Did the Deep State get a warrant to look at Trump's Twitter account in January? Is this a good or bad thing? President Trump calls out Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Family for their corrupt dealings with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and other foreign governments.
00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Thanks for being with us.
00:00:08.420You've probably noticed there's something a little off about the special counsel, Jack Smith.
00:00:14.160Personally, I think Jack Smith has a bit of a deranged look to him. Have you noticed?
00:00:19.220And newly unsealed court documents show that the Marxist special counsel can act pretty strange as well.
00:00:26.140It turns out Jack Smith got a search warrant to take a look at Trump's Twitter account back in January.
00:00:35.560The newly released document shows that the junkyard dog obtained a search warrant for the president's Twitter page on January 17 of this year.
00:00:46.040A public Twitter page for all of the world to see. Now, why would the junkyard dog need a search warrant for a public page?
00:00:54.500Politico reporting that Smith subpoenaed the Twitter account to obtain data that might have revealed patterns about Trump's use of the account,
00:01:03.960whether others had access to it, and whether there were any draft statements that were unsent.
00:01:09.880Why any of that makes a lick of sense is beyond me.
00:01:13.560It took Twitter, by the way, three days to comply with the Justice Department subpoena.
00:01:20.120And because of that delay, the DOJ sanctioned Twitter and fined them $350,000 for daring to take their time and actually ask if all of this was legal.
00:01:39.100Twitter took issue with that subpoena from Smith's team because the warrant was issued with a, quote,
00:01:45.420non-disclosure order that prohibited Twitter from notifying Donald Trump about the warrant.
00:01:52.160Twitter argued the order issued violated the First Amendment and that the judge should have blocked the warrant until the objection was resolved.
00:07:40.040Let's take a look at the metrics in terms of both initiative and progress and effectiveness.
00:07:48.000And let's start with the House of Representatives, where the best things in this country right now are happening.
00:07:53.040That is with the Ways and Means Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Oversight Committee, the Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government.
00:08:00.820The 118th Congress is living up to its early promises in its first 24 hours of existence.
00:08:10.160But then there is the bargaining chip, the bargaining subject of all of those first hours of the 118th Congress, namely the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
00:08:23.100He is wilting, after months of promise, he is wilting before our very eyes, whether it be on the simple fiscal discipline that's required and the honesty and the integrity of negotiations with the executive branch of the president.
00:08:40.520He cannot even muster the will and the fire, the verb and imagination to actually consider impeaching what is obvious to all 300 million plus Americans, that Joe Biden is a corrupt president who has taken corrupt actions as president and has created a cesspool,
00:09:07.080an absolute cesspool of unscrupulous, unprincipled, permanent bureaucrats that are going to linger long after he's gone.
00:09:20.180I mean, we should have an impeachment inquiry.
00:09:23.640First of all, they shouldn't have left for August.
00:09:26.400They at least should have kept back the oversight in judiciary.
00:09:30.740I think there's more than overwhelming evidence of an impeachment inquiry.
00:09:34.080The lead story in Politico earlier this morning was that there's not even – he's lost momentum on impeaching Mayorkas, which is the lowest hanging fruit.
00:09:44.540You can't bring an impeachment inquiry on Mayorkas if you're not doing a job.
00:09:47.680Look, he has no interest in following through on President Trump's agenda.
00:09:54.020You saw that in the deal he made with Biden that basically has crushed the country economically and financially, given the radical Democrats everything.
00:10:02.080He really has no interest in any of these investigations.
00:10:05.400Everything he's doing is just performative, and that's why I think you don't see him out there in public second being what Comer's doing, second being what Jordan's doing, driving him forward, putting his, as you call, verve and energy in the back of it.
00:10:22.480He's essentially crickets on this frontal assault on President Trump.
00:10:27.960I mean, he should be out there saying, absolutely, if Biden wants to shut down his government about defunding Jack Smith's persecution of President Trump, so be it.
00:10:38.780He's going to have to do it at midnight on September 30th and October 1st because there will never be an appropriations bill going forward when I'm Speaker of the House that has a penny for DOJ to continue to persecute the president and people around him.
00:10:55.360So I think if you look at all three, financially, the fiscal thing's been a disaster.
