[00:00] Speaker 1: (intro music playing) Conservative? You bet. Controversial? Right again. It's time to squabble on the Jim Benson Show.

[00:32] Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Jim Benson Show, conservative news and commentary addressing the issues that concern you here on the BBS Radio and Television Network. So much going on as usual with current events, it's usually difficult for me to make choices of what events to cover that can fit in our limited timeframe here and still present a decent summary of what I consider to be among the most significant events of the period. This week, we had the State of the Union address before Congress, the killing of one of the world's most wanted criminals, El Mencho, in Mexico's Jalisco state, and the bloody aftermath launched by his subordinates in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG for short, that borders on civil war in that country.

[01:28] Speaker 2: And ongoing events regarding our all too often rigged and stolen elections that have given our communist and allied globalist-aligned Democratic Party enormous power as they move relentlessly to take control of Congress and destroy Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. As I record this, Congress is about to take depositions from Hillary and Bill Clinton regarding their association with Jeffrey Epstein. The US appears ready to attack the terrorist-supporting Iranian regime, and Cuba has announced an attack, or what they characterize as a counterattack, on a US-registered boat in their territorial waters. Today's video presentations and commentary will focus on the first few of these events only due to time constraints. Without further delay, let's begin our video presentations. Our first two videos focus on events in Mexico this week, with the first video being commentary from Steve Turley on his YouTube channel. I added this clip before Turley released the...

[02:34] Speaker 2: there is continuing uncertainty and extreme violence ahead for Mexico and, I believe, possibly the USA, as Mexico attempts to reclaim its sovereignty from the narco-terrorist cartels largely controlling that nation. The second video, also from YouTube on the Core Media channel, relates that the CN... the CJNG has been sending a terrifying message to the Mexican government with a torrent of violence and murder unleashed against that country, including targeting and murdering the soldiers who took part in El Mencho's capture and death. Mexico no doubt is conducting these unprecedented operations against the cartels under pressure from Washington, which is threatening to intervene militarily unless the Mexican government takes more decisive action to bring down the contro- the cartels.

[03:28] Speaker 3: Mexico is exploding. The world's most wanted drug lord is dead, and now his cartel is waging open war against an entire nation. Airports stormed, military bases bombed, tourists fleeing for their lives, over 250 roadblocks across 20 Mexican states, and it all happened because of a US-backed military strike that just decapitated the most violent cartel on the planet. Hey, gang. It's me, Dr. Steve, your Patriot Professor here to help you make sense of the madness with breaking news and analysis you're not gonna get anywhere else. So make sure to smack that bell and subscribe button and also click on that link below and get Patriot Alerts, my free uncensored newsletter, where I share the stories I can't cover on YouTube. So you can subscribe for free by simply clicking the Patriot Alerts link in the description below. We are witnessing, in real time, what may be the single most significant blow to the international drug trade since the fall of Pablo Escobar.

[05:16] Speaker 3: So here's what happened, and this is absolutely massive. On Sunday morning, February 22nd, Mexican Special Forces launched a daring raid in the mountain town of Tapalpa in the western state of Jalisco. Their target? Nemesio Cervantes, known to the world as El Mencho, the co-founder and supreme leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, one of the most powerful and ruthless criminal organizations on the face of the Earth. El Mencho was the most wanted man in Mexico. The US government had a $15 million bounty on his head.The DEA considered him the top international drug trafficker in the world, the kingpin behind a global fentanyl and cocaine empire o- operating in nearly all 50 US states. This man was a former police officer turned cartel assassin, who built the CJNG, or, or the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, from the ground up into a narco army of an estimated 20,000 fighters.

[06:28] Speaker 3: His cartel pioneered the use of explosive drones, landmines, and even rocket-propelled grenades to shoot down military helicopters. And for years, he evaded every attempt to catch him, paying off police, buying politicians, and operating from a mountain fortress in Jalisco with near total impunity. Well, obviously now, those days are officially over. Mexican special forces, backed by US intelligence, from a newly formed joint inter-agency task force counter-cartel, stormed El Mencho's position Sunday morning. Troops came under heavy fire. Four CJNG members were killed on the spot. El Mencho himself was critically wounded in the firefight. He was airlifted toward Mexico City, but he never made it. He died in transit. The Mexican Defense Ministry confirmed the kill, and the world's most dangerous drug lord was no more. The White House has confirmed that the United States provided the intelligence that made this operation possible.

