August 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just made a move that could reshape political power in the Lone Star State—and maybe the entire country. David Rutherford breaks down the explosive fight over redistricting, the Democrats who walked out to block it, and the unprecedented legal strategy Paxton is taking to remove them from office.
We also dive into Trump’s political counterstrike against Letitia James and Adam Schiff, the mortgage fraud allegations making headlines, and what this all means for the MAGA movement’s future. Plus—updates on international peace talks, and yes… football is finally back.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Texas Democrats about to lose their seats. Trump is now
the hunter instead of the hunted, and god bless football
is back this week. I'm the David Rutherford Show. What's up, everybody.
I am stoked to be back on the air with you.
I hope you all have had an interesting week as
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I had a little trip up to New Jersey to
speak to a group up there, but I got to
spend some time with my good friend Brian. Just really
want to congratulate him on the new advancement in his
life and what's going on out there. Brother, Thank you
so much for a great week. I also want to
thank you, know, the school, my kids school, because guess what,
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they're getting ready to go back to school here next week,
and I am fired up about that. Not that I
don't love being around my kids all the time, but
four teenage girls during can be a little overwhelming at times.
But I'm proud of them. I love them. We had
a great summer. But I am stoked school is about
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ready to start. That's this. I'm sure you're stoked too
because your kids are going back as well. All right,
So this week has been an incredible Another incredible week
in the News. I've pulled out a few stories that
I really wanted to touch on and bring to everyone's attention. Now,
it's pretty common knowledge. If you were to take five
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seconds and just look at the congressional district maps of
places like New York or Massachusetts, or Illinois or California,
that you would see there would be a pretty substantial
imbalance to how many Democratic seats there are versus how
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many Republican seats. Now, if you're not familiar how this
takes place, it's a result of when the United States
conducts the scent since every ten years, the last census
that was conducted was pretty recent, and what ends up
happening is that they don't separate American citizens in illegal
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people that are in the country, and so what ends
up happening it's just a quantifile number. That number that's
a result of how many people that actually live in
these areas. Well. Guess what if you've been importing by
the millions illegal aliens into particular districts, let's say, districts
or states that have traditionally been pretty substantially read in
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the past, and you want to flip those places, i e. Texas,
then what do you do you put them into these
major metropolitan areas. All you need is to fill those
places up. The census comes out. Now all of a sudden,
you get two or three new district appointed seats to
those areas, and now all of this sudden you begin
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to flip the states.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, thank god that didn't happen. Can you imagine?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Uh? Well, I think that was the intention. I mean, obviously,
what happens when you put the thirty thousand Haitians in
some place in Ohio or you know, you put a
couple hundred thousand people in different districts in Tampa area,
in my in Florida or whatever it might be. Man
that that I mean, I think it was blatant. I mean,
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I unless you don't pay attention to one hundred percent
one hundred percent blaytant. Well, guess what's happening. The guy
who I have tremendous admiration for the Attorney General of Texas,
mister Ken Paxson, who by the way, defeated an impeachment
trial last year or the year before, uh where it
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wasn't the House Democrats in Texas that went after him.
It was actually the House Republicans that went after him
that the underlying theory is is that it was the
old Bush Guard that wanted to get rid of Ken Paxton,
and so what they do is they tried to impeach
him on these trumped up charges, which was hilarious because
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in the trial of this thing, the five people came
out and every all five of them said, yeah, we
basically made up what we said and what launched the impeachment.
So I think Ken Paxton is running riding a pretty
substantial high in particular now. In fact, he just announced
that he'll be running for Texas Senate, which is awesome.
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I think that's a great thing, especially against John Corn,
who has been labeled a rhino pretty extensively and in
fact has come out in an opposition of what he's done. Well,
what happened last week was in Texas in the House,
they passed a bill that was going to form that
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was going to read district Texas, gaining as few as
five new seats for Republicans all the way up eight
new seats in these different major metropolitan areas. Well, they
came out and they voted and they called for a
redistrict that was going to cost the Democrat seats. So
what did they do? What did the Democrats do? In
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one of their great ways that with the how they work, well,
if they don't like something legislatively, they boycott it. And
so thirteen thirteen Democratic congressman from Texas decided, well, we're
just not going to show up for the major House vote.
We're not going to do it. And they did it
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a few times and then finally it was like you
better show up or else. Well, they bombed and some
of them went to Illinois, some of them went to
these other places to make a stance, and they couldn't
do this vote. Now, there also are other bills that
are on the table that they're bringing up as mission
critical for Texas to pass. And some of these things, yeah,
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I think they're pretty important. But redistricting is always what
politicians think about, especially on national scale. Right, And so
these thirteen Democratic state representatives basically are getting busted for
breaking House quorums, right, trying to block this Republican led
redistricting plan. Right. These people are John Busey, the third
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District one, thirty six, Austin Luluflores District fifty one, Austin
Vicki Goodwin forty seven Austin, Jessica Gonzales one oh four Dallas,
Gina Henosa forty nine, Austin, Suliman Lalani seventy six, sugar Land,
Christina Morales one forty five, Houston, Michele Mahela Place Plesa
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seventy Dallas, Anna, Maria Rodriguez Ramos one oh two, Richardson,
Ron Reynolds twenty seven, Missouri City, James Telasario, Yeah, I
think that's it. Tell alart Man, I'm butchering this, aren't I,
Buddy Ti Lalarco, Yeah, fifty Austin, Sorry about that, Sir,
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Chris Turner one oh one, Grand Prairie, and Jeane wu
won thirty seven Houston. So these people basically said, yeah,
we're just not going to show up for the vote. Now,
some people might think, well, that's an effective way to
not bring to fruition a final vote that's going to
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cost seats. However, Ken Paxson is not somebody to be
trifled with. So what did he do? He followed a
motion to the Texas Supreme Court to essentially remove these
people from their positions as a state representative. Why don't
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you play that little audio for me right now? Of
the options that Ken Paxson had, As he told in
this interview, what are some of the other avenues that
you can share with us? I realized you mad don't
want to share all of your strategy publicly.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well, there was there were three. There was the initial option,
which I thought was the best, which is locked the
doors while they were there. The speaker could have done that.
He did not do that, knowing if I had any
anticipation that they were leaving, I would have locked the
doors and they would have been trapped. So we would
have had to vote. That would have been the simplest,
fastest way to do it. We didn't do it. The
second possible way is, you know, arrest them on their
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way out. We didn't do that either. They went to
jurisdictions that are not friendly to to Texas Republicans, and
so you know, we don't have jurisdictional ability to get
to him in these more liberal states, having gone to Illinois,
New York, and still the Massachusetts. So wait them out?
Is that option now? Since you can't arrest? And then
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the final option is this possibility which had never been
done before. We came up with the idea a few
years ago, and this is what we're trying to figure
out if we can do, which is to do this
procedure that would basically force them out of office. It
would have to be determined by court. We don't make
the determination. The court would have to decide that they
were not performing their duty and that they needed to
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be replaced removed.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
All right, So there you heard it from the mouth himself.
