Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review Ben Ferguson with you, and we had some major stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week. First up, remember the famous Maryland Man, the Maryland Father, that the DIMS demanded be brought back to America. Well, he's coming back to America to face human trafficking charges. We'll have those details on that in just a moment. Also, the media is trying to convince you that what you're
watching on TV is not writing. No, it's just peaceful. Don't believe you're lying eyes. We call them out and we've got the proof of exactly what they're saying and how it's wrong. And finally, Center Cruz talked to the ambassador from Israel moments after the attack on Iran. What did he have to say? We'll break all that down for you. It's the Weekend Review and it starts right now.
Democrats have been obsessed with the Maryland Father, the Maryland man who just happened to get deported, who was an illegal immigrant, who was caught human smuggling through my home state of Tennessee, and they like it never happened. And now all of a sudden, We're like, they were demanding you bring him home, bring him back to America. Well, guess what, the dude's coming home.
He is indeed, and he has been brought to be prosecuted. He has been indicted. He has been indicted for human trafficking.
Wait, I thought he was just a Maryland dad, not a human trafficker.
Well, I will tell you. I'm holding the indictment in my hand and it is stunning. So how long was he a human trafficker? Well, according to the indictment, from inn Or around twenty sixteen through in Or around twenty twenty five, So for nine years.
That's a pretty good career.
Kilmar Armando Abrego, Garcia and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury conspired to bring undocumented aliens to the United States from countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, and elsewhere, ultimately passing through Mexico before crossing into Texas. Very nice they came into Texas. The co conspirators knew the undocumented aliens did not possess authorization to enter the United States. They used cell phones, they used social media applications.
The indictment also alleged Kilmar Armando Abredo Garcia was a citizen of El Salvador, was not a United States citizen, was living in the United States, and was also a member and associate of the transnational criminal organization MS thirteen.
No, he's a dad. Hold on a second, you can't say that this is just a Maryland dude, Maryland dad, Maryland man.
And by the way, they accurately describe MS thirteen. MS thirteen was a criminal enterprise engaged in, among other activities, acts and threats involving murder, extortion, narcotics, trafficking, firearms trafficking, alien smuggling, and money laundering. MS thirteen operated throughout North and Central America, including in Ol salvad Or, Guatemalca, Mexico, the United States, including in Texas, Maryland, New York, Tennessee,
and elsewhere. Now, how many illegal aliens do you think he's charged with smuggling?
I'm assuming zero because he's just a Maryland man. He's just a Maryland dad.
He's a Maryland dad. I want to read this paragraph. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, as detailed further below, used his status in MS thirteen to further his criminal activity.
Right, not as a father or dad, as a MS thirteen gang member.
Over the course of the conspiracy, the co conspirators knowingly and unlawfully transported wait for it, thousands of undocumented aliens, many of whom were MS thirteen members and associates.
So you're bringing in people that are now member of a terrorist organization into the country. So not just random buel pang. He was smuggling and members of the town organization in the United States America for not one year, not two, not three, not four, not five years, but nine years.
Yes, and and and look, the fact that DOJ brought this indictment means presumably they have the evidence to prove this indictment. They're going to put on that evidence. They're going to put on that that that evidence that this guy was a gang member for for nine years, that that that he was part of a conspiracy that smuggled thousands of people illegally, including other gang members.
You think the media is gonna apologize for another stories. So we're attacking Trump and saying that he just sent a Maryland dad, a Maryland man.
And understand, this is the same the same illegal immigrant that my colleague Chris Van Holland, Democrat from Maryland flew down and had really what was a very sweet margarita with I mean it was a Broman.
It was a moment.
It was a bro moment, you know, as I tweeted out at the time, you know, find somebody who looks at you the way Democrats look at illegal alien MS thirteen gang members, like the sweet nothings in his eyes as he looked on. And by the way, you saw Democrat house members, you know, all on a parade to go down there.
