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And in order to try to distract, Donald Trump is now calling a meeting of his war cabinet today where they are going to talk potentially invading Venezuela. Now, the United States of America and people do not want war with Venezuela. Overwhelmingly, 70% of Americans say they do not want a war with Venezuela right now. And also 56% of Americans say if we went to war with Venezuela, there would be no change at all regarding the current condition of drugs entering the United States. Only 37% say that drugs would decrease into the United States if we went to war with Venezuela. Now, the Trump regime has been trying to justify this war with Venezuela by also saying the United States will seize all of Venezuela's oil and this will be great for America's oil companies. You know, it would be great if we actually focused on the people in the United States of America who are suffering under the Trump regime as things are not affordable, as people are living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford their rent. Why don we focus on that before you start invading nations and committing war crimes Now Donald Trump sent out all his propagandists this morning to try to pump up the American people for a war with Venezuela before Christmas For example you have MAGA Republican Congress member Scott Fitzgerald. He went on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And here's what he had to say. He goes, when you're in for a pound, you're in for a penny. He goes, when you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound. Here, play this clip. The legality of all of this, that has been questioned. about the president and the administration's military operations off the coast of Venezuela. Yeah, if you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound on this, and we're in for a pound. The buildup is real. Members of Congress have been watching this. I know that there's some that have been briefed fully on where we're at in relation to not just Venezuela, but kind of of a back and forth with the naval fleet being as highly concentrated as it is right now out of Caracas. Listen, Maduro is class, you know, one of those individuals that I think President Trump could run circles around when it comes to negotiating. So I'm very hopeful that he's in a position now, that the president's in a position to force the hand and that we see Maduro step down soon. I think that has been the goal since day one. And I hope it happens this week. Now, here's what MAGA Republican Congress member Greg Murphy had to say on Maduro, that there's lots of precedent for regime change. And that's what we're going to do. Regime change in Venezuela. Here, play this clip. Look at Venezuela. It was the gem of South America not 15 years ago. And now it's turned into an absolute debacle. That's a definition of socialism. I wish some of our Democratic colleagues would understand that. And you look, there is precedent for America going in and removing dictators. We did it in 1990 with Manuel Ortega in Panama. This fellow had a bounty on his head during the first Trump administration. The Biden administration increased the bounty, and now Trump, too, has increased the bounty again. This man is no good for the Western hemisphere and needs to be removed. Well, we do have certainly, I think it's 25% of naval ships are there now. Then you had MAGA Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen making his rounds yesterday on the various shows. And he said, look, the president has made it clear we're going to use lethality with our military at home and abroad. Also at home. Well, we see that with what they're doing with ICE agents and with the border patrol Gestapo here. Lethality at home here, play this clip. The president and the secretary of war has been very clear they're going to use lethality against our enemies, home and abroad. This has been very clear what's going on right now, that the drug organization that is considered a terrorist organization that is flooding our streets with drugs, is killing Americans every single day, they're being proactive on it. good on them. Are we doubting that these drug dealers are actually drug leaders? We think they're just out there fishing. Then they bring on MAGA Republican Congress member Carlos Jimenez and he's asked about the reporting that Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike after there were survivors on the fishing boat that was hit by the United States military. To be clear, all aspects of this operation in my view are war crimes And certainly the second strike is a war crime, but I believe they're all war crimes. But MAGA Republican Congressman Carlos Jimenez says, look, Pete Hegseth's an honest guy, right? And Donald Trump's an honest guy. They both say it didn't happen. So why would we do what we're supposed to do in Congress and investigate? Let's just accept what Trump and Hegseth tell us. I kid you not. That's what MAGA is going with right now. Just Hegseth said he didn't do it and Trump said he didn't do it. So nothing to worry about here. Play this clip. Congressman, there are now growing calls for an oversight hearing, an investigation. Your thoughts on this? Look, it just seems all strange to me that you get the Democrats coming out with a video saying, you know, do not follow illegal orders. And then all of a sudden you get this. Apparently these are anonymous kind of whistleblowers saying that something happened here. so uh you know i smell a rat here i don't i'm not i'm pretty sure that the uh the secretary of defense had nothing to do with something like that and uh and it's just a a a way of uh you know distracting from what really happened uh in dc you know uh last week where you had the murder or of one uh national guardsman and then the uh the wounding of another by by you know a an afghan refugee and so and i think it's just a distraction so i'm i'm with the president on this one i don't I don't believe the reports. I don't believe that Pete Hanks has said that, but going back to what it's all about, this is a strike on a, we're striking terrorists that are bringing poison into the United States. This poison has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. When I hear things like that I also then am like thinking to myself you realize that the person you telling us to trust is the same guy who on Air Force One said he didn know what part of his body the MRI was preformed on. He goes, I don't know. Who knows what parts the MRI? They act like this guy is like some brilliant negotiator. He's going to out negotiate Maduro. He's going to Trump's been the worst negotiator his entire life. He's actually never negotiated anything other than his companies into bankruptcy. Casino one bankruptcy, casino two bankruptcy, casino three