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Mike reacts to Trump’s new idea of 50-year “portable” mortgages, sparking a heated debate with callers over affordability, personal responsibility, and homeownership. He also shares his “MAGA tree” Christmas project, laughs about glitter bombs, and pushes back on Democrats’ latest Epstein-related smear against Trump, calling it another desperate distraction after their government shutdown failure.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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As I do my math here, the same Democrats that some of my colleagues are counting on to protect the filibuster are the same Democrats who were afraid to come across the aisle and open the government. Just two years ago, every senator, Democrat senator that’s still in office that’s here today, voted to end the filibuster.
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Here’s Mike.
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I can’t believe all the MAGA trees that are being sent to me on the MyPillow text line. Holy cow, there’s a lot of people with MAGA trees. I’ve got this little red, ugly, Charlie Brown tinsel tree that I picked up at some vintage shop in my dining room. If you’re watching right now on Salem News Channel, we have it posted up. Take a look at it. It’s empty. But look how small it is. It’s not very big. And so I can’t put a lot of MAGA ornaments on it. But that’s – and see, right – if you’re looking at the screen right now, to the left of that hutch there, whatever that’s called, is where I put my – do my big Christmas tree. And – Look, I’m into Christmas this year. I don’t know why. I think it’s because I’m going to be with the kids. But in any event, I want to take that little ugly red tinsel tree and hang MAGA-themed ornaments on it, okay? So if you’ve got a MAGA, and it can be homemade, right? And don’t spend any money. And Tracy and I are going to put together a mailing address because we want to make sure we have the proper infrastructure and the right address to send it to. So she’s going to work on that today. By tomorrow, I’ll give you an address where you can send a MAGA ornament so that I can decorate the tree. Now, you know, I just had a thought. What if somebody hates me and they’re going to put cyanide in one of the ornaments so that it can slowly be released into my home? And it’s going to kill me. How do I get that? I mean, that could be done. Like Denise used to say, if you’re paranoid, does that mean the whole world? What’s the phrase? Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the world isn’t out to get you. And I believe that somebody’s out to get me. Anyhow, now maybe we better rethink that. What if it’s like a little ticking time bomb? I’ll have Tracy check it out. Tracy, you’ll be like the tester. You’ll go pick up the package, take it out of the box, shake it around a little bit, maybe lick it a little bit, make sure nothing comes off in the… I thought it would be kind of cool to have a little MAGA tree and have ornaments supplied by the audience. But if you’ve got a MAGA Christmas tree, send me the picture of it at 800-655-MIKE. Look at all these MAGA trees coming in. Here’s North Carolina. Big red, white, and blue. There’s Trump signs and a big American flag and beautiful red ribbons. That’s really sweet. Look at this from Arkansas. Red, white, and blue tree. America. Oh, I love that. Getting a whole bunch of MAGA Christmas trees being sent on the MyPillow text line, which is 800-655-MIKE. And again, if you’re watching right now on Salem News Channel, here’s mine. Mine isn’t as elaborate as the ones you’re sending me. It’s just a tiny little red tree. See it there in my dining room. It’s a text from Carol in Michigan. I love your beautiful travertine floors. Travertine, yeah. My condo has travertine floors, which I like a lot. I love my condo. I’m in this back and forth about selling it, not selling it. I love every bit of it. She said, I love your travertine floors and your wall coverings. Yes, I’ve got them very blessed. I’ve got a beautiful home. Look, if Trump comes through with the portable mortgages, that’s a game changer. I will be in that condo until the day I die. They’ll have to carry me out of there when I’m hopefully 99 years old. For people who were lucky enough like I was to get a 2.75% interest rate, On my mortgage? And I could downsize and maybe get another place with the same terms of my existing mortgage? Trump’s right on that, too. And I think he’s right on the 50-year mortgage. If you don’t want to, people are like, this Tom Giovannetti or whatever his name is in Dallas, it’s a terrible idea, he posted on my ex account. Why is it a terrible idea? You’re 25 years old, you got a job, you want to buy a home, you can’t afford the terms of a 30-year mortgage. Nobody, nobody, almost nobody exercises the whole life of a mortgage. You move, you sell, you can refinance, you can do all kinds of things with a mortgage. Why not a 50-year mortgage and have more affordable terms and be able to have a monthly payment that maybe doesn’t break your back? Look, Trump’s throwing out some great ideas to try to make life better for the American people, and that’s what he’s all about. I don’t even understand what the objection is. And the portable mortgages, apparently they do it in other parts of the world. Not that we want to be like Canada, but Canada does it. You’ve got a mortgage. You’re locked