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The New York Times spreads more lies about Pete Hegseth and his ex-wife, Samantha, and tries to paint him as the victim of domestic abuse. Glenn takes a deep dive into the details of the story and gives his thoughts on it.
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On today's podcast, we begin with more lies from The New York Times on Pete Hegseth,
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proving they are little more than just left-wing propaganda. Wait until you see how crazy this
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story is. And people need to stand up and tell the Democrats, stuff it, stuff it, pipe down.
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Trump's second oath of office also shows he can't be written off or treated as a fluke
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this time around. We have that story and President Trump takes on Mexico, but they're not going to
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accept all of it. They're not. They're not. They're not going to accept the Gulf name change,
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the deportation things. They're not happy about that. Well, how happy are they going to be when
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we send in special forces to take out the cartels? Hey, drug lords, you might want a career change
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, Stu. Glenn. Your take on today's
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show and the feeling of the country is fascinating and kind of where I am right now, too. It's
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like, it feels weird coming in and not having 46 bad stories to tell everybody in America.
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I don't know how to tell people this. Yeah, this sucks. This is how it's going to ruin
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your life. Like, it's not. There's a lot of good things today. A lot. Like, a lot of really
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good things. Now, it's day one. We should be clear. And they're going to do everything they
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can to, you know, make to try to reverse this and make all of our lives miserable. But
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hey, you know, I don't know how long this lasts, hopefully for four years, hopefully for eight,
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maybe 12. Yeah. Let me let me just get the one dark thing out. And this this should piss
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off everybody. And you should all you have to do is call your congressman and your senators.
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The New York Times to say that they are journalists is is like saying, you know, a Christmas carol
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is a true story of Christmas. They are not journalists. They are not printing facts. This
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is a propaganda machine. And they know these are not facts. Let me give you the latest. Julie
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Turskin, Sarah Fitzpatrick and Courtney Cube have all worked together on a story that just
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came out about Daniel, Danielle Hegseth. Now, who's Danielle Hegseth? Well, that is Pete's
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former sister-in-law. So she's right there. OK, she's a former sister-in-law. And according
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to these, quote, reporters, Danielle says, oh, you don't even know. You don't even begin.
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Pete was involved in behavior that caused his second wife to fear for her safety. And she
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describes in an affidavit allegations of volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth that made his
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second wife, Samantha, fear for her safety. Now, I want you to know, Samantha denies all
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of this. Samantha was fearing for her safety. OK, I was there. I saw it kind of. Not really.
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But I saw it. Ninth paragraph in. Ninth paragraph in. They report something that should probably
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be in the headline. Samantha's response to Danielle's allegations.
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She says, first, I never asked anyone to share or speak about the details of my marriage on my
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behalf. She wrote a letter to Danielle and said, please stop speaking on my behalf. Your information
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is not accurate. And I have CC'd my lawyer. OK, there was no quoting. There was no physical abuse
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in my marriage. This is the only further statement I will make to you. I have to let you know that I
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am not speaking and will not speak on my marriage to Pete. Please respect this decision. But that's not
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good enough for the New York Times. No, the person who is allegedly allegedly abused in their marriage
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who says I wasn't abused and please stop speaking for me. I've contacted my attorney to make it stop.
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No, you don't believe that person. You believe the far left Democrat who's no longer part of the
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family. You believe that person. Now, if that's not damning enough, several paragraphs past the ninth
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paragraph, they report both Pete Hegseth and Samantha Hegseth signed a 2021 court document that said
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neither parent claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse. So in the court of law, they both signed a
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legally binding document that said, yeah, that's not what this is about. Kind of important.
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Now, what the New York Times would have you believe is that Pete, the abused wife, and everybody else
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involved in this marriage and the disillusion of this marriage, including the attorneys and the judge,
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they're all lying to you. They're all lying to you. It's just Danielle that is telling the truth.
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This is, I think, the clearest way that the media executes their plan of bias.
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You know, it's like we have had accusers against Doug Emhoff, right, for physical abuse. No time for
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They didn't even mention them. If they were mentioned at all, it was to dismiss their claims.
