Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Pro-Trump Wave in Latin America, Interview with Sen Bernie Moreno | Triggered Ep. 352

00:05:23.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

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00:05:34.000 Big news down in Colombia in the presidential race there because Latin America keeps shifting right.

00:05:40.000 It's almost like you take away the billions that USAID was fraudulently conveying to the leftists over there, and it's like, hmm, people of faith who just want what's best for their family, all these things, they just seem to be voting right all of a sudden.

00:05:54.000 It's just amazing how that happens.

00:05:56.000 Senator Bernie Moreno was on the ground there yesterday and he's going to join us live.

00:06:01.000 Bernie Moreno, great friend of the show, born over there.

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00:08:12.000 Now, before we get to Bernie, let's get into the top headlines of the week. 1.00

00:08:17.000 And we'll start with a quick overview of Colombia because the wind is blowing to the right in the Western Hemisphere, okay?

00:08:25.000 Colombia held its presidential runoff, and the winner is a guy named Alajad Lardro de la Espera.

00:08:33.000 I'm going to screw up that name, okay?

00:08:34.000 I apologize.

00:08:35.000 His nickname, El Tigre.

00:08:36.000 That's a little bit easier.

00:08:38.000 Okay.

00:08:39.000 He's a lawyer, an outsider, and a loud, proud supporter of your favorite president, Donald Trump. 0.83

00:08:45.000 He ran on closing the border, backing the cops, and burning down the narco corruption that's been strangling that country for decades. 0.71

00:08:53.000 He beat a hard left Marxist senator. 0.73

00:08:56.000 The candidate, the outgoing socialist government, was desperate to install.

00:09:01.000 Okay.

00:09:01.000 Here was the scene in Columbia this weekend.

00:09:44.000 Now think about that contrast for a second.

00:09:46.000 For years, USAID money poured into left wing movements in Latin America.

00:09:51.000 For a while, it looked like the future belonged to the Petros and the Maduros and the Marxists of the world.

00:09:57.000 And one by one, that house of cards is crashing down.

00:10:01.000 Crashing down magically when those billions of your dollars, that certainly probably weren't intended to be funding radical leftists, went away.

00:10:11.000 Maduro's behind bars.

00:10:13.000 Venezuela's authorities are cooperating with us.

00:10:16.000 And the country that sits right at the center of the cocaine trade just elected a guy who's campaigned on destroying the cartels.

00:10:25.000 That's not an accident.

00:10:27.000 That's what happens when America leads from the front instead of apologizing from the back.

00:10:32.000 The neighborhood notices.

00:10:34.000 Strength is contagious, guys.

00:10:36.000 And that brings me to the question nobody on the left wants asked out loud who exactly was paying for the other side?

00:10:44.000 For years, Colombia was one of the single biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid in the entire hemisphere.

00:10:51.000 Millions of your dollars, probably billions, year after year pouring in through USAID.

00:10:57.000 It got routed through the NGO machine, the activist machine, and a network of left wing groups.

00:11:03.000 And as we'll discuss with Senator Marino, it's no coincidence that the second my father shut USAID down, things start to change.

00:11:12.000 The left lectures the entire planet about dark money and foreign interference in elections, and then we start looking under the hood at USAID and ActBlue and daycare centers.

00:11:23.000 And they're all the ones who are implicated in all of it.

00:11:27.000 The entire left wing machine is fueled and funded by fraud.

00:11:30.000 Ever wonder why some random left wing lunatic Senate candidate can outraise their opponent 50 to 1?

00:11:36.000 I mean, it doesn't seem to make much sense, and yet it's been going on forever, even in conservative districts.

00:11:42.000 And speaking of which, take a look at what's happening up in Maine.

00:11:46.000 Democrats have decided to hitch their wagon to Graham Planter. 0.95

00:11:50.000 We've talked about this clown before. 0.90

00:11:52.000 This is the candidate who had to go on TV and explain. 0.99

00:11:55.000 A Nazi tattoo on his body.

00:11:59.000 He had some really creepy online accounts and creepy text messages.

00:12:03.000 Women have come forward to reveal disturbing details about his behavior, including one woman who said that he twisted her arm behind her back and shoved her into a room and held the door shut from the outside.

00:12:14.000 Yeah, seems like a great candidate.

00:12:17.000 I guess they're just going to run with it.

00:12:19.000 Imagine that was a conservative for a second.

00:12:22.000 And on top of all of that, it came out that he'd been sending sexually explicit messages to a whole string of women.

00:12:29.000 While he was married, his own wife found them and reported it to the campaign during vetting.

00:12:35.000 So they knew about it during vetting and still did nothing about it.

00:12:39.000 He's a Democrat.

00:12:39.000 You can get away with these sorts of things.

00:12:42.000 So, anyway, this is the guy Democrats keep telling us is their new star.

00:12:48.000 But yet, when actually confronted about it, they seem, let's just say, much less enthusiastic.

00:12:56.000 A reporter asked Senator Cory Booker a pretty simple question about where he stands on this, and here's how he responded.

00:13:03.000 To elect a new leader is in Maine.

00:13:05.000 We have a competitive contest.

00:13:06.000 Democrats just nominated Graham Platner.

00:13:08.000 Despite past offensive comments about a tattoo associated, past offensive comments, he's got this tattoo that's associated with a Nazi symbol.

00:13:16.000 He also said he didn't understand its meaning.

00:13:17.000 He's covered it up.

00:13:19.000 And he's also faced allegations from former girlfriends of abusive behavior, which he denies.

00:13:24.000 Do you think Graham Platner has the character to serve in the United States Senate?

00:13:30.000 Well, this is what campaigns are for.

00:13:32.000 He certainly has a lot of issues and a lot of questions to answer and address.

