Loomer Unleashed - EP161: Oh Brother! Ilhan Under Investigation For Immigration Fraud??

00:27:26.000 There is a young female journalist, conservative journalist by the name of Laura Loomer.

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00:28:49.000 Young female journalist, conservative journalist by the name of Laura Loomer. 1.00

00:28:57.000 If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems will be fixed in about five minutes. 0.95

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00:30:38.000 Lots to talk about tonight.

00:30:40.000 Ilhan Omar is finally being investigated for immigration fraud.

00:30:46.000 If you are a longtime viewer of Loomer Unleashed, then you know that, well, I'm one of the first people to call Ilhar.

00:30:53.000 I think I was the first person ever to confront Ilhan Omar about marrying her brother.

00:30:58.000 This was back in 2018 when she was running for Congress when nobody even knew who she was.

00:31:03.000 And I confronted Ilhan Omar at a campaign event that she was holding with Rashida Tlaip at a Palestinian restaurant called the Holy Land Deli in Minneapolis.

00:31:15.000 And I remember, it's so funny because I have this framed on my wall in my studio and I see it in the corner of my eye from when this happened.

00:31:24.000 There are articles about it.

00:31:26.000 I remember when I confronted her and I confronted her over her support for terrorist organizations, her support for female genital mutilation, and I called her out for using her campaign funds for getting a divorce from her brother, right?

00:31:39.000 Because she did in fact marry her brother, who is gay, was living in the UK at the time, and she married him so that he could get student loans at North Dakota State University.

00:31:49.000 All of these reports are available on my website from years ago, right?

00:31:53.000 We're talking 2018, 2019.

00:31:56.000 So I was the first person to really make this go mainstream with my reporting back in 2018 when I confronted Ilhan Omar.

00:32:06.000 And, you know, there had been rumblings about her, you know, marrying her brother.

00:32:11.000 And it wasn't until I confronted Ilhan Omar on video about this that it really started to get like interjected into the national discussion.

00:32:19.000 And now, of course, you know, years later, President Trump is now talking about it.

00:32:23.000 And look, he was president in 2018.

00:32:26.000 So he really should have been addressing this back when he was president during his first term and Ilhan Omar first got elected.

00:32:32.000 But now, only now, is Ilhan Omar actually getting called out by the president of the United States for marrying her brother?

00:32:39.000 We played the clips earlier this week of President Trump slamming Omar.

00:32:43.000 There's so many clips of Ilhan Omar just getting completely slammed by President Trump at his rally.

00:32:50.000 He had a rally in Pennsylvania the other evening and he called her out for marrying her brother, says that she's low IQ, says that she committed immigration fraud, says that she's an ungrateful Somali, that the Somalis need to go back to where they came from.

00:33:05.000 And while DHS ICE has now confirmed under Tom Homan, of course, our wonderful border czar Tom Homan, that Ilhan Omar is finally under investigation, all of this is coinciding.

00:33:18.000 Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not, coinciding with all of the Somali fraud, all of the Somali fraud in Minneapolis, where they say upwards of $8 billion, that's $8 billion with a B, was stolen from U.S. taxpayers and given to Somalis who were sending the funds overseas. 0.60

00:33:40.000 Many of them were sending the funds overseas to support al-Shabaab, to support ISIS, to support Islamic terrorism.

00:33:47.000 Secret money trail for Minnesota's $1 billion Somali fraud ring and the horrific acts it's now funding. 0.98

00:33:52.000 Perfect target.

00:33:53.000 So it's not just $1 billion.

00:33:56.000 Those are early estimates.

00:33:58.000 And there was a report that came out two days ago that said that the numbers are actually closer to $8 billion.

00:34:05.000 I want to go ahead and play this video before I continue and show you all the coverage on this.

00:34:09.000 And, you know, if you recall, I had Tom Homan on my show several months ago and I asked him whether or not he was going to be investigating Omar.

00:34:17.000 I even said you should investigate Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother. 0.83

00:34:21.000 And he wouldn't confirm whether or not that was taking place.

00:34:24.000 But before I show you that clip, I want to just show you the clip of when I first confronted Ilhan Omar.

00:34:31.000 This was before she was even elected.

00:34:34.000 Before she was even elected, I was the first person to call Omar into Libout, if you recall. 0.57

00:34:40.000 This was in 2018, before the midterm elections, before Rashida won her election, and before Ilhan Omar won her election.

00:34:47.000 They were campaigning together in Minneapolis.

00:34:50.000 Let's go ahead and play this clip.

00:34:55.000 Hi.

00:34:55.000 Hi, my name is Laura Lumer.

00:34:57.000 I just had a quick for you.

00:34:58.000 I was wondering if, since you're now going to become the first, I was wondering, congratulations on your primary.

00:35:06.000 Since you're going to be the first Palestinian Muslim.

00:35:09.000 I'm so sorry.

00:35:09.000 Are you willing to?

00:35:12.000 I can tell.

00:35:13.000 I actually like her.

00:35:18.000 Rashida, are you willing to admit as a congresswoman that Hamas is a terrorist organization?

00:35:23.000 I really need to know that if this woman is going to be elected to Congress, it's a serious question. 0.99

00:35:29.000 I heard about her.

00:35:30.000 No, she has heard.

00:35:34.000 to come together as one community what about your Jewish constituents I'm now going to be a member of Congress inshallah So most important thing is that we fight back by love coming from a place of love.

00:35:47.000 Then why are you campaigning with Linda Sarsour who called for jihad against President Trump?

00:35:52.000 So that is afforded to all of us.

00:35:54.000 What about justice for little girls, Elon?

00:35:56.000 You voted against legislation that would have made FGMI validate.

00:36:01.000 Why is she so hateful against Israel?

00:36:04.000 Are they going to recognize the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?

00:36:13.000 She married her brother.

00:36:14.000 Ilan, why did you marry your brother?

00:36:16.000 Elon Omar married your brother.

00:36:18.000 She committed immigration crime so that her brother could get a green card. 0.78

00:36:21.000 That's up to the government.

00:36:22.000 Yeah, and the government has decided that immigration fraud is a crime and incest is illegal in the United States of America.

00:36:28.000 It is a violation of campaign finance rules to use your campaign funds to pay for your divorce from your brother.

00:36:35.000 CARE is recognized as a designated terrorist organization and United Arab Emirates.

00:36:40.000 Both of these candidates have been endorsed by CARE, a terrorist organization.

00:36:45.000 The federal government found during the Holy Land Foundation trial that CARE had ties to terrorism.

00:36:51.000 They were funding Hamas, which Rashida, candidate for Congress, supports.

00:36:56.000 She needs to decide whether she's an American or a Muslim first. 0.99

00:36:59.000 Is she a Palestinian or is she an American first?

00:37:12.000 So, I was right, as always.

00:37:15.000 And as a first whole, I was permanently banned on social media for calling out Ilhan Omar just a couple weeks later after I had been publishing all these video reports and confronting her.

00:37:25.000 You'll recall I was permanently banned on Twitter for several years.

00:37:29.000 So it feels great to finally be vindicated because as you recall, I was permanently banned on multiple social media platforms and they used this fake allegation that I'm an Islamophobe, right?

00:37:40.000 I went after Ilhan Omar and said she was pro-Sharia, she married her brother, she was anti-Jewish.

00:37:45.000 And then I was completely shut down, debanked, banned on all social media.

00:37:49.000 And now the president is even saying this.

00:37:52.000 So let's go ahead and play clip number 32.

00:37:55.000 President Trump says Ilhan Omar married her brother and we need to get her the hell out of here. 0.99

00:37:59.000 Just great vindication.

00:38:02.000 Do we have any individuals from Somalia in the group?

00:38:05.000 Please raise your hand.

00:38:07.000 That's for Minnesota. 0.99

00:38:09.000 You know, that's called the great big Minnesota scam with one of the dumbest governors ever in history. 0.99

00:38:20.000 I love this Ilan Omar, whatever the hell it is, with the little ching, the little turban. 1.00

00:38:28.000 I love her. 1.00

00:38:29.000 She comes in, does nothing but bitch. 1.00

00:38:31.000 She's always complaining. 1.00

00:38:35.000 She comes from a country where, I mean, it's considered about the worst country in the world, right?

00:38:41.000 They have no military.

00:38:43.000 They have no nothing.

00:38:44.000 They have no parliament.

00:38:45.000 They don't know what the hell the word parliament means.

00:38:48.000 They have nothing.

00:38:48.000 They have no police.

00:38:50.000 They police themselves.

00:38:51.000 They kill each other all the time.

00:38:53.000 I love it.

00:38:54.000 She comes to our country and she's always complaining about the Constitution allows me to do this. 0.98

00:39:02.000 We ought to get her to hell out. 0.99

00:39:03.000 She married her brother in order to get in, right? 1.00

00:39:07.000 She married her brother.

00:39:12.000 Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?

00:39:16.000 Beautiful.

00:39:17.000 She's a beautiful person.

00:39:19.000 If I married my sister to get my citizenship, do you think I'd last for about two hours or would it be something less than that?

00:39:27.000 She married her brother to get in. 0.98

00:39:30.000 Therefore, she's here illegally. 1.00

00:39:32.000 She should get the hell out, throw the hell out. 0.99

00:39:34.000 She does nothing but complain. 0.99

00:39:49.000 I love that chance of send her back, send her back, send her back.

00:39:53.000 Amazing.

00:39:55.000 Let's go ahead and play clip number 43.

00:39:57.000 President Trump saying that he doesn't want to see a woman who marries her brother in the United States.

00:40:03.000 I want to see people that contribute.

00:40:05.000 I don't want to see Somalia. 1.00

00:40:07.000 I don't want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman, does nothing but complain. 1.00

00:40:13.000 All she does is complain, complain, complain. 1.00

00:40:17.000 And yet, her country is a mess.

00:40:18.000 You know, it's one of the worst in the world.

00:40:22.000 Let her go back, fix up her own country. 1.00

00:40:24.000 So, no, Somalia, and I was right about it. 1.00

00:40:26.000 You know, I started complaining about Somalia long before this scandal. 0.98

00:40:31.000 The horrible, the horrible things they're doing to Minnesota, it's incredible.

00:40:37.000 They have an incompetent governor there, too. 0.57

00:40:39.000 The Democrats are running some bad ships.

00:40:44.000 Completely out of control.

00:40:46.000 Well, now she is under investigation.

00:40:50.000 Let's go ahead and play clip 31 from when Tom Homan, Our Borders Are, was on my show a couple months ago.

00:40:55.000 And I asked, this was back in June of this year, and I asked him whether or not Ilhan Omar was going to be under investigation for marrying her brother.

00:41:02.000 Let's go ahead and play clip 31.

00:41:04.000 Now the Republicans are back in control.

00:41:07.000 Can we expect to see some type of immigration investigation into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar?

00:41:13.000 There was a report.

00:41:14.000 This was a story I broke, and it's since been confirmed that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud.

00:41:20.000 Can you speak to whether or not there's any investigations into Congresswoman Omar's immigration fraud via the marriage to her brother and whether or not her citizenship could potentially be revoked if you guys also find that she did in fact commit immigration fraud and student loan fraud?

00:41:36.000 I can't discuss any investigation.

00:41:40.000 Okay.

00:41:41.000 All right.

00:41:42.000 Well, I figured I would just ask because a lot of people always wonder why we have jihadists serving in Congress, why we have anti-American immigrants serving in Congress who are perpetuating this open border.

00:41:54.000 We're aware of that situation, but I can't discuss it.

00:41:58.000 Oh, so you are aware of it.

00:41:59.000 Okay, great.

00:42:00.000 So you guys are aware.

00:42:03.000 So he's indeed aware.

00:42:05.000 And now he's confirmed on clip number three.

00:42:08.000 Tom Homan has confirmed that DHS is looking into claims that Ilhan Omar married her brother.

00:42:13.000 So who knows?

00:42:13.000 Perhaps we prompted that investigation live here on Loomer Unleash when I interviewed Tom Homan.

00:42:19.000 And I've been pushing this.

00:42:20.000 Like I said, I've been pushing this more than anybody, really, since 2018.

00:42:24.000 And that's a fact.

00:42:25.000 You can go back and you can look at the videos.

00:42:27.000 I mean, show me another video of somebody else confronting Omar on the campaign trail about marrying her brother.

00:42:32.000 That video that I just played for you is from 2018.

00:42:35.000 I don't know anybody else that confronted Ilhan Omar in 2018.

00:42:40.000 Just saying, just saying.

00:42:42.000 Clip number three.

00:42:44.000 Mentioning the Daily Mail reporting from 2020 that Ilhan Omar married her brother to get into the country.

00:42:50.000 This was last week.

00:42:50.000 Take a listen.

00:42:52.000 Look at their nation.

00:42:53.000 Look how bad their nation is.

00:42:54.000 It's not even a nation.

00:42:55.000 It's just people walking around killing each other.

00:42:59.000 They've taken billions and billions of dollars.

00:43:01.000 They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother.

00:43:08.000 It's a fraud.

00:43:11.000 Calls that a fraud.

00:43:12.000 It's a story that has never been successfully refuted, even though it's now a five-year-old story.

00:43:17.000 That's clearly a deportable offense.

00:43:20.000 Is there an investigation into that?

00:43:24.000 You know, I just got advised by a fraud investigator the other day on that.

00:43:27.000 I asked the question, who reviewed the file?

00:43:30.000 It says, no, there was immigration fraud involved.

00:43:33.000 The statue limitation became an issue in the last four years when this was first brought up.

00:43:37.000 Who was president?

00:43:38.000 Who run DOJ?

00:43:40.000 So I'm pulling the records now, pulling the files, and we're looking at it.

00:43:44.000 But this fraud investigator, who I know personally, one of the best fraud investigators in HSI Homeland Security Investigations, said there's no doubt.

00:43:52.000 He reviewed the file.

00:43:53.000 So I'm running that down this week, matter of fact, and we'll see.

00:43:58.000 It's tremendous that, I mean, and according to the Secretary Christy Noam of DHS, you said nearly 50% of the visas are fraudulent in this community.

00:44:08.000 I mean, that would mean that half the Somali refugees are here in some way illegally.

00:44:14.000 What's going to happen?

00:44:16.000 Is something actually going to happen?

00:44:17.000 Are there going to be people stripped of their visas, deported?

00:44:20.000 Are we going to see that?

00:44:22.000 Absolutely.

00:44:23.000 I mean, those days are over.

00:44:25.000 Thank God President Trump's in the White House.

00:44:26.000 We're going to look at all of them.

00:44:28.000 I mean, we're going to look at the, you know, those who are illegally, of course.

00:44:31.000 We're going to look at those here under a visa or some sort of immigration process that are criminals.

00:44:36.000 We're going to look at the national security threats, but those who came to a process that weren't properly vetted, didn't provide documentation, who slipped through the Biden's week processes on giving visas and temporary, whether student visas or visitors' visa or whatever.

00:44:52.000 We're going the whole gamut.

00:44:54.000 President Trump has instructed us to go down and we're going to deep dive all of this and we're going to hold people accountable.

00:45:01.000 Yes, there are going to be multiple deportations coming.

00:45:04.000 Absolutely.

00:45:06.000 There's so many claims of so Ilhan Omara came to our country when she was a teenager, claimed she was a refugee.

00:45:20.000 But since then, she's gone back to Somalia multiple times.

00:45:22.000 I mean, you have to understand the definition of the word refugee means that you can't live in the place that you're born or the place that you come from because it is uninhabitable. 1.00

00:45:33.000 You can't return.

00:45:34.000 I mean, you're not going to be vacationing in a so-called war zone if you're truly a refugee.

00:45:39.000 So, what is this investigation finding?

00:45:43.000 What's the investigation into all of the Somali fraud in Minnesota finding?

00:45:48.000 Well, it's finding that the Somalis have scammed taxpayers over $8 billion and that they're sending millions of dollars back to Somalia. 0.98

00:45:59.000 People are buying luxury cars.

