Speaker 1: When Trump conelected and when he was when he was
putting people in place in his Justice department, they were
all gonna release the Epstein files immediately.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That was just one of the things that they talked
about like it was a done deal, and they promised
everybody they got there, and then something happened.
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you books articles by the thousands over the years. John, Hey,
when we left off last time, we omitted a couple
of key stories the Epstein thing, which evidently there was
nothing to see there and just move along, right, nothing happened?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine, how.
Speaker 1: Did we miss Epstein and Russiagate last week? And you
know we still filled up the time with no trouble,
which tells you how crazy this world is. But yeah,
the Epstein thing is really not going away, although it's
got competition now. But here's a quick theory of how
Epstein played out, because you know, when when Trump got
elected and when he was when he was putting people
in place in his Justice Department, they were all going
to release the Epstein files immediately. You know, that was
just one of the things that they talked about like
it was a done deal, and they promised everybody they
got there, and then something happened, somebody got to them
or what. And I think there are free explanations and
they're they're about equally possible plausible. The first is that
you know, his guys were looking through the files and everything,
and they came back to Trump and said, you know,
mister President, this is a gold mine we have here.
You know, you could blackmail five thousand of the richest
people in the world to get them to do whatever
you want, just by telling them that you've got video
of them committing horrendous crimes with teenagers and Trump saw
that and decided that he wanted to keep that power.
And so now, of course they have to lie to
us about it, but he's decided to use that power
to control the world. That's possibility number one. The second
is that his people came to him and said, mister President,
you know you're in this file right there's film of you.
And Trump said really, you know, he literally didn't know,
and then as soon as he saw that, he had
to back off. And the third was Bibi Nett Yaho
called him out and said, listen, we've got film of
you in the Epstein files thanks to Masad and and
you are going to do what we say from now on.
You're going to bomb Iran, etcetera, etcetera, et cetera. And
Trump has to go alarm because whatever it is that's
in the file is bad enough that even he might
not recover from it. You know, Trump is the closest
thing to ethically bulletproof of any president we've ever had.
You know, It's like there used to be a Louisiana
politician that would say something like it, They're going to
get me. They they've got to catch me with a
live boy or a dead girl. You know, he's that
a bulletproof and Trump is kind of like that to
your Whatever it is in that file has got to
be much worse than like plissy grabber or whatever. You know,
the main the multiple things that he's already admitted to.
So okay, one of those three is true in my opinion,
we don't know what it is, and they unlike you're
you're going to find out what it is. But meanwhile,
there's other investigations going on outside of the Justice Department
strictly speaking, so some stuff might come up, you know,
we'll see, but right now they're you know, they're putting
it on the back burner and there's nothing regular people
can do to get it back on the front.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's so much other stuff that's happened. And honestly,
you know, I used to have cases like this where
we found the guy did wrongdoing. But fifteen twenty years ago,
it's ancient history by standards.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 4: The guy's been dead for many years. The story has lingered,
it's had its ups and downs, but pretty much now
it's an old story. It's like kind of like Bill
Clinton fooling around. It's like nobody cares anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, but if it's if it's rich, powerful guys fooling
around with fourteen year olds. Yeah, that's an evergreen story there.
You know that that would never away if it's proven
to be true. How to destroy thousands of lives and
rightfully so, and destabilize governments and rightfully so. So you know,
we'll see. There's just no more information that we can
hang out iver than to just to speculate.
Speaker 4: Now, I don't think anything, honestly, I don't think anything
is going to come of it. But but you know,
like I've been wrong before, and sometimes these stories take
on a life of their own and there really is
no stopping them. So we're going to see about that,
because you know, the story isn't going away. But there's
other bigger stories like Telsea Gabbard's findings. Like I always
thought that that Director of National Intelligence was a completely
useless position that was just politically created after nine to
eleven because the intelligence agencies didn't talk to each other.
They all knew about the called nine to eleven terrorists,
but none of them ever did anything about it. I
just thought it was a bureaucratic cya position. But she
has actually taken the power of that position and is
actually doing something with it. And what she said the
disclosure is that basically the whole Russiagate thing was concocted
by the outgoing Obama administration and everybody was in on it.