00:13:36.000 And I think the people of Maine are going to give a lot of examination to this going through in this election.

00:13:43.000 For me, I certainly hope we pick up a seat here.

00:13:46.000 For me and people of the state of New Jersey, dear God, we need to get the Senate back so we can start checking this out of control president.

00:13:52.000 And that's why, again, I'm going to be doing everything I can all over my state of New Jersey and everywhere I can to help candidates across this country to get to that end, which is Democrats regaining control of the House and the Senate so we can check and balance a president that's chaotic, cruel, and corrupt.

00:14:08.000 Well, you mentioned Texas and Ohio.

00:14:10.000 Will you campaign in Maine?

00:14:14.000 I don't have any plans to campaign there now.

00:14:17.000 So let me get this right.

00:14:18.000 Yeah, I have concerns, but we need that seat. 0.71

00:14:21.000 The people who spent the better part of a decade calling everyone they disagree with a Nazi, we need the seat, so maybe we can elect a Nazi. 0.78

00:14:32.000 I mean, of course.

00:14:34.000 Because notice what he did not say, guys.

00:14:37.000 He didn't say this man should not be a United States Senator.

00:14:41.000 He couldn't bring himself to do it.

00:14:43.000 And why not?

00:14:45.000 Because the seat matters more than the standards, the math matters more than morals. 0.99

00:14:50.000 They will hold their nose and they'll run a guy with Nazi tattoos, a slew of women who've alleged he did all sorts of vile stuff to, etc., etc., as long as it gets them one vote closer to power.

00:15:04.000 That's not a party with values.

00:15:06.000 That's a party who just wants power in perpetuity.

00:15:09.000 These are the same people, remember, who will call you a monster, a threat to democracy itself for wanting, I don't know, secure borders or a fair hiring process, being able to get your kids into schools based on merit, you know, those kinds of things.

00:15:24.000 Really terrible fascist things.

00:15:27.000 And they can't answer one reporter's question, not one, about the actual creep on their own ticket.

00:15:34.000 They've got nothing.

00:15:35.000 And speaking of having nothing to say, but somehow taking a very long time to say it, let's talk about Kamala Harris, because she's back, I guess.

00:15:45.000 She sat down with Don Lamon, and Don lobbed her the easiest, fluffiest question you can imagine.

00:15:52.000 Basically, a question about hope.

00:15:55.000 And what came out?

00:15:56.000 Well, Just listen for yourself.

00:16:00.000 We believe this.

00:16:01.000 We each have light inside of us.

00:16:05.000 And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves.

00:16:12.000 And when we feel that and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that we.

00:16:28.000 Not only do we act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other.

00:16:34.000 And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a.

00:16:48.000 Hope should be a verb.

00:16:50.000 Huh?

00:16:50.000 Really, it should be.

00:16:51.000 It is a verb.

00:16:53.000 It is a verb, Kamala.

00:16:55.000 You know. 1.00

00:16:59.000 Man, it's really hard to imagine someone dumber than her. 1.00

00:17:02.000 Imagine that, like, she could have been president of the United States. 0.99

00:17:06.000 Hope should be a verb.

00:17:08.000 Minor details.

00:17:09.000 Each of us have a light inside of us.

00:17:12.000 I mean, again, that was the classic Kamala Harris word salad.

00:17:15.000 It could have been an easy home run question. 1.00

00:17:17.000 Instead, she just butchered the hell out of it.

00:17:19.000 I mean, what are we even doing here?

00:17:22.000 And by the way, the word hope, you know, again, it's a verb.

00:17:25.000 How does she not know that?

00:17:26.000 I'm surprised she knows what a verb is if she doesn't know that hope is a verb.

00:17:29.000 It's like one of the most basic verbs.

00:17:31.000 It's been a verb the whole time.

00:17:33.000 Words can be nouns and verbs.

00:17:36.000 This isn't some revolutionary critique of the English language.

00:17:40.000 And look, this would just be funny, except in that same sit down, she also confirmed that she's thinking about running for president again in 2028.

00:17:51.000 Please God do it.

00:17:53.000 So, this is somebody who sees themselves as a thought leader, telling you the deep insight she's bringing to the table.

00:18:01.000 And that hope should be a verb.

00:18:06.000 The bigger point here, though, guys, is that Democrats cannot give you a straight answer about anything about who funded them, about their own candidates.

00:18:14.000 And they can't give you a straight answer even when you toss them a beach ball of a question.

00:18:20.000 It's all a fog.

00:18:22.000 It's all vibes and weird circular nonsense because the second they say something concrete, you can hold them to it.

00:18:30.000 So they don't, because they don't want to be held to anything.

00:18:32.000 And their ideas are terrible anyway.

00:18:35.000 And they never, ever want to be held to anything.

00:18:39.000 But Team Trump is doing just the opposite and getting things done, especially on fraud.

00:18:45.000 Earlier today, the Fraud Task Force and the FBI brought to justice a fraudster who authorities say was the kingpin behind one of the biggest Medicare scams in history.

00:18:54.000 $3.7 billion.

00:19:00.000 The suspect was apprehended overseas in coordination with our key partners in Turkey and will now face justice here in the United States.

00:19:09.000 And it's as clear as ever any criminal actor who steals from the American taxpayer will be caught, no matter where they try to hide.

00:19:18.000 Here to react to this and so much more, my good friend, great friend of the show, Ohio Senator Bernie Marino.

00:19:25.000 Bernie, what's going on, buddy?

00:19:26.000 How are you doing?

00:19:28.000 Well, I was hoping we'd get to a lot of issues now that it's a verb again.

00:19:32.000 I know.

00:19:33.000 I mean, you know, we got to restructure the entire English language apparently on this show, or at least clarify it.

