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Welcome to the Darrell McLean Show. I'm your host, darrell McLean. Independent media to reinforce tribalism. We have one planet. Nobody is leaving, so let us reason together. I said yesterday I was going to talk about this immigration thing and how we are have been battling immigration, except for this one carve out that I found very, very interesting, for this one carve-out that I found very, very interesting, and this is coming out of the Washington Post and let's just take a listen to this coming out of reporting from Theo Armas Theo.
Speaker 5:Armas. Trump shut out refugees, but is making white South Africans an exception. Theo Armas to a halt, suspending a program that lets in thousands of people fleeing war or political persecution. It is preparing to restart that effort, but only for one group white South Africans. Plans are underway to fly approximately 60 Afrikaners to Dulles International Airport on a State Department chartered plane Monday, with federal and Virginia officials preparing to receive them in a ceremonial news conference. According to documents and emails obtained by the Washington Post, as well as three government officials familiar with the preparations, the arriving families, who are part of a group that President Donald Trump has said faces racial discrimination, will then be resettled outside Virginia in 10 states. According to those familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share details of the preparations, the US government is prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees and the Office of Refugee Resettlement is coordinating services to ensure they receive the support they need from the very initial days of their arrival. Miro Marinovich, who oversees the Refugee Program Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services, wrote in an email to other federal officials Wednesday. The first flight of Afrikaner refugees is set to arrive on Monday, may 12. A State Department spokesperson did not answer questions about the flight, but confirmed in a statement that embassy officials have been conducting interviews and processing in accordance with a Trump executive order in February. That directive to cabinet officials looked to promote the resettlement of Afrikaners as refugees following a recently signed South African land redistribution law that, in some situations, allows for property to be taken away without compensation.
Speaker 5:Stephen Miller, trump's deputy chief of staff, told reporters outside the White House on Friday that what's happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created. This is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case race. Refugees are a distinct class of people who have been forced to flee their home country after they have been persecuted or fear persecution, usually death, because of their race, religion, nationality, politics or membership in a particular social group. Highly vetted, they are eligible for government services and a path to citizenship, and must often wait up to several years to be screened and processed before coming to the United States. Last year, no South Africans of any race, ethnicity or linguistic group were vetted by the United Nations as meeting its criteria to be resettled as refugees, according to the organization's data.
Speaker 5:State Department officials would not say why the 60 Afrikaners set to arrive Monday were granted refugee status, but a department memo obtained by the Post said that most of them have witnessed or experienced extreme violence with a racial nexus, including home invasions, murders or carjackings that took place up to 25 years ago. This initial cohort of refugees has frequently expressed fear of remaining in South Africa due to race-based violence or other severe harm, the memo said, and do not trust police, who they claim have failed to investigate crimes against Afrikaners. But Crispin Ferry, a spokesman for South Africa's foreign ministry, said in a statement that any allegations of discrimination were unfounded and do not meet the threshold of persecution under domestic and international refugee law. It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being refugees is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa's constitutional democracy, ferry's statement said, a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under apartheid rule and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from ever occurring again, including through the entrenchment of rights in our constitution, which is enforced vigorously through our judicial system.
Speaker 5:The Afrikaner's planned arrival stems from Trump's efforts to weigh in on the complex racial politics of South Africa, where billionaire Elon Musk, his one-time advisor overseeing massive federal spending cuts, grew up during apartheid. Since apartheid ended in the early 1990s, south Africa has been wrestling with how to deal with the long shadow of the segregationist policy which sowed deep racial divisions in the country over four decades. One of those efforts, a land redistribution law signed in January, known as the Expropriation Act, prompted Trump in February to cut all foreign aid to South Africa. He claimed, without evidence, that the law, which so far has not resulted in any land seizures, was an act of discrimination against white landowners.
