TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - News Blackout: Shutdown of IRS investigation into Hunter Biden ignored by news media

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

The Biden Administration’s blatant shutdown of an IRS investigation into Hunter Biden’s sleazy business dealings should be enough to motivate the U.S. House to impeach Joe Biden. Fifty years ago the American people were shocked by the behavior of Richard Nixon on Saturday, October 20, 1973. It was called the Saturday Night Massacre. As the Watergate scandal deepened, Mr. Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Mr. Richardson refused and resigned. Mr. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Mr. Cox. He too refused and resigned. Next, Mr. Nixon ordered Solicitor General Robert Bork to carry out the firing of Mr. Cox. Mr. Bork did what he was ordered to do by Mr. Nixon. Compare Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre to the Justice Department’s order to the Internal Revenue Service to shut down its investigation of Hunter Biden. Apparently, nobody refused the order, nor did anybody resign in disgust. Doc Burkhart and I will talk about the Biden Administration’s blatant and outrageous corruption and the failure of our system to confront it. However, first we want to look at a video of Joe Biden once again implying that Kamala Harris is the President of the United States. He made the bizarre comment at a fundraising dinner for Emily’s List, a far left political action committee that supports pro-abortion candidate. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 5/17/23 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 download 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 www.truenews.com. Our mailing address for all correspondence is True News, P.O. Box 690069, Faroe Beach, Florida 32969. This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. The Biden administration's blatant shutdown of a IRS investigation into Hunter Biden's sleazy business dealings should be enough to motivate the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Joe Biden. Fifty years ago, the American people were shocked by the behavior of Richard Nixon on Saturday night, October 20, 1973.

It was called the Saturday Night Massacre. As the Watergate scandal deepened, Mr. Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Mr. Richardson refused and resigned. Mr. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Mr. Cox. He, too, refused and resigned. Next, Mr. Nixon ordered Solicitor General Robert Bork to carry out the firing of Mr. Cox. Mr. Bork did what he was ordered to do by Mr. Nixon. Now compare President Nixon's Saturday night massacre to the Justice

Department's order to the Internal Revenue Service to shut down its investigation of Hunter Biden. Apparently nobody refused the order, nor did anybody resign in disgust. Dr. Burkhardt and I will talk about the Biden administration's blatant and outrageous corruption and the failure of our system to confront it. However, first, we want to look at a video of Joe Biden once again implying that Kamala Harris is the president of the United States. He made the bizarre comment at a fundraising dinner. Here it is.

She's been a steadfast defender of women's rights. I need not even mention that, the right to choose. But I want to thank every single person in this room for leading the way in that fight. It's a critical fight. It's about democracy. It's about freedom. And I also want to thank my buddy Kamala, who I work for up in the White House. This isn't the first time he's done this, of course.

He's referred to Vice President Harris as president on three different occasions publicly and also former President Obama as the current president twice. And so he has done this several times. That's why you shouldn't let folks that should be in the nursing home talk at podiums, Rick. Well, Doc, maybe it's not that he's senile. Maybe it's because he's truthful. Freudian slip, is that what you're suggesting? Really? I'm serious.

I think the man knows he's not the president. And he lets it out every once in a while. Well, if Kamala Harris is running things, that scares me even worse because I've never heard her be able to put two sentences together in a coherent way as of this date yet. But he has, as you pointed out, he has called her president three times. Yes.

One time is strange enough, but three times. And then to say he works for her at the White House. Is she the handler? Because I don't believe she's the president of the United States, but is she the handler? Maybe since Susan Rice left, he doesn't have a handler. That's right. She has left, hasn't she? Forgot about that.

Somebody's got a handle. Mr. Biden. Tell him what to sign. He can't even find his way off the stage. Numerous occasions. It just happened again a few days ago. He couldn't find his way off the stage. So they have to have someone there to handle him, to guide him.

He's not the president of the United States. Well, one subject you should not bring up at a White House press conference is corruption in the FBI involving the Biden family. Right. Or corruption with the Democratic Party and the fake accusations against President Trump that he was a Russian agent. So the topic came up at a White House press conference. Yes. And it didn't go over well. No. Press Secretary for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, almost went scurrying off the dais there as questions now coming from mainstream components in the media as they're asking questions about everything related to the FBI and its apparent collusion with the Democrats and the Bidens in ginning up the Trump accusations with the Russian collusion story. Here is a video of that scene.

What is the White House reaction to special counsel Durham's report on how the FBI handled the Trump-Russia probe? I would leave it to the Department of Justice to speak to. The White House talks often about how he wants the DOJ and FBI to remain independent and above the fray. That report seems to reflect the opposite. Does he agree with Special Counsel Durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the FBI? Again, that is with the Department of Justice. That's not something that I'm going to speak from the opposite. Does he agree with Special Counsel Durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the FBI? Again, that is with the Department of Justice. That's not something that I'm going to speak from the podium. As you just stated in your question, we believe in an independent Department of Justice. That's what the president said when he was running,

and that's what the president has said the last two years. Thank you so much. I'll see you guys in Japan. And I'm out of here. Yes, She had to go home and wash her socks. She had to get out of there quickly. It's embarrassing for them. I can't imagine having a job where you have to lie every day. Well, and she has printed lies. She has a big notebook that she puts out in front of her, and she'll turn to the, oh, that's lie number 17 that we've got to take care of today. So she is the token black lesbian at the White House.

And so they put her front and center, not for any degree of talent, except for being able to spin a lie to the press. Well, Doc, former Attorney General William Barr said that the Durham report shows that the Russiagate investigation was a grave injustice to former President Trump. It would have been nice if Mr. Barr would have done something about it when he was the Attorney General. Right. But he didn't. But he can now spin the story and try to rewrite history. But the report's out. And the report exonerates Donald Trump that the entire Russiagate hoax was just a massive political dirty trick. And that's really what it was. It was a dirty trick.

