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A quick history of Iranian aggression towards the United States plus the anti-war right has just adopted tired left wing talking points.
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Sorry, I had to turn down my earpiece for a second, I guess I accidentally turned it up.
Okay, so there's a growing bit of controversy about the pattern and practice of the Iranians.
But I want to give you some personal history from my time growing up overseas.
When I was in fifth grade, I was in Mr. Bruscus' class, and the other fifth grade teacher
came in and whispered to him, he had been in the military, I remember I was sitting
in class, I think he was science, we were in science, and I remember the look on his
face changing, we all remember the look on his face changing, and he got up, told us
to pack our bags, we were all going out to the field, we had a big football field.
And we got out there, and they announced that the school was being evacuated, everybody
was on the football field, away from the buildings.
And we all went home, and we were gone for multiple days, it was not a 24 hour bomb thread,
it was a, the Iranians wanted to kill us.
And they allegedly were planning an attack on the school, originally we were told it was
a bomb in the school, but it turned out it was an attack by the Iranians, it would be
attacking after that, we had guards at our school every day to the extent that if you carried
your lunch to school, they would pull open your brown paper bag, pull out your sandwich
and look between the pieces of bread, it was very disgusting.
When I was in ninth grade, the Iranians tried to blow up my dad on his oil platform, and
that that's just me and my experience with the Iranians.
I have friends of mine who were refugees from Iran, one of my friends Amir, his grandfather
had worked for the Shah of Iran, and the whole family had to flee.
This is my personal experience.
I've wanted regime change for a very long time to have people like Matt Walls say no
in 49 years as one of this on the right is nonsense.
John McCain was famous for wanting to bomb Iran.
The Republicans say people like Bill Crystal for years who wanted to bomb Iran, as I mentioned
in the first hour, swatching people like Bill Crystal and Max Boot and Jen Rubin suddenly
changed their minds because Donald Trump is the one who wants regime changes, bizarre.
But I want to give you this history, you need to know this history.
In November of 1979, Iranian students backed by the regime seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
taking 66 American hostages in a 444 day standoff.
In April of 1983, the Islamic Jihad and Iran-backed terror group carried out a suicide car bombing
at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
In October of 1983, Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel, including
220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.
In March of 1984, Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorist kidnapped CIA station Chief William Buckley,
on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately torturing him and then killing him the following year.
In September of 1984, Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people,
including two American service members, in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy in Ex and Beirut.
December of 1984, Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airlines flight 221 in route
to Pakistan, diverted it to Tehran, where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials.
In June of 1985, Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome,
torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto
the Beirut airport tarmac. In July of 1989, Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine
Colonel William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with the United
Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon. In April of 1995, Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed
8 people, including one American citizen in a car bomb attack in Gaza. In August of 1995,
in Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome,
killing an American in three other passengers and wounding more than 100 others.
In February of 1996, in Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed three Americans and wounding
three other Americans. In March of 1996, a Suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hezbollah
in Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups killed 20 people, including two Americans in a suicide
bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center. In May of 1996, Iran-backed terrorist killed an American
Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank. In June of 1996,
Iran-backed Hezbollah al-Hijaz terrorist killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others
in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia. In September of 1997,
Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem,
killing an American Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.
In August of 1998, al-Qaeda suicide bombers facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah
simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people,
including a dozen American citizens. In August of 2001, an Iran-backed Hamas terror
is blew up at Jerusalem, Pizzeria, killing three Americans. In January of 2002, an Iran-backed
Al-Aqsa martyrs brigade terrorist killed an American Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.
In June of 2002, an Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans and a bombing at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. In June of 2003, an Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people,
including an American citizen, on a bus in Jerusalem. 2003, in October, Iran-backed popular
resistance committee terrorist killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in Gaza. Between 2003 and
2011, Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq. Roughly one in six American
combat fatalities in Iraq was done at the hands of Iran. In August of 2003, an Iran-backed Hamas
terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding another American.
