Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - I WAS HACKED: What Happened? Plus Major Interview with Former Acting DNI Ric Grenell | TRIGGERED Ep.70

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00:05:25.000 you guys welcome to another awesome episode

00:05:54.000 A lot to get into today because given all the news, I figured who better to interview today than former acting director of national intelligence Rick Grinnell.

00:06:04.000 So that's going to be ahead.

00:06:05.000 He's at the UN. Also, our former ambassador to Germany, he's the one that stood up to the insanity of what Germany wanted and was a big actor in pushing back on NATO, making sure that we're not just the schmucks funding all of this stuff forever while they do nothing. 0.90

00:06:23.000 So I think that'll be really important, given that it's UN week and we're seeing some insanity out of there.

00:06:28.000 Also, guys, make sure to like, share, and subscribe to this episode.

00:06:33.000 This show is only getting bigger, and it's only getting better.

00:06:37.000 And now, apparently, hackers are out to get me, too.

00:06:42.000 As some of you may have seen, yesterday I was trending at the top of Twitter yet again, this time not due to something I actually said.

00:06:49.000 But my Twitter account got hacked, and it sparked quite the media reaction.

00:06:57.000 Honestly, when I saw some of the stuff, I was like, you know, and yet...

00:07:02.000 There is some of it. Some of it totally inappropriate.

00:07:04.000 I'm not allowed to condone it.

00:07:05.000 And yet others that were like, you know, that's pretty good.

00:07:08.000 So if you're the hacker, reach out.

00:07:09.000 Let me know. You know, I got back the account, so it's fine.

00:07:13.000 But, like, you had some good content.

00:07:16.000 So some of it was pretty funny.

00:07:19.000 The one about Logan Paul was particularly good.

00:07:22.000 I think my brother wants me to be able to leave you in control of my social rather than me.

00:07:26.000 I probably caused too many headaches for us.

00:07:28.000 So good work.

00:07:30.000 And... You know, I guess I gotta go through the whole password thing and redo all of that nonsense.

00:07:35.000 But it wasn't all humorous and terrible news.

00:07:40.000 We got some good news. 0.97

00:07:42.000 On Monday, I told you about Ukraine's psycho transgender spokesperson who literally threatened to kill so-called Russian propagandists. 0.98

00:07:50.000 That means anyone who doesn't agree, I guess, with the propaganda being put out by Ukraine. 0.89

00:07:57.000 I mean, it seems like a big deal.

00:07:59.000 Our good friend Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio sent a letter to the Pentagon about America's funding of this lunatic, and it got results.

00:08:10.000 Shockingly, it got results.

00:08:12.000 Ukraine announced yesterday that they are suspending the spokesperson.

00:08:17.000 You probably remember this one.

00:08:19.000 It was the one that looked like I say Zelensky in a wig, threatening people, apparently with hit squads. 1.00

00:08:27.000 It was pretty ridiculous. 0.92

00:08:28.000 I thought I was being punked for a moment, but apparently it was real. 0.82

00:08:32.000 Ukraine is desperate for Congress and the Senate to approve billions of dollars in new funding, so they decided to throw us a bone, I guess.

00:08:41.000 We should learn from this.

00:08:44.000 We control the checkbook when it comes to Ukraine.

00:08:47.000 We should use that power accordingly.

00:08:51.000 Everyone wants us to fund every little thing for them around the world, and we do, and yet they want us then to sit back and say, well, it's their decision and it's their this when it's your money.

00:09:03.000 We should secure all the concessions we can whenever we can.

00:09:08.000 That should be leading from the front, not funding it And bending a knee to ever-changing whims of everyone else around the world, guys.

00:09:17.000 That's basics, but...

00:09:19.000 Our diplomats don't exactly understand that.

00:09:22.000 Rick Rennell definitely understands that.

00:09:23.000 So when we talk to him shortly, I imagine we will get into that in great detail.

00:09:29.000 And while Biden sends all of our resources to secure Ukraine's border, America's border remains completely open and lawless.

00:09:39.000 Look at this recent video from the border.

00:09:42.000 It's a massive group of hundreds of young men No women or children.

00:09:48.000 Remember, we're told it's a humanitarian crisis.

00:09:50.000 Please, the women, the children, the this. 0.99

00:09:52.000 These are fighting age men running across the border rampantly.

00:09:59.000 If you're fleeing asylum in a country, you bring your wives, you bring your kids. 0.94

00:10:03.000 If your motives are otherwise, you probably send fighting age men.

00:10:08.000 At this point, I think it's impossible to even think that there's good motives to what's going on here.

00:10:33.000 All of the people you see in the video are waiting to be processed and released by the Border Patrol.

00:10:39.000 Illegal immigrants don't have to run across the border in the middle of the night to get into their country.

00:10:44.000 That's only in the movies.

00:10:46.000 There's no need to be sneaky.

00:10:49.000 You don't need to be covert.

00:10:51.000 Under Joe Biden, illegal immigrants simply turn themselves into the Border Patrol, and then they are released into the country, never to be seen again. 1.00

00:11:04.000 Some of these illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists. 1.00

00:11:07.000 Trump was right about that in 2015 when he announced. 0.99

00:11:09.000 That wasn't a problem when he first said it.

00:11:12.000 It was only a couple weeks after, and that's what people don't understand.

00:11:16.000 That's why you realize this is by design.

00:11:19.000 It wasn't a problem the day he said it.

00:11:21.000 But a couple weeks later, when he started gaining in the polls, when he started dominating the Republican field, and all of a sudden he became a threat, that's when it magically became racist!

00:11:31.000 Some of these people could even be Chinese spies.

00:11:35.000 There's been a 300% increase in Chinese nationals caught on the southern border.

00:11:41.000 What the hell are they doing there?

00:11:44.000 Adversaries are clearly taking advantage of our open border.

00:11:48.000 Biden just doesn't care.

00:11:50.000 As long as some of them are future Democrat Party voters, as long as they, whether illegal or legal, will be counted in a future sentence, it's all good.

00:12:01.000 Come on in. It's about power.

00:12:04.000 The Biden administration is not interested in enforcing the law.

00:12:08.000 Just look at Merrick Garland's performance on Capitol Hill yesterday.

00:12:13.000 At one point, Congressman Matt Gaetz asked Garland if he's investigating whether Hunter Biden is selling access through his art.

00:12:22.000 Remember Hunter selling paintings for like half a million dollars and some auctions he was actually outperforming Picasso?

00:12:31.000 Picasso, folks!

00:12:33.000 Journeyman artist, never heard of before, all of a sudden outperforming Picasso.

00:12:38.000 You'd think that'd be a question that they asked.

00:12:41.000 It's a good question.

00:12:43.000 Imagine if I started selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:12:47.000 I'm sure a SWAT team, or maybe, since it's become commonplace, the FBI's hostage rescue team would be kicking down my door like they did my father's at Mar-a-Lago.

00:13:00.000 Garland, though, has no interest whatsoever and said that he isn't investigating.

00:13:05.000 Of course he's not. His job is to protect the Bidens.

00:13:09.000 For all we know, he's probably in on it.

00:13:11.000 It's 10% for a lot of big guys, in my opinion.

00:13:15.000 Garland did so poorly that even CNN called him out.

00:13:20.000 Obviously, it's very telegraphed to focus on Hunter Biden, the investigation and the indictment of Hunter Biden as well.

00:13:26.000 What did we learn, though?

00:13:27.000 Is there anything new that stood out to you?

00:13:29.000 So, Merrick Garland struggled with this.

00:13:31.000 I think there is more questions than answers provided yesterday about the Hunter Biden prosecution.

00:13:36.000 Okay, folks. It's no coincidence.

00:13:40.000 CNN is going after Biden right now.

00:13:43.000 We don't believe in coincidence anymore. 1.00

00:13:46.000 If you do, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:13:48.000 Candidly. Just last week, a CNN poll found that my father is beating Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup. 1.00

00:13:55.000 The Democrats are panicking.

00:13:59.000 They can't lose power.

00:14:03.000 They can't open the door for the investigations.

00:14:07.000 They can't give that up because we'll find out so much more about what's actually going on in our country to the

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00:17:42.000 And with that now, joining me, my good friend, former acting director of national intelligence, former ambassador to Germany, all-around awesome guy, Rick Grinnell.

