April 30, 2025 • 56 mins
In this episode of The David Rutherford Show, David Rutherford delivers a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred SitRep on President Trump’s first 100 days back in office, grading key members of his administration—from JD Vance and Elon Musk to Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel, and even Mr. Donald J. Trump himself. Rutherford breaks down foreign policy, immigration, corruption, wokeism, small business, and government overreach, offering brutally honest insights and emotional commentary rooted in common sense and patriotism. Whether you're an American looking for truth, or simply curious about Trump’s 2025 leadership report card, this episode delivers bold analysis you won’t hear anywhere else.
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00:00 - Intro
00:17 - How Did America Get So Divided?
28:36 - Trump's First 100 Days
30:26 - Grading Howard Lutnick
32:36 - Grading Marco Rubio
35:39 - Grading Susie Wiles
37:19 - Grading Kash Patel
41:33 - Grading Dan Bongino & Pam Bondi
43:29 - Grading Pete Hegseth
45:33 - Grading JD Vance
47:11 - Grading Elon Musk
53:02 - Grading Donald Trump
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you ready for a sit rep? A situational report
of the first one hundred days of the Trump administration.
Will stand by, because on today's show, I'm going to
grade the entire crew. Who Yah, Welcome to the David
Rudford Show. What's up everybody? Now, I'm going to tell
you a little story to get this thing rolling right
(00:22):
to to help set the stage for what I'm going
to do here in a little bit for you. Now,
take yourself back right, teleport yourself back to this past summer.
The president is or the you know, the head candidate
against the president is getting ready to do you know,
(00:42):
this big live, open, open air, you know, huge political
event out in Butler, Pennsylvania, and you know, tensions are
already high. We've got all this other thing that's transpired.
We're beginning to know the truth about Biden and kind
of what's going on behind the scenes. Well well we
(01:04):
we we start going we watch you know this and
come on stage and it's like this live one and
they're broadcasting it on CNN and and everybody's all fired up.
And before you know it, guess what, President Trump takes
around to his ear uh and unfortunately, another gentleman was
(01:27):
shot and killed that day, and some other folks were injured,
and the true tragedy of of what our political environment
has descended down into. Now, if if you're anything like
me and you were paying attention to that, uh, you were,
you were thanking your heavens. Uh not only that the
(01:50):
president didn't get shot, but you were, you were thanking
your heavens that like, here we go, man, Uh, I've
got all my kit ready, I've got my you know,
year's worth of food, I've got my water storage, I've
got you know, my community that I'm already and dialed
in with my you know, my good friends out there,
(02:11):
and what our plan is going to be. If this
thing goes sideways, the next thing, you know, we devolve
into some type of bizarre Marshall state and the whole
thing blows up in front of us. And unfortunately, I,
along with I think millions of other Americans, had gotten
to this bizarre state in the summer of twenty twenty
(02:35):
four that you know, this is a real possibility that somehow,
somewhere our country has devolved into this place where there's
enough animosity, there's enough rhetoric, there's enough propaganda, there's enough
assault on our civil liberties. That people were, in many
(02:55):
many cases advocating for some type of catastrophic event to
take place in order for us to go toe to
toe with each other. Now, obviously, the people that invested
in that much spewing that much hatreds against one side
of the other, right, they they have never spent one
(03:17):
friggin second in an actual war zone. They've never actually
read the books about the Civil War, Shelby Foot's books, right,
they never even you know, even while you know, watching
ken Burns documentary did an amazing job of displaying the
true carnage of what took place on American soil against
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one one another, whether it was Gettysburg or bull Run
or even the March to the Sea. You know what
happened to Atlanta and all these other places, man, and
how we just we butchered one another because of our
economic disputes, are moral disputes or whatever it was. And
(04:05):
so you know, and look at what happened as a
result of that. Assassination and assassinations are not we shouldn't
say they're uncommon. Obviously, We're forty seven presidents, and how
many of them have either been assassinated or attempts on
their lives, and so people want to believe that democracy
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is this you know, tried and true and tested thing
that can endure all of the hardships of all these
different types of ideas, but unfortunately it can't. And it
happens when when when whatever side you want to call
it this side, verse that side, or pitted against you
in this craziness. Right, I think there's you know, what
(04:50):
you have to begin to analyze is how did this
take place? And if it's if you're like me, it
really began with the assault on Trump during his first
term and what I really began to understand about the
whole russi Agate fiasco and where that was. And just recently,
I think last week or so, there was an assessment
(05:13):
that came out that a major news organization did this
on prime time and talked about the fact that is
now vel it very well. Whare because we've internally at
the Bureau, they've seen the investigation that was conducted that
Hillary Clinton ordered that whole thing to go down. She
(05:33):
gave the go ahead the thumbs up because she was
worried about the email scandal, because she was worried about
what was going to take place, the corruption within the
Clinton Foundation went on in eighty all these catastrophic things
ben Ghazi, the Uranium deal, all of this stuff that
propped her up as a person that I don't believe
(05:56):
is very folk has done anything other than you know,
her own rise to the pinnacle of power, you know.
And out of that what we saw is for me,
it was this cascading thing that really kind of blew
up for me and became a reality, you know, leading
(06:19):
up to twenty twenty. I get locked out of my
couple of my social media accounts and all my friends
are getting you know, censored, and we see censorship begin
to explode in nineteen twenty and you know twenty one,
I mean, it was just madness, like where is this
coming from? And now we know, with the incredible work
that Mike Ben's has done, is that there had been
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developed a censorship industrial complex, right and this was the
same organizations NGOs funded by USAID and other government funded
organizations that would get together and it really started overseas,
you know, whether it was you know, uh, you know,
(07:01):
discouraging candidates or through social media attempts, you know, the
rise of color revolutions, and in many cases the actual
funding of of of the media in many different places,
and we know that was true as well. And so
you have this political turmoil fueled by propaganda and censorship
(07:23):
of one group versus another. And then obviously the COVID
thing is just just exacerbated this whole thing, Like wait
a minute, you're telling me one thing and this whole
other thing is is actually true. And we all know,
you know, six feet made up masks worse the shot
and the catastrophic impot fact that that shot is having.
(07:45):
And still to this day, it's it's people aren't recognizing
the dramatic nature of whether it was hard inflammation or
turbo cancers that are taking place right now. I mean,
this is this is all you know madness, right, or
democratic madness or republic madness, or however you want to
describe it, and whoever what you want to point the
(08:05):
finger at whose fault it was. But this was the scenario.
You were either you know, a Nazi, or you were
a socialist, you were a fascist, or you were a Marxist.
You were against democracy or you were for democracy, and
it was like this was how we were pitted against
(08:26):
each other. And what I ultimately believe it was is
you know, it's kind of our traditional conservative values versus
kind of a postmodernistic socialist values that were now being
pitted head to head, or as light a lot of
people want to say, it was you know, wokee verse
tradition or whatever moniker, the elites or the experts or
(08:50):
you know, trust the scientists or whatever whoever was spewing
this hatred out which ultimately pitted us all together against
each other. Now now you know, again, I'm not any
better than anybody else out man. I got sucked into it.
I mean there was times where I was, you know,
pretty dogmatic about my stance. On the other side, Well,
(09:14):
you know, you're this and you're this, and no I didn't.
I didn't do it publicly because I've been silenced, but
you know, with I was willing to go toe to
total with people as I was traveling around the country
given speeches, and you know, I had to be very
delicate why I did it and how I did it.
But I you know, I was pushing these things that
I had spent an incredible amount of time researching and
(09:36):
understanding and what the arguments were. Now all that built
up to what you know, and the other one that
really kind of got me was was kind of the
disruption to the democratic process, in particular for Biden, once
they decided to, you know, can that guy, which was
a good choice because he was ultimately incompetent and we
all knew that for years, right, But then the way
(09:58):
they went in and just report placed him with Kamala Harris,
which you know, of course, hey, we're going to do this,
do that. She's like, yep, sure, what do you want
me to say? I mean, that's ultimately what it seems
like people who have this desire to ascend to this
high position of power, right, It's like who's ever pulling
their strings? They tell them what they say, and they say, well,
(10:19):
you know, they essentially just eradicated the entire primary process.
So you see all these things, and that's what sparks
this animosity. So if you're if you're trying to understand
why people are at each other's throats as much, you know,
do yourself a favor and dig into some of these
realities in a little bit deeper way, because now it's
(10:41):
it's become very apparent through you know, I think ultimately
because X was purchased by Elon Musk, and we finally
had a true free speech platform where people could share
their ideas, which is ultimately what is the the epitome
of what holds a societ together in a meaningful way
(11:01):
When one idea can be tested against, you know, a
whole series of other ideas, which one of the ideas
has is the best foundation, and then let people make
the decisions. I e. That's why we the First Amendment
is what it is. And so we get to this
place in the fall, and it's this crescendo and all
(11:22):
of a sudden, you know what, you know, America and
the majority we think of Americans. Although polling is always
a joke, right, we now know after years and years
and years of just ridiculous polling that you know, it's
all manipulated. But you had a sense of a feeling.
And for me, as I was traveling around the country,
(11:42):
you know, going to states and you know, you know,
twenty five thirty states a year for twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, you
know what, it was pretty clear what America wanted, or
the majority of America, they wanted America to stop being
engaged in wars. Now, for me, this is the epitome,
(12:03):
this is the stance that in my old age, and
there was this you know guy I follow and really
enjoy his podcasts out there, you know, and you know,
he kind of framed it like this, Like when I
was a young man, you know, and I went into
the service, I was, I was much more prone to
go to war. I wanted to go and stand up
(12:25):
for what I believed in and be willing to fight
for the things that I believed America represented, as did I.
