1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,800 your support. All Right, so we've got some other stuff 10 00:00:30,839 --> 00:00:34,920 going on with the m Grayson. What did I just 11 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:35,880 do with my sheet of paper? 12 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: Wait? 13 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: Where did it go? Real professional? Pete? Here it is? 14 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 3: No, it. 15 00:00:41,719 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: Is the the trend day Aragua. I don't know what 16 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,719 happened to it, Like I literally just had it here 17 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:53,000 and now it is all, Oh here it is. I 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,799 put it in with my ticket giveaway ahaa my bed. Okay, 19 00:00:57,079 --> 00:01:00,240 So we have the trend ay Arago. Question. Is a 20 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,760 military incursion or not? This is not MS thirteen, totally 21 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,640 different gang okay. But they too have been allowed to 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,959 come into the country. So this is the one that 23 00:01:11,079 --> 00:01:15,400 involves the judge up in DC, the Chief Judge of 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,280 the U S District Court of District of Columbia Judge 25 00:01:18,599 --> 00:01:25,599 James bow Asberg Boseburg bo as Berg. Anyway, Boseburg's central 26 00:01:25,719 --> 00:01:29,680 argument is that it is inappropriate for President Trump to 27 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:36,760 apply the Alien Enemies Act against trend De Arbawa or TDA. 28 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:42,519 Boseburg said, TDA is not a foreign government against whom 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,280 the US has declared war, right, and I think we 30 00:01:48,319 --> 00:01:54,079 can all agree Trenda Arragua TDA is not an elected 31 00:01:54,200 --> 00:02:00,439 or recognized government of Venezuela. Now that doesn't mean that 32 00:02:00,519 --> 00:02:07,400 it is completely separate from the Venezuelan government, and this 33 00:02:07,599 --> 00:02:10,039 is going to be the problem for Boseburg, I think. 34 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:16,240 So this goes to the Alien Instedition Law, right, which, 35 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,759 like everybody knows, like you've probably heard something about that 36 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:26,120 in your K twelve education. You know, John Adams tried 37 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:29,400 to you know, keep people from saying things and whatever. 38 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:33,840 So this was part of that law. And it says 39 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:39,560 that whenever there shall be a declared war between the 40 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:46,759 United States and any foreign nation or government COMMA, or 41 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:53,439 any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or 42 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:58,479 threatened against the territory of the United States COMMA by 43 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:03,520 any foreign nation government COMMA and the President of the 44 00:03:03,599 --> 00:03:07,599 United States shall make public proclamation of the event. All 45 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,039 native citizens denizens are subjects of the hostile nation or government, 46 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,759 being males of the age of fourteen and upwards who 47 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,159 shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, 48 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:20,680 shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed 49 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:28,240 as alien enemies. Right the Alien Enemies Act. So the 50 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,879 question is about the commas as I understand it, because 51 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:34,879 that's why I said comma after all that, because when 52 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:39,560 you say that there shall be a declared war between 53 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,080 the US and any foreign nation or government, right, we 54 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,759 all understand what that means, a declaration of war. Which 55 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,960 that's so pass saying America doesn't do that anymore. I'll 56 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,400 actually go through Congress to get declarations of war. But 57 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,439 then the next part after the comma is or any 58 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,439 invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated at ten or 59 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:07,719 threatened against America. But then there's another comma there by 60 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,800 any foreign nation or government. And I think that's what 61 00:04:10,919 --> 00:04:16,680 he is hooking in to the invasion or predatory incursion. 62 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,959 So that's like people are confused as to what this means. 63 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,079 So like, can you actually have some sort of an 64 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:32,040 invasion occurring if it's not a government run invasion, And 65 00:04:32,079 --> 00:04:34,040 the answer to that is, of course yes, you can. 66 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,000 Of course you can't. For example, if the Barbary Coast 67 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:42,759 pirates had sailed over to America with you know, two 68 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:48,879 three thousand men under arms and had you know, disembarked 69 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,639 their boats and began pillaging villages and such, that would 70 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,399 count as an invasion even though it wasn't necessarily a 71 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:00,319 government run invasion. Would didn't come from a nation state. 