They tried, They had three other options that the Republicans
who ran did not do, and so it came down
to this. And if you could, also, JEORDI, post the
cover of that document that he sent to the Supreme Court. Now,
this is a novel, new way of handling business, never
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been done before, to basically get rid of these people
in their seats. And that's a pretty amazing move to make. Now,
what my mind goes to automatically is if this is
a tactic that brings awareness to what the Republicans seemed
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to be moving into. And I would bet especially in
those completely blue states with their jerrymandered districts. And also
right now, Jordie, could you put up the map of Illinois. Cool?
And when you look at that map of Illinois, you
see I mean, that's that's what they do, right. I
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think both parties have been doing that since the dawn
of the concept of Jerrymanderin came into place. Nobody's innocent
of doing this. Republicans do it, Democrats do it. That's
the way it works. Well, if you're going to fight
fire with fire, that's a tool you can use. But
I don't think anybody imagined that you would have this
larger contingent that would, you know, walk out and prevent
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the quorums from taking place just because you don't like
what the outcomes are going to be. That's also a
first in a heavy way. I think there's been examples
of that, but not down to that final vote, and
certainly not a filing with a Supreme court of any state.
My problem is is this is going to bring a
ton of publicity. It's gonna invigorate Democrats in all states
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around the country. But it's also I think, going to
invigorate federal congressman Democratic congressman to do the same type
of thing. With much of what Trump's policy initiatives are
going to be coming up. We've got another big vote
coming up there in the fall and onwards. So is
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this going to be the status quo if either side
of the House decides that they just don't want to
participate in the voting, so is it a good precedent
on either side? No? Do I respect what Ken Paxson
is having to do. Yes, I think there's probably other
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ways to do it. But again, if you're dealing with
an organization in terms of the Democratic National Party International
Committee who plays hardball, then yeah, I think you have
to play hardball with hardball. So although I wish it
wouldn't have come to this, it definitely seems like a
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good tactic to employ. All Right, next story. The next
story kind of lends itself to what I was just
talking about. It's the idea of Trump going from being
hunted to now being the hunt tour. And that's been
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a very common title that has been all over X
with a lot of the people that have re shared
and reposed these new ideas. And the one that really
is remarkable to me, I think was inevitable considering the
magnitude of lawfair flagrant lawfair that was waged against him
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over the last eight years, in particular last five years
UH from the Biden administration, in particular from their d
O J. Jack Smith and then they're you know, they're essential,
their their proteges or their henchmen. Uh Letitia James, Fanny
Willis and others who filed these incredible crime uh uh
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cases against Trump and his team. So what happened this
week is uh Pam Bondy essentially said we're gonna go
after Letitia James and Adam Schiff. Now what's interesting to
me is that not only were they ethic, you know,
they're in there, there's ethic complaints for certain things that
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they've done, but the majority of what this is about
is for something that's incredibly uh ironic, if you will, right,
h What is the one thing that everybody always says
when we're talking about corruption of any kind, follow the money.
And this particular case what the most famous one, I
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think is back in the day when al Capone finally
got had to go to jail for what for tax evasion. Well,
what we have now is is the Pambani and the
Department of Justice is going after Letitia James and Adam
Shift for mortgage fraud. And I mean think about that,
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I mean think about all the things that she the
two of them could get busted for, right, Adam Shift falsified,
basically lying for four straight years about Russia, Clusiah Russian
just getting on national television and basis basically straight up
saying yep, Trump is a Russian spy and getting away
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with that, and then and then also his participation in
what he did on the January sixth committee, uh and
and basically hiding information that would have exonerated, you know,
hundreds of people from those being arrested after in the
January sixth crackdown that resulted. And then there's Leticia James
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and all the different lawsuits she brought. My favorite one
is where she could try to convince a jury that
Donald Trump illegally inflated his value so he could, you know,
cajole these banks to giving him these loans. Basically my
favorite one was saying that what Mara Lago is only
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worth fourteen or eighteen million dollars? Man, I mean, it's
just it's the most pristine property in all of South Florida.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
There's saying door handles are worth fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I've been there, and I agree with you. I agree
with you. Oh my god, it's incredible. So what do
we have and how is this going to take place,
and I think, you know, these are kind of what
is going on. So here's here's a brief.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So you've got civil rights violations related to Trump in
his NRA cases. The DOJ convened a Grand Journey at Albany,
New York, to investigate whether James violated President Trump's civil
rights through her office's civil fraud lawsuit against him in
his business. The lawsuit, initiated in twenty twenty two, resulted
in a four hundred and fifty four million dollar judgment
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against Trump for fraudulently inflating his net worth to deceive leaders.
And so what they came back is and then the
FBI there the mortgage fraud allegations. The FBI and the
US Attorney Office in Albany are investigating James for alleged
mortgage fraud tied to real estate transactions, particularly a Virginia
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home purchase. A criminal referral from the Federal Housing Finance
Agency in April twenty twenty five, initiated by Trump appointed
fh FA director William Poulti, alleges that James falsified records
in claiming a Virginia property as her primary residence to
secure favored long term loans. All right, Uh, you know,
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again tit for tat is politics. I think, you know,
it'll be interesting to see this case play out. I
wish they could really just focus on the legality of
the the charges that she brought against Trump and really
stay there. You know, I think these mortgage fraud things
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are are a little bit of a distraction. It's easy
way to bring them into the headlines and tear them
down a little bit. But again, you know, after the
when when you watch go back to Letitia James running
for office and she says, my sole mission, uh, if
I'm elected, will be to bring Donald Trump down. You know,
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you know, you got to go back to these things
because I think the challenge for everybody in particular, you know,
you look at what Democrats are saying and and they're
losing their minds over this or like you know, this
is the emerging this is Donald Trump becoming you know,
taking the reins and manipulating the justice system. And you know,
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one of the oldest tactics in the book is democratic
party is you accuse the other guys of exactly what
you have done to distract them. And we certainly know
that these cases brought by Letitia James, Robert Smith, and
Fanny Willis. We're bogus in every way, shape or form.
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Adam Schiff is the other guy, right, And Adam Schiff
is under federal criminal investigation by the US Attorney's Office
in Maryland for alleged mortgage fraud. Investigation reported by Fox
News and other sources, stems from a criminal referral by WHO,
the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Justice
in May twenty twenty five. The allegation center around shifts
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alleged miss representation of his primary residents to secure more
favorable mortgage terms on properties in California and Maryland. All right, again,
Adam Schiff is a guy. If you go back and
you look at the magnitude with which he went after
Trump in not only Russiagate. He was a primary guy
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on the news day in and day out for years
basically saying Trump is a Russian spy, He's a Russian asset.
And what's crazy now, what we know is that he
knew all of that was false. He knew every all
the documents, the Russia Gate whole thing. He knew it
was false. He'd been briefed by because he was the
head of the Foreign Intelligence Committee, so he knew what
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was completely inaccurate, but he ran with it. Why because
it's served him politically.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
The other aspect is really the impeachment stuff that was
brought out of January sixth, Trump incitement of a riot
and trying to alter the finality of the election, which
we also now are I don't think we fully know
what's going on, but we certainly know that were shenanigans
taking place. I just think, you know, remember I always
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think back to when Christopher Ray was being was under
subpoena and was answering questions, and the congressman from Louisiana
basically said, how many how many people were how many informants,
paid informants or actual operatives intelligence FBI operatives were in
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the crowd on January sixth, And he wouldn't answer the question,
all right, And what he estimated is what he had said,
is that there was at least two hundred for sure
that he'd found in their investigation. So I think there's
a lot more that's going to come out from the
January sixth fiasco. And I think also we haven't even
begun to scratch the surface on the twenty twenty election fiasco.
