Radio Show Hour 1 – 03/18/2025

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Sam Bushman live on your radio. Hard-hitting news the network refused to use, no doubt starts now. This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for March 18th in the year of our Lord 2025. This is Hour 1 of 2 and the goal always to protect life, liberty, and property.

[00:00:43] To promote God, family, and country. To do so on your radio and the traditions of our founding fathers. Yes, indeed, we use the blueprint for liberty, the supreme law of the land, the constitution for the United States of America. That is our guide. And as you know, we love the checks and balances brilliantly put in place by the founding fathers. As you know, we reject revolutionary lessons of Jesus' revolution. Then we're in. Welcome to the broadcast. Hope you're all doing absolutely fantastic. Last week was a travel week for me. It was a little crazy. We intended to be on the air more than we were. But, you know, here's what's interesting.

[00:01:13] If you're, you know, wealthy, like a lot of the mainstream press talk show hosts are, then you can literally travel whenever you want to, you know? And you can set up and do whatever you want. For us, it's very difficult because we don't have a lot of money. We have to travel on a thin dime. Therefore, if a flight is during the show, then I've got to take it because the next flight's, you know, 100 bucks more, say. And if I have me and somebody with me, a travel companion to kind of help because I can't drive and all those things, right?

[00:01:41] Then you got to have, you know, hey, just taking a flight a few hours later to be able to do the show cost a couple of hundred bucks more money. Don't have that kind of money to make those decisions, folks. Just don't. So that's part of the problem. The other part of the problem is internet connectivity and timing for things, right? And, you know, if you have a lot of money, you just simply call up one of your, you know, if you're on, say, 500 radio stations like Rush Limbaugh used to be or Glenn Beck used to be, some of these people. Hey, all you got to do is call up one of your affiliate stations and say, hey, man, can I breeze in and be live from your studio?

[00:02:11] And if you roll in there, you can shake hands and hug people. And everybody kind of is delighted because your talk show host comes to the station and you can get on the air. You know, that's hard for us, too. Number one, hey, we don't have that many stations. And so as a result, it's hard to get to one of them. Anyway, it's very tough with Internet sometimes, too, when you travel. And so anyway, we just do the best we can. And I give you that not to really complain, although donations are certainly welcome. LovingLiberty.net, Liberty News Radio, donate to your heart's content.

[00:02:40] Just start with a positive number and add zeros. I mean, after all, zeros aren't much, right? See? Anyway, we love you to be liberal when it comes to donations. However, I bring this up not really to complain, but I want you guys to understand behind the scenes what we deal with, what we wrestle with, the difficulties for us. We'd love to appear at a lot more events, publicly speak and travel, but it's just so expensive.

[00:03:04] And when we have day jobs, it's very, very difficult to manage the day job and the travel with the day job versus all the different things that we do. I mean, I travel with the Constitutional Charist and Peace Officers Association. I travel for Liberty Roundtable Live. I travel for my day jobs as an IT consultant. Man, there's just a lot going on. So we do the very best we can with the limited resources we have, and we appreciate your understanding in all that. I digress, but there you have it. All right.

[00:03:32] I spent a lot of time with family, and that time with family was just so wonderful. Great, great, great stuff. I mean, you're talking, we speak of God, family, country on the radio. Man, that's what it was. We focused on God, family, and country like nobody's business. We talked to some farmers who run a farm store. We'll be interviewing them as a guest sometime here soon in Texas, and they have resisted tyranny as part of their farm store. I mean, I just love it.

[00:04:01] So, you know, we talked about country with those people. We had a lot of relationship with God, went to church. A family member got baptized. So, you know, God, family, country. I mean, it was just something. Just a wonderful, wonderful time. I spent time on that because I want to remind everyone, you know, people are important. People are way more important than things. You know, if you had a lot of money, would you invest in a couple of city blocks, or would you invest in people? I'd invest in people personally.

[00:04:31] So there you have it. All right. With that, Donald Trump is always in the news. I mean, you can't even talk a day on the radio without talking about Donald Trump, right? President, not president, you know, between presidencies, president 45, president 47. It doesn't matter. Trump's in the news all the time, every day. You just can't avoid it. And I don't mind talking about Trump because he's doing a lot of good. He really is. I believe he's personally being undermined by Mike Johnson and the other clowns in Congress.

[00:04:58] I believe he's being undermined by the courts, the other two branches of government, causing problems for the president. But I believe Trump's doing a really a lot of good. And a lot of his initiatives are sound and good, and I love him. And I really commend him for them. There's some things that he's doing that I'm not pleased with. And I'll let you know when those things are happening. I don't want to down the president, but I want to be cautious about some things. Running the country by executive order is a huge mistake. Now, I get that President Trump needs to lead with some executive orders.

[00:05:27] I'm not a fan of them. I think they're unconstitutional for the most part. But I understand that, hey, if things can be done by executive order, they can be undone by executive order. But you've got to understand that's a temporary fix. Because if you're not careful, the next president will just overturn your overturn versus their overturn. And we're just basically seesaw and playing games back and forth. The way that you stop that is you use multi-branches of government.

