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I’m Jenny Beth Martin. This is the Jenny Beth Show. Joining us today is a former elected official, a serial entrepreneur,

an aviator, and the host of the independent conservative broadcast, The Grassroots Truthcast. He has interviewed Tom Hman on border security. He has

analyzed Trump’s Iran strategy in real time, and today he is here to break it all down. Jean, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for having me, Jenny.

So, tell the audience a little bit about yourself. What all do what all have you done and um what are you doing right

now? I know that you’ve got a podcast and you’re an investor and you do real estate development, but let people know a little more about you.

Well, thanks for having me. I’m uh I’m supposed to be retired, but it’s not working. They say they say when you retire, you know, it’s when you’re

supposed to be having fun. I am having fun, but I don’t need to be retired. I’m uh enjoying all the things that we work

so hard for during our life to do except now I have the privilege of doing it more on my clock, my schedule uh and in

in in some sort of rhythm of things that’s comfortable to me. I’m an adjunct professor at well as well at the local

college and I teach business uh economics and uh entrepreneurship uh for the ne the younger crowd what I

affectionately referred to as the Gen Z folks who are who are finding them themselves in this precarious world we

we live in today something that might be a little different from what you and I have come from. Uh the the the other

thing I do is uh right on the other side of this wall right here, we have a little airplane hanger and the Icon A5 C

plane is ready to go when I’m not uh doing Jenny Beth Martin shows and uh

it’s nice to be able here on the Gulf Coast of Florida uh to jump in the plane and go 100, 200, 300 miles, have lunch

somewhere, come back. Um, and one of the other things we do is, uh, visit some of our real estate investments through, um,

uh, my partner and we go around and, uh, raise capital, uh, for our, uh, uh,

hotel projects we have primarily in the Southeast United States. I was a former United States Congressional candidate. I

ran for uh, Matt Gates’s seat. This is District One, US Congressional District number one here in the panhandle of

Florida. I’m talking to you from Pensacola, Florida, which is the central time zone, many one of the few states

that has two two time zones. Uh I lost in a Republican party primary uh for US

Congress in this special election with nine other Republicans running against me. Uh this is when the seat was vacated

by Matt Gates when President Trump was uh considering about was considering u

uh Congressman Matt Gates for uh Pam Bondi seat potential attorney general.

Um but uh prior to that I was a a uh two-term county commissioner here in

Escambia County, Florida. had the privilege of serving 350,000 people uh in this district in this

county and um uh very proud of the accomplishments we did. My focus was

economic development, trade um and uh that’s what I enjoyed the most about the job. Well, that um that is really good

and it also explains why you’re you you are investing and looking for places where you can help other other

communities around the country grow and have have good trade. So, your experience as a county commissioner, I’m sure, comes in very handy with that.

It does. In fact, when I was up in uh North Georgia in in the uh uh in your

neck of the woods up there, I ended up meeting uh some of the staff that were was in politics down here in the panhandle. So, when I was working with

the mayor of Woodstock, Georgia, I come to find two or three people sitting in the room that I used to work with, which further enhanced our relationship with Woodstock.

Oh, very good. And the mayor of Woodstock is Michael Caldwell. And uh that’s right here in the same same county where our office is. Wow. Now tell me something before we get in.

We’re going to talk a bit about Iran today, but before we get into that, tell me more about this Icon A5 amphibious plane.

Yeah, the Icon A5 uh was something uh that was it was it’s not unique anymore,

but it was 12 14 years ago when it was in first design. Uh it’s a total um

fiber um fiberglass aircraft, not as much metal as you think, which which

makes it uh fall into the category, excuse me, of light sport aircraft. It’s a two-seater fully um certified

aircraft. And it’s a sea plane. And I’m here on the um uh on Predto Bay in Florida, which is the border to Alabama.

And um so uh we uh just get it warmed up. My team pre-flights the plane with

me and we taxi it outside into the washdown area out there and uh then down

the ramp into the waters and uh that’s where we can take off and get anywhere.

It’s not a 400 mph aircraft. It’s it’s it’s about 105 miles an hour on a good day, but it’s a lot of fun and it gets

me around rather quickly. I’m honored to be able to say that the Pensacola, which is where I am, is the home of the Blue

Angels and they’re having their uh uh uh homecoming uh on the first weekend after

July 4th each year. And I have been asked again for the fourth fourth time to participate in the pre-show of the

Blue Angels Air Show. It’s a pretty significant event and I’ll be performing for a good 15 20 minutes on the waters

of Pensacola Beach in front of about 150,000 people with my icon A5 and a

guest and um we’ll be doing touch and goes and uh uh semiaacrobatic moves. uh

in and around the Pensacola Beach Casino Beach Pier.

