The Great America Show - December 05, 2025


BUSTED! This is FAR WORSE than anyone ever expected!


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

180.33565

Word Count

8,607

Sentence Count

582

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary

In this episode of The Great America Show, host Stephen Gardiner talks about the massive Somali fraud uncovered by the FBI in Minnesota, as well as the recent arrest of a suspect in connection with the pipe bomb plot in New York City.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. It's great to have you with us on this
00:00:06.220 beautiful day in America. Thank you so much for spending part of your evening with us.
00:00:09.980 As always, folks, it was a busy week. There's no doubt about it. Lots of news to talk about.
00:00:15.920 You've got the Somalian fraud that is running rampant. You got President Trump receiving
00:00:20.040 a massive peace prize this week from the good folks at FIFA. You have the January 6th pipe
00:00:27.040 bomber finally being brought into custody. The timing on it is so very odd. Is this really
00:00:33.820 the pipe bomber? Are we to believe what the FBI is telling us? I don't know. I guess we're going to
00:00:38.540 have to wait and see. Some members of Congress doing things wrong. I want to get right to all
00:00:44.640 of this because I don't want to waste any time. I don't want to leave it in the locker room,
00:00:47.740 and I want to bring in our guest today. Good friend of mine, good friend of the show's Stephen
00:00:51.500 Gardner. He's the host of the Stephen Gardner Show. Stephen, thanks so much for joining us today,
00:00:56.420 on your busy, busy day. Oh, so much to cover. Thank you for having me on.
00:01:01.520 Always a delight. Always a pleasure. Always an honor. Let's get right into it. The Somali fraud
00:01:06.460 that we've been hearing about now for the last week or so. I've got bad news for you. We were told
00:01:12.080 it was about a billion dollars worth of fraud. We're not being told by Fox News it's a little
00:01:16.920 bit more than that. Fraud investigators are finding in Minnesota is growing by the day. Kelly Loeffler,
00:01:22.960 who leads the Small Business Administration, says in the two days her agency has been investigating
00:01:27.960 the state, they've uncovered at least a million dollars in PPP fraud just two days in. Several
00:01:35.540 of the whistleblowers in Minnesota have also told lawmakers they believe the total amount of fraud
00:01:40.620 could total up to more than $8 billion. Governor Tim Walz, who is up for re-election,
00:01:47.740 is under fire for all of this happening under his watch. But he says they have paused these
00:01:52.640 programs. They've brought in outside auditors to get an idea of how far reaching this fraud
00:01:56.960 was. They're taking steps to keep it from happening again. And he's defending his management of
00:02:02.360 the state while also taking shots at Republicans and the president.
00:02:06.140 And in spite of the headwinds we're up against, Minnesota ranks economically, economic growth,
00:02:16.520 happiness, number of people insured, education levels near the very top. So I'll tell you what,
00:02:23.620 I have no interest in having this state look like Oklahoma or Mississippi. And if folks are going to
00:02:29.540 commit crimes here, thinking because our generous spirit and our programs that we have is going to
00:02:34.580 give them some kind of cover, they are sadly mistaken.
00:02:37.340 Minnesota is also now home to the single largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country.
00:02:43.160 And Republicans argue that Walz and other Democrats opened the door to this.
00:02:48.260 He says they're happy there, Stephen. I guess I would be happy too if it was $8 billion.
00:02:55.120 This is insane.
00:02:57.060 Yeah, they might not be as happy when they find out just how much of their hard money has been
00:03:01.580 stolen. I mean, who cares if you guys are ranking in happiness and tampons in men's locker rooms,
00:03:09.680 if hardworking Americans literally have a population that says America is garbage.
00:03:16.460 And then on the back end, they're just stealing billions and billions.
00:03:20.580 Like I know it was a billion dollars. Now that they've started to dig in $8 billion.
00:03:25.900 And Tim Walz thinks that they're just going to say, well, at least he discovered the fraud.
00:03:31.140 We should reelect him again. If they do, they're stupid.
00:03:34.860 Yeah. And you know what? The crazy part about it all is we've got we've got some more video
00:03:39.060 footage here of these members, Stephen, these members of the government are seemingly all this
00:03:45.820 news just breaking moments ago. Fox News has obtained photos of one of the Somali illegal immigrants
00:03:52.920 wrapped up in the Minnesota fraud scandal, posing with several high profile Minnesota Democrats,
00:03:58.540 including Congresswoman Ilan Omar and Governor Tim Walz. The man pictured is Abdul Dahir Ibrahim.
00:04:05.520 He entered the country in 2000 and has had an order for removal since 2004. He also has a prior
00:04:13.440 conviction in Canada for asylum and welfare fraud. ICE tells Fox News Ibrahim was granted temporary
00:04:20.120 protected status for 10 years, but should have never been eligible. We are going to have more.
00:04:26.740 So in other words, it's time to go. I mean, these are these politicians. Politicians just don't go out
00:04:32.580 taking pictures with everybody. I mean, I've worked in the business for a long time. You know,
00:04:37.420 the fact of the matter that you've got Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, Ellison somehow connected with all these
00:04:44.540 people. It stinks to high heavens. Yeah. I mean, this guy was asked to leave 19 years ago. Nobody
00:04:51.600 seemed to care. He probably has been voting in elections up in Canada. He was stealing from
00:04:57.100 Canada. Now he's been stealing from America with that, by the way. Well, it's just, it's absolute
00:05:05.400 crazy. Like this guy was almost vice president of the United States. And look, think about this.
