DSA Madness, Blanche Confirmation, Biden Corruption & Communist Propaganda

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House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans are sounding the alarm, framing communism as a real threat ahead of the midterms. You listen to this, and not only is it a real threat, but they're winning. And as you mentioned, they're gaining momentum, Senator. This is, I actually believe, that now real Democratic Party. Well, let me be clear. They are not gaining momentum in the reality of life. These are fringe and radical ideas. One of the reasons that these communists won the primaries in New York City is only 8% of the primary voter showed up to vote. So they are doing a hostile takeover, but most Americans don't agree with these ideas. These ideas are extreme. So they put out, this is not you and me putting words in their mouth. They put out a manifesto. that is called the Workers Declare More Declaration. It would expand the House of Representatives, eliminate the Senate, make the new House of Representatives select the president. So guess what? These radicals want to take away your right to vote for president. You wouldn't get to vote for president at all under their proposal. They want to make the Supreme Court subservient to the new House of Representatives, as the manifesto says, quote, replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy, expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation, and rank choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate. They're not done with that. They want to abolish other things. Abolish the electoral college. Replace the president of the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. They also said, that they want to establish public ownership of the largest corporations and industries to, quote, ensure democratic control and accountability to the people. They call for enacting, quote, aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations. And the manifesto says, quote, It's been said that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. But just because it isn't easy to imagine now doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make it happen. Workers deserve more. And they go on to say, quote, some of these demands may be won under a current system, but we know complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up. On top of that, their demands include defunding the Department of War, abolishing ICE, and eliminating the Jewish state of Israel, eliminating Israel altogether, and making Jerusalem the capital of a free Palestine. These are the radicals that are the heart of the Democrat Party, that are winning Democrat primaries, and that have every elected Democrat in Congress terrified out of their minds. Senator, it was a very interesting week on Capitol Hill in Washington. It was actually not covered the way that typically you see hearings covered with Todd Blanche. And you were there for this. So get us up to date on how this went down and what happened. Well, obviously, President Trump has nominated Todd Blanche to be the Attorney General. He had his confirmation hearing this past week. I actually started the week by going to the Department of Justice and helping moot.

I love, by the way, the simple, yes, Senator, like, this is exactly what happened. Yes, Senator, this is exactly what happened. And the whiteboard you had up there of all the senators that were spied on, that was amazing visual as well. Well, going through the facts and laying out the record. And then if you contrast it, because what I did is I contrasted not just the absolute political corruption, but also the difference between open borders. and the incredible successes we've seen in the last year and a half under President Trump actually securing the border. And I pointed out the victims of open borders and mass illegal immigrations that the Democrats would not talk about or acknowledge. Here, give a listen. When the Department of Justice loses sight of criminals because it has turned into a partisan arm of the DNC, the American people pay the price. It also meant The Department of Justice was not doing its job, which is enforcing the law and putting criminals in jail. During the Biden administration, there were roughly 12 million encounters at the southern border. Is that correct? Yes. Approximately 2 million illegal aliens were known to have entered but were not apprehended the so-called gotaways. Is that right? Yes, that's correct. Fenton. became the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. Is that right? That's correct. That was courtesy of the Democrats' open border policies of letting drug dealers and human traffickers flood into this country because they believed it would benefit them politically. Violent transnational criminal organizations, including the Seniloa cartel, the Halisco New Generation Cartel, MS-13, and Trendoragua. expanded their operations inside the United States. Is that right? It is absolutely correct. And then something we never hear from the Democrat side of the aisle, the victims. Jocelyn Nungary, I've not heard one Democrat so much as utter her name. The little girl tragically raped and murdered by two Venezuelan gang members the Biden administration released. Lakin Riley. Again, the Democrats cannot even say her name. Rachel Moran, a mom, brutally raped and murdered by another illegal, the Biden Justice Department released. These were daughters. These were students. These were mothers. And they would be alive if the Department of Justice had done its duty. So let's compare the lawlessness, the partisanship, the abuse of power of the Biden Department of Justice. to what has happened in the last 18 months. Mr. Todd Blanche, objectively, the American people are safer today than they were 18 months ago. Is that correct? There is no doubt. Now, that's not simply empty rhetoric. Since President Trump took office, federal law enforcement has arrested approximately 29,000 violent gang members. Is that right? That's correct. The department has disrupted or dismantled approximately 2,700 gangs, a 365% increase over the comparable period of time in the previous administration. Is that right? That's correct. Arrests of Trenderaragua members have increased by approximately 519%. Is that right? That's correct. In 2025.

