JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
DEMOCRAT NUTJOBS IN AMERICA AFTER 13 VOTES THEY REFUSE TO PASS THE GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
MARK 13:8
8 For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC
GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers
places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the
beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes
shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and
famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there
be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the
bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or
peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels
land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the
future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq
west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe
23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN
THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
THEM
USELESS LYING DEMONIC DEMOCRATS STRAIT FROM HELL IN AMERICA KEEP
STOPPING THE GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO HAPPEN. EVERY HOUSE AND SENATE
REPUBLICAN HAS VOTED YES TO GOVERNMENT FUNDING. BUT THE DEMOCRAPS HAVE
NOT VOTED YES IN THE HOUSE OR SENATE TO COVER THE 60% VOTE TO PASS THE
BILL. TRUMP TODAY HAS CALLED FOR THE REPUBLICANS TO DO A FILIBUSTER TO
PASS THE VOTE TO OPEN THE GOVERNMENT AGAIN. AND THESE DUMB LUNATIC
DEMONIC DEMON DEMOCRAPS SAY THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES WHO IS STOPPING
THE GOVERNMENT FUNDING. THESE LYING DEMONIC DEMON DEMOCRAPS FROM HELL
WILL BE BURNT AND SENT TO HELL FIRE FOREVER TO GET SPEEDY RIDENCE OF
THEM.
AND ALSO DONALD JOHN TRUMP WILL START TESTING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS UNDERNEATH THE EARTH. TO GET READY FOR A NUKE WAR.STRENGTH
INSTEAD OF COWERDNESS NEGOTIATIONS.
Senate Democrats block government funding bill for 13th time by Alexander Bolton - 10/28/25 12:14 PM ET
Senate
Democrats on Tuesday voted for the 13th time to block a House-passed
bill to reopen the federal government, despite a plea this week by the
nation’s largest federal workers union to end the 28-day shutdown.The
House-passed measure to fund the government through Nov. 21 failed by a
54-45 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance.Only three members of the
Democratic caucus voted to advance the bill: Sens. John Fetterman (Pa.),
Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Angus King (Maine), an independent
who caucuses with Democrats.Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer
(N.Y.) said before the vote that Republicans need to start negotiating
an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies in order to bring
federal employees back to work.He noted that the open enrollment period
for the health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act
begins on Nov. 1.“Republicans do not even want to talk about fixing
health care. Americans are on the brink of a health care crisis unlike
we have seen in our lifetimes,” he warned.Senate Majority Leader John
Thune (R-S.D.) repeated his rebuttal to Democrats that GOP leaders will
only talk about the looming expiration of health insurance tax credits
once Democrats vote to open the government.Thune quoted a statement by
Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government
Employees, Monday urging Democrats to vote for a clean continuing
resolution to reopen the government.“’The path forward for Congress is
clear, reopen the government immediately under a clean continuing
resolution that allows continued debate on larger issues.’ End quote. …
That is from the president of the American Federation of Government
Employees, a labor union,” Thune said on the Senate floor.Tuesday’s vote
came amid growing pressure on Congress to reopen the government as it
nears the 30-day mark.Lawmakers in both parties warn that Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will begin to expire on Nov. 1 and
that airports around the country are experiencing more frequent delays
because of the strain the shutdown is putting on air traffic
controllers.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned over the weekend
that the administration would not have enough money to cover the
paychecks of military service members on Nov. 15.The Federal Reserve,
meanwhile, may be forced to make a critical decision on cutting interest
rates at a time when the government has stopped collecting and
releasing information about the economy, including labor, production and
export statistics.
Trump calls on Republicans to use ‘nuclear option’ and get rid of Senate filibuster-by Brett Samuels - 10/30/25 10:50 PM ET
President
Trump on Thursday called on Senate Republicans to initiate the “nuclear
option” and get rid of the filibuster, which would allow them to end
the government shutdown and pass legislation with a simple majority.“It
is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for
what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get
rid of it, NOW!” Trump posted on Truth Social.Trump’s post came on the
heels of a trip to Asia, where he said he faced questions about how
Democrats shut down the government, “and why did the powerful
Republicans allow them to do it?”The president noted that some
Democratic senators during the Biden administration had called for an
end to the filibuster. Then-President Biden and some senators called for
altering the filibuster to protect voting rights and abortion access,
though it did not garner unanimous support within the party.Trump went
on to argue that Democrats would eliminate the filibuster if given the
opportunity to enact policies like statehood for Puerto Rico and
Washington, D.C. “Well, now WE are in power, and if we did what we
should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country
destroying ‘SHUT DOWN,’” Trump posted. “If the Democrats ever came back
into power, which would be made easier for them if the Republicans are
not using the Great Strength and Policies made available to us by ending
the Filibuster, the Democrats will exercise their rights, and it will
be done in the first day they take office, regardless of whether or not
we do it.”The Senate filibuster rule requires most legislation to
receive 60 votes to make it through the chamber, giving more power to
the minority party and essentially preventing the majority party from
passing whatever legislation it wants. Rule changes over the years have
meant that judges and other nominees only require a simple majority.It’s
not clear if Senate Republicans, who hold 53 seats in the chamber,
would have the support to eliminate the filibuster entirely.Senate
Republicans have in recent days increasingly discussed changing the
filibuster’s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, which has
dragged on for more than 30 days. Senate Majority Leader John Thune
(R-S.D.) has said he opposes weakening the filibuster.Even Republicans
who have in the past have voiced support for preserving the filibuster
have suggested creating a carve-out to the 60-vote threshold to reopen
the government could gain traction.Senate Democrats have been united in
opposing passage of a continuing resolution that would fund the
government at current levels, saying they would only support the measure
alongside an extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that are
set to expire at the end of the year.Lawmakers in both parties have
warned that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
will begin to expire Nov. 1, and there is growing concern about
increased flight delays at major airports because of the shutdown’s
strain on air traffic controllers.Updated at 11:09 p.m. EDT
Congress
divided on Trump’s tit-for-tat nuclear tests with Russia, China by
Ellen Mitchell - 10/30/25 7:47 PM ET-Defense & National Security
President
Trump’s decision to restart nuclear weapons testing as a warning to
Moscow has divided Congress – Republicans cheering while Democrats see
it as a dangerous retaliation.It’s an unsurprising public divide and
represents another example of how partisan positioning has Congress
speaking on opposite sides of national security and foreign policy
issues.While Republicans are praising Trump for pushing back on Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling, Democrats are
questioning the utility, safety, financing and precedent of such a
step.“It would be a mistake for us to do this because we have nothing,
we have very little to gain,” said Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a member
of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee with oversight of America’s
nuclear arsenal.“If we did a test and then China decided, OK, I’m going
to start testing. They’ll start testing their nuclear weapons, then
their strategic forces capability gets much better,” Kelly told
reporters Thursday. “We have zero to gain. This would be a gift to
China.”Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), another member of the
subcommittee, questioned why Republicans are not concerned about how
much money is required to carry out the president’s directive if their
focus is on lowering federal spending. “The Department of Defense has a
long history of understating costs and claiming shorter timelines for
these giant nuclear programs. They sell Congress on a rosy picture of
how it will all work out,” she said. “As soon as Congress signs on the
dotted line, the costs start going up, and the time to completion
stalls, rolling further and further out … Republicans should be just as
outraged as Democrats over the DOD’s lack of honesty about how this
program is operating.” But Republicans are standing resolutely with the
president, who announced his decision to resume nuclear weapons testing
in a Truth Social post Thursday morning in South Korea, shortly before
he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and shortly after Putin boasted
of testing new nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable missiles. “This is
not escalatory,” said Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho), chair of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, calling Putin a “madman” trying to push
Trump’s boundaries, claiming that the Russian president won’t retaliate.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) backed up Trump when asked about the
president’s directive to the Pentagon to restart testing nuclear
weapons, saying it sends a “strong message” to U.S. adversaries. Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a defense hawk and a close ally of the
president, said Trump’s directive to the Department of Defense (DOD) was
a “response” to Putin, whom Trump has been pushing to come to the
negotiating table in hopes of ending the Russia-Ukraine war. But some
senators acknowledged the president’s directive was short on
details.Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Thursday he will “have to see”
what Trump means regarding testing nuclear weapons but emphasized that
the U.S. has to keep its “nuclear forces modernized for sure.” Trump
said the U.S. would start testing its nuclear weapons “because of other
countries’ testing programs” and would do so on an “equal basis.”It’s
not clear exactly what Trump wants to achieve. For opponents and arms
control experts, the most concerning directive is whether the president
decides to resume nuclear explosive testing. Russia has denied it has
tested nuclear weapons and criticized the U.S. for confusing its testing
of a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable missile with a nuclear
explosive. Russia has denied it has tested nuclear weapons and
criticized the U.S. as confusing its testing of a nuclear-powered and
nuclear-capable ODIES missile with a nuclear explosive. Welcome to The
Hill’s Defense & National Security newsletter, I’m Ellen Mitchell —
your guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill
and beyond.
THESE ANTIFA
CULT AND DEMOCRAT POWER HUNGRY CULT OF SINNERS JUST KEEP TRYING TO STOP
ICE FROM ARRESTING AND DEPORTING CRIMINAL DEMONS FROM HELL KILLERS.ITS
TIME FOR JUDGEMENT ON THESE DEMONIC DEMON SINNERS FROM THE PITS OF
HELL.JESUS WILL TAKE CARE OF THESE LOONATIC DEMONS FROM HELL. SINCE
THESE DEMON DEMOCRAT LEADERS HAVE BEEN COMING AGAINST ICE. THE VIOLENCE
AGAINST ICE IS 1,000%. HOW THESE DEMONS FROM HELL LIBERALS CAN STICK UP
FOR SATANS PUPPET CRIMINALS IS JUST 1 MILLION % NUTS. THESE DEMOCRAT
LUNATICS CAN SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL FIRE AND TORTURES FOREVER WITH THEIR
NEVER DYING BODY. AND CAN LIVE WITH THESE SATANS DEMONIC PUPPET
CRIMINALS FOREVER.
10.08.2025-TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Holds an Antifa Roundtable with Internet Personalities, 10.8.25
President
Donald Trump: Hey, Pam. You were so good yesterday.Pam Bondi: Thank
you.Trump: Thank you very much. I was just dealing with people from the
Middle East, Arab people and other people on the potential peace deal
for the Middle East. Peace for the Middle East. That's a beautiful
phrase and we hope it's going to come true, but it's very close and
they're doing very well. We have a great team over there, great
negotiators, and there are unfortunately great negotiators on the other
side also. But it's something, I think, that will happen, got a good
chance of happening. I may go there sometime toward the end of the week,
maybe on Sunday, actually, and we'll see. But there's a very good
chance that negotiations are going along very well with dealing with
Hamas and many of the countries. As you know, we have Muslim.All of the
Muslim countries are included. All of the Arab countries are included,
very rich countries and some that are not so rich, but just about
everybody is included. It's never happened before. Nothing like that has
happened before. And our final negotiation, as you know, is with Hamas
and it seems to be going well. So we'll let you know. If that's the
case, we'll be leaving probably on Sunday, maybe Saturday, maybe a
little -- a little later than Saturday evening, but that seems to be our
schedule. It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very
serious left-wing terror threat in our country, radicals associated with
the domestic terror group Antifa that you've heard a lot about lately,
and I've heard a lot about them for 10 years.And other far-left
extremists have been carrying out a campaign of violence against ICE
agents and other officials charged with enforcing federal law. In
Chicago, anarchists have surveilled at least four local ICE facilities
and posted diagrams of the buildings online, meaning nothing but bad,
accompanied by photos of specific ICE agents that they're targeting, one
in particular who's a top person and a great person, a great patriot.