00:05:11.880 Kamala Harris blew through a hundred billion dollars, you know, very, very quickly. And then
00:05:20.340 now she's $20 million in debt. Then you find out the largest fraud in American history was under her
00:05:27.300 vice presidential candidate, Governor Tim Walz. Yeah, this stinks for sure. You know, the notion was
00:05:35.380 back when Walz ran for vice president that he was extremely entangled in the CCP. You know, he went
00:05:42.100 over there, done some training and then brought it back to Minnesota, implemented it. Now it's no
00:05:47.920 longer CCP Tim Walz. It's Somalian Tim Walz. At this point, I don't even know who's worse to be caught
00:05:53.780 up with. But this man, like you said, wanted to be vice president of the United States. And all we
00:05:58.760 know about is his ties to other countries. To me, it's extremely terrifying. And the thing that
00:06:05.460 annoys me the most even is these people for the large majority, they don't like America. They
00:06:10.620 don't care about our American values that this country was built on the fabric that it was built
00:06:14.640 on. They don't care about the social norms here in America. I'm sure you remember back in the
00:06:21.460 campaign of another country where President Trump went on the debate stage and said, they're here,
00:06:25.720 they're eating the cats and the dogs. And everyone's like, this man is crazy. But no,
00:06:29.560 what's a social norm in some countries is most cases, not the social norm here in America. You
00:06:35.880 have Somalian and people may be upset that I'm gonna say this, but they have a huge portion of the
00:06:41.520 population there that believe in inbreeding. Obviously, here in America, that's not that's
00:06:46.180 something we believe in. That's not an American value. I'd say in probably 99.9% of people's
00:06:52.680 households here in America, but they come to America and they don't care to adopt to our
00:06:58.600 values. They want to switch everybody from our values to their values right down to Ilhan Omar,
00:07:03.220 who reportedly married her own brother. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. She doesn't ever
00:07:09.140 sue anybody over that. And she doesn't, she doesn't ever try to discredit it. She just kind
00:07:13.780 of stands there like, oh, maybe, maybe they won't notice, right? You know, going back to the Tim
00:07:19.880 Walls thing. No, yes, you guys look so much alike. But going back to the Tim Walls thing,
00:07:25.000 I do wonder now, during the presidential campaign, if he allowed them to talk about China. But behind
00:07:31.580 the scenes, he was like, oh, my gosh, please don't find out about Somalia. I'll be absolutely
00:07:36.600 wrecked on the internet, right? I mean, the largest fraud in American history has been under this guy.
00:07:43.900 And now what does he do? He tries to blame it on Trump somehow. Give me a break.
00:07:49.040 And it's not just Ilhan Omar, it's her friends, Jayapal, Congresswoman Jayapal, who says it wasn't
00:07:56.320 Americans who built America. It was, what was it? It was undocumented people that built America. Let's
00:08:02.140 take a listen to what she's got to say. The majority of Americans across the country,
00:08:06.800 regardless of political party, know that immigrants from all over the world, Somalia,
00:08:11.840 India, wherever they're from, Latin America, Africa, that immigrants have built this country
00:08:18.040 and make this country what it is today. Does she need a history lesson? You know what? I think
00:08:25.340 to make it the easiest way possible, we tell Ms. Congresswoman Jayapal to go look back at the 18th
00:08:32.900 century at the Gilded Ages, right? And go tell me that John Rockefeller was from Somalia or India,
00:08:41.820 or Cornelius Vanderbilt or JP Morgan or any of these people who, you know, really helped develop
00:08:50.100 America after the Civil War. I mean, nobody tells these people, Stephen, how dumb they sound and how
00:08:57.920 ridiculous they are. No, Indians and Somalians did not build America. I'm sorry to break the bad news to
00:09:06.600 you. Yeah. I mean, they, they, they lose all credibility when they say stuff like this. Like
00:09:12.180 she could have said, uh, black Americans help build a large portion of the South Chinese Chinese people
00:09:19.760 helped build a lot of the railroads. The Irish helped build a lot of the railroads. Like you could
00:09:25.700 go on, but just tell the truth, just tell the truth. And the reality is, I think most Americans are
00:09:31.960 proud of the fact that we're a melting pot, that we're not just, you know, a cookie cutter group.
00:09:37.640 I like the fact that we're a mix, but you have to come here legally. And when you get here,
00:09:43.000 you got to become American and you can't steal our money. Right. I mean, she said that Somalians
00:09:48.480 built America. No, they milked America. And, and now it's time, uh, to, to, you know, investigate these
00:09:56.080 people. Yeah. Uh, the, the, the amount of crimes that Somalia has committed against America just on
00:10:02.900 the pirating of ships alone, uh, it was so bad. They made a movie about it. Um, is enough for me
00:10:09.400 to say no. I, and president Trump has had enough. He, I, he from the oval office the other day,
00:10:14.240 Steven just looked, I mean, annoyed. He looked pissed. And it's not very often you, you see him
00:10:19.620 in that, that stature that he was in. And he was just like, you know, I've had enough. I'm tired
00:10:24.460 of it. I don't want them here anymore. Uh, you look at the amount of welfare that they're sucking
00:10:28.720 up, uh, from the, from the, uh, Minnesota just specifically, you know, it's time we, we, we move
00:10:35.580 back and move past, you know, all this nonsense, but you've got members like Jayapal. You've got
00:10:41.700 members like Ilhan Omar who are now, I mean, arrogant to the point Ilhan Omar saying today, uh, that
00:10:49.680 she's not going to allow president Trump to continue to do what he's doing. And those that
00:10:54.380 collaborate with him, they will pay a price Trump and his cronies want to act like we
00:11:00.420 have no power to respond. The truth is we are more powerful than we think we are. And
00:11:07.800 I want to underscore the importance of using every single leverage that we have at our, at
00:11:15.700 our arsenal, because we do have a lot of leverage. We need to make sure that those who are collaborating
00:11:23.200 with the authoritarian regime pay a costly price. Who does she think she is talking like that?
00:11:33.460 That's the president of the United States. Yeah. Yeah. She, uh, I mean, she's not wrong in the fact
00:11:39.960 that, uh, you know, Obama and others, they, they built up this big community and then they vote one
00:11:44.920 of them in and then they, they end up taking over the area, but then those people, they don't,
00:11:50.080 they don't end up working. They just milk the American taxpayer, whether, whether you're black,
00:11:55.820 white, Cuban or Asian, like, uh, you know, you're paying into this tax base and then you've got this
00:12:01.500 group of foreigners that's stealing money. And it, and it like, it would be one thing if they were
00:12:05.660 stealing money for their community, they're literally stealing it to send it back to terrorists,
00:12:10.340 uh, in the homeland. That's pretty disturbing.