00:11:00.080Everything they're talking about is totally performative right now.
00:11:02.680Remember, when we talk about all these cuts and the appropriations bill, they may shut it down, may not shut it down.
00:11:10.380We're talking about $100 billion in cuts.
00:11:12.900$100 billion in cuts is really what they're talking about.
00:11:16.580That's less money than we've shoveled into the churnal house of Ukraine.
00:11:20.860So everything he's doing is performative, and it's to the point.
00:11:24.680I think as soon as President Trump feels comfortable that there's someone as an alternative, that there will be a motion to vacate on McCarthy, and we'll move on and get some action here in this Congress.
00:11:38.540Because I think you've got individual members that are doing things.
00:11:41.240You've got some committees that are doing things.
00:11:43.240But overall, the leadership has been less than pathetic.
00:11:46.900It's actually operated – I mean, Hakeem Jeffries – look, Lou, they're openly talking about on the appropriations bill, which is supposed to be where all the cuts are going to come from.
00:11:56.580You know, he could approve this budget deal.
00:11:59.080We didn't have to worry the cuts were coming in appropriations.
00:12:01.360We said that at the time was a total lie.
00:12:03.640Right now, I'm pretty well sourced up there.
00:12:06.460The same McCarthy is – understands he may not have 30, 40, 50 votes.
00:12:10.980He's going to cut a deal with the Democrats, just like he did on the spending bill.
00:12:13.820So, Hakeem Jeffries is essentially a Speaker of the House.
00:12:21.500But I do think that we're not going to have a move on here until President Trump signals that he's comfortable that there's someone there that can replace McCarthy.
00:12:31.580Yet it is President Trump who wanted the bargaining to end and Speaker McCarthy to step forward as the choice of the Brave 20, the Freedom Caucus, the conservatives who made such a difference in the 118th Congress with their strong stand.
00:12:51.220I'm worried now, frankly, as much about what is practical and what is understandably practical to the Republican Party.
00:13:02.220They are without question divided in ways that they have always been, but with something new added.
00:13:09.440And that is an intransigent set of rhinos who are – who really seem to be pretty sure they're smarter than everybody else in the House.
00:13:20.400And I'm talking about the 20 who voted against censure of Adam Schiff, the most venal liar in the history of the House of Representatives.
00:13:31.560And when that can't happen, what does that proffer for any action against Biden and the rest of the regime?
00:13:41.920Well, I think, you know, those should look because those 20 are essentially the ones named the DCCC, which is the congressional campaign arm of the House of Representatives for the Democrats.
00:13:55.400It's Brahim Kassam's group over at National Pulse did a fantastic job, a guy named Will Upton, who worked for Monica Crowley over at Treasury.
00:14:05.400He's now with his staff, and he found this memo.
00:14:07.500It was kind of hidden on the Internet.
00:14:09.620He found this memo that basically the DCCC's strategy plan for 2022 – and this is where they're getting all the donors, all the money.
00:14:18.880They're not talking about being progressive.
00:14:21.620They're not talking about having Ilhan Omar or AOC, or they're not preaching that gospel.
00:14:27.220What they're talking about is basically MAGA, America First Policy, kitchen table issues, manufacturing.
00:14:34.220I mean, it's literally the Trump playbook.
00:14:46.340What we need to do is accommodate, be more moderate, and support all these policies of Biden, and we can't have MAGA policies.
00:14:54.860What DCCC is running against specifically the guys in New York and these other – General Bacon out in Nebraska, all these guys, the most moderate, are being targeted.
00:15:05.320And what are they being targeted with?
00:15:06.840They're being targeted with – they're telling – they're wanting to get candidates to run on essentially a MAGA platform, that we're working-class Democrats.
00:15:15.040We support the working man and woman, that that's what we're about, kitchen table issues.
00:15:20.600So the moderates, once again, have missed the plot.
00:15:25.960If you're more MAGA, good things are going to happen because people right now have had a belly full of this.
00:15:30.780And you can see this in any indice you want, any set of numbers you want, about the lived experience of the American people in the economy.
