Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Another Dem Disaster, Plus Uncovering More Medicaid Fraud | Triggered Ep.339

00:06:05.000 Thank you.

00:06:21.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:06:24.000 I hope everyone's doing well on this Tuesday.

00:06:27.000 A little bit unusual again, but as you might have seen, I was in Washington, D.C. I decided to have a little sleepover, sleepover at Dad's house, also the White House.

00:06:40.000 You may have seen the video, it was actually really cool.

00:06:44.000 Some sleepovers just hit a little bit harder than others, and so this was kind of a unique one.

00:06:49.000 You don't usually get to show up to the sleepover in Marine One.

00:06:54.000 Or helicopters in general.

00:06:55.000 But even in my life, that doesn't happen all that often.

00:06:58.000 So it was kind of a cool one.

00:06:59.000 But we have a big show today.

00:07:01.000 It's also Cinco de Mayo.

00:07:03.000 I don't know, you've probably seen one of the original, I guess it was the 2015 meme about the Trump Tower taco bowls.

00:07:11.000 My father loved the Hispanics. 0.51

00:07:12.000 So the anniversary of one of the greatest tweets of all time.

00:07:17.000 So, you know, grab your Trump Tower taco bowl if you can, maybe a margarita or some sort of Latin beer.

00:07:25.000 Uh, and you know, we can have some fun, but may make the show a little bit more interesting.

00:07:30.000 Uh, and like I said, uh, so much is happening.

00:07:34.000 Uh, I'm hopping on whenever I can to give you the latest news.

00:07:38.000 Again, this last two shows sorry that they've been a little bit off schedule.

00:07:42.000 Uh, my travel schedule has been nuts, uh, so nuts that I couldn't actually even accommodate the normal days.

00:07:48.000 And I usually make a pretty strong effort to stay consistent for you guys, but hopefully, you'll forgive me.

00:07:54.000 Maybe Tuesday's a big day, you never know.

00:07:57.000 Uh, so.

00:07:58.000 Anyway, I'm glad you're here.

00:08:00.000 So it's pretty interesting.

00:08:02.000 You have your favorite president walking through Durrell, meeting normal, common sense Americans, pushing peace through strength, making deals, getting value for taxpayers, and really telling the world very clearly that America is not getting pushed around anymore.

00:08:19.000 On the other side, as always, you have Democrats doing what Democrats do they basically broke an airline.

00:08:27.000 You heard about Spirit Airlines, they tried to break DHS.

00:08:32.000 They break the border.

00:08:34.000 They break basic election law.

00:08:36.000 And then they go on TV and have their lapdogs in the media push their narrative and lecture you about compassion and democracy and the experts, their expertise.

00:08:50.000 It's done so much great things for us over the last few decades.

00:08:53.000 I can't name any of those things.

00:08:54.000 Neither can you, neither can anyone else, but that doesn't seem to ever matter to them.

00:08:58.000 It's the same pattern every time.

00:09:01.000 They create the problem.

00:09:03.000 They find a way to profit from the chaos, and then they blame you for noticing when nothing actually ever, ever, ever gets fixed.

00:09:13.000 So we'll get into all of that today.

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00:10:35.000 Let's get into all of the news.

00:10:37.000 And I actually want to start out by zooming like way out, you know, the 30,000 foot view, because we are watching in real time how Democrat policy doesn't just hurt people on the ground, it now kills companies in the sky.

00:10:53.000 Spirit Airlines, 34 years in business, the bright yellow planes, you know, everyone made fun of, but everyone also flew on when they wanted to fly without taking out, I don't know, a second mortgage.

00:11:07.000 I've flown on it a bunch.

00:11:08.000 People always actually.

00:11:10.000 When I was on Spirit, people always grabbed me and be like, What are you even flying on Spirit?

00:11:13.000 I was like, You know what?

00:11:15.000 I'm that guy.

00:11:16.000 Like, if I can get home an hour earlier, I don't wait for first class.

00:11:19.000 I don't wait for like a luxury liner.

00:11:21.000 It's like, if the timing works, I get on the plane.

00:11:23.000 Taking a lot of Spirit back row, middle seat, you know, red eyes because it just got me home faster.

00:11:30.000 So when I'm done doing what I need to do in the place, I usually just try to get the hell out of there. 0.99

00:11:33.000 So now, unfortunately, they're gone.

00:11:38.000 Their final flight landed in Dallas at 1 08 in the morning on Saturday.

00:11:42.000 And by 3 a.m., The entire system had been shut down, affecting 17,000 employees.

