The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - The Trump/Epstein Birthday Letter, Colbert FIRED & Obama's Gay Professor

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

The Wall Street Journal thinks they dropped a bombshell about Trump sending Jeffrey Epstein a 'bawdy' 50th birthday letter that sounds nothing like him. Dana does a dramatic soap opera reading of the fake letter. Dana reacts to CBS canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” altogether. What was behind this decision? H1D Federal police officers enraged anti-ICE agitators after using a Donald Trump impersonation voice to issue official orders to vacate ICE facility property. Barack Obama says young boys need a gay man in their life for guidance and that having only a father around isn’t enough. The author of the Wall Street Journal piece also published the Stormy Daniels story and has ties to Fusion GPS and the Steele Dossier. The Daily Beast takes issue with Trump saying he “decimated” Iran’s nuclear sites. Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia joins us to discuss New Yorkers feeling communism in New York, gerrymandered maps, Florida’s victories and more.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Angel Studioshttps://Angel.com/danaStream King of Kings, check out fan-picked shows, and claim your member perks.Allio CapitalDownload Allio from the App Store or Google Play, or text “DANA” to 511511 to get started today.All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Medical freedom is American freedom. Use code DANA10 to get 10% off your order.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off.Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANA.HumanNhttps://humann.comFind both the new SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews at Sam’s Club!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best.

And J.D. Vance, of all people, is saying, show us the letter, demanding to see the letter. Donald Trump did not dare to say, where is the letter in his social media post tonight, which occurred 40 minutes after J.D. Vance's social media post tonight. Donald Trump is not asking to see that letter. Donald Trump doesn't want you to see that letter. But J.D. Vance wants you to see that letter. if J.D. Vance creates a groundswell demand by more and more Trump supporters for the release

of that letter, that could do more damage to Donald Trump than anything that has ever happened to Donald Trump in his entire political career. And it's J.D. Vance who's doing this. Well, that's pretty. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life.

Wow. Oh, Stesbian O'Donnell. Yeah. Lawrence O'Donnell. Lawrence O'Donnell. He's, he's, I, I, that's one of the dumbest things I've heard, and that has to do with that story, which we're going to dive into. That's hit last night. Was it last night yesterday evening?

Yeah. Is when it happened. And it ended up, well, dominated the news cycle. And then, of course, we have this story, which we're going to talk about coming out of L.A. today, that explosion, which we'll touch on here in a moment. But that, he's in MSNBC, right? So how does Stephen Colbert get canceled and not him? I mean, how does, how does Stephen Colbert, well, Stephen Colbert didn't get canceled, he got fired. But how does Lawrence O'Donnell stay on television and Stephen Colbert? I mean, they're both horrible. I guess my question is I don't

understand how any of them stay on TV. I'm for equality. Let's fire them both. Yeah, it's not high quality at all. Not at all. So, welcome to the show, Dana Lash with you. That was, oh gosh, I'm sorry to drop him on you

like that, but there it is. So this is some of the latest in this whole saga, the whole letter saga, that we're supposed to believe is this letter from

Donald Trump First off, before I dive into it, when was this supposed to have been sent? Because it was Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday. So if you're just following along with us, if you're just joining us, let me get it set up, and then we're going to dive in. So the facts of the matter of this,

they're saying, and by they, I mean the Wall Street Journal, is saying that Donald Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a letter for his 50th birthday. And it was part of this effort to that Jolaine Maxwell orchestrated where they were having all of Jeffrey Epstein's friends send him these like letters that she put into, she scrapbook that she put into a giant book and presented to Epstein for his 50th birthday. So I don't know how long ago he turned 50.

So I'm just trying to understand. Don't show it yet. Don't show yet. I'm just trying to understand, you know, I don't, I don't know how long it, how long ago it was. was it he turned 50. So it's been some time. That's my point. It's been some time, Kane. So, like, I don't know if it was, you know, maybe the 90s or whatever. But anyway, so the letter, it wasn't like a typical letter. It was a drawing of, this is what the Wall Street Journal says. Okay, bear in mind. It's what they say. It was the drawing of a naked lady. And the naked lady drawing,

and then it had like dialogue over it, which we'll get into. And the Wall Street Journal came out and said that this is a real thing. It's a real letter. Now, they didn't show you anything. We don't know what it looks like because the Wall Street Journal just said that they saw it. They didn't publish the letter. They didn't publish the drawing that this dialogue was over, right? So they were hinting around all day yesterday.

And then today's Friday. So Wednesday evening, there was this, all this buzz that was on social media. Like, oh, it looks like, oh, we hear that somebody's working on a piece about Epstein and Trump. And that's, I mean, I kept hearing about that over and over again. Somebody's working on this piece about Jeffrey Epstein and Trump. And they were really drip, drip, dripping it out there, right? And then we heard, oh, there's good, there's there could be a letter. And we started hearing this like yesterday after I got off air, right? And then the Wall Street Journal, they first, someone tweeted out an excerpt of the Wall Street Journal piece that wrote about this, this thing that that Trump sent, it was said to have sent Epstein. Right. And so it, they didn't, again, they didn't show it. We didn't see it. And Kane just to confirm to the audience. that that is correct. We didn't see it. We have no idea if that's what the letter says or not.

True. It was just the Wall Street Journal said they saw it and this is what it is. Correct? Okay. I want to make sure I'm not misleading anyone here. Okay. Now, again, it wasn't a letter. It was a drawing of apparently a naked lady. And should we read it? I mean, do we read it? We read it. I feel like we do. did feel like I promised everybody that we were going to have a dramatic rating of this. It does deserve some theater. It does deserve a little bit of theater. I mean, there's nothing in it that's, what would you say? There's nothing in it that's like nasty. There's nothing. I wrote about it at substack. So if you're over at substack, you, again, you're one of the subscribers who did the right thing and subscribed so you get all of this in advance. Yeah, there's nothing nefarious, nothing dark about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like, you know, when they say body, I think they're talking about the letter. So this is what it said. So again, imagine there's a drawing of a naked lady. I'm sorry. And this was what was put over it. And this is just our imagination, by the way, of what it will look like. This is what was over it. So you can imagine. Voiceover, there must be more to life than having everything. This is how the note begins. Donald. Yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey, nor will I, since. I also know what it is. Donald.

We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey. Yes, we do come to think of it. Donald. Enigmas never age. Have you noticed that? Jeffrey. As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.

Donald, a pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday. And may every day be another. wonderful secret. And that is a pal is a wonderful thing presented by the Dana show, a dramatic reading.

So can I be really, I don't want to make anybody mad. And we'll, you know, we'll have to revisit the letter again. I don't want to make anybody mad. But POTUS, the guy who writes in caps lock,

the guy who botches his own name in tweets, the guy who says things like cofefefefe. and says unprecedented P-R-E-S-I-D-N-T-E-D for

unprecedented P-R-E-C E-D-E-N-T-E-D. You did that? Yeah. And mixes up T-O and T-O-O you're trying to tell me that he wrote that? I don't believe you.

I don't believe it. And I'm not making fun of him. I do not believe that that the same guy who wrote the tweet about Barney Frank, quote, looking disgusting, nipples protruding in his blue shirt before Congress. Very disrespectful.

He wrote that on December 21st of 2011. By the way, yes, Barney Frank's nipples were protruding. If you're going to wear a slim, like a loose fit t-shirt like that with a thin material and you're a man with mobs, you need a brazier. Ask your wife. I'm not dogging on Trump.

I'm merely remarking about how big of a man. mental abortion it is to actually believe that he wrote this letter. I do not believe that he wrote this letter. You will have to, the only way that I would believe that Trump wrote this letter is if you took me in a time machine back in time and you literally sat me next to Trump at the desk where he's writing this letter, actually typing it out because it was typewritten, or at least dictating it to a secretary who then typed it over the naked lady drawing. I do not believe it. He doesn't say enigma.

Okay? This is so stupid. And the Wall Street Journal is like, oh my gosh, guys. They think that you're, they just, nobody buys this anymore. We got to have receipts. I am not going to buy. Well, so and so said that they saw a letter that Trump supposedly wrote Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, do you have the letter?

