Episode 5049: President Trump Sets His Sights On Greenland; Corruption In Maryland
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the President Trump's decision to pardon the rioters involved in the January 6th protest, and why this is a good thing. We also hear from Stephanie Grisham and Julie Raguse, two of the many people who were there on that day in 2011.
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You know, we'll help the country's economy, and if the economy is doing better, democracy will follow.
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But we know that's not the case. There's no talk of democracy, is there?
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There isn't, Stephanie, but we're not a dictatorship. We're not a monarchy.
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The American people don't have to get behind Trump just because he picked up Maduro,
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and now we're going to extort them for $2.5 billion, $3 billion of oil.
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I want us to have a debate about that. Do you realize how crazy this is?
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We picked him up, and now it's gangster diplomacy, right?
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Pay us $2 or $3 billion, and we will let your regime stay in place.
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And for many, many years, Senator Rubio, maybe he forgot what he used to say.
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We talked about this dictatorship, and the dictatorship is still in place.
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Every single person is there, so it's not regime change.
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And now the president is just going to take a bribe so that we don't run the country that we don't do regime change.
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And I want to suggest that this is not the way we should conduct our foreign policy abroad.
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This does not serve the interests of the American people.
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Even the president's comment, this is going to be for the American people and the Venezuelan people, this money.
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How completely insane this idea is on so many levels.
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First of all, there is no national security interest that we need to seize Greenland.
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We can sign agreements, contracts to get minerals.
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There is no reason to go back to 19th century imperialism.
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But third, to your point, Stephanie, not only would it blow up NATO, it would alienate the United States from the entire world, from the democratic world, the free world, the autocratic world.
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Well, if they can take Greenland, of course, we can take Taiwan.
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I just think this is so insane, and we need to call it out as insane.
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And if we are not laser-focused and aware of what transpired in the lead-up to what happened on that fateful day five years ago,
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then I started to think how flat-footed we will be caught months from now as it relates to the 2026 midterms or the next presidential election.
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And I think that two things are important here.
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The first is by pardoning the January 6th rioters, the president did something very practical,
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which is that he empowered a group of people that were willing to be violent in his name but would be literally put beyond the reach of the law.
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We now have over 1,500 people who have been told,
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if you are violent on Donald Trump's behalf, you won't just be prosecuted.
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The second thing, and I think this gets to why Donald Trump has spent so much time trying to erase the history of January 6th.
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It's the fact that he appointed an election denier to be interim head of the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office,
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that they're taking down materials about January 6th from the DOJ website,
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that they've appointed a literal rioter, Jared Weiss, to a DOJ job.
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The reason that I think that they're doing this is if they can convince people to forget January 6th,
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or worse, consider it a form of legitimate political discourse.
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If they can succeed in that, then any violence and attack on democracy will be from this.
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The performance audit shows the Behavioral Health Administration sent millions of dollars out the door in grants
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without making proper checks into who was receiving them.
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And that is not even the most jaw-dropping finding.
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Julie, according to the nonpartisan legislative auditor,
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this is another case of mismanagement of taxpayer money.
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But perhaps the most explosive revelation is that managers within DHS,
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the Department of Human Services, tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating new documents.
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I do want to talk about what a serious issue this is and how it is, frankly, unacceptable.
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Another sobering report by the Office of the Legislative Auditor,
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this one concerning the Behavioral Health Administration within the Department of Human Services,
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which issues grants to providers treating mental health and drug and alcohol addiction,
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The audit found them issuing grants to applicants without a bidding process.
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So what we saw is that there was multiple entities that could have been eligible,
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and they chose not to provide a justification for why they were picking those.
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One outrageous example, the auditors found a grantee that was paid $672,000 for one month of work
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And the audit says the grant manager who paid it then left DHS a couple days later
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Auditor Judy Randall says she was most shocked that during the audit,
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multiple DHS managers backdated or created new documents to try to cover their tracks.
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Frankly, in the 27-plus years I've been with OLA, I have never seen this before.
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I will say we have had suspicions periodically, but we have never been able to prove it, to document it,
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Temporary DHS Commissioner Shereen Gandhi's response.
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I was shocked to hear this information in the exit conference,
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and it is absolutely unacceptable that any staff would provide anything other than
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accurate representation of the work done to an auditor.
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Now, there were a lot of questions from lawmakers about whether this audit should result in criminal investigations.
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The Office of the Legislative Auditor provides recommendations both to the department
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and to lawmakers in case law changes are needed.
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Just one more time of what the auditor said regarding this fabrication of documents.
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And, you know, today is a day where we kind of reflect on a lot of things,
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because all of us, like 9-11, and like at other times in our nation's history
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where something traumatic has happened, we remember where we were,
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what we were doing, and remember watching those events unfold.