00:15:40.020Not what you're hearing pitched to you on CNBC, not what's being pitched on MSNBC, not what the Biden White House – so the Biden White House can't believe that the $6 trillion they spent off the books with all these measures they put in there.
00:15:55.660They're all concerned that nobody's giving them credit for Biden-Oleks.
00:15:59.660He's not getting credit, that he's still polling in the high 30s, low 40s on ability to handle the economy.
00:16:07.180But that's because the lived experience of the American people is horrible right now, right?
00:16:44.580Because of Biden bonds, they've turned into Biden banks, right?
00:16:47.840They've got capital problems, and they're sitting on a ton of bad commercial real estate loans.
00:16:53.660They also put another, what, half a dozen money-centered banks on the watch list.
00:16:58.440So this is going to have massive credit contraction, a contraction in the economy, and particularly from people, you know, these employment things that come out.
00:17:07.260The top-line numbers are very misleading.
00:17:09.320With the numbers to look at it, people are getting second jobs now.
00:17:11.700They're getting second jobs just to keep their nose above water.
00:17:47.600So all Biden's talking about is another – is more government spending.
00:17:53.100You know, Will McCarthy's giving one last note on that.
00:17:55.500One of the reasons we've had, in the first nine months of the year, $1.4 trillion deficit is, I warn people, you're going to have a $2 trillion deficit on this deal.
00:18:04.060People said, oh, no, no, that's banning his hair on fire.
00:18:06.620In the first nine months of the fiscal year, we had a $1.4 trillion deficit.
00:18:11.500I said, we're going to have a $2 trillion deficit this year.
00:20:21.400I don't think I could agree with you more, Lou.
00:20:23.800I think that most of what McCarthy has done and, obviously, McConnell has been very performative just to go along with playing along with Biden
00:20:33.640and hope that lightning strikes because they're really not putting through a coherent government opposition of what should be done.
00:20:44.760The only place you're seeing that is President Trump on the campaign trail.
00:20:48.340Quite frankly, what I call the Keebler elves, the 12 people running against him, you know, in the presidential primary,
00:20:55.680you're not seeing a lot of, you know, I'm not getting blown away by the ideas coming out of there.
00:21:00.500That's more of just the happy talk, Republican, you know, stock and trade talking points.
00:21:06.300And I think it's one of the reasons that you're seeing no one get traction there.
00:21:39.980You're hearing them from President Trump.
00:21:41.280I keep telling people if anybody would pay attention to his speeches that are actually policy speeches,
00:21:47.720he's putting forward a pretty well thought through, well organized plan.
00:21:53.680And, of course, you know that we're training up people with Russ Votes Group and with Heritage.
00:21:59.880They're getting organized to hit the beach day one.
00:22:02.940Three or four thousand people that would be part of that would be the administration would take over right away.
00:22:07.620President Trump has given five and a half hours of primetime speeches in the last month at the – he gave it at the freedom – you know, the Ralph Reed Freedom Conference for the Evangelicals in D.C.
00:22:22.980He went to Philadelphia for the Moms for Liberty, gave it two and a half – the parental – that's that whole parental rights movement.
00:22:31.120And then he went out to Iowa and gave a very detailed one on economics.
00:22:37.400And he gave – went to Turning Point also and gave another one on economics.
00:22:40.140So four or five speeches, not one minute picked up by Fox.
00:22:44.200And really not talked about by the, you know, the kind of mainstream but conservative media.
00:22:50.180And he's putting out really media ideas.
00:22:52.380And that's, to me, the alternative program we've got to really take his first term and turbocharge it.
00:22:58.900And I think that's what he intends to do.
00:23:00.360And I think it's all out there, what he's putting out.
00:23:06.100And it is, I think, interesting, at least in theory.
00:23:11.800What I worry about is – right now is what I worried about during his first presidency.
00:23:18.700And that is his lack of support and organization and committed, if you will, numbers behind each of his ideas.
00:23:29.440And by that I mean there is no one in academia that he can reach to because nearly every economist is under contract to a Marxist-dim HR department or CEO that is trying to make a splash with the cocktail circuit.
00:23:47.440We're looking at compromised characters in all aspects, it seems, of our society.
00:23:54.540The knowledge economy has turned into a knowledge nightmare.
