Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 10, 2026


Tucker needs Some Help, USAID Stops & Republicans in other Countries WIN plus Mamdani's October 7 Disaster Week In Review

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00:03:23.140 I think it's an important moment here that we should take a moment and talk about it,
00:03:26.720 because if you think that Tucker hasn't gone hardcore crazy, go back to the point you just
00:03:32.940 made, Senator, which is he has now come out and endorsed Househead to be elected over a Republican.
00:03:38.700 He has indeed. 0.63
00:03:39.940 He wants an Islamist and a communist to represent the state of Michigan and a Democrat in the 0.98
00:03:47.460 United States Senate.
00:03:48.440 But by the way, Tucker in this whole interview is truly bizarre. At another point, Tucker is complaining that it was terrible that the United Kingdom never apologized to the Nazis.
00:04:01.880 And I want you to listen to this exchange because apparently he is seeking retribution on behalf of the Nazis that he felt were not treated fairly by the allies who won World War II. Here, give a listen.
00:04:15.600 Now, the British government did that in the Second World War immediately.
00:04:19.060 It did it in the Second World War.
00:04:20.140 I knew a wonderful man, amazing man.
00:04:23.260 Now, I'd gathered to his father's, who was rounded up in 1939 when water was declared,
00:04:30.760 was put in an enemy aliens camp in Shropshire.
00:04:36.520 And he was German, Jewish, and all Germans were rounded up.
00:04:40.760 He was a fighting age.
00:04:41.680 the day he left the camp he joined the british army and he ended the war as a brigadier amazing
00:04:47.440 yeah he sounds like a very forgiving man he was a wonderful wonderful man he sounds it um but i'm
00:04:52.080 not talking about people who are rounded up as potential foreign nationals we can't round up
00:04:56.640 people for their expression opinions and people must be free to oppose but the british government
00:05:01.040 has never apologized for violating its own ancient principles by rounding up not simply members of
00:05:07.360 of the opposition party but their families yeah and i'm talking the mosleys but also everyone who
00:05:12.240 worked with the mosleys all the whole leadership and their wives and no one's ever apologized for
00:05:16.760 that well look tucker is all in on defending the nazis against the west you know the person 0.58
00:05:23.120 he's talking about there is oswald mosley oswald mosley led the british union of fascists now who
00:05:31.440 was Mosley. He married in 1936 at Joseph Goebbels' home in Berlin. You know who was a guest at his
00:05:40.340 wedding? Adolf Hitler. There you go. Carlston simply calls them members of the opposition
00:05:47.660 party. That would be the Nazis. That would be Goebbels and Hitler. Now, to be clear, the British 0.95
00:05:54.740 Union of Fascists never won even a single seat in Parliament. They weren't the opposition party.
00:06:00.180 They weren't a party who was elected anywhere. At the same time that Tucker is vigorously
00:06:08.180 defending our enemies and attacking America and attacking the United Kingdom, attacking our
00:06:13.760 friends, he is also just brazenly lying. So he claims that the United Kingdom persecutes people
00:06:21.940 for speech, but Russia never does that. And I want you to listen to this exchange because again,
00:06:27.060 And facts, facts never intrude into Tucker World.
00:06:31.300 I just don't understand, given what you've already just conceded,
00:06:35.020 that the government of the United Kingdom is punishing and prohibiting people and ideas it doesn't like.
00:06:45.380 Russia is not doing that.
00:06:47.060 So how is...
00:06:47.980 What?
00:06:48.540 To you.
00:06:49.020 You can't say what, but in Russia it's doing it in spades. 0.96
00:06:52.440 It's beating people up, it's arresting them, it's murdering them.
00:06:54.040 In your country? 0.75
00:06:55.380 Well, it's... 0.95
00:06:55.840 No, your citizens. Russia has poisoned people in this country. 0.96
00:07:00.500 So there he goes. Yet, you know, Tucker is claiming Russia does not persecute people for saying things they don't like.
00:07:07.500 Has he never heard of a gulag? Has he never read the gulag archipelago? I'm sure he hasn't.
