On today's episode of Triggered, we cover President Trump's trip to Scotland where he announced the largest trade deal in history, the Deep State's response to the Cincinnati mob attack on a pro-choice rally, and more!
00:07:35.000He's one of the few guys that can go play golf and also negotiate simultaneously the largest trade deal in history, amongst many other things, like, I don't know, minor details like solving a war between Thailand and Cambodia.
00:07:52.000Guys, today we'll also get into some deranged Democrat responses to the violence that took place, the disgusting violence that took place in Cincinnati, you know, where I guess a small group of people really, they attacked a mob with their faces, end up in the hospital.
00:08:15.000But, you know, there's always a different perspective to that.
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00:11:13.000And now, let's get into all of the top headlines.
00:11:17.000So we'll begin with this massive, massive EU trade deal announced earlier this week while we were in Scotland with my father, watching, again, a master at work.
00:11:28.000And spoiler alert, guys, I know you'll be shocked to hear this.
00:12:16.000Rather than buy it from Russia or wherever and supplying and enriching our enemies, they're going to buy three quarters of a trillion dollars from the United States.
00:12:29.000And they're going to make investments of $600 billion into the United States, all by 2028.
00:12:37.000This isn't some distant promise, guys.
00:12:48.000And we'll have the dollars here in America in just a short period of time.
00:12:54.000Also, the European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%, including on autos and auto parts, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, etc.
00:13:07.000And guys, there will be no retaliation on the part of Europe for the U.S. tariff hype.
00:13:13.000Remember, the EU is the largest trading partner of the United States, the biggest of all of them, actually.
00:13:20.000And this deal is the largest bilateral trade deal ever reached, ever.
00:14:28.000I will say that if there is going to be a recession, there could be further for stocks to fall here.
00:14:34.000One way to think about this, Chris, is the future value of America is now $7 to $10 trillion less than it was before Donald Trump took office.
00:14:44.000And I guess another way to think about it is this, that, you know, the Titanic hit an iceberg by accident.
00:14:51.000This is the equivalent of steering the Titanic towards the iceberg.
00:14:57.000But the fear-mongering didn't stop there, guys.
00:15:00.000Over at CNN, they warned that 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists said Trump tariff policy would only make inflation worse.
00:15:13.000Now, these 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists, they're warning that Trump's policies wouldn't just fail to fix inflation, they would actually make matters worse.
00:15:22.000Let me read you the key line from this letter, which was put out just yesterday.
00:15:26.000They wrote, we believe that a second Trump term would have a negative impact on the U.S.'s economic standing in the world and a destabilizing effect on the U.S.'s domestic economy.
00:15:36.000The letter, which was organized by famed economist Joseph Stieglitz, argues that the Trump policies would, quote, re-ignite inflation.
00:15:45.000They point to what they described as, quote, fiscally irresponsible budget.
00:15:50.000Okay, these are probably the same Nobel laureates like Paul Krugman.
00:17:28.000So I'm very positive on that report, at least in the moment.
00:17:31.000And just yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson sat down with Matt Boyle and laid out how we are seeing a blue-collar wage boom.
00:17:41.000Another thing, again, the so-called experts claimed was impossible.
00:17:46.000One thing that's important here is, you know, there's the job numbers, but then we look at the number of jobs for American citizens, and that's really taken off.
00:17:56.000And somehow, in the academic literature, in the mainstream media for years, the one area where supply and demand didn't matter was low-end labor.
00:18:08.000We can let hundreds of thousands, then it turned into millions, and then maybe tens of millions of people crossed the border, and it wouldn't suppress wages.
00:18:20.000And now, I think that we've had this horrible, horrible despair, especially among young men aged 16 to 35.
00:18:38.000But I think now that we're seeing real wage growth, that good, high-paying jobs are coming back, that I think this is just going to build on itself.
00:18:48.000Because a lot of these commitments for the trade deals are for substantial investments in the U.S. But despite all of this, despite the data, despite everything, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is still clinging to the idea that tariffs are going to cause inflation.
00:19:09.000He's basically been saying it every day since January 20th.
00:19:12.000He was the one that cut rates right before the election to try to help Joe Biden when inflation was actually rampant and out of control.
00:19:34.000Well, the bottom line is that there's great news today because we had a blockbuster GDP report that really blew through expectations, gave us 3% growth, which, by the way, we delivered in President Trump's first term as well.
00:19:47.000But 3% income growth and inflation only at 2.1%.
