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So this is prima facie evidence if you will that we're preparing for this just as it was that we were preparing
for the nuclear site strikes with the B2s and um and the 12-day war. Um that's
the most likely thing we're doing is very visibly positioning forces.
But it's pretty hard not to visibly position them. I mean, I I remember a newspaper. Remember Katie Cor? Katie
Corick used to sit on my corporal's desk and pull her skirt up a little bit and get all the poop from my corporal about
the chairman's office. Well, Katie became a little bit more sophisticated than that later as a defense
correspondent. And she would tell me from time to time, "We know exactly what the points are. We go here, here, here,
and here, and we know what you're going to do in terms of deployment of forces." And that's true largely. Now, you can
faint and fake with that sort of thing as I was hinting at the first option possibly, but most of the time when we
deploy that, it's costly. It's very costly and therefore we're going to do something with it.
Larry, to you. Yeah. No, I mean, you can't um you know, we've had this naval force parked off
the coast of Venezuela now for, you know, four or five weeks. Um, and so
they're not going to stand there. That's not a 3 to four or five month deployment. So they're there for a
purpose. Uh, and it's it's not nothing good. Um, and the same the same way
building starting to build up this tanker force for some sort of air op
whether it's being directed at Iran or directed at Bram, which would be even crazier. Um, you know, we've, uh, Trump
still works under the delusion that the US military is capable of doing
more than it actually can do. And, you know, that should have been the lesson
out of the last failed attempt to shut down the Houthis. um with all with a carrier task force
with destroyers with you know missile destroyers we were we had to run away and we ran
away in Afghanistan after 20 plus years we essentially ran away out of Iraq
after 14 years so you know the United States cannot point to any situation
where we've used military force that we've been able to totally dominate except maybe Grenada
because they didn't have an army and and Panama because we had all of our military bases already inside the
country. Yeah. And um and it's it's deterior Danny. It's
deteriorated majorly since Just Cause and uh Desert Shield, Desert Storm. It
it's just deteriorated. It's deteriorated in terms of leadership, strategic accumment, and a defense
industrial base and product of that defense industrial base. I mean, we just
aren't the same military we were 20 years ago. And we weren't all that
capable then. Look at what we've done now. And and Larry's right. You can't
put the US Navy on the high seas in multiple theaters and expect any of them
to be victorious at any given time because there's not enough power there to do anything.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and and and sort of in addition to that, maybe another way to say it is
actually our military hasn't changed and that's part of the problem because the
world has changed technologically. You know, you could go back. I remember
at I'll call it the dawn of the use of a video teleconference in the military. Uh
I remember it very clearly. It was like 2003. Uh we were in Stogart
uh and we were doing this was a this was a Yukon uh exercise. You've got both you
have Aricom and Yukon both based at at patch and Kelly barracks there. And I
remember this Marine colonel sitting down in front of this tiny screen that
all of a sudden, man, he was he was having video chats with these different, you know, he was like a monkey with a
watch and from then on uh when I would do work
at JSOK, I you'd come in, you know, we'd be working an exercise, but like from uh
0800 to 0930, uh you know, there was uh Stan Mcrist
doing a global video teleconference. And so you would see you would see different
uh command centers in in Iraq and in Afghanistan and in Somal. I mean it was
truly global. And they do that twice a day. But the point is that as we've developed
this technology, we've we've forgotten that now things that we used to be able to hide pretty
easily are not easy to hide anymore. Particularly the movement of forces. You
know, you go back 80 years to World War II and somehow the Soviets were able to
mass the movement of the forces that were brought forward for Operation Uranus that the surrounding and ultimate
defeat of the sixth army at Stalenrad. So we're no longer in that situation
that you you can't easily hide this stuff and particularly with the United States and Russia and the Chinese and
the Indians with different satellites, you know, eyes in the sky
and and like Lord Sauron and you know Lord of the Rings with that one big eye, man, we got lots of eyes everywhere.
Yeah. About the about the only place you can hide anymore is under the sea in submarines. Yep.
That's about it though. Yeah. And uh lastly on West Asia before
we By the way, Danny, I gota I gotta add this. Last night I read a report on how
many nuclear weapons have been uploaded to Israeli submarines.
And what was the uh Very very disturbing. Very disturbing.
Yeah. That's their ultimate last line of defense. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what I was
wondering about is given that the for me the the genocide,
the sparking an open conflict with Iran, of course, moving into all these other
fronts, Lebanon, Syria, etc. Uh that's all that Israel really has left beyond
the nuclear option, uh other than the nuclear option. and u what it's doing
now won't uh satisfy uh the Israeli regime. It's it's it's obviously not
satisfied uh with what it's been able to do up until this point. Um, and I also
wanted to ask for for a quick uh minute or two before we move on to uh the Ukraine situation about where the Bram
airfield fits into all of these escalations given that Trump very openly said that the US wants that airfield
back especially to surveil China which actually is quite the misinformed
opinion but uh or misinformed objective given how far away even that
airfield is to to uh any so-called Chinese nuclear testing site that hasn't
even been used. Are you talking about Bram? Yes, the Bram Bram airfield. Yeah. So, uh Larry, how about for to you first and
then to Colonel Wilkerson. Yeah, it's Trump's foreign policy Tourett syndrome. He just shout shouts
out random stuff happens to pass through his mind. Comes and goes. Uh I I don't
think there's actually any serious uh plan or intent to try to do that because frankly the United States is not capable
of doing that without sustaining significant losses. Uh so um you know he
he put that on his wish list I guess you know but it's the same thing as remember we're going to uh conquer occupy Panama
take over or take full control of the Panama Canal when that was a thing. Greenland, remember Greenland,
Canada, 51st state. So, you know, it's just it's a form of this is a form of
political Tourette's syndrome is is all I can attribute it to.
Colonel Wilkerson, your thoughts. Well, Donahghue was going to land the 18th Airborne Corps minus on Kenrad,
too. I mean, you know, this this whole bunch of yo-yos is crazy.
So now to the uh Ukraine situation because uh it it is escalating uh
dramatically at least from the words that are coming out the promises that are being made especially on the US and
NATO side. So quietly as Hegs Seth and Trump were thumping their chests in
front of the generals and admirals in Virginia, uh this was announced that the
US will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long right the range strikes in Russia where Kiev would be
able to hit energy sites to target Putin's revenue and reach Moscow with missiles. And uh this isn't all uh when
it comes uh to this. you have NATO. Um, and here are just some absolutely
unhinged comments coming from the uh former UK defense secretary Ben Wallace
about what NATO should be doing um in order to uh beat Putin back.
First of all, um I think what we have to remember is what motivates Putin. Putin is in love with the idea of dominating
Ukraine, taking Ukraine. Crimea is Russia and Russia is Cremain. Crimea. He announced in 2014, if you read his
speeches of 2014, he compares uh Crimea to the Holy Mountain. Uh so we have to
help Ukraine have the long range capabilities to make Crimea unviable. We need to choke the life out of Crimea. Uh
and I think if we do that, I think Putin will realize he's got something to lose. If it is not inhabitable or not possible
uh for it to function and that bridge, we need tourists in from Germany. We need to smash the cursed bridge because
that's an ego. That's a statue to Putin's ego. So, choke the life out of Crimea and
make it unfunctional. Yes. I I got to I got to say what comes to my mind is into the valley of death rode
the 600. Cannon to the right of them. Cannon to the left of them fied and thundered. Into the valley of death rode
the 600. Britain's last time in Crimea.
Yeah. Well, you know, in in Vladimir Putin at uh Valdi, uh he spoke to the
Valdai conference. He he said, "Bring it on that Russia is strong enough to
withstand any of these threats." Here is what he said. He's still Danny, he's still speaking on
many occasions when Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's still It's still happening as we speak live.
Yes. Here we go. uh endeavor. Russia proved on many
occasions when threats to our peace and security come up come to the four and
threats to our sovereignty and our statethood, we are swift in responding. No, you should not provoke us. Never
ever did it end badly for the provocators and
uh uh no exceptions will happen in future. There will be none. Our history
proved that weakness in unacceptable because it it gives rise to temptation to a
delusion that and anything may be resolved uh with us and they may have
their way from the position of of of force and indecisiveness and weakness.
Russia will never demonstrate that. It is something that we will never demonstrate. Those who cherish the dream
of inflicting a strategic defeat of us, let them know that. So let them know
that there will be no strategic defeat of Russia. Russia is ready for any of this and and these are these are quite
strong moves. Uh maybe we can begin with you Larry. Uh the this is what we were talking about under the B
administration. These long range strikes approving these long range strikes uh the danger of them and then of course uh
the absolutely unhinged words from while he's the former defense secretary of the UK, he's definitely speaking NATO's
language there with regard to Russia. Your thoughts? Well, show the intelligence. Strike with
what? I mean, you know, you got to got to have put something. They've got to have something to launch. That would be Let's
These really aren't long range. These would be intermediate range uh missiles, ballistic missiles or
cruise missiles. Um the tomahawk they've zalinsky requested the tomahawk but
problem with the tomahawk is the only real system that would work in Ukraine as a ground launch version. Uh there are
not many of those ground launch launchers per se. And then compounding
it is because of its capability of handling a nuclear warhead. Even though
the Tomahawk that you know what currently exists as the Tomahawk cruise missile has not is you know been uh
configured in that way for well over 25 years. Nonetheless
if if such a weapon system was put in there uh this would immediately you know
escalate it beyond what Russia is doing already and would put tactical nuclear
warheads on the table. So, uh, you know, I think that's unlikely, but again, this
US, uh, I I think the US in part is playing a game where it wants to appear, oh, yeah, we're trying to support, but
but the life is draining out of the Ukrainian military that the, uh, the
Russians now are making pretty significant advances in Neprop,
um, in the Nepro oblast. They're also moving north and
from in Zaparisia up up you know basically going up the the river. Um
they are making significant progress in in Daetsk. So there's not there's not a
single area on the battlefield where Ukraine can point to and say, "Oh man, we're not only we holding the Russians
back, but we're pushing them backwards." And Russia is increasing the number of
forces that it's applying in that area. And and yet in spite of all that, you're getting this these claims by Trump and
by JD Vance. I was I was especially appalled by Vance going along with this. I really I really thought better thought
he was better than this. And sadly, he's not. But joining in on this, you know,
Russia's losing all these people, suffering mass casualties. They're not. But if that's what Vance
and Trump want to choose to believe, go ahead and believe that because it's going to bite you in the ass.
Yeah. To you, Colonel Wilkerson, your reaction. Well, at the end of the day, Danny, I keep coming back to this. You know, when
you get a comment like from that former British defense minister is just a Bley who idiot. When you get a comment like
comes out of Maruda from time to time or a lot of these little junior partners in NATO, when you get those kind of
comments that Russia is not a strategic power, that Russia does not have the
capacity to do this or do that. Not only are they lying through their teeth about the immediate evidence at their beck and
call should they want to really look at it, Russia has 6,000 plus nuclear
warheads. Dude, what are you talking about not being strategically capable?
You want to test that? You want to go to that? I think some of these people do. I think some of these people are really
high on some bad stuff and they want to test that. Um, we might be getting at
the southern end of this arc of crisis down there in Southwest Asia. As I said, we might be getting very close to that.
Damn, we don't want to add another place in central Europe where we get close to that. You threaten Russia to the point
where they think they're existentially threatened, they have been crystal clear. They will wipe you out and they
have the capacity to wipe you out several times over.
Yeah. And in this Oh, Larry, please. Well, I was just going to say Gil Dotoro said recently that at least among the
political elite, there's a growing dissatisfaction with Putin over what they view as him being too soft.
Yes. And too too restrained. Now, that
that may be true. Uh, you know, I don't doubt that Gil's telling what he understands, but watching Putin, you
know, because after, you know, he did that speech for about 40 minutes and he's been sitting in a chair now for two
and a half hours answering questions from the stage. He just did Glenn Diesson was there. Glenn just asked him
a question. Um, but uh, you know, Putin, from what I've been able to pick up,
just you know, the tidbits here and there, Putin's being very straightforward about, look, we don't
want to fight with anybody. We'd like to get along with everybody, but we're not
fools. We recognize the hostility and these and these provocative actions that
others that Europe is taking place. Um, and we will respond accordingly. And
nobody should dare underestimate our resolve, but uh he did, you know, he's
not turning fire on Donald Trump. You know, he I saw the one quot he said
something to the effect, yeah, Trump can be a little emotional, you know, but you know, you talk to him
in private, he's not so bad. Uh which actually is is the is the case from what
I've heard. But um you know Putin is not showing the signs of a guy under stress.
He is showing the signs of we know what we're doing. We know what we're going to accomplish and we're trying we'd like to
do it diplomatically, but if it's not done diplomatically, it's going to be done militarily.
And Danny, another thing about that Quanico meeting that just blows my mind
away. I mean, it really does. You got Higg, Seth, and Trump insinuating, if not directly, saying
that the rest of the world's evil and vile. Not just Chicago, not just, you
know, Portland or whatever. That's their latest bent. But they've been saying that about the rest of the world. I got
news for them. The rest of the world, or at least twothirds of it, thinks we're
the violess. We're the evil. We're the power in the world that's detrimental to
everyone else's future. They better get that in their heads and
do something about it or we're toast. Larry, you know, there's also the fact
that Europe Ursula Vanderlayion and the rest of the EU, they've committed what
is it about 4 billion euros or something to the effect for a drone wall for
Ukraine. uh Silinski is requesting uh the uh gamecher
Tomahawk missiles. I even is this is there a capability for
NATO in the United States now that it's okay these long-range strikes to prolong
this conflict to the point where it does lead into a kind of forever war which is
unpredict I guess uh since none of us have crystal ball um could uh end up
badly for Russia or is this all this a miscalculation? Now the the the forever wars you know
that Europe does not have the economic depth nor does the United States to
sustain such a thing and Ukraine doesn't have the manpower. So I mean this really
this is ultimately about logistics. Um this will come to an end. uh in in in
the same way that you know the the terrorist war that the United States initiated against Russia back in 1999
with the Chetchins, you know, that lasted for 10 years. Russia, you know, they made some
mistakes along the way. uh they had some setbacks here and there, but they continued to march forward and and
accomplished the ultimate objective of turning Cheschnney actually into a
peaceful uh federal part of the Federal Republic of Russia. And now the the the
Muslim uh battalions and brigades coming out of there uh are some of the fiercest
fighters and the most patriotic of Russians. You know, this is the West,
particularly in the United States. We've never suffered the the kinds of loss
and and we've just never had the kind of suffering that Russia has experienced in
its history. And when you go back to the first year of of the war in the great patriotic war
when Germany launched Barbar Roa, you know, the the Russians lost in that
first year. I think it was like 3 to four million soldiers in just that year.
I mean, a scale of loss that in the United States would be unimaginable.
And yet instead of, you know, collapsing into a fetal position and crying on the
floor, Russia, you know, sucked it up and moved forward and beat the Germans
and, you know, the United States helped. But that was that was largely a victory by the then Soviets o o over Germany and
they were able to uh, you know, sustain and expand industrial production. uh
they they were able to uh you know grow grow enough food to feed themselves and
train enough soldiers to to fight the battle. I mean when all was said and done 27 million Russians was a horrific
price to pay. No country in the world lost more people. China was second in line to that. So that is part of the
Russian character. So if if Ben Wallace
stupidly believes, oh, if we blow up that Crimea bridge, the Kirch Bridge, boy, that's going to really crush the
Russians, just doesn't show that he does how ignorant the man is, and that he does
not understand the Russian soul, the Russian character. And compare that, Danny, to the fact
that we haven't seen a war in our front yard since 1865.
How do you think we would take that? How do you think we would stand up to that? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh, you know, Colonel Wilkerson, uh, same kind of
question to you about the drone wall, the, you know, the,
uh, military, you know, militarization, the constant militarization of Europe and NATO, now the promise of Tomahawks,
uh, or at least the the request from Zalinski with, uh, a lot of, uh,
inconsistent messaging from the United States about what is going to happen from here. Uh, what do you make of all
of this? Well, all a drone wall is is a zofly zone with another name. Um, how
are they going to do this when their economies are collapsing? How are they going to do this when they can't even
remotely get close to 5%. I doubt if they can get remotely close to 4% of GDP
for defense. Their publics will throw them out. Their publics are going to throw them out. You got three dead men
walking right now and you're Mcronone Merz and Starmer. The governments are
going and many of the other governments will go too when they awaken to the fact that they've been drugged into a
situation, NATO alliance included, that is not in their interest. So NATO is
collapsing. The whole EU is collapsing in many respects through bad leadership,
through the autocracy that the EU really represents, and through just bad economic management across the board.
So, all Russia's got to do is sit on its uh hunches, literally, and keep plugging
away. And, you know, my great fear is that they'll get to some point where
they'll say, "Wow, this is ripe for the picking. I don't think they will because I think Larry's
right and others who feel the same way. Russia has no desire for extra territory. What it's concerned with is
security of its existing territory. And we threatened that security multiple
times through deceit, through perity, for absolute lying outright from 2014
on. And they don't trust us anymore. And they're going to ensure that that is not
the case when they finish this. They're going to feel safe again,
you know. And there there was this uh people are circulating this article uh I
don't know if you've seen it in the Financial Times. Russian missile upgrade up outpaces Ukraine's Patriot defenses.
This is in the Financial Times. Kiev's interception rates fall as enemy strikes dodge US interceptors in the final
seconds. Larry, could you talk about what this means? They cite the Kinjao missile, but I know that Russia's
arsenal is quite diverse and there's a variety of missiles that it has varying
speeds from hypersonic to lower than this. But what's your uh uh what how how
could you help explain what they are talking about here when it comes to this problem? It's not even just the Patriot
systems not being numerous enough. It's that they they can't intercept what
Russia has with whatever Ukraine is able to muster when it comes to patriots.
Yeah, this is the Financial Times captain obvious moment. Yeah, thanks for telling you what we've known
for three years. Look, the the Russians in contrast to
the United States, the United States has yet to field a single operational
hypersonic missile. And that's a missile that travels above the speed of Mach 6
and is maneuverable. It because you know there are are intercontinental ballistic missiles.
They go in excess of Mach 6, but they're you know you launch it's like I shot an arrow in the air and where it fell I
know not where it follows it follows a gravitational path. Whereas this the
hypersonic missiles that Russia has at least four um variants you know from the Kinsaw the
Iskander I forget the name of the other and then there's the Arashnik at least four United States doesn't have
one and you know so Russia's perfected over uh over the years they finally
realized they can send in t you know drones which are decoys and you know the
problem for the uh Ukrainians was they don't know how if that decoy is real or not or if it's actually carrying a
warhead. So they fire off their air defense missiles and at some point by
the particular the Patriot missile batteries the Loheed Martin only produces 550 missiles a year. Okay,
and that's missile not launcher. They produce far far fewer launchers.
Well, we just had an attack last uh was it last, you know, was it Monday that
was described as the largest missile drone attack since the start of the war?
And yet we heard the same thing said, you know, about a week and a half earlier and then the same thing was said
a week and a half before that. So, you know, Russia on average is firing about
every week almost a barrage upwards of 600, 700, 800 combination missiles and
drones. So, if you figure that Kiev is going to try to, you know, they're going to try to shoot down just half of that.
So, they're they're going to launch their Patriot missiles and that means they're going to need to launch two missiles per 400 targets. Do the math.
Two times 400, that's 800. right there. That's almost two years of Loheed Martin production.
So, like I said, Financial Times has finally learned how to do math. You know, Ukraine, Ukraine is caught in
a situation where the the West, the United States, and the Europe cannot
make uh missile defense systems and the actual missiles fast enough to replace
what's being fired against missiles that uh Russia is well capable of making far
faster than any than the United States and Europe combined.
Yeah. and and Colonel Wilkerson, your comments. Uh we were talking before the show about the the Tomahawk missiles. Uh
how do they compare with uh Russia's arsenal? Uh given that uh there have
been I know we've covered on the show of conversations about the ent you know the United States's military arsenal in
general just being very old in a sense uh in terms of the production um the way that production happens uh in the United
States and its reliance on contractors etc. But how do the tomahawks compare then to
old technology? We took delivery of tomahawks in 1984 in Pacific Command.
And immediately our our commander-in-chief, who would later be Reagan's uh chairman, Admiral Bill Cra
said, "I need the D. I need the D. I don't want this C bel version because my
war plan uh attacks me with not only defending Japan but also getting the
attention of the Russians on the Western Front should they attack in Europe. And I'm not going to get their attention
with this little pin prick weapon you've given me. I need the D. The D was the nuclear varant. That'll tell you
something about the tomahawk when it first came out. It's even with the upgrades, even with what we've done to
it, it's still very very it's much more costly than it was in those early 80s. And it's still very slow and it's easy
to shoot down. So, I mean, I wouldn't, if I were Russia, I wouldn't look at the tomahawk as a threat in any way,
fashion, or form other than a pin prick wherever it might hit. And if it should hit something that that pin prick is
going to major damage to, well, okay, that's damage. But it's not a wars
stopper and it's not a war changer. Yeah.
And unless they've extended the range, if I remember right from PCOM, it was about a 585 nautical mile missile. So
it's not that extraordinary long range either. And it's slow compared to a Rashnik. It's very slow.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um uh I wanted to I have one more uh
segment to cover. Uh Larry, I know that you have to go in about nine minutes. Uh Colonel Wilkerson, could you say we can
begin with you, Larry, and then I got I'm on my time right now. So,
all right. All right. Well, let me just uh let's briefly then comment on this while I still have you guys. Um, you
know, uh, Vladimir Putin, he did respond to the paper tiger, uh, comment, uh,
that Trump made, uh, which many saw as a 180 by Donald Trump. I don't know if we
look at Trump's policy on Ukraine. I don't know if we could call anything a full 180, but this is what Vladimir
Putin had to say about Russia being called a paper tiger.
But we are Oh, sorry. I thought there was English subtitles so I will read it. Uh so if we are fighting the entire NATO
block um and are moving forward like this advancing feeling confident
um and that means we are a paper tiger then what is NATO itself? So you know a
pretty damning response Larry what's your uh what's your reaction to
this? Well, this is, you know, I put it in the same category as whether you're listening to Ben Hodes, David Petraeus,
Mark Kemik, you know, all former generals, all um I think all were part
Well, Petraeus never headed Yukon, but but they've always made fun of how
little progress the Russians have made. Yet, these are the very guys that failed to uh conquer Iraq in 14 years and
conquer Afghanistan in 20 years. So, it's like they got no room to talk.
I I think I think Putin's response was exactly spot on.
Yeah. Yeah. Colonel Wilkerson, that would me I feel the same way.
If I hear Kellogg say one more time what his litany is, I'll probably get sick.
Yeah. Right. And then there's this development uh
that's been uh going on now for a bit. But uh there is there is going to be the
archnik um and president Lucenko, Alexander Lucenko of Belarus who said
any minute now the archnik is coming for to Barus. And I I guess I'm curious
about your uh reactions to this given that uh if these long range strikes
occur the first time that they occurred under the Biden administration, Russia did launch an arrnic. Um it did it did
test out the arric and it did hit Ukraine. Um, do you see that if any of
these threats are are made good by Ukraine, if it begins to use US intel
again for these long range so-called long-range strikes, medium-range strikes, that Russia will uh use the
Arashnik weapon again to send the same kind of message? Oh, yeah. No, I think so. But I mean
they've been very clear both lav roof and Putin essentially said that if the west
allows these attacks to go forward and Putin's been quite descriptive saying look they can't do it without US
personnel actually providing uh key key information and operational uh
involvement. So it it's going to be considered an he said an act of war. So
you know they won't just limit themselves to a rushnik. uh they're trying to avoid it, but if if
the West keeps pressing, uh this thing can get out of hand very quickly. Just as the start of World War I starts with
an assassination, and man, next thing you know, you got the whole world fighting on two fronts.
Yeah, Colonel Wilkerson, your thoughts? Woodenheadedness.
Yeah, I agree. I agree 100%. I I think Putin has been more than circumspect.
I'm not sure that I could have restrained myself the way he has restrained himself with regard to
striking what is clearly NATO support of Ukraine in Poland and other places. By
the way, I heard this morning that uh there were some things happening in Poland that might be very very positive.
One of which is uh the new president introduced legislation to declare the I
think it was the Azoff types or the Azoff battalion whatever as anathema to
Poland. Mhm. Yeah. Right. And Poland was just subject to
that uh false flag which has gone quiet. the whole drone false flag, all that's
come out of that, Laren Colonel workers and is more promises of money for more
drones themselves. Yeah. Um maybe we can close here with your final assessment on the situation
in Ukraine from both of you because uh where it is now given that uh the Trump
administration the diplomacy side of the USRussia um uh talks and all of that seem to have
frozen for the time being and the US side keeps talking escalation whether
it's Keith Kellogg's cornflakes as some people call them constantly talk about gamechanging tomahawks And uh you have
NATO uh looking for permanent war it seems like with Russia. And you have
Russia continuing its advance. Actually it seems like every other day there's another report about its uh strikes on
Kiev for example being bigger than the last. Uh we can start with you Larry and then Colonel Wilkerson.
Yeah. Yeah. Because I've only got about a minute left. No, it's very simple. It's April 1945 Berlin. That's Ukraine
situation. Colonel Wilkerson. Ditto.
They don't I will say Yeah. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I was say there's no escape. There's no
path path to victory. Yeah. I I was just going to say that who
knows what Donald Trump is going to say. Fortunately, it doesn't accompany itself
with action lots of times, but who knows what he's going to say. I mean, on Monday, he's saying one thing about
Ukraine. On Tuesday, he's saying another thing. And on Wednesday, he's converting everything to the Western Hemisphere.
And on Thursday, he's converting it to the Western Hemisphere so he can fight Democrats in our cities with the
military. Right. Yep. Yep. It is certainly an empire of
chaos as our friend Pepe Escobar calls it. Uh gentlemen, thanks so much for joining me. I just want to point to the
video description. You have Larry Johnson's uh blog there you can check out after the show. Also, all the places
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Lawrence: We are clearly seeing madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind
MSNBC
Oct 2, 2025 #trump #democrats #msnbc

