The Great America Show - The Great America Sunday Show： November 17, 2024

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:05.200 It's great to have you with us.

00:00:06.180 Thanks so much for joining us today.

00:00:07.760 A historic week up on Capitol Hill, up in Washington, D.C., President Trump making his

00:00:12.500 return to the swamp after staying away for some time for probably all the right reasons.

00:00:18.600 He was hunted for some time there by the Marxist dams, but it seems that hunt now is coming 1.00

00:00:23.120 to an end, as we heard Steve Bannon say the other day, the hunted are now about to do

00:00:28.140 the hunting, because enough is enough.

00:00:30.480 I mean, President Trump has been politically persecuted since he came down that escalator

00:00:33.640 in 2015.

00:00:35.000 Every single person around him who has spoken out, persecuted as well.

00:00:39.620 My boss, Lou Dobbs, canceled by the cowards at Fox News for speaking out against the stolen

00:00:44.260 election.

00:00:44.820 Tucker Carlson, the number one show in all of television, canceled off of television.

00:00:48.480 Steve Bannon sent to prison.

00:00:50.340 Peter Navarro sent to prison.

00:00:51.700 The list goes on and on and on.

00:00:53.340 Of these people who this corrupt Justice Department and woke media have demonized.

00:00:59.460 And enough is enough.

00:01:00.460 I think President Trump coming back to D.C. in January is going to change a lot.

00:01:05.940 Some things that aren't changing, though, over in the Senate yesterday, John Thune elected

00:01:10.780 majority leader in a secret ballot, of course, taking over for Senator Froghorn Leghorn, Mitch

00:01:16.860 McConnell.

00:01:17.380 Now, I mean, cut from the same cloth, we're really not going to get anything different

00:01:21.760 there.

00:01:22.180 And it's going to be very tough for President Trump dealing with that Senate, considering

00:01:26.020 there's probably less than 20 MAGA senators in there right now.

00:01:29.600 So we're going to keep an eye on that.

00:01:31.580 And we're going to try to hold John Thune's feet to the fire that he changes his rhino ways 0.95

00:01:36.600 and has a plan for President Trump and gets through President Trump's agenda, because

00:01:41.820 it's very important.

00:01:42.520 And over on the House side, Mike Johnson, I told you guys yesterday that the Conservatives

00:01:48.040 were planning to mount a challenger to Mike Johnson.

00:01:50.700 Apparently, they scrapped that theory that they were going to go ahead and pull forward

00:01:54.980 with.

00:01:55.560 And they're going to approach it a different way on how they're going to hold Mike Johnson's

00:01:59.140 feet to the fire.

00:01:59.740 I've said it many times before.

00:02:01.220 You've heard Lou say it many times before on this show, before he passed away.

00:02:05.440 Mike Johnson has to get his job done, and he's got to get the ball rolling on day one and

00:02:10.820 do it within weeks.

00:02:11.980 We saw what Paul Ryan did to President Trump the first time around by starting with health

00:02:16.960 care and bringing that as the number one issue, wasting all the time in the world.

00:02:22.700 And then before you knew it, they lost the House.

00:02:24.520 President Trump was not able to get through as much as he would have liked to.

00:02:28.540 So Mike Johnson's got to get his foot on the pedal, pedal to the metal.

00:02:31.460 And if he makes any missteps, the Conservatives in the House, they have a small majority.

00:02:35.280 The Conservatives in the House got to get him the hell out of there.

00:02:38.400 Enough's enough.

00:02:38.980 So as I said, President Trump was in D.C. meeting with Joe Biden.

00:02:43.640 It looked cordial.

00:02:44.820 You take a listen and see the little clip that they gave us from the meeting.

00:02:48.260 Well, Mr. President-elect and former president, Donald, congratulations.

00:02:53.720 Thank you.

00:02:54.420 And looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition.

00:03:00.060 Do everything we can to make sure you're accommodating what you need.

00:03:03.640 We're going to get a chance to talk about some of that today.

00:03:05.620 It's good.

00:03:06.500 Welcome.

00:03:07.240 Welcome back.

00:03:07.780 Jim, thank you very much.

00:03:09.880 And politics is tough and it's many cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today.

00:03:18.200 And I appreciate it very much.

00:03:19.920 A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get.

00:03:24.260 And I very much appreciate it.

00:03:26.340 You're welcome.

00:03:27.020 So the meeting seemed to be a little bit cordial.

00:03:31.900 I've always said this on this show.

00:03:34.340 President Biden has no reason to hate President Trump.

00:03:36.440 He's done absolutely nothing wrong to him.

00:03:38.620 The report about his son and the laptop from hell was not a doing of President Trump.

00:03:42.760 His son left the laptop at a store and then never picked it up or paid for it.

00:03:47.140 So that had nothing to do with President Trump.

00:03:48.640 President Biden has no reason to hate President Trump.

00:03:50.700 Trump, on the other hand, has every reason to hate Biden going after his political enemy.

