World Powers Unite Against U.S. Economic Control! w/ Mark Sleboda
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And I wanted to talk to everybody about what's happening right now. There's a BRICS, which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South America are joining together to oppose the West, the United States, because we're using the dollar as a weapon, which we've talked about on this show many times before, because the United States dollar is the reserve currency of the world.

Now, everybody in the world is afraid we're going to sanction them, which is what we've been doing all over the world, including with Russia. And so they're having a big meeting right now in Moscow. Putin gathers allies to show West pressure isn't working. And just so you know, the world is changing. So there they are. They're all getting together. And I just want to bring on someone who knows about this.

Mark Sloboda is an independent Moscow-based international affairs and security analyst. He's also a former nuclear reactor operator for the United States Navy, as well as a contributing political analyst at the RT Network. He previously served as a senior lecturer and researcher of sociology at the Moscow State University. Welcome to the show, Mark Sloboda. Jimmy, thanks for having me. It's an honor and a pleasure to be on the show. So this is a...

It's great to have you. I'm glad. Thanks for making time for us. I really appreciate it. I know it's early there. And so this is because the United States, this is what they said was going to happen if Trump was president, that he was going to push our enemies closer together. He was going to make our friends turn away from us.

That's exactly what's happening because the United States is a warmongering like crazy and they're weaponizing the dollar. And the irony is, is that the United States is such a such a chauvinistic country that they thought they almost begged. They almost bullied Russia into doing this. And I'm going to show you if this is a 40 second clip of Joe Biden. I think this is something like 2007. Let's watch this.

Our conversation was a gone off, was repeated with Lebanon. They talked about they don't want this NATO expansion. They know it's not in their security interest and on and on and said, well, if you do that, we may have to look to China.

And I couldn't help using the colloquial expression from my state by saying to Zaganov, "Lots of luck in your senior year." You know, "Good luck." And if that doesn't work, try Iran. And I'm serious. I said that to them, and these were -- and they know, I knew, they knew, everybody knows that that is not an option. And everybody knows, every one of those leaders acknowledges and needs, and they resent it, but they need, they need to look west.

And the question is where this is designed to completely shut them out, but not in turn. So there's Joe Biden. And now this this just happened a few hours ago. Russia's President Putin has been gifted a mock up of a BRICS bill at BRICS summit in Kazan. So let me. So, Mark, tell me what is happening with BRICS. Is it is.

Is it the beginning of the end for the U.S. dollar being the reserve currency? And will BRICS bring nations together that are normally not friendly to each other in opposition to the United States economic hegemony?

Okay, so first of all, it has already brought countries that have issues with each other, right? The original core members of BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. India and China have lots of issues, right? Some border issues on an uninhabitable plateau in the Himalayas that may have been settled just before this, but there's still geopolitical tensions there.

But at last year's summit, BRICS was expanded by four new members, including Iran, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia is still kind of sitting on the fence there. But these are a widespread of geopolitical countries around the world.

And there are some nearly 40 countries that have, you know, literally put forward an application to join BRICS. Right. There's there's a storm at the door. And the reason is.

Because of the West's tight control of the global financial and economic architecture, which in such institutions set up by Britain Woods, like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

There has been, shall we say, unequal representation and leadership, meaning the West is no longer the dominant economies of the world to such a degree, but they're preventing other countries from having a role in the decision making process.

Plus the overuse of sanctions, tariffs and other measures by the U.S. to try to contain global control, their hegemony economically and particularly against Russia. This weaponization of the swift financial telecommunications system and other measures has lots of countries very concerned.

uh, uh, nervous because what can be done to Russia could also be done to them. So we're talking about a currency. Putin made clear that that's down the road. That's we're on baby steps yet. That is a potential, uh, far down the road, but that there's not that, uh,

initiative being made quite yet. So can you explain to people what the SWIFT banking system is and how the United States kicked Russia out of that, being able to use that? Can you explain what that is? Sure. An acronym is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications.

All right. So banks talk to each other electronically through encrypted, secure computer systems and software. That's basically what it is. It's based out of Belgium. It's been set up since 73. But the U.S. and the EU have tight control of it.

And it is anytime inter border trade is conducted, something like nearly 90 percent of international trade is conducted through the SWIFT systems, whereby banks in different countries that are part of the system talk to each other.

other. So right at the start of the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict in 2022, the U.S. reacted very quickly to order SWIFT to kick Russian banks out of the system to severely limit Russia's ability to trade with other countries. Now, alternatives were found rather quickly. But

But that is probably the major thing that is being worked on in BRICS right now is creating an alternative to the SWIFT system that operates with the BRICS central banks completely independent and trading in their own currencies and digital currencies rather than the dollar.

