Wednesday Update： May 14, 2025
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Latest episode of The Great America Show: A Midday Update for May 14, 2019. President Trump leaves Saudi Arabia and heads to Qatar. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says he will support a stock trading ban. Marxist Dem Chris Murphy casts doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 midterms. A judge strips Rikers Island of full control over Rikers.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday,
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May 14th. Happy Wednesday, folks. We get some big news coming out of the Middle East. President
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Trump on his Middle East tour has now left Saudi Arabia. He's out now in Qatar. President Trump
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has secured a historic $1.2 trillion economic commitment from the nation of Qatar. So if you're
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listening to Mark Levin, if you're listening to the Larry Kudlow's of the world, if you're listening
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to the Rhinos, the Marxist Dems, they'll tell you that President Trump is over in the Middle
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East, bowing down to the Middle East, bowing down to Iran, but it's actually quite the opposite.
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He's now secured trillions of dollars while being over in the Middle East. If that's not enough for
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you, President Trump has now imposed more sanctions on Iran after a fourth round of nuclear talks. The
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U.S. Treasury Department announced this week sweeping sanctions against a network of corporations accused
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of helping Iran avoid sanctions on its oil industry by obscuring the true origin of the product and
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in other words, they'll ship it through another nation through another nation to make it look
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like it's not coming from the origin. President Trump not putting up with it. Turning now to some
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news here at home. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson today says he will support a stock trading ban by
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members of Congress. This comes as controversy about, we'll call it well-timed trades. We don't want to accuse
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anybody Nancy Pelosi of Dan Crenshaw of, sorry about that, of insider trading. So we'll just call it
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well-timed trades. Mike Johnson's saying he's in favor of it because he doesn't think we should have
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any appearance in Congress of impropriety. He said that at a conference this afternoon. He added that
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members' ability to trade has been abused in the past and he thinks that a few bad actors have
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quote, discolored it for the rest of the people. Over on the Senate side, Marxist Dem Senator Chris
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Murphy. He's an election denier. I don't know if I've told you folks this, but he's already casting
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doubts on the legitimacy of the 2026 midterm elections. He says Trump is quote, destroying democracy.
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Well, was Murphy around when President Trump was indicted like 700 times? Not literally, but
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you know, faced over 700 years in jail. Was he around in 2016 when they spied on President Trump's
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campaign? What does that do to democracy? Well, take a listen to this Marxist Dem, Chris Murphy,
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and how he says the 2020 midterm elections might not be legitimate. Election denier.
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Look at the pay-to-play going on. It's staggering and it's all out in the open. It's almost as if to
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say, you know, when you're president, you can do it. Yeah, I mean, this is the conversation we're
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having right now inside the Democratic Party. How urgent is the moment? You know what I believe,
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Nicole. I believe that there's no guarantee that we are going to have a free and fair election in
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2026. I think he's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the political
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opposition. So that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s, in the fall of next year, there
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isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign. So I think we've got to act with
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tremendous urgency. And we have to make the corruption and the destruction of democracy the
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number one issue. So we've got this crypto regulation bill pending before Congress. The only way we should
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pass that bill, the only way that we should move that bill forward is if it unwinds Trump's crypto
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corruption. That would be an example of Democrats saying, you know what, we're not going to pretend
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that this is business as usual. Unless you are helping us stop Trump's corruption and his attempt
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to destroy democracy, then we're not moving legislation forward. That's the main thing. That's the problem
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that we should be solving for. And that's a fight that we're going to continue to have, a discussion
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we're going to continue to have. Never did I believe after January 6th, would any Marxist dem
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still be an election denier, right? That undermines democracy. And the Marxists in New York having a
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little bit of a tough time, Kathy Hochul and her friends. A judge has stripped New York City of its
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control over Rikers Island, citing unprecedented violence and mismanagement. Federal judge stripping
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the city of control over Rikers Island in a 77-page ruling earlier this week, U.S. Chief District Judge
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Laura Taylor Swain officially stripped New York City and the Department of Corrections of full control
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over Rikers, citing a decade-long failure to protect inmates from, quote, grave and immediate harm,
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including unconstitutional levels of violence, abuse, and systemic mismanagement. Now, this decision
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comes after Judge Swain previously found the city in civil contempt of 18 separate provisions of the
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consent judgment and multiple court orders dating back to 2015. Now, this is not also to mention
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about how many illegals are being housed at Rikers Island. I think it makes it a little bit easier now
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for Tom Holman and the boys to go on in and get those folks the heck out of America. Smartmatic,
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you've all heard of Smartmatic, right, is suffering a big setback in their Fox News case after a New
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York judge has ordered the company to prove evidence of damages. Back in 2021, February of 2021,
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Fox News moved to dismiss this $2.7 billion case, calling it a meritless nuisance. Fox News argued at
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the time, if the First Amendment means anything, it means that Fox cannot be held liable for fairly
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reporting and commenting on competing allegations in a hotly contested and actively litigated election.
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Now, folks, if we had a fair legal system, you would think back in 2021, the judge would have
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ruled on this, but I guess better late than never, as I said today, that judge in the New York court
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ordering the company to prove it suffered actual damages following the Fox News reporting.
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I think they're going to have a very, very tough time proving that because the election machines of
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Smartmatic are still all in the states that they were before. So I'm not really sure how you prove
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that. Folks, please be sure to join me today and each and every day for The Great America Show
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and twice a day for The Great America Show midday updates. We'll see you tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for
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The Great America Show, wherever you guys join us. We'll see you there. I'm John Fossett with this