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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Darrell McLean Show.
I'm your host, darrell McLean.
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We have one planet.
Nobody is leaving, so let usreason together.
I said yesterday I was going totalk about this immigration
thing and how we are have beenbattling immigration, except for
this one carve out that I foundvery, very interesting, for
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this one carve-out that I foundvery, very interesting, and this
is coming out of the WashingtonPost and let's just take a
listen to this coming out ofreporting from Theo Armas Theo.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Armas.
Trump shut out refugees, but ismaking white South Africans an
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exception.
Theo Armas to a halt,suspending a program that lets
in thousands of people fleeingwar or political persecution.
It is preparing to restart thateffort, but only for one group
white South Africans.
Plans are underway to flyapproximately 60 Afrikaners to
Dulles International Airport ona State Department chartered
plane Monday, with federal andVirginia officials preparing to
receive them in a ceremonialnews conference.
According to documents andemails obtained by the
Washington Post, as well asthree government officials
familiar with the preparations,the arriving families, who are
part of a group that PresidentDonald Trump has said faces
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racial discrimination, will thenbe resettled outside Virginia
in 10 states.
According to those familiarwith the plans, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity becausethey were not authorized to
share details of thepreparations, the US government
is prioritizing the resettlementof Afrikaner refugees and the
Office of Refugee Resettlementis coordinating services to
ensure they receive the supportthey need from the very initial
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days of their arrival.
Miro Marinovich, who overseesthe Refugee Program Bureau at
the Department of Health andHuman Services, wrote in an
email to other federal officialsWednesday.
The first flight of Afrikanerrefugees is set to arrive on
Monday, may 12.
A State Department spokespersondid not answer questions about
the flight, but confirmed in astatement that embassy officials
have been conducting interviewsand processing in accordance
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with a Trump executive order inFebruary.
That directive to cabinetofficials looked to promote the
resettlement of Afrikaners asrefugees following a recently
signed South African landredistribution law that, in some
situations, allows for propertyto be taken away without
compensation.
Stephen Miller, trump's deputychief of staff, told reporters
outside the White House onFriday that what's happening in
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South Africa fits the textbookdefinition of why the refugee
program was created.
This is persecution based on aprotected characteristic, in
this case race.
Refugees are a distinct classof people who have been forced
to flee their home country afterthey have been persecuted or
fear persecution, usually death,because of their race, religion
, nationality, politics ormembership in a particular
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social group.
Highly vetted, they areeligible for government services
and a path to citizenship, andmust often wait up to several
years to be screened andprocessed before coming to the
United States.
Last year, no South Africans ofany race, ethnicity or
linguistic group were vetted bythe United Nations as meeting
its criteria to be resettled asrefugees, according to the
organization's data.
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State Department officials wouldnot say why the 60 Afrikaners
set to arrive Monday weregranted refugee status, but a
department memo obtained by thePost said that most of them have
witnessed or experiencedextreme violence with a racial
nexus, including home invasions,murders or carjackings that
took place up to 25 years ago.
This initial cohort of refugeeshas frequently expressed fear
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of remaining in South Africa dueto race-based violence or other
severe harm, the memo said, anddo not trust police, who they
claim have failed to investigatecrimes against Afrikaners.
But Crispin Ferry, a spokesmanfor South Africa's foreign
ministry, said in a statementthat any allegations of
discrimination were unfoundedand do not meet the threshold of
persecution under domestic andinternational refugee law.
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It is most regrettable that itappears that the resettlement of
South Africans to the UnitedStates under the guise of being
refugees is entirely politicallymotivated and designed to
question South Africa'sconstitutional democracy,
ferry's statement said, acountry which has in fact
suffered true persecution underapartheid rule and has worked
tirelessly to prevent suchlevels of discrimination from
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ever occurring again, includingthrough the entrenchment of
rights in our constitution,which is enforced vigorously
through our judicial system.
The Afrikaner's planned arrivalstems from Trump's efforts to
weigh in on the complex racialpolitics of South Africa, where
billionaire Elon Musk, hisone-time advisor overseeing
massive federal spending cuts,grew up during apartheid.
Since apartheid ended in theearly 1990s, south Africa has
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been wrestling with how to dealwith the long shadow of the
segregationist policy whichsowed deep racial divisions in
the country over four decades.
One of those efforts, a landredistribution law signed in
January, known as theExpropriation Act, prompted
Trump in February to cut allforeign aid to South Africa.
He claimed, without evidence,that the law, which so far has
not resulted in any landseizures, was an act of
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discrimination against whitelandowners.
In his executive order, trumpalso directed cabinet officials
to prioritize humanitarianrelief for Afrikaners who are
escaping government-sponsoredrace-based discrimination.
But as the administration nowseeks to offer Afrikaners safe
haven in the United States,including through an accelerated
process that skips over sometypical steps in long-standing
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vetting procedures forresettlement, its efforts will
rely on a system the presidenthas effectively gutted.
All other refugees besides theAfrikaners, descendants of
primarily Dutch settlers inSouth Africa have essentially
been kept from arriving.
Since Trump's first week inoffice, government funding has
been slashed to a network ofnon-profit groups that help the
newcomers acclimate, forcingthem to lay off or furlough
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hundreds of case managers whoassist arrivals in finding jobs,
housing and other governmentaid.
After some of thoseorganizations filed a lawsuit
seeking to reverse the program'ssuspension, a federal judge in
Seattle on Monday ordered theTrump administration to process
and resettle approximately12,000 people who had been
approved to arrive with theirflights booked before the halt
in resettlement occurred, but itis unclear when that may happen
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.
Bill Fralick, the refugee andmigrant rights director at Human
Rights Watch, said thousands ofrefugees, including many black
sub-Saharan Africans, wereprepared and ready to be
resettled in the United States.
The door was slammed in theirfaces.
He said.
Now to have a group that didn'tflee their country, that has
historically enjoyed tremendousprivilege in the country and
that are white, provides a cruelracial twist to the suspension
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of refugee resettlement.
Admitting Afrikaners as refugeeswas framed by Trump as a
response to actions by SouthAfrica that are undermining
United States foreign policy, areference to its decision to
accuse Israel of genocide at theInternational Court of Justice.
He also cited the country'sland redistribution law.
South African officials saidthe Expropriation Act is a means
to end a broad racial disparityin land ownership stemming from
apartheid.
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The country's firstcomprehensive land audit in 2017
found that the white population, which makes up about 7% of
South Africans, accounted forabout three-quarters of
individually owned farms andagricultural holdings.
The law allows the governmentto seize land in the public
interest, but only after aprocess that is subject to
review by a judge.
The lobbying group Afri Forum,which advocates on behalf of
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AfriConners, has called the lawcontroversial and vowed to
challenge it.
Trump, in his executive order,called the measure a shocking
disregard of its citizens'rights that amounted to racially
discriminatory propertyconfiscation.
It was grounds enough to rollout the welcome mat and bring
AfriConners into the UnitedStates via the refugee program
that last year resettled 100,000people from such war-torn
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countries as Afghanistan,ukraine and Democratic Republic
of Congo.
Yet with much of that system nowdismantled after its funding
was slashed, officials with theState Department, the Department
of Homeland Security and theDepartment of Health and Human
Services have taken unusualsteps to bring the South
Africans to the United States.
For example, the Afrikaners setto arrive Monday are not going
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through a cultural orientationprogram required of all other
refugees before their arrival.
The three people familiar withthe matter said the Afrikaners
are receiving what is known asP1 refugee status.
One of the people said, whichtypically begins for large
groups with a referral andinitial screening by officials
of the UN High Commissioner forRefugees, unhcr.
That process is one of severalsteps meant to ensure that an
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individual meets theinternationally recognized
criteria to be deemed a refugee.
Unhcr has not been involved inscreening the Afrikaners and was
not approached to participate,said Yujin Byun, a spokeswoman
for the agency.
Groups that are granted refugeestatus based on claims of
identity-based persecutiongenerally receive P2 refugee
status, which requirescongressional designation.
Other categories of refugeesrequire that their spouses,
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children or parents be alreadypresent in the us or that they
have private sponsors to receivethem.
The us embassy in pretoria,south africa's administrative
capital, has been conductinginterviews and processing the
families.
According to two of the peoplewho discussed the operation, a
State Department spokespersonconfirmed that to be the case.
Refugee processing is typicallydone in a third country,
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separate from the applicant'shomeland and the United States,
because refugees, by definition,are not considered safe in
their country of origin.
The federal governmenttypically works with the
International Organization forMigration, another UN agency, to
process refugees overseas andassist them with booking flights
to the United States.
The IOM is not involved incoordinating the Afrikaners'
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travel.
The three people familiar withthe matter said the agency did
not respond to a request forcomment.
State Department officials haveinstead sought to charter
planes directly for the familiesscheduled to arrive from South
Africa.
