right now. Ya gotta beg
me to come back. Should I go back?
Speaker 17 (26:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 16 (26:20):
I mean, why would I look at this country? They look,
they treat me, They're about to give me a new
name and everything is going to get my license over here.
Should I come back? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Let's get over there.
Speaker 16 (26:31):
That is not my life anymore. I'm a new woman
over here.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Obviously she's enjoying it. She's getting a chuckle out of it.
It's a joke because she's quite the comedian.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Cardi b everybody.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Now, I'll tell you somebody who wasn't kidding, somebody who
I don't think is making millions, but maybe on their way.
It's congress Woman Mira Abdy. Now, this Congresswoman Mira Abdy.
This is a different case. This is somebody who came
from a different country. She doesn't seem very very happy
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with the United States. Wait till you hear this one.
Speaker 18 (27:10):
So coming into the States, everything from the snow to
you know, the housing, the homes that we were all
of a sudden occupying Everything was a shock. Honestly, every
day was something new, and I'm like, oh my god,
this is just getting worse. Yeah, So state, did you
guys learn first of all Kansas?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Kansas city of all places?
Speaker 18 (27:33):
Yeah, it's like a boot camp for May basically.
Speaker 16 (27:35):
Oh really, yeah, because it's just like.
Speaker 18 (27:37):
Right, like, I mean, anyone who lives in May, knows
Maine and has ever visited Kansas, they will know what
I'm talking about. It's just this is a lot interesting
with as a person of color. Honestly, we're a black person.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Now, I don't want to necessarily argue with her here
and say, come on, Somalia's an s whole country, and
how dare you speak like that here in the United States?
This country? You should be kissing the ground you walk on.
I'll leave that for you guys to do. I will say,
fascinating to me, right, the anthropological and psychological review of this,
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I find it mind blowing that they have no interest
in any hardship here, But there was plenty of hardship
back home. Now, maybe maybe that's me being presumptuous. Maybe
she lived really good back home. These are all the
things I don't know, But what I do know is
that she said it was culture shock, especially for people
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that are black or brown or.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Whatever she said.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
And I don't know, it's life harder when you move
to a certain neighborhood because of your skin color. I
guess it can be that there might be a situation
where it could be, but quite likely not because of
someone's discrimination to work, but quite likely just because.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
You might be out of sink. Right.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
If I moved into a black neighborhood or a Chinese
neighborhood or an Indian neighborhood, I might feel a lot
of place just because I'm not in sync with everybody there.
But I don't think that means that they would treat
me badly or even differently, if that makes any sense
at all. But anyway, that is Congresswoman Mana Albi, and
she doesn't like America. In fact, she's mad at America
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because of whatever.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I mean, you've heard it. It's no two ways about it.
This is the phenomena that we face.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
This is what we're dealing with, people going through all
lengths to do all sorts of fraud, all sorts of
this and all. Now I'm just saying she's doing the fraud,
but I'm saying the Somali community has been under scrutiny
with I think seventy five arrests from that prominent community.
One has to beg the question how much more of
this is legal versus illegal? So we'll get you some
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responses to that and continue to analyze that. Plus I
have a couple of clips on the latest on what's
happening in Minnesota and a few other things I want
to get to, So keep it locked right here on
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Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez.
All right, he goes, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
We continue the late night conversation on what's going on
in Minnesota. And I've got a couple of clips that
I want to play for you here, because this stuff,
you know, it's the gift that keeps on giving. One
of them is from my buddy Rob Finnerty, who I
don't know all that well, but he's always been very
friendly and I saw him at the Newsmax Christmas party
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that I was at yesterday.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
A big shout out to Chris Ruddy.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
An amazing party in the Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Station.
Absolutely amazing this you're talking, I don't know, one hundred
or two hundred foot ceiling, beautifully crafted all the way
up to the top, the curves, the architecture, the construction
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of it, just absolutely stunning to have a party in
a room like that. Kudos to Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax.
And I saw finer day. I didn't get a chance
to go and shake his hand at Wish him and
Merry Christmas beause there was so many people there, honestly,
and I was really caught up with talking to so
many people. But the point here I'm digressing, the point
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that I want to make here is there's a clip.
I have a hymn that I'm about to play, but
have another one I'm going to play before I get
to that. This one is from CBS News and it's
pretty eye opening, allowing.
Speaker 17 (32:14):
Some breaking news out of Bellevue right now. A man
is now charged with stabbing a police officer before another
officer shot him. This happened at the Bellevue Transit station.
You'll recall on Friday. Court documents say that Mohammed Bangora
made a false nine to one one call about domestic
violence to lure officers there. Police say that he slashed
an officer's face with a knife and then stabbed him
(32:36):
twice in the back. And that's when police say another
officer shot Bangora. Both were taken to the hospital and
both are expected to recover.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Wow, so that's going on in Washington.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Now.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
It's not the end of it, though, there's more. I've
got the one from Rob Finnerty on Newsmax talking about
Congressoman il Han Omar.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
This is a good one. Check this clip out.
Speaker 19 (32:58):
So we'll ask again where did Ilhan all get all
that darn money from.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Let's go through it.
Speaker 19 (33:04):
When she first ran for Congress in twenty eighteen, she
was married to a Somalian man named Ahmed Nurse said Elmi,
and she had a net worth of approximately sixty five
thousand dollars. Not a ton of money, but sixty five
thousand dollars. By twenty twenty, a whole two years later,
Ilhan had already divorced and remarried another Somalian man by
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the name of Ahmed Aladizzi, and hersey, and her net
worth was still right around sixty five thousand dollars. Yet
just four years later she was divorced and remarried again
for a third or perhaps a fourth time. We don't
know for sure, because ilhan Omar likely married her brother
at one point to get him into this country illegally
when she came here from Somalia, which by the way,
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is a federal crime. And she's serving in Congress, and
nobody talks about this. So by twenty twenty four, Ilhan's
married to a new person, a white guy named Tim.