In July, approximately a dozen Antifa aligned militants stormed the ICE
facility in Texas and then lured officers out of the building before
firing dozens of rounds at police. They were crazy, frankly, shooting
one Texas officer in the neck. And in Portland, Oregon, Antifa thugs
have repeatedly attacked our officers and laid siege to federal property
in an attempt to violently stop the execution of federal law.Everything
we're doing is very lawful. What they're doing is not lawful. And what
the governor and the mayor of -- as an example, you could say of
Portland and you can say certainly of Chicago, is not lawful what
they're doing. They have to be very careful. In addition, two weeks ago,
a radical left terrorist in Dallas conducted a sniper attack on a local
ICE facility, killing two people and leaving behind a note that read,
hopefully this will give ICE agents some real terror. That's bad. This
attack came the very same month that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a
far-left extremist who inscribed the words, hey fascists, catch, meaning
catch the bullet, onto the bullet shelf itself. The epidemic of
left-wing violence and Antifa inspired terror has been escalating for
nearly a decade.At universities, Antifa has organized riotous mobs to
attack campus speakers. I see it all the time, and these are agitators,
anarchists and they're paid, and you'll find that out. You'll be finding
it out very soon. You should see what we have on these people. These
are bad people. These are people that want to destroy our country. We're
not going to let it happen. They've used armed gangs to assault local
police in cities nationwide and they have attacked journalists reporting
on their crimes. So the journalists that reported their crimes, don't
worry, you're very safe. I hope that's not going to turn you around, but
they have been very threatening to people.But we're going to be very
threatening to them, far more threatening to them than they ever were
with us, and that includes the people that fund them, probably some of
the people I know, some of the people I dine with. But if they do,
they're in deep trouble. So we're going to be looking very strongly at
the people that are funding these operations. When you see the signs and
they're all made out of a beautiful -- beautiful paper, beautiful,
nice, stiff, very expensive paper with beautiful wood handles, all the
same, all the same color. They come from very expensive printing
machines. These are not people that write out their signs in a basement
that believe in something.These are paid anarchists. At least three of
these courageous journalists have personally been victims of Antifa
attacks. Andy Ngo has been repeatedly beaten by Antifa thugs for his
work in -- Andy is a very serious person too, I have to tell you. I've
been watching him for a long time. Is Andy here? That's what I thought.
Hello, Andy. I thought that was you. You're looking better than you do
out on those streets, huh? You look much better. It's nice to have you.
You feel a little safer here, I think, maybe. Well, not that safe
because you have them. You have to worry about that. But thank you very
much. Andy Ngo has been repeatedly beaten by Antifa and including one
assault that left him with a brain hemorrhage.Only days ago, Nick Sortor
was assaulted in Portland by a flag burning mob and we've made it
one-year penalty for inciting riots. We took the freedom of speech away
because that's been through the courts and the courts said, you have
freedom of speech. But what has happened is when they burn a flag, it
agitates and irritates crowds. They've never seen anything like it, on
both sides, and you end up with riots. So we're going on that basis.
We're looking at it from -- not from the freedom of speech, which I
always felt strongly about, but never past the courts. This is what they
do, is they incite -- when you burn an American flag, you incite
tremendous violence.We have many examples of it, many, many examples of
it and it's actually down on tape. And you see things happen that that
just don't happen unless it's the flag that's burning. Very recently,
Katie Davis Court was hit in the face with a flagpole in Portland by an
Antifa radical, leaving her with a very blackened eye. So Katie, thank
you very much. and I'd like to also say that I watched Nick. Where's
Nick? Is Nick here?Bondi: Right there.Trump: Nick? Hi, Nick. That was a
rough time you went through. I watched. I hope you got my little note. I
wrote you a note.Nick Sortor: Yeah. I really appreciate that. It helped
a lot, because it was a difficult situation. It was very stressful and
your note helped a lot. I truly appreciate you sending that.Trump: I
thought it was terrible, actually. I thought it was terrible. So we'll
talk about it a little bit. Under the last administration, the
Department of Justice targeted faithful Catholics, Christians and
patriotic parents as domestic -- domestic extremists. They said, oh,
they're extreme because they believe in God. They're extreme because
they go to Catholic Church or evangelicals, who are -- everybody was
under the gun. Unless you are a really bad, sick person, then they left
you alone. Under the Trump administration, we're going after Antifa
criminals and all who fund and support their campaigns are in serious
trouble, and we have a lot of records already, a lot of surprises, a lot
of bad surprises.It's people that you would never think. I want to
thank Attorney General Pam Bondi, who, by the way, yesterday was
incredible in Congress. It was amazing and she just did it from the
heart, and the brain because she's very smart, in all fairness. But she
did it from the heart and she did an incredible -- everybody was talking
about it. She exposed some of these fake Senators, these terrible
Senators, people like Blumenthal that had a phony war record. For 20
years he talked about what a hero he was and it turned out he never went
to Vietnam. For 20 years he talked about being a hero in Vietnam. Then
it was exposed when he said what platoon he was with and it was exposed
that somebody was watching from that particular platoon. They said, he
was never with us. And then he went out and he cried and he was ready to
drop out of the election.And -- disgraceful. And then he looked -- and
people like Pam and he starts criticizing her and she's a patriot. They
ought to do something with that. You know, we have a young Congressman
that's right now in jail for lying about where he went to college and
other things. It was, frankly, not good; it was pretty bad, but it was
nothing compared to Blumenthal. I mean, what Blumenthal did, he was for
20 years a hero, a great war hero, and then he sits back and,
sanctimonious kind of a guy, looks down -- how dare you do this to the
American public, you know. What a fake. But I thought Pam was incredible
yesterday. As well as Secretary Kristi Noem, who's really out there
courageously.And I appreciate it, Kristi, amazing what you're doing. FBI
Director, Kash Patel, who's really coming up with some great
information, Kash. It's great, keep it coming because there's plenty of
it. Deputy Attorney General, one of the best lawyers you'll ever find,
Todd Blanche, who I know personally, is a good lawyer because I'm here.
Thank you very much, Todd. Good job, Todd. Let me ask Attorney General
Bondi to say a few words and then we'll follow it up with Secretary Noem
and Director Patel. And we're going to have some of the people around
the table, very courageous people, and they're going to be talking --
journalists almost all -- and they're going to be talking. And we'll
take some questions from the press at the end. OK, Pam, please.Bondi:
Thank you, President Trump. And as you made clear, Antifa is a domestic,
left-wing terrorist organization. We've seen them on video for years
because they wanted to be seen and they got away with it. They beat
journalists, they attack courthouses, they attacked police stations,
they dox and assault our law enforcement officers. The Biden
administration let them commit these crimes with total impunity for
years, so did Democrat leaders like Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Last week, Independent Journalist Nick Sortor was arrested just for
protecting himself against Antifa. I saw it online and I called Nick, I
couldn't believe what happened.He did all this just trying to save our
American flag from being burned. He was pushed down and assaulted, yet
the local police arrested Nick, not the Antifa thugs who did this to
him. Antifa feels empowered to operate in the open because weak
Democrats have turned a blind eye to their actions. Their hatred for
President Trump and for law and order agendas fuels their violence.
We've seen more than a 1,000 percent -- a 1,000 percent increase in
attacks against our ICE agents since January 20th. Secretary Noem is out
there fighting for you firsthand to keep our federal officers safe, to
keep our federal buildings safe and we're not going to have it anymore,
these thugs. We saw what's happening in Portland and Chicago, and you
saw what happened in Dallas.No longer. This is not activism, it's
anarchy. We can't and we will not let masked terrorists burn our
buildings, attack our law enforcement, and intimidate our communities.
Under your leadership, President Trump, we're deploying the full might
of the federal law enforcement to crack down on Antifa and other
domestic terrorist organizations led by Stephen Miller. And Stephen,
thank you for everything you're doing. Last week I issued a memo
ordering our federal law enforcement agents, DEA, FBI, US Marshals and
ATF, to protect ICE officers from Antifa and other radical left-wing
violence. Director Patel has been going nonstop. He and Deputy Attorney
General Blanche were in Chicago yesterday -- yesterday, while Secretary
Noem was in Portland.We are around this country fighting against this
domestic terrorism. We had Apple and Google take down the ICE Block
apps. Hope they continue to comply with that. Threatening the safety of
our federal law enforcement officers, we're not going to stop at just
arresting the violent criminals we can see in the streets. Fighting
crime is more than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It's
breaking down the organization brick by brick. Just like we did with
cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with
Antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We're
going to take them apart. Thanks to your bold leadership and the
designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization, which is exactly what
they are, Americans will no longer tolerate their unhinged violence.
Thank you.Trump: Thank you very much, Pam. Kristi?Kristi Noem: Well,
thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for hosting today and focusing
on Antifa and the terrorists that they are. Let's not make any mistake,
these individuals do not just want to threaten our law enforcement
officers, threaten our journalists and the citizens of this country,
they want to kill them. Their agenda is to destroy the American people
and our way of life and this president is standing in their way. He is
stopping them from bringing their death and destruction to the
individual citizens in this country that just want to raise their kids
and their grandkids in peace and in safety. I want to also thank
everyone around this table for being so bold and so brave for standing
up and recognizing the threat that Antifa is to our way of life.By
recognizing how advanced they are, how sophisticated their networks are,
how they've infiltrated our entire country. And we're seeing them play
out with their tactics from city to city and how they have built out
their funding mechanisms. And sir, I also want to thank our Treasury
Secretary for his work in getting to the bottom of these funding
mechanisms and individuals who are perpetuating this violence on our
American cities. I was in Portland yesterday and had the chance to visit
with the governor of Oregon and also the mayor there in town, and they
are absolutely covering up the terrorism that is hitting their streets.
While you talked about some of the stories of our ICE agents, our Border
Patrol agents, how they have been attacked, how they have been shot at,
injured, the damage that they've done, these leaders in these local
cities, along with Pritzker and Johnson, ignore what's going on or, sir,
they're helping Antifa cover it up. We have arrested dozens of
individuals that are Antifa members or affiliated with them.And I want
to thank our attorney general for prosecuting them and making sure they
never see the light of day again. They have been so bold in making sure
we're bringing those individuals to justice. One of the individuals we
arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders
of Antifa, and that we are hoping that as we go after her, interview her
and prosecute her, we will get more and more information about the
network and how we can root them out and eliminate them from the
existence of American society.I want to thank the new journalists here
today for telling their stories and for being able and willing to go to
the streets and to cover what's happening here in America. Many times,
the legacy media has looked the other way, refused to tell the stories.
The networks have not really focused on what this is and what damage it
is doing to our country and how this network of Antifa is just as
sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all
of them. They are just as dangerous, they have an agenda to destroy us
just like the other terrorists we've dealt with for many, many years.
And today is the day that we have a president that won't tolerate it and
will stand up and fight for the American people. So, thank you for
being here, for being so bold and for standing in the gap at such a time
as this.It will matter, it will make a difference, and your life will
be one of significance because of what you've done today. So, with that,
God bless you and thank you, Mr. President Trump: Thank you very much.
Thank you. Kash, please.
Kash Patel: Thank you, Mr. President.
Mr. President, the American people gave you a sweeping mandate in your
victory in this election cycle, and they demanded safety and security
for our citizens. And your administration with your leadership has
provided us with the resources that we need, which is a whole of
government approach to go after criminals absolutely everywhere, not
just outside of this country but within this country. And that takes a
whole of government approach. The interagency seated up here with the
Department of Homeland Security, our attorney general, deputy attorney
general and your White House staffers, including Stephen Miller's
leadership, has allowed us to go out there and map out these networks.
What we are doing at the FBI is simple, it does not require rocket
science.We are following the money. Money never lies and that's what
it's going to take to bring down this network of organized criminal
thugs, gangbangers and, yes, domestic terrorists because that's what
they are. They are harming everyday citizens in every single one of our
communities. And the folks you see here on the right and left are some
of the bravest men and women we have today. They're reporting the
stories live time because the mainstream media won't cover it. They're
putting their lives on the line. They're standing up for the flag. The
least we can do is stand up for them. So, you have my thanks. I read
more of your stories than I do theirs because you guys are putting out
the truth.And we deserve a country where you are protected as equally as
they are. We in this FBI will go after with -- the criminals with a
vengeance. We will not rest until we find every single seed, money,
donor, organization and funding mechanism that we have. And I want to
echo the Secretary's comments on Scott Bessent, who is allowing us to
map out these networks through their financial criminal activities,
which has been going on for decades. And I would like to remind the
American public they built this diseased temple of corruption over
decades.And in eight short months, Mr. President, you have crippled
their foundation because of your leadership here because of the
interagency, because of people like Deputy Attorney General Blanche and
because of Attorney General Pam Bondi fearless leadership to go after
criminals wherever they are, they will not be able to hide. They were
able to hide and conspire with prior administrations and we are exposing
their corruption from within and we will go to every single city in
this country under Operation Summer Heat and the other operations we are
doing at the FBI to bring these criminals to justice. We will arrest
every single one of them.From whatever perch you sit in private or
public, no matter how high your goal or your ambition is, it will be
crushed by the Constitution because the American people deserve law and
order and that's what we're going to give you.Trump: Thank you very
much, Kash. Great job. Maybe we'll start over here. Would any of you
like to say something? Feel free. You can say it in front of a fine
group of people, also journalists and reporters. Do you want to start?
