October 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Day 14 of the government shutdown, Todd walks through why a clean continuing resolution stalled in the Senate and why even media voices like Jake Tapper and Shannon Bream are pressing Democrats on the blame narrative. We hit the filibuster facts, Smithsonian/National Zoo closures, and Chuck Schumer’s “weaponization of government” claims—plus Todd’s reaction to President Trump awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk posthumously. Also: newsletter updates and a quick note on wearing red in remembrance.
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I'll tell you off the top, tell you off the top.
I'm wearing red today. It's gray and red. Wearing that
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about the government shut down day fourteen, by the way
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Schumer shut down day fourteen. We'll talk about that. We'll
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Day fourteen, my friends, Day fourteen of the Chuck Schumer
shut down, shut down and no end in sight right now,
the Smithsonian Museums the National Zoo are now closed due
to a lack of appropriations, a lapse in the funding
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to keep those places open. You know, when I was
in Washington, DC, I would attend or visit, I should say,
the Smithsonian Museums. Where I stayed in Washington, d C.
Was not far at all from the National Zoo. It's
a very nice zoo. And I was at American University
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on the northwest I guess the northwest quadrant of the city,
and the National Zoo was I think the next subway
stop from where I was. But anyway, those are now
closed because of this government shut down. And look, there's
there's a bunch going on. There's this is intentional. This
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is intentional. The Democrats think that they have a winner.
But I want to tell you something, even the journalists
are now catching on to this game. Even the journalists
are now asking questions about who is to blame in
this particular instance, in situation suation, and which is an
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interesting thing to you know, consider here. I got two soundbites.
I want to play the one from Jake Tapper first,
Jake Tapper of CNN. I want to play his first
because this is just hims. He has a Democrat guest
on and he is It's just that you don't even
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hear her on here. What you hear is Jake Tapper,
during his program called the Lead, effectively explaining to the
guest that the Democrats are to blame for the shutdown. This,
I mean, this is undeniable. I've had people it is
amazing to me, people who have given up their ability
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to think freely, who have given up their responsibility. They
simply take whatever they hear. And of course, if you're
in certain circles, you'll hear from the radical left, from
the media, a bunch of gibberish, and people just repeat it. Listen.
This is as a fact. There are people who have
voted for a continuing resolution that didn't change anything about spending.
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And Shannon Breem asks Hakim Jeffries about this. That's the
other SoundBite that I have, but I don't want to.
I'm gonna play that one second. But they this resolutions
that have been passed, the clean resolutions, the clean cr
as they say, changes nothing, nothing about funding. This is
the entire point. The point is we are going to
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have a fight and a negotiation over government spending. That's
going to happen. The Republicans are saying, look, we don't
want that to happen. As the government is in shut
down mode, what we want is to keep the government
open and then to negotiate up until the time that
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the extension will expire. Between now and say it's November
twenty first. That date may have to change, but that's
the date that it originally was. Between now and November
twenty first, we can have a debate or excuse me,
the government can be opened and then we can have
a debate about how we're going to actually handle some
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of the spending that we have in this country. That's
the position, that's the argument. That's what Republicans have done.
Republicans have voted for that continuing Resolution, It passed the
House of Representatives. Republicans got it out of the House.
They don't have a thing in the House called a filibuster.
I went through this the other day. The filibuster is
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a tool that is part of the rules of the Senate. Yes,
the incoming leadership, the incoming majority, if they decide, can
change that rule, but it is Historically it has remained.
It has remained. I've seen people who still blame the
Republicans because because they say they didn't do away with
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the filibuster, or they didn't initiate the nuclear option, which
is something that basically says you can't use the filibuster
for a certain thing. This happened. This happened with judges
and Supreme Court justices. Right. You filibuster these things, and
you never have hearings and votes on people to fill
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vacancies in courts and so forth. And so a nuclear
option is when you say we're just going to circumvent
that and say that the filibuster is not going to
apply to that particular sort of thing anymore, and you
kind of chip away at it. I don't know what
your thoughts on the filibuster are. Well, I think whatever
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they are, they better be consistent whether you're in the
majority or whether you're in the minority. By the way,
if not for the well the filibuster the Democrats. The
Democrats were able to pass Obamacare because they had a
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sixty vote majority until the passing of Ted Kennedy. I
don't want to get into the whole history here. Scott
Brown won that that seat a Republican in a special election,
and they basically had to push things through quickly to
avoid things being stopped by the filibuster. Anyway, However, whatever
your opinion of the philibuster, it just needs to be consistent.
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But the realities are it passed the House with Republican votes,
a clean resolution. All it did. Now I have all
sorts of problems with our current spending in this nation,
but all that the Continuing Resolution did was extend the spending,
which I think is crazy the spending. It extended it
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for seven more weeks, I think it was. And in
that period of time, negotiations were supposed to supposed to
have taken place, and we would talk about funding beyond
just a short seven week period to you know, keep
the lights on and keep the government open, keep the
Smithsonians from closing down, that sort of thing. But Democrats
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voted against it in the House. They didn't have enough
to stop it in the House, and they voted against
it in the Senate. Now they don't have enough to
stop it in the Senate based upon simple majority rule,
but they have enough to stop it in the Senate
based upon the requirements of the filibuster rule. The filibuster
rule requires three fifths a super majority of Senators to
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agree to call a vote bring something to the floor
to vote. So just because it only takes a majority,
I should say for something to pass the Senate, but
it's got to get to the floor. The sixty votes
can prevent the filibuster rule that requires sixty votes can
prevent something from getting to the floor. If this was
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able to get to the floor, Republicans could pass it.
