TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Miami Vice: President Trump to Be Arrested on Tuesday in Miami

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

The formal arrest of former president Donald Trump is scheduled to take place on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in downtown Miami. Sources tell Local 10 News that Trump will be fingerprinted behind closed doors, have his mugshot taken, but won't be released to the public, and then appear before a judge around 3 p.m. Trump will be arraigned on 37 charges related to the unauthorized retention of secret documents after he left the White House. This is the first federal indictment against a former president in history. The former president's arraignment comes less than a week after his indictment for allegedly taking classified documents to his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago after leaving office. Mr. Trump has been on the campaign trail since he was indicted, slamming the investigation as a politically motivated "witch hunt" and insisting he did nothing wrong. President Trump has urged supporters to protest outside the courthouse on Tuesday. The city of Miami has been preparing for a crowd in and around the courthouse, with police chief Manny Morales urging commuters to expect traffic delays. Earlier, he held a press conference to talk about the security plan. He said city, county and federal agencies have been working together to make sure the event goes off without a hitch. Chief Morales also said the police will provide security at the courthouse and at the entrances to it, and they'll work with the federal marshals who are handling the arrest to make sure everyone is safe. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 6/12/23 You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969. It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/ Apple users, you can down the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858 The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

You are listening to True News with Rick Wiles. We appreciate you tuning in. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support, please visit our website at truenews.com. Our mailing address for all correspondence is True News, P.O. Box 690069, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help us, God, I'm Rick Wiles. The formal arrest of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to take place on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in downtown Miami. Sources told local TV news in Miami that Mr. Trump will be fingerprinted behind closed doors, have his mugshot taken,

but that will not be released to the public, and then appear before a federal judge around 3 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Trump will be arraigned on 37 charges related to the unauthorized retention of classified secret documents after he left the White House. This is the first federal indictment against a former president of the United States of America in the history of this country. The former president's arraignment comes less than a week after his indictment for allegedly taking classified documents from his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving office. Mr. Trump has been on the campaign trail since he was indicted, slamming the investigation as a politically motivated witch hunt and insisting he did

nothing wrong. President Trump has urged supporters to protest outside the courthouse on Tuesday. The city of Miami has been preparing for a crowd in and around the courthouse with Miami Police Chief Manny Morales urging commuters to expect traffic delays. Earlier, he held a press conference to talk about the security plan. He said city, county and federal agencies have been working together to make sure the event goes off without a hitch. Chief Morales also said the police will provide security at the courthouse and at the entrances to it and that they will work with federal marshals who are handling the arrest to make sure everyone is safe. Doc Burkhardt is here with me to talk about this sad historic moment in the life of the United States of America. Doc, regardless of how you feel about President Trump, it's a sad day when a former president is arrested.

Of course. This is not good for the country. It's not healthy for us as a people and it's going to have a serious impact on on our country um this before we get into a discussion about this let's uh we'll take a look here what uh what the police chief is saying this is cbs news uh this afternoon uh chief morales detailing his his plan for expected indictment of former President Trump on Tuesday. So CBS Miami is reporting that former President Donald Trump has arrived in South Florida and is expected to spend the night at Trump National Doral this evening.

Now on Tuesday, he's expected to appear in court in downtown Miami for his arraignment on 37 separate charges related to mishandling classified documents. Law enforcement officials are preparing for potential protests and have implemented extensive security measures involving multiple agencies, including the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Secret Service, and local police departments. Trump supporters have already gathered outside Trump National Doral today. Now, during a news conference Monday afternoon, Miami officials said police would use a unified command post to coordinate a police response to the crowd.

Make no mistake about it, we're taking this event extremely serious, said Miami Police Chief Manny Morales, who said any protest should be peaceful and civil. We're ready. We're ready for it to be over and done. Now, Miami Mayor Francis Juarez says he was confident that the city's police will be able to handle the crowds and any protests if they occur, citing officials' past experience during the George Floyd demonstrations that spanned several days. He said, I have full faith and confidence our police will have the right action plan and resources in place. We're prepared for what will happen tomorrow. Now, coming from a former police chief in there, you're going to have the city of Miami,

probably the chief himself, you're going to have Miami-Dade County, the Secret Service, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals. They'll all be there to make sure there's a unified command. Well, I don't doubt that there will be protests tomorrow and there will be some trouble tomorrow, but it's probably unlikely to come from Trump supporters, but from people who hate Donald Trump. That's where you're going to likely have the most vocal protest and any kind of possible violence, because generally Trump supporters, they're there to support Donald Trump. High-profile supporters have been making some very strong statements about, you know, indicating a showdown is coming. So this is a much more heated and more dangerous turn of events than I think most of us want to think about right now. I don't think anything big is going to happen tomorrow. It's almost like they're wanting it to happen. Of course they want it to happen. They've been trying to get this civil war going for years. Come on,

civil war, let's get started here. Bill Clinton was trying to get a civil war started. They go all the way back to Ruby Ridge and Waco and everything. They've been trying to do a civil war. But the American people have not taken to bait. But this is a very serious thing tomorrow. Whatever you and I say here today, it will be misconstrued by various people. This is one of those topics like you can't come out, you can't come out of it without missing some fur. Well, it's like, you know, diving in the septic tank. Something's liable to stick.

