Three commies going down to start 2026?! (01-05-2026--Hour1)

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Run again, I kid, I kid, he's stepping down. He's not been arrested yet. He's not been arrested, but Maduro has been and I have spent the last forty eight hours becoming an expert now in Venezuela. Okay, I am now a self appointed, self credentialed, self identifying expert on Venezuela. I'm actually not at all. I'm nor am I an expert on constitutional law and the War Powers Act and all of that, Okay, But I do have some some of the writings and reactions of people who are experts. If we are to believe the experts, and there are a couple of different angles here, I'm curious to know how people are kind of interpreting this, how you how you are thinking about what what occurred. This was Jonathan Turley, who is a constitutional law professor. Guy, uh, pick he's up at uh Is it George Mason University or is it Georgetown? I forget where. Maybe it's I think it's a college with George and the name, maybe George Washington University. I forget. But he has a blog that he writes on and it's Jonathanturley dot org, and he breaks down some of the the legalities of the you know, the mission to go and capture Nicholas Maduro and his wife picked them both up. I'm not sure if he's got another wardrobe change lined up. I've seen the guy in like six different outfits so far. I don't know if they just keep changing his clothes at every location. He gets to like swapping out his jammys for the sweatsuit and then swapping that out for another sweatshirt and sweatpants and then swapping that out. So I'm not sure what that's all about, but I have noticed it. So, Jonathan Turley writes. In an Extraordinary military operation, the United States launched a large scale operation in Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas is the capital. They use special forces, and they seized President Nicholas Maduro and his wife. The operation comes not long after the thirty seventh anniversary of the capture of Manuel Noriega that was on December twentieth, nineteen eighty nine. Noriega was convicted of drug and money laundering offenses and sentenced to forty years in prison. This operation will be justified as executing a criminal warrant and responding to an international drug cartel, which is a very similar legal framework to the one that was used against Noriega. So you've got two different questions here, right, You've got the the US legality, and then you have the quote international law. Right, you got, these are your two arguments that are playing out. He says, there is precedent supporting the earlier operation against Noriega, which will now be used to defend the actions in Venezuela. Okay, And I also have a write up by a guy named Jack Goldsmith. So Turley says Trump does not need congressional approval for this type of an operation. So this is related to the US legality argument. Right, what does the constitution say? Is this a dec laration of war? I mean, certainly one would think that, you know, flying into a foreign country, you know, killing thirty two members of the Cuban intelligence force that was acting as the security for Maduro, taking Maduro and his wife, and bringing him and her back to America to stand trial. You can argue that that is a law enforcement type of an operation and that the military was needed to provide protection for the law enforcement units. However, you could also see it as, hey, we just implemented regime change. We just toppled a dictator, a commie thug dictator, narco terrorist. To be sure, but isn't that a kindest sort of declaration of war? Like if somebody did that to us, we would take that as a declaration of war. Right. So, so that's one question, and then there's the international law, which I'll get to in a bit. So Turley is making the argument that no, Trump did not need congressional approval. He did not need to go to Congress and say, hey, we're going to take this, you know, kinetic military action, and Congress needs to vote on it. There needs to be a declaration of war against Venezuela. He doesn't need to do that. Presidents, including Democrat presidents, have launched lethal attacks regularly against individuals. President Barack Obama, for example, killed an American citizen under this kill list policy. And if Obama can vaporize an American citizen without even a criminal charge, Trump can capture a foreign citizen with a pending criminal indictment without prior congressional approval. This is a precedential argument. In other words, there's a lot of precedent for these types of actions that the Trump administration will point to to say these things were done before, not just with Obama and the overthrowing of Kadaffi and Libya or Bill Clinton and you know the war in Kosovo, Serbia. Right, his actions there or George H. W. Bush and the arrest of Norriega. Now, ordinarily, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and other international agreements require the United States to notify the embassy of a foreign national arrested and held in the United States. Which don't think that's really needed at this point. I think everybody is pretty clear what happened. In his appeal, Manuel Noriega argued at trial that or in his appeal, that his arrest violated international law under what's known as. The head of state immunity doctrine. So if you're the head of if you're the head of a country, then you have immunity and we can't do this sort of thing against you. But