A federal grand jury indicts New York AG Letitia James on a bank fraud charge, a deal between Israel and Hamas is struck, and Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, gives explosive testimony to the Senate about the Biden administration and Big Tech conspiring to censor conservative media.
00:01:43.000Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:01:48.000What an absolutely historic day for peace.
00:01:52.000What an incredible day for American strength.
00:01:56.000And what a revealing day given the left's complete and total meltdown.
00:02:05.000And breaking news just moments ago, a federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a bank fraud charge, where she's accused of falsifying records to obtain favorable loan terms on a mortgage by falsely claiming that her property in Virginia is her primary residence.
00:02:31.000It's almost exactly what she was accusing us of.
00:02:37.000Remember, guys, no one is above the law.
00:02:42.000And we've got a special show for you today.
00:02:44.000Later on, we're joined by Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, who just gave explosive testimony to the United States Senate about the Biden administration and big tech conspiring to censor conservative media.
00:03:05.000So guys, make sure that you're liking, sharing, subscribing so you never miss one of these major episodes.
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00:06:25.000Honestly, we hope the war does not come back.
00:06:27.000And for this to be really the end, with no death and destruction afterwards.
00:06:34.000Remember now we are just talking about phase one of this 20-point peace plan, but President Trump there from the White House saying he still expects Hamas to disarm in phase two.
00:07:19.000This perspective where for months, the fake news media attacked you, attacked the entire team, attacked your approach, you know, the The definition of insanity is to do the same thing again and again, expecting a different result.
00:07:32.000The reason we're here is because the president actually charted a different course with a different team.
00:07:36.000He vested a lot of uh of authority in Steve Whitkop in particular, and that's why we're here.
00:07:42.000Uh, it's because you did something different, and I think it's important to recognize that.
00:07:46.000I also think the president, you know, Marco mentioned the president's personal touch being a big part of this.
00:07:50.000The one thing I would say is obviously the president of the United States, a New York real estate billionaire, one of the most famous New Yorkers in the world, has a lot of interaction with a lot of people who are very pro-Israel.
00:08:00.000I think that was an important set of experiences and life life experiences that he brought to the table.
00:08:05.000He also, of course, knew one of the most famous Palestinians in the world, Chuck Schumer.
00:08:09.000I think without that background of knowledge, it would have been impossible to get us to this moment.
00:08:36.000Prime Minister Netanyahu called to thank my father, countries around the world, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, are all phrasing this leadership because that's what it is, finally.
00:10:07.000Well, I mean, if if this sticks, uh I think that the whole point of having a uh Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace.
00:10:17.000And I'm gonna make a direct appeal to the president.
00:10:22.000Now, Fetterman may be one of the few sane Democrats left because the rest of them are in an alternate universe of far left lunacy, pretty much pretty much 24 hours a day.
00:14:10.000Or, as we've seen a lot of these days, they have to resort to violence.
00:14:15.000This week, John Davis testified before the Senate about how the Biden administration and big tech conspired to try to destroy conservative media.
00:14:28.000secretly and without any due process, charged us with thought crimes, convicted us, and sentenced the Federalists to death.
00:14:35.000The censorship efforts our government funded with our money are still being wielded against us today.
00:14:41.000I'm here today to testify about the unconstitutional and illegal censorship of my company and my colleagues.
00:14:46.000But I'm also here to help you understand the real world consequences in flesh and in blood of the drive to silence your political opposition.
00:15:36.000Strength versus weakness, leadership versus failure.
00:15:41.000Peace is breaking out, censorship is being exposed, violent leftists are being held accountable, and the American people see exactly what's happening.
00:15:52.000So stay tuned because up next, we've got an incredible interview with Sean Davis himself from the Federalist about his Senate testimony.
00:16:00.000How the government tried to destroy his company and how we actually fight back.
00:16:06.000Not just complaining, but how we actually fight back.
00:16:09.000And in the meantime, here's more from my father's round table with his cabinet earlier today.
00:16:15.000And then Sean's going to join us on the other side.
00:16:20.000One day, perhaps the entire story will be told about the events of yesterday, but uh suffice it to say it's not an exaggeration that none of it would have been possible without the president of the United States being involved.
00:16:40.000It really began with your trip to the Middle East, where these relationships were forged with partners in the region, personal relationships, close relationships that created the uh the foundation where all this was possible, where I think this really took a turn.
00:16:52.000Remember, a month ago, no one thought this was possible.