00:03:54.140 The list goes on and on.

00:03:55.740 I don't have to rehearse it for you guys.

00:03:57.080 You guys live it and hear it every single day on this show and everywhere else.

00:04:00.540 You guys listen to your media.

00:04:03.020 Finally, Jack Smith is going to be wrapping up his investigation, as we all know, coming to an end very fastly.

00:04:11.280 He is going to issue a report, however.

00:04:14.100 Now, the cases are probably going to go ahead and get dropped over the next few weeks.

00:04:18.200 But he's going to issue a final report, probably to smear President Trump's name and throw some mud over him a little bit more.

00:04:23.960 But I don't think there's any possible way that they can do any more harm than they've already done to President Trump.

00:04:30.540 So I want to bring in our guest today.

00:04:32.240 He knows more about D.C. perhaps than anybody.

00:04:34.880 A brilliant author.

00:04:36.120 His name is Lee Smith.

00:04:37.820 Like I said, brilliant author.

00:04:39.160 Lee's got a new book out, folks.

00:04:41.040 It's called Disappearing the President.

00:04:42.620 Trump, Truth Social and the Fight for the Republic.

00:04:45.480 Folks, we recommend it to you highly.

00:04:47.100 An absolute masterpiece by Lee.

00:04:49.360 Lee, you can go ahead and get it at EncounterBooks.com, wherever you buy your books.

00:04:53.580 Amazon probably gets shipped the next day.

00:04:56.240 Lee, thank you so much for joining us on this fine day in America.

00:05:00.300 Hey, thank you, John.

00:05:01.160 Yeah, it's a great week.

00:05:02.680 Been a great couple of weeks.

00:05:03.860 And it's nice to it's nice to share this time with you.

00:05:07.260 So I want to I want to get started on first.

00:05:09.180 You have a new brilliant piece out from Tablet Mag, where you write all your pieces.

00:05:13.360 Because Obama isn't going anywhere.

00:05:16.700 Huh.

00:05:17.780 You kind of you kind of scare me a little bit there, Lee.

00:05:20.460 Well, I'm less sanguine than most people.

00:05:24.680 Tell us what's going on with Barack Hussein.

00:05:27.300 Well, I mean, the piece points out is, as many people have noted, I'm certainly not the first to note that Barack Obama has been there since 2016.

00:05:37.140 It's highly, highly abnormal.

00:05:39.380 The only other person who did it was Woodrow Wilson, and he stayed because he was incapacitated midway through his second term with a stroke.

00:05:46.680 Look, the reason that Barack Obama stayed there is to under the reason that presidents leave Washington is to illustrate the fact that they are no longer involved in the political system.

00:05:57.340 There's been the transfer of executive authority.

00:06:00.440 Barack Obama stayed to illustrate precisely the opposite, that he is still heavily involved in politics.

00:06:09.960 And in fact, you know, as I as I as I show in the article and as I write extensively in the book, it's Barack Obama who's led the anti Trump campaign since 2016.

00:06:23.960 So I think it's imperative that he be driven out of Washington, one, symbolically.

00:06:31.540 The most important thing is that his networks is private and public sector networks be dismantled because there's already evidence that there's another another part of this ongoing operation to destroy Donald Trump.

00:06:44.160 And this time it's being run out of the Pentagon.

00:06:46.600 So while I while I, too, celebrate, while I, too, I'm happy in all the different initiatives that Donald Trump has talked about, whether we're talking about going after the people who have pushed this disgusting trans agenda or whether we're talking about the educational system. 0.96

00:07:00.900 I mean, it's all incredibly inspiring and optimistic and optimistic and it's great.

00:07:04.960 And I feel it just like everyone else.

00:07:07.020 But I also think it's important to remember that there are other things going on.

00:07:11.600 The look, the same people who've done the things to Donald Trump, Trump aides and Trump supporters over the last eight years, they're not going to walk away now like, well, you know, OK, fair is fair.

00:07:24.400 We lost this election. So I guess we got to walk away with our tail in between our legs and figure out how to win an honest election come 2028.

00:07:33.680 That's not going to happen. So this piece is a reminder not only of what they've done, but also also it's a portrait of what is happening right now at the Department of Defense.

00:07:46.660 You mentioned 2028. I don't want to go down the weeds too far because I want to stay on this topic.

00:07:51.040 But what a lot of people don't realize is the census that's coming up just two years after that, Lee, in 2030.

00:07:55.780 And that's going to account for all those people who left deep blue New York and went down to Florida. 0.99

00:08:00.440 And we've heard a Florida sheriff, his name slips my mind every time, who said pretty much when you move down here from one of these deep blue states, keep your bullshit politics to yourself. 0.99

00:08:09.180 Don't bring it down here. We saw President Trump's decisive victory in Florida show just that. 0.99

00:08:13.580 So just looking ahead to 2030, states like California are going to lose electoral votes and members of Congress.

