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00:09:51.000All right, so to go through some more of this story and just to offer another perspective on what's going on and what we're seeing coming out of Minneapolis,
00:10:00.860I knew I had to bring on my favorite anti-communist, ladies and gentlemen, once again, Evita Duffy.
00:10:09.020So, Evita, you know, obviously there's been a lot said about this situation already.
00:10:14.860I wanted to get your take on just how has it come out as a society.
00:10:21.160And it's, you know, you and I have talked about from the very first time we started having you on the program about how the church is once again coming under attack.
00:10:29.380You told us stories from your family's own history about times in the past when these dark demonic forces have targeted believers,
00:10:41.800targeted your family personally, and now here we are less than 100 years later in another time and place, and yet it's all happening again.
00:10:51.700I mean, Jack, this is such a stark example of the spiritual battle that we're in.
00:11:00.360Sometimes we get overwhelmed by the political intrigue, Democrat versus Republican, and who's it going to be?
00:11:08.480And we forget about how deeply spiritual this is from the way that this individual was depicting explicitly demonic imagery before this tragic attack.
00:11:21.220You have the way Democrats responded to it by attacking prayer.
00:11:26.320And then you have the way transgender activists have responded.
00:11:30.460I want to read a few of these to you, Jack.
00:11:32.000This is from Andy Ngo compiling just some of the commentary from trans activists online.
00:11:41.540Future religious extremists dying isn't a bad thing.
00:11:45.320Won't someone please think of the poor innocent Christian transphobes that just want trans people dead?
00:11:51.420What is happening is so deranged as a response on the left.
00:11:56.620Attacking prayer, defending the transgender mentally ill identity of the individual who did the attacking, it is so depraved, it's so backward.
00:12:05.740And really the only answer, Jack, is demonic possession itself, which they're denying.
00:12:09.700And so when we look at some of the new data coming out here, you know, it's very clear.
00:12:18.880This is someone who is obviously a very troubled individual and someone who, you know, there's that phrase.
00:12:28.780There's that phrase that we always use, and it's such a turn of phrase, but it's right in our own vocabulary.
00:12:36.520They say, wrestling with his own demons.
00:12:40.620So we say they're wrestling with their own demons.
00:12:43.120Well, where does that phrase come from?
00:12:45.120That phrase comes from the exact expression of how a demon, a demonic influence, actually can influence our minds and influence our lives.
00:13:31.080But she seems to have moved out of the picture.
00:13:34.240And there are some writings in the manifesto itself that seem to be messages to other siblings talking about, we need to forgive mom, et cetera.
00:13:45.400So I'm, you know, clearly dealing with a lot of deep-seated family issues.
00:13:50.440So we talk about the breakup of the family and how this affects the kids.
00:13:53.920And also we're seeing some information about how that just broke, saying that he had recently broken up with his own partner.
00:14:03.240So he had recently gone through a breakup again.
00:14:05.400But really, and the main thrust of what you see in the manifesto, and it's so long, it's so extensive, it's hard to, you know, really just pack all of it into one program.
00:14:18.980But the one thing you see throughout is that he had a very specific desire to kill Christian children and had, in fact, made a specific plan.
00:14:31.940And these are not, these are not schizophrenic ravings.
00:14:35.500This was a clear, dedicated act to commit evil and to kill Christian children.
00:14:42.100And you see this obsession over and over and over, which can only come from a malevolent entity.
00:14:49.080And one of the things that he even wrote in there at one point was that he thought that this church would be a good target because he knew that most of the parishioners were over 55,
00:14:59.180so that they were older and said, oh, well, since it's a parish that, you know, they have the young kids from the school,
00:15:05.360but most of the people who would be there during the day would be older, so not a young parish,
00:15:10.500that would be potentially a security vulnerability.
00:15:14.260And I know you and I have talked so much, Evita, about young people getting back into the church,
00:15:19.460and it's never even once, because we're not demonic, it's never even once occurred to us to think that this could be a safety issue.
00:15:26.320Yeah, no, it ain't a thousand percent is a safety issue.
00:15:29.760And Jack, I mean, what you're laying out, it's all the important context to what happened.
