Who is Behind the Assaults on ICE? | Episode 205

16 Jan 2026 · 59 min · 25 chapters

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The Dan Bongino Show - Episode 205: Who is Behind the Assaults on ICE?

Episode Summary In this episode of The Dan Bongino Show, the host Dan Bongino, alongside Vince, discusses the rising tensions regarding the protests against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the implications of using the Insurrection Act. The conversation dives into the events surrounding a recent incident in Minnesota involving ICE officers, the reactions from local officials, and the broader implications on law enforcement and immigration policies.

Key Topics Discussed

Insurrection Act

  • Definition and Historical Context: The Insurrection Act allows the President to deploy the military to restore order in times of civil disorder. It has been invoked 30 times in American history, most recently by George H.W. Bush in 1992 during the LA riots.
  • Current Advocacy: Elon Musk has called for the invocation of the Insurrection Act, joining calls for federal intervention amid rising protests and unrest.

Recent Protests Against ICE

  • Incident Details: The episode highlights a recent violent confrontation in Minneapolis where ICE officers attempted to arrest illegal aliens from Venezuela, leading to riots and assaults on law enforcement.
  • Violent Attacks: Multiple individuals attacked an ICE officer during the arrest, which escalated into a chaotic scene with protests and misinformation about the incident.

Political Response

  • Governor's Stance: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz encouraged resistance to ICE, which has been criticized for exacerbating tensions.
  • Calls for Militancy: Groups opposing ICE, such as Minnesota ICE Watch, openly advocate for "militancy," raising concerns about potential violence and insurrection against federal authorities.

Law Enforcement Challenges

  • Deteriorating Conditions: The discussions reflect on how local law enforcement is being undermined in their efforts to maintain order amid protests and rising anti-ICE sentiments.
  • Consequences of Lawlessness: Bongino emphasizes the need for a firm response to deter illegal actions, citing the necessity of the Insurrection Act to restore order.

Broader Implications

  • Political Climate: The episode reflects on how various political leaders are positioning themselves in relation to immigration enforcement and public safety.
  • Media’s Role: The narrative suggests that media misrepresentation contributes to public unrest and a distorted perception of law enforcement actions.

Key Takeaways

  • Insurrection Act: Recognized as a crucial tool for restoring order, its invocation is debated amidst increasing unrest related to immigration enforcement.
  • Misinformation: The ongoing protests are fueled by misinformation regarding ICE's operations, leading to public outrage and violence.
  • Political Responsibility: Leaders are urged to take definitive action to maintain law and order and support federal law enforcement.

Additional Notes

  • Upcoming Show Changes: The show will shift to an earlier time slot, starting February 2nd, when Dan Bongino returns to Rumble.
  • Advertiser Mentions: The show features sponsorships from companies like Helix Sleep and Patriot Mobile, emphasizing the importance of supporting businesses that align with conservative values.

Conclusion This episode of The Dan Bongino Show presents a critical view of the ongoing protests against ICE, the need for the Insurrection Act to ensure law and order, and the role of political narratives in shaping public sentiment towards immigration enforcement. The discussions highlight the complexities and challenges faced by law enforcement in maintaining order amidst rising tensions and societal divisions.

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Chapters

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Understanding the Insurrection Act

2:36 to 4:25

Explaining the Insurrection Act, its history, and its applications in the U.S.

“All right, let's see what's going on here.”

Elon Musk Supports the Insurrection Act

4:25 to 6:41

Elon Musk's recent statements about the Insurrection Act and its relevance today.

“of the guys who is famous for his sensibility has come out and said, yeah, I support that too.”

Incident Involving ICE Officers

6:41 to 9:38

Details of a recent incident where ICE officers were attacked by illegal aliens.

“We've got some new information about what exactly went down now two nights ago as an ICE officer was attempting to make an arrest of an illegal alien from Venezuela.”

Militant Calls from Anti-ICE Groups

9:38 to 12:11

Discussion on anti-ICE groups advocating for militancy and resistance.

“But now we know they're all illegal aliens, in case you were wondering.”

Conclusion on Current Tensions

12:11 to 14:00

Wrapping up observations on the ongoing tensions between ICE and anti-ICE groups.

“gentlemen, you've heard this phrase before, by any means necessary.”

Calls for Militancy and Insurrection

14:00 to 14:36

Discussion of calls for militancy and the need for law enforcement action against it.

“The time is ripe to embrace militancy on the ground, both to keep ourselves safer and as a demonstration of our commitment to the words by any means necessary.”

Renee Good's Tragic Example

14:36 to 15:49

Exploring the consequences of militancy through the case of Renee Good.

“And Tim Walls, of course, not helping anything.”

Riots Following ICE Incident

15:49 to 16:47

Coverage of the riots in response to an ICE officer's self-defense incident.

“It's not actually an institution of the state at all.”

Nick Sorter's Eyewitness Account

16:47 to 18:58

Nick Sorter's experience in Minneapolis capturing critical evidence during the chaos.

“And Nick Sorter, who I talked to on the radio show yesterday, he's just such a great American.”

Arrest of the Rifle Thief

18:58 to 19:48

Details about the arrest of a suspect who stole an FBI rifle during the riots.

“The Trump administration has captured the FBI rifle-stealing face tattoo guy.”
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Concerns Over Police Responses

19:48 to 21:02

Discussion on the Minneapolis police's response and political pressures surrounding ICE.

“He's a known member of the Latin Kings gang.”

Press Inquiry on the Insurrection Act

21:02 to 21:41

A journalist's question to the White House about invoking the Insurrection Act.

“at The Daily Caller and certainly a friend of mine, Reagan Reese.”

The Need for Order in Minneapolis

23:20 to 28:00

Discussion about the need for President Trump to take action to restore order in cities.

“By the way, just a random thing for the live audience here.”

Encouraging Trump's Best Actions

28:00 to 28:45

Discussing the need for President Trump to use his power effectively to protect cities.

“I'm not in any way down on President Trump.”

Consequences of Charging at Law Enforcement

28:45 to 29:18

A story about a man who charged at law enforcement and faced severe consequences.

“Did you see the guy out of California who decided in the midst of an arrest by federal law enforcement to charge at the cops, to charge at law enforcement?”