the district court rejected Noriega's claim. They rejected this argument because the United States government, here's the key, never recognized Noriega as Panama's legitimate ruler. And that is the same argument that will be made against Maduro. He is not recognized as the winner of the last election at least and probably not even the winner. Of both of his elections that he ran. In the Noriega case offers ample support for the Trump administration, which has had an outstanding arrest warrant for over five years. He's not viewed as the duly elected leader of Venezuela and has been tied to a criminal drug cartel. The action will also have a major impact on foreign policy. The Manro doctrine just became the Trump doctrine. I think. I think Trump actually referred to it as the Donro doctrine. This action not only confronted Venezuela but also Cuba, which was supplying the security around Maduro. Presumably Cuban security may have been involved in the firefight, which Cuba now confirms they were. Thirty two members of the Cuban Intelligence agency were killed by the Americans in this raid. No Americans harmed and none of the equipment harmed, which is a pretty big problem now if you've been buying your air defense systems from China, because the Chinese promised Venezuela that their systems that they sold to the Venezuelans would be able to identify, track, and knock out our planes, and they did not, So that's a problem for the Chinese. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past. While transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and art. Stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in nineteen ninety seven and min Hill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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He also mentions here at the end the impact on foreign policy, that this is a warning shot to the Chinese, to the Iranians, to the Russians. And Cuba. Cuban security was providing security to Maduro, but also Venezuelan oil has been shipped into Cuba, and so this is now a problem for Cuba. Although I did just see this story moved on the Daily Caller. At least fifteen US sanctioned oil tankers have reportedly broken the blockade of Venezuelan oil exports since the Saturday capture of Maduro. They used so called dark mode tactics to evade capture. The now departed ships had been docked in Venezuelan ports for weeks. This according to The New York Times, tankers in the group used techniques employed by the modern ghost fleet. The ghost fleet or these sanctioned skirting ships, and some of the things they do. They paint names of decommissioned vessels on the ship's hulls, so you see the name and it's a decommissioned vessel. It's not the actual name of vessel. They misrepresent their positions on the ocean they leave in coordinated fashion to escape the blockade. Four tankers, now about thirty miles off port, were tracked by satellites sailing east. According to the New York Times, these tankers did not secure authorization from the new interim government led by Maduro's former vice president. The remaining ships have not been located and are not broadcasting any signals. So we've got fifteen of these oil tankers that are on their way, presumably to Cuba. Legally, Turley says, Trump has the upper hand in this case against Maduro. He'll probably replay the arguments from the Noriega case. But the precedent is already clear there that the courts have not been. They're not open to this argument. This. I'm the head of state. I'm immune, so I can, you know, run a cartel. Now, Maduro did appear in federal court moments ago. He reportedly said, quote, I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still the president of my country. So that's I think his the first utterances, you know, for the I'm the head of state, I get immunity for doing all sorts of illegal crap argument, which probably not gonna work. But I went back and pulled the press release from twenty twenty. This was March twenty sixth, twenty twenty, so almost six years ago. This was the final year of Trump's first term, right the election coming up November twenty twenty, and the press release that was put out named Nicholas Maduro Moros. I don't know why. I guess that's nobody ever refers to him as Maduro Moros or Moros. Maybe he along with fourteen current and former Venezuelan officials charged with narco terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking, and other criminal charges, along with members of Fuerzas Armadas Revolutionnarias dec Colombia or FARC FARC, which is a foreign terrorist organization designated as such by the US government for many, many, many years, the US attorney I guess Attorney General, yeah sorry. Attorney General Bill Barr is quoted in the press release saying for more than twenty years, Maduro and a number of high ranking colleagues allegedly conspired with the FARC, causing tons of cocaine to enter and devastate American communities. Jorney Jeff Berman said the scope and magnitude of the drug trafficking alleged was made possible only because Maduro and other cor and others corrupted the institutions of Venezuela and provided political and military protection for the rampant narco terrorism crimes described in our charges. As alleged, Maduro and the other defendants expressly intended to flood the US with cocaine in order to undermine the health and dwell being of our nation. Maduro very deliberately deployed cocaine as a weapon. While Maduro and other cartel members