Who's Really Running the Show? (Ep. 84)

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without all the bluster.
Folks,
welcome to the Joe Russo.
Okay.
Well,
folks, I hope you guys had a great weekend.
A long weekend.
It was certainly a long weekend.

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We didn't do the show on Monday. It was Memorial Day. So,
hope you guys enjoyed
spending time with your family, with your loved ones.
Maybe you had a cookout.
But, the one thing I do hope is that, you didn't forget exactly what Memorial Day is all about.
Memorial Day is not about the barbecue, Memorial Day is not about beaches opening,

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and Memorial Day is not about, you know,
drinking cases of beer and
getting, getting shit faced and
all that fun stuff.
Memorial Day is a day that we remember
all of those who had fought
and died given the ultimate sacrifice

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for the freedom and the liberties that you and I have
to do those very things.
To have the cookout,
to have the beers,
to have the parties, to
spend the time with your family.
Those men and women that serve
and died in service,

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they don't deserve just one day.
You know, we give
other groups
months,
Right? You have pride month.
You have black history month.
You have all these other months,
but we give
one day

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to those that
served this country preserving our freedoms,
fighting for our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
and they just get one day.
I think that's wrong, and I think that needs to be changed, and I think, we need we need to celebrate
Memorial Day, if I can use the word celebrate,

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every day.
Every day should be a Memorial Day,
but
we make do with the day that we're given.
We can celebrate Memorial Day in our own way individually
every single day.
We can commemorate Memorial Day, that's a better word, right? Rather than celebrate, how about we commemorate

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Memorial
Day, Veterans Day,
Days like that where we recognize
the sacrifices that were made for us, so that we can have the freedoms that we have.
They need to be remembered, and celebrated, and memorialized,

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commemorated,
however you wanna express it, every single day.
But
that all said,
I hope you had a nice weekend. I hope you had a good long weekend,
And, it was it it seemed just to to to to, like, just drag on, and I'll be honest with you, I

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I didn't even realize that today was Wednesday.
You know, all day long I'm thinking today is Monday or Tuesday,
and, I missed being with you guys on Monday and, you know, but it was again necessary to take the time off and, and to reflect on those things that we just talked about.
But, at the same time, I missed being with you guys. I missed spending time with you and, and just talking about stuff going on in the world. And, so we're gonna get to it this we're gonna start this week tonight.

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And, we're gonna get into some of the things that took place in the news over the last couple of days.
But just some quick housekeeping things just to keep you guys up to date. Now, tomorrow,
we don't normally have a show on Thursday. So basically, the schedule is gonna be this. Let me let me just back it up. Alright. So we have tonight's show,
remember this is a live show every Monday, Wednesday, Friday

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from seven to nine central time.
Sometimes you go a little shorter, sometimes you go a little longer,
doesn't matter,
but seven to nine is basic.
Alright, now this particular week,
we're doing tonight's show, the usual show.
Now tomorrow night, we're gonna have a show because tomorrow night we are going to be interviewing or more like having a chat

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with,
a a great motivational speaker named Orlando Owen.
I am looking forward to this conversation and, it's gonna be very very interesting.
And what we're going to do now, normally, you know, we we cut the speeds to to,
to x, to,
Twitch, to,
YouTube,
at about fifteen minutes into the show.

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What we're gonna do
is we are going to keep the feed going
for the first hour of the show while we're with
Orlando Owen.
And, and then once, once we finish up that segment of the show, we'll take a break, we'll cut the feeds to the others, we'll come back, we'll do normal business of the day, and,

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we'll we'll get to, we'll get to some stories that we that are pending
our our discussion. Alright? And then we'll do a regular show on Friday. Saturday is our Saturday spotlight show, which will be basically a replay of the entire show for the folks on YouTube, Twitch, and x
of, the show with Orlando Owen. And then on Sunday,
so now I've been kicking this around. I I I'm not a % sure if I'm if I wanna do this or not, but, after,

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after speaking with doctor Teal,
I spoke to,
our producer, anonymous Angela,
and,
kind of kicked the idea around of perhaps doing a,
a special Sunday show,
for like a Bible study. Alright. Now, most of you know that, I did do another podcast where all all we did was bible study and and and sermon Sundays and so on and so forth.

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So
thinking about, bringing
one of those shows in on a Sunday Sunday afternoon
and, and and kind of reviving
at least that
aspect of it.
So, let me know what you think. Drop a comment down below. Shoot me an email at info@joeroos.com.
Let me know what you think. And, if we, if we do do this, sermon Sunday,

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it will be at 3PM. But I'll let you know, Friday,
once I've made up my mind if that's really
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Alright.
It's weird, like, the coffee. I don't put sugar in my coffee. Right? But for some reason, the coffee tastes like it has sugar in it tonight.

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So yeah.
It's good stuff though.
The, $17.75
coffee is amazing.
But,
yeah. I think I made a mistake tonight. I mean, maybe I threw some sugar and I didn't realize it. I don't I don't know. But doesn't quite
taste the same.
But, hey, that's okay. Alright. Let's turn that off and let us get to the news of the day.

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I am going to need more coffee soon though. So hopefully I get a long clip I can run out.
Alright.
Well,
some interesting things took place over the weekend.
So, this I wanna start off with something a little bit funny. So hopefully, you know, you find this as amusing as I did.
Could you imagine

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being the head of a state, the president of a country,
the premier of a country,
you know, whatever fancy title you wanna put on it,
and
just you're you're you're on your way to
to a a public event,

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the door of your plane opens, and just at that moment,
just at that moment with the cameras rolling,
your wife
decides to smack you in the face.
How how how would you feel
about that?
Well, you know, that happened this weekend,

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the entire world,
the whole world got a glimpse
into the relationship between
the French president Macron
and his,
wife, I guess,
Bridgette
Macron,

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who was actually his teacher
at one point in his life,
when he was a little boy, and somehow, someway,
you know, they ended up hooking up much later on in life.
But,
but, yeah. This weekend, just as the plane door opened up, Brigitte Macron decided to,
just

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palm him right in the face.
Let's, let's take a look here. There's a little bit of a slowed down clip, I think, but let's take a look.
Got that on loop.

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Yeah. It's a loop, so it's not once but twice. Now just take a look at his face though. That that is priceless. Let's let's take another look at it, a little bit of a longer clip here.