72 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,839 So you could have a declaration of some kind, right, 73 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:08,720 the president could make a declaration, which, by the way, 74 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,000 Donald Trump has done against trend A Arragua. It is 75 00:05:12,319 --> 00:05:16,600 also a foreign terrorist organization designated as such by the 76 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,319 US government. So is the criminal gang activity of trend 77 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,879 A Arragua perpetrated, attempted, or threatened by a foreign nation 78 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,360 or government? Right, So, if we're going to read it 79 00:05:28,399 --> 00:05:32,720 as if it has to be perpetrated by a foreign nation, 80 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,480 does this meet the criteria? Does trendy Aragua meet the criteria? 81 00:05:37,519 --> 00:05:42,600 And does their relationship with the Venezuelan government meet that definition? 82 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,480 So the New York Times put out a piece the 83 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:47,560 other day and they were like, no, it doesn't it's 84 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:50,839 totally separate. Blah blah blah. They quoted some I think 85 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:55,360 they had it was something like fifty one current and 86 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:59,160 former Intel chiefs that said it was something like Russian 87 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,920 disinformation or something. I think of the letter, that's who 88 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,399 they were relying on. But then like a day later, 89 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:11,040 coincidentally or not, I don't know, the Miami Herald put 90 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,920 out a massive piece and I have it right here. 91 00:06:16,519 --> 00:06:21,399 This was from March twenty first, the investigative reporter Antonio 92 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:27,120 Maria Delgado interviewed a team of high level investigators and 93 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:30,279 analysts who have been following the Venezuelan regime for more 94 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:34,040 than a decade. The only team member to speak on 95 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:38,240 the record, it's a guy named Gary Bernson. He is 96 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:43,399 among the most highly decorated CIA veterans in recent history. 97 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:49,759 And this is from a website called American Greatness by 98 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:55,399 Bart Marquis or Marquoise Marciss. I think it's Mark WHI. 99 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,399 I think it's French. And so he spoke with this guy, 100 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,600 Gary Burnson after the Miami Herald quoted him in its 101 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:09,439 piece too, and Bernsteon's confirms that TDA was purposely sent 102 00:07:09,639 --> 00:07:15,439 to the United States, specifically to destabilize our country. That's 103 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,439 the point, all right. So spring is here a time 104 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:23,279 of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and 105 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,920 the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making 106 00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:27,959 memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let 107 00:07:27,959 --> 00:07:31,000 me ask you are all of those treasured moments from 108 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:34,240 days gone by? Are they hidden away on old VCR tapes, 109 00:07:34,439 --> 00:07:39,480 eight millimeter films, photos slides? Are they preserved? 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So the Miami Herald quotes 122 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,240 a fellow by the name of Gary Bernston sorry Bernsen. 123 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,639 Bernson one of the most highly decorated CIA veterans and 124 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:33,799 part of a team that has been following the Venezuelan 125 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:36,840 regime for over a decade, and he says, quote, the 126 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:42,200 Venezuelan regime has assumed operational control of the Gang Trend 127 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,519 de Aragua TDA and has trained three hundred members of it. 128 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:52,720 They have been given paramilitary training, training them to fire 129 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:59,840 weapons and more importantly, I would submit conduct sabotage. They 130 00:08:59,879 --> 00:09:02,679 have given them all like a four to six week course. 131 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,159 They put those three hundred guys through that course, and 132 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,879 then they were deploying them into the United States to 133 00:09:09,039 --> 00:09:14,919 twenty separate states. Bernson is coming forward now because two 134 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,960 CIA officials leaked false intelligence to The New York Times 135 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,080 recently claiming the agency has no intelligence connecting TDA with 136 00:09:24,159 --> 00:09:28,759 the Venezuelan government. But Burnson showed the reporter in this 137 00:09:28,919 --> 00:09:35,879 piece proof of the close relationships among TDA, the Venezuelan military, 138 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,879 and the Venezuelan intelligence apparatus, along with Cuban intelligence and 139 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,559 basically the worst of the worst of the Latin American 140 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:50,799 narco terrorist organizations. He shared not only the intel but 141 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:55,000 also the sources with elements of the US government. Quote, 142 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:00,039 the CIA doesn't have the information because they refused to 143 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,039 look at it. Bernston said, we tried to brief them 144 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:06,080 about all of this three years ago, but they were 145 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,600 directed by the Biden administration to ignore it. And now 146 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:13,960 those officials are trying to undermine President Trump. That's from 147 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,919 the CIA guy. So to conclude, Trende Aragua is a 148 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:23,120 designated foreign terrorist organization that operates under the direction of 149 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:28,120 a foreign government in conjunction with other foreign terrorist organizations. 