The State of the Union is Strong

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, the state of our Union, despite what
the Left might tell you, is strong and tonight we
hear about it in President Trump's first State of the
Union address in his second term. Welcome to the Tuesday
edition of The Dan o'donald Show. Now to answer your question,
because I know you were thinking it. Last year, he

(00:20):
did not deliver a State of the Union address. It
is in the first couple of weeks of a president's
new term, an address to a joint session of Congress.
This one is officially a State of the Union, so
naturally Democrats are all bailing. Let's get you caught up
on all the top stories that we are following. House

(00:40):
Speaker Mike Johnson, after formally inviting the President to give
the State of the Union in the House Chambers, at
sharp words for Democrats who planned to boycott the event
tonight and said President Trump is going to deliver a
powerful address.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
You mean the entire country. We'll hear an update on
the full scope of President Trump's transformation and historic first
year back in office.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
We will have a preview pretty much throughout the show
here on The Dan o'donald Show. Coming up in about
a half hour we will talk with Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald,
who's going to offer something of a preview for us.
And then right after the daily Trump date at four,
Congressmen Brian Style also going to join us. Other news
that we are following this hour. Group of school districts

(01:25):
sues the Wisconsin state legislature because they're not getting enough money.
One of the most acidine suits that I have heard
of in quite some time.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
We will dive.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Into it and I will thoroughly dismantle it as only
we can. Here on the Dan o'donald show coming up
in the five o'clock hour. Just a couple of minutes
ago in the Oval Office, President Trump greeted Team USA Hockey.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I know, guys, good, thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Pretty much.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The entire team, save for one player, is going to
attend tonight's State of the Union address.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
The President rather famously, or if you're a leftist, infamously
offered that invite shortly after the team won the hockey
gold in the Milan Olympics on Sunday morning, and they
accepted immediately. They were flown by a plane akin to
Air Force one, from where they landed in Miami yesterday

(02:38):
after the nor'easter, the blizzard that dumped upwards of two
feet of snow on much of the Northeast diverted their
flight back from Italy. So now they are in Washington,
d C. They spent the afternoon talking with the President,
meeting with Oval Office staff, with White House staff in
the Oval Office, just having.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
A grand old time.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
And tonight they will be the President's special guests at
the State of the Union address. Now, why was this
such a controversial thing that Team USA was invited? Well,
of course because of the president's joke about having to
invite the women's team too. Now, the women offered a
gracious decline of the President's invite, and he was not

(03:22):
actually making fun of the women's team at all. He
was making fun of the forty eight hours worth of
unhinged left wing reactions to his joke that we have
now seen. In other words, it's almost like he predicted
how the last two straight days went well. Olympic hero
Jack Hughes, who scored the golden goal, the one that

(03:45):
won the gold medal for the United States in overtime
of their gold medal match against Canada, was asked about
all of the controversies surrounding the women's team and President
Trump's off color joke and Cash Betel, the FBI director,
shugging beers with the squad after they invited him into
the locker room.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Are you guys excited to be go to the White
House and meeting Trump?

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yeah, we're excited. I mean anytime, like everything is so political,
We're just we're athletes. We're so proud to represent the
US and you get the chance to go to the
White House to meet the President. You know, we're proud
to be Americans, and you know that's so patriotic.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
So no matter where your.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Views are, we're super excited to go to the White
House from orow and just be a.

Speaker 7 (04:27):
Part of that.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
How do you feel about the women not going?

Speaker 6 (04:30):
They got they got busy schedules too. I mean, we
I know we're gonna, like everyone's given us backlash for
all the social media stuff today, but it's so negative.
People are so negative out there, and they're trying to
find a reason to just like put people down and
make like make something out of almost nothing. But you know,

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we we our relationship with them over the course of
being they let the village. We like I think we
were so tight with their group and our group after
we won the gold medal.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, it's not as though the two hockey teams despise
each other or anything like that. In fact, it's the
exact opposite. They really respect and genuinely like each other.
But of course the left wing can't possibly allow that.
We can't have any sort of unity, so there needs
to be some class based, gender based struggle here. And ultimately,

(05:24):
what all of this controversy is all about is one
simple thing undermining the president's message in the State of
the Union address. Why do you think it is that
there are not one, not two, not three, not four,
but five separate counterprogramming events that leftists have set up
in opposition to the President's State of the Union address.

(05:46):
The people who are going to be going, of course,
the women are going to be sitting, and they are
going to be wearing white. They're going to be bringing
Jeffrey Epstein victims, of course, because this is the topic
de j this is what left wingers want to focus on.
And oh, by the way, that National Public Radio story

(06:06):
about the Justice Departments supposedly covering up for a Jeffrey
Epstein victim who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her.
It is completely and totally bunk. It has already been
pretty thoroughly debunked over the course of today, and if
we have time, we're going to get into that, because
it is just an absolutely shameful attempt to steal the

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thunder from what should be the president's biggest night of
the year. And that's the entire point, now, isn't it,
Because this is going to be the president's biggest chance
to talk to the entire nation about all of the
things that he's done in the first year of his term,
all of the successes at the southern border, successes in deportation,
successes in getting the inflation rate down, successes in reprivatizing

(06:52):
America's economy, successes in dramatically trimming the bloated federal government,
dramatically reducing the size and scope of a federal bureaucracy
that exists only to enrich and advance itself and has
nothing to do with the success of the American people,
but merely serves as functionaries pushing paper and opposing President

(07:15):
Trump and Republicans every chance it gets. Over and over
and over, you are seeing success after success after success
in this administration, and the last thing Democrats want is
the American people to actually hear that message. The last
thing they want is some normies tuning in who might
not otherwise watch a political speech, but are because the

(07:36):
Team USA men's hockey players are going to be in attendance,
and people want to see just how President Trump celebrates them.
That is the worst possible thing for Democrats, that the
message that President Trump has somehow permeates to regular everyday Americans.
So they're doing everything in their power to try to

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ensure that people, regular every day Americans who aren't otherwise
consumed and obsessed with politics as they are, don't see
Team usay's hockey team as the heroes that they are,
but rather a rogue band of toxically masculine misogynists who
are just crapping all over the vastly superior accomplishments of

(08:19):
the Team USA women. I don't think I have ever
seen anything like this, a concerted effort in such a
short amount of time to go after a team, a
sports team of any kind, and it's so obviously transparent.
This is the most popular team in the world right now,
certainly the most popular team in the United States, the

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hockey team that typically wins the gold medal is the
one that you remember from the Olympics. Yes, of course,
the women's figure skating champion. By the way, we have
her too, Alyssa lou and I love that lefties have
been saying this is the thing that has just blown
my mind about left wingers over the course of the
entire Olympics. As conservatives and liberals and moderates and a

(09:06):
political people and pretty much just everybody celebrates true athletic excellence,
Alyssa Low's performance to win the gold was absolutely flawless.
I know absolutely nothing about figure skating, and even I
knew that that was truly a performance for the ages.

(09:27):
Leftists all over social media say, well, you know, she's woke.
She probably hates your guts, Dan O'Donnell, Donald Trump, mouth
breathing Republicans.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
She hates you. No, she doesn't.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
She has no idea who we are, and frankly, she
probably doesn't really care because you know, her life is
devoted to something other than politics.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's devoted to figure skating.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh well, you're saying she thinks differently than I do
about political issues. Okay, Yeah, who cares? I can celebrate
her for doing something truly spectacular. We can find common
ground as Americans by all saying, hey wow, this Alyssa

(10:16):
lou is an absolutely fantastic figure skater. Hey wow, this
team USA. They showed a whole lot of grit. Isn't
it amazing that the kid who scored the game winning
and Olympics winning goal had pretty much every tooth in
his mouth knocked out And there he is smiling with
his just mangled mouthful of teeth while draped in the

(10:38):
American flag. That's a pretty objectively awesome image. It's a
pretty objectively cool thing. No, Now, you have people who
only believe in the goodness or greatness or fundamental decency
of this country and are really only proud of this
country when it's to their political advantage. And as we
established yesterday, Democrats now really don't like America all that much.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Just thirty six percent of.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Them, according to the annual Gallop Patriotism Survey, say they
are extremely proud or very proud to be American. The
last time that that number got anywhere near sixty percent
is the last time that they won a presidential election
in twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden won over Donald Trump,
and they felt that they had taken the country back

(11:26):
from the forces of darkness. And even then, only sixty
two percent of them said that they were proud of
their country. Republicans, meanwhile, have never gotten below. In the
twenty five years of the Patriotism survey, there has never
been fewer than eighty four percent of Republicans who have
been very or extremely proud of their country. Democrats have

(11:47):
not been anywhere near that number since twenty thirteen. Coincidentally,
the year after Barack Obama won a second term, they
have brief spikes in the number of them who are
actually proud of their country when they win elections. In
other words, their love for their country, their patriotism, their
ability to think of this country in anything outside of

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political terms, is entirely dependent on whether they have political
control in any given instant, and frankly, that's a little
bit of a troubling development. Most normal people, however, don't
think of America in terms of politics. Sure, the State
of the Union is, of course an overtly political event,

(12:33):
but it is the one speech in America that is
mandated by the Constitution. Now, yes, yes, before you get
too technical. Here, the Constitution only says that the President
has to periodically update the Congress on what's going on
in For the first several years, just because of practical concerns,
the State of the Union was essentially a letter, so

(12:54):
theoretically you could just do like a tweet, you could
do a State of the Union by two wheat and
comport with the Constitution. But over time it became a
massive political event. It's called the political super Bowl every year.
And this is why Democrats have been freaking out over
Team USA Hockey, because they know that those young men

(13:16):
give President Trump a huge advantage with normal people who
might not otherwise give two rips about the State of
the Union, the body politic or anything like that, but
might be tuning in and might actually get the truth
about what has been going on in the past year
because well, they're tuning in for Team USA Hockey. They

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just might stay because they like what President Trump has
to say. And of course Democrats can't possibly allow that
to happen, because what President Trump is going to say
tonight is the undeniable truth that things are a heck
of a lot better than they were under Joe Biden.
We've got the numbers to back it up. Coming up
next right here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Coming up

(14:02):
in just a couple of minutes, Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald
will talk to us about the State of the Union address.
He is in Washington, DC, along with Team USA Hockey.
We do love those lads. They are going to be
special guests of the President at tonight's State of the Union.
By the way, we will be providing complete coverage on

(14:22):
our flagship station, News Talk eleven thirty WISN in Milwaukee
starting at seven pm. I believe Fox News coverage is
going to take us right into the President's speech at
eight pm Central. Then we'll have coverage as long as
it goes. The President says it is going to be
a long speech because he's got a lot to talk about.

