The Glenn Beck Program - Guest Host Garret Lewis - KNST AM 790 - U.S. Economy Roars to 4.3% in Third Quarter under President Trump

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

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and I have them all for you. Coming up in just a minute. Again, my name is Garrett Lewis. Thank you for hanging out with me. I do the afternoon show on KFYI in Phoenix, and KNST. in Tucson. And I'm so glad to be hanging out with you as we get closer and closer to Christmas and New

years and everything else. So the media is desperate for something. And this whole Epstein situation, it's got more files being put out there just minutes ago, just minutes ago. And apparently about 30,000 files are out there. And I went to the left. news sites. And this is the lead story for everyone, everywhere, and everything.

CNN and others reporting that flight records show Trump traveled on at least eight Epstein flights, according to an assistant U.S. attorney, at least eight. Okay, let's start to hyperventilate, right? Now, imagine the reaction. if President Trump was in the hot tub with a woman who you can't see her face because she's either a sex assault victim or a minor or both and Gailene McIgislane Gailene Maxwell

imagine if if Trump was in the pictures instead of Bill Clinton. Media kind of went right past the whole Bill Clinton in the hot tub whole situation. No demanding of any explanation of Bill Clinton, but man Trump took a plane ride. Did he? I mean, I guess he did. People knew this guy.

I'm not defending it. Listen, if anybody did anything nasty and crazy, let's hear about it. But everything that I've seen and heard in the past is that Trump did not like Epstein. I guess Epstein was this so-called big shot. There were lots of pictures, right? He's taking pictures with Bill Clinton. He's taking pictures of Michael Jackson. Diana Ross, Mick Jagger, Trump, others.

It's like he was a guy that was upset. And he was a sick, pervert, pedophile, you name it, right? But it was like he just wanted to also have pictures with all kinds of famous people. Was it for protection himself? I don't know. He's dead. I can't answer that question. Can't answer the question.

But interesting tweet put out by the Department of Justice, just a few minutes ago as well. They write, the Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false. And if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already. Wow. Now you're going to see the left say, oh, here we go, the DOJ acting like President Trump's lawyer. If you hate Trump, that's your view.

If you like Trump, you say, yeah, can we get some context and some facts, please? Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein's victims. Okay. So to me, it's just obvious. I mean, it's interesting. There's flights. What does it mean? There's no hot tub pictures.

There's a story out today as well about a witness, an actual woman that worked for Jeffrey Epstein, who reported him to the FBI because he stole naked pictures of her nieces. and she reported to the FBI, but do you know who's president when she reported to the FBI? Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton's FBI sat on these. Oh, oh, right? So you just got to look at facts, okay? And, you know, I like to say that I know liberals very well.

And people say, Garrett, how do you know liberals very well? and I always say I think of conservatives, but then I take away reason and accountability. And there you have it, right? So facts matter. And to me, before even hearing a big time lib actually talk about, I mean, if you want to say the truth about Epstein and Trump, and I'll get that to you in just a second, it's pretty interesting. If the Democrats, the Democrats went to great lengths to try to stop President Trump from ever running for president again because they knew he would win.

They knew he would win. They made up crimes. They had him arrested. They had the greatest mugshot of all time. They had all of these things happening. They went to such extremes. They raided his home. We now find out just days ago that the FBI said,

there's no probable cause to raid Trump's home. At Moro Lago, no probable cause. We don't have enough probable cause. And Biden and the DOJ said, we don't care. We're going in anyway. And there was a story of the New York Post about how Joe Biden's White House coordinated the raid of Mar-a-Lago. And that gets a yawn.

That gets a yawn. Bill Clinton in the hot tub with a redacted picture of a woman. That gets a yawn. This is going to get everything. But again, if it was so easy to just put out pictures of Trump, with Epstein and doing bad things and things that are just, again, the one, the only thing that can separate Trump from the gigantic base of supporters that he has is Trump. And if, and if he was all of a sudden some sick petto on Epstein Island doing this stuff,

it would have easily broken away from the base. They're not doing that. Nope. You know what? No, not going to have. And the Democrats knew that. So the Democrats had nothing. I mean, Joe Biden was the Dems were there for four years.

And they could have put out whatever they wanted if it were true. That's how I look at this. Now, maybe you say, Garrett, you're just being too naive. Am I really again? So you'd rather do what looks like an illegal raid of Mar-a-Lago. You'd rather have crimes made up in different states, a mugshot. all this stuff, you'd rather have that than simply put out what could have been real pictures of Trump involved with Epstein in the worst ways possible. So to me, I look at that, I'm like, there's obviously

nothing there. But still, you're going to see some hyperventilation today. And it's, listen, I'm glad that you are here with me. There are a decent amount of people that are just completely checked out right now, right? They want to be ostriches. They want to bury their head in the sand or the snow and just play Christmas music. And I completely understand it because there's only so much that we can take, except I appreciate you being here because we get to have fun with this stuff too. So it's not going to really help the Dems, but they are just, they are doing everything they can to try to get some kind of hoax. Now, they'll call it a story. You and I will call it a story. You and I will call it a hoax.

It seems like every week they have these new things, but unlike the first Trump term, they crash and burn. Like they never catch fire and continue. They're duds. They're duds. They're like North Korean rockets. They're just duds.

Michael Wolfe. Do you know who Michael Wolf is? He is a hardcore leftist. And MS Now used to be MSNBC. MS now darling, at least he was, CNN. he would do these books. He was a so-called journalist, and it would be nothing but Trump hit pieces.

And for some reason in the first Trump term, they're like, we're going to let Michael Wolf come in and do interviews. Why would you do that? He would write one-sided hit pieces about President Trump. He is a hardcore leftist. He is as big of a dem as you could ever find. And yet Michael Wolf did an interview, and he gave some insight on Epstein and Trump.

Epstein's legal problems began. The police began to investigate him over allegations that there were underage women coming to his house. Epstein believed that it was Trump who first informed the police about what was going on at Epstein's house. And from that point on, they were nothing but bitter enemies. And this is what he's telling you. This is one of the instances of what he's telling you. Yes. That is the version of this related by Epstein.

Wow. So again, if Donald Trump had ever done anything that was illegal, disgusting, immoral, whatever you want to say, wouldn't Jeffrey Epstein have the dirt on him? And would Donald Trump really call the police on Epstein knowing Epstein's like, yeah, you're going to call the police on me? Look what, I'll tell him what you did. Look what I have. again, that's just how I come up with this. And I got to try to use common sense and logic and critical thinking. And I know you do as well.

You can hit me up, by the way, and let me know. You can send me messages at Garrett Lewis on Instagram and X. And let me know what you think about this stuff too. But when I hear this, Michael Wolves a hardcore left is he talked to Jeffrey Epstein. He said Jeffrey Epstein started hating Trump because he thought that Trump called the police on him. So we have that. Is that not enough? Is that not enough?

Bradley Edward is an attorney. He was the attorney for at least one victim of Jeffrey Epstein. And he was asked questions about Trump. The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people that I wanted to talk to them, he is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let's just talk. I'll give you as much time as you want. I'll tell you what you need to know and was very helpful in the information that he gave and gave no indication

whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information that checked out and that helped us, and that we didn't have to take a deposition of him. That was in 2009. That was in 2009. Okay, I look at all this, and I say, I just don't get it. I just don't see much there. Okay, so flight records show Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet. It says here on CNN many more times than previously has been wrong.

reported or that we're aware. And an assisted U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York wrote in an email dated January 8th, 2020. Trump was listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Galane Maxwell was also present. On a flight in 1993, Trump and Epstein are the only two listed passengers. On another, the only two, just him and Jeffrey. Epstein, what about the underage girl? Oh, there was none.

On another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then a 20-year-old. Okay. So what is it? Again, and if you remember, Trump, do you remember what Trump did? Do you remember what Trump did to Jeffrey Epstein? I have that for you. So again, I look at this and I'm like, all right, this to me is a big tell about the Democrats as well. I'll get to all that and what Trump did to Epstein. I have it for you coming up. Garrett Lewis is with you. Sitting in for Glenn Beck.

Garrett Lewis with you again in Arizona, where it's warm, but we're apparently going to get some colder and wetter weather. And by colder, I mean the 60s, man, the 60s. Don't be so jealous. Don't be so jealous. You can be jealous. It's okay. I do the afternoon show on KFYI in Phoenix and KNST in Tucson. and I am so glad that you are hanging out with me.