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It was the person who actually was supposedly hit in the face.
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You know, women who claim to be raped by Bill Clinton.
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But if some rant, not even the person, the person is saying it didn't happen.
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Another person who is an X of an X of an X comes out and says, yeah, this is really bad
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stuff. It's a whole giant news treatment from the New York Times as if it's a credible
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You try to go to court against the United States government on things that they're doing, and
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you will be deemed not having standing, meaning it's not really affecting you. It's not about
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you. How many times have you heard this was rejected because you didn't have standing?
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You hear that all the time. And the government just steamrolls over people. This woman does
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not have standing. She wasn't there. That's not her. Everybody else who is understatement,
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under oath, is denying what she said. Do I need to remind you of Kavanaugh? These people
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have one mode. One. That's it. This is why the left can never actually gain rule. Now, they
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just did, and you saw what happened. What was happening to our country? They were destroying
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it. Why? Forget all of the philosophical reasons. The real reason is that's all they
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can do. They cannot build. They can't actually create anything. They only destroy. So what
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are they doing? They're not actually creating anything. They're not actually doing anything.
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They're just destroying. Now they're destroying Pete Hegseth and his ex-wife. Because what are
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they doing? They're not only saying he's an abuser, they're saying she's a pathetic woman. These are
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the people standing up for women. She's a pathetic woman who just doesn't have the courage to stand up
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against this brute. Are you kidding me? And they can tell that story over and over again. They can tell
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it exactly on partisan lines the same way over and over again. They never have to admit it. They
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never have to come to some come to Jesus moment where they say, gosh, we've been doing this wrong
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the whole time. And you know what? When it comes to the success of the conservative movement in America,
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good. It's probably the reason why Trump won. It's probably the reason why these things are happening
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today. Because they have been so terrible for so long that it finally woke up a bunch of people who
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don't even believe in conservative principles. And I tell you, what Trump is doing this week,
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it is going to backfire on the left like crazy. People are not against the deportation of illegals.
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No, it's quite popular, actually, in polling. I mean, what is the most popular policy in America?
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What is it? Voting. The checks on voting, right? Like voter ID is one of the most popular.
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And what is the mid to high 80s when it comes to approval rating? This is in the 70s, I believe,
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with the conservatives in like 68% approval with the left, right? With Democrats. Yeah. I don't know
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if it's that high with the left. Overall, it might be that high, though. Okay. I mean, it is.
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It's high. It is high. It's popular. And well over 50% for the Democrats. Well over 50%.
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This is not unpopular. And these guys trying to thwart our safety. I mean, you're going to now block
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This is not going to end well for you Democrats. It's not. Your time is over. You lost.
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We always have to strive to be better. You understand that concept as a Democrat? Come on in.
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening.
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Politico has a fascinating article today that I want to start the hour with and it is from John
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Harris. He is the founding editor and global editor of in chief of Politico. He says Donald J. Trump in
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his second inaugural address was everything his supporters hoped he would be. Breathtakingly
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expansive about his intention to reshape the vast federal government around his vision,
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raucously jingoistic in proclaiming that the country will do whatever it wants to do to advance
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its interests around the world, openly triumphal in asserting his belief that his survival from an
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assassination's bullet or from an assassin's bullet and his victory show that he is God's chosen
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instrument to lead an American revival. I don't think that's exactly what he said or how it came
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across to his supporters. It didn't with me, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. I
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understand what he's trying to say as somebody who's never supported Donald Trump. Trump was also
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everything his adversaries feared. Messianic in tone, lovingly protective of his grievances, wholly
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uncharitable to the people sitting just feet from him under the Capitol Rotunda who he defeated so
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convincingly. But the second occasion of Trump taking the oath of office also put him in an entirely new
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light. For the first time, he is holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot
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deny a basic fact. He is the greatest American figure of his era. Let's quickly exhale, he writes.
