Ilhan Omar is finally being investigated by ICE for immigration fraud. Is this a coincidence? Or is it a direct result of the fact that she married her brother, a Somali immigrant who is a member of the House of Representatives, in 2018?
00:30:40.000Ilhan Omar is finally being investigated for immigration fraud.
00:30:46.000If you are a longtime viewer of Loomer Unleashed, then you know that, well, I'm one of the first people to call Ilhar.
00:30:53.000I think I was the first person ever to confront Ilhan Omar about marrying her brother.
00:30:58.000This was back in 2018 when she was running for Congress when nobody even knew who she was.
00:31:03.000And 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.
00:31:15.000And 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.
00:31:26.000I 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?
00:31:39.000Because 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.
00:31:49.000All of these reports are available on my website from years ago, right?
00:31:56.000So I was the first person to really make this go mainstream with my reporting back in 2018 when I confronted Ilhan Omar.
00:32:06.000And, you know, there had been rumblings about her, you know, marrying her brother.
00:32:11.000And it wasn't until I confronted Ilhan Omar on video about this that it really started to get like interjected into the national discussion.
00:32:19.000And now, of course, you know, years later, President Trump is now talking about it.
00:32:26.000So he really should have been addressing this back when he was president during his first term and Ilhan Omar first got elected.
00:32:32.000But now, only now, is Ilhan Omar actually getting called out by the president of the United States for marrying her brother?
00:32:39.000We played the clips earlier this week of President Trump slamming Omar.
00:32:43.000There's so many clips of Ilhan Omar just getting completely slammed by President Trump at his rally.
00:32:50.000He 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.
00:33:05.000And 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.
00:33:18.000Maybe 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.
00:33:40.000Many of them were sending the funds overseas to support al-Shabaab, to support ISIS, to support Islamic terrorism.
00:33:47.000Secret money trail for Minnesota's $1 billion Somali fraud ring and the horrific acts it's now funding.
00:33:58.000And there was a report that came out two days ago that said that the numbers are actually closer to $8 billion.
00:34:05.000I want to go ahead and play this video before I continue and show you all the coverage on this.
00:34:09.000And, 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.
00:34:17.000I even said you should investigate Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother.
00:34:21.000And he wouldn't confirm whether or not that was taking place.
00:34:24.000But before I show you that clip, I want to just show you the clip of when I first confronted Ilhan Omar.
00:35:34.000to 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.
00:35:47.000Then why are you campaigning with Linda Sarsour who called for jihad against President Trump?
00:37:15.000And 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.
00:37:25.000You'll recall I was permanently banned on Twitter for several years.
00:37:29.000So 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?
00:37:40.000I went after Ilhan Omar and said she was pro-Sharia, she married her brother, she was anti-Jewish.
00:37:45.000And then I was completely shut down, debanked, banned on all social media.
00:37:49.000And now the president is even saying this.
00:37:52.000So let's go ahead and play clip number 32.
00:37:55.000President Trump says Ilhan Omar married her brother and we need to get her the hell out of here.
00:40:50.000Let's go ahead and play clip 31 from when Tom Homan, Our Borders Are, was on my show a couple months ago.
00:40:55.000And 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.
00:41:14.000This was a story I broke, and it's since been confirmed that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud.
00:41:20.000Can 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?
00:41:42.000Well, 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.
00:41:54.000We're aware of that situation, but I can't discuss it.
00:43:40.000So I'm pulling the records now, pulling the files, and we're looking at it.
00:43:44.000But this fraud investigator, who I know personally, one of the best fraud investigators in HSI Homeland Security Investigations, said there's no doubt.
00:43:53.000So I'm running that down this week, matter of fact, and we'll see.
00:43:58.000It'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.
00:44:08.000I mean, that would mean that half the Somali refugees are here in some way illegally.
00:44:28.000I mean, we're going to look at the, you know, those who are illegally, of course.
00:44:31.000We're going to look at those here under a visa or some sort of immigration process that are criminals.
00:44:36.000We'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.
00:45:06.000There's so many claims of so Ilhan Omara came to our country when she was a teenager, claimed she was a refugee.
00:45:20.000But since then, she's gone back to Somalia multiple times.
00:45:22.000I 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.
00:46:02.000They're going on these luxurious vacations.
00:46:05.000They're buying vehicles in the United States.
00:46:07.000They're doing things that are fraudulent with the funds.
00:46:10.000And 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.
00:46:19.000I practically lived there for about six months when I was investigating Ilhan Omar, just basically couch surfing, right?
00:46:25.000When 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.
00:46:39.000And I just remember nobody's speaking English.
00:46:43.000I mean, the Somalis, they walk around in their burkas.
00:46:47.000They 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?
00:47:07.000What happens is when you import the third world, you become the third world.
00:47:11.000Minnesota, and just like Maine as well, has imported the third world.
00:47:16.000There are hundreds of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota, and they have reproduced, and now they are a very large and mobilized voting block.
00:47:25.000And 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.
00:47:38.000So, 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.