So do you remember what really quick, because this is a big, this is a giant tell with the Democrats, by the way, is they're going to try to hyperventilate on this Epstein stuff because some other big news came out just a little bit ago as well. But I don't know if you're aware of this or not,

but President Trump, if he was so close to Jeffrey Epstein, why did he kick him out of Mar-a-Lago? Here's more of that attorney, Bradley Edward. Do you know if there's any truth to James Patterson's claims that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago? I've definitely heard that. I definitely heard that. I don't know that it was Trump himself as opposed to a manager there. Trump's club, so people credit him. Trump's, I've heard the rumor that Epstein was kicked out of there for allegedly trying to pick up somebody's daughter,

something like that. But I think I did chase that down as far as I could and never was able to confirm it. But I heard it. So the fact that the media and the Democrats are going to do everything they can to try to distract the American public. And again, good luck doing it on Christmas week, geniuses. So they're trying so hard to do this because they can't get any wins. And again, they don't have the same power and control that they did in the first term because people have had enough. Like they just went too far with the whole China virus scam. They went way too far.

And there are so many more than the, I truly believe more than the most. I truly believe more than the majority of Americans are like, we've had enough. We're not going to believe you. We don't want to believe you. We want nothing to do with you. So they keep on trying the same old tired playbook of just really going after Trump with these sensationalistic stories. And honestly, Americans are like, I just don't care.

And honestly, at the same point, Americans, look, the ones that love Trump, they love Trump, but they want the economy to get better. They want their lives to get better. They want to be happier and they want financial security because that's a big de-stressor. And they're like, listen, we're glad that you stopped eight wars or whatever it is. But I want you to focus on this first. And I think Trump got that message. He got that message.

And this is a big tell to me with the media and everything because there's actually good news. It came out just a little bit ago that our economy, the U.S. economy, grew by 4.3%, in the third quarter. The so-called experts, they expected 3.2%. This is 4.3%. But I thought tariffs are going to destroy the economy. I thought, I mean, I really thought that tariffs were going to do this.

That's what we were told by the same experts, right? Now, look, we got to get more jobs. Jobs need to come back. I believe they will. I hope to Trump did it in the first term. why do I not think he'll do it now? The economy is so much more screwed up after the four years under whoever told Biden what to do

than it was for the eight years that Obama was there. Isn't that crazy to think about it? It's true. All the money printing and spending and insanity that took place, consumer spending expanded by 3.5% in the third quarter. It was up 2.5% in the second quarter.

We have increases in exports. It says government spending boosted growth. but we were we were cutting jobs anyway um so we have inflation down the economy growing the growth is going to give people more confidence i don't know if that's going to make the fed not want to cut because they go wow it's such growth maybe we should leave interest rates where they are uh as soon as trump gets his guy in there and he gets people in place they're going to start cutting like crazy but anyway this this is uh this is a this is a positive, big time positive view of the economy.

And I think it's going to lead to a gigantic boom in 2026. And I think the Democrats are scared out of their mind because of this. Out of their mind. No joke. No joke. They don't understand it. Look, we might get another government shut down the end of January. Had that work out the first time for the Democrats.

We'll do more about Epstein after, but I also have other stuff to get to, including the latest poll numbers. numbers for Trump. They're driving the left crazy. You might be surprised by this. I have for you coming up, Garrett Lewis, in for Glenn Beck. This is Glenn Beck. A new website, a new app, a new way to understand the world we're living in, launching January 5th at glenbeck.com. Garrett Lewis with you. I am sitting in for Glenn Beck. I do the afternoon show on KFY in Phoenix, KNST in Tucson. You can follow. me on Instagram and X at Garrett Lewis. 2R's 1T because my mom is difficult.

And of course on Facebook at Garrett Lewis Radio. Thank you for hanging out of me. Today is my last day for this year, but I'll be back with you here on the Glenn Beck program on Friday, January 2nd. So, gigantic news that the economy grew by 4.3%. Gigantic news, more numbers that are great for Trump coming up in just one sec. But looking more and more at this report, in the third quarter, the economy grew by 4.3%. Exports grew by 8.8%. Imports fell by 4.7%.

Making more things here, Trump opened up more markets for our businesses, our industries, to sell to the rest of the world. That's why exports rose by 8.8%. And imports fell by 4.7%. It's a huge deal. Trump is now basically saying pray for the, pray for the Supreme Court on their decision about tariffs, because tariffs are a big reason why this is happening. And he's not wrong. He is not wrong. So we'll see what happens. Incredible how the government shut down.

This still happened. And it still could be revised, too, by the way. It still could be revised. This is the first estimate, the first estimate. We'll see what happens when you get the second estimate. have been everything else, but Trump's taking a, he's taking a victory lap, as he should at this aspect. And look, we might, this is crazy, but we might get another government shutdown at the end of next month, because Democrats continue to fight for dumb things. They continue to fight for

us to subsidize Obamacare and illegals. And again, what drives me nuts is I don't think the Republicans say it enough, had the Democrats are the ones that wrote into the inflation reduction. The Democrats are responsible for the Obamacare subsidies ending. It's all you have to say, they're the ones that did it. They threw extra COVID cash, which caused more inflation, which caused everything in your life to become more expensive. They printed more cash and gave it away to the whopping 7% of people that actually use Obamacare plans. And now they want billions of dollars of your money to continue to offer them cheaper plans. The Democrats have screwed this up. They can't be trusted. They can't be in charge. Can't do it. So now the latest

numbers that I've seen. This is a polling done by insider advantage. They have Trump at a 50% approval rating. He has 50% approval, 41% disapprove. He is plus nine, plus nine. Nine percent are undecided. Who the hell are those people? Anyway, now, so Trump is at 50 approved 41 disapprove and the men are really happy 59% of men are happy with trump what's up with the women 42% are happy that's it 47 disapprove what too many women look at it Trump they just women are sexist what is the deal with that um this is this is where come on come on women come on women my family, we took a family vacation to Washington, D.C. at the end of September, beginning October, right as the government was shutting down. We were lucky enough to get an inside tour at the National Archives.

And a congressman's wife was able to get us this great tour. We were able to go inside the vault of the National Archives, where the archivists got these really cool documents that we'd normally never be able to see. He showed us the handwritten inauguration speech of George Washington. There were so many other things. There's something that the congressman's wife asked the archivist to show my family in me because I do things here in Arizona called the beer club for men, which it's like a funnier name for a happy hour, right? The beer club for men.

And then women, and I've done it for like 10 years, at least, maybe 11 years. And at the beginning, women were always like, well, can women go? And I'm like, yes, women are more than allowed to come. We want women to come, right? We love the women. You just can't nag us. If you nag us, you'll be escorted out. Like, that's the whole thing.

Just no nagging, no nagging. And, I mean, it's all in good fun with some seriousness. So anyway, the congressman's wife made sure that the archive has had this document to show me, to show my wife over 100 years ago, back in 1917. was the big push for women to be able to vote, the women's suffrage movement, which led to men's suffering. Anyway, so the women's suffrage movement.

There's this letter, and I have that, if you follow me on Instagram, you scroll down a little bit, at Garrett Lewis, you could see this. I put it on there. I got the document, I have screenshots and everything. There was something called the National Association opposed to woman suffrage.

What? Opposed to woman suffrage. How did these men get away with it? Well, it turns out the entire organization was made up of women. The National Association opposed to woman suffrage, women against women voting. And it was a bunch of, it looks like, senators' wives. And back then, I have this letter. It's dated December 11th, 1917, where this organization wrote to basically say,

please don't give women the right to vote. And when you find out why, and I'll tell you in just a second, it's pretty hilarious. It's interesting. They sign their names are attached to this with their husbands. It's like, okay, Mrs. Albert, wait, wait, Mrs. John B. Heron, Mrs. Lewis A. Frothingham. So that's how it was back in the day. Can you imagine these men, by the way? It doesn't happen that often, but men that take their wives' names.

Like, come on. Anyway, so there's this letter, this three-page letter as to why women should not be allowed to vote. And obviously, I think these women, they were probably forced to do this by their husbands. But I'm not joking with you on page two as the reasons why women shouldn't vote. it says it would give suffragists and socialists. Yes, they said if you allowed women to vote, it would lead to socialism. Were they wrong? Anyway, it would give them the opportunity to annoy and pester every legislator in the United States until a majority of the men in 36 legislatures surrendered their judgment and principle

to political threats and cajolery. You got to love this. This is what the women wrote and signed. If women were allowed to vote, it would give suffraists and socialists, the suffragists and socialists, the opportunity to annoy investor every legislator. And then they continued. It would mean that no legislature in the United States could meet without being surrounded by suffrage pickets. It would be an official endorsement of nagging as a national policy. Yes.

these women wrote that women should not be able to vote because it would lead to nagging being an official endorsement of a national policy. And I bring this up because it always makes me laugh and how women are not above 50% approval for Trump. Men are at 59. The women are at 40 to what is going on with that? The nagging is there.