Documents show Such a movetypically occurs only during
emergencies, when a large numberof people are all being
resettled at once, such asduring the Taliban's return to
power in Afghanistan in 2021.
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The Afrikaner families set toarrive at Dulles are mostly from
rural parts of South Africa,have farming experience and all
speak English.
According to a State Departmentmemo, about one-third have
family members or friendsalready in the US.
After the news conference, theywill board connecting flights
to reach their finaldestinations elsewhere.
They will be received by localresettlement organizations.
According to a handout from theUS Embassy in Pretoria for
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refugees arriving in the US thismonth, they may also be
received by a family member orfriend who can support them,
though most do not have suchties.
The three people familiar withthe plan said the Trump
administration froze StateDepartment funds to those
organizations meant to helpacclimate refugees to their new
homes once they are in theUnited States, notably by
providing medical care, jobtraining and up to three months
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of rent.
Officials at the StateDepartment and the Office of
Refugee Resettlement, a branchof HHS, have instead turned to
two still existing pools ofmoney to support the Afrikaners
upon their arrival.
One meant to cover gaps infunding for particularly
vulnerable refugees and anotherto help state governments
administer job training andother programs for refugees.
The three people familiar withthe matter said the email from
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Marinovich, the senior HHSofficial, said that
organizations receiving moneyfrom the Preferred Communities
Program the first pool of moneywill welcome the Afrikaners and
assist them with intake andreferral to or provision of
services such as housing, casemanagement, access to benefits,
etc.
State governments do not usuallyuse their funds to support
refugees who are simply passingthrough on their way to other
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destinations, the three peoplesaid.
Threw on their way to otherdestinations, the three people
said.
However, while no refugees areset to be resettled in Virginia,
the state will be spending someof the money that is normally
intended for job trainingprograms to welcome the
Afrikaner families ahead ofMonday's news conference.
The three people said.
Two of the people said thatwill include providing items for
the family's children whileworking with a local
resettlement group.
The Virginia Department ofSocial Services did not respond
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to a request for comment.
Catherine Horeld in Nairobicontributed to this report.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This news story.
So again that came out of theWashington Post by Theo Armas,
found it very interesting, Idon't know for how long, and so,
yeah, I think it waswell-reported, well-researched,
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with yada, yada, yada, all thethings.
There was a shock and awe thingthat happened today when it
came to the trial of Sean DiddyCombs.
We all remember watching thathorrific video in that hotel
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where he was on tape abusing andbeating up his then-girlfriend
Cassie.
This is the second day of thetrial and she took the stand and
it was very powerful, very sadand very eye-opening into what
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is probably going to be probablygoing to end with a guilty
verdict for Sean Diddy Combs.
The only reason I'm not sayingalleged victim is because of the
videotape, and more of thevideotape has come out because
of the trial.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Cassie Ventura, who was still on the stand, has
testified that she was a fanbefore meeting Sean Diddy Combs,
describing him as larger thanlife.
She says when they were finallyintroduced, he began to control
her life and every aspect of it.
So Ventura, who is now marriedwith kids and due to give birth
soon, testified she was 19 andthere was a 17-year age gap when
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she met Diddy and signed withhis record label.
She said their relationshipturned sexual when she was 21.
The pair was in a relationshipfor a decade, she says at first
it was private because Diddy waspublicly with someone else and
worried about optics.
She says the rapper introducedher to freak-offs, which are at
the center of the case,according to prosecutors, who
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described them as drug-fueledsex performances with male
escorts that Diddy coerced womeninto having while he watched.
Cassie testified thatfreak-offs became something she
did not want to do but felt likeshe had to to keep him happy.
She told jurors one of theseencounters was happening when
Combs was caught on cameraassaulting her in this
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disturbing 2016 Los Angeleshotel surveillance video
obtained exclusively andreleased by CNN last year.
Diddy apologized and has sincedeleted Instagram posts.
She also said Diddy had moodswings and was often violent
towards her, leaving physicalmarks, and that, instead of
music, freak-offs became a jobfor her.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
She testified that the longest of these sexual
performances lasted four dayssaid it before when we talked
about this on a previous showI'm not.
It's not just the ditty.
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Problem is the people around toelicit the, the ditty stuff.
It's about the people who arecomplicit, who have to know
what's going on and are notdoing anything to stop it.
He's accused of racketeering.
He's accused of I guess itwould be like traveling for the
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purpose of engaging inprostitution.
He's accused of prostitution byforce, sex trafficking and
prostitution by force.
So he also has two supersedingindictments and of course, he is
pleading not guilty toeverything.
But it's somewhat difficult toplead not guilty to something
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that we can all see on videoRight now.
What I'm worried about here inparticular is what happens with
the Harvey Weinstein and theBill Cosby thing, where the
prosecutors are so sure that thepeople are monsters, that the
people are guilty, that there'sa bunch of shortcuts that are
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taken and it seems like thatthey end up, even though people
know they're guilty, even thoughthe evidence proves they're
guilty, they end up getting offlater on with some technicality.
So I'm hoping that in this case, the prosecutors did not bow to
public opinion and and getoverzealous and not cross all
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the T's and not dot all the I's.
This is a horrific, horrificthing, this sex trafficking
stuff, and, of course, it leadsme to ask the question as well
as with the Epstein stuff, youhave the people who allegedly
did the trafficking.
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I've yet to see the people whoparticipated in the exploitation
.
So who were the jobs would bethe question.
There are people who are beingforced into sex trafficking.
Who are the people that theywere having the sex with?
Let's get to some Trump worldstuff.
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Some stuff that's fascinatingwill be next, which is a Trump
parroted.
What barack obama did almostsounded verbatim when, when you
go and compare the two speeches,obama's speech was held as a
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apology tour and but so I'mgoing to play a trump speech and
where he, in my opinion,somewhat hit the nail on the
head about this nation building,and he sits as he sits in the
Middle East and says, basically,this is your country, you need
to do this, we cannot come in,and et cetera, et cetera.
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And it was fascinating to hearhim say it, because I do
remember when Barack Obama wentover there and said the same
thing, and it was labeled asObama goes to the Middle East
and does an apology tour.
But before we get to that we'regoing to go to this thing where
Qatar has offered basically abeautiful plane plane, um, the,
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the.
It's been reported that it'ssome 400 million dollars of a
plane that they have offered tothe department of defense to
replace air force one, andpeople are calling it a bribe
and it's not just the likelysuspects here, the democrats,
who are the opposite oppositionparty for the republicans, so
that they are going to saywhatever it's actually coming
from some people like Ericksonthe conservative, ben Shapiro,
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the conservative as well.
So let's get into this story.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
The plane that you're on right now is almost 40 years
old and when you land and yousee Saudi Arabia and you see UAE
, and you see Qatar and you seeall these and they have these
brand new Boeing 747s mostly,and you see ours next to it.
This is like a totallydifferent plane.
It's much smaller, it's muchless impressive.
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As impressive as it is and youknow, we're the United States of
America, I believe that weshould have the most impressive.
So, anyway.
So they said to me, we wouldlike to, in effect, we would
like to make a gift.
You've done so many things andwe'd like to make a gift to the
Defense Department, which iswhere it's going.
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And I said, well, that's nice.
Now some people say, oh, youshouldn't accept gifts to the
country.
My attitude is why wouldn't Iaccept the gift?
Everybody else, why wouldn't Iaccept the gift?
Because it's going to be acouple of years, I think, before
the Boeings are finished sohere are the two feckless
democratic leaders, chuckSchumer and Hakeem Jeffress
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Schumer.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Of course, the democratic leader in the house.
Hakeem Jeffress Schumer.
Of course, the Democraticleader in the House.
Hakeem Jeffress, the Democraticleader.
I'm sorry, chuck Schumer is theleader of the Senate.
Hakeem Jeffress, the leader ofthe House.
Let's hear what they had to sayabout this I control.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Those News of the Qatari government gifting Donald
Trump a $400 million privatejet to use as Air Force One is
so corrupt that even Putin wouldgive a double take.
This is not just nakedcorruption, it is also a grave
national security threat.
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So, in light of the deeplytroubling news of a possible
Qatari funded Air Force One andthe reports that the Attorney
General personally signed off onthis clearly unethical deal, I
am announcing a hold on all DOJpolitical nominees until we get
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more answers.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And Donald Trump is publicly defending, accepting a
$400 million flying palace froma close ally of Iran and Hamas.
I mean, you can't make thisstuff up, which is why even some
of his closest MAGA sycophantshave made clear this is a plane
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too far.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ooh, a plane too far.
I swear Democrats sometimes areso fucking corny.
But that was Chuck Schumer andHakeem Jeffress, and now we're
going to get to some unlikelycriticism from some Trump
loyalists Eric Erickson and BenShapiro.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
America first, Like please define America first in a
way that says you should takesacks of cash from the Qatari
royals who are behind Al Jazeera.
