The David Knight Show - Tue Episode #1989: Who’s the Biggest Loser in US-China Trade War; Separating the Sheep from AntiChrist Goats; TN Law to Examine Psychotropic

Starting point is 00:00:00 Music In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday the 15th of April, year of our Lord 2025. Well today we're going to begin with the news, but we're also going to get into the amazing vast elation that I've seen over the weekend. Every 12 hours Trump is changing his tune on the tariffs. And we can talk about the economic effects of this or what they're trying to do, but it is the chaos that is the thing that is really creating the chaos and is creating a economic

Starting point is 00:01:17 downturn and we'll continue to do that. We're going to take a look at the escalating police and surveillance state. As Trump is moving the military to the border, something again, when we look at tariffs, tariffs be great if there was, he got rid of the income tax. And now we're falling off the horse on the other side with the border, putting the military there. And we take a look at this person who was deported into El Salvador. We had the president of El Salvador come and he and Trump were talking about how, no, they're not going to bring this guy back even though the charges against him were easily disproven. And he was ordered by the Supreme Court.

Starting point is 00:02:00 We're going to talk about all that. Stay with us, we'll be right back. Well, for some of you who are wondering where we were yesterday, or I was, I took the day off another one of these Sundays coming up to Monday where I have AFib, and so it was pretty bad. So, I took yesterday off feeling fine now, and Let's talk a little bit about the news. And I think I want to focus on some of the things that directly affect us before we get into the bigger picture issues. And this article by Derek Brose on The Last American Vagabond, also picked up by Freethought Project, talking about Houston,, stopping water fluoridation.

Starting point is 00:02:45 They tried to downplay it and say, well, you know, we've got some fluoride naturally in the water, so we decided that we weren't going to add this. But he looked at some freedom of information requests. And he was also part of a group that pushed to get rid of fluoride in Houston way back when. And he got some emails that show that they know exactly what was happening with it. And they may not be the last ones to do this. We're starting to see this really start to roll back, even without anything being done one way or the other by R.F.K.

Starting point is 00:03:18 Jr. This began before he got in. And it's going to have to happen at the state and local level. And of course you can also take control and get a there's a lot of different water filters out there that'll take out fluoride. You can get any number of gravity feed filters. You can get reverse osmosis, a whole lot of other things like that. And of course it may not be just fluoride that is there. That is poison that they pay a lot of money.

Starting point is 00:03:46 And that's one of the things that came up in this Houston contract. The amount of money that they're paying to people to dispose of their industrial waste by dumping it in our water supply. So the city of Houston has not added fluoridation chemicals to the water supply since at least 2019. That was currently unknown. Houston's water supply does still contain low levels of fluoride that are naturally occurring and so this came out of the last American vagabond part of an open records request by Derek Brose. The city of Houston showed in one memo, maintains the ability to feed fluoride at the surface and groundwater plants.

Starting point is 00:04:31 However, due to the presence of naturally occurring levels within the surface area, fluoride has not been actively fed into the system in the past five years." And so this is coming from their senior division manager. He said, the city of Houston maintains that ability, but we haven't done it for the past five years. It is a possibility that the water fluoridation program was cut due to budget concerns because they spent a lot of money on this. As he got the records, Derrick Broz saw a $5 million contract for hydrofluorosilicic acid, that's the poison

Starting point is 00:05:07 that they dump into the water, ending January 23, 2019. Then they had another contract in April of 2022. That one was just under $2 million. During the brief discussion on that contract, former City Council member spoke against water fluoridation, noting that Houstonians had previously spoken against the practice. Despite the $1.9 million three-year contract, water quality reports released by Houston Public Works between 2019 and 2023 consistently measure levels of fluoride Works between 2019 and 2023 consistently measure levels of fluoride lower than that recommended by the CDC. They also found other documents that they did

Starting point is 00:05:55 indeed purchase these. They maintained the ability to put it in, but they stopped doing it. It showed removal of fluoride actually from tanks in Kingswood, a city northeast of Houston. There was an X in 1994 and it gets its water from Houston. One email includes a presentation with two images highlighting the removal of fluoride from the Kingswood tanks in January of 2024. One of the images, listen to this, shows a city employee in a hazmat suit to protect their body from the hazardous effects of the fluoride chemicals. This hydrofluorosilicic acid is used as rat poison in China. It is a toxic substance.

Starting point is 00:06:38 It is an industrial waste product that would have to, that would be very expensive for companies to get rid of. So they push to have it dumped into your water so they can make $2 million, $5 million on these contracts. And the employee handling it is wearing a hazmat suit. And if you have, we've had undercover video showing what's going on at these various places. At Infowars, there's an undercover video showing the city of Austin. It was a level four hazard. It had signs all over it. And the pipes were rusty

Starting point is 00:07:16 as well. Whatever you want to make of that. An email dated September 2024 had a city employee asking colleagues about the judge's ruling in the federal lawsuit. The employee asked the judge, what does this mean to us in the long run if EPA reduces the permissible levels or even bans the fluoridation of drinking water? So they quietly stopped doing it. They continued, spent another $2 million for the fluoride, but they didn't dump it in. So they're waiting.

Starting point is 00:07:48 The Texas Supreme Court declined to hear a case that was brought in 1984 to stop fluoridation of the water. Houston didn't see another major effort to resist fluoridation until the creation of an advocacy group, Fluoride Free Houston, in 2012. Derekose said, I co-founded that from 2012, 2016. They got support from multiple city council members. But still, it continued for another seven years until they quietly discontinued it. So RFK Jr. has made some noise about it. Lee Zeldin at the EPA has made some noise about it because, again, it was the EPA that

Starting point is 00:08:28 was pushing for that significantly. Zeldin has announced the EPA will expeditiously review new scientific information on potential health risks in fluoride and drinking water. We already know. And again, as I say every time I get into this, why would you dump medication into the water? They'll expeditiously review this decades-old information. Yeah, yeah, we'll get on it right away.

Starting point is 00:08:57 But none of this even passes the sniff test. And this is another absurdity, folks, of the idea of public health. We don't care about you as an individual. We don't care what dosage you get. We don't care what the proper dosage is for an adult male or for a baby. We don't care how much you're going to get depending on how much water you get. We're just going to dump it in there. Do you think it's going to be uniformly distributed either? Of course not. This is all done in the name of public health. And as I've said before, public health is one of the grandest lies that they sell us

Starting point is 00:09:33 that gives them carte blanche to do anything that they wish to us. In the same way that national security does it, or public education, or public transportation, whatever. It's just an excuse. They've got all of these, you know, everybody's paying attention to Trump and his emergency orders to say, well, I can get around the law. I can get around the Constitution. I declare an emergency and then because of an emergency, I give myself the authority

Starting point is 00:10:00 to do anything that I wish. And yet when you look at these other issues, the same thing has been done by bureaucracies by putting the prefix public in front of it. They don't care about your education, your health, your transportation. These are all excuses for them to metastasize this cancerous bureaucracy, calling it public. Florida also seems poised to ban water fluoridation with an upcoming vote in the state Senate. And there are several cities where they were fighting this as well, and Miami as well. And so along that same line, you have a dearly skeptic in the UK asking, can Trump make America's showers great again? Will it go from poison to pressure?

Starting point is 00:10:50 Isn't it interesting how the government won't leave us alone? Even the fundamental things like water. They're going to mess with water pressure. They're going to mess with water usage and mandates and so forth. You know, the one and a half gallon flush toilets. They eventually got them to work, but they didn't work for a long time, but this is the way the government operates, just by a dictate, by fiat. You do it now, right now.

Starting point is 00:11:14 Well, we don't have anything that works like that yet. Well, okay, you do it now anyway. And so on Wednesday, you got people putting up a post from Seinfeld, Kramer complaining about water pressure. And yet, you know, this is the type of thing that is exactly right up Trump's alley where he can get everybody's attention by focusing on something that is that is personal but

Starting point is 00:11:48 he can redirect you from the the bigger issues. One of the things that I think is interesting in the back and forth as people look at Trump is how he looks at the Second Amendment. This guy is a New York City Democrat. He doesn't use guns. He has no connection to them at all. His sons hunt, especially junior, but he doesn't have any connection to guns. And of course, he set very dangerous precedents of gun control by fiat, by executive order, by the bureaucracy, by the ATF. And then we have an interesting case. Gun Owners of America, as well as an organization I had not heard of before, Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, FRAC they call it.

Starting point is 00:12:33 So Gun Owners of America and FRAC are weighing in with a friend of the court brief, I guess, they're urging, well it's actually I guess not in the case, they're urging the Department of Justice to drop a particular charge that was brought against a man as they claim that it was the pistol brace that he had that was built into this gun. They claim, interestingly enough, that he both violated the law in Washington by having a pistol and then they also charged him with having a rifle that was too short. Isn't that interesting? The one thing that he had, they called it both a pistol and a rifle because the ATF will do whatever it wants to get its way. And of course they always hype up charges against people to make sure that they don't

Starting point is 00:13:26 fight this in court. And so this is, they point out the Department of Justice is currently pursuing criminal charges here in DC for possession of a handgun equipped with a pistol-stabilizing brace. What they neglect to say is that this is Trump's Department of Justice. And why would we be surprised by that? Throughout this article, you know, it's an important case. I'm glad that Gun Owners of America is doing this. But they, for political reasons, want to avoid laying any of this at the feet of Trump.

Starting point is 00:14:01 They lay it all at the feet of Biden. Which is not true. Trump banned the bump stocks, said fortunately I can do that, right? Which was part of that unbelievable shooting. Yes, people died, but the story that they came up with, I don't... that dog doesn't hunt. But what they did was they used that to sell the idea of a bump stock and he used that to set a precedent to do gun control by executive order. Shortly after that he did one for the pistol brace in 2019. After the election when he's trying to raise money and all the rest of this

Starting point is 00:14:41 you had the NRA which did not oppose him on the bump stock opposed him on the pistol brace and Trump took it off between the election and him leaving and then just like he got rid of the Paris climate accord and then immediately Biden puts the pistol brace thing back on just like he also put on the Client the Paris climate treaty by the way, not neither of those Fall under the jurisdiction of a president whether they're Democrat or Republican neither Trump nor Biden had the authority to do either one of those things But they both did them Just another data point for the uni party there folks. So Gun Owners America and this other group urging the Department of Justice drop the charge. They said it sets a dangerous

Starting point is 00:15:32 precedent for the millions of Americans who possess up to 40 million such firearms. They said in 2021 the Biden administration tasked the ATF with targeting and cracking down the firearm equipped with accessories known as pistol braces. Well that's true, but that's not the whole truth. That's not the whole truth. They ignore the fact that Trump put it on from 2019 till 2020. Took it off to curry favor when he was trying to do his Save America and the Stop the Steal stuff is going.

Starting point is 00:16:07 These accessories are originally designed to allow disabled gun owners to brace a handgun against their forearm, aiding in shooting longer and heavier firearms with one hand. For years, ATF approved the devices for disabled gun owners is beside the point. This is an infringement that is prohibited for the government with our second amendment. You know, it's a second thing they did. The first thing they did was try to protect our speech, which both Biden and Trump are busy ripping out by the roots to serve their political interests. And they're doing the same thing with the Second Amendment here.

Starting point is 00:16:55 For years, the ATF approved the device for use on pistols of all kinds. Obama and his administration didn't come after pistol races. It was Trump. Think about that. So they said, but then the Biden administration decided to target pistol braces for elimination at the behest of anti-gun billionaire donors. Well again, it was Trump who did it first, but is that why Trump did it? Was he going to be able to get some money from some anti-gun billionaires? Congressional Research Service says up to 40 million of these firearms are in private ownership throughout the country, meaning that these people are at jeopardy if the ATF

Starting point is 00:17:36 is allowed to establish this. The ATF decided to reclassify virtually all pistols with stabilizing braces as, quote, short-barreled rifles. Here's the penalty. Failing to comply with the ATF's dictate and registration scheme, could have landed gun owners in prison for 10 years in addition to a $250,000 fine. But thanks to numerous lawsuits from groups like Gun Owners of America, Frack and others, Biden's pistol brace rule is currently enjoined by numerous courts and even vacated by one.

Starting point is 00:18:11 Well, it should be by all of them because it's the same principle as the bump stock. For the longest time, we allowed Congress to infringe on the Second Amendment. But it was unheard of for the bureaucracy itself to do this. And it's a lot more dangerous. Because the president or the ATF can, with an arbitrary stroke of the pen, make felons out of people. Ten years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Biden's rule is no longer in effect and the ATF has been ordered not to enforce

Starting point is 00:18:49 it. But this hasn't stopped the bureaucrats at the ATF or the bureaucrats in the Department of Justice. And we're going to see this same thing with this guy who was, by all evidence, innocent. I mean, they accused him of being a gang member in a city that he's never lived in. He's never had any issues with the law. He's formerly from El Salvador. He's married to an American woman and has several children. He's never had any issues with the law in America or in El Salvador. And the Trump administration was going to deport him. A judge says, no, don't deport him.

Starting point is 00:19:29 He's not guilty. They did it anyway. And then even the Supreme Court has ordered him returned. And the Trump administration is saying no. Now, this is division of power. And I've said for the longest time that courts have abused their power as well. I think Trump is abusing his power in this particular case, in that immigration case.

Starting point is 00:19:53 It's very concerning that he's made indications, he said it himself, that they might send American citizens, not just foreign citizens who are here in America, but they might send American citizens there to get them over to this El Salvador prison. And so when you look at the move away from the rule of law, it's very concerning. Thanks to numerous lawsuits, they've set this aside. It's no longer in effect, but they are still trying to enforce this. The first example is this case, US versus Taranto. And so this is a situation where Gunners of America is making it very clear that they are only interested in the aspect that he was charged with having an illegal rifle that

Starting point is 00:20:44 was too short. And they make that determination because it had a pistol brace that was built into it. And again, there are tens of millions of people who have firearms like that. They said, we express no opinion on any of the other unrelated charges levied against Mr. Taranto. He was, and it's an interesting case, the guy is clearly insane. His mother said he was insane, said he was off of his meds. In June of 2023, he was stopped by the Secret Service

Starting point is 00:21:19 and the FBI in D.C. and charged with possession of a firearm and magazines, which you can't have in Washington. So in the hours leading up to the arrest, he had engaged in what charging documents describe as erratic behavior. He was live streaming himself and according to charging documents, he suggested that he had outfitted his vehicle with a detonator. Then he drove his car into Washington, DC into an area that was being monitored by the Secret Service because of its proximity to government figures that they were guarding.

Starting point is 00:21:49 When the Secret Service approached him, he fled into the woods. The officers gave chase. They caught him. They arrested him, conducted a search of his vehicle and found a CZ Scorpion pistol. You can see that pictured there. And it is equipped with a brace. Taranto was charged with numerous offenses, but interestingly, according to his indictment, his pistol was charged as both a handgun, which would be in violation of Washington, D.C.'s licensing provisions, and also as a

Starting point is 00:22:18 short-barreled rifle, which they said is a violation of the National Firearms Act. They're transing our guns now. Yeah and it can be multiple genders at once. Whatever they define it as at the time I suppose. Yeah where's Marsha Blackburn who I need her? What is a rifle? Can you answer that for me ATF? So they say in this lawsuit they said so wait a minute, how can a firearm be both a rifle and a handgun at the same time? And you know, when we look at the National Firearm Act 1934, and how we got into this whole thing about this, the minimum length that a rifle can be, and remember that was key in the Randy Weaver murders, when the ATF came in and murdered his family.