Can we read it? No, but what we'll do is reprint it for you. Wait a minute. What? Yes, and there's a naked lady drawing too. Oh, because you're a newspaper and you're about gathering news, are you going to show the readers this? No, we're going to write about it in a 5,100,000-per trillion capillian article

and describe it in detail but not actually show you. I mean, nothing's preventing us from showing you. We're just not going to do it. Is this the evidentiary standard now when approaching news pieces came? Well, I mean, it is our media. think back to the Malaysian flight when the news reported that

one of the crew members' names or the crew members' names were Wee Too Low? And some Ting Wong. Some Ting Wong. Yes, but this is the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal is writing this. And I'm, and, you know, I think in some ways this is incredibly

it can be even more nefarious than like MSNBC because with MSNBC and CNN, like we came in with Lawrence O'Donnell, right? Who was like, well, J.D. Vens probably leaked this letter because he went Trump out of the way. Shut up. But you expect this from MSNBC and CNN, right? It's like if you walk at night down an unlit alley in New York, in Chicago, you expect to get shanked. You know what I mean? Like, so you just don't go down that alley. You know what I'm saying? Like, you just don't do that. Like, if you, you know, if you watch the view,

you're going to feel horrible because it is... The view. Yeah, it's, I mean, the view is like an avatar for raging menopause. So you're going to feel horrible watching it. You know what you're going to get. You know what I'm saying? So with MSNBC and CNN, my point is, is that you know what you're going to get when you tune into them.

The Wall Street Journal still puts out some very competent pieces. So that kind of muddies the water when they then publish something like this. this is asinine first off that's not a letter it's a script over a naked lady and i i need to see the naked lady i'm sorry i got to see it if trump drew it i need to see it to make an assessment okay well won do you have it i mean this is what we think it is wait we had to censor that yeah you cannot show cartoon boobs cane i thought you could just note i mean and again this is probably what the wall street journal has the happy birthday written in an entirely different pen than his signature but that's okay you know

know, we're just imagining. And then you have the script, the script over it. And that's apparently what, this is, somebody in the newsroom greenlit this. Like an editor was like, this is good to run. And then another editor was like, I agree with you, editor Bob. This is good to run. Thanks, editor Jim. You're welcome, editor Bob. Editor Jim, let's go ahead and take this to the copy editor. Great job, editor Bob. And then they go and then they load it into the digital dashboard of their online edition and they're like, this is journalisming. And then they try to give each other a high five, but they miss because they're stupid. And then it's like the Russian P tape and then the Trump Tower story and then the baking story and then the New York case. Like every single time they do this,

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Senator Adam Schiff was my guest. We harmonized on Seven Bridges Road. What a voice, I cried. But before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night. Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the late show in May. And, yeah, I share your feelings.

It's not your. just the end of our show, but it's the end of the late show on CBS. I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away. Yay. Golly. So everyone, so Stephen Colbert announced last night that, as you heard, he's not going to be, this next season is his last season, right? He's not going to be coming back. He's not going to be doing his Colbert show, which I've never watched. He literally took the Dave Letterman time slot and made it a giant. Bryant.

Ruined it. Yeah, he ruined it. He trashed. He just completely destroyed it. Although Letterman, you know, NBC Letterman was better than CBS Letterman. Letterman, let's be honest. It was. Let's, you know, so it wasn't, yeah.

But anyway, he ruined it. He completely ruined whatever was left of it. And just by being such a bitter B. I mean, he wasn't funny. He's not funny. That was even not funny. I have not, the only time I ever saw him when he was funny was like, way back when he was first getting started on the Daily Show with John Stewart.

And that was before he became obsessed with being a leftist. And he was funny then. And he was more lighthearted. And then that lightheartedness went away. And he became like an empty husk, an empty desiccated husk of what he was of a person. And he was so bitter and filled with rage all the time. He just, it looks like there's just like a river of rage that's just, you know, right underneath the surface. And he's, it was just, he became obsessed. And he didn't just become obsessed with being leftist. He became obsessed with being nasty about it.

And he mistakenly assumed that the more ignorant or the, the more, uh, rude one is about a political issue, the funnier it is, that that makes it funny. and that that somehow was a substitute for clever humor. As you know, it is not. And he now finds that out. I keep seeing that people say that he was canceled. And he wasn't canceled. And we'll talk about that in a minute. But people aren't attracted to audio soundbite 8.

Stuff like this. This is flashback Colbert. This is just not attractive. Listen. Sir, they're not whole countries. For one, Donald Trump isn't. their president. He just insulted everyone in his audience and they clap

like seals. They clap like seals. Or this, audio sound bite nine. Flashback. Again, flashback, Colbert. This is all his show is anymore. It would be, it would be my honor to say it to your face. Just walk a little closer to your TV screen, please. Just a little close

to your TV screen. Let me just get our up here and go, you Donald Trump are a horrible, horrible human being. That is it. This is not funny. That is not funny at all whatsoever. People are just applauding the fact that he is confirming their bias.

They're not applauding him because he's clever. They're not applauding him because anything that he said is funny. They're just applauding him because he thinks like they do. That's why they're rewarding him. And the way that the left puts it, they're acting like this is that Colbert is being taken off air because he dared to criticize the president. This is actually what Brian Stelter was saying. via CNN last night. Audio sum by 10. This is what he's arguing.

Right from the optics standpoint, the timing could not be worse for CBS. Colbert is such an outspoken Trump critic. He's just back from vacation. And as he showed there on Monday, on his first night back from vacation, he's also a thorn in his parent company's side. So this looks to a lot of Colbert's fans like another form of capitulation by CBS to the president of the United States. Yeah, but it wasn't. And of course, this is after, you know, the CBORs. CBS and ABC Trump settlements because the CBS 60 Minutes, remember they had to pay 16 million and they were essentially helping to finance the future library and pay his legal fees.

That was part of his lawsuit settlement because remember going back all the way to the election, you had this Kamala Harris interview that, you know, they violated federal election law. their own laws that they came up with, they violated and they get in trouble with. Paramount was, which owns CBS, they were the ones, $16 million to settle that 60 Minutes lawsuit. And I think that was what announced at the first of the year. So the argument that the left is trying to make is that because of that, Paramount, which owns CBS, is trying to make sure that nobody criticizes Trump. And so that's why Colbert was pulled.

but it wasn't. As Fortune points out, Colbert was canceled days after he went after his bosses over the Trump settlement. And this is, this was just actually this morning announcing that CBS was canceling the late show, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then they get into how he had gone on publicly to criticize Paramount, to criticize their, they're settling with Paramount to criticize all of that. And you, I mean, he went after, it was described as withering criticism. He told his audience that, well, the audience that was watching him at the time, he was, he was, he was critic, he was talking to Adam Schiff, he was criticizing him, criticizing Paramount, criticizing the settlement. And, uh, you can't do that. Can I just say that you can't, in any profession, go after your bosses, right?

Can you, I want, in your workplace, can you go and trash your boss's moves without any penalty? If you are, you know, if you work in a design firm, can you criticize your bosses for their decisions or for company moves publicly? Can you do that anywhere else? I mean, I don't know why people are saying that this is cancellation. And the left is saying, oh my gosh, the right canceled Colbert. Even some people on the right are saying, yes, Colbert was canceled. And he wasn't canceled. That's like such a, I talked about this on X this morning.

He wasn't canceled. You can't, that's kind of, you can't, you can't criticize your bosses like that. He criticized them publicly. That's insubordination. We are all, all of us. We are all eligible to meet the same penalty. If I went out and I started trashing Radio America, guess what? There's a penalty for that.

Every employment agreement that I have ever had, and you can't tell me that Colbert does not have an employment agreement, every employment agreement that I've ever had, a condition of continued employment is that you don't go and trash your bosses. you don't go and trash your company. That's boilerplate in any employment agreement. He goes out and he's trashing his bosses. Now, Paramount didn't come out and say this is explicitly why, but this comes literally days after he was doing this. Furthermore, I don't know if you've seen his ratings lately. His ratings are horrific. His show was performing so horribly and his ratings had declined so badly that there was just no way to justify the ad rates for keeping him in his

day part. There wasn't. There was no, there's no reason why he needed, I mean, he, it's not canceling to remove poorly performing talent. That's business. And by the way, all of this information is public. You know what I was thinking about like the, the, the realm of tonight show. shows, whether it's, you know, like Jay Leno or Johnny Carson or whatever, I really feel like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel particularly killed it. They killed the late night shows. They killed them. Jimmy Fallon started coming close. Remember when they started getting a little political back in like 2012 and then they pulled it back or 2013 they pulled it back. And then he kind of stayed true. It's supposed to be lighthearted. It's supposed to do.

be fun. People are getting ready to get a bet. They don't want to have like a debate over, a hateful debate over serious issues, right? So Fallon, I think, I feel like he kind of kept to that form. But I don't think Craig Ferguson did. And by, and I'm not, I'm sorry, I'm not interested in, in a person who is not a citizen of this country, uh, who comes over to the United States and starts like waxing political about our system, you know, and it's kind of hard to take, you know, he has a very thick brogue to hear him criticize different aspects of the political system in this, in these United States. You know what I mean? It's like, come on.

