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Really been exciting past 24 hours, I could say. And why is that? Well, what's been going on that has made it so exciting for you? Well, yesterday finally announced that I am officially running for Congress for the 27th District of Florida. And it's like I've been saying for, you know, since December this year is going to be different. We're going to do time for action, it's time, you know, you have been saying that, you've been very clear and this is going to be my year for action and you're actually walking the talk. It's great to see someone who actually fills in what their plans are and you're doing that. I mean, it's incredible that you've made this decision. How long has it been ruminating for? Well, you know, I mean, in all reality, I mean, I was always like, trying to figure out somehow I could make a difference and then when Sub-Site came around, that became my platform, that became where I started, you know, making a difference. Yeah, a couple of times in interviews, somebody asked me and I never really gave it a
thought because with my legal situation, with everything going on, I couldn't even imagine, you know, even considering something like that, you know, but after watching what started transpiring and, you know, dealing with my sources and breaking news and watching that, really, you know, the way the media wasn't doing anything and, you know, I start reaching out to Congress. I start reaching out to people and trying to use my knowledge of this administration. Some, because remember, I was, I was not like, I'm not some reporter that just reported at these people. I was one of them. I lived with them. I spent more time with them than my own family. And I tried to somehow make a difference and I would call different Congress people, senators, tell them information that I was receiving. And I was watching how, you know, it was really, you know, there was no leadership, you know, you know, you know, we had, you know, the democratic leadership wasn't there. There was nobody taking charge. You know, I would scream at the top of my lungs saying, with them, there's cracks, there's
real serious opportunities right now to stop this. You know, people are dying. People are suffering. I mean, and then I start realizing that there's the reason why there's no hardcore leadership is because you have all of these alliances. These alliances they have been built over, you know, over these years that, you know, some of these people have been in there for 20, 30, 40 years. Think about all the way they voted different times, different alliances, you know, 20 years ago, they voted for just think about Joe Biden. I mean, he voted for the act that put so many people in prison for marijuana and then he was the one that pardoned so many people from marijuana. I'm just giving you examples or not to try to say that it's true, but you have so much of those type of alliances. That's why you're seeing the things play out. And it was a difficult decision to make because first we had to go through a lot of legal barriers, you know, and I was to be able to build a team and that's why fortunate with the community, dying able to start to go fund me and being able to, you know, raise some
money through the go fund me and, you know, I was able to then, you know, hire some professional as lawyers and people to look into some of this stuff. And then we were able to, you know, when I got the answer that yeah, you could, we could make it happen. The next thing was then making my family approve because it was, you know, it's one thing talking is speaking true to power when you're sitting here behind a screen at home. That's another thing, especially with the violent atmosphere of the political atmosphere out there today and me being somebody that would be very controversial, somebody that, you know, I'm not planning, I'm running a typical regular campaign, I'm going out there to kick some ass and I'm not planning on taking any prisoners and I'm going to lay it all on the line just like if they say in football, you know, and to be able to do that, you know, obviously we're going to rattle some hornets in us, you know, we're going to rattle some, some people. But then, you know, when finally my wife turned around and I'll never forget, she said, you
know what, if you could put the right team together and, you know, because Aaron's already out there every day, I'm out there, she said, you know, I guess it was kind of, you know, God put us in this position for our family to try to do what we can to save our democracy. So, yeah, that's a good, you know, just there's so much to pick there and maybe I'll just start with the, the part that is most, you know, surprising is you're a MAGA Trump insider who is, uh, who went to prison, uh, who was indicted for doing some shady things for the, for this president. And you are now running as a Democrat, um, to oppose him and his policies and expose him with everything that you know. And that is a huge, wealth of knowledge for one thing. It's an insider track that very few people have, but it's also an incredible turnaround in your life. Um, you know, we've known each other for a few