Yes. And it was at a level that Richard Nixon never thought about. I mean, to plant evidence, to call a sitting president an agent of a foreign country, and to have no evidence about it whatsoever and to weave a lie so extensive that thousands of people were involved in the lie. Think about how many people were involved in the lie and knew it was a lie and perpetuated it for years. But they got away with it. And I really don't think anybody will go to prison. Well, no, it wasn't a criminal investigation to begin with. And William Barr even said that. He said it wasn't a criminal investigation. It was just

an investigation to the events that took place. So there was never any, now you look back on it, there was never any intent to be able to bring anyone to justice on that. That's right. And that's where we're at right now. Well, you know, I opened up today's True News. I mentioned a Saturday night massacre. Doc, I don't know if you remember how old, you might have been too young at that time.

No, I was nine years old. I remember the news talking about everything. And when you hear the term Saturday Night Massacre, you're thinking, man, were they shooting each other at the White House? What was going on last night? But, of course, looking back, you realize it was a massacre, a political massacre, as the top levels of the Justice Department were virtually eliminated. Well, Mr. Nixon couldn't find anybody that would carry out his orders to fire the prosecutor. Right. And so the Saturday Night Massacre really became the final straw in the saga of Watergate where people said, okay, Richard Nixon's got to, he has to be impeached

or resign. And it was so blatant, so obvious what he was doing that even his supporters hung their head and said, I can't defend it. Fast forward to 2023, and the Justice Department, under Merrick Garland, ordered the Internal Revenue Service to shut down a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. And there's nothing said. There's no outrage. There are no stories being published. There are no news networks interrupting their news coverage to bring this shocking news that the president's administration politicized the IRS to protect

his criminal son. Yeah, I mean, it's nothing but silence out there on the scene. And yet, if that, you know I go back 30 years, it's hard to believe, no, it's 50 years. 50 years. Go back nearly 50 years. And when there was a Republican president in the White House, that what he did, of course, was bad.

But none of this is being looked at today. But every aspect of Watergate, you've got hundreds of documentaries about it, hundreds of books about Watergate. And you've got nothing about what's going on with the investigation of Hunter Biden except that it's being shut down. You know, I don't intend to get into this on Watergate. And I've never had these thoughts until recently with the fake accusations against President Trump. It's made me revisit, go back and look at Watergate. Because at the time, it looked like Richard Nixon was so guilty that there were some burglars that broke into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate building. The Watergate was a large office complex in Washington, D.C.

And they broke in to the office and rummaged through the files of the Democratic National Committee. Today, you don't have to do that. You just hack the offices. So that was the way that Richard Nixon was brought down. There was never any evidence that Richard Nixon ordered his supporters to break into the Democratic National Committee. Right. The accusations against Richard Nixon was that once he found out about it He panicked and covered and tried to cover it up. And so his crime was to cover up

the CIA slash FBI operation against Donald Trump Has made me rethink the Watergate scandal. Doc, most of the people involved in the Watergate break-in

were CIA agents. Right. Did they deliberately plant the evidence? Did they carry out the break-in for the purpose of taking down

Richard Nixon? Well, I wouldn't be beyond the capacity of our CIA to do that. We have to think about it now. And G. Gordon Liddy as much as admitted that without saying it out loud. I mean, you know, what's interesting about the break-in, there was a break-in recently. Did you hear about Jake Sullivan's home?

I just read it last night. His home in Washington. The National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, that Mr. Sullivan found a man in his home like at 3 a.m. Right.

When I first heard that, the thought that came to my mind, this sounds like Watergate. Or the Pelosi's. Right, or the Pelosi's. I asked if he had a hammer, we'd know what was up. But it got me to thinking about,

you know, could they be setting up another Watergate type scenario here to draw the attention off Hunter Biden and everything? The unusual thing about Mr. Sullivan's home is that he's protected by the Secret Service. That's right. But then so was Mrs. Pelosi's home. I mean, not by the Secret Service, but by the Capitol Police. Capitol Police.

And so somebody was able to go into Mrs. Pelosi's home with a hammer and beat up her husband. And somebody was able to enter into the home of the national security advisor so his home is not too secure is it no and this is the man who's advising the president on national security but that just brought back to my mind watergate and everything that's involved now if you want to get a little bit of a history lesson about what happened uh from that saturday night massacre we've got this uh small clip that you want to get a little bit of a history lesson about what happened on that Saturday Night Massacre, we've got this small clip that we want to share with you to try to fill in the gaps and help you see some of the similarities and some of the contradictions that are going on today.

Yeah, so this was a short video produced by Scripps News Service, published by Newsy. They own Newsy. And it revisits the Saturday Night Massacre. I'm showing this to you because I want you to put this in context with what the Biden administration did just days ago by having the Justice Department illegally order the IRS to shut down an investigation into Hunter Biden. I didn't know the IRS is under the Justice Department. I didn't know that the attorney general could order the IRS to do anything. What jurisdiction does he have?

