Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Sentater Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
Speaker 2: you on this Veterans Day. To all of our veterans
Speaker 2: out there, thank you for your service to this country.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about a civil war today. It has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with actual you know, Veterans Day. Where's
Speaker 2: a civil war happening within the Democratic Party right now
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Senator Well, let me first of all say to all
Speaker 3: of our veterans, thank you for your service. Thank you
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Speaker 3: And so thank you for your service, your sacrifice. And
Speaker 3: you know, I will say, we recognize Veterans Day on
Speaker 3: November eleventh, and that date was it recognizes when warld
Speaker 3: War one came to an end and World War One
Speaker 3: came to an end at the eleventh hour of the
Speaker 3: eleventh day of the eleventh month in nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 4: And it used to be.
Speaker 3: Called Armistice Day. It's now called Veterans Day. It's an
Speaker 3: opportunity for every one of us to thank our veterans.
Speaker 3: And so let me say to our listeners, if you
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Speaker 3: make sure today that you think a veteran, that you
Speaker 3: just stop and say, you know, genuinely, in heartfelt thank
Speaker 3: you for everything you've done. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 3: what is happening right now. I got to say the
Speaker 3: fallout from election day continues. The Democrats have turned on
Speaker 3: each other like scorpions in a bottle. Everyone is pointing fingers,
Speaker 3: pointing barbed tails. They are striking at each other. It's
Speaker 3: everyone's fault. That chaos is dramatic. And while Democrats are
Speaker 3: lighting each other on fire, we also have news of
Speaker 3: a serious plot, yet another plot to assassinate Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump.
Speaker 3: In this instance, it was the nation of Iran who
Speaker 3: hired hitmen with the charge of killing Trump. That indictment
Speaker 3: has just been made public. We're going to give you
Speaker 3: all the details about that as well.
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Speaker 2: lose an election, you take a look at the data,
Speaker 2: and you look at the data and you say, Okay,
Speaker 2: what did we do wrong? How do we not connect
Speaker 2: with the voters? What can we learn from this? Great
Speaker 2: political minds take notes and so they can look back
Speaker 2: at prior elections and remember what they screwed up and
Speaker 2: maybe use that and implement in future elections. None of
Speaker 2: that seems to be happening in the Democratic Party. It's
Speaker 2: all it's your fault. No, it's your fault. No, it's
Speaker 2: your fault. They're all turning on each other right now. Yeah, Ben,
Speaker 2: you're being too analytical. When you lose an election. You're
Speaker 2: pissed when you lose an election. Most people are pretty emotional,
Speaker 2: they're angry, they lash out, and typically what happens within
Speaker 2: a campaign as all the campaign staffers blame each other,
Speaker 2: they all start leaking stories attacking each other, saying it
Speaker 2: was that dumb soob's fault, that's why we lost.
Speaker 3: You know, what you describe sounds like a very rational
Speaker 3: process that very few campaigns actually do analyzing what went wrong.
Speaker 3: In this instance, you've got an interesting dynamic because you
Speaker 3: just you don't just have kmmalist team, you have Biden's
Speaker 3: team as well. And so for example, Axios on Friday
Speaker 3: reported quote Harris Biden camps blame each other for loss.
Speaker 3: And here's how it opens, finger pointing. Advisors to Harris
Speaker 3: and President Biden agree on one thing, President Elect Trump's
Speaker 3: victory is the other one's fault. So they're both that
Speaker 3: they have the best person to blame it on with,
Speaker 3: which is each other. So one Democrat who's anonymous but
Speaker 3: quoted in the story, points the finger at Mike Donaldan
Speaker 3: and Steve Verschetti, who were Biden's top political aids.
Speaker 4: And here's the anonymous.
Speaker 3: Quote, quote, Mike and Steve will have a lot to
Speaker 3: answer for having him run for reelection at eighty years old.
Speaker 3: Another person, this is someone on Harris's team. Here's their
Speaker 3: anonymous quote, quote, the one hundred and seven day Harris
Speaker 3: campaign was nearly flawless. I got to stop and like,
Speaker 3: holy crap, really, like somebody would raws a salary. Actually
Speaker 3: uttered that sentence. The one seven day Harris campaign was
Speaker 3: nearly flawless, But the quote continues. The Biden campaign that
Speaker 3: preceded it was the opposite. No, you could say a
Speaker 3: lot of things about Kamalist campaign, but nearly flawless that
Speaker 3: you definitely could not say. Here's another one from Harris's campaign, quote,
Speaker 3: we did what we could. I think the odds against
Speaker 3: us were insurmountable. Another Harris say. David Pluff is also
Speaker 3: to Obama. Aid posted on x that the campaign had
Speaker 3: quote dug out.