00:16:54.000We really took a turn about a month ago, uh less than a couple weeks ago, is when we were at the United Nations, and you convened a historic meeting, not simply of Arab countries, but of Muslim majority countries from around the world, including Indonesia was there, Pakistan was there, and created this coalition behind this plan.
00:17:11.000You then on that following Monday, you met with the Prime Minister of Israel here, and that plan was presented.
00:17:17.000And then, of course, our great negotiating team followed up on it.
00:17:22.000In the intro, um, again, perhaps the stories will be told, perhaps it will never be told.
00:17:27.000The president had some extraordinary phone calls and meetings.
00:17:31.000Um that required uh a high degree of intensity and commitment and made this happen.
00:17:40.000And I think what's important to understand is that yesterday what happened was really a human story.
00:17:45.000There's a geopolitical aspect to it, there's no doubt about it.
00:17:47.000It creates the conditions for Gaza to one day be a normal place again and people to have a better life and Israelis to be safe.
00:17:54.000But yesterday was a human story, and because of the work you put in, and honestly, there is no not only is there no other leader in the world that could have put this together, Mr. President.
00:18:03.000But frankly, I don't know of any American president in the modern era that could have made this possible because of the actions you have taken unrelated to this, and because of who you are and what you've done and how you're viewed.
00:18:14.000And this weekend, because of that, at some point very soon, we are going to see 20 living human beings emerge from the darkness into the light for the first time in two years.
00:18:23.000And that is because not only were you you used the credibility and the power and the prestige of this office and the relationships you created, and you committed yourself to making it happen, and I think it will go down as a historic moment in the history of our country, and something our country should be very proud of.
00:18:39.000That we have a president that's committed to the not just peace, but to the human aspect of reuniting these families.
00:18:46.000My last point on this is just a couple of days ago, Secretary Lutnik hosted us all, many of us, at the Kennedy Center.
00:18:53.000And we have these families, we've interacted with them for so many years, uh, for some for two years now.
00:18:57.000And the stories are heartbreaking, both whose families are alive and those who are deceased as well, who want their relatives back so that they can uh complete the process of grieving.
00:19:07.000And uh it was uh we had all hoped that perhaps that was the day that we would have an announcement for them on the anniversary of the seventh.
00:19:13.000But I I know you were able to speak to some of those families last night.
00:19:16.000And and I just hope the whole nation understands what how incredibly proud they should be of their president and of their country for the role that they've played.
00:19:24.000And I don't want to let this moment pass, Mr. President, with also noting the incredible work of Steve Woodcoff and Jared Jared Kusher.
00:19:31.000They're an incredible team working together, facing some substantial impediments to even being there this weekend and doing it.
00:20:05.000Uh it's early on Monday, but man, that was a pretty big one in the Middle East, huh?
00:20:10.000Yeah, I did I did not have peace in the Middle East on my bingo card.
00:20:14.000I I thought it was a possibility, but uh yeah, I'm I really hope it it we get all the way through it, the deal's consummated, we get the hostages home, and we can actually have peace there.
00:20:25.000Yeah, that'd be uh that'd be pretty nice.
00:20:27.000I think everyone is probably on board with my father where he just wants to stop the death.
00:20:31.000I mean, I know that was very controversial when he said that originally about Ukraine and also talking about this.
00:20:51.000Like it's it's a cliche that we all want world peace, but I I think we actually do.
00:20:56.000It was interesting in your in in President Trump's first term and then now to actually see how many people don't seem to want peace, to see how many people seem to thrive on conflict.
00:21:05.000It's actually kind of depressing, really.
00:21:07.000Um, but thank goodness that he is where he is.
00:21:10.000He he has done more for peace in this world than I think any president in probably a hundred years, if not more.
00:21:30.000Yeah, I think that was the Babylon B headline.
00:21:33.000Uh you know, they they've got an easy job now.
00:21:36.000The left is so insane, and the Democrat media is so ridiculous.
00:21:39.000It's uh it's hard not to think of parodies and satire of these people.
00:21:44.000And and it it's fascinating to watch them say, Look, you know, Trump's Hitler, Trump can't do this, Trump can't do that.
00:21:50.000This is what, like his eighth peace deal in the last month or two.
00:21:57.000He's like the he's like the worst Hitler ever.
00:21:59.000Like you know, he's he hasn't failed at much in life, but he's clearly failed at being Hitler.
00:22:04.000We had there's wars he stopped that I think people didn't even know were happening, going on, and he's he's finding conflicts out there to end that most people in the media didn't even know were happening.
00:22:14.000Like his commitment to peace and his hatred of death and destruction and war.