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Donald Trump’s posting racist fake videos while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown reveals how Trump’s “madness … has reached new extremes that we haven't seen before even from Donald Trump.”



Transcript

I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING
THAT. HEARING WHAT HE HAS TO
SAY.
>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
>> WELL, THE NEW. YORK TIMES IS
LOST. THE NEW YORK TIMES IS
STILL THE GREATEST NEWSPAPER IN
AMERICA BY FAR, AND ONE OF THE
GREATEST NEWSPAPERS IN THE
WORLD. BUT TONIGHT, THE NEW
YORK TIMES IS LOST. THE NEW
YORK TIMES HAS NO IDEA HOW TO
COVER THE MADNESS OF DONALD
TRUMP. AND SO THE NEW YORK
TIMES IGNORES IT, JUST AS THE
MADNESS OF KING GEORGE THE
THIRD HAD TO BE IGNORED BY THE
LONDON TIMES IN 1789, THE
WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS IS LOST.
ALONG WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES.
THERE IS NO ONE WORKING AT THE
NEW YORK TIMES TONIGHT WHO,
WHEN THEY WERE EDITING THEIR
HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS AND
DREAMING ABOUT ONE DAY WORKING
AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, EVER
IMAGINED THEY WOULD HAVE TO
COVER A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES WHO USES THE OFFICIAL
SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
TOOLS OF THE WHITE HOUSE?
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION PAID
FOR BY THE TAXPAYER TO. POST
FAKE. VIDEOS OF THE FIRST BLACK
MINORITY LEADER OF THE UNITED
STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
IN THE FIRST JEWISH MINORITY
LEADER OF THE UNITED STATES
SENATE, WHEN THEY WERE WORKING
ON THEIR HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS.
THEY HAD NO IDEA THERE WOULD BE
A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES WHO WOULD POST VIDEOS ON
A GOVERNMENT OPERATED SOCIAL
MEDIA ACCOUNT THAT PUT FAKE
WORDS INTO CHUCK SCHUMER'S
MOUTH, WHICH AI MAKES SOUND
EXACTLY LIKE CHUCK SCHUMER. AND
THAT FAKE LANGUAGE IN THAT
VIDEO WOULD BE FILLED WITH
DONALD TRUMP STYLE PROFANITY
LANGUAGE CHUCK SCHUMER WOULD
NEVER USE IN PUBLIC, BUT
LANGUAGE THAT THE CURRENT
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HAS SHOCKED.
>> THE WORLD.
>> WITH REPEATEDLY. DONALD
TRUMP IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES WHO HAS BEEN
HEARD PUBLICLY AND DELIBERATELY
USING PROFANITY REPEATEDLY.
WORDS THAT I CAN, BUT I WILL
NOT. USE ON THIS PROGRAM
BECAUSE, AS EVERY ADULT IS
SUPPOSED TO KNOW, THERE ARE
PLACES WHERE PROFANITY IS NOT
APPROPRIATE. NO ONE TAUGHT
DONALD TRUMP THAT. WHO'S GOING
TO BOTHER TO STOP TO TALK ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP'S USE OF PROFANITY
WHEN HE IS SENDING TROOPS INTO
AMERICAN CITIES, THAT HE LIES
ABOUT BEING A WAR ZONE? I AGREE
THAT IT'S JUST TOO SMALL AN
ITEM IN THE DAILY
TRANSGRESSIONS OF DONALD TRUMP,
BUT REMEMBER, DON'T EVER FORGET
THAT THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA
ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY AGREES THAT
HILLARY CLINTON LOST HER
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BECAUSE
SHE USED THE WORD DEPLORABLE.
ONCE TO DESCRIBE SOME TRUMP
VOTERS, SOME OF WHOM PROVED
THEMSELVES WILLING TO BEHAVE
DEPLORABLY AND VIOLENTLY FOR
DONALD TRUMP ON JANUARY 6TH,
WHEN THEY BECAME THE ONLY
PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO
ATTACK THE CAPITAL OF THE
UNITED STATES ON BEHALF OF
THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE,
THERE ARE PEOPLE WORKING AT THE
NEW YORK TIMES TODAY WHO WILL
INSIST TO YOU THAT HILLARY
CLINTON'S USE OF THE WORD
DEPLORABLE WAS, IN AND OF
ITSELF DEPLORABLE? THOSE SAME
PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING TO SAY
ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S USE OF
LANGUAGE. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
THOSE PEOPLE BELVED THAT YOU
CANNOT POSSIBLY BE ELECTED
PRESIDENT IN THIS COUNTRY. IF
YOU USE THE WORD DEPLORABLE TO
DESCRIBE ANY VOTERS IN AMERICA.
DONALD TRUMP CALLS US VERMIN.
DONALD TRUMP GOT ELECTED
PRESIDENT, CALLING AMERICAN
VOTERS VERMIN IF THEY DIDN'T
VOTE FOR HIM. HITLER'S WORD
VERMIN. DONALD TRUMP IS NOW
USING FAKE AI. SOUND OF CHUCK
SCHUMER SAYING THAT ALL
DEMOCRATS ARE PIECES OF CRAP.
AND OF COURSE HE DOESN'T USE
THE WORD CRAP. I JUST CLEANED
THAT UP. BUT ALL DEMOCRATS, ALL
THOSE WISE PUNDITS WHO'VE BEEN
TELLING YOU FOR YEARS THAT
HILLARY CLINTON COULDN'T
POSSIBLY BE ELECTED IN THIS
COUNTRY IF SHE'S GOING TO USE A
WORD LIKE DEPLORABLE IN A
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, REFERRING
TO VOTERS ON THE OTHER SIDE CAN
ONLY MAKE THAT ARGUMENT NOW BY
COMPLETELY IGNORING EVERY
SINGLE THING DONALD TRUMP HAS
SAID PUBLICLY ABOUT VOTERS WHO
DO NOT VOTE FOR HIM. EVERY
SINGLE THING HE SAID WHEN
HILLARY CLINTON USED THE WORD
DEPLORABLE, IT WAS IN A PRIVATE
FUNDRAISER. SHE DID NOT INTEND
FOR IT TO BE HEARD OUTSIDE OF
THAT ROOM. SURE, SHE WAS WAY
TOO RELAXED IN THAT FUNDRAISER.
IT'S NOT THE KIND OF THING SHE
WOULD HAVE SAID PUBLICLY, BUT
DONALD TRUMP SAYS DELIBERATELY
AND CLEARLY INTO MICROPHONES
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO HEAR THAT
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE LUNATICS.
THAT'S HIS WORD. LUNATICS.
DONALD TRUMP THINKS 75 MILLION
AMERICANS ARE LUNATICS FOR
VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS,
DONALD TRUMP HAS SAID THE
UGLIEST THINGS ABOUT AMERICAN
VOTERS THAT ANY AMERICAN
POLITICIAN HAS EVER SAID. AND
DONALD TRUMP WENT ON TO WIN THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE AFTER SAYING
THOSE THINGS. AND THE NEW YORK
TIMES SIMPLY DOESN'T KNOW HOW
TO HANDLE WHAT DONALD TRUMP
SAYS AND DOES. I DON'T KNOW HOW
TO HANDLE IT EITHER. I FEEL MY
WAY THROUGH THE TRUMP MUD EVERY
DAY. I DON'T CONFIDENTLY KNOW
WHAT TO IGNORE OR WHAT NOT TO
IGNORE, BUT I DO KNOW I HAVE TO
THINK ABOUT IT. I HAVE TO THINK
ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME. I HAVE
TO THINK ABOUT IT EVERY DAY. I
HAVE TO FACE ALL OF IT, AND I
HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT ASPECTS OF
THE TRUMP POISON WE SHOULD
EXAMINE IN THIS HOUR THAT WE
HAVE ON THIS PROGRAM. TONIGHT,
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE
WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS ARE
DROWNING IN THE DEVIANCY AND
PERVERSITY OF DONALD TRUMP AND
HIS WHITE HOUSE, ALL OF WHOM
EVERYONE WORKING IN THAT WHITE
HOUSE SUPPORTS THIS DEEPLY
PERVERSE USE OF GOVERNMENT
OPERATED SOCIAL MEDIA TO PUT
OUT POISON AND WHAT IS CLEARLY
RAW INSANITY. FROM THE DARKNESS
OF DONALD TRUMP'S MIND AND THE
WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS HAS
JUST DROWNED IN IT. THEY'RE
LOST IN IT. THEY HAVE
INTERNALIZED IT. THEY HAVE
FULLY ACCEPTED IT. THAT IS WHAT.
>> THE NEW.
>> YORK TIMES AND THE
WASHINGTON MEDIA HAVE DONE SO
FAR THIS WEEK. THEY HAVE
ACCEPTED IT TO THE POINT THAT
WHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES WROTE
ITS BIG EDITORIAL ABOUT THE
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, EVERYTHING
IT WANTED TO SAY ABOUT IT
TITLED THE REAL STAKES OF THE
SHUTDOWN, THEY DIDN'T MENTION
WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID. INSTEAD
OF NEGOTIATING AWAY OUT OF THE
SHUTDOWN, THEY DIDN'T MENTION
WHAT HE HAS DONE ON SOCIAL
MEDIA. PUTTING A SOMBRERO ON
HAKEEM JEFFRIES HEAD, PUTTING
FAKE WORDS IN CHUCK SCHUMER'S
MOUTH, PROFANE, AWFUL, STUPID
TRUMP WORDS. THEY DIDN'T EVEN
MENTION IT. THE REAL STAKES OF
THE SHUTDOWN ARE INSANITY
VERSUS SANITY, AND THE PRESS
CORPS DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO FACE
THAT. THE NEW YORK TIMES
REFUSES TO CONFRONT AND
IDENTIFY THE INSANITY, REFUSES
TO EVEN DESCRIBE IT. THE TIMES
EDITORIAL ABOUT THE SHUTDOWN IS
A VERY WELL REASONED AND CLEAR,
SOLID EDITORIAL. ALL THE WAY IT
SAYS WHAT THE TWO PARTIES ARE
FIGHTING ABOUT IS WHETHER
AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SEEKING TO
DEPRIVE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
OF THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE, AND
SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE REFUSING
TO ACQUIESCE. THAT IS A CLEAR
PRESENTATION OF THE STAKES IN
THE SHUTDOWN. PRIOR TO THE
OUTBURST OF PUBLIC TRUMP
INSANITY. THE EDITORIAL ENDS
WITH THE IN THE CLASSIC STYLE
THAT EVERYONE WORKING AT THE
NEW YORK TIMES MASTERED IN
THEIR HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS,
AND IT READS LIKE SOMETHING
FROM THE 20TH CENTURY. IT READS
LIKE SOMETHING. LONG BEFORE THE
EXISTENCE OF TRUMP MADNESS IN
OUR GOVERNMENT. IT READS LIKE
SOMETHING YOU COULD HAVE
WRITTEN ABOUT BILL CLINTON IN
THE WHITE HOUSE AND NEWT
GINGRICH AS SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE. IT SAYS IT IS INCUMBENT
ON THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
TO REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE AND COMMIT TO
PREVENTING AMERICANS FROM
HAVING TO PAY TOO MUCH FOR
HEALTH INSURANCE NEXT YEAR. THE
ONLY WAY FORWARD IS TO
NEGOTIATE A COMPROMISE. IT'S
TIME TO START TALKING. HOW LOST
IS THAT? WHAT CENTURY ARE THEY
IN, WHAT FANTASY WORLD THEY
LIVE IN THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM
TO TYPE THOSE SENTENCES? THEY
COULD HAVE WRITTEN THAT LINE IN
ANY EDITORIAL ABOUT ANY
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DURING ANY
OTHER PRESIDENCY. BUT WHEN YOU
READ IT NOW, YOU SEE HOW LOST
THE TIMES IS. IT'S TIME TO
START TALKING TO A MAN WHO
REFUSES TO TALK TO YOU AND ONLY
POSTS SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO LYING
ABOUT YOU AND RIDICULING YOU.
TALK TO HIM. NO ONE IN THE
HISTORY OF GOVERNING IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS
EVER HAD TO TALK TO A PERSON
THAT CRAZY ABOUT ANYTHING, EVER.
AND THE TIME SAYS IT'S TIME TO
START TALKING. THE ENTIRE
EDITORIAL DOES NOT FIND THE
SPACE TO MAKE A SINGLE
REFERENCE TO THE MADNESS OF
DONALD TRUMP AS EVEN A FACTOR
IN THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, OR
IN THE WAY OUT OF THE
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. AND HERE,
I GUESS, IS ITS REFERENCE TO
DONALD TRUMP'S INSANE SOCIAL
MEDIA POSTING. QUOTE, HE MIXED
BOMBASTIC SOCIAL MEDIA BLASTS
AND THREATS TO FIRE THOUSANDS
OF FEDERAL WORKERS IF DEMOCRATS
DID NOT PROVIDE THE VOTES FOR
HIS PLAN TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT
OPEN, BOMBASTIC SOCIAL MEDIA
BLASTS. THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE.
HOW VERY POLITE. NO, THEY'RE
NOT BOMBASTIC. THEY ARE INSANE.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN
MADELEINE DEAN APPROACHED THE
REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
TO TALK ABOUT THE TRUMP MADNESS,
AND HE APPEARED TO OFFER
NODDING AGREEMENT THAT DONALD
TRUMP IS UNWELL.
>> THE PRESIDENT IS UNHINGED.
HE IS UNWELL.
>> WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON YOUR.
>> SIDE.
>> ARE TOO. I DON'T.
>> CONTROL MY.
>> HE COULD HAVE SAID NO, THE
PRESIDENT IS NOT UNWELL. MAYBE
HE MEANT TO SAY THAT, BUT HE
DIDN'T. IT WAS TAKEN AS A GIVEN
IN THE CONVERSATION. HE NODS
WHEN HE HEARS THE PRESIDENT IS
UNWELL AND HIS RESPONSE AS HE'S
NODDING, IS A LOT OF FOLKS ON
YOUR SIDE ARE TOO. THE WORD TWO
THERE INDICATES SIMILARITY TO
WHAT WAS JUST SAID, MEANING
SIMILARITY TO TRUMP. THE PLAIN
LANGUAGE OF THAT IS THE SPEAKER
IN EFFECT, AGREEING THAT TRUMP
IS UNWELL AND SIMPLY SAYING
THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE UNWELL.
THAT'S THAT'S THE SPEAKER'S
DEFENSE OF TRUMP BEING UNWELL.
HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE. OF
COURSE HE IS. BUT OKAY. THE
REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
HAS TO BE SHOCKED BY WHAT
DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE ON SOCIAL
MEDIA. WE KNOW HE IS SHOCKED,
BUT LIKE ALL REPUBLICANS IN
WASHINGTON, HE PROCESSES THE
SHOCK INSTANTLY AND KNOWS HE
WILL NEVER DARE PUBLICLY SAY A
NEGATIVE WORD ABOUT IT BECAUSE
HE SPENDS EVERY WAKING MOMENT
OF HIS LIFE AS A COWARD. HE HAS
TAKEN, IN EFFECT, AN OATH OF
COWARDICE TO DONALD TRUMP. HE'S
NOT THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
HE'S THE SPEAKER OF OF TRUMP IN
THE HOUSE. NOW, IF I WERE
RUNNING THE NEW YORK TIMES,
WHICH I'M INCOMPETENT TO DO,
COULDN'T DO IT. I DON'T KNOW
THAT I COULD DEAL WITH THIS
SITUATION ANY BETTER THAN THEY
HAVE DONE, I REALLY DON'T.
INSTEAD, I JUST HAVE AN HOUR OF
TELEVISION WHERE I CAN SAY
WHATEVER I WANT. THAT'S A MUCH
EASIER RESPONSIBILITY THAN
EDITING THE NEW YORK TIMES. AND
I HAD NEVER PRESUMED THAT I CAN
DO A BETTER JOB THAN THE NEW
YORK TIMES. I NEVER PRESUMED
THAT I COULD DO A BETTER JOB
THAN ANYONE WHO'S AT BAT IN
YANKEE STADIUM OUT THERE, WHO
STRIKES OUT. AND SO IT'S NOT
WITH SOME SENSE OF SUPERIORITY
THAT I FIND THE NEW YORK TIMES
HAS STRUCK OUT IN THE FACE OF
THE MADNESS OF DONALD TRUMP
THIS WEEK, WHICH HAS REACHED
NEW EXTREMES THAT WE HAVEN'T
SEEN BEFORE, EVEN FROM DONALD
TRUMP. THE WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS
WHO LIVE WITH DONALD TRUMP'S
INSANITY UP CLOSE HAVE
OBVIOUSLY DECIDED IT CANNOT BE
DEFENDED. AND THE ONLY THING TO
DO IS PRETEND THERE'S NOTHING
CRAZY ABOUT IT. THAT'S WHAT
DONALD TRUMP'S FAITHFUL VICE
PRESIDENT TRIED TO DO YESTERDAY.
AND NOW THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO POST THAT
VIDEO AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE ON
OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE
COMMUNICATIONS AND MAKE THE
SOMBRERO BIGGER EVERY DAY.
THAT'S WHAT THE CHILDREN IN THE
WHITE HOUSE ARE GOING TO DO.
THIS IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT AND
THE FIRST WHITE HOUSE THAT HAS,
HAS, HAS DECIDED, AS JD VANCE
DID YESTERDAY, THAT A SHUTDOWN
IS FUNNY. THEY'VE DECIDED IT'S
FUNNY. JD VANCE THINKS THE
SHUTDOWN ON HIS OPPORTUNITY FOR
JOKES. AND THAT SOMBRERO STUFF
IS FUNNY. HE DIDN'T EXPLAIN
WHAT'S FUNNY ABOUT IT. PRIOR TO
THE EXISTENCE OF THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE, WHENEVER THE
DISASTER OF A SHUTDOWN WOULD
OCCUR, EVERYONE IN THE WHITE
HOUSE TOOK THE SITUATION VERY,
VERY SERIOUSLY. THEY DIDN'T
HAVE TO SUPPRESS JOKES. THEY
WEREN'T MAKING JOKES ABOUT IT,
NO MATTER WHO THE PRESIDENT WAS.
AND SO THE CRISIS OF THIS WEEKS
PUBLICLY FLARING MADNESS FROM
THE WHITE HOUSE IS MADE ALL THE
WORSE BY THE CRISIS OF THE NEW
YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON
PRESS CORPS, TAKING IT ALL AS
BUSINESS AS USUAL. THEY HAVE
INTERNALIZED TRUMP MADNESS IN
THEIR COVERAGE. THEY HAVE LOST
THEIR ABILITY TO REACT TO IT,
BUT THEIR OUTRAGE WILL BE FULLY
REVIVED IF A DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, OR IF
A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT EVER
SAYS A SINGLE NEGATIVE THING
ABOUT ANY KIND OF AMERICAN
VOTERS, EVER, ANYWHERE. THE
WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS IS
OUTRAGED. MECHANISM IS SLEEPING
TONIGHT, BUT IT WILL BE FULLY
OPERATIVE AGAIN ONCE THEY HAVE
A DEMOCRAT TO AIM IT AT. THAT'S
NOT A PARTIZAN STATEMENT ON MY
PART. IT IS SIMPLY AN
OBSERVABLE FACT. YOU ALL SAW IT.
WE'VE ALL SEEN IT. THEY CANNOT
PRETEND THIS ISN'T TRUE. WE ALL
SAW THEM SCREAM ENDLESSLY AT
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, JOE BIDEN'S
PRESS SECRETARY. WE ALL SAW
THEM SCREAM DIRECTLY AT JOE
BIDEN IN HIS FACE WHEN ASKING
HIM QUESTIONS, AND WE ALL SEE
THAT THEY DO NOT DARE EVER DO
ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE. THEY CAN NEVER,
EVER DENY AGAIN THAT THEY DO
INDEED HAVE A DOUBLE STANDARD,
AND THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF
COVERAGE FAVORS TRUMP MADNESS.
IT ACCEPTS TRUMP MADNESS. AND
IF A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT GETS
ONE WORD WRONG IN A SENTENCE,
HE DOESN'T GET A CHANCE TO
CORRECT IT. HE'S IMMEDIATELY
JUDGED TO BE TOO OLD FOR THE
JOB. THE DOUBLE STANDARD IS
THERE, AND IT'S GOING TO BE
OPERATING FOR THE NEXT THREE
YEARS OF THIS WHITE HOUSE
COVERAGE.