00:15:34.460The manifesto was overtly anti-Catholic, overtly anti-Trump also, which not everybody's been talking about.
00:15:40.460And he acted on this hatred towards Christian, a desire to kill Christian children.
00:15:46.040And for some reason, including the identity of this individual, that he's a transgender-identifying man
00:15:50.800who clearly is mentally disturbed, confused about himself, but having people close to him, like his mother,
00:15:57.360explicitly buying into these delusions, supporting them, this is all relevant information.
00:16:02.840And for some reason, journalists are saying, we don't care about any of that.
00:16:09.080The gun came in and the gun itself shot everybody up, and we know that's not true.
00:16:13.180There was an individual behind the gun who actually did the killing.
00:16:16.240And it's really telling that you have journalists, specifically the New York Times, if you read the New York Times op-ed on this,
00:16:22.400they will give you the context, but then say, and some people on the right are trying to seize on this and make it about transgenderism.
00:16:30.620And instead of, and it's like, what we're doing is we're reporting on the story, we're talking about what happened.
00:16:35.140We're looking at the motive here because he gave it to us in a manifesto.
00:16:38.900And it's really telling, I think, that so many people, including the mayor of Minneapolis, are completely disinterested in why this individual shot up a bunch of children in a church.
00:16:53.700Well, it's so telling, but, you know, I had said this to a friend, you know, just sort of chatting about this.
00:17:01.720And I mean, I've been on the phone on and off with just Catholic families and moms and sat down and obviously talked with my wife about all of this.
00:17:10.000And, you know, even as I do these reports, my son is sitting in a Catholic school.
00:17:16.080So, you know, it's something that couldn't hit, could not possibly hit closer to home.
00:17:21.820And one of the things that we, you know, that we dig into is that, you know, I just happened to mention that, you know, when you see these depictions in the past, go look at a movie like Psycho or a movie like Silence of the Lambs.
00:17:36.660And we see that even in these previous depictions in Hollywood, there is a direct connection.
00:17:45.320Thomas Harris understood this when he wrote Silence of the Lambs, that people who try to change their gender and change their identity are in this war with reality themselves and this war within their own psychology and clearly, clearly are on the same path as serial killers.
00:18:06.600And these are some of the most famous, you know, horror movies, you know, of all time.
00:18:13.420Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates are extremely popular, and yet not that, or I should say not Hannibal Lecter, but it's Buffalo Bill in the film who's the, is the trans.
00:18:22.640And yet we don't seem to consider that whenever anyone talks about this.
00:18:26.260Well, Jack, it's funny because the Democrats, right, they're saying, oh, all the right wants to do is give up thoughts and prayers and they're mocking prayer.
00:18:35.020Actually, what the right wants to do is address it, not just address gun violence, but address the individual that did this.
00:18:40.860Let's have a real conversation about transgenderism and mental illness and treating these individuals instead of actually supporting their delusions, which is creating the psychosis and all of these issues that we're seeing from so many transgender individuals.
00:18:55.860I mean, the suicide, depression, anxiety rates of the transgender individuals in our country, they're through the roof, and we're not allowed to talk about it.
00:19:05.780And so this is, I think, an example of actually the left refusing to address the problem while they were accusing conservatives of simply giving up thoughts and prayers, which, by the way, prayer is extremely important.
00:19:17.820We need it, and we also need action, and there's nobody on the right who's saying, we just need thoughts and prayers.
00:20:00.300Jack Rosovic back here, live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
00:20:04.540We're going more into information that's coming out regarding the shooter, this Robert Westman,
00:20:11.320and his disturbing pathology and descent into some form of demonic influence.
00:20:21.240And there's one interesting piece that's coming out of the manifesto, and he says,
00:20:26.940I can't cut my hair now, as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported.
00:20:35.260I don't know what reported means here exactly, though I can think of some interesting implications.
00:22:35.260And I think, again, Jack, this is a conversation about us as a society and how we handle mentally ill individuals who are susceptible to this ideology, who have actual gender dysphoria.
00:22:48.860How do we treat them instead of confirming the delusion and then driving them into insanity, into doing things like what this individual has done,
00:22:59.000which is shoot up a church of a bunch of small children?
00:23:02.440This is why the context here is important.