00:19:51.000This is how supply-side economics works: that if you have a big increase in supply, then you get lots of growth and you don't get inflation.
00:20:00.000Now, the problem with the Fed when we were there in the first term was that they kept thinking that the Trump tax cuts were going to cause inflation.
00:20:07.000They were hiking rates, so they were wrong about that.
00:20:10.000And I think that right now, if you look at central banks around the world, they have where inflation is around the world that's quite different from the Feds.
00:20:18.000And the Fed still, as Chairman Powell kept saying today, is obsessed on the idea that tariffs are going to cause inflation.
00:20:25.000But they've been saying that really since January, and it keeps not happening.
00:20:29.000And in today's GDP release, as you mentioned, only 2.1% inflation.
00:20:33.000And again, the inflation numbers, the consumer price index, have surprised on the downside.
00:20:38.000And it says about good numbers, low inflation numbers, five months in a row.
00:20:42.000And so at some point, the idea that the tariffs are going to cause an explosion in inflation is something that people are going to have to give up.
00:20:49.000And if an independent Federal Reserve is data-driven and looking at the data, that our expectation is that they're going to recognize what the ECB has already recognized, that it's okay, it's safe now to cut rates.
00:21:01.000And by the way, guys, yesterday was the first time since 1993 that two members of the Fed's board of governors have voted against the chair.
00:23:08.000Okay, just so we're clear, I built one of the largest buildings ever built in America, not all that long ago, a little while ago, but building it from scratch, demolishing an existing building, creating foundations, doing a hundred-story type building for $900 million.
00:23:25.000The renovation, the touch-up job to the Fed building, $3.5 billion?
00:23:52.000I feel sad for the single mom in East Baltimore or in East Cincinnati who can't get a credit card because Jerome Powell is trying to undermine the president of the United States.
00:24:01.000I don't feel sorry for a man who is using his political position to undermine the duly elected president of the United States.
00:24:07.000Jerome Powell, one, needs to lower rates and two needs to open his meetings up.
00:24:11.000Our founding father, Stuart, would be appalled to learn that a secret group of bankers is meeting behind closed doors and we have no idea what they're actually doing in their deliberations.
00:24:23.000And by the way, I also think it's important to note that the same people claiming that tariffs would destroy the economy are also the same ones who pushed the Russia collusion hoax from day one and who have pushed pretty much every other hoax from day one as well.
00:24:40.000The point being, guys, these same people are always wrong on just about everything.
00:24:47.000And the regime media just can't even allow themselves to admit the obvious that the Trump agenda is working and that the phony scandals are being exposed more than ever.
00:24:59.000Well, I would just like to go, but I'd like to build a DeLorean and go back to April when everybody here was predicting likely to cause a recession.
00:25:08.000Investment stops and a recession happens.
00:25:10.000They're not talking about a U.S. recession.
00:25:12.000They're talking about a global recession.
00:26:46.000But this is a strategy to negotiate and create leverage sky.
00:26:51.000And give us a situation as conveniently.
00:26:54.000Now, in addition to the documents released by DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard, the FBI director, Cash Patel, found a trove of sensitive documents related to the collusion hoax buried in multiple, quote, burn bags, burn bags.
00:27:09.000They were ready to just get rid of it all in a secret room inside the Bureau building.
00:27:17.000It's a sensitive security bag that holds sensitive or classified information which are to be destroyed by fire after a certain period of time.
00:27:28.000And sources tell us they were stashed in a hidden room on the ninth floor of FBI HQ headquarters.
00:27:58.000They realized it wasn't going anywhere or they realized they got what they wanted out of it.
00:28:02.000And we're just going to burn all the evidence.
00:28:05.000Here's Tulsi Gabbard with more details.
00:28:08.000It's a very different story, however, if you use a burn bag to try to get rid of evidence of which maybe there is only one copy of, and then hide it in a secret room in the FBI.
00:28:21.000That is a tactic, obviously, that has been used by those deep staters, these bad actors within the intelligence community to try to get rid of evidence.
00:28:28.000Another tactic that's often used is over-classifying information.
00:28:34.000This is what happened with the Steele dossier.
00:28:37.000This was already widely publicized as a discredited document.
00:28:41.000But what John Brennan did and James Clapper did as the CIA director and Obama's director of national intelligence, they didn't want anybody to know that they used the Steele dossier as a source for this intelligence assessment that was filled with falsehoods they published in January of 2017, as well as other really, really shoddy intelligence sources that would not be acceptable to be used on any topic because they were not deemed credible.
