Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Americans Mark 22 Years Since 9-11 Terror Attacks: Interview with Congressional Candidate, Green Beret Veteran & Gold Star Husband Joe Kent | TRIGGERED Ep.67

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00:05:32.000 you hey guys welcome to another major episode of triggered

00:06:01.000 We're joined today by Washington State congressional candidate Joe Kent.

00:06:06.000 Joe's a good friend. He's an Army Green Beret veteran and a Gold Star husband.

00:06:11.000 We're honored to have him, especially on this 22nd anniversary of the Terrible 9-11 terror attacks.

00:06:20.000 Joe enlisted in the Army at 18 years old, basically right after this attack.

00:06:26.000 And we'll talk about all of that.

00:06:27.000 And he served our country for over 20 years, including 11 combat deployments.

00:06:32.000 He's now running for Congress in Washington's 3rd District.

00:06:36.000 He lost last year in a really close election, decided by fewer than 3,000 voters,

00:06:43.000 which is why it's so important for us to get involved.

00:06:46.000 And when we talk about the stuff going on in Washington state

00:06:49.000 and neighboring Oregon and some of the insanity there, I'm sure you'll understand why we need to stay engaged

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00:06:58.000 On this 22nd anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, hearing Joe's story of heroism, service, and sacrifice

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00:10:29.000 So with that, joining us now is, again, my good friend, Green Beret veteran, Republican candidate in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, Joe Kent.

00:10:39.000 Joe, good to have you, buddy. How you doing?

00:10:41.000 Great to be with you. Thanks so much for having me.

00:10:43.000 I'm doing well. Yeah, I think the last time I saw you was kind of a rough day for me.

00:10:47.000 I know you were doing a fundraiser down in Florida, and it was one of the days, you know, they were trying to indict my father, and it got a little hectic.

00:10:57.000 I was like, well, I got speaking here, but I kind of got to go be with him.

00:11:00.000 I was torn, but, you know, it's awesome to see you're still in the fight.

00:11:05.000 How are you doing? We're just grinding away at it.

00:11:08.000 Got a lot of good county-level endorsements.

00:11:10.000 Got the state GOP's endorsement.

00:11:12.000 And can't thank you enough for all your support, especially the day that your father got indicted.

00:11:15.000 I think that was the initial indictment.

00:11:17.000 You still showed up and spoke at my fundraiser.

00:11:20.000 So that just speaks to your commitment to this cause.

00:11:23.000 So thank you very much for having me on and always supporting.

00:11:26.000 Well, listen, thank you for that.

00:11:29.000 But, I mean, you know, obviously we all do what we can a little bit.

00:11:32.000 But, you know, I think, you know, you exemplify all the people I know and all the incredible people that I've seen that have served and done those things.

00:11:40.000 I mean, you really stand out amongst, you know, some pretty incredible Americans.

00:11:46.000 I mean, today, it's the 22nd anniversary of 9-11.

00:11:50.000 I guess you were already in the Army when the attacks happened, but...

00:11:54.000 You know, talk about what you remember from that day, how the military changed post 9-11, and how you view that terror threat.

00:12:05.000 Perhaps, you know, even a few years ago, the differential between, you know, what was going on with that under Trump and what's going on now within open borders.

00:12:13.000 You know, talk about, you know, all of those things, because I think it's important.

00:12:18.000 Yeah, absolutely. I enlisted right away when I turned 18 in 1998.

00:12:22.000 I always wanted to be in the Army. At the time, I thought maybe if I hung out long enough, then I'd get to go to combat in a scenario like Desert Storm, Panama, kind of a one-off conflict.

00:12:32.000 I never thought in a million years that we'd be involved in a 20-plus year conflict.

00:12:37.000 But when the attacks of September 11th happened, I actually, I thought at the time, we were probably just going to maybe do one or two strikes and then just really kind of take it on the chin.

00:12:46.000 Because under Bill Clinton, we had already been attacked twice by Al-Qaeda, by Bin Laden.

00:12:50.000 He had declared war on the U.S. So I didn't think that we actually had the resolve.

00:12:55.000 So once we started going over and conducting operations in Afghanistan, I was actually pretty impressed with obviously the fighting spirit of the American people, the American military.

00:13:04.000 But for us, it was like, hey, take us off the chain.

00:13:06.000 We want to go deal with these threats.

00:13:08.000 We never want to see our homeland get attacked again.

00:13:12.000 My late wife, who you mentioned, was killed much later on in Syria.

00:13:15.000 She was a native New Yorker.

00:13:17.000 Her father and uncle were both ground zero first responders, a police officer and a firefighter.

00:13:22.000 So her and her younger brother, who's getting ready to retire from the Marines

00:13:25.000 just here shortly, they both went and enlisted.

00:13:28.000 And there was a whole generation of Americans who watched the towers get hit.

00:13:31.000 They watched the Pentagon get attacked, and they ran off, and they found the nearest recruiter they could find.

00:13:36.000 They said, hey, put me in.

00:13:37.000 Send me off to war. 0.80

00:13:38.000 And at the time, I think there was a lot more trust in our institutions.

00:13:42.000 I mean, Americans were like, hey, we need to rally together because we have to defend our nation.

00:13:47.000 And we can trust those who are telling us what's happening.

00:13:51.000 And we were told that, hey, Bin Laden attacked America.

00:13:53.000 And, you know, right after that, we were told that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al-Qaeda, weapons of mass destruction.

00:13:58.000 And it took us years to really unpack this.

00:14:00.000 And I think a lot of it we're still unpacking how much the national security state lied to us for their own gains.

00:14:07.000 Now, you know, in doing all these different combat operations, I think we really kicked over a hornet's nest in the Middle East, especially getting rid of Saddam Hussein, who was definitely a bad guy. 0.76

00:14:17.000 But that led to the rise of Al-Qaeda and then eventually ISIS. So by the time your father came on the stage and said, hey, we've gotten it completely wrong here in the Middle East, He actually called out the national security establishment, which was the first time I had heard any politician really do that.

00:14:33.000 And he said, look, we're not going to get involved anymore in these stupid wars, but we are going to go take care of business.

00:14:37.000 We are going to go after those who have attacked us and are posing a threat, which is what he did with ISIS. I mean, Obama told us that it was going to take us a generation to get rid of ISIS. We took away all the ground the Islamic Caliphate controlled within about a year under your father's leadership. 0.98

00:14:51.000 And then the Iranians, the Iranians had been kicking around the Americans We're good to go. 1.00

00:15:16.000 Yeah, talk about that a little bit.

00:15:18.000 You know, when we talk about sort of the changing mission, you know, yeah, we were in sort of a long-term stalemate, Americans getting killed by Iranians. 1.00

00:15:27.000 So few people actually even knew about it at the time.

00:15:29.000 We didn't do anything with that. But, you know, I got in trouble one time for saying this, but it was 100% true.

00:15:34.000 Like, I knew guys in the teams that were like, hey, if Hillary wins, like, we're getting out because we can't do the job that we wanted to do.

00:15:41.000 You know, they'd have a high value, let's call it one of the sort of playing card targets.

00:15:46.000 Under Obama, they're literally calling Washington, D.C., waiting for some lawyer to get to his nice, beautiful, air-conditioned office.

00:15:53.000 Six hours later, by the time that guy gets the communication, gets involved, and isn't taking a nap, a situation on the ground changes.

00:16:00.000 Kids show up. All of a sudden, it's not a clean grab or clean takeout anymore.

00:16:07.000 And then... Oh, well, we'll just go let that guy go live to, you know, fight and kill Americans another day.

00:16:13.000 That change, you know, people don't understand just how drastic and just how bureaucratic, you know, a lot of the military became during that time.

00:16:21.000 Can you talk a little bit about that?

00:16:22.000 Because, you know, you see that getting much worse, because I want to hear your thoughts on sort of today's army as well, versus, you know, when you enlisted and call it, you know, the late 90s, early 2000s.

00:16:35.000 Yeah, you know, as the wars drug on really past the first couple years, that's unfortunately when a lot of the national security state and the bureaucrats said, hey, we want to get involved in this war, too.

00:16:44.000 We can't just have this being a bunch of special operations guys moving at the speed of combat.

00:16:48.000 We need to get the whole machinery involved.

00:16:51.000 And when that happened, that's really when the lawyers took over, and we had this highly bureaucratic process take over with combat.

00:16:59.000 And then once Obama was elected, and Obama really ran.

00:17:02.000 If you go back and you look at the 08, 07 Obama platform, He was essentially a populist who said he wanted to get out of the wars.

00:17:09.000 But then when he came into office, he got completely and totally swayed by the neoliberals and the neocons who kind of endure every single administration that said, no, no, what we need to do is we need to stay at war.

00:17:21.000 But Obama didn't have the will to actually let us go and fight.

00:17:23.000 So for me, the hallmark of the Obama era combat deployments was, hey, we're going to be in harm's way.

00:17:28.000 We're going to lose guys.

00:17:30.000 We're going to get guys maimed and guys wounded.

00:17:32.000 However, we're not really going to be able to fight back.

00:17:34.000 Exactly like you said, everything became this massive bureaucratic process, heavily controlled by lawyers.