[07:34] Speaker 3: In fact, President Trump posted on Truth Social, "We're winning too much, it's just not fair!" (laughs) Remember, it was the Trump administration that designated CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization back in February of 2025. It was Trump who declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. It was Trump who told Fox News back in January that, "We're gonna start now hitting land," with regard to the cartels, meaning they were gonna strike inside Mexico. And now Maduro has been captured, and the most wanted narco-terrorist in the Western hemisphere is dead. But here's where the story takes a terrifying turn. These are not scenes of Mexico's special forces. These are some of the 20,000 fighters that make up the CJNG narco army, and they've unleashed absolute chaos across Mexico since El Mencho's death. We're talking over 250 cartel roadblocks across 20 Mexican states, cars, buses, trucks hijacked, set ablaze.

[08:44] Speaker 3: Puerto Vallarta, a beloved vacation destination for millions of Americans, was engulfed in smoke as CJNG operatives torched vehicles near cruise ship ports, hotels, and even in the parking lot of a Costco. Eyewitnesses described taxi drivers being targeted by the cartel. One cab was shot up, the driver murdered, and the vehicle set on fire with passengers' luggage, clothes, and passports inside. Uh, actually, in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city and Jalisco's capital, the scene was even more dire. The city became a ghost town. Gunmen stormed the Guadalajara International Airport. Footage showed passengers sprinting through terminals as gunfire erupted near the entrances. Pilots reported CJNG fighters on the tarmac! Flights were canceled across the board. Southwest, Alaska, Delta, Air Canada, United, all grounded. And it didn't stop there. The cartels began bombing military sites. In Guanajuato alone, authorities recorded more than 70 attacks across 23 municipalities.

[09:51] Speaker 3: Armed gunmen set structures on fire, they blocked highways and opened fire on civilians, police, and military personnel alike. Authorities in Jalisco and Guanajuato reported at least 14 dead, including seven National Guard troops. The US State Department issued shelter-in-place orders for Americans in Mexico. Schools were shut down. Even the nation of Guatemala reinforced security on their border with Mexico. One eyewitness described seeing execution-style murders on his way to the Puerto Vallarta airport. I mean, you have to let this sink in. This is not Syria. This is not Libya. This is Mexico, right on our southern border. And as we're about to see, that is precisely why Trump and the Mexican government are indeed together, stepping up like never before. (beep) Here's what makes this moment so historically significant. I really want you to grasp this.

[10:56] Speaker 3: Under cooperation between the Trump administration and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico has extradited 92 high-level cartel leaders and gang members to the United States to face justice. Make no mistake, that would never, ever have happened unless we had legally and officially designated these cartels international terrorists. It would never have happened under Obama, would never, certainly never have happened under Sleepy Joe, not even under Bush, never. Not until now. And this new joint inter-agency task force counter-cartel, quietly launched late last year, is a abs-, it's an absolute game-changer. The US military-led task force was specifically designed to map out the networks of cartel members operating on both sides of the border. According to Reuters, it involves multiple US government agencies, and it played a direct role in providing the intelligence dossier that led to Sunday's raid.Reports even indicate that U.S.

[12:02] Speaker 3: Navy SEAL instructors arrived in Mexico on February 15th as part of a classified program targeting top-level cartel figures. Now, President Sheinbaum has historically criticized this kingpin strategy, it's called, the idea of taking out cartel leaders, and she argued that it leads to fragmentation and more violence, and frankly, she obviously has a point. We saw exactly that kind of retaliatory chaos unfold across Mexico yesterday, on Sunday. But, and this is the key, the sheer scale of cooperation we're seeing between the United States and Mexico right now is unprecedented, and that's really the story here. What we witnessed this weekend isn't just the death of one drug lord. It's evidence of a fundamental shift in how nation-states are reasserting their sovereignty against the transnational criminal networks that have been operating with impunity for decades.