bankruptcy. Go look at all of the products that Trump endorsed. Bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. His whole life is that he was born with a golden spoon from his given to him by his father. And by the way, his father also had Alzheimer's and that may have been passed down as well. But he's been he's been given to all these things from his father and he just ran things into the ground that he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein. And then he said that Epstein was a great guy and He had this Epstein phase in his life. And then he was convicted of fraud. He's a criminal. He's a felon. He's been found liable for sexual abuse. Like, what are we, like, what are we at? This guy's a master negotiator. The guy's actually the worst. Look at his companies right now. Trump media crashing, Trump memes, stocks crashing. It's all crashing down. I mean, this is the guy you're saying that we should trust? Remember, here was Donald Trump on Air Force One when he was asked about the MRI and what part of the body he got the MRI on. Here, play this clip. They asked about my MRI. Nope. MRIs are very, you know. Governor Walz, you mean the incompetent Governor Walz? So if they want to release it, it's okay with me to release it. It's perfect. What was the wrong way they were looking for? It's like my phone call where I got impeached. It's absolutely perfect. So if you want to hear about it or if you want to release it, do you want to have it released? Yes, please. Failing, failing news station. No, someone not failed. News station is doing a lousy, by the way. But if you want to have it released, I'll release it. Yes, please. Can you ask what they were looking at? For what? Releasing? No, no, no. What part of your body was the MRI looking at? I have no idea. It was just an MRI. What part of the body? It wasn't the brain because I took a cognitive test and I aced it. I got a perfect mark, which you would be incapable of doing. Goodbye, everybody. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Ever wake up sweaty, freezing, or just uncomfortable? The temperature in your bedroom can make or break your sleep. That's why I switched to Miracle Made Sheets. 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He lacks the requisite experience or the measured confidence to be an FBI director has neither the breadth of experience nor the bearing of an FBI director that needs to be successful. And these FBI agents who stayed anonymous, but they all describe themselves as top FBI people who are still there and also people who left the FBI. And by the way, some of these people were sympathetic to Donald Trump. They describe the incident following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, where FBI Director Cash Patel flies into Utah and he refused to leave his plane until they give him an FBI raid jacket And because Patel is a small guy they only had FBI raid jackets in a size large and extra large and those were too big for Patel. So they had to give Patel a female raid jacket that they found, but it didn't have the Velcro patches that Kash Patel liked. So they had to then find the Kash Patel Velcro patches. They found the patches after he threw a temper tantrum, and then he left the plane. And the FBI agents go into excruciating details here to outline what went down there. And they just described it as how embarrassing it is that he had to wear this jacket, and they ended up giving him the FBI women's raid jacket. And then he had to put Velcro, they had to find Velcro for his shoulder pads. Also should be noted that the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit just ruled that Alina Habba is disqualified as the United States Attorney in New Jersey. They confirmed the district court order. And the district court order was that she's an unlawful United States Attorney, yet she continued to call herself acting United States Attorney when she was not. Let me just read from you what the Third Circuit says. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals says, Habba is not the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey by virtue of her appointment as first assistant United States attorney, because only the first assistant in place at the time the vacancy arises automatically assumes the functions and duties of the office under the FVRA. Additionally, because Habba was nominated for the vacant U.S. attorney position, the FVRA's nomination bar prevents her from assuming the role of acting United States attorney. Finally, the attorney general's delegation of all of the powers of a U.S. attorney to HABA is prohibited by the FVRA's exclusive provision. Therefore, we affirm the district court's disqualification order. I know it may have sounded a little bit confusing, but the same way that Lindsey Halligan, for example, was unlawfully appointed, you had Alina HABA was unlawfully appointed. But Alina HABA was initially appointed as the interim. Her time period expired. The time period can be extended by a vote of the district court judges from that district court in New Jersey, made up of all different types of judges, Republican judges, Democrat judges, bipartisan. They didn't extend Alina Habba's term. So then what happens is the first assistant becomes the interim. But Trump and Alina Habba then fired the first assistant. And then they said, well, Alina Habba's now the first assistant. And because the court then allows the first assistant to remain the interim for a temporary period of time. Alina Habba goes, well, actually, then you appointed me, even though the judge has said, no, you're out because Alina then after not getting her term extended by the district court judges, then tried to steal the job of the first assistant so that she can then call herself the acting United States attorney. And if all of this is confusing, it should be because this has never happened in our country before ever, really, because the normal process is the president nominates a attorney, the Senate confirms, and then the process is done. You have an interim for an interim period of time, right, a short period of time, and then they get confirmed. And if they don't get confirmed, the president nominates a new person and that person becomes the actual United States attorney for that district. The process works. And if the senators don't like it. You work with the senators, you come up with compromises, you figure out, you get the person confirmed. That's the way our system works. Not what this Trump regime is doing with all of these people. So she's been just claiming she's a fake United States attorney for all that. She said she's United States attorney, but she hasn't been for all this period of time. There you have it. That's what's going on this morning. Hit subscribe. 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