Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Builders vs Bureaucrats, LIVE News Coverage | TRIGGERED Ep.292

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00:09:40.000 So guys, let's now get into all of the top headlines.

00:09:45.000 And to start, our government is actually open again.

00:09:50.000 The air travel grid is getting back to normal right before Thanksgiving, thank God.

00:09:55.000 And Democrats are not trying to act like nothing ever happened.

00:10:01.000 It's actually incredible how they can shut down the government for 40 days and then show up like it never happened.

00:10:09.000 Just show up like, oh, hey guys, what's happening?

00:10:11.000 What's new?

00:10:12.000 Hey.

00:10:14.000 They do it all the time.

00:10:16.000 Here's my father signing the continuing resolution, the CR, to get things back up and running.

00:10:24.000 Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for a clean continuation of funding.

00:10:31.000 There's never been a time when one or the other party ever didn't sign a continuation.

00:10:38.000 It's just a continuation, not a big deal.

00:10:40.000 It's a continuation, and we'll talk later.

00:10:43.000 Yet the extremists in the other party insisted on creating the longest government shutdown in American history, and they did it purely for political reasons.

00:10:54.000 For all the talk from Democrats about how, you know, the adults, you know, they're the adults.

00:10:59.000 The adults are back in charge, folks.

00:11:01.000 Remember that one under Biden? 0.90

00:11:02.000 What a clown show and a joke that was. 0.94

00:11:05.000 But for all of their talk, they continue to act more and more like kids, throwing a giant temper tantrum when they don't get their way. 0.61

00:11:16.000 Everything they accuse us of doing, it's always what they're doing themselves.

00:11:22.000 It's always projection.

00:11:25.000 Okay.

00:11:26.000 Don't believe me?

00:11:27.000 Here's Stephen Miller putting into perspective just what they're dealing with on Capitol Hill each and every day.

00:11:36.000 Well, look, you've really been exactly right on tonight when you said this is all about Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries being terrified of the Mondame wing, the AOC wing of the Democrat Party, understanding that they're not in control of anything anymore.

00:11:53.000 It is a communist party.

00:11:55.000 It is an America-last party.

00:11:57.000 It is a party that puts illegals over citizens, criminals over cops, cheaters over hardworking taxpayers at every level.

00:12:05.000 This shutdown was an example of just how little the Democrats care about Americans.

00:12:12.000 They forced our national security workers to go without pay.

00:12:16.000 They forced Americans to be stuck at airports, flights canceled at levels never seen before in history.

00:12:23.000 Why?

00:12:23.000 All for what?

00:12:24.000 $1.5 trillion of demands, including free health care for illegal aliens, to bloat the government, to steal from taxpayers, to steal from working Americans. 0.92

00:12:33.000 And at the end, after over 40 days, what do they get?

00:12:37.000 Defeated, humiliated, disgraced.

00:12:37.000 Nothing.

00:12:40.000 But in the meantime, they sucked billions of dollars in wealth out of the economy.

00:12:46.000 Think about the contrast, Sean.

00:12:47.000 President Trump bringing trillions of investment into America, giving Americans trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

00:12:55.000 And what did Democrats do in their big moment?

00:12:58.000 They steal hardworking money from our taxpayers.

00:13:01.000 They cancel their flights, and they destroy billions of dollars in economic value.

00:13:05.000 You will not see a clearer contrast.

00:13:07.000 The Democrats are the party of destruction.

00:13:09.000 President Trump is leading the party of creation, opportunity, and wealth.

00:13:14.000 And while we're cleaning up government, we're also cleaning up the massive fraud that's been bleeding taxpayers dry for years.

00:13:24.000 Because one silver lining of all of this, the one good thing to come out of it, is that it forced a conversation about massive fraud inside programs like SNAP, you know, food stamps.

00:13:38.000 That's a conversation that no one wanted to have, even Republicans, but definitely not Democrats.

00:13:44.000 No one wanted to talk about it until now.

00:13:48.000 And now, the Trump administration is rolling out new application programs to ensure that those receiving the benefits actually qualify.