150 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,399 It is funded and assisted by narco traffickers and Mexican 151 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,039 drug cartels. It has entered the US clandestinely with the 152 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,799 expressed goal of undermining and destabilizing our country and attacking 153 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:48,279 our citizens. It is set on sabotage, including arson. Have 154 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:53,519 we seen recent examples of potential arson or I don't know, 155 00:10:53,600 --> 00:11:01,960 maybe some power substations getting taken offline, stuff like that. 156 00:11:04,519 --> 00:11:07,120 I mean, I'm not saying it is or is not. 157 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:10,080 I'm just saying I can think of some examples of 158 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,080 some events where people were left scratching their heads wondering 159 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,360 who would do such a thing and why has nobody 160 00:11:15,399 --> 00:11:24,039 ever been caught for this stuff? The TDA was trained, directed, assisted, 161 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:27,000 and funded by the government of Venezuela and its criminal allies, 162 00:11:27,159 --> 00:11:30,720 who have more firepower than the military forces of several nations. 163 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:37,120 So does this count? Then? Under the law, does this count? 164 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,879 Any invasion or predatory incursions shall be perpetrated, attempted, or 165 00:11:40,879 --> 00:11:43,360 threatened against the territory of the United States by any 166 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,720 foreign nation or government. Right, there's a term for what 167 00:11:47,759 --> 00:11:52,919 these guys are being used as they are like they're cutouts. 168 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,320 It's a way that the government can have no fingerprints 169 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,279 on the operations so it doesn't blow back on them. Right. 170 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,039 So if these TDA guys get caught, oh, that's just 171 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,559 a that's just a cartel, that's just a gang. That's 172 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,799 not the government could see the government. I mean, you 173 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:14,639 could attack the government, but it's just a gang, you see. 174 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:19,639 And so they're autonomous. They're doing their own thing. According 175 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,519 to the Miami Herald, which broke this story, a small 176 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,679 team of Venezuelans and former US officials with deep connections 177 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,879 to police and intelligence in the South American country has 178 00:12:29,919 --> 00:12:32,960 been providing information to the Trump administration about the number 179 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,480 and identities of members of Trende Aragua and other Venezuelan 180 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:42,759 gangs headed to or already in the United States. The group, 181 00:12:42,799 --> 00:12:45,600 which has been meeting with high ranking members of the administration, 182 00:12:45,759 --> 00:12:50,440 made a presentation to President Trump's team before he was inaugurated. 183 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:57,279 They detailed links between the TDA gang and the Venezuelan 184 00:12:58,759 --> 00:13:04,440 regime Las Maduro, and they provided official documents obtained from 185 00:13:04,519 --> 00:13:10,679 Venezuelan police agencies identifying eighteen hundred gang members believed to 186 00:13:10,799 --> 00:13:14,679 have been sent into the United States. This according to 187 00:13:14,759 --> 00:13:18,440 three different sources with quote knowledge of the situation. So 188 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,080 a total of eighteen hundred people have been deployed into 189 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:28,120 our country that are associated with the TDA and by extension, 190 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,559 the Venezuelan government and military and intel operations. Three hundred 191 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:38,159 of them were trained. Another team member, who asked for 192 00:13:38,279 --> 00:13:42,000 nanimity to protect the identities of the sources back in Venezuela, 193 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:45,679 said the group had access to records from the police 194 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,720 agencies of the South American country and that these were 195 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:55,720 provided to the Trump administration. Okay, so they're getting police documents, 196 00:13:56,159 --> 00:14:01,919 records from Venezuela. That's what the Trump administration has been utilizing, 197 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,600 and this has led to the identification and arrests of 198 00:14:06,639 --> 00:14:10,360 at least eight hundred Venezuelans who are believed to be 199 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:14,600 either full fledged members of TDA or members of smaller 200 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,000 affiliated gangs. The team of investigators, which for years have 201 