months, but we've been, we've certainly known of each other much longer. You still investigate you. And so I know how much your life has changed from where you were to where you are now. Um, and boy, it's a huge, it's a huge shift. It's a, it's not even just a comeback story. It's a, uh, it's just a massive, uh, 360 degree turn. Uh, you, you could say that again. I mean, um, it's, I'm still living my life right now on the adrenaline. I still haven't been able to sit back even and really ever, you know, get understanding of what transpire in the past eight years has just been such a crazy, uh, shift in just the whole world that we live in, you know, and, um, I'll tell you honestly, it's with all of that, you know, with all the intimidation, with all the, you know, threats with all of the constant, you know, uh, you know, ways of people trying to discourage and saying that kept me pushing me even harder and making me understand something stronger because the one thing I, I could always understand is that
the people that were running against Donald Trump, you know, and even when I was, I remember like the last race when I was trying to help, uh, the Biden's and give them advice. And then when Kamala came in, I was trying to help her, but they wouldn't listen. Nobody would listen because they, they, and but I understood one thing is they don't know Donald Trump. Just think of it. Kamala Harris never sat in a room with Donald Trump. She, she ran against President, she had no idea. They don't know the beast. They don't know the people. They don't know what they're up to. And even like, you know, I started watching some of these campaigns here in South Florida. And, and I started realizing, I'm like, wait a second. We could flip some seats. Like, there are some very vulnerable people. Like one of the reasons I chose and, and I'm running for, uh, you know, the Maria Salazar seat, District 27. And it's a very, and we'll talk about it. You know, it's very, uh, Colombian, Venezuelan, uh, Cuban. It's a very immigrant, uh, uh, uh, district, uh, which is just like where I grew up, where I came from, you know, the Soviet Union. It's also, you know,
understanding. And they're going through such, uh, craziness right now with what's happening. And then as well at the past couple of days, what the, what Trump is doing with ice in their communities, people are getting ripped off the streets. And then you have people like, uh, Maria Salazar that's just out there, told him the line. You know, she's not disagreeing with Donald Trump. She's not agreeing somewhere. You know, so they're playing this game, uh, and people that real people realize they're getting hurt. And so, uh, uh, uh, Florida also is a battleground, not just for Florida, you know, like they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas world in Florida. It's the opposite. What happens in Florida goes as a very telling tale in the whole country, because it can shape whatever happens. Florida can predict to the president is going to be. That's for sure. It's such an important state. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to keep going, blending rugged muscle with precision engineering, all supported by Toyota's time-tested legacy of dependability. Step into a Tundra and feel the unyielding capability with the available iForce Max engine. Tundra puts out impressive power torque and towing performance and the roomy
high-tech cabin keeps you connected on the go. Or take a look at Tacoma made for drivers who push past the path agile, tough and relentless with available features like crawl control, portable JBL speaker, a power lift gate, so gear goes in fast and the adventure keeps moving. The Tacoma and Tundra are engineered to endure season after season, mile after mile. So drive one home today, visit toyota.com or stop by your local Toyota dealer to find out more Toyota. Let's go places. You mentioned Salazar. Salazar, but you know, the interesting thing for me is just to get back into the news a second. We'll get back to your seat in just a few minutes, but the Christy no news that she is being fired from her job or essentially demoted into another position somewhere else is an indicator that this president knows that he is in trouble. It's an indicator that the GOP know that they're in trouble because this is an admission that they've done bad in this immigration file, which is the number one file that that Trump ran on. I mean, ultimately, this is the thing that got him into power. So if that's the case and they're