It says here besides the nagging, it would give every radical woman the right to believe that she could get any law she wanted by pestering her city council, her legislature, her congressman, or her president, no matter how the people voted, nor what national crisis existed. And if feminism can be put through by pestering,

regardless of the will of the people, so can pacifism, socialism, and other isms. So there you go. Which, listen, women, let's be honest, women have a way to get whatever the heck want and it doesn't always involve nagging and pestering. It's a big part of it, but there's other ways because men are weak. Men are weak. Anyway, so Trump is actually doing quite well,

according to this insider advantage poll. Other demographics, he's doing all right, so he's doing okay. And this is after this Democrat shut down. So what are the Democrats going to do? And I love this. Just in case you missed this, Quinnipiac polling, which is a leftist polling group, they had Democrats at an 18% approval rating. 18%. Even on CNN, they had to get wrecked. How are voters feeling about Democrats right now? Yeah, I mean, Democrats in the minds of the American public are lower than the Dead Sea. What are we talking about here?

Well, let's take a look. The net approval rating for Democrats in Congress. You said at Cape Baldwin, the lowest ever. Look at this. Overall, they are 55 points underwater. Are there? Fifty, 18% approval, 73% disapproval. Are they going to be dumb enough to actually want to shut down the government again?

You have major economic growth. We have a secure border. Most people at this point, I mean, we were driven nuts by the open border. But people are excited about the aspect of the economy. They wanted to get better. We're not feeling it as much. However, gas prices have dropped. At least I think so I saw yesterday they were down to 279 for a national average.

They're getting lower and lower and lower, which should hopefully create more competition and lower prices because if it's all of a sudden becoming cheaper to get things to the market, well, then in competition you can lower the price to sell more to compete for people's business with your competitors. I'm hoping that takes place. I wanted to take place. But are Democrats going to be that stupid? but honestly, I think they are. They have nothing. I always say this on my show. Can you name me one thing a Democrat has done

that has actually helped you in life? Especially the last couple of years, what policy do they have that has actually made your life better, your family's life better? What is it? This is why they just shut things down because they have nothing, nothing.

And they're honestly, They are all about even dumber policies now. What they are supporting is absolutely insane. I'll touch on it. I want to do more in the next hour, including the DNC. They did a report. Why they lost the 2024 election.

Look, you really have to do an actual autopsy of that. But it's creating a giant civil war. Democrats are looked at as a bunch of pariahs by voters. They have no support. There's major infighting going on in their own party. yet the media wants to tell you that you are going to see the Democrats win the midterms. I don't know if the Republicans are going to win or lose, but it's not as rosy as the media paints it, but that's where propaganda comes in.

And we'll get into that. But the latest insane idea that Democrats are supporting. Like they, beyond stupid, I have that for you coming up. Garrett Lewis with you. I do the afternoon show on KFYI in Phoenix, KNST in Tucson. and I'm sitting in right now for Glenn Beck. Keep your powder dry and your conscience clear. This is Glenn Beck.

Garrett Lewis with you sitting in for Glenn Beck. Again, I'm in Arizona. I'm in the Phoenix area. Now I do the afternoon show on KFY in Phoenix, KNST, and Tucson. And I see more people are now following me on Instagram. Yes, if you scroll down, follow me on Instagram at Gary Lewis. you can see that actual document of the nagging. It's a couple of pages and it's there.

It's not too far down on my Instagram. Follow me at Gar-Lewis and you can see it for yourself. It's very important. Again, you can't blame me for being a chauvinistic pig when it was the women that wanted the women to stop women from voting because they knew they would annoy, nag and pester lawmakers into doing what they wanted. Now that I would not say that I agree with that.

I'm just saying that's what the women actually said. So the Democrats continue to try to lose in such epic proportions. These are the things that make me feel good during the Christmas and Hanukkah season, right? This is what it is. They are doing so many dumb things. There's over 125 Democrats that are fighting to make sure they want President Trump. and his administration to reverse course

and make sure that legal and illegal immigrants can get welfare benefits. Is that what you want? Democrats not fighting for Americans with 38 trillion in debt. We can all agree everything costs way too much money

and this is all because of the Democrats printing $6 trillion. Don't you love it? It's the Inflation Reduction Act. What are you going to do? We're going to spend more money. Well, that doesn't reduce inflation. Doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter. So, yeah, you have Democrats over 125 of them in the House. They are asking President Trump to go back and change what he does. The Justice Department, this is a big deal. The Justice Department just a couple of days ago closed a loophole created by the Clinton administration. the Clinton administration opened up a loop, created a loophole that allowed legal and illegal immigrants that come to America to work

to get welfare benefits. So the Trump Justice Department wrote, we now retract that 1997 opinion and offer something different. We don't want that to be that way. If you come here, you should be able to do it yourself and you shouldn't rely on American taxpayers. And the Democrats say, no, we want taxpayers to keep giving benefits to them.

Are you kidding me? This is, they keep wanting to lose an epic proportions. Epic proportions. And we need to keep on doing that, by the way. Keep letting them do these things. More on this coming up as well as the Democrats' major infighting. This should put you in the holiday spirit and the Christmas spirit. More infighting.

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But just talking about it, the Democrats continue to find ways to lose and screw it up. And that's why I really don't want you to actually get affected by the propaganda of the left media. There is major, major infighting going on with the Democrats. they were refusing to share information on why they lost in 2024. It's hilarious. I have it for you coming up. Garrett Lewis, with you here. Thank you so much sitting in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program.

So if you sit back and watch the news, listen to the news, it can really mess with your mind. Propaganda, the most powerful tool that there is. And all you hear is Republicans are in trouble. They are in big time trouble. Democrats are going to win them. midterms because it's always been that way. And they get you convinced of it. And they want you to just accept it.

The more you hear things, the more you tend to believe them, right? That's what they think. Bupkis, garbage, snooze out again today. 4.3% growth in the economy. The one part that didn't do well was housing, obviously. Mortgage rates still not what people want, even though they've dropped. Housing prices still not dropped. Trump's working on that. You've got to get rid of a bunch of illegals.

You start dropping. Rent prices have gone down and they're starting. They need to go down more. Once you open up the supply, need to build more homes. This is all part of the plan. And they better get it out there and they should. I can't imagine they wouldn't. So is it going to work in time is the question? I think it's going to be okay.

4.3% growth. And again, I just played for you. The Quinnipiac poll from CNN, they reported that, the Democrats are 55 points underwater, 18% approval of their job in Congress, 73% disapproval, Trump's at 50% approval in this insider advantage poll. So why would you sit back and believe anything the Democrats say, or the media, right? And I mentioned in the last hour, the Epstein stuff, oh, here we go, Trump flew with Epstein. Okay, what does that mean?

Right, what does that mean? And if there was something that bad, why wouldn't the Democrats put that out there during the last election cycle. Why wouldn't they do that? And I played with the soundbites of people saying Trump through Epstein at Amaralago. Epstein didn't like Trump because he believes Trump called the police on him.

Doesn't sound to me that Trump was in on any of the nasty stuff. But they want you to just believe this stuff with the headlines and everything else. So that's why I just thought this was hilarious. The Democrats, and they have like no money, by the way. remember they had a billion and a half dollars and he had a bunch of grifters there. Camilla's campaign spent a billion and a half bucks in her book, 107 days. By the how did her book do?

She wanted this wild book tour that was awful for her. I thought it was hilarious for me. How did that book do? Did you hear about anything with the book? Was it number one? I didn't hear anything. So it obviously didn't do very well. So Camilla blew through a billion and a half bucks.

and the Democrats apparently spent more money on a post-election autopsy. That's what it is, right? We need to review why we lost. Dude, they could have paid me a thousand bucks and I'd have just said Kamala Harris. I mean, what more do you? You know, but you know why they lost.

Anyway, bottom line is the Democrats are not releasing the report to the public. They're hiding them. They're high. Now, why do you think they're hiding them? Because their parties, this is more fantastic news, right? You have to pressure the Republicans to continue to do the right thing. But this is really good news. And again, it shows you the media is garbage and the Democrats. They have no plan. What, what positive thing have they done to help you in life? Is there anything? No. So there was a story from Newsmax. party members reportedly are angry that chairman Ken Martin decided to bury a postmortem of the 2024 election. Democrats commissioned an extensive internal review of what went wrong after their losses last year, only to have the DNC chair Ken Martin decide the public, the donors, and the party activists won't get to see it. You know what it is? One is Kamala. I mean, when you

hide your candidate for 40 days from doing an interview? And the first interview she does, she has to have her therapy animal, Tim Wals right there? Come on. Really? She was the vice president. She did a crap job with that. Borders wide. I don't know what borders are. People are onto it. Only the crazy psychotics and the people that just have Trump derangement syndrome. them, they're the only ones that don't see it this way. And there's not that many of them. It's not a majority, obviously. It's not a majority, okay?