00:47:48.000Her 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.
00:48:01.000And that's the norm there in Minnesota now, unfortunately.
00:48:05.000And 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?
00:48:15.000How are you representing America if you're appealing to people from a foreign country?
00:48:20.000And most of the time you're speaking, you're not even speaking in English.
00:48:24.000And 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.
00:48:37.000Now our country is less than 44% white.
00:48:42.000Let's go ahead and play clip number five.
00:48:44.000This 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.
00:48:56.000She's interested more in representing these Somali transplants.
00:49:01.000And as I said before, do you import the third world?
00:49:05.000I 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.
00:49:16.000If 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.
00:49:24.000It 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.
00:49:32.000This is the rule that applies to the presidency.
00:49:34.000So why are the rules different for the presidency?
00:49:37.000Why 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?
00:49:45.000Why are the rules so different from those of people who are running for president?
00:49:50.000Why 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?
00:50:05.000You can be born in Kenya and yet you can hold office in America.
00:50:10.000You can be born in India and you can hold office in America.
00:50:14.000I 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.
00:50:21.000It's like, hello, you are not even from our country.
00:50:24.000Your 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?
00:50:37.000These 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.
00:50:51.000So 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.
00:51:00.000I think that there needs to be an immigration moratorium.
00:51:03.000We need to have increased mass deportations.
00:51:06.000And it also needs to be completely illegal.
00:51:08.000It needs to be completely illegal to run for office in America if you were born in another country.
00:54:03.000I 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.
00:54:16.000So, and then they wonder why they have Somali fraud rings funding al-Shabaab terrorists, funding ISIS coming out of Minnesota.
00:54:23.000Did you know that according to FBI statistics that Minneapolis is the number one ISIS recruitment location in the entire United States?
00:54:43.000I mean, you have this representative who is campaigning in Islamic centers that are calling for people to join ISIS.
00:54:51.000There's a center called Dar al-Farouk Islamic Center in Minneapolis.
00:54:54.000I was actually trespassed when I went there.
00:54:56.000I 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.
00:55:08.000And they called the police on me for simply asking them a question.
00:55:52.000There's a lot of stories in our country and country and stories really around the world where the media ignores them, politicians ignore them.
00:56:01.000And really, it's up to independent journalists to report the truth in order for the truth to finally go mainstream.
00:56:06.000It'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.
00:56:20.000They have professionals who travel with them.
00:56:23.000All they have to do is sit there and focus on their content.
00:56:26.000Whereas 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.
00:56:44.000So you would expect that the least that they could do is actually work to deliver the truth to the American people.
00:56:52.000And I'm about to introduce you to one of those independent journalists who is doing just that on the ground in Puerto Rico.
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01:00:22.000Now, 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.
01:00:59.000And ultimately, you know, there's a complete racket going on.
01:01:04.000I 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.
01:01:24.000And they haven't been able to figure it out.
01:01:27.000There's extreme poverty in Puerto Rico.
01:01:30.000People rarely have running water, rarely have electricity.
01:01:34.000I mean, it's very common to have multiple blackouts per week.
01:01:38.000Most people do not have constant electricity.
01:01:42.000It's known to, you know, have constant rolling blackouts on the island.
01:01:47.000And so you have to ask yourself, right?
01:01:53.000And 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.
01:02:16.000You know, the average person in Puerto Rico makes about $18,000 per year.
01:02:22.000And some of these consultants have been paid millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars.
01:02:28.000Again, over $2 billion thus far, as I've reported, you can see here has been shelled out just to lawyers and consultants.
01:02:38.000Over $13.5 billion in FEMA funds have been allocated to rebuild the grid.
01:02:44.000In 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.
01:02:55.000And yet the power grid still hasn't been restored.
01:03:17.000Joining 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.
01:03:29.000I watched this documentary and very entertaining.
01:03:33.000It's really hard to keep people's attention on a subject, a subject that is this mundane and this tedious.
01:04:18.000And 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.
01:04:35.000And 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.
01:04:54.000It's actually insane because that's one person.
01:05:01.000And there are other law firms and consulting agencies, McKinsey and Company, Proscower Rose.
01:05:06.000There's a litany of entities involved in this.
01:05:10.000And 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.
01:05:28.000And given that they handle all the money, they can supersede legislation that's signed and they control the entire island.
01:05:44.000And, you know, this is of interest to American citizens, right?
01:05:48.000As 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.
01:06:08.000They're raping the people of Puerto Rico.
01:06:10.000And it's created a very dangerous situation.
01:06:13.000I mean, it's to the point where it's not just affecting people's ability to function in their day-to-day lives.
01:06:21.000It'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.
01:06:41.000I 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.
01:06:55.000Imagine being a, you cover this extensively in your documentary.
01:06:59.000The students there, it's literally dumbing down the territory.
01:07:03.000It's dumbing down the people, the population.
01:07:05.000They're literally getting dumber because the children are not able to actually get an education.
01:07:11.000This has been ongoing for the last eight years.