[00:05:52] You say to the Congress, hey, Trump made a decision to deport these people. Here's the new rules and laws and guidelines about deportations. Hey, back Trump in this, Congress. And if Congress would actually get to work and do something, something productive, something valuable, then boom. You know, we could codify it into law and we could stop presidents from going back and forth via executive order on those things. So I really want to urge Congress and I really want to urge the president and I really want to urge the courts and I really want to urge we the people.

[00:06:21] And I really want to urge the states, every different divided section of government. I want to check the other. And I want to be realistic about this. And if we want something to stick, we better codify it in Congress or else I'm telling you it's going to be overturned. The reason I bring all that up, folks, is we've got a lot of work to do. Congress, all they've done that I know of is they passed the Lincoln Riley Act. Good for them.

[00:06:51] They've codified and put in place, confirmed a couple of people for the Senate for Donald Trump's administration. That's good. Other than that, they haven't done much. All they did was pass a big old spending bill and spin this into oblivion. And I don't really see that Congress has done much since then. I see a couple of members doing a good job, which I'll get into in the next several days of broadcasts. There's some there's some bills in the hopper that are really good by some individual congressmen and senators. But, man, nothing seems to be rocking. Nothing seems to be really rolling. You know what I mean?

[00:07:22] Well, Trump does things. And I I just don't know when it's genuine. When is it something that he's really going to push and double down on? Or what is it just kind of an idle statement that he throws out there and then he kind of backs away from? And the problem is President Trump backs away from a lot of things that I don't think he should. I'll just take the time zone to make a point or the time daylight savings time, whatever. You know, Trump made that sound like a big deal. I thought that was going to be a slam dunk.

[00:07:48] The people don't want to be about, you know, bounce back and forth with time. OK, but then Trump and Elon Musk did a big old poll and they said they were going to get rid of it. And they backed away and said, hey, this is controversial. Nobody really cares. What else can we work on next? And they just dropped it like a like a bad rash. I don't know how to deal with that, folks. We've got to stand for things. We've got to pass the things we talk about.

[00:08:13] If it's something that wasn't really valuable to discuss with the people and that's truly Trump's belief, I accept all that. But then why lead with that? Because, you know, it's popular and because you led with it, because that's what got you elected or that's what, you know, keeps the quote ratings high. But then when you back away, it gets egg all over your face. And so sadly, Trump's a great guy. He's done a lot of good. He has incredible intuition. He has incredible, you know.

[00:08:42] Business acumen. He's really an intelligent individual with a lot going for him. But man, when you back away from those things, it does not. It doesn't. It's not a good look. It's bad. Anyway, I digress. But here's one of the things that Trump just announced yesterday. Again, we've heard about this over and over and over. He said it first term. Didn't do it. Talked to Joe Rogan. Said, oh, not going to do it. Can't do it. People talk me out of it. Maybe we'll do it someday. Now he's doubled down.

[00:09:10] Trump announces, quote, JFK files to be released. And I put a question mark behind the headline. Why? Because I'm just not confident he'll do it. He says he's going to do it without redactions and everything else. Here are Trump's statements directly. Uh-oh, somehow we lost Liz. All right.

[00:09:39] While we try to get connected again, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump really announced this JFK thing the first go-round. But he failed. He didn't do it. He promised it and failed. And now I don't know what we're going to do. Is it real? Is it going to be redacted? He claims it won't even be redacted. Here's what he says. We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files.

[00:10:07] So people have been waiting for decades for this. And I've instructed my people. And I've instructed my people that are responsible. Lots of different people put together by Tulsi Gabbard. And that's going to be released tomorrow. That's today. He said that yesterday. And I commend him. And I hope this happens. But I have my doubts.

[00:10:35] Pam Bondi made a big old promise and got snookered big time. And now we hear nothing but redactions. And well, it's not even in the news cycle anymore. Is it? Is that what we're going to see with JFK files? Are we really going to get the real deal? I pray it's true. But from previous experience, I have my doubts. Hang tight. Liberty Roundtable Live. Mr. President. Senator Kentucky. Reserving the right to object. I lived for four months in Asheville. Worked at the VA hospital.

[00:11:04] Still have fond feelings for Western North Carolina. But the thing is, is the reason why we won't do this in responsible ways is because the Senate voted to send all your money to Ukraine. When they voted to send $200 billion to Ukraine. I've been all over the mountains of Appalachia when I ask people, would you rather that your senators take care of you here in Asheville or here in Pikeville, here in Appalachia? Would you rather them send your money to Ukraine? I don't get anybody wanting to send a penny to Ukraine. Look, you can have all kinds of sympathy in the world for Ukraine, a hostility towards Russia being the aggressor nation, but we don't have the money.

