Bad News About the Supreme Court Race. No, Not This One.

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a beautiful afternoon as we start another busy broadcast week.
But we have got some bad news about the Wisconsin
Supreme Court race. No, not the one that's coming up
in less than a month next year. Is huge political
news rocking the state of Wisconsin. Without any further ado,
let's get right to it. Top stories we are following

(00:52):
right now here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, Wisconsin Supreme
Court Justice Annette Ziegler announces this morning she's going to
retire at the end of her term in twenty twenty seven.
That creates yet another vacancy on the court and another
open seat Conservatives will have to defend. We'll get into
what that means for next month Supreme Court election and

(01:12):
for the court moving forward in just a second. Then
at three point thirty five, it's a big Dan O'Donnell's show,
exclusive allegations of a huge conflict of interest and potential
self dealing royal the mayoral race in Brookfield is a
Liberal candidate trying to get low income housing in the
community to benefit a nonprofit who's bored. He sits on

(01:33):
the details in about a half hour. Meanwhile, Secretary of
State Marco Rubio is providing an update on the situation
in Iran.

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I want everyone to know your military is getting the
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and their navy is being eviscerated. And the world is
going to be a safer and a better place when
this mission is accomplished.

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All right. The big story, probably the biggest news in

(04:09):
Wisconsin politics since the last high profile conservative retirement of
Robin Voss a couple of weeks ago. This morning, former
Chief Justice Annette Ziegler's stalwart conservative on the Wisconsin Supreme Court,
issues a statement saying she is not going to stand
for reelection in twenty twenty seven. She says, after three

(04:29):
decades on the bench, now is the right time for
me to step away to spend more time with my husband,
kids and grandkids. I am incredibly proud that in all
my elections I had support from a broad spectrum of legal, civic,
law enforcement, and political leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, who
believed in my commitment to fairness, ethics, and the rule

(04:51):
of law. Ziegler was first elected to the Court in
two thousand and seven. She defeated a Madison based attorney
by the name of Linda Clifford in an absolute she
lacking fifty nine percent to forty one, and that was
a very high profile, very high spending race to succeed
the retiring John Wilcox. She was actually elected again in

(05:13):
twenty twenty seven against do you remember who she ran
against ten years ago? That's actually a trick question. She
ran unopposed. Liberals could not get there, you know what,
together enough to actually feel the candidate to take on
a net Ziegler. She was that powerful of a presence
on the court, and quite frankly, Democrats and their liberal

(05:36):
candidates were on a massive losing streak. I went back
and looked at the last ten state Supreme Court elections
and prior to this decade in which Conservatives have won
precisely nothing. The last election that Conservatives have won I
consider something of a faric victory. I'll call it a
half win, as Brian Hagadorn, the alleged Conservative, very narrow

(06:00):
won his election by half a point. But if you
go back to the preceding decade, Conservatives won nearly everything.
They won five of eight races from two thousand and
eight to twenty nineteen by an average of about two
point one points, with of course that one in twenty
seventeen being unopposed. But as the Walker coalition aged and

(06:25):
quite frankly moved out of the state became snowbirds, but
actually moved down to Florida and became Florida residents. It
has become much much more difficult. I have written and
talked about this extensively, and I firmly believe that for
all the hand ringing and all the gnashing of teeth
about the liberal overspending in Supreme Court races, yes, the

(06:48):
single biggest donor to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin is
in fact Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, who apparently
loved having sleepovers with Jeffrey Epstein on his private island
as well as on his ranch in New Mexico. That
New Mexico ranch that nobody even knew Epstein had, well,
Reid Hoffman did. And so far the Wisconsin Democratic Party has,

(07:11):
of course refused to give back any of the fifteen
million dollars that they've taken from epstein sleepover buddy Reid Hoffman.
But in spite of all of that spending, and George
Soros and the Governor of Illinois JB. Pritzker are two
of the other biggest donors, and Democrats have overspent, They
have outspent Republicans, they have outspent Conservatives by a significant

(07:33):
amount over the last decade. In spite of that, I
truly do believe that the biggest thing that conservatives face
is that demographic shift. The Scott Walker coalition that was
so powerful, especially in the so called Wow counties at
waukeshaw Ozaki and Washington throughout Governor Walker's three elections in

(07:53):
twenty ten, twenty twelve, and twenty fourteen all but disappeared.
You also had the great liberalizing of the suburban soccer
mom which led to and the age of Donald Trump,
a far different electorate that Republicans needed to turn out.
We will get into all of these broad demographic shifts

(08:14):
and what they mean moving forward, especially as it pertains
to the upcoming state Supreme Court election, which has flown
so far under the radar that I think the vast
majority of people in this state don't even know that
there is a Supreme Court election coming up on April seventh.
It's not for control of the court. It is, however,

(08:35):
to potentially forestall a Democrat takeover that could plunge this
state into unconstitutional governance for at least the next generation.
I mean, folks, I don't want to paint too gloomy
a picture here on a bright, sunny, gorgeous spring afternoon.

(08:56):
But let's not kid ourselves about why ant Ziegler retired.
She's not stupid. Yes, she wants to spend more time
with the grandkids. Everybody wants to spend more time with family.
But she stepped down for the exact same reason that
Rebecca Bradley, another incredible conservative did earlier this year. She

(09:18):
saw the last three state Supreme Court races, and even
in one where Democrats weren't actually outspending Republicans by all
that much, the results have been remarkably consistent. In the
last three state Supreme Court elections, the liberal candidate has
won by an average of ten point six five percent.

(09:42):
Last year, Susan Crawford in easily the highest spending Supreme
Court election or any judicial election in the history of
this country, for control of the Supreme Court for the
second time in three years. She handily beat Brad Shimmel,
who ran a very good campaign. And remember he was
backed by Elon Musk and Musk's America Pack. Well, this

(10:05):
was right around the same time that Musk had launched
Doge the Trump administration was just getting going, and Musk
was in the news pretty much every day for what
was going on with Doge. Liberals invented some insanity about
him doing the sig Hail Hitler salute at the inauguration
and freaked out about that, and Democrats smartly ran the

(10:28):
election not against Brad Shimmel, who everybody pretty much likes
and is now US Attorney for the Eastern District of
Wisconsin at least for the next couple of days. If
Tammy Baldwin has anything to say about that, he will
not be even though he's probably the most eminently qualified
human being to ever sit in that seat. But that's
a different topic for a different day. Shimmel ran a

(10:49):
great campaign. He ran a fantastic campaign, so Liberals didn't
even try to run against him. Instead, they ran against
Elon Musk. The result was the same. Crawford won by
ten in a race where Elon and Trump really didn't
have a whole lot to do with it. In twenty
twenty three, the first time in a long time, in

(11:10):
fifteen years, that control ideologically of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
was up for grabs. Janet Proto Sawitz absolutely blew the
doors off of the vote, and she destroyed Dan Kelly
by eleven points. Now, Kelly's central argument in twenty twenty
three for being the Conservative nominee was that when he

(11:31):
ran in twenty twenty it was the COVID election. There
was just no chance that anything was going to be
normal in that race. And of course he lost by
ten to new Chief Supreme Court Justice Jill Kerowski. No surprise,
he lost by ten. It was the COVID election. It
was the COVID election. He needed to do over well.
He ran again in twenty twenty three and lost by

(11:51):
a bigger margin. Take out the very narrow Brian Hagadorn
win in twenty nineteen. Again, I'll consider that ahead victory
since Hagadorn has voted on critical cases with the Liberals
more often than he's voted with the Conservatives on these
highest of high profile cases. You also put in there.

(12:11):
In twenty eighteen, Rebecca Dallitt won her election by eleven
point five percent. Liberals have won the last three elections
and four of the last five by an average of
ten point sixty five points. Let me say that again
in a state that is typically very purple, and it

(12:32):
proved itself to be again in the last presidential race,
where President Trump won a very narrow margin. Four years earlier,
Joe Biden won a very narrow margin. Four years before that,
President Trump won a very narrow margin. We flip flop
back and forth. But in spring elections, liberals have utterly

(12:53):
taken control. There's no surprise therefore, that either Becca Bradley
or Annette Ziegler decided to get out of this race.
It's almost as though they knew what was going to happen.
They read ahead to the end of the book, they
looked up the spoilers online. Again. I don't want to

(13:17):
be accused of being a doomer here, but what does
it say about the race that's coming up in what
twenty eight days, when already you've got another conservative Supreme
Court justice saying, look, I can read the tea leaves,
I know what's going to happen. I'm out, I ain't
doing this. The timing today was absolutely abysmal. Ziegler couldn't

(13:43):
have waited another month. Really, you couldn't have given us
another thirty one days. I think a lot of people
in political circles believe that Maria Lazar, who Frankly, I
have had some very serious issues with the way that
this campaign has been run. But she is a very
very good judge. She is a Court of Appeals judge

(14:05):
and a very very good one. She's a very kind person.
She is a very decent person that apparently is not
what voters want. They want hard edged politicos Chrissy Taylor,
her opponent in this race, is making no bones about
the fact that she is a partisan liberal. Janet Protess
Seywitz violated every standard of the Code of Judicial Conducts

(14:29):
by saying exactly how she was going to rule on
pretty much every case that was going to come before
the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Heck Susan Crawford last year. This
is a story that we first broke here on the
Dan O'Donnell show. Technically it was The New York Times,
but didn't realize the significance of it. We sort of
brought attention to the fact that Susan Crawford was so

(14:52):
in the bag for partisan Democrat interests that she actually
attended a tele meeting with prominent Democrat owners and the
title of it was quote chance to put two more
Democrat seats in play in the midterms. The implication was
very clear. You put Susan Crawford on the court, she
is going to vote to jerry mander the map. She's

(15:14):
going to strike down the congressional map, and she is
going to vote to put into place a map in
which Brian's style and especially Derek van Worden have no
prayer of winning. And lo and behold, that's exactly what's
going on right now. Did you notice, by the way,
Governor Evers last week called for a special session of
the legislator sign an executive order for a special session

