Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - No Man Left Behind: Can You Imagine a more Perfect Story on Easter? Full News Coverage!! | TRIGGERED Ep.331

00:06:19.000 Hey guys, and welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:06:22.000 I hope you're all doing well and that you had an incredible Easter weekend.

00:06:27.000 There's a lot to get into today.

00:06:29.000 Some massive stories over the weekend.

00:06:32.000 That says a lot about the strength of America and where our country is right now.

00:06:39.000 And about really never leaving a man behind.

00:06:43.000 A U.S. service member was trapped behind enemy lines 200 miles into the border of Iran inside the mountains there.

00:06:52.000 Being hunted by our enemies, and the United States military went in and got him out.

00:06:59.000 Dozens of aircraft, the most lethal weapons in the world, deep behind enemy lines, and not one American killed.

00:07:08.000 That's leadership, that's deterrence, that's a commander in chief and a military telling the world very clearly we don't leave our people behind.

00:07:18.000 So, we're going to get into that rescue.

00:07:21.000 We're going to talk about the Artemis mission and what it says about.

00:07:25.000 Where this country can go when we actually have leadership with some vision.

00:07:29.000 Because that's really the theme here, guys.

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00:10:31.000 Now, let's get into all the top headlines.

00:10:35.000 We have to start with the rescue operation out of Iran because this is one of those stories that really, man, it cuts through everything.

00:10:44.000 Here's the latest from the White House earlier today on a historic rescue of one of our soldiers who survived in the mountains of Iran for days before being rescued.

00:10:55.000 Late Thursday night, an American F 15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating in Operation Epic Fury.

00:11:07.000 Where we're doing unbelievably well, well at a level that nobody's ever seen before.

00:11:14.000 The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.

00:11:20.000 Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive on Iranian soil.

00:11:26.000 I immediately was asked to make a decision.

00:11:32.000 I ordered the U.S. Armed Forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home, a risky decision.

00:11:40.000 Because we could have ended up with 100 dead as opposed to one or two.

00:11:44.000 It's a hard decision to make.

00:11:47.000 But in the United States military, we leave no American behind.

00:11:51.000 We don't do it.

00:11:53.000 Within hours, our armed forces deployed 21 military aircraft into hostile airspace, many flying at very low altitude, being shot by bullets.

00:12:04.000 You bring rifles into play when you're going that low, but there are also certain advantages.

00:12:11.000 And in broad daylight over Iran for seven hours at times facing very, very heavy enemy fire, we have a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it.

00:12:21.000 It's amazing.

00:12:22.000 We just realized how good those weapons are, our machines are.

00:12:29.000 Nobody has the equipment that we have, and nobody has the military that we have, not even close.

00:12:34.000 The most powerful military anywhere in the world by far.

00:12:38.000 The flight crews and warfighters aboard those aircraft took extraordinary risks to rescue their fellow service members.

00:12:46.000 This first wave of search and rescue forces successfully located the pilot of the F 15, and he was extracted from enemy territory by an HH 60 Jolly Green II helicopter.

00:13:00.000 Fabulous machine as our warriors faced gunfire at very close range.

00:13:07.000 It's amazing that.

00:13:09.000 When you look at the machinery, what happened that nobody was even injured?

00:13:14.000 Meanwhile, the second crew member, a weapon system officer, a highly respected colonel, had landed a significant distance away from the pilot when you're going at those speeds.

00:13:25.000 Even if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles, it's miles and miles away because you're going fast.

00:13:33.000 He was injured quite badly and stranded in an area teeming with terrorists from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rough group.

00:13:42.000 As well as besieged militia and local authorities.

00:13:48.000 Many, on top of everything else, they told the communities actually within Iran, the people of Iran, they were given a tremendous incentive to find this pilot.

00:14:04.000 This was a remarkably courageous and brave man, and all of the people, frankly, who went in there to get him out, the same thing, from all corners of the military.

00:14:15.000 We created a massive deception and misdirection campaign to thwart the Iranians, even took out some of our own planes because we didn't want to leave vulnerable technology behind. 1.00

00:14:26.000 Just think about what it takes to do that.