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So what is Trump doing? He's playing hardball. Now He's
going to go after these people that essentially wanted to
imprison him for seven hundred and whatever how many years
and wanted to bankrupt him and bankrupt his family, bankrupt
everybody in his family, to indict all his friends, to
tear him down. So what did Pam Dondie Bonnie do.
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She hired signed ed Martin as a special prosecutor. Now
you know his background. He's a former interim US District
Attorney General for District of Columbia. But he was shut
down by Tom Tillis Senator Tom Tillis, Republican from North Carolina,
citing his lack of prosecutorial experience and controversial political activities. Now,
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he was a strong component that the January sixth thing
was an inside job planned by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff,
and the whole rest of the crew in order to
really put the final nail in the coffin on true
for insurrection and what that whole thing was. And again,
well we'll know more about that. That's definitely going to
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come out. So this guy Ed Martin, they put him
as a Special Prosecutor. Now, from the interviews I've listened
to him, this guy is definitely going to have an
axe to grind, as does Trump himself. So it'll be
interesting to see what results out of this Special Council investigation.
(22:26):
All right. You know, I think when you look at
this type of thing and you look at the current
state of where we are politically, I think all of
this is pretty much it's inevitable, right you. Any time,
you know, you you invest hundreds of millions of dollars
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into trying to destroy your political enemy, you know, you
better finish the job. And I think they did everything
up into you know, and there's no conclusive evidence that
anybody within our government had anything to do with the
two assassination attempts. Certainly there's been some really interesting reporting
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again by Mike Ben's and Roth's connection to Ukraine and
recruiting and some NGOs, and that that's interesting. I think
there's a lot of questions about the kid who shot Trump.
We still haven't seen his phone, his contacts and his
phone and who he was talking to on these foreign
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chat apps. So there's a lot to be understood. And
I think, as you hear me describe this. It stacks up. Man,
All these things just keep stacking and stacking and stacking
and stacking, and the weight of this concise and consolidated
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conspiracy to get rid of Donald Trump. This is true.
They went after him harder than anything I've ever seen
or heard about in the history of our country. And
even the other kind of On a side note, Project
Veritas is suggesting that Fanny Willis, in the Rico case
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she brought against Trump and like twenty other people down
in Fulton County, Georgia, that she was actually corresponding not
only with Biden's doj But now we're understanding there were
some emails and Jordy, we put up those two emails
that I sent you, and if you see these, there's
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references to people in her team making contact with Bill
Barr in his team.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Bill Barr is the former Attorney General under Trump's first term,
who basically is, you know, got all kinds of just
nefariousness that's being LinkedIn him now with this also the
fact that he was the age when Epstein died. It
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was his father that hired Epstein back at the school
he worked at the Dalton School, and that relationship and
you know, they have some other bizarre relationships there, you know.
So you begin to think, my god, the magnitude of
effort that was employed to try and get prevent one
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Donald Trump from running in the first place, becoming president
in the first term, tearing him down with Mueller investigation,
two impeachment votes there, then the twenty twenty fiasco of
elections right trying to then tear him down after that
through January sixth and the trees and indictments, and then
four straight years of investigations emerging from all these attorney generals.
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That's a lot. And I want you to just for
one minute, if you had just one of these things
that was happening to you in your life, just one,
just one event of these, even if you were one
of the co defendants in the Fulton County case for conspiracy,
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this Rico case to change the election outcomes in Georgia,
which are our suspect. And if you want to do
a deep dive in there, you just go in and
you look at some of the testimony that came out
last year of how mail in ballots and photographs that
are supposed to correlate that those with signature correlation like
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two hundred and thirty plus thousand missing, there's no correlated
evidence of photographs of the signature matches. I mean, it's
it was an abomination. And we also know Fanny Wells
and her lover who she had hired for a couple
million dollars. I think it was he was traveling up
to meet with Biden's DJ as well. So this is
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a conspiracy, There's no doubt about it. And if you
had just one aspect of this conspiracy coming after you,
would you have been able to take it? And then
the greater question, the question that you really have to
ask yourself, is this, if you got through it and
then we're in a position to go after the people
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that tried to destroy you, what would you do? That's
the real question. So it'll be fascinating to watch all
of this, combined with all of the subpoenas that James
Comer issued for Clinton and Komi and Brennan in the
fall that are coming up here. All these we're going
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to see a cascade of filings that I think is
going to regrettably intensify the divide of the American public,
which is not what needs to happen. Ultimately, I think
there's no way in how anybody's going to talk Trump
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and his team out of doing this. I just think
revenge is a dish best served cold, and I think
it is an evitability that he's going to go after
the people that went after him. This is where we
are an American politics all right now. On a positive note,
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I want to say this is kind of a personal
thing that I'm really happy to see. There had been
some skirmishes that had kicked off again between the country
of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the last five years. And
also this is a conflict that dates way back. This
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goes way way back. You know, you can even go
back to the Armenian genocide back in the day with
Turkey and the Turks, but really between Armenia and what
was originally called the Caucasian Tatars, also known as the Azerbaijanis,
and the fighting that's been taking place as far back
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as to nineteen oh five through the Soviet area. It
kind of met chilled, and then in eighty nine it
started up again in several channels. Now, when I was
at Blackwater, we got a contract to go work in Azerbaijan,
and honest to God and before I left a few
days after, you know, getting on that, I didn't know
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what Azerbaijan was. I had heard loosely about the Armenian genocide,
but I didn't know anything. And so when I went
out there for the ten months on and off I
worked out there, I got a full indoctrination as to
this conflict. And you know, when you think about these
small countries in this area and why they've been fighting
for so long, and again, it just goes back to
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these polarized regions, you know, a difference of opinions, difference
of religion, and just how far people are willing to
go to to fight for what they believe is theirs.
And I think this is common throughout history and throughout
the world. You know, in this the whole conflict is
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really around this unagorhou Narabajak, Nara bacha god man. Sending
these names is just brutal for me, Jordy in this
region which is many considered to be a humanitarian crisis.
So I really commend Trump for bringing some peace to
to this right now. We saw him bring some peace
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to Indian Pakistan a few months ago. We did a
show on that we he brought a ceasefire that appears
to be somewhat stable, although there was a gentleman who
went on Tucker Carlson last week who basically said that
there's still a lot of conflict going on in Gaza
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right now, even as humanitarian and eight is somewhat being distributed.
