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Back to episode — Episode 2950 CWSA 09/06/25

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service of saying that Trump knows that the Epstein crimes are not a hoax. He's just saying that the way the topic is being treated was a hoax I guess. So here's the part I don't believe. We've already heard from a lawyer who was explaining when he was originally looking into Epstein that Trump was the only person who just called him and gave him all the time he wanted to say what was the deal wi…

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rture him. He actually thought that there were more than 20 countries who had it in for him so badly that they wouldn't just jail him they would torture him.

So even I don't know who it was, whatever government entity, ICE or Border Patrol or somebody, they sort of mocked him in writing but then they came up with this great solution. Since he was afraid of these 20 countries torturing him they would send him to a country called, it's in Africa, it's called Eswatini. And of course you've all heard of Eswatini. It's a really really small African country. I guess it's mostly surrounded by South Africa but it used to be called Swaziland. So I've heard of Swaziland but it's a tiny tiny little country in Africa.

So I guess the joke here is half of the time when I analyze what the Trump administration does or what Republicans do you have to almost analyze it like a prank, like somebody with a sense of humor came up with this. All right so we got these 20 countries you don't want to go to. Have you ever considered Eswatini? I'm sure the lifestyle there is just terrific. You'll love it. You'll love their prisons.

Well there's some more, believe it or not, more updates in the Biden auto pen story and the clemency and pardons situation. And I guess there's more documents that have been made available. Just the News is reporting on it. Stephen Richards and John Solomon and let's see what else we know.

So Biden aides, this is what we've learned, Biden aides believed he should sign pardons by hand. I guess that was a tradition and something they decided but he seems to have outsourced approvals to Vice President Harris but I don't think there's any documents to say she really did anything just in general. And there's no evidence that Biden himself ever attended a meeting on any of these clemency decisions.

So anyway there's some more evidence that maybe it was not a real appropriate chain of approvals. So we'll see.

The latest jobs report is a little soft and disappointing. Not hugely but definitely going in the wrong direction. Only added 22,000 jobs and that was 53,000 lower than expected. And so unemployment also ticked up to 4.3% which is not terrible. 4.3 but you don't want to see it moving in the wrong direction.

Well as you know yesterday Trump announced that the Department of Defense would in fact be renamed the Department of War. He says that it's really about winning. Yeah we should have won every war. We could have won every war but we really chose to be very politically correct or woke. I like that he's trying to popularize the word woke.

I saw a report that there's a backstory to why Department of War came back and that Palmer Luckey might have been the main influencer on that. You know he would be the Anduril founder, a defense contractor. So anyway that's interesting.

So apparently a Hyundai factory in Georgia was raided by the Department of Homeland Security for their noncitizen workers, their illegal workers, and 450 people were arrested which I believe was close to their entire employee base.

So imagine if you will that Hyundai is incentivized to come to the United States with the express purpose of creating jobs in the United States. So they come to the United States and they do in fact create jobs in the United States at least 450 of them and then they staff them all with non US citizens. All of them. Not just some of them but pretty much all of them.

So do I feel sorry for Hyundai that their entire factory will have to grind to a halt because they lost all of their employees? No. No. Hyundai I think you were maybe adhering to the letter of the law but not the spirit.

Now I will give them this much cover. I'm not positive about this but I believe that probably during the period when they did the hiring that the o

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nly thing they were required to do is check the documents from the actual applicant that says they are or are not a citizen. And there were plenty of people who had fake ID and fake documents. So if all they did was look at the fake documents and not being document experts said all right well that's all we've been asked to check and you've got those documents, probably it's going to be kind of a g…

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