00:14:00.000 Because I know you're shocked.

00:14:01.000 I know you're shocked to hear that there's billions being spent of people that didn't even qualify, that are selling them for other things.

00:14:10.000 Just billions out of your, the taxpayer pockets.

00:14:15.000 And now people are going to have to qualify.

00:14:18.000 And they're going to actually have to be American citizens.

00:14:24.000 Check out just how bad it actually is.

00:14:27.000 And 20 plus others did not and we're suing.

00:14:30.000 We're in the litigation right now.

00:14:31.000 But of the 29 that complied, what we have found is staggering.

00:14:36.000 Half a million people getting benefits two times under the same name.

00:14:40.000 5,000 dead people.

00:14:43.000 80% of the able-bodied Americans, meaning they can work, they don't have small children at home, they're not taking care of an elderly parent.

00:14:50.000 They can work and they choose not to work, of course, because they're getting significant benefits from the taxpayer.

00:14:56.000 So this light, Laura, that has now been shined on what is perhaps one of the most corrupt, dysfunctional programs in American history that we are working now.

00:15:06.000 Very big announcements coming next week on this.

00:15:09.000 We are cracking down.

00:15:10.000 We now have a plan to fix it.

00:15:12.000 And we're really, really excited about doing that for the American people.

00:15:17.000 Guys, that's billions with a B. Billions in fraud.

00:15:22.000 And the Democrats' solution was always just pretend that it didn't exist.

00:15:28.000 I imagine that's because they're Democrat voters.

00:15:31.000 Those are the people probably committing all of the fraud.

00:15:35.000 But here's the thing: this isn't just about food stamps.

00:15:39.000 It's about how so many, so many of these programs and issues have just been on autopilot forever, right?

00:15:48.000 No one ever thought about cleaning up the fraud, the waste, the abuse, the graft.

00:15:54.000 It's insane.

00:15:56.000 Think about what Democrats have been up to.

00:15:59.000 They're now all of a sudden, all of a sudden, magically, like the day after this happened, they're really concerned about Jeffrey Epstein after basically ignoring it for years.

00:16:12.000 And I know many of you are concerned about it, but what did we actually learn from these bombshell emails?

00:16:20.000 You know, everything's a bombshell, right?

00:16:21.000 Remember, it's like the walls are closing in.

00:16:24.000 Bombshell emails.

00:16:25.000 Well, we learned that Epstein pretty much hated my father.

00:16:30.000 That Epstein was texting directly, directly with a Democrat member of Congress during a congressional hearing with Michael Cohen.

00:16:42.000 That the New York Times was actively working with Epstein to flag and suppress stories about him.

00:16:50.000 Epstein hated Trump because he threw him out of Mar-a-Lago.

00:16:54.000 Epstein hated Trump because he knew there was something shady going on, but this was like 30 years ago.

00:17:00.000 He didn't know it was young girls. 0.97

00:17:02.000 He just knew he was a creep.

00:17:04.000 Epstein hated Trump because Trump beat him in a real estate deal.

00:17:08.000 So Epstein was doing everything he could to try to take down Trump.

00:17:13.000 So if he had anything real, it would have come out.

00:17:17.000 Not Epstein talking with his Democrat colleagues, trying to give him stuff on unrelated matters, trying to guide the questioning, because in all fairness, the Democrats aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.

00:17:30.000 It's a little different.

00:17:32.000 Huh.

00:17:33.000 No one's talking about that.

00:17:33.000 Strange.

00:17:35.000 Even people like one of the victims whose name was redacted in these emails, even though she's since deceased, who's on record under oath defending Trump, saying he never partook in those things.

00:17:47.000 It's almost like they redacted her name because they wanted to create ambiguity and link Trump to these things.

00:17:53.000 Of course, that didn't work. 0.55

00:17:55.000 And then Democrats continued to do their nonsense.

00:18:00.000 Again, guys, they faked a redaction of a victim who publicly testified that my father wasn't involved and couldn't implicate him in any of this stuff.