00:08:20.600 States like New York are going to lose.

00:08:22.440 This is this is this is why keep it. This is why opening the borders was important. 0.96

00:08:27.500 Absolutely. Right. That's what they had to do.

00:08:29.800 They had to backfill all these places. People have left New York.

00:08:33.700 People have left Maryland. People have left Massachusetts.

00:08:37.840 People have left California. And so all these places, they don't want to lose their their.

00:08:43.580 You know, the electoral votes and they don't want to lose congressional seats.

00:08:47.360 So they're going to being backfilled now. And, you know, and of course, the real dream is, as we've heard the Democrats say again and again, is to is to naturalize these people as soon as possible and get them on the voter rolls. 0.55

00:08:59.320 So that's why the deportation operation is really is.

00:09:04.660 And the president Trump says this is his number one priority.

00:09:07.160 We're going to get to that, because that's I mean, one of the perhaps the most important things that President Trump ran on.

00:09:12.280 I mean, you look at the most Hispanic district in all of the United States, a place in Texas, President Trump winning it for the first time since the eighteen hundreds of Republican holding it.

00:09:22.940 So you look at things like that.

00:09:24.620 People are in favor. And President Trump was not secretive about it.

00:09:28.380 He says we're going to do the largest mass deportation that we've ever seen before.

00:09:32.660 And he won the popular vote. So that's what people want.

00:09:36.440 We now see people like Mayor Eric Adams saying they're more open to work with President Trump and so forth.

00:09:41.700 We're going to get into that because I want to take a whole segment on that.

00:09:44.600 But I want to go back to these career people that you were talking about.

00:09:49.060 One of President Trump's advisers in his transition, Mark Paoletta, said that these DOJ folks in particular.

00:09:56.500 Now, we have them in the Pentagon. Those are probably perhaps some of the worst folks in the world.

00:10:01.180 People are going to try to stifle and stop President Trump at every single turn that they possibly can.

00:10:08.140 What can President Trump do on his first day?

00:10:10.720 Now, some people are saying that Pete Hankseth wasn't the best pick for the Pentagon.

00:10:15.620 OK, maybe his background is, you know, not the best pick for the job.

00:10:19.540 But the fact, Lee, that he's never worked and lived in D.C. in his life is that means he's the perfect pick for the job.

00:10:28.220 Well, both, you know, the Pentagon is is the biggest bureaucracy in the world.

00:10:32.680 DHS is extremely large. And so there are two people who are coming in who've never run very big bureaucracies before.

00:10:39.760 But I'm confident that they can surround themselves with people who've done that kind of work.

00:10:44.880 And, you know, so that's what's really important.

00:10:47.420 And it's tough managing those bureaucracies.

00:10:50.200 But again, I'm sure that newly nominated Pete Hankseth and Chris Governor Noem can both surround themselves with very talented people who are able to who are capable of doing that.

00:11:04.060 Look, the most important appointment that the president is going to make, however, is going to be attorney general.

00:11:08.200 Yes, because it's very important that the attorney general go in there and clean up the DOJ.

00:11:12.460 And it has to be someone it has to be someone, frankly, who does not love the institution.

00:11:18.300 Right. A lot of people love that institution and some of them want to protect it.

00:11:21.960 And some of them are sentimental. They say, well, you know, I want to return this great institution back to its former glory.

00:11:27.600 No, we don't want anyone who loves the institution.

00:11:30.620 We want someone who is going to wreak vengeance, in fact, on the institution for what it's done to the American people.

00:11:37.180 So it has to be someone who's going to get in a small, dedicated cadre, 15 to 20 lawyers who are going to go in there and they're going to start getting rid of people, hundreds of people at the Department of Justice.

00:11:51.200 It's also going to mean appointing U.S. attorneys around the country who are capable of doing the work, implementing it.

00:11:58.780 That's not implementing Donald Trump's agenda. It's restoring rule of law to America. 0.96

00:12:04.040 So that's the most important thing.

00:12:05.480 And if they don't get the right person as it and as attorney general, nothing is going to happen.

00:12:10.600 He's not going to be able to clean up any part of the bureaucracy, not not the FBI, not the CIA, not the Pentagon, because they're going to be tied down by lawyers.

00:12:20.020 And look, it's going to be it's going to be everything.

00:12:22.260 It's going to be the trans thing that Trump wants to fight.

00:12:24.500 It's going to be education.

00:12:25.620 So if they don't get the lawyers in there to fight Donald Trump's fight to to reset America, it's going to be a problem.

00:12:33.820 So that's the key appointment.

00:12:36.540 Now, I as I was telling you before the show, I respect your opinion, perhaps top of my list of people I respect.

00:12:42.420 I've known you for for some time now.

00:12:43.900 And I know you're a great guy with a great deal of integrity.

00:12:47.860 If you have President Trump's ear right now, give me a name.

00:12:50.160 Who do you think now should be that job?

00:12:53.920 Now, I argue there's another key position that's just as important with the CIA.