00:46:01.000 They're buying property.

00:46:02.000 They're going on these luxurious vacations.

00:46:05.000 They're buying vehicles in the United States.

00:46:07.000 They're doing things that are fraudulent with the funds.

00:46:10.000 And so, when you look at a place like Minneapolis, and I don't know if any of you have ever been to Minneapolis, but I've been to Minneapolis a lot.

00:46:19.000 I practically lived there for about six months when I was investigating Ilhan Omar, just basically couch surfing, right?

00:46:25.000 When I was, you know, just completely broke as starting out as an independent journalist, but breaking pretty substantial, important stories, tracking Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, of course, who is now the first Muslim attorney general in America.

00:46:39.000 And I just remember nobody's speaking English.

00:46:43.000 I mean, the Somalis, they walk around in their burkas. 1.00

00:46:46.000 They have no need to assimilate. 0.93

00:46:47.000 They have their Somali grocery stores, their Somali communities, and they have no need or desire to speak English or even assimilate in their own communities, which is why the Somalis have become such a powerful voting bloc within Minneapolis and in places like Maine, because they don't assimilate and the politicians cater to them, right? 0.94

00:47:07.000 What happens is when you import the third world, you become the third world. 0.99

00:47:11.000 Minnesota, and just like Maine as well, has imported the third world. 1.00

00:47:16.000 There are hundreds of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota, and they have reproduced, and now they are a very large and mobilized voting block.

00:47:25.000 And they're so brazen in their refusal to assimilate that these politicians and their representatives are the people that are working on these campaigns for these Somali candidates, they don't even find a need to speak English.

00:47:38.000 So, in Ilhan Omar's district, where she has a very large Somali population and she's from Somalia herself, she goes to events and then she'll just be speaking a foreign language.

00:47:48.000 Her supporters, the guy that just ran, Omar Fata, who just ran for mayor of Minneapolis against Jacob Fry and almost won, he doesn't even speak English at his own campaign events.

00:47:58.000 He speaks Somali, he speaks Somali.

00:48:01.000 And that's the norm there in Minnesota now, unfortunately.

00:48:05.000 And you have to ask yourself, how are you as an American going to get any adequate representation if your own representative doesn't want to even speak your language?

00:48:15.000 How are you representing America if you're appealing to people from a foreign country?

00:48:20.000 And most of the time you're speaking, you're not even speaking in English.

00:48:24.000 And then we wonder why our country has been overrun by third world migrants and why we're seeing a rapid decline of white Christians, which is what the majority of our country used to be. 1.00

00:48:37.000 Now our country is less than 44% white.

00:48:42.000 Let's go ahead and play clip number five.

00:48:44.000 This is Ilhan Omar speaking in Somali at a rally, just showing once again that she's really not that interested in assimilating or representing American constituents.

00:48:56.000 She's interested more in representing these Somali transplants.

00:49:01.000 And as I said before, do you import the third world? 0.99

00:49:04.000 You become the third world. 0.95

00:49:05.000 I personally think, and I said this when I ran for Congress as well, that it's long past the time to start creating legislation to make it illegal for foreigners to hold office in America. 0.99

00:49:16.000 If you were born in another country, I'm sorry, you should not be allowed to run for Congress or you shouldn't be allowed to run for the Senate. 1.00

00:49:24.000 It doesn't matter what position you're running for, local, state, federal, you shouldn't be allowed to hold office in America if you were not born on U.S. soil. 0.99

00:49:32.000 This is the rule that applies to the presidency.

00:49:34.000 So why are the rules different for the presidency?

00:49:37.000 Why is it that the rules to become a member of Congress or to become a mayor or to become a council member, whatever you may be?

00:49:45.000 Why are the rules so different from those of people who are running for president?

00:49:50.000 Why do you have to be a natural born U.S. citizen to be United States president, but you can be born in Uganda or you could be born in, I don't know, pick your hellhole in Africa, Somalia, right? 0.99

00:50:04.000 Whatever it may be.

00:50:05.000 You can be born in Kenya and yet you can hold office in America.

00:50:10.000 You can be born in India and you can hold office in America.

00:50:14.000 I mean, you had Shreeth Anadar today who was questioning Kirsty Noam, the DHS secretary, and telling her that she's in violation of the law.

00:50:21.000 It's like, hello, you are not even from our country.

00:50:24.000 Your eyebrows are severely microbladed into your forehead to the point where you look like a cartoon character and you got in trouble and your laboratory got shut down because you were torturing and abusing animals, right?

00:50:37.000 These people do not have the value system or, you know, even the moral and ethical compass to be an American, let alone the compass or the heritage or the knowledge of our history to represent Americans.

00:50:51.000 So I think it's completely inappropriate that we have foreign-born individuals representing Americans, whether it be, like I said, local office, state office, or federal office. 1.00

00:51:00.000 I think that there needs to be an immigration moratorium. 1.00

00:51:03.000 We need to have increased mass deportations.

00:51:06.000 And it also needs to be completely illegal.

00:51:08.000 It needs to be completely illegal to run for office in America if you were born in another country.

00:51:14.000 It's just completely unacceptable.

00:51:16.000 Let's go ahead and play clip number five, Ilhan Omar shouting in Somali at a rally in Minnesota.

00:51:46.000 On this topic, in Somali, I'm gonna go on to celebrate the rally.

00:51:50.000 For that, I'mg the end of the church.

00:51:55.000 I'm not going to go on to Dr. I'm not going to go on to other things.

00:52:25.000 However, it is the same thing as the father of God.

00:52:28.000 Now, it is the same thing as the father of.

00:53:06.000 God.

00:53:46.000 It's completely out of control.

00:54:03.000 I don't understand when that became normal or when that became acceptable here in the United States of America, but we're definitely not getting any representation when we can't even understand our own members of Congress.

00:54:16.000 So, and then they wonder why they have Somali fraud rings funding al-Shabaab terrorists, funding ISIS coming out of Minnesota. 0.74

00:54:23.000 Did you know that according to FBI statistics that Minneapolis is the number one ISIS recruitment location in the entire United States?

00:54:30.000 Did you know that?

00:54:31.000 Did you know that the number one ISIS recruitment location in our entire country is in Ilhano Mars district?

00:54:41.000 Is it any wonder why?

00:54:43.000 I mean, you have this representative who is campaigning in Islamic centers that are calling for people to join ISIS.

00:54:51.000 There's a center called Dar al-Farouk Islamic Center in Minneapolis.

00:54:54.000 I was actually trespassed when I went there.

00:54:56.000 I went there to confront the Imam and ask him on camera why so many men who were at his mosque were joining ISIS and fleeing the country and going to Somalia and Syria and joining groups like Al-Shabaab and ISIS.

00:55:08.000 And they called the police on me for simply asking them a question.

00:55:12.000 Is it any wonder why?

00:55:16.000 I mean, this has been going on for years.

00:55:18.000 There's reporting about this fraud ring in Minneapolis that's been going on for years.

00:55:24.000 I remember seeing stories about this fraud when I was in Minnesota in 2018.

00:55:32.000 So why has it taken over seven years for the truth to come out and the truth to be mainstream?

00:55:37.000 How come they weren't talking about this when Ilhan Omar was running for office?

00:55:41.000 When I was confronting her and asking her before anyone even knew who she was about marrying her brother.

00:55:49.000 There's a lot of stories like that.

00:55:52.000 There's a lot of stories in our country and country and stories really around the world where the media ignores them, politicians ignore them.

00:56:01.000 And really, it's up to independent journalists to report the truth in order for the truth to finally go mainstream.

00:56:06.000 It's pretty shocking that with all of the many billions of dollars that the mainstream media has at their fingertips to carry out their reports and to travel, they have hair and makeup teams.

00:56:20.000 They have professionals who travel with them.

00:56:23.000 All they have to do is sit there and focus on their content.

00:56:26.000 Whereas independent journalists have to actually focus on filming and editing and raising the money to do their work and platforming their work and editing their work, putting it on social media, uploading it, getting views for it, getting a marketing budget if you're going to market it.

00:56:40.000 I mean, these people have it so easy.

00:56:44.000 So you would expect that the least that they could do is actually work to deliver the truth to the American people.

00:56:52.000 And I'm about to introduce you to one of those independent journalists who is doing just that on the ground in Puerto Rico.

00:56:59.000 But before I get to that and we talk about the ongoing disastrous bankruptcy in Puerto Rico and the absolute abomination surrounding the fact that the Puerto Rican people have had rolling blackouts in their country for the last eight years, I want to take a moment to thank the sponsor of tonight's episode of Loomer Unleashed, Kirk Elliott, Precious Metals.

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01:00:22.000 Now, if you've been following my website, loomered.com, and you follow me on X, then you know that I've been covering the bankruptcy, the ongoing bankruptcy, never-ending bankruptcy in Puerto Rico.

01:00:36.000 You can pull up some of my tweets.

01:00:38.000 If you haven't seen them, I'll give you a little bit of a refresher before I bring my guest on tonight.

01:00:45.000 You had Hurricane Maria in 2017.

01:00:48.000 And since then, you know, the power grid in Puerto Rico is just completely, just completely destroyed.

01:00:56.000 And there's been a bankruptcy.

01:00:59.000 And ultimately, you know, there's a complete racket going on.

01:01:04.000 I like to call it USAID 2.0, USAID 2.0, where you have over $2 billion thus far that has been funneled to lawyers and consultants who are supposed to be tasked with the goal of restoring power to Puerto Rico, to the people of Puerto Rico over these last eight years.

01:01:24.000 And they haven't been able to figure it out.

01:01:27.000 There's extreme poverty in Puerto Rico.

01:01:30.000 People rarely have running water, rarely have electricity.

01:01:34.000 I mean, it's very common to have multiple blackouts per week.

01:01:38.000 Most people do not have constant electricity.

01:01:42.000 It's known to, you know, have constant rolling blackouts on the island.

01:01:47.000 And so you have to ask yourself, right?

01:01:51.000 When is enough enough?

01:01:52.000 When is enough enough?

01:01:53.000 And is there a point in time where consultants and lawyers who are getting paid, right, to be advisors for this bankruptcy, to handle the power grid in Puerto Rico, are they ever going to have a conscience, a soul, or a sense of shame to wake up and say, wow, you know, I'm being paid more than most people in Puerto Rico make in an entire year.

01:02:16.000 You know, the average person in Puerto Rico makes about $18,000 per year.

01:02:22.000 And some of these consultants have been paid millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars.

01:02:28.000 Again, over $2 billion thus far, as I've reported, you can see here has been shelled out just to lawyers and consultants.

01:02:37.000 Okay.

01:02:38.000 Over $13.5 billion in FEMA funds have been allocated to rebuild the grid.

01:02:44.000 In 2020, President Trump's administration announced in an official White House statement that this was the largest amount of FEMA infrastructure grants ever awarded to Puerto Rico.

01:02:55.000 And yet the power grid still hasn't been restored.

01:02:58.000 People still don't have electricity.

01:03:01.000 People barely have heated water.

01:03:03.000 They have to survive with generators.

01:03:05.000 And the cost to run a generator costs more than some of these people are paying each year for their rent.

01:03:13.000 It's unbelievable.

01:03:17.000 Joining me now to discuss this ongoing crisis, the never ending bankruptcy, just this endless pit of money in Puerto Rico and his new documentary that I mean, it's outstanding.

01:03:29.000 I watched this documentary and very entertaining.

01:03:33.000 It's really hard to keep people's attention on a subject, a subject that is this mundane and this tedious.

01:03:39.000 It's not exactly like a sexy subject.

01:03:41.000 Like, oh, wow, the power grid in Puerto Rico.

01:03:44.000 But this documentary is a must-watch documentary.

01:03:47.000 Very funny, very entertaining, but very serious and also very sad at the same time.

01:03:52.000 He did a very good job making you feel all of these emotions at the same time.

01:03:56.000 So joining me now is independent journalist Gary Foss, goes by the name of Street Gonzo on social media.

01:04:04.000 Gary, thank you so much for joining me tonight.

01:04:07.000 I think you did a fantastic job.

01:04:09.000 Your documentary is now out.

01:04:10.000 It's been out for a couple of days.

01:04:11.000 It's called Exposing the Shadow Government Controlling Puerto Rico.

01:04:16.000 Thanks for having me on.

01:04:18.000 And I'd like to point out that the reason I was actually going down there to look into the living conditions of the people that are struggling with the power problems was actually because of a tweet that you made about David Brownstein.

01:04:33.000 Wow.

01:04:34.000 Thank you.

01:04:35.000 And yeah, his monthly retainer of $850,000, when I think you boiled it down to what he makes per day is roughly $28,000 a day, which is more than the median income of a Puerto Rican family is.

01:04:50.000 Absolutely.

01:04:51.000 And it's sick.

01:04:53.000 It's sick.

01:04:54.000 It's actually insane because that's one person.

01:05:01.000 And there are other law firms and consulting agencies, McKinsey and Company, Proscower Rose.

01:05:06.000 There's a litany of entities involved in this.

01:05:10.000 And when we went down there, we basically found out that the financial board that was created by the ProMesa Act, which was signed by Obama, is essentially a shadow government that is controlling the entire island because they monitor and regulate all of the finances.

01:05:28.000 And given that they handle all the money, they can supersede legislation that's signed and they control the entire island.

01:05:41.000 So.

01:05:42.000 It's quite shameful.

01:05:44.000 And, you know, this is of interest to American citizens, right?

01:05:48.000 As people know, it's a territory of the United States and our taxpayer dollars have been going towards restoring this power grid that is never going to be restored, it seems, because these lawyers, these law firms and these consultants are just completely raping, not just the U.S. taxpayers, but they're also just completely raping our FEMA funds.

01:06:08.000 They're raping the people of Puerto Rico.

01:06:10.000 And it's created a very dangerous situation.

01:06:13.000 I mean, it's to the point where it's not just affecting people's ability to function in their day-to-day lives.

01:06:18.000 It's created a health crisis.

01:06:21.000 It's created third world health conditions there where people who are on oxygen or people who need to be connected to devices in order to, you know, to live, whether they are in hospice or whether they are, you know, people with breathing disorders or people, you know, struggling from ailments, life-threatening diseases, conditions, people getting surgery.

01:06:41.000 I mean, imagine living in a place when you have a life-threatening emergency and you don't even know if the power is going to be on when you need life-saving treatment or whether or not doctors are going to need to use a generator to give you life-saving treatment.

01:06:55.000 Imagine being a, you cover this extensively in your documentary.

01:06:59.000 The students there, it's literally dumbing down the territory.

01:07:03.000 It's dumbing down the people, the population. 0.98

01:07:05.000 They're literally getting dumber because the children are not able to actually get an education. 0.92

01:07:11.000 This has been ongoing for the last eight years. 0.82

01:07:14.000 So imagine being a student and not being able to stay in your classroom because it's too hot, right?

01:07:19.000 There's no air conditioning.

01:07:20.000 It's smeltering down there.

01:07:21.000 You're in a room that's 100 degrees.

01:07:22.000 You can't be in a classroom.

01:07:24.000 The lights flicker, right?

01:07:26.000 You can't stay in a classroom because the lights aren't on and you need light in order to, you know, to go to school.

01:07:31.000 What can you, what can you, what can you tell the viewers about just the level of poverty that you saw and maybe just some of the most egregious examples of people not having power when they absolutely needed power?

01:07:45.000 So this is how I would say that it's, it's the most, the way that this can be framed that's the most understandable to people here in the mainland is that the poverty rate down there is dramatically higher than it is on the mainland, even though Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.

01:08:01.000 54% of children in Puerto Rico live in poverty.

01:08:05.000 And like you said, the typical income of a Puerto Rican individual is $18,000, which is dramatically lower than it is here.

01:08:12.000 And as such, a lot of people down there are relying on food stamps, right?

