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Um, I think I know where the upstream files are
they're in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago
Still,
I finally figured out what I hate about this whole thing the most about all of it and him being in charge again.
I hate reality shows, by the way.
I always have.
I think they're a waste of time and the furthest.
But that said, here's where I'm going with the whole thing.
He's turned the running of this country into a reality
That's it.
And we're a joke to the rest of the world.
I
And here's the thing.
They got rid of all of the departments in the government, right?
They're dissolving them.
They're kicking everybody out.
So he has complete control.
I mentioned this a few times.
He's micromanaging the entire nation, which is just stunning.
What do you think about it, right?
You can't possibly know what's going on, each and everything that's going on.
That's why he had departments in the government to handle all of this stuff.
Now he's doing it all by his lonesome.
And well, obviously he's getting a tremendous amount of help from Russell Vote and Stephen Miller.
So those are the
things.
I still maintain he's going to walk from all this because who's been in charge of the FBI?
Well they could
Earlier, we had a story, you know, where, uh, Marjorie Taylor Greene was whining about terrorism and terrorists crossing the border.
Yes.
And, uh, and she has t-shirts, uh, and ads and baseball caps that she's selling.
Yeah.
Uh, it's, and, and on it is defund the FBI, which deals with terrorism.
So and you know, but anyway mark send us a text saying she does as Stephanie Miller points out look a lot like Barney Rubble Wow all right kind of a female Popeye all right now let's go to Let's go to the Epstein files here.
Oh
You said this was all a hoax.
Has your attorney general told you this was a hoax?
What evidence have you seen in that?
No,
And so they try and do the Democrats work.
The Democrats are good for nothing other than these hoaxes.
They're bad for policy.
They're bad for picking candidates.
They can get elected like in New York.
We have a communist running He may get elected too actually, but he's gonna kill destroy the city No, no, it's I call it the Epstein hoax takes a lot of time and effort instead of talking about the great achievements we've had
This guy's been talked about for years.
Are people still talking about this guy, this creep?
That is unbelievable.
Unbelievable?
You guys ran on
it.
There you go.
Remember this?
We need to release the Epstein list.
That
is an important thing.
This Epstein sex ring
operation, I'm not letting it go ever, ever.
Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are.
And that was before the Trump administration took power.
And by the way, they were still hyping the Epstein files after they took power.
Yeah.
We
have flight logs.
We have information, names.
That will come out.
President Trump
given a very strong directive and that's going to be followed.
So people can expect actual
Oh, Donald Trump doesn't make empty promises.
Yeah, all right.
Whoops.
Hmm.
Two of his wives and 10,000 unpaid contractors
All right.
So, you know, now my mega friend, Milwaukee, has not mentioned this in any of the texts that he has given me in the last few days.
I wonder why.
You know, he's waiting to be told what to say.
how to think about all of this.
And he didn't have to wait long.
Podcaster Charlie Kirk.
Oh, Charlie has a whole theory on this.
This is so outrageous and so ridiculous.
I want you to hold on to your seats, strap yourself in.
Okay.
And get ready to pause when I ask you to pause the cut because I might have to interject something.
But
right.
He said something similar on his truth social this morning and he calls it the Epstein hoax.
Now, before we go any further, I do want to say big breaking news this morning.
Yeah, John Solomon is reporting that in his sit down interview with Donald Trump, President Trump has greenlit a special prosecutor to potentially be able to go after the criminal conspiracy around Epstein and all deep state activity.
So that is a phenomenal victory.
OK, let's pull that right up.
Yeah.
Now they're going to investigate this like the Mueller report.
They're going to go after something that he just made up.
just recently, like in the last few days, that it's a hoax.
Something they promoted, they promised to give us, but it's now a hoax created by other people that he even participated in for two years.
And now we need a special prosecutor.
Now there's a press, I can't even, I can't wrap my head around this.
Okay, you know,
you're right.
decided
out.