Because there's fifty three Republicans and only one Republican Ran
Paul voted against the continuing Resolution. We've kind of covered this,
so there are people that are voting against it. Those
people who are voting against it are Democrats. By the way,
three Democrats voted. I shared this the other day in
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favor of the continuing resolution. That was John Fetterman. I
forget the uh John Fetterman. Angus King, who's an independent
who caucuses with the Democrats and a representative of our
senator in New Mexico, and I'm can't think of her
name at the moment.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Point is, point is the Democrats are the blame, and
the media is finally acknowledging this. They're calling them out
for it. Here's Jake Tapper saying this very thing on
his program.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You're blaming the Republicans for the shutdown, but in point
of fact, it's the Democrats in the Senate. Yeah, we're
refusing to vote for the clean continuing resolution that's right
to fund the government for seven weeks. I mean that
just it just as a point of the way, that
point we have always covered shutdowns is that the party
that is not voting for the CR the continuing resolution
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to fund the government is the party that is blocking
the government funding and is it is responsible for the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That's how we did it the.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Last time in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. That's the time
we did before that during the Obama administration. I mean,
it's your party that is refusing in the Senate, that
is refusing to vote for the continuing resolution.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, so that's it. It's your party, he said to
his guest here, a Democrat. It's your party that's voting
against this. You're responsible for this. The facts remain that
there are people who voted for legislation that didn't change anything,
that didn't ad spending or cut spending, didn't have pork,
didn't have hidden anything. It's just a claim bill that
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says we're going to continue what we've been doing for
the next seven weeks and then we're going to negotiate
this thing out. Your party voted against it. I mean,
it's a matter of fact. It is a fact, and
it is remarkable to me. Listen. I understand people can
see things differently. I understand that people may not see
eye to eye and have different interpretations of things. I'm
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open to that. But what is the interpretation about this
that says Republicans are to blame. I am no fan
of the Republicans in many instances, my friends, there's a
lot of things that I am not happy with the
Republicans about over the course of time when they've been
in power. They don't govern as conservatively as I wish
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they were. Some do. They don't legislates as conservatively, I
should say, as I wish they would have. They didn't
push for things. I mean, it wasn't if you think
about it, nothing that we were ever promised, or nothing
we heard Republicans talking about on the campaign trail ever
came close to materializing until until Trump came along. That's
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it wasn't just Jake Tapper who had some things to
say Shannon Bream of Fox News, who Shannon Bream is
a reasonable journalist. I like Shannon Bream, not that I listen.
I don't watch a lot of TV news and that
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sort of thing, but I've always thought she's kind, she's polite,
but she also does push back to get answers, and
so she had Representative Hakeem Jeffries on, of course, the Democrat,
excuse me, the minority leader in the House of Representatives,
thankfully minority leader and not Speaker of the House. He's
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close because the Democrats are very close to winning a
majority of the House right now. But anyway, I want
you to listen to this exchange, because again she calls
him out on this, and rightfully so he's trying to
dodge into evade the question and not answer it and
be truthful. They think they've got a political winner by
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deceiving the American people by saying to the American people,
Republicans have a majority, why don't they keep the government openment,
the Republicans have the White House, the Republicans have the
House of Representatives, and they have the Senate, and heck,
they've got the Supreme Court. What are we supposed to do?
Little old democrats over here in the corner, We don't
have any power. How can you possibly blame us for
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the shutdown? Why? I already explained that to you, and
you know that if you follow politics for any length
of time, you understand the filibuster. But she's not having
any of it. Here she talks with Hakeem Jefferies. Listen
to this exchange.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Well, first of all, we don't view the current bill
as anything other than a partisan Republican spending bill.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Issue. Let me replay that it was playing for you,
but it wasn't playing into my ears. Let me rewind
that so that I'm not talking over it.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Here we go, Well, first of all, we don't view
the current bill as anything other than a partisan Republican
spending bill. The issue here, the American people.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
It's at levels that you guys have already agreed to
a number of Democrats voted for this extension back in March.
It's not adding or detracting anything, it's just continuing the
level of spending that currently exists.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Actually, it's not at levels that we agree to. Democrats
strongly oppose this legislation in the House because, in our view,
a gut veterans healthcare, gut funding for women, infants and
children programming, gut funding for affordable housing, and we know
we have a houses.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Just to be clear, to be clear, though, it's not
changing current it's not it's not changing current levels. Nothing's
getting cut. It's that levels that you may not like.