getting rid of Christy no him replacing him replacing her right now with Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, that is really saying very out loud that there is a problem with the way they're running immigration. Now in a seat like the Florida 27th where you've got such a mixed community and it's so many Latinos there in Hispanic, you've got a situation where you're, you know, that that ground is shifting because those same people are being impacted by the immigration policy, obviously, as is the entire community. So it's that what's happening now at Christy no, he's going to run all the way down to you in your race as well. Oh 100%. I mean, just like even yesterday, taking a look at the pictures of seeing the Trump administration and Burjum, I said, you know, making a deal with Dalsi Rodriguez in Venezuela, you know, this is this is the Maduro regime. This is the same people, I mean, and they're still doing the same things and they're cutting, but you see the Trump administration cutting deals with them now for gold, oil, you know, it's it's in cutting deals with themselves, basically,
is what they're doing. Well, 100% and that's why they open and that's why one of the reasons why that district is so important and it's because of like you said, the immigration because that's a very heavy population than as well in Cuban, Colombian community, like just yesterday or the day before yesterday, Trump did a special mission in Ecuador. If you saw that region over there, you know, he's been attacking the president of Colombia, you know, so that's a very important and it's in a very important block because I mean, if we could flip some of those seats, I mean, that's tremendous voices in Florida, you know, to be able to go into Washington DC and do the work for the people of the whole country because I'm not just running for my constituents of Florida. I truly believe that we need more voices like myself inside of Washington DC to be able to destroy the cabal that is that Donald Trump has placed in there because like even take, let's take a look, talk about Christine Ohm right now. Yes, she might be gone, but look what he's putting in that. You think Senator Markey is better. No, it's going to be the same thing. Obviously,
it's going to be exactly the same thing. I think he's I think he might be worse. He's amazing. This guy thing wants to take a fight. This guy actually wants to go fight with somebody if he could, you know, I mean, times he, you know, he gets up in Congress and says, let's go, let's go at it. Like, you know, let me, this guy's a psychopath. So this is what I'm saying to you. So, you know, it's, it's, there's, it's not like one's replacing the other. Like I'm also hearing, you know, Christine, just the first block to go, you know, Howard Lutnik is definitely on the line and that's things to the reporting you've been doing in some of the uncovering that's been happening. And Pam Bondy might be next to as well. Pam Bondy not being in a different situation because she's, she's useful. Yeah, she's useful. She's too close and, you know, it's going to be interesting to see how the Sapina plays out. It's going to be interesting to see if they actually go through with it, if they Sapina and if she violates, because the interesting part is who's going to, if she violates, let's, let's think about this for a second. If she violates the Sapina, who, who arrests her? How does, how does that process actually take place? Wouldn't that top
blanche have to step back? I mean, I think she will, she will be there. She, it's just a question about is she willing to purge herself? Like she wasn't willing to purge herself last time when she spoke in front of the, of the committee or, you know, she was, she went very far. She was annoying. She ignored the, the survivor. She was just a terrible presence there, but she didn't purge herself, you know, at no point did she say the president is innocent of any crimes. She never said that. She's going to be forced into a corner at this, at this deposition when she's gased to give it. And, and that performance that she gives is going to be what determines her future, I think. I think, when you just said, it's extremely important. And this is why what I'm running in my race. And I think every race out there should be run the same way. We need to put them in the corner. They need to make, you know, because a lot of these Republicans and a lot of these congresspeople and senators are playing the line. They're, they're not supporting Trump. They're supporting Trump. They're playing the game. They're, they're, they're coming out saying, well, maybe this is no good, but then they're voting wherever he wants. The bottom line is they have to
pick a side. You have, we have to put them in, but that's what I'm doing with my opponent by saying either you're supporting Trump's policies, immigration's policies, either you're supporting him, ice taking people off your, your constituents off the streets of throwing them in prison, either you're supporting his policy that, you know, internationally where he's now doing corrupt business with the old Maduro regime, bombing Iran, going towards, you know, allowing all of this to happen, or you're not. And you have to pick a side, one way or the other. And that's what, that's the first step, you know, we have to stop allowing them to money the waters as they say it. And play these games in the, you know, and, and like I said, enough is enough. It's time for action. The seat is pretty vulnerable, right? I mean, you've got Republicans have held that seat before Democrats held it as, I think in, in 2018, Democrats were holding it, Donna Shalala and held it. She's Bill Clinton's former HHS secretary. So there's been, you know, it's been pretty evenly run by Democrats or Republicans over the years. Now, it's still currently, I think,
