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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Vari Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
What we've got here is failure, Milky.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may may
not have even known that. You know, America firsters pac
Madison Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro
Nazi Germany rally.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You said over the weekend referring to it, there's a
direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yes? I do, Yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Jimmy Garbige, I see floating down there as his supporters,
his his his demonization seems unconscionable.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
And it's on American You could put half of Trump's
supporters into what I call the basket of deplorable.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Look at the he went reading, look at the.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Look at the life.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
We lead away with the dumb the fall. You know
that's a little bit old.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
That chart that charts a couple of months old. And
if you want to really see something that said, take
a look at what happened.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
You're not dwelling, great dog.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
We bled the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
We are one people, one family, and.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
One glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims and
Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining our
colors in large numbers, larger than anyone has ever seen
in this country before, larger than they've ever seen in
any country. And the Republican Party has really become the

(02:48):
party of inclusion. And that's something very nice about that.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well, good morning. I'm happy to have you here with
us for a for a little conversation. It's a it's
a treat to get to share time with you. I
feel like mister Rogers walking into the room and switching
out from my jacket to my uh to my my cardigan,

(03:28):
and from my from my dress shoes to the soft
cloth shoes. I don't know what you call those. I
want to explore a theme this morning and to have
a conversation. And I understand it from many people, this
is absolutely under unacceptable. But but I want to talk

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generally about how we are to treat people upon their
passing who we did not like in life. Now I
understand there is for many people, particularly Christians, particularly older Christians,

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the sense that it's impolite to criticize those who pass,
that upon passing, we should all just join ranks and
say that that they were wonderful people. And uh, it's
it's crass and craven to to to say otherwise. And

(04:37):
I'm not suggesting that that we show up at at
the funeral for Lindsey Graham and and protest, but I
do find it disturbing that upon the death of a
person for the purposes of politics or celebrity or an

(05:02):
event the making of a martyr of that person. Considered
the George Floyd case, there were at least three, maybe
four large public memorials for George Floyd. You couldn't say

(05:22):
at his memorial, here was a man that cared for
his what twenty kids, We don't actually know how many kids.
He had, an officer who worked the detail to kind
of corral his family and protect his family. They were
not under any threat. At the Houston funeral that Sylvester

(05:45):
Turner insisted on having in the middle of COVID when
your grandfather couldn't be buried World War two veteran that
he was because of COVID. Those folks, the Turner administration
in the black activist and the Democrat Party activist in
the media. Oh, we had to have the beatification of
Saint George Floyd. I find that troubling. I find it

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dishonest and dishonorable. I think that truth matters. I did
not like Lindsey Graham. I didn't know him. I just
know what he did in public. I know what he
did in the role in which he was entrusted by
the people of South Carolina. I know the actions he

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took and know the words he took. I'll play for
you coming up in a bit what Charlie Kirk said
about him.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
And I'm surprised how many people have immediately silenced any
criticism of what Lindsay Graham was up to because he's
died and now we can't we can't do that.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
And President Trump said he's a hero, so we've got
to love him. He's a hero. Well, if he lived
another month, President Trump might have said he was a
dirty dog low down, son of a gun that's never
been trusted, and nobody likes him, and he's effeminate, and
he's gay. I mean Trump's known to do that. I
mean there are people that Trump will tell you on
Monday he loves and everyone loves him, and then on

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Tuesday he decides I hate him and I always hate him.
And I don't know that that's I find that odd
that that seems to me, that seems me an odd
way to come to our conclusions about him. But Lindsay
Graham was a warmonger, and I don't like warmongers, and
I don't like people who want to to send our

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troops all over the world to get shot up and killed.
And and that's not just my association with Camp Hope
and veterans with PTSD. That's that's good public policy. And
now there are all these conspiracies. Will well, Lindsey Graham
was in Ukraine the day before he died. Maybe the
Russians got him, or maybe the Ukrainians killed him, because

(07:58):
by killing him you can blame it on the Russians,
and the Ukrainians need more billions of your dollars. You
don't think they do such things absolutely. What was the
US senator doing. He's not the Secretary of State, he's
not an international diplomat. Was he there promising more billions
of our dollars? He had just won the primary in

(08:19):
his state recently, and the man he beamed will be
our guest.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Your photo matters.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Just a matter of days ago, Lindsey Graham won the
Republican primary to be the nominee to the Senate in
the November election from the great state, the Palmetto State,
South Carolina, and he did so convincing the almost sixty
percent he was He would be serving out his fifth

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six year term, just like John Cornyn if he were
to have won in November. But of course, he passed
away over the weekend at seventy one from a heart attack.
The man who challenged him in that primary was our
guest during the primary, and he is our guest again.
Today's name is Mark Lynch. Welcome to the.

