Thanks to a prisoner exchange by the Trump administration. A literal convicted murderer is now a free man in the interior of the United States. Now, follow along as I go through the details of this insane story. [00:00:16] Now, who are we talking about? Well, back in 2016, a United States Army veteran by the name of Dawud Hamid Ortiz killed three people and was in fact convicted of killing three people. The New York Times reports that members of the Trump administration [00:00:33] even knew that Ortiz is a murderer. Prior to this prisoner exchange. So before we explain how Ortiz was freed by the Trump administration, let's actually explore his crimes. So he killed two women in Spain back in 2016, and he also killed a man [00:00:51] that he mistook for a different man by the name of Victor Salas, whom he believed was having an affair with his wife. We'll get to Salas again later in this story. Now, after these three murders, Janet Ortiz fled from Spain to Germany. [00:01:09] And then he eventually ended up in Venezuela. And Venezuela is the country that eventually ended up trying him, convicting him for said murders. And he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murders. [00:01:25] Now, Ortiz is actually a dual Venezuelan and American citizen. He had served 19 years in the army and was even awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Iraq. Now, in 2023, during a different prisoner swap, the Biden administration [00:01:43] passed up the opportunity to bring Ortiz back to the United States. According to The New York Times, the official said that the Spanish authorities had asked the United States to send him to Spain, but that Spanish officials ultimately decided against this. [00:01:58] And the Department of Justice decided it didn't want him in the United States. So since he was convicted in Venezuela for the three murders that he had carried out in Spain. The US under the Biden administration was perfectly fine, leaving him [00:02:13] in Venezuela, where he is also a citizen, to serve out his sentence. But now, fast forward to modern days. The Trump administration, which decided to go in a completely different direction. Earlier this month, the Trump administration exchanged 252 men [00:02:30] that it sent to El Salvador for ten Americans and U.S. Permanent residents that were imprisoned in Venezuela. So the idea was, hey, Venezuela. We, you know, sent a bunch of Venezuelans, hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, [00:02:47] will now send them to Venezuela if you return ten Americans and permanent US residents. Now, Ortiz, happened to be among them. The murderer who was convicted of killing three people was among them. And here's what The Times reported just last week [00:03:04] in an anonymous source who spoke to them. When the Americans put Mr. Ortiz on a plane on Friday back to the United States, at least some people in the Trump administration knew of his criminal past. And by the way, Victor Salas, who we had mentioned earlier, [00:03:22] the individual that he intended to to kill but but ended up killing someone else because he mistook him for solace, says if this was an omission, please make amends, because it not only endangers me. Remember, Ortiz wanted to slaughter this guy. [00:03:38] It not only endangers me, but all Americans because they are faced with a murderer who killed three innocent people without any qualms. And look, it is important to note that many of the prisoners in Venezuela were in fact wrongfully jailed. But that is not the case in this particular situation. [00:03:57] That is not the case. Okay. So, for instance, eight of the ten U.S. Citizens and permanent residents released on Friday have been declared wrongfully detained by the State Department. Janet Ortiz has not been declared wrongfully detained, according to one of the people familiar with the case. [00:04:13] So the US government acknowledges that these were rightful. This was a rightful conviction for murder as it pertains to Ortiz. So if Trump had sent back the undocumented immigrants who are criminals and closed the border on that issue, [00:04:32] his popularity would be around 80%. He is now significantly underwater. He's unpopular on immigration. Why? Well, there's, in my opinion, two parts to it. One is way too extreme, like the American people said, look, all these folks coming [00:04:50] in here in a way that's undocumented or some of them will say illegal, right? I don't really care about the words. It's too much, too extreme. We don't want that right now. Trump swings not to the middle, but to the other extreme and goes, I'm going to set [00:05:05] up Alligator Alcatraz, where I'm going to feed them food that has maggots in it. I'm going to keep the lights on 24 hours, which is a form of torture. I'm going to do all these things and I hope I get eaten by alligators. And yes, there's some 20% of voters who go, yes, but that's the radicals. [00:05:25] The other 80% are like, what are you doing, man? I didn't sign up for it to be some sort of weirdo torturer, right? I didn't sign. I