[00:00:04] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Donald Trump certainly has a stranglehold on the Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen. Not only did Thomas Massie lose by 10 points, not only, in my opinion, is it election fraud, $20 million of outside money spent to get rid of Thomas Massie.
[00:00:33] They say that's not fraud. My opinion is that it is. You make up your own mind. But now Republican Andy Barr triumphed in the Kentucky Senate primary, 62% of the vote after he got Donald Trump's endorsement. You know, the primary was held to determine who is going to be Mitch McConnell's successor. And I guess there was conflicts with Nate Morris at first, but then, of course, he withdrew.
[00:01:05] And, well, they say, I guess, the interesting thing about Nate is now he's going to be an ambassador. Yeah. So that's kind of interesting because if you promise ambassadorships and you get rid of some of the competition, is that election fraud to kind of create kind of a little bit of a bribe, James, where I say to you, listen, James, if you drop out, buddy, I'll put you as an ambassador somewhere. You'll have a good place to land, bro. So what do you think of that kind of stuff for election manipulation?
[00:01:30] Well, I mean, these are backroom deals that happen all the time and they go back for time immemorial. And how much of it's fraud versus how much of it's fine? Well, I mean, it depends on what your price is. If you're content with being an ambassador rather than a congressman or a senator and you agree to that, that's the deal. So I don't know. I mean, people are offered things all the time, even with companies. They are. And I bring that up because Americans need to decide what really election fraud is.
[00:01:59] If you spend 20 million of Israeli foreign international money to get a congressman gone because you don't like him and you want a vendetta against him. And then if you go ahead and in another race, you know, twist things and say that people will give you special favors if you drop out and everything else. This win is also seen as a testament to the influence of Trump's, quote, endorsements in the Republican primaries. Now, is it endorsement? Is it money? Is it special favors and bribes or all of the above, James?
[00:02:29] I want to answer that, but I would just say again at the risk of sounding repetitious that the good news here is that the future is with the people like Massey or at the very least the people who carry a similar message. And what I was going to say, I don't know if I exactly made the point. And by the way, the evidence that you point for that is the numbers. It's the old people above 65 that really made Massey lose.
[00:02:52] The young people would have put him in office and overwhelmingly so 18 to 29 year old demographic, 81 percent for Massey. So his issues, his issues, even the middle are advancing strongly for Massey. That's exactly. Well, yes, the tier just above that 60, excuse me, 70.7 percent, 70, 70. That's still huge. That's a huge, huge, huge. And so the future is with these ideas.
[00:03:20] That's what I think everybody can take some encouragement with, because even with all of the APAC money, they were not able to penetrate the hearts and minds of the youth. And I think if Massey had run this race, even four years from now, you're going to have enough of that. Of that oldest demographic. Well, they're going to be gone.
[00:03:43] I mean, you know, we all have to vote from nursing homes and there's, you know, well, hey, eventually they might, you know, they, you know, they'll they'll squeeze that lemon as long as they can. But as we know, all of us are going to be unshackled from this mortal coil one day. And, you know, obviously when you get into your 70s and 80s, the clock is a little bit shorter. And so, yes, I mean, there is a future that comes with that demographic is going to exit the playing field. And it's going to be there is good news on the horizon.
[00:04:12] It's interesting. We'll see. Many people are just saying Andy Barr's the neocon. He's just a standard Republican and everything else. And, you know, I saw Nate speak at a TPSA event and I thought it was a good guy. It's sad that he dropped out, but it'll be an ambassador. You know, at least for his career, it doesn't make sense to running. You know, if Donald Trump endorses somebody else, you best step out of the way because the good old boy network of the Republican Party. And it might just reward you if you do that, James. Well, it's interesting, too, about Trump is that, of course, he's gone in two years.
[00:04:41] And the Republicans are set up for to be eviscerated in November. Now, you do have this trick that they pulled and I'm for it. I think it was it was shrewd and it was brilliant with the Trump Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act. And now you've got all of these conservative states predominantly in the South that are redistricting. And that's going to pick them up some seats that they certainly would have lost otherwise.
[00:05:06] But I'm not so sure in these other swing districts, you know, how many of those seats that they won in 2024 they're going to hold. So, you know, the fact that Trump does have this vice like grip on the Republican Party still in his twilight couple of years going up to a midterm that he's almost certainly going to lose. At least the party will. And then he's going to get impeached. And then we know how those last two years are going to play out because we've seen this movie before. You're talking lame duck of all lame ducks, right?