Speaker 5:In his executive order, trump also directed cabinet officials to prioritize humanitarian relief for Afrikaners who are escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination. But as the administration now seeks to offer Afrikaners safe haven in the United States, including through an accelerated process that skips over some typical steps in long-standing vetting procedures for resettlement, its efforts will rely on a system the president has effectively gutted. All other refugees besides the Afrikaners, descendants of primarily Dutch settlers in South Africa have essentially been kept from arriving. Since Trump's first week in office, government funding has been slashed to a network of non-profit groups that help the newcomers acclimate, forcing them to lay off or furlough hundreds of case managers who assist arrivals in finding jobs, housing and other government aid. After some of those organizations filed a lawsuit seeking to reverse the program's suspension, a federal judge in Seattle on Monday ordered the Trump administration to process and resettle approximately 12,000 people who had been approved to arrive with their flights booked before the halt in resettlement occurred, but it is unclear when that may happen. Bill Fralick, the refugee and migrant rights director at Human Rights Watch, said thousands of refugees, including many black sub-Saharan Africans, were prepared and ready to be resettled in the United States. The door was slammed in their faces. He said. Now to have a group that didn't flee their country, that has historically enjoyed tremendous privilege in the country and that are white, provides a cruel racial twist to the suspension of refugee resettlement.
Speaker 5:Admitting Afrikaners as refugees was framed by Trump as a response to actions by South Africa that are undermining United States foreign policy, a reference to its decision to accuse Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. He also cited the country's land redistribution law. South African officials said the Expropriation Act is a means to end a broad racial disparity in land ownership stemming from apartheid. The country's first comprehensive land audit in 2017 found that the white population, which makes up about 7% of South Africans, accounted for about three-quarters of individually owned farms and agricultural holdings. The law allows the government to seize land in the public interest, but only after a process that is subject to review by a judge. The lobbying group Afri Forum, which advocates on behalf of AfriConners, has called the law controversial and vowed to challenge it. Trump, in his executive order, called the measure a shocking disregard of its citizens' rights that amounted to racially discriminatory property confiscation. It was grounds enough to roll out the welcome mat and bring AfriConners into the United States via the refugee program that last year resettled 100,000 people from such war-torn countries as Afghanistan, ukraine and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Speaker 5:Yet with much of that system now dismantled after its funding was slashed, officials with the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services have taken unusual steps to bring the South Africans to the United States. For example, the Afrikaners set to arrive Monday are not going through a cultural orientation program required of all other refugees before their arrival. The three people familiar with the matter said the Afrikaners are receiving what is known as P1 refugee status. One of the people said, which typically begins for large groups with a referral and initial screening by officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, unhcr. That process is one of several steps meant to ensure that an individual meets the internationally recognized criteria to be deemed a refugee. Unhcr has not been involved in screening the Afrikaners and was not approached to participate, said Yujin Byun, a spokeswoman for the agency. Groups that are granted refugee status based on claims of identity-based persecution generally receive P2 refugee status, which requires congressional designation. Other categories of refugees require that their spouses, children or parents be already present in the us or that they have private sponsors to receive them. The us embassy in pretoria, south africa's administrative capital, has been conducting interviews and processing the families. According to two of the people who discussed the operation, a State Department spokesperson confirmed that to be the case.
Speaker 5:Refugee processing is typically done in a third country, separate from the applicant's homeland and the United States, because refugees, by definition, are not considered safe in their country of origin. The federal government typically works with the International Organization for Migration, another UN agency, to process refugees overseas and assist them with booking flights to the United States. The IOM is not involved in coordinating the Afrikaners' travel. The three people familiar with the matter said the agency did not respond to a request for comment. State Department officials have instead sought to charter planes directly for the families scheduled to arrive from South Africa. Documents show Such a move typically occurs only during emergencies, when a large number of people are all being resettled at once, such as during the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Speaker 5:The Afrikaner families set to arrive at Dulles are mostly from rural parts of South Africa, have farming experience and all speak English. According to a State Department memo, about one-third have family members or friends already in the US. After the news conference, they will board connecting flights to reach their final destinations elsewhere. They will be received by local resettlement organizations. According to a handout from the US Embassy in Pretoria for refugees arriving in the US this month, they may also be received by a family member or friend who can support them, though most do not have such ties.
Speaker 5:The three people familiar with the plan said the Trump administration froze State Department funds to those organizations meant to help acclimate refugees to their new homes once they are in the United States, notably by providing medical care, job training and up to three months of rent. Officials at the State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a branch of HHS, have instead turned to two still existing pools of money to support the Afrikaners upon their arrival. One meant to cover gaps in funding for particularly vulnerable refugees and another to help state governments administer job training and other programs for refugees. The three people familiar with the matter said the email from Marinovich, the senior HHS official, said that organizations receiving money from the Preferred Communities Program the first pool of money will welcome the Afrikaners and assist them with intake and referral to or provision of services such as housing, case management, access to benefits, etc.