00:07:12.940 Has he not seen the murders that Russia carries out, the poisonings that Russia carries out? 0.79
00:07:19.780 Now, to be fair, he has a legitimate criticism that the Brits have been violating free speech. 0.60
00:07:26.040 In this podcast, we have spent a lot of time talking about how the United Kingdom has run away from their free speech traditions.
00:07:32.140 I think that's a real failing for our British friends.
00:07:35.080 I hope they get back to actually defending free speech. 1.00
00:07:40.620 But there is no comparison between the Brits and the Russians. 0.86
00:07:47.400 The Russians murder people who say things they don't like. 0.73
00:07:51.420 The Brits don't do that. 0.90
00:07:52.520 They do send a bobby to arrest you.
00:07:55.080 And you know what happens when someone sends a bobby to arrest you. 0.74
00:07:58.480 It's an unarmed bobby that's wearing a little round hat. 0.91
00:08:02.500 And if they see a crime happen. 1.00
00:08:03.700 But don't worry, he's got his nightstick, so you should be fine. 0.83
00:08:06.120 Well, and the unarmed bobby, if they see a crime happening, they will rush up to you and say, 1.00
00:08:12.340 I say stop. 1.00
00:08:13.860 and if you don't stop, I shall yell stop again. Yeah, louder. Yeah, exactly. That sadly are the
00:08:24.500 bobbies, but it is true that they might arrest you for free speech in the United Kingdom. I hope
00:08:29.240 they get back to their long tradition of free speech, but the Brits do not have gulags. They
00:08:35.400 do not have Siberia. They do not engage in poisoning and murdering their political opponents,
00:08:41.300 and there's one of two options. Either Tucker is so willfully blind that he has no idea that he
00:08:48.000 doesn't know Russia does that. He also claimed he didn't know that the Ayatollah is trying to
00:08:52.240 murder Donald Trump. I assume when it comes to Hitler and Goebbels and all the people he's 0.56
00:08:56.880 defending he doesn't know about the concentration camps and the Holocaust. He either doesn't know
00:09:02.640 in which case he's willfully ignorant and blind or even worse he does know which I think is likely 0.99
00:09:08.420 the case. And he just doesn't care. He's just willing to lie because he has a propaganda 0.98
00:09:13.680 mission. And you should ask yourself, why is his objective to tear down America, to tear down the
00:09:20.960 United Kingdom, to tear down the West, to tear down Jews, to tear down Israel, to tear down
00:09:25.680 capitalism, and to build up Putin and Russia, to build up Hugo Chavez, another communist from 0.86
00:09:33.980 Venezuela to build up Mondami, to build up Abdul Al-Sayed, to build up Sharia law, to build up
00:09:39.880 the Ayatollah, and to repeatedly and explicitly praise Nazis, including Adolf Hitler. What is he
00:09:46.600 trying to accomplish, and why is he doing it? It is profoundly dangerous, and you don't have
00:09:54.620 to take my word for it, because you can listen in his own words as we played today. Now, if you
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00:14:54.680 senator i want to move to the second story that we mentioned earlier and i got to tell you the
00:14:58.820 news coming out of usa id and how elon musk was able to have a major impact on the left chokehold
00:15:06.480 in latin america this story is really interesting and it's one that shows you if you're committed
00:15:12.800 to a cause, you can have a really big impact if you focus on the facts. Well, this is a story I
00:15:21.000 want everyone listening to really understand because it is profound and it is completely
00:15:26.260 unreported in the press. As you know, when President Trump came in for the second term,
00:15:32.320 he appointed Elon Musk as the head of Doge. One of the first things Elon Musk did is essentially
00:15:38.120 zeroed out USAID so the billions of dollars that had been flowing out in foreign aid just stopped
00:15:43.200 and and the left the democrats the press they all screamed blue murder they they described it as as
00:15:50.020 chicken little the sky is falling the world is ending people are dying it is horrible well they
00:15:55.520 nonetheless succeeded in cutting the vast majority of that money here is an interesting consequence
00:16:01.720 of this that very few people are noting. Since the USAID money stopped flowing,
00:16:09.360 leftists, communists, America-hating zealots have stopped winning elections in Latin America.
