Donald Trump has always been a champion for victims of human trafficking, and on today's episode, we contrast his record of being tough on human traffickers and the cartels, and contrast that with Ron DeSantis' record of allowing people who participate in human trafficking and sexual exploitation of children to get off easy.
00:00:06.000And on today's episode, we're going to talk about how Donald Trump has always been a champion for victims of human trafficking.
00:00:13.000And we're going to contrast his record of being tough on human traffickers and the cartels and We're going to contrast that with Ron DeSantis' record of allowing for people who participate in human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children to get off easy.
00:00:33.000Now you may have noticed that everybody in the country seems to be talking about human trafficking at the moment.
00:00:38.000Why is everyone talking about human trafficking?
00:00:40.000Well, it has a lot to do with the fact that a marvelous new film named Sound of Freedom just came out, and it's performing quite well at the box office.
00:00:48.000In fact, just this week, it surpassed over $100 million of ticket sales.
00:00:53.000Because so many people are enthralled by this movie that has a powerful and captivating message about how we can all work together to combat and expose human trafficking, which unfortunately happens to be a very lucrative multi-billion dollar international business for those involved in human trafficking.
00:01:10.000And on the evening of July 19th at his Bedminster Golf Resort in New Jersey, Donald Trump actually hosted Tim Ballard, who the film is about, as well as the actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom.
00:01:22.000The reception at Bedminster was widely attended by many conservative influencers and pundits, and President Donald Trump and guests sat through the nearly two-hour film about human trafficking.
00:01:34.000Now, some people have argued online that Donald Trump only had the showing of sound of freedom at Bedminster to pander, but that is a lie because if you look at President Donald Trump's documented record from his time in the White House as president, he actually had a lot of policies and measures to crack down on human trafficking.
00:01:50.000And if you take a look at the Trump White House website and press releases on the website from Donald Trump's time in the White House, there are numerous documents that show his commitment to ending and combating human trafficking and protecting innocent children.
00:02:02.000In a statement, Donald Trump said, And what exactly did President Trump do as president to combat human trafficking?
00:02:17.000Well, in January of 2020, he recognized the 20th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and he signed an executive order on combating human trafficking and online child exploitation in the United States.
00:02:29.000Through this executive order, President Trump created the first ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.
00:02:36.000President Donald Trump also used his immigration policy to crack down on dangerous cartel terrorists and human traffickers who were trying to smuggle innocent children across the United States border.
00:02:46.000As president, during his first term, President Trump signed nine pieces of bipartisan legislation to combat human trafficking both domestically and internationally.
00:02:55.000And if that resume on combating human trafficking isn't impressive enough, on October 19, 2020, President Donald Trump also released his National Action Plan to combat human trafficking.
00:03:06.000In a statement, President Trump said, And that's exactly what President Trump has promised to do in his second term once he's elected as the 47th president in
00:03:37.000Not only has President Donald Trump doubled down on his commitment to combating human trafficking once he's elected for a second term as the 47th president of the United States, but he has also previously and frequently promised on the campaign trail to give the death penalty to drug traffickers.
00:03:55.000And as we have seen play out with our border crisis here at the southern border, where we are currently being invaded by millions of illegal alien invaders, a lot of times the drug smugglers and the human traffickers are one and the same, or they operate within the same network.
00:04:10.000During President Trump's first term in the White House, he ordered federal agencies to conduct over 1,600 new investigations into human traffickers in their networks.
00:04:18.000President Trump also directed the DOJ to fund anti-human trafficking task force to work with state and local law enforcement officials to combat human trafficking.
00:04:28.000Along with using the power of the executive branch to combat human trafficking, President Donald Trump also used his position to work with faith-based leaders throughout the country to provide vital faith-based assistance programs to survivors of human trafficking so that they could restore their lives and find support groups.
00:04:45.000According to his National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking, Trump's administration also funded the largest package of Department of Justice grants to combat human trafficking in United States history, which included the first ever funding for safe housing opportunities for survivors nationwide.
00:05:01.000President Trump's decision to host Tim Ballard and Jim Caviezel at Bedminster to screen Sound of Freedom isn't the first time the president has hosted an event directed at combating human trafficking.
00:05:12.000In January of 2020, President Donald Trump hosted a historic White House summit to combat human trafficking.
00:05:18.000In an interview with Fox News following the showing of Sound of Freedom at Bedminster, Jim Caviezel told Brian Kilmeade of Fox News that he knows that President Donald Trump is going to combat and end human trafficking once he gets back into the White House.