And then after what we know now about what war
actually looks like and the impact on civilians in particular, right,
the impoverished people, children, right, women, the elderly. I mean,
(12:47):
it's devastating. It's devastating all the way around. And so
you know, now as I'm an old man, I'm a
crusty old frog man, I don't want to go to
war more. And I don't want young men to go
to war and die for something that's not really what
it is. I don't want to expend any more courage
(13:08):
needlessly and in places that ultimately don't have our best
interests at hand. And that's a reality. And so you know,
I think no more wars, right, stop wars, that's good.
The other one is to stop the invasion of our country.
I think it's you know, and this is the irony.
And you know, you go back, I don't know, you
(13:31):
go back when Clinton was running and even before. I
mean there are clips now that are emerging that she's
actually more mag than Trump is, right in terms of
their immigration policies and and and that's a reality. But
what do we do. We depend upon where you know,
the people who are going to fund our campaigns. You know,
(13:53):
we'll shift a little bit left or right, I guess
is how it works. But the other one was America
wanted to stop the agration because small towns all over
the country were feeling the impact. And I know, the
automatic thing that people want to say is it's crime
shot through the roof and and it certainly went up
in many places, and it certainly, but I think that
(14:14):
was more a result of pullback on policing from twenty
twenty and kind of you know, the defund the police
madness and all of that. And I think, you know,
also this wave of criminal a criminal element that came
in and you know, and if you don't believe that
all you got to do is look at statistics that
are placed by the you know, un and other people
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that go into these regions that have high crime rates
and in these very significant crime areas crime dipped. Why
because they were all these people were coming into America
for the American Dream or whatever that monthly amount was,
and your your you know, your debit card and your
cell phone and you're you know, staying in New York
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City at some nice hotel and getting three squares and
a hot meal a day, and you know, and all
these other things. So we have this mass immigration that
as you there's a lot of people out there who've
done incredible work. Michael Yahn, Ben Berkwam, Oscar Mirez. I mean,
these people have been very in depth in how they've
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evaluated who's funding it, where it's coming from. And it's
not just America, it's in England and it's all these
other places. And and you have to realize that immigration
is good, very very fired up. I love when people
can come seek out the American dream, you know, and
invigorate communities with their culture and with their ideas and
(15:43):
their hard work and all of that. But there's another
aspect with cultures that don't want to assimilate, that want
to set up their own their own enclaves of of
of of potentially counter culture to what the American spirit,
at least as I see it, is really important on
and so stop integration. Everybody got that we need to
(16:05):
stuff stifle the tide of immigration because it's destroying communities. Now,
whatever you reason, and I'll do a show in the
future about how it was funded, where it came from,
the sophisticated nature of it, the impacts, all the different
economic influences on what was driving it. I believe political
issues from a voting increasing voting block. We'll go. We'll
(16:26):
do that right now. I don't remember. This is just
an evaluation of the first hundred days a sit rep
a situation report. The other one I think was really
kind of the stop Corruption. I think what we really
began to see is there was some profoundly corrupt things
taking place, whether it was corruption in the judicial system,
(16:49):
a two tiered justice system. I just did a show
about that, and I hope it was meaningful you to
understand kind of how it works with the judges and
who picks, and how it goes, and how it's become ideal,
but you know, that spills out into all different formulas.
And I think now what we've also seen through DOG
is the corruption within government itself is pretty staggering. It's
(17:13):
pretty staggering. Now. I've always known corruption was there because
you know, I spent a lot of time not only
working for DoD but working for the military industrial complex
as well as working for the intelligence community. And you know,
I mean government contracts are big business, right and from
the defense industry. And then obviously, as we talked about before,
(17:36):
with the censorship industrial complex NGOs, immigration industrial complex with
other NGOs, and the amount of money that was flowing
in my taxpayer dollars, your tax payer dollars was just astronomical.
And so what people wanted to stop corruption, stop wokeism, right,
(17:57):
this whole idea that there needs to be some type
of equitable restructuring of society, that somehow, somewhere, someplace, I
should recognize that that I've been an oppressor in some capacity,
and I need to make shame my children to think
they're oppressors in some capacity. I just don't get that, man,
(18:21):
because I mean, there's no end to this, and we
I think we see this playing out in a lot
of geopolitical situations all over the country. It's like, how
far back do I have to go to realize, you
know before, I'm not an oppressor or the legacy of
who I am or what I am or where I
come from is not oppressive. And that's that was never explained.
(18:43):
I mean, you saw Matt Walsh's well, you know what
is a woman? I mean the fundamental defining principles of
of of of biology. All of a sudden we're in question.
And I think when you saw that, fuse into the
educational system, and don't get me started in the education
(19:04):
Jordi and I are are working on a show for that.
We're going to go deep dive on that one here
in the next couple of weeks and really flushed that
out and where it began and the manipulation of the
curriculum and all that. But what we saw is we
saw people wanting to introduce sexual ideology to our children.
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And then what happened Those people were thrown in jail
as a result of standing up for what they believed in.
And so people got to a place where they're like,
enough of enough, this is insane, this is ridiculous. So
stop war, stop immigration right, stop the corruption, stop wokeism.
And the other one that I think really you need
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to understand, and this is the ultimate backbone of America society,
is the attack on small businesses. When we saw COVID hit, right,
how many millions of small businesses were destroyed. Meanwhile you
had the John F. Kennedy's Center out and or not
(20:07):
the Performance Center in Washington, d C. Get one hundred
and fifty five million dollars in COVID relief fund, or
you had very you had famous stars or people getting
you know, three four nine million dollars for their organizations.
Meanwhile they're billionaires. And you know, I freaked out because
(20:29):
I tried to take I got a forty five thousand
dollars to make sure my business didn't collapse because I couldn't.
I didn't have any revenue or income to feed my
four kids. So I think the tack on small businesses
really reshaped people's ideas too. And then the other aspect
of that, and that we've been talking quite a bit
about this show, is what how are young people going
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to afford the American dream? How hard is it to
go out and get approved for a lot of credit
or how hard is it to find a space that
you can afford for rent and start your business? And
you know, but you know, thankfully, if you were positioned
right and you had the technical acumen or or just
the drive and motivation to work hard and to grind right,
(21:17):
there were some great successes. Online businesses flourished. But what
we also saw in that time was a massive consolidation. Right.
We saw retail collapse, we saw other forms collapse. And
what who got stronger? Big business? Man? Now again, don't
I'm not attacking that. I'm I'm a fundamental you know capitalist.
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I believe in you know, the best product, the best
service will rise to the top. But when those uh,
when those metrics can be adjusted by the people that
allow commerce or the funnel of commerce that goes through them,
whether it's your you know, whether or not your app
gets seen, or your app get you know, reduced, or
(22:03):
your YouTube videos get throttled or whatever it might be.
You know, there was an attack on small business for sure.
And then you know the last one, obviously is is
government overreach? Man? I you know again, I just I'm
not the type of person that doesn't believe that government
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doesn't play a massive role in our lives, as it should.
You know, there's there's you know, literally thousands of great
things that the government is able to do for people
every year and around the world as well too. But
I think what we all realize now is that with
every catastrophic circumstance that takes place the government encroaches, it
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takes that one more bigger bite into our liberty, It
takes one more bigger bite into that the idea that
we are free, that we we are in a way
we are the masters of our own destiny. And I
think for sure what COVID really enabled people to feel
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for the first time is that that's in a bigger
jeopardy than we imagined it was, and that it's time
to pay attention of those liberties. And what's happening. The
one for me that I still can't get over to
this day now, you know, thank God they're trying to
right these wrongs, was young men and women that raised
their right hand in order to stand up and wear
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the uniform and fight for us, and fight represent us
and around the world and represent American might and strength.
They were kicked out of their of fulfilling their dream
because it wouldn't take a shot. It wouldn't take the
COVID shot. And that's tyranny. And I think we saw
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it in many different ways. And so you know, this
is pretty substantial list. And that's why I believe we
got where we are today. We got our back in November,
where overwhelming numbers came out. Right, it's landslide numbers, huge numbers.
And don't even get me started about the phantom thirteen
(24:17):
million numbers that a little sleepy Joe got back in
twenty twenty. It's funny how when you look at Obama's
numbers and then you look at Trump's first numbers, and
then you look at Biden's numbers, and then you look
at Trump's numbers, it's just a little bit, a little
bit suspicious. And I think we're going to see some
of that coming out here in the future. But really
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it was not only the grassroots campaign, but it was
this shift away from craziness, a way to back to
common sense. And I truly believe that the majority of you,
what you truly want is you want to live in
a common sense world. Hey. And so there was this shift,
and you saw people from the left come up over
(25:00):
and say all right, We're done with that madness, the
true you know, a fringe stuff, and I you know,
and I think people got in, including minorities, highest rates
of black men, you know, Hispanic men voting for Trump
and this new idea to reinvigorate the American dream, to
make America great again. So that took place, and I
(25:27):
think everybody, including me, was like, all right, I could
go put all my all my prepper stuff back in
my storage facility. I can I can you stop building
out kids for my kids? I can, you know, I
plate replace all my AMMO in a more safe and
(25:48):
secure place, and I can stop having you know, a
ton of fuel in my garag right, and I can
take that cyhl relief and stop being such a job
thinking that the world was going to end, or at
least we were going to go into we were going
to go into you know, potential civil war. And that
(26:10):
was a good feeling. It really felt good. I know
you felt good. I know everybody felt good. You know,
I think some of the people on both sides of
their fringe they never feel good. But it is what
it is. Right. You can't please but those of us
who really believe and the fundamental things that enable us
to coexist together in a way that's positive, right, you know,
(26:30):
not giving up what you believe in or your culture
or anything, but to recognize, hey, you do your thing,
I'll do my thing. As long as you're not hurting me,
you're not attacking me, you're not creating violence, have at it, man,
And I think that's the way the overwhelming majority of
people believe. I know, I believe that even though I've
seen a lot of different things in this world. I've
been exposed to things that are are are pretty heavy,
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But on the flip side, I've also been exposed to
the real beauty of what people are capable when they're
focused and driven and they're inspired and they want to
make a difference in the world. So saying all that
to say this is, and I appreciate your your patience.