And then they released there was another whistleblower that came
out that said that Adam Schiff and Eric Swolwell leaked
classified information to undermine Trump. That story looks like it's
starting to take off here.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, this is an immense scandal, and we already
kind of sort of knew a lot of this stuff.
I mean that at Hillary Clinton, her campaign financed the
creation of the Steele dossier, was already out there because
the campaign had to pay a fine to a federal
Elections Commission for misrepresenting the money that they spent to
create the Steel dolls. Yet, so that was already out there,
and then a lot of the other stuff was out
there too. But now it's coming from official sources and
not just being leaked, you know, in one way or another,
and it implicates everybody from Obama down to Clinton and
then all the way through the January sixth Committee, and
all of these guys are in one way or another
implicated in the government's crimes against Donald Trump. You know,
the government basically just panicked. They couldn't have him in office,
and so they decided that they were just going to
do whatever it took to get rid of him, replacing
with Clinton, you know, make sure that Hillary Clinton was
in office, and then the stuff would never come out.
But their worst case scenario is now unfolding. Not only
did Trump get back into office, he's seriously pissed, you know,
because he didn't know a lot of this stuff that's
coming out too probably or he didn't know it for sure,
and now he does. And you know, remember when when
you and I used to talk about whether it would
be a good thing or bad thing for the Trump
administration to come in and just start prosecuting his enemies,
because on the one hand, they deserve it. On the
other hand, it's it kind of creates a Banana Republic
pattern where whoever comes into office immediately attacks whoever has
left office, And we don't want that to be the
new normal. But on the other hand, it would just
be so emotionally satisfying to see Hillary and you know,
twenty other people in her cabal in orange prison jumpsuits
being led in handcuffs up the courtroom steps. You know,
that would be really fun to watch. So I don't
know which I want to happen now, you know, I
I'm afraid we become a banana republic, but I'd love
the idea of these guys being seriously prosecuted. So we'll see.
You know, it looks like some people are going to
be prosecuted and then others are beyond the statute of
limitations and and YadA YadA. You know, they're they're beyond
reach right now. But if the people who are being
prosecuted in order to get reduced sentences come out and
dish all the dirt on Hillary and Bill and all
their people, and uh, that'll be pretty satisfying to it.
So we'll see. But so far, so good.
Speaker 2: I agree with what you're saying.
Speaker 4: And there's a more important issue, and that issue is
quite simply, if you don't hold these people accountable, they're
going to do it again. Now, there's no way that
Obama will be indicted. He'll be an unindicted co conspirator.
And honestly, Hillary's got to got one foot in the grave.
She's in bad health, so she's not going to jail
but Clapper and Brennan and Komy, they're the they're going
to be the fall guys. And it doesn't matter if
they say, oh, we can lead you to Obama, it
doesn't matter. But some of the underlings of Obama I
can't even remember, Samantha Powers and the other ones. There
a couple of females. They're also on the line, and
in a way it's more important to get to them
than it is to get to the any of the
other ones, because they're still active and it's gonna be fun.
Hey what about Trump taking over DC, over the police department,
sending the guard in and just saying enough is enough.
Speaker 1: See, that's another one of those really satisfying things on
the one hand, that, on the other hand, kind of
sad a precedent that I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Where it leads.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, Washington, d C. Should be a showcase.
That's the capital city of the main empire of the world,
right and it should be a place that you know,
you shouldn't feel fear for your life when you're walking
around there. So I think you can make the case
from a governance standpoint that you make a perimeter around
the Capitol Building and the White House and everything, and
you clear out the dangerous elements that are there now,
you know, you make it a place where people who
come from other countries can see the statues and the
monuments and can walk around in total safety. And you
count that as a national security slash public policy issue.
That is just obvious. You know, that's how you treat
your capital city. So I get it. I get it.
I just I hope it doesn't become a pattern where
any city that is causing the federal government of trouble
just immediately gets occupied by the National Guard. You know.
Hopefully it doesn't go that far. It stays with d
C and DC becomes a great place, like right now.
You know, I would be frankly afraid to go to
the d C because I don't know my way around,
you know, and I don't know if I actually wander
into a place where I'm immediately mugged and beaten and shy.
