RADIOJanuary 16, 2023

Why did Team Biden ‘discover’ the classified documents NOW?

More classified documents were discovered over the weekend at another home of President Joe Biden (…how many homes does he HAVE?!). Attorneys for the president discovered the files when sent to the house to pack things up. But why were lawyers sent to pack up items? Why does it seem like the Biden Administration was aware of these documents the entire time? And if that is true, why did they decide to ‘discover’ them NOW? Is there more to this mysterious timeline? In this clip, Glenn answers all of these questions plus more. And, he’ll dive even more into this topic during his upcoming Glenn TV special this Wednesday at 9pm ET on BlazeTV.com.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: So Kevin McCarthy, he's come out and said, the discovery of more classified documents in President Joe Biden's possession, oh, that highlights the hypocrisy inside the federal government. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it does do that. It does. But is this new?

Haven't we always said this is this

Think of Donald Trump.

I mean, I could go back in time. Think of Ronald Reagan would have done that. Think of Eisenhower. If he would have done that.

I mean, you could go all the way -- think of Lincoln, if he would have done that. This is the same story. It's the same story.

We got it.

Now, why is this story happening? Well, let me give you -- they found more documents over the weekend. Now, remember, the White House said, we're absolutely done with documents.

They found every -- they found more over the weekend. At another house.

How many houses -- this guy is like Ronald McDonald. Ronald McDonald is constantly building another Ronald McDonald House.

How many houses does that clown need? How many houses does the president need?

He's got to have more houses. So they went to another house. And they went, oops. Okay. It's not exactly over, but these documents really don't matter.

Okay. All right. Well, they're classified documents. So I'm pretty sure that would matter.

Now, they went to Wilmington, and -- and when I say they, they went to Wilmington and Rohobeth HEP Beach. That's where his other house is.

And when I say they, I mean the same people that went to, you know, his foundation with the university.

So who are they? His attorneys. Now, this started back in -- what was it? November, or October?

Where the president's attorneys went to his office to pack up stuff and -- and close that office.

His attorneys. Now, that is the world's most expensive moving company. Okay?

Why would you have your attorneys do that?

Well, I could provide a thesis. Let's say, you know, you have something you shouldn't have. And maybe eudone something you shouldn't have done.

You go to your attorneys, first. Because to them, you don't have to say, I know this guy. What you say to them is, you guys can't talk, right?

I mean, legally, everything I say to you, you can't repeat it, right?

Right. Good.

I've got all these top secret documents, okay? There's a bunch of them over there. There might be a bunch of them -- I mean, I think I might have some of them in Sandy Berger's socks. I don't know. So if you guys go in there, and you find them, just do what you have to do, I don't want to know about it.

Okay. The president has said last week, the attorneys told me, you know, do not even ask about. Oh.

Hmm. Did you guys talk about it before they said that to you?

So the attorneys go in. They find it. And they immediately call and cooperate.

You know, that is big of Joe Biden.

Well, that's why he had the attorneys there. Now, go to his house. But I have it with my Corvette. Ah, yeah. We'll come back to them.

See, that is like the safest place on earth. You have an old Corvette?

I'm telling you, you can't break into -- the garage door opener. Nobody has one of those. Nobody has one of those.

You can't just -- and get in. Because the garage door opens.

It's locked.

You need some sort of like, I don't -- this is even beyond quantum computing, to be able to get past one of those Sears garage door openers.

So we're going to come back to that one. So then his other house, this weekend. After it's all out in the open, his attorneys are there at the other house.

Now, I don't know why they haven't done all of the places they could look. You know, at once. Maybe in November.

Hey, we found him in the basement. You have any, you know, next to your Corvette.

Well, there is that big box that says classified and has big red tape all over it. You know, we should probably go there. Do you have any other houses that -- I don't know why. I don't know why. But they're fully cooperating.

Okay. Now, let's ask two questions. Let's ask two questions.

When something says top secret, to get a top secret classification, what do they do, before you get that little card?

Stu.

STU: They usually do a background check.

GLENN: Background check. Okay. Good. Good. What are they looking for?

STU: Criminal activity. Some way you could be compromised.

GLENN: Compromised, sure.

Or, you know, I just toured the Soviet Union.

You know, they're looking for anything that you've done, that shows that you are on, let's say not America's side.

Or you have any friends that might be let's say, not on American side.

Or you have any business dealings, with some people, that let's just say, are not America's side. And then you also look -- final thing is, is he compromised with money? With drugs?

Is there a sex scandal? Is he -- is he prone to a honey pot thing? Okay. All right. That's what they're looking for.

Because you can so easily need money. And then somebody can come out and go, listen, I'm Boris, but I'm absolutely love America. And I just want to see the -- I want to see top secret document, pause I want to show you how American I am.

I'll never say anything to Soviet Union.

Okay. All right. That guy could approach you and go, so you need a little money, maybe. A little heroin. Okay. I can help.

But I want to see top secret document.

That's what they're worried about. Okay.

Now, wait a minute. This isn't the president or vice president's house at the time, he was the vice president. And he had them there, while he was vice president. And then he kept them there, while he was president. Okay. So they've been in there for a while. Who else has been in his house?

Oh, my gosh! A guy who is constantly asking for money for drugs and hookers. A guy who is doing shady business deals with China and with Russia. And Ukraine. Wait a minute. That's exactly the kind of guy we don't want to have access to top secret documents! Yeah. But he was almost never there.

Well, let's go back to that ultra secure garage. That's the house that Hunter Biden was renting from his dad. Not now with his art money. He was renting it from his dad, when he had no money. Remember?

I've got no money. That's why she's pregnant. I couldn't afford a condom. Oh, poor guy.

So his dad said, just stay at my house. I'm not living there. You just stay at my house.

Oh, my gosh. What a great dad. And he wanted to make sure, that his son grew up a little bit. And you'll have to work for it, a little bit. You know, this house. The most expensive rent in this area, is $6,000 a month.

So I'm going to cut you a deal, because you're my son. You just pay $50,000 a month.

