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We start today's podcast with

what is your trillion dollars that our government is spending every 100 days?

What are we getting for it?

Besides unbelievable prices, we go through the price increase at places like McDonald's

right off the bat and what they're doing to change everything in our life, including now Alcoholics Anonymous.

It's crazy.

Then we have a great conversation with Tulsi Gabbard, who I really disagree with politically, but she loves the nation and she may be offered a spot somewhere in Donald Trump's cabinet or it's been rumored even vice president.

You have to hear the interview with Tulsi Gabbard, followed by Alan Dershowitz, who has written

an op-ed on what he saw in the courtroom on the final day of the defense before they arrested.

This judge is completely out of control.

Alan Dershowitz said, I haven't even seen this kind of stuff happening in Russia.

That's a little frightening.

And Leah McGee joins us again from Davidson County in North Carolina with an update on a school board that is, and we've seen them out of control, probably the most out of control.

I've seen a school board.

You've got to hear her story and help all on today's podcast.

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Stupid.

Yes.

Glenn, good to have you here, too.

You know, the Blaze TV listeners are demanding a video appearance.

They want to see the Phantom.

They want to see.

See the Phantom.

Yeah, they can handle it.

That's what they're saying.

You know, in the first part of the Phantom of the Opera, he's wearing the mask, and you're like,

you know, I'm cool with that.

And

then when he takes the mask off, you're like, ooh, he should put that back on.

It's a less, I mean, you could probably pull some information out of that for for your own life.

Right.

That has nothing to do with my eye surgery, right?

Right.

Oh, yeah.

So I yesterday at the Blaze, they were like, please,

the, you know, Blaze subscribers are calling and blah, blah, blah.

And I, I don't believe any of it.

I think this is somebody,

somebody that works at the Blaze who's just like, we got to have him on camera looking like a, you know, monster.

Yeah, someone.

Who knows who it could be?

I don't know

I don't have a name but it's someone

yeah probably a three-lettered person like Tom anyway

so I'm I've put on sunglasses I I hate

having to wear the sunglasses should I wear the sunglasses or my regular glasses still I think the sunglasses is a good look on you

oh is it is a good look for me good look

okay so we're gonna do parts of the show uh if you're a video video subscriber, there I am in my glory.

You can't really see anything because you don't want to see it.

But

so you can

there.

Are you happy Blaze subscribers?

Is this somehow or another?

You're like, ooh, yes.

Oh, yeah.

More sunglasses.

And you know, Glenn, you're kind of like the elementary school kid who goes away for chemotherapy and comes back without hair, and then everyone in their class shaves their heads.

So I just want to be supportive with you right now.

And

you're going to put the shades on.

I will also wear sunglasses for today's show.

Unfortunately, we're going to have to go back and forth because I have to keep ice on my face all the time.

Yesterday, I had my, I did the whole show with my face in a bag of ice.

So, but anyway,

I'm not putting my ice on my face to support you, but I'll wear the sunglasses.

I appreciate the sunglasses, too.

Okay, so where do we even start today?

I mean,

did you read the story about Alan Dershowitz, his op-ed?

Yeah, he was angry,

shocked.

Shocked.

Stunned.

He's going to be joining us in about 90 minutes.

He is.

I'm anxious to see what he says about, you know, because he's been saying we're so close to a banana republic.

And I'm anxious to see what he has to say

because

he was in the courtroom yesterday.

I think it was the last day of the defense, defense rested.

And

the attorney, the very credible attorney

that

was giving testimony.

Costello, him.

Yeah, Costello.

When he was giving testimony, there was an objection from the prosecution without even asking, you know, well, what's your objection?

Granted, and it struck a good portion of his testimony away.

And there was nothing, according to Dershowitz, there was nothing wrong with it.

And that's when Costello, who again

is an attorney,

raised his eyebrows, looked at the judge and raised his eyebrows like, what?

And that pissed the judge off so much that he cleared the courtroom.

And he said, you do that to me again, and I'll strike every bit of your testimony from the record.