As I kind of got us here, I think it's
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now time to give my report, my report card on
what's taking place. So just give us a second. I'll
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It's what keeps the show going. So I appreciate your
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So for sure, like share, spread all that stuff. I
appreciate it. All right. So now's the crux of this hole.
Let's get into the meat and potatoes for this thing. Now,
grading system. How do I grade the Trump administration in
their first one hundred days? Now, I'm sure you have seen,
just like I have, all over all my different feeds,
(29:45):
all my different social media places. You know, everybody's talking
about these grades. And so you know, I did you
know f through a but I also had a pass
fail section of this too as well, because and I'll
explain that when we get into it. All Right, So
here's my take, here's my situational report, here's my sip ramp,
my grading sit rep for the past one hundred days. Now,
(30:07):
let's just start with the one guy that I was
that I've been really surprised and really stoked with, and
you know, paying attention to him, and I've watched just
about every interview he's given and it's really uh, I mean,
it's just I'm happy to see this and this is
Howard Luttneck, And you know, one of the things that
(30:31):
was again at the center point of where I'm at
in terms of my mindset as it relates to my
family and and the people I care most about in life,
my children. Right, I don't want any more wars. I
don't want any more things to pop off. We're done,
Let's take a break, Let's get our stuff dialed in.
Rebuild the military, rebuild our equipment, get us, but no
(30:52):
more wards. And so you know what I've seen from
this gentleman, and as he's gone out, and he's really
uh reinvigorated diplomacy. Now, many people don't recognize that diplomacy
is all about compromise, and what you have to be
willing to do is give up some of what you
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want in order to get the grander idea of this thing.
And so based on one of you know, Trump's most
important promises that I've I really got behind, was he's
gonna end Ukraine right in Russia, that he's gonna end
the thing going on with Israel and Hamas and Hesbla
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and Palestinians. He's going to end that. He's going to
do it immediately, and so I was like, who, yeah, well,
obviously that's much more complicated than a phone call and
being like, hey, Vladimir, here's the deal. I'll turn on
the pipeline, I'll take the restrictions off. Stop you know,
stop killing Ukrainian kids, and let's have at it. No
worry about little Zelensky. I got him right. And we
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all imagine, well, guess what out and we've seen the
bombing pick up. Rubio is walking away. Lot nick I
just want to hope and believe that he's still fighting.
Let's keep doing this, let's keep negotiating, and he's just
done a really I think again, and I've got no
inside knowledge of what he's doing, but the way he
speaks about peace and the way he speaks about ending
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these wars, man, it just it got me excited. So
I give him a B plus. Right, So keep that going.
Bring diplomacy back to the highest level. Let's really invest
in diplomacy, all right, Marco Rubio, all right, this was
the one that I was not expecting to be where
he was. You know, I just have that burning Oversight
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Committee hearing that I saw with where he interviewed Victoria
Newland and had the dialogue back and forth, do we
have biological weapons or not? But do we have biolab
research labs in Ukraine? Yes. Meanwhile everybody would be saying
we don't have this, nothing's going on whatever, And so
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now I'm like, oh my god, that's that's that's monst met,
that's that's humongous, like go dig in, let's hear like
drill down. And it was like one more question and
it was over. So I was not a fan because
I think I had this impression that he was kind
of this old neocon. But what I've seen, I'm I'm
actually impressed. I think he's He's so far a good
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representation of the diplomatic presence that we need, right firm, strong,
but but willing to make concessions, willing to work with
people and where what their country actually wants. We have
this bizarre way and in the media, and we kind
of know why to manipulate the fact that that diplomacy
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is a bad thing, that you can't negotiate with terrorists,
you can't negotiate with tyrints, you can't nego And I'm like, well,
that's what you got. You got what you got, So
what are you gonna do. Are you going to deny
this and just let it compound and get worse and
more people die and let it spill into a much
greater problem, or are you going to actually get to
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the table and go over to these places in Qatar
and Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or Dubai and have these
negotiations in Turkey and poland wherever you are, and actually
sit down across from another person and say, listen, what
do you want? All right, what do you want? We
would like this? All right, let's start there. Now, let's negotiate.
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So I've been incredibly pleased with Mark Rubio's performance. I'm
giving him a C plus. C plus mostly because you
know some of the proverbial ways with which President Trump
is maybe going out a little bit over his skis
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and then reeling it back and saying, you know, I'll
have this thing done in a week as maybe a
little bit, but I get it. He's a you know,
he's playing poker. I know that's the wrong term to
use because we're talking about new World War three and
nuclear genocide. But but remember, like there's a gamesmanship in this.
You have to think about what are the tactical approaches
when you're negotiating with somebody. How do you bait them?
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How do you take their bait? How do you you know,
what do you what is this game that's going back
and and that's what it did, That's what it is.
So you know, C plus. But keep it up, keep going, sir.
I'm behind you. I want more diplomacy, all right. Next,
as Susie Wiles, obviously she is at the center of
of of Trump's internal world, you know, between her and
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and uh, you know, I didn't I didn't rate Steven Miller.
Uh maybe I'll talk about him in the future. I'd
love to interview him. I really would love to hear
his thoughts or watch somebody else really dig on and
not just be the pounding that he's doing on people
calling them out to their faces, although that needs to happen.
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You know, all those who spewed lies for as long
as they did, absolutely call him out forsome. But I'm
not prepared. But Susie Wiles, you know, is kind of
the orchestrator of this whole thing. She runs Trump's world.
And you know, I was first introduced to her a
good friend of mine, John Pugh, was in charge of
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Palm Beach County Trump campaign back in twenty sixteen, and
he and I were able to, you know, spend a
little time together. It's really fascinating to watch him. And
back then she was really running Florida, you know, leading
in Florida, and you know, had great things to say
about her, A very sophisticated woman, very sophisticated political operative,
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if you will, and so you know the things that
Trump seems to have a very strong confidence in her,
and so do the people behind her. So I'm going
to give her pass because I just don't have enough
information about kind of the inner workings of what's going on.
But maybe in the future, I'd love to get her
on the show if you ever want to do an interview.
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All right, Next we go to Cash Ptel. All right,
oh cash Man, Now you got to understand the work
that he and Devin Nunez did to investigate Russia Gate
was the first big, big shaking of the system, whether
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you call it the deep state, the blob, whatever you help,
however you want to call it, he was those two
really dug in this and brilliant guy, great investigator, great attorney.
They got in and they rattled the cages, and then
afterwards they were absolutely prosecuted for their political value a valuations.
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My favorite stuff is what you know, Cash's testimony that
he gave to the January sixth Committee, where it was
evident and clear that the order was, you know, put out, hey,
do you want the National Guard? Right? Not only did
Marry Bowser of d c Negate it Nancy Pelosi Capitol
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Police all this, although we do know that the head
of the Congressional Police wanted to help and assistance, they
turned him down. And we also know that that testimony
was not made public in any way, shape or form,
And so for the next four years, we saw this
dude to go on just about every podcast there was
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and he's banging on his fists on the table and
he's I'm gonna do this and if we get in there,
we're going to clean up the corruption at the bureau.
We're gonna I would, you know, move the Bureau out
of DC and I would get rid of all this
and we're gonna go after Comy and we're going to
go after this and blah blah, and you know, it's
just pounding that drum right, whipping that magabase into a
phrazy oh. You know from the Wolf of Wall Street.
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That's what that dude was doing. He was banging those drums.
And I'll admit on some of the shows he was on,
you know, I'd be like looking in the camera like youah,
all right, let's just tear it down. And well, he
got that opportunity, didn't he. And his confirmation hearings were
hoot and all the stuff that came out about him
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and what they were trying to do. But you know,
he's been in there, and I think his undertaking is
probably the most significant challenge out there other than Pete
Hegseth right, because your your law enforcement has really been
the thing that I think most of us have been
who pay close attention to what's taking place, has been
the problem. It's like, you know, the people that are
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supposed to be enforcing laws regardless of political affiliation, we
know that's just not how it worked. And so what
you have to do is what and I believe what
he's trying to do is get in there and reinforce. Hey,
we are law enforcement agency. We're going to go after
bad people, take bad people off the streets, including the gangs,
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the criminals, the cartels are now terrorist organizations. We're gonna
We're gonna get back to law enforcement, supporting our local
municipal law enforcement agencies, the counties, the cities, and support
them with intelligence and information and funding they need in
order to get these dangerous people off the streets and
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stem the tide of the things that are killing Americans
the most, which is illegal drugs. I mean, you know,
seeing them down in Florida a couple weeks ago with
this half a billion dollar bus man that was that
made me feel really good, really good. However, part of
what he ran on too is like, man, we're taking
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down all these nefarious groups and we're gonna take him
down and we're gonna diet them for treason, and we're
gonna go after the Epstein clients, and we're gonna blah
blah blah and this and and so obviously, uh, those
investigations take time and take this. So when I'm gonna
give ohld cash there and and you know, I hope
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you you stay true to what she told us, I'm
gonna give him a pass on this one right now, because, uh,
some of these critical issues that we need to see
take place, those take time and and and the other
one is too, is I'm gonna give Bongino a pass
because he's brand new. He's figuring out what they got
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to do in terms of where to go. And then
I'm also going to give Pambondi a pass as well.
