The Stone Zone ｜ 01-05-26
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Summary
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was taken into custody and flown to New York City to be processed on various criminal charges. President Trump's critics immediately accused him of hypocrisy because Maduro was arrested and charged with drug trafficking at the same time as President Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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Well, as the whole world now knows, in the early morning of January 3rd,
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President Donald Trump ordered a military operation into the nation of Venezuela.
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With impressive precision, U.S. forces were able to bomb important military targets
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and to capture and arrest dictator Nicolas Maduro while he was sleeping, quite literally,
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and remove him from power, Maduro was taken into custody
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and flown to New York City to be processed on various criminal charges.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on CBS Evening News
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that the strikes were narrowly tailored and executed with support from the Department of Justice,
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describing the mission as a law enforcement exercise backed by military force
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rather than a regime-change war similar to the failures of the George W. Bush era.
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Hegseth emphasized that the operations avoided the large-scale troop deployments
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that defined the neoconservative nation-building wars of the 2000s
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We saw the exact same approach from President Donald Trump in Iran
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where many were urging him to launch a full-scale invasion with troops on the ground
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Instead, he projected American power in a very controlled and limited way
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to achieve his objectives and the objectives of the United States.
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Hegseth is right when he said that what happened in Venezuela is the opposite of Iraq.
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We spent decades and purchased in blood and got nothing economically in return in the Iraq War.
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Strategic action that secures resources, ends criminal activity, and doesn't cost American lives.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a good friend of mine,
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played a central role in shaping and executing the entire operation.
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Rubio has made the Western Hemisphere the core focus of the Trump administration's
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explicitly prioritizing the Americas over post-Cold War Atlantic frameworks.
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During a press conference Saturday, Rubio described Maduro as a fugitive
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who wanted to play tough guy, and now he's facing the consequences.
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He warned that other authoritarian regimes in the region, particularly Cuba,
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that should be concerned following the resounding success of the mission in Venezuela.
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President Trump's critics, of course, immediately accused him of hypocrisy
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because Maduro was essentially taken into custody and is charged with narco trafficking
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in the same time period in which President Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon
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for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.
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If you will examine his trial, what you will learn is that President Juan Orlando Hernández
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was the first president in Honduran history to sign an extradition treaty with the United States.
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That actually required a change in the Honduran constitution.
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And Orlando Hernández successfully extradited two major narco traffickers,
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When Biden became president, he essentially took testimony against those two narco traffickers
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and mass murderers, gave them their freedom, let them out of jail in return for their false testimony
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All you have is the testimony of two drug dealers with an axe to grind.
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President Trump framed the removal of Maduro as a victory for America's economic hegemony,
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pointing to Venezuela's estimated 300 billion barrels of oil reserves, the largest in the world.
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Now, Trump's critics today, again, keep saying this isn't about democracy.
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If the United States can prevent Venezuelan oil from going to China and Russia,
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which is exactly what the president has done, that is a major win for the United States.
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Removing Maduro, a puppet of Beijing, and the Chinese from office will also make it more difficult for China
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to harvest the country's natural resources in their quest for global dominance.
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Another crucial aspect of Maduro's arrest will be the effect of narco trafficking, as we said.
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Maduro is one of the most notorious drug traffickers in Latin America who operated a network through nations like Honduras and Guatemala
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A bogus narrative being circulated by the fake news media and echoed by Thomas Massey of Kentucky
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is that President Trump is a hypocrite because he removed Maduro while subsequently pardoning Honduras President Hernandez.
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President Trump, during a press conference last week, noted that Hernandez was persecuted very unfairly by Biden.
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He also said that Hernandez was treated like the Biden administration treated a man named Trump.
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President Trump also noted that his historic pardon for Hernandez allowed the national party, the pro-U.S. party,
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the anti-drug trafficking party in Honduras to triumph in the election just three days later.
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So President Trump acknowledged that U.S. forces had operated inside Venezuela during this secret mission
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and did not rule out a limited on-the-ground presence tied to energy and security objectives.
