Democrats ARRESTED In MAJOR Voter Fraud Scheme, Texas BANS Chinese Land Ownership
Summary
Texas AG Ken Paxton says judge and other officials arrested for vote harvesting crimes. Latino leaders and others have criticized the investigation as politically motivated. Texas House passes bill banning Chinese citizens from buying state land. Proponents of the measure say it s intended to target governments deemed hostile by the federal government.
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From the Washington Post, Texas AG says judge and other officials arrested for vote harvesting
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Republican AG Ken Paxton has led an effort to probe alleged voter fraud.
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Latino leaders and others have criticized the investigation as politically motivated.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday said six individuals, including a county judge
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and a former elections administrator, were indicted and arrested for what Paxton described
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as fraudulent vote harvesting scheme in the state's Frio County.
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As part of a broad investigation, Latino civil rights leaders have criticized as politically
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According to Paxton's announcement, five people have been charged with vote harvesting, with
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one individual being charged with tampering or fabricating physical evidence.
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Further details of the case were not provided in the announcement.
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Several public officials are among those arrested, including a judge, Rochelle Camacho,
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Frio County Elections Administrator Carlos Segura, two Pearsall City Council members and a school
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Segura and Pearsall City County member Ramiro Trevino declined to comment on the indictments
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and other defendants did not respond to requests for comment or could not be reached.
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The Texas Attorney General has long echoed President Donald Trump's baseless claims of
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widespread election fraud and has engaged in aggressive prosecutions for alleged election
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fraud crimes that have upended lives were resulted in few cases that went to trial and ended in
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Civil rights groups and members of the community have raised concerns that Paxton's investigations
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tend to target black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats, and that as a result,
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there's been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked
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to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation's lowest voter participation rates.
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Interesting, that's the direction they would go.
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But there is another big story, because fraud is not just about whether or not an individual is going
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And one of the big concerns we've had across this country is Chinese citizens, foreigners and
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So, of course, we will be talking with the Texas rep in a moment.
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Here's the next story for which I want to give you the context before getting to this interview.
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Texas House passes bill banning Chinese citizens from buying state land.
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Chinese and other foreign citizens could soon be barred from purchasing homes in Texas under
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The measure, which passed the Republican-led chamber in a largely party-lined vote, was
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significantly narrowed down from the original version.
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Lawmakers voted to add exemptions for individuals residing in the United States legally on temporary
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Dual citizens and permanent residents are also not included in the ban.
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The legislation would block any other citizens of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran from
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purchasing homes, buying land or leasing apartments in Texas, and give the government power to
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Proponents of the proposal brought by State Senator Lois Kohlkhorst of Brenham say it's intended
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to target governments and companies deemed hostile by the federal government.
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Quote, our adversaries speak loudly and often about their ambitions and motivations to break
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The state of Texas will not allow that to happen.
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So, my friends, we will be joined by Texas Rep Mitch Little, who also served as an impeachment
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Let me pull this up and get it loaded for you as we bring in the Texas Rep to give us a breakdown
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of what's currently going on, and I believe we are currently loading, and we have the
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We have two big stories that I was hoping to talk to you about, so I'm glad you're able
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The first is the arrest of these county officials, a judge for vote harvesting.
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I'm wondering if you can give us a little bit of information on that and what happened
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My good friend and fellow freshman, Don McLaughlin, actually won as a Republican in that district,
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but it wasn't for a lack of trying of cheating by the Democrats.
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My understanding is there were a number of county officials who were involved in it, too.
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This just highlights the need for the attorney general's office in the state of Texas to
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be re-empowered or re-authorized to prosecute election fraud in the state.
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It's more pervasive than anyone would have you believe.
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The Democrats spent a lot of time a few nights ago at around 1130 at night trying to argue
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I mean, do you have any specific details on what they're accused of doing or what happened?
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They were going to an old folks home with ballots, handing them out, picking them up,
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And there was, as I understand it, it was a pay-by-ballot scheme.
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They were giving them however many dollars a name to go over to the old folks home with
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Yeah, I think, you know, we've seen a lot of investigative work on things like this.
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I believe James O'Keefe had uncovered something like this years ago out of, I think it was
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Minnesota, a video of a man with stacks of ballots, and he was bragging about how much
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money he gets paid from collecting these things.
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Do you think that's more widespread in Texas than just this one case?
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Well, what are the chances that we caught the one person who's doing it or that we caught
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I think, of course, it's going on more than anyone cares to admit.
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On the Democrat side of the spectrum, they say this isn't a thing.