Starting point is 00:23:06 But if you go back to the original court case, they chose somebody who was a known criminal, and they brought him up, Miller, and they brought him up for charges on having a sawed-off shotgun. And he died before the court case came up and the Supreme Court went ahead with it anyway. I mean this is like a grand jury indictment of the Second Amendment was really what that was about and so they made their ruling and said well this is it and they and interestingly enough the argument is exactly the opposite of what it is a century later.

Starting point is 00:23:46 Because what they said was that a sawed-off shotgun had no military use. So, well, you're allowed to have weapons that would be used by the militia, and they wouldn't use a sawed-off shotgun. And as I've said before, but a sawed-off shotgun was used in trench warfare in World War I. It was used in the Civil War and cavalry charges by some people and found it was more effective for some reason than a saber. I can imagine the reason it would be more effective. So anyway, gun owners in America said this is a bad sign for the direction of the ATF and it's a bad sign for the rule of law and for the Constitution. Taking another hit.

Starting point is 00:24:35 Even though the pistol brace rule has been enjoined and vacated, the ATF is insisting that it can still charge pistol brace crimes using the very same theories from the repudiated rule. Gun Owners of America says even under a Trump administration this is happening. Oh, well, he was the one who first did the pistol brace ban. And under the Trump administration they are now saying that they will do whatever they wish. I don't like to see the judiciary making blanket orders to basically set national and foreign policy and some other things that they've overstepped.

Starting point is 00:25:17 But you know, you go back to Andrew Jackson and the Trump administration knows this, that there's a division of power. As the founder said, the judiciary doesn't have any way of enforcing its rulings. And now we're seeing that from Trump. And the worrying thing is the number of dictatorial initiatives that Trump has taken. And these are things that are not aligned with our interests whatsoever. I'm as concerned about Trump being a dictator and about the actual policies as I would be about Obama or Biden or Hillary Clinton doing this stuff. We have the rule of law for a reason

Starting point is 00:26:02 and they're destroying it for a reason. Gun owners of America's interests has nothing to do with Mr. Taranto, but instead with the millions of other gun owners who possess firearms equipped with pistol-stabilizing braces. And the bigger issue is, what do we do when a president decides that they're not going to obey the Constitution?

Starting point is 00:26:23 If the Department of Justice pushes forward with these criminal charges, then all of us are at risk. Yeah, we're all at risk when they throw out the rule of law. Now here in Tennessee, on kind of a related issue, that tranny shooter who went into that Christian school in Nashville and shot some nine-year-olds point blank in the face, looked them in the face and shot them. There's now a Tennessee bill that passed with a large margin requiring autopsies for mass shooters to search for psychiatric drug links. This I think is very important. We've been saying for the

Starting point is 00:27:01 longest time that SSRIs are frequently murder-suicide pills. If the dosage is bothering somebody, they have... because it creates a lot of side effects. And if people decide they're just going to go off the meds or radically change the dosage because it's like the lady that I interviewed, her husband, he said it was setting his body on fire. You stop this stuff and then you have really bad psychiatric results from this. And so they want to do an autopsy when somebody does a mass shooting. This is way overdue. This is coming by the way from the state level. Notice again, just like fluoridation, just like so many things, you can do something about this at the state level.

Starting point is 00:27:47 It's not going to happen at the federal level. R.F.K. Jr. has talked about this when he was running. Has he done anything about it? No, he's focused on high fructose corn syrup. He hasn't done anything about this. It's going to be much easier to get this done at a state level. Legislation passed in Tennessee April 10, last Thursday, requiring autopsies for mass

Starting point is 00:28:11 shooters for the purpose of identifying links to psychiatric drugs. The bill would require the medical examiner's office to ascertain and document current drug use, including psychotropic drugs by a deceased individual who committed a mass shooting. And it directs the University of Tennessee's Health Science Center to study drug interactions between the psychotropic drugs and any other drugs present in the deceased individual's system. And it requires the Department of Health to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the

Starting point is 00:28:43 individual to the public upon request. Because they really stonewalled all this information about this tranny killer in Nashville. And so you've got to put that information out there. You've got to do the analysis. You've got to tell people if they were on some of these psychotropic drugs like SSRIs that are known to create murder-suicide. People don't know what they're doing. And any other drugs that would be there, and what kind of interactions they have, and they have to tell the public. And this passed by a wide margin. In the House it was 76 to 20, in the Senate 27 to 5. And so it is really this tranny killer, 28-year-old tranny killer who killed those kids in the Christian school that is pushing this forward.

Starting point is 00:29:33 The report said, despite the ongoing therapy and medication regimes, this tranny killer's anxiety, depression and rage only escalated. Oh, really? You mean the pharmaceutical drugs that you gave her for this only made it all worse? Yes. Which is what we see over and over again. She commented how she felt she was being swallowed by despair and even created drawings documenting how her assorted mental health conditions were affecting her mind. She had issues to start with and then the drugs exacerbated it.

Starting point is 00:30:10 We've seen that over and over again. Well we're going to take a quick break folks and we will be right back. On kick for the love of the road says, got a bad tire on my truck, got one more load to do today, would appreciate any prayers that everything goes good today well we pray that God will help you that he will just get the kind of help that you need and get you on the road again I know how bad that is and you know let me just say this it's important for us to understand that it's not bothering God to ask him for things like that. It is something that honors him when we ask him to help us in the day-to-day

Starting point is 00:30:55 situations that arise for us. And it really is a wonderful thing. We've had that experience many, many times. Karen and I have had issues we're operating machine or even computers and we pray about it and we see it change even after we have wrestled with it for a long time. And quite frankly it builds your faith and that's why God tells us to pray. He could easily do that and get that out of the way. But if we ask Him, if He waits until we ask him and then he fixes it, that is an amazing thing. One of the passages that always sticks out to me is the king who began his reign, the king of Israel who began his reign, relying on God, depending on God, and had a lot of

Starting point is 00:31:42 victories and then he decided he was going to do things in his own strength. And he had a lot of defeats. And speaking of defeats, he got sick with a disease in his foot, in defeat. And he sought help only from the physicians and didn't turn to God. So he died, just like that. That's what the Bible said. Let's not be those people. There is nothing that is too small for God to fix, and He is honored when we ask Him. So we just pray that He would honor for the love of the road with mercy in this situation and fix that. We'll be right back, folks. Stay with us. So so You're listening to The David Knight Show.

Starting point is 00:33:19 Welcome back. Well, we see the digital ID noose drawing closer to us all the time and it is happening globally Here's Scotland for example. They've got a scheme. They call it Scott account. Isn't that great? So there they're you know, this is something you can own because hey, it's Scottish, right? This would be great for us so digital ID to be introduced across across Scotland great for us. So digital ID to be introduced across Scotland known as Scott account to streamline access to government services including health care benefits, taxes, licensing, does that sound familiar? I played for you over and

Starting point is 00:33:56 over again the video from Ukraine talking about how there'll be an app. Ukraine 2030 we've won the war and now we've given you all slave IDs and a minder through your app so that you can do all of these interactions with government with a biometric ID. System raises surveillance and privacy concerns because of the centralization of sensitive citizen data. It increases the risk of illegal access by hackers, but also by governments who are using this kind of stuff to come after us. You know, they always come out and say, well, we don't want Huawei running the 5G networks because, you know, that's the Chinese government.

Starting point is 00:34:41 We don't trust them. We want to be the ones who spy on you with the smart cities and with the internet of bodies and internet of things and so forth. Yeah, we'll be the ones who do that. Well, that doesn't make me feel any better. You know, we don't want China out there with a social media TikTok that is going to be manipulating you, propagandizing you and analyzing you.

Starting point is 00:35:06 We want to do that ourselves. That's real important for them. They don't want China. Quite frankly, I'm not as threatened by China or a corporation as I am by the federal government or a corporation that is going to be in league with the federal government. And any of them that got that would be in league, but I seriously doubt that TikTok thing is going to fly.

Starting point is 00:35:28 But what did he do? Last time I think he delayed it by 90 days or something, 75 days, 90 days. I don't remember this time. It's hard because Trump keeps kicking the cans down the road. He's a strong man who's going to do this or that. And then the next day he comes out and says, well, never mind. I'm going to, oh, wait, 60, 75, 90 days before I do this. Well, one of the things that they're talking about doing, which I kind of find the debate

Starting point is 00:35:53 interesting, and this is daylight savings time, and where they want to stop the changing. And I think that is very much like the tariffs, right? the most important thing regardless of where you which Timeframe you set all right, whether you go with standard time or daylight savings time The most important thing is to stop this change all the time Just like the tariffs, you know, whatever your whatever you set these rates at Whatever that is. It's not going to be nearly as damaging as your constant on again, off again, on again, off again. That's even more damaging than these tariffs.

Starting point is 00:36:31 And the same thing is true of the daylight savings time. What I find interesting is that there was this big back and forth yesterday on social media about it, and people were very upset. They said, well, if you stick with daylight savings time, then you add more hours in the afternoon and evenings, especially during the summer. But it means that it's going to be a lot more hours of darkness, especially in the winter, in the mornings. And so we had all these people saying it's going to cause more children to die and this happened when it was when we came off of it before and so forth and then they said and on the other side it's going to be leisure and entertainment businesses like golf

Starting point is 00:37:17 courses that are going to benefit if we lock it in at the daylight savings time. I wonder who that would benefit? The golf course business. Well my money is on that. Probably they're going to lock it in. I think it would be preferable to have it on standard time. It matches better with the actual sun. You know, noon is the sun is close to straight up. But but either way just stop the back and forth Musk has admitted we're talking about back and forth Musk has admitted that Doge may only cut 15% of it stated one trillion dollar goal if you remember I said from the very beginning there was no way that he was going to be able to

Starting point is 00:38:00 do that if you total up the entitlement expenses, the welfare state, and if you look at the military budget, those two things right there are going to keep that from happening. And I said you could cut everything else and it would be a very small cut compared to that. Well, now they're admitting the truth of it. And now the welfare state, that's going to require a massive fight by Congress because these are things that have been put into law. Everybody says, well, I'm entitled to this or to that. So that'd be a massive fight there. And when it comes to the warfare state, Trump and the Republicans are just bragging about how they just increased

Starting point is 00:38:39 the budget by 12%, went over a trillion dollars for the first time. There's no interest at all in cutting this stuff. So, what he is saying now is that they may be able to cut $150 billion in spending, just 15% of the original $1 trillion goal. I don't know how much the 12% represented, but it probably is in the ballpark of this 150 billion dollars. In other words, supposedly, Doge is going to cut 150 billion dollars in spending. That's even questionable. But let's assume that he's cutting 150 billion dollars in spending with Doge. Then he adds that much or more to the Defense Department so that we can have a global empire to get us involved in each and every war and to sell military equipment to people. You know, that's our major export, isn't it? Death.

Starting point is 00:39:39 Death. That's what we're really good at. That's our main business. We sell weapons and we sell wars. A new analysis from New York Times reveals that even Musk's much smaller goal likely isn't feasible because Doge has been inflating its progress with billion-dollar errors and making assumptions about future federal spending that isn't set in stone yet. It's all been a PR circus, folks. Just a circus. It's not real. And I've said this from the very beginning. There wasn't any way they were gonna get a trillion dollars

Starting point is 00:40:14 and I said, when you look at the stuff that they're claiming, it remains to be seen whether that's going to run into obstacles with the courts and the Congress and other things like that. But I said said I think it's being overstated anyway. Doge continues to publicly report its savings on its website, labeling it the quote, wall of receipts.

Starting point is 00:40:34 The site, which was last updated last Tuesday, is heavily error ridden and shows a total of $150 billion in estimated savings, according to the New York Times. While Doge has cleared up some mistakes, including entries that mistakenly triple-counted some savings or reported billions when they meant million, others still remain. These errors include a reported $1.9 billion in savings from a cancelled IRS contract, but the contract that they cite was actually canceled under Biden. Another error includes a touted $1.75 billion in savings from a supposedly canceled grant to a vaccine nonprofit, according to The Times.

Starting point is 00:41:18 The nonprofit has reported that they were already paid the grant in full, meaning that Doe saved nothing by canceling it. The director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, Libertarian Think Tank, said they're just spinning their wheels, citing many cases overstated or fake in savings. What is most frustrating is that we agree with their goals, but we're watching them flail at achieving them. Yeah, we would all like to see government reduced. As I've said before, what made America great? You want to make America great again? What made it great? Well, Trump's answer is it was tariffs

Starting point is 00:41:59 in the 1800s. No, tariffs did not make America great. It was getting the government off of our back. It was liberty and freedom. Freedom from regulation, freedom from an intrusive, all intrusive government inserting itself into every aspect of our life. Freedom from confiscatory tax rates. And instead, what does it give us? Another tax. Last month the New York Times, the New Yorker rather, reported that Doge would only save $245 billion a year if it fired every single federal worker outside the military or the postal system. And that's what I'm saying. So just add up the entitlements, add up the military stuff, and you don't come anywhere close to a trillion dollars if you fire every single employee.

Starting point is 00:42:53 Only $245 billion. Finally, we got Bill Maher, who is kind of doing a sequel to My Dinner with Andre. I'm sorry if you ever saw that movie. We, I know that movie. It was, we had it when we were in the video stores and it was just the- My entire life you've referenced it as something awful. It's just these two guys talking at dinner

Starting point is 00:43:22 and this one guy who just absolutely amazed at You know what Andre is telling him as well as Sean the actor. He probably know him from the Princess Bride but The you know there is and then there's also that viral clip where he tells everybody you better get out of the cities because they're coming For you know, there's that one little negative, but the rest of it is just this boring conversation I think between the two guys. this is bill maher and he is singing the praises of trump now because trump is he says was willing to talk with me talk with me he talked with me he says that's better than a 25-hour speeches into the wind and of course, he is referencing Cory Booker there who?

Starting point is 00:44:07 filibustered for 25 hours and Nobody saw it except for the C-SPAN audience assuming that there is such a thing so He said Don't worry MAGA fans your boy gave me nothing Just hats hats and a very generous amount of time and a willingness to listen and to accept me as a possible friend, even though I'm not MAGA. Well, there we go.

Starting point is 00:44:35 First of all, that makes me question Trump's use of time. Is it really necessary to get Bill Maher on his side? I mean, Maher has already pushed back against a lot of this partisan Democrat stuff for whatever his reason. I tend to think that it has a lot to do with both of their shared positions on Israel. But still, why do you need to meet with Bill Maher in person? He's putting his stuff up on TV all the time. He's always airing his opinions. You really want to know what he thinks? Just watch his show.

Starting point is 00:45:08 You need to meet with him? For what purpose? He said, so we agreed, he said, the people who don't want us to talk, we don't like you. Don't talk. As opposed to what? Writing the same editorial for the millionth time and making 25-hour speeches under the wind? Really? Is that what liberals have? Well, okay, so they're friends. So what? So Bill Maher likes

Starting point is 00:45:32 Donald Trump and they had a nice dinner conversation there. What does that mean? It means absolutely nothing. It's amazing to me. And boy, Breitbart and these other places, they think it's just the greatest thing in the world. You know, Trump is a real guy. Oh boy, the two wretched homunculus are conversing. Isn't that wonderful? Yeah, and I'm sure they did it at the club where you and I are not members, right? Remember, this is a club and you ain't in it and you ain't going to be sitting there with Trump or with Andre to talk about this.