00:23:05.140And again, there's a lot of people in this country who are completely disinterested in the context.
00:23:10.340No, and, you know, I was saying this the other day, but my father worked in a psychiatric hospital for his entire adult career,
00:23:23.020so his entire adult life, just under 30 years.
00:23:25.100My grandmother worked in that same hospital, psychiatric hospital, for the same amount of time before him.
00:23:30.020And, you know, it's one of those psychiatric hospitals, though, this is in Pennsylvania, that was shutting down and was downsizing.
00:23:40.320And as we were, quote unquote, changing the way that we deal with mental health in this country,
00:23:46.040and that happened in the 1990s, but this is a process that obviously began before.
00:23:50.000And, you know, we really shut down and dismantled the system of public health or public mental health that we had in this country
00:23:58.620and went away, moved away from institutionalization in favor of mass medication
00:24:07.100and just sort of allowing these people to mingle in with the public because there was a time in this country,
00:24:13.800which, by the way, goes all the way back to, you know, the founding public hospitals with psychiatric wards really began even in the 1700s.
00:24:55.240I mean, actually, I think it kind of goes to the way the left always deals with people who are a harm to society.
00:25:02.480If there's an individual, I think it was in 2023, Brandon Johnson was responding to a couple of teenagers who had committed murder in the city of Chicago,
00:25:12.040and he was like, well, there's starved opportunities, and there's the excuse for, I guess, murder.
00:25:18.260And then you have the way that they respond to teens taking over parts of Washington, D.C.
00:25:59.040And it's never about protecting the people who are actually vulnerable in society.
00:26:03.420Women, children, literally little children praying in a church.
00:26:06.640And instead, you're going to have the mayor of Minneapolis come out and say, we have to protect the transgender community at this time and stop with the attacks on their identities.
00:26:15.120It's absurd, but it's actually been happening for a long time.
00:26:19.280Well, it's it's it's again, it's a pattern.
00:26:22.880And Vida, you and I have talked for years about how this echoes the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish Revolution, when communists were once again attacking churches in the name of revolution, in the name of making their country greater, progressing towards some kind of utopia.
00:26:42.140Well, they have to get rid of all the believers because you cannot enforce the status quo when you believe when you have people who believe in a higher power, because if they believe in a higher power, then there is a hierarchy, a direct connection between them and God, a direct connection between them and heaven.
00:26:58.380And so they will stand in the way of every revolutionary movement.
00:27:01.980And so what do the revolutionaries do?
00:28:11.780We're talking about this horrific attack on a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the same Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the George Floyd incident took place,
00:28:46.480And, Vida, I wanted to, you know, as we're going through this, we've talked so much about these patterns that sort of echo throughout history and that we would never see whenever we see these these upheavals, whenever we see these revolutions, these communistic far left movements.
00:29:05.380It always seems that churches and schools and Christians, just Christians in general, are the targets.
00:29:14.440And we see, once again, that ties to the manifesto here of this direct obsession with the killing of Christians and specifically Christian children.
00:29:23.580God's most precious visible, the visages of God, be like children, as Jesus said.
00:29:30.740Why is it that they always target Christians?
00:29:35.460I mean, we've talked a lot about the Spanish Civil War on this show and the way that the communists just straight up, the first targets, happen to be nuns and priests and monks and bishops.
00:29:47.440And the people in religious life, they take a vow of poverty.
00:29:51.340These are not rich individuals who are hoarding all the wealth of the masses.
00:29:56.020So why do the communists hate the Christians?
00:29:57.720It's a kind of perplexing thing until you recognize the spiritual elements of leftism and the way that truly they hate the faith, they hate the church, because like you articulated in the last segment, Jack, Christians, especially Catholics, I think, are able to stand up to the state because their identity is in a higher power.
00:30:19.440Their community is among fellow Christians.
00:30:22.060And it's really hard to indoctrinate and to fully, I think, control an individual who is a faithful Christian.
00:30:32.180This is why I think in 2020, you saw all of the race Marxists attack churches.
00:30:46.980It's the same ideology that feels the most threatened by traditional Christians, not because they are a threat to society or they're hoarding all the wealth in society or whatever excuse you want to make.