[00:11:34] We're $2 trillion in the hole. Interest this year is going to be $1 trillion. And as far as passing this, I'm willing to let it pass today. He's going to object to passing his own bill today simply because it gets paid for. I'm willing to let the bill pass, but take some of the fluff and boondoggle subsidies from the Green New Deal and put it into here. The money's sitting here. We put it into here for disasters. We help Asheville today. This is a battle. A battle between truth and deceit.

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[00:13:03] All right, so Donald Trump, President of the United States, says, hey, we're going to announce JFK files to be released that I pray doesn't get schnookered like Pam Bondi did. Okay? But here's my problem with Pam. It's one thing that she speaks out and says, hey, we're going to release this. They release a, you know, whatever it is, 100 page, 200 page, whatever it was, nothing burger. I mean, there's nothing new that came out of that at all. Well, now, supposedly, they deliver the big old boatload of docs to Pam and Cash.

[00:13:31] But, man, I look at the news and I can't find anything on it. Can you? Go look it up, people. Go look at Google or wherever you search and say, hey, you know, Epstein files. Are they coming? Because last I heard, Pam was kind of waffling and like, yeah, I got the whole thing and now we've got to redact and we've got to this. And I get protecting the innocent names of those people who are innocent, okay? But that's simple, tiny redactions. That's not mass redactions.

[00:14:00] And it shouldn't take a long time. But I also got a question. What about the people in the FBI that did not obey Pam and Cash? Are they going to prison? They should. Next question. How do we know that we got it all this time? How do we know that there's not a bunch of other files? Okay. What about the Seth Rich files? What about all that? Okay. But now the JFK files. What about them? Are we really going to get all of them?

[00:14:29] Are they really going to be unredacted? In the clear, just, you know, hundreds, thousands of pages, whatever. I don't know how many pages it relates to. Are we really going to know who done it, the details? Or is it going to be a big old nothing burger, a big old controversy burger? Is it going to open up 10 questions? And then you read those 10 questions and you get five answers and then you have 300 more questions. Is that what we're going to get to? So anyway, I don't mean to be rude to Trump or anybody else. I just have my doubts. Do I think Trump's lying? No, I don't.

[00:14:58] I think he genuinely feels like, hey, let's get to the bottom of this finally. But I do believe he'll be undermined at every turn. I really do. I just don't believe that we've gotten rid of the deep state government bureaucrats that want to swamp Trump. I don't believe it. I think he's being undermined everywhere. And we'll get to that as the broadcast unfolds. But here's the issue. Trump is starting to focus on so many issues, throwing out so much chum in the water, if you will,

[00:15:28] for us all to get hooked or, you know, whatever, that I'm convinced that most of it is just baloney. Absolute baloney. And I don't think Trump means it to me. But, I mean, the time change issue, daylight savings, time, that's one of them. How about this JFK thing? Are we really going to get to the bottom of it? There's going to be like, oh, yeah, we got 80,000 pages released. It wasn't redacted. It was all good. But we didn't really learn much.

[00:15:54] We have a couple of weird things that they go, oh, man, we didn't know this. Oh, we didn't know that. Oh, we. But yet, really, the whodunit? Are we really going to get to the bottom of that? And we can't even get the whodunit on the cocaine of the White House from a couple of months, years ago. I say months, years, because I don't really know how long ago it was. It was when Joe Biden was in office. But what was it, a year and a half ago or something like that? 16 months? I don't really know. But I can't remember. Anyway, I'm just saying, if we can't get to the bottom of that,

[00:16:24] are we going to get to the bottom of the JFK thing 50, 60, whatever years ago? We haven't been told a word about it. I pray the answer is yes. But I have my doubts. And if Trump doesn't deliver on this, again, the American people are going to start to say, hey, this is all baloney. So there better be a delivery. And today's the day. You know, everybody says, Sam, you got to be kind. You got to give Trump a lot of time. You got to give Congress a lot of time. This is complicated. You got to, you know. No.

[00:16:54] He said it was going to be released today. There's no time left. When's it getting released? When are we going to let it rip? And how long will it take till experts can, you know, rifle through the files and get real pay dirt? If there really is any. Anyway, that's one example of the point. Here's another one. And I don't speak about this to down Donald Trump. I speak of this because, look, Trump is being undermined by so many people. And we've got to find out who's doing the undermining. And we've got to jettison them. For example, this Jeffrey Epstein thing.

[00:17:24] Why are we protecting Jeff? He's dead, supposedly, right? And why are we protecting Ghislaine Maxwell? She's in prison for this criminal activity, right? Well, I look at this and go, I don't know who we're protecting. Oh, yeah, it's all the rich people. All the big, wealthy, rich, billionaire, fat cat people that hung around Jeffrey. And the halls of power. Wow.

[00:17:51] The halls of power that relate to it. We're protecting those people. And my response is who? Like the Bill Clintons of the world? You want to protect those guys? Those guys that tried to put literally Donald Trump in jail for years? That lied and fake news peddled and everything else? Created false charges and put all kinds of people in jail. Those people you want to protect? Who are we protecting? The deep state in Washington? Okay, so I don't have a lot of confidence.

