The Trish Regan Show - 🚨 BREAKING: Somalia Arrest Blows Minnesota Fraud Case Wide Open—New Emails May Land Ilhan Omar in JAIL

Episode Date: July 4, 2026

A Somalia arrest just blew the Minnesota fraud case wide open — and new emails may finally put Ilhan Omar behind bars. Kristen Robbins, the State Senator from Minnesota demanding transparency into Ilhan’s alleged role in the fraud, says these emails may offer us the biggest clue on what part she and her office may have, or may not have, played in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Plus, Mamdani is obsessed with hating on America — even on her 250th birthday. You need to hear his latest… In response, Trish takes a deep dive into the history of socialist and communists revolutions promising to give power to the people — spoiler alert, they never do. And, NATO is on the verge of collapse. Find out why Europe is so on edge ahead of next week’s meeting in Turkey. Make sure to subscribe and join Trish Regan with her special patriotic message this Fourth of July Weekend and HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY AMERICA! #GodBlessAmerica #AmericaTheBeautiful #Happy250 ✅ Help support independent journalism — become a TRISH TEAM member: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join ✅ Get my newsletter and start investing today! Https://76research.com ✅🔔 CHECK OUT MY NEW SPOTIFY SHOW AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL DAILY EDITIONS: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=979e048c08c04e13 sponsors: https://BalanceofNature.com CODE: TRISH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a big day. It's a big weekend. Happy birthday America. America is turning 250 years. I'll think about it, 250 years since a handful of ordinary people decided they would rather risk everything than live under the control of kings. And that idea changed the world. And today, I just have to ask, to enough Americans, real question, do enough Americans even understand what makes America exceptional anymore? I really wonder, I've got to tell you, I do. I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, because as we approach this milestone, we're watching all these politicians out there apologizing for America. You got all these socialists promising to remake America for the people. Oh yeah, we've seen that movie before all over the world, all through history.

European elites telling us America should become more like them. Yeah, that's not going to happen. And politicians who seem far more interested in representing foreign interests, dare we say, Rashida, I'm looking at you. Ilhan, I'm definitely looking at you, more interested in representing foreign interests than defending and protecting the people and the country

that they were elected to serve and represent. These people have no idea, and I mean no idea what it means to be American. I am Trish Riegan. Welcome to the Trish Riegan Show, everyone. Please make sure you subscribe that you like. You make a comment. And maybe you can answer this question for me.

Do our political leaders love America? And I'm thinking about a lot of people on one side of the aisle. I ask because we begin today. We begin with Exhibit A, Ilhan Omar from Minnesota by way of Somalia. Minnesota. Well known. Now, infamous for Ilhan's feeding our future $250 million scam and alleged what $19 billion they think and growing in fraud. It is ground zero.

It seems to me for hating America. I mean, think about everything that has transformed, would you? Whether we go back to 2020, the summer of 2020 and all the George Floyd riots, all the looting, all the lawlessness. And then you fast forward to today six years later. And Minneapolis, Minnesota is home to one of the biggest fraud investigations. American history. And this investigation, ladies and gentlemen, just took a very powerful and remarkable turn because there's a suspect whom authorities say was involved in this mass of feeding our future fraud scheme that was just arrested way over in Somalia. You see, he fled the United States,

but they got him. Our FBI got him in Somalia. He's been actually died. He is now facing all of these charges and allegations right here in the USA. He is, of being numeral dual is the second, the second most important person for them to have nabbed here. And it's going to be a problem, a big problem for Ilhan Omar. I would just say, you know, you're looking at $250 million intended to just, you probably know this by now, especially if you watch this show. It was all intended to feed these hungry children during COVID. But instead, it basically was one giant fraud scheme.

You had all these nonprofits and all these shell companies that basically built you out of 250 million bucks. Money that was supposed to go for children went for luxury cars and real estate and cash that went right overseas. Think about it, $700, what, million in two years leaving the Minneapolis airport. And this is kind of important because these newly reported emails connected to this investigation include communications involving the representative from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar's, Congressional Office. Wow, so that raises a whole bunch of questions. Like, what exactly was taken place in these communications? What warnings were ignored? What political relationships, dare I say, were being used in this massive fraud scandal. Senator Kristen Robbins, the state senator from Minnesota, has been asking a lot of questions, and I sat down with her.

We are going to get to that momentarily. But just first understand what's at stake. and what we may learn. And Omar is under scrutiny yet again over her alleged connections to Somali-based individuals arrested for fraud. The most recent individual was found in Somalia after being on the run for four years.

He was allegedly a central figure in the feeding our future fraud scheme that stole close to $300 million in COVID-19 pandemic relief programs. The suspect allegedly exchanged emails with convicted, ringleader Amy Bach that had the subject line Ilhan's office. Congresswoman Omar continues to deny all wrongdoing. Wow, wow, wow. Okay, so here's this guy. You can get a good look at him there.

He basically is being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud as well as wire fraud and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery. So the question is, does he turn over these emails now? You know, this actually hasn't gotten a lot of pickup in the US of A. I know that Fox has reported on it. Of course, I've been reporting on it. And oddly Al Jazeera is reporting on it, but I think that that may have something to do with Somalia trying to say, rah, rah, rah, look at us. Woo-hoo. We actually worked with the FBI, and we helped them nab this Somali alleged fraudster.