00:11:50.000 And look, this isn't just about an airline going bust.

00:11:54.000 What makes this one different, what makes this one another Democrat scandal, is that this one did not have to happen.

00:12:05.000 This one was killed.

00:12:07.000 This wasn't natural causes, this was a hit job.

00:12:11.000 And the fingerprints are all over the crime scene.

00:12:15.000 And they belong to the same usual suspects Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, the Biden DOJ, and the queen of bad ideas herself, none other than Pocahontas, also known as Elizabeth Warren.

00:12:31.000 So let me walk you through what actually happened, okay?

00:12:35.000 Because they're going to try to blame everything else.

00:12:36.000 The regime media is going to try to bury this.

00:12:39.000 They're going to say it was fuel prices, it was the Iran war, it was anything but what it actually was.

00:12:46.000 Here's the timeline, so pay attention.

00:12:49.000 In 2022, JetBlue Airlines offers to buy Spirit.

00:12:54.000 $3.8 billion in cash.

00:12:58.000 Okay?

00:12:58.000 That's a real lifeline, guys.

00:13:00.000 That's a real deal.

00:13:01.000 That's a big deal.

00:13:03.000 The combined airline would have had 9% of the U.S. market, okay?

00:13:08.000 Going up against the other big four, who already had 80%, okay?

00:13:15.000 So they were only going to be 9%.

00:13:16.000 The other big four airlines combined to 80%.

00:13:20.000 So let's just blend it average, you know, 20% a piece, approximately, okay?

00:13:24.000 So, nine was somehow the problem, but 20 isn't.

00:13:28.000 Spirit, flight attendants, the union, they voted yes.

00:13:33.000 Spirit's shareholders voted yes.

00:13:37.000 The pilots, they voted yes.

00:13:40.000 Everyone who actually understood the business, everyone who was actually a stakeholder, voted yes. 0.98

00:13:48.000 And then walks in Pocahontas with a pen and a victim complex, the usual. 0.96

00:13:53.000 Elizabeth Warren, who's never run a business, Never met a payroll, never really made anything in her lies that wasn't basically a fake Cherokee origin story. 0.99

00:14:06.000 She starts firing off letters, letters to the DOJ, letters to the DOT, the Department of Transportation, pressure campaigns on the Biden administration saying you can't allow this merger. 0.53

00:14:18.000 It'll hurt consumers, it'll raise fares.

00:14:22.000 And the Biden DOJ, ran by Merrick Garland, they sue in federal court to kill the deal.

00:14:30.000 The deal that, again, everyone who was a stakeholder, who actually had something vested, whether it was their job or investment or otherwise, wanted.

00:14:40.000 To kill the deal.

00:14:41.000 So, okay?

00:14:42.000 So, everyone that wanted it, everyone that was a participant, wanted to do the deal.

00:14:48.000 Merrick Garland, Biden, DOJ, Elizabeth Warren, they want to kill the deal.

00:14:52.000 And in January of 2024, they win.

00:14:55.000 Judge blocks the merger.

00:14:58.000 JetBlue walks away.

00:15:00.000 Spirit is left standing in the middle of the runway alone with no lifeline.

00:15:04.000 You know what happened next?

00:15:06.000 Well, of course, they filed for bankruptcy within months of the merger getting killed.

00:15:13.000 They had lost a two and a half billion dollars since 2020.

00:15:19.000 The merger was the way out, and the Biden administration took it away, along with those 17,000 jobs and so much else.

00:15:27.000 And after they killed the deal, they took a victory lap.

00:15:30.000 I don't know exactly what they were celebrating, but Elizabeth Warren goes on Twitter March 6, 2024, and writes, and I'm currently quoting her directly I've warned for months that a JetBlue Spirit airline merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.

00:15:46.000 This is a Biden win for flyers.

00:15:49.000 Really?

00:15:50.000 A Biden win for flyers?

00:15:52.000 Let that sink in.

00:15:54.000 Two years later, there are no flights.

00:15:57.000 There are no flyers.

00:15:59.000 There's no spirit.

00:16:01.000 There's just 17,000 unemployed Americans and a bunch of stranded passengers staring at empty terminals trying to figure out how to get home.

00:16:11.000 Well, here's Secretary Duffy, Saturday morning, laying it all out.

00:16:16.000 Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, along with the Biden DOJ, decided that they didn't.

00:16:21.000 They did not want that merger to take place.

00:16:24.000 And at the time, the Biden and Buda judge DOJ bragged and said, as they canceled the option for this merger, that this was a victory for U.S. travelers who deserve lower prices and better choices.