00:14:29.000 Like I said, dozens of aircraft, heavily armed, deep inside enemy territory, no hesitation, no apologizing, no asking permission from the regime media, no workshops, no committees, no weakness.

00:14:43.000 They went in and they got our guy.

00:14:46.000 According to the White House, This was the first time in military memory that two U.S. pilots have been rescued separately deep in enemy territory.

00:14:58.000 That's not just competence, guys.

00:14:59.000 That's dominance.

00:15:01.000 That's what real deterrence looks like.

00:15:03.000 And compare that to the years we just lived through.

00:15:07.000 Under Biden, every adversary on earth thought America was soft, slow, confused, like Joe Biden, over lawyered, terrified of its own shadow.

00:15:17.000 Now they're learning again that if you touch Americans, if you trap Americans, if you think geography is going to save you, you may be in for a very, very bad surprise. 0.56

00:15:29.000 I mean, Also, think of this story.

00:15:31.000 I mean, it's almost surreal, right?

00:15:34.000 It's almost too good to be true.

00:15:36.000 I mean, you know, for what could have been obviously a very bad situation.

00:15:40.000 You know, an American pilot or a plane shot down two pilots on Good Friday, rescued without any loss of American lives on Easter.

00:15:50.000 I mean, that's a resurrection story for modern times.

00:15:55.000 That's the core of this whole story, okay?

00:15:58.000 Because beyond the tactics, beyond the aircraft, beyond the hardware, The message is simple.

00:16:05.000 We don't leave Americans behind.

00:16:07.000 We get our guys.

00:16:10.000 Not when it's hard, not when it's risky, not when the terrain is awful, not when the enemy thinks they've got the advantage.

00:16:18.000 Just, we just do it.

00:16:20.000 That's a country acting like a country again.

00:16:24.000 Just an amazing story all around, guys.

00:16:26.000 Absolutely incredible.

00:16:27.000 I mean, imagine how demoralizing that is to Iran. 0.99

00:16:30.000 You have two American pilots 200 miles inside their territory.

00:16:33.000 You know, they're sending out million dollar bounties to try to capture them, and we go in there.

00:16:38.000 Without losing an American life, get them all out. 1.00

00:16:40.000 I mean, that's dominance, okay?

00:16:45.000 That shows you a lot.

00:16:46.000 And I imagine they can't be thrilled that we were able to do that.

00:16:50.000 And when people see that and their own military forces understand what they're up against, that we can pull off that kind of mission, I imagine that changes a lot of hearts and minds as well.

00:16:59.000 Here's more from my father's press conference earlier today and where things go from here.

00:17:05.000 And yes, it involves opening up.

00:17:08.000 The effing Straits of Hormuz.

00:17:11.000 So it's a wild one, but hey, you gotta hear it, right?

00:17:16.000 It's kind of a big deal.

00:17:18.000 Check it out. 1.00

00:17:20.000 Yesterday in your Truth Social, you called the Iranians crazy bastards. 1.00

00:17:24.000 True. 1.00

00:17:25.000 What is your response to critics who say that.

00:17:27.000 I don't care about critics.

00:17:29.000 What is your response to critics who say that it is your mental health that should perhaps be examined as this war continues?

00:17:33.000 I haven't heard that.

00:17:35.000 But if that's the case, you're gonna have to have more people like me because our country was being ripped off on trade, on everything.

00:17:43.000 for many years until I came along.

00:17:45.000 So if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people.

00:17:48.000 Guys, I know not everyone likes the profanity.

00:17:52.000 Sometimes, you know, you're going to feel your way about it.

00:17:55.000 But there is a really interesting George Patton quote that I think perhaps may have resonated with my father when he sometimes uses that stuff to really drive the message home.

00:18:04.000 Patton says, When I want my men to remember something important, I really need to make it stick.

00:18:10.000 I give it to them double dirty.

00:18:12.000 It may not sound nice to a bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers remember. 1.00

00:18:19.000 You can't run an army without profanity.

00:18:21.000 But It has to be eloquent profanity, and an army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss soaked paper bag.

00:18:31.000 So, there you have it.

00:18:34.000 Maybe Trump and Patton have a lot more in common than you ever imagined, guys.