(15:35):
of the legislature. He wants to implement a nonpartisan map
drawing redistricting Commission. Democrats actually said, yeah, no thanks. Senate
Minority Leader Diane Hesselbinyen, Yeah, I'd have to see the proposal.
It's because they know they have got a court that
is going to do the jerry mandering for them. They

(15:56):
don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
A lot of people think that this is faye to complete.
Why even run the election. We know Chrissy Taylor is
going to win. Marquette University Law School pool did show
that that's not necessarily the case. Taylor was only winning
by five amongst those who are registered to vote, seven
by those who say they are absolutely certain to vote,

(16:22):
and folks, Ultimately, the decision rests with voters. Ultimately, it
is going to be about turnout, and ultimately it is
going to be about you saying we are not going
to just sit back, roll over and allow liberals to
have a seven nothing majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court,

(16:43):
because if we do nothing, that's exactly what's going to happen.
But there are demographic shifts and very significant ones that
present some pretty significant head wins. We will get into
that when The Dan O'Donnell Show returns.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Classical Conservatives, contemporary style.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
The Dan o'donald Show is coming right back conservative thoughts,

(17:23):
not just talk. It is the Dan o'donald Show. Welcome
back to it. It's no secret that conservatives have struggled
in the last decade in winning off year and especially
off year spring elections. When I say off yere, i'm
also including midterm elections. We have our gubernatorial cycle in

(17:45):
the midterm cycle as well, So when we don't have
a presidential race in this state, we have a gubernatorial race,
and Republicans have struggled mightily. The fact that we lost
twice to Tony Evers should tell you pretty much everything
you need to know. But it's in the state Supreme
Court races that this has been a particularly stark decline.

(18:08):
Conservatives had a strong majority on the State Supreme Court
for a decade and a half. When Scott Walker's coalition
was just dominating pretty much every election. We could not
win presidential elections because essentially Democrats had what are known
as low propensity voters. The way you vote, or the
way you measure a voter is by how often they

(18:30):
vote in statewide elections, so in midterms or in presidential elections,
and you give them a rating how many elections did
they take part in in the last four one, two, three,
or four. Republicans won by winning and just dominating amongst
high propensity voters, those who voted in three of the
last four or all four of the last four elections.

(18:55):
Democrats had to scrape by with coalitions of people who
really only voted in presidential elections. Well that's pretty much flipped,
and Republicans now have the voters who are only showing
up in one and two of the last four elections.
Democrats have cobbled together a coalition that votes everywhere, especially
in Dane County. Dane County since twenty twenty has grown

(19:20):
by thirteen thousand people and is projected to grow by
almost forty percent over the next quarter century. Now big
reason for this is epics systems government expansion under Tony
Evers I maintain the rise of telework. People are graduating
from UW Madison. They no longer need to move across

(19:41):
the country to go work for Google. They can live
in the exact same apartment they lived in in college
and still go to work. So people are choosing to
stay there. And I'll give credit where credit is due.
Madison is a fantastic city, is a gorgeous city. The
isthmus is just fantastic. Spent three years there in law
law school and loved every second of it. It's just

(20:04):
too bad the people in charge in Dane County are idiots.
And it's not just the fact that Dane County is growing.
Dane County turnout has gotten to superhuman levels in twenty eleven.
David Prosser, legendary conservative, just passed away a short time ago.
One reelection, he faced a stiff challenge by a liberal

(20:27):
named Joanne Kloppenberg. In twenty eleven in Dane County, Kloppenberg
won seventy three percent of the vote. She won by
a total of eighty five thousand votes. Okay, she won
seventy three percent of all votes. She won by a
total margin of eighty five thousand votes.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Last year, Susan Crawford won eighty one percent of the
Dane County vote. And get this, she won by one
hundred and eighty one thousand, seven hundred and fifty one votes,
nearly one hundred thousand more votes. Republicans and Conservatives aren't

(21:08):
able to match that turnout In Waukeshaw and Ozaki. Turnout
there has declined noticeably for Republicans. They used to get
seventy seventy five percent in twenty fourteen to the low
to mid sixties.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Now.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Washington County remains the reddest of these so called wow counties,
but it can't fully offset losses everywhere. Liberals are outperforming
in suburban areas, the suburbs in Dane and Milwaukee Counties
leading the charge. Big reason for this is what I've
termed urban liberal flight. Liberals have a tendency to get

(21:48):
into power in a given community. They let's say Milwaukee. Okay,
they destroy Milwaukee, and we have got a whole lot
on Milwaukee's failing public school system. Finally, after more than
a half century, they finally get the idea, hey, maybe
we're wasting money on all of these non teaching positions.
I'll give credit to Brenda Cassilius, that's superintendent of MPs,

(22:13):
for finally coming up with the obvious solution here. We'll
dive into that in the five o'clock hour. But they
get into power, they turn areas into crime infested hellholes.
The schools fail, public services decline, quality of life goes down.
So then what they do is they move to the
next closest suburbs. In Milwaukee's case, Wahwatosa. Wawatosa is a

(22:37):
conservative suburb forever. Then the Libs moved in and now
they're in the process of destroying Wahwatosa, failing schools, more crime,
the works. Then they're now moving to Brookfield and a
far left radical LIB wants to be mayor. We'll have
an exclusive story about the conflict of interest that charge

(23:00):
has been leveled against Michael Holquist, who is running to
be mayor. Out in Brookfield, Dan O'Donnell show exclusive coming up.
That's part of the reason that you have seen the
Wow counties Waukeshaw County in particular, just declining in terms
of the sheer volume of votes that it's able to
turn out for Republicans and conservative candidates. But it doesn't

(23:23):
tell the whole story. Wisconsin's population growth is pretty anemic.
Past couple of years got one of the slowest growth
rates in the entire country, about three point six percent.
International migration, by the way, accounts for about ninety five
percent of that. So a whole lot of people who

(23:45):
are coming into Wisconsin aren't voting, and the people who
are leaving Wisconsin, the people who are getting to retirement
age and deciding that, hey, I don't want a beautiful
sixty eight degree day in March once every five years,
I want to live in Paradise down in Florida. And oh, hey,
by the way, if I move down to Florida and

(24:06):
declare myself to be a Florida resident and stay there
for six months in one day and only come back
to Wisconsin when the weather is awesome, usually about July
to mid September, then I don't have to pay Wisconsin's
income taxes. If I sell my property in Wisconsin and
maybe I rent a condo and come back and actually
buy property down in Florida or down in Arizona, down

(24:30):
in Texas, a state that doesn't have income tax and
has lower property tax rates, I don't need to pay
the insane cost of government here in Wisconsin. It just
makes a whole lot of sense. Now, who do you
think is more likely to do that? Who do you
think is more likely to have the financial wherewithal to
be able to understand this and also be able to

(24:52):
have the retirement nest egg to actually become a snowbird,
A conservative or a liberal, a Republican or a Democrat.
Almost invariably it's going to be a Republican. Democrats, and
I'm going to generalize here, just aren't particularly good with money.
So you typically will have the Democrat voter base. They're
either going to be tech pro billionaires, or they are

(25:12):
going to be in the lower or lower middle class
socioeconomic classes, the upper class, the upper middle class, and
the middle class. Those are all decidedly Republicans. And those
are the people who will go down to Florida. They
will retire to Florida, and since we had such a

(25:33):
strong coalition of Scott Walker voters who basically dominated this
state's politics for a decade plus once they reached retirement age,
primarily baby boomers, maybe a little bit younger, a significant
portion of them are no longer here, and the Republican
Party in the era of Trump has essentially replaced them

(25:54):
with lower propensity rural voters, inner city Latino and black
voters who aren't as likely to show up in these
state supreme court elections or and one of the things
that Republicans are really going to have to grapple with
in the next couple of years are the Trump only voters,
the people who are just naturally politically agnostic or even

(26:18):
anti politics altogether. They just like Donald Trump because they
see Trump as the anti politician. They see Trump as
the brick through the window of the political establishment. Well,
he's never going to be on a ballot again. And
Republicans are going to have to convince a whole lot
of these voters that they relied on to show up
in presidential elections but who haven't showed up in other elections,

(26:42):
to actually vote for the Republican and conservative brand and
not just for President Trump coming up a potential scandal
in the Brookfield mayoral race. Will dive into it. It's
a Dan o'donald Show exclusive that you're not going to
want to miss. Hi, Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show.

(27:35):
We get now to an exclusive story. Brookfield alderman Michael Halquist,
who is challenging Mayor Steve Ponto in next month's mayoral election,
faces a possible ethics investigation for failing to disclose his
role on the board of a nonprofit that aids low
income families with housing, an organization that stood to gain

(28:00):
from a municipal ordinance he supported. Halquist serves as a
trustee for Family Promise of Waukeshaw County. According to its website,
the group's mission is to quote prevent and end homelessness
for families with children and help them achieve sustainable independence
through a community based response. Now this is not to

(28:23):
criticize Halquist for sitting on this board or to criticize
the board's work. I think it's obviously fantastic to prevent homelessness,
especially for families with children. We want to make sure
that they have houses. Here's the problem. March third Common
Council votes on an amendment to a new sanitary sewer

(28:46):
impact fee ordinance. Now, Halquist backed the measure twice, first
in committee, that on the full council. That ordinance or
that amendment rather would grant builders of so called affordable
life low cost housing relief from the proposed fees. Now,

(29:06):
what sort of organization do you suppose would benefit from that? Say,
an organization that would work to prevent an end homelessness
for families with children and help them achieve sustainable independence
through a community based response. Yeah, that sort of group,
the very group that Halquist sits on the board of
Family Promise of Wakashaw County. Fellow alderman Chris Seals filed

(29:30):
a formal request with the City Clerk's office seeking an
advisory opinion from the Ethics Board. Now, Seals is saying
Halquist violated the city's ethics Code by not revealing his
nonprofit affiliation and by not recusing himself from votes that
could benefit developers of low income housing. I actually went

(29:54):
and looked up Brookfield's municipal code because this is the
depth of research that you get here on the Dan
O'Donnell show, and sure enough, Alderman Chris Seals is absolutely correct.
Chapter two point two zero Brookfield Municipal Code Standards of
Conduct makes it very clear no local public officials shall