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Can you imagine what the conversation was back there?
I've just noticed this too.
He goes to take his hand and
totally ignores it.
Totally ignores the hand grab and,
I just want you to look at this too. I mean, could you imagine

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the absolute
frustration,
the embarrassment,
you know, I mean, just as a as a, you know, as a regular guy, just,
you know, have your have your wife or your girlfriend, you know,
smack you or something like that in public. I mean, that that's that's embarrassing enough, but you imagine being
the president of France, the the,

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of any country for that matter, and having your wife smack you in the face. Take a look at this. Just look at his face
in the bottom left,
just that tense, tense face,
and then somebody got a real close-up shot of that fist.
I mean, you talk about a clenched fist. I he I, you know,

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I would love to be a a fly on the wall
at the end of that day.
Oh my goodness.
You know, just
unreal.
Unreal. And and, of course, you know, the Internet
had its way with this thing.
Let's do this. I wasn't planning on on on showing this, but, we're gonna do that

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right here. Just imagine this,
having a blast.
I love these things. I think these things are great. They're they're hysterical.
So
so, yeah,
Not,
not a good look for the French president, so I kind of wanted to start off with that. Oh, this was funny too. Let me show you this.

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Some more things here.
The old beat up look.
That was a good one.
Yeah.
I mean just torturous, you know?
Now just I don't know if you I don't know if you can get a I can't zoom it in. At least, I don't think I can.

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But just look at that face. How is that
I'm sorry, folks. I I you know, I'm not gonna pull any punches, but that's a man.
You know?
Dude looks like a lady. Remember that song?
Yeah. So anyway,
that's what I wanted to start off with tonight, something something kind of funny,
just to just kinda get things going, because some of the things that we're gonna talk about tonight are kinda serious.

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And,
one of the things that, you know, we wanna talk about is this,
because it's just not gonna go away ever. This is this is probably one of the biggest scandals,
in in
in presidential history. This this this whole
Biden auto pen and,

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it is just not going anywhere. And today, some interesting,
names started to surface as who was kind of involved
with the whole autopen thing. Now, you could say that this is just a non story at this point, you know, it's
it's over, said, and done.
I don't know because
you are you you you're talking about the the the sitting president of The United States. Alright? And I and I say that loosely because I don't really think he won,

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the, the election of twenty twenty,
and, you know, I don't you can disagree with me. You could, you know, say what you want. I don't really care, but,
my opinion is is that it was a stolen election and he was a puppet president, and there were other people behind the scenes pulling strings. We've been saying that for a long time. We also talked about his mental capacity and and and his diminished capacity

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as the as the four years went on.
We knew he wasn't right from from 2020.
And even before 2020, we knew he wasn't right. There was something wrong,
and it took the four years to really fully play it out. And now
now we're finding out that, you know,
there's there was the auto pen scandal. There was the the the scandal of

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his,
his physician
not disclosing
just how much of a diminishment
Joe Biden experienced over the course of the presidency.
And this is the man that, in in in most regards, in most theories, has the nuclear codes, and I say theories because
was he really pulling any string? Was he really
sitting in that chair making the decisions?

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You know, was he really the one?
I don't think so.
And then today, this article comes out at Red State.
It says, as Biden's auto pen scandal grows, watchdog finds no evidence that the former POTUS knew about any of the signed orders.

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Well, that's interesting, isn't it?
I would say so, especially
when you go back to, I think it was March,
March of this year, and,
Mike Johnson,
was,
was being interviewed,
and,
he said that

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that that in a meeting that he had with president,
Biden,
that that Biden actually admitted to Johnson that he didn't remember signing
any executive order orders that paused the,
liquid
natural gas or LNG exports.
Do you remember that? Let's let's take a look at that clip.

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Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Like, I don't under you know, liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. Why would you do that? Because you understand we just talked about Ukraine. You understand you're fueling Vladimir Putin's war machine because they gotta get their gas from the pimp. You know? And he looks at me
stunned with this, and he said,
I didn't I didn't do that. And I said,

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mister president, you yes, you did. It was an executive order, like, you know, three weeks ago. He goes, no. I didn't do that. He's arguing with me. I said, mister president,
respectfully, can I could I go out here and ask your secretary to print it out? We'll read it together. You definitely did that. He goes, oh, you talk about natural gas.
Yes, sir. He said, no. No. I you misunderstand. He said, what I did is I signed this thing to we're gonna we're gonna conduct a study on the effects of LNG.

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I said, no. You're not, sir. You paused it. I know. I I have the terminal, the export terminals in my state. I talked to those people this morning. You're this is doing massive damage to our economy, national security.
It occurred to me, Barry, he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, we're in serious trouble. Who is running the country? Like, I don't know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn't know.

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We're in serious trouble.
I don't know who put the paper in front of him,
but he didn't know.
Now that was back in March.
Alright? March of this year,
on on the free press
show that, that Mike Johnson was on.

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So
you have this this group
that
this this watchdog group I'm looking for the name of it. Sorry.
So a watch let me just read the article to you. A watchdog representing energy workers is raising red flags after conducting a review of significant executive orders signed by Autopen under the previous administration and finding no evidence that president Biden was aware of them.

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The startling revelations come out as an official at the Department of Justice
has reviewed potential gatekeepers, alright, and we're gonna touch on this in a little bit, controlling the White House during Biden's tenure,
insiders have revealed a covert Politburo
was running the country, and the cover up
of his cognitive decline is being unfurled in public at an accelerated pace.

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The nonprofit organization Power the Future penned a letter to the House Committee Oversight Government Reform Chairman,
James Comer, outlining their findings and and demanding a more thorough investigation. They wanna know who was wantonly signing orders while Biden was safely tucked away for nap time.
Power of the Future remains concerned this is a quote.

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Power of the Future remains concerned that key policies of major economic and national security significance directed by the White House during the Biden administration
may have been undertaken without presidential awareness and approval, but perhaps instead by a small cadre of staff.

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And after the article goes on that that they analyzed,
multiple executive orders involving climate policy dating all the way back to 02/2001,
and according to the executive director of, of Power of the Future,
they found no evidence that Biden was actually aware
that he ordered it,
directed it, or that it was actually happening

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in his name.
Folks, this auto pen scandal is is
extremely important. It's extremely
it's extremely dangerous.
This isn't something we could just push into the dustbin of history. We got to really look at this, and we have to examine this.

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Don Junior. Donald Trump Junior. So how would the how are any of these executive orders from Biden even legal?
Since this watchdog found no evidence Biden knew crucial climate EOs
and,
and the demands the word and they're demanding answers as to who was signing with the auto pen.
That's a great question.

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How can any of the executive orders that the Biden's
administration signed, especially the ones right before his exit from the Oval Office,
you know, the ones that came out in December pardoning
Fauci and,
and and Liz Cheney and and the the j six committee members,
you know, all of those people. How is how is any of that even legal at this point,

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or the legality of it is actually being questioned
because of the fact that we don't know if he was even aware that these things were signed.
Now I know it's legal to use an auto pendants. Other administrations have done it. That's that's not the question.
That's not the question at all.

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But the question really is,
did he even know?
Who
was really running the White House?
Who was really running this country?