looking at, you know, at his six plus on the Republican side, that's where it's registering. It's, it's a fairly Republican district at the moment. Do you think you not only have the, the name presence to beat your, your primary opponent? And then also to just flip the seat, it gets, it's vulnerable, but it's not, it's not an easy vulnerable. Oh, absolutely. And, you know, nothing is easy. And I'm not, I'm not doing it because it's easy. You know, I would do it if it was plus 28, you know, I still believe that we could do it. I think a lot of those, those polling also come from Trump's popularity. It's my, my constituents is the rail, the rail where Trump's, you know, golf clubs is, you know, he would be my constituent. Just think about it. Donald Trump, we want to, we want them my constituents. And this is where he gets some violations that he's done. You can go, you can find him. Exactly. You know, Donald, sure. So that's why this, this district is extremely important. But also, like the reason why I was saying is, yes, it's going to be difficult because you have allowed die hard Trumpers,
but now, but also because, and that's why I think people are starting to realize a lot of these people say the reason that he lied to them, that he lied to them and that people like Salazar covering up for him, especially when it comes to Venezuela. Because just think about, yes, people were happy when Maduro was gone, but now they're watching, you know, their political prisoners are still in prison. Their families are still being destroyed. And you see Americans, you know, doing gold deals, they don't, oil deals, oil is up to 70, almost 80 dollars. They're probably worth a month. Yeah, it's going to cost them a lot. You know what I'm saying? That money's going to Qatar, you know, Qatar and who does that? The prices are going to go up. It's going to hurt the inflation prices. I hope that they could juice the economy by November. It's not going to really work for them. The, the news that we're talking about with Christy Nome, he's the first real loyalist to be eliminated from the cabinet. You mentioned Latnik, for sure, he's on the bubble there. I can't see him surviving all the allegations about Jeffrey Epstein, and there are so many, and his own criminal allegations
that have surfaced in the last recent while. But this is the, you know, we've seen the dam wall break here, or at least start to crack. The fact that Trump, who's Mr. a strength, strength, strength, projecting strength at all times, always deny anything, the fact that he's admitting, essentially, that his cabinet secretaries are not doing the job that they should be doing. That Christy Nome not only failed in front of that, in front of her oversight committee meetings this week, but also has completely botched the job by calling these victims of the ice raids, the ones that would kill him and Minneapolis domestic terrorists. I mean, that whole play that she did during that entire period of time was so awful for his administration. And it's, you know, it's, it's the first big crack of what might come next. There's no doubt there. They're, they're feeling the heat inside the White House. I'm 100% and we've been talking about one of the reasons that's why I feel right now we need fresh blood. We need more fighters like myself to be able to run for some of these seats because
there are cracks that are happening. The one thing I do want to just mention when it comes to Trump is not pissed at her because of even what she did in Minnesota or the way she's acted. What I'm hearing, he's more pissed that she got caught with Cory Lewandowski. And that whole fiasco, because one of the things that's very important, when you say, when you said that, Pam Bondi didn't purge herself, so didn't, uh, Christy Nome when, when Moscow, it's poster, if you remember, and it just asked her flat, did you or did you not have sex with Cory Lewandowski? And she, she did everything except for say yes or no. And that was, that's the embarrassing plus obviously talking about how Trump allowed, you know, the 220 million campaign, you know, uh, uh, TV ads, these ridiculous TV ads that are just like, you know, this place. So she basically, and she was also kind of, uh, disposable, why? Because she is more of a sergeant on, like, she's on the front line. She's not somebody that is inside making decisions