in. I’ve got a 30-year fixed mortgage at 2.75%. I’m so lucky. And I’m sorry if your mortgage rate is 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%. I hate to brag, but I’m very fortunate. I got in right at the right time. And I got a 2.75% rate. One of the disincentives is I’m thinking about downsizing and thinking about what life is going to be like for me in the next 10 or 20 years. I don’t want to sell this house, sell this condo, pay that off with its 2.75% interest rate, and then have to turn around and get a 6% or 7% interest rate. Even in a smaller house, I’ll be paying more money a month than I am now. I pay more in my stupid property taxes in Florida and my HOA fees that I do my monthly mortgage payment. So, a portable mortgage? What’s the downside to that? 800-655-MIKE, one open line. 800-655-6453, Washington State. Mike, be careful with this ornament project. Someone’s going to send you a glitter bomb. You know, those are those bombs… You see on those, all the porch pirates that are trying to steal packages off the front porches and people bend over to pick up the, they steal a package and boom, blows up right in their face, covers them with pink or blue or orange. That’s what I’m going to have. I’ll open up. That’s why Tracy’s going to open all the boxes. Let Tracy get the glitter bomb. Let her get a face full of purple paint. Here’s Trump last night, Fox News, talking about how Walmart did a study about this year’s Thanksgiving dinner, what it will cost compared to last year’s Thanksgiving dinner.
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I want to thank Walmart because they came up with a fantastic study. It was the cost of Thanksgiving coming up and the cost of Thanksgiving from a year ago under sleepy Joe Biden. And we’re 25 percent lower this year than we were a year ago. And it’s a very inclusive report. So I want to thank Walmart. They’ve done it for many years, but we believe in that and we believe in that company.
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Earlier in the day, his press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, addressed these leaked Epstein emails that the Democrats are using to try to hurt Trump with. Here’s what she said about that.
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These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong. And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. And this email you refer to with the name of a victim that was unredacted now and has since been reported on in this room, so I will go ahead and say it, Virginia Guffrey. And it was CBS’s own reporting Ouija that recently wrote that Ms. Guffrey maintained, and God rest her soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever witnessed, that President Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her. And so I think it’s a question worth asking the Democrat Party, and you should all go ask them after this briefing, of why they chose to redact that name of a victim who has already publicly made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and is unfortunately no longer with us.
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There is no aspect of the Epstein-Files story that I understand. I don’t get any of it. I don’t understand any of it. I also don’t understand why anyone would object to Trump’s suggestion of a 50-year mortgage. But Bruce disagrees with the president on this. Hey, Bruce, welcome to the show. How are you? Good morning, Mike. Thank you. Yes, sir.
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Yeah, the 50-year mortgage is an absolutely terrible idea. Why? Why? Well, because you’re asking people to go back… Younger and younger, possibly, to get further and further in debt. You’ve got – you weren’t – you were around in the 80s, but not in the building business in the 80s. Very similar to what they did in the 80s when they didn’t bother qualifying people for home loans. Right. And the construction industry absolutely blew up. And a good example of the 50-year mortgage – Think about it’s also going to increase housing prices. Think about education loans. Why has education exploded so much, the cost to get a college education? Because people are giving away free money to anybody and everybody that qualifies.
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But wait a minute, Bruce, that’s an entirely different issue. That’s apples and oranges. And here’s the thing that I don’t understand.
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When you’re giving people money… You’re giving people that can’t afford it, you’re giving them money. Baloney.
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No, you’re not. You’re extending. If they have a 30-year mortgage and their payment is $1,400 a month on a 30-year mortgage, and they get a 50-year mortgage and their payment is $700 a month, that makes their month-to-month expenses so much easier to attain, and it puts them within their budget. And, of course, the bottom line, Bruce, and you’ve got to know this, nobody outlives their mortgage.
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It’s not that, Mike. If somebody makes it easier for you to buy something, the retailer on the other end is going to raise their prices.
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The banks are not going to have to raise the price. They’re going to make more money on the longer interest payments. That’s a given. I understand that.