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On the Republican side, a lot of people will say, yeah, maybe it happens, but it's not
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Let me tell you, you're talking about South Texas, and we're talking about literally hundreds,
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It's something we have to keep our eye on constantly.
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Do you think that they're tricking these elderly people or offering them something to get
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It's hard to say, but you think of people being in a nursing home or assisted living as
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I think it goes without saying that there are people there who are going to be compromised,
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This is not how our electoral process is designed to work.
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There's also concern, you know, when I talk to people about this, the concern is not necessarily
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so much that illegal immigrants are voting, but that with states like California, largely
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operating as a sanctuary, they have large illegal immigrant populations, which boosts their
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When they do the census, the population is increased.
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Are there other concerns like anything you know of in Texas related to issues like that
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One of the big things we're working on right now in the state of Texas is bail reform.
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One of those is around our illegal alien population.
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It's going to come to the House floor eventually as SJR, Senate Joint Resolution 1.
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And it's designed to make sure that illegal aliens who commit a certain class of offense
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are not released on bail in the state of Texas.
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So we're talking about, Tim, the most violent offenses plus any offenses involving election
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And if you're, I mean, if you're talking about illegal aliens participation in the criminal
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process in Texas, a lot of times we're talking about the worst, most violent offenses or like
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in South Texas, they may be asked to participate in some kind of ballot harvesting operation.
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We're also trying to make sure that any illegal alien that's caught in the manufacture or delivery
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of drugs in the state of Texas is held without bail.
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We've been seeing a lot, especially with Trump, you know, the big story, of course, he's going
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Do you guys have, I imagine being Texas and especially with how the illegal immigration
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was handled under the Biden administration, you've got a lot of problems with that.
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Have you guys in the past few months been able to clean this up and change how things
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Well, everything that happens in the legislature is initiated by some public, major public
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You know, in Dallas, where I'm from the Dallas area, I represent an area in Denton County.
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In Dallas, we had a lady who was actually held up by some illegal gang members in her own
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You may have heard that Trinidad, Aragua took over an apartment complex in the Dallas area.
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One of the issues that we're trying to address through House Bill 17, which was by Cole Hefner,
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we're trying to fight both state and non-state actors of international criminal influence.
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So organizations like Trinidad, Aragua, the cartels are not able to acquire or hold real
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Yeah, it's a federal action for deportation, but also one of the things we're trying to
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do is kind of force our sheriffs into the 287G regime.
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I'm sure you're familiar with that, where our sheriffs basically become deputized or empowered
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to work as part of the federal immigration system to make sure that people that they apprehend
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are then deported out of the country as part of cooperation with the Trump administration.
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Lauerback, who's now a state representative, is carrying a piece of that legislation.
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I definitely want to talk to you about this foreign land thing, but real quick, what's
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it like since the Trump administration's come in?
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I mean, during the Biden administration, these videos were insane of the illegal immigration,
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and now we're hearing that border crossings have dropped by some 95%.
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It seems like the Trump admin is giving you guys the assistance you need, whereas Biden
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was fighting with your own state law enforcement.
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It's a precipitous decline in illegal immigration, which is exactly what we needed.
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The state of Texas was having to deploy way too many tax dollars and way too much manpower
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to the border and still not even making a dent.
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I mean, we're now—this is a much better time safety-wise for the state of Texas.
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We are—we're seeing way fewer illegal crossings, but the Democrats haven't helped us with that
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They're trying to fight us on immigration-related measures.
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And obviously, you probably know, we're trying to get our money back from the federal government
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as well for the $11 billion we expended trying to do the work of the Biden administration they
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Immigration was one of the top issues in the 2024 election and just in general leading up
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What was the Democrats' argument to you guys, Alec, in Texas, but also federally, to allow
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Well, I'm sure you see it in—I'm sure you see it where you are.
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You know, they're coming somewhere to start over.
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Of course, the nice thing to do is to allow people to come over whenever they feel like
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The problem is that they never get to the natural consequence of the argument, which is Jocelyn
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So we have Jocelyn Nungare in Houston, who was raped and murdered by two illegals over
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the course of two hours in Houston under a bridge.
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And her mother, Alexis Nungare, actually came to my committee and the Criminal Jurisprudence
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Committee in the Texas House and testified in favor of bail reform, trying to make sure
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that this can never happen to anyone else again.
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You cannot separate the empathetic or emotional aspects of illegal immigration from the hardcore
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reality of the criminal element that comes over here in the United States and the economic
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impact of—on services of the people of Texas as well.
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I mean, even—you know, we've had a lot of these stories.
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You had Lake and Riley, obviously, as another story.
