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Chapter 1: What happened in New Orleans that sparked backlash?
The second post that you'll see here was 90 minutes later when he learned that the feedback he was getting was less than stellar, posting a photo outside Bonton's Prime Rib, a fancy steakhouse with a bunch of his friends. As this account, Laura Burkhart says, elect better people. It doesn't have to be this way. You don't have to bring in such ghoulish people who do stuff like this.
You can actually elect people who care about we, the people. And I go back and I remember all of those videos we were doing with the red flags of Jeff Landry and how he was just a Donald Trump mega sycophant who would post these bizarre messages and photos of himself. And this is what you get, a lack of leadership, zero leadership. Then Landry posted 90 minutes later,
Chapter 2: How did GOP leaders respond to the New Orleans attack?
It's important to understand that we have many visitors in the city of New Orleans right now. Safety is our top priority, and we want our guests and the world to know that Louisiana does not cower to radical Islamic terrorists. Our restaurant and all New Orleans has to offer, has to remain open for business. By the way, I'm not sure if that message is all that much better.
You're trying to act like it was an act of bravery that you went to Bonton's Prime Rib Fancy Steakhouse before going to a football game. I mean, you think or in preparation of going to a football game. You think that's what's actually showing leadership right now? And folks, it's important to get the facts.
What a leader does when there's a domestic terrorist attack or when there's something tragic is first you speak to the people. After gathering the information about what happened, you don't lie and spread disinformation.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of leadership during crises?
And as I've said in a video I did earlier today, there was once a time, believe it or not, in American history, not all that long ago in my lifetime, where when there would be natural disasters or terrorist attacks, we would come together as a nation and try to actually solve the problems. We wouldn't finger point and say, oh, it's this person's fault or that's person's fault.
But that's all MAGA does with all of these attacks and natural disasters. I mean, Just think about even how Donald Trump was campaigning. You know, when there were those horrible hurricanes that hit the East Coast, what would Donald Trump do?
He would lie and say that Biden is making sure that FEMA is helping illegal immigrants and not helping the people and Biden's not going to give you any money or resources, which was 100 percent false. It was a way, though, to turn it into a political thing and to blame things on immigrants and rile people up. That's not what leaders do.
Let's just talk about what the latest set of facts are, what the latest data is. The FBI now says that there is no evidence that the New Orleans attacker was anything but a lone wolf. There was a lot of disinfo out there about, oh, that this was a conspiracy with lots of other people.
Again, this was someone who was an American in Texas who was in the United States military who did this and who was working and living in Texas. Here's updates from Mike Baker post the latest updates. There's actually 14 dead down from 15. The attacker, Jabbar, he reported joining ISIS last year. Two explosive devices were found in the French Quarter. Jabbar placed them.
Investigators are now confident he acted alone. They have not ruled out any connection with the Cybertruck blast in Vegas. So that's what we know now. And with that data, it is important just to report that. As we said yesterday, when we knew what the data was yesterday, Always said it's a 42 year old. His name is Shamshud Din Jabbar, American citizen, U.S. Army veteran, born and raised in Texas.
But now what's MAGA saying this morning? Even when they're given this information, even when they're given this data, they find a way to attack immigrants.
with the information that i just gave you speaker my i'm not going to play you the videos of mike johnson and these magas i know my policy only applies to trump right now that i'm not playing trump videos or trump audio but i don't want to play it's a new year i i may play in the future clips of maga mike johnson and these magnets but i just i don't want to play the clips if you want to see the clips you can go and look at our social media platforms midas touch we have them there but i'm just not playing them here
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Chapter 4: What does the FBI say about the New Orleans attacker?
I hope by now you trust that I'm saying what's in the clip. So Speaker Mike Johnson was on Fox & Friends this morning, and he suggested that it's Biden's wide open border that played a role in the New Orleans attack. Again, the perpetrator was born in Texas and served in the United States military, but they're going all in on wide open border. And at the same time, I've said this before,
President Biden wanted a bipartisan border deal passed. The lead negotiator of the bipartisan border deal was none other than James Lankford, a very right-wing guy, a very right-wing conservative from Oklahoma. This would have had the strongest borders ever. And it would have had ways to deal with humans with dignity. And it would have addressed all of the issues about labor shortages.