The Impact of Violence on Society

32:15 to 40:10

Discussing the implications of a violent incident involving law enforcement and societal reactions.

“We have an FAFO moment for you fresh off the presses.”

Caroline Levitt's Press Briefing Moment

40:10 to 42:00

Highlighting Caroline Levitt's powerful response to a journalist's biased question about ICE.

“Hey, I showed you some video a moment ago of Caroline Levitt.”

Media Bias and the Role of ICE

42:00 to 43:20

Learn about the perceived media bias against ICE and the impact on public perception.

“What a great moment yesterday in the White House press briefing.”

Caroline Levitt's Press Briefing Moment

43:20 to 45:15

Discover Caroline Levitt's strong stance during a press briefing and its implications.

“opens fire rhetorically on a guy who she appropriately said shouldn't even be in the room.”

Trump's Interest in Greenland

45:15 to 47:12

Explore the strategic significance of Greenland and Trump's acquisition ambitions.

“Let me see what else I got going on for you.”

Republican Resistance to Trump's Greenland Plans

47:12 to 49:57

Understand the internal conflict within the Republican Party regarding Greenland.

“Now, you would think that American lawmakers would be all in on this, that they'd be super supportive of President Trump trying to do this.”

Congressional Response to Greenland Acquisition

49:57 to 52:18

Examine the reactions of lawmakers to Trump's Greenland strategy and its implications.

“The blunt public messaging comes as lawmakers try to reassure U.S.”

Negotiation Tactics in Greenland Discussion

52:18 to 54:33

Learn about Trump's negotiation tactics concerning Greenland amidst media speculation.

“I I realized I left my camera all jacked up.”

Tyler Robinson and the Charlie Kirk Incident

54:33 to 56:01

Delve into the details surrounding Tyler Robinson's alleged involvement in a tragic shooting.

“Because if you did, if you got more traction than I did, God bless you for it.”

Interview Insights on Tyler Robinson Case

56:01 to 57:28

Learn about the recent developments in the Tyler Robinson murder case and insights from a close relative.

“it to his whole family that he was the shooter.”
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0:00Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince on a Friday. It's great to have you with us. Is it time for the Insurrection Act. Well, Elon Musk says, yes, it is. We'll talk about the latest pressure on the president of the United States to use that extraordinary but important political power, presidential power, constitutional power, legal power to restore order to America's cities. That's ahead on the program. We'll discuss that and so much more all on a very busy Friday here on Vince. Great to have you with us as always. Big programming note for you to once again remind you for those of you maybe who haven't been here that often.

0:36We are moving to 8 a.m. come February 2nd. February 2nd, that's when Dan Bongino returns to the Rumble waves. He'll be doing his program at rumble.com slash Bongino. That's 10 a.m. each weekday starting February 2nd. Meanwhile, I'm going to 8. I'm going to 8. You'll be able to find me rumble.com slash Vince. If you haven't been there lately, go there now and make sure to subscribe rumble.com slash Vince. That'll direct you right to the Bongino Report channel. Subscribe there. We've got a lot of work to do this year. Let's get ready for it together. Thank you so much. And thank you to our sponsors who constantly make this show possible.

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2:35Yes, indeed. All right, let's see what's going on here. Look, the Insurrection Act, we keep talking about it, and I'm going to show you some video footage that further justifies why we need it. But to remind people, the Insurrection Act is a law that is about as old as the United States itself. We've had it forever. And it allows the President of the United States to deploy the military. Yes, the military in order to restore order to our streets. It's as simple as that. We send the military in, we arrest the bad guys, and we make the cities peaceful again. The Insurrection Act, I keep telling everybody, it's been invoked 30 times in American history.

3:14A lot of presidents have used it. Most recently, 1992, that was the last time. That was George H.W. Bush during the L.A. riots at the request of then California Republican Governor Pete Wilson. But historically, Democrats have opposed, Democrat governors have often opposed the Insurrection Act being used. And well, it didn't matter to the American people. They said, send in the troops anyway. An order was restored, oftentimes because racist Democrat governors were trying to prevent the law from being enforced. Well, I hate to tell you, we have a supremacy clause. We have a constitution. We have a president of the United States and we have the American voter, all of whom have made very clear the Insurrection Act is legit.

3:56And for those of you who think of, you might hear this and think of that Latin phrase, posi comitatus, about the idea that the military can't be used domestically. Well, this is the exception. This is the exception from the very founding of our country. We've had the Insurrection Act and it is that limited but important exception where the military is actually allowed to be used in this way entirely legally, entirely constitutionally. And at this moment, it makes a lot of sense, a lot of sense to do that. In fact, it makes so much sense that one of the guys who is famous for his sensibility has come out and said, yeah, I support that too.

4:32Elon Musk overnight joining the chorus, joining you and me calling for the invocation of the Insurrection Act now. Here's what he says. Time to invoke the Insurrection Act. Yeah, he's the latest. He's the latest. He's responding here to a post from Insurrection Barbie who says, here's some fun facts, echoing what I just told you. The Insurrection Act has been invoked 30 times by 17 different presidents. In fact, 37 percent of American presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act. It was invoked to deal with rebellions and uprisings, including armed groups that openly defy federal law, state or local authorities who could not or would not enforce federal law, violence or organized resistance threatening the authority of the federal government, and courts were blocked and taxes couldn't be collected or officials were attacked, which is why the Insurrection Act was invoked.

5:23In fact, the Insurrection Act was also invoked by Ronald Reagan in order to stop a prison riot in Georgia. So yeah, the Insurrection Act's been used a lot. And as Insurrection Barbie says, look, I described, I just described Minnesota. I just described Minnesota. Yeah, that's exactly what's going on in Minnesota. We have an insurrection on our hands. And one more thing. I saw Adam on this issue. I saw Adam Kinzinger crying, Adam Kinzinger, a fake Republican, saying that, oh, the Insurrection Act can only be used to augment the state resources. In other words, that the states themselves, if they need help, like Pete Wilson did in 1992, they could just send a request to the federal government.

