This Scandal Is Much Bigger Than Most Know | Episode 178

29:10Playtime is over. We don't have any space for this kind of nonsense. us. We have a country to restore. There are people being killed in our streets. We have billions of dollars of taxpayer money being stolen. We don't want to be third world. There's a reason we can make that distinction. We have been a wonderful first world country. I'd like to keep it that way. And I'm scared as hell about the direction that it's going. The way we get it back, we actually enforce our laws. It's as simple as that. And so if Republicans want to see their margins grow. I know there's all this debate about, oh, our margins are so small.

29:47You know how you win? By demonstrating you deserve to be voted for. That's it. It's as simple as that. Every Republican should be on board with this mission. And by the way, the president is not at all ashamed of calling Tim Walls a retard. He was asked about this on Air Force One this weekend. You stand by calling Tim Walls retarded? Here's the president of the United States, cut three, saying, yes, of course I do. You know what? I think there's something wrong with him. Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia.

30:23We give billions of dollars to Somalia. It's not even a country because it doesn't function like a country. It's got a name, but it doesn't function like a country. There's something wrong with Walls. There's something wrong with him. That's for sure. And that guy should have handcuffs on. And then let the authorities figure out what's wrong with them. All right. Reagan Reese joins us in just a moment from the Daily Caller. We'll get an update from her on what the heck is going on at the White House. She tracks it very closely. That's all ahead on this edition of Vince. You already know the name Blackout Coffee.

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32:10It's just blackout. Blackout's wonderful. Also, thank you to the great Reagan Reese of The Daily Caller, White House correspondent at The Daily Caller, who joins me now in studio to give me the latest about what I've been missing in Washington, D.C. Reagan, it's so good to see you. Hey, Vince. It's great to see you. Happy belated Thanksgiving. Happy belated Thanksgiving to you. And happy Advent. Thank you. The first week of Advent. We marked that as well. We lit the candle yesterday at church. Okay. Let's talk about what's going on at the White House. Everybody's mad at Trump again, which is usual.

32:43But I don't really care about that. I just think it's funny. But the president seems like he has a renewed focus on the thing that got him elected in the first place, which is deport people who are not supposed to be here. What's going on in this? Yeah. Well, first, to the point that people are mad at the president. I have fatigue, I think, from the left and the media being mad at the president. I don't even like clock it anymore. Yeah, true. You know, I just kind of like move on. Okay, like what's the administration working on? I need to pitch a story today and get some reporting done. Yeah, yeah, they're mad.

33:14Yeah, after the horrible tragedy this weekend, the shooting in Washington, D.C. of two National Guardsmen, the president has really ramped up his focus on deportations and cleansing the country of aliens who don't belong to be here. Yes. And I think what we've seen from President Trump is there's been a little bit of, you know, maybe frustration amongst the base sometimes with maybe the things that they've been focusing on. He's been focusing on, I think, a little too much of foreign policy. And there's been some frustration within the president's base. And they want him to start focusing on affordability.

33:48And the border issue in the deportations, that has been the administration's strongest issue. Right. They are so good at it. And I feel like they have not talked about it enough. And maybe that's because the mainstream media won't hammer it. Democrats are trying to turn a blind eye. Like the only time you really heard about it was when we were talking about that Maryland father of the year and how it was so horrible that guy got deported. Yes. And so I think bringing this focus back right now to this issue, look at this horrible tragedy. Here's how the Trump administration is going to protect you and protect, you know, our soldiers from being hurt any further.

34:26Right. Is going to be a really, really strong issue for the administration moving forward. Yeah. I mean, look, they have a lot to be proud of, to be candid, that I feel like they don't really talk about enough. I've talked a lot about it. First of all, securing the border as tightly as they have has been a massive victory. And in fact, the success that they've had on the border has been beyond what I expected. I didn't think we'd actually get to the point where we'd have no illegal aliens getting into the country. But that really is the situation. So I thank the president for that. And for that reason, by the way, his agenda should keep winning in every ensuing election.

35:02Also, they've deported or they've induced self-deportations out of people to the tune of nearly 3 million so far. So these are not small numbers. They just got the big, beautiful law passed. It used to be called a bill, but it's a law. We know. And as a result, they've got, what, 10 ,000 or so new ICE agents coming. They've been hiring a lot for that. And they want to deport a lot of people. So that's all good. I do agree with the general sentiment of the base, though, which is like, focus on that. Because it does feel like it is the skeleton key to all the other issues, like affordability. You want to make housing affordable?