01:08:17.000 And what happens is when the power goes out, your meat, your dairy, your eggs, all that stuff spoils and it goes bad.

01:08:25.000 And then people can't eat until the next month when they have food stamps again.

01:08:29.000 So it's a lot more dire than I think what I was ever expecting.

01:08:36.000 And the level of corruption is like totally out of control.

01:08:38.000 And also, this has been going on a lot longer than Hurricane Maria, which was another thing that blew my mind.

01:08:47.000 So when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, it knocked out power for essentially 100% of the island.

01:08:54.000 Nobody had power.

01:08:55.000 And since then, there's been rolling blackouts, like you said, and everybody basically has to have a generator.

01:09:01.000 But this has been a problem in Puerto Rico since I'd say it started in the late 70s, but we were talking to people.

01:09:09.000 I'm 32 years old.

01:09:10.000 We were talking to people that were my age and even older that were in their 40s.

01:09:14.000 And I was asking when this started.

01:09:15.000 And they said, one guy whose house we went to, he still doesn't have a roof.

01:09:20.000 And he said, this has been a problem since I've had common sense.

01:09:25.000 I mean, he's essentially saying it's been a problem since he's been alive.

01:09:29.000 And there's a litany of reasons for that, which we get into into the documentary.

01:09:33.000 But it's, it's, these are American citizens.

01:09:38.000 I think people forget that.

01:09:40.000 I think I even kind of forgot that before I went down there.

01:09:42.000 These are American citizens and they're not living like Americans. 0.99

01:09:44.000 They're living like people in a third world. 1.00

01:09:46.000 We have a civics problem.

01:09:47.000 We have a civics problem in our country.

01:09:49.000 And so there's a lot of people out there who think that Puerto Rico is a country.

01:09:54.000 They think that Puerto Rico is a country and they forget that it's a U.S. territory.

01:09:58.000 So you're right.

01:09:58.000 These are U.S. citizens.

01:10:00.000 And I mean, it may sound laughable to some people, but if you were to do like a man on the street interview and maybe you should do this sometime and you should ask people whether or not Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory or if it's a separate country, I'm sure that you would find a lot of people would say, oh, it's a country.

01:10:16.000 It's a country.

01:10:18.000 So, you know, just imagine if U.S. citizens were subjected to these types of, imagine if you had rolling blackouts in New York City.

01:10:26.000 That would not be tolerated.

01:10:27.000 There was a blackout in New York City a couple years ago for about a week, if you recall.

01:10:32.000 And it was all over the news 24-7, non-stop coverage.

01:10:36.000 Look at what happened during Hurricane Katrina and how, you know, President Bush was shamed nonstop because people didn't have power and, you know, there was sewage backing up into the streets and people didn't have running hot water.

01:10:48.000 So it's crazy that The same level of outrage isn't being expressed by the media over not just the siphoning of all the funds to the consultants and the lawyers, but the fact that U.S. citizens are just living in absolute squalor and filth.

01:11:05.000 I have a theory why people don't know about this on the mainland as much.

01:11:09.000 And it's sort of a two-part theory here, but I think part of it is a language barrier because all of the reporting that's done on this, outside of what a handful of independent journalists have covered, is mostly in Spanish.

01:11:22.000 And 78% of the mainland only speaks English.

01:11:25.000 So I think a lot of the news is being reported, but it's being isolated to the island.

01:11:32.000 And then the other thing is that it's being only certain aspects of it are being reported.

01:11:39.000 I have not really seen anything outside of, like I said, there's probably some smaller outlets on the island and, you know, like maybe some podcasts and social media personalities talking about this, but I've not seen anybody outside of you and I basically call these people out by name.

01:11:56.000 And that is probably because I think that there is a relative level of fear regarding calling people out like this that are very powerful because there are, you know, it's part of America, but there are dead bodies connected to some of this, some of these conspiracies.

01:12:15.000 I'm not saying connected to the specific people that we're speaking about, but there's been a lot of corruption and a lot of people that were investigating corruption in Puerto Rico that have been found drowned or shot or something along those lines.

01:12:32.000 And a lot of people actually told me that I shouldn't go back down to Puerto Rico ever since I put this out.

01:12:37.000 Yeah.

01:12:37.000 Which is kind of concerning.

01:12:40.000 Well, yeah, I believe it.

01:12:42.000 I mean, since I started talking about this, I've had hit pieces written about me.

01:12:45.000 I had the Wall Street Journal wrote a nasty hit piece about me saying that, you know, I didn't know what I was talking about.

01:12:52.000 I mean, people speaking out, attacking me, lobbyists and other lawyers posting nasty tweets about me.

01:12:58.000 So that's what happens when you start to ruffle feathers.

01:13:01.000 I mean, the Wall Street Journal started, you know, attacking me for what?

01:13:05.000 For standing up for people who don't have electricity?

01:13:08.000 Like, what exactly am I doing?

01:13:09.000 That's so wrong?

01:13:10.000 Reporting on reporting on a waste of taxpayer dollars, reporting on a depletion of $13.5 billion of federal funds?

01:13:17.000 Like, what are we doing that is so wrong?

01:13:19.000 What do you think that we're doing, Gary, that is so wrong?

01:13:22.000 You know, it's interesting that you say that too. 0.98

01:13:24.000 The more I looked into this, because like I said, I saw the tweet that you made and I was like, well, holy shit, that's kind of crazy. 0.93

01:13:30.000 So I looked really deeply into this. 0.79

01:13:32.000 And like you said, Trump put out $13 billion roughly in 2020.

01:13:38.000 And that was at the time, and it still remains the largest FEMA expenditure ever obligated to anyone for a single project, ever, not just Puerto Rico.

01:13:48.000 He even went down there.

01:13:49.000 He even went down there.

01:13:50.000 Remember when he was tossing paper towels and then they got mad at him for tossing paper towels and they said he was insensitive.

01:13:56.000 So while the Democrats go down there and they're partying it up, they're staying in resorts.

01:14:00.000 President Trump is passing out life-saving aid and supply.

01:14:03.000 And the Democrats, I mean, I saw a report this morning that said the AOC spent over $50,000 in Puerto Rico on luxury hotels.

01:14:11.000 How many people's salaries is that per year in Puerto Rico?

01:14:14.000 The average salary is $18,000 per year.

01:14:17.000 She was there.

01:14:18.000 That was actually when we were there.

01:14:20.000 It was during the Bad Bunny residency.

01:14:23.000 But the reason I was bringing up the FEMA expenditure is because there's been more money on top of that.

01:14:27.000 It's actually more than $13 billion.

01:14:29.000 And less than a quarter of that money has been spent because it's been obligated but not dispersed.

01:14:35.000 And there's a big problem there with, you know, there's this FEMA reimbursement model, but there's a big problem with corruption in the government too, outside of the actual financial board.

01:14:51.000 And then there's these law firms on top of this.

01:14:54.000 Sorry, I get a little bit choked up talking about this because we talked to these people who their families are like, these are all really good people and they're poor and they really have no, they have no viable alternative.

01:15:08.000 And it's really sad.

01:15:10.000 I mean, we talked to this kid who, I mean, he's like literally, his life is intrinsically connected to the power grid.

01:15:21.000 I mean, he's like literally plugged into the power grid.

01:15:24.000 He doesn't, he can't breathe on his own.

01:15:25.000 And every time the power goes out, his mom has to use these batteries. 0.60

01:15:28.000 And if the batteries run out of power, the aunt has to go to the store to get gas. 1.00

01:15:32.000 And it's just like, it's like a real life nightmare.

01:15:35.000 And it's just not really being spoken about.

01:15:38.000 And all this money that's being siphoned off the island is, it's, I mean, the island's been bankrupt for almost 10 years.

01:15:46.000 It's that's that's Puerto Rican taxpayer dollars.

01:15:50.000 That's the stuff that's supposed to be going to fix this.

01:15:52.000 And it's going into the pockets of Wall Street lawyers that are already wealthy anyways.

01:15:58.000 How does that make any sense?

01:15:59.000 Buying multiple homes.

01:16:00.000 It's shocking.

01:16:01.000 I want to go ahead and play the trailer because this is about a two hour long film.

01:16:05.000 I encourage people to watch it.

01:16:07.000 I mean, it's phenomenal.

01:16:09.000 Very well produced.

01:16:10.000 Very art.

01:16:11.000 I mean, it's just incredible.

01:16:12.000 You did a, it's so artistic.

01:16:14.000 It's so full of, it's funny, you know, it's, you're not like pretending to be someone you're not.

01:16:19.000 You're showing, you know, outtakes from your time there, your own personality.

01:16:24.000 It's like vlogging meets professional documentary movie.

01:16:28.000 I mean, it really honestly looks like something that you would see on Netflix.

01:16:32.000 Not that I'm a big Netflix flanner, anything like that, but it is so well produced.

01:16:37.000 And I guess like what I could compare it to, maybe something that would come out of Vice, right?

01:16:42.000 Something that's kind of like edgy, but has like that kind of pop culture vibe to it too.

01:16:47.000 But also, you know, you're not watching a boring documentary about a power grid.

01:16:52.000 It's very entertaining and it like keeps your, you know, keeps your attention.

01:16:56.000 I didn't get bored.

01:16:57.000 It's, it's kind of out of control too at times.

01:17:00.000 I mean, I obviously, I have a little bit of an insane personality, but I think that that's.

01:17:04.000 But it's unique.

01:17:04.000 It's your style.

01:17:05.000 It's, it's, it's what makes you you, right?

01:17:08.000 If you're going to be an independent reporter, you have to be, you have to have your selling point or something that makes you unique because if you haven't noticed, it's a very oversaturated market.

01:17:18.000 But I want to go ahead and play the trailer.

01:17:20.000 Again, the documentary itself is over two hours and I'm going to show you all where you can watch it.

01:17:25.000 But let's go ahead and play this trailer in the meantime.

01:17:27.000 We went to Puerto Rico to investigate the power problems and discovered a shadow government siphoned $2 billion off the island to Wall Street lawyers in New York.

01:17:37.000 Well, a lot of people were literally going hungry.

01:17:39.000 People died.

01:17:40.000 I was going crazy.

01:17:42.000 I almost shoot myself. 0.72

01:17:43.000 You're like a shadow government of Puerto Rico.

01:17:46.000 You have been living without power.

01:17:47.000 How long has that been going on?

01:17:48.000 Since 2018, basically. 0.74

01:17:50.000 The population has been literally dumbed down.

01:17:53.000 My entire career, these people have had no power here.

01:17:55.000 I'm tired of it.

01:17:56.000 My kids come to the surface.

01:17:58.000 I think it's because of money.

01:17:59.000 This keeps her son alive.

01:18:01.000 When it turns off, he will begin hyperventilating.

01:18:04.000 See?

01:18:06.000 Luma came.

01:18:07.000 He's holding not to be pigged. 0.98

01:18:08.000 I hate him. 0.89

01:18:09.000 I know.

01:18:10.000 Oh, my heart.

01:18:11.000 I hate them. 0.68

01:18:12.000 Do I have time to smoke a bone real quick?

01:18:13.000 I'm not telling you what to do, but since you're trying to be healthier, I'm just going to suggest that you quit smoking bones.

01:18:20.000 I've been.

01:18:24.000 Well, Joel, here we are down on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico of beautiful brown women and sandy beaches.

01:18:31.000 And we're down here to ask people about the power grid failures that the island has been experiencing for the past eight years after Hurricane Maria in 2017.

01:18:42.000 The power grid, PREPA, has been bankrupt since July of 2017.

01:18:48.000 They've been going through bankruptcy proceedings and experiencing rolling blackouts ever since then. 0.99

01:18:56.000 We're going into the shit tomorrow, buddy. 0.98

01:18:58.000 We were told specifically to avoid a neighborhood called La Perla. 0.99

01:19:03.000 Apparently, an American was set on fire there a few years back.

01:19:06.000 Not to mention the tourist who was shot and killed there the day we landed.

01:19:11.000 So down, down that way, don't take pictures.

01:19:14.000 If you don't respect the rules here at La Perla, you have a very big problem. 1.00

01:19:20.000 Fuck Luma. 1.00

01:19:21.000 Fuck the government. 1.00

01:19:22.000 When's the last time there was a power outage that was for 24 hours? 1.00

01:19:25.000 Bro, yesterday.

01:19:27.000 In Puerto Rico, was where the first place do they try the bill control bills? 0.97

01:19:33.000 She's saying that Puerto Rico is ground zero for birth control testing and population control.

01:19:38.000 She didn't even want to talk about this because she's scared of the power company.

01:19:42.000 It sounds like a bomb going off.

01:19:43.000 You know, in other areas, it's even worse. 0.98

01:19:45.000 They're scared to talk the truth because they here get it at the head, you know, like kill them.

01:19:53.000 If you still do the right thing, for sure. 0.86

01:19:59.000 For sure.

01:20:00.000 Believe me. 1.00

01:20:01.000 Okay, well, fuck. 1.00

01:20:08.000 Watch our documentary, Exposing Corruption in Puerto Rico, now on the Street Gonzo YouTube channel. 1.00

01:20:16.000 Wow.

01:20:18.000 Did you have security when you went, or did you just go by yourself?

01:20:22.000 You have a very eccentric, zany personality.

01:20:24.000 I like it.

01:20:25.000 But did you go?

01:20:26.000 Because I'm kind of similar, right?

01:20:28.000 Like people tell me I'm eccentric and kind of crazy, but you know, I've definitely gone places before without security when I probably should have brought security.

01:20:36.000 But I didn't really see any big security guards around you.

01:20:39.000 Did you have security?

01:20:40.000 No, no, we just shoot from the hip.

01:20:43.000 And, you know, I walk with God and hope that everything just works out generally, which, you know, sometimes we've gone on a lot of excursions, Joel and I, and sometimes they get pretty dicey.

01:20:55.000 But yeah, it is what it is.

01:20:56.000 No, it's great.

01:20:58.000 Would you say that Puerto Rico is a similar case to what we're seeing in Democrat-led cities like Portland, Chicago, Detroit, where it's just gross incompetence in all these Democrat-led areas?

01:21:11.000 I mean, we know that Puerto Rico really has a lot of Democrat influence, more Democrat influence there than Republican, I'd say.

01:21:20.000 Do you think that this is, you know, this transcends party lines?

01:21:25.000 Or do you think that this is a direct result of Democrat policies and the fact that this was initiated at the end of Obama's administration under Obama?

01:21:36.000 Do you think that do you think that there's a partisan angle to this corruption?

01:21:43.000 So I would say that innately the blame would be placed on the people who passed Pro Mesa and created the financial board because that's what it boils back to.

01:21:54.000 But I mean, I don't even know if it's the same thing as what we're seeing with incompetence in American cities.

01:22:01.000 I think this has been largely done on purpose, dare I say.

01:22:04.000 And I think that Puerto Rico, I mean, in the documentary, we go into a lot of things like the birth control testing and some other stuff and the creation of Luma, the joint American-Canadian energy venture that was created with the sole purpose to modernize the power grid, specifically the transmission and distribution of it.

01:22:24.000 And they didn't do that.

01:22:25.000 And it essentially seems like the company was created to make more money because the power problems have remained the same, but the price of electricity has gone up.

01:22:37.000 So I think they're just trying to make more money.

01:22:40.000 And I think this is basically a big scam.

01:22:44.000 That's my take.

01:22:45.000 I don't think it's incompetence.

01:22:46.000 Do I think it's partisan?

01:22:47.000 I mean, it probably, like I said, it's innately, you have to basically blame Obama and the people that signed this, which I, I, I don't, I don't, I think that it probably transcends party lines a little bit, to be honest with you.

01:23:02.000 Yeah, I mean, some of the, some of the lawyers and some of the consultants are Republicans too.

01:23:06.000 I mean, look, it happened under a Democrat administration for sure under Obama, but there are people on both sides of the aisle who are complicit in this for sure.

