On today's show, Alex Blumberg talks about the ongoing DOJ witch hunt, and how the White House is weaponizing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue its political enemies. He also talks about how the DOJ is using political appointees to serve as political puppets, and why they should be held accountable.
00:17:18.820The law is not what people in power at the moment say it is.
00:17:21.980The beacon of democracy goes dark in it and rights.
00:17:25.000We have a president who attacks judges and journalists who bullies CEOs into handing over stock in their companies
00:17:31.000and university presidents into paying meritless fines, who sends military forces into American cities,
00:17:37.180who's building a new form of interior police and who encourages the deepening divide between red and blue America.
00:17:43.960All of these changes are part of a larger shift, a revolutionary transformation in the way Americans present themselves to the world
00:17:51.180and the way they are therefore perceived by others.
00:17:54.760The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia,
00:18:02.240but the social media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography and spam into every corner of the globe.
00:18:12.740So it's not just the message and it's the way it's being distributed today, isn't it?
00:18:18.340Yeah, I think, you know, people used to associate the United States with big ideas, with freedom, with democracy, with rights, with the rule of law, as we were just saying.
00:18:30.100And increasingly what we're seen as is the nation that produces manipulation.
00:18:34.560You know, the algorithms that manipulate you and tell you what to see, that we stand for, you know, leaders who break the law rather than follow the law,
00:18:45.740that we aren't any longer seen as the leader of a broad democratic alliance, you know, with all the many flaws that we've always had
00:18:55.500and all the hypocrisy that was sometimes inherent in our positions.
00:19:19.840You can tell, Ben, they know they're not going to be winning seats in the House.
00:19:24.160They know they're not going to be able to take over the House.
00:19:25.720They know the Electoral College is shifting because of the demographics and the shift in the country and the fact that we're not going to count illegal aliens.
00:19:32.600So they've made a point that now this Trump is a fascist.
00:19:44.360And in what you've reported, this sea change in the last 24, 48 hours of now preparing for the mass deportations, Ben, it's only going to get more dangerous.
00:19:53.180But I want you to comment your earlier comment on MSNBC really being the platform of anti-American, pro-illegal alien, hostile takeover of this country, sir.
00:20:11.280And the irony is that they think we're stupid enough to not see through it.
00:20:14.260Everything they're saying is what they're doing.
00:20:16.680They are the ones that weaponize government against President Trump and everybody who stood for the rule of law and standing for this nation over the last eight years.
00:20:25.220And now they're saying President Trump is doing that.
00:20:27.280But I think the American people have seen through that.
00:20:29.380They used to be able to lie and get away with it.
00:20:31.000The only people that listen to them now are the crazy blue-haired freaks that are out here every single day attacking ICE.
00:20:36.700But what they're doing is very dangerous.
00:20:38.480They are dog-whistling their side to be violent.
00:20:42.000That is the only solution they have now to stop what's coming.
00:20:45.720And that is the restoration of our Constitution, the restoration of this nation that President Trump, that Kash Patel, that Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi are bringing to them.
00:21:10.600Yeah, just real quick before I go, to Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson.
00:21:14.220Listen, the reason, just so you know, the reason that ICE agents and Border Patrol agents are in the communities now is precisely because of your sanctuary policy.
00:21:21.720So you want to blame anybody for the mass deportation that's coming.
00:22:29.120And here's the part, is that we have a kinetic situation that's metastasizing on the Eurasian landmass around Ukraine.
00:22:36.760And we have an economic war, folks, that is ratcheting up even as we speak, and it could be more dangerous.
00:22:43.880Zero Hedge has an amazing piece out this morning about how this rare earths and what China is doing on the restrictions of other supply chain products coming into the world economy.
00:22:56.400Is Germany is about to get whacked big league.
00:22:59.820And this goes to the problem of Germany kind of kowtowing to the CCP years ago on their economy.
00:23:06.620Ben, you've got a piece up from The Sun.
00:23:12.520He is asking for offensive weapons, the tomahawks that took down parts of the nuclear, the alleged nuclear program of the Persians, the above ground of which the IDF Air Force, the Israeli Air Force, could not get to.
00:23:29.900We took it down with tomahawk missiles launched from Navy submarines in the North Arabian Sea.
