The Great America Sunday Show： February 4th, 2024
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Former White House Stenographer Mike McCormick tells the story of a kickback scheme that went on while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States from 2011 to 2017. He tells the tale of Joe Biden's trip to Ukraine in 2014.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Sunday Show. It's great to have
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you with us. Thanks for joining us. Joe Biden has finally launched retaliatory attacks against the
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Iranian-backed militia groups of terrorists in Syria and Iraq. National Security Council spokesman
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John Kirby said U.S. warplanes struck more than 85 targets at seven facilities utilized by Iran's
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the militant groups, the terrorist groups that they sponsor.
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Three of those facilities in Iraq. Four were located in Syria. In total, more than 40 people
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were killed. No civilians. That's the latest report. And more bad news for Joe Biden, if that's possible.
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61 percent of voters say Joe Biden doesn't deserve to be reelected. Those are the worst numbers,
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according to Gallup, in 32 years. The American people's view on Congress isn't pretty either.
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67 percent of Americans say their members of Congress don't deserve to be reelected.
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And my guess is most of us happen to agree with both those polls. Our guest today is former White
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House stenographer Mike McCormick. And Mike, it's good of you to be with us. You've got a new book out
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and it's straightforward. The title is The Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden. Mike,
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you were the White House stenographer for 15 years, the stenographer for Vice President Biden
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from 2011 to 2017. I'd call some of those the wonder years in terms of Biden's corruption and all that
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he was up to. Mike, great to have you back with us. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, Lou.
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Let's turn to, I mean, I have to say, the corruption you witnessed firsthand in the form of kickbacks.
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You've witnessed some mighty questionable, well, I would say, scenes and events. Tell us,
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if you will, first, the kickbacks, what you actually saw.
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So the kickback scheme centers around Ukraine. And as a stenographer for Joe Biden, I traveled with
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him to Ukraine three times. He did a total of six trips there from the time he was a vice president.
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He took one trip there in 2009. And then when the Ukrainian uprising, the Maidan uprising,
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happened in like January of 2014. That's when things started to get heated. And he became very
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interested in being the savior of Ukraine and going over there and helping them with their
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energy security. That's when the kickback scheme started. So he did a trip there in April of 20,
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April 21st, 2014. Then he went in June. I wasn't on that trip. Then he went later that year in November
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of 2014. I was on that trip. Then he went in 2015 in December. I was on that trip. And that's when he
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fired the prosecutor, the guy Shokin. And then he did a final wrap up trip just days before he left
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office in just January 2017. Very strange that a vice president would, the tail, very tail end of his
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term, rush over to not only Ukraine, but he also went to Davos for the World Economic Forum.
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So naturally, naturally. So I was there for that. So when did I see the kickback specifically on that
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flight to April 21st, 2014? There was a kickback scheme underway. And I've got tons of evidence of
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it that I derived from digging into the Hunter by the laptop. The emails show interactions between Joe
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and Hunter and Devin Archer. And days before this April 21st trip, there was a meeting of the three
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of those in the White House. And then on that flight, Jake Sullivan walked to the back of the
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plane and explained to the press when questioned, what kind of energy security is Joe Biden bringing
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to Ukraine. And he explained, we're bringing stuff for non-traditional gas resources. That's
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fracking. And that was the Biden kickback scheme centered around Burisma's fracking. They were
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growing their fracking business. So basically, he was saying on behalf of Joe Biden, we're going to go
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Right. So it's sort of an interesting thing for a vice president to be involved. Did you
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were any of Hunter's business partners with Joe and Hunter on these trips?
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No, no. Hunter and Joe were never seen together. Very, very little, very few. And, and, you know,
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you can tell from the way the laptop, they coordinate their communication, a laptop, but
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they try to keep a distance. But there's a lot of instances that I put in the book about
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meetings they had, critical meetings of strategic, developing a strategy for this kickback scheme.
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Then they go into the White House and they further it. Then they go on this trip in April 21st, 2014.
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And then as problems begin to pile up, Hunter Biden relays information back into Joe.
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He's on the phone with him every day. That's what Joe used to brag about. I'm on the phone with my
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kids every day. And Joe would set up American policy to fix what, you know, first of all,
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put money in Burisma's pocket, but also to fix their problems.
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So there was an interconnect, if you will, between the issue, the, the great gift of fracking from
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Joe Biden to the Ukrainians and Burisma was going to be involved in that as well.