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Great in this context is not about a subjective debate over whether he is a singularly righteous leader
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or a singularly menacing one. It is now simply an objective description about the dimensions of his
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record. He began a decade ago by dominating the Republic Party. He soon advanced to dominating every
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discussion of American politics broadly. Now his astonishing comeback after his defeat by Joseph
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Biden in 2020 and the notoriety of January 6th riot makes it clear there are certain things he is not,
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and one big thing he is. He is not a fluke who got elected initially in 2016 almost entirely because
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of the infirmities of his opponent. That's not true. He is not someone the American public somehow
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misunderstands as though Democrats and news media have not spent 10 years forcibly highlighting the risks
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of his record in character. He is someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians
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do not and forge powerful sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary
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can match. In other words, he is a force of history. This is something his most ardent supporters, still shy of a national
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majority, have never doubted, but something others, myself included, have been slow to reckon with. This is an article,
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by the way, from the global editor-in-chief of Politico. The inaugural address and a raft of hundreds of executive
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orders Trump has promised for his opening days in office make it impossible to avoid. For Democrats, and most
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excruciatingly, Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the inaugural ceremony and all it symbolizes were
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a meal made of ingredients scraped off the kennel floor. Once they gargle and spit, however, the opposition
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party may find something liberating about this moment. That is, because they can no longer place confidence
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in a strategy that once looked plausible, but has now been exposed as an illusion.
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That's a massive statement. They cannot push Trump to the margins by treating him as a momentary
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anomaly or simply denouncing him as a lawless or illegitimate president. Some voters bought that,
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but not enough to win the election. Opponents have no choice but to acknowledge he and his movement
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represent a large historic argument. And then they rally similarly large arguments to defeat it.
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Trump in 2020 showed himself ready to undermine democracy for his own purposes. Trump in 2024
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showed that he is also a potent expression of democracy. The most flamboyant rhetoric of Donald
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Trump's inaugural address, drill baby drill, retaking the Panama Canal, renaming Gulf of Mexico,
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kill the Gulf of America, sending federal troops to the border, all expressions of his genuine
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worldview. Thank you for acknowledging at least just that. I can't tell you how many times I heard
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CNN in the last couple of days say, he doesn't believe any of this stuff. He absolutely believes
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all of this stuff. What part of this is giving you any indication he doesn't believe this?
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And how explain to me exactly how both he doesn't believe in any of it and he's a Nazi? Yeah. Like
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from what I understand, Hitler had some pretty strong beliefs. Jeez. That leaves plenty of room
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for argument. Trump has transcended his vulnerability to criminal penalties for January 6th. It is not
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possible for him to transcend a genuine contest over competing visions of the better America. The contest
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may be more effective if opponents embrace the reality that Trump has already demonstrated some
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familiar signatures of the most consequential presidents. Like influential predecessors, his
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arguments have shifted the terms of debate in ways that echo within both parties, in this case on issues
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such as trade, China, and the role of big corporations. Like other large presidents, Trump has been
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communications an innovator and exploited technological shifts more effectively than his rivals. In that sense,
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Trump's use of social media recalls Franklin D. Roosevelt's mastery of radio, John F. Kennedy and Ronald
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Reagan's mastery of television, and even as his banter and insults don't aspire to anything like
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traditional presidents' eloquence. One more signature shown, the most consequential presidents only,
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uncommon psychological toughness. Have you ever known anyone who is facing similar legal hurdles?
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In many cases, even if people ultimately win the case, they end up being consumed and shrunken by the
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searing nature of the experience. Now listen to that. The same guy who's making the case that he's,
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you know, he can't shake his grievances is saying in many cases, even if people ultimately win the case,
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they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of that experience. So he's recognizing
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what he just went through. Imagine running for president amid huge civil suits, criminal prosecutions,
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even felony convictions, then emerging from the morass as a larger figure than before.
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No one needs to admire the achievement to recognize that Trump is possessed by some rare traits of denial,
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combativeness, and resilience. About that combativeness, could someone so zealously divisive
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ever join the roster of presidents who even school children can typically recite as the nation's greatest?