You know, that's completely possible in my mind based on
what I see on YouTube. You know, so well, that
shouldn't be the way it is for the capital city.
Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you I've spent a lot of
time in DC because they used to have to do
weekend filings at the Supreme Court, and I loved it there,
and it was no it's been bad probably since the sixties,
since the riots nineteen sixty eight, I think like hundreds
of people died there, and since the sixties it's gotten
down the tubes. And I actually research this. The District
of Columbia's in the constitution is federal property and they
only gave home rule to the local politicians in nineteen
seventy three. Prior to that is run by the Feds,
and there are various provisions in that home rule law
where Trump can take it back supposedly only for thirty days,
but he can keep extending it if it's an emergency.
And really it's disgraceful what they've done, and it's a
typical blue city where everything is falling apart and nothing
gets done properly and they can't protect people. And what
the other thing I did research on and I've actually
sent it to some people, is this the government. You know,
we have these sanctuary cities and they've got these jails
with tons, hundreds of thousands of illegals across the country,
and they won't turn them over to the Feds. But
what the FEDS can do under eminent domain, and there's
a provision called the quick Take Authority. They just had
to file an action, pay money into court, and then
they could just take the jails and literally they could
do it overnight, no hearings, no nothing, and they could
take wings of the jails whatever, and then they send
ice in there. They're now in charge of the jails.
Plus there's tons of empty space and a lot of
these jails because the Blue cities have led all the
criminals out and cashless bail, so they got lots of
room to put the detainees to store them until they're deported.
And this is like a real thing. They can do
this in like five minutes if they decide to no hearings, nothing.
Speaker 2: It's called quick take Authority. I have the site.
Speaker 4: If anybody wants to, just email me kl at Carrie
LUTs dot com.
Speaker 2: That's what they should be doing. Go after the.
Speaker 4: Top hundred sanctuary cities eminent domain their jails, empty them
out of the illegal immigrants, and use them to hold
more illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: And when Stephen Miller finds out about this, he's gonna
he's gonna go wild with it. And you know, a
side point here is that one of the reasons why
the Democrats approval as a political party, why their approval
is that record lows, is that you can just flat
out see who's in charge of what right now, and
anybody who's paying attention can see that every single entity,
without just a couple possible exceptions, every single entity that's
run by Democrats is a healths you know, it's just
a terrible place and getting worse all the time. Yeah,
they don't want it as well. You can make the
case that it strengthens their hand because the worse it gets,
the people who might vote Republican leave and that just
leaves the people who are only going to vote Democrat there.
So Democrats become a one party state, or they become
the ruler of a one party state, and that suits
them just fine because they're making tons of money bleeding
the government for their own purposes. So, you know, it's
a horrible thing to say as if it's true, but
it does seem to be true. I mean, what else
can be the rationale?
Speaker 2: Follow the money?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're letting a place like California, which is just
twenty years ago, was this shining star of the best
place to be all to everybody in the world. Everybody
wanted to go there, and now everybody who's there wants
to be out of there as quickly as possible. So yeah,
hopefully there's an end point in this process where blue
states kind of hit bottom and change their governance policies.
But I don't know. In the meantime, yeah, you know,
people are leaving, but the the the U haul truck
in the U haul ratio, yeah, you haul ratio is
pointing from blue to red right now in a big way,
and there's no reason to think it'll change in the
short run.
Speaker 4: Look at Florida, Florida, it was purple, you know, in
two thousand and now it's bright red. And you know,
it's it's just happening before our very eyes, this trend.
And what about what's happening in Texas with the legislature,
with the redistricting and the fact that they're going to
redistrict and Trump is going to redo the census because
it is inaccurately done, and all of these blue states.
Speaker 2: Now it becomes apparent.
Speaker 4: Why they wanted all these illegals, because their regular citizens
are leaving.
Speaker 2: The illegals come the census.
Speaker 4: Their House seats are apportioned on the basis of people
in the state, not citizens, so they artificially inflate the
number of representatives that they're entitled to. And that was
the griff, John, That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the open border thing was clearly a political power play.