held lofty titles in Venezuela's political and military leadership, the conduct described in the indictment was not state craft or service to the Venezuelan people. As alleged. The defendants betrayed the Venezuelan people and corrupted Venezuelan institutions to line their pockets with drug money. Attorney Ariano Fajardo or Shan said, far too often these corrupt officials and their co conspirators have used South Florida banks and real estate to conceal and perpetuate their illegal activity. As the recent charges show, Venezuelan corruption and money laundering in South Florida extends to even the highest levels of Venezuela's judicial system. In the last couple of years, the US Attorney's Office in South Florida and its federal law enforcement partners have united to bring dozens of criminal charges against high level regime officials and co conspirators, resulting in seizures of approximately four hundred and fifty million dollars. Again, this was six years ago, you'll recall. Also, they put a bounty on Maduro fifteen million dollars for information leading to the arrest and or conviction of Maduro, believe the Biden administration, and then increased that to twenty five million dollars. Since at least nineteen ninety nine, Meduro Cabello, Rondon, Carvajal Barrios, and Alcala Cordonas acted as leaders and managers of the Cartel de los Soles or Cartel of the Suns. Not like daughters and sons, but like moons and sons Suns. That name refers to the Sun logo, the insignia that is on the uniforms of high ranking Venezuelan military officials. So there is your nexus. Okay, they're using the state apparatus as a cartel. They go on to say, leaders of the FAO the farc A Beginning approximately in nineteen ninety nine, while the FARC was purporting to negotiate toward peace with the Colombian government, FARC leaders agreed with leaders of the Cartel de la Souris to relocate some of the FARC's operations to Venezuela under the protection of the cartel. Thereafter, the FARC and the cartel dispatched processed cocaine from Venezuela to the US via transshipment points in the Caribbean and Central America such as Honduras sorry Honduras by approximately two thousand and four, so within five years, the US Department of State estimated that two hundred and fifty plus tons of coke were transiting Venezuela every year. The maritime shipments were shipped north from Venezuela's coastline using go fast vessels, fishing boats, and container ships. Airship were often dispatched from clandestine air strips, typically made of dirt or grass, concentrated in the Apuree State. According to the US Department of State, approximately seventy five unauthorized flights suspected of drug trafficking activities entered Honduran airspace in twenty ten alone using what is known as the air Bridge Cocaine route between Venezuela and Honduras. Maduro, as leader of the cartel, negotiated multi ton shipments of FARC produced cocaine, directed that the cartel provide military grade weapons to the FARC, coordinated foreign affairs with Honduras and other countries to facilitate large scale drug trafficking, and solicited assistance from FARC leadership in training an unsanctioned militia group that functioned in essence as an armed forces unit for the cartel. That's the nature of the relationship that is basically textbook narco state behavior. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion, Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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This is from almost six years ago when they charged Nicholas Maduro and more than a dozen others with running narco terrorism from Venezuela through Honduras and into America. The indict There were a whole bunch of these indictments, and so I'm just going to run through some of the people that were indicted. Along with Maduro. Okay, you had the Minister of Defense of Venezuela, who was a general in the armed forces. You had the chief Justice of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. He was charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and then taking tens of millions of dollars in bribes to illegally fix dozens of civil and criminal cases in Venezuela. For example, the defendant authorized a seizure and sale of a General Motors car plant with an estimated value of one hundred million dollars in exchange for a personal percentage of the proceeds. Right, this is what. Communists and Marxists and democratic socialists. This is what they mean when they talk about, you know, seizing properties. This is what they're talking about, collective control. This is what they're talking about. And this kind of corruption always is part of the deal. Always. Who else here we've got But I'm not going to read all of their names, but Venezuela's Vice President for the Economy, Venezuela's Superintendent of Cryptocurrency, the former Minister of Energy, the general, former director general of their Office Nacional Anti Drogas, which I think means anti narcotics. Also former commander of Venezuela's National Guard, former sub director of the Anti Narcotics Office, a former captain in the Venezuelan Guardia Nacional the National Guard, I assume, former officer in the Venezuelan National Guard, former Vice Minister of Energy, former Venezuelan Air Force officer. All of these people were indicted again six years ago. Okay, Now talking about the legality. Jack Goldsmith, he writes at Executive Functions Execfunctions dot org. He's