(14:44):
That is undeniably true. The state of our Union, ladies
and gentlemen, is strong, provably strong, demonstrably strong. Economically in
terms of of the war on crime, in terms of
national security, in terms of illegal immigration. By every conceivable metric,

(15:10):
we are a lot better off than we were a
year ago. How about on the economy, in the third
quarter of twenty twenty five, the USGDP grew at an
annualized rate of four point four percent, well above the
average from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four, taking
out twenty twenty one.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
A COVID year.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you use the final three years of the Biden administration,
there was an annualized GDP growth rate of two point
four percent. We hit four point four percent in the
third quarter of twenty twenty five, when President Trump's economic
policies really started to take effect. In the fourth quarter,
the federal government shut down, Democrats ensured that GDP numbers

(15:55):
were going to tank because they wanted the government shut
down for as long as possible, and they ended up
shutting it down for the longest amount in American history
forty three days. How did it reopen, Well, they got
absolutely no concessions and ended up signing the clean Continuing
Resolution that they had refused to sign at the beginning

(16:17):
of the shutdown, meaning that it was the very definition
of a political stunt. This past January, the US economy
added one hundred and thirty thousand jobs in just a year.
The S and P five hundred Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nasdaq each have been up more than ten percent, despite
doomsayers who predicted that President Trump's tariffs would depress the market.

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In fact, that DOO hit fifty thousand for the very
first time earlier this month. Unemployment is staying steady four
point three percent in January of this year. What this
means is that even though President Trump has dramatically reduced
the size of federal government, he has grown the private sector.

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Not only that, in terms of the number of jobs
that are created, every single net job went to the
private sector. That compares with a massive percentage upwards of
seventy percent or more of the net jobs gained during
the Biden era going to government. Not only that, twenty

(17:24):
twenty five reversed a long term trend from twenty nineteen
until President Trump retook office in January of last year,
all net jobs went to non native born Americans. In
just one year, President Trump totally reversed that one hundred
percent of net jobs in the past year went to

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native born Americans. How About on illegal immigration. According to
the Department of Homeland Security, nearly three million illegal aliens
left the United States States in twenty twenty five. Roughly
six hundred thousand plus have been deported. They have actually

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been rounded up by ICE or other law enforcement agencies
and physically removed from the country, Whereas roughly one point
four million people, according to DHS estimates, voluntarily deported themselves
or self deported. Population growth in the United States dropped

(18:27):
to zero point five percent in twenty twenty five due
to immigration reductions. Total encounters at the southern border with
illegal aliens in November of twenty twenty five thirty thousand,
That's a ninety two percent reduction from the previous administration.

(18:49):
How many were released into the interior of the United
States zero, not zero percent. Zero illegal aliens released into
the interior of the US throughout an entire calendar year.
Border patrol apprehensions on the southwest border again, November, the
most recent month for which data is AVAILA about seventy

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three hundred, ninety five percent lower than the monthly average
in the previous administration. How about releases on parole people
who were just sort of released, not necessarily with an
instruction to return at some point for an immigration court hearing,

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but released with a formal declaration saying, okay, you are
allowed to be here. This past November zero November twenty
twenty four seven thousand. Now this has led to because
we have so many more people who were committing violent
crimes in this country leaving via forcible deportations. The homicide

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rate projected to be four per one hundred thousand people
in the United States last year dropped by the lowest
amount by the biggest amount, I should say since nineteen hundred.
That is a twenty one percent drop from twenty twenty four.
All violent crime fell about ten percent nationwide in twenty

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twenty five. Was there any other big nationwide crime push?
Was there something akin to the National Crime Bill in
nineteen ninety five?

Speaker 3 (20:26):
There was not.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
The biggest change was that you had a whole lot
of violent criminals deported from the United States. Here are
some of the stats according to the White House. Murders
down nineteen percent, robberies down twenty percent, aggravated assaults down
nearly ten percent, motor vehicle thefts down twenty seven percent,
residential burglaries down seventeen percent, burglaries of businesses down eighteen percent,

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all in major cities in twenty twenty five. The property
crime rate is projected to be when the FBI finally
puts out uniform crime statistics data, which is considered the
official crime rate. It is projected to be the lowest
property crime rate ever recorded in twenty twenty five. By

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the way, mass killings mass murder events things that the
Left constantly wants to gripe about. Oh my gosh, we
see a mass shooting every single day in the United States,
mass killings were at their lowest level since two thousand
and six, almost twenty years after just one year of

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President Trump. On national security, border security is the biggest
bit of national security that we can possibly have. Illegal
border crossings have dropped ninety two percent. Ice arrests since
January of twenty twenty five have more than quadrupled. Average

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daily ICE detention is up seventy five percent. Not only that,
according to the FBI, it disrupted eighteen hundred gangs in
twenty twenty five and seized over two thousand kilograms of fetanol.
Violent crime arrests by the FBI increased by one hundred percent.

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On foreign policy, President Trump is going to talk about
all of the conflicts that were essentially ended under his watch,
the biggest of which, of course, was the Palestinian Israel conflict.
Hamas was neutered. It was unilaterally disarmed and destroyed. Every

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single hostage that it took on October seventh, twenty twenty
three was returned, living or dead. President Trump made that happen.
There were also more minor conflicts of flare up intensions
between India and Pakistan. There were a number of different
Eastern European and African conflicts. President Trump broker peace in

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all of those as well. Yes, obviously the Ukraine War
continues to rage, but the Trump administration has made meaningful
steps in trying to get the two sides a little
bit closer together so that they will be able to eventually,
hopefully bring an end to this bloody conflict. The stats

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don't lie, and by every conceivable metric they tell the
same story that we are a lot better off as
a country right now after one year of Trump compared
with four years of Joe Biden and Democrats. So I
got our timing wrong. For Congressman Scott Fitzgerald, He's actually

(23:42):
going to join us an hour from right now. I
was looking at the clock and I'm like, boy, that's
not like him. Usually likes to call a little bit
release so we can chat off the air, usually share
a few jokes and I'm sure he'd want to brag
if he got to meet the team USA hockey players.
He is actually going to be joining us at four
thirty five, So we have got Congressman Brian Style at

(24:03):
four ten. Congressman Scott Fitzgerald is going to call us
at four thirty five here on the Dan o'donald Show
ahead of the State of the Union address, which is
set to begin at eight o'clock Central time, and we
will carry it right here on NEWSTALG eleven thirty wisn
I believe we are also carrying it on thirteen ten WIBA. Yeah, yeah,

(24:25):
VICKI did confirm we are also going to be covering
it on our great Madison affiliate thirteen ten WIBA. Basically,
you can watch the speech absolutely anywhere. No word on
whether MS NOW is going to be covering any one
of the five alternative programming events that Democrats have. Elon
Omar held a press conference today to say that she

(24:48):
is not going to be attending because President Trump, well,
he's got a whole lot of goons in the street
chasing down her.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Peep my Donald.

Speaker 9 (24:59):
Trump will deliver the State of the Union. We know
his speech will be full of lies about how our
nation is thriving under his leadership.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
We know that it is bs.

Speaker 9 (25:11):
Our constituents are facing economic ruin because of his policies.
American families are hiding because Trump's masked goons are rooming
the streets looking for people of color.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
I still like, I know a part of it is
the accent. I know, I know, I know that. Why
does she end everything she says on an upward lilt,
like she's asking a question. Trump's hired goons in the streets,
hunting down our constituents. Just something I noticed about Congressman Omar.

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About fifty Democrats have said that they are not going
to attend the speech, which.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Is great, more room for the hockey players.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Of course, by law, they are not allowed to sit
in the seats reserved for members of Congress during the
State of the Union address. I believe that's actually a
security issue. So they are going to be up in
the gallery. There are going to be a number of guests. Yes,
they're going to be what are known as are they
called Scutnicks. The Scutnick is it's named after a guy

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named Gary Scutnick, who a couple of days before one
of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union addresses. Actually saved
someone who was drowning in the Potomac River, and he
actually jumped in and he was an American hero at
Lenny Scutnick.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Thank you very much, Producer Andrew really do appreciate that.
Save Lenny Scutnick. We did a story on him on
our old podcast series Forgotten History, which hopefully at some
point we will be able to bring back. That has
sort of been on the back burner as I've been
working on some other things which hopefully will be able
to debut in the next probably three weeks or so.

(27:05):
I think we're going to be unveiling something very very
cool along with the Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide ahead of
Wisconsin spring elections set for April seventh. But Lenny Scutnick
saved a guy from drowning in the Potomac River, and
it was either the next night or a couple of
nights later. He was invited by President Ronald Reagan, who

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understood stagecraft, and he highlighted Scutnick's heroics in the State
of the Union. A. Scut Nick is an everyday American
and and other presidents George H. W. Bush, Clinton W.
Obama Trump byden they have all followed Ronald Reagan's lead.

