The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Ilhan Omar’s Reported Net Worth SKYROCKETS to $30 MIL… BUT HOW?! ETHICS VIOLATIONS?!

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

🚨 From “broke” to $30 MILLION?! New filings reveal Ilhan Omar’s shocking fortune flip — just months after claiming she had no money. Critics are asking: what’s really going on with her husband’s “international” business? PLUS — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson FIRES BACK at Trump as talk grows of bringing in the National Guard to help police city streets. And 👉 YouTuber Benny Johnson vows to SUE the New York Times over what he calls a libelous “hit piece” on his family. Is the NYT threatened by YouTube’s rising power? Don’t miss Trish Regan’s breakdown of the stories the mainstream media won’t touch. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE for the latest! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to support independent journalism:▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join 📈 For Trish’s financial insights, subscribe to her newsletter The 76 Report:▶️ https://76research.com — Use CODE: DOLLAR for a special offer. Today’s sponsors: https://BalanceofNature.com CODE: TRISH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I will show you a crook. That was Harry Truman back in the day. Well, now we can show you a woman, perhaps. New allegations about Ilhan Omar that we are going to get into in detail today. I want to know how it is that she's suddenly worth 30 million bucks after being in the whole 45,000 just a few years ago. Amazing how that happens. Plus, we get to talk about Chicago. Chicago's a total disaster there. And the mayor there. Johnson doesn't seem quite willing to do anything to help himself. Meanwhile, Benny Johnson, you know Benny, right? Oh my goodness, New York Times is after him like you wouldn't believe.

I'm like, oh, New York Times, you must sense a threat. You know this YouTube thing? We YouTubers are pretty darn scary, right? Welcome to the program of everyone. I am Trish Rigan. Good to have you here. We are live. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, do all that. Every little bit counts. We are inching our way. Slowly but surely, it feels like it's taking forever right now towards a million subs. All thanks to you guys. Thank you. We begin today on Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar, you wonder how suddenly she's worth 30 million bucks. I'm wondering how she's worth suddenly 30 million bucks. That's kind of amazing. So she actually has gone from a pauper that was in the whole negative 45,000 back in 2019 to suddenly being worth miraculously. 30 million dollars.

I mean, good work if you can get it. Wow. So how did this happen? Well, first of all, we know about it, in part because of the new filing that she just released. Let me share with you. It includes a 3,500 percent, 3,500 percent increase in wealth. I mean, this is the New York Post that did a big thing on it.

Washington Times has something on it as well. So like two years ago, her husband's business was worth like a grand, and now suddenly it's worth 30 million, they get a wine business and they got, wait for it, some kind of venture capital business that has to do with regulation and legislation and operates in like 80 countries. Uh-huh. I mean, like, is your antenna going up? Because my antenna's going up, big time. You know, we haven't heard a lot from her lately and which is kind of surprising.

It's like, where has she been? I mean, she's allowing AOC to dominate the news cycle. She's allowing Jasmine Crockett of all people to dominate the news cycle. She's allowing Gavin Newsom. I mean, there's been like a whole cast of characters out there, but where has Ilhan been? Where's the whole squad been? Barely. Making money. You know, someone's going to pay the bills. Anyway, this is amazing. So front page of the New York Post today, representative Ilhan Omar's net war skyrocketed to as much as $30 million months after denying that she was a millionaire. So not too long ago, she did an interview. I believe it was with Business Insider

in which she said, no, nothing they see here. I'm not worth anything. I'm just a mom who's like, still paying off student loans, et cetera. But here's the disclosure report. I realize it's a little bit blurry. I'm going to have to lean in a little bit alongside you. But basically, it's the husband's company. It's the husband's company, this Rose Lake Capital. What is it with Rose?

Didn't they have like Rose Montsenica over in the Biden family? Rose Lake Capital is worth some $30 million apparently. Well, between that and the winery. So this is a big increase. So here's the hubby, okay? He's the reason for it all. Here's the hubby, Tim Wyatt. You can see a picture of them if you're watching here live on YouTube. Great to have you here. Same with Rumble on Spotify. We are, we are, we have the video now on

Spotify. It's a big deal. So make sure you subscribe to my, it's free. Spotify show, but the New York Post writes squad goals and they put squad with a money sign for the S. It's pretty shocking. This disclosure, I think, is everybody is catching everybody off guard because Tim, Maina is his name. He's experiencing a roughly 3,500% increase in the value of his rose capital partners. How does that happen? I mean, I know a lot of smart people on Wall Street. By the way, you know, I have 76 research, 76 research.com use code word dollar.