There's Tim, Tim Minnette, and Tim is not a rich Mayon,
but now he is. Tim's rich now because somehow, over
the course of the last three years, ilhan Omar's networth
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has skyrocketed to over thirty million dollars in counting, meaning
she went from having right around sixty five thousand dollars
to thirty million dollars in three years. Think about that
powerball drawing is tonight. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Ilhan Omar
did not win the lottery. Bernie Madoff was cheating and
he still wasn't doing that well. That is a forty
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six thousand percent increase in less than three years. Now,
how do you suppose that happened? Do you really expect
us all to believe that she just played the stock
market like she's got a great investor and they just
got kind of lucky over the course of the Biden presidency?
Speaker 7 (34:45):
And why are we the.
Speaker 19 (34:46):
Only ones asking these questions tonight? So once again, where
did ilhan Omar get all that money? And why is
she trying to make Americans feel bad for Somalian criminals?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Again, that's affinity on Newsmax. Really good points. When you
have a member of Congress that whose income blows up exponentially,
and I'm sure it's not just her, I'm sure there's
plenty of them that this happens to, but it still
begs the same question, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (35:13):
How are you getting rich? Is this on the public dole? Right?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I think these are valid questions when you're a member
of Congress, any public official. Honestly, I have to fill
out these financial disclosure forms every year just to be
a school board member. So I have to go through that.
Just imagine being a member of Congress. But you know what,
members of Congress have a different Uh, I'm going to
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say lesser scrutiny than a lot of other people.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Many people do what they do. You go to jail.
They call it inside trading.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
They do it, and vohil a, it's called member of
Congress privilege. Not too shabby, huh, not too shabby at all. Now,
while a lot of people here in the United States,
including President Trump, or blasting il han Omar, trying to
get rid of her, this is not a problem that's
unique to the American people, I mean, el han Omar is.
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But Britain is facing the same thing. And the leader
of the Conservative Party in the UK, Kemy Badanok. She
says that the country is tolerated radical Islamism for too long.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Listen to this.
Speaker 20 (36:28):
Tolerted this in our country for too long, and we
have tolerated the radical Islamist ideology the cease to threaten
not only Jews, but all of us of all faiths
and none who want to live in peace. So the
message from this conference, from this party, from every decent
and right thinking person in this country must be that
(36:51):
we will not stand for it anymore. We cannot import
and tolerate values hostile to our own. We must now
draw a line and say that in Britain you can
think what you like, and within the bounds of the law,
you can say what you like, but you have no
right to turn our streets into the theaters of intimidation,
(37:12):
and we will not let you do so anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
That was after the Kippour terror attack. Now we've seen
another attack that we've seen, you know, in Australia elsewhere,
obviously for Hanukah. It's open season on the Jews. Yet
they say that genocide is against someone else. I'm not
saying the genocide should be against someone else. I'm just saying,
come on, if you're going to call it a genocide,
(37:36):
let's call it for the people that are being picked off,
the Christians that are in Nicaragua. I mean in Nigeria.
Excuse me, Nicaragua. Nicaragua's whole different story. We've got to
call things for what they are. We can't just pretend
these things aren't happening.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
We're gonna take another pause right here. When we come back,
I want to talk about the billion dollar investment that
Michael Dellt made and other billionaires are getting ready to
make in America's children, the Trump child savings accounts.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
This one is terrific. Don't go anywhere.
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I mean he goes, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
It's rich Valdez, Valdez with an ass average valdest on
all of.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
The social media.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
And I want you to hear what Michael Dell, the
founder of Dell Computer, had to say, him and his
wife donating all sorts of money. I think, for well,
you know what, I'll let the report play and you
could listen to what him and President Trump had to say,
and then we'll chime in.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Michael and Susan Dell are committing to one of the
largest private donations in American history, which will directly benefit
the next generation of American children through the new Trump
Accounts program that we created in our One Big, Beautiful Bill.
Trump Accounts will be the first, I guess you could say,
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real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers,
co operations, generous donors to contribute money that will be
invested and grow over the course of a child's life.
Speaker 22 (39:35):
Susan and I are super excited to announce our six
point twenty five billion dollar gift to twenty five million
American children ten and under, and our gift will cover
most of the children that are ten and under that
are not part of the federal program, the zero to
two year olds and who also live in zip codes
(39:58):
where the meeting income he is one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars or less.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
That is Michael and Susan Dell. She also chimed in.
She had a few things to say, and you got
to just think this is great.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
People made a bunch of money here in the United States,
built his computer business in his garage in Texas, and
now he's given away six and a quarter billion dollars
to help kids he's never met in his life. God
bless America.
Speaker 14 (40:31):
Susan Dell, I'd just like to say how excited we
are to be a part of this. We believe that
when children have a future that they can see is
worth saving for, then that will help build hope and
opportunity and prosperity for generations to come. So we're so
(40:54):
excited to be doing this and hope to have many
people join in our efforts.
Speaker 20 (41:00):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
That was Susan Dell, Michael Dell's wife. But I also
have Senator Ted Cruz and Secretary Besson, who also chimed
in on these Trump baby accounts, because this is how
you leverage wealth in the future, at least for the future,
for future generations.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
This is an excellent move. Listen to Ted Cruz, all right,
you don't have it. Let's go forward with Secretary Besent.
Speaker 15 (41:29):
Eligible children born between January one, twenty twenty five and
December thirty one, twenty twenty eight will receive a one
thousand dollars contribution from the Treasury Department that will immediately
be invested in an index fund. To claim this investment,
most families need merely check a box on four Form
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forty five forty seven, the most aptly named text document
of all time. The compound growth from Treasury's initial seed
funding alone sands to make young Americans wealthy. The S
and P has grown at a rate of ten point
five percent each year on average since the nineteen fifties.
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Assuming that growth rate continues, a single one thousand dollars
deposit into a Trump account at birth will grow to
over six hundred thousand dollars by the age of retirement.
Our president is putting the American dream within reach of
every citizen no matter the circumstances of birth. When young
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Americans turn twenty eight, they can use their TRUMP accounts
to keep saving through their retirement, or they can use
them to purchase a home or further their education, two
hallmarks of the American dream. TRUMP accounts will benefit from
the compound growth of Treasury's initial seed funding, but they
can also benefit from outside donations.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
Like the Dells.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
And I think this is a fantastic idea real public
private partnership allowing people to be charitable, helping kids to
amass some wealth. You're talking about against six hundred thousand
dollars by the age of their retirement for a thousand
dollars investment. Not too bad, not too bad at all.