00:16:19.460 During Joe Biden, while the USAID money was flowing, we saw leftists and communists and
00:16:25.320 people who hate America winning election after election after election and implementing socialism
00:16:30.280 and marxism throughout latin america that has ground to a halt and and the obvious inference
00:16:37.340 is that usa id the federal taxpayers were flowing money millions if not billions of dollars to
00:16:45.360 marxists to hate america to elect communists that not only hurt latin american countries but fight
00:16:51.940 against the united states i want to read to you a very interesting tweet from bravel lo public
00:16:57.860 Pogham. Now, I don't know Bravel Le Pogham. He is a French entrepreneur, apparently from an AI
00:17:04.960 company, but he sent a tweet that I read on X, and it was striking, and it really, it made this
00:17:12.320 point in a way that was powerful. I want to read it to you. It's a long tweet, but it has a lot of
00:17:16.240 substance to it. In 50 years, history books will say that Elon Musk won a war that no one even
00:17:25.280 knew we were losing. A war that began 100 years ago in an Italian prison cell. In 1926, Mussolini
00:17:35.220 had a 35-year-old Sardinian intellectual arrested. At the trial, the prosecutor reportedly said,
00:17:42.600 quote, we must stop this brain from working for 20 years. His name was Antonio Gramsci.
00:17:50.440 his brain never stopped working in prison he filled thousands of pages that became one of
00:17:57.860 the most influential political texts of the 20th century i think we're living through the moment
00:18:03.260 when the theory is collapsing let me explain gramsky asked a simple question why did the
00:18:11.180 communist revolution succeed in russia but fail everywhere in the west his answer in the west
00:18:18.580 power isn't just held by the state, the police, and the army. It's held by culture. But what people
00:18:26.340 find normal, obvious, common sense, he called it cultural hegemony. So to seize power, you don't
00:18:35.560 first take the palace. You first take the mines, the schools, the universities, the newspapers,
00:18:43.280 the theater, publishing, the courts. That's the war of position, a slow conquest,
00:18:51.600 institution by institution. When the culture is flipped, the politics follows on its own.
00:18:59.920 Forty years later, the German activist Rudi Doischke would turn it into a slogan,
00:19:05.320 the long march through the institutions for decades we've lived with a puzzle that no one
00:19:14.200 could really explain why are almost all artists on the left the actors the singers the teachers
00:19:21.640 the journalists a good chunk of the judiciary why could a country vote right election after
00:19:27.000 election and still see its culture speaking with one voice we were told it's because educated people
00:19:34.440 or on the left? I think the answer is simpler. Gramsci had written the recipe and it was applied.
00:19:42.300 When you control who gets the grant, the job, the good review, the prize, the invitation to the on
00:19:50.060 the set, you control what becomes, quote, the culture. The same puzzle existed on a global scale.
00:19:58.840 why did so many developing countries especially in Latin America keep voting again and again
00:20:05.740 for socialist or radical left governments Venezuela Bolivia Nicaragua the Argentina of
00:20:13.740 the Kirchner Kirchner's Petros Colombia the economy was collapsing the cartels were thriving
00:20:22.640 Chaos was setting in, and yet the same vote kept coming back.
00:20:27.780 My conviction.
00:20:29.480 Poverty wasn't an accident of the system.
00:20:33.300 It was an electorate.
00:20:35.180 And around it, there was a whole ecosystem of NGOs.
00:20:39.460 Quote, independent media and quote, civil society programs, funded largely by Western money.
00:20:47.820 Then, in early 2025, something happened that no one had ever dared to do.
00:20:52.640 Elon and Doge opened up USAID's books, an agency that had been virtually untouchable since 1961.
00:21:02.440 Tens of billions of dollars a year.
00:21:05.040 The vast majority of programs were cut and the agency was absorbed into the State Department.
00:21:10.860 The faucet was turned off.