And we've had enormous gains in the last year in a lot of our stocks. You know, you're talking up 80 some odd percent in some of them. But we're not talking 3,500 percent. I mean, that's like hard, okay? actually like it's impossible to do it's impossible to do there's very smart people that devote their lives to this and they're not pulling off with somehow ilhan omar's hubby is able to do so i don't get it i mean how do you have timmy timmy this is the tim you want to know timy boy there's so many tims right tim cane tim from from her state temp on tim and now her husband

Tim. I mean, lots and lots and lots of Timmy's out there, but this is the Timmy that's raking in the big bucks. And I'm just going to say it, okay, because nobody else will really want to say it. But you've got to ask yourself, Uncandy, I see your comment. Is it her husband or is it her brother? That's funny. This one actually is, you know, because I don't really look alike today. This really is her husband. How do you do that? I mean, I got questions. Like, maybe he should be giving a a seminar. Maybe, maybe he should be teaching at Harvard Business School. I mean, if you can get a 3500% return in, you know, two years or less, I think we ought to pay attention. We ought to listen up. I, I suspect that this is not quite as it seems, shall we say, okay, this is,

this is the hobby, this is the hobby, all right? They're there. Little lovebirds that they are. She's liking him right now, you know. Honey, you took a little. me from negative $45,000 to $30 million, but I can't tell anybody that I'm actually worth 30 million because, oh gosh, what will my peep say then? What would they say? I mean, by the way, I'm running a winery. I'm of Muslim faith, but I'm running a winery, which is now valued at between one and $5 million in the latest disclosure. I mean, by comparison, it is pointed out that it used to be worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in Ilhan Omar's previous. financial disclosure. So again, I got to say I'm pretty impressed. I mean, Mr. Minet,

Timmy, you know, you're the bomb. You're clearly the bomb because you got this VC firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializing in what, infrastructure? And you've made quite a bit. Okay, Rose Lake Capital, that's the name of it, Rose Lake Capital's assets. They were valued at somewhere between $5 and $25 million at the end of 2020. the company had less than $1,000 in assets the previous year. Notably, from the venture, from the venture capital firm is listed, it's listed income as none, none. Okay, so it used to have no income and now it's suddenly like raking it in. In 2024, it had no income.

15,000 to 50,000 the previous year. And now it claims to have, what, $50 billion in assets under management according to the website? I mean, I guess, ah, I guess, you know what? If you want to make nice with Ilhan, maybe you need to have assets under management from Rose Lake. Is this like a referral business? You know, I do you a favor, you do me a favor? Get a little of this. Okay, let me read this to you.

The company, Rose Lake, the hubbies firm that's now worth $30 million, touts its, quote, deep, global networks built from on the ground, work in more than 80 countries working across business, politics, banking, and diplomacy. I mean, this is like CGI all over again. I mean, who needs a global initiative? You got Ilhan Omar and Timmy out there doing their thing with Rose Lake Capital Partner. I'm just saying, I have no proof.

I have no proof. I just find it super suspicious that this guy comes out of nowhere and builds a business that grows 3,500% in two years' time. It offers, quote, expertise in several facets of business, including structuring legislation. The Congresswoman cried disinformation in February when she was asked about on speculation that she was actually a secret millionaire. Don't call her a millionaire. Oh no, I guess that's just the husband. But you know, in America, we have this rule that unless there's a pre-nup, basically, what's yours is mine? And so 50% of that 30 mil is hers. So she's worth technically $15 million, I guess. Perhaps I misspoke earlier when I said it was to do

with regulation, apparently just to clear the air and make sure I set the record straight. This company offers its clients, quote, expertise in several facets of business, including structuring legislation. I'm not really sure what that is, only in that if it's a VC firm, you know what a VC firm is, right? Like VC firm is out there investing in new companies and new technologies that they think are exciting that are going to grow. So this sounds more like a legal, or dare I say lobbying firm? I don't know. I don't know, but it's awfully weird. really, really weird. Very alarming details. And I'm not the only one who thinks it's weird. Okay, Mike Benz, you know Mike. He's like the former State Department employee who's like gone

rogue, right? Because he calls everybody, yeah, he's terrific. He goes on Joe Rogan a whole lot. Anyway, he writes, either the dumbest people in Congress are smarter than the smartest people on Wall Street or Wall Street has just gotten more clever about money laundering methods for their lackeys in Congress. You be the judge. To which I'm writing here this transformation from negative 45k in 2019 to now 30 million dollars makes absolutely no sense unless unless unless Mike is right and there's some kind of money laundering operation going on what do you think seriously what do you think i mean remember the other day we were talking about aOC and how she blew past all of those regulatory filing deadlines there were like two of

them and then she finally got her information in her disclosures in but she didn't have anything for riley boy Riley boy, the ginger boyfriend that she's going out with or engaged to, forgive me, he's actually her fiancee. And so the fiancee isn't reporting anything, even though he benefits from a lot of the things that, you know, she tax him on as though he's a spouse, but he's not actually having to come forward with any of these disclosures. So at least we get that, right? At least Ilhan's actually married to the guy. And therefore, we know what's going on, sort of, but I have more questions. I think somebody ought to be investigating this because I don't know how you go again to Mike Bent's point. And I know a lot of smart people. I mean, I, this is, I've covered

the business industry and politics for better than 20 years. That's a hell of a number, right? That just doesn't come out of nowhere. Something fishy seems to be up. And I would look into it if I were the Trump administration. Moving on to something else that needs to be looked into Chicago. And why is that Chicago is not willing to do what it needs to do in order to clean up those streets? I mean, for goodness sakes, if you listen to Mayor Johnson, Brandon Johnson out there with his rallying call over the weekend, you'd think he's trying to head towards, oh, I don't know, some kind of serious, major significant conflict. I mean, you listen to this and you tell me, what is he trying to gin up? I don't like it.