Yes. Right. So you have to be extremely careful because emotions are heated on both sides. And the people who hate Donald Trump can't wait to see him in prison. The people that love Donald Trump, you know, don't care if any of the counts are accurate. They don't care. And those are the two extremes. You have one group that would, they don't care, do whatever you got to do to put him in prison. The other group that says, I don't care what he does, we'll never hold him accountable. Somewhere in the middle, there's truth. And probably the truth is that both sides have classified documents. I mean, we know that the Clintons had access

to classified information on Hillary's server, remember the one in the bathroom, had stacks of boxes in Joe Biden's garage. We haven't even been told if there's any classified documents in there or not. So it's likely it's happenable. Even Mike Pence, you know, a few months ago, admitted he had some boxes of materials.

Doc, what I've noticed over the past few days, you know, since the indictment was announced, it's impossible to hold a calm conversation with anybody on the topic. Yeah, because we're so divided as a nation. You just can't talk to people about it. And again, the people that want Trump arrested, it's just like, you know, they're snarling. They want him arrested.

The people who were his biggest supporters don't want to hear anything other than this is a staged setup. You setup, they're taking him down. You can't talk to anybody about it. Are they after him? Yes, they've been after him ever since he started running in 2016. Did he have classified documents at Marla-Lago? I got to tell you, when you read the indictment, 37 charges, it is really, really serious. And the big one, of course, out of the 37 is the conspiracy to obstruct justice. In other words, that the former president went out of his way to make sure that the investigation didn't continue. That's the biggie. So a lot of his supporters, and I'm completely on board with them on this,

aren't they angry that Hillary Clinton wasn't arrested? I agree. I want Hillary Clinton wasn't arrested. Right. I agree. I wanted Hillary Clinton arrested. People were angry that Hunter Biden wasn't arrested. Me too. Been talking about it for years. People are angry that Joe Biden isn't arrested when all this evidence is there about his influence peddling, taking millions of dollars

from China and other places. The evidence is there, and there's not even an investigation going on. I get that. I understand why people are angry. But the point I've been trying to make to Trump supporters in private conversations is, even though every one of those things you said is correct

that's not going to persuade anybody in a courtroom right you can't go into a federal courtroom and and tell a jury you have to acquit donald trump because you never arrested Joe Biden. Right. Joe Biden's not on trial. He should be, but he's not going to be on trial. So the honest question is, if you're having a real-life dialogue, if former President Trump knowingly took classified documents from the White House without declassifying, that is a violation. It's clear and simple. There's no way around it.

That's just the way it is. That's the fact, Jack. And he had an opportunity to return the documents. Right. And that's where the conspiracy to obstruct justice comes in because he had the opportunity several times to return. Now, like you said, we'll get emails, we'll get calls, we'll get letters about this. Understand, I know where your heart is. You want to believe

that there's a better America out there and that Donald Trump represents that. Doc, when they first started, remember when they raided Mar-a-Lago and remember the photographs of the documents spread on the floor, my first reaction was, the photographs are fake. You know, the federal agents planted the evidence there. That's what I thought. I mean, it seemed obvious on that, didn't it? It did. But now that you read the full federal indictment? It's like, no, he really had

numerous boxes of classified documents and he talked to people about it. He almost bragged that he was in possession of them. In fact, in several conversations with media, he did seem to brag along that line.

His ego and his pride got the best of him. And when federal authorities contacted him a year ago and said, you've got to give them back, if he would have done that, if he would have returned the documents, even if he would have said, look, I have a difference of opinion. I believe I'm entitled to have these. But if the federal government is telling me I have to return them, I'm going to do it. If he would have done it, Doc, he wouldn't be going into a federal courthouse tomorrow.

So to me, he brought this on himself. I want to show you a couple of photographs from the actual federal document. This is the Mar-a-Lago white and gold ballroom stage. And, you know, those are boxes of classified documents that were stored on the stage. Now, not every document in there is necessarily classified, but there are classified documents included in there. And both you and I have been in that ballroom, right?

Yes, yes, I've been right there. I've been in Mar-a-Lago a couple times when President Trump was there. Now, I didn't see boxes of documents, okay? But that's a photograph of what the federal agents saw. And, you know, Doc, if only one of those crates had top secret documents in it, it was extremely irresponsible. You have thousands of visitors. Right.

It's a resort. I mean, you can go there and eat a meal. Okay, it's a resort. You can stay in a room. You can play golf. It's a resort. Thousands of people moving through that facility. And they constantly have events.

It's almost a nightly affair in Mar-a-Lago. So if, you know, if only one of those boxes had classified documents in it, it was extremely irresponsible for a former president to have top secret documents about nuclear secrets, war plans, and so forth. it just is very very it just looks very serious on Donald Trump when you read the federal case against him I'll show you another photograph these were documents being stored in a restroom near a shower you know they were stacking them up in various places throughout Marlow. They were moving them around at different times, too. In fact, the also indicted is Waltine Nalta, which was basically— Is that Deshaies? Yeah, Deshaies, and, you know, arranged all of Donald Trump's schedule.