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You need to talk to builders that didn’t survive or survived the 80s.
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People walk away from their home. But this is unprecedented. You don’t have anything to compare it to because no one has ever floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage before. And here’s what I never understand about people who think something like this is a terrible idea. Then you know what, Bruce? You don’t want to get a 50-year mortgage. Don’t get one. Don’t get one. But for somebody, this could make the difference between homeownership or not homeownership. If somebody could afford a $700 a month payment on a 50-year mortgage but they can’t afford $1,200 a month, you’re going to let people become homeowners that ordinarily couldn’t be homeowners, Bruce.
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Mike, a 50-year mortgage is not going to make that much of a difference. And for the first 20 years of the mortgage, you’re going to be doing nothing except paying interest. And that’s on them. That’s on the consumer. Okay, and that’s what we say. It’s on them about student loans.
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Well, ultimately, that’s true. That’s why it’s ridiculous to try to forgive student loans. You want to borrow money to go to college and borrow money to go to college? Then that’s on you. Nobody should bail you out. You know going in with your eyes wide open what you’re doing with college loans. I am so tired of people acting like people that get college loans are victims. They’re not victims. Hey, guess what? Don’t go to college. You can’t afford it. Don’t go.
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I didn’t say they were victims, Mike. They need to repay their loans. It’s just like the people in the 80s and 2008 and 2009 needed to repay their loans on the home. That’s right. But they didn’t. They walked away. And who picked up the tab? You and me.
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Yeah, no, nobody’s going to take it to task. We’re not going to be responsible for bearing the burden of somebody who takes out a 50-year mortgage.
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Oh, yeah, you are, Mike. It’s going to go to Freddie Mac and Freddie Mac. You’re absolutely going to bear the brunt of it.
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No, you’re not. You’re a panicking. You’re a panicking. You’re panicking over a Trump idea.
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That’s all. I survived the 80s, and I survived 08, 09.
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And we’ll all survive it all.
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My kids have to go through that.
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I want somebody to be a homeowner who wouldn’t ordinarily get to be a homeowner. And I guess you don’t want people to have home ownership. Look, I know your arguments are solid. I get that your arguments are solid. It’s unconventional, but you’ve got to open your mind. Trust the guy. Trump knows what he’s doing. He’s got a good thought here. But I appreciate the pushback, Bruce. Hang in there. Don’t panic. Take big, deep breaths. Trump’s got this. 12 before the hour, 800-655-MIKE. Hey, I’ve got to tell you, Tritail’s Premium Beef, my favorite meat delivery service in the world, they’ve got a deal right now that you can’t miss. For the first 30 orders over $499, they’re going to throw in a roast absolutely free. That’s right, a centerpiece meal straight from their Texas ranch added to your order at no cost. Here’s the thing, once those 30 are gone, they’re gone. No second chances, no rain checks. This is ranch life, not retail stores, not retail games. Don’t wait. Gather your family, feed your table, feed your legacy. And if you’re the kind of person who says, well, I’ll get to it tomorrow, let me remind you, tomorrow’s roast will be somebody else’s. And Tritail’s Premium Beef still has all my favorite cuts with the Gallagher Patriot Box. Just for you. Get one or two of those, add some of your favorites, and get yourself that free roast. Whether or not you get a free roast, you always get free shipping on all first orders and an automatic 10% off. Not a trick. It’s a treat. As this offer expires Halloween night, 1031 is the last day to get that free roast. Go right now to trybeef.com slash Gallagher. That’s trybeef.com slash Gallagher. Trybeef.com slash Gallagher.
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Hey, Mike, you’re spot on. You had to be nice to that last caller. You said he had solid arguments. There was nothing solid about it. The 50-year is an amazing opportunity for people to get in a home. Then the door’s wide open for you. Let’s say you’re lucky enough to get into that home when you’re in your 20s. and the payments work good. So it takes you 50 years. Maybe for them, hey, they’re happy and they’re in their home. If they don’t stay there, that’s a different thing too. But you know what? What’s wrong with that? And like you said, the options are tremendous. You can pay it off early. You can add that extra payment like you said. I did that. You can turn a 30 into a 15. You can turn a 50 into a 30 just by making an extra payment. It’s a wonderful thing. It’s going to help the economy will boom, and next year when Powell’s out… Watch the interest drop. Watch the Dow hit 60. I’m making a prediction. The Dow hit over 60,000 by the end of next year.