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,480 been exposing the threat to the US posed by the 202 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,600 Maduro regime, has in the past helped federal investigators in 203 00:14:25,639 --> 00:14:29,600 the US target top members of the Caracas government accused 204 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,399 by the US justice system of running the soles drug 205 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,759 cartel and of high level corruption through different administrations. So 206 00:14:36,799 --> 00:14:41,200 this isn't partisan. These aren't a bunch of Trumpers. These 207 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,519 people have been doing this work for over a decade, 208 00:14:44,039 --> 00:14:52,879 different administrations, going after Venezuela's regime, which they say is 209 00:14:53,000 --> 00:15:00,720 running a drug cartel. The drug cartel soles DA members 210 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,960 were deliberately sent into the largest American cities to create 211 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:08,159 problems for US law enforcement agencies. But they are not 212 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:12,200 just criminals sent to cause havoc. They are soldiers sent 213 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,039 in an asymmetric warfare operation against the United States that, 214 00:15:17,159 --> 00:15:20,200 according to one of the members of this team, trende Iragua, 215 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,440 members were also tasked with setting up drug distribution networks 216 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,799 in major cities to fill the void created by the 217 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:31,320 crackdown on MS thirteen that was severely weakened by the 218 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:34,720 arrest of its leadership in El Salvador in twenty twenty 219 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,159 two when that new guy got in built the prison. 220 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:43,080 The Salvadoran gang had served as an important US outlet 221 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,440 for the drugs provided by Mexico's Sineloa cartel, which, according 222 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,720 to the US law enforcement investigations, is one of the 223 00:15:49,759 --> 00:15:53,200 top partners of the Venezuelan cartel allegedly headed by Maduro 224 00:15:53,519 --> 00:16:00,519 and is number two the Interior Minister Distado Cabeo number two. 225 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,519 So you've got all of these narco terrorist cartels operating 226 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:13,639 with a state sponsor, and that is funded not just 227 00:16:13,679 --> 00:16:16,240 by the drugs, obviously, but the state is funded by 228 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,240 their oil revenue and such, and so they create this 229 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:25,120 plan to send people into our country. 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Hello Pete, Hey, 253 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:43,680 what's up? 254 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 3: I was. 255 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,599 Speaker 2: I was just I think I'm understanding correctly that whether 256 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,920 trend there Ragua can be flown out of the country 257 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:06,000 where the commas and the language, how it's interpreted to 258 00:18:06,599 --> 00:18:12,160 so the alien enemies that can apply to it. Is 259 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,799 that part correct that I'm getting. 260 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: That's my understanding is that there's a disagreement as to 261 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,839 whether or not it applies to only foreign governments or 262 00:18:21,319 --> 00:18:24,319 if you can cite an invasion by a non government 263 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:29,039 entity like a gang. But what the Miami Herald is 264 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:33,640 reporting is that the TDA is actually part of the 265 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,640 Venezuelan government, so it would make that point move. 266 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 2: Well, that's that's my point, is what I'm saying. If 267 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:48,599 they find that they are the alien enemy Alien Act 268 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,319 applause to them, then I don't see anything that would 269 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,079 stop the judges from going ahead and ordering Trump to 270 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,359 turn the planes around, so to speak. Again, and he'll 271 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,880 still have to for the judge's orders until it's appealed 272 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,759 and makes it all the way to the Supreme Court 273 00:19:05,799 --> 00:19:09,359 and support tails them not to do it. Well, you 274 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:10,119 found about right. 275 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,079 Speaker 1: I mean, it's this is going to go to the 276 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,640 Supreme Court. This is a fight that the administration wants 277 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,960 to have because there's no other way to reign in 278 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,519 these these lower courts, these district courts and these uh, 279 00:19:21,599 --> 00:19:23,119 these nationwide injunctions. 280 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, if they if they, if they want this fight 281 00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:30,039 the administration and they get it, then it's still going 282 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,480 to take what two three years to work its way 283 00:19:32,519 --> 00:19:36,119 to the Supreme Court going to just make agenda on 284 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:40,680 the legal immigration mute for a large part of it. 285 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: They can get it, they can get it to the 286 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:46,160 to the Supreme Court quickly, but the Supreme Court has 287 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,119 to be willing to take it up. So that's yeah, 288 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:50,839 So they can get it there pretty quickly, but it's 289 00:19:50,839 --> 00:19:53,119 still going to be you know, weeks or months. But yes, 290 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,359 it's a delay, and that's that's the whole point, right, 291 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,279 that's the the whole purpose is to stall first long 292 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:01,640 as possible on this stuff. 