6:04And that's why the Insurrection Act would be invoked. No, no, that's not what this is. That is a condition by which it could happen. But no, it's in the face of a full blown insurrection at the hands of a Democrat governor or any governor for that matter. But it's only Democrats who have ever done this at the hands of a Democrat governor like tampon Tim Walz. Yeah, you can invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the troops. I've been getting a lot of questions about this. People are people people, what does it do? How does it work? Why would it even change anything? Well, I think deploying the Marines might change something.

6:34So let's do that, shall we? Elon Musk is calling for that as well now. So that's fun. That's interesting. We've got some new information about what exactly went down now two nights ago as an ICE officer was attempting to make an arrest of an illegal alien from Venezuela. We found out a lot more from Bill Malusian, who, as I understand it, Bill should be already on the ground in Minneapolis. He was traveling there yesterday. He decided, you know what, I'm going to go get a frontline view of the insurrection and report on it. Good for Bill. Here's what Bill tells us about the illegal aliens, multiple, who were attacking that ICE officer this week, which led to riots on Wednesday night, by the way, as the left lied about the circumstances.

7:22DHS released the names and the backgrounds of all three of the illegal aliens, they say, attacked that ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday, leading to that shooting. All are Venezuelan illegals. They were all caught and released at the border by the Biden administration. That's right, President Otto Penn, bringing even more illegals into the country who would go on to assault federal law enforcement. Thanks, Joe Biden. Per DHS, Julio Cesar Sosa Salis, a criminal illegal from Venezuela, previously convicted for driving without a license and arrested for two counts of giving a false name to a peace officer.

8:00Oh, fraud. Was the subject of a targeted enforcement operation. This was the guy they were going after. He was released by Minnesota authorities before ICE could even lodge a detainer. Sosa Salis illegally entered the United States in August of 2022. That was under Joe Biden. And then Alfredo Alejandro Ahorna, an illegal alien from Venezuela, illegally entered the U.S. May of 23 under Biden. After he failed to show up for his immigration hearing, he was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge. We call that due process. Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez Ledesma, a criminal illegal from Venezuela illegally enters in the U.S.

8:39in May of 23 under Biden. The Biden administration marks this illegal alien as a non-enforcement priority. And for those of you watching Rumble.com slash Vince, there are the mugshots of the scumbags. You can see all of them. And these are the guys as one of them flees that ICE officer who's looking to take them into custody. Then crashes the vehicle, takes off on foot. The ICE officer tackles him and they get into a physical scuffle as he's trying to take him into custody. Two of these other ghouls, they come flying out of their apartment that they're living in in Minnesota and they begin striking the officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel.

9:20That would be assault with a deadly weapon, by the way. The officer fires his gun, shoots one of the illegals in the leg. All of the illegals escape into the house and try and barricade themselves inside. You know, the rest, everybody gets taken into custody. And that's the story. But now we know they're all illegal aliens, in case you were wondering. It wasn't just like some random strangers who decided to intervene. A couple of white lib ladies who came running out with snow shovels to hit the ICE officer, although that would not shock me if that was actually the sequence. No, these were all three Venezuelan illegals attacking ICE officers.

9:58And meanwhile, Tim Walz and Jacob Fry pretend like everything is fine, like nothing like this is happening to begin with. So, you know, in case you're wondering. So that was the predicating event. That was the event that lit the fuse as the left immediately lied about the assault on that ICE officer, acting like ICE officers just gunning down American citizens in cold blood, running around shooting children or something. These are the lies that they're telling over on blue sky and anywhere else these radicals are getting their information. And what are they motivated to do? Well, the Washington Free Beacon, that's the great website I'm going to refer to now.

10:34The Washington Free Beacon has a brand new piece of information up on this subject. And they say that the anti-ICE organizations that are in the state are now openly advocating for, quote, militancy. As Tim Walls encourages resistance, the Free Beacon reports, Minnesota Ice Watch is declaring that time is ripe to embrace militancy. Militancy. I don't know, is there a way to interpret that as some sort of like call to free speech? These are about our protest rights. I don't think so. Pretty certain when you use the word militancy, you're literally encouraging revolution, armed revolution against the lawful authorities of our country.

11:20Minnesota Ice Watch. You'll remember Minnesota Ice Watch is the group that Renee Good was a part of. She was parked in the middle of the street trying to obstruct ICE officers. They gave her multiple minutes of warnings to get out of the street. They eventually approached the vehicle, and she decides to drive her car directly into an ICE officer. He has to open fire to defend himself, his fellow ICE officers. She dies as a result of her own actions. And that, of course, started more rioting earlier this week. So we've had a lot of craziness going on in Minneapolis. We have to keep covering it because every day there's more of it.

11:55The Ice Watch group at the center of the unruly demonstrations gripping Minneapolis is urging its supporters to, quote, embrace militancy, militancy, and escalate their demands by any means necessary. Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard this phrase before, by any means necessary. This is what the Marxists are constantly using. These radical lefties all across our country, they'll use this phrase. In fact, they'll even inscribe it using spray paint on the side of buildings. They'll tag them, right, B-A-M-N, by any means necessary. In other words, up to and including murder in order to achieve our demented agenda, by any means necessary.

12:38Hours later, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls also encouraged residents to resist ICE. He accused the agency of carrying out a campaign of organized brutality. Minnesota Ice Watch, which describes itself as an autonomous collective documenting and resisting against ICE, police, and all colonial militarized regimes. Colonial? What? Are you idiots? You live in the United States of America, or at least many of you do, and now you're protecting illegal aliens who are invading the country. Talk about colonial. What the hell is this? It's incoherent. It's low IQ, and man, there's a lot of people who are falling for it.

13:14They shared an Instagram post on Wednesday teaching agitators how to relay information on police and or fascist activity at demonstrations. We, within the belly of this imperial beast, face a turning point, the Post said, after seven full months during which our protests have utterly failed to slow the gears of the war machine. Yeah, they failed because they're feckless and stupid. And of course, ICE has to enforce the law. There is nothing left to do but escalate, they say, but escalate. And by the way, there is nothing left to do but escalate. It's italicized. The Free Beacon says that emphasis is theirs.

