Join host Karen Murray as she delves into the complexities of Colorado’s rising crime rates, juxtaposing the idyllic image of the state with gritty reality. This episode features a deep discussion on recent events, crime statistics, and the potential influences of sanctuary policies, revealing an unexpected portrait of life in the Centennial State. Alongside, Karen brings insights into the unique offerings of Franktown Firearms, including their groundbreaking 360-degree on-site training facility, providing a comprehensive look at personal safety and firearm practice in today’s challenging environment.
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Hello, hello, hello. I am your host. Thank you for joining me today on Shooting the Breed, brought to you by Franktown Firearms. My name is Karen Murray, and I am the lead instructor over at Franktown Firearms. And you guys really need to stop by and check out the amazing selection of handguns, rifles, shotguns, ammo, accessories, cleaning kits, training tools, everything you need for your shooting needs. And yes, it is a need. It’s a need. Sometimes it’s just a want, but it’s a need. And if you haven’t checked out the indoor 360-degree on-site training facility, you must sign up for a class. This shoot house is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, and now it is open to the public. So far, we’ve held two full classes in the shoot house, and the response has been stellar. People are loving the simulated environment. And just that 3D feel and kind of the hands-on, body-on kind of experience. And everyone’s looking forward to more training opportunities in this. 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If private training is what you’re looking for, you can send an email to training at franktownfirearms.com, and someone will get back to you to schedule something that fits your schedule. Whether it’s just an hour to maybe correct a few shooting problems or you want to learn and start from scratch, we’ve got you covered. If there’s anything that I’m talking about today that you would like to discuss, you can give me a call. Luke will happily patch you through. The number is 303-477-5600. So we had a little craziness in Boulder yesterday, huh? Mohammed Sabri Solomon tossed a Molotov cocktail into a crowd and kind of started some fires at a pro-Israel run for their lives walk, advocating for Hamas to release Israeli hostages. I don’t need to tell you about it. You guys know all about it, but here’s my thing, okay? You guys know I’m going to bring something a little extra to the party. So what’s strange to me is the way the local news station is reporting on it. Everybody wants to paint Colorado as this safe haven of just beauty and everybody’s so wonderful and friendly and it’s a perfect state. No, no, it’s not. The Colorado that I moved to in 1979, that was a pretty okay place. Now, not so much. One live reporter actually said, you would think this kind of thing doesn’t happen here. What does he mean? Does he mean in Boulder or in Colorado in general? Either way, Colorado or Boulder or Aurora or Springs or Pueblo, they’re not immune from heinous crimes. The King Soopers shooting in Boulder, remember that? We all remember that. Let’s not forget the Aurora Theater and Columbine and Chuck E. Cheese and the STEM shooting. So this case is being majorly sensationalized, I believe, because it was at a pro-Israel event. And it was perpetrated by a scary Muslim man. So it’s all over the news. Everybody’s freaking out about it. But there have been no reported fatalities. So this pales in comparison to something like the Columbine shooting, in my opinion. So, however, to think this crime, the crime is being carried out in Colorado is somehow unique is just delusional, especially these days. Our sanctuary city and sanctuary state status have invited the worst of the worst of humanity. They’re all taking up residence here because they know they’re safe and protected here. We’re not. Nobody else is, but they certainly are. This is a post from Colorado based on X. It says, quote, in only 10 years, Colorado went from 31st in state crime to number four. Now we have the second highest crime rate in the country. I’ll let you guess what happened a few years before we started breaking records. Gee, I wonder. Now, this post also contains a picture with some data. So here’s a breakdown of the crime situation in Colorado. Rankings. One report ranks Colorado as the third most dangerous state in the U.S., significantly influenced by its property crime rate. Another report identifies Colorado as the second most dangerous state, citing second highest larceny slash theft rate. Colorado has been ranked among the top states for violent crimes. As of 2022, FBI data ranked Colorado fourth highest nationally for combined property and violent crime rates, a significant increase from its 31st ranking in 2012. In 2023, Colorado had the eighth highest violent crime rate and the fourth highest property crime rate in the United States. So the elephant in the room that no news agency seems to want to talk about, none of them, including all of our local affiliates for the national brands like CBS, NBC, Fox, whatever, it’s unfettered immigration, period, end of story. That’s the catalyst. And, of course, we have the politicians who make it difficult to deport the