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And what we end up hearing from many of these liberal and Democrat activists or politicians
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It's almost like they're applying some utilitarian view.
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It's almost like an inverted Blackstone's formulation where they say it is better that
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several innocent people are raped and murdered than one poor asylum seeker be turned home,
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And instead of just saying we should not tolerate any degree of murder of our own citizens and
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exploitation of our economy, they just allow this stuff to happen.
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It's—well, we might do some good for these people over here.
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If there's one or two people who are raped, robbed, murdered, then maybe we can balance the
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harm against the greater societal good of making sure that these people can get jobs and have
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a bank account and buy a house in America, I'm sorry, that's not the bargain the American
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And I think maybe they'd have a semblance of an argument if they said, we're going to
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change the law to allow it instead of just, we're going to let a bunch of people in illegally
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The law is—the law was an obstacle to the reformatting of the United States.
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And you see that with the Biden enforcement's lax—the Biden administration's lax enforcement
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of the law—it's because it's—the law is an obstacle to the reimagining of America.
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And by the time we got to November, thank God, enough people had decided the madness has to end.
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And we're not interested in the reformatting of America.
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I think now one of the—a major move we're seeing is from you guys banning Chinese nationals,
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Russians, North Koreans, adversaries from owning land in Texas.
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Can you explain to us what the plan there is and what's going on?
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So we—I think we have just passed out of the House the strongest version of the hostile
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foreign land ownership bill that is going to exist in the United States.
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I myself wrote a bill that was modeled on Arkansas's act that Senator—I'm sorry, that Governor
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Huckabee Sanders signed into law last legislative session in Arkansas.
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I think we have an even stronger version of it now.
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There was a little bit of pushback on, well, what about people who are lawfully here in the
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I think you've got kind of the middle 100 people in our body out of 150 going, yeah,
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we probably do need to allow people who are rightfully here in the country and are productive
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The problem is that for every possible loophole that we leave the Chinese government or the
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Russian or North Korean or Iranian government, whoever the enemies of the United States are,
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They will have lawyers reading, working, coming up with a plan to circumvent it as fast as
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You may be aware that the main thing that initiated this problem was somebody came in and bought
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30,000 acres in South Texas up against one of our Air Force bases.
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And so we're not talking about some doctor's condo in downtown Austin here.
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We're talking about major threats to strategic infrastructure.
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I think we got a good enough bill off the house floor.
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That is going to prevent some of that garbage from happening again.
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I think we're going to look back 20 or 30 years from now and go,
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how can we be so stupid to ever allow Chinese nationals, companies, affiliates, entities to
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I mean, hopefully the federal government or other states start to fall in line as well
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You know, you can protect Texas, but if the rest of this country doesn't figure this problem
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out, then we're going to have a national, which we do, we have a national problem on this.
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One of the issues is, you know, I was trying to, I was having a debate with this liberal
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He was talking about how great it was that we have this trade with China that is completely
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He didn't call it lopsided, but he said, you know, Trump's wrong.
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And I asked him, if we don't manufacture and their labor is cheaper than ours, what will
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they use our U.S. dollars for after we pay them?
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Obviously, they're going to buy oil with the petrodollar, but they're buying U.S. land.
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We are, every day we buy cheap goods from them, we are just extracting more of our houses.
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So one of the concerns I see with this is for the next generation, I'm imagining Gen
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Z trying to rent an apartment and they're all owned by Chinese nationals, or that could
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It's shocking to think that we could get there one day.
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We have foreign investors who are acquiring a lot of residential real estate in the state
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I think we need to give, as a party and as a nation, we need to give President Trump latitude
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to reorder the international trade dilemma that we have with China.
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It seems like he's already making headway, that we're making advances toward equalizing
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I think the problem is we know what the right thing to do is, Tim.
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The right thing is to put China on equal footing with the United States from a trade standpoint,
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And so all the businesses that depend on cheap labor, cheap goods, and they're more likely
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to engage in rent-seeking behavior, say, hey, well, we need to use the power of government
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Well, that may be the best for you now, but it's not the best thing for the United States
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I've seen so many stories from people saying that the tariffs on China was really bad for
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their small business, and now they may go under, and it's bad for the economy.
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The scary thing is, like you said, the pain that gets you to the right place.
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If we keep taking this cheap labor deal from China, our own laborers can't compete with
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The end result that I fear is, a simple tangible one is, 22-year-old goes to rent an apartment,
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Literally, the Chinese Communist Party threw a subsidiary.
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I mean, you think about what the bedrock, the cornerstone of wealth creation, the engine
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of wealth creation in the United States is homeownership.
