00:05:34.000Big news down in Colombia in the presidential race there because Latin America keeps shifting right.
00:05:40.000It'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.
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00:09:01.000Here was the scene in Columbia this weekend.
00:09:44.000Now think about that contrast for a second.
00:09:46.000For years, USAID money poured into left wing movements in Latin America.
00:09:51.000For a while, it looked like the future belonged to the Petros and the Maduros and the Marxists of the world.
00:09:57.000And one by one, that house of cards is crashing down.
00:10:01.000Crashing down magically when those billions of your dollars, that certainly probably weren't intended to be funding radical leftists, went away.
00:10:36.000And that brings me to the question nobody on the left wants asked out loud who exactly was paying for the other side?
00:10:44.000For years, Colombia was one of the single biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid in the entire hemisphere.
00:10:51.000Millions of your dollars, probably billions, year after year pouring in through USAID.
00:10:57.000It got routed through the NGO machine, the activist machine, and a network of left wing groups.
00:11:03.000And as we'll discuss with Senator Marino, it's no coincidence that the second my father shut USAID down, things start to change.
00:11:12.000The 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.
00:11:23.000And they're all the ones who are implicated in all of it.
00:11:27.000The entire left wing machine is fueled and funded by fraud.
00:11:30.000Ever wonder why some random left wing lunatic Senate candidate can outraise their opponent 50 to 1?
00:11:36.000I mean, it doesn't seem to make much sense, and yet it's been going on forever, even in conservative districts.
00:11:42.000And speaking of which, take a look at what's happening up in Maine.
00:11:46.000Democrats have decided to hitch their wagon to Graham Planter.
00:11:59.000He had some really creepy online accounts and creepy text messages.
00:12:03.000Women 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.
00:13:06.000Democrats just nominated Graham Platner.
00:13:08.000Despite past offensive comments about a tattoo associated, past offensive comments, he's got this tattoo that's associated with a Nazi symbol.
00:13:16.000He also said he didn't understand its meaning.
00:13:32.000He certainly has a lot of issues and a lot of questions to answer and address.
00:13:36.000And I think the people of Maine are going to give a lot of examination to this going through in this election.
00:13:43.000For me, I certainly hope we pick up a seat here.
00:13:46.000For 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.
00:13:52.000And 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.
00:14:18.000Yeah, I have concerns, but we need that seat.
00:14:21.000The 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.
00:14:45.000Because the seat matters more than the standards, the math matters more than morals.
00:14:50.000They 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.
00:15:06.000That's a party who just wants power in perpetuity.
00:15:09.000These 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.
00:15:35.000And 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.
00:15:45.000She sat down with Don Lamon, and Don lobbed her the easiest, fluffiest question you can imagine.
00:16:05.000And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves.
00:16:12.000And 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.
00:16:28.000Not only do we act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other.
00:16:34.000And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a.
00:17:36.000This isn't some revolutionary critique of the English language.
00:17:40.000And 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.
00:18:06.000The bigger point here, though, guys, is that Democrats cannot give you a straight answer about anything about who funded them, about their own candidates.
00:18:14.000And they can't give you a straight answer even when you toss them a beach ball of a question.
00:18:35.000And they never, ever want to be held to anything.
00:18:39.000But Team Trump is doing just the opposite and getting things done, especially on fraud.
00:18:45.000Earlier 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.
00:19:47.000What did you actually see at the polls?
00:19:50.000You know, what message did Colombia send yesterday?
00:19:53.000Because this is one of those that, you know, we've been talking about for a while.
00:19:55.000And, 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.
00:20:52.000It is absolute fact that USAID was funding.
00:20:56.000Anti American socialist candidates throughout the hemisphere.
00:20:59.000Yeah, I mean, listen, we've been doing this for a long time.
00:21:03.000Anyone 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.
00:21:34.000Look 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.
00:21:48.000This is a whole new Western hemisphere.
00:21:51.000It'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.
00:21:58.000I 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.
00:22:37.000And the fact that there's been I guess there has been US government focus on Latin America.
00:22:41.000It's just been dominated by the leftists at USAID.
00:22:44.000I 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.