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Correct. Burisma had huge contracts for fracking in Ukraine was one of the few countries in Europe
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that allowed fracking. They had large, um, unconventional gas reserves in the Eastern part
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of the country. That's where they're fighting now. Basically this invasion by Putin, he's invaded
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Ukraine to take over their, their natural gas reserves. Um, and he'll have a, a monopoly on energy
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in that part of the world, transmitting it into Europe at high prices. So he's, he's got Europe
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strung out, you know, Biden went in there as a savior of Ukraine, but he brought his corruption
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along with them and Putin just walked in behind it. And it was all about fracking and fracking is
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what was going on in Crimea. Putin took that over and Burisma had contracts there.
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So basically what we watched here over the course of this time, uh, your period as a white house
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stenographer traveling with a vice president to the current day, Joe Biden, who was going to do so
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much for Ukraine is now responsible for the war, uh, being waged by, by Vladimir Putin's Russia
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against Ukraine, devastating the country, destroying, uh, so, so many, uh, thousands of lives, uh, and
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property, uh, the, the, it's going to be a restoration project of immense proportions. And this is the guy
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who was doing so much for Ukraine. And he let this happen because he not only refused to shut down,
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uh, Vladimir Putin and stop that war before it began. He has also stopped peace negotiations as
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well between Ukraine, uh, and the Soviet union. So it's sort of hard to see the, the game that he's
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playing, but it is a game. Uh, and I do not know to what end we're talking with Mike McCormick. He is
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the author of the book, the case to impeach and imprison Joe Biden. And I have to recommend it to
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you highly folks. Uh, this is a book that is very important. When we continue, we're going to be
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talking about a picture. It's a picture of Joe Biden and the president of Honduras in Honduras.
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And you ask reasonably so, what was Joe Biden doing in Honduras? And he has a way when he travels,
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business gets done. We'll re we'll be right back with Mike McCormick, the author of case
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to impeach and imprison Joe Biden. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
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Lou Dobbs here. I'm delighted to let you all know that the program Lou Dobbs tonight has returned to
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the air. That's right. Lou Dobbs tonight is back. We're live each and every weeknight at 7pm
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Eastern and 6pm Central on rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs. That's rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs. I hope
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you'll be joining us for Lou Dobbs tonight as our fight to save this country has only begun.
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We're back now with Mike McCormick. The book is the case to impeach and imprison Joe Biden.
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And there's, there's so much fascinating, uh, in, uh, information and, uh, anecdotes in this,
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uh, this book, Mike, uh, and, and certainly what is fascinating to me that the audience needs to know
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is you were interviewed about, uh, Joe Biden's corruption by the house oversight committee.
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Uh, tell us about that real quickly, if you would, and, and what the result was.
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Yes. Thanks on that, Lou. My determination, you know, I started writing a substack, the substack
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called midnight in laptop of good and evil. And I based it on what I found a hundred by the laptop.
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And then I started going back into my own personal experience of what I saw Joe do.
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Well, along the way, um, I started putting out some significant evidence and I went to the FBI
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with what I just described to you, this trip, this April 21st, 2014 trip and said,
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this was me witnessing a crime. And I would like, what year did you go to the FBI?
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Uh, that was February, just last February. So February, 2023. Um, and I never heard back from
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them. I kept, I talked to some other media and then eventually got to the attention of the, uh,
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oversight committee and the oversight committee had me down for an interview. And it struck me as odd
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the way they were talking to me. There were lawyers. I was talking to their lawyers and they're
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very noncommittal, but it struck me that what they wanted. And I told them quite a bit of
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information that I knew at the time, it struck me that they wanted to only focus on the Biden crime
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family. The information I had at the time included Barack Obama, um, Jake Sullivan. And later I
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developed information about the, uh, embassy in Ukraine ambassador, Jeffrey Pyatt, assistant secretary,
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um, uh, of state, uh, Victoria Newland. And, you know, the more evidence I, and I would pass that
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information on as I wrote my subsects to them. And I never heard back from after I did this interview
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at the end of the interview, they said, well, you, you've got some really interesting things that
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we've, we've heard about. Um, and I said, well, I'd love to testify. And they said, well, yeah,
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I don't, you know, we're not going to see that happening. They didn't really say they were just
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noncommittal. And they said, you really would like to testify. I said, yeah. And they just sort
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of shrugged and said, well, okay, we'll see. And so then they, you know, Mike, you're telling me
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that the investigators, uh, didn't want to have your evidence at all. No. And they, they put me in
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touch with the Senate Homeland Security, governmental affairs committee investigators, and they were a lot
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more receptive of the information. And they actually gave me some information. One of the
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leads they gave me was you should look into this guy, Pyatt. And once I did, I started finding more
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stuff there. So spell his name, spell his name. Pyatt P Y A T T ambassador, Jeffrey Pyatt, Jeffrey with
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a G. So, you know, I thought, okay, they're setting up this investigation. They're going to do these,
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these interviews. I should get interviews. I still haven't been interviewed. So I went to the U S
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attorney, David Weiss. I said, look, I've got evidence. So you should have me in front of you.