Speaker 4: Of a deep hole.
Speaker 3: In other words, that it was Biden's fault that he
Speaker 3: dug that hole. Afterwards, Pluff deleted his account. Now Biden
Speaker 3: pushes back to the folks that are attacking Donald and Raschetti,
Speaker 3: Biden's top aids and Biden's team says quote, there are
Speaker 3: a wide range of advisors Biden consulted about the campaign
Speaker 3: who agreed on the merits of running like the party
Speaker 3: did after the best midterm wins for a new president
Speaker 3: over sixty years. No one has the president do anything.
Speaker 3: It's going back and forth. All right, here's a Biden staffer.
Speaker 3: Here's another anonymous quote. How did you spend one billion
Speaker 3: dollars and not win? What the F and F is
Speaker 3: not abbreviated in the actual quote. Here's someone from Harris's campaign.
Speaker 3: Here's an anonymous quote.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: People are depressed and frustrated about the overconfident leadership of
Speaker 3: the campaign. A Biden spokesperson publicly Andrew Bates. Here's what
Speaker 3: he said, quote. Anyone criticizing the vice president's campaign is
Speaker 3: at odds with President Biden. Here's someone else who says, quote,
Speaker 3: the Harris team benched Biden and then they lost. So
Speaker 3: now the people who represent Biden are saying, maybe you
Speaker 3: shouldn't have been, and others are pointing to Here's a
Speaker 3: former Biden administration official quote. The party was lied to
Speaker 3: about our candidate, and the leadership who lied were the
Speaker 3: same ones who never bothered to actually listen to voters
Speaker 3: and understand what was appealing to them about Trump or
Speaker 3: why the Biden economy wasn't working for them.
Speaker 4: Even if it looked good on paper.
Speaker 2: You look at all those quotes, and it's just like
Speaker 2: you said, it's your fault. No, your fault, no, your fault, no,
Speaker 2: your fault. I mean even Nancy Pelosi was talking about
Speaker 2: this and said Biden's late exit and the lack of
Speaker 2: an open primary is what costs in the White House.
Speaker 2: But there's a problem with that because Nancy Pelosi in
Speaker 2: September said this to the American people about the primary.
Speaker 5: You had reportedly said you wanted a sort of an
Speaker 5: open primary.
Speaker 1: When if Joe Biden stepped down, did you change your mind.
Speaker 3: Because you saw all the excitement around Kamala Harris.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't change my mind.
Speaker 7: We had an open primary and she won it.
Speaker 8: Nobody else got in the race because she was politically
Speaker 8: a student.
Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta laugh at that, right. You're complaining
Speaker 2: about it now. But then you said we had one
Speaker 2: and no one else got in the race, Like, which
Speaker 2: one is it?
Speaker 3: Well, and Pelosi went on a greater length to the
Speaker 3: New York Times. Here's what she just said. She said, quote,
Speaker 3: had President Biden gotten out sooner, there may have been
Speaker 3: other candidates in the race. Quote the anticipation was that
Speaker 3: if the President were to step aside, that there would
Speaker 3: have been an open primary. And as I say, Kamala
Speaker 3: may have I think she would have done well in
Speaker 3: that and been stronger going forward. But we don't know
Speaker 3: that that didn't happen. We live with what happened. And
Speaker 3: because the President endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made
Speaker 3: it almost impossible to have a primary at that time.
Speaker 3: If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.
Speaker 3: And so that, I mean, that's a fairly dramatic. Suddenly
Speaker 3: Pelosi is acknowledging what any person with sentience acknowledged, which
Speaker 3: is they did not have a democratic process. No votes
Speaker 3: were cast, Kamala became the nominee with nobody voting for
Speaker 3: her for president, and well then she ended up being
Speaker 3: a general election nominee with not enough people voting for
Speaker 3: her for president, and the entire Democrat Party circle the
Speaker 3: wagons around her, and now they're they're they're just throwing
Speaker 3: rocks and blaming everyone for what happened.
Speaker 2: When when you see the lack of I think just
Speaker 2: the best way I can describe it is self awareness.
Speaker 2: I wonder what it's going to look like in Washington
Speaker 2: come January. I mean, they've got to be just losing
Speaker 2: their minds now right.
Speaker 3: Well, and every day it's going to drive them crazier. Remember,
Speaker 3: they've convinced themselves that Donald Trump is hitler. Trump is
Speaker 3: going to be ubiquitous. He is going to be everywhere.
