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the reasons I've keep saying it's so important to subscribe
and share because the chaos is out of control. I mean, yesterday,
Trump announced that he's going to temporarily suspend military assistance
to Ukraine, which of course we know that he will,
so Trump and his administration, of course, they blame Zelenski
for this, and Fox is parroting that idea. It's not
like Trump did anything wrong by asking for all of
their mineral rights. It's not wrong that he wants them
to give up their land to Russia the aggressor. It's
not that it's wrong that Trump refuses to acknowledge that
Putin is the dictator in this case, the aggressor and
not Zelenski. No, no, Fox is going to parrot what
Trump has to say for obvious reasons. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Good evening, everyone, I'm Laura Ingram. This is Ingram Angle
from Washington tonight. This is a Fox News alert, a
source telling Fox Trump is pausing all US military aid
to Ukraine until he determines the Ukrainian show a commitment
to good faith peace negotiations. More news when we get it,
But first, the new red scare. That's the focus of
tonight's angle.
Speaker 1: The new red scare, as if it hasn't been out
there for the last forty years. Look, this is, of
course what Trump then had to say about the decision
while taking questions in the White House. Play the clip
and I want to see it.
Speaker 3: Stop.
Speaker 4: Yes, are you considering counseling military aid to Ukraine? And
can we get a reaction to the printed that said
that your administration is bringing US worldview in alignment with moscows.
Speaker 5: So this is a deal that should have never happened.
This is a deal that would have never happened, and
it didn't happen. For four years, it didn't happen. It
was never even loose to happening. If I were president,
would not have happened, and October seventh would have happened,
would not have happened in Israel.
Speaker 1: And again, how about just answer the question right, you
are pausing military aid and financial aid to Ukraine, and
the deal, You're right, never happened because it wasn't a negotiation.
It was a take it or leave it. Do as
I say, because you, sir, believe that you are the
only important person in the room, and for whatever reason,
you're willing to throw our allies under the bus for
the favor of being friends with our adversaries. None of
this makes any sense. But then Trump is asked what
would need to happen today, what would need to happen
to restart these negotiations or your dicta play the clipsident?
Speaker 6: What do you need to see from President Zelensky to
restart these negotiations?
Speaker 5: Well, I just think you should be more appreciative because
this country has stuck with them through thick and thin.
We've given them much more than Europe, and Europe should
have given more than us, because as you know, that's
right there, that's the border. This uh, this country really
was like the fence on the border. It was it
was very important to Europe. And I'm not knocking Europe.
I'm saying that they were a lot smarter than Joe Biden.
Because Joe Biden didn't have a clue he just gave money.
Hand over a fist.
Speaker 1: Okay, if it will make my former boss, my former friend,
our current president of the United States happy, let us
all join hands and yell. Joe Biden is an idiot,
Joe Biden was a shitty president. Joe Biden is stupid.
Let's all do that so that we can put an
end to Trump's ongoing continuous attacks on the previous administration
when we are today living with this issue. Now, he
makes these off the cuff statements that the United States
has put in or paid over three hundred billion dollars
more than Europe. And none of that, by the way,
is true. None of it is true. He will continue
to say it, and why because the more you repeat
the lie, the more the lie becomes the truth. According
to the New York Times, this is actually how much
that the United States has spent on Ukraine so far.
They say, in total, the United States has spent about
one hundred and nineteen billion on the war in Ukraine,
with sixty seven billion of that going to military spending.
And that's according to one frequently used tracker. Europe has
dedicated about one hundred and thirty eight billion to Ukraine,
of which about sixty five billion has been in military aid.
The second part to this, they turned around, said, mister
Trump has vastly overstated the amount of aid the United
States has given Ukraine. According to the Pentagon, about three
point eighty five billion remains of what Congress authorized for
additional withdrawals from the Defense Department stockpile for Ukraine. Again,
one of the reasons why he has to over exaggerate,
not by one time, not by two times, but by
three times. It's just absolutely not true. Now, Caitlin Collins
spoke to Texas represented Chip Roy about the spending. Here's
what Representative Roy had to say, play the clip.