00:21:13.400 And look what has happened since. 1.00
00:21:17.220 Bolivia.
00:21:18.820 Moss loses power after nearly 20 years.
00:21:22.640 Ecuador. Noboa re-elected. Honduras. The right takes back the country. Chile. Cast elected. Argentina. Malay wins the midterm elections by a landslide.
00:21:41.440 And two days ago, Brazil.
00:21:45.520 Jair Bolsonaro is ineligible, sentenced to 27 years in prison.
00:21:50.520 The left thought they'd close the chapter.
00:21:53.320 Lula, 80 years old, was running for a fourth term against a country that was said to be in the bag.
00:22:01.720 On Sunday, his son Flavio came in the first in the first round.
00:22:07.460 Over 47% against nearly 45% for Lula.
00:22:11.440 lula himself acknowledged a quote unexpected result the largest country in latin america
00:22:19.000 is one runoff away from flipping the biggest rightward turn on the continent
00:22:25.980 in decades coincidence i don't think so when the funding dries up the narrative
00:22:33.840 loses its megaphones there's one last real stronghold left europe brussels funds its own
00:22:43.360 network of ngos with an opacity that even the urine court european court of auditors has pointed
00:22:49.420 out the big foundations like soros's open society the supranational entities that produce norms
00:22:57.420 without ever facing a voter it's the last fortress of cultural hegemony and it's starting to crack
00:23:05.640 i'm convinced all of this is going to collapse and faster than we think gramsky was right on
00:23:12.780 one essential point culture precedes politics but he forgot that it works both ways when an
00:23:21.400 artificial culture loses its IV drip, what's real underneath rises to the surface. What comes next,
00:23:30.340 I believe, is a renaissance. A culture that starts loving beauty, ambition, science, the civilization
00:23:39.000 that gives it birth again. And in the history books, we'll remember that it all started when
00:23:45.200 one man decided to look at the accounts it took someone rich enough not to depend on anyone
00:23:52.900 crazy enough to take it on and free enough to weather the hate that would follow thanks
00:24:02.840 elon senator this is exactly why i love doing this show with you because we get to highlight
00:24:07.940 stories like this as you mentioned no one else is talking about and this is one of those stories
00:24:12.460 where i said everyone listening this is what you need to be sharing that's exactly right and i want
00:24:17.940 to encourage you guys look verdict listeners you're smart you're informed and you know things
00:24:24.100 other people don't i want to encourage you when you're talking to your friends when you're talking
00:24:27.460 to your colleagues around the water cooler at the office when you're when you're talking to your
00:24:30.860 kids to say hey have you noticed that every election since we cut off the usaid funding
00:24:38.320 in Latin America has gone not to the leftist but to the to conservatives what does that tell you
00:24:44.660 about what the people of Latin America want and and there are two points that are really important
00:24:49.060 if it is right that USAID funding was sending billions to elect communists in Latin America
00:24:56.820 the federal government the American government was hurting the people of Latin America communism is
00:25:02.600 the most destructive ideology mankind has ever invented. If the people of Latin America don't
00:25:09.620 want it, and the fact that once the money stops, they keep voting for conservative free market
00:25:13.740 candidates suggests they don't want it, then America was exporting harmful ideology to the
00:25:20.660 entirety of Latin America. And by the way, I think more broadly, the rest of the world.
00:25:24.620 But look, Latin America, the Western Hemisphere is our backyard. But secondly, the people that
00:25:30.940 were being elected in Latin America with the support of USAID. We're not just left-wingers.
00:25:36.240 It's one thing to say, okay, each party they get in power and they want their team to win. Okay,
00:25:40.960 that, their differences, higher taxes, lower taxes, we can disagree on some of that.
