Trump Makes His BEST Nominations Yet (Ep.85)
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Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. Matt Gaetz is nominated to be Trump's Attorney General. Tulsi Gabbard is named the Director of National Intelligence. NATO's military chief says that Elon Musk is allowing

Too much free speech on X. MSNBC seems to have a man crush on Pete Hegseth. Sonny Hostin admits that Kamala is just an idiot. A lesbian woman murders her father in an election night rage.

a list of all the things that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can start cutting from the federal budget, and Congress hosts a revealing hearing on aliens. All this on Bongino Report, early edition. The one thing I have to say to Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith, Tish James, Alvin Bragg, you wait. The hunted are about to become the hunters. Thank you very much.

I love that clip. I just think that is exactly what's happening right now. That was Steve Bannon, if you're listening, you didn't hear it, who was recently released from federal prison after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House related to January 6th. Bannon, Navarro, the J6ers, Donald Trump himself, they are all about to get retribution. The hunted have become the hunters.

Yesterday, Representative Matt Gaetz was selected to be Trump's Attorney General. And here's a little summary of Matt Gaetz's opinion on the permanent state.

Seems like every time I turn around, they're engaged in surveillance or list building or monitoring. And I don't care if it takes every second of our time and every ounce of our energy. We either get this government back on our side or we defund and get rid of, abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF, DOJ, every last one of them if they do not come to heal.

That, I mean, that's exactly who you want to be the Attorney General. That's the exact attitude we need in this Trump admin. Matt Gaetz is a fierce Trump loyalist.

He's a fierce critic of the permanent state. He was hypercritical of the Russia collusion allegations. He knew right away that this whole thing was bogus. He defended January Sixers. He questioned 2020 election integrity. He openly opposed Representative Liz Cheney's stance on foreign wars and supported efforts to remove her from her leadership position in the House. In other words, Matt Gaetz has been a longtime enemy of the permanent state. And in March 2021,

An anonymously sourced report accused Matt Gaetz of sex trafficking involving a minor. And this caused, of course, a media firestorm, despite there really being a lack of evidence. Again, this was sourced from an anonymous individual.

18 months later, the DOJ declined to pursue charges. But of course, the initial report and then subsequent media coverage had really lasting effects on Matt's reputation. And it's pretty clear today that the entire ordeal was one of many cases where the DOJ and the FBI and the corporate media viciously attack, through deceptive leaks and lies, anyone who threatens their power.

And it makes this entire appointment incredibly delicious. Trump appointed a victim of DOJ smears to be in charge of his DOJ. I mean, it's awesome. It's wonderful. Here is a former assistant U.S. attorney for D.C., Glenn Kirshner, just flipping out on MSNBC over this.

I see this, Joy, as calculated by Donald Trump to send a message to the good people at the Department of Justice, 110,000 strong, the men and women, and I was proud to be one of them for decades, doing the people's work.

attorneys and support staff who care about honesty, integrity, ethics, the rule of law, and allegiance to the Constitution. This is Donald Trump sending a message to them that y'all might as well just get out now while the getting's good, because look at who your boss may soon be, Matt Gaetz. And what self-respecting federal prosecutor would want to work under a guy like Matt Gaetz?

Everybody who was part of the problem in D.C. opposes this nomination. J.D. Vance tweeted yesterday, Oh wait, that was actually Merrick Garland, the current Attorney General. And, great point,

And what's really going on right now, even there's a lot of Republicans who are opposing this nomination, what's happening is that Trump is not going to repeat 2016. There will be no internal coup. And so he's picking loyalists because loyalty is more important to Trump than how entrenched you are in D.C. And in fact, if you're not entrenched in D.C., it's kind of a plus.

I really love this nomination. Trump seems to not give an F this time around. And the right is done tiptoeing around the political left. There's a suck it attitude about every one of these incoming nominations. That is, it's really just kind of refreshing for me. Something that we just don't see on the right very often. Here is Tom Massey yesterday when asked about Gates by reporters. The need to do research.

He's the attorney general. Suck it up. He says he's the attorney general. Suck it up. Throws his hands in the air. Tom Massey is the best. I wish he had a role in this, Admin. He's staying in the house. He's a good guy. Love Tom Massey. By the way, this is my favorite clip from Matt Gaetz that I've seen so far. Is it safe to say that based off of your comments, you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight? Yes.