[13:05] Speaker 3: And that, my friend, is exactly what national sovereignty looks like in the 21st century, not the globalist model where nations surrender their security to international institutions, but a civilizational model where sovereign nations cooperate bilaterally to crush the parasitic criminal networks that have been hollowing them out from within. The CJNG had a presence in all 50 states. They had operatives in Canada. They had an estimated narco army of 20,000 fighters with rocket launchers, armored vehicles, explosive drones, and landmines. They were operating as a de facto state within a state, and the old liberal international order allowed them to accumulate that kind of power. But Sunday's operation was a declaration that the true state, the United States and Mexico, are taking their sovereignty back.

[14:11] Speaker 4: Because within hours of the official confirmation spreading, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel activated every cell it had across at least 20 Mexican states simultaneously, and what unfolded over the next 48 hours was something that security experts called the most widespread and coordinated retaliatory campaign in the modern history of Mexican organized crime. This was not spontaneous grief. This was not disorganized rage. This was a pre-planned mobilization that had been designed to be triggered by exactly this kind of event, and it was executed with a precision that reflected 15 years of organizational development under a leader who treated his cartel like a military force.

[14:48] Speaker 4: The first wave was the narco blockades, a tactic the CJNG had been refining for years, but which it deployed on a scale that no one had ever seen before: more than 250 separate incidents confirmed in the first 24 hours alone; vehicles commandeered at gunpoint across every major highway in 20 states; set on fire at strategic intersections to create barriers that emergency services could not cross and military convoys could not easily break through; in Jalisco alone, 65 blockades; in Guanajuato, 55 incidents across 23 municipalities; tire spikes and nails thrown across access roads; public buses lit up in Puerto Vallarta; supermarkets, banks, gas stations, convenience stores, a Costco in Puerto Vallarta torched across the country. One academic who studies cartel violence described what was happening as violent lobbying, the deliberate use of maximum visible force to send the government a single message: Every action you take against us has a price that ordinary people pay.

[15:45] Speaker 4: And then the cartel went after the soldiers directly. This is the part of the story that matters most and that got the least coverage outside Mexico. The CJNG did not just retaliate against infrastructure and civilians. They hunted the security forces in at least six separate ambushes concentrated primarily in Jalisco. Cartel gunmen targeted National Guard members in coordinated attacks using military tactics, flanking, suppressing fire, rapid withdrawal before reinforcements could respond. The operations coordinator was a figure named Hugo César Macías Urena, known as El Tuli, El Mencho's right-hand man in Jalisco. El Tuli did something that should stop anyone reading this cold. He issued explicit financial bounties for the killing of soldiers, more than $20,000 pesos, over $1,000 U.S., for every National Guard member killed. He assigned a cash value to the lives of the men who had carried out the Tapalpa raid.

[16:38] Speaker 4: He turned every soldier who had participated in or supported that operation into a walking target with a price on their head. Twenty-five of those soldiers were dead by the end of the day, 25 National Guard members killed in targeted ambushes in a single 24-hour period, on top of the eight CJNG fighters killed in the original raid and the dozens more who died in subsequent clashes as the retaliation spread. The total death toll tied directly to the operation and its immediate aftermath climbed above 70. Think about what that number means in human terms. Seventy people dead in 48 hours as the direct consequence of one military operation. The soldiers who survived that day did not receive a quiet commendation and return to normal duty.

[17:19] Speaker 4: They returned to active service knowing that the organization they had just provoked had placed a financial bounty on their colleagues' heads, had killed 25 of them before the sun set, and was now in the process of fragmenting into competing factions, each one trying to prove it was the most dangerous successor to El Mencho's throne. El Tuli himself did not survive long. Mexican paratrooper units located him at El Grudo in Jalisco. He attempted to flee in a vehicle and was killed in the confrontation that followed. On his body, an assault rifle, a handgun, and nearly $1.4 million in cash, the financial war chest of the man who had been coordinating the retaliation. His death removed the immediate operational commander of the cartel's response.But the units he had already set in motion did not stop, and the bounties he had issued did not expire with him.