In August of 2006, a Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist killed American citizens and IDF soldier
Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War, who's the only American to die in that conflict.
In January of 2007, a dozen men affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Cuts force killed five U.S. soldiers wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising
themselves as U.S. soldiers in the Provincial Joint Coordination Center. In March of 2007,
former FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, more likely than not being killed in
Iranian prison. In July 2014, Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed two American citizens,
serving in the IDF. In October of 2015, Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed an American citizen and his
wife in a drive-by shooting to the West Bank. In December 2019, Iran-backed Qatab-Hazbollah
terrorist killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a
rocket attack at K-1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq. In January of 2020, 109 U.S. troops suffered
dramatic brain injuries and an Iranian ballistic missile attack on al-Anal Assad Air Base in Iraq.
In September of 2020, U.S. intelligence indicated that the Iranian regime was considering a
plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. In February of 2021, an Iran-backed Melissa
fired a militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq wounding a U.S. service member
in four U.S. civilian contractors. In July of 2021, Iran-backed militias wounded two U.S.
service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.
In September 2022, an Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Kurdistan.
In November 2022, an Iranian revolutionary guard corps captain orchestrated the killing of an
American citizen in Baghdad. In March of 2023, an Iranian drone attack killed an American
contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor and a strike on a coalition
base in Syria. In October of 2023, Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at
least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre. In December of 2023, Iran-backed militias
wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil, Air Base, and Iraq. In January of 2024,
Iran-backed Qatab has blot terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40
others in a drone attack against the tower 22 military base in Jordan. Between October of 2003 and
November of 2024, Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the
Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.
In November of 2024, an Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate
Donald Trump. In June of 2025, Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two
U.S. bases in Iraq. Spare me. Spare me your outrage over going after Iran. They've been going after
us since 1979. The audacity of Matt Walsh, who is a contrarian, not a conservative, he's a contrarian,
who for several years tweeted out his willingness to go after the Iranian regime to now say no one on
the right is ever supported going after the Iranian regime. It's just an embrace of new talking
words. It's absolute factuous nonsense. And then he said, oh, I mean MAGA. No, no, you said
conservatives, but I mean MAGA now. There have been plenty of people who have been part of the
president's coalition who for a very long time have wanted to go after Iran. He himself wanted to go
after Iran. The intellectual dishonesty of people on the right who are just chasing cloud and
clicks on social media for this stuff is poisonous. Iran has been killing Americans for years. Iran
tried to kill me, my family, my friends, my father. Iran tried to kill and did kill people that I
know. Iran is a terrorist regime that has been building nuclear weapons because they refer to
Israel as a one bomb nation. It is the official view of the state of Iran that one nuclear weapon
could wipe out Israel and bring about the apocalypse, which is the ultimate end goal of the Iranian
state. The Iranian state is a 12th-modied believing Shiite religion. They believe that the 12th
body was wrapped in a fold in space as a child and will return with Jesus to raise up a Muslim army
to slaughter the Christians and the Jews and everyone else in the planet who doesn't convert.
It's what Iran's supreme leader wants. It is a theocratic regime that has held been on
bringing about the apocalypse. This is not new. This is not new information. This is nothing new.
This is very old. It's just people haven't paid attention. You've been able to pay attention to
your TV shows and your social media reels and not to what is happening with Iran. Iran has been a
rogue regime for years, held been on our destruction. Spare me your outrage. I understand there is
legitimate opposition to what we were doing in Iran and I'm not dismissive of the legitimate
concerns. But for those who pretend Iran is not a threat, Iran has been a threat to us since 1979
and multiple presidents have tried to neutralize the threat, some through pastio, some through bombings
and finally we have a president willing to wipe out a regime that has been held been on our
destruction for years and the best some of the voices on the right can do is to blame the Jews
all of a sudden. It's disrespectful to the dead. One in six American soldier casualties in Iraq
was at the hands of the Iranians to blame the Jews and claim this is something new as some of
the right have started doing is disrespectful to our war dead. It's disrespectful to our war wounded.