00:17:40.000 I think at the height of Iraq and Afghanistan, those surges there, we probably had, I think, well over 20 general officers in each theater.

00:17:48.000 Each one of them had a massive staff, a whole assortment of lawyers that would approve every

00:17:53.000 single operation that we were doing. And so if you're a guy on the ground getting shot at,

00:17:56.000 you're like, well, what the hell are we even doing here?

00:17:58.000 Because we obviously have no will to win.

00:18:00.000 And we also at the same time, and I think this is just as bad as not having a will to win.

00:18:04.000 We didn't have the will to say, well, then let's just get the hell out of here. I mean,

00:18:07.000 what are we even doing? And that actually, I think would have been a viable course of action at the

00:18:12.000 But Obama didn't have that.

00:18:13.000 He left us in harm's way with no real will to actually complete the mission.

00:18:18.000 And I think that that's just incredibly dangerous.

00:18:20.000 And so by the time your father gets into office, I mean, the world's a mess.

00:18:23.000 I mean, Iran is mopping on the floor with us all over the Middle East. 0.99

00:18:26.000 They're expanding throughout the entire region because of the Iran deal. 0.78

00:18:30.000 ISIS has taken over like three countries and is forcing a terrorism and migration crisis into Europe, onto the U.S. homeland.

00:18:38.000 So really, most of these, I think, disasters that we had after 9-11 were a direct result of failed U.S. policy when we could have made much more pragmatic decisions, but we let a combination of the military-industrial complex, always looking for their next paycheck, and D.C. bureaucrats and lawyers just take over the entire process.

00:18:57.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, when I talk, again, to my buddies who were there who were serving the teams, I was like, what happened?

00:19:03.000 How did you take out—they go, well, they just, like, let us do what we do best, which is like, you know, essentially killing bad guys.

00:19:09.000 It's like—and it's so obvious.

00:19:12.000 You know, clearly it's not rocket science.

00:19:14.000 Like, let the operators operate.

00:19:15.000 You know what I mean? Let them do what they do best.

00:19:18.000 And they were able to turn it around so quickly— How is it possible?

00:19:24.000 Everyone understands now, I think, certainly, probably not early on, the depths and, frankly, the depravity of the military-industrial complex.

00:19:33.000 But how was it that there was no one until Trump that was, again, aside from the operators who knew but just couldn't break rank, right? 1.00

00:19:40.000 They still followed those things, even if they're being led by idiots. 1.00

00:19:44.000 How is it that no one said, like, hey, this is so obvious. 1.00

00:19:48.000 Why don't we do this? I mean, it doesn't feel like you...

00:19:52.000 Now, looking at the world in which we live today, I guess everything's sort of like this.

00:19:55.000 But how is it that no one there, not one general even, didn't say, hey, why don't we just do this?

00:20:01.000 Because it turned around so quickly.

00:20:04.000 And you see, after the Afghan withdrawal and the dejection and all of this, people wondering, was it 20 years wasted, all those lives, all the people maimed?

00:20:13.000 It's such a terrible thing.

00:20:14.000 And you tie that into recruiting.

00:20:16.000 How is it possible that that could still happen?

00:20:20.000 You know, tragically, we stopped promoting our senior officers based on battlefield performance.

00:20:25.000 And they were promoted based on towing the party line.

00:20:29.000 And the party line was the unit party line.

00:20:30.000 It was that, hey, we always need to be involved in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:20:34.000 Our mission will never be over there because our mission is going to be to turn these places

00:20:38.000 into a Jeffersonian democracy, which everyone, if you'd spent five minutes there or even studied

00:20:43.000 the region, you knew was a complete and total pipe dream.

00:20:45.000 However, it is a great self-licking ice cream cone. It will never allow you to run out of

00:20:50.000 business. It will always require more and more resources. So it's the best draw ever for the military

00:20:55.000 industrial complex. Any officer, once they reach the mid-level, they figure out that game

00:20:59.000 and they play by the rules and that's how they get promoted. But if they stick their head up,

00:21:03.000 they're going to get cut off way, way early at a very junior rate, so much so that you'll

00:21:07.000 never really even know their name.

00:21:09.000 And so that's kind of how we got in the predicament that we're in right now.

00:21:13.000 Because if you have a realistic assessment of what our vital national security interest is, like your father did, he came in and he said, okay, so wait, as an outsider, he came in and said, what's the deal with the Middle East?

00:21:21.000 And people are like, well, there's terrorists there.

00:21:22.000 And he's like, well, that's great. Let's find the terrorists and let's kill them. 1.00

00:21:25.000 I have a solution for that. 1.00

00:21:28.000 Yeah, kill that guy. 1.00

00:21:29.000 He's a bad dude. 1.00

00:21:51.000 We would have been out of Afghanistan in May of 2021.

00:21:54.000 That was the plan. 0.93

00:21:56.000 That was the agreement that the Taliban agreed to as well because we had fucked them to the negotiating table. 0.86

00:22:00.000 However, the military-industrial complex cannot have that. 0.77

00:22:03.000 The intelligence community cannot have that.

00:22:05.000 So then they started doing all their different tricks, the Russian bounties narrative, all these types of things that we now know were complete and total lies, but they're just trying the exact same lies in a different theater in Ukraine right now.

00:22:18.000 I obviously got to get to Ukraine, but I mean, you lost your wife in Syria.

00:22:24.000 Talk a little bit about that, because it's not even a country that I would think, you know, the average American probably doesn't even know we're still there.

00:22:32.000 And, you know, we tried getting out of that, and it looked like we were going to do that.

00:22:36.000 And then as recently as, I think it was even a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago, I was like, there was some article, we still have X number of troops.

00:22:43.000 I'm like, even I didn't know that.

00:22:46.000 And for what?

00:22:47.000 I mean, obviously, that's going to be something much closer to you.

00:22:52.000 But I mean, that we're still fighting like multi-front wars.

00:22:55.000 We have boots on the ground in Ukraine.

00:22:57.000 We found that out. We sort of always knew it was a proxy war.

00:23:00.000 We're spending billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars for this.

00:23:07.000 But... We still have people on the ground in Syria.

00:23:10.000 You lost your wife there.

00:23:11.000 A few years ago, I remember hearing the story from my father because I guess when you first met was when he was receiving the bodies that came over.

00:23:22.000 You guys struck up a conversation.

00:23:23.000 I thought it was such an incredible story.

00:23:25.000 He relayed it to me before you took it upon yourself to take it to the next level and run for office and push back and be a thorn in the side of that That complex, the military industrial complex and others talking about it, but that's still going on today.

00:23:40.000 And I don't even know that anyone can articulate what our goals there are, and yet we're still there, we're still spending money, and could likely still lose more lives.

00:23:51.000 Yeah, I think you're exactly right.

00:23:52.000 I think people forget that we have people in Syria and why you went in the first place.

00:23:56.000 The Islamic Caliphate really kind of started in Iraq but found sanctuary in Syria in their civil war.

00:24:01.000 And so we had to go into Syria to take away all the ground the Islamic Caliphate controlled. 0.96

00:24:06.000 But your father did something very unique.

00:24:07.000 He said, hey, our goal is to defeat the Islamic Caliphate. 0.96

00:24:10.000 Then we're leaving. No other president had said We're good to go.

00:24:26.000 Yeah, exactly. These are things they really care about.

00:24:29.000 So we need to just stay there forever and continue to send our sons and daughters off to die there.

00:24:33.000 But my late wife was part of the Special Operations Task Force that was part of the push into Syria to take away the last little bit of ground that the caliphate controlled.

00:24:43.000 So, by late 2018, we had taken away pretty much all the ground ISIS controlled.

00:24:47.000 Once we finally took away the last village they controlled, so ISIS then controlled no more actual physical territory, your father did something very significant.

00:24:55.000 He said, okay, now this is over.

00:24:57.000 We're actually going to leave.

00:24:59.000 We're not going to get drawn into this quagmire.

00:25:01.000 I think we're good to go.

00:25:22.000 But again, the military-industrial complex, that was their overall goal.

00:25:25.000 They wanted regime change.

00:25:26.000 Your father said, hey, let's get them out of there.

00:25:28.000 And I could see this coming.

00:25:30.000 I had already switched over, and I was working at the CIA. And I had seen over the two previous years, once President Trump took over, I had seen mid- to senior-level bureaucrats do something that was completely foreign to me.

00:25:41.000 They were saying that, hey, we're not going to follow the policy of the guy in the White House, which to me, I was like, wait a sec, back up.

00:25:47.000 That's not the oath that we took to the Constitution.

00:25:49.000 And so when I heard President Trump give the order to pull out of Syria, I was communicating with my wife because we both had access to classified systems.

00:25:55.000 And I was just like, they're not going to let this fly.

00:25:58.000 They're going to do everything they can.

00:26:00.000 To keep you guys there.

00:26:01.000 And sure enough, unfortunately, I was correct.

00:26:03.000 And her and three other Americans were killed in January on a combat operation that we most certainly did not need to be on.

00:26:11.000 And to this day, we still have Americans in Syria.

00:26:14.000 It's gone before the Congress two different times to get our troops out of there.

00:26:17.000 And unfortunately, Republicans and Democrats alike have banded together to keep our troops there.