We still have to say alleged, but I have a feeling he's kind of a fraudster, okay? Like, I mean, you look at what's come out thus far. So they're writing here that neither U.S. nor Somali officials have disclosed how this guy was located. However, the Department of Justice has said his arrest was the result of cooperation between the FBI and Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency. They say he is the second in command to Amy Bach, or was, because this whole thing has been dismantled. I mean, dismantled feeding our future has, but I'd like to know what else is going on, right? Because it seems that there's still a lot of money that's leaving the Minneapolis airport.

The Treasury Department actually had to come in and say, okay, you can't leave with $10,000. anymore, you're going to leave with 3,000. We're going to ask State Senator Kristen Robbins about that because she's been meeting with Treasury Secretary Bessent to try to get to the bottom of all this. Prosecutors describe him again as the second in command to Amy Bok, and he's got all these emails that were going back and forth with Ilhan's office. So we want to know what was in the emails with Ilhan's office. Was he saying, gee, you know, we need a little less red tape and does that make her somehow perhaps connected to this? We don't know, but that's what we have to find out. I mean, you read this and basically what he was doing is recruiting operators into the scheme

and collecting bribes and kickbacks, which were disguised as consulting fees, and they were funneled through all these shell companies. He had all kinds of shell companies. There were standing owners, they were falsely claiming they were serving thousands of kids a day, and inventing supplier firms to build the government for the food that was never actually delivered. I mean, bad, bad stuff. And Fox 9 out in Minneapolis has done some good reporting on this. Let's get to them. Those charges say Eidlo was a feeding our future employee who was responsible for recruiting

and supporting child nutrition program sites under feeding our future sponsorship. He allegedly deposited more than $5 million in kickbacks, bribes, and other fraud proceeds into accounts associated with shell companies. Eidley was among the four dozen suspects accused in the initial round of indictments. That number has grown to a total of 79 people charged. Most of them have since pleaded guilty while some cases are playing out in court. The DOJ says a total of 65 have been convicted, including Amy Bach. She was sentenced last month to more than 41 years in prison.

Yeah. So I think this guy's also facing somewhere around 41 years in prison before it's all said and done. And I think, well, I think that Ilhan Omar, should she be proven guilty of all this, is probably facing not just 40-some odd years in prison, but also deportation and a revoking of her citizenship. Anyway, in New York Post reporting back in May that Ilhan's name kept coming up in all these emails, okay? And they wouldn't give us the emails. And that was getting kind of upsetting. Kind of upsetting because, you know what, we kind of need to know that. All right? We need to know what was in the emails. And Minnesota State Senator Kristen Robbins was like, hey, you know, you got to turn this stuff over.

Because as you look at everything that's happening, it's getting extremely, extremely suspicious. I mean, her money alone that's fluctuating from 30 mil down to $97,000. I mean, that in, I mean, bonkers, okay, bonkers. And now we find out there's emails with her office with the guy who's the second in command. You understand how significant this is and why we need to see him. I sat down with state senator from Minnesota, Krista Robbins, just moments ago. She's demanding a lot of answers. and she's got some interesting insight into all of this. Let's watch.

And with more on all of this, I welcome to the show, the state center from Minnesota. Kristen Robbins, good to have you here. I know that you have been out at the forefront asking for all this information. And basically, nothing's coming forward. So now we have a guy from, well, from Minnesota who was hiding out in Somalia. And now we've extradited him back to the United States. And everybody is excited because now we think some of this evidence is going to come out, what do you think the potential is here that, you know, what we're going to see?

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Visit Ancestry.ca slash beginners for details. Terms apply. Hopeful. First of all, it's great. This guy was apprehended in Somalia. He went on the run in 2022 from Minnesota. And the FBI, you know, God bless them. They leave no stone unturned and they brought him in.

So that's great. And my hope is that he, so there's these communications. between the guy arrested in Somalia, who was the number two in the Feeding Our Future scandal and the Office of Ilihan Omar. And those documents, I have not been able to subpoena because they're under seal at the court, but I'm not bound by the seal. Representative Omar is not bound by the seal. So she could produce them at any point, but she's chosen not to and she's chosen to

ghost us. But this guy also has access. And by the way, those documents allegedly, sorry to interrupt, but just to confirm, we know, that those documents are emails and texts that have her office on them? Absolutely. It's communication between the number two fraudster and feeding our future and some of with Amy Bach, the number one, and Representative Ilhan Omar's office regarding the Meals Act, the bill Omar passed that took all the guardrails off the school nutrition program that led to this fraud. So they were communicating about it by text and email, and we have not been able to get those documents, but he has them.

And he's not under the court seal. So he could produce them. And that would help us understand the relationship between Representative Ilhan Omar, the person who took the guardrails off the federal school nutrition program, and the fraudsters who were committing the $250 million fraud in feeding our future. So hopefully he as part of his plea deal or as part of his willingness to cooperate will produce them. So again, though, if he's producing it to the government, then maybe we won't get to take a look at it.

They may. I mean, they're building a case of some sort. I want to get into that because I'm sort of stunned that we haven't gone after her really for anything just yet, especially when you have J.D. Vance saying he's confident that she committed immigration fraud. You have the president certainly very outspoken on Ilhan Omar. And I suspect as a result of these various changes in her financial situation from 30 million and estimated up to 30 million down to 97,000.

These are things that I would hope would catch the attention of the IRS and the Treasury Department. We've also learned, Senator Robbins, that the Biden Treasury Department actually, according to her husband's business partner, had actually frozen some of their own accounts, and that's why they apparently couldn't pay back some clients who were accusing them a fraud.