00:19:38.000 So, you know, it feels like a big one, but, you know, a lot to talk about, Senator.

00:19:42.000 I mean, you were on the ground in Colombia yesterday.

00:19:45.000 You were obviously born there.

00:19:47.000 What did you actually see at the polls?

00:19:50.000 You know, what message did Colombia send yesterday?

00:19:53.000 Because this is one of those that, you know, we've been talking about for a while.

00:19:55.000 And, you know, man, if you lost Colombia or kept losing it, that was a pretty scary thought given sort of the right wing wave that you've seen go across all of Latin America.

00:20:04.000 No, absolutely.

00:20:05.000 So let me give you the tale of good news and bad news.

00:20:07.000 On the good news side, President Trump endorsed the Tiger, Avelardo, won decisively a record voter turnout.

00:20:15.000 Over 26 million people voted in the election.

00:20:18.000 This is a guy who, let me just explain his policy towards the United States.

00:20:22.000 The answer is yes.

00:20:23.000 What's the question?

00:20:24.000 He will be the greatest ally America has ever had in the Western Hemisphere.

00:20:30.000 So that's really good news.

00:20:31.000 I can also tell you to what you mentioned in your show, because I saw it with my own eyes.

00:20:35.000 The U.S. Embassy compound is massive in Bogota.

00:20:38.000 There was a huge wing that's now empty.

00:20:40.000 Do you know what used to be in that wing?

00:20:42.000 USAID.

00:20:43.000 In fact, many embassy staffers would talk about how insane it was that they had such an outrageous budget.

00:20:50.000 So it is not a conspiracy theory.

00:20:52.000 It is absolute fact that USAID was funding.

00:20:56.000 Anti American socialist candidates throughout the hemisphere.

00:20:59.000 Yeah, I mean, listen, we've been doing this for a long time.

00:21:03.000 Anyone who's been watching this show, you know, it's not conspiracy theory that the second USAID goes away, it feels like almost every election in Latin America has swung to the right, or at least, you know, the right has gained a significant advantage.

00:21:20.000 That can't be coincidence, anyway.

00:21:21.000 You know, just like I don't believe in any coincidence.

00:21:23.000 And, you know, those billions of dollars going away. 0.64

00:21:26.000 All of a sudden, people get to vote how they actually want, or at least you're not combating the fake propaganda pushed by those lunatics. 0.68

00:21:33.000 No, absolutely.

00:21:34.000 Look at Chile, you look at Paraguay, you look at Bolivia, you look at Ecuador, Peru, now Colombia, you look at Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, of course, Venezuela is in process.

00:21:48.000 This is a whole new Western hemisphere.

00:21:51.000 It's going to be probably an odd statement for me to make to you, but your dad will go down as the greatest force in Latin American history.

00:21:58.000 I mean, it's kind of wild because I don't think you or him would ever imagine, hey, I'm going to run for president of the United States to make the most significant improvement in Latin America. 0.95

00:22:07.000 But it's Absolutely true. 0.99

00:22:08.000 It's no hyperbole.

00:22:09.000 He is the most popular elected official on earth in Latin America.

00:22:14.000 That's how strong a support there is there.

00:22:17.000 So it's really a shout out to this new Trump doctrine in the Western hemisphere that's going to make this country safer and more secure. 0.96

00:22:25.000 We're getting rid of China. 0.91

00:22:26.000 We're getting rid of Iran. 0.98

00:22:27.000 We're getting rid of Russia. 0.99

00:22:28.000 We're getting rid of China and their influence, these transnational criminal organizations. 0.98

00:22:33.000 Next up is Mexico and Brazil. 0.93

00:22:35.000 Yeah, I mean, those are all big ones.

00:22:37.000 And the fact that there's been I guess there has been US government focus on Latin America.

00:22:41.000 It's just been dominated by the leftists at USAID.

00:22:44.000 I mean, they were pushing the socialism, they were pushing the insanity, they were pushing transgenderism to people who, if you explained it to them rationally, would laugh in your face.

00:22:54.000 You and I have traveled to much of that part of the world and you try to have these conversations. 1.00

00:22:58.000 I've done it in Africa, literally trying to explain it to people.

00:23:01.000 They laugh at me like they think I'm kidding.

00:23:04.000 But to actually focus on things that can be beneficial for both of those countries and for our hemisphere, our own backyard for the first time in decades.

00:23:13.000 That's a huge step.

00:23:14.000 Yeah.

00:23:14.000 I mean, they brought socialism to literally our front door.

00:23:17.000 That's what the leftists in America wanted.

00:23:19.000 And we've pushed it back.

00:23:20.000 So that's the good news.

00:23:21.000 I mean, an amazing result.

00:23:23.000 The people in Colombia were so happy and so appreciative of America's support.

00:23:28.000 Here's the bad news, Don.

00:23:29.000 Here's what I witnessed in Colombia in terms of an election.

00:23:32.000 These are things that your viewers should know will shock them to the core because Democrats have been lying for over a year and a half about the Save America Act.

00:23:43.000 How Colombia, a developing nation with a smaller GDP than Ohio, okay, a country of 50 million people.

00:23:51.000 Here's how they run their elections.

00:23:52.000 Number one, election day is one day, it starts at eight o'clock in the morning and it ends at four o'clock in the afternoon, no exceptions.

00:24:01.000 Number two, you have to have proof of citizenship on your possession in order to enter the hall where you vote.

00:24:09.000 Number three, you must show a voter ID, that same card, before they hand you the ballot.

00:24:15.000 Number three, the ballots are all paper.

00:24:18.000 There is absolutely no mail in balloting.

00:24:20.000 The ballots are counted by hand.

00:24:23.000 In some polling locations, they have biometrics.