[00:18:21] And I'll give you the next item that I don't have confidence in. And this is an example where I think Trump brings stuff to the press faster than he's ready to deal with it. Because he'll bring something to the press that we all agree with. His first instincts are great. You know, bring something to the press and we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go, baby. Come on. And then all of a sudden, boom. He either backs away from it. It's a flash in the pan. He changes tunes. It falls out of the news. I don't know what happens, but it doesn't go anywhere.

[00:18:48] And I believe this auto pen thing, if we're not very careful, is going to follow the same trajectory. Trump declares Biden's, quote, auto pen and the pardons that came from that auto pen. J6 committee, Fauci, others. I don't know. Trump says it's null and void. The blaze with that piece. Trump Biden's, quote, last minute pardons are void.

[00:19:19] President says that predecessor used an auto pen to sign them. Arden Dyer with that piece. Okay, now, Alan Dersowicz, many people speaking out about this. It's a big old debate. A lot of people are saying, hey, he didn't really sign it. It was an auto pen. In other words, somebody else signed on his behalf or an electronic signature was put in place. It wasn't really Joe that signed the documents. It's a big old flash in the pan to do news right now. Everybody's talking about it.

[00:19:46] Everybody's on mainstream talking head television telling you about it. Everybody's like, hey, this, that, that, and the other. I believe you're going down the wrong road. I believe this is a disaster road. You've got two reasons to question Joe Biden's signatures on things. Two main core focus points. One is the one that I've stuck with for the last since, I don't know, last several years of Joe's administration and now in Trump's administration.

[00:20:12] I've said, look, if President Trump is right, and I believe that he is. Let me say that again. If President Trump is correct, and I believe that he is, in his assertion where he says, hey, you know what? Joe doesn't even know where he's at. He doesn't know what's going on around him. There's no way he could sign those documents because he's not competent. Okay. He's an elderly man. He's got, I don't know what it is, Alzheimer's, whatever.

[00:20:43] Dementia, Parkinson's. I mean, I don't know, but he can't, he can't really functionally take care of business. Now, that's the avenue that I think we should go down. We should say, look, either you have to stand trial for your shenanigans in office, or if the courts have decided and the hearings have decided that you can't stand trial because you're not competent, you're just a dawdling old man, then you couldn't have signed them. Okay. And the same thing is true in the financial world or the medical world or any of these things.

[00:21:11] There's a fiduciary responsibility that you've got to deliver on. And if you're not competent to make those decisions, all kinds of transactions can be unwound. Okay. So let's say that an old person, you know, signs their house over to me right before they go on Medicaid or Medicare or whatever. If it's within a window, they'll unwind it. They'll say, no, you can't sign your home over to Sam to protect it. You can't do that. You're not competent enough to do that. We're going to unwind this.

[00:21:39] And you can't do that because it violates the laws of the Social Security Administration, whatever. Well, that's the road that I think we should go down with Joe Biden because either, and this is something we need to prove because Joe Biden is still saying he could have beat Donald Trump and he's competent to win the presidency. And he knows what's going on. And everybody else says, well, he totally knows what's going on. But, you know, for the good of the party, this is what he's doing and everything else. I challenge all that.

[00:22:01] And Mike Johnson even inferred that, hey, Joe, when he was discussing, you know, some of these deals with Joe, Joe didn't really know what he had signed. Mike Johnson's like, you signed this. And Joe's like, no, I didn't. I it was this. And Mike's like, no, I have it in writing. And let's OK. Mike Johnson explains all that. Speaker of the House. Now, as a year before, you know, Biden ended his.

[00:22:30] I don't know what you want to call it. He ended his willingness to be president. I mean, he kind of bowed out. We didn't hear a word from him really in terms of presidential responsibilities or authority. But I digress. The one point is this. Is he competent or not? I think that's the answer that you need to get to the bottom of, because if you can prove that he wasn't competent, a lot of this can be unwound very easily. And there's a lot of precedent for that. Like I say, if you give medical directives or change somebody's will and then they signed it and then you find out they weren't competent to sign it.

[00:22:59] You can say, hey, that doesn't count. OK, we can go down that road of competency for the for the for the Joe. Right. But what they're choosing is to ignore all that. They've already let Joe go on that, which is a disgrace, in my opinion. Now they're talking about, hey. This auto pen is the problem. You can't have somebody else sign a signature. Hey, the Constitution says you've got to sign this or you've got to sign a bill into law if you're president.

[00:23:27] But it does not say that he's got to sign anything when it comes to pardons. So the president has the power of pardon. I don't know that anybody disagrees with that reality. But it doesn't say in the Constitution that he has to sign anything. So the question becomes, can an auto pen be used or not? That's a debate. Some say, oh, no, you can't do that. Others say, oh, of course you can. Others say, well, you may not you may should not be able to, but you can.