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We need to make sure that our young people have a future opportunity that we and our
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parents had to be able to carve a life out for themselves.
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We cannot be as dependent on China today as we are.
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And, you know, so you're mentioning these loopholes.
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For any and every loophole you leave, they're going to exploit.
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The challenge I see with this bill is, what's to stop a, you know, so the Chinese Communist
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Party says, we want to own land near a military base, or we want to own large swaths of farmland,
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So they hire some, they, you know, dish it out to some run-of-the-mill Chinese citizen.
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The corporation buys it, and it's an American corporation.
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You know, the interest is still there, but they're going to find ways to hide it.
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So I think we've got a good enough statute where we're going to be able to capture those
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entities where there is maybe a limited partnership participation that's significant to a level of
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So we drafted that bill with that issue specifically in mind.
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But you know, Tim, that whatever we do, there's always going to be a counter move.
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You may or may not be aware that with regard to Chinese entities or Chinese ownership, the
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They don't even appear on the capitalization table of the company, the ownership table.
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They just, they might have what's called one golden share.
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So one of my big concerns, actually, Tim, was that eventually the Chinese are going to start
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using American citizens as a cutout, that they, the American citizens will essentially do business
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with China as their proxy or their affiliate and hold it on their behalf.
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You'll never believe the loophole that was in the Senate bill that came over to us.
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They had an exception for leases shorter than a hundred years.
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It might as well, you might as well own it in fee simple because now if you, if you got
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a 99 year ground lease, you own the improvements and you say, oh, well, I don't own the land.
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So we were able to amend that thing out of there.
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This is going to be, it's going to require constant diligence on behalf of state governments,
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the state of Texas, other states to, to prevent China from expanding its influence here.
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This, this golden share thing you're describing.
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Is it like, so I, like you, you know who you've, you've heard of Jack Ma, for example,
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Well, and you may remember a couple of years ago, Jack Ma just disappeared for about six
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So if I, whether it's a publicly traded entity or a private entity, most of them are controlled
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by, or probably all of them to some degree are controlled by the CCP.
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So you have no real transparency into the financial inner workings of those businesses.
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So you think about an American investor investing in China, you have no transparency from an audit
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standpoint of what's going on financially in that entity.
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And at the end of the day, because of this golden share concept, the CCP owns the company.
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They can nationalize it, shift the ownership, shift the purpose of the business.
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So it's also kind of crazy to think this also lends to when these Chinese interests are
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buying American land, which has been a huge concern all over the country.
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We look at it on paper, and we're going to see either an American corporation that owns
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it, and that corporation is wholly owned by a Chinese national, but then China's going
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to have their own version of the books outside of U.S. law, where they say, sure, this guy
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owns that company, but we, the CCP, own him and his company.
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So we are actually secretly in control of all this farmland and land near military bases.
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It's the same thing that's going on in offshore entities in the Caribbean, same thing that's
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going on in Panamanian entities that are used for money laundering.
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There's going to be just a base level of opacity where you cannot see who owns the entity or
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It's one of the reasons that we put in the bill the ability for the attorney general's
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office in the state of Texas to investigate that person or entity to determine whether they
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So in other words, they don't have a safe home base to touch if they satisfy some piece
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We're always going to have the ability to investigate it and then divest them at the
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You know, when we, especially for a show like mine and for a lot of people who follow it,
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And so we, I think a lot of people overlook the importance of state level politics, which
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can shape the congressional district, which literally does shape the congressional districts.
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But in that regard, Paxton's been doing one of the best jobs in the country in going
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after a lot of the fraud, corruption, abuse that we've been seeing.
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I mean, I'm curious, considering what we saw against Donald Trump from the Democratic Party
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in various states going after his lawyers and everything like that, I have to imagine
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that Democrats in Texas don't take too kindly to your AG over there.
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Well, I don't know if you're aware of this, Tim, but I was Ken Paxton's lawyer in his impeachment
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It's not, the thing that I'm realizing, so I'm a freshman in the state legislature here.
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The thing that I'm realizing, Tim, is the problem is not the extreme wing of the Democrat Party.
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The problem is the, we've got 150 members in the legislature.
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The problem is the 100 members in the center of the ideological spectrum here in Texas who
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are ideologically indistinguishable from one another.
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And you have the same thing that's going on in Congress.
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And, you know, we kind of colloquially refer to it as the unit party.
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But when you have someone like Ken Paxton, who's doing the right thing, doing it aggressively,
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the party of the status quo, the people in the center are the ones that recoil in horror
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Do you think that was just, it was bogus, it was BS, just political?