00:22:49.000I just want to make sure I'm I'm not sure, but I remember her saying that quite often very distinctly, uh, tweeting about it, etc., etc.
00:22:57.000I might have spent a good hour going through her Twitter feed and just finding all the instances of her saying no one is above the law and then tweeting her indictment at her and asking, is this you?
00:23:12.000Uh it couldn't happen to a nastier, more corrupt person than Letitia James.
00:23:18.000Like she went after President Trump and accused him of lying on mortgage documents because he didn't say that Mar-a-Lago was worth like 10 million bucks.
00:23:26.000I I imagine carpet samples for a closet in Mar-a-Lago at this point are worth like 10 million dollars.
00:23:32.000But she tried to throw him in prison by by saying, uh, yeah, it's actually probably worth closer to a billion dollars.
00:23:38.000And now we find out that she was lying on her mortgage applications.
00:23:44.000I remember having to testify about that one and explaining to people, you know, I guess the number was 18 million dollars, they thought it was worth.
00:23:50.000I'm like, uh Mar-Lago's on 20 acres, Mar-A Lago from the ocean to the lake, because you know, Paw Beach is an island and it's got waterfront on both sides.
00:24:00.000You know, half acre teardown, sell it for 50 million bucks, and this 20-acre thing with you know, uh, a rather incredible house on it, is somehow worth 18.
00:24:08.000I I remember when that happened, I called my father, like I called him.
00:24:26.000And it, you know, for people who own a home and have to pay property taxes, there's always uh a dance between what your property is worth and the tax valuation on it.
00:24:36.000And you know, I've lived in a lot of places.
00:24:38.000I don't ever think I've seen a tax valuation and the actual like property value match.
00:24:43.000Your goal is always to get the tax valuation as low as humanly possible, get the basis as low as possible, uh and so you can pay as little tax as possible on it.
00:24:52.000So this idea from an attorney general in a state that if your uh market evaluation of a home doesn't match the tax valuation, that is so insane.
00:25:05.000I still have trouble wrapping my head around this idea that that Donald Trump committed mortgage fraud on a loan that he paid back every penny of that everyone was happy with because there is a different market value than tax assessment.
00:25:22.000I still can't believe it actually happened.
00:25:24.000Well, in a lot of states, the assessed value actually has nothing to do with you know the market value.
00:25:29.000I mean, they the state comes up with it, they give you a number, you pay a percentage off of that.
00:25:33.000And it the two actually don't oftentimes have anything to do with a reasonable number.
00:25:36.000It's almost just that's the way they do it and for whatever reason.
00:25:39.000But yeah, this one was uh especially absurd.
00:25:43.000Yeah, man, if I if I could have gotten my hands on Mar-a-Lago for 18 million dollars, like uh I'm not a wealthy man and I don't know that many wealthy people.
00:25:51.000I I would have uh stayed up night and day as long as it took to buy that beautiful piece of property uh for pennies on the dollar.
00:26:05.000Yeah, you know, you you messed around and now you're gonna find out, sweetheart.
00:26:09.000Yeah, so early earlier this week, speaking of that, I mean, you told the Senate uh that the Biden regime tried to censor the Federalist to death.
00:26:18.000Uh obviously a topic that you've we've spoken on the show many times before.
00:26:23.000You know, can you walk us through uh the most shocking part of that discovery?
00:26:27.000I know it's been sort of ongoing for a long period of time.
00:26:34.000Yeah, uh, and and I'll try to be brief on it, not bore you too much.
00:26:38.000So for about five years, there is a concerted global effort, a coordinated effort to shut down the Federalist.
00:26:45.000I was targeted, the Federalist was targeted, our writers and reporters were targeted.
00:26:49.000My colleague Molly Hemingway was targeted.
00:26:52.000Um there were a whole bunch of different entities throughout the government and throughout the world.
00:26:56.000Um there was one government connected entity in the UK called the Center for Countering Digital Hate, probably the most Orwellian name I've ever heard of, that tried to get us demonetized from Google because we published an article entitled The Media Are Lying to You About Literally Everything, including the Riots.
00:27:16.000Then our own government via uh some agency called CISA, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency, they went to Twitter and told them they had to censor Molly and me.
00:27:27.000And some of the tweets they they had uh censored were actually kind of hilarious.
00:27:32.000Now, if you follow me, I can get a little spicy on Twitter.
00:27:37.000So I gave them all kinds of fodder to use.