What do you say to people who think that those comments are offensive? Be offended. Be offended. That is so based. I love it. I absolutely love it. Now, a bunch of senators who, by the way, voted to make John Thune a Democrat in a Republican skin suit their leader yesterday. They're now saying that they are not going to confirm Matt Gaetz per Fox News.

"He will never get confirmed that a Republican senator granted a nominee to speak freely." And then another senator's Republican source simply said, "Ain't gonna happen." Now, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican, openly told reporters that she does not think Matt Gaetz is a serious appointment.

And Federalist CEO Sean Davis shared on X in response that, quote, Murkowski failed the bar exam four times and only got to be a senator because her daddy gave her his seat. So not sure she's qualified to opine about who's serious or not. And I agree. What a joke these senators are. Charlie Kirk tweeted last night, quote,

If you voted for Garland and won't vote for Gates, you will face an immediate primary challenge. And rumor has it that Elon Musk is going to pour money into primarying every one of these slimeball senators who get in the way of Trump's appointments and agenda. Now, there is one legitimate, and I'll just be honest with you guys, there's one legitimate problem with this appointment. And I like Mike Gates. I just told you, I like him a lot. But House Republicans currently have 220 seats.

You need 218 to have majority. And now Trump has nominated three House members to his admin, Stefanik, Waltz, and Gates. And I know what you're all going to comment, right? But it's a red district. It's not a big deal. We'll get a new Republican in there. One, you have to remember what happened with Jeff Sessions' ruby red seat.

They can always flip just because a seat is red doesn't mean it'll stay that way, especially after a major Republican victory. Things can swing in the other direction. So do not think that you're 100% safe just because he comes from or she comes from a red district. And the other thing I want to say is that replacements take time.

In New York, for example, Kathy Hochul has the power to maximize delays. So a replacement for Elise Stefanik could take up to three months after the date that Elise Stefanik resigns. And then there goes your first 100 days. So it's no hate toward any of these individual appointments.

They're all fine. I like Matt Gaetz a lot. I just told you guys that. But I fear that we are jeopardizing the agenda. It's very risky what the Trump transition team is doing, and I hope that they're considering that. By the way, Mikey, let's throw up the list of senators who voted against Rick Scott for the Senate majority leadership race. Just scroll down through here. I mean, Mitch McConnell, we know that. John Thune, we know that. Okay. But there are some people in there who we think are champions of the right,

And they deserve to be called out. There are tons of them who are frauds. John Kennedy, Josh Hawley. These guys are people that you think are on your side. And...

Mitt Romney, yeah, that's not a shock. Mitt Romney, we knew Mitt Romney sucks. But there's a lot of these guys on this list. I encourage you, if you're listening on Apple or Spotify, to look up this list. See if your senator is on there because they deserve to be held accountable for this. I'm really concerned, again, about the Trump agenda because we have such bad leadership. Like I said, John Thune is a Democrat in a Republican skin suit. This guy is not on our side. He's not Trumpian. He's not new right. He's going to be a problem.

And there are a lot of senators who we think are good guys who voted against Rick Scott. So really disappointing. I hope that these guys face retribution from their constituents. Now, the second big announcement yesterday was that Tulsi Gabbard has been named director of national intelligence, which is amazing because the intelligence apparatus has been illegally spying on Tulsi Gabbard and the DHS has specifically put her on a terror watch list. We've covered this on the show.

Particularly, the CIA is furious about this. Representative Abigail Spanberger wrote on X that, "...as a former CIA case officer, I saw the men and women of the U.S. intelligence community put their lives in line every day for this country, and I am appalled at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to lead DNI. Not only is she ill-prepared and unqualified, but she traffics in conspiracy theories and cozies up to dictators like Vladimir Putin."

And there are literally tons of people saying that Tulsi Gabbard is somehow a Russian spy. David Frum tweeted yesterday, why not cut out the middle woman and just name Putin as director of national intelligence? But you want to know really why the permanent state is freaking out about Tulsi Gabbard? It's because Tulsi Gabbard gets it.

She's entered no illusions about how this permanent state works. Take a listen. President Biden has not been the guy calling the shots. He has not been the guy making the decisions, nor has it been Kamala Harris for that matter, nor will it be if she is elected president. It is this cabal of, you know, the Democrat elite, the woke warmongers made up of the likes of Hillary Clinton,

Barack Obama and Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan and people who are in the military industrial complex, people who profit from us being in a constant state of war. It is those in the administrative state, in the national security state, who derive more authorities and ability to take away our liberty when we are in a heightened state of crisis or war.