13:58It's in their Instagram post. Nothing left to do but escalate. The time is ripe to embrace militancy on the ground, both to keep ourselves safer and as a demonstration of our commitment to the words by any means necessary. Okay. I don't think we need to see anything else. This is where the FBI goes in, just arrest every one of these people. I mean, if the goal, as you declare, is to wage an insurrection against the United States, okay, fine. You're running a foul federal law. Arrest these people. And by the way, in the process, invoke the Insurrection Act. I've been calling for it. Now Elon Musk has joined the calls.

14:33Let's do it, please. They're calling for militancy. And Tim Walls, of course, not helping anything. Earlier this week, he was doing that stupid address to the people of Minnesota, telling them to, what is it, get in the faces of ICE officers, a little Maxine Waters style accosting. Accost a bunch of ICE officers, get in their faces, film them so you can capture all of their criminality. Meanwhile, it's the camera wielders who are embracing criminality and militancy, in the words of Ice Watch, which just got Renee Good killed. So if anybody is a part of that Ice Watch group who somehow bumps into this video or this audio.

15:14Let me just remind you how this goes. If you engage in militancy, that's how you get dead. Renee Good is kind of a dying example of the militancy you're talking about. She drove her vehicle directly into an ICE officer, so now she's dead. Those were her actions that led to that. By the way, speaking of Renee Good, you know she wasn't ever actually married to that woman, Becca? Rebecca? She wasn't married at all to that lady for a million reasons, including marriage is actually a sacrament. It's not actually an institution of the state at all. It's designed to be a religious sacrament. But it turns out, as a lot of you are aware, they're not married.

16:02Everyone's like, oh, it's her wife. That's a lie. No, no. You know whose marriage was authentic? Well, not as a religious sacrament, certainly, but as far as the state was concerned. Ilhan Omar married her brother. That's a marriage. Renee Good was not married to a lady. That's a lie. That's a lie, just like all the rest of them. The rioting we saw this week as a result of the lies about those Venezuelan illegals who attacked that ICE officer, and he had to defend himself by discharging his weapon. And a part of those riots this week, I showed you video. There were people breaking into vehicles, breaking into law enforcement vehicles on Wednesday night, trying to steal everything they could out of the cars.

16:47And Nick Sorter, who I talked to on the radio show yesterday, he's just such a great American. He's been on the ground there in Minneapolis. And say a prayer for Nick Sorter and any independent journalist who's out there trying to do this job right now. It's like totally crazy what's happening in Minneapolis. I'm just I'm grateful for these guys who are actually putting in the work. Nick Sorter captured video of a suspect who broke into an FBI vehicle and stole a rifle. And Nick told me yesterday, and for those of you who heard it on the big national radio show, Nick was describing the rifle that was stolen, according to the government, included a switch to put the gun in full automatic.

17:26a fully automatic FBI rifle stolen by one of these insurrectionists this week. Here's the video of the guy. We have that video, right? Yeah, we have the video, Justin, of the guy stealing the rifle from the car. Let's put that one up on screen. And you can see, if you look kind of the left of the back of this vehicle, A guy picks up a rifle bag. There it goes. And then begins to cart it out. Yeah, Nick Sorter emphasizes it, puts an arrow on it. There's a dude with a face tattoo, and it's his stole FBI rifle. Now, Nick kind of keeps tracking what's happening in the back of this car. And then they turn.

18:14He turns the camera, and you can see here, emphasizes the getaway video. They show the license plate, Minnesota license plate. the rifle suspect driving away so nick i mean talk about service journalism nick is putting his own body on the line he's capturing this video he apparently was a disguise that concealed from the crowd that it was nick sorter of all people capturing this video he gets video footage of the guy stealing the rifle from the fbi vehicle and then he gets video footage of the guy's license plate driving off well here's the good news they caught him now Now, the face tattoo is kind of a dead giveaway, I would say.

18:51It's a little hard to disappear into a crowd with a face tattoo. They caught this guy. Nick Sorter appearing on Fox News last night with Laura Ingram revealing, yeah, I've got good news, everybody. The Trump administration has captured the FBI rifle-stealing face tattoo guy. Watch this. He wasn't arrested last night. He could have been, but the Minneapolis police didn't bother chasing the vehicle that had just stolen a high-powered rifle out of an FBI car. So that stole it out of one of these weapons lockers that was in the back. But what I can confirm now is that Raul Gutierrez, age 33, that you see in the video that I posted last night, stealing a firearm from an FBI vehicle, has been arrested by the ATF and the DOJ.

19:42They executed an arrest warrant today. And he is a known member of the Latin Kings gang. He's a known member of the Latin Kings gang. He's been taken into custody. Surprise, surprise. A Latin Kings gangster taken into custody. So they got this guy, which is great news and and love to see it. But why did it take that long? Why can't Minneapolis police be a part of the part of the equation here? Why are they being told to stand down? I mean, you know, earlier this week, they had a statement from Jacob Fry saying that Minneapolis police need to fight back against ICE, need to fight back against ICE.

20:26And even in the video that I saw going around, our great Jason Howard and shared it on one of our Bongino channels yesterday. You see that the police officer in the background, his eye pop, his eyebrow pops up like fight ICE. fight ICE? And then he doesn't say anything. He just keeps his mouth shut. But his eyebrows react. And meanwhile, the rest of us are like, what the hell is going on? I think that's an insurrection. Pretty sure that's an insurrection. But what's it going to take for President Trump to determine that the Insurrection Act needs to be invoked? What's his red line? Yesterday morning, I was, as I do many mornings, I was talking to our great White House correspondent at The Daily Caller and certainly a friend of mine, Reagan Reese.

21:10And we were getting together the day's affairs and talking about questions for the White House. And I said, here's the big one that I want to know. What is the red line for President Trump? What will it take for him to invoke the Insurrection Act? So you know what Reagan did for us? She asked. She asked the White House yesterday. I've got that coming up next here on this edition of this. You'll be able to take a look at Reagan's question to Caroline Levitt yesterday during the press briefing. It's very valuable, very appreciated, as always. All right, more ahead. I want to thank our great sponsor, Patriot Mobile, who is just wonderful.