00:27:40.000But but what they went after me uh for was a tweet screenshotting and linking to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that said they had to accept ballots with no postmark uh received after election day and presume them as uh valid.
00:27:57.000So they censored me for that for correctly reading, interpreting, linking and screenshotting a uh a state Supreme Court law.
00:28:06.000They went after Molly Hemingway, my colleague and number one national best selling author, um, because she tweeted an article that had the headline, Americans won't trust elections until voter fraud is investigated.
00:28:19.000And then my favorite one that they targeted me for, and this was, I believe, in the fall of 2020, in the heat of that election.
00:28:26.000I said the surest sign that they're trying to rig the election is that they're censoring people on social media for saying they're trying to rig the election.
00:28:34.000And then they censored me for that one.
00:28:36.000And then the what's crazy about it is the whole time they were doing it secretly.
00:28:40.000We knew we were being censored, but we didn't know by whom.
00:28:45.000And then the worst part of it was our own State Department, which is banned from targeting domestic speech, spent years trying to bankrupt us, blacklist us, demonetize us, and shut us down using the awesome powers of the federal government.
00:28:59.000They they were developing these crazy tools and technologies, which still live on, by the way, to shut people like us down.
00:29:05.000And, you know, we we survived, but barely.
00:29:09.000Um, but it's criminal what we had to go through just to survive as American citizens trying to report the news.
00:29:16.000So, Sean, you know, after going through all that, what's the one single thing you think that Congress needs to do right now to make sure some future administration can't pull the censorship stunt again?
00:29:26.000I mean, you know, these are, you know, catching them is great, but we actually need some action there so this can never happen again.
00:29:34.000Um, so I think they need to create uh very simple private causes of action to sue the federal government for First Amendment infringements.
00:29:43.000Number two, we ought to be entitled to significant uh compensatory damages.
00:29:50.000Um we were probably cost millions, if not tens of millions of dollars over many, many years in advertising revenue and in audience growth.
00:29:57.000Um, and they're also, I believe, need to be serious punitive damages awarded to people who have their rights infringed uh by the federal government.
00:30:06.000I I think that would end this overnight.
00:30:08.000And if you want to add a third thing, uh the people within government, the individuals do it should be personally liable for any illegal censorship that they do.
00:30:17.000I think those things immediately would end this nonsense overnight.
00:30:21.000Is anyone out there in Congress actually trying to do this?
00:30:24.000Has anyone put up some sort of legislation, you know, going through any one or all of those things?
00:30:29.000Yeah, I don't know if there's anything up right now.
00:30:32.000I know there are significant discussions.
00:30:34.000That was one of the reasons the Senate Commerce Committee held that hearing that that I testified at and that Alex Baronson, who was also censored and targeted, testified at.
00:30:42.000So I believe a number of the Republicans on that committee, uh, Chairman uh Ted Cruz, Senator Eric Schmidt uh from Missouri, who's been a total rock star on free speech.
00:30:52.000Um, I believe they're working on something along those lines.
00:30:54.000And and I I hope we see something like that, not just offered, but actually passed and enacted soon.
00:31:01.000I know Eric was, you know, Missouri Attorney General before he became a senator from the state of Missouri, and he was one of the guys along with governor or at the time then, you know, governor uh attorney general Jeff Landry of Louisiana that took on uh you know the federal government as it related to some of the meta-censorship.
00:31:16.000So he's one of the guys that actually uh has been leading the charge all along.
00:31:20.000So I love that he's involved, and hopefully they can come up with something that they get passed quickly.
00:31:27.000They put together a great hearing, and and it was it was an honor and a privilege to be able to go there and and finally kind of tell the world what we've been going through.
00:31:35.000Uh, You know, we've been suing in federal court now against the State Department for for two years.
00:31:40.000Uh Marco Rubio, the wonderful Secretary of State admitted in the pages of our uh magazine, our our online publication, that the State Department did what we alleged it did, that it targeted us for censorship uh to destroy us.
00:32:32.000Yeah, I guess I mean, on a on a personal level, what's it like running a company, knowing that there was a secret high-level effort by the previous administration to literally wipe you off the internet.
00:32:51.000And I think the more you know you are innocent, the more enraging it is, and I'm sure you and your family understand this better than anyone.
00:32:58.000It's not just the censorship that that's awful though it is.
00:33:03.000It's this constant uh cacophony of lies of targeting.
00:33:08.000You've heard the phrase the process is the punishment.
00:33:11.000I shouldn't have to spend years in federal court to vindicate my rights uh to speak my mind in published news as an American citizen.