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As part of their speech, they will have people in
attendance who are everyday Americans, but who do extraordinary things.
And they're called Scutnick's in honor of Lenny Scutnick. At LEAs,
they were called Skutnicks for a while, but it's been
about forty years since Lenny Scutnick went to the State
of the Union, so obviously the highest profile Scutnicks in

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a long time team USA hockey. Do you know what
Democrats are doing? Do you know the Skutnicks that they're bringing.
They're bringing Jeffrey Epstein victims now dutifully National Public Radio,
which is just continuing to cover itself in glory. I'm

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being sarcastic here after they famously said, here's why we
are not covering the Hunter Biden laptop ahead of the
twenty twenty presidential election, because we believe that it's Russian misinformation. No,
they never actually believed it was Russian misinformation. They believed
that it was one hundred percent true, but it would
badly damage Joe Biden candidacy, So they put a big

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editorial note out there saying that they're not going to
cover the absolutely true laptop. They put out a patently
absurd story about President Trump's Justice Department covering up an
Epstein related crime involving President Trump. It is verifiably provably false. Now,

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why did they do this today? Because it was obviously
leaked to them, Ladies and gentlemen. This is how opposition
research works. If you ever see these last second smear
stories that come out, they're called October surprises in presidential races.
In political circles, it's known as opposition research or OPO.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
These are stories.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
These are stories, compiled data, compiled video clips, whatever that
candidates put on their opponents. They create what are known
as OPO books, and they peddle this stuff around to
friendly news outlets so that they will advance the narrative

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that that political operative wants out there. You think it's
a coincidence at all that Democrats are bringing Jeffrey Epstein
victims to the State of the Union address and National
Public Radio drops this supposed bombshell about President Trump.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Let's go to break for justice. Second, I was planning
on doing this a little bit later. Let me grab
my notes for this. I'm going to thoroughly debunk this story.
It's not going to take too long, and then we
can get to your unhinged liberal of the day, the
Jeffrey Epstein scandal that isn't coming up next here on
the Dan O'Donnell Show. The story's claims sensational. The Department

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of Justice redacting or refusing to release upwards of fifty
three pages of FBI investigative files into a thirteen year
old girl's claims that Donald Trump in nineteen eighty three
raped her after she was introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein.

(31:11):
According to her claims, he forced her into quote oral contact,
she bit him, and he punched her in the head
before kicking her out. The FBI has already investigated this
claim and investigated it multiple times, calling it unverifiable or

(31:36):
not credible. This is very similar to the twenty sixteen
Katie Johnson hoax, and in fact Katie Johnson that was
a pseudonym. It was a Jane Doe lawsuit filed in
twenty sixteen alleging President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped a
girl who was thirteen years old in nineteen ninety four,

(31:59):
but the date was actually changed across multiple filings of
this lawsuit filed in California April of twenty sixteen, dismissed
because of all manner of procedural flaws. A short time later,
it was refiled in New York in June of twenty sixteen,

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But wouldn't you know it, after President Trump won the election,
the lawsuit was again withdrawn in November of that year.
There is absolutely no evidence in the Katie Johnson lawsuits,
and in fact, there was no real claim here. It

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was just a complete and total fabrication. Weirdly, there is
also a Katie Johnson style hoax that says a thirteen
year old girl, this time about a decade plus earlier
in nineteen eighty three, that President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
assaulted her. Now, this supposedly happened in South Carolina, and

(33:02):
this is critical because there is absolutely no record that
Jeffrey Epstein has ever been in South Carolina none. Not
only that, there is no evidence whatsoever none that the
FBI or Department of Justice actually redacted these documents for

(33:24):
or withheld these documents for any reason other than a
standard issue exemption victim privacy protection. It might be grand
jury material. There might be some form of privileged communication,
it might be a duplicate. There's just there's no reason

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that this would be intentionally withdrawn. The story, in other words,
is a complete fabrication. There is nothing substantive here. Not
only that, not only that the claims that the story
explicitly makes, and some of the media that's included with

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that story.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
The content of.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
These records is a woman who called the FBI with
a cropt photo of a widely disseminated picture of Epstein
and Trump. There was another claim from a woman who
sued the Epstein estate, but her claims were dismissed in
twenty twenty one for a lack of evidence. And there

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was also a woman independent of this, thirteen year old
girl who claimed she was abused by Trump, but refused
to cooperate with any sort of investigative action. In other words,
there was no substance to this whatsoever. This was a
classic hip piece, and it sounds like NPR did not

(34:53):
do its due diligence before running with a verifiably false story.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
In pre Nazi Germany. Oh, why Truff is dangerous because.

Speaker 10 (35:11):
He's evil.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
America Today's unhinged liberal of the day could really be
any one of the fifty plus liberals who, for various
reasons say they're not going to attend President Trump's State
of the Union address tonight. But we've got to give
it today to Angie Craig for her colorful description of

(35:35):
what she would rather be doing than watching President Trump speak.

Speaker 11 (35:39):
And I'll just end with this, I would rather stick
forts in my eyes than be here tonight to listen
to Donald Trump talk about the State of the Union.
But this is the people's house, and I will not
abandon the people's house.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Producer Andrew just actually pointed out something that I had
totally missed to what Representative Craig says, very very closely.

Speaker 11 (36:04):
Again, and I'll just end with this, I would rather
stick forks in my eyes than be here tonight to
listen to Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
You know, you need your eyes to listen to Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
She could have forks in her eyes, she could have
the fork sticking right out of her eyeballs, and she
would still listen. I get what she was trying to say.
It just seems like a little bit of a mixed metaphor.
Good catch on that, Producer Andrew, Angie Craig, Democrat congresswoman
who is actually going to listen to President Trump even

(36:38):
though she would rather be mutilating her own body. She
is your unhinged liberal of the debt. Coming up in
the Daily Trump Date, we will hear more from House
Speaker Mike Johnson, just going off on Democrats for these stunts.
If you noticed. Do you remember what the biggest controverse

(37:00):
from the Obama years was at the State of the
Union where it was one of the Supreme Court justices.
Was it Roberts when he mouthed not true when President
Obama was saying And then there was one Republican who
randomly yelled, you lie. I don't even remember who that was.

(37:22):
That was like a week long controversy. Do you remember
last year when you had Texas's Al Green get up
and literally shake his cane at Trump before he got
dragged out of there by Capitol police officers. The whole
point is that Democrats want to make a scene. The

(37:43):
whole point is they want to distract from what is
going to be a bang up policy speech, and there's
going to be incredible stagecraft, especially having to do with
Team USA hockey, who is going to be in attendance tonight.
Daily Trump Day coming up next right, we're on the
Dan o'donald Show eight o'clock. Tonight's State of the Union

(38:04):
twenty twenty six. President Trump delivers his annual address to Congress.
Coming up in just a couple of minutes. We'll get
a preview from someone who is going to be there,
Wisconsin Congressman Brian Style, great friend of the program. We'll
join us live via the phone from Washington, d C.
If you would like to join us on the phone.
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(38:26):
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Speaker 3 (38:28):
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Speaker 4 (38:52):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Comp just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.
It's also a big win for the United States. We
have to keep winning. We have to win more. We're
going to win more.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
The President's spending the afternoon meeting with Team USA's gold
medal winning men's hockey team in the Oval Office. They
will be his special guests at Tonight's State of the Union.
The President said the speech is going to be longer
than normal because he has a lot to talk about,
saying he's going to focus primarily on the economy, which
figures to be the biggest issue in the upcoming midterm elections. Now,

(39:31):
while all Republican members of Congress are expected to attend,
at least those who are physically able to dozens of
Democrats say they are skipping the President's address. House Speaker
Mike Johnson on that earlier today.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Democrats, meanwhile, are going to host count them five separate
counter events rallies of some sort, they call him in
lieu of tonight's address. For all of these theatrics, it
doesn't matter how many little gatherings they have, or where
they stand, or how high the volume is on the microphones.
They have nothing to offer, nothing but their TDS agenda,

(40:06):
the Trump arrangement syndrome, and it's on full display. All
they can say, all they can tell you about is
how they opposed President Trump and thwart his agenda and
shut down the government and protest everything from the President's
joint address to basic immigration enforcement, and they obstruct any
meaningful progress for the sake of obstruction. It's the same

(40:26):
tired playbook that they run for a decade now. It's
shameful that they would boycott an address. We don't do that.
Republicans don't do that. It doesn't matter if there's a
president from the opposing party. We don't skip out. Our
constituents want and need us to be here.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
In fact, I can't think of the last time a
Republican member of Congress actually boycotted a Democrat president's speech.
It just isn't really done well. Speaker Johnson said. It
doesn't really matter whether Democrats are going to be in
the building or not. Americans will hear the message loud
and and realize that Republicans obviously have a better one.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Republicans have a far simpler and far superior message for
Americans watching at home. We're putting more money back in
your pockets. We're restoring peace through strength. We're defending our
border into porting criminal illegal aliens. We're standing up for
American industry and manufacturing, and we're making American workers, not
foreign countries, the clear winners in this American economy. Those

(41:24):
are not talking points. That is what we have delivered.
It's called Republican results, and we are proud to run
on that message in this faithful midterm election year.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Now, in a rather hilarious exchange on Fox News Today,
anchor Bill Hemmer asked the chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
Ken Martin, whether his members, whether Democrats in Congress, are
going to be acting out, if those who actually attend
this speech are going to engage in the sort of
theatrics and outbursts that marred last year's addressed to a

(41:58):
Joint Session of Congress. It may surprise you to learn
that Ken Martin would not commit to Democrats actually acting
like a dog's concerned?

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Are you about members acting out?

Speaker 12 (42:11):
Well, look, again, it's not my job to tell members
of Congress what to do and how to act. At
the end of the day, they're going to have to
make their own decisions again whether or not to attend
and what they do and say during the speech.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
I love the framing there.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Are you worried that your three year old Democrats are
going to act out? Are you worried that they're going
to be up past their bedtime, that they're going to
need a juice box, maybe some milk and cookies and
they're blankie, that they're going to be acting out throughout
the speech that, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump Date.
Now with more of a preview, we go to Washington,

(42:51):
d C. And we talk with Wisconsin Congressman. Great friend
of the program, Brian Style joining us on the phone. Congressman,
great to have you back. How you doing this evening?

Speaker 7 (43:03):
Dan? Thanks for having me on exciting night tonight.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Absolutely, are you concerned that Democrats are going to act
out like three year olds tonight?

Speaker 7 (43:12):
I just recognize it as a reality. And if there's
any blessing, it's that we will not have to look
at Nancy Pelosi sitting behind the president and watch her
pair of at speed. It's one of the reasons all
of us should be united making sure that Republicans hold
the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterms.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Oh my gosh, that I will never forget that. What
was that the twenty twenty State of the Union address
where she was Speaker of the House famously tore up
this speech. Oh yes, Democrats, please lecture us about tact
and decorum. Are you actually kind of glad that something
like fifty Democrats aren't going to be there to behave
like a bunch of jackasses fitting for the logo of

(43:51):
their party.

