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Another Liberal Media Hoax | Episode 7 - 03/25/25

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我今天要和大家分享一个好消息:《大西洋月刊》关于特朗普政府泄露战争计划的报道是虚假的。这并非文本信息泄露,而是在Signal加密应用上的群组信息泄露。报道的标题本身就是一个谎言。 首先,我要澄清的是,大部分通过苏伊士运河的航运是欧洲的问题,而非美国的问题,只有3%影响到美国。这直接来自美国副总统JD Vance的证实,他也在这个Signal群组中。 其次,特朗普政府高级官员就打击胡塞武装的讨论,显示了他们对美国利益的关注和对欧洲国家的依赖性不满。JD Vance在讨论中表现得最为冷静和以美国利益为重,他质疑美国是否应该为了帮助欧洲而进行军事打击。 第三,将迈克·沃尔兹解雇是不公平的。左派从不为他们的行为负责,而沃尔兹只是与其他政府官员进行了正常的对话,而这些对话被记者意外地看到了。左派对问责制的双重标准以及他们试图利用媒体煽动丑闻来攻击特朗普政府官员的行为是不可接受的。 第四,特朗普不应该因为媒体的压力而解雇迈克·沃尔兹,因为这会为媒体进一步攻击特朗普政府官员创造条件。媒体已经利用这种方式攻击了其他特朗普政府官员,例如Matt Gaetz。 第五,副总统JD Vance成功地阻止了参议员们受媒体影响而反对特朗普政府的提名,这体现了特朗普政府对媒体操纵的抵抗。 第六,特朗普政府对媒体的攻击不予理会,这与之前的政府有所不同。他们不会因为媒体的压力而改变自己的政策或人员安排。 第七,左派试图解雇迈克·沃尔兹,而右派内部则存在关于美国军事力量使用范围的政策辩论。右派内部对迈克·沃尔兹的担忧在于他可能过于倾向于军事干预,这与特朗普的“美国优先”政策相悖。 第八,迈克·沃尔兹的观点似乎在发生转变,他越来越关注美国利益,这反映在与乌克兰冲突相关的言论中。 第九,对权力人物进行监督是必要的,但也要了解不同观点的存在和辩论的重要性。 第十,JD Vance在内部会议中表达了不同的意见,但这并不意味着不忠诚,而是一种健康的反馈机制。特朗普重视下属的意见,只要他们与他的目标一致。 第十一,杰弗里·戈德伯格是一个不诚实的记者,而使用端到端加密通信在政府官员中很普遍。 第十二,与特朗普政府官员相比,希拉里·克林顿和乔·拜登在处理机密信息方面更加不负责任。 第十三,FBI成立了一个特别工作组来调查针对特斯拉的恐怖袭击事件。 第十四,Indivisible组织策划了针对特斯拉的抗议活动,其成员与前华盛顿特区检察官马修·格雷夫斯存在关联。 最后,我将与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普进行一次直播访谈。

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The Atlantic magazine claims that the Trump administration accidentally leaked its war plans via Signal. The story involves high-profile officials and a potential hoax.
  • The Atlantic published a piece claiming the Trump administration leaked war plans on Signal.
  • Jeffrey Goldberg was allegedly added to a Signal group chat involving top officials.
  • The story raises questions about the authenticity and intent behind the Signal messages.
  • The Trump administration confirmed the leak but questioned the narrative presented by The Atlantic.
  • The incident highlights ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and media outlets.

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Well, I've got a lot of great news to share with you today. Coming up on the program, we'll get into all of the details of what to expect in the days and weeks ahead on this program. It's going to be truly massive. I'm really excited about this. Additionally, I really want to get into all of the inner workings of these leaks.

coming out from the Atlantic magazine. They claim that they have the war plans that were leaked to their editor, Jeffrey Goldberg. I will get into the details of this story, what it really means, and who are all the power players who are trying to manipulate you in the midst of all of this. That is all ahead on, which I think is going to be a really great episode of this.