It just isn't America first inany conceivable way.
If you want President Trump tosucceed, this kind of skeezy
stuff needs to stop.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
My problem with taking this place from Qatar is
I do not think the president ofthe united states of america
should sit and fly on a planepurchased with the same money
used to murder american citizensand one of the most powerful
people, who just happened to notbe sitting in the white house.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Laura loomer actually came out against it as well.
She said on the platformformerly known as Twitter, now
known as X I love PresidentTrump, I will take a bullet for
him, but I have to call a spadea spade.
We cannot accept a $400 milliongift from jihadists in suits,
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the Qataris fund, the sameIranian proxies in Hamas and
Hezbollah who have murdered USservice members.
The same proxies that haveworked with the Mexican cartels
to get jihadists across ourborder.
This is really going to be sucha stain on the admin.
If this is true and by adminshe did say admin, sure, but she
means administration, and I saythat as someone who would take
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a bullet for President Trump.
I'm so disappointed.
So end quote from Laura Loomer.
And just as a side note, it isvery rare, very rare, that you
have Laura Loomer and BenShapiro agreeing on anything.
And so look, I think what'shappening here is fairly obvious
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.
President Trump somewhatbelieves that a way to to to get
these countries to heal in theMiddle East is financial
entanglements.
Someone has the same philosophyon the subject as someone like
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Henry Kissinger, who used to saystuff like two countries who
had McDonald's in them neverwent to war with each other.
And Trump feels like if there'sa lot of financial
entanglements with places likesyria, saudi arabia, um, qatar,
etc.
That it'll stop us from beingat uh odds with each other.
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Now I think that if we have tofigure out how true that is,
being that china is themanufacturing arm of the united
States, and Americans don't seemall that hot on China all the
time and China doesn't alwaysseem that hot on us.
So we're going to get to thisother interesting part, which is
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Trump echoing the formerPresident, barack Obama, when he
goes and drops these Syriansanctions.
And it's not so much that hedropped the Syrian sanctions,
that is the deal.
It's what he said in his speechto the people in the Middle
East.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is
transcending the ancientconflicts of tired divisions of
the past and forging a futurewhere the Middle East is defined
by commerce, not chaos, whereit exports technology, not
terrorism, and where people ofdifferent nations, religions and
creeds are building citiestogether, not bombing each other
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out of existence.
We don't want that, and it'scrucial for the wider world to
know this great transformationhas not come from Western
interventionists or flyingpeople in beautiful planes
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giving you lectures on how tolive and how to govern your own
affairs.
No, the gleaming marvels ofRiyadh and Abu Dhabi were not
created by the so-called nationbuilders, neocons or liberal
non-profits like those who spenttrillions and trillions of
dollars failing to develop Kabul, baghdad, so many other cities.
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Instead, the birth of a modernMiddle East has been brought by
the people of the regionthemselves, the people that are
right here, the people that havelived here all their lives,
developing your own sovereigncountries, pursuing your own
unique visions and charting yourown destinies in your own way.
It's really incredible whatyou've done.
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In the end, the so-callednation builders wrecked far more
nations than they built, andthe interventionalists were
intervening in complex societiesthat they did not even
understand themselves.
They told you how to do it, butthey had no idea how to do it
themselves.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So the interesting through line from George Bush,
donald Trump to Obama was whenObama went to the Middle East
and gave his speech, he wassaying that it was not up to the
United States to go into theMiddle East and tell the Middle
Eastern people how to buildtheir own nations.
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And he also made the criticismthat a lot of people who were
trying to do the nation buildingdid not understand the
traditions of the nationsthemselves.
It was a shot at the George WBushes, the neoconservative wing
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of the Republican Party and,like I said earlier, he was
lauded.
He just said you're throwingAmerica under the bus, etc.
Etc.
But when you really look at it,especially now because time has
passed so far, you have DonaldTrump standing on the Republican
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stage in front of thePresident's brother and looking
Jeb Bush in the face and sayingyou know your brother didn't
keep us safe and et cetera, etcetera.
And that was a shot across thebow at the Republicans who I,
you know, grew up respecting,like the John McCain's, et
cetera.
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And Donald Trump is saying I'msorry all these nation builders
like McCain and Cheney, they'rewrong.
And I think now the generalpublic is actually on the side
of Trump, of Obama wing of theparty, who was against this type
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of meddling and nation building.
Now, what's the mostfascinating part of this and by
fascinating I mean the part thatis going to catch all the
headlines?
I've already seen a lot ofreels on what's that place
called TikTok about?
It is the lifting of sanctionsthat the United States has on
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Syria Syria, which is right nextto the United States' supposed
only real ally in the MiddleEast, the country of Israel, who
Israel is still currentlybombing regions that we roughly
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considered Syrian.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
And also with President Erdogan of Turkey, who
called me the other day andasked for a very similar thing.
Among others and friends ofmine, people that I have a lot
of respect for in the MiddleEast, I will be ordering the
cessation of sanctions againstSyria in order to give them a
chance at greatness.
Oh, what I do for the crownprince.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, that was a funny line, what I do for the
crown prince, but look, this isa big deal.
The president of the UnitedStates is in the Middle East, as
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in the Middle East, and whatmakes this more for lack of a
better term shocking as far asthe United States goes, the
president is going to the MiddleEast and has decided to not
visit Israel, the United Statesally, and that has been catching
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waves.
Trump actually has beenreported to say that he has
called Netanyahu's leadership asIsrael a liability to peace
leadership.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
Is Israel a liability to peace?
President Trump is leavingIsrael off of his first Middle
East trip since returning to theWhite House, and Trump's envoy,
steve Whitcomb, told hostagefamily families this week that
Israel's government is draggingout the Gaza war, even though
here's the interesting part eventhough they say the us wants to
end it.
That's right.
Wyckoff said Israel is slowingdown a deal that would bring
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American and Israeli hostageshome.
Now Trump is not openlyattacking Israel, but his recent
moves do show a sharp change inUS policy.
He cut a ceasefire deal withIran by Houthi rebels in Yemen
even after the missiles hitIsrael's main airport.
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Trump also dropped US demandslinking Saudi Arabia's nuclear
plan to making peace with Israel.
Netanyahu's coalition, made upof far-right parties, is pushing
to keep the war going, but morethan two-thirds of Israelis,
according to polls, want the warto end if it means that they
get all the hostages home, whichthe Knesset puts at the bottom.
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The Knesset is Israel's senatoror legislative body, congress.
The Knesset puts it at thebottom of its priorities.
Now Trump is signaling that hewon't let Netanyahu's political
fights stop him from makingdeals in the region.
He's expected to visit SaudiArabia, qatar and the United
Arab Emirates later this week,skipping Israel, a move that
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would have been renderedunthinkable just a few years ago
by a United States president.
But Trump's allies say he's notagainst Israel, but he sees
Netanyahu as a problem, not apartner.
That seems like the first bigfragmentation in their
relationship.
The bromance is ending, y'all,I promise you.
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Not as fast as I'd like, butultimately these egos are going
to bump heads.
The same way, I would argue,elon Musk and Donald Trump are
going to bump heads.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So that person you just heard was a sociology
professor, dr Mark Lamont Hill,and I'm in a part of this little
group college thing that wecall night school with Mark
Lamont Hill and I find it prettygood.
(33:38):
I read a book of his thatchanged my perspective actually,
about the Israeli-Palestinianconflict.
It gave me a lot moreperspective.
If anybody wants to check thatbook out a lot more perspective.
If anybody wants to check thatbook out again, his name is Dr
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Mark Lamont Hill and the bookthat I read was called Except
for Palestine and again, exceptfor Palestine and it was by Dr
Mark Lamont Hill.
If you're a reader, you cancheck it out the paper or hard
copy edition.
If you like to have audio books, it is also available on
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Audible.
And if you're more of a visual,like YouTube person, he has
done several good debates withpeople on the topic.
He's a scholar who has been tothe region, he's been there and
he also speaks Arabic and sohe's very knowledgeable on the
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topic and this is a change.
I played that audio a whileback where President Trump was
talking about Bibi Netanyahu inthe first term, and President
Trump was very candid and saidflat out I don't think Bibi
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wants peace and it was shockingto some of the allies.
But Donald Trump, I love him orhate him.
You know he's not one to mincewords.
He's going to say exactly whathe is thinking In the last
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segment for today we're going totalk about this TV to Trump
administration pipeline, andthis is because Trump has tapped
a ready, loyal Pirro to thepick for the top prosecutor, and
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it fits the mold.
Pirro, known as Judge Jeanine,has served as a district
attorney and a judge before shereplaced in battle nominee Ed
Martin.
Replaced in battle nominee EdMartin.