Speaker 3: I expect the first one hundred days to be fast,
Speaker 3: to be energetic. I'll tell you, I'm talking regularly the
Speaker 3: Trump transition team. They're moving forward with cabinet appointments. They
Speaker 3: want to move fast. They want to move fast with
Speaker 3: executive orders. They want to move fast fast with regulation,
Speaker 3: they want to move fast with legislation. They very much
Speaker 3: feel and I think this is right, that they have
Speaker 3: a mandate and let's go, go, go right now. That's that,
Speaker 3: that's where the Trump team is coming from, and that's
Speaker 3: going to drive Democrats out of their mind. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're still in a state of denial. They're still like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: this can't be happening. This can't be happening. I don't
Speaker 3: believe this is happening. And as I said that, they're
Speaker 3: still emotionally blaming each other. Take a listen to this clip.
Speaker 3: This is from John Favreau on pod Save America, one
Speaker 3: of the big big Obama bros. And and and and
Speaker 3: look look what he's saying now.
Speaker 7: Joe Biden's decision to run for president again was a
Speaker 7: catastrophic mistake.
Speaker 6: It just was.
Speaker 7: And he and his inner circle, they refuse to believe
Speaker 7: the polls. They refuse to believe he was unpopular. They
Speaker 7: refuse to acknowledge until very late that anyone could be
Speaker 7: upset about inflation. And they just kept telling us that
Speaker 7: his presidency was historic and it was the greatest economy ever.
Speaker 7: We just heard him again say that it's the greatest
Speaker 7: economy ever. Clearly seventy eighty percent of voters don't believe that.
Speaker 7: They don't believe that about their own personal financial situation,
Speaker 7: but they just keep telling us that. And then after
Speaker 7: the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls
Speaker 7: were fine and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They
Speaker 7: were privately telling reporters at the time that Kamala Harris
Speaker 7: couldn't win. So they were shiving Kamala Harris two reporters
Speaker 7: while they told everyone else, not a time for an
Speaker 7: open process, and his vice president can't win, So he's
Speaker 7: the strongest candidate then we find out when the Biden
Speaker 7: campaign becomes the Harris campaign that the Biden campaign's own
Speaker 7: internal polling at the time when they were telling us
Speaker 7: he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was
Speaker 7: going to win four hundred electoral votes. That's what their
Speaker 7: own internal polling said.
Speaker 8: There were polls showing eighty percent of voters thought Joe
Speaker 8: Biden was too old to get a second term before
Speaker 8: the debate, and then we all watched the debate, and
Speaker 8: then in the last few weeks Biden was campaigning and
Speaker 8: he said we need to lock Trump up. He created
Speaker 8: a controversy over whether Trump supporters were garbage. She said,
Speaker 8: you know the weird thing about slapping Trump on the ASCIC.
Speaker 8: His moments on the campaign trail worked flawless. Either you can't,
Speaker 8: you cannot. I want to stay for the record, I
Speaker 8: also think all the TV money I should.
Speaker 1: Be should be rethought to more importantly.
Speaker 9: The idea that Joe Biden was when you do better
Speaker 9: in this race than couple Harris is on its face upside.
Speaker 2: This is the number one liberal podcast America called Pod
Speaker 2: Save America. And I'm still trying to figure out exactly
Speaker 2: what their point is which was they were always screwed,
Speaker 2: whether it was Joe Biden or Harris or anyone else.
Speaker 3: Is that what they're know that Their point is they
Speaker 3: were right. Remember it's Obama that pushed Biden out. It's Obama,
Speaker 3: and it's Pelosi and it's Shumer. And so the Biden bros.
Speaker 3: Are defending Obama and that means it cannot have been
Speaker 3: a mistake to put Commonly in because they did that.
Speaker 3: So that means the mistake was Biden in the first place.
Speaker 3: In other words, they should have shived Biden a year.
Speaker 3: The mistake was waiting as long as they did to
Speaker 3: ship Biden's That's that's what they're saying, and it's open
Speaker 3: civil war. It's also striking, you know, you said the
Speaker 3: number one liberal podcast in America, which does make you
Speaker 3: kind of laugh. I wonder if both their listeners enjoy it.
Speaker 3: But but but contrasts that with this very amusing discussion
Speaker 3: on MSNBC where where leftists are are melting down that
Speaker 3: they don't have a Joe Rogan, that they don't have
Speaker 3: a Jordan Peterson.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And in their view, the right wing is is this
Speaker 3: this horrible wasteland and they want one, so give a
Speaker 3: listen to this discussion.
Speaker 5: Particularly the media ecosystem they've it's not a good one,
Speaker 5: it's a negative one. It's a it's a radicalization funnel.