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I use their office or position in a way that
produces or assists in the production of a substantial benefit
direct or indirect for an organization with which they are associated.
Now would waiving a sewage fee for an organization that
Mike Halquist just happens to sit on the board of

(30:35):
be a violation of this standard of conduct municipal ordnance?
It sure would. Now, how about another one where you
are required to disclose any potential conflicts of interest? Also,
Chapter two point two zero quote, a local public official
shall disclose in writing to the City Clerk any financial

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interest or personal interest that they may have in any legislation, agenda, item,
or other matter before any city body. Such disclosure shall
oker prior to any action the body takes on the matter.
Suffice it to say, Alderman Hallquist did not disclose that
he is a member on this Affordable Housing of Waukashaw County,

(31:19):
but Family Promise of Waukashaw County. The group is called
there are here as I see it. Two clear violations
of municipal ordinance. And this is coming amid a push
in suburbs like Brookfield to get more affordable tract housing
and to get more low income housing into these higher

(31:40):
end communities, often against the wishes of the people who
live there. They don't want to see this sort of thing.
But you've got alders like Michael Halquist, who is, by
the way, a far left radical. I have looked into
his social media and boy, oh boy, it does not
get more left wing than Mike haul Quest. But this, again,

(32:02):
this is not a political issue here. This is a
clear violation of a conflict of interest he's voting on
so he's on the committee that is advancing this ordinance
that would say, Okay, if you are building affordable, low
cost housing, you get relief from these sewage fees, and
then he's voting for it again on the full council

(32:23):
without ever telling anybody that his group would stand to
benefit and would make it much easier for that group
to have build affordable housing in the city of Brookfield.
That is a clear Both of those are clear violations
of Brookfield's municipal ordinance. Now Seals says that his request

(32:48):
for this ethics investigation came a day before the full
council vote. The Ethics Board is now going to investigate
rule on whether a violation occurred. So Seals notice that
there was this conflict of interest after Halquist voted on
this in committee. Now, the two of these guys have
apparently been going at it forever over affordable housing. This

(33:14):
is a battle that apparently started over a project called
the Flats at Bishop's Woods. It's in Seals' district, and
Seals said, look, my constituents don't want this. Halquist has
always pushed for this development. He's pushed for other developments
in the community, and Seal said, look, my my constituents

(33:35):
don't want this. Well, Halquist pushing for this sort of stuff.
It would seem would also be a little bit more
indirectly another violation of this conflict of interest. If he
is pushing for Brookfield to develop more low income housing
and his group just happens to assist in providing people

(33:56):
in Brookfield and across Walkeshaw County with more low income housing,
all of this would be a conflict of interest, and
at the very least Halquist would need to, if not
recuse himself from these votes at least disclose that he
is on this board. Seal said in a statement released

(34:18):
to the Dan O'Donnell show, I received substantial constituent feedback
about the flats. Every person requested that I oppose the project.
These are the people I represent. I will always be
one hundred percent dedicated to doing so. No outside interest
will ever affect my judgment. He also says he looks
forward to full disclosure and an orderly process so people

(34:42):
in Brookfield know quote whose interests their elected officials are representing.
Halquist is again looking to unseat the current mayor, a
very very good conservative by the name of Steve Ponto,
who is i am told, very popular in Brookfield except

(35:03):
for that segment of liberals who has recently moved in.
I told you in that last segment that we did
here on the program that this has been a constant
problem that you have got liberals moving from. It's sort
of like, what is it, Horace Greeley, go West young Man,
well left. These in southeast Wisconsin are taking that very literally.

(35:24):
They're starting in Milwaukee. They screwed up Milwaukee pretty darn badly.
Then they go to Wauwatosa up Wauwatosa's screwed up schools.
They're suck Hey, Brookfield, that looks like a pretty good
community and they're in the process of screwing that up.
So Brookfield, don't let them do it. Don't let this
guy who is looking to get grants to build low

(35:45):
income housing and potentially enrich himself as a member of
the board get into even more power, because if he's
the mayor, you'd better believe every ethical standard is going
to go by the wayside. We'll name the unhinged liberal
of the day. Coming up next right here on the
Dan O'donnalds Show. Probably President Trump's speaking now from his

(36:24):
Dural Golfers Club. This is not the press conference I
am told that he is going to be holding a
little bit later. He is speaking at the Republican Members Conference.
Can we produce our Doug dip in just very very
briefly into the president's remarks ever conducted.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
That's Operation Epic Fury.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
That's a great name, is it, Epic Fury.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
That's even better than Midnight Hammer, which was pretty good too.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
That was where we knocked out there nuclear potential. That
was a big day because if we didn't do that
they would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks,
and I think would be in a lot different situation.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
And then you.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Had, of course what they did in Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
How that was. I was just so far, so good.
We've done a real job. We've got all good ones.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
If you go back and you look at Afghanistan with Biden,
one of the worst, I think, the most embarrassing moment
in the history of our country. If you look at
what happened with Jimmy Carter with also with Iran, but
if you look at what happened with the helicopters and
the hostages, it cost.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Them the election. What a mess.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
The world respects us right now more than they have
ever respected us before.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
That is President Trump speaking at Trump d rally as
holding a conference for Republican Members of Congress. We will
dip back into that, of course, the Daily Trump Date
each and every day, right after the four o'clock news,
we get you an update on all things going on
at the Trump administration, because quite frankly, we are probably
the first and only place you are going to get unfiltered, unbiased, okay,

(38:08):
not totally unbiased, not liberally biased news about the Trump administration.
That's coming up right after the top of the hour
right now. Though each and every day we name the
unhinged liberal of.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
The day, we are in pre Nazi Germany.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Trump is dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
America in.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
So last week James Tallerico defeated Jasmine Crockett to win
the Texas Democratic Senate primary, and pretty much ever since,
there's been a NonStop barrage of old clips of him
saying truly insane things like this on an old podcast
where he's asked, name one thing that you love, not
family or friends. His answers kids.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
Something that you love that's not family or friends.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
I love.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
I'm just saying this because it's on my mind. The
trans children who.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for
their humanity.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Could this guy be any more phony? It's like the
Occupied Democrats Facebook page suddenly gave gained sentience and just
started spouting out inane stuff like that. James tall Rico,
you're unhinged Liberal of the day, Democrats, good luck winning
Texas with that. Dan O'Donnell show coming right back after this.

(40:24):
So I made the mistake of walking outside during the
news break just then, and I really, really really did
not want to come back. If you are off work
right now, first of all, keep listening to the show,
like put on your AirPods or whatever. But get out there.
Take the dog for a walk, go to the driving range,

(40:46):
go play catch with the kids outside, do something, because
heaven knows, this is not what we typically get. On
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(41:30):
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for the Daily Trump Day.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
We're gonna win so much.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
You may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps winning.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
It is a win for the administration it's also a
big win for the United States.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
We have to keep winning. We have to win Moore.
We're gonna win Moore.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
President Trump, speaking today to members of Congress at Trump
Durrell in Miami, he proclaimed today to be US Hostage
and Wrongful Detainee Day, honoring Americans held captive abroad and
recommitting the administration to securing their safe return. Earlier today,

(43:25):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke at the ceremony and
provided an update on the situation in IRAA.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
The goals of this mission are clear, and it's important
to continue to remind the American people of why it
is that the greatest military and history of the world
is engaged in this operation. It is to destroy the
ability of this regime to launch missiles, both by destroying
their missiles and their launchers, destroy the factories that make
these missiles, and destroy their navy. I think we are
all seeing right now the threat this clerical regime poses

(43:55):
to the region and to the world. They are trying
to hold the world hostage. They are attacking their name,
they are attacking neighboring countries, their energy infrastructure, their civilian population.
They're attacking embassies. This is a terrorist government. This is
a terroristic regime, and we are seeing them conduct terrorism
using nation state elements, using weapons like missiles and one.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Way attack drones.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And the objective of this mission is to destroy their
ability to continue to do that, and we are well
on our way to achieving that objective. Every single day
with overwhelming force, with overwhelming precision. The military, the United
States military, the men and women in uniform, are conducting
an extraordinary operation.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Okay, new rule for the Trump administration. Nobody is allowed
to talk except for Marco Rubio. All right, we saw
what happened with Christy Nome at DHS. You just someone
has a question, Okay, Rubio or Scott Besant or JD.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Vans.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
We love you, mister president. But when we're talking policy,
only those three, it's like the first Triumvirate. It's like Caesar, Pompey,
Magnus and Crassus speaking for the Trump administration. He is
so incredibly good at his job. Speaking of jobs, what
is the one job in the world that absolutely nobody

(45:14):
wants right now? He could think of any job that
nobody wants. I'm gonna go with Ayatola of Iran. Well,
Iran is apparently named a new one, Ali Hamane's son,
mosh Tava Hamani. But there are now reports coming out
of Iran that most Tava was seriously injured, that one

(45:35):
of his legs has been amputated, and he may not
even be aware that he is now the supreme leader
of Iran. Otherwise, though, things are going just great for
the regime. In a phone interview today, President Trump told
CBS News he could not possibly care less about threats
from Iran's national security officials, insisting the US is focused

(45:58):
solely on forcing Tehran's unconditional surrender in the ongoing conflict.
Trump added that America is very far ahead of his
original four to five week timeline for ending the war.
The President again is going to be holding a news
conference in about a half hour at his Durled Golf
Club in Florida before he returns to Washington, d C. Today.

(46:22):
The session comes after Trump told reporters Today earlier today
that the war is pretty much complete. Oil prices, he says,
will drop rapidly once the Iranian nuclear threat is destroyed.
And oh, by the way, those oil prices are already
dropping rapidly. Oil now trading at eighty four dollars a
barrel after opening up this session well over one hundred dollars.

(46:45):
Vice President jd. Vance today speaking at the International Association
of Firefighters and touting the administration's work on behalf of
firefighters in other first responds, Now, let me talk just.