Starting point is 00:46:02 Well, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back, we're going to talk about this. Well, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back, we're going to talk about what is the update with this China War as well as what is going on with electronics. It's amazing to me over the weekend, every 12 hours, they moved 180 degrees away from what they'd said the previous time. So we're going to talk about that vacillation when we come back. We'll be right back. The The The Making sense, Common again. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Alright, and on kick, Knights of the Storm, spot on. Canceled contracts have to be paid in full, and firing people will come with hefty severance packages or early retirement. This is all smoke and mirrors. You're absolutely right. By the way,

Starting point is 00:48:25 nights of the storm, you can catch them on Twitter. And, um, and if you go to nights of the storm, you can see where all the different places where you can find them. Just like if you go to David Knight dot news, you can find where we are. And they also have a schedule of a lot of different people who broadcasts that I think are trustworthy, even though they're not household names. They're out there to get the truth out to you.

Starting point is 00:48:49 So check it out. You'll see Liberty Conspiracy and a lot of other places. Of course, they've got the Tiger's Den, the Foxhole Report, and many of those there. So take a look at their schedule. It's great. Tony Arderman radio transmission on Thursdays. They've got all the different ones there. Rat Salad Review.

Starting point is 00:49:08 That's one I hadn't seen before. Check that out. Anyway, yeah, you're spot on. And we've already had examples of that, two examples of that. We've had contracts that they canceled, and then court said, well, you gave them that contract, and you have to abide by that, you have to pay it.

Starting point is 00:49:25 And then we've had situations of early retirement. I mean, you look at the bonus, they said, if you retire now, you're going to get a bonus package for, you know, six months later. Somebody looks at this and they're planning on retiring anyway. It might be to their advantage to do that. So they might actually wind up paying more for that on kick a Syrian girl says 150 billion in savings minus all the money paid to must to come up with this number

Starting point is 00:49:54 So how much taxpayer dollars did we pay musk to conduct this scam on the American people? I don't know if he was getting paid that I think he paid You know, he paid Trump a couple hundred million dollars to be able to get inside the Oval Office. What I think is interesting is that he's not looking at any of his stuff. And he's not looking at any government contracts. Now, if there's some place where you could find waste,

Starting point is 00:50:22 don't you think you'd be in some of these Pentagon contracts and things like that? We had a tremendous amount of money lost even since 9-11 when they had trillions that were missing and then the people who were investigating it, they flew a missile into their window on 9-11. But they don't – he doesn't look at all at the military industrial complex or the Pentagon. Doesn't look at all at the military industrial complex or the Pentagon. It doesn't look at his projects either. So on Rumble, DG8, thank you for the tip, he said, David, MAGA is blind.

Starting point is 00:50:50 Trump brings it and brings in and tidies up to these hardcore Marxist Democrats, brings them all in. All MAGA can do is say winning. Left goes Marxist, the right brings in their communist as well. On Rumble, OrangeHay61 said, thank you DKS and thank you David. Well thank you very much. Thank you for listening and for supporting the show. Well let's talk a little bit about Lutnik.

Starting point is 00:51:15 Like I said, they just kept switching over the weekend. What was going to happen? Friday we got an announcement, Saturday something different Sunday yet again, something different. So a Lutnik on the Sunday show said that, um, the terrorists that were taken away from smartphones, computers, chips and other consumer electronics will be subject to separate terrorists in a month or so, a month or so. And so these were things that were announced on Friday evening and he said they're only temporary We need to have

Starting point is 00:51:49 Semiconductors he said we need to have chips and we need to have flat panels and we need to have these things made in America Got to have those panels flat. You know, I mean they're actually making some of them curved now. How about that, but We don't need those the Chinese can keep the curve panels, we'll take the flat panels. It's ridiculous. Where do you think we're going to get these things? Just like Biden, they think they can wave their hand and it's like, okay, well, I don't like these internal combustion engines, so now I want you to all have EVs. And presto, we all make them. And presto, we all make them. And who was it that already showed that? Peter Navarro.

Starting point is 00:52:28 Go back to 2020. Now shut down your automobile lines, Ford and GM, and now I want you to make ventilators for me. Well, Ford made some, GM didn't really make them. It's like, well, we're not in the ventilator business. And remember how they excoriated by Trump and by Navarro? And Navarro, as I'll point out, is a Marxist. He is the Bernie Sanders of California. This guy is a big government central planner all the way through. All the way through. So when Jonathan When Jonathan Karl, who was interviewing Lutnik on ABC, he asked Lutnik to clarify where the

Starting point is 00:53:08 tariffs on the Apple iPhones and other smart devices might, quote, come back in a month or so. Lutnik said, correct. That's right. We need our medicines. Now, they need brought to you by Pfizer. You don't want to have any competition with the Chinese. I don't know if Pfizer manufactures this stuff in China or if they bring it in or if it's Chinese stuff. So we need our medicines, we need our semiconductors, we need our electronics

Starting point is 00:53:38 to be built in America. Let me just pull back while we're talking about this and think about this for a second. You know, we can talk about the economics of free trade and all the rest of this stuff, but I want to take a different angle. Think about it from an individual standpoint. You know, one of the things that the Amish did was they froze their lifestyle in that 1800s style, they froze it there because they said, we don't want to be dependent on people on the outside.

Starting point is 00:54:10 I mean they really went self-sufficient. Now if you want your semiconductors and your electronics and your pharmaceutical poisons, well then you are going to have to embrace this kind of society that they have set up. On the other hand, if you want a simpler lifestyle, you as an individual need to start thinking about how you're going to essentially enact your own tariff barriers. And it's not a tariff barrier, but the Amish didn't say, well, we're going to make it impossible for products to come in No, instead what they said was we want to just focus on what we can do ourselves

Starting point is 00:54:52 Now they're not making semiconductors and flat panel screens, but they make what they need to have a comfortable living and They have independence and they have a greater degree of Liberty And maybe that's the way we ought to start thinking about this. Maybe you ought to start thinking about how this complicated technocracy that they're setting up, maybe we don't need their flat panels and their semiconductors and their electronics, certainly not to the extent that we've got it. And if we think that we absolutely must have those things, folks, they've got us. They've got us on an individual level.

Starting point is 00:55:32 If we can't live without an iPhone, then we're done. Stick a fork in it. We're done on an individual level. And so I think we need to think about that type of thing. Do we really, you know, when we look at TikTok, when we look at 5G, And so I think we need to think about that type of thing. Do we really, you know, when we look at TikTok, when we look at 5G, when we look at these other things, what about your security? What about your independence or your dependency on these things?

Starting point is 00:55:58 And so when you're looking at what you can do to make a living, when you're looking at how you can start to support yourself, it's going to be that kind of a choice. You're going to have to make a choice not necessarily between factories in America so that you can have a job or factories in China so that you can get cheap goods because these factories that are going to be reshored, these people are going to be using robots. They're not going to be using you. This is a system that is designed to isolate you from other humans and it is designed to enslave you and to monitor you like big brother. Do you really want that? For the little conveniences of

Starting point is 00:56:40 you know flashing lights and all the rest of this stuff. I mean, there's a lot of technology that we could freeze at. You know, just like the Amish froze at things that, they picked a point in time. It isn't necessary to go back to the 19th century. There are analog things, and Eric Peters talks about that all the time when you look at cars. You know, focus on cars that are basically analog, not heavily digital, because you don't

Starting point is 00:57:10 want those computer chips in your car to the extent that you can get rid of that stuff. Look for something that is simple, something that you can fix yourself. You can still have a car, but you can be independent of it. And some of that independence can possibly come from your ability to 3D print parts that you might need so that you're not dependent on other people. There's a lot of different ways that you can cut this. I'm not telling you, well, we've got to go full Luddite or full Amish. I'm just saying if you look at the basic principles that are there, at some point in your life you need to make a decision as to how you're going to start trying to cut off these dependencies that they're rapidly building up as they build

Starting point is 00:57:55 up these IDs to track and trace every single thing that you do. And so Lutnick says we can't be beholden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need. And I would broaden this out and say we can't be beholden and relying on Washington or the Silicon Valley technocrats for the fundamental things that we need. Yeah, sure, we can get some things here and there, but for the fundamental stuff, you better start looking at how you can provide this yourself or in community with other people. Don't make yourself dependent on Washington and the Silicon Valley technocrats

Starting point is 00:58:36 because they want to enslave you. That's what I'm saying. So when you start thinking about trade, stop thinking about it in the grand scheme of things and start thinking about it at the local level with all this. So the Chinese Commerce Ministry, meanwhile, their spokesperson said that rolling back these tariffs on, you know, computer monitors and chips was a small step toward correcting Trump's wrong practice, that's their term, wrong practice, of imposing a 145% tariff on Chinese goods. And of course, Beijing has hit back now to take it up to 125%. And why are they lagging 20% behind?

Starting point is 00:59:20 You remember when Trump first put out the 20%, they did nothing. And as I said, when I went back and looked at what the average tariffs were, they would range and have on the low end you might have some as little as 5%. On the upper end you might have 70% tariffs coming from China. But most of them were in the 20 to 25% range. So I think the Chinese when they looked at it, they saw Trump there, they said, well, regardless of what he's telling his people, what he's doing is he's leveling up with us. And so, we just let that go.

Starting point is 00:59:50 And then he adds another 34 percent, so then they matched him. And then he adds another 50 percent, so they matched him there. And so, it's gone, you know, as he adds more, they add more, still keeping that 20 percent differential that is there. But you know, so the question, and we're going to take a look at who's likely to win this. We've got several different opinions about this. So Zero Hedge says, when you look at these 20 tariff codes that were listed for the exemption

Starting point is 01:00:16 on Friday, of course, that was Friday, that's ancient history. Yeah, it was changing every day. But in that original list of 20 of them, they said three of them stand out. One of them was the first one is laptops, desktops, and servers, that code. Well, there we have Microsoft, who gave a million dollars to the Trump inaugural. Then you've got smartphones and other telecommunication stuff. Well, there's Tim Cook. He gave a million dollars personally to Donald Trump and

Starting point is 01:00:48 Then you have microprocessors and memory chips up Nvidia Nvidia that was the talk about my dinner with Andre. This is my dinner with Trump a million dollar dinner fundraiser And Mar-a-Lago, I believe it was the same million-dollar fundraiser that all these Signalgate clowns were at, the people who were talking about attacking the Houthis, and then celebrating, bombing the poorest country on earth, and then going to the million-dollar plate dinner, and the Nvidia CEO was there at that dinner.

Starting point is 01:01:25 I believe that was the million dollar plate. I mean Trump does more than one, but I think it was that one. And what it is, is it's a right in your face, pay to play bribery. That's what Trump is really about. It's not art of the deal, it's art of the steal. Bribe me to get what you want. Never been more openly corrupt about that. And so when you look at the iPhone situation, the BBC says Trump's iPhone olive branch is

Starting point is 01:01:55 a significant trade war retreat, they say. It's said in the context of Commerce Secretary Lutnick just days ago announcing that part of the point of escalating tariffs onnick just days ago announcing that part of the point of escalating tariffs on China was to bring back iPhone production to the U.S., this was a stunning turnaround. So the rationale that Lutnick goes out with says, we're going to bring iPhone manufacturing back and that's why we're putting the tariffs on. And then they get rid of the tariffs within like a 24-hour period on iPhones. BBC says the US has now excluded the single biggest Chinese export and certainly the most

Starting point is 01:02:36 high-profile finished good from tariffs without publicly announcing it first. So the effect of the 125% tariffs on Apple's manufacturing facility in eastern China would have started to show in the weeks at most American Apple stores, and it would have been a sticker shock for the White House and its tariff push. You're going to get all the people who hang out on social media Seeing the sticker shot going up on their newest iPhone because they've got to trade that thing in every year, right? And so they don't want that kind of visibility So they pull back the central thing that they're talking about As much as 80% of Apple's iPhones intended for US sale are made in China. Tim

Starting point is 01:03:27 Cook, the chief executive of Apple, is a key player here. BBC says he can walk into a meeting with both President Trump and President Xi. And it's not an outlandish prediction to suggest that if it comes, any peace in the US-China trade war could be broken by Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. Because money talks. Money talks to both Trump and to Xi. And so some people are laughingly calling this the art of repeal. But Navarro was the author of that idiotic equation, you know, where the numerator was cheating

Starting point is 01:04:10 and the denominator was stuff you buy from us. And that came out to a percentage that and then one half of that is what we're going to charge you. He was the author of that ridiculous thing and he called it the sum of all cheating. I think his formula was the sum of all cheating. It was a quotient of all cheating, I guess we could say, or the ratio. Some have called it the art of repeal, said the BBC.

Starting point is 01:04:41 They said the 4D chess has now been replaced by someone playing one dimensional checkers, but unable to tell the difference between opposing pieces. Well that describes Trump's followers. They don't know who the players are. As the salesman in Music Man says, you got to know the territory. You don't know who the players are, you don't know the territory, you're going to be lost. And that's where MAGA is and has been for quite some time. They should rename it benighted nation. Anyway, Nvidia says that they're going to invest $500 billion to build AI chips and superconductors in Texas.

Starting point is 01:05:25 And Breitbart says, winning, winning, winning. Is it really winning? I'll tell you why it's not winning. You think that's great? Half a trillion dollars invested in America? Well, let's take a look at what they're actually going to do. Nvidia is making these chips, they call them the Blackwell chip,

Starting point is 01:05:41 that is a key to other supercomputers for AI. And they said they've already started production at TSMC's chip plants in Phoenix, Arizona. Now I've talked about TSMC in the past. This is a company that was started by a guy who worked for Texas Instruments for a couple of decades and then in the early 1980s, he was from Taiwan. He goes back home to Taiwan, and as Texas Instruments started moving away from a lot of the semiconductor manufacturing

Starting point is 01:06:13 and into other things, he thought they were not following that route. So he goes back to Taiwan. He gets a lot of money from the government, and he was able to set up a very, very, very successful company, and they do most of the high-end chip manufacturing, things like NVIDIA's chip. It's made by TSMC.

Starting point is 01:06:30 This is one of the reasons why both China and America are fighting over Taiwan. America doesn't want China to have Taiwan because they have the most sophisticated chip manufacturing there. Well, the CHIPS Act, which was pushed through with Biden, it's another effort to pick the winners and losers, to engage in crony capitalism. And so they said, well, we're going to give a lot of money to TSMC, we're going to give money to other chip manufacturers as well. They opened up in Phoenix, Arizona.

Starting point is 01:07:05 And I talked about this at length. One article that was done interviewing American engineers who wanted to work for them, they went to Taiwan to learn the corporate culture. And the corporate culture is you work 24 hours a day basically. You stay there even if there's nothing to do. They want you to stay there and show your devotion to the company. And this just doesn't fly with Americans, nor should it. We don't have that kind of culture.

Starting point is 01:07:30 And we never needed it to compete, really, for things that matter. But do we really want to live that way? I mean, if that's what's necessary to have semiconductors that are going to be world class. I'm not willing personally to make that kind of a decision. Sacrifice my life for the corporation. That's un-American. That's the love of money. It's the root of all evil.

Starting point is 01:07:56 It destroys your life. Why would you want that? Anyway, there's this culture clash. And they don't like the fact that the Americans say, well, are we done? Yeah, we're just waiting. There's nothing more to do here. Well, I'm gonna go home. You can't go home, you know, that type of thing.

Starting point is 01:08:09 Gotta stay here, show your loyalty to the company. Well, the company is constructing a superconductor manufacturing plants in partnership with Foxconn in Houston. I wonder if Foxconn is gonna have suicide nets here. Ha ha ha. Yeah, that's one of the the reasons that kind of wonderful work ethic that they have in Asia is really the work ethic of slaves.

Starting point is 01:08:31 It's the work ethic of the Industrial Revolution, Victorian England and the sweatshops and the rest of this stuff. It's possible to have a balance and I don't think we need to put ourselves in that kind of a situation. But I said back in 2017, I said they're not going to reshore, Trump put out the tariffs, that we're going to get people to reshore their manufacturing. I said they're not going to reshore the manufacturing until they have the ability to do it robotically. They're not going to do it to employ Americans.