He is also named in this indictment that's being handed down along with all these different counts because he actually, they have the text messages and emails where he coordinated moving around these boxes of documents in various places throughout Mar-a-Lago. There was another photograph. We didn't get it up here, but they showed another picture where a large stack of boxes had fallen over and spilled all the contents out. And so that means that it probably wasn't stored properly, and then other people might have had access to classified documents. It just looks bad. It looks really bad. Yes, but Joe Biden kept his classified documents locked up in his garage. Now, we know they were secure because he had his Corvette there,

so we know he had the door locked, right? So I get the double standards. You don't have to write to me about the double standards. My personal view is, if any of these people, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, had classified documents in private residences, on private email servers, or whatever, all three of them should go to prison.

That's my view. Rick, if you had classified documents at your home. Yes, yes. There's my view. Rick, if you had classified documents at your home. Yes. Yes. There's a law. You don't remove classified documents from a secure facility. That's just, when you're the president of the United States, you don't do that kind of stuff. And that was one of the other things that was brought up in the indictment too that I read. They brought up the fact that Mar-a-Lago was an unsecure facility, an unsecure facility, and also his residence up in New Jersey, that it was an

unsecure facility. So they made a big deal about that as well. But they don't go after Joe Biden and his unsecured garage. They didn't go after Hillary Clinton and her unsecured bathroom. She had servers in her bathroom. I get it. I understand. I'm angry about it, too. It is a double standard. But again, what I'm trying to say is that argument will not work in a federal court hearing and a trial.

You can't make your defense of the other guy got away with it. You have to let me get away with it. That's not going to work. And if he's convicted on all 37 counts, he's facing over 500 years in prison. Doc, they only have to get a conviction on one of the 37 counts. He'll go to prison. Just one. If the jury finds him innocent or there's a hung jury on 36 counts, but they convict him on one, he's going to go to prison.

What are the odds that he can beat 37 charges? I just don't see it. I see Donald Trump going to prison. I think they have him. I think they finally found a way to get him. And it's a really, really sad day. We have a double standard in this country. But Mr. Trump brought this on himself.

He knew that they were after him. He knew it. Why would you give your enemies the ammunition to shoot you? Yes, my question would be is, if he wanted the documents, all he had to do was declassify them. Yes, but he didn't do it before he left. Right.

And so that's the one thing in all this that hasn't kind of gotten through my head yet. Why didn't he do that? I mean, he did declassify a number of documents, so it's not like he didn't know how to do it. So the question is, well, why didn't he just say everything here declassified or something along that line? That's the thing that's puzzled me in this whole investigation. But what was his mindset in January of 2021? He was licking his wounds still, I mean.

January 6th, everything. He was angry. He was angry. Now he's paying a price for it. And I just, I don't see how he can get out of it. The federal judge, there's already, the Democrats are already trying to force her to recuse herself because she was appointed by Donald Trump. So we can't have a judge appointed by Donald Trump. We have to have a judge appointed by Obama or Biden.

Then it would be fair. That's their argument. It can't be fair if the judge is appointed by Trump. It can only be fair if the judge is appointed by Biden or Obama. I don't think that's going to work. She could do some things to slow down the trial. She could issue decisions that would delay. But eventually, eventually it's going to go to trial. Right now, could could the trial be delayed until after the 2024 election? Maybe. But now you're you're you're rolling the dice gambling that the election will go in the direction of the republicans right and and what if a republican is elected who says i'm not going to pardon donald trump

there's the odds are not good for Donald Trump in this thing. Is that why now you're seeing so many Republicans jump into the race at this time? Because they smell blood in the water? Doc, I think, my gosh, if Mr. Trump is convicted, I don't think he'll let himself go to prison. I think his pride is too great.

I don't think he'll let himself go to prison. I think his pride is too great. I don't think he'll let himself go to prison. This thing could really end in a tragedy, a horrible tragedy. They're putting a lot of stress and pressure on a man who's getting up in his years. But that's what they want. They want him gone. They want him gone. They want him gone.

And we do not have justice in this country but it doesn't matter. They're going to arrest him tomorrow. You know what do you do? It is what it is. And I really don't think his supporters are going to do anything.

I don't think they're going to be violent or anything like that. After January 6th, nobody's going to go out there and defend Donald Trump. Because the people who defended him on January 6th are now sentenced to 20, 30 years in prison. So now it's Mr. Trump who's going to go to prison. Hunter Biden's not going to go to prison.

Joe Biden's not going to go to prison. If they do anything on Hunter Biden, they're going to charge him with failure to pay some parking fines. And then inside the plea agreement will be all the real crimes he committed, and they will be part of the plea bargain. And then after that, nobody can ever arrest him. Hunter Biden's not going to go to prison. Joe Biden's not going to go to prison. Obviously,. Hunter Biden's not going to go to prison. Joe Biden's not going to go to prison.

Obviously, the Clintons aren't going to go to prison. But I think Donald Trump's going to go to prison. Like he said, there's no justice in this world. Only justice rests with God. Well, the next story is about Jeffrey Epstein. Wall Street Journal reporting that J.P. Morgan will pay $290 million

to settle a lawsuit from accusers who said the giant bank looked the other way while Jeffrey Epstein moved money through the bank and that there were people in the bank who knew where the money was coming from. Right. And we've been seeing the writing on the wall here over the past few weeks. This is likely where it was all going to land. According to the Wall Street Journal, JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein following years of dealings with the convicted sex offender.