00:29:11.000They wanted to hide all of this from members of Congress, perhaps who were reading this and the American people and President Trump, then President-elect Trump at that time.
00:29:21.000And so they overclassified it in a way that there were less than 10 people who could access it.
00:29:28.000And then they locked up the only hard copy documents.
00:29:32.000This document did not exist on digits, the document that actually exposed.
00:29:38.000This was the document that we released.
00:29:40.000They locked that document up and the five copies that existed in a safe.
00:29:46.000And the first time it had been seen, certainly in public, but even by many within the government, was when we released it about a week ago.
00:29:58.000And yet people like Comey and Brennan still have the audacity, they're still out there to lecture us about norms.
00:30:13.000They have rules, we have rules, and they ain't the same.
00:30:17.000They wonder why we call it the deep state, because they are literally caught red-handed hiding documents, exposing their corruption, their deceit, their outright lies.
00:30:27.000And as Devin Nunes also explained, all of this information we're now seeing for the first time was never given to Congress.
00:30:51.000And, Devin, you made several criminal referrals to the DOJ.
00:30:56.000Talk to us about specific crimes that this cabal committed.
00:31:01.000Well, the easiest ones are lying to Congress and omitting information from Congress, which the most recent one was put out by Director Gabbard recently in this PDB, Presidential Daily Brief.
00:31:14.000None of that information was ever given to Congress.
00:31:17.000It's kind of critical information that was missed, right?
00:31:20.000That would have been critically important for our report.
00:31:24.000In addition to that, John Ratcliffe talked about conspiracy.
00:31:27.000And conspiracy, there is no statute of limitations.
00:31:31.000And like I was saying in the last segment, I think people need to remember that all of these hoaxes that happened were done by the same people in many cases, and one led to the other.
00:31:44.000So you had Hillary starts the collusion hoax.
00:31:53.000I mean, Moeller and that team of witch hunters should also be looked at everything that they did.
00:31:58.000Then when Moeller completely flames out, why?
00:32:01.000Because there was no intelligence that tied Trump to Russia, then what happens?
00:32:05.000We get this fake whistleblower from inside the agencies that says that Trump's doing something weird with Ukraine, and so you end up with that.
00:32:15.000And then you get to the Hunter Biden laptop, and then you get to the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
00:32:20.000All of that is happening with basically the same two dozen people and media operatives that are all involved in perpetuating these hoaxes.
00:32:31.000But the problem is you cannot destroy evidence.
00:32:37.000You cannot hide evidence from Congress.
00:32:39.000We had multiple subpoenas that went out there.
00:32:42.000I'd be surprised to see if there was any information hid from John Durham.
00:32:47.000I think Durham and his team could play a role in maybe helping out this new strike force that's put together because there's probably a lot that was hidden from them.
00:32:57.000So there's plenty of conspiring going on.
00:33:00.000Multiple laws, in my opinion, were broke.
00:33:04.000The question will be: can you build a case strong enough that a jury would convict some of these people?
00:33:28.000So given all that we know now, without a shadow of a doubt, I want to play this flashback from John Brennan on CNN in 2020 after a disclosure made by former DNI, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, where Brennan actually confirms that he briefed Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and James Comey on the phony Russia collusion hoax.
00:34:02.000What can you tell us about these notes that you wrote about this Russian intelligence?
00:34:07.000And what do you make of DNI Ratcliffe releasing them right now?
00:34:11.000Well, John Ratcliffe is anything but an intelligence professional.
00:34:15.000It is appalling, his selective declassification of information that clearly is designed to advance the political interests of Donald Trump and Republicans who are aligned with him.
00:34:27.000But these were my notes from the 2016 period when I briefed President Obama and the rest of the National Security Council team about what the Russians were up to.
00:34:36.000And I was giving examples of the type of access that the U.S. intelligence community had to Russian information and what the Russians were talking about and alleging.
00:34:47.000Now, if in fact what the Russians were alleging, that Hillary was trying to highlight the reported connections between Trump and the Russians, if in fact that was accurate, and that's a big if, there is nothing at all illegal about that.
00:35:01.000And so John Ratcliffe and others are trying to portray this as potentially unlawful activity that deserved follow-up investigation by the FBI.
00:35:12.000But again, I was giving examples to the president and others of the types of access we had.
00:35:17.000And I was blind to whether it referred to one candidate or the other.
00:35:21.000I was blind to whether it referred to one party or the other.
00:35:23.000And what I might also point out, I know that John Ratcliffe released a memo that was sent over to the FBI.