[18:06] Speaker 4: The soldiers who had been at Tapalpa, who had tracked El Mencho through the woods, who had secured the compound and loaded him onto the helicopter, they were still targets. They will continue to be targets. That is the reality of what it means to be a Mexican soldier who participated in the operation that killed the most feared drug lord in the Western hemisphere.

[18:23] Speaker 2: (mouse clicking) By now, you've probably seen numerous takes on President Trump's State of the Union speech to Congress, February of '24. I chose another Steve Turley presentation and commentary on this event because I like what Turley had to say about it. Turley likes to always put a positive spin on his observations. Sometimes I agree more with him, and other times, not so much. But in this case, I tend to agree with the generally positive look on President Trump's address that Turley takes.

[18:59] Speaker 3: Last night, President Trump didn't just give a State of the Union address. He set a trap. And every single Democrat in that chamber walked right into it. From the moment Al Green got himself ejected for the second year in a row, to the moment Ilhan Omar was left in literal tears, to the moment Trump asked one simple question that exposed the entire Democratic Party for what they really are, this was a masterclass in political demolition. And even CNN is admitting it worked. Make sure to stick with me to the very end of this video, because we're about to see how this historic State of the Union wasn't just a game changer for Trump and the Republicans, it was a total game changer for the nation, and indeed, the world. (beep) Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your Patriot Professor celebrating yet another glorious day in Trump's golden age that you made possible back in November of 2024.

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[20:22] Speaker 2: (applause)

[20:22] Speaker 3: It was literally nothing short of historic. Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union speech that was a grand slam from beginning to end, one hour and 48 minutes, the longest State of the Union in history, and every single minute of it was a wrecking ball aimed squarely at the Democratic Party. From the very first moment, Trump commanded that chamber like no president in modern memory. He honored gold medal heroes and angel moms in the same breath. He called out fraud, corruption, and insider trading by name. He turned every Democrat refusal to stand into a campaign ad that'll run on loop from now until November. He made Ilhan Omar cry. He made Nancy Pelosi hide. He made Al Green get dragged out for the second year running, and he even made CNN's own pollsters admit that the American people overwhelmingly side with Trump.

[21:25] Speaker 3: This wasn't just a speech, it was a political masterpiece that galvanized a nation, exposed an opposition party in total free fall, and reminded 80 million Americans exactly why they sent this man back to the White House.

[21:41] Speaker 5: Our nation is back bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before.

[21:56] Speaker 2: (applause)

[22:00] Speaker 5: Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history, the 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence. This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom, in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the Earth. And you've seen nothing yet. We're gonna do better and better and better. This is the golden age of America.

[22:32] Speaker 2: (applause)

[22:38] Speaker 3: Trump opened by celebrating American triumph, from the record-setting economy to the gold medal hockey team that electrified the chamber with chants of USA, before pivoting to a devastating indictment of Democrat failures on immigration, crime, and the affordability crisis that they themselves created. He then turned the emotional screws with the stories of angel families like Irina Zarutska and Sarah Beckrum, forcing Democrats to actually physically sit in visible silence while the nation watched them refuse to stand for victims of violent crime. And he closed by going on offense, calling for a ban on Congressional insider trading that put Pelosi on blast, demanding accountability on fraud, and issuing the defining challenge of the night, what may indeed be the single most defining moment of 2026.

[23:37] Speaker 5: If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.

[23:51] Speaker 2: (applause) Yeah! Whoo!

[24:09] Speaker 6: (applause)

[24:17] Speaker 3: That, my friends, was an absolute masterpiece. Trump and the GOP played that perfectly. As you see, they wouldn't stop applauding. And with every clap, the Democrats were more and more and more humiliated in front of the entire nation. Nothing, literally nothing demonstrated their betrayal of the American people more than that moment. In fact, Republican consultants are literally licking their chops to endlessly loop that video for the rest of the year, all the way to the midterms. The- the Democrats actually filmed themselves for the Republican campaign commercial, the ul- the ultimate campaign commercial. Again, absolute brilliance. And Democrats literally stepped into Trump's trap. I mean, think about it. Why on earth would any sane rational person not stand for that? I mean, their hatred for Trump is causing them to commit political suicide. But if you thought that was bad, the most humiliating Democrat moment of the night was yet to come.