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He said, we're not afraid of boots on the ground.
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We're going to make sure that the country is run properly.
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The balancing act between having enough military personnel in Venezuela to manage the aftermath of Maduro's ouster
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and making sure that it does not become an Afghanistan or an Iraq-style quagmire is no small feat.
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And it must be navigated by the Trump administration in the months to come.
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But this could be helped through the Department of Justice cooperation with the former head of their military intelligence,
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Hugo Carvajal, who has been languishing in a New York prison but knows where all the bodies are buried.
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Although the situation is far from settled, the immediate triumph of the Venezuelan operation
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should restore faith in President Trump's rebuilding of our armed services, if nothing else.
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Just four years ago, the military is running out of Afghanistan with their tails between their legs,
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surrendering that country to the Taliban and losing literally billions of dollars of extremely sophisticated military equipment,
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as well as the lives of at least 13 American service members.
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And at the same time, of course, transgenders were being let into the military.
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Recruits were being taught critical race theory heresies to hate the nation they were supposed to be defending.
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Diversity quotas took precedence over having an elite and lethal fighting force.
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Under Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, America has returned to having a lean, mean, lethal fight to keep the peace
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Now it's clear in the rearview mirror an afterthought in President Trump's America.
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Even those who are critics of the Venezuelan intervention, such as the libertarian commentator Dave Smith,
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have had to admit that the impressive, precision nature of the effort to remove Maduro was extraordinary.
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Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of Democrats in the House, complained that the Trump administration
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had not given either he nor Chuck Schumer any heads up on the impending arrest of Maduro.
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First of all, Trump had no legal requirement to do so.
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We both understand, we all understand, that either Schumer or Jeffries would merely have contacted Maduro
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The president was wise to keep what they call OPSEC, Operation Secrecy, in this entire mission.
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The ouster of Maduro will make a more stable political sphere in Latin America
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and further signals the zeitgeist shift within Latin American politics.
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You see it today happening in places like Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina.
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Elections there have resulted in colossal victories for more conservative,
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pro-SUS candidates and parties fighting against socialism and corruption.
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The momentum is firmly on the side of America's efforts to embrace capitalism, free markets, and the rule of law.
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President Trump's operation against Maduro has poured gas on this righteous fire engulfing our southern neighbors,
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and we should all be as jubilant as we can about these developments as Latinos who hit the streets over the weekend celebrate.
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What's particularly amusing is to see left-wingers, liberals, protesting the invasion, or I should say the operation in Venezuela,
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saying that they're standing up for the Venezuelan people.
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Yet anyone who watches media will see the Venezuelan people on the streets of Caracas celebrating the fall of a brutal, brutal dictator.
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So, I see exactly the same people who are trying to say, well, this is like Iraq, this is like Afghanistan.
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Oh, by the way, all those Democrats who complain about Iraq and Afghanistan,
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if you go back and look on the record, they all supported those incursions.
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It was Libertarian Republicans who were skeptical.
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Yesterday on my show, Senator Bob Torricelli, former member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
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admitted that his support for the second Persian Gulf War was a vote that he greatly felt was improper and he apologized for.
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And then I had to point out, too, well, you were lied to, Senator.
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You were told that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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You were told and lied to by Vice President Dick Cheney.
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You were lied to by Colin Powell, who was then the national security advisor,
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who said that the Iraqis had yellow cake uranium with which to make new nuclear devices.
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they told us that Iraq had participated in the attack on America on 9-11.
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As Venezuela's longtime strongman, Nicolas Maduro and his wife were hauled to New York to a federal courthouse
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to face narco-terrorism and gun-wraining charges,
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the new regime in Caracas has suddenly seen the light.
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Maduro's vice president and now the self-declared interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez,
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rushed to offer an olive branch to Washington, signaling her willingness to, quote-unquote,
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cooperate with the United States after years of socialist belligerence.
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The message came hours after Maduro's overnight capture by U.S. special forces,
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an operation that shows, once again, how America's military is back to being an effective force
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balanced and respectful relationship and proposed a so-called cooperation agenda with the United States.