00:23:35.900And Zelensky, it wasn't lost in Zelensky, of the firepower of the tomahawk.
00:23:40.220Ben, the Russians are saying they're already ahead of this and saying, hey, if you go, there's going to be quite you're going into dangerous territory in America.
00:23:48.780You're now going to be a combatant and they're going to counter that.
00:23:58.340President Zelensky is going to be at the White House tomorrow, Friday, asking President Trump to give him these tomahawk missiles.
00:24:07.160But the backdrop, the things that are going on behind the scenes, however, are even more alarming, Steve, than that request in and of itself, which I know is going to strike MAGA very badly.
00:24:18.400MAGA had been hoping, as a movement, we'd all been hoping, really, for this war to be ended as President Trump promised in the election campaign within the first 24 hours after his inauguration.
00:24:29.060Actually, he also said in the campaign he was going to he was so confident he was going to get this wrapped up before he said he's going to resolve the situation before he was inaugurated.
00:24:38.860But we're now sort of 10 months on from that.
00:24:41.300And not only is it not happening, the conclusion, it's being escalated.
00:25:04.080Now, all of the European leaders are being especially gangster right now.
00:25:07.660They know we're going to commit to the five percent of NATO spending on defense, as President Trump has asked.
00:25:14.060Here in Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has just indicated how flexibly the European leaders are actually taking this, the performative theater behind it all.
00:25:26.320And she's spending billions of dollars to build a bridge between mainland Italy and Sicily.
00:25:31.000And she's going to mark that off against this five percent.
00:25:35.280In Germany, however, which you just mentioned in your question, Steve, the defense minister, Pistorius, has brought the coalition that they have there, which very tenuously holds together in and of itself.
00:25:49.220He's brought this coalition to the brink because at the last moment he's pulled out of an agreement which had been confected between the Christian Democrats, the ruling Christian Democrats, but also the Social Democrats,
00:26:02.360which was to introduce the lottery system they're calling it in Germany.
00:26:10.120It's they're going to try and meet their 2,000 extra, 200,000 extra troop commitments by introducing those that don't voluntarily present themselves and sign up under the augmented wage conditions.
00:26:35.000Steve, the reason is because he knows this is political suicide in Germany because the people most at risk of coming out to fight, the youth, are the most against it.
00:26:45.540That's the backdrop to what's going on here in Europe.
00:26:47.800Europe is, you know, they're feeling the pressure put down by President Trump and they want to fall into line with his reasonable requests, but they're meeting against the reality of the demographics.
00:27:01.520The background is in the huge push, and we'll talk about this some more, Steve, but the huge push behind President Trump to accommodate President Zelensky is going to fall on the shoulders of Americans.
00:29:22.760Four years ago, we told you it was going to come down to a de-dollarization, trying to destroy the United States by destroying the financial system of the United States.
00:29:53.940This is why we've been the leaders, not just in the anti-CCP movement, but telling you we have to decouple.
00:29:59.980If you kick the can down the road, there's only so far.
00:30:02.500When it comes, push comes to shove, they're going to come after us, and they're coming after us.
00:30:06.700And this is why this Ukraine situation, because you have a kinetic part of the war on the western part of the Eurasian landmass, the landmass taken as a whole, right, in Ukraine, in the bloodlands.
00:30:20.220And a brutal, violent, over 2.5 million casualties, as President Trump reports, about a million eight from the Ukrainians, over a million, maybe a million and a half from the Russians.
00:30:29.300On the opposite side, with the Chinese Communist Party, the South China Sea, the Taiwan, right, now you have the CCP going, understanding they have a chokehold on us when it comes to heavy rare earths.
00:30:43.660This is the whole reason we're playing footsie with Lula now, because the only other part of the world that has it is Brazil.
00:37:49.560And we'll see you there defending Kiev.
00:37:51.820The kinetic part of this war, we're getting sucked into it.
00:37:55.420President Trump magnificently shut down the Israelis and the Israel First Crowd when they tried to get us involved in the decapitation and regime change in Persia.
00:38:05.620He ended that with the total obliteration strike from our B-2s and the United States Navy with the tomahawks.
00:38:30.940But I tell you, they're calling our bluff right now.