[25:35] Speaker 7: Isn't that a shame? You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens. In many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country, they're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourselves.

[26:08] Speaker 6: (applause) USA! USA! USA!

[26:24] Speaker 3: That was the most humiliating moment of the night. Ilhan Omar deciding to confront the president and he completely shut her down in front of the entire world. She was left exasperated, humiliated, and utterly defeated. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Trump officially declared a nationwide war on fraud, appointing Vice President J.D. Vance to lead a new task force targeting billions of dollars in welfare and social services fraud across Democrat-run states. Starting with the estimated $19 billion Somali community fraud scandal in Minnesota that helped force Governor Tim Walz to drop his re-election bid. Trump claimed the effort, which also targets California, Massachusetts, and Maine, could uncover so much stolen tax money that it would balance the federal budget overnight. The speech was an absolute home run. Even CNN couldn't spin it. 64%, a super majority, believe that Trump's policies outlined in the State of the Union will move the United States in the right direction.

[27:33] Speaker 3: That's a 10 point gain from before the speech when 54% thought his policies would move the country in the right direction.

[27:42] Speaker 2: Our fourth video clip today is from the pro-Trump YouTube channel Outlawed, and relates that the FBI official in charge of the Atlanta office was fired after he had allegedly been trying to obstruct and prevent a Department of Justice investigation into the longstanding and serious allegations of corruption involving Georgia's Fulton County's handling of the 2020 election, in which Joe Biden mysteriously won after a number of suspicious activities, just as happened in other key swing states that decided the 2020 election. Reports are that among the boxes of ballots and related evidence seized in the FBI raid in Fulton County, some 40 to 50 boxes are missing. And it's also reported that county election officials were tipped off the raid was coming.

[28:39] Speaker 8: Trump just destroyed a dirty FBI leader who tried to bury the biggest election investigation in American history. Paul Brown, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office, was removed from his position after he flat-out refused to investigate Fulton County, Georgia's role in the 2020 election.

[28:57] Speaker 9: This is a full frontal attack on democracy. This is a code red in America, in Fulton County.

[29:07] Speaker 8: But here's where this gets absolutely explosive. Just days after Brown was kicked out, federal agents stormed the Fulton County elections office and seized 700 boxes of records tied to the 2020 election results. What exactly is in those 700 boxes that Paul Brown was so desperate to keep hidden? And why did it take firing him to finally get to the truth?

[29:28] Speaker 10: I respect that the president sets priorities for the Executive Branch. He's not directed us to do anything that's illegal or inappropriate.

[29:36] Speaker 8: Paul Brown wasn't some rookie agent. He ran the FBI's Atlanta field office, one of the most powerful positions in federal law enforcement, especially in a swing state like Georgia. But when Trump's Department of Justice started looking into Fulton County's role in the 2020 election, Brown immediately threw up roadblocks.

[29:53] Speaker 10: It is urgent and it's busy, and so every day we have agents that are out with our other federal agencies out there helping with enforcement.

[30:02] Speaker 6: Every day?

[30:02] Speaker 10: Every, every day.

[30:03] Speaker 8: According to multiple sources, he expressed concerns about what he called unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in the county.

[30:10] Speaker 11: I'm not sure if they're surprised at the, uh, that, that the administration is working together on things like collection integrity. But if there is surprise, let me unequivocally state, we are working together, um, as an administration-

[30:21] Speaker 8: This meant that the DOJ had questions, but Brown decided those questions weren't worth asking, but it didn't stop there. Brown reportedly refused to carry out searches and seizures of election records. Think about that for a second. A federal agent refusing a direct order from the Department of Justice to investigate potential crimes. That's not protecting integrity. That's obstruction. And here's what makes this even more suspicious. Brown's resistance wasn't based on lack of evidence or improper legal procedures. The DOJ had already prepared search warrants. They had probable cause. They had everything needed to move forward legally. Brown's objection was purely political. He disagreed with investigating Fulton County, period.