You know, there's a still cease fire there. And then
on top of that, on August fifteenth, we just found
out that Trump is going to meet with Putin in
Alaska to discuss Ukrainian peace. Now, Geordie, will you play
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that one clip of of the guy, the Russian diplomat
who basically said, uh, we've agreed to America's terms about
some of the area and what they were saying about
peace or ceasefire piece Amana non.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
She was more than Astrostrich, all right, So you heard
this guy say this man, that was the first real positive.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Thing in quite a while. I mean, remember the last
time UH that there was this negotiation. The Russian delegation
went to meet with UH. I forget was it was
in Turkey, I think, to meet with the Ukrainians and
they essentially walked in, stood up, and walked out and
nothing took place. Why because Zelensky had done his little
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European tour and had raised I think like a five
billion or so commitment from European countries to fund NATO
and its contributions. We've seen a tremendous amount of arms
and vehicle, military vehicles being pushed into Ukraine recently. And
if you've also seen there's the Russians have been really
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holding and advancing there that eastern front of all those
that area that they have claimed all the way as
far back as I think two thousand and eight, that
this was a part of Mother Russia. And we saw
several things transpired not only through the Maidan Revolution but
afterwards as well in these regions, and you know that's
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crimea the don bask and look honks regions.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
So hopefully what we will see is we'll see a
major negotiation, a major announcement transpire that can really get
us closer to peace. What will I think all of
you should pay attention to, if you can, is how
Zelensky reacts to this.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
He's already been on on X a little bit, uh,
saying this is a sovereign matter, this is Ukraine's decision,
which he's said throughout, but we'll pay close attention to that.
So Jordy, what's up. That's a lot going on, man,
dud yours of mine both. But but I think what
(33:42):
we have is as we have. You know, one we're seeing,
I think within the MAGA movement and within the Republican Party,
one of the things is like, hey, let's start playing hardball.
I think that's always been a critique of the Republican
Party is that, you know, there hasn't been enough hardball
planes in the last sixteen or so years. And now
(34:05):
finally what we're seeing, in particular from Ken Paxon, is
people are beginning to play a little hardball. What's interesting
to me is the pushback that's coming from Republican senators right,
and Republican House congressional leaders as well too on some
of this stuff.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
So you think it's because conservative, if you're a conservative,
you're kind of naturally by default playing defense. You're trying
to conserve right, You're trying to changes that are happening
from the progressive or liberal wing of things, trying their
their job in a functioning system would be to try
(34:42):
to say, hey, we're on a path right now, but
we need to go this different direction in a kind
of a conservative job or responsibility is to say, no,
stick to the plan, this is what's working. We got
to stay right here. So they're kind of on defense
by default.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I think that's that's that's materially true. I think that's
from a you know, a theoretical component. Yeah, conservatism, liberalism,
I think that is. But I think what I've seen
is there's an entrenched component and old school guard within
the Republican Party that is anti Magna at their heart,
(35:20):
and what they want to do is also push back
against the policy and the evolution of the party because
they're losing the traditional grip they had had on it
for a long, long period of time, and that grip
is waning rapidly. And so what we're seeing is we're
seeing the final throws of their command and control. Because
(35:41):
the momentum that the Trump administration and the Maga movement
are having are substantial.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Now there's still do you think they need to come
out with these people in the terms of if we
don't come back and hit them and play hardball just
like they played with us, this is just going to
keep happening.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Is that kind of what you think the motivation is?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I am one hundred percent convinced that in twenty six
or twenty eight, or whenever it is in the future,
should the current controllers of the Democratic Party, which are
pretty progressive in nature, should they come back in. We
(36:22):
will see what we saw under the Biden administration amplified
by magnitude of however many that is right. We will
see illegal immigration skyrocket, We'll see the advanced the expansion
of the Supreme Court. We'll see getting rid of the fillbuster.
(36:43):
We'll see I mean all kinds of things that they
will go all in on, right. I just think that's
the nature of politics right now. We're in a cycle
of extremes. And what makes me nervous is when you
get into a cycle of extremes, bind with a potential
(37:03):
risk of economic calamity. Because we just crossed over thirty
seven trillion dollars in debt. I think, you know, there's
a substantial recipe for for some problems, right so, you know,
I think you know we're going to try and break
(37:24):
down some of those major problems here in the future
on shows to really kind of I keep getting hit
up a well you kind of do a state of
the Union, Uh, you know, we're I think we're two
hundred days into Trump's first first year in his term,
and people have kind of been hitting me up. Hey,
(37:44):
you know, let's get a state of the Union where
you think the most greatest concerns we have. And you know,
I've had people ask me about terror, cells, violence, the
political gerrymandering, you know, ice raids.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
So I think what we'll do is we'll start working
on a show for y'all that I address some of
the core issues what I believe we need to pay attention,
in particular as we go back into the fall uptick
in in UH political and geopolitical environment. So but but
(38:18):
before we go, before we go, I just want to
say to you, Jordie, into all other UH sports fanatics
such as me, thank god football is back. Absolutely, thank
god football is back. I can't even begin to tell
you how excited I am as a former football player myself.
(38:43):
You know, the months in between are a bit arduous
to stay fixated. I think I've had my fill of tennis.
I think I've had my fill of green dildos. Actually
that did not come out right at all. Believe belive
I last everybody completely blay my mats. That's not what
(39:03):
I meant. What I meant is is the distraction of
the w nb W n B A and what's going
on with their Shenanigans. And boy, that was horrible. That
was about as big a mistake of faux pas as
I've ever made. So people are gonna laugh at that one.
All right, So football's back. And what the one I
(39:25):
really want to just highlight for all the haters out there,
and Geordie, if you could start playing that, you know
right now for me that that'd be great. And that's
Shador Sanders and the play he had with the Cleveland Browns.
I mean, the guy was on fire. I think everybody
and their brother wanted them to basically wanted this guy
(39:47):
to go in throw multiple interceptions, get sacked three times.
There was a great sack by a former Nebraska off
defensive lineman with so you know, go Nebraska. But he
looked really good on the field. He was light on
his feet, he was reading the field well, he did
some magic dancing like he does to escape what looked
(40:12):
like certain sacks. He really is an incredibly talented athlete.
Now I will say this Cleveland brown says five other
big time quarterbacks. So this will be the quarterback battle
to watch for sure. But again, we're back. Football's back.
College football is starting soon. There's a we got the
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first game of the season. One of the first games
of the season is going to be between Texas and
Ohio State. So first time in a long time. Number
one plays number two right to start off. I love
that because Penn State has ranked one in some polls,
but in most other poles they're number three. And I
(40:57):
think that'll knock one of them out of way. Penn
State can go in and and and hopefully move forward
they and have a great season and finish as as
number one. So yeah, football is back. Jordy, who yah,
dude's gonna save us.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
It's gonna save us. Can you believe that?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
You know, August is typically a slow news month. This
is slow.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
I think all that's just out the window. There's just
it's it's all gone. We are in a in a
time where news is just coming at us like a tsunami. Uh.
And so that's why, you know, Jordie and I, uh
we are going to stay focused and committed to really
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Speaker 5 (43:15):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
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Texas Democrats about to lose their seats. Trump is now
the hunter instead of the hunted, and god bless football
is back this week. I'm the David Rutherford Show. What's up, everybody.
I am stoked to be back on the air with you.