00:18:39.000 All kidding aside, we're also seeing American dominance on every other front.

00:18:44.000 As I told you last week, I had the honor of going to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the NASA launch.

00:18:50.000 Uh, over the last few days, you've been seeing all the news coming back in there.

00:18:54.000 The Artemis 2 mission.

00:18:55.000 Has been front and center.

00:18:57.000 And if you look at the footage, if you look at what NASA is now doing right now, if you look at American astronauts pushing further than human beings have ever gone from Earth, you are looking at something we used to take for granted in this country.

00:19:13.000 Check it out.

00:19:15.000 10, 9, 8, 7, RS 25 engines, 4, 3, 2, 1, booster ignition.

00:19:27.000 And lift off.

00:19:29.000 The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon.

00:19:32.000 Humanity's next great voyage begins.

00:19:40.000 Good roll pitch.

00:19:42.000 Roger, roll pitch. 0.68

00:19:47.000 Houston now controlling the flight of Integrity on the Artemis 2 mission around the moon.

00:19:55.000 Integrity, AMT high.

00:20:00.000 On time, passing 30 seconds into the flights.

00:20:03.000 Integrity passes the alternate vehicle.

00:20:05.000 Target milestone Mission Control Houston, good performance on the four main engines.

00:20:09.000 Space Launch System Core Stage.

00:20:11.000 Integrity, three miles in altitude.

00:20:14.000 Traveling more than 1200 miles per hour.

00:20:22.000 We used to assume America would build the future.

00:20:25.000 We used to assume we would lead in science, in engineering, in ambition, and in national purpose.

00:20:31.000 And then for a long time, it felt like all of that got replaced by bureaucracy, by declined management, by lectures, by slogans, by people who think national greatness is somehow embarrassing.

00:20:48.000 But NASA Administrator Jarek Isaacman said something over the weekend that should have gotten a lot more attention.

00:20:54.000 He said Artemis II would not be happening right now if it wasn't for President Trump.

00:21:00.000 And think about what that means.

00:21:02.000 This administration is talking about moon bases, nuclear propulsion, Mars, long term American dominance in space.

00:21:12.000 Not because it's some vanity project, but because serious countries think in generations, not in election cycles.

00:21:19.000 That's what we do differently here because we have bureaucrats running the places, not people who were business guys, not people who played in the real world.

00:21:28.000 Outside of the echo chambers of Washington, D.C. That's the difference.

00:21:32.000 A weak government obsesses over the next cable hit, the next consultant memo, the next fake media narrative.

00:21:41.000 A strong government asks, where is this country going to be 20 years from now, 50 years from now?

00:21:48.000 What are our kids inheriting?

00:21:50.000 Are we building something worthy of them, or are we just, again, managing decline until the next press release?

00:21:58.000 And that's why this matters politically, too.

00:22:01.000 Because it isn't just about rockets.

00:22:04.000 It's about mentality, confidence, whether America still sees itself as a civilization capable of greatness.

00:22:11.000 The left wants the country small, apoplectic, apologetic, fragmented, easier to control that way.

00:22:19.000 My father wants the exact opposite bigger goals, bigger ambition, bigger national purpose and dreams.

00:22:27.000 And honestly, that contrast has never been clearer than it is right now.

00:22:33.000 You can tell a lot about a movement by what it asks people to believe in.

00:22:38.000 The left wants your kid to be obsessed with grievance, dependency, being a victim, being in a constant state of decline.

00:22:47.000 We want your kid looking at the moon and thinking, let's go there, let's build there, let's win there.

00:22:54.000 That's not just policy, guys, that's culture.

00:22:57.000 And speaking of what kind of country we're going to be, let's talk about birthright citizenship.

00:23:04.000 Because the Supreme Court heard arguments last week on one of the most important questions this country has been ducking for way too long.

00:23:11.000 Does being born on American soil automatically make you an American citizen?

00:23:16.000 No matter who your parents are, no matter why they came here, no matter whether the whole thing was an obvious scam from the beginning.

00:23:26.000 And of course, the media wants to frame this like it's some sort of radical, cruel, shocking position.

00:23:32.000 But what's actually radical?