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Army General Walks Out on Hegseth Speech | Trump Left Stunned
True Voice USA
Sep 30, 2025 UNITED STATES

Army General walks out on Pete Hegseth’s controversial speech as Donald Trump watches in shock. This breaking military news exposes rising tensions between Trump and top U.S. generals over war policy, accountability, and loyalty. Watch how this dramatic exit stunned Trump and sparked nationwide debate on America’s military leadership.



Transcript

Welcome back to True Voice of USA.
Today's breaking story reveals something
deeply troubling. Something that shows
us exactly how Donald Trump continues to
operate when it comes to power, respect,
and control. What we just witnessed
wasn't strength. It wasn't leadership.
It was intimidation and
overcompensation. If you've ever heard
the phrase act like you've been there
before, you'll know that true strength
doesn't need to shout. It doesn't need
to threaten. It's calm confidence, not
bravado. But in this explosive new
development, Trump once again showed
that he thrives on bravado, fear, and
pushing people into submission. And
what's worse, he surrounds himself with
others who mirror the same behavior.

So here's what happened. Trump walked into
a meeting room full of generals and top
military leaders, men who have dedicated
their lives to service, sacrifice, and
protecting the Constitution. Instead of
showing respect or seeking dialogue,
Trump opened with threats. He told the
room essentially if he didn't like
someone, he would fire them on the spot.
He told the media ahead of time this
would be his approach, proudly boasting
that he would remove generals and
admirals if they didn't fall in line.
Imagine that, walking into a room with
decorated military leaders and treating
it like you're firing contestants on a
reality TV show. That was the tone he
set.

Then came Pete Hegseth, Trump's
handpicked ally, who carried on with
even more disturbing rhetoric. Hegseth
talked about maximum lethality and
removing so-called politically correct
rules of engagement. He portrayed
himself as if he were preparing to lead
a World War I style charge, declaring
that the military should be unleashed to
intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill
enemies without restraint. He made it
sound like ]America's armed forces were
not protectors of freedom bound by laws
and values, but a blunt instrument of
punishment to be used however Trump
wishes.

But what makes this even more
alarming is the way Trump framed it to
the generals. If you don't like what I'm
saying, you can leave the room. But
leaving the room doesn't just mean
walking away. It means losing rank,
losing career, losing everything you've
built. That's not leadership. That's
coercion. That's the behavior of someone
trying to bend the military to his
personal will. .

Now compare that to the
words of real generals like Mark Millie
who have always emphasized that
America's armed forces do not swear an
oath to a king, a dictator, or a single
individual. They swear an oath to the
Constitution. Millie once said that
those values, the very ones written in
that document, are what make America's
military unique in the world. That moral
compass is what separates us from
tyrannies and dictatorships. Yet here we
see Trump openly mocking that legacy,
discarding it, and instead calling for a
culture shift where loyalty is no longer
to the Constitution, but to him.

Retired General Steve Anderson responded by
saying, "This speech was essentially
canned, hollow, and deeply concerning."
He pointed out that generals in that
room had likely traveled thousands of
miles only to hear a lecture filled with
empty bravado. More importantly,
Anderson warned that Trump's attitude
toward alliances like NATO and military
partnerships in Asia could be
disastrous. For 80 years, these
alliances have kept the world relatively
safe. To pull back from them, to weaken
them, would be a huge mistake.

Anderson also didn't hold back on Hegseth. He
noted the irony of being lectured about
accountability by someone who once
leaked classified information over an
unsecure line. Any officer in that room
would have been fired immediately for
the same offense. Yet here he was
preaching about responsibility. Anderson
called it a sad moment in American
history. One where the military is being
pushed not to serve the Constitution,
but to bow to political power.

And let's not ignore the bigger picture. Trump
once claimed back in 2016 that he would
never announce military plans because it
was foolish to let enemies know what
you're doing. Yet here he was
broadcasting to the world that he was
pulling generals from across the globe
into one room, stripping them from their
posts, and treating them like employees
in a corporate seminar. That's not just
reckless, it's strategically dangerous.

And what's the real endgame? It's not
about national defense. It's about
setting the stage for martial law. About
conditioning the military to obey
Trump's commands without question, even
if those commands mean turning forces
inward on American soil. It's about
silencing dissent, scaring voters, and
consolidating power. 14 months from now,
when the next election looms, this kind
of rhetoric is designed to make people
afraid, to keep them home, to stop
democracy in its tracks.

So, let's be clear. This wasn't strength. This wasn't
patriotism. This was intimidation
dressed up as leadership. And if history
has taught us anything, it's that when
leaders try to force loyalty to
themselves instead of to a constitution
or a nation's core values, it never ends
well. That is why this moment should
alarm every American who believes in
democracy, accountability, and freedom.

Stay tuned here at True Voice of USA as
we continue to bring you the stories
that matter, the stories that expose the
truth, and the stories that others try
to bury.

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INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap 3-OCT
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
Streamed live 64 minutes ago

INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap 3-OCT



Transcript

Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napalitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Friday,
October 3rd, 2025. It's the end of the day, the end of the week, our favorite
time and our favorite program, the intelligence community roundt with my dear and longtime friends Ray McGovern
and Larry Johnson. Gentlemen, thank you and welcome here. Thank you for the double uh duty.
Larry, to you first. Did Tyler Robinson, the young man arrested in Utah and
charged with the murder of Charlie Kirk, pull the trigger on the weapon that
propelled the bullet that killed Charlie? No. No. He He's innocent of that. uh if
he fired any rifle, it's not the one that the FBI is claiming. Uh the the the
round that killed Charlie Kirk was not a 306. You I know early on we thought so,
but then once once you you know finally saw that there was no exit wound, it was
impossible that a 306 round would have been the the device that killed him. It
was it was more likely what's called a frangible round. It's a round that was designed that the bullet breaks up upon
entering the human body or upon hitting an object. Uh so this was uh I don't
know why the FBI rushed in such a way with no good evidence and particular you
know the FBI is supposed to be better than this. The Cash Patel has turned this into a clown show in my view and
it's it's disgusting and it's despicable. Well, well, is your analysis that somebody else killed Charlie or
that it was a different weapon from the one the FBI claims? When you watch the video, the minute
after the shot is just as the shot breaks, it looks like you you've been to a sporting event where people do the wave,
you know, they stand up only. In this case, it was the opposite of the wave. Everybody was sitting down and it went
from Charlie's left to the right. Now, if the shot had come from behind, they
would have been coming forward. Instead, the crowd is moving from left to right.
That right there tells you it was somebody else than Tyler Robinson. If in fact that was Tyler Robinson on the
roof, we have no evidence that that's him. The fact that the FBI comes out with this crap that it was a we got the
screwdriver that was used to disassemble the rifle. Go online and you can disassemble one of those in maybe 43
seconds. But they were saying he did it in a matter of two or three seconds. So, I mean, it's just lie piled upon lie.
FBI has got a major credibility issue here. Why would Ray I haven't forgotten
you're that you're there with me? That's okay. I'm interested. Yeah, I know. I know. Why would the FBI
lie unless they're trying to cover up for somebody? Ding ding ding ding ding. We have a winner. Judge Npalitano.
Yeah, that's exactly what's going on. they're covering it up. Um, you know, there are a lot of strange coincidences.
One strange coincidence, uh, via Candace Owens, who spoke to Charlie Kirk, uh,
days two days before this, Charlie had made the decision that he was going to
stop taking money from the Zionists. That's both Christian and Jewish Zionists. He didn't like the fact that
they were giving money and pressuring him, telling him that he can't have Tucker Carlson, he can't have Dave
Smith, he can't have Megan Kelly at his rallies. And he goes, "No, no, you're not going to exercise that kind of
control. I'm going to stop taking your money." Two days later, he's dead. Coincidence. or the fact that the FBI,
the head of the FBI that was sent out there to Utah to oversee the investigation came from an office in
Connecticut that shared they shared the office building with Anti-Defamation League who Cash Patel just two days ago
cut all FBI ties with. Just again coincidence.
So, the weapon that we've seen, the boltaction rifle, is not the weapon that
killed him because the round that it shoots, it would have caused radically
different damage to Charlie's body than was caused by the bullet that hit him. Do I have that right?
Yeah, it would have it would have either exploded his head, literally, severed half of his head. Uh there's a I've
posted a video at sonar21.com. I saw it. I was afraid to watch it. I thought it was going to show the killing
and then it'll cause me nights. Nobody wants to have that in their mind. But this was done by this army retired
army special forces sergeant. Um he he is it goes by Vajala VFT as his channel.
And you know he shot a a a quarter inch steel plate, a 3/8 inch steel plate and
then a half inch steel plate. Because remember the the the spokesman for Turning Point USA say Charlie's neck was
like steel. It stopped the bullet. Well, they fire a 308 at each of those steel
plates. It goes completely through the quarter inch and the 3/8 inch and it
makes a heavy indentation and deflects off of the half inch. I guarantee you
nobody no human neck is the equivalent of a half inch of steel. Number one. So,
and it also shows that that bullet when it hit when it was fired at the femur of
a, you know, the bone from a cow femur shattered the bone. I So, this why the
FBI would go out with such a lame story, one that's so easily disproven. And that that's why I say Tyler Robinson, if this
if this case goes to court, you know, unless they do the Epstein treatment on him, if the case gets to court, he'll be
acquitted. Does uh defense council have your contact information, Larry?
Tell you what, Ray Charles could prosecute this one. Oh boy. All right, Ray. Continuing in
the genre of let's correct the public record from what everybody thinks
category. Uh, when Israel and the United States
attacked Iran in June, were they truthful when they claimed that they
believed that the Iranians were within days of developing a nuclear weapon? Or
have you seen documents that were leaked from somewhere that would indicate that they were not being truthful?
Well, well, judge, it's it's it's this story all over again.
This book was written by a good friend of mine, Gareth Porter. He interviewed everybody and his brother 12 years ago,
okay? When Netanyahu was showing this bomb, right? And he's written a really
good book about all this stuff and how the Israelis have juiced it every time. This time we happen to know because of
leaks of actual transcripts of talks between Netanyahu and his senior command
before that attack on the 13th or 13th of June. I guess the 13th I remember
June. Yeah. Um what happened was uh he he said
well you know we're not we're going to decapitate. We're going to and the military. See, of course, uh we we want
to the long term. We want to long term prevent them from getting a bomb, but you know, it's that's a long term. Long
term is about 10 to 30 years. Not only did it indicate that Netanyahu and all
those people had no idea about Iran being just about to get a nuclear bomb.
The only per person that may have believed that apparently was Donald Trump. But there was a recognition that
this was never true. And there was a recognition in these documents that
Netanyahu felt that Trump had assured him that he would come into the fry once
if Israel got retaliatory strikes from Iran, which of course they did, and
which Trump did. And then when they become too ferocious for Danyahu, that's
when he called his his daddy. He called Trump and he said, "Look, now we need a
deal. They're they're they're creaming me." And what's going to happen now with these tankers and all those things
headed out that way. I just don't know. But I I guess maybe I'll inject here my
my major fear. Trump is not okay. I mean the way the teenagers say it today, you
know, he's not okay. What do you mean he's not okay? Physically or mentally?
I mean both. Uh now I'm not an expert on the me on the physical thing, but look
at his as his hour plus long address to the United Nations and then this thing
at at Quantico on Tuesday. My god, he's he he he's not okay. And you know that
is not okay if you can let me say it that way. Right? And so what that means is that neither
the Russians or the Chinese nor the Venezuelans nor anybody can depend on a
cogent sensible approach to the problems that Trump has raised with them. So I think
the Russians are trying to play it cool but it's more a matter of more a matter of uh what's the word?
Appeasement for God's sake. Uh They don't want to rile this guy and so they're being extra nice. And Putin
pretty much said that yesterday. Larry, how carefully would Russian intel
have scrutinized everything Trump said, every movement of his hands, his mouth,
his eyes, and every word he articulated in that 90minute Fidel Castro-like
speech before the 800 generals and admirals. Oh yeah, they watched it. I'm sure they
watched it intently. I think that and what Ray's referring to uh is Trump
sounded like uh Dustin Hoffman in the moon, you know, Rainman, you know,
talking in a monotone voice. I I'm the greatest in the world and the world
wouldn't, you know, there no inflection, no up and down, no, you know, it was no
emotion. Uh and he talk about used to make fun of, uh, you know, Joe Biden being low energy. Hello. You know, he he
looked like he needed the Energ Energizer Bunny to come on stage and charge him up, right? Uh so yeah, but as Ray noted, I I
watched the Vald Putin speech at Valdai carefully and I wrote a piece yesterday
outlining sort of what he, you know, sort of what he had to say about Trump.
And he's not taking any any of the Trump bait. He's not there there are areas in
which um he could push back and and um
and say something scathing or derogatory about Trump, but he's staying on the
high road. U they're going to Russia's going to keep doing what it's going to do and and Putin made it very clear that
if the United States uses a long range missile to hit inside Russia, that that
will change the nature of the relationship. Oh, absolutely. But but you know, I think a lot of this
stuff surrounding the tomahawk right now, the only tomahawks in the US inventory can only be fired from
aircraft or from uh submarines. So, um or or for ships uh but there are no
land-based systems right now apparently available. So, this is you know with Kellogg talking about it that this just
a pipe dream number one. Number two, Putin made it very clear that well uh we
are quite capable of shooting that down. It's a subsonic uh munition. It only travels at around
500 miles per hour. That's fast, but it's not supersonic. All right, here's here's exactly what
you're talking about out of the mouth of President Putin. Chris, cut number 12. It's dangerous. As for the Tomahawks,
it's a powerful arm. Perhaps not the most modernized, but it's powerful.
Poses serious threat. This will not change in any way the
balance of powers on the battlefield, the fundamental issues of the armed forces of Ukraine.
No matter how many UAVs they get and no matter how many lines they create with
those UAVs, without the personnel, there will be no one to lead those battles.
They have to change the tactics. Will this pose damage to our relations
where we see light at the end of the tunnel? Of course. Of course.
using tomahawks without direct involvement of the US officers is
impossible which means a brand new stage of escalation even
between in the relations between Russia and the US. Yeah. So Rey uh Ritter tells me Larry I
think you'll agree that the Tomahawk is nuclear capable. So what happens in the following
scenario? Some lieutenant at a Russian lieutenant is looking at a radar screen and the
colonel's behind. He goes, "Conel, I see a tomahawk coming toward Moscow. I
don't know what it's carrying." What do the Russians do, Rey?
Uh, Jes will never come to that. The Tom Cox will never arrive in Ukraine. The
Russians have that covered like a blanket. There are no atomic hawks to spare. Um, and the ones that have
nuclear capability, I'm not sure if there are any around that given to the Ukrainians. U, what I look at from that
little clip from Putin is he's saying, look, you know, even if they got
tomahawks, it's not going to change anything. Number one, and if they actually got them, they don't have any
people to man them. Now then he says, "Look, u uh we had highars, we had all
that stuff. Did that change anything?" No, it didn't change anything. Uh what
else? Well, attacks and all that kind of stuff. Well, they could be saturated, but it's not going to change anything.
Then he says, "Oh, will this He's asked, "Will this damage our relationship?" He said, "Oh, there's no other answer but
to say yes." But he includes, yeah, we were seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. this would subjunctive mood
damage our relationship. Now they're counting on the president not approving this despite Kellogg and everyone else.
Uh Lav said that two days prior to what Puchin said yesterday and of course
Kellogg has spoken two days before that. Uh it's kind of a red herring. Uh there
are no troops to man them. The United States is not going to do them. I think that Wickoff and Putin have already been
talking or Woodoff and Lavough saying look uh this we have to say this to
please our European friends and that's precisely what Lavarov said to excuse
this saying look this is just a philip to the uh to the Europeans we do not
think any decision has been taken period end quote by Lavarov that was two days
ago so I'm saying this is a big causera. It has more to do with the the European
allies so to speak who want to push push push and they're aided and emedded by
Kellogg. It's not going to amount to much and what Putin is saying here is they're necessary. Yeah, this would
damage our relationship. Social vote is not going to happen and certainly not going to change the course of the war.
Larry, tell me what you think of this. I know it's going to aggravate the three of us. It's uh Kellogg on his high
horse. Chris, number one, are you saying though that it is the president's position that Ukraine can
conduct long r long range strikes into Russia that that has been authorized by the president? I think reading what he has said and
reading what Vice President Vance has said as well as Secretary Rubio. The answer is yes. Use the ability to hit
deep. There are no such things as sanctuaries. That's one of the reasons I believe that this last week and it has
been confirmed that uh President Zullinsky asked President Trump to allow to get Tom Hawk missiles which give you
a depth. They're really good systems. America makes the best systems in the world. Are we giving him the Tom Hawks?
Well, that decision has not been made, but he's asked I know that President Zilinski did in fact ask for them which
was confirmed by social media post by Vice President Vance. That's going to be up to the president to do it.
Sounds like Kellogg thinks that these things are sitting around in a warehouse ready to be delivered. Larry, I
I'm surprised his ignorance on this. And just to put a additional exclamation
point on what Ray said, the United States deactivated, I think 20 25 years
ago, the nuclear option on its ground launched Cuh tomahawks. So there are no
more nuclear tipped. They're capable. Yeah, you can you can create make them
in such a way that they'd be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, but apparently the United States got rid of
that option as part of the whole arms control process with Russia back in the
day. Uh so that leaves the air launched and the sea launch, which sorry, Ukraine
Ukraine is not getting any of those. Well, they don't even have the aircraft to launch it with. And if any aircraft goes up with such a missile, it's going
to be shot down. So, uh, you know, Kellogg, but but it's not just Kellogg
that's the problem. If if you've seen Sai Hirs's latest piece, he's talking to
senior officials. He doesn't specify whether, you know, which agency or but it's in in the Trump administration. Um,
but I'm inclined to think it's still somebody out at CIA. Um and and god the
the the line of of horse manure they're feeding them is unbelievable about oh
yeah boy we're going to just have to put more military pressure that'll that'll cause Putin to break and and I mean
these guys haven't been paying attention and you know uh I think the world of Gil
Dotoro but he was on uh I think another show this earlier this week saying that oh you know the the elites in Moscow are
really getting upset with Putin and Putin could be gone. If you watched Putin at Vald Dai yesterday, that man
was as relaxed as could be. Spent an hour speaking at the podium and then sat
down and answered questions. But unlike the droning of Donald Trump and his
monotone voice and talking about me me I I I I here you had Putin talking in full
complete sentences doing analysis and again not showing any kind of panic not
saying oh my yeah those we're going to react you know emotionally to the United States none of that. So, uh there's a
lot of there's a lot of disinformation out there and I attribute a lot of it to panic.
Ray, here is uh President Trump at what in my view was the lowest point
uh in his speech the other day. I I think it was extemporaneous. It didn't appear as though he was reading it uh
from the prompter. And I'm sure if this had been in the text, his adviserss would have done their best to get him
not to say it. You probably know what this is. Chris number seven. San Francisco, Chicago,
New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places and we're going to straighten them out one by one. And this
is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within. Controlling
the physical territory of our border is essential to national security. We can't let these people in. We're under
invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but
more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take
them out. These people don't have uniforms. I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as
training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military.
Does this terrify you, Ray McGovern, as it does me, knowing that the Secretary
of War, as he calls himself, will do whatever the president wants, including murder people of the high seas, which
apparently he did either yesterday uh or today. And the president,
he announced it today. I'm not sure when it happened. And now the president is saying, I said to Pete, meaning Hegsth,
I want the troops to practice to practice what on Americans.
Well, judge, uh, it was an interesting spectacle on Tuesday. After Pete
sort of strutdded around the stage, in came the president
with the music stopped. There was silence. The generals ran right straight. No
applause. So, what's the president do? He said, "This is amazing. I come in here,
there's no applause." Well, please, I mean, feel free to applause if you if
you don't want to applause. That's okay. And uh and you know, uh you can leave
the room if you don't like something I say, but that would go your rank, that would go your future.
Now, if I were one of those generals, and that's why I'm not one of those
generals, I would have got up and walked out then. Okay? Now, there's lots of
excuses why no one walked out then. But when the president said, "Look, I'm going to use you in the cities. I'm
going to violate pyamatas willy-nilly. you're going to be training in our cities and we're going to do then then
somebody with guts some general would have got up and walked out and I dare
say there would have been 10 more after I mean there's more important things than rank or futures okay there's an
oath that they took to the constitution not to the president so that the most
revealing the most revealing thing I mean I couldn't abide
neither could they the other automatons. They're going to follow orders and no matter there was no
kind of overt response, no nothing. When he said you can you lose your rank and
you lose your future, there was a little bit of laughter. My god. So that's what the armed forces we
have has come to. And you judge have made a point of how illegal and how unconstitutional all this. And you know,
if we're going to be winter soldiers of the kind that Tom Payne uh asked for, we
got to go up and stay and get our generals, the ones that speak truth to power, uh to say whether they're retired
or not, to say what the truth is. and that generals and admirals and big big
NCOs should not be obliged and in duty to the
Constitution are required not to be obliged to obey unlawful orders having
them oppress people in these United States of America. Ray McGovern, you are so right on the
mark in your understanding of the Constitution. Now, when Chris gave me
this, I said, I can't play this for the for the guys. It's going to turn their stomachs because it turns mine. We're going to play it anyway. This is Steven
Miller the day after Trump said, "I want rehearsals in the streets." You tell me
who this sounds like. Number 14. We are about to provide you with a level of support you cannot even imagine. This
isn't just a task force. This is a all of government unlimited support
operation. ATF, DEA, FBI, ICE,
Department of War, every resource we have. We are sending in real cops with
guns and badges to go out with you on the street every single night making arrests. I pledge to you, we will
liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations. The idea that there is a
square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is
the United States of America. And all that is done. It's over. It's finished.
Sounds like uh Berlin in 1930. Yeah. you know, we there's not enough
understanding or talk about, you know, I guess the Trump people think they're doing it under the insurrection act, but
then there's Posi Kamatus. I think the reason it was passed in 1879,
part of that was uh sort of the aftertaste of what Lincoln did with US troops during the Civil War and the
recognition that uh normally we don't want federal troops to be able to go in
and operate in cities because they're not at war with the American citizen,
right? No matter how unhappy those American citizens might be, American citizens have the right to protest. And
uh you know this the the notion this failure to understand the the military
mindset as opposed to the law enforcement mindset. The fundamental thing about law enforcement mindset is
ultimately to deescalate conflict if possible. The force is used only as a
last resort. Whereas in the military it is the training is that if you encounter
any opposition, you escalate. You don't deescalate. You don't look for a way to avoid contact. You go out and look for
contact. And those two mentalities create very very different outcomes. So,
it'd be one thing if you deploy National Guard who had a military police background, uh, that at least they
understand something of that mentality, but to treat this as an insurrection
right now is entirely inappropriate. And this uh, you know, if they've gone into
Memphis with the National Guard with the governor governor's uh, approval and deployment, then you know, that's under
the Constitution. Uh, I don't have a problem with bringing together all the federal resources, the law enforcement
resources you talked about in terms of FBI, DEA, US Marshalss, ATF,
but as long as it's done from the law enforcement standpoint, which proceeds
that anybody that's accused of anything is presumed innocent. What we've seen
taking place with Trump, particularly off the coast of Venezuela, and trust me, these are connected, is imagine
you're a cop, you see two what you think is a drug exchange. You see two drug
dealers. You think they're giving some drugs to somebody in a car and they're passing it off. The cops don't have the
authority or the right or or not even the legal ability to get out and start
shooting them because they think that they were involved with drug trafficking. because drug trafficking is
not a direct threat to your life. Whereas what Trump's doing is he's blowing these boats up on a suspicion
that they're doing something illegal and it's it it's it's criminal and it's uh
you know it vi it violates everything about America that I believed in. Ray,
I'll give you the last word. Well, you know, the question is whether
there's real hope for our military, whe they really know their duty to support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath we
all sign. All right, give you a little vignette. I was speaking at Annapolis at the Naval Academy, second and third year
people. Okay? I had a professor who was interested in enlightening his people about how the intelligence didn't work
or worked uh before Iraq to justify this evasion. Now, we talked about the
constitution a little bit, you know, and we talked about the president and then I said, "Now, you all swore an oath coming
in here. Who was that oath to?" "Uh, the president."
Anybody else? Yeah, the president. Of course, the president.
I said that's wrong. I'm surprised they didn't even know this wrong. Your oath is to the Constitution of the United
States, not to the president specifically and explicitly not to the president. Well, what's what's the
difference? Well, here's the difference. In 1973, an Air Force nuclear missile
officer named Harold Herring asked a simple question at a training session.
How could I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane
president? That goes back to my saying that as the young people say today, the
president of the United States, the commander-in-chief is not okay. Okay. So, the question cost him his career.
Okay. But today, both the man who can order the use of
arms and the men who would likely verify such an order gave an unnerving,
disgraceful performance in Guantanamo. How many officers left the room asking
themselves Mayor Herring's question, how can I know that an order
that I receive an order to launch my missiles came from a sane president?
That's where we are here. And good people like Colonel Wilkerson tell me, "No, Ray, don't give up on the military.
There's still some good people in there." I just hope that Larry is right and that I'm wrong on this particular
one. for all of his faults. Here's uh General Millie articulating rather
forcefully what Rey just said. You see, we in uniform are unique.
We are unique among the world's armies. We are unique among the world's militaries.
We don't take an oath to a country. We don't take an oath to a tribe. We don't
take an oath to a religion. We don't take an oath to a king. or a queen or to
a tyrant or a dictator and we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We don't
take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take
an oath to the idea that it's America and we're willing to die to protect it.
Every soldier, sailor, airman, marine, guardian, and coast guardsman. Each of
us commits our very life to protect and defend that document regardless of
personal price and we are not easily intimidated.
Well, you wouldn't know that the other day, Larry. I have to run, but I'll give you the last word on it.
Yep. Support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
It's not it's not a it's not a cult of personality. He was a fat guy, but he was right.
[Laughter] On that way, on that happy note, first
time the three of us have laughed in 35 minutes. We'll end. Thank you, gentlemen. Look forward to seeing you on
Monday. God bless you both. Have a great weekend. Thank you, judge. Thank you. On Monday, as usual, at 8 in the
morning, Alistair Crook at 10, Ray McGovern. At 11:30, Larry Johnson. And
some of your favorites in the afternoon, Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.

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Trump issues INSANE, ILLEGAL order
Brian Tyler Cohen
Oct 5, 2025 Brian Tyler Cohen

Democracy Watch episode 390: Trump issues illegal executive order about flag burning



Transcript

This is Democracy Watch.

Mark, we have a
major update here with regard to Donald
Trump's latest edict. So, I'm going to
put his truth social post right here on
the screen.