And when did you learn how to fly a plane? Oh, I’m dating myself. 1974 in college.

So, wow. It’s been quite a few years, over 40 years of flying. Uh safety always first. And uh we had several

planes in in our history. Uh but um this is the one that’s you know I take a commercial airline if I need to go

further. But this is my baby when I’m doing something under 500 mile radius.

Scooting up to where you are would be a fun trip um in the airplane. But that’s probably the furthest out I would go.

Um, just north of Atlanta and uh and and in that radius west towards Shreveport,

Louisiana and over towards Dallas and the other direction down towards Tampa.

A lot of fun. Uh, lot of beautiful views along the Gulf of America.

Absolutely. Well, that sounds quite fascinating and um really a lot of fun.

And congratulations on being able to do the pre-show for the Blue Angels. That is quite an honor. And to get to do it

right after America’s or as I guess we should just say as America is celebrating 250 years. That’s really exciting.

That’s absolutely that’s really exciting. The adrenaline is going to be pumping.

That is terrific. So I’m very proud of you for that. All right. So we are going to talk about Iran and what’s going on

there. And we’re pre-recording this. So there may be a few things because the situation is so fluid that change just

slightly by the time that we we air this um I in a day or so from now. But but

tell me what are your thoughts about Iran and and where we are right now with the situation over there, the the

ceasefire um and what President Trump’s objectives are.

Good question. you you and I have been on other uh interviews as well and you know Jenny I just when you think you’ve

got Donald Trump figured out another curveball comes flying at you the man is a master at um the deal which is what he

wrote his book on and I commend him completely for that look for 47 years

we’ve been abused by this Iranian nation uh of uh Islamic jihadists in particular

that have uh killed Americans and other and people from other nations in u in the Arabia area uh and around the world.

Uh it’s we never had a president in the United States since World War II that

was willing to step up and be forthright in his decisionmaking to take on an enemy that has been hurting us.

I hope and pray that someday America wakes up and it’ll have to happen through Congress when they get back to

work and uh that they enact a um a a monument for this man honoring him

somewhere on the wall of the Grand Canyon the way they did Mount Rushmore.

I was going to say let him be the fifth character in Mount Rushmore. No, I’m now convinced he needs to stand apart with

his own with his own sculptured uh edifice sitting against the wall of a canyon somewhere in the United States

honoring him separately. He has broken he’s broken all he’s made president.

He’s broken any standards of norm uh that other presidents will probably in

the future yearn for. uh he has he wants peace, you know, for a guy who’s got a

lot of bluster, a lot of u a lot of uh vim and vigor, uh a little bit loose at

the mouth at times. Uh I can’t say I fault him. You know, it’s it’s not an etiquette class of protocol here in the

States anymore. It’s dealing the way you have to deal with the person who says

they’re going to kill you. And if you’re going to talk about a person who’s going to kill you, my nice manner doesn’t hold

squat, you’ve got to get down in the dirty and roll up your sleeves and deal

with this person, an enemy, not plate them, not try to pay them off with

pallets of cash like Obama did, and not all this acquiescing and uh uh

acquiescing, giving in to their demands each and every time just to shut them up

is an abuse. It it’s it sent the wrong message to the rest of the world that Donald Trump that the United States,

excuse me, was uh weak and impotent uh ever since our win in World War II. I

think he demonstrates and makes a lot of military soldiers uh happy uh with the

with the leadership he’s shown and he is in the you mentioned the timeline as as

per the day we’re recording this. It’s so dynamic. Um it’s it’s changing moment by moment for a guy who was trying to

eviscerate the country. There’s a lot of military people and people u uh with a strong opinions like me that wanted to

were a little disappointed when he took pause in this ceasefire and didn’t finish the job. Uh and I’m one of them.

I wish he had because it may have telegraphed temporarily not only to the rest of the world but to our stock

market that we were that we were um not able to handle the final results that

was that was expected in Iran. Watch out. I submit to you that um just when

you’re ready to watch your movie tonight or tomorrow night, something may happen and you’ll be watching a news flash

appear in the next 72 hours or so, four or five days out. You may see uh um a

change uh a a finishing of the job as they say.

Yes. And recent Mclofflin polling shows that six in 10 Americans want to finish

the job. And um I be and the reason for that is one Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. And two, if we don’t

finish the job right now, we may wind up and we very likely will wind up back in Iran in a few months or years from now.