00:26:22.000 We recently lost an American contractor there.

00:26:24.000 We've had an air crew of 20 or so that got We're good to go.

00:26:45.000 Yeah, for all the people that, you know, talk all the nonsense about, you know, the commander-in-chief and everything like that, that's a big one, right?

00:26:51.000 I mean, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. military, the president of the United States, gave orders that were basically just ignored.

00:26:57.000 They just chose not to follow it.

00:26:59.000 I mean, talk about that, because, I mean, it shows, I think, the strength of the deep state, as well as, I think, it highlights some of the illusion.

00:27:06.000 You sort of, you started talking about, you know, when you joined, we all thought differently of our country and what we were fighting for versus, you know, the lessons we all learned.

00:27:15.000 I learned that one the hard way, you know, with, you know, the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:27:20.000 I'm like, wait a second, I committed treason, a crime punishable by death?

00:27:23.000 Like, what's going on here?

00:27:25.000 And it turns out, like, yeah, they've been lying to us, you know?

00:27:29.000 I feel differently today about Julian Assange than I did, you know, 10, 15 years ago, because I was like, oh, he may be putting people in harm.

00:27:37.000 I was like, no, no, no. We're standing on a pedestal to the world telling them X, Y, Z while doing exactly the opposite.

00:27:43.000 Like, we're the biggest hypocrites in all of this, you know, so that they could just ignore those orders.

00:27:49.000 You know, talk about that, because I think...

00:27:54.000 Again, the disillusionment, the recruiting problems.

00:27:57.000 How do you get a patriot to sign up for something, to go fight for their country, possibly give up their lives, When we don't really know what their actual vision is.

00:28:07.000 It's certainly not what we all thought.

00:28:09.000 And I think that was a shame because it was something I never wanted to have happen.

00:28:13.000 Even as it was going on and happening to me, I was like, well, if the CIA said something, you know, there must be some truth to it, right?

00:28:20.000 Like, if the FBI is corroborating this evidence, like, I don't know, maybe some of these people that they accused me, I was like, maybe they were talking with me. 0.99

00:28:28.000 No, it's just all bullshit, right? 0.98

00:28:30.000 It didn't matter. And they got caught, but there's also no consequence now, so what's to stop them from doing it again? 0.99

00:28:37.000 Yeah, I mean, it's one of the more stunning things I've witnessed in my life.

00:28:42.000 I mean, I came in under Bill Clinton.

00:28:43.000 I served through Bush. I served through Obama.

00:28:44.000 I told you how I felt about the Obama administration when I was serving under it.

00:28:49.000 But me and none of my friends, we didn't speak out.

00:28:51.000 I mean, we were out there. We were fighting.

00:28:53.000 We were getting shot at. We didn't agree with Obama's policy, but he was the commander-in-chief.

00:28:57.000 Took an oath to support and defend him.

00:28:59.000 He's the guy the American people supported.

00:29:01.000 We saluted him, moved out, did our jobs.

00:29:03.000 All of that completely changed by the time President Trump came into office.

00:29:07.000 And at that point, I had been in the military for quite a while.

00:29:10.000 And so I was shocked to see senior-level leaders in the DOD, the Intelligence Committee, the State Department, just say, yeah, we're not going to do what the White House says.

00:29:19.000 I mean, to me, I was just like, wait a sec.

00:29:20.000 Was I following a different script than everybody else?

00:29:23.000 Eight years ago, I was told that I had to listen to the guy that I didn't like, and I did it.

00:29:28.000 Now that the guy that you guys don't like is in power, you're just not going to listen to him.

00:29:33.000 And so I witnessed that for the last two years of my military career.

00:29:36.000 And then when I switched over and was a paramilitary operations officer in the CIA, it was the same thing.

00:29:40.000 You had these mid-level CIA guys who were saying like, no, we're just going to blow off kind of what the president's saying, because we know the policy best.

00:29:47.000 I mean, I think one of the We're good to go.

00:30:11.000 Elected to command the military and our foreign policy doesn't understand the policy.

00:30:15.000 Like, it just doesn't make any sense and it points to the hypocrisy.

00:30:18.000 But that was the mentality at the time under President Trump and that resulted in getting my late wife and many other folks killed and keeping us in these disastrous wars in Syria, Iraq and in Afghanistan.

00:30:30.000 And now we're seeing it all unfold with the whole Ukraine issue.

00:30:33.000 And a lot of these intelligence officials, these are the same guys that we now know lied.

00:30:36.000 The 51 spies who lied about Hunter's laptop.

00:30:39.000 These exact same guys were pushing the Russia-Russia narrative, accusing you of a crime punishable by death, you and so many others.

00:30:46.000 And now we're seeing that exact same apparatus that has been exposed.

00:30:49.000 They're continuing to roll this out and weaponize it against the American people.

00:30:53.000 So it's just something that we have to stop or we're simply not going to have a country anymore.

00:30:58.000 Yeah, you know, Vindemann was created into a hero, even though it seems like anyone who actually served just called him a fat pig chow thief, which is ultimately probably what he was. 0.99

00:31:06.000 But they put this guy out there.

00:31:08.000 He's able to contradict there.

00:31:10.000 He, I guess, the policy is what the deep state decided it is.

00:31:13.000 That has to be the policy, not the guy that was elected, largely on a platform of doing the opposite

00:31:18.000 of what the policy was, of getting out of the never-ending wars.

00:31:21.000 And yet I know, if I went after him, I was attacked and he tried suing me

00:31:25.000 and that got dismissed, because again, I don't think it'd be fact-check wrong 0.98

00:31:30.000 to call him a fat pig. 0.99

00:31:31.000 He was a fat pig, but that didn't matter. 1.00

00:31:32.000 He was, oh, he's a combat vet. 0.99

00:31:34.000 I'm like, you can be a combat vet, and I don't know, he's not a combat vet like you,

00:31:39.000 but he was put out there as beyond reproach.

00:31:42.000 You know, any whistleblower that was against Trump, but, like, if there's a whistleblower against Biden, like, you never hear from him again.

00:31:47.000 They don't get a platform.

00:31:49.000 They get court-martialed.

00:31:50.000 They put in Gitmo.

00:31:52.000 And it was just so different, because it wasn't the policy of what the American people wanted.

00:31:57.000 It was the policy of what the deep state wanted, the military-industrial complex, permanent Washington, D.C. And all of these guys just got rich around this, so that was their policy, and the military had to enforce their policy, get them rich, Even if it was contrary to what the American people wanted.

00:32:12.000 And again, I think a big part of my father's 2016 platform was ending the never-ending wars.

00:32:18.000 Yeah, and it was very popular.

00:32:20.000 And that's why we had the surprise defeat of the Deep States candidate, Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:32:24.000 And your father came in there on that ticket.

00:32:26.000 And I think that message still resonates.

00:32:28.000 And I think this is a huge reason why they're pushing so hard against President Trump and against anyone who questions the national security state.

00:32:36.000 Because right now, they're pushing for a whole other war We're good to go.

00:33:01.000 Do you honestly think, in the way that you understand how America should work, that we should have these unelected bureaucrats in our intelligence agencies with very potent tools able to control what happens with our government, with our foreign policy, with our domestic policy, violating people's basic civil rights?

00:33:18.000 Is that the America that you want? 0.94

00:33:20.000 Because that's really what the Democrats stand for at this point, the Joe Biden Democrats anyways.

00:33:25.000 We get a little bit of divergence with RFK Jr., but it's just absolute insanity.

00:33:30.000 But unfortunately, you get people that are just so blinded by their emotions, they can't look past that.

00:33:36.000 But again, if we don't fix these major issues and restore the people's will back to Washington, D.C., we're not going to have a country for much longer.

00:33:44.000 Yeah, no, that was the irony of sort of the Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense.

00:33:47.000 It's like, well, you know, Trump, harder sanctions on Russia than...

00:33:51.000 I mean, I think it was in Syria, didn't they?

00:33:52.000 I mean, didn't we have our guys, like, take out a bunch of Russian guys that kept encroaching? 1.00

00:33:56.000 We gave them every warning. They weren't listening.

00:33:58.000 So, I mean, I think we wiped out, like, 150, like, Russian combat troops in Syria because they, you know, they're doing what they do.

00:34:05.000 No one's pretending that Putin's a good guy.

00:34:08.000 But this whole narrative was, like, so if Putin really had the stuff on Trump, you'd think...

00:34:13.000 I don't know. He'd probably use it right after we took out, you know, 100-plus Russian, you know, commandos while playing games. 1.00

00:34:20.000 I think that was Syria, wasn't it?

00:34:23.000 Yeah, absolutely. That was in Syria.

00:34:24.000 So the Russians were—they knew Obama was weak.

00:34:27.000 I mean, what a lot of these foreign policy expert types don't understand is that a lot of what happens overseas comes down to who is the toughest.

00:34:34.000 It's really sometimes that simple.

00:34:36.000 And Obama was weak. 0.85

00:34:37.000 Everyone knew Obama was weak.

00:34:38.000 The Russians would push up against us in Syria.

00:34:41.000 And under Obama, we literally had to surrender and leave our positions to let the Russians in. 0.92

00:34:46.000 And this was just a total flex by the Russians.