Sure, go ahead.Sortor: Absolutely. President Trump, members of the
cabinet, really appreciate you guys bringing this together and the fact
that we are here today on such short notice shows how serious you guys
are taking this issue of trans terrorists and the frankly the cities and
police departments that are cooperating with Antifa such as Portland. I
mean, the Portland politicians are literally willing to sacrifice their
own citizens just to appease these Antifa terrorists, it's sickening.
I've seen it firsthand obviously. Uh, when I went to jail that night,
never expected it to happen. I thought that they were maybe removing me
from my own safety.It never crossed my mind that I was the one that was
being arrested for a crime after I was just thrown into a hole. Uh, I
heard from the Department of Homeland Security after I had gotten out of
jail, uh, and one of your -- I won't say exactly who it was, but
somebody very close to, uh, Secretary Noem over here said that they were
legitimately worried for my safety in Portland jail. But luckily, the
Portland jail was -- I was the only one there essentially because they
don't actually arrest people in Portland, uh, besides conservative
journalists, I guess. So it -- look, I'm glad that -- it was not a good
night for me. Let's just say that. It was not fun sitting in that jail,
but I'm glad to see what has come of it and I've been able to talk to a
bunch of FBI agents, ATF agents, uh, DHS agents that I didn't even know
existed until I went there and went to that ICE facility.And the morale
is at an all time high. It is so exciting to see, uh, these guys know
now that they have the backing of the secretary, the DOJ, as well as the
president of the United States and they are there to do their job. They
are going to fulfill this mission and deport these violent criminals. I
believe one of the ones that I did a ride along with with Secretary
Noem yesterday, President Trump, and there was a pedophile that had come
into the country five times over the past seven years. Seven years. And
apparently under the Biden regime that was just allowed to happen, that
was fine. No problem. Um, it's concerning to me that you're seeing the
Portland Police Department as well as the governor of Oregon and the
mayor, of course, coming out and running defense for pedophiles that
have entered the country illegally five times.It's -- it's crazy. I'm
glad it's taking a front row seat in the media and, uh, you know,
they're being forced to talk about it in reality because, you know, we
-- we're the ones that were on the ground, we're the ones that are
actually reporting what's going on. Uh, and -- and, you know, much of
the legacy media has been either ignoring it or covering for Antifa for
years now. So thank you guys so much for taking this seriously and --
and President Trump, you mentioned that flag. So remember you put out a
truth right after I --Trump: -- That's right, I saw that.Sortor: Took
this flag from that, uh, from that man that was burning it in the
street.Trump: Do you know who he is? Sortor: Oh, yeah, I know exactly
who it is.Trump: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the
attorney general and let's start prosecutions.Sortor: Yeah, I actually
have a second flag that he tried to burn as well. So I have two of
them.Trump: You also saw what happened when that flag started burning,
everyone went crazy and that's when it started when they started burning
the flag. So thank you. If you could give the information, it would be
great.Sortor: Absolutely.Trump: And at least that horrible night made
you famous, you got -- [Laughter] You got something.Sortor: I got a -- I
got a text from the president of the United States. I appreciate
that.Bondi: And President Trump after that happened to Nick I called
Harmeet Dhillon and we opened a pattern and practice investigation into
the Portland police very publicly as to how they let this happen.Sortor:
Thank you, sir.Brandi Kruse: Thank you, Mr. President. You're going to
-- you're going to hear us be very fired up today and you can tell and
it's because some of us have been covering Antifa for 15 years and have
never had anyone in a position of authority even acknowledge their
existence. And I'll also tell you that I think that had you not done,
the single most powerful thing you've done to deal with this scourge has
been acknowledging that Antifa is a real thing. I genuinely believe
there would be people at these tables who would be dead today and would
have been killed in Portland had you not called them a terror
organization and said we're going to bring the full weight of the
federal government to bear. I talked to Katie Davis in Portland the
other day. She'd been assaulted all summer and she said the same thing
that seems quick to violence as soon as you made that designation.So
they're thinking in their heads, they're worried. There's been two dozen
or so arrested in Portland. They don't want to go to federal prison.
There's this video of them, one of them who was in the face of an ICE
agent and then he's -- he's in custody, shaking. Once you take the mask
off, they're nothing. And I was told by probably a dozen people not to
tell you this, I'm going to tell it to you anyway because it's relevant
to what we're talking about. I'm living proof that you can recover from
TDS. I had strong Trump Derangement Syndrome for probably eight years.
It's one -- this is one of the reasons I recovered from it and by the
way, it's much better to not have TDS, I'm happier. [Laughter] I'm
healthier more successful.I even think I got a little more attractive --
[Laughter] -- after I got rid of my Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yes,
you know, I watched I'm a reporter in Seattle and frankly I could not
care less what any of you have to say about this meeting. Could not care
any less. We're not here for you. I'm not here to convince any of you
that Antifa is a real thing because if you have not come to that
conclusion by now, you are never going to come to that conclusion
because you don't want to see it. And you're going to go and you're
going to say it's a bunch of right wing, conservative influencers who
are here spinning a tale.I was one of you, I was a mainstream reporter
in Seattle for ten years. I was a TV reporter on the streets doing my
job and I was still assaulted by Antifa. So it's not about being
conservative. It's about people who go there and show what they're
doing. And when I saw after all those years that the media wouldn't be
honest about what was happening, that Democratic politicians wouldn't be
honest about what was happening, I thought, well, gosh, if they're not
being honest about that, maybe they're not being honest about President
Trump either and it opened my mind to just looking at things for what
they were.And now I find you quite funny actually. [Laughter] Now I'm,
like I said, I'm much happier about it, but you know for me again, I
could not care any less the stories that they go to print. This is what I
care about. We have three-and-a-half years, nothing is guaranteed.
Although I think if Democrats keep it up, we'll probably have Republican
presidents for the next three decades, but nothing is guaranteed. And
so what I want to see over the next three-and-a-half years is a full
court press to dismantle Antifa once and for all in a meaningful way. I
know Andy, we talked before this about some ideas. That's really what we
want to -- I don't care what the media says. I don't care what
Democrats say. They will never wake up to this fact.So we want the
federal government to take as many of these cases as possible, look at
the interstate travel between Portland and Seattle when it comes to
these people who are committing violent acts. And hopefully in
three-and-a-half years, they will be a shell of their former
selves.Trump: And it's Antifa and many others, unfortunately.Kruse:
Yes.Trump: There are many others, bad ones. Most have been named
terrorist organizations. There are a couple that were going to, but I
think we've got it pretty well covered, but there are many others, but
very specifically today it's Antifa and it's really bad and we're going
to get it cleaned up. Andy, do you have some? Trump: Thank you very
much. I'm glad you no longer have TDS. I feel very good about that.
[Laughter] Thank you.Andy Ngo: Thank you, Mr. President, and members of
the cabinet. I have a lot of gratitude and a little bit about my
background. I'm born in Portland, Oregon, from there and growing up it's
always been left wing, very progressive and I liked it, it had cafes
and artists and those who lived a bohemian lifestyle. And in 2016 I was a
graduate student at Portland State studying political science. I was an
editor at the student paper there, a very progressive paper and I was
assigned to cover the election night demonstrations. Well, the elections
night protests turned to riots three days of violent rioting in
Portland and it was the first time that I saw groups dressed in black
with their faces covered. This is for years before COVID, some of them
were waving the black flag of anarchism, some the red flag of Marxism
and within seconds they would ravage one street to another to another to
another. And the next day, I would read the legacy media, which I still
read at that time and looked forward to and I looked up to those
journalists and I was really shocked to see that the narrative was that
these, in my view, anti-democratic political violence was legitimate
acts of protest.Because people were -- they were concerned about racism
or all these other lies and so for the next four years, I just continued
going out with my video camera. I thought, look, people can ignore what
I write because of spin, but videos can quite speak for themselves. And
in 2019, it led to me nearly losing my life. I was covering another
Antifa protest turned riot. At that point, had been routine in Portland,
and then I was ambushed in a mall beating. And I had never been in a
fight. I didn't even realize that I was being assaulted until seconds
in. And the punches came from everywhere, on my head and my face, and I
was bleeding out of my eyes and ears.And then they threw all the drinks
in my eyes to humiliate me further, and to laugh at me. And I was rushed
to the hospital in an ambulance and a CT scan and I had subarachnoid
hemorrhage, which is bleeding in the brain and nearly died. And after
surviving that, the reporting that I saw in liberal media was -- it
seemed to suggest that I had deserved it because they branded me far
right. And some even went so far as to suggest that I maybe faked my
injuries. A BuzzFeed reporter asked for my medical records, which I did
provide, but this felt so -- it's like, because I didn't die in that
attack, there was another round of people who wanted to finish me off,
but I continued. And then 2020, Portland was really the epicenter of the
longest political violence.Those months of riots, I was on the ground,
undercover. And there was an assassination there. There was a supporter
of Donald Trump named Aaron Danielson, who was shot dead by a
self-described Antifa member, who then fled out of state and died in a
shootout with US marshals. In 2021, I returned undercover, naively
thinking that enough time had passed, and was chased through the streets
of downtown and beaten, nearly choked out. The person who was trying to
choke me out held me so tightly that I had -- the blood -- the vessels
in my eyes burst. So one of the symptoms where my eyes were completely
red after that and I was hospitalized. So thank you so much for
acknowledging Antifa and for directing your administration to treat them
as domestic terrorists.It's going to be really challenging because what
they -- how they organize is that they are decentralized, autonomous
and they operate on deception. And we're still, to this day, told that
they don't exist, that it's a figment of our imagination. I think the
DOJ could look at federal conspiracy charges. The state of California
and San Diego County last year broke up an Antifa cell in San Diego. And
I think, maybe, perhaps the State Department should designate Antifa,
its international arm as a foreign terrorist Organization, FTO. So thank
you so much for this invitation, Mr. President.Trump: Thank you. Thank
very much, Andy. Great. That's a rough time you had, huh? So the choke
out was almost the end, you thought -- you felt?Ngo: Yeah, that was my
only near-death experience in my life and I'm quite shaken when I think
about it now. It really feels unbelievable to me that on the streets of
America, that this type of violence against citizens could become so
routine and accepted and cheered on by people. Although, you know, in
the immediate aftermath of Mr. Kirk's assassination, we saw again that
type of depravity play out on quite large swaths of the left. So there's
a deep sickness that's in this country right now, and it pains me a lot
to acknowledge it.Trump: The amazing thing -- yeah, the amazing thing
is you look at Portland and you see fires all over the place. You see
fights and, I mean, just violence. It's just so crazy. And then you talk
to the governor and she acts like everything is totally normal, there's
nothing wrong. What's -- it's almost like, are you waking up from a
dream or something? You see it on your network. You see it all over the
place. And it's so bad. It's so crazy. It's like the movies you see for
the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these
bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like worse than
that. I don't think they could make a movie as bad.And then the governor
will get up and say, I don't know why they're coming here, it's such a
wonderful place. And the amazing thing is the people want us to be
there, the people. When they get the real people that live there, many
of them have left. But the real people want us to be there. Same thing
in Chicago. So they've had 60, 70 murders over a short period of time,
murders, people that got shot. They've had hundreds of people shot and
then a guy like Pritzker, or this low IQ mayor gets up. I mean, he got
up -- he's got a five percent approval rating, and the people are all
against him. They want people to come.Beautiful Black women are wearing a
MAGA hat last night on television, beautiful people. And they want --
they said, we don't care who comes, just stop the crime. They don't
care. Frankly, they don't care if it's National Guard, military, send in
anybody you want, stop the crime. And they're afraid to go out. They
can't even go out. And then a guy like Pritzker, think of that, 50, 60,
70 people over a short period of time, murdered, actually murdered,
mostly gun violence but knives, but gun violence, they're murdered. And
hundreds of people shot. They had one weekend where they had like 18
murdered and 71 shot, but they said -- you know what their excuse is,
yeah, but it was a long weekend.In other words, it was a long weekend so
that was OK. And then Pritzker gets up and he says like, I don't know
what they're talking about, we don't have crime here. They're crazy. I
think, actually, they're petrified. You know, their families live there,
everything else. I actually think they're scared. Pritzker was a
failure in his family. They threw him out of the family business. Guy's a
loser, but you know what, they actually -- I believe they're scared.
They're actually frightened for their lives. Jack, please, say a few
words.
Jack Posobiec: Mr. President -- Mr. President, thank you
so much for having us here today and holding this roundtable. Antifa is
real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost a hundred
years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.