I don't know too many other investments that are that good.
(43:21):
I have a little crypto and let me tell you
it's not doing that great all the time lately.
Speaker 7 (43:25):
So maybe I need to get on one of these
kiddie accounts. I don't know.
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All right, amos, welcome back. And I wanted to talk
about a couple of things here. Number one was my
Christmas tradition, but I'll get to that secondarily. So the
real number one is going to be this story about
this elephant right now.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
I know it's kind of.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
Silly, but I love a good zoo story every every
now and again. And this is interesting because there's see
if it tells me where, well, this zoo is in Oregon,
so shout out to Oregon, like our buddy Michael out
there in Pendleton, Oregon and so many others. But the
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elephant is with a group of other elephants and they're
out there smashing pumpkins. Literally, they're giving these pumpkins as
snacks and they're all smashing these pumpkins, little holiday pumpkins.
This is their fun. But there's a baby elephant that
says I don't want to play with the smashing pumpkin.
Ditches the pumpkin and it just starts rolling in the
(45:34):
mud with a ball and then just starts rolling around
in the mud all by himself, and the internet exploded.
Speaker 7 (45:45):
It broke the internet.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Everybody thought this was the cutest elephant ever, and voila, it.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Became a viral video exploding online.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
You never know what takes to make these viral videos, right,
You and me maybe were like, Eh, I'm not into elephants.
They're dirty, they smell, keep them over there. And then
you get people who say, let me videotape the elephant
that wants to pretend he's the size of a cat
and just you know, run all over the place. That
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happens too, I think anyway, that's the elephant story everybody
was in love with that I had to share with you.
While there's no elephants in Puerto Rican Christmas traditions for
a not chep winna or anything like that, there are
plenty of traditions singing the Christmas carols or the Aguinaldo's
(46:42):
or drinking coquito right, which is condensed milk cocoa. Lopez
and your favorite Puerto rican Rum. There's plenty of different
treats and delicacies and cocktails and things like that that
are typical to the season, but ultimately it's about the
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celebration of Christ and his birth and the acknowledgment of that.
And it's always my hope that we never lose sight
of why we're all here. It's important that we know
our purpose and that we stand for something, because if
we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything. And the
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only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good
people like you to sit there and do nothing.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
So keep doing your thing.
Speaker 5 (47:39):
I start approxima, take care, good night, and God bless
you America.
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the show a little bit later. But I want to
start with the charging of that monster in the Bandai
Beach Hanukka massacre. Am he goes today in Sydney. The
surviving gunman, Navid Akram was hit with fifty nine charges,
including fifteen counts of murder and terrorism offenses. This isis
inspired coward along with his deceased accomplished dad, right, because
(01:22):
I remember it's a father and son duo that did this
heinous act on Hanukkah. They turned this joyful Hanukkah celebration
into hell, killing fifteen, actually now sixteen innocent people, including
kids and rabbis. The funerals did begin today Tuesday, and
the stories are gut wrenching. A ten year old girl,
(01:43):
a Holocaust survivor, literally pure evil targeting Jews during the
Festival of Lights. And you guys know how I feel
about this. I grew up with the Jews in Brooklyn,
New York, and it was normal, right there was normal
to see the Jews around, It was normal to see
them praying. This is the childhood that I knew when
(02:05):
I lived in New York and I moved to Jersey
and there was very few Jews. Everybody was Hispanic. But
the point is this is crazy to me, definitely crazy.
And the Australian officials are now admitting that radicalization tied
to the online jihadi movement that exists in their country
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is part of what contributed to this. But they're still
trying to push gun control, right, I mean, really, it's
just out of control anyway.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Oh, by the.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Way, Jake Lang, the former J sixth imprisoned activist, he's
going to be joining us. He's doing a march against
radical Islam, and he's going to be joining us. Give
us an update on what he's doing. Not today tomorrow,
he'll be joining us. On Wednesday night, he will be
joining us. So keep it locked right here for that.
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Plus Wednesday night, we've got President Trump, President presidentxcuse me
take two. President Trump giving his speech on what America
deserves when it comes to affordability, when it comes to
the economy, when it comes to migrants in our country,
when it comes to earning money for this country. And
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I'm looking forward to hearing President Trump outline all of that.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Now. There's plenty of stuff that we're going to get
into today.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
The Trump accounts, right, there's some additional stuff coming out
with that. Billionaires are jumping in, Michael Dell jumping in,
others jumping in because this is going to help kids
when they grow up. I saw an article yesterday six
hundred thousand dollars is what a thousand dollars initial Trump
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account would look like for a baby once it's fully amortized,
when it's fully matured. Can't beat that, right, It's not
a bad deal at all. Let me see what else
do I got here? There's another thing I wanted to
talk about. Eight more drug boats were exploded, destroyed, crushed, killed,
a trompeto striking at another eight drug boats. Doubling down
(04:11):
on his commitment to end narco trafficking into the United
States by the Narco terrorists, The blockade continues on the
Venezuela and tanker Madudu is expected. President Nicolas Maduro is
expected to react or respond.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Haven't heard from him yet.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Plenty plenty plenty that we're going to be getting into
this evening, so I do want you to keep it
locked right here. Of course, I am looking forward to
sharing a little bit more about my family's Christmas traditions.
Will be doing that towards the end of the program.
But there is still a lot of updating to do
with the Vondai Beach, with the Brown University manhunt and
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the situation on that where that's going there, I think
was a person of interest in the police chief called custody.
The Colonel and it wasn't custody. It was someone that
was detained, and they actually corrected him a well live
while he was saying it. They said, no, no, it's
the wrong word. It's detained. And it was pretty funny.
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It doesn't seem like they have their arms around this
or like they're used to this type of level of
press scrutiny. So very interesting to see what's going on. Anyway,
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get into something President Trump said today. He has declared
war on a narco terrorist time and again, but today
he is labeled fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
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Today, I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from
the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country with
this historic executive order I will sign today for formably
classed or fine fentol is a weapon of mass destruction,
which is what it is. No bomb does what this
is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand people die
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every year that we know, so we're formally classifying fentanyl
as a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
That's why now eight eight more.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Ships not necessarily carrying fentanyl, probably carrying cocaine, but whatever
the case is, we're blown up as of Tuesday, and
the Left has their proverbial panties in a bunch. Now,
I have to say, I'm all supportive of this policy.