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My mind goes back to a conversation just before Bill Clinton. In his second term, the liberal historian
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., he inherited a tradition from his father, also a renowned scholar,
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conducting surveys of historians asking him to rank American presidents from best to worst.
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Clinton was promising in his second term to be a great national unifier. Schlesinger, who wished
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greatness for Clinton, but mistrusted his ideological centrism, was skeptical. Great presidents are
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unifiers mostly in retrospect, of course, because he is changing things. He is trying to bring people along.
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FDR said, I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. That is the same thing. Aren't we judging
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Donald Trump a lot on the enemies that he has made? Now we're starting to see him and do things that
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you're like, okay, he understands the enemies, but more importantly, he understands what the enemies have
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done to our country and can stop those and what we need to do to build a more unified and better country
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to form a more perfect union. I'm telling you, I said this to him and I even said, I can't believe I'm
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saying this to you, but if you accomplish these things, you will be on the same ground as some of
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our founders and Abraham Lincoln and the greatest presidents to ever live. He is going to do more
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in fundamental transformation of this country than Barack Obama did by far, than Joe Biden did in
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destroying it. I hope that's a high bar. That's a very high bar. He, but he is, you know, he sat in the
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church yesterday and just took that sermon. Nobody should be surprised by that sermon. That's an
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Episcopal church. Hello. Um, and did you see how she walked out? I mean, she was practically a rainbow and
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her shoes were pots of gold. Uh, I mean, she was, she's clear, clear in her stance, just the way she was
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dressed as a high priestess. Um, and then on top of that, uh, this is the national cathedral. The national
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cathedral is, is practically an un-American cathedral. I mean, it does not rejoice in
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anything except progressivism. It's the burial site literally inside the church are the bones
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of Woodrow Wilson. So, I mean, nobody should be surprised. And if this is being done for tradition,
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it's the opposite of hallowed ground. Yes, it is. It's like a, it's like a poltergeist house,
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right? It's, it's hallowed ground for progressivism. Okay. So for, for him to go
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into the national cathedral, that's, that is tradition. Well, you know what? It's time to
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end some of those traditions because some of those traditions are bad traditions. Unlike just saying
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all American traditions should be abandoned like Barack Obama, he should look at each, each
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tradition and say, you know, why, why would I go to the national cathedral? The national cathedral
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stands against most of the things that Americans are for. I'm not going there. I'm going to go to
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another church to celebrate this occasion. Not that one. It'll be interesting to see how he responds to
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this, uh, in a bigger picture because yes, what, what my perception is right now is Trump 2.0. The
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second administration is more to that side. You know what? We're done with that tradition. We're done
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with that whole thing. We're going to, in this direction. Then what I think he would have been
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in 2017 where he, now he did put up a message about her and kind of an angry, uh, sort of, uh,
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truth. Well, it wasn't, it wasn't speaking truth to power. It was, uh, it was absolutely an act,
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uh, of fame. It was somebody who was selfish with this person that just wanted fame. You're not
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going to change his mind. But like, I really hope he doesn't let this stuff bother him. This is the
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type of stuff that like, you know what? It would have, I think he would have been, it would have
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been a week of just bashing this woman and she is nothing. Forget her and move on with the exception
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of, you know what, maybe this is why, why would it, why do we go there? You know, he did that
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within the first term with the, uh, press, the correspondence dinner, right? And he said, no,
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I'm not going to that stupid. Yeah. And like, that's the type of stuff he should do, but don't
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let that, don't let crap like that. Cause it's going to happen to him throughout his four years.
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Don't let that derail you. I'd like to know why the Washington, uh, the white house press corps even
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exists. The, the white house, you know, it's the, it's the white house press corps that does the
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dinner and, and they decide who gets the seats and what the rules are. Why? Why? Who the hell are
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they? Yeah. Well, I mean, and we've seen, you know, we saw that with the debate commission,
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right? Correct. Why? Well, who the hell are they? What Biden was like, I don't want to do it that
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way. Right. And he didn't, you know, he probably should have probably should have stuck by that one.