00:17:56.000 I was an early adapter on Grinnell in like 2015.

00:18:00.000 Mostly because the Twitter rivaled that of mine.

00:18:04.000 It was hot.

00:18:05.000 It was aggressive. And we saw you take that to the UN. We saw you take that to an ambassadorship in Germany where you held NATO accountable and were like, you know, enough of the nonsense.

00:18:18.000 But you're in New York.

00:18:20.000 For UN Week, obviously, former very high-level diplomat, ambassador to Germany, that's a big deal.

00:18:28.000 We'll talk about that one in a little bit as well, because your going-away party is when they outed Kim and I dating.

00:18:34.000 That's right. That was a fun one.

00:18:38.000 But talk about what you're seeing at the UN right now.

00:18:42.000 What are the major takeaways in America standing in the world under Joe Biden?

00:18:48.000 Because I'm watching, but this is not my world, right? 0.99

00:18:50.000 I talk shit online. 0.99

00:18:51.000 I fight. It's a little different. 1.00

00:18:54.000 I'm not a diplomat, and I don't pretend to be.

00:18:56.000 What do you see right now?

00:18:59.000 You know, Don, the opposite of America first, if you want to know the polar opposite of America first when it comes to diplomacy, is consensus with the world.

00:19:10.000 So there's 15 members of the Security Council, and there are five permanent members of the Security Council, which means 10 of those Security Council members get elected and they rotate.

00:19:21.000 Yep. The lowest common denominator of 15 countries is what the global policy is.

00:19:27.000 When you think about what's globalism, what do we do to kind of make this third world UN government?

00:19:36.000 It's the lowest common denominator of what 15 countries believe.

00:19:41.000 And at the UN, they believe every country is equal.

00:19:45.000 And I don't believe every country is equal.

00:19:47.000 I think every person is equal.

00:19:49.000 But I don't believe that every country is equal.

00:19:51.000 If every country was equal, then you wouldn't be asking the United States of America to pay a quarter of the bill at the UN. So I think what we're seeing right now, it's a long answer to say, we're seeing this idea of consensus, which is pushing the United States off the leadership role, not recognizing us as a superpower.

00:20:11.000 And Joe Biden is really comfortable with that.

00:20:14.000 He likes consensus.

00:20:16.000 He certainly likes consensus with the Europeans.

00:20:19.000 But what that means is that when you have these UN weeks, UK head of state doesn't show up.

00:20:26.000 France head of state doesn't show up.

00:20:28.000 China, Russia head of states, they don't show up.

00:20:30.000 The permanent members of the Security Council literally snubbed Joe Biden.

00:20:35.000 There's no mention of this in the legacy media, and yet we look like we're just another country, you know?

00:20:43.000 Talk about that further, because that's a big deal, right?

00:20:46.000 If the five or four other members of the permanent UN Security Council Don't show up to hear the President of the United States speak.

00:20:57.000 That's a big deal. And I remember it was a really big deal when, like, Trump spoke at the UN and called out the globalists to their face.

00:21:07.000 He called out Germany.

00:21:08.000 I'm sure that created some headaches for you, but you believed in the policy, so it worked.

00:21:12.000 And, you know, they were laughing about, you know, well, Russia's not going to ever own us because of energy, and we're going to go 100% green, and that's going to be total sense.

00:21:20.000 And by the way, NATO, we'd like you to raise the spending to defend us from the enemy, Russia, that we're enriching by taking their natural gas and becoming fully dependent on them. 0.83

00:21:30.000 And they laughed about it, and the media had a feel that, oh, it was so funny, so cute, and now...

00:21:35.000 Trump was right. Like everything else, Trump was right.

00:21:38.000 But anyone with a brain would have seen that then and been able to call it out.

00:21:43.000 But I guess it was just convenient to go after Trump.

00:21:45.000 But what does this say beyond sort of the basics of clearly we're just losing our standing in the world?

00:21:51.000 But what's the endgame for America here?

00:21:55.000 Look, I think it's really important to remember that whether we're talking about Washington, D.C., Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Bogota, it doesn't matter, but the capitals are controlled by elites, right?

00:22:10.000 You look at Brussels, which is the capital of Europe, and all of the NGOs that are based in Brussels, the NGOs that are based in Washington, D.C., they're filled with elites.

00:22:21.000 They don't want to hear from the people who are paying the bills, the people who don't have power in those cities.

00:22:30.000 They don't want to hear from them. They think they know everything.

00:22:32.000 They think that they can control everything.

00:22:36.000 So I believe that this is really a fight of elites versus the rest of us.

00:22:41.000 And elites doesn't necessarily mean rich, doesn't necessarily mean uneducated, right?

00:22:47.000 Uh, are, are highly educated.

00:22:50.000 What it means is, is just people who want to control the system.

00:22:55.000 The, uh, instead of having the power with people, the powers with a few people.

00:23:00.000 And so I, I think the answer to What's happening around the world is that the elites are allowed to control the system when people like Joe Biden are in charge, because he's an elite, and he wants just the few people in Washington, D.C. to make the decision.

00:23:18.000 I'll give you an example of this consensus elite idea.

00:23:22.000 We in the Trump administration I felt very strongly, as you were inferring, that Chancellor Merkel, leading the Germans, made terrible decisions on energy policy.

00:23:36.000 She put herself in a corner where they got rid of nuclear energy, they got rid of coal, or started to get rid of, made a policy to get rid of it. 0.96

00:23:46.000 And that was because the Green Party was coming on Merkel, and she wanted to keep power. 0.99

00:23:51.000 This elite system was like, well, I've got to keep power, so I'm going to grab these issues from the Green Party.

00:23:57.000 She took on the Green Party policies, got rid of this energy, put herself in a hole. 0.98

00:24:02.000 Germany as a manufacturing country cannot just have wind and solar power.

00:24:07.000 That's not enough for them.

00:24:09.000 So what she did is, oh, I got to have a second gas pipeline from Russia called Nord Stream 2.

00:24:16.000 Remember, Nord Stream 1 is a, our US policy was that Nord Stream 1

00:24:23.000 could be part of the diversification of Europe for their energy sources.

00:24:27.000 But Nord Stream 2 went too far.

00:24:30.000 It gave Russia too much influence, too much leverage.

00:24:34.000 President Trump made it clear.

00:24:35.000 He said, you're feeding the beast.

00:24:37.000 Why are you allowing Russia to have this leverage over you?

00:24:41.000 Chancellor Merkel's response was, oh, Donald, you don't understand.

00:24:45.000 We can control Russia. 0.94

00:24:47.000 We're Germany. I'm Chancellor Merkel.

00:24:50.000 We have a different relationship with Russia.

00:24:53.000 They're never going to over-leverage us.

00:24:55.000 But we stood firm.

00:24:57.000 President Trump said, no, I'm going to sanction that Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2.

00:25:01.000 I'm not going to allow that to be operational.

00:25:03.000 We were very successful.

00:25:05.000 We took a lot of heat from the Germans.

00:25:08.000 But what was missing all along is that the rest of Europe thought we were right.

00:25:13.000 They were afraid to stand up to Germany, but they knew we were right. 0.99

00:25:17.000 They did not want Germany having this pipeline.

00:25:19.000 Merkel gave, after Joe Biden took over, Went straight to Joe Biden and the Democrats and said, please drop these sanctions.

00:25:29.000 I need this Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

00:25:32.000 Joe Biden calculated consensus with Merkel, consensus with the Europeans is a higher priority.

00:25:40.000 So I'm going to give them what they want.

00:25:43.000 So the Democrats and Joe Biden dropped the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline early in this administration.

00:25:50.000 That was such a signal to Vladimir Putin that Joe Biden would be weak.

00:25:55.000 Joe Biden put Vladimir Putin's Russian pipeline back online and operational.

00:26:01.000 He's the one who dropped the sanctions.

00:26:03.000 I could argue all day that the Democrats What caused the war in Ukraine when they dropped the sanctions on Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

00:26:12.000 They welcomed this move from Putin.

00:26:16.000 And if you go back, Don, and you look at the floor speeches from Democratic senators when they were arguing to drop the sanctions, it's frightening.