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And he ignored what I told him. And then I set up. I wonder why I wonder why. And this was before he,
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this was in May. So this was before he came out with that devious, um, Hunter Biden, you know,
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a plea deal that was so sweetheart deal, sweetheart deal. So, you know, they wouldn't talk to me. So
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then eventually when it got, when the sweetheart deal got kicked out by the judge, the judge made
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a ruling and said, if any third party has something to say about this case, contact my chambers. And I
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contacted the judge's chambers and sent them information. And I called them and they heard
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back from them and they said, yeah, we got your information. And then the very next day,
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David Weiss was named as the special counsel. And that's where it sits now in the investigation
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of Joe Biden, as far as the, as far as the department of justice is concerned. And I haven't
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heard from him. So that's why I wrote this book. And I haven't heard from the, you know, the
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investigators in the house or the Senate or special counsel, David Weiss. Why not? I don't know.
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I mean, you see what's in the book. I took, I put the book out to the court of public opinion
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that way. Uh, at least people can see the evidence and say, you know what, this guy should
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Well, it's, it's, it's clear that you should have been, uh, should have testified. Uh, you
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would have been under oath in a trans, uh, transcribed, uh, interview. Uh, I, I don't understand
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why they would not want that information. Um, but you know, it is what it is. Let, let's turn
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to, to the picture that I mentioned, uh, that you have of Joe Biden and the president of
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You know, I don't know when this picture was taken. Uh, I found it on Twitter. I looked
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into, uh, president Orlando Hernandez's Twitter feed, and there was this picture of him and
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Joe Biden in close contact with each other. They're clearly in the Roosevelt room in the
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White House. I've been in that room hundreds of times. I know that room
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really well. That's where they are. And it's, I think it's early in their, uh, relationship,
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which would have been about 2014. Um, the, um, there was the unaccompanied minor crisis
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in the summer of 2014. And Joe Biden weaseled his way into being in charge of that too. And
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one of the things they did as they were investigating how to fix this on this crisis was he had, uh,
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president of Honduras, president of Guatemala and the president of El Salvador come to the White
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House and meet with him and president Biden. So I think that was around that time, summer of 2014,
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could have been, um, fall of 2014, potentially even 2015.
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Did you ever see any other interaction between the two?
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Oh yes. Um, between Hernandez and, um, Biden, they did a lot of meetings around this. It's called
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the Alliance for Prosperity and Biden took trips down to the region. Uh, I never went to Honduras
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with him when he met Orlando Hernandez. I went to Honduras with him in 2012 when he met Orlando
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Hernandez's predecessor, a guy named Pepe Sosa Lobo, whose son is now in prison for smuggling
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tons of cocaine into America. And Hernandez's brother is now in prison for smuggling tons of
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cocaine into America. Hernandez is in prison. It's tough being a brother of a president in,
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uh, Honduras, isn't it? Yeah. The family members of the presidents and the presidents were using
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their government and, and the Obama Biden administration knew it. Coming up next, Speaker
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Mike Johnson abandons America first. Once again, J.R. Majewski, the America first candidate running for
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Congress in Ohio's ninth congressional district and Speaker Johnson just endorsed his opponent.
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Thanks for staying with us here on the Great America Sunday show and joining us now,
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J.R. Majewski. And as I said, running for Congress in Ohio's ninth congressional district.
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J.R., a pleasure to have you with us. And I want to start with
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what's going on in the Middle East right now. Last week, we had the attack that killed three
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innocent service members. And just this weekend, you have Joe Biden launching retaliatory attacks.