01:23:16.000 Are people on the ground in Puerto Rico who you spoke with aware of the hundreds of millions of dollars?

01:23:21.000 I mean, they're really over $2.2 billion precisely.

01:23:25.000 Are people aware of how much money these consultants and these lawyers are making?

01:23:28.000 I know you said you first found out about this when you read my tweet exposing the lawyers and these consultants, but do the average Puerto Ricans know the extent of how much money these people are being paid?

01:23:42.000 So that's interesting you say that.

01:23:44.000 I think that they're all aware that this financial board, the Financial Oversight Management Board, which is they refer to as La Junta, which is a derogatory term.

01:23:55.000 That's not a happy term.

01:23:57.000 That's Spanish for the board.

01:23:59.000 They're aware that the board is basically siphoning their money.

01:24:05.000 But do they realize how much it is?

01:24:08.000 I don't even know because a lot of these people down there didn't realize that Trump even gave the $13 billion obligated the money for the grid.

01:24:21.000 Like they didn't even know that that happened.

01:24:22.000 So they didn't know the money was basically frozen and less than a quarter of it's been spent.

01:24:26.000 So that's probably why they're not aware of it because they're not seeing it in their day-to-day.

01:24:31.000 You know what I mean?

01:24:34.000 Makes sense.

01:24:36.000 I know that recently, though, President Trump recently fired several members of the board, and then they were complaining and saying that he couldn't do that.

01:24:46.000 What are some of the top, I guess, two or three steps that you think the Trump administration needs to take in order to get this issue fixed for the people of Puerto Rico?

01:24:55.000 And what do you think are the biggest obstacles in terms of restoring the power grid and reducing the cost of electricity for the people of Puerto Rico, but also just ending this endless money pit, this endless money pit that is just siphoning so much, so much money from the people of Puerto Rico and creating a crisis that, in my opinion, is now worse than the original crisis that all of these programs were created to fix to begin with?

01:25:23.000 I mean, I don't really think that the situation has improved.

01:25:26.000 I think it's actually gotten worse.

01:25:29.000 It absolutely has gotten worse.

01:25:31.000 I would agree with that.

01:25:32.000 And I think that the number one step has essentially already been taken, which would be to fire all the members of the financial board.

01:25:40.000 Because like you said, he fired damn near the entire board actually when we were there.

01:25:44.000 And number two would be to.

01:25:47.000 Yeah, shortly after I put out my tweet, it was kind of interesting.

01:25:50.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:25:52.000 Robert Mojica, the executive director, he needs to be replaced.

01:25:57.000 He makes $625,000 a year.

01:26:01.000 That's 34 times the typical Puerto Rican salary.

01:26:06.000 So that guy needs to be replaced.

01:26:07.000 And then they need to resolve the bankruptcy.

01:26:10.000 And however, they manage that with the bondholders.

01:26:12.000 And the, I'm not an economist, so I don't know how exactly that would work.

01:26:17.000 But basically, the bankruptcy needs to be resolved immediately so that the actual work on the grid can get repaired.

01:26:24.000 And to be honest with you, I think that with the military presence there right now, with this pending conflict in Venezuela, maybe they could use the Army Corps of Engineers to start fixing things down there.

01:26:38.000 Because I would say that this is, you're, we're at the, if this was in America, it would be a state of emergency.

01:26:45.000 And it is in America, so it should be considered an emergency.

01:26:49.000 It should be handled immediately.

01:26:52.000 And I would also say that some of these people related to the board need to be held accountable, probably use congressional authority to investigate all of this.

01:27:01.000 And if there is, you know, financial mismanagement, whatever you want to call it, the people need to be held accountable.

01:27:11.000 And that money needs to be returned to Puerto Ricans because, like I said, this is that $2 billion, that's not the, those aren't FEMA funds.

01:27:16.000 Those are, that's Puerto Rican tax dollars, and they need to be returned to those people in the form of physical checks like we did during during COVID with the stimulus because they didn't PREPA hasn't even been, they're still bankrupt.

01:27:30.000 I mean, what the hell is going on?

01:27:32.000 You know, we have a clip here actually of Robert Mujica, the executive director, testifying.

01:27:38.000 And this is when, you know, one of the things that really got my attention is when I was watching some of the video from these congressional testimonies and I was like listening to some of these numbers and I was like, whoa, this reminds me of like USAID, right?

01:27:53.000 This is literally the next USAID scandal.

01:27:55.000 People were so outraged when Elon Musk came into the Trump administration and was dismantling USAID and people were exposing all of the corruption and how much money all these NGOs were making and how much money all these media organizations were making.

01:28:09.000 And it just, it just like completely blew open the scam.

01:28:13.000 Yeah, send Doge down there.

01:28:15.000 Yeah, right.

01:28:16.000 We need to send Doge down, right, to examine, to examine the board.

01:28:20.000 But this is what caught my attention.

01:28:22.000 And I just like, when you listen to these numbers during this testimony, it just, it just blows your mind.

01:28:27.000 It just blows your mind when you think that this has been going on for over a decade now.

01:28:32.000 This has been going on for over a decade, right?

01:28:34.000 With these allocations of funds and just, like I said before, it's just a complete money pit.

01:28:41.000 And how much deeper of a hole are we going to dig ourselves into?

01:28:45.000 How much more storm hits?

01:28:50.000 Right.

01:28:50.000 It's kind of unpredictable.

01:28:52.000 What happens when there's another huge hurricane or if there's another huge storm?

01:28:56.000 What happens next?

01:28:58.000 What happens next?

01:28:59.000 You're going to start over again from ground from zero?

01:29:03.000 You're going to start over again from zero?

01:29:07.000 I mean, nobody even thinks about that.

01:29:08.000 Nobody talks about that.

01:29:10.000 A lot of these people are already at zero, unfortunately.

01:29:14.000 Right, but imagine what's going to happen if a huge storm comes in and wipes out what they already have over these last few years.

01:29:22.000 They say that they've somehow made progress.

01:29:24.000 This is supposed to be progress.

01:29:27.000 What's going to happen to that young child in the bed who's on the ventilator who has to use a generator and then gasoline when the batteries don't work for the generator for the generator?

01:29:38.000 What's going to happen to him if another storm hits?

01:29:42.000 And even more damage is done.

01:29:45.000 I got a piece of information I found out that you'll definitely find interesting as a journalist.

01:29:50.000 Did you know that in 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court actually ruled that the financial board has sovereign immunity and they cannot be sued for public records?

01:30:01.000 Wow.

01:30:02.000 Isn't that insane?

01:30:04.000 That's insane.

01:30:06.000 I mean, the fact that you can't get public records, why not?

01:30:10.000 I mean, why would you not be able to get public records?

01:30:12.000 I mean, I would be inclined to say that anytime a government, especially, I mean, that's the antithesis to a constitutional republic, right?

01:30:20.000 To a democracy, but I would say they're probably trying to hide something or cover something up.

01:30:24.000 I mean, certainly.

01:30:26.000 After we left, they were trying to push an anti-transparency bill as well that was amending the already established transparency law.

01:30:36.000 So there's so much corruption down there.

01:30:38.000 And honestly, like I said, I think a lot of this stuff, the issues of the power grid have been going on long before Maria.

01:30:43.000 And I think a lot of the corruption has as well.

01:30:45.000 And yeah, like you said, maybe Elon Musk or somebody needs to like audit the entire, I mean, the entire island.

01:30:55.000 It's not just the power grid.

01:30:57.000 This, when we went down there, everything was so much worse in terms of the living conditions and what the locals had to say about the government and the power company and everything related to the money.

01:31:10.000 It was, it was like, I just couldn't believe that around every corner, there was more corruption, more conspiracy, more just everything.

01:31:19.000 Well, here's a clip of the executive director, Robert Mujica, testifying a couple months ago.

01:31:25.000 Let's go ahead and play this clip.

01:31:27.000 The board has imposed austerity, raised the cost of living, dragged out PrEPA's bankruptcy, and it has enriched consultants who have no incentive for the board to cease its functions.

01:31:37.000 Mr. Mojica, Congress promised the board would cost under $400 million in 10 years.

01:31:43.000 Can you tell me how much the board has actually spent during this period?

01:31:51.000 The restructuring overall has cost over, and I think just the CBO estimate actually said that it would be done in the first two years, and then it would end after four consecutive years.

01:32:03.000 So the reality is that it has taken much longer.

01:32:06.000 It's taken much longer, partially because the government resisted the reforms.

01:32:10.000 You had Hurricane Maria, you had the hurricanes, you had, I mean, I'm sorry, you had Hurricane Maria, you had earthquakes, you had COVID, all of these things intervening, and the government acted as a result of the rest of the world.

01:32:22.000 I'm sorry to interrupt because we have limited time.

01:32:25.000 What's the amount?

01:32:26.000 The total amount is about $1.4 billion is the cost of the restructuring.

01:32:30.000 But we've heard about consultants costing over $2 billion.

01:32:34.000 The restructuring has cost about $1.4 billion.

01:32:37.000 That's not all consultant costs.

01:32:38.000 That would also include the numbers, the cost of the actual board itself, the board staff.

01:32:44.000 But let's be clear.

01:32:45.000 Okay, so it's more than five times what Congress estimated this would cost.

01:32:49.000 You understand that this is creating a lot of distrust in Puerto Rico because it appears that, especially when it comes to the excessive spending on consultants, the board is imposing austerity on the people of Puerto Rico.

01:32:59.000 But then when it comes to its own expenses, it's not setting an example.

01:33:05.000 And you see, you just see the way he doesn't want to actually answer the question.

01:33:09.000 Yeah.

01:33:10.000 Well, it's not all consultants.

01:33:12.000 No, that's 2.2 billion just for consultants.

01:33:15.000 He wasn't even being honest.

01:33:17.000 And did you hear him mention that they were imposing austerity?

01:33:20.000 I completely forgot to mention this.

01:33:22.000 So they've, while they've been spending $2 billion on law firms, consultants, et cetera, they've also cut spending on healthcare and education, which is the, I would argue, two of the sectors that are most affected by the lack of power.

01:33:40.000 And also, he said there's no incentive for these lawyers to resolve this bankruptcy.

01:33:46.000 And that's because lawyers get paid by the hour.

01:33:50.000 So the longer the bankruptcy, the more they get paid.

01:33:54.000 Right.

01:33:54.000 I mean, what's going on here?

01:33:56.000 It's such bullshit. 0.99

01:33:59.000 I also want to point something else out that's very interesting. 0.99

01:34:03.000 So the lawyer that we spoke with, Alfonso Fernandez, his professional opinion was that this should have been resolved over a period of like three or four years, five years, max.

01:34:17.000 So he was in agreement with what that guy was saying in the clip.

01:34:20.000 And he also mentioned to me that the original executive director of the financial board was a lady named Natalie Jurasco, who is from Chicago.

01:34:32.000 And she was formerly the minister of finance in Ukraine, who recently had a large corruption scandal regarding the energy uh grid with the nuclear energy.

01:34:48.000 So it's there's just a lot of coincidences here, Laura.

01:34:52.000 I don't know if they uh, if you believe in coincidences, but a lot of conspiracy.

01:34:59.000 I don't think it's a coincidence at all.

01:35:03.000 Given all of these ties to the Democrats and given the ongoing corruption, and just given the absurdity of this entire situation, does it seem like President Trump and Republicans could win over Puerto Ricans, both here in the mainland?

01:35:17.000 but also on the island in Puerto Rico if the Trump administration puts an end to this never-ending bankruptcy and also fixes the dilapidated infrastructure on the island?

01:35:28.000 Do you think that these people are more likely to support Republicans or to support the Trump administration if the president were to completely get rid of this board and I guess take a more hands-on approach to managing the bankruptcy?

01:35:47.000 Well, I would say that that's the number one issue in Puerto Rico for sure.

01:35:53.000 So if Trump was and company was able to actually start to fix it and get the bankruptcy resolved, well, yeah, absolutely.

01:36:01.000 I mean, when I was talking to people down there about how he fired the board members, they were all happy about that, whether they were, you know, more liberal or more conservative or whatever.

01:36:11.000 But that's issue number one for Puerto Ricans from what I was experiencing.

01:36:15.000 And it's something that it's, it's like a, it's a generational problem.

01:36:20.000 You know, I don't think there's any issues that I've had in my life as a an American.

01:36:26.000 I'm from Ohio.

01:36:27.000 The only problem that I've dealt with in my life that I think has gone on generationally is sort of the, in my hometown, the heroin problem.

01:36:37.000 There's a big heroin problem where I grew up and that has affected generations of people.

01:36:41.000 But that's something that dramatically affected my life when I was younger.

01:36:45.000 And this is dramatically worse than that.

01:36:47.000 So yeah, I would say that if he was able to actually get the electric grid and the infrastructure and start to get it modernized and weed out some of the corruption and mitigate the bankruptcy, absolutely.

01:37:05.000 Yeah, it sounds like, sounds like, like you just said, it's the number one issue right now with Puerto Ricans.

01:37:10.000 So it'll be interesting to see going into 2026 with these midterm elections and then also going into 2028, how this could affect our elections if the president were to take a more hands-on approach.

01:37:20.000 I mean, he's already fired a lot of the board, but again, I don't think it's going to end with just firing some of the board members.

01:37:27.000 There definitely needs to be an audit.

01:37:29.000 It'd be really interesting to see if they would do some kind of a USAID-like audit.

01:37:33.000 I've been saying since day one, I personally think that this is the next USAID scandal.

01:37:40.000 This is USAID 2.0.

01:37:41.000 You get an audit of this.

01:37:43.000 You fire the board members.

01:37:45.000 You could probably even have people indicted.

01:37:47.000 You could probably have people indicted for corruption.

01:37:50.000 I guarantee a lot of money's been stolen.

01:37:53.000 A lot of money's been probably slushed around.

01:37:57.000 Well, you know, let's go.

01:38:01.000 We were told that there were no more FEMA funds for people.

01:38:04.000 Remember when they had the storms in North Carolina, the floods in North Carolina, and people were living in tents and it was snowing, it was freezing cold.

01:38:11.000 And we were told, no more FEMA funds, no more FEMA funds.

01:38:14.000 So there's FEMA funds for illegal aliens.

01:38:17.000 There's FEMA funds for consultants and lawyers who want to, you know, who want to basically steal from the people of Puerto Rico who have no power while kids are on ventilators, not able to breathe.

01:38:27.000 I mean, it really is a story of greed, not just a story of corruption, but you really get to see how depraved the consultant class of our country truly is.

01:38:38.000 And it's not a Republican issue and it's not a Democrat issue.

01:38:41.000 I would say, yes, this corruption began with the Democrats.

01:38:45.000 I mean, that's undeniable, given the fact that this board and the whole process of fixing and restoring the power grid began under Barack Hussein Obama.

01:38:55.000 But I'm sure that you could cross-reference all the consultants and lawyers and find out who's like, if you really were to do an audit of every single penny that's been spent on this, you'd find that it transcends party lines.

01:39:05.000 There's probably a lot of people, a lot of Wall Street types, right?

01:39:09.000 Republicans, Democrats, who are on the take while people are suffering.

01:39:13.000 So, you know, another thing, the only reason that Robert Mojica has not been fired is because he can only be fired by the board itself.

01:39:23.000 It's not a presidential appointment.

01:39:25.000 So, and given that the board is all gone, he basically cannot be fired.

01:39:29.000 And his salary is actually determined by the members of the board that he controls.

01:39:37.000 It's really insane.

01:39:39.000 And there's some other stuff we go into in the doc as well about this old U.S. Puerto Rican economic initiative from the 60s called Operation Bootstrap that sort of set up the island for all the issues that it's facing today, as well as some other stuff like the birth control testing and stuff like that.

01:39:56.000 We go deep on a bunch of different things.