00:26:25.000 They say things like, oh, we don't want to make Russia angry.

00:26:29.000 We don't want to stick it in Russia's eye. 0.87

00:26:32.000 Their calculation, their strategy was so wrong, the opposite happened.

00:26:38.000 You encouraged Putin, once again, through the Obama-Biden era of grabbing Crimea, you encouraged Putin, come in and do something in Ukraine, start a war because Joe Biden is weak.

00:26:53.000 Yeah, so, I mean, that one is crazy to me, because when you look at everyone screaming about Russia, Russia, Russia now, you know, whether it's driving them into the arms of the Saudis, driving them into the arms of the Chinese, you know, getting off the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency, I mean, It was caused because of decisions like this.

00:27:12.000 We empowered them. And so the irony, like, how come there's no one calling out all these people that were essentially, you know, pro-Russia energy, pro-Russia monetarily, give them this power.

00:27:25.000 I mean, these are the same people on TV with a straight facing. 0.88

00:27:28.000 Putin's an evil dictator. 0.75

00:27:30.000 How did he think this could happen? 0.96

00:27:32.000 I mean, they welcomed it with open arms.

00:27:35.000 What did they think was going to happen?

00:27:36.000 Listen, like I said, I'm no diplomat.

00:27:38.000 I don't pretend to be one.

00:27:39.000 I don't even play one on TV. I think you're pretty good.

00:27:41.000 You're a pretty good diplomat.

00:27:43.000 But, you know, it was obvious.

00:27:46.000 It was, you know, like, my children would understand that you don't empower, you know, your enemies.

00:27:54.000 And then when they do something, you act shocked on a world stage.

00:27:57.000 But, you know, you don't hear mainstream media calling out the Democrats for that.

00:28:00.000 You don't hear them saying Biden did this.

00:28:03.000 You know, it's not a coincidence that Russia didn't invade any of their neighbors under Trump, but they did under Biden.

00:28:08.000 They did under Bush. They did under Obama.

00:28:10.000 Uh... Why is that not a thing?

00:28:13.000 And yet Trump was the one that was apparently weak on Russia, which is nonsense if you actually look at the policies.

00:28:19.000 But no one seems to.

00:28:20.000 No one seems to. It's total nonsense.

00:28:24.000 We had the strongest sanctions on Putin.

00:28:28.000 And he understands strength.

00:28:32.000 He also understands weakness, and he saw weakness.

00:28:35.000 I mean, the Democrats and the media will never be able to answer the question, why did Putin invade twice under a Biden president, vice president situation?

00:28:48.000 Why did he do that twice, and yet he didn't do it under Donald Trump?

00:28:52.000 Look, I believe that one of the reasons they kicked President Trump off Twitter Was because he was being wildly effective in going around the filter of the media and going straight to the people.

00:29:07.000 Reaching the people, not the elites.

00:29:10.000 But big tech and Fortune 500 companies, and you know this about me because we talk regularly, I believe that Fortune 500 companies right now are so far gone left that Republicans should not be helping them.

00:29:25.000 We should not be talking about tax cuts and this UAW situation.

00:29:29.000 I'm all for the workers.

00:29:31.000 I'm not for big corporations.

00:29:39.000 Are allowed to do what they want to do.

00:29:40.000 They give money to the Democrats.

00:29:42.000 They have these terrible woke policies.

00:29:45.000 The elites in charge get paid millions, tens of millions of dollars.

00:29:50.000 Why are we helping them?

00:29:52.000 Why are we getting behind?

00:29:53.000 Donald Trump, President Trump, has reorientated the Republican Party to the workers, not to the elites, which is why Mitt Romney does not like him.

00:30:04.000 Because Mitt Romney, remember, is a total elite.

00:30:09.000 George Bush, who I worked for, they love the elites.

00:30:13.000 They have their elite game.

00:30:16.000 And they don't want a party like a Reagan, like a Trump party, that really concentrates on the workers.

00:30:24.000 And so I'll finish with this.

00:30:26.000 As I think that the elites are being defeated, I think we've got to keep calling out the media for being a protector of the ruling party and this club, this club of elites in Washington, D.C., because the people are beginning to speak.

00:30:41.000 The people have social media.

00:30:43.000 We can get our message out.

00:30:46.000 We are winning.

00:30:47.000 It's just the elites are pretending like we're not.

00:30:50.000 Yeah, no, I mean, they're trying so hard.

00:30:51.000 We saw that this week. I mean, Trump basically took the side of the autoworkers. 0.88

00:30:56.000 And yet, the union that represents, you know, when I say represents, it's like, you know, they represent themselves, just like the elites represent themselves.

00:31:03.000 So, I mean, it's not just in government, it's in big corporations, it's in big, you know, it's in everything.

00:31:10.000 The United Auto Workers Union basically started taking shots at Trump.

00:31:15.000 I'm like, so one of the biggest people in the world, with one of the largest platforms in the world, with one of the largest followings in the world, is taking your side?

00:31:23.000 And you're like, well, I mean, no, we don't want that.

00:31:26.000 We want to do it for Joe Biden, and it's because they know, too, that probably the vast majority of the auto workers are actually America first.

00:31:35.000 They understand that the policies put forth by the Biden administration and EV, you know, electric vehicles and all that stuff, is going to send their jobs abroad, as Democrat policy and, frankly, American policy has done for the past few decades.

00:31:49.000 America first is the opposite of that, and yet the people representing the stakeholders, Are spitting in the face of the guy that's actually got the best chance of representing those stakeholders, doing the most, has a consistent track record of doing so, and probably has the vast majority of those actual people, meaning the workers, not the union folks, the union workers who just pay their dues to watch it get spent to bolster Democrat policy in a trans agenda somewhere else.

00:32:20.000 It doesn't make any sense, and yet it's exactly what you're talking about.

00:32:24.000 Look, the union bosses are the elites.

00:32:27.000 There are few people making decisions for massive amounts of people.

00:32:30.000 And this is nothing new.

00:32:32.000 When the leadership of an organization loses touch with the actual membership, that organization goes into turmoil.

00:32:40.000 I mean, we are confident that if you did a vote of the union members, Donald Trump would come out as the leader.

00:32:48.000 There's no question about it.

00:32:50.000 How did he win Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016?

00:32:53.000 It's like, because those people are MAGA. Those people are not voting for Joe Biden.

00:32:58.000 They see Joe Biden like, frankly, the rest of the world sees Joe Biden as a bumbling dolt, you know, and a corrupt one at that. 0.98

00:33:06.000 You know, they're going to vote for Trump again this time. 0.98

00:33:10.000 Again, have the leadership shun Trump.

00:33:13.000 You're not welcome to come here to defend the people.

00:33:16.000 Arguably the largest platform in all of American politics, if not by far.

00:33:22.000 It's so insane, but it speaks such volumes about exactly what you're talking about.

00:33:28.000 And people, you know, the media carries it like, oh, the auto workers are snubbing down.

00:33:32.000 No, no, no. Like two or three people in union leadership who are making seven figures, who are okay with them going on strike.

00:33:40.000 And these people, if they lose their jobs, if they lose this, if their jobs get shipped abroad, that's all well and good.

00:33:45.000 It doesn't matter. We'll keep 10% of the jobs here in America. 0.95

00:33:48.000 We'll get those people a little bit of a raise.

00:33:50.000 The rest will go to Mexico and China and elsewhere.

00:33:53.000 We'll open the doors for China's manufacturing of vehicles to come into our country because you won't be able to afford to buy them. 0.99

00:34:01.000 It's lunacy.

00:34:03.000 I think next week we're going to see a big shift.

00:34:05.000 I think that when President Trump goes to Detroit and campaigns with the workers, that this is going to open up a rift between the workers and the union bosses.

00:34:16.000 I think that's very clear that's coming.

00:34:18.000 I hear constantly, I was born in Michigan, I'm originally from Michigan, and Michigan It's all about auto manufacturers and those who supply auto parts.

00:34:31.000 And these individuals, many of them have voted for Democrats traditionally, but they love President Trump.

00:34:40.000 This is the new party.

00:34:42.000 This is what- Well, the roles have reversed, right?

00:34:45.000 The roles have reversed entirely.