[00:05:35] So who's it going to be in 28? Are we going to talk about J.D. Vance? Are we going to talk about Marco Rubio? Are we going to talk about Donald Trump Jr.? Is there kind of a plan to say, look, J.D. Vance will be the president. Marco Rubio will be the VP pick for that slot. And then hopefully they can hold on to it eight more years with Vance and maybe eight more years with Rubio. And, you know, what do you think the strategy going into 28 is? Well, it's too early to say you're going to have to at least see how November goes before you can even begin to materialize that.
[00:06:02] But I think these are two, you know, the two you mentioned are the heir apparent right now. But, you know, two years before 2016, on this day in 2014, if we were asking that question, nobody would have said, well, there's going to be you're not going to believe this. But Donald Trump is going to run. He's going to come down the escalator. You just never know what's going to happen. And I'm not trying to mock him that he wasn't viable then, even when he did decide to run. Right.
[00:06:24] So you just it's just too early to say, because if we were having this conversation, you know, six months before the midterms in 2014, nobody would have been able to predict that. But this other thing, why do you think a lame duck president like Donald has such a stranglehold on the party, though? That's what I'm saying. It does seem well. I mean, you can say he has a stranglehold on the party. It's really a little bit more like APAC had the stranglehold. I mean, Trump's endorsement does matter. And he has a pretty good record in these primaries. There's no doubt about that.
[00:06:52] But I don't know if his endorsement alone, if they hadn't activated the third column, the million this race would have been enough for Massey, who's a popular one. And now in some of these other districts, if it's a toss up, his endorsement is enough to decide it. But it was his endorsement coupled with eight figures. Well, here's the elephant in the room. How much control does Israel have over the United States politics? And if I bring this up, am I dead?
[00:07:20] You know, it's not good for anybody's self, that's for sure. And it's certainly not good. We better move along to some other topics. Otherwise, they have more excited, right? I think you can certainly say beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have more influence over politics than any other person or interest group. There is no doubt about it. Including Donald? Well, I think that they run Donald. Because we need Donald's spite to be against Israel then. You know, I mean, he can't let them up in here. Well, he wouldn't have been elected if he wasn't going to play ball on that.
[00:07:49] And we've talked about this for years. I mean, I think, you know, sort of the unspoken deal was we'll let you do what you want domestically or at least say things that your base likes with regards to domestic issues. But you are going to go into Iran. And when push comes to shove, as long as you do our bidding, we'll let you just kind of babble at the mouth and say anything you want to. Especially when most of it you won't really deliver on anyway. You'll just talk about it. And he has, you know, there are some things that Trump has done that we wouldn't have had otherwise.
[00:08:18] We can point to a lot of the good still. And I know when everybody's upset about something, it's, you know, only the bad we can focus on. If you just take a dispassionate, you know, sober assessment of the things, I'm still glad for the last 10 years. But this is a very big. Would you rather have Donald or would you rather have Kamala? Well, I mean, we've talked about this. Well, I'll give you just one example. If you say, well, what are you talking about, James? Well, I mean, he could have done more on deportations. He hasn't deported people. But the border is secure.
[00:08:48] And as far as the DOJ goes, would you rather have a weaponized DOJ? He's deported some people, though, and he's allowed it to be a little bit of self-deportation, too, which in many ways is good. At least it's not as heavy-handed as some thought it might be, right? We've talked about the pros and cons for 10 years. It'll continue. We've done full three-hour shows on my weekend broadcast about it. So there's just too much to get into. But I'll just give you one other example. Would you rather have a weaponized DOJ being handled by the radical left that's going to go after people like the J6ers?
[00:09:16] You want to have a DOJ that's going after groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center? I mean, there is a big difference here. But that being said, you mentioned Kentucky. Again, the other race in Kentucky. And I'd like to ask you this because this isn't one that I followed nearly as intently. But you did have Barr as the pick. He was Trump's pick to succeed Mitch McConnell, who was always a fly in the MAGA ointment. And this was not McConnell's chosen successor.
[00:09:46] So Trump gets a win there. In this race, I would just say I doubt there's very much good about Barr that we could hang our hats on. But it'd be impossible for him to be worse than – is it possible for him to have been worse than McConnell? I mean, when you're comparing it to that, maybe even that's a marginal gain. Well, and that's part of the problem that I see for the Republicans is that their only claim now is, hey, we're better than the Democrats.
[00:10:12] And or, you know, our candidate might be a neocon, but it's better than the last neocon. And, you know, I mean, if that's what we're running people on, heaven help us, right? But that really seems to be the order of the day. Now, this is another interesting controversial twist. There's a $1.8 billion fund now that President Trump is putting together to aid alleged government victims. And it's sparking debate. We're going to come back and talk about that with James Edwards.