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Let me just, we've got a lot going on. I'm in Washington, D.C. right now. I'm at the Rumble Studio. I'm connecting to the Florida Studio. And for the radio show, it's really, it's a three-in-one operation because I broadcast out of D.C., the Florida Studio handles all of the video, and then meanwhile in Dallas, all of the radio audio is coming through. And so if you notice a couple of hiccups along the way, all right,

Our apologies. It's just a matter of trying to work through a daisy chain of delivery just to get to you. But so grateful that we can. All right. We're back on. And thank you for that. Here's what's going on. The Atlantic has a piece today released yesterday. The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans. And even the headline is basically a lie because it wasn't a text. It was a post on an end to end encrypted app called Signal.

So here is the timeline of events. I'm going to break this down for you without you having to read this whole piece, although you're welcome to if you want to get your arms around it even more. On Tuesday, March 11th, Jeffrey Goldberg, the fabulous editor at The Atlantic who wrote this piece, he says that he was invited to a signal group by Michael Waltz, who is the national security advisor for President Trump.

And he was concerned. He was suspicious that this might have been some sort of, you know, fake, that it wasn't really the national security adviser, that it could have been some conservative media person who was trying to entrap him, to trick him into thinking that it was the national security adviser. So he accepted the request, but with suspicion is the way that he presents this.

Fast forward two days later, it's Thursday, March 13th. And Goldberg says that he was added to a group on Signal called the Houthi Principles Committee Small Group, the PC Small Group. The Houthis have been disrupting shipping in that part of the world by Egypt, the Suez Canal. And here's something you need to know about that. The majority of the shipping that travels through that area

is Europe's problem, not America's. 40% of the shipping that goes through there is directly related to Europe's economy, not to the United States. It's just 3% that affects the United States of America.

And that data comes to us directly from the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, who is inside of these signal text messages, these signal messages that Jeffrey Goldberg was apparently accidentally added to. I'm telling you, if there's any takeaway from all of this right now, as we're just talking about this big signal story, it's that you have adults who are in charge.

There's conversations going on here between Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, Mike Waltz, between the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, one of the president's top aides, Susie Wiles is on this threat. These are really, other than the president of the United States, the biggest officials in the country that you could possibly imagine, all talking amongst themselves about the best course of action. Is it in America's interest?

And what needs to be done about these crazy tribesmen, these Houthis who are causing so much trouble for international shipping. J.D. Vance, according to these messages, again, obtained by Jeffrey Goldberg, who was, again, accidentally added to this. J.D. Vance comes across as the most sober pro-America adult in the entire conversation.

J.D. says, wait a second. Can we think about this? Maybe we can put the brakes on this a little bit, because here's what I see happening right now. We're going to do an American military strike in order to once again bail out the deadbeats in Europe, the guys who never pay us for any of the services that we provide. We never get anything out of them. We're constantly coming to their rescue. Maybe we want to tap the brakes on this.

Now, I love this. I love that J.D. Vance is representing himself in this way. And he's not doing it as far as he can tell in public. He has no idea that these messages will one day very soon be disseminated among the American people by way of The Atlantic magazine. He's just saying it among the top officials in the country as they're strategizing over whether or not now is the right time to conduct these airstrikes on the Houthis.

I think it's great. It's a great message. In fact, in the end, it's wonderful that this got published, I think publicly, because it sends a really clear message to Europe that we are not playing around. Trump and Vance are not playing with them. It's not posturing in public. It's not just pretending like we're tired of them being freeloaders. It's JD Vance straight up saying it in planning conversations that he never thinks are going to go public, that we are tired of them being freeloaders.

In those same conversations, again, now public, you see the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, say that he agrees. He completely agrees with the Vice President of the United States. But in the course of this conversation, they all agree that the time is now to strike the Houthi rebels, this terror organization. So...