01:39:58.000 Like I said, originally we were going down there to just kind of see what the living conditions have been like since Maria and see what was going on with the power grid.

01:40:06.000 And we ended up stumbling across a ton of stuff.

01:40:09.000 And how long did you spend down there?

01:40:11.000 A week.

01:40:13.000 Wow.

01:40:14.000 So you filmed this entire documentary in one week.

01:40:17.000 Yeah.

01:40:18.000 And then I got pneumonia when we were editing it.

01:40:20.000 So it took, it took a while to get it finished because I was doing the voiceovers with pneumonia, you know.

01:40:25.000 But it's become something that's kind of important to me because, well, a few reasons, but primarily because these are Americans and I care about America.

01:40:37.000 And also, you know, they're fun.

01:40:39.000 They're fun to party with.

01:40:40.000 You know what I mean?

01:40:41.000 I had a good time down there.

01:40:42.000 They're very welcoming people.

01:40:43.000 Yeah, I saw you.

01:40:44.000 I saw you checking out all those Puerto Rican ladies. 1.00

01:40:46.000 I saw you.

01:40:48.000 Yeah, I've got a soft spot for the really a weakness, I could say, for the women of Latin descent. 1.00

01:40:57.000 But y'all have to go make some more documentaries.

01:40:59.000 You'll have to go back to Puerto Rico.

01:41:01.000 You'll have to go, you know.

01:41:03.000 Well, I mean, yeah, I, you know, I really should go back down there.

01:41:09.000 I should bring Elon Musk down there with me and show him what's going on.

01:41:13.000 I actually think that somebody like him who has the capital to invest in the grid could actually make a difference.

01:41:21.000 But, you know, I do want to go back down there, but I've been getting text messages from people that are like, yeah, my uncle works for Luma, and he said that you need to be careful.

01:41:32.000 And somebody else was saying that, you know, Quanta Services has all this power, you know, like political power, I guess.

01:41:42.000 And he's like, you know, this guy needs to be careful.

01:41:44.000 He's not safe in Puerto Rico.

01:41:45.000 And I get messages like that.

01:41:46.000 And I'm like, yeah, I want to talk about that because you got a threat on Instagram too, right?

01:41:50.000 You got a threat on Instagram or you got some kind of death threat.

01:41:53.000 Let's go ahead and get that pulled up too.

01:41:56.000 Yeah, not really like a threat directly or anything like that.

01:41:59.000 It's just people from Puerto Rico have been telling me repeatedly, like over and over again, that I need to be careful.

01:42:06.000 And I think they mean be careful of, you know, going back down there and potentially.

01:42:13.000 Yeah.

01:42:14.000 I don't know.

01:42:15.000 I don't want to think about that.

01:42:16.000 But you got something on your Instagram though, right?

01:42:19.000 Tell us about what you received on Instagram.

01:42:23.000 You're talking about the reel I made.

01:42:24.000 Yeah, I'm going to play the real too, but just you could tell the viewers what happened to put it into context for everybody.

01:42:30.000 Oh, I just, it's comment after comment after comment of people saying Gary Faust is not suicidal.

01:42:37.000 Don't get murdered.

01:42:39.000 Be careful if you go back down there.

01:42:42.000 Let's go ahead and play the real too so people can see it.

01:42:45.000 Yeah.

01:42:46.000 But I mean, that must be pretty alarming.

01:42:48.000 So do you think that some of these threats are legitimate or do you think that a lot of them are trolls or the people that are reaching out?

01:42:54.000 Like when they say their uncle works for the power company or so, do you think that they're saying that to intimidate you or because they actually are sympathetic to your cause?

01:43:04.000 Oh, no.

01:43:05.000 These are all people that are that are very much so looking out for me because they're very happy about what I'm doing.

01:43:15.000 It is kind of concerning, though, when I get a bunch of them, like hundreds of messages of people being like, hey, dude, I love what you're doing, but please be careful. 0.99

01:43:22.000 I guess I just, I didn't really realize how big of a pile of shit that I stepped in. 0.99

01:43:27.000 But, you know. 0.99

01:43:29.000 They did good work.

01:43:31.000 Let's go ahead and play your reel.

01:43:33.000 Puerto Ricans have been telling me my life is in danger because of the documentary that we made exposing corruption on the island.

01:43:39.000 I've been getting a lot of messages like this and comments like these.

01:43:42.000 And I want everybody to know that I have no plans of hurting myself and I'm in perfect health kind of.

01:43:48.000 But more so, it goes to show how many Puerto Ricans are fearful to speak about things like this.

01:43:55.000 They're scared to talk the truth.

01:43:58.000 Why is that? 0.99

01:43:59.000 Fear for get it out of the head, you know, like kill them or put him in the yellow or something like that. 0.99

01:44:07.000 They're living in fear of retaliation. 0.99

01:44:09.000 They could be jailed or killed or sued into oblivion.

01:44:11.000 And that's because the government entities and law firms and consulting agencies and corporations that are behind this are very powerful and they are dangerous.

01:44:20.000 And exposing corruption is a dangerous game.

01:44:23.000 And I think that's why knowledge of the corruption on the island has largely remained isolated to the island.

01:44:28.000 And we don't know about it on the mainland because the local news, the media outlets, and just people in general are fearful to speak on it.

01:44:38.000 So share this around just in case I'm found hanging from my ceiling fan in like a week.

01:44:42.000 But more importantly, so that people can go see this documentary because we lay it all out.

01:44:47.000 We name all the names and these people need to be held accountable.

01:44:50.000 It's on the Street Gonzo YouTube page and the link is in my bio.

01:44:53.000 God bless Puerto Rico.

01:44:57.000 Wow.

01:44:58.000 Yeah.

01:45:00.000 You also started a change.org petition too, right?

01:45:03.000 What was the purpose of your petition?

01:45:06.000 So that was basically my best shot at the solution to the problem.

01:45:12.000 And I've been actually experiencing a lot of issues with people being able to access that, weirdly enough.

01:45:20.000 We have the link here.

01:45:21.000 We will get it up on the screen here.

01:45:24.000 But what are you trying to accomplish with your petition?

01:45:27.000 I mean, it used to be a really big thing.

01:45:28.000 I don't know how much the government listens to these, but there used to be a whole big thing where change, I think it was like the change.org petitions where if you got enough signatures, like 100,000 signatures, these were really popular during the Obama administration, where if you got over 100,000 signatures on your petition, the White House would release like an official statement about it.

01:45:48.000 So these became very popular because people would use these petitions to have like grassroot responses for issues that people cared about.

01:45:59.000 Most of the time, it was like social justice issues.

01:46:01.000 But in your case, you can see here that you're using yours.

01:46:05.000 Let's get it full screen.

01:46:07.000 Rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid.

01:46:10.000 And you're encouraging people to sign the petition.

01:46:15.000 It's hard to see, you know, the backdrop.

01:46:18.000 I think they changed the color from white to black.

01:46:21.000 So it's kind of hard to see all of the text, but we have it up here.

01:46:25.000 I'll put it up on the TV.

01:46:26.000 You can see it better.

01:46:27.000 Rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid by saving it from big city pirates.

01:46:31.000 Sign the petition.

01:46:32.000 You've only gotten about 6,386 signatures, but this is a grassroots initiative.

01:46:39.000 And you were saying earlier that one of the challenges that you had is that most of the reporting in this is in Spanish.

01:46:46.000 And so you decided to take it upon yourself to really have, you know, a long form documentary that could reach people in the United States or just really any English speaker around the world.

01:46:57.000 I mean, your video, I think, is probably going to get millions of views once people start really sharing it around social media.

01:47:02.000 I wouldn't even be surprised if, who knows, maybe President Trump will end up sharing it.

01:47:06.000 You never know, right?

01:47:07.000 I mean, I'm certainly going to share it.

01:47:08.000 And I know a lot of people in the White House watch my account and follow my, you know, my content and watch my show.

01:47:15.000 But this is the power of independent journalism.

01:47:20.000 Yeah.

01:47:20.000 And I, I generally just like going on adventures and telling stories.

01:47:25.000 And then when we come across stuff like this that's serious, where these people don't really have a voice, then that's when I think it becomes a different thing.

01:47:31.000 And it becomes important to be the vessel to move the needle for them.

01:47:37.000 But, you know, I was telling you that the, I'm having, I'm having issues with people being able to access that petition.

01:47:43.000 And these reels I've been making, they're getting hundreds of thousands and millions of views.

01:47:47.000 And I'm getting like, I've probably had a thousand messages, no exaggeration of people from Puerto Rico saying when they click the link to go to that petition, it's saying, this is a forbidden page.

01:47:59.000 You don't have access to this. 0.76

01:48:01.000 And I reached out to change.org and got some like bullshit response. 0.86

01:48:05.000 But yeah, it's, I almost wonder if it's being throttled.

01:48:08.000 Maybe I'm going too conspiratorial there, but it's something that I would like to get shared because maybe people will, maybe somebody at the White House will see it.

01:48:17.000 Maybe it'll pop onto Trump's desk.

01:48:18.000 Who knows?

01:48:19.000 That'd be insane if that happened.

01:48:21.000 I think at that point, there probably would be some sort of change that would enact, you know, in terms of like real, real political power being wielded towards fixing this problem.

01:48:33.000 I just followed you on Instagram too.

01:48:35.000 I don't really use Instagram much because, like I said, I used to have a really large account and then I got banned in 2019 and I had this massive account.

01:48:43.000 I had like half a million followers.

01:48:45.000 So I just restarted it.

01:48:46.000 I mostly just use it for research now, but I'll do what I can to share it around with people.

01:48:51.000 I think that everybody needs to see this.

01:48:53.000 I've been saying from day one, this is going to be something that people pick up on in like a year from now, maybe two years.

01:49:00.000 Like it's going to take, in my opinion, sadly, like another huge hurricane or another big storm and there's going to be a huge catastrophe.

01:49:07.000 And then they're going to say, oh my God, look at this.

01:49:10.000 Look at all this corruption.

01:49:11.000 And then you'll have all these mainstream media pundits or larger independent journalists going out there and doing exactly what you did.

01:49:18.000 And it's like, okay, well, I told you so.

01:49:20.000 I mean, that's kind of what always happens to me, where, you know, you're ahead of the curve and then people go out when it's too late.

01:49:26.000 And it's like, look, I was warning you.

01:49:28.000 You produced this whole documentary.

01:49:29.000 I put out my reports.

01:49:31.000 I put out my tweets.

01:49:32.000 But, you know, what's it going to take for people to wake up?

01:49:34.000 Sadly, we see things have to kind of become more catastrophic in order for people's eyes to truly be opened.

01:49:41.000 Yeah, you're totally right.

01:49:42.000 It seems like the only time there's ever really a lot of coverage down there is when there's a storm.

01:49:46.000 And, you know, there was Hurricane Maria.

01:49:48.000 And then since then, there was an earthquake and another hurricane.

01:49:51.000 And then when we were there, when we were leaving, there was another hurricane that almost hit.

01:49:56.000 I mean, that's, that's why you're right.

01:49:58.000 It's, you know, when you're saying something like, well, what if what they barely, what they do have left gets knocked back down to zero again?

01:50:07.000 It's like they're just having to restart over and over again because the infrastructure is not there.

01:50:12.000 And this is an antiquated power grid, by the way.

01:50:14.000 It was built a long time ago.

01:50:15.000 And in the 80s, there was a bunch of, there were like bombings to transmission towers because of these pro-independence groups.

01:50:24.000 Some people refer to them as terrorist organizations.

01:50:26.000 I guess it really just decides what your perspective is.

01:50:29.000 But they blew up some transmission towers and there was union violence and the union was wildly out of control in terms of how expensive they were.

01:50:38.000 They became financially unmanageable.

01:50:41.000 And the union for PREPA, I mean, the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority, that's the government entity that is the one that's bankrupt.

01:50:48.000 And now Luma's taken over.

01:50:50.000 And as and that's Luma operates the transmission and distribution, and then Henra PR operates the generation of electricity in the actual power plants.

01:50:58.000 But then PREPA still owns the grid assets, like the substations, the power lines, the power stations themselves, the plants.

01:51:07.000 So yeah, it's just, it's a mess.

01:51:09.000 And if they're struggling to modernize this antiquated power system with the money that's been sent down there because the money can't be accessed, then every time a storm hits, yeah, they pretty much are starting from zero again in terms of repairing it.

01:51:28.000 Yeah.

01:51:28.000 Do you do this full-time?

01:51:30.000 I mean, I think your work is incredible, especially this documentary.

01:51:34.000 Are you a full-time independent journalist or what?

01:51:37.000 How do you know how do people support you?

01:51:39.000 What's your because I really honestly didn't know who you were until I started seeing your reports on the ground in Puerto Rico.

01:51:45.000 But since since then, I mean, I think your content's great.

01:51:48.000 But I really honestly, I had no idea who you were until you started producing all this incredible work out of Puerto Rico.

01:51:56.000 So I've been a journalist, so to speak, for probably about eight years.

01:52:01.000 Now, I went to J school at UT Austin, which is just, you know, J school is just like brainwashing propaganda camp. 0.52

01:52:08.000 But I was always kind of interested in filmmaking and I like writing, even though I'm not really that great of a writer, but I'm interested in storytelling, essentially.

01:52:17.000 And, you know, I can talk for three hours without shutting up.

01:52:21.000 And so I just sort of put those skills to use.

01:52:24.000 And I was originally working in the 2A community.

01:52:28.000 I was producing a radio show and I was the field correspondent for a show called Come and Talk It with Michael Cargill out of Austin, Texas.

01:52:35.000 And we, well, he sued the ATF for the bump stock lawsuit, the bump stock ban.

01:52:43.000 Yeah, that was after the Las Vegas shooting.

01:52:46.000 I was on the ground covering that extensively in Nevada.

01:52:49.000 And, you know, that was another cover-up.

01:52:51.000 Don't get me started on that shooting.

01:52:53.000 It has nothing to even do with bump stocks.

01:52:55.000 I mean, that was a terrorist attack.

01:52:56.000 And that was probably some kind of a gun running operation from what I found on the ground, a gun running operation involving ISIS that went wrong.

01:53:06.000 And the government just didn't want anybody knowing that, you know, one of their assets was involved in a shooting that ended up going so terribly wrong.

01:53:15.000 An operation, like I said, almost like a fast and furious style operation, but involving ISIS terrorists.

01:53:21.000 And ultimately, it ended up resulting in their asset getting killed and over 50 other people getting slaughtered as well.

01:53:29.000 So, and then they tried to say, oh, well, we need to ban bump stocks.

01:53:31.000 What do bump stocks have anything to do with this?

01:53:33.000 Right.

01:53:34.000 They don't want to answer any other questions. 0.99

01:53:36.000 Well, fortunately, we beat we beat the ATF's ass in court and that was great. 0.97

01:53:41.000 And then, and I've done some other stuff too. 0.98

01:53:43.000 I worked adjacent to comedy for a while, not as a comedian, but as a producer.

01:53:48.000 I was producing podcasts and stuff.

01:53:49.000 But yeah, I've been working in a journalistic capacity by trade for about eight years, I think.

01:53:56.000 I don't know.

01:53:56.000 I'm not, I have a horrible memory in terms of, you know, a timeline of what I've done because it's just been all over the place.

01:54:04.000 Are you based out of Texas?

01:54:06.000 Austin, Texas.

01:54:07.000 Yeah.

01:54:07.000 And this is the kind of stuff that I like to do is the stuff that's sort of Telling a story that is big picture because a lot of the times, I mean, you know how it is.

01:54:20.000 Sometimes when you're covering a story, it's like it's kind of cut and dry.

01:54:24.000 But this one, there was a lot to dig into, and it's something that I don't think a lot of people have actually touched physically.

01:54:29.000 Like, I like to go places to physically experience what's going on, like Vice used to do before they sucked.

01:54:35.000 And it really reminds me of Vice.