00:23:34.000 Is pretending that the 14th Amendment was written so foreign nationals could industrialize American citizenship for the benefit of their country.

00:23:42.000 What's radical is acting like citizenship is just some sort of convenience store product.

00:23:46.000 You pick it up on your way out, drop by there, get that citizenship, move back to communist China, come back and vote in American elections to do China's bidding. 0.92

00:23:55.000 I mean, that seems pretty radical to me.

00:23:58.000 What's radical is pretending birth tourism doesn't exist.

00:24:02.000 When Trump's team pointed directly to the fact that Chinese birth tourism companies have been operating at scale for years, 500 companies, 500 whose business model is basically come to America.

00:24:15.000 Have the baby, go home, cash in later, and then we're told there's nothing to see here?

00:24:23.000 Really?

00:24:24.000 Nothing to see here?

00:24:25.000 500 companies doing this like a production unit?

00:24:30.000 This isn't anti immigrant, it's anti scam, it's anti fraud, this isn't anti family, it's anti exploitation, this isn't anti American, it's pro American citizenship, meaning something again for a change.

00:24:46.000 Because if citizenship can be gained by anyone with enough money, enough planning, enough lawfare support from the activist left, then citizenship stops being the inheritance of a nation and starts becoming a loophole.

00:25:00.000 And that's the whole fight.

00:25:03.000 The left never wants to define anything.

00:25:06.000 They don't want to define borders.

00:25:07.000 They don't want to define sex.

00:25:09.000 They don't want to define citizenship because when nothing means anything, everything becomes much easier to manipulate.

00:25:16.000 Because there's Absolutely nothing unreasonable about asking whether American citizenship should go to people who are actually going through the process in good faith, not just to people who figured out how to exploit the system faster than Washington could stop them.

00:25:33.000 Now, while we're on the subject of Homeland Security, this next piece tells a whole story of where we are right now.

00:25:41.000 FBI Director Kash Patel is warning that the sleeper cell threat inside the United States is real.

00:25:48.000 Not theoretical, not hypothetical, real.

00:25:52.000 And Senator Dave McCormick tied that directly to the disaster at the border during the Biden years.

00:25:57.000 Because of course he did.

00:25:59.000 That's where this goes.

00:26:01.000 This is what happens when you spend years being lied to about the border, years being told the real threat is the parents at the school board meetings, years being told that anyone who wants immigration enforcement is a bad person.

00:26:15.000 And then all of a sudden, everyone wakes up and realizes, Wow, maybe letting in hundreds of people on terror watch lists just right into the country.

00:26:25.000 I don't know, wasn't the smartest move in the world?

00:26:28.000 Maybe catch and release wasn't just incompetent.

00:26:32.000 Maybe it was reckless.

00:26:34.000 Maybe it was downright dangerous.

00:26:36.000 Maybe when you dissolve the basic concept of a border, you don't get compassion, you get vulnerability.

00:26:43.000 And now look at the contrast.

00:26:45.000 You have federal officials trying to clean up the mess, trying to enforce the law, trying to restore.

00:26:50.000 Some basic concept of national sovereignty.

00:26:53.000 And what are blue states doing?

00:26:55.000 They're actively sabotaging it.

00:26:58.000 In Colorado, lawyers reported that in order to access the state court e file system, they had to certify that they would not use or disclose information to assist federal immigration enforcement.

00:27:11.000 Just think about how crazy that is.

00:27:14.000 At the exact same time, the country is being warned about terror threats, about criminal aliens, about all the downstream consequences of years of open border insanity.

00:27:24.000 You have a state system basically saying, by the way, if you're trying to help federal immigration law, we want no part of it.

00:27:33.000 That isn't resistance, guys.

00:27:35.000 That's sabotage.

00:27:36.000 That's not civil rights. 0.97

00:27:38.000 That's institutionalized obstruction.

00:27:41.000 And this is where Democrats always go every single time.

00:27:46.000 They create the vulnerability, then they deny the vulnerability.

00:27:50.000 And then when someone finally tries to fix the vulnerability, they call people to fix the real problem.

00:27:57.000 It's the same pattern over and over again create chaos, normalize chaos, criminalize anyone who tries to restore order.