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Ed Martin. Do you remember Ed Martin?
Ed Martin was,
tapped by,
president Trump,
to be the,
the, district attorney for, the for Washington DC.
And that got that got canned, and now we have,

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Judge Deneen, which we're gonna get to later.
Not not saying that's an issue, I'm just saying we'll we'll talk about that later.
But Ed Martin now is the,
is the pardoning or the pardon attorney for the Department of Justice. So maybe even a better role for him to to be looking at these things.
So,
Ed Martin, the, incoming pardon attorney at the Department of Justice and the head of the DOJ's weaponization working group, announced last week that he's investigating

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the questionable use of the presidential auto pen for issuing pardons during the final days of the Biden administration. You You know what I think? I I think that that
for things like pardons,
there shouldn't be
the use of an auto pen. It shouldn't be allowed.
You know, it should it should have to be an actual physical signature.

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You know what I mean? So, just my thought, my opinion, I could be wrong. Drop a comment down below,
drop something in the chat, email me, let me know what you think.
Should
an auto pen be used to sign pardons, especially from people who were convicted of serious
crimes like murder and rape as this was?

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Martin disclosed on Tuesday that his pro has that his probe began weeks earlier while he was still serving as interim US attorney for the District Of Columbia.
Martin confirmed that the investigation into the auto pen's use has been active for some time and that he has contacted members of the Biden family, that several individuals of interest have retained legal counsel, and that a whistleblower has already come forward with serious allegations.

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Alright. So,
he,
so so Ed Martin popped up on a on a show with,
Mark Halpern,
and,
the show is called, Two Way Tonight.
And, this is what he had to say. Let's, let's go to that clip. It is
number,
what,
number four. Check it out.

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Hey. The president, if you're with us on the morning meeting, you saw talked at length,
at two stops before he went into the meeting with the house conference.
Talked to the media, and he talked a lot about this issue of the auto pen. All presidents use auto pen, but there seems to be a sense in the Trump administration that Joe Biden is something Ed, I think, is working on, that Joe Biden used the auto or or people used the auto pen to sign things on Joe Biden's behalf, including pardons

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that may be not not legally, constitutionally permissible if it wasn't actually the president and it it was it was some robot or whatever you call the auto pen. So here's number three. This is a truth social
post from the president,
about this topic. And, again, he talked about it at length this morning. Joe Biden was not for open borders. He never talked about open borders. We're criminals of all kinds. Alright. Blah blah blah. Go through the process. It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired and took that and that took over the autopad.

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They stole the presidency of The United States and put us in great danger. This is treason at the highest level. So, Ed, I'm where did this start, this notion that that the autopen was improperly used? And what evidence have you seen for the president's accusation?
Well, I'll make a I'll make a little news for you, Mark, here. I I was in the office as US attorney for about five days when I wrote to a number of, senior Biden officials,

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in the White House saying,
what did you know about Joe Biden's competence and the pardons? And I I got some responses, and,
and so I've been looking at this for a while. Again, I think the the question is more about competence. If you have someone who's not competent, they can't enter into a contract. Right? And if you do enter into a contract, you've committed fraud. The question is whether you use a tool to trick people into entering into a fraud. So I look, I the the the Biden pardons are unprecedented. The ones right before Christmas that he did people forget this. I think it's a couple thousand pardons that were done. Did he know about that? Did he really understand? Look, the pardon power is plenary,

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but the guy has to be competent to do it. Now you come forward to this question broadly of the auto pen. Auto pen is completely,
obviously
legal
if you're competent. And there there there must be a trail that shows
who was in charge of the AutoPen. I know this exists. Like, I worked for a governor. We had a system for an AutoPen to be able to use it. And so right now, we have unprecedented

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conduct, the pardons,
unprecedented admissions,
the books as well as the, staffers. I had a whistleblower in my office 10 ago, senior senior Democrat
saying, look, it was these three people that controlled access and they were making money off of it. I don't know if I believe it yet, but the point is, I think we have to get to the bottom of it for the American people and to protect the process, and that's what we're doing. And and and by the way, it may go all the way to the bottom. It may not be criminal, but it certainly should be a scandal of the first order,

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maybe in human history or maybe American history. I sound like, the president there. But in American history, to have this kind of, conduct.
And I'm from Maryland, not North Carolina, so I'm not that bright. Did I miss what the news was? You said you'd make news. What was the news you made? The news was that nobody knows until, that I was writing to,
these folks at the US attorney's office and including the Biden family. I don't think anybody has that has seen that. So

(37:35):
my point is I'm bragging about being there early. Everybody got to this a hundred and twenty days later. Did they reply or you just sent them letters? No. They did. What? Did they what did they say?
What a couple of them lawyered up, and one of them wrote directly. I won't talk about what they said. And can you and and you probably won't tell us, but but can you characterize who the the whistleblower? Was it somebody who worked in the Biden White House? Biden, Biden campaign. 2020 campaign at the highest levels. 2020. And and who are the three people they said were doing this for money? This is the one that's, well, let me say it carefully. Yeah. The the the the gatekeepers,

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different characterization of who was using the access, but the gatekeepers were Clain and Anita Dunn and, Bob Bauer. And those three were really dominant characters,
in the White House. Rickety a little bit and obviously Jill,
but I think that was the three.
I was with
this person and I said, what about Susan Rice? What about some of these others? And they said, no. This was these were the ones. Okay. I will politely and and gently say tell you the name his name is pronounced Richeti.

(38:36):
Oh, okay. Well Just so you know. Just so I know. Okay? Yeah. I'll I'll make sure. If I meet him, I'll tell I'll get it right. Okay. He's a very nice guy. I think you'd like him if you met him.
Like, that's important. Okay. Anyway, the important thing is here. So you have Ron Klain, who served as Biden's White House chief of staff from 2021 to 2023.
And then he came back to help him out with, debate preparation.

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And then you have, Anita Dunn, who was a, a former senior advisor.
And then you had, the former attorney, the personal attorney to,
Barack Obama,
Robert
Bauer. So,
that's who
he identified as the gatekeepers, then, of course, he put in Steve Ricchetti
and, and and Jill Biden.

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So this is
incredibly troubling.
Incredibly troubling.
You have this group of people that they they refer to as gatekeepers, basically,
making the decisions for the president,
The

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alleged
president?
Basically,
when you really sit down and think about it,
that inner circle there, those gatekeepers, they came up with this plan
to run the country

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on behalf of Joe Biden,
because
of the obvious,
cognitive
cognitively
impaired
state
that, president Biden was in.