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[00:13:38] But with regards to money, you know, the slush funds never wash up against our banks. That's for sure. We've got a $1.8 billion fund to aid alleged government victims. And so here's the scoop. The Trump administration has established a $1.8 billion fund dubbed the Anti-Weaponization Fund intended to compensate individuals who claim to have been wrongfully targeted by federal agencies amid growing scrutiny and debate.
[00:14:08] Todd Glange. Yep. Can Thomas Massey use it? A little consolation parachute there. You know. Well, that's interesting, isn't it? Todd Glange. The acting attorney general and former lawyer for Trump, he's the one that's gotten the credit for going after the SPLC, by the way, defended the fund in a heated Senate appropriations hearing stating it would serve people across the political spectrum,
[00:14:38] not solely Trump supporters. I'm calling BS on that one. Yeah, that's why I'm wondering does it apply to Thomas Massey? Sad. Well, I'm more worried does it apply to us. But anyway, the fund's establishment follows a controversial agreement where Trump dropped a $10 billion, that is 1-0, $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the creation of the fund from the Unlimited Judgment Fund. That's what it's called. Judgment Fund. Now, you drop a $10 billion and you get $1.8 billion
[00:15:08] for you and your buddies? It sounds like a bad deal. That's negotiating, though. You asked for 10, but what you really wanted was one. Yeah, you got two almost. You got two you wouldn't have had otherwise. A move that legal experts and opposition lawmakers have caused the misuse of public money intended for legally justified settlements. Now, they had all this with USAID for years. They have their slush funds. They use government taxpayer money to fund all of their stuff. This is a different way to do it. And I will say this. That's for sure.
[00:15:38] Sam, if, you know, he's going to reward his friends. That's what he's doing. And I think this is definitely, you know, going to go to people that backed him up, people that did what he wanted them to do. This is going to be payouts for them. Maybe it actually does trickle down to real Americans like J6ers and things like this. People who were targeted. He said it's called the Anti-Weaponization Fund. People who were targeted by the weaponized Biden Department of Justice who were Trump supporters. Maybe some of this trickles down
[00:16:07] to real people. I hope it does. But I definitely don't think it's for folks like us. It's going to be people all the way. People who were in the administration. People who suffered as a result of the left's weaponization. He's right about that. And as far as it goes, hey, if I got a big windfall, if I won the lottery, I would share it with you and other allies. You know, so I kind of get it. I kind of get it. I mean, I don't have that big of a deal. But I'm just saying if James Edwards was accused in court
[00:16:37] of being the leader of the KKK and they said, we know it's patently false, but yet they can say that anyway because it's hyperbole or it's whatever. And based on the company, James keeps, he sops fables and everything else that we can say that's against him. I'm saying that's using government against the people. That's using the courts, the media against James Edwards. He certainly deserves a part of that 1.8 billion. And I then have been, and James Edwards have been jointly reported to Congress as the nexus. Think about that word, the nexus, of anti-government
[00:17:06] and hate in America two years in a row on the congressional record. You kind of go, that fund should apply to me too, shouldn't it, folks? Think of the besmirching of my character that that causes, James. Well, you know, it would be interesting to see in that blurb that we read from, I'd like to see exactly how far-reaching and how much the intent of this. Well, I believe it'll be a little bit like the whitehouse.gov slash new media. You sign up for that thing and have you heard of peep since? No.