[00:23:55] And it's been done for decades by many presidents. Well, now you get course, court case president. You go, even if it's not really a good thing or we don't really like it. It's been done so long for so many presidents. Hey, it's de facto accepted now. You know, it's kind of like a common law marriage. You guys have been together so long. We're going to say you're married in terms of assets and responsibilities anyway. Well, the same thing is true here. Hey, we've been using an auto pen forever. I think they're going down the wrong road.

[00:24:22] And I think this will be a big old nothing burner if we're not very careful. Right? That's the concern. I'll come back and talk about it a little bit more. But I'm telling you right now, this seems like a big old to do flash in the pan news piece. But you watch, it'll disappear and it'll go nowhere. I wish I was wrong, but predict I'm right. Hang tight. This is the one and only Liberty Roundtable Live.

[00:24:44] You're listening to Liberty News Radio. News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Rich Thomas. A couple of months of relative calm in Gaza came to an abrupt end overnight. Israel carried out a series of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.

[00:25:13] The BBC's Joe Flotu is following developments from Jerusalem. Israel has launched what it describes as a preemptive offensive, designed, it says, to target Hamas leadership, its military commanders and what it calls terrorist infrastructure. Israel's military says the campaign will continue as long as necessary and will not be limited to airstrikes. Hamas has responded furiously, accusing Israel of treachery for overturning the ceasefire agreement, and also says Israel is exposing the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza to an unknown fate.

[00:25:42] But, crucially, Hamas has not declared that it is resuming the war, at least for now, instead calling on mediators and the United Nations to intervene. Prime Minister Netanyahu's office says Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength. Senior Hamas security and political figures reportedly among those killed in the air raids. President Trump speaks by phone today with Russian President Putin amid efforts to end the fighting in Ukraine.

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[00:30:18] you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right, are the pardons, executive orders, bills signed by Joe Nolan Void? You know, Trump says so. He says they're void. Trump declares auto-pin not good. Hey, doesn't work. But the problem that I have with it is it's going to be a big old debate.

[00:30:43] I don't know that this has a lot of wings and teeth because you're just going to go through all kinds of nuances with this thing. It'll be a disaster discussion-wise, constitutionally speaking. Because if the courts say, hey, it doesn't work, then what doesn't work? I mean, there's not even a rule that you've got to sign anything if you have the power of pardoning. You say, hey, these people are pardoned. Does he even have to say it? Or is it so if the president wills it?

[00:31:10] Well, see, you're going to have to get Joe on the stand and say, did you order this? Did you? Is that the power that you wielded? Or did somebody do it on your behalf? You're going to have to get people on the stand. You're going to have to. Okay, this will go nowhere when it comes to these bills. Yeah, they need to be signed. But hey, presidents way before Joe Biden used the auto-pen. You've got to really ask the question, too. Did Donald Trump ever use the auto-pen for anything in his first term? I don't know.

[00:31:37] All I'm telling you is this becomes a very, very, very difficult discussion. Because then you come back and say, hey, is any signature online digital? Okay. You signed digitally for your mortgage? Is that okay? All I'm telling you is I believe this is a failure road to go down. I don't know that this will really work out very well for the president. I know he's standing on it. I know he means that. I know he's kind of hinting that, hey, anybody that was involved in this auto-pen stuff is in trouble.

[00:32:06] But I personally believe it will be a splitting hairs discussion. It will be a battle for the courts. And if the courts rule against Trump and say, yeah, auto-pens are fine because presidents have been doing it for decades, then the whole argument goes out the window. So we better be very, very, very careful with this. So one is the auto-pen. Hey, it doesn't count because he didn't really sign it. In fact, now we debate the next question. Did he really know that it was being signed? Did he give authorization?

[00:32:35] And then the auto-pen was used on his behalf for expediency or for whatever? Or, you know, is he competent? That's the question that I think is worth spending time on because I think it's way easier to prove that he's not competent than it is to prove about the auto-pen discussion. But here's the question. Is this really a deep state ruse to deal with this, knowing full well that, hey, everybody's mad because Joe's not being prosecuted for his criminal activity with his son Hunter and everything else?

[00:33:06] Right? Or what's going on with that? And so then, you know, there you go. So now the next question that you have is this. President Trump effectively, or I'm sorry, effective immediately strips Secret Service protection from Ashley and Hunter Biden while Hunter's vacationing in South Africa, the gateway pundit with this piece.

[00:33:35] Now, I think that's right. I don't believe that we ought to have Secret Service protection for a lot of the people that we have Secret Service protection for. You say, Sam, somebody might get killed. Somebody might get. I know. But number one, I don't even trust the Secret Service. They didn't protect Trump very well in the beginning there. You say, oh, yeah, they did, Sam. They saved his life. Okay, maybe. I think God saved his life personally. But I look at this and I just go, it's like a tit for tat at this point.

