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00:01:32.000There was a huge story that broke last night.
00:01:35.000And most of the activist press is very distracted on the fact that New York, the state of New York, has now officially changed the nature of the investigation of the Trump organization from a civil complaint to a criminal complaint.
00:01:49.000We're going to get to that as the Trump organization continues to be politically investigated by the highest levels of power in our country on a state basis.
00:02:00.000Meanwhile, Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton are allowed to do anything that they please, but the Trump organization continues to be a focus.
00:02:09.000We're going to get into that because it's very important what's happening here, and I think that most people are missing it.
00:02:13.000And by the way, the essence of the investigation is literally around tuition payments to a school.
00:02:19.000Not drug trafficking, not sex trafficking, not bringing in firearms.
00:02:26.000But the story I really want to focus on right now, which is one that is immensely frustrating, is written by Jonathan Swan, who's a very honest reporter for Axios, axios.com, where it says that Joe Biden is going to waive sanctions on company in charge of Nord Stream 2.
00:02:45.000Now, many of you may say, well, what's the big deal about that?
00:02:54.000Now, you might have remembered hearing about a pipeline that was supposed to connect Germany to Russia to supply them with cheap natural gas.
00:03:07.000Now, Donald Trump spoke out against this.
00:03:09.000And in fact, Donald Trump put sanctions on this pipeline, not allowing its construction, going against the will and the wishes of Angela Merkel, who basically runs the European Union.
00:03:26.000The German economy is the wealthiest economy in Europe.
00:03:30.000Germans have a knack for being precise operators with some very, very valuable companies, not just automotive companies, but pharmaceutical companies to textile companies.
00:03:41.000The Germans have always been, at least in the last 40 or 50 years, the leader of industry in Europe, which, of course, until they left the European Union, the United Kingdom would be right behind it, then maybe France or Spain or Italy.
00:04:00.000The problem is that this pipeline was going to come straight from the Russian Federation into Germany.
00:04:09.000So Donald Trump, despite being accused of being a Russian agent, actually was incredibly harsh towards Russia, saying, no, we are not going to expand or play into or basically help the profits of the Russian Federation.
00:04:26.000Now, despite all this, he was still investigated by the Mueller investigation.
00:04:29.000He was still, to this day, believed to be a Russian agent and a Russian spy, despite no evidence whatsoever.
00:04:35.000Donald Trump also did two separate airstrikes in Syria against the wishes of Vladimir Putin against the Kremlin-backed Bashar al-Assad.
00:04:45.000Donald Trump also expelled diplomats from America and closed an embassy of Russia in the United States.
00:04:54.000Donald Trump aided the Ukrainian government with sophisticated weaponry against the wishes of Vladimir Putin.
00:05:02.000Donald Trump was anything but pro-Russian.
00:05:04.000In fact, he was more hostile towards Russia than Barack Obama, and yes, even Joe Biden.
00:05:11.000And so if what Jonathan Swan is reporting is true, here is the stance of the Biden administration, that we are going to destroy American pipelines like the Keystone XL pipeline, but approve and support Russian pipelines.
00:05:27.000That should be the biggest story in the country.
00:05:31.000The fact that Joe Biden and his State Department, according to Jonathan Swan's reporting at Axios, they are planning to lift sanctions to make Russia great again and destroy our own ability to extract and transport our liquefied natural gas, also known as LNG.
00:05:51.000I'm going to read from the article here.
00:05:53.000This planned move sets up a bizarre situation in which the Biden administration will be refusing to sanction the actual company in charge of the project.
00:06:04.000Sources close to the situation say that top Biden officials have determined to say that the only way is to actually stop the project, which they actually don't want to do, is to sanction the German end users of the gas.
00:06:21.000And it says here that the State Department will imminently send its mandatory 90-day report to Congress listing entities involved in Nord Stream 2 that deserve sanctions.
00:06:30.000And it says the Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporate entity and the CEO overseeing the construction of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
00:06:42.000Now, the obvious question that all of you are probably saying right now, especially those of you in beautiful West Texas, maybe Midland, Texas, maybe you are in Roswell, New Mexico, maybe are you in beautiful North Dakota, love my friends in North Dakota, or maybe you are in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania or southwestern New York.
00:07:07.000You see, Donald Trump's vision was to have America extract its own natural gas, and Germany, instead of getting it from Russia, could buy it from America, therefore fulfilling an America-first agenda.
00:07:22.000America is the leader when it comes to oil and natural gas extraction on the planet.