What ends up happening in the end is on Saturday, March 15th, they do strike the Houthis. And throughout all of this, Jeffrey Goldberg apparently was sitting on these messages, reading along, still wondering whether or not it could even be possible that he was added to a chat like this with officials that are at that level. When he sees that the strikes take place at the time that

the messages seemed to indicate they would. It was at that moment he claims he became aware that he was definitely a part of a conversation that involved very real people that were very much inside of the Trump administration. Of course, now confirmed

by the Trump administration. So that's the order of events on this story. It starts on March 11th, when Michael Waltz apparently adds Jeffrey Goldberg to signal. And then March 13th, he's added to this group. Over the course of the next few days, all of these adults have adult conversations about how to handle this terror organization, this Iranian proxy. And then at the end, Saturday, March 15th, a very successful strike.

on the Houthis, the terror organization. And so that's what happens. And then Goldberg apparently removed himself from the group after that, which created a notification letting everybody else know that he had been part of it in the first place. Now, apparently in Signal, he's referred to as JG, JG on Signal, just his initials. Not everybody went by their initials, but he did. He was JG. Other people went by their full names.

In case you're wondering, is it possible that the wrong JG was added to this chat? Well, yes, it is. In fact, the name of the United States trade representative is Jameson Greer.

J.G. So once again, to reset us, we've got this massive piece from The Atlantic claiming that Trump administration officials are being totally reckless. They're communicating on signal. They lumped in Jeffrey Goldberg, this ridiculous liar who's presented so many falsehoods in public in the past.

And we have some confirmation that, yes, indeed, they did accidentally include him. Getting to the bottom of that, super important. And then telling you what happens after that. That's what I want to talk about next. And whether or not anybody in the Trump world should be fired. The people who are trying to get people fired in Trump world, it's all ahead, honestly.

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This Jeffrey Goldberg character on the Signal Chat. Massive error. Michael Waltz should have never done it. Michael Waltz is the national security advisor, and therefore it's even more incumbent on him to be safe with data and communications, given that he has such a very important role there. But one of the things I'm seeing right now is a pressure campaign to an extent is mounting on President Trump to fire him.

to get rid of him, to say there need to be consequences for this. Now, let me just explain why some of that is occurring. One, I'm sure there are good faith critiques. People are saying, look, if you're going to screw up, there should be, you should be held accountable. You know, the left has this entire world where they don't hold anybody accountable for any of their misdeeds, so long as their loyalty is to the left, no matter what.

But then again, by the same token, if we're going to judge Michael Waltz or anybody else by the rule system that the left has created for us, why should Michael Waltz be canned for having an adult conversation with other government officials that a reporter got to see accidentally, but albeit it gave us a great perspective on how adult these guys are?

And nobody in the Biden era was ever held accountable for anything. So 13 troops, 13 Marines and sailors get killed in Afghanistan during the withdrawal at the Abbey Gate explosion. And not a single person was held accountable for that. Nobody.

Nobody. In fact, actually, the only person, if I recall, who was held accountable for that was a Marine lieutenant colonel by the name of Stuart Scheller, who came out and criticized the Biden administration and these general officers for not taking responsibility for their leadership failures.

That's what he said. And he said he knew the consequences when he came out and he said that. He said, you didn't put your stars down? You didn't resign? You didn't object to the way this was going? Who abandons Bagram first? What? You abandoned the signature military air base in Afghanistan? And then you said we're just going to leave from Kabul? It was a total nightmare. It was such a nightmare that many of our troops were killed and many more were maimed. And they have lifelong injuries as a result of that.

No meaningful consideration for them. And then, of course, when the bodies were brought back to Dover in flag-draped coffins, President Biden couldn't bother himself to be all that concerned with it to begin with. He just stared at his watch and insulted the families, which is, by the way, one of the many reasons you saw those families out on the campaign trail or at events with President Trump during the campaign because they support him. They were grateful to him because he was there for them when the, at the time, current president of the United States was not.

So accountability, please. I'm not taking lectures from the left on accountability. Also, I'm not really interested in giving the media a heckler's veto over President Trump's employees. Every time you play the left's game in the media, if you allow them to dictate who works inside of the Trump administration...

then really what you're doing is giving them a permission slip to scandalize every other person they can possibly scandalize. They're already trying to do it with Elon Musk. They've taken a couple of runs of dividing Elon against Donald Trump. They'll say things like, oh, Elon is the real president of the United States. He's the co-president. Look, we put him on a magazine cover sitting behind the Resolute desk.