00:33:39.000So I mean, Sean, looking at what's happening right now in Virginia, you've got this AG, the attorney general candidate, lunatic, uh, with violent texts about killing Republicans uh and their children.
00:33:51.000Uh, it's yet another example of how deep the rot really is.
00:33:54.000I mean, this guy wants to be the state's top law enforcement officer in the state of Virginia.
00:34:00.000Uh how is that even possible that this guy's still there?
00:34:04.000And more importantly, how is it possible that none that I could find, but no other Democrats have called for him to drop out?
00:34:11.000I mean, isn't it just a tacit acceptance that this is the way it is and they're they're tacitly complicit uh in all of this?
00:34:21.000I mean, he said he wanted to put two bullets in his political opponent.
00:34:25.000I think it's important to talk about the the thing that made him so mad about his political opponent.
00:34:30.000What made him so mad was that a moderate Republican said nice things at a funeral for a moderate Democrat.
00:34:37.000That enraged Jay Jones to the point that he wanted to put two bullets in his head.
00:34:42.000And if that weren't bad enough, he followed that up by saying, Oh, and also, by the way, he should have to watch his own children die in the arms of their mother to teach him a lesson about how wrong his political opinions are.
00:34:54.000So all of that coming from a guy who wants to be a law enforcement officer, that's insane.
00:34:59.000But then the fact that you don't have any elected Democrats in the state, or maybe even the country, I don't think I've seen one uh call for him to drop out.
00:35:07.000And in the wake of our friend Charlie Kirk being assassinated while while peacefully debating someone, I think we had all hoped that everyone in the country might take a step back and say, whoa, this this is insane.
00:35:23.000Um instead, the silence about Jay Jones just tells me that half the country was probably fine with Charlie being killed.
00:35:31.000That half the country is fine with Jay Jones wishing death upon his opponents, and that half the country is probably fine with you or me or anyone else with the microphone being murdered because of our views.
00:35:44.000And it's a terrible uh uh statement on the state of the Democrat Party that they can't bring themselves to call on someone who says those things to drop out.
00:35:54.000Yeah, no, I mean, watching, you know, it it wasn't just a couple of lunatics on Twitter.
00:35:58.000I mean, mainstream media people almost gloating and celebrating.
00:36:02.000Uh, you know, when someone tells you who they are, that they believe them.
00:36:05.000I mean, it's it it seems pretty clear.
00:36:08.000Yeah, that's yeah, when they tell you who they are, believe them.
00:36:10.000They they have showcased exactly who they are and what they believe.
00:36:14.000There's a funny meme on Twitter that that kind of captured the differences between two parties that you'll have someone on the right say, Rao, I really hate that guy.
00:36:23.000But if it came down to it, I would like jump in and save that guy from a flood or a fire.
00:36:28.000But on the left, you'll have a leftist say, um, oh yeah, you need to be kind, and they would gladly set fire to your house while you and your family slept in it.
00:36:36.000I mean, it's that I I know we hear that, you know, both sides have their icky people and blah, blah, blah.
00:36:42.000They're not going to be able to bullshit.
00:36:52.000Yeah, and it's it's not just random violence, it's coordinated violence.
00:36:56.000We have ICE uh trying to run sieges against federal property.
00:37:00.000We had a left winger that we learned this week set the fire uh that that tore down and burned the palisades in California.
00:37:08.000The coordinated terroristic violence in this country comes exclusively from the left wing.
00:37:15.000Yeah, I mean, Democrats really, Sean, seem to support violence, um, except when it's blowing up drug boats and drug smugglers smuggling in fentanyl that kills you know 100,000 Americans a year.
00:37:31.000Uh, does the left have an identity other than just perpetual hate, rage, or maybe just TDS?
00:37:38.000Yeah, that's uh that's a good question.
00:37:39.000It seems like their identity is entirely fictional, that they see themselves either as civil rights marchers and Selma trying to stop segregation.
00:37:49.000They see themselves as the uh brave American soldiers storming Normandy and taking down the Nazis.
00:37:56.000They craft these fictions in their head and they decide, oh, I'm just like those people who stormed the beaches at Normandy, and my opponents are just like those Nazis, and therefore I'm allowed to go kill and punch and violently stop anyone I don't like because they're all functionally equivalent to Nazis.
00:38:14.000That's that's why they call us fascists.
00:38:17.000It's why they call themselves anti-fascists.
00:38:19.000They're playing out this bizarre little play, this fantasy in their heads where they're reliving battles against actual evil fought by far braver men than they were.