01:54:37.000 When I was watching your documentary, I was like, wow, this looks something, this looks like something you would have seen on Vice 10 years ago.

01:54:45.000 Yeah, maybe we'll start.

01:54:47.000 I mean, we're trying to get our production company up off the ground, the Fifth Estate.

01:54:53.000 The Fifth Estate is what we're calling it, you know, because the old saying about the Fourth Estate, how they're supposed to check the three branches of government and yada yada. 0.98

01:55:00.000 The fourth estate's fucking dead. 0.97

01:55:02.000 It's the fifth estate, is that's what you are. 1.00

01:55:04.000 That's what I am.

01:55:05.000 We're all the independent citizen journalists, the YouTubers and vloggers and anything.

01:55:10.000 We've replaced them.

01:55:11.000 We've replaced the fourth estate.

01:55:13.000 We have replaced the fourth estate.

01:55:15.000 They don't think that we're a part of them.

01:55:17.000 So I actually think that's a really creative term.

01:55:18.000 You're right, Fifth Estate, because we have transcended them.

01:55:21.000 They're a joke and good that they're a joke now because they've not been doing their job.

01:55:26.000 I think the USAID scandal was the nail in the coffin for them, to be quite honest with you.

01:55:30.000 Yeah, but this is USAID 2.0.

01:55:31.000 So just imagine what's going to come out from this as well when it finally gets opened up.

01:55:37.000 And it will eventually.

01:55:38.000 I think you're ahead of the curve.

01:55:39.000 I mean, I think that this will certainly get people's interest.

01:55:42.000 I could see your film getting millions of views online, especially once people start, you know, there's a lot of people in Austin, Texas, too.

01:55:51.000 I mean, you should try to, you know, get on all the different podcasts and big shows out in Austin.

01:55:55.000 There's some of the biggest shows out there in Austin, Texas, but this is something that needs to, in my opinion, be addressed more by the Trump administration.

01:56:02.000 I mean, we saw him fire some of the board members, but I predict that this is going to be the next big scandal that really rocks people to their core, just like USAID, right?

01:56:12.000 I think that once you start peeling back layers of the onion, you're going to see that there's probably a lot of connections to a lot of high-profile people.

01:56:21.000 It probably transcends international borders as well, as you were saying before, with all these people's ties to Ukraine and a lot of ties to Chicago and New York and Ukraine, primarily New York.

01:56:33.000 But yeah, you know, when you say that and you say USAID 2.0, I don't know if people really understand the breadth of what you're talking about because USAID was this, I mean, unimaginably massive scandal.

01:56:47.000 And when you look at Puerto Rico, you're like, well, how could something that big come out of Puerto Rico?

01:56:51.000 Well, you got to realize that the $2 billion that's been siphoned off the island is that's the largest extraction of wealth from that island since the conquistadors took all the gold, you know, in the early 16th century.

01:57:07.000 So I think that it is possible, very possible, that what we've uncovered is really just the tip of the iceberg.

01:57:16.000 It could be a lot worse.

01:57:17.000 I mean, $2 billion is what we are aware of, you know.

01:57:22.000 Just for lawyers.

01:57:23.000 Yeah.

01:57:23.000 I mean, I'm sure there's even more.

01:57:25.000 Right.

01:57:26.000 Like, right.

01:57:27.000 That's just for lawyers.

01:57:30.000 Yeah.

01:57:30.000 I'm not going to, you know, theorize about stuff that I don't know about, but I, it's $2 billion that we know about.

01:57:38.000 That's what I'll leave it at.

01:57:39.000 And there's a lot of these, like this Operation Bootstrap stuff that I was looking into is really interesting because it, it essentially, and I'll spare you all the long details, but it essentially was this economic initiative that was aimed at modernizing and industrializing Puerto Rico's economy because it used to be sort of an agricultural farming economy.

01:58:01.000 And it was an attempt to shift it towards a more modern manufacturing-based economy and tourism for that matter.

01:58:10.000 And it resulted in this heavy reliance on federal funding and tax incentives and stuff like that.

01:58:15.000 And that's sort of what you're seeing with the island.

01:58:19.000 Like these people down there, these Puerto Ricans, they're not really able to fix things themselves because of the way their economy has been structured by this previous economic initiative.

01:58:30.000 So it's not like these people are helpless.

01:58:32.000 Their hands have kind of been tied.

01:58:34.000 It's like how, you know, I was talking about the food stamp thing.

01:58:38.000 You know, 54% of children live in poverty down there.

01:58:40.000 The poverty rate's way higher than it is on the mainland.

01:58:43.000 The average typical salary is $18,000.

01:58:46.000 They don't really have the ability to economically support themselves.

01:58:51.000 And they have a declining population because of this Operation Bootstrap.

01:58:57.000 There was some sterilization by the early 80s.

01:59:00.000 A third of the island's women were sterilized, which is, that's a whole other insane thing. 0.86

01:59:05.000 But my point is that when you have all these factors combining together, including an inverted population pyramid, there's no, all the most productive people, the workers, the younger people, the taxpayers, they're all moving to Florida and New York and to the mainland so that they can make money because they don't want to stay there.

01:59:24.000 And then there's nobody to pay for the social programs like the pensions and social security and the power grid.

01:59:32.000 So that makes this $2 billion that's been siphoned off.

01:59:35.000 It makes it even more egregious.

01:59:37.000 It's what I'm getting at.

01:59:39.000 No, it's very egregious.

01:59:41.000 Is there anything else that you wanted to share?

01:59:43.000 Anything else that you wanted the viewers to know?

01:59:45.000 Again, I would play your whole documentary, but it's literally two hours long.

01:59:49.000 I mean, it's a great documentary, but people will have to just go watch it themselves.

01:59:53.000 Let's go ahead and get that pulled up, though.

01:59:55.000 It's on YouTube, so people can go and watch it on YouTube.

01:59:59.000 Your social media is at Street Gonzo.

02:00:02.000 But is there anything else that you wanted to add about your film or about your travels to Puerto Rico or anything that you want people to know about you?

02:00:13.000 Well, just that independent journalism is very important.

02:00:17.000 I think at a time like the zeitgeist we're living through right now, it's especially important.

02:00:23.000 And I think that, yeah, just, you know, sharing this documentary around, I guess, is probably the thing I'm most concerned with right now, because I think that if it actually would really get a lot of views blow up and bring attention to the matter, then something might actually get done because this is an issue that's very important to the people that live down there.

02:00:49.000 And by proxy is now important to me.

02:00:52.000 And also, I might tease something else we're working on right now as a way to maybe hook you to bring me back on here in maybe a month or so.

02:01:04.000 But we went up to Dearborn, Michigan and did a similar expose.

02:01:09.000 On all the Islamic stuff?

02:01:12.000 Yeah, I was very surprised by what all went down.

02:01:19.000 I don't want to talk about it.

02:01:20.000 I'm still wrapping my mind around all my thoughts.

02:01:22.000 Just the Islamic invasion in Dearborn. 1.00

02:01:25.000 Yeah, that requires a really extensive documentary.

02:01:28.000 That's out of control there.

02:01:31.000 We went up there and had some conversations on a more intimate level because we weren't protesting or anything like that.

02:01:39.000 We went in, we had some hidden cameras, we infiltrated some mosques and we actually got a tip that there was a jihadi safe house and we staked out this building and then we ended up threw a ski mask on and we broke in and we found something in there, which I'm not going to tell you what it is.

02:01:56.000 I was told by the guy that hired us to go up there, my friend Davey Jackson, he's actually a comedian.

02:02:02.000 He wants me to not talk about what we found because he wants to tease the doc.

02:02:07.000 But uh, is that criminal, though?

02:02:09.000 Like, what you found is a criminal, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely it was.

02:02:14.000 It was a bizarre experience, though.

02:02:17.000 Um, as usual, the news is I I, the news just does such a bad job it's.

02:02:24.000 It is wild.

02:02:25.000 My friend, Chris Williamson, once said in a podcast that uh and i'm gonna butcher this quote but he basically said that when the news's only job is to be informed and they're not informed, then there's got to be some level of, it's not just incompetence.

02:02:44.000 It's got to be at some level, like, you know, being done on purpose, essentially.

02:02:50.000 I mean, I think that we heard a, well, give me, give you an example.

02:02:56.000 When we were in Puerto Rico, someone told me that the media down there, like the local news outlets, they'd been getting paid off by the government.

02:03:05.000 This is, I did not confirm this.

02:03:07.000 But that's what I'm saying about USA 2.0, USA 2.0.

02:03:11.000 That's USAID was paying off reporters too.

02:03:14.000 We found out that the money was subsidizing Politico.

02:03:17.000 I mean, like, this is literally going to be USA 2.0.

02:03:21.000 I'm telling you, in like a year or two from now, they're going to do an audit.

02:03:24.000 There's going to be some huge storm.

02:03:26.000 And then we're going to find out.

02:03:27.000 And then we're going to be playing clips from our interview and be like, we told you this two years ago.

02:03:32.000 Yeah.

02:03:33.000 That's what's going to happen.

02:03:35.000 That's what happens to me.

02:03:36.000 I mean, I opened up my show tonight, speaking of Muslims.

02:03:39.000 You know, now the president's talking about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother.

02:03:42.000 I remember going down to Minnesota in 2018 and exposing all the Somali fraud, right? 1.00

02:03:47.000 Working with James O'Keefe when I worked at Veritas, exposing the Somalis voting illegally in the elections, bussing people in, exposing Omar for marrying her brother, talking about the G, I went down to Dearborn, Michigan in 2018 when I confronted Rashida Tlaib. 0.90

02:04:04.000 And I was telling people that there's going to be, you know, Sharia law, call to prayer five times a day, ISIS compounds, ISIS flags.

02:04:13.000 You know, there, when you, when you talked about a safe house, I know a woman who I interviewed when I was down there who runs a safe house for women who are trying to escape jihadi families.

02:04:24.000 And basically they help these women plot their escape.

02:04:28.000 They have these women that come and they don't want to be Muslim anymore and they're in abusive marriages or they're living in these very abusive Islamic households and they come to her location, which it's a church and they lock the doors and they paint the girls' nails and they show them what life is like without living under Islamic suppression. 0.66

02:04:50.000 They let them take off their hijab, let them have normal conversations with each other.

02:04:55.000 And then they help them find a way to leave.

02:04:57.000 They help them find a sponsor, get them some money, and they help them literally abandon their families and leave and flee in abusive situations.

02:05:06.000 This is when you were in Dearborn.

02:05:07.000 This is when I was in Dearborn.

02:05:08.000 There's a woman I know, a great woman, who helps Muslim women who are living in Dearborn, who are living under Islamic suppression, because they are, I mean, you go there, it is sharia law.

02:05:21.000 I mean even the police department in Dearborn, Michigan.

02:05:24.000 They now have their little Islamic patches. 0.61

02:05:26.000 Everybody on the city council, everybody in the sheriff's department there, they're all Muslim.

02:05:31.000 And so if you know anything about Islamic Islamic law or Islamic code well, what happens if you respond to a domestic violence call?

02:05:40.000 What happens if you respond to a domestic violence call?

02:05:42.000 There's no concept of domestic violence in those cultures because they believe that women are property. 0.90

02:05:47.000 So yeah it's, it's.

02:05:49.000 It was really crazy to think that there's actually a location in Dearborn Michigan, where women are being rescued from their community and they're plotting their escape, and that nobody else no, nobody in the local government there will help these women, because the entire place has been completely Islamified. 1.00

02:06:07.000 And we'll have to talk off off uh, off the show, because I could connect you with a lot of people out in Dearborn, Michigan.

02:06:14.000 You know, I spent a lot of time down in Dearborn, but that's, that's interesting.

02:06:19.000 I, I wonder um, I want, I want to connect you with my friend Davey, because he is uh, attempting to raise some more money so that we can basically finish that project as well, and he's very interested in this kind of stuff and I think you and him would click on that.

02:06:35.000 I uh, I was, I was just there as basically as a production to to get the documentary done but um, I I think it would be interesting if we could make a large-scale documentary, not just Dearborn um but, like you know, Epic City in Texas and Minnesota and Dearborn pattern, New Jersey, some of these places where there's these large Muslim populations and uh, and kind of compare and contrast, because I think we did have New York City as well.

02:07:04.000 I mean, you have a Muslim mayor.

02:07:05.000 We're going to have our own version of Sadiq Khan now as or a Mamdami. 0.99

02:07:08.000 So it's happening all across America and Texas is ground zero too, in addition to places like Minneapolis and places like Dearborn Hamtramic, Michigan's, another place.

02:07:19.000 You have a lot of places you have.

02:07:21.000 You have uh, a place in New York City where it's literally called Islamberg.

02:07:27.000 You could look at this one too in New York, Upstate New York.

02:07:30.000 It's called Islamberg. 0.98

02:07:32.000 It's an Islamic compound and there was a group that did some undercover journalism and they uh, they actually snuck into the forest near the compound and they secretly recorded them and they were doing military training, so they were literally training for jihad.

02:07:48.000 Well, you could look it up.

02:07:50.000 This happened, I think, in like the early, like the mid 2000s.

02:07:54.000 This has been going on for a long time and they've just suppressed it and suppressed it.

02:08:00.000 It's funny watching all these conspiracy theorists online say that the one thing you're not allowed to talk about is, like Israel and Jews.

02:08:06.000 The one thing that I found doing journalism as an independent journalist that you're really not allowed to talk about is Islam.

02:08:12.000 Seriously, that's the one thing that will get you banned quicker than anything else.

02:08:15.000 I am still banned on nearly every single social media site.

02:08:19.000 I I don't have a monetized youtube channel I. I'm still banned technically, like I follow you on instagram, but I never got my large Instagram account back.

02:08:27.000 I never caught my facebook back, so these are issues that they they want to suppress.

02:08:31.000 They want to suppress because they want to fundamentally transform not just our country, but really just Western civilization.

02:08:38.000 They don't want us to be able to have free speech, freedom of association, freedom of the press.

02:08:43.000 They truly want us living in an Islamic and Islamic society.

02:08:49.000 And that's why you have the jihadists now uniting with the radical left in this red-green alliance.

02:08:55.000 And it all ties in.

02:08:58.000 The corrupt machine, the corrupt machine that is controlled by the globalists and the elites, all, I mean, it really all ties together.

02:09:06.000 When they keep people poor and they keep people impoverished in places like Puerto Rico and they steal our tax dollars and they're funding themselves and, you know, kind of like neglecting, neglecting the country, neglecting, you know, the everyday people, they're creating the groundwork.

02:09:23.000 They're really laying the groundwork for political violence, in my opinion, because eventually people are only going to take so much before they revolt, right?

02:09:33.000 Before they eventually engage in acts of violence.

02:09:35.000 And you see this through your own film, right?

02:09:37.000 Some people talking about, oh, if you don't follow the rules, there was a really interesting point in your film where they're like, if you don't follow the rules here in La Perla, it's going to be very bad for you, right?

02:09:47.000 Like they want to have everybody on edge all around the world.

02:09:51.000 So it's basically just like one big powder keg waiting to explode.

02:09:55.000 You combine it with the political corruption, the extreme differences in wealth, mass migration, Islamification, the erosion of free speech, the erosion of our rights. 1.00

02:10:10.000 I mean, we saw this during COVID.

02:10:12.000 It all comes together to create the perfect cocktail of social tension until our country just explodes. 0.99

02:10:20.000 You know what's funny is my friend Davey, he was canceled from a doing a comedy show up in New York because he made a joke about Muhammad being gay and like having sex with these black guys or something. 0.98

02:10:37.000 I don't remember what the joke was. 0.98

02:10:39.000 It's the quickest way to get canceled.

02:10:41.000 I mean, you can literally joke about everything but Muslims. 0.95

02:10:44.000 It's insane. 0.81

02:10:45.000 Here's what was funny, though. 0.98

02:10:47.000 The joke was about Muslims. 0.91

02:10:49.000 And then I guess this Muslim guy online who was a lawyer got mad at him and called the club.