So Gene Perrero, the Fox Newshost, has been chosen by
President Donald Trump to becomeinterim US attorney in the
District of Columbia is thearchetype of what has been shown
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to prefer his appointeescombative, camera-ready and
loyal enough to have sought todiscredit the results of the
2020 election.
That the president lost.
Yet Jean Pirro, a former NewYork judge and prosecutor, also
possesses enough politicalbaggage that she is sure to
provoke fierce partisan debateif Trump nominates her as a
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permanent leader of the nation'slargest United States
Attorney's Office of thenation's largest United States
Attorney's Office.
Less than 24 hours after Trumpannounced Pirro's appointment,
hailing her as incrediblewell-qualified, democrats and
Republicans staked out vastlydivergent positions.
On her looming arrival inWashington, she replaced the
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president's first interim choice, ed Martin, who is departing
after 15 turbulent weeks inoffice.
Senator Tom Tillis, theRepublican from North Carolina,
whose opposition to Martin andTrump's decision to replace him,
described Pirro's career inPost on X as a prosecutor as a
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long story and said she's agreat choice as a long-stored
and says-she's-great-choice.
Senator Lindsey Graham, theRepublican of South Carolina,
gushed on X that Pirro is agrand slam home run hat-trick
pick.
But Democrats were equallyvociferous in their opposition.
Rep Dan Goldman, the Democratfrom New York, posted on X that
Pirro's appointment, after hischoice of Kash Patel to lead the
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FBI, is another example of thepresident making a mockery of
the Department of Justice.
Alex Floyd, a high-rankingDemocratic National Committee
operative, said in a statementthat Pirro is yet another
unqualified televisionpersonality with a history of
putting Trump and his violentinsurrectionists above the law.
She'll be a disaster for publicsafety and an embarrassment to
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law enforcement, just likeTrump's last failed pick for the
same job he said.
Pirro could not be reached forcomment on Friday.
According to the WashingtonPost, on late Thursday she
posted a photo of herself withSergio Gore, trump's head of
White House personnel and formerFox News colleague as well, who
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posted a message congratulatingJudge Jeanine, who will soon
make the District of Columbiagreat again.
Beyond their heated rhetoric,democrats are seeking to learn
more about Pirro, who many onlyknow in her current incarnation
as a Fox News firebrand.
Although she has served as aprosecutor for three terms in
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Westchester County in New York,pirro does not have the federal
law enforcement experience thatothers have brought to the post
in the past.
So, at the same time, pirro'sbackground as a district
attorney and judge, at least asfar as democrats could ascertain
, is a preliminary review of herbackground, distinguished from
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her martin, who had noprosecutor experience before his
appointment.
Yet questions loomed, includingwhether perot, who is 73, is
prepared to dig into a legalminutiae of running the us
attorney's office.
Also, it is unclear as to howshe would handle trump's wish to
punish those he considers hispolitical enemies and, trust me,
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the president considers a lotof people as political enemies
as he, as she postures as, assupported as a commentator and
whether she has to strike thebalance between Trumps and to
advocate in the strict ofimpartiality enforcer of federal
law.
Now, as of Friday afternoon,the White House had not sent the
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Senate a formal notice aboutwithdrawing Martin's nomination
and it remained unknown whetherPirro would start in the post
other than by May 20th whenMartin's 120-day interim
appointments end.
The president also has not saidwhether he intended to nominate
Pirro for a full term as a USAttorney General.
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Trump similarly named Martin onshort notice just before
Inauguration Day.
Senate Democrats said Fridaythey are reviewing whether
Pirro's interim 120-dayappointment, on the heels of
another interim appointment, islegal.
No president in recent memoryappears to have attempted to
install back-to-back interim USattorneys like Martin and Pirro,
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bypassing the Senateconstitutional checks and
balances role, confirmingpowerful US law enforcement
officials.
In choosing Jean Pirro, thepresident displayed his
time-honored practice ofappointing a telegenic and often
blunt-spoken loyalist.
Pirro is the third full-timeFox host he has recruited inside
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of the administration.
Pirro developed her politicalbrand in the suburbs of New York
, first serving as a judge inWestchester County and earning
the Judge Jeanine moniker thatis still a central part of her
on-screen appeal.
She was elected a districtattorney of Westchester in 1993,
a role she held until 2005.
Along the way, she evolved intoan ambiguous legal pundit, a
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court TV regular with a deep,commanding voice during high
profile cases such as OJSimpson's murder trial, and
becoming something of acelebrity who transcended the
courts.
People's Magazine in 1997 namedher one of the world's most
50th beautiful people.
Eventually, she became popularenough to draw more than 1
million followers on Instagram,where she posts videos of
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herself in stylish dresses,photos and her poodles.
Her relationship with thepresident began decades ago in
New York, where they fraternizein Republican circles and share
a certain bravado.
Once, when I was with thepresident and she walked up, it
was almost like they were fromthe same block, said michael uh
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capito, a martin advisor andformer trump strategist.
She's a force of nature.
In her 2018 books liars,leakers and liberals, pierrot
wrote that the trump liked topromote her when they walked in
the streets of manhattanintroducing her to cops
construction workers by sayingyou know who this is.
This is janine pierrot.
She's a district attorney fromWestchester, pirro's former
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husband, albert Pirro, whoserved as Trump's real estate
attorney before being convictedof federal tax evasion in the
year 2000, when he was districtattorney.
He was sentenced to 29 years,though he served only 11 because
President Trump pardoned him atthe end of his term.
Albert Pirro's downfall becamean issue that Pereiro had to
answer for.
She pursued her politicalambitions and sought statewide
office In 2006,.
She ran for Senate againstHillary Clinton, only to drop
out after a gaffe.
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She pivoted and ran instead forAttorney General, only to lose
to Andrew Cuomo.
She was a star in theRepublican Party, but her
husband's scandal made it lesslikely that she could run
statewide, said Hank Schifuck, aveteran Democratic consultant
in New York, and tainted her.
Pirro then joined Fox News as alegal analyst in 2006 and began
hosting her own show onSaturday nights Justice with
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Jean, justice with Judge Jeanine.
Five years later, it was thatrole that she became a fierce
advocate for Trump.
Her popularity soared in 2016when Trump's campaign was
imperiled by emergence of theAccess Hollywood tape in which
he talked about groping women.
Peril denounced his comments asdisgusting, but described him
as a gentleman and said shewould still be supporting him.
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So uh well that's what it issupporting him.
So, uh, well that's what it is.
Welcome, judge Jeanine, to theuh post.
Lee said it looks like the postof the United States Attorney
General for the District ofColumbia, columbia.
It's funny.
I want to go to the realColumbia one day.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Before two million dollars that he's spending to
not have to show the birthcertificate.
There is a cleansing needed inour FBI and Department of
Justice, who should not just befired but who need to be taken
out in handcuffs like a crimefamily in the movies, except
this time the FBI is the crimefamily.
(44:34):
Was there hypnosis?
Are they using confabulation?
And I don't want to get intothe weeds here, but you know
what?
This is the kind of thing wherethey have a right to true cause
of examination.
Omar wears a hijab which,according to the Quran, 33,
colon 59, tells women to coverso they won't get molested.
Is her adherence to thisIslamic doctrine indicative of
(44:58):
her adherence to Sharia law,which in itself is antithetical
to the United StatesConstitution?
What we're experiencing rightnow is the CIA, an intelligence
agency, attempting a coupagainst the United States.
President.
Christopher Wray is part of thedeep state.
The president's lawyersalleging a company called
(45:19):
Dominion, which they say startedin Venezuela with Cuban money
and with the assistance ofSmartmatic software, a backdoor,
is capable of flipping votes.
If he believed that he won,pursuing all these avenues are
okay for him because inthemselves they are not illegal.
If you say, look, I need tofind 11,000 votes.
(45:42):
That's very different fromsaying I need you to find me
11,000 votes somewhere.
It's kind of interesting thatJill Biden went in during jury
selection.
You know it's kind of like amob tactic to kind of stare down
the jury selection.
You know it's kind of like amob tactic to kind of stare down
the jury.
If we get to the point where wehave to arrest governors and
other officials because theyprevent law enforcement from
working with ICE, it's time totake a side.
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You're with the Americans oryou're with illegals who need to
be deported.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
That's just a little flavor of what you will be
getting with the new if she getsthe job.
Attorney General for theDistrict of Columbia.
Thank you for tuning in and wewill see you on the next episode
.
Welcome to the Darrell McLean Show.
I'm your host, darrell McLean.
Independent media to reinforcetribalism.
We have one planet.
Nobody is leaving, so let usreason together.
I said yesterday I was going totalk about this immigration
thing and how we are have beenbattling immigration, except for
this one carve out that I foundvery, very interesting, for
(00:25):
this one carve-out that I foundvery, very interesting, and this
is coming out of the WashingtonPost and let's just take a
listen to this coming out ofreporting from Theo Armas Theo.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Armas.