To ICE, Border Patrol, law enforcement, and all US military, as per my August 25th, 2025 executive order, please be advised that from this point forward, anybody burning the American flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

So Mark,
as is the case with um these other
edicts that we've seen before, can you
talk about the legality of him basically
offering this edict by fiat because this
is this is not in statute. Uh burning
the American flag, as far as I know, is
is protected uh uh first amendment free
speech. And so can you talk about I
guess I guess whether he's able to do
the thing that he's claiming he has the
power to do right now?
So no, he can't do any of the things he
just tried to do. So let's let's list
the things he can't do that he tried to
do. Number one, he tried to overturn a
Supreme Court holding that says the
Constitution permits flag burn. Okay? So
the first thing he's trying to do is
unconstitutional. He is trying to say
that burning the American flag is a
crime when in fact the US Constitution
protects that under the first amendment
of the constitution. And I know that and
you know that because the Supreme Court
actually told us that in a case
involving a statute that prohibited flag
burning. Number one, Donald Trump trying
to violate or rewrite the Constitution.
Number two, Donald Trump trying to
create a federal crime. Like, let's
assume for a moment that that that there
was in fact the ability for Congress to
pass a law that would ban flag burning.
Donald Trump is not Congress. In fact,
Donald Trump is not even talking to
Congress about many things. uh for
example, how to provide health care to
the American public so that uh his
government shutdown can end. Uh instead
he is like a child hanging out in the
Oval Office playing with with hats and
merchandise. Um but uh but he does not
have the ability to pass statutes like
he could sign one if Congress did but so
number one he wants to rewrite the
constitution. Number two, he wants to he
he claims the ability to have created a
statute by social media post, which is
in fact not how laws are passed in this
country. Number three, he has actually
played the role of sentencing judge,
right? He has decided that not only has
he amended the constitution, he has
passed a statute, but I guess what? He
created a mandatory minimum, right? He
has become like the the sentencing judge
in all of these cases no matter what the
facts that that that that there is now a
year in prison uh for uh for for
violating this statute uh that he
created in his head. You know, I I wrote
this in Democracy Docket the other day
when I saw the the the the the thing
about his meeting with Jeff and and
Schumer where he handed out hats, you
know, like you get the impression that
maybe when he is between meetings,
Steven Miller props him up with an iPad
in front of him and shows him like Miss
Rachel videos. You I mean, like, is he
just like a toddler who's just like kept
busy all day long and then every so
often they're like,
"Look, Donnie, there's merch. If you go
in that room, there's there's these hats
with your name on them and you can hand
them out to your visitors." And then he
like puts this stuff out because like
it's just so stupid. Like, of course he
can't do any of these things. And also,
you know, Brian, I ask you, what's up
with the like writing it to the police
and the FBI?
Well, this is this seems to be his new
tack. I mean, you remember a couple of
weeks ago he had what many many people
thought was a private message, a DM to
Pam Bondi where he just wrote Pam colon
and then offered his edict to Pam to
make sure that that she could carry out
uh some subsequent illegal order that he
had handed down. And so this is, you
know, I I know that we that we joke
about it, but you know, this is this is
like he views himself as this omnipotent
being um who like leas like the the he
is the state, he is the law and in this
case he's the the sentencing judge as
well and can hand out some mandatory
minimum by fiat. But this is how he
views himself as he as like building up
ICE which you know based on its funding
would be one of the biggest militaries
in the world unto itself. Also the
commander-in-chief of the US military
which is the biggest military in the
world unto itself and that that they are
answerable to him and whatever edicts
legal or illegal you know
notwithstanding they just have to follow
his orders.
But let me let me add I missed I think I
actually missed one of things that he is
doing which is repealing the Posi
Kamatus Act which prohibits the military
from acting as a domestic police force.
I mean there's nothing about this that
any that is remotely legal or
constitutional or or
uh actionable. And you know you
mentioned ICE. I mean since how does ICE
enforce flag burning? Like what is the
jurisdiction of ICE? I mean you're
right. It's terrifying what their
jurisdiction is. It's it's it's
horrifying to watch a lot of what we're
watching. But now they're in charge of
of flag burning. I mean, what if what if
someone who is born in the United States
as let's let's even say JD Vance,
someone whose family's been here and has
land in a cemetery someplace in
Kentucky, okay? That you go visit. What
if one of them burns a flag? You're
telling me ICE, the immigration folks
are going to are going to arrest that
person, right? who who I mean this is
all just both fanciful but actually but
also to your point Brian it is also
terrifying. You know, I make fun of it
not because it is not serious, but in
some sense because, you know, it is it
is a coping mechanism that many of us
use humor. But the fact that Donald
Trump thinks that he has turned the
military and and and and ICE and and
every person with a badge and a gun in
this country into his private police
force is terrifying. And because some
number of them will act that way. You
know, I'm reminded, uh, Brian, of
another video that you and I did
recently in which, you know, they want
to send a beefy man to arrest James
Comey. And like, that's not actually
that different than saying, you know, by
tweet, hey, Pam, go do these things or
by social media post, hey, you know,
don't allow people to uh flag burn, and
if so, here's a crime I've made up for
it. You know, these are dangerous,
dangerous times we find ourselves in. So
knowing that every aspect of of this
edict is illegal or unconstitutional
um or or flies in in stark defiance of
of Supreme Court president, if you have
one of these ICE or or CBP or law
enforcement or military um uh agents or
or or whatever it may be that actually
carries out this order,
what happens next? And I asked because
like there is like this idea of of the
they take an oath they take an oath of
office to the constitution not to the
president. And so how how do you think
about them not being allowed to follow
illegal orders? I mean I know this is
all very complicated but but from from
the perspect from the vantage of these
people what happens if they do see
somebody burning the flag and they do
decide to follow Trump's uh uh command
here?

Yeah. So let me be very clear. This is
not complicated. Okay, this is very very
simple. If you are a member of the
United States military or you are a
federal agent or a state uh uh law
enforcement official, the US
Constitution as interpreted by the
Supreme Court permits under the first
amendment people to burn the American
flag. You may find it odious. I find it
odious. If I were writing a
constitution, this won't be popular with
a lot of people in the audience. If I
were writing the US Constitution, I
wouldn't allow flag burning. Okay? But
it is allowed under our constitution.
And so if you are sworn, if you are
sworn to uphold the constitution and you
arrest someone, you are committing an
unconstitutional act. You are violating
your oath of office. And I have no
tolerance for it. I don't want to hear
the excuses. I don't want to hear the
explanations. Either do your damn job
and abide by the oath or resign your
commission. Either follow the US
Constitution or get out of law
enforcement. If you can't follow what
the Supreme Court has said people are
allowed to do because you feel like you
have to abide by a post by by a
narcissistic child in the White House
who wants to be a dictator,
then you are in the wrong line of work.
You should go do something else because
there should be a zero tolerance
approach to anyone who arrests someone
for burning the flag in 2025 in the
United States. This was resolved decades
ago as lawful constitutional behavior
and Donald Trump can't change that.

Mark, to that point, you
know, this is just one small part of a
larger hole, which is Trump's attacks on
any free speech. And so, in how are you
thinking about this specific edict in
light of the fact that he's also ordered
his FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, to get
Kimmel off the air? He was successful in
pressuring uh Sky Dance and CBS as part
of that that merger with Paramount and
and Sky Dance to pull Steven Colbear off
the air. Even though they're not going
to come out and and and explicitly say
as much, but that's exactly what they
did. Trump did himself come out and say
that that uh these NBC hosts like uh
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers are going to
be next. And so there's no ambiguity in
terms of what he's trying to do here.
But just can you can you speak a little
bit about about his attacks on free
speech and especially these attacks in
light of the fact that he positioned
himself as this first amendment crusader
when he was on the campaign trail?
Yeah. Look, Donald Trump is attacking
the first amendment and the rights of
freedom of speech and freedom of
expression uh in a way that we have not
seen in this country in decades if not
longer. I mean people talk about
McCarthyism but but McCarthy was a US
senator who held congressional hearings.
He was not the president of the United
States. And yes, he exerted a lot of
pressure that ruined the lives of a lot
of people and the federal government,
the bureaucracy at the State Department
and elsewhere wound up doing a lot of
his bidding. But he was not the
president of the United States. What we
are witnessing right now is an entire
government that is cracking down on
opposition leaders
that is trying to stifle descent. They
are trying to stifle it in the free in
the in the in the public square. They
are trying to stifle it uh in within
private corporations. They are trying to
stifle it at law firms. They are trying
to stifle it at universities. They are
trying to stifle it among comedians.
They are trying to stifle it among
Hollywood. They don't want there to be
any criticism of Donald Trump. And that
is way beyond McCarthyism. That is way
beyond what we have seen in this country
in a very long time if ever.
They are using the Department of Justice
to prosecute their political enemies.
They are using independent agencies. By
the way, the FCC is supposed to be an
independent agency. Yeah. Right. So,
it's it's bad enough that it's govern
that it is government censorship, but
this is supposed to be an agency that is
insulated in some measure from from
pressure from the White House. They are
using independent agencies to go after
uh their political opponents. They are
forcing law firms and lawyers that are
supposed to be the ones standing up for
the rule of law. They are turning them
into their agents and to do their
bidding. This is a dangerous time. And
you know, everyone watching this video
needs to recognize this is not child's
play. This is not this is not just, you
know, Brian Tyler Cojen and me talking
about some theoretical risk. This is a
risk I live with every single day. This
is a risk Brian lives with every day.
This is a risk that that that federal uh
officials, federal um um uh you know,
workers are getting fired over. FBI
agents are getting fired over. Uh you
know, uh people who are trying to stand
up uh for what is right in the military
are getting fired over. And we are
seeing people prosecuted, criminally
prosecuted. You know, James Comey being
criminally prosecuted. I'm no fan of
James Comey for what he did in the 2016
election to harm Hillary Clinton's
prospects for winning uh winning that
election in in without his interference.
But he's being prosecuted as a political
opponent. You know, you we're watching
uh you know, a Democratic member of
Congress uh in New Jersey who's going to
go on trial uh uh because she did ICE
inspections in her district. I mean,
these are very, very dangerous times.