criminal element in Colorado. This guy in Boulder, Muhammad Solomon, overstayed his visa, and he was allowed in under Biden. And it was an HB2 visa, which is a tourism visa. So he overstayed that, and he’s, you know, ticked off and rotted, decided to pick this event with, you know, this pro-Israel event, and decided to go bananas. Meanwhile, I’ll say it again. Colorado lawmakers want to keep people like this and would love nothing more than to see every single gun owner in the state just go away. And they’re creating laws to expedite that process, in my opinion. And then you mix in a little legal pot and you throw in some HB 251312, which is that ridiculous transgender bill that you can’t deadname your kids. You can’t call them by the name you gave them. And you sprinkle in some sanctuary policies and a little ICE defiance, and you add a dash of SB 25003, which is that heinous semi-automatic firearms ban, and you have a recipe for a state that has completely lost its way and its mind, in my opinion. And as I always say, my opinions are not necessarily that of Crawford Broadcasting or Franktown Firearms or anyone else. This is just me speaking. speaking to you guys directly. And I hope you guys give me a call in the studio to talk about some of this stuff. I’m going to start out with just this little blurb that I got right before I came on. More than 250,000 cans or pounds, I guess it’s pounds, of denti more beef stew have been recalled due to somebody finding wood in the cans. And if you haven’t heard my opinion on food recalls, I’ll give it to you now. And you can strap on your tinfoil hat if you’d like. Luke, do you got your tinfoil hat on? Okay, cool. I believe that when there is a recall, maybe not every recall, but I believe the majority of them, especially with something non-perishable like canned stew, these cans are headed to stock the underground bunkers that we peasants will not have access to if SHTF, if you catch my drift. It’s just another way to look at it. Think about it when you see the next food recall. I remember a while back we had just, I don’t know, like a million pounds of ground beef or something that was recalled. Yeah, whatever. Whatever. Those guys are stocking food. And, you know, you’ve seen the pictures. And if you haven’t, you really should go look. The pictures of these underground tunnels, they’re everywhere. They’re like underground cities. They’re not tunnels. And they’re no joke. Clean walls, clean floors, you know, little flatbed trucks, you know, driving around. And, yeah, it’s insane. So… Anyway, I think that that’s a big part of all the food recalls. So moving on, here’s a big, fat, juicy conspiracy theory for you, and we’ll definitely keep that tinfoil hat on. It’s fun for me because, you know, I talk about Q a little bit here and there. So I haven’t done a live show in a hot minute, you guys, so I’m catching up. I’m catching up for lost conspiracy time, y’all. So Donald Trump retruthed, and this is kind of a confusing way that this is set up, but Donald Trump retruthed a reply. Now, it was a reply from an account named Elijah. It’s at capital I-L-I-J-H. So I don’t really know how to say that, but that’s what the account is. And it’s a picture of Trump in his younger years holding up his hand in a peace sign. Maybe you guys have seen this. Some say he’s holding up the number two. The crazy thing about this caption, it reads, quote, there is no Joe Biden executed in 2020. Biden clones, doubles, and robotic engineered soulless, mindless entities are what you see. Democrats don’t know the difference. Okay. Now, Trump re-truths that. And I think that that is significant. If you know, you know, I guess. If you’re part of this rabbit hole crowd, you probably know what I’m talking about. So under that, this person put about 100 hashtags and mentions. Of course, Trump was mentioned and MAGA and MAHA and all the news agencies and all the military branches are mentioned and government officials and Trump was mentioned and Kennedy and just a bunch of NGOs, a bunch of entities were hashtagged or mentioned. Now, the reply that Trump retruthed is actually a response to a different post by another account called AtChristineForAmericanHeritage, who posted on an account called Q. Okay? That post caption is a Babylon Bee headline that reads, and it contains the entire article. If you follow the link, you’ll get to the article. But the headline reads, And this is, again, this is from the Babylon Bee. So as you know, that is a satire site. Biden family worried they may be running out of time to exploit Joe Biden’s health. Now, again, the Babylon Bee is satire, and it’s only quoting the headline and leads you to a blog now from this Christine for American Heritage. It leads you to a blog of hers that quotes the entire article from the bee, okay? So I’m going to read this to you. This is all satire, telling you right now. It’s posted Greenville, Delaware. Following the recent announcement of Joe Biden’s stage four prostate cancer diagnosis, sources reported that Biden family members had grown increasingly worried that they were running out of time to exploit the former president. Sources close to Joe Biden said members of his immediate family were in full panic mode over the prospect that their days of using the former president’s influence for their own selfish gain may be