00:24:26.000 So they check your fingerprints and your face ID before you vote.

00:24:29.000 And after you vote, you get fingerprinted in addition to signing the form.

00:24:35.000 But here's the punchline, Don.

00:24:37.000 One hour, one hour after the election, the polls closed, you had a result.

00:24:43.000 One hour.

00:24:44.000 They counted by hand 26 million votes.

00:24:48.000 Today, they only counted.

00:24:50.000 Audited that so the judicial system audits that.

00:24:53.000 This many errors zero errors done.

00:24:56.000 The election is done.

00:24:57.000 Compare that and contrast that to California.

00:25:00.000 It's a disgrace, Don, that the wealthiest country in the hemisphere, the wealthiest country on earth, can't run an election anywhere near the level that Columbia runs theirs.

00:25:11.000 But, uh, Bernie, I was told that that was Jim Crow 2.0.

00:25:14.000 I mean, you know, requiring voter ID to make sure that people are actually allowed to vote in the elections that they're voting in.

00:25:19.000 I mean, I was told that's.

00:25:21.000 You know, racist, misogynist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, you know, basically everything. 0.99

00:25:27.000 Like all of the ists, you know, all of the phobics. 0.99

00:25:31.000 How is that not Jim Crow 2.0? 0.96

00:25:34.000 Well, evidently, when Hispanics arrive in America, they can't find their ID or aren't able to find a birth certificate. 0.99

00:25:40.000 But when they live in their native country of Colombia, they can.

00:25:43.000 Look, Colombia has an Afro American population, they have an indigenous population.

00:25:48.000 Obviously, the country's Hispanic. 1.00

00:25:50.000 They have abject poverty. 0.98

00:25:52.000 99%, 99% of the country.

00:25:54.000 And you got to see where some of these people live.

00:25:56.000 I mean, Don, this is what I'm talking about.

00:25:58.000 I've been to Colombia a few times, but not in the most destitute areas.

00:26:01.000 But I imagine.

00:26:02.000 They still have ID and can still vote and can still figure out how to do that, even in the destitute areas.

00:26:08.000 99% of the population has this ID card with them.

00:26:13.000 It's not even a question.

00:26:14.000 In fact, you'll appreciate this.

00:26:15.000 I sat down with the registrar, the guy who runs this whole thing, and I said, Well, what if the person doesn't have their ID on them?

00:26:22.000 And he looked at me and goes, I'm not, there's a little bit of a language.

00:26:25.000 I mean, I'm fluent in Spanish, but sometimes I miss some words.

00:26:27.000 He goes, I think I may have misunderstood you.

00:26:29.000 And I go, Well, what happens if they don't have their voter ID?

00:26:31.000 He goes, I still don't understand.

00:26:33.000 Of course they can't vote.

00:26:35.000 He couldn't.

00:26:36.000 Yeah.

00:26:37.000 He didn't understand your question. 0.93

00:26:39.000 It was just, in his mind, it was so asinine that someone wouldn't need voting in Colombia. 0.99

00:26:46.000 It's that crazy. 0.86

00:26:47.000 And yet, here in America, you can have the elite of the elite in the Democrat Party being like, why would you need ID to vote?

00:26:53.000 Why on earth?

00:26:56.000 Unless, of course, you're stealing the votes, which, of course, they are.

00:26:59.000 Yeah.

00:27:00.000 And by the way, when I talked to him about mail in balloting, he looked at me like I was a crazy person.

00:27:05.000 He goes, Why would you mail out a ballot to somebody?

00:27:08.000 He goes, That's insane.

00:27:08.000 Do you know how much fraud you would get in that?

00:27:10.000 I said, So at that point.

00:27:12.000 Actually, yes, we do know.

00:27:14.000 It's still allowed.

00:27:16.000 And at that point, I made a decision.

00:27:18.000 And I've talked to Rick Scott, Mike Lee, and Ron Johnson about this.

00:27:21.000 We're going to bring in the people who ran the Colombian election.

00:27:23.000 We're going to subpoena Gavin Newsom.

00:27:25.000 And we're going to have a hearing California versus Columbia.

00:27:28.000 Why can Columbia run an election at that high level and California is so incompetent?

00:27:34.000 And I think the American people need to see this, Don.

00:27:36.000 We're going to put this right in their faces and say, Look, the Save America Act just says, Prove you're an American citizen and show who you are when you vote.

00:27:44.000 And we can't get 60 out of 100 senators to vote for that.

00:27:48.000 That's a disgrace.

00:27:49.000 Yeah.

00:27:49.000 I mean, California, probably the tech capital of the world, probably one of the wealthiest places in the world.

00:27:55.000 I mean, even as a state, it's got, you know, by country, it'd be what, the seventh largest GDP in the world.

00:28:00.000 Like, I'm pretty sure if they wanted to solve this problem, if they actually cared and it didn't just inure to the sort of uniparty Democrats in California, they could solve this thing in about two minutes.

00:28:11.000 They just, they don't want to.

00:28:12.000 It's, it's, It's not that they're incapable of doing it.

00:28:15.000 It's that they understand what the results would be.

00:28:17.000 Yeah.

00:28:17.000 I mean, imagine the person in charge of running an election in a developing country that's got a dot of resources compared to the United States.

00:28:24.000 Like I said, their GDP is less than Ohio.

00:28:27.000 And he's looking at me going, What do you mean you don't have to prove you're a citizen to vote?

00:28:32.000 That doesn't even make sense.

00:28:32.000 What do you mean you'd mail on ballots?

00:28:34.000 That causes dramatic levels of fraud.

00:28:36.000 Their number one concern is they want to make certain people have confidence in their elections.