I'm all for it, I really am, because it's part
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of the larger strategy. Right, Venezuela is in cahoots with
Russia and Iran and China. Those are the same people
that we need to remind whose boss. Venezuela is a
failed narco state that is illegitimately elected, stealing elections to
remain in power. And President Trump is calling them out
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on it. Good for him. I'm glad he's got the
big oil tanker blockaded. I'm glad that he's putting Maduro
on notice, threatening him to say, hey, look, you need
to get out of office. You need to leave these
people alone, allow your country to have a fair election,
and stop with the drug trafficking. But Maduru doesn't want
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to go down without a fight, it seems. But it's
a larger strategy. Somebody who nailed it, somebody who understands
the stuff. Former CIA director as well as a former
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. I think he called it
out pretty pretty expertly when he was on the Fox
News channel, And we have a clip of it courtesy
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of mister producer media stand by, all right, check this out.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
We all know this.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Sanctions without enforcement are meaningless. You can write it down
on a piece of paper or past that executive order,
but if you're not willing to do the hard work
of actually stopping the flow of whatever it is narcotics
or oil or whatever it is that's been sanctioned, and
it's not very meaningful. Think what President Trump is demonstrating
is that you can do this, You can do it
away with tactical excellence. That was quite something to watch, yea.
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And importantly, I think what he's really trying to do
is put pressure on the regime, economic pressure. And so
if you begin to take I think the tanker had
something short of a million barrels of crude oil.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Do the math.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Pretty fast, Maduro will be out of money and out
of the ability to continue to pay the thugs that
are destroying the lives of Venezuelan people and putting America
at risk. If you do this at some scale, you
can pretty pretty quickly put pressure on the regime in
a way, they will give the Venezuelan people a chance
to change the government that they live under.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
But how about that giving them an opportunity Now, I
know a lot of people don't like this idea of
regime change, right people, they cringe at regime change. That's
the buzzword that people don't like.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I'm a hawkish regime change kind of guy. I think
when you have government like Maduro, like the Communists before him, chavs,
this stuff does nothing good for our hemisphere, nothing good
for their neighboring countries. If you talk to the Colombians
that share a border with the Venezuelans, they'll tell you
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they keep coming into our country looking for an opportunity
because their country sucks. If you talk to the Venezuelans,
if you've been to Colombia, I have every cab driver
I had was Venezuelan. Matter of fact, the valet guy
at the Colombian restaurant I frequent pretty regularly, he's also Venezuelan.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
And listen to this.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
He left a career as a stuntman and as an
extra as a young guy, but working in the Hollywood
of Colombia because he had left Venezuela to find a
job in Colombia, and he left Colombia to come here
because he wanted more opportunity and the money just wasn't there.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
So people are running away. They are running.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Away from the bedlam, the chaos, the poverty that is
communism in Venezuela. So I'm happy that President Trump is
applying this pressure because we need it, right.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I mean, what are you going to do with that?
Just keep allowing them to operate.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
This is I think the point of the pressure that
he's putting them under, and I think that's a good thing. Now,
let me see if I can find you this report
that I wanted to share with you on the drug boats,
and I think I got one here.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Just hours before Secretaries heg Seth and Rubio were expected
to come here to Capitol Hill to answer lawmakers questions
on this mounting series of strikes on alleged drug boats.
The Pentagon released a new video overnight showing that it
hit three more, killing at least eight people in the
Eastern Pacific. That brings the total number of these strikes
in September to at least twenty five. The Trump administration
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saying that these are strikes on what they alleged to
be drug smuggling vessels. At least ninety five people killed,
but the administration has never publicly provided evidence that these
boats are smuggling drugs, and they have never publicly identified
any of the people killed in these strikes. Lawmakers up
here on Capitol Hill have a series of questions they
will get that briefing today, and there are also growing
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bipartisan calls for the Pentagon to release the classified video
of a controversial September second strike where the US, after
destroying one of these boats in a follow up strike,
then killed two survivors. While the Pentagon has put out
clips of these more than two dozen strikes, they have
never released full unedited video of any.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Diane, of any bla blah blah. Now listen again. This
reporter seemingly is presenting this as somehow the military's job
has always been to provide US receipts, to provide US
with the names and social security numbers of every terrorist
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they've ever killed in an operation. I don't remember that
ever happening. Yet he somehow is like, I can't believe
they haven't done this, Diana. I don't know where this
guy gets off. Honestly, ABC News guy, I don't know
his name, but let me tell you.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Clownish.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
It's clownish the way that the media pretends either they
fall for things hook line and sinker, or they're really
really that naive and have not been alive the last
twenty or thirty years, where we've had actions just like these.
Obama actually killed an American and Biden killed a whole family.
They were all innocent. All he said was my bad
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and not even right. He didn't really apologize. It was
the national security advice that I ultimately apologized, not the president,
but the left hast There are panties in a twist
here they don't want and earlier I misspoke. I said
eight more drug boats. I meant eight more narco terrorists
and three more drug boats. But you get the point.
Two dozen boats later, lots of action being taken somehow.
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This is bad, right because the left, the left within
the media, the left within our government, the left within
the Democrat Party, they've never met a criminal or an
enemy of our country that they didn't love. And this
is sad. I understand. It's the Machiavellian idea or principle,
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if you will, of the enemy of my enemy as
my friend. But that's the problem. They shouldn't be viewing
us as the enemy. They shouldn't view MAGA or their
fellow Americans or a Republican led government as their enemy.
That shouldn't be happening at all, But sadly, it is happening.
And this is part of the issue I think that
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we're facing culturally as a country, as a society, this
cultural rot where we are thinning out or destroying the
fabric of what holds us together. The part of America
that we all kind of agree on that we shouldn't
have drugs, we shouldn't do bad things, we shouldn't disseminate
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drugs to children. I think we should all agree on
those things. People shouldn't be dying two to three hundred
thousand Americans a year from fentanyl overdoses or accidental deaths.