That is something that we should rejoice in.
Think basically Robert Mueller for deep state activity, but one of our guys doing it.
We do not care about the story as a way to hurt Donald Trump.
In fact, it's the opposite.
We actually care about this story because this is a rare opportunity of a sloppy operation by the deep state.
The base cares about this because we are defending you.
And it's not so much about that we care about the person of Jeffrey Epstein.
Got it.
Okay.
Get to it.
We are actually interested in, who was he an agent of?
Okay,
in this
in this to the max
We're the same people that were behind Butler, Pennsylvania.
The same people that were behind the Russia hoax.
What?
Were they also the ones that were pulling the strings of Jeffrey Epstein?
The same people that were around COVID.
Mr. President, the same people that were behind the stolen election of 2020.
We think these are the same actors.
President Donald Trump.
is venting off some anger right now because he thinks that this is being used to derail his presidency.
He thinks that this is being used to derail all of his success.
We want to try and make sure the bad people that have done such terrible things to you can finally be held accountable.
there
We got to find out the person who's pulling the strings, because that person should be prosecuted.
Man, I'm telling you, this is a bigger story than anybody could have imagined.
It's blowing up now.
And they could have been part of the assassination of Butler.
Oh my God.
I would not have tied all that stuff together.
Thank God we have people like Charlie Kirk out there.
He's brilliant, by the way.
This is the same guy that debates
what?
College students
Yeah, college students.
Yeah.
Acting like he has actually gone to college.
So this person is unbelievable.
So that is what the new story is.
And I know that my mega friend in Milwaukee is going to
Now know exactly what to say that somebody else is pulling the strings.
Somebody else has decided to make this happen.
That there wasn't really an Epstein thing at all.
Well, that they participated in for the last four years.
It's kind of an odd way to get this
We'll get to that.
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All right.
19 minutes past the hour.
Coming up in about 15 minutes, we'll be talking with attorney Jim Santel.
Get the latest on whatever's happening with the shadow docket, the Supreme Court.
Crazy stuff.
All that and more on John and Gordy.
Good morning guys.
How the heck are you?
One more time.
Sure.
Here we go.
So it started earlier than we were thinking.
Bye bye at an hour.
12 o'clock or so.
Dodgeville.
got that first tornado.
Looks like around 126 went to Sock City, that area, Fall River, Beaver Dam, Fox Lake, even a funnel cloud into Fonzalac.
I mean, there was about seven, I think, different tornadoes that were confirmed on the ground.
So...
We were just exploding from about 12 to four or so.
Then the heavy rain just kept pounding.
The Fox Valley were crazy.
Flooding was going on in Watoma where cars were submerged, streets closed.
I mean, it was a long afternoon to say the least.
And now it feels like fall out there.
Neither,
Yeah, thankfully.
Much calmer today, cooler, crisp, mostly cloudy, eventually becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon.
Highs at about 72 degrees.
tomorrow, we stay sunny.
Highs around 80.
We got a chance of showers and storms by midnight.
It kind of lingers a little bit into our Saturday on and off chances on Saturdays.
So a damper day Saturday highs at about 82 and then partly sunny and calm again for Sunday.
I can't sleep.
I stay up through it all.
Yeah, us meteorologists can't stop.
There's no way I could be sleeping.
something like that was hitting the state.
So I was definitely monitoring it and relaying all the information I could, but I hope everyone is okay.
Clean up today.
And the Trump administration can't get its stories straight.
There was a client list, then there was no client list.
They were going to release all the files, and then they decided not to release any files.
So let's see what today's excuse is.
I would say that these files were made up by Comey.
They were made up by Obama.
They were made up by the Biden.
So let me get this straight.
According to Trump, all the top Democrats got together and said, let's create some fake files that destroy Trump's political career.
They don't ever use them.
They let Trump get elected.
Don't use them.
Let Trump get elected again.