And that will be an alternative to a major measure of economic control that the U.S. and Europe now have on much of the rest of the world. So how is Russia operating an economy if they don't have access to SWIFT?

Because they're making bilateral transactions, right? Individual banks are talking to individual banks rather than relying on the SWIFT system. And when they can't use the dollar at

Not only when they can't, but there is a specific initiative to stop using the dollar completely in trade. Right now, Russia and China, you know, two of the world's major economies, right? Russia, the International Monetary Fund just revealed, is now by purchasing power parity, the fourth largest economy. It has knocked off both Germany and Japan now.

During the period of U.S. sanctions against them. It's now China, U.S., China, the U.S., India and now Russia. So the fourth largest economy. Russia has jumped two places in the last two years. So, so much for being able to crush the Russian economy in that measure. But so many countries want Russian commodities.

Oil, gas, metals, grain, everything. They find ways of working outside of the dollar and outside of the SWIFT system because these are all finite commodities. Everyone needs them. And you can't just take them out of the global market despite the U.S., the West's best attempts to do so.

So now there are 30 countries participating in this SWIFT summit and 20 heads of state. But there's still only, what, six members of BRICS? Is that true? There's nine permanent members of BRICS now as of this year, right? And who would those be? Could you tell me? Yeah. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt.

Turkey? The United Arab Emirates. Oh, really? And Saudi Arabia is sitting on the fence on that. They've been offered an invitation. They are participating. But the Saudi legislative body hasn't ratified it. But right now, there's actually...

kind of disagreement already within BRICS about further expansion with India and Brazil kind of wanting to slow things down in terms of expansion and which countries are allowed in. For instance, Brazil is now very much against Venezuela joining. So it's...

So it seems to me like that would be a way. So it seems like to me Lula is under the thumb of the Western economic hitmen. More so than during his previous presidency. I think he's much more cautious about bucking the U.S. after spending time for, you know, bull feces corruption charges in prison. Yes. So they threw Lula in prison and they thought that the center right

candidate would win that election in Brazil and then the far right guy won which was Bolsonaro who a lot of people say can compare he's like the Trump he's a disruptor he's like the Trump of Brazil and so they the establishment didn't know what to do so what they had to do was let Lula back out of prison because he's the only one who could beat Bolsonaro at the ballot box so they did that and

And then they immediately staged their own version of January 6th in Brazil. And they had a big riot at the Capitol. They then outlawed Bolsonaro. They said that he engineered it just like they said Trump did, even though it was the FBI that engineered it at Nancy Pelosi. And this shows opinion here in the United States.

And and now Bolsonaro's he's made illegal from running for president again. So and then you hear Lula saying all this garbage about the elections in in Venezuela, which parrots the the State Department in the United States, which that's always a red flag. So they've got them. And, you know, Joe. Yeah. Yeah.

Go ahead. Lula was supposed to be at the summit as well, but evidently he fell in the shower and hit his head and couldn't show up. He fell and couldn't get up again, I guess. And so that's another way.

for the United States to control bricks. They can control it from the inside because they now have control over Lula and they're a big player. For instance, Argentina didn't join and now they have Mele. How do you say his name? Mele, I believe. Mele, right? So now he's a big, he loves, he's a puppet of Western economic hitmen. And if they were already joined Mele,

bricks, he could then be a tool to stop the expansion and kind of upset things. Right. Absolutely. And take a look at two of the other new members, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Yeah. Egypt is one of the biggest recipients of U.S. military aid every year going back decades.

And the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, by the way, both host thousands of U.S. troops at bases in those countries. So on one hand, right, it could be a potential Trojan horse. The U.S. can exert pressure on them. On the other hand, it also shows us that long-term U.S. allies are looking for options.

Right. That's another thing that it shows us. Because they're afraid that they could be next. Right. Like everyone's afraid they could be next. Right. I mean, meaning next for the United States to sanction. Yes. Yes. To to. And very few countries in the world. In fact, I don't believe any other country is as well positioned to withstand U.S. economic and political pressure like Russia.

Well, it's the largest country in the world. I did not know they moved up two positions on the world. That is a and this is after we're supposed to be destroying them economically. We kicked them out of Swift. We're doing unbelievable sanctions. We blew up their Nord Stream pipeline, which was a major revenue source for them. And but what all it actually ended up doing was hurting Germany and Europe's economy. Correct. Russia's Russia's economy grew faster than the U.S.'s last year.

