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at all. On today's report, among our topics, we look into how President Trump's tear threats cost both Canada and Mexico to realize, guys, he wasn't making empty threats, and both countries quickly agreed to help the USA in dealing with border issues. In our second segment, we're going to look into media reports designed to project deportations of illegals as cruel and why the media continues to miss the point. Today's Dirty Little Secret exposes how quickly Canada and Mexico

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what is My Risk Number dot com. Okay, once again, hello everyone everywhere, Welcome to That's the bottom Line Radio Report. It's Super Bowl weekend and even those who seldom watch sports programs will likely look in on today's game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. Super Bowl Sunday has evolved into a quasi national holiday

over the decades, hasn't it. And while the contest brings fans from all over the country to watch the event, in our modern world full of potential terrorist attacked, authorities will have a watchful eye on this climatic football game, the big one of the year, and we hope all of you listening in today's report will enjoy your Super Bowl Sunday. Be careful, don't do anything crazy, and don't

drink too much. The world at large continues to function as it always does, however, with rivalries between nations, and we pray for this Sunday at least to have a peaceful day or this whole weekend coming up all right. Meantime, back to the real world, we continue to see other developments in the world today. President Trump continues to put his foot down with regard to foreign countries taking jobs

away from Americans. And while the dishonest news media plays it up as Trump will force consumer prices to go sky high, they have to admit Trump had a major victory when he said he would put tariffs on goods ship to the US from Canada, Mexico, and China. Now both Canada and Mexico capitulated to mister Trump's to his tariff threat by offering to place more security on their respective borders and additionally promising to reinforce their own borders

with the US. It's another big win for President Trump, so he's postponed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for thirty days. Keep something in mind about what this is all about. If Americans allow listen to me carefully, if we Americans allow manufacturing jobs to be pulled away from the United S stats and go to places like Canada and Mexico, what's that going to do to the American economy.

Many manufacturing companies build plants in foreign countries because the cost of labor is less expensive, but it takes jobs and income away from American workers. It's no more complicated than that. And President Trump wants more jobs for American workers, and he wants more manufacturing jobs returned to the United States. His plan will bring more opportunities for American workers to

find better paying jobs. Nonetheless, the media plays it up as if boosting better manufacturing jobs for the United States will make everything more expensive. But if workers' incomes are higher, then it just might and boost their incomes then maybe they can afford to buy those higher price items. I

don't know, it just it seems ridiculous. You got to root for the home team once in a while, right The object is Trump's object is to boost the lives of American workers, nuts and jobs overseas and end up with less quality and what we buy from countries overseas. President Trump, unlike many politicians, doesn't want the American standard

of living to decline so that our lives are less affluent. Mexico, for example, does little to stop the illegal immigration into the United States, but after the terror threat, they're going to put ten thousand Mexican soldiers on their border to help stam any illegals still coming across the border. This doesn't mean we have to settle for less so people and less wealthy countries can have more. Because we Americans, we're the ones well, we don't want to have to

settle for less. And what makes Americans better off is our strong middle class. Listen to me, this is important. Many other countries have no middle class. They just have two classes. They got rich people and poor people. Shrinking the American middle class isn't going to help people elsewhere in the world. What it will do is make Americans more poor if the middle class continues to shrink here.

And that's the reason we do better in this country than many foreign countries do is because we have freedom and opportunities here that are not available to many others in foreign lands. And reducing our American standard of living to bring up the standard of living in other countries

is certainly not the answer. Now, maybe if countries like Mexico and Canada were better neighbors to the United States and develop their own countries so as the better compete with us for a higher standard of living, it would be different, but instead they want to take advantage of the United States in trade, and Trump says he will not let that happen to we, the American people. So anyhow, why should we do more poorly so other countries can

do better. Everybody's got to do better. And that's really the way it works. We ought to be thankful that President Trump has the courage to implement things for that to occur. And that's what he's doing. He's sticking up for the United States of America and for your jobs and for your paychecks, ladies and gentlemen. And that's just the way it is. And I think that's a good idea. Listen, we've got a lot more to cover. We'll be back just momentarily, so please stay tuned.