00:18:12.000 Why would they do that?

00:18:14.000 They're not protecting anyone.

00:18:16.000 She's passed.

00:18:18.000 That's unfortunate.

00:18:20.000 But it's almost like they're weaponizing her to try to create yet another narrative that doesn't exist and never did.

00:18:30.000 And look, guys, I get it.

00:18:32.000 I know we all want to get all the answers we can.

00:18:36.000 Honestly, for a long time, no one was more vocal than me about it.

00:18:42.000 I understand Americans want to make sure we stay on the offense and keep our foot on the gas pedal.

00:18:48.000 But we also can't take the bait on what yet another hoax or what the dirty tricks the Democrats are scheming about next.

00:18:58.000 We go for it, hook, line, and sinker every time.

00:18:58.000 Okay?

00:19:02.000 Okay.

00:19:03.000 He's working with the biggest names in Democrat media.

00:19:06.000 The biggest people that were opposing Trump were at his dinners after he was released from prison for being a pedophile.

00:19:15.000 Okay?

00:19:15.000 No one talks about that.

00:19:17.000 Okay.

00:19:18.000 So they try to link him because other people are talking about Trump in emails when he started his political journey with Epstein.

00:19:26.000 But it's pretty clear there's no love loss between them.

00:19:30.000 They weren't buddies.

00:19:32.000 And if Epstein actually had something, he would have certainly used it to take down Trump in any way, shape, or form.

00:19:41.000 Remember, guys, during the impeachment hoax, the Russia hoax, and every other hoax, we saw the Democrats actively try to distort, conceal, and manipulate evidence to push outright lies and make up nonsense.

00:19:58.000 Just look at the steel dossier.

00:20:01.000 So let's focus on the facts and let's focus on the future.

00:20:06.000 A ton has been accomplished in under a year, especially on the border.

00:20:11.000 Just think about what we were dealing with under Biden.

00:20:14.000 We had a literal open border.

00:20:17.000 Anyone could come through.

00:20:19.000 When state police agencies put up fencing and barbed wire, federal guys came in with a forklift and lifted it out of the way to ensure they could get a reliable stream of Democrat voters, meaning dependents on the rosters.

00:20:35.000 We had record levels of poison flowing across our border in the form of fentanyl.

00:20:42.000 For example, FBI Director Kash Patel just dropped some major news about the fentanyl crisis that the previous administration basically ignored, probably covered up.

00:20:54.000 And now we're righting those wrongs.

00:20:57.000 Check this out.

00:20:59.000 This is all thanks to President Trump's brave leadership to engage directly with President Xi Jinping and make one of the pillars of his administration defeating the plague of fentanyl and illegal narcotics.

00:21:11.000 And that set in motion the Attorney General to call her counterpart and designate the FBI and myself as the lead to engage in follow-up with President Trump's historic engagement with President Xi just a few weeks ago in Korea.

00:21:22.000 And what was accomplished when I went to Beijing was an actual full-out agreement to concretely adhere to the notion that we will not allow fentanyl to pour into the United States of America.

00:21:35.000 But you got to break that down.

00:21:36.000 What does that mean?

00:21:37.000 We know the Mexican drug traffickers are making it, but where are they getting the ingredients? 1.00

00:21:41.000 The fentanyl distributed by and through companies in China.

00:21:47.000 And what they have now done is pursuant to our agreement where we asked for all 13 fentanyl precursors to be designated and fully restricted and a further seven chemicals to be restricted as well.

00:21:58.000 This effectively shuts off all of the chemicals and ingredients used to make fentanyl.

00:22:04.000 No other president has done this.

00:22:06.000 Thanks to the Department of Justice and the FBI, we were able to get on the ground and get in the room with the Chinese for the first time ever and receive the reception that President Trump created with President Xi.

00:22:17.000 And now tens of thousands of American lives have been saved by one fell swoop thanks to President Trump and this FBI.

00:22:24.000 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl every year.

00:22:29.000 100,000, guys.

00:22:31.000 That's like, you know, five baseball stadiums packed to the brim.