00:28:06.000 And that's why these stories matter together.

00:28:09.000 Because one story is the warning, and the other is proof that the left still hasn't learned a damn thing.

00:28:16.000 They still think immigration law itself is the problem.

00:28:19.000 Not the fentanyl, not the gangs, not the terrorists, not the people gaming asylum, not the local systems collapsing under the strain.

00:28:27.000 No.

00:28:28.000 In their worldview, in the Democrats' worldview, the real villain is the person trying to enforce the law.

00:28:35.000 It's insane and it's dangerous.

00:28:38.000 And speaking of dangerous and disgusting, and what fraud actually looks like when it turns human suffering into a business model, federal prosecutors just expose a massive hospice fraud scheme in Los Angeles that is one of the most revolting things you'll see in a long time.

00:28:54.000 We've been talking about this for a lot, and it always gets worse.

00:28:57.000 Healthy patients allegedly recruited into hospice programs, cash kickbacks, fake care, and more than $50 million ripped off from taxpayers through Medicare.

00:29:10.000 You can't make it up.

00:29:12.000 Just stop for a second and think about the moral depravity here.

00:29:16.000 Hospice care is designed and supposed to be about dignity, comfort, compassion in the final chapter of a life, treated with seriousness, humanity, humility.

00:29:29.000 And these animals allegedly turned it into a cash machine?

00:29:32.000 Not for dying people, for healthy people.

00:29:35.000 Sign them up, build a government, collect the money, move on, rinse and repeat.

00:29:39.000 And it's the perfect symbol of what fraud looks like in a morally broken system.

00:29:45.000 Nothing is sacred.

00:29:46.000 Not death, not suffering, not taxpayer money, not medical care, nothing.

00:29:53.000 And this isn't some one off weird story.

00:29:55.000 That's the bigger point, guys.

00:29:57.000 We've seen the same thing in unemployment fraud, in Medicaid fraud, in some health scams, in nonprofit grifts, in housing, in education, in immigration. 0.96

00:30:10.000 Everywhere Democrats build giant unaccountable bureaucracies, the parasites move in and they take over.

00:30:16.000 Everywhere they replace standards with slogans, the scammers show up immediately and take advantage of it. 0.92

00:30:23.000 Everywhere they decide compassion means zero scrutiny, criminals hear one thing free money, baby.

00:30:31.000 Show me the money.

00:30:33.000 Stolen from taxpayers, stolen from Medicare, stolen from the dignity of people who actually need end of life care.

00:30:40.000 That's the truth.

00:30:42.000 And once again, where is this happening?

00:30:45.000 California.

00:30:46.000 Of course it is.

00:30:48.000 Because California is no longer just a badly governed state.

00:30:51.000 It's a lab experiment for institutionalized fraud.

00:30:54.000 And that takes us right into the next story.

00:30:58.000 We talked the other day about the reporting showing the sheer scale of fraud under Gavin Newsom's leadership in California.

00:31:04.000 And the more you look at it, the uglier it gets.

00:31:08.000 Unemployment, healthcare, welfare, every major program seems to become a buffet line for scammers.

00:31:17.000 And then Democrats act just stunned, they're shocked.

00:31:22.000 When the state is broke, dirty, overrun, and collapsing under its own corruption.

00:31:29.000 What was it now?

00:31:30.000 $180 billion stolen from California taxpayers, according to new estimates?

00:31:34.000 Billion with a B, not million.

00:31:35.000 Million would be bad enough. 0.97

00:31:37.000 Okay?

00:31:37.000 Thousand times that.

00:31:39.000 You could build cities with that money.

00:31:42.000 You could secure communities, modernize infrastructure, help actual citizens, fix our schools, fix the roads, fix water systems.

00:31:50.000 Maybe you'd be able to fight your own fires.

00:31:53.000 Can't do that.

00:31:55.000 Instead, it vanishes into fake claims, shell companies, organized crime.

00:32:00.000 Bureaucratic indifference and political cowardice.

00:32:04.000 And then these same people look you in the eye and tell you they need even more money to continue their work.

00:32:11.000 That's the punchline with the Democrats, guys, always.