You're absolutely right. The deindustrialization of Germany as a result of no longer having access to cheap, reliable Russian gas to fuel their economy, it's dragging all of Europe into an economic doldrums. So do you see any signs of Europe turning against the United States? I don't either. Why is this?

It's because the current EU foreign policy elite, I believe, has been mentally colonized by U.S. neocons.

We've heard Joseph Burrell, who is the high foreign – was the high foreign policy muckety-muck of the EU. He resorted a couple years ago to a lot of rhetoric referring to the EU as a garden, right? And the rest of the world is a jungle that needed to be pruned, right? This type of – and he was –

It was clear he was really actually talking about Africa, which is incredibly racist. But this type of jungle and garden rhetoric, this is literally after Robert Kagan's book titles. Robert Kagan is the arch neocon of neocons in the United States. By the way, the husband of Victoria Nuland.

previously of the US State Department under multiple administrations. And he's not the only one. We see a lot of these EU foreign policy and political elites quoting Robert Kagan, which is just mad. It's insane. And this these US foreign policy, the European foreign policy elites right now, they literally are happy about their place

as important vassals of the United States in U.S.-led Western global hegemony. They want to be properly governed by the United States. They're willing vassals. You would think that the business leaders in Europe would have some input in this and that they would want to shake off the United States' control.

You would think so. And certainly within Germany, it was the business community to a very large degree that pushed to have the Nord Stream 2 pipelines constructed in the first place.

But the result of just being shut out of this process now, of the political process, is that Germany's biggest economic companies, they're moving to the United States. So the U.S. actually benefits. There's a huge emigration of people.

of high energy cost companies out of Germany to the US because in relative terms, comparatively, energy costs in the US are much lower than they are in Germany. So for instance, some of Germany's biggest chemical and manufacturing companies have in the last two years moved to the United States.

It's really – it's a kind of sadomasochism I think by Europe where they're literally inflicting damage on themselves. Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, said with these US sanctions –

with these U.S. pressured sanctions that Europe has agreed to on Russia, that it's not that Europe has shot itself in the foot with the sanctions, but that Europe has shot itself in the lungs with these sanctions, you know, to put it into context of how important, how much damage it has done to the European economy. So, and this is something that

So, well, here's Putin. I just want to show what Putin said today at the BRICS summit. And he's talking about the U.S. dollar and how this isn't voluntary. They're not going off the U.S. dollar voluntarily. They're being forced to do it by the United States and the hegemons economically. Here, let's listen. He says, thank you. You said that the dollar is used as a weapon.

Yes, absolutely. We see it like that. I actually think this is a big mistake of those who does this because the use of the dollar...

And it is still the most important instrument of world finance. Using it as a means of achieving political goals undermines confidence in this currency and reduces its capabilities. But it's not us who does that. Other people do that. We don't refuse it. We do not fight the dollar. But if we are not allowed to work with... Hang on.

But if we are not allowed to work with, what should we do? We are forced to look for other alternatives. That is going on now. So,

He had one more thing to say about it. Here he's talking about de-dollarization and let's listen to what he says. You can turn it up because there's a translator. You say we need to be more active. How? I think making too much fuss is inappropriate. We're taking individual steps forward.

one after another. As regards the finance, we did not drop dollars, the universal currency. It wasn't us.

We were banned and barred from it, and now 95% of all the external trade of Russia is denominated in national currencies. They did it themselves with their own hands. They thought we would collapse. No, we haven't. So he's saying they thought that we didn't do it,

And now we have to conduct all our trade in national currencies, like you explained earlier. And so...

Well, let me just show this one tweet. So it's like someone leaving you out and thinking you're going to come back begging, but you got better without their influence. The Russian's economy got better. It grew faster than the United States economy. This is one of the best explanations for de-dollarization I've ever read so far from the Russian President Putin. The West took Russia off swift. Russia's currency went up and...

So here's all the BRICS countries now. So the green ones are the originals and the light green are the people who want to join. And these are the newly added. So anyway, how long do you think, Mark, it will be

before BRICS actually puts a dent in the in Americans economy. And and and do you think this is really the beginning of the end for the United States hegemons? OK, so first of all, I want to say that Putin is actually being a little subtle there because it's true that Russia and China for years have been slowly starting to think and to begin processes of of

moving away from the dollar because they already could tell the sanctions and blackmail potential. But it's certainly clear that since 2022, well, there's an acceleration, right? There's an absolute necessity. So it has been done much more quickly. Well, if you take a look at the BRICS countries now, their share of the global economy is now significantly bigger than the G7.

right the G7 now are only thirty percent of the global economy all put together while the bricks are over thirty six percent right so already there's a a more global trade having within the bricks countries then within the established you know G7 the top of the West if you will I'm you know at and its it's not so matter of bricks putting a dent

in the US and the Western economy. You've got members like India and Brazil who are very clear that they, their vision of BRICS at least, and it's a consensus based organization, is not to be an anti-Western organization. It's simply, as Putin said, an organization that does not include the West.

