Today we’re taking an UNFILTERED flight in Donald Trump’s brand new “free” plane, welcoming refugees to America (so long as they’re white), and learning how MAGA define “winning”. Plus, we’ll dive into some refreshing sewage with RFK Jr before joining Judge Jeanine at her new job! * The audio quality varies due to a sketchy overseas connection. CHAPTERS: 03:40 Whiskey Minute 07:40 Trump Farce One 17:36 It's The White Thing To Do 29:40 Winning By Whining 42:00 Quick Shots 47:44 Cheers To Pete Rose? About Truth in the Barrel: Amy and Denver are both military veterans, political junkies, and whiskey lovers who sit on opposite sides of the aisle but have one thing in common: they love the United States of America. Truth in the Barrel was born of Amy & Denver’s commitment to country, the Constitution, and a well-curated collection of the world’s finest bourbon. Join them weekly for deep dives into timely topics, interviews with recognizable guests, and a dose of call-in fun. Visit Our Website: www.TruthintheBarrel.com Subscribe to Truth in the Barrel: https://www.youtube.com/@TruthIntheBarrel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JQcSj5mwVyGDJ8DcXwlu9?si=5f2bd1d1b0c64e6f Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-in-the-barrel/id1804092329 Instagram, BlueSky, Facebook, TikTok: @TruthintheBarrel
Chapter 1: What are the key topics in this week's episode?
Today we're taking an unfiltered flight in Donald Trump's new gold plane, welcoming refugees to America as long as they're white and learning how MAGA defines winning. Plus we'll dive into some sewage with RFK Jr. apparently and his family. We'll join Judge Jeanine at her new job. This is Truth in the Barrel, a different kind of Whiskey Rebellion.
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And welcome to Truth in the Barrel. I'm Amy McGrath with my co-host Denver Riggleman in the Middle East. Denver, where are you?
Right now I'm sitting in Dubai, but yesterday I was in Abu Dhabi. So I've been all around, Amy. I've been in Sharjah. I've been in Ajman. But I've also been in something called RAK, which is Ras Al Khaimah. I met with the ruler there, the Sheikh, which was unbelievable, in his palace.
But I've been able to do some incredible work here in artificial intelligence, talk to some really credible individuals when it comes to business. But it's been very weird. As the guy who is the J6 technical advisor is here doing business in AI while we have Donald Trump just landed not too long ago in Abu Dhabi, not far from me.
So that is the questions I've gotten, Amy, here in the UAE have been insane. And, you know, people sort of know me. But, yeah, it's been pretty crazy for a guy doing business over here with businesses opening up by the very guy that I investigated in January 6th.
You know, we're going to talk a lot today about Donald Trump and the Middle East. So let's get started. But before we do, I want to announce again, our new weekly live show begins on June 10th. It's going to be the most distilled version of Truth in the Barrel, because it's just Denver and I live with you all, with all of our listeners and viewers out there. It's going to be great.
We're going to answer your questions. We're going to be drinking a lot of whiskey and having a lot of fun. So please join us.
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Chapter 2: How does Donald Trump's new plane symbolize pay-to-play politics?
And so we went there and it's fabulous. Everybody should try it. It's a really great story. And the master distiller for this distillery in Shelbyville is a woman by the name of Victoria Butler. And she is a fifth generation descendant
of nearest green the first master distiller for jack daniels cheers with me here in the uae but i do not uh amy um but i have this so my wife knows her i've been on panels with her right so christine is very familiar with uncle nearest right and near screen which is pretty cool but you know what amy i was just thinking about your kids you know they get back from school break
And they're asking all the kids what they did over break. Our parents took us to Disney World. Oh, that's great, Johnny. Okay, Becky, where did your parents take you? Oh, our parents took us to the beach. Oh, that's great, Becky. Okay, McGrath kids, where did your mom and dad take you? Oh, our mom and dad took us to a distillery. Crickets. Silence in the classroom.
We got it to something historical. It's American history, Denver. It's American history. And they went, and now my nine-year-old daughter knows all about Jack Daniels. She can see the statue of him and be like, that's Jack Daniels. They were upset they couldn't do the tasting at the end, but you know.
Amy, where are you taking your kids next year? Well, to the first marijuana farm in Kentucky.
I don't know if we're going to do that. All right. Let's get on to the show, though. This is a really important show. There's a lot going on, as there always is. And it's particularly important because of where you're at right now, Denver, in the Middle East. I call this latest... Issue, shall we say, Trump Farce 1.
This is Donald Trump's idea that he is going to get a free gift in the form of a massive Boeing 747-8 jet from Qatar, a gift to him personally. But it's a bigger sign, in my mind, of this pay-to-play presidency that we have going on.