00:35:30.000It's called a CIOL, which is a counterintelligence operational lead, which was again a very selective release and declassification.
00:35:38.000There are a lot of other CIOLs that talk about the contacts that were taking place between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russians.
00:35:48.000So he might want to think about trying to balance some of these releases by providing information to the American public about what the intelligence community had unearthed during this period of time about Russia's interactions with those involved in the Trump campaign.
00:36:08.000Remember, guys, we learned a couple of weeks ago that in December 2016, intelligence officials prepared an assessment that found that Russia did not have the capacity or the capability to try to affect the outcome of the election.
00:36:23.000The document reads that the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was, quote, probably not trying to influence the election by using cyber means.
00:36:33.000And of course, there was no collusion.
00:36:36.000However, guys, this assessment was withdrawn based on new guidance.
00:36:43.000I wonder what that new guidance could have been.
00:36:45.000Maybe we just want to change the narrative.
00:36:50.000That was a shoe-in and a no-brainer because it was her turn.
00:36:54.000But so it was recalled based on new guidance, new guidance.
00:36:58.000Like, we're just going to lie to the American public.
00:37:00.000Because the very next day, intelligence officials, including Comey, Brennan, and Clapper, all met at the White House where Obama directed them to reach different conclusions about Russia.
00:37:15.000We have the data, but we don't like the outcome.
00:37:17.000So we're going to come to a different conclusion.
00:37:20.000So Brennan is now in the crosshairs of not just lies, but outright criminality, as is Obama and others.
00:37:29.000And what about the regime media, guys?
00:37:31.000They endlessly covered a completely fake story for years.
00:37:36.000But since the latest document drops, they've been almost completely silent.
00:37:41.000It's like, huh, if we don't cover it, maybe it didn't happen.
00:37:46.000We've played you all the media montages, showing you their fake nonsense day after day.
00:37:53.000And according to newsbusters, the three major broadcasts, nightly newscasts, has spent a grand total of two minutes total in the last few weeks talking about the new Russia hoax revelations and the declassification.
00:38:36.000They even tried and in many cases did jail us.
00:38:40.000But we are still here and we just keep on winning.
00:38:44.000Again, it's why I ask you to like, to share, to subscribe, send this stuff around, because you're not going to get it from conventional sources.
00:38:54.000And this sort of censorship and corruption isn't just here at home.
00:38:58.000For example, yesterday, the Treasury and State Department slapped sanctions on a Brazilian Supreme Court justice overseeing the trial of former President Yair Bolsonaro over legal schemes to authorize arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppressing freedom of expression.
00:39:15.000We've seen what they've been doing over there.
00:39:25.000And as Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Darren Beattie wrote, quote, the sanctions against Justice Morales today make it clear that President Trump takes the censorship and persecution complex in Brazil, of which De Morales was the chief architect with the utmost seriousness.
00:39:42.000Those complicit in Demorales' human rights violations should take notice.
00:39:48.000And Eduardo Bolsonaro, friend of mine, friend of the show, congressman over there, he's been on this show many times, added, for the first time, the architect of censorship, political repression, and judicial persecution in Brazil is facing real consequences, joining the infamous ranks of sanctioned human rights abusers around the world, such as dictator Nicolas Maduro.
00:40:28.000Next door in Colombia, left-wing President Gustavo Petro and corrupt courts are now trying to jail one of their top political opponents, former President Alvaro Uribe.
00:40:40.000Earlier this week, Uribe was convicted on baseless charges of bribery and wiretapping.
00:40:45.000What's remarkable is there isn't actually any evidence of this other than two former generals alleging that it happened.
00:41:15.000But the good news is the era of weak appeasement is over.
00:41:20.000We're actually inflicting consequences against rogue regimes and nations who wish us harm.
00:41:27.000Also, last week, the State Department and Treasury sanctioned the cartel de las Solas, thought to be the largest cartel in the world, led by Maduro in Venezuela and responsible for sending Trendelaragua to America for drug trafficking and a countless number of deaths and destruction.
00:41:48.000And shockingly, this is the first time they've been sanctioned.
00:42:38.000The U.S. government under my father's leadership is finally taking action against these abuses on a world stage.
00:42:45.000They're making it clear that America will use all its might to protect Americans from those who wish to destroy the values that make this nation great.
00:42:55.000And in many cases, it's happening from within.
00:42:58.000Just look at what we've been seeing from the so-called leadership in Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:43:06.000By now, you've probably seen the video of a mob attack last week, leaving several people seriously injured.