Dershowitz said he was allowing things that had no relevance

in the case, for the prosecution, allowing that all in.

And then striking probably the death blow

to this whole case from Costello, he was threatening to get rid of all of it.

And Dershowitz said, I've seen court in Russia and I have never seen anything like this he said this case should have been on television he said because I was there he said for some reason I was the only one allowed to remain in the courtroom everybody else was cleared out and he said I saw what this judge did and he said

and then I went home and I saw what the reporters were allowed to see and what they were reporting on, which I I also saw, and he said it was not the same.

He said, Americans are losing on this.

They have no idea what's going on.

You think it was bad.

Dershowitz, yesterday, being in the courtroom, said

this is a monstrosity of a trial.

And the whole thing has been a monstrosity.

The fact that it's getting seemingly worse now at the end is,

I don't know if it's not, I don't know what I would say was surprising, but it is something that is

so disturbing.

I I think the only thing that

you can kind of hold up and

maybe take solace in if you're the Trump side is that this has been, I think, obvious to a lot of people that this was the weakest one coming in, and it's actually gone worse, I would argue, than you would even think.

Dershowitz said there's no way this stands.

They can rule whatever they want.

He said, but

none of this will stand.

The question, though, is, does that matter?

I mean, if he gets this thing overturned in March 2025, I mean, what good does that do him

if it hurts him for his election here?

Let me just tell you, America.

You know, they always say that

it's the economy stupid.

And that's why,

check on this, Stu.

I read a story today, and I hate to say this,

but I read it in a story, and it was a credible source.

But I'd like a second source on this, because this seems insane.

That

the

however many gallons or barrels that Biden is releasing from the strategic oil reserve, he's doing it from the strategic oil reserve in the northeast, which will empty our

gas reserves in the northeast.

That can't be true.

I don't know if it's empty.

This is not the strategic oil reserve, right?

This is the strategic gasoline reserve.

Correct.

And it is coming from the northeast in

seemingly an attempt to buy a bunch of votes votes with lower gas prices.

But I will check on what the reserve levels are, and I'll look like I'm doing it seriously in these sunglasses.

Thank you.

Me too.

I'm glad we can get very serious.

Look me in the eye.

You don't want to do that.

Anyway,

I just want people to understand.

If you think it's bad now,

what do you think it's going to be like in another four years of this?

Right now, McDonald's has their $5 value meal.

They came out yesterday and said, we can't do this for very long because it's absolutely unsustainable.

But we're trying to give people a break.

When's the last time you went to McDonald's and you spent under $5,

under $10?

If you've gone for yourself, it's probably $10 to $12.

You go with two people, you go with four people, you know, your your family, you're probably up to $40 at McDonald's.

Listen to the price increases.

This is the first numbers will be during Trump.

French fries, $1.79.

Biden, $4.19.

That's an increase of 134%.

The McChicken, $1.29.

Now it's $3.89, a 201% increase.

The Big Mac was,

let me see, $3.99.

Oh my, that can't be right.

Hang on.

Take me off the screen.

I have to take my glasses off and put my actual glasses on and make sure this is right.

The Big Mac

was $3.99.

It's now $7.49.

10 McNuggets was $4.99.

It's now $7.58.

A cheeseburger was $1.

It's now $3.15.

That's...

What do you think is going to happen?

People at the bottom of the ladder, they always say, we're for the working person.

We're for the.

No, you're not.

They're for the very wealthy.

Who's getting wealthy right now?

Who is not having a problem?

The people who are not having a problem are the people who have lots and lots of money and are invested in the the stock market now you might be invested in your stock market in your 401k but that's not what that's not the same the the corporations are getting all kinds of deals from the government if they play along all kinds of deals from the government uh and they're they're putting all of that extra money and especially the banks all of it into the stock market that's what's happening the rich, and I don't mean the rich, I mean the uber rich and the giant corporations.

I mean the people who are trust fund people and the giant corporations.

They are clearing the table.

Every day they're clearing the table.

There won't be a middle class in this country in another four years.

It won't exist.