00:12:58.820 And I was very disappointed to see that our friend Kash Patel didn't get that job because I think he's top of the list and and and cream of the crop.

00:13:07.240 But John Ratcliffe in there, I'm a little nervous about.

00:13:09.660 I got to be honest with you.

00:13:10.560 I think Ratcliffe is a really good guy.

00:13:12.460 He did a great job, a great job as director of national intelligence.

00:13:17.240 You know, he's very professional.

00:13:18.720 I mean, you know, but between look, they kind of, you know, they all kind of worked as a team.

00:13:23.380 First one acting director Grinnell and then Kash is his deputy.

00:13:26.960 They declassified all that information.

00:13:28.900 Then Ratcliffe did the same.

00:13:30.320 So I'm confident that, you know, that Ratcliffe will do a terrific job as CIA director.

00:13:35.200 And, of course, Kash is a dear friend and I love him.

00:13:37.360 And I'm sure he's going to get a very important post in the Trump administration.

00:13:42.200 He's you know, he's a hard charging character, you know, and Kash appears, by the way, I should say, in disappearing the president.

00:13:48.760 He's a Kash is a character in all of my books now.

00:13:51.520 I think there will probably be no book that I can write without Kash appearing in it somehow.

00:13:57.300 Who's your pick for AG?

00:13:59.900 There's a number of there's a number of impressive, impressive people.

00:14:04.120 You know, there are people who have worked at the Department of Justice and they know how it goes.

00:14:10.020 And that includes people like Jeff Clark.

00:14:12.300 There's other people around.

00:14:13.740 I mean, Senator Ted Cruz, I think, would be a terrific pick.

00:14:17.840 The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

00:14:20.140 So there's a lot of really good people out there whose names are being whose names are being tossed, tossed about.

00:14:27.300 And so there's a lot of great people for the president to president elect Trump to pick from.

00:14:33.700 And I'm confident that'll make a make the impressive choice, really, that it's so important to restore the rule of law and really aggressively clean out that place.

00:14:44.020 It's what America needs.

00:14:45.740 Each one of those names will do a better, far better job than Merrick Garland's done.

00:14:49.760 Bill Barr has done.

00:14:50.640 And I think any of those people are a great choice, along with a few others that are also on the long list of names.

00:14:57.140 We're going to take a quick break here.

00:14:58.260 We're talking with Lee Smith, a brilliant author.

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00:16:34.160 We're talking with brilliant author Lee Smith.

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00:16:51.340 Lee, this week, John Thune, elected majority leader of the Senate.

00:16:56.960 It hurts my stomach saying it. 0.84

00:17:00.100 Disgusting that the Republicans slipped through the secret ballot.

00:17:03.540 How big of a challenge is this to President Trump and his agenda?

00:17:06.680 Well, I mean, you know, I mean, Donald Trump now has, you know, the Republicans now have, they have the White House, they have the Senate, they have Congress.

00:17:15.920 I mean, look, I understand why people are concerned about Thune, and maybe he will turn out to be a real problem.

00:17:22.360 But also, I think that these guys have to keep in mind that they're being, they're under very close scrutiny right now.

00:17:28.700 And so I think that people in the Senate on the Republican side who are going to try to obstruct Trump's agenda are going to find themselves in trouble, right?

00:17:36.900 I mean, these guys have to run for, they have to run for office too.

00:17:40.680 And if it becomes notorious that they're fighting Donald Trump, there's lots of people who are willing to fund primaries against opponents of Donald Trump from the right.

00:17:51.160 So I'm a little less concerned about that than other people are, though.

00:17:54.940 I mean, I certainly appreciate what Senator Rick Scott has done.

00:17:57.860 And so it's too bad.

00:17:59.500 It's a little bit of a disappointment.

00:18:00.680 But again, I encourage people to really focus on all the different instruments that Donald Trump has at hand.

00:18:07.680 And it's his show, right?

00:18:10.660 So it's really up to him and to keep people in line.

00:18:15.660 And again, I'm confident he can do that.

00:18:17.700 So the issue I see with that, and I take what you're saying, the issue I see with that is you've probably got, like I said in my monologue, maybe 20 max MAGA, true MAGA senators, right, who you'll have your back.

00:18:31.740 So you've got 100 senators, you've got 20 of them are MAGA, 50 or so are Democrats, you know, at least you would have very slim margin to get through.

00:18:40.420 Whereas in the House, which I want to turn to now, Mike Johnson's House is probably going to the Republicans, 99% chance it goes to the Republicans.

00:18:49.540 It's just a matter of if it's one seat, two seats or five seats, looking like it's probably going to be four or five seats.

00:18:55.240 But nonetheless, Mike Johnson, we've seen nothing from him, Lee, in the last, since he took office in January, February, whatever it was, we've seen nothing from him that indicates that he's going to do a good job.

00:19:08.620 Well, I would keep in mind that he had a very, I mean, I'm not advocating for Mike Johnson, just like I didn't advocate for Kevin McCarthy.