00:31:01.280They're the only thing that they can stand up to communism and to radical leftism and, frankly, to demons.
00:31:05.900You need that original—and what is the church, right?
00:31:14.900The church is the unbroken line of tradition that has stood for 2,000 years as a direct connection between the earth and heaven.
00:31:26.780And so in order to throw off the shackles of the old order, as every communist says, what must you do?
00:31:35.280Well, you have to throw off or destroy and target the bedrock of that, which is, of course, the Catholic Church, which is, of course, Christianity, which is, of course, the direct connection to heaven that exists through prayer.
00:31:48.900All of these things are true, and if they weren't true, then they wouldn't have existed in every single one of these times, whether it's Orthodox Christians in Russia, whether it's Catholics in Spain and France, or whether it's Christians here in America going on again and again.
00:32:06.360And we see this pattern echo throughout time.
00:32:09.600And, in fact, one of the pieces—and there's so many more pieces that are coming out now—information saying, so here's, you know, a former classmate says the suspect showed red flags in grade school.
00:32:24.180And I said that she was a former classmate of Westman while they were both in grade school in St. Paul, told an affiliate that the shooter had few friends and very odd obsessions, things that she would now categorize as red flags.
00:32:38.280I knew that something was off, but I was a kid.
00:32:41.800We also saw that the suspect had worked earlier this year at a cannabis dispensary, a weed dispensary, and was actually reprimanded there.
00:32:51.040And, again, you know, a lot of behavioral issues that people were talking about.
00:32:56.300To me as well, the fact that he brings up in his manifesto the split up of his parents, and he's talking about all these inter-family, you know, kind of issues that are going on.
00:33:08.440And the mother, again, we see that she's now down in Florida, and so this has become an issue where the police are trying to figure out what's going on.
00:33:17.180And, you know, we don't really talk about how all of these pieces together, when you look at the, you know, the use of recreational marijuana, high THC content, which has been linked to a lot of negative disorders.
00:33:29.840And it's like, sorry, guys, it's just true.
00:33:33.980Then the breakup of the family at a young age, and, you know, dealing.
00:33:39.780And then, of course, you're online, and you're dealing with all these gender issues at the same time.
00:33:43.440It really turns itself into a very disordered situation.
00:33:48.360I mean, it's just the obsession with the gun.
00:33:50.900That's the only thing that ever matters.
00:33:52.760And you're right, Jack, there's a pattern.
00:33:55.060A lot of these individuals who have committed mass shootings in recent years, they are on drugs long term, and we're not allowed to talk about what they are.
00:34:02.180We're not allowed to look at the patterns.
00:34:03.420We are not allowed to talk about the context in any way whatsoever.
00:34:27.160I mean, I think it's going to be up to people who knew him, people who are going to do investigating on their own on the Internet,
00:34:33.700because for some reason, authorities never—especially in Minneapolis, I'm going to suspect—are not going to want to give us the full picture here.
00:34:40.020It's what happened in Nashville, because this isn't a convenient story for the political left.
00:34:45.740This is an individual who is transgender, who has a hatred for Christians in President Trump.
00:34:51.040They're never going to give us all the information, let alone are they going to investigate this as a hate crime, which it very clearly was.
00:34:59.240The same thing happened in Nashville, where you have somebody explicitly articulating a hatred of children, a hatred of Trump, or a hatred of Christian children,
00:35:08.460and we aren't allowed to talk about it in that context.
00:35:11.180We're not allowed to investigate it in that way, because this individual is part of a protected class among the left, and so there will be no investigation.
00:35:20.560We are probably not going to get the information that we deserve on him unless people in the community go out and get it themselves.
00:35:29.240Yeah, and you see this again and again, but that the root of this pathology, it's always resentment, it's always hatred, it's always a sort of endy, right?
00:35:40.000So this anger that—you know, this idea, so, okay, I was a good—I was on a good track when I was this age, when I was at that school,
00:35:49.980and therefore you project that onto others and say, well, if I had a bad outcome and you are on good outcomes, then I have to destroy you.
00:35:58.120So I have to destroy you because of what happened to me, which is my own fault, but it doesn't matter, so I have to destroy you.
00:36:05.560This is actually how pretty much all of communism and communist philosophy and communist psychology works.