I hope you all have had an interesting week as
(00:20):
I had a little trip up to New Jersey to
speak to a group up there, but I got to
spend some time with my good friend Brian. Just really
want to congratulate him on the new advancement in his
life and what's going on out there. Brother, Thank you
so much for a great week. I also want to
thank you, know, the school, my kids school, because guess what,
(00:47):
they're getting ready to go back to school here next week,
and I am fired up about that. Not that I
don't love being around my kids all the time, but
four teenage girls during can be a little overwhelming at times.
But I'm proud of them. I love them. We had
a great summer. But I am stoked school is about
(01:08):
ready to start. That's this. I'm sure you're stoked too
because your kids are going back as well. All right,
So this week has been an incredible Another incredible week
in the News. I've pulled out a few stories that
I really wanted to touch on and bring to everyone's attention. Now,
it's pretty common knowledge. If you were to take five
(01:28):
seconds and just look at the congressional district maps of
places like New York or Massachusetts, or Illinois or California,
that you would see there would be a pretty substantial
imbalance to how many Democratic seats there are versus how
(01:51):
many Republican seats. Now, if you're not familiar how this
takes place, it's a result of when the United States
conducts the scent since every ten years, the last census
that was conducted was pretty recent, and what ends up
happening is that they don't separate American citizens in illegal
(02:13):
people that are in the country, and so what ends
up happening it's just a quantifile number. That number that's
a result of how many people that actually live in
these areas. Well. Guess what if you've been importing by
the millions illegal aliens into particular districts, let's say, districts
or states that have traditionally been pretty substantially read in
(02:37):
the past, and you want to flip those places, i e. Texas,
then what do you do you put them into these
major metropolitan areas. All you need is to fill those
places up. The census comes out. Now all of a sudden,
you get two or three new district appointed seats to
those areas, and now all of this sudden you begin
(02:58):
to flip the states.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, thank god that didn't happen. Can you imagine?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Uh? Well, I think that was the intention. I mean, obviously,
what happens when you put the thirty thousand Haitians in
some place in Ohio or you know, you put a
couple hundred thousand people in different districts in Tampa area,
in my in Florida or whatever it might be. Man
that that I mean, I think it was blatant. I mean,
(03:27):
I unless you don't pay attention to one hundred percent
one hundred percent blaytant. Well, guess what's happening. The guy
who I have tremendous admiration for the Attorney General of Texas,
mister Ken Paxson, who by the way, defeated an impeachment
trial last year or the year before, uh where it
(03:48):
wasn't the House Democrats in Texas that went after him.
It was actually the House Republicans that went after him
that the underlying theory is is that it was the
old Bush Guard that wanted to get rid of Ken Paxton,
and so what they do is they tried to impeach
him on these trumped up charges, which was hilarious because
(04:10):
in the trial of this thing, the five people came
out and every all five of them said, yeah, we
basically made up what we said and what launched the impeachment.
So I think Ken Paxton is running riding a pretty
substantial high in particular now. In fact, he just announced
that he'll be running for Texas Senate, which is awesome.
(04:32):
I think that's a great thing, especially against John Corn,
who has been labeled a rhino pretty extensively and in
fact has come out in an opposition of what he's done. Well,
what happened last week was in Texas in the House,
they passed a bill that was going to form that
(04:52):
was going to read district Texas, gaining as few as
five new seats for Republicans all the way up eight
new seats in these different major metropolitan areas. Well, they
came out and they voted and they called for a
redistrict that was going to cost the Democrat seats. So
what did they do? What did the Democrats do? In
(05:13):
one of their great ways that with the how they work, well,
if they don't like something legislatively, they boycott it. And
so thirteen thirteen Democratic congressman from Texas decided, well, we're
just not going to show up for the major House vote.
We're not going to do it. And they did it
(05:34):
a few times and then finally it was like you
better show up or else. Well, they bombed and some
of them went to Illinois, some of them went to
these other places to make a stance, and they couldn't
do this vote. Now, there also are other bills that
are on the table that they're bringing up as mission
critical for Texas to pass. And some of these things, yeah,
(05:54):
I think they're pretty important. But redistricting is always what
politicians think about, especially on national scale. Right, And so
these thirteen Democratic state representatives basically are getting busted for
breaking House quorums, right, trying to block this Republican led
redistricting plan. Right. These people are John Busey, the third
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District one, thirty six, Austin Luluflores District fifty one, Austin
Vicki Goodwin forty seven Austin, Jessica Gonzales one oh four Dallas,
Gina Henosa forty nine, Austin, Suliman Lalani seventy six, sugar Land,
Christina Morales one forty five, Houston, Michele Mahela Place Plesa
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seventy Dallas, Anna, Maria Rodriguez Ramos one oh two, Richardson,
Ron Reynolds twenty seven, Missouri City, James Telasario, Yeah, I
think that's it. Tell alart Man, I'm butchering this, aren't I,
Buddy Ti Lalarco, Yeah, fifty Austin, Sorry about that, Sir,
(07:07):
Chris Turner one oh one, Grand Prairie, and Jeane wu
won thirty seven Houston. So these people basically said, yeah,
we're just not going to show up for the vote. Now,
some people might think, well, that's an effective way to
not bring to fruition a final vote that's going to
(07:28):
cost seats. However, Ken Paxson is not somebody to be
trifled with. So what did he do? He followed a
motion to the Texas Supreme Court to essentially remove these
people from their positions as a state representative. Why don't
(07:50):
you play that little audio for me right now? Of
the options that Ken Paxson had, As he told in
this interview, what are some of the other avenues that
you can share with us? I realized you mad don't
want to share all of your strategy publicly.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well, there was there were three. There was the initial option,
which I thought was the best, which is locked the
doors while they were there. The speaker could have done that.
He did not do that, knowing if I had any
anticipation that they were leaving, I would have locked the
doors and they would have been trapped. So we would
have had to vote. That would have been the simplest,
fastest way to do it. We didn't do it. The
second possible way is, you know, arrest them on their
(08:23):
way out. We didn't do that either. They went to
jurisdictions that are not friendly to to Texas Republicans, and
so you know, we don't have jurisdictional ability to get
to him in these more liberal states, having gone to Illinois,
New York, and still the Massachusetts. So wait them out?
Is that option now? Since you can't arrest? And then
(08:45):
the final option is this possibility which had never been
done before. We came up with the idea a few
years ago, and this is what we're trying to figure
out if we can do, which is to do this
procedure that would basically force them out of office. It
would have to be determined by court. We don't make
the determination. The court would have to decide that they
were not performing their duty and that they needed to
(09:07):
be replaced removed.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
All right, So there you heard it from the mouth himself.
They tried, They had three other options that the Republicans
who ran did not do, and so it came down
to this. And if you could, also, JEORDI, post the
cover of that document that he sent to the Supreme Court. Now,
this is a novel, new way of handling business, never
(09:33):
been done before, to basically get rid of these people
in their seats. And that's a pretty amazing move to make. Now,
what my mind goes to automatically is if this is
a tactic that brings awareness to what the Republicans seemed
(09:55):
to be moving into. And I would bet especially in
those completely blue states with their jerrymandered districts. And also
right now, Jordie, could you put up the map of Illinois. Cool?