00:34:48.000 They were going after ISIS, and so were we.

00:34:50.000 They were working with the Syrian government, but there was times where our objectives overlapped.

00:34:54.000 And so just to give us a little nudge to let us know who was in charge, they would kind of flex on us.

00:34:59.000 And then when your dad came into office, he said, no, we're not going to do that.

00:35:03.000 You have the right to defend yourselves if they push you.

00:35:06.000 And so Wagner mercenaries, they pushed up against us.

00:35:09.000 They were warned multiple times and they got the business end of an AC-130 and a bunch of other fire from the Ranger Regiment and killed, I think, well over 200 or so of their troops.

00:35:21.000 And so, like, yeah, after that, I think we're good to go.

00:35:29.000 I think we're good to go.

00:35:41.000 We took away the power that Putin had.

00:35:43.000 We took away the power that the OPEC cartel had because we were flooding the market with cheap U.S. energy.

00:35:48.000 And it was a win for us.

00:35:50.000 It made us strong at home.

00:35:51.000 And it made the dictators and tyrants of the world.

00:35:53.000 It gave them less resources to have foreign adventures and to invade other countries like Ukraine.

00:35:59.000 Yeah, I mean, it's such a no-brainer, and that no one's discussing that.

00:36:03.000 It's just sort of miraculous.

00:36:05.000 It was like when Germany complained about NATO. It's like, well, we want to buy cheap Russian gas, but we want you to also then up our NATO spending, so you cover all of that.

00:36:15.000 We won't meet our obligations.

00:36:16.000 And then when Trump's like, well, we're not going to pay for you if you're literally enriching NATO. Rather than getting it from us or somewhere else, you're literally enriching those who you want us to protect you from.

00:36:28.000 So as you give them more billions, you want us to up our spending so you can get cheap gas and we get screwed in the process.

00:36:33.000 It's insane, but that's exactly what's going on here.

00:36:36.000 But what other lessons from the war on terror or the war in the Middle East...

00:36:42.000 Can we apply to, like, the current challenges we're facing, you know, right now, certainly in Ukraine, and obviously, honestly, potentially in Taiwan when we have to start dealing with the Chinese? 0.89

00:36:53.000 I think, really, peace through strength.

00:36:56.000 I mean, that is the only doctrine, whether it was employed by your father most recently or whether it was employed by President Reagan.

00:37:02.000 I think that's the lesson learned.

00:37:04.000 If we go looking for foreign adventures and foreign wars, it ends in disaster, whether we're talking about Vietnam, whether we're talking about the war on terror.

00:37:12.000 Yes, there is a time to go and take punitive action against select targets, but those need to be very select, and we need to say, hey, this is the target, this is our criteria for success, and this is how we're getting out of it.

00:37:22.000 But in general, we need to strengthen ourselves and strengthen our country.

00:37:26.000 We won the Cold War because we developed an independent economic powerhouse in America that lifted Americans out of poverty but made us strong, made us secure.

00:37:35.000 We're blessed in this country.

00:37:36.000 We don't need to import things.

00:37:38.000 I mean, we have all the energy below our feet that we need today.

00:37:41.000 From sea to shining sea, we do not need foreign supply chains in China.

00:37:45.000 We don't need to be relying on other countries to make our microchips and microprocessors.

00:37:49.000 We can do that all right here at home.

00:37:52.000 And once we're strong here at home, then we can actually start using our economic power, which is what we just spoke about, what your father did with controlling energy prices by flooding the market with cheap US energy.

00:38:03.000 That took away the ability for Putin to do something like conduct a military adventure into Ukraine.

00:38:08.000 Right now, the world sees that we're weak.

00:38:11.000 Biden hit us with a real big double whammy.

00:38:13.000 Not only did he show just how weak he was, because he wanted to keep us in Afghanistan for just a long enough time for him to have a symbolic withdrawal so that he didn't follow the Trump plan.

00:38:23.000 He couldn't just follow the Trump plan.

00:38:24.000 He had to do his own thing.

00:38:25.000 And then his generals backstabbed him like they backstabbed pretty much every administration because they wanted to stay there.

00:38:31.000 But the world saw how weak we were with that boss withdrawal.

00:38:34.000 But then at the same time, he killed off US energy.

00:38:36.000 And so now we're back to being dependent on the OPEC cartel.

00:38:40.000 And so we're weak at home.

00:38:41.000 We're weak abroad. And so why wouldn't every single bad actor from Vladimir Putin all the way to Xi Jinping in China, why wouldn't they advance?

00:38:49.000 Right now, we're in a position where we've got to do a lot of rebuilding back at home.

00:38:54.000 Accountability is the next one.

00:38:55.000 We can't allow the military industrial complex and the intelligence community to throw a dart at a map and say, well, that's where the next threat to our democracy is.

00:39:04.000 Therefore, we need to forego giving any kind of aid to American citizens in Hawaii and in Florida, and we need to send billions of dollars over there.

00:39:11.000 Agree with us, or you're a Putin supporter.

00:39:12.000 We need to start holding those people to account.

00:39:15.000 Starting with the 51 intelligence officers who lied, all those guys should be stripped of their clearance.

00:39:19.000 People like Adam Schiff who continued to lie and abuse their access to classified information, they need to be held accountable.

00:39:25.000 So I think transparency and strength at home is what the biggest lessons learned from the last 20 years of conflict are.

00:39:32.000 Yeah, I mean, it seems so basic, right?

00:39:34.000 Just resolve. Having some resolve.

00:39:37.000 And especially if you sort of take it, let's call it that Eastern European mindset of Putin or whatever it is, masculinity, toughness.

00:39:44.000 They're not going to get embarrassed on a world stage, but if they know they're going to be, that you're a pushover, they don't understand the basic psychology of how that even works is pretty troubling.

00:39:54.000 But as we're talking about Ukraine, are you worried that Ukraine could escalate, you know, much more than it is right now, and possibly even into, like, a nuclear conflict.

00:40:04.000 Because, you know, again, that mentality, a strong guy's not going to get pushed around by a weak guy, even if the—you know, eventually there's a breaking point there.

00:40:13.000 You know, Putin's not going to— We're good to go.

00:40:30.000 You know, they've hidden from the American people that we had boots on the ground, and that was a leak.

00:40:33.000 Now, that guy's never been heard of from there.

00:40:35.000 It was a story for about five minutes.

00:40:39.000 Let's hide this from everyone.

00:40:40.000 We're not going to talk about this anymore.

00:40:42.000 What do you think happens there?

00:40:43.000 Because, I mean, that to me is scary as hell, and it's also indicative of what ultimately China then sees that weakness and uses it to go after our proper allies in Taiwan, right?

00:40:55.000 That's a little bit different, right? Ukraine was never in NATO. We say they're an ally, but I'm not really sure that was ever the case.

00:41:02.000 I mean, they're not an ally.

00:41:04.000 They were a buffer zone. They're a corrupt regime. 0.98

00:41:07.000 Many people before this war talked about them being more corrupt actually than Russia, which is almost hard to believe.

00:41:13.000 But now St.

00:41:15.000 Zelensky, infallible, totally beyond reproach.

00:41:19.000 He can do nothing wrong, but it's all a lie.

00:41:21.000 What's the end result here?

00:41:24.000 Right now, we're about 18 months into this conflict.

00:41:28.000 When it first broke out, I think it's really easy for the national security apparatus to manipulate the good intentions and the goodwill of the American people.

00:41:36.000 When we see someone who's bigger, like Russia, come in and invade another country, our natural American tendency is to say, that's horrible, because it is horrible, and we want to do something. 0.96

00:41:45.000 Therefore, we don't look at what led to this invasion, why it happened in the first place.

00:41:52.000 It had nothing to do with us taking that buffer zone that was a stalemate zone, let's call it, for 60 years and being like, you know what, we're just going to move NATO's borders like 500 miles closer to Russia.

00:42:02.000 It had nothing to do with that, right?

00:42:03.000 That wouldn't upset you if there was sort of historical precedent.

00:42:07.000 It had always been that way.

00:42:09.000 Like, let's call it half the country sort of You know, kind of Russian at least one way or the other.

00:42:14.000 And all of a sudden, we're going to move that border right there.

00:42:16.000 Like, we pretend like we're so innocent in this whole thing.

00:42:18.000 It's actually not true if we're going to be literally, like, objectively honest with ourselves.

00:42:23.000 It doesn't mean Putin wouldn't have done it.

00:42:25.000 But we gave him every excuse imaginable to take this action that maybe he wanted.

00:42:31.000 Just like we're showing China.

00:42:32.000 Hey, we're going to be weak.

00:42:34.000 We're not actually going to do much.

00:42:35.000 We'll do a little bit of dollar stuff.

00:42:36.000 But, like... We're showing our enemies that we're weak and they can do whatever.

00:42:41.000 And we're also showing those who have historically been our allies just how weak they are.

00:42:45.000 And that's a bad combination when you combine both of those mentalities. 0.80

00:42:49.000 No, it's horrible. And look, the Ukrainians, we've thrown them into this massive charnel house of just blood and carnage by saying that, hey, we said the quiet part out loud. 1.00

00:42:59.000 Lindsey Graham has said that we're willing to just continue to watch Ukrainians die because, you know, some Russians are also dying.