00:12:13.180 Yeah. It's disgusting to me that this is the country that we've got to deal with now. This
00:12:18.740 is what we got to deal with in America. And it's not because of president Trump. This was all just
00:12:21.640 thrown in his lap, shooting in his lap. He's the one who's got to deal with it. Now I want to take
00:12:25.720 a quick break here, Steven. When we get back, I mean, there's so much to, to talk about president
00:12:30.420 Trump's a peace prize. President Trump sending a stark warning to Europe that they better get their
00:12:35.280 immigration problem under control. They're going to have a big problem. The Supreme court out with a
00:12:39.340 massive ruling today. Just moments ago, we find out they're taking up another landmark case.
00:12:44.360 What can it possibly be? We're going to talk about it all on the other side of this quick break.
00:12:47.820 We're talking with Steven Gardner. He's host of the Steven Gardner show. We're coming right back,
00:12:50.960 folks. Uh, please be sure to hit that like subscribe and follow button. If you're joining
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00:13:02.460 Thanks everybody for staying with us. Michael and Dell. I talked to him probably once or twice a week.
00:13:06.560 He appreciates all your orders and we're getting a big announcement from him.
00:13:09.340 I spoke to him earlier today. Uh, I think on the 11th of this month. So just a few days from today
00:13:14.760 on if he's running for governor of Minnesota to get out tampon Tim. So that'll be a fun one to watch
00:13:21.200 for Steven. Um, there's so much to talk about. Uh, you know what, let's turn to the DC pipe bomber
00:13:29.240 because I'm so perplexed about this whole situation and I don't like conspiracy theories, but when
00:13:36.220 something doesn't seem right to me, I get this, this, you know, inkling that something's wrong
00:13:41.600 and it all started maybe three weeks, a month ago, or a story came out where, by the way,
00:13:48.140 we've been waiting to catch this guy for what, what is it? Five years, almost five years. Now
00:13:51.240 a story comes out last week that, uh, some, I think it was the blaze that was reporting it, that
00:13:58.380 the pipe bomber was possibly a, uh, former Capitol police officer who had now left and gone to work
00:14:05.860 in the CIA. Steven, lo and behold, three weeks later, we don't know who this person is for five
00:14:10.940 years. We get a person now, Russ tight. So I believe you've had on your show, uh, before former senior NSA
00:14:18.140 Intel analyst. And I spoke a few weeks ago and we agreed on the premise that there's cameras,
00:14:25.500 especially in Washington DC. I mean, on every single corner, I've spoken to guys in the NSA and CIA who
00:14:30.880 have told me that there are drones, Steven, that can pinpoint from 50,000 feet up and almost see the
00:14:36.340 screen on your cell phone. So you mean to tell me that we had this person walking around the street,
00:14:42.300 they got on a train or they got on a car, they did something where they showed their face.
00:14:46.720 Number one, that to me is, is completely crazy because we got January 6th. There's the next day,
00:14:53.200 right? We knew where they were, we knew where they were sleeping. We knew where they were eating
00:14:56.860 five years. We don't find out who this person is. Now it's a month since this story comes out
00:15:03.260 and we've got a guy who to me, I don't know. It doesn't fit the, the, the profile. I think of
00:15:10.740 someone who would do something like that. I mean, the, the way they explain these pipe bombs where
00:15:17.000 they were very sophisticated and put together, this guy was a bail bondsman.
00:15:23.360 Well, I had read somewhere that his dad, I guess, had controlled a bomb company or something in the
00:15:31.580 past. But from, from what I'm, what I'm reading it looks like, you know, they, they were able to
00:15:39.200 track him through his shoes, through his body movement, through the cameras, through his cell
00:15:46.060 phone. And then they were able to line all of that up with his credit cards. And they see him
00:15:52.060 buying these bomb parts and they can identify like, okay, this credit card bought this bomb part.
00:15:58.100 And this bomb is, this part is on this bomb, right? So it took them, but so, so the thing for
00:16:03.800 me that is weird, isn't that this just came out after the blaze broke this big story. It's that
00:16:09.880 within like four months, they were able to solve a crime that the Biden DOJ and FBI just couldn't
00:16:16.720 solve in four years. So for me, that's the timing that's really off is Dan Bongino, Cash Patel,
00:16:23.820 they come in. And even when this blaze story broke, they're like, it's not her. It's not.
00:16:29.940 And I was like, why, why are they not like, you know, the gate matches or walking pattern matches.
00:16:35.620 That's because behind the scenes, they were finally getting the final puzzle pieces together. So for me,
00:16:40.600 that's the odd part.
00:16:42.280 Yeah. I don't know. I just, I feel like there, there's so many things that we've been told over
00:16:46.640 the course of, you know, you're a little bit older than me, but, but not much over the course of
00:16:50.680 our lifetimes that just simply weren't true. And, you know, you can go back and look at weapons of
00:16:57.120 mass destruction that never existed. And that led to our invasion. You know, I don't want to go down
00:17:02.040 rabbit holes, but we've been told things over the course of the last hundred years that some people
00:17:08.020 say, don't check out, whether it's aliens, whether it's, did we ever go to the moon? I'm not saying I
00:17:12.520 agree one way or another on it, but we've been fed things or the real story about nine 11.
00:17:16.520 And there's so many inconsistencies or the two shots taken at president Trump's head. I mean,
00:17:23.120 and, and, and Thomas Matthew cooks, his body being cremated within 24 hours of being recovered.