Trump shut out refugees, but ismaking white South Africans an
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exception.
Theo Armas to a halt,suspending a program that lets
in thousands of people fleeingwar or political persecution.
It is preparing to restart thateffort, but only for one group
white South Africans.
Plans are underway to flyapproximately 60 Afrikaners to
Dulles International Airport ona State Department chartered
plane Monday, with federal andVirginia officials preparing to
receive them in a ceremonialnews conference.
According to documents andemails obtained by the
Washington Post, as well asthree government officials
familiar with the preparations,the arriving families, who are
part of a group that PresidentDonald Trump has said faces
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racial discrimination, will thenbe resettled outside Virginia
in 10 states.
According to those familiarwith the plans, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity becausethey were not authorized to
share details of thepreparations, the US government
is prioritizing the resettlementof Afrikaner refugees and the
Office of Refugee Resettlementis coordinating services to
ensure they receive the supportthey need from the very initial
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days of their arrival.
Miro Marinovich, who overseesthe Refugee Program Bureau at
the Department of Health andHuman Services, wrote in an
email to other federal officialsWednesday.
The first flight of Afrikanerrefugees is set to arrive on
Monday, may 12.
A State Department spokespersondid not answer questions about
the flight, but confirmed in astatement that embassy officials
have been conducting interviewsand processing in accordance
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with a Trump executive order inFebruary.
That directive to cabinetofficials looked to promote the
resettlement of Afrikaners asrefugees following a recently
signed South African landredistribution law that, in some
situations, allows for propertyto be taken away without
compensation.
Stephen Miller, trump's deputychief of staff, told reporters
outside the White House onFriday that what's happening in
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South Africa fits the textbookdefinition of why the refugee
program was created.
This is persecution based on aprotected characteristic, in
this case race.
Refugees are a distinct classof people who have been forced
to flee their home country afterthey have been persecuted or
fear persecution, usually death,because of their race, religion
, nationality, politics ormembership in a particular
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social group.
Highly vetted, they areeligible for government services
and a path to citizenship, andmust often wait up to several
years to be screened andprocessed before coming to the
United States.
Last year, no South Africans ofany race, ethnicity or
linguistic group were vetted bythe United Nations as meeting
its criteria to be resettled asrefugees, according to the
organization's data.
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State Department officials wouldnot say why the 60 Afrikaners
set to arrive Monday weregranted refugee status, but a
department memo obtained by thePost said that most of them have
witnessed or experiencedextreme violence with a racial
nexus, including home invasions,murders or carjackings that
took place up to 25 years ago.
This initial cohort of refugeeshas frequently expressed fear
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of remaining in South Africa dueto race-based violence or other
severe harm, the memo said, anddo not trust police, who they
claim have failed to investigatecrimes against Afrikaners.
But Crispin Ferry, a spokesmanfor South Africa's foreign
ministry, said in a statementthat any allegations of
discrimination were unfoundedand do not meet the threshold of
persecution under domestic andinternational refugee law.
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It is most regrettable that itappears that the resettlement of
South Africans to the UnitedStates under the guise of being
refugees is entirely politicallymotivated and designed to
question South Africa'sconstitutional democracy,
ferry's statement said, acountry which has in fact
suffered true persecution underapartheid rule and has worked
tirelessly to prevent suchlevels of discrimination from
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ever occurring again, includingthrough the entrenchment of
rights in our constitution,which is enforced vigorously
through our judicial system.
The Afrikaner's planned arrivalstems from Trump's efforts to
weigh in on the complex racialpolitics of South Africa, where
billionaire Elon Musk, hisone-time advisor overseeing
massive federal spending cuts,grew up during apartheid.
Since apartheid ended in theearly 1990s, south Africa has
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been wrestling with how to dealwith the long shadow of the
segregationist policy whichsowed deep racial divisions in
the country over four decades.
One of those efforts, a landredistribution law signed in
January, known as theExpropriation Act, prompted
Trump in February to cut allforeign aid to South Africa.
He claimed, without evidence,that the law, which so far has
not resulted in any landseizures, was an act of
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discrimination against whitelandowners.
In his executive order, trumpalso directed cabinet officials
to prioritize humanitarianrelief for Afrikaners who are
escaping government-sponsoredrace-based discrimination.
But as the administration nowseeks to offer Afrikaners safe
haven in the United States,including through an accelerated
process that skips over sometypical steps in long-standing
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vetting procedures forresettlement, its efforts will
rely on a system the presidenthas effectively gutted.
All other refugees besides theAfrikaners, descendants of
primarily Dutch settlers inSouth Africa have essentially
been kept from arriving.
Since Trump's first week inoffice, government funding has
been slashed to a network ofnon-profit groups that help the
newcomers acclimate, forcingthem to lay off or furlough
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hundreds of case managers whoassist arrivals in finding jobs,
housing and other governmentaid.
After some of thoseorganizations filed a lawsuit
seeking to reverse the program'ssuspension, a federal judge in
Seattle on Monday ordered theTrump administration to process
and resettle approximately12,000 people who had been
approved to arrive with theirflights booked before the halt
in resettlement occurred, but itis unclear when that may happen
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.
Bill Fralick, the refugee andmigrant rights director at Human
Rights Watch, said thousands ofrefugees, including many black
sub-Saharan Africans, wereprepared and ready to be
resettled in the United States.
The door was slammed in theirfaces.
He said.
Now to have a group that didn'tflee their country, that has
historically enjoyed tremendousprivilege in the country and
that are white, provides a cruelracial twist to the suspension
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of refugee resettlement.
Admitting Afrikaners as refugeeswas framed by Trump as a
response to actions by SouthAfrica that are undermining
United States foreign policy, areference to its decision to
accuse Israel of genocide at theInternational Court of Justice.
He also cited the country'sland redistribution law.
South African officials saidthe Expropriation Act is a means
to end a broad racial disparityin land ownership stemming from
apartheid.
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The country's firstcomprehensive land audit in 2017
found that the white population, which makes up about 7% of
South Africans, accounted forabout three-quarters of
individually owned farms andagricultural holdings.
The law allows the governmentto seize land in the public
interest, but only after aprocess that is subject to
review by a judge.
The lobbying group Afri Forum,which advocates on behalf of
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AfriConners, has called the lawcontroversial and vowed to
challenge it.
Trump, in his executive order,called the measure a shocking
disregard of its citizens'rights that amounted to racially
discriminatory propertyconfiscation.
It was grounds enough to rollout the welcome mat and bring
AfriConners into the UnitedStates via the refugee program
that last year resettled 100,000people from such war-torn
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countries as Afghanistan,ukraine and Democratic Republic
of Congo.
Yet with much of that system nowdismantled after its funding
was slashed, officials with theState Department, the Department
of Homeland Security and theDepartment of Health and Human
Services have taken unusualsteps to bring the South
Africans to the United States.
For example, the Afrikaners setto arrive Monday are not going
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through a cultural orientationprogram required of all other
refugees before their arrival.
The three people familiar withthe matter said the Afrikaners
are receiving what is known asP1 refugee status.
One of the people said, whichtypically begins for large
groups with a referral andinitial screening by officials
of the UN High Commissioner forRefugees, unhcr.
That process is one of severalsteps meant to ensure that an
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individual meets theinternationally recognized
criteria to be deemed a refugee.
Unhcr has not been involved inscreening the Afrikaners and was
not approached to participate,said Yujin Byun, a spokeswoman
for the agency.
Groups that are granted refugeestatus based on claims of
identity-based persecutiongenerally receive P2 refugee
status, which requirescongressional designation.
Other categories of refugeesrequire that their spouses,
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children or parents be alreadypresent in the us or that they
have private sponsors to receivethem.
The us embassy in pretoria,south africa's administrative
capital, has been conductinginterviews and processing the
families.
According to two of the peoplewho discussed the operation, a
State Department spokespersonconfirmed that to be the case.
Refugee processing is typicallydone in a third country,
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separate from the applicant'shomeland and the United States,
because refugees, by definition,are not considered safe in
their country of origin.
The federal governmenttypically works with the
International Organization forMigration, another UN agency, to
process refugees overseas andassist them with booking flights
to the United States.
The IOM is not involved incoordinating the Afrikaners'
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travel.
The three people familiar withthe matter said the agency did
not respond to a request forcomment.
State Department officials haveinstead sought to charter
planes directly for the familiesscheduled to arrive from South
Africa.
Documents show Such a movetypically occurs only during
emergencies, when a large numberof people are all being
resettled at once, such asduring the Taliban's return to
power in Afghanistan in 2021.
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The Afrikaner families set toarrive at Dulles are mostly from
rural parts of South Africa,have farming experience and all
speak English.
According to a State Departmentmemo, about one-third have
family members or friendsalready in the US.
After the news conference, theywill board connecting flights
to reach their finaldestinations elsewhere.