We all know Camelow is terrible. She couldn't even answer questions. Remember on the view, they were like, would you do, what's one thing you would do differently? And she's like, I don't, I don't think so. Hunter Biden just did an interview with Sean Ryan, six hours. Who the hell is going to watch six hours?

I don't think Hunter Biden's that actual interesting, but that's, you know, that's me. So Hunter Biden does an interview. And one of the things that he says is that, oh, the Afghanistan withdrawal was awful. That's all she had to say. Yeah, we did a terrible job. It'd be one thing. And then the media say, see, she admitted she'd do one thing differently. And that's what they, she couldn't even do that.

And they probably coached her. They probably coached her on that. She couldn't do it. So you know in this entire post-mortem, after-action report, autopsy, whatever you want to call it, right? You know, you know that she probably was in there quite a bit, as well as things that Americans are done with, right? we're done with men playing in women's sports. We're done with men in women's bathrooms and locker rooms. We're simply done with that stuff.

We're done with illegal immigration. We're done with paying for illegals and even legal immigrants. The fact that Democrats are actually fighting for President Trump to say, no, no, no, please, we need you to continue to pay. for the welfare of legal and illegal immigrants. How many Americans do you know that are like, yes, everything's expensive? I want to continue to pay for people that came here legally and illegally so they can have a good life while I sit back and don't have the life that I want. This is crazy. Story from foxnews.com. More than 125 congressional Democrats are pushing the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed rule.

that would open the door to denying a person a green card if they use public assistance, including Medicaid and food stamps. I'm sorry, do you think you qualify, you're lucky enough, fortunate enough to actually get a green card if you need Medicaid and food stamps? I'm done paying for other people. I barely want to pay for my own kids. No, I don't want to pay for this stuff. And Americans don't want to pay for this stuff.

and what are the Democrats do? This is, they shut down the government for what? They shut down the government to try to blame Republicans and turn the tide. And they have no policies that actually make people say, you know what, I want to vote for that. They shut down the government because they wanted Americans to continue to foot the bill for illegals to get health care and other crazy things. But that was like a big one. That was a big, easy to understand, easy to digest, the American public got it. That's why members of Congress that are Democrats have an 18% approval rating right now, according to Quinnipia.

So Americans see that and they're like, you know what, I'm done with this stuff. I don't want to do this anymore. And yet Democrats keep pushing for this crazy stuff. They will continue to lose as long as we don't have rhinos, get back in control, want to grift, want to make money just like the corrupt Dems do and do stupid stuff. Congressman Adriano Aspelliat of New York is upset. He said he wants taxpayers. to give food, you pay for the food and the health care for people on green cards. No, I don't want to.

But he claims, quote, this proposal punishes families for caring for their children. It would scare parents away from health care, food assistance, and early education that U.S. citizen children are legally entitled to putting kids at risk and destabilizing entire communities. What the hell are you talking about? He said, Congress never intended public charge to be used this way. We're demanding Homeland Security withdraw this home. for proposal before it inflicts real and lasting damage on American families. They're talking about green card holders. What American families?

What are you talking about? And we don't want anchor babies getting this and their parents get this. That's not, no, we're done with this stuff. We can't continue to pay for everybody else. We're $38 trillion in debt. We just can't do this. And this is what Democrats push for. A bunch of commies, a bunch of socialists,

a bunch of anti-Semites. And now the Democrats are refusing to put out the reasons they lost the 2024 election. And again, you want to know why? Because the loudest part of their base, this is what I believe. The loudest part of their base is the reason why they lost. And they don't want people to see that.

Because they're a mess. They don't know what to do. They have a big civil war, right? You have the Mamdani commie guy with AOC and Burr. Bernie. And then you have the outgoing geriatrics in Pelosi and the rest. You have Schumer. It's a mess. It's a mess. And they realize it's a mess. They go, this is only going to cause more fighting because it's going to prove the biggest loudmouth that we have, which is the most activist part of our base. They are the reason we're losing. So we can't let anybody know this because it's going to cause more fighting. And then there's not enough of us to actually try to win other elections. And then they're going to come after us. Oh, my God. I think they're afraid that there's enough crazies to win in primaries, but never general elections. That's my take on this. Thehill.com. An insider told The Hill that the Democrats of a Hobbit, a habit of glossing things over, pretending there's nothing to see here.

That's how we lose elections. Another strategist for the Democrats, Jamal Simmons, he said that volunteers, donors, and voters deserve to know what went wrong. The DNC should tell them. It probably should, but they're not going to, because it's going to cause more harm. It's going to cause more harm. There's more. One Democrat said, the lesson we read about from the 2024 is that we lost white men. That's not analysis. That's avoidance.

Real questions are being buried. How did the free Palestine movement affect votes? Yep. Coalition fractures, messaging, failures, trust. You don't fix those by suppressing evidence. Again, when I tell you this stuff, what makes you actually think that Democrats are going to win the midterms? I'm not saying Republicans are going to walk away with it because they have to do work too. But if you believe the media, listen to the media, listen to Democrats, they'd actually have you believe.

Yep, it's a foregone conclusion just because we always do this stuff. But it's not normal anymore. It's not what we always have done, which I hate that. We've always done it this way. Trump's a different president. This is a different time. You have someone that's actually doing things for the right reasons. Remember when George W. Bush lost in 06, he lost all the House and the Senate.

His idea, we're going to give out stimulus checks to people as the economy was starting to turn. Yeah, it didn't work out too well. Now, did it? The idea that we're going to go back to the rhinos and the establishment, we can't do that because that's when we lose. That's when we lose. We have to stick with what works. and I don't care if the grifters and the people that try to make money off these deals, and they're in both parties, by the way, we can't let them continue to lead that way.

It just can't happen. And you know what? You're looking at, again, this would be such a major civil war inside the Democrats, which I would love to see. I would love to see it. And that's where they're going to stick with Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. Again, Bill Clinton's the one in the hot tub, not Donald Trump. Anyway, I have more for you, including a great story, because I love, I love story.

about Trump derangement syndrome, and there's a major Trump derangement syndrome story happening here in Arizona. It is hilarious. There is a city that is unfortunately going downhill in a very fast way, and guess who the mayor blames for it and why? I have that for you coming up. Garrett Lewis with you, sitting in for Glenn Beck. Garrett Lewis with you sitting in for Glenn Beck. I do the afternoon show on KFYI in Phoenix, KNST, in Tucson, and I'm so glad to be with you. You could follow. me on X at Garrett Lewis and on Instagram at Garrett Lewis. Two R's in one T because my mother had to be difficult.

On Facebook, Garrett Lewis Radio, it's that simple. Again, you could even see on my Instagram I mentioned in the last hour how the women, 100 plus years ago fought for women to not want to vote. As women are not, they're not supporting Trump in these polls like they should. And maybe women had it right 108 years ago, a women's group saying women shouldn't vote if they do, it's going to lead to nagging and socialism. I have those documents that I saw the National Archives. They're on my Instagram, Ed Garrett Lewis.

They're legit stuff. It's legit. You can't deny it. So Trump derangement syndrome is a big deal. There's a lot of what's going on here. A lot of the Democrats are never going to win because the American public sees this. And I think this is another reason why. And I'll get to more reasons why the Democrats don't want to show the autopsy as to why they lost.

And it really should read something like this. we're freaking nuts. They all know we're crazy and they're not voting for crazy. It's not happening. Now, speaking of crazy, there was a story here in Arizona. If you're not familiar to Arizona, the biggest part of the state is Maricopa County where the Phoenix area is. The county is way too big by itself. It's gigantic.

It might be the biggest county in America. The second biggest county is Pima County, which is where Tucson is. And Tucson, I spent 13 years in Tucson, and I'm still on in Tucson on KNST, but I'm on KFY in Phoenix. And Tucson, unfortunately, is run by a bunch of hardcore, I'm not kidding you, like KME is, okay? And they have just destroyed this beautiful city with beautiful views and beautiful mountain views. If you go to Tucson, it's just a bunch of, well, the most valuable real estate, are the medians, you know, on the streets, because that's where a lot of people have their work.

And the mayor is a hardcore commie. Her name is Regina Romero. Regina Romero. That's what I call her name, Regina. And some people, they lost too many smart people in the city of Tucson. Businesses are leaving. Nobody wants to do business there because they're trying to tax everybody like it's night and day and it's like comiville and then unfortunately maricopa county is a little bit

commie light but um they had an election there they wanted people in the city of tucson to vote to raise sales tax to try to fund the city and overwhelmingly the people of tuesday were like nope we're not doing that so now the city is going broke they give free bus rides and free they call it it's like the electric train the Sun Tran train rides. They had a guy rob a dairy queen in downtown Tucson and his getaway car was the free public transportation to get away. That happened just a few days ago. Anyway, the mayor of Tucson, she's upset

because they had to vote to raise taxes on public utilities, on hospitality, and they're taxing sales at pawn shops. So homeless people steal stuff. They sell to the pawn shops. Pawn shops sell it. The city gets their cut. they're 85 million in the whole in the city of Tucson. And the mayor, Regina Romero, blamed Donald Trump for all this.