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Now you got guys like Jake Tapper,
you know, mainstream media guys that
knew this,
that knew about the cognitive impairment of
Joe Biden,
and yet covered it up and tried to tell us that we were all crazy for thinking that,

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I remember what's his name? Joe Scarborough,
talking about on on on MSNBC
that this is the best Joe Biden ever, sharp as attack, you know, that all of that stuff. We I think we played a montage
a few weeks ago about that. But,
and then you had Jake Tapper as well, you know, in defense of the president talking about, you know, how how incredibly

(41:12):
intelligent he is, how smart he is. And I'm not saying he wasn't intelligent or smart. I mean, I I know people say he's dumb as a rock, but,
I'm I don't know him personally, so I can't say I've never interacted with him personally. I've just seen what I've seen on TV. And, yeah, he's an idiot. But,
is that because of dementia, or is that because he's just an idiot? We'll leave that up to you to decide.
But,

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Alex Thompson,
who, worked on the book with Jake Tapper,
said that,
Biden's White House aids planned to handle the daily running of the country
while occasionally presenting Biden to the public as proof of life. Can you believe that?
And this came up in an in a,

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in an interview
that he did on, Fox News. Let's,
let's take a
look at that clip.
So this is the financial system of the future, Jesse. And we
Wrong one. Sorry. Do I have that clip?
I don't. Sorry. Never mind.

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At
least I don't think so. Let me
No.
I do not have that clip. I am sorry. I thought I pulled it. My fault.

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But the quote is, the damning revelation was made when Thompson appeared on Fox News. Quote, he just had to win and then he could disappear for four years. He'd only have to show proof of life. Every once in a while, his aids could pick up the slack,
Fox News Sunday host, Shannon Bream, quoted from the book. Thompson explained how the aide justified
the appalling plan by claiming that when voters elect the president, they also vote for his close aides. However, aides are not supposed to be running the country instead of the president. They're only supposed to be, there to support the president and ensure that they are functioning properly by coordinating their activities, not replacing them.

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And then this person went on to say that when you're voting for a president, you're voting for the aids around him. He also noted that the White House aids were unelected individuals and not even senate confirmed.
However, it would be unlikely that they would they would carry the insidious
and possibly treasonous plan alone without the cover of some Senate Democrats
and the media, which, of course, we all know helped cover Biden's decline.

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Now,
Jake Tapper
went on to, Piers Morgan's show,
Piers Morgan Uncensored,
and, of course, you know, Jake Tapper here is, you know, as one of the people who tried to cover up this whole thing,
is now out there,
you know, as, you know, as the guy that broke the story that that Joe Biden's cognitive decline was, was was being covered up and hidden.

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He goes up onto, Piers Morgan show, and, he this is where,
let's see. That's clip number five. Let's roll it.
This brings me to your conclusion, which said Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon. The hiding and the cover up of his deterioration
is not Watergate.
I'm not entirely sure I agree, Jake, with that conclusion.

(44:27):
Yeah. I'm not entirely sure. The next the next line is the next the next line is it is an entirely separate scandal. It is a scandal. Yes. It is
it is it is it is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways. Right. Right. Because Richard Nixon
was in control of his faculties when he wasn't drinking. And, you know, so the idea that,

(44:51):
yeah. We don't we don't mean to exonerate. We just we the only reason that we have the Watergate thing is there because we quote, Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator, talking about,
how powerful the presidency
is and how presidents get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in keeping that president propped up. So that's the only reason we invoke Watergate is just to make clear, like, it's not Watergate. This is an entirely separate scandal. Maybe even worse. I I I maybe even worse.

(45:18):
Yeah. I think I think arguably it is worse, actually.
Now, the the funny part of the whole thing is is that
Jake Tapper is is again, one of those guys
that went out there
and,

(45:38):
tried to trash the claims
that there was a problem with Joe Biden.
I mean, it's a grift. That's exactly what this is, and I'm I'm looking here at the article.
Ironically, Jake Tapper had trashed those claims by calling Wall Street Journal claim false, only to co author a book and confirm
the same thing. It's a perfect grift. The book also previously disclosed how cabinet members were scripted and questions were predefined.

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Cabinet meetings, I'm sorry, were were scripted and questions were predefined, making them feel fake and rehearsed. Seemingly, the aids made all the decisions and fed Biden with all the acceptable answers.
So again, folks, this is this is horrible. This is a horrible, horrible scandal. And yeah, it is
it is worse than Watergate.
It is infinitely worse than Watergate. This is this is probably the worst scandal in in

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in modern presidential history.
You have a president of The United States who is who who who has no idea what
his signature is being applied to.
His staff is just rolling him out as quote unquote proof of life,
while this small little politburo, as they described it in the other article,

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made all the decisions.
You wanna talk about treason.
Good grief.
This is app this is treason.
Now it gets even more strange,
this whole thing.

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This whole thing gets even more strange
because
a very interesting name has popped up because, of course, the question is, well, who had access to the auto patent? And and and who was who was the one, you know, behind the whole thing, you know, orchestrating this whole thing? And, today,
a very interesting name came popping up.

(47:35):
Very interesting name.
In this, town hall piece,
by Matt Vespa,
what is going on with this Joe Biden auto pen fiasco? The justice department is investigating whether some of the pardons issued by Biden were legal
as we are learning more about the depths of the cover up regarding his mental health. It could be his overall health is the latest revelation that he has stage four metastatic prostate cancer, which does not materialize

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after a hundred or two hundred days. It takes years.
That's why the auto pen
is now the subject of an investigation. DOJ official Ed Martin said it's illegal to use, but both parties must be cogent.
Biden was obviously not. Martin is wasting no time in his new job, helming the weaponization task force and working as a pardon attorney.
He said that a senior Democratic whistleblower had come forward, adding that it needed Don, Bob Bauer, and, Ron Klain were the top three people.

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And then on Jesse Waters' show,
investigator,
investor, excuse me, David Sachs, who's also,
President Trump's admin
crypto czar,
he he came up with something very he threw a name out there that was kinda surprising.
Let's, let's take let's take a listen here.

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So this is the financial system of the future, Jesse, and we have to encourage it. What the Biden administration was doing and let's face it, it wasn't Biden. Elizabeth Warren controlled the auto pen during that administration.
She, for some reason, has this pathological hatred of the crypto community. She wants to drive this community offshore. She doesn't want it happening in The United States. That's the wrong policy for United States. We want all the innovation happening here. This is a financial system of the future. It's cheaper. It's more efficient.

(49:19):
We want it happening here, Jesse, and I think people are thrilled that president Trump is making that possible.
So Liz Warren,
that's interesting, isn't it?
I would say so.
Now, I I don't
for for some reason, it doesn't strike me as,

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yeah, that's her. You know, she did it. I don't I don't think that she did,
Or or at least that she wasn't the only person involved with,
the Auto Pen situation.
I'm sure there were others involved as well, but, it it doesn't really totally surprise me that her name pops up in that.
Because, if you remember, there was this clip that went around,

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where Liz Warren was on a,
a podcast, and
she had this to say.
Seven.
Do you regret saying that president Biden had
a mental acuity? He had a sharpness to him. You said that up until July of last year.