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In other words, they're capitulating because they don't want to be the next to get the Maduro treatment.
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This is exactly how you cow a communist dictatorship.
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every place where socialism is lorded over the people.
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With U.S. naval assets off of Venezuela's coast
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the Venezuelan regime's tough talk evaporated the moment potential consequences became tangible.
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but more precisely, the leader of a political movement.
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And these guys, well, they fooled around and they found out the hard way.
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The Iranian regime may be on the brink of collapse.
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We're going to talk about that when we get back and what should happen in that country.
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Whatever you do, don't touch that dial and keep listening because we'll be right back.
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The successful removal of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela
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Nationwide protests against the Islamic dictator-shaped Iran have entered a second week,
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driven largely by economic collapse, a plunge in currency, and soaring prices.
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The quality of life has become untenable in Iran.
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Demonstrations have spread to 26 of Iran's 31 provinces,
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Clashes with police have left at least 12 people dead,
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This new challenge is hitting Iran's aging Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
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at his weakest following President Trump's bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities only last year,
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which demonstrated how weak and defenseless the regime really is
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and when their tough talk is actually confronted.
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Iran is a vast country of more than 90 million people,
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It takes enormous courage to stand up against this brutal dictatorship.
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They have had no problems whatsoever murdering those in the democratic resistance,
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sometimes mass executions done in public for the purpose of telling the Iranian people
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what will happen if they rise up against their own government.
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As usual, President Trump has not minced words.
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he warned Iran that they would be hit very hard if protesters were killed,
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if Iran does indeed begin killing or persecuting those who are protesting.
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After watching Nicolas Maduro be swiftly removed and hauled before U.S. courts,
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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly urged Washington to confront Iran's ballistic missile program again,
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where the Iranian officials accused the U.S. and Israel of meddling,
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although notably this time with softer language,
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now that they understand that President Trump is for real when it comes to bombing them if necessary.
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So even if Tehran wanted to turn over a new leaf,
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Iran has been too belligerent in supporting terrorism for much too long.
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The time has come for the Aitola to take a perp walk similar to Maduro.
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It does not mean that President Trump should launch again an Iraq war-style invasion of Iran.
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Look at his limited projection of American power in Venezuela,
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and you have what is in essence the Trump doctrine.
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In this hemisphere, I think we should call it the Don-Roe Doctrine.
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We will not tolerate communist dictatorships and narco-drug trafficking in our hemisphere.
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You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks,
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Welcome back into The Stone Zone, where we mainline politics.
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Minnesota Governor Tampon Tim Walsh announced on Monday that he's dropping out of the 2026 race
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And I think he's just getting out of dodge while his administration faces mounting scrutiny
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over massive fraud scandals that are rocking the state.
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Waltz claimed that he can no longer, quote, give a political campaign his all
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after what he calls an extraordinarily difficult year,
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insisting his focus must be on protecting Minnesotas from criminals who prey on our generosity.
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What did Tim Waltz know and when did he know it?
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The scale of the thievery of federal funds, funds earmarked for daycare,
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funds earmarked for transportation of the elderly,
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funds earmarked for other COVID-19 programs, is breathtaking.
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This is going to be not a scandal limited to the state of Minnesota,
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not a scandal limited to the Somalian community,
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although it is interested that 89% of Somalians living in the United States today are on welfare.
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Waltz, of course, is spouting nonsense about his inability to focus on a political campaign.
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The truth is he enabled these fraudsters every step of the way.
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The widespread fraud tied in Minnesota's Medicaid waiver programs
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and the COVID area relief funds all have happened
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because Waltz refused to hold the Somalis accountable,
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painting them as if they were model citizens just because of their skin color
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and refused to investigate them over fears of supposed racism.
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as much as half of the $18 billion paid through Minnesota's Medicaid waiver system
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and the number increasingly seems to get larger every single day.
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Republican state legislators believe that Waltz should resign now
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and potentially face criminal charges for his role in the scandal.