We’ve already been there for 47 years.

It’s time to be done with with this and and to resolve the situation. And I I understand what you’re saying about

being disappointed with with the ceasefire. I I also

can imagine that when you’re the president, you have to weigh a lot of a lot of information coming at you to to

make to make the the decision that that you think is best. I think in President Trump’s heart of hearts, and I’ve said

this before on the air, even though I don’t know him personally, I I am not on Donald Trump’s speed dial. I I wish I

were, but I’m not. Um, but I would sus I would suspect that a man who who builds buildings and and does so much with

construction just does not want to go and blow up bridges and blow up power plants because he understands how

devastating that will be to the people of the the country when it comes time to rebuild. And I think he’s probably

going, “Okay, is there anything we can do to put that not have to do that and to get them to come to the table?” And I think he’s trying his best to give them

the opportunity to do so. But we’re also, while I say that, we’re dealing with people who are still part of the

regime and the their their opinion and what what they want to see happen to America. I’m not sure that that that

they’ve had a total conversion on wanting Americans dead and America uh to to be attacked. So, we have to to also

understand we’re dealing with that reality.

Yeah, that’s a good point. The who wants America dead? Is it an Islamic regime uh

an a culture within the country, a protocol within the country, or is it the average citizens? And what do the

average citizens know or don’t know? Uh it might be we have to be sensitive of

the fact that they’ve been indoctrinated with Yes. information that they’ve been given.

That’s that’s not their fault, but they were given it. So they believe it to be true uh to kill Americans and Israelis.

But um it may not what they’re being fed is not necessarily a truism. And I think

we’re going to feel we’re going to find that as we string it out. They wanted to string it out because that’s their only

weapon they have left only to realize that he that Trump Donald Trump is turning the tables on them. Um he did so

with the blockade and he’s doing so with information. these uh is is these um

Iranian leaders are can’t keep women and children in front of power plants for two or three weeks straight. So I think

he’s making a strategic move to finish finish it off when they least expect it,

saving innocent Iranian lives. Uh and I think as a strategist I would say that

is likely. What I think is even more interesting is that the table is also

being turned and showing and and the the standard Iranian citizen is saying,

“Well, wait a minute. They could have finished us off by now. Why didn’t they?

And what’s what’s going on that um that we don’t have any communication? We’re

about to lose our water. the real is worthless in in Iran right now. And

there and Trump’s betting on total economic collapse as another weapon of war that doesn’t need the military uh to

enact. Uh so what’s happening is I think there’s different strings he’s pulling

in different ways. That’s why JD Vance, as we’re speaking, was just uh held up from jumping on the plane with his

entourage to go back and work on the deal. It’s alleged that that um finishing of the negotiations will occur by the end of this week, but we’ll see.

Um I hope so. I hope there’s some reason reasoning amongst the um negotiators.

word today is is that the negotiators are comfortable with the where where they’re moving on settlement with uh

with us, but it’s the hardliner military side of the Iranian government that’s

that’s uh not no but hell no. And uh Trump’s now uh got a little time not

only to retool but to excise a a strategy that might go after the real

wrongdoers the way Israel did with the pocket pagers not too long ago.

Yes, that is um an interesting way to think about it. And I think that

the because and we heard this from the White House this week that that they thought they had a deal and then the

people they were negotiating with there’s as you were just saying the the hardliners from from the the military

are saying no absolutely not. and they’re they’re trying to figure out who they have to negotiate with and who’s

going to be controlling the country. At at the same time, we want to make sure that whoever does ultimately control the country.

They’re not going to terrorize their own citizens the way that that we’ve seen them seen them do. And and I I I know

that’s not one of the primary objectives. It’s not why we’re in there, and I’m I’m not suggesting we need to be in there for decades at all. But I also

when we find out how many of their citizens were were slaughtered just for exercising their ability to speak, Yeah.

I there’s there’s a hum human human interests that that that we have we also

wind up having to look at. So there’s there are a lot of moving pieces in this I think the president must must examine.

Le let’s go back and talk a bit more about the blockade and the straight of hormuse. What what are you thinking when we’re looking at that specifically?

Well, there’s so many parts to it. Um we’ve got about 200 tankers right now stranded. Insurance costs with those

tankers is rising. Uh this matters because it directly affects gas prices,

inflation, uh uh and a lot of our supply chain networks. Remember, we don’t need that.

We don’t need that oil. We’re we’re c we’re oil positive with what we’re producing here in the United States now.