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Makes sense to me, Thomas. Makes sense to me. Appreciate your call very much. Coming up, Bill O’Reilly says the Democrats want Trump to be guilty by innuendo on the entire Epstein thing. That and a whole lot more coming up on this busy Breaking News Thursday episode. Stay with us. You ready to drop up to 20 pounds or more by the new year? Have you been struggling with belly fat forever? You know, the older you get, the harder it is to say goodbye to those unwanted pounds. PHD Weight Loss cracked the code. They have a metabolic reset system that’s a science-backed way to get your body to burn fat first. Look, I’ve tried everything my whole life. I counted points. I counted calories. I did crazy starvation diets. Then I met Dr. Ashley Lucas, and I learned all about her brilliant program called PhD Weight Loss, the only program that guarantees your success and your results. If I can lose over 50 pounds and keep it off over a couple of years, you can too. Everybody can. When you call right now, they’ll waive your consultation fee, you’ll get two extra weeks free, and they’ll cover the cost of your food during the program. Just for booking, you’ll get Dr. Ashley’s book, Five Steps to Reset the Scale. Hurry, call today, 864-644-1900, PhD Weight Loss, 864-644-1900, or visit their website at myphdweightloss.com.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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Every day I think the Democrats can’t go any lower, and they do. Miranda Devine over at the New York Post wrote a great piece. about how the left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax, which is a false Epstein smear campaign. Look, the White House is reporting how many trillions of dollars the shutdown cost the United States of America. And it was for what? 25 days ago, the Democrats could have agreed to what they ultimately agreed to. But it didn’t work. It’s backfired spectacularly. And it appears now their desperate attempt to selectively leak three emails out of 23,000 emails somehow trying to implicate Donald Trump over Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls. It’s backfired amazingly. I mean, it’s stunning. And the mainstream media is just trying to buy it hook, line, and sinker. I mean, over at Axios, oh, Trump knew Epstein. This is a mess of his own making. What? How is this a mess of his own making? What really are they talking about? They have absolutely nothing apparently on Trump, but they’ve got, I guess, stuff on a lot of people, and the Democrats don’t want to release it. If the mantra, and look, let me just stipulate, there’s been great internal debate on this show about whether we should spend any time on this. Because I just, I know what the Democrats are attempting to do. They’re trying to deflect from their own abysmal failure to achieve any success out of their vicious government shutdown. And now they’re all cannibalizing each other. They’re mad at Schumer, and Schumer’s mad at them. I mean, it’s a mess. And everybody knows it. You can all watch it. You see what’s going on. They’re screeching each other. They’re cursing each other out. They want Schumer replaced? They’re blaming it all on Schumer for some reason. Schumer, the big tough guy. Remember the video he made a couple weeks ago? No effing way are we going to bend. Well, how do you look now, tough guy? Are you reaping the whirlwind? Are you reaping the whirlwind, Chuck? How do you feel now that they’re throwing you under the bus and they’re rolling over you repeatedly? And so what did they come up with? Three selectively leaked emails that essentially say that Epstein and Trump knew each other. Oh, wow. What a shocker. Epstein knew everybody. Everybody knew him. I’m just… So confused by all this. I really genuinely don’t understand what they think they’re going to get done here. Our friend and colleague Scott Jennings was on CNN last night calling out the Democrats’ desperate, I guess it’s a Hail Mary. Oh, look, we got him now. We got him now. They don’t have Diddley.
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Because I think they believe that the time spent on this and that the Republicans who’ve bought into the Democratic tactics on this are ultimately hurting the president’s agenda and hurting the overall Republican effort to change this country for the better. The president firmly believes this is nothing but a distraction tactic ginned up by Democrats who didn’t care about this one bit. until a couple of months ago. They didn’t care about it when Joe Biden was the president. Now they care about it to try to tie up this presidency. He’s lived through these things before. He’s lived through these kinds of wild goose chases before. It’s all designed to tie him up. He recognizes it. He doesn’t want his own party members to fall for it, but I think a few probably will.
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I think some people might dispute the wild goose chase part, just given, obviously, the victims that are at the heart of this and the survivors.
