As DOGE continues to expose the many, many ways our government has wasted taxpayer dollars, Glenn gives a warning: “You have to be really careful [what you believe] because we don’t want to wreck our credibility.” While the things DOGE has uncovered have been true, there are also a lot of rumors and misinformation spreading online. Glenn addresses some of those rumors, like the seemingly-unfounded claim that USAID helped fund Chelsea Clinton’s wedding through the Clinton Foundation. We must ask questions, but we can’t jump to conclusions without being sure that we have the real facts. Glenn also addresses some provably true stories of government waste, like how the Pentagon overpays for things and why Glenn supports Trump’s decision to stop minting pennies.
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GLENN: Looking at the DOGE stuff, and I want to talk about this next hour.
We have to be really, really careful. Because I don't know about you, but when I heard that we possibly paid for Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
PAT: Yeah. Do we have that substantiated though?
GLENN: We don't. We don't.
And that's why I want to bring that up.
PAT: You have to be careful with that stuff. A ton.
STU: A lot of stuff coming out online.
And you can't quote this stuff. You have to be really, really careful.
Because we just don't want to, A, wreck our credibility.
And, you know, when we find out that it is absolutely true, that's when we can go and say, round them up!
Let's put them court.
PAT: Yeah. Yeah. There's -- there's a viral chart going around that shows Chelsea Clinton got, I don't know. Something like $84 million from the foundation from the Clinton foundation.
And that 3 million of that went to her wedding.
GLENN: Okay. So I think -- I think they did get $84 million.
PAT: I think that went to the foundation, right?
GLENN: Yeah. It went to the foundation.
Got it for the whole run. For Haiti or whatever.
And, you know, we know they spent $84 million in Haiti.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: Because look at the place now.
Oh, it's beautiful he has not it's beautiful.
PAT: Well, we were there, how many years after the earthquake.
And it still looked the same. As if the earthquake had just happened. You remember that?
GLENN: Oh, yeah. And the people from Haiti were saying to us, where is the money?
PAT: Where is the $10 billion? Yeah. Because that could have rebuilt. That could have rebuilt the entire country. 10 billion.
GLENN: About four times. About four times over, I think.
PAT: Yep. Yep.
GLENN: I mean, it is -- Haiti is just -- it's a sad, sad situation.
It's been ripped off by everybody in the world over and over again.
And I think the Clintons are, you know, they kind of lead the way on the -- on the charity for Haiti graft.
PAT: Yeah.
STU: But we don't know anything about that. We do know the Clinton initiative got $84 million.
But we don't know any more than that.
And, you know, honestly, if you're spending your tax dollars, I mean, that's what people have to realize.
Even if it is, you know -- even if it is -- it didn't go to Chelsea's wedding.
Which I would be surprised.
I would be shocked, if they were that bold!
PAT: Yeah.
STU: But, you know, this isn't an effective use of your money.
And people who are looking at it, and saying, well, it was only $5 million.
How much money have you paid your entire life in taxes?
Because I guarantee you, it's not going to be $5 million.
It's not! Very few people to have pay $5 million in their lifetime of taxes.
So that means, that everything that you paid. Everything that you worked for. When you work four months a year, to pay your income tax.
All of that has been wasted, your entire life.
I don't know!
I'm kind of pissed about that.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: I mean, what could you have done with all of that money?
And I -- I just don't -- I don't get people who are, you know, again, like we said, I'm for aid.
I'm absolutely for aid. I'm absolutely for looking at countries, and saying, how can we help you, if it's in our interest, and that's not aid.
That would be development. But I'm not for most of the development that has been happening. I'm not interested in nation building!
You know, so, you know, even if you're for that, are you cool with it going 60 cents on every dollar? To the government officials?
Or to the charitable officials. And only 40 cents of that dollar?
I mean, I'm not happy with that. We've gotten so used to corruption, in our government, on, you know, the Pentagon spent $400 on, you know -- on a toilet seat.
We're so used to that. That we just expect it.
This is not that.
The corruption that we're finding now, is beyond imagination.
It's going to be hard for people to get their arms around, what you're actually looking at.
Because we expect a certain amount of -- unfortunately, a certain amount of corruption.
But nothing like this!