Speaker 8 (09:09):
Program, sir, Thank you sir for having me on. Mark.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Let me start with asking you, if the campaign is fresh,
why did you challenge the sitting senator who'd been there
for twenty four years.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
Well, at first, if I could, I would like to open.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Up with prayer.

Speaker 8 (09:27):
Sure, sure, all right, our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowild be thy name, Thy kingdom. Come, Thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us
this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who have trespassed against us. And

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lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from me.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory
forever and ever. Amen.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Amen. So why why did I first be grand? First run?

Speaker 8 (10:03):
Yeah? You know, I was asked to God put it
on our heart when people started calling, and from our
reputation as being a community leader and our business experience
of running a successful business the last forty years debt
free and we're now business My dad's are being married

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thirty eight years with two children and four grandchildren, and
being debt free personally, and being a deacon in our
church and leading a political activist group and our community
in the state, fighting bad bills and helping get the
good people elected and getting rid of the bad ones
and just doing a lot of activist work. We got
asked to run, and I said who would you have

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me run against? And they said Lindsay Graham you know,
he's you know, it's a tragic thing that just happened
with his death. We've been praying for the grand family.
And Darlene, i know, got appointed as the interim senator
yesterday as a Trump suggested that to our governor and
he graciously complied with that, and she's the interim senator.

(11:08):
So that's good. But you know, when we get back
to business of the US Senate, my focus is to
bring back God first. You know, we're murdering sixty four
million of our children in the womb. We're we're okay
with gay marriage, We're okay with LGBTQ plus, we're okay

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with men and women's sports, and we're okay with shutting
down the country with a flu virus and all these things.
There's a lot of craziness going on and the times
we're in and people know my stance. They know that
I'm a guy that has integrity and courage and boldness
and I won't compromise. And so I was asked to
run to help fix some things that are broken. But

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you know, I'm not going to fix anything. God's the
only answer. If we're going to make America great again.
We got to bring Jesus Christ back first, front and center,
and let him guide our country and our decisions. And
that's what I'll do, use God's word to make biblicult
decisions based on his truth, and that honors the Constitution.

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And I'm called to do that. So that's why I ran.
And we're still any campaign doing those things. Well he
you know, so it's all about truth, and I'm not
trying to disparage things. But as his employee of ours,
we get to talk about him. And he had a
fifty seven percent lifetime average voting record. Constitutionally, he claims

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to be pro life, but he was for murdering babies
up to fifteen weeks in the room. He's funneling money
and as the head of the Budget Committee, was sending
money to the enemies of our country, to Hamas and
al Qaida through USAID. And he's putting our tax dollars

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that we don't have and obtain for illegal alien sixty
five point sixty seven billion in the last quarter of
twenty five, in the first quarter of twenty six. We're
funding people that aren't supposed.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
To be here.

Speaker 8 (13:16):
We don't have the money. We're bankrupt as a country
at thirty nine threellion dollars in debt. So it's just,
you know, it's time to stop the stupid and do
the common sense right things. And that's what I'll do,
and that's why people have asked me to run.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
I agree. We called him Lindsay Grahamnesty because he was
so wrong on the issue of illegal immigration. He was
no right in my opinion. He was no real conservative.
He was a guy that hung around for four terms
and the only thing he seemed to care about was
funding foreign governments and foreign wars. And I find that
very disturbing. I'm just curious. I mean, almost a third

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of the people of South of the Republicans of South
Carolina didn't want him as their senator. To my knowledge,
I think you were a first time candidate. You didn't
have a lot of press, you didn't you didn't have
the big name, and that tells me a lot about
his support or lack of it in the state of
South Carolina. Much like John Cornyn was booted here in Texas.
I think that I think that rank and file voters

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and workers and parents and Christians are tired of these
people who are more focused on funneling money to foreign
governments than they are making America great again.

