Trump Seizes Venezuelan Tanker

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As you know, tensions are running very high with the Venezuelan government. The authoritarian strongman Maduro has put his country now on a war footing. He is anticipating a potential U.S. invasion or even regime change, missile strikes, ground strikes. land strikes, and so tensions now are almost at a boiling point. Maduro in the wake of the seizure of the oil tanker has said, this is piracy on the high seas. And he now vows that he will quote unquote break the teeth of the North American Empire, meaning the United States. and that there will be revenge for what President Trump did. Here, the Democrats are going ballistic. The media is going ballistic, saying that Donald Trump is now akin to Jack Sparrow. If you've seen Pirates of the Caribbean, starring Johnny Depp, they're now claiming that he is a modern-day pirate. He is a... uh someone now who is violating the law flouting the law going on the high seas seizing boats murdering people like uh like a modern-day black beard or The meme they keep using is, and social media in particular, is the Johnny Depp character, Jack Sparrow, in that movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. And so he's now being accused of piracy, of lawlessness, of gangsterism, and of violating international law. President Trump yesterday told the stunned press corps, We have now seized one of the biggest oil tankers ever off the coast of Venezuela. Roll cut one, a mic. It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large. largest one ever sees actually and other things are happening so you'll be seeing that later and you'll be talking about that later with some other people so in other words he's saying look they're going to give you all the reasons uh the uh the legal uh the sort of the legal foundation for why this operation was carried out and the national security geopolitical necessity of doing this uh clearly it's to disrupt now both venezuela and iran from being able to on the black market illicitly ship oil which is sanctioned it's illegal to apparently china and there are some very there are

energy brokers in Asia that they sell I guess at below market price they buy and then they resell at a higher price anyway apparently that's where this oil was apparently going it was going to go apparently from Venezuela carrying Venezuelan oil to someplace in China or around China to some of these rogue energy brokers who are going to buy it i'm just making up a figure you buy for 45 or 50 bucks a barrel and you sell it for like say 70 or 75 bucks a barrel or whatever it's going now on the world market so trump said no we're putting the squeeze into maduro we had our site our site set on this tanker for a while uh it has been a sanction tanker carrying illicit illegal oil We saw our chance. We made our move. Listen now to the president, going back and forth with the reporter, and the reporter's asking now, why would you do this? This is almost never done. And the implication is that this smacks of piracy. This is almost like the 18th century or the 17th century, where we're just seizing boats now. Roll cut 1A, a mic. Mr. President, thank you. Can you explain a little more about this Venezuelan oil tanker and share a little more information? Well, I'll let the people do it, but you see the result, and I guess they probably have released the pictures by now pretty soon. You'll discuss that with the appropriate people later on, but no, it was seized for a very good reason. So what he's basically saying is, look, we'll give you all the reasons. I pretty much gave him to you. But his argument is we're not going to be, you know, suddenly we're not just going to start seizing boats off the high seas. This was a large tanker that carried a ton of oil. It had been doing this for years. This was illegal oil, sanctioned oil, both from Venezuela and Iran. There's a nexus now between those two regimes and has been for a while. Hezbollah has been operating, there are cells of Hezbollah operating within Venezuela, and they're helping to facilitate this illegal oil that they're shipping. primarily, as I said, to either North Korea or China, across the high seas. And now Trump said enough. He got a judge to give him a seizure warrant, and his Navy and Coast Guard made their move. Listen now to President Trump, asked by a reporter, well, okay, what happens to the oil and what happens to the ship? And as President said, President Trump said, well, we're definitely keeping the oil, that's for sure. We're seizing all of that oil. The ship, we shall see. Roll cut 1B, a mic.

