I'm not a fan of Qatar. I also think that the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems. So? So we'll see how this issue plays out. But, but but I certainly have concerns. Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who you just heard from, is far from the only [00:00:19] politician or even the only Republican who's speaking out against their king, Donald Trump, for considering accepting a $400 million plane to essentially serve as Air Force One that would be gifted by the Qatari royals. [00:00:38] Apparently, all of a sudden, you have all these conservatives who are worried about government corruption. In fact, conservative media personalities, representatives and senators who seem to totally be okay with corruption in all other forms suddenly have this issue with Qatar bribing one of our politicians, [00:00:55] in this case, the president of the United States. Others are defending Trump, but we'll get to them later. - Jake. - Yeah. So, Shocked to find gambling in this establishment. So it turns out that maybe other countries are trying to influence him. [00:01:11] I wonder if the top lobbying group in the country that has the word Israel in its name is mentioned by any of these people? Oh, that's so weird. None of them mention it and neither does the media. The media that's now saying, I can't believe Biden lied to us. [00:01:29] It turns out he was old. What are we, reporters? How could we figure that out? Is that is going to say one day when they get caught on AIPAC and the fact that they never, ever, ever covered the fact that AIPAC was the number one donor in this election cycle, etc.. They will then say, oh, I didn't know. [00:01:46] It turns out that this lobbying group was for Israel. All I knew about was bad Qatar. Bad Qatar. So we're going to give you all those details. But as we give you these folks who are pretending to care about this, I need you to remember that Qatar is home to the forward headquarters of United [00:02:03] States Central Command in the Middle East. And it also has combined Air Operations Center for the United States in Qatar. So Qatar is an actual ally that actually allows bases in their country and and has [00:02:18] greeted us with open arms throughout. But you know, but they only took care of Trump. They didn't take care of Ted Cruz and all the media and all the other politicians. So, you know, whereas the AIPAC did and all of a sudden [00:02:35] that's why we have concerns. So here's a quick compilation of various conservatives, various Republicans, who take issue with the notion that Trump should accept this gift from Qatar. Taking sacks of goodies from people who support Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, [00:02:51] Al Jazeera, all the rest. That's not America first. Like, please define America first in a way that says you. You should take sacks of cash from the Qatari royals who are behind Al Jazeera if you want President Trump's agenda to succeed, taking jets from Qatar is not the way taking real estate deals from Qatar [00:03:07] is not the way. The largest obstacle to any administration is scandal. Obviously, we don't want to be straight up accepting any type of gift from any foreign government. Certainly not, you know, one that can be viewed in a way [00:03:24] that obviously has been presented here. I do think the jet probably sends the wrong signal to people, and I don't like the look or appearance of it, so I would hope that he would reject it. The Constitution specifically says you can't take gifts from foreign leaders. I don't like it. There's a reason that people can't even buy me a steak dinner. [00:03:43] It's not necessarily that you can prove that I've got an ethical problem. It's at the appearance of it doesn't look great. Yeah. You know, this is the kind of discussion that typically takes place on corporate media. You know, corporate media loves to cover political bribes 24 over seven. [00:04:02] I mean, the real muckrakers are in the corporate press and they like to have these conversations. They really they take issue with corruption. Yeah. So look, some folks are upset about the plane that have nothing to do with the hypocrisy on Israel. Right? So I'm included among them. I don't think he should take the plane. [00:04:19] I don't know why another country is giving us Air Force One. That seems dangerous. And the fact that Trump is going to keep it after the election is ridiculous. So why am I concerned about Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin? Levin and all these other guys who are Israel first? [00:04:36] All of a sudden finding out that there might be corruption in the establishment because they never said a word about any of the other corruption. They never said a word about all the lobbying, not just from AIPAC, but from Big pharma and oil and the bankers and all these. They love that kind of corruption. [00:04:52] They never said a word about Trump's meme coin until all of a sudden this plane issue comes up. All of a sudden, Ben Shapiro finds out that Donald Trump is doing meme coin. They do complain about Soros Rose O. Bribing politicians and all that. But. But when it comes to Trump, it was like bribe away. [00:05:07] And when it comes to all the politicians in our Congress, bribe away. No problem. They love that. So don't tell me that all of a sudden you don't like corruption. No. And so if you don't know the background, Qatar is not so. They are on our side. They're trying to be neutral to the you