00:17:28.420 You know, you go down the list of things that we've been told over the course of our,
00:17:32.000 our lifetimes. And to me, it doesn't pass the smell test. The gateway pundits got a story out
00:17:38.220 and I think it's attributable to the daily wire. I'm going to put it up here on the screen for us
00:17:43.280 and our audience to see, cause it's, it's interesting to, to get some backstory here.
00:17:48.940 This is the daily wire story. Let's see if we can get the pundit. Cause they do a little bit of a
00:17:53.500 better breakdown. The daily wire reported on Thursday evening, that Cole's family sued the
00:18:00.200 Trump DHS over illegal immigration and asked Biden's DOJ to address anti-black racism. Now we're being
00:18:06.700 told this guy's MAGA and he believed the election was stolen. So that's why he did this
00:18:11.120 weeks before 30 year old cold junior allegedly planted the pipe bombs at the headquarters of the
00:18:15.640 DNC and the RNC on January 5th of 2021, a court ruled against the company and its lawsuit attacking
00:18:22.460 the Trump administration on immigration issues. The daily wire has learned an FBI affidavit in that case
00:18:27.780 notes that the suspect works for a bail bonds company and lives with his mother. Later on in 2021,
00:18:33.300 the company held a press conference, bemoaning anti-black racism with a left-wing attorney,
00:18:38.200 Cole senior and a Benjamin Crump who represented the family of Trayvon Martin attempted to stick
00:18:44.720 the Biden department of justice on a local Tennessee prosecutor who had raised questions
00:18:49.760 about the bail bonds company. So now also according to Fox news, this man has admitted to planting
00:18:56.300 devices. It just, you know, you hear he's MAGA this, he's MAGA that anything to tie to Trump.
00:19:03.540 You go to CNN, let's listen and see what they had to say about capital attack. Brian Cole, Jr.,
00:19:10.200 a 30 year old white man from the DC sub. What can we just listen to that again? A 30 year old what
00:19:16.820 capital attack? Brian Cole, Jr., a 30 year old white man from the.
00:19:21.860 I've been a loss of words. I, you know, going from them suing the Trump administration for
00:19:31.080 immigration. First of all, if you're, you're pro immigration, you're anti-Trump because Trump is
00:19:35.840 for legal immigration. So, you know, that kicks that narrative out. Then you've got Jake Tapper
00:19:39.900 going out last night that it's a white man, which it doesn't matter if he's white or black. It's so
00:19:44.520 stupid to even say that he's a person, but Tapper had to get in that. He's a white man. I mean,
00:19:50.520 what's going on? Yeah, well, obviously they were hoping that this would fit a narrative because
00:19:56.340 the puzzle piece to keep their fragile breaking story is we need all the Trump people to be
00:20:04.520 dangerous to democracy. We need all the Trump people to be crazy. We need all the people to
00:20:10.500 be brainwashed by Donald Trump. So now you have somebody who doesn't fit the mold, who was anti-Trump,
00:20:18.180 who was, you know, suing on behalf of racism, suing on behalf of illegal immigration. Like none of this
00:20:27.000 screams MAGA. Like this dude probably does not have MAGA hats in his mom's basement. Right. The other
00:20:33.620 thing though, is like, why are so many young people acting out with violence? Right. So you've got a
00:20:41.420 young person that decides to kill Charlie Kirk. You've got a young person who decides to take a
00:20:47.580 shot at president Trump's head. You've got Luigi Mangione who shoots the, the CEO of United healthcare
00:20:54.560 in the back. Like what, what is with these, uh, young people that have, you know, everything going
00:21:01.040 for them. They're almost all come from really good families. Obviously this guy living in Woodbridge,
00:21:05.920 Virginia in his mom's basement. That's a really nice area. Why, why do you feel the need to,
00:21:11.940 to go blow people up in order to humiliate Trump? That is a mystery to me.
00:21:17.800 Yeah. The whole thing Lou Dobbs used to say to me, Steven, if it seems too good to be true,
00:21:22.680 or it seems something's wrong, lift up the carpet. Cause there's probably a mouse under there. And
00:21:26.060 I just, I don't know. It's so hard to imagine Dan Bongino. And he's like trying to,
00:21:31.800 he did an interview with Fox news and he was like, he said something, well, you can't blame me for
00:21:37.640 what I, cause he, they played an old clip for him, which he said, you know, there was going to be a
00:21:41.220 massive coverup, right? It seemed like somebody was covering up for somebody. And they asked him
00:21:45.400 on Fox news and Bongino was like, well, you can't take what I said in my opinion back as a podcaster
00:21:50.560 seriously. And you're like, well, you know, we, you and I don't come out here every single day,
00:21:55.300 just feeding bullshit to the audience. We report on the news to the best of our abilities,
00:21:59.780 knowing and hoping that what we're being told and what we're reporting is the truth. And you know
00:22:04.240 what, when we're wrong, we come out here and say, I was wrong. And that's part of being an adult,
00:22:09.120 but you've got the deputy director of the FBI saying, well, two years ago, I believed it was a
00:22:13.980 coverup. And now all of a sudden it's like, Nope, this is our man. We've got him. And it's the same
00:22:18.820 thing he did with the Epstein documents. Something doesn't seem right with Bongino.
00:22:21.780 So yeah. Uh, only, only time will tell, but, um, you know, if you want to stick with that coverup
00:22:29.420 narrative, uh, they had, they had everything to find this guy. It just, to me, it seems like they
00:22:36.020 didn't want to find him. Like even Bongino confirmed. Yes. There were thousands of interviews.
00:22:42.200 We tracked all this stuff down, but then we just couldn't, couldn't, uh, get it across the finish
00:22:47.880 line. But then they come in and they put a new set of eyes on it and they're like, bingo, got him.