They'll show in the goal there, as President Trump and Elon Musk have both acknowledged, is a ludicrous, cartoonish, teenage level effort to try and sow division between the two men, because if you can divide them, then you can conquer them. And so they laugh this off, rightfully so, having seen the media do this time and time and time again.

And if Trump were to turn around and say, OK, I'm firing Mike Waltz. And by the way, there's no indication this morning that that's actually happening. In fact, the president apparently talked to a reporter at NBC and indicated that he's happy with Mike Waltz and he thinks that the administration is going really well. And if anything, this is a this is a small scale hiccup. It's not that big of a deal.

relative to the major screw-ups that might take place. And so he's happy with Mike Waltz's performance. And Mike Waltz, by the way, in turn, is probably going to be eternally grateful to the President of the United States for sticking up for him in a moment where he clearly has egg all over his face. So...

If Trump were to come along and fire the guy, again, it would just create a permission structure for the media to get drunk on its own power again. We saw it happen already. Remember when President Trump presented Matt Gaetz to become the attorney general of the United States? Put him forward as the nominee to become the attorney general.

And then the media turned every waking moment of Matt Gaetz's existence into a scandal. It's a scandal. He can't be the attorney general. They attacked him. They attacked him. They attacked him. President Trump did eventually withdraw that. But that created the environment whereby the media felt they smelled that blood in the water. They had their taste.

And they decided we're going to do it again. And they did it. They did it. They tried to do it again to Pete Hegseth. They tried to do it again to Tulsi Gabbard. They tried to do it again to RFK Jr. They tried to do it again over and over and over again to the president's nominees because they had become drunk on the power of being able to get Matt Gaetz out of position to become attorney general.

That all happened already. We can see their behaviors. You can interpret their reactions to these things. So here you have an environment where I think there's a couple things happening. One, with the nominees...

Vice President J.D. Vance was instrumental in saying, no, no, no, we're not playing any more of these games. That's not happening. Everyone settle the hell down. These guys are making it through. This is the president's agenda. He was elected on an unreal mandate as every single district in the country went to the right. Every single one went to the right in the 2024 election for a reason. Massive shift towards the Republican Party. President Trump deserves all of the credit for that movement.

And the basic principle here is, yeah, the voters deserve to get what they voted for, which is the president's agenda as executed through his nominees. So J.D. Vance goes into the Senate, takes each of these senators one by one and says, hey, look, you know me. I know you. I was a senator up until recently. Now I'm the vice president of the United States.

implied, by the way, in a lot of JD's conversations is this. He probably doesn't say this, but he's a lot smarter than these guys and they know it. They know it. They know that JD has his wits about him. And so when JD goes in there and he puts these guys in a headlock and says, hey, let's do this thing, one by one, they did it. And thankfully so. So that's been a really big deal. And not letting the media get this ridiculous heckler's veto when all they do is lie and decontextualize and distort and put everything through a funhouse mirror before it gets to you.

At this point, if you haven't learned your lesson from letting them wield the levers of power, you're never going to learn that lesson. And so this is a Trump White House. I don't know if this would have happened in the first administration. If...

A national security advisor had accidentally lumped in a Trump-loathing pseudo-journalist like Jeffrey Goldberg. That guy may very well have been fired because the scandal ensuing around the administration would have led to that. But right now, it's just water off the duck's back. They don't even care. They don't even care. It's like, okay, yeah, you can screech at us all you want. We're not removing this guy. I like Mike Waltz. He's down for the ride.

There's another piece, though. There are people on the right who would like to see Mike Waltz ejected from the White House. I'll explain that in just a moment, what that phenomenon is about and what you should really know about Congress. Formerly Congressman Mike Waltz, now the national security advisor. It's all ahead on.

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We've had all sorts of disruptions to the show today here on Rumble. We still don't know why, but I am so grateful for everybody who's been hanging out with us here today. And thank you. I'm looking at the chat here. And look, oh, McLovin McGroin says, I came for the news. I'm staying to see your gains, Vince. You better bring it. Look, this is a great show.