00:32:14.000 The money is never the problem, the ideology is the problem.

00:32:19.000 Because when your worldview says enforcement is mean, scrutiny is oppressive, and every safeguard is somehow exclusionary, this is what you get fraud, more fraud, and then even more fraud.

00:32:33.000 And it gets worse because last night, 60 Minutes even did a full investigation into the California high speed rail to nowhere, chronicling literally decades of waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:32:45.000 In 2008, California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco.

00:32:52.000 In less than three hours, they got it done.

00:32:55.000 The estimated price tag was $33 billion.

00:33:00.000 Completion date, 2020.

00:33:03.000 Now they say 2033 with no actual end in sight.

00:33:07.000 That's just the new date that they threw on there.

00:33:09.000 It's only 13 years late.

00:33:11.000 And a cost that has kept skyrocketing to north of $120 billion.

00:33:18.000 Not exactly on time, definitely not on budget.

00:33:21.000 And as it turns out, the whole project began as more of a marketing campaign than a project with financing and, you know, I don't know, a plan.

00:33:30.000 It was all a big scam against taxpayers.

00:33:33.000 Check this out.

00:33:34.000 Here in the U.S., high-speed rail looks like this.

00:33:37.000 Hardly passenger ready.

00:33:40.000 America's hopes for its first high-speed rail were kindled in 2008 when California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours.

00:33:51.000 The estimated price tag, $33 billion.

00:33:55.000 Completion date, 2020.

00:33:57.000 It would cut pollution, revitalize local economies, clear gridlock.

00:34:04.000 Status update.

00:34:05.000 Today, the state's high-speed rail authority is preparing Preparing to lay its first tracks at roughly the same cost.

00:34:12.000 Only slight course correction here.

00:34:14.000 Instead of LA to San Francisco, it will run one third of that distance, connecting, wait for it, the metropolis of Bakersfield and Merced, population 96,000.

00:34:26.000 Oh, and when will it open?

00:34:29.000 2033, maybe.

00:34:32.000 And the craziest part is they still want to export this model nationally.

00:34:37.000 They still want Gavin Newsom treated like some serious future presidential contender.

00:34:42.000 A guy who can't stop his own state from getting robbed blind should be president of the United States because then they can do that across all 50 states, not just California.

00:34:50.000 A guy under whose watch government became a slot machine for criminals.

00:34:55.000 A guy whose political brand is basically expensive hair gel over total administrative collapse.

00:35:03.000 That is what the Democrat bench looks right now.

00:35:06.000 Fraud with a smile.

00:35:08.000 I think that the California high speed rail nightmare is the probably quintessential example of government waste and mismanagement.

00:35:14.000 You say this needs to stop.

00:35:15.000 It needs to stop.

00:35:16.000 Congressman Vince Fong, a Republican from Bakersfield, sits on the House Transportation Committee.

00:35:21.000 He says that when California voters first approved high speed rail, the promise and price tag were more marketing campaign than realistic projection.

00:35:30.000 We're now in 2026.

00:35:33.000 There are no trains, there's no track laid.

00:35:35.000 It's a complete bait and switch.

00:35:37.000 If I vote for a Mansion in Malibu by next year, and someone says, Actually, you know what?

00:35:42.000 In five years, we're going to have a doghouse in Modesto.

00:35:45.000 How do things go so off the rails?

00:35:47.000 The business plan that was put out in 2008 was very theoretical.

00:35:50.000 You know, this is what we think is going to happen.

00:35:52.000 And it became very clear that they didn't have the specifics worked out.

00:35:57.000 And since we're talking about the Democrat machine, let's go back to Act Blue for a second because that story is not going away.

00:36:05.000 As we discussed last week, the New York Times report already told us.

00:36:08.000 That ActBlue's own lawyers were warning internally about potential criminal exposure tied to foreign donations.

00:36:16.000 Think about how big a story, really, that should be for the Times to actually touch it.

00:36:23.000 That tells you everything you need to know.

00:36:25.000 For the Times to touch it against Democrats and their fundraising apparatus, that's a big deal.

00:36:30.000 And what does it tell you?

00:36:32.000 It tells you the people screaming the loudest for years about election integrity threats were apparently sitting.