00:22:37.000 That's two Vietnam wars a year.

00:22:40.000 Two Vietnamese.

00:22:42.000 And Biden want to talk about climate change?

00:22:46.000 And they let China do whatever they wanted, even though a lot of this stuff was coming from China and working with the Mexican cartels.

00:22:53.000 Are you kidding me?

00:22:55.000 And meanwhile, DHS just announced that for the first time in decades, we have negative, negative net migration.

00:23:04.000 That's right.

00:23:05.000 More people are leaving than coming in illegally.

00:23:11.000 This is what happens when you actually enforce the law.

00:23:16.000 This means, guys, we won't have illegals artificially inflating costs by undercutting wages or taking up housing from Americans. 0.68

00:23:27.000 That drives up rent.

00:23:29.000 Border security is national security.

00:23:32.000 It always has been.

00:23:34.000 It always will be for as long as time existed.

00:23:38.000 Just because the Democrats didn't want to believe that doesn't still make it true.

00:23:43.000 Border security is also economic security.

00:23:48.000 We're focused on affordability and immigration policy is a huge part of that.

00:23:54.000 And while the Fed was printing money like it was going out of style under Biden, creating the worst inflation crisis in 40 years, we're getting back to basics.

00:24:04.000 Here's some of the latest numbers from the White House.

00:24:08.000 On another matter, I want to address the affordability issue that's received a great deal of media attention this past week, which is ironic because it didn't receive that much attention when Joe Biden was here and inflation was at a record high 9%, the worst inflation crisis in modern American history.

00:24:25.000 And President Trump won a landslide election in part to address the affordability issues created by Joe Biden and the Democrats.

00:24:33.000 And that's exactly what President Trump has done since day one of his administration.

00:24:39.000 Since the first day in office and every day since, the Trump administration has taken aggressive action to fix the Biden-created cost of living issues.

00:24:48.000 The notion that the same Democrats who just shut down the federal government to sabotage our economy, rob people of their paychecks, and also helped Joe Biden ratchet up inflation to 9% are now suddenly affordability champions.

00:25:02.000 That notion is completely absurd.

00:25:05.000 And it's something only the liberal media would have the gall to push.

00:25:09.000 But the reality is that President Trump and his administration have done so much to lower prices and increase the economic prosperity of the American people.

00:25:18.000 And this president and his team of amazing economic advisors are going to keep working on this issue every single day.

00:25:25.000 In less than 10 short months, President Trump signed the largest middle-class tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security, which will guarantee that next year, Americans are going to put more money back into their pockets.

00:25:41.000 The president has completely unleashed American energy dominance to help bring gasoline prices to the lowest in five years, and we expect them to continue to decrease.

00:25:50.000 And it has also lowered energy costs overall.

00:25:53.000 There is more work to do.

00:25:54.000 But again, the president's deregulatory and pro-American energy agenda is absolutely going to continue to drive down prices.

00:26:02.000 This formula worked in the president's first term, and we expect that it's going to work again.

00:26:07.000 And this is key because we know energy costs are the number one driver of inflation.

00:26:12.000 Again, just look at what Joe Biden did to our energy industry over the past four years of his administration and look at what happened to inflation as a result.

00:26:21.000 Everything became more expensive.

00:26:23.000 To lower prescription drug prices and health care costs, the president has been working around the clock on this issue.

00:26:29.000 He is obsessed with negotiating these good deals on behalf of the American people to bring down pharmaceutical costs and drug costs for Americans.

00:26:38.000 And he has done so on a number of fronts.

00:26:40.000 You have seen him discuss that in the Oval Office several times.

00:26:44.000 To fuel small businesses, lower their costs, and incentivize hiring, the Trump administration has already cut 30 unnecessary regulations for every new one on the books, which we know will save employers and small businesses across the country thousands of dollars in regulatory burdens.

00:27:00.000 All of these pro-Trump policies are working and they will continue to work.

00:27:06.000 Wages are rising at the fastest pace of the start of a presidential administration in 60 years.