02:10:55.000 And then the club was owned by a Jewish guy.

02:10:58.000 So it was actually like a two-pronged threat there.

02:11:03.000 It was funny watching something that you would normally see as two groups that have issues working together to cancel this guy from telling a joke.

02:11:14.000 I mean, I don't know if the dude was like super Jewish or anything or if he was secular or what.

02:11:17.000 You know what I'm trying to say.

02:11:19.000 Well, a lot of these Jews are liberal. 0.52

02:11:20.000 Like a lot of the people that are supporting these causes, yeah, I mean, they're liberal.

02:11:25.000 So, I mean, I'm Jewish and a lot of the people in the Jewish community didn't really come to my defense when I got canceled for speaking truth about Ilhan Omar.

02:11:33.000 So, I mean, you have this discrepancy politically speaking, of course, in the Jewish community.

02:11:38.000 And, you know, predominantly most of these people are voting Democrat, although many are hardcore conservatives like myself.

02:11:45.000 Jews mostly vote Democrat.

02:11:48.000 I don't know much about the voting colours of the Jewish community.

02:11:51.000 Really?

02:11:51.000 Like 70.

02:11:53.000 It used to be about 80, 20, like 80% Democrat, 20% Republican.

02:11:58.000 And then President Trump was able to increase the Jewish vote for Republicans.

02:12:02.000 So now it's about like 70, 30, which is still kind of crazy given the fact that it doesn't really make much sense.

02:12:11.000 But besides the point, it's just, it's interesting how you're not, it's independent reporters that are having to tell these stories, right?

02:12:19.000 They're now finally talking today about investigating Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother.

02:12:24.000 Much like you went down to Dearborn, I went down to Minneapolis with a camera and started asking questions and confronting people about this in 2018.

02:12:32.000 Right.

02:12:32.000 And here we are seven years later.

02:12:34.000 Seven years later.

02:12:36.000 That was an old story.

02:12:38.000 I remember hearing about that like, yeah, probably about six or seven years ago.

02:12:43.000 But maybe that's what's going to happen with your documentary, right?

02:12:45.000 Like maybe seven years from now, we'll see somebody, whoever's president in seven years from now, talking about Puerto Rico and the corruption of their power company and the corruption of the board.

02:12:56.000 And then that's, that's, that's the world that we're living in now, where the people, like you said, the fourth estate, the people that are supposed to actually be leading the charge, being watchdogs, serving as a check for, you know, the corrupt, corrupt elites, serving as, as a, as a watchdog or, you know, a form of accountability for people on both sides of the aisle.

02:13:19.000 A lot of these people are now just paid off to turn and turn the other, turn the other way.

02:13:23.000 Yeah, let's turn their cheek. 0.96

02:13:26.000 That's what we were hearing about some of the news and media down in Puerto Rico was basically not reporting on stuff like this because of that potentially.

02:13:35.000 I got a question for you.

02:13:37.000 When's the last time that you recall some somebody from Wall Street or an executive or a consulting firm or something like that really being held accountable and charged with serious crimes?

02:13:52.000 I mean, maybe Bernie Madoff, does he count?

02:13:55.000 I mean, the last time I remember somebody actually being held accountable, I wouldn't necessarily call them like Wall Street, but somebody like financial tied to all of the political elites was Sam Bankman Freed, right?

02:14:08.000 Sam Bankman Freed and FTX.

02:14:10.000 But they're now trying to buy him a pardon.

02:14:12.000 I mean, there's a whole effort right now to try to pardon him.

02:14:15.000 The Obamas through their, through their production company, Higher Ground Productions, they're making this whole salacious film.

02:14:23.000 It's supposed to be some like Bonnie and Clyde love story between Sam Bankman Freed and his ugly girlfriend to go and talk about how they're, you know, their whole, the whole scheme, their whole little like fraudulent scheme that they ran on everybody in our country, all the money that they stole, all the people they defrauded was some kind of romance.

02:14:42.000 But that's the only person I can really think of.

02:14:45.000 Oh, yeah.

02:14:45.000 And they're making like this whole romantic film about it, the Obamas.

02:14:49.000 That's again, when you talk about corruption, you look at the fact that Sam Bankman Freed, I mean, I know that we're, we're really diverting now from the Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico subject, but again, it's exactly what you're talking about, about people, you know, using funds or trying to use the media.

02:15:05.000 And it's actually really relevant to what we're seeing right now, because you see the Netflix merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

02:15:11.000 That's exactly what's going to happen, right, with this merger, where you have Netflix now merging with Warner Bros. Discovery.

02:15:19.000 Well, what's going to happen?

02:15:21.000 You're going to have essentially CNN become the Obama news network and you're going to have all of these elites essentially controlling streaming services because they know that the independent media and podcast culture and streaming culture is the way to To fight back against these corrupt politicians and these,

02:15:43.000 you know, these, these, these, these higher forces that like to keep common people down, suppress the truth, control narratives, and silence anybody that gets out of line.

02:15:53.000 Yeah, it's you should look into that, though.

02:15:56.000 That's, it's pretty crazy.

02:15:58.000 It's like a form of preemptive programming.

02:16:01.000 Yeah, you know, I think that's what I call it.

02:16:04.000 You know, it's like preemptive, predictive programming.

02:16:09.000 Right, right, right.

02:16:10.000 Like what Hollywood kind of does in regards to cultural conditioning.

02:16:14.000 Yes.

02:16:15.000 But to like make you think that these are sympathetic figures.

02:16:19.000 Right, right.

02:16:20.000 I would just say that that's just straight propaganda, personally.

02:16:22.000 Well, that's what it is.

02:16:24.000 That's that's kind of what Hollywood has been doing for a long time, in my opinion.

02:16:29.000 And that's concerning that, you know, every time you think that we start to sort of slip out of the grip of the stranglehold of these, these, you know, what, like 12 companies, corporations rather, that own everything.

02:16:41.000 And then next thing you know, they own everything still.

02:16:44.000 They really do.

02:16:45.000 They still own everything.

02:16:46.000 Yeah.

02:16:48.000 Man.

02:16:48.000 That's really interesting.

02:16:49.000 But I will definitely have you back on the show when you come out with your Dearborn documentary.

02:16:54.000 I encourage everybody to watch your film.

02:16:56.000 It's called Exposing the Shadow Government Controlling Puerto Rico.

02:17:00.000 Your social media is at Street Gonzo.

02:17:03.000 People can follow you on X.

02:17:04.000 They can follow you on YouTube.

02:17:05.000 They can follow you on Instagram.

02:17:07.000 Any other sites that you wanted to plug?

02:17:11.000 We have a Patreon that's patreon.com slash streetgonzo that I barely ever put anything on there because we're pretty busy, but it's 10 bucks a month.

02:17:20.000 It's more so like, hey, if you like independent journalism and people that are giving the real raw stories that the real news, you know, the real news, that we are the real news that the institutional media is not providing to people, you know, just sign up for that so we can keep doing this.

02:17:41.000 Because it's not just, I'm not just doing this on my own.

02:17:43.000 I do this with my partner, and not in a gay way, my partner, Joel Hodge Benner.

02:17:51.000 He's a filmmaker by trade.

02:17:54.000 And he basically, we like sort of jammed our creative philosophies together.

02:18:02.000 He's a filmmaker and I'm a journalist and I do more of the social media stuff.

02:18:05.000 So he actually is basically the one that forced me into making films.

02:18:10.000 And it was like a natural evolution.

02:18:12.000 If you go back on the, I used to work for Drinking Bros.

02:18:15.000 If you go back on there and look up some of the old stuff we did, we did a whole season flyer that we were trying to get onto Netflix on Drinking Bros.

02:18:25.000 And it used to be like a 20-minute show, 30-minute show sometimes.

02:18:31.000 And it just evolved over time into doing documentaries.

02:18:33.000 But it's pretty out of control, though.

02:18:36.000 I used to have a pretty hardcore drug problem.

02:18:39.000 And it's entertaining, but it's more so like a warning not to do drugs.

02:18:46.000 But yeah, it's fun.

02:18:46.000 It was fun.

02:18:47.000 Now it's a lot more serious now that I'm sober, you know?

02:18:50.000 That's good.

02:18:51.000 Congratulations.

02:18:53.000 Thank you.

02:18:55.000 Congratulations.

02:18:57.000 It's definitely an accomplishment.

02:18:59.000 Well, I hope that everybody supports your work, supports your Patreon.

02:19:02.000 I'm banned on Patreon.

02:19:04.000 Otherwise, I would go support you on Patreon.

02:19:06.000 Really?

02:19:06.000 Yeah, I got banned on Patreon a few years ago when they were banning a bunch of independent journalists.

02:19:10.000 I got banned for speaking truth about Islam, actually, after I exposed Yohan Omar. 0.93

02:19:14.000 So I got banned everywhere.

02:19:16.000 Patreon, GoFundMe.

02:19:18.000 I got banned on Cash App, Venmo, Uber, Lyft, Uber, Facebook, like everything.

02:19:24.000 Yeah, that's bad.

02:19:25.000 That's for speaking truth about Islam. 0.97

02:19:28.000 Was this, did all that happen around COVID?

02:19:30.000 I'm curious.

02:19:31.000 No, this happened between 2017 and 2019.

02:19:35.000 And then I continued to be banned all the way until like, well, I'm still banned everywhere, but I was able to get my X account back in December of 2022 when Elon purchased X.

02:19:46.000 But if I had Patreon, I would support you over there on Patreon.

02:19:50.000 The Elon Musk purchasing Twitter is the single most important thing for free speech that's happened probably since the Constitution.

02:20:00.000 Seriously.

02:20:01.000 I mean, we.

02:20:03.000 I think COVID was basically the death of free speech for the most part.

02:20:07.000 But I think it's making a comeback, fortunately. 0.98

02:20:10.000 People are sick of the woke bullshit and all the, you know, what would you call it? 0.99

02:20:15.000 Like, you know, just people like pandering and trying to be sensitive with language instead of telling the truth. 1.00

02:20:23.000 I mean, the truth is ugly.

02:20:24.000 It's not really something that you can say.

02:20:26.000 You don't wear kid gloves and handle somebody like a child when you're telling them something that's supposed to be the truth. 0.99

02:20:32.000 So, but yeah, that's that's that's crazy that you got banned from all that shit. 0.99

02:20:37.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:20:37.000 There's also buymeacoffee.com. 0.99

02:20:40.000 So you could check out buymeacoffee.com as well.

02:20:43.000 That's a good site as well as for independent journalists.

02:20:45.000 You may want to check that as out as well.

02:20:47.000 I'm always trying to invite independent reporters on my show to share their news reports and documentaries because I just find that the most consequential stories in our country right now are all being broken by independent reporters.

02:21:00.000 I mean, I think it's been that way for several years now.

02:21:04.000 I'd say the past decade.

02:21:05.000 I mean, when I was in journalism school, it was already, I know we're wrapping up, but if when I was in journalism school, it was already like nobody listened to the news.

02:21:16.000 And if you, did you go to journalism school?

02:21:20.000 So I went to college and I majored in broadcast, broadcast journalism, broadcast media, and then I minored in political science.

02:21:26.000 So I just did, I just did undergrad.

02:21:29.000 And then I ended up getting kicked out of college a month before graduation for doing a journalistic expose on some corruption at my university with Project Ramitas.

02:21:38.000 So I get a degree in journalism and then I get banned from going to my own graduation and kicked out of college for doing journalism.

02:21:47.000 Well, that's a step above graduating.

02:21:49.000 I just graduated.

02:21:50.000 You know, I was, I, anyways, my point was just that when we were, when I was in journalism school, it was like I was watching the, not every teacher.

02:22:01.000 I had some decent teachers, but it was like watching a pro it was like watching programming happen in real time.

02:22:12.000 Like you, this is how you tell a story.

02:22:13.000 You can't talk about these things.

02:22:15.000 You have to talk about these things.

02:22:16.000 There's a certain number of sources you need to get. 0.99

02:22:18.000 And I was like, this is the most robotic bullshit I've ever seen. 0.93

02:22:20.000 This is not at all how you tell a story because that's essentially what we're doing. 0.99

02:22:25.000 That's what journalists are.

02:22:26.000 We tell stories.

02:22:27.000 And just, you know, going through J school, I was like, oh, yeah, I can see why all the mainstream news is dead.

02:22:34.000 Yeah, completely out of control.

02:22:35.000 Well, I really enjoyed your documentary.

02:22:38.000 I think it's very well produced, very entertaining, and also very educational.

02:22:42.000 And I would encourage everybody to check it out.

02:22:44.000 So thank you so much for all the time and effort that you poured into it.

02:22:48.000 And look forward to having you on the show again.

02:22:51.000 Awesome.

02:22:51.000 Thanks for having me.

02:22:52.000 I appreciate it.

02:22:53.000 And yeah, everybody go share that with, if everybody shared it with like five people, I think maybe it would, it would blow up and hopefully really enact some change down there in Puerto Rico because it's a sad situation that I don't think Americans should be dealing with.

02:23:10.000 Absolutely.

02:23:11.000 Completely agree.

02:23:13.000 Gary, thank you so much for coming on tonight.

02:23:15.000 I really appreciate it.

02:23:16.000 Thank you.

02:23:17.000 Have a great night.

02:23:19.000 You too.

02:23:21.000 Very good documentary.

02:23:23.000 Highly recommend it.

02:23:24.000 Check it out.

02:23:26.000 We're going to talk a lot, or just continue our conversation tonight about immigration, right?

02:23:32.000 Talking about Ilohan Omar talking about how now she's under investigation for immigration fraud.

02:23:37.000 You may have recalled a couple months ago that I broke a story about the Ice Block app founder.

02:23:44.000 But before I get into that, I want to thank the sponsor of tonight's episode of Loomer Unleashed Kirk Elliott Precious Metals.

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02:24:08.000 Man, I tell you, I heard she got canceled.

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02:25:31.000 I love when a good story comes full circle.

02:25:39.000 And that's the great thing about independent reporting.

02:25:41.000 When you do your own investigations and you're not just aggregating news, you're actually breaking news.

02:25:48.000 You become the news.

02:25:51.000 A couple months ago on Loomer Unleashed, broke a story about the founder of the Ice Block app.

02:26:00.000 Remember the Ice Block app, the app that was doxing ICE agents and doxing the locations of ICE raids.

02:26:06.000 Well, you'll recall that I ended up exposing the wife of the founder of the Ice Block app, a woman by the name of Carolyn Feinstein.

02:26:14.000 And she, of course, was married to a guy named Joshua Aaron Feinstein.

02:26:19.000 And she was an employee of the DOJ.

02:26:23.000 Long story short, following my expose of this woman who was living in the same house as her husband, obviously they're married.

02:26:30.000 The founder of the Ice Block app, right?

02:26:33.000 Involved in the company that actually published the Ice Block app.

02:26:39.000 I ended up exposing the fact that she works for the DOJ and she ends up getting fired. 0.84

02:26:44.000 So now she's suing the Trump administration for firing her. 1.00

02:26:49.000 And now you can see here, this is the story from the website.

02:26:51.000 This was back in July, right?

02:26:53.000 So we're all already at the end of the year in December.

02:26:55.000 This was back in July.

02:26:57.000 So just goes to show you that when you break a big story or when you break a good story as an independent journalist, it's the gift that keeps on giving.

02:27:05.000 Here we are months later, still talking about the story.

02:27:10.000 DOJ auditor fired after Loomer exposes her marriage to violent Antifa sympathizer behind the IceBlock app that endangers federal agents.

02:27:18.000 And now today there's a report out about how her husband is suing the Trump administration for violating his free speech rights.

02:27:26.000 Apparently, he says that it's a First Amendment violation because they're banning his app from the app store.