know, and if you whether you believe them [00:05:26] or not is a different question. But Israel perceives them as on the side of the Palestinians. And so since they're on the side of the Palestinians, every supporter of Israel here apparently got a memo. I don't know how, but like they all or they already knew, right? [00:05:42] Because they, they they say issue they care deeply about. Right. So they're like, oh Qatar is now unduly influencing Trump. - Yeah. - Oh no way, no way. No Arabs allowed. No influence for any Arabs. Anyone supporting Palestinians. They. [00:05:58] That's it. Turn on Trump, everybody turn on Trump. And all of a sudden there's a cacophony. And all of a sudden, every time you turn on the TV, pick up any paper, all of a sudden we care about Donald Trump's corruption. We've been covering it throughout. We told you all those stories, right? So we have the credibility to say, I don't like this plane thing for all these [00:06:15] Johnny, come latelies that for the first time, when Israel's interests are touched, catch feelings over corruption. Don't believe the hype. They don't mean a thing. Qatar is definitely on the Palestinian side. You had Hamas leadership living in Qatar. Qatar was harboring them. [00:06:31] I'm not saying that as if like, oh, we should be enemies with Qatar. No, I actually love the fact that there's a country in the Middle East that looks out for Palestinians to some extent. Yeah. And not harboring Hamas, but specifically that they actually give a damn about what's happening to Palestinian civilians. 100%. [00:06:51] And to that point, what I was going to say is that, remember, Netanyahu funneled money to Hamas through Qatar. Exactly. So, like all of a sudden you found out that Qatar is housing the Hamas guys? No, you knew that all along. And you were you're pretty happy with that all along. And all right, you had the memo saying that October 7th was going to happen [00:07:08] and you didn't do anything. And then, oh, look at that. I had to destroy all of Gaza and try to occupy it. So no clean hands on Qatar at all when it comes to Netanyahu and the current Israeli government. So let's talk a little bit about Caitlin Collins's exchange [00:07:25] with representative Rich McCormick. She was asking him whether or not he is comfortable with Trump accepting this $400 million gift. He deflected quite a bit and wanted to talk about Israel instead. Let's watch. This came up for a vote in Congress. Would you say yes to it? [00:07:45] I don't think it's going to come down to a vote. It's not either. It's either going to be legal or illegal. I don't think Congress by the Constitution is in charge of a budget, not in which gifts the president can accept. I think that's a lawyer. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a doctor. I'm in Congress. We're not going to vote on this. [00:08:02] They'll come up whether it's it's acceptable or not, that that's going to be remain to be seen. What I'm really worried about is the peace process. What's going on in Israel, why it happened, how do we mitigate that from happening again? But Congressman, actually, if you read the Emoluments Clause, it says no person holding any office shall, [00:08:18] without the consent of Congress, accept of any president of any kind, whatever from any king, prince or foreign state. You're the reporter. Could you tell me if every gift we ever received from Middle East have been voted on? I don't remember that at all. So I'm just asking. [00:08:33] I'm saying this is the. - General. - Purpose. I mean, typically presidents are not supposed to accept gifts from from their leaders. But I know, I know, we have though historically we've accepted gifts from all over the world. The question is, is there a monetary value on that? - I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. - He's correct. [00:08:51] There have been other gifts given by foreign governments to, you know, our politicians, in some cases, our politicians have been prosecuted for for accepting those bribes. Bob Menendez, a former Democratic senator, comes to mind. [00:09:06] Right? He's faced some consequences for that. But let's go to one more representative. This is Ryan Zinke, who tried to defend Trump. I don't think it's a personal gift. I think it's government to government. Is that a workaround? Because he said it's going to go to the Trump presidential Library after. [00:09:24] Well, we'll see where it goes. - So what do you think, though? - Are you for it or against it? Where do you stand? Do you have any ethics concerns or constitutional concerns? I'm glad Pam Bondi stepped in and looked at it from a legal point of view, which which is helpful. Again, I'll go back. This must be one heck of a complaint of a plane. [00:09:40] Remember who President Trump is. He's a billionaire businessman from New York. He doesn't sleep in a sleeping bag overnight. What he does is he looks really nice. That's a great plane. That doesn't take away the other ethics and but. [00:09:56] But but I can see the point to that. Is it a good look? Is it a good look to have a Qatar aircraft that now is the president? Does it provide a leverage over the Qataris? I don't think so. With this president. That was hilarious. That was hilarious. [00:10:13] Listen, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And so if we're going to that Pandora's box has already been opened. Okay. And I just find it so disgusting that the worry, [00:10:30] the concern about a foreign