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Waltz, who took office in 2019 and then, of course,
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was improbably selected as Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate,
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where his effeminate hand gestures and his multiple lies about his military service,
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about his athletic record, set off alarm bells,
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has harmed the state tremendously through his inept governance.
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Kelly Loeffler, who's the head of the Small Business Administration,
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announced the suspension of nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers
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and suspected fraud involved in roughly $400 million in PPP and EIDL loans.
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The Small Business Administration has also halted more than $5.5 million
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with federal investors circling and funding frozen.
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Waltz's exit is the collapse of another would-be Democrat icon.
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Get him on the short bus out of St. Paul as soon as possible.
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show that Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program
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has been riddled with weak oversight, poor record-keeping,
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failures now exploding into a national scandal.
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The issue returned to the spotlight after an independent journalist,
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not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, not CNN or MSNBC,
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but an independent journalist who posts his findings on social media
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released undercover footage showing that multiple daycare centers
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appearing empty or inactive despite their continued receiving of public funds.
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and confirmed what orders have warned for years.
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a May audit from the Federal Office of Inspector General
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and found repeated violations of attendance and payment requirements.
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auditors concluded Minnesota likely made errors in at least 11% of payments
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an astonishing failure rate in a taxpayer-funded program.
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That audit bluntly warned that Minnesota's limited oversight of attendance records
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created a system ripe for fraud, waste, and abuse.
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While the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Robert Kennedy has since pledged tighter monitoring,
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state officials themselves admit enforcement gaps remain.
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In January of 2025, Tiki Brown, head of the Children, Youth, and Families Department,
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conceded that the state lacked full authority and capacity to investigate attendance fraud.
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That admission echoes earlier findings by the Office of Legislative Auditor,
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which documented millions of dollars in proven fraud between 2013 and 2018.
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So independent journalist Nick Shirley, a man in his late 20s reporting,
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demonstrates the problem in a way that was unignorable, if there is such a word.
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Now the state will have to take notice and do something about it rather than make excuses for their inaction
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But my friends, I assure you, before it's over, this scandal will spill over into Michigan,
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into Ohio, into Oregon, into Washington State, into California, and yes, indeed, into New York.
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So those who are in such a hurry to claim that Republicans will lose the 2026 election,
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they'll lose control of the House, demonstrate once again that they don't understand
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that in American politics, a week can be a lifetime.
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And we don't know what the atmosphere will be when we have another federal election, but we do know this.
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This financial scandal is just going to get bigger and deeper,
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and the people are going to be very angry when they see where their tax dollars have been squandered and stolen.
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Meanwhile, the Pentagon is escalating its response to what it calls serious misconduct by Senator Mark Kelly,
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announcing a formal censure and a full review of his military retirement status
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over statements in a video encouraging the military to buck orders and disregard the chain of command.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed that Kelly,
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a retired Navy captain still drawing a military pension,
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will receive an official censure letter and face a review of his retirement rank and pay.
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Geraldo Rivera took to social media to say that this was petty.
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petty is urging our men and women in uniforms to disregard the orders of the commander-in-chief.
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The review, ordered to be completed within 45 days by Navy Secretary John Phelan,
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could result in a downgrade of Kelly's rank and reduction in benefits.
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Hegseth says Kelly crossed a red line by releasing a video urging troops to refuse what he called,
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Clearly, trying to conjole active military service personnel to disregard the orders of the commander-in-chief.
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Kelly, of course, could not identify any illegal orders at that time.
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And six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly and five other members of Congress,
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all of whom were either retired military and in some cases had tight connections to the Central Intelligence Agency,
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released a reckless and seditious video that clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline.
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As a retired Navy captain who's still receiving a military pension,
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Captain Kelly knows he's accountable for military justice,
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and the Department of War and the American people expect justice.
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I pointed out, I guess it was earlier this year, or earlier last year, pardon me,
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that Senator Mark Kelly had been partners with a Chinese communist company
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I suggested that that was a treasonous activity
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that the penalty under federal law for treason is capital punishment.