Speaker 6: Of we've spent hundreds of year. We don't even know
by the way, right, So we spent allegedly three hundre
billion dollars and as Lensi says, we've only gotten a
hundred billion, I'm like, well where the rest of it go?
Speaker 2: Wait? The only person says we spent three undred million, though,
is Trump? And well, we already numbers to back that up,
and we know we know how much it has been
spent because it's.
Speaker 7: What Connor's appropriated, right.
Speaker 6: But we've appropriated a lot more than one hundred million
dollars and over the course of the entirety of the
last three years, and significantly more than a hundred million dollars.
So if he's only got a hundred million, where's the rest?
But the point has.
Speaker 1: Wait, we have significantly spent more than one hundred billion.
But if you start listening to what he says, we
don't even know how much was spent. Well, how about
this chrucolate chip. How about if you turn around and
you actually do your fucking homework before you go on
CNN or any new station spewing, spewing the lies or
the talking points coming out of this new administration. How
about be accurate. Don't be accurate for yourself, how about
be accurate for your constituents for the United States of America. Now,
former Representative Tom Malinowski made the point that Zelenski wants
to sign this mineral deal, but that Trump's ego is
too fragile. Play that clip.
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, the mineral deal. Zelenski came to
sign the mineral deal, and since the Oval Office meeting,
he has repeatedly said I'm ready to sign the mineral deal.
It's Trump who's not signing the Mineral deal, because what
he really wants is to have his ego stroked. He
wants Selenski to write one hundred times in a blackboard,
Donald Trump is the greatest leader in the history of
the world. And he's always right wearing a maga hat
because this is the way he operates on issue after
issue after issue. He wants his fragile ego is more
important right now than the national security of the United States.
And this goes way beyond Ukraine. It's much more important
than just Ukraine. This same problem is why top Republicans
aren't willing to tell Donald Trump that these tariffs that
he just imposed are going to tank the US economy.
It's why we're going to be paying more than nine
thousand dollars more for a pickup truck in two or
three months if he doesn't back down from these tariffs.
Because no one is allowed to contradict the President of
the United States, Zolensky's not allowed to do it. Republicans
in Congress aren't allowed to do it. We all have
to say, yes, sir, you're right. Two plus two is five, sir.
Speaker 1: If you say so, sir, is it He's one hundred
percent correct. It's exactly what we're seeing now. Of course,
the Republican talking point is, well, that's because Trump is right,
all right, that we've given over three hundred billion dollars,
and again, no we haven't. In fact, you have your
great Elon Musk there with Doje. Why don't you actually
pull out and post where the three hundred billion came from?
Because if according to what everybody is saying, including chocolate
Chip Roy over there, what if hypothetically that's true, we're
already missing a trillion dollars from the COVID relief stimulus package.
So what's another two hundred billion amongst friends?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Well, talking about friends, we now have Howard Lutnik on
c and then yesterday claiming that Ukraine is asking for
too much. Seriously, Howard, play the clip.
Speaker 9: You got to say, we love America, we appreciate America.
You know, we want you by our side, and if
you think we should have peace, we should have peace.
Right But instead he said, I want three hundred billion
in reparations from Russia. I want them off my land.
I want all the land, really, all the land and
reparations and security guarantees. The answer was it's just way
too far that's not a peacemaker, that's a troublemaker. And
that's what the president saw, and he took it for
forty minutes before and forty five minutes in front of
the camera, and then it was just enough.
Speaker 10: Already enough, all right, thank you, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik,
appreciate it. Come to the situation.
Speaker 1: Wow, So let's see, Putin invades the land. They want
that back?
Speaker 11: Wow?
Speaker 1: How dare you ask for that? Putin is destroying Ukraine
and Ukraine wants the aggressor to pay reparations to repair Ukraine?
Oh my god? How dare you? And because Ukraine wants
to sit and negotiate on the mineral rights deal instead
of just listening to what Trump has to say, because
he has no idea even what the fuck Aridium is
used for. That's just too much, sure, Howard, whatever you say,
pal now. Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell spoke about the pause
in AID and how damaging it's going to be. Play
the clip.