00:28:42.000 And they looked at us and go, If you're describing accurately the way California runs the elections, They would never be able to have stability in their country because nobody in Colombia would trust the results.

00:28:53.000 Think about what those words mean to us here in America. 0.95

00:28:56.000 It's embarrassing, Don.

00:28:57.000 It's embarrassing as somebody who was born in Colombia became a naturalized citizen to know that this country, the greatest country on earth, has to go back to Colombia to learn how to run something basic like an election to ensure democracy.

00:29:11.000 It's a disgrace.

00:29:12.000 I'm going to talk about this until I'm blue in the face, until we really shame Democrats into realizing that if they don't vote for this, the voters of their states, Should throw them the heck out of Washington, D.C., Don.

00:29:23.000 This is an 80 20 issue that we should absolutely be able to pass the Save America Act.

00:29:29.000 And that's not including, by the way, adding the prohibition on mail in balloting, which, again, I want the American public to see this guy from Columbia, South America, explain why he would never consider doing that.

00:29:41.000 Never. 0.88

00:29:42.000 And I said to him, well, what about poor people?

00:29:44.000 He goes, poor people have national IDs.

00:29:47.000 Poor people know how to find their ballot process.

00:29:50.000 It's not an issue.

00:29:51.000 And did I mention record voter turnout?

00:29:54.000 They have a higher voter participation rate than the United States of America.

00:30:00.000 But, you know, listen, sometimes you just do have to go back to basics.

00:30:00.000 It's well.

00:30:02.000 Sometimes we can overcomplicate things.

00:30:04.000 And again, you know, I don't think it's by accident.

00:30:06.000 I think it's very intentional how things have gone on in America and especially in the leftist states.

00:30:12.000 And you can see that based on results.

00:30:13.000 And you see what's going on in the gubernatorial election in California.

00:30:17.000 And, you know, the guy that was literally leading, you know, well, three weeks later, you know, once the mail in ballots are counted, magically he can be taken out.

00:30:24.000 And same, they're doing that.

00:30:25.000 They did it to Spencer Pratt for the LA mayor's office.

00:30:27.000 You know, he's number two in there.

00:30:29.000 And all of a sudden, all of the mail in ballots go to the Second place Democrat who was running in third overall, but not to the Democrat who actually got the majority of the votes, but to the other one just to make sure that we just have two Democrats in this final race just in case things get crazy and they have a harder time rigging the actual general election.

00:30:47.000 No, absolutely.

00:30:48.000 Like I mentioned, one hour, Don, one hour after getting the polls closed, they have a result.

00:30:53.000 And look, if you look at the two things we talked about, this idea of USAID, taxpayer funded movement to bring socialism to our front door.

00:31:03.000 So that's an attack from outside, then an attack from within.

00:31:07.000 To deteriorate our ability to actually elect the people that the people want elected by deteriorating and creating voter fraud.

00:31:16.000 This is a pretty evil plot to destroy the United States of America, an attack from outside, an attack from within.

00:31:21.000 And then they accuse us of being anti democratic.

00:31:25.000 I mean, this is serious stuff.

00:31:26.000 This is why President Trump has been talking about this over and over again, because he understands instinctively that to save America, we have to fight both of those things back in a big way.

00:31:39.000 And I think when we as Republicans unite and talk about this the right way and not stop talking about it, not be scared about talking about it, plow through the conversation and say, look, it's insulting to me.

00:31:49.000 You think that I can't get my birth certificate, I can't find a voter ID.

00:31:52.000 This is because I happen to be of Latino heritage.

00:31:55.000 Well, here's a country that's 100% Latino that has no problem.

00:31:59.000 So I think we just got to pound that and make sure that it's reported on. 0.98

00:32:03.000 You know, speaking of Colombia, I guess, you know, for decades, the Colombia Venezuela narco pipeline has really had direct consequences to our border, you know, fentanyl traffic.

00:32:13.000 Obviously, the death associated there with cocaine, money laundering, and obviously migration.

00:32:18.000 Now things look much different.

00:32:21.000 Where do you see things going from here in Colombia, in Latin America, on the things that you're dealing with as it relates to Venezuela, et cetera?

00:32:29.000 I think of it as a massive neighborhood cleanup project.

00:32:32.000 It obviously started with the incredible operation in Venezuela. 1.00

00:32:36.000 So we're going to get all these bad actors out of our hemisphere. 0.85

00:32:40.000 What's going to happen is we'll eliminate corruption in Latin America. 0.95

00:32:44.000 President Trump has made Latin America dramatically more investable.

00:32:47.000 That means that the people in those countries will have more opportunities.

00:32:50.000 They won't turn to illicit activities.

00:32:52.000 What does that mean for Americans?

00:32:54.000 What does that mean to the people in Ohio?

00:32:55.000 It means a massive drop in drug trafficking that's killing, literally killing our brothers, our sisters, our moms, dads, our friends, and dramatically lower levels of illegal migration. 1.00

00:33:09.000 We want immigrants to come to the country, but they have to come on our terms. 1.00

00:33:12.000 It's a privilege, it's not a right. 1.00

00:33:15.000 To come to America, you have to assimilate and you have to come the legal way.

00:33:19.000 But the reality is, they won't need to come to America because they'll have opportunities in their own country, and we can have and protect our culture to make certain that it's there and it's stable, not like Europe, which has basically been completely destroyed and overrun by open borders and terrible policies.

00:33:37.000 That's a big deal.

00:33:38.000 Senator Marino, my father endorsed El Tigre after the first round.

00:33:42.000 How much did the Trump factor matter on the ground, even in Colombia?

00:33:47.000 And what did Colombians tell you about wanting a stronger relationship with the United States again?

00:33:51.000 Well, forget what they told me.