Speaker 8 (46:57):
A little bit about what it means to really support you,
because I think it's important. It's it's of course important
that the Vice presidents stand up here and say how
grateful he is, and I certainly am. I'm grateful to
each and every one of you and.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
The people you serve.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
But it's not just about words. It's about action.

Speaker 8 (47:14):
And that's one of the things I'm proud of about
this administration is that we have actually backed up the
pride and the support and the gratitude that we have
for all of you with very meaningful action. You heard
ED talk a little bit about this Social.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Security Fairness Act. Well, one of the.

Speaker 8 (47:31):
Reasons why that happened is because the President of the
United States, and I believe it was even before the inauguration,
the President of the United States made sure that Congressional
Republicans stayed on top of that legislation and we worked
to get it done. That happened because of presidential leadership.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Okay again, only Vance, only Rubio, and only Scott Besant
are allowed to talk, all right, Anyone who puts themselves
in like a two hundred twenty million dollar ad camp
starring herself gone. Okay and okay, okay, I take that back.
Caroline Levitt. Caroline Levitt might be the best press secretary

(48:10):
in my lifetime. She is fantastic. But in terms of
like cabinet secretaries, and as much as I love Duffy
as much as I love Doug Burgham, only those three
and Levitt allowed to speak for the next three years.
President Vance wins in a sixty point landslide. Speaking of Duffy,
speaking of Burgham, The Transportation and Interior secretaries met with

(48:31):
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and IndyCar officials today. They unveiled
the one point six six mile seven turn temporary street
circuit for the Freedom two point fifty Grand Prix. I
am unnaturally excited about this. I'm not normally into race cars.
I'm not normally into IndyCar, NASCAR, that sort of thing.

(48:53):
This is the first time there is ever going to
be any sort of car race on federal property. It's
set for August twenty se second, twenty third on the
National Mall as well as Pennsylvania Avenue right in front
of the White House. It's part of the celebrations for
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. You've got the World Cup,

(49:13):
you have got an MMA fight apparently on the fourth
of July. You've got IndyCar It is going to be
a heck of a summer. That, ladies and gentlemen, is
your daily Trump date. Now each and every Monday, we
know the difference between financial advisors, and we try to
get an update on what is going on financially with
our friend Dave Spono. He is the CEO of Annex

(49:36):
Wealth Management. Of course, day of all anybody is talking
about today is the price of oil. And actually before
the show started, I went out and I bought fifty
thousand barrels of oil. Now not oil futures. I actually
have the barrels of oil sitting at my house. I
am now declaring myself to be Sultan of Wisconsin. All

(49:58):
must yield before my awesome oil power, because I can
only assume right now that the price of oil is
now well over four hundred dollars a barrel, the way
that people in the media this morning were fear monitoring.
Are we up to five hundred and six hundred dollars
a barrel?

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Am I the wealthiest man in Wisconsin?

Speaker 3 (50:18):
You are not.

Speaker 9 (50:18):
But you know that used to happen back in the day.
That was the threat in the mercantile exchange days. Is
you know, if you got served the corn contracts, they
delivered the corn to your house. But no, it is
exactly wrong. You know, you and I talked about two
hours ago and all we were talking.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
About is the price of oil.

Speaker 9 (50:36):
And since then we've had a little bipolar axis that
happened in the markets this morning.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
We opened up at one sixteen oil futures.

Speaker 9 (50:46):
We are trading in the eighties right now, eighty five
eight WGI twoed.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Are you saying I'm ruined when you are ruining me? I? Actually, Dave,
I've got some bad news. We are now replacing your
segment with a weekly one from a bankruptcy attorney. It
is going to it's going to help steer Dan through
chapter eleven after my oil bibe. Do people not understand
the cyclical nature of this? And do people not understand

(51:12):
that America is now a much bigger domestic energy producer
than we were even a decade ago.

Speaker 9 (51:19):
Yeah, the fact that we are a net exporter goes
right into this. But the conversations that we've been having
for weeks now is as these ships were moving into
the straits of her moves, does it move from a
geopolitical risk and turn into an economic risk? And that's
what we saw over the weekend as oil price spiked.
And as I said earlier to you today, is it temporary?

(51:43):
Is it reversible? If it's temporary and reversible, you can
invest right through this. Well, I didn't know that was
going to happen in the matter of an hour or so.
But the news today that the war with Iran is
very complete pretty much is what he said. So it's
pretty much done, doesn't mean it's completely done. So there
probably will be some remnants that are going to go on.

(52:05):
But a historic swing in oil prices this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
I've actually never seen anything like that. Yeah, we did
open up at one hundred and sixteen dollars and just
the what if Trump call them pannikins were out in
full force this morning and already everybody was jumping all
over the price of gasoline. I think I saw every
single Democrat in the state of Wisconsin attempting to dunk
on Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany because he said, hey,

(52:32):
gas prices are at two dollars and sixty cents, and
they're all standing out in front of gas stations where
the price is three dollars. Did you people not realize
or not remember or did you think that we would
forget that In the summer of twenty twenty two, gas
prices averaged five dollars a gallon for the first time
in American history in all fifty states. Because I sure

(52:54):
as heck do. I mean, it's it's remarkable how people
will panic and and Dave, I think there's a there's
a broader issue here, how panic really does royal the market.
And you could almost see that this morning as you're
as you're seeing the last time I saw this day.
Do you remember what was supposed to be Black Monday?

(53:17):
When the Monday after? Do you remember the Monday after? Uh,
what do you call Liberation Day? Liberation Day? And we
had Jim Kramer, I think it was on Friday, go
on his show or on Twitter or something, and That
was the first indication that everything was going to be okay.
He said, we could see a black Monday, just like
nineteen eighty seven. I am, I am selling everything I

(53:38):
own and at that point I said, oh man, I'm
going to buy everything there is to buy. I literally
sat on my computer and just bought, bought, bought stock.
Whatever money I had, I was putting into stocks that
had just bottomed out. Within you. I'm not even kidding you.
An hour an hour we were in the green. It

(54:01):
was a classic inverse. Kramer and I think we're seeing
the same thing. And what I want to stress is
that the old rules of how markets move, I think
are they still are in play, but things just feel
like they moved way quicker than they did before. Am
I am? I right on you?

Speaker 9 (54:21):
Yeah, you are right, and it's you know, computer trading.
But you'll remember back in September of two thousand and eight,
when we had a cascading failure of financial institutions one
after another.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
We come in on Saturday mornings.

Speaker 9 (54:33):
You'll remember back in a different stations days that we
were coming on and we would talk about all of
those all of the banks that were shuttered, and you'll
remember that Buffett then made that famous comment that when
people are fearful, you'd be greedy, and when they're greedy,
when you should be fearful. And the fear factor was
going through the roof, especially this morning when we saw

(54:55):
those oil prices. So you doing that place right into
the buffet ism of September two thousand and eight.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
And that that is UH words to live by. Absolutely.
And also, just man, Dave, you made me feel real
old because I got a flashback to you and I
sitting in that old radio station just shooting the breeze
before our collective Saturday shows.

Speaker 9 (55:18):
Well, we used to talk a lot of we talked because.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
I don't think that you're all your listeners know that
you were. You were working for the sports team Baseball.
I was.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
I was the official Milwaukee Brewers postgame host way back
in the day. And I actually yeah, I got my
start doing Wisconsin Sports Weekend with Jeff Felconio, and everybody
always asked what's Jeff Falconio up to?

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (55:43):
He just he retired. He makes all his money trading stocks,
and now I mostly see him on the golf course.
He's still one of my very best friend's lifelong friend.
I Actually I'm probably going to see him for Buffalo
Wings on Thursday night. Hey, Dave, appreciate your longtime friends,
even if you do now make me feel like I'm
about one hundred and five years old. Head to annexwealth

(56:05):
dot Com. I always say this to work with a
feel only fiduciaries working with and for you, and they're
not trying to sell you something. But what I really
want to say is you're working with people like Dave
who are knowledgeable, they're kind, they're decent, they have your
best interests at heart. I could not possibly tell you
in strong enough terms. Get to Annex Wealth Management. They

(56:29):
will help you with all your financial needs. You are
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(56:51):
here on The Dan o'donald Show. Welcome back to it.
President Trump is expected to hold a press conference within
the next ten minutes or so, we think. I was
talking with my producer Doug Russell before the show started.
I have been covering presidents since George W. Bush I
started in this business in two thousand and one, if

(57:14):
you can believe that, July I will mark Oh my goodness,
I was just talking to Spawno about how I feel ancient.
This July, right before my forty fifth birthday, I will
mark twenty five years in the broadcast industry. Yis started
when I was nineteen years old. So I've been covering

(57:36):
presidents from Bush straight through to Trump. The only one
who was ever on time to any of his press
conferences ever, George W.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
Bush.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
You could set your watch to that man. What if
he said he was going to do a press conference
at four thirty, It would be like four thirty and
seventeen seconds, and that man would be walking to the ponte.
President Obama, it would be like, Okay, the president is
scheduled to speak at four point thirty. It's now five
point fifteen. We're still waiting for it. Trump was Trump

(58:12):
was a little bit better in his first term. Biden understandable.
You know, you kind of have to get him walking
in the right direction, and then he kind of wander
off and then he get lost on his way to
the bathroom. So that's probably another fifteen minutes. But it's
just it's remarkable how they'll say four thirty and then
you really have no idea. It's the joys of live radio, folks,

(58:35):
and I can't tell you how much I love doing it,
especially when you get to cover political figures like Tammy Baldwin.
Every so often, she pops her head up just like
the groundhog every February second to remind voters that she
does actually still exist. Normally, she just pops her head

(58:56):
up every six years to get reelected and then head
right back to the Senate Cafe for the oil you
can eat buffets or whatever she's doing in Washington, because
it really isn't much of anything for people in Wisconsin. Well,
she sat down with Matt Smith over at the Statewide
Political Sunday Show up front to rip on President Trump

(59:18):
for what she called his illegal war.