01:07:14.000So imagine being a student and not being able to stay in your classroom because it's too hot, right?
01:07:26.000You 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.
01:07:31.000What 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?
01:07:45.000So 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.
01:08:01.00054% of children in Puerto Rico live in poverty.
01:08:05.000And like you said, the typical income of a Puerto Rican individual is $18,000, which is dramatically lower than it is here.
01:08:12.000And as such, a lot of people down there are relying on food stamps, right?
01:08:17.000And what happens is when the power goes out, your meat, your dairy, your eggs, all that stuff spoils and it goes bad.
01:08:25.000And then people can't eat until the next month when they have food stamps again.
01:08:29.000So it's a lot more dire than I think what I was ever expecting.
01:08:36.000And the level of corruption is like totally out of control.
01:08:38.000And also, this has been going on a lot longer than Hurricane Maria, which was another thing that blew my mind.
01:08:47.000So when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, it knocked out power for essentially 100% of the island.
01:10:00.000And 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.
01:10:27.000There was a blackout in New York City a couple years ago for about a week, if you recall.
01:10:32.000And it was all over the news 24-7, non-stop coverage.
01:10:36.000Look 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.
01:10:48.000So 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.
01:11:05.000I have a theory why people don't know about this on the mainland as much.
01:11:09.000And 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.
01:11:22.000And 78% of the mainland only speaks English.
01:11:25.000So I think a lot of the news is being reported, but it's being isolated to the island.
01:11:32.000And then the other thing is that it's being only certain aspects of it are being reported.
01:11:39.000I 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.
01:11:56.000And 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.
01:12:15.000I'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.
01:12:32.000And a lot of people actually told me that I shouldn't go back down to Puerto Rico ever since I put this out.
01:13:32.000And like you said, Trump put out $13 billion roughly in 2020.
01:13:38.000And 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.
01:14:29.000And less than a quarter of that money has been spent because it's been obligated but not dispersed.
01:14:35.000And 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.
01:14:51.000And then there's these law firms on top of this.
01:14:54.000Sorry, 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.
01:17:05.000It's, it's, it's what makes you you, right?
01:17:08.000If 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.
01:17:18.000But I want to go ahead and play the trailer.
01:17:20.000Again, the documentary itself is over two hours and I'm going to show you all where you can watch it.
01:17:25.000But let's go ahead and play this trailer in the meantime.
01:17:27.000We 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.
01:17:37.000Well, a lot of people were literally going hungry.
01:18:24.000Well, Joel, here we are down on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico of beautiful brown women and sandy beaches.
01:18:31.000And 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.
01:18:42.000The power grid, PREPA, has been bankrupt since July of 2017.
01:18:48.000They've been going through bankruptcy proceedings and experiencing rolling blackouts ever since then.
01:18:56.000We're going into the shit tomorrow, buddy.
01:18:58.000We were told specifically to avoid a neighborhood called La Perla.
01:19:03.000Apparently, an American was set on fire there a few years back.
01:19:06.000Not to mention the tourist who was shot and killed there the day we landed.
01:19:11.000So down, down that way, don't take pictures.
01:19:14.000If you don't respect the rules here at La Perla, you have a very big problem.
01:20:28.000Like 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.
01:20:36.000But I didn't really see any big security guards around you.
01:20:43.000And, 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.
01:20:58.000Would 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?
01:21:11.000I mean, we know that Puerto Rico really has a lot of Democrat influence, more Democrat influence there than Republican, I'd say.
01:21:20.000Do you think that this is, you know, this transcends party lines?
01:21:25.000Or 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?
01:21:36.000Do you think that do you think that there's a partisan angle to this corruption?
01:21:43.000So 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.
01:21:54.000But I mean, I don't even know if it's the same thing as what we're seeing with incompetence in American cities.
01:22:01.000I think this has been largely done on purpose, dare I say.
01:22:04.000And 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.
01:22:25.000And 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.
01:22:37.000So I think they're just trying to make more money.
01:22:40.000And I think this is basically a big scam.
01:22:47.000I 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.
01:23:02.000Yeah, I mean, some of the, some of the lawyers and some of the consultants are Republicans too.
01:23:06.000I 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.
01:23:16.000Are people on the ground in Puerto Rico who you spoke with aware of the hundreds of millions of dollars?
01:23:21.000I mean, they're really over $2.2 billion precisely.
01:23:25.000Are people aware of how much money these consultants and these lawyers are making?
01:23:28.000I 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?
01:23:44.000I 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.
01:24:08.000I 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.
01:24:21.000Like they didn't even know that that happened.
01:24:22.000So they didn't know the money was basically frozen and less than a quarter of it's been spent.
01:24:26.000So that's probably why they're not aware of it because they're not seeing it in their day-to-day.
01:24:36.000I 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.
01:24:46.000What 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?
01:24:55.000And 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?
01:25:23.000I mean, I don't really think that the situation has improved.
01:26:07.000And then they need to resolve the bankruptcy.