Are you prepared to defend this land? this land that was built by slaves, a land that was built by indigenous people, a land that is built by workers, are you prepared to defend this land? The people united will always prevail. I need you all to stand firm, to stand strong if this president decides to continue to break this constitutional. I mean, who, what is he trying to say? Like, I know, I know. You need you with me. We're going to stand firm. For good of sakes, we're certainly not going to welcome any more police help. What do we want with police? Who needs to clean up this city? Southside of Chicago, I beg to differ. You know what? It's not a safe place. It's just absolutely

not a safe place. And yet this idiot's out there up in the ante every chance he gets. Still, we take these threats seriously and we find ourselves in a position where we must take immediate drastic action to protect our people from federal overreach. I'm signing an executive order today that will launch the Protecting Chicago Initiative. This is a project that builds on the months of preparation that we have done that we've done that has led up to this very moment. Protecting Chicago will ensure that every Chicagoan knows their rights, that every single family is prepared, and every part of city government is directed to protect the people of Chicago from federal action. You are really scared that you might actually get some help, because maybe that'll make it

obvious that you could have done it all along, but you just chose not to for whatever reason. Look, I will say this, the Democrats just don't get it. And this is becoming increasingly apparent, even, dare I say, in the mainstream media, I mean, when CNN's calling you out, when MSNBC's morning Joe is calling you at Chicago, you got a problem. I want to show you this elderly who went on TV on CNN over the weekend. And frankly, I'm, like, embarrassed for him. He couldn't answer this simple question, and it is embarrassing.

Look, Chicago had a horrible weekend. There were more deaths on the streets of Chicago once again, because this is a terrible, terrible city that doesn't do enough to police itself. It's out of control. Let's just admit it, okay, guys? Like, you know, we don't have to have egos about it. Let's just, let's clean it up, shall we? Anyway, this guy's asked about it and listened to his response.

How do you respond to the argument that there were something like 50-plus shootings, of 53 people, 52 people, I should say, were shot in Chicago, 30 different shootings over the holiday weekend, seven people killed. Aren't numbers like that still a problem that your city needs to address? What more can be done to address that? Well, I think that what we need to do is that we also had a mass shooting in a Catholic school.

We also have had many instances where there are... Okay, so already, right, way, what do we see? He's going out to Minneapolis because he wants to deflect from what his own challenges are there. The question was about Chicago buddy boy. You are in Chicago. You are a Democrat up in Chicago. Answer the question. Has really escalated, exacerbated the violence in our country, in our cities. Trump is a dictator. I think we've got to be very clear. He's trying to normalize violence. And then we go to Trump is a dictator. Let's be very clear.

Believe my words. Believe my words. I said it. I said it. I said, I'm going to keep saying it over and over and over again until you people finally believe it. Oh, except you see, America elected him twice. That we know of right. I mean, and not to mention, we're talking popular vote. We're talking the electoral college and I guarantee you if the election were held again today, they'd elect them again, okay, buddy boy. So listen up. It's not a dictator. He's offering you help in Chicago. Sometimes part of the being able to help oneself is knowing when to take help from others. Trying to normalize military deployment in American cities like LA, DC, Chicago, and many others to come. But what we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues. I had shootings in my ward. One of them was a tragic shooting of an unhouse neighbor. So the Trump administration is saying that they're going to address the issue of unhouse residence by putting in jails. concentration camps?

Concentration camps? I mean, it's beyond irresponsible. And it kind of annoys it. The CNN guy just sits there. I'm just going to listen to it. Whatever. Let this guy have his moment in the sun. But he's an idiot.

He doesn't belong on TV. It's irresponsible to put him on TV. And it's more irresponsible not to correct him when he's using rhetoric that, frankly, is divisive, destructive, and wrong. I mean, even Morning Joe is coming around. to recognizing that Chicago has a problem. And by the way, the Democrats have a problem. If you're going to sit there and look at us and tell us, oh, there's no crime issue in D.C. Oh, there's no crime issue in Chicago. Oh, there's no crime issue in L.A. Oh, there's no crime issue. Anywhere that there is a Democrat

mayor, then we're going to be able to see through that. And the Democrats are going to be backed into a corner. It's actually brilliant politics. They're going to be backed into a corner where they are stuck saying, oh, there's no problem here. And people are like, wait a second, I'm afraid to go out on the street. I'm afraid of carjackings. I'm afraid of, you know, I'm afraid for my own personal safety. That's the reality of living on the self side of Chicago right about now. Listen to Morning Joe, even they are like, enough. Enough is enough is enough. The concern is you have leaders in Chicago that see this.