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23:54Well, that's lame. I don't like that. Well, luckily, we do enough homework here that we pull videos and things, so we're all right. We'll make it through. Okay. So yesterday, the great Reagan Reese heads off to the White House with an important question in mind, and it's a simple one, but a deeply important one. What's it going to take? When does President Trump arrive at the conclusion that the Insurrection Act needs to be invoked? For many years now, he's flirted with it. during the 2020 George Floyd riots, President Trump was indicating that I might have to use the Insurrection Act. I have it available to me.

24:29Even this very week, he posted it to Truth Social saying, you know, if they don't knock it off, I'm going to invoke the Insurrection Act. OK, what's it going to take? Here's Reagan Reese asking Caroline Levitt yesterday. Watch. I'm wondering what his tipping point is. What would it take for him to invoke the Insurrection Act? Look, that's only a question, frankly, Reagan, the president can answer. But the Insurrection Act is a tool at the president's disposal. As you know, it has been used sparingly, but it has been used by previous presidents in American history. And I think the president's true social posts spoke very loud and clear to Democrats across this country, elected officials who are using their platforms to encourage violence against federal law enforcement officers who are encouraging left wing agitators to unlawfully obstruct legitimate law enforcement operations.

25:26Okay, so let me cut right to the chase. She said that's not her question to answer. That's fundamentally what she said. Now, I'm perfectly happy to hear Caroline Levitt talk about all the ways that the left is staging an insurrection right now, that they're out of control, that they're encouraging the very violence that we're seeing in American streets, that leaders by way of either cowardice or outright villainy or some combination of both are making our country a whole lot worse. And this needs to be tackled. She's right about all of that. But as she pointed out, this is the president's question to answer.

25:59And so I'll I'll submit it again publicly. Mr. President, what's it going to take? What's it going to take? I don't I don't get it. I mean, I think that there are people think that there's again, I think it's the consideration is maybe there are political consequences here. Oh, no. What will people think? What will people think if our country is in full-blown chaos come the midterms? What will people think if there's more blood on the streets? Let me ask a court question. It doesn't matter if it's for President Trump or anybody else who might be in that office. Do we really need an ICE officer to be killed in the streets of Minneapolis to invoke the Insurrection Act?

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26:39Are we waiting for something that tragic, that horrific to take place before the Insurrection Act is invoked? Let's not wait. Let's just restore order to an American city, a great historic American city. Let's restore the order. This doesn't come from a place of animus. It does not come from a place of wanting to see my political opponents crushed or anything. This comes straight out of a love of country. I hate what's happening to Minneapolis. I hate what's happening to the rest of our country. And if we can crack down on it, if we can impose consequences on the people who are breaking our laws, then as a result, we get a little bit closer to healing the country.

27:18If you demonstrate that there are consequences for your actions, like Renee Good experienced by the fact that she slammed into an ICE officer, and then she died as a result of that behavior. And then what happened? Remember, the lefties in the days that ensued were like, maybe I shouldn't drive like that into ICE officers. Yeah, that's because what you hear are consequences. Seeing consequences serves as a deterrent. Well, let's deter illegality. Pretty straightforward equation. So I'll call on the president to do that. Yeah. Mabes 078 says, Vince, he's working on it. President Trump's got a lot on his plate.

27:56He will come through. Hold. I'm praying for that. I pray that he comes through. Look, I'm not. Don't mistake me here. Don't mistake me here. I'm not in any way down on President Trump. I think the guy's been an immense success, greatest president of my lifetime. He's achieved a lot, locked up that border. He's deporting people by the millions. I am very pleased with the victories that this administration has had and continues to have, no question whatsoever. But I'm never going to be shy about encouraging him to be at his absolute best. And to be at his absolute best right now, that would be using a power that is completely legal and available to him to rescue America's cities.

28:36That's what I'm asking for. It's as simple as that. Speaking of FAFO and consequences for lefties who break the law, there's a crazy one this week. Did you see the guy out of California who decided in the midst of an arrest by federal law enforcement to charge at the cops, to charge at law enforcement? Well, what happens if you charge at law enforcement while they're in the middle of doing their duties? Well, they may shoot you with riot control gear. And that's almost generous. That's precisely what happened this week. I've got that FAFO story coming up in just a moment on this edition of Vents.

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32:18All right. Thank you, Fatty15. All right. So we've got an FAFO moment for you. We have an FAFO moment for you fresh off the presses. We just had recently a crazy lefty go out in the streets on January 9th of this year. He was in Santa Ana, California, and he decides to rush at law enforcement. and when he sprints at the cops, they're trying to defend themselves from the mob and one of these cops turns and fires a non-lethal crowd control device and it hits the guy directly in the face. Well, let me just begin with how to avoid that. Don't run directly at the cops. How about don't start with that?

33:07Here's cut five from January 7th, Santa Ana, California. Let's see what happened. Taking the guy into custody. people run at him boom you get shot in the head that's like look at that it looks like he ran into the line of fire too they're trying to take somebody into custody and so the crowd starts charging at the officers to stop the arrest they begin firing crowd control techniques at these at these people crowd control non less than lethal non-lethal firing the guy runs his face directly into a beanbag or whatever it is that hit him so how about don't do that how about don't attack the cops and let them do their jobs sure enough this guy's faced consequences so here he is this week cut four revealing what happened to him i'll be blind for life um they said my glove was ruptured i had like uh my lower lid was like uh cut up and they had to take skin from my temple to fix it um there's there's a lot to it i don't remember all all the things that they said I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix and I can't sneeze or cough because it's dangerous too.

34:19I remember also when I shot there was pepper in it and I had pepper down my throat. I made it hard to breathe for a long time. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. They said I had shards of metal, glass and plastic all throughout my eye and behind my eye and in my skull. and they also said that I had a piece of strachnometal about a few millimeters away from my croted artery and they said it was a miracle I survived because if it got any closer if it hit that I would have died that night uh-huh well here's an idea maybe if you spent more time at home painting your fingernails and less time charging at the cops none of this would have happened the guy says he's going to be blind now in one eye for the rest of his life according to doctors.