And the reason I'm gonna give Pambomni pass instead of
a low grade is because of a gentleman that I
love to follow. His name is Mike Davis with the
Article three project. He's on the war room quite a bit,
and he was just on the other day and saying
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that he's spoken to some of the people within that
he knows the guy's the deputy of Pambondi and some
of the other places, and he reassured the audience that
don't worry. These investigations are taking place. And remember when
you think about an investigation, what's the key? The key
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is can the prosecution can they get a conviction? Right?
You have to remember that I did the thing on
the legal system, and we know some of it is
a little broken or a little warped, or however you
want to talk about it. So the key is can
you get a conviction? Right? Can you get a conviction
with a jury trial? And can you get a conviction
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that sticks with the relative punishment that's just and that
that will fulfill what the whole prosecution, the time, the money,
the manpower is behind in order to be able to
really be conclusive with what needs to be conclusive. Right,
So all those guys get a pass right now. But
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guess what, that pass ain't gonna go for that much longer.
So we need to see something. Man. There's plenty of
evidence for all these different things. We know the evidence.
We've heard enough from all these House judicial oversight commissions,
all these other places. You know, we just know the
evidence is there, So you know, waiting next is Pete. Heseat,
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poor Pete, Man, you're just under assault, buddy. I know.
I was on Tutor Diction show recently and I stared
at the camera and I called out Sean and Pete
and I said, hey, man, enough of the dog and ponies.
All right, recruitment's up. Commercials are good, looks, good young
men are wanting to come in and serve again. But man,
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get yourself in that building because that building, one trillion
dollar budget building. That building has an entrenched bureaucracy in
it that I think most people can't even fathom. And
you know, I think things maybe are getting away from
Pete a little bit. That's at least the outside feeling.
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Now again, we have no idea what's going on behind
closed doors, what are the arguments, what's happening. We definitely
know there's an attack on Pete. They're from all different directions,
both inside the building, both from the intelligence world, both
from all the military industrial complex who feel like they're
good deals going away, all the NGOs, all the think tanks. Man,
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that's a sizeable enemy force that is coming at him.
But this is the key, right because of what I
believe is the number one place that America needs to
believe in, which is the thing that has crossed lines,
regardless of what you believe in the background, what color
your skin, what religion is, any of that stuff, socioeconomic background,
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as people believe in what the military represents, and so
that needs to take place. So whatever he needs to
do to get in there and root out that rot
and get that structure back to where it needs to
be to support the warfire, to support America as the
power that it is in the world in a positive way,
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then that's good. So I give Pete C minus, but
very easily he could flip that around, all right. Next
jd Vance aplus dude, E five mafia brother. All right,
I don't care whatever, dude, as long as that dude
is out there speaking truth at every one of these
international forums. He's standing up. He's telling them to the face,
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globalization is over. We're done with it. We're not doing
any more crazy stuff out there. We're not doing anything
that's not based on meritocracy and the right things. America.
It's it's over. It's done. Plus, I'll tell you what
the thing that melts me, man is is that dude
truly loves his family. Uh, just watch them in front
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of the Taj Mahal, just thinking to myself, Man, what
an amazing moment from this kid who came from nowhere.
Everybody loves a right, everybody loves an underdog story. And
so you know, JD, you know, the crane eating E
four right is now sitting in front of the Doje
Mahll with his beautiful wife who's brilliant, and his kids,
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you know, and they're out there and they're promoting the
American ideal, which is family and patriotism and in rational
thinking and common sense. I think you know, his his
stance when against the Lenski when it was the throwdown
in the White House, and how he stood up for
the president in America was brilliant. Uh. Well, the work
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I've seen him do in Greenland, what's come out of that.
I love all this. I just think he is a
spectacular representation of this administration and what the very best
of what America is. So JD A plus buddy, keep
it up. E Fi mafia rules right all right? Elon
Musk as poor eline Man, once the darling of the
(47:20):
Democratic Party and the left, is now literally under assault,
his businesses, his safety right, his freedom to operate, we
saw countries going after in Brazil try and take them down,
with the European unions trying to find them in exorbitant monies.
You know, his stock price is taking hit because I
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don't think it's any shortage of people want Tesla's. I
think there's probably some kind of nefariousness going in with
shortness stock, just like these crazies do with Blockbuster Video.
I just saw what Joe Ann, what's the one company
someone had just saw something post on X where some
long time like clothing support where you can make your
(48:02):
clothes and all that, they're going under now because somebody
shortened their So that's the whole Hello Kitty, No, it
is it. It's but raring kitty right and game stop.
I love paying attention to this because I'm learning so much,
even though I've worked extensively in the financial services industry
for a long time, you know, understanding the power of
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these organizations that can manipulate stock or manipulate you know,
boards of massive companies that short shareholder interest and globalization. Man,
you know, they're going after this guy, this guy that's
you know, transforming the way we think about everything from
autonomous driving vehicles to futuristic robots, to Neurolink, to SpaceX,
(48:48):
to the boring company underround transport systems, to all these things,
and it's like, now he's the enemy for some reason.
It just doesn't make sense. But the thing that is
the most important thing I think this man is ever
going to be besides enabling us to continue the species,
but getting the MARS right, because that's critical was doge. Now.
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I understand that some people don't like it because why
it's shrinking government and all these other people that have
built careers and reputations and funding and all these other programs.
But when you break down and what we now know
with this waste, fraud and abuse at such a staggering
level and what's ultimately driven us to thirty seven trillion
(49:37):
dollars in the debt, he's exposing that and man, I
know it's a tough pill to swallow, and some of
them it's it's sometimes tough for me. I think about
all those people that were beneficiaries of whether you believe
it's corruption or not, but they had their livelihood essentially cut.
(49:58):
And what's taking place and again, uh, that's we're not
talking about the crazy funding of you know, why is
BBC getting millions of dollars from USAID. Why why is
USAID funding the you know, six nine out of ten
news organizations in Ukraine? Why are they you know, the
Atlantic Council. Why are all these you know, five billion
(50:21):
dollars in consultants out of DoD and one point eight
billion dollars going to all these uh political based policy
consultant firms. You know, you know, not just that, but
I'm talking these programs that lead to nowhere. The Social
Security stuff alone, right, three point four million people ages
(50:42):
one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty nine
receiving Social Security Bendment benefits. That's our money, that's your money,
that's my children's money. It's their debt that they're going
to have to pay. So I just believe everybody needs
to stay true, be patient, and hopefully the exposual canoe.
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He's building the infrastructure doj Yes, he's going to step back,
but hopefully you know that's you know, just to kind
of let this team go and do what they do best.
So elon a minus, all right, the man of himself,
Donald Trump. So before we move on to Trump's grade,
(51:25):
what I really want to do is just give you
a little heads up. I want to talk about we
are going to do a live motivational event on May
thirty first on our Patreon account. It's a two dollars
a month entry subscription fee, super low. You're going to
come on. I'm going to do about an hour of motivation,
(51:46):
introducing all of you to what I've learned over the
last thirty years of exploring the human condition, really trying
to figure out what enables us to succeed or what
drives failure through individual performance and team orientated performance. And
this thing is just going to be full of a
huge dose of positivity and motivation. It's some of the
(52:10):
core stuff that I talk about. I'm gonna introduce those
ideas and those will be the follow on live events,
you know, every few months or so, and we just
really want to get you on there and so you
can appreciate it. And then I'll open it up to
Q and A for about an hour afterwards where you
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about about motivation, about anything else. And I just think
(52:31):
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May thirty first. Who yeah, all right, let's get to
Trump's green m Now. I went round and round for
this in ways you can't even fathom. And so without
going down the deepest rabbit holes, because I could do
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a whole show just on him, and maybe I'll do
that in the future, I'm gonna just come right out.
I'm gonna give Donald Trump a pass. And the only
reason why I'm not giving them somewhere around a C
plus or B minus, is two reasons. One end in
those wars. Uh. That's what I need to have happen, man,
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I need you to pull those wars back. I need
to come back from the precipice of World War three
as well as another hot war in the Middle East.
If if that Iranian saber rabbit, man, stop that crap
right now, please, it has to stop. It will be
the most devastating thing our young people have ever seen
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in the modern era. And then the other has been
you know, start working with your own power, start working
with the markets. Right, the volatility is unsteady for people.
It affects people's livelihood, affect people's pensions, and affect people's portfolios.
Just be a little bit more focused on that, if
you would. I guarantee if you do that, people are
(54:19):
going to get behind the on shoring, the reinvestment, the
foreign policy, the fighting corruption, all that. So that's my
only thing. I give Trump a pass. I'll reevaluate and
wait a little bit. All right. So I know that
was a lot. I know sometimes I seem to run
on a little bit. But again, what I really wanted
you to focus on and to recognize is that what
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I'm here to try and do is trying to summarize
all this stuff, to tie it together from a common
sense approach, and to be really positive because I do
believe we're on a positive trajectory. I believe we've kind
of put that buttress upright. The border is secure, right,
I've identified some problems within the government and how to
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clean that up. We're regenerating the military, We're we're we're
hopefully you know, getting bad people out of the country. Uh,
people are reinvigorated to want to serve the nation at
all these different agencies, and and I think for overall,
like at the very minimum, I don't think any booby
believes we're going to go into a civil war to
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the next catastrophic event. So take a deep breath, getting
your nice lotus position right, and and go hug your
family and hug your kids, and just recognize that we're
in a pretty good state and and and things are
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just going to continue to look up and be better.