00:43:05.000 So there's this sick, perverse fantasy that Washington, D.C. seems to have with, like, Toppling the regime in Russia, which is absolutely insanity, but you hear supposedly serious people talk about this all the time.

00:43:16.000 And so what's Putin supposed to do?

00:43:17.000 You've got an aggressive, expansive NATO on his border.

00:43:20.000 He's going to tolerate that as much as we would tolerate an aggressive, expansive Russia in Quebec or in Mexico City. 0.86

00:43:26.000 He's not going to stand for it.

00:43:27.000 It's an existential threat to Russia, whether Putin's in charge or not.

00:43:31.000 So there's going to be a conflict there.

00:43:33.000 And we've basically said that, hey, we're all in.

00:43:36.000 Secretary Austin just yesterday, the Secretary of Defense, said we're with Ukraine for as long as it takes.

00:43:41.000 But the problem is Ukraine's a smaller country than Russia.

00:43:44.000 Look at a map and you can understand, any person can understand this.

00:43:48.000 So Ukraine is running out of people to send to the front line and fight.

00:43:52.000 There was just an article the other day saying that Ukraine is going to start conscripting their women to go fight because they literally are running out of men.

00:43:59.000 Regardless of the billions of dollars that we've poured in there.

00:44:03.000 And so at some point, I personally think right now, if you're a pragmatic Ukrainian leader, the only play you have left is to attempt to get NATO and the US deeply involved, more boots on the ground inside of Ukraine, because they need to bring us in and get us involved in this.

00:44:18.000 This is incredibly dangerous because if this happens, then Russia is going to say, well, okay, well, what's next?

00:44:23.000 Are these guys going to march on Moscow?

00:44:25.000 Are they going to do a preemptive strike?

00:44:26.000 And so we move even closer to a potential nuclear war.

00:44:29.000 The reason why so many folks in the Reagan administration and in the early phases of the Bush 41 and then in the Clinton administration were against NATO expansion was because of this exact scenario right They said the last thing we want to do is provoke Russia.

00:44:46.000 So we need to have a pragmatic approach.

00:44:49.000 We need to have a policy of containment, but don't move NATO one inch further to the east.

00:44:55.000 But we've completely and totally violated that.

00:44:57.000 So I think we're headed for an absolute disaster.

00:45:00.000 And you mentioned what's going on with China.

00:45:01.000 China has come in and they've underwritten all of Russia's financial woes in this conflict.

00:45:06.000 Oh, we're creating incredible financial alliances for both of them.

00:45:10.000 You know, China's going to get Cheap energy, they'll take crappy oil, zero environmental concern, all the things we're doing for, like, we're literally creating the roadmap for them to ignore all of that, boosting our enemies, giving them the security that they need, while simultaneously just... 0.92

00:45:26.000 Destroying our coffers, you know, our military stockpiling, all of that, you know, just gone.

00:45:32.000 Like, you know, I'd say the sanctions have helped Russia far more than they've hurt Russia.

00:45:37.000 You know, the sanctions.

00:45:39.000 They've pushed Russia into Saudi's arms. 0.91

00:45:42.000 They've pushed them into China's arms. 0.97

00:45:43.000 They're being embraced on a world stage.

00:45:46.000 The BRIC nations are getting together and saying, hey, this is like America's week right now.

00:45:49.000 Let's get together. And, you know, they're going to beat us in GDP? It's...

00:45:54.000 Like, we're literally creating our own demise, and no conversation about what the end result of the policies are, because, you know, Slava, Ukraine, and all of that shit. 0.99

00:46:04.000 Like, enough. Yeah. 0.98

00:46:06.000 Yeah, I mean, Russia or China is actually our number one foe right now, and they fight on an economic front.

00:46:12.000 And a lot of that is because we sent our manufacturing base over there and we became, you know, deeply dependent on China.

00:46:18.000 But China is not going to come and fight America directly head on.

00:46:21.000 That's not how you take down America.

00:46:22.000 You go after our currency, especially when we don't produce things here anymore in our country.

00:46:27.000 And the only export we have is the U.S. dollar.

00:46:29.000 So what do you attack? You attack the dollar.

00:46:31.000 And we fell for that hook, line, and sinker.

00:46:33.000 They came in, and like you said, they absorbed all of the sanctions that we attempted to put on Russia.

00:46:38.000 And now we've combined the world's largest labor force, China, with the world's biggest natural resource exporter, Russia.

00:46:44.000 And now they're bringing in all the different BRIC nations.

00:46:47.000 They're cutting deals with OPEC. We've actually got OPEC countries that are now selling oil, not using the dollar.

00:46:52.000 So they're taking away our one advantage.

00:46:54.000 They're selling the dollar in rubles, in gold, in Chinese yuan.

00:46:59.000 And so now the Chinese are poised to actually attack our status as the prime reserve currency holder. 0.96

00:47:03.000 It's not going to happen overnight.

00:47:04.000 However, if we lose even just a little bit of influence we have as the prime reserve currency holder, that's basically our number one expert.

00:47:11.000 That's the whole way our economy is geared right now.

00:47:13.000 The only good thing that can come from that is at least maybe we won't be giving countries like Pakistan $20 million for gender studies in their schools because we literally won't be able to borrow and fund the sort of surplus spending that we have.

00:47:27.000 I mean, someone... Man, who was it?

00:47:31.000 Man, someone on the show a couple weeks ago, they were talking about literally the delta, the trade deficit between China and the U.S., that money is literally their entire military budget.

00:47:43.000 So you're right. They're fighting an economic battle right now.

00:47:46.000 They're playing a 1,000-year, 500-year game.

00:47:48.000 We're playing, you know, the primaries are in two weeks, so let's make really bad decisions

00:47:52.000 right now to maybe get us elected so we can keep making bad decisions for another two

00:47:56.000 years or if you're in the Senate, another six years.

00:47:59.000 But you know, China's fighting the economic battle right now, but that could actually

00:48:05.000 turn into a military battle in the not too distant future because they're using the advantage

00:48:11.000 they got on the economic side to build up their military.

00:48:15.000 They are, yeah, 100 percent.

00:48:16.000 And we are foolishly financing all of it, whether we're talking about the way our markets are aligned, whether we're talking about what the major hedge fund holders are doing, BlackRock, Vanguard, and all that, the way they're bailing out the Chinese with our pension funds, but then also the fact that China controls the vast majority of manufacturing and production, and that wasn't a force of nature. 0.77

00:48:34.000 That didn't happen naturally. That was a conscientious decision made by Washington, D.C. elites.

00:48:40.000 And the second you get someone like President Trump who comes in there and says, this is stupid, it's a bad deal for us, Well, that's when you get the intelligence community to come after you. 0.94

00:48:47.000 If you want the intelligence community to come after you, try and end the endless wars, the military industrial complex, and onshore manufacturing all at once. 0.99

00:48:54.000 You're going to get the treatment on that one.

00:48:56.000 It's also a good way to lose the billionaire conservative donors.

00:49:00.000 Because, you know, we don't like Jana that much, but if we get our widget for one cent cheaper over there... 0.98

00:49:07.000 You're going to keep doing it. I think it was Peter Navarro.

00:49:08.000 Peter was on the show a couple weeks ago, and he was talking about just that.

00:49:11.000 And he sort of headed up sort of the negotiations against China that we were actually really successful with. 0.99

00:49:17.000 But, you know, the second we were out, they just abandoned all of that because they knew they were dealing with imbeciles. 0.99

00:49:23.000 And it changed. And it's just really scary how we have people making decisions, multi-trillion dollar decisions, in many cases, who have... 0.99

00:49:31.000 No basic understanding.

00:49:33.000 You know, it was like, you know, our Secretary of State who thought it was shocked and dismayed that the Taliban did not install, and I quote, a more diverse and inclusive government, close quote.

00:49:42.000 You know, like, that guy was rewarded that because he was the one that set up the 52 intelligence officers that said the Russian, you know, the Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation.

00:49:52.000 Like, that's not a serious person. 0.99

00:49:54.000 That guy's a clown. He's an imbecile. 1.00

00:49:57.000 Young children would understand that that's not... 1.00

00:50:02.000 Like, the Taliban was going to be...

00:50:04.000 They were going to have... Leah Thomas from the University of Pennsylvania swim team was going to be heading up the trans coalition of the Taliban government. 0.99

00:50:12.000 Like, that... If you're dismayed, fine.

00:50:14.000 You can be upset about it. But did you really seriously think that the people that were throwing homosexuals off of buildings a couple months ago were all of a sudden going to be woke and they're going to embrace the insanity of today's radical left? 0.91

00:50:27.000 But these are the people that are actually making the decisions that our children and our grandchildren after them are going to be beholden to because there's a point of no return on some of these things.

00:50:37.000 China gets that advantage. They're never giving it up.

00:50:40.000 And that's where we're heading.

00:50:43.000 No, that's right. And look, we get distracted easily by, you know, can the Taliban install a more diverse cabinet? 0.84

00:50:49.000 And, you know, like, what's the ESG score in Ukraine going to be once we liberate all of Ukraine?