Speaker 5:State governments do not usually use their funds to support refugees who are simply passing through on their way to other destinations, the three people said. Threw on their way to other destinations, the three people said. However, while no refugees are set to be resettled in Virginia, the state will be spending some of the money that is normally intended for job training programs to welcome the Afrikaner families ahead of Monday's news conference. The three people said. Two of the people said that will include providing items for the family's children while working with a local resettlement group. The Virginia Department of Social Services did not respond to a request for comment. Catherine Horeld in Nairobi contributed to this report.
Speaker 1:This news story. So again that came out of the Washington Post by Theo Armas, found it very interesting, I don't know for how long, and so, yeah, I think it was well-reported, well-researched, with yada, yada, yada, all the things. There was a shock and awe thing that happened today when it came to the trial of Sean Diddy Combs. We all remember watching that horrific video in that hotel where he was on tape abusing and beating up his then-girlfriend Cassie. This is the second day of the trial and she took the stand and it was very powerful, very sad and very eye-opening into what is probably going to be probably going to end with a guilty verdict for Sean Diddy Combs. The only reason I'm not saying alleged victim is because of the videotape, and more of the videotape has come out because of the trial.
Speaker 2:Cassie Ventura, who was still on the stand, has testified that she was a fan before meeting Sean Diddy Combs, describing him as larger than life. She says when they were finally introduced, he began to control her life and every aspect of it. So Ventura, who is now married with kids and due to give birth soon, testified she was 19 and there was a 17-year age gap when she met Diddy and signed with his record label. She said their relationship turned sexual when she was 21. The pair was in a relationship for a decade, she says at first it was private because Diddy was publicly with someone else and worried about optics.
Speaker 2:She says the rapper introduced her to freak-offs, which are at the center of the case, according to prosecutors, who described them as drug-fueled sex performances with male escorts that Diddy coerced women into having while he watched. Cassie testified that freak-offs became something she did not want to do but felt like she had to to keep him happy. She told jurors one of these encounters was happening when Combs was caught on camera assaulting her in this disturbing 2016 Los Angeles hotel surveillance video obtained exclusively and released by CNN last year. Diddy apologized and has since deleted Instagram posts. She also said Diddy had mood swings and was often violent towards her, leaving physical marks, and that, instead of music, freak-offs became a job for her.
Speaker 1:She testified that the longest of these sexual performances lasted four days said it before when we talked about this on a previous show I'm not. It's not just the ditty. Problem is the people around to elicit the, the ditty stuff. It's about the people who are complicit, who have to know what's going on and are not doing anything to stop it. He's accused of racketeering. He's accused of I guess it would be like traveling for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. He's accused of prostitution by force, sex trafficking and prostitution by force. So he also has two superseding indictments and of course, he is pleading not guilty to everything. But it's somewhat difficult to plead not guilty to something that we can all see on video Right now.
Speaker 1:What I'm worried about here in particular is what happens with the Harvey Weinstein and the Bill Cosby thing, where the prosecutors are so sure that the people are monsters, that the people are guilty, that there's a bunch of shortcuts that are taken and it seems like that they end up, even though people know they're guilty, even though the evidence proves they're guilty, they end up getting off later on with some technicality. So I'm hoping that in this case, the prosecutors did not bow to public opinion and and get overzealous and not cross all the T's and not dot all the I's. This is a horrific, horrific thing, this sex trafficking stuff, and, of course, it leads me to ask the question as well as with the Epstein stuff, you have the people who allegedly did the trafficking. I've yet to see the people who participated in the exploitation. So who were the jobs would be the question. There are people who are being forced into sex trafficking. Who are the people that they were having the sex with? Let's get to some Trump world stuff. Some stuff that's fascinating will be next, which is a Trump parroted.