But because the U.S.-led West is bent on hegemony, they view any type of organization that they don't have control over as a threat.

Right. So they're they're already seeing it as a as a threat. So as they attempt to tighten the screws on countries. Right. Because the sanctions against Russia aren't working. The U.S. and Europe have resorted to secondary sanctions where they now try to sanction the rest of the world, India, other countries to force them to stop trading with Russia.

That only encourages more and more countries to work outside the dollar, to trade in each other's currencies, to join BRICS. And of course, that's one of the big things BRICS has done, right, is to facilitate trade.

its members trading with each other outside the use of the dollar and the US economy right with its what is it 35 trillion dollars of national debt yeah right its its entire Potemkin economy

is constructed on the rest of the world using the dollar as a reserve currency. That's what allows the U.S. to play this game called quantitative easing, that anytime they need more money, they just print it because they know it's in high demand. Well, the clock is ticking on that.

And it may be a long time until the dollar collapses completely. But there is no doubt that in the last, you know, since 2022, when the U.S. resorted to this nuclear economic option to try and failing to crush the Russian economy, that it has accelerated.

There's no doubt whatsoever about it. And all of this excitement about BRICS, this long queue at the door at BRICS, is the clearest sign of that. And so would you say...

So it's a definite mistake and a miscalculation of the neocons that are running the country right now to try to sanction Russia, kick them off swift. They thought Russia was a lot weaker than they were. Yes. And they thought that Russia would collapse and they'd be able to balkanize it, break it up and sell it off to BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, just like they're doing to Ukraine right now, correct? Yes.

Yes, they absolutely believe that. That was a clear Biden foreign policy. I can remember Jen Psaki talking about the ruble being rubble. And I'm thinking you're rubbish. I was here hearing her say this. They believe the Biden administration believe that they could won during Biden's four years.

Crush Russia quickly in Ukraine. Provoke them into this. Crush their economy with sanctions that would lead to regime change in Russia. They could then, as you said, balkanize, divide up the country, then pivot.

pivot hard to China and confront China hard, right? Militarily, right? In the South China Sea and the Taiwan and Straits and ignore the Middle East, right? They thought they could ignore the Middle East. The Middle East would stay quiet. And as you know, British political philosopher said,

events, my dear boy, events. Well, they didn't crush Russia. The Middle East didn't stay quiet. And they can't even pivot their head to China at this point because everything else on their foreign policy agenda has collapsed. So, OK, when you say it's a long way off before it could be right, there's this idea that

You know, the dollar's dominance will seem inevitable. I mean, it will seem, you know, very hard to erode. It will seem indomitable. And then but the collapse may come very quickly. So.

some black swan event could trigger it to happen much more quickly. Similarly, a further overreach against another country of sanctions and cutting off from the financial architecture of the world, that could also facilitate it even faster. But it's still true that the majority of global trade

is happening with the dollar. It's just less than before. And once this BRICS alternative to SWIFT comes online, that will help it process even faster. Okay. Mark Sloboda, I appreciate your insight into what's happening. Obviously, the United States sees BRICS as a threat, even though

BRICS isn't an explicitly anti-Western organization, but we'll see what happens. Saudi Arabia started selling oil in other denominations besides the U.S. dollar. So the petrodollar seems to be going away, which is a big deal for underpinning the U.S. dollar. Again, it's a big reason why I'm putting my retirement money in gold.

and it really is. I can, I see, I don't know how, you know, it's like things happen very slowly and then they only happen all at once, right? And so, you're right, some black swan event could happen and, you know, I'm,

The people who are running the Western economy, I have no faith in them whatsoever. The neocons that are doing endless wars, we're bankrupting, we're the end stage republic is what it looks like to me. And we're bankrupting our empire the same way all empires ended by overextending militarily and foreign wars while we defund our own people.

Take a look at the papers, the newspapers, the news broadcasts in the U.S. and in the U.K., elsewhere in the West, and see what insane gymnastics they're jumping to this week to refuse to say the word Bricks.

They can't acknowledge that it's an organization that is forming alternatives to Western control of global finance and potentially an alternative global order at the end of the day from the rules-based order. We make the rules. We give the orders.