And when you look at that map of Illinois, you
see I mean, that's that's what they do, right. I
(10:17):
think both parties have been doing that since the dawn
of the concept of Jerrymanderin came into place. Nobody's innocent
of doing this. Republicans do it, Democrats do it. That's
the way it works. Well, if you're going to fight
fire with fire, that's a tool you can use. But
I don't think anybody imagined that you would have this
larger contingent that would, you know, walk out and prevent
(10:42):
the quorums from taking place just because you don't like
what the outcomes are going to be. That's also a
first in a heavy way. I think there's been examples
of that, but not down to that final vote, and
certainly not a filing with a Supreme court of any state.
My problem is is this is going to bring a
ton of publicity. It's gonna invigorate Democrats in all states
(11:07):
around the country. But it's also I think, going to
invigorate federal congressman Democratic congressman to do the same type
of thing. With much of what Trump's policy initiatives are
going to be coming up. We've got another big vote
coming up there in the fall and onwards. So is
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this going to be the status quo if either side
of the House decides that they just don't want to
participate in the voting, so is it a good precedent
on either side? No? Do I respect what Ken Paxson
is having to do. Yes, I think there's probably other
(11:51):
ways to do it. But again, if you're dealing with
an organization in terms of the Democratic National Party International
Committee who plays hardball, then yeah, I think you have
to play hardball with hardball. So although I wish it
wouldn't have come to this, it definitely seems like a
(12:13):
good tactic to employ. All Right, next story. The next
story kind of lends itself to what I was just
talking about. It's the idea of Trump going from being
hunted to now being the hunt tour. And that's been
(12:33):
a very common title that has been all over X
with a lot of the people that have re shared
and reposed these new ideas. And the one that really
is remarkable to me, I think was inevitable considering the
magnitude of lawfair flagrant lawfair that was waged against him
(12:56):
over the last eight years, in particular last five years
UH from the Biden administration, in particular from their d
O J. Jack Smith and then they're you know, they're essential,
their their proteges or their henchmen. Uh Letitia James, Fanny
Willis and others who filed these incredible crime uh uh
(13:19):
cases against Trump and his team. So what happened this
week is uh Pam Bondy essentially said we're gonna go
after Letitia James and Adam Schiff. Now what's interesting to
me is that not only were they ethic, you know,
they're in there, there's ethic complaints for certain things that
(13:41):
they've done, but the majority of what this is about
is for something that's incredibly uh ironic, if you will, right,
h What is the one thing that everybody always says
when we're talking about corruption of any kind, follow the money.
And this particular case what the most famous one, I
(14:02):
think is back in the day when al Capone finally
got had to go to jail for what for tax evasion. Well,
what we have now is is the Pambani and the
Department of Justice is going after Letitia James and Adam
Shift for mortgage fraud. And I mean think about that,
(14:24):
I mean think about all the things that she the
two of them could get busted for, right, Adam Shift falsified,
basically lying for four straight years about Russia, Clusiah Russian
just getting on national television and basis basically straight up
saying yep, Trump is a Russian spy and getting away
(14:46):
with that, and then and then also his participation in
what he did on the January sixth committee, uh and
and basically hiding information that would have exonerated, you know,
hundreds of people from those being arrested after in the
January sixth crackdown that resulted. And then there's Leticia James
(15:07):
and all the different lawsuits she brought. My favorite one
is where she could try to convince a jury that
Donald Trump illegally inflated his value so he could, you know,
cajole these banks to giving him these loans. Basically my
favorite one was saying that what Mara Lago is only
(15:30):
worth fourteen or eighteen million dollars? Man, I mean, it's
just it's the most pristine property in all of South Florida.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
There's saying door handles are worth fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I've been there, and I agree with you. I agree
with you. Oh my god, it's incredible. So what do
we have and how is this going to take place,
and I think, you know, these are kind of what
is going on. So here's here's a brief.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Friend.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So you've got civil rights violations related to Trump in
his NRA cases. The DOJ convened a Grand Journey at Albany,
New York, to investigate whether James violated President Trump's civil
rights through her office's civil fraud lawsuit against him in
his business. The lawsuit, initiated in twenty twenty two, resulted
in a four hundred and fifty four million dollar judgment
(16:19):
against Trump for fraudulently inflating his net worth to deceive leaders.
And so what they came back is and then the
FBI there the mortgage fraud allegations. The FBI and the
US Attorney Office in Albany are investigating James for alleged
mortgage fraud tied to real estate transactions, particularly a Virginia
(16:40):
home purchase. A criminal referral from the Federal Housing Finance
Agency in April twenty twenty five, initiated by Trump appointed
fh FA director William Poulti, alleges that James falsified records
in claiming a Virginia property as her primary residence to
secure favored long term loans. All right, Uh, you know,
(17:05):
again tit for tat is politics. I think, you know,
it'll be interesting to see this case play out. I
wish they could really just focus on the legality of
the the charges that she brought against Trump and really
stay there. You know, I think these mortgage fraud things
(17:26):
are are a little bit of a distraction. It's easy
way to bring them into the headlines and tear them
down a little bit. But again, you know, after the
when when you watch go back to Letitia James running
for office and she says, my sole mission, uh, if
I'm elected, will be to bring Donald Trump down. You know,
(17:47):
you know, you got to go back to these things
because I think the challenge for everybody in particular, you know,
you look at what Democrats are saying and and they're
losing their minds over this or like you know, this
is the emerging this is Donald Trump becoming you know,
taking the reins and manipulating the justice system. And you know,
(18:09):
one of the oldest tactics in the book is democratic
party is you accuse the other guys of exactly what
you have done to distract them. And we certainly know
that these cases brought by Letitia James, Robert Smith, and
Fanny Willis. We're bogus in every way, shape or form.
(18:34):
Adam Schiff is the other guy, right, And Adam Schiff
is under federal criminal investigation by the US Attorney's Office
in Maryland for alleged mortgage fraud. Investigation reported by Fox
News and other sources, stems from a criminal referral by WHO,
the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Justice
in May twenty twenty five. The allegation center around shifts
(18:56):
alleged miss representation of his primary residents to secure more
favorable mortgage terms on properties in California and Maryland. All right, again,
Adam Schiff is a guy. If you go back and
you look at the magnitude with which he went after
Trump in not only Russiagate. He was a primary guy
(19:19):
on the news day in and day out for years
basically saying Trump is a Russian spy, He's a Russian asset.
And what's crazy now, what we know is that he
knew all of that was false. He knew every all
the documents, the Russia Gate whole thing. He knew it
was false. He'd been briefed by because he was the
head of the Foreign Intelligence Committee, so he knew what
(19:42):
was completely inaccurate, but he ran with it. Why because
it's served him politically.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
The other aspect is really the impeachment stuff that was
brought out of January sixth, Trump incitement of a riot
and trying to alter the finality of the election, which
we also now are I don't think we fully know
what's going on, but we certainly know that were shenanigans
taking place. I just think, you know, remember I always
(20:13):
think back to when Christopher Ray was being was under
subpoena and was answering questions, and the congressman from Louisiana
basically said, how many how many people were how many informants,
paid informants or actual operatives intelligence FBI operatives were in
(20:33):
the crowd on January sixth, And he wouldn't answer the question,
all right, And what he estimated is what he had said,
is that there was at least two hundred for sure
that he'd found in their investigation. So I think there's
a lot more that's going to come out from the
January sixth fiasco. And I think also we haven't even
begun to scratch the surface on the twenty twenty election fiasco.