They wanted to use your tax dollars to go see the Maryland man.
This is the face of the Democrat Party. This is who they stand for. So look, you ought to ask yourself at home, am I an MS thirteen gang member, who's a human trafficker who smuggles in thousands of aliens, who smuggles in gang members? If so the Democrats of the party for me, If you're not, if you kind of think we don't want human traffickers and gang members in America, well then I don't know what the Democrats is.
This like the ultimate FAFO like moment because for Democrats, and I want people to understand the funniest part of the story, Democrats demanded we bring him back. He's coming back, gonna go to jail for a long time, and then after he served his time, apparently we're gonna send him right back to the country where he just came from. It didn't just go from bad to worse, like he would have been better off just staying where he was. Look a Democrats actually are putting this man in.
Jail, and these facts, the facts that prove he was a human trafficker, the facts and evidence that DJ is gonna put on. I hope and believe the American people need to know those facts because they need to know. Look, we've already in this podcast cover how the guy is allegedly a wife beater, that he has a long history
of criminality. We played the audio of him being caught human trafficking, but at the time we didn't know that there was a decade worth of thousands of people being trafficked, including other gang members.
Call for what you wish for, right and.
By the way, to understand, Look, I don't know specifically what this gang member did, but I'll tell you Ms. Thirteen. When they are human trafficking, they are raping women, They are raping children, they are abusing women and children that they are abusing little boys, little girls.
They're soul lists. They do not care about human life.
Are here it is MS thirteen is evil and in Texas we see the atrocities they carry out. I fully expect the evidence that comes out in this trial to be nothing short of horrifying. And I got to say, if you're a Democrat and you've decided the entire future of your party is defending this guy, yeah, you know what's weird, Ben, I'm not sure the Democrats.
Are worried right now. I don't think they are.
I mean, that's the strangest thing is in the face of this.
There used to be in politics moments where you knew you screwed up, were even your party. Look, they're all in in California and still on defending this guy.
Their position is is that one Democrat congresswoman said, law enforcement get the f out. That's their message. No cops, no ICEN, open border patrol. We don't defend We don't defend California. We don't known know Americays, but gang members and murderers europeeps.
Amazing. Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation. You can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. None of what you said can be true because I have a montage of the media is saying that what you just described is a lie. It's not rioting, it's not looting, it's not burning of police cars. Here's the media saying you're just wrong.
The La County Police say that they have it under control. Caring a flag is not illegal. As you know, what did happen in nineteen ninety two was so different from what we're seeing now. I mean, that was.
A real riot.
Video after video has shown that these agents are the ones provoking protesters and also making up, you know, aggression by these protesters, and later video shows people were not aggressive.
We are having an administration that's targeting peaceful protests, people that are there at protests. The president is sitting in the National Guard because he doesn't like the scenes. He doesn't like the scenes of people peacefully protesting.
Unrest is isolated. La has homed to millions of people, most of them are having a normal day here on Sunday.
You know, you've heard reports that there are riots on the streets of Los Angeles. That is not what's happening across the city of Los Angeles.
Covenson's right, there was anything like a riot happening on Friday Saturday, and we just.
Witnessed protester thanking a National Guardsman for his service.
Here in California, lapd By most estimates, had this under control last night.
No, I don't think the National Guard is needed now.
Things in La are called.
There was a protest that got a little unruly late at night.
There have been no violence where anybody that was protesting hit, anybody, shot, anybody, threatening anybody.
Nothing.
What is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.
Most of those demonstrators were very peaceful.
They were chanting, they were shining, people were driving by fonking their horns.
I mean, that's just normal life out there.
You know.
They were just having fun watching cars burn. You know, you know, that's just that's just good old fashion entertainment. Like get out your popcorn, you know, light some police cars on fire.
You know, DC next time you and I are just hanging out, you know, we we should just maybe just I don't know, find a car and just set on fire and watch it burn. We're not doing the illegal. Everything's fine.