But Kimmel and Colbert were so hateful and have been so hateful. Nobody wants to tune in anymore. It's like having an uncle that always complains and is on the other side of you politically, always complains, is always hateful, is always wanting to debate at the most inappropriate times. It's like that they bring that energy to this. But the right needs to stop saying that the guy was canceled. Stop it.

This is accountability. Let the left whine about it. That's not what cancellation is. He wasn't canceled because he went a foul of society. He was fired because he criticized his bosses and he was doing a bad job. And his show was performing poorly. That is not cancellation. That is accountability.

There is a major difference. Let's not confuse the two just for the sake of using and a misapplied buzzword. But I don't know who goes in that spot. I don't know if you can. I mean, is it a generational thing? like late night's television. My grandparents loved it. They loved the late night.

They would watch Johnny Carson. Tonight show. Yeah, the Tonight Show. And then Jay Leno took over, when did he take over in the 80s sometime? I don't know. I only remembered kind of Johnny Carson. I remember Jay Leno back when his hair was mostly dark.

I remember Jay Leno. But I don't think Gen X really watched late night TV. And I definitely don't think that Gen Z does. I think Gen X may have watched it just because, you know, when I'm up late, didn't want the parents knowing. I'd watch that show, you know what I mean, as a kid. But that's been an institution for American television since like the 50s or 60s. It's like a water cooler thing. Yeah, it's just a funny, nice little time slot for everyone to settle their lives down before they go to bed.

Yeah. And by water cooler moment, I mean, there were certain shows that everybody, no matter where they were politically, would watch. and I had always said, I think Game of Thrones was the last program that was like that, where everybody would watch it and then they would all talk about it, regardless of political affiliation, belief, or whatever the next day. It was like one of the things that everybody actually could talk about, you know, nicely, a water cooler topic. Like you go to the water cooler at work and, you know, that comes up and you talk, you know,

it's a stereotype. It's still a stereotype for a reason. Before everybody started siloing themselves off with conservative media and progressive media and conservative networks and progressive networks and conservative newsletters and progressive networks. It's, you know, one of those things that everybody could access, everyone did, and then they could all talk about it.

It was a unifying thing. It was like one of the threads that still kind of kept everything together. And these guys killed it. They killed it. And they also didn't like push things for virality the way Fallon did. Fallon did like little cuty segments

with different people with different guests and they knew how to cut those up and put them out digitally. And so his show grew, whereas these guys just, thought they could sit behind their desk and bitch and moan about Trump and Republicans 24-7, and that was going to be enough to satiate the audience or to get new viewers. And it clearly wasn't. Now, coming up, Trump has lost it. He lost his temper. He had every right to. He wrote,

he told the Wall Street Journal, quote, I never wrote a picture of my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language. It's not my words. I'm going to sue the Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else. And now he's also saying he's going to go after the Murdox. So we're going to discuss all of this coming up. There's a lot to hit. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program. It's always good to have options and diversify your weapons array.

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This is restricted area. This is hysterical. So they're playing Trump's recorded voice outside of this detention center. And he has like several. It's like it's not his voice. What is it? It was like a voice actor. Was it?

I don't think it was AI generated. Yeah, I think it was AI. I was it? I was like, was it? I was it. I was like, was it? It was funny. But it was funny.

And they were outside of this detention center playing. this and they were they it was federal police officers versus the anti-ice agitators that were near a detention center because the anti-ice people wouldn't leave they were disrupting they were causing problems etc and so these uh federal officers I thought that was hysterical they were playing this they were playing that recording and it made them so mad that's it is amazing how quickly you can trigger someone on the left just know that the more of the more emotional a person is, and this doesn't mean you have to be robotic. But if you are emotional and you emotionally react, you are easy to manipulate. It is an absolute weakness. And these people are so

easy to manipulate. And just keep that in mind. Whenever you're in a situation, especially if you're debating somebody, do not be emotional because you immediately lose the second you are. The second you are. I mean, I know a little bit of something about this. So, you know, you can't be emotional about it. Sure, you want to be, but I always think winning is more important than flexing emotions. So the goal is to win, correct? Not to show everyone how mad you are. People obviously know that you're mad. But you don't need to make a theatrical performance of it.

Save the theater for the left. Let them do that. By the way, can I just ask, where do they get all their little helmets? Notice how they all have the theme. It's like they were all at camp. Like loser camp. Got our little black backpacks. and we're all in our little black outfits

and we all have a little black helmet. Just mystery delivery vans that show up at locations. Yeah. And that's what it is. I've seen it on video. And they all hop out like a clown car? It's like equipment is in these trucks and they're handing out the equipment to these people.

What equipment do they need? They need helmets, trash can lids. They have all kinds of things that they hand out to these people. Losers. I just never understood that. And did you see all of them? Like they couldn't crush a grape and a fruit fight. bless their hearts. All right, so coming up, Trump says, not only is he going to, he's looking

to see the Wall Street Journal, but now he's talking about going after the Murdox. He's mad over the saying that he never wrote this letter, et cetera. But then the left is going, well, then why did you not want to release this? I don't think Trump ever said that he didn't want to release it. Now, I disagreed with him when he was telling people to get over it. I thought that was wrong. And I'm going to call balls and strikes continually. And people can get mad. You know, just remember, don't idolize any kind of politician because that's, you know, when you idolize a politician, that's the same as believing the stripper likes you. Stop it.

So this idea that, you know, he went out and said that he was never going to release. And he never said that he was never going to not release anything. Where did that come from? Like that started becoming a talking point from the left yesterday. No, now he's saying, yeah, we're going to unseal the grand jury documents. What? Stick with us. Our partners for this portion of our program.

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And then that boy may need somebody to give the boys some perspective on the dad. Yeah. One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out of life, who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and kindness. And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or what have you.

They have somebody that they can go, okay, I'm not alone in this. Yeah. Right. So why are you gay? So Barack Obama says young boys need a gay dudes in their lives. And that interview, was that his wife's podcast that he was on? I think so. Everybody's doing a podcast.

Kill me. It's like everyone, I mean, the world's going to be full of podcasts and no listeners. Welcome to the show. our radio broadcast. You can watch the radio broadcast on Channel 347 Direct TV. You can also find the chat at Rumble, X, Facebook, YouTube, all that good stuff. So, what? Did I just hear? What did I just hear? He says that, well, they need, you know, because having a dad isn't enough. I think having a mom and a dad is like enough. I mean, that's, you know, that's completely enough. You don't, you don't need. You don't need. anything else from that. It was a so Michelle Obama and her is it her twin brother it's like her bald.

I've never seen two siblings look more like than Michelle and Craig Robinson. Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson her brother. I have never seen two siblings look more like in my ever-loving life. Did you Google it? I did. And? Kane? Yeah. It does look like Mike. Michelle. So the her podcast is called emo, IMO. In my opinion, super, super, super, um, original. But they had an hour long discussion about how boys need gay dudes to provide perspective. And then he talked about the gay guy that had, uh, influence on him when he was at accidental college.

Um, just saying, just saying. Uh, I don't know. It was, didn't he also talk about having a gay liaison when he was in college? I'm just like, I just remember there was so much stuff that was happening, like so many things that were flying around at the time. This is not going anywhere. Well, you know what I mean?

It's Friday. Stop it. All of you need Jesus. Anyway, he thinks that gay men help boys develop emotional awareness. What is emotional awareness? I hate these stupid buzzwordy phrases. I'm just like,

it sounds like like the Kylie Jenner thing. It's me and my friends. We're just like realizing things. We're just like realizing emotions. You know, we're like aware of them. What does that even mean? Our society is full of just stupid buzzword, all of it. Yeah, we need to develop emotional awareness and empathy in a broader perspective.

That's what they need. I don't know. They just need a mom and a dad and to stop doing social experiments on them. Let them be kids. You know, Malik Obama, Barack Obama's brother, said that he was definitely gay in July 2023. He posted it on X. Why are you gay? He said he was absolutely definitely.