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Love having you guys here with me. 53,000 people enduring the craziest tech problems I've ever encountered on this show. It's only been a week and a half. I will say, for those of you stuck around, I've got some massive, massive news coming up here in just a few minutes. I'll be sharing with you. It'll make it all worth it, I promise, in addition to all this great content. Okay, so Mike Waltz is the National Security Advisor.

And there is an effort on the left to get him fired because they just want to sow chaos. They just want to fire that guy, fire that guy. We hate everybody who's involved in the Trump administration. Got it. You don't get the heckler's veto. Get out.

uh nobody nobody supports you nobody watches you nobody consumes you and those numbers are dwindling all over the place which is why they're acting like such lunatics they're pooping on teslas and attacking tesla dealerships right now uh because they don't know what else to do that their their emotional incontinence is literally overflowing so that that's one that's the left you know on the right you have i would say i don't think these are bad faith attempts i think these are genuinely good faith attempts but

One of the clearest things you're watching going on right now on the right, there is real policy debates about how much we use military force all over the planet and for what purposes. Should we go into foreign conflicts? If there's even a negligible American interest there, and for instance, like opening up

shipping lanes where we only have 3% of American shipping, does that count as a full-blown American interest or a marginal American interest? J.D. Vance raised all of this in these conversations with these top officials, and he's right to bring it up. It's a smart and interesting conversation, and it's centered on, thank God, what's good for the United States, what's good for the people who live here. And so there are some on the right who want to see Mike Waltz fired.

Now, the predicate for this is merely that, well, he was irresponsible with national security. He lumped in Jeffrey Goldberg to the signal chat, and therefore there should be consequences for that. And I understand that. But let me uncork a little bit what the greater concern about Mike Waltz is. Mike Waltz, up until recently, was a congressman from Florida.

And he has been for a couple of years. And in that role, he was known as typically, insofar as you categorize people, as typically more of a neoconservative type of guy.

More inclined for American military action, more willing to engage around the world on the thinnest possible pretext potentially for American involvement. That's his reputation in Washington. And as a result, there are people on the right who are concerned that he's the kind of guy who's going to get us deeper into some of these messes rather than have that America first focus involved.

that the Trump administration was clearly elected on. So that's one of the fights that's actually going on, sort of, I would say, behind the scenes, but certainly out in the open if you are following along Mike Waltz's career.

Now, I have had the opportunity to interview Congressman Waltz over the course of the years. And let me just tell you about a transformation or at least directionally the way I think things changed with him. A couple of years ago, when the conflict in Ukraine began, Congressman Waltz was one of the people that you could sort of

reliably expect to not say much in public that suggested we should scrutinize the way all of this money is going to Ukraine he was he was kind of open to it the I I don't want to put too many words into his mouth but he was basically originally kind of a blank check guy for Ukraine uh and you know whatever is necessary they've got to stop the Russians they've got to thwart the Russian invasion this is good we need to stand in support of Ukraine that kind of stuff

But as I talked to him over time and I would ask him questions, well, wait a second. And truly this, I literally had conversations with him on air in Washington, D.C. during my afternoon drive radio show.

I would ask him, "Wait a second, aren't you concerned at all about how this money is being spent? What about the accountability for all of the cash we're sending over? What about the fact that American stockpiles seem to be dwindling in an effort to service this war? What is the end state?" Maybe you were asking this too. I've been asking this since the very beginning as the United States has been involved. "What is the end state of that conflict?"

What is it supposed to look like? Is it going to be, do they really think they're going to get Russia out all the way back to the pre-2014 borders? They're going to eject them from Crimea? Is that really what the game plan is? What does victory look like here? When do we say we have achieved what we set out to achieve? And Washington never gave clear answers on that subject, ever.

And as our conversations through the years were on, Congressman Waltz seemed to be coming a lot closer to my view of this, which was an immense amount of skepticism about whether it was even worth sending all of these American resources there at the expense of so many lives.

