Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 02/20/2025
Today is an Out and About - Jake will be hosting but no show notes are published today.
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10:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
Jake and the Judge: The Feds and Their Own Bribery:
- Eric Adams indictment!
- Did Mayor Adams bribery case end with a bribe?
- It is bitterly ironic that the bribery case against the mayor might end with a bribe.
- A bribe is the delivery of something of value to a public official in return for the exercise of the levers of government power by that official to comply with the wishes of whomever set the delivery in motion.
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Trump administration's ban on birth order immigration from taking force on Wednesday, a legal blow that could kick the issue into the hands of the Supreme Court.
- The appellate judges ruled unanimously that the administration failed to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits of its appeal, prompting the panel to rule 3-0 against hearing their emergency request.
- "The emergency motion for a partial stay of the district court’s February 6, 2025, preliminary injunction is denied," the judges wrote.
- DOGE and the U.S. Constitution:
- Is DOGE constitutional?
- Will there be any indictments from the waste and fraud?
- Is moving $billions of tax dollars into a CITIBANK account tantamount to money laundering?
- The appellate judges ruled unanimously that the administration failed to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits of its appeal, prompting the panel to rule 3-0 against hearing their emergency request.
Panelist:
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Newsmax and he Host of Judging Freedom podcast!
10:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- DOGE Rebates for taxpayers?
- Trump weighing ‘DOGE dividend’ to send taxpayers checks with saved fund:
- President Trump said Wednesday that he’s considering returning 20% of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative directly to taxpayers — potentially putting thousands of dollars in the pockets of Americans struggling under record inflation.
- “There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt,” Trump said in a Miami Beach speech to a nonprofit funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
- “The numbers are incredible, Elon, so many billions — hundreds of billions — and we’re thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens.”
- Trump floated the potential refund after Musk tweeted Tuesday that he would “check with the President,” in response to a post from investor James Fishback, who has been advocating the concept.
- It’s unclear precisely how much DOGE has saved to date, but Musk has stated a goal of $1 trillion in annual cost cuts as his 100-person team blazes through the federal bureaucracy, effectively closing some agencies, mass-firing employees at others and canceling contracts deemed wasteful.
- Zeldin EPA discovers $2 billion stashed away by Biden admin for Stacey Abrams-linked climate group!
- DOGE Uncovers Over 4 Million Government Credit Cards Linked to 90 Million Unique Transactions
- In a bombshell revelation, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed a shocking level of federal spending abuse, revealing that the U.S. government has over 4.6 million active credit cards in circulation, processing a staggering 90 million transactions worth nearly $40 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 alone.
- DOGE, the new federal watchdog agency established under President Donald Trump, posted its findings on X on Tuesday, accompanied by a breakdown of federal agency expenditures.
- “The US government currently has 4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed 90M unique transactions for $40B of spend in FY24. DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs – we will report back in 1 week,” the account wrote.
- Leading the charge in spending? None other than the Department of Defense (DOD), which boasts roughly 2.4 million individual accounts and a jaw-dropping 27.2 million transactions in just one fiscal year.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers
11:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages Thursday morning, including the youngest captive in Gaza, who was taken when he was just 9 months old.
- The heartbreaking exchange saw the terror group hand over the bodies of Kfir Bibas, along with his brother Ariel, who was taken when he was just 4, their mother Shiri, 33, and Oded Lifshitz, 84.
- The bodies of the Bibas family — whose kidnapping video became a symbol for the horrors of Oct. 7 — and Lifshitz are set to be transferred to Israel, where a funeral will be held for them.
- Ukraine’s Zelinsky has gotten himself into a pissing match with President Trump.
- Zelensky is not going to sell out his country, but I guess it is OK for us to sell our country out for the likes of the money launderers in Ukraine?
- Will the Trump is Putin’s puppet comments will be resurrected?
- Europe Reconsiders Transatlantic Alliance, Plays with Fire!
(Opinion Piece Brigadier General Blaine Holt)
https://www.newsmax.com/briggenblaineholt/macron-munich-schwab/2025/02/19/id/1199701/
- What are the ramifications to VP Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s comments last week in EU, Davos and Brussels?
Panelist:
Brigadier General Blaine Holt, USAF Retired Brig. Gen.
General Holt is a former Deputy United States Military Representative to (NATO). He supported the Military Representative and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in executing the U.S. political-military mission at the North Atlantic Council.
General Holt was a command pilot with more than 3,900 flying hours in a variety of aircraft. He is a frequent contributor to Newsmax.
11:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
Panelist:
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