00:07:29.000We have private ownership of minerals.
00:07:31.000Many of these other countries have the nationalization of their minerals.
00:07:34.000We have greater technology, a greater work ethic, ability to transport it.
00:07:39.000We are the leader when it comes to energy production on the planet.
00:07:42.000And Joe Biden has made it his early stated goal to destroy oil and natural gas.
00:08:16.000Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.
00:08:27.000Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment.
00:08:36.000I believe that speech was at a NATO summit.
00:08:39.000It sounds like an official speech, not like something that was off the cuff.
00:08:43.000It's a tactic as old as politics itself.
00:08:47.000Accuse your opponent of conspiring to do something controversial while planning to do the whole time yourself.
00:08:55.000As Democrats have said that Donald Trump was owned by Russia, while Mitch McConnell was owned by Russia, in reality, they are the ones that are now pandering to the Russian Federation.
00:09:05.000And so we now have an activist press that is not covering this in the slightest.
00:09:10.000This is the number one news story in the country.
00:09:12.000What should be a call to action to revive America's ability to extract and transport our own God-given minerals, fracking and natural gas, which, by the way, is more environmentally friendly than people realize.
00:09:27.000Natural gas is abundant, it's clean, it's easy to transport, it is light.
00:09:35.000He destroys the Keystone XL pipeline and he is considering removing leases for new fracking and discontinuing leasing for fracking on federal lands.
00:09:45.000So in Joe Biden's perspective, no Keystone XL pipeline, American jobs, no.
00:10:14.000You've rarely seen this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:10:45.000Joe Biden is now doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin.
00:10:49.000It's almost as if everything that they accuse Donald Trump of, they've been doing themselves.
00:10:53.000So, what could the motive possibly be behind this?
00:10:57.000Why would Joe Biden all of a sudden want to lift sanctions, according to Jonathan Swan's report on Axios, who's a very trusted reporter, on this very simple deal where you have a pipeline coming from Russia straight into Germany?
00:11:20.000Donald Trump in 2018 said it's sad that we're protecting all these countries and that we're going to go make a pipeline deal with Russia, not a deal with American liquid natural gas.
00:11:29.000So here's the thing: we're going to play Cut 65 in a second.
00:12:12.000Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia.
00:12:21.000where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
00:12:28.000So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
00:12:34.000And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.
00:12:44.000Under Donald Trump, we were an energy net exporter with low gas prices and abundant natural gas.
00:12:49.000It took five months to now get gas shortages and we now import.
00:12:55.000We have more than we know what to do with here in this country.
00:12:59.000Joe Biden and his administration have decided that you do not matter.
00:13:04.000And instead, what matters is this abstract green energy goal that is pathologically and ideologically driven.
00:13:28.000She kept the EU alive during the currency collapse, you might remember eight or nine years ago, where German guilt drove Angela Merkel and the entire German government to bail out Greece and Portugal.
00:13:42.000And so Angela Merkel needs energy, but Angela Merkel also knows that the Americans, now under their government, they're not going to give it to her.
00:13:51.000So she wants to pander to this vision of a utopian world without fossil fuels.
00:14:00.000So her way of getting there is we might as well get Nord Stream done, which will be a cash handout to the Russian government.
00:14:09.000And that cash handout will then result in her nation having cheaper liquefied natural gas, which is always amazing to me.
00:14:20.000The environmentalists can never explain where this natural gas is going to come from.
00:14:23.000It's either coming from our planet or not.
00:14:26.000Instead, they act as if it's a completely different ecosystem that it's going to be coming from.
00:14:37.000Well, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Hunter Biden, according to a Senate report, received a $3.5 million payment from an ex-Moscow mayor's wife.
00:14:47.000That Hunter Biden was paid cash of $3.5 million from a wealthy wife of a Moscow former mayor.
00:14:55.000Donald Trump never received such any payments from anyone Russian-related, but it seems that according to this 87-page document published by the United States Senate, it says, quote, Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Butorina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.
00:15:12.000Is Joe Biden now making good on a promise that he was going to pander to the wants and interests of the Russian Federation?
00:15:19.000What does Vladimir Putin possibly have on Joe Biden?
00:15:24.000Now, these are fair questions because we had to go through this for years on a fake dossier that has now been exposed by every major media outlet that destroyed our - that divided our country, I should say, unnecessarily and gave smear merchants on cable television unlimited amount of unfounded fodder to investigate Donald Trump, indict and imprison his allies.