She blamed Donald Trump. They had to raise taxes, the city council, to vote on all this other stuff. Quote, she said, it's really a reflection of the instability and uncertainty people feel because of the Trump on and off tariffs. What? We've had 4.3% growth. Concerns about mass deportation. and layoff of federal workers. She's blaming illegals getting deported,

shrinking of the government for the city of Tucson's problems. These people have trumped arrangement syndrome out the wazoo. I have more coming up. Garrett Lewis in for Glenn Beck. This is Glenn Beck. The American Story, The Days of Ash, and dozens more groundbreaking series all in one place. A new world of learning opens January 5th

at Glenbeck.com. Garrett Lewis with you. Sitting in for Glenn Beck. I do the afternoon show on KFYI in Phoenix and KNST in Tucson. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. Again, you could follow me on X and Instagram at Garrett Lewis, Facebook, Garrett Lewis Radio. I am sick and tired of propaganda. I'm a very optimistic person.

And I know that, you know, not every voter is as tuned in as you are or as I am. but I refuse to think that the Democrats are going to go in there and go gangbusters over the midterms, win it and then ruin our lives again. And it's all they do is ruin our lives. I mean, it's just, it's no joke. Some people just don't quite get it, don't understand it, and we have to account for that in the voting. I get that. I get that.

But the fact that the Democrats are having major infighting, they refuse to release the report on why they lost in 2024. Maybe it's also because Camilla is looked upon it. as a horrific candidate, but she might be the one for them again. That's how bad they are. And I think it also, again, has to do all the crazy stuff, right? Their support of illegals. They're support of terrorists. It's true.

The pro-Palestine people, the same thing as pro-Hamas. There's no two different. Give me a break. So they're a mess. And you know how bad it is? Apparently Hunter Biden. Remember Hunter Biden's the smartest guy. guy that Joe knows. Remember he said that Hunter's the smartest guy I know. Oh boy,

must have a hell of a cabinet there, Joe. So anyway, Hunter Biden, there are clips coming out. He sat down with Sean Ryan to do an interview. And he actually called out his dad for opening the borders. I don't think Hunter even realized it, by the way. A vibrant immigration, but we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally draining us of resources. Oh, really? And also being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes. Wait a second. Wait a second.

He doesn't, we don't want immigrants coming here illegally and draining us of resources, being prioritized above Americans. It's exactly what your dad. did for four years whether he knew it or not. Oh, Hunter. You think that's in the report? You think that's in there? Americans are over this stuff. And the Democrats don't know.

I'm telling you my gut. I haven't seen the report. Apparently not many people have. But a lot of people, a lot of people, are sick and tired of what the Democrats are doing and it's obvious that the Democrats are afraid of a lot of their own people. Okay? A ton of them.

And they don't know what to do. And this is a big thing. And because Americans are over this stuff too. It happened again. Did you hear about this? And you probably, I mean, you may have. But most of the country has not heard of this. This poor seven.

75-year-old lady out in Seattle. She's standing on the street corner and some mentally deranged lunatic who's got a bunch of priors decides to go up to her. She's waiting for the light to change to cross the street. He picks up a piece of wood.

It's like a finished piece of wooden stick, like a two-by-six or something. It's big. And it's got nails on it. He decides to go up behind her from behind and swing it around so it hits her in the face. One of the nails goes right through her eye, this poor 75-year-old, for no reason, for no reason at all.

It goes right through her eye, and it blinds her eye. He is a violent repeat offender, and he just randomly attacked this 75-year-old woman. Just attacked her. Again, for no reason. And you know what's crazy? The police knew who he was. They knew who he was.

He's been arrested so many times. So many times. Listen to this story for one of the TV stations in Seattle. The full scope of what happened wasn't clear yet. Police arrested Paya a block away and found the weapon. This wouldn't board with a screw through the end of it. Oh. Police say that screw went through Janette.

eye. Who is this guy? He's a regular. He usually punches. I guess today he decides to escalate things way worse than his usual. Where is he? He's usually up and down third. As paramedics racer to the hospital, it becomes obvious police no-folly Pea well.

You have a suspect's ID. He's being searched right now. Yeah. You know him? Oh, he's notorious for a random assaults on third. Court records show Pea had multiple prior convictions for a subject assault, including stabbing someone eight times at a party. And he's out on the streets.

He's out on the streets. He blinds this woman, 70-fire old woman. He is a repeat criminal violent offender. They know his name where he normally hangs out. I'm sure they've arrested him. And nothing ever happens. He gets put out. He was booked eight times this year alone in King County Jail.

eight times. And this lady, 75 years old, goes to work every day. She thought she was safe on a city street. Democrats run these cities. They run Seattle. They run these cities. And this is what happened. She got blinded.

I think that's probably in the Democrats report as to why they lost. They're okay with this violence. I mean, think about it, right? And you know this. The Democrats work so hard for illegals, for criminals, for criminals. criminals, they don't work hard for Americans. They just don't. And I think that it's because the Democrats want so much chaos,

they want to turn into Gotham, that people get so desperate that they'll believe any lie the Democrats tell them to get into power and they'll strip you of your rights and your freedoms and your liberties, and they get to control your life. That's what it comes down to. He's known for random assaults. And this lady's family, her son is like,

how is this possible? This guy's on this, How is it possible? And no reporting of this by the left media. No report. Zero. This story came out a couple days ago. I wish it never did.

The lady's name is Jeanette Markin. Endwokenness on X reported there were zero stories reported by AP, the social press, PBS, New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, Washington Post, Royal, or MSNBC. Zero, zero. An elderly white woman is blinded in the eye as she just waits to cross the street in Seattle.

You have that. You have the poor girl that got lit on fire in Chicago. She's riding the train. Some guy pours gasoline on her, chases her as she runs for her life. He's chasing her. And what happened? She was set on fire. I'll bet you a big part of this report is that Democrats realize, man, Americans want safety.

And the Democrats, they don't want anybody to have safety because it's not justified, right? People are arrested. It's racist. No, they commit a crime. It's not justified. They're nuts. They're crazy. And they know this. Did you hear about what J.B. Pritzker wants to do? because this lady was set on fire on a train in Chicago, the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, this is why Democrats lose, had a plan. We have also prioritized safety on public transit to riders so that riders can travel with confidence across Illinois. That includes bringing law enforcement to the table to combat violent crime and creating a transit ambassador program.

to deploy unarmed staff. Wait, what? Did he just, what kind of, who's going to protect you from the crazies? Unarmed staff. Unarmed staff. Unarmed staff. Yeah, there you go.

The awesome unarmed staff that's going to assist riders. An unarmed person is going to confront the crazy people that actually have weapons and are willing to do crazy things. Yeah, that's going to work out well. This is why Democrats are always losing. but the Democrats don't know what to do, which is why they buried this report, which again, I think is a bigger story.

But the media is trying to gloss over that. Just try that just exactly like they're not wanting to report about this poor 75-year-old lady that lost her eyesight in one eye for no reason whatsoever. No reason. The Democrats, two crazy, crazy things. There was something else that came out, right? We want parental rights. Do you know that in California, teachers were basic. told that you have to lie to parents about their own children to protect them if they want

to claim to be a different sex. There's an update to this. I have that for you and I do have some good news also. A nut job woke leftist paid the price on a college campus. I have it all for you. Garrett Lewis with you. Thank you for hanging out with me. Sitting in for Glenn Beck. You know, our community is like a cozy campfire with trusted friends. That's a hell of a lot better than the raging dumpster fire of mainstream media. Glad to have you. Glenn Beck will be right back. Garrett Lewis with you sitting in for Glenn Beck.

I do the afternoon show on Camp, Y, I and Phoenix, K&ST, and Tucson. And you could always listen to my stuff on demand on the I-Hard radio channel as well. Just search for Garrett-Lewis. It's my channel on the I-Hare radio app, I should say. the Gary Lewis Channel on the free eye heart radio app. One thing really quick that I forgot to mention about that nut job in Seattle that attacked and assaulted that poor 75-year-old woman who now is blinded one eye. The repeat violent offender that was allowed to walk the streets because Seattle is crazy. It turns out that he now identifies as transgender.

His attorney was referring to him as a she. So there you go. Ment, all there, all there. Democrats want these people on the streets. That's what they want. They want them on the streets. So I'm a parent, if you didn't know, I have an eight-year-old, and tomorrow my 12-year-old becomes 13, which is insane to me. And everything does change when you become a parent because it just has to, right?