01:26:10.000And however, they manage that with the bondholders.
01:26:12.000And the, I'm not an economist, so I don't know how exactly that would work.
01:26:17.000But basically, the bankruptcy needs to be resolved immediately so that the actual work on the grid can get repaired.
01:26:24.000And 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.
01:26:38.000Because I would say that this is, you're, we're at the, if this was in America, it would be a state of emergency.
01:26:45.000And it is in America, so it should be considered an emergency.
01:26:52.000And 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.
01:27:01.000And if there is, you know, financial mismanagement, whatever you want to call it, the people need to be held accountable.
01:27:11.000And 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.
01:27:16.000Those 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.
01:27:32.000You know, we have a clip here actually of Robert Mujica, the executive director, testifying.
01:27:38.000And 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?
01:27:53.000This is literally the next USAID scandal.
01:27:55.000People 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.
01:28:09.000And it just, it just like completely blew open the scam.
01:29:27.000What'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?
01:29:38.000What's going to happen to him if another storm hits?
01:29:45.000I got a piece of information I found out that you'll definitely find interesting as a journalist.
01:29:50.000Did 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?
01:30:06.000I mean, the fact that you can't get public records, why not?
01:30:10.000I mean, why would you not be able to get public records?
01:30:12.000I mean, I would be inclined to say that anytime a government, especially, I mean, that's the antithesis to a constitutional republic, right?
01:30:20.000To a democracy, but I would say they're probably trying to hide something or cover something up.
01:30:57.000This, 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.
01:31:10.000It was, it was like, I just couldn't believe that around every corner, there was more corruption, more conspiracy, more just everything.
01:31:19.000Well, here's a clip of the executive director, Robert Mujica, testifying a couple months ago.
01:31:27.000The 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.
01:31:37.000Mr. Mojica, Congress promised the board would cost under $400 million in 10 years.
01:31:43.000Can you tell me how much the board has actually spent during this period?
01:31:51.000The 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.
01:32:03.000So the reality is that it has taken much longer.
01:32:06.000It's taken much longer, partially because the government resisted the reforms.
01:32:10.000You 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.
01:32:22.000I'm sorry to interrupt because we have limited time.
01:32:45.000Okay, so it's more than five times what Congress estimated this would cost.
01:32:49.000You 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.
01:32:59.000But then when it comes to its own expenses, it's not setting an example.
01:33:05.000And you see, you just see the way he doesn't want to actually answer the question.
01:33:22.000So 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.
01:33:40.000And also, he said there's no incentive for these lawyers to resolve this bankruptcy.
01:33:46.000And that's because lawyers get paid by the hour.
01:33:50.000So the longer the bankruptcy, the more they get paid.
01:33:59.000I also want to point something else out that's very interesting.
01:34:03.000So 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.
01:34:17.000So he was in agreement with what that guy was saying in the clip.
01:34:20.000And he also mentioned to me that the original executive director of the financial board was a lady named Natalie Jurasco, who is from Chicago.
01:34:32.000And 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.
01:34:48.000So it's there's just a lot of coincidences here, Laura.
01:34:52.000I don't know if they uh, if you believe in coincidences, but a lot of conspiracy.
01:34:59.000I don't think it's a coincidence at all.
01:35:03.000Given 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?
01:35:17.000but 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?
01:35:28.000Do 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?
01:35:47.000Well, I would say that that's the number one issue in Puerto Rico for sure.
01:35:53.000So if Trump was and company was able to actually start to fix it and get the bankruptcy resolved, well, yeah, absolutely.
01:36:01.000I 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.
01:36:11.000But that's issue number one for Puerto Ricans from what I was experiencing.
01:36:15.000And it's something that it's, it's like a, it's a generational problem.
01:36:20.000You know, I don't think there's any issues that I've had in my life as a an American.
01:36:27.000The 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.
01:36:37.000There's a big heroin problem where I grew up and that has affected generations of people.
01:36:41.000But that's something that dramatically affected my life when I was younger.
01:36:45.000And this is dramatically worse than that.
01:36:47.000So 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.
01:37:05.000Yeah, it sounds like, sounds like, like you just said, it's the number one issue right now with Puerto Ricans.
01:37:10.000So 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.
01:37:20.000I 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.
01:37:27.000There definitely needs to be an audit.
01:37:29.000It'd be really interesting to see if they would do some kind of a USAID-like audit.
01:37:33.000I've been saying since day one, I personally think that this is the next USAID scandal.
01:38:01.000We were told that there were no more FEMA funds for people.
01:38:04.000Remember 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.
01:38:11.000And we were told, no more FEMA funds, no more FEMA funds.
01:38:14.000So there's FEMA funds for illegal aliens.
01:38:17.000There'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.
01:38:27.000I 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.
01:38:38.000And it's not a Republican issue and it's not a Democrat issue.
01:38:41.000I would say, yes, this corruption began with the Democrats.
01:38:45.000I 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.
01:38:55.000But 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.
01:39:05.000There's probably a lot of people, a lot of Wall Street types, right?
