00:06:24.000Hey, guys, and welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:06:27.000I hope everyone's doing well, and I hope that your week is off to a good start.
00:06:33.000And the theme today, guys, is pretty simple results versus excuses, concrete wins versus bureaucratic noise, a president who uses leverage versus a political class that uses process as a hiding place.
00:06:50.000Because look at the contrast right now.
00:06:53.000Your favorite president goes to China, and suddenly, magically, China is talking about buying American farm products, American planes, American energy, and opening up the markets again.
00:07:07.000Democrats look at that and, you know, their first instinct is to find the asterisk.
00:07:14.000You know, what can we do to put in, you know, what clothes can we throw in there?
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00:08:23.000And guys, we have another familiar face sponsoring the show now Gold Co.
00:08:29.000Gold just surged past $5,000 an ounce, silver blew past 100.
00:08:35.000And the U.S. just added silver to the critical mineral list, meaning it's now considered crucial for American security and economic survival.
00:09:52.000It's too important, too interconnected, too whatever, to do anything, which was always just a fancy way of saying, we are going to let China win.
00:10:16.000It's the elites that were the ones that didn't understand.
00:10:19.000They never did, probably never will, or they were just benefiting from it and they're okay with that, destroying our middle class in the process.
00:10:26.000But this week, my father went to Beijing and came back with commitments that actually matter to people in this country.
00:10:33.000China approved an initial purchase of 200 American made Boeing aircraft.
00:10:40.000China agreed to buy at least 17 billion per year in United States agricultural products.
00:10:47.000China restored market access for USB facilities.
00:10:53.000And the two countries are now talking about rare earths, critical minerals, energy, North Korea, and the big one, reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:11:04.000This is not a think tank white paper, folks.
00:11:18.000It might not have been from him, it was somebody, but they talked about the decline.
00:11:22.000But he said today, and he said it very publicly he said, The U.S. was declining for the last four years.
00:11:30.000And he said what President Trump has done in the last 15, 16 months has been virtually a miracle.
00:11:37.000He said we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
00:11:41.000But he said it was a declining country.
00:11:46.000Under Joe Biden, he said we had a declining, a seriously declining country, which we did, with people pouring in from all over the world, from prisons and everything else.
00:11:57.000He said, what President Trump has done has been a virtual miracle.
00:12:01.000It's the hottest country anywhere in the world.
00:12:33.000Meanwhile, they got nothing from China for decades other than maybe the theft of all of our IP.
00:12:39.000Trump walks in and says, Buy American products, buy American planes, reopen the channel that matters, and stop pretending the United States is just another country waiting in line because it's not.
00:15:35.000And when Trump is at the table, everyone understands that the United States is not there to apologize for its very existence.
00:15:44.000We're there to actually get results, we're there to get things done.
00:15:48.000That's the same mindset that's now showing up at the border and in the sanctuary city fight.
00:15:56.000Tom Homan gave a great interview to the Daily Signal, and he laid out exactly what's happening.
00:16:04.000Democrats in places like New York want to limit cooperation with ICE.
00:16:09.000They want to make it harder for ICE to work in jails, to deport literally criminals.
00:16:15.000They want to attack agents for wearing masks, even as threats against ICE officers are exploding.
00:16:22.000And Homan's answer was basically fine.0.59
00:16:26.000If you'll not let us, Arrest the criminal illegal aliens safely in the jail, then we will send more agents into the community and arrest them there.0.66
00:17:18.000You let ICE pick up the criminal in jail, where it's safer for the officer, it's safer for the community, and frankly, it's safer for everyone involved, including the criminal.
00:17:30.000You release that person into the streets, into the wild, and then ICE has to send teams to hunt them down and find them.
00:17:39.000And if he is with other people who are also here illegally, guess what happens?
00:17:48.000That is the law, that is law enforcement.0.78
00:17:52.000But Democrats don't want law enforcement.0.75
00:17:54.000They want theater, they want theatrics, they want performances on television and sound bites that don't mean anything but make them look good.
00:18:03.000They want to say that they're protecting immigrants while creating policies that make immigrant communities less safe.
00:18:11.000They want to say that they're helping victims while shielding the very criminals who create more victims.0.99
00:18:27.000And now let me take that same idea overseas, because this Alex Saab story is actually incredible.
00:18:35.000Alex Saab was one of Nicolas Maduro's main bagmen.
00:18:38.000He was extradited to the United States years ago.
00:18:41.000He was accused in a massive corruption and money laundering case and is a massive food air shipping scandal, basically, where he had contracts for billions of dollars but didn't deliver any of the goods.
00:19:01.000Biden literally pardoned the guy in a prisoner deal and sent a message to every corrupt actor in the entire hemisphere that if you're useful enough, connected enough, or politically valuable enough, Maybe America will just cut a deal and actually move on.
00:19:18.000But now Saab has been deported back to the United States after being detained in Venezuela.
00:19:25.000And this, guys, is the part I want you to focus on.
00:19:30.000Reports say that the arrest and deportation suggested a new level of cooperation between the United States and Venezuelan law enforcement under acting President Delcy Rodriguez.
00:19:42.000In plain English, Venezuelan authorities are cooperating, they're working with America.
00:19:48.000And they're sending us a criminal that Biden let go.
00:19:52.000And since Saab only had a limited pardon, he can be prosecuted under numerous separate charges.
00:19:59.000That is a pretty clean contrast to what we've seen for a long time.
00:20:04.000Biden pardons the bagman, Trump's America gets him back.
00:20:09.000And by the way, Saab was not some random paperwork case.
00:20:14.000This guy made a fortune off of a rotten system that crushed poor Venezuelans, stole from the country, and helped the Maduro machine.