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What do you make of it? Well, I think it's, it's a tragedy when any member of the armed forces
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passes. Um, it's especially tragic when we know that this is preventable. Had we had a strong leader
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like Donald Trump as our president? And, um, I would hope that, you know, the, these proxy wars and
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these things that are happening overseas with our, our service members aren't an attempt for the Biden
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administration to bolster their candidacy for president. We all know that, uh, wars win, uh,
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elections and, um, you know, with, with the way Donald Trump is pulling today and the momentum that
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we're seeing from the America first movement. And the fact that none of us want to be at war,
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um, is only symptomatic to me, at least that, you know, there's some meddling going on, but
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if Donald Trump were the president and we had a strong leader, I don't think we would see,
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uh, many of these issues that we're seeing on the world stage.
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I, I worry about what you're describing right now, which is, uh, that the Biden administration
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polling lower than any president, uh, since Jimmy Carter is looking in every which direction,
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whether it be the border, uh, whether it be overseas, uh, he's looking for anything to
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distract from his ineptitude, uh, and, uh, just outright ignorant policies that have devastated
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this country economically, uh, socially, uh, and it goes on. Uh, but also it's interesting that,
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uh, Lindsey Graham, uh, and, uh, Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn came out wanting a strike against
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Iran. Uh, and I was just hoping that maybe they'd go out and volunteer to, you know, to pick up,
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uh, you know, uh, an M 16 or whatever, and be right there at the, right at the point of the spear,
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but that isn't the way it works, is it? Instead, it looks to me like they're wagging the dog for Joe
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Biden. Joe Biden doesn't even have to because the rhino establishment Republicans are doing it
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for him. And that's an outrage. The, these ignorant, these three ignorant senators are an
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embarrassment to the country. Agreed. They're just opening their wallet for, uh, for Blackwater and
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all of the other, not, not Blackwater, but you know, the Halliburton's of the world. And, uh,
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you know, that that's, again, that's what they do. That's what they're famous for. Um, these neocons
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are, are part of our problem here at home. Um, they've, they've driven us into this polarization.
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They've, they, they don't have any, um, leadership skills and they're, they're not trying to pull the
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country together and, and, and look internally when we have veterans here, uh, suffering from
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PTSD. We have veterans here that don't, that are homeless and, uh, we're, we're out fighting all
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of these other wars, just in my opinion, for the distinct benefit of them to make a little bit more
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money. It's, it is a play for the military industrial complex. It is a play for wall street. It is a play for
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big tech. Uh, it is a disgusting what we are watching happen to this country right now. Uh, you
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know, uh, in Iran, uh, excuse me, in Iraq, uh, we were told we should get ready for the doctrine of
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long war. General David Petraeus said, you know, we're going to be a, we're going to go to what it
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is. It's very important that we have a long war doctrine. And by golly, we got a long war, 21 years
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of it in Afghanistan and Iraq, uh, to what end, right? No end at all. Uh, and, and people want
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to just ignore the reality, uh, that it is, as you say, uh, it's a feature of those who are profiteers
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and who are making a lot of money while guys are losing their lives as did these three service
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members over the weekend. Uh, and we know it that there are at least there are hundreds of our service
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members who've been wounded, uh, without response from this administration in any meaningful way.
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I want to turn to your campaign and ask how much are you going to make of that issue in your campaign
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for Congress? Well, Lou, it's a good question. Marcy Kaptor, who I'm running against, she's the
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democratic incumbent who has been in office for 41 years. Uh, she's also the chairwoman of the
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Ukrainian caucus. So, you know, she's knee deep in this, in this corruption. She's knee deep in,
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in sending our tax paying dollars to proxy wars across the world. And so we're, we're definitely
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focused on that. Uh, the people of my district have been under her spell, under her charm for,
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for our entire candidacy, but, you know, they're, they're starting to wake up, especially because
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we see the political mistreatment and the lawfare that's being cast against Donald Trump. It's
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really opening their eyes and, um, they're, you know, we're, we're trying to, um, shift their
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perspective, you know, just as much on Marcy Kaptor and what she's done as much as they're
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seeing, you know, at their own, uh, initiative on what Biden and his administration is doing
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to Donald Trump and the persecution, the political persecution of Donald Trump, it, it staggers
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me. Uh, and I've been reporting on it throughout, but it still staggers me to think that we're
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now in the ninth year of the political persecution of Donald Trump. He hasn't been found guilty of
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a single wrongdoing. Uh, we know that the prosecutors more, they're the ones who belong
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in jail. Uh, this idiot, Jack Smith. I mean, what is he? Uh, he's a, he's a Marxist activist. Uh,
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he, he might as well be in, you know, mid 1980s, uh, uh, the Soviet union putting on show trials
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because this is what he's about. Uh, we're going to talk, uh, here with J.R. Majerski, uh,
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about his campaign, about where we're headed as a country and what he wants to do about
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it. And we're also going to take up, uh, just exactly why, why it is. He had a problem with
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the, uh, U S air force with his, uh, his jacket, his military records. And, uh, the story is
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fascinating. We take that up right after these words, stay with us.