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Uh, but you know, I remember this in the Kamala debate with Trump where, you know, really her only
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maybe a successful point of the entire campaign was to goad him on the crowd size of his first
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inauguration, right? To, to, to taunt him, to try to get him off track. And it seems to me that he
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is really mostly beyond that. I mean, it's obviously tempting. I mean, it's like the person, you know,
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I'm in this situation. I know you are too, Glenn. You hop on social media, you know, the dumbest thing
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you can do with your day is fight with idiots online. You know, it that then you read a comment,
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you're like, Oh, come on. I know. And you type it in. Hopefully you don't click send. Yeah. But
00:28:02.660
like, it's just this stupid thing that we do as human beings. It's got to be a hundred times worse
00:28:08.000
for Trump. I kicked myself for posting about CNN because it's like, nobody's watching it. There's
00:28:14.620
like four people that are watching it. It doesn't matter. And three of those are cameramen and the fourth
00:28:20.320
and fifth cameramen aren't watching it as they're filming it on camera. So we knew those cameramen.
00:28:26.320
They weren't always excited about what was going on there either. No, they were not. I got to tell
00:28:31.260
you, it is. I did the same thing. I'm like, and I just blew up and I went live on X or wherever I
00:28:38.640
went and said a few things about CNN. It's so beneath us. It just, it doesn't need to be said.
00:28:46.060
It just doesn't need to be said. It doesn't need to be said. And we, we are morons who have plenty
00:28:50.900
of time to waste. He's the president of the United States. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a, I'm a former DJ.
00:28:55.800
Those are my qualifications for this job. Okay. Don't bitch at what you get. Those were the
00:29:03.180
qualifications. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:09.920
Oh boy. Stu, uh, Al Sharpton is very upset, very upset today. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um,
00:29:17.720
he is very upset that companies are dropping the enforcement of diversity, equity, and inclusion
00:29:23.300
policies. Uh, he said, why do we have DEI? We have DEI because you denied us diversity. You denied us
00:29:31.380
equity. You divided, you denied us inclusion. Uh, if you want to put us in the back of the
00:29:37.040
bus, we're going to do the Dr. King Rosa Parks on you. I don't know if that's a new dance move
00:29:42.820
or what. It's a TikTok. It's a TikTok dance. It's a TikTok dance. Yeah. Uh, but I, you know
00:29:47.580
what? I, I, I really don't fear, uh, Al Sharpton. No. You know, used to be a fear of Al Sharpton
00:29:55.260
with some and, uh, no, I don't think you watch how insignificant that's going to be. Americans have
00:30:03.820
heard it all. They've done it all. They're not afraid of it anymore. Oh my gosh. They're marching
00:30:09.300
in front of us, calling us racist. Oh my gosh. Well, let's give them a little something to make
00:30:14.060
them go away. They don't go away. Okay. They don't go away. You hire and you, you, uh, take activists,
00:30:23.740
bring them into your company, your company, or you play ball with those activist revolutionaries.
00:30:30.820
That's all you're going to have left in the end. So congratulations with that. Saw that doesn't
00:30:36.680
work. No interest. It's not going to make a difference. It's a mindset change, right? It
00:30:40.920
is. You know, I, I remember the first time we got like protested by one of these organizations
00:30:46.160
and, and it was like, gosh, like what's happening? Like, wait a minute. Like I didn't understand
00:30:50.800
it. I mean, we came from a, you know, we had started a local radio show that wound up going
00:30:55.160
national. When you get to that level, these things start happening. And then like, I don't
00:30:58.880
know, a few times after it occurs, you just roll your eyes. Like when I go on Twitter and
00:31:04.460
you see someone saying something negative about you or whatever, like you just don't,
00:31:08.080
I mean, generally speaking, you just don't care. Like I mean, it comes and it goes and you
00:31:12.860
just get to that point where none of it makes any difference to you and it becomes a superpower
00:31:16.440
because you just don't care about any of it. And especially now, nobody cares about
00:31:20.880
it. Nobody cares about it. You know, do you mind being called? I mean, now people are wearing
00:31:27.400
that as a badge of honor. Oh, Al Sharpton. Yeah. He came after me because I believed in actual
00:31:35.180
diversity because I believed in actual racism was bad. I believed in that idea. And the best
00:31:42.980
way to fight it is to forget about color and just look for merit. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, I'm scared.