coming to an end. One family member was very blunt, quote, we’ve got to take full advantage of him or our time with him, end quote. And then it says, quote, again, and obviously you guys will know who this comes from. I have all these paintings I need to sell, and I’m not sure what I’ll do with them once the big guy kicks it, Hunter Biden reportedly told a friend. I mean, I’m like a totally good artist and don’t need my dad to sell paintings. But for some reason, when I promise buyers special favors that they make a purchase, the value of my work always goes up. President Biden’s wife, Jill, reportedly also commented to friends that she was unsure what she would do if her husband were no longer around to pull strings for her. Quote, I guess I can always fall back on my doctorate in education. One witness overheard her saying, I’m just like a real doctor as long as no one needs any medical attention. Other members of the Joe Biden’s inner circle expressed concern over the elderly leader’s failing health and told those close to them that none of them have any real marketable skills. Let’s see. We must have just been floating along riding his wake for so many years. None of us bothered to build careers, an anonymous family member told the press. At publishing time, Jill Biden announced that she had a new book in the works titled, Please Give Me Money for This Book While You Still Remember Who I Am. So that’s pretty funny. So that’s an article from the Babylon Bee. So it’s always entertaining to read the Bee’s articles because there’s always a lot of truth to it. Obviously, they’re very sarcastic and it is satire, but it’s very funny to me. But the reply that Trump re-truths is extraordinary because it speaks directly to the Q narrative. Now, if you’ve listened to me for any length of time, you’ve probably heard me talk about body doubles or actors in masks playing roles in this scripted movie we’re all watching and hating when it comes to Q and Anons and the good versus evil and the spiritual war that’s being fought right now. And I’m sure a lot of you feel the same way, and you should feel that we are indeed in not a kinetic war, but in a spiritual battle. So if you follow or have followed Q at all, you know that the Q posts suggest that not only Biden, but several other high profile individuals have already been dealt with a long time ago. And the people that we’re seeing on the news and in movies and concert stages and whatever, they’re all actors playing roles. And if you look at, there are several that come to mind, one of which is Shania Twain and Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson and even Kim Kardashian and Megan Fox. And there are so many people that just look entirely different. They look like completely different people. So, you know, obviously the Q thing is nothing but a whacked-out conspiracy to some, and it’s full-on gospel to others. To people like me, it’s been a very interesting series of posts worth keeping an eye on, and I’m always hoping that it’s 100% true. Because, you know, in the words of the MG show, if you guys ever listen to that podcast, it’s very entertaining. If Q isn’t real, we’re all F’d. So that’s kind of how they word it. But Trump has been asked about Q in the past, and he never denies it. He never denounces it. He never denies it. He deflects and he says things like, you know, I’ve heard of Q and I hear the Q wants to save children. And there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s a good thing, right? You know, that’s kind of how he brushes off the question. But this reply that Trump retrieves from Elijah is a relatively small account, which also makes it interesting. 4.5 thousand followers is what he has under it, the Elijah account. And then the at Christine for American Heritage account, the last I checked, which was yesterday, only had 67 followers. And the Q account that she posted on is just over 47K. And none of these counts are hugely popular, and none of them are verified. None of them have the blue check. So to me, this is hinting to something, and I believe this is some kind of a message to Q followers that that’s just me. I don’t know. I like to think things are headed in a positive direction. What do you all think? What do you all think about that? So Changing topics. Last week, I wasn’t live on the air because Memorial Day. And the week before that, I was helping my husband prepare for his spine fusion surgery. His procedure was last Tuesday on the 20th, and he got three levels of his spine fused. Everything went well, according to his surgeon, although it took a little longer than he thought because my husband’s spine was jacked up and was an old injury. So… Fast forward to him coming home from the hospital. Now, I don’t know if any of you guys have ever taken care of someone after a major spine surgery like this. Surgery in general is tough anyway, but spine surgery is… particularly hard and it’s exactly what I’m about to talk about it’s just how difficult this is and right now he’s making strides like crazy but you don’t really realize how much you take mobility for granted until you see someone that doesn’t have doesn’t have it doesn’t have as much and I think I’ve told you all about our daughter also having spine fusion when she was only 10, and she developed a staph infection and, you know, whatever. But kids