And things you never thought about before, but they just change. They just change now. And I'm a parent and I'm very, my wife and I are very, I don't want to say parent, we're very focused on what our kids see and learn and hear and who talks to them and and things of that nature. Okay. So when I saw this story in California, I don't know, anybody can live in California. I have no idea.

Like it's just beyond insane. As a parent, can you imagine? Your kid's teacher lying to you about what your kid does in class, and not just because the teacher's a scumbag, but because there's a law that requires this. It was that way until yesterday in California. A judge blocked California from forcing teachers to lie to parents about their children's secret sex transition. Holy smokes. California is so crazy. Gavin Newsom is such a nutjohn.

they actually passed a bill and he signed it into law that forced forced teachers to lie to parents if the kid the teacher sees joey wanted to become jennifer for whatever reason he's being groomed he's being forced he's nine he's seven he's 14 whatever it is the teacher was forbidden to tell the truth to the parents and they had to have a lawsuit against this where a judge finally blocked California from forcing teachers to lie. Again, to parents. They send their kids to these schools. This is craziness.

Maybe that's part of the whole DNC thing as well. Parents actually want to know what their kids are doing. And by any of these people that think, well, this is crazy, let the kid do what it wants and blah, blah, blah. Cool, all right, let me come over and talk to your kid about politics, which, by the way, I have no right to do unless you want me to do it. I have no right to do that. Imagine if there was a neighbor on your street.

Imagine if I was your neighbor. And your kid comes over to play with my kid. And I'm like, listen, let me tell you why Trump is great and the Democrats are awful. And I just did that. I would understand why parents would be upset. They'd be clueless and dumb, but I understand it, right? But the left, man, they go for it. They go for it.

They just push and push and push, which is why I'm not angry at all at that lady from Target who is berated. she's very nice and she very nicely but wrongly said that that other lady that braided her for wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt should not lose her job.

I think she should. We have to play to win just like they play to win. And we did get a win, by the way. Oklahoma University of Oklahoma to hear about this story about a student

that was asked to write about genders. And she basically said, listen, there are traditional gender roles, right? Traditional gender roles and the trans teaching instructor failed her for not acknowledging the whole trans thing. Well, University of Oklahoma fired her, fired that trans teacher, whatever mental nutcase. That's what needs to happen.

It's okay. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. I have so much more for your story that's going to blow your mind. what one city is doing to protect illegals. Gary Lewis in for Glenn. This is Glenn back. This.

Garrett Lewis with you, sitting in for Glenn. All right, again, the Democrats, the DNC, they don't want to release their autopsy as to why they lost because they can't handle the truth. Americans don't want to protect illegals, they still want to. The latest story is going to blow your mind.

A city here in America, going to extreme measures to protect the illegals. I have it for you coming up. With you sitting in for Glenn Beck again. I do the afternoon show in Phoenix on KFYI, and it also airs in Tucson on KNST, and I'm so glad to be with you. I'll be back on January 2nd to spend that day with you.

And I'm having so much fun because I have to get out, even though I have days off and I have to use them for mental health and everything else, If I don't do it, I drive myself crazy, my wife crazy, and my kids crazy. And I just, I just enjoy this stuff. And I like to point out the winning that we have. And again, the Democrats, I brought up in the last hour, the DNC is refusing to share with anybody their autopsy as to why they lost in 2024, which it's, it's everything you know it is. It's Camela Stinks.

And she's probably their best candidate, for God's sakes. And it's their policies of protecting illegals. and do you any more than that, right? Pro Hamas, anti-Semitic, pro-crime, all this stuff. And they can't change it so they don't want to release it. And if it comes out, what are they going to do? What are they going to say? Well, we'll change this now.

Now we're going to be against illegal immigrants. What, nigger, their crazy base of 23% is going to just going to go crazy on them. They don't know what to do. It's a very big advantage. It should be a much bigger story than other things the media is talking about, but the media stinks. Can't trust them. Can't trust them. Then I see this story.

Here we go. This is what Democrats do. From CBS 19 in Charlottesville, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia is going to get rid of their flock safety license plate reader system. Do you know what this is? You ever see these things? There are these big giant polls in like shopping. center parking lots or or any any kind of parking lot big giant pole up and it's got a camera on the top and this blue light it's always watching you always watching you so they read your license

plate they've done it for a year apparently they've had some success but the problem is the democrats and you know they're democrats the democrats on the charlotte city council are afraid that the footage that's recorded by these flock camera systems will be used by the federal government, the Trump administration, to find illegal immigrants and arrest them and deport them. So they put these cameras up to try to supposedly bring safety. And apparently they've had some success. But they're getting rid of it because they want to protect illegals. I want you to hear from the CBS 19 report.

Here is the police chief there in Charlottesville. Folks in the community, that being said, there were some concerns. Like data being taken from flock and being used for unintended purposes, like tracking illegal immigrants. Oh, no. Concerns continue to come up about mostly policymakers that, you know, or the federal government or the administration in D.C. could get access to it. Chief Kachis says it's not all bad. Lock cameras in the last year have helped them solve several cases.

Help us solve our homicide in the city. It has helped us recover a missing child. It has helped us recover missing people. It has helped us recover stolen cars in time frames that actually have meaning. So it shows them like, we found missing children, missing people, solve the homicide. Got stolen cars back. But we got to get rid of this program. because Trump might use it, the footage that we have,

to track down illegals and arrest him. Once again, I mean, tell me I'm wrong. I'm not wrong, but you can try to tell me I'm wrong. Democrats fight for illegals more than they do American people. They'd rather put the safety and security and freedom for illegals out there over that of American citizens. You can't make it up. Well, the policymaker.

were upset that this could be used to track down illegals. And again, the illegals could be the worst of the worst, too, by the way. They could be gang members. They could be just criminals in this country. They could be charged with crimes that are being convicted yet. They could be drug. Who knows what they could be? I mean, the Dems let them all in and like, well, we could get them and make our community safer.

And at the same time, track down, you know, missing kids and people. But let's get rid of it because we want to make sure we can protect illegals. Now, I'm against all these flipping cameras, by the way, because they're always watching and I don't trust anybody or anything. But the fact that the Democrats chose to do this, these cameras helped us solve crimes. But we're going to get rid of them because we don't want Trump to be able to use this to try to find illegals. That could be committing more crimes. No, no, no, I'm not going to do that. Not going to do that.

No way. Meanwhile, by the way, it's reported that the city of Charlottesville, their city council, there was no vote or public discussion about any of this stuff. They just decided to use these cameras. That's what they did. I can't stand any of these cameras, but this is, okay, there's a couple of things here. One, this is just awful. Democrats don't want to show you the autopsy as to why they lost because they don't want to, publicly admit they don't know what to do that the American public has lost faith because,

well, they realize Democrats care more about illegals than they do about American citizens. And it's just a fact, right? They shut down the government to try to get illegals health care paid by you. That's what they did. You can't stop it. Again, the Democrats, they are defending, and it was not why they lost yet, but they're defending narco-terrorists, for God's sakes. So this is crazy.

Now, I'm against all of these things, because I heard about that here in Arizona, too. Here in Arizona, where I am, there are some cities that have banned red light cameras, the red light speed cameras, different than the flock system. Flock system, they have these poles up, and I've seen them. I've seen them in Tucson. I've seen them in Phoenix and other places where they just, you know, read license plates and stuff like that. I don't like it.

I don't like Big Brother staring into everybody and everything. But we also have in some cities red light cameras. Amazingly enough, the city of Tucson or Pima County, they both banned the red light cameras. And that's Camiville.

But in Maricopa County, in the valley, in Phoenix and the surrounding cities, a lot of the cities actually have them. And it's a very corrupt system. First off, I think it's against your constitutional rights to have these red light and speed cameras watching you. You didn't do anything wrong.

They're reading your license plate. They're tracking you. They're giving you tickets when it's against her constitutional right to get that ticket. You have to actually face the police officer. I mean, it's usually third-party companies that run it. They run the flock cameras. They run these red light speed cameras. I don't like any of this stuff.

But there were stories now appears. I've tried for years to get rid of these things. I think they're terrible. They don't, all the data shows they don't stop accidents. They don't decrease them. Matter of fact, there's a lot more rear-ending because people slam on their brakes the last second. It's crazy.