But, Dad, remember, I couldn't afford the condom.

Right. Well, this is a condominium. With more letters. Going to be a little more expensive.

$50,000 to his desperate son.

Now, where does his desperate, I don't have any money son get that money?

Oh, don't worry. He's got a job with like Burisma. He's doing deals over in China. Completely his deal. No big deal.

No big deal.

Joe Biden does not know a thing about it. Nothing. He's not getting any money from it. He's just trying to help out his poor wayward son. Giving him access to his house. So he has a place to rest his angelic head. While dad charges him $50,000 a month.

And what's in that house?

The boxes of top secret documents, right there, next to the garage.

So you don't need MacGyver. You don't need some genius to go, how do we break in, past that Sears robotic arm?

How do we do it?

Because you already have a drug addict inside. Who is writing his family going, yeah. At least dad doesn't take half your money. Remember? He's really bitter and angry with his dad, at that time. He wants his dad to suffer.

Hmm. So what Boris has to do? Hey. I hear you're unhappy about Dad, huh? Hey. Are those little top secret documents. You know, what would be fun, I give you more money. We say, you work in gas industry.

So why is this all coming out now?

Why did -- why did the attorneys go in to look for all of these documents? Why are they turning them in?

And it's good news, right? That we have a special counsel. Of course, it is. It's a very good thing. I'll tell you right now, you say the Justice Department is corrupt. I've employed a special counsel on it.

Oh, good. Let me tie this all up in a nice little bow for you, in 60 seconds.

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GLENN: Okay. So let's tie this up in a bow. You have the lawyers, special counsel, the House, Hunter Biden. And innocent. Looking like a little puppy dog with big sad eyes, Joe Biden. Okay. Here's what's going on: Back in November, I remember reading a lil story. Lil, as Tom Broadkaw used to say. A lil story about how Joe Biden's White House was now preparing for the onslaught of the Republicans who were going to possibly win Congress, and they needed to have all these attorneys ready to go.

So they were already working up things. Okay.

Sidebar, put that off to the side for a second.

Why would you have your attorneys do this, when you know you're going to look like a hypocrite?

Well, you might want to do that with your attorneys, so you could tell the attorneys everything that, you know, what's going on, and they can't say anything.

And they could clean up this mess, and make it old news, by the time it's used in a case against Hunter Biden. We know this.

They already brought those out. And they were cooperating every step of the way.

We already know that Hunter Biden was paying his father $50,000 a month. And he rented a house where all those documents were. But it was crazy. His dad was, you know, vice president. He has a wayward son.

He was just trying to help him out. That's why we appointed a special counsel. Oh, no. Wait a minute. What was it that I heard from the worst spokesman at the White House ever, on this question?

Play it again, Sam. Play it again, Sam. Play it -- play it again, Sam. Okay.

VOICE: Does this episode undercut that argument? That he would restore confidence? Because here we have in the headlines that he is now under investigation.

VOICE: He's restored independence in the Department of Justice. That's what we're doing here. When we're saying we're going to refer you to the Department of Justice, that is restoring independence as it relates to --

GLENN: Oh, stop for a second.

So the only reason why a special counsel was appointed, was to restore America's confidence in the system.

And it has nothing to do with now Joe Biden, his attorneys, his spokespeople, saying, I cannot comment on this anymore.

I refer you to the Department of Justice. Well, normally, when they would say that, imagine if it was Abraham Lincoln and they did this. There would be leaks. Abraham Lincoln.

He's under investigation. But here's the stuff our inside sources tell us.

This time, there won't be those leaks.

So you've effectively now shut down the story. Well, they they got somebody super special on the case. Yeah. Inspector gadget.

We needed inspector gadget, because he's the only guy to figure out whether you could have a Corvette and a serious car opener and get into the place. Uh-huh. That's what's going on. This is all just pretrial maneuvering. Preinvestigative maneuvering. By the White House. To make this, we've heard this before.

That's just old news.

Yet all of these things cleared up, so they can say, I'm not talking about old news.

I'm talking about what's happening today. This president needs to concentrate on what's going on for the American people.

That's exactly what's happening. And if you would like more evidence of it, join me on Wednesday.

Because Wednesday, on my Wednesday night special on Blaze TV, I line all of this out.

It's pretty clear, when you look at it. Hmm.

Too bad nobody in the media is looking at it. It's weird. Neither is Kevin McCarthy. I can't believe the double standard of the media. You go get them, Kevin.

STATE-RUN MEDIA tries to BLAME TRUMP for 2nd assassination attempt?!

“We are entering a new time,” Glenn says. Modern-day political assassins historically come from 3 groups, “and they are all wound tight as a drum” right now. Glenn reviews the evidence that the Left, not the MAGA movement, is calling for violence — even after the first Trump assassination attempt. But how did the state-run media respond to the second Trump assassination attempt? By blaming … TRUMP?!

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: We are entering a new time.

Anybody who is paying attention, knows that. I've never, in my lifetime seen -- seen something so close to being a John F. Kennedy moment, as the assassination attempt, on Donald Trump.

I have seen an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. It either, history shows, it comes from one of three groups.

Either crazies. John Hinckley.

Or wound up communists. Anarchists.

Socialists. Comes from the left. Pragmatism or it comes from Palestinian zealots. That's just a fact.

We have all of those zealots at a zenith of power right now. And they are wound tight as a drum. Our media doesn't really care.

When they targeted, yeah. And I use that word.

When they targeted Sarah Palin for using the word "targeted" -- we're targeting these districts. When Gabby Giffords was shot, they made a really big deal out of it. I mean, do you remember what they put her through?

But now, they don't seem to care, at all.

About their language. Now, after two assassination attempts. Here is the -- we put a montage together of their rhetoric against Donald Trump for the last few years. Listen to this. Cut two, please.

VOICE: When was the last time, an actor assassinated a president?

VOICE: Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?

VOICE: I believe that Trump poses a fundamental threat to America.

VOICE: Trump is as destructive a person in this century, as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century.