Starting point is 01:09:02 There's that culture issue there. And so they could get mechanical slaves here in America, and that's what they're going to do. That's why in 2017, when Trump gave the big corporate tax cuts, and he put up tariffs and things like that, Apple didn't bring back their manufacturing. They didn't build anything here in America.

Starting point is 01:09:22 What they did was they bought their own stock. They invested in themselves and there was a financial ripoff for everybody. And so yeah, they're going to build, once they can build, factories that are run by robots and AI. These AI factories. And this is even in the Breitbart article. This reminds me, I've said many times, when Michael Bloomberg made that statement, well, you know, we had farmers, we don't need them anymore, they're stupid. And then we went from farmers, we went to factory workers, and now they're stupid too. Anybody can do those two jobs, and we don't need them. The smart ones of us, like Michael Bloomberg was saying, like him. The smart people are figuring out how we're going to get rid of their jobs.

Starting point is 01:10:07 And the quest for us, the question for us is, how do we keep them from killing us with guillotines? Universal basic income! That's how we pacify them with universal basic income. That's what he was saying. And so Breitbart even reported that speech. That was the first time I saw it in print. But they focused entirely on, look at that. He insulted farmers.

Starting point is 01:10:29 How dare him insult farmers? He was laying out the big plans. He was showing them the big board. It's like they were the Russian ambassador. He's going to see the, oh, he's showing you the big board, and they can't see it. And they can't see the big board when it comes to this either. These AI factories, writes Breitbart, form the infrastructure backbone of an emerging

Starting point is 01:10:52 AI industry. And in the coming years, tens of gigawatt AI factories will be built and they're going to be running nuclear power and all the rest of this stuff, massive power generation requirements of the AI data centers. That's all good news to them. You think it's good news when these rapacious technocrats start building nuclear power plants? You think the nuclear regulatory agency is gonna have oversight over them? Yeah, probably the same way they got oversight over the vaccines and

Starting point is 01:11:23 over the fluoride in the water and over all the rest of this stuff. I mean, it's going to be disastrous with these companies who have given carte blanche to do whatever they want because they hand a million dollars to Trump or to Biden. They let them do whatever they want and they hand them billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars for their million dollars. Yeah, that's why I said the best return on investment you could ever make if you're wealthy is to buy a politician. You get at least a thousand times your money back.

Starting point is 01:11:55 Sometimes ten thousand times your money back. That's how Elon Musk became the world's richest man. And so Breitbart doesn't see this. You know, we've had all of this pearl-clutching and angst about energy use when it came to crypto, or energy use when it came to your dishwasher, or your air conditioning, or your heating. But now that they've got the AI data centers, we don't care. And we can put nuclear stuff out there. We don't care about the pollution and the, you know, that every technology has got tradeoffs. Every technology has got problems.

Starting point is 01:12:37 We pretend that nuclear now doesn't have any problems. And we pretend that problems exist that don't exist with the other stuff. So they say to design and operate these state of the art facilities, NVIDIA will leverage its own advanced AI, robotics, and digital twin technologies. These include using the company's Omniverse system to create digital twins of the factories and it's Isaac Groot to build robots for automating manufacturing processes. Where they're really stacking up the sci-fi references there. The Isaac system for Isaac Asimov and Groot from the, you know, Guardians of the Galaxy. But here's the thing, you know, they're going to make their own robots, to make their

Starting point is 01:13:25 own chips, to make their own robots, to make their own chips. They're going to, you know, it is there. You see anything in here about people working in these things? Yeah, they may have some people there, but that's not going to be the main thrust of it. And by the way, the UN is now adding its own shipping tax as well, which sets a whole new level of concern that we've talked about for the longest time. When they want to talk about carbon taxes or carbon credits or something, I said this whole climate MacGuffin is being put out by the UN for a couple of reasons. One of them is depopulation, but from a governmental geopolitical standpoint, they

Starting point is 01:14:05 are going with climate change and the carbon taxes and the carbon credits because they want to have some excuse, some global problem for which we have to pay the UN. And that's the beginning of the UN having its own taxation system. Then they're going to need to have police and an army to collect those taxes and so forth. Then they're going to need to have police and an army to collect those taxes and so forth So Trump says there'll be no tariff exemptions in a dramatic reversal that'll hit Americans heart So wait every 12 hours over the weekend, right? We're gonna we're gonna

Starting point is 01:14:36 Bring the iPhone factories home And so we got to use the tariffs the next day They take the tariffs off of the iPhone and then the next day or two days later that was on Friday then on Sunday he goes on says no we're gonna bring those back in a couple of months and now Trump is saying there's not gonna be any reversal at all when they just reversed themselves. Two times in two days. Trump on Sunday insisted that there'll be no exemptions on the tariffs after there was some confusion when it came to electronics. He writes, nobody, all uppercase, nobody is getting off the hook. Yeah, we're all gonna pay those

Starting point is 01:15:14 taxes. A notice released late on Friday suggested the gadgets would avoid Trump's 125% import tax on Chinese goods and even his sweeping 10% global tariffs. And they've got them there listed, I guess, at 20 items with the import code and the definition, like I read those to you, just three of those. But now he says that doesn't exist. His own order. It's kind of like setting up his version of NAFTA, USMCA, and then throwing that out the door.

Starting point is 01:15:48 And it's getting even faster. It took him five years to do that. It doesn't take him but a couple of days to throw out his own executive order with all these itemized exemptions. He said, these products are subject to the existing 20% fentanyl tariffs. There you go. The drug war. It's now a trade war.

Starting point is 01:16:07 And it's an imaginary solution to an imaginary problem from Canada, at least. And he's not concerned about the fentanyl from China because he'll get rid of those fentanyl tariffs from China even if they'll sell TikTok to one of his billionaire buddies. What a corrupt, stupid administration. He said they're just moving it to a different tariff bucket.

Starting point is 01:16:32 We're looking at semiconductors and the whole electronic supply chain. All of that is an upper case. He's going to break the whole electronics supply chain. Because are these factories going to spring up overnight? This is the fatal conceit that Biden was talking about. Just drop your car and have an EV. You can afford it, right? So it's capricious, it's arbitrary, it's dictatorial. It's Trump. Leutnik said on Sunday that those products will be part of the tariffs that are still to come.

Starting point is 01:17:10 He said that like the separate pharmaceutical and auto tariffs, electronics will face levies as part of the semiconductor tariffs. So the pharmaceutical companies are going to be fine. They've got obscene profit margins. The auto companies have been on the ropes because Biden told them to go joust with the windmills of EVs that people can't afford and don't want. And so now they're going to do the same, some of the same stuff with electronics. They're going to have a special focused type of tariff to make sure those products get reshored.

Starting point is 01:17:50 And they'll be coming in a month or two. And the billionaires will be making their automated plants for themselves. Experts say that it would take years to ramp up domestic production if it happens at all. Well common sense tells you that. Raw Story, which is not a pro-Trump outlet, says Trump clear indications that Donald Trump's presidency is endangered. This is a panel of leftists in the UK, as well as at the University of Minnesota. The Guardians, David Smith and Larry Jacobs, who's director of Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. But what they said was, I think, interesting.

Starting point is 01:18:30 They said it's conceivable that some Republicans could rise up against him for this. They said they haven't been willing to do it as Trump has embarked on this campaign of retribution, using the Justice Department to punish his foes. We've seen that coming after the former CISA director because he didn't play along with Trump's lies about the election. By the way, you know, the only thing that I thought was interesting about that Bill Maurer conversation was he said, Trump told me that he lost the election. Yeah, Bill, he'll tell you anything that you want to

Starting point is 01:19:03 hear. Have you figured that out yet? And he'll tell the other people anything that they want to hear. But he's coming after a guy who he didn't even know, who was a couple layers down in the bureaucracy, that wrote a book that pushed out some hearsay about things that Trump was doing, and Trump wants to get him. And it's fully Stalin-esque, both of these guys. He signs an executive order, and it's, bring me the man, and I'll find the crime. That's what he's doing with his Justice Department. And I'm sure Pam Bondi is just fine doing that. Well, they said they haven't been willing to push back on Trump because he uses the Justice Department to punish his foes.

Starting point is 01:19:51 They haven't been willing to do it over the speech issues, free speech, or over the deportation of a completely innocent people to a prison in El Salvador. Well, only one that we know of, but that's egregious enough, even if it is just one. But these terrorists were a step too far for them, and that's a signal that there is the possibility that Republican resistance at some point to this administration. Who knows? If they do it, it'll only be for money.

Starting point is 01:20:17 That'll be the only thing that'll get their attention. So Ray Dalio, as I pointed out last week, is saying this could be something much worse. A founder of one of the biggest hedge funds, Bridgewater Associates, warned that the disruptive nature of Trump's tariff announcements were causing market instability and was making it difficult for both U.S. businesses and global trading partners to rely on America. See, the key thing is, and he understands, that far away, even from whatever the tariff rates are, even if they're confiscatory, over 100% tariffs, the worst thing is on again, off again, on again, off again.

Starting point is 01:20:57 He said, we're having profound changes in our domestic order, and we're having profound changes in the world order. Such times are very much like the 1930s," he said. That's right, the fourth turning. He won't use that term, but it's exactly what's happening. He said, so if you take tariffs, if you take debt, if you take the rising power, challenging existing power, if you take all those factors and you look at the factors, those changes in the orders, the systems, are very, very disruptive. How that's handled could produce something that is much worse than a recession, or, he says, it could be handled well." And so he's a multi-billionaire. He warns

Starting point is 01:21:40 that the growing U.S. federal debt now at more than $36 trillion is a ticking time bomb that will hinder the US's ability to spend and borrow in the future. Yeah, because it all comes back around. We've had some people try to explain the genius of Trump and all this. Well he's deliberately slowing economic growth. Well, I hope he doesn't put us into a tailspin, right? But he's slowing economic growth because he's going to put pressure on the Fed to lower interest rates. Well, what happens when nobody wants to buy the bonds? We found out real quickly last week, didn't we? And if you lower the interest

Starting point is 01:22:21 rates and if you weaponize a dollar, does that make foreign countries less likely to buy the US dollar? And is that one of the ways that China is going to compete with Trump? He thinks he holds all the cards because we're the customer and we don't have to buy their stuff. Well, he's right about that. But they've got cards that he's not aware of. And so when we come back, we're going to talk about the war with China. That's the thing that Peter Navarro loved so much, the reason that Jared Kushner picked him as

Starting point is 01:22:56 an economic advisor in the first place, because he wrote a book about that. And to back up his fallacious positions, he invented a phony economist, named him after himself with an anagram of his name. On Rumble, hedge 88. The Alamys are definitely onto something. Yeah, we need to think about how we're going to be getting a foot or so outside of this system, some way or the other. Gold is part of that. Again, David Knight died gold to take you Tony Arterman and you can start to accumulate gold or you can put some money in it right away. Gold hit up to $32.60. It came down a little bit with the course is going to be profit-taking whenever something like that happens, but it's amazing to see what's happening because it is an island of stability.

Starting point is 01:23:50 It is physical. It is private. It is outside of their system. And we need to look – that's in the financial side – but we need to look at things like that all over the place. And so again, you go to Tony Ardaban, to David Knight.gold, you'll know that you came through us. And if you go to Jack Lawson Books, or was it Jack Lawson Books? Yeah, jacklawsonbooks.com, that's his new website. And you can see Civil Defense Manual, that'll help you to prepare in other ways.

Starting point is 01:24:20 But we've gotta start getting out of this system, getting a foot out of it, just like the Amish did. They got completely out of it. On Rumble, Soylent Goy said, if I didn't laugh at the absurdities of society, I'd be bombed all the time. Yeah, you got a little bit of graveyard humor here. Rumble, do not obey.

Starting point is 01:24:40 Trump is doing no different than Biden, destroying the American economy in order to bring in their great reset. There's no truth in an empire of lies. You're absolutely right. Again, it's chaos and disruption. And when you look at the auto tariffs where we started, right? Look at how much damage Biden did to the automobile industry by just demanding that you start making automobiles that are EV and EV only. And then Trump comes in with his high tariffs

Starting point is 01:25:06 to do this like a one-two punch. And I really think that that is the purpose, is to get rid of the private car. And they'll get rid of the private car companies along with it. Kick, Karen Carpenter says, I already worry about my world, about the world my grandson

Starting point is 01:25:25 and even my daughter will be left to deal with when I'm gone. It's very bleak. I worry about that as well. What is surprising me is that it's, unless we're out of here in the next five years, by the time 2030 gets around, I think we're all going to be going through this. I said that when I went to the automobile show, the Rat Rod show that was in Austin, and Longhorn Auto Show or something like that. But anyway, they put a cutoff date there. The cars have to be domestic and they have to be, I think, older than, you know, like 64 or something when the Mustang came in. But these people were custom-making their cars.

Starting point is 01:26:07 Some of them, they would restore them, but most of them, they were modifying them significantly. And I went around talking to these car aficionados, and they all said, yeah, it's coming. They're going to outlaw cars. They're going to make it impossible for us to drive cars and this and that. And I said, so when do you think that's going to come? And the older people said, well, not in my lifetime. You know, the Hezekiah thing. You know, yeah, I'll show the Babylonians

Starting point is 01:26:28 my treasures here, but the good news is, it's not gonna happen in my lifetime. But, you know, you could say, well, maybe not. But then I started talking to younger people. They were like 18 years old at the time. They said, no, it's not gonna happen in my lifetime. That'll eventually happen, not in my lifetime. I think we're all gonna be unpleasantly surprised by the rapidity at which this happens. I mean the motto of the technocrats is to move fast and break

Starting point is 01:26:58 things. Well, they're breaking things and I think they're gonna move fast as well. Rumble, StealthPatriot, thank you very much for the tip. I appreciate that. It says digital, quote, real ID is surveillance. If you're required to show ID while purchasing things like ammo, that's not a far stretch from having your purchases in a national database. And that is the goal. Absolutely. And they want to make it biometric.

Starting point is 01:27:20 And this is something that should concern us about what is happening at the border as Trump is now moving the military there. I think he's falling off the other side. I said at the very beginning, I said, you know, you don't have to build a wall. It's not going to be effective. Just put a military presence there to stop the caravans and things like that. But he's now going further than that. They're putting surveillance there.

Starting point is 01:27:42 You got people like Lucky Palmer and his company Andrewil. They are going to be specializing in high-tech drone AI stuff to make it a no-go zone. And as Ron Paul said, be careful when they build walls because walls can be used to keep you in as well as to keep other people out. And I see it as these people engaging and making an open air prison, a Gaza for us, if you will. On Kik, Angry Tiger's Den says Trump's economic plan boils down to economic terrorism. Not only the stock market, but the markets in general do not like instability and his economic policies are an instability machine. That's a good way to describe it, an

Starting point is 01:28:27 instability machine. It's like those machines at the paint store, they shake the paint up. That's what he's doing all the time. It's just, we're just oscillating back and forth, back and forth. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back So So So So You're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, let's talk real quickly before we move away from tariffs as to what the likelihood is of who's going to win this trade war between China and America, Trump, I should say. And we saw last week that Breitbart was there and I talked about it then.

Starting point is 01:30:39 I said, look at this, there that these Chinese are getting behind this mass murder of Mao and they're touting him is like, you know, we can win because you know, we're We're the followers of Mao or whatever and so they Went off on that and I said if you've ever been to China You would know that that's nothing unusual That you know, if you've been there, you know that they worship this mass murder He's like a combination of Washington Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was a mass murder, but we really worship him as well. But he's like all of those rolled into one for the Chinese.