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Regarding him, the Democratic allegation, it’s thinly veiled, but the Democratic allegation is that Donald Trump did something untoward, unethical, or worse. You hear people say it on television day in and day out. They’ve not tried to hide the misleading of the American people. And there’s not a shred of evidence that Donald Trump has done anything wrong. But that’s what they want you to believe. And so if Republicans aid and abet the Democrats in this, you can see why Donald Trump would be mad about it.
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Well, it’s pretty simple, isn’t it? But then we got Republicans that are kind of muddy in the waters. Thomas Massie. Got to bring him up because he voted to keep the government shut down last night. Did you know that? There were two of them, right? Who was the other one? It was Massey and was it a guy from Ohio? And I just see these guys vote no on everything. And a lot of people want, I know there are people, I kind of feel this way. I want to defend the guy. He’s a maverick. He, you know, is a purist. He’s a constitutionalist. But Kentucky’s Thomas Massey, the Republican congressman from Kentucky, voted with the Democrats last night to keep the government shut down. He voted against reopening the government. Thomas Massey wanted people to continue to not get their paychecks, millions of people not get their SNAP benefits. He didn’t want the air traffic controllers paid. He doesn’t want the military paid. All the pain that this shutdown was inflicted by the Democrats, and there is no question about it. The Democrats admitted it. They said it’s our only leverage. We need this for leverage. We’ve got to hurt the American people. So Massey once again said no to the American people. I don’t get him. I don’t like criticizing fellow Republicans. But the guy seems to me to be pretty much out to lunch. If you’re a Republican that agrees with Hakeem Jeffries on punishing the American people in order to get back at Trump, you’re not a Republican that I even recognize. Here’s what he said. Of course, he’s been all embroiled in the Epstein stuff, too. Here’s what he said last night on CNN.
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I got to give credit to Lauren Boebert to walk into the White House, the center of power, the free world, really, and to sustain that and to come back out and to be solid. And also to Nancy Mason, Marjorie Taylor Greene. There was all the speculation that they might take their names off and they never did. So it’s it’s not a hoax. It’s not a moot point. It is a very serious thing. There are a thousand victims and there are survivors who have had a press conference with Ro Khanna and I. And that’s what we’re fighting for justice for them.
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Okay, that’s what you’re fighting for, right? Well, Tim Burchett is fighting for justice for them because he wanted to release, have all the Epstein files released. And he put a motion forward on the floor. He offered up, and this is a softball to the Democrats and to Thomas Massey. All right, Congressman Massey, you want the Epstein files released? Well, they, Thomas Massey, or Tim Burchett, came along and said, all right, I got an idea. Let’s go ahead and let you all put your money where your mouth is. You want the Epstein files released? Let’s release them. Burchett tried to. Here’s his explanation about who blocked it.
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Everybody, Tim Burchett just left the House floor and I tried to do a UC unanimous consent of a tried to get the Epstein files, get it straight to the floor to cut out all this nonsense. And, you know, and the Democrats blocked it, oddly enough. Now here they’ve had it for four years and they. Obviously, if there was something there about Trump, they would have released it. And now they’re all, oh, let’s get it out, let’s get it out. Well, I just made a motion to bring it straight to the dadgum floor, and they blocked it. They blocked it. So this is politics. It has nothing to do with what’s doing what’s right. And it’s Washington, D.C. to a T. Again, they ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they’re probably not. Thank you all for sending me here.
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Now, Burchett’s attempt… The Republican effort to release the Epstein files has been almost virtually ignored by everybody, except conservative media. As Red State puts it, as with all things involving the Democrat Party, they are wholly uninterested in doing the right thing. Uninterested in trying to get to the heart of the matter on the Epstein case, and uninterested in holding people accountable. They see everything through the prism of get Trump. And it fails every single time. The shutdown backfired. The Epstein thing is backfiring. Prove me wrong. 800-655-MIKE. I don’t even think the Democrats know what the issues are. Jasmine Crockett, boy, she’s the star now. I saw Charlemagne Tha God this week say, oh, she’s the future of the party. She’s the leader of the Democrat Party. More Democrats have to be like her. Listen to this village idiot on CNN try to explain the Epstein files to a dubious couple of anchor people on CNN.