00:22:53.760 This guy, like all, all the dots connect to this guy. And then like within hours of being arrested,
00:22:59.680 he's like, yeah, I did it. I'm sorry. Like, so this guy, you know, he was, he was walking around
00:23:05.380 town for five years thinking he got away with it and he did under Christopher Ray and he did under
00:23:10.960 Joe Biden, but not under Trump. Oh yeah. Christopher, right. There's no doubt it was one of the,
00:23:15.360 if not the most corrupt, uh, um, it's hard for me to even say, right? Because we just had James
00:23:21.780 Comey before him, but, but you know, one in two of the most corrupt FBI directors this country's ever
00:23:26.600 seen, both who are running free, no issues because the members of Congress are more worried about
00:23:32.300 their Trump derangement. Let's talk about that. Rand Paul, he wants to use this war powers act or come
00:23:38.160 up with some sort of war powers act to go against president Trump on these Venezuelan ships, which by the
00:23:42.780 way, last night, I don't know if you saw, they got their 22nd one and it was absolutely amazing
00:23:46.760 launching a drone strike at it. I spent probably two hours last night talking to Grok, uh, about,
00:23:52.820 cause I'm, I'm so fascinated at how high up they're launching these missiles, where are they coming
00:23:56.300 from? And, uh, their hellfire missiles from the MQ nine Reaper drones. And I think it's just
00:24:01.740 absolutely fascinating, but you got guys like Rand Paul who are more upset about president Trump
00:24:06.120 launching these missiles at drug lords who are shipping drugs in our country. Then the actual
00:24:12.280 people who are bringing the drugs in, it's like so backwards. Yeah. I saw, um, a Congressman, his name,
00:24:19.220 uh, slips my mind, but he, they asked him like, okay, you've just come from watching the video.
00:24:25.840 You've just come from the admiral testifying under oath. You've, you've been able to ask
00:24:31.340 a few questions, but nothing under oath. Um, what can you tell us? He's like, well,
00:24:37.500 they absolutely made the right decision to, to kill these people. Uh, yes, it is confirmed that
00:24:44.240 it was a drug boat. Yes, it is confirmed that they were narco terrorists, but I'm just so ashamed that
00:24:50.740 America would kill people that fell off of a boat. Like I, you know, forgive me for not knowing all of
00:24:58.220 the doctrine of war, but if someone's your enemy and you miss the first shot, don't you just take
00:25:03.660 another shot? I, I guess I don't understand why killing somebody that's trying to make money killing
00:25:09.800 Americans is a bad thing. And yet you see all these people crying on CNN about a drug, a drug dealer
00:25:16.960 being killed. To me, it makes no sense. Yeah. CNN is literally the enemy of the people. They,
00:25:22.320 they spew lies like I've never seen before. Um, it's absolutely berserk. And then they get away
00:25:29.340 with it. I want to take one more quick break here, Steven. On the other side of this break,
00:25:32.320 I want to get to, uh, president Trump's peace prize, which he got earlier this week, uh, president
00:25:37.840 Trump and his stark message that he's sending to Europe that they better get their act together
00:25:41.220 before it's too late. Uh, just moments ago, a, uh, judge down in Florida, uh, he, uh, wants all
00:25:48.040 of the Epstein files out, allowing the, uh, grand jury materials to, uh, to now be released.
00:25:54.100 So there's so much more to get to. I want to take a quick break. We're going to be a lot
00:25:57.380 back in less than 60 seconds. Please stay with us folks. We're talking with Steven Gardner,
00:26:00.920 host of the Steven Gardner show. We'll be back in 60.
00:26:09.280 Thanks everybody for staying with us. My pillow.com slash John, get your Christmas
00:26:12.640 gifts early while you can, while they're on sale. Uh, Steven, let's talk about this.
00:26:16.920 Um, just moments ago, a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, one of my favorite places
00:26:23.600 in Florida, uh, unsealing those grand jury records for all South Florida, uh, for the
00:26:29.420 Epstein files, president Trump was the one who went down there and asked him to go ahead
00:26:34.220 and do it. He and Pam Bondi, after they released, they voted on it in Congress. Trump says, let's
00:26:39.620 go one step further. Let's go down to Florida and unseal those grand jury documents. Doesn't
00:26:43.680 seem like a man who's a duck in his taco that he's maybe in the Epstein documents.
00:26:49.360 Yeah. You know, my Midas touch was putting out these videos with Donald Trump, his hair
00:26:54.640 is like disheveled. It was like, Donald Trump has mental mind meltdown over new Epstein photos.
00:27:03.060 And then it was like, Hey, did you know that, uh, Jeffrey Epstein had a dentist office at his
00:27:07.260 house? How's that? How's that linked to Donald Trump? I think what president Trump has done
00:27:13.240 is amazing. He's getting all the documents out there. His name is not in there. You're
00:27:18.560 not going to find him in this South Florida, uh, you know, unsealed documents. Now I think
00:27:25.140 he is doing what he promised. I don't know what the hangup was, but now he's doing it.
00:27:30.100 And now he's going above and beyond. And I think that this is going to come back to bite
00:27:34.520 the Democrats in the butt. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. And it could be him taking
00:27:39.420 the high road. You remember back in 2016, the high road with Hillary Clinton, it could
00:27:43.220 have been him taking the high road. And I think these people opened up a can, Steven,
00:27:46.300 of their worst nightmare. That's about to come true to them because, uh, we're going
00:27:50.520 to find out a lot of Democrats in my opinion, and, uh, some, some big names, um, that are
00:27:56.260 in those documents that they're going to wish as Mark Mitchell always tells me you're, uh,
00:28:00.240 you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube once it's out. And I think that's, uh, what
00:28:04.320 we're going to see with this, uh, let's turn to president Trump and his message that he's
00:28:09.000 got for Europe. He's trying to save them before it's too late, but I think it might be too
00:28:13.600 late. President Trump's national security strategy is out in some of Europe sections
00:28:17.780 are shocking. Uh, a fellow on Twitter posted quote, a large European majority wants peace
00:28:23.200 yet. The desire is not to translate it into policy in large measure because these government
00:28:29.140 subversion of democratic processes, this is strategically important to the United States,
00:28:33.840 precisely because the European States cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political
00:28:40.120 crises. Now this comes as Vladimir Putin, uh, said earlier this week, he's ready to go to war
00:28:46.160 with Europe because Europe is doing everything they can to stifle a peace plan between Ukraine and
00:28:52.000 Russia. Is this secretly what the European union really wants? Uh, we know war creates money. Is this
00:28:59.220 what they want? Well, I've had, uh, military and CIA, uh, people on my channel and they say,
00:29:07.100 you know, that, uh, Europe is on the verge of a major recession that, uh, they need, they need an
00:29:13.280 excuse to continue to print money. And so they've made Russia this boogeyman, but then at the same time
00:29:19.860 they keep provoking it. And we we've just learned in the last 48 hours that president Trump has this
00:29:28.080 big peace deal that Russia says we are very interested in. He's asked Ukrainian officials
00:29:33.860 to come to Florida to meet with Marco Rubio and get this thing done. And then what do we find out?