[30:58] Speaker 12: We don't have any resemblance, uh, to a government that believes in a republic. We don't have honest money. We don't have integrity.

[31:06] Speaker 8: And then he was removed from his position the week before the raid on Fulton County's elections office. The FBI didn't announce it publicly. There was no press release, no explanation. They quietly replaced him and moved forward with the investigation Brown had tried to kill. And then the real action started. On January 30th, 2026, federal agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Office. What they seized should terrify anyone who thinks the 2020 election was the most secure in history.

[31:37] Speaker 11: There's a criminal investigation, and this, this area-

[31:41] Speaker 13: Is restricted?

[31:43] Speaker 11: ... is restricted to the criminal investigations and criminal search warrant.

[31:45] Speaker 8: Authorities seized 700 boxes of records related to the 2020 election. To put that in perspective, that's not just a few voter registration forms or some misplaced ballots. That's a comprehensive seizure of election infrastructure documentation. We're talking about tabulator tapes, ballot chain of custody records, voter logs, and potentially communications between election officials and outside actors. This was a full scale federal operation. Multiple agents, multiple vehicles, multiple hours of carefully documented evidence collection.

[32:16] Speaker 14: They took pallets. They took 24 pallets, which encompass 656 boxes of 2020 election documents.

[32:25] Speaker 8: Rob Pitts, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chair, immediately went on the defensive. He called the raid political retribution and insisted the county had nothing to hide.

[32:34] Speaker 1: Our elections were fair and accurate, and every legal vote was counted. Fulton County elections are fair and lawful, and the outcome of the 2020 election will not change. Period.

[32:53] Speaker 8: But here's the thing. If everything was so fair and lawful, why the resistance? Why did Paul Brown try so hard to block this investigation? Why 700 boxes of materials if there's nothing to see? Brown was removed specifically because he refused to pursue this investigation. Then, almost immediately after his removal, federal agents moved in and collected what appears to be one of the largest evidence halls in election investigation history.

[33:17] Speaker 15: Very plainly under orders from President Trump of the Fulton County, in other words, Atlanta Election Office, is a very chilling and very disturbing thing.

[33:27] Speaker 8: And remember what this county was at the center of, the infamous State Farm Arena ballot counting, the video that went viral, the suitcases under the table.

[33:35] Speaker 16: So what, what are these ballots doing there separate from all the other ballots? And why are they only counting them whenever the place is cleared out with no witnesses? Is the question.

[33:45] Speaker 8: For years, we were told that the video showed normal ballot processing, that the containers weren't suitcases. They were standard ballot containers that observers left voluntarily, that everything was legitimate. But if it was so normal, why are federal agents now seizing 700 boxes of evidence from that very same operation? Now, here's where this story takes a turn that should make everyone pay attention. On the day of the raid, Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was spotted at the Fulton County Elections Office.

[34:15] Speaker 17: It is a part of Miss Gabbard's role, uh, to make sure that American elections are free of foreign interference and that American elections are safe and secure.

[34:24] Speaker 8: Why would the Director of National Intelligence, one of the most powerful positions in the entire intelligence community, personally show up at a county level election office raid? The presence of someone at Gabbard's level signals this isn't just routine document collection. This is a priority investigation at the highest levels of Trump's administration. This potentially involves national security implications.

[34:45] Speaker 13: Remember, the whole purpose of a search warrant is to collect evidence for use in a future legal proceeding, probably a criminal prosecution.

[34:54] Speaker 8: Democratic lawmakers immediately started complaining about partisan overreach. But let's be real. If there was nothing to find, why would they care who showed up? The fact that Gabbard was there tells us this investigation goes way beyond just Fulton County. This is about understanding the full scope of what happened in 2020, and Trump's team is leaving absolutely no stone unturned.

[35:13] Speaker 1: Fulton County is now, has been, and always will be committed to upholding the law, no matter what anyone else does.