Like those little kids who touched it, who touched something
that was laced because the lady who was running the
daycare had a husband who was in the drug dealing business,
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and there was some stuff that you know, again, it
just had some residue on it. Kids touched it. They're tiny,
they died. Remember that happened in the Bronx. I think
the kid was two or three years old. It's happened
more than once. Horrible, absolutely horrible. Yet the left within
the media, the left within the government, and the left
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within the Democrat Party will come up with a reason
to tell you why Trump is bad, why I am bad,
why you are bad? But how kil Marl Brigo Garcia
just deserves due process. The man who's gotten due process
more than anybody I know. He's been deported like three
or four times, keeps coming back. You talk about due process.
How much process does this man do? I don't know,
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but he's getting a whole lot of it. Anyway, we
continue straight ahead. I'm Rich Valdez.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
This is America. This is America, A.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Programs like America at Night with Rich Valdez and Donald
Trump is a guest.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Who's gonna watch late night TV? Come on?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Who would want to? I want to listen to you
Rich all the time?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
All right, that's me and Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Welcome back, and I want you to hear a quick
clip from Let's see who's it from posting note these
things security security. It's from the Fox News channel and
it's talking about a continued decline in fentanyl pills and
their potency.
Speaker 10 (17:13):
Check this out a courageing sign in the fight against fentanyl.
The DEA says pills seized by their agents are seeing
a dramatic decline in potency, and President Trump may be
the one to thank for that. Our Fox and You
senior correspondent Alicia Ocunya has got more season Denver. Now,
at Alicia, these are some staggering reductions.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
John, This is draw jaw dropping. Data from the Drug
Enforcement Administration National lab test results on illegal fentanyl pills
show a drop in the lethal potency of pills on
the street from seventy six percent two years ago to
twenty nine percent today. The DA says it's because the
Trump administration is all hands on deck.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
We are targeting the global supply network of precursor chemicals
that go from China into Mexico, and if we can
impact that supply making its way to the Mexican cartels,
there's less precursor chemicals available for them to make this product.
Speaker 11 (18:10):
The DEA says, the cartels are being forced to dilute
their product and even charge more per pill. They credit
the administration for hitting the illicit drug trade from every direction.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
While DEA is focused on the enforcement aspects of the
drug trafficking world, there's also other aspects with the Administration
of SAMI area of expertise, where there's diplomatic efforts by
our state Department, the White House engaging with China on
this topic.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Add to this, US Customs and Border Patrol report fentanyl
seizures that the southern border are down by more than
fifty percent. Colorado is one of the top three states
in the nation with the highest amount of seizures. One example,
you see in this bodycam video where the Douglas County
Sheriff's Department recently was alerted to a storage facility where
they found one point seven million fentanyl pillow.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
So that's where we are with fentanyl, and that's a
big deal, no question that that's.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
A big deal.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You're talking about a couple one hundred thousand deaths a
year from fentanyl in America and that number goes up.
Yet you got liberal Democrats that are more worried about
drug smugglers who are bringing in this poison than they
are about our own communities or about our troops. Right,
I mean, if we don't have to look too far
to see that we had a whole troop situation, right,
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and their families are speaking, These American soldiers that were
ambushed by ISIS and Syria.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
This was horrible.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
But the families of the slain Iowa guardsmen, Sergeant Torres
Tovar and Sergeant Howard twenty five years old and twenty
nine years old, respectively, and an interpreter shared what they
had to say. And these guys ambushed by these ISIS infiltrators.
(20:05):
There were apparently one ISIS infiltrator. And President Trump promised
overwhelming force and response in uh retaliation, and rightfully so
that needs to happen.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
So we've warned the loss of three great patriots in Syria.
Speaker 14 (20:23):
We know how it happened.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
There was an ambush, terrible. We also a three wounded.
They seemed to be doing pretty well, so we warned
the laws. These are great, three great people, and it's
just a terrible thing. Syria, by the way, was fighting
along with us.
Speaker 13 (20:40):
The president, the new president of Syria is as they
told me, and I'm not surprised.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
He's devastated by what has happened. There was an ISIS
attack on US and Syria.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Again yeah again President Trump saying yeah, we will retaliate
against ISIS, and again putting on true social more formally
or less formally.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
However, you want to look at it.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
We mourn the loss of three great American patriots in Syria,
two soldiers and one civilian interpreter. Likewise, we pray for
the three injured soldiers who it's been just confirmed that
they are doing well. This was an ISIS attack against
the United States and Syria and a very dangerous part
of Syria that is not fully controlled by them. The
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President of Syria, Ahmed al Sharra, is extremely angry and
disturbed by this attack. There will be very serious retaliation.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Donald J.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Trump, President of the United States of America, and President
Trump again doubling down on that on the.
Speaker 15 (21:46):
Syria ambush of yeah forces. Do you still have confidence
in the Syrian president? I do.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I mean, this has nothing to do with him.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
This is a part of Syria that they really don't
have much control over, and it was a surprise. He
feels very badly about it. He's working on it. He's
a strong man. And now this had nothing to do
with the Syrian government. This had to do This had
to do with ISIS.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Now many don't trust mister al Jalani, now known as
Al Sharah, the former leader of al Qaeda, who's now
the legitimately democratically elected president of Syria who replaced Mashi
al Assan. But President Trump seems to like him, and
I guess he's got to work with them more than
I do. But I don't know how much we can
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trust any of these people, right. It's kind of like
going with the lesser of two evils when you're dealing
with a foreign country in another part of the world.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Not a job I envy at all. Anyway, I want
to continue our conversation because there's still more that I
want to get into. There's plenty of clips that I've
been wanting to go over with you. And man, I
got some Second Amendment stuff. I got some abortion stuff.
(23:04):
I'll save that for a little bit later. I want
to get to the more pressing and breaking news stuff,
which really it's more continuation of the news. It's not
necessarily breaking news. But let me see here, there was
some Minnesota. Where was the other story here?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Hmm? There with me?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Oh, I got that Cardi B that I wanted to
share with you, and I think I'm gonna go with
the Cardi B.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
You're gonna switch gears right here.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Because Cardi b she was getting angry, kind of like
the people in the Mexico Parliament. I don't know if
you saw that brawl breakout. There was a brawl that
broke out in the Mexican government and there was one guy.