Starting point is 01:31:20 And so his own people worship him. And so I see this again. This is now after Breitbart did it. You got Steve Watson doing it and getting picked up by ZeroHedge. China flaunts footage of mass murderer Mao declaring, we are not afraid. Well, you know, we do the same thing here. A lot of saber rattling. But who's going to win back and forth? Well, different opinions.

Starting point is 01:31:43 This one from Victor Davis Hanson said China would lose a trade war with the US. He says gradually, then suddenly. He said no one wants a trade war with China. Really? Trump does. Navarro does. Navarro wants it really badly. And that's why he was picked to be in the first Trump administration and in this one

Starting point is 01:32:03 as well. But anyway, yeah, they do want a trade war with China. And that's why he was picked to be in the first Trump administration and in this one as well But anyway, yeah, they do want to trade war with China and you might want to ask yourself why? Why do they want the wag the dog or you know, they've used this in so many different ways and at the beginning of this Trump administration it was wag the doge, you know, we're going to cut spending and everything. Well, they didn't do that. Now this is moving on to war with China and it was always in the cards, as I said, in the 2020 election, Trump wins war with China, Biden wins war with Russia.

Starting point is 01:32:37 And they both began with economic sanctions because that's what this effectively is. Anyway, Victor Davis Hanson says China can do some short-term damage to the US, especially in terms of ceasing exports of some pharmaceuticals, phones and computers, but ultimately it cannot win. Yeah, because we've got such wise, stable people at the helm that when it comes to things like pharmaceuticals, phones and computers, they're going to stay the course, right? We're all over the place, all over the place. But China has other cards, like rare earth minerals and other things like that that we absolutely need to have.

Starting point is 01:33:14 They can just shut that down. They can choose not to export those. They can choose not to buy treasury bills and things like that. They could in fact dump them if they wished. Already China is appealing to its Asian rivals, Australia and the EU, to join in fighting the supposed American bully, says Victor Davis Hansen. China is running a nearly $1 trillion trade surplus with the world as a result of market manipulations, product

Starting point is 01:33:45 dumping, asymmetrical tariffs, patent copyright and technology theft. This is all part of the China price. And so he says, in the past, third party nations did not appreciate the end to which China has gone to warp the international trading system. Seriously, this guy is a historian? What does he think happened with the Paris Climate Accord? They added yet another leg to all this stuff. Besides market manipulation, besides protective tariffs, besides dumping, besides intellectual property theft, they've now been given a monopoly on cheap

Starting point is 01:34:26 energy. Everybody else is committing suicide when it comes to energy generation, and yet China is allowed to do whatever they wish, as dirty as they wish. The two largest countries, India and China, do whatever they want. What a total fraud the Paris Climate Accord is. And yet it is there to hamper, to hamstring, and to deindustrialize the West. That's its only purpose. He doesn't even see that. And if these people bought into that system, does Victor Davis Hansen think that suddenly

Starting point is 01:34:59 they have awakened to this and now they realize that they've been had by China after all this time they're going to do something about it. And this has been going on for decades. And it's been another decade since they enacted this regime under the Paris climate nonsense and he thinks that they're going to suddenly wake up and change course on all this stuff. That's utter nonsense. They knew about this. They agreed with it.

Starting point is 01:35:25 Our leaders are not on our side. Has he noticed that? Maybe you've noticed that. Maybe you've noticed that whether you're talking about the UK or you're talking about Canada, or you're talking about America or Europe or whatever. These people are doing things against the interests of their citizens. Everything that they're doing is against the interests of their citizens. Everything that they're doing is against the interests of their citizens. They're swapping us with mass immigration.

Starting point is 01:35:49 They're deindustrializing us. They are setting up structures to take away the fundamental liberties that Western civilization was built upon. All the foundations of Western civilization are being destroyed along with our industry by these very leaders that he thinks are now going to wake up to China? What an amazing... They've been fighting against the interest of the citizens of the various countries. Now he says that they're going to do something about it.

Starting point is 01:36:19 And he thinks that China is going to get some of these Asian nations to join with them. He said, �To the degree that the world accepts China as an international commercial rogue nation, it does so out of fear.� No, it doesn't. This is a deliberate plan. This is the globalist plan to transfer everything to China because they would work with us. They're dictators to make them a beta test site for the technocracy and for global governance. He is completely blind to this plan.

Starting point is 01:36:50 It truly is amazing to me. Silk Road policy, he says, is mostly designed to manipulate strategically located and soon to be indebted and subservient nations. Well, that part is true, but that's, again, that's nothing that is unique to China. The Silk Road thing is a way they go in and say, we're going to build infrastructure for you. We'll loan you the money, but we'll build it with our companies. And they go in and they build stuff that doesn't work, that's garbage, but they still say you're

Starting point is 01:37:19 on the hook to us. Well, that's not all that much different than what Robert McNamara did with the International Monetary Fund after he was finished messing up Vietnam. He went in and he was accused by everybody of rent-seeking, which is basically, you know, the Silk Road is not a repeat of that, but it rhymes with that. What he would do is he would cut loans to so-called developing countries and encourage them to build welfare states and things like that, rather than to build infrastructure and industry, he would encourage them to build

Starting point is 01:37:50 things that were going to consume the money so they wouldn't be able to pay it back. And then they became renters to the IMF. Well China is doing that in a sense that's the effective result of what they're doing with the Silk Road policy. They come in under the hubris is saying, we're gonna build real infrastructure for you. And yet the infrastructure doesn't work, it's not appropriate for what they wanna do,

Starting point is 01:38:12 it's poorly designed or it's functionally not operative, but they still have to pay them for it. Victor Davis Hansen then starts to get on the Wuhan thing. And this is the thing you've got to watch out for, for all the cheerleaders of Trump, like Victor Davis Hansen. They'll always go back to excuse him by saying, all of that stuff with COVID, that was unleashed on us by the Chinese. The lab leak of the virus. He says China will never explain exactly when the virus appeared, because it didn't exist. Hanson, it didn't exist.

Starting point is 01:38:49 Why are you pushing this lie? Oh, that's because that covers up for Trump and the people who did those absurd things. Well, they were doing the best they could. It was a really dangerous virus. No, it wasn't anything. So he says China will never explain exactly when the virus appeared, how it escaped from the lab, and he puts escaped in air quotes, and why it was created in the first place. Hey, Victor, your father of the vaccine will never talk about the real bio-weapon and neither

Starting point is 01:39:20 will you, will you? You'll never talk about it. You'll push this lie along, you'll kick it down the road so they can run this whole game again on us. And the next time you'll say, well, some rogue people or it was an accident or whatever, but it's real. It's real. Be afraid. Be very afraid. He says, China's so-called allies such as Russia and India have historical grievances and ongoing border disputes fueled by Chinese aggression. Yeah Trump was Reported that Trump was unaware

Starting point is 01:39:54 When he met with Modi from India He said something about well, at least you don't share border with India and it's like what is he talking about? Doesn't know basic Ge. And he doesn't know that China and India were fighting each other at that border that they share. And it's kind of like Gary Johnson's Aleppo moment, you know. Aleppo? What is Aleppo? It was all over the news anyway. So he finishes up with this. He said, if it ever says, so three things here. He says, number one, if it ever comes to a real trade war, remember that nations with a higher tariffs and larger trade surpluses usually lose, given that their economics are far more dependent on mercantile exports and trade imbalances. So you know you might want to think about that, rethink that because again because

Starting point is 01:40:54 of the unique situation of the reserve dollar and because we need them to buy the treasuries and because we don't have the factories built and it takes a while to build the factories and you need the, you don't have these rare earth minerals accessible to you even as raw materials. You don't have the factories and you don't have the raw materials. How are you going to compete? I mean, this is a fantasy. I had to start calling him, instead of Donald Trump, I had to call him Donald Chiodi. He's jousting with windmills here.

Starting point is 01:41:29 Maybe he's jesting with them as well. Number two, he says consensual societies are far more flexible. Yeah, that's one of the reasons why we talk about markets and letting people make these decisions. Instead of having everything centrally planned for us by people as dumb as a sack of bricks like Peter Navarro. He wants to centrally plan everything, because he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, because he went to Harvard. He doesn't know anything.

Starting point is 01:41:57 And that's why when you have – when we're talking about tariffs, we're not talking about consensual societies, are we? Anyway, number three, trillions of trade dollars are at stake as a result of the US-China standoff. Should China escalate, it may lose elsewhere as well, so forth and so on. Well, guess what? And he talks about 300,000 Chinese students here in the United States, and now there's very few Americans in China. Who cares? Who cares? You might want to take a look at the bond market because that's a real market. That's a consensual market. And you might want to

Starting point is 01:42:37 take a look at how that affects the reserve status of the dollar. Well here's a different opinion. So that was Victor Davis Hansen who's a big Trump cheerleader. Here's the UK Telegraph says China has just shown that it can defeat America and a trade war They said free trade is a win-win So the escalating tariff war between the US and China will be a lose-lose for both parties Nonetheless, China is more likely to come out on top," they said. Well, again, it's the rug pull for our own car companies, the rug pull for the people who did what Trump incentivized for them to do with the USMCA five

Starting point is 01:43:16 years ago. Now it's like, no, now something completely different. And to me, it's that issue rather than going back and forth forth as I've said before. I think tariffs, tariffs we know are taxes, but I think that'd be a form of taxation that to me would be preferable to the income tax because it's not as intrusive. It's like a sales tax or something. I can think of any number of ways that we could replace the income tax with less intrusive taxes, but none of them are going to fund the government at the level of spending. So unless you cut the spending, it really doesn't matter. And if the deficit doesn't matter to them, why

Starting point is 01:43:54 are they adding taxes and why are they adding taxes on top of other taxes? This is the oldest game in the book, folks. If you look at state and local taxes, for example, what do they do? Whenever they need to raise taxes, do they raise the rates on everything? Or sometimes their preferred strategy is to create a new tax. And it will be a very small tax to start with. But then as time goes by, you know, now we've got what, three or four or five different taxes, so we can raise this one over here a little bit and that one over there a little bit and that one over there a little bit and that one over there a little bit.

Starting point is 01:44:25 And nobody ever totals up how much the total tax bill is. And that's the purpose. What is bad about this is the vacillation, but it's also the addition. And the addition of taxes is even worse than the division and the arithmetic of Peter Navarro, Harvard graduate in my eye. That's something about Harvard, doesn't it? Trade surpluses and goods with the U.S. worth nearly $300 billion last year from China. Those exports could easily be cut in half as tariffs bite.

Starting point is 01:45:01 In turn, this might knock out more than 1% off of China's GDP, other things being equal. But even a hit this large would not be a game changer. China's economy grew by about 5% last year. By the way, have you ever noticed, this is something I've noticed for a long time, how the Federal Reserve will freak out if we start having growth rate of two three four or five percent. Oh, we got it The economy is gonna overheat. We're all gonna die just like the planet, you know can't have the planet overheat We can't have the economy overheat. So we got to put the brakes on it and They'll raise interest rates cut the money supply do all these different things to slow the economy down

Starting point is 01:45:42 We're not allowed to have that kind of growth rate. China could grow between 5 and 10 percent and it was just fine, but not us. You see, that's – I keep coming back to the fact that if you want to know who the enemy of America is, it's the federal government. It's the Federal Reserve. It's the federal government. They're the ones who are doing this kind of stuff to us. They're the ones who make sure that we are not allowed to grow as quickly as China

Starting point is 01:46:07 is. So there's that. There's several ways that Beijing could get around the damage you put tariffs on them. They can send it to another country, and that's what they did when Trump put his tariffs on in his first administration. They called it China Plus One. So we'll do most of the manufacturing in China, and then we will send that product to be finished to Vietnam for them to finish it, or to Mexico or something like that. They'll finish it, and then it'll be considered to be an import from Vietnam or an import from Mexico,

Starting point is 01:46:48 when most of it was built in China. And so they knew how to get around it that way. And so this time, they said, well, we're gonna fix them. We'll even put tariffs on an island of penguins. And they did. So the penguins can't do any arbitrage, and the penguins can't do the finishing touches on these things that are being built. So he says, one of the ways to simply reroute more exports to the U.S. via third countries. The U.S., of course, will be alert to this, as they were with the McDonald's Island and

Starting point is 01:47:21 the penguins. But it will be almost impossible to enforce a regime with so many different rates on different goods coming from different countries. Beijing could also refocus on selling to other markets. The EU has already raised concern about the prospect of a flood of cheap imports as they redirect the output of their cheap stuff. Maybe there's Walmarts in Europe. I don't know.

Starting point is 01:47:45 Beijing could also refocus on selling to other markets, but even if these other countries resist this, perhaps with additional anti-dumping tariffs of their own, China has the firepower to support the economy with looser fiscal and monetary policy. See, in China, they don't have a Federal Reserve that is figuring out how it can strangle the economy, like our Federal Reserve is doing. And why do they do that? They do that because they're worried that if we have too much inflation, they'll lose the reserve status of the dollar, so they keep a lid on our economy. This is what happens when you create the Federal Reserve and you create the fiat and you create the the Fiat

Starting point is 01:48:25 Dollar and all the rest of stuff. It's got a lot of negative aspects to it. There's a lot of positive aspects to it as well, but a lot of negative ones. Admittedly, China's public finances are already deteriorating. Government borrowing could be twice the target of 4% of GDP this year. Nevertheless, China's public debt is relatively low, a little above 60% of GDP. We're almost twice that, I believe. And there's plenty of room for it to rise further. China's inflation is also relatively low. Consumer prices actually fell by one-tenth of a percent year-on-year in March. Deflation is far from ideal, but it does mean that the monetary authorities can do more

Starting point is 01:49:09 to boost growth. So contrast this with the position of the U.S., they said. The U.S. businesses and consumers have come to rely on relatively cheap manufactured goods from China. It would be practically impossible to replicate Asia's low-cost manufacturing model in Ohio, or to do it in time. Right? That's the other part of this. Basic economies, because of this time lag, you're going to wind up with all kinds of disruptions and supply chain issues, just like when Trump arbitrarily shut everything down with the phony Wuhan

Starting point is 01:49:48 virus. Basic economics tell us that the US will always run deficits in goods with countries such as China and Vietnam because America's competitive advantages lie elsewhere. Except that one of the reasons why the US is now freaking out about this is because now China is competing with us not in textiles but in tech and that's the key difference that's here. Some hope that the new tariffs might raise as much as 700 billion dollars a year for the US Treasury but this assumes that these tariffs will do little harm to trade to the wider economy or to revenue from other taxes. And I would say this, that if it raises $700 billion for the US Treasury,

Starting point is 01:50:35 a good part of that is going to come from the US. We're going to pay those taxes one way or the other. It's amazing to me to see all these Republicans who argued rightfully for the longest time that you can't tax a corporation. The corporations must eventually, in some way or the other, pass those, they can absorb them for a short period of time, but they will pass those additional costs that are imposed on them by the government, whether it is a corporate tax or whether it is minimum wage or whatever, it's going to be passed on in inflation. And the same thing is true of tariffs. Why they make an exception for that?