02:27:32.000 IceBlock app files lawsuit against Trump administration for censorship.

02:27:39.000 The developer of ICEBlock, an app that tracks U.S. immigration and customs enforcement agents, has sued the Trump administration for supposed free speech violations after Apple removed the app store from its app store after government pressure.

02:27:53.000 Now, you'll recall that I did an entire episode about all of these different doxing apps that focus on doxing the locations of the ICE raids and doxing ICE agents.

02:28:05.000 And literally, less than 48 hours after my episode went extremely viral, Attorney General Pam Bondi, who I know for a fact saw my report and saw my episode, ended up ordering Google and Apple to ban all of these ICE tracking apps from the app store.

02:28:24.000 And they were all banned.

02:28:25.000 They were all shut down, which is great because we have seen that multiple individuals have used these apps to try to find the location of ICE agents to carry out acts of violence, whether it's the car ramming that we saw, I believe that was in Chicago, or whether it's the shooting that we saw of ICE agents in Dallas or just outside of Dallas, Texas.

02:28:46.000 These apps are dangerous.

02:28:48.000 These apps incite violence.

02:28:50.000 These apps promote doxing.

02:28:52.000 And these apps endanger the lives of our law enforcement.

02:28:56.000 And they also endanger our national security by giving people enhanced information about the location of ICE raids.

02:29:04.000 Law enforcement officers should be allowed to do their investigations and apprehend dangerous criminal, illegal aliens in our country who are here to endanger our lives and threaten American citizens without having to worry that some lunatic is hanging out on a roof with a sniper, right? 0.94

02:29:22.000 Tyler Robinson style, to shoot them in the head because they're apprehending illegal aliens. 0.96

02:29:30.000 It's unacceptable. 0.97

02:29:32.000 So the lawsuit was filed this week in Washington, D.C., following Apple's removal of the app in October.

02:29:39.000 You can scroll down.

02:29:42.000 Scroll up a little bit.

02:29:45.000 We view that as an admission that she engaged in coercion in her official role as a government official to get Apple to remove this app, said the lawyer.

02:29:54.000 How is it coercion?

02:29:55.000 The executives for these, I'll tell you exactly how this went down.

02:29:59.000 The executives from these companies were schmoozing with President Trump in the Oval Office and hanging out with him at one of these, you know, Ritzy dinners.

02:30:08.000 I blew it up. 0.97

02:30:08.000 I'm like, this is ridiculous. 0.97

02:30:10.000 These people are having dinner with Donald Trump, kissing his ass, pretending like they're supporting his administration. 0.99

02:30:16.000 Meanwhile, they are literally obstructing his immigration policies by allowing for these apps to be present in the app store. 1.00

02:30:23.000 I blow it up.

02:30:24.000 Attorney General Pam Bondi sees it.

02:30:26.000 And I know for a fact that the Trump administration took action after they saw my report.

02:30:31.000 I know that for a fact.

02:30:33.000 That's been confirmed.

02:30:35.000 So coercion, you are endangering people's lives.

02:30:40.000 What happens if somebody ends up murdering an ICE agent because they use the ICE block app?

02:30:46.000 You know, the concept of kill by association.

02:30:50.000 At some point in time, people do need to be held accountable for their associations if their association is providing a platform to enable a crime.

02:31:03.000 Liability, right?

02:31:04.000 This concept of liability.

02:31:06.000 Did these app creators ever keep the concept of liability in mind when they were thinking of who was going to be their clientele or be their, you know, be their main customer base, people that actually want to interact with this app?

02:31:21.000 Lunatics, leftists, violent members of Antifa.

02:31:26.000 I think that they should be held criminally accountable for the shootings.

02:31:33.000 They could be charged.

02:31:33.000 I think that they should be investigated and charged as accessories to murder or accessories to attempted murder.

02:31:40.000 That's what I think.

02:31:43.000 That's what I think.

02:31:46.000 Let's go to the chat.

02:31:47.000 I want to see what the chat thinks because I think that if you're going to create an ICE tracking app and you are going to try to get ICE agents docks and you are trying to dox the locations of ongoing ICE raids, you should be criminally held accountable.

02:32:03.000 So I'm proud I saved people's lives.

02:32:05.000 I think that what I did saved lives.

02:32:07.000 I know it saved lives because when I go to DC, I was just in the Pentagon this last weekend and one of the Border Patrol agents who was there who was assisting the Pentagon as an advisor.

02:32:17.000 This is one of the guys.

02:32:18.000 He was one of like the lead Border Patrol agents out in California.

02:32:21.000 And now he's serving as a full-time advisor at the Pentagon.

02:32:24.000 He came up to me and he thanked me for my work.

02:32:26.000 He says it's saving lives.

02:32:29.000 He literally stopped me at the Pentagon on Media Row and he said, thank you for what you do.

02:32:38.000 So I hope they lose their lawsuit.

02:32:45.000 I hope they lose their lawsuit.

02:32:48.000 They need to be banned and Google needs to be sued into oblivion.

02:32:51.000 Yeah, absolutely right.

02:32:53.000 Apple needs to be sued as well.

02:32:54.000 If an ICE officer dies or somebody else gets shot, absolutely.

02:33:00.000 They need to be held accountable.

02:33:02.000 So again, cry, oh, my free speech, my free speech, all you want.

02:33:07.000 You don't have a free speech right to incite violence against law enforcement officers.

02:33:11.000 You don't.

02:33:12.000 You don't have a free speech right.

02:33:14.000 I don't know where people went wrong when they were taking their civics classes or taking their course understanding the Constitution when they were in what, like middle school history.

02:33:23.000 I don't know.

02:33:24.000 But somebody needs to tell these radical leftists that inciting violence against federal immigration officers is not protected speech.

02:33:32.000 It's not.

02:33:32.000 There's a difference between free speech and incitements.

02:33:35.000 And incitements is not protected speech.

02:33:37.000 Okay.

02:33:40.000 I mean, it's just completely crazy.

02:33:45.000 Miguel said, Laura, do you ever think of Rashida and how she caressed your hand?

02:33:49.000 I actually sued her for assault. 1.00

02:33:53.000 I did.

02:33:54.000 I sued her.

02:33:56.000 And of course, you know, in Minneapolis, the cop was Somali. 0.97

02:33:59.000 Even the freaking police officer was Somali when I went to go file my police report against Rashida Talib. 0.97

02:34:06.000 And they didn't want to take my police report. 0.93

02:34:07.000 If you play that clip again, go ahead and play that clip so people know what he's talking about.

02:34:12.000 She physically assaulted me when I confronted Ilhan Omar. 0.72

02:34:16.000 When I confronted Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib grabbed my phone and she physically assaulted me. 1.00

02:34:21.000 Let's go ahead and play that clip one more time.

02:34:29.000 She physically assaulted me when I was in Minneapolis in 2018 and I was asking Ilhan Omar why she married her brother.

02:34:38.000 Scroll down a little bit.

02:34:39.000 I just saw it.

02:34:40.000 Let's go ahead and get that clip. 0.78

02:34:45.000 Right there.

02:34:46.000 I'm Laura Loomer.

02:34:53.000 I just want to quick for you.

02:34:54.000 I was wondering if, since you're now going to become the first.

02:34:57.000 Oh, no, my hands are cold.

02:34:58.000 It's so cold in there.

02:34:59.000 I was wondering, since, oh, congratulations on your primary.

02:35:02.000 Since you're going to be the first Palestinian Muslim, I'm so sorry. 1.00

02:35:06.000 Are you willing to?

02:35:08.000 I can tell.

02:35:09.000 Oh, I actually are young.

02:35:14.000 Rashida, are you willing to admit as a congresswoman that Hamas is a terrorist organization?

02:35:19.000 I really need to know that if this woman is going to be elected to Congress, it's a serious question. 0.99

02:35:25.000 I heard about her.

02:35:28.000 Double opportunity for us to be able to come together as one community.

02:35:32.000 What about your choice that you're going to be talking about?

02:35:37.000 The so most important thing is that we fight back by love coming from a place of love.

02:35:43.000 Then why are you campaigning with Linda Sarsour who felt for jihad against President Trump?

02:35:48.000 So that is afforded to all of us.

02:35:50.000 What about justice for little girls, Elon?

02:35:52.000 You voted against legislation that would have made FGM a felony.

02:35:57.000 Why is she so hateful against Israel?

02:36:00.000 Are they going to recognize the United States' decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?

02:36:09.000 She married her brother.

02:36:10.000 Elon, why did you marry your brother?

02:36:12.000 Elon Omar married her brother.

02:36:14.000 She committed immigration fraud so that her brother could get a green card.

02:36:17.000 That's up to the government.

02:36:18.000 Yeah, and the government has decided that immigration fraud is a crime and incest is illegal in the United States of America.

02:36:24.000 It is a violation of campaign finance rules to use your campaign funds to pay for your divorce from your brother.

02:36:31.000 CARE is recognized as a designated terrorist organization and United Arab Emirates.

02:36:36.000 Both of these candidates have been endorsed by CARE, a terrorist organization.

02:36:41.000 The federal government found during the Holy Land Foundation trial that CARE had ties to terrorism.

02:36:47.000 They were funding Hamas, which Rashida, candidate for Congress, supports.

02:36:52.000 She needs to decide whether she's an American or a Muslim first. 0.99

02:36:55.000 Is she a Palestinian or is she an American person?

02:37:07.000 And you can see here, conservative activist Laura Loomer filed a $2 million lawsuit over a phone-grabbing incident at Ilhan Omar event.

02:37:13.000 What's the date on that?

02:37:14.000 2019.

02:37:15.000 So the video was filmed in 2018.

02:37:17.000 The lawsuit was filed in 2019.

02:37:20.000 You can scroll down.

02:37:21.000 You can see for yourself.

02:37:23.000 Conservative activist Laura Loomer is suing Rashida Tlaib over an incident that happened at a campaign event last year in Minneapolis.

02:37:29.000 So 2018, again, I was calling Ilhan Omar out for marrying her brother in 2018.

02:37:36.000 And now Trump is only doing it for the first time in 2025.

02:37:39.000 So you gained $2 million in damages for alleged assault and battery.

02:37:43.000 Loomer, who's currently running for Congress in Florida's 21st district, claims the Michigan Congresswoman assaulted her when she grabbed her phone at a campaign event for Ilhan Omar at the Holy Land Delhi last August. 0.68

02:37:54.000 Talib was campaigning at a northeast Minneapolis restaurant for Omar, who was then running for Minnesota's 5th District.

02:38:01.000 Both Talib and Omar were elected to the U.S. House that November, right?

02:38:05.000 So this admits it was before they even became members of Congress.

02:38:10.000 Becoming the first Muslim women in Congress.

02:38:13.000 The two are half of the progressive group lawmakers now call the squad.

02:38:17.000 Video of the campaign event at Holy Land shows Tlaib grabbing Loomer's phone as she records her, asking if Talib considers Hamas a terrorist organization.

02:38:27.000 So now everyone's talking about how all these people are pro-Hamas.

02:38:31.000 I called them the Hamas caucus. 0.99

02:38:32.000 Well, again, I was way ahead of this in 2018, and they called me crazy. 0.92

02:38:37.000 They said I was crazy and anti-Muslim. 0.75

02:38:39.000 They said that I was an Islamophobe and that I deserve to be banned everywhere because I dared to say that these women support Hamas. 0.95

02:38:47.000 And now that's what everybody's saying, calling them out for supporting Hamas.

02:38:51.000 And yet I had to lose my livelihood for years for being ahead of the curve.

02:38:55.000 And I still haven't been compensated. 0.98

02:38:57.000 I still haven't gotten my YouTube channel back or my Instagram back or my Facebook back or any of the shit they took from me.

02:39:05.000 But again, it's just to show you the power of independent journalism.

02:39:09.000 What's happened has already happened, right?

02:39:11.000 There's no sense on dwelling on it.

02:39:13.000 According to the lawsuit, Talib violently grabbed the phone as Loomer was working as a journalist seeking to understand Tlaib's positions on Israel and Palestine.

02:39:22.000 Talib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants.

02:39:24.000 Loomer is Jewish. 0.76

02:39:26.000 Freedom Watch, the conservative group that filed the lawsuit, says that Loomer is suing Talib not for political purposes, but to hold the congresswoman accountable for her unhinged hatred of Jews and Israel and also political violence.

02:39:38.000 So you can see there.

02:39:41.000 Oh, and then Larry Klayman, this is my lawyer, of course.

02:39:45.000 You can see the founder of Freedom Watch also filed a complaint against Omar earlier this year, seeking a Justice Department investigation in Minnesota congresswoman for marriage fraud.

02:39:54.000 So when this was all happening, and Larry saw my video, right, he was inspired to then file this investigation as a result of my independent journalism.

02:40:03.000 And when he filed this as well, he even cited my reporting too.

02:40:06.000 So again, once again, independent journalism leading the way.

02:40:12.000 Take a couple more questions.

02:40:18.000 Got the receipts.

02:40:21.000 Mindy said, Laura, you're always going to be ahead of the curve.

02:40:23.000 It's a frustrating place to be, but someone has to do it and you do a great job.

02:40:33.000 Marnie Hockenberg, who is from Minnesota originally and ended up moving because the Somalis were threatening her life. 1.00

02:40:40.000 I met her when I was down there.

02:40:42.000 Steve Simon, who was the Secretary of State, he publicly stated that Laura was not welcome in Minneapolis because she was an Islamophobe. 0.68

02:40:49.000 That is true.

02:40:50.000 The Secretary of State, after I exposed Yilhan Omar and after I went to all of these ISIS-tied Islamic centers in Minneapolis, the Secretary of State of Minnesota spoke at a Muslim American Society event, which is literally a Muslim Brotherhood organization. 0.51

02:41:04.000 And he said, Laura Loomer should leave Minnesota. 0.91

02:41:07.000 She is not welcome in our state and she is not welcome in Minneapolis because she is an Islamophobe. 0.97

02:41:13.000 The Secretary of State of Minnesota said that about me.

02:41:17.000 For reporting what now, eight years later, the president of the United States is saying.

02:41:25.000 So look at all the suppression and intimidation.

02:41:28.000 We were just talking to Gary, this really intrepid investigative reporter, about how he's being told, oh, you know, you shouldn't come back to Puerto Rico.

02:41:37.000 You shouldn't do this.

02:41:37.000 They try to silence journalists.

02:41:39.000 Assault.

02:41:40.000 They try to assault me.

02:41:40.000 They tried to physically attack me.

02:41:42.000 They had me thrown out of the deli.

02:41:47.000 You have government officials threatening me, putting a target on my back, saying I'm not allowed to be there.

02:41:53.000 But regardless, you have to just keep on pushing forward.

02:41:55.000 You cannot let these people slow you down.

02:41:57.000 You must not be afraid.

02:41:59.000 And you can never let these people silence you, no matter what they threaten to do to you.

02:42:06.000 And now Steve Simon's running for a fourth term.

02:42:08.000 And he's best buddies with Keith Ellison, the first Muslim attorney general in Minnesota.

02:42:16.000 Imagine that.

02:42:19.000 Imagine that more questions and we'll close out.

02:42:31.000 There's so much to talk about.

02:42:32.000 I mean, I didn't even get to go through my whole show doc tonight, but there's so many stories, so many reports.

02:42:38.000 Gonna talk about that next week on my show as well.

02:42:41.000 Be posting a lot more stories this weekend.

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02:45:18.000 There is a young female journalist, conservative journalist by the name of Laura Loomer.

02:45:27.000 If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems will be fixed in about five minutes. 0.95

02:45:33.000 Chained herself to Twitter.

02:45:34.000 She chained herself to Twitter. 1.00

02:46:03.000 I can put her ass to the exit now. 1.00

02:46:05.000 When I'm all in niggas, you're lying with the bitch wow. 1.00

Loomer Unleashed - December 12, 2025

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