35:38deport tens of millions of people are not supposed to be here so that we can actually have affordable housing again that doesn't that make sense yeah i think part of it honestly is a messaging thing and i think the mainstream media putting trump back in the white house has really renewed uh my feelings towards the mainstream media like these guys really do not want trump to win they really hate donald trump and they do not want to focus on the success he's had on the border it's almost like, OK, he, you know, did this great thing on the border. Let's not talk about it. Let's talk about whatever Pete Hegseth is blowing up near Venezuela and try to make a scandal out of that.

36:13Yes. By the way, thank you to the secretary of war for being great. Mm hmm. I'll talk. I'll talk to you about that in a minute. But it's just so stupid. Yeah. And so I the only time the media, I think, was really forced to cover the border issue was at 100 days at the White House. They lined up on the White House driveway right on Pebble Beach. That's where all of the TV cameras are lined up and they film their White House correspondence as they were talking There were posters behind them of all the most violent illegal aliens that have been Deported from the country right and they were forced to cover that issue And I think to really bring the focus back to this and to hammer this to the American people to the MAGA base how much they've Grown on this issue what they've done on the border security they should put those posters up again and they should put them in a position where they're forced to cover it.

37:05On the Afghanistan withdrawal and the Afghan nationals that came into our country, everyone remembers those horrible, horrible images of the Biden administration just trying to get planes, loading them up with whoever, Afghans hanging off the wings of the planes and what chaos that was, drawing on those images and saying, we're going to correct that wrong now. Well, then and also morally blackmailing us into letting every Afghan national into our country. Do you remember that? I was like so crazy. They were like, oh, these are our allies. Like, what, you're going to sell them out? We've got to let everybody in.

37:38And wait a second. Can we vet people? Is it even possible to vet who we're letting into our country? They have a completely dysfunctional, I don't even want to even call it government, but whatever that is, like the Taliban are running. And so we're supposed to just trust this. And then we import all of these Afghan nationals, some of whom have turned around. And now we get terror threat after terror threat or actual terror attacks as the guy screaming Allahu Akbar attacks members of the National Guard. And it's left to one guardsman to pull. Why was he unarmed? He pulled a pocket knife to stop the attack.

38:14This is crazy what's happening right now. So if I can, I'm sorry, I'm kind of monologuing as I should be interviewing you. But here's the here's the point I want to make. I think what happens is that it's always true in politics. If you succeed, it's hard to focus on your successes because voters tend to move on to the next horrible thing. Totally. They don't love dwelling on success because they're more interested in fixing the next thing. So that's a problem in politics. And so the president should do what he can to emphasize the wins that they've had. But at the same time, we still have horrible things going on, like especially with immigration, especially with people who shouldn't be here, who are literally committing acts of terrorism.

38:56So the president's got some big stuff to have to deal with still. Totally. I did a piece earlier in the year on how the GOP is going to capitalize on Dems being in disarray. And I still think, even though Democrats had that, you know, great night on election night a couple of weeks ago, that they are still in disarray. I mean, watch how they handled the government shutdown. And so the GOP, I think, still has a great opportunity to capitalize on Democrats' fractions to secure the 2026 midterms. And it was their strategies, exactly what you were touching on there. They want to emphasize the success that they have.

39:30They want to explain to voters, hey, you need to give us more time to even build more on this success. You need to send us back into the White House. You need to send us back into Congress. And then also really drawing emphasis on how insane Democrats still are. Democrats have not floated to the middle since the 2024 election. They've moved further and further to the left. and really pointing that out and emphasizing that, I think can be a key point for the Trump White House. I hope so. But like, look, we're watching, there's this Tennessee special election that's supposed to take place tomorrow.

40:00Yeah. And a crazy lady is the Democrat nominee to take the job. She hates Nashville. I know. This is all true. She hates Nashville. She's an advocate for infanticide. She wants more children to be aborted at home. She says it's more convenient to kill them at home. That's her plan. She said that she doesn't want children. She wants power. Have you heard this quote? No. I don't want children. I want power, she says. In other words, children come at the expense of her getting power. And so this woman's a full-blown Marxist psychopath. And yet that race is neck and neck right now. She's running against her great American veteran.

40:41That race is neck and neck in a district that's plus 22 for Donald Trump. Yeah. that's crazy that that's happening. That's a sign that there's anti-Trump animosity. Clearly that the left is playing for keeps. They're dumping a lot of money into these big races, even small races across the country. And we've got a very real fight on our hands. And so it does seem like if the White House takes any message from this, it has to be deliver victories for Americans with aggression with every passing day. Yeah. also this lady hates country music. I don't know if you saw that latest quote and she's running for a seat in Tennessee.