Starting point is 01:51:16 Because it's Trump. When Trump comes in, they forget everything they ever knew about economics. They deny everything that they ever believed, everything they ever said, because it's Trump. And Trump's not a Republican. He's a New York City Democrat. Another flip side of the large US trade deficits is that other countries have accumulated large holdings of US assets. In particular, China is the second largest foreign holder of Treasury securities bonds. If you will, like I said, that's their ace in this poker game. Guess who the number one is? Japan. And what happened last week to cause Trump to, within 24 hours, to back off of his Navarro

Starting point is 01:52:03 tariffs? off of his Navarro tariffs. It was Japan getting rid of their Treasury securities. Japan, the largest holder of Treasury securities, was dumping them. China could do the same thing. That gives them a tremendous amount of leverage, especially because the magic money tree that we've always had is the dollar reserve status. Speculation that China is already accelerating its diversification away from U.S. assets has already contributed to a rise in treasury yields and a rise in gold. Attempts to force other countries, including China, to stop

Starting point is 01:52:45 manipulating their currencies could backfire on the US as well. A sharp drop here's here's here's where the the MAGA apologists, the Trump sucker proxies, when they try to tell you, oh this is really genius, you know, Trump is deliberately sabotaging the economy so that he can get the interest rates down because we've got this massive $37 trillion debt that we've got to pay interest on. But here's the deal. A sharp fall in the value of the dollar could further undermine the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, which would increase the U.S. government's cost of borrowing further.

Starting point is 01:53:26 So the Achilles heel to all of this is how are you going to rig all of this and go to war with everybody and not harm the reserve status of the dollar? Biden did kick this off, and Trump's going to finish it, folks. It's a one-two punch just like it was with a vaccine One of these guys starts it and the other one finishes it. That's why the two of them were selected Do you think they're that smart? Do you think they're the best we've got to choose from in this country out of 350 million people we get Biden and Trump Seriously, they were selected for this very thing.

Starting point is 01:54:08 So you'll want to lower the interest rates. That's yet another reason for Japan and China not to want to hold the dollar. So you make the dollar untrustworthy. You add to the weaponization that Biden did with the financial system. Now you weaponize trade. Now you lower interest rates if you're successful in doing that. All of that is going to work against the dollar. Oh, by the way, it's also going to work in favor of gold.

Starting point is 01:54:38 Trump has started a war that he almost certainly cannot win, and he may even have made President Xi look like the good guy in the process, says the UK's telegram. Now here's the third one. This is from RT. So we've had Victor Davis Hansen, the mog of you, that China is going to fold, that Trump holds all the cards. You had the UK Telegraph saying, well, actually they've got quite a few cards. They can stand to take a hit. And can we stand it when they start doing embargoes and when they

Starting point is 01:55:12 manipulate the bond market? And he's already shown no. So here's our tea. Why Trump quickly rolled back the global trade war? This writer says, in February, he launched a trial balloon by slapping tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. The pretext? They weren't doing enough to curb migration and drug trafficking.

Starting point is 01:55:33 Ottawa and Mexico City quickly came to the table, validating Trump's belief that the tariff stick could beat other nations in the talks. That success emboldened him to try the same strategy globally, so he did. But what followed was frankly more entertaining than they had expected. Markets crashed, oil prices plunged, economists predicted a recession, Americans started stockpiling food and supplies. What exactly was the plan? Trump himself made it quite clear to make the world kisses behind. Thus, in essence, this is the classic Trump playbook, what some call his psychopath strategy. He creates a crisis that offers to dial it back as a goodwill gesture, demanding

Starting point is 01:56:26 concessions in return. In this case, those concessions were to include correcting America's trade deficits and forcing production to return home. Now this is what his fans call the art of the deal. It's actually a psychopath strategy. Sociopath at the very least, right? This time Trump may have overplayed his hands. Starting a trade war with the entire world simultaneously didn't just rattle governments, it shook Americans at home as the reality of a potential recession hit. His approval ratings plummeted. Ted Cruz, chairman of

Starting point is 01:57:06 the Senate Commerce Committee, warned of a potential bloodbath, quote-unquote, for the GOP in the 2026 midterms if the tariffs triggered a full-scale recession. Billionaires on Wall Street, many of whom had backed Trump, voiced their displeasure. Elon Musk publicly criticized the President's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, calling him an idiot and dumber than they put in their bag of potatoes. No, it was a sack of bricks. At least potatoes have eyes. I don't know that Peter Navarro can see anything.

Starting point is 01:57:39 I don't know if he's got any eyes or not. But not everybody is budging. China, in particular, has proven to be a far more resilient adversary. The US-China trade war, this is RT's opinion, continues to escalate with tit-for-tat tariffs now reaching 140% and climbing. If it goes on unchecked, trade between the world's two largest economies could shrink by 80% with catastrophic consequences for both sides. You know, trade wars are kind of like a real war, you know? You start blowing up each other's infrastructure, you start killing people. Yeah, that's what wars are like.

Starting point is 01:58:13 �Two scenarios seem likely,� says R.T. �Either Trump pressures his trading partners into quick concessions and declares victory, or he walks away halfway through and finds a new distraction, much like he did with Ukraine. That's what I think he's going to do. That's why I'm concerned about a war with Iran. That'll be the wag the dog. Remember the fanfare when Trump promised to deliver peace in Ukraine within 24 hours, or within 100 days, he said? And the moment it became clear that wasn't going to happen, the White House stopped talking about it altogether. That's Trump's style.

Starting point is 01:58:53 Create a spectacle, dominate the headlines, then quietly move on once it stops working. Let's not forget he still has a few cards left to play. Gaza, for instance, which he once dubbed the Riviera of the Middle East, or the Iranian nuclear threat, another favorite of his unrealized brilliant ideas. With Trump, there's always more madness just around the corner. And so when you look at, this is Zero Hedge and this is a real clear defense restoring American industrial might in order to counter China. They're playing the National Security Card. Well let me just say this. You want to make America

Starting point is 01:59:39 great again? As I said earlier, government never made America great. The absence of government in America relative to other countries made America great. It was freedom and liberty that made America great, not taxes and regulations. And it is amazing to me to see this delusion that has permeated conservatives now who have abandoned everything that they ever knew was right because of Donald Trump and we're going to talk about his Easter pronouncements here in a moment when we come back so we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back The You're listening to The David Night Show. Welcome back on Rumble, DG8. Thank you for the tip.

Starting point is 02:01:12 He says, �David, you brought up the �not in my lifetime� people.� That�s what makes this family here special. We�re here to make sure it doesn�t happen in our lifetime or those two come even risking criticism. That�s the key thing. happen in our lifetime or those to come even risking criticism. That's the key thing. You know, we have to try to educate people. We have to try to do what we can ourselves.

Starting point is 02:01:29 We have to understand that we're not going to be able to educate a lot of people. Some people will listen, but we are there and if we see something, we've got to say something, right? If the watchman on the wall sees catastrophe coming, he has to say something about it. If there's a guy up on the rooftop shooting people in the street, you got to say something about it. Whether or not you can get that gunman off the roof, you got to still tell people about it. And otherwise their blood is on your hands, right? On kick, Knights of the Storm says, I'm not sure if you're tracking, but Knights of the Storm has a couple of new full-time hosts. Karen Carpenter has been doing a fantastic job and we picked up

Starting point is 02:02:08 Ashley from Union of the Unknowns as a regular. We have some great guests lined up. Oh, that's great. That's really good. Yeah, I apologize. You know, I work like 16 hours a day and I don't watch much because it takes me longer to go through the stuff than it does if I go through articles and stuff. So I don't have time to watch a lot of shows. And so I appreciate you letting me know. Pass it on. Nights of the Storm, folks. Got some good new hosts there.

Starting point is 02:02:41 On Rumble, DadGuy24, thank you very much. I appreciate that. He says Donald Chiodi, it's hilarious. I wish he was that funny in real life though. On Rumble, Dougalug, thank you for the tip, I appreciate that. Well, let's take a look at Trump's statements for Holy Week, as some people put out. Clearly, Trump did not write this himself, say, even the people who were very happy about what he had to say. And most certainly, it wasn't Paula White or any of the other heretics on his faith

Starting point is 02:03:17 team. And this is what he had to say that people were talking about. He said this week, he put out a statement, alright, I don't think that he has, I didn't see that he had read this to anybody or said it himself, but he had somebody write it and somebody put it up probably on social media, I think is where it focused. So this is a statement from the White House. This week Christians worldwide prepare their hearts and minds to solemnly remember the passion of Jesus Christ and to celebrate his glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday." And this person says, you notice

Starting point is 02:03:54 that there's no talk that we typically see from politicians about a seasonal reflection or quote shared values or whatever. He says this is full-throated Christianity laying out the principles and goes on to name Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, the living Son of God who was crucified, died and was buried. I said this is starting to sound like a confessional statement straight out of the Apostles' Creed and then it hits even harder. He bore the burden of our sin, paid the ultimate price on the cross at Calvary, and rose again on the third day so that we might be forgiven our sins and receive the gift of eternal life.

Starting point is 02:04:36 Now whoever wrote this did lay out the fundamental aspect of Christianity, the central part, the essential part. And they got it right, and that's good. And then the statement connects Christian faith to American public life. He says, �This is something that most politicians are too cowardly to do. My administration renews its promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government. It's a declaration that Christianity specifically deserves protection and recognition in the

Starting point is 02:05:10 public square. But what happens, I guess, if we come into conflict with the people who paid him off? I don't know. I think I know what will happen, but we'll have to see. Anyway, he finishes up, �May the Holy Spirit fill the hearts of those who seek him. May the light of Christ risen on Resurrection Sunday continue to guide us, strengthen us, and bless us now and in the days to come.� And so, again, this is a written statement. And I would go back to, you know, Jesus and His his disciples and they said, you know, there are guys over

Starting point is 02:05:49 here and they are doing things in your name, but we need to stop them because of whatever. And Jesus says, well, if they are not against us, then they are for us. And then Paul said in the Philippians, he said, to paraphrase it, he said, some people preach Christ from selfish ambition and some out of love. I don't know the motives of whoever put that there, but I'm glad that they put it there. Paul said, whether it is in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice, Christ is preached and in this I rejoice and will rejoice." So that's a good thing. Again, it would be, I don't see any evidence of any of that in the known advisors to Trump or in Trump himself, but what we believe, the fundamental aspect, the most important

Starting point is 02:06:42 thing, the essential thing, the central thing, was all laid out there. And whoever wrote that knew what they were doing. So somewhere in the Trump administration, there's somebody who's a Christian. But there's debate over that because it was spelled out. People don't like that. As one person said, and many people are going back and pointing out the fact that the many times that Jesus has, that Trump has compared himself to Jesus, they just did it on Saturday Night Live, they start with a scene where Jesus is going to turn over the tables in the temple, right, and

Starting point is 02:07:27 they freeze it. Everybody freezes. And then the Trump character comes out and he says, does that look familiar? You know, many of you have referred to me as Jesus, and he said, I guess in a way I am a messiah. Look at the mess I have made of the global economy this week." That was a funny line. But his advisors, many of them, don't believe that Jesus was a messiah. I'm getting them confused now because he keeps referencing it in that way so much. It's been two years, said one person, since Trump entered the courtroom after being charged of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Starting point is 02:08:07 And at the time, Marjorie Taylor Greene compared his indictment to the betrayal and arrest of Jesus Christ. They're always comparing themselves to Jesus Christ. She said, Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government. It's beginning today in New York City. I'll always support Trump. He's done nothing wrong," she said. Yeah, the difference between not guilty of a charge and being innocent, right? Illustrated in Donald Trump. He was not guilty of the financial crimes that they

Starting point is 02:08:40 were bringing against him in New York. But he's far from innocent. He lived in New York with Jeffrey Epstein and the rest of the stuff. And last year, during this same time, run-up to Resurrection Sunday, presidential candidate Trump compared himself to Jesus Christ as he promoted the God-Blessed-the-USA Bible. It's ironic, he said, that Christ walked through His greatest persecution the very week they were trying to steal your property from you. People came up to me and said, have you seen this verse? They've also surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.

Starting point is 02:09:21 He referenced Psalm 109. He said, �This holy week my administration renews its promise, though, this year, to defend the Christian faith in our school's military, as I read to you before that statement.� And so, as I said, it's a mixed bag. Do we believe that this is something that is coming from Trump? I don't believe it at all, but somebody put that out. It's good that it went out. Throughout the week, he said, we will distribute a Holy Week proclamation, a special presidential video message, and host a pre-Easter dinner at the White House staff. They're doing the same thing they do with Ishtar and things like that, or EID or whatever the Muslim feasts are that they do. You know, Trump gets criticism from the left.

Starting point is 02:10:06 He puts himself out as a martyr. And yet, throughout the world, people really are being attacked because of their faith. This is a good example of one. This is in South Africa, where again, you just had the highest court say that to chant death to the boar, death to the white man, is not a hate crime. But they've got a lot of hate crimes about everything else. And this is a preacher, a missionary from America, from Tennessee as a matter of fact, not too far away from here, who went there as a missionary to South Africa. And he had armed men come into the church service that they're having and kidnap him in front of everybody.

Starting point is 02:10:51 Put him in his own car and stole the car. His wife and six children were also in attendance. They were unharmed, multiple media news outlets said. Four armed and masked male suspects entered the church. They robbed two cell phones, then took the 45-year-old male pastor with them and fled the scene. A family spokesperson said the abduction looked like an abduction for ransom. And in South Africa, there have been 17,000 kidnappings for ransom in the 2023 fiscal year alone. Isn't that amazing? The crime in South

Starting point is 02:11:28 Africa is just unbelievable what is there. And he has a very interesting story, or had an interesting story about what happened to him before he was kidnapped. They knew his name. The men came into church. They initially held his wife, walked her toward the door before saying, is this your wife? Then they pushed her to the ground and took him away before driving off in his vehicle. He arrived in South Africa with his family from Tennessee in 2018. And before the abduction, he had somebody rob his wallet, kind of a group thing that was sitting there. He had somebody come up to him and divert his attention, was talking to him, and then some guy walks up and slips the wallet

Starting point is 02:12:10 out of his back pocket. And he was somebody who in college had been a football player, was pretty fit. Of course, now he's 45. We all know what happens. And he couldn't catch the guy, but he chased him nevertheless and followed him into a neighborhood. And in that neighborhood, it was kind of interesting. He said he's running down the street. He said he chased after the man. The guy was too fast for him. But he said that a woman from the neighborhood helped him locate the robber who was identified as a 20-year-old man.

Starting point is 02:12:47 He said, I go inside, he lives with his aunt and uncle, and I tell them the story. They're not surprised. He had been in trouble recently, and so we exchanged information. As we were exchanging information with the aunt, he said another group of about 100 people from the community detained this guy and brought him back to the house. They were giving him to me, and so I quickly grabbed him and take him inside to figure out what's going on.

Starting point is 02:13:14 He had my wallet, and his aunt and uncle were there. Like I said, I was able to speak to him. He gave me my wallet back, and the Lord allows me to witness to him, and we get everything figured out. He's very apologetic, and the Lord allows me to witness to Him, and we get everything figured out. He's very apologetic, and so I've got that settled." But then when he goes outside – well, this is a back story. He said, in the more affluent communities in South Africa, he said they have police services, but in the poor areas they don't. So it's kind of like community justice. And he said, so the people were prepared

Starting point is 02:13:50 to put this guy to death, to death for this robbery. And that's what he walks out with. So, you know, 100 people catch him, they bring him back, he goes inside, he talks about it, and the guy gives him his wallet back, and he talks to him about stealing from him and what could happen or anything. But everything is fine.

Starting point is 02:14:09 He goes out. Now the mob is there and they want to kill this guy. He says, so now there are 200 people outside waiting for me to give some kind of report. So I finish up with them and as I am heading outside, a totally different lady, I don't know who she was, comes up to me and says, well, are we going to burn him? He says, some of y'all have a shocked look on your faces, and that's what I had. And of course, we had learned the language, but in my mind, I'm thinking, is there a double meaning to this word?

Starting point is 02:14:40 He says, she can't be saying what I think she's saying, right? So I ask her again. She says, no, we're ready to take him out. All you have to do is give the word. He said, I thought, Lord help me. And I get up and I'm in front of this lady's heart and I get on the rock in front of 200 people and I say, look, I've forgiven him. He's given me the wallet back.