Speaker 7 (43:52):
But I don't know that that will actually prevent those
that want to be disruptive and difficult from doing exactly that.
My note before, right, I mean, Speaker Pelosi had shown
the way, and we get more and more Democrats I
want to act out. There's a clear Trump derangement syndrome
amongst many Democrats and the House representatives. And instead of

(44:13):
being in the chamber and acting professional like adults and
listening to the successes that we've had from securing the border,
to unleashing American energy, to a foreign policy with peace,
true strength returning, they're going to return to antics and
we just accept that is a basic premise of how
they operate.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
What does that say that we do accept that as
a basic premise that we're sitting here talking about not
policy or even Team USA hockey, but whether alleged adults
are going to actually have tantrums while a grown man
is speaking.

Speaker 7 (44:47):
Well, it shows that that's how they're going to get
attention in clicks. So let me tell you, I do
think one of the greatest moments in the night tonight
will likely be when President Trump recognizes the gold medal
hockey team who will be in attendance. And so it's
that in highlighting other American successes that is one of
the true strength of President Trump in delivering a speech.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Yeah, absolutely, that is going to be an absolute blast.
You haven't gotten a chance to meet any of the
guys yet. They're not just like walking around Washington, DC,
still chugging beers on the National Mall, are they.

Speaker 7 (45:20):
Well they well, maybe chugging beers. But I do hope
to get an opportunity to see some of them later
this evening. It's just a great night all around. I
think it's just going to be a huge platform for
the President to talk about the successes that we've had
in these the gold medal hockey win over Canada. One,
it was a great game, but two it shows you

(45:41):
the brilliance of President Trump in inviting real world Americans
into the chamber tonight to be able to highlight how
the policies of this administration and Republicans are moving everyone forward,
from people who are living and earning tips from your
hairdresser to your bartender, to people that are working overtime
and slogging it out to make extra money for their family.

(46:04):
They're going to be beneficiaries in a tax on overtime,
and so it's going to be an ability to really
highlight the wide array of successes, including the athletic success
that we had with the gold medal win.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Congressman Bryan Style joining me on the Dan o'donald Show.
What do you think the biggest success of the first
year of the second Trump term is been.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
I think it's hands down the success that we have had.
It's securing the US Mexico border.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:29):
Heading into the last presidential election, so many Democrats would
say it was either impossible or you needed this or that. No,
you needed a new president and he needed a president
with the backbone to get it done. And President Trump
had two things. He had the knowledge and understanding of
what was required, but he also had the guts to
do it. There was people that said, no, we can't

(46:51):
build the wall, No we can't do this. President Trump
came in and said, look, on day one, I'm going
to do four things. I'm going to stop abuse the
parole system. I'm going to stop and release, I'm going
to reinstate stay in Mexico, and we're going to restart
border wall construction. And he immediately got situational control of
the US Mexico border. We've held that for fourteen months,

(47:11):
and the impact of that in communities from Kenosha to
Superior is hard to overstate. You can just look at
the massive drop in the crime rate over the past
fourteen months. Is one keeth of the success of the
securing of the border.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Now, obviously that is correct, and as somebody who's spent
many vacations in Porto Arata and is just heartbroken to
see the drug cartels destroying that beautiful city, you can
see the benefit of President Trump securing that border and
keeping those animals who run those cartels and are just
slaughtering National Guard troops and terrorizing American citizens who had

(47:52):
the misfortune of being on vacation at the wrong time
in the wrong city. You can certainly see that One
thing that President Trump did say in his first re
election effort in twenty twenty is that he really couldn't
run on the border because he did such a good
job that it wasn't a front of mind issue for Americans. Obviously,

(48:16):
the president's team was briefed by pollster Tony Fabrizio about
a week ago. We reported on this about the midterm message,
it's all about the economy. What do you hope to
hear from Trump tonight in terms of rallying the troops,
so to speak, in your caucus to really hammer home
the economic successes that we've seen under the first year

(48:39):
of this second term.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
Yeah, I think tonight's speech is going to have three
major pieces. I think he's going to give the report
card and show the success that we've had, as I mentioned,
securing the border piece through strength, unleashing American energy with
gas prices that you can actually afford to drive to
a summer vacation this year. Then I think he's going
to set the stage and say here's what we still

(49:02):
need to do. We passed the Save America Act Election
Integrity in the House. We need to get that through
the Senate. We have to do more and continue our
work to hold insurance companies and others accountable to bring
down healthcare costs. And then I think we have a
huge opportunity with a piece of legislation that I have
which would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. And

(49:24):
so I think he's going to set that up of
what do we need to do next? And then the
third piece is I think he's going to spend a
little bit of time reminding the American people how absolutely
crazy the Democratic Party remains, from boys and girls' sports
to driving up tax rate to crazy spending, to electing
effectively Democrats, socialists mayors, and what they want to do

(49:47):
if they ever got back in charge. And so if
he does the look back the look ahead and reminds
the American public how absolutely radical the Democrats are, I
think that's going to be a heck of a successful
speech tonight.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
You know, I mentioned that that briefing from Tony Fabrizio.
In fact, your bill, Sir, was one thing that he
actually highlighted. The Congressional ban on trading stocks is something
that apparently pulls very very well. What is the status
of that bill? Do we see that signed in a
law by the end of the year.

Speaker 7 (50:17):
I am optimistic that we will get there. We did
pass my legislation through committee. It polls well because it's
so common sense. Yeah, and so I am optimistic that
the President speaks to this tonight. I don't know if
he will or not, but this is our opportunity to
move it to the House floor, pass it overwhelmingly, to
functionally force the Senate to take the legislation up and

(50:39):
pass it themselves. This is a common century form that
I think the American people understand their member of Congress
should not be going to Washington to trade stocks to
potentially profit off of any insider information they gain. Their
member of Congress would be coming here to serve them
and drive forward an American first agenda.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yeah, could not possibly agree more, Sir, Congressman Brian Style,
he is going to be in attendance for this State
of the Union addressed tonight, Sir, have a wonderful time.
If you do get any selfies with members of Team USA,
you text him to me.

Speaker 7 (51:11):
Okay, you got a deal, Dan.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
All right, sir, have fun tonight. I know it always
is a great time. You're listening to the Dan o'
donald show. We will be back in just three minutes
with more conservative thought and not just talk. Welcome back
to the Dano Donald's show coming up tonight. Of course,
President Trump's State of the Union address. I think Congressman
Brian's style is absolutely correct that a big focus should

(51:38):
be yes. I know it's a tad self serving, it
should be on his bill to ban congressional stock trading.
I believe President Trump is going to urge members of Congress,
and in fact, I can almost guarantee he's going to
urge members of Congress to pass what he's calling the
Save America Act. It did pass the House of Representatives,

(51:58):
and basically all it really focuses on is ensuring that
we have proof of United States citizenship before we turn
someone loose.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Set the polls. That's it.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Supposedly there are fifty Senators who are willing to sign
on as co sponsors in the Senate, meaning there are
fifty votes in the Republican Party for this bill. All
Senate Majority Leader John Thune needs to do is to
in some way alter the filibuster rule. And I have
been remarkably consistent over the course of the last decade

(52:36):
plus in talking about this. I believe that we should
simply go back to what's known as the standing or
talking filibuster, this notion that you can just say, okay,
I intend to filibuster a bill, and then the bill
just effectively dies until the supporters of it can manage
sixty votes.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
That's been toxic.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
And since the threshold for cloture what's known as klocher,
the stopping of a filibuster, since that was dropped to
from two thirds a majority needed to get klocher on
a bill and to end debate. Since that was dropped
to sixty votes, three fifths of the Senate filibusters exploded

(53:25):
in popularity, because why not all you need to do
to kill a piece of legislation is to say, I
want a filibuster, and unless it's something that nobody is
going to find any fault with, nobody is going to
find any controversy with, you're going to need sixty votes. Well,

(53:46):
for the first one hundred plus years of this country's existence,
all the way up until nineteen seventeen, we actually forced
you to do a filibuster if you wanted to filibuster.
To be like and everybody always says the classic example,
mister Smith goes to Washington.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
I didn't just watch that movie.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
I was in an acting class when I was at
Marquette University many many years ago. One of the reasons.
I just I loved my time at Marquette. I took
a whole bunch of courses that just they interested me,
you know, And one of them was acting, and there
was a very very talented acting teacher. He was with
the old do you remember Theater X, the experimental theater

(54:30):
company most famous for Willem Dafoe was in Theater X
and the guy who basically was running it at the time.
I believe it's now defunct. I believe it ended probably
about fifteen years ago or so, but it was a
community mainstay for years.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
And years and years.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
He was my teacher, and we had to do for
one of our projects, I believe for our final exam,
we had to do a big monologue and I did
the filibuster scene from Mister Smith Goes to Washington. And
my wife just reminded me that one of we were
just talking to my son, who's now, you know, on
his way out the door. He's heading to college next year,

(55:08):
and you know, we said, we're you know, we're talking
about the a lure of parties and everything, and well,
we were dating at the time, and she said one
of her favorite nights was we essentially snuck into Marquette's theater.
We snuck into the auditorium. I'm still not sure how
we did that. We somehow just got in. It was

(55:30):
like a Friday night, and we rehearsed that scene and
it was just it was. It was a lot of fun.
But neither here nor there. You'll have to forgive it.
Belling was back in the building today. I have to
get a little old school by just a complete segue
into random stuff in in Mark's honor.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
No, he was.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
He was recording an episode of the Mark Belling Podcast.
He's taken a brief hiatus from his hiatus. I guess
it was a short podcast to remind people. He is
going to be back for season two of the Mark
Belling Podcast in May.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Jay Weber starts up his.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Podcast after retiring from Daily Radio on April seventh. We
are very pleased to have Jay back on the digital airwaves.
But the talking filibuster was something that was just sort
of understood. You hold the floor until you can physically
no longer hold the floor, and then you basically are done.