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This is an email from April 2nd, 2011. Republicans are saying that that victim is Virginia Giuffre. As you know, she died by suicide. She’s been very outspoken, very outspoken victim of Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s the email right here on your screen. She wrote a book, as you know, and she did not accuse him of any wrongdoing. What do you make of that? And can you confirm that? Yeah, I don’t know.
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Obviously, it’s redacted who the victim is, so I won’t necessarily take the Republicans’ word on who it is that’s redacted. And I don’t know why they would necessarily redact someone’s name who is deceased at this point. The Democrats did that, though. The Democrats redacted.
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No, no, no.
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I understand. But I’m just saying, like, our biggest concern is to actually make sure that we are protecting victims. And obviously, she wrote a book. She told her truth.
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She’s clueless. She’s obviously clueless. She didn’t even realize that it was the Democrats that redacted Virginia Gouffray’s name. I understand. We’ve got to protect the victims. She’s an imbecile. I don’t even know what she’s talking about. So I’m struggling here to understand, other than just the normal, let’s get Trump, whatever it takes, none of it adds up. Again, Democrats were given the chance last night to put their money where their mouth is. And they folded. They said no. As Rusty Weiss put it over at Red State, the Democrats shriveled up faster than George Costanza after a swim in the pool. 800-655-MIKE. Wow. If you can help me make sense of it, because look, everything about the… And I will admit, I don’t understand why Trump seems to not want them out, want it out. I admit that. I’m confused about that, too. I don’t know if he’s worried about innocent people being smeared because there’s going to be guilt by association. They didn’t do anything wrong. He’s not implicated, obviously. If he was implicated, the Democrats would have implicated him back during the campaign when they had all the Epstein files at their disposal. Virginia Gouffre, who was described as the outspoken critic of Jeffrey Epstein, she’s very outspoken. You don’t think she would have blasted Trump? Oh, what did she say about Trump? He didn’t do anything wrong. He never did anything inappropriate. He was a gentleman. I spent time with him. She was a Trump supporter. If you’re a victim of somebody, you’re not going to exactly go around and say, let’s make America great again. I hope Trump wins, as she did, apparently. So the whole thing is nonsense. It is a distraction. Again, I told you about the internal debate that we had here on this show about even talking about this Epstein stuff. The reason it’s important to talk about it is because people are talking about it. And you’ve got to deal with this stuff head on or it will linger. If you don’t deal with it, if you don’t confront it, then people are going to be left with an impression that there’s something there there. And in terms of Trump’s involvement or Trump’s culpabilities, there’s nothing there there. 800-655-MIKE. One open line. 800-655-MIKE. Look, I understand the Democrats don’t want the files released. There are Republicans who don’t want the files released. The American people want the files released. I’m… It boggles my mind. Every single day, it’s a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He’s been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week, there was a $5 million vote. judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow, and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I’m on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I’ve got the MySlippers with me. Those unbelievable slippers because I pat around in the hotel room. I don’t know what’s on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I’ve even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven’t been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You’re going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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Well, I think the Democrats have become radicalized. I think, you know, this never happened before. They always extend. You know, an extension is very easy. It’s done all the time. You extend. Sometimes you extend four or five times. I mean, they just they become radicalized lunatics, actually, in a true sense. They should automatically extend. And we will make a deal as soon as they do. As soon as they do, we’ll make a deal.
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When you stop and think about whether or not the Democrats really care about the Epstein victims and you realize they don’t, it’s not about that at all. It’s only about politicizing a horrific, horrific chapter. Then you realize just how diabolical some of them are. I mean, they’re nasty. These are mean people. These are mean people. You think Gavin Newsom’s a nice guy? You think Jasmine Crockett is a nice person? You think Zoran Mamdani is a nice guy? I hate to make stuff personal, but I was paying attention to what Senator John Fetterman said about the venom, the vile stuff that he has had to endure, the insults, the threats, the ugliness. He shared with CNN… that he has received a torrent of hate from his own party. These are Democrats, not Republicans.
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I do want to ask about the way that you approach the Senate. And you write about that in your book. You said, quote, I’ve drunk deeply of the venom of both the left and the right. As a connoisseur, I can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest is from the far left. That is pretty remarkable to hear you say that as an elected Democrat. Why?