41:22And I think that's the biggest crime of all. It is like, this is so disgusting. I don't know how Tennesseans can look at that and say, yes, this is who we want to represent us. She hates country music and Nashville, Tennessee is the home of country music. Yeah, I think that the Trump White House definitely has an issue on its hands. I think the election in November exposed a little bit of that. Yes, these Democrats won blue areas. That's totally true. But Trump admitted it. He had a breakfast with congressional leaders the very next day. I was there and he admitted that they have a problem. They have a problem when he's not on the ballot.

41:59They have a problem with affordability. He said that the government shutdown hurt Republicans on the ballot. And so looking at these elections and wondering why is this happening and how can we adjust? There's still time before 2026 to make adjustments to the messaging and the way that the Trump White House is approaching different issues that are key to Americans. And this election, I think, should be a really big kick in the butt. We saw Trump. I thought this was really interesting. Trump is always on Truth Social, hardly ever puts tweets, Truth Social posts on Twitter. Yes. And that one tweet calling for the GOP to get out in this Tennessee election and vote for the Republican candidate also made its way onto Twitter.

42:42And that's a very rare occurrence. And I think that he's been posting to Twitter a lot more early than the last week. And they're getting huge numbers. They're getting so much engagement. What does that tell you? Why is he doing that? It tells me I think that they are realizing they need to adjust the strategy. They need to reach more Americans that something's not working. They need to punch through. But here's something. Here's something that I think about a lot. Remember, when the Democrats were screwing us over as a country, they kept claiming the problem was the messaging. The reason Kamala Harris lost the election is because of the messaging.

43:19The reason people didn't like Joe Biden is because of the messaging. Basically, it was always messaging was used as a convenient excuse for why they were screwing us over. And I was like, no, actually, you lost because you suck. You lost because you opened our borders. You lost because you sold us out. So, yeah, no, that's true. I think message kind of matters. But to get back to your point about the legacy media, I think fewer and fewer people even give a shit about what the legacy media is even saying. I think fundamentally they know how much money is flowing into my house right now. How much can I afford to make it to the next paycheck?

43:50What does my community look like? Is there a crime within it? And what the hell are all these people doing here who shouldn't be here to begin with? So, like, forget the message. If you actually deliver results, people will deliver for you. They'll vote for you. This is it does seem even far more basic than perhaps we make it. I know. Yeah. No, I think in my point with the president putting his truth social on Twitter, as I think that a lot of people will read his tweets when they're on Twitter. That's how a lot of people get their news. They aren't flipping on CNN in the morning or logging on to the CBS website or New York Times and seeing what they wrote.

44:27the only people who really do that is me, and that's my job, is to see what all these other outlets are doing. And so I think there are way more Americans on Twitter who are getting their news from Twitter than they are on Truth Social, no offense to the president's own platform. And so I think they're seeing that probably as a way to reach more Americans and hear directly from the president. I think it's a good idea. I do think that he should post his messages anywhere he can to break, especially free of that distortion filter that the legacy media serves as. But this is worthwhile. I mentioned a moment ago that Pete Hegseth is getting a lot of flack because he said that he allegedly said that we should kill narco terrorists.

45:11Now, I'm struggling to figure out where the scandal is in that particular order. it was this was the Washington Post that had this big piece that claimed that there were these narco terrorists who the military struck and they were still alive floating on the wreckage of the boat and that Hegseth this is the way that the social media is telling it came in and saw them floating on the boat and was like all right now kill them kill what's left of them and fire the missiles and now none of that is true by the way we are we already know even the Washington Post reporting is like actually Hegseth said in advance of all of this, kill the bad guys.

45:49That's it. And they said that the boat was, I guess, disabled, but not destroyed. Disabled, meaning it was still a viable military target. And so the military did what it's supposed to do, which is destroy the target. They did. The bad guys died. And I'm supposed to shed a tear about this. This is a big scandal right now. I know it's a really interesting story. Venezuela. There's Certainly all eyes are on Venezuela. Now this is another example. You see the mainstream media turning their attention from the National Guardsmen who were shot this weekend. And now they're turning their eyes to Venezuela.

46:26And how can we make this a scandal for the president? The president was asked about it yesterday while he was on Air Force One. He seemed to not be aware of the story, said he needs to figure it out. But he also said that he 100 percent believes Pete Hegseth when Pete Hegseth says he didn't commit any sort of war crime like The Washington Post is trying to get you to believe. Yeah. Well, again, I love that the media gets really exercised about the rights of narco terrorists and has very little to say about 100 ,000 Americans a year dying due to the drugs that they're bringing into the country.