They, you know, I wondered when we first wrote The Great Reset, I wondered,

how do you,

how do you,

by 2030, arrive to a place where you will own nothing and you will like it, especially in a country that is all about ownership?

I mean, look at what's happening just to your insurance.

How much is your car insurance?

How much is your home insurance?

Why did that go up so much?

Guess who's playing ball with the administration?

The insurance companies.

When they start raising your insurance, you can't afford to own what you own.

You want to get rid of guns?

Great.

Make your insurance for gun ownership through the roof and the average person won't be able to buy it.

And they haven't done anything unconstitutional.

No, we're just going with the market.

Bull crap.

Bull crap.

All of this stuff, we have to begin to explain to our families and our neighbors.

This is not

normal.

This is not Jimmy Carter.

You know, Jimmy Carter was a series of horrible blunders.

And yes, he had socialist tendencies.

But it's not the same as it was with Jimmy Carter.

We're on the edge.

We didn't have the debt with Jimmy Carter.

We didn't have the fractured society without God.

Did you hear what's happening with AA, Stu?

Let me take a quick break.

I mean, you want to talk about they're destroying everything.

When you get down to destroying AA,

you have a society that is

just hell-bent on, you know, living in hell, honestly.

Here's another big problem that we have.

Stock market is up.

Okay.

Do you believe, can you explain to me how the stock market is going up?

There are stories after stories where people, there are three stories in today's show prep that you can get at Glennbeck.com.

Three stories where people are putting all of their food or good portions of their food on their credit card.

I think it was over 30% of Americans are doing that because they can't afford it.

How are these companies?

I'll tell you how.

It's all a magic game.

What's not a game is gold and silver.

Put your money in the stock market.

You can do that, but please, please consider putting 10% of what you have in something that is not going to be paid back to you in dollars when dollars are worthless.

You're playing at a craps table when you're on the stock, playing in the stock market.

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This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

Tulsi Gaffer, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Very good, my friend.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

Are you in Hawaii right now?

I am in Virginia today

and tomorrow and Texas the day after.

I'm on the road living out of a suitcase.

Oh, boy.

So, first of all,

you know, you're on a short list, and I'm not going to ask you, you know, anything other than have you had a conversation with him

about being vice president?

I've spoken to him.

I won't talk about what we spoke about.

That's fine.

I've met and spoken to him.

Would you serve in any capacity in a Trump administration?

I would serve in a capacity where I felt that I could actually be effective in helping to get our country back on track, both in domestic policy and foreign policy.

So Tulsi, you know I respect you.

I really like you.

We disagree on things.

You were a former Bernie Sanders supporter.

You know,

but I also know you love the Constitution and America and the country.

And just finding somebody who loves America is very hard to find right now.

Can you help me out on understanding the Bernie Sanders to,

you know, I'd be willing to serve in a Trump administration?

Of course.

I'm glad you asked because it is on its face kind of a...

a big mental a mental leap.

But when you actually look at the reason, when I made that announcement back in 2016 to resign as vice chair of the DNC so that I could get involved in that Democratic presidential primary, I focused on one thing.

I announced my endorsement of Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton around foreign policy.

Bernie Sanders today is

even different now than he was back then on some of these foreign policy issues, but there was a very clear contrast between Hillary Clinton, the queen of warmongers, and Bernie Sanders, who has for a long time largely been more of a non-interventionist.

And I was frustrated because, as an officer of the DNC, I couldn't, you know, according to the rules, get involved or speak out publicly.

But as you remember, Glenn, people were saying that Hillary Clinton was the most qualified person ever to run for president in the history of our country.

But of course, I know, I still laugh when I think about that.

And it wasn't just her campaign people who were saying this.

It was supposedly serious people on the different cable shows and the broadcast news shows and the meet the press type shows.

But they never went beyond, okay, well, she's held this title and that title and that title.

They would never go into what her record actually was, the kinds of decisions that she made, the things that she influenced and urged President Obama to do as his Secretary of State.