I just think that there's, you know, know, where there's smoke, there's fire here. And if you do a little digging, you're probably going to come up with, unfortunately, a whole lot. That is my gut. I mean, innocent until proven guilty, what is your take on this? What do you think Ilhan knew? What do you think she might have done? So I also hate to speculate, but I would say there is a lot of smoke. So she took the guardrails off the program that created the conditions for feeding our future. So no more eligibility requirements. Now restaurants could participate. You didn't have to eat the meat. meals on site. Now you could bundle meals. And so that's what enabled these restaurants and these

shell companies to say they were providing 5,000 meals a day. Like it was absolutely absurd on the face of it. But they got away with it for years. And so she clearly knew she had taken the guardrails off. She was clearly in communication with the fraudsters. So understanding that communication, was she given him a roadmap? Was she just saying, oh, this just happened? You know, understanding that will help. And I do, I share the frustration of everyone out there that we haven't gotten more detail, but, you know, we do have to trust the process. I know the House Ethics Committee is looking at our campaign finance reports, House Oversight Committee. But she's been as bad to them as she has been to you, right? I mean, she won't give coal or anything. As I understand, she's like, told to the hand.

I mean, until you actually, I guess, put her in a situation where legally she's starting with jail if she doesn't produce these documents. I don't know if she ever will. Well, they have subpoena power. So we tried to subpoena the records and we didn't get a single Democrat to vote with us, which was necessary to get the two-thirds vote. But they have subpoena power in the House Ethics Committee and they can, I'm sure, you know, get to those documents eventually. I'm sure they're working with her staff trying to get there. But I think the FBI would be able to maybe get a grand jury subpoena or a warrant. So I think there's still other tools that haven't been done yet. And I'm hoping we get to the bottom of it. She claims innocence. So I think she should just produce

the documents and put it to rest. Sure. I mean, look, I'm still really troubled by the third revision, right, on the financials. That's just really wacky to me. And I don't think you can blame that all in the account. I mean, I'm sorry. I'd be like, honey, wow, we're worth 30 million. Wait, what happened? We're 97,000 now? I mean, you can't tell me that she didn't understand or know what was going on. Those are wildly different valuations. So here we are, you know, there's a lot of people that have been, have pleaded guilty, as I understand.

A lot of people that have gotten punished for this were upwards of, I don't know the latest count, 80 something there in Minnesota. Yes, so 113 indictments and I think 78 or 80 convictions. or people who pled guilty. And they're still building cases. Like this is an ongoing active investigation. So I'm grateful for our federal partners. They are doing terrific work. And it's frustrating, but we have to let them build the case.

So I would imagine at this point, they're also going through all the bank records. Is it more difficult than a typical case only because, look, I've done investigations in my career into, unfortunately, terrorist fundraising. and one of the things that the Treasury Department always runs up against is the Huala system, right, where it's sort of person-to-person exchange of funds. And I look at your Minneapolis airport out there, and I'm like, whoa, they had a lot of money going back.

Crazy amounts of money more than any other airport in the country. And that's what they were legally declaring, right? So I think something like $700 million leaving in cash, in two cases, making its way to Dubai and Somalia and other places, which I have to, to assume as part of this quote unquote Huala network, how much more difficult does that make things for the authorities as they try and track all this down? I mean, I think hopefully they can eventually find it and typically they do, but it's not as easy as the traditional investigation. Absolutely. And that's why it takes more time. But you're exactly right. In the last two years,

$700 million in cash has gone out of our airport. That's more than a million dollars a day. And that's more than all the other larger airports in the country by far. Like we're 90% higher than Seattle, JFK, Chicago. It's nuts. So I know they're working on it. Secretary Besson has been here in Minnesota. I've met with him and his staff. And they have put sort of geo-fencing around money that's leaving the metro area.

And they've limited the amount. You used to be able to take 10,000. you had to declare only if it was $10,000 or more. Now you have to declare if it's $3,000 or more. What I'm hearing from my friends at the airport is that rather than just boarding a flight for Amsterdam or Dubai or wherever from Minneapolis, they're taking the cash domestically to a different airport so it doesn't have to be declared. And then they're leaving from, you know, Columbus or Cleveland or New York or wherever.

Okay, so wait a second. This is still going on. Absolutely. today, there's probably a million dollars going out of the airport today. And what we really need is our federal partners in Congress to limit the amount of cash you can take out of the country. And they've been reticent to do it for decades because people say, well, it's my money. I should be able to do whatever I want. But I think we have found that this money is going, I mean, we've documented, the feds have documented. Somebody bought an apartment building in Nairobi, somebody bought a resort in Kenya. I mean, they're using.