[00:17:36] Yeah, that was all a farce. It'll be like that, James. A lot of it was. It sounds good, but it'll never really come to guys like you and me, you know? No, it's going to go to the cronies in the administration or people who probably were wronged. And of course, some of the things you're talking about, you're talking about media. You know, does it extend to people who have been libeled and defamed by the media, which is what Trump went back, going back to 2016 Trump. You know, he was talking about there being some restitution for that. But, um,
[00:18:06] and it doesn't apply to people who are targeted by these smear merchants like the SPLC. I'm thinking it's just going to be DOJ stuff, but we'll see. I mean, and we'll see. It might just go straight to the Trump family. It's where it's going to go. We'll see how much he shares at all. That's what you're going to see a lot of, uh, no matter what. You're going to see Trump's family, his close allies get it. It won't apply to folks like us who, in my opinion, really deserve it because we've been wronged. A lot of the J6ers should get some of that money. A lot of other people that have been wronged, uh,
[00:18:36] for example, Donald Trump could just make all of his own IRS records and allegations just disappear through this deal. What about other people that have, but $1.8 billion is certainly a lot of money for the Trump administration to establish this for. And what will really be the results? I don't know. Well, I'll tell you. Todd Blanch defending it and, you know, they say it's a controversial agreement
[00:19:06] where Trump, you know, did this deal with the IRS and everything else. And, you know, why do the Democrats attack Trump like that in the beginning? Now they're going to pay out $10 billion, you know, well, no, only $1.8 billion. But who's going to pay it? We, James, so you're not going to get any of that money, but you're certainly going to pay for it. Yeah, exactly. Who is funding this? By the way, that's a very interesting point that people aren't talking about. I tell you, if we don't get any of it, the people who I would like
[00:19:35] to see get some of it are people like, I can't remember his name, but we both talked to him and you interviewed him, Biggie Biggie or whatever his name was, the guy from Arkansas who put his feet on Pelosi's desk and did some hard time for that. I mean, people like that is who I hope funds like this go to, but we'll see. Amen. Because, you know, whether they did foolish things or not, that doesn't equate to what they got. That wasn't fair or right or honorable. Moving to a couple of quick Tennessee stories since you're from Tennessee, James,
[00:20:05] the headline says, Memphis Safe Task Force has a seizure of more than 1,500 quote, illegal firearms. They say federal and local law enforcement officials removed these firearms from the streets since September 2025. I didn't know there was all kinds of illegal guns on the streets there, James. Memphis is
[00:20:35] an eye-opening thing to live here. You understand what happens when the demographics go third world and you've got all left-wing leadership in your city and county government, but I tell you, I could walk in the streets of downtown Memphis at night and feel halfway safe because it was last fall. We had a live streamer who came in, you know, does a popular video show and he wanted to tour Bill Street and tour Memphis with us
[00:21:04] because we're here and we went down to Bill Street at night on a weekend which, you know, people haven't been able to do with any modicum of safety since, you know, I was in high school or even before that and it was patrolled every block, you know, there was a, you know, a phalanx of National Guardsmen and that Memphis has cracked down on crime and there was a lot of it to crack down on. So when I read, you know, they got 1,500 illegal firearms, I was like, you know, what, from one house? You know,
[00:21:35] this is, this is, they have, they have gotten better on cracking down and there's still a long way to go. Memphis is a very dangerous place. Yes, it is, ladies and gentlemen. Now the DEA also announcing a, what do they call this, federal fentanyl and firearms charges and it's in a Tennessee case. The DEA said that a Knoxville man was charged in federal court with fentanyl trafficking and firearms
[00:22:04] offenses as part of a narcotics enforcement effort. So they're, they're cracking down on the war on drugs. Do you think they'll get to the bottom of that, James? Is it going to be all good, drug-free zone down there in Tennessee now? I tell you, see, Knoxville's on the other side of the state. You never know what those people up in the mountains are doing. I like it down here where it's just smashing grabs and malt liquor. You like the simple crimes, don't you, James? Yeah, that's right. It's not anything
[00:22:33] high-end like this. All right, we got some good news to end the hour, though, James, I got to get to this. All right. UN Climate Panel moves away from what they call extreme RC8 or RCP8, I guess it is. They call it the warming scenarios. Trump's claiming vindication in this. Basically, the bottom line is, you know, they told you that climate change or the global warming was the boogeyman forever. Now they're being forced to back away
[00:23:03] from those claims because none of them panned out. Al Gore's been decredited or discredited. Donald Trump's taking a victory lap saying, I told you so. The United Nations quote, linked climate monitoring community has now shifted away from using these quote, extreme statements and they're saying, hey, you know what? These things aren't accurate anymore and Donald Trump saying, I told you, taking a victory lap. Victory lap. It's pretty good to at least have some of the truth come out on this. My question is, why did it take so long?
[00:23:34] Well, it's always nice to have 10 seconds of good news on any given hour long show. But no, this is good. And there was a reason why they moved from calling it global warming to climate change. As long as I've been around, it gets hot in the summer and cooler in the winter and that still seems to be the trend. So I'm happy to see this. I mean, all of that, you want to talk
[00:24:08] things, you know, this Green New Deal, all this stuff retrofitting every house and every car has got to be electric. It's sick. I mean, you can't, we need to get away from that. Like Richard Mack says, we've gone way too far. James Edwards, thank you so much. The political cesspool.org is award-winning broadcast. Check out our broadcast on libertyroundtable.com, on Rumble, Twitter, X, true social, we're everywhere, baby. Spread the word, share the love, and God save the republic of the United States
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