00:19:16.900 But, you know, I mean, right now, Speaker Johnson has an awfully small margin and that doesn't help.

00:19:25.900 It's not like they can just, you know, rubber stamp stuff and just shove it down the throat of Democrats.

00:19:32.300 So that's not easy. But again, the important thing, I think, to keep in mind is that, you know, is that the Republicans now have the White House, the Senate and the House.

00:19:40.880 That's that's a very big deal. So there should be very little standing in the way of of the most central parts of Donald Trump's agenda.

00:19:51.540 And again, that's not to it's to really restore America. Right. After all the craziness we've seen, you see Donald Trump on video talking about like, look, we're going to fight this trans agenda. 0.88

00:20:02.560 We're going to totally undo this. It's like, yeah, that's good because we're a normal country.

00:20:06.620 And this and this has been a terrible thing. It's not just a freak show. Right.

00:20:11.420 With with with Rachel Levine, you know, with Rachel Levine over at HHS.

00:20:16.480 But I mean, it's also the harm that have been done to to children, the harm that have been done to families with both the trans agenda and the and the DEI agenda, the CRT agenda. 0.77

00:20:27.960 It's really destructive. So are Republicans going to get in the way of Trump fighting the trans agenda?

00:20:34.240 Yeah, I don't think so. Are they going to get in the way of him fighting CRT and DEI?

00:20:39.040 I doubt it because that'll that'll go on their record. So what are they going to what are they going to be fighting?

00:20:43.620 Well, tax cuts, tax cuts. So you've got the New York Rhino delegation, as I call them. 1.00

00:20:48.400 And you've got two that lost D. Esposito, who hired his fiance's kid and then his girlfriend, side piece, whatever he's got out of there.

00:20:57.280 Mark Molinaro, another Rhino Trump hater out of there. They're Rhino. They're Republicans.

00:21:02.500 They lost their rhinos. In my opinion, it's the same thing as having a Democrat there in the first place. 0.71

00:21:06.460 We shouldn't be propping these people up now. It's two seats lost. But at the end of the day, they're rhinos. 0.95

00:21:11.520 Two of those folks gone. When it comes to tax cuts, the New York Rhino squad have a problem with the salt tax deduction, which hurts big blue cities like New York City with certain write offs and stuff like that.

00:21:22.120 So I think he's going to maybe run into a little issue because his tax cuts expire now in 2025.

00:21:27.340 He's going to have to get that through. Most of the rhinos who went against him in the first terms, the Liz Cheney's, the the Bacons, the all those folks are most of them are gone, lost their seat. 0.96

00:21:38.960 So I think it's going to be a little bit of a more smooth sailing. But at the end of the day, Lee, it's up to Mike Johnson.

00:21:44.600 He's the one who calls the agenda. He and him and President Trump speak on their first day.

00:21:48.680 And Trump goes to Mike Johnson. What are we doing first? Because Mike Johnson knows the house.

00:21:53.620 President Trump doesn't know, you know, all the intricacies of that.

00:21:56.860 And no president does unless you were serving there.

00:21:59.480 I think that I think that Donald Trump, even, you know, on the sidelines, was doing a very good job.

00:22:05.500 And Donald Trump understands that Speaker Johnson is at a very narrow margin.

00:22:09.980 He understood the same about Kevin McCarthy as well.

00:22:12.860 I mean, it wasn't Donald Trump who wanted to, you know, who sought to undermine all these guys and torpedo them.

00:22:18.120 Yeah. Yeah. He understands. He understands what it's like.

00:22:21.860 And I'm I'm sure that he'll work very well with Speaker Johnson and empower him in different ways that he can.

00:22:28.180 Yeah. And I pray to God that he holds his feet to the fire because what we saw with the past administration.

00:22:33.760 I mean, I don't know if it's really about holding his feet to the fire.

00:22:37.100 I just think it's saying, look, here's the way it's going down.

00:22:39.300 I'm the president. You're the speaker of the house.

00:22:41.480 I respect your position, but here's the way it's going to go.

00:22:43.740 And here's how I can help you. I mean, it's politics, right?

00:22:46.360 You know, the president should be speaking with the speaker of the house and figuring out a way forward for Republicans.

00:22:51.740 They shouldn't be fighting. Will they have disagreements on stuff?

00:22:55.240 Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.

00:22:56.780 And I like you say, not to the feet to the fire, but we've got to be on a strict timeline here.

00:23:00.920 Lee, two years of Congress is a very short time to get through what President Trump wants to get through.

00:23:06.260 Deportations is another big one.

00:23:07.540 I want to take a quick break here and I want to take that up on the other side of this break on where we go from here and how we deport these folks.

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00:24:51.400 Lee, deportations.

00:24:52.800 Tom Holman borders are.

00:24:54.120 I don't think there's a better pick for the job.

00:24:56.620 I think it's President Trump's best pick so far for any of his positions, cabinet and non-cabinet.

