Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved

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Speaker 6 As Donald Trump's approval continues to plummet, as prices continue to surge, Fox, which is state-run regime media, they need to cover for Donald Trump.

Speaker 10 So let's use the same old playbook, eh? Bring in MAGA Republican James Comer.

Speaker 12 Maybe he talks about, I don't know, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden.

Speaker 13 Let's talk about Hunter Biden, everybody.

Speaker 6 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 14 What are the chances of holding them accountable despite Biden pardoning his family members?

Speaker 15 Well, I personally don't think the pardons would hold up in court.

Speaker 15 I mean, I would hate to be the attorney who would have to argue how a president can legally pardon his entire family preemptively for an 11-year period. I mean, that's not going to fly anywhere.

Speaker 15 But at the end of the day, the ball is in Pam Bondi's court. Look, we did the investigation.
We proved the Biden family took tens of millions of dollars from our adversaries around the world.

Speaker 15 Joe Biden lied about it. He knew about it.
He met with every single person, even though he said he never met with any of them.

Speaker 15 And then we know, according to the IRS whistleblowers, the Biden family never paid a penny of taxes on that $35 million.

Speaker 15 So I think there's a pretty strong case for the Trump Department of Justice if they choose to go there.

Speaker 16 Do you know whether or not President Trump is on board with pursuing the Biden family?

Speaker 15 I have no idea. I think that's a question you'll have to ask him.
I support whatever decision Donald Trump makes.

Speaker 17 I mean, so utterly pathetic.

Speaker 4 And then you have Maria Bardaroma, then brings in MAGA Republican Congressmember Andy Barr.

Speaker 10 And he says the reason that MAGA Republicans will be taking away your Medicaid is because you're lazy.

Speaker 21 That's what he says.

Speaker 22 He says, look, Americans just are lazy people who aren't working.

Speaker 20 And we got to make sure that those people are not getting Medicaid.

Speaker 10 We got to remove them from the roles.

Speaker 24 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 25 Coming up with the offsets. So when you look at mandatory spending, and this is a point that I've been making recently, is some of this quote-unquote mandatory spending not mandatory mandatory at all?

Speaker 26 No, look, I mean, Medicaid is a big mandatory spending program. But what we need in this country is for the American people to get back to work.

Speaker 26 Work-capable adults need to get off of the taxpayer roles, and they need to get into private health insurance in private employees.

Speaker 26 This is what Secretary Besson and President Trump are talking about when they say reprivatize the economy. This is good for people who are currently on Medicaid in Kentucky and around the country.

Speaker 26 We want people to not be on Medicaid. We want them to have good private sector jobs that pay them more and give them better quality private health insurance.

Speaker 28 Understood.

Speaker 5 It's such a lack of understanding for how Medicaid helps individuals, how there's a reason why certain Americans are working or not working.

Speaker 24 It's just cruel.

Speaker 31 These are very cruel and detached people who are not tethered to reality.

Speaker 29 Here's Alina Haba, by the way. Here she is on Laura Ingraham.

Speaker 6 And here she says, look, this is exactly how we should be running the country.

Speaker 29 Exactly the way Donald Trump runs his company is how he's running the country.

Speaker 24 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 33 How about just work? Like, never mind essential world. That's that's easy.
Are you working? Are you working? Are you double dipping? Are you working for another company?

Speaker 33 And if you cannot say that you are working, you do not have a job pretty much anywhere. And I hope that any boss runs their company the way President Trump is is running this country.

Speaker 9 Okay, well, let me just take a look at Donald Trump's own financial filings from Trump Media stock, which is tanking, by the way, in my opinion.

Speaker 9 I mean, it's what, in the 20s right now, it's down like what, 26, 27% in the past year alone.

Speaker 9 This is enough. I'm not going to read every company that went bankrupt that Trump ran because it'll take me 10 minutes of the video.

Speaker 12 But if you want to take a screenshot of this, take a screenshot.

Speaker 29 A number of companies that were associated with Donald Trump have filed for bankruptcy.

Speaker 17 There can be no assurances that Trump media will not also become bankrupt.

Speaker 9 It talks about Trump Taj Mahal, bankruptcy 1991.

Speaker 17 Trump Plaza, Trump Castle, and the Plaza Hotel, bankruptcy 1992.

Speaker 29 THCR, founded by Trump, bankrupt in 1995.

Speaker 9 Trump Entertainment Resorts, bankruptcy. 2009.
I mean, just like casino after casino, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt. And then a number of companies that had license agreements with Trump failed.

Speaker 5 Then it goes and talks about Trump Shuttle, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump University, Trump Stakes, Gotrump.com, on and on and on, all are out of business.

Speaker 37 So I guess Donald Trump is running our country the way he runs his businesses, tanking them.