Now, lawyers for Epstein's accusers announced the settlement, which will be split among the dozens of victims. The settlement comes after the bank's top executives were questioned about their relationship with Epstein. Now, the settlement resolves one of the last major legal issues facing the bank over its relationship with Epstein. Now, the parties believe that this settlement is in the best interest of all parties, especially the survivors who were the victims of Epstein's terrible abuse, J.P. Morgan, a lawyer for the women, said in a joint press release. J.P. Morgan said that it was a mistake to have any association with Epstein and that it regrets its association with him. We would never have continued to do business with him if we

believed he was using our bank in any way to help commit heinous crimes, a bank spokeswoman said. Now, Brad Edwards, a lawyer representing Epstein's accusers, said a settlement of this size finally acknowledges the magnitude of the suffering of Epstein's victims, the degree to which our system is broken, and the extent of Epstein's influence to corrupt our system. Now, the U.S. Virgin Islands also sued J.P. Morgan late last year, saying the bank facilitated Epstein's alleged sex trafficking abuse by allowing the late financier to remain a client in helping him send money to his victims. That suit is still pending. In a statement from the U.S. Virgin Islands, it says the U.S. Virgin Islands will continue to proceed with its enforcement action to ensure full accountability for J.P. Morgan's violations of law.

And that's coming from our spokeswoman for the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General's Office. Oh, they're going to continue long enough to get their $300 million. Right. Hey, they just saw the payday today, so they may know they just have to wait it out. So, I mean, we all know about nuisance lawsuits, and obviously companies do settle and pay nuisance lawsuits when the individual or the company really didn't do anything wrong,

but just to get rid of the lawsuit to pay off the people who have sued. But a nuisance lawsuit, a payoff of nearly $300 million? I don't think so. I think

Jamie Dimon did not want to be deposed. And they did not Dimon did not want to be deposed. And they did not want information coming out in a court trial about what J.P. Morgan knew about Jeffrey Epstein. You know, Jamie Dimon's been flirting around with the idea of running for president. Well, he needed to settle this. Right. Okay? So they're framing this as,

oh, we're sorry. Looking back, we never ever would have allowed an international pedophile to run hundreds of millions of dollars through our bank for years. We never, never would have done it. Oh, we feel so sorry. We feel so bad about this.

We're going to give you $290 million just to show you how sorry we are. And to shut you up. And to shut you up. Because this is really the end of the story, isn't it? This is it. This is all that will ever be said about Epstein. And there's never going to be an investigation of who Epstein worked for and who he blackmailed on behalf of.

Never going to happen. This is the end. And the final one will be the settlement with the U.S. Virgin Island government. They'll pick up their $300 million. But there'll be nothing new that's brought out. When I read the article today, I just realized this is it. This is the end of the story. There'll be books written about it, maybe a couple of documentaries in a few years, but no one will go to jail. No clients will be listed.

No. The black book will not be published. And none of those DVDs and videotapes and everything from... Doc, what happened to the DC Madam's black list, her little black book? What happened to it? I assume the FBI has it. No, ABC has it, ABC Television. Oh, really? They bought it.

That's right. I remember that story. And then she hung herself. Yes. After she got all the money for selling it to ABC News, then she hung herself. And then ABC never published the black book. What happened to it? So are you telling me that ABC, now Disney owns ABC, of course.

So basically Disney owns the DC Madam's black book. It's a crazy world. This is the way these scandals are covered up. Money solves problems. And they had to fix this, and the fix is in. Fortunately, the young women, they deserve to get something, but the public deserves to hear the truth. But we're not going to hear the truth.

And these are just a few of the victims, though. Yeah, just a few. Where are all the rest of them? Where are all these women? They're dead. They're dead. I believe they are. Wall Street Journal, Cuba base would help China identify strike targets in the United States.

How about this, Doc? Over the weekend, we discovered that China has a high-tech surveillance base in Cuba. Well, and as the story went down on Friday, this story came out in the journal that was saying that China wanted to build a base. And that was where it was the lead in on this. So the journal reported that a Cuban base to collect information and communications across the Southeast U.S. would give China's military a clear picture of sites to strike in a conflict. That's according to former intelligence officials. That base would mark a major advance in China's intelligence capabilities and raise concerns among U.S. officials. And it says, now remember, this is from the Friday article.

It says, while China and Cuba have denied any such plans, the possibility of a Chinese intelligence presence on the island has been a concern for U.S. officials for years. Now keep that in mind as we go along with this story. intelligence presence on the island has been a concern for U.S. officials for years. Now, keep that in mind as we go along with the story. So on Friday, we're being told, heads up, Communist China is going to build a spy base in Cuba. Right. And it says that. They haven't broken ground yet. No buildings have gone up. No equipment has moved in, but they want to do it. That's on Friday.

Right. So on Friday, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said he was unaware of the news about the Cuban base. It is well known that disinformation and slander are the usual tricks of the U.S. and reckless interference in the internal affairs of other countries is a U.S. specialty. That's coming from Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. Now, just as it was useful to the Russians during the Cold War, and they had an enormous site there, it will be useful to the Chinese. That's coming from Michael Shoebridge, a former Australian intelligence official. And says, while China's likely aware of major military targets in the U.S., tracking signals at a base such as that in Cuba would give it a more complete picture of possible targets.