Isn't it completely tragic how many people have been killed? Estimates of over a million, if not deaths, certainly casualties between both Russia and Ukraine with no clear end in sight. Ukrainians being used as cannon fodder to advance an American foreign policy agenda that we are told is to grind down the Russian military and their ability to project their power, when in fact that hasn't really happened, has it? Russia's...

monetary structure is as strong as it's ever been. It's only improved. They continue to have all sorts of exports. In fact, the exports of their energy are going to some of the worst places in the world. Certainly our adversaries like China are buying a great deal of it. We're creating tighter alliances between...

China and Russia and North Korea, North Koreans on the battlefield fighting with the Russians against Ukraine and Iran. What are we doing? How is this serving American interests exactly? And so the perspective I want to give you is one of at least some optimism about Congressman now National Security Advisor Waltz, which is I think he paid attention to you.

He paid attention to what you care about. He paid attention to the president and what he ran on. And as a result, President Trump chose someone who he believes is going to be the best possible person to give him advice in that role.

as national security advisor. So some of this involves just having some trust in the guy you elected, Donald Trump. The other piece is to just keep an eye on everybody. Anybody who has a position of power deserves to have scrutiny. But you also deserve to know what the actual fights are about right now. And so when you see some of this, like, hey, Mike Waltz needs to go, coming from the right, people you like and you trust, some of that is merely animated by their distrustful of his...

foreign policy adventurism. They don't want to be engaged in conflicts that don't directly benefit America. That's what they're on guard for. Last thing I'll say about Mike Walts and the role that somebody who thinks like him plays.

It's not the worst thing in the world to have people who disagree in the same room together. It's not. You're allowed to have different views on these subjects. In fact, that is typically what improves your ability to think these issues through and talk about them and engage in debate on the subject. So having a guy like Mike Waltz around, not everyone needs to be in complete lockstep. In fact, if you read the messages, and I encourage you to, go read the Atlantic piece, read through these messages, these signal messages.

between these guys. You walk away impressed by the fact that not everybody's walking in lockstep. They are clearly working together as a team. They're happy to collaborate. They're happy to kick things around. They really are engaging in some real debates. And in the end, trying to navigate towards exactly what best executes the president's vision, which is, of course, what you voted for. That's what you want.

And and again, I can't I can't sing J.D. Vance's praises enough here. J.D. at one point indicates that, look, I think maybe we should delay this strike and we should, you know, make the case that Europe needs to step up more here for its own defense to get its shipping lanes open. Why does the United States have to keep on rescuing them? But he says, but whatever this group in the end decides to do, I'll go along with it and I'll be a public advocate for it.

This is being treated right now by the left-wing press as some sort of duplicity on the part of J.D. Vance. Oh, look, he disagrees with the president. I'm sorry.

If you're having a behind closed doors conversation about what to recommend to the president, you're more than entitled to recommend something that he didn't think of in the first place or that he might want to consider. In fact, that's what you would expect out of anybody in a healthy organization that's trying to navigate towards the best outcome. You want people who are subordinate to the leaders to come forward and say, hey, sir, I've thought about this and I just want you to know,

Here are some of the complexities. Here are some of the things you should consider, perhaps if you haven't.

and get that kind of feedback. That's healthy. It's not healthy if you live in an organization where everybody's just, you know, completely genuflecting to one person's vision and never at all offering helpful criticism in order to improve the outcome here. And President Trump, to his great credit, I'll tell you this, one thing, if I've learned anything from the people who've worked with him successfully over the years, even if fundamentally what Trump wants is you to be goal-oriented. If you share his goals,

He's happy. He's happy with you. He's pleased to have you with him. And it's the how to get there.

That's the thing that he doesn't really care in the end. He just wants to make sure that we can take the best possible. We have to get to the best possible outcome. So if you have a different idea, a different path for how to get to that outcome, whether it's closing the border or stopping the fentanyl, stopping the threats to America, growing the economy, correcting our trade imbalances, whatever it is that you those goals might be. Trump values input.

where you step forward and say, hey, look, I'm on board with you here. I have a different strategy. Can we talk about it? And he's like, I'm game. I'll listen. You've been able to tell that, right? Trump's a listener. Everyone thinks he just keeps going. He's a listener. He's good. So I think this is all fascinating what's happening here with this wild story out of the Atlantic.