As you say, we've been reading about this for years now every weekend. And maybe crime has gone down. But, you know, we had the mayor of Chicago on last week saying, oh, we don't need any more police officers. Police officers aren't the answer. No police officers. I think he said no five times. You look what's happening this weekend. You look so, you know, I actually think that J.B. Pritzker should do something radical.

I think you should pick up the phone, call the president, and say, you know and I know, you don't have the constitutional authority to deploy the National Guard here and to police my, my, you can do that in D.C. You can't do that in Chicago. But let's partner up. These are the most dangerous parts of my state. We would love to figure out how to have a partnership. that's constitutional, that respects the sort of balance of federalism between the federal government and the state government. And let's work together to save lives. Because right now, just, hey,

nothing to see here moving along. No problem here. Hey, Donald Trump, we don't need you. And, you know, the mayor talking about we're going to protect people's dignity in our city. We'll protect their lives. That's protecting their dignity. You know, it would be radical for us. to figure out a way to actually do what I've been saying from the very beginning on Washington, and that is seeing politicians creating partnerships that protect their people. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, that would actually be admitting that you can't do it on your own.

And for whatever reason, these guys just don't want to admit that they can't do it on their own. But I'll tell you, it's going to reach a breaking point. I mean, already citizens are saying over and over again, hey, Mayor Johnson, we need help, do something. Bring Trump here. Watch. You all sit up there and said, you were not allowed Trump to come in here and get these illegals. Yeah, you can smile. We're in a billion dollar deficit. And you spent half of our money, half of that only legal. You campaign, you campaign and double down that you will not raise property taxes. I won't raise your property taxes. You wanted to raise our taxes,

It's $300 million. They shut it down. Now we're back here for $150 million. Okay. See, this is what we're asking now. Since you want to crash out, some of y'all say y'all wanted to go to jail for it. Trump, Tom Holman, make a example of this. Right here first.

Please come here first. So spend our tax dollars to go, like a Roy Reader, you're going to say to take Trump to court. to protect these illegals. That's cool because we're about to make all of y'all all of this famous. Y'all think this task going to rat? I think not. Flip Chicago real. We're not playing. This was going to happen to you. You got Cash Patel and Pam Bundy that you're going to have to deal with sooner than later. Then it's going to be an audit.

Next, it's going to be an investigation. Then it's going to be an indictment. commission. That's what's going to happen to you. Mr. Brandon Johnson, I'm up here. I am speaking right now. So I will love your undivided attention, please. I'll wait. So this just proves to you the lack of leadership that you show in this city. You can't even give me straight eye contact. Now, I'm going to let you know now.

The people of Chicago, we're done with you. It is insane how we have been voting. Democrat for over 60 plus years and we've never seen a change from people like you, Lori Lightfoot, Rob Emanuel. It is insane. Chicago was 37% red. In 2020, it was only 15%. So we're waking up. So you can pretend that this isn't happening, but I know for a fact that you will not have

that seat the next election. You're so strong about protecting those aliens, but you won't do nothing. of U.S. citizens. You see, that's a common theme that you're hearing there in the streets of Chicago. In fact, we saw this with a woman that was interviewed just recently. This was actually on my shorts feed saying, what the heck? Why is everybody getting all this stuff? But, you know, the people of Chicago are getting nothing.

She nails it. I'm a person that lives on the south side of Chicago, and the migrants that have come in, at one point they were coming in. We were feeling very sorry for them because they came in at a time. where the weather was cold. So we're like, we're seeing all these people in tents and all this and that. But then we find out they're getting $15,000 in food stamps, $5,000 in cash. I work for a company, which I will not say, that they're able to come in and they're able to get internet and Wi-Fi and all of this free because guess what?

The government are paying their rent for two years. Why is the government paying people that came from another country rent for two years? Can we explain that? Bingo. No, you can't explain it. You can't explain it. Oh, other than it. Well, I think if we're really going to try and explain it, guys, I think we're going to get back to what was that? Well, that little thing called gerrymandering. This is their own version of it, a different kind of thing. Maybe it's a census thing. You know, the more people you have, the more you can have representation. Was that what it's about? We don't really know. But I want to get to this other story in a second

YouTuber being called out by the New York Times. We're going to get there because Benny didn't deserve this, but we're going to talk about it in a second. First, remember who this is, this guy, Johnson, because Mayor Johnson believes in hiring apparently only people that look like him. For real. Some detractors that will push back on me and say, you know, the only thing that the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people. No, what I'm saying is when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else.

We are the most generous people on the planet. I don't know too many cultures that have play cousins. That's how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member, right? This is how we are. And so business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor, is a black woman. Department of Planning Development. it's a black woman.