But but it's about extending levels as they currently exist.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Fair right, we agree that current No, we agree that
current spending levels are unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So basically he can't admit the truth, he says. All
she wanted him to say was, look, I'll grant you
that you don't like current spending levels. You can you
can disagree with those. That's not my question. My question
is what my statement is. And I'm giving you the opportunity,
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mister Jeffries Representative Jeffries to agree with this because it
is a fact you don't like the current spending level.
That's fine, but this bill, this clean continuing resolution, does
nothing to change any of it. This isn't about new
expenses or new cuts. This isn't about anything. So you're
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protesting something by shutting down the government effectively just because
you don't like what the current spending levels were. Again,
nothing new came out of this. This again to the
media's credit here and I know one of them is
from Fox, so she's usually fair anyway, But to see
this being done to Hakeem Jefferies and he's lying, he's
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simply he's avoiding the question. Let's say that he doesn't
want to answer the question, because she's exactly right. There's
no new funding, there's no new cuts. This is a
continuation of the spending that we had in place on
September thirtieth, when the government shut down at midnight on
October one. They're just saying, let's pretend like the clock
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didn't run out and let's keep it the same. And
so Hakeim Jefferies, even though this was the current level
of spending that passed the well both chambers back in
the day when this was initially agreed upon, he doesn't
want to acknowledge that because he wants to deceive voters.
This is the bottom line, and the thinking that they
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simply don't agree with the funding. Of course they don't
agree with the funding. Somebody agreed to it when it
passed initially. Where are those people right? Why are we
having this fight right now? It's for politics, it's for optics,
it's for the narrative. You know this, this is pathetic.
But to see the media, especially Jake Tapper, which I
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played earlier, come down on these folks is justice. It's
poetic justice, and I'm here for it, my friends. But
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we've got coming from Chuck Schumer, good old Chuck Schumer,
my friends. I got sound bites. Normally we don't have many. Actually,
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I would say most days, we don't have many sound bites,
if any sound bites, But I've had a couple today.
I've got Chuck Schumer here, Chuck Schumer out there telling
reporters outside the Capitol Building that Donald Trump has turned
the Justice Department into his personal attack dog. And I
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want you to hear this because those of you who
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You might find this slightly ironic, and you might find
this to be incomplete information, because this is what the
left has been doing for some time, the weaponization of
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the government. Let me say I'm against the weaponization of
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are as well. Some of you think that we need
to employ a type of governmental weaponization as well to
get even with the Democrats. I reject that. I completely
reject that if this, if it continues down that path,
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So but let's play what Chuck Schumer says here. This
is absolute sophistry. By the way, as I mentioned, he's
talking to reporters on the Capitol steps and he says this. Now,
this is in regard to the prosecution or the grand jury,
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grand jury that was impaneled that actually brought charges against
Letitia James. Remember we talked about this. That must have
been last week. I guess the charges that she was
involved allegedly in a mortgage fraud scheme where she said
that her second residence or house that she bought in
was it Virginia. I forget maybe Carolina, one of the Carolinas.
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But she said that when she filed the paperwork that
that was a second residence. But there's evidence supposedly I've
not seen this, but these are the allegations. This is
what This is what we're learning after the grand jury
has decided that charge should be levied against her, that
this was not used as a second residence, that it
was used instead as a rental property. Now there is
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gray area potentially if she was living there some and
she rented it out on occasion. I don't think that's
what's happened here. I could be mistaken, but you can't
do this to mortgage companies. We talked about this last week.
I don't want to get into the weeds and the details,
but effectively, basically the reason is mortgage rates on your residence,
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especially your first residence and even your second if you
have two. Mortgage rates are lower because they're seen as
less risky investments by banks. Because if your home, if
your home is where you live and where you stay,
is hanging in the balance, you'll do everything you can
to save it. If it's just a rental property and
it's not cash flowing itself, then you might stop paying
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the mortgage and then the bank is stuck with that property.
So while you certainly wouldn't want that to be the outcome,
there's a lot less involved than that. If it's just
simply a financial weight around your neck. It's a lot
easier to walk away from a rental than it is
a personal residence, even if it's a second residence.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So then the.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Interest rates are higher for the rentals than they are
for residences. And so that's what's going on here. That's
a kind of a minute or two explanation of that.
So Chuck Schumer is out there trying to imply that
because she's been charged Letitia James, this is Trump seeking
his personal attack dog on those with whom he disagrees politically.
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Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Donald Trump has turned the Justice Department into his personal
attack dog to go after his political enemies. This is tyranny,
This is outrageous. Every American should be horrified, absolutely horrified
about what has happened.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Why can't he say horrified, horrified, horrified by by what's happening.
Why why listen? I have made it clear, if it
can be demonstrated that she is being targeted for her politics,
then I've got absolutely no interest in her being pursued.
But if she's being pursued because she broke the law,
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then I have no objection to this. I don't want
to see things created, new laws created. I don't want
to see people targeted. I don't want to see people
just investigated for no reason to try to find something
on somebody. But if this is a case that is
brought before a grand jury, that they have found has
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enough evidence to bring charges against her, then tell me
what is wrong with that? Tell me what is wrong
with that? I mean again to me, part of the problem.
Part of the issue is whether or not an average
person can explain what happened. I can explain. I just
explain to you why there were charges brought against Letitia James.
