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Another Liberal Media Hoax | Episode 7 - 03/25/25

Wed, 26 Mar 2025

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Pete Hegseth and other National Security officials were in the news yesterday for texting a reporter the battle plans for an overseas raid -- or did they? This episode: a dive into what could be another total hoax from the "Russia, Russia, Russia" crowd, as well as more coverage on the Democrat party's plummeting approval ratings. The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=J_CNpt7Ar1nKEXqJWVh1ulEUSzqbExa4Kxm41rX0EQA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Trump’s DOJ Launches Review Of Law Firms That Participated In ‘Weaponized Lawfare’ https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/24/trumps-doj-launches-review-of-law-firms-that-participated-in-weaponized-lawfare/ Massive Poll Of Millions Of Americans Shows Dems Have Big Problems On Their Hands https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/24/massive-poll-of-millions-of-americans-shows-dems-have-big-problems-on-their-hands/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chapter 1: What are the claims about leaked war plans in The Atlantic?

0.429 - 19.868 Vince Colonese

Well, I've got a lot of great news to share with you today. Coming up on the program, we'll get into all of the details of what to expect in the days and weeks ahead on this program. It's going to be truly massive. I'm really excited about this. Additionally, I really want to get into all of the inner workings of these leaks coming out from the Atlantic magazine.

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19.888 - 25.033 Vince Colonese

They claim that they have the war plans that were leaked to their editor, Jeffrey Goldberg,

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25.593 - 51.369 Vince Colonese

i will get into the details of this story what it really means and who are all the power players who are trying to manipulate you in the midst of all of this that is all ahead on uh which i think is going to be a really great episode of vince so stay with me for that also of course always checking tracking all of your messages on the rumble chat love those first let me tell you this episode is brought to you by ammo squared do you remember the great ammo shortage of 2020

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52.53 - 68.981 Vince Colonese

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133.373 - 152.382 Vince Colonese

And for the radio show, it's really, it's a three-in-one operation because I broadcast out of D.C., the Florida Studio handles all of the video, and then meanwhile in Dallas, all of the radio audio is coming through. And so if you notice a couple of hiccups along the way, Our apologies. It's just a matter of trying to work through a daisy chain of delivery just to get to you.

152.682 - 174.587 Vince Colonese

But so grateful that we can. All right. We're back on. And thank you for that. Here's what's going on. The Atlantic has a piece today released yesterday. The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans. And even the headline is basically a lie because it wasn't a text. It was a post on an end to end encrypted app called Signal. So here is the timeline of events.

Chapter 3: What is Jeffrey Goldberg's involvement in the leaked messages?

174.647 - 195.445 Vince Colonese

I'm going to break this down for you without you having to read this whole piece, although you're welcome to if you want to get your arms around it even more. On Tuesday, March 11th, Jeffrey Goldberg, the fabulous editor at The Atlantic who wrote this piece, he says that he was invited to a signal group by Michael Waltz, who is the national security advisor for President Trump.

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196.468 - 217.476 Vince Colonese

And he was concerned, he was suspicious that this might have been some sort of fake, that it wasn't really the national security advisor, that it could have been some conservative media person who was trying to entrap him, to trick him into thinking that it was the national security advisor. So he accepted the request, but with suspicion is the way that he presents this.

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Fast forward two days later, it's Thursday, March 13th, and Goldberg says that he was added to a group on Signal called the Houthi Principles Committee Small Group, the PC Small Group. The Houthis have been disrupting shipping in that part of the world by Egypt, the Suez Canal. And here's something you need to know about that.

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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Signal messages involving Trump officials?

243.929 - 270.952 Vince Colonese

The majority of the shipping that travels through that area is Europe's problem, not America's. 40% of the shipping that goes through there is directly related to Europe's economy, not to the United States. It's just 3% that affects the United States of America. And that data comes to us directly from the vice president of the United States, J.D.

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271.212 - 288.859 Vince Colonese

Vance, who was inside of these signal text messages, these signal messages that Jeffrey Goldberg was apparently accidentally added to. I'm telling you, if there's any takeaway from all of this right now, as we're just talking about this big signal story, it's that you have adults who are in charge.

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There's conversations going on here between Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, Mike Waltz, between the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, one of the president's top aides, Susie Wiles is on this thread.

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These are really, other than the president of the United States, the biggest officials in the country that you could possibly imagine, all talking amongst themselves about the best course of action. Is it in America's interest? And what needs to be done about these crazy tribesmen, these Houthis, who are causing so much trouble for international shipping?

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321.602 - 341.28 Vince Colonese

JD Vance, according to these messages, again, obtained by Jeffrey Goldberg, who was, again, accidentally added to this. JD Vance comes across as the most sober pro-America adult in the entire conversation. J.D. says, wait a second. Can we think about this? Maybe we can put the brakes on this a little bit because here's what I see happening right now.

341.541 - 363.288 Vince Colonese

We're going to do an American military strike in order to once again bail out the deadbeats in Europe, the guys who never pay us for any of the services that we provide. We never get anything out of them. We're constantly coming to their rescue. Maybe we want to tap the brakes on this. Now, I love this. I love that J.D. Vance is representing himself in this way.

363.408 - 384.585 Vince Colonese

And he's not doing it as far as he can tell in public. He has no idea that these messages will one day very soon be disseminated among the American people by way of the Atlantic magazine. He's just saying it among the top officials in the country as they're strategizing over whether or not now is the right time to conduct these airstrikes on the Houthis. I think it's great. It's a great message.