So why didn't the IRS commissioner tell the attorney general, get out of my business? I run this agency. You don't have any authority over us. But he didn't. He did what he was told to do. Right. Here's the Scripps News newsy piece on the Saturday Night Massacre. The Saturday Night Massacre was bloodless, but you could argue it ultimately proved fatal for President Richard Milhouse Nixon. The massacre took place on October 20th, 1973. The play-by-play at this point is pretty well known. Three men down and one president with hands dripping in bureaucratic blood. But it turns out much more was happening behind the scenes in Washington's inner sanctums from the

start. This history comes primarily from accounts in the Washington Post, Political Magazine, and Slow Burn podcast. On May 18th, Archibald Cox was hired as special prosecutor to investigate what was then called the Watergate affair. He was respected around town, having served as solicitor general under JFK and LBJ. Cox and Nixon locked horns shortly thereafter. July 23rd, when the prosecutors subpoenaed recordings Nixon had made in the Oval Office, the president refused to cooperate and invoked executive privilege. But on October 12th, a federal appeals court ruled against Nixon and said he had to comply. Three days later, Nixon tried to broker a deal. He would not turn over

all the tapes to Cox. Instead, he said he'd submit a full accounting of the contents to a judge. Cox rejected that offer. On Friday, October 19, 1973, Nixon published a statement in the New York Times criticizing him for not accepting, quote, a reasonable proposal. The following afternoon, Saturday, October 20, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus and three aides were waiting in Attorney General Elliot Richardson's office because the AG himself had been summoned to the White House. He returned and said that Nixon had ordered him to fire Cox. He had refused and was planning to resign. Within a few minutes, the White House was on the phone with Ruckelshaus. The chief of staff gave the deputy AG the same marching orders, take out Cox. But Ruckelshaus recalled later, quote, he was just insistent that it was my responsibility to carry this out. And I said, not if I think he's fundamentally wrong, which I do, then my obligation is higher than just him. At that moment, the second man was down.

Robert Bork, the solicitor general at the time, stood next in line and he ended up dismissing Cox. The reason for firing him was facing down the president and national television. And then immediately this massacre turned Watergate from scandal to crisis. Criticism poured in from both sides and there were louder calls for impeachment. You're in the office of the president of the United States. How can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping witnesses silent? Nixon was mortally wounded in the massacre. He eventually agreed to the appointment of another special prosecutor and to release the evidence Cox had originally subpoenaed, to no avail.

After the Saturday night massacre, legendary UPI reporter Helen Thomas recalled, Nixon was a dead man walking. And so Nixon resigned and, well, first they took out Agnew, Vice President Agnew. Agnew was replaced by House Speaker Gerald Ford, who was a 33rd degree Mason. Then Nixon was forced to resign. 33rd degree Mason Ford was moved up to the presidency. And then into the vice presidency came Nelson Rockefeller. Yes. Free Masons and Rockefellers. You had a coup.

What a ticket. You had a coup. They took control. Again, I'm bringing this up because what happened this week, in my view, was on par with what happened with Nixon when he tried to fire the prosecutor. Except in this time, Biden's getting away with it. And clearly either Biden or somebody close to Biden told Attorney General Merrick Garland, shut down that IRS investigation. And he did it. And nobody has demanded an explanation from the Attorney General. No.

And nobody has asked the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service for an explanation. Yeah, and here over the past few weeks, we have had a couple of whistleblowers that have come out and have started talking about a lot of things going on regarding the Hunter Biden investigation. We have this from the New York Post. This says, excuse me, that the IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe and move whistleblower calls clearly retaliatory. Now, it says the IRS removed, but the IRS did that on the orders of the Justice Department. So the New York Post reported that the IRS on Monday removed the entire investigative team from its long running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case. The post is learned. Now, the purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department. The whistleblower's

attorneys informed congressional leaders in the letter. It says in that letter, today the Internal Revenue Service criminal supervisory special agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high profile controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress. He was informed of the change at the request of the Department of Justice. And that's from Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt. Now, it says that back on April 27th of this year, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel appeared before the House Committee on Ways and Means, and he testified, I can say without any hesitation, there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline. However, this move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry, the lawyers went on.

The Post also had this, the Hunter Biden probe may be unprecedented as an ex-IRS criminal chief declared. The New York Post reported that the former chief of the IRS's criminal division said Tuesday that he was not aware of an instance like the tax agency's removal of the investigative team in charge of first son Hunter Biden's case. John Fort, who worked at the IRS from 91 to 2020, initially as a special agent before becoming chief of the Criminal Investigation Division in 2017, said he's never seen anything like the purge, which was reported Monday by the Post. So you have a 29-year veteran of the IRS basically involved in investigations related to the IRS. He's never seen anything like this, never seen any activity by the IRS at this level before. And Dr. Mr. Word, as you will hear in this video, said that when he was at the IRS,

he supervised several thousand employees. So he just wasn't some flunky in an IRS cubicle. Right. This was a high-level senior IRS official. And he said in his career, he never witnessed an entire investigative team removed from an investigation. I mean, you might see one investigator replaced, but not the entire team removed and told you're off the case. When that happens in a, like in a police department, when the police chief tells some police officers, you're not investigating this case anymore. You're only assigned to something else.

And what's going on? Then they, it's a political motivation. There's a cover up. Yes. And the orders have come down, shut down the investigation. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin had some comments a day or so ago in the U.S. Senate about this shocking news. This is what he said.

But I want to talk about another thing that's just popping in the news in terms of partisanship. And Mr. Chairman, you received a letter together with the ranking member Crapo and Senator Grassley from the attorney for a IRS whistleblower who's claiming partisanship in a high-profile IRS investigation. They are asking for whistleblower protection, and they're asking to be interviewed, and my understanding is that they don't want to be interviewed by the House and the Senate. They'd like to do it one time.

I would request that you cooperate with their request. I'd ask that you enter this letter into the record. Mr. Chairman, can you enter this letter into the record, Mr. Chairman. Can you enter this letter into the record? Without objection, sir. And I would also ask if we do arrange that interview, I would like to be part of that interview. I'd like to be present when we interview that whistleblower, because the news reports widely are assuming that that is Hunter Biden. And of course, the chairman's always talking about wealthy tax cheats. Well, let's describe a wealthy tax cheat. Hunter Biden became a board member on Burisma in April or May of 2014.