35:04His face experienced all sorts of fractures and things. Again, none of this happens if he doesn't do what he did. He ran directly in the line of fire as these officers were trying to defend themselves from the marauding mob. Whose fault is that, chat? Whose fault is that particular sequence of events? How did that guy end up losing sight in one eye? yeah that's his fault that's that's his fault um probably a good thing that that video gets out there that's a that's an fafl moment that you know there are consequences to these things including you may lose your sight you may lose your sight that's uh that's what happened there so that's the big one this week uh just to to share that with you also in minneapolis we've got some, we've got some other craziness to share with you.

35:56Did you see the lefty insurrectionists who started attacking one of their own media outlets this week? NBC, I presume Ms. NBC, sent a, what do they call it now? Ms. Now? Well, the guy says he's with NBC. I don't know if he's misrepresenting it or what. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The point is NBC, one of the dedicated had left the outlets, was out on the streets of Minneapolis this week. And the cameraman from NBC, he had rented an SUV because he's got a bunch of heavy camera equipment that he's trying to carry around with him. It looks like a white Chevy Suburban. And the mob, seeing an SUV, thinks it's probably federal law enforcement.

36:40So they go over and they begin menacing the cameraman. And he starts pleading with them and he tells them, I'm on your side. I'm an NBC cameraman. The implication, please don't hurt me. I'm one of us. Look at this moment as these guys, they confront the NBC cameraman. Cut three. Look at this. Here you go. Like I said, I don't have to do this. I'm happy to do this? That's all. We've just got to stop this. So he's got a lot of camera equipment. I think we can say this is a good idea. Yeah, I'm not. I tried to tell him. First lady, nobody's losing me. That's all I can do is tell you. I already showed.

37:26Listen, first of all, I don't know. I'm doing that, but I'm kind. I respect what y 'all are doing. Yeah, I respect what y 'all are doing. I really appreciate what you guys are doing. I really appreciate what you're doing.

37:40Were you here yesterday? Yeah. Yes, he was here yesterday. I can testify that. I didn't recognize him. No, I appreciate what I'm saying. I'm not here to help you. No, I understand. I think the fact that you're in a vehicle like this. I get it. But with all due respect to everybody, I can't help away God. Well, you can't. You go rent something else. Well, you go rent something else. That's not how it works. This is my business. I know. This is my business. So anyhow, I hope you guys understand. So the guy is pleading with them. He's trying to get the mob not to hurt him. You can tell exactly what's going on here.

38:15And they start interrogating him. What's in the back of your car? Show us the equipment. Oh, that's camera equipment. One woman tries to talk the mob down a little bit. She's like, I don't think he's with the feds. That's camera equipment in the back of the car. Just imagine. Imagine if it was a cop. What are you going to attack a police officer? That's the attitude. That's the mood among these Soviets. They're like chasing people down for their little revolution to try and hurt them. And so just by virtue of the fact that the guy's driving an SUV, he is now suspect. We have to hurt that man. And then that one woman is like, you need to drive a different car.

38:50I don't even believe you. Go rent something different. You're not allowed to drive an SUV. Now, you tell me exactly how any of that's an American impulse. How is it that any of those people are even pretending they're standing up for the United States of America, the Constitution or freedom, when they're running around like a bunch of Chinese cultural revolutions, assholes, just like yelling at people and demanding that you mouth the words. The incantation he used to get out of it was, I'm on your side. I appreciate what you guys are doing. He had to suck up to the mob to survive the interaction.

39:30That makes sense? Is NBC proud of that? That their cameraman's doing that? Probably. But that's just gross. And of course, just like always, these left-wing revolutions, they always eat their own. Nobody's ever pure enough. You're driving an SUV? You need to be crushed. People might mistake you for a law enforcement officer. So we are going to menace you until you drive a different vehicle. That's crazy, man. That's super crazy. And that's what's playing out right now in our country. So yes, President Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. I'm sorry. I can say it a million times. I'll say it a million times more.

40:07He should absolutely invoke the Insurrection Act. Let's get control of our country again and stop allowing the Chinese Cultural Revolution to take place here. There's no reason for that at all. And yet that's what we have. Hey, I showed you some video a moment ago of Caroline Levitt. Caroline Levitt's wonderful. She's a great White House press secretary. She's been so impressive in the role. But she had a moment yesterday that I thought may have been the most legendary moment she's had yet. And it was about the fact that Renee Goode got herself killed recently when she decided to drive her vehicle into an ICE officer.

40:47And yesterday at the White House press briefing, a columnist from The Hill, a guy whose name is Niall Stenage, seated among the journalists inside of the White House press briefing, he decided to engage Caroline Leavitt in a debate. Instead of asking a question, he just made up a fiction and then attacked ICE. And Caroline Levitt was having none of it. This is one of the great moments. Man, it's great to have this on a Friday. Ready to enjoy this? Here's Caroline Levitt, not just taking this guy who's pretending to be a journalist to the woodshed, but feeding his face directly into a wood chipper.

41:27Watch this. 32 people died in ICE custody last year. 170 U.S. citizens were detained by ICE. and Renee Goode was shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent. How does that equate to them doing everything correctly? Why was Renee Goode unfortunately and tragically killed? Are you asking me my opinion? Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed it unjustifiably. Oh, okay. So you're a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion. What do you want me to do? Yeah, because you're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist. And it's so clear by the premise of your question.

42:02and you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat but you're pretending like you're a journalist but you're a left-wing activist and the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias you should be reporting on the facts you should be reporting on the cases do you have the numbers of how many american citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ice is trying to remove from this country i bet you don't i bet you didn't even read up on those stories i bet you never even read about Lake and Riley or Jocelyn Nungray or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country and the brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals and make our communities safer and shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view and pretend like you're It's a real honest journalist.

42:56You ready? Here we go. Fatality. That was unbelievable. That was unbelievable. What a great moment yesterday in the White House press briefing. You think people got the message? You think everybody else in that room got the message like, holy crap, I'm not going down this road. I'm going to let the Brit take the heat for this one. I'm learning a lesson. You want to talk about a deterrent? How about a deterrent for stupidity? How about Caroline Leavitt just opens fire rhetorically on a guy who she appropriately said shouldn't even be in the room. She should not. That guy should not even be in the room.