And I believe overall we're in a good spot. So, uh,
that's my one hundred day sit rep for where we're at.
I hope you enjoyed it. Uh, And and also just
have to be positive, right, don't be afraid to reach
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into that backpack or in that bag, your briefcase, or
uh in your your your central council or in your
glove box, pull out that that flashbang of positivity and
go ahead and throw it into the mix, will you?
Who Yah
Are you ready for a sit rep? A situational report
of the first one hundred days of the Trump administration.
Will stand by, because on today's show, I'm going to
grade the entire crew. Who Yah, Welcome to the David
Rudford Show. What's up everybody? Now, I'm going to tell
you a little story to get this thing rolling right
(00:22):
to to help set the stage for what I'm going
to do here in a little bit for you. Now,
take yourself back right, teleport yourself back to this past summer.
The president is or the you know, the head candidate
against the president is getting ready to do you know,
(00:42):
this big live, open, open air, you know, huge political
event out in Butler, Pennsylvania, and you know, tensions are
already high. We've got all this other thing that's transpired.
We're beginning to know the truth about Biden and kind
of what's going on behind the scenes. Well well we
(01:04):
we we start going we watch you know this and
come on stage and it's like this live one and
they're broadcasting it on CNN and and everybody's all fired up.
And before you know it, guess what, President Trump takes
around to his ear uh and unfortunately, another gentleman was
(01:27):
shot and killed that day, and some other folks were injured,
and the true tragedy of of what our political environment
has descended down into. Now, if if you're anything like
me and you were paying attention to that, uh, you were,
you were thanking your heavens. Uh not only that the
(01:50):
president didn't get shot, but you were, you were thanking
your heavens that like, here we go, man, Uh, I've
got all my kit ready, I've got my you know,
year's worth of food, I've got my water storage, I've
got you know, my community that I'm already and dialed
in with my you know, my good friends out there,
(02:11):
and what our plan is going to be. If this
thing goes sideways, the next thing, you know, we devolve
into some type of bizarre Marshall state and the whole
thing blows up in front of us. And unfortunately, I,
along with I think millions of other Americans, had gotten
to this bizarre state in the summer of twenty twenty
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four that you know, this is a real possibility that somehow,
somewhere our country has devolved into this place where there's
enough animosity, there's enough rhetoric, there's enough propaganda, there's enough
assault on our civil liberties. That people were, in many
(02:55):
many cases advocating for some type of catastrophic event to
take place in order for us to go toe to
toe with each other. Now, obviously, the people that invested
in that much spewing that much hatreds against one side
of the other, right, they they have never spent one
(03:17):
friggin second in an actual war zone. They've never actually
read the books about the Civil War, Shelby Foot's books, right,
they never even you know, even while you know, watching
ken Burns documentary did an amazing job of displaying the
true carnage of what took place on American soil against
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one one another, whether it was Gettysburg or bull Run
or even the March to the Sea. You know what
happened to Atlanta and all these other places, man, and
how we just we butchered one another because of our
economic disputes, are moral disputes or whatever it was. And
(04:05):
so you know, and look at what happened as a
result of that. Assassination and assassinations are not we shouldn't
say they're uncommon. Obviously, We're forty seven presidents, and how
many of them have either been assassinated or attempts on
their lives, and so people want to believe that democracy
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is this you know, tried and true and tested thing
that can endure all of the hardships of all these
different types of ideas, but unfortunately it can't. And it
happens when when when whatever side you want to call
it this side, verse that side, or pitted against you
in this craziness. Right, I think there's you know, what
(04:50):
you have to begin to analyze is how did this
take place? And if it's if you're like me, it
really began with the assault on Trump during his first
term and what I really began to understand about the
whole russi Agate fiasco and where that was. And just recently,
I think last week or so, there was an assessment
(05:13):
that came out that a major news organization did this
on prime time and talked about the fact that is
now vel it very well. Whare because we've internally at
the Bureau, they've seen the investigation that was conducted that
Hillary Clinton ordered that whole thing to go down. She
(05:33):
gave the go ahead the thumbs up because she was
worried about the email scandal, because she was worried about
what was going to take place, the corruption within the
Clinton Foundation went on in eighty all these catastrophic things
ben Ghazi, the Uranium deal, all of this stuff that
propped her up as a person that I don't believe
(05:56):
is very folk has done anything other than you know,
her own rise to the pinnacle of power, you know.
And out of that what we saw is for me,
it was this cascading thing that really kind of blew
up for me and became a reality, you know, leading
(06:19):
up to twenty twenty. I get locked out of my
couple of my social media accounts and all my friends
are getting you know, censored, and we see censorship begin
to explode in nineteen twenty and you know twenty one,
I mean, it was just madness, like where is this
coming from? And now we know, with the incredible work
that Mike Ben's has done, is that there had been
(06:40):
developed a censorship industrial complex, right and this was the
same organizations NGOs funded by USAID and other government funded
organizations that would get together and it really started overseas,
you know, whether it was you know, uh, you know,
(07:01):
discouraging candidates or through social media attempts, you know, the
rise of color revolutions, and in many cases the actual
funding of of of the media in many different places,
and we know that was true as well. And so
you have this political turmoil fueled by propaganda and censorship
(07:23):
of one group versus another. And then obviously the COVID
thing is just just exacerbated this whole thing, Like wait
a minute, you're telling me one thing and this whole
other thing is is actually true. And we all know,
you know, six feet made up masks worse the shot
and the catastrophic impot fact that that shot is having.
(07:45):
And still to this day, it's it's people aren't recognizing
the dramatic nature of whether it was hard inflammation or
turbo cancers that are taking place right now. I mean,
this is this is all you know madness, right, or
democratic madness or republic madness, or however you want to
describe it, and whoever what you want to point the
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finger at whose fault it was. But this was the scenario.
You were either you know, a Nazi, or you were
a socialist, you were a fascist, or you were a Marxist.
You were against democracy or you were for democracy, and
it was like this was how we were pitted against
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each other. And what I ultimately believe it was is
you know, it's kind of our traditional conservative values versus
kind of a postmodernistic socialist values that were now being
pitted head to head, or as light a lot of
people want to say, it was you know, wokee verse
tradition or whatever moniker, the elites or the experts or
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you know, trust the scientists or whatever whoever was spewing
this hatred out which ultimately pitted us all together against
each other. Now now you know, again, I'm not any
better than anybody else out man. I got sucked into it.
I mean there was times where I was, you know,
pretty dogmatic about my stance. On the other side, Well,
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you know, you're this and you're this, and no I didn't.
I didn't do it publicly because I've been silenced, but
you know, with I was willing to go toe to
total with people as I was traveling around the country
given speeches, and you know, I had to be very
delicate why I did it and how I did it.
But I you know, I was pushing these things that
I had spent an incredible amount of time researching and
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understanding and what the arguments were. Now all that built
up to what you know, and the other one that
really kind of got me was was kind of the
disruption to the democratic process, in particular for Biden, once
they decided to, you know, can that guy, which was
a good choice because he was ultimately incompetent and we
all knew that for years, right, But then the way
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they went in and just report placed him with Kamala Harris,
which you know, of course, hey, we're going to do this,
do that. She's like, yep, sure, what do you want
me to say? I mean, that's ultimately what it seems
like people who have this desire to ascend to this
high position of power, right, It's like who's ever pulling
their strings? They tell them what they say, and they say, well,
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you know, they essentially just eradicated the entire primary process.
So you see all these things, and that's what sparks
this animosity. So if you're if you're trying to understand
why people are at each other's throats as much, you know,
do yourself a favor and dig into some of these
realities in a little bit deeper way, because now it's
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it's become very apparent through you know, I think ultimately
because X was purchased by Elon Musk, and we finally
had a true free speech platform where people could share
their ideas, which is ultimately what is the the epitome
of what holds a societ together in a meaningful way
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When one idea can be tested against, you know, a
whole series of other ideas, which one of the ideas
has is the best foundation, and then let people make
the decisions. I e. That's why we the First Amendment
is what it is. And so we get to this
place in the fall, and it's this crescendo and all
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of a sudden, you know what, you know, America and
the majority we think of Americans. Although polling is always
a joke, right, we now know after years and years
and years of just ridiculous polling that you know, it's
all manipulated. But you had a sense of a feeling.
And for me, as I was traveling around the country,
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you know, going to states and you know, you know,
twenty five thirty states a year for twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, you
know what, it was pretty clear what America wanted, or
the majority of America, they wanted America to stop being
engaged in wars. Now, for me, this is the epitome,
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this is the stance that in my old age, and
there was this you know guy I follow and really
enjoy his podcasts out there, you know, and you know,
he kind of framed it like this, Like when I
was a young man, you know, and I went into
the service, I was, I was much more prone to
go to war. I wanted to go and stand up
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for what I believed in and be willing to fight
for the things that I believed America represented, as did I.
And then after what we know now about what war
actually looks like and the impact on civilians in particular, right,
the impoverished people, children, right, women, the elderly. I mean,
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it's devastating. It's devastating all the way around. And so
you know, now as I'm an old man, I'm a
crusty old frog man, I don't want to go to
war more. And I don't want young men to go
to war and die for something that's not really what
it is. I don't want to expend any more courage
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needlessly and in places that ultimately don't have our best
interests at hand. And that's a reality. And so you know,
I think no more wars, right, stop wars, that's good.
The other one is to stop the invasion of our country.
I think it's you know, and this is the irony.