I'm just saying, me, or he was his brother. I don't know. Maybe, instead of saying specifically a gay dude, why can't you just have like a man that understand, like a compassionate male figure? And that could be anybody, not necessarily. a gay dude. You know, being gay is not synonymous with being compassionate. There are a lot of absolute blank holes out there that are gay dudes. Marxist gay dudes are the worst. Right? And then there are some that lean conservative and they're not like that. But what, it's not synonymous with being

gay is not synonymous with being compassionate. And I feel like for someone who, you know, brags about how educated he is, that's a nuance that he would have been aware of before he's, you know, he's, decided to talk about it mistakenly for an hour on his wife's podcast. It's just so weird. This whole conversation is so weird. They just need basically it all boils down to Barack Obama going, well, boys just need nice people in their lives. That's it. You need to have a male and a female. That's pretty much it. I think God had it pretty much in order when he was like, we're going to give you a mom and a dad. That's pretty much how it's covered. There you go. I don't know. A lot of people think Obama's gay.

And he had kids with, unless I see evidence to the contrary, and I'm not really all that interested in it. He's, it's, it's not going to make him a better president if he is or isn't. It's not going to make, I mean, you can't get pretty, you cannot get any worse than what he was as a president. So you're like, well, and he was gay. Like, well, he was already a horrible president. He ruined health care. They took health care, ripped the face off of it, defecated in the skull, put the face back on, and send it out to the world. That's what they did with Obamacare. That's what Obama cares.

Did you know that? Dana, why do you speak in such terms? I guess I didn't have a gamey on my life. I don't know. I mean, you see how goofy this is? This is so goofy. It's also sounds like you need a babysitter in order to raise your child the way that the leftists want you to raise your child. It's nanny stateism.

And I just also have a major problem with anyone. If you have a problem with your family, I always think you find the solution within your family. You don't go outside of it. Like if you're a kid and you need, you know, parental help, you know, or you, you need, you know, you don't go and seek strange gay men for influence. That sounds like it's going to start off badly, right? It's like, oh, we've got to get this young boy some influence in his life. We need to find a nice gay man. Let's go find him a nice gay man to get him some, you know, Steve, you're not doing this to me right now. No, you're not. What were you? Do you?

I do recommend against it, but I just want to make that public. I'm just going to state. I'm not going to say it. What? No, I'm not going to talk about it. It has to do. Steve, what did you say on break? Where did this go?

Well, we said, everybody needs a gay man in their life. And then I said, what kind of gay man? There's more than one time. Yeah. And Steve was throwing up twink and then bear. And I have... Different directions. Yeah, I have a very interesting story in how I learned what a bear was.

that's not an animal in the woods. And it is, it's like a burbs, like Tom Hanks and the Burbs. It's kind of like that. It's like basically in that vein. It really is. And I'm the Bruce Stern character. It was pretty much just like that. They got out of the brunt!

It came with the frame. I don't really want to tell the story because there's certain things you just don't know if you want to risk virality with it. You know, it's one of those situations. Are you encouraging me? Should I wait till the third hour? No, I'm saying I know it's Friday and everything. Don't get tempted.

Okay. Okay. If you're really on that side of the fence. Well, Steve brought it up and he literally said in Slack, explain your bear twink story. So there's my story. I explained it. Are you outing me?

Huh? Are you outing me live on air? Juan and Juan just adds, I am today years old. I don't think I've fully learned what it is. The bear? Yeah. That's like the gay dudes that we're playing. lad and they're big.

I see. They're like more of the... Lumberjackie? Yeah, like if Paul Bunyan was gay. Oh. That would be... Okay, that'd be a bear. And I think and you could tell me, Dana, I think that the stereotype

is applicable to like the hypermasculine, like gay dudes, which I don't think like being a lumberjack is hyper masculine. It's just you're just a dude. But I do think that there's like a uniform with it. Oh, I know there's a uniform with it because there are literal patches that go with it. And I really don't want to explain how I learned that. It's one of the craziest stories ever. It beats the time that I got literally into a slap fight with a chimpanzee. And the time that I got into a fight with goats.

I mean, it's all animals that I fought. Anyway, so that's it. We're just going to leave that on the table. There you go. So, Moving on. If I'm a listener, I'm feeling really cheated right now. Do not do this. Do not. It is, you can, once the story's out there, it never goes back. I didn't do anything wrong.

I was just, sometimes you're really, you're like, am I innocent or naive? You know, like, have you ever been in a position where you're like, am I just that innocent or am I just super naive? And you just, it's possible to be both. Sounds like a Lannis Morse set lyric. Oh my gosh, where she thought mistakenly that something was ironic and it was just a bad coincidence. Okay, so we got to move on here because I can't. We can't do this.

Oh, my gosh. All right. So where do we go from here? Oh, my gosh. Audio. Somebody. Audio. So, oh, yeah, I'm not playing the game of 14 questions with them.

I still can't believe that she is. How many times does she do this podcast, Michelle Obama? She, like, pitched and moaned about having to do stuff in the White House. And now she's still doing stuff that's like kind of White House related because she's still talking about politics. I thought she hated this. Right? Good night. All right. So, okay, a couple of other things that we need to hit because we got to move on here. Audio, let's see, audio sound bite. Four. This is Kevin McCarthy, right? Kevin McCarthy, talking about these, because we've got to talk about the Epstein stuff, these Epstein files.

He said Democrats never asked about them when he was House later. Listen. Was this something the Democrats were clamoring for? when you were speaker? Never once. They never asked about it. They tried to hide from it. You know, they've got nothing going. It shows in the poll. They have no leader.

They have no message. They have no policy. So they're lashing at this. But what I love, even watching CNN... They didn't ask about it because they didn't want it to be asked about. Let me tell you something. Here's some of the fun stuff.

If you want to learn something about the latest with Epstein, this Epstein letter. So the Wall Street Journal reporter, that was behind it, per intelligence, sir, also was behind the Stormy Daniels, the fake reporting about Stormy Daniels also. And real clear politics broke the story just earlier about how this same reporter who wrote this story with the letter in the Wall Street Journal, this guy, his only prior reporting experience was with an entity called Maine Justice. Maine Justice is owned by Mary Jacoby, who's married to Glenn Simpson.

How do we know Glenn Simpson? Because Glenn Simpson founded and runs Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS is the entity that Hillary Clinton and the DNC, their law firm Perkins Coe, hired to basically launder oppo through the press so that they could get a wiretap. They produced the steel dossier that was central to the Russian collusion hoax. And Simpson and his wife also both worked for the Wall Street Journal before he launched. Fusion GPS and she launched Main Justice. So you tell me that's not shady as I'll get out.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right, all right, all right. So I messed up, so I got to go back to my 11 o'clock headlines here. Puerto Rico law is now criminalizing hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery for transgender. For people who are pretending to be transgender under age of 21, this is huge because their bodies aren't even developing. It's so incredibly important that we're not doing this hormonal abuse to people whose bodies are still developing. The governor of Puerto Rico signed a bill that prohibits this hormone therapy and gender affirming surgeries.

The governor is getting a lot of criticism. Jennifer Gonzalez approved the law late Wednesday. A lot of similar legislation has passed across the United States. So it applies to people younger than 21 calls for 15 years in prison for any violators, as well as a $50,000 penalty and the revocation of all licenses and permits of medical staff. Perfect. So congrats to the governor of Puerto Rico. That is huge. Also, the number of first-time homebuyers is plummeting. This is bad, bad news, and it's bad for the U.S. economy. Data shows that the number of first-time homebuyers has dropped. Younger people are feeling locked out. But they're also not embracing it like older generations did. So it's a one-two punch. It's not just that they're being locked out. They're also not pursuing homeownership. in the same way that previous generations have done so. The consequences of having fewer first-time homebuyers will obviously have a major negative impact on the economy.

And people who make up the largest point, it said, all prices store during the pandemic, they came back down, but still, it hasn't corrected that. Gen Z, though, over millennials, Gen Z at first, three out of four Gen Zers reviewing renting a home as a smarter move than buying one because apparently they don't understand equity. So hopefully that'll change if we have a little bit more financial literacy out there. Coca-Cola is not quite sure that they're giving up fructose for cane sugar, but they did say that they appreciated POTUS's enthusiasm for their product. You put sugar in it, I may not drink code zero. Steve Miller canceled all their band, their tour dates because of weather disasters, which is code

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Once you unleash this idea that it's okay to use political violence and threats of violence, it doesn't end up discriminating just against one party. Judges are getting threatened. City councilmen are getting threatened. Like the leftist, Judge? Like the leftist. And so this is all part of this quite deliberate campaign to frighten people into submission. And the only way to push back on that is to say,

piss off. Piss off. So I don't even why? What gets me about all of this stuff is that of course they're saying this and I don't, it's Adam Schiff who was on Cobar's, you know, now

canceled show because he got fired. But only Democrats could say this about a guy who a leftist tried to kill not once but twice who they're saying this about a guy leftist after a leftist tried killing a judge after another leftist tried killing a senator beating him up trying to

beating him to death broke ribs i mean after we've had leftist burned down cities attack ice agents i could go on and on um what in the world maybe it's your rhetoric adam schiff maybe that's part of the problem here welcome back to the program danel lash with you i was talking about this before we went to a break before headlines. So the reporter that's behind this Wall Street Journal letter, right? Letter. Why do we keep calling it a letter?