43:30You shouldn't even be in that chair. You know nothing about the circumstances. Your question is predicated on fiction. Why are you wasting everybody's time? Good for her. Good for her. The only thing I'm concerned about is Riley Gaines was in the room yesterday because she had her, she was in the new media seat, the great Riley Gaines. And she brought her a little baby with her. It was adorable. And occasionally you'd hear the baby, you know, goo-gooing, gagaing. It wasn't the normal baby sounds you hear from the press. It was an actual baby who was in the room. And I hope Riley Gaines did earmuffs for that moment.

44:12That was a rough moment. That was a very adult moment. As Carolyn Levitt just absolutely shellacked that idiot. You should never go. What is he doing in the press briefing? Deny that guy press credentials on the basis of no insane people. You're not allowed to be here. That's all. It's not about freedom of the press. It's like, just please, you're wasting everybody's time with these lies. And the lies are dangerous, to be clear. That guy is out there telling people that ICE is just wantonly killing human beings. you see what the left does with that kind of claim. They use that as a way to whip up the weak and the weak minded, the violent people in their base who then turn around and, you know, conduct assassination attempts on American citizens or trying to attack ICE officers.

44:58Yeah, enough of that crap. No, let's not. Don't don't even pretend that serious for a moment. Good for Caroline Levitt. Kind of wild. Yeah. Earmuffs for the baby. That would have been. I'm sure. I'm sure Riley Gaines did that. We got to we got to protect the children. We have to. We got to protect the children. Let me see what else I got going on for you. A on a on a completely different but important subject. President Trump has been talking about obtaining Greenland for a million reasons. I had the deputy national security advisor to the president, former deputy national security advisor, Katie McFarlane on the big radio show yesterday.

45:34and she was great on this subject. And she was talking about, you know, you ever wonder why President Trump is interested in Greenland? Well, if you've got a globe in your house, you've got an old fashioned globe. At some point, just go look at Greenland and then look what it's surrounded by. Greenland right up there, the Arctic Circle, everything seems like a stone's throw away. You're by Russia and China's a little more distant, Europe, the United States. Everything is real tight in there around Greenland. Greenland, in terms of a strategic piece of land, very important to the United States.

46:10And in fact, the United States has been trying to obtain it since the 1800s. We've been constantly trying to make offers and figure out a way to make it essentially a U.S. territory to purchase this thing, to make it ours. Clearly, we've set up military bases there. We've expanded our sphere of influence to Greenland. But the real competition is between the United States and ultimately China, to some extent Russia, but ultimately China. China is and has been making inroads onto Greenland. And if you have an America first agenda, you should definitely protect your own hemisphere. You should definitely be looking to prevent your signature adversary from making gains in your direction really close to you in your hemisphere.

46:58How about no? How about no China in Greenland? How about no China in Venezuela? So President Trump, one by one, is ensuring our security in our hemisphere. And that's why he's so sincerely trying to obtain Greenland. Now, you would think that American lawmakers would be all in on this, that they'd be super supportive of President Trump trying to do this. In fact, they'd be standing shoulder to shoulder with him. But they're not. And it's not just Democrats who are opposed to doing something good for the country. It's also people who call themselves, once again, Republicans. Politico's got a report today.

47:39Dumbest thing I've ever heard. Republicans amp up their resistance to Trump's Greenland push. Greenland push. Oh, so what are Republicans doing to resist President Trump? Why is it always Republican? What are you doing? Here's what they're doing. President Trump is talking about taking over Greenland, Politico says, by any means necessary. I love this. Yes, he's like a left-wing insurrectionist. Republicans in Congress are trying to scare him back to reality. As Trump continually, they're going to scare Trump, I'm sure. As Trump continually threatens to bring the Danish territory into the U.S.

48:18over the objections of key global allies and the island's elected representatives, some Republican lawmakers are stepping up their warnings and engaging in diplomacy as Democrats prepare to put the other party on record opposing a military invasion. Senator Tham Tillis of North Carolina, Thambolina, is predicting that members on both sides of the aisle are going to lock arms and require a congressional sign-off if it becomes clear Trump was preparing imminent military action. Here's Tham. Ready? Quote, if there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking, there'd be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto.

49:05All right, so Tham says that he's going to oppose President Trump from seizing Greenland. Representative Don Bacon, also nominally a Republican from Nebraska, these are the Republicans we have in Congress, went further predicting that it would lead to impeachment and calling Trump's Greenland obsession the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Don Bacon, I finally found the one thing Bacon doesn't improve. It's Congress. It's Congress. Don Bacon says he would impeach Trump and that his obsession with Greenland, which, by the way, is a national security obsession, is, quote, the dumbest thing he's ever heard.

49:56Don Bacon. The blunt public messaging comes as lawmakers try to reassure U.S. allies, including Denmark, in private. A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers are in Copenhagen Friday. That's today. They're in Denmark today to suck up to the Danes to promise that, oh, no, oh, no, Trump's not going to take Greenland. I won't let it happen. They're in. Are you serious? They want a message that military action does not have support on Capitol Hill. Greenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset, said Senator Lisa Murkowski. And I think that's what you're hearing with this delegation, she said, after meeting with Danish and Greenlandic leaders there.

50:47And then there's John Thune. What's John Thune up to? Well, Politico says John Thune did not join the delegation, but he largely endorsed the message the contingent is sending in comments to reporters Thursday saying, quote, there's certainly not an appetite here for some of the options that have been talked about or considered an apparent reference to military action. All right. So who's on President Trump's side exactly? Why is it why is it left to normal people to constantly be waging these fights? Why is it left to me and you to fight on behalf of President Trump? What what kind of party is this?

51:24Fellas. Hello. Come here. Come here a second. Come here. I got a question. This is sincere. Do you want to win the midterms? Do you want any backup whatsoever? Do you want more Republicans to come to Washington, D.C. to help you get an agenda through? Do you have any desire to improve this country? Or are you just here to get rich? Is the whole job just insider trading for you? Are you perfectly happy being in the minority? Is that the game plan? just to go back to the minorities so that, you know, if you even have less power, then we have no recourse. We can't come to you and expect you to do something for us.