That's coming from Carl Schuster, a former U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer. One challenge China has is not having access to operational communications inside the U.S. He said, you need this for strategic targeting. I thought it was kind of ironic. They do if you've got a balloon. Now, the U.S. is also the world's most powerful hacker empire and a true eavesdropping power. The U.S. has long illegally occupied the Guantanamo base in Cuba, engaged in ulterior motives, and imposed an embargo on Cuba for more than 60 years. And that's coming from Wang Wenbin. Now, so that was Friday. So as far as we know, China hasn't built a base or done anything like

that. They haven't broke ground, haven't had a ribbon cutting, anything yet, right? Then Wall Street Journal on Sunday. So on Sunday, it says the White House says China has had Cuba's spy base since at least 2019. This is two days later, Rick, and buried in a news article on Sunday. According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House has stated that China has had a spy base since at least 2019 with efforts to expand its intelligence gathering ongoing. The base would allow China to collect information, as we said, on the southeastern U.S. and potentially identify sites to strike in a conflict. Now, the revelation has raised concerns among U.S. officials with some calling for an investigation into the matter. Rick, what happened between Friday and Sunday? What conversations went down

where it was on Friday, there's no base, we might build one, and we're thinking about it, to the U.S. coming out on Sunday and saying, China's had a supply base there for years? I guess it's somebody in Washington tipped off Wall Street Journal. And the Wall Street Journal was going to print a story

saying the U.S. government has been lying, covering it up. And so they had to, the Biden administration had to out themselves. But, Doc, keep this in mind. President Trump was the president in 2019. Right. He was president until January 21.

True. So China built a spy base in Cuba during the Trump years. Why didn't Donald Trump say something about it? That's a great question, too. Mike Pompeo was Secretary of State. And he was talking about the Chinese infiltrating high school board meetings. John Bolton was National Security Advisor. Yeah, John Bolton was ready to invade Central America, and yet no one talks about the Chinese spy base in Cuba?

Did they not know it? And if they didn't know it, I mean, what a failure or an obstruction by the intelligence community between them and the Trump administration. Okay, so you only have two alternatives. Going back to the Trump years, 2019 and 20, and then the Biden years, 2021, 22, and now into 23. There can only be two options, Doc. Neither administration knew that China had put a spy base there until recently, or

both administrations knew about it and there was a cover up. Which one is it? That's what we're trying to discern here. Now, the White House was given a heads up on the article being, the initial article being printed by the journal. So they were sending a pre-print release Thursday night. And it says in this latest article, kind of given the timeline here, that after publication, the White House

said Thursday that the Wall Street Journal's report about the initial article was inaccurate, but declined to elaborate. And finally, on Saturday, it said, this is an ongoing issue and not a new development, and the arrangement as characterized in the reporting does not comport with our understanding. And so they acknowledged that there were inaccuracies in the report, but did not correct the journal until later on in the weekend. OK, now, Saturday's White House statement said that when the Biden administration came to office in January of 21, officials were briefed on China's efforts to expand its global military and intelligence presence, including projects in the Atlantic, Latin America, Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific. Now, that included, now this is from the second journal article,

intelligence collection facilities in Cuba, which the statement said were upgraded in 2019. So they were upgraded in 2019, therefore they existed before 2019. This is well documented in the intelligence record, the statement said. It said the Chinese government will keep trying to enhance its presence in Cuba and we will keep working to disrupt it. The statement also cited continued challenges with Beijing's activities on the islands. It added, we think the People's Republic of China isn't quite where they had hoped to be. Doc, this makes it different. It wasn't that the Chinese built it in 2019. They upgraded it.

They improved it. Yes, it existed before 2019. So when did it go in? What year? Was it under President Trump or did it go back to Obama? And see, now that's the question once again. How far back does this go? They were aware of it, and they knew it had been upgraded in 2019.

I just think it's weird how this story has developed over the past four or five days, where they talk about, you know what, we're going to build a spy base in Cuba. And then all of a sudden, White House says, hey, we already know about the spy base. We know you got one there. And publicly, you know, it corrects the Wall Street Journal about it. It's a fascinating political theater here. I don't understand fully what's going on here. It feels like there's

a deeper story here somewhere. But China didn't announce that they were going to build one. The original story on Friday just said that a Cuban base to collect communications across the southeastern United States would give China's military a clear picture

of sites to strike in a war. Right. Okay? And China denied that they were doing anything like that. So the journal never came out and said China... Well, it's true. I mean, the Chinese didn't say we're going to build one. They didn't submit a building plan to get a permit.

So you're suggesting that the journal stumbled into this story and then it got big real fast. Which tells me somebody in Washington whispered in the ear of a Wall Street Journal reporter and said, you ought to look into this spy base that China has in Cuba. And they got enough information to write a story. And that smoked out the truth. And the White House by Sunday had to tell the truth. So Beijing Biden had to come out and say, China's closer than ever. But again, it wasn't upgraded in 2019 it means it was built before 2019 that's right how many years back how long has it been

sitting in cuba sucking up all the communication so the one that the russians had the soviets in the soviet days i mean we're talking old-fashioned technology, but they had this massive spy base in Cuba. And, Doc, they were using 1960s, 70s, 80s technology to, you know, like a vacuum cleaner, pull in telephone calls, whatever that they could get. From all across the Southeast U.S.