(20:57):
So what is Trump doing? He's playing hardball. Now He's
going to go after these people that essentially wanted to
imprison him for seven hundred and whatever how many years
and wanted to bankrupt him and bankrupt his family, bankrupt
everybody in his family, to indict all his friends, to
tear him down. So what did Pam Dondie Bonnie do.
(21:21):
She hired signed ed Martin as a special prosecutor. Now
you know his background. He's a former interim US District
Attorney General for District of Columbia. But he was shut
down by Tom Tillis Senator Tom Tillis, Republican from North Carolina,
citing his lack of prosecutorial experience and controversial political activities. Now,
(21:45):
he was a strong component that the January sixth thing
was an inside job planned by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff,
and the whole rest of the crew in order to
really put the final nail in the coffin on true
for insurrection and what that whole thing was. And again,
well we'll know more about that. That's definitely going to
(22:05):
come out. So this guy Ed Martin, they put him
as a Special Prosecutor. Now, from the interviews I've listened
to him, this guy is definitely going to have an
axe to grind, as does Trump himself. So it'll be
interesting to see what results out of this Special Council investigation.
(22:26):
All right. You know, I think when you look at
this type of thing and you look at the current
state of where we are politically, I think all of
this is pretty much it's inevitable, right you. Any time,
you know, you you invest hundreds of millions of dollars
(22:48):
into trying to destroy your political enemy, you know, you
better finish the job. And I think they did everything
up into you know, and there's no conclusive evidence that
anybody within our government had anything to do with the
two assassination attempts. Certainly there's been some really interesting reporting
(23:12):
again by Mike Ben's and Roth's connection to Ukraine and
recruiting and some NGOs, and that that's interesting. I think
there's a lot of questions about the kid who shot Trump.
We still haven't seen his phone, his contacts and his
phone and who he was talking to on these foreign
(23:34):
chat apps. So there's a lot to be understood. And
I think, as you hear me describe this. It stacks up. Man,
All these things just keep stacking and stacking and stacking
and stacking, and the weight of this concise and consolidated
(23:54):
conspiracy to get rid of Donald Trump. This is true.
They went after him harder than anything I've ever seen
or heard about in the history of our country. And
even the other kind of On a side note, Project
Veritas is suggesting that Fanny Willis, in the Rico case
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she brought against Trump and like twenty other people down
in Fulton County, Georgia, that she was actually corresponding not
only with Biden's doj But now we're understanding there were
some emails and Jordy, we put up those two emails
that I sent you, and if you see these, there's
(24:38):
references to people in her team making contact with Bill
Barr in his team.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Bill Barr is the former Attorney General under Trump's first term,
who basically is, you know, got all kinds of just
nefariousness that's being LinkedIn him now with this also the
fact that he was the age when Epstein died. It
(25:05):
was his father that hired Epstein back at the school
he worked at the Dalton School, and that relationship and
you know, they have some other bizarre relationships there, you know.
So you begin to think, my god, the magnitude of
effort that was employed to try and get prevent one
(25:27):
Donald Trump from running in the first place, becoming president
in the first term, tearing him down with Mueller investigation,
two impeachment votes there, then the twenty twenty fiasco of
elections right trying to then tear him down after that
through January sixth and the trees and indictments, and then
four straight years of investigations emerging from all these attorney generals.
(25:55):
That's a lot. And I want you to just for
one minute, if you had just one of these things
that was happening to you in your life, just one,
just one event of these, even if you were one
of the co defendants in the Fulton County case for conspiracy,
(26:16):
this Rico case to change the election outcomes in Georgia,
which are our suspect. And if you want to do
a deep dive in there, you just go in and
you look at some of the testimony that came out
last year of how mail in ballots and photographs that
are supposed to correlate that those with signature correlation like
(26:38):
two hundred and thirty plus thousand missing, there's no correlated
evidence of photographs of the signature matches. I mean, it's
it was an abomination. And we also know Fanny Wells
and her lover who she had hired for a couple
million dollars. I think it was he was traveling up
to meet with Biden's DJ as well. So this is
(27:00):
a conspiracy, There's no doubt about it. And if you
had just one aspect of this conspiracy coming after you,
would you have been able to take it? And then
the greater question, the question that you really have to
ask yourself, is this, if you got through it and
then we're in a position to go after the people
(27:22):
that tried to destroy you, what would you do? That's
the real question. So it'll be fascinating to watch all
of this, combined with all of the subpoenas that James
Comer issued for Clinton and Komi and Brennan in the
fall that are coming up here. All these we're going
(27:44):
to see a cascade of filings that I think is
going to regrettably intensify the divide of the American public,
which is not what needs to happen. Ultimately, I think
there's no way in how anybody's going to talk Trump
(28:04):
and his team out of doing this. I just think
revenge is a dish best served cold, and I think
it is an evitability that he's going to go after
the people that went after him. This is where we
are an American politics all right now. On a positive note,
(28:28):
I want to say this is kind of a personal
thing that I'm really happy to see. There had been
some skirmishes that had kicked off again between the country
of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the last five years. And
also this is a conflict that dates way back. This
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goes way way back. You know, you can even go
back to the Armenian genocide back in the day with
Turkey and the Turks, but really between Armenia and what
was originally called the Caucasian Tatars, also known as the Azerbaijanis,
and the fighting that's been taking place as far back
(29:09):
as to nineteen oh five through the Soviet area. It
kind of met chilled, and then in eighty nine it
started up again in several channels. Now, when I was
at Blackwater, we got a contract to go work in Azerbaijan,
and honest to God and before I left a few
days after, you know, getting on that, I didn't know
(29:29):
what Azerbaijan was. I had heard loosely about the Armenian genocide,
but I didn't know anything. And so when I went
out there for the ten months on and off I
worked out there, I got a full indoctrination as to
this conflict. And you know, when you think about these
small countries in this area and why they've been fighting
for so long, and again, it just goes back to
(29:51):
these polarized regions, you know, a difference of opinions, difference
of religion, and just how far people are willing to
go to to fight for what they believe is theirs.
And I think this is common throughout history and throughout
the world. You know, in this the whole conflict is
(30:11):
really around this unagorhou Narabajak, Nara bacha god man. Sending
these names is just brutal for me, Jordy in this
region which is many considered to be a humanitarian crisis.
So I really commend Trump for bringing some peace to
to this right now. We saw him bring some peace
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to Indian Pakistan a few months ago. We did a
show on that we he brought a ceasefire that appears
to be somewhat stable, although there was a gentleman who
went on Tucker Carlson last week who basically said that
there's still a lot of conflict going on in Gaza
(30:58):
right now, even as humanitarian and eight is somewhat being distributed.