[00:34:03] Now, I'm not for providing Secret Service for a lot of these people. Whether it be Trump's children, whether it be Joe's children, whether it be whatever. A lot of that's a disaster. I agree. And it's too expensive. It should be stopped. But do you do better as president just to demand it? And so now it's a tit for tat between Joe and Donald because Donald, you know, had trouble with some of the Secret Service protection because RFKJR had trouble with Secret Service protection from Biden. Is this just a tit for tat?

[00:34:34] Is this the Hatfields and the McCoys kind of discussion? Or is this a legitimate, you know, reality? Hey, we can't afford protection for all these people and all these people don't deserve protection. And most of these people are rich enough to have their own protection. Right? I think private protection for a lot of these people might be warranted. But let them get it on their own. Anyway, so do you do that through an executive order? Through Trump just saying, hey, effective immediately.

[00:35:02] I'm stripping Secret Service protection for, you know, Hunter and Ashley. Well, I'd like to know about the cocaine in the White House, first of all, because whoever's cocaine it was needs to go to jail. See, that could be Joe. That could be Hunter. That could be Ashley. Who knows who it really is. Right. But anyway, where do we go with this kind of stuff? Because if you're not very careful, it's just a tit for tat discussion.

[00:35:31] If you really want to change the game in relation to who's covered by Secret Service, how and why and where and what, are there laws governing that? Oh, yeah, Sam, there are. Absolutely. Okay, fine. Who is responsible for the laws? The making of, the creating of, the changing or updating of the law. Answer? It's not the President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen. I hate to break it to you. It's the Congress. It's the House and the Senate.

[00:35:59] And so let the House and the Senate take up an appropriate quick bill and make short work of this and codify it into law via the proper branch of government. That's what you do. Now, if you say, well, President Trump stripped Secret Service protection from these people immediately, and now Congress has a bill to codify that on the back end and change the law appropriately, I get that. I don't have any problem with President Trump leading in a temporary situation. It's like, hey, this is way too expensive. We've got to stop this. We've got to do it now.

[00:36:27] But if you're not very careful, Trump's going to be hung out to dry, and the next president's going to have his own way, and he's going to write up this and change this way and go that way. I mean, it's just we're literally creating a constitutional crisis by this back-and-forth executive order stuff. We really, really are. And Trump's doing a great job on the tariffs, on a variety of things that he's putting in place, but he's got to settle down a little bit. He's created a lot of confusion in the marketplace. Okay?

[00:36:56] Trump says today tariffs are on. Tomorrow tariffs are different. Next day tariffs are off. Next day tariffs are temporarily delayed. Next day tariffs are back on. It's disaster for business. The whole purpose of government, at least in this realm, is to make sure that contracts are honored, and there's a level, stable playing field. Okay? The Commerce Clause is not designed to give government control over your life and your business like they want you to, in modern days, believe.

[00:37:24] Commerce Clause related to, hey, let's make sure there's uniformity. Let's make sure there's not a moral hazard. Let's make sure there's consistency and stability. Okay, let's make sure that things are grounded, that there's a level playing field. Government has a stabilizing role, an honoring of contracts role, and that's primarily all when it comes to a lot of the commerce that we see.

[00:37:47] But now they've created such a disaster across the country with regards to contracts, with regards to the law. You know, people used to flee, flock to Delaware or Nevada to get their business licenses because they were some of the most friendly business license. I don't know if I want to use the word adjudicators, but creators, adjudicators, laws were friendly in those states, da, da, da. That's all on its head now. Now, headline says Dropbox dumps Delaware.

[00:38:19] Delaware now scrambles to stop text Exodus. That's according to Newsweek. I believe this is really important, folks. And you can say, well, Sam, this isn't the general government. This is the state of Delaware. Okay, fine. But I want you to listen to this clip and we'll talk about it. I absolutely love this headline.

[00:38:44] Why are Delaware Democrats trying to give Elon Musk $55 billion? There are more important things than the state's corporate franchise fees. Let me give you a simple version, my friends. The latest news is that Dropbox has officially left Delaware. They filed. They're gone. A wave of corporations are leaving Delaware. For those that aren't familiar, the story starts with Elon Musk, who was entitled to a multi-billion, 55 to 70 million dollar pay package for Tesla.

[00:39:14] The company, of course, was incorporated in Delaware. Elon hit certain milestones. He was supposed to get paid out. It got blocked. A judge said, you know what? I've decided your pay package. No good. You can't have it. So Tesla said, let's ask the shareholders once again. Should Elon get his pay package? And now enters little old me. So I get notification that I need to vote on this because I am a Tesla shareholder.

[00:39:43] And itty bitty one, not the biggest. And they said, do you think Elon should get paid? And I said, of course he should. He's leading this company to success. He should make the money off of it. Now, I know Tesla stock is down, but I'm still way up because I bought Tesla when it was like 100 and something. And then it skyrocketed. Now we're seeing a major correction. Whatever. The point is, Elon, as the CEO, has built a successful company. And I want to make sure he gets paid. So he continues to do this.