00:34:49.000 Yeah, and this is why people like Mitt Romney, the elites, they don't like President Trump, because they want to see him reflexively help, you know, the CEO of Ford, the CEO of GM. They want corporations To actually win in this situation.

00:35:08.000 And I think what we've seen with the woke policies and their, you know, elitist attitudes of working towards the Democrats, why?

00:35:17.000 Why are Republicans helping these people get more money at the expense of the workers?

00:35:22.000 I'm 100% convinced that we've got to be on the side of the workers.

00:35:27.000 Give them more money. They're the ones that are doing the job.

00:35:30.000 And, you know, the elites getting tens of millions of dollars, forget it.

00:35:35.000 I'm not gonna come down on that side.

00:35:37.000 I don't disagree. For those of you who don't know, Trump's actually going to Detroit.

00:35:41.000 He's counter-programming the next, you know, vice presidential potential maybe, you know, dog catcher debate.

00:35:48.000 And so he's gonna be there at the same time with those auto workers.

00:35:52.000 And so watching the union try to stop that Again, it's mind-blowing.

00:35:55.000 Again, to create a platform of power for the people they're supposedly representing, but then snubbing it at the same time is crazy.

00:36:03.000 But it is one of those things, right?

00:36:05.000 It's sort of like the black community in America.

00:36:08.000 You're like, well, what hasn't the Democrat Party done for them in the last 50 years?

00:36:11.000 And the answer is really nothing.

00:36:14.000 You know, virtually nothing.

00:36:15.000 And yet, you know, you say, oh, well, they've got to come to you this time.

00:36:18.000 They've got to be coming over because finally it has to make sense.

00:36:22.000 I mean, a lot of that's similar with the unions, meaning, you know, even, you know, from the start of MAGA, it started doing this.

00:36:28.000 What has Democrat policy really gotten them?

00:36:30.000 All of these globalist policies pushed their American dream to China.

00:36:34.000 You know, there's someone over there living their dream, you know, pulled out of poverty and stuff like that.

00:36:38.000 That's great for China, terrible for America. 0.99

00:36:41.000 Terrible for those people.

00:36:42.000 You comply with a terrible education system because of the teachers' union.

00:36:47.000 And you have a recurring theme where the unions seem to be representing themselves really well, meaning for the union leadership, at the expense of the people who they're supposed to be representing.

00:36:57.000 And this is just another... Look, this is the world over right now in Trump world.

00:37:03.000 Whether it's Hispanics, Asians, women, it's happening. 0.99

00:37:10.000 Gays. I'll put gays in there, Don. 1.00

00:37:13.000 You put 10 homos in a room, and I'm telling you five of them are voting for Trump. 1.00

00:37:18.000 That is just the fact.

00:37:19.000 The left is going to attack me for it. 1.00

00:37:22.000 The gay left will go crazy with that. 0.99

00:37:24.000 But it is true because we've seen the leadership doesn't speak for us anymore. 0.97

00:37:30.000 And I think we're seeing that with the unions as well.

00:37:33.000 The leadership doesn't speak.

00:37:34.000 They're out of touch with what the real life experiences are of the members of their community.

00:37:41.000 Okay, so talk about that, you know, on the gay side of things a little bit, because you're right. 1.00

00:37:45.000 The leadership there doesn't seem to...

00:37:48.000 We've had this conversation before, but the leadership there, you know, leadership loosely, it's like they're all about the trans agenda.

00:37:55.000 Now, you want to talk about, you know, warring factions, you know, people from...

00:38:00.000 And I've seen this, and they'll call me out for it as well.

00:38:02.000 You're a little bit more clear on this one.

00:38:06.000 But, like... 0.97

00:38:08.000 It seems like the people who actually fought for real rights and stuff like that, who really were discriminated together, I don't think that many people really give a shit anymore, candidly. 0.52

00:38:16.000 I think this is just one of those things that, you know, even in conservative politics, obviously there's some people that do, or the religious, on certain things, but I don't think it's nearly as much an issue as the left would want you to believe it is, even remotely, as evidenced by, like, you know, when Peter Thiel spoke at the RNC in 2016, he got a beggar standing ovation talking about those issues from Hardcore Republicans at the Republican National Convention. 0.70

00:38:40.000 I was like, oh, so it's not even an issue, really.

00:38:42.000 The left continues to make it an issue, but there does seem to be perhaps the biggest warring faction would be between just the regular gays who want to live life and the trans community indoctrinating our children, wanting to mutilate minors and infants and toddlers. 0.94

00:39:00.000 That's the leadership, for the most part, that I see in today's left. 0.87

00:39:05.000 They're fighting for insanity.

00:39:07.000 It's not about equality anymore.

00:39:09.000 They want equality, plus, plus, plus, Q, P, L, whatever other acronyms they want to throw in there.

00:39:15.000 It's not about equality.

00:39:16.000 It's not about being left alone to do their own thing.

00:39:19.000 It's about power and money.

00:39:21.000 It's about power and money.

00:39:22.000 Where's the money in pushing for a child to be mutilated? 0.65

00:39:29.000 Well, it's broader than that.

00:39:31.000 What it is, is that it's generational and it's about power and money.

00:39:35.000 So first of all, you have Gay Inc., which is controlled by Democrat operatives. 0.85

00:39:41.000 This is an arm of the Democratic Party.

00:39:44.000 Gay Inc. is literally a wing of the Democratic Party. 0.86

00:39:48.000 They recycle all of these people who are activists within the Democratic Party, happen to be gay, and then they put them in charge of one of these gay lefty groups. 0.57

00:39:56.000 So they want this to be a partisan issue for the Democrats.

00:40:00.000 So they look constantly for wedge issues.

00:40:03.000 When we achieve equality, they look for another wedge issue.

00:40:07.000 HRC has a huge building that they have to pay for in Washington with a huge budget of personnel.

00:40:14.000 And they will constantly look for a wedge issue.

00:40:18.000 They don't want to solve this issue.

00:40:20.000 They don't want Republicans to be good.

00:40:22.000 Because if the issue goes away, their jobs go away.

00:40:26.000 Gay Inc. works really hard to keep the issue partisan.

00:40:30.000 That is a generational thing.

00:40:33.000 If you're an older gay person, you struggled to come out or you came out in your 20s.

00:40:39.000 And so when you were coming out, you had to secretly go to these websites like The Advocate.

00:40:45.000 And you had to go and look at, you know, gay news because you weren't out.

00:40:50.000 And so it's the secret thing.

00:40:52.000 As the new generation comes forward and they're comfortable being out, they're not partisan.

00:40:59.000 They don't have the same experiences as the older gays to think, oh, it's a secret or it's a negative.

00:41:05.000 All their friends know, their family knows, and it truly is not a big deal.

00:41:11.000 And so they don't see this issue as the wedge issue that the older people do.

00:41:17.000 So it's totally going away.

00:41:18.000 Young people can think about the border.

00:41:21.000 They can think about global affairs and not wanting to have wars because Donald Trump is absolutely for equality and Republicans have moved.

00:41:32.000 I've said this before and I really believe it.

00:41:35.000 There's not a Republican Elected in Washington, D.C. that could come out and be anti-gay and survive in their next election.

00:41:44.000 There's not a single...

00:41:45.000 I think that's 100% right.

00:41:48.000 They would be run out of the party by Republicans.

00:41:51.000 By Republicans.

00:41:54.000 So, okay, so how does, you know, I call it sort of the trans mafia, right? 1.00

00:42:00.000 They're representing, let's call it, you know,.01%, 1% of probably the gay community.

00:42:08.000 I don't know exactly what the numbers are.

00:42:10.000 Someone's going to fact check me and we've got to deal with it.

00:42:11.000 But, like, let's just say it's the most powerful...

00:42:17.000 It's a minute, like minutiae minority, probably in the world today.

00:42:22.000 You know, on this show I have a thing, like, if you're trans, like, you are beyond reproach. 0.94

00:42:27.000 You could, you know, to quote Donald Trump, you could walk down Fifth Avenue, murder someone in cold blood, and everyone would be fine with it. 0.96

00:42:34.000 How did that happen, though?