00:16:38.000 Now, many at the time said this was a disaster.

00:16:42.000 This merger should have been allowed.

00:16:44.000 And this today would indicate this is not better for travelers, this is not better for pricing, this is not better for competition.

00:16:52.000 Actually, it's worse.

00:16:53.000 We had an airline go down because the markets were trying to allow two airlines to merge, make them stronger, and offer more competition for the American consumer.

00:17:04.000 Also, Elizabeth Warren at the time cheered the blocking of the merger, saying that this was a Biden win for flyers.

00:17:14.000 So, again, I think it's important that we always look with a keen eye when airlines want to merge.

00:17:21.000 We care about pricing for consumers, we care about competition.

00:17:26.000 The markets are saying there needs to be a merger because there's health issues with one of the airlines or more than one airline.

00:17:33.000 We have to take a look at it and make sure we make the right choices.

00:17:38.000 And in this situation, history has judged the denial of the merger between JetBlue and Spirit through the Biden administration with, I think, a view that it was a massive mistake.

00:17:50.000 Democrats blocked the merger in the name of more competition.

00:17:54.000 And now it's sort of, I don't know, the exact opposite.

00:17:59.000 How is keeping a struggling airline that was going to go bankrupt and ultimately filed a few weeks after they stopped them from doing that, how is that doing what the Democrats intended?

00:18:10.000 And this is the democratic economic model, basically, in one story, guys.

00:18:14.000 They don't build anything, they don't fix anything, they don't run anything, and they don't understand anything because they've never done anything.

00:18:21.000 They've never had to actually deal in the real world.

00:18:25.000 You know, they get their pats on the back from the media, whether it's good, bad, indifferent, terrible, usually terrible.

00:18:32.000 They regulate, they block, they sue, they posture, they write strongly worded letters, and then they take selfies at the press conferences.

00:18:41.000 And when the whole thing collapses, when the workers lose all their jobs, when the consumers get stranded at LaGuardia at 5 a.m., they pop up on cable news and act like nobody could have seen this coming.

00:18:56.000 Because for these people, they probably couldn't.

00:18:59.000 Because they don't deal in reality.

00:19:02.000 It's never about results, it's about ideology.

00:19:06.000 It's about the dopamine hit of stopping a corporate merger.

00:19:11.000 It's about the press release, it's about the fundraising email that follows.

00:19:16.000 And meanwhile, real Americans pay the price.

00:19:19.000 Now, here's the contrast because there's been a lot of reporting the proposed $500 million taxpayer bailout.

00:19:28.000 My father didn't just say, sure, here's a blank check.

00:19:32.000 Take $500 million of taxpayer money and go figure it out.

00:19:36.000 That would be the Democrat solution when they want to bail out one of their buddies, again, as long as there's kickbacks to the Democrats and all the other stuff that comes with that.

00:19:45.000 The administration tried.

00:19:47.000 Secretary Duffy said, my father was like a dog on a bone trying to find a way to save those 17,000 jobs.

00:19:56.000 But the deal had to also make sense, it had to make sense for the taxpayer.

00:20:00.000 For the long term viability of the airline, they put a real proposal on the table.

00:20:06.000 But your favorite president wasn't going to torch the taxpayer and put icing on a stale cake and try to actually pretend that the damage wasn't already done.

00:20:17.000 You can't turn back time on these things.

00:20:19.000 You can't unkill a deal.

00:20:21.000 That should have happened in 2024 when another corporate entity was going to actually just take over all of these things.

00:20:29.000 But you can be honest.

00:20:31.000 About what comes next.

00:20:33.000 And that is the standard, guys.

00:20:35.000 It's not complicated.

00:20:37.000 It's not just something Democrats can't do because they don't think like that.

00:20:41.000 They think like activists, they think like staffers, they think NGO, you know, basically they think like NGO grant recipients.

00:20:50.000 And Secretary, let me get your take on what took place in terms of Spirit Airlines because I know that the Democrats did not want Spirit to merge with JetBlue a year ago, and now we see that Spirit Airlines closed operations.

00:21:06.000 The Treasury was supposed to be doing a deal to save this company.

00:21:11.000 Can you tell us what happened?

00:21:13.000 Sure, Maria.

00:21:14.000 So, this is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration.

00:21:19.000 In September 2022, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter to the Justice Department, to the Transport Department, saying that they should oppose the merger with Spirit Airlines.

00:21:34.000 JetBlue wanted to buy them for $3.8 billion.

00:21:37.000 Billion dollars.

00:21:38.000 It would have given them much more resiliency.