Still don't use them.
And then once he's the president, hope he releases the files without ever looking at them.
Frankly.
That plan sounds so inconceivably bad, I do believe the Democrats might have come up with.
And after initially pushing back, some of them are getting the
message.
I think the DOJ should immediately move to unseal all the Epstein documents in the Southern District of New York.
I think every file should be released to the public the same way as the JFK files.
Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being.
I'm gonna trust my friends in the administration.
I'm gonna trust my friends in the government.
to do what needs to be done, solve it, balls in their hands.
The balls in their hands, he says.
The balls in their hands.
There are a
lot of unanswered questions.
But the biggest question is just what on earth is
going on?
I
don't know what's happening.
It doesn't make sense.
I can't reconcile this, Donald Trump.
with the Trump that we're seeing right now.
The Trump that is gaslighting the public right now.
And Donald Trump and Epstein didn't just party together.
They were neighbors.
Epstein said he was Trump's closest friend for 10 years.
And these guys didn't just party together.
Epstein was a part of some major milestones in Trump's life.
Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump.
Trump was a frequent passenger on Epstein's plane, known as the Lolita Express.
Get this.
And Epstein told author Michael Wolf the first time he slept with Melania was on my plane.
And that is how I met your mother, Baron.
I'll tell you, next time you're on a flight with a crying baby, just think about how much worse it could be.
Boy
course,
the
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John, I want to remind everybody, check out our website, wmdxradio.com.
I was checking it this morning and every Thursday, Catherine puts out the newsletter, you know, and
the
Uh, I'll tell you what, let's go to Jim Santel.
You could always hear his podcast on Saturdays, 90, 11 o'clock, two hours of summation of what took place the week before.
And there are so many illegal things that take place the week before.
They're just ridiculous.
And because the law review, check it out on Saturdays.
I don't
and
then it turns out something even more incredulous happens on Wednesday, and you've forgotten by Friday what Monday was all about.
And now just following up on your last conversation, which was excellent, underscoring the frivolity and the craziness of this Epstein thing.
Now we've got
apparently unfounded conspiracies about unfounded conspiracies, right?
And so I defy anyone, including Dom, who's much younger and brighter than I will ever be, to outline, to diagram what this thing is all about.
And again, it changes.
That's another problem.
As you just said, the diagram changes virtually hourly.
And again, trying to, at any time, diagram the president's own sentences defies a complete linguistic check.
We're beyond
are
his horrific crimes, Giselle's crimes as well.
That's the number one.
You've got the entire, frankly, it's a tragedy for the defendants, a tragedy for the system.
And now it's a tragedy for us as a government when we're spending time again because of what the president has done and people like Charlie Clerk and these other folks.
What should we be talking about every single day?
How about education?
How
How about commerce, right?
How about international matters?
And yet he has
effectively taken up the space here by, again, promoting something in the capacity of the vice president of junior high school student council.
That's what this really is.
There's the people in charge of our government right now.
That's how bad, at all levels, it has become.
First, I'm pretty sure we recall this fellow named Emil Beauvais, who might be an appeals court judge fairly soon, right?
Another one of our favorite characters also in those junior high school student council.
But he was the one who early on, you may recall, fired virtually all of the directly and indirectly, all the attorneys
who
rioters.
Those folks are gone from the U.S.
Attorney's Office.
We've had others.
We've had firings in many, many units.
The big one just this past week inside the Department of Justice is something called the federal programs branch.
And I know that I hope that no one on this broadcast, none of your listeners has ever heard of the federal programs branch, because you don't have to.
You shouldn't have to know this.
But these are the people who've been out there when they talk about attorneys in the Department of Justice who are defending the Presidents, for example,
is its policies on deportation and on birthright citizenship.
And you fill in the blank on all these things, the fighterings, these are the folks who will go in and defend the president's policies.
And they've done that again for previous administrations.