So to to give you a sense of just how how much propaganda the media is desperately trying to spend, I'm gonna read you four headlines.
All right.
So this is a headline from the New York Times quote, the Mexican flag becomes a potent LA protest symbol. Trump official of cast demonstrators waving the Mexican flag as insurrectionist. But for many protesters who are Mexican American, the flag represents pride in their heritage. Now mind you, they're waving the flags saying, dear God, whatever you do, do not send me back to Mexico. That is their message. But apparently it's pride in their heritage. Simultaneously, here's CNN quote,
Trump is acting like an authoritarian. California's crisis now rests on what he does next. That's CNN nice and objective.
All right.
How about the Washington Post quote, He's waging a war on us as Trump escalates Angelino's defend their city. Across this vast metropolis, residents denounce what they consider an attack on the very fabric of their city, on their neighbors, coworkers, family members. That's the Washington Post, and finally NPR. NPR, which, by the way, you and I are paying for every one of us who listens, is paying for it through
our tax dollars. Here's what NPR says. Quote Trump using National Guard in la is an abusive power, says national security expert. That's the media, well, and with the media doing everything they can to deny the truth, to lie, to obfuscate, to pretend that this is all peaceful, that there's no violence, never mind the violence that is unfolding in front of our eyes. You know, Maxine Waters said, don't believe your lying eyes. I'm telling you there's no violence.
What is Gavin Newsome doing? Is he protecting the people of California. No, Instead, he's suing President Trump to stop the President from protecting the people of California. Gavin Newsom tweeted out, quote, I have formally requested the Trump administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles County and return them to my command. We didn't have a
problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty and flaming tensions while pulling reales from where they're actually needed rescind the order return control to California. So Gavin Newsom is not upset that illegal immigrants have flooded into this country for the last four years across open borders. He's not upset that murderers, murderers and rapists
and child molesters and gang bangers have been released. He's not upset that Californians are being murdered, are being violently assaulted by illegal immigrants. None of that dismays him. He's not upset at the looting. He's not standing with the poor small business owners and shop owners whose stores were destroyed by the violent crime. None of that upsets him. Instead, Gavin Newsom's problem is damn at. Number one, Trump is arresting illegals, and where are the Democrats? Where the party
of illegals? And number two, even worse, Trump is sending in federal officers, sending in the National Guard to keep communities safe, to protect families, to protect homes. That is unacceptable because if there's one thing the Democrats stand for beyond illegal immigrations and crime, it is preventing the police from doing their job, preventing them from keeping you safe. I think that really sums up the lunacy of where the left is today.
Final question on this one. I don't think there's any near end in sight. I think this is going to continue to grow. Do you agree?
I do. And let me say we started by saying this went where we predicted, that this spreads nationally, that we see these protests and these riots and cities across the country, and I think we need to follow the money. And that's certainly what I am urging the President, urging the Department of Justice to do, is follow the money and anyone who is funding this. This is just like
the anti Semitic protests on college campuses. By the way, I suspect it's the same people who funded the anti Semitic protests, who funded the ANTIFA in Black Lives Matter riots. It is the same radicals who hate America. Many of them are openly Marxist. Black Lives Matter is openly Marxist. They're rabidly anti Israel, They're rabidly anti capitalism, they're rabidly anti police, they're rabidly anti law and order. They're rabidly
pro criminal, they're rabidly pro violence. But we need to follow the money and prosecute anyone who is funding riots across this country. And I hope that's exactly what the Trump administration does.
Yeah, no doubt about it. Before we wrap, I got to just hit pause and you got a really cool letter from a kid. This inspires me, It makes me happy. It reminds me when I got into radio when I was twelve years old. And I want you to just tell us about this letter and I want to read it for everybody listen as a verdict. It's awesome.