Speaker 1:What barack obama did almost sounded verbatim when, when you go and compare the two speeches, obama's speech was held as a apology tour and but so I'm going to play a trump speech and where he, in my opinion, somewhat hit the nail on the head about this nation building, and he sits as he sits in the Middle East and says, basically, this is your country, you need to do this, we cannot come in, and et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1:And it was fascinating to hear him say it, because I do remember when Barack Obama went over there and said the same thing, and it was labeled as Obama goes to the Middle East and does an apology tour. But before we get to that we're going to go to this thing where Qatar has offered basically a beautiful plane plane, um, the, the. It's been reported that it's some 400 million dollars of a plane that they have offered to the department of defense to replace air force one, and people are calling it a bribe and it's not just the likely suspects here, the democrats, who are the opposite opposition party for the republicans, so that they are going to say whatever it's actually coming from some people like Erickson the conservative, ben Shapiro, the conservative as well. So let's get into this story.
Speaker 7:The plane that you're on right now is almost 40 years old and when you land and you see Saudi Arabia and you see UAE, and you see Qatar and you see all these and they have these brand new Boeing 747s mostly, and you see ours next to it. This is like a totally different plane. It's much smaller, it's much less impressive. As impressive as it is and you know, we're the United States of America, I believe that we should have the most impressive. So, anyway. So they said to me, we would like to, in effect, we would like to make a gift. You've done so many things and we'd like to make a gift to the Defense Department, which is where it's going. And I said, well, that's nice. Now some people say, oh, you shouldn't accept gifts to the country. My attitude is why wouldn't I accept the gift? Everybody else, why wouldn't I accept the gift? Because it's going to be a couple of years, I think, before the Boeings are finished so here are the two feckless democratic leaders, chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffress Schumer.
Speaker 1:Of course, the democratic leader in the house. Hakeem Jeffress Schumer. Of course, the Democratic leader in the House. Hakeem Jeffress, the Democratic leader. I'm sorry, chuck Schumer is the leader of the Senate. Hakeem Jeffress, the leader of the House. Let's hear what they had to say about this I control.
Speaker 4:Those News of the Qatari government gifting Donald Trump a $400 million private jet to use as Air Force One is so corrupt that even Putin would give a double take. This is not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat. So, in light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari funded Air Force One and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal, I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.
Speaker 8:And Donald Trump is publicly defending, accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas. I mean, you can't make this stuff up, which is why even some of his closest MAGA sycophants have made clear this is a plane too far.
Speaker 1:Ooh, a plane too far. I swear Democrats sometimes are so fucking corny. But that was Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffress, and now we're going to get to some unlikely criticism from some Trump loyalists Eric Erickson and Ben Shapiro.
Speaker 4:America first, Like please define America first in a way that says you should take sacks of cash from the Qatari royals who are behind Al Jazeera. It just isn't America first in any conceivable way. If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop.
Speaker 8:My problem with taking this place from Qatar is I do not think the president of the united states of america should sit and fly on a plane purchased with the same money used to murder american citizens and one of the most powerful people, who just happened to not be sitting in the white house.
Speaker 1:Laura loomer actually came out against it as well. She said on the platform formerly known as Twitter, now known as X I love President Trump, I will take a bullet for him, but I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400 million gift from jihadists in suits, the Qataris fund, the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered US service members. The same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across our border. This is really going to be such a stain on the admin. If this is true and by admin she did say admin, sure, but she means administration, and I say that as someone who would take a bullet for President Trump. I'm so disappointed. So end quote from Laura Loomer. And just as a side note, it is very rare, very rare, that you have Laura Loomer and Ben Shapiro agreeing on anything. And so look, I think what's happening here is fairly obvious.
Speaker 1:President Trump somewhat believes that a way to to to get these countries to heal in the Middle East is financial entanglements. Someone has the same philosophy on the subject as someone like Henry Kissinger, who used to say stuff like two countries who had McDonald's in them never went to war with each other. And Trump feels like if there's a lot of financial entanglements with places like syria, saudi arabia, um, qatar, etc. That it'll stop us from being at uh odds with each other. Now I think that if we have to figure out how true that is, being that china is the manufacturing arm of the united States, and Americans don't seem all that hot on China all the time and China doesn't always seem that hot on us. So we're going to get to this other interesting part, which is Trump echoing the former President, barack Obama, when he goes and drops these Syrian sanctions. And it's not so much that he dropped the Syrian sanctions, that is the deal. It's what he said in his speech to the people in the Middle East.