00:25:02.280 How do we get it done?

00:25:04.480 Well, I mean, I think that President Trump, President-elect Trump, and Mr. Holman have a pretty good plan.

00:25:10.040 I think they can get it through.

00:25:11.340 But remember, this is something that the Democrats have to fight, right?

00:25:15.760 This is what's happening at the Pentagon, right?

00:25:19.120 Insofar as Trump said that he may use the military to implement part of his deportation program, this is one of the pretexts that the Pentagon is going to use to fight Trump, right?

00:25:32.540 And really, perhaps destabilize the country in different ways.

00:25:35.940 But remember, the tens of millions of illegals that the Biden administration ushered in over the last three and a half years, right, this is the future of the Democratic Party.

00:25:48.940 Without them, they're not going to come close in any national election, right?

00:25:54.280 What we're going to look at is Trump's landslide this year will be a foretaste of future disasters for the Democrats, right?

00:26:04.000 They won't even be able to marshal as many electoral votes as Kamala Harris got. 0.91

00:26:08.140 It's just going to get worse and worse.

00:26:09.800 And again, they're going to lose power in the Northeast and in coastal cities in the West.

00:26:18.720 So they have to fight this.

00:26:20.620 They can't let Trump's program be implemented.

00:26:24.440 So that's one of the things that we'll be looking for, right?

00:26:27.320 And they're going to be very hard.

00:26:31.140 And I think that it's going to get very, very nasty.

00:26:35.760 And that's what I'm advising people to keep an eye out.

00:26:39.460 The different operations that have been targeting Trump and Trump aides over the last several years.

00:26:44.080 I think that we're going to see an awful lot of that right now.

00:26:46.580 And at the core of this is going to be the deportation program.

00:26:50.440 That's what they're zeroing in on.

00:26:52.020 They have to.

00:26:52.540 Yeah, I had spoken to Sheriff Mark Lamb yesterday and the issue that I see happening is somehow the Supreme Court is going to come in and get their feet in this. 0.87

00:27:01.300 It's something they have nothing to do with, like DACA, which they did have something to do with and couldn't make a damn decision.

00:27:06.740 Stuck up in the courts for years.

00:27:08.080 I'm just worried that these deportations are going to get somehow stuck up in the Supreme Court and we're never going to see them happen.

00:27:13.780 Well, that's that's why you need it.

00:27:15.620 That's why you need a real attorney general.

00:27:17.760 That's what you need someone.

00:27:19.060 You know, I mean, you need people to fight these to fight these fights.

00:27:24.300 Yeah.

00:27:24.540 And, you know, I think it helps that he's got sort of it seems like Eric Adams is on the side of President Trump.

00:27:30.120 Now, it's probably because he's under federal indictment.

00:27:33.240 But nonetheless, it is what it is.

00:27:35.080 He's open now to letting President Trump come into New York where we're harboring, they say, a half a million here.

00:27:41.340 Lee, I think it's probably well over a million illegals.

00:27:44.140 A lot of them gang members.

00:27:45.500 You look out of Long Island, MS, MS, MS, MSNBC, MS-13, Trend de Agua.

00:27:51.500 You might have missed MS-13 NBC.

00:27:54.620 But I mean, they've taken over the city.

00:27:56.240 Lee, I don't I try to stay out of Manhattan as much as I can. 0.88

00:27:59.020 It's just it's just an absolute shithole, as President Trump would say about some places,

00:28:03.860 because it's just a dangerous place.

00:28:07.120 And it's like we've never seen before.

00:28:08.220 So with guys like Eric Adams, we now find out that Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C.

00:28:15.120 wants to meet with President Trump as well.

00:28:16.820 Do you think these folks who now all of a sudden want to play kumbaya, sing kumbaya, are genuine in it?

00:28:24.380 Or is it just another?

00:28:25.480 Well, I think Mayor Bowser has a lot of trouble.

00:28:27.900 I mean, yes, of course, Eric Adams does, too.

00:28:29.920 But look at what's happened to Washington, D.C. since, you know, since the Biden since the Biden administration took over.

00:28:36.800 I mean, people aren't going into work in the federal agencies.

00:28:41.000 Right. What does that mean?

00:28:42.600 That means that that means that people aren't going into restaurants.

00:28:46.560 They're not going into bars.

00:28:48.020 It means that commercial real estate in Washington is crashing.

00:28:51.160 So at the very least, Mayor Bowser needs the president to say, please make people go back to work.

00:28:58.760 Right. Make America work again.

00:29:01.380 So, you know, so that's a very important thing because Washington is an awful lot of trouble in that way.

00:29:06.960 Commercial real estate crashing.

00:29:08.360 I mean, it's a disaster.

00:29:09.220 So, yes, I think that someone like Mayor Bowser definitely is eager to work with Donald Trump.

00:29:14.700 And Mayor Bowser is not the problem, as far as I can tell, in Washington, D.C., where I lived for many years.