Speaker 5: But what they have done in their online media ecosystem
Speaker 5: is build a radicalization engine, literally the way militant groups
Speaker 5: do around the world, that takes people from relatively low
Speaker 5: level annoyances with the world. Wire eggs so expensive, Why
Speaker 5: is my kid learning this new thing in American history
Speaker 5: in school that I didn't learn, and then moves them
Speaker 5: through YouTube videos, through podcasts, moves them from that annoyance
Speaker 5: all the way, slowly, slowly, slowly to a full blown
Speaker 5: fascist politics. It's an elaborate, multi billion dollar infrastructure, and
Speaker 5: there is nothing like it on the pro democracy side.
Speaker 5: We don't have an when a man is just lost
Speaker 5: and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don't have the
Speaker 5: equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to move that
Speaker 5: man in a feminist direction. By the way, we should
Speaker 5: educate men that it's actually really great to live with
Speaker 5: a strong woman who makes money.
Speaker 1: It's actually easier. Life is easier. I mean, it reminds
Speaker 1: me of limball days.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when they hated Limball, but then they
Speaker 2: were angry they didn't have a Limball, so they tried
Speaker 2: to make their own Limball and it never worked for them.
Speaker 1: Now they're saying, we've lost control.
Speaker 2: We are the mainstream media, and now we've lost the
Speaker 2: country and a lot of them have completely tuned us out.
Speaker 2: So now we want what the Republicans have, which was
Speaker 2: to counter us, which is podcasts and the internet, and
Speaker 2: we got to figure out how to control that now
Speaker 2: because they're not watching us anymore.
Speaker 3: That's where I heard, Well, I got to say that
Speaker 3: that whole discussion, it really encapsulates what's wrong with the
Speaker 3: left and what's wrong with the media all at once.
Speaker 3: Number One, they discuss the world of the right podcasts
Speaker 3: and various various outlets as as essentially like mad Max
Speaker 3: and Thunderdome, this dystopian, insane radicalization engine the way militant
Speaker 3: groups do like and apparently it's so horrible that they're like,
Speaker 3: we really need something like that, so they have envy
Speaker 3: to the Mad Max chaos. And then just like the
Speaker 3: descriptions that that that MSNBC uses relatively low level annoyances
Speaker 3: with the world. Why are eggs so expensive? This is
Speaker 3: your standard liberal elite saying, you know who possibly cares
Speaker 3: about their grocery bill?
Speaker 4: Well, how about people who.
Speaker 3: Go buy groceries every week and are struggling to pay
Speaker 3: for the bill, that are not sure they have enough
Speaker 3: to pay for groceries and pay for rent and pay
Speaker 3: for gas. But to the leftist commentator, that's that's that's
Speaker 3: beneath worrying. And then and then I love this one.
Speaker 3: Why is my kid learning this new thing in American
Speaker 3: history in school that I didn't learn this new thing
Speaker 3: by which they mean, Why is my kid being told
Speaker 3: America is a racist heel hole? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Speaker 3: We're evil. Everything about America is evil. The Constitution is evil.
Speaker 4: Why are people annoyed at that? I don't understand.
Speaker 3: You look at this and and I love that they
Speaker 3: call it an elaborate, multi billion dollar infrastructure. There's nothing
Speaker 3: like it on the quote pro democracy side. Well, an
Speaker 3: elaborate multi billion dollar infrastructure, what would you call CNN?
Speaker 3: What would you call ABC, NBC, NBC, NBCMSNBCCBS, What would
Speaker 3: you call The Washington Post, The New York Times, the
Speaker 3: Houston Chronicle of the Dallas Morning News. Every newspaper in America.
Speaker 3: What would you call PBS? Well, what would you call
Speaker 3: every movie studio in Hollywood? What would you call the
Speaker 3: entire world of big tech? Other than next that Twitter bought,
Speaker 3: that Elon Musk bought, Like, they have all of the
Speaker 3: avenues of communication, and they're furious that anyone who disagrees
Speaker 3: is allowed to speak.
Speaker 4: And they're sitting there saying, we need to.
Speaker 3: Take that over as well, because you know what, when
Speaker 3: they start talking, they really don't like our terrible policies.
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Speaker 2: and I want to see if you agree with me.
Speaker 1: You may not, but this is my analysis of it.
Speaker 2: We find out not before election day, but after election
Speaker 2: day of a very significant and real threat to Donald
Speaker 2: Trump that was a bounty put on him and people
Speaker 2: that were hired to kill Donald Trump, all orchestrated from
Speaker 2: Iran and all of a sudden, not before election day,
Speaker 2: no leaks, but after election day, the deep State's like,
Speaker 2: oh crap, we got to work with Donald Trump again.