00:33:53.000 They told the polls that 81% of the reason they wanted to vote for one candidate versus another was a strong relationship with the U.S.

00:34:00.000 So, by President Trump saying, hey, look, this is a guy that I support, that I'll work with.

00:34:03.000 And by the way, it's sincere.

00:34:05.000 These two guys are going to be best friends.

00:34:07.000 I mean, they are absolutely cut from the same cloth.

00:34:10.000 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:34:12.000 This is a guy that's strong and powerful.

00:34:14.000 He's an outsider.

00:34:15.000 He's very wealthy.

00:34:16.000 He didn't need to do this.

00:34:17.000 He wants to do it because he wants to lift up working Colombians.

00:34:19.000 He wants the country to rise.

00:34:21.000 He wants safety and security.

00:34:22.000 Who does that sound like?

00:34:23.000 And on the other side of it, He said, Hey, this other guy is a socialist.

00:34:27.000 He's a communist.

00:34:28.000 He's not somebody we could probably work with.

00:34:30.000 And that was a massive factor in why they decided to vote for the candidate that won.

00:34:37.000 And so that endorsement was absolutely key and essential.

00:34:41.000 So, obviously, the cartels are very powerful in Colombia.

00:34:44.000 We talked about Mexico a little bit, Venezuela.

00:34:47.000 Obviously, he wants to take that on.

00:34:49.000 How much of a threat is that to him?

00:34:51.000 Is he able to pull that off?

00:34:52.000 Or is it, in some of these other countries, those ties?

00:34:57.000 That power, the corruption runs very deep.

00:35:00.000 How do you think he can actually pull that off?

00:35:02.000 Well, as you know, because this is your family's motto, you got to be all in, right?

00:35:05.000 So, Avalado is all in.

00:35:07.000 So, he could never do it himself.

00:35:09.000 There's no way Colombia has the resources to go after these guys by themselves.

00:35:13.000 But by engaging with the United States as a strong partner, combined with the U.S., the drug traffickers got nothing on that partnership.

00:35:22.000 And so, Avalado will make certain that we wipe them out.

00:35:24.000 He gets sworn in on August 7th.

00:35:27.000 And you'll, I predict, will see. 1.00

00:35:30.000 Attacks against narco terrorists that you like you've never seen. 0.98

00:35:34.000 Like, this is the stuff that we've been thinking about, dreaming about, hoping for for decades. 0.99

00:35:39.000 And look, my message if any of your listeners happen to be narco terrorists or their friends, pack up your bags and leave the hemisphere because your days are numbered. 0.98

00:35:48.000 And by the end of August, you're either gone one way or the other, either down in the deep recesses of hell or outside of the Western hemisphere. 1.00

00:35:57.000 Those are your two choices.

00:35:58.000 They're big ones.

00:35:59.000 You know, we cover Cuba a lot here on the show, Senator.

00:36:03.000 What does this mean for Cuba?

00:36:05.000 Do you see sort of a directional change even affecting that regime and country?

00:36:10.000 Well, the Venezuela operation really is what decapitated Cuba.

00:36:13.000 Cuba had basically conquered Venezuela.

00:36:15.000 They were sucking all their resources to feed this machine of communism, socialism, social unrest, political turbulence throughout the hemisphere.

00:36:25.000 Now that they have no money, they can't even have electricity on for more than an hour a day.

00:36:29.000 I think they're coming down to their knees.

00:36:31.000 And now they have no safe haven in the hemisphere.

00:36:33.000 It's basically down to Cuba and Nicaragua is the two bad actors.

00:36:37.000 And quite frankly, look, Mexico and Brazil have got to get their act together. 0.77

00:36:41.000 Probably Mexico, the worst. 0.92

00:36:42.000 You know, I know the president has a great relationship with Shamebaum, but Mexico is not a good partner to the United States. 1.00

00:36:49.000 They need to step it up in a big way. 0.75

00:36:51.000 And I think what's going to happen is they're going to see what Colombia is willing to do and the effectiveness of those operations.

00:36:57.000 And I think it's going to shame them into doing something that they should have been doing a long time ago.

00:37:02.000 I mean, it seems like a big one.

00:37:02.000 Yeah.

00:37:03.000 Mexico, obviously, being the number one, we share a very long border with them.

00:37:09.000 I don't remember what the stat was, but I remember seeing it last time around.

00:37:12.000 It was like 33 of the 35 people who ran for president in Colombia were basically killed by the cartels.

00:37:18.000 And so I imagine it's not so easy to go up against them. 0.82

00:37:22.000 You have to have some pretty serious cojones and resolve.

00:37:27.000 But it can be done. 0.92

00:37:28.000 You just need to actually do it.

00:37:29.000 Is that one much harder than Colombia or are they kind of similar?

00:37:32.000 And again, we're just missing the resolve component.

00:37:35.000 No, I think in Colombia, we got it done.

00:37:37.000 We got the right leader that's got the right attitude that's going to partner the U.S.

00:37:40.000 And these guys are toast in Colombia.

00:37:42.000 There's no doubt in my mind about that.

00:37:43.000 And Mexico, look, at the end of the day, There's a lot of government officials and narco terrorists that are basically two sides of the same coin.

00:37:51.000 I mean, this is how deeply integrated they were. 0.82

00:37:53.000 And you need a commitment to go in there and take care of business.

00:37:56.000 You know, part of obviously the leverage we have is trade.

00:37:59.000 President Trump has used that to really strong effect.

00:38:02.000 And I think he should continue to do that.

00:38:03.000 You know, there's a lot of other countries in Latin America, the ones that are part of this new coalition, that can be an option for American companies.

00:38:10.000 We don't have to have our American companies decouple from China and go to Mexico.

00:38:15.000 They can go to Honduras, they can go to El Salvador.