00:38:30.000And in just a quick historical note, um, I find the whole anti-fascist thing hilarious, that phrasing.
00:38:37.000If you look at history and you go and see what was going on in Europe, the only people who called themselves anti-fascists were communists.
00:38:45.000That was the word for the communists who really were just mad at Hitler because they didn't like the totalitarian type of government that he was running.
00:38:52.000They wanted their own totalitarian government.
00:38:55.000Most of the people who were fighting the Nazis, and by the way, uh uh uh fighting to protect their countries were just people who didn't want, you know, these Germans running England.
00:39:05.000They didn't want the Germans running Poland.
00:39:08.000The only anti-fascists were communists.
00:39:10.000So anymore in modern America in 2025, an anti-fascist is just an ugly gay communist with a thesaurus.
00:39:18.000Yeah, well, beyond that, I mean, that's sort of a great historical uh, you know, connotation.
00:39:23.000But if you actually look at what you know, the brown coats did, uh, if you look at what the fascists uh actually did in the streets, uh, it's pretty much exactly the same as what we see the anti-fascists here doing.
00:39:37.000I mean, the anti-fascists here are basically textbook fascists based on all of their actions every day, each and every day, uh, whether it's the media manipulation, whether it's the oppressing other people's views, shutting down people, beating them in the streets if you disagree with them.
00:39:52.000I mean, isn't that exactly what the fascists did?
00:39:54.000And that's exactly what anti-fa is doing on a daily basis.
00:39:56.000I'm not sure who they're actually propping up.
00:39:59.000It seems to be simply just trying to beat the hell out of anyone they disagree with.
00:40:03.000Yeah, and if you look at the the historic kind of definition of fascism, it it's this total melding of corporate corporate and uh government power, where you basically have uh private sector entities with with generally monopolies operating as agents of government.
00:40:21.000That's exactly what we saw from the Biden administration for four years.
00:40:24.000They thought big tech existed to police people's speech.
00:40:30.000And yet, when that was all being done, the so-called anti fascists were nowhere to be found.
00:40:35.000And if we did find them, it was it was them cheering on the nonsense.
00:40:38.000So yeah, they're a bunch of freaking looney tunes, ahistorical idiots uh living in fantasy land.
00:40:45.000So Sean, you're usually pretty good at sort of getting ahead of the game, seeing the stuff before we sort of, you know, before it gets a little bit more uh, you know, I I'd use the word mainstream, but you know, I don't think we're mainstream, but we're just common sense.
00:40:56.000Well, you know, what are the other big stories that are out there that you're keeping your eye on over at the Federalists as we head towards the end of the year?
00:41:03.000Well, I think there are two big things going on.
00:41:05.000Number one, we have the election coming up um next November.
00:41:11.000And I think what Democrats are really trying to do is delay and obstruct and block as much as they possibly can over the next 13 months in the hopes that they will take over at least one, but maybe both houses of Congress, at which point they can then impeach Trump, uh, tie him up with ridiculous investigations forever, and then hopefully ride out the rest of his term with with no more uh sort of progress from him.
00:41:36.000And a key part of that, I think is number two that we're looking at, which is the continued judicial insurrection against the Trump administration.
00:41:44.000We are seeing lawless left-wing Democrat judges around the country turn their own courtrooms into de facto oval offices.
00:41:53.000We see them declaring unilaterally by fiat with no authority, that the president has to get their approval before he can take military action in international waters against uh international traffickers.
00:42:05.000That they have to get, they have to give Trump permission before he can fly a military plane somewhere with detainees.
00:42:11.000So this combination of this obstruction, uh looking towards 20 uh uh 26 and this judicial insurrection, I think those are the major stories going on right now.
00:42:23.000Democrats are just trying to run out the clock, not till 2028.
00:42:27.000They're just trying to run out the clock until next November.
00:42:30.000Well, what do you make right now of you know the stuff going on with the government shutdown?
00:42:36.000I I was on a text chain with with some friends today, none of whom are in politics, and they all said they would have uh no idea the shutdown was even going on, if not for the city.
00:42:46.000It's like I hope they're getting rid of a lot of these unessential people, but uh, you know, it it does seem rather mild compared to what we're promised, you know, basically, you know, Armageddon, uh, you know, i if if this continues.
00:42:59.000Yeah, it actually feels to me, you know, I've been in politics for quite a while.
00:43:02.000It feels to me like one of the more pointless shutdowns we've ever had.
00:43:07.000Like Democrats somehow got together in Congress and were like, well, we can't let them keep the government open.