are different. She sailed through everything like kids do. But when you not only have an injury to the spine itself but to the nerves, it is a whole different ballgame. My husband’s spine pain is only a tiny fraction of what he’s dealing with right now. Although standing, walking, and sitting are getting easier, much easier, getting in and out of the car, all that kind of stuff, the foot pain is debilitating. The billet, it’s crazy. So the surgeon told me after his procedure that his L5 vertebrae was pushed forward significantly. It’s a spondylolisthesis. I have a really hard time pronouncing that word. But as a result of the roll, the spine or the vertebrae shifted forward and it rolled the nerve under it, so to speak. That’s how he described it. So the nerve rolled between the L5 and the S1 vertebrae. And over time, 10 years, to be more precise, had developed scar tissue on it. So the surgeon had to clean off the nerve and remove several bone fragments that were in there as well. And the doctors didn’t even really know why he was upright and why he was able to walk and stand and whatever because his back was literally broken in that spot. And what’s crazy is as the nerves start to wake up, they produce all kinds of pain. And he calls them zingers. And it’s almost like your foot’s getting electrically shocked. And he describes it as buzzing or humming. And it’s just insane. And it’s extremely sensitive to the touch. He would, like, literally writhe in agony if I so much placed a sheet over his toes. And wearing compression socks made it worse, but you have to have them on in the days after surgery. And they have the little toeless ones, so I think those were a little bit better, the Ted Ho’s or whatever. But there are all kinds of Catch-22s involved with recovery after this kind of surgery and setting up an area where the patient is comfortable and has access to everything they need. It comes with a substantial learning curve. And just the digestive issues that stem from taking opioids pain medication is enough to drive him bonkers. He’s so ready to get off that stuff. And it’s all day by day. You just try to provide the best care you can for someone you love that’s going through this without the luxury of a medical degree, right? So we’re fortunate enough to live in a home that’s It’s suitable for this type of recovery. We live in a neighborhood in suburbs close to stores for running back and forth, you know, getting things that you didn’t think you needed, but then you find out you do need and you forgot the last trip or whatever. And, you know, we were already equipped with blood pressure monitoring devices and pulse ox and, you know, stuff for measuring the blood oxygen and all that stuff. So we have a mother-in-law bedroom on the main floor with a bathroom right next door, so that’s all very handy, and he’s been sleeping there so he doesn’t have to take the stairs. I can’t imagine, and this is something that came to mind when we were in the hospital or maybe on day one of having him home, I can’t imagine someone living, like, way out in the country living or caring for someone who’s undergone this kind of surgery if they live alone. If someone lives alone, I can’t even imagine what you would do. You would just have to sit and rot. Just have your medications and maybe a water cooler next to you. I don’t know. I don’t know how somebody gets through it. And if you’ve done it, call me and tell me. But it’s insane. The first… You know, everything’s getting better. Like I said, the first three or four days were tough. They were tough. Just making sure they’re comfortable and icing the foot and keeping the ice in the ice machine for the back, that pad that goes on the back to ice the back and emptying urinal jugs and filling water bottles and worrying about fevers and changing surgical dressings and keeping everything like sheets and clothes clean and sanitized to reduce the risk of infection and helping with showers and It’s, you know, got the walk-in shower, so we’re thankful for that. But I still worry about him getting up the stairs safely, and I’m always behind him and making sure the paths are clear for the walker and removing rugs and tripping hazards. And there’s just so much that I didn’t even think about. And, you know, obviously, if I have to do it again, I’m going to prepare a little bit differently and a little bit better. But, wow. Yeah. I remember when our daughter was recovering from her spine surgery, I slept in the same bed with her so I could get up every two hours to roll her over. And then I kept that ice pad thing on her back with a pillow. But, you know, all I had to do was make sure she took her pain medication on time. And, you know, that made her nauseous. So she had to take anti-nausea medication. Then when she got her staph infection, you know, she had to be on IV antibiotics for three weeks, which is a bummer. And I learned how to flush a Broviac catheter and administer the antibiotics and and all that, then she had to be on two different kinds of oral antibiotics for a full year and weekly blood draws, and she was just a tough little cookie. But overall, it didn’t seem that bad to me. Maybe it’s because I was younger. I was younger, too. That was 16 years ago. So, yeah, I was a little younger. Maybe that has a little to do with it. Stuart, what do you got for me?