Starting point is 02:15:01 I don't want anyone to hurt him. We're not here to take care of anybody. I want you to understand that not only maybe he sinned against me today, but understand that we're all sinners and he went on to preach a sermon to him. And this is the guy they just kidnapped. So this is, you know, we talk about difficulty in America Christian persecution and of course it is getting worse than trying to shut down free speech But it's nothing compared to what we see in other countries Nigeria, for example armed Muslim attackers committing yet another massacre of Christians and Nigeria with the

Starting point is 02:15:42 massacre of Christians in Nigeria. With the support and approval, the tacit support, the tacit approval and help of the government there, latest terror attack, targeted villages left over a thousand Christians displayed, 383 homes destroyed, these armed Muslim Falani herdsmen invaded our communities in large numbers arriving on motorcycles and attacking us. So this is what we're seeing worldwide. Slaughter of over 60 Christians in one state alone. It is Nigeria's genocide against the Christian population. But I want to before we get away from this, there's an article on

Starting point is 02:16:27 LifeSite News talking about you know as we see this as we see Trump making this statement we also see statements coming from people like Mike Huckabee who is out there pushing this stuff. And LifeSite News has had a series of articles about Zionism and how there is a big pushback against Zionism from Orthodox Jews, some of them we'll call them ultra-Orthodox Jews and others, and also they have interviews that they've had with a lot of ultra-Orthodox rabbis who talk about where this all came from. Now one guy puts it as, he said, well, you know, when Jews went to Ukraine and Russia and places like that, he said those European Jews were not accepted. And he said they thought they might be more accepted if they became, if they watered

Starting point is 02:17:26 it down, essentially, that's what he says. He believes that that was a response that reformed Judaism or a more liberal form of it, where they say, well, we don't believe the books of Moses. We're going to go with rabbinical writings and he said they reinvented themselves to be more acceptable but he said that didn't work either. So that same strain of people decided that they wanted to have a homeland in Israel, people we call Zionists. And so Israeli Zionists as LifeSSite News, frequently contradict the commandments of the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament.

Starting point is 02:18:10 They're condemned for doing so by other more authentic religious Jews and even non-religious Jews. The person they talk to is a Rabbi Israel Dovid Weiss, a prominent public opponent of Zionism. See, there's a lot of opponents of Zionism, and they've taken out large newspaper ads in New York and all the rest of this stuff. And yet, Trump is completely under the control of Zionists, and there's a lot of Christian Zionists as well. And so, this rabbi says that Zionism, which incorporates many of the worst Talmudic teachings,

Starting point is 02:18:48 is Satanic. So they started replacing the Torah, which would be Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, let's see, I'm missing one, Leviticus of course in the center, yeah, of the five. They replaced those with the Talmud. And there is a lot of stuff in there that is racist, hateful and satanic. Max Blumenthal, also Jewish but anti-Zionist, said, �Zionists are members of a demonic cult, a satanic cult that hates humanity that is completely comfortable with mass slaughter, which celebrates it as if it, it celebrates it if it doesn't deny it outright.

Starting point is 02:19:31 And that's the key thing. You know, when we look at the, as this one guy points out, the Talmud began shortly after the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD, the famous one where Titus goes in after a long siege as a rebellion against the Romans and and he wipes it all out. There was an excellent book by G.A. Hinty called For the Temple and that got that got Travis hooked on the G.A. Hinty historical novels. They all follow a pattern of some young guy who's on the cusp

Starting point is 02:20:05 of manhood, and he is adjacent to these major historical figures. And so that book, even though it's got like a story in it, you'd very closely to Josephus' statements about what happened to the temple in 70 AD. And the key issue as this one Messianic Jew, a Jew who recognizes Jesus as Messiah, says that it's not just that they left the Torah, but they haven't really practiced the Jewish religion for 2,000 years. In 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, no Passover sacrifices have been offered. So since we can't offer a Passover lamb as a sacrifice because we have no temple, we have no priesthood, and

Starting point is 02:20:49 as a result no sacrifices can be offered, again going back all the way to 70 AD, in lieu of that what we do is we have a symbol of it. We have the bone of the lamb that represents the Passover lambs that were offered while the temple was standing. The fact is that when Messiah Yeshua died on the cross, the veil that separated in the temple, the Holy of Holies and the Holy Place, was broken asunder. Why was it torn asunder? This place had separated man from God's presence

Starting point is 02:21:17 because God was showing us that now access has been made once and for all through the one sacrifice of Messiah Yeshua. As a result of His one eternal sacrifice, all the other sacrifices are no longer needed. They were simply types and shadows. You know, we did that, Karen and I went to, we had a friend who was a Jewish Christian and she invited us to a Passover Seder that was done by some Messianic Jews. And it really was amazing. I was absolutely amazed to see that they didn't have a lamb there as part of the Passover. That was a central thing. And they've got so much pictures and symbolism, it really

Starting point is 02:21:56 is interesting to see that there. And to see what an amazing picture of Christ it is, who is missing. Even to the extent, he doesn't mention it there, but they have a thing called the Afrikonen, I think, or something like that. And, because it's been about 25 years since we did that. And it's a napkin that's got three pieces of unleavened bread in it, and one of the middle one is taken out and hidden for the children to find.

Starting point is 02:22:26 What an amazing picture that is of the Trinity and of Christ, the second listed in the Trinity, gone missing for the children to find. Truly is amazing when you look at the symbolism in that. But as I point out in LifeSite News, I said today many in Israel, including in its government, call for the Talmud to be the law of the State of Israel. Yet its influence has shaped our world far beyond the undefined borders of the Zionist state. Its teachings inform political decision-making of Israeli, American, and now European leaders,

Starting point is 02:22:59 legitimizing regime change, wars abroad, sanctifying the persecution of Christians such as the ancient Jewish custom of spitting on Catholic priests, Christians, and churches in Israel." And we have seen the pictures of that over and over again. They talk about the fact that the defense minister, Ben, if I'm pronouncing his last name correctly, Gavir, he was someone who with Yitzhak Rabin, Ben Gavir, had attacked his car weeks before he was murdered. And he shows off and celebrates the fact that he ripped off the hood ornament off of the car that belonged to Rabin. And he said, we got to his car, we'll get to him too. And that was just weeks before Rabin was assassinated.

Starting point is 02:23:53 That was put up by another Jewish person, Judah Ariel. Ben Gevier is also the man who defended the routine spitting on Catholic monks and priests committed by religious Jews. As Haaretz reported in 2023, a prominent Jewish settler said it's a good time to mention that spitting near priests or churches is an ancient Jewish custom and there's even a special blessing in Jewish law that should be recited when you see a church. This custom comes from the Talmud and the deputy mayor of Jerusalem participated, filmed it, tweeted

Starting point is 02:24:26 it out. You know, this is what we're seeing. Now, this is what is, you know, when we look at the Jewish Zionists, you've got a lot of Jewish people who are pushing back against that. A lot of Jewish people are pushing back against what is being done in Gaza. And yet, where are the Christians who are pushing back against this? Because there are a lot of Christian Zionists as well. One of the key ones in America, I would say one of the worst ones, is John Hagee, who has got a church down in San Antonio. This is going back to 2007, but he hasn't gotten any better. He's only gotten worse.

Starting point is 02:25:03 Listen to what he said promoting his book at the time called, In Defense of Israel. I'm delighted to present my latest book, In Defense of Israel. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. You hear that? Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be the thing that was rejecting what was never... Yeah, okay. So according to him, Jesus is not the Messiah.

Starting point is 02:25:36 What do we... Okay, so Messiah means Christ is another word for Messiah, right? It's kind of a Greek version of a Hebrew, you know, Messiah being coming from the Hebrew and Christ coming from the Greek, meaning anointed. Well, if he denies that Jesus is Messiah, John Hagee is an antichrist. We need to oppose people like that. He's got a mega-church there, and he is all about politics. And see, this is one of the things I've got to say when I look at this for the longest time, it's like, well, look, when we get to eschatology, I'm not interested in looking for things to have schisms with people.

Starting point is 02:26:19 I'm really not. I want to focus on the main thing, like whoever wrote that proclamation from Trump, they focused on the main thing. And that's what I want to focus on the main thing, like whoever wrote that proclamation from Trump, they focused on the main thing. And that's what I want to focus on. What Christ did to get people to investigate the claims, to get people to investigate the Bible. That's what I want to focus on. I don't want to argue with people over their timelines about eschatology and all the rest

Starting point is 02:26:38 of that stuff. It really doesn't matter to me. My purpose here is to try to establish the best relationship I can with Christ in this life and to try to get other people to do that as well. And so I'm not looking to pick fights with people, but I've got to say, and you don't have to have perfect theology. I always thought it was the strangest thing that people would be so focused on this. Because if you look at it, Christ is going to come back or you're going to die, and if this complicated eschatology that they got around what happens with Israel, that

Starting point is 02:27:16 doesn't concern me one way or the other. I'm not going to be involved in that even if they're right with that. So I look at it and it's like, why would I bother with that? Well, because of this. Because it has become and we're starting to see this with people like John Hagee that I just played for you. People like Paula White, don't share the gospel with Jews, she said, right? Well, that's not a loving thing, is it? Right? Unless you don't believe any of it. Perhaps she doesn't. It appears that she doesn't. But she either doesn't believe Christ, or she hates Jews if she's not going to tell them what she believes. We had the situation with Ray Comfort, who

Starting point is 02:27:59 by the way is a converted Jew, and he confronted Penn Tell, who does the best he can, to deliberately blaspheme Jesus. And he came up and engaged him afterwards, and he said, I really appreciate the fact that you sincerely care about me. He says, most Christians just throw bricks at me, because he's throwing bricks at Jesus, they throw bricks back at him. But he was really moved that Ray Comfort would actually engage him out of a sincere concern. Now later, he and his publicist denied that when Ray Comfort said it, but I think that that was truly the case.

Starting point is 02:28:37 I think he was moved by that. Why is it that we have these spiritual advisors and grifters focused around Trump who tell us don't tell people about Christ? Why is it that we have these people who deny that Jesus is the Christ? And so I'm concerned because when I see this with the leaders, when I see it with people like Huckabee, they have sold their relationship with Christ for political favor, for audience, for money, for all these various things. And they have, in so doing, it is getting stronger and stronger. And what concerns me, two things.

Starting point is 02:29:18 Number one, what is happening in Gaza cannot be justified. It cannot at this point in time. We talk about the moral issues about a war, the just war theory. It has to be in response to violence that was initiated. It has to be there to defend innocent life, not to take innocent life, and to avoid trying to take innocent life, to avoid deliberately attacking civilians. And if you can't achieve your objective, you stop. That's the other part of it.

Starting point is 02:29:56 Or if you look at it and you say, there is no way that we can prevail on this. I'm not going to lead a suicide squad in something like this." So there are restraints on that. And we see that as they assess the situation, Israel's own assessment is that they haven't done anything to the tunnels of any significance. And where they had estimated that they had 20,000 to 30,000 Hamas people, now they estimate 40,000. Why would that be?

Starting point is 02:30:27 Because when you wage war against a civilian population, we saw this in World War II, everybody thought it would demoralize the other side. Instead, what it did was it galvanized the other side. And so from a pragmatic standpoint, it doesn't help. It makes things worse. And it is completely immoral to target men, women and children who are not combatants and to persist in this even when you're not achieving your military objective. So there's one aspect of it that's a worldly moral aspect

Starting point is 02:30:58 of it. But the other aspect of this that really concerns me is that these people who have basically sold their soul to the devil, literally, to deny Christ and the rest of the stuff, and then present themselves as religious leaders. And of course, Huckabee left that position and became a politician, so there's that. But that what they're doing is they're leading people into this aspect where they are just as Hagee did, they're replacing the Lord Jesus Christ with a political entity, Israel. That's what this is really about. And it is straight from hell. And we have to say something about it. We cannot just let this thing go. It is a worldiness

Starting point is 02:31:45 to think that you're going to get what God does not give you. One of the rabbis said we were kicked out of the land because of disobedience to God, one of these anti-Zionist guys. He said we didn't lose because we didn't have a well-enough trained army or the right weapons or the right strategies or whatever. We were kicked out because of disobedience to God. And that is absolutely right. Now God picks the times and places, He picks the nations and so forth, and a lot of people say, well, look at the miraculous creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Well, God sets and points the times and

Starting point is 02:32:25 places of all nations, all nations. There's not any nation on earth that exists that God didn't set that up. So I don't know what he has in mind for Israel, but I think that for the people there, but I think that what he does not have in mind is mass murder and genocide. That is more disobedience piled on top of the other disobedience. And the third thing is that they have decided that they are going to weaponize the attack not just against Gaza, but against our country, our foundations, our constitution, our bill of rights, our free speech.

Starting point is 02:33:08 And they have weaponized it against all of those. And I understand that this is offensive to a lot of people. Christ and the cross is offensive. Why? Because he said, no one comes to the Father except through me.� He is the way, the truth and the life. And no one, that doesn�t mean there are no exceptions to that. And it is not a loving thing to back away from that. It really isn�t. And it is a denial of Christ. And I am not going to deny Christ for any of these politics or any of these ambitions

Starting point is 02:33:41 or agendas that these people have, and it bears the fruit. You can see the fruit of this corruption, of this worldliness in both the Christian and the Jewish Zionists. You can easily see what is there. Rabbi Weiss and others tend to refer to the extreme Zionists now as having a satanic influence on Israel as Talmudic Jews. The Talmud contains many atrocities, violent sayings regarding Jesus Christ, Mary, Christians in general, and all non-Jews.

Starting point is 02:34:16 But the real issue is that you've got these people now, the Christian Zionists, are really replacing Christ with a political entity. And that is the key issue. We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back. The You're listening to The David Night Show. On kick, Angry Tiger's den says that Trump and his pundits are giving a black eye to Christianity. That's the other part of it. Pagans can see this for what it is.

Starting point is 02:35:51 And they're looking at this and saying, is that what Christ is about? And it's not. It absolutely is not. Huckabee, Hagee, Trump, Paula White, they don't reflect. Somebody in his office put out a great statement, but they don't reflect and their policies do not reflect Christ at all. Angry Tiger says, giving a black eye to Christianity, non-Christians see the behavior and rhetoric of MAGA and correlate it with Christians. This is what I said last week as well. You look at Gerald Salenti is as upset with Christians and he thinks that this is what

Starting point is 02:36:31 the Bible says. So I don't believe your book, that type of thing. As I said before, he's upset with the Jews and he's upset with Christians, he doesn't understand, I think, the distinction between Zionist Jews and other Jews, or Zionist Christians and other Christians. He was injured in the Catholic school that he went to and none heard his ear. And so he's seeing those things and he's missing the bigger picture. But that's one of the reasons why we need to oppose this, because we need to get people to understand as these Jews who took out full page ad in the New York Times said, not in my name, not in my name.

Starting point is 02:37:16 And we as Christians need to say the same thing. Going back to Angry Tiger, he said, as we all know, mago works are not Christian in any way, shape or form. I work with a Christian from Israel. Pull that back down again. There we go. He says they spit on them. They are not allowed.