00:38:33.740This meeting with Zelensky couldn't be more important tomorrow.
00:38:36.020And I know President Trump, the master negotiator, if ever we needed Trump at peak Trump, we need him tomorrow at peak Trump because we are getting sucked in.
00:38:46.480This is why they've dropped the hammer.
00:38:48.260They walked away from the commitments they made in June and July on rare earths that Secretary Besant and our trade representative, Peter Navarro, all that team made.
00:39:09.220Let's see if you can actually keep a production line going without the rare earths that, oh, by the way, we bought the processing company out of Ohio back in 2015.
00:39:19.820And Obama and these guys said nothing about it.
00:40:07.160He did come out with a deal which wasn't great.
00:40:09.820But I happen to think, and perhaps we can talk about this at another point.
00:40:13.660I happen to think, actually, if anybody else had been prime minister of Israel over the past 30 days, they would have come out with a better deal than what Bibi did.
00:40:24.260And, effectively, Bibi deceived President Trump over the situation with regards to Iran, backed up by the Israel first stooges in the United States.
00:40:34.900And President Trump wanted to free himself of that.
00:40:37.960And I think he, as you say, as I say, he acted magnificently.
00:40:42.820But I think anyone else, had anyone else been prime minister of Israel, they might have actually been able to persuade President Trump to give them a better deal.
00:40:59.620Unfortunately, what he deserved is now going to have massive implications for Israel and for the United States for years to come.
00:41:06.300I'm just telling you, we got a proto-Palestinian state with a foothold in Israel, financed by Qatar on one hand.
00:41:16.060And people know where I stand on Qatar.
00:41:17.420They're the railhead of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:41:18.820In fact, the convening authorities, and I understand President Trump was looking for a deal, but the pressure about the hostages, and look, the hostages is a terrible situation.
00:41:45.300Like I said, from the day that we covered it live, October 7th, if you've got to go through hell, you have to go through as quickly as possible.
00:41:52.340That's not what happened, and we are where we are.
00:41:55.160But I'm telling you, the situation in Ukraine, the situation of the Chinese Communist Party couldn't be more dangerous.
00:42:03.900And the international gold market is telling you that.
00:42:07.480Ben Harnwell, thank you so much for joining us.
00:42:19.200He's got a scoop, a massive scoop, about the Secretary of Treasury in the Treasury Department.
00:42:24.600At the same time, Brian Schwartz and the team at the Wall Street Journal dropped a bomb about the IRS.
00:42:30.680President Trump and his administration is getting very real and very focused.
00:42:34.740When we talk about taking down the deep state, things are happening and things are moving.
00:42:40.000And this couldn't come at a more critical time on what I think is everything we've got going on is one of the most, if not the most important thing we have to do.
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00:44:21.980Trump administration is paving the way to make it easier for the IRS to criminally investigate left-leaning groups, including major Democratic donors.
00:44:33.540That's according to new reporting from The Wall Street Journal.
00:44:38.680The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS Criminal Investigative Division to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers.
00:45:17.680Now, here's how you got to think about this.
00:45:20.400Gabe's story is the predicate for the IRS story.
00:45:25.100Gabe, your scoop is about the Treasury Department in this line of work.
00:45:30.300Walk us through what you found out about Treasury and why it's kind of a predicate and or a bridge to what's going to happen at the IRS, sir.
00:45:39.760Yeah, Steve, thanks for having me again.
00:45:41.300What we reported at the Free Press yesterday is that the Treasury Department's Financial and Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FINCEN, which is an office within the U.S. Treasury Department that investigates money laundering and terrorist financing domestically and overseas.
00:46:00.920We reported that that office is encouraging financial institutions, i.e. banks, to report any information to the U.S. government on what they call suspected domestic terrorist activity.
00:46:18.060And so the Treasury Department, this is part of a broader move within the entire Trump administration.
00:46:23.640And as you said, that Wall Street Journal story on the IRS for the Trump administration to, in its mind, go after left-leaning or Antifa, what it calls Antifa funding networks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:46:42.660See, this is part of the whole – this is why getting the designation as a domestic terrorist organization and now hopefully international terrorist organization is so important.
00:46:50.000Just tell me, when you use two terms, brother, that is putting the fear of God in these people, money laundering and terrorist financing.