It is a lie. Stop chasing cloud and audience. Shameful. Really is shameful to see some people
in the right pretend that this is all something new. I understand there's disagreement and I
understand there are concerns and I understand there is no clear in game. But if Iran's capacity to
make war on its neighbors is ended. Its regime is in tatters and its nuclear arsenal is annihilated
and its ships now float at the bottom of the sea as Donald Trump said and it has no more capacity
to make drones of war for the Russians or provide the Chinese the means by which they could mobilize
to take out Taiwan. I'd consider it a success. I want regime change. I want the people of Iran though to
do it. Not American soldiers and sailors and airmen. But to pretend this is something new is
absurd and intellectually dishonest. Iran's been killing Americans since 1979. It's time we finally
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You all listen, I'm sorry, but I just I feel the need to call this out. I'm deeply frustrated.
Let me just let me let me read you some of these. If you're blaming the United States because
Iran shot down a commercial airliner, you're allying hack whose lies and hacker and service to a foreign
enemy. You're an embarrassment to this country. The rest of us are ashamed of you. That's Matt
Walsh from January 9th of 2020. Matt Walsh again from 2025. I thought the most interesting part of
the cruise Tucker debate was the bit about Iran trying to kill the president. I agree with Tucker's
point. If Iran actually is trying to actively kill Donald Trump, then absolutely I'd support going
to war with them in a nightling the whole regime. There's literally a man who has been found guilty
in New York for collaborating with the Iranians in an attempt to assassinate Donald Trump.
Matt Walsh from January 2nd, 2020. I'm not in favor of regime change wars and I don't want to be
world police, but taking out a monster scumbag who's been killing Americans for decades and staged
an attack on our embassy is neither of those. It's appropriate, just and necessary.
And now suddenly we've got Matt Walsh saying I can't take the gaslighting guys. I really can't
conservatives are now running around saying Iran's been waging war on us for 47 years. Okay,
then why didn't any of you call for an attack on Iran at any point until now? Why didn't you make
a case for Trump ending the war not starting it until precisely the moment when Trump didn't you
yourself, Matt? Have been in favor of taking out the Iranian regime all the way back to 2020.
It wasn't hard for people to find the tweets. I'm just I'm tired of the professional
class of contrarian to only want to be contrary and probably are doing it in large part because
of monetized Twitter accounts and stuff. You've got Megan Kelly suddenly questioning whether or not
this is an Israeli thing. It's it's so absurd to me and it's poisonous. It is a poisonous thing
that is happening on the right right now. If you want to change your mind, that's fine.
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The full number eight seven seven nine seven three seven four two five. Should you wish to be on
the full number, I would be very happy to have you. I want to play you a clip because this is some
that's bothering me. I was on with Mark Halpert this morning on his two-way show and I
I brought it up with him. It just it frustrates me and I just I want to play this to set the stage.
This is from Clarice Award broadcasting from Israel for CNN. This is rapidly getting to a place
where it will be very difficult to pull back from the brink. And I think you can see some of the
kind of mixed emotions when you just look at the very few pictures, Dana, that we're able to
see coming out of Iran. On the one hand, you have people celebrating on the streets of
Tehran at the news that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed. On the other hand,
you have deep-seated anxiety and fear. What will come next? Will there be chaos? Will there be
another protest movement? How will that be organized? How will we find the courage to go back out
onto the streets when the regime that clamped down on us so horrifically and so brutally in
January is still effectively in place? Listen, I understand her point and I don't
want to be dismissive of it because she makes a good point, but also there is in it as well some
level of old playbook, the very difficult to pull back from the brink. How far will we go over
the edge? Will this escalate into a regional war? As I documented at the beginning of the
summer, there's already been a regional war and people just haven't paid attention to what
Iran is doing. Iran has been funding the Houthi to attack Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
the Houthi have blown up oil refineries in Saudi Arabia. They have attacked the Kingdom,
they've attacked Egypt as well. Hamas and Hezbollah attacking Israel and in Syria that the Iranians
advancing their agenda there and so many people in the press, first of all, there's the anti-Trump
lens where they passionately despised Donald Trump and so much of the analysis is from the
framing and the standpoint of how can we make Donald Trump look bad?