00:36:39.000 On a fundraising system with massive warning lights flashing all over the dashboard.

00:36:44.000 You know, again, accuse the others of doing what you're doing yourself.

00:36:49.000 That's the Democrat credo.

00:36:50.000 It always has been.

00:36:51.000 That was Hillary's mentor's big byline.

00:36:54.000 And they're doing it every day.

00:36:55.000 It tells you they never cared about foreign influence in the abstract, they cared about controlling the accusation.

00:37:01.000 If that foreign influence benefited Democrats, they'd probably be all for it, because it was.

00:37:06.000 That's the whole USAID NGO scam.

00:37:09.000 Right?

00:37:10.000 Well, if it's working for Democrats, God forbid we actually get rid of these programs that cost us billions.

00:37:13.000 You know, there's a kickback to the Democrat Party.

00:37:16.000 Leave it alone.

00:37:17.000 Who cares if the money's going to nowhere?

00:37:19.000 Of course, we need circumcision procedures in Mozambique that are funded by the American taxpayer, right?

00:37:24.000 That's different.

00:37:25.000 That's different.

00:37:27.000 Because the modern Democrat Party doesn't survive without the machine the money machine, the ballot harvesting machine, the lawfare machine, the media machine.

00:37:36.000 And once you start pulling on one thread, guys, you realize how much of it depends.

00:37:42.000 On opacity.

00:37:43.000 How much of it depends on no one asking the hard questions?

00:37:47.000 How much of it depends on institutions staying captured long enough for the public to get exhausted and simply tune out?

00:37:56.000 But people aren't tuning out anymore.

00:37:58.000 That's the change.

00:38:00.000 Americans understand now that when Democrats say democracy is under threat, what they usually mean is their infrastructure of control is actually under threat.

00:38:11.000 When they say norms are collapsing, What they mean is their monopoly on unaccountability and unaccountable power is collapsing.

00:38:20.000 When they say this system is being weaponized, what they mean is for the first time in a long time, someone might actually investigate them too.

00:38:31.000 And good.

00:38:32.000 Because if your own lawyers are telling you there may be criminal exposure over foreign money flowing into American elections, maybe the problem isn't the people asking the questions.

00:38:44.000 Maybe the problem is the people who built the machine in the first place.

00:38:49.000 Now, I want to close with something that really matters to everyday families because this one cuts across politics in a way that a lot of stories don't.

00:38:58.000 RFK Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced new action on microplastics.

00:39:05.000 This is the kind of thing governments should be doing.

00:39:09.000 We're talking about contaminants in drinking water, plastics in the human body, possible links to inflammation, fertility problems, neurological issues, things that affect your children, your food, your home, and your health.

00:39:23.000 And for once, instead of being told to shut up and trust some faceless bureaucracy, the government is acknowledging the problem and starting to move on it.

00:39:32.000 That's what serious governance looks like.

00:39:35.000 Protect the border, punish fraud, build the future, and make sure families aren't being poisoned by the basic systems they're supposed to rely on.

00:39:46.000 It's not really complicated, folks, but Washington made it complicated because for too long it stopped serving normal Americans and started serving.

00:39:55.000 Every weird ideology hobby, every NGO racket, every consultant class scam, every global abstraction, except the people who actually live here. 0.74

00:40:08.000 So when you step back and look at everything we covered today, the pattern is pretty clear.

00:40:12.000 When leaderships get stronger, the rot gets exposed.

00:40:16.000 When enforcement comes back, the sabotage becomes obvious.

00:40:20.000 When national confidence returns, the people who built careers on weakness start panicking because they can feel the shift.

00:40:28.000 They can feel that Americans are done being lectured by failure.

00:40:33.000 Done being told chaos is compassion.

00:40:37.000 Done being told that fraud is inclusion.

00:40:39.000 Done being told that decline is just the price of being in a modern society.

00:40:43.000 No, that's a lie.

00:40:45.000 A serious country can protect its people, defend its sovereignty, pursue greatness, punish corruption, and still care deeply about families and the future.

00:40:55.000 And in fact, that's the job.

00:40:58.000 That's the actual job.

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