a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He's a former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from three to four, special counsel to the Department of Defense for a year or two prior. So. This guy's out of the bush administration. Okay. He says, here's the reality when it comes to this. You know, the War Powers Act and whatnot. Congress has given the president a gargantuan global military force with few constraints and is a wall in overseeing what the president does. With it, Courts won't get involved in reviewing unilateral presidential uses of force, and no country plausibly could stop the US action in Venezuela. That means that, in practice, the only normative legal framework for presidential war powers that matters derives from executive branch press as well as legal opinions. The Justice Department, if asked, could easily have drafted an opinion based on precedents and opinions to justify the invasion of Venezuela. Notably, as I mentioned the invasion of Panama, that was precedent right, and it's going to matter to the Venezuela attack due to an opinion that was written in nineteen eighty nine by the then Assistant Attorney General, Bill Barr wrote this up six months before the invasion, and the opinion justified FBI arrests in foreign countries under domestic law, even if doing so violated international law. Right therein lies the key, and that's why the DOJ went with the military. They were there, they took Maduro into custody, they read him his rights, they brought him back for trial. Right, they're treating this as a law enforcement operation. The military is there to provide the security to the law enforcement officers. The arrest was the primary justification for the action, so the opinion written by Bill barr Low those many years ago will likely be presented as the main domestic legal foundation for this action. There is another line of precedent that justifies unilateral uses of presidential force when it's deemed to be in the national interest. Recognized national interests include the protection of US persons and property, promotion of regional stability, humanitarian concerns, and all three of those could concedevably be invoked in this case. The DOJ opinion could also cite dozens of specific instances of past unilateral presidential uses of force, stretching back at least to Jefferson Thomas Jefferson and his authorization to attack the Barbary pirates the Muslims. That's that. So that was about our first war was against that was against Muslims. They were well because so what was happening back then was after like when we were part of the British Empire, the Brits were paying off the Barbary pirates, the jizya they were They would just pay the tax basically right, they would pay the pirates. So this way under Islam, I'm paying you this tax as a non believer, I'm paying you the jizia. And therefore you give us safe passage. You don't take our sailors into your custody and murder them, rape them, put them to work on your boats and whatnot. Well, when we broke away from the Brits, now we are not part of the British protection where they're not paying the jisia for us. And so when. Jefferson is, you know, meeting with these leaders and it's like, hey, what's going on here. We've done nothing to you, Like we're brand new country, we got nothing against you. Guys, Why are. You impressing our sailors? And they said, well, because you're infidels, and that was it. Like like our religion commands that we do this to you. That's what he said to Jefferson. And he was like, okay, send the Marines. That was it. That's how they got the term leatherneck, by the way, because they would wear leather on their necks. They would put neck bands. The Marines would Why you may have heard there's a certain aptitude for next severing among some people over there, all right, If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news, slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 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It's actually happening for attempted extortion, what attempted extortion and corruption? Will full misconduct, and here it is. What have I been This is the hook. I've been saying this for what three years? Maladministration in office as well as wilful and habitual refusal to perform the duties of his office. I've been saying, right, there is a way to remove bad sheriffs, and this is the way. Thank you. Representative Carla Cunningham. Now she's gotten a bunch of challengers now in her primary. In fact, hang on a second, believe I saw Josh Stein came out and endorsed one of her opponents. Yeah, Governor Josh Stein endorses Reverend Rodney Sadler, who, by the way, he's one of Reverend Barber's Moral Monday or guys, he's one of them. And so I pointed out, Stein is doing Roy Cooper right, Josh Stein is following in the footsteps of what Roy Cooper did, which was to primary Democrats that did not fall in line one hundred percent of the time with him. And so if you thought Stein was going to behave any better than Cooper, well this is your uh, this is your wake up call. He is not. All right, let me go back to the email. My gosh, I have not even done reading the statement. Here. Among the allegations described is and I have not read the petition yet. Okay, I do have it. Let me see here, I have it open. I'm gonna have to read this. How many pages of this thing? I don't know? Seems pretty lengthy. Oh, my gosh. All right, well I got to read that during the break. All right, let me go back to