It is their friends and billionaires and people in media who all derive their power from being able to have a figurehead that essentially they can control. Exactly what's going on. Tulsi Gabbard gets it. And do I agree with Tulsi Gabbard on everything? I think, you know, infamously, she's pro-abortion. I don't agree with her on that.

That's not really a concern for DNI. She is going to be in charge of our intelligence apparatus and she's going to do a great job because like I said, she understands how things work. She knows what we're up against and she's on our side. She's on our side.

Here is another reason why the permanent state does not like Tulsi Gabbard. It's because she is an authentically pro-peace individual. Why don't you take a listen to Tulsi telling Putin and Zelensky to embrace the spirit of aloha. Presidents Putin, Zelensky, and Biden, it's time to put geopolitics aside and embrace the spirit of aloha, respect, and love for the Ukrainian people

by coming to an agreement that Ukraine will be a neutral country, no military alliance with NATO or Russia, and therefore alleviate the legitimate security concerns of both US and NATO countries as well as Russia, because there'd be no Russian or NATO troops on each other's non-Baltic borders. This would allow the Ukrainian people to live in peace. Aloha.

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Can we just contrast Tulsi with Mike Pence for a second? Just take a listen to this and let me know if you notice a difference in rhetoric here.

Along the way, the Biden administration has been slow in providing military support. Make no mistake about this. We promised them 33 Abrams tanks in January. I heard again two weeks ago in Ukraine, they still don't have them. We've been telling them we'll train their F-16 pilots, but now they're saying maybe January. We'll let somebody transfer some jets. I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President. Have you, I know you're running for president.

You are distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There's not one city that's gotten better in the United States. And it's visible. Our economy has degraded. The suicide rate has jumped. Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.

And yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don't have enough tanks. I think it's a fair question to ask, like, where's the concern for the United States in that? Well, it's not my concern. Tucker, I've heard that routine from you before, but that's not my concern. I'm running for president of the United States because I think this country's in a lot of trouble. That's not my concern. I am so glad...

that we are purging tools like Mike Pence from our party. What an embarrassment he is. Can you imagine that that guy thought he was going to represent us as president of the United States?

Now, Tulsi's rhetoric about Ukraine has landed her on a Ukrainian enemies list as a, quote, accomplish of Russian war criminals and occupiers and a spreader of false information. And by the way, Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are also on this list. Basically, if you support peace in Ukraine,

you are labeled an enemy of Ukraine. And our own government views it that way too, because again, unfortunately, we have a lot of, I think, monetary interests in Ukraine. And there's money laundering and there's corruption. Ukraine is famously one of the most corrupt countries in the entire world. And unfortunately, Tulsi is one of very few non-hawkish appointments that Trump has made so far, which has me concerned. Trump did, unfortunately,

announced that Marco Rubio will be his Secretary of State. We've already covered that Marco Rubio is a neocon. He is not to be trusted. So that's very unfortunate. And while Tulsi's nomination really makes me optimistic, like I said, I am concerned. I'm not sure Marco will be able to

oppose and be strong enough in the face of things like this. Here is NATO's military chief Rob Bauer saying Elon Musk is allowing too much freedom of speech on X. So in terms of disinformation and cyber attacks and all the things that are happening, influencing elections, I think it's a serious problem. And I think the use of social media is basically

We pay that guy's salary.

the united states is is the the biggest funder of nato michael i don't know if you want to look up exactly how much we give to them but it's ridiculous that he would have any comments about free speech in the united states we have a first amendment you have no right to comment at all sir you can sit down we pay for your salary

Now, I'm not sure Marco Rubio will be able to stand up to a guy like that. I really, I don't have a lot of confidence in him. I do think that new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would be able to put this man in his place. Here's Pete on how he was explicitly prohibited from serving during January 6th.

I was deemed an extremist because of a tattoo by my National Guard unit in Washington, D.C. And my orders were revoked to guard the Biden inauguration. Jerusalem Cross tattoo, which is just a Christian symbol. Is that the... This is the one. Is that the tattoo? Right here. This one is what got me disinvited.