Speaker 2: We need better look like we do our job well.
Speaker 1: Bam.
Speaker 2: We're going to have a big indictment come out and say, see, look,
Speaker 2: we look out for Donald Trump too, and we're going
Speaker 2: to do an indictment against an Iranian guy and some
Speaker 2: other people that were trying to kill him. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you're telling me that this was not like Newsworthy before
Speaker 2: election day and it's just coincidence it came out after
Speaker 2: election day.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm calling.
Speaker 3: BS well, let's focus on the substance first and then
Speaker 3: we'll address the timing of it. What the Department of
Speaker 3: Justice has said publicly is that it thwarted an Iranian
Speaker 3: plot to kill Donald Trump in the weeks leading up
Speaker 3: to the election, and it filed a criminal complaint in
Speaker 3: federal court in New York City that said an unnamed
Speaker 3: official in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had asked far
Speaker 3: Had Shakri of Iran in September to quote focus on
Speaker 3: surveilling and ultimately assassinating former President of the United States
Speaker 3: Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump.
Speaker 3: Now here's what Merrick Garland said in the press statement. Quote,
Speaker 3: there are a few actors in the world that poses
Speaker 3: gravest threat to the national security of the United States
Speaker 3: as does Iran.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian
Speaker 3: regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a
Speaker 3: network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination plot against
Speaker 3: its targets, including President elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we
Speaker 3: allege were recruited as a part of that network to
Speaker 3: silence and kill on us soil an American journalist who
Speaker 3: has been a prominent critic of the regime. We will
Speaker 3: not stand for the Iranian regime's attempts to endanger the
Speaker 3: American people in America's national security. Now, the Justice Department
Speaker 3: says that Shakiri, who is at large, he has not
Speaker 3: been captured. He's believed to be living in Iran. Quote
Speaker 3: immigrated to the United States as a child and was
Speaker 3: deported in Or about two thousand and eight after serving
Speaker 3: fourteen years in prison for a robbery conviction. Shakiri has
Speaker 3: informed law enforcement that he was tasked on October seventh,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, with providing a plan to kill President
Speaker 3: elect Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump.
Speaker 3: The oj continued quote. According to Shakiri, during his meeting
Speaker 3: with IRGUS official Honor about October seventh, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: IRG official directed Shiri to provide a plan within its
Speaker 3: seven days to kill Trump. If Shakiri was unable to
Speaker 3: put forth a plan that within that timeframe, IRG official
Speaker 3: continue the IRGC would pause its plan to kill Trump
Speaker 3: until after the US presidential elections because the IRGC official
Speaker 3: assessed that Trump would lose the election and afterwards it
Speaker 3: would be easier to assassinate Trump. Now there's more, but
Speaker 3: let's stop at that. So they hired a guy month
Speaker 3: before the election to kill Trump, to come up with
Speaker 3: a plan to kill Trump. And they also concluded, well,
Speaker 3: if you don't succeed in that, we'll just wait until
Speaker 3: after the election because we know Kamala is going to win.
Speaker 3: And once Kamala wins, then we can go kill Trump
Speaker 3: and it will be much easier. Well, you know that
Speaker 3: plan didn't work. Shakiri also said he was tasked with
Speaker 3: surveilling two Jewish American citizens residing in New York City
Speaker 3: and offered five hundred thousand dollars by an IRGC official
Speaker 3: for the murder of either victim. Federal prosecutors have also
Speaker 3: charged and arrested Carlisle Rivera forty nine of Brooklyn, New York,
Speaker 3: and Jonathan Loadholt thirty six, of Staten Island, New York,
Speaker 3: in connection to their alleged involvement in a plot to
Speaker 3: murder a US citizen of Iranian origin in New York.
Speaker 3: That person, according to law enforcement sources, is Masi a Linijad.
Speaker 3: And here's what doj says quote it Shakiri's instruction, load
Speaker 3: Holt and Rivera have spent months surveiling a US citizen
Speaker 3: of Iranian origin residing in the United States, and that
Speaker 3: would be a Linijad. Alinijad is an outspoken critic of
Speaker 3: the Iranian regime and has been the target of multiple
Speaker 3: prior plots for kidnapping and or murder directed by the
Speaker 3: government of Iran in exchange for Shakiri's promise one hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Rivera and Loadholt repeatedly sought to locate Victim
Speaker 3: one for murder. Prosecutors said that during their efforts to
Speaker 3: locate and kill a Lidijad quote, Shakiri, load Hold, and
Speaker 3: Rivera shared messages about their progress and photographs relating to
Speaker 3: the scene. For example, in or about February twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: Rivera and load Hold message about an upcoming payment from Shakiri,
Speaker 3: and then traveled to Fairfield University where Victim one was
Speaker 3: scheduled to appear, and took photographs on campus. In one
Speaker 3: voice note, Shakiri noted Rivera that Victim one spent most
Speaker 3: of her time in particular locations of her home and
Speaker 3: told Rivera that quote, you just got to have patience.