VOICE: President Trump is dangerous to America. And the future of America.

VOICE: We need to articulate the fact that Donald Trump is a danger to America.

VOICE: He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation.

VOICE: Donald Trump is a fascist leader. And he's mobilizing his forces.

VOICE: Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation.

VOICE: He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy.

VOICE: He is not only unfit. He is destructive, to our democracy.

And he has to be -- he has to be eliminated.

VOICE: The emphasis of threat to the United States of America is Donald Trump.

VOICE: I see Trump as a danger to democracy.

And I see him as a self-proclaimed fascist.

GLENN: Trump is an existential threat to the future of America.

VOICE: David Aaronovitch, who presents Radio 4's briefing room show, took to X/Twitter.

And wrote, if I was Biden, I would hurry it up, and have Trump murdered on the basis that's a threat to America's security.

GLENN: So there's assassination attempt number one after years of indoctrination.

That he is Hitler.

If you really believe he's Hitler, I mean, people have -- have, you know, played that little game even when we were kids, you know, if you could go back and assassinate Hitler as a baby, would you do it?

Of course, I would do it. Well, here's Hitler, about to take power.

If that's -- if you listen to them, that's what you believe. So, of course, you will wind up nutjobs, to go out and try to shoot.

Now, they immediately said, after the last assassination attempt, they said, we've got to -- you know, will anybody, you know, tone down the rhetoric?

Well, let's see, did they tone downtown rhetoric? This is the rhetoric since the first assassination. Cut one.

VOICE: You know, we're here to say (bleep) Trump, (bleep) MAGA. The whole agenda. The whole fascists.

VOICE: What do you think about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump?

VOICE: This was close.

We could be in a time line for Trump to be dead, and for me, that would have been okay.

VOICE: It's too bad the bandage was just over his ear. It should have been over his mouth.

VOICE: I think with every fabric of my body. I think that Donald Trump represents a threat to democracy. Look, are they a threat to democracy? Yes. Are they going to take our rights away? Yes.

VOICE: It is threats against democracy. I think it's important, to, you know, turn the page.

VOICE: He will focus on Donald Trump's threat to American democracy.

VOICE: He feels very strongly that Donald Trump say threat to our democracy.

VOICE: So Donald Trump was recently shot at one of his rallies. How do you feel about that?

VOICE: I wish he would have gotten shot in the forehead.

VOICE: Donald Trump is dangerous. And because he's dangerous, Project 2025 is dangerous.

VOICE: Right now, I feel like MAGA in general, they are threats to us domestically, and we see it time and time again.

GLENN: Okay. So that's them toning things down. Yesterday, just before the news broke, Kamala Harris was speaking at a rally.

And she said, Donald Trump must never again be allowed to stand behind a microphone. Or the seal of the president of the United States.

Now, you could say, when she said, stand behind the seal of the president of the United States, that she was just saying, that we can't allow him to be elected.

Go out and get the vote.

But for a man to never be allowed to stand behind a microphone, how exactly do you do that?

Do you throw him in prison?

Oh, yeah. They're trying to do that. Or do you just kill him?

And I would say, yeah. They're trying to do that, as well.

How did they respond, yesterday?

Let's -- let's go to cut three. Here's MSNBC.

Yesterday.

VOICE: The demonization of the other side. Where we simply, it's no longer politics.

It's gotten bigger than that. You know, the calls for violence. The violence rhetoric. That you look at what happens.

That this heated rhetoric can only go so far. Before unfortunately, it has led to violence. On both sides of the aisle.

So I think it's just something that Democrats and Republicans can --

GLENN: Can we stop?

Let me just ask you a question.

So are you saying, that Donald Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric, which then his people use to go and try to kill him?

Because that doesn't make any sense.

He's ratcheting up the rhetoric.

No. I've heard him talk about facts.

I've heard him talk about facts like she's -- she grew up a Marxist. And she's lying to you.
And if you had a -- a non-state press, which ABC is now.

You have to stop thinking of these people as press.

They are one and the same. They are Pravda. They are a government propaganda arm.

That is clear.

If you would have had a fair debate, you would have had a few things corrected.

But what was happening?

Well, what happened in that debate, was exactly what Kamala Harris said would happen.

But she accused Donald Trump of being the one who would do it.

She said, you will hear nothing, but name-calling.

You will hear lies and smears.

And that's exactly what she did, the whole time.

Because her whole strategy, was to piss him off.

I don't know if name-calling counts when you just say somebody is weak.

You're weak. You're weak.

You're pathetic. You're weak.

She was egging him on.

Now, if that's the person that wants to be the leader of the free world, now, that's interesting.

That's interesting.

Now, you can say, well, Donald Trump did that.

Yes. But you hated him doing that. So why have you gone down to his level. If that's what you think?

Well, it's the only way to win. Oh. So you believe the ends justify the means.

I don't believe that. I don't like things that Donald Trump said. Has said in the past.

I don't hear him say these things anymore.

I think the man has changed. I know him.

I would consider him a friend, now.

I didn't like him at first. Actually, I liked him at first.

And then I thought, he was playing me.

Which he wasn't.

I really thought he was playing me, I have learned, that's who this guy is.

And then, what did he do?

He got into office.

And what did he do?

He made America better? He ended the wars. He was unwinding things rationally, he was exposing the lies. Of the Deep State, that you now know exists.

I mean, the whole Russian collusion thing.

Even the media has mentioned it, that it was a lie.

They're still giving the same crap.

They're still talking to the same insiders in the intelligence community, tell us.

They're still using the same sources. But they had to admit that, yes. Those sources were lying.

So while they said that he was a Russian asset. Well, they said, that he was doing all kinds of things that he shouldn't have been doing.

Nothing was ever proven.

In fact, the you know the guy who came out on the perfect phone call.

Ukraine. That everybody just loves so much. He was the perfect whistle-blower!

Vindman. Oh, my gosh. He was great.

We got to listen to Vindman. Right?

Right? We have to listen to him, right?

Do you know his brother is running for office, in Virginia?