I'd never had orders revoked before. I mean, listen, it's a standard deal. You remember after January 6th, everyone was in Washington, D.C. Like, Nancy Pelosi had the parking garages full of National Guardsmen. My commander called me a day before, tepidly, and was like, Major, you can just stand down. We don't need you. We're good. I'm like, what do you mean? Everybody's there. He's like, no, no, no, we're... He couldn't tell me. When I was writing the book, I reached out to somebody in the unit who could confirm...

with 99.9% certainty because he was on in the meetings and on the emails. Nope, someone inside the DC guard trolled your social media, found a tattoo, used it as an excuse to call you a white nationalist and extremist. And you were specifically by name orders revoked to guard the inauguration because you were considered a potential threat. How was that? It's a cross. So he was deemed, Pete Hegseth was deemed an extremist

and told to stand down by the National Guard. And now he's Secretary of Defense. And I'm pretty confident Tulsi is going to get to the bottom of how many national or how many intelligence assets and agents were undercover on January 6th. I think Pete is going to help with that. But why was Pete blocked out?

I mean, these are questions that we deserve to have answers to. I think our military is purposely purging out red state boys, people that they deem to be conservative. I think part of why they went so hard on the vaccine mandate is because they knew that conservatives were more likely to oppose it. And they were more than happy to say, okay, fine, get out of the military.

And we are going to see a major shift in the way that the military treats its enlisted guys, in the way that it has become politicized and woke. Pete is going to do an amazing job at fighting that, making us stronger, making us more lethal. Because again, and this is, Pete has said this before, diversity is not our strength in the military. You want to be united.

As a unit, as an armed forces, we don't want to be talking about all the things that we don't have in common because that makes it really difficult to unify and fight a common enemy.

So I'm really optimistic about Pete. I'm really optimistic about Tulsi. And I think we're finally going to get some answers and see some change. Meanwhile, MSNBC is still reeling over this Pete Hegseth nomination. And this soundbite is absolutely hilarious. Take a listen. It hasn't come up yet that concerns me in terms of his policies is that he's if he's not a Christian nationalist, he's one of their best warriors.

I mean, he sees the military at this point as a flaming sword for Christ. One of the other things that he sort of pushes on outside of misogyny and DEI is anti-Muslim bigotry. Part of the appeal to Trump to him is how he looks. I watched 650 Trump rallies, and very few of them, and almost all of them, did he talk about one or two men in the audience that were big,

beautiful and muscular. And what he sees in Hexeth is sort of an alpha man and is like an essential casting, an ideal character. And Hexeth knows that and leans into that role. And so a part of what he's going to be designed to do is to sell what Trump's vision, what Trump is doing to the very audience that just elected Trump, that's hopped up on the Russian misinformation and other misinformation that they are sort of being pickled in

And he's going to be their sort of public figure for that. So that, to me, is the time that he could actually be on the surface a very effective sort of vanguard for the scariest of Trump's policies.

Michael just said that he thinks it sounds like that MSNBC commentator is jealous of Pete Hegseth, that he's threatened by Pete Hegseth because he is such a beta. I think it kind of sounded like he had a man crush on Pete Hegseth. Let me just read to you guys some of these little snippets. If he's not a Christian nationalist, he's one of their best warriors.

sees the military as a flaming sword for Christ. Big, beautiful, and muscular alpha male out of central casting. It's just amazing. It literally sounds like this guy was fawning over Pete Hegseth. It's like he's trying to sell Pete to the people by saying he's big and he's beautiful and he's awesome. Also, he's a disinformationist and he's scary, but like he's an alpha male. It's just, it's hilarious. Somebody needs to check up on MSNBC because they seem to have a man crush on Pete Hegseth.

Speaking of the media, here is Sunny Hostin admitting that she tried giving Kamala Harris a softball question that Kamala Harris turned into an earth-shattering campaign disaster. You all are going to remember this moment. Take a listen. What the question was, it was, what would you have done differently? I asked the vice president what she would do differently. I

And in Harris administration as opposed to a Biden administration. And what if anything she wishes she could have done differently in the past four years? Something like that. I followed up because I was surprised at the answer. Look, I think it wasn't so much about the

but it was really more about the answer. Not a thing comes to mind. Not a thing comes to mind, and that's why I followed up with, is there anything that you would do differently? And the reason I followed up is because, you know, that wasn't a gotcha question. That was a layup, really. It was an important question, and I think one she should have expected. That's what I thought. I actually thought it was a chance for her to,

To explain to all the people who are saying, I want a change agent for her to explain that, of course, she has a different lived experience from President Biden. And but they did have one of the most successful administrations in our country. The tricky part. And I thought she would then say, I would build on the on the wins that we've had. And you guys imagine you're Sonny Hostin, but trying to give Kamala Harris, in your own words, a layup.

and Kamala Harris is so low IQ that she completely bombed. And then Sunny's out here wondering still to this day, why so many people voted for Trump? She admitted it herself. That Kamala Harris is dumb as a doorknob. This woman could not even handle Sunny's layup question and Sunny just admitted it herself. Now on the topic of The View, ABC is reportedly scrambling to bring in pro-Trump voices to the show.