00:24:00.080They have little knowledge, and they have great pretense to owning the country's future.
00:24:06.620The only problem is the Marxist-dims actually do have control of all the levers of power in this country right now.
00:24:12.940Name one, Steve, if you will, major lever of power that the Democrats, the Marxist-dims, don't possess.
00:25:28.120It's not just the primary, and we've got to chop our way through the woods here.
00:25:31.540It's not just the general, which is going to be tougher than 16 because they see us coming.
00:25:37.560It is once we have victory, every day starting the 20th of January 2025 is going to be Stalingrad in the government because Donald Trump is bound and determined to take apart the administrative and deep state and at the same time to confront China and some of our enemies internationally and rebuild this economy.
00:25:58.300I mean the workload – and remember, Lou, at that time on that afternoon, I think – and I think you'd back me up.
00:26:05.760We're going to have about $37 to $38 trillion of face amount of debt on the balance sheet of the government.
00:26:12.060We're going to have another $9.5 or $10 trillion at the Federal Reserve.
00:26:16.200And the tax cuts of Trump, you know, the $4 trillion of tax cuts are coming back up immediately.
00:26:22.280Now, they generate more revenue than they cost, but there is a gap there.
00:26:26.600So President Trump's going to be in a bind.
00:26:28.880And I keep telling people, if you want to take your country back and change the direction of this republic back to what it was when it was bequeathed to us, we've got some work to do.
00:26:39.740But what we're going to need is a couple of Lou Dobbs types that can help the president translate the ideas into actionable policies and the ability to take on the deep state.
00:26:52.820Because the deep state's just going to sit there and go, what a lovely idea.
00:26:57.140You know, Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon, Jack Posobiec, Lou Dobbs, you know, a bunch of these guys with Trump, you know, won this election.
00:27:04.120We're just going to toss them the keys.
00:27:13.900I think that there is a vast majority of Americans, I happen to think 60% to two-thirds of the country, that have had a belly full of these Marxist Democrats and this illegitimate regime and are prepared to have President Trump's back, whatever it takes to get this country back on track.
00:27:33.180I'm just telling people it's going to be very tough.
00:27:38.420And I think the thing that's going to be Damocles' sword that's going to hang over us is this economy.
00:27:44.920I am – when I see a story coming out of New York One yesterday, Lou, and you're quite familiar with Manhattan, that said that 50% of the office buildings in New York are now worth less than the face amount of the debt on them.
00:28:00.860And you know that pretty quickly, these landlords, given what's happened in the commercial office space and the downgrade that Moody's just did, they're going to be tossing the keys back to a lot of banks.
00:28:11.760We're going to be – we're over-levered like China's over-levered, and we're going to have hell to pay for this.
00:28:17.380So I think people just got to strap in.
00:28:20.200And I think people have to understand that this is also a – part of it is certainly – is a natural cycle.
00:28:29.300It is a cesspool because they denied the importance of leadership and character and vision and settled for celebrity airbrains to be their mayors.
00:28:43.840It's just – it's madness what has happened to New York, and sometimes the process is the result.
00:28:50.500Are you implying with that celebrity hit that Eric Adams is not made of the same stuff of Rudy Giuliani back in the 90s?
00:31:10.300No, but I think this shows you – look, the Trump – the only way that we're going to save this country right now is with Donald Trump.
00:31:20.720And I say this to people out there that if you mention his name or hear the sound of his voice, you wince.
00:31:28.080If you look at the facts as they stand today, this country is on the precipice financially, geopolitically, with this leviathan of the administrative state that's really taken over what the founders and framers have set up as a limited government for this country.
00:31:46.880And Trump is the only one that understands it, has taken it on, and they fear.
00:31:54.580All these other – what I call the Keebler elves.
00:31:56.920And Vivek's done a good job of pushing forward some of the America First and some of the MAGA policies, right?
00:32:01.760But that's a long way – given just some light conversation about it, it's a long way from actually having to strap in and get it done.
00:32:08.680So Donald Trump is a – and I think he's been – I think the divine providence is working through him.
00:32:16.060And I say that as someone that had a close-up view of 2016 and 2017.