this money to fund luxury lifestyles here in the U.S. and around the globe, and it's our taxpayer dollars. So we need to have a better system. I look at it and I say, okay, it's one thing, right, to take the $3,000 and the $10,000. But, I mean, it seems like if we're talking about $700 million that was declared, that was like declared. So how much is undeclared? How much is the $10,000 a pop? Right. Well, the bigger concern from me, we did a hearing on this this year, and a TSA agent testified that when they come with the form, it's called FinCEN 103 or 105, and they declare, you know, we're taking a million dollars out. Then they get taken to a private room and they open the suitcase and they look, but they don't count the money. And they don't verify that the person who's filled out the form is, the person who is the courier. They just take their word for it and they look at the suitcase and make sure there's no guns or drugs in it, but they don't actually count the stacks. So if there's stacks of hundreds, they don't actually dig deeper and make sure it's not a higher amount. So we need

to tighten that up. I know that TSA is working really hard on changing protocols and making sure we actually know what's going out and who those couriers are. But we might need some federal legislation to deal with that. Yeah, the witness testimony on this was crazy. Crazy. All right. So next steps, you're waiting to see whether or not you can get your hands on that evidence? Yes. So we are still trying to get the communication between the Somali fraudster who was just arrested in Mogadishu and Representative Omar's office. We'll continue, you know, partly it's a waiting game. We need to see if the feds can subpoena it, if the House Ethics Committee will do it, or if they will be produced.

by him when he comes back. They got to do it. I mean, this is kind of outrageous. Quickly, Tim Walts, Keith Ellison, what did they know? Oh, I'm sure they're well aware of it. I mean, there have been so many whistleblower reports, so many local investigative journalists who have done a fantastic job highlighting the fraud. We've had Office of Legislative Auditor Reports going back to 2014.

This is not new in Minnesota. It's new to the country, but there has been constant drivers. drip, drip of all of this well documented. And instead of doubling down and stopping the fraud, Tim Walls administration closed the criminal investigation unit in Department of Children, Youth and Families. It's now that, it used to be DHS. They closed the criminal investigation unit in the child care fraud,

which was the genesis of all of this. The childcare fraud in 2018, 2019, early in the Walls administration, they closed the criminal investigation unit. Those people then became the feeding our future fraudsters. So if they would have shut it down right away, it wouldn't have morphed into feeding our future, which then led to all these other areas of Medicaid fraud, sober homes, autism centers,

integrated community supports, housing stabilization. The list just burgeoned when they realized that they had these Medicaid programs that had no caps on enrollment, low barriers to entry, and they could just run with it and do false billing. So because they failed to act early on in the Wells administration, they enabled all of this. $9 billion is a conservative estimate. Gosh, unbelievable, unbelievable.

Kristen Robbins, thank you so much. Thank you for working so hard on this. We're following what you're doing. Please stay in touch so you keep us abreast of where you are and where the country is on all of this. Thank you. And happy fourth. Happy fourth. We're so excited to celebrate 250 years of the greatest country and the history of the history

the world. God bless America. God bless America. Indeed. You know, again, I'm seeing this similarity between some of these people, whether it be Ilhan Omar or Mam Dani and his backup singers, because I can never remember any other names, but they're all kind of singing the same darn tune, right? They're in New York City or the new one out there in Colorado. You got a similar thing going on. They all seem to hate United States of America. They all come from these foreign places. and they come here and they think, we totally suck. Okay. That they have the definition of democracy.

Somehow, you know, 250 years later, we still haven't figured it out, despite being the world's dominant power, the most successful economy on the face of this earth. Mam Dami wants you to know, this is the bad place run by bad people. What a jerk. This guy is such a, I'm going to keep it clean for the kids, but my gosh, I have a lot of, a lot of words I could use to describe this idiot. And it belongs to us all. It belongs to our newest Americans,

those standing here with me today. Okay, this is his big message. He's going to tell you how much he hates America because, you know, we're not expanding it to everybody in the entire world, anybody who wants to come here. And I want you to pay close attention to the camera. Okay, so this is the producer in me.

Watch what the camera does and watch the people around him. Now, naturally, somebody's talking, You would look at them. You look at Donald Trump when he's speaking. Do you see everybody staring straight at the camera? No, they're looking at the person that's talking. Watch what these people do.

Very combative the way they're looking at the camera. Watch this. And this seems staged to me again. I've worked a lot of years in TV. It is not normal for people to be staring at the camera instead of looking at him. All of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel. The joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less, the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. how small they are, how weak, how unoriginal.

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. See this? A time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. As Thomas Payne once wrote, This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty, hither have they fled.

And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry, while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. Oh. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.

We see mass agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors, before spiriting them away in unmarked man's. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-street hands, those who toil on factory floors. and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few. Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all we see when we look for America. We see it too in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on our way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. We see it too, in the father who tucks his children into bed, beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, who wakes before dawn to go to work

and still believes his country can do better by his family. Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections for the highest bidder. Yet we see it just as clearly in every American who still believes this country belongs to we, the people. We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here, or what papers they have as ice invades our neighborhoods. We see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots. We see America each time working people demand more,

not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain, love it or leave it, they say. But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. patriotism is every act of righteous assent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it.

Okay. All right. So, yes, for starters, the desk is backwards. He's sitting there behind George Washington's desk, and he's got it turned around backwards because, again, everything is staged, you guys, and the desk doesn't look as pretty from the other side, so he's got to show you all the fancy brass on that.

Okay, that's why the desk is backwards. As for the people, they're not looking at him. They're looking straight at you. They're taking you on, okay? He's taking you on. He's taking this country on. He hates America. He has to fix America.

I say go back to Uganda, for goodness sakes. Okay, ma'am dummy, ma'am dummy, ma'am dummy that you are. You know, one thing I've noticed, I'll tell you, one thing I've noticed is that you almost never hear today's Socialists Salamem Dami celebrate America. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. America's the problem, okay? You're the problem, right?