Speaker 12 By the way, what I get, what I just showed you, just so you know, that was what Donald Trump wrote about himself in his own filings.

Speaker 6 Those were the words of his lawyers about him.

Speaker 29 So let's go to Howard Luttnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, who says that you don't have to worry about them.

Speaker 9 They're going to go after your Medicaid, that's for sure.

Speaker 22 But when it comes to Social Security and Medicare, they say they're only going to go after people who deserve to have it taken away.

Speaker 17 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 39 By the greatest country on earth, we will not cut one penny from someone who deserves Social Security, someone who deserves Medicare.

Speaker 39 But let me tell you, all that crap of waste and fraud and abuse, that's out of here. We're going to balance this budget.

Speaker 39 We're going to drive interest rates down, and we're going to make the greatest America great again.

Speaker 9 Now, I wonder how they decide who deserves to have their Social Security taken away.

Speaker 37 Who's deserving of that?

Speaker 20 Well, we know how they treat federal workers and believe that they don't deserve to have their jobs and they got rid of them.

Speaker 24 So we'll see what he means by deserve.

Speaker 17 Laura Ingraham then brings on Tommy Tubberville, who doesn't know the shape of a triangle and calls a triangle a trigon.

Speaker 24 We'll play the clip.

Speaker 16 Just going to help there.

Speaker 16 Pete Heckset has welcomed Doge to come into the military. We have to start in the Pentagon.
We need to make a trigon, three sides instead of five sides in the Pentagon.

Speaker 16 It is way too big, way overbloated. They have, what, 30,000, 40,000 people in the Pentagon, then 100,000 people across the street in Arlington that are making tons of money.

Speaker 16 We have to cut back and do it for the warfighter. Help the warfighter build equipment, do the things we need to do.

Speaker 16 We can get the cuts, but we need to continue to do

Speaker 16 what Pete has done is cut out all the bloat and all the DEI, get our military back to a killing machine, somebody that can protect this country and our allies.

Speaker 22 Then you bring back on Alina Haba on Laura Ingraham's show, and

Speaker 22 Alina Haba says, well, look, when Donald Trump says that Putin is bright and really smart, that doesn't mean he's praising Putin.

Speaker 24 Play this clip.

Speaker 33 What we have voted, the American people have voted for on November 5th. But that means that, yes, we're going to be tough, but we still want to make money.
We still want to be producing.

Speaker 33 We still want to work with other countries. China's just another example.
It's a lot like Laura, when the president says something like,

Speaker 33 Putin is bright or Putin, that doesn't mean he's praising him. That means that he is acknowledging the situation.
What is good? for America. What is America first?

Speaker 33 If you say we're not going to have Amazon, we're not going to have anything imported or exported with China. that's not realistic.
That's not what he's saying.

Speaker 33 We want to do business, but it's got to be done the right way. And that is what the president was referring to.
But of course, the spin is real, as you know.

Speaker 9 Okay, then Alina Haba brags about how 230,000 federal employees will be fired.

Speaker 18 And she says, probably more. She goes, I think we'll do better.

Speaker 6 Play this clip.

Speaker 40 Now, Elena, do you think they'll get to that 230,000 employee number to cut?

Speaker 33 Will they go higher?

Speaker 40 What's your sense as things stand now?

Speaker 41 Higher.

Speaker 33 Higher. I think that we're not.

Speaker 33 I think there's, I don't know, but I can tell you that

Speaker 33 what we've recovered and what we've seen is so clear. We're already ahead of schedule.
Elon spoke to that. Right now, if we continue with this route, we hope to have a balanced budget.

Speaker 33 We hope to fix the deficit. Serious problems that have existed in this country that have not been addressed.
And you have to do it quickly and swiftly.

Speaker 33 And President Trump expects us to work really hard to make sure it gets done in this administration. Not in six years, not in 10 years.

Speaker 22 Oh, then we bring on Caroline Levitt, the worst press secretary in American history, and she goes, this is transparency.

Speaker 21 This is everything that you always wanted, right?

Speaker 11 This would make Kim Jong-un blush.

Speaker 36 It will make Kim Jong-un blush.

Speaker 24 Like, what the hell is this? Play this clip.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I mean, the Associated Press says you're restricting access to the president and you're restricting access of the free press.

Speaker 34 It's a very hard argument to make when the President of the United States holds press conferences himself for more than an hour, sometimes multiple times a day, and takes questions from an array of journalists from outlets on the left and on the right.

Speaker 34 This is the most accessible and transparent administration in history, and anybody who just watches the television can see that, except for the Associated Press, I guess.

Speaker 34 Even a judge, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., sided with us in saying that the Associated Press or any outlet does not have a legal right to go into the Oval Office and ask the president questions.