You know, just remember Jeffrey Goldberg. He's he's lied over and over and over again about so many things. He's been very deceitful. He's he's he lied about like the suckers and losers hoax. He he's just lied about so much. And in fact, he would go on national television. He would tell these lies and then he would come out later and say, yeah, I'm going to have people. Are they going to corroborate it? Eventually they're coming out in the next few days. They never came out. They never came out.

um but here you clearly had um jeffrey goldberg added to this signal chat and also on the fact that they're using this end-to-end encrypted chat it can happen for a number of reasons but let me just once again in so far as i'm telling you some washington secrets today

Everybody does this. Let me just clear the air on this particular thing. Every senator you're aware of, every congressman you're aware of, every government official in the executive branch, everybody is doing this. They're using end-to-end encryption to talk to one another. Now, there's nothing in the chats that we've seen so far. I mean, you had Pete Hegsteth himself that came out. He was like, there's no war plans here. The White House came out and said, there's no war plans here. This is not top-secret information.

Are they sensitive? Well, yeah, for sure. Are they the kinds of things that these officials want to do on an encrypted platform? Definitely. But the idea that this is somehow exceptional is preposterous, especially in a world where

where, once again, you're going to get these lectures from the left, where Hillary Clinton sets up a server in her bathroom in New York and then conducts government business with an explicit intent of keeping it away from you, mishandles classified information. Even James Comey was willing to admit that in public over and over and over again, spare us the lectures. And I saw Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton's out there tweeting right now. She was tweeting about how reckless this is. Please, she's textbook reckless.

You know, what about Joe Biden? Joe Biden stole classified documents when he was a United States senator and then subsequently as vice president of the United States and then kept them all in his garage next to his classic Corvette, lumped up piles of paper next to old empty oil containers. It was like...

It's insane. It's totally insane. These people aren't good at handling classified information. They're thieves. They went out of their way to steal classified information. Meanwhile, Trump officials, even in their unseen secret conversations, the stuff that's not for public dissemination, are reflecting very, very well on themselves.

I do have a quick FBI update for you today as well before I get to the big, big news for this program coming up in just a moment. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the FBI have launched a task force to target all of these anti-Tesla terrorists around the country. So you've got left-wingers who have been left-wing terrorists who are leading attacks, probably

probably disproportionately on Democrats who own Teslas. That's how crazy all of this is. But it's meant to turn you against Elon Musk and this great company that he's responsible for, Tesla. Now, in terms of what's actually happening with Tesla, it's not working because...

The Tesla share price absolutely skyrocketed yesterday. People, I think they started to realize, wait a second, this thing's way undervalued right now. This is ridiculous what's happening on the market. So in just the last week alone, I'm looking right now at this very moment, 10.51 a.m. Eastern time. Just in the past week, Tesla's stock price has gone up 18.59%.

It's exploded upwards. I think people are, the spell is wearing off. The scandal that the left is creating around Tesla isn't really having the effect that the left wanted it to. And there's a lot of money going into this. There's groups like Indivisible who are funding these, they call them protests. They're like, oh, it's nonviolent, but obviously they're creating these permission structures for people to go out and attack Teslas and think they're on the right side of history. That's their phrasing, the right side of history.

So Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, they've launched an FBI task force to investigate all of this domestic terrorism. They've received reports of 48 instances, according to the New York Post, so far this month related to Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations. And they're investigating at least seven of them in conjunction with local law enforcement.

The agency's newly formed 10-person task force is going to deploy ATF personnel, special agents, and intelligence analysts.

from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives in the Treasury Department and personnel from the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, including its Domestic Terrorism Operations Section and Weapons of Mass Destruction. So they're sending everybody out there. So no more targeting Donald Trump supporters, but instead going after the people who are leading terror attacks on American car owners, which are lots of Americans.

who are very concerned right now about all of this. The FBI Director Kash Patel saying this week on X, quote, the FBI has been investigating the increase in violent activity towards Tesla, and over the last few days, we've taken additional steps to crack down and coordinate our response. This is domestic terrorism. Those responsible will be pursued, caught, and brought to justice. And our friend Dan Bongino, the FBI Deputy Director, saying this, as of this morning, today is March 25th.