And for me, as an American citizen, as a soldier, and a veteran of various wars and conflicts, I felt strongly about the fact that Hillary Clinton would be the most dangerous president and commander-in-chief for our country, our freedom, our security, and our liberty.

And so I took the opportunity to make that endorsement of Bernie Sanders around that issue so that I could have a platform to call her out directly to the American people so that at a minimum, they could make a more informed decision about who they wanted

to be the Democratic presidential nominee for that time.

So

that explains an awful lot.

The State Department

has been off the rails for 100 years and

they're very war-mongering.

What's happening in Ukraine is obscene.

And

strangely, I think since Ronald Reagan, and I think even more so than Ronald Reagan, but it was a different time, Donald Trump is the least,

he understands peace through strength, but he is the least likely to go to war, and yet the left keeps saying he's a warmonger.

It's their tried and true tactic, and you see them doing this not only

with

an issue as serious as war and peace, but you also see how they're doing it around democracy.

You know, they're claiming he will be the dictator-in-chief and this will be the last election that's ever held if he wins and so on and so forth.

Yet we look at how they're weaponizing the Department of Justice and all that they are doing both to target and prosecute, throwing everything in the kitchen sink at Donald Trump, but also going after everyday Americans whose names will never be in the headlines because they are the quote-unquote political opposition, the undermining of free speech, the undermining of the rule of law.

And yet they cloak all of this and try to distract and deflect attention away from the American people and the reality of how they are destroying our democracy right before our very eyes.

And they do so by saying Donald Trump is the biggest enemy of democracy.

They're doing the same thing around foreign policy.

The thing that I'm urging Americans to do across the country, both through my book, For Love of Country, but also in every platform or speech where people will have me, is to look at the facts.

This is the first time in our lifetimes we've had a presidential election where we actually have two people who served in the White House with a very real record for us to examine.

Compare.

And

take the emotions aside.

People have strong feelings one way or the other.

And that's what a lot of the Democrats and Biden people focus on because they're afraid that we will actually compare and contrast their record on border security, on education,

on fairness for women and girls and sports and education, on the economy and inflation,

you know, the list on criminal justice reform, something that Democrats claim to be for.

And also, of course, first and foremost, foreign policy and how secure is our country today and where are our taxpayer dollars being dedicated.

In each of these areas and more, there's a very clear contrast between President Biden and President Trump.

And to me, what it all comes down to are the two most core critical questions that, as you pointed out, are rooted in the Constitution: is number one:

who actually

has served the interests of the American people and our country and our ability to live in a safe, free, peaceful, and prosperous society?

And number two,

who has either defended or assaulted our fundamental rights and freedoms that are enshrined in the Constitution.

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of religion,

our civil liberties guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

And again, when you look at these

metrics,

there is no question about the difference between President Biden and President Trump.

Let me ask you,

why should somebody, and I don't mean this just to you, I mean this for anybody, even, you know, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, why should we believe when we have not seen one for a very long time, and when they do believe this, they're called extremists, why should we believe anybody or you that you actually,

your oath of office would mean what it says, that you will protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

I think with anybody and everyone,

it is,

you know, going back to the old adage, trust but verify, and hold people accountable.

And that is true of me and of anyone asking for the trust and confidence of the American people.

I think part of that is recognizing that as the world changes, as the country changes,

there has to be room for people to

learn and grow from these changing circumstances.

I think a lot of the problems that we're seeing in a lot of the political divides, and I get it, trust is earned,

but in order for there to be progress, we have to allow people to grow and change based on the circumstances.

You know, we've seen, I think, over these last five or six years, or especially during the Obama, I'm sorry, during the Biden administration,

we have seen what an increasingly tyrannical government looks like.

And we are seeing how our founding fathers were so wise in recognizing that our democracy, this form of governance that we have in this constitutional republic through this representative democracy, is very fragile.

and how people in positions of power are often tempted and may fall to that temptation of abuse of power.

And so we have this system of checks and balances through three co-equal branches of government.

We have this system of checks and balances through the Constitution, our First Amendment and our Second Amendment,

for the power to always

favor the voices and the power of a free people and a free society.