Speaker 34 It is a privilege, and it's a privilege that has unfortunately been restricted by this group of D.C.-based journalists who call themselves the White House Correspondents Association and have had a monopoly over the White House and its press access.

Speaker 34 Not anymore.

Speaker 34 Yesterday we announced that the White House is now going to control the pool rotation of reporters who get to fly on Air Force One, get to go into the Oval Office and ask President Trump questions.

Speaker 34 And we are going to keep the legacy media outlets around because we're not afraid to take questions from anybody.

Speaker 34 But we're also going to add those new voices in the mix who deserve to be there and who are excited about the privilege of enjoying this Trump administration and asking the President of the United States questions.

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Speaker 10 Then you bring on Pam Bondi, Attorney General.

Speaker 29 And, you know, this is,

Speaker 12 I guess they think they're being like sly and cunning.

Speaker 20 And, you know, it was announced that

Speaker 12 they were doing an investigation as part of Trump's retribution tour on James Comey.

Speaker 8 And one of the things that right-wing media is pushing is that James Comey tried to set up Donald Trump with a honeypot operation back in 2016.

Speaker 13 They always want to go back to 2016.

Speaker 29 Like, Americans want to know why the hell are prices going up so much?

Speaker 9 Why are you destroying our economy?

Speaker 29 Why can't we even find eggs?

Speaker 36 Housing's less affordable.

Speaker 4 The job market's not great right now.

Speaker 31 You keep firing people.

Speaker 30 You know, it seems like planes keep crashing every other day, or there's some incident every other day.

Speaker 37 But they're going to some honeypot.

Speaker 7 It's always like sex with them, right? Like, they always do like weird sex stuff is how they get their people like all animated.

Speaker 8 And then Pam Bandi's like,

Speaker 12 I don't know what you're talking about, Jesse.

Speaker 12 I don't know, Jesse, what you're talking about.

Speaker 9 I mean, it's just so, the whole thing's so weird.

Speaker 17 I would play this clip.

Speaker 42 We're hearing reports that there was an investigation opened into James Comey, who may have thrown honey pots at Donald Trump back in the 2015, 2016 years.

Speaker 32 Is that true?

Speaker 41 Jesse, I don't know anything about what you're saying about James Comey right now.

Speaker 24 Okay. That was a report.
I don't know anything about that.

Speaker 42 That was a report that was cited in the Washington Times. I'll take it at that.

Speaker 21 It's again, it's like

Speaker 29 a bad movie that, you know, that

Speaker 31 like it has like 20% on rotten tomatoes and you give it a try, but the dialogue is just so stupid.

Speaker 36 Like, it's kind of what this is.

Speaker 13 And then again,

Speaker 38 as I say, they always got to go into sex and stuff like that.

Speaker 8 So here now she goes, I'm going to break some news, everybody.

Speaker 11 I'm going to release the Epstein files.

Speaker 18 But here's what I'm going to release, everybody.

Speaker 38 The flight logs.

Speaker 29 I'm releasing the flight logs.

Speaker 35 Wait a minute.

Speaker 36 You mean the flight logs that were released in 2021 that are already out there that we have? Donald Trump's name is on those flight logs.

Speaker 9 We have them.

Speaker 35 They were in the Ghylaine Maxwell trial.

Speaker 12 Why don't you release the rest of all the files unredacted?

Speaker 36 Isn't that what you said you were going to do? Of course you're not going to do that because I'm sure you're afraid that Trump's name's going to be all over him.

Speaker 24 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 42 One of the things a lot of people are wondering, because you said last week that you have the Epstein files on your desk, is when can we see them and what's taking so long to release them?

Speaker 41 I do. Jesse, there are well over, this will make you sick, 200 victims.
200. So we have, well over, over 250 actually.
So we have to make sure that their identity is protected and their

Speaker 41 information.

Speaker 41 But other than that, I think tomorrow, you know, the personal information of victims, other than that, I think tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news right now, you're going to see some Epstein information being released by my office.

Speaker 42 What kind? Are we going to see who was on the flights? Are we going to see any evidence? from what he recorded because he had all of his homes wired with recording devices.

Speaker 41 What you're going to see hopefully tomorrow is

Speaker 41 a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information. But

Speaker 41 it's pretty sick what that man did.

Speaker 32 Okay.

Speaker 41 Well, along with his co-defendant.

Speaker 42 Absolutely. And he had help.

Speaker 10 That's for sure.

Speaker 6 Then you go to Laura Ingraham, who's with her former Fox host colleague, Pete Hegseth, who's now, for some reason, the Secretary of Defense.

Speaker 22 And then Hegseth is asked about the legal cases are trying to force the administration to give more access to information to migrants.