and don't, she's somebody that was sent out there, uh, to go out there and do the dirty job and take the blame. She, you know, so she's not a Pam Bondi who's actually doing, you know, certain work on the inside, knows like what the FC files are buried. She's not like somebody, like a cash petal, that's on a daily basis dealing with them. You know, she was more like a tosy gabber, like he, like what he puts on your head, but like, I figured like tosy gabber right now is working in Georgia on these, uh, you know, election reforms that he put on. So, you know, if something blows up there and something goes, hey, wires, tosy gabber will be, you know, uh, somebody that will be disposable. Right. So that's because he had Corey Lendowski actually doing the job. She had Corey Lendowski doing the job. You know, Corey is not, uh, you know, he's a very dirty guy, obviously, he's going to history that, you know, you didn't know him quite well. Well, yeah, I mean, in the first administration, I mean, he was, you know, he was Trump or manager and they're running around. No, I know, Corey. Tell everyone what he did. Tell everyone what, you know, that he's rolling 2016 was huge. I mean, he basically helped
elect Donald Trump that first time, uh, that first industry campaign. He, he, he, he definitely helped a lot. I mean, him and what's his name? Uh, what's the other guy? Bo, Bo, Bo, David, uh, it was him Corey Lendowski and David, uh, boys or not, not the boys, but boys, I think he's the lawyer, not, not the lawyer, not the lawyer, where David, uh, I forgot his name. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Oh, yeah. So he was, uh, Trump's bad. I mean, he went over, but his problem with, uh, he drinks, you know, Trump does that and Corey drinks and the Corey also had a, uh, an affair with Hope Hicks in Trump's first administration. Nice. That's right. Remember that. Hope Hicks. Yeah. So, uh, Corey would, I mean, yes, he had, uh, he played a big role as part of helping get Trump elected, but he also was somebody that was, uh, not liked by anybody very sloppy, very, uh, you know, somebody, uh, uh, that was not very much liked and, and uh, uh, yeah, bossy. Yeah. Thank you. David bossy. I mean, yeah, right, right. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Somebody just reminded me. Yeah. That was awesome. Thank you. Um, you've, you've got a, you know, I don't got to go. It's just tell me a little bit more about your, your policy plans here. What, what is the biggest reason people should be voting for you, uh, as you run for our office here at the Florida 27 district Miami-Dade? I think, uh, first of all, we need change. I think, uh, we need somebody that is not running on one side or the other, even, yes, I'm running as a Democrat, but, uh, I'm not running, uh, uh, just because I'm a Democrat. I'm running to be able, as a new breed of Democrats, people that are out there, they care about what the people want. I'm running on truth. I'm running on facts. And I'm running to bring fresh blood in, uh, the reason why people should definitely vote for me is not only am I there for the people and I'm not for one side or the other, but for the people's voices. But also, I'm the only one in all of these races. There really knows Donald Trump and not only Donald Trump. I'm the only one that knows, uh,
Pam Bondy. I'm the only one that knows his inner circle. I'm the only one that was part of that. I helped build Maga. And I'm the only one that knows how to take Maga apart piece by piece, truth by truth, fact by fact. And, uh, and I think that's the most important part because right now, I don't think this race 2028, uh, is good or 2026 is about policies because we don't have policies right now. We have dictatorship right now. We need to save our country. We need to take our country back so we could get back to a table where we could sit down and start talking about getting our policies back in order because there's a lot of fixing that we need to do. Where do you begin? Is it the healthcare? Is it immigration? There's a lot we need to do, but to be able to get to that place where we could sit down and start fixing all of the things that Donald Trump broke. We need to get Donald Trump and all of these cohorts out of office to be able to do it. So that's the first step. And that's why I'm risking everything by putting my head in the race to be able to run for, uh, the 27th seat in Florida. It's, uh, I'll say one thing, uh, for you that it is not an
endorsement at all, but it also just speaks to your, uh, your ability to actually marshal political activity to actually find a way through Washington DC to get to the right people to activate the right things, uh, is, is very impressive. And to have that alongside your inside knowledge of what makes Trump work and what makes Trump tick and understand the whole mega movement, those are two, uh, skill sets that, uh, any, any, uh, house party would be thrilled to have, um, and it'd be very, very useful for a time when we are trying to run against, um, a Congress, uh, that is completely controlled by the president and, uh, and president that's completely out of touch with democracy and turning this country to dictatorship. Those are two skill sets that are, are hard to find and you've got the boat and then boat. So, uh, good luck with your races. Um, it's August the 8th. I think it's the first primary, right? It's the primary. August is the primary and I want to thank you, sir. I thank you everyone and all of our subscribers and followers out there for, uh, from the beginning, you guys have been with me and