00:27:12.000 The cost of the typical new mortgage is down by nearly $3,000 per year.

00:27:16.000 There's much work to do, and this administration will continue to do it.

00:27:20.000 But President Trump has already made great progress in cleaning up the economic disaster that was created by Joe Biden.

00:27:28.000 And as I said, guys, I get it.

00:27:31.000 I understand we need to reduce costs.

00:27:34.000 I wish we could do it overnight.

00:27:36.000 But we need to build long-lasting prosperity, not cheap sugar highs like we saw under Obama and Biden.

00:27:45.000 We can't just print money and give a little boost.

00:27:48.000 We have to do this and lock it in for the long term.

00:27:52.000 My father's economic policies are actually putting money back in people's pockets.

00:27:58.000 And the biggest gains haven't even been realized yet.

00:28:02.000 In the prior four years, Crooked Joe Biden oversaw less than $1 trillion of new investment in the United States.

00:28:09.000 In nine months, I've secured commitments of over $18 trillion.

00:28:13.000 The stock market is set 40-time all-time record highs.

00:28:16.000 The GDP growth in the second quarter was an amazing, almost 4%.

00:28:21.000 In the third quarter, we're on track to achieve an estimated 4.2, maybe more.

00:28:25.000 Gasoline prices have plummeted to the lowest in two decades, and we're going to soon see $2 gasoline.

00:28:31.000 Grocery prices are way down.

00:28:33.000 And Walmart just announced that the cost of their standard Thanksgiving meal is 25% lower than one year ago.

00:28:40.000 Since March, the price of eggs is down 85%.

00:28:43.000 Energy prices are down.

00:28:45.000 Interest rates are down.

00:28:46.000 And the cost of the typical new mortgage is down by nearly $3,000 a year.

00:28:51.000 Day by day, we're making America affordable again.

00:28:57.000 Every American deserves the chance to be prosperous and independent.

00:29:03.000 And nowhere is this more important than in places the establishment rode off for decades.

00:29:09.000 Like the Rust Belt and Appalachia.

00:29:13.000 JD Vance recently talked about this in a very profound way.

00:29:17.000 And honestly, guys, it's worth watching.

00:29:20.000 You want to talk about like populism and you want to talk about people being pissed off.

00:29:25.000 Well, yeah, people are pissed off when they don't have good jobs.

00:29:28.000 And people are pissed off when things disappear and move overseas.

00:29:31.000 And people are pissed off when they feel like other countries are being prioritized over the United States of America.

00:29:36.000 And all of that is part of the populist resentment of the past 20 or 30 years in American politics.

00:29:43.000 You know what really pisses people off when they realize that their loved ones are dying much sooner than everybody else.

00:29:49.000 And that is a big part of the story of what's going on in Appalachia and why I think so many people in Appalachia feel left behind.

00:29:55.000 I mean, my story, obviously, it's been, you know, like you said, I'm like the golden boy.

00:30:00.000 Things have just worked out for me in this really incredible way.

00:30:03.000 I feel so lucky and so grateful for it.

00:30:07.000 But I also feel a certain sense of guilt because there are a lot of people who grew up in families like mine who haven't had an easy life and who haven't had all this economic opportunity and who haven't had a person that they fallen in love with and they've been able to sort of build a stable, nice family like Mianusha have been able to build.

00:30:25.000 And that gives me a sense of purpose because I want those people to have the same opportunities that I've had.

00:30:31.000 But it also gives me a great sense of anger because we never should have gotten to the point that we are today.

00:30:38.000 And the reason that we have is because of failed leadership and it's failed leadership over generations.

00:30:43.000 And by the way, these are, you talk about Appalachia.

00:30:46.000 You were talking about people who, though they don't have much, would take the shirt off their back and give it to a complete stranger because that's what you do.

00:30:55.000 If you go back to America's biggest wars, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, which were the counties that filled their draft quotas with volunteers instead of with draftees, it's very often the parts in deep Appalachia where you've got grinding poverty, but you've also got this incredible love of country.