And we’ve replenished our strategic oil reserves, which Biden used uh to help uh

p put a patch on the tire uh on our economy under his administration, leaving us in an oil deficit, which made

prices go up even higher than we have now. The relationship has to be truly analyzed and compared in context. And uh what am I to answer your question?

I I think this is going to be a surprise. My surprise today is that when I looked at the stock market before

going on the air, what’s the problem? We’re up. Everything on my reports look green. And I don’t

see um I don’t see a collapse in the economy. I saw a little one when we first when we when we first invaded or

first attacked, but it it’s rebounded when all the paranoid folks in Wall Street realized the economy is still

intact and our supply chain network was intact. The to answer your question specifically,

our refineries need an a retrofit to handle the sweet oil, the sweet crude that’s coming out of the earth in and

around the United States. That means that the oil refinery process today of our own oil

that we’re producing gets shipped out, the sweet crude does for refinement elsewhere and then comes back at an at a

markup at a cost uh to um to be used.

That increase in price would be saved if we up if we further refine our own sweet

crude here in the United States. that’s on Trump’s agenda. It’s part of a economic incentive plan in supply chain

economics that I keep referring to. So, we haven’t seen the negative impact yet

because you think Iran’s buying time, America’s buying time. We’re buying time because we’re retrofitting existing oil refineries.

And it’s going to be more about our ability to pump through pipelines this oil supply we have, not just build it.

Jenny, we need to make sure that we can push the oil through our pipes to all the regions of the country as fast as possible. Guess who refuses to do so?

California.

Everything they’re taking comes in from other parts of the world with a markup

built into the into the gas the final product the gasoline they’re taking they’re importing with the markup

because they refuse to refine in in in California in the or take refined

product in the United States ergo a increase in price to the

consumer. They’ll realize sooner or later that that has to change if they expect an economy in California to

survive. If they just did that, you would see a bolstered economic environment in California which would stave off the exodus they’re having now.

Yeah. I think they care more about radical leftist ideology than they do about staving off that exodus. But if they’re not careful, they’re going to

wind up with like they may already be like New York City where they don’t have enough people to pay the taxes because

the taxes are so outrageous there now to to be able to provide all of the free thing the the free things that they’re they’ve promised voters.

Yes. Explain more about what sweet crude is.

I’m I’m not familiar with oil refinement that that much. Well, I’m not an expert on it either, but from an investor’s

point of view, there’s just different levels of oil coming out of the ground.

Some of it’s real sludgy and dirty, which historically we’ve handled well.

But there’s a sweeter, almost golden uh clearer fluid coming out of the Earth’s

uh core down there that is um that is pure and uh more pure than some of the

raw oil. we we we pump and that I believe it or not we are less capable of

refining. So it needs to go out of the country to facilities that are doing that. Uh and and actually it’s the last

step. It has to do with uh the stack temperature in the uh exhaust pipes

coming out of the refinery. Temperatures at different levels, the length of time it sits at those temperatures um has an

impact on how it converts into actual gasoline. And we’re not as equipped to

doing that. And uh I I I think that as we move in that direction,

it’ll just enhance our ability uh to be uh totally uh sustainable on our own

without outside support. But frankly, it’s the other uses of the oil that go to other products. uh the the drug

industry alone. Uh the uh pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of uh other supplies and goods that are part

of our um bill of lighting procedures and um and construction procedures within our manufacturing.

But you know, we did it to ourselves. uh it was about four or five decades ago we realized under let’s say the Nixon

administration with Ma seat when he tried to build up a friendly um relationship with China back in the

early days we did it through economic cooperation and that cooperation was uh

trade uh and um we realized that their conversion of dollars

uh to their currency was a huge savings for us. Now the unions here in the states was not uh was a was a pretty had

a pretty big stronghold on the economy and uh their pricing was very high. So

Mr. Employer, Mr. Businessman and business owner would turn around and and uh look for a lower price to get the

same product. And he did so by outsourcing outside the United States.

So we became part of a global economy, a world economy. And so our supply chain network moved outside the United States.

Well, it went too far. And as a consequence, uh all we had left were liberal uh teachers telling us how bad

America is. And uh it it it’s now coming home. It’s now

coming back. Donald Trump needs more time. I wish he could enjoy a third term. The magic is I sense he’s testing

JD Vance now on the negotiations to see how he does uh as as it pertains to him

being an endorsed um replacement for himself.

Well, that will be interesting to see how the vice president does.