01:39:09.000Republicans, Democrats, who are on the take while people are suffering.
01:39:13.000So, 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.
01:39:39.000And 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.
01:39:56.000We go deep on a bunch of different things.
01:39:58.000Like 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.
01:40:06.000And we ended up stumbling across a ton of stuff.
01:40:09.000And how long did you spend down there?
01:40:18.000And then I got pneumonia when we were editing it.
01:40:20.000So it took, it took a while to get it finished because I was doing the voiceovers with pneumonia, you know.
01:40:25.000But 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.
01:41:03.000Well, I mean, yeah, I, you know, I really should go back down there.
01:41:09.000I should bring Elon Musk down there with me and show him what's going on.
01:41:13.000I actually think that somebody like him who has the capital to invest in the grid could actually make a difference.
01:41:21.000But, 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.
01:41:32.000And somebody else was saying that, you know, Quanta Services has all this power, you know, like political power, I guess.
01:41:42.000And he's like, you know, this guy needs to be careful.
01:42:46.000But I mean, that must be pretty alarming.
01:42:48.000So 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?
01:42:54.000Like 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?
01:43:05.000These are all people that are that are very much so looking out for me because they're very happy about what I'm doing.
01:43:15.000It 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.
01:43:22.000I guess I just, I didn't really realize how big of a pile of shit that I stepped in.
01:43:59.000Fear for get it out of the head, you know, like kill them or put him in the yellow or something like that.
01:44:07.000They're living in fear of retaliation.
01:44:09.000They could be jailed or killed or sued into oblivion.
01:44:11.000And 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.
01:44:20.000And exposing corruption is a dangerous game.
01:44:23.000And I think that's why knowledge of the corruption on the island has largely remained isolated to the island.
01:44:28.000And 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.
01:44:38.000So share this around just in case I'm found hanging from my ceiling fan in like a week.
01:44:42.000But more importantly, so that people can go see this documentary because we lay it all out.
01:44:47.000We name all the names and these people need to be held accountable.
01:44:50.000It's on the Street Gonzo YouTube page and the link is in my bio.
01:45:24.000But what are you trying to accomplish with your petition?
01:45:27.000I mean, it used to be a really big thing.
01:45:28.000I 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.
01:45:48.000So these became very popular because people would use these petitions to have like grassroot responses for issues that people cared about.
01:45:59.000Most of the time, it was like social justice issues.
01:46:01.000But in your case, you can see here that you're using yours.
01:46:32.000You've only gotten about 6,386 signatures, but this is a grassroots initiative.
01:46:39.000And you were saying earlier that one of the challenges that you had is that most of the reporting in this is in Spanish.
01:46:46.000And 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.
01:46:57.000I mean, your video, I think, is probably going to get millions of views once people start really sharing it around social media.
01:47:02.000I wouldn't even be surprised if, who knows, maybe President Trump will end up sharing it.
01:47:20.000And I, I generally just like going on adventures and telling stories.
01:47:25.000And 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.
01:47:31.000And it becomes important to be the vessel to move the needle for them.
01:47:37.000But, you know, I was telling you that the, I'm having, I'm having issues with people being able to access that petition.
01:47:43.000And these reels I've been making, they're getting hundreds of thousands and millions of views.
01:47:47.000And 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.
01:48:01.000And I reached out to change.org and got some like bullshit response.
01:48:05.000But yeah, it's, I almost wonder if it's being throttled.
01:48:08.000Maybe 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.
01:48:21.000I 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.
01:48:35.000I 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.
01:48:46.000I mostly just use it for research now, but I'll do what I can to share it around with people.
01:48:51.000I think that everybody needs to see this.
01:48:53.000I'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.
01:49:00.000Like 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.
01:49:07.000And then they're going to say, oh my God, look at this.
01:49:58.000It'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?
01:50:07.000It's like they're just having to restart over and over again because the infrastructure is not there.
01:50:12.000And this is an antiquated power grid, by the way.
01:50:15.000And in the 80s, there was a bunch of, there were like bombings to transmission towers because of these pro-independence groups.
01:50:24.000Some people refer to them as terrorist organizations.
01:50:26.000I guess it really just decides what your perspective is.
01:50:29.000But 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.
01:50:50.000And as and that's Luma operates the transmission and distribution, and then Henra PR operates the generation of electricity in the actual power plants.
01:50:58.000But then PREPA still owns the grid assets, like the substations, the power lines, the power stations themselves, the plants.
01:51:09.000And 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.
01:51:30.000I mean, I think your work is incredible, especially this documentary.
01:51:34.000Are you a full-time independent journalist or what?
01:51:37.000How do you know how do people support you?
01:51:39.000What's your because I really honestly didn't know who you were until I started seeing your reports on the ground in Puerto Rico.
01:51:45.000But since since then, I mean, I think your content's great.
01:51:48.000But I really honestly, I had no idea who you were until you started producing all this incredible work out of Puerto Rico.
01:51:56.000So I've been a journalist, so to speak, for probably about eight years.