But the people that were normally against these red light and speed cameras here in Arizona, all of a sudden, they were for them. All of a sudden, they were against them because of the same reason. They were afraid that the Trump administration is going to use the data from the red light cameras in all these different cities

to try to track down illegals and arrest them. So now they're like, what do we do? What do we do? And it's been a big fight because a lot of people don't realize this. And you may not either. And I don't know what happens at your state,

but here, it's a giant scam. You have a third party company making major cash from these tickets for speeding and running red lights. supposedly doing all that stuff. I believe it's 11% of all the revenue generated gets thrown in what's called the Arizona Clean Elections. And if somebody wants to run for office,

they don't want to raise money, they can qualify, they can check the box to be the clean election candidate and they get X amount of $45,000 or whatever it might be. And they get that. So you could be helping Democrats, and Republicans too, but Democrats definitely run for all.

office, which that's not it. You want to run for office. You go raise money. This is a giant scam. But lawmakers keep on continuing this because it's a Republican legislature barely here in Arizona. And it seems like every session, there's a bill that's brought up to just end these red light and speed cameras, but there's one or two Republicans that stand up and vote with the Democrats to keep it. There's lobbyists involved. Look, there's grifters. People are getting something for their vote, but there's more to it too. What's really messed up is that Democrats take clear advantage of this because in districts in Arizona that are very red where Republicans have 20 or 30 point leads and really Democrats

shouldn't even bother to run a person. They have no business winning. I mean, they could try all they want. What happens is that the money gets laundered because the Democrats, some consultant or campaign manager will tell somebody just run in this district. You have no chance. It doesn't really matter. Just put you in and be a clean elections person.

So they do. And they get the 40 or 45 grand or 30 grand depending on whatever it is. They get that. And then what that candidate does is they go, all right, I'm going to give this money to my campaign manager. Well, that campaign manager also manages people that are in swing districts. So they use that extra cash to help Democrats beat Republicans in swing districts.

It's a giant scam and a giant sham. So there's a couple of different points for this entire story. I don't like any of it. We shouldn't have any of these cameras. But I don't know if that happens. If you have red light or speed cameras in your area wherever you may be in your city, your town, your county, your state, you might want to look into that as well. Because that's the big scam going on.

And then you get lobbyists that convince these, dumb Republican state lawmakers. Well, no, no, we got to keep these things. And then you have police chiefs. Oh, we need this. It cuts down and blah, blah, blah. There's a city in the north part of Phoenix that has 12,000 residents. 12,000.

It's called Paradise Valley. 12,000 residents. They wrote over a quarter million tickets for their red light and speed cameras. It's a slush fund. It's just a gigantic slush fund. but then you also have to factor in again like I said earlier, which you tell me they're both very important, but the fact that the Democrats in Charlottesville,

and it could happen here in Arizona, they are, they want to get rid of these cameras that they originally put in because they wanted to spy on people, but they want to spy on Americans. If it could be used to track down illegals to get them out, they are 1,000% against it, thousand percent against it.

That's the Democrats for you. You can hit me up again on Instagram and X and Facebook at Garrett Lewis, for Instagram and X and Garrett Lewis Radio on Facebook. Man, it is, it's the kind of thing that just drives you a bit, baddie, a bit crazy. But this is why the Democrats continue to lose. And they should continue to do these things because I just want them to lose more and more. and I'm sure you do as well.

I'm sure you do as well. There are some crazy things some Democrats have said. There's a lot. Tim Walse is really feeling the heat from his own people now. But the Democrats, why do they keep losing? Wait a little you hear one Democrat mayor had to say about Somali immigrants. I have it for you coming up. Garrett Lewis with you.

In for Glenn Beck. Garrett Lewis with you. Sitting in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program. Thank you for hanging out with me as we get. closer and closer and closer to Christmas. Now, and there's a lot going on today. Again, Trump driving inflation to lows that we haven't seen since 2021. The GDP is the highest it's been since I think it was the third or fourth quarter of

2023. It's huge stuff, huge stuff. And the Democrats just don't know what to do, which should warm your heart this time of the year, right? It should warm your heart. big big scandal obviously going on up in Minnesota where it looks like at least $9 billion of fraud, $9 billion may have been stolen, a lot of it by the Somali immigrant community. And now it's getting serious because Tim Walsz received a letter signed by 98 mayors in Minnesota.

98 mayors wrote a letter and they are going after Tim Walsh. They're like, listen, we're going broke because of you. We are literally having no money. There was an $18 billion surplus. It's now gone. There's now a projected $3 billion deficit. So the mayors are warning Tim Wals, we have no money left. We have nothing.

we are facing a fiscal disaster, a fiscal disaster. That's what it comes down to. The letter, here's part of it, fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul have trickled down to our cities, reducing our capacity to plan responsibly, maintain infrastructure, hire, and retain employees, and sustained court services without overburdening local taxpayers. There's a growing disconnect between the state-level fiscal decisions, yet the state-level fiscal decisions, and the strain they place on the cities we lead.

When the state expands programs or shifts responsibilities without stable funding, it's our residents and families and seniors and businesses and workers who ultimately bear the cost. So you have 98 mayors in the state of Minnesota. Warning Tim Walz, what are you going to do, man? What do you? And this clown's running for re-election. And this is the guy. that the Democrats wanted to be vice president?

You had Cal, can you imagine, God forbid? Thank God we dodged a bullet, literally, and Trump did figuratively, and literally, and all that and more. Camilla and Tim, what are they getting from the Somalis? But you know what?

The Democrats, they still are screwing up. The Boston mayor, Michelle Wu, actually came out with a statement and said, everything that Boston is accomplished is thanks to the Somalians. You can't make it up. You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs,

and economic development, in education without talking about the Somali community. What? That has lifted our city up. We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community. Hang on. They have nothing without the Somalis? Again, Americans see this. They see it and they say, what the heck?

They see it and say, what are you talking about? There is fraud. There's billions of dollars missing. People have already been found guilty of this stuff. What are you talking about? What is happening here? Hang on, there's more. Our Somali American neighbors.

Boston and the country are clear. The hate has no place in our society. We will use every attack. to actually strengthen and expand the services available, to empower and work alongside our community members who are already doing so much good in the world and setting an example for the rest of the country. Wow.

You want to know why Democrats are never going to win? They shouldn't win because of that. Like, we see what's going on. We see it. They think we don't. And then I just have so much to get to, but I have to tell you a little story, too, that just came out.

Americans are mad. There was an MS-13. assassin arrested in American city. Wait, to hear the details. This is Glenn Beck. The Days of Ash, our new series revealing the moments when civilizations turn and how to spot them today. Premiers January 5th at glenbeck.com. Garrett Lewis with you in for Glenn Beck.

I do the afternoon show on KFYI and KNST. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. I can't believe this is getting toward the end. I'll be back Friday, January. second. I'm looking forward to that. My wife, who's been off from her job, from her job for two days now, has been sending me messages

because there's a new thing really quick. Homeland Security is now offering three grand for illegals to self-deport. Right? So she's wondering if she could get three grand to self-deport from our house to get away from the kids. I'm like, no, that is capitalism. I'll do it for 1,500.

hundred. I'll take less, less of a burden on taxpayers. Just how it is. And no, no, she needs to cook more because I get stuck doing that. Anyway, again, this idea that, and it's bothered me for a long time. I talked about it on my show as well, how the media is trying to convince people that, again, the Democrats are going to win everything. They don't do anything that makes sense. Nothing that just gets people's attention.

Oh, I like what they're doing for me. We like what Trump's doing. Right again, the big news today, 4.3% growth in the economy. Inflation is down to the lowest level since March of 2021. Like, this is happening. And yet we were tried, they tried to propagandize us that tariffs are going to destroy everything. Yeah, they're going to destroy all this stuff.

We went through everything. I'll get to the MS-13 gang member guy in just a second. I'm here in Arizona. We have two of the biggest dolts as senators you could ever imagine in Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly. And Mark Kelly is a really bad person because I don't think he's ever told the truth. I remember going back way before he ran for office. This is going back 10, 11 years. He made a video.

This is how dumb this guy is. He made a video trying to show how easy it is to illegally buy guns. And he actually had someone recording him. he went into a gun shop in Tucson and tried to buy a firearm and the firearms shop turned him down because he had a Texas driver's license because he's from the Houston area. He lived in the Houston area. And he didn't have an Arizona one. And yet he still published it under the guise of this is how easy it is to buy an AR-15.

He wasn't allowed to buy it. And he still put it up. And it was up for a while before he had it scrubbed. and this is the same guy that went around, what, for a year? Borders wide open. He's like, the only thing that we can do to secure the border is get this bill passed, which would have codified into law, illegal immigration. It would have made illegal immigration legal.

And nobody in Arizona, Mark would never come on my show. Nobody in Arizona that's in media has ever asked him, hey, how are you so wrong? Do you regret saying that? Were you wrong? Do you acknowledge that? How is it possible Trump passed, secure the border without passing this bill? Like I'd love to hear him spin the, this is what we're dealing with. And I think part of the, again, without seeing it just my hunches here, that the Democrats in their autopsy, they won't replace as to why they lost in 2024.