293 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 2: So you would I'm asking you this too, you would 294 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,480 think they have a better chance of success at that 295 00:20:09,559 --> 00:20:13,440 way in getting Congress to do away with these judge ships. 296 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I don't think that's going to happen. It's 297 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,319 going to require and I'm going to get into that 298 00:20:17,319 --> 00:20:18,680 in the next hour. I'm not going to have time 299 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,480 to get to all of the different angles in this hour, 300 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,480 but I will take that up in the third hour. Ray, 301 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:25,240 I do appreciate the call. Stre good to hear from you. 302 00:20:26,279 --> 00:20:29,920 Here's a message from Russ who says trained TDA members. 303 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,599 You say, well, that reminds me whatever became of the 304 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:36,039 different power substation attacks like Pinehurst, or the series of 305 00:20:36,039 --> 00:20:40,200 military members that were followed and had unscheduled utility visits 306 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,440 to their homes and the one guy who killed a 307 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,000 foreign national posing as a cable guy or something near 308 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:49,920 Fort Bragg, Remember that one? Yeah, Yeah, A lot of questions, 309 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,319 or the random people showing up on military bases and such. Right, 310 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,039 almost as if there's some sort of a testing going on, right. 311 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,000 The Miami Herald reports two hundred and eighty one, so 312 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:09,000 just under thirteen hundred Venezuelan alleged gang members who were 313 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:13,599 part of an estimated twenty thousand inmates who have been 314 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:17,400 released from Venezuelan prisons during Maduro's tenure and were told 315 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,400 that they had to leave the country if they wanted 316 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:27,599 to remain free. Okay, So, Venezuelan's President, Nicholas Maduro commie 317 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,759 that guy opened the prisons and released twenty thousand inmates. 318 00:21:33,839 --> 00:21:37,039 Of the twenty thousand, about thirteen hundred of them were 319 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:41,039 told you have to leave our country or else we're 320 00:21:41,039 --> 00:21:44,440 going to throw you back in prison. Information gathered by 321 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,240 the team from sources inside the regime points to a 322 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:51,839 plan that would place five thousand gang members inside the 323 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:57,599 United States. This is the equivalent of an oversized combat 324 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:03,200 brigade dispersed through twenty different locations, but with thousands of 325 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,200 people that would be able to communicate, move drugs, do 326 00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:11,920 whatever they needed, and be able to put pressure on 327 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:17,039 the United States with violence in cities, and build out 328 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:21,880 a massive criminal infrastructure in America. Bernston said the team 329 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,000 became aware of Maduro's plan while conducting an investigation on 330 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:31,839 a separate case. At the time, however, the Biden administration 331 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:39,839 was negotiating with the Maduro regime, and when the team, 332 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,519 the CIA team came to give Biden, you know, the 333 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:49,680 evidence of what they had found, the Biden administration ignored 334 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,759 it because they were trying to normalize relations with Maduro. 335 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,039 The Trende Iragua gang formed in the past decade in 336 00:22:58,079 --> 00:23:04,319 the notorious Tokaron prison in Venezuela's Arragua state the gang. 337 00:23:04,519 --> 00:23:07,720 Members of the gang act as an armed branch and 338 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:12,359 a hitman squad for the Soles drug cartel, which US 339 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:19,799 prosecutors have said is headed by Nicholas Maduro and other 340 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:26,960 high ranking Venezuelan government officials. So he's using he's using 341 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:33,759 TDA as a proxy army, as saboteurs, spies, mayhem makers. 342 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:36,720 In addition to the information provided by the team, the 343 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,279 Trump administration has been receiving data provided by the police 344 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,440 organizations from Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, and Colombia, countries that 345 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,920 had large numbers of Trende Arragua members. The gang's presence 346 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:51,799 has been blamed for a surge in violence in those countries, 347 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,039 and on Monday, the Peruvian government declared LIMA in a 348 00:23:55,079 --> 00:23:58,119 state of emergency following the killing of a popular singer 349 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,519 who was extorted by criminals and then they murdered the singer. 