Speaker 6:Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos, where it exports technology, not terrorism, and where people of different nations, religions and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence.
Speaker 6:We don't want that, and it's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way. It's really incredible what you've done. In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.
Speaker 1:So the interesting through line from George Bush, donald Trump to Obama was when Obama went to the Middle East and gave his speech, he was saying that it was not up to the United States to go into the Middle East and tell the Middle Eastern people how to build their own nations. And he also made the criticism that a lot of people who were trying to do the nation building did not understand the traditions of the nations themselves. It was a shot at the George W Bushes, the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party and, like I said earlier, he was lauded. He just said you're throwing America under the bus, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1:But when you really look at it, especially now because time has passed so far, you have Donald Trump standing on the Republican stage in front of the President's brother and looking Jeb Bush in the face and saying you know your brother didn't keep us safe and et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1:And that was a shot across the bow at the Republicans who I, you know, grew up respecting, like the John McCain's, et cetera. And Donald Trump is saying I'm sorry all these nation builders like McCain and Cheney, they're wrong. And I think now the general public is actually on the side of Trump, of Obama wing of the party, who was against this type of meddling and nation building. Now, what's the most fascinating part of this and by fascinating I mean the part that is going to catch all the headlines? I've already seen a lot of reels on what's that place called TikTok about? It is the lifting of sanctions that the United States has on Syria Syria, which is right next to the United States' supposed only real ally in the Middle East, the country of Israel, who Israel is still currently bombing regions that we roughly considered Syrian.
Speaker 6:And also with President Erdogan of Turkey, who called me the other day and asked for a very similar thing. Among others and friends of mine, people that I have a lot of respect for in the Middle East, I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness. Oh, what I do for the crown prince.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a funny line, what I do for the crown prince, but look, this is a big deal. The president of the United States is in the Middle East, as in the Middle East, and what makes this more for lack of a better term shocking as far as the United States goes, the president is going to the Middle East and has decided to not visit Israel, the United States ally, and that has been catching waves. Trump actually has been reported to say that he has called Netanyahu's leadership as Israel a liability to peace leadership.
Speaker 9:Is Israel a liability to peace? President Trump is leaving Israel off of his first Middle East trip since returning to the White House, and Trump's envoy, steve Whitcomb, told hostage family families this week that Israel's government is dragging out the Gaza war, even though here's the interesting part even though they say the us wants to end it. That's right. Wyckoff said Israel is slowing down a deal that would bring American and Israeli hostages home. Now Trump is not openly attacking Israel, but his recent moves do show a sharp change in US policy. He cut a ceasefire deal with Iran by Houthi rebels in Yemen even after the missiles hit Israel's main airport. Trump also dropped US demands linking Saudi Arabia's nuclear plan to making peace with Israel. Netanyahu's coalition, made up of far-right parties, is pushing to keep the war going, but more than two-thirds of Israelis, according to polls, want the war to end if it means that they get all the hostages home, which the Knesset puts at the bottom.
Speaker 9:The Knesset is Israel's senator or legislative body, congress. The Knesset puts it at the bottom of its priorities. Now Trump is signaling that he won't let Netanyahu's political fights stop him from making deals in the region. He's expected to visit Saudi Arabia, qatar and the United Arab Emirates later this week, skipping Israel, a move that would have been rendered unthinkable just a few years ago by a United States president. But Trump's allies say he's not against Israel, but he sees Netanyahu as a problem, not a partner. That seems like the first big fragmentation in their relationship. The bromance is ending, y'all, I promise you. Not as fast as I'd like, but ultimately these egos are going to bump heads. The same way, I would argue, elon Musk and Donald Trump are going to bump heads.