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Yeah, I’ve had all that done. I’m fused up to T10. I agree with the toes, the feet and all that. It’s just excruciating. I had my back surgery, oh, probably, let’s see, in 13. Yeah. And I had scoliosis, and I was a mess. And I coached baseball, and the other coaches, when I’d walk to my coach’s box, they’d say, all right. But you learn to live with pain to a degree, but it does not go away. It will subside, selling that. He’ll have a few years if his surgeons did a good job. Really, I don’t know how old he is. I imagine he’s 50-some. I think that’s who you are. So anyway, he’ll have some good years. I’m 75 now. I’m still kicking around. But the mobility… But mobility is the big issue. If I drop a pencil on the floor, it’s very hard to pick it up. I almost need assistance to do that. I wear compression hose almost constantly. It’s really helpful. But that’s all due to a motorcycle wreck that I had in 2002 where I had like a whole bucket load of surgeries to save my right leg. And I’m glad I did. But pain is part of the… Part of the recipe, I mean, just is. But I agree with you on all that stuff, and I know I have a good wife, and she’s a wonderful help to me, and she’s taking care of me. And, yeah, and she’s my junior by 13 years. I couldn’t do it without her. Yeah. She’s a wonderful gal.
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Could you imagine what you would have done had you been single?
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Um, no, I don’t. I mean, you could hire visiting angels or somebody like that to come by, but the day to day, like you said, everything from getting dressed to, um, you know, uh, hygiene, just all of that showering. Um, yeah, now I can do it all my own, but I’m starting to come around the turn again. to where it takes me longer to do everything. It wears me out. So anyway, I enjoy listening to you and stuff like that. Well, thanks. I really respect your opinion. And so hang in there. This too shall pass, as they say in the good books. Indeed, indeed. I’m just passing through. This ain’t my home. So anyway.
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Well, right on, Stuart. God bless you, and God bless your wife.
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Yeah, I’m taking you and your husband selling to hang in there. I understand the pain, but you’ve got to live with it.
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You’ve got to work with it. Yep, absolutely. Thanks, Stuart. We’re going to take a quick break. Yep, thanks so much. Take a quick break. We’ll be right back.