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I said what I believed to be true. And you you think he was as sharp as you?
I said I had not seen decline. Now for those of you listening,
the facial expressions At that point. You did not see any decline from 2024 Joe Biden to 2021 Joe Biden?

(50:44):
Not when I said that.
You know, the the thing is,
he look.
He was
sharp. He was on his feet. I saw him. Live event. I had meetings with him a couple of times. Senator, on his feet
is not praise.
He can speak in sentences,

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is not praise.
Fair enough. Fair enough.
Interesting.
Now, when you watch that clip, and you put that together with how now she's linked to the auto pen,
it kinda makes more sense now when you're watching that, doesn't it?
But like I said though, I really think that, you know, obviously we're gonna keep on watching this because this is this is

(51:32):
it's it's it's incredibly scary that this actually happened in in in this country.
And,
and I I really I really believe there's more than just these four people that that were mentioned involved.
I I I I really do.
But, of course, you know, the bigger question here is too, is,

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is will this scandal actually hurt Democrats with voters?
Another, piece from town hall.
As we learn more about the Biden cover up, which was really more of a conspiracy of lies by power hungry partisans about something that was plainly untrue to anyone paying attention
or even lose attention, the worse it looks. The people around the former president understood that he wasn't capable of consistently executing the duties of the office.

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Rather than being transparent about this and urging him to step down or pursue in the twenty fifth amendment,
they collectively lied about his capacity and condition, insisting, in fact, that he could serve another
full term into the year two thousand twenty nine.

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In order to maintain their grip on political power and to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president again, they engaged in an unconstitutional
presidency by
committee, a cabal of unelected aids, a politburo,
ran by the ran the executive branch, replacing or filling in gaps for a quasi incapacitated
president who was sliding into senility.

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They denied all of this all along,
savaging anyone who noticed the president's obvious decline as merchants of cheap fakes. Remember that one? Cheap fakes?
And misinformation.
They habitually placed the perceived interests of their political tribe over the interests of the country.
Another layer of detail about the scandal of
historic

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magnitude.
This is, this is Alex Thompson,
attributed to the Washington Examiner,
how the Democrats justified shielding
Donald Trump,
shielding Biden as to
not help Donald Trump to win.

(53:46):
They weren't telling the truth. And I think the book really conclusively shows what was going behind the scenes. And throughout 2023
and 2024,
there were steps taken to increasingly shield Joe Biden, not just from the public,
but from, you know, members of his own cabinet, members of his own senior staff. In the book, you quote a long time Biden aide basically admitting he shouldn't be running again. They said to you on page 85,

(54:08):
he just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He'd only have to to show proof of life every once in a while.
His aids could pick up the slack. Who would have been running the White House in a second Biden term? Well, this person went on to say that when you're voting for a president, you're voting for the aids,
around him. But these aids were not even senate confirmed aids. These are a White House aids. These were unelected people. And one of the things that really, I think, comes out in our reporting here is that if you believe and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy. You can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic

(54:44):
things, which I think is what this person is talking about.
So you're you're definitely talking about something that Congress needs to be investigating, like, incredibly fast. This needs to this needs to come
to a head.
Alright.
Is it something that's gonna get resolved overnight? No. Not at all. This is gonna take a long time,
but it needs to start now. And I'm I'm I'm really incredibly disappointed that we haven't started seeing more,

(55:11):
activity on this than we already are.
Here's,
this is Guy Benson, the the author of the article
on,
on Fox News
talking with,
Lawrence Jones
where he was asked if the Biden decline or unconstitutional

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presidency by scandal will hurt Democrats,
and here was the answer.
Good question. I think events will probably play a role. Oops. Wrong clip. Sorry.
Here
we
go.
Good question. I think events will probably play a role in that.
The prices
If people feel relatively
comfortable and optimistic, I think that

(55:54):
they will probably
have more time and bandwidth to care about being systematically
lied to about the well-being of a president. That should be a really huge deal. If people feel like their lives aren't getting better or maybe getting worse or what have you, then the party that did all of that lying could, by default,
benefit politically. That's sort of how the system works. But in my mind,

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regardless of the political facts on the ground in the months and years ahead,
there should be a gigantic at least a gigantic
asterisk
Yeah. Next to the credibility
and the truthfulness
of anyone who is in on this cover up, and it was a lot of them.
Oh, absolutely.
Just like the Democrats wanted the asterisk

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next to the name of Donald Trump in the annals of history for being,
impeached multiple times
in his first term.
This there should definitely be an asterisk on this one. This is this is an incredible,
genuine,
and serious scandal. Absolutely. Without a doubt.
Here's Guy Benson again.
They knew that the president was not capable of doing the job at least some of the time. That's not just a political scandal, and there's a big political scandal component to all of this, of course. That is, to use one of the other phrases that they like to employ quite a bit, a constitutional crisis, a real one. Right? The power of the presidency, all that authority is invested in a person who has been elected by the American people

(57:20):
in the president.
If they felt
like he couldn't get the job done at least part of the time, and I think it probably
that that portion of the pie grew and grew as time went on, there is a constitutional mechanism
to rectify the situation, but they didn't go there, of course, because that would have admitted
that the conspiracy theory, quote, unquote, was true about his capabilities and his function. And they were still planning on running him for another four year term. So you had basically in private, in secret,

(57:50):
a small group of unelected people running the executive branch that is not allowed under the constitution, and that is a genuine
serious scandal.
Or, again,
a constitutional crisis.
A legitimate one. An absolutely legitimate one. Not one of these BS ones that Democrats like to throw out all the time. This is actually a legitimate constitutional crisis. You know, Donald Trump deporting illegal immigrants,

(58:16):
illegal aliens
back to their home country
is,
is
with without what they call due process, because, again, due process only applies to American citizens.
And the left says that that's a constitutional crisis.
No.
This is a constitutional crisis.
This

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I don't think anyone I'm I I
I think people really need to start to appreciate the gravity of this whole this whole scandal
of just how serious this is,
of what this could have led to.

(59:10):
Congress, DOJ.
And where's Pam Bondi?
Where the hell is she?
Where's the FBI?
I don't wanna get down a whole
thing with with the FBI stuff. I'm I'm really disappointed
so far in in what I'm seeing with

(59:33):
Cash Patel and, and Bongino.
And look, I get a you know, I worked in law enforcement for a number of years. I did investigations for a number of years. I understand that these things, you know, sometimes take time.
But how much more time do you need before we start seeing some some action on this? I mean, you promised the Epstein files nothing.
Nothing of substance anyway.