And it's now been just under one month since we saw a far-leftist murder
Charlie Kirk and we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other
far-leftists and people in positions of authority, people like nurses
and pilots and doctors and HR departments, celebrating the death and the
murder of Charlie Kirk. The sickness that's out there is absolutely
real. And Mr. President, thank you for mentioning the fact that one of
the bullet casings read, hey, fascist, catch, on it. One of the other
bullet casings right next to that had, Bella Chow, written on it. Now,
Bella Chow is a song that is known in Antifa circles as the
international anthem of Antifa.And all of us around the world -- around
this room that have studied Antifa were very familiar with these
symbols. And Mr. President, I think the situation is getting worse. When
you look at people like Luigi Maglione, in his 20s; Thomas Matthew
Crooks, of course, who took a shot at you, sir; the ICE shooter in
Dallas and now this Tyler Robinson, we're starting to see a pattern of
more and more murderous violence and this same violence is not just
random. It is targeted assassinations which are getting worse. And every
single one of us in this room that goes out there, and obviously, you
as well, sir, and all the staff, we are now under that threat every
single day. And working there at Turning Point USA, and I've spent just
about the last month out there in Phoenix with Erika, with the family,
with the team, and I will tell you this, Mr. President, even though
going through something like that, which is an absolute nightmare and
people say, what was it like to speak in front of all those people, it
was horrible.Every second of it was horrible, but we're not going to
quit. And Turning Point USA is continuing the tour that Charlie was on.
We had 6,000 people when we went back to Utah. We had 5,000 people last
night in Montana, if you can believe that. We are continuing to organize
on campus. We are getting more and more people coming out in the face
of this threat, knowing what happened to Charlie. But Mr. President, we
need to do something about this because I fear that the next one who
could be killed could be sitting at this table right now, and we're not
going to stop but they need to stop, and they will not stop until they
are stopped. Thank you.Trump: Thank you, Jack. I appreciate it very
much. One thing I have to say is that Washington, DC was almost as bad. I
don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have
sewers anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their
windows, but most of the retailers have left. But Washington, DC was so
bad. And Pam, I'd say it took 12-days to really make it pretty good, and
a month to make it great. And now people are going out to dinner. The
restaurants are booming. They don't have enough seats. They're opening
up new restaurants, because many of them closed. And people are walking
down the street totally safe.Reporter -- a reporter, I'm not sure if
she's here. I can't see, there's so many reporters. There she is. She
was violently assaulted. And I don't know. She tends to be somewhat
liberal, but she wasn't liberal on this one.I appreciated your honesty,
but you won't -- that won't happen again. It won't happen again. You're
lucky you're alive, frankly, with what happened; I know exactly what
took place. So, Washington DC, our capital, we thought we'd start there
appropriately, and it's safe and people are so happy, they're so happy.
And now it's a couple of months, I went to dinner there, I felt totally
safe. I gave a press conference right in the middle of the street, which
I don't think Secret Service was thrilled about.But you know, I'll tell
you what, I wouldn't have wanted to do it six months ago. It's
incredible what happened. Now we're in Memphis, as you know, we're
having a great impact in Memphis. It's been only a week, but it's --
Kash, I hear it's been amazing what's happening there just very early.
But you take a look at DC and you take a look at some of the other,
we've had a big impact. What we haven't said, because Pritzker said,
well, crime is going down in Chicago. Well, five months ago cash went to
Chicago with a lot of FBI agents just to prepare it. So that we went in
with, I guess you could call it a surge, call it whatever you want, but
would be even more effective. And we're going to be doing that and
very, very strongly doing that because Chicago is a very unsafe
city.It's a great city. The head of the Union Pacific Railroad said,
sir, please save Chicago. It's a great city; it can be saved. Other
cities are gone. I mean, they're lost, they can get better, but they're
just really -- they've been so decimated. But I'm so proud of what
they've done so quickly in DC, and it's taking place quickly in Memphis
where we were asked to go by the mayor and by the governor. And it's
really incredible what we can do and how fast we can do it. Let's go for
two more. Would you like to go? And then Katie, you'll go, OK?
Please.Julio Rojas: Yeah, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here.
And not to sound like a broken record, but it needs to be said that
Antifa is real. It's real. It's a threat. I just saw them last weekend
over in Portland while they were causing mayhem over there. And the
reason why there's such a big problem is because we have Democrats and a
lot of people in the mainstream media refusing to acknowledge that they
even exist, right? So, how can we as a country begin to address it when
you have large swaths of these people who are supposedly decision
makers and people who are supposed to inform, they don't want to say
that it exists. Because the common argument is like, well, they're not a
real organization because there's no national leadership.They don't
have a national headquarters, so how can law enforcement go after a
group that doesn't exist like that? Well, law enforcement goes after
criminal groups that organize to rob banks or do smash and grabs. They
don't have a registered LLC, they don't have official membership cards,
they don't have a business address, but law enforcement still goes after
them because they're working as a group. These people don't just show
up randomly at the same time to do the same thing, dressed in a very
similar fashion, espousing the same ideology. And they say, well, it's
an ideology, it's like, well, yes, it's an ideology because there's
people alive present that believe in it and they're acting on it. And
so, I've been very well aware of what Antifa has been doing.I was very
busy during the riots in 2020. That was probably my most exposure to
them prior to this year. I've been at the ICE facility at Broadview, I'm
originally from the Chicagoland area unfortunately, but that's where I
grew up around. Like I said, I was in Portland. I was covering the riots
in Los Angeles as well. And probably one of the most disturbing parts
about that is in addition to Antifa being present, they were tagging the
streets with CJNG, which is Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which is a
cartel. So, you have these people who are working basically in concert
with other terrorist groups to say that we're here, we're present and
we're going to attack federal agents and people who are going to expose
what we do. And so, to be clear, political violence, sustained political
violence that we're seeing in this country is not a both sides issue.I
was at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Glendale recently, conservative
gathering, totally peaceful. It was the most peaceful gathering that
I've been at. Every other time that I've been covering violence in the
streets just this year, forgetting -- just this year it's always been
from left-wing people, radical left-wing people -- and it's not even
just Antifa anymore. The shooting that happened in -- the defensive
shooting that happened in the Chicago area, that wasn't someone dressed
in black block. That was just somebody that had taken upon themselves to
go out and try to interfere and ram federal vehicles. So, people are
becoming more and more radicalized, and it was to be expected
unfortunately.And the reason why we're in this position today is
because, after I was done covering the riots, I was at the border from
the San Diego sector all the way down to the Rio Grande Valley sector
covering the border crisis month after month. And we all knew the
solution to that. We all knew why it was happening. It's because, well,
it's racist to have a border. Well, actually it's not, but OK. And so,
it required you to come back into office and to fix the problem, but
it's no longer just a border issue, it's a nationwide issue. And that's
one of the reasons why you got elected back into office because,
thankfully, the American people said we're not going to deal with it
anymore. But unfortunately, there's a lot of people, as we've seen, who
are willing to take to the streets to do violence. And that's a scary
thing because typically when I was -- in 2020, I was covering
Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, I was over in Chaz, and
that was to be expected. But now because the issue of immigration,
illegal immigration is so widespread, riots can happen anywhere, attacks
can happen anywhere.So, that's why it was weird kind of going back to
my home state to cover this violence. I mean, just after the Dallas
shooting, they were chanting outside Broadview, shoot ICE, you know,
shoot those F-ers. So, I'll just leave that. Thank you so much again for
having this. This is very dangerous. We don't work for companies that
have billions of dollars. We're running and gunning often on our own. We
became friends, a lot of us are friends because we would see each other
all the time and we became friends because we wanted to have someone
watch our back while we're out there, because like I said, we're just
out there. But we'll continue to do it because it's an important topic,
it's an important issue. The American people deserve to know what's
happening in these chaotic situations and we're more than happy to do
it. So, thank you, sir.Trump: Great job. Thank you very much. Katie,
please.Katie Daviscourt: Hi, Mr. President, it is an honor being here
today. And I first wanted to start by thanking you guys for designating
Antifa a terrorist group is exactly what this group is. It's a long time
coming. I'm an investigative journalist from Seattle. I work for the
Post Millennial alongside Andy Gno and Jack Posobiec. I have been
infiltrating Antifa cells in Seattle and Portland for the past decade. I
know their inner workings and Antifa uses extreme political violence to
crush the civil rights of their political enemies and believes that
violence is justified by any means necessary. But today I want to focus
on what is happening in Portland at the ICE facility.I've been covering
this for the past four months and this is a call out to corporate media
who has completely ignored this story or has falsely reported on it.
This is nothing short other than a sustained attack on the United
States, which is being supported by Democratic elected officials. The
Portland Police Bureau has completely abandoned several blocks outside
the ICE facility, giving away their jurisdiction to a terrorist group
who has spent the past four months harassing, assaulting and
intimidating anyone they perceive to be against their cause. Not only
have federal agents been relentlessly assaulted for more than 100
consecutive days, black clad anarchist militants concealing their
identities behind black facial coverings have been assaulting reporters
just for trying to cover their crimes. Today I am sitting here with a
black eye and a concussion after being violently hit in the face with a
metal pole while reporting outside the ICE facility just this past
week.After the attack, I immediately went to three Portland police
officers who refused to detain the suspect. I took the time to chase
down the suspect in the streets, had her held for 35 minutes. I was
waiting for Portland police to come, and they never came. Then that's
what opened my eyes to what this group is actually doing. I watched 20
Antifa militants help my assault suspect escape into an Antifa safe
house that is one block away from the ICE facility. And this safe house
is where Antifa affiliated protesters are conducting paramilitary
operations. It's where they are resting, they're showering, they're
eating to continue this occupation.I have staked out this safe house and
have observed shift changes. This group is highly organized. It is
being funded through mutual aid groups, and they have no plans of
stopping. Residents living across the ICE facility have been held
hostage by Antifa. They are begging for federal intervention. The city
refuses to help. And they want you, President Trump, to come in and
restore law and order. I want to stress the importance of taking this
situation seriously because when I first started reporting on this
occupation, I went undercover in black bloc. I talked to these Antifa
militants. I lasted for about a month. They believe that ICE agents are
the Nazi Gestapo who need to be killed. They told me that directly. And I
think that if this situation is not taken as seriously as it is, it's
just a matter of time before someone gets killed. And thank you for
having me.Trump: Thank you, Katie. It's pretty incredible. The only
question nobody can answer is why? Why are they doing this? They're like
insurrectionists. They're terrible people, but you really wonder why?
Why are they doing it? What are they -- what are they gaining other than
they're obviously paid? They're paid a lot of money. Go ahead,
please.Savanah Hernandez: Mr. President, if I can answer that question,
the reason why they're doing it is because the same media that's sitting
in this room with us has declared all of us at this table Nazis and
fascists and they've been doing this for years. This is why Antifa feels
emboldened to attack us now. Almost every single person at this table
has been threatened with a steel bat. We've been assaulted, we've been
harassed, we've been threatened and that is in huge part due to the
media. So my message right now is for you guys because two years ago in
-- or back in 2020, by the way, I was censored for my reporting on
Antifa here in Washington, DC. You were talking about how safe it is
now, Mr. President, it wasn't so safe back then then.Back in 2020, I
watched as a father was being mobbed and surrounded by Antifa members as
his terrified, crying children looked on in the -- or the police here
did nothing. I watched as a woman had her hair violently ripped out of
her skull simply for waving an American flag on the streets of
Washington, DC. And by the way, if you guys try to go and find any of
this footage, you won't find any of it because Twitter deleted all of it
because our president shared my reporting and they deleted my entire
account immediately after. So now if you want to know what happened in
2020, all you're going to see is the media headlines that said that it
was fiery but mostly peaceful. Thanks for that one CNN. The reality is
that it was an extremely violent period of time. And for the last ten
years, Antifa has been wrecking havoc on law abiding and innocent
American citizens and it needs to end.Now, I'm with Turning Point USA.