And you know, you go back, I don't know, you
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go back when Clinton was running and even before. I
mean there are clips now that are emerging that she's
actually more mag than Trump is, right in terms of
their immigration policies and and and that's a reality. But
what do we do. We depend upon where you know,
the people who are going to fund our campaigns. You know,
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we'll shift a little bit left or right, I guess
is how it works. But the other one was America
wanted to stop the agration because small towns all over
the country were feeling the impact. And I know, the
automatic thing that people want to say is it's crime
shot through the roof and and it certainly went up
in many places, and it certainly, but I think that
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was more a result of pullback on policing from twenty
twenty and kind of you know, the defund the police
madness and all of that. And I think, you know,
also this wave of criminal a criminal element that came
in and you know, and if you don't believe that
all you got to do is look at statistics that
are placed by the you know, un and other people
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that go into these regions that have high crime rates
and in these very significant crime areas crime dipped. Why
because they were all these people were coming into America
for the American Dream or whatever that monthly amount was,
and your your you know, your debit card and your
cell phone and you're you know, staying in New York
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City at some nice hotel and getting three squares and
a hot meal a day, and you know, and all
these other things. So we have this mass immigration that
as you there's a lot of people out there who've
done incredible work. Michael Yahn, Ben Berkwam, Oscar Mirez. I mean,
these people have been very in depth in how they've
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evaluated who's funding it, where it's coming from. And it's
not just America, it's in England and it's all these
other places. And and you have to realize that immigration
is good, very very fired up. I love when people
can come seek out the American dream, you know, and
invigorate communities with their culture and with their ideas and
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their hard work and all of that. But there's another
aspect with cultures that don't want to assimilate, that want
to set up their own their own enclaves of of
of of potentially counter culture to what the American spirit,
at least as I see it, is really important on
and so stop integration. Everybody got that we need to
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stuff stifle the tide of immigration because it's destroying communities. Now,
whatever you reason, and I'll do a show in the
future about how it was funded, where it came from,
the sophisticated nature of it, the impacts, all the different
economic influences on what was driving it. I believe political
issues from a voting increasing voting block. We'll go. We'll
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do that right now. I don't remember. This is just
an evaluation of the first hundred days a sit rep
a situation report. The other one I think was really
kind of the stop Corruption. I think what we really
began to see is there was some profoundly corrupt things
taking place, whether it was corruption in the judicial system,
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a two tiered justice system. I just did a show
about that, and I hope it was meaningful you to
understand kind of how it works with the judges and
who picks, and how it goes, and how it's become ideal,
but you know, that spills out into all different formulas.
And I think now what we've also seen through DOG
is the corruption within government itself is pretty staggering. It's
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pretty staggering. Now. I've always known corruption was there because
you know, I spent a lot of time not only
working for DoD but working for the military industrial complex
as well as working for the intelligence community. And you know,
I mean government contracts are big business, right and from
the defense industry. And then obviously, as we talked about before,
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with the censorship industrial complex NGOs, immigration industrial complex with
other NGOs, and the amount of money that was flowing
in my taxpayer dollars, your tax payer dollars was just astronomical.
And so what people wanted to stop corruption, stop wokeism, right,
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this whole idea that there needs to be some type
of equitable restructuring of society, that somehow, somewhere, someplace, I
should recognize that that I've been an oppressor in some capacity,
and I need to make shame my children to think
they're oppressors in some capacity. I just don't get that, man,
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because I mean, there's no end to this, and we
I think we see this playing out in a lot
of geopolitical situations all over the country. It's like, how
far back do I have to go to realize, you
know before, I'm not an oppressor or the legacy of
who I am or what I am or where I
come from is not oppressive. And that's that was never explained.
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I mean, you saw Matt Walsh's well, you know what
is a woman? I mean the fundamental defining principles of
of of of biology. All of a sudden we're in question.
And I think when you saw that, fuse into the
educational system, and don't get me started in the education
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Jordi and I are are working on a show for that.
We're going to go deep dive on that one here
in the next couple of weeks and really flushed that
out and where it began and the manipulation of the
curriculum and all that. But what we saw is we
saw people wanting to introduce sexual ideology to our children.
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And then what happened Those people were thrown in jail
as a result of standing up for what they believed in.
And so people got to a place where they're like,
enough of enough, this is insane, this is ridiculous. So
stop war, stop immigration right, stop the corruption, stop wokeism.
And the other one that I think really you need
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to understand, and this is the ultimate backbone of America society,
is the attack on small businesses. When we saw COVID hit, right,
how many millions of small businesses were destroyed. Meanwhile you
had the John F. Kennedy's Center out and or not
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the Performance Center in Washington, d C. Get one hundred
and fifty five million dollars in COVID relief fund, or
you had very you had famous stars or people getting
you know, three four nine million dollars for their organizations.
Meanwhile they're billionaires. And you know, I freaked out because
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I tried to take I got a forty five thousand
dollars to make sure my business didn't collapse because I couldn't.
I didn't have any revenue or income to feed my
four kids. So I think the tack on small businesses
really reshaped people's ideas too. And then the other aspect
of that, and that we've been talking quite a bit
about this show, is what how are young people going
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to afford the American dream? How hard is it to
go out and get approved for a lot of credit
or how hard is it to find a space that
you can afford for rent and start your business? And
you know, but you know, thankfully, if you were positioned
right and you had the technical acumen or or just
the drive and motivation to work hard and to grind right,
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there were some great successes. Online businesses flourished. But what
we also saw in that time was a massive consolidation. Right.
We saw retail collapse, we saw other forms collapse. And
what who got stronger? Big business? Man? Now again, don't
I'm not attacking that. I'm I'm a fundamental you know capitalist.
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I believe in you know, the best product, the best
service will rise to the top. But when those uh,
when those metrics can be adjusted by the people that
allow commerce or the funnel of commerce that goes through them,
whether it's your you know, whether or not your app
gets seen, or your app get you know, reduced, or
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your YouTube videos get throttled or whatever it might be.
You know, there was an attack on small business for sure.
And then you know the last one, obviously is is
government overreach? Man? I you know again, I just I'm
not the type of person that doesn't believe that government
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doesn't play a massive role in our lives, as it should.
You know, there's there's you know, literally thousands of great
things that the government is able to do for people
every year and around the world as well too. But
I think what we all realize now is that with
every catastrophic circumstance that takes place the government encroaches, it
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takes that one more bigger bite into our liberty, It
takes one more bigger bite into that the idea that
we are free, that we we are in a way
we are the masters of our own destiny. And I
think for sure what COVID really enabled people to feel
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for the first time is that that's in a bigger
jeopardy than we imagined it was, and that it's time
to pay attention of those liberties. And what's happening. The
one for me that I still can't get over to
this day now, you know, thank God they're trying to
right these wrongs, was young men and women that raised
their right hand in order to stand up and wear
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the uniform and fight for us, and fight represent us
and around the world and represent American might and strength.
They were kicked out of their of fulfilling their dream
because it wouldn't take a shot. It wouldn't take the
COVID shot. And that's tyranny. And I think we saw
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it in many different ways. And so you know, this
is pretty substantial list. And that's why I believe we
got where we are today. We got our back in November,
where overwhelming numbers came out. Right, it's landslide numbers, huge numbers.
And don't even get me started about the phantom thirteen
(24:17):
million numbers that a little sleepy Joe got back in
twenty twenty. It's funny how when you look at Obama's
numbers and then you look at Trump's first numbers, and
then you look at Biden's numbers, and then you look
at Trump's numbers, it's just a little bit, a little
bit suspicious. And I think we're going to see some
of that coming out here in the future. But really
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it was not only the grassroots campaign, but it was
this shift away from craziness, a way to back to
common sense. And I truly believe that the majority of you,
what you truly want is you want to live in
a common sense world. Hey. And so there was this shift,
and you saw people from the left come up over
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and say all right, We're done with that madness, the
true you know, a fringe stuff, and I you know,
and I think people got in, including minorities, highest rates
of black men, you know, Hispanic men voting for Trump
and this new idea to reinvigorate the American dream, to
make America great again. So that took place, and I
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think everybody, including me, was like, all right, I could
go put all my all my prepper stuff back in
my storage facility. I can I can you stop building
out kids for my kids? I can, you know, I
plate replace all my AMMO in a more safe and
(25:48):
secure place, and I can stop having you know, a
ton of fuel in my garag right, and I can
take that cyhl relief and stop being such a job
thinking that the world was going to end, or at
least we were going to go into we were going
to go into you know, potential civil war. And that
(26:10):
was a good feeling. It really felt good. I know
you felt good. I know everybody felt good. You know,
I think some of the people on both sides of
their fringe they never feel good. But it is what
it is. Right. You can't please but those of us
who really believe and the fundamental things that enable us
to coexist together in a way that's positive, right, you know,
(26:30):
not giving up what you believe in or your culture
or anything, but to recognize, hey, you do your thing,
I'll do my thing. As long as you're not hurting me,
you're not attacking me, you're not creating violence, have at it, man,
And I think that's the way the overwhelming majority of
people believe. I know, I believe that even though I've
seen a lot of different things in this world. I've
been exposed to things that are are are pretty heavy,
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But on the flip side, I've also been exposed to
the real beauty of what people are capable when they're
focused and driven and they're inspired and they want to
make a difference in the world. So saying all that
to say this is, and I appreciate your your patience.
As I kind of got us here, I think it's
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now time to give my report, my report card on
what's taking place. So just give us a second. I'll
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appreciate it. All right. So now's the crux of this hole.