And it's almost like they should have already had this done. They should have already had a pro-Trump voice ages ago. Their token conservative on The View is never authentically right-wing, let alone a pro-Trump person. And their ratings and their relevance have really suffered for it. Now, the ladies of The View aren't the only ones losing it over this election, aren't the only ones...

devolving into just complete derangement and frankly psychosis. Here is Don Lemon announcing that he is leaving X via a post on X yesterday. Hi everyone. I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter and then on X for all of these years, but it's time for me to leave the platform. I once believed that it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose.

In addition, starting this Friday, November 15th, X is implementing new terms of service, which among other things, states that, quote, all disputes be brought exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County, Texas, end quote. The full terms of service can be found on my written statement or on the X website.

Now, as the Washington Post recently reported on X's decision to change the terms, this, quote, ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in courthouses that are a hub for conservatives, which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics. I think that speaks for itself. You can find me on YouTube at The Don Lemon Show or on TikTok and Facebook at Don Lemon.

and on Instagram and Blue Sky at Don Lemon Official. I hope you will join me there. Thanks.

If you want to sue X, you apparently now have to do it in Texas. And who cares? Why wasn't Don Lemon complaining when old Twitter made users sue in San Francisco? Drop a comment. Pretty sure there's more bias in California courts compared to Texas.

Don Lemon is such a joke, and really this is his loss. X is the only platform with some authentic free speech. Certainly when it comes to the written word, it is the premier platform. Here at Rumble, we have free speech, but we're video. We are different entities.

And it's really strange to me that so many people on the left don't want to be a part of that, don't want to be a part of the conversation where the conversations are really happening. And I really think a lot of us, especially the left, could use X because it exposes you to different perspectives. And some people really do not know how to handle political disagreements anymore, and it's tearing us apart. And with that, I want to share with you guys a really disturbing story.

A lesbian woman married to a trans-identifying man, an LGBT activist who apparently wrote for the Daily Beast, has been charged with first-degree murder this week. And the woman butchered her father with an ice axe on election night after a breakdown following Trump's victory. The woman told cops that she was

that the killing was meant to help people change their attachment to their parents and had to happen today. And she told them this was, and she told them as her face was, I guess, covered in her father's blood. That was according to court documents. The woman had been upset about the election results and then she just snapped when her father refused to turn off the lights.

And then she then went upstairs, grabbed an ice pickaxe, tripped her father, strangled him, and struck him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the tool. And she sat down next to him and watched him die, and then went around the house and smashed all the windows, in what she described as an act of liberation. And when cops arrived, she was, quote, "'Clapping because she was so happy.'"

And this is a really extreme example. Obviously, this woman is mentally ill. She's possessed. There's something wrong here. Nobody does that and is a normal human being. But we're seeing...

A lot of derangement from leftists right now. Even ones on TV, we've been covering how The View yesterday told people you should disown your Trump voting family to somehow protect yourself. This is not normal. This is not cohesive for a society. We have mothers saying that they're going to divorce their husbands because their husband dared to vote for Trump.

the insanity needs to stop and i firmly believe that it is being driven largely by the media switching gears here you guys elon musk and vivek ramaswamy of course have been tasked with cutting down federal spending under the new department of government efficiency and the new york post came up with an incredible and frankly frightening list of places where elon and vivek can start the cutting in 2023

The federal government shipped $1.3 billion in checks to dead people from the IRS, Medicare, and Assorted Veterans Groups. In 2021, the National Institute of Health awarded $550

$549,000 to a Russian lab performing experiments on cats, including removing parts of the cat's brains and seeing if they could still walk on a treadmill. Which, by the way, that's horrific and should not be happening, let alone funded by the American people. The NIH also funded a study on monkeys and gambling. The State Department awarded $20,000.

uh in 2022 to a center in ecuador used for 12 drag theater performances in a two-minute documentary twenty thousand dollars for some drag performances in a documentary and of course the government spent several million dollars on the wuhan institute of virology's bat coronavirus research which ended up costing the united states 20 trillion dollars

So maybe stop funding dangerous gain-of-function research. We can start with that as well. By the way, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the guy whose agency greenlit funding the lab and who covered up the lab leak theory, he's receiving $15 million worth of security detail a year despite being retired. $15 million the American people are paying to protect Anthony Fauci. That needs to end immediately. That guy should be in jail, not protected by the American people.