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Should have never gotten off first base, should have never come out of the House in the first
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How does, I suppose you've broken down for, I'm just kind of, I'm flabbergasted that we're
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experiencing this at the state level, the federal level.
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Yeah, we have to be, voters have to be more demanding on a local level of their representation
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You know, we've got to be, voters have to be more informed.
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They've got to be more attuned to what the people they are electing are doing.
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Because I think what I'm, I think what I'm learning, Tim, is that if people stay in elected
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office for too long, eventually they become kind of merged into whatever this machine is.
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People come in with the right principles, the right beliefs, really fidelity to the people
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And there's so much pressure in state government and federal government for you to conform,
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to get along so that you can quote unquote, get things done, that eventually people cave.
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They transform into something they never intended to be when they ran for office in the first
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And then they just, the office becomes them instead of them taking on the office.
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So you look, you look what's going on with Senator John Cornyn, who's going to be in a,
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John Cornyn's been, John Cornyn's been working in government as long as I've been alive,
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I mean, you just, you look at his professional background.
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He's been working in government as long as anyone can remember.
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So last question, I suppose, is there anything that we can look forward to actions you guys
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in the, in Texas are planning on taking moving forward?
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We need to make sure that people, we need to make sure.
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So the, the cities in any state, but particularly in Texas are eating us from the inside out.
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And it's because of their, their incredibly lax approach to the criminal justice process.
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We have violent offenders who are committing violent offenses while they are out on bail for horrific things.
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I think we're going to have something voted out of the house this week, out of committee and to the floor soon for consideration that everybody's going to like.
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We need to make sure that people who are violent offenders, repeated offenders, people who are a legitimate flight risk are not let out of jail,
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Is there anything else you want to mention before we wrap up?
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Thanks for, for joining us and giving some insights and we'll, we'll see you next time.
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Really do appreciate you had time to, to, to join us and explain a bit about what's going on down there.
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I want to stress everybody, state level politics can change the world, can change everything.
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And we talked about this several years ago, which is why it's, it's, it's really important that you guys figure out who your state rep is, your state senators, pay attention to those elections, special elections.
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We were at a point where people were talking about a potential, I think it's an article five.
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It's been so long since we went over this, basically a convent article five convention of states.
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The states can basically override Congress, the Senate, all that stuff.
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If enough get together and the Republicans control the majority of states.
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But here's the secret, here's, here's a plain as day secret.
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You and me, the Americans are actually the ideological center, uh, the moral center of this country.
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I'm not saying I'm morally right on everything, nor am I saying you are.
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I'm saying this space that we occupy, where we say this country is for Americans.
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We plant trees whose shade we know we'll never sit beneath.
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This is, this is, this is our country, but Democrats have been bringing in non-citizens, lying, claiming it's an economic benefit.
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They do it so that when the census comes around every 10 years, they get extra electoral college votes.
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And then we look at the votes and we're like, how is it that the Republicans didn't win this time?
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Because Democrats gave themselves five extra votes.
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Man, Trump won a popular mandate, but we only get a two seat, two seat majority in the Republican Party.
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Because Democrats have probably 10 extra seats because they bring illegal immigrants into this, into this country.
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Then census counts them and congressional seats are drawn up based on the total population size, not citizenry.
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So it's really great to see what Texas is doing because Texas has been leading the charge on so many of these things, especially with Ken Paxton.
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Who I believe is gearing up to go live in just a moment.
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It says, Tim, my cat nearly died this weekend, but we were able to save her.
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If you could shout out our Give, Send, Go, it would help a lot.
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Our sergeant says, at my family's Mother Day cookout, my liberal was literally blaming Trump for not being able to watch baseball on TV.
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Yeah, well, you know, that's how these things go.
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J.G. Sturtevant says, I would say these Democrat reps tried to facilitate a jailbreak at a federal detention center.
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Indeed, my friends, perhaps it was a insurrection.
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I will just give one last little bit because I should be signing off.
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We'll get that rumble raid going for our friend Russell Brand here.
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One, we can talk like presidents shouldn't take gifts from foreign countries like that.
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We understand there's always a formality in this.
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Consideration means something exchanged for something, something of value.
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So Trump should at least give them like, hey, you want to bring in his plane?
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I don't care if a foreign government wants to give a president a plane.
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People are like, yeah, but it's built in America.
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Air Force One's got to be paid and made by us for obvious reasons.
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We'll talk more about that tonight on Tim Castirel, I'm sure.
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You've got to show up Friday, Tim Castirel, the biggest podcast in news in the country
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