00:50:56.000 But the Chinese aren't distracted by this whatsoever.

00:50:59.000 They're gobbling up as many countries into their sphere of influence as they possibly can.

00:51:02.000 They're attacking the dollar.

00:51:04.000 Like you said, they haven't taken their eye off the ball.

00:51:06.000 We get easily distracted.

00:51:08.000 A lot of that's baked into the cake with American politics, for sure.

00:51:11.000 But we also have an elite in Washington, D.C., that really, they know that they're getting paid from the endless wars.

00:51:17.000 They know that they're getting paid from us financing everything that China does, whether it's their military or keeping our manufacturing base shipped over there.

00:51:24.000 And they don't give a damn about what happens to American workers or your average American back here at home.

00:51:29.000 That's the biggest issue.

00:51:30.000 And the scary thing is China knows that.

00:51:32.000 And also, we've got Joe Biden in the White House, who's compromised six ways to Sunday by pretty Pretty much every country, but mainly the Chinese and the Ukrainians.

00:51:41.000 These guys have all kinds of dirt on him.

00:51:42.000 So really, I think right now, China has the freedom of movement to essentially kind of do what they want.

00:51:48.000 They're in the driver's seat, and Biden's in the receive mode.

00:51:50.000 He's got to run cover for them no matter what they do.

00:51:53.000 Yeah, no, and again, you know, big tech, our mainstream media, they're totally complicit.

00:51:58.000 Like, I'm shocked literally every day.

00:52:00.000 Like, CNN has not asked the question, like, hey, as the White House even admits, like, we're the closest we are to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s.

00:52:09.000 Like, we're saying that.

00:52:11.000 And they're not asking, hey, could it be because Ukraine has the Hunter laptop

00:52:17.000 or maybe has stuff on the Bidens that isn't on the laptop?

00:52:21.000 Hard to believe.

00:52:21.000 That could be worse.

00:52:22.000 We're not even asking that question.

00:52:24.000 We're spending $130 billion, probably plus a good portion of what the Pentagon lost

00:52:31.000 in the $225 billion that they misplaced.

00:52:34.000 Minor details.

00:52:35.000 What's $225 million between friends?

00:52:40.000 No one's even asking the question, are our policies a derivative of that these guys have

00:52:45.000 information that they would use against the Bidens?

00:52:47.000 And so we're screwing America to cover up what's already a disastrous, far larger than Watergate by any stretch of the imagination— And yet, like, they don't even ask the question, like, hey, could our policy that could bring us to nuclear war possibly be affected because they got power over a Democrat president?

00:53:08.000 And watching the media not even ask those questions do the Democrat Party bidding because they want to make sure that, you know, I guess we got trans indoctrination in kindergarten and every kindergarten in the country or something like that, that that's more important to them than the big picture.

00:53:23.000 It shows you how far we've fallen.

00:53:26.000 Yeah, for sure. I mean, there's no more actual, like, media that's out there doing investigative journalism that reaches the, you know, broad swath of the American people.

00:53:34.000 Because, unfortunately, a lot of folks still think they can get their news from the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN. And, like you said, have they even asked the most basic question of, like, hey, we're sending billions to Ukraine, potential nuclear war.

00:53:45.000 Kind of weird, Mr.

00:53:47.000 President, that your son was part of Burisma Partners.

00:53:49.000 Like, can you talk about that?

00:53:51.000 We have these bank records. No one will even bring that up.

00:53:53.000 The same thing applies to China.

00:53:55.000 And so it just shows just how compromised the media is.

00:53:58.000 And then anytime any of that even starts to scratch the surface, you've got big tech working in direct coordination with the intelligence community to silence all of it, you know?

00:54:07.000 And the Biden-DOJ indicting Trump, like, the next day, every time, to, like, just...

00:54:12.000 Cover it up! Maybe it's out there a little bit, but we're just going to cover it.

00:54:16.000 I realize now, Joe, that I'm a schmuck. 0.97

00:54:19.000 I should have been out there selling America for billions to China, because apparently, if you're the son of a president, you can do that and get away with it and face no consequences, but I have a feeling it would be different for me. 0.97

00:54:29.000 Yeah, I think if your last name is Trump, the rules are going to be just a little bit different.

00:54:33.000 I'm pretty sure if you had any late library books right now, we'd probably know about it.

00:54:37.000 Yeah, I'd be in Gitmo.

00:54:39.000 Yeah, you'd be in Gitmo.

00:54:41.000 Yeah, that would make something up anyway.

00:54:45.000 The military recruitment crisis is really, it's a historic disaster.

00:54:51.000 I mean, we've never seen anything like this.

00:54:53.000 You know, is it a combination of things?

00:54:55.000 What are the cause? I mean, it's not just COVID mandates or, I mean, maybe the wokeness, but... 0.99

00:55:01.000 What are the primary causes?

00:55:03.000 What are you seeing out there? And how do we fix it?

00:55:05.000 Because I have guys that are buddies, multi-generational military service guys that are like, I would never let my kid go to this military.

00:55:12.000 I mean, he's a patriot. A, he'd never be able to get anywhere because he'd be cut out for basically being a conservative.

00:55:19.000 But how do we fix this problem?

00:55:22.000 Because, I mean, it seems like now more than ever we're actually facing You know, bad actors throughout the world, you know, not just fictitious ones to enrich the military complex, but actual bad actors around the world.

00:55:35.000 And there's no one that, you know, I understand that Admiral Rachel Levine, formerly Dick Levine, you know, is an incredible admiral and would be great on the front lines.

00:55:45.000 But, like, the guys we'd actually want fighting the battles for us have no interest.

00:55:51.000 And I understand why they wouldn't.

00:55:54.000 Yeah, I think it's multifaceted, and I don't think people have realized yet the scope of how dangerous what Biden's doing right now truly is, and then also how quickly he's done it.

00:56:05.000 So right now, we're pushing closer and closer towards World War III, potentially, in Europe with Russia, but there's also a heated escalation going on right now in the Pacific, with China and Taiwan.

00:56:14.000 And so you would think with a military posture like that, we'd really care about military recruiting, but Biden has thrown all of that out the window.

00:56:21.000 Day one that he came in, and this is crazy because day one that Biden came into the White House as the Commander-in-Chief, he inherited the most battle-hardened military that we've ever had.

00:56:31.000 Every other time that we've gone off to war, we've had to draft the military and then demobilize it.

00:56:35.000 The GWAT, the Global War on Terror, Was fought by really the same cast of characters for 20 years.

00:56:40.000 Like I did 11 combat deployments.

00:56:42.000 I don't know very many of my friends and brothers and sisters in arms that just did one combat deployment.

00:56:47.000 Most of us did multiple trips overseas because we believed in our nation.

00:56:51.000 We trusted our country. There was problems here and there, but we were still willing to go over and to fight and to die.

00:56:56.000 And so now you're seeing a lot of people who are questioning that.

00:56:58.000 And I think that's, you know, a result of 20 plus years of lies kind of coming unraveled in the last couple of years, but also Biden, day one, the first thing he does is he says, well, because of January 6th, we have to have an extremist stand down to make sure that none of these patriots, these people that have been going over and fighting and getting shot at for 20-plus years, to make sure that they're not white nationalists or secret terrorists.

00:57:18.000 So they started going and going through people's security clearances, withholding their security clearances.

00:57:23.000 And, you know, these are guys that just got back from the most recent combat deployments that are being told, hey, we think now you're potentially a terrorist because you had a Gadsden flag on your pickup truck.

00:57:31.000 Or on your personal Facebook profile, you know, you had a Trump flag.

00:57:35.000 And then we had the COVID mandates.

00:57:36.000 You said, hey, we're going to give you guys this shot that's not ready for prime time, but you have to take it, even if it's against your religion, take it right now or I'll kick you out. 1.00

00:57:45.000 And then the catastrophic withdrawal in Afghanistan, the way that no one was held accountable for that, The way that we're not even allowed to ask why those 13 were killed and who was making those decisions.

00:57:55.000 I think when you add all of those into one big lethal cocktail, you're starting to see why people are...

00:58:00.000 The generational military families are saying, absolutely not.

00:58:02.000 You don't get my kids at this point.

00:58:04.000 And why you're seeing a lot of red-blooded patriots, young men and young women who would gladly sign up for the military in any other circumstance just saying, you know what?

00:58:12.000 I'm not going to go serve a government that absolutely despises me.

00:58:15.000 Yeah. Now, it's mind-boggling.

00:58:19.000 I mean, it feels like the military vax mandate for, you know, they were having, you know, SEAL team guys, like, leaving because of it.

00:58:25.000 It was, like, fighter pilots.

00:58:27.000 Like, the most trained people in the military, right?

00:58:30.000 Not guys that are easily replaced, but guys that spend millions of dollars getting to a point where they're elite.

00:58:35.000 It was a way to weed them out.

00:58:37.000 Like, who's the guy that could be You know, a thorn in the side of our woke leftist agenda.

00:58:42.000 I mean, it almost felt like that had to be it because there was no other logical reason to force that on them.

00:58:48.000 And they did that full-heartedly.

00:58:49.000 And if anyone put up a flag, they were out.