[35:26] Speaker 8: But Paul Brown isn't the only FBI official who's been removed. Not even close. What's happening at the FBI right now is the single largest house cleaning in the bureau's modern history, and it's being led by FBI Director Kash Patel.

[35:38] Speaker 18: Kash Patel has ousted a series of senior supervisors and also just line agents, um, in, in Miami.

[35:47] Speaker 8: And who got fired? Agents who worked on investigations against Trump, agents involved in the January 6th cases, agents who participated in the Mar-a-Lago search. The special agent in charge in New York's field office is gone.

[35:59] Speaker 18: Those FBI agents, we're told, were given the heave ho, and it's a really stunning mass removal, uh, coming roughly one year.

[36:10] Speaker 8: These weren't agents who committed misconduct. They were agents who investigated Donald Trump. And for that, they lost their jobs. Now, here's what makes this revealing. Some of these fired agents were initially investigated by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility. That office recommended discipline, like short suspensions, not termination.

[36:28] Speaker 19: It appears that some people have been put on leave. Some have been pushed out of their positions. But in the senior supervisor role, there have been people who have been told that they need to leave.

[36:39] Speaker 8: Patel overrode those recommendations and fired them anyway. This isn't about misconduct. This is about loyalty, and Patel is making it crystal clear, if you weaponize the FBI against Trump, you're out. Three of those fired FBI officials aren't going quietly. They're fighting back with a lawsuit that exposes exactly what's happening inside the bureau. Brian Driscoll, Stephen Jensen, and Spencer Evans filed a 68-page complaint that reads like a roadmap of political purges.

[37:08] Speaker 19: Patel told Driscoll that he had no choice but to fire certain agents because his ability to keep his own job depended on the removal of the agents who worked on cases involving the president.

[37:19] Speaker 8: Patel also acknowledged these firings were likely illegal but said there was nothing anyone could do to stop them. And here's the most disturbing part. When Driscoll was being vetted for his position, he was asked, "Who did you vote for? Did you vote for any Democrats? Do you think the agents who raided Mar-a-Lago should be held accountable?" Driscoll refused to answer those questions, and he's now been fired.

[37:39] Speaker 19: The lawsuit requests that the firings be declared illegal, the three officials reinstated, and back pay awarded. It also seeks a forum for name clearing to restore their professional reputations.

[37:50] Speaker 8: But beyond the legal claims, this lawsuit exposes the truth. Trump's administration is cleaning up an agency that had been weaponized for years, and the lawsuit itself shows just how hard people inside the system were fighting against accountability. While Trump's DOJ is finally investigating real election issues in Fulton County, let's talk about what happened to the person who tried to prosecute Trump over those same issues, Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA who indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023, claiming they conspired to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.

[38:25] Speaker 14: The defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election result.

[38:35] Speaker 8: And her case is now dismissed, gone. The case that was supposed to be Trump's biggest legal threat collapsed spectacularly after it was revealed Willis had been having a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to lead the investigation.

[38:49] Speaker 19: Fani Willis, the district attorney, aggressively pushed back saying that, number one, that the phone messages and the contents of them are not even known. So you can only imply so much from the exchanging of messages.

[39:00] Speaker 8: But it wasn't just the relationship. Wade was being paid with county funds and then he was using that money to pay for vacations with Willis. She was literally profiting from prosecuting Trump. After months of hearings, a Georgia court removed Willis from the case due to an appearance of impropriety. The case then went to Pete Skandalakis, the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia. He reviewed the evidence, 101 boxes of documents and an eight terabyte hard drive, and made a stunning announcement.

[39:27] Speaker 20: So in the end, uh, there is no prosecution of President Trump and others who were charged in Georgia. There were a handful of guilty pleas at the outset of this case. There are compelling acts that were alleged, but he also does cast doubt on the main charge, which was racketeering, uh, that, that was brought against people like Rudy Giuliani and Meadows and Trump.