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The media, of course, skipped all over, right over the trial part.
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They say, oh, Roger Soane says that Senator Mark Kelly should be executed
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because of his involvement with the Chinese company.
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They left that little part about the trial out.
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I do believe it should be court-martialed, along with the others who appear in the video,
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for undermining our national security for cheap partisan purposes.
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And I find it very disturbing that Senator Slotnick, his colleague from Michigan,
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predicted two weeks before a U.S. Army National Guardsman,
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actually a woman, was shot and killed in the streets of D.C.,
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the beginning of what could be a color revolution,
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an attempt to remove Donald Trump from office through the same kind of shenanigans we saw in the Russian collusion hoax,
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two phony impeachments, the January 6th operation,
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all of which, of course, has now been exposed as extra constitutional.
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Just days after the inauguration of socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson,
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the city's taken another hard turn towards lawlessness,
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as Wilson attempts to outdo our new New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdami
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as the most belligerently leftist demagogue in any mayor's office in the country.
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And an internal email from the Seattle Police Department reveals officers are now being instructed
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not to enforce laws that make open drug use illegal,
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instead referring all cases to a diversion program that has already been tried and failed.
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The directive, first obtained by We Heart Seattle,
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orders officers to route drug consumption incidents to LEAPDA,
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the so-called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program.
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This move effectively decriminalizes public drug use
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and invites further chaos amid an already deadly overdose crisis happening in the state.
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We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez didn't mince words,
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warning that dealers know how to carry just enough drugs to avoid consequences
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and have their destructive habits essentially subsidized by the state.
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Suarez said that Seattle will essentially be a sanctuary city
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Mike Solon, head of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, which is their union,
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Solon warned the policy will only accelerate death,
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Seattle tried this after the Washington Supreme Court's Blake decision
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and overdose deaths and crimes surged so badly in the state
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because they will enforce crazy socialist woke nonsense
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a man has been arrested after vandalizing the Cincinnati home of Vice President J.D. Vance,
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marking the latest example of leftist political terrorism aimed at conservative leaders.
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The United States Secret Service confirmed that a suspect smashed multiple windows
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and also damaged a Secret Service vehicle parked in the driveway.
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Authorities stressed that the home was unoccupied at the time
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and the Vice President and his family, thank God,
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were safely in Washington, D.C. during the attack.
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yet another transsexual who I believe also went by the name of Julia,
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including criminal damaging, vandalism, trespass,
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His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday,
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thanking law enforcement for their swift action,
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while urging the media to respect his family's privacy,
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He described the incident as the work of a crazy person,
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attempting to break in by hammering the windows.
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This follows a troubling pattern of political harassment targeting Vance.
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prompting widespread outrage among many Americans.
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Don't expect too much fanfare from the fake news media
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When violence or intimidation is directed at the party in power,
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attacking the home of a sitting Vice President,
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The alleged perpetrator is part of the Antifa network of domestic terrorism,
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and they are more dangerous to the fabric of our republic
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when his home was vandalized by some Antifa thug.
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Well, President Donald Trump is refusing to back down
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for exposing the problems with Somali immigrants in America.
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President Trump shared a chart on his Truth Social post
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among immigrant households in the United States.
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Immigrant Welfare Recipient Rates by Country of Origin,
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showed that roughly 72% of Somali-born households
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one of the highest rates of any groups in the United States.
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of serious consequences tied to ongoing fraud investigations
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is prepared for rollout by the Trump administration.
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The FBI has already surged personnel into Minnesota
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meant for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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most of them involving third-world immigrants from Somalia.
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This may be our last chance to end this madness
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to deport dangerous illegal criminals and fraudsters,
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A special shout-out to my good friend Scott Evans,
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revealing that he has converted to Christianity
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said the decision came after years of conversations
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with Christian friends who urged him not to wait.
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to prepare for rapid changes in the weeks ahead.
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noting that engaging with ideas and current events