They just refuse to say the name. Right. It's like almost like a secret editorial crib note shared among all the papers in the world. And you opened it up with the BBC saying Putin gathers allies to show the West pressure isn't working. Well, it does show that. But that's not why they're gathered together. There's real conflict.

you know, potentially world shaking processes underway. And the West is playing see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil because they refuse to acknowledge that it's happening. And that's what that headline says right there. They won't mention bricks. Just I didn't realize that. That's thanks for pointing that out. OK, Mark Sloboda, I really appreciate you coming on and we'll look forward to talking to you again.

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So they asked Kamala Harris the question that you'd think they would. They've had months and months to come up with an answer for this question. And the question is about Joe Biden's dementia. And why? When did you notice and why didn't you tell people sooner? And I'll say still don't have an answer for this. You want to see it? What's the what's the word salad she goes into?

Can you say that you were honest with the American people about what you saw in those moments with President Biden as you were with him again and again, repeatedly in that time? Wait, who is this Joe Biden they keep bringing up? Is he important? Okay, here we go. There's the question. Watch how high her voice goes here. It's like when a cop pulls you over at a DUI. You've been drinking? Maybe one, I don't know.

Watch how high her voice goes. Watch this. Can you say that you were honest with the American people? It's what's called a tell. Watch this. What you saw in those moments with President Biden as you were with him again and again, repeatedly in that time. Of course. Joe Biden is an extremely...

accomplished um experienced uh but what are the words i'm supposed to remember to describe him uh accomplished experience demented no not not demented uh obviously in decline wait no uh and um and and capable capable in every way that anyone would want then why isn't he running i never saw anything like what happened at the

I'm sorry. Wait, wait, wait. I misread that. I'm sorry. I misread the prompter. It's like crappable. He shits his pants. So I got to hand it to this NBC person. She actually pushes back. Watch this. With him? It was a bad thing. You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?

It was a bad debate. People have bad debates. He is absolutely. That's the reason why you're here and he's not running for the top of the ticket. Well, you'd have to ask him if that's the only reason why.

With a straight face, she says that. You'd have to ask him, not Barack Obama, the donor class, and me who promised the 25th Amendment to him if he didn't quit. And Nancy Pelosi, who said that the Congress would back it up. And what? You have to ask Joe Biden. Joe Biden, that was a coup. Even Jim Gaffigan, a Trump deranged comedian and a diehard Catholic, tells the truth about that.

Even he's the, everybody knows it's a coup. This is with their straight face. But remember, Trump's the only one who lies. Only Trump lies. Not that this isn't a lie. Isn't this amazing? He's so bad. He's just such a threat. Much like terror or the war on drugs. It's such a threat that we got to, we have to break the rules.

In order to save the rules. That's right. Everybody has to do everything. Everybody has a bad debate and sometimes they ended a coup. That's all. That's all. It's about what can be unburdened by what has been said. Okay. I think, but why don't you ask her something important? Like, you know, what kind of cereal she likes? Tell me it's not Raisin Bran. There's too much sugar. Come on. Come on.

What do you think? I am running for president of the United States. Joe Biden is not. So they won't admit the reason why Joe Biden is not running for president anymore is because he got forced out. Like they're all pretending that he just woke up one day after winning the primary and said, yeah, I guess I'm going to quit running. Yeah. No one believes that. No, even Jim Gaffigan doesn't believe that.

Well, Democrats, if you remember, were cool with the primary itself being rigged for Joe Biden. So, you know, I guess some of them, that was a bridge too far of rigging past the initial rigged Democratic primary that was for Joe Biden. Hey, we're not even going to keep the rigging because they all feel...

to some degree, like Trump's so bad. Like, hey, let's say the 2020 election was rigged. I would never think that it's anything but perfectly fair. But let's say it was. Are you telling me that Biden voters would be upset about that and they would demand to reverse the results and have Trump win? I don't think they would. No. Presidency will be about bringing...

new generation of leadership to America that is focused on the work that we need to do to invest in the ambitions and aspirations of the American people. And by the aspirations of the American people, of course, she means Israel. Okay. It's a

It's a judgment question. That's why I ask. Can the American people trust you in these moments, even when it's maybe uncomfortable for Americans to level with Americans in that way? So that's why I ask. And it sounds like what you're saying is you feel like you never saw anything like that from President Biden. I have worked with Joe Biden hours and hours and hours over these four years, whether it be in the Situation Room or the Oval Office. Joe Biden is the one who was able to bring NATO together.

during a crisis where for the first time in 70 years Europe saw and has seen war.