00:43:13.000So I guess we're gonna just shut it down.
00:43:16.000And then you got Chuck Schumer who's terrified of AOC in a primary going along with it in the Senate.
00:43:22.000They're like crying about Obamacare or something, but it just feels really dumb and pointless.
00:43:28.000And I'm kind of just waiting for it to be over.
00:43:30.000They're crying about wanting to give health coverage and health insurance to illegals.
00:43:36.000They say they're not, but if you like literally the text is actually about as plain as it gets in terms of legal ease, it's exactly what they're trying to do.
00:43:46.000They they don't offer Americans anything anymore.
00:43:48.000So they've got to import a voter base.
00:43:50.000They import a voter base by paying them essentially, paying them off.
00:43:54.000Um and it's right there in plain English.
00:43:57.000Uh even some of the honestly, even some of the left-wing media trying to be like, you know, they're they're they're letting them off fairly easy, but they're like, yeah, but it it but it kind of says that.
00:44:05.000I mean, oh, we we're not trying to do that.
00:44:09.000It's it's pretty clear that it's there.
00:44:11.000I mean, seems like the wrong kind of thing to try to shut the down the government for.
00:44:15.000Yeah, and you know, man, they really do love illegals.
00:44:17.000It's kind of crazy how much the Democrats love illegals and how much more they love them than actual American citizens.
00:44:24.000But it's interesting comparing this shutdown to previous ones.
00:44:28.000Uh, the Trump admin seems to be doing everything they can to keep essential stuff running.
00:44:33.000You know, I've I've flown in airports a ton over the last couple weeks.
00:44:37.000Um, airports, you know, they're they're kind of understaffed, but they're still moving along.
00:44:41.000I remember Obama going and shutting down completely unmanned national parks, going and shutting down national monuments, like the the World War II memorial for no reason other than to deliberately increase the pain uh of the shutdown.
00:44:56.000And to me, it's just a really interesting contrast in governance.
00:44:59.000The Trump admin Is trying to do everything they can.
00:45:01.000They're finding stuff they can cut to make ends meet to make sure stuff still functions.
00:45:05.000The Democrats never even cared about that.
00:45:06.000They apparently only care about free health care for illegal aliens.
00:45:10.000I mean, do you think Russ Voigt is, you know, doing a or you think he's cutting a lot of that fat that needs to be cut?
00:45:15.000I mean, because that's the one thing I think the shutdown does is it gives the president essentially the power to get rid of some of these non-essential people.
00:45:22.000Um do you think they're able to do enough of that?
00:45:26.000Oh, I I think he's doing a fantastic job.
00:45:29.000Uh now, I'm when it comes to wanting to cut stuff out, I'm I'm pretty aggressive, so I'm not sure I will ever be pleased.
00:45:40.000So, but I think Russ is doing a great job.
00:45:42.000And I don't think, again, Democrats really thought this through because once you're in a shutdown, Russ Vogue is no longer governed by all those appropriations bills that tell him he has to do X, Y, and Z. At this point, he's he's governed by just doing what he can to keep the government open.
00:45:56.000So almost like bravo to the Democrats for doing this for finally letting Russ vote off the leash.
00:46:02.000I I don't think they thought it through, but man, I think he's doing a fantastic job.
00:46:08.000So what do you what do you think happens now, uh, Sean, with Russia and Ukraine?
00:46:12.000I mean, obviously the two big wars that were going out there were obviously Israel, Palestine, uh, Israel and Gaza, uh, but the other big one being Ukraine Russia right now.
00:46:21.000Uh, do you think with some of the guys that are involved in that team that were able to do that, they have now the perhaps the bandwidth to focus on something else, or is there still gonna be a lot of cleanup uh done in the Middle East before they can really get to that next level?
00:46:33.000I I really hope we are close to to peace between Russia and Ukraine.
00:46:38.000The the amount of death and destruction there, I think we're probably into the millions of people.
00:46:43.000Um Russia uh historically has never had a problem throwing bodies uh at wars.
00:46:49.000Uh you look at World War II, I think the Soviet Union lost something like 20 million men uh uh fighting against uh Germany.
00:46:56.000So you're not gonna win a war of attrition against Russia because they they just don't care about their people enough.
00:47:03.000Um and then you have Zelensky in Ukraine.
00:47:06.000Um, I don't think this guy has any real incentive to stop the war because um he's suspended elections under their constitution, allegedly.
00:47:14.000And as long as that war is going, he gets to stay in power.