Infrastructure, Deputy Mayor is a black woman. Chief Operations Officer is a black man. Budget director. It's a black woman. Senior advisor is a black man. And I'm laying that out because

when you ask, how do we ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business? So you're more obsessed with DEI stuff, right, than actually being obsessed with stuff that really does matter. And I'll tell you, the DEI stuff, it's getting kind of old. You know how I know it's getting kind of old. Well, for one thing, it's been ruled to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Just ask Harvard. You also have a situation where ABC News and Disney happen to be trying to figure out how they're going to manage all of this. But then you also have a situation. have this going on. You see, apparently, Joy Reed, I know you guys hate to watch her, but she doesn't get that actually this is not a good thing. Okay, so Joy Reed came out and said recently, yes, I'm DEI, I'm so proud of it. I wouldn't have the jobs or the education I have if it wasn't for DEI. I mean, this is, this is not something to be proud of, Joy. No. many times as I have been called DEI or an affirmative action baby and all that, you know what I never get mad because I actually am very much in favor of DEI. I don't take that as an insult

because I understand that that means that I'm just damn excellent and innovative. And yeah, I am DEI. I'm bringing diversity and that's bringing something great. You're not insulting me. If you say, oh, you're an affirmative action person that got in Harvard. I'm like, yeah, I got into Harvard with affirmative action and Yale and Brown and also, you know, know, Vassar, you know, in the University of Denver. Yeah, and wouldn't you prefer to be able to get there, like on your own two feet? Wouldn't you actually think it would be more of an accomplishment if you were able to do that all on your own Joy Baby?

I mean, instead of having to be a DEI card, I don't think that's the solution. I don't think that's the way there. But, you know, this is the same lady who thinks that she used to work at Sesame Street, which I got to tell you, you know, she was probably right on. When she referred to MSNBC being just such a wonderful, wonderful place because it was like Sesame Street, oh, you know, for once, you know, she may have actually gotten it right. So when you look at, say, what's happening in Chicago right now,

and this focus that feels very antiquated on things like DEI, that we're trying to get away from. Instead, we just want reality, right? We just want a chance for Americans to succeed in their own right, on their own merit. It doesn't need to be just because you check a few boxes. No, no, no. Like those days are gone and over, and as I said, they're quite antiquated at this point, except for people like Joy Reid and perhaps the mayor of Chicago who's trying to bring

this all back. But, you know, the mayor of Chicago, as you heard from his own residence, he's going to actually find himself out on the floor. I mean, he's really, I don't think he's going to be able to continue because, you know, when morning Joe, when morning Joe, it's not like we're talking about a conservative here, asked you five different times, hey, would you be willing to take a little extra funding to have some more police? And this is your answer? It's game over. So let me ask you, Mr. Mayor, those all sound like great programs. I'm curious. Would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago.

Would that help drive down to crime? Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy. No, I understand that. You've talked about the other things you want, and I said those are good and important programs, but I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all of those social programs?

that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with. Well, look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe, is that in the 90s when I was in high school, we had 3,000 more police officers, and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago. It's just not policing alone. Of course, we want more detectives. I know it's not policing alone, but of course.

I know it's not policing alone. You've told me everything else you want. I'm curious, and this does come down to an ideological difference between people, do you believe that the streets of Chicago would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago? I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing. Look, I'm not saying that we don't.

That's not the question I asked. My question is, and I just need yes or no, do you believe the streets of Chicago would be safer. If you got all of those other extraordinary programs put back into place, which do have a history of being successful, if that's complemented by having 5,000 more cops on the streets of Chicago. I don't believe that we should narrow it down to just police officers. John's what I'm saying.

That is an antiquated approach. I'm saying we've invested in detectives. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I'm agreeing with. you that all of these other social programs are extraordinarily important. I just need a yes or a no, and then this would be the last time I asked, if you get all of those other social programs that 800 million, that New York City does, Los Angeles, other people do with great success, would an additional 5,000 cops on the streets in Chicago help complement those programs to make

Chicago safer. Look, we are working hard to make sure that our police department is fully supported. I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is the answer. What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing. It's policing and mental and behavioral health care services. It's policing and youth employment. It's a full package. Of course, we want to make sure that our police department is fully supported. That's why I've invested in our detectives bureau, because what we have seen in, the city of Chicago, when we solve crime, it acts and serves as a deterrent. It's policing and all of the other efforts that we're doing. Here's the last thing that I'll say to that.

The federal government could work stronger to coordinate with my police department to get guns off the streets of Chicago. We've seen these coordination efforts work just a couple of weeks ago. The ATF working with my police department, we removed over 150 guns off the streets of Chicago that were trafficked in through Mississippi and Indiana. No one is saying that police officers don't play an incredible role in driving safety. They play an absolute pivotal role in that. But we have asked law enforcement to do too much. Police officers are being asked to be social workers, counselors.