00:05:30.000And he said that for these reasons, it's imperative that President Donald Trump get re-elected as president in 2024.
00:05:37.000Now let's compare President Trump's stellar record of combating human trafficking with the record of Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:05:43.000Despite the fact that Florida has several laws on the books combating human trafficking, including fines for hotels and other institutions of lodging that facilitate human trafficking, Ron DeSantis has gone easy on hotels that have participated in human trafficking and have violated Florida human trafficking laws.
00:06:03.000In November of 2022, just days after he secured re-election, There was a report that came out that was published by the Florida Sun Sentinel that revealed that 6,669 hotels and other lodging establishments had received 14,279 citations since a 2019 sex trafficking law required them to make changes to protect victims.
00:06:25.000And what did Ron DeSantis do about it?
00:06:27.000He declined to enforce the fines against these hotel establishments.
00:06:32.000According to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, not a single fine was issued against any of these hotels and lodging establishments in Florida after they violated sex trafficking laws.
00:06:44.000It really makes you wonder, why isn't Ron DeSantis being tough on human traffickers and people who exploit children sexually?
00:06:49.000After all, it was Ron DeSantis who said during a press conference that Florida would have a zero tolerance policy for people who participated in human trafficking.
00:06:58.000I guess that was yet another lie by Governor Ron DeSantis because clearly there isn't a zero tolerance if the governor isn't going to use his authority to issue fines against these hotels.
00:07:07.000And if you've been reading my substack and following my investigative reports, then you know that prior to becoming governor of Florida and prior to serving in Congress as a representative from the state of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis had a career in the Navy as a prosecutor.
00:07:21.000And what a lot of people don't know about Ron DeSantis' record as a prosecutor in the Navy is that he repeatedly cut plea deals and gave lenient sentences to defendants who were convicted of child pornography crimes.
00:07:33.000In one particular case, Ron DeSantis actually cut the perpetrator's sentence from 30 years down to 6 years.
00:07:56.000Well, that sailor was supposed to be facing a maximum 10-year sentence, and Ron DeSantis made it so that he only received a six-month prison sentence.
00:08:04.000Why on earth, as a prosecutor in the Navy, was Ron DeSantis so focused on making sure that child predators and child pornographers had lenient sentences?
00:08:13.000It's something that the governor should respond to.
00:08:15.000And while Donald Trump has publicly acknowledged the Sound of Freedom movie, even going so far as hosting a screening of it at Bedminster in New Jersey, Ron DeSantis hasn't said a single word about the film.
00:08:27.000And it really makes you wonder, where does Ron DeSantis stand with the Sound of Freedom movie?
00:08:32.000Is he actually committed to combating child pornography and the sexual exploitation of children?
00:08:37.000Is Ron DeSantis actually committed to combating human trafficking?
00:08:40.000Or are these empty promises and tough words for the sake of gaining re-election?
00:09:09.000Ron DeSantis isn't actually doing much to protect these innocent children and victims.
00:09:13.000Donald Trump has a record of helping victims of human trafficking, where if you look at Ron DeSantis, Florida actually ranks third in the entire country for reports of human trafficking.
00:09:23.000Tampa, Florida actually ranks as the 12th worst city in the United States for human trafficking.
00:09:29.000Florida is a hotspot for child predators, pedophiles, and people who are trying to traffic humans into slavery.
00:09:37.000And Florida has a lot of work to do so that we can reduce our numbers of human trafficking and not be such an embarrassment to the rest of the country when it comes to our efforts to combat human trafficking.
00:09:47.000We know that Donald Trump is tough on immigration and that his policies worked in securing our border.
00:09:52.000However, under Governor Ron DeSantis, as I have previously reported, Florida is being invaded on a daily basis by migrants who are coming through the ocean from places like Haiti and Cuba.
00:10:03.000And don't think that they're not trafficking people across the seas.
00:10:07.000And when you combine that with the fact that Florida has a very large immigrant population due to the fact that we have a large agricultural industry here in the state of Florida, There are a lot of people who are falling prey to human traffickers and they are essentially modern day slaves.
00:10:23.000A lot of these people happen to be children.
00:10:26.000So I implore Governor Ron DeSantis to do more than just talk.
00:10:29.000I implore Governor Ron DeSantis to actually end his failing presidential campaign and get back to Florida and fulfill his promises to Floridians, one of which was combating human trafficking.
00:10:40.000Because as I've just shown you, he's not exactly doing such a great job.
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