Speaker 10 (59:21):
When the president enters a war of choice, illegally, we
weren't under any imminent threat of attack, or we were not,
I mean, we also were not under attack. And those
are the conditions that would give the president the authority
to use the military absent congressional authorization. But we're now

(59:45):
looking at the prospect of something that could be another
endless Middle East war. This president needs to cease, he
needs to come to Congress seek authorization if he intends
to prosecute this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Now, to his credit, Smith followed up and said, are
you concerned about what might happen if we immediately stopped
prosecuting this war and if Congress doesn't give, Because folks,
if you gave, if Democrats, this is a classic example
of why we absolutely have to retain at least one
House of Congress in the midterms because Democrats would absolutely

(01:00:23):
authorize to end this war. They would revoke the president's
war powers, authorization for military force, and they would force
an end to this conflict, no doubt about that. Once again,
Senator Baldwin needs remedial courses in constitutional law and American history.
As I think everybody knows by now, the last time

(01:00:46):
Congress actually issued a war declaration was in nineteen forty two.
That's right. The Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm,
the War on Terror, all essentially undeclared wars. When it
comes to an imminent threat, Smith, also to his immense credit,
followed up and said, did you get nothing in your

(01:01:07):
congressional briefing that would suggest there was an imminent threat?
Because Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week very clearly
and very articulately laid out the imminent threat the United
States has been in, essentially an undeclared war with Iran
for the last forty seven years. Last week on the program,

(01:01:28):
we actually outlined in painstaking detail all of the terror attacks,
from the Marine Barracks bombing, to the one of the
very first acts following the revolution, which was to take
the American embassy hostage and to hold all those hostages
for what four hundred and forty four days, to the
Kobar Towers bombing, to the arming of the Iraqi Isis

(01:01:52):
al Qaida in Iraq terror groups. Pretty Much every American
that was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq
was killed by an Iranian op. It's not as though
Trump disdecided to attack Iran. Iran has been at war
with the United States, to say nothing of Hezbollah, to

(01:02:13):
say nothing of Hamas, to say nothing of the Houthi
rebels in Yemen, which have been attacking American ships forever,
to say nothing of early twenty twenty, late twenty nineteen,
when Iran downed a very expensive American military drone, we
of course retaliated by killing Cossum Sulimani using drone technology.

(01:02:34):
And it should go without saying that in the final
year of Barack Obama's presidency, the United States dropped bombs
without ever going to Congress and without ever there being
an imminent threat that would authorize this sort of military
activity on seven different countries Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia,

(01:03:01):
and Pakistan. The Obama administration's military dropped an estimated twenty
six thousand, one hundred and seventy two bombs on seven
different countries, without ever going to Congress and without there
ever being articulate. What was the imminent threat from Somalia

(01:03:22):
back in twenty sixteen? Please, can somebody tell me what
was the imminent threat? Sure as heck, wasn't all of
that fraud in Minnesota back then Yemen where the huthis
in Yemen producing that imminent of a threat that they
deserve to share of the twenty six thousand bombs. This

(01:03:46):
is so beyond show, It is so beyond there's the
presidents have been taking troops into Combet and by the way,
this notion that we're going to be in a forever
war the notion that we're going to have American troops.
We're going to have boots on the ground. Boots on
the ground. This is the thing that everybody is concerned about.

(01:04:06):
We're we're going to have boots on the ground. Is
there anything in the way that President Trump has conducted
himself as commander in chief over two terms now that
suggests he's going to commit boots on the ground. We
did have boots on the ground in Venezuela for a
grand total of like forty five minutes when we shut
down their air defenses and used our discombobulator technology to

(01:04:31):
take the illegitimate president of Venezuela into custody. In the
better part of what an hour that operation lasted. Wars
are not fought like they were even a generation ago.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, They're just not They're fought the
way we are fighting the war now. We drop bombs

(01:04:53):
and we wait for a friendly government to take over.
And before you say that, well, dan Iraq, this is
how Iraq started. It was an easy victory over the
Iraqi military and then we had a long protracted insurgency. Yet,
because we tried to import a style of government democracy
we tried to impose our will on a country that

(01:05:13):
frankly didn't want it. And to be totally fair, we
can argue about whether or not Iraq was a success
or not, but Iraq is an ally now by every
objective measure, Iraq is doing a whole lot better than
it was under Saddam Hussein. If we didn't take out
Saddam ude or Kusay Hussein would be running the country,

(01:05:38):
the torture rooms would be back, it would be an
oppressive hell hole, and they'd probably go to war with Iran,
this Sunni versus Shia eternal fight. At some point over
the last quarter century, you would have another country in
that region that is just completely unstable. Iraq's as stable

(01:06:01):
country right now. The rest of the Middle East is,
i hate to say it, relatively stable. Iran is the
last domino to fall. And now that you essentially have
the rest of the region falling in line behind Saudi
Arabia and getting in with the United States through the
Abraham Accords and in his second term, I think, folks,

(01:06:24):
everything can kind of boil down to President Trump's big
speech in May, and we're going to get into this
in much greater depth. Tomorrow where he was talking about
a new generation of Middle Eastern leaders who are talking
about what was his line? It was profit, commerce not chaos,
Commerce not chaos. He said, Look, we value commerce, We
value the relationship with the rest of the world, based

(01:06:48):
on trade, based on tourism, based on mutual respect. If
all you have to do is to stop killing Jews,
that's a pretty darn good deal. And everybody said, yes,
it is a pretty good deal except one rogue nation
which kept funding and launching terror attacks Iran, and that
nation had to be toppled. Coming up next, hopefully we

(01:07:13):
will hear from President Trump in his news conference. If not,
we are going to get into the gas price explosion
that really wasn't We may have a press conference from
President Trump. We not doesn't really matter to us. Here

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at the Dan O'Donnell Show, we cover the news as
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That's how you do it in live radio. Welcome back now.
Democrats have spent the better part of a full day
now blasting President Trump over gas prices, which I find

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to be utterly freaking hilarious. Gas prices under President Trump
averaged two dollars and forty eight cents during his first
term twenty seventeen through the very beginning of twenty twenty one.
Now this does include a sharp drop due to COVID

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nineteen lockdowns. The price of gas dipped below two dollars.
It was like a dollar seventy if I remember correctly.
But gas hit its peak in twenty eighteen under Trump
at two dollars and seventy two cents. Under Biden, twenty
twenty one to twenty twenty four, gas averaged three dollars

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and forty five cents a gallon, thirty nine percent higher
than under Trump. The lowest year, the lowest year, lowest
Lwest lowest year was twenty twenty one, when the average
price of gas was three dollars. Now Democrats are all out.

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I saw every single buffoon running for governor as a
Democrat out in front of a gas pump today. Clearly
the message went out from the Democrat Party of Wisconsin.
We're all gonna dunk on Tom Tiffany because Tiffany posted
a while back, Hey gas is at two dollars in
sixty a gallon and it's gonna go much lower or

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something like that. So we're gonna get him. We are
gonna post because gas is now up and around three dollars.
Would you believe that? In twenty twenty two, the average
price of gas for the year was three dollars and
ninety six cents. That is the all time record, and
it actually peaked at five dollars a gallon. In June.

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For the first time in American history, the average price
of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline topped five dollars
a gallon in every single state. When Trump left office
and Biden took control, gas prices were at two dollars
in thirty three cents a gallon two thirty three January twentieth,

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twenty twenty one. At the end of Biden's term, the
average price of gas was three dollars and two cents.
Three dollars and two cents average. All right, I'm sorry,
I guess the price spiked that I just filled up
this weekend so i'd drive it a lot coaching soccer,

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So I didn't say it. Did it pump up all
the way to three dollars and forty eight cents? Because
we've got a bottleneck in the strait of horror moves
And wouldn't you know it. The Trump administration isn't quite
able to completely fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because Biden
actually emptied it for the great national emergency of the

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summer of twenty twenty two that Democrats were going to
get shellacked in the upcoming mid terms if the price
of gas stayed at five dollars a gallon. He rated
the Strategic Oil Reserve, and Trump has actually refilled it
to the tune of, I believe fifty thousand gallons per day,
just to try to get back to where we were

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for an actual emergency, a natural you know, natural disaster
or something like that, or in the case of what
we're in now, a war in the Middle East. But
this idea that Democrats would would ever consider attacking Republicans
on the price of gas. We all lived through the

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last four years, Like we remember what the price was. Okay, here,
when Trump took office January of twenty seventeen, price of
gas two dollars thirty five cents. He left office two
dollars thirty three cents. Biden takes off his two dollars
thirty three cents he leaves it's three dollars and two
cents a gallon. Look at by year, look at by

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four two years, for two entire years of Biden's presidency.
Twenty twenty two, when again, the price was three dollars
in ninety six on average for the entire year. For
twelve months, for three hundred and sixty five days, the
average price of gas was three dollars. Was fifty cents

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higher than it is right now when we're in a
war with the Middle East. In the we're a war
with Iran. In twenty twenty three, the average price of
gas was three dollars and fifty two cents for the year.
Again for a twelve month period, Even when Biden supposedly

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got things under control. Remember in twenty twenty four, we
were told that inflation, Oh, it's it's easing. It's done.
The Biden administration has done everything it could to get
inflation down. The price of gas, the average price of gas,
you're ready for this was still three dollars and thirty
one cents a gall in, the lowest it was under

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Biden for a full year. Biden had three full years
in office twenty two to twenty three, twenty four, twenty
twenty one. I'll even say, okay, prices were sort of
artificially low because obviously COVID nineteen. So in twenty twenty
there was a huge drop because of the COVID nineteen lockdowns.
So for two thirds of the year you had people

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just not going anywhere, so they weren't buying gas. Average
price was two seventeen. So even if you throw that
anomaly year out, the average price of gas under Trump
was about two fifty a gallon. If you throw out
the anomaly year of Biden twenty twenty one, which was
still sort of COVID for a good portion of the year,

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people still on lockdown, still not consuming as much gas,
not as much, not nearly as much demand as in
a normal year. The average price under Biden was about
three dollars and sixty cents for a three year stretch.
For a three year stretch, we're paying a higher price
at the pump than we are now. But one day,

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one day, the price of gas goes up at every time.
Oh my gosh, we can't afford this. Trump Panomics has failed.
We can't afford truck. Give me a break when I
say Democrats are the most disingenuous people on earth. This
is what I'm talking about. Intelligent discourse.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Here, Reverend come, The Dan o'donald Show will be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Welcome back, Dan o'donald's show. President Trump now holding a
press conference at Trump Durrell. Let's go to it live.
Here is the President's.