00:31:49.480
It's not going to, it's not going to change anything. Let me give you a couple of other
00:31:52.640
things that Donald Trump, in fact, I could go a full hour on just the things remaining
00:31:56.920
that we haven't talked about in the last two hours of the things he's done in the last 24.
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President Donald Trump declared the global corporate minimum tax.
00:32:07.640
Did you know we had one? Yeah. Uh, the Biden administration signed us up for this one,
00:32:14.280
a global minimal tax. Uh, so in other words, companies, we promise, we promise the whole
00:32:21.640
world. We're never going to have a tax rate lower than 15%, the global minimum tax, uh, because that
00:32:30.060
would be unfair. And Donald Trump said, yeah, screw you. We're not doing that. Um, and let everybody
00:32:36.000
know that, uh, no, we're not going to do that. Now that doesn't mean we're going to have a tax
00:32:41.720
lower than, uh, 15%. Let's do it, but we could let's embrace it. I'd love it. I will say I,
00:32:47.780
when it comes to economic, uh, competition, I want to be unfair. Yeah. I want to be the country where
00:32:55.100
everyone else is like, gosh, I got to get there. I, how do we get involved with them? Yes. That's
00:32:59.540
exactly who I want to be. Yes. Not to mention it really benefits the people here in the United States
00:33:04.020
more than any, more than all. Now, not everybody agreed to it because after, uh, Biden agreed to it,
00:33:10.380
the, uh, the pillar one talks that should really scare you. This was pillar one, the pillar one
00:33:16.920
talks stalled because we just kind of lost interest, I guess, uh, in countries, Italy, France,
00:33:23.260
the UK, Spain, Turkey, um, you know, weren't, weren't really excited about reinstating their digital
00:33:30.180
taxes. Uh, and now with Donald Trump in, there's no way they're going to do it. So congratulations,
00:33:35.820
uh, to the rest of the world. We have helped set you free again. Um, now, uh, Rand Paul has
00:33:45.700
introduced some legislation to repeal corporate transparency act. This is so important. The CTA
00:33:54.360
corporate transport, uh, transparency act. We talked about this. This is, this will protect small
00:34:00.120
businesses. And it was signed into law as part of a fiscal year, 2021, the national defense authorization
00:34:06.580
act. What does this have to do with national defense? It requires, uh, individuals with an
00:34:12.340
ownership interest in a limited liability company, an LLC to disclose all their personal information to
00:34:18.740
the U S treasury department's financial crimes enforcement network. Um, and they go after American
00:34:25.960
small business owners, uh, and any failure to comply could result in up to two years in prison
00:34:33.100
and up to $10,000 per violation. So they are repealing that, or at least that has been introduced,
00:34:40.120
uh, because, you know, farmers, restaurants, gyms, lawn service companies, all of these people,
00:34:46.940
you're, I have to, I have to register with the treasury department's financial crimes unit. I don't
00:34:54.220
think so. No, that's a big one. And we talked a lot about that when it happened. Yeah. That's a big,
00:35:00.840
big, big one. Pain, a giant pain at the very least going away, hopefully. Uh, all right. Uh, also,
00:35:08.020
um, an update on the border, the Southern border apparently witnessed an outflow of persons,
00:35:15.360
uh, that came into, uh, the United States over the last four years. I don't know. I don't know if you
00:35:23.180
heard that. Um, there was an outflow of persons, uh, even on inauguration day, um, illegal aliens were
00:35:32.300
voluntarily deporting themselves and saying, I, yeah, you know, that's good. First of all, uh, that's,
00:35:41.060
that's you, if you're here illegally, you should leave, you should leave and you should leave on your
00:35:44.820
own. Yes. Um, you know, it was interesting. There's a poll, uh, Axios had today, which is
00:35:49.560
the share of, um, uh, of, uh, Americans who agree with immigration policies, like deporting immigrants
00:35:56.320
who are in the country illegally, uh, the number overall 66%. So a popular, a popular policy. Um,
00:36:05.220