I would never have imagined, Glenn, in my lifetime that we would see such brazen abuse of power.

And it's not only just

a failure to uphold the Constitution, the Democrat elite are actively destroying the Constitution in broad daylight and telling us, no,

we don't think the First Amendment is relevant today because of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech, all of the excuses that they give, which are very dangerous.

They tell us that, no, the Second Amendment shouldn't apply because, and they cite all of these different statistics of tragedies that occur in our country, but that ultimately taking guns away from law-abiding Americans would not actually prevent those types of tragedies

from occurring.

It would make it more dangerous, and it denies the reality that we have faced throughout, I think, the history of humanity: that if you have a person who seeks to do harm to others, they will find a way to do so, unfortunately.

And, you know, so

go ahead.

No, you finish your thoughts, please.

I don't want to interrupt you.

They will find a way to do so.

It's incumbent upon us now,

again, to understand and recognize the seriousness of this moment and the fact that they are doing all these things because they're afraid of the power of a free people.

But we are only powerful if we hold on to that power.

Tulsi, when you were in town, I'd love to do another podcast with you because I find you fascinating, and I actually think you could be a huge help to bringing our country back together.

But the time is so short here.

I wanted to ask you, you know, one of the things that if I were President Trump, I would actually consider you as a vice presidential candidate to unite the country,

you know, after much discussion.

But the one thing I know I would feel comfortable appointing you to is Secretary of Defense.

Our military is a mess.

And it's because we have all of these woke generals and all of these political appointments, they've all risen to the top.

Problem is, it doesn't appear to me to be below

the general and all of their

apparatus around them.

If you were Secretary of Defense,

could you clean this up?

Is it fixable?

Yes.

Yes, unequivocally, yes.

And your diagnosis is correct.

You know,

it's not by accident that

the kinds of general officers that are rising through the ranks are those who are advocating for these so-called woke/slash DEI,

whatever policies.

The reason why they've gotten there is because of their civilian leadership, picking and choosing people who will not, I mean, obviously, we have a civilian-led military.

Those in uniform will follow the policies that are set by the civilian leaders.

But these civilian leaders, Secretary Austin and the different secretaries of each branch of the military, they are promoting careerists who have played it safe, who have done whatever they needed to do to go along and get along, to rise through the ranks, and have not been in those positions and have intentionally so, not been in those combat-hardened positions where they've got to make really tough choices that may come with some backlash.

But that is the definition.

of leadership.

And I can tell you, I know personally, a number of officers in different branches of the military who have been shoved out and forced to retire because they happen to be white males.

And these are people who over the last 25 years have deployed every single year in the most

harsh combat environment and made those tough calls between life and death.

They've been investigations because of it.

But these are people who have the kind of experience that will never be replaced.

And they're getting shoved out and they are not getting promoted because of the civilian leadership at the very top of the Department of Defense.

So, yes, as a Secretary of Defense, I would 100% be able to write the course, fix what has become so broken within our Department of Defense, and it starts with putting the right leaders in the right places who put our country first and who really care more about our troops than they care about how many stars they wear on their shoulders.

I obviously have very strong feelings about this because I still serve and I know personally the detrimental impact that this administration is having on our military, their morale and their capabilities and readiness to be able to do their job.

Tulsi, next time you're in Dallas, please let me know.

I'd love to talk more about especially the military and where we're at.

Thank you so much.

I look forward to it, Glenn.

Thank you so much.

You bet.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Lee, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Hi, Mr.

Beck.

I'm great.

How are you doing this morning?

Very good.

Please call me Glenn.

And I want to make sure I got it.

It is Lee, not Leah, right?

It's Leah.

Oh, sorry.

Leah.

Okay.

So, Leah, what has happened since we spoke last time on the radio?

Anything?

Oh, my gracious.

We have been so blessed by

so many

people that have received the text messages and

emails that Ashley Carroll, who is a Board of Education member, and Chairman Alan Beck had sent around the community and to leaders of North Carolina

spreading lies about our child being suspended from multiple schools.