Speaker 4 (01:14:53):
Adding Iranian drones and our B two bombers recently dropped
dozens of two thousand pounds ams to destroy missile launchers
all over Iran and very deep under Iranian soil. In
many cases, the soil was no match. And we're also
annihilating the manufacturing base that the regime uses to build

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drones and missiles at a rate that nobody thought was possible.
We're knocking them out. We know where they all are.
We're knocking them out very quickly. We're ahead of our
initial timeline by a lot. I would say that we
probably would not have thought after a month we'd be here.
In addition to the fact that we've taken out the
leadership twice and maybe three times, and we, as you know,

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we want to be involved. We don't want another president
that maybe wouldn't be willing to do what I'm willing
to do for the good of the world, for the
good of our nation, to be stuck with the situation
in five years or ten years from now, So we
think they should put a president in or the head
of the country and that's gonna be able to do
something peacefully for a change. They've been doing this for

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forty seven years, killing people for forty seven years, whether
it's the barracks or even the ss coal where they
were involved very strongly. They always denied it, but they
were very strongly involved in all of the people that
died through the roadside bombs, died in our right now,
walking around with no legs, no arms, a face that's

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been so badly damaged. The Ranian regime has been attacking
Americans and spreading terror for forty seven years. And despite
these countless opportunities to renounce their nuclear ambitions, which they
had just a short while ago, they told mister Whitcoff,
who is standing right over here.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
They said, they actually said, we want to keep building.

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
Essentially, in a real nutshell, we want to continue to
build nuclear weapons. If we didn't knock out Midnight Hammer,
if we didn't knock out their Iranian potential, and we
didn't do that with Midnight Hammer, they would have had
a nuclear weapon. They would have used it long before now,
and at a minimum Israel would have been annihilated. It

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was very lucky that we had the courage to do that,
that we had the talented pilots and the great equipment
to be two bombers or unbelievable, we ordered twenty five more,
by the way, the newer, better version. It's uh. We
have the greatest military in the world. We have the
greatest equipment in the world by far. We see that

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no matter where we go, you still need the people,
though to operate it is to use it, and those
are the people that we cherish. Even after we obliterated
their key nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer, they never
negotiated into good faith.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
They still continued to say.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
We want to build nuclear We wanted enrichment at levels
that were unacceptable, and they even turned down an offer
for unlimited free nuclear fuel forever for civilian purposes.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
We had people offering them free nuclear fuel.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
They weren't interested in that because they wanted to build
a nuclear weapon. So instead the regime was trying to
reconstitute this weapons program at a different site. They couldn't
go back to where they were the three sites that
we obliterated.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
This is President Trump holding a news conference. He is
updating the war in Iran. We do have to take
a break for the news, ladies and gentlemen. We will
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update in a press conference at his Durrell Golf Club.
Let's jump right back into the President's.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
Press and it's going to be ended soon and if
it starts up again, they'll be they'll be hit even harder.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Thank you very much for being here. Go ahead, any questions, thank.

Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
You, thank you so much. Job do you approve of
around new Supreme Leader?

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
And secondly, can you tell us more about your call
with Russian President Vladimir Putin today.

Speaker 6 (01:19:40):
What did you discuss?

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Yes, I had a very good call with President Putin.
We had a lot of people on the line from
our side, from his side. We were talking about Ukraine,
which is just a never ending fight and when look
is tremendous hatred between President Putin and President Son, I
can't seem to get it together. But I think it

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was a positive call on that subject. And we obviously
talked that about the Middle.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
East, and he wants to be helpful.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
I said, you could be more helpful by getting the
Ukraine Russia war over with.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
That would be more helpful. But we had a very
good talk and he wants to be very constructive. Yeah, please, yeah, please.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Mister President.

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
On Iran, you called it an excursion. You said it
would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it
will be over today?

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
I think so, okay, very soon.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact,
there are two levels of leadership, and even actually, as
it turns out, more than that, but two levels of
leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about
the leaders that they're talking about. So it's obviously been
very very powerful, very effective, to Cuba.

Speaker 7 (01:20:59):
You said that Cuba wants to make a deal, What
would the United States get in return for that, and
why should Americans trust Marco Rubio to negotiate it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Well, Marco Rubio is doing a great job.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
I think he's going to go down as the greatest
Secretary of State in history. Look at what we've done
as a presidency, look at what we've done as an administration.
They trust Marco, and so do the American people. Trust
he's been successful no matter where he's been. He also
speaks to language, which is always nice and always helpful.

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But he's dealing and it may be a friendly takeover,
it may not be a friendly taker. It wouldn't matter,
because they're really in. They're down to, as they say, fumes.
They have no energy, they have no money. They're deep
trouble on a humanitarian basis, and we don't want to

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see that. But they were very, very bad to a
lot of people, you know, and a lot of people living.
The Cuban American vote, which I got at record levels,
very important. Those people are very important to me. I know,
I know what they went through. They went through hell.
Some of them have gone on to be some of
the most successful people in the country, Cuban American business people.

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Some of them are like the most successful in the country,
and a lot of them are friends of mine because
I've been fighting this battle with them for a long time.
The Castro regime was brutal, but they lived off Venezuela,
and now they don't live off in Venezuela sends them
no energy, no fuel, no oil, no money, no nothing.
They lived without Venezuela or they couldn't have made it,

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and we cut them off from everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
So, yeah, they're going to make either a deal or
we'll do it just as easy anyway. Yeah, please go ahead.

Speaker 11 (01:22:53):
There's missile strike and a Tomahawk missile likely destroyed that
Iranian girls school. So will the Americans the US accept
any responsibility.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
Well, I haven't seen it, and I will say that
the tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around,
is used by you know, is sold and used by
other countries, you know that. And whether it's Iran who
also has some tomahawks, they wish they had more.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
But whether it's Iran or.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
Somebody else, the fact that a tomahawk a tomahawk is
very generic. It's sold to other countries. But that's being
investigated right now.

Speaker 6 (01:23:33):
Yeah, please, thank you, mister President.

Speaker 5 (01:23:37):
You've said the war is quote very complete, but your
defense secretary says, this is just the beginning.

Speaker 6 (01:23:42):
So which is it and how long should Americans be?

Speaker 3 (01:23:44):
Well? I think both the beginning. It's the beginning of
building a new country. But they certainly they have no navy,
they have no air force, they have no anti aircraft equipment.
It's all been blown up. They have no radar, they
have no telecommunications, and they have no leadership. It's all gone. So,

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you know, you could look at that statement.

Speaker 4 (01:24:08):
We could call it a tremendous success right now as
we leave here, I could call it, or we could
go further, and we're going to go further. But the
big risk on that war has been over for three days.
We wipe them out the first in the first two days.
When you think about it, it's incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
We wiped out a big navy, very powerful navy. You know,
these were ships, These were serious ships.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
These were ships that you buy when you want to
win battles. They're all they're all on the bottom floor.
The sailors are all running off the ships. They're refused
to get on the ships. The air force is gone.
Everything's gone. The missiles are down to a trickle. The
drones are down to probably twenty five percent, and they'll
soon be down to nothing. We'll have the where they manufactured.

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The drones are under fire as we speak, they're being hit.
So the rest is going to be determination as to
my attitude, along with the people in the Trump administration,
what we want to do.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Thank you, yeah, Please?

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
Can I ask you?

Speaker 12 (01:25:17):
You mentioned you were going to waive certain additional oil
waivers or sanctions. Can you talk a little bit more
about that and address in particular.

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
Well, well, looking to keep the oil prices down, we
went artificially up because of this excursion into a very
positive thing. I mean, this was an excursion that a
lot of people wouldn't have done. I knew oil prices
would go up if I did this, and they've gone up,
probably less than I thought they'd go up.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
But I don't think anybody thought we were going to
be this quickly successful.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
This was a military success the likes of which people
haven't seen. We have the best military, we have the
best equipment, we have.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
I believe, the best generals.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
We have the best, and this went very quickly. We
talked about that with President Putin. He was very impressed
with what he saw because nobody's ever seen anything quite
like it. You know, Iran was a very powerful military
country with all of the missiles.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Now you had the double attack.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
You had the original attack with US in Israel, and
that knocked him for a loop. Then you had the
B two bombers, which took out their nuclear capability, and
they would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks
to four weeks, and they would have used it long
before this press conference, And we might have had a
much different press conference if we had a press conference
at all.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
But it's been amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
The military success that we've had is truly unprecedented.

Speaker 13 (01:26:48):
You said, you've told your congressional colleagues that you will
not sign any piece of legislation until the Save America
Actors passed. Does that include the confirmation of Senator Mullen
as your next DHS secretary?

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
Does that mean a d AS funding bill?

Speaker 13 (01:27:01):
And Senator Thune said today, it's not a matter of
whether or not your Republican colleagues agree with the policy.
It's about changing the process. In other words, getting rid
of the filibuster to get it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
So in order to get it, you're going to need
Democrat votes.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
And what we're saying is the Save America, not the
Save Act, which nobody knew what it was, the Save
America Act, the Save America Act, and that's voter ID.
We want voter ID, want a voter We want to
be able to see a picture of the voter. We
want to be able to see that the voter is legitimate.
We want very importantly confirmation that this voter is a

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citizen of the United States of America. And we want
no in no mail in ballot scams. So we have
exceptions for the military, for sick, for disabled, and for
people that are away, business trips or whatever, even vacations.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
Will be very liberal that we've added two things to it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:59):
No men in when in sports and no transgender mutilization
of our children.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
We don't want our.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
It's mutilization of our children, and we don't want that.
So we edited those two things. That's the five points.
We have five very good points. It polls at eighty
six percent with Democrats.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
Think of that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
The overall vote is eighty six percent. With the Republicans
it's ninety eight percent. And the only one opposed to
it is a Democrat leadership because they cheat, they want
to cheat. So we edited those two points. We're going
for the gold, and we're gonna have to fight like hell. Now,
certain things will happen, certain things will take place. I'm

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here to do a great job for the country, but
we don't have a country if we're going to have
elections that are so corrupt and so dishonest like we've
witnessed over the last period of time, you know, as
an example, I mean, virtually nobody has like we Nobody

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has a system of mail in ballots like we have.
No other country in the world. France went away from it.
They owe it, you know why, because it's corrupt. And
Jimmy Carter when he had a commission, frankly, I think
it's probably the best thing Jimmy Carter did. He said,
you can't have mail in voting because it's inherently dishonest.
And it's turned out to be totally dishonest. That we're

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going to fight for it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
Yeah, after Ron activated any sleeper cells inside the US
or supports that they have pressed that trigger button to
activate those seals at least abroad.