47:01It does seem like they hate us. you know what I mean like if I'm gonna walk away with any conclusion it's like I'm pretty sure you hate me because you've given way more sympathetic coverage to terrorists than you've given to any American yeah it's utterly it's so frustrating to me that these outlets still have sources that will talk to them and I'm around them all the time at the White House and they're not totally evil people they play the game correctly all of these left-wing outlets that you think they write these stories and you're like, they absolutely hate me. You talk to them in the White House or I watch them interact with sources and they're very friendly people.

47:37They're easy to get along with. And it's so infuriating because if the Washington Post published this type of story, I would be reading this as a Trump administration official. I'd be like, this is so awful. I'm never talking to these people again. But I do think people go back and talk to them. Yeah, because that's a particular kind of deception. Yeah, you're like nice to someone's face. And then you stab them in the back over and over and over again. And if I'm the Trump administration, no more talking to them. Take the attitude that they took with George Stephanopoulos after he treated J.D.

48:07Vance like shit. You're like, no, we're not talking to ABC. Not after that garbage. And I get it. The president has this. It's somewhat a fault, but also kind of kind of wonderful, too, which is he has this overriding emotion that he can win even his worst critics over. He thinks in the end he can convince them to join the team, which is kind of a wonderful thing to think. But at the same time, at some point, just stop taking the abuse and stop rewarding it. Yeah. Talk to Reagan Reese more. Maybe one example that they're kind of sick of the abuse is they launched this weekend on the White House website the worst media offenders.

48:46I don't know if you've seen this, Vince, but they have a list on the White House website of all of the worst outlets. They've given them essentially a grading or a rating of how bad they are. And then they list all of the reporters specifically who have written pieces or untrue pieces about the Trump administration. So now you, the American, can log on to the White House website. You can look up at CNN and see which reporters have really turned their backs to President Trump or written fake news. And so, you know, that's probably a positive indication that the White House is starting to decide, no, we can't win these guys over.

49:25We're going to shut them out more. Good. Shut them out. Talk to Reagan. Do interviews with Reagan Race. Reagan, great to see you. It was great to see you too, Vince. And happy Advent. Yeah, happy Advent. All right. Let me – I want to – thanks again to Reagan. I want to dive into something related to this garbage being launched at Pete Hegseth right now, the Secretary of War. Oh, he's a criminal. First of all, go fuck yourself. Pete Hegseth is fighting on behalf of the rest of us. How many stupid conflicts are we in in some other country on the planet that have nothing to do with direct American interests?

50:00We're killing bad guys. We're importing drugs into our country, killing over 100 ,000 people. Yeah, that's what we want the military doing. And we've been saying this for years. Finally, somebody's doing something about it. So Hegseth and company are doing something about it. And the left, they want to pretend like this is some great illegal thing that's happening, that the military should not be defending American interests, that we should not be killing narco terrorists. And that brings us to the events of the last two weeks. When last we spoke, I was commenting a little bit on Alyssa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, and what we've been referring to as the seditious six.

50:45These are these six Democrat idiots, some of whom were military veterans, some of whom are CIA alums who have come out and said, hey, members of the military, prepare to ignore President Trump's orders. Just get ready. We want you to start ignoring the orders given by the commander in chief. And now they dress this up in language like, oh, we're only talking about illegal orders, none of which the president's even given. And so they spent all this time trying to condition the military to ignore the president. Then we go into this past weekend with new claims that somehow Hegseth is doing something bad by killing narco terrorists.

51:23And then we get to Sunday where Mark Kelly goes on television and he is now doubling down on his sedition. And he's claiming that President Trump and Pete Hegseth are giving illegal orders. Here's Mark Kelly siding with drug traffickers against you and telling the military to start ignoring the president. Look, cut six. You can certainly go to the judge, advocates, generals, the lawyers and have a discussion about it. If you don't have time, you just say simply, I'm not going to do that. That's against the law. It puts a lot of burden on the troops to make a decision in real time. It's a tremendous amount of burden on officers in the military, but that is their responsibility.

52:03and they can figure out, you know, a reasonable person can tell something that is legal and something that is illegal. So would you refuse these specific orders to strike drug boats if you were still in uniform? Well, the difference between the initial strike and what is being reported, you know, as a second strike, and those things are different. I think this administration has tied themselves in knots.