00:42:36.000 Because, I mean, I understand the power, and they're always looking for an issue, but... 1.00

00:42:41.000 Even amongst the left, even amongst the gay community that I know, they see, you know, sure, a three-year-old, you know, I mean, you couldn't get a tattoo or smoke a cigarette for another 15 years, but, I mean, obviously you can chop off your dick, right? 1.00

00:42:53.000 Why wouldn't you be able to do that? 1.00

00:42:55.000 That's... I mean...

00:42:57.000 Insanity. Insanity. 0.98

00:42:59.000 Even in the community, there can't be a lot of agreement on this.

00:43:03.000 And I certainly don't see it.

00:43:04.000 But again, I think mostly if I... My gay friends are conservative gays. 0.90

00:43:08.000 But even still, how did they amass, you know, the trans mafia? 1.00

00:43:13.000 How did they have much more power than, you know, what would have been even like, you know, the Hollywood or, you know, a strong gay representation, cabal, you know what I mean? 0.81

00:43:22.000 I mean, there was disproportionate power there.

00:43:24.000 But the trans thing overwhelms it all. 1.00

00:43:26.000 And even to the detriment and expense of people who are openly gay and coming out, like Martina Navratilova, when she came out as a gay activist for 30 years, way before it was cool, 25 years before it was cool, and it was actually probably a serious liability at that time, she says, hey, you know what?

00:43:49.000 My hand is raised, too.

00:43:50.000 It was a serious liability when I came out.

00:43:52.000 Yeah. No, and I believe that.

00:43:54.000 But, you know, this is someone who's an advocate for so much of what that cause was.

00:43:59.000 And she says, as one of the greatest female athletes in the history of sports, hey, like, I don't know, I don't think, you know, dudes should be playing women's sports. 0.97

00:44:08.000 And... Like, canceled!

00:44:10.000 Like, 30 years of work! 1.00

00:44:12.000 Like, fuck you, you're out! 1.00

00:44:13.000 Like, it was lunacy to me. 1.00

00:44:15.000 How did that happen? It's gay ink. 1.00

00:44:17.000 It's gay ink who decided to have another wedge issue. 0.97

00:44:22.000 Look, I think we as a society will really pay a price, and we already are, but we're gonna pay a bigger price, for allowing Kids under the age of 18 to do this permanent to their body, to have hormones that block puberty, it's outrageous. 0.59

00:44:42.000 And I literally see this as the majority of gay people don't think that that is right.

00:44:47.000 The majority of my Democratic friends don't think that that's right.

00:44:52.000 But they're silent. But they're still silent.

00:44:55.000 Maybe to you they're not, but they're still...

00:44:57.000 Why can't someone take that on from that side? 0.98

00:45:00.000 Because, honestly, I feel like it's a winning issue, and I know that because if I'm on Twitter, not Truth, where it's going to be more conservative, but if I'm on Twitter, and I'm like, hey man, an 18-year-old dude that became a girl three days ago wins the Connecticut State Track Championship, I'm like, that's bullshit. And the comments are not what I'm used to on Twitter. 0.77

00:45:21.000 It's... I hate Don Jr.

00:45:23.000 with a passion. You are the big, you are the scum of the, and I can't believe I actually agree with you on something. 1.00

00:45:30.000 You know what I mean? Like, so if on Twitter, which is 90%, let's call it the other side, even still, you know what I mean? 1.00

00:45:37.000 This is even before sort of Twitter too, but it's still, you know, the user base is still going to be more heavily left.

00:45:43.000 90% of those people are agreeing with me 100%, and that's already of a heavily left-skewed base.

00:45:49.000 Like, this can't be a winning issue in the long run, and yet they still have that power.

00:45:53.000 Well, let's... Gay Inc. 1.00

00:45:54.000 has this power. They have the power to...

00:45:56.000 And look, this goes back to corporations are funding Gay Inc. 0.58

00:46:00.000 You have all of these corporations tripping over themselves to give money to HRC or the Victory Fund or whatever it is, because there's been a shakedown.

00:46:11.000 They say, well, we'll say that your anti-gay will score you low if you don't give this.

00:46:17.000 So it's now morphed into this trans movement.

00:46:19.000 Look, I'm proud of the Log Cabin Republicans, which are the gay Republican group, because they now have a message of under 18, over 18.

00:46:29.000 And what they're trying to say is, if you're under the age of 18, we need to aggressively protect kids, let kids be kids, no permanent decisions, no hormone replacements.

00:46:40.000 If you're over the age of 18, Knock yourself out. 0.85

00:46:44.000 But you still don't get to go into the men's bathroom if you're a biological female. 1.00

00:46:50.000 And you don't get to play in sports if you're a biological male in the female sports. 0.95

00:46:57.000 So we have this common sense approach to these issues, which I think is exactly what the majority of people want.

00:47:06.000 Most people that I know, if you're over the age of 18, and as long as you're not trying to get into a woman's sports or a woman's bathroom, they say, you know, go live your life.

00:47:15.000 There's a whole bunch of things that people do that I don't agree with, but I have the attitude of, like, if you're an adult, you get to choose your own way.

00:47:24.000 Just don't, you know, go after somebody else.

00:47:27.000 Don't go into their bathroom.

00:47:29.000 I always say, like, and I think the vast majority of, you know, the people I see, you know, I don't want to pay for it.

00:47:38.000 I don't want to hear about it ad nauseum.

00:47:40.000 I don't want to be forced to do that.

00:47:41.000 And I don't want to be forced to sort of comply to someone's ever-changing whims.

00:47:47.000 Well, today I'm a boy and you must address me.

00:47:49.000 And if you don't address me as a boy, even though I was a woman five seconds ago, you're committing a hate crime.

00:47:57.000 It sounds far-fetched, but if you look at Europe, if you look at the UK, people are being put in jail for misgendering people.

00:48:05.000 That's a serious thing.

00:48:07.000 So, again, if someone wants to, like, hey, I've gotten in trouble for even saying, you know, hey, I don't even care.

00:48:11.000 Do whatever you want when you're an adult.

00:48:13.000 Again, as long as I don't pay for it, I don't have to hear about it ad nauseum.

00:48:16.000 And I don't have to bend the knee to whatever the hell the ever-changing whims are.

00:48:22.000 I'm just not going to do that.

00:48:24.000 You do whatever the hell you want and leave me the hell alone.

00:48:26.000 Yeah, look, I agree with you. 0.99

00:48:28.000 The fact of the matter is this misgendering thing is so ridiculous.

00:48:33.000 If somebody misgenders somebody by mistake or for whatever, it's not the end of the world.

00:48:40.000 I think if you're truly offended, which you shouldn't be, but if you're truly offended, you can say, you know what, I'd like to be called this or something.

00:48:48.000 And then it's a negotiation.

00:48:50.000 You can't demand, you know, I'd like to be called 29. 1.00

00:48:58.000 I can't demand that people on social media stop calling me an asshole. 1.00

00:49:02.000 They think I'm a huge asshole. 1.00

00:49:04.000 I'm just a little asshole. 1.00

00:49:06.000 There's much bigger assholes out there than me. 1.00

00:49:08.000 But I can't dictate those terms. 0.99

00:49:11.000 That's sort of, I don't know, let's just call it a First Amendment issue.

00:49:15.000 And it's fine.

00:49:17.000 My life doesn't revolve around that.

00:49:19.000 And yet, there are people actively doing that.

00:49:22.000 They'd love to be able to persecute those By the way, who even get it wrong?

00:49:29.000 Unknowingly. I mean, you know, in all fairness, you see somebody, it's ma'am.

00:49:32.000 I'm like, I don't know, dude.

00:49:33.000 Like, relax. It doesn't look like a ma'am to me.

00:49:37.000 It's not the end of the world.

00:49:38.000 That's the whole thing is that, but we've created this system that, like, if you misgender, you're a horrible, terrible person, and it's just like, you know what? 1.00

00:49:46.000 Everyone's really busy, and they've got a whole bunch of things to do, and life is a crisis.

00:49:51.000 You've got family members with cancer, and you've got to pay your bills, and, you know, life is not perfect.

00:49:58.000 The idea that misgendering somebody is like a big deal.

00:50:01.000 I think it's, once again, it's gay ink trying to have a wedge issue. 1.00

00:50:05.000 Trying to create a problem so that they can garner more money, more power within the political system. 0.73

00:50:12.000 And the Democrats fan it.