They will be received by localresettlement organizations.
According to a handout from theUS Embassy in Pretoria for
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refugees arriving in the US thismonth, they may also be
received by a family member orfriend who can support them,
though most do not have suchties.
The three people familiar withthe plan said the Trump
administration froze StateDepartment funds to those
organizations meant to helpacclimate refugees to their new
homes once they are in theUnited States, notably by
providing medical care, jobtraining and up to three months
(10:37):
of rent.
Officials at the StateDepartment and the Office of
Refugee Resettlement, a branchof HHS, have instead turned to
two still existing pools ofmoney to support the Afrikaners
upon their arrival.
One meant to cover gaps infunding for particularly
vulnerable refugees and anotherto help state governments
administer job training andother programs for refugees.
The three people familiar withthe matter said the email from
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Marinovich, the senior HHSofficial, said that
organizations receiving moneyfrom the Preferred Communities
Program the first pool of moneywill welcome the Afrikaners and
assist them with intake andreferral to or provision of
services such as housing, casemanagement, access to benefits,
etc.
State governments do not usuallyuse their funds to support
refugees who are simply passingthrough on their way to other
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destinations, the three peoplesaid.
Threw on their way to otherdestinations, the three people
said.
However, while no refugees areset to be resettled in Virginia,
the state will be spending someof the money that is normally
intended for job trainingprograms to welcome the
Afrikaner families ahead ofMonday's news conference.
The three people said.
Two of the people said thatwill include providing items for
the family's children whileworking with a local
resettlement group.
The Virginia Department ofSocial Services did not respond
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to a request for comment.
Catherine Horeld in Nairobicontributed to this report.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This news story.
So again that came out of theWashington Post by Theo Armas,
found it very interesting, Idon't know for how long, and so,
yeah, I think it waswell-reported, well-researched,
(12:12):
with yada, yada, yada, all thethings.
There was a shock and awe thingthat happened today when it
came to the trial of Sean DiddyCombs.
We all remember watching thathorrific video in that hotel
(12:32):
where he was on tape abusing andbeating up his then-girlfriend
Cassie.
This is the second day of thetrial and she took the stand and
it was very powerful, very sadand very eye-opening into what
(13:00):
is probably going to be probablygoing to end with a guilty
verdict for Sean Diddy Combs.
The only reason I'm not sayingalleged victim is because of the
videotape, and more of thevideotape has come out because
of the trial.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Cassie Ventura, who was still on the stand, has
testified that she was a fanbefore meeting Sean Diddy Combs,
describing him as larger thanlife.
She says when they were finallyintroduced, he began to control
her life and every aspect of it.
So Ventura, who is now marriedwith kids and due to give birth
soon, testified she was 19 andthere was a 17-year age gap when
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she met Diddy and signed withhis record label.
She said their relationshipturned sexual when she was 21.
The pair was in a relationshipfor a decade, she says at first
it was private because Diddy waspublicly with someone else and
worried about optics.
She says the rapper introducedher to freak-offs, which are at
the center of the case,according to prosecutors, who
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described them as drug-fueledsex performances with male
escorts that Diddy coerced womeninto having while he watched.
Cassie testified thatfreak-offs became something she
did not want to do but felt likeshe had to to keep him happy.
She told jurors one of theseencounters was happening when
Combs was caught on cameraassaulting her in this
(14:28):
disturbing 2016 Los Angeleshotel surveillance video
obtained exclusively andreleased by CNN last year.
Diddy apologized and has sincedeleted Instagram posts.
She also said Diddy had moodswings and was often violent
towards her, leaving physicalmarks, and that, instead of
music, freak-offs became a jobfor her.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
She testified that the longest of these sexual
performances lasted four dayssaid it before when we talked
about this on a previous showI'm not.
It's not just the ditty.
(15:11):
Problem is the people around toelicit the, the ditty stuff.
It's about the people who arecomplicit, who have to know
what's going on and are notdoing anything to stop it.
He's accused of racketeering.
He's accused of I guess itwould be like traveling for the
(15:32):
purpose of engaging inprostitution.
He's accused of prostitution byforce, sex trafficking and
prostitution by force.
So he also has two supersedingindictments and of course, he is
pleading not guilty toeverything.
But it's somewhat difficult toplead not guilty to something
(15:57):
that we can all see on videoRight now.
What I'm worried about here inparticular is what happens with
the Harvey Weinstein and theBill Cosby thing, where the
prosecutors are so sure that thepeople are monsters, that the
people are guilty, that there'sa bunch of shortcuts that are
(16:19):
taken and it seems like thatthey end up, even though people
know they're guilty, even thoughthe evidence proves they're
guilty, they end up getting offlater on with some technicality.
So I'm hoping that in this case, the prosecutors did not bow to
public opinion and and getoverzealous and not cross all
(16:46):
the T's and not dot all the I's.
This is a horrific, horrificthing, this sex trafficking
stuff, and, of course, it leadsme to ask the question as well
as with the Epstein stuff, youhave the people who allegedly
did the trafficking.
(17:07):
I've yet to see the people whoparticipated in the exploitation
.
So who were the jobs would bethe question.
There are people who are beingforced into sex trafficking.
Who are the people that theywere having the sex with?
Let's get to some Trump worldstuff.
(17:28):
Some stuff that's fascinatingwill be next, which is a Trump
parroted.
What barack obama did almostsounded verbatim when, when you
go and compare the two speeches,obama's speech was held as a
(17:50):
apology tour and but so I'mgoing to play a trump speech and
where he, in my opinion,somewhat hit the nail on the
head about this nation building,and he sits as he sits in the
Middle East and says, basically,this is your country, you need
to do this, we cannot come in,and et cetera, et cetera.
(18:13):
And it was fascinating to hearhim say it, because I do
remember when Barack Obama wentover there and said the same
thing, and it was labeled asObama goes to the Middle East
and does an apology tour.
But before we get to that we'regoing to go to this thing where
Qatar has offered basically abeautiful plane plane, um, the,
(18:46):
the.
It's been reported that it'ssome 400 million dollars of a
plane that they have offered tothe department of defense to
replace air force one, andpeople are calling it a bribe
and it's not just the likelysuspects here, the democrats,
who are the opposite oppositionparty for the republicans, so
that they are going to saywhatever it's actually coming
from some people like Ericksonthe conservative, ben Shapiro,
(19:09):
the conservative as well.
So let's get into this story.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
The plane that you're on right now is almost 40 years
old and when you land and yousee Saudi Arabia and you see UAE
, and you see Qatar and you seeall these and they have these
brand new Boeing 747s mostly,and you see ours next to it.
This is like a totallydifferent plane.
It's much smaller, it's muchless impressive.
(19:36):
As impressive as it is and youknow, we're the United States of
America, I believe that weshould have the most impressive.
So, anyway.
So they said to me, we wouldlike to, in effect, we would
like to make a gift.
You've done so many things andwe'd like to make a gift to the
Defense Department, which iswhere it's going.
(19:56):
And I said, well, that's nice.
Now some people say, oh, youshouldn't accept gifts to the
country.
My attitude is why wouldn't Iaccept the gift?
Everybody else, why wouldn't Iaccept the gift?
Because it's going to be acouple of years, I think, before
the Boeings are finished sohere are the two feckless
democratic leaders, chuckSchumer and Hakeem Jeffress
(20:20):
Schumer.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Of course, the democratic leader in the house.
Hakeem Jeffress Schumer.
Of course, the Democraticleader in the House.
Hakeem Jeffress, the Democraticleader.
I'm sorry, chuck Schumer is theleader of the Senate.
Hakeem Jeffress, the leader ofthe House.
Let's hear what they had to sayabout this I control.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Those News of the Qatari government gifting Donald
Trump a $400 million privatejet to use as Air Force One is
so corrupt that even Putin wouldgive a double take.
This is not just nakedcorruption, it is also a grave
national security threat.
(20:54):
So, in light of the deeplytroubling news of a possible
Qatari funded Air Force One andthe reports that the Attorney
General personally signed off onthis clearly unethical deal, I
am announcing a hold on all DOJpolitical nominees until we get
(21:15):
more answers.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And Donald Trump is publicly defending, accepting a
$400 million flying palace froma close ally of Iran and Hamas.
I mean, you can't make thisstuff up, which is why even some
of his closest MAGA sycophantshave made clear this is a plane
(21:45):
too far.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ooh, a plane too far.
I swear Democrats sometimes areso fucking corny.
But that was Chuck Schumer andHakeem Jeffress, and now we're
going to get to some unlikelycriticism from some Trump
loyalists Eric Erickson and BenShapiro.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
America first, Like please define America first in a
way that says you should takesacks of cash from the Qatari
royals who are behind Al Jazeera.
It just isn't America first inany conceivable way.