I've been promising you I've never let you down and I'm only getting started and I promised not to let you down. Please go to levparnas.org, uh, and help with my campaign. We're doing a grassroots campaign, just like everything else I've done from the beginning. I'm not going to take any corporate money. I'm not going to take any billionaires. I'm not playing their games. This is going to be grassroots, just like we've done everything else. So I need your support. If you can contribute, spread it out everywhere far and wide because this race is not just about Miami. This race is not just about district 27. This race is about all of each and every one of you, each and every American out there that wants that's tired tired that their voices are not heard tired. What this government is doing and wants to get real change and I could promise you one thing. I can't guarantee you there's we don't have nothing in life to guarantee except death and taxes, but the one thing I could promise you that if you get me into office, I will be fighting for you for each and every one of your voices to make sure that you are heard and we could start getting unifying our country back
again. Thank you. Death Parnass, running for office as a congressman in district 27th in Florida. That includes Miami Day, Coral Gables, Kendall, Little Havana, Kibis Gain. Wow. Quite a variety of places that you'll be running. Lots of lots of good handshakes to be done in the next few months. I hope you like meeting the public because that's what you're going to be doing. And good luck with your race. Thanks for being here. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Take care everyone. That's left Parnass. He'll be one of those guys. You know, one day we'll all say, hey, do you remember when we and he'll say, who are you again? Left Parnass is really a remarkable individual. I'm not in Dorsky. I don't endorse any politicians, but I will say in the time that I've been working with him, here on Substack, which has been all remotely. I mean, he certainly is one of those people who puts his money where his mouth is. He works hard. He knows what he's after. He takes actual action. He just doesn't come here and pontificate. I think it'd be a great asset to the constituents
of the Florida 27th. But I don't know who else is running in that race from the Democrat side. There's probably a few other great candidates. It might be a big list, but Levescher has some name power and some really impressive skills. He's Ellie in here. Ellie's in here. Ellie, if you want to join in, you're welcome to join in. Just let me know because I am without Dean and I have to still do the five-stack, which is going to be made up as we go along because I don't have much time to set it up before we got there. But Ellie, I know you know well as well, but if you feel the urge, let me know. I'm going to watch my text because I'm not sure I can follow the actual chat here in time. So we haven't done the five-stack in a couple of days. Dean will return tomorrow. He promises. He's just busy with meetings. He apologizes profusely to all of you. And it's disappointing. He's not here, too, because I don't. I miss Dean when he's not here, but he will return. Everything's okay. He's just very busy with a bunch of other things that he's
involved in. So Ellie's running to the grocery store, good for you, Ellie. So let's we run through the top five stories of the day. We've already mentioned the big breaking news of the day, which is the news around Kristi Noem. The news that Senator Mark Wayne Mullin will replace her. He's from Oklahoma. He will run the place pretty much like Kristi Noem has done it, but he is a serious guy. He's attitude in the way he carries himself. He's very different. It's going to be much more getting, but getting the work done. Senator Mullin is a friend of Kristi Noem and he said earlier that he's going to give her a call because their family friends and he feels hard for her, although she has, by all right, done a terrible job as the secretary of Homeland Security, she has absolutely ruined the reputation of ICE the way she has managed that division. And then also on top of that, the actual handling of the day-to-day crisis in Kristi,
that involved in theapolis in particular, has been a pollic. Her coming out of that first few minutes after the shooting of Renee Good and declaring that the victim was actually a domestic terrorist is unkind of unconscionable and unthinkable and can't be allowed to stand. And clearly, the money spent on these ad campaigns, although I think Trump did approve of them, has been a problem. And the idea that her lover, Correa Undaski, was actually the one calling the shots inside the White House. Well, that tells you, sorry, inside the Department of Homeland Security, that tells you everything you need to know or anyone who is placing their lover in a position of power in her secretary offices there is doing her job, obviously. So it's good that she's gone. I think Mark Wayne Mullin does not leave much of a vulnerability because it's Oklahoma, so it'll stay red. He'll probably do a better job. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Let's get into the number four story on the countdown today,