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Lou Dobbs here. I'm delighted to let you all know that the program Lou Dobbs tonight has returned
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to the air. That's right. Lou Dobbs tonight is back. We're live each and every weeknight at 7 PM
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Eastern and 6 PM central on rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs. That's rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs.
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I hope you'll be joining us for Lou Dobbs tonight as our fight to save this country has only begun.
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We're back with J.R. Majerski and J.R. let's, let's go to, uh, your, your military, uh, file,
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uh, your, uh, and the problem that you had, uh, with the, with the U S air force and their release
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of what is, uh, your personal military record. How did it come to be? Well, we were pulling within
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two points, plus or minus two points, uh, of Marcy captor last September. And I believe in,
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and I think many of folks believe that we were on path to unseating her and they launched a,
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an October surprise in late September. Uh, they accused me of lying about my military service.
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They accused me of not being a combat veteran, lying about that. And when I proved that I was,
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they then accused me of not serving in Afghanistan. And it all hinged on the fact that I didn't have
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the global war on terrorism metal that, uh, was created about a year after I had gotten out of
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the service. And after the, um, after the election, Matt Gates and Anna Paulina Luna and a few other
00:26:02.740
good members of Congress, uh, investigated this. And they found out that, you know, they, they had
00:26:07.880
this information in July, but the, the government gangsters waited till, uh, October, excuse me,
00:26:12.960
late September to release it. And, um, it was a product of them forging my signature, stealing my
00:26:18.620
social security number and gaining access to my, my entire file and lying by, by omission.
00:26:24.020
And I spent the last, uh, 11, 12 months petitioning the air force. And I was finally awarded the medal
00:26:29.540
in October, which is when I decided to get back into the race and finish what I started.
00:26:34.440
That's incredible. And who was behind it? Do you think?
00:26:38.080
Um, you know, I, I know it was Marcy Capter. I also know it was the, the D triple C, but
00:26:42.980
you know, when you look at the Genesis of Kevin McCarthy, um, fighting for the gavel,
00:26:48.000
uh, on round, I believe it was around 13 of the speakership race. One Democrat stood up and said
00:26:53.060
that they would consider crossing the aisle and voting for him. And that was Marcy Capter. So,
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you know, I, I can't help, but believe that Kevin McCarthy had a part in it. And I think that,
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uh, his, uh, I don't know, distrust and, and, uh,
00:27:05.240
uh, vitriol for me is, is leaking into this cycle as well, because you have,
00:27:09.060
you know, a guy like Speaker Johnson endorsing a candidate that, uh, you know, is a cookie cutter
00:27:14.000
establishment type because they know that I'm an America first candidate. And I believe,
00:27:18.720
uh, strong, very strongly that my job in Washington DC is, is going to ensure, be ensuring that
00:27:25.520
Trump's agenda is pushed through and that he doesn't have a lame, uh, house of representatives
00:27:29.560
like he did his first term. Yeah. He needs every, everyone, uh, uh, on the ground fighting for the
00:27:37.000
America first agenda. There's just no other, no other way that we can rescue this country. Uh,
00:27:43.640
let, let's go to Derek, uh, Marin and how in the world he came to the attention of the speaker when
00:27:50.440
you were sitting there fighting for the, uh, for the nomination, uh, with your background as a veteran,
00:27:56.460
uh, as a America first candidate, do you know what's the, what the story is behind his decision
00:28:04.020
to come up with a challenger to you? Well, the first candidate, um, you know, they recruited
00:28:10.420
back in last April when I wasn't in the race and McCarthy, uh, was able to coalesce leadership to
00:28:17.020
support him. He raised a good amount of money. And then he was caught on a telephone call with a
00:28:21.840
donor, um, really dressing down the president and president Trump and, and, and sharing his
00:28:28.200
true feelings about the president and that he's arrogant. He's not presidential. He doesn't like
00:28:32.240
him. He doesn't like how he calls people names. Basically he doesn't like an America first strong
00:28:37.740
willed man who is defending himself after being unfairly attacked for nine years. Like we just
00:28:42.420
talked about this. And you're talking about Derek Marin. No, this is the, this is the candidate before
00:28:47.440
him. And, um, yeah, so his, his, his candidacy somewhat imploded and in an effort of, of sheer
00:28:55.600
panic, uh, the establishment in Washington DC recruited Derek Marin and little did they know
00:29:01.060
that Derek Marin is also scandal, uh, plagued. He has some, some issues, um, as, as a gentleman
00:29:08.460
that tried to gain speaker of the house here in Ohio and totally failed in that effort. And then,
00:29:13.580
you know, he has, uh, some accusations of having an affair with, with another member of, of the house
00:29:18.800
who, um, was eventually kicked out of the house for having an adulterous affair.