(59:57):
You know, you you you you made all these promises.
Let's see how long it takes before they start getting into this Politburo
that was run running the previous administration.

(01:00:21):
Well, another piece of happy news.
Let's, let's move away from
Auto Pen. And let's, let's talk about probably one of our our favorite people in the whole world,
and,
that would be
your friend and mine, David Hogg or Hoag, whatever you wanna call him.

(01:00:41):
Well,
David Hogg is the,
recently elected, quote, unquote elected
DNC vice chair who's actually,
being challenged right now as
the DNC has determined that their process was did not fully
meet their, DEI qualifications.

(01:01:04):
So,
so mister Hogg might be finding himself on the way out, and I think that's probably part of the reason why they're they're letting him get exposed the way he's been being exposed.
But
very interesting video came out today,
and it's, listed as part one of the DNC vice chair David Hogg.

(01:01:27):
And,
the revelation that, Jill Biden's
doctor Jill Biden's chief of staff actually ran
the Biden White House. Now, Project Veritas
released
part one of this undercover
investigation
that,
that,
that made this revelation as to who was actually controlling the Biden White House.

(01:01:52):
The,
there were some
you know you know you know how Project Veritas works and and O'Keefe Media Group works. They, you know, they go they go in and and they send in some undercover
investigators,
and they build up a a relationship with these, with the subject of the investigation, and they sit down and
end up getting them to talk about all these things on camera.

(01:02:14):
And,
and that's the case that happened here. So,
in in in a very candid on camera admission,
David Hogg stated
that, Joe Biden's chief of staff, Anthony Bernal,
had an enormous amount of power.
Now let's take a look

(01:02:36):
at that clip.
Very good. Yes. Nice to meet you. Yeah.
Off the record, of course.
Foundational question for me is, like, how corrupt is the DNC if
so many people knew or few people knew about Biden Well the president of The United States. I mean, I think the fact of the matter is the DNC is always gonna be, like, a campaign arm of the president, ultimately.

(01:03:00):
The bigger issue was, like, the inner circle that was about Biden.
That's Andrew. And I can't stress I can't stress you enough. But Jill Biden's chief of staff,
like, had an enormous amount of power. Joe Biden? Jill Biden's chief of staff. That was like an open secret at the left hand. Like, I would avoid him. Like, he was scary. The
house.

(01:03:23):
I've never seen him. Exactly.
What do you mean? He's just like a he's like a shadowy, like,
wizard of Oz type figure. That's what made him so,
like because I knew how he looked, but, like, the general public would know how this man looked.
But he wielded
any, like, an enormous amount of power, and I can't stress to see how much power he had at the White House.

(01:03:58):
Interesting,
to say the least.
So this was the, the image that, they they had put up.
This is,
this is Anthony Bernal right here on the left with the red square around him, and this is the transition staff that, the the the Biden administration put together.
And, he was the senior adviser to doctor Joe Biden. That's exactly what it says there.

(01:04:20):
And,
this is the guy that they say was actually pulling the strings,
behind the scenes.
Like you said, you're a Wizard of Oz type. You know, nobody really saw him. He just he was just there, but his presence was felt.
So this is this is huge.
And, it just seems like every day,
something else comes up about the previous administration.

(01:04:43):
And,
just to show you just how absolutely corrupt
that was.
Now,
the House Oversight Committee,
James Comer revealed that, White House staffers, Annie Annie Thomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Ashley Williams were identified as operating an auto pen to sign Joe Biden's documents including pardons and executive orders. Subpoenas are planned.

(01:05:06):
Well, I I I love the fact that the subpoenas are planned, but how about we actually
issue the subpoenas? How about we actually get them brought in? How about we actually question them? And, you know, let the American people see the level of corruption
that is the Democratic Party.

(01:05:26):
This is stuff that needs to be brought out to the public. And, yeah, of course, I absolutely agree. I think for sure that that, you know, it well, at least for sane people, this is going to definitely affect the, Democratic Party,
going forward. I don't know how I don't know if the Democrats are gonna win any any any federal,
high level positions,
in government and through an election at this point without stealing it.

(01:05:51):
It it I don't see how it could well, but then again, you know, again, stealing it, that's one way.
This article here on, Red State says that, you know, we all know that Biden wasn't making a lot of the decisions in his administration as more and more dirt drops are finding out who was.
Anthony Bernal character keeps coming up over and over again.

(01:06:14):
Hogg just keeps causing more and more trouble for the Democrats,
and,
I am, for one, here for it. We should be thrilled each day that Joe Biden is back home on the beach in Delaware, and Kamala is wandering around somewhere
in California.
So,
this is just a scandal of

(01:06:36):
outrageous
proportion
to say the least.
Moving on from this, how about we get to some nice news about
the current president of The United States, Donald Trump? So, according to,
ABC News on your side, Trump's approval rating hits a new high as 50% of voters say America

(01:06:59):
is on the right track.
Where where is that?
I got it right here. Here we go.
So
update, right direction just in, rolling average of last night and prior four nights uncharted territory as per Rasmussen.
Now Now Rasmussen, of course, is one of the more reliable polls that are out there,

(01:07:19):
so, you can you can be rest assured that this is
very well researched and and thoroughly vetted out.
So,
US voters increasingly optimistic.
50%,
of the 50%, seventy five GOP, thirty one Democrat,
others 45% men, 57%
women, 44%.

(01:07:41):
And,
so so this is incredible news
for this administration. The number, according to Rasmussen,
reports, polling has, disapproved rated 45% of the president. The polling, the first time in the company's history that a majority believes the country is on the right track.
After a convincing win at the polls, president Trump's approval rating has gone up and down with each decision, but now there appears to be optimism.

(01:08:08):
It goes on to talk about Trump's big beautiful bill, which,
yeah, it I don't know. I got some issues with it, but
we'll see how that goes.
What else we got here? So,
approval ratings for Donald Trump. According to Blaze,
despite relentless attacks from the left, president Donald Trump's approval ratings have progressively increased, marking a stunning turnaround from last month's lows.

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Since beginning a second term of office, Trump's disapproval rating peaked at 52.4 in late April according to RealClearPolitics.
The drop in support came just weeks after Trump rolled out 10% baseline tariffs as part of his Liberation Day declaration of April 2.
His rising ratings directly the result of his easing the concerns about tariffs. Trump's critics,

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slammed his tariff announcement further fueling concerns about economic uncertainty.
Then the article goes on. It's
it's a really nice piece on Blaze.
Alright.
What else we got here? Let's see.
Well,

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this happened today.
Today,
judge Janine
was
sworn in
to serve as the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia. She, she was a replacement pick for,
for Ed Martin, and, looks like that's paying off.