The United States saw the largest one-year drop in violent crime and murder since 1937. Homicides across America's largest cities fell more than 19%. Is that right? Right? That's correct. Your faith runs deep, deeper than the words on the page, and somewhere in the back of your heart you've always known. There was a place where it would all make sense in a way nothing else ever could. That place is Israel, where the Bible isn't history. It's the ground beneath your feet, where the Sea of Galilee still shimmers at dawn, and the streets of Jerusalem still echo with a story that changed the world. Believers who go, come home. Different, more grounded, more certain, more alive in their faith than they have ever been. That's what Israel does. I am, Israel. Come experience the journey your faith was made for. Start planning your trip today. Follow, Visit Israel on social media. That's Visit Israel on Facebook and Instagram. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring. And tedious. And depressing. And makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. What you doing? Can you be informed without being all of those other things? We think so. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world. If you shoot at us and we deflect it, it doesn't really count. And that just doesn't make any sense. You've got to make a rule. Don't shoot at the United States. Or if you prefer, Iran, blah, blah, blah. America haters are winning. The would-be communists, the Marxists are winning in America. and they're doing so openly and nobody cares. I think giving the downtrodden money enables them. They aren't getting the money. I'm winning. Good Lord, that was the voice of the patriarchy right there, folks. Listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I want to get back to this back and forth with Todd Blanche Center and more of what you had to say. And his confirmation hearing, here's the last part. It's truly amazing to see Democrats fighting against this incredible guy who's going to be a great AG. Robberies fell nearly 20 percent. Aggravated assaults felt nearly 10 percent. And that trend has continued into this year with homicides falling by yet another. 17.7% and robberies by over 20% during the first quarter of 2026. Is that right? It is. Yes. The department has also made protecting America's children one of its highest priorities. Since the beginning of this administration, the FBI has allocated approximately 7,200 child victims. A 42% increase. Is that right? Yes.

The FBI has arrested approximately 3,500 child predators and human traffickers, a 102% increase. Is that right? That's correct. By April alone, in April alone, Operation Iron Pursuit located more than 200 child victims and arrested more than 350 alleged child sex abuse offenders. Is that right? That's right. And across my home state of Texas, Operation Soteria Shield rescued 89 children and resulted in 276 child exploitation arrest. Is that right? That's the correct stat. Mr. Todd Blanche. After less than 18 months, would it be fair to say that the department is once again focused on protecting the American people and faithfully enacting the laws? That's exactly what we're focused on, Senator. And I will point out that one direct result of that also is deaths by drug overdoses have dropped 20%. There are literally thousands of Americans who are alive today. because of the job you and your colleagues at the Department of Justice are doing. And I, for one, want to say thank you for focusing the department on saving people's lives and putting criminals in jail. We have great prosecutors, Senator, and great agents. Senator, we've got great agents. I do love the demeanor of Todd Blanche. I think that's the reason why he will be a great attorney general. Yeah, and look, the Democrats. Not a single Democrat disputed a word I said. They didn't dispute the chaos of the open borders. They didn't dispute that this administration has secured the border, that illegal border crossings are down 99%, that the murder rate is down 20%. The drug overdose deaths are down 20%. They can't dispute any of that. So instead, they just scream how much they hate Trump. And I'll tell you, look, at the end of the day, it was a bad hearing for the Democrats because none of them laid a glove on Todd Blanche. And I think he's going to end up being confirmed quickly. There was another hearing this past week in Capitol Hill where Chris Wright, the Secretary of Energy, a very good friend of mine, was testifying. And he was testifying about the shocking revelation. that the Biden administration in the last two months of the administration between Election Day and when Trump was sworn in shoveled $93 billion out of the Department of Energy, mostly to left-wing cronies. My very good friend John Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioned him on this. Listen to this questioning because you know what? The corporate media did not play this for you. So you don't know that these utterly corrupt criminals, and there's no other way to put it, when your $93 billion is more than twice as much as the Department of Justice had, the Department of Energy had put out in 15 years. They did that in 76 days. Give a listen. Mr. Secretary.