Speaker 8 (14:29):
That's correct, and I assume you'll be rand of you. Yes,
So we announced our back our campaigns turned back on.
We're not jumping in the race. You know, we have
a lot of people that are I'm a successful businessman,
debt free businessman. I'm not a career politician. But some

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of these people who say they're for term limits and
everything have been in the House and they've run for
governor and they're now running for US Senate. They're just
going to they're looking for the next seat further their
political career. That's not my goal. My goal is to
bring our nation back to God. And that's the fix.

(15:12):
What am I going to do? I'll bring him back
and I'm bringing him back right now. And I got
called out by God this morning in prayer starting my day,
feeling the pressure of this campaign again, and He's like,
you know, there's a Save Act. We've all been talking
about that and we can't get that passed. And God

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told me this morning, you know, because people have suggested
that we name the Save Act to Lindsey Graham Save
Act because he co sponsored that. But it's been sitting
out there a couple of hundred days and we can't
get it passed. God told me this morning, I'm the
Save Act. My name is the Save Act. So that's
what I'm bringing. In the name of the Save Act

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is Jesus Christ.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
And Martin Len's thanks for making time for us.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
Your son, Fackelberry, George, I can't.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
You're excited. So a lot of Americans, many of you,
lost a loved one in Vietnam. A lot of Americans
lost a loved one in America as a result of Vietnam.

(16:29):
In fact, I forget the number. David Mosby will update
me on occasion, because unfortunately the number continues to grow
the number of people. I think it's two to one
the number of Vietnam veterans who committed suicide upon returning,
some of them four or five decades later. The number
of Americans who committed suicide is more than double those

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who died in theater. Why what does that happen? And
why so many people taking their own life. There is
a percentage in society of people who commit suicide in
modern America, and I don't know what that number is,

(17:15):
a one percent or half of one percent, but the
percentage of Vietnam veterans upon returning is much higher, and
the common denominator being including it's in letters, it's in statements,
it's in it's in case files. That Vietnam created for

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them a framework within which they could no longer survive.
And so you have to ask the question, why did
we do that to that generation? Were we under attack? Now?
You had an internal civil war, an internal civil war

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that I don't think America quite understood why it was
happening or what was happening. There is our involvement from
the outside, and of course there was Communist country involvement
from the outside as well, but I don't believe that
that was the primary driver of it. There are a

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lot of people who have revised their histories and their
analysis of what happened in Vietnam and why that war
turned against and I'll use the phrase that American historians
against us because somehow it became our war, the war
of North and South Vietnam became somehow our war, and

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we fought the war, We staffed the war, we gave
our boys for the war, and a lot of mothers
never saw their son come home. A lot of fathers
had to bury their sons, and he thinked to yourself, well,

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what was the purpose? Is it fair in your grief
at that moment to be angry as at what we did?
Is it fair that a lot of lies were told?
Lbjlyed that we were having success when in fact we weren't.
Nixon wanted out in January of sixty nine, but he

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couldn't find his way to it. He thought it'd make
him look weak. And then with the seventy two election pending,
he told a lot of lies, including the fact that
he was bombing in other countries which was outside the
scope of authority. Was not a defensive maneuvers, not an
emergency maneuver. That's the imperial presidency we see today. I'm

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not trying to relitigate the war. I'm trying to ask
a question, at what point is there accountability for these
supposed leaders who are sending our sons into war to
be killed with seeming disregard for the value of their lives.
Support the troops, okay, I'll support the troops. Is there

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ever a war we don't support? Is there ever a
time we send our boys into war that maybe fifty
years later we step back and go, wait a second,
Why were we there? Originally we were sending advisors that
went back to JFK. Why were we there? Why did
we stay there? Why did we assume the mantle of

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the war? Oh, the Domino theory and the communist surge?
Or did that happen? Because Vietnam did fall and by
the way, Afghanistan did fall. And I don't think that
Iraq is the example of American foreign policy success. What

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are the costs? What does the human toll?

Speaker 8 (21:12):
Do?

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Human lives matter? We spend so much time talking about
the sanctity of life with regard to abortion. What about
the sanctity of Pat Tillman's life? What about the sanctity
of Operation Red Wing lives? I mean, it seems like
these things should matter. And we haven't even begun to

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discuss the financial costs because the human cost is far
more important. So how is it that Lindsey Graham is
standing over there rooting for more war? Jim, do you
have the quote of him a few months ago saying
that you're gonna have to send your sons to the
Middle East? Yeah, go ahead, whenever you have it, just

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fire away. I called on you late. You know what,
let's do Charlie Kirk first, and while you're doing that,
you can find it. This is Charlie Kirk talking about
Lindsey Graham and the neocons and they're push for regime
change in Iran.