(56:32):
The legislation moves forward. The framers of the Constitution never
anticipated that you would need sixty votes to pass any
legislation through the Senate. It was always a simple majority. Now,
don't get me started on what the Senate should actually be.
I actually think we should abolish what is that, the

(56:55):
seventeenth Amendment. We should go back to the state legislature
picking senate. That was the entire purpose of the Senate. Again,
I am getting way too far afield of what we're
actually talking about, and that's the Save America Act, which
clearly has to be entrined in federal law.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
There's no reason for it.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Do you want me to prove how insane opposition from
Democrats is to the Save America Act? Oh my gosh.
Women will not be able to find their marriage certificates
and their birth certificates. They can't be They can't get
two forms of ID, multiple forms of ID.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Are you kidding me? They can't do it. They can't
do it.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
So you know how we've been reporting that there was
a nor'easter that dropped blizzard levels of snow on New
York City. Well, socialist may Zoron Mamdani put out a
call for shovelers, shovel snow. Do you know what you
need to shovel New York City? Over the past couple

(57:59):
of days, not one, but two forms of ID. So
Democrats are perfectly fine with requiring two different forms of ID,
which we are told women and minorities by those same
Democrats are simply unable to obtain. It is impossible for

(58:20):
women and black people to get multiple forms of ID.
But if women and black people want to shovel snow
for the city of New York after the blizzard, they're
going to need two forms of ID. Not to vote,
not to vote, absolutely not to vote, but to shovel snow.

(58:42):
Everyone knows the real reason Democrats don't want citizenship requirements
to vote. And by the way, there are already citizenship
requirements to vote all over federal law. It is illegal
to cast a ballot as a non citizen. All the
SAVE Act is saying, look, you just need to demonstrate
rate that you're actually an American citizen. The overwhelming majority

(59:05):
of people in this country, ninety seven percent of the
voting public, has easy access to some document that would
be able to prove their citizenship, or fifty percent of
them already have passports. People can just simply go get
a passport. It shows that you're an American citizen. It

(59:25):
is beyond easy. It takes maybe five clicks of a mouse.
You can get a copy, a digital copy of your
birth certificate. It is staggeringly easy to do. Well, Dan,
do you know where your birth certificate is?

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Yeah? Actually I do.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
It is in a file cabinet in my home and
also a copy of it is in Milwaukee County's records.
Just like ninety seven percent of the rest of the
voting public in this country, I have easy access to it.
No Democrats understand that they are the beneficiaries of some
level of people voting who aren't supposed to be voting.

(01:00:02):
I'm not saying it's outcome determinative fraud, but they clearly
understand that there is an advantage that would be taken
away by the passage of the Save Act. Coming up
next here on The Dan o'donald Show, we talked to
Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald ahead of President Trump's State of
the Union address. Stay tuned, we'll be right back after this.
A tour de fource of truth. It is The Dan

(01:00:24):
o'donald Show. Welcome back to it. We are so pleased
to have back on the line. Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald,
who is in Washington, D C. Right now. He is
getting ready for the State of the Union address. Congressman,
great to talk to you again. What's the atmosphere like
in Washington, D C?

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Right now?

Speaker 8 (01:00:47):
Very exciting, very charged. A lot of people in DC
ready for this speech. Most members are trying to figure
out what the over under is on how long the
President's going to go this evening. He's already told people
he's over two hours, so most of the bets are
at about one hundred and twenty three minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Right now, two hours and three minutes. Have you have
you taken a nap?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:01:13):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Are you waiting for a late night?

Speaker 7 (01:01:16):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:01:16):
I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be great.
I think the atmosphere is going to be great. Having
the US men's hockey game is just going to be
I think electric and off the charts, and everyone's really
looking forward to that. The President probably'll you know, you'll
give the Supreme Court the evil eye most most of

(01:01:38):
the evening as well. In the front row, and we're
hearing the Democrats are going to be m I A, yeah,
you know, it should be kind of a unique situation,
and the room will be uh, the room will be
interesting to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
So this is actually the first that I have heard
it's it's going to be a two plus hour speech.
You're really going with two hours and three minutes, because
if President Trump says it's a two hour speech, you
know there's gonna be a whole lot of applause in there.
There's gonna be a whole lot of trump What does
he call it where he kind of goes off topic

(01:02:13):
and then gets back to it. He's got a word
for it, the weave. He calls it the weave. You
know there's gonna be some weave, all right, you know
there's gonna be some weaving. I'm actually thinking this might
be closer to two and a half.

Speaker 8 (01:02:26):
Oh, you may lose me at that point. I'm here.
We'll see if if you're on you know, if you're
watching it on c SPAN, you may see a few
older members probably not out at some point.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
At some point, are you allowed to like sneak out
to go to the bathroom?

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
How does that work?

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
No? No, No, it's security's super tight. No, nobody can
leave until the speech is over.

Speaker 7 (01:02:49):
Oh yeah for a while.

Speaker 8 (01:02:50):
Too, So yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
All right, Well, I'll tell you what you probably need to, like,
go to the sauna or something, sweat out everything, don't
don't have anything to drink, Congressman after like five pm,
I guess that would be six pm your time. So
you mentioned Team USA Hockey. I can imagine a whole
lot of members are buzzed about having them be in attendance.

(01:03:16):
That that's got to add a whole nother level of
excitement to this.

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
Yeah, I think everyone that I've spoken to is anticipating
that'll kind of steal.

Speaker 7 (01:03:27):
The entire show.

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
Actually, so it's we're not sure how they're gonna do it,
if they're gonna bring them in through the gallery or
onto the floor. But but we're hearing everyone's participating in
every It looked like a lot of a lot of
them were at the White House earlier this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Yeah, they were meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Hopefully.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
I've actually made Congressman style promise that if he got
any selfies with any of them, you've got to send
him on over to me tonight. So I'm going to
hold you to the same account. Now on Paula, See
what do you hope President Trump says in those four
and a half hours that he's up there talking when
you're just going to be desperate to go to bed

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in the bathroom. What do you hope that he really
what do you hope that he covers?

Speaker 8 (01:04:14):
I mean the immediate kind of topic would be the shutdown. Yeah,
and I hope he calls out Senator Schumer and really
kind of that whole group over there that's been completely
disingenuous and just mucking things up for homeland security right now.

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You know it, once again, we find ourselves in a
situation where, unfortunately, it's like the American public has to
pay the price for the absolutely ridiculous amount of politics
that's happening over some of these issues.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
So I'm sure I'll address that.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
I'm you know, I kind of said it jokingly, but
I'm you know, he's so upset about the global tariff stuff. Yeah,
that now that he's rolled out the fifteen percent, I'm
sure he'll probably walk through that and describe exactly what
his thoughts are there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
What do you just to tell them? Oh, so I'm
sorry to interrupt.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
I actually you're you're so measured and I think you
sort of balanced being a free trader at heart, with
the reality of why those sort of tariffs were needed
in the first place, to sort of get other countries
back in line with where the United States is on tariffs.
What do you make of the president's strategem after the

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emergency tariffs were lifted.

Speaker 8 (01:05:36):
Yeah, I mean, they must have seen it down with
the attorneys, and I can't believe they didn't strategize this
before the Supreme Court made their final decision, because they
said they had enough time to do that. But it
sounds like, you know, when the Supreme Court blocked the
Trump tariffs under the international Emergency Economic Powers, that really

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almost is like they haven't thought the whole thing through.

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
But like I've said before, I mean.

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
You know, the President is operating in the moment, and
you've got a Supreme Court that is so static and
unable to really have much flexibility when it comes to
something that's moving as quickly as the shite house is
right now. No matter how they rule on something like this,
there's always going to be the ability to kind of maneuver,

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and certainly under Section one twenty two.

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
You know there is there's some room there to.

Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
Kind of be able to make some changes that probably
the Supreme Court won't be able to respond to again,
so it's he's got I think the President really has
kind of a little bit of the upper hand on
this whole issue at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
Yeah, I think you're probably right, especially with respect to
the unfair trade practices that he would be able to under.
I believe it's section three oh one of one of
the Act sixty two or seventy one that does give
him broad power as the Trade Representative can investigate. And
if there's a determination that a foreign country has unfair
trade practices, which China is practically swimming in, then obviously

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there could be tariffs as a means of deterring that behavior.
On the economic message that figures to be this central
point heading into the midterms, what do you hope the
President says as a way of telling the American people, Hey,
things are a lot better than they were over the
last four years, and you really need to re elect

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Republicans so we don't start backsliding immediately into the bad
old Biden years.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:07:43):
I mean, he's obviously going to go for the line
that he's been using for some time, which is we
inherited quite a mess from the Biden administration, and then
I think from there he moves quickly into kind of
addressing the affordability stuff. I mean, I think there's some
bigger themes that I hope he focuses on and we
don't end up in kind of this situation where he's

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simply talking about the price of gas and the price
of eggs and the price of whatever that consumer good
might be, Because you know, there is a there's a case
to be made that right now there are some bigger
ticket items that really is bogging down the economy. And
we have right now this twenty first century home bill

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that's being rolled out that we think, you know, that
in combination with maybe the FED continuing to and he'll
take his shots at the Fed.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
I'm sure, Oh right, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
How about this?

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
How about this for betting? How about this for betting?
More shots at Jerome Powell or the Supreme Court justices
who voted against him.

Speaker 8 (01:08:47):
Uh, he's not He doesn't like the chairman very much,
So I think he might actually go after after the chairman.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's Powell for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:08:58):
Yeah, And you know, there's some bigger ticket items we
talk about this all the time. I mean, if you're
paying twenty four hundred dollars a month to rent a
two bedroom apartment, ye, or if your mortgage rate is
three thousand dollars a month. I mean, that's something that
pulls a lot more revenue out of somebody's pocket than
the cost of eggs or some of these consumer goods.

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And that's where I think the focus needs to be.
You know, we came out of COVID that was a disaster,
and now we find ourselves kind of with the Biden
administration not really doing much other than pumping more cash
into the system. So you know, I don't know who
expected this thing to turn around in a year, but

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you know, I think that's why he needs to continue
to remind people kind of what happened under the Biden administration.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
And also, do you think there's going to be a
push for a senators to pass the Save Act?