00:29:40.380 We find out that England and Germany and France goes behind president Trump's back and says,
00:29:46.240 we have to do everything to protect Zelensky. We have to do everything to keep money and weapons
00:29:52.460 flowing to Zelensky. None of it makes any sense. I think America is done. Like we've got nothing
00:29:59.260 against Ukraine, but we don't, we just don't want hundreds of billions of dollars to go towards
00:30:04.920 a country that we're now finding out top officials close to Zelensky stole a hundred million dollars.
00:30:11.460 Like, come on, that's insane. Well, let me ask you, what are we, and this is a serious question.
00:30:17.080 There's no satire to it. I wish it was. What is America, hypothetically speaking, supposed to do
00:30:22.720 if Russia, if Russia does go to war with some European countries, I know NATO and everything,
00:30:28.720 but what are we supposed to do if Russia goes to war with them because, uh, Europe stifled any peace
00:30:36.240 plan between Europe and Ukraine, between Russia and Ukraine? Are we supposed to send our troops
00:30:41.280 on the ground over to Europe to defend them when they're the ones who are in fact creating this war?
00:30:46.940 I don't think Americans will stand for it. President Trump, he's been so patient. I believe
00:30:53.060 he genuinely wants to bring this war to an end, but he's called them out. He's saying, wait a minute,
00:30:58.820 you guys keep saying that Russia is about to attack you, that they're going to roll into Kiev
00:31:04.540 any day now, that they want World War III with the entire continent of Europe. Yeah. You guys are
00:31:11.400 secretly buying their oil. You're literally funding the war that's attacking Ukraine. So what is it?
00:31:17.800 Is he about to attack or you want him to give you a better discount on, on gas and oil? It's just,
00:31:24.420 it's really hypocritical. I think hypocritical is put it nicely. And if you look at it from
00:31:28.800 the flip side too, he goes after Putin plenty. I mean, he's going after Putin telling him you
00:31:33.340 better get your shit together or we're tariffing the heck out of you, you know, which is kind of
00:31:39.540 why I think you're not hearing the Russia narrative anymore that Trump is this Putin stooge. He's
00:31:44.240 always been tough on Putin, regardless of what the left mainstream media and those are the real
00:31:50.660 Russia sycophants, by the way, whatever, regardless of what they're saying, he's been tough on them from
00:31:55.520 the beginning and he continues to be tough on them. And, uh, you know, you famously remember
00:32:00.480 him, uh, talking about, uh, I think it was, uh, Gaza or Iran and Israel. He says, they don't know
00:32:05.920 what the F they're doing. It's the same exact thing with these two countries, either make a peace deal
00:32:11.220 or figure out what the next steps are. America can't be here to babysit. We have so many of our
00:32:16.260 own issues, uh, right now in our own country that we have to deal with. We have drugs at the back
00:32:21.340 door. We've got a Trojan horse from Afghanistan, which we found out is worse than we originally
00:32:26.660 thought, uh, with these terrorists in our country, uh, drugs, the border, uh, the economy at any given
00:32:33.880 point can go one way or the other yet. We need to constantly be the world babysitter. Does it end
00:32:39.880 anytime soon? I don't know, but I think under Joe Biden, the American people woke up and realized
00:32:47.060 just how much of our hard earned money is going overseas, whether it's to foreign wars, whether
00:32:54.320 it's to foreign interests, whether it's to prop up allies, whether it's to NATO or to Ukraine or
00:33:01.900 whatever. And the American people were looking around going, Hey, didn't, didn't Joe Biden pass a
00:33:07.640 $2 trillion infrastructure package and my roads aren't better. My bridges aren't better. My trains
00:33:14.180 aren't better. My airports aren't better. Like where the heck did that money go? And then you find
00:33:20.540 out just how much of it went overseas. I think the American people, they, they want America first.
00:33:26.500 They want, they want the great America show talking about all of the money and good being done in
00:33:32.480 America. Yeah. You know, it's funny you say that because I spent a lot of time traveling and, uh,
00:33:38.000 I was over in Europe, I think last year for the Europe cup, a soccer match, uh, between Italy and
00:33:43.220 Albania that was over in, uh, I think it was Dusseldorf, Germany. And we were, I met some
00:33:48.080 random German guy and we're talking about president Trump. This guy's a German national
00:33:51.300 and he comes up to me and he says, you know, I love Donald Trump. I said, why? Yeah. You should
00:33:56.040 hate him. You're European. And you know, he's, he's making up for lost time from all the other
00:34:00.860 presidents that, you know, have given you guys everything. And he goes, no, I love him because
00:34:04.960 he loves your country more than anything. And he's willing to do anything for your country
00:34:09.660 first. And I was like, you know, that it's, it's my thing like that. That's just so brilliant
00:34:14.900 that people realize how important it is to care about your country. And this, like I said,
00:34:19.660 this kid's a German national who should hate America and hate Donald Trump, not hate America
00:34:23.820 per se, but Donald Trump because of, you know, the tensions that we've had. Speaking of peace,
00:34:29.040 Steven, uh, Joe Biden, uh, being honored on Friday, uh, he's receiving an LGBTQ award for running
00:34:37.460 the most inclusive administration in history. Now it comes at an interesting time because also on
00:34:42.820 Friday, uh, president Trump was issued the first in history FIFA peace award with the world cup,
00:34:49.860 but speaking of soccer, uh, coming to America, let's take a listen in, but just the stark contrast
00:34:54.500 between the two presidents and listen to the words from the president of FIFA. Sounds very genuine to me.