What would you call it, Kane? It's not a letter. It was like, they said it was a drawing of a naked lady and then there was typed over it a script. I call it a fake birthday card. Yeah, whatever. Anyway, the guy behind the story on it, Wall Street

Journal wrote the story and they're like, yeah, we've seen it, but we're not going to show it to you. He's the guy who also is behind the ridiculous stormy Daniels reporting that was all BS2. His name is Joe Palazolo. Joe Palazzozo is his name. Joe Palazzo has only worked for one other entity before he started at the Wall Street Journal. It's kind of weird because Wall Street Journal, you know, I think it can be more dangerous than MSNBC or CNN because they, they, they

published some legitimate things, but then they also publish garbage like this. This Joe Pazzo, uh, how do I say? What was his name again? Joe Palazolo. So this Joe Palazzoal guy, the only other place that he worked before the Wall Street Journal, and this is very unusual, is a place called Maine Justice. At least on his online biography, that is the only other thing that he put on there before Wall Street Journal.

Now, Maine Justice was an entity that was founded by Mary Jacoby. Oh, Mary Jacoby also used to work for the Wall Street Journal. Then she left and created Maine Justice. Oh, okay. Who's Mary Jacoby married to? Her husband is named Glenn Simpson. His name will sound familiar to you. He also, by the way, used to work at Wall Street Journal before then he left and then started Fusion GPS.

Fusion GPS, yes, Fusion GPS, the exact same entity that was hired by Hillary Clinton and the DNC through their law firm, Perkins Coe. And they got a major trouble because they violated federal election law with us. they had hired through Perkins Cooey Fusion GPS to launder oppo to have it come out like real stories in the press and then they took those stories as evidence even though it was all their own opposition that they fed to reporters and then reporters would cleanse it by repurposing the information, rewriting the information and slapping their byline on it. And then Fusion GPS, that's what they were orchestrated in doing. They threw their connections at the DOJ because you had Nellie Ower who works at Fusion GPS.

Her husband Bruce Ower is high ranking at DOJ. Nellie gave this stuff to Bruce, who gave it then took it to the FBI and then they went to the FISA court and were able to bypass all of the safeguards for American citizens against being wrongly surveilled and wiretapped, they bypassed all of that and were able to get a surveillance warrant on political enemies. So that's why you've heard of Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS also, they should be arrested for not being Farah agents. They're foreign, for not properly filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. And I say that because they represented the interest of a number of Russian oligarchs, like actual Russian oligarchs,

back some time ago, a guy named Magnitsky had uncovered that these oligarchs were embezzling, laundering money, all kinds of stuff, and he blew the whistle on it. Sanctions then were applied by the U.S. government against these oligarchs, and for that, they killed this Magnitsky guy. So then you had the Magnitsky Act, and that's the law of the sanctions against these oligarchs. Fusion GPS was hired by these oligarchs to lobby lawmakers to get that act repealed. And in fact, the head lobbyist. for that operation, Natalia Levitskaya, was also deployed to try to entrap Donald Trump Jr.

In that case where they were supposed to be talking about adoption at the Trump Tower, and Trump Jr. actually never met with her. But she fabricated this thing that they did, and that was another fake story that they came out with. And for whatever reason, you can have people, although Paul Manafort has other things that he's guilty of, one of his convictions was for not registering as a foreign agent. And he, they said he violated the he violated phara well fusion GPS is doing the exact same thing but see it's d different so that's why fusion GPS sounds familiar to you so back to joe paula he worked with uh main justice owned by and created by mary jacobi whose husband's glen simpson who founded

fusion GPS after he also left wall street journal so joe palazzo paola leaves main justice goes to the wall street and writes the story about the Epstein birthday letter. So Joe Polizola won a Pulitzer Prize for his bunk reporting because they reward each other for doing good operative work. He's not a journalist. He's a political operative. Don't ever mistake those. Like Stephanopoulos is a political operative. There are certain people that never stop being political operatives.

And you can sit here and say, yeah, they can read the copy as good as anybody else sitting behind the news desk. But they're still political operatives. It doesn't matter that this guy is a byline from Wall Street Journal. This is a political operative. How did he get this birthday letter? You know, that's the big question. Nobody's asking where this stuff came from. Nobody ever asks this.

Now, keep in mind, this is the same entity that didn't want to say anything about Ashley Biden's diary, as Kane was pointing out to me on break. Remember the Ashley Biden diary? Ashley Biden, and I know people who know the people that she was staying with. after she got out of rehab, she went into a flop house where there were other recovering addicts staying there. And she was messing around with some dude who owned the property. This is according to public reporting. And her diary, she like kept in the bed, like apparently in the mattress. Well, when she left, she forgot to take her diary.

But she didn't just forget to take her diary. She left it there for like years. And then when someone else found it and they realized, what it was and another entity got a hold of it, then she started saying that someone stole it from her. But then simultaneously, they were saying that it was not real. Remember that? It's a fake story. And the Wall Street Journal was one of them. This is a fake story. It isn't real. Well, if it wasn't real, why was the FBI raiding journalists' homes over it? And they did. There were stories of that that abound. And they ended up taking it, although there are copies of it that are already been made, but they, they confiscated it. They took it back. Well, why would they do that if it was a fake thing, like the Wall Street Journal had said previously? Why would they do that if that was a fake, if it was a fake non-entity? So you had the federal government using the police state to go and clean up after its drug-addicted first daughter. That's literally what happened. Unbelievable. But that was a lot of.

supposed to be a fake story. And then notice how none of these people ever went and did other follow-ups to it. If it was, now think about it, you're a journalistic entity and you're told by Democrats, you're told by the Democrat administration that this is a fake story, wouldn't you at least be like, well, then why, if it's a fake story, why are they now raiding journalist's homes and pressing charges against people that they think were in possession of it? And they did. They took the lady that found the diary, they took her to court. They charged her with offense. They charged her with an offense.

They were accusing her of theft. She never stole anything. She found it. And then they were saying, well, you never gave this diary that may not be Ashley Bidens. You never gave it back to her. So that's theft. And they convicted her.

So nobody in the press was going, wait a minute. Why is that, if it's not a true story, then why is this person convicted? Why did you actually take a person to court over something that was not a true story if it was not a true story? They never had enough journalistic curiosity to follow up on that. Oh, but please believe this fake letter from a guy who literally came from Fusion GPS. The same entity that was pushing the Russian collusion stuff. It is so dumb.

I just, no, I do not believe that it is. I just don't believe it. And I don't believe it because Trump is pretty forthright about stuff. he's like yeah i said i mean he admitted that epstein used to uh when when trump would throw society events whether it was in new york or wherever that epstein would show up to them and for a while he tolerated it and then he banned him from all of his properties and he was he never denied that he was over there he just he talked about it and then he was like yeah and then he realized and then he kind of saw what a pervert he was and heard about a lot of the saw things apparently or heard things that he was doing

or saw his behavior at these events and then banned him. So, no, I don't think that this is a real letter. I just don't. Not with all of these factors. That's a lot to get over. That is a lot to get over. And the other thing, too, that makes it even more complicated. And I noted this in our first hour.

Why did they just publish what they said was the letter? All they did is describe the drawing. and then relay the conversation that was typed up and placed over the drawing. They never actually showed you anything. They just told you that they had seen it. So again, the same reporter that was behind the fake Stormy Daniels stuff, the same reporter who has only ever worked for the people that were pushing the Russian collusion story, want you to believe that this letter that they can't produce and no one else is apparently seen

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Yeah The Villages Always sounds like we're talking about Minecraft When I'm like it's a villager A villager was arrested with a stolen motorcycle And meth hidden in his anal cavity Oh yes Villages News says a man with a stolen motorcycle

Was found to have methamphetamine Concealed In Give me another one word for it, Kane, in his anal bum cover. Kai Cameron Huff. Now, how is he 36 in the villages? He began driving straight towards the deputy's patrol car heading in the opposite direction. The deputy was forced to take evasive actions and then, of course, then pursued. Oh my gosh, this guy's mugshot. He is high as

a kite. During the traffic stop, deputy pursued and pulled him over. He noticed a burnt piece of a linole on a small silver spoon, obviously indicative of drug usage. And then he noticed the smell of, you know, some drugs coming from, you know, this, uh, he found, uh, he found, uh, he found a bunch of dime size baggies and then he found a bunch of other aluminum foil and a cut plastic straw and then something that had residue of fentanyl in it. And then, um, when the guy was taken in to jail, I'm trying to really, taking into Sumter County detention center, you know, they had to do a search. that's when they discovered a bunch of meth that was concealed.