00:20:22.000Stay alive, selling expired food and cardboard boxes to poor people, making millions while Venezuelans suffered, and then hiding behind the regime, protected by an American regime.
00:20:36.000And now he's under U.S. control again.
00:20:56.000You do not get to hide behind Biden's weakness forever.
00:21:00.000You did not get to assume the United States is just, you know, too distracted, too embarrassed, too politically correct, or too captured by the process itself to come and get you.
00:21:19.000Congratulations from both my wife, Jenny, and I standing here on this ship in Norfolk, welcoming you back to America.
00:21:31.000The extraordinary sailors and crew of Strike Group 12 for nearly a year, you have held the line for our nation.
00:21:43.000There's something especially American about a day like this, extraordinarily American about this, about families and communities that put it all on the line and send their best, their men and women, across the globe to defend this freedom we find that is so precious.
00:22:01.000And so today, from the Secretary of Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations, the President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting The Presidential Unit Citation to the U.S. Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group for outstanding performance in action against enemy forces.
00:22:20.000You haven't just met the standard of excellence, you have redefined it for the next generation of American warfighters.
00:22:30.000So God bless you, and may God bless the War Department and the United States of America.
00:22:40.000And when you put all of this together, The pattern is obvious of what the rule of law versus corruption actually looks like.
00:22:47.000And speaking of patterns being obvious, let's talk more about Act Blue.
00:22:52.000You know, the big Democrat fundraising apparatus, the crazy thing that went on for far too long that allowed them to raise more money than you could have ever possibly imagined.
00:23:02.000Because the same people who spent years screaming about foreign interference are now watching their own fundraising machine get dragged into the daylight.
00:23:12.000Shockingly, but the New York Times actually reported that ActBlue's CEO has agreed to testify before Congress next month about foreign donor vetting.
00:23:22.000Because, guys, I know that this is controversial, but you should not be able to donate money into American politics with a gift card and a fake name.
00:23:32.000Okay, that's not what the system's supposed to do.
00:23:35.000You should not be able to use someone else's identity to pump money into various campaigns.0.98
00:23:40.000Foreign nationals should not be funding election machinery in the United States of America.0.98
00:23:47.000Again, this is not complicated, guys.1.00
00:23:55.000Because they spent years acting like, you know, Russian interference, Russia, Russia, Russia was the greatest threat to democracy in human history.
00:24:02.000Never before have we seen anything like it.
00:24:05.000But when there's a common sense idea to make sure that foreign money is not flowing into American elections through online donation platforms, that we actually uphold the law as it relates to elections, the law.
00:25:24.000The whole point is that the system works better for Democrats when nobody looks too closely and when nobody faces any actual consequence.
00:25:34.000But AntBlue is just one example of the fraud that is the foundation of the entire Democrat apparatus, the entire Democrat machine.
00:25:43.000Here's JD Vance laying out the scope of rooting out the fraud and making sure it's stopped dead in its tracks.
00:25:51.000No shame that when your government gives out, let's say, $7 billion to California for food stamp benefits, it doesn't know a single recipient of those food stamps, not a one, because it's block granted to the states, and then we trust the states.
00:26:06.000That they're going to police fraud themselves.
00:26:07.000We have not gotten any help from Gavin Newsom or a number of other blue states when we're trying to police to make sure that dead people don't get SNAP benefits, to make sure that these food benefits go to low income kids.
00:26:18.000That's what they're there for, not to fraudsters.
00:26:21.000We'd love to have that cooperation, but so far, not yet.
00:26:25.000And final question Has Tim Walz contacted you?
00:26:29.000And by the way, while we're talking about consequences, let's talk about a story the regime media absolutely hates because.
00:26:36.000It cuts right through the fake narrative they spent years trying to build.
00:26:41.000Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk in Colorado, was serving a nine year sentence, nine years, connected to the voting system breach case from 2020.
00:26:54.000But Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, just granted clemency as part of a group of commutations and pardons, and Peters is set for parole effective June 1st.
00:27:05.000The only nonviolent offender that is on the commutation list.
00:27:10.000She was sentenced to almost nine years in prison.1.00
00:27:14.000And to be clear, she deserved to go to jail.
00:27:18.000What's at issue here is how long the sentence is.
00:27:20.000And I agree with the appeals court that in the sentencing hearing, the judge incorrectly looked at and considered her bizarre viewpoints, her speech, and held her speech against her.
00:27:32.000She happens to be somebody that's espoused what I believe to be, what anybody objectively would believe to be, incorrect opinions, conspiracies, et cetera.
00:27:44.000What is a crime is, along with two other co conspirators, one got six months, one got parole only, accessed after a municipal election, election computers, to download software for an independent audit prior to the software being updated.
00:28:05.000And I believe that the four and a half years that I'm commuting her sentence to, she'll be on parole along with a number of the other nine next month, is a fair, just, and tough sentence for her crime.
00:28:17.000What Polis acknowledged is that the punishment was based on her First Amendment right to free speech, and that he agreed with the Colorado Appeals Court reasoning that, you know, the sentencing judge punished her too heavily based on that protected speech.
00:28:33.000Of course, if she was a liberal doing the same thing, she would have never faced any kind of consequence or anything.
00:29:01.000The left spent years demanding that anyone who questioned the 2020 election be treated like some kind of domestic enemy, a domestic terrorist, actually, not argued with, not debated, not answered with transparency, destroyed, bankrupted, imprisoned, made into an example.
00:29:21.000Ask me how I know, because they tried to do it to us.
00:29:24.000And then they act shocked when normal Americans look at the system.
00:29:29.000They look at the details and say, wait a minute, is this justice or is this just punishment for having the wrong point of view?
00:29:37.000And that's the lawfare problem in one story.
00:29:41.000Obviously, this has happened thousands of times.0.87