01:52:01.000Now, I went to J school at UT Austin, which is just, you know, J school is just like brainwashing propaganda camp.
01:52:08.000But 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.
01:52:17.000And, you know, I can talk for three hours without shutting up.
01:52:21.000And so I just sort of put those skills to use.
01:52:24.000And I was originally working in the 2A community.
01:52:28.000I 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.
01:52:35.000And we, well, he sued the ATF for the bump stock lawsuit, the bump stock ban.
01:52:43.000Yeah, that was after the Las Vegas shooting.
01:52:46.000I was on the ground covering that extensively in Nevada.
01:52:49.000And, you know, that was another cover-up.
01:52:51.000Don't get me started on that shooting.
01:52:53.000It has nothing to even do with bump stocks.
01:52:56.000And 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.
01:53:06.000And 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.
01:53:15.000An operation, like I said, almost like a fast and furious style operation, but involving ISIS terrorists.
01:53:21.000And ultimately, it ended up resulting in their asset getting killed and over 50 other people getting slaughtered as well.
01:53:29.000So, and then they tried to say, oh, well, we need to ban bump stocks.
01:53:31.000What do bump stocks have anything to do with this?
01:54:07.000And 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.
01:54:20.000Sometimes when you're covering a story, it's like it's kind of cut and dry.
01:54:24.000But 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.
01:54:29.000Like, I like to go places to physically experience what's going on, like Vice used to do before they sucked.
01:54:37.000When 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.
01:54:47.000I mean, we're trying to get our production company up off the ground, the Fifth Estate.
01:54:53.000The 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.
01:55:39.000I mean, I think that this will certainly get people's interest.
01:55:42.000I 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.
01:55:51.000I mean, you should try to, you know, get on all the different podcasts and big shows out in Austin.
01:55:55.000There'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.
01:56:02.000I 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?
01:56:12.000I 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.
01:56:21.000It 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.
01:56:33.000But 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.
01:56:47.000And when you look at Puerto Rico, you're like, well, how could something that big come out of Puerto Rico?
01:56:51.000Well, 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.
01:57:07.000So I think that it is possible, very possible, that what we've uncovered is really just the tip of the iceberg.
01:57:39.000And 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.
01:58:01.000And it was an attempt to shift it towards a more modern manufacturing-based economy and tourism for that matter.
01:58:10.000And it resulted in this heavy reliance on federal funding and tax incentives and stuff like that.
01:58:15.000And that's sort of what you're seeing with the island.
01:58:19.000Like 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.
01:58:30.000So it's not like these people are helpless.
01:58:34.000It's like how, you know, I was talking about the food stamp thing.
01:58:38.000You know, 54% of children live in poverty down there.
01:58:40.000The poverty rate's way higher than it is on the mainland.
01:58:43.000The average typical salary is $18,000.
01:58:46.000They don't really have the ability to economically support themselves.
01:58:51.000And they have a declining population because of this Operation Bootstrap.
01:58:57.000There was some sterilization by the early 80s.
01:59:00.000A third of the island's women were sterilized, which is, that's a whole other insane thing.
01:59:05.000But 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.
01:59:24.000And then there's nobody to pay for the social programs like the pensions and social security and the power grid.
01:59:32.000So that makes this $2 billion that's been siphoned off.
02:00:02.000But 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?
02:00:13.000Well, just that independent journalism is very important.
02:00:17.000I think at a time like the zeitgeist we're living through right now, it's especially important.
02:00:23.000And 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.
02:00:52.000And 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.
02:01:04.000But we went up to Dearborn, Michigan and did a similar expose.
02:01:31.000We went up there and had some conversations on a more intimate level because we weren't protesting or anything like that.
02:01:39.000We 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.
02:01:56.000I was told by the guy that hired us to go up there, my friend Davey Jackson, he's actually a comedian.
02:02:02.000He wants me to not talk about what we found because he wants to tease the doc.
02:02:25.000My 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.
02:02:44.000It's got to be at some level, like, you know, being done on purpose, essentially.
02:02:50.000I mean, I think that we heard a, well, give me, give you an example.
02:02:56.000When 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.
02:03:36.000I mean, I opened up my show tonight, speaking of Muslims.
02:03:39.000You know, now the president's talking about Ilhan Omar marrying her brother.
02:03:42.000I remember going down to Minnesota in 2018 and exposing all the Somali fraud, right?
02:03:47.000Working 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.
02:04:04.000And 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.
02:04:13.000You 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.
02:04:24.000And basically they help these women plot their escape.
02:04:28.000They 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.
02:04:50.000They let them take off their hijab, let them have normal conversations with each other.
02:04:55.000And then they help them find a way to leave.
02:04:57.000They help them find a sponsor, get them some money, and they help them literally abandon their families and leave and flee in abusive situations.
02:05:08.000There'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.
02:05:21.000I mean even the police department in Dearborn, Michigan.
02:05:24.000They now have their little Islamic patches.