Let's get into the meat and potatoes for this thing. Now,
grading system. How do I grade the Trump administration in
their first one hundred days? Now, I'm sure you have seen,
just like I have, all over all my different feeds,
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all my different social media places. You know, everybody's talking
about these grades. And so you know, I did you
know f through a but I also had a pass
fail section of this too as well, because and I'll
explain that when we get into it. All Right, So
here's my take, here's my situational report, here's my sip ramp,
my grading sit rep for the past one hundred days. Now,
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let's just start with the one guy that I was
that I've been really surprised and really stoked with, and
you know, paying attention to him, and I've watched just
about every interview he's given and it's really uh, I mean,
it's just I'm happy to see this and this is
Howard Luttneck, And you know, one of the things that
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was again at the center point of where I'm at
in terms of my mindset as it relates to my
family and and the people I care most about in life,
my children. Right, I don't want any more wars. I
don't want any more things to pop off. We're done,
Let's take a break, Let's get our stuff dialed in.
Rebuild the military, rebuild our equipment, get us, but no
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more wards. And so you know what I've seen from
this gentleman, and as he's gone out, and he's really
uh reinvigorated diplomacy. Now, many people don't recognize that diplomacy
is all about compromise, and what you have to be
willing to do is give up some of what you
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want in order to get the grander idea of this thing.
And so based on one of you know, Trump's most
important promises that I've I really got behind, was he's
gonna end Ukraine right in Russia, that he's gonna end
the thing going on with Israel and Hamas and Hesbla
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and Palestinians. He's going to end that. He's going to
do it immediately, and so I was like, who, yeah, well,
obviously that's much more complicated than a phone call and
being like, hey, Vladimir, here's the deal. I'll turn on
the pipeline, I'll take the restrictions off. Stop you know,
stop killing Ukrainian kids, and let's have at it. No
worry about little Zelensky. I got him right. And we
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all imagine, well, guess what out and we've seen the
bombing pick up. Rubio is walking away. Lot nick I
just want to hope and believe that he's still fighting.
Let's keep doing this, let's keep negotiating, and he's just
done a really I think again, and I've got no
inside knowledge of what he's doing, but the way he
speaks about peace and the way he speaks about ending
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these wars, man, it just it got me excited. So
I give him a B plus. Right, So keep that going.
Bring diplomacy back to the highest level. Let's really invest
in diplomacy, all right, Marco Rubio, all right, this was
the one that I was not expecting to be where
he was. You know, I just have that burning Oversight
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Committee hearing that I saw with where he interviewed Victoria
Newland and had the dialogue back and forth, do we
have biological weapons or not? But do we have biolab
research labs in Ukraine? Yes. Meanwhile everybody would be saying
we don't have this, nothing's going on whatever, And so
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now I'm like, oh my god, that's that's that's monst met,
that's that's humongous, like go dig in, let's hear like
drill down. And it was like one more question and
it was over. So I was not a fan because
I think I had this impression that he was kind
of this old neocon. But what I've seen, I'm I'm
actually impressed. I think he's He's so far a good
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representation of the diplomatic presence that we need, right firm, strong,
but but willing to make concessions, willing to work with
people and where what their country actually wants. We have
this bizarre way and in the media, and we kind
of know why to manipulate the fact that that diplomacy
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is a bad thing, that you can't negotiate with terrorists,
you can't negotiate with tyrints, you can't nego And I'm like, well,
that's what you got. You got what you got, So
what are you gonna do. Are you going to deny
this and just let it compound and get worse and
more people die and let it spill into a much
greater problem, or are you going to actually get to
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the table and go over to these places in Qatar
and Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or Dubai and have these
negotiations in Turkey and poland wherever you are, and actually
sit down across from another person and say, listen, what
do you want? All right, what do you want? We
would like this? All right, let's start there. Now, let's negotiate.
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So I've been incredibly pleased with Mark Rubio's performance. I'm
giving him a C plus. C plus mostly because you
know some of the proverbial ways with which President Trump
is maybe going out a little bit over his skis
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and then reeling it back and saying, you know, I'll
have this thing done in a week as maybe a
little bit, but I get it. He's a you know,
he's playing poker. I know that's the wrong term to
use because we're talking about new World War three and
nuclear genocide. But but remember, like there's a gamesmanship in this.
You have to think about what are the tactical approaches
when you're negotiating with somebody. How do you bait them?
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How do you take their bait? How do you you know,
what do you what is this game that's going back
and and that's what it did, That's what it is.
So you know, C plus. But keep it up, keep going, sir.
I'm behind you. I want more diplomacy, all right. Next,
as Susie Wiles, obviously she is at the center of
of of Trump's internal world, you know, between her and
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and uh, you know, I didn't I didn't rate Steven Miller.
Uh maybe I'll talk about him in the future. I'd
love to interview him. I really would love to hear
his thoughts or watch somebody else really dig on and
not just be the pounding that he's doing on people
calling them out to their faces, although that needs to happen.
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You know, all those who spewed lies for as long
as they did, absolutely call him out forsome. But I'm
not prepared. But Susie Wiles, you know, is kind of
the orchestrator of this whole thing. She runs Trump's world.
And you know, I was first introduced to her a
good friend of mine, John Pugh, was in charge of
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Palm Beach County Trump campaign back in twenty sixteen, and
he and I were able to, you know, spend a
little time together. It's really fascinating to watch him. And
back then she was really running Florida, you know, leading
in Florida, and you know, had great things to say
about her, A very sophisticated woman, very sophisticated political operative,
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if you will, and so you know the things that
Trump seems to have a very strong confidence in her,
and so do the people behind her. So I'm going
to give her pass because I just don't have enough
information about kind of the inner workings of what's going on.
But maybe in the future, I'd love to get her
on the show if you ever want to do an interview.
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All right, Next we go to Cash Ptel. All right,
oh cash Man, Now you got to understand the work
that he and Devin Nunez did to investigate Russia Gate
was the first big, big shaking of the system, whether
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you call it the deep state, the blob, whatever you help,
however you want to call it, he was those two
really dug in this and brilliant guy, great investigator, great attorney.
They got in and they rattled the cages, and then
afterwards they were absolutely prosecuted for their political value a valuations.
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My favorite stuff is what you know, Cash's testimony that
he gave to the January sixth Committee, where it was
evident and clear that the order was, you know, put out, hey,
do you want the National Guard? Right? Not only did
Marry Bowser of d c Negate it Nancy Pelosi Capitol
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Police all this, although we do know that the head
of the Congressional Police wanted to help and assistance, they
turned him down. And we also know that that testimony
was not made public in any way, shape or form,
And so for the next four years, we saw this
dude to go on just about every podcast there was
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and he's banging on his fists on the table and
he's I'm gonna do this and if we get in there,
we're going to clean up the corruption at the bureau.
We're gonna I would, you know, move the Bureau out
of DC and I would get rid of all this
and we're gonna go after Comy and we're going to
go after this and blah blah, and you know, it's
just pounding that drum right, whipping that magabase into a
phrazy oh. You know from the Wolf of Wall Street.
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That's what that dude was doing. He was banging those drums.
And I'll admit on some of the shows he was on,
you know, I'd be like looking in the camera like youah,
all right, let's just tear it down. And well, he
got that opportunity, didn't he. And his confirmation hearings were
hoot and all the stuff that came out about him
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and what they were trying to do. But you know,
he's been in there, and I think his undertaking is
probably the most significant challenge out there other than Pete
Hegseth right, because your your law enforcement has really been
the thing that I think most of us have been
who pay close attention to what's taking place, has been
the problem. It's like, you know, the people that are
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supposed to be enforcing laws regardless of political affiliation, we
know that's just not how it worked. And so what
you have to do is what and I believe what
he's trying to do is get in there and reinforce. Hey,
we are law enforcement agency. We're going to go after
bad people, take bad people off the streets, including the gangs,
(40:15):
the criminals, the cartels are now terrorist organizations. We're gonna
We're gonna get back to law enforcement, supporting our local
municipal law enforcement agencies, the counties, the cities, and support
them with intelligence and information and funding they need in
order to get these dangerous people off the streets and
(40:36):
stem the tide of the things that are killing Americans
the most, which is illegal drugs. I mean, you know,
seeing them down in Florida a couple weeks ago with
this half a billion dollar bus man that was that
made me feel really good, really good. However, part of
what he ran on too is like, man, we're taking
(40:58):
down all these nefarious groups and we're gonna take him
down and we're gonna diet them for treason, and we're
gonna go after the Epstein clients, and we're gonna blah
blah blah and this and and so obviously, uh, those
investigations take time and take this. So when I'm gonna
give ohld cash there and and you know, I hope
(41:18):
you you stay true to what she told us, I'm
gonna give him a pass on this one right now, because, uh,
some of these critical issues that we need to see
take place, those take time and and and the other
one is too, is I'm gonna give Bongino a pass
because he's brand new. He's figuring out what they got
(41:39):
to do in terms of where to go. And then
I'm also going to give Pambondi a pass as well.
And the reason I'm gonna give Pambomni pass instead of
a low grade is because of a gentleman that I
love to follow. His name is Mike Davis with the
Article three project. He's on the war room quite a bit,
and he was just on the other day and saying
(42:02):
that he's spoken to some of the people within that
he knows the guy's the deputy of Pambondi and some
of the other places, and he reassured the audience that
don't worry. These investigations are taking place. And remember when
you think about an investigation, what's the key? The key
(42:23):
is can the prosecution can they get a conviction? Right?
You have to remember that I did the thing on
the legal system, and we know some of it is
a little broken or a little warped, or however you
want to talk about it. So the key is can
you get a conviction? Right? Can you get a conviction
with a jury trial? And can you get a conviction
(42:46):
that sticks with the relative punishment that's just and that
that will fulfill what the whole prosecution, the time, the money,
the manpower is behind in order to be able to
really be conclusive with what needs to be conclusive. Right,
So all those guys get a pass right now. But
(43:09):
guess what, that pass ain't gonna go for that much longer.