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And we’re back. You know, as I was considering what to talk about today, my husband had read me something that he saw online that Trump was asking why Obama isn’t in prison. Now, this whole thing opened up a whole can of worms. So my husband sent me an article by Wayne Allen Root on WND, and I asked ChatGPT to summarize it for me because I didn’t want to read the entire thing. And this is interesting because… The conversation I had with Chad GPT kind of took a turn, and I want to share it with you because it’s interesting. So it started out with me copying the entire article and taking out all the, you know, advertisements and all the links and all that stuff and tried to clean it up. And I put it into Chad GPT and asked for the summary. Chad GPT said, this is how it started out. Wayne Allen Root’s article, Barry and the Autopen, published at WND on May 31, 2025, is a strongly opinionated piece calling for former President Barack Obama to be criminally investigated. Here’s a summary of the main points. Summary. Root recounts a 2013 interview with Columbia University professor Henry Graff, who allegedly claimed he never saw or taught Barack Obama. casting doubt on Obama’s time at Columbia. Root uses this to fuel broader accusations that Obama’s background and presidency are fraudulent. He argues these are all bullet points. Obama’s Columbia records are suspicious. Root suggests Obama may never have attended Columbia or may have done so under false pretenses such as posing as a foreign student. Second one, Obama’s influence on Biden’s presidency. Root claims Joe Biden was merely a puppet for Obama during his term and that Obama was the real decision maker behind the scenes. The third one, auto pen and presidential authority. He questions who actually signed executive orders during Biden’s term and implies Obama was responsible. The next one calls for investigations. Root urges Donald Trump, assuming he has regained power, to investigate Obama, including And I don’t understand assuming he has regained power. I don’t understand that. And ChatGPT, I think I’ve told you this before, ChatGPT often refers to Trump even now, even now, from January 21st till now as former President Trump. I don’t know if you know that or not, but it does. It’s done it to me twice already. And this also kind of suggests that as well. So Root urges Donald Trump to investigate Obama, including his Social Security number, his Columbia University records, IRS targeting of conservatives, including Root himself, alleged orchestration of the 2020 election rigging and Trump’s indictments. And then the next bullet point, conspiracy and treason accusations. Root accuses Obama of treason, election interference, abuse of power and persecution of political enemies, demanding that Trump use the DOJ and other agencies to prosecute him. So, and then it goes on, and this is part of the summary. Tone and intent. This is all from Chad GPT. The article is highly conspiratorial, accusatory, and partisan. It pushes long debunked theories, e.g. Obama’s citizenship and hidden college records, and frames Obama as the central figure in a massive ongoing political conspiracy. And then it says, let me know if you’d like a fact check of any specific claims. And I went on to say, I responded and said, please do without using CNN, MSNBC, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, or Daily Wire. And of course, I left out ABC, NBC, CBS. Chad GPT came back and said, certainly, let’s fact check the key claims made by Wayne Allen Root in his article using credible sources and avoiding the outlets you specified. Number one claim, Barack Obama never attended Columbia University. It says false. Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a degree in political science. He transferred there from Occidental College in Los Angeles. His time at Columbia is documented through various sources, including his own writings. Like that, whatever, don’t even get me started. Including his own writings and interviews. For instance, Obama wrote an article for Columbia’s student publication, The Sundial, in 1983. Additionally, Columbia University has acknowledged him as an alumni, alumnus. And it gives the sources that it used. The Telegraph, Snopes, Snopes again, NBC, The New Yorker, Miller Center, NBC, Investors Business Daily, and Reuters. Second claim, Obama’s social security number is fraudulent and issued from Connecticut. False. This claim has been thoroughly debunked. While the first three digits of Obama’s Social Security number are associated with Connecticut, the Social Security Administration has explained that the area number does not necessarily correlate with the individual’s residence. There is no credible evidence to suggest that Obama used a fraudulent Social Security number. And that was sourced from Media Matters and Snopes. Third claim, Obama used the IRS to target political opponents like Wayne Allen Root. The result was misleading. In 2013, it was revealed that the IRS had used inappropriate criteria to scrutinize certain organizations applying for tax exempt status, which included some conservative groups. However, subsequent investigations found that liberal groups were also subjected to similar scrutiny. The Treasury Department’s inspector general concluded that the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to select targets for further review, indicating that the issue was not exclusively politically motivated. And that’s from BBC, Wikipedia and NPR, which I asked it not to use NPR, but it did anyway. The next claim, Obama controlled Biden’s presidency and used an auto pen to sign documents. unsubstantiated it says the use of an auto pen even though it is substantiated but whatever the use of an auto pen a device that replicates a person’s signature is a long-standing