350 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,720 All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 351 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:06,799 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 352 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:08,920 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 353 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,000 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, 354 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,720 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 355 00:24:15,759 --> 00:24:18,960 I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll 367 00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:57,720 get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage 368 00:24:57,759 --> 00:25:01,200 plan to get unlimited access to every fee. Your subscription 369 00:25:01,319 --> 00:25:04,039 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 370 00:25:04,039 --> 00:25:07,319 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 371 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,160 Although trende Iragua members originally moved to countries near Venezuela, 372 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,839 they were later encouraged by their controllers in the Venezuelan government. 373 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:21,720 They're handlers to head to the US right. This is 374 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:28,799 according to our own intelligence operatives who have been investigating 375 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:35,799 Venezuela Maduro, his regime, the Solas cartel, right, their connections 376 00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:40,440 to the Sineloa cartel, their connections to Trenda Aragua for 377 00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:45,279 over a decade. They have briefed presidents of both parties 378 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,200 over that time. So, in other words, this is not new. 379 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,480 This is not new. And they told Trump about all 380 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:58,119 of this and that I'm going to go out on 381 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,000 a limit. Just guess here that that why Trump said 382 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:04,880 that this is an invasion and it meets the definition 383 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:11,319 of the Alien Enemies Act. Right, That doesn't that track? 384 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,079 Doesn't that make sense? All right? Let me jump over 385 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,519 and talk to Marvin. Hello, Marvin, welcome to the show. 386 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks people having me. You got a question, but 387 00:26:22,599 --> 00:26:24,799 it seems like an argument. It's kind of a strewed 388 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:25,400 in the way to me. 389 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, You're sorry, Marvin. It's kind of what I 390 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,640 can barely hear you through the static. 391 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 3: Yes, I were saying this. It seems like the premive 392 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,440 that you're going on is a little true to me 393 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:43,160 because we know that Russia, China, Argentina and a country 394 00:26:43,279 --> 00:26:48,359 like that Argentine invasion. Yes, Argentina. You let me just finish, 395 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,559 because they have agents that infiltrate our country every year. 396 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:59,119 They are consistently downloading of technology information. We have yet 397 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,759 to sit one Russian to my knowledge, and this is 398 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,839 caught by stakes badge back to Russian. So why is 399 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,000 it now that Venezuela and I know why because of 400 00:27:13,079 --> 00:27:17,680 small countries that none of these explain laws are being 401 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:21,079 a flat to annoy you. If you could just explain 402 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,759 that to me, I would really appreciate it. 403 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,599 Speaker 1: Thank you well. So, first off, Marvin, your premise is incorrect. 404 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,880 Your premise is that there is no attention being paid 405 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,359 to any other criminal illegal aliens, and that is just 406 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:36,759 that's that's incorrect. 407 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 3: I am saying a playing full of big down headcut 408 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:43,359 to send back you have correct. 409 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:45,839 Speaker 1: I don't know what you have seen, so I can't 410 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,480 tell you what you have or have not seen it. 411 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:51,279 The only video, well, Marvin, the only the only images 412 00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:58,039 that were taken and publicized were the planeload of the 413 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,319 gang members that got sent down to Ecuador. But those 414 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,039 are not all TDA members, right, there are different people 415 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:06,119 that are in there. You don't know. No, hang on, Marvin, 416 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,200 there have been there have been record deportations. They've been 417 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,640 going all over the world. So just the just because 418 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,119 you saw one video that the administration put out of 419 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,599 the one that went down to Ecuador or sorry, El Salvador, 420 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:22,960 doesn't mean that there haven't been other deportations occurring. 