Three years later, his financial advisor, business partner, the family, the Biden family financial advisor, Eric Schwerin, sends him an email saying, hey, Hunter, you understated your income by $400,000 in 2014. I mean, this is two or three years later, right? Now, eventually, Hunter Biden paid about $2 million of delinquent taxes, but he didn't pay them. A Hollywood attorney named Kevin Morris made that payment in May of 2022, five years after Mr. Schwerin told him that you underreported income by $400,000, where he must have underreported income by a lot more than $400,000

if he's making a $2 million tax payment. You got a good point there. Well, he goes on in this session of the committee and he talked to Mr. Fort, the IRS, the former IRS official. It's in this next video. A concern we have now, according to this letter, is that entire IRS investigatory team has been pulled off the Hunter Biden case. My question for you, Mr. Ford, in your time in the IRS, in the investigatory division, the criminal division, was there ever another instance where an entire IRS investigatory team was pulled off a tax case? Thank you for the question, Senator. So

yeah, I spent almost 30 years with IRS criminal investigation. I'm not aware of a situation such as that. But again, when I retired from the organization at the end of 2020, I was in charge of about 3,000 people, including 2,100 agents. So I can't say with certainty whether or not that happened. So again, we have a whistleblower here. He's seeking whistleblower protection. Sounds like the House has granted it. I'm not sure what the Senate is doing. This is the Committee of Jurisdiction. I hope you grant whistleblower protection and cooperate in an interview with this whistleblower of the case, that just smacks of partisanship and erodes the American people's confidence that the IRS will be fair and impartial and administer justice and the tax code equally. Do you agree that that erodes confidence in the IRS, this recent revelation? So even though I've been gone from the government for two years, federal law prohibits me from discussing any specific taxpayer at all. But I would just agree that it's a serious allegation.

Well, again, and having an entire IRS investigatory team pulled off of any case would certainly get you scratching your head right highly concerned about what's pulling off here again in my experience um you know i'm not personally aware of a situation such as that but it doesn't mean it didn't happen during my tenure okay and again mr chairman i would also like your cooperation in my request for information from commissioner werfel on the Matt Taibbi. We're going to try and get from Mr. Taibbi a release to have the IRS release those records, because right now the IRS is claiming they can't do that. We also asked, by the way,

general questions, which the IRS also didn't respond to us. So I'm going to need your help if we're going to get to the bottom of that potential partisanship within the IRS. I'm going to respond when you're done. You're just over your time. Are you done? Yep. Great. I am aware of the matter that Senator Johnson's brought up, as has been my practice on 6103 protected matters. I have been pursuing this issue on a bipartisan basis here with ranking member Crapo. And we are going to continue to do so. Given 6103 and the sensitive nature of the information for all involved, there just isn't anything more I can say about it now. Okay. As you noticed, the senator had a reply written by his handlers. Right. Told him how to reply to these comments by Senator Johnson.

Surprised the Republicans aren't asking, aren't demanding the Attorney General to explain why this happened and how the Justice Department had authority over the IRS. I'm surprised the Republicans aren't demanding the IRS commissioner to explain why he permitted this to happen in the agency. I'm surprised Republicans aren't bringing up the Saturday night massacre as a comparison and demanding public attention on the scandal. So it seems so obvious that they should be doing it, Rick. Why aren't they doing it? I don't... They just don't want to get into

a real tussle over Hunter Biden? Or they just want the show tussle? My... I've never seen the Republicans as a political force that really is prepared to fight. They just don't fight. It just seems to be the nature of Republican leaders on anything. They don't fight.

Democrats will fight to the death. They'll have their defenses. It doesn't matter what evidence you present to Democrats, they have their reply and they stick to their story. And Republicans don't seem to know how to play the game. And they just get rolled over, over and over and over. They never aggressively go after anybody. But I like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. He's the one guy that's been on top of this thing. I'm not criticizing Senator Johnson.

He has been very forthright in this entire scandal with Hunter Biden. But you don't hear much from the rest of the Republicans. Right. And if this was President Trump and he ordered the Justice Department to shut down an IRS investigation of Donald Trump Jr., there'd be another impeachment. Right. There would be Democrats setting their hair on fire, literally.

You know, demanding an investigation as to this new Watergate, Watergate 2.0. Anderson Cooper would have gone live 24 hours on CNN. There had been nonstop coverage of it, but you don't get it with the Republicans. This next one is Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who had a stroke before the election in 2020. And I never would ever make fun of anyone because of their physical handicaps.

Having said that, however, Mr. Fetterman, his physical handicaps prevent him from carrying out his duties. And keep in mind, too, he was just recently released from Walter Reed Hospital for depression. Depression. So he's a walking health nightmare. And for his own good, he should resign and go home and rest. But the Democrats, they have no shame. They don't care, even among their own. They don't care.

I mean, look at old Senator Feinstein. They wheeled her out of the hospital last week. Right into the Senate chamber. Brought her in in the wheelchair. She barely could sit up in the wheelchair, but by gosh, they got her vote again. Charles Schumer needed that vote.

Mr. Fetterman, that's a vote. He's just breathing. They got a vote. He's breathing. Doesn't matter that he can't make a sentence. He can't form a sentence. He's breathing. He has to keep a prompter.

He's breathing, and therefore he can vote. So you probably, maybe you've seen this video. This is what it looks and sounds like in a Senate committee hearing with Democrat Pennsylvania Senator Fetterman asking questions. This happens to be some questions to bankers. He's talking about the banking crisis. I think he's talking to the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank in this clip. And he's making the suggestion, you know, the Republicans require work requirements for SNAP benefits. You know, if you want to receive, you know, SNAP benefits, you have to have a work requirement, and he's comparing that to the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank.

But let's watch and listen because it's pitiful. It's really pitiful what the Democrats are doing to this man. And when I say what the Democrats are doing, they're propping him up simply because he's alive enough, he's a warm body, that they've got to vote in the U.S. Senate. And when they figure out how to get rid of him, they will. They'll drop him. But right now they need that vote.