What happens to the oil on that ship? Well, we keep it, I guess. Where does it go? What does it go? Well, you have to follow the tanker. You know, you're a good news. We just follow the tank. Do you know, follow it? Follow it. Follow it. Get a helicopter. Follow the tank. Is it true? But we're going to keep the oil. So, we're just, we're keeping the oil. So, look, my position on this is very clear. To me, it's about time. We start to enforce our sanctions against the Maduro regime. Trump is now clearly putting the screws into Maduro. Look, if they can't sell their oil on the international black market, if their tankers are going to get seized, then there's going to be no money left to finance that regime. Trump now is, you know, he's just tightening the screws and tightening the screws and tightening the screws. And so do I think this is the action of a pirate? Absolutely not. I think this shows that he is serious about reasserting American dominance in the Western Hemisphere and about letting Maduro now know that we are going to put maximum pressure on his regime for him to step down. and stop his narco-terrorism that has been killing tens and tens of thousands of Americans here in the United States. And so you run sanctioned oil, you run illegal oil, you're part of an illicit illegal shipping network. Those days of Joe Biden are over. We're going to enforce these sanctions and we're going to target these oil tankers. Now, if the oil revenue dries up, then Maduro's finished. I mean, he's really finished. Yes, he's got drug money coming in, but you can't finance a country on drug money. You can line your own pockets as he has and that of his cronies. Yes, with their villas and their homes and their yachts and their boats and their cars. but you can't you can't pay the salaries of the military the police so they are squeezing him and squeezing him and squeezing him now the democrats are up up in arms saying that this was illegal, this is the act of a bully, that Trump is now a modern-day pirate. 620 on the great WRKO, Jeff Cooner, Boston's bulldozer, 617-26668. Mike is having a little bit of fun with the story and looking at all the memes on social media. The left... is losing their mind. I mean, I'm just, you know, it's like whatever this guy does, they can't stand. So anyway, let me ask all of you, was Trump, in your view, right to seize this Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela?

So some of you are opposing this on multiple grounds. You think, A, it's distracting from his domestic agenda. He's focusing again too much on foreign affairs. And others believe that we are sleepwalking, slowly slow walking towards an eventual showdown and a regime change war with Maduro and Venezuela, almost step by step by step. We're deploying a massive amount of troops now in the Caribbean. We've got 11 warships. We are now tightening our grip around Venezuela. We already have CIA operatives inside Venezuela. We are clearing the skies, the airspace above Venezuela. And now the next step, we are seizing their oil tankers. It does look like we're heading towards some kind of a military showdown. Either crushing land and missile and airstrikes or a full-blown invasion. And Trump says it's coming. A military, decisive military action, he says, is coming and it's coming soon. 617-26668 now what threw people off yesterday on top of the announcement of the seizure of this Venezuelan oil tanker by the way its name is skipper skipper that's the name of the boat and they've wanted Skipper now for many years. Skipper has been running uranium oil illegally. It's been shipping Venezuelan oil illegally to black markets and black marketeers all across the world, primarily in Asia, but all across the world, including, by the way, to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. Mike, how much time left? Okay, Trump... then talked about Colombia, which, as you know, neighbors Venezuela. It is also led by an anti-American, Trump-hating Marxist strongman, like Maduro. He is a hardcore socialist and a hardcore anti-American. Colombia is producing so much of the cocaine. that the narco terrorists are trying to ship and send into the United States. And Trump now has put Colombia and its Marxist president on notice. 617-266-6-68 is the number. Okay, to just get a taste, just a taste of how the anti-Trump fake news media is blowing up this tanker seizure as one of the great crimes of the century. I'm not kidding. Listen now to Rachel Mad Cow on BS now, saying this is the act of a dictator.

of a modern-day pirate out of control roll cut ten a mike It's so many things going on that feels over the legal line and feels like it's setting incredibly dangerous precedence. As you look at the totality of it, I mean, what concerns you most about what you're seeing and really where this goes? Because this is a very slippery slope. I think they feel justified to seize more oil tankers. We'll see what happens. Yeah. I mean, I think there's basically three things going on here. I think one is that Trump... wants to demonstrate that he is unconstrained by law, politics, or public opinion. Like he wants to, the reason there's no king's protests against Trump is not just because he calls himself a king and, you know, looks the part, but because he is trying to create an illegal or sort of non-legal regime around himself in which he is unconstrained by any of the things that legally constrained an American president. So that's dangerous. That's part of what this is. The other thing that's really bad about this is it looks like we might get a... And it really looks like a regime change war to try to take their oil. Well, I thought now you guys were all for war. Like I, oh, I'm sorry. I keep losing the plot here with you. I mean, you love the war in Ukraine. I mean, it's just you guys are, you literally Matt Cow went to Dick Cheney's funeral. Rachel Matkow literally went to Dick Cheney. She was invited by the Cheney family. And remember, Cheney never apologized for the war in Iraq. In fact, he was dying days that he was proud of the war in Iraq. So he used to be the boogeyman of the left, if you remember going back 20 years ago. Him and then George W. Bush, they were the big villains of the left for the Iraq War. And in fact, Matt Cow made her career attacking Dick Cheney and Bush for the Iraq War. But she ends up going to the funeral of Dick Cheney, invited by the daughter Liz Cheney. And she praised him as a great statesman. Why? Because he hates Trump. Because Dick Cheney was against Trump, Trump, Trump. And by the way, loves the war in Ukraine. Can't get enough of the war in Ukraine. So which is it now? You like war? You don't like war? It just, what? It depends. Really, it depends, you know. Oh, I get it. If Trump does it, you're against it. If Trump's, you know, if Trump doesn't do it, then you're for it. Oh, I get it. Okay, I get it now. Now, this is from 603. And I think 603 makes a very good point. Jeff. My impression of the mainstream media's narrative, of the very same event, first the Trump administration and then under a Democrat regime. So this is now Trump. In what critics are calling an act of absolute piracy, Donald Trump ordered the illegal seizure of a tankership belonging to another sovereign country.