Speaker 3: You got to wait and have patience to catch her
Speaker 3: either going in the house or coming out, or following
Speaker 3: her out somewhere and taking care of it. Don't think
Speaker 3: about going in in is a suicide move. And all
Speaker 3: three suspects are now facing charges of murder for hire,
Speaker 3: conspiracy to commit murder for hire, and money laundering conspiracy,
Speaker 3: and together those carry maximum penalties of ten to twenty
Speaker 3: years in prison.
Speaker 2: You hear this plot and you sit there and you go,
Speaker 2: how on earth has the Biden Hearris administration allowed Iran
Speaker 2: to get to this point where they can just easily
Speaker 2: go out into the United States of America, knock on
Speaker 2: people's doors in America, get away with this, and not
Speaker 2: hold them accountable for any of this while they're also
Speaker 2: attacking Israel. And the question is number one, let's start
Speaker 2: with the real political aspect of this. What is a
Speaker 2: Trump administration response seem to be with this. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying because they were targeting Trump. I'm saying the president
Speaker 2: of the United States of America, regardless of who that
Speaker 2: person is, should never allow Ran to feel this comfortable
Speaker 2: on American soil to do this, much less plan to
Speaker 2: take out our president or a former president of the
Speaker 2: United States of America.
Speaker 3: Well, election day was a fantastic day for America. It
Speaker 3: was fantastic day for everyone who wants to see jobs,
Speaker 3: who wants to see border security, who wants to see
Speaker 3: national security enhanced. But it was a terrible, terrible day
Speaker 3: for the Ayatola and the Iranian blas. For four years,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with this, of every Democrat
Speaker 3: in Congress, they have funneled over one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 3: to Iran. It's not just that Biden Harris allowed Iran
Speaker 3: to do this, they paid for it. One hundred billion
Speaker 3: dollars is a lot of money. I'm here to tell
Speaker 3: you that is going to end. In January of next year.
Speaker 3: The Trump administration is going to cut off the money.
Speaker 3: That's going to be the beginning. And I expect serious
Speaker 3: consequences for Iran repeatedly trying to murder President Trump. I
Speaker 3: don't know what those consequences will be, but I guarantee
Speaker 3: you the Iyatolas are the Iatola and the Mullahs are deeply,
Speaker 3: deeply worried and scared and the brazenness of this. And
Speaker 3: look understand, the Justice Department knew about this. They deliberately
Speaker 3: did not make it public until after election day. I
Speaker 3: think they had a judgment. Well, gosh, if people know
Speaker 3: that Iran is like actively trying to murder Trump, if
Speaker 3: they know the details of this, that's going to end
Speaker 3: up benefiting Trump. So let's just keep it quiet and
Speaker 3: well Trump won.
Speaker 2: So then it was cover your ables. Is that a
Speaker 2: fair way of describing this.
Speaker 4: You know, yes and no.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, they had to file the complaint at
Speaker 3: some point, so they're prosecuting these folks. So it was
Speaker 3: inevitable that it would be filed, because you can't prosecute
Speaker 3: them without filing the indictment and bringing charges. The timing,
Speaker 3: the fact that they did not say anything public. Look,
Speaker 3: DOJ has long standing rules that you're not supposed to
Speaker 3: do anything to interfere in an election. I would say
Speaker 3: that that foiling an assassination attempt by a foreign government
Speaker 3: is not DOJ doing something to interfere with an election.
Speaker 3: It is instead DOJ doing its job. And I think
Speaker 3: the public has a right to know that. But and
Speaker 3: so I think their decision to bury it and listen
Speaker 3: under Joe Biden, this Biden Department of Justice, if there's
Speaker 3: one thing they know how to do, it is leak.
Speaker 3: Merrick Garland and his team they leak like crazy when
Speaker 3: the story. When the story suits them politically, they give
Speaker 3: it to all their buddies in the press. This thing
Speaker 3: stayed absolutely silent until after election day. They also kept silent,
Speaker 3: uh the the murder attempt of the US citizen by Iran,
Speaker 3: because it also shows the incredible weakness of this administration,
Speaker 3: just how much they've had boldened Iran that they feel
Speaker 3: that they could carry out attempted murder plots on US soil.