His brother.

Vindman.

You vote for Vindman. You know, you should have your head examined.

But Vindman actually came out, the wife of Vindman.

Came out this weekend, and said, carry on with your Sunday afternoon.

No ears were harmed.

That was her response.

Hmm. She doubled down.

After a Congress -- a congressman came out and said, you know, that's probably not the right thing to do.

You shouldn't -- you probably shouldn't vote for the brother. She doubled down. She said, I condemn you. I condemn your lack of integrity. Your attacks on immigrants.

Your desecration of Arlington National Cemetery.

Really? I was with the families, this weekend.

I was with them.

I was with them. I want you to meet them.

They're amazing. They're -- they're not anti-Democrat, anti-Republican. Anti-anything.

They are just pro-the truth. And they have been smeared and destroyed.

And they asked Donald Trump to go to Arlington National Cemetery.

They asked him. He did.

These people are -- they're nuts.

And, you know, many -- maybe many of our families have been infected by this.

But I urge you, not to -- I urge you, before you concentrate on anybody else. Concentrate on yourself.

Clean out your own house.

Make sure that your house is in order.

Make sure that you have nothing, that you are doing, that is against, you know, common sense.

Against the teachings of Christ.

Clean it all out. Whatever you're doing. Stop it right now.

Clean it out.

Finish it. Put it in the past. Repent.

And prepare yourself.

Have to. I firmly believe. And I -- you know, everybody said this, from the dawn of time.

And they've been wrong every time.

So I'm most likely wrong. Probably 99 percent chance I'm wrong. But I think the Lord is coming. And you have to choose, which side you're on.

I'm not on Donald Trump's side. I'm on the Lord's side. And the Lord will use anyone as flawed as they are, if they just will stand up.

Just stand up. And protect what is right. No matter how flawed they are. Martin Luther King is was a very flawed man. He stood up, and did what was right.

This guy is not going to stop. He doesn't need it for his family. He doesn't certainly need it for his business.

He doesn't need it for money. He doesn't need it for fame.

Why the hell is this guy running?

Why the hell is this guy -- they tried to kill him now, twice. Almost killed him the first time.

And he stood up, and looked at the audience. And said, fight! Yesterday, his response was, I am just going to play through.

No. Mr. President, we need to get you off the golf course. Why?

FBI whistleblower WARNS about agent investigating 2nd Trump assassination attempt

The FBI is investigating the incident at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida as a second assassination attempt against Donald Trump. But is the FBI trustworthy to lead this investigation? FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who exposed what really happened in the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid, joins Glenn Beck to expose how the SAME FBI office is handling this investigation! And even worse, the Special Agent in charge was previously in charge of an anti-whistleblower division. To top it all off, he also reportedly had to cleanse his Facebook page of all his anti-Trump posts! So, why is he the agent now in charge of investigating an alleged attempt on Trump's life?! And should we even trust the FBI as a whole after it helped concoct the Russian collusion hoax and suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story?

Transcript

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GLENN: All right. Let me talk to Steve Friend. Steve is a whistle-blower with the FBI. He has -- they have made his life miserable.

But he doesn't care. He's doing the right thing. He's one of the -- he's one of the good guys that used to see, and you used to believe that existed in places like the FBI. He really is that guy.

True blue. Cares about the country and the Constitution. He blew the whistle on the -- on the FBI in Florida.

When they went full S.W.A.T. on Mar-a-Lago. Which we know now, was absolutely unnecessary.

And way out of protocol.

Steve is with us now. Because I wanted to get him on. Because the guy who authorized that, and then dummied evidence up, is the guy in charge now, of the FBI's investigation of this shooter.

How good does that make you feel, Steve?

STEVE: Oh, well. I mean, it actually goes a little bit deeper than that, Glenn. With the media, you need the old chalkboard out here, to explain to the audience.

This is for Jeffrey Veltri. And for your audience's edification, before he assumed his post in FBI Miami, as a special agent in charge.

He was the deputy assistant director of the security division of the FBI. That's the branch that's going after the whistle-blowers. And from that post, he actually said that, whistle-blowers, that they were looking to perch on the ranks, were people that were military veterans. Because he thought they were disloyal.

As well as people who attended regular religious worship ceremonies, as opposed to the coronavirus vaccine.

And then when the word came down, he was going to go to the FBI Miami office.

Christopher Wray and deputy director Paula Bait, and executive assistant director Jen Moore, also another person who -- was involved in getting rid of all the whistle-blowers.

Said that he had to cleanse his Facebook account of all the anti-Trump vitriol that he publicly put out there.

And how he was in a position of authority on the FBI Miami office.

And that's just the office that has the responsibility for investigating the latest assassination attempt.

GLENN: So you think the guy who wanted to purge the FBI of military people, religious people, and Trump supporters, might not do an honest investigation? Is that what I'm hearing Steve?

STEVE: Well, I mean, throw out a little sarcasm here, Glenn. But at the same time, this is the agency that looked at the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, where a Bernie Sanders supporter showed up, as for other Republicans, then proceeded to try to kill 10 percent of the Republican caucus. And the FBI investigated and said, it was not an assassination attempt. That was suicide by cop.

GLENN: Steve, what has to happen to the FBI?

I -- I was unfortunately, I -- made a statement. Right after my wife called me. And she said, have you heard the news?

And I said, oh, dear God, what?

And she said, they tried to kill the president again.

And then I had people ask me for comments and everything else. So I rushed to X. I shouldn't have.

And made a -- made a statement that was just raw, and then Spaces asked me to come on and make another statement. And that was even more raw.

I shouldn't have done it. I was really, really upset about this. But at some point, I calmed down in the interview. I said, we have to -- we have to fumigate all of the federal government. I mean, if you really wanted to do this right, to return it to factory settings, you have to shut it down, and restart again.

You know, turn it on and turn it back -- turn it off, and turn it back on again. And restore the factory settings to the Constitution.

These things have to be fumigated. They just have to be out. All of these people need to be fired.