Well, ma'am, I'm here. And when you were talking, I was thinking about that Boeing at 400 million, but I was also thinking, and you know, we have great researchers, right? And a great research team. And I was looking at that. But what really struck me here, we can talk about maybe it's going to be a billion dollars to retrofit it. Upwards of that, right?
Tens of millions or hundreds of millions to retrofit it. We don't know exactly what's in the plane. It's from a foreign government. And also when you look at his trip, you know, he's done Saudi, Qatar, right? And now he's in the UAE, landing in Abu Dhabi, probably coming over into Dubai. Who knows if he's going to see any of the other five Emirates right here in UAE.
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Chapter 3: What is the controversy around South African refugees and Afghan allies?
Ich habe es. Wenn man sich zurückblickt, denke ich, wenn man sich zurückzieht zu 2010, 2011, sieht man es tatsächlich. Der Genesis davon, denke ich, war ein französischer Schriftsteller, der über die große Verwendungstheorie oder so etwas gesprochen hat, wo es seine Gründe hatte, soweit der Name.
Aber soweit eine Verwendungstheorie, soweit das Basis-Belief-System, weißt du, das geht gut vor 2011 zurück, richtig, Amy? Das ist gut vor dem. Aber die aktuelle Iteration ist etwa 15 Jahre alt.
The Great Replacement Theory also was part of the fabric of QAnon, that it was part of this deep state or globalist way of actually replacing the white population with people of color to destroy our civilization, right? Great Western civilization. A lot of this is linked to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and their Western Chauvinism ideal.
Now, Western Chauvinism is just another word for white supremacy, right, Amy? So what you have is you have this sort of interlocking way of trying to identify or define the
what the great replacement theory is, which is the replacement of whites by a certain set of the population, usually globalists or the deep state, through immigration and through streamlining immigration, so that we change our very way of life by destroying the white population. Here's what's scarier.
A lot of the shooters that you see, school shooters or even the shooters overseas, are captured by the white replacement theory. Many of these shooters become saints. SAI NTS Saints and the great replacement or the white supremacy group chats or in the belief or these sort of these belief packages on 4chan or other types of encrypted chat areas.
So when people talk great replacement, oh, it's just this great replacement theory sparks murder and violence. There's a following. It has its own tradition of sainthood. It comes from almost the baseline of Ja, genau. Charlottesville, 2017. Jews will not replace us. Those were great replacement theory individuals.
By the way, white supremacists, led in part by Richard Spencer, sadly a University of Virginia graduate. Why do I know so much about it? As you know, Charlottesville was in my district, in Virginia's 5th district. So Amy, I hope that helps with the great replacement theory, the genesis of it, and why it's so dangerous.
Ja, also Donald Trump spielt gerade in diesem Bereich. Und mittlerweile, 9000, 9000 afghanische Flüchtlinge, die in unser Land gekommen sind, sind jetzt im Risiko, zurück in Afghanistan zu werden. Why? Because the Trump administration has ended what's called the temporary protected status program that allows them to stay in the United States legally.
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Chapter 4: How does the Great Replacement Theory influence politics and violence?
It's just that simple. And the fact is, we're turning our back on the very people that helped us in these horrible wars of attrition. It's hard again for me. We're thinking about 59 Africaners. Now listen, I don't want to automatically make the judgment, it could be mutually exclusive, that we have a racist administration bringing in Africaners who might have actually been somehow... In danger.
I don't know. Right, Amy? But I do know this. It does look odd. It looks a little weird. It looks a little maybe not on the up and up that the people who helped us in conflict or people that were here under temporary protected status are being sent back in the thousands. While we think that 59 Africanas are somehow worthy of protection. It's against everything we should believe as Americans.
Being run by the families of Elon Musk, right? To come over as Afrikaners. I'm to a point. It's such crazy towns. Think about what we talked about. Qatar giving us an aircraft. $115,000 a month from Pam Bondi. Donald Trump getting a golf course. The fact that it's bribery and corruption.
Now we're sending back the people that helped us while we're bringing over people that somehow are under some systemic racism as white folks from South Africa. It's like we're taking crazy pills.
It's literally taking crazy. It is crazy. And the other interesting thing is Secretary of State Marco Rubio used to be a champion of these Afghans who helped us. He's silent now. Mike Waltz used to be a champion. Afghan veteran used to be a champion of these folks who helped us. Silent.
And the other thing that people ought to know about just refugees in general in our history, in American history. In 1980, we passed an act. And it was one of the things that sort of Reagan championed. It was an act called the Refugee Act.
And it used to offer up to 100,000 refugees from around the world, the most vulnerable people from around the world to come to the United States for safety, to build a new life. That was something we should be proud of, that we used to be proud of, that we could be a place where people could come and be safe. Guess what? Donald Trump stopped that program.
We don't have any more refugees coming in, except for these 59 white Afrikaners. That's it. I mean, I'm sorry, there's no explanation for this other than 100% racism. None.