And if you are considering an act of domestic terrorism, then no, we will hunt you down and we will find you. Words from our buddy, the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino. And this Indivisible group that's involved in planning all of these anti-Tesla protests all across the country, more on the way. Apparently, they've got a big nationwide one scheduled for the beginning of April, but

There's a reporter by the name of Natalie Winters who has indicated in her reporting that she discovered that the website for Indivisible has been deleting the biographies of its board members. And one of the board members...

for Indivisible is a woman by the name of Fatima Goss Graves is her name, Fatima Goss Graves. For those of you from the DC area, you may be familiar with that last name. Actually, for those of you from across the country, you may be familiar with that last name, Graves. She is the wife of former DC U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves. Matthew Graves is the U.S. Attorney in DC who was leading the

I think all of, or almost all of, the prosecutions against the January 6th detainees. He's the guy who is destroying the lives of Trump supporters. Meanwhile, 70% of the arrests that occurred in the District of Columbia that he is supposed to be prosecuting, 70% of the time, when cops would put cuffs on bad guys, he didn't prosecute them.

So he allowed crime to run rampant in your nation's capital, and then he used his power to hurt Trump supporters at every possible turn. Meanwhile, his wife is a crazy left-wing activist. She's involved in this group Indivisible, which is organizing all of these pretext protests against

that are leading to this immense violence across the country. So that's important to keep track of. Also, George Soros has indeed, as usual, dumped a ton of money into this group. And now we're seeing the fruits of that poison tree. It's really, really disgraceful. All right. The big news today for you, for all of you, how many people we have on Rumble right now?

I'm telling you that these numbers are about to get massive. I've got about 62,000 people right now with us. Here's why the numbers are going to be massive. Tomorrow on this here program, I will be joined by the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. You will be able to watch my conversation with the president right here on

10 a.m. Eastern, live on Rumble. And then, of course, you'll be able to listen to it in the Vince podcast. I'll be playing it on my nationwide radio show from 12 to 3 Eastern time, The Vince Show. A massive conversation ahead with the President of the United States. If you have questions for the President, send them my way. Get to me on social media. Let me know what you're thinking. I've got...

A lot of planning ahead as we have this conversation. But once again, tomorrow, Wednesday, March 26th,

In the year of our Lord, 2025, the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, set to stop by this humble program. I hope you will join us. I'm looking forward to that. In the meantime, I just want to once again thank you for joining us today. I know we ran into a bunch of technical hiccups with COVID.

With all sincere luck, they will be resolved for all of the ensuing broadcasts in the days ahead here. It's going to be just fantastic to keep talking to you from Washington, D.C. I'm getting a lot of really good feedback right now. Futures wants to know, dang, Vince, how do you get all these guests? What's your secret? I'm on Signal.

I just messaged the president. I said, hey, can you do it? And he wrote back, sure, bro. I'm in. No, it's been really great. We've got a lot of American flags coming in. Trump, yes, the man on the show. Lots of emojis of President Trump. I love the dancing Trump emoji in the chat right now. Get some dancing Trump emojis up in the chat. What a get, Vince. What a get. Yeah, I know. And then here's the key. Somebody just asked,

How many hiccups will there be tomorrow? Rob Duff asked zero, right? Am I right about this, fellas? I'm getting zero hand gestures right now. Zero hiccups tomorrow. There's no room for mistakes. Can't have mistakes. The president of the United States joining us tomorrow on this program.

I can't wait to join you again. Can't wait to be with you again. Up next, Rumble's been doing this amazing thing where we have a full day of live programming that doesn't consist of the kinds of lies that Jeffrey Goldberg has become accustomed to telling you. In fact, Rumble's just amazing. What an amazing free speech platform. By the way, I heard this morning that they're doing very, very well.

which is good news for the rest of us. Rumble's doing great. Up next, Steven Crowder is going to be with you as Rumble sends you there. Thank you so much for spending some time with me today.