00:50:13.000 They applaud it. They want it because they get votes.

00:50:17.000 The more that they can define it as a black and white issue, Republicans bad, Democrats good, then the sheep hear that and they just vote that way, which is why I got to, you know, give another shout out to Love Cabin.

00:50:31.000 I think that group is so brave and doing great work.

00:50:35.000 And certainly our work in the Middle East, which is in Arabic and Farsi of trying to push decriminalization is noble.

00:50:43.000 Yeah, I mean, they do do great work.

00:50:46.000 And that was, like, one of the great ironies.

00:50:48.000 I remember watching Secretary Blinken with all the Biden nonsense right after the Afghan withdrawal when he got up on a world stage and told him, you know, the world...

00:50:56.000 He's shocked and dismayed that the Taliban government didn't install a more diverse and inclusive government.

00:51:03.000 I was like, I mean, did...

00:51:05.000 You know, these are supposed to be the serious people, right?

00:51:06.000 The adults were back in charge.

00:51:08.000 This is what we were told. And yet, the people that we've been fighting for 20 years that were throwing homosexuals off buildings, dousing... 0.98

00:51:14.000 Like, they didn't have, like, a trans coalition. 0.76

00:51:17.000 And he's shocked.

00:51:19.000 I mean, you know, if you're dismayed, fine.

00:51:21.000 I forgive you for that. I mean, you know, you may...

00:51:23.000 You know, we all want to believe in Santa Claus.

00:51:25.000 But, like, you're shocked?

00:51:28.000 You're shocked that they didn't take your insane ideology and just adapt it immediately?

00:51:35.000 And have this, you know, they're going to have Leah Thomas from the Penn Swim Team, 0.97

00:51:38.000 very, you know, dominant, dominant female swimmer, happened to be a female for about 1.00

00:51:44.000 two weeks before winning all the NCAA awards, and, you know, give her a big platform to 0.94

00:51:49.000 bring up the Taliban Trans Coalition.

00:51:51.000 It's mind-boggling.

00:51:52.000 Thank you.

00:51:53.000 Look, we're talking about the top diplomat, Anthony Blinken, who literally has been a disaster.

00:51:58.000 And I would argue that Joe Biden knows that Blinken is a disaster.

00:52:02.000 He's not allowing him to do anything.

00:52:04.000 He's been pushed aside to do culinary diplomacy and the art and embassy program.

00:52:09.000 And he's not, you know, bringing a peace plan forward.

00:52:13.000 We got the Chinese bringing a peace plan forward.

00:52:15.000 We don't have anybody else.

00:52:16.000 I also think it's pretty important that we mention that Zelensky, Ukrainian President Zelensky, has asked Donald Trump for a peace plan, but he hasn't asked Joe Biden for a peace plan.

00:52:28.000 Now, what does that say? Well, I think it says a lot, but let's transition over, no pun intended, to the Ukraine for a little bit and with America's involvement there.

00:52:39.000 I mean, this is maybe where these issues overlap.

00:52:42.000 We saw last week, they literally had a trans spokesperson that we're apparently funding threatening to kill Ukraine. 0.92

00:52:52.000 Anyone who doesn't agree, just spreading maybe Russian propaganda, meaning they don't agree with the talking points coming out of Ukraine, they're being funded apparently by the United States of America.

00:53:03.000 they're doing this on a world stage dressed up as like a Trans-Zelensky. 0.94

00:53:08.000 How can that be happening? If that was happening under Trump and we were paying

00:53:13.000 someone and they were representing the American taxpayer and they were

00:53:16.000 threatening, remember Russian bounties?

00:53:17.000 I mean this sounds like Ukrainian bounties. You'd think that'd be a story 1.00

00:53:22.000 but what's going on right now?

00:53:24.000 You just dropped Trans-Zelensky.

00:53:27.000 What? I mean, it was literally like Zelensky in a wig, right?

00:53:31.000 You know, I was like, what the...

00:53:33.000 I saw it, but that's the point, Rick.

00:53:36.000 The adults are back in charge, and yet, like, a guy like me feels like I'm being punked.

00:53:41.000 Like, I saw it, and I was like, this has to be, like, a Saturday Night Live skit from when it was funny.

00:53:47.000 And it's not, like...

00:53:49.000 But, you know...

00:53:50.000 Again, we need a trans person representing us there because if we have the trans representation, the whole world is just going to bend over and they're going to give us another trillion dollars in aid and they're going to go after the Russians and we can start a ground war in Europe because we have a trans spokesperson, therefore we are beyond reproach.

00:54:09.000 It literally feels like that's the game they're trying to play to me, which is insane.

00:54:13.000 Yeah, you know, we talked about this.

00:54:16.000 The first time I saw it, I thought, this is not real.

00:54:19.000 This is an SNL skit.

00:54:20.000 This cannot be real.

00:54:22.000 And it went days for people thinking this is not real.

00:54:26.000 I tweeted about it because our friend J.D. Vance was leading on this issue.

00:54:31.000 And I tweeted something about it.

00:54:33.000 Ukrainian officials reached out to me.

00:54:35.000 And said, hey, let me just tell you, this person was hired officially by the military, that the president's office, President Zelensky, did not approve this.

00:54:47.000 And as of yesterday, President Zelensky put this person on suspension.

00:54:54.000 And I thought, well, how is that happening?

00:54:59.000 How is it that the president's office is not watching for two weeks the trans person from America, sounds like a robot, really going after anybody who doesn't, you know, support the line that the Ukrainian government wants?

00:55:17.000 And yet, it was happening.

00:55:19.000 I mean, Zelenskyy is, you know, all over social media.

00:55:24.000 And certainly all over America.

00:55:25.000 But then he comes to the UN and he waves his finger at the world and says climate change is the most important problem.

00:55:35.000 So I think when Zelensky has climate change And the English spokesperson is trans. 0.99

00:55:42.000 I think it is an admission that the Democrats are giving him all the money.

00:55:47.000 He's going to do their talking points.

00:55:49.000 He's going to talk about open borders here soon.

00:55:52.000 And then he can't complain that he has a problem with Republicans who think that this is just a big political operation.

00:56:01.000 Well, listen, I think you're 100% right.

00:56:04.000 I guess that's probably where I was going with it.

00:56:05.000 Like, you had the trans-representation check.

00:56:07.000 You have the this.

00:56:09.000 We're talking about climate change.

00:56:10.000 I mean, you think, I mean, you know, I've seen the pictures, I guess.

00:56:13.000 I've seen the stories. Like, you'd think that he would have bigger things to worry about than climate change.

00:56:18.000 I'm sure a war of this many missiles probably isn't awesome for the environment.

00:56:23.000 And yet, that became, like, a huge component of his UN address.

00:56:29.000 Not actually stopping the war.

00:56:30.000 Not anything like that. We should point out one thing, though, about his address.

00:56:38.000 He also put in there, which I think was like a WMD type of moment, where he was like, look, they're coming for Poland, Poland's next. 0.90

00:56:47.000 And that was very calculating from Zelensky, to imply that a NATO ally is about to be attacked.

00:56:56.000 Somehow he has proof, or whatever his reasoning is, that a NATO ally is about to be attacked.

00:57:03.000 That's a serious moment.

00:57:05.000 And he made that claim at the UN. Within hours, within hours, the Polish president, President Duda, stood up and literally made an analogy of Zelensky and Ukraine like a drowning victim just grabbing on and possibly pulling down the rescuers.

00:57:27.000 That was the analogy that he made.

00:57:30.000 I think that when a NATO ally like Poland stands up and says, we're not going to supply all of this, we have concerns about the way that they're acting.

00:57:40.000 That's a warning sign.

00:57:42.000 And Zelensky is in Washington, D.C. today.

00:57:46.000 There needs to be an immediate check on that money.

00:57:49.000 We've already seen corruption inside Ukraine.

00:57:54.000 And let's be honest, that country was...

00:57:56.000 Very corrupt before they started getting $112 billion from American taxpayers.

00:58:02.000 Well, by many, you know, sort of, you know, people who do this, not like, you know, conservative reporting, but by many, Ukraine would have been ranked a more corrupt nation than Russia prior to this conflict.