Speaker 3: It is a real demonstration of the basic principle that
Speaker 3: that weakness invites hostility. In this case, Iran was only
Speaker 3: emboldened by Joe Biden Kamala Harris's weakness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Fox News when they reported on this, it
Speaker 2: was very interesting to see how they report it. And
Speaker 2: I want to play this people, and I want you
Speaker 2: to think about why you didn't know this before election day.
Speaker 6: Listen, the Justice Department unsealing criminal charges in a thwarted
Speaker 6: Iranian plot to kill President elect Donald Trump in the
Speaker 6: lead up to this week's election. Welcome everybody. I'm dealing cabudo.
Speaker 6: There's still a lot we don't know about this, but
Speaker 6: David's on piecing together what we do, David.
Speaker 9: Neil, we know it's just another threat coming from Iran
Speaker 9: directed at President elect Donald Trump. The man that authorities
Speaker 9: are looking for is a fifty one year old who
Speaker 9: is allegedly working with the Iranian regime on a plan
Speaker 9: to kill Trump. His name is Farhad Shakiri. Authorities believe
Speaker 9: he's in Iran right now as I speak to you.
Speaker 9: According to a criminal complaint on Seal today, Shakiri demanded
Speaker 9: large sums of money for working on this plot to
Speaker 9: kill Trump over the past few months. At stated in
Speaker 9: a complaint, Shakiri indicated to an Iran Iranian government official
Speaker 9: that this would cost a huge amount of money. In response,
Speaker 9: the Iranian official said, we have already spent a lot
Speaker 9: of money, so the money's not an issue. In a
Speaker 9: statement from FBI Director Christopher Ray, he says the Islamic
Speaker 9: Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated foreign terrorist organization, has been
Speaker 9: conspiring with criminals and hitmen to target and gun down
Speaker 9: Americans on US soil, and that simply won't be tolerated.
Speaker 9: Thanks to the heart work of the FBI, their deadly
Speaker 9: schemes were disrupted.
Speaker 2: By the way they said. And this is the part
Speaker 2: I want to ask you. They said it was won't
Speaker 2: be tolerated. I'm not sure I believe that based on
Speaker 2: what we know now. It seems like we've been tolerating
Speaker 2: Iran basically doing whatever the hell they want to do
Speaker 2: for quite some time in the world.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and look It's important to understand a
Speaker 3: lot of the press when they talk about Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: foreign policy, they mischaracterize it. There are a lot of
Speaker 3: folks that characterized Trump as an isolationist. That's not remotely
Speaker 3: the case. I mean, part of the reason Iran is
Speaker 3: so angry is because remember Trump took out he killed
Speaker 3: General Solomony. General Solomony was responsible for orchestrating the murder
Speaker 3: of over six hundred American servicemen and women. He was
Speaker 3: one of the leading terrorists in the world, and Iran's
Speaker 3: the leading state sponsor of terrorism, and Donald Trump took
Speaker 3: him out. Donald Trump also enforced the oil sanctions, pulled
Speaker 3: out of the Iran deal, brought the Iranian economy to
Speaker 3: its knees, cut off their money, had the regime ready
Speaker 3: to topple. That is strength what Trump rightly did. And
Speaker 3: by the way, on all of those steps, I was
Speaker 3: urging Trump to proceed to vigorously defend us against Iran.
Speaker 3: What Trump also did, though, is he did not get
Speaker 3: us in foreign wars. It is amazing how the weakness
Speaker 3: and appeasement of the left gets it exactly backwards.
Speaker 4: They're eager to get us.
Speaker 3: In mesh and foreign wars all over the world, but
Speaker 3: they're not willing to be strong against people who actually
Speaker 3: are trying to kill us. And in this instance, there
Speaker 3: are going to be very, very real consequences for Iran.
Speaker 3: The first will be economic. Their money is going to disappear,
Speaker 3: but there's going to be consequences that are a lot
Speaker 3: more real world than just dollars and cents.
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Speaker 2: thoughts on this because it's an interesting story and it's
Speaker 2: really just a sad story. I think it's a such
Speaker 2: a sad story for the people that are hurting, who
Speaker 2: were needing the help of their government. It has come
Speaker 2: out now that a FEMA official ordered relief workers to
Speaker 2: deliberately and purposely skip the houses of people that have
Speaker 2: been affected by the hurricane that had Trump signs up
Speaker 2: a whistle blower cane forward. So it's almost unbelievable to
Speaker 2: think that somebody in the federal government would think that's okay.
Speaker 2: I'm actually, by the way, not surprised, unfortunately, that there
Speaker 2: are people in this Biden Harris government that would say,
Speaker 2: screw those that are Trump supporters and don't give them
Speaker 2: government aid even after a hurricane.