Well, listen, I had a member of my staff who was down in Texas this past week and was at Fort Cavazos, which actually just got renamed back to Fort Hood So and he was there for Cavazos and there was a major who's stationed stationed there who gave him a letter and gave him a letter. It was a letter from from his ten year old son. And I'm going to read it. I'm not going to give you his his last name, but but but I'm gonna I'm gonna read the letter that that that I.
Was handed today.
Dear Senator Cruz, my name is Justin and I am a student at Hill Country Christian School of Austin, and I am pro God pro life and pro gun, Republican who loves America, Jesus and politics. I want to write to you to say thank you for everything you have done for Texas in America. Uh there's a paragraph that's really nice and in praising me, which I'm going to skip because that seems a little self senator to read a paragraph praising me. But here's the paragraph I wanted.
I wanted every Verdict listener to hear. I listen to your podcast Verdict every week. I have learned so much from you about how government works and all the things you are doing to stop the radical left agenda and help President Trump pass the America First agenda. You have helped me to want to be a politician when I'm older. Thank you for everything you do. Sincerely, justin h ten.
As before, If you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. I want to get back to the big story number three of the week. You may have missed. One of the things I love about doing the show center is moments after this attack took place Israel on Iran, you were actually on the phone with the ambassador from Israel.
What did he tell you about this attack? How long had they been planning this, What was the final decision that made this happen in the last several hours.
Well, understand, this show happens real time. It happens real time in real life. You and I are recording this early in the morning Friday morning. This podcast will come out later in the day on Friday. So some of you will be listening to this on Friday, others of you will be hearing this on radio on Saturday or Sunday. And so the world may have changed forty eight hours.
At the time.
When a war is initiating, it is a mountain of time. What I can tell you is late Thursday night, as Israel was launching it its attacks, before Iran has engaged in a counterattack, I was on the phone with the Israeli ambassador of the United States and he told me that the attack at least so far, had gone extraordinarily well, that they'd taken out senior leadership of the IRGC. And I got to say, by the way, that's a huge victory for the United States of America. The IRGC has
murdered over six hundred American servicemen and women. They are grotesquely hostile to the United States, and for Israel to take them out it is enormous benefit to America. But at the same time, the Israeli ambassador told me that the instruction had gone out in Israel to the people of Israel go to a bomb shelter, either be in a bomb shelter or be very near a bomb shelter, because they are anticipating early in the morning Friday morning, that Iran is going to launch a massive counter attack
with ballistic weapons. And Israel has extensive anti missile defenses, but Iran has sufficient volume that if they launch everything, they have the capacity to overwhelm the defenses, and so there is a very real possibility. The people of Israel are braced. They understand. Look, look that they're not playing they're not playing games that they are playing with real stakes.
They're playing with live rounds. The people of Israel understand right now, as you and I are recording this, that we may see Israeli's die right now, because Iran has enough missiles that if they launch them all, there will the Israeli's murdered in the minutes and hours ahead of us. But at the same time Prime Minister Netanyah, who made
the decision, It's a decision I agree with. It's a decision that I think was right, which is the risk of Israelis dying and of Americans dying if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon is qualitatively different that we could face. With an Iranian nuclear weapon, we could face millions murdered. And so listen, I want to underscore what I said
at the beginning of this podcast. Pray for the people of Israel and pray for our servicemen and women in har harm's way, because this is a very very dangerous time right now.
Well, let's talk about who is targeted and what this looks like moving forward from the standpoint of Israel. I mean, the objective here is clearly to put them back when it comes to their nuclear program, but they also went after people that were involved in that program, which is a really big way to move things backwards. Yeah.