Starting point is 02:37:33 I have seen that many times. I have decided, you know, a while back, I am not going to play that because it just, you know, creates division and hatred. And I think that what the Zionist Jews and this kind of stuff, I think it's actually backfiring on them. I think the stuff with Gaza that's spitting on Christians, all this stuff is actually causing real anti-Semitism. Because in the same way as people look at this and say, well, all Christians are like

Starting point is 02:37:59 that or all Jews are like that, and there's always going to be people who will be like that. And there's always going to be people who will be like that. You know, they won't see this as the work of some group. They will attribute it to everybody of a particular type. And that's the other part of this. They say, well, I don't like all Christians, or I don't like all Jews because of what these Zionists are doing. They're not allowed to walk in certain sides of the streets or in certain places. It's not a law, but it's known as a social rule. He says they treat Christians worse than they treat the Muslims. I'm sure they do, because the Christians probably won't fight them back, because we're told

Starting point is 02:38:37 to turn the other cheek. On kick, Knights of the Storm, says the justification for Israel killing women and children comes from the idea of a promised land, which was a covenant with God. Read Deuteronomy 31 and tell me if that covenant still exists. We have a new covenant, the old one is dead, because the people broke it with God. Moses said as much in that chapter. And we have for the Christians out there, as Jesus is there in the week leading up to Jerusalem, people talk about Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday, He's there telling them Kingdom parables.

Starting point is 02:39:16 And He's saying things like, you can't put new wine into old wineskins and many other things like that, cursing the fig tree that is there because it is moving on. And people want to hang on to that. But when you look at the case even that Daniel had when he was pleading with God to bring them back after the Babylonian captivity, he was in Babylonian captivity and he's saying, you know, we're your covenant people. And yet they were removed because of disobedience. And he is making the case, you know, that there are still some who are in covenant with

Starting point is 02:39:58 you. And so there was still that there. But it was completely changed when the Messiah came. That's why for Hagee it's necessary for him to deny Christ as the Messiah. And that is what he does. He is anti-Christ in that. So on Rumble, 5LK, that Trump has Paula White as his spiritual advisor should be the red flag to any Christ follower. What do you think of Whitney Webb? I think she does great research.

Starting point is 02:40:29 I have never interviewed her, but I think she's done a lot of really good thorough research most recently on the technocracy stuff. I'm familiar with what she did with that. Before we leave this, as I said before, when I said now the number of Hamas fighters has gone up to 40,000, Israel and the Israeli military has admitted that they've only affected 25% of the tunnels. And while they had done an assessment that there were 20 to 30,000 Hamas before, now they estimate that Hamas has 40,000. So before October 7, 20,000 to 30,000. Now after all of this, 40,000. So they could be overstating this because

Starting point is 02:41:16 they want to have an excuse to go in there. Or it could be that these civilian campaigns do exactly the opposite. Most Gazans have been displaced multiple times. At least 50,000 have been killed per Palestinian health sources, says Zero Hedge. And countless deaths of deprivation have been reported. Tel Aviv and Washington maintain that all the fatalities caused by the Israeli war and blockade are the responsibility of Hamas.

Starting point is 02:41:42 Well, who was it that put Hamas in? There's been a big, nearly a civil war in Israel because Shin Bet, their top security agency, leadership came out and said, we made a lot of mistakes. But Netanyahu was the one who wanted Hamas in. And they did their best to put Hamas in, so they would have a more radical leadership there to keep them from having a

Starting point is 02:42:06 two-state solution and then it came out with Cuttergate that that Netanyahu was Financing Hamas and Cutter and we all know at the very beginning and when this all started back in October 7th of 2023 you had the leadership of Hamas was hanging out in Qatar. But he was funneling money to them and multiple people have come out, blowing the whistle on that. So he fired the head of Shin Bet, he fired the attorney general. The Supreme Court is coming after him for that. I mean, the country is divided over Netanyahu and over his policies there. And so, no, it is not a just war.

Starting point is 02:42:47 A just war is defensive, just war you're trying to end it as soon as possible. A just war you try to avoid civilian casualties. And if there's no prospect for success, which apparently according to their own admission, if after all this time, they have after a year and a half, if they have actually increased the number of Hamas there, and they've only taken out a quarter of the tunnels, then you're not justified to continue on with this. I talked about that with Robert E. Lee.

Starting point is 02:43:16 He stopped the war because he didn't want to continue a guerrilla warfare. He said, you know, this is gonna be a bloody drawn-out affair if we could ever even win it. We can't win it by conventional means. And so he stopped it. That was the just thing to do. Meanwhile, Trump is named an Israeli-born Yehuda Kaplan as U.S. anti-Semitism czar. We need an anti-Semitism czar? Are we not allowed to criticize? What kind of anti-Semitisms are? We need an anti-Semitism, Zahar?

Starting point is 02:43:45 Are we not allowed to criticize and we're going to hurt people's feelings so now we get a prison sentence or we get deported? So Trump said that Yehuda is a successful businessman, staunch advocate for the Jewish faith and the rights of his people to live and to worship free from persecution. What about the rights of other people? Do the rest of us not have any rights? No, we don't. If it hurts their feelings, if it's against their political policies, we don't have any rights. That is what they want us to believe. Since when do we have a czar that is going to be focused on censorship? Well, you know, we had a czar that was focused on prohibition, on the drug war.

Starting point is 02:44:30 Had that work out for us. If confirmed, he would join an administration that has cited anti-Semitism and rolling out a range of new policies. And of course, we've seen this. R.F.K. Jr. saying at HHS, hey, we've got to focus on anti-Semitism, it's a disease. Well you know he is also, I don't know what he's going to do about it, but also at HHS. They have focused on gun control, because you know guns are a disease too, according to previous people who have been there. I don't know what RK is going to do about it, if anything. We've had the CDC, which was under the HHS during the fake pandemic, they said you

Starting point is 02:45:11 can't evict people of foreclosure or any of these other things. They took that over as well. So they've gone in and said we can tell you that you can't foreclose, you can't evict people, we're gonna tell you that you got to have gun control. Now under R.F.K. Jr., they're gonna tell you what you can and cannot say. HHS needs to be just taken away. They're not even talking about shutting it down. R.F.K. Jr., this is a classic case of Boromir-ism. He's gonna use it for good. He's got the ring of power and he's gonna use it for good. No, got the ring of power and he's going to use it for good. No, you need to cast it into the fire of Mount Doom. Nothing else

Starting point is 02:45:50 will suffice. Trump's announcement elicited a wave of sharply anti-Semitic comments. One person says, no one believes anti-Semitism is an issue but the Zionists. I will criticize our greatest enemy whenever I want, said one. Another one said, combat anti-Semitism? Don't people have the constitutional right to like and to hate who they wish? The Jerusalem Post interviewed Kaplan as he was in Israel last year. They said to help Trump make inroads with Jewish voters Kaplan organized an event at Trump's Bedminster

Starting point is 02:46:25 Golf Course co-hosted with philanthropist Miriam Adelson, the key Zionist there. Trump spoke for 45 minutes focused entirely on anti-Semitism, Kaplan told the Jerusalem Post. He said it wasn't a campaign rally, it was a call to action. No it was a campaign rally. It was a hand me the money and I'll give you what you want. Speaking of Miriam Maddelson, Kaplan said she's not just a philanthropist, she is a strategist and an advocate for the Jewish people. No, for the Zionists.

Starting point is 02:46:57 And there's a difference. That's why I'm talking about this. This is the same event where Trump pledged to restore the power of the Israeli lobby over Congress, says Information Liberation. Trump told the Jewish group, and I've played this clip for you before, you're going to end up winning because you're going to have the presidency, okay? And they do. They absolutely do.

Starting point is 02:47:19 And so, you know, when you look at these people, it truly is amazing. And we have to get people to understand that there's a difference between Jews and Zionist Jews and there's a huge difference between Christians and Zionist Christians. They have replaced Christ with a political idolatry and with a worldly desire for land and they don't care who they kill to get it. And that truly is satanic. Trump's campaign promises in 2024 to restore the Zionist lobby for Israel as the quote most powerful lobby in the US by far.

Starting point is 02:47:59 And notice how in his speeches he distinguishes between Zionist Jews and non-Zionist Jews, calling non-Zionist Jews Palestinian. And in a sense that is kind of what I've seen from a lot of Christian pastors who will call them Amalekites. You have Ben Shapiro and Netanyahu calling them Amalekites. And I look at it and it's like, well, they don't even believe the Bible. They don't believe the Torah, what Moses gave them. So where do they get off calling anybody Amalekites?

Starting point is 02:48:35 That is basically to say that we can kill every last one of them. That's why they are calling them that. They're putting that label on them. They take that label from a book they don't believe and admit that they don't believe. You know, when Ben Shapiro was on with Joe Rogan, oh, you believe that Moses parted the Red Sea or that God parted it for Moses? No, I don't believe that. But we got the land on the other side.

Starting point is 02:49:01 That I believe. Well, if they're going to try to take this all on their own, they might want to go back and take a look at what happened to Israel. Of course, they don't believe the book, so I guess they can't learn the lesson from it. But when they looked at Canaan and they sent the spies in, they said, there's giants in the land, we can't take it. And God said, well, then you won't take it, you'll wander in the wilderness for 40 years. So then they said, well let's try it anyway. And that did not work out very well for them at all.

Starting point is 02:49:33 Well we're going to move on to something else, but I'll just say one last thing. Keep this in mind from basically what we heard Hagee say about the fact that Jesus was not the Messiah. He said, John, apostle John, the same guy that wrote the revelation that everybody then uses that to elevate Israel, said, Dear children, this is the last hour. And as you've heard, the antichrist is coming, and even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it's the last hour. Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. Such a man is antichrist. And I say that John Hagee, Paul White, and their ilk are not Christians.

Starting point is 02:50:26 They are antichrist. We'll be right back. I'm sorry. Analyzing the globalist's next move. Well, I think it was on Friday, I believe it was over this weekend, but I believe it was on Friday. Trump ordered the military to seal the southern border. As the U.S. accelerates, hemispheric defense, writes Zero Hedge. Hemispheric defense? They seem to think that it's a good thing to have a North American Union. They seem to think that it's a good thing to have a tech-mate.

Starting point is 02:52:16 You know, the technocracy's idea of Greenland to Central America under the US military. The memo was titled, Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions. Again, a imaginary emergency. And so the problem is, is that yes, there was an engineered crisis, and now here's the response.

Starting point is 02:52:45 There's many things that could have been done to the open borders. And as I said all along, the real problem was not that we didn't have a wall. The problem was that we had a magnet. We had a welfare magnet. That was the Cloward and Piven strategy. As a matter of fact, they told us what they were up to. It was a conspiracy, their conspiracy, Cloward and Piven's conspiracy, to collapse the United States with mass migration

Starting point is 02:53:08 and a welfare state. I am all for open borders, I am not for a welfare state, not even for American citizens. But the issue is, and if you wanted to stop that invasion, I said when Trump was elected, I said the wall's not going to do anything. And if you want to stop this, you don't have to beg Congress for this. You could bring the troops home like you said you're going to do in Afghanistan and Iraq

Starting point is 02:53:33 and you could just line them up at the border. That's going to stop any invasion of caravans and all the rest of this stuff. Just through intimidation. It doesn't have to be a permanent thing. But now they wanted to have Trump stood aside. He campaigned on that issue. He stood aside. It's one of the reasons why Ann Coulter went from idolatry to demonization. You know, he was our Lord and Savior or something. I forget what she, God Emperor or something like that she called him, which is blasphemous. But it goes from that to this demon, Trump, because he didn't do the border, and he didn't

Starting point is 02:54:13 want to do the border. The Republicans and Democrats both wanted the border open. They wanted voters, they wanted cheap workers, but they also wanted a problem. And the solution to the problem that they created is, well, we've got to have voter ID. wanted a problem. And the solution to the problem that they created is, well, we've got to have voter ID, and we've got to have ID for you to get a job, and it's going to be approved by Washington. We've got to have mandatory e-verify, and on and on. And so now we're going to have a border that is going to be filled with surveillance infrastructure to repel border invasion and to seal the US-Mexico

Starting point is 02:54:44 border from unlawful entry." You know, so not doing it to Canada. Well, that's a good thing. But don't we have a fentanyl problem in Canada as well? None of this stuff. These liars don't even bother to come up with a consistent story. But it's this surveillance thing that is really the issue. The armed forces will operate under Department of Defense prescribed rules of force and they

Starting point is 02:55:12 will transfer a jurisdiction of necessary lands to the Department of Defense. And so he's sent this out to the Agricultural Secretary, Secretary of the Interior and various other people in his cabinet to say you're going to transfer this land at the border to the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense and they're going to operate this under rules of war. And at the same time we have the TSA coming out and reminding everybody that beginning next month they're not going to let you fly if you don't have a real ID. This border theme readers should understand, says Zero Hedge, is that securing the border plays a much larger theme of national and hemispheric defense across the Americas.

Starting point is 02:55:56 Is that a good thing? Zero Hedge seems to think that it is. See this is what Trump is doing. He's going to defend us. No, he's going to put us in an open-air prison. Hence, a push for a stronger economic integration between the United States and Canada, coupled with a hardened defense perimeter stretching from the Arctic to the Panama Canal. No zero-hedge.

Starting point is 02:56:19 You completely lost the plot. You've lost the scheme. You've lost the plot, you've lost the scheme, you've lost their agenda, you don't seem to understand anything about the North American Union or the technocracy's tech-mate. Are they that clueless? It's amazing. All of this is preparing the Americas for 2030 to challenge China.

Starting point is 02:56:42 We haven't even gotten into a shooting war and now everything that Trump does that is authoritarian, totalitarian, Orwellian, all the rest of this, all of that is excused. Well, we got to do it because of China. We got to become China. Because of China, right? They'll use it for slavery. They'll use it for reset. At the same time, we have ICE putting up a post. People took snapshots of it.

Starting point is 02:57:11 People started commenting about it, so they took it down. They put up a post about stopping illegal ideas from crossing the border. Pull that picture up, Travis, and show people what it looks like. A social media post that claimed that its mission was not just to keep out illegal immigrants, money, and products, but also to keep out ideas. There you go. If it crosses the US border illegally, it's our job to stop it.

Starting point is 02:57:37 And then the things they list are people, money, products, and ideas. Ideas. And they said, oh, well, we should have said that the ideas are intellectual property. Well, it's been my experience that copyright has been the preferred method of censorship for me. Always has. Going back to my video about the Federal Reserve and on, up to today. It has always been claims of copyright.

Starting point is 02:58:09 Either that or they shut me down without any explanation. If they give you an explanation, they'll say intellectual property. So they said, you know, when you look at what they're doing, they are doing exactly what they said. The Trump administration is punishing ideas because you know the First Amendment applies to people if they're here legally on permit to go to school or whatever they have First Amendment protection even if you don't like what they say and I don't like what most of them were saying or doing. But

Starting point is 02:58:39 if they're not violent, if you're coming after people because of what they say, that's a completely different thing. The Salvadoran president came and said he will not return this guy whose last name is Garcia Kilmar Abrego Garcia. U.S. officials admit the deportation was a mistake, but they say they're not obliged to bring him back, even though the Supreme Court has said so. The judge says he's not guilty. They claimed that he was part of MS-13.

Starting point is 02:59:07 The evidence against Garcia consisted of nothing more than his Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie and a vague, uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13, part of the Western clique in New York, a place that he has never lived. The court granted him protection from removal to El Salvador, citing credible fear of persecution by gangs there. Nevertheless, he was arrested on March 12th by immigration authorities in Maryland and deported shortly after to this horrible prison. This is straight out of Kafka.

Starting point is 02:59:44 It is straight out of Kafka. It is absolutely amazing. And so as the As the Trump administration all of them, you know, there's Department of Justice. You've got Rubio the Secretary of State Trump all of them are saying nah, we're not gonna bring him back And so Trump brings in the totalitarian president of El Salvador, this little dictator, and he says, no, we're not going to let him go. And yet, it was the Trump administration who paid them to take prisoners, and they say, we have no control over it. And we'll talk more about that tomorrow.

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