Watch this. Is it a staggering responsibility that the head of a bank could literally crash our economy. It's astonishing. That's like if you have, I mean, like, and they also realize is that now they have, it's a guaranteed way to be saved. Again, by no matter how, you know, so it's, you know, isn't it appropriate that those kinds of, this kind of control should be more stricter to prevent this kind of thing from going? Or should we just go on and start bailing and sailing whoever bank, regardless of how their conduct is. I'll give you an example. The Republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP.

For a hungry family has to have these kind of penalties or these some kinds of working requirements. to have these kind of penalties? Are there some kinds of working requirements? Shouldn't you have a working requirement after we sell your bank with billions of your bank? Because they seem to be more preoccupied than SNAP requirements for works for hungry people, but not about protecting the tax papers that will bail no matter whatever

does about a bank to crash it. Rick, I had to watch five minutes of that to get down to the 140 part there that we just watched. And what were his questions? Can you name it? Well, nobody knew what to say because they had no idea what he was talking about. It's pathetic.

It really is pathetic. And again, I'm not making fun of Mr. Fetterman's physical handicap. I feel sorry for the man. Yes. But I feel sorry for Joe Biden, too, because the democrats used him the same thing they're using him there that's elder abuse the democrats are committing elder abuse by making joe biden go on stages and and he can't form sentences he can't find his way off the stage, that's elder abuse. They're using him because somebody is the real president behind the scenes. And they're using him as a stand-in. They needed him in 2020 just to remove

Donald Trump. He was just a stand-in. They never intended him to be the president, and he isn't the president. I still believe Barack Obama is the president. Several months ago, we told you that the Democrats and the Biden administration planned to get rid of our gas stoves. And it sounded so ludicrous that a lot of people said, that can't be real. That's got to be an internet hoax. No, it's real. It's real.

They plan to ban gas, natural gas stoves. Even though natural gas is clean energy. And they're willing to start a world war over natural gas with Europe and Russia. Right, so we can sell. But we can't, we won't be able to use natural gas ourselves. Yeah, think of the irony of that. It's because of the radical green activists

who want to eliminate all fossil fuels. And there's nothing wrong with preserving the environment. Look, the first environmental president was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt. But Teddy Roosevelt would not take away the methods that people use to cook and heat their homes.

But the radical green communists would. Yes. So, well, we have this story from Fox News. Joe Manchin has abruptly tanked a Biden nominee picked to oversee admin's crackdown on gas stoves. Fox News Digital reported

that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee canceled a vote to advance President Biden's nominee to oversee energy efficiency regulations in an unexpected last-minute change. Now, Fox News has learned from Committee Chairman Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Democrat from West Virginia. He pulled an agenda item to consider Biden's nomination of Jeff Marushin to lead the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy from a scheduled panel meeting Wednesday morning. Now, the committee had been slated to advance the nomination to a full floor vote, but will now just consider the 21 other agenda items. So basically, they've put this nominee on hold. Joe Manchin went on to say, while I supported Mr. Maruchan's nomination back in December. Since then, the office he's been nominated to lead has proposed stove efficiency rules that I've raised concerns about. Mr. Manchin told Fox News Digital in a statement, he said, While I appreciate that these rules would only apply to new stoves,

my view is part of a broader administration-wide effort to eliminate fossil fuels. And for that reason, I'm not comfortable moving forward with Mr. Baruchan at this time. Right now in the state of New York, Rick, all new homes, all new homes being built in the state of New York are not allowed to have gas stoves. Yes. So can you imagine? I mean, really, one of the abundant resources that North America has is natural gas. I mean, we've got it enough for 200 years, but they want to cut it out. But we can sell it to other countries.

Right. We just won't allow Americans to use it. It won't affect the environment if it's used in Europe. It'll only affect the environment if it's used in America. Yes. Now you're using green communist logic. There you go.

While we're talking about communist logic, Newsweek reporting the Target department stores. Obviously, they didn't learn anything from the Bud Light controversy because they have rolled out an LGBTQ

pride clothing line for children. For children. Yes. This is for children. Target, in my view, needs to be taught a lesson. And whether moms will stop shopping at Target that guys who drink Bud Light, the way they reacted when they put a transvestite in their advertising and said, hey, Bud Light is now a training beer. I don't know how mothers will react, but when you go into a Target store now, you're going to see a I DON'T KNOW HOW MOTHERS WILL REACT, BUT WHEN YOU GO INTO A TARGET STORE NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A CLOTHING LINE ON THE RACKS

FOR YOUR CHILDREN, LITTLE CHILDREN, INFANT, YOU KNOW, INFANT TODDLER SIZE TO WEAR HOMOSEXUAL THEMED CLOTHING. I'LL SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT OF THIS HERE, WHAT YOU COULD EXPECT TO SEE. REMEMBER, THIS IS BEING MARKETED TO to kids, right? Not to adults, not to people who've made adult choices and all this. These are for kids. Target is grooming.

Yes. Target is now a groomer. They're grooming children for homosexual sex. That's what this is about. And it's not just limited to clothing. It's products, it's bags, it's lights. I mean, pride lights for your... For children. For kids. And so this is... Target has already run off a lot of conservative shoppers

over the past few years because of its transgender bathroom policy and everything. Another article here, this is from Fort Skeeter. This is yesterday saying that Target is about to become Bud Light 2.0. Target's tuck-friendly swimwear. I've never heard of this phrase before today, tuck-friendly swimwear. I had to look it up. I did too. I'm my age. I know what it means now. I don't want to say it on the program. You'll gather the general gist of it here in this next video.