He says you are the problem. Anybody who would support Donald Trump or wants to make America great again or is an American patriot is somehow a problem. So here we are celebrating 250 years of front. freedom. Good luck with that freedom in Uganda, okay? You don't have it. Mammie's out spending his time criticizing America as fundamentally unjust. And here's where history, guys, becomes incredibly important. I mean, have you ever noticed something about history that the people who are out there promising they need to destroy the ruling class, just want to be the ruling class? I mean, a lot of

the freedoms that they profess to offer through revolution. are in fact, effectively oppression. I mean, it's happened over and over and over again. Think about the French Revolution. 1789, you got France totally broke. Bread prices soaring, inflation out of control, monarchy deeply unpopular, and the nobility enjoying all these special privileges

while ordinary people are dealing with the tax burden. So the revolution begins with three words that I think everyone can certainly appreciate liberty, equality, fraternity. And yet within, what, four years? Everything starts to change. Everything changes. You got the king getting executed 1793. You got France at war abroad facing rebellion at home. The revolutionary government says it needs emergency powers to save the revolution. Of course it does. I mean, just like Biden needed all this power to curtail your speech. Because you couldn't say certain things because that threatened the movement. This guy wants to take America down. Mam Dami. Visit BetMGM casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly.

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So what ensued? Oh, we got the reign of terror. Historians estimate roughly 300,000 people were arrested, 17,000 were officially executed. You had tens of thousands more dying through imprisonment, through all kinds of killings. Here's the irony, you know, a lot of these people were just regular people. Some of them were even actually the former revolutionaries, the fellow revolutionaries, because they started turning on themselves. It kind of reminds me of how, ooh, Joe Biden, wasn't he the one that initiated the investigation into Gavin Newsom? that now the Trump administration has picked up.

I mean, it was after all. His DOJ that started proling around, his FBI that wanted the staffer to wear a wire. We'll get to that, but I'm just saying, you know, they all turn on each other eventually. Even leaders of the revolution eventually found themselves at the guillotine, and it got worse because then you had Napoleon. And, what, he came to power around 1,700, 1799 by 1804.

the guy crowned himself emperor. Okay, so you're just replacing one system with another, for goodness sakes. And in fact, you could argue the other was so much worse. So here this guy is, Mamdami, saying he's going to free you, right? You know what happens in all of these revolutions is they double down on authoritarianism. You can go from France to Russia, the Bolsheviks. Same thing. Just like Mamdami, promising.

equality, promising justice, power to the workers, and instead by 1917, they had dismantled all independent institutions. They were centralizing power. They were creating secret police. They were eliminating political opposition. They built one of the histories, or in histories, I would say, most oppressive governments, right? And thanks to Stalin, millions of people died in famine, through execution, through labor camps, political repression and the overall Soviet system. The Soviet system, but by the way, this guy and his backup singers and all his cronies and all his supporters and all the crazy academics support.

I mean, they think Stalin was a good guy. Yeah. So the lesson here is that these revolutionaries specifically, the communist, socialist revolutionaries, they produce another ruling class, one that is so much worse than anything like you've ever seen or imagined here in the United States. And it's why I worry when I hear the crazies like Mamdami, these socialists talking about fundamentally remaking America at our 250th celebration.

Because America's founders, you guys, you know what, they came here because they sought limited government. They wanted divided power. They wanted to protect speech and protect religion and protect private property. And then you got these morons, Mamdami, that want to do exactly the opposite. Our founding fathers, they knew,

They assumed government itself was the greatest threat to liberty. And that is a profoundly different philosophy than what you see from the likes of Mamdami and Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders and AOC. I'll tell you one. So I was a history major, specifically American history, colonial history major. I love history. And one of the things I love about history is it doesn't just teach us what has happened. It teaches us what to watch out for. And when you see today these progressive movements arguing that America's economic and political systems are fundamentally broken,

all they are doing is looking for more power. Zohran Mamdami and his backup singers are calling for sweeping changes to the number one economy with the most prosperity and the strongest military and the best standard of living in the world. They're calling for sweeping changes because they want to destroy everything that is so fundamentally great. Their supporters see their ideas as a way to make society more fair.

But consider this in every solution they offer. They want more government. They want more regulation. They want more tax. They want more centralized decision-making. So who ends up with all the power? That's the question, right? Because every movement says it's acting for the people, for the people, for the people.

History, it teaches us to ask. Who are the people that they're looking out for? Who are they really making this about? And what happens when the revolution is over? American founding fathers, I mean, they obsessed over this stuff, right? They obsessed over these questions, which is why they divided power instead of concentrating it. It is why James Madison Federalist No. 51 wrote, quote, If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The lesson isn't that every reform movement becomes a dictatorship. It doesn't. The lesson is simpler, timeless. be very careful of anyone who says the only way to save freedom is to give them more power. And then look around the world and know and understand history because you can see over and over and over and over again how many times that has failed. And it's failing in New York City as we speak. For goodness sakes, they can't even get air conditioning. I mean, you have only to consider that little number. Mam Dami out there telling everybody they got to keep it at 78 degrees.

You know, the warmth of collectivism is really going to help you out. What do you tell you? New York City, it's hot out there and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees. Turn off lights and electronics you're not using and unplug whatever you can. Our city is doing our part two. We're maintaining the 78 degree rule in our buildings, turning off our lights and during peak electricity demand asking private partners to do the same.