Yes. when you are um talking about how he needs more time, he he can’t have a third term, as much as we might might

wish that that he could. What we do need to make sure of that that is allowable and that we need to work very hard on is

to ensure that conservatives maintain control of both the House and the Senate. If if that fails to happen, we

will see impeachments and hearings and just it will be 2020 all over again and

we that will be a disaster for our country. Um, so I with that in mind,

Virginia just voted to redistrict and to give Democrats a 10 to one advantage

when it comes to the the district and the makeup of their congressional seats.

What do you think that that decision that the Virginia voters just gave and made? What how what kind of effect is

that going to have as we go into the fall and and more broadly just around the entire country? I don’t know what

bothers me more, the antics of the Democrat party getting this through and the money involved in pushing it through

or the in or whether it’s ignorance of the voter himself herself. I I don’t know what

what to get angry about, but it’s so wrong. I used to be a county commissioner for two terms and every 10

years we had a um review of the census to determine what the boundaries would be for a given district.

Uh the concept we live by under our county attorney, very very good attorney was a concept called cernimus. I’m so glad you brought this up.

Cernamus, one man, one woman, one vote.

Uh it’s what our democracy intended. Uh it did not intend that the dem that the

elected officials themselves get involved with a process of creating districts from which in the elected person was campaigning and came out of.

It did not suggest that that district be gerrymandered with a funky boundary that

lent itself towards one party more than the other. It didn’t. There’s nothing in

our constitution or in our law that says that the boundary has to be based on a political party.

It does. In fact, the opposite’s true.

When we set up our boundaries, it was to make sure that the population in one

area was consistent with the population in the next area in the next district.

So that if I’m coming out of district 4, for example, and another guy’s coming out of district three, but we’re serving

the same county that we have the same number of people voting.

Uh, so in district 2, for example, where I came out of, there were 55,000 people.

Make sure district 3 and district 1 and so forth have 55,000 people that were having the same number of voters coming

out of every district, not making sure that within that district there were 90% Republicans or 90% Democrats.

It didn’t say that. It says make sure that there’s that that there’s an equal number of voters. Well, if you’re silent

on the on the mix between Democrat and Republican,

you are by by silence acknowledging a possibility that you

could structure a district to favor one political party more than the other. That’s what just happened in Virginia.

Governor Yncan, who preceded Governor Spanberger, didn’t do that. He created a

balance and equity amongst the districts. By the way, the Democrats are screaming about what happened in Texas.

Oh no, it was already gerrymandered in Texas. what was going on down in Texas was an attempt to bring it back into

balance, not gerrymander it. And if you notice the the ratios down there,

6 to uh 6 to4, 6 to5, they’re they’re almost split. It’s based on the

registration of Democrats and Republican in that given area. They were trying to make it coternimous.

And that’s what they did not do in Virginia. They sold a bill of goods down the throats of the Virginia folks and

said it’s okay. The district for the Congress seat. Now I’m shifting from local government to state federal. The

congressional seat can have a 10 to1 ratio of Democrats over Republican. Who do you think’s getting elected in that district?

So that goes against Jenny this spirit of our two-party system.

We are we didn’t have two parties to dominate the world of our government. We had two parties created by our

forefathers to to create an alternative opinion. So if you’re a Democrat, I’m not holding you to that, but if you’re a

Democrat and I’m a Republican, uh you know, maybe I’m wrong on something. I need to hear your opinion and be

corrected so that the end result in Congress or in the legislative branch we’re working. Here’s the here’s a

different point of view for what? The greater good of the people, not the greater good of themselves,

not protection for their job for another 40 years.

So if you go to my website where I have my podcasts, I also have an area of Jean’s recommended 28th amendment to the constitution.

And uh the 28th amendment to my to the constitution of my country is a an

amendment that talks about a balance or an equity in the voting process. the

system of how you become a citizen and the way and the penalties 27 amendments of the constitution. Jenny, not one of

them deals with penalties against the legislative branch of

government that promotes wrong. If you’re using your

position in Congress to uh advantage yourself at the expense of the many,

where is the penalty? They’ve got all sorts of immunities in place for themselves. I want to know who penalizes

these people. Who’s penalizing them right now for the delay on the Save Act?

Who’s penalizing them for all these budget reconciliation and no final budget? No congressman or senator should

be paid a dime until that budget is reconciled and balanced and adopted.

As an example, yeah, it would be amazing if that would happen. and balancing the budget is I

it’s just not it it’s not on their horizon at all even though it needs to be done because the government spending

the outofc control spending leads to inflation the the debt becomes a security risk for the country because

it’s such a massive amount of debt and and it’s just a dangerous situation but there is no accountability and there are

not people um in the lobbyists class, the lobbyist class who are advocating

for a balanced budget, advocating for less spending. Usually they actually advocate for more spending, advocating

for the Save America Act, advocating for for the things that the citizens actually want. And I think that it means it’s makes our job much more difficult.