First off, wouldn't you be afraid that, oh man, look at it. He's high as a kite. Would you be afraid? If you're normal, not druggy person, yes, you would definitely be afraid. Like, what if something happened and you, like, absorbed that? You would die. That would be an overdose of an amount from which you could never come back. You're using sanity to explain insanity.

Apparently, I don't know. Oh, my gosh. So, yeah, he's totally in jail. I got to share this story with you. A woman attacked a driver that hit and killed a chicken that was crossing a road. Oh, she didn't know. No, no, no. It's really good.

So this lady stops to let the chicken cross the road. And another Florida woman tried to speed around her and apparently ran it over. And so this Florida woman got bear spray and attacked her. I really don't understand what the crime is here, Kane. A woman stopped at an intersection. It's Key West, local channel 12, WKRC. and according to the arrest report, 38-year-old Cynthia Sosa stopped at the intersection

to let a chicken cross the road, a driver behind her began honking and then sped around her and ran over the chicken. She pursued the driver, caught the driver, blocked the road in front of the victim's vehicle, got out, tried to open the door, and then pulled out her bare mace

and sprayed the lady directly in the face. Then she fled the scene, but she was taken in a custody later. She's got two counts of aggravated battery. one kind of burglar with a solder battery. What does this other broad get? Right. Can I just be honest?

This is why I couldn't be a police officer. I'd be like, I don't see a crime here. What? I think it is a crime to mace somebody. She ran over that chicken. That woman could have, what if she would have hit, what if that woman was stopping because she was letting a woman in a wheelchair across the road? Well, that's different.

No, it's not. This lady had no, the lady behind her had no idea. I think there's a difference. She was just gunning around her because she was being a doucher. rain over the chicken. Slight difference between an old lady in the wheelchair and a chicken. How would she know? She was behind the lady's car.

She couldn't see. I agree. She was reckless. I think if you're reckless and stupid, you might get hit with bear spray. But then were they going to ticket the chicken for jaywalking? No. I mean, it's dead because she rained it over. I need more common sense.

I just, if I was a police officer called to this, I'd be like, I don't see a crime. Don't make false calls to the police. And I'd leave. I'd be for that. I'd be for that. I know that we have police officers listening here, we're going, Dana. Dana? That bear mace, though.

My God. What else would you want? That's harsh for a human being. It's harsh for bears. Well, what if that's all she had? It's harsh for bears. Bears don't care. All right, we, I know.

I have a couple more, but I'm fascinated with that story. I'd literally how I would be like, I don't see a crime here. Third hour coming up, and we got a lot of stuff to hit, including, got to talk a new CFO. in Florida. And boy, Florida lucked out because they almost had a bad one. Stick with us. The president and I talked about that ridiculous allegation this morning. He said it's patently absurd. He's never drawn such a picture. He's never thought of drawing such a picture. And he said, did you see the language of this bogus supposed communication or card or something I supposedly

sent to Epstein? He said, I don't talk like that. I don't think like that. They're literally making things up. He's so frustrated by it. And he's going to wind up, I think, suing some of the media outlets that that had put all this out there because they informed them that it was totally contrived so well yeah i mean it was it's we were talking about the um meaning uh like this this what all is behind this letter and the meaning of the person what the significance of the person who wrote the story and how it's all fusion gps related uh he's right no and if you want more analysis on that last hour we had it mike johnson's correct though welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. It's the media, the media is doing the media stuff.

By the way, Wall Street Journal confirmed that they don't actually have the letter. What? Oh yeah, we're going to run this big story and make these shocking claims. We've seen it, and this is what it looks like, but we don't have it to show you. What? Would you buy something from someone, like a significant thing without looking at it first? Same z's. Same zes. Same zes. Same zes here.

But this is the media. Just like it's the media with the story. Kane and I were talking about on break. Listen to this. It's the, who is this? MSN, there's like several of these.

Actually, I think it was on memorandum too. They're taking issue with Trump saying that he decimated Iran's nuke sites. They said that I'm dying Kane. However much you loat the legacy press

it's not enough. They're taking issue with him because they said that he didn't really decimate it. What did they say that it was like he only took out a third? Yeah, so they're trying to claim now that of the existing Iranian nuclear sites that Trump only took out a third of those sites. So therefore he chickened out and

truly did not decimate Iran's nuke sites. I am... He took... I mean, he took out... Let's just say he took out a third. Let's just give them that. Why?

That's not right, though. Right, but they're still wrong with the idea of decimation. DESE, of course, we all know, means 10. So if you're decimating something, you're reducing it by 10%. Well, in combat,

it means, like, when they're talking about, like, decimated an army, they mean one out of every 10. Yes. So, oh my gosh. That's our media. That is our media. It's in the Daily Beast. It's in NBC.

Several. They're trying to say, oh, well, the strikes weren't that bad. It sounds like decimation to me. I mean, he just used, they're trying to take issue with us so badly, these people. Well, well, depends on what is, is. what is means. That's a deep cut. Goodness.

This media, I, this is one of the reasons why I'm telling people. I want like, what were the Epstein stuff? I don't want Trump fighting with voters because they all need to be fighting legacy. They need to be fighting the propagandist legacy. 100%. Instead of fighting with voters. Like, turn thy fire outward, please.

It would be great. Oh, my word. There's so many other places to focus. energy, not internally, is one of them. But the, gosh, that report, media is just constantly just, whether it's this, whether it's this letter, doesn't matter, or like this thing that came out. I saw, I think, a couple of people, so over at D&I, they released, or they didn't release, they declassified records that looked at the 2016 collusion narrative. And, I mean, this, is obvious. We all know this, but it pretty much officially put to rest any questions

about the credibility of the reporting, which there wasn't any. It was manufactured to fit a political narrative as what the declassified, newly declassified records from the DNI have shown. And they had one, which was highly classified, now declassified, which was a daily national security analysis for the president that assessed that, quote, Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure. And then the FBI, led by James Comey, were pushing back against that. And then they, uh, the presidential daily brief for the PDB was then spiked, quote, based on new guidance. Is that not something else? And they had a new intelligence assessment commissioned upon a

White House principals meeting and the media leaks that followed. And that, kind of reinforced that narrative. So yeah, literally they said the PDB said that, yes, Russia did not impact the U.S. election results. James Comey threw a fit. And then the FBI based on James Comey's, James Comey's pushing withdrew support. And then they killed the PDB, the presidential daily brief, same based on new guidance. And then the, it was in December of 2016, Obama gathered, cabinet officials, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, McCabe, and others. And they commissioned a new intelligence assessment to say that Russia interfered to help Trump. So it was all concoctu. We all knew this. It's just nice to see it in black and white. There's more evidence to support

all of this than there ever was even remotely about this stupid letter. But which one is the media running with? Which one are they running with? Do you think that, don't you think it's a huge story that you had your intelligence agencies colluding with elected officials to change the information in a presidential daily brief to benefit their narrative so that they could cast doubt on a free and fair election? Don't you think that's a huge

story? That you have a, that you have declassified documents that detail precisely who led the push, who wanted to change it, and who wanted to invert the narrative so they could lie to the public.

That seems like that's a huge story. The head of the FBI on a mission of political vengeance, decides to kill the presidential daily briefing, ignore all of the intel assessments, and then himself direct that, yes, Russia did affect the election, even though all of the other assessment prior to that said otherwise. That sounds like a huge story. But, oh, no, Wall Street Journal wants you to believe that this letter that they don't have and no one has seen exists. Well, they saw it. And they want you to trust that they saw it

says the guy who used to work for Fusion GPS wow this is the press you do not hate these people enough just absolutely assenine and I don't know I mean so this is all been

and by the way these PDFs are all online all of them are online they actually have photos of them the presidential daily briefs that were killed and the rewrites and all of that. It's all online. There are photos of the documents online, Kane. Wow.

It's actual news gathering. Not like the Fusion GPS reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was like, well, I saw the letter. This is what it said. Can you show us a letter? Well, I don't really have it. What? That's our press. That's the press.