Speaker 1:So that person you just heard was a sociology professor, dr Mark Lamont Hill, and I'm in a part of this little group college thing that we call night school with Mark Lamont Hill and I find it pretty good. I read a book of his that changed my perspective actually, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It gave me a lot more perspective. If anybody wants to check that book out a lot more perspective. If anybody wants to check that book out again, his name is Dr Mark Lamont Hill and the book that I read was called Except for Palestine and again, except for Palestine and it was by Dr Mark Lamont Hill. If you're a reader, you can check it out the paper or hard copy edition. If you like to have audio books, it is also available on Audible. And if you're more of a visual, like YouTube person, he has done several good debates with people on the topic. He's a scholar who has been to the region, he's been there and he also speaks Arabic and so he's very knowledgeable on the topic and this is a change. I played that audio a while back where President Trump was talking about Bibi Netanyahu in the first term, and President Trump was very candid and said flat out I don't think Bibi wants peace and it was shocking to some of the allies. But Donald Trump, I love him or hate him. You know he's not one to mince words. He's going to say exactly what he is thinking In the last segment for today we're going to talk about this TV to Trump administration pipeline, and this is because Trump has tapped a ready, loyal Pirro to the pick for the top prosecutor, and it fits the mold.
Speaker 1:Pirro, known as Judge Jeanine, has served as a district attorney and a judge before she replaced in battle nominee Ed Martin. Replaced in battle nominee Ed Martin. So Gene Perrero, the Fox News host, has been chosen by President Donald Trump to become interim US attorney in the District of Columbia is the archetype of what has been shown to prefer his appointees combative, camera-ready and loyal enough to have sought to discredit the results of the 2020 election. That the president lost.
Speaker 1:Yet Jean Pirro, a former New York judge and prosecutor, also possesses enough political baggage that she is sure to provoke fierce partisan debate if Trump nominates her as a permanent leader of the nation's largest United States Attorney's Office of the nation's largest United States Attorney's Office. Less than 24 hours after Trump announced Pirro's appointment, hailing her as incredible well-qualified, democrats and Republicans staked out vastly divergent positions. On her looming arrival in Washington, she replaced the president's first interim choice, ed Martin, who is departing after 15 turbulent weeks in office. Senator Tom Tillis, the Republican from North Carolina, whose opposition to Martin and Trump's decision to replace him, described Pirro's career in Post on X as a prosecutor as a long story and said she's a great choice as a long-stored and says-she's-great-choice. Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican of South Carolina, gushed on X that Pirro is a grand slam home run hat-trick pick. But Democrats were equally vociferous in their opposition. Rep Dan Goldman, the Democrat from New York, posted on X that Pirro's appointment, after his choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI, is another example of the president making a mockery of the Department of Justice. Alex Floyd, a high-ranking Democratic National Committee operative, said in a statement that Pirro is yet another unqualified television personality with a history of putting Trump and his violent insurrectionists above the law. She'll be a disaster for public safety and an embarrassment to law enforcement, just like Trump's last failed pick for the same job he said. Pirro could not be reached for comment on Friday. According to the Washington Post, on late Thursday she posted a photo of herself with Sergio Gore, trump's head of White House personnel and former Fox News colleague as well, who posted a message congratulating Judge Jeanine, who will soon make the District of Columbia great again.
Speaker 1:Beyond their heated rhetoric, democrats are seeking to learn more about Pirro, who many only know in her current incarnation as a Fox News firebrand. Although she has served as a prosecutor for three terms in Westchester County in New York, pirro does not have the federal law enforcement experience that others have brought to the post in the past. So, at the same time, pirro's background as a district attorney and judge, at least as far as democrats could ascertain, is a preliminary review of her background, distinguished from her martin, who had no prosecutor experience before his appointment. Yet questions loomed, including whether perot, who is 73, is prepared to dig into a legal minutiae of running the us attorney's office. Also, it is unclear as to how she would handle trump's wish to punish those he considers his political enemies and, trust me, the president considers a lot of people as political enemies as he, as she postures as, as supported as a commentator and whether she has to strike the balance between Trumps and to advocate in the strict of impartiality enforcer of federal law. Now, as of Friday afternoon, the White House had not sent the Senate a formal notice about withdrawing Martin's nomination and it remained unknown whether Pirro would start in the post other than by May 20th when Martin's 120-day interim appointments end. The president also has not said whether he intended to nominate Pirro for a full term as a US Attorney General. Trump similarly named Martin on short notice just before Inauguration Day. Senate Democrats said Friday they are reviewing whether Pirro's interim 120-day appointment, on the heels of another interim appointment, is legal. No president in recent memory appears to have attempted to install back-to-back interim US attorneys like Martin and Pirro, bypassing the Senate constitutional checks and balances role, confirming powerful US law enforcement officials. In choosing Jean Pirro, the president displayed his time-honored practice of appointing a telegenic and often blunt-spoken loyalist. Pirro is the third full-time Fox host he has recruited inside of the administration.