This is yet another example of an administration out of control and endangering America's status in the world. Now, this is the media's reaction, their narrative, if this was a Democrat who did the very same thing. Today, in a show of strength, the Biden administration ordered the military seizure of an oil tanker belonging to Venezuela's rogue Maduro regime. Biden's latest actions to combat this rogue regime are being applauded on the international stage, showing that tyrannical strongmen like Maduro that there is a new sheriff in town and that this criminal enterprise will not be tolerated. 603, you nailed it. You nailed it. See, that's why I call them prostitutes. In a cruder way, media horse. prostitutes media prostitutes you just pay them their 20 25 million dollars and if joe biden did this she'd be saying exactly what you just wrote great act of statesmanship strength leadership we're showing these rogue regimes you don't mess with the USA oh it's Trump you want me to attack attack it okay this is an act of absolute piracy this is an executive a chief executive who's out of control this is the beginning of a dictatorship Same thing. Two different presidents. Two different scripts. You pay them enough. And they'll say it with the same sincerity and passion both times. 617-266. 68 is the number. Okay. Let me ask you, did Trump do the right thing? Yes. No. I will say this just as a matter of historical fact. We have seized oil tankers before. We have seized boats before. This is nothing new. The notion now, this is a dangerous precedent. We've been doing this for literally since the beginning of our republic. Speaking of pirates, the Barbary pirates, Jefferson ordered us to go to war against Barbary pirates and to blow them out of the sea. So we have been seizing ships, boats, tankers. This has been going on since George Washington. So the notion that somehow this is illegal, this is, it's never been done before. Oh, my. Could you, could you have a memory longer than, I don't know, four days? But that's what I mean. We're no longer dealing with the media. We're dealing with propaganda. Or as the Russians would say, disinformation. Disinformation. Paul in Saugis, you're going to kick us off. Thanks for holding Paul. And welcome. How are you? I'm very good. How are you, Paul?

Very good, my old friend. I'm retired now, an old chef and baker from Saugus, who you know. Oh, Paul, hey. So you're completely retired now? Yes, yes. Good for you. Good for you, buddy. You deserve it. I just want to say that people are not looking at the bigger picture. This is a proxy war with China. He's cutting the money off. That's why the Democrats are screaming because they're not getting the money that they were getting from China. He's cutting the drug trade off, which the drugs are being supplied from China. All of this, they're not looking at it. He's playing 3D chess. He's attacking everything. He's getting rid of the globalists when he goes to the Middle East. He doesn't include the Europeans when he sits down at the peace table. None of it. He's getting rid of all of it. And he's going after China right now. But he's doing it through Mondoro. Paul, I think that's an absolutely brilliant, a brilliant piece of analysis. I agree with you. I think he's trying to drive China out of our hemisphere, out of our backyard. And the other thing, Paul, you mean, you may disagree with me on this. But I think what he's also doing, look at the psychological pressure he's putting on the Maduro regime, the military pressure. by having all our troops now slowly build up the warships, now this economic pressure by, you know, seizing, blowing up all these drugs and these drug boats coming out of Venezuela, now seizing this illegal and illicit oil tanker. It's as if he wants to force regime change without actually committing troops to do it. In other words, put so much pressure on Maduro. that Maduro just prop, you know, he just pops. He just breaks and says, okay, look, I don't want to get killed. I don't want my whole family to get wiped out. Let me just, let me leave. Let me just negotiate a graceful exit. So it's like Trump is just putting more pressure and more pressure and more leverage and more leverage until eventually Maduro says, you know what? I'm going to cry uncle. You win. So I think that's also part of what he's doing. If Maduro can't get his oil out, his goose is cooked. So I think you're right, Paul. I think it's a double. I think it's a double strategy. One, push China out of the Western Hemisphere and push China's influence out. And two, squeeze Maduro so hard. that you enact regime change. Saturday, July 25th. I know I will be the best welterweight in the world. An undefeated phenom. That man is a rising star. And a frightening force. What a win for Shemiel Musayev. Descend on the nation's capital to fight for gold. Thad, the silverback jeans. Silverback nation makes some noise. Versus Shemil Musayev. All it's over! For the PFL welterweight world title.