I don't know if he's like the Senate pro tem
leader or whatever, but it's like a bunch of women,
all legislators, maybe other staff, but it's one guy almost
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kind of looks like Nicolas Madulo, right, that kind of look,
you know, at the mustache and whatnot. And these women
just start fighting and arguing and pulling each other's hair,
and then another one jumps in, and then a third
one jumps in, then a fourth one jumps in, and
everybody's pulling each other's.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Hair rear rear.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
It's just a hair pulling extravaganza. That was in the
Mexico City hearings and again these lawmakers just pulling each
other's hair. I thought it was wild. That's one of
those things where you really need to watch the video.
I did post it on my Instagram at rich Valdes
with an s at rich Valdez if you want to
take a look at that.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
That was interesting, But let me see where do I start.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Do I start with Congresswoman Mana Abdi or do I
start with Cardi B. Right, Well, I think Cardi B
is more entertaining, so I'm gonna start with Cardi B.
She says, you know, she's a rapper, and she says
that she's gonna need people to beg her to stay.
Convince her now because I think she's out of the country,
and she says they treat her better out of the
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country than they treat her here.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Listen to this.
Speaker 16 (24:47):
I'm starting out to like America. America made me pay taxes,
the vice president.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
So hold on a second.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
If liking America has to do it paying taxes, then
I don't think I like that either. But I love
America despite having play taxes, pay taxes. Cardi I think
Cardi B is like bad Bunny. She's like El Trumpezo
in some ways. These people are professional show people. She's
a showman. She knows if she says certain things, it's
gonna rub people a certain way, and it's going to
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keep her front and center in the media, in popular culture,
in the current discussions. So that's what Trump does too, right,
I mean, he'll put out a provocative truth social and
then when they see him, mister president, did you say?
And then he'll tone it down, play it all. This
is how he beats the media at their own game,
and Cardi b is no different.
Speaker 16 (25:33):
Go ahead, Twitter like, I don't know. I don't feel
we appreciated on America. Yeah, I need to convince me
to come back. I don't know if I want to
go back. Convince me now, beg me to come back,
beg me to come back to America.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I don't think I might go back.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Nobody's begging you, Carti, and you know it, or maybe
your fans are. I don't know, and I'm a fan.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You know.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I like her songs. I think you know.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I don't really buy them or download them, but if
I hear it, I bought my head to it. Every
now and again. She's got a banger that you'll learn
the words too, because you know, you can't get away
from it, at least in my circles, my friends, my people,
my whatever, you know, my contemporaries, the clubs I go to.
You're gonna hear some of this, definitely gonna hear about it.
But Cardi, come on, I need you to love America.
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It's made you a multi millionaire. Surely you can't be serious.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 16 (26:16):
I'm not feeling in America right now. Ya gotta beg
me to come back. Should I go back?
Speaker 17 (26:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 16 (26:20):
I mean, why would I look at this country? They look,
they treat me, They're about to give me a new
name and everything is going to get my license over here.
Should I come back? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Let's get over there.
Speaker 16 (26:31):
That is not my life anymore. I'm a new woman
over here.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Obviously she's enjoying it. She's getting a chuckle out of it.
It's a joke because she's quite the comedian.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Cardi b everybody.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Now, I'll tell you somebody who wasn't kidding, somebody who
I don't think is making millions, but maybe on their way.
It's congress Woman Mira Abdy. Now, this Congresswoman Mira Abdy.
This is a different case. This is somebody who came
from a different country. She doesn't seem very very happy
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with the United States. Wait till you hear this one.
Speaker 18 (27:10):
So coming into the States, everything from the snow to
you know, the housing, the homes that we were all
of a sudden occupying Everything was a shock. Honestly, every
day was something new, and I'm like, oh my god,
this is just getting worse. Yeah, So state, did you
guys learn first of all Kansas?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Kansas city of all places?
Speaker 18 (27:33):
Yeah, it's like a boot camp for May basically.
Speaker 16 (27:35):
Oh really, yeah, because it's just like.
Speaker 18 (27:37):
Right, like, I mean, anyone who lives in May, knows
Maine and has ever visited Kansas, they will know what
I'm talking about. It's just this is a lot interesting
with as a person of color. Honestly, we're a black person.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Now, I don't want to necessarily argue with her here
and say, come on, Somalia's an s whole country, and
how dare you speak like that here in the United States?
This country? You should be kissing the ground you walk on.
I'll leave that for you guys to do. I will say,
fascinating to me, right, the anthropological and psychological review of this,
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I find it mind blowing that they have no interest
in any hardship here, But there was plenty of hardship
back home. Now, maybe maybe that's me being presumptuous. Maybe
she lived really good back home. These are all the
things I don't know, But what I do know is
that she said it was culture shock, especially for people
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that are black or brown or.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Whatever she said.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
And I don't know, it's life harder when you move
to a certain neighborhood because of your skin color. I
guess it can be that there might be a situation
where it could be, but quite likely not because of
someone's discrimination to work, but quite likely just because.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
You might be out of sink. Right.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
If I moved into a black neighborhood or a Chinese
neighborhood or an Indian neighborhood, I might feel a lot
of place just because I'm not in sync with everybody there.
But I don't think that means that they would treat
me badly or even differently, if that makes any sense
at all. But anyway, that is Congresswoman Mana Albi, and
she doesn't like America. In fact, she's mad at America
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because of whatever.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I mean, you've heard it. It's no two ways about it.
This is the phenomena that we face.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
This is what we're dealing with, people going through all
lengths to do all sorts of fraud, all sorts of
this and all. Now I'm just saying she's doing the fraud,
but I'm saying the Somali community has been under scrutiny
with I think seventy five arrests from that prominent community.
One has to beg the question how much more of
this is legal versus illegal? So we'll get you some
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responses to that and continue to analyze that. Plus I
have a couple of clips on the latest on what's
happening in Minnesota and a few other things I want
to get to, So keep it locked right here on
Rich Valdez.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
This is America, the forty fifth President. Donald Trump thinks
it's an honor to speak with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh, very good.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Thanks, The honor is all yours.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Conservative talk with a dash of sofrito. Now here's Rich Valdez.