Even the good ones. Because we don't know who is good and bad. And we have to start from scratch.

Is that what it's going to take, Steve?

STEVE: 100 percent.

And this goes back to when we were first introduced a couple years ago, and I told you, one of my greatest concerns was that the FBI was going to be one of the major contributors to the boiling pot.

They continued to raise the temperature, and have what's happened within the country.

And the FBI had convinced half of one side, that the other half wants to kill them because they're Nazi terrorists and extremists. And the FBI has just followed suit. They have become more and more politicized.

And if you did not know anything else, and I'm done talking about the good men and women of the FBI. If you don't know anything else about the FBI, and I told you, as an American taxpayer, are you willing to give $12 billion to an organization, which in 2016, took a fake dossier, to a fake counterintelligence investigation of a candidate, and then eventual President Trump.

People opened an illegal Pfizer wiretaps.

Then used those illegal Pfizer wiretaps to find out in 2020, about the ne'er-do-well son of then candidate Joe Biden, having a laptop that was already in the FBI's investigation.

And they stood idly by, at 51 intelligence officials, saying it was Russian disinformation. And then went to social media companies, that told them it was sensitive information.

Essentially to generate a talking point for a presidential debate. You would say, that's a secret police force. Of the republic. We have to control, alt, delete it.

GLENN: Let me ask you, did you see Merrick Garland's speech last week?

STEVE: I did unfortunately. But I was grateful that Tulsi Gabbard reached out to me, and highlight the fact that this is a completely broken and weaponized Department of Justice.

That should also be on the chopping block.

GLENN: Tulsi Gabbard has just been so great.

I just love her.

You know, I saw her say, it was hard not to laugh, if it wasn't so true.

But had he -- this speech that he gave last week, that they are on the up and up. That there's no -- no corruption.

And he won't hear of the good men and women of the Justice Department.

This is -- you have to be insane, Steve.

You have to be insane.

To believe what this government is telling you now, about all of these things.

STEVE: Well, I mean, you have half of the country, that's convinced that the other half is radical, and rabid. And they've been told that for the last eight years.

And because they had preferred the Republican candidate for president in the last two presidential elections. And the Department of Justice is the key on the attack dog. And they are sending out their forces.

Their storm troopers in force, to go after the perceived political enemies of the current administration.

And that includes 89-year-old women who are concentration camp survivors that were praying outside of abortion clinics. And it includes guys like my friend Garrett O'Boyle, who came forward for the right reason at the right time, and made a nonpartisan whistle-blower disclosure.

And he was recommended for perjury charges. When in fact, there's actual evidence, that that was not true.

I was grateful also, that TheBlaze, Joe Hanneman and Steve Baker contributed to his story, highlighting that last week.

GLENN: Did you see, what Robert F. Kennedy said on Saturday?

He's now being investigated for something that happened 20 years ago.

He said, I received a letter from the national March even fisherman's newt. Saying they were investigating me. For collect a whale specimen man, 20 years ago. Now, how does that happen, I mean, at this time, if it isn't the weaponization of government?

STEVE: He doesn't. This is just more evidence, that I don't know what is going to require us to incentivize our elected officials, to actually come to the conclusion, that going after RFK, going after an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor. For them to say, that we have to avert a government shutdown.

Is effectively saying, it is a better outcome for the government to go after individuals like RFK. Rather than have us go through a temporary partial government shutdown.

That looked a lot like Labor Day weekend. And I think the American people -- I don't know how that weekends you to the government being shut down partially, but I think it's more of an optimal solution, that it just hasn't been put forward by the people that we elected. And they pledged to us, that they would end weaponization, and it hasn't happened, in the two years that it's been upheld.

GLENN: Can you tell me, Steve, last question.

What are the questions that have to be answered on this shooting?

STEVE: I want to know, how an individual was posted up at a golf course. Because there's no reason, that he would be out there inspecting it, unless he was out there every single take.

So there's either some sort of operational security issue, or there was some sort of coordination. I was willing. And actually, took the belief, that Butler, Pennsylvania, was due to the myth of competence of the Secret Service.

It just hasn't been tested for four decades. It had lots of failures that always was on. But the fact that this guy was able to be there, at a time when Donald Trump -- who doesn't play golf there, every single day.

GLENN: No. No, no, no.

And it was not on his schedule. It was not on his schedule, that he would be at Mar-a-Lago. Although. You could make, it would be a reasonable -- he has a day off from the campaign. It's a reasonable sumptuous.

Him playing golf. CNN has now verified, that was a last-minute edition. So how did this guy know that?

STEVE: That's a huge question. And it's also the fact that that's a regular location for him to go.

And since he's been in public office, the last almost decade now. You would think there would be additional security measures now. That is just regular threat assessment to harden that place.

And it was not like he was at a Dustin National (phonetic), or he saw -- no, they're entirely different golf courses.

No, that's his regular place. And they did not do that. That's a security failure. The fact that he was able to be there, at that time and at that place.

What people don't understand is three to 500 yards. If you're playing golf, that's far. If you're shooting a rifle, that's barely reaching out, and touching someone by the nose.

GLENN: Thank you very much, Steve.

I appreciate it. Thank you for everything you've done. A man who has been dragged through the mud. And his life made a living hell, just because he tried -- stood up, at the FBI and said, no.

This is wrong. I won't do that. A whistle-blower extraordinaire, Steve Friend.

REACTION: Something is VERY OFF about the 2nd Trump assassination attempt

Former president Donald Trump was allegedly targeted for assassination a second time over the weekend, this time at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida. Glenn takes a close look at all that we currently know, and things look VERY suspicious. Glenn asks the questions the state-run media won't: Why did the potential attacker bring a Go-Pro and body armor (misleadingly referred to by the media as "ceramic tiles")? How did he even know Trump would be golfing at that time? Did the Secret Service actually do its job? Did the suspect, with all his ties to Ukraine and history of media interviews and donations to the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, have any outside help?

Transcript

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GLENN: Well, we'll all remember where we were when they tried to kill the president, the second time! Here's an idea.