Yeah, right. Yeah, right. You know what was the headline in the New York Post this morning? Khan Air, you get it, con, con, con job. Mam Dami telling you, put your thermostat at 78. We're going to do the same thing in City Hall, but guess what? City Hall, they write, is chilling. Ma'am says your thermostat to 78 during heatwave, but City Hall is.

is chilling, chilling and set. So 61.9 degrees sweet place to be on a day like today, right? You see, these revolutionaries, these socialist, comrade, communists, they want to tell you what to do. They want to take your hard-earned income, your money that you work hard to make, and they want to set the rules. And they're going to tell you they're going to do it. in the name of freedom and the name of equality.

And then what do they do? They turn around and they tell you to keep your thermostat at 78. Well, they crank theirs down to 61.9. This is a bad dude, okay? This is a really, really bad dude. And, you know, I would just say, I don't have a lot of sympathy right now for New York. I don't because they elected this guy. But they got to get their act together because I'll tell you, New York is suffering.

It's going to be France pretty soon. We've talked about what's going on in France. People are dying. Thousands of people are dying. I mean, the elderly can't handle this heat wave. The very young can't handle the heat wave, and yet Europe wants to fight about whether or not it's really in the spirit of green energy. They've got their whole climate agenda that they need to protect,

so they don't actually want to have any air conditioning in buildings. I mean, think about the people riding the subway in August. whether it be in Paris or whether it be in New York City. Think about the elderly resident during a heat wave. You're going to tell that person to keep their heat at 78 while your own City Hall employees can just keep your behind all cool in City Hall. I don't think so. Okay, I just don't think so.

Hey, you know what? It's a big birthday weekend. Do me a favor. Go over. If you haven't read the Declaration of Independence recently, this is a good time to do it. Get the kids reading. it. It's a really fun thing to do A250Toolkit.com forward slash Trish. I mean, they've got the whole

declaration of independence there. You can even sign it in everything. They've got a whole toolkit, literally, that you can go through and they've got all kinds of great ideas on how you can celebrate America. I encourage you to do that. Our friends at AFP, they're just terrific. They are really making a whole year celebration out of this. So A250toolkit.com forward slash Trish. I'll tell you, in NATO, meanwhile, as we talk about Europe and the heat wave, they're on thin ice. President Trump is heading into another NATO summit right now with a very simple message. This is going on next week, and he's basically out there saying, listen, America cannot continue underwriting European security,

while many allies are spending far less than agreed to in their own defense contracts that they signed for years. And you've had Washington complaining, complaining, complaining, every single president's complaint. Even Obama complained about this one. But you know what? Nobody did anything. And now suddenly, what do you know? They're reacting.

They're cooperating. They're saying, okay, well, we're going to try. We'll believe it when we see it. But I'll tell you they're doing better than they ever had before. And it's because you've got one guy who's saying, I'm not going to ignore this. Here's his message right now to NATO ahead of the meeting next week in Turkey. The United States spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far to protect them without getting any benefit for doing so. U.S. $99 billion.

U.K. 90.5 billion, France, 66.5 billion, Italy, 48.8 billion, Poland, 44.3 billion, and others, including Germany, much lower. Totally ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Well, we have a solution for that, and everybody's freaking out over in Europe because, you know what, he's willing to walk. This is what they don't totally get. And we talked about this yesterday, right? Historically speaking, you've always had presidents that believed in preserving these alliances and preserving these institutions and Donald Trump's like, well, why am I going to preserve the institution if the institution isn't working for the American people? Like, what are we getting out of this? We're giving them everything. And then all they do is trash us. All they do is tell us, yeah, middle finger when we

say, hey, can we go use your bases? They don't actually want to follow through with anything that is, well, I would say what they should do as an ally. I mean, they're just, just like, no, no can do, no can do, no can do. And so he's saying, all right, well, we're out or we're going to reduce our expenditure significantly for each and every one of you that refuse to do what you need to do. Spain, I am looking at you, Spain that can't even come up with the lousy 2% that has somehow gotten an excuse from the Europeans, they don't have to do it. Well, then we don't need to be part of NATO. We're going to actually reduce every single. We don't need to give you a dime. Forget about rota, Marone, you get all those bases over there. We're

not going to fund them at all. Pete Heggseth explained it a couple weeks ago in Brussels. And this is what you're looking at guys, okay? He told you. He's going to tally it all up. They've got accountants working overtime. They're running the numbers. They're making a list and checking it twice, trying to find out who's naughty, you're nice, and guess what? Spain, you're on the naughty list. Italy, you may be too. France, Germany. Oh, quite a few of you. I see that list growing and growing and growing, right? Well, there's a solution here. And the solution is to just cut all the dollars. give you. Listen. At the same time, going forward, our annual NATO dues will be contingent on other countries meeting their defense spending targets. Where other allies do not spend with

urgency, our dues contributions will go down. NATO will be a two-way street. It's only common sense. America cannot care for or pay more for Europe's defense than our allies do. And this review will think outside the box. Our national defense strategy states clearly that we're going to incentivize and enable our allies to step up and do their part. So we're going to keep a close eye on allies who are not doing that and who say no or maybe or wait and see when it matters most. It's a review that some countries will fail and others will pass with flying colors. In the end, the review is intended to both improve U.S. force posture and basing and strengthen NATO 3.0. It's intended to be constructive, as we have always been.