[00:40:11] When Delaware blocked him, they put my money at risk. This scumbag judge. So Elon says, we're out. We're going to reincorporate in Texas. All of a sudden, tons of companies panicked. One progressive Democrat judge denying Elon Musk for stupid psychotic reasons twice. And major companies said, we can't be here.

[00:40:36] If one little old judge can destroy our company with the flick of a pen, we are screwed. They started jumping ship. Now the state is in free fall and they're in sheer panic. And the reporting is Democrats are trying to jump in to restore his pay. But it is too late. The breaking news, of course. Dropbox has completed its reincorporation from Delaware to Nevada.

[00:41:01] And we are seeing now Walmart is preparing to leave Delaware. Oh, it feels so good to watch these people get some comeuppance. We're winning. Now, what are they resorting to? I don't know. They're setting fire to Tesla vehicles, shooting at them with guns and threatening the life of Elon.

[00:41:23] When I look at all this stuff, you know, it makes me worried because Trump, Elon, all of us were winning at the administrative level. So these far leftists are resorting to violence. I believe as we get more stories like this, they're going to continue. Not only are they going to continue later than, gentlemen, they're going to accelerate their violence. I pray it isn't true, but predict it is.

[00:41:51] There's a big story in the blaze right now about a guy by the name of Aaron Black, a Democrat operative fixer for Nancy Pelosi. That's literally on record now as promoting and agitating in violence, including ties to J6. We'll talk about all kinds of stories as we continue on your radio. As you are aware, America is divided over every fault line possible. This is intentionally fostered by those who do not love God, family, or country.

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[00:43:09] Liberty News Radio at libertynewsradio.com. You deal with it. That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut. If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief. But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible. Who are they?

[00:43:39] Republicans. Who are they? Democrats. Who are they? Who are they? Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money. So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere. The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning. What's the day of reckoning? The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market. The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.

[00:44:01] When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency. All right, back with you live, ladies and gentlemen. So I'm telling you right now the state of Delaware is losing business big time because of a whacked out, crazy, psychotic judge that thinks he can just absolutely do whatever he wants.

[00:44:31] A whacked out, crazy activist from the bench that ought to be impeached yesterday. All right, President Trump, in my opinion, is doing exactly what needs to be done here. Here's the couple of headlines to highlight the details here. President Trump files Supreme Court emergency appeal to restrict overreaching activist judges. Yournews.com. Great guys over there at Your News.

[00:45:00] Sam does a great job at Your News, a citizen news organization. Right. President Trump files Supreme Court emergency appeal to restrict overreaching activist judges. That's what needs to be done. Hopefully the Supreme Court will double down on that. But here's the problem. If they don't. Is the court the final say in government? And the answer is no. It never was intended to be. In fact, the Supreme Court and the courts were supposed to be the weakest branch of government.

[00:45:28] I know everybody teaches you that they all three were intended to be the same. It isn't true. It was the weakest branch of government because all they did was interpret the law. So here's the deal, ladies and gentlemen. Listen to me very carefully. President Trump filed Supreme Court emergency saying, hey, stop these activist judges. They can't just do this. And Trump's right about that. Here's the deal, though.

[00:45:50] If the Supreme Court strikes down Trump, Congress can come back and pass any guidance or update or clarification of the law and the intent of their lawmaking responsibilities. And then they can shut down the courts. So the courts can shut down Trump. But Congress can come back and smack the courts around and say, no, you guys got it wrong. You thought you interpreted what we said. But let us make this abundantly clear to you people.

[00:46:18] And so we have got to have Congress in this game, in this fight, ladies and gentlemen. We've got to. Now, many are saying, including over at The Blaze, there's a recent article. Says, quote, Trump must defy rogue judges or, quote, risk a failed presidency. Theblaze.com. Now, the problem with this discussion, Daniel Horowitz wrote this article, I guess, for The Blaze.

[00:46:49] But you've got to ask yourself some questions about that. Is that right, where Trump needs to defy these judges? And I say the answer is yes. And you say, well, Sam, what about the rule of law? Don't you believe in the rule of law? Here's the question, right? Here's the real question that you've got to ask yourself. Listen carefully to me. Are the court judges obeying the law?

[00:47:19] And the answer is no, they're not. So what do you do when people disobey the law? So let's just say the courts disobey the law and they're activist judges. They're rogue judges. Right? Must defy rogue judges. I agree if they're rogue judges, they need to be defied. But the question is who holds the moral high ground when? And the answer is if the president just ignores the courts and the courts just rogue does whatever they want, activists from the bench. Both of them are rogue. The courts and the president.

[00:47:47] Unless the president deals with something at an emergency level. He is the chief executive and he must respond to unknown emergencies or unexpected situations. Now, I don't believe in emergency powers. He already has powers. Emergency or not. And they're defied in the Constitution. And they don't change whether there's an emergency or not. They just don't. Understand that. They don't change. Constitutionally speaking, they are defined, articulated, listed, enumerated, whatever word you want to use. Okay. So they're there. And they don't change if there's an emergency or not.