which is about the Iran War Powers Resolution. So yesterday, the Senate voted 47-53 to reject a resolution that would have blocked Trump from further strikes in Iran without congressional authorization. Now, only one Republican, Rand Paul voted yes, Democrat John Federman voted no. So this is the eighth failed war power vote since June 2025. People in the in Congress aren't even calling it a war. Of course, it is a war. U.S.-Israeli strikes continue across Iran. There has now been this new opening of a fourth front into Iran with the Kurds getting the blessing of the American president and apparently had a conversation with the Kurds to start basically a civil war that would start from inside Iran by the Kurdish population inside Iran. And also across over from Syria, they're clearing the pathway to allow those Kurdish forces to come in from Syria. This is unconscionable that on top of the assassination of a sovereign leader of a country, they're now basically gaslighting a civil war in the region, which will be very,
very hard to stop once it started, is quite stunning. There's also war spreading now apparently to Azerbaijan, potentially Turkey could in trap NATO in that war. And also a thousand people have been killed since Saturday. That is a bad sign in Iran, obviously a fluid in food inflation is rising quickly. There are still supplies on the shelves right now, but who knows how long that will last for oil routes through the straits of her moves have also been disrupted. So a significant escalation of hostilities. Apparently the Americans in the Israelis still have much more firepower that they want to pour into the Iranian war. This could mean even more mass casualties that could spread over the next few days. Number three story on the counter on House oversight committee voted 24 to 19 to Sabina, Attorney General Pam Bondi for a closed door taped deposition on DOJ's handling of the Epstein records. Five Republicans joined the Democrats.
That's a big deal. So especially the ones that did join. I was really surprised to hear. I mean Nancy Mase, I knew she was going to do it, but some of the others that crossed over pretty stunning. Bondi will be the highest ranking sitting official to appear before the panel. It's a big deal because she knows the truth. She knows what cover-up is being placed and she'll be grilled by everybody about why that cover-up took place and how it was allowed to continue for so long. It's going to be very difficult for her to answer any of those questions because she knows so much. Either she goes in there and tells the truth which will be devastating for the president or she goes in there and avoids being parturing herself and just doesn't cross the line of lying but absolutely doesn't tell the full truth in which case the president will hold on. But all of it will be seriously bad optics for Donald Trump who himself will face a subpoena after the November elections to appear before the committee. And it just feels very
clear that the Epstein files continue to be a huge issue for the presidency. These moves around known are an indication of how weak he feels in the polls. The fact that we're now going to see the Epstein drip, drip, drip continue through Pam Bondi's appearance at the committee. That is a sign that the president is going to be under a lot of strain as he heads into the November elections and the Republicans try to keep their foothold in the house. The DOJ removed, this is story number two, also related to the Epstein files. So the DOJ removed it with health FBI interviews of the woman who accused both Epstein and Trump of sexually assaulting her which was approximately 13. The FBI interviewed her four times. We know the story. We've reported it here many times. Only the first interview was apparently released and that one doesn't mention Trump. So there's still three totaling 50 pages that are just gone. No one knows where they are. DOJ claims nothing was deleted but who knows where they are right now. There's also rumors of another 50,000 Epstein files from
FBI of the FBI that are set to drop but I've not been able to confirm those right now. Did you see Tills sold 200 billion in the company Palantir? It's a question from someone on the chat. No, I didn't see that. Although he has been profit-taking off that company quite a bit of the years that's hard to tell what's driving that. Certainly it's been a very profitable run for Palantir doing really, really well right now. No one does have a new job apparently. She has a new position. I'm not sure where in the administration I'll look it up in just a few minutes but she absolutely has that job. Yeah, Leslie in California is asking 50,000. Yes, I heard 50,000 but I don't know I can't verify that it's a rumor more than anything else but we are looking out for any new things that may arise. Now let's do the story number, which is it? Number one in the countdown. I think it's a story of the countdown and it's a story we've already covered. It's a story around Christie Nome and Mullins taking over the Department of Homeland Security. Trump announced on