This is. Let's put it like this. If you were born biologically male and you want people to think you're a female. Right. A child. Yeah. This is for children. You have to hide certain body parts so that people don't think that you're male

when you're dressed like a female. You have to tuck it in, I guess, is the best way to put it. You got to do it. I'd never heard of this because these aren't the people I hang out with. But Target knows about it and Target made a corporate decision we're

going to produce and distribute clothing for little children to groom them for homosexual sex I think we have a video yes here it is this watch pride collection was out so let's take a look this is a special swimsuit it is invented for tucking live laugh lesbian are they amoebas these don't even look like people queer queer this right here these are baby clothes they say that grooming isn't happening then why are there pride baby onesies. Trans people will always exist. This is the ugliest shirt I've ever seen. I don't care if you're queer. Why would you wear this?

This is ugly. Kids go into a pride parade. You get a little pride skirt for your kids. Super queer. It's like a superpower. Honestly, Target, what is going on? This is pretty disgusting. A whole collection for pride.

The tucking bathing suit, though. This is something new. I have yet to see a bathing suit that is for tucking. Well, meanwhile, as America becomes more decadent and perverse and opposed to Almighty God, over in Russia, the president of Russia, you know this guy they describe as a tyrant, a horrible man, a dictator, this man that must be, I mean, literally you had an American leader saying he has to be murdered. He has to be killed in his sleep in the Kremlin. We got to do something about this horrible man, Vladimir Putin. What's he saying now, Rick? Well, according to TASS News Agency, Putin attributed the spread of non-traditional values

to one of the main threats to children in the world. Mr. Putin is saying that American perverted sexual values are one of the biggest threats to children in the world. So while Target is promoting queer-friendly clothes, Mr. Putin is saying... We've got to protect our children from America. Well, the Russian authorities consider non-traditional values promoted by unfriendly states

to be one of the main threats to children. And this provision is contained in the Comprehensive Child Safety Strategy until 2030, approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now, this document notes that the imposition of a revision of the basic norms of morality and information manipulation stimulate antisocial behavior and cause significant damage to the moral health of children. In other words, this teaching of sexual perversion is a detriment to society, especially to children. The attempts made by unfriendly foreign states, fill in the blank here for who you think that is, as well as by terrorist and extremist organizations, criminal communities to disorient society by values, create a sense of uncertainty and instability in society, distort traditional spiritual and moral, including family, values,

negatively affect the quality of the environment in which the personality develops. Now, it goes on to say that the peculiar attention in the strategy is given to measures to create a safe information environment for children. They include the identification, prevention, and suppression of relevant threats, the creation of information products for the spiritual and the moral development of children, as well as state support for the creation of such books, films, and the formation of the children's skills of independent conscience consumption of information, the protection of children from external destructive information and psychological impact, external ideological and value expansion.

In other words, Russia is saying, we're going to protect the children. Meanwhile, in the United States, what do we do? We manipulate them with sexual perversion. If that's not enough, we'll physically manipulate them. Doc, in the past year, we have seen a dramatic shift of Islamic Arab nations leaving the United States as allies and moving towards Russia and China. Most of the attention has been that it's motivated by financial issues, such as the dollar being the dominant currency in the world. I think behind the scenes, the Russians are playing this card. I think they're saying to Arab leaders, look at what America is doing to its children. They're going to do this to Arab leaders, look at what America is doing to its children. They're going to do this to Arab

children. They're going to force Arab children to become homosexuals. Let Russia protect you. Let Russia protect your children. There seems to be forming a coalition of traditional values that's Christian and Muslim. Because Muslims are strong family people. This is one place that Christians can unite with Muslims and work together. Protect our kids. And we ought to be doing it here in the United States to protect our children from these perverts

that are seeking to defile the minds and the bodies of children. But I just have a feeling that behind the scenes, the Russians are talking this up a lot in private meetings. I wouldn't be shocked by that at all. There are a lot of things that, I mean... All they have to do is show videos. Yes.

Russian diplomats showing videos to Arab diplomats, look at these drag queens dancing in front of children in America. Is this what you want? It would be shocking to Arab Muslims. And then the Russians saying, we'll protect you. We'll defend your families. We'll protect your children. I hadn't considered that before, Rick. That would be a powerful statement by the Russians. Official policy of the United States government is pro-homosexuality. That's official policy of our government.

Either you change your laws and your customs and become pro-homosexual, or you are an enemy of the united states of america we just haven't imposed it on the arab states because we need it we're doing it to the small countries right now the african countries the caribbean countries the south american countries but eventually we're going to do it to the arab countries that's where they're going with this. I do want to go back to something in that article for our guys in the control room,

pull-up number 23, and something stood out to me in that statement. The attempts made by unfriendly foreign states, now here it is, as well as by terrorists and extremist organizations, criminal communities, to do what? To rob resources, to smuggle guns, drugs. No, that's not what the Russians, the Russians are saying in their official policy

that foreign states like America, working with terrorists and extremist organizations and criminal groups to disorient society, to destabilize societies. Right. To create a sense of uncertainty and instability in society. To distort traditional spiritual

and moral family values. The Russians are saying that the United States is working with terrorists, extremists, and criminal organizations to do these things. When they say terrorists, extremists, and criminal organizations to do these things. When they say terrorists and extremists, they're talking about George Soros and his network of left-wing organizations.

They're talking about the World Economic Forum. They're talking about a vast network of anti-God organizations that are distorting values and destabilizing societies. I go back to what I just said about the Arab countries. I believe the Russians are telling the Arabs, you've got to get away from America. They're going to destabilize. Now, if you destabilize an Arab country, what happens next? Their political hierarchy falls. So the king of Saudi Arabia is being told in private, you want your kingdom to fall? You want it to be toppled? You want a gay king here? Because the CIA will put a homosexual king in your throne.

They're saying the same thing to Jordan. They're saying in all these Arab countries, you will be toppled by a homosexual revolution. And you know what? They're right. Because they're doing it now. What's going on in Ukraine? And you know what? They're right. Because they're doing it now. What's going on in Ukraine? The very first thing that Zelensky the Clown did when he was put into the presidency, the very first thing he did was to authorize a homosexual parade in Kiev.