Ask the average person what Trump did wrong in New
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York why he had charges brought against him, and they
can't explain it. They'll keep telling you thirty four charges.
They don't understand that it was one thing that was
charged thirty four times because it was entered thirty four times.
They don't explain that sort of thing. They probably don't
know that sort of thing. They also don't know that
the only reason it was considered a felony was because
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the only reason they could charge it as a felony
was because they said that it was a misdemeanor. But
the misdemeanor was used to allegedly help commit a felony,
which they never proved or even alleged officially. I mean,
there's so many crazy things that happened in that particular trial,
along with these others. You want to look at it objectively,
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there's a clear example of the weaponization of government which
was used and wielded by Letitia James. And then there's
justice which disappears to be I've gotta haveke a break though.
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Welcome back to my friends. Third and final segment. I
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want to get to a couple things quickly here. I
want to finish talking about what the weaponization of government
looks like. And I want to have some words on
Charlie Kirk and this being his birthday, this is an
official with Congress past and official remembrance day for Charlie
Kirk today, and it's why many folks are going to
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do it again really quickly because I want to say
a few words about a day of remembrance here for
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Charlie Kirk, this being his birthday. But we ended the
last segment where Chuck Schumer suddenly has an interest in
the weaponization of government. I've always had an interest in this.
I never want it to be the reason that anyone
is pursued for a legal matter or anything like that.
It is reprehensible. Our founders would be absolutely against this
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sort of thing happening. So here's just some examples of
the way that the government has been weaponized against Trump.
There's the FBI crossfire, Hurricane, and the FAISA situation, the
FISA warrants with Carter Page back in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen,
the Department of Justice Inspector General found seventeen significant errors
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and omissions and the FISA applications that were used to
survey surveill I should say, Carter Paige. This is when
Trump talked about his campaign being spied upon Moeller Special Council.
The report was delivered in March of March twenty second
of twenty nineteen. Attorney General Barr said that there was
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no established conspiracy. Of course, there wasn't between Trump, his
campaign and Russia. This was the Russian collusion delusion we
had impeachment I regarding Ukraine. Basically, this is when the
Democrats engaged in some really really bad political theater. They
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act like they were pallbearers in a funeral as they
walked those articles of impeachment from the House of Representatives
over to the Senate chambers. It passed the House, but
the Senate acquitted Trump in February of twenty twenty. They
wanted to have this to be part of the twenty
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twenty campaign. President Trump is, of course, they said, impeached.
They know that that helped their chances to defeat him.
He was impeached again for inciting a resurre an insurrection.
Excuse me, inciting an insurrection on January sixth. Again he
was acquitted. He was impeached in the House, but acquitted
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fifty seven to forty three in the how assumed me
in the Senate. Then we had the hush money case
that was his conviction. This was the thirty four counts
of falsifying business records, that whole ordeal jury verdict of
guilty on all counts. That was May thirtieth of twenty
twenty four. There was the civil fraud case in New
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York that was Letitia James particular involvement. That was an
enormous one of the largest, if not the largest private
settlements or I guess civil penalties ever issued against the
plainf You had the federal Special counsel Jack Smith. That
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was the classified documents case fought in twenty twenty three.
It was dismissed later on. This is what weaponization looks like.
Where was Chuck Schumer on any of those things? My friends?
And yet here we have President Donald Trump, and it's
a good thing. I am thankful for that. So but
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I want to say I don't have time to get
into that anymore, because I want to make time here
just to say today President Trump is going to be
giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk posthumously
after his assassination on September tenth of this year, just
a little bit over a month ago. As you know,
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he was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University
in orm Utah. We've got a bunch of news surrounding that.
The suspect that's been arrested. There's conspiracy. I don't want
to get into any of that. What I just want
to do is just take a moment to say that
this is a good thing. To acknowledge the work of
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Charlie Kirk. He did tremendous, tremendous things in a very
short time in his young life that was ended far,
far too early, leaving behind a widow, leaving behind a
couple of children, leaving behind a legacy at Turning Point USA. So,
if you're wearing red today, or if you're not, and
you want to take a moment to remember Charlie Kirk
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but nothing nothing like that. That is their thing and
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this is a day to remember to remember Charlie Kirk,
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and we all should use what he has done as
motivation to inspire us to stand up for truth. And
dare I say, for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, folks,
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If I know many of you are as well. You know,
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about the government shut down day fourteen, by the way
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of a government shut down here in this country, the
Schumer shut down day fourteen. We'll talk about that. We'll
talk a little bit about some comments that Chuck Schumer
has made regarding the weaponization of government, finally having some
interest in this topic, talking about how Trump is tyrannical
(02:26):
dictator and that sort of thing. I want to play
that SoundBite, go through time, permitting some examples, and then
to go back to I guess to tie into what
we're talking about here on the program, well off the top,
I should say President Trump is scheduled to give the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk today posthumously he's been.
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Day fourteen, my friends, Day fourteen of the Chuck Schumer
shut down, shut down and no end in sight right now,
the Smithsonian Museums the National Zoo are now closed due
to a lack of appropriations, a lapse in the funding
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to keep those places open. You know, when I was
in Washington, DC, I would attend or visit, I should say,
the Smithsonian Museums. Where I stayed in Washington, d C.