But we're far beyond that kind of technology. Every single thing, and we're talking about all private communications, your text, my text, emails, phone calls, everything in the Southeastern United States is being sucked into this wet dry vac sitting in Cuba. They're collecting everything. And then they sort through it and figure out what they want. But they're sucking in everything.

Every communication is going into it. And they've been doing it for years, and we didn't know about it. This should be the number one story today, shouldn't it? Yeah. And to me, the president that allowed that to be built is the one who should be showing up at a courthouse tomorrow to be arraigned. Somebody was asleep at the watch. Somebody allowed China to... Go back to John F. Kennedy.

What did Kennedy do in 62? He told the Soviets, remove the missiles or we go to war. And the Soviets back down. Nobody's telling China, remove the spy base. 90 miles from the U.S. coast. Right. So it's been operating for a long, long time. And we're just discovering it.

And I think the Wall Street Journal, as you said, stumbled into it over the weekend, last week when they wrote the story. The biggest NATO Air Force military drill in the history of the world is taking place right now over the skies of Germany. Air Defender 23 is underway. Yes, that's right, Greg. According to DW, NATO has begun its biggest military exercise since its formation in 1949 with up to 250 aircraft stationed across six military bases in Germany and 25 countries taking part. Now, this exercise, called Air Defender 23, will last from June 12 to 23 and will involve training in crisis situations over

three flight zones. The U.S. alone is sending 100 aircraft across the Atlantic. The exercise has caused concerns about delays to civilian air traffic as the skies above Europe are among the busiest flight paths in the world. But NATO wants to send a political message of deterrence with its air defender exercise. And that's coming from Torben Arnold of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. He says, of course, this sends a clear signal saying that even though this airspace is extremely busy, they are prepared to say we will defend every centimeter of NATO territory. Now, U.S. forces are sending the F-35 stealth combat aircraft, the alliance's most modern fighter jet, to take part in the exercises. The North Sea will

see defensive drills against enemy submarines or ships, adding that an enemy can also attack from areas other than on the continent. More than 10,000 soldiers from NATO countries are participating in numerous drills. Some of these are ground-based, including an evacuation from an airfield. That's come from General Ingo Gerhardt of the German Air Force. Now, this exercise was apparently added to the schedule after the chaos at Kabul airport in 2021 when the U.S. and its allies hastily ended their mission in Afghanistan. So they're trying to correct their mistakes from the past. Amy Gutmann, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, said the drills will constitute an impressive show of force toward other countries in the world.

I would be pretty surprised if any world leader was not taking note of what this shows in terms of the spirit of this alliance, which means the strength of this alliance. And that includes Mr. Putin, she said. So obviously, Rick, this is a clear signal they're sending to President Putin of Russia, making absolutely clear to him, at least in their terms, we're prepared to shut down European airspace, whatever we have to do in order to confront you, Mr. Putin, and what they say is their aggressive movements in Ukraine. Doc, if the war between Russia and Ukraine goes to that level, Putin's not going to meet NATO on the battlefield with conventional arms. He knows he can't win at that point.

He's going to go straight to the nukes. That's all there is to it. In fact, I think it's the chief of RT.com, I think that's who made the statement a few days ago. And she said on Russian television, she expects very soon, and I don't know what soon means, weeks, months, that Vladimir Putin will tell NATO leaders, here's the line. We're not tolerating any more NATO support of Ukraine.

And I've ordered NATO cities to be targeted. And this is your final warning. And that's what she said on Russian TV a few days ago. That he's going to name cities that will be eliminated. And I heard a similar comment by a military researcher earlier today that was saying basically the same thing. If Russia finds itself on the losing side of this war, for whatever reason, if they see it in the long term of any kind of losses, they will turn to nukes. But the nukes aren't going to be in Ukraine. They're going to be in Brussels. They're going to be in Paris. They're going to be in London. It's going to be everywhere else. So I'll show you still here of the exercise that's going on right now. So all the activity is centered on Germany. We supposedly beat Germany in World War II, but let's militarize Germany once again, shall we?

And so this shows all the different locations where this new Air Defender 23 NATO exercise is operating from, obviously making Germany the point of launch if they're going to make a response to Russia. Another image here from DW. And this shows you where the forces plan to travel back and forth from. Primarily moving from Germany and from all the different traffic there, pushing to Estonia and pushing to Romania.

Of course, those are strategic locations if you're going to challenge Russia. So that's what's happening, Rick. Doc, Mr. Medvedev usually has something to say over the weekend, but this time it was very short. Medvedev called the Independence Square in Kiev the future square of Russia. So that photograph is the square in the center of the city of Kiev. And the only thing Dmitry Medvedev said in his telegram post over the weekend is, you're looking at the future square of Russia. That's right. And we have an image from his telegram channel here.