didn't vote for you because I wanted people eaten by alligators, you moron. I just wanted you to close the border. I was going to give you credit for it. [00:05:41] I wanted you to take out the criminals. I was going to give you credit for it. Right? But now he's unpopular on immigration. I can't after he basically, in essence, closed the border. I can't believe he got to an unpopular rating on immigration. Yeah, totally. You have to, like, bungle it all over your face to get to that point. [00:05:56] And what's the consequence of that, Jake? And it's important for those who are in favor of these deportations to understand this. The pendulum will swing right back to the other extreme. And that's why we never have any functioning well thought through, [00:06:12] well thought out immigration policy in this country. The pendulum just keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Extreme, one extreme to the other extreme. And by the way, we never actually solved the core issue. Why? Because corporations don't want the main issue being solved. [00:06:27] They want that cheap source of labor. So it never gets solved. It just has it get into a political hot potato that goes back and forth and causes damage on all sides. I have to add more to that, because just recently there was a marijuana farm [00:06:44] in California that Ice raided. Now, through their raid, they found out that this marijuana farm was employing minors, undocumented minors. Okay, so the undocumented individuals get arrested. But what's really fascinating to me is even though labor laws were being broken, [00:07:03] even though this farm was employing undocumented people, including undocumented minors, did the owners of the marijuana farm, did the employers here face any consequences? Did they get arrested? No. No. And that's that's what's really interesting [00:07:19] about how our government responds to issues pertaining to immigration and deportation and all of that. Why is it that the employers who are knowingly and wrongfully employing people who are undocumented, even minors, who are undocumented, [00:07:34] not facing any consequences for this? - Fascinating. - Yeah. So talk to a Latino guy today in LA that I know known for a bunch of years. And he was saying we were talking about I said, look, if they go after undocumented guys who are criminals, nobody's going to object to that. [00:07:51] And he was like, wait, I don't get it. Why would anybody object to that? Why is that even being discussed? Like, of course, take out the criminals, right? He's like, but now we're in a situation where, you know, when the riot, when the protests happened in LA, I went and did a provocation [00:08:08] and attacked basically the citizens. And then a bunch of idiots came out and looted, and he and I thought, I asked him about that. And he's like, what? What does that have to do with protest? No. You should arrest all those guys. They're just he's like, I saw them, brother. They had Mercedes, they had Range Rovers. Okay. [00:08:25] He's like it has nothing to do with Latinos. It has nothing to do with immigrants. It's criminal gangs that go, oh, there's a protest. I'm going to take advantage of that to go in and steal stuff. Right. And so, by the way, when you arrest those guys, you're not hurting the protesters. You're helping the protesters because they aren't they're the ones [00:08:41] who smear the protesters and have nothing to do with them. Right? So okay, so this is what reasonable think people think. Now, the second thing that I mentioned as to why Trump is becoming unpopular on this issue is because of Trump himself, because he's so obsessed with protecting his own ego rather than anything [00:08:57] that he actually promised in policy that it leads to this extreme where he's bringing back a murderer, he's bringing back a murderer just so he can say, I was right, I did this. I sent them to a dungeon in El Salvador, and I got people back. [00:09:12] I'm a genius. And who'd you get back? Oh, I got a triple murderer back. Yeah, yeah. What? Crazy. That was the exact opposite of what you were supposed to do. The guy is a free man within the United States domestically. Okay. How is that acceptable? How is that okay? That is not okay. [00:09:31] We we engaged in a prisoner swap in order to get that guy back so he can be a free man after he murdered three people. So to review, we sent, hundreds of people to. And they were tortured daily in that prison in El Salvador. [00:09:50] Yes. Okay. 70% of them had no criminal convictions or arrests or trials. Okay. So just grab a bunch of people. 30% of them are bad guys. Good. I'm glad to get rid of them. Right. 70% we don't know anything about. Let's go torture them in a foreign dungeon. [00:10:06] Right. And then in return, we get back a killer that is on the loose here in America. No. Thank you. How is that in return? How is that in return? So this doesn't make any sense. And. And that's why Trump is losing popularity by the day. [00:10:22] And now by the minute, 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.