00:25:45.660 But the people who were being elected in Latin America were viciously anti-American. They hated
00:25:51.860 the United States of America. So you literally had the federal government taking the taxpayer money
00:25:57.800 of americans and sending it to help support the election of communists in latin america
00:26:06.060 who hate america who fight america we were fighting against ourselves
00:26:11.040 very few people realized that was happening and i will say ben
00:26:15.640 the chances of usaid being zeroed out or largely zeroed out under any president other than donald
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00:31:57.020 All right, Senator, I want to start with something that really raised a lot of eyebrows, and that was Mandami's statement that he made on the third anniversary of the horrific October 7th attacks.
00:32:07.700 And there were a lot of people that were taken aback by what he said because it wasn't just a day where he stood in solidarity for those that were brutally murdered and kidnapped and raped.
00:32:17.200 He also threw out that there was, in essence, genocide that happened on the other side going after the terrorists in the West Banks, as he described it, in Gaza.
00:32:28.060 That was the part that I think shocked so many.
00:32:31.000 Well, Mondami's statement was truly shameful, and it was released as an official public statement from the office of the mayor.
00:32:37.480 And so I'm going to read you what exactly he put out.
00:32:40.440 Today, Mayor Zoran Kwame Mandami, by the way, I didn't know his middle name was Kwame,
00:32:46.000 but they put it out every time they refer to him.
00:32:48.280 They refer to him as Mayor Zoran Kwame Mandami,
00:32:51.740 released the following statement on the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks.
00:32:57.100 Quote, this day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers.
00:33:01.220 It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7th.
00:33:05.580 On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others.
00:33:13.600 We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
00:33:19.900 Now, Ben, frankly, if the statement had ended there, it would have been fine.
00:33:24.440 Not terrific, but fine. 0.76
00:33:25.840 He at least acknowledged that more than 1,100 Israelis were killed, that more than 200 were abducted.
00:33:32.160 He did not acknowledge that women and girls were raped.
00:33:35.740 He did not acknowledge that dozens of Americans were murdered and dozens more were kidnapped.
00:33:40.400 He somehow left the Americans victims of that atrocity out of his statement. 0.98
00:33:44.200 But if it had ended there, it would have been acceptable.
00:33:51.000 But it didn't end there.
00:33:52.780 Then what Mondami really thought continues.
00:33:55.360 So I'm going to return to the statement.
00:33:56.560 Quote, the suffering did not begin nor end that day.
00:34:00.360 It instead continued through the Israeli government's devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza,
00:34:07.740 in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children.
00:34:14.800 Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed.
00:34:21.140 That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals,
00:34:26.920 every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment
00:34:32.420 of food aid turned away at the border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable
00:34:38.160 grief, and we mourn alongside them, all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war 0.78
00:34:45.200 crimes. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid
00:34:51.780 continue, where war crimes are met with impunity and our federal government continues its complicity
00:34:58.280 with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can
00:35:04.960 live with freedom, safety, and dignity. And let me say this man is a vicious America-hating
00:35:12.200 propagandist liar. Understand that virtually every word that he said in the remainder of 0.99
00:35:19.000 the statement, and three-fourths of his statement, on October 7th is blasting Israel and the Jews.