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
Well, we've been trying for a long time. We've been
very much on top of it. One of the things
we have to do is get the Democrats to stop
the Democrats shut down because, as you know, the apparatus
that looks into that, Schumer and the Democrats have shut
it down, which sells you they probably hate our country
a lot. But the Democrats have to open that up.

(01:30:00):
But we've got very very good intelligence into that. We
know a lot of different things that have happened that
have been very bad. A lot of them came in
during the Biden open border period. But we have them
under uh. We we've got them. We've we're watching every
single one of them. Yeah, we know a lot about them.

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The biggest problem we have is the Democrat shutdown. We
know a lot about them, but the shutdown doesn't allow
us to do what.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
We have to do.

Speaker 4 (01:30:30):
Leader.

Speaker 6 (01:30:31):
Do you have to take him out? Does he have
a target on his bag?

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
You mean the new Supreme leader? You mean the sun?

Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
How can there be an Iran?

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Well, I don't want to I don't want to say that,
but you know, I was disappointed because we think it's
going to lead to just more of the same problem
for the country. So I was disappointed to see their choice.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:30:53):
You've said you have someone in mind to be the
new Iranian leadership, if not the Ayatolas son, What are
you looking for in that person? Are you looking at
someone internal? Given that you just said that their leadership
has been done.

Speaker 4 (01:31:03):
I like the idea of the you know, internal and eternal,
come to think of it. But I like the idea
of internal because it works well. I mean, I think
we've proven that so far in Venezuela, and we have
a woman, Delsey, who has been you know, president of
the country, very respected, very doing a great job.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
And it's you know, no disruption we had as you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:29):
Remember Iraq, where everybody got fired, the military got fired,
the police got fired, the politicians got fired. There was
nobody and you know what they turned into isis and
we don't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
We don't want that. So I would like to see
people that are inside go.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
Now. They talk about the son of the Shah, they
talk about other people, but.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
You know, hasn't been there in many, many years.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
We have a formula that's been very good so far,
and I think it'll continue to be good. The relationship
is extraordinary with Venezuela smart country. We've taken out one
hundred million barrels of oil right now in Houston being
being taken care of and made so beautiful. And you

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have to see this at work. It's brought to the refineries,
it's being refined in Houston, which is made exactly for
that product.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
And so far, but it's.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
One hundred million barrels of oil and now they have
another one hundred million barrels coming and it's like a partnership.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
We're getting along so well with them.

Speaker 4 (01:32:40):
It's great for Venezuela, and it's great for the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
Yeah, please go ahead.

Speaker 14 (01:32:47):
I mister President, you just suggested that Aron somehow got
its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary
school on the first day of the war. But you're
the only person in your government saying this. Even your
Defense secretary wouldn't say that when he was asked standing
over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday. Why are
you the only person saying this?

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Because I just don't know enough about it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:06):
I think it's something that I was told is under investigation.
But tomahawks are used by others, as you know, numerous
other nations have tomahawks they buy them from US. But
I will certainly whatever the report shows. I'm willing to
live with that report.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
Yeah please.

Speaker 6 (01:33:27):
You said earlier that we've already won in many ways,
but we haven't won enough. What do you consider enough?

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
What's your baseline where they're not going to be starting
the following day to develop a nuclear weapon, where they'll
look at that man and some other people from the
administration and say, all right, we're not going to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
They were not willing to say that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
And when Steve called up and he said that to me,
I said, well, here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
Let's do it the hard way.

Speaker 4 (01:33:55):
But the hard way I think is probably the easy way,
when basically I can see that they will no longer
have any capacity whatsoe for a very long period of
time of developing weaponry that could be used against the
United States, Israel, or any of our allies. We have
great allies in the Middle East, great countries in our allies,

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and they were staying out of it until they got hit.
Someday they'll have to do a story why did he
do that? Why did they do that? But they were
going to hit them if I didn't hit them first.
They were going to hit our allies first, I believe
upon information and belief, but I believe that he was
going to They were going to take over the Middle East.

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They were looking to take over the Middle East. Now
had Operation Midnight Hammer not taking place, that was definite
because they would have had a nuclear weapon within a
matter of weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
But that took place. I was a setback, but.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
Look at the number of missiles they were able to
buy and make over the last six months.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
That is President Trump speaking at Durral, his golf club
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Let's go back to Actually, I think President Trump is
he's about wrapping up his press conference, a lengthy press conference,

(01:35:51):
relatively lengthy by President Trump's standards, talking obviously at length
about the Iran war, described the ongoing military operation as
quote very complete, pretty much, said, the US and Israel
have achieved major strides toward completing our military objective. We've

(01:36:12):
wiped out every single force in Iran very completely. He said.
The Navy, Air Force, missile capability, drone capability, of manufacturing
capabilities have been largely destroyed. Five thousand targets have apparently
been struck in about a week and three days. He
says this was a preemptive action. Iran had been planning

(01:36:35):
attacks within a week and was on track for nuclear
weapons within two weeks to four weeks, he said. Now,
this is a significant development, as it was widely believed,
at least for a while after the destruction of the
four to nuclear facility in that Israeli strike or excuse me,
and that American strike in the summer, that Iran's nuclear

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capability was severely crippled. So for the President to say
that there could have been a nuclear weapon within two
to four weeks now, we don't know, and probably the
President is not going to say just how close when
that means. Does that mean enriched uranium? Does that mean

(01:37:21):
weapons grade caliber enriched uranium? Does that mean there's also
going to be a delivery mechanism on some sort of
ballistic missile. If so, what sort of range is that missile?
There are a lot of questions there. He also said
Israel could be annihilated. He also addressed the timeline for
the ongoing operation, saying it's going to be ended very soon.

(01:37:45):
We're very proud to be involved in this. He said
it won't necessarily end next week, but it is a
short term excursion to eliminate evil, and the US is
ahead of schedule. He said this earlier this afternoon at
an address to members of Congress. He said the US
is ahead of schedule by a lot. He was also

(01:38:08):
asked about the naming of a new Ayatola, the son
of the last Ayatola, Mushtaba Khamane. He was named as
the new Supreme Leader over the weekend. The president said
he is not happy about that, suggests Iran should put
a president ahead of the country that is willing to
do something peacefully for a change. Now, what he's talking

(01:38:28):
about is akin to the situation in Venezuela. Where Nicholas
Maduro was taken out. He was arrested and he was
brought up on charges of narcotics operations, and Dulci Rodriguez,
the vice president, was essentially installed because she had the
backing of the media. Obviously, there needs to be a

(01:38:51):
democratic revolution in Venezuela. Socialism cannot continue long term. It
is destroyed. One of the wealthiest nations in South America.
Before Hugo Chavez took over and he took control, Venezuela
was incredibly oil rich, but a generation of socialist rule
made Venezuela one of the poorer nations. Hyper Inflation destroyed

(01:39:16):
that country's economy. He installed Dulci Rodriguez the vice president
because she had the backing of the military. That is
a short term bridge solution which I think the president
was hoping for. In Iran, the last remaining holdouts, though
are still loyal to the Ayatola. Meanwhile, the Crown Prince,

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the grandson of the last shaw of Iran, has said
that he is standing at the ready to be a
transitional leader once the remnants of the Ayatola and the
Mullahs are defeated. And the thinking here is that there
is going to be a popular uprising, because you might
remember one of the things that sort of led to

(01:39:58):
this was a cup of weeks ago there was a
massive uprising, the single biggest threat to the Ayatola's rule
in forty seven years before. Of course, the bombs started
falling a week ago Saturday. That popular uprising led to,
by most estimates, ten thousand to thirty thousand protesters being

(01:40:19):
gunned down in the street. And you might recall President
Trump was being criticized as a chicken. Remember it was
Taco Trump. Trump always chickens out Taco Taco.

Speaker 3 (01:40:33):
He didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
The hope is that the Iranians either returned to a
ruling royal family, which I think is pretty unlikely in
twenty twenty six, but maybe the Shaw returns, the grandson
of the Shaw returns as sort of a figurehead of
transitional government before there is a democratically elected Iran. Remember
a lot of people inside Iran, they have been brutalized,

(01:40:59):
they have been a pro they hated this regime. Is
it likely that they would vote for the exact same people,
not at all. Is it possible that they vote for
someone more radical? I don't know how much more radical
you can be than the Ayatola and his band of fanatics.
But yes, that's always the risk you run. But this

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is not going to be an ongoing generational conflict with
an American presence in the country for twenty years now.
President was also asked about oil prices. We hit what
one hundred and sixteen dollars a barrel before dropping to
eighty four dollars a barrel. We have now set a
record by the way oil futures have dropped, single biggest

(01:41:42):
one day drop in the history of the oil futures market. Now,
Trump is warning Iran against any sort of interference with
global oil supplies. He said, quote, I will not allow
a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt
to stop the globe's oil supply, saying so action would
bring hits at a much much harder level with incalculable consequences.

