The Great America Show - October 17, 2025


Mid-Day Update： October 17, 2025


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

172.3958

Word Count

881

Sentence Count

59

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton surrenders to the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, MD and faces 18 counts of espionage and mishandling of national defense information. The government is still shut down, but there are some signs that things are starting to change.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, October 17th.
00:00:04.960 Happy Friday, folks.
00:00:06.640 Trump's former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, turned himself in to the authorities at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, this morning
00:00:13.500 after he was indicted by the Department of Justice for their probe into his classified documents mishandling and espionage.
00:00:21.560 18-count indictment counts 1-8, transmission of national defense information.
00:00:26.160 Counts 9-18, retention of national defense information.
00:00:30.560 Charges carry up to 180 years in prison.
00:00:33.740 Bolton lashed out at President Trump on Thursday and claimed he has become, quote,
00:00:37.760 the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department.
00:00:42.660 Bolton says, when my email was hacked in 2021, the FBI was made fully aware.
00:00:48.900 In four years of the prior administration after these reviews, no charges were ever filed.
00:00:53.980 These charges are not just about a focus on me or my diaries,
00:00:57.520 but his intensive effort to intimidate his opponents and to assure that he alone determines what is said about his conduct.
00:01:06.400 Now, I don't know what Bolton thinks, but this is probably part of the reason why Bolton had a hard time getting along in the Trump administration.
00:01:14.960 President Trump and him are not opponents.
00:01:19.780 They're nowhere near the same level.
00:01:22.340 Bolton had a lot to say about President Trump at Mar-a-Lago,
00:01:24.920 but Bolton has to answer now why he stole war plans and other top-secret war information.
00:01:34.120 I think it's worth asking Mr. Bolton, right?
00:01:36.140 And former Special Counsel Jack Smith becoming the latest deep-stater who may finally see the wheels of justice.
00:01:45.700 Special Counsel Jack Smith was referred to the Department of Justice office that deals with professional misconduct
00:01:50.480 as well as for disbarment by two state panels following, quote,
00:01:54.920 deeply disturbing revelation that he obtained congressional Republican call logs.
00:02:00.020 Did these junkyard jackals and Marxist-Democrat rogue prosecutors and rogue deep state officials
00:02:07.120 really think that for 10 years they were going to persecute Donald Trump and anyone who associated with Donald Trump
00:02:14.600 and get away with it?
00:02:16.540 I think the tides are starting to turn, and as they say, the tables are turning as well.
00:02:22.440 And of course, the Chuck Schumer government shutdown is still going on,
00:02:25.960 at least through the weekend, for that No Kings rally tomorrow, if you guys aren't busy.
00:02:31.740 Tomorrow's a big rally going on.
00:02:33.200 It's called the No Kings rally, if you guys aren't busy and, you know, want to stop by.
00:02:37.420 We encourage it to go see what the Marxist-Dems are up to.
00:02:40.300 So the government's going to be shut down, at least through the weekend.
00:02:43.400 Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning to force the Democrats to vote next week
00:02:47.800 on legislation to pay more than a million military service members during this government shutdown,
00:02:53.460 doubling down on his strategy of highlighting the plight of military families.
00:02:58.760 Folks, the Marxist-Democrats, leaving our most vulnerable people, women, children, service members,
00:03:05.300 out to dry just to get back at the Orange Man.
00:03:09.740 These people are very, very sick.
00:03:11.740 The bad news is, is the Orange Man keeps on doing what he promised he was going to do.
00:03:16.880 He recently sat down for an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News,
00:03:20.520 and she asked him about that No Kings rally and the Chuck Schumer government shutdown.
00:03:25.900 Take a listen.
00:03:26.820 Mr. President, do you think that the government shutdown is all about this rally that's happening
00:03:31.080 this weekend, the No Kings rally?
00:03:33.020 No, I mean, some people say they want to delay it for the king.
00:03:37.540 This is not a king.
00:03:39.660 You know, they're saying they're referring to me as a king.
00:03:41.700 I'm not a king.
00:03:41.980 Right.
00:03:42.280 No, but just so that Chuck Schumer could go and say, I'm fighting Trump.
00:03:45.080 Well, Chuck is, you know, at the end of the line, he's being beaten by everybody that they
00:03:49.440 poll against him.
00:03:51.140 And, you know, what he did is he did the right thing a couple of years ago on something like
00:03:56.160 this.
00:03:57.200 And he got hurt by his party.
00:03:59.960 And it doesn't, I don't think it matters to him.
00:04:03.420 I think he's just so dead that he'll do anything.
00:04:06.520 I think they could just stay out forever.
00:04:08.260 I mean, to be honest with you now, what we're doing is we're cutting Democrat programs that
00:04:12.900 we didn't want because, I mean, they made one mistake.
00:04:16.560 They didn't realize that that gives me the right to cut programs that Republicans never
00:04:21.240 wanted, you know, giveaways, welfare programs, et cetera.
00:04:24.880 And we're doing that and we're cutting them permanently.
00:04:27.320 We're cutting a 20 billion dollar project that Schumer fought for 15 years to get.
00:04:33.180 And I'm cutting the project.
00:04:34.640 The project is going to be dead.
00:04:35.980 It is pretty much dead right now.
00:04:38.260 And so America pays the price for Chuck Schumer playing games.
00:04:42.360 Gas prices, folks.
00:04:43.820 That's right.
00:04:44.220 Just in time for the holidays, hitting new lows for 2025.
00:04:48.680 The average price of gasoline is about three bucks a gallon.
00:04:51.880 Could soon dip below.
00:04:53.940 Gas is down about 10 cents from a month ago and nearly 15 cents from a year ago.
00:04:58.880 We could expect it to continue and continue to decline as President Trump continues to drill
00:05:04.080 baby drill to make America great again.