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Donald Trump said, over five decades, Jeanine Pirro, known by millions as judge Jeanine, has devoted her life to the pursuit of justice,
the defense of freedom, and fair, equal, and impartial rule of law.
He spoke highly of Piro's legal track record saying she went after real criminals, not fake criminals like we seem to have it's like we seem to do nowadays.
So Janine Piro, I have no doubt, will be an exceptional US attorney for the District of Columbia and one of the truly most important positions in our country.

(01:10:01):
And, she gave a really nice,
really nice speech
at,
after she was sworn in. So we have a little piece of it right here. Let's let's roll that.
And it is a larger arena, but no less an arena
where we need justice,
where we need to send a message

(01:10:22):
that justice will be honored in the District Of Columbia.
And
just last week here in our nation's capital,
two people on the brink of beginning their life
had hopes and dreams that were never realized
because a cold blooded murderer
made a decision to shoot them down on the streets

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on a cold rainy night in our nation's capital.
This will not go
without just accounting.
My voice should be heard loud and clear.
No more,
no more tolerance of hatred,
no more mercy for criminals.

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Violence will be addressed
directly
with the appropriate punishment
and this city will again
become a shining city on a hill
in an America
that president Trump
has promised to make great again
and will make safe again.

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Now last week,
Jeanine Pirro announced another major arrest. In a press release, Pirro's office announced that a Washington state man who live streamed threats has been convicted on several charges. A 39 year old man from Pasco, Washington was found guilty
by a federal judge yesterday of illegal carrying two guns without a license, unlawfully possessing ammunition, and spreading false information and hoaxes, US attorney Jeanine Pirro,

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and FBI assistant director in charge, Stephen j Jensen of the Washington field office, made the announcements.
Judge Carl Nichols
of the US district court found Taylor Toronto
Taranto
guilty of all charges and will set up a sentencing hearing deciding whether to grant the defense's request,
to free Taranto until the sentencing
hearing.

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On 06/28/2023,
Taranto streamed a live video of himself while driving his van near National Harbor, Maryland. He told the crowd that he had been working on a detonator,
and he was going to drive a car bomb into the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
He was going after a neutron generator on the NIST grounds,

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that he drove across the Williams Wilson Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia,
parked his van on the street, and fled to show his audience how to fake an emergency.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI's Washington field office moved right away to find Taranto and let other police departments in the area know about the possible bomb threat.
Following that, Taranto recorded another video in which he was seen driving around the Kalorama neighborhood of DC.

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This is how the FBI found out where he was. The police caught Taranto at
Kalorama and found out that the bomb threat was a fake.
So
a
lot of good things happening there. That's fantastic.
Fantastic news.
We wanna see more of it, and we wanna see the DOJ
and Pan Blondie I mean, Pan Blondie,

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do more stuff too. That would be nice.
Some in in some,
Doge news,
the house plans to codify Doge cuts into law. We'll see if that actually happens. This congress has passed
fewer
bills to the president's desk than any congress in history.

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Fewer.
The latest thing is now they wanna wait until the midterms, which is, which is absolutely ridiculous because in the midterms, they're gonna lose.
They're gonna lose the midterms because the because the Republicans are getting frustrated
with the lack of action, with the lack of doing.

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House speaker Mike John Mike Johnson announced the house is ready to act on the cost savings found by the Department of Government Efficiency, which is overseen by tech mogul Elon Musk.
The Louisiana Republican highlighted some of the waste, fraud, and abuse Doge exposed, including the amount USAID was spending to the more than 12,000,000 people on Social Security who were over 120

(01:14:28):
years old. The house, quote, the house is eager and ready to act on Doge's findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that president Donald Trump wants the American
wants and the American people demand.
He says, the house will act quickly to pass legislation, yeah, we'll see,
to codify the doge cuts once the White House sends its rescissions page using the appropriations package to implement Trump's twenty twenty six budget.

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Alright. So, we're hopeful. We'll see how that all works.
Again, not
not too hopeful that this is gonna actually happen.
You know, it's a it congress is a do nothing congress.
They're they're I think they're they're more like
they wanna sabotage

(01:15:16):
the president's agenda, I think, more than the Democrats do. I I I start to get more and more convinced of that between the inaction with the DOJ, the FBI,
with between the lack of bills being presented to the to the presidents for for signing,
between, you know, the the issues and with the senate getting enough votes to to pass the president's agendas.

(01:15:38):
It it's just it's just pathetic. It it truly is. It it really is.
So in some,
some nice economy news. So, Donald Trump says
$9,000,000,000,000
of investments being injected into The US economy,
manufacturing, and supply chain.

(01:15:59):
He,
released a list the White House actually released a list of, US based investments
in the second term, and it's just, like, 66 of them. So I'm gonna screen share, some of this with you so you could see the, complete list. Let me just pull that up.
Alright. This is from the White House website.

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The Trump effect, a running list of new US investment in president Trump's second term.
So let's see.
Project Stargate,
500,000,000,000.
Apple, 5 hundred billion.
Nvidia,
5 hundred billion.
IBM, a hundred 50 billion.
Taiwan Semiconductor,

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a hundred billion.
Johnson and Johnson, 50 5 billion.
Roche,
50 billion.
Bristol Myers Squibb, 40 billion.
Eli Lilly, 20 7 billion.
UAE,
25,000,000,000.
Novartis,
twenty three billion.
Hyundai, twenty one billion.

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And then 5,800,000,000
for a new steel plant in Louisiana.
Then John Deere, twenty billion, and the list goes on. There's I I can go through the whole list. There's
60 over 60 of them on the list, and all of this brought in
by the president
in just a few months.

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So this is huge.
And, of course, goes it doesn't even include The US investments pledged by foreign countries,
committed to investing 1,400,000,000,000.0
in The US over the next decade. Qatar committed 1,200,000,000,000.0,
Japan, One Trillion,
Saudi Arabia, Six Hundred Billion, Taiwan,
announced a pledge to boost its US based investment,

(01:17:47):
undisclosed amount. So
great,
great news on the, on the economy, and,
I think president Trump is doing a fantastic job in that. I give him an a plus
on that one. I give him an a plus on security. I give him an a plus o overall.
Few things I'm not too thrilled with, but
that's okay. We that's the beauty of of

(01:18:11):
of a representative republic. We can agree to disagree.
Alright. Let's see. Dan Bongino.
Wonderful news. Dan Bongino confirms FBI is reviewing White House cocaine, SCOTUS leak, and January 6 pipe bombs.
Great.
Great. We'll see how long that's take this takes.

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In a post on X, Bongino revealed that he and FBI director Kash Patel made the decision to either reopen or push additional resources and investigative attention
to these cases. The news follows increased scrutiny from lawmakers and the public over the lack of a resolution in each of the investigations.
And, let's let's pull up his tweet here. I have it
right there.