government diluting the influence of Israel is what it took for various people to come out and criticize foreign corruption. Yeah. So preach it. I'm going to go off on that in a second, too. [00:10:46] First, one of our members on Titcomb, David Veysey, said if Israel gave Trump $400 million plane, it would be anti-Semitic to question 100%. You would know that that would be the argument, of course. Yes. Right. And so, and for the politicians and for the media. [00:11:03] So here's how it works. If any other country gives the president a huge plane, that is not that doesn't harm Israel's interests, it would be, oh, okay. It's another story. It will run it for a little while and then you'll never hear about it again. I mean, how do I know? [00:11:18] Because to me, one of the most egregious cases was that guy who was being investigated by the SEC and gave Trump $75 million into his media company, his fake media company. And so it's a digital media. They can't track it. [00:11:35] And so the 75 million goes straight into Trump's pocket, right? It doesn't get any worse than that. That's a $75 million bribe to get out of a fraud case, right? And it barely made a peep in the national media. They don't care about corruption. They love corruption. [00:11:50] How many foreign leaders and foreign politicians have bought the membership to Mar a Lago? Yeah. And by the way, the guy I'm talking about is Chinese. Yeah. How many of them have bought Trump's meme coin in order to, you know, exert their influence over our government exert their influence over Donald Trump. [00:12:07] Look, and it's not just about Trump guys. Like it's not just like, I want to make that clear. This isn't just about the president of the United States accepting foreign bribes. This has been a big problem across the board in our government. And there hasn't been this like fury over it until now. [00:12:25] And that's why I'm frustrated by the way the American people, they're consistent on the matter of government corruption, because even before this story, polling showed that doing something about corruption happened to be one of the top concerns for American voters. [00:12:40] Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. And so, in regard to this specific issue, YouGov conducted a poll to see where the hearts and minds of Americans are. Should Trump accept this $400 million bribe and 30% say that it's acceptable [00:12:55] for him to do so, but 47% say no. Unacceptable, whereas 23% don't really know how they feel about it yet. - Not sure. - Because there's. And why is it 47%? First of all, it should be. It should be 100%. He should not take the plane. Right. But the reason why there's a significant majority or plurality [00:13:13] that is saying don't take the plane is because lots of different media are attacking at the same time. You got mainstream media attacking, you got portions of right wing media attacking Fox News, other politicians, etc.. So then it seems like everybody's unanimous. [00:13:30] Don't take the plane and they create this amazing echo chamber. So, so back to the to the point about the hypocrisy. So guys, when the the corruption was helping Israel, no one talked about the corruption. Now that the corruption for the first time might be slightly [00:13:48] against Israel's interest. They're like corruption. No no no no no mainstream media. You guys suck. You suck. You have no credibility at all to talk about anything. You can't notice all of these lobbies buying all of our politicians put [00:14:06] aside foreign governments for a second. We can't negotiate drug prices at Medicare. It's the most anti-free market thing there is. It's a direct attack on capitalism, right? It drives up drug prices. It's one of the top issues for Americans. [00:14:22] Big Pharma has obviously purchased all of our politicians through campaign contributions, through junkets, through a million other ways, through the revolving door. And mainstream media is like, what's corruption? I don't see it. I bet they did it because they had a real debate. [00:14:39] And it turns out the people who want sky high drug prices and for Big Pharma to steal a couple of trillion dollars from the American people, they won that debate. And now you're talking to me about corruption. Okay. No. You guys love corruption. [00:14:54] You're the number one benefactor of corruption because the money in politics goes to mainstream media ads. So when you all of a sudden, when Israel's interests are touched, you find corruption and then you're outraged by it. I don't believe you're outraged. I don't believe it at all. [00:15:10] So, okay, let's all pretend and and you know what's going to happen if they get him to to to give the plane back or whatever. Good. Fine. I keep saying for the eighth time I don't want it. Right. But they'll go right back to ignoring corruption, and no one will [00:15:25] notice a thing from here on out. As long as you don't touch Israel, the corruption is 100% fine. And in fact, it's celebrated when it comes to Israel. Yes, our special ally with the most moral army. And then Yahoo comes and everybody gives standing ovation in Congress. [00:15:43] And don't tell me they're not dogs of Big Pharma and AIPAC and every lobby that purchases every one of our politicians. So congratulations, you found one case of corruption. You guys are amazing reporters. Amazing. Jesus Christ, man, do your goddamn job. [00:16:00] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.