Speaker 8 (01:09:54):
You know, I hope he does call him out on it.
I know that Senator Lee right now is probably you know,
the one that's leading the charge on the idea that
if you're gonna do a filibuster, you need to stand
on the floor and shially capture you know, you can't.
You can't do a filibuster and then get on a
jet and fly to a security conference in Europe. You know,

(01:10:17):
I mean, it's it's ridiculous kind of the way that
Saul is playing out. But you know, I've listened around
Johnson a couple of times talk about it, and you know,
right now, it seems that Soon doesn't believe that that
they can kind of pull this off in any way,
which is really sad. And I think the other thing
that Senator Johnson's saying right now, which you know he

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knows better than I being in the Senate, is that
the Dems are gonna do it anyways. It's gonna get
full control to flip it, just like Harry Reid did
on the judicial appointees.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
So you know, it's uh and then everyone's gonna yep.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
Congressman Fitzgerald looks like we lost a lot of time.
I believe he's in the Capitol right now. There are
a whole lot of thick, thick walls in there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
That's that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
We actually have to move on anyway, bring you the
unsung here of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
We do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
Oh wait, he's calling back. Let's put him right back
on you can just answer the phone, because I'm going
to take a while. Guess that this is Congressman Fitzgerald
and not somebody asking about the property that I most
definitely do not own at one two three Elm Street.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Okay, good, Yes, it's me. All right back. You're not
you're not calling.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
You're not calling about my vehicle's extended warranty, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Are you right now?

Speaker 7 (01:11:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
I'm sorry you were saying, you were saying you got
cut off.

Speaker 8 (01:11:42):
No, I'm just saying, you know, I think overall, what
you're gonna see is is kind of the President laying
out not only his plan for the next three years,
but also him kind of summarizing that, Hey, listen, we
are cleaning up the mess that we were handed and
and I you know, I think there's a good, good
portion of the American public that are willing to give

(01:12:04):
any president kind of a you know, a path on
some of this stuff until they actually have the amount
of time that they need to strain it out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Well, sir, best of luck to you staying up for
all seven hours of President Trump's speech. He's bringing back
the philibuster tonight. I heard he's going to do a
talking Philibuster worre Teas and I know it's going to
be an electric atmosphere. Team USA in the House. State
of the Union addresses are always fun for the audience
at home. I can only imagine what it's like being

(01:12:37):
there on the floor of the house, Sir, enjoy every
moment of it. We always do appreciate you giving us
an update.

Speaker 7 (01:12:44):
Thanks Dan, good to be with you, You too.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
My friend.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
We will name the unsung hero of the day coming
up next, and then we dive into one of the
more frivolous lawsuits I have seen filed in Wisconsin in
many years. School districts in Wisconsin and partner with a
left wing law firm to file one of the most
frivolous suits I think I have seen in quite some time.
They're suing the legislature over the way the legislature appropriates

(01:13:12):
funds for schools. This needs to be laughed out of
court immediately. Why because we are spending more on education
per student than we have ever spent in the state's history.
We will dive into that lawsuit. Also, a truly disturbing
story out of Madison East High School. Yes, even more

(01:13:35):
disturbing than the drag show that we reported on a
couple of weeks ago, an autistic nonverbal student forced.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
To eat dog food. That's the allegation.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Suffice it to say, I'm a little skeptical. We will
get to all of that coming up in the five
o'clock hour here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Right now, though,
the unsung hero of the day. Today's unsung heroes are

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two heroes who seem destined for each other, Skeeter Black
and Jet Blue.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
These are real names.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Skeeter Black is a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer who
adopted a dog known as Jet Blue, who was abandoned
by his owner after she tried to board a Jet
Blue flight with the dog on February second, falsely claiming
it was a service animal. She was denied boarding because

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the required documentation was it of course, properly completed, and
instead of taking the dog back, she tied him to
a metal carry on baggage sizer at the Jet Blue
ticket counter and then walked away to board her flight alone.

Speaker 7 (01:14:54):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Las Vegas officers responded. The dog initially taken to animal control,
then fostered by Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas. The story
went viral, and after a mandatory hold period and a
review of applications, jet Blue was officially adopted over the
weekend by Skeeter Black, one of the Las Vegas Police

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officers who helped rescue him that day, as well as
Officer Black's family. The rescue group and police department sharing updates,
calling it a fitting conclusion where the pupp gets a
loving home with someone who stepped up when jet Blue
needed it the most. Just a very very cool story

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and a happy ending to a story that makes you
want how are people allowed to own dogs that they
are not clearly going to care for. I mean, maybe
getting a puppy a couple of months ago has made
me an old softie. But good for you, Officer Skeeter Black.
You also have one of the coolest names in the
history of names. We'll be right back after this. So

(01:16:03):
I just went to the little market place that we
have here at the Pristine iHeartMedia Studios in Milwaukee, the
Milwaukee area technically, and realized that I didn't even think
about it. I got myself a pepsi. Now we have
pretty much every soda known de mankind in the little

(01:16:24):
vending machine area. I realized I am like an oddity,
and I was thinking about a segment. I don't know
if we ever really did this on the program, but
I have been talking about it for a while. Dan's
oddly controversial opinions that I have very very weird opinions
that most people find insanely controversial.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Not on politics.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Everybody obviously should agree with me on politics, as you
folks all know, but just on random stuff like, for instance,
for instance, my worst one. I am a millennial. I'm
an older millennial. I grew up in the eighties and nineties.
I hate The Goonies. I think The Goonies is an
awful movie, and all it is is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
A bunch of kids screaming at each other.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
Okay, the woman who plays Ma Beagle or whatever the
hell her name is, the Fortelli, Ma Fortelli, It's fantastic.
Joe Paneliano, obviously, as one of the Fortellies, is tremendous.
I just I never watched it. When I was a kid,
I was one of the few kids in my generation
that didn't watch The Goonies, and as a as a result,

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my wife was says, you gotta watch the Goonies, you
gotta watch it. So we watched it. I was like
twenty five, maybe thirty, and I'm like, oh my god,
this is awful.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
And when I.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Tell people that at parties, you would think like I
kicked their puppy. You would think I insulted their dead mother.
That the reactions I get. One of my friends jokingly
for an entire night said he wanted to fist fight me.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
At least I think he was joking.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
My oddly controversial opinion, I will almost always prefer Pepsi
than coke.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Now before before you people.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Dive in on me, first of all, my wife actually
just got me. I love coca and a glass bottle.
Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it.
I cannot get enough coca and glass. But it's just
it tastes way better than any other type of coke,
save for maybe McDonald's coke. McDonald's coke is like right
up there with uh coca and glass. But I don't

(01:18:40):
know if they're still putting cocaine in it. But McDonald's
coke just tastes way better than other can coke. Eh,
restaurant coke that's not McDonald's coke.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
EH. I like PEPSI.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
I prefer PEPSI, just so you know, you people probably
prefer pepsi too, you just don't know it. Pepsi always
dominates blind taste tests. You remember when they did their advertising,
I think pretty consistently throughout the nineties was the Pepsi Challenge.
Remember that one where they would get coke drinkers and

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they would do a blind taste test. Well, they knew
people were going to if they didn't, if they weren't
able to immediately recognize coke, like they drank enough of
it where they're able to tell, they would pick pepsi
because it's sweeter. But yeah, my oddly controversial opinion is
that I prefer pepsi And the reason for that it
actually it's kind of sweet. It's my late grandfather. When

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I would cut his grass. He lived sort of across
across Forest Home. We grew up right by Saint Mary's
Hill's corners, which is why I went to that school.
And he lived literally right across Forest Home near the
River Parkway, and I would ride my bike and cut
his grass. My brother and I we split the job,

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and every other week one of us would go and
cut the grass. We cut his grass weekly and he
would have a pepsi waiting for us. Afterwards, we'd sit
and we'd smell the freshly cut grass and we would
drink pepsi. So every time it just reminds me of
being a kid and cut my grandpa's lawn. So assuming
also it tastes better. All right, top stories we are following. Obviously,

(01:20:24):
we are now three hours away from President Trump's State
of the Union address. He spent much of the afternoon
greeting the Team USA gold medal winning hockey team.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Today. He says he knows every one of them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
Guys. Thank you, He said, Wow, these are big guys.
I knew these guys when they were peanut, he said
to one of the players, and now they're big stuff.

(01:21:03):
Fantastic picture floating around social media right now of all
of Team USA crowding around President Trump sitting at the
Resolute desk in the Oval Office, Very very cool. He
is obviously going to give them a big shout out
during tonight's speech, and according to House Speaker Mike Johnson,
he is also going to make talk about the promises

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he made and promises he.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Can the night, President Trump will demonstrate that Republicans are
the only team working seriously to bring common sense back
to a broken system. It's promises made, promises cat.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
And that is because most Democrats aren't even going to
be there upwards if fifty of them say they are
going to boycott the event for various other alternative programming.
By the way, one of the responses is going to
be given by new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
A very very good friend.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
By the name of Jim just texted me what can
span Bauer span Burger possibly say tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
Is it span Burger or span Bauer?

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
I went to grade school with a guy named span Bauer,
good friend Abigail span Berger. I believe it is yeah,
span Burger. Okay, now he's confusing me. Span Bauer must
be a popular Wisconsin. What can span Berger possibly say tonight?
In her dem response, her Craig great taxes on everything
have got to have her constituents going WTF, Yes they are, Jim.

(01:22:30):
Democrats retook control of all three branches of power, the
Virginia Lower House, which I believe is called the House
of Delegates, the state Senate, and they also now control
the governor's mansion. After the very very popular Republican governor,
there was term limited out and they immediately enacted all

(01:22:52):
manner of liberal insanity, and people were like, hey, wait
a second, Wait a second, I thought span Berger was you.
She campaigned on being a normal dem She was like
a John Fetterman Democrat, like a traditional Democrat, not like
one of these crazy sociopaths that they have in New
York and let's face it, pretty much everywhere else in
this country. Well, that's the old bait and switch that

(01:23:15):
you get. Yeah, what exactly is she going to say?
But clearly Democrats are positioning her to be a big
future star, because that's what this spot typically entails. That
whoever it is that they believe is next man up,
whoever they want to really elevate the standing of they

(01:23:38):
have them do the response to the state of the Union.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
I always think it's a thankless job.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
If I made this very quickly, we'll get into this
lawsuit against the Wisconsin legislator. I have been licking my
chops trying to dismantle this thing from a constitutional and
legal perspective pretty much all show long. But the response
to the state of the un is always thankless because
you just can't match the stagecraft.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
I keep using that word today stagecraft, stagecraft, stagecraft. It's
all about stage, the majesty of the floor of the
House of Representatives the United States Capital.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
You've got a huge crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Cheering for you, and then you go to the response
and it's some woman sitting in her kitchen. Didn't they
do that with Katie Britt giving the Republican response a
couple of years ago to old man Biden, and even
Biden fumbling and stumbling his way through the speech still
casts sort of a grand shadow that the response always

(01:24:43):
feels small being underneath if you follow me, So good
luck to the Dems, of course, whatever it is, span Berger.
Spanbauer says tonight, the media will tomorrow say that she
is absolutely a star and she perfectly refuted everything Trump said. That,
by the way, is why we do every single day

(01:25:03):
at four pm, we do the Daily Trump Date, and
we will always try to have soundbites, oftentimes longer soundbites
than we normally play on the show, because we want
you to actually hear what it is that President Trump,
members of his cabinet Republicans say, because we know you're
not going to hear that on the nightly news. You're

(01:25:23):
likely not going to read that in the morning paper
for the five of you who still actually read physical newspapers,
or you're not going to get an accurate picture on
social media by traditional left wing news sources. So we
try to bring you the unfiltered truth, all right, the
unfiltered truth about a lawsuit that was filed in o

(01:25:45):
Claire County Circuit Court today by the Wisconsin PTA, the
Wisconsin Parent Teachers Association, Green Bay, Beloit, o'claire school districts,
and along with a number of other districts, teach unions
of course, and various individual parents. It alleges in a

(01:26:06):
suit against the Wisconsin legislature that Wisconsin's public school funding
system is unconstitutional under Article ten, section three, which requires
that public schools not charge any tuition and have uniform
instruction and equal opportunity for a quote sound basic education.