It's an honor to be here, Mr. President. Thank you guys so much. You
know everybody in the administration for giving us a seat at the table
because the media has not only been demonizing us for so long, but
immediately after the brutal assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk,
our Turning Point USA chapters have seen an uptick in violence across
the nation as Antifa chapters that are embedded in our universities go
and target them. It's been extremely difficult to report on the ground
and for a long time I was afraid to go to Portland because I knew that
the only people who would have my back like Julio said were one of my
friends on the ground because there is no police force there. I was
terrified to go because I knew if I got shot or stabbed and I have been
assaulted.I've been mobbed and robbed in Austin, Texas by Antifa that
nobody would come to help me. So my plea to the entire administration,
especially to the DOJ is every single radical left winger who is in
front of the Ice facility in Chicago, in New York, in Portland, please
make sure that you use the full force of the law to come after each and
every single one of them because it is us being soft on left wing
violence that has fomented all of, you know, the terror that we have
seen in this country. And it is the left wing getting away time and time
again with assaulting law-abiding American citizens that has led us to
this place. So truly to the Americans that I speak to on the ground,
they feel completely abandoned by their state and local government. So
please step in. You have Americans begging for the National Guard and to
the media over here please report on the truth.Please do your jobs. I'm
an American citizen. Everybody at this table simply views ourselves as
American citizens who have an iPhone and the will to actually tell the
truth. So please take your job seriously and tell the truth to the
American people and thank you for letting me be here on behalf of
Charlie to continue his legacy of cleaning up the country. Thank you,
Mr. President.Trump: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Wow, you feel
very strongly.Hernandez: I can see I'm mad, I got beat up so many times,
Mr. President. My friends have gotten beaten up and I want to cry right
now from happiness because we have been completely ignored for so long.
For almost ten years we've been getting assaulted on the streets. I
have watched children cry as their parents have been attacked on the
streets. That should not be happening at our nation's capital. So please
again the DOJ, please utilize the full force and go after each and
every single one of these people.Trump: Fantastic, thank you very much.
Great -- great job. Impassioned. That's important because you should
feel like that. Please, go ahead.Seamus Bruner: Mr. President, thank you
for having us here --Trump: -- Thank you.Bruner: -- and bringing
together this panel of brave, brave journalists. Uh, everybody on this
side of the room and, uh, no one can speak to the violence better than
these people here. So, uh, I think we know that this is not just a story
about violence and chaos as you alluded to, Mr. President, this is a
money story. And at the Government Accountability Institute, my
colleague and I -- Peter Schweizer and I and our team, we follow the
money and we followed it to the top of what we call the protest
industrial complex, Riot Inc. Uh, and we found a network of NGOs. It's
not just the Soros network, the Open Society network, it's other funding
networks, the Arabella funding network, the Tides funding network.Uh,
Neville Roy Singham and his network, Foreign Cash, and it's also big
left-wing funders. Some of them are not citizens of this country, uh,
Mr. Hans-jürg Vis of Switzerland. They're pouring money into this entire
ecosystem. And so I want to share three money facts with you about what
we call Riot Inc. Number one, like -- like any corporation, rioting has
many divisions, it doesn't just have the Antifa boots on the ground
division. It has PR divisions, it has marketing divisions. It has a very
well-funded legal division to get these boots on the ground back on the
streets as quickly as possible. Um, but it does have those investors
that I mentioned.Number two, we have identified dozens of radical
organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but
dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100
million from the Riot, Inc investors. These would be the lawyer groups.
These would be the groups that advocate for calling good honest
Americans, fascists, etc. Uh, and then three, I think the most shocking
thing is that we have found that more than $100 million in U.S. taxpayer
funding has flowed into these funding networks, including at least $4
million to these very groups themselves, not just Antifa types. But, uh,
there was an event in Atlanta called Stop Cop City.Over 60 rioters were
charged with domestic terrorism. These groups received money for that
from both the billionaire class as well as taxpayer money. So uh, one
other thing, this money helps fund the decentralized crowdfunding
platforms. Uh, these are ways that Antifa, the John Brown Gun Club of
Elm Fork, which had links to that attack on the ICE facility, the
Socialist Rifle Association. And just because they don't have LLCs or
EIN numbers doesn't mean they can't get paid. Some of these funding
platforms, crowdfunding platforms are funded by this network that we
call rioting. So again, I want to thank you for your leadership for the
whole cabinets cabinet's leadership on this. We're going to keep
following the money and appreciate everything you're doing, sir.Trump:
Do you know the name of any of the funders? Do you know the names?
Because if you do, I'd like you to give them to Kash or Pam.Bruner:
Absolutely.Trump: Or Kristi.Noem: Yeah, we'll -- we'll do that.Trump: As
soon as you can. That's all of you because you probably know the names
after a certain period of time, you tend to find out. But these are
people that do not have good intention for the country and it's
treasonous probably. So if you could -- if you very important, if you
could do that, it would be great. Nobody would know better than you.
You'll figure it out. Thank you. Please go ahead.Nick Shirley: Yeah, my
name is Nick Shirley. I'm 23 years old. I'm 100 percent independent
YouTube journalist. And over the past year or so, I've been able to go
to 15 countries. I've hung out with people in the gangs of Brazil in the
favelas and the prisons of CECOT. But yet the most dangerous places I
have been -- have been here in the United States unfortunately and I've
had the opportunity to show people about the protest Antifa here in the
United States. And there's nothing organic about what they are doing
here in the United States. I've watched people be bussed in from states.
I've watched the same lady at a protest in Atlanta, be bussed to the
protest in DC and then in New York City, uh, there's nothing that is
honest about what they are doing. And they have signs -- I've seen the
same signs here in DC and in London as well.It's a big organization --
incorporation that they're running and people may wonder like what's the
threat to us as Americans if we go. Well, you'll be labeled as a
fascist. You'll be labeled as a Nazi. And they'll wish death upon you
because they wish death upon me. And just last week in Portland, Oregon,
I watched a lady get trapped in her car surrounded by Antifa and her
sister messaged me after seeing the video. She said the only reason I
think my sister was safe is because you were there recording. I also was
chased out by a member of Antifa who said he would smoke me. And next
thing, he knew a DHS sniper had lasers on his chest. If he was not
there, who knows what would have happened that day. These people are
very dangerous and people wonder how they're able to do it. It's the --
the reason is because these -- these cities are not enforcing the
law.And why should these people be worried if the law is not being
enforced And we are not far right, nor are we far wrong, we're just
right. And the truth about what's happening here in America with these
groups is very dangerous. And I thank you, Mr. President and your
administration as well for acknowledging that.Trump: Thank you very
much. It's too bad. You have to go through it.Shirley: I know it's
crazy, right, Mr. President?
Trump: Well, you're going to get to
the bottom of it. So it's a very important thing you're doing. Thank you
very much. Please, Cam.Cam Higby: Yeah, I've just got something very
short. I'm attacked every time I do my job. When I leave my house to go
to work. I am violently assaulted. I've had guns pulled on me. I've been
bear sprayed, I've been beaten down, I've been almost killed. If every
time you showed up to work masked militants tried to kill you, because
that's how we feel, that's our lived reality. And you guys go and tell
us that we're liars, the riots aren't that bad, right? I've never seen
any of you guys on the ground. In fact, I've never seen anybody
representing the companies you work for on the ground. You guys come to
us for interviews that never get published. Stop saying we're lying,
we're not -- we risk our lives every day to do the job that you guys are
too afraid to do.Trump: What network would you say is the worst if I
could ask? [Laughter] Higby: Oh, man, that's a really tight spot.Trump:
Honestly, it's a simple question and just --Higby: There's a lot of
people in this pool. And I would say, I'm not talking about Fox. I'm not
talking about Newsmax or any outlet that resembles them. So, I'll let
you guys put the pieces together on who I'm exactly talking.Trump: Who
would you say, which network?Higby: MSNBC for sure.Trump: Oh, they're
terrible, I agree.Higby: CNN probably close.Trump: Yeah, yeah, I'd rate
it that way. Yeah, MSNBC, that's Brian Roberts, that he allows that to
happen is a disgrace. And CNN is second. I would say CNN is not quite as
bad as MS.Higby: MSNBC is not really a news site anymore.Trump: Oh,
MSNBC is sick, they're sick.Rojas: Well, sir, it's also just the stories
that they publish about the ICE enforcement operations that are so
heavily slanted that it's no longer, as I was saying, no longer just
Antifa, but Americans that are becoming radicalized. So, they've been
very irresponsible with how they've been reporting on --Trump: Who is
that?Rojas: MSNBC. For example, they're --Trump: Would you rate them the
worst?Rojas: Probably. They ran a story --Trump: Who would you rate
second?Rojas: Well, they ran a story about an operation in Southern
California about how a father of three Marines was arrested, and they
made it seem like they just did it because he's brown. But there's video
of that same man charging at the agents with a weed whacker. Now I've
worked with weed whackers back in the day and you don't want to be on
the receiving end of one of those. So, that's why he was arrested, but
the story was presented as if it's a brown guy just simply being
arrested. And I've been around ICE agents and you know I'm a citizen.
So, I feel fine, but it's just -- that's why, it's not just Antifa, it's
not happening in a vacuum --Trump: No, it's working in conjunction -- I
think they work in conjunction with some of the media. I think ABC is
very bad. I think NBC is very bad and CBS has a new owner. So, we have
hope for CBS. CBS has a great new owner in my opinion. But I will tell
you, ABC is terrible. NBC is terrible. NBC, MSNBC too -- you know they
changed it. They moved it over legally so they couldn't be tainted by
the words MSNBC. But they are absolutely terrible, a lot of them. What
about independents, independent networks?Rojas: They're a little bit
better, but I would say that we're an example of how you don't need to
be part of a super large company to be able to do just basic journalism.
All you've got to do is sit and record and you'll let the story play
out and that's why that's why they hate us. That's why Antifa turns on
us.Trump: Well, I watched a level of dishonesty that's incredible where
answers are changed -- like just before the election, an answer was
changed by Kamala. She gave a horrible death-defying, election-defying
answer and they took the answer out and they replaced it with another
answer that she gave five minutes later having to do with a different
subject, but at least it wasn't election defying. No, the level of
dishonesty with the media is incredible, whether it's on Antifa or many
of the other groups. You know, you're talking about Antifa and I know
that's close to your heart because that's the one that's most affecting
you. But there are others that are as bad or almost as bad as Antifa
having to do with different people, different sections of the world. But
it's terrible, we're not going to let it go on in this country. We're
not going to let it go on. And a big problem is not all of them, but
some of the networks out there -- and you do wonder why, you really do.
OK, please. Go ahead, yeah.Jonathan Choe: Mr. President, thank you
again. My name is Jonathan Choe; I am an investigative reporter for
Frontline's Turning Point USA. I'm also a senior fellow at Discovery
Institute in Seattle. And I cover far left extremism as well as the
homeless drug crisis in America. And I find it oftentimes those worlds
intersect. And hot off the presses, what I wanted to bring to your
attention today is a report from a Capital Research Center here in DC in
conjunction with Discovery Institute. They just put out this study
right now. And what it shows is that Antifa is heavily embedded in the
homeless and housing nonprofit sector.In many cases, the homeless
industrial complex is running cover for Antifa. Antifa is benefiting
from American tax dollars and they're essentially being used as the
muscle. Let me give you an example. There's a group called Stop the
Sweeps in many US cities right now, they get in front of encampment
sweeps. What they're doing quietly is they're bringing in Antifa
militants to manufacture a crisis to make the police look bad. Another
group right now that is behind Antifa and working with Antifa very
closely, based on the research that we have right now that we're going
to give to you and your team, are the Democratic Socialists of America,
also known as DSA.Again, these far-left progressive groups tend to be
aligning themselves with Antifa. So finally, in closing, what I wanted
to thank you again, Mr. President is that a few months ago, earlier this
year, you put out an executive order on homelessness and the drug
addiction crisis in America and that's sent the entire homeless
industrial complex on the run. You have absolutely moved the needle and
changed the game. But what's also come out again is that there is a
connection, a deeply embedded connection with the homeless housing
nonprofit game in America connected to Antifa and the far-left
activists. And finally, I just wanted to say that all of our resources
at Turning Point USA and Discovery Institute are at your disposal, and
we will continue again to carry on the legacy of Charlie Kirk. He would
have wanted us to pursue and chase the story.Trump: Well, he was a good
friend of mine, as you know, and he helped us get elected. Us, it really
is us. It's even some of them, but not too many of them, not enough of
them. And did you notice when we mentioned CNN and MSDNC, the cameras
went off -- two of the cameras immediately went off, but they're not
going to cover it anyway. The problem we have is that this is a very
important meeting, but you'll see very little press about it. These are
major statements being made by major people, including the people right
here, and you're not going to see too much about it. They don't like to
cover this kind of thing. It's very dishonest what's going on there. I
think the press is a big a big factor. Please, go ahead. Thank you,
James.James Klug: Mr. President, thank you so much for having us all
here to bring attention to this matter. You did mention MSDNC, CNN and a
handful of those other outlets that have been lying about various
things, but especially what ICE -- the brave men and women over at ICE
have been doing. I was talking to Antifa members in Portland the other
day and a lot of these people genuinely believe -- they buy these lies
and they genuinely believe that they're fighting against literal Nazis
and not brave men and women that are putting their lives on the line to
basically enforce basic immigration law, right, that everyone seemed to
agree with up until maybe a few years ago, a handful of years ago.So,
once again, thank you so much for having me. My name is James Klug.