But it also just shows our job is very very important because if it isn’t for groups like Tea Party Patriots, for

podcasters like you to be standing up and saying we are calling for for a balanced budget. We are calling for

government to to be more responsible with our dollars. We are calling for the government to weed out waste, fraud, and

abuse. There’s no accountability at least right now. There’s a little oversight from the voters.

You know, it was never intended that. In fact, I have the book. See if I can find it. Um, add it here. Yeah, here it is.

A conservative person by the name of Scott Walter. He wrote the book Arabella.

Arabella is a book he gave me last year. the dark money network of the leftist

billionaires secretly transforming America.

It goes on to talk about Bill Gates, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg.

The sheer quantity of money that has flowed through Arabella’s channels is staggering. In the 2020 election cycle,

Arabella’s nonprofits took in $2.4 4 billion, more than the fundraising of the

Democrat and Republican national committees combined. In the 2022 election cycle, Araba’s fundraising rose to $3 billion.

It goes on there.

It’s not unrelated to what you said a minute ago. The Virginia vote was funded by NOS, non-government organizations.

the NOS’s funded obsessively funded uh campaigns and

advertising and marketing to convince the citizen just go out and vote yes for this and the people didn’t know what

they were voting on and as a result they hurt themselves.

you. I It’s We need a constitutional amendment that denies this kind of money being used in the election process.

It’s an extension of the graft and the fraud and the abuse of the election process that’s plagued us in the news

media for the last decade, but more specifically the last four years. It’s been it’s been just um an abuse of the

system and and people who have been in office like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer,

Hakee Jeff, Jerry Nadler, uh or puppets like Eric Swallwell who’ve

been in term less um but being being abu being used by these by these uh people

are taking NGO monies to fund corrupt personal initiatives that promote their own interests at your expense and mine.

That’s where I hope our nation goes in the years ahead after Donald Trump. He set the stage. He certainly opened

Pandora’s box with the help of Elon Musk and the Doge Initiative uh to to uncover

this waste, fraud, and abuse. And I submit to you, I think there will be an uprising from America, which the

Constitution allows, if this Congress doesn’t get their act in place. I don’t want to hear about another congressman

talk about what Donald Trump’s doing in Iran if they don’t have the time, if they’re out on a vacation while he’s his

team’s working 24/7. They need to get back to the job, get to work, balance a budget, and put America’s priorities

first, not worrying about the next impeachment and Donald Trump.

Yes, that is exactly right. And you know, when you’re talking about the funding of the the groups on the left

and the NOS’s and nong non-government organizations, we also this week have

breaking news that the Southern Poverty Law Center received or went they took the donations

that they were receiving and went and paid to prop up white supremacist groups so they could complain about racism in

America when they were funding allegedly. So, it’s a real um it’s a

real issue when they’re they’re actually actively working against America America

like what we have seen allegedly from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

And the same thing happened just a few weeks earlier figuratively with Black Lives Matter being funded by similar

types of NOS’s. And now you have indictments on looming uh uh against some of the principles that were using

the money uh for self-purpose and not not for the greater good of the um of the discriminated black black folks and other minorities.

You know, we also saw this week that Congresswoman um Sheila Sherilis, I may be pronouncing her her name there wrong,

McCormack just resigned. Yeah. because she allegedly has uh taken COVID relief

money and and and took too too much too much money and and committed uh fraud from that.

She apparently Yeah, allegedly. Yeah. It hasn’t it I I’d like to see how that turns out.

That’s South Florida or mid mid Florida down near Helia. Uh but and you know I don’t know what it is that’s going on

but there seems to be an acknowledgment amongst the political circles that there was license to be able to go forward in this fashion abusing America’s money.

And um just think the what they hate about Donald Trump is that within the

executive authority, he uses the tariffs to manage the funding of all these things that he otherwise can’t get

Congress to meet to vote on through a budget process to get the funds from normally. He has to right

go out and do it outside the the scope of the budget reconciliation procedure through his administrative use of a

tariff to accomplish what we Americans are trying to accomplish. It’s it’s obscene. It’s not right that this has to

happen. I’m just wondering when are the American people going to rise up and do something about giving their own

congressman or woman a good spanking and to get back to work to get to to get a

balanced budget, install term limits, uh bud balanced budget, uh policy on the

border, uh a whole new immigration system. What are they picking on ice for? It’s the only thing left that’s

helping Donald Trump get these 20 million illegals out of the country.