All right, he goes, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
We continue the late night conversation on what's going on
in Minnesota. And I've got a couple of clips that
I want to play for you here, because this stuff,
you know, it's the gift that keeps on giving. One
of them is from my buddy Rob Finnerty, who I
don't know all that well, but he's always been very
friendly and I saw him at the Newsmax Christmas party
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that I was at yesterday.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
A big shout out to Chris Ruddy.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
An amazing party in the Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Station.
Absolutely amazing this you're talking, I don't know, one hundred
or two hundred foot ceiling, beautifully crafted all the way
up to the top, the curves, the architecture, the construction
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of it, just absolutely stunning to have a party in
a room like that. Kudos to Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax.
And I saw finer day. I didn't get a chance
to go and shake his hand at Wish him and
Merry Christmas beause there was so many people there, honestly,
and I was really caught up with talking to so
many people. But the point here I'm digressing, the point
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that I want to make here is there's a clip.
I have a hymn that I'm about to play, but
have another one I'm going to play before I get
to that. This one is from CBS News and it's
pretty eye opening, allowing.
Speaker 17 (32:14):
Some breaking news out of Bellevue right now. A man
is now charged with stabbing a police officer before another
officer shot him. This happened at the Bellevue Transit station.
You'll recall on Friday. Court documents say that Mohammed Bangora
made a false nine to one one call about domestic
violence to lure officers there. Police say that he slashed
an officer's face with a knife and then stabbed him
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twice in the back. And that's when police say another
officer shot Bangora. Both were taken to the hospital and
both are expected to recover.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Wow, so that's going on in Washington.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Now.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
It's not the end of it, though, there's more. I've
got the one from Rob Finnerty on Newsmax talking about
Congressoman il Han Omar.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
This is a good one. Check this clip out.
Speaker 19 (32:58):
So we'll ask again where did Ilhan all get all
that darn money from.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Let's go through it.
Speaker 19 (33:04):
When she first ran for Congress in twenty eighteen, she
was married to a Somalian man named Ahmed Nurse said Elmi,
and she had a net worth of approximately sixty five
thousand dollars. Not a ton of money, but sixty five
thousand dollars. By twenty twenty, a whole two years later,
Ilhan had already divorced and remarried another Somalian man by
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the name of Ahmed Aladizzi, and hersey, and her net
worth was still right around sixty five thousand dollars. Yet
just four years later she was divorced and remarried again
for a third or perhaps a fourth time. We don't
know for sure, because ilhan Omar likely married her brother
at one point to get him into this country illegally
when she came here from Somalia, which by the way,
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is a federal crime. And she's serving in Congress, and
nobody talks about this. So by twenty twenty four, Ilhan's
married to a new person, a white guy named Tim.
There's Tim, Tim Minnette, and Tim is not a rich Mayon,
but now he is. Tim's rich now because somehow, over
the course of the last three years, ilhan Omar's networth
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has skyrocketed to over thirty million dollars in counting, meaning
she went from having right around sixty five thousand dollars
to thirty million dollars in three years. Think about that
powerball drawing is tonight. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Ilhan Omar
did not win the lottery. Bernie Madoff was cheating and
he still wasn't doing that well. That is a forty
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six thousand percent increase in less than three years. Now,
how do you suppose that happened? Do you really expect
us all to believe that she just played the stock
market like she's got a great investor and they just
got kind of lucky over the course of the Biden presidency?
Speaker 7 (34:45):
And why are we the.
Speaker 19 (34:46):
Only ones asking these questions tonight? So once again, where
did ilhan Omar get all that money? And why is
she trying to make Americans feel bad for Somalian criminals?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Again, that's affinity on Newsmax. Really good points. When you
have a member of Congress that whose income blows up exponentially,
and I'm sure it's not just her, I'm sure there's
plenty of them that this happens to, but it still
begs the same question, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (35:13):
How are you getting rich? Is this on the public dole? Right?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I think these are valid questions when you're a member
of Congress, any public official. Honestly, I have to fill
out these financial disclosure forms every year just to be
a school board member. So I have to go through that.
Just imagine being a member of Congress. But you know what,
members of Congress have a different Uh, I'm going to
(35:38):
say lesser scrutiny than a lot of other people.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Many people do what they do. You go to jail.
They call it inside trading.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
They do it, and vohil a, it's called member of
Congress privilege. Not too shabby, huh, not too shabby at all. Now,
while a lot of people here in the United States,
including President Trump, or blasting il han Omar, trying to
get rid of her, this is not a problem that's
unique to the American people, I mean, el han Omar is.
(36:10):
But Britain is facing the same thing. And the leader
of the Conservative Party in the UK, Kemy Badanok. She
says that the country is tolerated radical Islamism for too long.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Listen to this.
Speaker 20 (36:28):
Tolerted this in our country for too long, and we
have tolerated the radical Islamist ideology the cease to threaten
not only Jews, but all of us of all faiths
and none who want to live in peace. So the
message from this conference, from this party, from every decent
and right thinking person in this country must be that
(36:51):
we will not stand for it anymore. We cannot import
and tolerate values hostile to our own. We must now
draw a line and say that in Britain you can
think what you like, and within the bounds of the law,
you can say what you like, but you have no
right to turn our streets into the theaters of intimidation,
(37:12):
and we will not let you do so anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
That was after the Kippour terror attack. Now we've seen
another attack that we've seen, you know, in Australia elsewhere,
obviously for Hanukah. It's open season on the Jews. Yet
they say that genocide is against someone else. I'm not
saying the genocide should be against someone else. I'm just saying,
come on, if you're going to call it a genocide,
(37:36):
let's call it for the people that are being picked off,
the Christians that are in Nicaragua. I mean in Nigeria.