00:21:41.000 And she and the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who's probably the worst Transportation Secretary in history when he came to the office, also were against the merger.

00:21:53.000 And if JetBlue had merged with Spirit, we would have all these jobs that were lost yesterday.

00:22:00.000 We had 30 regional airports who have lost service.

00:22:04.000 And I can tell you what happened here.

00:22:06.000 It wasn't Treasury, it was Commerce that was trying to put something together.

00:22:11.000 The reason we were here was because the merger, the Biden administration opposed the merger.

00:22:17.000 We shouldn't have been here in the first place.

00:22:19.000 Now, the good news is the Trump administration is taking steps to help the former Spirit employees find jobs, to get travelers rebooked on other airlines, and to turn this mess into something that can be fixed and stabilized.

00:22:34.000 And you see that same standard in transportation more broadly, where we're cracking down on fraud.

00:22:40.000 Look at the trucking industry.

00:22:43.000 28,000 illegal CDLs, okay, commercial driver's licenses, revoked.

00:22:49.000 20,000 truckers put out of service for not meeting English proficiency rules.

00:22:55.000 Another promise made, another promise kept.

00:22:58.000 Check this out.

00:23:00.000 Consider this your notice.

00:23:02.000 Safety is our North Star.

00:23:04.000 A series of horrific fatal crashes have been caused by dangerous non-domiciled CDL drivers. 1.00

00:23:09.000 Illegal aliens who don't deserve driver's licenses, let alone commercial driver's licenses. 1.00

00:23:15.000 If you are not following the rules, And you're not doing the things that you're supposed to be doing, we're going to ensure that we put you out of business. 1.00

00:23:22.000 Well, today the driver's licenses for thousands of commercial drivers across the state were revoked.

00:23:27.000 Revoking over 13,000 driver's licenses in the state of California.

00:23:32.000 Number one, we're issuing an emergency rule that fundamentally overhauls who is eligible for a non domiciled CDO.

00:23:41.000 This is about safety.

00:23:42.000 This is making sure that you've got the most qualified people.

00:23:44.000 That's why, under President Trump's leadership, we have launched a nationwide audit.

00:23:49.000 Of non domiciled CDLs, fix your system, fix your rules, comply with the law.

00:23:55.000 That is what enforcement looks like.

00:23:57.000 And by the way, this shouldn't even be controversial.

00:24:01.000 If you're driving an 80,000 pound truck on American highways, I don't know, maybe you should have a valid license.

00:24:09.000 Maybe you should know how to drive.

00:24:11.000 Maybe you should be able to read the road signs.

00:24:14.000 Maybe the system shouldn't be handing out commercial driver's license like, you know, Participation trophies because some state bureaucrat didn't want to ask hard questions.

00:24:25.000 Maybe we shouldn't let all those people who've been killed by these people holding these licenses who had no business being in these trucks, maybe we should do something to stop that from ever happening again since no one wanted to do something to prevent it in the first place.

00:24:37.000 But this is where the left has taken us.

00:24:40.000 Basic safety standards are now extreme.

00:24:44.000 Basic border enforcement is extreme.

00:24:45.000 Basic language requirements for truck drivers.

00:24:49.000 Now, extreme.

00:24:52.000 But letting unqualified people drive massive rigs around American families, that's compassion, folks.

00:24:59.000 Really?

00:25:01.000 That's what they tell us.

00:25:03.000 I don't get it.

00:25:04.000 I don't see it myself, but it's what they tell us over and over again.

00:25:08.000 And the reason this matters is because the old system was built around one idea nobody is accountable.

00:25:15.000 Nobody's ever accountable.

00:25:17.000 And that brings me to DHS.

00:25:20.000 Because the record DHS shutdown is finally over.

00:25:25.000 76 days, the longest shutdown of a federal department in American history.

00:25:30.000 And let's be very clear about what happened.

00:25:32.000 Democrats refused to fund critical Homeland Security functions because they wanted to block my father's immigration enforcement agenda.

00:25:41.000 The agenda that literally got him elected into office, that won him all seven of the swing states, that won him the popular vote.

00:25:49.000 Okay?

00:25:50.000 Democrats objected to funding ICE and Border Patrol and wanted reforms like banning masks and requiring warrants for certain immigration arrests.

00:26:01.000 Democrats decided to hold the department hostage because they couldn't stand the idea of ICE actually doing its job.

00:26:09.000 And Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen laid out the damage.

00:26:13.000 Well, after 76 days of shutdown, which is an historic shutdown, longest government shutdown in history, it's going to take some time to recover.