[00:48:17] However, the president has every right to say, hey, these judges are crazy. I'm not going to obey this rogue judge that's out of line. But then you need to come back with the constitutional answer and say, okay, Congress needs to clarify the law. Then if the courts got it wrong, Congress has every right to update and change the text of the law to where it's clear. Hey, court, you got it wrong. I'll give you an example of when this should have been done to make the point. Health care. Obamacare. Romneycare. Whatever you want to call it. I don't know.

[00:48:46] But whatever the health care. Okay. The courts said, hey, Congress can do this. It's like a tax and Congress can do this. But what should have happened is when those courts, in my opinion, wrongfully adjudicated that, Congress could have came back easily and said, no, that was not our intent. It was not our intent that it was a tax. See? And so Congress should have straightened that out. But Congress has been derelict in their duty, missing in action for quite some time.

[00:49:16] And we see it over and over and over with how many powers the president's been given that are really congressional authorities. That is shocking to me. You know, war issues are one of them. So Trump needs to temporarily defy these rogue judges. I concur. And if he doesn't, he will risk a failed presidency. Daniel Horowitz is right about this completely. Over at the blaze. The bottom line is they're unaccountable and out of control, writes Daniel. And he's spot on.

[00:49:48] Unelected. Unaccountable. And out of control. The federal judiciary has taken power that it was never meant to have. I agree. 100%. But what are we going to do about it? The answer, in my opinion, is President Trump should defy them. Right? But if we're not very careful, we become just as bad as those doing this to us. How, you say?

[00:50:18] Well, we can't just do this and let it stand. You've got to have President Trump temporarily defy these judges or he will risk a failed presidency. I believe that's true. But you've got to remember these people are unelected, unaccountable, and out of control. Okay? That's the facts. The federal judiciary has taken power it was never meant to have.

[00:50:48] Never granted power. Do you understand me? And that's why it's so important that we do something about this properly. Right? What we need to do is impeach these judges. Okay? You have absolutely violated the law. You've taken power that's not yours and acted like you're a god or that you have, you know, whatever power. You don't. We're going to stop it.

[00:51:17] So we need to impeach these judges. And if you just have the president defy the judges, so now you've got whacked out activists, judges making crazy interpretations of the law based on their hatred of Donald or their unwillingness to obey the law, whatever. They're wrong. The judges are wrong. But if Trump defies them and then nothing backs up Trump's defying them, then over time Trump becomes the bad guy.

[00:51:41] Not because he really is, but because he doesn't have the authority to defy the courts forever. That's why there's three branches of government all designed to check and balance one another. So I support this emergency appeal by Trump to the courts. I support this effort by Trump to defy these orders. Okay? And I'll give you an example to make the point.

[00:52:07] Donald Trump has every right to defy the court. But what we need, though, is to impeach the judges. I've already said that. But then we need to have Congress clarify the law. Okay? We need to have Congress clarify the law so that the next court gets it right or risks impeachment. Okay? There's overreaching activist judges. Is that true? Well, I believe it's true. Fine.

[00:52:35] If it's true, then what are we going to do to restrain these activist judges? What are we going to do to restrict the overreaching? And the answer is the people who make the laws need to make a law. Or update a law that says, hey, you can't just do this. Your job is to constitutionally, right? So anyway, I bring this up because I don't want Trump standing out on his own. I'm not doubting Donald Trump.

[00:53:04] He has every right to defy the orders. He has every, temporarily. He has every right to go ahead and challenge that in court. And he should do both of those things. But Congress must then step up to the plate. It's their turn at bat. And they need to basically back the president and stop the courts. Hey, you can't activate or you can't be an activist from the bench. We're not going to tolerate that. The president won't tolerate it. That's why he's ignoring you temporarily. And we're not going to tolerate it. That's why we make the laws and we'll clarify here and we'll do it right now.

[00:53:34] You've got this round robin check and balance that's supposed to happen. If Congress does something wrong, the president says, I'm not signing that. Wow. Congress is shut down unless they have enough to override the president. Again, another check and balance. The courts have the right to shut down the president, but only if they're obeying the law. See, everyone is supposed to play ball here. And that's what's not being done in my humble opinion. So we need Trump to defy these rogue judges. I think Daniel Horowitz is right.

[00:54:04] We need President Trump to file the Supreme Court emergency appeal to restrict these overreaching activist judges. But then we better have these judges be accountable to the law. If I break a law or I'm an activist, if I do something, I'm accountable. They'll throw me in jail. Why aren't we doing this to these people? We've got to have accountability. And I'm telling you right now, we need to arrest these people. We need to impeach them. We need to stop them and send a clear message.

[00:54:32] And until we do, it ain't going to get better. The poor president's hanging out there all by himself without the appropriate checks and balances backing that he needs. Hour 1 in the can, 2 coming up. LovingLiberty.net. God save our republic.