but they, the, the take from Axios is they, they don't agree with the ways to do it. Right. And so they,
00:36:12.500
they, they, they say here are their examples of this using active duty military to find
00:36:17.720
undocumented immigrants. Only, uh, let's see, 38% agree with that. Deporting immigrants that came
00:36:24.060
to the U S illegally as children, 34% agree quickly deporting detained immigrants, even if it involves
00:36:30.000
separating families or sending people to countries other than their country of origin, 34% using money
00:36:35.980
allocated to pay for the U S military, uh, for deportation, 28% deporting immigrants who are in
00:36:41.320
the country legally, 11%. Who the hell is talking about deporting people who are in the country
00:36:46.160
legally? So, and who's 20, 27% or 25% there for that? Yeah, it was 11%. 11. Okay. Um, again, 11,
00:36:55.640
right. But like, are any of those, any of those policies, really the policies you're talking about
00:37:02.200
on a day-to-day basis? What, what there are waves of this, right? It starts with obviously criminals
00:37:08.820
that have committed other crimes, right. Then you have, you have people who are, who come in
00:37:13.440
contact with, uh, with law enforcement for other things that they may have done. Like if you, if you
00:37:18.100
are, um, uh, uh, busted, let's say in a, uh, a raid of a factory, those people would get deported
00:37:27.240
now as opposed to just released. And then they go to another factory, right? Correct. Like those types
00:37:31.840
of things are the, uh, uh, are the interactions that would lead to a deportation. You're like this,
00:37:36.680
they're trying to paint this picture. I heard all sorts of coverage on this this morning
00:37:39.720
that like, we're going to have military members going school to school to find children who are
00:37:45.620
illegal immigrants and deport them. That is not like that is not what these policies are going
00:37:51.060
to do. And what more likely the overwhelming majority of these, these quote unquote deportations
00:37:57.480
are going to be of the self deportation variety. When people start seeing that, Hey, I got pulled
00:38:04.020
over, uh, for, uh, you know, I got, cause I got in a car accident or whatever. And, and the, you
00:38:09.320
know, police came over and they investigated, found out somehow that, you know, we're illegal immigrants.
00:38:14.100
You're going to get deported for something like that. Well, when people start seeing that,
00:38:17.840
they're going to say like, wait a minute, there's no longer this giant welcome mat for us to come
00:38:23.100
here illegally. Right. It's going to be too much stress on the family too much, you know, and they say,
00:38:28.280
what are we going to do with the children? Take them back home with you. You shouldn't just leave them
00:38:31.860
here. Yeah. What is wrong with you? Like, what do you do when you leave? I don't know. When you,
00:38:34.880
when you leave a park, you don't just leave them at the park. What am I going to do with the children
00:38:38.520
when I take them to the park? You take them home with you. Right. And that is what like a large
00:38:45.520
portion of this will be people saying, you know, and when we talk about this, like they say, Oh,
00:38:51.520
well, they're just coming here to do jobs and Americans just won't do, you know, like when we say
00:38:55.560
those jobs aren't here, they're not going to come right. When we're not rewarding companies for giving
00:39:01.780
jobs to immigrants who are paying them less than a minimum wage. The majority of people are going to
00:39:07.380
self-deport. Also the cities that are sanctuary cities are only making it worse because if they
00:39:14.540
won't turn over the criminals when they're released or they're in jail, if they won't do that,
00:39:20.260
then they release them and our ice needs to go find them. And if they're hiding with the family and
00:39:27.380
stuff like that, or a different family, when we do find them, they'll bust everybody. They'll bust
00:39:33.340
everybody. So, you know, any sanctuary city that's saying we're not going to help ice, you're only
00:39:39.460
getting more people deported quicker. Uh, and, uh, you're not really, you're not really helping.