00:29:24.980
And, and the Derek Marin did all that. And you referenced somebody who didn't make it to
00:29:34.060
That was Derek Marin as well. He, he was the, the conference or the caucus last cycle or last year,
00:29:40.080
uh, elected him as speaker. And then because of some misbehaviors and some disagreements that he
00:29:45.100
had with, uh, specific members, um, from what I understand, he was promising them, um, positions on
00:29:52.040
certain is chairman or vice chairman of, of, of certain, um, you know, efforts in the house.
00:29:57.240
And then once he won the speakership, he, he, he withdrew that. And so those folks then, uh, partnered up
00:30:04.940
with, with some of the Democrats and they were able to, uh, to award the speaker to another
00:30:09.840
gentleman. And this gentleman, uh, came right out of the gate this cycle once, once president Trump
00:30:14.720
was, uh, running for president and endorsed him. And Derek Marin didn't do that until I don't,
00:30:19.760
actually, I'm not even sure he's endorsed him yet, but I believe he made an attempt at endorsing
00:30:23.860
president Trump once he decided to run against me. So, uh, the charade is pretty clear. I'm, I'm,
00:30:29.120
I'm actually very surprised that speaker Johnson, um, was, was fooled by this and that they've
00:30:34.260
actually chosen someone like Derek. How many are in the race? Uh, four, myself included.
00:30:40.520
And, uh, and you're the principal America first candidate. Uh, you have a, a military, uh, uh,
00:30:48.480
background, a veteran, um, you, and you're, you've been without question, uh, talking about the right
00:30:56.400
issues and doing the right thing. So, uh, you have no idea how the speaker of the house decided
00:31:03.120
to bring in Derek Marin with all the baggage that he's got.
00:31:06.880
Right. And I also spent 20 years working in the nuclear power Institute, Lou. So,
00:31:10.860
you know, I have a, I have a, a, a, a vast level of knowledge on, on energy. And when we're in a,
00:31:16.940
in the positions that we are right now with respect to not, not having our energy independence,
00:31:21.360
I mean, I could be a staunch ally, not only for the house, but I know Donald Trump recognizes my
00:31:25.880
talent and my skillset. So, you know, I'll be somebody that he'll be able to count on when he,
00:31:30.020
when he takes the reins in the white house. Well, that's great. And who's funding your
00:31:34.840
opponent, a principal opponent, uh, since the speaker is backing, uh, Derek Marin, is it Derek
00:31:40.580
Marin? Um, I would think that he's going to be getting sponsored from Americans for Chinese
00:31:46.660
prosperity and, and a few other groups that, uh, you know, are looking to work against the
00:31:50.840
America first movement. Uh, I haven't put my finger on it yet, but, uh, I know he's getting
00:31:54.860
some phone calls. The NRCC is actually calling donors in my district and asking them to sit down
00:31:59.900
and speak with him. They've actually shared emails with me and, um, they're, they're not happy with
00:32:04.140
that. And so he's going to have, he's going to have a fight in his hands. We're up on the polls
00:32:08.380
by 19 points right now. So, you know, I'm not, I'm not really worried about these folks. I, I wish
00:32:12.980
them well in the run for second place, but you know, it would be nice if the leadership in the party
00:32:16.980
would stop embarrassing themselves and stop embarrassing Donald Trump.
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