421 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 3: You would agree with that, right, yes, but that's the 422 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:27,359 only one the administration was. 423 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: Showing, right because it was a massive operation. Well, because 424 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,400 it was a massive operation, because the TDA invasion has 425 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,720 been a massive invasion. 426 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:39,799 Speaker 3: Well, they didn't have a problem with doing that when 427 00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:42,359 they're bombed with UTI. 428 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: So the hooties aren't in the who We just dropped 429 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,720 a bunch of bombs on on the houties in Yemen. 430 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:52,160 We bombed the the Jesus out of them. 431 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, the politicis SA if you're not going to release 432 00:28:56,839 --> 00:29:00,119 information of anybody me. 433 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: Are you on a speakerphone, Marvin, It's very difficult to 434 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,880 understand you. There's a lot of noise in the background. 435 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,480 I'm trying to follow you. I'm trying to follow what 436 00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:12,319 you're saying, but I'm sorry, it's just it's really difficult 437 00:29:12,319 --> 00:29:14,119 for me to make it out. 438 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 3: I apologize. My thought was we need to just have 439 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,440 the policy be fair and equal to all that. 440 00:29:24,759 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: What's your evidence that they're not. What's your evidence that 441 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,880 the policies are not fair and equal? 442 00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 3: That it's correct, sir. So I'm saying, if the pause 443 00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:36,160 is going to be good for one country, make them 444 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,599 good for odd countries. 445 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,279 Speaker 1: What is your evidence that they are not? 446 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,039 Speaker 3: H the pictures of a plane full of people? 447 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:48,799 Speaker 1: You saw one, You saw one, You saw one flight, Okay, until. 448 00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 3: The government when you see any others? And no, have 449 00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:52,880 you other than with somebody released, sir, you haven't. 450 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,279 Speaker 1: You can look at the numbers of deportations and the 451 00:29:56,319 --> 00:30:03,240 countries of origin from where they're going. Any your Marvin, Marvin, 452 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:09,160 your ignorance about where the other countries uh where the 453 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,440 other people are being sent back to, does not present 454 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,480 itself as evidence to support your point. It's just your view. 455 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:20,440 Your lack of knowledge of other things. That's not proof 456 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,279 of anything. You not knowing something doesn't make something else true. 457 00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:29,799 I didn't say that, No, Marvin, you are. No. No, Marvin, Marvin, 458 00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:32,480 I'm not saying everybody else is. I'm saying you are 459 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,119 on this particular issue. Oh Marvin hung up on me. 460 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,680 Oh Marvin, No, I'm sorry. But like as Rush would say, 461 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:48,240 you know, I live in Realville. There's Also the other 462 00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,799 point here that Marvin, I guess is also ignorant of, 463 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:57,720 which is that the largest in migration into America for 464 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,559 the past decade has in general, almost every single year 465 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,480 been people from South America. Now that has changed in 466 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,160 like more recent like the more recent like two year span, 467 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,960 I want to say, saw a lot of Chinese nationals 468 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:19,160 coming in, right, we saw larger numbers from uh Mauritania 469 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:21,400 or wherever, right to the point where you've got like 470 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,319 these these conflicts that are based in stuff from their 471 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,119 home countries that now are Eritrea. I was one, right, 472 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,799 we had a shootout or something in East Charlotte, a 473 00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:34,599 bunch of people that had brought over from you know, 474 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,799 their whole their home countries, whatever beefs and grievances they 475 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:41,640 had back there, and they brought them over here. So 476 00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,839 I mean, there are different populations, sure, But as far 477 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:50,680 as like organized criminal activity, the these narco terrorists and 478 00:31:50,799 --> 