384.625 - 402.873 Vince Colonese

In fact, in the end, it's wonderful that this got published, I think publicly, because it sends a really clear message to Europe that we are not playing around. Trump and Vance are not playing with them. It's not posturing in public. It's not just pretending like we're tired of them being freeloaders.

403.013 - 420.043 Vince Colonese

It's JD Vance straight up saying it in planning conversations that he never thinks are going to go public, that we are tired of them being freeloaders. In those same conversations, again, now public, you see the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, say that he agrees. He completely agrees with the Vice President of the United States.

Chapter 5: How does the Trump administration view accountability compared to the Biden administration?

491.8 - 515.751 Vince Colonese

And so... That's what happens. And then Goldberg apparently removed himself from the group after that, which created a notification letting everybody else know that he had been part of it in the first place. Now, apparently in Signal, He's referred to as JG, JG on Signal, just his initials. Not everybody went by their initials, but he did. He was JG. Other people went by their full names.

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In case you're wondering, is it possible that the wrong JG was added to this chat? Well, yes, it is. In fact, the name of the United States trade representative is Jameson Greer. J.G. So once again, to reset us, we've got this massive piece from The Atlantic claiming that Trump administration officials are being totally reckless. They're communicating on signal.

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542.353 - 565.05 Vince Colonese

They lumped in Jeffrey Goldberg, this ridiculous liar who's presented so many falsehoods in public in the past. And we have some confirmation that, yes, indeed, they did accidentally include him. Getting to the bottom of that, super important. And then telling you what happens after that. That's what I want to talk about next. And whether or not anybody in the Trump world should be fired.

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565.09 - 582.824 Vince Colonese

The people who are trying to get people fired in Trump world. It's all ahead on Vince. We'll talk about that in just a moment. First of all, to once again, thank the people who make this programming free. I do have to tell you about the people who are just doing great work for us.

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648.261 - 674.108 Vince Colonese

Our thanks to American Financing for, again, offering this great free programming, helping us support it. Okay. So... Look, it is a massive, massive unforced error to include just a venomous guy like this Jeffrey Goldberg character on the signal chat. Massive error. Michael Waltz should have never done it.

674.448 - 699.553 Vince Colonese

Michael Waltz is the national security advisor, and therefore it's even more incumbent on him to be safe with data and communications, given that he has such a very important role there. But one of the things I'm seeing right now is a pressure campaign to an extent is mounting on President Trump to fire him, to get rid of him, to say there need to be consequences for this.

Chapter 6: What is the impact of media influence on Trump administration personnel decisions?

801.195 - 819.069 Vince Colonese

It was such a nightmare that many of our troops were killed and many more were maimed, and they have lifelong injuries as a result of that. No meaningful consideration for them. And then, of course, when the bodies were brought back to Dover in flag-draped coffins, President Biden couldn't bother himself to be all that concerned with it to begin with.

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819.109 - 839.989 Vince Colonese

He just stared at his watch and insulted the families, which is, by the way, one of the many reasons you saw those families out on the campaign trail. or at events with President Trump during the campaign because they support him. They were grateful to him because he was there for them when the, at the time, current president of the United States was not. So accountability, please.

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840.209 - 848.958 Vince Colonese

I'm not taking lectures from the left on accountability. Also, I'm not really interested in giving the media a heckler's veto over President Trump's employees.

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849.972 - 871.904 Vince Colonese

Every time you play the left's game in the media, if you allow them to dictate who works inside of the Trump administration, then really what you're doing is giving them a permission slip to scandalize every other person they can possibly scandalize. They're already trying to do it with Elon Musk. They've taken a couple of runs of dividing Elon against Donald Trump. They'll say things like,

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872.384 - 895.219 Vince Colonese

Oh, Elon is the real president of the United States. He's the co-president. Look, we put him on a magazine cover sitting behind the Resolute desk, they'll show. And the goal there, as President Trump and Elon Musk have both acknowledged, is a ludicrous, cartoonish, teenage-level effort to try and sow division between the two men, because if you can divide them, then you can conquer them.

895.56 - 909.069 Vince Colonese

And so they laugh this off, rightfully so, having seen the media do this time and time and time again. And if Trump were to turn around and say, OK, I'm firing Mike Waltz. And by the way, there's no indication this morning that that's actually happening.

909.089 - 929.522 Vince Colonese

In fact, the president apparently talked to a reporter at NBC and indicated that he's happy with Mike Waltz and he thinks that the administration is going really well. And if anything, this is a this is a small scale hiccup. It's not that big of a deal. relative to the major screw-ups that might take place. And so he's happy with Mike Waltz's performance.

929.562 - 949.539 Vince Colonese

And Mike Waltz, by the way, in turn, is probably gonna be eternally grateful to the president of the United States for sticking up for him in a moment where he clearly has egg all over his face. So if Trump were to come along and fire the guy, Again, it would just create a permission structure for the media to get drunk on its own power again. We saw it happen already.

949.579 - 966.374 Vince Colonese

Remember when President Trump presented Matt Gaetz to become the Attorney General of the United States? Put him forward as the nominee to become the Attorney General. And then the media turned every waking moment of Matt Gaetz's existence into a scandal. It's a scandal. He can't be the attorney general. They attacked him. They attacked him. They attacked him.

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