00:22:54.000You and I have traveled to much of that part of the world and you try to have these conversations.
00:22:58.000I've done it in Africa, literally trying to explain it to people.
00:23:01.000They laugh at me like they think I'm kidding.
00:23:04.000But 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.
00:23:29.000Here's what I witnessed in Colombia in terms of an election.
00:23:32.000These 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.
00:23:43.000How Colombia, a developing nation with a smaller GDP than Ohio, okay, a country of 50 million people.
00:23:52.000Number 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.
00:24:01.000Number two, you have to have proof of citizenship on your possession in order to enter the hall where you vote.
00:24:09.000Number three, you must show a voter ID, that same card, before they hand you the ballot.
00:24:15.000Number three, the ballots are all paper.
00:24:18.000There is absolutely no mail in balloting.
00:24:57.000Compare that and contrast that to California.
00:25:00.000It'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.
00:25:11.000But, uh, Bernie, I was told that that was Jim Crow 2.0.
00:25:14.000I mean, you know, requiring voter ID to make sure that people are actually allowed to vote in the elections that they're voting in.
00:27:25.000And we're going to have a hearing California versus Columbia.
00:27:28.000Why can Columbia run an election at that high level and California is so incompetent?
00:27:34.000And I think the American people need to see this, Don.
00:27:36.000We'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.
00:27:44.000And we can't get 60 out of 100 senators to vote for that.
00:27:49.000I mean, California, probably the tech capital of the world, probably one of the wealthiest places in the world.
00:27:55.000I mean, even as a state, it's got, you know, by country, it'd be what, the seventh largest GDP in the world.
00:28:00.000Like, 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.
00:28:17.000I 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.
00:28:24.000Like I said, their GDP is less than Ohio.
00:28:27.000And he's looking at me going, What do you mean you don't have to prove you're a citizen to vote?
00:28:36.000Their number one concern is they want to make certain people have confidence in their elections.
00:28:42.000And 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.
00:28:53.000Think about what those words mean to us here in America.
00:28:57.000It'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.
00:29:12.000I'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.
00:29:23.000This is an 80 20 issue that we should absolutely be able to pass the Save America Act.
00:29:29.000And 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.
00:30:02.000Sometimes we can overcomplicate things.
00:30:04.000And again, you know, I don't think it's by accident.
00:30:06.000I think it's very intentional how things have gone on in America and especially in the leftist states.
00:30:12.000And you can see that based on results.
00:30:13.000And you see what's going on in the gubernatorial election in California.
00:30:17.000And, 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.
00:30:29.000And 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.
00:30:48.000Like I mentioned, one hour, Don, one hour after getting the polls closed, they have a result.
00:30:53.000And 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.
00:31:03.000So that's an attack from outside, then an attack from within.
00:31:07.000To deteriorate our ability to actually elect the people that the people want elected by deteriorating and creating voter fraud.
00:31:16.000This is a pretty evil plot to destroy the United States of America, an attack from outside, an attack from within.
00:31:21.000And then they accuse us of being anti democratic.
00:31:26.000This 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.
00:31:39.000And 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.
00:31:49.000You think that I can't get my birth certificate, I can't find a voter ID.
00:31:52.000This is because I happen to be of Latino heritage.
00:31:55.000Well, here's a country that's 100% Latino that has no problem.
00:31:59.000So I think we just got to pound that and make sure that it's reported on.
00:32:03.000You 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.
00:32:13.000Obviously, the death associated there with cocaine, money laundering, and obviously migration.
00:32:21.000Where 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?
00:32:29.000I think of it as a massive neighborhood cleanup project.
00:32:32.000It obviously started with the incredible operation in Venezuela.
00:32:36.000So we're going to get all these bad actors out of our hemisphere.
00:32:40.000What's going to happen is we'll eliminate corruption in Latin America.
00:32:44.000President Trump has made Latin America dramatically more investable.
00:32:47.000That means that the people in those countries will have more opportunities.
00:32:50.000They won't turn to illicit activities.
00:32:54.000What does that mean to the people in Ohio?
00:32:55.000It 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.