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Why Diplomacy Just Collapsed as Iran ARMS to the TEETH to Crush any Israeli Attack | Max Blumenthal
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You talked with the president of Iran when he came to New York and what was
his position? What did he say about the conflict? Because as we know that the
aerial tankers the United States moved them to Europe
three days ago and right now they arrived to Alide air base in
Qatar and they're trying to do something the same sort of movement that we've seen during the first conflict between
direct war between Iran and Israel. It seems that they're preparing to do something. And what was the mood on the
part of Iranians? Well, just a quick point on that. Uh
Netanyahu threatened Iraq in his speech at the UN General Assembly. Many might
have missed that. He was threatening the popular mobilization forces.
And so any mobilization by the US in the region to support an Israeli strike
could go beyond Iran. At this point, Netanyahu, I think he held up the
plaque, his his graphic on the blessing and the curse, and the curse extends deep into Iraq. And this is a problem
for the United States because the popular mobilization forces have at least temporarily or momentarily helped
stabilize Iraq uh by integrating with the Iraqi military. These aren't just
these aren't militias. and that has prevented operations on US bases that are right there. So, Israel
is threatening the stability that has at least momentarily benefited the United
States. Iranian President Masud Peshkan
came to New York with a pretty clear
agenda which was to carry out a lastditch attempt to prevent
snapback sanctions which of course failed. It was a done deal. The hypocritical E3 of the Europeans was
determined to impose this no matter what. They cannot allow the economic and
hybrid war on Iran to end or to extend as the Russians and the Russian and
Chinese delegations sought to just extend the JCPOA for six more months. They couldn't let that happen. The
Europeans went along completely with the unprovoked Israeli assault on Iran back
in June. But Iran and this government in particular want to use every ounce of
negotiating leverage that they have and send a signal back to the parts of the
Iranian public which are um I guess less
politically uh inclined to to support the Islamic
Republic that they've tried everything and that there's nothing they can do and that they've essentially been betrayed
by their negotiating partners before the next round of war. So I was invited with
a group of journalists and think tank analysts and peace activists to a on
thereord meeting outside the UN with Peshkan. And his message was pretty
simple. War for sure they will attack Iran again. Those were his words. And he
even forecasted the scenario of his own assassination or an attempt on his life.
And it was reported that Peshkan escaped narrowly from an Israeli assassination attempt in the last round. And he wanted
to send the message that Iran is prepared for all contingencies including his own assassination. They have
prepared five to six steps ahead. Uh, I listened with
um some uh trepidation and I guess horror
to your interview with my friend Muhammad Morandi where he said pretty
much the same thing that Iran is prepared to replace him as well. This is
someone who's not even in the government, who is just a private commentator, but he plays such a
prominent role um with his command of the facts and the English language in
international media that he had to consider that Israel would target him as well. Israel's just this gigantic
assassination machine that has been slaughtering any journalist in the Gaza Strip. So now even private commentators
in Iran have to consider that they could be a target on their back. This is what
Iran is mobilizing for. And Peskan was also speaking to us because
we have a direct channel to the American public. There were figures from the
American Conservative magazine there and figures from the left. Uh
so he was basically speaking to the part of the public, the American public that's anti-war.
And one of his principal complaints was the concept of terrorism especially
after Israel's attack on Qatar where it attempted to wipe out the entire Hamas
negotiating team in order to eliminate just end negotiations altogether but
that it attacked inside a US ally. Um the attack struck a building that was in
a densely populated neighborhood in Doha. It was school was getting out at that time and he said how come why are
we called the terrorists when Israel is waging not just a sevenfront war and
slaughtering children in Gaza but attacking inside a US ally in a densely populated civilian neighborhood carrying
out assassinations around the world. It was something that he spent a lot of time and breath on complaining about was
the western understanding of terrorism. And
finally, um, Peskan
sort of solicited views on how relations could be improved between the US and
Iran because he has sim seemingly given up on any ability to move the American
president and his administration. And he said that Steve Witkoff, the Middle East envoy, would come to Doha for these
meetings, negotiations, and he said someone should have recorded this because he would tell us something very
positive about all the progress we were making moving back to a new deal. And then he would go back to Washington and
issue Bellose demands of us that sounded like Israel had told him what to say.
The hypocrisy was so out astounding they don't believe they can work with the
Americans again. My question to Peskian was to simply quote from a speech
delivered by Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khame on September 23rd where he said
that negotiating with the Americans at this point after what had just happened would be a declaration of national
surrender. And I asked Peskian if that was reflective of his view. partly
because of the format of the meeting because uh there would be two rounds of questioning and then Peskian would
respond kind of in a generalized form summing up all of the questions.
I only got a generalized answer from him that was not a yes or no which was
unfortunate. and uh Abbasaragi the foreign minister was seated beside him
and interjected at one point during the meeting that in 2018
Israel struck the Natan's facility with an explosive device. Uh they destroyed
something like 4,000 centrifuges and the point of the Israeli attack was
to sabotage negotiations with the Americans. But the Iranian negotiating
team continued negotiating while increasing enrichment to somewhere near
60%. That was their response and he was suggesting this will be our response
going forward and that they are flexible about enrichment levels but only if they
receive sanctions relief. That was the message from Aragchi.
Max, when it comes to Iran and the war with Iran, do you see that the main
objective of the United States and Israel are the same or they're somehow different in the way that they see the
conflict, the war with Iran? H how can we even define an American
objective in Iran at this point independent of Israel? The American objective has been outlined by Israel
and shaped by Israel over the course of several decades. So there is no the
distinct American objective. The American objective should be to negotiate with Iran for mutually
beneficial win-win uh trade deals and import export deals
so the US can have cheaper gas. I mean that's what the US objective should be.
But I Iran supports resistance in the region to the Gaza genocide.
A genocide I can I consider to be continuous over decades. That's the main the only reason this is happening. Uh
there's there's there's no need to to to pillage Iran to get favorable deals on
oil. and ultimately following the Israeli objective into the next round
could lead to the closure of the straight of Hormuz which would devastate the global economy and even and worsen
the condition of the American consumer who's already s beginning to suffer the
effect of Trump's maximalist erratic tariffs.
So the the the Israeli objective is Netanyahu's objective which is regime change and that becomes the American
objective and the pretext is 60% enriched uranium stockpiles exist
somewhere in Iran. So we have to summon all of these US aircraft and send more and more of our dwindling THAAD missile
stock to defend Israel as it prepares for another attack. It's like the
pretext on Venezuela. the um Department of Justice and CIA created a fake cartel, declared that
Nicholas Maduro is the head of this cartel and that the US must attack inside Venezuela to eliminate cartels to
save the lives of Americans who are being poisoned. And anyone who's stupid enough to believe that will actually
support the real objective of Marco Rubio and the Gusano industrial complex
in South Miami in South Florida, which is regime change. They just the war on
drugs, the war on terror, these are just phony pretexts for US intervention. And
there and in in both cases, the United States is following the agenda of a malign fifth column that seeks to
exploit US military and economic power to carry out its narrow sectarian
agenda. With respect to Iran, Israel has lost the element of surprise that it
exploited in using the negotiations to attack Iran. I guess it was on uh
June 10th or no, so June 13th when it
was it killed numerous offduty IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists.
They've lost that at this point and there's no negotiation to lull Iran into a false sense of security. They've also
lost uh much of their capacity. I would it would seem that they've lost much of
their capacity to attack from within through Mossad's cells, especially with these sort of hidden drone bases inside
Iran, which did do a lot of damage. There were a lot of deportations of
Afghan migrants who were said to be sort of a a base for Assad recruitment inside Iran. They've lost that. But the most
important thing they've lost and Peshkan spoke to this is the threat of regime
change from within from the Iranian people. Um I think one I mean it was the killing
of civilians and the at like car bombings in in Taj in North Thran where
you have like a whole part of the population that opposes the Islamic Republic, the sort of middle and upper
class starts to come under attack and they begin to rally around the flag and support the military. Um, but there was
one event during the last 12-day conflict that I think really
encapsulates the Israeli failure, and it was the attack on Evan Prison, which is
the prison that's said to hold political prisoners and dissident. And the Israelis in this delusional
neoconservative feverbrain state thought that they if they attack with a missile
strike the gate of Evan prison, it would send a signal to all of the Iranians who hate the Islamic Republic to come out in
the streets and that Israel will liberate them. What they wound up doing was they killed a number of prisoners.
They killed social workers and they killed family members who were visiting the prisoners. The Iranian Republic, the
Iranian public reacted with complete disgust, including uh exiled
dissidents who are backed by the West like Nargus Muhammad condemned this. Uh
what's that lady? The lady with the hair condemned it whose whose name I I forget right now who's just like a basically a
a CIA asset. That that was the Israelis. So the Israelis completely failed to create
chaos in the streets and this so this round I think this next coming round will look much different and the idea of
regime change is off the table. It's going to be a much more violent
round of conflict. And I think the Israeli objective here going back to the
beginning of my comments on this question is to drag the US in even more
deeply. um possibly get the US to deploy
more of its naval assets to get the US in a much more close quarters combat
with Iran and ultimately boots on the ground. Every American death against
Iran will be a death of American soldiers for Israel.
That's the fact. Uh Donald Trump is talking about his
peace deal for the situation in Gaza and what's so amazing that they don't
mention the right of Palestinians casins to decide about their future. What do
they want to be? What is the future in their mind? And
what is when you look at the these 20 21 point that he's mentioning in this
which is in your opinion what points are most most important the most important
points in the peace deal and is that going to be possible with what's going on in Gaza because Netna came out and
said he doesn't care about but he's not going to withdraw from Gaza so what's the point after with this peace plan in
your opinion? It's all been cooked up by the Israelis. this 21point peace plan
it and it's a ruse to paint Hamas as rejectionists after they have accepted
virtually every proposal uh which then you know they then they
get rugged by the US which says oh we had a proposal and then they go back and
say well Hamas actually rejected it because Netanyahu changes the proposal then the US accepts Netanyahu's changes
so this was a more sophisticated propaganda Anderus is to present a detailed coherent package. It took them
a long time to get it together. They needed to demolish much of Gaza to create the sense that there was a day
after that was coming and imminent. And they needed to get Tony Blair on board
as the sort of El Paul Bremer referring to the head of the coalition provisional
authority. that was a complete absolute disaster for the Iraqi people
during the US occupation of Iraq. uh repackaged for Gaza with various uh tech
solutions that will benefit Tony Blair and his Tony Blair Institute, which has
received something like $300 million from Larry Ellison, the ultra Zionist
billionaire who runs Oracle, the CIA and Israeli data contractor.
These are all like, you know, incentives or Tony Blair is just basically seeing green here. So, you have Tony Blair as
the head of the Gaza International Transitional Authority. I just looked over their institutional structure
documents, and it's laughable. Uh, there's a section on property rights for people in Gaza who are acknowledged in
the documents as being encouraged to voluntarily migrate, but it says there there there will be a board to make sure
that their property rights are respected. Yeah. Right. Then in the 21point plan, there's this whole I mean
the emphasis is on Hamas being dradicalized. No one's going to be dradicalized when
you've destroyed their homes, ruined their lives, and continue killing their
family members. But it's dradicalization under occupation. This has always been a fantasy. It's like when Hillary Clinton
would talk about getting the hate out of Palestinian Authority school books, but without ending the occupation.
Hamas leaders will supposedly be given and members will be given safe passage if they put down their arms and then
utopia will ensue. It's an absolute joke. This is a pacification
plan to continue the genocide with the support of at least figures who are
known in the international community. and it will not end the violence against
Gaza because as we've seen in Syria when Syria agreed to be pacified under the uh
imposed leadership of former al-Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Shar, Israel has continued to attack day after day, week
after week, destroying the remnants of the Syrian Arab army, destroying potential bases that Turkey was setting
up to train the new Syrian army. The attacks continue. I believe yesterday in
Ketra, the Israeli army actually displayed Israeli flags in the occupied Golan. And this was all while Ahmed
al-Shar was returning from New York where he met with one of Netanyahu's top
billionaire cutouts, Ronald Lauder, who has donated millions and millions of dollars not just to the Israel lobby,
but also to support Israeli settlement activity. uh no matter what he does, Syria
continues to be occupied, continues to be attacked. So if Gaza, if the resistance in Gaza gives up, they will
get the same treatment. Look at what's happening in southern Lebanon. There is a ceasefire between Hezbollah and
Israel. And what is Israel doing? It's fighting. It's waging its strategy of war between wars or mowing the lawn
where it continues to kill members of Hezbollah, continues to attack the homes
of the population in southern Lebanon and push create pressure on the puppet
government of Noah Salam to disarm Hezbollah along along with the US. So
this is this this plan is not a peace plan. It is a pacification plan a and it
will lead to further extermination of large numbers of the population in Gaza
which is why Hamas has reasserted its red line that it will not give up its
arms just as Hezbollah has reasserted that red line. And I think you know after the anniversary
of the murder of Hassan Nasallah it's increasingly clear what role Hezbollah
has played which is to keep Israeli troops and Israeli occupiers out of
Lebanon and protect the Lebanese people from them. And if they do disarm, you
will see Israel move in up to the up to the Latani River and begin to take an
increasingly aggressive role in on Lebanese territory. Mark my words,
Max, there is some sort of difference between the United States and Israel when it comes to Syria. Al Shar was
talking with General Petraeus. He said that your success is our success.
Where is that position come from? You look at Israel is not that much
comfortable with the situation in Syria and the role of Turkey and you see the United States somehow trying to calm the
situation, bring them together. After all, what who's Alara to General
Petraeus that he sees that his success is General Petraeus success?
It raises a lot of questions about who al-Sharah aka Muhammad Jalan Jolani was
when he came out of camp Buouah and it sends a
insulting message to the families of American veterans who were told that
they were fighting terrorism in during the surge in Iraq that General
Petraeus oversaw as the head of Sententcom when he was hailed as this
master of counterinsurgency. Well, he was fighting this insurgent group
in which uh Muhammad Golani was a rising member al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The next thing you know, he's on stage with the
leader with with a AQIM figure who later became the founder of Jabet al-Nusra,
al-Qaeda in Syria. If I if I, you know, were the mother of a veteran who died in Iraq, I'd be
pretty disgusted and angry with Petraeus and I would see this all as just, you know, that I'd realize the I would come
to uh have to reckon with the reality that
my son had just been a pawn in this great geopolitical conquest for the
Middle East, the great game. And that's the role that Sherah plays to Petraeus.
Petraeus has been very close to the various players in US intelligence
who are managing the Syria dirty war. I would see him like go into meetings. I I
I once saw went to a meeting of the White Helmets, the Syrian White Helmets, which were a major sort of soft power
card for the US and Turkey and Qatar in the Syrian dirty war. And they came to
Washington at the Atlantic Council, which is the unofficial think tank of NATO. And Petraeus was sitting right there in the front row. And then he went
into a meeting with Riyad Salah, the sort of ostensible head of the White Helmets to a private meeting as they
wanted to manage uh the dirty war in which, you know, subsequent to that
meeting, the White Helmets made several false claims about chemical attacks which triggered Western intervention. So
Petraeus continues to wants to continue to be a player in Syria. And
uh when he says, you know, what was the quote? Our your your victory is our victory.
Your success is our success. Your success. Our success. When Petraeus says our success, that includes the
Israelis. I mean, it's all about guaranteeing Israel Israel's
strategic depth in Syria, which essentially means giving up the Golan.
And my understanding of al-Sharah, talking to Syrians who've been to Syria since he took over, who've known um his
thinking and my own understanding of his thinking is he's willing to trade off um various
parts of Syria u maybe not the Latakia coast
in exchange. I mean, he's willing to basically lay down before Israel, but
his real objective is to transform the areas that he controls, the four main
population centers into a kind of kandahar and import this kind of takiri
Islam into Syria, which a large percentage of the Syrian population rejects.
That's his vision. That's what he truly believes in. and he is a shrewd player who is making all the right moves in
order to do that. Um, and it starts with selling out to
the Israelis. And by the way, and Israel doesn't care if you know Aleppo turns into Kandahar. And if any if anything,
they prefer that. Remember what Mosha Yaon, the former Israeli defense minister said during the Syrian dirty
war. He said, "I prefer ISIS in the Golan Heights on the Syrian side
than I prefer the Syrian Arab Army and IRGC because they're actually a
competent fighting force that is uh committed to Palestine. ISIS, what are
they? They're a joke. Matt, looking at the Trump
administration, Donald Trump came was elected arguing that he is a negotiator.
He wants to negotiate with Iran, with Russia. What's happening to dollar is because of
these continuous endless wars with Iran, Russia, with the region. But you look at
the way that they're talking today. They're talking about tomahawk missiles going to Ukraine. They're talking about
a new war with Iran. Who's deciding in this administration?
Who's the main the mastermind of the administration? Is there anybody there
to be called mastermind or it's a huge you know some sort of
division within the administration? Two forces, three forces, factions are fighting each other within the
administration. Yeah, I would say there are various factions, but the factions that are
winning represent the neoconservative faction that started this conquest, post 911 conquest
under George W. Bush. So, I keep saying that the Trump's second
term feels like the third coming of George W. Bush's first term.
Lindsey Graham is the big winner on Ukraine after Alaska. Trump has completely
turned around and agreed to new weapons deals, freezing negotiations
and uh so is General Keith Kellogg. Donald Trump on the Western Hemisphere
has seated his agenda to Marco Rubio who has quietly become the most important or
influential figure within the national security bureaucracy along with Steven Miller, the sort of
nivist fanatic who plays who is um backing up Rubio's plan to start to wage
a war inside Venezuela. Rubio controls actually more cabinet
level national security positions than anyone in the United States since Henry
Kissinger, but he's certainly not as savvy an operator as Henry Kissinger, but he's getting his way. And so these
three or four factions all have different agendas. The one faction that I think is losing out right now is the
faction of Elbridge Kby who is in Trump's kitchen cabinet of
national security adviserss who is an anti-China fanatic who sees the
uh ultimate objective of US empire to be neutralizing or weakening the Chinese
threat as China supersedes the US as a global economic power using not military
force force but trade and infrastructure
and the belt and road initiative and the expansion of bricks. So Elbridge KBY would be terrified by
the prospect of another conflict over Iran because it would further deplete US
THAAD missile stocks which he would like and I would think JD Vance who's a figure from the KBY faction or you could
call it the Vance faction would like to give those THAD missiles to Taiwan or to
uh Japan and the Philippines which have just signed a defense pact an anti-China defense pact. act. They want to
militarize the Pacific Rim and contain China and they're not able to do it
because Israel, we keep wasting or we the United States keeps wasting bad
missiles on this crazy little apartheid colony that can't stop attacking Iran.
And at the same time, Ukraine has had to redeploy Patriot batteries even to
defend Israel. The faction that wants to take on China ultimately would want a deal in Ukraine
and has pushed for a deal in Ukraine that freezes lines around Kerson and
Zapperia. And the lines are not frozen anymore. Russia continues to advance.
Ukraine does not have manpower, no matter how much technical wherewithal they have to wage these um sophisticated
drone attacks or to use uh more advanced US weapons, including tomahawks, to
attack inside uh Russian frontier regions. They just don't have the
manpower, which means as long as those lines are not frozen, the US will keep
pouring more and more weapons in as Russia advances towards Odessa. So, the real imperialist,
the real long-term imperialist planners inside the Trump administration are losing long-term as the Trump
administration positions itself for conflicts that appease the factions that
have a much more myopic vision. And I mean, it's three visions, as I said before. one Rubio catering to the Gusano
industrial complex in South Florida, which is a major key for Trump's electoral strategy is to always win
Florida. But also, I mean, Rubio has this ideological fervor that they share
to destroy Venezuela. And then they think once Venezuela is destroyed, they will be able to topple the government in
Cuba, which depends on Venezuelan exports and help. And then Nicaragua
will be next. And then the region will be completely free for the US to exploit.
And then you have the the Zionist Neocon faction. Lindsey Graham is sort of
fronting for them. They want to destroy Iran for ideological reasons.
And then you have this third faction which is focused on the they're sort of like the traditional military
leadership. They're focused on the revolving door. They're making loads of money through the trillion dollar
defense budget, which is mostly going to contractors. Only like 6% actually goes
to maintaining US troops in the field. And they're just focused on profits and
continuous war. And when they leave the Trump administration, they're going to rake in those profits. And then I I
should say there's a sort of a fourth factor. I don't know if it's a faction, but a fourth factor. If you paid
attention to Donald Trump's speech at Quantico, which is being minimized even
by the people who hate Donald Trump the most in Washington, the liberals and so on, they're like, "Oh, he mocked."
Basically, for those who don't know, Pete Hegsth,
who is one of the least qualified defense secretaries just because of his
rank and lack of experience and is there basically because he's an effective communicator who is a former Fox News
host. He convened 200 US generals and high-ranking officers at Quantico. Many
of them had to come across, some of them had to come across 10 time zones. And then he delivered this speech
lacerating them for being fat and gay. I mean, that's basically what he said.
He's like, "We're not gonna have any more dudes in skirts, and too many of you are too fat, and that's not who we are." And that was sort of treated as a
joke by the media and even by liberals. But it's it's actually setting the stage
for a politicized purge of the military in which Trump loyalists will be
elevated to new positions. and those who are perceived as Democrats will be ousted. Then Donald Trump comes on stage
and he tries to get the military audience to laugh at his jokes. I thought some of some of them are like
classic Trump humor, like comedy, like he's opening up at a New Jersey nightclub or something. He's he's he's
making he's talking about how Obama bops down the stairs on Air Force One. and he thought that if there's laughter it will
show some kind of uh support for himself from the generals like an organic
support but nobody laughed so he sort of failed there but if you parsed what Trump was saying
um including his support and endorsement for Rubio's agenda against Venezuela he
called for using US cities as training grounds for the US military to
essentially wage war on and pacify parts of the American public that he described
as animals, essentially urban minorities and the poor. They're sending troops to
Memphis uh this coming week and there is plan there are plans to deploy in
Chicago as well. But he talks about American cities as training grounds for foreign conflicts. We haven't heard this
kind of language before. And as Trump does that, this is something Stephen
Miller, his top adviser, wants and a large part of his base wants,
it def it it diffuses the drive to actually send US troops
into a conflict feeder in the Pacific Rim or in Iran. So you have all of these
competing agendas and factions and the faction that will lose here are the
long-term I think ultimately more dangerous Imperial planners and they're losing to the ideologues and the
avaritious grifters in the military.

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The Terrifying New Memo Trump Could Use to Go After His Opposition. The president railed against the “enemy from within” to generals this week. NPSM-7 could enable the administration to go after anything they see as “anti-American”
by Tessa Stuart
Rolling Stone
October 4, 2025
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 235440530/

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US President Donald Trump addresses senior military officers gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, on September 30, 2025. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the US military must fix "decades of decay" as he addressed a rare gathering of hundreds of senior officers summoned from around the world to hear him speak near Washington. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Donald Trump stood in front of more than 800 generals and admirals in the U.S. military and informed them of their new enemy: their fellow Americans.

“Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies — foreign and domestic,” Trump said. “You know that phrase very well. That’s what the oath says: foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all used the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace. … Now they like to say, Oh, you’re not allowed to use the military.”

Trump went on, in that speech, to refer to both “the enemy from within,” and a new war — “a war from within” — that generals would be asked to fight in.

In case there was any ambiguity about which enemies here in United States the president is intent on targeting — either with the military or other arms of the federal government — a national security directive published the week before his speech spelled it out: Anyone who is not with him, will be considered against him — and against the United States.

On September 25, the White House released “NSPM-7,” a sweeping order targeting “anti-fascist,” “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-American” speech, as well as speech that expresses “support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

The memo announced a new strategy “to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts.”

There is little debate that political violence is on the rise, and a recent poll showed that increasing numbers of Americans view such violence as necessary “to get the country back on track.”

The problem is that the vast majority of political violence of it is not coming from the places that Trump, via NSPM-7, is ordering federal law enforcement to look. The week before Trump’s new memo went out, the Department of Justice removed a report from its website that showed “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives,” the now-archived report reads. “In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson inadvertently cited similar statistics when she posted a chart with the headline, “Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high” — a chart that shows that, since 2016, there have been almost four times as many attacks by right-wing terrorists as attacks by left-wingers.

The scrubbed report cites a U.S. Department of Homeland Security threat assessment concluded that these extremists “are an acute threat,” adding that “COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.”

But the same week as Trump’s speech, and amid the administration’s new crackdown, Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, announced that the agency has cut ties with both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center — two of the nation’s leading anti-hate groups, devoted to combating anti-semitism and white nationalism, respectively. (This, after a lobbying campaign by a right-wing influencers.)

The SPLC, in particular, is known for its efforts to track violent extremists and hate groups, expertise that previous administrations had called on to assist their own investigations. (“For decades, we have shared data and analysis with the public to protect civil rights and hold extremists accountable,” a spokesperson for SPLC said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “We remain committed to exposing hate and extremism as we work to equip communities with knowledge and defend the rights and safety of marginalized people.”)

Now, instead of investigating the homegrown individuals and groups that are vastly more likely to commit terrorism in the U.S., the federal government is primed to go after individuals and, potentially, nonprofit, political, and civil rights groups who voice opposing views.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who ran for Congress in 2003 against the Patriot Act, called NSPM-7 an even “greater infringement on freedoms.” In an email to Rolling Stone, Khanna wrote, “the threat of retaliation is intended to silence people and give the administration the authority to go after political opponents.”

The ACLU sounded a similar alarm, with Hina Shamsi, director of the nonprofit’s National Security Project, calling NSPM-7’s strategy of targeting speech “a shameful and dangerous move.”

“After one of the most harrowing weeks for our First Amendment rights, the President is invoking political violence, which we all condemn, as an excuse to target non-profits and activists with the false and stigmatizing label of ‘domestic terrorism,’” Shamsi said in a statement.

A slew of law firms have issued their own guidance warning about the expansive threat posed by the memo, while more than 3,000 nonprofits have raised their own concerns about the memo, publishing an open letter criticizing NSPM-7.

“This attack on nonprofits is not happening in a vacuum, but as a part of a wholesale offensive against organizations and individuals that advocate for ideas or serve communities that the president finds objectionable, and that seek to enforce the rule of law against the federal government,” the nonprofits’ letter read. “Whether the target is a church, an environmental or good government group, a refugee assistance organization, university, a law firm, or a former or current government official, weaponizing the executive branch to punish their speech or their views is illegal and wrong.”

Matthew Sanderson, director of the political law group at Caplin & Drysdale, one of the law firms that issued guidance about NSPM-7, said that while the operative aspects of the memo are tailored, specifically, to investigate “political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against rights,” he was struck by the language White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller used at a press conference announcing the directive. “He used the term ‘whole of government’ several times, and so I don’t think this is a mere messaging vehicle, as some executive orders are,” Sanderson says. “I think this means something and will have lasting consequences.”

When reached for comment about NPSM-7, Abigail Jackson, the White House spokesperson, wrote in a statement to Rolling Stone, “At the President’s direction, The Trump Administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities, and the President’s executive actions to address left-wing violence will put an end to any illegal activities.”

How NSPM-7 will ultimately be enforced is yet to be seen, but if there are three things that Donald Trump has made clear since returning to power, they are that he is not timid about going after his enemies — as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), New York Attorney General Tish James, former FBI Director James Comey, and many others can attest — that he is willing to shut-down speech he doesn’t like — just ask Jimmy Kimmel — and that he is absolutely itching to send in the troops to American cities.