Speaker 7: Do you think a deal for peace would be more
likely if President Volodimir Zelenski were to step aside the
way that some of the administration have suggested.
Speaker 11: That's what Putin wants, So no, I don't agree with
that at all, And frankly is somebody who has been
to Ukraine during this war, it's maddening to see that we,
as a country who always fought the access of evil,
are now joining Russia in their demands on Ukraine and Boris.
Let me lay this out for your viewers as to
why should we be helping Ukraine. If you look around
the world, our biggest economic enemy is China, our biggest
geopolitical enemy is Russia. In a matter of three years,
without losing a single US soldier, we have decimated their
military and their economy. It's been the greatest return on
investment for any military expenditure ever. And as far as
the return on investment for soldiers' lives, it's infinity because
you can't divide zero. So just economically this makes sense.
And the money that's being spent, yes, it's a lot
of money, but it's been spent inside the United States
to create jobs here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, nobody of course talks about that when
we send them off military equipment and so on. It's
manufacturing in the United States of America. We're actually paying
those companies, We're paying workers and so on. It's just
called the economy. Right Well, Jess Guitar Love, who remains
the only level, the only sane person at Fox. I
want to show you a clip of her speaking about
Russia's response to Trump's moves. Play the clip.
Speaker 10: These are all things that Putin wants to hear. And
you know that because his own spokespin, Pascov said as much. Said,
the rapidly changing US foreign policy configurations largely coincides with
our vision. Dmitriy Medvedev, the insolent pig about Zelenski, finally
got a proper slap down in the Oval office. Trump
is right, the key regime is gambling with World War three.
So if you are satisfying someone that we all agree
as a dictator and authoritarian to that level, don't you
think maybe the methods aren't that great. And that's not
to say that we don't need to come to the
table and say this is what our peace plan is.
These are the territorial lines that we are comfortable with.
No one thinks that he's going back to a pre
twenty fourteen era. Zelenski himself doesn't think that he was
speaking Ohio Jesse.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, of course, you know she's going to get pushback.
But lastly, as you hear me say again and again
and again, listen to what Trump tells you, because when
he tells you what he's going to do, he intends
to do it. And it seems to be the same
for his kids. I want to show you a clip
of Don Junior from January of twenty twenty three, two
years ago, predicting that Trump would remove aid from Ukraine.
Speaker 3: Play the clip, or didn't have Russia invade unlike all
the prior presidents and Jobiden and you know their neighboring nations.
You know, why don't we bring that back? Bran can overperform?
I mean, I don't think they're winning. It seems like,
you know, the news will say, you know, every time
Russia makes the games, it's not really a significant strategic victory.
Every time Ukraine makes some sort of game, it's very
significant strty. No one knows. Okay, they don't know. They're
trying to make it seem but this has been going
on forever. Obviously Russia has underperformed. Everyone thought this thing
would be over in two weeks. But when they ask
for F sixteen's, then what's next? Where does it end.
Where does the blank check stop? So, like everything that
Trump's been right about you can see his tweet untruth
social like first come the tanks. It's gonna never end
until we say enough is enough. No one's coming to
the table until we say we're not funding this crap anymore,
no one has an incentive to negotiate. What point does
Russia say, Hey, you know what, now that we're at
war with the United States essentially now we've been in
a proxy war for basically, you know, a year, at
this point, I mean says it's an inception, right, I
if you missed like your taxes by like two dollars,
the IRS is coming to visit you the Pentagon. What's
a couple hundred billion dollars between friends, So I imagine,
I imagine there's more money being sent over there. So
as long as they're doing that, and I imagine as
long as people are grifting off of this and making
their billions and stealing whatever it is, and you know,
we see the Talibans now selling our vehicles that we
left there, of the billions and equipment there to rush
us so they can use it against Ukraine, who we're
supporting in this proxy war. When does it end? When
do people in Russia say, hey, we're fighting the US
at this point and escalate? Because That's what I'm worried about.
This stuff should be over stacked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if that doesn't express the insanity that is
currently existing in DC, nothing will. And as always, thanks
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