They're sophisticated attorneys, they're apolitical, even though they're defending now in defensible positions, which is the story.
110 attorneys in this branch inside the Civil Division, 69 of them.
Wow 69 of 110 have left since November because number one they cannot defend these defenseless positions anymore and number two They're completely overworked.
It is just a calamitous workload because of all of these lawsuits that they're required to defend
on a regular basis.
And they're basically saying, ethically, we can't do this anymore.
And I'm going to drop dead if I continue to work at this level because of the nature of what's going on.
It is a very serious matter inside the Department of Justice.
And again, listeners should not have to know about the federal programs branch.
It's basically been decimated as has the Civil Rights Division and others.
And again, the attorney, again, Maureen Comey.
Yeah, your FC right had a month.
She is one of a singular person also finds herself fired.
Why?
Because Donald Trump doesn't like the fact that her father is James Comey.
He doesn't want any comies in his Justice Department.
This is the very competent person who prosecuted Diddy Sean Combs and also prosecuted Epstein.
Again, not not to completion there because he committed suicide, right?
But this is again a good person.
It's like the former U.S.
I'm going go on, right?
When she resigned because Emile Beauvais told her to get rid of that lawsuit involving the mayor of New York, she said no, there's a basis for doing it.
I'm ethically prohibited from doing what you're directing me to do.
Mr. Beauvais and she resigned.
And so we're losing all of this experience and all of these fundamentally good people who know what they're doing.
That's the Department of Justice these days, six months into this term.
Where will we be in three and a half more
He's going to the third circuit, which is, again, the mid-Atlantic state, sort of.
And again, in that amazing discussion with the senators, the Sanctuary Committee, they asked him about this.
Did you instruct attorneys, as many people have said, including this whistleblower, basically tell judges you either don't know, dissemble, lie to them, and, again, using the F word,
asked about that specifically, and you may recall, well, what did he say?
What did he say?
He said, I can't remember if I had that conversation
a few weeks
that that is is tantamount to saying yes I said that and I simply am avoiding a perjury prosecution now by indicating I can't recall I'm going to be on the third circuit Court of Appeals second highest court just below the Supreme Court you know I just I found it America I just
Adam Schiff looks at him again.
A former assistant United States attorney, Adam Schiff in California.
Are you telling me, Mr. Beauvais, that you do not recall having this converse this meeting weeks ago with members of the litigation group there?
And he says, what?
I can't recall.
It is incredulous.
And yet, that's the level.
There are other reasons for what it's worth.
I know I'm just roaning on here this morning.
Just yesterday, about 900 former Department of Justice
Um, attorneys and personnel sent a letter to the Senate, judiciary committee saying do not confirm this man.
He is not qualified and they're absolutely right to do so.
They're going to put them in.
Yeah.
They've got the votes to place him on that and he will be there.
I think he is in his 40s or so.
Uh, this is a lifetime tenure position, which means that, um, again, I'm, I'm picking on Dom a lot this morning.
Dom's grandchildren will probably be still.
hearing about Emil Wobe, United States Court of Appeals judge in the decades to come.
Look, we're
Pretty rare
And would never happen under these political circumstances.
One does wonder, Candidly, and I'm not suggesting anything untoward should happen with Emil Beauvais.
I hope that in his own way, he has a good and long life.
But the reality is, one does wonder, someone who is this volatile
at this
we've seen them
Right.
There is none.
And that's the reason why you've got people like Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan and Angie Brown Jackson.
You're in good company, I would say, John and Gordy with them because they're saying the same thing.
They're looking at this and they're writing these 20-page descents saying, what is going on here?
And they're addressing both the substance.
They're looking at this and saying,
This is exactly what you just identified, which is these are congressional decisions.
They created the Department of Education.
Only the legislature can turn around and shut it down.
And with respect to all of these firings, and yes indeed, that's what they did early this week.
They issued again a non-order, basically overturning a lower court decisions thing.