00:31:54,960 related cartels and organizations, they're the ones that are involved 479 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,640 in this operation that the CIA has identified, and that's 480 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,480 why you're seeing a lot of getting picked up. But 481 00:32:01,559 --> 00:32:04,599 I'm sure in Marvin's world it's racism, right, That's the 482 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,880 reason why I'm assuming, and I thought Marvin was going 483 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,880 to eventually get there, but he never wanted to pull 484 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,519 the trigger on it. But I assume that's what Marvin 485 00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:15,000 was getting at. That the only reason that he's aware 486 00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:17,240 because he saw the one image that got released of 487 00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:21,519 the planeload that went down to El Salvador, the prison 488 00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:25,160 down there, that for some reason, that that's the only 489 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,000 planeload that we've sent out, and we know that's not true. 490 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,880 Now Marvin doesn't know that's not true. Marvin doesn't care 491 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,039 to know if it's not true. But it's not true. 492 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:38,000 We've sent planeloads of deportees all around the world, send 493 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,319 them back to their home countries. And part of the 494 00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:43,160 reason why we have to send them to El Salvador 495 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:49,279 is because Venezuela won't take them. They hate us, they 496 00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:51,839 send them here. Why would they take them back. They 497 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,519 released these people from prison, sent them to America, trained 498 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:58,519 about three hundred of them to engage in sabotage and such, 499 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,359 and they're not interested in bringing back their operatives. They 500 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,799 deployed those operatives for a purpose. So no, they're not 501 00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:08,920 taking them back. So we put them all on a plane, 502 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,359 send them down to El Salvador that said, hey, we'll 503 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,839 take them, and where they're cracking down on their gangs too. 504 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,240 TDA is running wild down there, and they're in certain countries, 505 00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:24,440 certain governments are trying to get them under control. Trendy 506 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:31,400 Arragua operates in conjunction with Cartel de los Soles, that is, 507 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:37,000 the Maduro regime sponsored narco terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela. 508 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:44,480 It commits brutal crimes, murders, kidnappings, extortions, human trafficking, drug trafficking, 509 00:33:44,599 --> 00:33:50,119 weapons trafficking. Right. This was why the Alien Enemy Act 510 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,319 of seventeen ninety eight was invoked to assume the authority 511 00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:58,599 to expedite the mass deportations of Venezuelans in the US 512 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,279 suspected of being gang members, because they could make that connection. 513 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:09,480 If we're able to round up a cell of Russian terrorists, 514 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,719 I have no doubt that's going to happen. But the 515 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,960 Russians are, I don't know, a little bit better at 516 00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:18,000 hiding their tracks. They don't operate in these kinds of 517 00:34:18,039 --> 00:34:20,280 cells out in the open, you know. They don't take 518 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,199 over entire apartment buildings and evict people and run their 519 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,760 criminal enterprises from them. The team of investigators advising the 520 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,519 Trump administration said that the formal members of the gang 521 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:36,039 serve as organizational leaders of different cells that have recruited 522 00:34:36,079 --> 00:34:39,000 other Venezuelans in the US cities that they were sent to, 523 00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:41,880 but not all members of the new cells are necessarily 524 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,840 considered to be official gang members. So you have like 525 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:49,760 this organization of that's led by you know, cartel members 526 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:53,360 or gang members, but then you have non members that 527 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,960 are sort of affiliated. This follows the organizational structure the 528 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,480 gang implemented inside the Venezuelan prisons, where they recruited new 529 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,480 members from the general population in order to have the 530 00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:09,480 numbers to rule the other inmates. And by the way, 531 00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:14,480 the DOJ has outstanding drug trafficking indictments against Maduro and 532 00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:19,000 his interior minister Cabello, who are accused of heading the 533 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:23,360 Souls cartel. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 534 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,519 Thank you so much for listening. 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