(01:42:07):
So the President is giving his update on the war
in Iran, which he says is going much better than
he thought it would. He said, we are on a
much faster pace than he thought we would be on
for taking out this regime and at last remaining remnants
and frankly, you might be hearing a whole lot of
doom and gloom from the national media, and you might

(01:42:29):
be hearing a whole lot of doom and gloom from
the alt right podcast set. But frankly, folks, I don't
see how this operation could be going any better.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
We can debate the wisdom of it, but if President
Trump and Secretary of State Rubio are to be believed,
you can't base this sort of decision on how it's
going to play in the midterm elections. If Iran really
was that close to nuclear armament, and if they were
really that close to some sort of attack on the

(01:43:02):
United States or its ally, Israel, or any sort of
attack that would have led to mass global instability, which frankly,
any sort of large scale Iranian attack would have, then
we really didn't have too much of a choice here. Yes,
President Trump did say no foreign entanglements to me. Taking

(01:43:26):
out two despotic regimes in the span of two months
with minimal American casualties so far, I believe the death
toll for American troops is seven. No American boots on
the ground. I don't see how that's a violation of
his pledge. The reality is there is good in this world.

(01:43:48):
And there is evil. And it's been almost twenty five
years since America experienced firsthand the extent of the chaos
and the bloodshed that that evil can bring. Folks in
nuclear armed Iran would have made nine to eleven look
like a day at the park instead of the darkest

(01:44:11):
day in American history. These are the worst people on Earth,
potentially arming themselves with the most dangerous weapons this planet
has ever seen. Forget about politics, forget about campaign promises,
forget about whether or not you like the state of Israel.

(01:44:32):
That's a threat to the entire planet. That's a threat
to existence. And I thank god that we had a
president ballsy enough to give that order to strike. And
yes it was by the way, this is I'm just frankly, folks,

(01:44:54):
I'm so tired of the anti Semitic conspiracy theories coming
from both left and rankly fringes of the alt right, saying, oh,
it's Bibby neton Yahoo. It was Netan Yahoo forced Trump
to do it. Did you ever stop to think that
maybe it's Trump, Maybe it's the United States, the most
powerful nation the world has ever seen by a factor

(01:45:15):
of about ten. You don't think it's him ordering the
israelis around. It's gotta be the Jews that are secretly
controlling everything. Huh, can't be Trump? You really think Trump, Trump,
with his ego, is gonna take orders from Bibby.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
The reality is this was forty seven years overdue. We
have been in a war with Iran, whether or not
we wanted to admit it since the buffoon Jimmy Carter
allowed the Shah to fall and the Ayatola to return
to Iran. Iotola Komini's return to power, the emboldening not

(01:46:07):
just of the Islamist regime in Iran but the entire
Middle East. It set that entire region on fire, culminating
with nine to eleven, culminating with all of the chaos
and bloodshed that we start looking throughout the eighties and nineties,
Coobar Towers, USS Coal military barracks in Beirut, the list

(01:46:30):
goes on and on and on. All of that was
Iran and its proxies. All of that was being put
all of the attacks on Iran October seventh in Israel,
all the attacks on Israel, all the attacks globally. The
idea that Trump just woke up one day, Senator Tammy
Baldwin calling this a war of convenience, a war of choice.

(01:46:51):
The side that chose to go to war was the
eye in told turns out America's way better at war
than hees. You're listening the Dan o'donald Show. Conservative thought,
not just talking. Welcome back to the Dan o'donald's show.

(01:47:13):
Sorry to keep you waiting. There is that bumper muser
that bumper music slaps, as the kids say. Do the
kids still say it slaps? Probably not. I'm an old man,
Give me a break. It is conservative thought and not
just talk. The Milwaukee Common Councils Steering and Rules Committee
has unanimously passed and moved on to the full Common

(01:47:36):
Council a piece of the anti Ice Ice Out MKE
initiative that bans ICE agents from all city owned property
like parking garages, like parks, like any public place that
is owned by this city. This is completely and totally unconstantitutional.

(01:48:01):
While cities are not obligated to cooperate in federal law
enforcement operations, they are not allowed to actively interfere with them.
For people who scream all the time about supremacy, white supremacy, whatever,

(01:48:22):
Democrats really have no idea about the supremacy Clause of
the Constitution. I feel like I repeat myself every single
day here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, just trying to
teach you libs some basic constitutional knowledge. The supremacy Clause
states very simply that the Constitution is the supreme law

(01:48:44):
of the land, and all law flows from the Constitution.
Federal law is always going to trump state law. State
law will always trump municipal law. Ample ordinance cannot trump
state law. A municipal ordinance certainly cannot trump federal law. Now,

(01:49:09):
under federal law, are ICE agents authorized to operate and
to conduct legitimate law enforcement operations in the City of Milwaukee? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
They are.

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
Are they authorized to conduct legitimate law enforcement operations? And
let's just be clear, just because Jose Perez, the Milwaukee
Common Council President, and Joe Costa Zamaripa, a Common Council member,
don't believe that these operations are legitimate, that does not
negate their legitimacy in the eyes of federal law. If

(01:49:48):
an ICE agent is chasing a suspect and that suspect
goes into a parking garage, do they get to claim
sanctuary because the parking garage is owned by the City
of Milwaukee. They most certainly do not. Does the ICE
agent's power just sort of magically stop. It does not,

(01:50:10):
because that would interfere with a legitimate federal law enforcement
investigation or operation. It is a legal and constitutional impossibility
for a municipal ordinance to thus interfere with a federal
operation or to in any way conflict with federal law.
And since federal law says, all right, ice agents, you

(01:50:32):
are absolutely deputized and authorized to take illegal aliens into
custody in any municipality, in any public place. And here
are some specific rules that you might need a judicial
warrant if you want to go into a private residence
or something like that, but generally speaking, in public places,
and yes, parking garages and parks and other city owned property,

(01:50:57):
a city owned landfill or something like that, that is
absolutely authorized for an ICE agent to conduct an arrest.
I don't know if we have just constitutionally and legally
illiterate people on the Milwaukee Common Council, or if they
just believe that the people who support them are legally

(01:51:19):
and constitutionally illiterate and they're trying to do this virtue
signaling stuff, knowing full well that a federal judge is
going to strike it down the second it's challenged. And
here's hoping our friends at the Wisconsin Institute of Law
and Liberty do just that, because this quite frankly is
trying to turn Wisconsin or Milwaukee into a sanctuary city,

(01:51:39):
inasmuch as it's not already a sanctuary city for all
intents and purposes is but now we're getting to a
point where you have got people in power in the
city of Milwaukee so paranoid that ICE agents might be
coming to this city just like they came to Minneapolis

(01:51:59):
two months ago, that they're putting into place ordinances that
absolutely are unconstitutional, that absolutely will not stand even the
most basic challenge, and absolutely do nothing, nothing except to
virtue signal for the preening politicians in front of their

(01:52:21):
far left radical base. Coming up in just a couple
of minutes here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, very very
busy first day of free agency for the Green Bay Packers.
Two defensive losses and a backup quarterback is good to
get his chants as a starter. Three losses for the

(01:52:42):
Green Bay Packers on this the first day of free
agency in the NFL. Lot of movement around the National
Football League. The one I just saw is long time
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans surprisingly signs a
free agent deal with the San Francis Go forty nine Ers.
The Packers trade away a guy who was expected to

(01:53:07):
be a massive star to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange
for a fourth round pick. The latest news and this
just broke maybe i'd say about forty five minutes ago.
Kway Walker high round draft pick. Was he a first
round draft pick? Producer Doug Ye, He's a first round
draft pick, again, expected to be a star. He goes

(01:53:27):
from the Packers. He signs a free agent offer with
the Las Vegas Raiders, and of course, a guy that
we all loved and a guy that we all wish
the best, Malik Willis, signs a free agent contract with
the Miami Dolphins. Malik's deal is about twenty million dollars
a year. He's going to get forty five million dollars guaranteed.

(01:53:50):
According to Adam Schefter, three years sixty seven point five
million dollars with forty five million fully guarant he is
almost certainly going to be the starting quarterback for the Dolphins,
because well, first of all, you don't sign that kind
of free agent deal with the expectation that you're gonna
sit the bench. But also the Dolphins waived longtime start.

(01:54:14):
I believe he had seven seasons in Miami and unfortunately
a career just completely derailed by injuries. And that was
to a tag of aaloa. Because to ahead all the
talent in the world, it is believed that he is
very likely going to sign with the Arizona Cardinals, who
cut bait with their former number one overall draft pick

(01:54:38):
Kyler Murray, who is expected to potentially go to the
Minnesota Vikings. That would be funny if only the Vikings
could get a guy like the quarterback who just won
the Super Bowl, Sam Darnold. If only they had a
guy like that who just you know, pinpoint accuracy, tough guy,
great leader. Too bad the Vikings will just they'd never
get a quarterback like Sam Dart. They would never a wait,

(01:55:01):
but earlier today, Rashawn Gary goes from the Packers to
the Dallas Cowboys. A late round schefter said, late round,
I thought we agreed that that was a fourth fourth
round pick. Fourth round pick in the twenty twenty seven
NFL Draft. Gary was very productive playing alongside Micah Parsons,

(01:55:24):
but he was just I mean, he disappeared when he
haves seven and a half eight sacks in the half
a season he played with Parsons. Parson of course, goes
down in that Denver game, and Gary just disappears. He
got a big contract and just was not worth it.
The Packers clearly needed salary cap space, and now they've

(01:55:45):
got it. They did pick up another edge rusher defensive
end in Zaire Franklin. They get him from the Indianapolis
Colts a couple of days ago. I mean, the Packers
aren't really working on revamping this defense. Hopefully Parsons is
back sooner rather than later. I'll tell you, I was
very heartened to see Jason Tatum coming back for the

(01:56:09):
Boston Celtics after that torn acl what nine ten months
after he first suffered that injury. What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:56:18):
His was an achilles? Why did I You're right, it
was it that was in that rash where Dame Dalla
where Damian Lillard had the torn achilles too. Yeah, he
had a torn achilles the same. Basically, it's a bad
tear that used to keep you out for a year plus.
My point is that it is good to see guys
are able to come back and still be productive a
lot quicker than they were because the packers are banking

(01:56:38):
a lot on Micah Parsons and he was an absolutely
dominant disruptive force when he was healthy. Out of time
for today's show, get out there and enjoy daylight saving.
We will be back tomorrow with more of The Dan
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