00:58:51.000 They were never going anywhere.

00:58:53.000 And that was clear. And if they left, who cares?

00:58:55.000 It doesn't matter. Just because we may be weaker, just because we may be unprepared, it didn't matter to them anymore.

00:59:02.000 Yeah, no, it's absolute insanity.

00:59:04.000 And it just speaks to the leadership of the Biden administration.

00:59:07.000 And that's why you're not getting people that sign up.

00:59:09.000 And I'm glad you brought up the retention piece, because a lot of the experienced people who it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to train, pilots, special operators, a lot of them have gotten out.

00:59:18.000 And these are guys that probably would have stayed in for at least 20, if not 25, 30 plus

00:59:22.000 years.

00:59:23.000 And these are the guys you need to train the next generation that comes in. 0.74

00:59:26.000 So we've got a real double whammy here.

00:59:29.000 Again, we've got people that won't come into the military, so that's a recruiting crisis.

00:59:33.000 But what I think is even more dangerous is the retention crisis.

00:59:35.000 And so I think if you get better leadership in there, if we get President Trump back in, a lot of folks are going to say, okay, now I'm going to join the military once more.

00:59:42.000 But a lot of the damage has already been done because once you get that next crop of young, eager patriots to come in and serve, a lot of those senior non-commissioned officers and officers that we needed to stay and train the next generation, they're gone.

00:59:53.000 And those guys probably aren't coming back.

00:59:55.000 I think some of them might, but that's going to be a major issue.

00:59:58.000 I think we could turn the ship around pretty quickly by getting rid of all the different, you know, woke propaganda nonsense that's happening, get rid of the DEI commissars in there, lift the VAX mandate, make people whole again.

01:00:09.000 Accountability is a big one, too. If we start holding a lot of these senior...

01:00:12.000 People will start coming back in the military.

01:00:14.000 It's not going to be something we can fix.

01:00:16.000 It's going to be a very big challenge for the next Trump administration to fix.

01:00:21.000 Yeah. Listen, shifting to the next 2020, to the 2024 race, you know, obviously you're running again.

01:00:28.000 You had a really close race last time.

01:00:30.000 Is there anything you're doing differently from 2022 to ensure that you win a congressional race?

01:00:36.000 I'd love to see guys like you in Congress.

01:00:39.000 You know, people who are sort of Unapologetically America first.

01:00:44.000 People who are patriotic, especially from a state like Washington, where, you know, candidly, that doesn't exist, at least in, you know, the population centers.

01:00:51.000 But if you sort of get, let's call it east of the Cascades, the entire state is sort of, you know, super America first.

01:00:57.000 These are, you know, incredible patriots, but they've been commandeered by a bunch of lunatics, you know, around Seattle.

01:01:05.000 What are you going to do differently?

01:01:08.000 What do you see differently?

01:01:09.000 Are people waking up to what's actually going on as you go through these cities that were honestly awesome cities not that long ago?

01:01:15.000 Even if they were always left-leaning, but it's absolutely insane what you see coming out of these places every day.

01:01:22.000 Yeah, I think one of the biggest differences between 22 and this next cycle here in 24 is that we're going to have a much more unified Republican Party.

01:01:29.000 So I've gotten the endorsement of all the counties in our district and the state party.

01:01:33.000 So we're not going to have that hard-fought primary.

01:01:35.000 Republicans, I think this last cycle, especially in my district, the biggest lesson that we can learn is that, hey, If we're divided and we don't unify after the primary because the person that you liked didn't get in there, guess who wins?

01:01:47.000 Not your candidate, the Democrats win.

01:01:49.000 And there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat.

01:01:51.000 So we unify the Republican Party and then we focus solely on highlighting how radical the Democrats are.

01:01:56.000 The woman I'm running against, if you listen to her media, she'll say moderate probably, you know, that's every other word that comes out of her mouth, how moderate she is. 1.00

01:02:03.000 And then you look at her voting record, and it's the same voting record as AOC. It's the same voting record as Nancy Pelosi.

01:02:08.000 They're voting to let biological men into your daughter's dressing room. 1.00

01:02:12.000 They're voting to keep the U.S. on this crazy inflation cycle.

01:02:15.000 They're hyping Biden economics.

01:02:16.000 Therefore, she's voted multiple times now for keeping the southern border open.

01:02:20.000 Washington State, where I'm sitting right now, we're leading the nation in fentanyl death.

01:02:24.000 And these are fentanyl assassinations from the Mexican drug cartels that are happening because of the wide open southern border.

01:02:29.000 And the Democrats refuse to do anything about it.

01:02:31.000 So we're staying focused on those key issues.

01:02:33.000 I think it's the economy, crime, protection of our children.

01:02:36.000 those are the big ones and we're highlighting the Democrats record.

01:02:39.000 And I do think people are starting to wake up.

01:02:41.000 But in order to really combat that and get all of our good conservatives out

01:02:45.000 there to actually vote, we've got a ballot harvest, a big mistake that I think Republicans, my campaign

01:02:50.000 included, myself included that we made in the wake of 2020, as we

01:02:53.000 said, we hate mail out ballots. We hate machine voting.

01:02:56.000 Everybody flood the polls on election day because by God, that's how we want to vote. And I, my heart is there. I

01:03:01.000 agree with that.

01:03:02.000 Unfortunately, in a state like Washington, we vote for 30 days.

01:03:05.000 We send out a ballot to everybody.

01:03:06.000 We forfeited 29 days that we could have been out there collecting ballots.

01:03:11.000 And so right now we're working heavily at the County level and even lower down

01:03:15.000 to the precinct committee officer level to get ballot harvesting going,

01:03:18.000 because it's completely legal here in Washington state.

01:03:20.000 You can go out and collect an unlimited number of ballots.

01:03:22.000 The Democrats do it very efficiently. The Democrats have horrible ideas,

01:03:25.000 but their political execution is flawless.

01:03:27.000 I agree with you a hundred percent. Like I would love, you know,

01:03:33.000 same day voting paper ballots, voter ID, like all these things that even like the

01:03:37.000 communists in Europe are like, you don't have that.

01:03:39.000 Seriously? How do you know that, like, you know, that they can spin this argument?

01:03:43.000 Like, your voter ID is, you know, magically, you know, racist. 0.83

01:03:46.000 It's nuts, but you're right.

01:03:48.000 Like, we can't compete in a one-day election with them with a 30-day election, you know, day.

01:03:53.000 That's it. It doesn't work.

01:03:55.000 We got to play that game. We got to do it aggressively.

01:03:57.000 And we can't sort of hope for, well, I really hope it's not raining somewhere because turnout's going to be lower because people can't be bothered.

01:04:03.000 Like, we can't play that game.

01:04:05.000 We got to play their game until we can be empowered to make a national, you know, rules

01:04:11.000 that make sense.

01:04:12.000 But until then, we're obligated to play on their battlefield and we can't just take our

01:04:16.000 ball and go home.

01:04:17.000 But, you know, your opponent is doing the sort of the typical leftist move. 0.60

01:04:22.000 They're smearing you as a white nationalist.

01:04:26.000 It seems, you know, that's like the easy button of today's political left.

01:04:29.000 Everyone's a white nationalist. Everyone's a racist. 0.99

01:04:31.000 Everyone's this. It's just... 0.97

01:04:32.000 How do they get away with this stuff and continue?

01:04:36.000 And how do you push back against it?

01:04:38.000 Because, you know, I mean, I don't think it has the effect it would have five years ago because literally there's not a person in existence that doesn't agree with 100% of the Democrat platform who hasn't been smeared as a racist.

01:04:50.000 So now, honestly, it's like...

01:04:52.000 You know, people turn the other cheek.

01:04:54.000 It doesn't mean anything anymore, even if that does a disservice to those actually affected by it.

01:04:59.000 But like, you know, how do you push back against this insanity?

01:05:03.000 Yeah, I mean, it's challenging because the Democrats just have such a capture on the mainstream media. 0.75

01:05:08.000 And so if there's consumers out there in the mainstream media, all they hear is that Republicans are white nationalists, racists, whatever.

01:05:14.000 So I like to point out why they have to use these insults.

01:05:17.000 If you can't argue on your record, if you can't argue on your ideas, you have to turn to insults. 0.95

01:05:22.000 And the Democrats' most potent insult is, hey, you're racist.

01:05:25.000 It's like, no, I'm talking about securing the border and getting jobs for American citizens.

01:05:29.000 You're saying racist while voting for an open border.

01:05:32.000 I think it's just aggressively pushing back, but then also exposing their record is how we do it.

01:05:37.000 But it is challenging because there is a lot of folks out there who maybe aren't on media as much or even the older generation where they still believe, and I don't fault them for believing this, they still believe that if you're called a racist, like, that's the worst, most horrible thing in the entire world, and you must be racist because someone wouldn't call you racist unless you're actually racist.

01:05:53.000 Unfortunately, there's still folks that believe that.

01:05:54.000 Like, I do think, though, the Cal Palaces are really getting built up amongst a lot of Republicans who are just like, well, man, they call everyone racist.

01:06:01.000 So what does that even mean at this point?

01:06:03.000 Let's at least go hear the guy out.