Was not far at all from the National Zoo. It's
a very nice zoo. And I was at American University
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on the northwest I guess the northwest quadrant of the city,
and the National Zoo was I think the next subway
stop from where I was. But anyway, those are now
closed because of this government shut down. And look, there's
there's a bunch going on. There's this is intentional. This
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is intentional. The Democrats think that they have a winner.
But I want to tell you something, even the journalists
are now catching on to this game. Even the journalists
are now asking questions about who is to blame in
this particular instance, in situation suation, and which is an
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interesting thing to you know, consider here. I got two soundbites.
I want to play the one from Jake Tapper first,
Jake Tapper of CNN. I want to play his first
because this is just hims. He has a Democrat guest
on and he is It's just that you don't even
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hear her on here. What you hear is Jake Tapper,
during his program called the Lead, effectively explaining to the
guest that the Democrats are to blame for the shutdown. This,
I mean, this is undeniable. I've had people it is
amazing to me, people who have given up their ability
(07:46):
to think freely, who have given up their responsibility. They
simply take whatever they hear. And of course, if you're
in certain circles, you'll hear from the radical left, from
the media, a bunch of gibberish, and people just repeat it. Listen.
This is as a fact. There are people who have
voted for a continuing resolution that didn't change anything about spending.
(08:11):
And Shannon Breem asks Hakim Jeffries about this. That's the
other SoundBite that I have, but I don't want to.
I'm gonna play that one second. But they this resolutions
that have been passed, the clean resolutions, the clean cr
as they say, changes nothing, nothing about funding. This is
the entire point. The point is we are going to
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have a fight and a negotiation over government spending. That's
going to happen. The Republicans are saying, look, we don't
want that to happen. As the government is in shut
down mode, what we want is to keep the government
open and then to negotiate up until the time that
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the extension will expire. Between now and say it's November
twenty first. That date may have to change, but that's
the date that it originally was. Between now and November
twenty first, we can have a debate or excuse me,
the government can be opened and then we can have
a debate about how we're going to actually handle some
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of the spending that we have in this country. That's
the position, that's the argument. That's what Republicans have done.
Republicans have voted for that continuing Resolution, It passed the
House of Representatives. Republicans got it out of the House.
They don't have a thing in the House called a filibuster.
I went through this the other day. The filibuster is
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a tool that is part of the rules of the Senate. Yes,
the incoming leadership, the incoming majority, if they decide, can
change that rule, but it is Historically it has remained.
It has remained. I've seen people who still blame the
Republicans because because they say they didn't do away with
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the filibuster, or they didn't initiate the nuclear option, which
is something that basically says you can't use the filibuster
for a certain thing. This happened. This happened with judges
and Supreme Court justices. Right. You filibuster these things, and
you never have hearings and votes on people to fill
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vacancies in courts and so forth. And so a nuclear
option is when you say we're just going to circumvent
that and say that the filibuster is not going to
apply to that particular sort of thing anymore, and you
kind of chip away at it. I don't know what
your thoughts on the filibuster are. Well, I think whatever
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they are, they better be consistent whether you're in the
majority or whether you're in the minority. By the way,
if not for the well the filibuster the Democrats. The
Democrats were able to pass Obamacare because they had a
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sixty vote majority until the passing of Ted Kennedy. I
don't want to get into the whole history here. Scott
Brown won that that seat a Republican in a special election,
and they basically had to push things through quickly to
avoid things being stopped by the filibuster. Anyway, However, whatever
your opinion of the philibuster, it just needs to be consistent.
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But the realities are it passed the House with Republican votes,
a clean resolution. All it did. Now I have all
sorts of problems with our current spending in this nation,
but all that the Continuing Resolution did was extend the spending,
which I think is crazy the spending. It extended it
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for seven more weeks, I think it was. And in
that period of time, negotiations were supposed to supposed to
have taken place, and we would talk about funding beyond
just a short seven week period to you know, keep
the lights on and keep the government open, keep the
Smithsonians from closing down, that sort of thing. But Democrats
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voted against it in the House. They didn't have enough
to stop it in the House, and they voted against
it in the Senate. Now they don't have enough to
stop it in the Senate based upon simple majority rule,
but they have enough to stop it in the Senate
based upon the requirements of the filibuster rule. The filibuster
rule requires three fifths a super majority of Senators to
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agree to call a vote bring something to the floor
to vote. So just because it only takes a majority,
I should say for something to pass the Senate, but
it's got to get to the floor. The sixty votes
can prevent the filibuster rule that requires sixty votes can
prevent something from getting to the floor. If this was
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able to get to the floor, Republicans could pass it.