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00:16:53.000The New York Police Department says in the 28-day period from March 8th to April 4th, there's been a 95% jump in shootings compared to the same period last year.
00:19:19.000I have another friend who lives in the Wall Street area who said there are muggings every single night in the Wall Street area, and he does not feel safe going out at night anymore.
00:19:31.000And those of you that know New York know that you used to be able to walk all throughout New York at any time and feel safe.
00:19:38.000But New York is now turning into a criminal paradise.
00:19:45.000So, with all of that background and New York unfolding in front of our eyes almost intentionally, chaos is the new norm.
00:19:56.000What is the state of New York and their law enforcement arm doing about this?
00:20:01.000What is the state of New York doing to try and address the rise in crime?
00:20:05.000What is the Manhattan Attorney General doing to try to make the streets safe, to actually care about black lives?
00:20:12.000What is the Manhattan Attorney General doing to try to make New York at least not some replica of a third world country?
00:20:22.000Well, the answer is New York has dedicated millions of dollars and hundreds of people's time to continually investigating in search of a crime, by the way.
00:20:36.000So, you have an investigation with no premise in search of a crime of the Trump organization.
00:20:44.000Late last night, the Attorney General of New York, Laticia James, came out and said that they are now changing their civil investigation into a criminal investigation into Donald Trump.
00:20:55.000As we have predicted many times on this program, they will not rest until Donald Trump is in prison.
00:21:01.000They will not rest until there's any sort of counter move from conservatives where they think there is a cost to actually using the apparatus of an attorney general's office or the criminal justice system to go after political opponents that they don't like.
00:21:25.000Breaking overnight, former President Trump's business empire is now under criminal investigation by the state of New York.
00:21:32.000Attorney General Letitia James's office said last night it is actively investigating the Trump organization in a criminal capacity.
00:21:39.000The AG's office is looking at whether the company, based in New York City, lied about its property values to get loans and other benefits.
00:21:47.000That's on top of a separate investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney focused on whether the organization engaged in falsifying records, tax fraud, and insurance fraud.
00:21:59.000Well, you look into actually what they're investigating.
00:22:01.000You now have the Manhattan Attorney General and the Attorney General for the state of New York joining together in a criminal investigation of the Trump organization.
00:22:11.000But then you look into what they're investigating.
00:22:14.000It's actually laughable that while crime and rape and murders are up nearly doubling, rapes have doubled in New York City.
00:22:23.000And what is the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York Attorney General, what are they focusing on?
00:22:27.000Whether or not when Donald Trump gave benefits to his CFO, his chief financial officer, such as paying for his grandkids' tuition at a school, whether or not that was tax fraud.
00:22:42.000That's literally what they're investigating.
00:22:44.000They're also investigating a property by the name, I believe, called Sandy Springs of whether or not Donald Trump inflated the value of the real estate for a tax benefit.
00:22:53.000If that is going to be the new normal, every single real estate developer in New York City would go to prison.
00:22:59.000Real estate, by definition, is one of the hardest things to find value.
00:23:03.000The value is who's going to pay for it.
00:23:06.000Maybe the market is hot and the market is down.
00:23:09.000Of course, there's a value question and a valuation question.
00:23:13.000They're not investigating Donald Trump for working with a foreign government.
00:23:21.000They're not investigating Donald Trump for getting a $3.5 million wire from the mayor of Moscow's wife.
00:23:27.000They're not investigating Donald Trump for flying on Air Force 2 with his father and then getting a billion dollars from the Chinese, our greatest enemy.
00:23:36.000No, they're investigating Donald Trump of whether or not he gave benefits to his CFO that shouldn't have been taxed.
00:24:26.000Well, they want revenge against Donald Trump for interrupting their revolution.
00:24:31.000They want to make sure he's going to pay, and they make a public spectacle and example out of him for even daring to run for president in the first place and being an effective president, putting in judges, changing geopolitics, and making their takeover of the country that much harder.
00:24:50.000But this actually leads to a much more fundamental question that's very important.
00:24:57.000Do you actually think that the Democrats and the left will ever actually release their focus on the threat of the conservative movement?
00:25:13.000Do you think they're actually ever going to move on from this?
00:25:17.000In almost every single totalitarian country, they need a foil.
00:25:25.000In the Soviet Union, it was the Kulaks, or it was the capitalists.
00:25:30.000In China, right now, it is the Americans and the Westerners.
00:25:34.000In order to justify power, you need an enemy.