00:26:21.000 I mean, were we able to still be mission capable?

00:26:23.000 Yes.

00:26:24.000 Were we able to pick up everything that was being brought to us?

00:26:27.000 No.

00:26:28.000 I mean, just for an example, we had 500 electric bills throughout just the Coast Guard.

00:26:33.000 That was in default, and in some cases, we were having to have the State Department and DOW pay the bills.

00:26:40.000 Our gas cards throughout the department, through 22 components, was getting turned off, and we just have to have different agencies pay those bills for us.

00:26:49.000 And so, we were also having a tremendous amount of morale issues.

00:26:55.000 So, we had a large turnover.

00:26:57.000 Just in CISA, we're down 1,100 people.

00:27:01.000 TSA was down 8%, which typically we have about a 4.6% turnover there.

00:27:08.000 We have agencies that were almost completely furloughed, and so now we're getting back up to speed.

00:27:15.000 I'll use one more example, too.

00:27:17.000 In the Coast Guard, they have one agency that does nothing but license barges and vessels for United States waters.

00:27:26.000 They're 18,000 vessels behind, and even if we did nothing but just work on the vessels behind, it would take us till the end of July to get them licensed and back on the water.

00:27:37.000 That's going to have a huge impact.

00:27:39.000 On what happens throughout transportation, what happens with recreational vehicles.

00:27:46.000 And this is all because the Democrats wanted to have open borders and allow criminals to flow freely on the streets.

00:27:53.000 And it makes absolutely no sense, Shanna.

00:27:55.000 But morale is high, and we're laser focused on delivering for the American people, protecting the homeland.

00:28:01.000 And I want to get to some of the things Democrats wanted open borders, Democrats wanted criminals flowing freely throughout the country.

00:28:09.000 Because Democrats decided the feelings of illegal aliens, and really the people who would ultimately vote for Democrats in perpetuity, were more important than the security of American citizens.

00:28:24.000 That's their priority, right?

00:28:26.000 That's the list. 0.69

00:28:28.000 Anyone but America.

00:28:30.000 Not the traveler waiting in line, not the Coast Guard family wondering about pay, not the cyber team trying to protect infrastructure, not the border agent trying to stop criminals, rapists.

00:28:42.000 Drug smuggling.

00:28:45.000 The priority was the activist class.

00:28:48.000 The priority was cable news resistance theater.

00:28:52.000 The priority was making sure ICE couldn't enforce the law too effectively.

00:28:59.000 And then when the damage shows up, they say, how could this happen?

00:29:05.000 It didn't happen by accident.

00:29:09.000 It happened because you did it.

00:29:12.000 You can't shut down Homeland Security for 76 days and then act like you're the adult in the room.

00:29:19.000 You can't attack ICE and Border Patrol every day and then pretend you care about safety.

00:29:24.000 You can't break the agency, blame Trump, and expect Americans not to see the pattern.

00:29:32.000 And while Democrats were playing games with Homeland Security, my father was showing what real strength looks like overseas.

00:29:39.000 Right.

00:29:39.000 Well, I think the market has been pretty consistent.

00:29:43.000 The fact is that what the president is seeing is that the blockade is working, it's putting an enormous amount of pressure on Iran.

00:29:50.000 And Iran's threats to put mines in the straits have even made it so that humanitarian aid that, of course, we would let through.

00:29:59.000 To Iran, that there are a lot of those ship captains that are wary of going to Iranian ports because they're worried about where the Iranians have put the mines.

00:30:07.000 And so, you know, I go down to the sit room many times a week and get briefed on what's going on in Iran.

00:30:12.000 And they're an economy that's really on the precipice of extreme calamity.

00:30:17.000 They are having a hyperinflation.

00:30:19.000 They're starting to have hunger.

00:30:22.000 The bottom line is that the pressure on the great American people because of these people who are like really intent on American and Israeli destruction with their nuclear weapons are still in power.

00:30:34.000 One last thing, Margaret, I don't know if you noticed, but the UN human rights folks came out this week condemning Iran because they're killing people who are trying to stand up to this regime that's potentially causing starvation and even famine. 0.53

00:30:49.000 That's what leverage looks like, guys.

00:30:51.000 Not pallets of cash, not begging the mullahs to please be nice, not pretending a strongly worded statement from Brussels is a foreign policy platform.

00:31:01.000 Pressure.

00:31:02.000 Economic pressure, military pressure, diplomatic pressure.

00:31:07.000 The kind of pressure that makes bad actors understand that there are consequences and accountability. 0.70

00:31:13.000 And of course, the Europeans started chirping from the cheap seats.