There are no strategic surprises here. There haven't been. I've been clear with all of you since my first remarks to this body in February of 2025. President Trump has always done the same. our direction of travel is and has been clear this is the right thing to do by the american people it's the right thing to do by this alliance europe can and must take primary responsibility for its conventional defense as it plagued at the hague summit boom way to tell him pete okay why to tell them i mean europe you can't keep doing this i mean we have our

limits, okay? We have obligations, and I think, you know, when push comes to shove, if you really needed us, we'd probably be there, but the president's right, like, what are we getting out of it? Nothing. Nothing. I mean, he sat down with the guy who runs NATO. He's like the ambassador for all of NATO. He's the chief, I should say. And he's saying to him, it was very awkward, right, because all the press is there and they're having this little joint press conference. And it was kind of like one of those preliminary meetings. He came to Washington, D.C., to kind of and grease the wheels a little bit and figure out just how serious the U.S. was about taking all of its money out or reducing its expenditures. And I think he came away with a headline, which is that

we are so damn serious. We're totally 100,000 percent serious. And if it wasn't clear in the backdoor meetings, in the back room meetings, I think the president made it pretty clear here. Well, let me just say he's been a friend of mine. He's great. guy, great leader, great secretary general, everybody respects him. And I appreciate your nice words, but you really have done a good job. And I think if anybody else were in that position, we wouldn't even be meeting today, to be honest with you, because we were let down. We didn't need help on this at all.

We demolished them in literally the first week. But it would have been nice if they would have said we'd like to help. We didn't even need it, but it would have been nice if they said that they didn't even need it. say but as Secretary General and he's the boss of the whole operation he was I believe if I would have called him and I didn't bother doing that because I was doing individual countries just to take the temperature and see how they were doing but I think if I would have called him he probably would have found a way to help if we needed I feel you know would have been a little bit different but I was disappointed I was

disappointed with Italy I was disappointed with the UK he's now gone and you know he had a lot of problems but we would disappointed with the UK. We're disappointed with Germany and France. We're disappointed with most of them. Spain is a horror show. Spain is terrible even from your standpoint. I mean, they don't want to pay anything. They think they're in for a free ride. Spain is not a good group, not a good group at all. But I have great respect for this man. And so we're going to be discussing what took place and we'll see what happened. Thank you. Can I answer to you?

Yeah, that was a pretty, I think, pointed message. So Spain, you're probably in a lot of trouble, right? You know, you probably depend on that money more than you should. Maybe you're thinking China's going to supplement you? Good luck with that, okay? Or maybe Iran. Your buddy's over in Iran. I don't think they're going to be able to help you very much right now.

So Spain, you're going to be up a creek without a paddle. Italy, we wish you would kind of get the message. Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, right? Georgia, Melania, we've talked about. her at length. You are welcome to go watch any of my recent rifts on Georgia Maloney because she's not been what we thought she should be or what she promised to be. But the bottom line here is we're not going to sit by and allow for them to take advantage of us anymore. This is a very new kind of foreign policy. And it's a foreign policy that's grounded in reality and grounded,

frankly, in business. Donald Trump's looking at these deals, and he's like, these deals make absolutely no sense, like what business would ever do a deal like this? And we've made a lot of bad deals, in part because I'd argue you have a lot of politicians in there as opposed to business leaders, people that think about a balance sheet. And so we've always had this idea that somehow it's really good to have these alliances and really good to have these institutions. It doesn't matter how much it's costing the American taxpayer.

And Donald Trump's saying it is costing the American taxpayer too much. And frankly, if you're going to get all that from us, what do we, Again, like you might as well, you're going to have to pay up. You want this security? Well, you're going to have to pay for it. So that's where we are. Meanwhile, I'd like to know, have they actually followed through on the Turnberry Agreement? Don't forget, July 4th is the expiration date on that one. He told Ursula and company over in Brussels, you got until July 4th to pull it together and make sure that you are actually following through with your commitments to spend billions and billions of dollars, $600 billion actually is the overall target here in the United States.

or I am going to slap a 25% tariff on all of your cars. So all the automakers, ooh, there's a lot of German ones, right? I'm thinking Audi. I'm thinking BMW, Mercedes, you've got Ferrari. If they're selling any cars these days, you know, after they went woke, it's been really hard over in Italy. So you get all these carmakers that are now facing the possibility of 25% tariffs because they haven't followed through on their promises. You say you're going to do something. You sign an agreement to do something. Well, guess what? in the real world, contracts are enforced. I realize that you guys haven't been operating in the

real world for very long, but, you know, welcome to Trump's America, where when you sign a contract, it's actually supposed to mean something. Everybody's freaked out by it. And then you think about, again, Americans that don't really love America. We might as well add Gavin Newsom to that list. Gavin Newsom in all kinds of trouble today. Ooh, yeah, this is a not looking good because apparently one of his staffers was wearing a wire. The FBI put a wire on her and she went and did all these conversations about possibly, potentially, allegedly, illegal stuff, and they got it all on tape. Ooh, Gavin, this is not pretty. So here's a picture of the woman right here. This is one of the staffers. This is actually not the woman that wore the wire. The woman that wore the

wire. Her name is Alexis Podesta. And she wore the wire because you see there was an investigation going on into Newsom's chief of staff, a woman by the name of Dana Williamson, who actually pled guilty to federal fraud and tax charges back in May. And so this was pretty darn bad, right? So they got her on all of that. And, you know, her lawyers out there saying, well, Alexis wore the wire. Dana didn't, and this is why this is going on.