00:46:59.780You've got literally the pros from Dover Treasury, the pipe hitters over there that know this backwards and forwards, now focused on people that may be doing this to fund these organizations in the United States.
00:47:15.100Yeah, that is correct, and I think it does demonstrate the sort of seriousness of how the Trump administration is claiming to be aiming to go after these sort of funding networks.
00:47:28.980I think the real big questions, and this is a question that I posed to a former senior IRS attorney who we quoted in the story, is how the Trump administration, through any of these investigations, is going to aim to adequately connect funding to what it calls Antifa.
00:47:49.960And I think the point I'm saying that Antifa, and I think the point I'm saying that Antifa is not – there's not one Antifa organization.
00:48:00.920It's pretty decentralized and grassroots.
00:48:03.640There are – it's a left-wing movement.
00:48:06.460And so in order for the Trump administration to adequately sanction and go after its funding networks, there needs to be a determination about what entity it is pursuing and who it is going after.
00:48:17.920And the reason that is notable is because sort of subsequently or at the same time, the White House has been talking about going after liberal foundations, so including one funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros called the Open Society Foundations, as well as the Ford Foundation.
00:48:35.620And so with the government talking about going after those groups, it only leads the public to believe that it's possible that they are beginning to determine or aiming to investigate whether those organizations funded by Democratic megadonors are the ones that they are saying align with these progressive funding networks.
00:48:56.100The reason Gabe's story is so important.
00:49:00.080On MSNBC, they're talking nonstop about there's no Antifa.
00:49:03.620It's just that we say Antifa foot soldiers on the ground.
00:49:07.400Then you've got the people that train them.
00:49:09.340A lot of people that are in the government, the Antifa guys are saying that and interviews people that leave those groups saying, hey, Army Special Forces guys, intelligence guys are training us.
00:49:17.180The most important is the interconnections and the financing.
00:49:20.500And that's what Treasury is telling you.
00:49:22.480They're putting their top people on money laundering and terrorist financing to go after that.
00:49:28.280In fact, Matt Palumbo, who wrote the great book on Soros and now is about to publish the book on Soros, is going to be our guest tomorrow based upon when he read Kaminsky's reporting about Treasury.
00:49:40.840He contacted me right away and said, hey, I got to get up.
00:49:42.800This is as important as it gets because they are clearly going to be the targets.
00:49:46.780Gabe, before I let you go, and by the way, so Grace and Mo, we're going to put both stories up and push them both out.
00:49:53.080They're kind of two sides of a same coin, a whole of government approach, Treasury through the Kaminsky article of Free Press and then Schwartz at the Wall Street Journal on the Treasury piece.
00:50:03.800Gabe, this is one of the reasons you're seeing the action and how it's putting a chill on the left.
00:50:08.760This is one of the reasons I've been one of the strongest advocates in the White House.
00:50:14.880To designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
00:50:18.400Once you get these designations, it opens up a whole toolbox at Treasury, at IRS for the whole of government to start looking at these organizations and taking them apart, correct?
00:50:32.120I think the one sort of important caveat to that is Trump issued an executive order that's purported to be designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist group.
00:50:44.120I think the really important thing for listeners and just the public to be aware of is that really, as we talked about in the show, Antifa is not a single entity, which makes it pretty difficult to sort of designate it as a terrorist group.
00:50:58.700And moreover, the U.S. government has a mechanism to designate foreign groups as terrorists, as foreign terrorist organizations.
00:51:07.640But a domestic decentralized group, Antifa, it is difficult.
00:51:11.180And that is why you say, actually, with the Muslim Brotherhood, if the government determines that the Muslim Brotherhood is a single entity, yes, it would be easier to designate them.
00:51:20.600And that would come with financial ramifications.
00:51:23.780We have to put that at the top of the stack.
00:51:25.960That's something we're obviously working on behind the scenes as we did in the first term.
00:51:30.180But we got the capital moved to Jerusalem.
00:51:59.480She's the young reporter at Lindell TV that got Nancy Pelosi to jump her.
00:52:05.200She's going to be joining us next with some follow-up information about why Pelosi freaked out yesterday outside the Capitol in the war room.
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