Speaker 24 Listen to what Heggsit says.

Speaker 43 This idea that people are being mistreated is absolute garbage.

Speaker 40 But a federal judge stopped three Venezuelans from being transported here because, apparently, at least temporarily, decided that it wasn't clear why they were being sent here.

Speaker 40 So, clearly, the legal cases are trying to force the administration to give more information, more access to the migrants, more legal rights to the migrants, more access to attorneys, family calls.

Speaker 43 That's what they always do. My job as the Secretary of Defense is not to worry about what the lawyers are arguing.

Speaker 43 I've got my own set of lawyers that give us the legal parameters, and we are abiding by the law completely.

Speaker 9 Then Hegzif claims that the information that these migrants who were sent to concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay were actually not violent people.

Speaker 38 He goes, That's BS. That's fake news.

Speaker 22 We know, though, that

Speaker 36 these weren't gang members at all.

Speaker 29 Even if they were gang members, just I don't know, maybe you

Speaker 36 be transparent about that.

Speaker 35 Why don't we know their identities?

Speaker 11 I mean,

Speaker 9 what's going on here?

Speaker 36 Like, you should still reveal their identity. If they're gang members, then

Speaker 17 don't you want to say who they are or show it?

Speaker 24 I don't know. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 40 It's in time for your visit here. The Washington Post has a hit piece out on this entire operation.

Speaker 40 They're basically saying that three of the detainees that were transported out of here last week were, you know, not criminal offenders.

Speaker 40 They were run-of-the-mill illegal aliens, and they complained of inhumane conditions, they complained of mistreatment, isolation. Your response to that?

Speaker 43 That article is BS.

Speaker 43 It is exactly what the Blame America First crowd will always do, which is try to characterize our efforts, try to mischaracterize our efforts in order to impugn the motives of the President of the United States and his efforts to secure the American people.

Speaker 43 This idea that people are being mistreated is absolute garbage. But a federal judge.

Speaker 21 And here he attacks the ACLU.

Speaker 18 Let's play it.

Speaker 43 And what do they look like?

Speaker 21 It's austere.

Speaker 43 It's basic. But it's every basic amenity that you could need is provided.
Medical checks, dental checks, health care checks, welfare checks, recreational opportunities.

Speaker 43 But again, it's austere and it's basic because it should be. You broke our laws.
If you may temporarily have to go to get home, then you're going home.

Speaker 44 An ACLU group is saying that the confinement there is tantamount to solitary confinement, which is against the UN rules on how you have to house people like this because they're, you know, they get two hours of outside time outside of their cells.

Speaker 44 What do you say to that? Well, Pete, I say bull to the ACLU.

Speaker 43 I know what their agenda is. They want to make the America look bad.
They want to make our Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, look bad.

Speaker 43 These are top-notch, top-tier facilities run by professionals where they bend over backwards to make sure that medical, dental, health care, food, religious accommodations, language accommodations all exist.

Speaker 43 No, you're not going to have universal freedom at Guantanamo Bay.

Speaker 1 It's a prison.

Speaker 43 But they get all the time that they need as a temporary place to send them home. This is about temporarily

Speaker 43 holding high-profile, high-threat individuals who then we send home.

Speaker 6 And then finally, you have Brett Baer asking Howard Luttnick that Wall Street is unimpressed with the Trump administration.

Speaker 36 And here's what Trump's commerce secretary says, let's play.

Speaker 45 So I guess, although businesses on Wall Street, and you know them well,

Speaker 45 they're skeptical. Consumer confidence they look at went down seven points in February.
They see jittery

Speaker 45 feelings in the U.S. economy, and they wonder whether this is going to boomerang back on U.S.
consumers.

Speaker 45 I guess the feeling, do you hear that from businesses when they talk about tariffs?

Speaker 39 Because Wall Street companies look at one at a time, right? If I'm importing goods and I have a tariff on me, how is that going to work for my shareholders, me?

Speaker 39 Wall Street analysts don't look at America writ large, American people writ large. Donald Trump was elected by who? A majority of Americans to do what? To take care of America.

Speaker 39 And if that doesn't work out for your particular company, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it's not so good for you.
You might have to to pay the tariff.

Speaker 39 But let me tell you, if you drive down our budget deficit, interest rates come smashing down. You balance this budget, interest rates in America are under 2%,

Speaker 39 right? And not by monetary nonsense, like really below 2%. Mortgages are so much cheaper.
Food costs are so much cheaper. Our farmers can sell everywhere in the world.
America explodes by winning.

Speaker 39 And that's Donald Trump's objective.

Speaker 45 And that's what we're out there to try to do.

Speaker 13 And last thing on this, anyway, let me know what you think.

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