I want to point out that this actually was an investigation that started under Biden. Okay, so this woman, here we go, here's Alexis, Podesta. So she was the woman who wore the wire and then went on, an FBI wire and had all kinds of conversations, apparently with Gavin Newsom, don't forget, there's an investigation going on into Gavin and his wife and what they may have been doing on the charity front because there's some kind of speculation that those charities, they were all about women's rights and maybe trans, I don't know, like she was off in Wolkland, right, with all her charities. Jennifer Siebel is her name.

So the thought is that there may have been some money that was getting moved around in peculiar ways and that's what's being investigated. But I just want to point out that these staffers, these staffers that, you know, were in so much trouble or at least one of them, the other one that wore the wire. She's, she did that because Biden asked her to do this, not because of Donald Trump. And don't forget, Gavin Newsom was like trying to blame. Donald Trump. You see how he came out? This was about a week ago, and maybe a week and a half ago, time flies when you're having fun. And he started attacking Donald Trump and was like,

how dare you go after my family? But this was Biden. And Biden's FBI and Biden's DOJ. Apparently they got tipped off because so many people in the state thought that there was some fraudulent stuff happening. Let's go back to Gavin trying to blame it all on Trump. When in doubt, it's Trump's law. In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family friends and former employees, not because they found a crime, because they're simply trying to find one. They're demanding records. They're abusing the grand jury process, digging through years and years of random documents. Donald Trump isn't just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He's coming after me because I'm considering running for president because he hates that I've consistently called him out

and over again for his lies and deceit. Donald Trump is simply the most corrupt president in American history. Wow. Wow. So talking about gas lighting all over again, the investigation started under Biden. Donald Trump wasn't even president

when they started all of this into Diane Williamson. So wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I mean, this guy is so, such a hack. He wants to basically let you think that if anything happens to him or his wife, because of these tapes, that now the FBI, oh, you wonder why he didn't want Trump winning. I mean, you know that Trump's FBI and Cash Patel, they're going to be looking very seriously and very hard in listening to all of those tapes. Because apparently, I mean, she was pretty high up in the organization. This is one of his top staffers, okay?

Unbelievable. And now she's got him on tape and it's all going to come out. So now it makes sense to me that he came out there proactively. Like it was before, the administration was like, well, we don't actually, we're not actually doing anything official. There's no official investigation. Like I said, I think they're just kind of poking around because the expectation or belief is that there was some nefarious stuff going on. And they believe there's nefarious stuff going on in part because, again, Diane, who you see right here, pled guilty to all of these tax charges back in May. But that was an investigation, as I said, that started way earlier, way earlier. And so, yes, they got this Alexis Podesta involved.

No relation. I checked to John Podesta and his brother. But this is kind of a big deal. So Gavin Newsom trying to shift the focus here, trying to pretend like, oh, this is Donald Trump. No, buddy, boy. this is your own chief of staff who then got into trouble and another one of your staffers put on a wire for the FBI and now apparently they got more stuff. And understandably, you are very, very nervous.

But, you know, I kind of doubt your patriotism too. Whether it be Ilhan Omar, whether it be Mamdami and the backup singers, whether it be Gavin Newsom. I mean, so many of them, they're just campaigning on this idea here that America's bad because Donald Trump is in charge of it. And it's just so wrong, right? So tomorrow, all weekend, millions of Americans are going to be gathering with family, cookouts, parades, fireworks.

I saw some great fireworks last night. Children chasing sparklers. Mine are getting a little old for that. but, you know, we have the sparklers handy. The flags flying from front porches, the fireflies that are out now. And I hope, I hope, before the fireworks begin, we all remember why. I mean, I'm not saying America's perfect or capitalism is perfect. I mean, no one in nothing is perfect, but let's remember, we are unique.

America is unique. This is a nation that protected freedom and freedom of speech when other countries jailed people for having their opinions. I mean, still today in the UK, they're jailing you for your opinion and shutting down speech. And there was a time where it really felt like that was happening right here. I lived through it, okay? What do you think 2020 was all about? And they used that as an opportunity for a power grab.

The nation that I'll tell you is just the embodiment of the American dream. You don't have it anywhere else, okay? There's no other French dream or Indian dream or Chinese dream. No, no, no, no, it is the American dream because we are the only place where we invite you here to improve yourself, to have more opportunity. And in doing so, guess what? You make us better. You make America better. We don't want you come in here and live in high off the hog off of all the other taxpayers.

No, no, no, no, no. We expect you to come here and be self-sufficient, take care of yourself, and contribute to society. we're the only one that has a constitution that deliberately limits the power of government over the individual and divides that power through three branches because, hey, guess what, the individual matters every single one of you, all of us. Because as individuals looking out for ourselves, we therefore can look out for the collective good. I mean, this is the beauty of capitalism, right? You care about earning for yourself and for your family. And that helps leverage your own, dare I say, selfishness because people are, I mean, hey, we're all human beings, right? It's not like I want to go to work and take care of Mamdami's kids. I know. So if you can leverage that and you can harness the power of the individual, then you get a collective good.

is worth celebrating. That is worth protecting. Freedom itself is extraordinarily rare throughout human history. Our founding fathers gave us something very precious, and whether we keep it really depends on whether we are willing to defend it. So from my family to yours, happy 250th birthday America. God bless you. God bless our troops. And may God continue to bless the United States of America. Beautiful for spacious skies for amy a tree. Happy birthday, America. God bless this country.

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