If you want President Trump tosucceed, this kind of skeezy
stuff needs to stop.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
My problem with taking this place from Qatar is
I do not think the president ofthe united states of america
should sit and fly on a planepurchased with the same money
used to murder american citizensand one of the most powerful
people, who just happened to notbe sitting in the white house.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Laura loomer actually came out against it as well.
She said on the platformformerly known as Twitter, now
known as X I love PresidentTrump, I will take a bullet for
him, but I have to call a spadea spade.
We cannot accept a $400 milliongift from jihadists in suits,
(23:01):
the Qataris fund, the sameIranian proxies in Hamas and
Hezbollah who have murdered USservice members.
The same proxies that haveworked with the Mexican cartels
to get jihadists across ourborder.
This is really going to be sucha stain on the admin.
If this is true and by adminshe did say admin, sure, but she
means administration, and I saythat as someone who would take
(23:24):
a bullet for President Trump.
I'm so disappointed.
So end quote from Laura Loomer.
And just as a side note, it isvery rare, very rare, that you
have Laura Loomer and BenShapiro agreeing on anything.
And so look, I think what'shappening here is fairly obvious
(23:50):
.
President Trump somewhatbelieves that a way to to to get
these countries to heal in theMiddle East is financial
entanglements.
Someone has the same philosophyon the subject as someone like
(24:10):
Henry Kissinger, who used to saystuff like two countries who
had McDonald's in them neverwent to war with each other.
And Trump feels like if there'sa lot of financial
entanglements with places likesyria, saudi arabia, um, qatar,
etc.
That it'll stop us from beingat uh odds with each other.
(24:34):
Now I think that if we have tofigure out how true that is,
being that china is themanufacturing arm of the united
States, and Americans don't seemall that hot on China all the
time and China doesn't alwaysseem that hot on us.
So we're going to get to thisother interesting part, which is
(24:55):
Trump echoing the formerPresident, barack Obama, when he
goes and drops these Syriansanctions.
And it's not so much that hedropped the Syrian sanctions,
that is the deal.
It's what he said in his speechto the people in the Middle
East.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is
transcending the ancientconflicts of tired divisions of
the past and forging a futurewhere the Middle East is defined
by commerce, not chaos, whereit exports technology, not
terrorism, and where people ofdifferent nations, religions and
creeds are building citiestogether, not bombing each other
(25:38):
out of existence.
We don't want that, and it'scrucial for the wider world to
know this great transformationhas not come from Western
interventionists or flyingpeople in beautiful planes
(26:02):
giving you lectures on how tolive and how to govern your own
affairs.
No, the gleaming marvels ofRiyadh and Abu Dhabi were not
created by the so-called nationbuilders, neocons or liberal
non-profits like those who spenttrillions and trillions of
dollars failing to develop Kabul, baghdad, so many other cities.
(26:27):
Instead, the birth of a modernMiddle East has been brought by
the people of the regionthemselves, the people that are
right here, the people that havelived here all their lives,
developing your own sovereigncountries, pursuing your own
unique visions and charting yourown destinies in your own way.
It's really incredible whatyou've done.
(26:48):
In the end, the so-callednation builders wrecked far more
nations than they built, andthe interventionalists were
intervening in complex societiesthat they did not even
understand themselves.
They told you how to do it, butthey had no idea how to do it
themselves.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
So the interesting through line from George Bush,
donald Trump to Obama was whenObama went to the Middle East
and gave his speech, he wassaying that it was not up to the
United States to go into theMiddle East and tell the Middle
Eastern people how to buildtheir own nations.
(27:30):
And he also made the criticismthat a lot of people who were
trying to do the nation buildingdid not understand the
traditions of the nationsthemselves.
It was a shot at the George WBushes, the neoconservative wing
(27:51):
of the Republican Party and,like I said earlier, he was
lauded.
He just said you're throwingAmerica under the bus, etc.
Etc.
But when you really look at it,especially now because time has
passed so far, you have DonaldTrump standing on the Republican
(28:17):
stage in front of thePresident's brother and looking
Jeb Bush in the face and sayingyou know your brother didn't
keep us safe and et cetera, etcetera.
And that was a shot across thebow at the Republicans who I,
you know, grew up respecting,like the John McCain's, et
cetera.
(28:38):
And Donald Trump is saying I'msorry all these nation builders
like McCain and Cheney, they'rewrong.
And I think now the generalpublic is actually on the side
of Trump, of Obama wing of theparty, who was against this type
(28:59):
of meddling and nation building.
Now, what's the mostfascinating part of this and by
fascinating I mean the part thatis going to catch all the
headlines?
I've already seen a lot ofreels on what's that place
called TikTok about?
It is the lifting of sanctionsthat the United States has on
(29:25):
Syria Syria, which is right nextto the United States' supposed
only real ally in the MiddleEast, the country of Israel, who
Israel is still currentlybombing regions that we roughly
(29:48):
considered Syrian.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
And also with President Erdogan of Turkey, who
called me the other day andasked for a very similar thing.
Among others and friends ofmine, people that I have a lot
of respect for in the MiddleEast, I will be ordering the
cessation of sanctions againstSyria in order to give them a
chance at greatness.
Oh, what I do for the crownprince.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, that was a funny line, what I do for the
crown prince, but look, this isa big deal.
The president of the UnitedStates is in the Middle East, as
(30:42):
in the Middle East, and whatmakes this more for lack of a
better term shocking as far asthe United States goes, the
president is going to the MiddleEast and has decided to not
visit Israel, the United Statesally, and that has been catching
(31:02):
waves.
Trump actually has beenreported to say that he has
called Netanyahu's leadership asIsrael a liability to peace
leadership.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
Is Israel a liability to peace?
President Trump is leavingIsrael off of his first Middle
East trip since returning to theWhite House, and Trump's envoy,
steve Whitcomb, told hostagefamily families this week that
Israel's government is draggingout the Gaza war, even though
here's the interesting part eventhough they say the us wants to
end it.
That's right.
Wyckoff said Israel is slowingdown a deal that would bring
(31:40):
American and Israeli hostageshome.
Now Trump is not openlyattacking Israel, but his recent
moves do show a sharp change inUS policy.
He cut a ceasefire deal withIran by Houthi rebels in Yemen
even after the missiles hitIsrael's main airport.
(32:01):
Trump also dropped US demandslinking Saudi Arabia's nuclear
plan to making peace with Israel.
Netanyahu's coalition, made upof far-right parties, is pushing
to keep the war going, but morethan two-thirds of Israelis,
according to polls, want the warto end if it means that they
get all the hostages home, whichthe Knesset puts at the bottom.
(32:24):
The Knesset is Israel's senatoror legislative body, congress.
The Knesset puts it at thebottom of its priorities.
Now Trump is signaling that hewon't let Netanyahu's political
fights stop him from makingdeals in the region.
He's expected to visit SaudiArabia, qatar and the United
Arab Emirates later this week,skipping Israel, a move that
(32:47):
would have been renderedunthinkable just a few years ago
by a United States president.
But Trump's allies say he's notagainst Israel, but he sees
Netanyahu as a problem, not apartner.
That seems like the first bigfragmentation in their
relationship.
The bromance is ending, y'all,I promise you.
(33:08):
Not as fast as I'd like, butultimately these egos are going
to bump heads.
The same way, I would argue,elon Musk and Donald Trump are
going to bump heads.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So that person you just heard was a sociology
professor, dr Mark Lamont Hill,and I'm in a part of this little
group college thing that wecall night school with Mark
Lamont Hill and I find it prettygood.
(33:38):
I read a book of his thatchanged my perspective actually,
about the Israeli-Palestinianconflict.
It gave me a lot moreperspective.
If anybody wants to check thatbook out a lot more perspective.
If anybody wants to check thatbook out again, his name is Dr
(33:59):
Mark Lamont Hill and the bookthat I read was called Except
for Palestine and again, exceptfor Palestine and it was by Dr
Mark Lamont Hill.
If you're a reader, you cancheck it out the paper or hard
copy edition.
If you like to have audio books, it is also available on
(34:24):
Audible.
And if you're more of a visual,like YouTube person, he has
done several good debates withpeople on the topic.
He's a scholar who has been tothe region, he's been there and
he also speaks Arabic and sohe's very knowledgeable on the
(34:53):
topic and this is a change.
I played that audio a whileback where President Trump was
talking about Bibi Netanyahu inthe first term, and President
Trump was very candid and saidflat out I don't think Bibi
(35:16):
wants peace and it was shockingto some of the allies.
But Donald Trump, I love him orhate him.
You know he's not one to mincewords.
He's going to say exactly whathe is thinking In the last
(35:40):
segment for today we're going totalk about this TV to Trump
administration pipeline, andthis is because Trump has tapped
a ready, loyal Pirro to thepick for the top prosecutor, and
(36:03):
it fits the mold.