00:31:19.000 Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz tried to criticize the United States over Iran, talked about humiliation, questioned the American strategy, basically doing what European leaders love to do, which is lecture America while literally depending entirely on America for their defense.

00:31:37.000 And then my father pushed back, saying, We're cutting 5,000 troops from Germany.

00:31:42.000 Check it out.

00:31:44.000 Why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany?

00:31:48.000 We're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000.

00:31:52.000 Thank you very much.

00:31:59.000 All right, so you're listening to President Trump just make a few remarks there as he boards Air Force One from Palm Beach, Florida.

00:32:06.000 And now, huh, now suddenly.

00:32:10.000 The German chancellor is saying the United States is and will remain Germany's most important partner in NATO.

00:32:16.000 Huh?

00:32:18.000 It didn't sound like they were much of a partner.

00:32:20.000 Hasn't for a while.

00:32:22.000 And that Iran must now not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

00:32:28.000 Watch him yourself.

00:32:30.000 And, quote, I'm not giving up on working with the transatlantic relationship, nor am I giving up on working with Donald Trump.

00:32:37.000 Although last night, President Trump says that there could be an even larger withdrawal.

00:32:44.000 Why is the U.S. removing troops from Germany?

00:32:48.000 We're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000.

00:32:52.000 Thank you very much.

00:32:55.000 Now, in terms of this latest announcement, Project Freedom, the president says that this will aim to free up companies.

00:33:02.000 It's amazing how that works, guys.

00:33:03.000 Just magic.

00:33:06.000 For years, the so called experts told us the way to lead was to apologize.

00:33:11.000 Never worked for me in any other capacity in my life, but that was the way to lead, according to them.

00:33:16.000 Apologize to Europe, apologize to Iran, apologize to China, apologize to everyone, except the American people getting stuck with the bill.

00:33:25.000 Don't apologize to them.

00:33:26.000 They don't deserve that, obviously.

00:33:29.000 Not according to Democrats and the European technocrats and the usual suspects.

00:33:36.000 But when America actually leads, when America says, no, we're not going to subsidize your weakness while you criticize our strength, people get the message pretty fast.

00:33:48.000 And by the way, this is not complicated, guys.

00:33:50.000 Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:33:53.000 Europe can't keep freeloading forever.

00:33:56.000 NATO can't be a cocktail party with an American credit card.

00:34:01.000 And America can't keep acting like every other country's problem is automatically our responsibility while our own citizens get ignored.

00:34:10.000 That's the Trump doctrine strength, leverage, results.

00:34:15.000 And that's why the contrast is so obvious, because Democrats don't just oppose strength abroad, they oppose Basic order at home.

00:34:25.000 Look at the Supreme Court decision on Louisiana's race based congressional map.

00:34:30.000 The court blocked a map that was built around racial gerrymandering, and the left immediately went into meltdown mode.

00:34:38.000 Donna Brazil, the one who gave Hillary Clinton the answers to the debate with my father prior to the debate, went on ABC and said the Supreme Court is bringing us back to.

00:34:51.000 Come on, guys, you know where they're going. 0.50

00:34:53.000 Jim Crow. 0.79

00:34:54.000 We're going back to Jim Crow because we can't have race based electoral maps. 0.71

00:35:01.000 Not sure how that's Jim Crow or Jim Crow 2.0 or whatever it is, but here she is.

00:35:07.000 Three people in Louisiana who are black don't have representation if this goes into effect.

00:35:12.000 So, no, when you make it harder for black people to vote, we're going to show up.

00:35:16.000 And that's how many of us feel.

00:35:18.000 It's not just anger, it's disappointment, it's betrayal.

00:35:21.000 Because, again, I watched my daddy.

00:35:23.000 He comes home with medals, he comes home fighting for his country.

00:35:26.000 And he could not vote. 0.71

00:35:27.000 You are bringing us back to Jim Crow, and we do not want to go back to Jim Crow. 0.56

00:35:31.000 Chris, you want to jump in? 0.60

00:35:32.000 That is the playbook, folks.

00:35:35.000 If Democrats can sort voters by race, that's democracy.

00:35:41.000 If Democrats can carve up districts, Swiss cheese this thing to hell, and protect their power, that's representation. 0.58

00:35:50.000 If Democrats can build an entire political machine around racial categories, that's justice. 0.64

00:35:58.000 But the Supreme Court, the second the Supreme Court says, I don't know, maybe the Constitution doesn't allow you to treat Americans like racial chess pieces. 0.86

00:36:12.000 Suddenly it's Jim Crow. 0.69

00:36:14.000 Oh my God, it's Jim Crow. 0.93

00:36:16.000 You can't make it make sense.