Part of his American people just don't trust them. They just don't trust them. And while Mark Kelly and Ruben Giego oversaw. borders, especially here in Arizona. I saw a headline from redstate.com. Internationally known alleged MS-13 assassin named Fantasma, nicknamed in Nebraska. We had an internationally known MS-13 assassin arrested in Nebraska.

Borders wide open. Mark Kelly, Ruben-Ga-Ga-Go, all the demas, wouldn't do a thing to close it. All we needed was a new president. He is known internationally as Fantasma, an MS-13 assassin, part of the MS-13 assassin squad, alleged member. He was arrested by ICE in Nebraska.

He's a Honduran national, wanted for a brutal, quadruple homicide in his home country. He's convicted. He's a convicted killer. He broke out of prison. He illegally slipped across the southern border. Yep. Joe Biden let him in.

Mark Kelly also. told us that there was vetting. We vet everybody. No, you didn't. No, you didn't. So he was let in, and he just walked right across the border. He was finally tracked down by a multi-agency probe. He was arrested in Grand Island, Nebraska.

FBI confirmed this. He's not only accused in Honduras of at least four homicides. He's been identified as a participant in crime against the son of former Honduran president Lobososa. and we have an MS-13 cell in Nebraska. This guy illegally crossed the border, according to Homeland Security. He illegally crossed the border into America in 2022. And then you're ready for this?

Got a California driver's license. I mean, why not? Did he register to vote too? Just give him a license. We'll send him a ballot. Just do it. Make it happen. Homeland Security said he previously bribed his way.

out of a Honduran jail and was wanted by authorities at the time. I thought there was vetting. Wasn't there vetting? See, again, I think the American people have had enough of this stuff. We want safety. And we're just not getting it. It's not happening. We have MS-13 gang members getting arrested all over the country. We have an internationally known assassin that crossed our border illegally, led in by the Biden regime. And on top of that, Gavin Newsom's California gave him a driver's license. Trump gets in, he's arrested. But we have to deal with this stuff.

Now, again, you have this big, gigantic interview with Hunter Biden. I mean, it doesn't really do much for me because the guy's a mess. He, I just don't like anybody in the Biden family, to be honest with you. I just don't. But he sat down with Sean Ryan. And Sean Ryan said, you know, you guys in the left are saying all these things about Trump. He's a Nazi. He's a fascist.

Now you have assassination attempts, all this stuff. And Hunter Biden, he addressed this. Again, this is, he mentioned earlier. I mean, I played the earlier that he's like, we don't want, you know, illegal immigrants coming here, draining the system. Your dad let them in, genius. Was he just too stoned to know? Was he high the entire time his dad was president? And he just didn't know the facts?

So Hunter Biden was asked about this All these crazy things said about Trump leading to assassination attempts Listen to this Look I don't want to get into like an argument over the And I don't really mean it But like I hear you

I hear what you're saying But part of me also says You don't want to be called a fascist Don't act like a fascist You don't want to be a fascist Don't act like a fascist That's what you're going with You don't want to be a fascist, don't act like a fascist.

Okay, how do the fascist act, right? How does Trump act? You ready for it? Listen to this. Fascism is this. Is deputizing a largest federal police force in history to go on America's streets, masked without warrants, and dragged pregnant women out of their cars. in the snow and kneel on their backs.

The only thing he left out was making them walk uphill both ways. That's what Trump's doing. He is having masked members of ICE. And granted, remember why they have to wear masks? Because crazy leftists are trying to docks them and attack them at their homes and attack their families. But let's leave that part out there, Hunter. And by the way, the reason that Trump has to do all this is because your daddy let them all in, genius. I've never heard of this case where ICE agents pulled a press.

pregnant woman out of the car, kneeled on her back in the snow. Put her in the snow, kneeled on her back. Is he having an episode? Did you see that when you were doing the shrooms? When exactly was that, Hunter? When exactly was that? And the Democrats really had to do an autopsy as to why they lost in 2024? Okay.

So there you have it. Your dad's letting in, I mean, last week it got. like virtually no media attention. You know, these hearings, I'm, I'm against, I'm not against the hearings, but I'm sick and tired of these hearings because nothing seems to ever come out of it. Like I remember the big, the big talkers, the Trey Gowdies and the Jim Jordans, we're going to just say these big things and nothing ever happens. Talk, talk, talk, talk, nothing ever happens.

But it was Joe Kent. He's part of the Trump administration, the counterterrorism, blah, blah, blah, whatever. He said they've identified 18,000 people. that Biden led in illegally that are known or associated with terrorists, known terrorists or associated terrorists. And they were letting here, 18,000. I'm like, that should be a headline. M. Media ignores it.

Instead, they focus on Epstein. And look, Epstein was a dirtbag. And now there's 30,000 new documents out released today by the DOJ about Epstein. Trump was on eight flights between 1993 and 1996. Trump admitted in the past that he was he was associates with Jeffrey Epstein. And then he found out who Jeffrey Epstein really is, threw him out of Moralago, worked with the police to give them information they needed to go after Jeffrey Epstein. But this is the story. This is what the media wants.

They want you to believe this stuff. Ah, you can't, you can't dislike the media enough, can you? You just can't do it. I have more. Garrett Lewis with you sitting in for Glenn Beck. The rope may break, but the ride goes on. This is Glenn Beck. Garrett Lewis with you. I do the afternoon show on KFY in Phoenix, KNST in Tucson.

And you can catch me on the IHard Radio app on the Garrett-Lewis channel. Download the IHare Radio app if you don't have it. It's a free app, and it is absolutely. Fantastic. So it just, it just cracks me up. Do you think, by the way, the autopsy report, the after-after-action report from the Democrats, do you think that they don't want to release it? Why did we lose? Why did we lose? Let me take you back to August 5th of 2024. August 5th of 2024, Kamala Harris on stage with two women that had no expression to what you're about to hear. You know, we have to stay woke. Like, everybody needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you're the wokeist or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke.

Yeah. Oh, God. You know, it's things like that. I sit back and I just say, what was Montel Williams thinking? Maybe this is why we don't see her hubby anymore, who got Hanukkah wrong. Oh, boy. Yeah, this is, this is what we have. We need to stay more.

I don't know why I lost. I really have no idea. We can't know. This is exactly what it is. This is exactly what it is. And you know what? Things I'm hoping are getting back to normal. I am hoping they are getting back to normal in such big ways because this is what we need.

And by getting back to normal, we realize it's okay. Not only is okay, it's good to say things. and not hide from this. Now, it's crazy to me at age 48. If you go back to Garrett age 12, 15, 18, 22, I thought I'd be into sports my entire life. I really don't have time to follow a lot of sports. That's why it's pretty much ice hockey

in the New York Islander since I'm from Long Island. I remember going back to Long Island about 10 years ago to see my best friend, and I really, I was a Mets fan, and I guess I still am. I don't. baseball as much. But when I started seeing these guys that hit like 245, make an 18 million a year, I'm like, what the heck is going on? So I don't know a lot of these players, but I saw a story really quick.

And this is where we are as a country. I take this as, you know, we're realizing it's okay to say this stuff. There's a former Major League Baseball player pretty good, played for the Mets for a little bit. Ender, Insiarte. I think it's his, it pronounces him. Anyway, he took his family on a Disney game. cruise line.

And he's on there, and it's, I guess it's a Disney cruise for the kids, obviously, right? And apparently he saw something on the Disney cruise that made him very upset. He saw men dressing as women that were part of the Disney, not just randomly, this was doing it. So he goes on X and goes, hey, at Disney Cruise, love your cruises, except for the part that there are men dressed as women, thought you already got over it. And then he started responding on X people saying, Why are you being such a hater? Why are you being such a hater?

What are you doing? And he said it wasn't hatred or a personal attack. It was an opinion based on my convictions. Calling things by their name without mockery or contempt. And he said, where's my hate? All I'm saying is having my kid enter a place where a six-foot tall guy is dressed as a woman and acting like one would traumatize my kid on a family cruise. I don't think it's hate.

Just don't want to normalize that. behavior. And that that sums up where we are right now because we had a bunch of years where it wasn't normal. And it was crazy. And we have to be okay with saying this. And more and more people go, that's right. That's right. I told you about that judges ruling in California, all that stuff. This is why the Democrats don't want to release their autopsy and they're not going to change. As long as we keep doing what we're doing and the good ones keep doing the right thing, I think we're going to be just fine. Happy New Year. Merry Christmas. Thank you. so much for hanging out with me. You can follow me. My name's Garrett Lewis on Instagram and X

at Garrett Lewis. I hope to see you there. And I'll be back with you Friday, January 2nd. Merry Christmas. Happy new year. This is Glenn Beck.