Speaker 9 (22:11):
On one side is the Lindsay Graham John Bolton types
where they are actively calling for regime change. Here is
Lindsay Graham and this is just lunacy. He's this kind
of analysis is not helpful, this kind of approach, this
kind of argument says nothing new in nuclear weapons at

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this point. This is now that we want to go
all in and take out the regime. It's time for
us to close the chapter on the Iranian Ayahtola and
his henchmen and start a new chapter in the Middle East.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
That sounds good, doesn't it.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
But what have we learned When it comes to wars,
and especially wars in the Middle East, what you draw
up on a whiteboard rarely happens what you think theoretically
is going to occur. There might be unintended and unforeseen consequences,
especially when you're talking about a country two and a

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half times the size of Texas and has ninety million
people and was an ancient and great power with well
over a dozen ethnic groups. You have underground Christians, you
don't really have many Jews left in Persia, but also
you have secular younger Persians. Who's going to run the
country exactly Lindsay Graham, this sounds like Hillary Rodham Clinton

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in Libya. So I'm pointing to the first extreme right now,
the neo conservative extreme. We must go take off the
head of the snake right now.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
And here was Lindsay Graham just a few weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
I go back to South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
I'm asking them to send their sons and daughters over
to the Mid East.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
What I want you to do in the Mideast?

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Star friends and sorry Raven other places step forward and
say this is my fight too.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I join America.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm publicly involved in bringing this regime down.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
If you don't, you're making a great mistake, and you're
going to.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Cut off the ability to have a better relationship with
the United States.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I say this as a friend.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
It's going to go back to South Carolina and tell
them to send their sons to the Middle East. Of
course he won't be sending his son, no man. I
fear if people knew what was happening and why it's happening.

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I fear even more than anyone who questions why any
of this is happening is somehow anti American. I guess
it's this effect is like calling people racist if they
start questioning, you know, fraud. It works. So yesterday there
was a press conference and it said Harris County, Precinct one.

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Behind the speakers, that's Rodney Ellis. It didn't say Harris County,
it said Precinct one. It's very important. It's a very
important show of power, control and domination. Rodney Ellis is
not playing around anymore. He wants everyone to understand that

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Rodney is Harris County, not the little nut job puppet
that they had installed Lena Hidalgo. Interestingly, a couple of
days ago she announced I have Mono, and because I
have Mono, I'm not going to be my.

Speaker 10 (25:50):
Usual public self. I'm not going to be out in
public like I normally do. But but please understand that
if Vida is not leaving you, I'll always be here

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with you, even when I'm in France or if I
go to watch soccer in Miami or or anything else. Ramon, Jim,
do you have the Lena Hidalgo mono case study. Recently,

(26:36):
an interesting case study was conducted on a certain patient
we all know, and uh, we'll have to be careful
with this due to the hippo requirement.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
So we can't release the name of the person as
if we for sure know who the person is, but
you may be able to figure out who the doctor
is referencing.

Speaker 11 (26:58):
Good afternoon. I'm doctor Ellen Prosky. Today's case study mononucleosis
and a thirty five year old woman who holds elected
office and has not been romantically involved with anyone since
the last time Joe Biden was cognitive.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
So a long time.

Speaker 11 (27:11):
Chart says unclear, chart says possibly never. Naturally we asked,
she said, quoting I love two things. My cat in
power and the cat knows where he stands. The cat's
name is Hugo Chavez. She named him that on purpose.
So we retraced her week. Epstein bar moves by saliva.
Somebody saliva got in there, not Hugo. We checked Hugo's fine.
Hugo is thriving. Hugo has seized the couch and shows

(27:34):
no intention of relinquishing it. Thursday group therapy, That's where
we found it. Her group uses a talking stick. You
hold the stick, you have the floor. Nine adults, one stick,
unwashed since twenty eleven. Thursday, a retired Donald hygienis named Marlene,
had the stick and the patient, a sitting official, went
down on the carpet, kicking, screaming fists, a grown woman howling,

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I wasn't finished. Then she grabbed the stick and she
bit it. Teeth on wood. That's the transmission event. Nine people,
saliva and one bad temper. She's issued a statement blaming
Marlene and the dog. She doesn't own a dog. I'm
doctor allan Proski. Kiss somebody. It's safer.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
So Lena had all go announced three days ago. I
have mono. That's what the doctors have identified. So don't worry.
I won't be out in public like I normally am.
And I know I know the public, my public needs me.
But I'm just going to take a few days off.