What do you say, we just go to the ballot box? What do you say?

We're 50 days away? Can we take the next seven weeks and not try to assassinate somebody in this country? You want to talk about a banana republic. Gang, we're here.

I will tell you, I'm not doing the show today, that I had planned.

Because I was meeting with the president on Saturday. And he said something off-handed to me. And I was going in a direction of research on something.

And he said, Glenn, I think there is something that is bigger than the economy.

Right now. And he said, the economy, we're killing them on the economy.

He said with they have been no place to go on the economy. They have no record on the economy.

He said, but what's happening now in our cities with and be what's happening in Ohio. And elsewhere. In -- in Denver. He said, I think this is actually a bigger thing than the economy.

And he is absolutely right.

If you know some of the things that we've been doing research on.

Chris Rufo has already done his research on this.

This is something that they've known about. Well, I'll get into it, not today. Well, we'll probably get into it a little bit tomorrow.

But today, I have to talk about, a would-be assassin. Now, this one seems to be miraculous. You know, God saved, I believed. It was a miracle that Donald Trump turned his head, and -- and the bullet missed him. And only nicked his ear. Instead of going right to the center of his head. And all of us having clear, clear high-definition evidence of the president's head exploding. Live.

So I think God saved him. From the last one.

God may have saved him from this one, as well.

But this one was a miracle, in the darkest of ways, as well.

First, let me tell you what happened. Early reports said that police recovered an AK-47 from the bushes outside of the golf course, where the president was golfing, as well as a GoPro recording device. Now, why would you have a GoPro recording device?

Why would you have it attached to the fence, pointed out at the putting green? Why would you have that?

Unless you were planning on recording that, so that your deeds would live forever. Now, my question is: Is there anything else already reported on the GoPro? Is there maybe a statement? Because why would you record your deeds, without recording a message for all to hear? So I would like to know what was on the GoPro, if anything. But this guy obviously had an agenda.

Now, he, according to the press, oh. He was all wound up because of Trump's rhetoric. Was he now?

We'll get to that in a second stop they caught him, after he was in the bushes. And a Secret Service agent, was eagle-eyed enough, to spot the barrel of a gun, coming out from the bushes. This guy had taken two backpacks, and tied them to the fence. And they were on each side of where he would have been sitting, and the barrel of the gun, would have been right between them.

Now, it's really curious. I mean, I know the media, they're so smart. They know what everything means. They reported that he had ceramic tiles in his backpack. And I immediately thought, I thought he was a roofer? Not somebody that was going to lay tile in bathrooms. No! Could they explain what ceramic tiles mean? I know, because I've had to wear them. From time to time.

A ceramic tile is what you put inside the bulletproof vest, if you are expecting a chest shot. A bulletproof vest will not stop a high-powered rifle. However, ceramic tile will. So he put ceramic tile in his backpacks, right where he would have been crouched. With the gun. So he was expecting a shoot-out. Okay.

How did this Secret Service agent see it? I don't know. But I want to believe and take it at face value. That he was doing his job.

The reason why I say this time I believe it, at least this time I want to believe that that agent was doing his job. Is because I was with the president on Saturday. And I said on X, and I don't know where else I said it on Saturday, this is very first time I have seen the Secret Service in 15 years, actually do their job.

I have sat behind Mitt Romney, pass the Secret Service, with the guy next to me, and a gun in his back.

They missed it. I have come through security doors, that were supposed to be secure. And went past all of the Secret Service passage. All of their security. Went behind them, around them. And walked right directly to the president.

Now, if I can do that, who can't?

And I've been railing about this, for 15 years. Saturday was the first time, I thought Secret Service was taking it seriously.

There was no way, you were getting into the event that I was in, unless you were an invited guest, or you were supposed to be there.

And there was no way, you were getting close to the president.

So what happened?

Well, I want to believe, that -- I want to believe that the Secret Service was doing their job. There were two holes. One or two holes ahead of the president. And he was scoping it out. And he looks and he sees the barrel of a gun through the bushes. There's then a shoot-out. Apparently, they were shooting at each other. They were not shooting at the president.

I don't know, because things are still unclear. The reason why we caught him, is because somebody saw him run out of the bushes. And then get into his car. Somebody with the wherewithal to write down the plate number, and be able to remember what the car was.

They called police immediately. Said, here's the plate number. Here's what the car looks like. And because we have new AI, all over the freeways. All over our roads. It could read license plate numbers. Identify the car. And they found him almost immediately. Stopped him on the how.

They arrested him.

So now, now what?

Well, who is he?

Well, the first person. Well, as soon as the name was released, the Guardian was the first place to actually find his son.

His son is -- was, I believe, in Florida.

And they called him. His name is Orin Ralph. They called him, he picked up the phone. He hadn't heard the news. And he was asked for a comment. And he said, well, this is the first I've heard about it. Was my father shot or injured?

He then said, his father hates Donald Trump, as, quote, every reasonable person does.

Hmm. Okay. All right. He said, I don't like Trump either.

Now, this is just -- this is his immediate response, after hearing that his father tried to kill the president, he then says, well, he hates him just like every reasonable person, and I hate him too.

Oh, okay. But he said, his dad was not a violent person, and couldn't believe his father would target the president. He's my dad, and all that he's had is a couple of traffic tickets, as far as I know.

That's crazy. I know my dad. I love my dad, and that's nothing like him.

Is it? Is it really? Nothing like him. You know your dad?

Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Now, he said, I've got to go. Because I have to get more information. But I don't know any more, because weed a falling out. We've grown apart.

But he's not a violent person. He's a hardworker. He's a great dad. He's a great dude. He's a nice guy, who worked his whole F-ing life.

I've never known him to even own a gun or known him to do anything like this.

Okay. Well, I don't think you know your dad. I don't think you know your dad.

Because your dad seeming -- the evidence seems to point, that it was the same guy, with the same name. In the same state.

That barricaded himself into his office, a gun.

And that gun, well, the FBI said it was a weapon of mass destruction.