You know what else I hope we get answers on? I hope we get answers on aliens.

Yes, I want to know about Epstein. I want to know about the moon landing and JFK and 9-11. But I also want some transparency on UFOs. We know that unexplained objects are violating U.S. airspace. And Congress wants answers. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee hosted a hearing titled Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Exposing the Truth. And members spoke to several witnesses. Here is Luis...

Elizondo, a former US Defense Department researcher, being questioned by Representative Nancy Mace. Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programs? Yes or no? Yes. Okay. Were they designed to identify and reverse engineer alien craft? Yes or no? Yes.

Does the U.S. government have any reverse, okay, we already answered that question about retrieval programs. Do any U.S. contractors have the same? I would prefer to address it in a closed session, ma'am. Okay. In your book, you mention government employees who've been injured by UAPs placed on leave and receiving government compensation for their injuries. Is that correct? That is correct. How can the government deny we have recovered craft if they're paying people because they've been injured by recovered craft? Right.

Ma'am, that's a great question. That's why I think we're here again, because I've seen the documentation by the U.S. government for several of these individuals who have sustained injuries as a result of a UAP incident. So we are paying for government employees who have been injured in, quote, UAP incidents, but we aren't even officially told that UAPs exist.

I want you to listen to this clip where several witnesses are asked what they believe these UAPs actually are. What do you believe UAPs could be or are? Strong evidence that they're non-human higher intelligence. I echo my colleague's comment, sir. Genuinely do not know. Don't know, but we must find out. I take this really seriously, actually.

Countless whistleblowers have come forward and said that we are encountering technology and non-human intelligence that far surpasses our own. And the government is lying to us about it. Why? The people deserve to know what our tax dollars are funding, what kind of experiments and research is being done related to UAPs. What is our government encountering in the airspace? Are we under some kind of threat? What is it?

And I tend to think there is a spiritual element to aliens throughout all of human history.

People have been documenting otherworldly encounters from Moses and the burning bush to Jesus's resurrection or a lady of Guadalupe. And we have never interpreted these encounters as anything other than spiritual. Only until very recently did we label these encounters as extraterrestrial. In either way, the people deserve to know what is going on. And hopefully, maybe Tulsi Gabbard can help us get to the bottom of this. That would be awesome.

And she's probably going to face a lot of resistance. And this is really the point of today's show. A second Trump admin will face formidable resistance from the entrenched federal bureaucracy, which is accustomed and has been for decades now to operating outside the direct oversight of elected officials. These bureaucrats have shown, as they did in 2016 with Buster Collusion, that they are willing to undermine the will of the people.

The permanent state, reinforced by legacy media, NGOs, academia, is a powerful opponent to Trump and everyone in his admin. But the experiences gained over these last few years, the Twitter files, Russia collusion, Hunter Biden laptop, all the lawfare, they provide us with a clear understanding of the internal workings of the federal system. Trump's political comeback from the fallout of January 6th defied expectations.

He demonstrated extraordinary resilience. And incredibly, this is an amazing clip. In 1992, Trump himself predicted that he would need to lose everything to reveal true loyalty.

Then how are you different than you were three or four years ago? Well, I used to say, and in fact I think I said in my first book that, and maybe this was foolish, but I really meant it, that someday I'd like to maybe lose everything for a period of time to see who's loyal and who's not loyal. And I frankly, I found out a lot of things about loyalty. Did you find out who's loyal and not loyal? No, I tell you what. It's almost like a prophecy. And this time he has selected loyalists prepared to confront the entrenched deep state.

Few in his circle are naive about the challenges, although we have some figures like Marco Rubio who may present some vulnerabilities. This administration, however, appears resolute on the whole in pursuing serious reforms, potentially even dismantling certain agencies like CISA under the DHS.

I hope that the Trump team considers including some figures like Ron and Rand Paul in advisory roles. We need some more pro-peace, anti-interventionist voices countering some of the neoconservative voices that are on the Trump team. But I really believe that Trump

and the admin that he's assembling could become one of the most disruptive and positive forces literally since 1776. What we are witnessing is truly nothing short of revolutionary, and it makes me very optimistic. And that is all I have for you guys today. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, make sure to rate and review this podcast. I'm here live on Rumble, 9 a.m. Eastern Time, five days a week.

I will see you all tomorrow. And I will also, I think I'll be hosting the radio. Is that right, Mikey? I'll be on the radio tomorrow as well. See you guys then.