I want to go back to some of your earlier testimony. Be sure I heard it correctly. The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office. Is that right? That is correct. And... During that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy? From the loan program office in loans and commitments, $93 billion, well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years. How do you vet and do due diligence on a loan in 76 days? One loan. much less $93 billion. How do you do it? I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases. As I mentioned, I'm told them. Holding back clearly in-place stuff, there are lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency or how this project can actually work. So you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period before their boss was going to leave office, gave our loan money to entities that had no business plan? Correct. No financials. Correct. A number of those were not before the 76-day period as well. I've come in with great concern about how this institution, this great American institution has been run and how American taxpayer money has been handled. I'm sorry everyone's upset that we're taking some time to do it, but what we've seen and what the record shows is just... I'm not upset. Could it be that a lot of people say you haven't returned your calls? Could it be that you and your colleagues have returned the calls, but the people calling just didn't like the answer? Could that be a possibility? I'm not aware of that. I give my cell phone number to any senator that wants it, and I return my calls. I mean, has your department gone dark? Somebody said your department's gone dark. Is it dark over there? It doesn't look dark behind me. I don't see any of you sitting on your hands. Somebody made that charge. I see everybody's hands. Let me ask you something else, Mr. Secretary. Does anybody ever come to the Department of Energy to get some of this free money and allow to you?

I have not experienced that, but I think it's a reasonable assumption that that has happened. Does anybody ever come to you, or is it conceivable that some of these folks that heard about this free money came to you with a half-baked idea? I think it's very conceivable. In fact, I've seen such plans that were half-baked would be charitable. You've seen plans that didn't have a business plan, right? Correct. A promise to develop one, to find a location. Just give me the money and I'll develop the plan later. Correct. And now you're going back through, not money that's already been contracted, but you're going back through and checking each one of these loans and these grants to make sure there was no stealing, aren't you? We are. We are. And you make sure there was no incompetence, aren't you? Is that correct? We're looking at that, and yeah, my blood pressure is rising right now, just thinking about what we have seen and what did happen at the department. And you're going to tell some of these boondoggles know, aren't you? That's correct. And they're going to be upset, aren't they? That's correct. And they ought to be upset, shouldn't they? I don't think they should be upset. I think they should be ashamed. I am, it's rare that I'm speechless. But I want to be sure I understood the people running the Department of Energy for President Biden's administration shovel $93 billion, not million, $93 billion out the door. In 76 days, and it just happened to be the time between when President Trump was elected and President Biden, their boss was leaving. Is that right? It is correct and distasteful. Confidence undermining. My.

Senator, I mean, you look at this money and it's very clear the Democratic Party knew what they were doing and they funneled this money. How is this not illegal? Well, it may well have been illegal and I think there needs to be serious investigations. There's a cynicism. Look, you're an appointee of Joe Biden in the Department of Energy and your party loses. Donald Trump gets reelected. The American people reject your agenda. You know what you should do? You should start packing your things up and get ready to leave because the voters have spoken. All these Democrats that love to beat their chest about democracy. That's what you would do if you respected democracy, but they didn't. They said, we got 76 days. Let's rob the taxpayers blind. Let's steal the computers. Let's pull the curtains off the rods. 93 billion dollars. Understand that is more than double. The amount of money the Department of Energy had sent out in the previous 15 years combined. That is Bonnie and Clyde bank robbery. That is the corruption of the Biden administration. And it demonstrates an utter contempt for the taxpayers, an utter contempt for the country, a willingness to prioritize your political cronies over the nation. And the people who did this need to be investigated. And if they broke the law, they need to go to jail. Senator, I want to start off this last segment by saying, I don't ever want our government to be weaponized against our political adversaries. Notice I didn't even use the word enemy. Democrats use the word enemy to describe Republicans. I say adversaries. But I do want to hold those accountable that are actually doing corrupt things. And we now know a lot more about the investigation in the Chinese Communist Party tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, and it should get a lot more attention that it is right now. Certainly the media, they're looking the other way. Well, that's exactly right. And, you know, we ended the last segment by talking about the need for accountability of the corruption within the Biden administration, that those who broke the law need to be held to account. And on this podcast, we have talked at great length about the need to follow the money, that these anti-American efforts, look, if you look at all of the stories in today's pod, they're interwoven. The DSA, There is clearly a funding stream, funding the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses, funding the communists tearing this country apart, funding the DSA, funding the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots across the country, funding the open border riots in L.A. and elsewhere, the money stream, and what I've urged the Department of Justice, what I've urged the FBI from the beginning of this second Trump administration. Follow the money, the people who are paying for this. This is not organic when people carry out these acts of violence. It's not organic. When you look at the anti-Semitic protests, the tents all match. Follow the money. And then we in a previous podcast a couple of weeks ago talked about the bombshell story. that we've all seen the rising sentiment against AI, that on the left and the right, suddenly people are saying, gosh, I don't like AI, shut down data centers. Kathy Hochul just this past couple of weeks said, no data centers in New York. And the bombshell story that much of that is being paid for by a communist named Neville Roy Singham, who has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. And listen, we're in a race, America and China.