00:58:13.000 I think the other component that, you know, no one talks about in this war was that, you know, I sort of feel like we gave Putin every excuse in the book by saying, hey, we're going to take this little buffer zone Let's call it 500,000 miles of Ukraine, and we're just going to move NATO's border right up onto yours.

00:58:31.000 To me, these talking points are overlooked.

00:58:36.000 You had a stalemate, a buffer zone, a no-man's land, let's call it, that was not part of NATO, that was ethnically very Russian in many respects. 0.65

00:58:46.000 This was a buffer zone, and we're like, no, no, we're just going to go right up on the Russian border.

00:58:50.000 Is that not sort of the...

00:58:52.000 Act of aggression, whether it was an excuse, it would be a very viable one for Putin to use, or the act of aggression itself that actually started this conflict.

00:59:04.000 Look, it's out of control right now.

00:59:06.000 We're only talking about war and war options.

00:59:08.000 That's the only thing we're talking about.

00:59:10.000 And look, as a diplomat, Don, I know you've heard me say this, but I really am passionate about it, is that I believe that the President of the United States needs to have two options in front of them, a really good war plan from DOD, And a really good diplomatic plan from the State Department.

00:59:27.000 We don't have this one.

00:59:28.000 We don't have a peace plan or an option.

00:59:33.000 All we have is more and more money for war.

00:59:37.000 There's no other option.

00:59:38.000 I can't conclude anything other than Joe Biden has shoved Anthony Blinken off He doesn't believe that he's a serious diplomat.

00:59:50.000 There's no expectation that our Secretary of State is going to push back and try for peace.

00:59:58.000 And again, you know, I'll finish with this, is that it's so frustrating to see the media just clap and applaud the Democratic line.

01:00:07.000 If you want to stop a war, You better have diplomats who are really tough, not these wimpy diplomats who do culinary diplomacy like Blinken keeps pushing, but really serious diplomats.

01:00:23.000 That is how you avoid war, tough diplomats at the table.

01:00:26.000 Instead, the left keeps mocking the tough diplomats that Trump put in place.

01:00:33.000 Yeah, well, you see that.

01:00:34.000 You saw that with, you know, whether it's Yellen or otherwise, they're bowing to China.

01:00:38.000 China shows up, they send a third-rate team of people, give them five minutes, and then they leave.

01:00:43.000 I mean, they're insulting us across the board, but it feels like, you know, Blinken isn't actually or never really was a diplomat.

01:00:49.000 He was a guy that orchestrated the 52 intelligence officers to sign off that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. 0.87

01:00:56.000 We know that now to all be bullshit, but, you know, that was the quid pro quo. 0.94

01:01:00.000 We're going to, like, We're going to give you a big boy position for making that happen. 0.98

01:01:04.000 And this is the results.

01:01:07.000 I mean, when you do that and you put someone in place that has no business being there, these are the results.

01:01:12.000 But how does the conflict end?

01:01:15.000 I mean, if Zelensky—I mean, you said this, and this is a really big deal.

01:01:19.000 If Zelensky is asking Trump for a peace plan, but not asking Biden for one— What is it about?

01:01:27.000 I mean, is it the only way this war ends if 2024 Trump gets to the table?

01:01:31.000 Because the problem is, a Trump plan, whatever it is, in my mind, won't be effective if you have feckless leadership like Joe Biden in there.

01:01:39.000 Meaning, Putin, you know, like all bullies, Putin, he understands weakness and he will prey on it.

01:01:48.000 That's the nature of predation. 0.97

01:01:50.000 Predators, I don't care if you're a wolf, a lion, an insect, a vulture.

01:01:58.000 That is the nature. You see weakness, you see the weak in dying, and you prey on them.

01:02:03.000 That's what's going on right now.

01:02:04.000 So the Trump deal, there's no doubt my father could actually get this done.

01:02:09.000 But you can't do it without the power to actually get it done, without that office, because you look at what's behind it, and you go, yeah, whatever it is, they're not going to actually stand by it.

01:02:17.000 They're not going to actually do this. We'll get Joe Biden to roll.

01:02:20.000 Which is probably the more plausible side of things, which is they probably have more information on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the dealing, since everyone else has it, that they would just roll that out.

01:02:31.000 Or Joe knows that they have it, and so he's incapable of actually taking an aggressive position against these adversaries.

01:02:37.000 Look, I think Zelensky is desperate right now.

01:02:40.000 He needs to have some sort of an outside leader pushing a peace plan.

01:02:46.000 Remember a while ago when the Chinese put forward a peace plan, Zelensky immediately made a comment that was positive about it.

01:02:54.000 He said, wow, the Chinese have offered a peace plan envisioning territorial integrity for Ukraine.

01:03:00.000 That's what he said. Quickly, the White House was like, shut up. 0.93

01:03:04.000 You can't be talking about the Chinese peace plan. 0.94

01:03:07.000 And they slapped him, and he shut up about it.

01:03:09.000 And now we've gone nowhere.

01:03:13.000 I'll say this, and it gets a little controversial, but that Chinese peace plan was a very good start.

01:03:18.000 It was not perfect. It needs change, but it did talk about territorial integrity.

01:03:24.000 Let's remember that the Minsk Agreement, which was the agreement that Obama and Merkel tried to, although Obama blames Merkel, tried to do after the first grabbing of Crimea, there was also an inability to say territorial integrity for sure.

01:03:42.000 There was this nebulous area of Crimea And, you know, autonomous or was it autonomous?

01:03:49.000 There was all sorts of questions.

01:03:50.000 They were not clear about it.

01:03:52.000 And it quickly fell apart because there was no clarity.

01:03:55.000 And so we do have a basis for this.

01:03:59.000 But I think the lesson is the Europeans... 1.00

01:04:01.000 By evidence of the Minsk agreement, they can't negotiate this.

01:04:05.000 I could talk all day about Kosovo, Serbia.

01:04:08.000 When the Europeans come forward and try to put together a deal, it's analysis paralysis.

01:04:13.000 There is no action on this.

01:04:16.000 And so President Trump could absolutely negotiate a deal because both sides fear and respect him.

01:04:25.000 And that is the truth.

01:04:27.000 I think both sides don't like him.

01:04:30.000 Both sides say, ah, he's too powerful.

01:04:32.000 But what he has behind him is a credible threat of military action, a credible threat of trade action, a credible threat of economic action.

01:04:42.000 He would immediately institute.

01:04:45.000 Look what he did with Erdogan when there was Pastor Brunson situation.

01:04:50.000 The reason we got Pastor Brunson back without paying any money It's because President Trump said to President Erdogan, I'll ruin your economy.

01:04:59.000 You don't give this guy back and we're going to have tariffs on tomorrow.

01:05:04.000 That is a credible statement coming from President Trump.

01:05:08.000 Erdogan believed President Trump would do something.

01:05:11.000 The credibility of President Trump on these issues is great.

01:05:15.000 I'll finish with this. I once was told by Chancellor Merkel at a cocktail reception when we were just chatting about the different situations.

01:05:26.000 She said, you know, one of the problems with your president It's that we just can't figure him out.

01:05:31.000 We don't know what he's going to do next.

01:05:33.000 That's the biggest advantage.

01:05:34.000 And I remember sitting there thinking, don't smile too big.

01:05:41.000 But I ended up saying to her, I said, you know, Madam Chancellor, with all due respect, that's exactly where the United States wants to be, is we want to be in a position where you don't know what's next and therefore you can't predict us.

01:05:54.000 So, you know, you sort of mentioned, you know, not giving money for some of these things.

01:06:00.000 This week we saw a disastrous deal, right?

01:06:03.000 And yet the media touted it as this big victory.

01:06:06.000 Biden recently made a deal to get back five American hostages from Iran while giving back, I guess it was five, to Iran of their people.

01:06:18.000 But... It wasn't like 5-5.

01:06:21.000 It was 5-5 plus $6 billion.

01:06:27.000 They tout this as a win.

01:06:30.000 If they do it, why did they need to give Iran release $6 billion?

01:06:36.000 Because you're like, oh, wow, fine.

01:06:38.000 It's a win. Trump was able to get back people for nothing.

01:06:41.000 Not even in exchange for things because of that power, because of that unknown that you're talking about.