He's never, ever been kicked out of a school.

and also

giving us proof that Ashley Carroll and Chairman Beck were

taking part in sending around my arrest record.

So we have been absolutely blown away since your broadcast because it allowed people to step forward in courage and boldness and share this information with us.

So I'm so thankful that you asked the community and the state to step up in order to expose this unethical, defamatory, and cruel text that they have shared around.

You know, I read a lot of the emails, and there was one

posting that said, I don't personally know this woman who continues to blast my child's school all over social media, but I believe a person's past actions and criminal convictions make me question the legitimacy of their current narrative and story.

There's always three sides to every story, and I find it rather ironic: no local news station has run this story, only right-wing political news.

I'm just saying.

And somebody wrote back and said, Hey, this is affecting the child involved here.

I think you should apologize.

And in an amazing response, I sincerely, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.

I would like to sincerely apologize for my post after thinking about it, talking to a mutual friend.

I deleted the post, blah, blah, blah.

Then somebody said, you should apologize to the child.

And they wrote, I'm so very sorry my post was shared with your son.

That was absolutely never my intention.

Yes, I will apologize for my biased judgment I made.

Again, I'm sincerely sorry.

I mean it shows that there are good people out there

there are

she received that message from actually

from what we we have been told one of

a family member of a commissioner and when I requested her public apology She did publicly apologize, and I was so grateful for that.

But that post is the post post that was sent around my child's school.

So that post with the mugshot and the record

is the post that was sent around my child's school.

And Christian received that post before I did.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, so

let me just say that for anybody who doesn't know the story,

Leah, mom,

she was arrested 14 years ago.

She was arrested on drug charges.

She was released over 10 years ago.

She served her time.

She's started her own business in North Carolina, had it for many years.

She was appointed by a Superior Court judge in Brunswick County, North Carolina, to be part of an advisory board.

for that county's commissioners regarding substance use disorder, nationally accredited with the Encompass Program of America, where you educate the public on the understanding of the science of addiction and everything else.

She has spoken over 30 times in several states regarding addiction and recovery.

She's a prime example of doing the crime, doing the time, and then not just putting her life back together, but helping others not do it.

And this school board only released

her arrest record, and they did it to smear you because you were saying, you know, my son, illegal alien, is not a race.

And they called him a racist, correct?

Absolutely.

Yeah, that's on the write-up.

It says he made a racially motivated, racially insensitive comment saying aliens need green cards.

That was the extent of the write-up.

On the write-up, it says, write a detailed description of the events that happened.

And the only thing they wrote is Christian made a racially insensitive, racially motivated comment saying aliens, illegal aliens, need green cards.

Interesting.

So let me go to your attorney from the Liberty Justice Center.

Dean McGee is with us.

I understand there's a couple of possible legal updates.

First of all, you received new text messages from a local leader.

Can you tell me anything about that?

Yeah, Glenn, we've received new text messages, including a message that came in this morning.

And these are all screenshots.

I think the community in Davidson County heard your call, Glenn, to step up and help Leah because people are coming forward who have been contacted by board members.

And the message I'm looking at right now that we received earlier this morning,

this is a board member, Ashley Carroll, talking to someone who I understand used to work in law enforcement.

And she says, Here's the mom's record.

If you want to know the kind of person you're dealing with, didn't you work hard to get drug dealers off the streets?

So, you know, the audience is to let that sink in because he is saying, she is saying essentially that her son does not deserve a fair process because of

Leah's arrest over a decade ago and trying to guilt this former law enforcement officer into turning against Leah and her son because of her record.

What?

What

The more we get in terms of messages from the community, the worse it looks for this school and for this board.

What is the motivation to do this kind of damage?

I mean that just

seems like you're at a squirt gun fight and somebody brings a nuclear bomb.

I can't speak to their motivation, but I think we see this from government at all levels,

from the top right down to the smaller local levels, like a school board.

Pride, ego, the inability to

admit mistakes and doubling down.

It's nothing new.

And Liberty Justice Center, we sue the government at all levels.

That's our job.

We do.

