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Chapter 1: What happened with Colombia's deportations?
Well, over the weekend, President Trump was golfing, and then he decided it was time for Columbia, the country, not the university, to F around and find out. So here's how it all went down. It was pretty incredible. So Columbia had announced that they were not going to accept plane flights filled with deportees.
So the Trump administration had moved very quickly when it came into office to start arresting and deporting people who were criminal illegal immigrants, and that included many Colombian deportees, people from the country of Colombia. And the president of Colombia then suggested that he was not going to actually accept any of those deportees.
He announced that while President Trump was in the middle of a round of golf, apparently, and he decided to take a break on the front nine, just step off the green for a moment and issue the following post on Truth Social. Quote, I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States with a large number of illegal criminals were not allowed to land in Colombia.
This order was given by Colombia's socialist president, Gustavo Petro, who was already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States. Trump then added that he had directed his administration to, quote, immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures.
Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States in one week. Those 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%. A travel ban and immediate visa revocation on Colombian government officials and all allies and supporters. Visa sanctions on all party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
Enhanced customs and border protection inspections of all Colombian nationals and cargo on national security grounds. IEPA treasury, banking, and financial sanctions to be fully imposed. And then Trump continued, these measures are just the beginning.
We'll not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligation with regards to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the United States.
Now, Colombian President Petro had suggested on Sunday, quote, I cannot make migrants stay in a country that does not want them, but if that country sends them back, it should be with dignity and respect for them and for our country. A migrant is not a criminal. And while President Trump had had about enough of that, and within literal minutes, I'm not even kidding.
Within about 10 minutes of President Trump putting out a statement that he'd be increasing the tariffs on Colombian products to 25% this week, followed by 50% next week, the government of Colombia immediately caved, like totally caved. Here's a statement from the White House press secretary. Quote,
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Chapter 2: What are Trump's retaliatory measures against Colombia?
Giving the authority to go into churches and go into schools.
We empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to protect Americans.
But that also has a knock-on effect, a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.
I desperately hope it has a chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming into our country. You think the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals?
I think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for.
He's absolutely 100% right about this. Absolutely 100% correct on this particular issue. On this particular issue. Let's be clear. The Catholic Church is wonderful on many issues. On this issue, the Catholic Church is a disaster area on the American southern border. Great on pro-life issues, terrific on traditional marriage, awful on borders.
And ironically, doesn't apply those same rules to, say, Vatican City. Speaking of which, the chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Mark Seitz, he ripped the Trump administration's immigration policy on Sunday.
Is the Catholic Church in the United States taking a formal position on President Trump's immigration policies in recent days?
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Chapter 3: How did Colombia respond to Trump's tariffs?
And two years ago, they had different, you know, quadrants, but they left. And you have very little insurance here. I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but I have no idea.
And the insurance companies actually have been warning you.
He is right about this. The state of California made it nearly impossible for fire insurance to be bought in the state of California because they put price caps on what the fire insurance companies could actually offer to their customers. And so many of those companies left because I can't insure a house if the cost of insuring the house is greater than the actual premiums I'm going to take in.
That's not insurance anymore. That's just a subsidy. Then he wrecked Brad Sherman over water usage in the state of California as well. Here's the thing. What he's saying here is so commonsensical, but Democrats are so alienated from common sense at this point that they're making Republicans look absolutely normal.
So you're going to see us proposing both of those.
Like water. Little things like water. You know, the party of common sense. See, Brad, we're the party of common sense. You're not, in all fairness. Yes, sir. We like water to put out fires. It's really quite efficient.
Hey, again, again, all common sense. President Trump also had a very entertaining exchange with the awful mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who you will recall was at one point considered for Joe Biden's possible vice presidential pick. This human. Here was Donald Trump versus Karen Bass.
But we are going to move as fast as we can. But we want you to be safe. And we want you to be back in your homes immediately.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's immigration policy?
Okay, again, this is all excellent. Now, just to show you how deeply embedded the deep state is, one of the first things that Hegseth did when he entered as Secretary of Defense is he announced that DEI initiatives, as President Trump said, would be wiped out from the military. So what did the deep state do?
Deep staters immediately announced that they would be removing teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen from the Department of Defense. And that was not a decision made by Pete Hegseth. Far from it. That was somebody low down trying to undermine the order to get rid of DEI by removing something that everybody basically agrees on in order to create a fake controversy.
So Hegseth immediately suggested that that had been immediately reversed. He posted the comment in response to concerns from U.S. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama about the malicious compliance we've seen in recent days. Malicious compliance is exactly right.
They're members of the deep state, and these are people who are career appointees in a wide variety of administrative roles who are taking deliberately, literally, and to the extreme, many of the executive orders that are being put down simply in order to do humiliating things that then have to be identified and reversed by the actual appointees.
Hegseth said, we're all over it, Senator, this will not stand. Now, again, it is absolutely ridiculous that somebody tried to do this in the notion that somehow people on the right are against the Tuskegee Airmen is insane. A few years ago on this show, I interviewed Harry Stewart, who's one of the Tuskegee Airmen on the show. Okay, Tuskegee Airmen are heroes to all Americans.
This notion that if you want to ban DEI, you have to get rid of it. It's just ridiculous. But again, the goal of so many people in the federal government, career employees, is to undermine what Trump is trying to do. That is why he is taking the measures that he is taking. Now, speaking of this, Tulsi Gabbard is the nominee for director of national intelligence.
She has a bit of a checkered history when it comes to some of the foreign policy positions ranging from Syria to Russia. All of these will be asked about, I assume, in the hearings that will take place this week. The left's opposition to Tulsi Gabbard, however, is too rich. It's just too rich.
So former CIA director John Brennan, who probably, probably should be in jail for perjury, he claims that Tulsi Gabbard should not be DNI. Why? Because she will violate the law and withhold intelligence from Donald Trump.
When there are National Security Council meetings that the President chairs in the White House Situation Room, usually the first person to speak would be the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of CIA. They lay down the intelligence basis for any type of policy discussion that ensues.
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