00:31:14.000 So if any place in this country deserves not to be left behind, it's Appalachia.

00:31:19.000 But on the public health stuff in particular, the numbers don't look good.

00:31:23.000 And it's one of the reasons why I'm such a big supporter of what you're doing, because these are people who deserve to live better, healthier lives, but they really have been left behind by this country's leadership.

00:31:33.000 I think we're all tired of being lectured by so-called elites on what's best for us.

00:31:39.000 And we're certainly tired of being lectured by European leaders.

00:31:42.000 I feel like they got enough to worry about in their own backyards that they're not dealing with.

00:31:47.000 But we're not going to get lectured by them either on how America can't secure its own borders or defend our own hemisphere.

00:31:54.000 But we need to be totally focused on what's going on.

00:31:59.000 And we have to be focused on Russia and Ukraine.

00:32:03.000 And we need to focus on those things and climate change that even Bill Gates has come out against and said, I guess it's not really the existential crisis to humanity that I thought it was and preached for 20 years.

00:32:13.000 We're not going to be lectured by these people anymore.

00:32:17.000 In fact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just put the Europeans on notice.

00:32:24.000 No more free rides while American taxpayers foot the bill for their defense. 0.92

00:32:29.000 And no more telling us we can't blow up drug boats and we can't secure our own neighborhoods.

00:32:37.000 Check out Marco here in this clip.

00:32:39.000 It's worth the watch.

00:32:41.000 I don't think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is.

00:32:45.000 They certainly don't get to determine how the United States defends its national security.

00:32:48.000 The United States is under attack from organized criminal narco-terrorists in our hemisphere.

00:32:55.000 And the president is responding in the defense of our country.

00:32:57.000 I do find it interesting that all these countries want us to send, you know, and supply, for example, nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to defend Europe.

00:33:06.000 But when the United States positions aircraft carriers in our hemisphere where we live, somehow that's a problem.

00:33:11.000 So I would say that the United States is, and this president has made very clear his job is to protect the United States from threats against the United States, and that is what he's doing in this operation.

00:33:20.000 Of course, the regime media, once again, is taking the side of the globalists.

00:33:26.000 I'm shocked.

00:33:27.000 I know you guys weren't expecting that one either.

00:33:30.000 And they're actually defending the drug cartels.

00:33:34.000 I mean, that's what they're doing.

00:33:35.000 They're claiming these strikes are just too tough and too disproportional.

00:33:40.000 And guys, I know that anyone watching has some sort of link, a degree of separation to a loved one, a friend, a colleague, a classmate that's been killed by the scourge of fentanyl coming across our border.

00:33:58.000 But these people think we're too tough, a narco-terrorist?

00:34:01.000 Maybe they're fishermen.

00:34:02.000 Yeah, they're not fishermen running from Venezuela with 450 mercs, four of them on the back of a boat, okay? 0.75

00:34:08.000 That's maybe, that's a great Miami boat.

00:34:11.000 Okay. 0.77

00:34:11.000 Not from a communist hellhole like Venezuela. 0.77

00:34:15.000 They're not running those kind of boats unless they're really well-funded fishermen, which of course makes them probably not fishermen.

00:34:21.000 It makes them drug traffickers.

00:34:24.000 But thankfully, over at CNN, Scott Jennings delivered a much needed reality check. 0.87

00:34:31.000 These drug dealers are terrorists, and we're going to treat them just like they deserve to be treated.

00:34:39.000 Is he trying to provoke an armed attack? 0.98

00:34:41.000 I think he would argue we're already under attack.

00:34:43.000 You've got Venezuela that does move drugs into our country.

00:34:46.000 Not fentanyl, I agree with you.

00:34:47.000 It's mostly cocaine.

00:34:49.000 That they are part of a narco-terrorist system in our hemisphere that floods our country with drugs. 0.93

00:34:54.000 And other countries that are our allies, they flood them with drugs.

00:34:57.000 I agree with Jim.

00:34:58.000 Efforts in the past seem to have not curtailed this.