This is Dmitry Med image from his telegram channel here. This is Dmitry Medvedev's telegram channel. And it says Independence Square, soon to be Russia Square. I'm glad all these different outlets changed it to Independence Square because saying Nezoliznosti was going to be a little bit difficult to talk. So how do you interpret Mr. Medvedev's tweet? I think they're getting to a point, Rick, where they're just saying, you know, we're done. I don't think they're going to nuke Kiev. I think they'll bomb the daylights out of it, and they'll just, you know, put it into submission, and Russian forces will occupy Kiev at some point.

That's how I took it. Okay, what he just told us is we're not going to put a tactical nuke in downtown Kiev. We're going to put troops there. We're going to take control of the capital of Ukraine and we're going to annex it. We're going to make it Russian territory. That's what he just told us. That's why it was so short. It's like there's nothing else to say. They're telling us we're ready to begin our counteroffensive to the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which doesn't seem to be going so well. I mean, Zelensky has confirmed that the counteroffensive has started.

Other than blowing up the dam, they really haven't done much. And he's already asking Germany for more Leopard 2 tanks. There were some images that came out over the weekend about a line of Leopard 2 tanks that had been totally decimated. And then articles popping up

yesterday and today where the request has been, we need more tanks. Well, if you get blown up you're gonna need some more so all right so doc uh i want to go back and do a little bit of uh true news archives okay so uh if you're on our mailing list i've been i've been in a writing mode lately sending emails so you probably if you're on our email list you've been i've been in a writing mode lately sending emails so you probably if you were on our email list you've probably got more emails from me in the past two weeks and probably the last 10 years i've just been i've been wanting to send out information to people on our email list so

if you're not on that email list go to truenews.com scroll all the way down to the bottom. There's a place to sign up. Put in your email address and you'll get correspondence from me. So this is what I sent out today. And you may have already received this. Silvio Berlusconi passed away today, former prime minister of Italy, age 86. Quite a character. I view him as the Donald Trump of Italy. That's probably a pretty good description. He's been involved in several sex scandals. Sex scandals, all kinds of stuff. Financial scandals and stuff like that.

Billionaire, charismatic, flamboyant. Four-time Prime Minister. Prime Minister, four terms, differentamboyant. Four-time prime minister. Prime minister, four terms, different times. Yes. Got arrested a couple times. And he liked to party. Oh, and he loved to party. And he loved young women.

And he was just flamboyant. People either loved him or they hated him. There was no middle ground with Silvio Berlusconi. So he passed away today at age 86. Well, what I wanted you to know are some of the things I wanted to bring back to your remembrance, or maybe this would be the first time

you've ever heard it. So there were two things that stood out in my mind about Mr. Berlusconi. Number one, he was reportedly a member of P2. Now, he denied it. Right. Even though his name was on the membership list. And the dues were paid.

And the dues were paid. Who are you going to believe, Doc? Me or your lying eyes? So when P2 was exposed and outed years ago and the membership list was published, there was Silvio Berlusconi on the membership list. He denied it. What was P2?

P2 stands for propaganda due. Propaganda do. It's it's one of the most secretive and most powerful Masonic lodges in the world. And the membership was the who's who of Italian politics, business world, media, military. I mean, it was the Italian deep state in the P2 Masonic Lodge. So Mr. Berlusconi was reportedly a member, but there were a number of other members. And in this email I sent out to our friends today,

I give you the details of who some of the other big names are, names that Americans wouldn't recognize, Italian politicians and bankers and so forth. I think all of them probably have passed away by now. But it was a powerful organization. Nobody talks about whether P2 is still active today. Oh yeah, they did that a long time ago, Doc. They stopped doing it. They don't do that propaganda stuff anymore. Ever since they got caught at it, they stopped.

I don't know if P2 operates anymore. I have no way of knowing. It's not like you can knock on their door and ask them, hey, are you guys still doing nefarious things? Where do you go to verify a top secret underground organization? And if you know too much, you end up underground. What is the relationship to P2 and what's going on in the world today?

Well, P2 allegedly, and again, this is in that email I sent out today. P2 allegedly was the brains behind something called Operation Gladio. And this was back in the 60s and 70s. And if you're my age or older, you'll remember there were a lot of terrorist attacks in Europe in the 60s and 70s. Bombs going off in cities, airports and downtown shopping areas. And it just, you know, there was one terrorist attack after another over a number of years,

literally spread out over about two decades. And what the public was told was that these terrorist attacks were being carried out by the far left, by the communists, the anarchists. And so the pressure was on to go after those people. Kind of like in America after 9-11. And we were told the Muslims are coming to get you. Beware. Be afraid of Muslims. If you see a Muslim run inside

call the police. He's coming to chop off your head. Don't get near a Muslim. He'll have a sword. He'll cut off your head. They love to decapitate people. Remember what Sean Hannity used to tell us? They hate our freedom.

They have the freedom to hate our freedom. Yes. They hate our freedom. If they weren't trying to cut your head off, they were trying to blow you up. Yes. Sean Hannity, night after night after night, he would say, this is back during the Iraq War. They attacked our country. They attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon because Muslims hate our freedom.

And that was the propaganda we were fed in the aftermath of 9-11. I'm telling you that because it was the same thing going on in Europe in the 1960s and 70s with these domestic terrorist bombs going off. Right. And shootings and things that were happening. And people were told, it's them. It's those people. We've got to get them. We've got to round them up.