And then there's also the broken, tired early 21st century war and Iraq talking points of
it's a forever war. We don't we want no more for ever. Apparently, we've done a very good job
under Donald Trump of taking out rogue leaders without it being a forever war. Maybe this situation
will become a forever war. I don't know, but it doesn't look like it's going to. It looks like we
do actually have some plans that the president's not being public about about rallying forces inside
Iran to take back their country, including arming the Kurds, arming the civilian population,
continuing to blow up the IGRC or IRGC. It's the dumb talking points of the press here.
It's the talking points of the Iraq war that don't really apply in this scenario.
We have the entire Middle East United with Israel for the first time in what forever.
Saudi Arabia, the United of Emirates, Bahrain, even Qatar now, which is deeply hostile to Israel,
they're all working hand in glove together to stamp out Iran. The Jordanians and Egyptians
have long had the most stable relationship with Israel and now Lebanon is standing up to stamp out
Hezbollah on Israel's behalf. They're working together to do that. The Syrian regime,
which appear to be openly hostile to Israel is helping us shoot down Iranian missiles and drones
headed towards Israel. The Saudis, which have refused diplomatic negotiations with Iran, we now
know behind the scenes were with their airs are real lobbying the United States to take out Iran.
And yet the media continues the tired old talking points from the Iraq war. They can't update.
If George Will, who's been a long time critic of the president of the United States, can write in
support of the operation and note what a game changing operation it is that finally the US word
means something again. Even though he doesn't like Donald Trump, you would think the 30-year-old
producers in the newsrooms of America and the idiots on social media would be able to update
their talking points too, but they can't. It's like the JD Vance stuff.
I'm willing to criticize the vice president of the United States actually like JD Vance a lot.
I do think that he's playing it too clever in trying to balance things out with Tucker Carlson
whose son works for him and Tucker clearly is not in the best interest of the United States and
has become deeply anti-Semitic and hostile to the Trump administration and it's power. I do
question JD Vance's unwillingness to be more vocal about some on the right who are stirring up
terrible things like anti-Semitism. Question all those things. I think he's playing it too
cautiously. I think he needs to be more of a leader, but I also think he's a good guy. I think
he's got a great family. I think he gets a lot of malignity directed towards him because he's in
an interracial marriage, in a religious marriage at that. I think that JD Vance is an appropriate
vice president for Donald Trump. I think he's been a great cheerleader for the president and
a defender of the president and every damn time the president of the United States does something
abroad. You've got the entire media say, what all the studio JD Vance, is this the time that the
mega base breaks will JD Vance disown the president of the United States? First of all, it's absurd.
JD Vance is in my mind more of an isolationist than many on the right. He doesn't like to use
expansive military power. He's much more cautious. Also, he was in Iraq. He was a marine. He thought
he understands forever wars. He's opposed to forever wars. At the same time, he also advise
the president if you're going to do this, go bigger, go home. He understands the nature of the
Iranian regime. He understands that the Iranian regime is is a malignity on the planet.
Every single time president Trump uses military force, the media rushes out to say two things.
Is this going to hurt JD Vance in 2028? They're almost wishing for it, by the way.
And is this going to be what cracks apart the mega base? Jim Van De Haiavax used not exactly got
his pulse on the finger of the other day. American soldiers were killed. He says, this might be it.
This might be the break. I've been told that everything is the break between the president and his
base. Every time Marjorie Taylor Green gets trotted out now, she's got a higher profile now
than when she was allied with Donald Trump. It's like, oh, Marjorie Taylor Green is opposed to
what the president's doing. So it's Tucker Carlson. This must be the moment that the president's
base cracks apart. I'm still waiting for the president's base to crack apart. I don't think it's
going to happen. And you know, here's the thing. Let's say, I know this is a wild thing to say.