00:33:09.000We want immigrants to come to the country, but they have to come on our terms.
00:33:15.000To come to America, you have to assimilate and you have to come the legal way.
00:33:19.000But 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.
00:35:30.000Attacks against narco terrorists that you like you've never seen.
00:35:34.000Like, this is the stuff that we've been thinking about, dreaming about, hoping for for decades.
00:35:39.000And 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.
00:35:48.000And 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.
00:36:05.000Do you see sort of a directional change even affecting that regime and country?
00:36:10.000Well, the Venezuela operation really is what decapitated Cuba.
00:36:13.000Cuba had basically conquered Venezuela.
00:36:15.000They were sucking all their resources to feed this machine of communism, socialism, social unrest, political turbulence throughout the hemisphere.
00:36:25.000Now that they have no money, they can't even have electricity on for more than an hour a day.
00:36:29.000I think they're coming down to their knees.
00:36:31.000And now they have no safe haven in the hemisphere.
00:36:33.000It's basically down to Cuba and Nicaragua is the two bad actors.
00:36:37.000And quite frankly, look, Mexico and Brazil have got to get their act together.
00:37:42.000There's no doubt in my mind about that.
00:37:43.000And 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.
00:37:51.000I mean, this is how deeply integrated they were.
00:37:53.000And you need a commitment to go in there and take care of business.
00:37:56.000You know, part of obviously the leverage we have is trade.
00:37:59.000President Trump has used that to really strong effect.
00:38:02.000And I think he should continue to do that.
00:38:03.000You 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.
00:38:10.000We don't have to have our American companies decouple from China and go to Mexico.
00:38:15.000They can go to Honduras, they can go to El Salvador.
00:38:41.000I 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.
00:39:18.000Like 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.
00:39:29.000They got basically one of the safest countries in the world now from one of the most dangerous.
00:39:34.000This is not philosophically hard stuff.
00:39:37.000The only thing that makes it difficult is having the courage.
00:39:40.000And 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.
00:40:21.000Listen, 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.
00:40:30.000We've been talking about that threat for 47 years, literally, basically my entire life.
00:40:45.000But sometimes you actually have to do what's right.
00:40:47.000And in the long term, that ends up being really important.
00:40:50.000And 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.
00:40:58.000But eventually, someone gets stuck holding that bag.
00:41:01.000Well, 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.
00:41:09.000And I think that's the biggest conversation that's missing here in the Capitol where President Trump's getting criticism.
00:41:14.000He's the one that has the courage to say, look, we're going to end this thing.
00:41:17.000We're going to end it on America's terms.
00:41:20.000We're not going to go into an endless conflict.
00:41:22.000I mean, this is all very new to how American politics works.
00:41:27.000And it only happened because you had somebody that wasn't a product of Washington, D.C., like President Trump making these decisions.
00:41:34.000And look who's the Strongest advocate of that position, JD Vance, somebody who's also not a product in Washington, D.C.
00:41:42.000So that new thinking is what's absolutely critical and missing here, Don.
00:41:45.000Yeah, you know, watching, you know, so much of it's bots.
00:41:48.000I 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.
00:43:22.000Well, 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.
00:43:49.000If 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.
00:43:55.000These are the guys that never don't know how to take shots because you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
00:44:00.000And 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.
00:44:13.000Okay, well, why don't you sit to the side and watch it work?
00:44:27.000What have you accomplished in 40 years?
00:44:29.000If 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?
00:44:39.000Yeah, I mean, I call them the chirpers, the guys that are on the side saying, this won't work, that won't work.
00:44:44.000And we have them in the business world too, right?
00:44:46.000Yeah, they can point out the problems, but never a solution.
00:44:49.000And 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.
00:45:00.000But look, this is why President Trump is such a defining president of our lifetime.
00:45:04.000And it is, whether it's the Middle East, of course, the hemisphere I care about here in Latin America.
00:45:10.000I mean, the things that we're doing, he's not playing for the midterms.
00:45:14.000He's playing for generational, substantive change that's going to make this country better and, quite frankly, the world better.
00:45:20.000Like 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.
00:46:27.000We'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.
00:46:34.000So, 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.