Speaking in Memphis — the latest Democratic-led city where Trump is sending the National Guard to, and a city where crime in the city hit a 25-year low in September — Miller drove home just how lopsided a fight with an emboldened Trump administration might be. “The gangbangers that you deal with — they think they’re ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they’re tough? They have no idea how tough we are,” Miller said. “They think that they’re hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are — and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have?”

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Putin's Missiles OBLITERATE Ukraine, NATO Jets SCRAMBLE | Scott Ritter
Danny Haiphong
Oct 5, 2025 #ukraine #nato #putin

Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter explains that Russia's missile attacks are getting bigger and more destructive as Ukraine's demise nears. NATO & Trump are not taking it well, and their next move could change everything. Andrei Martyanov and Garland Nixon also join to break it all down.



Transcript

NATO scrambles jets as Russia launches more than 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine. They are talking about Poland
being on high alert about Russia's attacks. We have Russia continuing its
campaign. There has been no letting up and these attacks according to Western
mainstream media actually becoming more frequent following diplomatic meetings and an attempt to frame Russia as
aggressors and as being aggressive during this time of USRussia talks or at
least what is left of them after what seems to be a bit of a stall. Your
assessment of where we exactly are and what Russia is actually doing contrary
to Western mainstream media punditry. Well, I mean, nothing happens in a vacuum. Um, Russia just doesn't wake up
one morning and say arbitrarily, let's do this, that, or the other thing. I I
think what we're seeing um in the targeting that's taking place by Russia is um a couple things. One, that Russia
is serious about bringing it into this conflict on terms that are acceptable to Russia, meaning
that Russia and Russia alone will dictate the um the outcome of this war. Two, how
utterly responsible Russia has been in the prosecution of this conflict. Um
we're we're seeing two categories of targets being hit uh uh of late uh you
know that that and the west is calling this you know the escalation. One is Russia's hitting defense industry uh
facilities. Um and you have to ask yourself well why now? I mean, why
haven't they been striking them before? See, Russia's goal and objective is not to terminate Ukraine's ability to
function as a modern industrial state. And so, Russia strikes defense industry
facilities that produce capabilities that threaten Russia. Um and what we've
seen lately is that the west has been um shifting
ballistic missile technology, drone technology from you know western uh
sources um the case of Turkey Turkish sources to um Ukrainian soil and you
know we've been on the cusp of you know preparing actual weapons that could be fired against Russia and Russia has
identified these locations and taken them out. Um, and they've done so in a very aggressive fashion. It's Russia's
goal and objective to ensure that Ukraine doesn't have the capacity to launch these these weapons, these
weapons that in many cases are designed in the West and um, you know, and and
and are produced using tools and um, and and other production uh, means that have
been, you know, brought into Ukraine by the West. Um, you know, Russia is taking them out. Um, and the other thing is
Russia now has decided they are going to um be more aggressive in targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure in
response to Ukraine's totally I mean I can't say I was going to say irresponsible but hey it's war. Uh
Ukraine has been targeting Russia's uh oil refinering capability. Clearly uh the British have played a very big role
in tracking this and uh and the Ukrainians have been fairly effective in uh in hitting. Russia has just said
enough is enough and now Russia is going to come back in a um a disproportionate
response meaning that Ukraine will now be crippled um energy-wise. Um you know
they this was Ukraine's choice. Ukraine opted to to you know escalate to this
level and now Ukraine will pay the price. But this is what we're seeing here together with, you know, Russia's
ongoing targeting of uh western munitions. They make their way into uh Ukraine aircraft, anti-air uh
capabilities, etc. But we are seeing an escalation in the air campaign. Then on the ground, it's just again Russian
dominance all over. Um I think the other guys can talk to that just as well as I can. It's very simple really. I just have a
magnificently powerful tool. It's called pencil. And there is another technology which is
extremely advanced called piece of paper. So even when you make the basic
calculation and again it's about correlation of forces it means Europe has no uh voice here whatsoever about
this paper tiger militarily they're impotent. So, and Ukraine is being
destroyed as a state in the sense that military industrial capacity is being wiped out and as Scott
correctly pointed out the energy also is being wiped out and uh Russia can uh
continue with this for as long as it required because obviously when you talk about mainstream media in the west um
Hunter Thompson gave a very good definition of the press and media you know in his affirant clothing in uh Las
Vegas and uh I won't use those verbiage here because otherwise we will get
banned. But the point is I mean they create a lot of noise. It's irrelevant.
And in terms of for example production of geraniums alone there are other types
of the drones and there are of course types of the cruise missiles all kinds of other stand of weapons. Uh Russia
produces uh 600 geraniums a day. daily. So he can continue to do it as
long as it required and uh yeah they can do whatever they want produce a lot of
hot air and a lot of noise it doesn't change the simple reality on the ground
it is the the only thing which really shapes everything about it or uh as I I
repeat this adnauseium Russia will talk to United States and there must be talks
between Russia and United States these are two largest superpowers and so it's uh necessary to maintain the world
peaceful crime out loud if we're going as far as that in terms of Europe it's absolutely irrelevant it's an object
it's not a subject of international politics and there actually the
communications between Putin and Trump and Alaska for example and what is happening economically it's there are
separate tracks if you wish you know special military operation a special military operation and Russians are
probably have blistered on their tongues you know repeating the same thing all aims or political aims will be achieved
including the removal of Zilinski regime uh pure economic and other activity
absolutely United States and Russia neighbors we are neighbors you know that
so it's just literally next to each other and there are gigantic uh you know what resources also in the uh American
part sector of Arctic which you know what is America stick it out of the well
if not uh you know what if not the catastrophe completely but at least
instead of crashing it will be hard landing but the country will survive and will continue on Europe is done it's
over well where we are is Russia's continuing to do um what they do which is to
eradicate the enemy I think part of their denazification plan is the long-term destruction of the military
capabilities of Ukraine both personnel and war material you know I've said for a long time. What Russia turned Ukraine
into is a NATO garbage compactor. You throw war material in there. You throw
tanks and M7s and all the wonder weapons. You throw Ukrainian personnel andor mercenaries in there and Russia
will destroy them. And when the trash compactor is empty, fill it again and Russia will destroy it again. I think
that's what Russia is doing. I think Russia recognizes that. Um, there's even a NATO plan for the conclusion of the
so-called conclusion of the conflict, at which time whatever's left of Ukrainians
ma uh, resources, male andor female resources, they'll try to use them for some kind of a dirty war. And I think
Russia's plan is to eliminate all of those resources as necessary and to
completely break the back of Ukraine so that at the conclusion of this, the
people that are left in Ukraine have no will to fight and they just want this thing over and to be, you know, to get
back to some kind of life. So I don't think Russia has a time limit on this. I don't think they're, you know, ramping
up or ramping down. They have targets. They're striking the targets and they will continue um as the tra the NATO
trash compactor fills, they'll continue to empty it until there's nothing left for NATO to put in the trash compactor.
Now, I wanted to get to now uh Trump's reaction to all of this. Now, I'm very disappointed in him. He and I
always had a great relationship. I'm very disappointed. Thousands of people are dying. They're not Americans that
are dying, but they're Russians and they're Ukrainians. And there's thousands. And it's a war that makes no
sense and it would have never started if I were president. And that's what bothers me even more because the
election was totally rigged and it's a shame. We'll see what happens. But I'm very disappointed in President Putin. I
can say that. And uh will be uh doing something to uh help people live. You
know, it's not question of Ukraine. It's help people live. They will he will be doing something to help people live. What's your reaction
to that? Oh, sorry. Hold on. Is he going to Is he going to send 3,200
IAM missiles to I mean I I because they deliver humanitarian goods, right? I mean these these missiles um he you know
I mean gosh helping Ukraine get offensive strike capability so that you level the play. I mean he has no plan.
Sanctioning uh you know Scott Besson's talking about sanctioning uh he literally has no plan. Uh, but I I think
that's actually part of the plan. I I'll tell you why. Let's look at the IRAM
missiles, the ARM, extended range uh attack missile, whatever the A stands
for. Um, 3,200 of these. I mean, it's big deal. They announced it, $850
million. The Europeans are paying for it and uh they're going to give them to the Ukrainians. The problem is when you read
the small print, um, first of all, they haven't totally committed to giving them Ukrainians. And one of the reasons is
the missile doesn't exist. Um, there's a $34 million contract out with one of the
primary contractors, uh, whose job it is to produce a prototype missile. Um, but
that prototype is to be delivered in October of 2025. That's next month. So,
the prototype doesn't even exist yet. Uh, once you have the prototype, then you have to subject it to a whole bunch of tests and everything. And uh and then
once it's approved, and they could fasttrack it, but it would take some months to do that, then you go into serial production. But before you can
have serial production, you got to get all the other components lined up. It, you know, takes time. Got to get contractors cleared for this production
space allocated. They don't even know where they're going to build them yet. There is no production hall, no tools.
It's a prototype. Um, and so according to the news, the maximum
production output that's uh estimated once ERAM goes into production is 1,000 missiles a year. So, working off of what
we know, the prototype will be available sometime in October. Let's say they just rush it forward and six months later
they're able to magically start, you know, going into production. Um,
you know, where where are we now? Gosh, we're talking about, you know, May, April, May, uh, where they can start
producing things of 2026. To get a thousand produced, you'd have to go into full-on. You don't go ramp up
into full-on production, but, you know, you'll crank out a couple, but, you know, you're literally talking 2030
before 3,200 of these missiles could even be conceivably manufactured. 2030,
it's 2025. Um, this is just a joke. It's an absolute disgrace uh to be out there
talking about providing Ukraine with capabilities that everybody knows aren't going to be provided, which tells you
that this is his posturing on the part of the president. The president understands that he has a tremendous
amount of political push back. This push back comes from people like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state/n national
security adviser who hates Russia and everything about Russians and is sabotaging the president left, right,
everywhere he go. Scott Besson, longtime Russophobe. The only words he knows when
it comes to Russia's tariffs, sanctions, that's it. He doesn't want a compromise. He doesn't want any deal made. Um, you
know, Ratcliffe, Mike Ratcliffe, the CIA director, Russophobe in the extreme, doesn't like what Tulsa Gabbard's doing,
exposing Russia gate, doesn't like Tulsa Gabbard exposing the fact that all the Russian analysts in the CIA are
Russophobes. They don't know anything about Russia. They just got their job because they learned to say Vladimir
Putin bad and they went, "Oh, yeah, you're qualified to do this job." There's the only people that even
remotely support what the president's doing is JD Vance, the vice president. that's an important ally. Uh Steve
Wickoff, but he's he's an envoy. He's not a policy originator. He's an policy implement. And Tulsi Gabbard, um you
know, but she often finds her wings clipped. They just put Aaron Lucas, uh a
longtime Russobe, CIA operative, um and as her deputy. So, you know, he's there
to monitor her to make sure she doesn't go too crazy. Um you know, this is the this is the fact. And and and the other
fact is I just got back from Russia. I'll tell you, the Russians understand this. So, anybody who's sitting there
going, "Oh, how's Vladimir Putin taking the uh the Trump temper tantrum?" doesn't care. Water off a duck's back.
He The Russians are fully cognizant of the fact that Donald Trump uh is
carrying this load by himself. The Russians do believe that Trump wants peace and um if given the opportunity
will create, you know, the conditions for peace. But the the the Russians
aren't under any illusion that Donald Trump is able to conceive and implement policy without push back. There are
tremendous forces arrayed against Donald Trump right now. And half the things he
does right now is designed to appease uh the people who have the knives out because he dared meet with Vladimir
Putin in Alaska. You know, it appears Donald Trump wants uh to get out of Ukraine regardless of
the reasons, but that doesn't seem to be happening. and uh Trump's frustrations are boiling over. Sometimes it appears
that he's powerless. I don't necessarily agree with that, but at the same time, that is how it appears. What is your uh
assessment of of Trump's reaction to Russia continuing its campaign? Scott absolutely correctly pointed this
out. First, I applaud him for bringing this Iran thing. Russians laugh at it. And the fact is Iran is nothing more
than they do some kind of a variations on J dump stuck with their engine there
just to make sure that it is some kind of the missile which in reality is flying bomb essentially. Yeah. And Scott
correctly pointed out it's not even in the prototype stage. Forget about initial operational capability. But uh
the point he also is correct it's classic Trump administration. What the does he gets around people who are ready
to kill him around himself and he calls this a wonderful administ what his favorite term it's a beautiful
administration so I mean if he doesn't know what he's doing what can I say and Scott absolutely correctly correctly
states that Russians are cognizant about this fact is there are memes now going
around okay let's be very frank they're laughing openly about this whole thing it's about this you know for you know
forget me forget me not type thing which day I mean he loves Putin which day he
doesn't you know it's just it's complete schizophrenia essentially on part of the
US administration and Trump is the culprit despite the fact whatever his intentions are uh the real strategist
and real statesman actually whatever his intentions are he finds the team for that the problem is he is constantly
completely dependent on his donors and he come completely under the control of the neocons and you know what he can
wish whatever he wants but yeah Russians don't care so and as already have been
stated as I constantly repeat that there there are blisters on the tongues of
Russian officials from Vladimir Putin to ripoff to Lav to what have you that
special military operation will continue until all objectives are met simple as that and as most what we observe here
it's the yeah schizophrenic reaction of the mainstream media all those panted class uh the fourth estate so to speak
uh people who have no clue actually what they are talking about the only thing they are good at is narrative and so yes
Scott correct also that uh Trump doesn't have real intelligence there are no real intelligence in uh intelligence
community in the United States and elsewhere uh regarding Russia because yeah the only guys they have there the
Rosa folks uh it's not even Rosa forbes. Rosa forbes are people who are afraid. Uh they have the visceral hatred of
Russia and as the result what do you expect from them and they are not qualified to provide a serious
professional analysis and for a casting but I made in my career in the United
States in the last second decade already uh pointing this out. So, and what can I
say? Uh, they can say whatever they want. They can introduce whatever they want. It's irrelevant now. That's the
whole point. And especially after Beijing and especially after Tangin,
um, Russians don't care, you know, if United States doesn't get or Mr. Trump
in this particular case doesn't get his offramp those people he surrounded himself with they will make sure that
United States is completely run into the ground because those people the all those CIA director Rubio the boy is
actually you know uh caretaker he's a lawyer he knows nothing really about
real statesmanship and especially international relations but you know what now he's both secretary of the
state and of course the national security adviser Trump appointed ated him. I'm sorry. So, what can I say? It
is what it is. A couple of things. Number one, I think the Russians recognize that Donald Trump, for the most part, is uh speaking
internally that, you know, Donald Trump is not making, you know, some um original statement that he just thought
up on himself, you know, on his own about the situation. He is speaking to the internal enemies, the internal um
factions that are waring against him and that are, you know, constantly nipping at his heels. other things that Donald
Trump says is to deal with internal problems and the instability of the uh of the empire that he's dealing with. I
also think that um the Russians, you know, the answer to how the Russians view this was in China. The Russians
have moved on. The Russians are doing the things necessary to um strengthen their economic and uh uh um interest. I
also think that um they see the United States as an unstable
nuclear armed um adversary that they have to manage. I think they understand
that the um uh the EU is in, you know, facing catastrophic economic problems
and will likely soon fall into some kind of a revolutionary uprising. but that
the United States is though it's though it's unstable politically, it's certainly more stable than um the
European Union in in the long run. And so they're going to have to manage unstable adversaries as they move
forward into the new um world with the Indias and the China and the global south that's on the rise. So, you know,
I I whenever I hear this stuff from Trump, my reaction is always this. I don't really care what Trump says. I
watch the actions that he takes next because he's just talking to the people around him and dealing with those th
those those internal issues. There's all this talk about a buildup for Ukraine and that this will be more
potent than any security guarantee as I'm sure you've been following uh especially Europe talking about how
important it is to have security guarantees that are completely antithe antithetical to everything Russia has
said. But nonetheless, this is what the New York Times is saying, uh, that Ukraine is pursuing a multi-billion
dollar arms buildup that would be funded by Europe as the best chance of ensuring long-term survival. Scott, what is this
all about? Is this even possible? Uh, and what do you make of what the impact
of this new trajectory? You know, Europe keeps talking about how Russia is not
really for peace as it ramps up these attacks and continues its campaign, but
here they're talking about continuing to militarize Ukraine. Well, first of all, let's just make it
very clear. Um, this is fantasy. The reality is that Russia will not
accept uh conflict termination terms that don't involve demilitarization.
And demilitarization means just that. It's the significant reduction in the
size of Ukraine's NATO trained and equipped army um to take NATO out of it
and there will be no defense there will be no meaningful defense industry left. Uh it won't be allowed to exist. Um, you
know, this is why Russia has said there won't be a ceasefire, that the, you know, the conflict ends when the
conflict ends on terms that address the root causes of this war. And, you know,
the West doesn't seem to want to accept that reality. So, Russia just continues
on its path. We we saw, you know, Ursula Vanderion speak the other day about
Ukraine becoming the, you know, the military forge of Europe. And she spoke about Ukraine's military being um
actually the first European army. Um meaning that we train these people, we
we equip these people. These this is our army and we have to use it wisely. Um,
and together with that, you you know what Ukraine is saying is they recognize
the political reality that no matter how much tough talk there is in Europe about
deploying troops to Ukraine, there won't be European troops um and organized
military formations um on Ukrainian soil um for a number of reasons.
First of course again Russia won't allow it but um the other one is that they just can't deploy them. So what Ukraine
is saying is rather than give up on us uh just give us the ability to build
long range strike weapons so that once we get this ceasefire and we have a frozen conflict and you know we can
begin building our factories and we'll produce this. This is just Ukraine's this is a Britishdriven plan called keep
Ukraine in the fight. It's something British MI6 together with the foreign office have been pursuing since 2023,
the disastrous uh Ukrainian summer counteroffensive. The goal is to make sure that the West doesn't abandon
Ukraine. And so what you need to do is create the perception that Ukraine is staying in the fight. And by talking
about building these, you know, this this, you know, the ability to have
their own missile production, everything, remember, they're not talking about having it now. They can't. Russia's blowing them all up. They're
talking about having it once the war stops. Um, that's how it becomes part of their security guarantees. Well, as I
just said, they try and put these things in place right now. They get blown up. Russia's not going to allow any of this
stuff to exist on Ukrainian soil. None of it. Zero. Um, and when the war ends,
it'll end when Russia says the war is over. So, this is just European fantasy, Ukrainian fantasy. And tragically, what
it does is it keeps this war going longer than it should be. You know, 1.7
million dead or missing. Um, that's a real number, not a fake number. If you
look at it closely, 625,000, uh, as of July of this year, dead,
missing. U, that's, you know, I'm just a simple Marine. I don't claim to be the greatest mathematician, but gosh, that
comes up to around 90,000 a month. And things are just getting worse for the Ukrainians. So, we're going to be
talking about a 100 110,000 a month by year's end. All right, that's dead, you
know, or missing. Uh, meaning you're never going to find them again. Um, this this war cannot be won, cannot be
sustained. That's I guess the only good news with these casualties is there's no way in hell that Ukraine will be able to
continue this fight for for much longer. But the bad news is the West just seems to be more than happy to let these
Ukrainians die. Again, these aren't trivial numbers. 90,000 right now a month. 90,000.
And if this war continues, 100 110,000. And if you think the Russians are taking similar casualties,
you're smoking some strong stuff, man. Because the Russian casualties are dropping as low as they go. I mean,
Russia is in, again, this is a highintensity conflict. I mean, you know, you Russia's losing 176 200 215
dead, you know, um, a gosh, a week maybe. Um, I mean, this is this is war.
This ain't a joke. This is war. But the casualties Russia is suffering, while
high, are easily replaceable. Russia is not only replacing them, but is putting
in reserves that will come into play when Russia wants them to come into play.
This this war is so lopsided it's not even funny right now. Um you know the Ukrainians don't get to rotate their
troops in what you know what a troop rotation is from Ukraine being pulled out of a quiet zone of the war being
sent into the uh into the heavy part. That's your rotation. No rest. And as you're moving you're getting hit. You
get hit before you go in. Then once you get in you got to retreat. You die. So they're just moving and dying. You know what Russians do? They go in, they fight
for a couple of days, then they get pulled out, rest, refit while other guys come in. fresh troops, highly trained,
well equipped, motivated. Boom. And the Russians just keep rotating them in and out. The Russians are fresh. The
Ukrainians are exhausted. This war is over. How this is going to happen, uh,
despite, uh, what Scott is saying that this is a fantasy, they're still trying. So, uh, the plan is to buy weapons from
the United States. Trump seems happy with this as like a wash hands. I'm not doing anything, but, uh, you know,
Europeans can buy. Whatever they do with it, they do with it. Um but at the same time uh what's your reaction to this
overall plan uh that Trump just react I mean that uh Scott just reacted to?
Well Scott said it pretty much all I mean there's nothing real behind it. And when British plan anything military due
to their a pathetic level of their military education and military experience they kill a lot of
Ukrainians. Okay they kill a lot of people but yeah this is not serious military. Their military educational
institutions are a joke. Be them the you know what locationational school from
Surz to whatever the king's college they teach there you know or the so-called uh
general staff uh college they have there. It's all a joke. It's a low level
for the pardon my French who are retards primarily. as they result they do not have even understanding how what the
modern war is or for that matter what the old war is and how the casualties
actually relate it's obviously modeling after you know Lester Rosov and uh when
you look at the combat effectiveness Scott is absolutely correct and uh what can I say I mean uh they can dream
whatever they want those are bad dreams of the empire which is nothing more than a little stinky island which fast
approaching the third world levels standard of living. So I mean uh yeah
let them plan. The problem is that uh uh United States cannot provide anything
anymore. I mean it can provide maybe one card if they want. Russians will be
happy to see it there because it's a good payout for the guys who will destroy it, you know. So there is not a
single weapon system in NATO arsenal which can change anything on the tactical level. Forget about operational
strategic and as the result we have what we have which is a catastrophe and what
many people also do not remember this 1.7 millions multiply them by two at
least you know what that will be maimed uh disabled and all kinds of people who
have been wounded and some of PTSD most likely especially when you consider the
intensity of this conflict so that's what 5 U
1.7 plus 3 four yeah 5.1 million casualties.
So and these are not this begins to affect well it already affecting
profoundly the whatever is left of Ukrainian society. And in terms of uh they can dream like this. They created
this flamingo the ugly gigantic flying something which they try to sell to all
those critons in Brussels and you know elsewhere that it is some kind of valid weapon. uh look at the effectiveness of
Russian air defense which only was growing and this is so if they think that this can make any difference I have
a bridge to sell prepayment I will provide the account numbers later so yeah cash only so and um that's what is
happening uh but they wanted to do it to the last Ukrainian sure Russians will
accommodate them because uh well Russian people for in general And as you can see
yourself from the latest polls, more than 80% support Vladimir Putin's policies, they understand what they're
dealing with. And uh this is not against between Russia and Ukraine. This is
between Russia and NATO. It's everybody understands this. So what can I say? It's it's over. But those wars can still
will manage to kill more people on Ukrainian side primarily. So but if Ukrainians want to do it, let them do
it. So what can I say? So they're talking about, you know, massively rearming Ukraine. What do you mean by
Ukraine? What are you g if if they could, which they couldn't? What would they what who would man these weapons that they're bringing in? Ghosts? Cuz
that's the only thing that's going to be left of the Ukrainian military. Let's not forget a year or so ago, uh, the
Germans said they're going to rearm and they're going to come up with $800 million. Vanderland, remember this, $800
billion. All of these kind of numbers we were hearing a year ago from uh from um
Germany and from uh uh the EU and etc. And now a year later, they don't have a
dime. The average German can barely afford a beer and a schnitle. uh uh uh
the uh French and the uh the the the um
the Brits are on the verge of a absolute cataclysmic economic collapse. So the
idea that countries that are flat broke are going to somehow rearm Ukraine and
they're going to send in a bunch of arms that will be have to be manned by dead soldiers because they're all getting wiped out. doesn't make a lot of sense
to me that I guess I'm going to um come up with a fleet of Rolls-Royces also. That's that's it. I'll come up with a
fleet of Rolls-Royces and they'll come up with a uh total, you know, rearmament
plan for Ukraine. And add this, what are the issues that they have? Number one, Ukraine's running out of people.
Ukraine's been saying for a while, you know, we're short of people. Number two, the military-industrial complex in the
West is unable to produce weapons. So, an industrial complex that can't produce
weapons is going to produce them somehow magically and send them to a military that's out of people. And oh, by the
way, the people that are producing these weapons are broke and have no energy to run their factories. The whole thing is
a twisted sick fantasy that you have to be absolutely ignorant of everything that's going on to read an article like
that and think that there's anything any truth to it and that it's anything other than neocon propaganda.