So we need to see something. Man. There's plenty of
evidence for all these different things. We know the evidence.
We've heard enough from all these House judicial oversight commissions,
all these other places. You know, we just know the
evidence is there, So you know, waiting next is Pete. Heseat,
(43:32):
poor Pete, Man, you're just under assault, buddy. I know.
I was on Tutor Diction show recently and I stared
at the camera and I called out Sean and Pete
and I said, hey, man, enough of the dog and ponies.
All right, recruitment's up. Commercials are good, looks, good young
men are wanting to come in and serve again. But man,
(43:54):
get yourself in that building because that building, one trillion
dollar budget building. That building has an entrenched bureaucracy in
it that I think most people can't even fathom. And
you know, I think things maybe are getting away from
Pete a little bit. That's at least the outside feeling.
(44:16):
Now again, we have no idea what's going on behind
closed doors, what are the arguments, what's happening. We definitely
know there's an attack on Pete. They're from all different directions,
both inside the building, both from the intelligence world, both
from all the military industrial complex who feel like they're
good deals going away, all the NGOs, all the think tanks. Man,
(44:39):
that's a sizeable enemy force that is coming at him.
But this is the key, right because of what I
believe is the number one place that America needs to
believe in, which is the thing that has crossed lines,
regardless of what you believe in the background, what color
your skin, what religion is, any of that stuff, socioeconomic background,
(45:05):
as people believe in what the military represents, and so
that needs to take place. So whatever he needs to
do to get in there and root out that rot
and get that structure back to where it needs to
be to support the warfire, to support America as the
power that it is in the world in a positive way,
(45:27):
then that's good. So I give Pete C minus, but
very easily he could flip that around, all right. Next
jd Vance aplus dude, E five mafia brother. All right,
I don't care whatever, dude, as long as that dude
is out there speaking truth at every one of these
international forums. He's standing up. He's telling them to the face,
(45:49):
globalization is over. We're done with it. We're not doing
any more crazy stuff out there. We're not doing anything
that's not based on meritocracy and the right things. America.
It's it's over. It's done. Plus, I'll tell you what
the thing that melts me, man is is that dude
truly loves his family. Uh, just watch them in front
(46:10):
of the Taj Mahal, just thinking to myself, Man, what
an amazing moment from this kid who came from nowhere.
Everybody loves a right, everybody loves an underdog story. And
so you know, JD, you know, the crane eating E
four right is now sitting in front of the Doje
Mahll with his beautiful wife who's brilliant, and his kids,
(46:34):
you know, and they're out there and they're promoting the
American ideal, which is family and patriotism and in rational
thinking and common sense. I think you know, his his
stance when against the Lenski when it was the throwdown
in the White House, and how he stood up for
the president in America was brilliant. Uh. Well, the work
(46:54):
I've seen him do in Greenland, what's come out of that.
I love all this. I just think he is a
spectacular representation of this administration and what the very best
of what America is. So JD A plus buddy, keep
it up. E Fi mafia rules right all right? Elon
Musk as poor eline Man, once the darling of the
(47:20):
Democratic Party and the left, is now literally under assault,
his businesses, his safety right, his freedom to operate, we
saw countries going after in Brazil try and take them down,
with the European unions trying to find them in exorbitant monies.
You know, his stock price is taking hit because I
(47:42):
don't think it's any shortage of people want Tesla's. I
think there's probably some kind of nefariousness going in with
shortness stock, just like these crazies do with Blockbuster Video.
I just saw what Joe Ann, what's the one company
someone had just saw something post on X where some
long time like clothing support where you can make your
(48:02):
clothes and all that, they're going under now because somebody
shortened their So that's the whole Hello Kitty, No, it
is it. It's but raring kitty right and game stop.
I love paying attention to this because I'm learning so much,
even though I've worked extensively in the financial services industry
for a long time, you know, understanding the power of
(48:23):
these organizations that can manipulate stock or manipulate you know,
boards of massive companies that short shareholder interest and globalization. Man,
you know, they're going after this guy, this guy that's
you know, transforming the way we think about everything from
autonomous driving vehicles to futuristic robots, to Neurolink, to SpaceX,
(48:48):
to the boring company underround transport systems, to all these things,
and it's like, now he's the enemy for some reason.
It just doesn't make sense. But the thing that is
the most important thing I think this man is ever
going to be besides enabling us to continue the species,
but getting the MARS right, because that's critical was doge. Now.
(49:13):
I understand that some people don't like it because why
it's shrinking government and all these other people that have
built careers and reputations and funding and all these other programs.
But when you break down and what we now know
with this waste, fraud and abuse at such a staggering
level and what's ultimately driven us to thirty seven trillion
(49:37):
dollars in the debt, he's exposing that and man, I
know it's a tough pill to swallow, and some of
them it's it's sometimes tough for me. I think about
all those people that were beneficiaries of whether you believe
it's corruption or not, but they had their livelihood essentially cut.
(49:58):
And what's taking place and again, uh, that's we're not
talking about the crazy funding of you know, why is
BBC getting millions of dollars from USAID. Why why is
USAID funding the you know, six nine out of ten
news organizations in Ukraine? Why are they you know, the
Atlantic Council. Why are all these you know, five billion
(50:21):
dollars in consultants out of DoD and one point eight
billion dollars going to all these uh political based policy
consultant firms. You know, you know, not just that, but
I'm talking these programs that lead to nowhere. The Social
Security stuff alone, right, three point four million people ages
(50:42):
one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty nine
receiving Social Security Bendment benefits. That's our money, that's your money,
that's my children's money. It's their debt that they're going
to have to pay. So I just believe everybody needs
to stay true, be patient, and hopefully the exposual canoe.
(51:03):
He's building the infrastructure doj Yes, he's going to step back,
but hopefully you know that's you know, just to kind
of let this team go and do what they do best.
So elon a minus, all right, the man of himself,
Donald Trump. So before we move on to Trump's grade,
(51:25):
what I really want to do is just give you
a little heads up. I want to talk about we
are going to do a live motivational event on May
thirty first on our Patreon account. It's a two dollars
a month entry subscription fee, super low. You're going to
come on. I'm going to do about an hour of motivation,
(51:46):
introducing all of you to what I've learned over the
last thirty years of exploring the human condition, really trying
to figure out what enables us to succeed or what
drives failure through individual performance and team orientated performance. And
this thing is just going to be full of a
huge dose of positivity and motivation. It's some of the
(52:10):
core stuff that I talk about. I'm gonna introduce those
ideas and those will be the follow on live events,
you know, every few months or so, and we just
really want to get you on there and so you
can appreciate it. And then I'll open it up to
Q and A for about an hour afterwards where you
can get on ask me anything you want to ask
about about motivation, about anything else. And I just think
(52:31):
this is the kind of thing that we want to
offer you as our really dear followers and listeners. Is
this wonderful opportunity to engage with me on this motivational
performance coaching level on our Patreon account. So you can
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dollars subscription and get access to this wonderful event on
(52:53):
May thirty first. Who yeah, all right, let's get to
Trump's green m Now. I went round and round for
this in ways you can't even fathom. And so without
going down the deepest rabbit holes, because I could do
(53:13):
a whole show just on him, and maybe I'll do
that in the future, I'm gonna just come right out.
I'm gonna give Donald Trump a pass. And the only
reason why I'm not giving them somewhere around a C
plus or B minus, is two reasons. One end in
those wars. Uh. That's what I need to have happen, man,
(53:34):
I need you to pull those wars back. I need
to come back from the precipice of World War three
as well as another hot war in the Middle East.
If if that Iranian saber rabbit, man, stop that crap
right now, please, it has to stop. It will be
the most devastating thing our young people have ever seen
(53:55):
in the modern era. And then the other has been
you know, start working with your own power, start working
with the markets. Right, the volatility is unsteady for people.
It affects people's livelihood, affect people's pensions, and affect people's portfolios.
Just be a little bit more focused on that, if
you would. I guarantee if you do that, people are
(54:19):
going to get behind the on shoring, the reinvestment, the
foreign policy, the fighting corruption, all that. So that's my
only thing. I give Trump a pass. I'll reevaluate and
wait a little bit. All right. So I know that
was a lot. I know sometimes I seem to run
on a little bit. But again, what I really wanted
you to focus on and to recognize is that what
(54:40):
I'm here to try and do is trying to summarize
all this stuff, to tie it together from a common
sense approach, and to be really positive because I do
believe we're on a positive trajectory. I believe we've kind
of put that buttress upright. The border is secure, right,
I've identified some problems within the government and how to
(55:03):
clean that up. We're regenerating the military, We're we're we're
hopefully you know, getting bad people out of the country. Uh,
people are reinvigorated to want to serve the nation at
all these different agencies, and and I think for overall,
like at the very minimum, I don't think any booby
believes we're going to go into a civil war to
(55:24):
the next catastrophic event. So take a deep breath, getting
your nice lotus position right, and and go hug your
family and hug your kids, and just recognize that we're
in a pretty good state and and and things are
(55:45):
just going to continue to look up and be better.
And I believe overall we're in a good spot. So, uh,
that's my one hundred day sit rep for where we're at.
I hope you enjoyed it. Uh, And and also just
have to be positive, right, don't be afraid to reach
(56:08):
into that backpack or in that bag, your briefcase, or
uh in your your your central council or in your
glove box, pull out that that flashbang of positivity and
go ahead and throw it into the mix, will you?
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