to see who will develop AI first. If China wins, it will put China in a position to dominate the world economically, but also whichever country wins, the values of that country will dominate AI. So if China wins, AI will be dominated. by Communist Party control and surveillance and propaganda and espionage. And I think all of us want AI to instead reflect American values, to reflect free speech and individual liberty and free enterprise. Well, a bit of good news, which is the Trump Department of Justice is doing exactly that. It's following the money and it's holding people to account. Let me read from a story in CBS News. husband of Code Pink founder being investigated under federal foreign agent and tax laws. Neville Roy Singham, the wealthy husband of the founder of the progressive nonprofit Code Pink, and the benefactor of far-left political causes, is under criminal investigation by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. The investigation began by looking into possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and has since expanded into a criminal tax probe over whether the money was unlawfully funneled through non-profits he controls and whether he lied on the tax forms for those non-profits known as 990s. Singham is a major financial backer of a New York City-based nonprofit called the People's Forum. a left-leaning nonprofit that advocates for causes impacting the working class and other marginalized groups. He's also the founder of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company, and is married to Jody Evans, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink. Singham sold ThoughtWorks to a private equity firm in 2017 for $785 million. At around the same time, Singham moved his business operations to Shanghai, China, and began funding a vast global network of non-profits and think tanks to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. According to reports of the free press in the New York Times, Singham moved the funds through shell companies and other opaque entities advancing his brand of leftist politics while pushing pro-Beijing messaging. He injected much of his own money into Code Pink, funding up to a quarter of its operation, according to reports. Soon, Code Pink softened its stance on China. which had previously been highly critical of Beijing's human rights policies.

Among other things, the group defended China against widespread reports its government was committing genocide against a Muslim minority group in the country's far northwest. So I and numerous other senators on the Judiciary Committee have urged the Department of Justice to look into this. Chuck Grassley wrote a letter urging DOJ to do that. Here's what Chuck Grassley's letter said. Quote, evidence suggests that the People's Forum in Code Pink have been funded and influenced by Mr. Neville Roy, Singham. and the communist Chinese government, both of which are foreign principles. The evidence also suggests that the People's Forum and Code Pink have engaged in covered political activities that directly advance the communist Chinese government's political and policy interest. And by the way, Neville Roy Singham's response to that is, quote, I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives. I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are long-held personal views. So, well, there's going to be an investigation into it. I don't know if this guy is just a communist who hates America and wants to destroy our nation. Or if he's a communist who hates American, wants to destroy our nation who is working directly for and may even be funded by the Chinese communist government. That's one of the things that I would imagine the investigation will examine. Either way, I am very glad the Department of Justice is examining the hundreds of millions of dollars he is using to fund the people that are tearing our country apart. Yeah, and that's the key thing there. And if you're doing something that's that is illegal and it's coming in with the Chinese Communist Party, why would anyone not want that to be investigated if that's what the evidence is showing? That's the core part here that I think matters for all Americans. You know, it's one of the things that is dangerous in this world where we're on social media, where you see things you're on X or Facebook or wherever you are. And suddenly a lot of people seem concerned about something. And that can seem organic. And we are seeing more and more paid foreign influence operations. And China puts a lot of money. into undermining America. Qatar puts a lot of money into undermining America. Iran puts a lot of money into undermining America. You know, there was a report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute that says for the past five years, nonprofits funded by Neville Roy Singham, had been putting out papers opposing export controls on advanced semiconductors to China, putting out newsletters, quoting Chinese communist officials, blasting America's approach to technology. and articles characterizing U.S. data centers as fronts in the quote, new Cold War on China. And this is a deliberate foreign influence effort that is targeting.

the American economy. It's targeting AI. It's trying to get America to stop leading an AI. And it's trying ultimately to defeat capitalism and destroy our country. It has the exact same objectives as the DSA radicals that are taking over the Democrat Party. Also, don't forget, we do the show as a podcast three days a week, so make sure you hit subscribe or auto download wherever you're listening. And many of the shows we also do on YouTube as well, so you can watch the episodes there. And the center and I will see you back here Wednesday morning.