00:36:19.000 And it's the same racket everywhere.

00:36:22.000 Just like I said last week race as a map making tool, race as a funding tool.

00:36:28.000 Race as a hiring tool, race as a censorship tool, and race as a political weapon, right?

00:36:33.000 There's a reason, like New England, you look at some of the states up there 40% Republican, 43% Republican, 45% Republican, 42% Republican, across the board, zero congressional representation.

00:36:47.000 If the maps can't be drawn around race forever, the political machine gets exposed.

00:36:54.000 If Iran responds to pressure, the Obama Biden appeasement racket gets exposed.

00:37:00.000 That's why they're panicking.

00:37:02.000 Not because Trump is chaotic, but because Trump is forcing order on systems that were designed to operate in complete and total chaos.

00:37:11.000 Hell, just look at the recent news on energy down in Venezuela.

00:37:17.000 The U.S. Energy Dominance Council is coordinating and leading new pathways to investment.

00:37:23.000 The Venezuelan government is cooperating.

00:37:26.000 We're making America stronger and making the Western Hemisphere more secure while also taking care of our worst enemies in that region and getting them the hell out of there. 0.90

00:37:36.000 Seems like a no brainer.

00:37:37.000 Check it out.

00:37:38.000 For the first time since 2019, direct flights from the U.S. to Venezuela.

00:37:42.000 Are back in the air.

00:37:43.000 This flight marks the transition from dialogue to action.

00:37:48.000 We are committed to a U.S. aligned Venezuela that produces real results for Venezuelans and for Americans.

00:37:56.000 Under the leadership of the president, we've moved at lightning speed to get all the things in place we needed to do to establish air service.

00:38:04.000 We are witnessing the rebuilding of our economic ties, the reopening of Venezuela to global commerce, and the reconnecting of our two countries.

00:38:13.000 President Trump is a man of action.

00:38:15.000 And what you're seeing today is action take place.

00:38:17.000 Under President Trump's leadership, the United States remains fully committed to Venezuela's economic recovery.

00:38:24.000 Today, the results speak for themselves.

00:38:26.000 Direct flights are back.

00:38:28.000 Commerce is flowing.

00:38:30.000 Venezuela's economic engine is ramping up.

00:38:33.000 And we're just getting started.

00:38:38.000 And once Americans see it, they don't unsee it.

00:38:42.000 Everything we were told was impossible is now looking almost inevitable.

00:38:48.000 And America is rewriting the map when it comes to energy independence and energy dominance.

00:38:54.000 Check this out.

00:38:55.000 Well, it was a great trip, huge celebration of the partnership that exists today, thanks to President Trump, between Venezuela and the United States.

00:39:04.000 Look, President Trump is a man of action.

00:39:06.000 He wants to see progress, he wants to see action take place.

00:39:09.000 And you saw action and progress in three important sectors transportation, the first daily flights backed from the U.S. to Venezuela.

00:39:18.000 Energy, oil, and gas.

00:39:20.000 You saw three independent oil and gas companies, new entrants, signing deals with Venezuela.

00:39:26.000 And on mining, you saw a huge landmark mining deal, the first of its kind for gold, for coal into Venezuela.

00:39:35.000 All of these are showing the tremendous progress in just a short period of time between the U.S. and Venezuela.

00:39:41.000 That's exactly the kind of message we want to send to the world that that relationship is strong, that now you have flights going down there.

00:39:47.000 So it's now employees, it's people interested in investing, it's people interested in being down there and seeing their.

00:39:53.000 Family members coming down to Venezuela.

00:39:55.000 There was a huge party in Miami of people interested and wanting to go down.

00:39:59.000 And then, even on top of that, American Airlines, on the very day of the first flight, they came out and announced they're going to do two trips a day now down to Venezuela.

00:40:07.000 So the progress is happening at Trump speed.

00:40:11.000 This would have taken months, if not years, to get to this point.

00:40:14.000 And we're seeing it in a matter of weeks.

00:40:17.000 That's Trump speed.

00:40:18.000 That's the kind of stuff we're doing on our side.

00:40:20.000 And you're seeing the same on the Venezuelan side.

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00:41:21.000 Do it now, educate yourself.

00:41:23.000 What do you have to lose?

00:41:25.000 And by the way, if you want to know why Doge mattered, if you want to know why ending the status quo matters, We're seeing the evidence more and more every day.