Because there's fifty three Republicans and only one Republican Ran
Paul voted against the continuing Resolution. We've kind of covered this,
so there are people that are voting against it. Those
people who are voting against it are Democrats. By the way,
three Democrats voted. I shared this the other day in
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favor of the continuing resolution. That was John Fetterman. I
forget the uh John Fetterman. Angus King, who's an independent
who caucuses with the Democrats and a representative of our
senator in New Mexico, and I'm can't think of her
name at the moment.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Point is, point is the Democrats are the blame, and
the media is finally acknowledging this. They're calling them out
for it. Here's Jake Tapper saying this very thing on
his program.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You're blaming the Republicans for the shutdown, but in point
of fact, it's the Democrats in the Senate. Yeah, we're
refusing to vote for the clean continuing resolution that's right
to fund the government for seven weeks. I mean that
just it just as a point of the way, that
point we have always covered shutdowns is that the party
that is not voting for the CR the continuing resolution
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to fund the government is the party that is blocking
the government funding and is it is responsible for the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That's how we did it the.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Last time in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. That's the time
we did before that during the Obama administration. I mean,
it's your party that is refusing in the Senate, that
is refusing to vote for the continuing resolution.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Okay, so that's it. It's your party, he said to
his guest here, a Democrat. It's your party that's voting
against this. You're responsible for this. The facts remain that
there are people who voted for legislation that didn't change anything,
that didn't ad spending or cut spending, didn't have pork,
didn't have hidden anything. It's just a claim bill that
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says we're going to continue what we've been doing for
the next seven weeks and then we're going to negotiate
this thing out. Your party voted against it. I mean,
it's a matter of fact. It is a fact, and
it is remarkable to me. Listen. I understand people can
see things differently. I understand that people may not see
eye to eye and have different interpretations of things. I'm
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open to that. But what is the interpretation about this
that says Republicans are to blame. I am no fan
of the Republicans in many instances, my friends, there's a
lot of things that I am not happy with the
Republicans about over the course of time when they've been
in power. They don't govern as conservatively as I wish
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they were. Some do. They don't legislates as conservatively, I
should say, as I wish they would have. They didn't
push for things. I mean, it wasn't if you think
about it, nothing that we were ever promised, or nothing
we heard Republicans talking about on the campaign trail ever
came close to materializing until until Trump came along. That's
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the cold, hard truth, my friends. So I've got to pause.
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it wasn't just Jake Tapper who had some things to
say Shannon Bream of Fox News, who Shannon Bream is
a reasonable journalist. I like Shannon Bream, not that I listen.
I don't watch a lot of TV news and that
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sort of thing, but I've always thought she's kind, she's polite,
but she also does push back to get answers, and
so she had Representative Hakeem Jeffries on, of course, the Democrat,
excuse me, the minority leader in the House of Representatives,
thankfully minority leader and not Speaker of the House. He's
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close because the Democrats are very close to winning a
majority of the House right now. But anyway, I want
you to listen to this exchange, because again she calls
him out on this, and rightfully so he's trying to
dodge into evade the question and not answer it and
be truthful. They think they've got a political winner by
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deceiving the American people by saying to the American people,
Republicans have a majority, why don't they keep the government openment,
the Republicans have the White House, the Republicans have the
House of Representatives, and they have the Senate, and heck,
they've got the Supreme Court. What are we supposed to do?
Little old democrats over here in the corner, We don't
have any power. How can you possibly blame us for
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the shutdown? Why? I already explained that to you, and
you know that if you follow politics for any length
of time, you understand the filibuster. But she's not having
any of it. Here she talks with Hakeem Jefferies. Listen
to this exchange.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Well, first of all, we don't view the current bill
as anything other than a partisan Republican spending bill.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Issue. Let me replay that it was playing for you,
but it wasn't playing into my ears. Let me rewind
that so that I'm not talking over it.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Here we go, Well, first of all, we don't view
the current bill as anything other than a partisan Republican
spending bill. The issue here, the American people.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
It's at levels that you guys have already agreed to
a number of Democrats voted for this extension back in March.
It's not adding or detracting anything, it's just continuing the
level of spending that currently exists.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Actually, it's not at levels that we agree to. Democrats
strongly oppose this legislation in the House because, in our view,
a gut veterans healthcare, gut funding for women, infants and
children programming, gut funding for affordable housing, and we know
we have a houses.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Just to be clear, to be clear, though, it's not
changing current it's not it's not changing current levels. Nothing's
getting cut. It's that levels that you may not like.
But but it's about extending levels as they currently exist.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Fair right, we agree that current No, we agree that
current spending levels are unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So basically he can't admit the truth, he says. All
she wanted him to say was, look, I'll grant you
that you don't like current spending levels. You can you
can disagree with those. That's not my question. My question
is what my statement is. And I'm giving you the opportunity,
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mister Jeffries Representative Jeffries to agree with this because it
is a fact you don't like the current spending level.
That's fine, but this bill, this clean continuing resolution, does
nothing to change any of it. This isn't about new
expenses or new cuts. This isn't about anything. So you're
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protesting something by shutting down the government effectively just because
you don't like what the current spending levels were. Again,
nothing new came out of this. This again to the
media's credit here and I know one of them is
from Fox, so she's usually fair anyway, But to see
this being done to Hakeem Jefferies and he's lying, he's
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simply he's avoiding the question. Let's say that he doesn't
want to answer the question, because she's exactly right. There's
no new funding, there's no new cuts. This is a
continuation of the spending that we had in place on
September thirtieth, when the government shut down at midnight on
October one. They're just saying, let's pretend like the clock
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didn't run out and let's keep it the same. And
so Hakeim Jefferies, even though this was the current level
of spending that passed the well both chambers back in
the day when this was initially agreed upon, he doesn't
want to acknowledge that because he wants to deceive voters.