Speaker 1:Pirro developed her political brand in the suburbs of New York, first serving as a judge in Westchester County and earning the Judge Jeanine moniker that is still a central part of her on-screen appeal. She was elected a district attorney of Westchester in 1993, a role she held until 2005. Along the way, she evolved into an ambiguous legal pundit, a court TV regular with a deep, commanding voice during high profile cases such as OJ Simpson's murder trial, and becoming something of a celebrity who transcended the courts. People's Magazine in 1997 named her one of the world's most 50th beautiful people. Eventually, she became popular enough to draw more than 1 million followers on Instagram, where she posts videos of herself in stylish dresses, photos and her poodles. Her relationship with the president began decades ago in New York, where they fraternize in Republican circles and share a certain bravado. Once, when I was with the president and she walked up, it was almost like they were from the same block, said michael uh capito, a martin advisor and former trump strategist. She's a force of nature. In her 2018 books liars, leakers and liberals, pierrot wrote that the trump liked to promote her when they walked in the streets of manhattan introducing her to cops construction workers by saying you know who this is. This is janine pierrot.
Speaker 1:She's a district attorney from Westchester, pirro's former husband, albert Pirro, who served as Trump's real estate attorney before being convicted of federal tax evasion in the year 2000, when he was district attorney. He was sentenced to 29 years, though he served only 11 because President Trump pardoned him at the end of his term. Albert Pirro's downfall became an issue that Pereiro had to answer for. She pursued her political ambitions and sought statewide office In 2006,. She ran for Senate against Hillary Clinton, only to drop out after a gaffe.
Speaker 1:She pivoted and ran instead for Attorney General, only to lose to Andrew Cuomo. She was a star in the Republican Party, but her husband's scandal made it less likely that she could run statewide, said Hank Schifuck, a veteran Democratic consultant in New York, and tainted her. Pirro then joined Fox News as a legal analyst in 2006 and began hosting her own show on Saturday nights Justice with Jean, justice with Judge Jeanine. Five years later, it was that role that she became a fierce advocate for Trump. Her popularity soared in 2016 when Trump's campaign was imperiled by emergence of the Access Hollywood tape in which he talked about groping women. Peril denounced his comments as disgusting, but described him as a gentleman and said she would still be supporting him.
Speaker 1:So uh well that's what it is supporting him. So, uh, well that's what it is. Welcome, judge Jeanine, to the uh post. Lee said it looks like the post of the United States Attorney General for the District of Columbia, columbia. It's funny. I want to go to the real Columbia one day.
Speaker 3:Before two million dollars that he's spending to not have to show the birth certificate. There is a cleansing needed in our FBI and Department of Justice, who should not just be fired but who need to be taken out in handcuffs like a crime family in the movies, except this time the FBI is the crime family. Was there hypnosis? Are they using confabulation? And I don't want to get into the weeds here, but you know what? This is the kind of thing where they have a right to true cause of examination. Omar wears a hijab which, according to the Quran, 33, colon 59, tells women to cover so they won't get molested. Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?
Speaker 3:What we're experiencing right now is the CIA, an intelligence agency, attempting a coup against the United States. President. Christopher Wray is part of the deep state. The president's lawyers alleging a company called Dominion, which they say started in Venezuela with Cuban money and with the assistance of Smartmatic software, a backdoor, is capable of flipping votes. If he believed that he won, pursuing all these avenues are okay for him because in themselves they are not illegal. If you say, look, I need to find 11,000 votes. That's very different from saying I need you to find me 11,000 votes somewhere. It's kind of interesting that Jill Biden went in during jury selection. You know it's kind of like a mob tactic to kind of stare down the jury selection. You know it's kind of like a mob tactic to kind of stare down the jury. If we get to the point where we have to arrest governors and other officials because they prevent law enforcement from working with ICE, it's time to take a side. You're with the Americans or you're with illegals who need to be deported.
Speaker 1:That's just a little flavor of what you will be getting with the new if she gets the job. Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Thank you for tuning in and we will see you on the next episode.