(01:18:56):
Hopefully, you can see that. It's kinda small, I know, because I had to I had to reduce the size of it.
Basically, it says I, you know, requested
where was I? I requested briefs on these cases weekly and I'm making progress. Bongino stated the FBI director also urged the public to assist the investigations by submitting any relevant information and tips directly to the agency.

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So,
so the first case is being reviewed. It involves pipe bombs that were I don't know if you remember this, that were discovered at the,
RNC
and the DNC
headquarters on 01/06/2021.
And the surveillance footage actually shows,
an
a guy, you know, face covered, you know, mask, hoodie, all that stuff, placing bombs near the buildings the night before.

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And, of course, you know, despite years of investigation,
no arrests have been made.
No information has been passed on to the public.
And, of course, you know, that just goes along with the previous administration's transparency and thoroughness and so on and so forth.
Then you have the Supreme Court leak,
which took place, and,
that was a a leak of the draft of the Supreme Court's landmark,

(01:20:12):
Dobbs decision,
and the women's women's health organization
decision.
The leaked draft published by Politico in 02/2022
revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe v Wade, which it officially did the following month.
And, of course, the leak sparked protests
outside the home of several justices by these raving lunatic Democrats who want nothing more than to be able to kill a child.

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In 02/2023, the court announced its internal investigation failed to identify the leaker.
Then the third is going to be the,
the White House cocaine discovery, which is another unresolved case. July 2023 when the Secret Service found a small bag of cocaine inside the White House. The the discovery came after Hunter Biden, the president's son, had visited the building.

(01:20:59):
And, despite Hunter's
well documented history of cocaine addiction, Secret Service closed its investigation without identifying a subject.
Let's see. And, of course, f b r FBI reform teams are expanding.
Bongino has confirmed the FBI is expanding its internal reforms teams. We will have new hires for our reform teams onboard by next week. This will help us in doubling down our reform agenda. Well, I hope he's right. You know,

(01:21:28):
you know, I I I I do have a lot of respect for Dan Bongino because of his his background and his history.
You know, I I just I
I I just wish there was there was more action. I wish there was more to be seen
with what's, you know, what's been taking place.

(01:21:53):
I don't know.
I'm hoping that this is that that this
will actually
turn into something. We'd like to see some convictions here or at least
some arrests, something.
I think I think the American people,
the 77,000,000
that voted for Donald Trump are getting a little impatient at this point.

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Alright. Let's see.
And then, of course,
to wrap this up tonight, we're gonna just really briefly mention because it's already late.
So as you know, as you probably heard,
Ukraine,
struck
Russia. Russia retaliated.

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President Trump
publicly publicly
now warned Vladimir Putin that he's playing with fire and then horrible things would would happen
if it was horrible things would have happened to Russia if it wasn't for for Donald Trump.
So,
Trump took to Truth Social to convey his message on Tuesday.

(01:23:01):
What what Vladimir Putin doesn't realize that if it weren't for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean really bad. He is playing with fire.
You know, the one thing you know, president Trump has not been shy about
voicing his criticism, his concern with Putin, you know, lately.

(01:23:24):
When, he returned from the West Point commencement, he was asked about,
about an update on the on the war, and,
the, Breitbart London bureau chief,
Oliver JJ Lane, noted, yeah. I'll give you an update. I'm not happy with Putin's doing it. He's killing a lot of people, Trump said. I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. Something happened to this guy. I don't know. I don't like it. And he went on, and these then these comments were followed by another bombshell post on Truth Social, which,

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Trump referenced
that he had Putin that he and Putin have had a strong prior relationship with the Russian president has gone absolutely crazy, and that would be this Truth Social post right here.
I've always had a good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He's gone absolutely crazy.
He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I'm not just talking about soldiers.

(01:24:14):
Missiles and drones are being shot into cities in Ukraine for no reason whatsoever. I've always said that all he wants that he wants all of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that's proven to be right.
But if he does, it'll lead to the downfall of Russia. Likewise, president Zelensky is doing his country no favors by by, talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems. I don't like it. It better stop. This is a war that should never have been started if that would have never been started if I were president. This is Zelensky's and Putin's and Biden's war, not Trump's. I'm only I'm only helping to put out the big and ugly fires that have been started

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through gross incompetence
and hatred.
Amen.
Of course, we all wanna see peace
through this. We don't wanna see
all the bloodshed. And Donald Trump has been very, very,
open and vocal about
that desire, that he doesn't wanna see the bloodshed anymore. He wants it to stop.

(01:25:12):
And, of course, all of this activity is just it's just
it's teetering on
an all out world war.
NATO is gonna end up getting involved.
Sorry. I just realized I'm playing with this.

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NATO is gonna end up getting involved
more than it already is, and,
this is gonna really escalate
out of control very soon. And, really don't wanna see that happen.
You know?
And then, let's see.
Zelensky,
Trump thinks Putin is more annoying than I am. You know, more just crap out of

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Zelensky
trying to stir up trouble. And, you know, Zelensky is just all it's all he does. He's just trying to draw everybody into this conflict.
And,
unfortunately, it looks like it's working.
It really does.
Russia dismisses Trump calling Putin crazy as an emotional reaction.
Of Of course, he gets emotional, and, of course, as someone who does not like anything to stand in the way of noble goals, he looks at it a certain way and shifts rhetoric.

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The Russians claim president Putin's helicopter was attacked by a swarm of Ukrainian drones last week while he was visiting Kursk, the Russian territory that was occupied by Ukrainian forces in a surprise counteroffensive of August 2024.
Russian officials claim that the last of the invading forces were driven out of the area in April.
So that's what started this whole mess,
this recent round of mess, I should say. So,

(01:26:47):
alright. Well, I think, I think that's it for tonight. I did have some Texas news you were gonna get to, but I can hold off to that till tomorrow.
Again, you know, I really do need to spend some more time talking about local stuff and and Texas stuff because that is where I live and,
you know, that's what we're trying to do and bring more light and attention to,
this beautiful place that we call

(01:27:09):
Texas.
So,
I think pretty much we're done at this point. So how about this? How about we give our shout outs?
So again, thank you to our executive producers, Wayne and Rosanna Rankin. Thank you so much. Also, our thank yous to our producer, anonymous Angela. Thank you for everything that you've been doing. You've been a big help.
Folks, listen, don't forget, tomorrow night, we got a show tomorrow night. We're gonna be talking to,

(01:27:33):
Orlando Owen in the first hour. Second hour, we'll be getting to some good news. And,
then Friday night, Saturday, and possibly a Sunday show. But we'll tell you more about that later on. Alright, folks. Let's listen. Let's make Texas independent again. Go podcasting.
Keep a steady stride,
and we'll see you tomorrow night right here on the Joe Russo. Good night, folks.

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