02:05:26.000Everybody on the city council, everybody in the sheriff's department there, they're all Muslim.
02:05:31.000And so if you know anything about Islamic Islamic law or Islamic code well, what happens if you respond to a domestic violence call?
02:05:40.000What happens if you respond to a domestic violence call?
02:05:42.000There's no concept of domestic violence in those cultures because they believe that women are property.
02:05:49.000It 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.
02:06:07.000And 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.
02:06:14.000You know, I spent a lot of time down in Dearborn, but that's, that's interesting.
02:06:19.000I, 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.
02:06:35.000I 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.
02:07:05.000We're going to have our own version of Sadiq Khan now as or a Mamdami.
02:07:08.000So 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.
02:07:32.000It'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.
02:07:50.000This happened, I think, in like the early, like the mid 2000s.
02:07:54.000This has been going on for a long time and they've just suppressed it and suppressed it.
02:08:00.000It'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.
02:08:06.000The one thing that I found doing journalism as an independent journalist that you're really not allowed to talk about is Islam.
02:08:12.000Seriously, that's the one thing that will get you banned quicker than anything else.
02:08:15.000I am still banned on nearly every single social media site.
02:08:19.000I 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.
02:08:27.000I never caught my facebook back, so these are issues that they they want to suppress.
02:08:31.000They want to suppress because they want to fundamentally transform not just our country, but really just Western civilization.
02:08:38.000They don't want us to be able to have free speech, freedom of association, freedom of the press.
02:08:43.000They truly want us living in an Islamic and Islamic society.
02:08:49.000And that's why you have the jihadists now uniting with the radical left in this red-green alliance.
02:08:58.000The corrupt machine, the corrupt machine that is controlled by the globalists and the elites, all, I mean, it really all ties together.
02:09:06.000When 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.
02:09:23.000They'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?
02:09:33.000Before they eventually engage in acts of violence.
02:09:35.000And you see this through your own film, right?
02:09:37.000Some 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?
02:09:47.000Like they want to have everybody on edge all around the world.
02:09:51.000So it's basically just like one big powder keg waiting to explode.
02:09:55.000You combine it with the political corruption, the extreme differences in wealth, mass migration, Islamification, the erosion of free speech, the erosion of our rights.
02:10:12.000It all comes together to create the perfect cocktail of social tension until our country just explodes.
02:10:20.000You 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.
02:10:49.000And then I guess this Muslim guy online who was a lawyer got mad at him and called the club.
02:10:55.000And then the club was owned by a Jewish guy.
02:10:58.000So it was actually like a two-pronged threat there.
02:11:03.000It 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.
02:11:14.000I mean, I don't know if the dude was like super Jewish or anything or if he was secular or what.
02:11:19.000Well, a lot of these Jews are liberal.
02:11:20.000Like a lot of the people that are supporting these causes, yeah, I mean, they're liberal.
02:11:25.000So, 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.
02:11:33.000So, I mean, you have this discrepancy politically speaking, of course, in the Jewish community.
02:11:38.000And, you know, predominantly most of these people are voting Democrat, although many are hardcore conservatives like myself.
02:11:53.000It used to be about 80, 20, like 80% Democrat, 20% Republican.
02:11:58.000And then President Trump was able to increase the Jewish vote for Republicans.
02:12:02.000So now it's about like 70, 30, which is still kind of crazy given the fact that it doesn't really make much sense.
02:12:11.000But 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?
02:12:19.000They're now finally talking today about investigating Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother.
02:12:24.000Much 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.
02:12:38.000I remember hearing about that like, yeah, probably about six or seven years ago.
02:12:43.000But maybe that's what's going to happen with your documentary, right?
02:12:45.000Like 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.
02:12:56.000And 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.
02:13:19.000A lot of these people are now just paid off to turn and turn the other, turn the other way.
02:13:26.000That'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.
02:13:37.000When'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?
02:13:52.000I mean, maybe Bernie Madoff, does he count?
02:13:55.000I 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?
02:14:10.000But they're now trying to buy him a pardon.
02:14:12.000I mean, there's a whole effort right now to try to pardon him.
02:14:15.000The Obamas through their, through their production company, Higher Ground Productions, they're making this whole salacious film.
02:14:23.000It'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.
02:14:42.000But that's the only person I can really think of.
02:14:45.000And they're making like this whole romantic film about it, the Obamas.
02:14:49.000That'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.
02:15:05.000And it's actually really relevant to what we're seeing right now, because you see the Netflix merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
02:15:11.000That's exactly what's going to happen, right, with this merger, where you have Netflix now merging with Warner Bros. Discovery.
02:15:21.000You'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,
02:15:43.000you 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.
02:15:53.000Yeah, it's you should look into that, though.
02:16:24.000That's that's kind of what Hollywood has been doing for a long time, in my opinion.
02:16:29.000And 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.
02:16:41.000And then next thing you know, they own everything still.
02:17:07.000Any other sites that you wanted to plug?
02:17:11.000We 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.
02:17:20.000It'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.
