Mid-Day Update： September 5, 2025
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Summary
Trump sends more F-35s to Puerto Rico, former White House physician Ronnie Jackson is restored to his full rank, and Elon Musk has a new compensation agreement that could be worth a TRILLION DOLLARS!
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, September 5th.
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Donald Trump's showing he's not playing any games when it comes to Venezuela or the drug lords or anybody, for that matter.
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President Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
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This is part of President Trump's war on the cartels, war on the drug lords, and war on anyone who needs to destroy America.
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Now it all comes as tensions are mounting with Venezuela over Washington's military buildup in the Caribbean.
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The planes will join the U.S. warships already deployed to the Southern Caribbean,
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as President Trump steps up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the United States accuses of leading the drug cartel.
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The standoff has grown in the recent days as the Pentagon says two Venezuelan military planes flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters on Thursday night,
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U.S. forces on Tuesday, of course, blew up that drug boat in the Caribbean that President Trump said belonged to Trende Agua,
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the Venezuelan criminal organization he tied to Maduro.
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I don't even know if you can consider them human beings, being what they were meant to do,
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Maduro, who's obviously a leftist firebrand, who last election in 2024 was seen by Washington as illegitimate.
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America's not the only place, apparently, that has illegitimate elections.
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He's denouncing this move as the U.S. buildup as, quote,
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the greatest threat to our continent that it's seen in the last hundred years,
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declaring his country prepared for armed struggle.
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This is a, quote, armed struggle in defense of its national territory.
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He has mobilized the Venezuelan military, which has numbers around 340,000 reservists,
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But Maduro's barking up the wrong bush, all to just pour drugs into America?
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And speaking of war, French's president, Emmanuel Macron,
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has been stoking the World War III beat for quite some time with his Iran rhetoric,
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said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine's allies have pledged to deploy troops as a reassurance force
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for the war-torn country as its fighting continues with Russia.
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Well, that's good for him and the 26 nations who want to send troops on the ground.
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Not going to be here in America, not going to be American troops on the ground,
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There was a massive ICE raid, if you haven't heard about it,
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at a Hyundai battery construction site in Georgia Thursday afternoon,
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resulting in 475 arrests of workers in the United States illegally
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or who have violated terms of their immigrant visas,
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with the majority of the illegal workers that were arrested being from South Korea.
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Now, the raid was apparently tipped off by a man named Kevin Souza,
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He blew the whistle on the safety of the Hyundai megacite,
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saying undocumented workers were working in unsafe conditions.
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Well, I think that ends today as President Trump's ICE raids continue.
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Former White House physician Ronnie Jackson was yet another victim
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of a politically motivated punishment by the Biden regime,
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all for saying that Donald Trump was healthy during his time in office and still is,
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In April of 2018, Jackson resigned as the White House doctor
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Jackson raised the alarm about Joe Biden early in 2020 in the presidential campaign,
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calling for Biden to get cognitive tests as there was clear signs that he was not mentally all there.
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Now, throughout Biden's presidency and into the 2024 campaign,
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Jackson continued to raise the alarm about Biden's deficiencies.
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The Biden administration, of course, fired back,
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and in 2022, the Navy reduced Jackson's rank from rear admiral to captain,
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effectively reducing the retirement and benefits he had earned over a lifetime of service.
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Jackson, of course, is now a congressman, represents Texas 13th Congressional District,
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sharing a letter today on social media from the Secretary of the Navy,
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letting him know that he has now been restored to his full rank.
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I was and still am a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral,
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Good for Ronnie Jackson and good on the Secretary of the Navy for making right on Joe Biden's attack on America.
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Elon Musk kind of been quiet in the news lately.
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Tesla has offered CEO Elon Musk a new compensation agreement,
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A massive package without precedent in corporate America.
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Bloomberg reports that EV giant Tesla has proposed this new compensation agreement for Elon Musk,
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saying it could be worth a trillion dollars, a long-awaited proposal designed to incentivize Musk
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He said a series of ambitious benchmarks he must meet in order to earn the full payout.
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the Delaware judge had voided Musk's prior $56 billion pay package.
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Of course, lawfare against anybody who supported Donald Trump.
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Now it's looking like he may get a trillion dollars.
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I can't wait to see what the marks is left and the judges have to say about that.
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
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We'll see you there tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern time.