00:38:17.000 They can go to Colombia.

00:38:18.000 They can go to Ecuador.

00:38:19.000 And I think having that competition for American investment and American resources is ultimately what's going to get Mexico to the table.

00:38:26.000 But look, ultimately, at the end of the day, they have to make the decision that they're going to end narco terrorism in their country. 0.60

00:38:33.000 And I think their citizens want it, by the way. 0.81

00:38:34.000 That's what's crazy.

00:38:35.000 Their own people, they want that.

00:38:37.000 They don't want to live in a world like that.

00:38:40.000 I see the stories.

00:38:41.000 I hear the people, you know, when I'm at business conferences around the world, it's just, you know, the amount of theft, you know, from the Mexican gas company and this.

00:38:49.000 And it's basically used to. 0.73

00:38:51.000 The money is stolen, but then they use it to basically buy votes to keep the insane people in power.

00:38:56.000 And it's just a cycle of corruption that is very hard to break.

00:39:00.000 But it seems like everyone knows what's going on.

00:39:02.000 So if you know what's going on, you can actually do something about it.

00:39:05.000 Again, you just need the will.

00:39:06.000 No, absolutely.

00:39:07.000 And obviously, people get shaken down.

00:39:08.000 You can't operate a proper business.

00:39:10.000 You get people showing up to you, telling you, give me 20% of the cash that you have.

00:39:14.000 And that's how they launder it.

00:39:16.000 Nobody wants to live in a country like that.

00:39:17.000 It's not investable.

00:39:18.000 Like if you have an environment like that, no company is going to come in and say, I'm going to build a billion dollar factory here to employ thousands of people.

00:39:25.000 Tens of thousands of people.

00:39:27.000 So it just has spiraled down.

00:39:28.000 Look at El Salvador.

00:39:29.000 They got basically one of the safest countries in the world now from one of the most dangerous.

00:39:34.000 This is not philosophically hard stuff.

00:39:37.000 The only thing that makes it difficult is having the courage.

00:39:40.000 And I think what President Trump's done more than anything else, to more effect in Latin America than here in the United States Capitol, by the way, is to show politicians how to have courage, how to have the guts to do what you know needs to be done.

00:39:54.000 These are not new ideas. 0.88

00:39:57.000 Knocking the crap out of Iran and getting them to the table is not a new idea. 1.00

00:40:02.000 It's just that nobody had the courage or the spine to do it. 0.99

00:40:04.000 Taking out Maduro isn't a new idea.

00:40:06.000 It's just that nobody had the courage to say, we're going to go do this.

00:40:10.000 They had a bunch of political people saying, well, what if this happened?

00:40:13.000 What if this happened?

00:40:15.000 You can't do this.

00:40:15.000 You might not be able to do that.

00:40:17.000 President Trump knows what needs to be done.

00:40:18.000 He does it.

00:40:19.000 Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. 0.97

00:40:21.000 Listen, I know as someone who campaigned on not having the forever wars and everything like that, you still recognize that Iran and a nuclear weapon is a really bad threat. 0.91

00:40:30.000 We've been talking about that threat for 47 years, literally, basically my entire life. 0.98

00:40:36.000 And yet, here we are.

00:40:37.000 We took out their infrastructure.

00:40:38.000 They're not going to have a bomb.

00:40:41.000 We're going to open up the straits.

00:40:42.000 It was a couple of weeks of pain, and I get that.

00:40:44.000 That's not ideal.

00:40:45.000 But sometimes you actually have to do what's right.

00:40:47.000 And in the long term, that ends up being really important.

00:40:50.000 And I think there's a difference between playing that long game and sort of doing the perpetual election cycle game where we've got to keep making bad decisions to win an election.

00:40:58.000 But eventually, someone gets stuck holding that bag.

00:41:01.000 Well, and again, you have to have the courage to use kinetic warfare when you need to, but you also have the courage to end a war.

00:41:09.000 And I think that's the biggest conversation that's missing here in the Capitol where President Trump's getting criticism.

00:41:14.000 He's the one that has the courage to say, look, we're going to end this thing.

00:41:17.000 We're going to end it on America's terms.

00:41:20.000 We're not going to go into an endless conflict.

00:41:22.000 I mean, this is all very new to how American politics works.

00:41:27.000 And it only happened because you had somebody that wasn't a product of Washington, D.C., like President Trump making these decisions.

00:41:34.000 And look who's the Strongest advocate of that position, JD Vance, somebody who's also not a product in Washington, D.C.

00:41:42.000 So that new thinking is what's absolutely critical and missing here, Don.

00:41:45.000 Yeah, you know, watching, you know, so much of it's bots.

00:41:48.000 I mean, you see that, but, you know, sort of the attacks on JD Vance this week, you know, by, you know, the neocons, the, you know, the bot farms, the people who want the forever wars are kind of amazing because it's like, well, JD Vance is going out.

00:42:03.000 I'm like, I don't know, man.

00:42:04.000 I was with my father last weekend for his birthday.

00:42:07.000 I was with my father this weekend.

00:42:10.000 You know, for Father's Day, I've been around the room.

00:42:13.000 It seems like, you know, JD Vance is just doing what my father wants him to actually do.

00:42:17.000 They won't attack my father because they're worried that opens them up to the stuff.

00:42:21.000 So they try to go after JD.

00:42:23.000 All the fake nonsense.

00:42:24.000 You saw the thing, I guess it was, you know, the PM of Qatar who's helped, you know, moderating these debates.

00:42:28.000 They're like, he snubbed him yesterday.

00:42:30.000 It's like, no, dude, they were in the room for like 12 hours prior to like the television thing.

00:42:34.000 They didn't have to give another high five.

00:42:36.000 They've literally been in a room together like all day long and they run with it.