[39:50] Speaker 8: On November 26th, 2025, Skandalakis moved to dismiss the case entirely. In his filing, Skandalakis wrote, "The criminal conduct alleged in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit's prosecution was conceived in Washington DC, not the state of Georgia. The federal government is the appropriate venue for this prosecution, not the state of Georgia." This was federal overreach from the start. Willis had no business bringing these charges. Trump responded on Truth Social, "Law and justice have prevailed in the Great State of Georgia as the corrupt Fani Willis witch hunt against me, and other great American patriots, has been dismissed in its entirety." So let's get this straight. Fani Willis spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars prosecuting Trump over 2020 election concerns in Fulton County. Her case collapsed due to her own corruption. And now Trump's DOJ is actually investigating those same election concerns properly, legally, and without personal profit motives. That's called justice.

[40:45] Speaker 8: This is what accountability looks like, not hiding behind institutional norms, not pretending everyone acted in good faith. Trump is making it clear, if you weaponize the Justice Department against him, there will be consequences.

[40:59] Speaker 2: Lastly today, here's a brief clip of one of the darlings of the mainstream media and still, I believe, a favored contender for the Democratic Party's choice for president in 2028, the radical leftist California Governor Gavin Newsom. A longtime rabid Trump hater and diehard fellow traveler, cheerleader, dupe, and lackey of the communists and globalists, Newsom appears to be becoming increasingly nervous while he remains arrogant and defiant as deepening federal investigations are uncovering staggering alleged waste, fraud, and corruption involving possibly hundreds of billions of dollars of state and federal tax dollars. We didn't have time today, but I came across a video just the other day of a citizen journalist claiming to expose that Newsom has given some $100 million to a radical...

[42:01] Speaker 2: This, this would be state tax dollars, possibly federal, but I believe it's mostly state, if not all state money, to a radical leftist open borders organization promoting the same mass illegal immigration perpetrated on America under the appallingly corrupt, and as far as I'm concerned, criminal and treasonous Joe Biden and his regime. As crazy as it seems, in listening to the left's agents and agitators like Newsom-You have to realize that just about everything the communists and their supporters say is a lie and a trick meant to deceive and to confuse you. They also frequently engage in a propaganda technique called projection, wherein they accuse you of what they are doing. Thus, when leftists talk about democracy, they mean communism and totalitarianism. When Newsom declares Donald Trump and his team are attempting to steal this year's midterm elections, he means they are attempting to win them.

[43:04] Speaker 2: I believe it was no accident Gavin Newsom traveled to China a few years ago, ostensibly to talk trade and the left's mantra on climate change, which the communist government of China, while one of the world's worst polluters, uses as a bargaining chip, claiming it will do more to fight its horrible pollution to extract concessions from Western governments and politicians. If you watched recent episodes of my show, you probably saw election integrity activist Patrick Byrne state that the Chinese Communist Party was the chairman of the board influencing the communist Venezuelan government's electronic election rigging in that country, the USA, and some 70 other countries around the globe. I strongly suspect Newsom went to China in hopes of getting them to use their influence to help him win, that is rig, the 2020 presidential, 2028 presidential election. But we'll probably never know what really occurred in his visit there, during his visit there.

[44:12] Speaker 6: Donald Trump's efforts to rig the midterm election continue to this day, and I'll reinforce that in just a moment. You're seeing him take action all across this country, not just in Texas. You saw what they were successful able to do in Missouri, what they did in North Carolina, what they're trying to do in Indiana, and inevitably in Florida. They are not screwing around. He is the most historically unpopular president in modern history. In every critical category, Donald Trump is underwater. He promised to make us healthier, he promised to make us wealthier. We're sicker and poorer.

[44:58] Speaker 2: That's all for another show today. As always, we hope you found today's content of interest and value. You can watch and/or listen to a podcast of today's show when it's posted shortly here on the Jim Benson Show pages at bbsradio.com/thejimbensonshow and elsewhere on the internet, including x.com at jamesb503091977, also on rubble.com and Apple Podcasts. While you're at it, if you visit my pages here at bbsradio.com, scroll down on my index page at bbsradio.com/thejimbensonshow and check out our related videos section. Look for us again two weeks from today in this same time slot with another edition of the show, and have a great rest of your day and evening.

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