00:35:26.040 Almost every word of it is a lie. Number one, the death tolls that he puts out are simply recycled
00:35:31.520 from Hamas's propaganda, which he accepts with no hesitation at all. His claim that there is a 0.96
00:35:37.580 genocide in Gaza is an utter and complete lie. It is false. There is not a genocide. That is not
00:35:44.860 happening, and in fact, the Palestinian population continues to grow and grow and grow in Gaza and
00:35:50.820 in the West Bank. Genocides do not result in populations growing dramatically. Who is it that
00:35:57.440 wants to do a genocide? It is Hamas. When they chant, from the river to the sea, what they mean 0.88
00:36:04.200 is from the Jordan River to the sea, they want to eradicate Israel and kill every Jew in Israel. 0.98
00:36:10.840 is Hamas who is advocating a genocide. It is not Israel. Mondami's statement talks about 0.99
00:36:17.100 every drone strike targeting a residential building. By the way, they are focused on,
00:36:23.620 among others, taking out Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, which that is how they took him out. 0.75
00:36:29.360 And Mondami was mourning that an America-hating, bigoted terrorist was taken out by the Israeli
00:36:37.240 military in a defensive attack. This statement, you know, look, it's one thing if he wants to put
00:36:44.240 out his vicious attack of Israel. Comrade Mondami, we get it. You hate Israel. You hate Jews. You
00:36:51.520 also hate Americans and Christians. But we get that. That's no surprise. But to do it on October 0.98
00:36:57.000 7th is grotesque. October 7th was the single worst one-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
00:37:08.540 Did Mondami acknowledge the rapes? No. By the way, rapes on October 7th, which to be clear,
00:37:15.800 Hamas was so proud of that they videotaped and put out. They didn't hide them. I've watched video 0.89
00:37:21.060 of Hamas terrorists carving the breasts off of women, playing soccer with the heads of Jews 0.98
00:37:29.500 they murdered, and by the way, murdered Americans as well. And Mondami takes that anniversary to 0.94
00:37:36.480 instead say, I mourn for the Hamas terrorists who lost their life. It was disgraceful,
00:37:42.720 and it's who Mondami is. We were talking about not only his statement, but then his 0.99
00:37:47.040 actions in New York and the crowds as well. They had a reaction to Mondani and the anti-Israel
00:37:53.900 protesters as well. Mondani's hands are red. That's what they chanted. Well, Mondani's statement was
00:38:00.380 shameful. On the anniversary of October 7th, he attacked Israel. He accused them falsely of
00:38:06.780 genocide. Three-fourths of his statement was simply blasting Israel and blasting America,
00:38:12.640 to be clear, for supporting Israel. And yet, nonetheless, his radical base, that wasn't
00:38:19.220 enough. Give a listen to this coverage of Mondami's behavior on Fox News. Give a listen.
00:38:26.120 The mayor of New York, Mondami, has just finished answering questions about his response to the 0.97
00:38:30.720 October 7th events, and he took the opportunity to double down on his suggestion that Israel is
00:38:38.620 a genocidal state. He used that word again, genocide. He insisted on doing that.
00:38:45.660 Well, last night, Mandami was booed at a vigil, an October 7th vigil. Alexis McCallum joins me
00:38:51.980 now. Tell me all about it, please, Alexis. Hey, Stu. Well, it's interesting to see New York
00:38:55.600 City's mayor under fire now from both sides, including people who went to bat for him to
00:38:59.440 get him elected just last year. He's now accused of not being anti-Israel enough,
00:39:03.920 While fellow Democrats say, Mamdani, you've gone way too far.
00:39:07.360 So on the third anniversary of the October 7th Hamas massacre, Mamdani is accusing Israel of genocide, saying in part,
00:39:13.880 many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief and we mourn alongside them, all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
00:39:22.260 He had to get a little dig there at the end.
00:39:24.160 Even though Mamdani has called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:39:28.300 is really just not good enough for some of these pro-Palestinian protesters
00:39:31.920 who showed up at a peace vigil and confronted the mayor.
00:39:35.700 You can see people yelling and fighting here.
00:39:37.800 We see this in New York often, but usually Mamdani is not being yelled at, too.
00:39:42.320 He was holding a candle stew surrounded by Jewish New Yorkers when he got called out.
00:39:46.440 Watch.
00:39:46.700 Hamas chants and Hamas flags in New York City again. And some of those activists helped the 1.00
00:40:04.200 Democratic Socialists win the mayor's election last year, now accusing him of turning his back
00:40:09.400 on the Palestinian people
00:40:10.680 calling him a traitor.
00:40:13.060 Mamdani, what do you say?
00:40:16.840 I want to end with a message
00:40:22.360 for Zoran Mamdani.
00:40:24.100 You have a chance
00:40:25.520 to stand with the people of Palestine.
00:40:28.360 Do not leave behind
00:40:29.880 the cause that you campaigned on.
00:40:32.540 And Mamdani was asked about this
00:40:34.420 just a short time ago.
00:40:36.100 He doubled down on calling it a genocide,
00:40:38.340 as you said,
00:40:38.980 and says he's not bothered by the protests. Watch. And when we're speaking of that genocide,
00:40:44.180 we're speaking of one that has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians in the last three years.