Joe Biden has done the work that has been about being a leader on what we have done to fix so much of what has been broken in terms of the economy because of Donald Trump's. The economy is fixed. I don't know if you guys did you notice. Did you know that, Mike? The economy is fixed. Yeah, it's kind of fixed the way your roommate fixes the bed frame. He broke when he went out last weekend using Elmer's glue and newspaper.

He goes, what'd you do? What breaks? No, it's fixed. It's fixed. Oh, I speak with not only sincerity, but wait, what did she say? Wait a minute. I think I think sincerity is Lizzo's sister. So much of what has been broken in terms of the economy because of Donald Trump's mismanagement.

I speak with not only sincerity. Why do you have to put it that way unless you are so full of shit that horseflies think you have a problem? I speak with sincerity.

And I say that with all due sincerity that I'm running for president and he is not. And he's not. Well, that's an answer. With a real firsthand account of watching him do this work. I have no reluctance in saying that. Oh, my God. I don't.

You know, it's going to be to say instead of her campaign slogan being turn the page, it should be you're never getting this time back. Jimmy, that last part was so painful. I would rather listen to Trump talk about Arnold Palmer Scott. I mean, by a wide margin, not even close. That is that is that I'll play it without stopping at this time. OK, good luck.

Can you say that you were honest with the American people about what you saw in those moments with President Biden as you were with him again and again repeatedly in that time? Of course. Joe Biden is an extremely accomplished, experienced and capable in every way that anyone would want. Why isn't he running? You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?

It was a bad debate. People have bad debates. He is absolutely. That's the reason why you're here and he's not running for the top of the ticket. Well, you'd have to ask him if that's the only reason why. What do you think? Good luck. I am running for president of the United States. Joe Biden is not. And my presidency will be about bringing democracy.

a new generation of leadership to America that is focused on the work that we need to do to invest in the ambitions and aspirations of the American people.

What? It's a judgment question. That's why I ask. Can the American people trust you in these moments, even when it's maybe uncomfortable for Americans to level with Americans in that way? So that's why I ask. And it sounds like what you're saying is you feel like you never saw anything like that from President Biden. I have worked with Joe Biden, whether it's hours and hours and hours over these four years, whether it be in the Situation Room or the Oval Office. Just help him get off stage. Joe Biden is the one who was able to bring NATO together.

During a crisis where for the first time in 70 years, Europe saw and has seen war. That's not an endorsement leader. He brought Europe together finally. And they have war for the first time in 70. Yeah, that's that's a promo. That's a promo.

Yeah. Under Joe Biden, they got war in Europe. Yeah. Hey, we finally got the first time we had war in Europe in 70 years. Joe Biden, war in Europe. You know, people said it couldn't be done, but he did it. But he did it. Wow. What we have done to fix so much of what has been broken in terms of the economy because of Donald Trump's mismanagement. I speak. And the way you and the way you fix that is by flooding the country with illegal migrants.

For example, we didn't even have a war going on. This is how bad he was growing up. Biden, finally, war in Europe. Trump was going to have that? War in Europe? Well, where was it, Trump? Where's the war in Europe we want? Wow. What a great job she's doing. Trump could just talk about cock for the remaining days before the election. I don't believe it's close at all, by the way. The fact they're saying it's close is to hold out hope to morons who might just stay home forever.

Well, I don't think it's close. I don't think it's close in places that it needs. So, again, what you see that the misdirection is that the corporate news will cite national polls. National polls don't matter. It's not a popular vote. It's the Electoral College. So there's only a handful of states that matter. And in those handful of states that matter, Trump is way ahead.

And there's not a chance in hell the national polls are just trying to get a basic idea of how everybody feels because if it's not their way, they don't want people to know that. That's right. It's kind of how Netflix or Sirius Radio, they don't show their ratings. That's right. No one gets to see the real ratings. No one gets to see the real ratings. They just tell you. HBO, the same thing. Because it's a scam. So if you think polls don't work like that, why would they not work like something that important? Why would they not work like that?

This is a story that kind of fell through the cracks. It's from seven days ago. There was a there was a guy looking to assassinate Donald Trump in Riverside, California.

And let's watch the coverage here. News in Riverside County, that's where Sheriff Chad Bianco says he believes his deputies may have prevented a third assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The deputies arrested a man carrying several loaded guns and multiple passports with different names. It happened just outside of Trump's rally in Coachella yesterday. Omar Lewis is live in Riverside. He's got the latest for us. Omar.