While my primary job is traveling around the country, having
conversations with Americans about various political topics and issues, I
have had a lot of run ins with Antifa over the last five years. And I
do think that Antifa is a primary reason why many conservatives are
afraid to go out and protest and make their voices heard and maybe bring
friends and family to a demonstration and exercise their First
Amendment right, because they are literally deathly afraid. And I talk
to these people all the time, they're afraid of militants showing up in
black bloc and hurting them and their families. And I have witnessed -- I
have personally witnessed Antifa assaulting hundreds of police
officers. I've witnessed them firebombing police departments and federal
property. I've witnessed them making death threats against federal
agents, police officers, journalists.I think I've witnessed every single
person here maybe -- maybe not personally, but I've seen them get
hunted down and attacked. And so, this is a group that is responsible
for a good percentage if not a majority of the violent riots in 2021 and
2020 when Democrat mayors had kind of a hands-off approach with these
left-wing militants. Just as a quick reminder for everybody, we're
talking about dozens of murders that happened in those riots. We're
talking about billions of dollars of damage to property in communities
all over the country. We're talking about thousands of officer injuries.
So, this isn't just like some little thing that they're -- oh, they
punch a journalist here and there.No, they're responsible for a lot of
damage and a lot of people that have unfortunately died and are
basically suppressing people's voices. And so, what I do want to talk
about is to get this footage -- almost every single person in the room
here to get this footage, you have to go undercover because you are at
risk of being beaten or worse, you have to go undercover. You have to
film low key to capture them committing crimes. This is stuff that the
mainstream media was not doing and has not been doing. They'll show when
Antifa is maybe -- it's a little bit more peaceful and they'll show
when it's more mellow, but they'll remove the cameras when things get
violent and it's actually dangerous to be here.And I have personally
witnessed legacy media vans showing up at a riot 300 yards away, getting
out of the vehicle, filming for 30 seconds, saying something like fiery
but mostly peaceful full packing up and to add insult to injury, you
have Democrat politicians that are saying it's just an idea, right?
That's all this is. So it's just an idea. After all of this chaos, it's
just an idea. Well, that idea has threatened to kill me and many of my
friends that are here today. So, Mr. President, thank you so much for
bringing this to the forefront. And, uh, it's definitely making a big
change. I really appreciate you.Trump: Uh, one question, so why is it
there are numerous groups. I mean, Antifa is terrible, but you have
other groups that I guess probably are almost as bad or just as bad, uh,
not one other group was mentioned. I'm sort of surprised at that. Uh,
you just come into contact with Antifa. It seems to be that you mostly
come into contact with Antifa. Please.Kruse: There's a lot of overlap
and I would say that for instance, Jonathan brought up the Democratic
Socialists of America. They're basically the same thing. I mean there's a
lot of Democratic Socialists of America who are out there in black
bloc, you know, hiding their faces. And so I think we use -- and I do
understand. For the record, I do understand the challenge, as Andy
pointed out, with Antifa as a graspable entity, I do. Um, but at the end
of the day, when you look at behavior, you prosecute behavior, right?
We're not prosecuting ideas or ideology, you're prosecuting behavior. So
whether you can prove that this amorphous thing is Antifa or someone
has a patch that says Antifa, it doesn't matter, you know, did they
assault someone? Did they assault a federal agent? Uh, were they engaged
in rioting? What is it? And so, it's -- they're always using that, oh,
well, they don't call themselves Antifa, even though some of them
literally do, it's called Rose City Antifa. How long has it been around
in Portland, Andy?Ngo: Since 2007.Kruse: They call themselves Antifa. In
Seattle, I was outside the federal building and they were yelling,
there's no police here. This is Antifa land and at the same time
Democrats like our governor are Antifa is an idea, um, but yeah, I think
Antifa can overlap with a lot of other entities and
organizations.Trump: Ok, very good. Thank you.Sortor: You know,
President Trump, I just wanted to add this real quick because you were
asking which mainstream media outlet is the worst. What I think it's any
of them that decided to call Kilmer Abrego Garcia, Maryland dad.
Because when I'm out there on the street talking to these people, you
know, they call Maryland, dad is this, this human -- he's actually a
human trafficking, uh, uh, MS-13 gang member that's illegally in the
country. But the amount of people on the street that I spoke with that
thought that he was a US citizen that was being deported to Uganda is --
is dangerous. These people genuinely believe based on what comes out of
the, the garbage standing over here that you guys are deporting US
citizens. So that's what's causing these problems.Trump: That's also
when you have a governor like, uh, Pritzker in Chicago where you have,
uh, Illinois, which is in a lot of trouble. Chicago's there, you know,
potentially great city. Again, it's not great now, but it could be great
again. That's why we have to get there soon because eventually you
can't do that. Um, what makes a man like that say that things are
wonderful.? Why doesn't he say we love that President Trump is going to
come and help us clean up Chicago and make it safe again as opposed to
fighting us and pretending that there weren't 50 murders and 200
shootings and all of that? Why? Uh, why is that? Uh, go ahead,
Nick.Sortor: Despite you -- despite you despite the administration,
that's -- that's simply what it's about at this point because you know,
if you go and talk to some of these citizens -- like, I'll use Portland
as an example, again because I've been there for so long now. You talk
to the neighbors that live in the apartments next door to the ICE
facility. They are -- they there are veterans with PTSD that live there
and they're here all night long, screaming, fireworks being lit off by
these rioters. Children crying because they can't sleep at night and
they're scared of -- of -- of all the noise outside and they can't
leave, they can't -- I -- they got a lease, you can't just just
leave.These people aren't wealthy individuals and that's one of the
major problems and these people are afraid to come out and speak out and
they're getting no help from their government at all. They've been
begging for the noise ordinance to be enforced outside of their
apartment complex for months now in the city of Portland has ignored
them every single time. The victims are, as I said, they're afraid, but
the governments aren't doing anything because they -- they want to spite
the administration. It's all political. And the politicians make you
feel like uh like you're foolish like there's something wrong. How could
President Trump be saying that about Chicago and yet the night before
you see that you know, 11 people were shot, five people died and you
have them talking about like it's a wonderful situation. It's -- they
make you feel guilty.Trump: And a lot of people don't get over that.
They just don't get over it. I think they convinced the people. Do
wealthy people leave to or not places like Portland? Are the wealthy
people leaving People that can leave, are they leaving? Kruse: I think
that they're moving to the areas that have been gentrified. I mean, the
Oregon governor when she was saying we don't need Trump here, she's
walking around. It's a very tight shot. If you notice that and she said
Portland's just fine. You know, look at me and they'll focus on the
couple areas of Portland.Trump: But she was saying that and there were
explosions in the background.Kruse: Yeah, I mean there was a reason
--Trump: -- I mean, the explosions in the background, anybody have
anything else to say over here?Unidentified: Yeah, well, just a
second.Trump: And then we'll get -- should we be taking questions or is
it just a waste of time because they can ask questions. But well,
there's Brian, he's good. But you know what ? Uh, in a way it's a waste
of time because if you give a great answer, they don't put it on. If you
give a horrendous answer or even if you get a -- give a great answer,
they make it sound like it's not a great answer. They're very dishonest.
Go ahead, Nick.Shirley: Yeah, and I think part of that dishonesty comes
from what they see. For instance, I've never been asked to go on any
other show besides Fox News. My clips go viral everywhere, but they've
never even asked. Like, CNN's never asked, MSNBC's never asked. And a
lot of times when I go to hotels, I'll stay and I'll watch like --Trump:
Fortunately, their ratings are terrible.Sortor: They are
terrible.Trump: MSNBC is dying and CNN is dying like a dog and poor CNN.
It's so pathetic.Shirley: It is very pathetic.Trump: Do you ever see
their anchors in the evening? Nobody ever heard of them. Where do these
people come? You could -- I could take anybody off the street in
Washington, DC they'd do a better job.Shirley: And it's not hard to show
what's going on these days. You literally have an iPhone and you can
post it on --Trump: -- They don't believe in the star system, you know,
it's just one of those things, right. Ok. Nick, you finished? Nick, are
you finished Nick? Good job.Shirley: Yeah. Thank you very much.Trump:
Thank you very much. Well, you've been through hell, I tell you that,
but you're really incredible patriots, incredible people. Go ahead.
Please, Brian. Brian, go ahead.Question: I'm so thankful for each and
every one of you here right now and I'm very grateful that my network,
Real America's Voice has partnered up with many of you. Jack Posobiec,
you have a show on a network. Many of you, Savanah, have appeared on a
network as well. So thank you for being here. My question is
this.Question: In terms of following the money, I would just notify that
the City of Austin is clear to vote tomorrow to basically waive
$120,000 fee so that a No Kings, basically an anti-Trump rally can occur
in their city. They're bypassing the fees, rolling it to the taxpayers.
So my question is to you, what can the people of Austin, Texas do right
now to make sure that their tax dollars don't fund a No Kings
anti-Trump rally coming up?Trump: Well, you just tell me, I would love
to do something about that, bring a lawsuit, do something. You know, the
best thing you can do is have honest elections because the elections
are totally rigged in. So many of these places, you know, you take a
look, the people, they're all loving you, they -- they can't breathe.
They love so much every one of them. You don't see one negative. Then
all of a sudden you lose the election by 20 points. The elections are so
rigged and we proved that in 2020 more than any other time. But even
the last election, there were areas that I won by much more. We won in a
landslide, but I actually won in more of a landslide than we thought.I
said you got to get out, make it too big to rig and the -- fortunately
the people made it too big to rig. They tried, they tried. But the
biggest thing you can do is have honest elections and if you don't have
-- and you need great media. You need great -- you need borders -- you
need borders, you need -- wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You
need borders, you need honest media, you need honest elections and you
have a great country and you need -- and you need all three of them.
Yeah, go ahead.Question: [Inaudible] at times to allow these radical
groups that you talked about inside here. So thank you forNote:
[Crosstalk]Trump: I would like you to make a big deal though if they're
waving a fee, but I guarantee they wouldn't wave it if it was a -- it's
not Trump. If it were a conservative rally, they wouldn't be waiving it.
So maybe you can look into that, Pam? Todd? That sounds like a -- that
sounds like one for Todd, Pam. Go ahead, Todd. Good luck.Question: Thank
you, Mr. President. Do you have proof that Antifa actually --Trump: --
Who are you with? Who are you? What network?Question: I'm with
Al-Arabiya. It's an Arabic network based in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, but I
am the foreign puller today. Mr. President, you said that you might go
to the Middle East on Sunday. Do you mean Egypt and Israel? And would
you consider going to Gaza to see what thingsNote: [Crosstalk]Trump: I
would -- yeah, I would -- I might do that, I may do that. We haven't
decided exactly. I'll be going to Egypt most likely. That's where
everybody is gathered right now and we appreciate that very much. But
I'll be making the rounds as the expression goes. I probably will. Go
ahead.Question: Mr. President, just to clarify, you said you might go to
Gaza. You're saying --Trump: -- Who are you with?Question: I'm with --
I'm representing the TV pool, but I'm with NBC, sir.Trump: That's too
bad. Go ahead.Question: Well, just to clarify, you said you might go to
Gaza. And then the second question I had, earlier today, you said the
mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois should be jailed. Have you
asked the Justice Department to look at possible charges?Trump: No,
I've seen the law and when you have a group of people where the police
call off the safety for ICE officials, I've understood that, and I've
read it today in numerous journals, that that's illegal. What they did
is the -- I guess it was ICE, Kristi, right? They were under threat, and
the police were helping beautifully, and it was fine. And then all of a
sudden, a woman was on the line saying everybody move back, move back,
get out, get out. And they were given an order by the second person in
the police department. And the governor knew about it; the mayor knew
about it. I understand that's a criminal offense. Do you want to comment
on that, Kristi? Noem: Yes. Sir, we're seeing that kind of pattern
happen with local law enforcement and state law enforcement, not just in
Illinois but also out in Oregon too. In fact, in Portland, I was there
yesterday, but some of the ICE officers were telling me that as they
drove by the rioters that were saying kill ICE agents, Molotov
cocktails, melt ICE, that the Portland police were cheering them on and
had their fists in the air cheering on the rioters that were threatening
their lives. So, in Chicago, we had a 10-car caravan trail our ICE
officials and pin them down and those ICE officials to get out of their
vehicles, a woman tried to ram them and run them over and they -- shots
were fired to get them to safety. So, it's happening on a regular basis.