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are you going to do. But once the US took over that strip of land there right on the Mediterranean, Trump envisioned the US turning the war torn territory into a modern settlement with housing and resort areas along the Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea. Now whether or not that's ever gonna bring peace to the Middle East is unknown, but it remains to be seen. President Trump is always looking for something, and the Democrat usually they'll find fault in anything he does.

He remember the name Daniel Penny, the US Marine who intervened on a New York subway passenger train to prevent a drug induced to passenger Jonathan Neely from harassing and

attempting to take money from subway passengers. Well, mister Penny has been hired by a Silicon Valley investment firm to learn the ropes of becoming an investment advisor at Silicon Valley investment firm, Andresen Horowitz, a spokesman for the firm, said Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation, and rumor has it that President Trump played a part in

recommending mister Penny for the position there. So things are looking up for the marine hero well as the roundup illegals continues to be carried out in the federal dragnet to deport illegals from the United States. The news media is printing and broadcasting stories about how some of the illegals being deported is breaking up families. They're creating a SOB story it is unnecessary. Stories of wives being arrested and deported, and workers arrested while on the job. As

this massive round up continues. The media doesn't print the entire background, but they're printing and broadcasting these stories in an attempt to promote sympathy for illegals that President Trump has ordered to go back to where they came from. So the roundup of illegals is going to continue, is going to send them back to their own countries. In some cases they're going to go on to Anamo Bay, Cuba.

You know, it doesn't seem sad, they're rather, let me put it this way, it does seem sad when a spouse of an American is rounded up by Ice for deportation. But these people knew what they were doing when they came here illegally to begin with. Right on television recently, there was a video report showing a woman weeping at the fence separating the US from Mexico because she arrived shortly after Trump took office and closed the border. Had she come a day earlier, she would have really entered

the United States illegally. The media does this, ladies and gentlemen, to evoke pity and support for illegal immigration, because the media is corrupt and supports left wing lawless this we even found out this week they were some of the media was actually getting paid to print stories by the Biden administration, So you really can't trust them. And if the media is corrupt, how can you trust them? Trust them?

When an American commits a crime and is sent to jail and leaves his or her family behind, there's no outcry from the news media. Most of the news media is hopelessly corrupt and slants its stories to protect anti American causes. They just can't root for the home team. In more simple terms, the news media has no sympathy for illegals who murder and rape Americans, but when someone like Donald Trump or members of his family are unjustly attacked or put on trial, they play it up and

side with the crooked prosecutors. Because Trump is a Republican and as such is not entitled to fairness or objective reporting. That's the way I see it, and truthfully, I'll never figure out why the media itself is so one sided and is plainly the mouthpiece for left wing pro communists and socialist views, especially since the US Constitution protects freedom

of the press. Stop them think about it, right. There are some newspapers, of course, the news organizations that report and write write the news as it is, but unfortunately they are few and few far between. Last November, when Trump won a landslide victory, one would have thought the media would moderate its reporting and start printing both sides honestly and fairly. But they won't. They're just not going to do that, And that's why it remains a mystery

to me. Why waste such a precise, precious freedom. Then we get news reports that the Democrat Party actually pays off a lot of reporters to slant the news in their favor. Now, how are you going to trust the reporter for doing Whenever they do that, he's betraying, you know, his freedom to go ahead and accomplish many things. Maybe they're just doing the bidding of the far left, because

the far left pays them under the table. Right, Maybe the day will come when we can trust newspapers and other news organizations once again, But in the meantime, we have to take such reporting with grain of salt, as they say. And most reporters and editors have graduated from colleges and universities that are known to be pro left wing institutions. So maybe most news organizations have been indoctrinated from a young age and carry those beliefs with them. Now.

There's nothing wrong with always seeking truth and justice, but twisting the truth aside withinjustice is never a good idea, at least that's the way I see it. Life's too short, and eventually we're all going to meet our maker at our reckoning of how we conduct ourselves on this so called sochurn from here to eternity. I know a lot of people don't believe in God, and they laugh at those who do, or are or are agnostic, which means they're not sure. But why take a chance. The Bible

plainly states do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sow's he will reap. We all have free wills, ladies and gentlemen, and can't ignore good and choose what is not good or just, But then we must be willing to pay the consequences of those actions.