What I'm simply saying is if we're going to build safe and affordable cities across America, the one thing that safe communities all have in common, they invest in people. We have a poverty issue in the city of Chicago and cities across America. Police officers alone will not put food on the table. Police officers alone will not guarantee a high quality education. Police officers alone won't drive down unemployment. We need all of it.

The president of the United States of America and the federal government could restore Medicaid. They could restore SNAP. They could stop defunding our public education system. Here's the most important point here. Oh my God. Oh, my God. I can't take it anymore. I'm sorry, guys.

You know what, my patience. My patience is running thin with him. Don't look at give horse in the mouth. The president is offering federal funds to help police the streets of Chicago. Your people want it. Your people need it. Mayor Johnson. Get away from the DEI stuff.

Enough with it. You know, you've been listening to Joy Reid too much. And I'm sorry, but, you know, there's a reason she's not at MSNBC anymore. And it's because the woman actually wasn't that bright, couldn't think. for herself and actually prides herself on being a DEI pick and having worked at the equivalent of Sesame Street. No joke. Watch.

Description of MSNBC ever was not just a channel for a lot of people. It was a lifeline in a world in which every other network was either on the one hand, on the other hand, or right wing. MSNBC was like a respite for people. People believed that every single person on MSNBC was their personal friend. They were, we were their friend in their head. We were the good liberal friend who they could talk with. We were a diverse, interesting crew.

We had all kinds of people. We had gay folks, straight folks, men, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians. We had all these different people. So we were relatable, right? We were like Sesame Street to people. Sesame Street. Yeah, exactly. That's part of the problem, honey.

Really, it is. I mean, so you have a group of people that are so, stuck in a particular mindset, whether it be the joyous of the world, whether it be the Brandon Johnsons of the world, whether it be frankly the Michelle Wu's out in Boston or Karen out in L.A. I mean, you guys got to recognize what's actually going on and you would think you'd want to keep your community safe? You'd think. You'd think. But oh, that might mean admitting that you couldn't do it on your own. God forbid that happened. I want to talk a little bit about what's going down with Benny, Benny, Benny, our friend Benny Johnson.

Do you guys see this one? New York Times after his family? He is threatening to sue the New York Times. We're going to get into this story. But first, reminder, subscribe, share, like all that good stuff. And a quick thank you to one of our sponsors. If you've ever flipped over the back of a supplement bottle and not been able to read the ingredients on the back, you know what?

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nutrition naturally. All right. what's going on with our friend Benny here? Benny Johnson in the hut seat with the New York Times, or should I say the New York Times, is now in the hot seat with one Benny Johnson because he's threatening a libel suit against the newspaper, the gray lady, getting called out by a YouTuber.

Benny, you know, yeah, I know his producer very well. I've known him for many years. Benny's been on the show a bunch. Benny has really just taken the world by storm on YouTube. I mean, just like, I look at his numbers and I'm like, man, You know, we're still fighting to get to a million over here on the Trish Rican show, but I know that you guys are going to help me do it. Anyway, Benny has been over successful, and I think that that might scare the living

daylights out of the New York Times. I don't know, because I'm looking at this, and I'm like, why would they bother going after a YouTuber, like really and truly, why are they after Benny Johnson? Somebody at the New York Times has it out for him. So they printed this article. He plagiarized. He promoted falsehoods. The White House.

embraces him. Well, maybe this way you get, you know, two birds for one stone. You can go after the White House and Donald Trump for talking to him and embracing him and giving him access. How dare he have access, right? Nobody's allowed to have access except New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News. You know, anybody who's like grandfathered in, the rest of us are YouTubers. No, we're not supposed to have any access, I guess. Anyway, he's not able to overcome his past as far as the New York Times is concerned, and they're taking direct, direct aim at him. And it's, it's a little. It's a little strange to see. I just got to say, because again, you know, over here in YouTube land, we're kind of separate from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and we tend to poke a little

fun at them. But when do they poke fun at us? Maybe it's because suddenly someone like Benny is resonating. I think that's kind of what it has to do with. They actually, they go through a whole bunch of stuff, okay? It's a total hit job. They talk about how he got fired from other jobs, allegedly for plagiarizing, not even allegedly. I think he apologized in one particular case. but, you know, apparently you can't escape your past. He's just blown up, right, on YouTube. And ad issue in this particular story is apparently whether or not his home burned in a fire. And they're trying to say, he was talking about it recently because he knows what people are

up against in the streets of D.C. because he used to live in the area and it was written with crime and he had his home burnt and this, that, and the other. And I guess his family was in there. The New York Times tried to say, no, that wasn't the case. That wasn't the case at all. And he's like, hey guys, like, what are you talking about? What are you talking? So he posted this.