00:42:40.000 Like, look at the disrespect of the United States.

00:42:42.000 Like, There's no disrespect.

00:42:43.000 They're like, they're getting along well.

00:42:45.000 They're getting things done.

00:42:46.000 They're doing a deal.

00:42:48.000 Like, you know, what's more maga than dropping oil prices, making sure Iran doesn't have a bomb, opening up the straits, opening up trade?

00:42:55.000 Like, pretty maga to me.

00:42:57.000 And yet, you know, the bots and the other groups really, they'd love to see a forever war.

00:43:04.000 They would.

00:43:05.000 And what's interesting is two things.

00:43:07.000 Number one, they have no alternative.

00:43:09.000 What you'll hear is finish the job, to which I say, please be extraordinarily specific and define what you mean by that.

00:43:17.000 Be specific.

00:43:17.000 Like when you say finish it, do you mean annihilate 95 million people?

00:43:21.000 I mean, what does that mean to you?

00:43:22.000 Well, no, some of these guys are out there, some of the former generals, again, you know, neocon, they're on someone's payroll, but like, I mean, they're on the record saying, we should just drop nuclear weapons.

00:43:31.000 It's like, really?

00:43:32.000 You're going to kill 90 million people? 0.98

00:43:34.000 Like, I don't know, man. 0.95

00:43:35.000 That doesn't seem, you know, that doesn't seem anything first. 0.99

00:43:39.000 That seems like, honestly, that seems like stupid first. 1.00

00:43:42.000 The only thing that is is stupid first. 1.00

00:43:44.000 Well, and in the other piece, if you're going to say it. 1.00

00:43:47.000 This won't work.

00:43:48.000 Think of your business career.

00:43:49.000 If you listen to the people who said something won't work, oh, if you build that building or you buy that piece of property, it won't work.

00:43:55.000 These are the guys that never don't know how to take shots because you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

00:44:00.000 And when President Trump says, we're going to take a shot at peace, we're going to take a shot at changing the Middle East forever, not for me, but for my kids and grandkids, I hate to see these guys going, oh, but it just won't work.

00:44:13.000 Okay, well, why don't you sit to the side and watch it work?

00:44:18.000 No, I saw it the whole time.

00:44:19.000 In the first term, it was the same thing.

00:44:20.000 Like, I can't believe Trump's doing this with North Korea.

00:44:23.000 Like, well, what have you done with North Korea?

00:44:25.000 Well, I led the delegation for 40 years.

00:44:27.000 I go, no, no, no.

00:44:27.000 What have you accomplished in 40 years?

00:44:29.000 If you've done nothing in 40 years, if you haven't been right about anything, if you've never even been in the room with the counterparty that makes the decision, shouldn't you lose your expert status at that point? 1.00

00:44:39.000 Yeah, I mean, I call them the chirpers, the guys that are on the side saying, this won't work, that won't work. 1.00

00:44:44.000 And we have them in the business world too, right? 1.00

00:44:46.000 Yeah, they can point out the problems, but never a solution.

00:44:48.000 Right, exactly.

00:44:49.000 Exactly.

00:44:49.000 And those are the guys I love to get rid of because the guys that really matter, the ones that have the courage to see things through, the perseverance, that have the toughness to make the decisions that are hard to make.

00:45:00.000 But look, this is why President Trump is such a defining president of our lifetime.

00:45:04.000 And it is, whether it's the Middle East, of course, the hemisphere I care about here in Latin America.

00:45:10.000 I mean, the things that we're doing, he's not playing for the midterms.

00:45:14.000 He's playing for generational, substantive change that's going to make this country better and, quite frankly, the world better.

00:45:20.000 Like I said, The most popular elected official on the planet in Colombia, anywhere on the earth, is Donald J. Trump in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Honduras, in Peru, in Ecuador.

00:45:33.000 That doesn't happen by accident.

00:45:35.000 These people see results and they want more of it.

00:45:37.000 They want prosperity.

00:45:38.000 They want safety.

00:45:39.000 They want security.

00:45:40.000 And as elected officials, that's what you should do give it to them.

00:45:44.000 Well, Senator, you know, I know you have to run, but I just got to confirm because it sounded kind of like it's breaking news.

00:45:49.000 You're going to do a California versus Colombia hearing.

00:45:54.000 On elections and how to actually get elections done in Congress.

00:45:57.000 I mean, this is a real thing.

00:45:59.000 Any idea when this is going to happen?

00:46:01.000 I'm hoping as soon as humanly possible.

00:46:03.000 And we have subpoena power.

00:46:05.000 So we'll bring the governor of California, have him stand.

00:46:08.000 Can you imagine he sits next to a guy who runs an election of a country that has an economy smaller than Los Angeles? 0.98

00:46:16.000 And this guy's going to look at him like a lunatic. 0.83

00:46:18.000 And by the way, in a very thick Spanish accent, and go, What do you mean Latinos can't find their voter ID? 0.93

00:46:25.000 Please explain to me. 1.00

00:46:27.000 We're able to do it with a lot fewer resources, a lot less capability, a lot less tech, a lot less money, and yet here they are.

00:46:34.000 So, by the way, I can't wait for that because it's going to give me like four or five shows worth of content because it's just going to be amazing.

00:46:41.000 So, Senator, thank you so much.

00:46:43.000 Keep doing the great work that you're doing for not just our country, but for the people of Ohio that you represent.

00:46:48.000 And I look forward to seeing you in person soon.

00:46:50.000 You got it.

00:46:51.000 Thank you.

00:46:51.000 Thank you so much.

00:46:52.000 Be well, buddy.

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Pro-Trump Wave in Latin America, Interview with Sen Bernie Moreno | Triggered Ep. 352

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