00:47:18.000So so I think there are sadly a lot of incentives there that are against peace.
00:47:23.000Um, but if anyone can get peace, I think it's Donald Trump.
00:47:27.000I was very, very pleased to see him and Putin meet in person.
00:47:32.000I think if you actually want peace and you want negotiated settlements, that requires meeting in person.
00:47:37.000And for years, especially during the Bush administration, we were fed this nonsense that it was somehow below the US to meet with other world leaders that and it turns out that was a smokescreen to continue conflict.
00:47:49.000So the more Trump meets with Putin, the more Trump meets with Zelensky, the more he can get them in the same room, all three of them together, I think the better, because talking is always better than warring.
00:48:01.000And so I'm really, really hopeful that maybe with peace in the Middle East uh now being accomplished, at least in the short term, um, that we can focus on ending that war because it's accomplishing nothing but death and destruction.
00:48:12.000What are some of the other false narratives that are out there?
00:48:15.000I keep seeing uh, you know, the left sort of pushing, you know, inflation is through the roof.
00:48:19.000I'm like, well, inflation's like half of what it was under Biden.
00:48:21.000Like you can't just have four years of utter disaster and like reverse the policies overnight.
00:48:27.000It doesn't work that way, especially when you compound that with some of the stuff that you've been talking about, you know, the judicial lawfare, uh, you know, judges acting as though they were the president, and you have to, you know, just stall tactics to delay everything.
00:48:39.000Um, you know, what what do you actually see uh in the economy right now?
00:48:42.000Because I think that's obviously going to be fairly critical for midterms.
00:48:45.000Yeah, so the the issue with the economy is I think a lot of the data we were fed over the last several years was just plain garbage.
00:48:53.000Um you look at a lot of the jobs numbers, and they're constantly having to be revised down and down again and down again.
00:49:01.000And if you talk to anyone who does surveys or understands survey science, your errors in those surveys over time should be um random.
00:49:12.000Your errors should look like a bell curve.
00:49:14.000So you have some that are high, some that are low over time they even out.
00:49:17.000When you have surveys that are constantly having to be revised down, something is wrong with your data.
00:49:22.000And it's apparently not just the economic data or the jobs data.
00:49:26.000Uh the Binadmen cooked the books on the census.
00:49:29.000They completely uh made up numbers, used garbage uh uh data science in order to uh cook the books and give Democrats, I think, you know, five, 10, maybe even 20 extra seats uh that they didn't deserve by monkeying around with the census data.
00:49:44.000So I I think right now the story in the economy is it's absolutely doing better.
00:49:50.000I think people understand that that Trump knows how to get the economy moving.
00:49:54.000But we have to get some real data, and we have to know truly uh what the data is and what the actual situation looks like.
00:50:01.000And until you get the Biden people cleaned out of those institutions and you actually get people in there who can clean up the data, I think we're still gonna have a murky picture on the economy.
00:50:11.000Yeah, no, it's uh you're you're you're right.
00:50:15.000Uh they've always been revised down for uh Biden, and then they give bad numbers for Trump because that makes the headline, and then they get revised up.
00:50:23.000Uh and it it seems like people still fall for it though.
00:50:34.000You know, they dropped into the straight as way.
00:50:35.000Inflation was through the roof during the last few weeks of the Biden administration and try to artificially prop up the economy and get some money in there and make it seem like people are doing better.
00:50:42.000Uh, and yet we've had one rate cut in, you know, in a year uh, you know, since then uh when the things that would merit higher interest rates, uh, inflation, etc.
00:50:54.000Yeah, well, apparently Jerome Powell was just spending all his time creating a massive cost overruns in the creation of his like private little Fed palace over there.
00:51:03.000Like what they spend three billion dollars.
00:51:08.000I mean, it was like I I've built the largest residential building in America at the time.
00:51:12.000You know, it it was like a 900 million dollar building.
00:51:15.000They spent three billion to build a garage under the and like it doesn't it doesn't make any sense.
00:51:19.000You'd be better off just ripping it down and starting from scratch, and you could probably build it for half the price.
00:51:23.000But uh it was funny watching him sort of in his construction uniform, clearly has no idea about anything in construction.
00:51:30.000Uh the photo up and the juxtaposition of my father asking like intelligent question of the construction workers, like someone who's actually been on a job site and knows what he's talking about.
00:52:05.000But if we're gonna have central banking, if we're gonna have currency based on uh uh central bank management, it ought to actually be sane competent management.
00:52:14.000And we've not been getting that from Jabrome Powell at all.