And it would have had extra, would have paid border agents more money. It would have been great for the police and border agents. But MAGAs killed the bill because Trump said he wanted chaos because it was a winning issue for him and Republicans to run on a chaotic border. Don't you see people that they are running on our pain?
Don't you see that they like when we're in pain and we're suffering, these MAGA Republicans, so that they could divide us? And why are they dividing us though? Think about, follow the money, where does it go? The Mar-a-Lago billionaires entrench their wealth when we, the people, are pit against each other, when we're in fear. That's when they thrive.
If we open our eyes and we see what they're doing, picking our pockets and looting us while making billions of dollars, then they get exposed. Don't you see? That's why they want you to get angry about all of these issues that don't you see? And they don't want you to know the truth.
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Chapter 5: How are MAGA Republicans framing the narrative?
So then the Fox hosts have on Mike Waltz, who's the incoming national security advisor to Donald Trump. currently a MAGA Republican congressman. This is a big job. National security advisor, head of the national security apparatus here. And this is what Mike Walz does. Mike Walz does.
Mike Waltz uses the attack in New Orleans and the incident in Las Vegas to now insist that Trump's cabinet shouldn't even be questioned. They need to be confirmed immediately now because of these incidents. So you see how they use the pain and suffering of we the people, of the people in New Orleans, of the whole situation to achieve a political end. Well now, why are we even holding hearings?
You have to confirm everybody right away. As Michael Freeman says, in challenging times, cabinet nominees need less, not more scrutiny. It's not a very good argument to make. They need more scrutiny.
And what Democrats should be saying is, actually, in these times, we can't be having these compromised, unqualified people who are, what, going to post photos of themselves in front of steakhouses when there is an attack? They're going to be missing in action. because they don't even have the qualifications to handle these jobs. But folks, this has been all morning today.
MAGA Republican Representative Dan Mouser, he blames DEI and the FBI investigating Trump for the attack in New Orleans. And what he means there is that the FBI agent who's been holding press briefings, she's black, it's a black woman. And so that's what they're referring to. And again, MAGA has to make this DEI stuff versus just saying we all need as Americans to stop this terrorism.
This is what MAGA does on every issue. Then you have next MAGA Republican Congress member Randy Weber. And as Aaron Rupert explains, even though the New Orleans attacker was born in Texas and is a veteran, all the House Republicans on Fox are following Trump's lead and just pretending that the terrorists came across Biden's open borders.
And they're making this an open borders thing, it's an immigrants thing, bring it home and we need to round up and do bloody mass deportations. And as Eric Columbus says once again, this is a great opportunity for Dems not to defend Biden, but to insist that the GOP take the danger seriously and reject nominees plainly unsuited to the task. like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and others.
You then have Tom Holman, Trump's border czar, goes on Fox and then continues to talk about this as a border issue as well. And they repeat this over and over again.
who going back to what ultimately trump's statement was and you saw trump's statement i read it to you earlier this morning i mean trump said when i said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country that statement was constantly refuted by the democrats and the fake news media but it turns out to be true the crime rate in our country is at a level nobody has ever seen before our hearts are with all the innocent victims and their loved ones including
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Chapter 6: What bipartisan efforts were thwarted regarding border security?
We're investigating and we'll make sure you have all the up-to-date information and we'll take all action to stop this. But no, they make it about the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country. That's not even a true data point and that's not what's happening here.
And by the way, with all of the information about what's going on with the Tesla truck, what we know about this individual, the man connected to the rental of the Tesla cyber truck that exploded outside of the Trump Hotel in Vegas on Wednesday, is a U.S. Special Forces soldier who was assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group per four U.S. officials.
The mass shootings that take place in the United States are Americans who are doing that, who are radicalized here. So we just need to stick with the truth, people. And the going to the steakhouse is so utterly ghoulish and gross. Anyway, thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to four million together. Thank you.
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