Let me share with you. Guys, he posted this right here on, let's see, on Twitter. He's got a huge Twitter following. And he said, the New York Times just wrote a hit piece targeting my wife and children. The angle was that there was no proof that my newborn child was in any, danger when I was posting about the fire. And yet he said, look, I've got the security footage and the video all right here. And then he proceeds to share it. I'm going to show some of this to you guys. You can see one of the pictures of the footage. He goes on to say

quite in quite a lengthy statement, you know, if you watch the security cameras, what you see is the DC police officers using a crowbar to rip open my door as my neighbors scream, there is a baby inside. I think this had a big sort of hand in, Benny deciding he wanted to live in Florida because, you know, the security issues raising a family in D.C. are tough, which is what he was trying to talk about. There's a baby inside. They were saying moments later, he said, my terrified wife runs out of the home with our newborn baby in her arms. We lived in a row house and on the house next to us, it was a total loss, right? Both their dogs were, oh gosh, were burned in the arson. Our home was rendered completely uninhabitable due to the damage from the fire.

We had to live in a hotel for a month afterwards. This was the worst day of my life. I almost lost everything. I moved my family to Florida swiftly afterwards. Now, in spite of all this hard evidence and the police reports, the New York Times still does not think my wife or my newborn and baby were in any kind of danger that day. And, you know, he's saying this is a kind of dehumanizing propaganda that actually gets people killed from the celebration of the, you know, and then he goes on to, you know, what happened with Trump in Butler County, et cetera. Look, I think, you know, he says, you should judge a man by his enemies. I'm proud to have the New York Times, work so hard on a hip piece about me. It's a badge of honor and a rite of passage in this industry. But leave my

children and wife out of it. And you know what? He's right on that. Like, that is uncalled for. I myself have been the victim of these hit pieces in various publications and it just kind of goes with the territory. But when they start coming after your family, that's when you're kind of crossing a point of no return. And it shows you that they really must be threatened by him. So let me share with you. He wound up putting out a video on this. Can we see this? I think we can. It's a good looking thumbnail, man. Hey, Benny, Cravely. to your team on the thumbnail. Again, I know one of his producers has been a long-time friend. By the way, has a great Twitter account himself, ALX. You should go check that out.

But let me see if I can share with you a little clip from Benny explaining this. I think it's just a terrible thing. It is perhaps a badge of honor, but who the heck wants that, right? You don't need that. You don't want that. I would say that for whatever reason, the New York Times must believe us YouTubers are somehow a threat. Now they're trying to take him down. I've been watching his subgrowth count because, you know, this is what we do. I'm like, I'm trying to get to a million. I mean, Benny's well over five.

I'm looking at his account going, wow. I mean, he's just, he's exploded. And I wish him all the well because he's really, he works hard for it clearly. I mean, he's, the content is, is nonstop. But here he is explaining this. Let's just take a listen. I had a newborn child at the time when there was a spate of horrible gang violence. on my block leading to an arson in the home that shared a wall with me. It's called a row house.

This is the style of house that is very prominent in Washington, D.C. And as you can see right here in this photograph and in this video that I will show you all of the direct evidence of what happened, the home that is next to mine. That's my home. That's my child's nursery right there, right there. That white building, that's my home. This building right here, that is the house that was set ablaze. Now, horrifyingly, two of their dogs were killed in this fire. It was a deadly fire. It was a huge emergency. My house was rendered unlivable. That's partly why he moved then to Florida. But what's nuts is that the New York Times somehow wants to begrudge him this. I mean, of all things to go after, they start saying

that a separate report from Washington's fire department described a fire that was intentionally set the morning after the shooting, but in the neighboring house, not Mr. Johnson's, the fire department was able to put out the fire after 20 minutes. Two dogs died. They did admit in security footage viewed by the time shows Mr. Johnson's wife and child being escorted out of the house, but no people were injured. Okay, so they're going to like pick a fight over whether or not they were injured. I'm sorry, like it's a row house. There's a fire and war. and yours catches fire and your baby and your wife are having to come out. Like, that's a pretty scary situation.

And they're slamming him for saying he felt like he was escaping communism. And so he moved to Tampa, Florida. And somehow the New York Times sees this as, you know, oh, my gosh, he's making it up. I'm sorry, guys. Like, you're stupid to new kinds of lows. And we know the times is lousy. We know what they're capable of. we know that this is their song and dance and this is what they're going to continue to do,

but it shows you how badly they must be threatened by one Benny Johnson. If they're pulling this, I mean, Benny, for goodness sakes, he got to go to the White House the other day and be in that, you know, chair where they have the alternative journalist, the new journalist, the new media chair. A whole bunch of people have gone there. And not that big a deal, but the New York Times is like, oh my God, a new journalist. He's here. We've got to take him down.

And they come out with this. I mean, what a bunch of sour pusses. Listen, they had their time. Their day in the sun is over. We've exposed all their bias. We know what their bias is. They're going to need to actually shape up. And they're going to need to reinvent.