It was a fully automatic machine gun.

So he went to prison. Or, I'm sorry. Went to jail.

He was convicted. Of having a weapon of mass destruction.

Now, wow. That seems like that should have been a long sentence. But it wasn't. It wasn't.

And if you are -- if you're caught with an automatic weapon, and you don't have a -- a stamp for it.

A tag for it.

Well, then you are. You go to prison usually 20 years.

I don't know why he didn't go to jail for 20 years. But he didn't.

And then he got out. Now, remember, his dad is just a peaceful person.

Then he got out. And started to recruit people, to go to Ukraine!

To fight in Ukraine!

Now, this is where it gets really interesting.

By the way, after the son did verify that, yep, that is his dad.

He -- he made a public statement.

He said, I hate this game, every four years. And I think we all do. And if my father wants to be a martyr, to how broken and disassociated the process has become from the real problems and practical solutions, then that's his choice.

So see, that sounds like you're excusing your dad's actions.

I'm not saying that what he's done or what he's about, that's just my own rant, about being fed up with all of it, for my entire life.

South park said it best, every four years, we're forced to choose between a giant turd sandwich and a giant douche. And it all stays f'ed in the same ways by different degrees, and we're exhausted and embarrassed by it all.

Hmm. So the ends justifies the means, is what I'm hearing here.

Well, thank you for stopping by Saul Alinsky. Well, let me get back to who this guy is.

Because I have Eric Prince coming up in about half an hour. He's the guy who said to Ron DeSantis, you should take this investigation in-house, because I don't think you should just trust the FBI on it.

And, thank you, Eric. Neither do I.

Why a Kamala Harris presidency would be DEVASTATING for small businesses

Would a Kamala Harris presidency destroy small businesses? Small business expert Carol Roth joins Glenn to make the case: "They want to kill the gig economy and all the small businesses that depend on independent contractors in favor of unions and big business. So, it's very difficult to say, 'I am the small business, I am the worker candidate,' and still be in favor of these things." Carol compares this to "McDonald's being pro-cow." She also explains why Harris' claim that 19 million new business applications have been filed since she and Joe Biden took office is incredibly misleading.

Transcript

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GLENN: Okay. But, Carol, she does have some things she can boast about.

The small business success. She claims a record of 19 million small business applications were received, under their leadership.

And that's a record, I hear. That's what they say.

CAORL: Okay. So this is -- I think most people know, who listen to me on your program. That I'm one of the world's leading experts on small business.

I've been entrenched for decades. I heard this -- this thing. This small business application.

And I went around, to every group that I know. And I said, what is a small business application?

Because when I started my business, I didn't have to apply, at the federal level.

You know, historically, I had an LLC. I registered that with the state. Some people had sole pro proprietorship. What does this mean?

Because we have 33 million plus businesses. But that only grows on net. Less than a million a year. So how is it possible that we have 19 million new application starts. And so far, no one has really been able to give me an answer. I have one -- one committee, you know, related to the House, who thinks that maybe there's an information that came from the state census data. I asked them. They actually are having a committee hearing. And I asked them, if they could ask, the FDA administrator. And putting her on the hot seat. Because they're running around, touting these made-up statistics to sound like they're some champion of small business. At the same time, Glenn, NFIB came out with their fall business optimism index today.

The 30-second consecutive months, that small business optimism has been below the historical average. And that's a 50-year average.

GLENN: Well, that's because they fear Donald Trump is coming back.

CAORL: For 32 months, yes.

GLENN: It's crazy. Because I see this number, of 19 million small businesses. And I -- and I am like, I thought, that was just because of all the businesses, that they had put out of business. They're like, starting up new businesses. So I just thought, they were taking credit. Like they do with all the job creation.

We've created more jobs. No, you didn't. People went back to work. You had told them, you cannot work.

So, of course, there were people going back to work.

But you're saying, this isn't that, at all. This is possibly even made up.

CAORL: Yeah. It's -- it's something that nobody knows really what it means. It certainly is not a prop -- it's not a prop for new small businesses created, which is what they're intimating. And we know the number of small businesses, you know, a year ago, was 32-point-something million, and then it climbed to 33-point-something million.

You know, yes, that's on that. Unless they're killing a million small businesses a year, which we know, they're certainly trying. But I don't think they've succeeded in doing it yet. That this is an absolute -- it's just, you know, spouting off nonsense.

And they're doing this, you know, again and again to gaslight people. Into things are so great. We're so in your corner. But at the same time, she's coming out, and she's tweeting about anti-small business policies.

Like, the Pro Act, that she said she's going to put in place. Which, for people who don't know, that's the anti-gig worker and anti-independent contractor language from California's 85 (phonetic) taken nationally. And they want to kill the gig economy and all the small businesses that depend on independent contractors, in favor of unions and big business.

So it's very difficult, to say, I am the small business. I am the worker candidate.

And still be in favor of these things. Which is why I equate it to being like McDonald's being pro-Catholic.

GLENN: You know, it is -- as a small business owner myself.

I look at tomorrow. And think, if they get in, the regulations, just the regulations, alone, that are still sitting out there, that they want to impose.

Will just crush small businesses.

These guys, you know, they used to say, well, the -- the Republicans are in with big business.

Well, then we're also in with small business too.

You know, they had a business attitude.

These guys are only big business.

They are only in with the giant global corporations.

That's all they care about. And it's honestly, like they're trying to impoverish, the small business.

And impoverish the middle class.

Without moving any of the middle class up. They're moving them all down.

CAORL: Yeah. I'm glad that you brought up regulations.

Because as I mentioned, there's this House Committee meeting right now.

And they came out with a report earlier this year, that the Biden-Harris agenda. Imposed $1.7 trillion in regulations on small businesses.

Ask that was before we've had some of these pending regulations, go into place. So I am certain, that that's higher.

And that is millions upon millions of hours that are wasted. That is dollars that are wasted.

And that's a barrier to success. You know, we keep hearing this ridiculous phrase, the opportunity economy.