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And then the next day she's at the event for
the Family that is the new the Mexican George Floyd
for the Democrats, this time giving everybody their mono. So
Rodney Elli says he will ask Commissioner's Court, which means
he'll tell them they're going to do this to fund
Harris County District Attorney Sean Tier in an independent investigation

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into the shooting of the illegal alien who tried to
run over an Ice agent. Of course, the independent investigation
will be led by Shawn Tier. Shawn Tier, you will remind,
you will remember, is the candidate that Rodney Ellis recruited
to boot kim Ogg, a Democrat who they had supported before,
to boot kim Ogg out of office because kim Ogg

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was investigating Rodney Ellis and Lena had all go, and
we can't have that, so they put their person in there.
So now Rodney Ellis is saying, we're going to and
why is he doing this? Do you ever wonder how
a precinct commissioner basically a city councilman for the county,
a guy with one quarter of the county, a guy

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whose primary jobs is parks and dog parks and some
roads and some street signs. How that guy is famous
across the state and all the way to the White House.
You ever wonder? Because he delivers Houston and for the
Democrat initiatives. He makes sure that when Democrats need to

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make a headline, he moves mountains to do it. And
this is just the sort of thing they need to
stir up discontent, and they call Rodney and they go Houston,
get on it. He's I'm already on it. Of course,
of course you are. Meanwhile, the activist and attorney representing

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two of the illegals who were in the van when
the van tried to run over the ICE agents and
they shot and killed the illegal that is a subject
of all this. Well, it turns out that that attorney,
Ugo Balderas Ibarra is uh, well, all that KPRC TV
tell you.

Speaker 12 (30:48):
Hugo Balderaz Ibarra is the immigration attorney representing Daniel Pantoa
and Jose Piego, two of the men who were in
the van with Lorenzo Selgato Arajo during the deadly ICE
shooting last week. Harris County court records show so Ebarra
is currently facing a felony assault charge. Harris County court
record show Balderas Ebarra was charged in January and later
indicted by a grand jury in February on a charge

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of assault family violence by impeding breeding. According to charging documents,
a woman who dated Baldera's Ebarra told investigators he became
abusive after they moved in together in May of twenty
twenty four. The document states the woman decided to leave
after finding something on his phone. She told investigators Balderaszbarra
agreed to bring her luggage to the airport, where she

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says he grabbed her by the throat, squeezed her neck,
and prevented her from breathing for several seconds. The charging
documents also stayed an officer photographed redness and swelling on
her neck from that day. I also found court records
showing Balderas Ebarra was convicted of domestic assault in Iowa
in two thousand and nine and second degree burglary in

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two thousand and eight. Balderas Ebarras next court date is
on the assault case is July twenty first.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
He is also.

Speaker 12 (32:01):
Facing kidnapping and battery charges in Seminole County, Florida, with
his sentencing on those charges this Wednesday, according to court
records there.

Speaker 9 (32:10):
Now.

Speaker 12 (32:10):
I've reached out to Baldera Zebara for comment and I'm
waiting to hear back. The Texas State Bar website states
that he's been licensed to practice since January twenty twenty
five and currently has a probationary license.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
I also reached.

Speaker 12 (32:23):
Out to Lulac and to Congressmoman Sylvia Garcia's office, both
of whom have appeared with Baldera Zebara during recent news
conferences representing the detainees.

Speaker 13 (32:34):
So even his law license is on probation. Man, they
have brought out the real a team. Hey, we need
to get a lawyer for these guys. Uh, okay, Well,
Ugo has.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
Been he got he's got burglary. He he's accused of
choking out a woman. He's got a Oh he'll be good.
But we need a We need an Al Sharpton, a
little bid Al Sharpton. Will we have leader Jimmy, we
have Leado Johnny Matta. We still have Little Johnny Matta. Yeah,
I didn't even know he still existed. Oh yeah, bring

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Johnny Mata out here. Oh, this is gonna be good. Well,
we need a broke down congressman. Well, how about Al Green? No,
not that good. How about Sylvia Garcia