Saturday, July 25th and 10 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. 617-266-68 is the number. You can also text the Cooner Man, 70470, 70470. Okay, let me ask all of you. It is the Cooner Country Poll Question of the Day, sponsored by Marios. Mario's quality roofing, siding, and windows. In seizing the Venezuelan oil tanker, is President Trump being a world leader or a pirate? A, a world leader. B, as many Democrats in the media are attacking him. B, a pirate. To me, he's clearly being a world leader. He's just doing things that, I don't know, other presidents didn't have the guts to do, but let that go. So, A, is he a world leader by seizing this massive Venezuelan oil tanker? Skippy? or skipper, forgive me, that's the name of the boat, skipper, or B, he's being a pirate. You can vote on our webpage, WRKO.com slash Cooner, WRKO.com slash Cooner, KUHN as a national ER. You can also vote via X, my handle there, all one word, and yes, I was very active on X last night, my handle at the Cooner Report. at the Cooner Report, K-U-H-N-E-R. Okay, Lou in Rhode Island, thanks for holding Lou, and welcome. Yeah, how you doing, Jeff? First of all, let me say, how come Rachel Maddow never said that it's over the legal line to allow 20 million... illegals into this country, unvetted. How come she never said that was over the legal line, right? I mean, let's get it straight about these Democrats. These Democrats, and we notice the pattern lately, you notice with the Somalians, you're noticing what, noticing that we're there in Kilmar Garcia and a whole number of these other illegals. And now I think in Maine, they're trying to bring in more and more illegals into Maine, that this pattern of defending criminality. over the needs and the safety of the American public. And I notice that pattern with Democrats all over the place now. And I think it's pretty clear. Maybe they're getting support from these people. Who the heck knows? But there is a big Democrat wave of supporting criminals and criminality. I noticed in Illinois lately they let out over, what, 1,700? illegal criminals out of their prisons. I mean, so we have that pattern going on with the Democrats, and I'm trying to say Trump is a criminal, but their supportive criminals, they put off to the side there. But that's not really my biggest question, but you know what? They never side with Maria Corina Machado Maria Corina Machado. How come she is like the perfect person for a Democrat to want to side with? A woman leader going after an opposition.

who's the opposition to Maduro, who has rigged two elections already. I mean, at least two, maybe more. But the world's institutions have gone after. Maduro for the election activity and him even losing but staying in office. They've also, it's strange that it's the Nobel committee that gave Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Prize, which is a pretty liberal organization, right? Nobel. And they still recognized her contribution over there. But they never side with her. They never side with what's going on in Venezuela and their illegal activity. I think Paul was right before. It is Chinese behind a lot of this stuff because they've been trying to get into our hemisphere for years and years and years like they try to get to Africa. and they're going to leave losing a market there with not letting fentanyl coming and destroy the country. There's two sides to this. The one side of how illegal Maduro is as a leader there and how he actually needs to be overthrown. And that Venezuela is once a wonderful, prosperous state. And now it's been turned into just like a criminal hellhole. And that also, you have to go back a little bit further, too. When Biden put in all the fossil fuel restrictions, he went out and bought oil from Venezuela. He was begging Venezuela for oil. I mean, this is the two tracks. One, the Democrats, why do they side with criminality? And number two, why can't anybody recognize that this Maduro state? is illegit illegal and it's just trying to destabilize america well you're dead on and by the way lou you're on fire and uh look he's deeply unpopular at home the venezuelans you know can't stand him and it people often say well why don't they overthrow him well the thing is when you actually you know with media outlets there's a few independent media outlets left Or if you send a journalist, say, from, I don't know, the Wall Street Journal or, you know, whatever, from, you know, Fox News or whatever, Newsmax, they send a correspondent down to Caracas. And they go, well, when you interview people, they are so hungry and they are so desperate for the basic necessities of life, they don't even think about overthrowing the regime. Because literally they're living hand to mouth. It is a fight for survival every single day. And you see people going through garbage, you know, garbage cans, garbage bags, dumpsters, looking for any scrap of food that they can get. It is a horrible situation. What he and his predecessor, Chavez, again, two communists, what they did to Venezuela is a tragedy. And what people, I don't think quite grasp, Venezuela has the biggest reserves of oil in the entire world.