00:35:00.080 FIFA Peace Prize is presented annually on behalf of the billions of football loving people from
00:35:06.080 around the world to a distinguished individual who exemplifies an unwavering commitment to advancing
00:35:13.160 peace and unity throughout the world through their notable leadership and action. And therefore,
00:35:20.620 FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, awards the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize,
00:35:28.480 football unites the world to Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America in
00:35:35.720 recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the
00:35:41.800 world. Friday, December 5th, 2025. This is a certificate. It's yours.
00:35:48.780 Before giving you the floor, Mr. President, if I may say two words, um, like everyone here
00:36:03.560 in the room, we see images of war all over the world. And like everyone, we suffer for every
00:36:13.960 child that dies. We cry with every mother that loses someone she loves. And we want to see hope.
00:36:29.780 We want to see unity. We want to see a future. And I was lucky, Mr. President, to witness last,
00:36:39.920 a few years ago, the Abraham Accord signatures. A few months ago, in Sharm el-Sheikh, the peace in the
00:36:48.100 Middle East agreement regarding Gaza. I was in Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur for the peace between
00:36:54.600 Cambodia and Thailand. Yesterday, here in Washington, the Washington peace agreement between
00:37:01.560 Rwanda and Rwanda and the DRC. Well, this is what we want from a leader. A leader that cares about the
00:37:14.500 people. We want to live in a safe world, in a safe environment. We want to unite. That's what we do
00:37:22.640 here today. That's what we'll do at the World Cup, Mr. President. And you definitely deserve the first
00:37:29.780 FIFA Peace Prize for your action, for what you have obtained in your way. But you obtained it in an
00:37:38.160 incredible way. And you can always count, Mr. President, on my support, on the support of the
00:37:43.500 entire football community or soccer community to help you make peace and make the world prosper all
00:37:50.120 over the world. Thank you very much, Mr. President. The floor is all yours. Thank you.
00:37:55.500 So nice. And it takes a lot of guts for a man to do something like that. Because think about the
00:37:59.420 backlash he gets from that. Extremely, extremely admirable. Before I get your reaction to it,
00:38:03.780 I'm sorry, I don't mean to keep talking. He actually got Donald Trump to dance to. And
00:38:08.260 it's very simple. It's a very easy way to get Donald Trump to dance. All you got to do is this.
00:38:11.660 The secret is out. All you got to do is bring out the village people and it can't, you can't stop
00:38:28.100 the, the Trump from dancing. But no, I want to get your take on that. Because I'm sure the
00:38:33.680 mainstream media will tell us tomorrow that Donald Trump fell asleep during that, that little
00:38:38.480 procession. Yeah. Um, you know, one, one thing that I respect about president Trump, you say
00:38:46.380 whatever you want about him. He genuinely wants to see the world at peace. He, he wants, he wants
00:38:55.100 these wars to end. I mean, I remember when CNN town hall tried to trap him, who do you want to win
00:39:02.580 Ukraine or Russia? And his answer was brilliant. I want the killing to stop. So I think that, uh,
00:39:11.080 you know, he he's gotta, he's gotta take a tough stance on this stuff. And, uh, but at the end of
00:39:17.360 the day, he wants to be known as the president of peace. And, uh, he's, he's done a phenomenal job.
00:39:23.840 I, I, you know, we all wish that he could have got the Russia Ukraine war ended on day one. I don't
00:39:29.080 think he realized how, you know, incredibly difficult Europe, uh, and Russia were going to
00:39:35.340 be on this, but I do believe before his term is over, we will see this thing come to an end and
00:39:40.640 it will be a magnificent moment. But, uh, yeah, FIFA, they're, they're taking a big risk putting
00:39:47.200 any support behind president Trump, but like, like the, uh, the person just said there, like it just
00:39:53.260 warms his heart to know that there's not going to be children dying because president Trump is showing
00:39:58.360 leadership on the world stage. Yeah. We think about what he's given up and even the people who
00:40:03.800 hate him and can't stand him and want him dead. Imagine there's sick people out there like that.
00:40:08.220 I just like Joe Biden. I would never wish anything bad upon him. The cancer I thought was disgusting.
00:40:12.620 And I feel so bad for him because we're human beings. Right. Um, but there's people out there
00:40:17.720 who wish him dead. And there's probably people out there who pray on and they're six, sick people,
00:40:21.860 but he didn't need this. He didn't need to run. Well, he had to run for election because they were
00:40:26.540 trying to ruin his life and put him in jail for 700 years. So he really had no choice when it came
00:40:30.800 to that. But when he first ran, he didn't need any of this. He lived such a comfortable life.
00:40:36.300 Everybody loved him. They all kissed his rear end. They kissed the ring. And he was just a regular
00:40:41.060 guy. I mean, as regular as they got a fast food eating, you know, hardworking American. And he ran to
00:40:46.520 make this country a better place. And since then, Steven, the amount of hate for this man,
00:40:52.480 uh, the assassination attempts on his life, the, the crooked prosecutions and persecutions against
00:40:59.080 him. I don't, I don't know how I'd want to wake up every single morning and get out of bed,
00:41:05.120 knowing that I constantly had a target on my back and the resiliency in this man. And I'm not kissing
00:41:10.140 his rear end, but you find me another person who's been able to do what he's done and the adversity
00:41:15.880 he's overcome. You find me another person who can do that. And I tell you, you're lying
00:41:20.400 because it's unfathomable and impossible to think that such a person exists. Tell me if
00:41:26.760 I'm wrong. I mean, think about this. Uh, he's married to beautiful Melania.