practice used among u.s presidents for signing documents when they are unavailable to do so in person both democrat and republican presidents have used it there is no credible evidence to support the claim that obama controlled by this presidency or that he used an auto pen to sign documents on biden’s behalf The source there, New York Post, Washington Post, and The Telegraph. Claim number five, Obama should be investigated for treason and election interference. Baseless. There is no evidence to support allegations that Obama committed treason or interfered in elections. Such claims are serious and require substantial proof, which has not been presented. Multiple investigations into election integrity have found no evidence of widespread fraud or interference by Obama. And that was from the Las Vegas Review and the Journal. Conclusion. The claims made by Wayne Allen Root in the article are largely unfounded or have been debunked by credible sources. It’s important to rely on various information and evidence-based reporting when evaluating such serious allegations. Then I said, no snopes or media matters either. Chat GPT said, certainly. Let’s fact-check the key claims made by Wayne Ellen Root in this article using credible sources and avoiding the outlets you specified. Okay, so I’m not going to read all of them. Barack Obama never attended Columbia. It still came back as false. Number two, the Social Security number is fraudulent, still came back as false. And, you know, Obama used the IRS to target opponents like Wayne Allen Root. That came back as misleading. And then Obama controlled Biden’s presidency and used an auto pen to sign documents. Came back, again, as unsubstantiated. And then the last one, Obama should be investigated for treason. And election interference came back as baseless. So the conclusion, same thing, largely unfounded, had been debunked. Okay, so now here’s where it kind of gets interesting. So I said, so you don’t think Obama had any bearing whatsoever in the Biden presidency? ChatGPT came back and said, there’s no public evidence proving that Barack Obama directly controlled or directed Joe Biden’s presidency. Here’s a breakdown of what is known and what is speculative. What’s supported by evidence, and this is what gets a green checkmark, Obama and Biden remain close politically and personally, even though how much smack have you heard Obama talk about Biden on camera, right? You guys have all heard it. Biden served as Obama’s vice president for eight years. Obama publicly supported Biden’s 2020 candidacy and helped with fundraising and endorsements, number two. Obama has served as a high-profile advisor and ally. Bulleted under that, Biden has reportedly consulted Obama on various issues, but that’s not unusual. Presidents often seek input from past presidents or trusted allies. Number three, Biden’s cabinet and policy priorities reflect continuity in Democratic establishment thinking. Bulleted there, there are overlaps in personnel and priorities. For example, climate change, health care access, and multilateral diplomacy. What lacks credible evidence, according to ChatGPT, that Obama controlled or ran the Biden presidency. There’s no credible documentation, insider whistleblowing, or investigatory finding that supports the idea Obama was making executive decisions for Biden. Number two, that Biden was cognitively incapable and Obama filled the power vacuum. Bulleted there, while Biden’s age and moments of verbal flip-ups have been criticized, he has continued. Now, this is where it gets interesting, so hang with me here. It says, while Biden’s age and moments of verbal flip-ups have been criticized, he has continued to participate in high-level negotiations, travel, and public events. No formal determination from medical or legal bodies has disqualified his capacity to serve. Now, remember that I just said that, and I’m going to go on and come back to it in a second. That executive action, the third one here, executive actions or decisions were being made via auto pen by Obama. Bulleted there, use of the auto pen is standard for authorized presidential signatures and is not proof of a shadow presidency. It’s funny they use that word. Bottom line, it says, while Obama likely has influence, as any former president and senior party figure would, there’s no verified evidence that has exercised operational control, blah, blah, blah. I’m not going to read that whole thing. It says, if you’re interested, I can point you toward public records, cabinet meeting logs or policy memos to better evaluate how decisions were actually being made during Biden’s term. I came back and said, but we now know that Biden was cognitively impaired. And we also can ascertain that his cancer was discovered long before it became headline news. Chad GPT came back and said, yes, recent revelations indicate that during his presidency, Joe Biden experienced significant cognitive decline and was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, both of which were reportedly concealed from the public for extended periods. Okay. So right there, it’s kind of contradicting itself. Correct? Correct. Okay, and then there’s a header that says cognitive decline. Multiple sources have reported on President Biden’s cognitive challenges. In the book Original Sin by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, it’s alleged that Biden’s aides and family members actively concealed his cognitive decline. The book describes instances where Biden appeared disoriented, such as getting lost in his own closet at the White House, and forgetting the names of longtime associates. Senator Josh Hawley cited a Secret Service whistleblower who claimed that Biden would become confused and disoriented, including incidents of getting lost in his closet, and then following a poor performance in January,