It was his first act. This whole thing with Ukraine, this is a homosexual-driven war. Do we have to become gross, talk about Zelensky? What kind of comedy did he do before he became the president? A lot of sexual innuendo,

gross comedy. Yeah. He was already defiling the Ukrainian society. The world is being taken over by a sex cult. It's a demonic sex cult, the Jeffrey Epstein's. There's a long list of people involved in this cult. And the driving motivation is not the power, the money. It is unrestrained sexual pleasure with children. That's what's driving this group. It's evil, Doc. It's the most evil thing that's ever been on the face of the earth.

This is the most evil thing mankind has ever seen. We're living in it. We're living in it right now. The most evil force in the history of the human race. It's taking place right now. And most of us are just looking at it, you know, the proverbial deer staring at the headlights. You don't know what to make of it. You don't know what to do. You just freeze. You're looking at it. How could anything be this evil, this wicked, out in the open, defiling children, and no shame.

This thing is demonic. It is thoroughly demonic. And it's spreading its tentacles across the world. And Putin is saying, we have to go to war. We have to defend our children, and we may have to go to nuclear war to stop this thing. It's not just about Ukrainian territory. It's about values. This is a war on godly values.

Right, it is. The war in Ukraine is about godly values. The Russians are fighting to prevent a sex cult from taking over Russia. What are they demanding? What's the West been demanding in Russia? Homosexual rights? Yes.

We've already been taken over in the United States. We've basically lost that battle. We lost. We have been taken over. This demonic sex cult now controls the United States of America. Republican Party has gone gay. A lot of the churches have gone gay. The media has gone gay. Fox News has gone pro-tranny. And conservatives are gay now.

Yes. How'd that happen you got you got salem media the biggest radio christian radio broadcaster in the country and their top talk show host is dennis prager who weeks ago publicly defended pornography and said this is not lust this is not adultery. This is permitted. And he's he's their top talk show host on the Salem radio network, which is supposed to be a Christian broadcaster. Right. And Prager is speaking next week in Orlando at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Is anybody going to ask the NRB, why do you have a pro-pornography man on stage? Are there no Christians here to speak? You have to put a pro-pornography, anti-Christian man on the stage?

Look out in the audience. No Christians here? How did this guy get up on the stage? There's compromise. Compromise and infiltration. They're infiltrating everything. And because of weak, gutless, spineless church people that don't have a backbone, these infiltrators are able to take more and more ground. And very few people are putting up stiff, hard resistance to them. And when you do, you're going to be attacked. Believe me, you're going to be attacked. I know what it's like. I know what it's like to be attacked because they will turn loose everything they got on you.

If you stand in their way, if you call them out for what they are, they're perverts. They're just perverts. And if you allow a pervert to continue, you're in it too. You'll eventually become a pervert. It's just that simple. I want to get to a couple more here before we close things up here. Number 26, Jerusalem Post.

I'm not going to go into the whole story. Here's the headline. LGBTQ reveals Israel's most gay-friendly cities in Pride Month. Tel Aviv is no longer the most homosexual-friendly city in Israel. Now it's dropped down to number five. There are four more now more gay than Tel Aviv. In the Holy Land.

Right. See, it's not the Holy Land. Not what they think it is. They've made the Holy Land the unholy land. Once again, they've've made the Holy Land the unholy land. Once again, they've defiled the Holy Land. It's the reason they got kicked out of the Holy Land 2,000 years ago. They got kicked out.

And they just come back and do it again. Defy God. So now they're bragging that other smaller cities in israel are more friendly for homosexuality than tel aviv which is supposed to be the gay capital of the world i i don't know how christian zionists embrace this stuff i i just don't i don't get it doc how do you embrace it how do. How do you embrace it? How do you pretend that it's not happening?

It's been one of the most confusing aspects of the support of Israel. They'll never speak out on how friendly Israel is to homosexuals. They never will. And they won't tell them it's wrong. Because they're under some spell, some voodoo curse, saying if I say anything negative about Israel, God's going to strike me with a lightning bolt. But they came up with that doctrine. They're being tormented by their own false doctrine. On abortion, Forbes magazine, Trump avoids definitive stance on abortion, but suggests that Governor DeSantis'

support of a six-week ban in Florida is too harsh. So Mr. Trump is kind of reverting back to his pre-president view on abortion. He was pro-abortion when he was a Democrat. And he was a Democrat most of his life. He was a Democrat, and he was pro-abortion. He still today is the most, by his own words, the most pro-homosexual president in the history of America. Which, those are his words. They're not mine. They're his words. I'm not giving slack to

any of these guys anymore. They've all contributed to the decline of this country. Governor DeSantis has responded. This is an ABC News segment that we'll show you on the governor's response to Mr. Trump on abortion. As Ron DeSantis moves towards a presidential run his aides tell abc news he will announce around memorial day he is now facing off against donald trump on a critical issue for republican primary voters abortion it comes after trump criticized desantis for signing a law banning almost all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy if you look look at what DeSantis did, a lot of people don't even know if he knew what he was doing, Trump told the news site The Messenger. But he signed six weeks,

and many people within the pro-life movement feel that was too harsh. That comment triggered immediate backlash from a key social conservative in Iowa, who responded, quote, no, Mr. Former President, many in the pro-life community do not believe saving babies is too harsh. And today, DeSantis jumped on it, too. Protecting an unborn child when there's the detectable heartbeat is something that almost probably 99 percent of pro-lifers support. Such abortion bans are only possible because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year with the votes of all three justices Trump put on the court. But since then, Trump has refused to say what kind of an abortion ban he would be willing to sign as president.

Some people are at six weeks. Some people are at three weeks. President Trump is going to make a determination what he thinks is great for the country and what's fair for the country. Today, DeSantis called Trump out for failing to take a stand. I signed the bill. I was proud to do it. He won't answer whether he would sign it or not. New York Post dug up a 2012 interview with Don Trump Jr. in which Mr. Trump, Don Jr., said he wanted the Republicans to drop from their party platform its support of the pro-life movement. This goes back to 2012.