Rick and Corrine, good evening to you both. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says that 49-year-old suspect was armed with multiple loaded weapons, including a shotgun, and he also had alleged fake IDs on him as well as other credentials. We can tell you that the Sheriff's Department says they believe it was the actions of their deputies that stopped a potential third assassination attempt against former President Trump.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco confirmed to KTLA 5 News that this is the suspect, Vim Miller, arrested while trying to enter Saturday's Trump campaign rally in the Coachella Valley. I truly do believe that we prevented another assassination attempt. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says Miller was stopped at a checkpoint near Saturday's Trump rally when deputies discovered he was carrying a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine, along with fake passports and a fake license.

He also allegedly attempted to use fake VIP passes to gain access to the event. What we do know is he showed up with multiple passports with different names, an unregistered vehicle with fake license plate and loaded firearms. If you're asking me right now.

I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt. Tens of thousands of Trump supporters showed up to the rally held Saturday in the blistering heat at the Calhoun Ranch just outside Coachella. While residents and permitted attendees were allowed through the security checkpoints, they were closely monitored. It was at one of those checkpoints where Miller's alleged plot was foiled before the former president arrived. He was booked into a detention center for possessing a loaded firearm

and High Capacity magazine. I need to thank that deputy for doing his job. That was the first thing that went through my mind. The U.S. Attorney's Office released a statement reading, in part, the U.S. Secret Service assesses that the incident did not impact protective operations.

and former President Trump was not in any danger. While no federal arrest has been made at this time, the investigation is ongoing. In July, an armed man fired at Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania, injuring the former president and killing one attendee.

Just last month, another suspect was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida with a rifle near Trump's golf club. Authorities continue their investigation into this latest incident, and the FBI is also questioning another individual linked to a potential bomb threat at Saturday's rally.

And Miller has been released from jail on a $5,000 bail. His next court date is set for early next year. The Sheriff's Department here says additional charges could be coming from the federal government. What was his bond? That's the latest for now. Reporting from Riverside, I'm Omar Lewis. $5,000 bond? Yeah, that's a very strange thing that he bonded out. So a guy who's a potential presidential assassin?

gets to bond out for $5,000? Yeah, it doesn't make sense. So you only have to pay 10% of that, which is so 500 bucks, he's out, right? Right. Yeah, the story I saw, and the guy claims he was a huge Trump supporter and not that, but if you have multiple IDs, see, when I go back to look into it, it says multiple IDs. Did they say multiple passports? Because that's like really crazy. But now it just says multiple IDs. Oh, so now it's just so...

see, there's a lot of questions with this. This guy's threatening to sue. I,

I don't know why you would think you could have guns with you to go to a rally after someone. There's a lot that is unanswered here, but this guy claims he has. At the beginning, they say multiple passports. We're developing news in Riverside County. That's where Sheriff Chad Bianco says he believes his deputies may have prevented a third assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The deputies arrested a man carrying several loaded guns and multiple passports with

So KTLA reports multiple passports. Yeah, I'm seeing other things that just say IDs. So I honestly don't know if that's a screw-up from the sheriffs or this is a thing. I don't. That guy is screaming he's going to do a lawsuit. He's like, I think it's a controversial thing they're saying. And he got bonded out. I really can't tell, to be honest. It's very strange. So here's another thing.

Here's another report. 49-year-old Vem Miller is a self-proclaimed independent journalist and documentarian who says he attended the Trump rally on Saturday as a special guest of the Nevada Republican Party. Miller did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but he did post an hour-plus-long statement on his online network.

I'd like to tell you everything, but let's kill two birds with one stone. This is a very traumatic experience that I've had. In a video statement from what he called a cheap motel room, then Miller told his story about the Saturday arrest, which landed him in jail on charges of carrying a loaded gun and possession of a high capacity magazine. In the trunk of my car, I carry two firearms. One is a Glock, one is a shotgun.

And these two firearms that I carry with me are simply for protection. Miller says the content on his America Happens Network has made him a target. He describes the network's mission as protection of constitutional rights for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the Second Amendment, with a focus on what he calls the tyranny of corrupt politicians plaguing our nation. President Donald Trump...

has been near and dear to our hearts because he's one of the only individuals that I've seen have the courage

to actually stand up to this tyranny against we the people. So how did an avowed Trump supporter wind up behind bars at a rally for his hero? Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said in a weekend press conference that while checking cars in a perimeter area, one of his deputies noticed the interior of Miller's car was in disarray and the car had a fake license plate. The deputy eventually found multiple passports with multiple names

multiple driver's license with different names. The vehicle was unregistered, and the license plate was what we in law enforcement would recognize as one that is homemade and indicative of a group of individuals that claim to be sovereign citizens. The sovereign citizens movement is considered a far-right group that does not

believe in government control. They don't believe that the government and laws apply to them. In his video statement, Miller denied being part of an anti-government right-wing group. He says he told the police at the rally about his guns as a courtesy. I'm like a kindergarten student when it comes to guns. I just have never...