It’s Well, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And the Democrats, they don’t want that to happen at all. They need those people in the country to affect

redistricting, to affect um first and foremost, it affects redistricting, so there’s an immediate

benefit for them. And then beyond that, they hope they’ll become Democrat voters and they don’t want to pass the Save

America Act, so they’re okay if they wind up on the voter roles and wind up casting ballots. It’s it it is

the the incentive the incentives are completely backwards. I want to go back to the congresswoman who who allegedly

mishandled uh COVID funds and I am sensitive to that. I understand we have

to be careful. People can be accused of crimes and and we’re um we’re talking about it and commentating on it, but we

also have a we have the rule of law and we have real trials in this country and and we have to be sensitive to that when

it comes to trials of public opinion versus trials in in a courtroom. The what I heard is that she received a

check. It was supposed to be for $50,000. $50,000.

And a decimal was off and wound up getting a check for $5 million.

So when I heard that, I my first thought wasn’t how she mis got a such a check and might have

misused used the funds. My first thought was how many other checks like that went out. How many other checks were wrong?

and and that that is something that in in the drama of of her situation, I think we’re not hearing enough about.

And yet, if Doge and Elon Musk were still able to do everything he was trying to do to clean up waste, fraud,

and abuse, I and there’s still cleanup of waste, fraud, and abuse going on even though Elon Musk is back to running his his other enterprises.

Th those are the kind of things we need to root out whether it’s in a state government because that check may have

come from a state government but the funds were coming from the federal COVID relief funds that went through the state

to to her or whether it’s from the federal government. We we need waste, fraud, abuse and also just human

error or computer error that creates problems like this. It needs to be cleaned up. That is so much money to have kind of the the dust mole wrong.

And also my dad told me a story growing up my whole life. I heard the story about how

he went with his dad and one of his brothers one time and and they went on a trip and while they they were at a gas

station, the clerk gave my grandfather a dime, 10 cents, too much money for

change. And my grandfather counted it out and he said, “Sir, you gave me um too much money. You gave me a dime too

much. Let me give that back to you.” because that’s the right thing to do.

When you’re keeping something that’s not yours and you know it’s not yours, that’s wrong. It’s stealing. It’s it’s

at the very least lies of omission. And later, years later, my family and I were

in Chicago um on a vacation, and my dad got a $10 bill back in change that was

too much. And he told the person who gave it to him, “You gave me too much.” And they were just all shocked. Well, I

gave that person $10 too much. Can you believe that? Annie gave it back. They were shocked that he would give it back.

But the fact is, if it doesn’t belong to you, you give it back. And if she actually got a check that was the wrong

amount of money from the government, she should have given it back to the government. It belongs to the taxpayers.

Yeah. She’s been accused of um of disguising the origin of the funds through financial transactions. Uh the

prosecutors are now alleging that money from federal emergency management FEMA intended for COA COVID related services

uh was improperly kept by her family’s health care comp. I mean there’s there’s a ton of accusations she’s now um uh

having to face. uh this month during this interview with you. She’s resigned from Congress, but she’s not out of the

woods. Uh Jenny, she’s got some serious uh criminal criminal and ethics allegations she’s going to have to face.

Um she pleaded not guilty, but she’s she’s going to have to defend them in a court of law. My problem also is I hope

the system moves expeditiously and um justice uh delayed is justice

sometimes denied and we need to make sure that we move the judiciary along

the whole judicial process and the prosecution as well. Sometimes, you know, the deep state folks are sweeping

stuff under the rug, hoping you and I forget about it and uh and that it’s overruled. It’s um overshadowed

by current events that come along the way. Uh you know, there’s all kinds of

House Ethics Committee dis disappearance of records that that

occurred. the special the special investigation. They were trying to go after Trump about uh the um uh Hunter

Biden laptop with the signatures from 50 officials in government. One of them former CIA director John Brennan. What

happened? What what’s what’s going on with the accusations and charges against him? uh uh a not one criminal

prosecution against what I will refer to as Biden administration conspira conspirists that have uh tried to take down Trump.

Now one prosecution has come forward to go after the wrongdoing. We’re stuck with a review of the FISA um uh rules

right now in Congress. But when will justice be served against all the people that have done wrong against not only

Donald Trump personally, not to mention his family, but um but to this nation.