00:39:45.600
Now let's, let me give you this from the Chicago Tribune. When reports surfaced over the weekend
00:39:50.760
that mass deportations could potentially begin in the Chicago area on Tuesday, Martin Ramos informed
00:39:57.640
his boss. He was taking time off from work. He stocked up on groceries and decided his kids would
00:40:02.640
skip soccer practice this week. Ramos who immigrated from, uh, Guadalajara, Mexico without the necessary
00:40:10.340
work permits, spent the first full day of Donald Trump's second presidency, hunkered down with his
00:40:15.940
family, trying to avoid being picked up by ice agents. An arrest he knows would destroy everything
00:40:21.720
that he and his wife have worked for and force their two boys into an uncertain future, force their
00:40:27.500
two boys into an uncertain future. They're, they're staying home from school because they play soccer
00:40:33.860
and they can't play soccer. We have to do everything possible to keep our children safe. What will they
00:40:39.820
do? If we get deported, they will go home with you. Ice agents did not show up at the Joliet factory
00:40:48.960
where Ramos and his wife both work on Tuesday, but fear inflicted upon the employees. There was
00:40:54.080
evident. A coworker told Ramos that only 10 out of the typical 40 to 50 workers showed up in little
00:41:00.320
village. One of Chicago's largest Mexican immigrant community streets were mostly deserted and quiet.
00:41:05.540
Uh, tamale vendors, a hardy group used to braving all kinds of weather weren't lined up on the
00:41:11.380
sidewalks. The hardware store parking lots where day labor laborers search for work were also largely
00:41:17.280
empty. So in other words, they're not hanging out with a sign that says we'll work for food. We'll
00:41:23.340
work for anything and picked up by construction workers that don't want to pay union workers in
00:41:29.280
Chicago. Is that what I'm hearing from the Chicago Tribune? The possibility of mass
00:41:35.160
deportations have terrified some of the areas, roughly 400,000 undocumented immigrants, prompting
00:41:41.220
many to skip work, keep their kids out of school and stay hidden until the promised raids and they're
00:41:46.100
not going to end. They are not going to end. Now, uh, Chicago is saying that they're not going to help
00:41:57.620
at all. That's okay. That's okay. Sunday mass at a St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic church was unusually
00:42:07.080
empty. And person, the church personally advised a group of street vendors based on the Southwest
00:42:12.840
side to stay home during the week until they learn how ice will operate out of the 13 street vendors.
00:42:18.460
Only one was out there. Most vendors declined to speak to the Tribune out of fear. They might be
00:42:23.880
identified and targeted. People are hiding. They call me and ask me what to do, but my hands are
00:42:29.180
tied. I don't think anyone knows what to do. Yeah. Here's what you do. You tell them to go home.
00:42:34.580
You tell them that this government is serious about applying the laws equally and holding onto those
00:42:42.680
laws. And you then tell all minorities in Chicago, uh, you know, I gotta tell you, if your city continues
00:42:52.360
to defy federal law, then your city's going to get funding cut off from the federal government,
00:42:58.460
let the minorities know that they are embraced by the federal government, but due to the city and
00:43:04.920
the state stance on protection of those who come here illegally and took your jobs and receive things
00:43:11.400
that Democrats would have never given to you or any other American, the federal government only has
00:43:17.920
one lever. And that is to shut off the funding to Chicago. So recognize who the bad guy is here.
00:43:25.100
It's, it's up to you, Chicago. It's up to you to stand up. Now, the question is, are you going to
00:43:31.820
stand up with illegals? Are you going to stand up for the absolute vast minority? Are you going to stand
00:43:39.420
up against the minorities in your city that are Americans? Because they've been protesting this whole
00:43:47.080
time saying, wait, why are we getting the shaft and these guys are getting hotel rooms and free food
00:43:53.880
and everything else? You never gave us any of that stuff. Yeah. Well, it's time for Chicago to wake up.
00:44:01.420
And these States are either going to be absolutely left behind or they're going to wake up. And that
00:44:06.520
goes for California too. And you're going to see that choice on Friday.