And if you're -- you know, if you are a Democrat and you're inclined, not to believe it.
Okay!
I can understand that.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, for a while.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. And say, I probably would have been skeptical, if Joe Biden -- I would have been skeptical if Joe Biden would have come in and said, we will route out all of the corruption.
I would have thought, well, no.
They're getting rid of anybody who is conservative on corruption.
That's why I'm so excited about the Pentagon because that's going to be a lot of conservative love.
You know what I mean?
So called conservative love. It's just graft and greed and cronyism.
But still, it -- it's -- we're supposed to be in love.
The left is supposed to be in love with aid.
We're supposed to be in love with death. I'm not -- I -- I am not blind to either one of those things.
But go into the Pentagon. I would love to see them take.
At you see the congressman or the senator last week, that held up a bag of bolts, and said, this is about $10 at the store?
It's $10,000, if the Pentagon buys it!
PAT: Jeez.
STU: Where is that money going?
PAT: Incredible.
GLENN: Who is getting that money?
And, you know, you would say, well, they're charging ten thousands of individuals dollars a bolt, because, you know, the aircrafts that they're building.
They're so expensive.
And they can't actually charge the price of what it takes.
No, they're charging us the price with all of the overruns.
All of the hundreds of billions of dollars in overruns.
They're charging us that as well.
So my question is: Where do those billions of dollars end up?
In just the pockets of, what? McDonnell-Douglas?
PAT: Raytheon?
GLENN: Raytheon.
PAT: Congress people?
GLENN: Right!
PAT: You know, a lot. A lot of it -- you know it's winding up in their pocketbooks. Has to be.
GLENN: And you know what really bothers me is, these people are taking our tax dollars. And then they're giving that money, through lobbying. To our politicians. Who are allowing the corruption to happen.
So it's just this giant circular -- I'm just going to leave it at that.
This giant circular, something.
I don't -- I don't know what happens in circles.
But there it is.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: By the way, the other thing that Trump said, first of all, he's getting rid of pennies.
Did you hear that?
Executive order. Thank you!
I mean, you know, takes 3 cents to create 1 cent. What are we doing?
That's the dims thing I've ever, ever seen.
PAT: Yes. Especially when nobody wants pennies. Nobody uses them.
If you ever use cash. And you get pennies back.
You just put it in their take a penny jar, usually.
And don't even want it messing up your pocket.
GLENN: Right. I mean, it's absolutely worthless to the American people.
And it's costing our government 3 cents to make 1 cent.
Finally, the president is -- I mean, all of this stuff is so common sense. That's what's so frustrating about all of this.
Should had it should have been done long ago.
But for some reason, we just couldn't. We've known about the penny thing.
I've known about the penny thing, when it was a cent and a half to make a penny.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: That long ago.
PAT: He's -- he's leaving no stone unturned right now.
You've got the penny thing.
And then he just did the straw situation.
Did you see that?
We're going back to plastic straws.
He signed an executive order, or he is going to. Ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws, which don't work. Back to plastic, he tweeted out! Or truthed out.
GLENN: I love that.
PAT: It's just -- it's amazing the things that he's covering, at a breathtaking speed.
GLENN: I love that.
Do we have the CBS anchor trying to explain how Trump's approval ratings are going through the roof? Listen to this. Cut ten.
VOICE: What's driving this?
VOICE: I will keep it simple, Margaret. He's doing what he said he would do in the campaign. There's political value in that. In fact, 70 percent of people say he's doing what he's promised. That's whether they approve of him or not.
Now, there's another part of this that continues over from the campaign. There are words he was described as being tough. Being energetic.
And he still is today, in big majority numbers.
So as people take a look in these first few weeks, there's been a lot of activity. They're getting that general sense of governance. And that's being reflected in these early numbers.
VOICE: So that's perception. What about the actual policies?
VOICE: Well, let's start with the ones that are popular.
Again, these echo the ones we see in the campaign. The idea of deporting those in the country illegally continues to be popular. We saw that in the campaign.
GLENN: 59 percent.
VOICE: Sending troops to the US-Mexico border. Again, majority --
GLENN: 64 percent.
PAT: Wow! Wow.
GLENN: I mean, it is -- and they're just baffled by it. I don't understand. No. Really.