Well, I think that that’s something that we continue to to wait on. And it alarms me that we hear from Democrats that if

they’re they’re reelected and they gain control of the White House again, they just want to come double down and come

after conservatives and Trump supporters. It’s it’s just not how our country is supposed to be operated. and and I try

to be I try and I’m only human so I will either make mistakes or just get it

wrong sometimes. Um but I try to be intellectually honest even with with this congresswoman. I’m acknowledging

that it’s alleged. I’m saying that she deserves her her fair her her fair time to defend herself and we have

presumption of innocence in this country and I do understand that. Um they they don’t the there are people on

the other side of the aisle who just want to weaponize the government, come after their political opposition and do

everything that they can to absolutely utterly and completely destroy the opposition so that they can hold on to power. And and that’s a lot of what

we’ve been talking about today. And and I think that’s also why they’re not giving President Trump a fair shake in

explaining what’s happening in Iran and helping explain that like the media doesn’t give him a a fair shake and it’s

not their job to to carry the water for him. But it would be the right thing to do especially when we’re dealing with

foreign adversaries and foreign enemies who wish to seek us dead that they give the president a fair shake. I listen to

you explain it that way and I’m reminded that there must be a deep state with uh

actors starting with the likes of a George Soros and others who push a

socialistic or Marxist initiative which is a form of communism and and that

there is this Kruef idea goes back to the days of Russia when uh Even even

Cruchef said, “Ah, sell America the ropes so they can hang themselves.”

And I think America needs to wake up and be responsible.

and the difference between America on this glorious day of 2026

where we’re celebrating the 250th anniversary of this nation. It didn’t succeed and stay in existence so long

because we always got it right. It succeeded because we had remedies in place when we got it wrong.

And I’m concerned that the things certain things that are going wrong right now are not being cured in a court

of law or otherwise. The people need to step up and take back their nation.

Look at this constitution and understand what it was designed to do. We have

amendments to the constitution that allow this beautiful document to be modified. I don’t I I reserve using the

word changed. Modified to for to to reflect the current status of things.

Our founding fathers didn’t know about the internet. They didn’t know about high-speed rail. They couldn’t fathom a

a spacecraft going around the the backside of the moon as we recently witnessed. And and so we must have a a a

document that’s uh elastic enough for change going forward. And

that’s what we must install if Congress won’t. We must penalize the actors in

government that have been working behind the scenes at cross purposes to hurt

this nation. And I think a lot of the I’m counting on Gen Z, Jenny. I think I

think they’re the new generation of folks that has to step up and do what uh let’s face it, you and I have not done

individually, not individually, but I mean as an as a generation, we need to step up and do what uh the likes of a

Ted Cruz is trying to do, the likes of a uh Senator Rick Scott. Uh, I could name

six more. Tom Cotton, a bunch of others that are great guys and gals in the House and in the Senate that are doing

their best to remedy the shortcomings of this nation. Uh, we’re going to be around another 250 years because the

system will not allow itself to fail. My concern today is we’re in for a little bit more of a bruising with 20 million

people that illegally came into this nation. Many of them the criminals and ilk from other nations that Joe Biden

allowed in are sleep are in your neighborhood and mine. Sleeper cells

that might evidence themselves in the future when we least expect it. That’s what’s concerning me today. we step up and cure this nation. We’re doing it.

Look at what Donald Trump is doing in his world. He’s doing it overseas because he can and everyone knows

Congress can’t stop him. But just think if he applied the same skill at helping us fix the Constitution and the and

Congress and and the judiciary, a judiciary. Can you believe that one person in particular cannot define what

the difference between a man and a woman? Um I is is so is so beyond my

comprehension. It it lends itself to a culture of what we’ve become that must be changed. Even our European allies

haven’t stepped up recently to be at our side when we were at theirs. uh we

didn’t need NATO and we didn’t need any unions in Europe and further east to be in an existence for America’s

benevolence to be seen. We’re doing it with Ukraine and they’re not in NATO. So we we

we’ve got a mixed bag of bad behavior out there that needs to be rectified.

Donald Trump did it overseas and he’s showing his successes. The question is, who will the next president be to

continue the remedies needed within the governance of the United States of America to to protect this nation and to

allow it to perpetuate itself. And that is where, as you said, we each as individual activists need to step up and

do what we can to preserve this country and to make sure that when we are electing the next people, whether it is this fall for the House and Senate and

other state and local races around the entire country or in 2028, as we look at who will be the next president and vice

president of our country, we are engaged and working to elect people who love the Constitution, cherish liberty, and want

to ensure that we have a debt-free future. Jean Valentino, thank you so much for joining me today.

What a pleasure. I look forward to doing it again. Thank you for having me.

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