And any elected official that allows this to happen and gives cover to
those kinds of individuals who are perpetuating murder should absolutely
be prosecuted in my opinion.Note: [Crosstalk] Trump: Daniel? Question:
Thank you.Trump: And by the way, we have Marco Rubio. Marco, come on up
here, please. He's going to bring a little stability to this group, come
on up. Does everybody know Marco Rubio? Is there anybody that doesn't?
Some of the reporters don't. That's why they shouldn't be
reporters.Marco Rubio: Which job is he here for today, sir? Trump: Come
on up here, Marco, anything we should know about the Middle East? Rubio:
That's what we're hoping to talk to you about here, Mr. President, once
they leave.Trump: [Laughter] He's doing a good job. He was born for
this job. I can tell you. Daniel, please.Question: Thank you very much. I
have two questions for you, if that's OK. Seamus talked a little bit
about the money aspect of this. Do you believe if you go after where the
money is coming from with Antifa -- in regards to Antifa, do you
believe that would be similar to cutting the head off the snake, so to
speak? Trump: It would help. You know, I don't know that it would be
totally complete, but it would certainly -- you'd knock out 75 percent,
80 percent, 85 percent. These people -- a lot of them don't believe it.
When they -- I watch them, I say I can almost tell a pro by they're like
professionals. That's all they do, and they get paid by somebody. I
think it would knock out a lot of it, yeah, not all of it, maybe, but a
lot of it.Question: And then a follow up to that is a lot of the people
who we've listened to over the last hour, they've emphasized that
Antifa, it's not necessarily this big organized thing. It's a bit
ambiguous, it's disorganized, I think that's one of the words that Andy
used. What are the challenges of going after a group that makes it
intentionally difficult to go after and find? That could be for you, the
attorney general, anyone up there.Trump: Well, they're smart people and
they deceive. A lot of them are crooked people, a lot of them have been
staying out of trouble their whole lives and they've been bad from the
day they were born frankly. But these are sick people. Pam, go ahead,
please.Bondi: Well, they're smart, but they're not smart enough. They --
oh, my microphone's broken. They're smart, but they're not smart
enough. They have been covered by these liberal cities for so many
years. And that's why we're all working with Treasury, with all these
different departments to find the criminal conspiracy.Trump: I'm just
given --Note: [Crosstalk]Trump: Yeah, I was just given a note by the
secretary of state saying that we're very close to a deal in the Middle
East and they're going to need me pretty quickly. So, we'll take a
couple of more questions. Please.Note: [Crosstalk]Question: Thank you,
sir. I also have two questions for you, if I may. Have you given any
more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus to not only deal with
these insurrectionists across the nation, but also to continue rapidly
deporting illegal aliens? Trump: Yeah, it's been suspending
who.Question: Habeas corpus.Trump: Oh, I don't know. I'd rather leave
that to Kristi. What do you think? Noem: No, sir. I haven't been a part
of any discussions on that.Trump: All right, go ahead.Note: [Crosstalk]
Question: [Inaudible] in the ceasefire? Trump: This is CNN speaking, by
the way, so.Question: Are you personally participating --Trump: This is
one of one of the worst reporters that you'll ever see. I don't even
want to take a question. It's a waste of time. Go ahead.Note:
[Crosstalk]Question: How will you decide which workers get back pay and
which workers do not? Trump: Well, we're going to see. Most of them are
going to get back pay and we're going to try and make sure of that. But
some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they
therefore won't qualify.Note: [Crosstalk] Trump: Go ahead,
please.Question: What will the administration do to foreign Antifa
organizers and funders who are located overseas? Trump: Go ahead, in the
yellow, please.Question: Mr. President, so the Nobel Peace Prize will
be announced on Friday. You've been nominated by many world
leaders.Trump: By many, many countries, that's right.Question: Countries
as well as the hostage families. Do you think you will win? Trump: I
have no idea. I mean, look, I did settle -- Marco would tell you we
settled seven wars, we're close to settling an eighth, and I think we'll
end up settling the Russia situation which is horrible. 7,000 people
died last week by the way in Russia -- between Russia and Ukraine. I
think we'll settle that.Trump: So, I don't think anybody in history
settled that many, but perhaps they'll find a reason not to give it to
me, you know. Perhaps they will.Note: [Crosstalk] Question: Thank you so
much, Mr. President. Going to the shutdown quickly, what is your
position on the extension of healthcare subsidies, which is what
Democrats are asking for? Trump: All I want to do is very simple. I want
to get the country open and then we're going to discuss that, and we'd
like to -- Obamacare is a horrible mess and it has been from the
beginning. We want to make it better, stronger, even if it costs more
money, it costs more money, we want to make it better. The Democrats
want to make it worse. The Democrats want to improve healthcare for
illegals coming into our country, many of them coming in from prisons
and mental institutions and drug dealers. They want to give them
healthcare. We don't want that for our people because that's going to
destroy the healthcare that we already have. We'd like to make Obamacare
better, better for people, less expensive and better healthcare. Yes,
ma'am.Question: I'm wondering if you've been briefed on the organization
and funding of Antifa and, if so, what have you learned? Trump: Mr.
President, I have been and they have pretty good knowledge, but they're
going to have a very good knowledge. And I really asked these very brave
patriots that we're surrounded with today to let us know because I
think you probably have some pretty good ideas. And even if you're not
sure, let us know and we'll figure it out, OK, if you could do
that.Note: [Crosstalk]Question: Can you specify --Trump: You're from
Italy? Question: No, I'm from France. Can you specify how close we are
to the deal? Would that be announced today or tomorrow? And do you want
to see the hostages released before you travel to the region? Trump: No.
I think I'll probably go maybe before the hostages are released or
shortly thereafter, pretty much shortly thereafter. Yeah, please.Note:
[Crosstalk] Question: in the negotiations? Trump: Go ahead, who are you
with? Who are you with?Question: Center Square. I had the honor of
asking you originally if you would designate Antifa a terror
organization. And I stand here before you today and I'm echoing what
Andy said over here. Are you going to work with your administration as
the Secretary of States here? Are you going to work with the
administration to designate a foreign terrorist organization? Trump: You
mean it a terror? Question: Antifa.Donald Trump: Antifa.Question: A
foreign terror organization? Trump: Well, has that been done? Pretty
close, right? Would you like to see it done? Posobiec: Yes, Mr.
President.Trump: Do you think it would help? Posobiec: They have foreign
links all across western Europe.Trump: I'd be glad to do it. I think
it's the kind of thing I'd like to do, if you'd like. Does everybody
agree? If you agree, I agree. Let's get it done, OK? Let's get it done.
Marco will take care of it.Question: Mr. President.Trump: That's
international you mean, international. Sounds good to me. Steve, are you
OK with it? Stephen Miller: Yes, it's true. There are extensive foreign
ties, and I think that would be a very valid step to take.Trump: Good, I
think so too. Good, I think it's a good point. Thank you.Note:
[Crosstalk] Question: On the shutdown, we are now about one week away
from military service members missing their paychecks.Trump: We'll
always take care of our military.Question: Would you encourage Congress
to pass a standalone bill to pay our service members?Trump: Yeah, that
probably will happen. We don't have to worry about it yet. That's a long
time. You know what one week is for me? An eternity. One week for me is
a long time. We'll take care of it. Our military is always going to be
taken care of. Yeah, please, blue dress, blue.Question: Thank you, Mr.
President. Rebecca with Blaze News. I'm curious to know -- you're
talking about the money funding these Antifa organizations and somebody
brought up Roy Singham, I think it was you, who by the way is married to
one of the co-founders of Code Pink, this infamous left-wing
organization. I'm curious to know the administration's --Trump: Who is
that? Who is that? Question: Roy Singham, he's married to --Trump: Did
you say they're here?Question: No, he's not. A journalist brought him
up, but --Trump: Oh, I see. OK. OK, good. Good bring up. Go
ahead.Question: He's somebody who's been reported on extensively, and
I'd love to know what the administration is going to do to actually
bring consequences to some of these names. You mentioned --Trump: Well, I
don't know the name, but I would like to ask Pam to take a look at it.
You know, a lot of the best information we find are through you and
other people like you. So I'd like you to look at it, Pam.Note:
[Crosstalk] Trump: In the back, please.Question: Thank you so much.
President Trump, it's been actually very compelling proof that Antifa
did infiltrate on January 6th, dressed up like Trump supporters and
incited violence. Is that something that you would want the new J6th
committee at Congress to look into? Trump: Well, I've heard that. They
dress up like, you know, they're fresh out of MAGA, but they have
nothing to do with MAGA. And they make trouble and they try and blame
it. And yeah, we know some of that and we will be acting on some of
that. We've seen it. We've seen it. So I think -- you could stay a
little longer, but you know, the problem is although you have some very
honest journalists in here. You also have some mostly largely dishonest
journalists, like MSDNC and CNN. I think they're very dishonest,
unbelievably, like a waste of time even talking to them. But I have to
go now to try and solve some problems in the Middle East. Although I'm
very well-represented by our Secretary of State. He could probably do an
even better job than me, but who knows, we don't want to take any
chances.So we're going to go and do that. If you'd like, Pam, would you
like to stay for another five minutes, 10 minutes, while we have all
these great people? And I'll let Pam and Kristi take over and get some
good points out. I just want to thank the people around the table in
particular. You've been amazing. You've been brave. You're a real
patriots. You're real patriots. And at some point, we're going to have
to look into, at least in certain cases, rewarding you with some very
important medals and honors, OK, as we have done and will be doing with
Charlie Kirk. You know, Charlie is getting the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, which is our highest award outside of the Congressional Medal
of Honor.And I think they're sort of even, one's civilian and one
military. But unfortunately, the civilian sometimes is military also
because of what we have to go through and the streets of this -- of this
country. I can only tell you this. We have a great nation. We have a
nation that's right now the hottest in the entire world. We're the
hottest nation in the world, despite all of the things we've been saying
today. But that's going to make your job easier, because nobody's doing
better than we are. Financially, we're -- we've never done better.
We've had, I think, 58 stock market increases since I've been top, you
know, meaning record increases.We have never seen anything like it and
we're going to keep it going. That makes it a little bit easier for what
we're doing. I guess, maybe it also makes some people crazy because
they don't want to see us do well. But we're the hottest nation anywhere
in the world and we were a dead nation one year ago. I say it all the
time. We were a dead nation, now we're the hottest nation in the world.
And that's said to by every leader. One of the reasons that we have
every country already signed up, or just about to sign, every country in
the world on this whole mess we have going over with Hamas in the
Middle East and all of the things you see, is they respect our nation.A
year ago, you wouldn't have been able to get it. You certainly couldn't
have gotten it with Biden. He didn't know where the hell he was. But a
year ago, you wouldn't have been able to have a situation like this. So I
just want to thank the people around this table and certainly the
officials around the table because they've been incredible. They've been
brave. And I watched yesterday, Pam. And I watched a little bit, I
thought it was so good, I rounded up and I watched it late in the
evening because I thought you were fantastic yesterday.Bondi: Thank
you.Trump: You really -- look, you had some wonderful Senators, some
great politicians asking you very fair questions and you had some real
-- real slimeballs, but I thought you were amazing.Bondi: Thank you,
President Trump.Trump: So thank you very much. And Kristi, thanks for
the great job. Kash, thanks for the great job. Always my man down there.
He's the silent type, but he's a hell of a lawyer. Thank you all. And
we're going to get -- we're going to get peace in the Middle East.
That's what we want to do. Thank you very much, everybody.Transcript
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22
And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED)
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE)
those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID
HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and
the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him
glory.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the
stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his
vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every
living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord,
which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6
For they(False World Church and Dictator and baby murderers by abortion)
have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them
blood to drink; for they are worthy.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC
GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall
be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Hurricane leaves trail of
destruction across Caribbean-0CT 30,25-3 hours ago-Nick
Davis,Mandeville, Jamaica and Rachel Hagan & Gabriela Pomeroy.