52:03You just throw your hands up. You're like, sorry, we're in the minority. There's nothing to do. Is that really the game plan? Oh, yeah. Get me closer, Justin. Is this really the game plan for you idiots? Thanks, Justin. Thank you. All right. Stop scaring the people. It's the game plan. This is all they're doing. So they're rooting against... Oh, I'm sorry. I I realized I left my camera all jacked up. This is the game plan. They're rooting against Trump at every turn, to the point that Don Flipping Bacon, the only cool thing about him is his name, is saying that Trump would be impeached if he figured out a way to get Greenland.

52:42By the way, President, I'm sorry about this close-up scare. I wasn't trying to scare you guys. I'm trying to want to rattle Congress a little bit. Here's the thing. President Trump was asked this week about military action in Greenland. The press is going crazy because here's really what's going on. The White House keeps being asked, is Trump going to invade Greenland? Is Trump going to invade Greenland? And the White House just gives simple answers that are always the same Trump answer, which is everything's on the table. We don't take anything off the table at this White House. Literally every option continues to be on the table.

53:12The president is never going to tell you, oh, no, I'm removing that as an option. But even when he's asked this week, are you going to invade Greenland with the military? Well, first of all, if we wanted to, game, set, match. I mean, that's the easiest. You ever play Risk? You ever move from country to country? You got like a thousand pieces in one country and you're going up against an army of one piece? Yeah, that's a guarantee. You take that country. That's Greenland. We got a bajillion pieces on the United States. There's Greenland. that got like one little, you know, like soldier who like like yodeling or something.

53:46We can take them like that. But that's not what we're doing. Come on, please be serious. We're not invading Greenland. No. And so when President Trump's asked about it, he just laughs it off. He thinks the whole thing is so stupid. The president is negotiating. He always is negotiating. The whole idea is he's a dealmaker. He's a dealmaker. He's saying, look, I really want this place. Let me make it crystal clear that I want it. I'm going to say every option is on the table. I want to force people to come to the table. And for that matter, the leaders of Denmark and Greenland, they're all meeting with the Trump administration now because they know the heat is on.

54:23And President Trump's trying to figure out a way he wants to make an offer to acquire this thing for the benefit of the United States of America. Amazing. Just amazing. Good for him. glad to hear it um satusek 2357 says vince how can you talk for 45 minutes and not say anything satusek wants to know and then the moderators just hit him in the face uh well satusek i want to hear what you have to say what did you cover in your podcast today tell me what was on what was on your podcast today i'm dying to know i'm dying to know did you by any chance get a question into the White House about the Insurrection Act?

55:05Because if you did, if you got more traction than I did, God bless you for it. It's pretty funny. All right. Sad, sad, sad. Is it sad sack? Is that what the name was? Justin? Do we know? Sad, oh, sad sack. Well, tell us, hey, guys, don't, don't block sad sack. He can come back if he wants. He can come back. We're for free speech. Sad sack's allowed to contribute. All right. Anyway, that's, that's what's going on in the world. That's what's going on with Greenland. And that's what's going on with Sad Sack. Sorry, buddy. Let's see. I've got Greenland. And oh, one other thing for you today. You know, there's been a lot of speculation online about whether or not Tyler Robinson actually killed Charlie Kirk.

55:48You remember last year, September 10th, that awful day at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk gets shot. Tyler Robinson in a position on top of that roof, leaps down with the gun, separates the whole thing, puts it in the woods. And remember, Tyler Robinson, he confessed it to his whole family that he was the shooter. He confessed it to his boyfriend who thought he was a furry creature or something. Well, we just got a new interview. This comes to us from News Nation. The reporter is Brian Enten. Brian Enten at News Nation. He covers a lot of these murder stories, not just ones that are like involve politics in any way, but just murder stories across the country, goes to courtrooms and interviews people.

56:26He just had an interview with a relative of the furry guy, Lance Twiggs, Lance Twiggs. And one of Lance's relatives sat down with Brian and discussed this. And Brian asked the core question. He's like, hey, there's a lot of speculation all over the place that that Tyler Robinson didn't do it or maybe other people were involved. What can you tell us exactly about what went down? Here's what somebody who knows Tyler Robinson, it sounds like pretty well, very close connection to Tyler, has to say about all of this. Take a look. There are so many theories out there, and I'm sure you've seen them. People think other people are involved or another government was involved.

57:05I mean, you're kind of in the middle of this. How confident are you that police have the right guy, Tyler Robinson? One hundred percent. They have the right guy. One hundred percent. They've got the right guy. That guy's facing trial now for what he did to Charlie. And, you know, I think execution would be right for that. Be the right sentence for that situation. Just awful. Just awful. I can't even believe we've lost Charlie Kirk. Can't even believe it to this very day. It is, as always, super awesome to be with you guys. We really, really have the best audience anywhere. I've got the big national radio show coming up today, rumble.com slash Vince.

57:48You can watch it live there or go to thevincshow.com to get your local radio listings. We've got those up. Those go support all of our great affiliates across the country. So many great options. Of course, I'll be back with you on Monday on both big shows. We've got the radio show. We've got this show, the podcast. Make sure you're subscribed, rumble.com slash Vince. If you're watching us here for the first time live, welcome. Glad to have you here, whether you're Sad Sack or anybody else. Glad to have you with us. Please subscribe while you're here. We will be moving this show from 10 a.m. Eastern live each day to 8 a.m.

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As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’

http://freebeacon.com/crime/as-tim-walz-encourages-resistance-minnesota-ice-watch-declares-time-is-ripe-to-embrace-militancy/

‘Rats Fleeing the Ship’: Iran’s Ruling Elites ‘Frantically Wiring’ Millions Abroad, Bessent Says, as New Sanctions Hit

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/15/rats-fleeing-the-ship-irans-ruling-elites-frantically-wiring-millions-abroad-bessent-says-as-new-sanctions-hit/

Kamala Harris Buys $8.2 Million Seaside Mansion After Warning 'Sea Levels Are Rising' Due to 'Climate Crisis'

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/kamala-harris-buys-8-2-million-seaside-mansion-after-warning-sea-levels-are-rising-due-to-climate-crisis/

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