00:35:00.000 And so, look, he had promised a more muscular response to the international drug trade, particularly in our hemisphere.

00:35:08.000 Now we're getting it.

00:35:09.000 I mean, I guess you could debate the legality of it.

00:35:11.000 I'll tell you the politics of it.

00:35:12.000 It's about a 70-30 issue.

00:35:14.000 The American people have been wanting the government to do something more about the narco-terrorism in our hemisphere, and they're doing it. 1.00

00:35:22.000 And so we'll, I guess, we'll see what the lawyers have to say, but I know what the American people think.

00:35:26.000 And it's like, finally, somebody is taking these narco-terrorists seriously. 0.99

00:35:29.000 Well, you have to be killing narco-terrorists. 0.90

00:35:31.000 We don't know who the people are on the boats. 0.98

00:35:33.000 They look like drug boats to me.

00:35:35.000 I don't think these are mild-mannered fishermen.

00:35:36.000 That seems to be the rationale.

00:35:37.000 They look like drug boats to me.

00:35:39.000 That seems to be as far as we're going with that.

00:35:42.000 Terrorist designation for cartels is exactly what's needed and long overdue.

00:35:49.000 They're enemy combatants, period.

00:35:52.000 They are a clear and present danger to the United States of America. 0.71

00:35:56.000 They're far more of a clear and present danger than any of the crap that we've funneled trillions of dollars to over the last few decades in our never-ending wars. 0.97

00:36:05.000 Clearly, more of a clear and present danger than Russia or Ukraine. 0.99

00:36:10.000 They're killing 100,000 Americans a year.

00:36:15.000 End of story.

00:36:17.000 And if you're looking at what's happening in blue cities, you see what happens when you coddle criminals, when you treat them with kid gloves, and pretend that you can virtue signal your way to a better life or tax your way there.

00:36:34.000 It ain't going to happen, folks.

00:36:36.000 For example, Seattle's socialist mayor just had a complete and total meltdown when confronted with some harsh reality.

00:36:46.000 This guy is must-see TV.

00:36:49.000 But unfortunately, it's for all the wrong reasons.

00:36:54.000 Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right.

00:36:58.000 We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores at will, and leave behind food deserts.

00:37:04.000 Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it.

00:37:10.000 Food deserts are not natural.

00:37:11.000 Corporations create them when they have banned in our communities.

00:37:15.000 As mayor, I'm excited to step up and with UFCW explore public option grocery stores to fill those gaps.

00:37:23.000 And speaking of total incompetence and government fantasies, do you remember a few weeks ago what CCP shills, you know, the shills for the Chinese Communist Party when they were out there promoting a groundbreaking new bridge in China?

00:37:41.000 Check out what happened with their beloved state-of-the-art Communist Chinese bridge.

00:38:13.000 Yikes, that's a rough one.

00:38:16.000 It opened last week, collapsed this week, but sure, this is what happens when you prioritize propaganda over engineering.

00:38:26.000 It's kind of like what's happening at our own universities.

00:38:30.000 For example, over at UC Berkeley, the lunatics have completely taken over the asylum and are spewing disgusting left-wing violence and putting more conservative lives at risk.

00:38:44.000 Don't believe me? 0.81

00:38:46.000 Check it out for yourself.

00:39:07.000 And finally, because it wouldn't be a week in liberal paradise without a corruption scandal, Gavin Newsom's chief of staff just got caught in another alleged massive corruption scheme.

00:39:23.000 The same guys who want to lecture red states about ethics and responsibility seem to behave much differently when they think no one is looking.

00:39:34.000 Take a look.

00:39:36.000 Not guilty was her plea.

00:39:38.000 Now, this is big news for someone who once held one of the most powerful jobs in Sacramento.

00:39:42.000 And now we're just waiting on Williamson to leave the courthouse here.

00:39:46.000 And actually, here she is live.

00:39:48.000 Here we go, everybody.

00:39:48.000 Live on Cron 4.

00:39:49.000 Ms. Williamson, live on Cron 4.

00:39:53.000 Any comments?