Look, this was a decapitation strike. It was targeted at the senior military leaders in Iran. It was targeted at the nuclear facilities in Iran. It was targeted at the anti air assault facilities in Iran. It was a very targeted but massively effective strike. Now Iran is going to strike back. Understand that that that's not a possibility or a probability. It is a certainty that Iran will hit back. Now, what I hope Iran understands is they should not hit
back at America. Hitting back at America would escalate this dramatically. And I will say the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, he put out a statement Thursday night. Let me read his statement. Quote tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We were not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for
its self defense. President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear, Iran should not target US interests or personnel. Now. Look, I'm glad that the Secretary of State was putting out that statement defending our servicemen and women. I wish there had been more in that statement saying we stand with Israel. That was missing from the statement, and it shouldn't have
been from my perspective, we stand unequivocally with Israel. But I understand why the Secretary of State didn't do that, which is that he's concerned that Iran may strike at US military forces. Now, in my view, the way to prevent that is not to say to Iran, hey, we had nothing to do with that, which was the main theme of the Secretary of State's statement, but rather to say, if you attack US forces, the consequences will be overwhelming.
I think Iran responds more to stick than the carrot, but we shall see, and it is any way you look at it, on unbelievably dangerous time.
Senator, Let's talk about some of the people that have been taken out here. There's two aspects of these strikes. One, nuclear scientists are being reported that they were targeted and have been killed, and that is the brains of the nuclear program. If you want to stop Iran from doing this, taking out nuclear scientists is absolutely brilliant. It's the computer system, the nervous system of everything they're trying to accomplish. That's incredible.
But we also now know from virtually every news agency is reporting this that the IRGC tear chief Salami has also been eliminated. That is significant as well.
We now know that Hussein Salami is lunch meat, and I feel a little cheesy making fun of him, But then again, the guy is a racist, genocidal, homicidal, lunatic. So I hope after Salami, beloney and Pastrami both get eliminated as well. And if you look at the head of the IRGC, he has responsibility for murdering over six
hundred US servicemen and women. So if you love the men and women of the Armed Services, if you are grateful for friends, family, loved ones who have served defending this nation, then you ought to say tonight to the nation of Israel, thank you, thank you for taking out the head of the IRGC that is responsible for murdering
hundreds of American servicemen and women. President Trump, when he was president the first time, he took out General Solimani, and now today the Israelis have taken out Salami, a successor who is the terror chief of the IRGC, and he is now with his seventy two versions, so that I will tell you, much to his dismay, those virgins are all Gomer Pyle and it's not what he hoped for.
I got to say one of the best parts about this story just side note. If you look up Insaami on his pages on the Wikipedia, it already says he's like the former guy in charge of the IRGC. I love the Internet when they get it right really quickly. Center. It is amazing to see this moment in history, because this is a moment in history. And I got to ask you this, a Ran now is going to respond.
I'm sure in some way. I'm sure Israel is expecting that you made it very clear to night America's warning and from this administration, what happens next and what is Israel expecting in your mind.
Well, it depends on the escalation. I think it is one hundred percent certain that Iran will respond by firing missiles at Israel. Israel gets that, they understand that they're ready for that. There is some real possibility that Iran will respond by firing missiles or other weapons at Americans. And I think if they do that, they will dramatically escalate this conflict. I think they will provoke. If they murder American servicemen and women, I think you will see
President Trump respond with devastating force. And so again my message to the iatola Is do not do that their response to Israel, I don't know what it will be. There is a risk that their response is devastating, that it is overwhelming. They have a massive number of ballistic missiles, so if they fire them, all the odds are significant that we will see a very large number of Israelis murdered. What I'm saying, Prime Minister net Yahoo understands.
He knows that.
He knows that, but by virtue of engaging this attack tonight, there's a real risk of a significant number of Israelis being murdered. But he did this because he knows that if Iran has a nuclear weapon, many many more Israelis and many many more Americans are at risk of being murdered. Look the Iatola chance death to America and death to Israel. I believe he believes that, and so acquiring a nuclear
weapon is not just an academic question. If he gets a nuclear weapon, I believe he is trying to acquire one because he wants to carry out his promises of death to Israel and death to America. And that's precisely why Israel has launched this attack, to stop him from getting that capability.
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