even more than the United States, even more than Saudi Arabia. Now, it's a bit, how do I say, dirty oil in the sense that it's, you have to refine it several times. The benefit that we have, and the Saudis in particular, is that their oil is much lighter. You just almost suck it out of the ground and it's practically ready to go. It needs, in its light refinement. Venezuelan oil, there's a ton of it. But you've got to refine it and refine it and refine it. And now it's fine. It just costs a little bit more, you know, but eventually it gets very clean and very refined oil. So Venezuela is sitting on an ocean of oil. And yet, all you got to do is just get the oil out of the ground. And that's it. That will power your entire economy. And it could be a first world country. No. Under Chavez and now Maduro, they have run the country into the ground. And instead of making money off of oil, they do a little bit illicit, shipping it to China, as you mentioned, and on the black market, most of their money is in drugs. Maduro sits atop one of the wealthiest, most powerful drug cartels in the entire Western Hemisphere, him and his inner circle and his generals. So they're part of this regime that is sending fentanyl into our country, although that's primarily Mexico, that's sending cocaine into our country, but most of that is made in Colombia. But they're sending drugs. And look, this is what I don't get. The Democrats are siding with narco-terrorists, with drug dealers. who are poisoning and killing our children a hundred thousand every year dead because of the narcotics that are flowing into our country so they're siding with drug dealers and drug cartels and terrorists over our kids and children just like they side with criminal illegals against innocent American women, men, and children. You can't make this up. And you're right, Maduro has stolen the last two elections. This has been internationally recognized. It is a pariah regime. He is completely illegitimate. The people can't stand him. He does not have any democratic legitimacy whatsoever. And just to throw this in, Maria Corina Machado is not just the genuine democratic opposition leader. She didn't just win the Nobel Peace Prize. And you know, the Nobel Committee is very liberal. She's a liberal. She's a feminist. She's pro-LGBQ. Not that I care. I'm just explaining to you. So, by the way, she says the first thing she's going to do. When she gets the power is past gay marriage in Venezuela. Venezuela, under Maduro, has banned gay marriage. Abortion, by the way, is illegal under Maduro. So he's trying to appeal to some of the rural areas by being more socially conservative. But my point being, she's pro-feminist, pro-choice, pro-LGBQ.

Her hero is Hillary Clinton. Now, she admires Trump deeply because Trump is really going after Maduro. So she's like, well, yeah, he's being very brave for going after Maduro. But when asked, you know, who would you like to emulate? It's Hillary Clinton. She goes, I want to be a feminist. I want to defend abortion. I want to defend gay marriage. I want to defend LGBTQ. So you would think a Rachel Mad Cow, if she had any courage of her convictions or any sincerity in what she says, she would be saying, well, you've got a authoritarian dictator, an illegitimate strongman who has stolen multiple elections, and you've got this Democratic opposition leader. who's a pro-gay, pro-lesbian, pro-LGB, pro-choice feminist leader. Duh. No, no. If Trump is against Maduro, she's for Maduro. They're so blinded in their hatred for Trump. that I don't even think they like do you realize you know to the mad cows of the world do you realize how absurd you look but that's what TDS has done to them and notice how they talk I can play the cut again how quick they're like rabid they're just like rabbit they're almost like barking they just hate him they just hate him everything he does is bad 617-266-6-68. Thank you for that call, Lou, as always. Andy in Milford, thanks for holding Andy and welcome. Good morning, Jeff. Well, Jeff, if President Trump's a pirate, then Rachel Maddow. Yay, Andy, touche, my friend. President Trump is their Moby Dick. I mean, no matter how many times they stick in that harpoon, they can't kill him. Andy, let me ask you this. What do you say to the argument, and that's their argument, that this is piracy, that we're now seizing oil tankers. We're doing it off the coast of Venezuela, that if other countries start doing this like China or Russia, this is going to destroy. international trade. It's going to lead to gangsterism on the high seas, that he is behaving again like a dictator, and that he is getting us closer and closer and closer to a war with Maduro, and that this man is out of control, and that he is behaving in a dictatorial authoritarian manner. He's now seizing oil tankers and their oil.