I want to just share the quote from number 32 where Don Trump Jr. said, I don't understand how you can tell someone what they can, can or can't do. I can't buy into the abortion argument. I wish the Republicans would drop it as part of their platform. Right. And he doesn't understand how there could be one issue voters on abortion. Well, when you're talking about the life of a child, that's a pretty important issue there. It's a huge issue for a lot of us. Which just reveals where their minds and hearts are on this particular issue. They don't see it as a spiritual or a life issue. Or a moral issue.

Right. They've contained it to a political issue. That's right. And if it's a political issue, there are political chips involved on one side or the other. And they've used that. You know, I'm glad that Roe v. Wade has been rescinded. But at the same time, what would we get now with Donald Trump? Because, I mean,

we know he's pro-gay. We know he's pro-vaccine. He might be pro-abortion. He's going to move away from a pro-life position. Here's why. He lost that civil lawsuit case last week where he was accused of rape.

So the jury didn't find him guilty of rape. They found him guilty of sexual harassment. He's got a serious problem with women voters. He's going to move to the left on abortion as far as he can go and still remain a Republican in order to convince women he's not the monster they think he is. Now that makes sense.

And it's politics. Yes. And that's where the political chips are. It's politics. One final, this is number 34. A big decision by the Supreme Court today, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to allow Illinois to keep a ban on the sale of some semi-automatic guns for now.

It's for now. While this works its way out in lower courts. I don't understand how constitutionally they can make that argument. It'd be like saying the Supreme Court lets Illinois keep a ban on certain segments of speech you can't say. Well, don't rule that out. Don't rule it out. There's an attack on the entire Constitution.

I mean, there's as much freedom in the Constitution on gun rights as there is on speech. I mean, you know, I don't understand how the Supreme Court can look at the Constitution. Well, I understand they don't look at the Constitution. Why don't they just confiscate guns from criminals in Chicago? That would be a good first start. Just leave everybody else alone and go in Chicago and confiscate the guns of the criminals that are shooting people every day. Right. And every weekend, it's the equivalent of a mass shooting in Chicago, every weekend. No one talks about that.

So what they want to do is they want to go and take the guns away from the law-abiding people and not do anything about the criminals that have the guns that are shooting the people. But the argument for the gun law is, look at all these people getting shot. Well, the law-abiding people aren't shooting them. That's right. So why are you taking away their guns? Go in and take away the guns of the people

that are shooting people. It's real simple. But that's the reason they won't do it. It's real simple. But that's the reason they won't do it. It's too simple and it will work. The real motive is to disarm the American people. That's right. You want to know what it looks like

to be disarmed? Look at the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people were disarmed. All they have now are rocks. if israel could ban rocks they'd do that too that's all they have are rocks that's what is that's what happens when guns are taken away from people they lose their freedom they lose their homes their farms their land, and they're turned into slaves. Hey, one final story.

This is kind of no major importance. I don't know why I'm showing it. Talking about robot burgers? Yeah, Wendy's. Where do we have with Wendy's? Number 59. 59, number 59. I read this today.

Wendy's do co-pilot underground robot system to deliver food to cars in seconds. So they're going to put underground tubes in their parking lots. So I guess it's like the vacuum tubes at a bank. I'm just trying to imagine that vacuum tube shooting out well isn't that what is going to be a vacuum tube or a conveyor system of some kind i mean somehow they're going to move your sandwich or your chicken whatever through a tunnel through tube under the parking lot to your car there won't be a drive-through. You just drive up and pick your spot and the tube will bring your food out. But there are probably no humans inside.

Now we have burger bots, right? Yeah. By the way, speaking of bots, there was a report the other day that 50% of the traffic on the internet is non-human. It's bots. 50%. Doc, it means everything's going on out there, website visits, bots. Do you know how fake everything is? Well, if I knew how fake everything was, but I would guess that there's more behind the curtain than I realize. A lot of stuff that's going on on the internet is fake.

It's being done by bots. And that gets back to social media and the likes and the comments and the tweets and all this stuff, it's all fake. It's not all, but much of it is fake. We're living in a Masonic matrix. There are people who want us to believe what they say reality is. And if you start thinking on your own, they will drop a hammer on you really fast if you start thinking outside of the box. And that's what happens when people start using their brain and say, I don't believe that's real. I don't believe that's the way it is because you're outside of the box. They've created a narrative for everybody to believe.

And when you start saying, that's not true. That didn't happen. Or it happened this way. Then they have to come after you. You're a conspiracy theorist. You're a tinfoil hat wearer. You're a domestic terrorist. You're something to frighten you, to intimidate you, to get back into the matrix. That's how they're controlling the world. The Russians are

saying, we're not going to do this. You're not going to control us. We're not allowing you to do this to us. And we're prepared to fight and die if we have to. Remember, the Russians are fighting the same people who put the vaccine mandates on us, the mask mandates, the same people who deplatformed many of us, the same people who have stolen our country's heritage. That's who the Russians are fighting. Those people are our enemies and they're the Russian people's enemies.

And yet the propaganda inside this country is the very people that would destroy you and me have convinced a lot of us that the Russians are bad and they ought to be destroyed. That's the power of their propaganda. It is extremely powerful. They are masters of propaganda.

Where did they learn it? They brought the Nazis here after World War II. They learned the system and then they perfected it. We'll call them liars for the vaccine, but we'll say they're telling the truth about Russia. Yeah, right. It's crazy. Hey, I'll do a plug for the book. It is doing well on Amazon and it is available now in three formats, paperback, e-book on Kindle and audio book on Audible. So whichever one makes you happy, I encourage you to get the book and it absolutely

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