What has been the gold standard for Republican presidents, Amy? Ronald Reagan, right? And people can fact check this. Who was the president that provided amnesty for illegal immigrants? Does anybody know? Anyone? Buehler, Buehler? Not to you, Amy, you already know this. That's Ronald Reagan. So when I was running for Congress in 2018, I was in a dairy farm somewhere near Halifax County, Virginia.
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Chapter 5: Why is the U.S. shifting its refugee policy?
I mean, if somebody says that to you, you need to say, what did we win? What exactly did we win here? Because we still have tariffs going on, which hurt Americans consumers. And we've got nothing out of this. It's ridiculous. How about this, Denver? How about Trump's win against the Houthis? All right.
Now, Trump this past week surprised a lot of people when he announced that the Houthis have, quote, capitulated. The Houthis have capitulated in the wake of US military actions. Actions, by the way, that was basically a month long bombing campaign, offensive bombing campaign, which cost about a billion dollars in terms of ammunition, bombs, missiles expended.
And Donald Trump has said, well, we won. The Houthis have capitulated and we're going to stop the bombing now. Okay. Hm. All right. What do you make of that then? They haven't capitulated. Okay.
Ami, du und Doug werden sagen, mein Gott, hier ist eine andere Sache. Hier ist, was ich mit ihm denke, die Houthis kapitulieren. Hast du jemals das Leben von Brian gesehen? Der Film, der Monty Python-Film, Ami. Ja, ja. Wenn die Suizidsquad aufhört, Brian zu helfen, als er auf der Kresse ist und sie sich töten, richtig?
Ich fühle mich, ich fühle mich, wir sind zu einem Punkt, dass wir lachen, weil wir würden. If we weren't laughing, we'd be crying right now. Because there has been no capitulation. The Houthis are still militarily active. We haven't done anything with Iran. And that's the thing. We haven't even gotten there, right, Amy? We haven't even gotten to Iran yet and how they're related to the Houthis.
And now we're talking about doing things with Iran, but we still have military action happening in Yemen, right? We still have China not capitulating. We still have all these happening. And it seems like we have Americans who can't even see the forest for the trees. You know why, though? They're listening to propaganda sources that me and you can't control.
Anyway, I know I sound exasperated, but I guess it's being over here in the Middle East, being over in the UAE, listening to this and watching people, you know, the Emiratis shaking their head like, your president just likes to get free planes. You know, it's incredible.
I want to give our listeners a little bit of background, though, because they might hear from their friends and neighbors, oh, we beat the Houthis. Donald Trump beat the Houthis, okay? Here's the thing. Recall why the United States... Things we found out during this bombing campaign.
But the goal was to stop the Houthis from targeting merchant ships, thereby allowing merchant ships to go back through the Red Sea in a safe manner. What happened after we did this month-long $1 billion campaign? Did we reach those goals? No, you did not. The Houthis are still attacking Israel. Every single day almost. Google how many attacks are going on in the last 24 hours.
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Chapter 6: What historical context explains the current refugee stance?
People need to realize that first, the stuff has to be delivered. It has to be paid for. It has to be maintained. It has to be put in a certain configuration. All this has to happen, as they say over here in the Middle East. And my good friends over here in the UAE Well, let's see if it actually happens.
But even if it does, none of this stuff is just of his doing. And the claim that he is the victor here, the winner, is just kind of bullshit. People need to know that. We're back to Monty Python, right? Yeah. Bite your knee off.
We're back to Monty Python again, Amy. Yeah.
Time for quick shots, Denver, because you've got a lot of work to do. I know it's still out there and we've got to wrap things up. There's been a few interesting things going on that we really do need to touch on from the last week. The first one is, and I honestly don't know a ton about this, except for the headlines. RFK Jr.
on Mother's Day, he, by the way, is our Health and Human Services Secretary. He took his grandkids swimming and wading in Rock Creek. And this is a place where swimming and wading have been banned for 50 years due to consistently high levels of E. coli and widespread human and animal waste. Wow. What do you say to that, Dan?
First of all, may I translate what that is really quickly? When you say E. coli and human waste and animal waste? Yeah, that's shit. It's called sewage. It's shit and urine and grotesqueness. So what I really like about this, he's so he's so secure in his immune system and his children that he's willing to swim in shit water just to show what a man he is.
And I got to tell you what he gets, he gets, Amy. What he gets, he gets.
The other thing is, this past week he was testifying on the Hill. And I don't remember what the question was, but his answer had to do with, oh no, the question was about, I think, the measles vaccine. And his answer was, oh, well, you shouldn't take any health advice or medical advice from me. That's the HHS Secretary. Health and Human Services Secretary, we can't take health advice from you.
I don't even know what to say to that.
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