This is the bottom line, and the thinking that they
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simply don't agree with the funding. Of course they don't
agree with the funding. Somebody agreed to it when it
passed initially. Where are those people right? Why are we
having this fight right now? It's for politics, it's for optics,
it's for the narrative. You know this, this is pathetic.
But to see the media, especially Jake Tapper, which I
(22:45):
played earlier, come down on these folks is justice. It's
poetic justice, and I'm here for it, my friends. But
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All right, cover that. Let's get into something here that
we've got coming from Chuck Schumer, good old Chuck Schumer,
my friends. I got sound bites. Normally we don't have many. Actually,
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I would say most days, we don't have many sound bites,
if any sound bites, But I've had a couple today.
I've got Chuck Schumer here, Chuck Schumer out there telling
reporters outside the Capitol Building that Donald Trump has turned
the Justice Department into his personal attack dog. And I
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want you to hear this because those of you who
have followed politics and who know what's going on are
gonna be quite I don't know if amused. Depending on
your personality, you might be mad, or you might be amused.
You might find this slightly ironic, and you might find
this to be incomplete information, because this is what the
left has been doing for some time, the weaponization of
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the government. Let me say I'm against the weaponization of
the government. I know the vast majority are of you
are as well. Some of you think that we need
to employ a type of governmental weaponization as well to
get even with the Democrats. I reject that. I completely
reject that if this, if it continues down that path,
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this country cannot be saved in the long term. We
have to have reasonable people who from both sides, who
say I might not always agree with the direction that
Congress goes or the executive branch goes or whatever. But
I am I'm not in favor of breaking the rules
to get my political way, and we ought to be
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able from both sides unless you're i mean, just radically
off the charts and believe in force. I mean, that's
what it comes down to. Like, I believe in these
ideas with all my heart and soul, folks, but I
also believe that it's my job, it's our job to
articulate and to explain. That's why I do this each
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to for a long time. And so on top of that,
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So there might be again some of these things coming
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as the personal education of politics goes all over that spectrum.
So but let's play what Chuck Schumer says here. This
is absolute sophistry. By the way, as I mentioned, he's
talking to reporters on the Capitol steps and he says this. Now,
this is in regard to the prosecution or the grand jury,
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grand jury that was impaneled that actually brought charges against
Letitia James. Remember we talked about this. That must have
been last week. I guess the charges that she was
involved allegedly in a mortgage fraud scheme where she said
that her second residence or house that she bought in
was it Virginia. I forget maybe Carolina, one of the Carolinas.
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But she said that when she filed the paperwork that
that was a second residence. But there's evidence supposedly I've
not seen this, but these are the allegations. This is
what This is what we're learning after the grand jury
has decided that charge should be levied against her, that
this was not used as a second residence, that it
was used instead as a rental property. Now there is
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gray area potentially if she was living there some and
she rented it out on occasion. I don't think that's
what's happened here. I could be mistaken, but you can't
do this to mortgage companies. We talked about this last week.
I don't want to get into the weeds and the details,
but effectively, basically the reason is mortgage rates on your residence,
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especially your first residence and even your second if you
have two. Mortgage rates are lower because they're seen as
less risky investments by banks. Because if your home, if
your home is where you live and where you stay,
is hanging in the balance, you'll do everything you can
to save it. If it's just a rental property and
it's not cash flowing itself, then you might stop paying
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the mortgage and then the bank is stuck with that property.
So while you certainly wouldn't want that to be the outcome,
there's a lot less involved than that. If it's just
simply a financial weight around your neck. It's a lot
easier to walk away from a rental than it is
a personal residence, even if it's a second residence.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So then the.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Interest rates are higher for the rentals than they are
for residences. And so that's what's going on here. That's
a kind of a minute or two explanation of that.
So Chuck Schumer is out there trying to imply that
because she's been charged Letitia James, this is Trump seeking
his personal attack dog on those with whom he disagrees politically.
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Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Donald Trump has turned the Justice Department into his personal
attack dog to go after his political enemies. This is tyranny,
This is outrageous. Every American should be horrified, absolutely horrified
about what has happened.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Why can't he say horrified, horrified, horrified by by what's happening.
Why why listen? I have made it clear, if it
can be demonstrated that she is being targeted for her politics,
then I've got absolutely no interest in her being pursued.
But if she's being pursued because she broke the law,
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then I have no objection to this. I don't want
to see things created, new laws created. I don't want
to see people targeted. I don't want to see people
just investigated for no reason to try to find something
on somebody. But if this is a case that is
brought before a grand jury, that they have found has
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enough evidence to bring charges against her, then tell me
what is wrong with that? Tell me what is wrong
with that? I mean again to me, part of the problem.
Part of the issue is whether or not an average
person can explain what happened. I can explain. I just
explain to you why there were charges brought against Letitia James.