And they're going to need to do things like be on YouTube themselves. Okay? And maybe it has some people with some pizzazz and personality like Penny's got on YouTube. Because if you're going to hold an audience, You can't be robotic like they are at the New York Times. You can't look like most of the people look at the New York Times, not to be petty or anything. But you know what? They're print reporters.

Hey, hey, hey, we're going to have to put some makeup. We're going to have to actually liven things up, right? We're going to have to make this exciting. This is a new medium and I'm excited about it. I love it. Benny clearly is killing it. And now the New York Times is threatened. So they do this huge hit piece.

But as he said, he's taken him on. he's taken him on and he's going to sue him. He's going to sue him for libel. And you know what I think? I think he's got a real shot at succeeding here because they are deliberately trying to take him down and they're bringing in the wife and kids and it's not right. It's really and truly, it's just not right. But I was struck by it because I'm like, wow, like are they that threatened by us? And I think they are. You know, in the old days they were threatened by Fox. Now they're three. threatened by us. They're threatened by YouTube. And I think it's, it's worth remembering. It's worth thinking about. It's all the more reason to make sure you subscribe to me and share. I mean,

they're talking about, you know, how he cranks out all this content. I'm looking at it and going, gee, is that what happens to me? Like once I get to a million, once I get to five million, the legacy media hates what we represent. They hate that I can get on here without a teleprompter, without a middle manager saying, here, you can say this, you can't say that, without a whole team of 40 people around me to make sure that, you know, we check all the boxes, and then I can just go, and then I can just talk to you, and that you can respond, and that we can actually have a very sort of innovative new kind of relationship in this new world. And I'll tell you, it's only going to get better and better and better guys,

because at some point we're going to be able to fly you in, you're going to be able to talk, and, you know, I'm looking at your comments right now. Thank you, Clementine, for the compliment. I realize some of you, we got people who aren't Benny fans. We got people who are Benny fans. It doesn't matter. You know, I don't care if you like Benny or you hate Benny. I'm just saying that's unnecessary.

But it speaks volumes about where we are in this world right now. They did a nice little puff piece on the woman who's going to take over for Anna Winter at Vogue. She's going to be the new editorial directorial director. They made a whole thing about how they're calling it an editorial director now instead of the editor, because as editorial director, you have to be thinking about all these new things. Who would have thought that, you know, Vogue might actually have to be online and in video? Who would have thought that the New York Times would need to have something like a streaming arm or a YouTube? I mean, the world's their oyster, honestly.

Like if you think about it, think about their access to content, right? and they have all those reporters like you go hog wild. But you got to actually be willing to live a little on the edge and have a little personality and have a little bit of opinion and viewpoint. I mean, for goodness sakes, you guys do have opinion. What am I saying? You got opinion in spades. It's called TDS.

You got more than opinion. You got an actual case of TDS. Okay, so lean into it. Own it. Admit it. Don't sit there and tell us that you're not biased. Don't sit there and tell us that you're fair because you're not. I mean, Benny, what you see is what you get. Okay? Like, it's all out there. Same here at Trish Regan. You know my biases. And actually, you know, I'm different than Benny.

And, you know, Benny leans in, you know, he may have, you know, I may even be, dare I say, more middle of the road than Benny, right? Whatever. But at least you know where I am. At least you know where he is. Where the heck is the New York Times? Oh, we know where they are except they pretend they're not. And over here in YouTube land, you know what? We don't pretend. There's no point. It's a waste of time. We're actually real. And transparency and authenticity, that's actually what rules a day. It's the reason why President Trump got elected. It's the reason why we can go direct to the people. And I love it. I love every single last bit of it. I am so excited to be here. And to be able to do this show all on my own, without all the middle management, without all all the layers without having to have 20 people around me at all times, without having to have someone

even, you know what, I do my own hair and makeup even. Imagine that. You know what? It's, it's on me, but I like it that way. We keep a small team because we are doing something that's very different, and it's for you. It's for me too. I mean, my family jokes, they're like, you know, when mom gets old, like really old, we're just going to send her up. to the studio and we're going to pretend. We're going to say, hey, mom, camera's on. Go for it because it's going to keep her young forever. She likes it so much. Well, it's true. I do like it. I do like it. And most of all, I like this medium. I like having a direct relationship and contact with all of you. So thank you so much for being here. If you haven't subscribed,

subscribe, share, like, make a comment. Help me with this algorithm because I want. want to get to a million and we're going to have a big party. Ladies and gentlemen, I can't wait for that day. A big party when Trish Regan hits a million subs. Give me some ideas. Like, what should we do? What should we do? I know we're talking about singing, because you know I sing. I was an opera singer in another life. Mm-hmm. For real, for real. That's why I speak so many languages. Puccini was my favorite composer. I'd say Mozart's a close second, but primarily I like singing in Italiano because vowel to vowel is the best way to go. Anyway, I digress, but I'm thinking about what we do. I think we have to plan something kind of special. Thank you for all you do, and I will see you here again,

live on the Trish Riegen show tomorrow.