Well, if you want to create opportunity, you reduce war about barriers. You reduce regulations.

You reduce taxes. You reduce the government being up in your business.

And you have the government minding their own business.

So that you can go off and work in your business.

That is what it is all about.

GLENN: You know, I know that our audience is heavy on entrepreneurs.

And people who have done business for a long time.

But there's also a younger generation that listens.

And explain, why regulations hurt opportunity.

CAORL: They hurt opportunity. Because number one, they're costly. Two, you're spending time, complying with the regulation, instead of spending the time working and growing your business.

And the challenge is that if you are a big company. If you're the Amazons of the world. If you're the Walmarts of the world. You have -- not only a whole balance sheet to deal with this.

You have a whole host of people in your company. Whether it's HR. Or whether it's some other administrative functions that can deal with these regulations.

When it comes to small business, the majority, greater majority of small businesses. It's just beyond -- so it's one person, who is already wearing all of those hats trying to deal with this. Even if you have some employees, you don't have the wherewithal, the ability. You're struggling enough to deal with inflation, finding the right workers, you know, remaining competitive, dealing with cyber security and the like. You don't have time, and you don't have the bandwidth. And you don't have capital, to deal with these regulations.

And some of them are so onerous, that people want to close their business. Something that we've been talking about, Glenn, for months now.

That the corporate transparency act, which is this registration, with the financial crimes division of the Treasury. I've had hundreds upon hundreds of small business owners, and people looking to start small businesses, saying that they don't want to. They want to close their business. They don't want to start.

Because they don't want to deal with the asymmetrical risk of having their information exposed or the government coming after them, for doing something wrong.

So because the government is imposing this regulation, which, by the way, is still in flux.

It's preventing these entrepreneurs from taking those risks. And creating opportunity. Which creates jobs. Which creates more dollars in their community. Which grows the economy.

Which is what we need, to move ourself forward. This is so obvious.

But all they want to do is take away wealth. Create barriers. Redistribute it. And make it revery challenging. For a small business owner, to succeed.

GLENN: You -- I think it was you, Carol.

Said, oh, maybe six months ago, we were talking. And you said, Glenn, most of the stuff that they've done, doesn't really kick in until 2025.

So we haven't felt the full impact, of Bidenomics yet. Was that you that said that to me.

CAORL: Quite probably. Quite probably.

GLENN: Okay. So what is it that is coming still, that we haven't felt. Describe next year. Just as it stands, without any new policies. If we just continued where we are?

CAORL: Well, as I said, the House small business committee, is doing a markup on seven different pieces of legislation, trying to overturn, you know, all of these stringent rules for small business. The corporate transparency act. We have until the end of the year, for that to go into effect. If there's no delay. Which, by the way, there's two delay bills. Two repeal bills.

And seven lawsuits. If we don't get that done by the end of the year. Then people are going to be seen as compliant. Then on top of that. You know, we have the tax cuts and jobs act, you know, large pieces of that, is expiring and changing the way the small businesses have to look at their taxes and figure out, you know, what makes them -- from an administrative standpoint. So, you know -- and that's, again, scratching the surface.

So, you know, one after another, there are things in the pipeline. And then if Kamala Harris were to become president.

Again, day one. They will try to rule by executive order. One of the other things, you know, this Department of Labor rule. Very tight. Independent contractor world.

That went into effect in March. They haven't truly been enforcing it yet. I haven't seen much in the way of enforcement. But if they start to crack down on that, that is something that could kill all of the small business across -- across-the-board.

So there are just so many different things, and it's challenging enough to own your own business.

As you know, the small business owner. To not constantly having to be worried about what the next shoe that is going to drop, coming from your own government.

GLENN: Carol, one last question. I would like to take a one-minute break. And then I would like you to come back and talk about. They're talking about a 50-basis point drop in the interest rate in loans.

Some people say, that's really good.

Some people say, that could collapse everything. Can you -- can you explain if that's a good thing or a bad thing, at this point?

Carol Roth is with us. So tell me about the options the fed have, has now.

What's happened with employment. Why they might be dropping the interest rate.

And is it a good thing or a bad thing?

CAORL: Well, so I have always contented that the fed, didn't have the right tools, to address inflation.

And inflation was coming from the pie constraints, not demand. That the Fed really focus on his demand. And after 15 years of zero interest rate policy. That it wasn't them, that changed much of what was going on.

In terms of demand for new loans. Et cetera.

But they have taken up the interest rate very high.

And a lot of people in the market.

A lot of investors, feel like they are behind the curve, in terms of normalizing policy.

Because they don't want to keep it so restrictive, that they cause a recession.

That's the concern all along.

So now that inflation has come down on a headline number. We know cumulatively, it's up over 20 percent. And that's what Americans are contending with. But from a policy standpoint, they see that inflation is coming down. And they see that the labor market, hmm, isn't quite as robust as they had hoped. So they are trying to address policy, to, you know, quash any recessionary outcomes. That's really what they're trying to do.

They have a couple choices. Right? They can do nothing as they have done for quite a while. They can deliver a cut and now they're deciding between --

GLENN: We have about a minute.

CAORL: -- a half a percent. And a quarter percent.

A half of percent may be bad news for them.

Because it may give the market a signal, that things are worse off, than they are.

So I think they will be a little bit more cautious. And go for that 25-basis point or whatever percent cut.

GLENN: All right. So you don't think that it will -- unless it's 50 basis points, I don't think that it will be a bad thing. Other than signaling that things might be worse than they thought.

CAORL: Right. And it's a much bigger signal at 50, than it is at 25, given where we stand with all the data. But I know you have limited time. We can get into this in another day.

GLENN: Yeah. And I'm not sure that anybody will want to open up the purse strings at this point.

I think everybody is waiting to see, what will happen, you know, with the -- with presidential election. I mean, because we're going one way or the other. And they're in opposite directions.

So it's kind of a scary place to be, as an investor, or a small businessperson. Or just, you know, a regular worker, in America today.

Carol, thank you so much. Carol Roth.