00:40:49.540 As for those protesting me, I am the mayor of New York City, and this is what I signed up for.
00:40:54.900 The mayor of New York City and also the mayor of a city that has the largest Jewish population
00:40:59.880 outside of Israel. Ahead of the midterms, this exposes a big divide in the Democratic Party
00:41:04.320 about israel even one of the harshest critics mamdani is just not accused of accused now of
00:41:09.420 not going far enough so how do you win i don't think you can senator you listen to that and and
00:41:14.320 he really likes using this word accusing israel over and over and over again the people by the
00:41:21.060 way that were attacked on october 7th and were massacred on october 7th and are surrounded by
00:41:26.700 terrorists all around them and people that chant from the river to the sea and he says no no no
00:41:31.960 you should hate the Jewish people. They're the ones committing genocide. That is a key word he 0.98
00:41:37.520 keeps saying. Well, and you could hear the chanters yelling, long live Hamas and waving Hamas flags.
00:41:45.400 That is Mondami's base. Those are the activists who elected Mondami. Those are the people who 0.58
00:41:52.260 put him in power. And that is right now the base of today's Democrat party. Understand,
00:41:57.400 comrade mandami is i believe the most powerful democrat in the country we are seeing a green 0.94
00:42:04.180 red alliance we are seeing the islamists and the communists coming together and taking over the 0.65
00:42:10.160 democrat party and and look the islamists and communists they don't agree on everything but 0.94
00:42:14.020 they agree on who they hate they they hate jews and they hate christians they hate israel and they 0.98
00:42:22.160 hate america they hate the constitution they hate the rule of law and at the end of the day 1.00
00:42:28.280 the islamists and communists will turn on each other once they have eradicated the jews and 1.00
00:42:33.500 the christians once they have eradicated their enemies ultimately the islamists plan to kill 0.98
00:42:38.680 the communists too at the at the end of the day they intend to prevail but in the short term 0.82
00:42:43.020 they'll make common cause with the communist and and and that is their chant long live hamas is
00:42:50.160 revealing there's some people who say oh no no no they're not supporting terrorism they're just
00:42:54.740 they're advocating for a two-state solution no no they are not they are saying long live hamas
00:43:01.500 hamas are terrorists who targeted civilians they didn't attack military targets they went house to 0.90
00:43:07.700 house in israel on october 7th murdering civilians for one reason because they are jewish kicking 0.99
00:43:15.560 indoors, murdering elderly people, murdering children, murdering infants, raping women and 0.99
00:43:21.620 girls. It was the systematic target of civilians on racist grounds. And by the way, you know what 0.99
00:43:29.040 else Mondami did on October 7th? What was that? He went out and ostentatiously had dinner
00:43:37.880 at a new york city palestinian restaurant that has an openly genocidal menu and and and this
00:43:45.740 this is a he ate at a place called ayat heinz hall on the upper west side and and it is a a restaurant
00:43:52.880 that that that whose sister restaurant in brooklyn has a menu section entitled quote
00:43:59.640 from the river to the sea and this restaurant this restaurant the menu for Heinz Hall
00:44:08.120 features a map of what it calls Palestine and that map is the entirety of Israel it's not a 0.88
00:44:16.120 two-state solution it is showing what they want which is to utterly obliterate Israel to wipe it 0.87
00:44:21.840 from the map and and to be clear to murder every Jew living in Israel so that it is only Hamas 0.99
00:44:29.340 Palestinians who remain. This is what he chose to do, not on any given day, but on October 7th 0.91
00:44:36.320 to make clear that if given a choice between civilians, children, or Hamas terrorists who
00:44:45.600 murder civilians and rape children, he stands with Hamas and his base no matter how much he does that,
00:44:52.220 no matter how much he lies, no matter how much he slanders and attacks Israel and Jews, it's not 0.99
00:44:59.100 enough for the radical
00:45:01.200 base that is taking over the Democrat
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