00:25:40.000Otherwise, then people say, well, why do you keep on having power?
00:25:43.000No, you need, as what Orwell would write in 1984, the two minutes hate, where in 1984, Orwell wrote that it was mandatory for every citizen for two minutes a day to stare at the screen and get worked up about who they're supposed to hate.
00:26:45.000Or the question of whether Donald Trump paid for his CFO grandkids' tuition for a very expensive school on the Upper East Side and might not have paid taxes on that?
00:26:53.000By the way, most of those matters would be settled by a letter from the IRS: hey, pay the tax.
00:27:01.000Not a monstrous multi-million dollar state of New York and Manhattan District Attorney joint investigation to crush someone who, by the way, has paid so much respect and taxes to the city of New York and a former president.
00:27:17.000And this goes to a very sad but real, but just honest realization of our country.
00:27:52.000He was the first Secretary of the Treasury, famously wrote the Federalist Papers alongside James Madison.
00:27:59.000It was a very strict on immigration, too.
00:28:00.000He's been glamorized by Broadway, and many of you have probably seen the play, but very few people know about Alexander Hamilton and actually what he believed.
00:28:07.000But Alexander Hamilton predicted this: that the courts and the justice system would always conform to the will of the majority.
00:28:17.000That it would not be an impartial system of laws.
00:28:21.000Instead, it would be a nation of political will.
00:28:24.000We're going to explore this together because they might be investigating Donald Trump now, but they'll be coming for more people soon, including maybe you.
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00:29:49.000I think the walls are finally closing in on the truth about the Trump organization and what has happened.
00:29:55.000You saw that we in Congress tried to exercise our oversight responsibility into Trump finances, tax returns, appraisals of properties, and those kinds of things.
00:30:06.000And the Trump administration thwarted us at every turn.
00:30:10.000We're going to see now through the use of the DA and the Attorney General in New York.
00:30:17.000We are now going to see through the use of the DA and the Attorney General one of the greatest political persecutions we have seen using the criminal system, the criminal justice system in our country's history.
00:30:32.000It's the same reason why Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin and Mao and Benita Mussolini and any sort of autocrat that wants to hang on to power will never admit to the people that the threat is gone.
00:30:50.000Do you notice that the autocrats, the collectivists, they never give permission for the people to release their hold on the threat of the other?
00:31:00.000That would instead justify some form of a period of peace.
00:31:06.000And once you have peace, then autocracy and monarchy and oligarchy and the ability to be in control, you lose your mandate to govern.
00:31:19.000Now, the Democrats realize that the thing that is keeping their party together, the only thing that's keeping their party together, is the two minutes hate.
00:31:33.000Is the unifying perspective that in every person in the Democrat Party that you might disagree on socialism or you might disagree on how many foreigners they should bring into America, but instead keep giving us power because we will go eliminate the scourge of Donald Trump and his followers and his allies.
00:31:56.000Do you think they'll ever actually stop?
00:32:00.000Will they release their focus on this threat?
00:32:04.000And why are they so threatened by a man that is now golfing at Mar-a-Lago?
00:32:11.000I addressed that yesterday in the villages.
00:32:14.000I spoke in the villages, Florida, and it's one that I'm going to actually explore in the next couple of weeks.
00:32:19.000I'm going to talk about with a familiar name and face that you guys all know, which I believe the 1990s put forward some very destructive policies, such as we never should have gotten away from making stuff in our country.
00:32:36.000The fact that we deindustrialized our economy and that we sent manufacturing overseas was one of the great errors of public policy in American history.
00:32:57.000They do not just want to indict Donald Trump.
00:32:59.000They want to indict the fact that Donald Trump dared to challenge internationalist trade that only benefited the Chinese Communist Party.
00:33:10.000They want to indict the fact that Donald Trump said, wait a second, why don't we just try to have a conversation and qualify who is coming into our country and for what reason?
00:33:22.000They want to indict, and they want to make a public example of Donald Trump daring to challenge the fact that we were having adventurous wars overseas.
00:33:37.000Donald Trump was actually building a political movement that, despite what they said they hated about him, his tone and his tweets, and you might disagree with how he handled himself on all that.
00:33:49.000What they really feared was a robust, long-term pro-American political movement that could unite the Bernie Sanders people and the plumbers and the welders, Hispanics and the blacks and the working class whites and the Christians and the Jews and all sorts of different walks of backgrounds of languages and religious and religion that just wanted a strong country that had some very simple beliefs.