(01:26:32):
That is the central claim. Because some schools get more
funding than other schools, they allege this violates Article ten
section three. I don't think I have ever heard something
so stupid, So I started thinking, Okay, who is it

(01:26:52):
that's making this insane argument?

Speaker 7 (01:26:56):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Yes, Law Forward, the left wing Madison based law firm
that will take any suit and make any insane argument
for a reasonable fee. They claim that underfunding of schools,
combined with outdated revenue limits on what it is that

(01:27:20):
schools are able to essentially charge in property tax levies
and a diversion of funds to voucher and charter schools,
as well as declining student outcomes, prevent schools from meeting
their constitutional standards and thus providing anything but a sound

(01:27:42):
basic education that is uniform and provides equal opportunities. I
don't even know how you make that argument with a
straight face. Do you know why? Because we are now
funding public schools at a higher rate than we have

(01:28:03):
ever funded them before.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
Ever, the US average is roughly sixteen thousand, five hundred
dollars per k twelve student. Do you know what our
average now is what we pay to educate a single student?
It is roughly sixteen thousand, five hundred dollars. Nominal spending

(01:28:32):
has now caught up within it. We have always been
very competitive in terms of the national average. In fact,
some estimates now say that we are well over seventeen
thousand dollars per student statewide, including our friends at Wisconsin
Manufacturers and Commerce. In their recently released Competitiveness report, they

(01:28:53):
put the average at seventeen thousand, four hundred dollars per student.
Now that is up. That is well more than doubled
what we spent twenty five years ago. Not only that,
I'm not sure if you noticed, but Governor Evers allegedly constitutionally,

(01:29:13):
through a four hundred year partial veto back in twenty
twenty three, authorized a three hundred twenty five dollars per
student per year revenue limit increased through the year twenty
four to twenty five, which enables school districts to raise
roughly two hundred and seventy million dollars more per year

(01:29:36):
via local taxes that they never ever have to go
to referendum to increase. This is an ongoing, massive, and
I mean massive funding hike that plaintiffs never even mentioned
at any point in their lawsuit. Why do you suppose
that is they are fully funded. They are more than
fully funded for the next four centuries.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Four centuries.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
By the way, in case you're wondering why we have
revenue limits, if you haven't been in Wisconsin or been
following Wisconsin politics for that long, They've been in place
since nineteen ninety three. And what they do is effectively,
what governor evers did they protect taxpayers from just unchecked
hikes and constant referendums. Well, wouldn't you know it, schools

(01:30:26):
are going to referendum at a nearly annual rate. I
am truly shocked at how often school districts go to
referendum people. By the way, we're putting together what we're
calling here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, the Ultimate Conservative
Voter Guide ahead of the spring election, where we're telling
people who the conservative candidate is, and I've had a

(01:30:47):
number of people chime in and say, well, Dan, what
do you think about this revenue? Or excuse me, what
do you think about this referendum? Just assume I am
going to say vote no on the reference that the
conservative choice is vote no. If they didn't get enough
money in three hundred and twenty five dollars per student

(01:31:08):
per year for the next four centuries, then Heaven help you.
You have got a school district that truly does not
know how to handle money. The other central claim here
is that somehow diverting funds to voucher schools, private school

(01:31:32):
independent charter schools, that this undermines the public school system. Okay,
public districts retain almost all of the money there so
any money like for example, school District at Green Bay

(01:31:53):
is the third biggest school district in Wisconsin, behind Milwaukee
Public Schools Madison Metropolitan School District. They claim in this
lawsuit that they suffer a fifteen million dollar loss because
that money that might otherwise go to their district is
diverted to private and charter and voucher schools. That's more

(01:32:18):
than offset by reduced enrollment costs. In other words, because
they don't have to educate nearly as many students, they're
saving a traditional traditional an insane amount of money. The
traditional format for providing revenue is on a per pupil basis.

(01:32:41):
But because the per pupil basis has increased exponentially year
after year after year, while by the way, educational outcomes
have decreased, there is no argument whatsoever. Not only that,
going back to the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Co WMC study

(01:33:04):
that was released a couple of weeks ago, we made
a huge deal out of it here on the Dan
O'Donnell Show because it was so eye opening, and quite
possibly the most eye opening claim of all is that
since two thousand from two thousand to I believe the
numbers went up to twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four,
so almost a full quarter century. Wisconsin has sixty five

(01:33:25):
thousand fewer students. Okay, so far fewer students to educate,
far fewer costs associated with educating each student. But of
course our per pupil per student numbers have gone up significantly.
You would assume that schools that have to make some cuts,

(01:33:46):
and sure enough, there have been about two to three
thousand teacher jobs that have been lost. We have two
to three thousand fewer teacher I believe the number was
something like twenty seven hundred fewer teachers in Wisconsin than
we did in the year two thousand. Would you believe
we have eight thousand more non teaching school staff members

(01:34:08):
than we did in two thousand? How exactly does that work?
Sixty five thousand students, three thousand fewer teachers to educate
those students, but eight thousand more bureaucrats to just suck
off the public teat and collect typically six figure or

(01:34:30):
more salaries. We will dive back into this insanely frivolous
lawsuit when the Dan O'Donnell show returns in just three minutes,
a couple of State of the Union updates. Just in
the last couple of minutes, we now have seventy different
Democrats who are saying that they are not going to

(01:34:51):
attend the speech tonight. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says she
had to basically heak her head out of the ground
like the groundhog, just kind of once every February. She
will make people remember that she exists. And she is saying, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't want to hear anything, but I'm going to

(01:35:14):
be there because if I'm not, that's like retreating, and
I Am not going to ritreat. All so stunning, so brave,
Senator Baldwin. But seventy Democrats at least are not going
to be there, and frankly, that's fantastic. This is a
speech for grown ups, and you know the kids. The kids,
they can watch Nickelodeon in the other room. You know,

(01:35:36):
they put on some Mister Beast videos for the Democrats.
You know, give them some Kraft macaroni and cheese, let
them play on the iPad for a little bit. They
can you know, kick and scream and have temper tantrums.
If it's past their bedtime and they're getting bored by
the man they don't like speaking.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
That's just fine by me.

Speaker 1 (01:35:55):
Another update, a Republican in who is like the definition
of rhino Republican in name only. Thomas Massey is from Kentucky.
He is going to be sitting with the Democrats to
quote show unity on the Epstein Files. Now, Massey was

(01:36:19):
a classic guy who just claimed to be more conservative
than everybody, and the reason that he would.

Speaker 3 (01:36:25):
Thwart every Republican bill that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Would come before him was because it just wasn't conservative
enough to him for him. Well, the Epstein Files did
a fantastic job in revealing the craziness and the inner
lib that exists. I think with Look, there's a reason

(01:36:47):
that lib can be short for both liberal and libertarian,
because there is a very fine line. And Thomas Massey
just hoola dances all over. He's going to be sitting
with his best buddy row Kana as they are going
to be talking about Epstein all night to anybody who

(01:37:10):
will listen.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
So he's going to be.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
Sitting with the Democrats. He sounded like a Democrat on
the Epstein Files. By the way, the last time we
heard from the Dynamic duo of Massey and Kana. They
were naming people who just happened to be in a
police lineup with Jeffrey Epstein and had absolutely no tie
to the case. That's why their names were redacted. While

(01:37:34):
these two bumbling morons demanded that those names get unredacted,
they were, and they read them into the congressional record,
even though these people are completely and totally innocent of
any crime. Now I would say they should sue the
pants off of these two. But if you read something
into the congressional record, whatever you say on the floor

(01:37:55):
of Congress, you are absolutely immune from any.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
Sort of lossit.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
There is an absolute community protection there because it essentially
functions like a sovereign immunity. We want congress representatives to
be able to say whatever it is they want is
the people's representatives, without any fear of any sort.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
Of legal repercussion.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
Obviously, if they say, hey, yeah, I was actually the
one who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, there would be some criminal
repercussions there. By the way, the latest update on that
when the family is now offering a million dollars to
the media to once again obsess over the Nancy Guthrie
geat no, no, no, no, no, no. They're offering a
million dollars for the safe return of Nancy Guthrie. I

(01:38:39):
know they cleared all the family members, it's still there
is still something that just does not sit right with
me about this case. No, I don't believe there's ever
really been a kidnapping at all. I believe she was murdered,
and I you know, I think this story just does
not make a.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Whole heck of a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
It's like the lawsuit against the Republicans in the state
legislature for the supposedly unconstitutional funding mechanism for state schools.
Biggest bar to this is going to be, well, first
of all, there is long standing precedent that courts in
Wisconsin have interpreted Article ten, Section one, very very section three,

(01:39:24):
very very narrowly. And just because you're unhappy with the
amount of money that your school district is getting, that
isn't actually grounds for a lawsuit. You aren't actually entitled
to recover damages because you're not getting as much money
from the state as you think you should. What Article tens,

(01:39:44):
section three provides is that schools need to be free.
You have to have tuition free schools, and you need
to do pretty much everything you can to have equal outcomes,
to educate each child held as equally as possible. I
believe it's sound basic instruction is the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Standard.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
I dare you to tell me with a straight phase
that Milwaukee Public Schools is providing sound basic education. Now,
which district in the state is by far the best
funded Milwaukee Public schools? So how exactly does that one work?
We are spending more money than we ever have on

(01:40:32):
school funding and will be for the next four hundred
years thanks to our idiot governor who launched an incredibly
unconstitutional veto, which of course was upheld by his sycophants
on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. You want to talk about
why we focused so hard the last couple of years

(01:40:53):
on control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, It's stuff like
this upholding the four hundred year veto. Well, ironically enough,
because of that court's action three hundred and twenty five
dollars per pupil per year for the next what is
it now, three hundred and ninety eight years, the court

(01:41:14):
that hears this particular lawsuit o'clare County Circuit Court will
have no choice but to throw it out that there's
nothing unconstitutional about the way the state legislature is doling
out millions and million billions of dollars for increasingly horrible
public schools.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
I'm not saying all.