00:41:37.000 Luke Rasak at the Daily Wire has a new investigation using Medicaid billing data that Doge forced out into the open.

00:41:47.000 And what they found in Ohio is insane.

00:41:51.000 Absolutely freaking insane.

00:41:54.000 Ohio spent about a billion dollars on home health care in 2024 alone.

00:42:02.000 And what are taxpayers paying for exactly? 0.98

00:42:06.000 Homemaking.

00:42:07.000 chores, cooking, cleaning, and I'm quoting here, companionship and conversation.

00:42:13.000 A billion dollars?

00:42:16.000 So in plain English, guys, Medicaid may be paying people to hang out with their own relatives while some middleman company bills the government for it.

00:42:27.000 I mean, think of how insane that is.

00:42:28.000 Like, do I get a paycheck to stay at home?

00:42:30.000 I'd love to play with my kids more.

00:42:32.000 Can you pay me to do that on top of everything else?

00:42:35.000 This is the perfect government scam.

00:42:37.000 The service happens inside a private home.

00:42:40.000 So, you know, who checks if the worker, I don't know, actually showed up?

00:42:44.000 Who checks what they actually did?

00:42:47.000 Who checks whether this was real care or just a family visit with a billing code attached?

00:42:54.000 Apparently, nobody.

00:42:56.000 Daily Wire says one building in Columbus had 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid.

00:43:04.000 94 companies in one building.

00:43:07.000 And that one building alone billed taxpayers $66 million.

00:43:14.000 One building, $66 million to go visit your relative, maybe even live with your relative.

00:43:20.000 Might as well get paid to sit home and clean up.

00:43:24.000 Why not, I guess?

00:43:26.000 Okay, $66 million over several years.

00:43:29.000 Think about that.

00:43:29.000 That's not health care.

00:43:31.000 And this is why the left hates transparency, because once you can actually see the data, the moral lecture falls apart.

00:43:40.000 They told you there was no waste.

00:43:43.000 There's a lot of waste, folks.

00:43:45.000 They told you there was no fraud.

00:43:47.000 There's a lot of fraud.

00:43:49.000 They told you Doge was cruel for looking.

00:43:53.000 No.

00:43:54.000 What's cruel is bankrupting the country while Medicaid middlemen get rich off of programs that are supposed to help the vulnerable.

00:44:03.000 Open the books, follow the money, name the companies, cut off the scam.

00:44:10.000 Because Americans are sick of being told there's no money for them.

00:44:14.000 While there always seems to be money for some shell company, for some fake provider, for some fraud factory hiding behind compassion, for some illegal immigrant milking the system and then kicking the money back to Al-Shabaab in Somalia. 0.99

00:44:29.000 And why are so many of these fraudsters foreigners? 0.90

00:44:33.000 Why are so many of them illegal aliens? 1.00

00:44:37.000 Because they exploit the system and kick back to the Democrat machine, of course. 0.99

00:44:42.000 Just like USAID, just like ActBlue, just like the Minnesota daycare fraud.

00:44:48.000 Just like with racially gerrymandered maps, it's a political machine completely dependent on fraud.

00:44:56.000 And I do think this is becoming more and more obvious to anyone paying attention.

00:45:05.000 But we do have to pay attention and make sure that others are too. 0.56

00:45:12.000 You've got people in this country who are trying to make things work, and you've got lunatics who'd rather watch the whole thing burn.

00:45:19.000 You've got leaders who go on to the table with common sense, and others who want to have debates about things that have already been totally obvious. 0.98

00:45:28.000 Since the beginning of time, like whether we should have a border, whether genders exist, whether you can change them, whether we should punish violent criminals things that don't really even need a debate because the answers are so obvious if you're not an imbecile or milking the system. 0.90

00:45:48.000 You've got folks who believe in playing by the rules and folks who will smear you as a radical, as a racist, as a misogynist, as a homophobe, whatever it may be, for even suggesting there should be rules. 0.91

00:46:03.000 And when it comes down to it, one group treats power like a tool to look out for the good of the country.

00:46:09.000 The other treats it like something to feed back into the machine that lines their pockets and maintains their power.

00:46:16.000 That's the line right there.

00:46:19.000 Why?

00:46:19.000 It's why I always say to keep staying on the offense, keep staying engaged.

00:46:27.000 Okay?

00:46:27.000 So, guys, thanks so much for tuning in.

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00:46:32.000 Sorry about the Tuesday show, but again, just been a little bit of a crazy one for me.

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Another Dem Disaster, Plus Uncovering More Medicaid Fraud | Triggered Ep.339

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