And I'm just, I'm curious. I bet it's still trending. Oh, of course it is. Oh, my God. It's still trending. It's still the number one story right now. Oh, my gosh. Oh, listen to this. Now there, here's some of the headlines. Trump's approval hits a new low as Epstein pressure mounts. What? Rolling Stone, team Trump was on the blinking war path to kill story about Cilicious letter to Epstein. Oh, it's all over. It's all over the place. This is what they're going through.

That's that this is what they're focusing on. Again, just to put it out there. A declass. It was a highly classified report, declassified, showing, without any doubt, James Comey led the charge to push, despite other independent, numerous intel analysis, saying that Russia absolutely had no part in the 2016 election. James Comey demanded otherwise. They trashed that briefing, and they did their own with Susan Rice and Annie McCabe. and those other operatives in the Obama administration, they all went to the White House and they cooked up this narrative and then that's what they put out as the substitute. That seems like a major story.

All these operatives colluding together with intel agencies, with one intel agency head to undermine a free and fair election. That's, but the story that's circling the globe right now is the latter. it's the letter. Did McCabe talk on this, Steve? Is that what you're talking about with the McCabe? Audio. Yes, here it is.

Audio summit, six. Listen to this. Question. And let's start with the first premise, which is that there isn't actually any public right to be able to see into sensitive FBI files. Right? You can file a FOIA request,

but there are something like nine different exceptions to FOIA, and some of them are, you know, sensitive material, investigative material. needed in a prosecution, things like that. You don't have the right to see it, he says. I have a major problem with that. There's no public right to see this. If you're undermining our election, that's not just a right that we have.

That's an act of war against the public. If you are undermining legitimate intelligence analysis in favor of political vengeance because you lost an election, not only does the public have a right to know that, but there needs to be criminal. There needs to be an assessment of criminal. charges. This is assonine. There's no public right to be able to see it. He forgets how this republic works. That's taxation without representation to push us out of these matters of our day-to-day government operations. We went to war for less than that. And now, all of the news you would probably

miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Oh my gosh. Okay, there's a reason why you're not supposed to wear jewelry when you get an MRI. A man was critically injured because he wore a neck chain into an MRI machine. How did someone let him in the MRI machine with the neck chain on? And he got sucked into it. A scan was in progress and that's what happened. They had a call 911 and it was the NASA Open MRI. The guy was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck and it drew him right into the machine.

and the police had resulted in a medical episode. No other details were immediately provided. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, and that's it. Imagine getting yanked around by your chain, but then it's an MRI gigantic magnet. Oh, my gosh. This is like, that's terrifying. A solar-powered aircraft flew for a mine,

236 foot skydweller flew for 90 days without stopping. Pretty impressive. Let's see. Flight cancellations are surging this summer. A number of airports have been hardest hit. In fact, oh, goodness. Boston to Atlanta,

a flight aware said that there have been a number of cancellations. There's also an 18% drop compared to summer last year, but the number of canceled flights has been higher by about a thousand flights. So that's pretty significant. Let's see. An advocacy group

CEO claims he was offered $20 million to recruit protesters for anti-Trump demonstrations. Anybody surprised by any of this? I'm not. Yeah. He admits rejecting the offer because demonstrations would make

us all look bad. They had 15. Why does this guy look like an AI creation? That guy looks like an AI creation. He might be. The guy doing the interview. They said that the good trouble lives on, which is a group that talks about nonviolent protests. Apparently they were one of the ones that are implicated in this. Sure, the media is not really going to pay attention to that, though, you know,

because they're too busy talking about this fake letter. And Asheville police arrested a woman. This is sad. She was caught stealing items from Hurricane Helene victims. This is, like, how low are you? They were local church items that were donated for Hurricane Helene victims. and she was apparently caught steal and she broke into this

Oteen Church overnight and apparently was able she's 42 years old Ellen Hickman was able to steal a whole bunch of stuff. That's sad. It's incredibly sad. All right so coming up got a little Florida's making some moves. Do you realize one of the things I noticed too

they had a fight over redistricting in Florida and we almost lost the House majority had it not been for Governor Ron DeSantis and also our next guest who was just named as the new CFO of Florida. You know, they're leading the way with alligator Alcatraz and all this other stuff. We are going to talk to the news CFO, Blazing Golglia. Coming up. Stick with us.

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We've got a lot of listeners in Florida as well. And they had some really good news. Florida's been making a lot of really good moves. They had alligator alcatraz. They're working on eliminating property taxes, which, if that's another thing, they beat Texas, and I'm going to pull my hair out. Although I like it because, you know, I always joke about Florida being my backup state. like, you know, Florida and Texas, I mean, you can't go wrong.

And they also just got a new CFO, which is huge. And this is, you know, a position that a lot of people were this position. But there's only one person right for the position. And we're talking to him now. It's Florida Senator Blaise Angolia, past chairman of the Florida GOP. And he's now the new CFO of Florida. First off, congratulations. Thank you, Dana.

It's an honor to be even considered by our great governor. And it's an honor to be named the next CFO, the great state of Florida. So tell me what your biggest assignment is because, you know, Florida's been, like I just was saying, Florida's been making a lot of moves. So you're not going to, you know, it's not like you're going to have any shortage of responsibilities. What's going to be like the most important thing that you've got to tackle, like right when getting into the office? So I think there's going to be a couple of things that we have at the top of the list. The first and foremost is can continue advocating for property tax relief and property tax abolition on homesteaded properties.

That is one of the governor's big things. That's what I want to do. The rise in property taxes here in the state of Florida is sort of like skyrocketed over the last five years. There's not really much relief. And it goes to the homeownership affordability issue here in the state of Florida. So that is going to be a big issue. Another one is the CFO's office has the ability to audit local governments. local governments are where you get the property tax revenue, the sales tax revenue from.

They have a spending problem. It is not a revenue problem. So we are going to have our office send them letters and reminding them of the audit authority and letting them know that we're going to call BS on some of the spending. Those are probably two of the biggest things that you're going to see out of our office. That's huge. Absolutely huge. And you, I mean, you basically have already assumed the role. I know it was just kind of announced. You've already started. No, I was announced Wednesday and I actually get sworn in Monday morning at Monday afternoon at noon. Nice, nice. So this is huge news because I know a lot of people were looking at who is going to be in this position because it's a very important position. I mean, to be able to direct all of this,

especially when you know you were talking about alligator aquitrizz and property tax. And you've also been talking about insurance, which I know is another huge topic. Yes. Not to, I think in Texas, especially when you get towards the Gulf, Florida, it's a huge issue. Talk. a little bit about that because I also heard you say that you're not going to allow people to get you're not going to allow these companies to game the system. Yeah, well, the first thing that you have to know about the insurance industry here in the state of Florida is insurance is going to be generally more expensive here. Well, yeah. Because we're a pinnizula, right? We get hit by hurricanes. So we did some tort reform a couple of years ago that have stabilized the market. We're seeing

insurance companies right in the state of Florida. We're seeing a better market. In fact, year 49 states had double-digit rate increases. The state of Florida had less than 1%. We are expecting rate decreases coming up in the next year. But having said all that, there are some insurance companies out there trying to game the system. And I am going to be very vocal if I find an insurance company that is not doing their contracted obligation to the policyholder. And we're going to hold them accountable. We're going to call them out. So we can have two things at once. We could be tough on. insurance companies making sure they do what they're supposed to be doing and at the same time create

the market where they enter the market and write policies and then create more competition bringing rates down. You know, I have to tell you when you mentioned Alligator Alcatraz earlier, I was reading and I have a couple of others pulled up. People are mad. Obviously, people being folks from the left over, you know, how Alligator Alcatraz is being run. And I'm just waiting for you to be peppered with some questions about this by the leftist press. because one of the headlines I saw was detainees are upset over cold sandwiches. What are you going to do as CFO about that, Senator? I mean, that's an insane headline.

This is insane. You're talking about people who enter the country illegally. Danny, here's the facts. There's nothing I can do because you can't fix stupid. And those are just stupid comments. The person who said that Debbie Wasserman, I think Debbie Watson, Schultz brought that up. I was literally standing two feet away from her on that walkthrough of the detention facility. They expect this to be the four seasons.

They expect it to be the Ritz Carlton. It is a detainment facility that is meant as the last stop for people who have already had deportation orders to get them out of the country. It's amazing, Dana. One of their biggest arguments on the tour was that the detainees did not have an all-you-can-eat buffet. They couldn't go back for seconds for food. I'm not kidding. It's ridiculous.

They're just blatantly lying about the issue. They're doing it for political reasons to either raise money or gain data off of those people. It's an absolute griff. I can tell you firsthand that they have exceeded jail standards. It is well lit. The food smelled amazing as we were walking through. It's air conditioned. It's air conditioned.