Let's just say for the sake of argument, it works. We're so used to presuming that what we do
on the international stage is going to blow up in our face. We just, we can't even presume that
maybe it's going to work. What if it works? We've got rid of Iran's nuclear capacity. We've sunk
their navy. We've destroyed their air force. We're wiping out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
We've ended their nuclear capacity. We're now taking further shots at their centrifuges to make
sure they can't rebuild. We're doing all these things. We're wiping out their drone supply. We're
wiping out their missile supply. We're wiping out their manufacturing base to be able to build
their weapons. We haven't replaced the regime, but we've weakened it. We fractured it. We've
destabilized it enough. We walk away. Iran is neutered. It worked. Does the president get credit for
that? Does JD Vance get credit for that? Or will the media say, well, this is antithetical to
JD Vance's position. I guess he's going to be destroyed now. Really? Update your talking points,
people. JD Vance is a loyal vice president of the United States. He understands that his
successes will be based on the Trump administration successes. In the same way, Kamala Harris couldn't
walk away from the Biden administration. JD Vance can't walk away from the Trump administration.
So for him to not want these sorts of things to succeed is an absurd fallacy perpetuated by
a media that is constantly trying to put the Republican party in the worst possible. The
presidency of Donald Trump in an even worse light and are just giddy at the prospects of
softening Vance and or Rubio in 2028 because you got the weakest democratic class of person
ever to run for president in 2028. The most limited foreign policy experience of any of them
no statesman among them. And here you've got the sitting vice president and secretary state
who might out of the gate run as a ticket. And so the media is doing everything they can to spin
it as a bad thing for JD Vance and a bad thing for Donald Trump. It's just predictably absurd.
Every single time there's a story out there now, the story's framing is time for the base to
crack up really. Time for the base to crack up. They want the president to lose control of his
base. Now, I've been saying for a while the president's increasingly a lame duck and he is
and after the midterms presidents are definitionally lame ducks because the 2028 campaign begins.
The president will look for a way to stay relevant, but people will be focused on the future.
The president is term limited. The media went through their pricism fair face of being convinced
that Donald Trump was never going away. He was going to be president for life. He was going to be
a dictator. He was never going to leave office, which is nonsense. Even Donald Trump himself
has said as much that it's nonsense, but the media has wanted you to believe that he was never
going to leave the scene. God himself has term limits. Donald Trump can't get out of, but it's
going to happen before then. It's absolutely nonsensical.
And yet the media can't change. The same tired playbook, the same tired talking points,
the same desire to put Republicans in the worst possible light.
So with Mark Harper this morning, there's a Democrat on with this. He's like, what about in a
couple months, the Democrats who have rushed out now to say that this is bad. The Democrats have
rushed out to condemn it. There's no plan. It's going to be disaster. We're all going to die.
What happens if it works? What happens if it works? What will the Democrats say six months from now?
I said, Mark, I just think it's precious of you to think that the media is going to turn around
and throw these words back in the Democrats' faces. But it is very notable how Gavin Newsom,
for example, has rushed out to blast the American attack on Iran to claim that we killed
a bunch of school kids in Iran when it simply isn't true. We, by the time Gavin Newsom blamed
the American military for killing kids in Iran, it was documented even by the Iranian regime,
that it was a missile that misfired, that they had launched from the military complex where that
school was located, that killed those kids, but it is undeterred. And now the difference is,
well, it wasn't an official government source. We have the video of the launch of the missile,
and it's not AI. It went up and it went down and it blew up and it killed those kids.