You know, there's a still cease fire there. And then
on top of that, on August fifteenth, we just found
out that Trump is going to meet with Putin in
Alaska to discuss Ukrainian peace. Now, Geordie, will you play
(31:19):
that one clip of of the guy, the Russian diplomat
who basically said, uh, we've agreed to America's terms about
some of the area and what they were saying about
peace or ceasefire piece Amana non.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
She was more than Astrostrich, all right, So you heard
this guy say this man, that was the first real positive.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Thing in quite a while. I mean, remember the last
time UH that there was this negotiation. The Russian delegation
went to meet with UH. I forget was it was
in Turkey, I think, to meet with the Ukrainians and
they essentially walked in, stood up, and walked out and
nothing took place. Why because Zelensky had done his little
(32:11):
European tour and had raised I think like a five
billion or so commitment from European countries to fund NATO
and its contributions. We've seen a tremendous amount of arms
and vehicle, military vehicles being pushed into Ukraine recently. And
if you've also seen there's the Russians have been really
(32:35):
holding and advancing there that eastern front of all those
that area that they have claimed all the way as
far back as I think two thousand and eight, that
this was a part of Mother Russia. And we saw
several things transpired not only through the Maidan Revolution but
afterwards as well in these regions, and you know that's
(32:57):
crimea the don bask and look honks regions.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
So hopefully what we will see is we'll see a
major negotiation, a major announcement transpire that can really get
us closer to peace. What will I think all of
you should pay attention to, if you can, is how
Zelensky reacts to this.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
He's already been on on X a little bit, uh,
saying this is a sovereign matter, this is Ukraine's decision,
which he's said throughout, but we'll pay close attention to that.
So Jordy, what's up. That's a lot going on, man,
dud yours of mine both. But but I think what
(33:42):
we have is as we have. You know, one we're seeing,
I think within the MAGA movement and within the Republican Party,
one of the things is like, hey, let's start playing hardball.
I think that's always been a critique of the Republican
Party is that, you know, there hasn't been enough hardball
planes in the last sixteen or so years. And now
(34:05):
finally what we're seeing, in particular from Ken Paxon, is
people are beginning to play a little hardball. What's interesting
to me is the pushback that's coming from Republican senators right,
and Republican House congressional leaders as well too on some
of this stuff.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
So you think it's because conservative, if you're a conservative,
you're kind of naturally by default playing defense. You're trying
to conserve right, You're trying to changes that are happening
from the progressive or liberal wing of things, trying their
their job in a functioning system would be to try
(34:42):
to say, hey, we're on a path right now, but
we need to go this different direction in a kind
of a conservative job or responsibility is to say, no,
stick to the plan, this is what's working. We got
to stay right here. So they're kind of on defense
by default.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I think that's that's that's materially true. I think that's
from a you know, a theoretical component. Yeah, conservatism, liberalism,
I think that is. But I think what I've seen
is there's an entrenched component and old school guard within
the Republican Party that is anti Magna at their heart,
(35:20):
and what they want to do is also push back
against the policy and the evolution of the party because
they're losing the traditional grip they had had on it
for a long, long period of time, and that grip
is waning rapidly. And so what we're seeing is we're
seeing the final throws of their command and control. Because
(35:41):
the momentum that the Trump administration and the Maga movement
are having are substantial.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Now there's still do you think they need to come
out with these people in the terms of if we
don't come back and hit them and play hardball just
like they played with us, this is just going to
keep happening.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Is that kind of what you think the motivation is?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I am one hundred percent convinced that in twenty six
or twenty eight, or whenever it is in the future,
should the current controllers of the Democratic Party, which are
pretty progressive in nature, should they come back in. We
(36:22):
will see what we saw under the Biden administration amplified
by magnitude of however many that is right. We will
see illegal immigration skyrocket, We'll see the advanced the expansion
of the Supreme Court. We'll see getting rid of the fillbuster.
(36:43):
We'll see I mean all kinds of things that they
will go all in on, right. I just think that's
the nature of politics right now. We're in a cycle
of extremes. And what makes me nervous is when you
get into a cycle of extremes, bind with a potential
(37:03):
risk of economic calamity. Because we just crossed over thirty
seven trillion dollars in debt. I think, you know, there's
a substantial recipe for for some problems, right so, you know,
I think you know we're going to try and break
(37:24):
down some of those major problems here in the future
on shows to really kind of I keep getting hit
up a well you kind of do a state of
the Union, Uh, you know, we're I think we're two
hundred days into Trump's first first year in his term,
and people have kind of been hitting me up. Hey,
(37:44):
you know, let's get a state of the Union where
you think the most greatest concerns we have. And you know,
I've had people ask me about terror, cells, violence, the
political gerrymandering, you know, ice raids.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
So I think what we'll do is we'll start working
on a show for y'all that I address some of
the core issues what I believe we need to pay attention,
in particular as we go back into the fall uptick
in in UH political and geopolitical environment. So but but
(38:18):
before we go, before we go, I just want to
say to you, Jordie, into all other UH sports fanatics
such as me, thank god football is back. Absolutely, thank
god football is back. I can't even begin to tell
you how excited I am as a former football player myself.
(38:43):
You know, the months in between are a bit arduous
to stay fixated. I think I've had my fill of tennis.
I think I've had my fill of green dildos. Actually
that did not come out right at all. Believe belive
I last everybody completely blay my mats. That's not what
(39:03):
I meant. What I meant is is the distraction of
the w nb W n B A and what's going
on with their Shenanigans. And boy, that was horrible. That
was about as big a mistake of faux pas as
I've ever made. So people are gonna laugh at that one.
All right, So football's back. And what the one I
(39:25):
really want to just highlight for all the haters out there,
and Geordie, if you could start playing that, you know
right now for me that that'd be great. And that's
Shador Sanders and the play he had with the Cleveland Browns.
I mean, the guy was on fire. I think everybody
and their brother wanted them to basically wanted this guy
(39:47):
to go in throw multiple interceptions, get sacked three times.
There was a great sack by a former Nebraska off
defensive lineman with so you know, go Nebraska. But he
looked really good on the field. He was light on
his feet, he was reading the field well, he did
some magic dancing like he does to escape what looked
(40:12):
like certain sacks. He really is an incredibly talented athlete.
Now I will say this Cleveland brown says five other
big time quarterbacks. So this will be the quarterback battle
to watch for sure. But again, we're back. Football's back.
College football is starting soon. There's a we got the
(40:37):
first game of the season. One of the first games
of the season is going to be between Texas and
Ohio State. So first time in a long time. Number
one plays number two right to start off. I love
that because Penn State has ranked one in some polls,
but in most other poles they're number three. And I
(40:57):
think that'll knock one of them out of way. Penn
State can go in and and and hopefully move forward
they and have a great season and finish as as
number one. So yeah, football is back. Jordy, who yah,
dude's gonna save us.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
It's gonna save us. Can you believe that?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
You know, August is typically a slow news month. This
is slow.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
I think all that's just out the window. There's just
it's it's all gone. We are in a in a
time where news is just coming at us like a tsunami. Uh.
And so that's why, you know, Jordie and I, uh
we are going to stay focused and committed to really
trying to uh contextualize all this to bring a little
(41:44):
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