And you know that as well as I do. You know, I mentioned a few moments ago about the media running many stories about families are being broken up by ice sweeping in and deporting illegals, which is sad, but they chose to come here illegally, and that's what's happening, and so you know, they had to pay the price for their actions, and we all know that that's true. We'll be back with more right after this.

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was doing the same thing. Yet both these countries they never had a problem shipping their goods into the United States to sell them to the Americans. They considered the USA as a customer for their goods, but ignore enforcements of their own borders, allowing illegals to slip into the United States. That's what was going on. Well, there's a new sheriff in town, so to speak, with regards to President Trump, and he clearly will not allow our two

neighbors to continue taking advantage of US. Last week, when he announced new tariffs on both Canadian and Mexican imports, we saw how quick both countries capitulated with new promises to help in securing borders. Mexico sending ten thousand troops to their border with the United States to help stem the flow of illegals slipping into the US. And Mexico, or rather and Canada likewise is strengthening their borders with the US to help stem the flow of illegals from

their country into the United States. All it took was a tariff threat from President Trump, and we saw how quickly they capitulated. Both Mexico and Canada need Americans to buy their products, and they sow without any regard to what effect it has on their American neighbors. Right so much so, both countries have been very lax and allowing illegals to slip into our country, go right through their

borders into the United States. They do this on the supposition that Americans are so rich or selfish that they can abuse us because we're too rich and not smart enough to recognize we're being taken advantage of. As I speak, we have Democrat politicians in the United States literally working against the best interests of the American people. You know

that as well as I do. What uh, what is being said is simply that when Trump is threatening new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, he's already putting a new tariff on China. Well, goods being imported here in the US is Well, now they're they're gonna play fair with us. In simple terms, mister Trump is looking out for we, the American people, and he backs up what he says to those nations attempting to take advantage of us, they need us to buy their goods, but do so without

any appreciation of we Americans who purchased their products. In simpler terms, the world at large takes advantage of the US and have been doing so for decades, And unfortunately, we've got politicians that encourage that probably get kicked backs too. Now suddenly we have President Trump back in and he's not going to no longer allow this to happen. Oh but how the news media reacts right actually criticizing President Trump when he made those threats on increasing tariffs on

Canada and Mexico. He you know, now, Trump, as I said, temporarily delayed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico when they promised to be better economic neighbors and help protect our borders with their borders. With Trump running things, our neighbors now realize they'll need to be more neighborly. And as far as China goes Chinese Premier Jiji Ping, he continues to be a threat to the United States, both economically

and politically. In the goal of communists red China. Their goal is to displace the United States as the world's number one power. Well, I'll tell you something, as long as Trump's in charge, China will have a tough time pulling that off. On the other hand, we have many of our fellow Americans, specifically many Democrats in both the House and Senate, working against President Trump because they have no regard for we the people and for reasons unknown,

can never root for the Home team. Why because they are soft on communism and socialism and work to eliminate the American middle class. The real strength of America, ladies and gentlemen, is our middle class. You destroy the middle class, and we become a society of the haves and the have nots. If we the people ever allow that to happen, we will end up being like those poor souls living and what is often referred to as third world countries. Trust me, we do not ever want to allow this

to happen here. We're fortunate to have elected Trump as our president because he's looking out for us. Freedom is what brings opportunity to all of us. As one of my uncles used to say, or how he phrased it years ago, America is really the land of milk and honey with limitless opportunities. And you know something, ladies and gentlemen,

we really do need to keep it that way. So all these events that are occurring right now and all that, you know, the Democrats getting out in front of the US capital and complaining and carrying on, and they're they're they're all that carerrying on is working against the working against the best interests of the American people. They're gonna, you know, try to they're threatening to try to impeach

Donald Trump again. They go through all that nonsense. I'll tell you something, you know, a lot of that it makes no sense. Why don't they just why don't they just calmly process and work with what the people of the United States want instead of always trying to disrupt things and carry on and promote what is not not good for the United States, not good for society. I'll tell you, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of this is

going to come to a head sooner or later. And we just have to be thankful that we got someone like Donald Trump in the White House because when he says something, it means what he says. Boy, did they go crazy when he thought about maybe taking over the uh that land which is destroyed there along the Red Sea, you know that zone over there between Israel and the Hamas. We live in interesting times, to say the least eight pounds on just about everything, don't they. The whole object

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