00:29:21.020 The problem among the top of the list of problems is the city council, you know, a progressive fringe city council.

00:29:28.720 So, you know, Mayor Bowser is responsible for running the city, and she's a relatively, relatively responsible mayor. 1.00

00:29:41.020 Responsible. We saw that on January 6th. All right.

00:29:43.760 Before we wrap up here, I want to get to two things, Jack Smith and Elon Musk.

00:29:48.120 We'll start with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:29:50.580 Probably not wanting cabinet positions because they don't want to give up their private lives of making money, which is completely understandable.

00:29:56.580 But they do want to make an impact on the Trump agenda and on America, both being selected to run the the Doge program, the Department of Government Efficiency.

00:30:07.960 Doge, obviously, Elon Musk's project.

00:30:10.600 Brilliant man.

00:30:11.640 What do you think those two folks are going to be able to get done in the government?

00:30:16.880 I mean, you know, I think it's good to look at the to look at the bureaucracy and the problems with the bureaucracy and budgets like that.

00:30:24.160 But it's an awful lot of work and you have to have the people who are, you know, I mean, again, when we talk about Pete Hegseth heading the Pentagon or Kristi Noem heading heading DHS.

00:30:34.720 I mean, those are two enormous budgets right there.

00:30:37.300 So what happens?

00:30:38.840 Do they collaborate?

00:30:39.980 You know, Elon Musk talks to, you know, Peter Hegseth and say, here, hey, here's the kind of overrun, you know, the cost overrun problems you have at the Pentagon.

00:30:48.220 And here's where I think you can solve them.

00:30:49.540 So I don't know exactly how they work that out, but that's that's actually an enormous problem.

00:30:53.820 As far as cutting the federal bureaucracy itself, I think it's important for everyone to remember going in that the the two point two million federal workers.

00:31:05.300 Right. Most of these are not the people not like Andrew McCabe, Duke University Law School grads.

00:31:12.060 Right. They're they're they're single moms from Prince George's County. 1.00

00:31:16.280 And so there's going to be a lot of noise if you just start if you just start cutting them loose.

00:31:22.040 Right. And I'm sure that, you know, in time they'll find out the dangers and what are the positive, positive contributions they can make to the country.

00:31:29.720 Yeah. The Elon thing is actually brilliant to me.

00:31:32.800 Every picture I see, it's like Elon's part of the family.

00:31:35.220 Now I saw him at MSG with Trump with his little kid and his mom.

00:31:38.520 And it's just the meshing they have between the Trump family.

00:31:41.380 It seems very genuine. And that's what President Trump needs.

00:31:43.800 He needs a warrior by his heart. It just so happens, Lee, it's the smartest man in the world and it's the richest man in the world.

00:31:50.100 So it's beneficial on that. I want to conclude with Jack Smith, as Lou called him, the junkyard jackal, special counsel, obviously being fired.

00:32:00.240 President Trump, tell him you get your ass out of here. 0.82

00:32:02.560 But he's wrapping up now before the end of the year, probably ending all the cases against President Trump. 0.98

00:32:08.880 There were no cases lawfare, as we all know. But he's going to file a report, Lee.

00:32:14.680 What is he going to tell us all?

00:32:17.000 I mean, I don't know. I mean, frankly, if I were him, I would just go, you know, I would type up some notes and say, yeah, so here's what we did.

00:32:28.300 And here's what, you know, here's what we did. I'd keep it short and sweet and get out of town.

00:32:33.480 And I don't think that Donald Trump is going to be hunting is going to be hunting Jack Smith.

00:32:38.180 Jack Smith is not a great guy, but it's not Jack Smith who is responsible.

00:32:41.740 It's not Jack Smith who pulled the trigger. Right.

00:32:44.560 This was Joe Biden and Merrick Garland.

00:32:46.500 I'm very happy that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are exchanging laughs and pleasantries with each other.

00:32:52.780 But it's it's not Jack Smith who decided to pull the trigger.

00:32:56.460 Lee, at the end of the day, though, it costs 50 million dollars.

00:32:59.420 That's 50 million dollars that could have went to somebody.

00:33:01.840 What are they going to do? Bill Jack Smith for it?

00:33:04.180 I mean, you know, yeah, it's terrible.

00:33:06.440 Jack Smith was a weapon.

00:33:08.080 He it's it's not him.

00:33:10.600 It's Garland and Biden.

00:33:12.140 That's what it is.

00:33:13.360 I'm not saying it from this from the standpoint of billing somebody.

00:33:16.540 I'm saying it from the standpoint of the American people opening their eyes and seeing the Mueller report cost 30 million dollars.

00:33:22.020 Yeah, this is my opinion, my opinion, my opinion going in.

00:33:27.100 And, you know, I'm not saying it's a controversial opinion.

00:33:29.560 I think that all the talk about going after bureaucrats in the deep state and this and that, it's a waste of time.