01:06:47.000 Joe Biden makes a deal that people are like, okay, well fine, it's equal.

01:06:51.000 It's like, oh, well here's the fine print.

01:06:52.000 Equal plus $6 billion to the world's leading state sponsor of terror. 0.51

01:06:59.000 That's insane to me.

01:07:00.000 It's insane. It's outrageous.

01:07:02.000 And what's even more outrageous is that they're trying to claim that somehow...

01:07:06.000 Oh, this is, you know, their money and, you know, we- Well, that was the deal.

01:07:12.000 It's a good deal. It's like, no, no, no, that's not a good deal.

01:07:14.000 By no stretch of the imagination is it a good deal, but they try to sell that one to us.

01:07:18.000 Yeah, and look, the money has been in this account.

01:07:22.000 It wasn't going to Iran.

01:07:24.000 It certainly wasn't going to Iran under the Trump administration, but the Biden administration changed accounts.

01:07:29.000 To be able to move it.

01:07:31.000 And they're telling themselves that, oh, we're going to watch how they spend it.

01:07:34.000 Well, you know, you can watch how they spend that money, but you just freed up a whole bunch of more money in a different area.

01:07:42.000 And we're not stupid. 0.92

01:07:44.000 I mean, you have these Biden spokespeople trying to defend this, and it's laughable. 0.53

01:07:51.000 What this deal has done is created instability in Europe, made America less safe.

01:07:59.000 There will absolutely be more hostages with a higher price because of the ransom that the Biden team has just paid.

01:08:07.000 Yeah, it's a learned behavior.

01:08:09.000 It's like training a dog.

01:08:10.000 Like, you give them a treat, you're going to continue that behavior, except in this case, you're training them that you can get billions from the U.S., you can get them to roll over on policy issues, you can get them to roll over this.

01:08:20.000 I mean, I can't think of a thing that would encourage more kidnappings around the world than seemingly just Biden administration policy today.

01:08:32.000 I couldn't agree more.

01:08:33.000 It's really a dangerous, slippery slope.

01:08:35.000 What's next? I have no idea what could be next, but I will tell you that this weakness coming from the Biden team is training people to test the United States.

01:08:45.000 So I know you got to wrap up soon, but I wanted to understand Just for you guys and for the people watching, you're going to have a good take on both the power and the manipulation of America's intelligence agencies, as well as, let's take that all the way into DOJ and what's going on with Jack Smith.

01:09:04.000 As someone who's seen it, as someone who's seen it weaponized against us, how severe is that power?

01:09:10.000 How badly is it being used?

01:09:12.000 And what's the endgame there?

01:09:14.000 Because I think there's a lot of stuff going on that the American people at any other time in history would be outraged about, and yet they've become so normalized.

01:09:24.000 To these extreme reactions from whether it's the intelligence community, whether it's the Department of Justice, weaponized against their own citizenry.

01:09:35.000 Look, we used to say 20 years ago that intelligence was an estimate.

01:09:40.000 We were very proud of that. Intelligence is just an estimate.

01:09:44.000 Sometimes we get it right, sometimes we get it wrong, sometimes we're way off, sometimes we're right on.

01:09:48.000 And we need to get back to the point where we keep telling the public that intelligence is an estimate.

01:09:55.000 The entire The reason that we have intelligence is to brief and prepare public policy officials so that our U.S. policy is really good, that we know how to push U.S. policy forward.

01:10:09.000 It's been manipulated over time.

01:10:12.000 You take raw intelligence, and I could go into great detail of what that is in terms of how we collect it and what types of intelligence we have, but I want to focus for a second on the analysts.

01:10:26.000 And the analytical pieces, because a CIA analyst, an intelligence analyst, is somebody who writes a predictive analysis using raw intelligence.

01:10:41.000 So it literally is an opinion writer.

01:10:44.000 They take intelligence and they say, oh, I see A, B, and C, and you know what?

01:10:48.000 This is what I think it means, and this is what I think is going to happen.

01:10:54.000 We have to be so careful about taking that analysis and not overemphasize it as the truth.

01:11:02.000 That is someone's opinion.

01:11:04.000 Sometimes it's one person's opinion, it might be a couple of people's opinion, but it's usually just an opinion.

01:11:12.000 Imagine if you would read the opinion pages of the New York Times, And there were no names on the opinion pieces.

01:11:20.000 You didn't know if it was, you know, an actress or a specialist, right?

01:11:26.000 It was just literally an opinion there.

01:11:29.000 And you're like, hmm, who is this?

01:11:31.000 And what did they say? Well, that's what we have from the intelligence community.

01:11:36.000 And we've seen them get it wildly wrong.

01:11:38.000 When I was acting DNI, I famously, people didn't like it, but I told the Israeli analysts that they had a real credibility problem.

01:11:49.000 They had just told the U.S. officials for years that if we moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the U.S. embassy, that we would start World War III. And they were adamant about that. 0.61

01:12:03.000 And that caused the U.S. policy To slow down and to take a second look, and it really impacted in a negative way because people believed hook, line, and sinker that analysis.

01:12:17.000 That analysis turned out to be not only wrong, but completely wrong, and the opposite was true.

01:12:23.000 No, Rick. No, Rick.

01:12:24.000 The media told me there were, like, three people that threw rocks for about seven seconds, so it was a very big deal.

01:12:29.000 Almost, almost World War III. But when we moved the embassy and we showed that we were willing to do big deals, That ushered in the Abraham Accords. 0.87

01:12:42.000 We were able to produce peace between Arabs and Israelis because we moved the embassy.

01:12:48.000 And I will go toe to toe with anybody to say those big moves are what makes people believe that you are willing to do big things.

01:12:57.000 And so we have world peace because of that.

01:13:01.000 And I said to the analysts, You have a credibility problem, which is crucial to your job.

01:13:07.000 No one's going to believe you anymore.

01:13:08.000 Something's got to change. Maybe we've got to change the team, and we started to change the team.

01:13:13.000 But the reason why I said that is because I wanted them to know that there are consequences for bad analysis.

01:13:20.000 And there are negative consequences for U.S. public policy officials.

01:13:24.000 I knew a ton of public policy officials who suddenly would question everything that the analysts were saying because they got it so wrong.

01:13:34.000 So we got to fix this.

01:13:35.000 We got to get rid of opinions.

01:13:38.000 We need to do less of the forced opinions and more of the here's An estimate of what we think.

01:13:47.000 And the media have to not take raw intelligence or little pieces of an analyst's talking points and somehow make sweeping judgments about facts on it.

01:14:01.000 It is an estimate and people need to go back to that.

01:14:04.000 Well, I think the media is maybe the worst culprit in all of that because they take the narrative that they want to see, right?

01:14:08.000 You could have two conflicting opinions, you know, one with a total credibility crisis and one, you know, backed by thousands of people.

01:14:16.000 And if the other one, the one that has no credibility, actually gets them where they would like to be, that is the gospel.

01:14:23.000 That becomes the gospel regardless of anything.

01:14:25.000 We saw that during Russia, Russia, Russia.

01:14:27.000 We saw that during Trump impeachment, one, and two.

01:14:30.000 You know, the truth didn't actually matter.

01:14:32.000 As the saying goes, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

01:14:36.000 And, you know, it's why they have the credibility crisis they themselves have.

01:14:40.000 So, you're right. I mean, I think we do have to get back To fixing all of those problems, because why would we trust our government for anything?

01:14:47.000 Whether that's now in the age of COVID and after vaccinations and what we were told about masks and listening to Fauci, who's been wrong about everything for 40 years and all of these things, I think we have a severe credibility crisis across the board in government.

01:15:01.000 But they're fixable. They're fixable.

01:15:03.000 I want to leave people with hope.

01:15:05.000 They are fixable if you have people who can go in and make big ideas and not be seat warmers in some of these seats.

01:15:12.000 But to recognize a problem and to fix it, you can fix these.

01:15:17.000 Well, that's a big deal, and I'm glad, because God knows watching what's going on, we need some hope.

01:15:21.000 So, Rick Grinnell, thank you so much for joining us.

01:15:24.000 Get back to trying to fix the UN and the disaster that's there, and we'll look forward to seeing you soon, man.

01:15:30.000 Thanks again. All the best, Don.

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