It was really audacious. I mean it was despicable. But
you've got to give them credit for audacity because that
was high risk. You know, you open the borders for
three years and people are going to be mad at you.
But if the ten million people you let in, I'll
vote for you. It doesn't matter if those other people
are mad at you. You still own the political system.
And they got very close. You know, if Kamala had
beaten Trump this last time around, that would have been
it for the two party system. There would have been
one party in charge of everything. So it's understandable that
they kind of swung for the fences on that one
because the best case scenario, you know, if they win,
was phenomenal. They would rule the world. How did we
get here for that? Oh? The census thing. You know,
when you ask most Americans if the census should count
illegal immigrants, as a way of apportioning congressional seats and
then let those illegal immigrants vote, which is the next
step in the process. Eighty percent of Americans say, no,
that's crazy. We don't do that, do we. And then
it turns out that we do do that, which is
another reason people are turning against the Democrats, because the
Democrats are defending that. Yeah, that would be that policy. Yeah,
of apportioning congressional seats according to how many not just
citizens there are, but everybody illegal and legal alike. And
that's just crazy. And so Trump is playing hardball with
this one too. This is another thing where a normal
government would not think of saying, hey, let's just do
another census. You know, I know it says in the
Constitution every ten years, but what the heck, let's just
do one, correct you. Yeah? Well, and so they're going
to do it, and that's going to cost the Democrats
a lot of congressional seats and gain the Republicans a
lot of congressional seats. And then they're the Supreme Court
just made a ruling that said you cannot use race
when designing congressional districts, so you have to do it
in a color blind way. You can do it in
a political party favoring way, but you can't use race
as part of your criteria. And that is going to
cost the Democrats a lot of Congressional seats. It's gained
some for the Republicans. So it's it's conceivable now that
in the next midterm elections that the Republicans don't just
get swept and the and the Democrats take back Congress.
It's possible that the Republicans hold Congress, which gives Trump
two more years to do all the stuff that he's
doing now. Right now, they're rushing to get everything done
because they think they only have two years. But yeah,
old Congress and get two more years. Then it doesn't
seem to be a limit to the stuff that's going
to get done. You know, for better or worse, the
world a world, the US and the world are going
to be reshaped in the image of Donald Trump, which
is just an amazing got I.
Speaker 4: Want to go back to something he said about the
Epstein files and the blackmailing and all that. Not that
I'm saying it's being done, but don't you find it
interesting that the Supreme Court, which was so resistant to
him his first term and the composition isn't really any different.
He appointed I think two or three of the judges
on there all of a sudden, the right oriented judges
are much more compliant, if you will. They're really uh,
finding for Trump in virtually every case. I think he
won sixteen cases before the Supreme Court, which is some
kind of record.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they're being blackmailed or they've just
come to their senses or what, But don't you find
that kind of interesting?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I think a lot of these guys
on the Supreme Court always believed in certain things, but
it was never political politically feasible to rule.
Speaker 1: But for instance, overthrowing or overturning roversus way seems virtually
impossible a couple of years before it actually happened. And
there's a lot of other stuff like that. There's this
Cheperon thing, which is a huge deal. We probably don't
have time to really delve into it now, but it
it hands massive power to the court from the regulatory
administrative state, which is just a political earthquake. And they
did it. I just went out and did it. So yeah,
it's interesting. I bet Trump is going to go down
in history as one of the most consequential presidents ever.
And if if it's only what he did with the
Supreme Court, that's enough for him to be put in
the same category of consequence as FDR and Ronald Reagan,
because this is a very big deal and it looks
like he gets to name a couple more before his
next three years or yeah, yeah, it's probably so yeah,
I just what he wants to do, and he says,
he says this now is you know, I don't want
to name a sixty five year old. I want to
name a forty year old. So they're there for the
next thirty or forty years. So he's looking at a
conservative court to the end of this century. That's just
that's amazing when you think about it.
Speaker 2: Totally. All right, Well that's it for us today.
Speaker 4: I'm glad we connected went over those things that we neglected.
Everything will be in the show notes, John's substack link
and everything you need.
Speaker 2: John. We'll talk to you in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Thanks Garry, see.
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