00:33:35.640 And that's why I wrote that article about Barack Obama, because I said, look, if Donald Trump is going to spend four years targeting bureaucrats in the deep state, this four years is going to go by very, very quickly.

00:33:47.320 The concern is not Jack Smith.

00:33:49.220 It's not the Vindman twins.

00:33:50.520 It's not Peter Strzok and Lisa as paramour, Lisa Page.

00:33:55.860 The problem is the guys at the very top, Barack Obama.

00:33:59.700 That's the one who led the anti-Trump campaign for eight years.

00:34:03.500 That has to be addressed.

00:34:05.220 Again, they're just going to go shooting at bureaucrats. 0.88

00:34:07.640 It's going to be a total waste of time.

00:34:09.520 It's not the bureaucrats.

00:34:11.280 It's Barack Obama and the people around Barack Obama.

00:34:14.500 And if you look, will the will you know, will some of the public enjoy the entertainment?

00:34:18.620 Yeah, let's go after Jack Smith and stuff like, yeah, but it's still going to be a waste of time.

00:34:22.960 And no one's going to learn a lesson from it because the guys on top are still protected.

00:34:27.300 You have to go after the chiefs.

00:34:29.120 Right.

00:34:30.080 Ask Rudy Giuliani how to prosecute a Rico case.

00:34:33.360 Right.

00:34:33.800 How that goes down.

00:34:34.980 What did the left do the last eight years?

00:34:37.200 They went after Donald Trump, everyone they targeted, whether it was Michael Flynn, Roger

00:34:41.560 Stone, everyone they went after was to get at Trump.

00:34:44.540 So, again, the idea that now we're going to look at these lower lights and go like, yeah,

00:34:48.300 let's get them.

00:34:49.220 Why?

00:34:50.020 Why?

00:34:51.100 So I look at it from the standpoint of people's lives who have been ruined, namely Steve Bannon,

00:34:56.980 Peter Navarro, who, you know, are paying consequences for things that they did absolutely

00:35:01.500 nothing wrong about.

00:35:02.280 So it hurts a lot of us and I think a lot of Americans that we're going to see these

00:35:06.100 folks, these 51 Intel chiefs who are still getting security briefings, who still have

00:35:11.260 a national security.

00:35:12.860 Then right.

00:35:13.900 Then, you know, John Brennan still has a security clearance.

00:35:17.300 Donald Trump should have taken that away in his first term, as he said he was going

00:35:20.320 to.

00:35:20.880 So that's something we'd like to see him follow through here.

00:35:23.400 John, the fundamental point I'm making, though, if it's just going to be tit for tat, right,

00:35:28.560 this four years is going to go by very quickly and we'll wind up in the exact same place because

00:35:33.380 the leadership always must pay the price, right?

00:35:36.520 To quote the late, great Angelo Cotevilla, like this is why you shoot at the other side's 0.97

00:35:42.520 officers.

00:35:43.300 If you're just going to take their pawns off the board, the pawns are going to be put back

00:35:47.140 on the board very, very quickly.

00:35:49.040 This is why William Barr is responsible for what happened in 2020 because no one paid the

00:35:55.440 price for 2016, that's why it was William Barr who was accountable.

00:36:01.060 It's not all the hundreds or thousands of, you know, corrupt little bureaucrats and, you

00:36:06.600 know, and white collar workers in Washington, D.C. 0.71

00:36:10.440 Are they corrupt? 0.97

00:36:11.160 Are they rotten? 0.99

00:36:12.080 Absolutely.

00:36:12.740 Should they pay a price?

00:36:14.040 Definitely.

00:36:14.920 But if you want to stop it, you have to go out to the top.

00:36:17.800 That's it.

00:36:18.740 No question.

00:36:19.540 I think President Trump needs to pick up the phone and give Lee Smith a call.

00:36:22.220 If any of his people watching, I can give you Lee's number, which I'm probably sure.

00:36:25.440 He already has it.

00:36:26.800 Lee, once again, the book, folks, is Disappearing the President, Trump, Truth Social, and the

00:36:31.080 Fight for the Republic.

00:36:32.580 We recommend it to you all very highly.

00:36:34.560 Go ahead and get a copy.

00:36:35.520 Lee Smith, you're a great American.

00:36:36.800 We'll talk to you soon, brother.

00:36:38.000 Thank you, John.

00:36:38.700 God bless you, man.

00:36:39.540 Talk to you soon.

00:36:40.740 Thanks to Lee Smith.

00:36:41.640 And thank you all folks for being with us today.

00:36:43.520 Once again, I can't stress it enough.

00:36:45.540 Lee's book, terrific book.

00:36:48.000 All of Lee's books.

00:36:48.900 I've read every single one of them that he's put out since 2016.

00:36:51.400 All must-reads if you're into this whole deep state and going after Trump thing, which

00:36:57.920 I think if you're here listening to me today, you probably are.

00:37:01.500 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.

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The Great America Show - November 17, 2024

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