Speaker 1: Yet this did happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this story, it's a story of an incredible abuse
Speaker 3: of power and just a brazen partisanship that sadly hypofies.
Speaker 3: What has happened throughout the Biden Harris administration. I want
Speaker 3: to give credit to the Daily Wire. The Daily Wire
Speaker 3: broke this story. It also illustrates how so called mainstream media,
Speaker 3: the corporate media, does not actually report on real news.
Speaker 3: It took the Daily Wire to make this public. It's
Speaker 3: also the Daily Wire that broke the stories in Loudon
Speaker 3: County couple of years ago about the teenage girl who
Speaker 3: was sexually assault in the bathroom by the boy wearing
Speaker 3: a skirt, because again, the corporate media wouldn't report on
Speaker 3: it well. In this instance, the Daily Wire reported that
Speaker 3: that instructions were given to FEMA workers that said, and
Speaker 3: they actually have screenshots of the instructions that say, quote
Speaker 3: implement best practices. No one goes anywhere alone, avoid homes advertising,
Speaker 3: trump practice de escalation and preventative measures. Communicate with and
Speaker 3: follow the rules. Bring a towel with yourself in the field.
Speaker 3: Frequent breaks, and drink water. Avoid how salt, diets and coffee.
Speaker 3: Coconut water is a fast way to replenish your electrolytes quickly.
Speaker 3: So this is written instruction for emergency emergency workers who
Speaker 3: are dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane, a natural disaster,
Speaker 3: and they are told in writing avoid homes advertising Trump. Now, now, look,
Speaker 3: this only happens when you absolutely normalize the weaponization of
Speaker 3: government against the enemies of your regime. This is this
Speaker 3: particular individual was caught, and this person's been fired. Now,
Speaker 3: of course she's been fired, she should have been fired.
Speaker 3: But the broader question was what kind of culture was
Speaker 3: there that made you think you should explicitly say hey,
Speaker 3: and and I mean these are this.
Speaker 2: Is providing put it in right, comfortable enough to put
Speaker 2: it in writing.
Speaker 1: Yep, ye wonder what else is in writing that that that.
Speaker 4: Is exactly right?
Speaker 3: And you know, one of the employees who was one
Speaker 3: of the whistleblowers said, quote, I know their short staff.
Speaker 3: I thought we could go help and make a difference.
Speaker 3: When we got there, we were told to discriminate against people.
Speaker 3: It's almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal
Speaker 3: government would think that's okay. The employee said that it
Speaker 3: felt wrong to discriminate against Trump supporters when they were
Speaker 3: at their most vulnerable.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: I volunteered to help disaster victims, not discriminate against them.
Speaker 3: It didn't matter if people were black, white, Hispanic for Trump,
Speaker 3: for Harris, everyone deserves the same amount of help that
Speaker 3: would be actually the government doing its job. But sadly,
Speaker 3: too many in the Biden Harris administration, too many on
Speaker 3: the left that they have convinced themselves Trump is hitler.
Speaker 3: Anyone who supports him as garbage, and therefore you can
Speaker 3: do anything possible to go after them. It's a really
Speaker 3: sad example of just how weaponized this administration's gotten.
Speaker 2: I hope this inspires others if there are other stories
Speaker 2: out there, other emails and things in writing like this
Speaker 2: that will be brought forward. I am glad by the
Speaker 2: way that the woman's been fired, but the question that
Speaker 2: I have to ask after that is, well, were there
Speaker 2: any law is broken?
Speaker 1: And I hope they look at that as well well.
Speaker 3: And Ben and Ben, let me let me say, if
Speaker 3: you go into the story, there are photos from the
Speaker 3: systems that federal relief workers used to track the homes
Speaker 3: they visited, and it showed that they followed the written guidance.
Speaker 3: Several addresses were marked as quote not able to access property,
Speaker 3: with listed explanations such as quote trump sign no entry,
Speaker 3: per leadership, quote per leadership, no stop Trump flag quote
Speaker 3: Trump sign end quote Trump sign. No contact per leadership.
Speaker 3: This was this was yes, yes, it was carried out
Speaker 3: by supervision. That the name of the individual is someone.
Speaker 3: Marnie Washington is the one who issued this order. Marnie
Speaker 3: Washington has been fired. But this was an organization where
Speaker 3: this order was par for the course. Call me cenecal,
Speaker 3: but I'm just going to say it.
Speaker 1: Watch.
Speaker 2: I bet you some liberal organization is more than happy
Speaker 2: to hire her right away and say job well done,
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