02:17:41.000Because it's not just, I'm not just doing this on my own.
02:17:43.000I do this with my partner, and not in a gay way, my partner, Joel Hodge Benner.
02:18:12.000If you go back on the, I used to work for Drinking Bros.
02:18:15.000If 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.
02:18:25.000And it used to be like a 20-minute show, 30-minute show sometimes.
02:18:31.000And it just evolved over time into doing documentaries.
02:18:33.000But it's pretty out of control, though.
02:18:36.000I used to have a pretty hardcore drug problem.
02:18:39.000And it's entertaining, but it's more so like a warning not to do drugs.
02:19:31.000No, this happened between 2017 and 2019.
02:19:35.000And 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.
02:19:46.000But if I had Patreon, I would support you over there on Patreon.
02:19:50.000The Elon Musk purchasing Twitter is the single most important thing for free speech that's happened probably since the Constitution.
02:20:40.000So you could check out buymeacoffee.com as well.
02:20:43.000That's a good site as well as for independent journalists.
02:20:45.000You may want to check that as out as well.
02:20:47.000I'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.
02:21:00.000I mean, I think it's been that way for several years now.
02:21:05.000I 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.
02:21:16.000And if you, did you go to journalism school?
02:21:20.000So I went to college and I majored in broadcast, broadcast journalism, broadcast media, and then I minored in political science.
02:21:29.000And 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.
02:21:38.000So 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.
02:21:50.000You 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.
02:22:01.000I had some decent teachers, but it was like watching a pro it was like watching programming happen in real time.
02:22:12.000Like you, this is how you tell a story.
02:22:53.000And 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.
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02:27:10.000DOJ auditor fired after Loomer exposes her marriage to violent Antifa sympathizer behind the IceBlock app that endangers federal agents.
02:27:18.000And now today there's a report out about how her husband is suing the Trump administration for violating his free speech rights.
02:27:26.000Apparently, he says that it's a First Amendment violation because they're banning his app from the app store.
02:27:32.000IceBlock app files lawsuit against Trump administration for censorship.
02:27:39.000The 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.
02:27:53.000Now, 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.
02:28:05.000And 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.
02:28:25.000They 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.
02:28:52.000And these apps endanger the lives of our law enforcement.
02:28:56.000And they also endanger our national security by giving people enhanced information about the location of ICE raids.
02:29:04.000Law 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?
02:29:22.000Tyler Robinson style, to shoot them in the head because they're apprehending illegal aliens.
02:29:45.000We 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.
02:29:55.000The executives for these, I'll tell you exactly how this went down.
02:29:59.000The 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.
02:30:35.000So coercion, you are endangering people's lives.
02:30:40.000What happens if somebody ends up murdering an ICE agent because they use the ICE block app?
02:30:46.000You know, the concept of kill by association.
02:30:50.000At 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.
02:31:06.000Did 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?
02:31:21.000Lunatics, leftists, violent members of Antifa.
02:31:26.000I think that they should be held criminally accountable for the shootings.
02:31:47.000I 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.
02:32:07.000I 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.
02:33:14.000I 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.
02:37:23.000Conservative activist Laura Loomer is suing Rashida Tlaib over an incident that happened at a campaign event last year in Minneapolis.
02:37:29.000So 2018, again, I was calling Ilhan Omar out for marrying her brother in 2018.
02:37:36.000And now Trump is only doing it for the first time in 2025.
02:37:39.000So you gained $2 million in damages for alleged assault and battery.
02:37:43.000Loomer, 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.
02:37:54.000Talib was campaigning at a northeast Minneapolis restaurant for Omar, who was then running for Minnesota's 5th District.
02:38:01.000Both Talib and Omar were elected to the U.S. House that November, right?
02:38:05.000So this admits it was before they even became members of Congress.
02:38:10.000Becoming the first Muslim women in Congress.
02:38:13.000The two are half of the progressive group lawmakers now call the squad.
02:38:17.000Video 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.
02:38:27.000So now everyone's talking about how all these people are pro-Hamas.
02:39:13.000According 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.
02:39:22.000Talib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants.
02:39:26.000Freedom 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.
02:39:41.000Oh, and then Larry Klayman, this is my lawyer, of course.
02:39:45.000You 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.
02:39:54.000So 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.
02:40:03.000And when he filed this as well, he even cited my reporting too.
02:40:06.000So again, once again, independent journalism leading the way.
02:40:50.000The 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.
02:41:04.000And he said, Laura Loomer should leave Minnesota.
02:41:07.000She is not welcome in our state and she is not welcome in Minneapolis because she is an Islamophobe.
02:41:13.000The Secretary of State of Minnesota said that about me.
02:41:17.000For reporting what now, eight years later, the president of the United States is saying.
02:41:25.000So look at all the suppression and intimidation.
02:41:28.000We 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.
02:43:50.000I was talking about the merger tonight about how Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros and how this is going to turn CNN into the Obama news network.
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02:45:27.000If America's men acted like Laura Loomer, our problems will be fixed in about five minutes.