The president cannot do this.
Well reasoned decisions.
They're out there on the record.
In one line, two lines, you've got the majority, not the other three, but the majority of the Supreme Court saying, president can go ahead and do this.
And again, this affirms one of his early executive orders, directing all kinds of people to be fired.
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All right, Jim Santel, we want to ask you the question about a big case that happened in California and a judge brought up an interesting point.
A lot not a lot of them have brought up and and that is that a lot of these ice raids are taking place But there isn't reasonable reasonable suspicion.
You know, I mean, they're just sweeping people up
And a judge says, you can't do that.
You have to have a reasonable suspicion that they're doing something illegal, that something is wrong.
What is it that you're finding that you can do this?
What excuse do you have?
And they haven't come up with anything.
Not one thing.
I thought that was interesting from the judge.
Now, one reason.
Right.
right on all sides
She's looking at tapes.
She's looking at videos.
She's looking at photographs and having, of course, evidentiary presentations as a part of her inquiry into whether or not there should be a preliminary injunction as first level.
Should I stop this from happening before it goes on further?"
And she says, yes, I need to do that because all the evidence, as you just said, John, indicates what you're doing, what these federal agents are doing.
The United States Department of Homeland Security and other agents are doing is looking at people and saying, I don't like the way you look.
And for that reason, I am going to detain you.
I'm going to arrest you.
That is in violation of the Constitution.
And again, here's the civics point, which you just made, which is law school stuff in order for the police in America and any decent republic to stop you and to detain you.
And frankly, even if you've got probable cause next up, they can arrest you.
You've got to have some reasonable suspicion that Jim Santel is doing something.
that might be illegal.
And I can't make that detention, can't do something further.
If you just don't like the color of my skin, you don't like the music that I happen to be playing from my car, you don't like the way I'm walking down the street, that is not reasonable suspicion.
That's what the judge says.
Let's get back to core information, core standards here.
and reimpose what has been the law of America for decades.
And it's it's stunning once again that we have to have a judge
And it does
get national news because
Before anybody goes out onto the street for any what's a arrest, a seizure, or anything, what is it, me to ask along, what are the instructions being given by the federal agents, the supervisors?
What are they being told to do?
And that really gets to the core of this, right?
What is the focus, the mission of the end, to your point, the every implication, every suggestion, as the judge said, is that their instruction is do what you want, do what you need to do, and you do not need to be concerned about that.
And by the way, when we get in front of federal judges, we'll tell them, again, getting back to Emil Beauvais and others here, and we'll tell them we don't know, we don't remember, and basically we'll just lie to them.
And that is a recipe for absolute meltdown of our system.
And that's why this decision out of Southern California truly is, to use yet another expression.
It's a canary in the coal mine, right?
It's telling us there's something fundamentally terrible about how federal law enforcement, anyway, is being administered at these high levels.
In a population, I believe that Los Angeles is the highest Hispanic population per capita in the country.
And obviously the ground zero for that and also these protests and the responses by the president of that, all these things come together in Los Angeles.
and we're not getting any help from the Supreme Court standing up for the Constitution They are just giving all this power back to the over to the president up back I was gonna say if a Democratic president were ever to take office again that somehow Congress would see the power that they had at one time and try to take it back and it's not gonna happen now the president
Even from the Democratic side can do a lot of stuff that the Republicans are not going to like if they ever have, you know, a majority in Congress again, but a Democratic president.
Good luck with that, guys.
Right, right.
Think about the future,
Thank you again, Jim.
Tomorrow, Savannah Tomey Olson from our news department will join us.
Also Pam Yonkey, rocker with a maxing preview and free ticket Fridays.
We've got more brewers tickets to give away tomorrow.
All right.
Have a great day.
Stephanie Miller is next.
Sola.
See you later.
Bye bye.
Go down.
Oscar
still here.
Hit the brakes.
Get outta here.
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