00:41:32.080 Gorgeous. He's, he's rich. He could literally go to every golf resort around the world. All of
00:41:39.220 the most beautiful beaches. What does he do? He rolls up his sleeves and he walks into the swamp
00:41:45.040 of Washington DC and says, I'm going to fight every single day to make this country safe,
00:41:53.220 to make this country healthy, to make this country great. He doesn't, he didn't need any of this.
00:41:59.160 And yet he shows up every day. They mock him. Oh, taco Trump, cankles, Trump, bad hair, Trump,
00:42:06.280 ugly Trump, orange face, Trump. Like he just, he just puts up with it because he has a vision
00:42:13.340 for what he wants to make America into, which is a rich nation, a healthy nation, a safe nation,
00:42:20.520 a nation with borders. So I just, I love it. I feel like it's an honor of a lifetime to be able
00:42:25.820 to cover his presidency. I want to play this video because, you know, now that we're talking about
00:42:30.040 his, uh, you know, his past life and the normal life he was living, there's this video. I just found
00:42:34.960 that it was, he actually posted it on his Facebook, like maybe 15 years ago. And this is how normal
00:42:40.460 his life was. He's driving in the city. It looks like Baron Trump is in the front seat. Melania's
00:42:45.120 in the backseat, taking a video and they're literally listening to Taylor Swift blank space,
00:42:50.120 just that living this normal life that is, you know, been taken from him because of,
00:42:56.020 you know, his selfish selflessness to run for president and to make America great again.
00:43:00.800 You know, he's just, he doesn't get, people don't see that in him much that he, you know,
00:43:25.840 he is a human being because of, you know, how hardworking is, but that's life he gave up, you
00:43:30.820 know? Yeah. You know, when, uh, Matthew Thomas Crooks nearly blew his brains out on live TV,
00:43:38.460 Melania wrote a letter, uh, saying, you know, this is a man that loves his family. This is a man
00:43:45.940 that loves his country. This is a man that loves music. He's obsessed with music. I mean, the Rose
00:43:51.720 garden people go there and he's blasting music and they say, Oh, he's so tacky. He's such a stupid
00:43:58.400 tacky person, but he just loves music. That's just who he is. Let him be who he is. Right. But yeah,
00:44:03.440 he didn't, he didn't have to do any of this. He didn't have to get the dirt of DC on him. I mean,
00:44:09.180 I was just on, uh, with Brigitte, uh, Gabrielle, and she told me off air that, uh, uh, Janine Pirro
00:44:16.740 said that Washington DC is dirtier than she could have ever imagined the crime and corruption
00:44:23.760 within Congress blew her mind. And she's a judge. She's a judge and had her mind blown.
00:44:30.160 Yeah. And she's seen a lot. Uh, she's been in this business for a very long time of, uh,
00:44:35.520 of being a judge. The music thing is funny. I was down in Florida two weeks ago playing golf at his
00:44:40.640 course. And I see his golf cart parked there and he's got these two massive speakers mounted on the
00:44:45.540 back of his golf cart with an iPad sitting in it. It's the funniest thing in the world that how just
00:44:50.260 normal of a person he is like, is, you know, one of the guys less, you know, the, the beer drinking,
00:44:55.380 uh, before we wrap up, I want to get to something that just came across the news wires,
00:45:00.200 the Supreme court to, by the way, today, very big case, uh, six, three decision allowing Texas to move
00:45:09.000 forward with their newly redrawn congressional maps. So that's an interesting one. It's, uh, it's moving
00:45:15.060 forward according to the Supreme court, which keeps me optimistic on the tariffs, but the Supreme
00:45:19.500 court court also today, uh, they're going to take up if president Trump has a constitutional authority
00:45:24.200 to end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. Uh, this is a big one.
00:45:29.220 Yeah, it's, it's huge. So, uh, I also read that Florida is going to make changes that might
00:45:35.720 open three to five more red seats. They, you know, they just approved the five seats over in Texas,
00:45:41.820 but this is massive. Like people should not be able to, Steven, what's that? Indiana just voted
00:45:48.000 on. It's a seven, two right now. It's going to move to a nine zero. Ooh. Yeah. I mean, this is
00:45:53.420 good. They cheated us in the census. They rigged the census in order to get more seats in Congress,
00:45:58.380 but just going back to the Supreme court, um, you know, people should not be able to come to America
00:46:04.620 for five seconds and get all the blessings of America. Um, I, I just, I don't, I don't believe
00:46:11.180 in that. Um, so I, I think that is a big deal. I think that they would be foolish to allow the chief
00:46:18.100 negotiator of the country to not have power to negotiate tariffs. I mean, he's used them to end
00:46:24.320 wars. He's used them to onshore jobs. He's used them to get $18 trillion in investment commitment.
00:46:32.380 All of that's going to flood in over the next 38 months, but he's got to remain in office.
00:46:38.280 They've got to keep the house and the Senate. Uh, there's, there's still a lot of work to be done,
00:46:43.120 but this is a great day. Well, yeah, there's more than enough work to get done in Washington, DC.
00:46:49.000 Steven Gardner. I appreciate that. We went a little overtime today. Just there's so much to talk about
00:46:53.200 and, uh, nobody enjoy more wrapping up my week with them talking with you. So it's always a delight to
00:46:57.920 talk to you. Steven Gardner folks, host of the Steven Gardner show. You catch him on YouTube,
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00:47:09.860 episodes a day. Really, really terrific stuff. Steven enjoy the rest of your weekend, my friend.
00:47:15.440 Thank you. Steven Gardner folks, please be sure to go follow him on all social media. Steven Gardner
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00:47:24.600 back here Monday, truth, justice, and the American way at the forefront. I hope you all have a blessed
00:47:29.680 great weekend with your loved ones. We'll see you back here Monday. Until then, may God bless you.
00:47:34.820 May God bless America and may God bless the great Luke Dobbs. We'll see you Monday, folks.
00:47:38.420 We'll see you next time.