52:30Mark Kelly is a scumbag. Mark Kelly says in that same interview that members of the military who are following Trump's orders and Pete Hegseth's orders are very likely to find themselves in a situation where they've done something illegal. Mark Kelly should be court-martialed for this behavior. Mark Kelly, who is receiving retirement money, is subject to the UCMJ. And he's completely out of control, completely. He knows better. And he's a United States senator acting like a total scumbag as he encourages the troops to begin assessing every order they receive and deciding which ones are going to follow and which ones are not going to follow.

53:19That's what Mark Kelly's doing.

53:25And so he's doubling down on all of this. Don't you feel like this is a part of the same kind of sequence we're constantly served, where the left cooks up some kind of garbage, and now it's cooking up a justification for its garbage, and now it's taking things to the most lunatic levels imaginable. That's what Mark Kelly's doing right now.

53:48Yeah. mark kelly just completely out of control so that there they are again you know i was mentioning about the media too it's like what what is it why do you summon all of this righteous indignation for the drug traffickers the people who are killing americans you you've got to pretty much hate us if that's your position oh don't kill the drug guys let them keep killing americans No, we'd like to kill the drug guys. I think that'd be a good way to stop things. In fact, it's been successful. I saw a good report out of Venezuela. There is a city in Venezuela, a coastal Venezuelan city, that was entirely, apparently, dependent on drug money.

54:35The Daily Caller's got this report. A drug hotspot on Venezuela's coast is reeling from Trump's strikes. Good. A coastal Venezuelan city long dependent on the smuggling of drugs and other contraband is facing economic collapse and government surveillance following U.S. strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats. Residents of Guiria, I assume that's the pronunciation, a port city with a population of around 40 ,000, say that U.S. bombings have cut off illicit boat traffic that supported the local economy. In other words, all the drug money is what was running through that economy. Drug shipments and the trade of contraband food and consumer goods with nearby states.

55:22Vessels are no longer leaving the coast. Giria's shop owners report almost no cash is now moving through the city. Quote, there was only movement in stores recently because of government bonus payments. Otherwise, there is no money circulating. No boats of any kind are leaving. Not migrants, not people buying goods there to sell here. Certainly not those taking Venezuelan products to sell there, which was another way to make money. Everything is practically dead. Oh, OK. I have an idea. You want to get the economy going again? Stop selling drugs. Stop importing drugs into the United States of America.

56:02Does the Venezuelan government want to actually get its economy up and running? Stop sending drugs into our country. Stop killing Americans. You fucked around and now you're finding out. And that means these economies are stopping. Sorry. That's what happens. Cry me a river. So the president, tough with Venezuela. Good. Good. And these are the consequences for these guys.

56:36We're trying to deport people. We got a lot of people in this country who we're trying to deport. And I got an update for you from Tom Holman. The borders are we haven't heard from Tom Holman enough. Tom Holman. Cut for here he is saying the president's encouragement to go after all these people are not supposed to be in our country. It's it's been heard. And we're about to deport a lot of people back to the third world. Take a look. Here's cut for Tom Holman. In these third world nations, they don't have systems like we do. So a lot of these Afghanistans, when they did get here and get better, they had no identification at all.

57:13Not a single travel document, not one piece of identification. And we're going to count on the people that run Afghanistan, the Taliban, to provide us any information who the bad guys were or who the good guys are. Certainly not. And many people need to understand that most terrorists in this world, most of them, aren't in any database. because unless they were found on a battlefield by DOD when they did a retina scan and did some biometrics there, unless they're part of a T3 undercover investigation, we don't know who they are.

57:48Tom Oman is a great American. I'm so pumped he's there. I'm so grateful that he's in that job. I can believe him. I trust him. Stay in the fight, fellas. Please keep fighting for us. We have a great country. We just want it back. That's all. We just want our country back. When President Trump says, make America great again, this is, and when the rest of us say, make America great again, this is what we're talking about. Let's make it great again, okay? Pretty straightforward stuff. It is great to be back with you. I do hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm sorry. What's going on in the chat?

58:24Weak, crying comments here. Somebody, oh, somebody was weak. Don't be weak. Be strong. Be strong, all right? we got a great country and a great chat with the best audience anywhere, guys. Hey, we've got a big national radio show coming up today. We've got the vint show.com. You can get your local listings there. We're going to cover this and so much more, including, I want to get to today on the, on the radio show. We're going to talk about how the government under the Trump administration, the FDA is finally admitting that the COVID jab was killing kids. Finally, An admission from the government.

59:04Children killed by the COVID jab. We've got the details on that coming up on the National Radio Show today. TheVinceShow.com to get your local listings. You can watch us on Rumble. Rumble.com slash Vince. And, of course, I'll be back with you tomorrow. We've got a lot to get to this week, ladies and gentlemen. A lot. As always, have a great one.