the press release. Among the allegations described as a threat made to Representative Cunningham in connection with her work as a legislator quote, no sheriff should ever suggest that a legislator's safety depends on how she votes. I was afraid and the intimidation affected me. This process exists for serious situations involving public trust, and the people of Mecklenburg County deserve transparency. Filing this complaint is part of rebuilding trust, trust in a fair process, trust in our institutions, and trust that concerns will be handled through proper channels, such as dialogue and negotiation, rather than silencing and bullying. The petition asks a judge to review the sworn allegations from Cunningham and other individuals describing additional concerns about the operation of the Sheriff's office. Under state law, removal can only occur through a court process and only if the allegations are proven right. But this is how you initiate the process. Okay, now I saw Also over the weekend, the Mecklenberg County Sheriff's office put out a birthday post. Did you see this? It was a happy birthday post to Sheriff McFadden. Thank you for keeping style alive in Mecklenburg County and most of all for leading mcso with pride. We're honored to call you our sheriff and be part of the best under your leadership. And so it's a it's a birthday message. And then they had a little video montage of clips of Gary not my fault McFadden styling, profiling and vibin dancing in various outfits and showing off his fancy clothes and his shoes and his watch. At one point is New York Yankees ball cap? Right, So that was from that's that's on the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's office Facebook page. They probably instagrammed it too. Yeah, so a happy birthday from you know, your employees. We love you, boss. Here's some pictures of you all dut it up in dancing. What else? I feel like there was something else? Oh, that's right, there was something else. Apparently the North Carolina House Oversight Committee has summoned McFadden to appear before it on January twenty second. All of this is happening today, Like twenty twenty six is fantastic. Already we're in the playoffs. I did have to be in Atlanta Falcons fan for a day, but it's okay, Like we all have our crosses to bear, but we're in the playoffs even though we totally don't deserve it. And now we got three terrible leaders that are hopefully like two of them like one's in jail, one's not going to run for reelection and may end up charged depending on how that investigation goes up in Minnesota. And now you got Gary McFadden finally facing some of the music. Oh my goodness, I can't. Okay, let me see here. Uh, I'm ri let's say I'm reading. Okay, So Carla Cunningham, Marcia Crenshaw Hill, Kevin Canty. You know who that was. Kevin Canty. We had him on the program. He was the former chief deputy of Mecklamer County Sheriff's Office. Right, this guy's got a long, decorated career in law enforcement in North Carolina. And he goes to work and then he leaves, like within a year, and he writes the public letter describing the way McFadden runs the show and calls him a narcissist and micromanaging tyrant and the like told him to, you know, engage in unethical behavior, use the racial slurs against his command staff. Then there's Wan Delgado and Brian Adams. So these are the five. These are the five electors needed basically to file this petition. Let me say here, okay, hang on, no close, I don't want AI assistant. Okay uh, I don't need you. This is a. Petition by qualified electors seeking to remove him. Since assuming the office of sheriff in December twenty eighteen, McFadden has committed a wide range of misconduct in office that warrants his removal. Misconduct related to conditions at the Mecklinberg County Detention Center and jail administration, retaliation against crime victims and good faith whistleblowers, retaliation against crime victims, misuse of official resources, including violations of the Hatch Act, Misconduct related to staffing and promotion practices, weaponizing the machinery of the Mecklemburg County Sheriff's Office Internal Affairs Unit against perceived enemies while squelching internal investigations into perceived allies, and threats against a state legislator, which amount to attempted extortion and bribery. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, my gods. Okay, man, wait, thirty two pages. Okay, I'm not gonna be able to. I might just read this whole thing in the next hour. I just might read the whole thing on there. This is, okay uh, misconduct related to jail conditions, all right, let me see if let me all right, we know about the jail conditions and the problems that they've been having there for a long time. A lot of people have been dying under his watch. Let me see here misuse of official resources, that's the part. Let me I'm scrolling to the extortion weaponization to do to do Kevin Canty's experience, Wan del God his experience, Brian Adams, the musical artist. Here it is Cunningham to previously taken opposite sides of a public controversy issue. This was cooperation with Ice. She voted with the Republicans to force McFadden to cooperate with Ice across the autovo for Republican sponsored bills. All right, House bill ten. Okay, I got some reading to do. We got news next. I'll be back with I'll be back with more intel. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 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