Pirro, known as Judge Jeanine,has served as a district
attorney and a judge before shereplaced in battle nominee Ed
Martin.
Replaced in battle nominee EdMartin.
So Gene Perrero, the Fox Newshost, has been chosen by
President Donald Trump to becomeinterim US attorney in the
District of Columbia is thearchetype of what has been shown
(36:27):
to prefer his appointeescombative, camera-ready and
loyal enough to have sought todiscredit the results of the
2020 election.
That the president lost.
Yet Jean Pirro, a former NewYork judge and prosecutor, also
possesses enough politicalbaggage that she is sure to
provoke fierce partisan debateif Trump nominates her as a
(36:50):
permanent leader of the nation'slargest United States
Attorney's Office of thenation's largest United States
Attorney's Office.
Less than 24 hours after Trumpannounced Pirro's appointment,
hailing her as incrediblewell-qualified, democrats and
Republicans staked out vastlydivergent positions.
On her looming arrival inWashington, she replaced the
(37:10):
president's first interim choice, ed Martin, who is departing
after 15 turbulent weeks inoffice.
Senator Tom Tillis, theRepublican from North Carolina,
whose opposition to Martin andTrump's decision to replace him,
described Pirro's career inPost on X as a prosecutor as a
(37:31):
long story and said she's agreat choice as a long-stored
and says-she's-great-choice.
Senator Lindsey Graham, theRepublican of South Carolina,
gushed on X that Pirro is agrand slam home run hat-trick
pick.
But Democrats were equallyvociferous in their opposition.
Rep Dan Goldman, the Democratfrom New York, posted on X that
Pirro's appointment, after hischoice of Kash Patel to lead the
(37:54):
FBI, is another example of thepresident making a mockery of
the Department of Justice.
Alex Floyd, a high-rankingDemocratic National Committee
operative, said in a statementthat Pirro is yet another
unqualified televisionpersonality with a history of
putting Trump and his violentinsurrectionists above the law.
She'll be a disaster for publicsafety and an embarrassment to
(38:16):
law enforcement, just likeTrump's last failed pick for the
same job he said.
Pirro could not be reached forcomment on Friday.
According to the WashingtonPost, on late Thursday she
posted a photo of herself withSergio Gore, trump's head of
White House personnel and formerFox News colleague as well, who
(38:37):
posted a message congratulatingJudge Jeanine, who will soon
make the District of Columbiagreat again.
Beyond their heated rhetoric,democrats are seeking to learn
more about Pirro, who many onlyknow in her current incarnation
as a Fox News firebrand.
Although she has served as aprosecutor for three terms in
(38:58):
Westchester County in New York,pirro does not have the federal
law enforcement experience thatothers have brought to the post
in the past.
So, at the same time, pirro'sbackground as a district
attorney and judge, at least asfar as democrats could ascertain
, is a preliminary review of herbackground, distinguished from
(39:20):
her martin, who had noprosecutor experience before his
appointment.
Yet questions loomed, includingwhether perot, who is 73, is
prepared to dig into a legalminutiae of running the us
attorney's office.
Also, it is unclear as to howshe would handle trump's wish to
punish those he considers hispolitical enemies and, trust me,
(39:42):
the president considers a lotof people as political enemies
as he, as she postures as, assupported as a commentator and
whether she has to strike thebalance between Trumps and to
advocate in the strict ofimpartiality enforcer of federal
law.
Now, as of Friday afternoon,the White House had not sent the
(40:05):
Senate a formal notice aboutwithdrawing Martin's nomination
and it remained unknown whetherPirro would start in the post
other than by May 20th whenMartin's 120-day interim
appointments end.
The president also has not saidwhether he intended to nominate
Pirro for a full term as a USAttorney General.
(40:26):
Trump similarly named Martin onshort notice just before
Inauguration Day.
Senate Democrats said Fridaythey are reviewing whether
Pirro's interim 120-dayappointment, on the heels of
another interim appointment, islegal.
No president in recent memoryappears to have attempted to
install back-to-back interim USattorneys like Martin and Pirro,
(40:47):
bypassing the Senateconstitutional checks and
balances role, confirmingpowerful US law enforcement
officials.
In choosing Jean Pirro, thepresident displayed his
time-honored practice ofappointing a telegenic and often
blunt-spoken loyalist.
Pirro is the third full-timeFox host he has recruited inside
(41:08):
of the administration.
Pirro developed her politicalbrand in the suburbs of New York
, first serving as a judge inWestchester County and earning
the Judge Jeanine moniker thatis still a central part of her
on-screen appeal.
She was elected a districtattorney of Westchester in 1993,
a role she held until 2005.
Along the way, she evolved intoan ambiguous legal pundit, a
(41:33):
court TV regular with a deep,commanding voice during high
profile cases such as OJSimpson's murder trial, and
becoming something of acelebrity who transcended the
courts.
People's Magazine in 1997 namedher one of the world's most
50th beautiful people.
Eventually, she became popularenough to draw more than 1
million followers on Instagram,where she posts videos of
(41:55):
herself in stylish dresses,photos and her poodles.
Her relationship with thepresident began decades ago in
New York, where they fraternizein Republican circles and share
a certain bravado.
Once, when I was with thepresident and she walked up, it
was almost like they were fromthe same block, said michael uh
(42:15):
capito, a martin advisor andformer trump strategist.
She's a force of nature.
In her 2018 books liars,leakers and liberals, pierrot
wrote that the trump liked topromote her when they walked in
the streets of manhattanintroducing her to cops
construction workers by sayingyou know who this is.
This is janine pierrot.
She's a district attorney fromWestchester, pirro's former
(42:47):
husband, albert Pirro, whoserved as Trump's real estate
attorney before being convictedof federal tax evasion in the
year 2000, when he was districtattorney.
He was sentenced to 29 years,though he served only 11 because
President Trump pardoned him atthe end of his term.
Albert Pirro's downfall becamean issue that Pereiro had to
answer for.
She pursued her politicalambitions and sought statewide
office In 2006,.
She ran for Senate againstHillary Clinton, only to drop
out after a gaffe.
(43:07):
She pivoted and ran instead forAttorney General, only to lose
to Andrew Cuomo.
She was a star in theRepublican Party, but her
husband's scandal made it lesslikely that she could run
statewide, said Hank Schifuck, aveteran Democratic consultant
in New York, and tainted her.
Pirro then joined Fox News as alegal analyst in 2006 and began
hosting her own show onSaturday nights Justice with
(43:30):
Jean, justice with Judge Jeanine.
Five years later, it was thatrole that she became a fierce
advocate for Trump.
Her popularity soared in 2016when Trump's campaign was
imperiled by emergence of theAccess Hollywood tape in which
he talked about groping women.
Peril denounced his comments asdisgusting, but described him
as a gentleman and said shewould still be supporting him.
(43:52):
So uh well that's what it issupporting him.
So, uh, well that's what it is.
Welcome, judge Jeanine, to theuh post.
Lee said it looks like the postof the United States Attorney
General for the District ofColumbia, columbia.
It's funny.
I want to go to the realColumbia one day.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Before two million dollars that he's spending to
not have to show the birthcertificate.
There is a cleansing needed inour FBI and Department of
Justice, who should not just befired but who need to be taken
out in handcuffs like a crimefamily in the movies, except
this time the FBI is the crimefamily.
(44:34):
Was there hypnosis?
Are they using confabulation?
And I don't want to get intothe weeds here, but you know
what?
This is the kind of thing wherethey have a right to true cause
of examination.
Omar wears a hijab which,according to the Quran, 33,
colon 59, tells women to coverso they won't get molested.
Is her adherence to thisIslamic doctrine indicative of
(44:58):
her adherence to Sharia law,which in itself is antithetical
to the United StatesConstitution?
What we're experiencing rightnow is the CIA, an intelligence
agency, attempting a coupagainst the United States.
President.
Christopher Wray is part of thedeep state.
The president's lawyersalleging a company called
(45:19):
Dominion, which they say startedin Venezuela with Cuban money
and with the assistance ofSmartmatic software, a backdoor,
is capable of flipping votes.
If he believed that he won,pursuing all these avenues are
okay for him because inthemselves they are not illegal.
If you say, look, I need tofind 11,000 votes.
(45:42):
That's very different fromsaying I need you to find me
11,000 votes somewhere.
It's kind of interesting thatJill Biden went in during jury
selection.
You know it's kind of like amob tactic to kind of stare down
the jury selection.
You know it's kind of like amob tactic to kind of stare down
the jury.
If we get to the point where wehave to arrest governors and
other officials because theyprevent law enforcement from
working with ICE, it's time totake a side.
(46:05):
You're with the Americans oryou're with illegals who need to
be deported.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
That's just a little flavor of what you will be
getting with the new if she getsthe job.
Attorney General for theDistrict of Columbia.
Thank you for tuning in and wewill see you on the next episode
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