truth social today that the current secretary of Homeland Security, Christie Nome, will be out of her job and that she'll be replaced by Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, the Republican from Oklahoma, effective March 31st. Nome knew Trump, sorry, known through Trump under the bus, under oath, on the 220 million dollar ad campaign that we've been mentioning. She lied about Lewandowski's role in contracts, cold-slaying Americans, domestic terrorists and of course Mullins. It takes over. He's a friend of Christie Nome but he certainly seems like a much more professional person than the previous incumbent in that role. However, he's also an MMA fighter. I don't know that, it was an MMA fighter. We shall see if that stands in good stead in this new position as he tries to tackle the biggest file, the immigration file of the Trump administration. It's a huge win if he succeeds. If the Trump administration can actually get this thing to work effectively, that could
save them the election. But if it continues to be this drip, drip, drip of ice, untrained Gestapo style, masks, police running around the country, causing damage, killing people, throwing people out of their homes in the middle of the night, arresting people and then sending them off to countries around the world without any connection to those countries. Well, that is going to continue to be a nightmare for Donald Trump. So will the war as the oil prices and gas prices keep increasing? That's going to have a dramatic impact on what they thought would be an attempt to juice the economy into the November elections. It looks to me like the oil prices going up may help Vladimir Putin a lot. They certainly damage America's inflation because the gas prices keep going up. It gets too expensive to drive, too expensive to transport things and all those prices ultimately get passed on to the consumers. That is the five-stack for today. A little abbreviated version. We'll have
the full thing tomorrow with Dean Blondell. I want to thank Leo Pernasse for dropping by and talking about his huge opportunity to run for Congress. And I want to thank you for being part of narrative and for being part of five-stack in the community here. We love you guys so much and the support you give me and everybody else who appears on these sub-stacks shows is so phenomenal and it really does give us the firepower to keep doing what we're doing, which is exposing the corruption, reporting the news through truth and transparency and absolutely telling the story of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, which I've been doing it through the Epstein files. Yesterday, so the greatest hi, sorry. Yesterday, we played the Hillary Clinton deposition. I've been thinking a lot about that entire period of time. What happened in the 90s about Epstein targeting the Clintons in what appears to be an intelligence operation in order to change the course of the Middle East peace talks, which ultimately went off the rails. The initial peace talks between
Arafat and Rabin ended when Rabin was killed by a right-wing assassin in Tel Aviv. And then the talks were picked up again by a Hood Barak, also with Clinton in Camp David. And you remember that Jeffrey Epstein and a Hood Barak know a lot about each other. They're very connected. In fact, it's argued and I argue this too that as a Hood Barak was the defense minister of Israel, he was also in charge of the military intelligence division of the IDF, the Israeli defense force, which put a put it made him essentially Jeffrey Epstein's real boss. If Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israeli military intelligence and Hood Barak was the head of the IDF, he was also the head of the Israeli military intelligence. Boy, that looks to me like a real subservient or a decent employee, employer relationship, which really does connect the dots there. Did it have an impact on the 2000, sorry, the Camp David negotiations? It's hard to tell,
but we know they weren't successful and they weren't successful because the Hood Barak was the one who walked away. That is the five-stack today. Thank you for being here. You are amazing and thank you for your support. You can always get my stuff at narrative.org, whether you're free or paid, become a subscriber because we get to spread the word. A lot of the content that we have on narrative is free and it helps. It helps just to spread the word around at this incredible time in history that we find ourselves. Have a great day, everybody, which we'll see you tomorrow on the five-stack. And thank you for being here.
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