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And so there is that part of this that is history for us.
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And so it got me reflecting a little bit about history.
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You know, our history professor here at the table is Simone,
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and she's very quick to make those links to important periods in our nation's history
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as part of the progress, or lack thereof, that we're making.
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And for me, that came, that circle completion was after the Civil War.
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We allowed the people who moved against the government,
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who caused and fought in a way to keep slavery, yes,
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but even more so to overturn the fundamental foundations of this country,
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They started writing the history, and they continue to lie to this day
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about what those events that were at the heart of the Civil War were about.
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They are writing at this moment, still writing that history,
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and lying to themselves, to your point, and to the American people
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you have this president and those insurrectionists lying to themselves
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and to the country about what happened on that day.
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The difference is we weren't at the table in 1865,
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but we were in our living rooms, we were in our jobs,
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we were at cafes and places around this country watching that happen.
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So how do we impress upon people, you're both testifying on the Hill,
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that this is real, this is real, what happened is real,
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and everything this president is saying about those events is a lie.
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Yeah, you can whitewash it all you want with a pardon,
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because we're going to medieval on these people.
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Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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It's Wednesday, 7th January, Year of the Lord, 2026.
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There's a big press conference with the Make America Healthy
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and the agriculture part of this, the Maha Movement,
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I think Secretary of Agriculture and Bobby Kennedy.
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oversight, Comer, about the Minneapolis Somalian fraud.
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These audits and people now, they can't run away from this.
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And I think you see why Waltz dropped out, because they're going to very quickly go to criminal charges here.
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He would have never beaten Mike Lindell anyway, but he has no shot right now.
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On the full meltdown, Trump derangement syndrome is going next level right now.
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And I think if you've got to grade it, I actually think the hate of what the war room posse, the J6ers,
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President Trump, and others have done to really shift the narrative frame, the Overton window,
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and actually show you the Fed's direction of what it was about.
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And I've got to thank the J6ers and all their families who have just, you know, on the fifth
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anniversary, have not given up, have not quit, and continue to press this.
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And the left and the media, total full meltdown, because they understand that their whole narrative
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from the end of democracy to now it's a deep state.
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We'll have more on that about what has to happen now between the administration and Congress
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to get now down to the deck plates on getting this sorted.
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But we're trying to get Jackie Torberoff up for this first segment, may not be able to do it
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Jackie, remember Jackie months ago, I think it was in the spring or early summer.
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Remember he had the situation where all the flags of the states were in cities, were being
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changed or having all of a sudden all these contests to like change the flags and they
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So this is Waltz, the criminal who just basically allowed the Somalians to steal money and others
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Remember that audit in the cold open, they paid somebody $675,000 for a month of work,
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And then the person that approved it resigned and went immediately to be a consultant for
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And even the guy on the panel said, isn't that criminal?
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So you have that, and this has been a well thought through, this is like the invasion
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They've designed this system to flood the zone with foreigners, illegal alien invaders,
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whether they call them amnesty seekers or whether they call them here coming in on some sort
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It's a well-defined, well thought through process.
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This liver lip making a big deal about taking the beautiful old state flag of Minnesota and
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Jackie Torberoff, you're the first one to bring this up.
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You were mocked and ridiculed at the time, but I think we see what's going on now.
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So the flag represents the growing Muslim population, the growing Somali population.
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Somali has the largest population in Minnesota in the United States.
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And there's a total of 3% Muslims in Minnesota.
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So Tim Walls appointed three members to a 13-person flag committee.
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It was approved, signed into legislation in 2023.
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While it does resemble the flag of Somalia, we should not get caught up in this being a
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This is a symbol that is widely talked about in the Quran.
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There are multiple cities throughout the United States that have replaced their traditional...
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The BRICS nation is trying to destroy the U.S. dollar.
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both in the morning show and the afternoon show.
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We've got Sam Faddis and Captain Fennell joining us in the afternoon.
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A naval blockade redirecting oil from Venezuela
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away from the CCP to the United States of America.
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Pete, Pete's an army officer, not a naval officer,
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So that raises the stakes even more, God bless him,
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but because you're a fire breather about education,
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particularly in the newly occupied city of Manhattan.
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and it was very important because something was wrong.
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and so many of them had this eight-pointed star,
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and as you said, it's referred in the Quran and other places.
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Currently flying flags with eight-point Islamic stars
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There are dozens of other eight-point Islamic stars
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If you want to decapitate a movement and an ideology,
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This is a population spike in Minnesota of 2,100%.
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It is the fastest-growing religion in the world,
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five of the six finalists had an eight-point Islamic star.
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She specializes in warfare, signals, and communication.
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of American cities throughout the United States.
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And of course, I think they've got a housing director
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and she's open about trying to take property from whites.