Speaker 1 (01:41:36):
School all public schools are horrible. My kids go to
public school, and they happen to go to an excellent
public school, one of the very best in the entire state.
There is probably not a whole lot of coincidence there
that their district is not joining this asenine lawsuit. Speaking
of bad school districts, we go to Madison where Madison

(01:41:58):
East forced a kid to eat dog food. The mother
of a nonverbal autistic student at Madison East High School
is claiming that the school fed her son dog food
for lunch this month. Dog food, now, folks. This is

(01:42:19):
the same Madison East High School that we reported exclusively
a week or so ago was hosting a student pro
drag show where they invited professional drag queens from the
community as well as students, presumably underage students to shake
their moneymakers on stage in a drag performance that you

(01:42:41):
actually needed an ID to get into. So Democrats do
not want an ID for voting, but they do require
IDs to get into their underage drag shows. Now, obviously,
I have been very critical of Madison East High School,
very very recently. Let's just say I'm skeptical of the

(01:43:06):
claims that staff members fed this kid dog food. Take
the list. Listen from this report. This was WISC TV
Channel three.

Speaker 10 (01:43:17):
We can't be safe as school.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
Where would you be safe?

Speaker 13 (01:43:19):
That's Deborah Hawk's reaction after she learned what her son
had for lunch.

Speaker 10 (01:43:24):
If it was an accident, why and.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
It can't be an accident.

Speaker 13 (01:43:31):
Hawk's son, Jaden Hawks, is a freshman at Madison East.
He has autism and is non verbal, Deborah said. A
few weeks ago, staff sent her this picture.

Speaker 10 (01:43:40):
He looked like he ate a little bit as on
at least three, four or five bites.

Speaker 13 (01:43:44):
Staff also called Deborah confirming someone gave Jayden this can
of dog food for lunch.

Speaker 10 (01:43:50):
And then when you give it to him, you give
an autistic child a can again that we could cut
hisself with a plastic four And can you mind well
gave him a metal fork if you gonna give him
a metal can?

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
Okay, So let's examine the claims here. Jaden is nonverbal,
He's very autistic. He has a special needs i EP
Individualized Education plan. Presumably he has somebody because he's nonverbal,
because he's so autistic, he has somebody who is with
him pretty much all day long. Right, I'm just going

(01:44:27):
to assume, and in fact, my producer Andrew was you
were a special needs teacher. Yeah, you were a special
needs teacher in another life. So no chance this kid
is just sort of wandering the halls or going into
the cafeteria alone, right, just none. So you got a
teacher who is assigned to him, probably pretty much full time.

(01:44:51):
That there is a special needs coordinator teacher, there is somebody.
There is somebody who is with him at all time.
Now I don't know if she had a vacation day,
if she was in the bathroom, but somebody who happened
to have a can of dog food at school. I'm

(01:45:11):
just going to go out on a limb here that
there aren't a lot of dogs in a school. Now,
there might be, you know, a service animal, sure, okay,
and that would make sense that if there's a service
dog in the building for some other student or maybe
Jaden as a service dog. But it didn't sound like
this was dog food for Jaden's dog. There was no

(01:45:33):
mention of Jaden having a service dog in the story.
Dog food is not something that you will typically find
at school. Could it be that other students gave Jaden
dog food? No, staff members said Another staff member like
I could see as cruel and as awful and as

(01:45:54):
much as I would want criminal charges against any kid
who fed dog food to ann verbal autistic student as
a pranks at just a cruel joke, it's sort of
hard for me to see adults doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Look, adults, especially adults in schools, do all manner of
truly horrible things. Don't get me wrong. There is just
something about this story that has nagged at me all day,
and that is nobody thought they were going to get

(01:46:34):
caught doing this, so they clearly brought a can of
dog food from home, opened up the can of dog
food with a can opener, and decided what it would
be funny to see if the kid would eat the
dog food. Look, I'm not saying it didn't happen, and

(01:46:57):
Madison Metropolitan School District says it's investigating. I there is
just something about this story that makes me question. And no,
it's not the fact that the mother waited a couple
of weeks, you know, maybe she's been trying to get
answers from the school, and then finally says, Okay, I've
got to talk to somebody. I'm going to talk to

(01:47:18):
the media. I'm going to get the news involved. There
was no police report feeding a kid dog food that's
child abuse like that. There was there was no criminal investigation.

(01:47:38):
Madison Metro says, it's investigating, but the police have not
been involved at all. Like this has been known about
for several weeks and nobody thought to call any sort
of law enforcement at all. Again, far be it from

(01:48:00):
me to trust the judgment of the exact same high
school that we caught running an underage drag show in
the school's auditorium a week or so ago. Far be
it from me to side with them or to say, hey, yeah,
these people have totally sound judgment. I just I'm having

(01:48:22):
a difficult time. Let's just say, my spidey senses are
tingling that this might be there might be a little
more to this than people might initially assume. I'm just
gonna leave it at that. Watch the story yourself. It's
on my social media. Make up your own mind. Fox

(01:48:44):
news coverage of the President's State of the Union address
will begin in a little more than one hour on
your Fine Dan O'Donnell show stations. President Trump said to
begin his remarks at eight o'clock Central Time, and Team
USA Hockey is going to be in attendance. Also, we

(01:49:06):
learned earlier today Erica Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk
and the president of Talking Point Talking Point Turning Point USA.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
Talking Point ussay is what.

Speaker 1 (01:49:18):
Democrats get sent every morning when they all sound the
exact same in discussing pretty much anything. I still can't
believe that poor woman has been the subject of conspiracy
theories that she killed her husband in order to take
over his organization. It that poor family. Candice Owens needs

(01:49:42):
to do some serious soul searching. And I say this
as someone who has had Candace on this show. I
was on Candice Owens documentary about Stephen Avery. I've been
on the Candas Owens Show years and years and years ago.
I do not understand obviously the President is going to

(01:50:04):
be talking about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And I
mean this comes just this State of the Union address
comes after they got somebody who traveled all the way
from North Carolina with a shotgun and a can of gasoline.
They got him at mar Lago and shot him dead

(01:50:26):
as he was apparently radicalized by the Epstein files. He
had told family and co workers as recently as as
late last year that President Trump was a great leader,
but apparently in the last couple of months he became
obsessed with the Epstein files and the conspiracy theory that

(01:50:47):
Donald Trump was part of a global pedophile ring, a
conspiracy theory that Democrats are trying to put front and
center in this State of the Union address by having
Epstein victims who have nothing to do with Trump, and
by the way, Epstein victims who can say literally what

(01:51:07):
they want without fear of defamation. Their buddy buddy, the
one woman has been following around Roe Conna for the
last several months. She's going to be I forget her name.
Conna can simply call her as a congressional witness. She
can say whatever she wants. There's a reason these people

(01:51:29):
are not saying anything because their claims are simply not true,
and they don't have the bombshell evidence that Democrats are
essentially bluffing that they have. We just debunked an NPR
story in which some woman claimed she was a thirteen
year old girl back in nineteen eighty three when Donald

(01:51:50):
Trump attempted to force himself out of There's no evidence
for that whatsoever. And NPR saying, well, the documents were
redacted by the Department of Justice, so as they're trying
to cover up for Trump raping.

Speaker 3 (01:52:02):
This thirteen year old girl.

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
Well, the problem with this is the FBI thoroughly investigated
this and determined it to be not credible. In fact,
this has all the hallmarks of the quote unquote Katie
Johnson misinformation operation in the twenty sixteen presidential election when
she could not remember when exactly she was thirteen years old?
Was it nineteen ninety four, was it nineteen ninety six

(01:52:24):
when Donald Trump raped her as a young teenager. Every
time she refiled the case, it was a different year.
Wild Katie Johnson, by the way, was a pseudonym. We
have no idea who filed this lawsuit. In fact, it's
my very strong suspicion there was no Katie Johnson. Lawsuit
was dismissed multiple times because it was improperly filed. There

(01:52:47):
was no evidence whatsoever, And wouldn't you know it? That
girl also claimed, oh she was thirteen, Trump raped her.
It was false, It was demonstrably false. Trump gets elected
president of November twenty sixteen. What do you know, she
miraculously withdraws the lesson. It's almost like she filed it
in twenty sixteen solely so that it would be used

(01:53:09):
against Trump to try to keep him from being elected president.
When that didn't work, well, there's no need for Katie
Johnson's lawsuit anymore, so it just sort of disappeared. There
was no redaction of anything in these fifty three pages,
nothing based on any effort to hide Donald Trump's child rapes,

(01:53:32):
no credible evidence this actually happened. In fact, all the
available there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein had ever gone
to South Carolina where this woman alleged that this took place.
But now no, no, Rocanna is going to be there anyway.
All right, all right, I didn't mean to go on
that Epstein rant. It's just there has been nothing that
has infuriated me more than the conspiracy mongering over Erica

(01:53:56):
Kirk and Jeffrey Epstein on both sides of the political
including ours, over the past couple of months, because really
it is about the most smooth brained room temperature IQ
fear monitoring that there is. I'm gonna be watching the
State of the Union address. We'll have a full recap
tomorrow right here on The Dan O'Donnell Show.

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