And it was the Iranians. And so the Democratic pivot is to well, they wouldn't have fired the
missile. But for Donald Trump, it's still our fault. Why do the Democrats want to blame America
for so much? And you got some of these people on the right now who want to blame America first
as well. They do not like the United States. It's like I said yesterday. You got progressives who
marched in the streets for the Venezuelan regime, then they marched in the streets for Canadian
hockey. Now they're marching in the streets for Iran. They marched in the streets saying they
wanted no kings, what they really want is no America. You got the alleged front runner for
the Democratic Party, Kamla Harris, who came out and condemned it. After years of saying there
needed to be right red lines that Iran couldn't pass, Iran kept passing them and she and Joe Biden
did nothing. And then you got the second in position Gavin Newsom coming out and attacking the
whole situation as well. It really is gross to watch the Democratic Party root against the
United States when they're not in charge of power. The Democrats can't be patriots unless they're
in charge of the country and they demand a loyalty to everyone when they're in charge. No one's
allowed to question their efforts. And the media is willingly complicit in all of it.
And the media can't update their playbook from the Iraq war. There's going to be a regional
escalation, they say, yes, by Iran, a regional escalation that brought the French, the British,
the Greeks to our side to put up defensive positions to help us shoot down what Iran is doing.
A regional escalation to the extent that Qatar is now lobbying missiles at Iran. A regional
escalation to the extent that Iran is on the opposite side of Saudi Arabia, which is allied with
Israel for the first time in forever. That regional escalation. It's a regional escalation against
Iran, not against us. And it is bizarre and dishonest for the media to be unable and unwilling
to recognize that. And then they pivot to how is this going to hurt JD Vance's chances in 2028?
And how is this going to crack apart the MAGA base? Listen, I've got friends of mine who are
fully MAGA who do not like this, but they're taking away and see approach. But by and large,
even the polling that's come out that says the public doesn't support this shows overwhelming
support 80% support by the president's base for this. The president's base is stuck with the
president. It is the media that keeps wanting to write the autopsy in the obituary for MAGA
and the president. That time will come because he's term limited. But for now, it's still his base
and they still support him regardless of what people like Marjorie Taylor Green say.
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I have been summoned to another super secret meeting of the Vastright Wing conspiracy at this time
in Washington. And so I will, I'll be doing the show live in DC. They've accommodated my schedule.
Given the news of the day, I can't really pre-record given everything that's happening.
So I'll be doing the show live from DC and then floating in and out of hotel rooms to meetings.
And you know, TSA is now, well, people aren't showing up for work again. Why? Well, because the
government is still shut down. I've mentioned this yesterday, but I want to be a little more
blunt and precise today. After Renee Good got killed, tried to run over an ice agent.
After Alex, Freddie got killed in Minneapolis in a scuffle with ice or with Border Patrol. I
blame in ice. It's Border Patrol. After Renee Good got killed, trying to hit a Border Patrol
agent after Alex, Freddie got killed, scuffling with Border Patrol agents. The Democrats started
saying we have a body count. There's an American body count for ice. How many Americans
was dying? They would blame ice. When blame Border Patrol, they'd say ice. How many Americans
will ice kill? We have a body count. I want to know Democrats. How many Americans must die at
the hands of Joe Biden sleeper cells before you reopen the Department of Homeland Security.
And yes, we should call them Joe Biden sleeper cells because even Joe Biden's own government
has been concerned about the number of sleeper cells we could have in the United States.
Having been let into the United States through a very porous border, the people who got away were
never processed by immigration. How many of them are in this country? How many of them got away?
How many of them have set up shop? How many of them are here to sabotage us? I don't know.
God forbid there are any. Maybe there aren't. We could be blessed and fortunate that there aren't
any here. But it was the Biden administration itself, CENTCOM, the CIA, the FBI that was openly
writing in the pages of Fort Affairs Magazine and elsewhere, concerns with sleeper cells setting
up shop in the United States and the Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security.
TSA is on reduced staff function because TSA agents are already thrown in the towel saying I'm not
showing up for work. This is on the Democrats. They want to say there's an American civilian body
count with ice. There could be an American civilian body count due to sleeper cells that the
Democrats have empowered by shutting down Homeland Security. The Democrats empowered to begin with
by letting them cross the border. I think we should all be concerned with this and I think we should
all be concerned that the Democratic Party of the United States of America has chosen to keep
the Department of Homeland Security shut down at a time of war between us and Iran where we believe
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