And the thems were the left. Well, it turned out that many of the attacks were not carried out by the far left. Well, it turned out that many of the attacks were not carried out by the far left. They were carried out by the far right. Yes, and it also turns out that Operation Gladio

was an operation of NATO. It was a NATO operation. NATO was destabilizing European governments. They're still doing it. They're still destabilizing the European continent. We're watching Operation Gladio on a bigger scale. NATO has always had to justify its existence.

It's always had to be a boogeyman. And right now, Putin's a boogeyman. So I'm bringing all this up because Berlusconi died today, and it just triggered my memory of things I used to talk about on True News. And a lot of you who are either much younger than me or you're new to this world of the real news, not what they tell us is the news. You're just learning. You're just discovering these things. You may have never heard of P2 and Operation Gladio.

Look it up. Research it. But if you want a quick synopsis, I sent it to you in that email and you can you can sign up for it at the bottom of our our website truenews.com and and read about it i i've got facts and and um dates and things in there to help you understand it anything else we need to we need to cover here before we close up. We might want to talk about the, oh, let's talk about,

that's number 41, guys, in control room. Let's go to number 41. I saw this in RT.com. Christian patriarch of Russia speaks of unique phenomenon in Russia. He says a revival has broken out. Yes. And that the West is committing spiritual suicide. That's right. So RT is reporting that the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriot Kirill, has claimed Russia is experiencing what he's calling a unique phenomenon of a spiritual revival as the West is facing its own spiritual crisis. Now, he made the comments during a speech at a newly built church in Russia's Siberian city of Tobolsk, pointing to the fact that new churches

are being built in Russia while churches in Europe are being closed or turned into restaurants and cafes. The patriarch blamed such developments on the policies of Western nations that are forcefully destroying Christian values. He says what's happening now in Russia is a unique phenomenon. And the patriarch claimed, pointing to the fact that churches in Europe are being closed. Patriarch Kirill then blamed such developments on the policies of Western nations that are seeking to destroy Christian values. These God-denying nations are still looking down on Russia and seek to teach us, the patriarch said, adding that they are almost ready to take up arms to remake Russia in their

image. Russia will simply never follow in their footsteps, Curl said, adding that doing so would mean provoking their own spiritual and moral crisis. The Western authorities claim there is no God, but only an individual's freedom. You know, he summed that up really well there, Rick, that freedom is their God. Adding that this denial of God has led to the deepest spiritual and moral crisis. The Russian Orthodox Church judges no one, Kirill said, and that everyone is free to live as they wish. He still warned that a life without God is a path to nowhere. He's got that right. Dr. John Ankerberg, Ph.D.: Doc, as you were reading it, I was thinking of the prophecy

by the great missionary to China, Hudson Taylor. Over 100 years ago, well over 100 years ago, because I was actually back in the 19th century, so I don't know, 150 years ago at least. Hudson Taylor, he had a prophetic message that he said was from God, and he said that there would be a great revival, breakout in Russia in the last days just before the second coming of Jesus Christ. Now, mind you, this is before the Bolshevik

revolution about 50 60 years before at least yes but he saw a great revival breaking out in Russia and spreading throughout the world so the west is fighting God the west is trying to crush Russia. Russia's turning to God and warning the United States, you're on a path to nowhere. You're on a path to destruction. You're committing spiritual suicide. You're embracing values that will lead to your own country's demise. And yet the Russians are saying, we want to return to God. I think Hudson Taylor's prophecy is coming true right now before our eyes. And if it is, if it is his prophecy coming true, he said it would happen just before the return of Jesus Christ. Now that gets me real excited because that's what I'm waiting for. That's what I'm looking for. I want you to read this book, Final Day, and learn about the 10 characteristics of the second coming of Jesus Christ.

You can order it on Amazon. The printed version is there. This is the second edition. The e-book is there on Kindle and the audio book is on Audible. You can get any of the three or all three at Amazon.com. There is the QR code on the screen.

And if you are listening to us and not watching, just go to Amazon and in the search bar, just put Final Day by Rick Wiles, and it will come up, and you can get yourself a copy of the book. And be blessed.

I'm writing another book. I'm writing a sequel to this book. You're giving me some previews of it. I'm excited to see what happens. Yeah, I'm having fun. Every morning, I am up early, early, early, every morning, and I'm writing. And then and then on weekends I'm out on my patio long before the chickens are up. I wake up chickens.

Do you ever think about who wakes up the chickens? It's guys like me. All right. So I'm having fun writing this book and it's part two of Final Day. I'm going to take a little bit deeper. A lot of you who read the first edition knew that I had some material in the first edition that's not in the second edition. And I did that on purpose because I felt like that material was distracting from the main message of this book, the 10 characteristics of the second coming of Jesus Christ. So I had a plan all along. I took that material out of the second edition and we're now making it the main material of a new book.

And so I'm going to go deeper into John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Schofield and the occultism, the seances, all the stuff that was involved in the formulation of the rapture doctrine. And that's all going to be in the book that's coming out. Hopefully, I'm shooting for August, September. Okay. All right.

I'm hoping I can have it ready by then. I'll let you know. God bless. See you tomorrow. God bless you. You have been listening to True News with Rick Wiles. Thank you for listening. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support,

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