00:32:22.760So I think that we've got our instrument.
00:32:26.740The purpose we have to have now is not to continue playing to what the mainstream media wants is a horse race.
00:32:32.700George Wilt said today the mainstream media wants a horse race, and they're going to anoint somebody that's not Trump or not DeSantis and get him back on.
00:32:40.660And what George Wilt doesn't understand, because he doesn't understand modern communications, it's so out of touch.
00:32:45.600He still thinks Fox and some of these things are important.
00:32:48.020As long as war room's there, there's no chance anybody can get momentum.
00:32:54.240And we won't allow it for one simple reason.
00:32:56.640The country is in a crisis, and we don't have time for happy talk.
00:33:00.820We don't have time to play the big media's game.
00:33:03.900We only have time to save our country.
00:33:06.600And that's what so disturbs me about this, quote-unquote, primary.
00:33:09.960They're going to spend $500 million and divert a ton of Trump's time and resources to dealing with it when we don't have time to deal with it.
00:33:42.640Now, eventually, when he decides or they move him out, that will be different of how they have some sort of complicated affair between Michelle Obama and Newsom and Whitmer
00:33:51.340and let's throw Phil Murphy in there and Pritzker and a couple of three others, right?
00:33:54.940But they know how to run – they know how to run something.
00:33:59.000And they know because it's all focused on the general election.
00:34:02.160And right now, you have these evil billionaires that are putting in literally hundreds of millions of dollars to build an election infrastructure.
00:34:10.100That is going to be very tough to overcome, and that should be our maniacal focus right now.
00:34:15.320It should be victory and then what happens the day after victory.
00:34:20.560And it's somewhat being organized today, but we're allowing the donors and the established media of the RINOs to really try to divert our attention on something that doesn't exist,
00:34:32.400and that is this primary for the Republican nomination.
00:34:38.440President Trump's going to Iowa State Fair this week, and I think that's fantastic.
00:37:06.640It's not visible to me if it's happening at all.
00:37:09.020And the one thing that we do know about what you're saying, Steve, is the Democrat is Democratic choices for 2024 are purely theatrical,
00:37:19.460because we know that Obama and the senior cabal of the Marxist Dems who drive the Democratic Party and this regime will simply, you know, they're interchangeable.
00:37:30.900The characters they put up as figureheads.
00:37:33.340I mean, does anyone in the world think that Joe Biden is actually running the thought processes and decisions that make up his administration?
00:38:10.420You know, Steve, I've enjoyed tremendously, as always, our conversation, and I hope you'll come back soon.
00:38:17.060It's a tough time, but I think people have to look clear-eyed and straightforwardly at what we have to do.
00:38:24.960And it can't be done without vast organization that is the, you know, is one of the many expertises that doesn't exist within Republican leadership.
00:38:37.280Ronna McDaniel, why is she still there?
00:40:04.300These people are not particularly bright.
00:40:05.400They want a simple horse race, and they will try to gin up somebody after the fall of the Santas, somebody to compete against Trump.
00:40:15.360Well, the way they can do that is to put on a series of debates, and it's not – they're not going to win.
00:40:21.100All it's going to do is suck up about a billion – 500 million to a billion dollars of cash from people that should be going to these organizations, outside groups that can help us win in 2024.
00:40:31.380This is a diversion we don't – and the keyboard elves, there's no traction.
00:40:35.940All the polls show Trump at 59, Trump at 61, Trump at 55.
00:41:00.120And the only thing – to your point about the money, the only people making money on this are the television networks, the cable networks, and the – of course, the remaining newspaper media.
00:41:55.340Our guests always get the last word on this show.
00:41:57.960If you would, Steve, your concluding thoughts.
00:42:01.980I'm a huge fan of the show, huge fan of Lou Dobbs.
00:42:04.980Always honored to come on here and talk to your audience, Lou, and keep fighting.
00:42:10.140And since you didn't pick it on air, I'll come back to you with my proposal, either chief of staff, head of the National Economic Council, which is the power place outside the NSC, inside the West Wing, or secretary of treasury.
00:42:23.640Eventually, we're going to get you to head the Federal Reserve, but I think we're going to get you to the treasury first.