And this is not what the American people want. What say you? Well, the problem with that is, and you laid it out, Jeff, that this oil tanker, the skipper, has been a sanctioned vessel for quite some time. And the oil it's been running for quite some time, it's been sanctioned. And President Trump... just has had the guts to actually act on and enforce what's already been sanctioned for quite some time. That's number one. Number two, this is taking place within our own hemisphere. So, I mean, it is within our national interest to choke Maduro economically. And this move does that. Oh, you're right. I think there's no question. Andy, I think there's no question. Andy, let me ask you this, because I am getting some, not much, but I'm getting some. And these are Trump supporters. And they're saying, come on, Cooner. You know, I mean, I wish they would call in, but they don't want to call in, which is fine. Some people are shy or reluctant or whatever. But they are texting me and they're emailing me. And they're saying, Jeff, this is not what I voted for. I voted for him, you know, again, it's almost like yesterday's show. I voted for him to focus on inflation, to deport illegal aliens. I voted on him to start locking people like Anthony Fauci up, to start putting these deep state criminals in prison. There hasn't been any serious arrests. We're still waiting. We wanted to, you know, blow the lid off of COVID-19, have people like Anthony Fauci go to jail. We wanted people like Brennan and Clapper and all of them to be held accountable for what they did on January 6th, the Biden regime. None of this is happening. None of this. Instead, again, it's like Trump is preoccupied with foreign affairs, foreign policy, almost saber-rattling now with Maduro. And, you know, according to these MAGA supporters who listen to the show, they're saying, Jeff, I don't care about Venezuela. Blow the boats up, great. But whether Maduro stays or goes, that should be none of our business. What say you, Andy? I say two things, Jeff. Number one, This is not just a country in the Middle East. And this is in our own hemisphere. So we're talking about communism getting a foothold within our own hemisphere. And what Trump is doing is he's cutting off the various things that's enabling it. the drugs, the narco-terrorism, and, of course, the sanctioned oil. And so my message to them would be just be patient with this, look at the bigger picture. On the other hand, Jeff, they are half right.

that President Trump does need to start going after the deep state criminals in this country. Like, in Minnesota, the Somalis on the ground are getting arrested for all the welfare fraud that they've engaged in. Okay, that's good. But these stupid politicians that enabled all that have also started. need to start getting arrested. And President Trump is going to have to really crack the whip with DOJ to make it happen. And if that means changes have to be made at the top, so be it. Amen. No, I'm with you, Andy. I think you're right. I think, look, yes, it's great. These Somalis are being arrested. They should be arrested. But you're going after the little fish, which is fine. You have to go after the little fish. You have to. But I want the big fish. And they just seem to be, or at least Pam Bondi, and others are afraid to go after the big fish. And the question after a while is you have to ask yourself, why? And so what I said on X last night, I'm going to fully own. I fully believe in it. It's now been, what is it, 300 days that Pam Bondi has been in office. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, FBI director, deputy FBI director, over 250 days in office. Not a single Biden criminal has been arrested. Not a single corrupt Biden official arrested. Not a single deep state criminal. I don't care if it's Brennan. I don't care if it's Clapper. I don't care if it's Anthony Fauci has been arrested. I mean, I'm just stating the facts. We voted for you to drain the swamp. Drain the dang swamp. This is not rocket science. And what I've concluded now from not just her actions or rather inactions, but when I look at who she's tied to, who she's friends with, who she pals around with, who she's been politically connected to now for many years, she is very close to the Bush family, with Jeb Bush in particular, she was very close with John McCain, she is very close with Mitt Romney, and she is extremely close with Lindsey Graham. She's a rhino. She is part of the rhino globalist establishment. You're not going to get the arrests that you want and need under Pam Bondi. She's just not going to do it. And so I have come now to the conclusion that she's got to go. That there will be no justice. And there will be no serious prosecutions of high profile corrupt Democrats or deep state criminals under Pam Bondi as Attorney General. She won't do it. She refuses to do it because ultimately that's not what the Bush family wants. That's not what McCain is whatever his family wants. That's not what Mitt Romney or Lindsey Graham. They want the swamp to continue.

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