00:39:54.000 Should other California officials and people involved in the government be concerned now with this investigation underway?

00:40:00.000 Do you have any comment, Ms. Williamson?

00:40:02.000 No, you guys can contact my attorney.

00:40:05.000 Do you have anything to say at all?

00:40:06.000 Ms. Williamson, do you have anything to say to Javier Maceto right now?

00:40:12.000 Have you been cooperating with prosecutors?

00:40:14.000 No, I'm not.

00:40:15.000 Excuse me.

00:40:16.000 Ms. Williamson, you have nothing to say with the 23 counts against you.

00:40:20.000 Do you have your side of the story you would like to share with Cron 4 viewers?

00:40:23.000 Do you have your side of the story you'd like to share with the viewers at home?

00:40:33.000 And Justine, we're watching this live.

00:40:34.000 There you have Governor Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff getting into a car here outside of the federal courthouse in Sacramento.

00:40:43.000 And there she goes.

00:40:44.000 You can see it's a media scrum out here, Justine.

00:40:46.000 It's all happening live here on Cron 4.

00:40:48.000 Again, that's Dana Williamson, former chief of staff to Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:40:52.000 They're answering my question.

00:40:53.000 She said, if we could speak to her attorneys, that's how we were here.

00:40:57.000 But we should tell you that her attorneys earlier said they had no comments on this.

00:41:00.000 And there you can see the car driving away there as we're live here on Cron 4.

00:41:05.000 Now, a little bit about this, Justine.

00:41:08.000 The California model.

00:41:10.000 Homeless encampments, $7 gas, rolling blackouts, fires that are really preventable, especially if you just tapped into, I don't know, the Pacific Ocean about five yards away from where they're going on, and good old-fashioned corruption, folks.

00:41:26.000 But remember, they're the ones who are going to save democracy.

00:41:30.000 Give me a break.

00:41:32.000 Look, here's the bottom line.

00:41:36.000 And this is what the establishment doesn't want you to understand.

00:41:40.000 We're witnessing a complete realignment of American politics.

00:41:46.000 It's not Democrat versus Republic anymore.

00:41:48.000 It's the America First movement versus the globalist unit party.

00:41:53.000 It's the workers versus welfare recipients.

00:41:57.000 It's builders versus bureaucrats.

00:42:01.000 The Trump administration isn't just changing policy.

00:42:05.000 They're changing the entire conversation.

00:42:08.000 We're not apologizing for America anymore.

00:42:11.000 We're not bowing to Europe or kowtowing to China or ignoring the cartels.

00:42:19.000 We're putting Americans first.

00:42:22.000 And the results speak for themselves.

00:42:25.000 Secure borders beat open borders.

00:42:28.000 Law and order beats defund the police.

00:42:32.000 Energy dominance beats Green New Deal poverty.

00:42:36.000 And America First beats globalism every single time.

00:42:42.000 Okay, I know we shouldn't even have to have this conversation.

00:42:45.000 Know this is common sense to all of you.

00:42:48.000 I know you guys all understand it, but it didn't matter.

00:42:51.000 When they had the narrative out there, when they controlled the media, when they controlled social, when they controlled every mechanism and were able to censor the obvious truth, they still got their way.

00:43:05.000 But it's because of you guys, that won't happen anymore.

00:43:08.000 And it's again why I ask you guys to make sure you share these things so people see it.

00:43:14.000 Like, share, subscribe, download the Rumble app, get it out there, make sure people see it.

00:43:20.000 Okay, we've made one hell of a comeback, but there's a lot left to achieve.

00:43:26.000 There's a lot of neofarious forces still out there trying to suppress you, trying to censor you.

00:43:31.000 So, you guys have to be part of that line of defense in getting this all out there.

00:43:38.000 Thanks so much for tuning in, guys.

00:43:40.000 Remember, again, like, share, subscribe.

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00:43:47.000 Okay, it matters.

00:43:48.000 They have the guts to support this kind of programming.

00:43:51.000 That's not easy.

00:43:53.000 There's ramifications.

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