The
scale of devastation left by Hurricane Melissa is becoming clear after
the record-setting storm tore through Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, leaving
at least 34 people dead.Although downgraded from a category five to a
category two storm, Melissa gathered speed as it swept through the
Bahamas on Thursday and is expected to make landfall in Bermuda
later.The strongest storm to strike the Caribbean island in modern
history, the hurricane sustained winds of 298km/h (185 mph) at its peak -
stronger than Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005,
killing 1,392 people.The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) reported
sustained winds of 165km/h at 12:00 GMT on Thursday.In Jamaica, the
impact was most severe in the south-western parish of St Elizabeth.It
warned of possible coastal flooding as the storm accelerated
north-eastward.Authorities in the Bahamas have since lifted hurricane
warnings for the central and southern islands, as well as for the Turks
and Caicos.The country's Minister of State for Disaster Risk Management,
Leon Lundy, urged residents to remain vigilant, saying: "Even a
weakened hurricane retains the capacity to bring serious
devastation."Nearly 1,500 people were evacuated from vulnerable areas in
what officials described as one of the largest operations in Bahamian
history.While flooding has disrupted parts of the archipelago, the
ministry of tourism said the majority of the country - including Nassau,
Freeport, Eleuthera and the Abacos - remained largely unaffected and
open to visitors.Across the wider Caribbean, Melissa's powerful winds
have torn apart homes and buildings, uprooted trees and left tens of
thousands without power.In Cuba, residents of the country's
second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear
streets buried in debris. President Miguel DÃaz-Canel said the hurricane
had caused "considerable damage" but did not provide a casualty
figure.In Jamaica, the impact was most severe in the southwestern parish
of St Elizabeth, where knee-deep mud and washed-out bridges left towns
such as Black River cut off. On the road west out of the capital
Kingston we saw minimal damage - some structures torn down, trees strewn
across roads and gardens.Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba,
was badly hit-But once we arrived in central Jamaica we started to see
how severely the island had been hit. The town of Mandeville has been,
for want of a better word, flattened. A petrol station lost its roof and
most of its pumps.Dana Malcolm of the Jamaica Observer described "very,
very slow progress" along roads still blocked by landslides when
reaching St Elizabeth. She told the BBC: "I was standing in what used to
be main street yesterday and I was knee-deep in mud where the road
should have been."Kabien, who runs a beauty business in the Santa Cruz
area of St Elizabeth, said she is staying in her house with the roof
blown off and flooding because the public shelter is too dangerous.She
told the BBC on Thursday morning it was "extremely traumatic especially
for the kids."She continued: "We are still at home now. Even though it
is flooded and has no roof. We don't have any options. I'm trying to
clean up. The shelters aren't safe for my kids. The beddings are too
close to random men. There aren't separate areas for kids, men, women
and adults."Satellite image along Montego Bay before Hurricane Melissa
made landfall and the aftermath-Communication across Jamaica has been
all but severed, with power lines and mobile networks down in much of
the southwest. Many families have spent days unable to contact relatives
in the hardest-hit parishes.In Black River, the New York Times
reported, the relative of one victim walked 15 miles (24km) to the
police station to report their loved one dead.Desmond McKenzie, the
minister of local government, shared the news that "amidst all this, a
baby was safely delivered under emergency conditions. So there is... a
baby Melissa".Haiti, already mired in gang violence and humanitarian
crisis, suffered at least 25 deaths - 10 of them children - largely due
to flooding after days of relentless rain, despite the country avoiding a
direct hit.The storm is also responsible for at least eight deaths in
Jamaica and one in the Dominican Republic, officials have said.The NHC
said floodwaters across the Bahamas were expected to subside by
Thursday, though conditions in Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola would remain
hazardous for several days.
Dozens dead in 'total devastation' left behind by Hurricane Melissa-OCT 29,25-14 hours ago-Gabriela Pomeroy and Nardine Saad
Hurricane
Melissa has continued its devastating sweep across the Caribbean,
destroying homes and infrastructure, flooding neighbourhoods and leaving
dozens dead.The impact in Jamaica was clearer on Wednesday, after the
island nation was hit squarely by the category five storm - one of the
most powerful hurricanes ever measured in the region. At least five
people have been confirmed dead there.At least another 20 died during
flooding in Haiti as Melissa, now a category two storm, tore through the
region.In Jamaica, people remain stranded on roofs and without power.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness noted the "total devastation" across the
island-nation.He added that "80-90% of roofs were destroyed", along with
hospitals, libraries, police stations, port houses and other urban
infrastructure.King Charles, who is the head of state in Jamaica, said
in a statement that he was "deeply concerned" and "profoundly saddened"
at the damage caused by Melissa in Jamaica and across the
Caribbean."This most dreadful of record-breaking storms reminds us of
the increasingly urgent need to restore the balance and harmony of
Nature for the sake of all those whose lives and livelihoods may have
been shattered by this heartbreaking disaster," he said.Hurricane
Melissa caused flooding and damage to buildings in Santiago de Cuba,
CubaFrom Jamaica, where the storm also caused mudslides, and palm trees
to be tossed like toothpicks, Melissa moved north to Cuba as a category
three storm, bringing 115 mph winds and heavy rain, and battering the
south-east of the island.Rovier Mesa RodrÃguez, a video maker who lives
in Santiago de Cuba, called the storm "terrifying" and described it
sounding "like a tornado".Cuban President Miguel DÃaz-Canel asked
residents to "not let their guard down" and said that the country had
prepared for a worst-case scenario, which helped its response.On
Wednesday night, the storm was 105 miles (170km) from the central
Bahamas and expected to reach the Bahamas region overnight. Hurricane
Melissa was moving north-east with wind speeds at 100 mph (155 km/h). A
dangerous storm surge is expected there before it moves further north
toward Bermuda.A tropical storm warning is in place for the Turks and
Caicos Islands and the speed of the slow-moving hurricane is expected to
increase in the coming days.Hurricane Melissa - what we know about the
damage in Jamaica-In Jamaica, three men and a woman were confirmed dead.
They were discovered after being washed up by the flood waters in the
storm, said Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica's minister of Local Government and
Community Development.About three-quarters of the country lost
electricity overnight.Richard Vernon, mayor of Montego Bay, told the BBC
that half of the city had been cut off from the other by floods. He
said the priority was to "check if everybody is alive".A resident in St
Elizabeth sheltering in her four-bedroom home described the moment her
roof blew off.Gordon Swaby, a businessman in Kingston, told the BBC that
his first cousin's house was completely destroyed. His cousin - who he
declined to be named - recently moved from the United States to her
"dream" house by the sea in the upscale Crane Road area. She lost the
entire concrete structure and everything in it."She wanted a different
kind of life," Gordon said. "She chose the area because she loves the
sea, so this is really devastating."Devastation was evident on Wednesday
across central Jamaica. The city of Mandeville was flattened and the
main road through town was littered with debris.Foliage was stuck to
everything, and bits of building material were scattered along the road.
The clean-up is expected to take months.Pia Chevallier, who is on
holiday in Jamaica, said she felt "sick with worry" during the storm
overnight. "The windows didn't stop vibrating."Watch: Strong winds and
flying debris as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica-In Haiti,
at least 20 people - including 10 children - died in river floods, local
authorities told AFP news agency.The island, which the country shares
with the Dominican Republic, was struck by catastrophic flash flooding
and landslides, which forced 3,000 people into shelters."Many homes have
been washed away on the coast," said Pascal Bimenyimana from the
Christian NGO, World Relief, in Port-au-Prince. Structures also lost
their roofing and people were clearing the debris with their bare hands,
he said.Torrential winds, violent rain and flooding destroyed crops
across the country's south.The US is sending a disaster response team to
Jamaica to assess the scale of need in the hurricane's aftermath.
Formal requests for help came from Haiti and The Bahamas, according to
senior State Department officials.The assistance comes in the wake of
the Trump administration's closure of the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), which was the world's biggest aid
agency, amid cuts to foreign assistance by billions of dollars.Melissa
is not expected to make landfall in North America, but will still be a
formidable extratropical cyclone when it nears St Johns, Newfoundland,
in Canada on Friday night.
How Jamaica took out an insurance
policy for itself, and why it’s about to pay off after Hurricane
Melissa-$150M US ‘catastrophe bond’ issued last year headed to full
payout, will provide Jamaica immediate help Inayat Singh, Anand Ram ·
CBC News · Posted: Oct 30, 2025 4:00 AM EDT |
For the past
decade, Jamaica has been building layers of financial protection in the
event of a natural disaster. Now, after Hurricane Melissa tore through
the country, destroying homes, roads and essential infrastructure, the
country's strategy might pay off — and provide a model for
climate-vulnerable nations elsewhere.Last year, the country issued $150
million US in a catastrophe or “cat” bond — triggered in case of certain
parameters related to how strong a hurricane is and where it passes
through.“They are linked to the central pressure of the hurricane when
it makes landfall,” said Florian Steiger, CEO of Icosa Investments, a
Swiss firm that focuses on catastrophe bonds. A third party needs to
verify the trigger, but there’s no question in this case the necessary
threshold has been crossed.Based on everything we've seen, the payouts
are going to happen.”Caribbean countries are trapped in a vicious cycle
of debt and climate disasters. Here's whyHurricane Melissa blamed for
dozens of deaths as Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica assess damage-How Hurricane
Melissa went from tropical storm to Category 5 in just a few days-Funds
could get to Jamaica in a matter of days. The country also has multiple
eggs in its disaster risk basket — including insurance policies to cover
extreme rainfall and tropical storms through a regional pool that
provides disaster insurance to Caribbean countries. Additionally, it can
draw on lines of credit with the World Bank and the Inter-American
Development Bank. "Jamaica's strategy is, in my perspective, one of the
most comprehensive of any country globally at the minute," said Conor
Meenan, a risk financing adviser at the U.K.-based Centre for Disaster
Protection. In total, Jamaica's Finance Ministry says it has about $820
million US available in financing to draw from in the days and weeks
right after a disaster. That won’t cover all of the likely billions of
dollars in damages needed, but the insurance-related financing will flow
to Jamaica much faster and help quickly restore the most essential
services like roads, health care and telecommunications. Jamaica’s
$150-million US catastrophe bond was issued in 2024 with the help of the
World Bank. The country funded the bond itself, while investors, mostly
investment firms in North America and Europe, bought it. The bond
matures in 2027, covering four hurricane seasons.This was the second cat
bond issue for Jamaica. The first round, in 2021, was funded by donors
and provided the country $185 million US in case of disaster. Jamaica
decided to renew that initial one last year.If a payout isn't triggered,
the $150-million US bond behaves much like a regular one, with Jamaica
paying out the full principal back to investors by Dec. 29, 2027, plus
interest. And given the disaster risk, it came with an attractive
interest rate of around seven per cent per annum.And if it is, the total
payout would be to the country instead of investors, depending on the
severity of the hurricane. It starts at 30 per cent and continues all
the way to the full bond amount. The triggers are based on a hurricane's
central air pressure and whether it passes over certain parts of the
country.That’s what sets this bond apart from other forms of insurance:
Rather than being based on the amount of damage or cost of rebuilding,
the insurance pays out based on the severity of the storm.This map from
the World Bank shows the air pressure limits over different parts of
Jamaica for triggering the catastrophe bond:“They divide Jamaica and
some of the surrounding ocean around it into boxes,” said Steve Evans,
owner and editor of Artemis, an insurance and securities-focused
publication. “Each box has a different central pressure that needs to be
breached, so the storm needs to have a lower pressure than those
boxes.” The central air pressure at Hurricane Melissa's landfall was 892
millibars (lower numbers indicate a more severe storm), indicating that
the storm was severe enough to trigger a full payout of the
bond.Disastrous investments -Losing $150 million US might seem like a
major hit for investors, but the impact on the entire market would not
be too significant.“We're talking about one transaction with a nation of
$150 million US. For a market that's more than $50 billion US,” Steiger
said.Most catastrophe bonds are issued in richer countries, especially
the U.S., he said. Analysts argue that the large bond market offers an
opportunity for lower-income countries to spread their climate risk. In
fact, they say the market has an appetite for much more investment in
catastrophe bonds for developing countries.“They do see them as doing a
social good. The investors I speak with are very focused on, still very
focused, topics like ESG,” Evans said, referring to investing standards
related to enhancing environmental, social and governance performance.
Jamaica's strategy, the analysts said, could be a model for the rest of
the region and other climate-vulnerable countries to access money
quickly after a disaster.They will be watching closely as the country
draws on its various insurance and financing mechanisms in the coming
days — an example of what governments can do to prepare for more severe
storms like Melissa, increasingly being fuelled by climate change.“Cat
bonds are not the answer, but they can be a part of the answer,”
Steigler said. “I would hope that a lot of people see this as an example
of something that can be assisting in broadening out the resilience of
economies around the globe, and also bringing people together to better
share the risk around the globe.”