01:06:05.000 So I think really just highlighting why the Democrats are using petty insults because they're using petty insults because they can't discuss their record and they can't discuss their ideas.

01:06:15.000 Yeah, no, I mean, you know, these days, if you're pushing back against the leftists, and they call—it's almost like a badge of honor.

01:06:21.000 It means you're getting to them, because that's all they have.

01:06:23.000 They can't win on policy.

01:06:25.000 I'm not—you know, I'm not saying that actually being won is a badge of honor, obviously, because they'll try to take that and turn it into that.

01:06:30.000 You know, that's what they do.

01:06:32.000 But like at this point, like if you're actually going up against them and you haven't been called that you're not

01:06:36.000 that effective because that's sort of their Their button of last resort and again, you're a I always

01:06:42.000 say like the biggest Shame is that you know, it's there is still some racism in

01:06:47.000 this country It's just not the cause of and solution for all of life's

01:06:50.000 problems, which is what the left has turned it into So those who may actually be affected by it somewhere

01:06:56.000 whatever small number of people, you know that Those people are left in the dust because people just sort

01:07:02.000 of ignore when it actually happens because again, it's the answer for everything

01:07:07.000 But I want to get your opinion.

01:07:09.000 What are your thoughts on the presidential primary so far?

01:07:12.000 How do you sort of assess the strength, the momentum of what's going on with my father?

01:07:16.000 And what do you think is going to happen with Joe Biden?

01:07:18.000 Will he ultimately even be the Democrat nominee?

01:07:22.000 I think that's the more interesting question.

01:07:24.000 I mean, I feel like the Republican primary is over.

01:07:25.000 I mean, if you look at any polling, even like polling that does not like President Trump, he's just in the lead.

01:07:31.000 There's never been a Republican presidential primary like this.

01:07:34.000 So really, I think there's a lot of—unfortunately, there's a lot of money being wasted.

01:07:38.000 I lost my election by less than 2,600 votes.

01:07:41.000 I had 60,000 Republicans who didn't participate in the last election.

01:07:45.000 We could be using these funds right now that are being spent on all these other candidates and all this other nonsense.

01:07:50.000 We could be using that to make sure that we're ready for lawfare post-election and to make sure that our ballot harvesting game is strong and well-funded.

01:07:57.000 But unfortunately, we've got all these different sideshows going on, probably billions of dollars at this point, and yet President Trump is still up, I guess, what, conservatively by 20, 30 points.

01:08:08.000 Some polls have him up much higher.

01:08:11.000 It's a good point, you know, because it's not just about, well, you know, money spent in the presidential primary.

01:08:17.000 Well, if we don't like Trump, it's not going to him.

01:08:19.000 It's like, no, no, no, there's races like yours or others. 0.95

01:08:23.000 Maybe even, you know, in places that you have, you know, a less America first, but still a Republican, not a lunatic, like what the left is putting forward, you know.

01:08:32.000 A little bit of money, of the hundreds of millions that will be spent in this, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars could be a game changer.

01:08:41.000 I mean, that could be 10, 15 seats in the House that we barely control now by, you know, by like four seats.

01:08:46.000 You know, people are like, well, I just don't like Trump, so it doesn't matter.

01:08:49.000 It's like, no, no, no, there's a lot of downstream...

01:08:51.000 The donor, the presidential one's the sexy one.

01:08:55.000 That's what everyone wants to play in because they get the big photo op or whatever it may be.

01:08:59.000 But it actually has a lot of consequences downstream, probably all the way down to the school board because you're just draining a supply from what would otherwise be conservative donors.

01:09:10.000 No, that's exactly right. There's only so much money that you can squeeze out of the donor base, and especially guys like me, grassroots guys, and President Trump, too.

01:09:17.000 We run off of small-dollar donors.

01:09:19.000 The Biden economy right now is hard enough on small-dollar donors when we need President Trump to stay in a legal fight, but then also to stay in a primary fight.

01:09:26.000 That's going to suck away a lot of dollars.

01:09:28.000 And that's fine. I want him to win.

01:09:30.000 But at the same time, it's like, is this even necessary?

01:09:32.000 Like, look at the polling. Like, the people have basically spoken.

01:09:35.000 Fine. You want to go ahead and have your Republican convention and all that type of stuff.

01:09:39.000 Like, the people will speak again.

01:09:41.000 I think he's going to be the eventual nominee.

01:09:43.000 The only question is, like, how much damage are we going to do?

01:09:45.000 Are there going to be Republicans that are going to say, well, if it's Trump, then I'm going to take my ball and go home?

01:09:50.000 Because if they look at what happened in 2022 in races like mine, that's exactly how you get Democrats elected.

01:09:55.000 So there needs to be people that are ready to say, okay, I gave it the old college try with one of the other candidates, but once President Trump is the nominee, they need to get behind him and make sure that we just don't have this brutal post-primary, you know, never Trump 2.0 or any of that nonsense.

01:10:11.000 Because at the end of the day, if we do that, The Democrats win, and they're going to destroy the country.

01:10:16.000 Yeah, so as a last thought, you know, New York, which has long called itself a sanctuary city, is now losing their mind.

01:10:25.000 They're unable to deal with the sort of the influx of illegal immigrants, right? 1.00

01:10:28.000 It's okay when it's in other people's backyards, but now that some of them are ending up in New York, it's creating a problem.

01:10:34.000 I talked to my friends that are still there.

01:10:35.000 They're like, man, Central Park feels like a big migrant camp right now. 1.00

01:10:39.000 People just coming out.

01:10:40.000 But the New York City mayor...

01:10:43.000 Last week, basically, gave a press conference talking about how insane it is.

01:10:47.000 It has to stop. You come from Washington State, Seattle, another one of these just uber-leftist cities.

01:10:54.000 Will the left finally rethink its embrace of open borders?

01:10:58.000 Or do they just hate themselves and the country too much to ever change?

01:11:02.000 Meaning, it doesn't matter if you destroy these cities.

01:11:04.000 It doesn't matter if you take taxpayer resources, whether it's through healthcare or education, that are already...

01:11:11.000 Let's just say we're not exactly overperforming and failing American citizens who are paying into the system just to be able to give others more.

01:11:16.000 Do they ever rethink it, or does it not matter?

01:11:19.000 They just don't care. At this point, it's evident that they just don't care.

01:11:24.000 I mean, had they left the border open for like six months, a year, and then readjusted corks and said, we can't continue to do this, we can't do this to our people, then okay, yeah, maybe I'd believe that they had just made a policy error, like they had a bad idea.

01:11:36.000 But look, it's 2023, and they're not doing anything to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl coming into our country.

01:11:42.000 Over 100,000 deaths from fentanyl, like Washington's leading in fentanyl deaths.

01:11:46.000 And the Democrats don't say anything about it.

01:11:48.000 They won't shut the door. They won't shut the border.

01:11:51.000 As a matter of fact, you got federal courts down in Texas saying that they can't put up the barriers on the Rio Grande.

01:11:56.000 You've got federal courts in Arizona saying that the Arizona state can't build their own wall.

01:12:01.000 So they want this open border.

01:12:03.000 It's essentially their business model.

01:12:04.000 I mean, I personally believe at this point they want to flood the zone, not just with cheap labor to undercut U.S. labor.

01:12:09.000 That's definitely part of it. But also they want to put a ton of people We're good to go.

01:12:36.000 Americans have had enough to eat.

01:12:37.000 Americans that can't get healthcare.

01:12:39.000 When we have this massive apparatus that's sending money overseas, but at the same time, also, we're not allowed to secure our own southern border.

01:12:45.000 So, the Democrats' policy is just atrocious right now.

01:12:47.000 And again, it goes back to why all they can do is name-call.

01:12:50.000 Yeah, no, 100%.

01:12:52.000 Well, listen, I'm glad there's guys like you out there continuing to fight.

01:12:57.000 Again, it's a somber day for our country on 9-11, but it's guys like you.

01:13:04.000 It's so awesome that you stepped up the way you have throughout your career, and you continue to do so.

01:13:08.000 Let everyone know, Joe, how they can find you, how they can contribute to your campaign, what they can do to help you do this, because I think it's a seat that's very attainable.

01:13:19.000 And, you know, God knows the people of Washington State could use a guy like you in there fighting for him.

01:13:26.000 Yeah, absolutely. Please go to JoeKentForCongress.com.

01:13:28.000 Any amount that you can give is going to be weapons that we can deploy right away against the Democrats.

01:13:34.000 So I run off of small-dollar donations.

01:13:36.000 I don't have any big, massive donors like the Koch brothers coming to donate to me or the military-industrial complex.

01:13:41.000 So JoeKentForCongress.com is where I need folks who share our America First vision to come support my campaign.

01:13:48.000 That's awesome, man. Well, thank you again for all of your sacrifices.

01:13:51.000 You're a great American and I just appreciate the friendship as well.

01:13:54.000 So you're the man and we'll talk to you soon.

01:13:56.000 Thank you. Absolutely.

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Americans Mark 22 Years Since 9-11 Terror Attacks: Interview with Congressional Candidate, Green Beret Veteran & Gold Star Husband Joe Kent | TRIGGERED Ep.67

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