Shot a gun. I've never gone to the shooting range. The only time where due to a knee jerk reaction because of death threats that were sent to my house that I had ever interacted with guns was buying the gun. And then I open carry in Nevada sometimes.

for safety reasons, but the guns never been shot. Miller claims his only crime is not learning the difference between California and Nevada law regarding carrying loaded guns in a car. I did not know that in California,

You have to separate the mag from the gun. I learned that lesson, I guess, now. We did some digging and found Clark County family court records show Miller was born in Canada and has gone by three different last names, Miller, Yanovkian, and Steinberg. He was granted a legal name change in 2022 during his failed Nevada congressional run and says that explains the IDs with different names. There is absolutely no way that any of us

are going to truly know what was in his head. I can tell you that none of the other probably 50,000 people that showed up yesterday for that event brought multiple passports with different names and guns. I am glad that we're not talking about this after we shot him. Bianco believes his deputies may have prevented a third assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life.

Trump's campaign sent a statement saying, we thank law enforcement for securing the rally site and helping ensure the safety of President Trump. We are aware of news reports about the arrest and are currently monitoring the situation and gathering more information. Miller says it's all a misunderstanding and an overreaction by police. I'm a Trump caucus captain. I've collected votes for Donald Trump, and I'm also a Trump team leader.

It is with that that I decided to come to Coachella after receiving a special invitation from members of the Nevada Republican Party. We reached out to Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law, who confirmed to me that Vim Miller is a longtime Trump supporter, volunteer, and grassroots activist.

Law says he personally gave Miller an email to show at the rally requesting expedited entry. I couldn't care less what political party he belongs to. I honestly, I think that's the stupidest thing in the world that we have to label something and we're labeling this as politics. He was a lunatic. And they made a big mistake by drawing attention to this matter.

and I will leave you with that. Miller was released from jail with a citation and is scheduled to appear in Riverside County Court on the gun charges in January. The U.S. Attorney, Secret Service, and FBI issued a joint statement saying the incident did not impact protective operations and former President Trump was not in any danger.

While no federal arrest has been made at this time, the investigation is ongoing. The agencies expressed gratitude to local authorities who helped ensure safety at the event. Darcy Spears, 13 Investigates. Oh, so it doesn't sound like he was going to kill Trump. I honestly, I mean, I don't know what in the hell to make of that. You got three names. You're from Canada, but you're really about Trump. It's just so weird, dude. And then they let him go.

Um, I like, look, the sheriff who's talking there is like, why do you have multiple IDs? And you came with guns to go see a guy who's been shot at twice now. And that's a fair question. Well, I, I, apparently that guy, according to him, he's had death threats and, uh, I'm also you. So then you bought, okay. Death threats. Cause I'm going to go buy a gun fairly soon. And you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go practice with it and shoot it at a range. So I,

I'm not going to buy it and throw it in my trunk and never touch it. That doesn't sound safe. I don't know how I protect myself with my gun in my trunk that I've never fired, and I don't know how to fire. That's just bizarre. Yeah, I don't know. It's very strange. That was a weird... And he's a sovereign citizen, which is like, so he has like what, made up? He has a made up license? I mean, he ran for Congress.

Uh, yeah, I don't know. That's, that's, this is very strange. And I, and I really am into strange stuff and I, I, I don't have a theory. I, I, I think the guy just had guns in his trunk. Yeah. He's never shot. I mean, I, you can, you can test a gun to see if it's been shot. I'm pretty sure. Well, he said he told the cops he had them. I heard that. Yeah. So,

I'd like to know why he had the fake license plate. What's that about? Well, he said, I guess he's not part of that, but sovereign citizens sometimes, according to the... Sovereign citizens. They make their own license plates. I would like to see what it looked like, the license plate he made for himself. Me too. If that is indeed what he had.

Me too. He seems like a strange guy. He seems a little bit odd. Also, it's weird that your name is like Vladadovian and also Steinberg and also Miller. That's just really strange. I don't know. I mean, it's just odd. Because that one name sounds suspiciously, I don't want to say Ukrainian, but I don't know. It's odd. It's an odd way to show up to the thing. Hey, become a premium member. Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. Freak out. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

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