00:43:16.000But what's equally as disgusting is the response from the police chief, because apparently she thinks the true victim is actually the violent mob.
00:44:00.000At times, social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are a misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event.
00:44:15.000What that does, that causes us some difficulties in thoroughly investigating the activity and enforcing the law.
00:44:25.000Because what happens, that social media post and your coverage of it distorts the content of what actually happened.
00:45:04.000Yeah, so I think by the irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context.
00:45:23.000And then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have to try to manage As part of the investigation.
00:45:33.000Now, in response, I posted on X, maybe one of the reasons there's so much crime and violence in the streets of Cincinnati is because they have this absolute moron as their police chief.
00:45:44.000I'd say that's probably a safe bet, guys.
00:46:16.000And do you know, John, at this point, when he came in, the way you described him walking across the plaza all in black, but with a long gun visible.
00:46:27.000So it sounded like he, other than the long gun, which is not a simple thing to say, other than, in New York City, right?
00:46:33.000People don't walk around with guns like that.
00:46:55.000And that picture has been distributed to every police officer in New York City, particularly has been sent to the phones of the search teams inside that building.
00:47:07.000Because whenever they encounter a group of people, the first thing they have to figure out is: is that individual among these people hiding among victims or pretending to be an office worker?
00:47:17.000Because one thing you don't want to have happen is to have this kind of cordon where you're trying to evacuate people in groups as you can get them to a safe corridor and have this person slip out with them.
00:47:28.000So, yes, they have the picture and they have distributed to everybody on the scene.
00:47:34.000I mean, what is wrong with these people?
00:47:37.000They're not even trying to get the story right.
00:47:58.000But what's the Democrats' response been?
00:48:00.000To use these murders to push for a nationwide assault weapons ban.
00:48:06.000Here's communist New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mandani in his own words.
00:48:12.000And as New Yorkers across the five boroughs and Americans across the country mourn this mass shooting, we are reminded that no matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation.
00:48:33.000And so in this moment, the onus is on all of us to follow the words of Alan's brother and to put forward a vision of stronger gun laws.
00:48:46.000And I echo the call from Governor Hochul for a nationwide ban on assault rifles.
00:48:54.000The guy wants to defund the police also doesn't want law-abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves.
00:49:01.000And this guy is the frontrunner to be the next mayor of New York City.
00:49:06.000Again, it's why everything the Trump administration is doing means so much at this moment.
00:49:12.000We are the last line of defense against a completely destructive leftist agenda at home and abroad.
00:49:20.000It's why we must send a powerful message to anyone anywhere who thinks they can silence political opposition or censor information.
00:49:29.000Because otherwise, you end up with losing one right, one freedom after another.
00:49:36.000Free speech, the right to bear arms, due process, and so on and so forth.
00:49:42.000All of them, they will be gone if the Democrats get their way.
00:49:46.000So whether you're talking about trade deals or the deep state switch hunts or the battle for free speech against authoritarian judges, one thing is clear.
00:51:21.000You also, you also have to check out some of these memes.
00:51:25.000You know, Trump in the Sidney Sweeney outfit, Autism Capital, a funny account on X did a thing about me because I was walking off the plane on Air Force One coming back from Scotland.
00:51:36.000And, you know, listen, I'm a rather, you know, largely endowed for a man.
00:51:57.000But you have to see the outrage, the insanity.
00:52:02.000But again, guys, the fact that they're going nuts about a good-looking woman modeling clothes is sort of amazing.
00:52:11.000When you compare that to a few years ago, where you'd put a 400-pound person in lingerie and try to tell people it's supposed to be super sexy, and if you're not attracted to it, you're a racist or a misogynist or whatever the hell you're one of the isss.
00:52:43.000I'm going to try to check out some of these clips also because it's pretty amazing watching these people talk about it.
00:52:48.000And then when you see the juxtaposition of, you know, a good-looking woman in a jeans ad, it's like, you know, we're back.
00:52:54.000This is like the 90s again, where everyone was good-looking if they were modeling.
00:52:57.000I mean, this sort of nature of a model is that they happen to be attractive and not attractive because, you know, they're overweight and we have to pretend that's healthy and we have to pretend these things.
00:53:07.000So it was sort of a wild week, but yet another example of how we are back, why we are back, and why this should stay.
00:55:02.000The word eugenics literally means good genes.
00:55:04.000It literally means that etymologically.
00:55:06.000The point here is to judge human beings based on their genes and to decide that you have good genes and you have bad genes isn't in and of itself a racist project.