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Trump’s ICE Just SHOT a WOMAN! CHAOS ERUPTS!
Occupy Democrats and The Michael Fanone Show
Oct 4, 2025

Donald Trump’s ICE just shot a woman in Chicago after chaos erupted into a violent scene. This is not normal, folks!



Transcript

In today's breaking story, Donald
Trump's ICE just shot a woman. That's
right. Just when you think that Donald
Trump's chaos can't possibly get any
worse, somehow it does. How's it going
everybody? Hunter Avalone here with
Occupy Democrats. Welcome back to
another video. Now, one thing is for
certain, Donald Trump is using ICE to
enact his own authoritarian agenda. And
time and time again, we see ICE doing
the unthinkable.
Yeah, a chaotic scene here in Logan
Square. That cell phone video shows what
is believed to be federal immigration
agents throwing tear gas from their SUV.
It happened before noon. Again, we're in
Logan Square. It's near the Rico Fresh
grocery store and there is also this
elementary school here. And just within
the last hour, we received surveillance
video that shows an overhead view of
what happened. You can see that the
streets begin to fill with smoke and
people begin to disperse. Now, after
this incident cleared and the federal
agents left, the community, they showed
up in a big way here at Funston
Elementary ahead of dismissal school to
help get these students home. We spoke
to a woman who says she witnessed the
incident and was also a victim of that
gas.
As soon as it hit my face and hit my
eyes, I I knew that I couldn't be out in
it. And so I just ran back and got in my
car. Eventually the the traffic sort of
dispersed and I was able to get home
safely. I feel sad for my neighbors. Um
I feel anxious about the future.
And still it gets worse as Donald
Trump's ICE are now even attacking
peaceful protesters.
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[Music]
[Applause]
[Applause]
You're going to use that gun on your
people.
Shame on you. I hope right now your
ancestors are looking at you.
Look at you right now, brother. Stand
up. Stand up. How did your family get
here?
How did your family get here? You above
people. You don't walk away, brother.
I'm good. Stay there. We can talk. We
can talk. My tax money put you in
school. You came here without no papers.
Now you're an American. Thank you. Out
of way of pay us back. We love you,
brother. Don't forget that. Everybody
take a picture of you. You know why? The
internet is so good. No. I'm on public
property. You're going to be a movie
star. You're going to be a movie star.
We're going to show you on American
City.
Come over here, Mr. American.
And now, Donald Trump's ICE just shot a
woman. That's right. Take a look at
today's top story. Federal immigration
chaos has reached a breaking point in
Chicago this weekend. US Border Patrol
agents shot an armed woman during a
violent standoff with protesters on the
city's southwest side. The Department of
Homeland Security confirmed the woman, a
US citizen, was struck after she and
others rammed vehicles into ICE cars.
She later drove herself to a hospital.
According to DHS, the woman was carrying
a semi-automatic firearm when she was
shot. Federal agents also fired pepper
spray and rubber bullets as they clashed
with a crowd of demonstrators attempting
to block ICE operations. The
confrontations unfolded in Brighton
Park, an area that has become a
flashoint under Operation Midway Blitz,
Trump's aggressive immigration sweep in
Chicago. Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Gnome announced she was
deploying additional special operations
teams to the scene. And while federal
officers escalate force, Illinois
Governor JB Pritsker revealed that
President Trump delivered an ultimatum.
Deploy the state's National Guard or
Washington would do it for him. Pritsker
refused, calling Trump's demand
outrageous and unamerican. Still, the
White House confirmed Trump authorized
300 National Guard troops to back up ICE
and Border Patrol. The standoff
highlights the growing chaos unleashed
by Trump's immigration crackdown.
Federal officers are now forced into
pitched battles in Democratic cities,
risking their lives against armed
resistance. Protesters have staged
repeated blockades at detention centers
in Broadview and other suburbs. Those
demonstrations have been met with
chemical agents, physical force, and
rubber bullets. Scenes that resemble
combat zones, more than routine law
enforcement. All of this comes as judges
and governors across the country
scrambled to push back against Trump's
expanding deployment of federal power.
Just today, a federal judge temporarily
blocked Trump from sending 200 Oregon
National Guard troops into Portland. The
bottom line, a woman has been shot,
federal agents are under constant
threat, and entire neighborhoods are
being militarized. This is not an
accident. It is the predictable result
of Trump's strategy. By forcing ICE and
Border Patrol into confrontations with
local residents, the president has
created a volatile situation where
officers and civilians alike are put in
danger and all for nothing. Thanks so
much for watching. Please click that
like button and subscribe to Occupy
Democrats so that you can stay informed
and help us stop Donald Trump.

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"You Guys are F*CKING TRAITORS!” Combat Veteran Sounds Off on ICE
Status Coup News
Oct 4, 2025 #antifa #veterans #protests

Status Coup’s video journalist Jon Farina interviewed U.S. Combat combat veteran Rig Madden, who served in Cuba, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is now one of a group of veterans peacefully protesting and fighting against President Trump’s rising authoritarianism and crackdown on protesters, immigrants, and political opponents. Status Coup is the ONLY INDEPENDENT OUTLET consistently ON THE GROUND with the people.



Transcript

Out of everybody I despise the most, I
said capitalists right now. You guys are
[ __ ] traitors, man.
You want to see what real independent
journalism funded by the people for the
people looks like?
You ever heard a story like this in
America? You're looking at it.
Congratulations for always being
somewhere where mainstream media is not.
Flint, Michigan.
See you in Nevada.
Thanks to people like you, we could get
the truth. Corporate media, we they've
been lying to us for years. You going
straight to the people.
You are the man. I'm glad you're here.
Let us go.
For as low as 16 cents a day, you'll
keep us on the ground covering the
important stories the corporate media
covers up.
Um, I did five tours
of duty. My first one was Operation Sea
Signal in Cuba. Um, Operation Joint
Endeavor in Bosnia 1996, Cuba was 95. I
did a Operation Joint Guard uh which was
Kosovo in 1999. I did Operation Iraqi
Freedom in uh 2008 in Iraq and my final
tour was in Afghanistan uh Operation
Endurance Freedom in 2013. And I got to
go see um the best president in history,
Barack Obama, give out the Medal of
Honor at the White House in 2014 and I
retired under him in 2016.
Do you think we actually have a real
democracy to save?
Here's the big problem, guys.
It's the fact that America was so
[ __ ] corrupt and let his ass back in
there. This is so much bigger than
Donald Trump. It's the fact that you got
somebody that is openly corrupt, openly
racist as Trump and they still bent the
knee. That let you know it wasn't about
Trump. He's just the avatar. The country
has always been white supremacist. This
is the country I grew up with. I
remember these white people losing their
mind when I first moved in in our
apartment building in California. You
know, called me the horror yard, said I
was bringing down the property value.
That hatred has always been there. Uh I
couldn't leave base in Fort Leonardwood
because of the racism, you know. Uh they
wouldn't want to they didn't want to
rent to me in Indiana because of the
racism after I did [ __ ] Ford tours
for the country. And so now I'm like,
you know what? [ __ ] it, right? Let that
[ __ ] burn. I don't think someone um as
corrupt as Trump and his administration
are giving up power. I just don't
believe that at all because they the
moment he gives up power, his people go
to jail. Steven Miller is going to
prison. Everyone who's been doing all
that, the the uh Navy guys who killed
those Venezuelans, them are [ __ ] war
crimes. They will hang for that [ __ ]
They will spend the rest of their
[ __ ] life in prison for killing these
people. And so they're they're going to
fight to try to hold on to power. and
everyone one of us need to be ready to
bring that fight to him when the time
comes.
Was there something from your childhood
or growing up uh that inspired you to to
want to serve your country?
The army honestly was always my backup
plan right when I was young I wanted to
be an astronaut. I loved sci-fi. I love
science itself. I was obsessed with like
space travel um believe it or not. But
uh really uh when I started going to
like different schools, my my junior
high school was heavily white. So dealt
with a lot of open racism, a lot of
fights. Uh but but really I joined the
army because of LA riots. I was just
tired of the violence, tired of getting
shot at for free. Um just tired of I
just I honestly believe that I had a
better life expectancy as a soldier than
I did in my own neighborhood. And so I
just left. I think I probably was a
recruiter's dream. I walked in said I'm
ready to go. One last question. What
would be your message to current
soldiers, ICE agents, and National Guard
that are being ordered to do illegal,
non-constitutional things on a daily
basis?
You don't participate, right? Weaponize
competence. You walk out here, you look
good, you be a prop for the government,
help people with their luggage, but
absolutely do not raise your weapon. At
a citizen, don't participate anything
you know is illegal. You tell them
demons whatever they want to hear up
front but in the streets and especially
I'm talking to NCO corps because the NCO
corps is really what holds the military
together that makes us unique in all
armies. The NCO core I believe the
non-commission core officers will hold
fast to the constitution. We knew how to
play the [ __ ] game. We've had bad
commanders before. We let them do their
thing, man. But out here in the in the
real world, especially if they're not
the type of commander that leave from
the front, they're not going to know
what's happening from the field. you you
send they ass some [ __ ] report and
by all means stay the [ __ ] quiet. Do not
expose yourself. If you got a grievance,
bring it to the veterans. We can we can
talk [ __ ] without being subject to the
uniform code of military justice. But we
need you there. Somebody with a [ __ ]
conscience got to still be here to hold
the line. And I understand that it's
terrible for you. It's terrible to see
people. It's terrible to see democracy
burn around you. But you really are a
last line of defense. And for you
kidnappers known as ICE agents,
understand this. You will never be
[ __ ] forgiven for your crimes ever.
The soldiers, I can understand. They
took an oath. They're duty bound to be
there. They can't just quit. You could
[ __ ] reclass tomorrow and go work for
FEMA or do something else. If you choose
to put a mask on, if you choose to send
people to concentration camps, if you
choose to do that [ __ ] you will be a
mortal [ __ ] enemy forever. When that
[ __ ] demon is gone from the White
House, you will be hunted just like you
hunted them. You will be hunted. You
will never have a [ __ ] moment of
peace. Period. Out of everybody I
despise the most, ICE at the top of the
list right now. You guys are [ __ ]
traitors, man. And the fact that you let
Proud Boys and Oathke keepers and all
these [ __ ] insurrectionists on the
team that let you know, man. Listen,
I'mma tell you something too to you
Proud Boys. I don't give a [ __ ] if that
fell anoints you in the name of the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We not
going to recognize that [ __ ] in these
streets. Understand that [ __ ] So when
you come out here, be ready for those
one-way missions. All right? It's all
fun and games until you deal with
heavily armed veterans who are willing
to match and see your energy. Hell will
flash trees over before I let anybody in
my family be taken. Period. I don't give
a [ __ ] And you could tag that fake ass
god of war himself. [ __ ] him, too.
Right. I don't give a damn about any of
these demons, man. Ice is an absolute
scourge. You should you should hold your
head in shame forever for the [ __ ] you
doing. You will never be forgiven for
that [ __ ] If you had a shred of
dignity, you would reclass tomorrow.
Sorry, guys. That [ __ ] just pisses me
off, man. Can't stand these [ __ ]
demons, man.
It's got to come from the heart.
Yeah, I can't I cannot I cannot stand
these guys, man. I watched, you know,
people out here running for their
[ __ ] life, man. That lady in Walmart
running for like hours, man. Hiding and
notice they going after people who
working.
Yeah.
Right. They sat here. Immigration itself
is really about white supremacy.
Let's just cut to the chase. Immigration
has always served to keep America white.
They tell you whatever [ __ ] lie from
operation wet back. This is goes back in
history. So we know now you really see
what America is about. They put white
supremacy over everything over the rule
of law, over the separation of powers.
And now they want to fund ICE at a
higher rate than they fund the Marine
Corps. That is the danger. That means
they're going to use these people to
stay in power. Right? They're using them
right now. If you see, they desensitize
the military already to kill people,
right? They're telling you it's okay to
kill drug dealers and kill because
they're they're moving drugs. You can
kill them now. Right? So, they're going
to continue to decentize these people
before they turn the guns on us.
We need to be ready before that moment
happens.
Got a good night's sleep.
And I tell you, whether it takes 10
months or 10 years, we must be
absolutely relentless in our fight
against white supremacy.
All right. You good?
Is there anything else you want to get
off your chest?
No, I think I said it all, guys. Listen,
I'm pretty sure I've earned my way on
any list, any watch list. So, and that's
all right. I'll be proud to be on that
[ __ ]
You're inspiring.