They just do not like the fact that their open borders days gig is up. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, you're right. I guess they were used to the treatment that they got in New York. York, right, being put up at these nice five-star hotels. Florida doesn't run things the way that New York runs things, runs things, Senator. No, and you brought up a very good point. A lot of these leftists on the other side of the aisle complaining about the spending on alligator Alcatraz, but they never once opened up their mouth when they spent $2 billion on hotel rooms for illegal

immigrants in New York City. But to your point, fiscally, yet there is a big difference between New York then in Florida. We have, New York has 19 million people. We have 23 million people. New York's budget is more than twice than what we have in the state of Florida. New York's budget is fiscal insanity. We're sane when it comes to our money. Yeah. Well, absolutely. And it shows that's why so many people are moving to Florida. I hope that the people that are moving to Florida are voting like Floridians have been voting in order to turn what was a swing state red. Because I think people forget about Florida's history. I mean, you all have done such hard work in the past several years to make it to, I mean, to expand, you know, the GOP

representation, to expand your majority, you know, to expand all of these good policies. Because I remember in 2012, I watched that state go to Barack Obama. I was there. I was, I was a token for CNN. And I remember watching the election swing the other way and thinking, oh my gosh, Florida. Florida is not like that anymore. I mean, you've got a super majority, if I understand it correctly in the Florida legislature. We do. We have a super. majority in the legislature. Now, I would wish we would wield the power of the super majority a little bit more. But look, you do not get that many people wanting to move to Florida

if you don't put up wins. We've been showing people that conservative governance is the best type of governance. What I'm really concerned about now, Dana, and I'm just going to be honest, is what's going on in New York City with the mayor election. My fear is that we may get even more people fleeing New York City moving to Florida, which is fine. I just want them to leave the ideology at the door. They kept on. voting for leftists in New York City. And now they're on verge of electing a communist. So if you're going to come to Florida, don't New York, our Florida, leave your leftist ideology at the border. Right. Exactly. We're talking with the new CFO of Florida, Senator Blazingolia, who's also the

past chairman of the Florida at GOP. A lot of wins for the state. And this is such a, this is such a good appointment for the state. And I want to focus on that, but I got to ask you about this thing. I just noticed it. I remarked on it on X earlier because you were talking about all the people that have moved to Florida. And, of course, you had the big redistricting fight, which Republicans were very successful about. But I've got to just, just for the purpose of giving you credit, because you really stood firm in that fight. When knives were out for the conservatives in the state of Florida, they wanted to go along with Democrat gerrymandering. I know the governor was standing against it.

You were standing against it. And had it not been really for your vote as well, we would have been denied of House majority federally. President Trump would not have had his majority because basically, from what I understand, the way it worked is, you know, you helped swing like a, I think it was like a, what, plus seven seat gain in that state and got rid of Democrats attempt to gerrymander themselves into greater power. So that's huge.

And you owed a lot of credit for that. Well, I appreciate that. Honestly, it's Governor Rondosantis. He was the one that led on the issue. He said from the get-go that the map that they wanted to pass, which gave the Democrats a lot more seat, was unconstitutional. Me and friends in the legislature, like now Secretary of State Court Byrd and Manny Diaz, who was the education commissioner, we all looked at that map and we was like, the

governor is 100% right. This is a very poorly drawn map. We think it's unconstitutional. We had, you know, so-called scholars telling us, no, it's fine. Like, no, we're not voting for it. So it wound up passing. But the governor, to his credit, realized that vetoed it and forced everyone to draw the map in the way that we have right now.

And court after court has ruled that the governor's map, the map that we eventually passed was constitutionally sound. But without that, you are 100% correct, Dana. There would not be a majority in Congress for the Republicans right now. That is insane. That is insane to me. And I got to say that one of the people who wanted the CFO position the most was the individual that was actually going to vote with Democrats in order to kill the majority for a president that oddly also endorsed him, endorsed against his own interests. But I got to tell you, I think Florida is so lucky to have you as CFO because you guys have been making such common sense, like fiscally responsible choices that seem completely, I look at what we're doing in Texas and the fights that we're having in Austin. And I'm just like, why can't we do what Florida is? doing. We need more people like Blazingolia in our legislature in order to make this stuff happen. So congratulations on the appointment. I look forward to having you back and like talking

about all these other wins you're going to be posting up because I know it's going to happen. But this is this is great news indeed. So this is a great appointment. Congrats. And we'll look forward to your swearing in on Monday. Thank you, Senator. Thank you, my friend. Of course. Keep your finger on the Pulse with a Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. I had to ask Senator Blazingolia

who's now this new CFO of Florida. I had to ask him about this story. My friend, Deino Horowitz said, because the vote's all public and all that, went back and looked because they had this big redistricting fight. And Joe Gruders, he's kind of like the you know,

slubby rhino that fought with DeSantis on everything. He went to war. with DeSantis, Joe Gruters did, because he did not want, he did not support the Republican fight against the gerrymandering. And they ended up, they cost Democrats, what, three seats are no more than that. They ended up taking several seats out when they, when they created this, when they won on this redistricting fight. And Blaz Angolia stood strong. Gruters, like, attacked Angolia. They were trying to smear him. And Joe Gruders, and,

politics literally almost cost the nation our Republican majority. I don't know how this guy got Trump's endorsement when he ran again. I have no idea how Joe Gruders got a Trump endorsement. Did somebody tell Trump that Joe Gruders was like surreptitiously working to fight him behind the scenes? Like he was he, he, if Gruders would have won, Democrats would be running the house right now. If Joe Gruders got his way, Joe Gruders would have had Democrats running the House running the House. the house. So why in the hell is Trump? Why did he endorse him? And Joe Gruters wanted the CFO job. In fact, I heard from a lot of people in Florida and they were saying that he basically was demanding to be coronated. He expected to be CFO. And when DeSantis wasn't going to give him CFO because Gruters votes for

gun control, he was a red flag supporter. He likes universal background checks. He supports all this stuff. and and that's not just me. I mean, if anyone wants to take issue with it, they can just go to his voting record, which is public and hidden on a thing called the internet. And obviously, DeSantis didn't want somebody like that as CFO of Florida. So he got mad and stomped his feet and demanded it.

And then look what happened. Look at this. He, we would have had Democrats running the house had Gruders gotten his way. So that's just, that is the. problem with these squishes that are in Florida. And these squishes, we have them here in Texas. They're everywhere. I don't know. I go back and forth because I'm like, do they just, are they

moderates or are they like corrupted by Democrats or this is what I think? I think so. You can't tell me Joe Gruders is not a Democrat plant. You could not do it any better if you were a Democrat plant than if you were Joe Gruders. Like pretend to be a Republican. All he does is kiss Trump's ass. That's the only reason Trump gave him an endorsement because he goes to Marlago and he's like lips to butt. I mean, that's what he does. And in reality, he almost caused POTUS the house. We would be having Trump impeachment 2.0 if Joe Gruders would have gotten his way about redistricting in Florida. That is how close the nation came to losing everything. Is that not unbelievable? So don't forget that name. I sure as hell won't. And I'm sure going to.

going to be excited to bring it up every single time I see his name come up in the headlines. All right. So there's a new piece over at Substack. Lorraine just pubbed it. It's all about the bunk reporting behind that Trump supposed Trump to Epstein letter. So if you want to read all about the reporter who did it, the one behind the stormy Daniels stuff, the guy who literally worked with Fusion GPS. He worked for Glenn Simpson's wife, Mary Jacoby, at Maine Justice. and he had no other reporting background at all whatsoever.

Go read it because all the receipts are up there at Substack brand new just now. All right. Today in stupidity game. All right, Juan, this is cut 13. Representative Jayapal accidentally admits that illegal immigrants in her district receive SNAP benefits. I don't think she meant to do this, but go ahead and play this one. Yesterday I was at a food bank in my district talking about the snap cuts,

the horrible snap cuts and Medicaid cuts. And they told me that people are not even showing up to head start where they get their food. They're not showing up to the food banks because they're afraid. And it's not just undocumented immigrants. It is people of all legal statuses. It's undocumented immigrants who have been here for 20 years. So that's who's doing the SNAP benefits. I think they did a great job with Medicaid, cleaning it up, bolstering it so that illegals are off.

and dead beats are off and the people that actually need to get it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And that does it for us this week, folks. Go and find us over at Substack, Chapter and Verse, YouTube, Facebook, like, and subscribe. Have a wonderful weekend. I will be back with you all Monday.