00:36:11.740So a lot of people talk about communist philosophy.
00:36:13.440I like talking more about communist psychology, where they just hate.
00:36:16.900They hate people who are more successful than them, that are more well-ordered than them, that are having better outcomes than them.
00:36:23.540Yeah, in many cases, this involves trauma, but in many cases, it doesn't either.
00:36:27.220It's just this breeded resentment that exists, and so what do they do?
00:36:32.240They lash out and take it out on others rather than actually trying to do something to better their own lot in life.
00:36:38.800Well, I think who he took it out on is so important as well, Jack.
00:36:41.980I mean, the people that he should be mad at are the ones around him who affirmed his delusions.
00:36:45.920We know his mother, probably other people as well, and he took it out on little Christian children.
00:36:51.460And for the last hundred years, arguably more, the left has tried to smear Christians.
00:36:59.860Going back to the founding of our country, saying that we were founded on racism, the pilgrims, the Puritans who came here were racist individuals, the Spaniards who tried to convert the Aztecs were also somehow racist, called the Black Legend.
00:37:12.080The way that in 2020, they attacked churches, even more recently in Canada, the way that they tried to say that the Catholic schools were mass murdering Indigenous children, and then it turned out to be a hoax.
00:37:25.480They've been lying about Christians, smearing Christians, specifically Catholics, for a very long time, so that when somebody has some resentment and they're angry about themselves and their life, they don't blame the left, which are the people who confirmed the delusions that broke this person's brain.
00:37:41.520Instead, they blame Christians, because Christians are the ones who have been smeared incessantly, forever, specifically in the last hundred years, but for a very long time.
00:37:52.180And of course, Christians are just people who believe in the way of the Bible, the teachings of Christ, which are not a threat to anyone, which in fact make the world a much better place.
00:38:03.240And so I think it's very interesting who he turned his fire at.
00:38:09.400Evita Duffy, where can people go to follow you, get access to everything you're doing?
00:38:13.900Thanks, Jack. My ex and my Instagram are Evita Duffy underscore one.
00:38:19.320All right, Evita Duffy underscore one. Evita, I hear your dad's going to be having you actually in there building the new ceiling for Union Station.
00:38:29.220You're going to be up there on the ladders doing the polishing, the bright work.
00:38:31.460I don't know about the polishing, but I will definitely be there for when it's all completed.
00:38:38.700I will. I will meet you there as my favorite building in all of Washington, D.C. Right back.
00:38:45.840Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it.
00:38:51.440And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:38:55.340And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again. Amen.
00:39:01.460All right, folks, Jack Kasovic, here we are at Human Events Daily on, again, such a week as this, Washington, D.C.
00:39:11.460You know, we talked about some of the depictions of trans murderers and trans serial killers in media, which have always existed.
00:39:23.020And it goes back again. Psycho Norman Bates goes back to Silence of the Lambs and Buffalo Bill.
00:39:32.660And there's that great line where Hannibal Lecter is explaining Buffalo Bill, and he says,
00:39:41.200What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does?
00:41:02.480And it's, you know, it's like people watch these movies, like Silence of the Lambs or Psycho, and they just, they don't actually listen to what the movie is saying or the information, the psychology that the writers of these films are putting out.
00:46:50.840And by the way, if there's a church in your area right now, and God bless the law enforcement that has been protecting people this week in the wake of this, but where was it beforehand?
00:47:29.100And find me somebody who's going to vote against it, by the way.
00:47:31.820Find me somebody who's going to put all this money into, oh, we're going to have this war overseas in the Middle East and this war over there.
00:47:45.360I want to know who the members of Congress are who refuse to vote for protections for Christian schools.
00:47:54.300And I want their names, and I want a list, because I will be very excited to find out who it is that refuse to pony up and say, you know something?
00:48:05.920If we're going to be spending this money in this country, we ought to do that to defend the most defenseless people in it.
00:48:12.340Folks, we've got a huge, huge weekend lined up here at Real America's Voice.
00:48:20.260I want to let you know, by the way, that there is a great special coming out.
00:48:23.720Bo Davidson, who's done a lot of help for me lately, and some of these travels have been filling in here on Human Events Daily.