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Yeah. Yeah, no. You know, it’s just been my personal experience on this thing. And when I asked my digital team, I said, you know, we’re on all the platforms. You know, really, what’s kind of the harshest? What’s kind of the most personal? And the answer was immediate. He said, oh, blue sky. It’s blue sky. And the difference is, I mean… The right would say really rough things and names, you know, some names I won’t, I won’t repeat on, on TV, but, but, but the, the, on the left, it was like, they want me to die or that we’re cheering for your next stroke, or that’s terrible. That depression, why couldn’t it depression one? And, and I hope your kids find you. And then they even have like the graphic, A gift there. They have like a stroke, you know, you know, in your head. Yeah. And they said that I remember one. They claimed the doctor let us down. And why did they have to save his life? I mean, just really like I just can’t imagine people are are wishing, you know, I wish he dies or I want him to die. You know, literally cheering for for a stroke. And I don’t know what the kind of a place where that comes from. I mean, that’s much different than just calling me a name. You know, and that’s really been consistent, you know, in that community online.
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Now, did you hear what he said? Do you recognize the hatefulness of the Democrats who are celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder, who raised money for Luigi Mangione? who take on a group of kids at UC Berkeley who want to gather for a turning point event and riot and bloody people’s noses and physically assault. This is good versus evil. I say it over and over again. We have gone way beyond the stage of right versus left, of Republicans versus Democrats, of conservatives versus liberals, of moderates versus hardliners, of rhinos versus MAGA. No, no, no. It’s way past that now. Democrats, people on the left, were cheering for John Fetterman to die. I do this for a living. I take calls north, south, east, west, from all 50 states and beyond. Nobody has ever wanted death upon Pelosi or Jasmine Crockett. I despise Nancy Pelosi. I was so glad to hear that that woman was finally retiring. But I wouldn’t want one hair on her head harmed. She is a mother, a grandmother, a wife, a human being. I don’t want my political opponents hurt. I want their ideas defeated. And that’s how you feel. That’s how you see the world. You don’t want to kill people because you disagree with them. But many on the left, well, they do. They want us dead. They want to hurt people because they’re so evil. There’s an evilness. And as I always say, and this is a caveat and it’s important, I’m not saying that about all Democrats. I’m not even saying that about everybody on the left. But a whole lot of people on the left, they don’t look like your purple-haired, nose-ring freaks. I watched the video yesterday. of the people at UC Berkeley cheering Charlie’s murder, his assassination. F your dead homie. F your dead homie. Some of those people look like your grandparents. They’re boomers. They’re gray-haired, 60-year-old women. How would you like to have a family member who stood outside a Turning Point rally, who was your aunt or your mother or your wife or your grandma, screaming, F your dead homie, about a 31-year-old husband and father who got a bullet to the neck, and you’re happy that he was killed? That’s where we are right now. I’ve been doing this for a long time. My first talk show was in 1978. You do the math. I could have never, ever in my life anticipated a time where people were openly and enthusiastically celebrating murdering their political opponents. This is the United States of America, not North Korea. So you can do all you want. You can gin up all the crap you want about every distraction you can come up with. This boils down to a battle between good and evil. And good’s got to win. These people that are committing acts of violence in the streets, every single one of them need to be rounded up and locked up. Every single one of them has to be accountable for their dangerous, violent actions. And we better get it together. Pam Bondi can’t just talk the talk. If Antifa’s a terrorist organization, then lock every one of their butts in jail. Round these people up who are assaulting conservatives, who are assaulting Americans. I’m following stuff on social media. Ever follow Cat Turd? just a real popular conservative influencer, something bad happened to him. I don’t know what it is. He keeps alluding to something terrible happened, happened to Matt Walsh as well, and the same person or persons involved in both cases. I don’t know if their house was attacked, if their pets were killed. I mean, Cat Turd is saying it’s bad. Whatever it was, it was awful. And I don’t put anything past any of them. You can’t. You just can’t. This is who we are, and this is what we have to deal with. We are dealing with political violence being justified, being glorified, being legitimized, normalized. They think it’s normal. If you don’t like a 31-year-old conservative influencer who created this epic movement of young conservatives, this kid was an innovator in his parents’ garage in Chicago, and it turned into one of the most successful conservative movements in America. Oh, you don’t like him? Well, kill him. Shoot him. F your dead homie, says grandma. F your dead homie. Good to know. Hope you’re paying attention. You must.
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