And we sue it all the time.

Thank you for that.

Have you surfed papers yet?

I thought they were supposed to be maybe served

today.

Am I?

I don't know what I'm allowed to say.

No, that's

our papers are going out we had a meeting with our local counsel we have on the ground attorneys in North Carolina who are working to get papers served working we're working to get an injunction served against the school and the case is coming together very nicely and the school board is as well

The board is the board is our primary defendant because at the end of the day, they're supposed to be the backstop.

They set policy, and they're supposed to be the final word when administrators mess up.

And as you can see in this case, not only have they failed to step up to help, they've made things much worse.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Any other updates you can give us on the legal side at this time?

That's where we are.

That's where we are for now.

The only other thing I'll say is that we're also meeting with lawyers in North Carolina to discuss possible defamation claims that Leah

could bring against these board members.

Could

I mean that seems like a slam dunk here, doesn't it?

Yes, and again, I'll say the more that community members step up and expose the unethical and cruel messages and false messages that are being shared, the better case we have.

Leah,

I feel for you.

I really do.

Because to me, you are

a symbol.

I don't know you, but from what the story I do know,

you seem to be exactly what the redemption process is all about.

You did the time, you changed your life, and now you're helping others.

I mean,

that's AA, quite honestly,

and the atonement of Jesus Christ.

So

I just,

I feel for you.

I really feel for you.

This is awful.

Thank you, Glenn.

That means the world to me.

I mean, for

people to bring up something that was done over a decade ago and not look at the work that was put in to,

you know,

the community is disgusting.

I also received messages that Ashley Carroll sent

to

another

leader in North Carolina, and she is of Jewish descent.

And Ashley equates what my son said

to her in this text.

She says,

because the lady asked, what about the Latino child who took offense and threatened Christian?

And Ashley's response was, wouldn't you beat a kid's ASS who was making anti-Semitic comments?

So she equated what Christian said to anti-Semitism.

It blows my mind how low this woman who is an elected official will go to continue to abuse my child.

There was another text that came out that said, the mother of said child, who was kicked out, has been

kicked out of multiple schools for being racist.

Yes, that was sent to the same person,

and that is an absolute lie.

Christian has never been kicked out of any school, any school, and never, ever had a label of racism placed on his record until this happened at Central Davidson High School.

And so that's just further lies that this Board of Education is spreading.

They continue to just spread lie after lie after lie.

I tell you.

People, there's more to the story.

There's more to the story.

Well, now, Glenn, we have the more to the story, and it is them spreading these lies and unethical, defamatory statements to leaders and residents.

I also had a local mother who worked for the school that sent a message saying that she has

our total support,

but that she cannot share because she's scared she'll lose her job.

Oh, my gosh.

She said verbatim, she said,

unfortunately, I wish I could share all of this, but we can't because we will lose our job.

But we do share amongst each other.

We know what's going on, and we are sick and tired of it, too.

If it came down to it, I would absolutely voice my opinion.

I do think that these schools have much work to do.

Leah, thank you.

Dean, thank you.

If you want to help, go to libertyjusticecenter.org and donate, or you can go to givesendgo.com and just search for support for the McGee family.

This has got to stop.

I hope, again,

the county of Davidson, every single member shows up at the school board meetings and demands them to resign.

No one seems to be really helping here.

The school now should be cleaned out.

If you have a school where this kind of injustice is happening and somebody in the school says, I agree, but I can't say anything or I'll be fired, what kind of fascistic community do you live in?

You cannot allow this to stand.

Please stand up if you are in Davidson County in North Carolina.

And to that person who is at the

at the school who said that,

is your honor,

is your word, is your compassion, is your

vow to Jesus Christ to live like Christ.

And I know it's tough.

You know,

even the apostles in their hour of shame

refused to call him friend.

But I have to tell you, your job is not worth it.

If you are working for those kinds of people, it will infect your soul.

You've got to stand up and take a stand and take your community back for truth and justice and the American way.

Dean, thank you for all that you do.

And Leah, God bless you.

We'll talk again.

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