Excuse me, Nicaragua. Nicaragua's whole different story. We've got to
call things for what they are. We can't just pretend
these things aren't happening.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
We're gonna take another pause right here. When we come back,
I want to talk about the billion dollar investment that
Michael Dellt made and other billionaires are getting ready to
make in America's children, the Trump child savings accounts.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
This one is terrific. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 21 (38:07):
This is a Maria. This is a Maria, all right.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
I mean he goes, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
It's rich Valdez, Valdez with an ass average valdest on
all of.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
The social media.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
And I want you to hear what Michael Dell, the
founder of Dell Computer, had to say, him and his
wife donating all sorts of money. I think, for well,
you know what, I'll let the report play and you
could listen to what him and President Trump had to say,
and then we'll chime in.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Michael and Susan Dell are committing to one of the
largest private donations in American history, which will directly benefit
the next generation of American children through the new Trump
Accounts program that we created in our One Big, Beautiful Bill.
Trump Accounts will be the first, I guess you could say,
(39:23):
real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers,
co operations, generous donors to contribute money that will be
invested and grow over the course of a child's life.
Speaker 22 (39:35):
Susan and I are super excited to announce our six
point twenty five billion dollar gift to twenty five million
American children ten and under, and our gift will cover
most of the children that are ten and under that
are not part of the federal program, the zero to
two year olds and who also live in zip codes
(39:58):
where the meeting income he is one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars or less.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
That is Michael and Susan Dell. She also chimed in.
She had a few things to say, and you got
to just think this is great.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
People made a bunch of money here in the United States,
built his computer business in his garage in Texas, and
now he's given away six and a quarter billion dollars
to help kids he's never met in his life. God
bless America.
Speaker 14 (40:31):
Susan Dell, I'd just like to say how excited we
are to be a part of this. We believe that
when children have a future that they can see is
worth saving for, then that will help build hope and
opportunity and prosperity for generations to come. So we're so
(40:54):
excited to be doing this and hope to have many
people join in our efforts.
Speaker 20 (41:00):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
That was Susan Dell, Michael Dell's wife. But I also
have Senator Ted Cruz and Secretary Besson, who also chimed
in on these Trump baby accounts, because this is how
you leverage wealth in the future, at least for the future,
for future generations.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
This is an excellent move. Listen to Ted Cruz, all right,
you don't have it. Let's go forward with Secretary Besent.
Speaker 15 (41:29):
Eligible children born between January one, twenty twenty five and
December thirty one, twenty twenty eight will receive a one
thousand dollars contribution from the Treasury Department that will immediately
be invested in an index fund. To claim this investment,
most families need merely check a box on four Form
(41:53):
forty five forty seven, the most aptly named text document
of all time. The compound growth from Treasury's initial seed
funding alone sands to make young Americans wealthy. The S
and P has grown at a rate of ten point
five percent each year on average since the nineteen fifties.
(42:15):
Assuming that growth rate continues, a single one thousand dollars
deposit into a Trump account at birth will grow to
over six hundred thousand dollars by the age of retirement.
Our president is putting the American dream within reach of
every citizen no matter the circumstances of birth. When young
(42:35):
Americans turn twenty eight, they can use their TRUMP accounts
to keep saving through their retirement, or they can use
them to purchase a home or further their education, two
hallmarks of the American dream. TRUMP accounts will benefit from
the compound growth of Treasury's initial seed funding, but they
can also benefit from outside donations.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
Like the Dells.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
And I think this is a fantastic idea real public
private partnership allowing people to be charitable, helping kids to
amass some wealth. You're talking about against six hundred thousand
dollars by the age of their retirement for a thousand
dollars investment. Not too bad, not too bad at all.
I don't know too many other investments that are that good.
(43:21):
I have a little crypto and let me tell you
it's not doing that great all the time lately.
Speaker 7 (43:25):
So maybe I need to get on one of these
kiddie accounts. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
I don't know, but I want to hear from you
guys that make sure you comment on one of our
posts or put up a post and tag me at
rich Valdes. And of course, if you're listening to the
show you can always drop us a line eight seven
seven valdesz one eight seven seven Valdz one. And there
is more to come straight ahead. I'm going to take
(43:49):
a pause here and then we're coming back.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
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Speaker 7 (44:21):
He's making podcasting great again.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
This is America with Rich Valdez.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
All right, amos, welcome back. And I wanted to talk
about a couple of things here. Number one was my
Christmas tradition, but I'll get to that secondarily. So the
real number one is going to be this story about
this elephant right now.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
I know it's kind of.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
Silly, but I love a good zoo story every every
now and again. And this is interesting because there's see
if it tells me where, well, this zoo is in Oregon,
so shout out to Oregon, like our buddy Michael out
there in Pendleton, Oregon and so many others. But the
(45:11):
elephant is with a group of other elephants and they're
out there smashing pumpkins. Literally, they're giving these pumpkins as
snacks and they're all smashing these pumpkins, little holiday pumpkins.
This is their fun. But there's a baby elephant that
says I don't want to play with the smashing pumpkin.
Ditches the pumpkin and it just starts rolling in the
(45:34):
mud with a ball and then just starts rolling around
in the mud all by himself, and the internet exploded.
Speaker 7 (45:45):
It broke the internet.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Everybody thought this was the cutest elephant ever, and voila, it.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Became a viral video exploding online.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
You never know what takes to make these viral videos, right,
You and me maybe were like, Eh, I'm not into elephants.
They're dirty, they smell, keep them over there. And then
you get people who say, let me videotape the elephant
that wants to pretend he's the size of a cat
and just you know, run all over the place. That
(46:17):
happens too, I think anyway, that's the elephant story everybody
was in love with that I had to share with you.
While there's no elephants in Puerto Rican Christmas traditions for
a not chep winna or anything like that, there are
plenty of traditions singing the Christmas carols or the Aguinaldo's
(46:42):
or drinking coquito right, which is condensed milk cocoa. Lopez
and your favorite Puerto rican Rum. There's plenty of different
treats and delicacies and cocktails and things like that that
are typical to the season, but ultimately it's about the
(47:05):
celebration of Christ and his birth and the acknowledgment of that.
And it's always my hope that we never lose sight
of why we're all here. It's important that we know
our purpose and that we stand for something, because if
we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything. And the
(47:29):
only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good
people like you to sit there and do nothing.
Speaker 7 (47:37):
So keep doing your thing.
Speaker 5 (47:39):
I start approxima, take care, good night, and God bless
you America.
Speaker 7 (47:43):
I'm Rich Valdas.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
This is Amaria.
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