Ask the average person what Trump did wrong in New
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York why he had charges brought against him, and they
can't explain it. They'll keep telling you thirty four charges.
They don't understand that it was one thing that was
charged thirty four times because it was entered thirty four times.
They don't explain that sort of thing. They probably don't
know that sort of thing. They also don't know that
the only reason it was considered a felony was because
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the only reason they could charge it as a felony
was because they said that it was a misdemeanor. But
the misdemeanor was used to allegedly help commit a felony,
which they never proved or even alleged officially. I mean,
there's so many crazy things that happened in that particular trial,
along with these others. You want to look at it objectively,
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there's a clear example of the weaponization of government which
was used and wielded by Letitia James. And then there's
justice which disappears to be I've gotta haveke a break though.
My friends, sit Town listen to conservative not better Talk.
I'm your host, Todd Huff Back in just a minute.
Welcome back to my friends. Third and final segment. I
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want to get to a couple things quickly here. I
want to finish talking about what the weaponization of government
looks like. And I want to have some words on
Charlie Kirk and this being his birthday, this is an
official with Congress past and official remembrance day for Charlie
Kirk today, and it's why many folks are going to
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give I've done this before recently, but I'm going to
do it again really quickly because I want to say
a few words about a day of remembrance here for
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Charlie Kirk, this being his birthday. But we ended the
last segment where Chuck Schumer suddenly has an interest in
the weaponization of government. I've always had an interest in this.
I never want it to be the reason that anyone
is pursued for a legal matter or anything like that.
It is reprehensible. Our founders would be absolutely against this
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sort of thing happening. So here's just some examples of
the way that the government has been weaponized against Trump.
There's the FBI crossfire, Hurricane, and the FAISA situation, the
FISA warrants with Carter Page back in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen,
the Department of Justice Inspector General found seventeen significant errors
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and omissions and the FISA applications that were used to
survey surveill I should say, Carter Paige. This is when
Trump talked about his campaign being spied upon Moeller Special Council.
The report was delivered in March of March twenty second
of twenty nineteen. Attorney General Barr said that there was
(36:42):
no established conspiracy. Of course, there wasn't between Trump, his
campaign and Russia. This was the Russian collusion delusion we
had impeachment I regarding Ukraine. Basically, this is when the
Democrats engaged in some really really bad political theater. They
(37:03):
act like they were pallbearers in a funeral as they
walked those articles of impeachment from the House of Representatives
over to the Senate chambers. It passed the House, but
the Senate acquitted Trump in February of twenty twenty. They
wanted to have this to be part of the twenty
(37:24):
twenty campaign. President Trump is, of course, they said, impeached.
They know that that helped their chances to defeat him.
He was impeached again for inciting a resurre an insurrection.
Excuse me, inciting an insurrection on January sixth. Again he
was acquitted. He was impeached in the House, but acquitted
(37:47):
fifty seven to forty three in the how assumed me
in the Senate. Then we had the hush money case
that was his conviction. This was the thirty four counts
of falsifying business records, that whole ordeal jury verdict of
guilty on all counts. That was May thirtieth of twenty
twenty four. There was the civil fraud case in New
(38:09):
York that was Letitia James particular involvement. That was an
enormous one of the largest, if not the largest private
settlements or I guess civil penalties ever issued against the
plainf You had the federal Special counsel Jack Smith. That
(38:30):
was the classified documents case fought in twenty twenty three.
It was dismissed later on. This is what weaponization looks like.
Where was Chuck Schumer on any of those things? My friends?
And yet here we have President Donald Trump, and it's
a good thing. I am thankful for that. So but
(38:50):
I want to say I don't have time to get
into that anymore, because I want to make time here
just to say today President Trump is going to be
giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk posthumously
after his assassination on September tenth of this year, just
a little bit over a month ago. As you know,
(39:12):
he was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University
in orm Utah. We've got a bunch of news surrounding that.
The suspect that's been arrested. There's conspiracy. I don't want
to get into any of that. What I just want
to do is just take a moment to say that
this is a good thing. To acknowledge the work of
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Charlie Kirk. He did tremendous, tremendous things in a very
short time in his young life that was ended far,
far too early, leaving behind a widow, leaving behind a
couple of children, leaving behind a legacy at Turning Point USA. So,
if you're wearing red today, or if you're not, and
you want to take a moment to remember Charlie Kirk
(39:55):
the impact that he had, you could always go We
didn't sell him. I told you people came to me.
I had folks say, hey, are you gonna sell these
freedom T shirts? And I said, no, that's that's not
our thing, but I'm gonna tell you about it. I
think you can get them at Turning Point USA. Lots
of people are doing them. We're not, although we are
going to be working on our own. I actually have
(40:16):
been working on some new apparel here at the show,
but nothing nothing like that. That is their thing and
they need they need the funds from that, not not us.
So if you're interested in that, check out Turning Point
USA or other folks that are providing that peril. But
this is a day to remember to remember Charlie Kirk,
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and we all should use what he has done as
motivation to inspire us to stand up for truth. And
dare I say, for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, folks,
I gotta go. SDG
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