佛州斯科特和唐納茲就「北極霜」行動舉行新聞發布會

首先我要感謝羅伯特·約翰遜和拜登總統的光臨 這件事實在太荒謬了 這是我人生第三次受到行政部長的指揮 這件事實在太荒謬了 我不知道為什麼 但這件事實在太荒謬了 這件事實在太荒謬 我必須停止 這些人必須被帶到法庭 法官伯格斯不應該擁有法官權 他應該被判刑或退出 而約翰遜我們必須找出真相 如果他遭到刑罰,他必須被判刑 讓我轉到斯德爾·約翰遜的位置 謝謝羅伯特·約翰遜和拜登總統 這人給我提出了三點 首先我想談談 如何斯德爾·約翰遜發現 他被約翰遜指控 我們稱之為Dragnet 我們繼續欣賞 華盛頓現在給予我們資訊 昨天我們收到 一系列更多的訴訟 針對不同的電話號碼 這件事實在太荒謬了 當我們被通知 約翰遜指控的第一九人 我們被通知 我們有名字 現在給予的訴訟 只是電話號碼 我叫Rick Scott 所以我也認識他的電話號碼 這就是為什麼 他這麼快被通知 我們正在尋找 昨天收到的訴訟 的電話號碼 所以請留意 我們將進行更多的調查 我們想在針對的個人 進行調查 這是另一個我想強調的點 我知道有些人 稱這件事為漁獲 我同意 這件事是漁獲 我們也知道 當你把一些不對的事 想要研究出來 在民主黨的份上 這比其他事更糟糕 這是一個巨大的 暴動的漁獲 它是用來提供資訊 給他們的法治策略 用來破壞他們的政治的對抗 這是關鍵 這是一場非常 非常激烈的爭拗 比任何人都能知道 人們是無法理解的 第二點 We're getting information from Verizon. We're getting information from whistleblowers. We're getting some information from the Department of Justice. So I want to encourage more whistleblowers. I want to encourage and thank Verizon for providing us the information they're providing. Be completely transparent. We need more whistleblowers inside these agencies, across government, that have integrity, that want to see credibility and integrity to their own agencies and departments. We need more whistleblowers because the deep state remains. There are people burrowed in, doing everything they can to sabotage the second Trump administration's attempt to sabotage the first. The third point I want to make is I've got a great deal of sympathy for Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino. These are people that are aggressively trying to get control of their agencies, but because of the deep state, because of the fact that a lot of partisans quit, they had to terminate a number of them, they're unable to replace them because of the lawfare. Lawfare against honorable people like Judge Troopson of Wisconsin who they're trying to destroy him because he simply represented the President of the United States in his election challenge. So it's effective on the part of the left. That's why they're doing it. And as Rick Scott mentioned, this isn't a one-off. This has been their game plan literally for decades to use lawfare, to use the court system deviously to destroy their political opponents. It has to end. And the only way it ends is if it's totally exposed. And that's certainly what I'm dedicated to do here. Question? Go ahead. Well, first of all, let's get to the point on this. Operation Arctic Frost and everything that's occurred under it, it was a scheme to investigate, to face a sideline, to suppress, to diminish Republican senators and other Republicans in our country. The reason why they sought to do this is because they want to maintain political control over Washington, D.C. When I say they, I mean the Democrat Party. This is outrageous that you've had Senator Scott and other United States senators have their records subpoenaed, subpoenaed by Jack Smith, somebody who was brought into the Department of Justice by Merrick Garland and by Joe Biden. And if you notice, my question is, where's Chuck Schumer? Where's the King Jeffries? Where are prominent Senate Democrats saying this is outrageous, saying there needs to be a full investigation? If the American people are paying attention, they're not saying a word, but they'll be at a no-Kings rally, and they'll talk about how there are no kings in the United States, even though the United States defeated kings 250 years ago. They won't talk about that, but they'll be quick to be quiet when their colleagues in the United States Senate are having their records and their phones subpoenaed, they're having their records subpoenaed, they're having their phones tapped, they're having their offices tapped. They won't say a word about that. I think it's important for the American people to understand. The reason they won't say a word is because this is a chilling effect on what the debates in this country are supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about public policy in the United States of America. And because they do not have a coherent political or policy argument about what's in the best interest of the American people, they are perfectly okay with using deep state actors to investigate their political rivals. It is un-American. And specifically to Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg, who is entrusted to sit on the bench to be impartial and to be non-political and to basically review cases in front of him and determine the constitutionality and the legality of the claims in front of him. He has taken it on his own to be a hyper-partisan judge going after Republicans signing off on subpoenas that are unlawful. And he signed off on them just to get his political rivals. This is why he needs to be impeached. I commend Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas for leading this effort in the House to call for articles of impeachment of Judge Boasberg. And it'd be interesting to see what Minority Leader Schumer has to say about all this. Because if it's okay for a federal judge to sign off on subpoenas and warrants against Republicans in the United States Senate simply because they're going through not just fishing, like Senator Johnson said, this is not a fishing expedition. This was entrapment. This was trying to bury and to suppress your political rivals all to maintain power in Washington, D.C. And I'll stress again. Our Democratic colleagues, they want to talk about health care costs. Well, here are the facts. Their health care policy has led to premiums skyrocketing through the United States. Deductibles skyrocketing through the United States. They have no policy answer. So instead of actually addressing the issues of the American people, what are they doing? They're using deep state actors like a Jack Smith, like a Judge Boasberg to spy and to suppress the political abilities of Republican senators. This is outrageous. This is way bigger than Watergate. Way bigger than Watergate. And I want to hear what Senate Democrats have to say. I want to hear what House Democrats have to say. Because to be blunt, if the shoe was on the other foot, oh, trust me. They will be on every media show. They will be in every hallway of this Capitol talking about how there need to be investigations, talking about people need to be impeached. And so now that because they're not the target of this stuff, nobody's targeting them. But you have Rick Scott being targeted. You have Ted Cruz being targeted. You have many people. Jim Jordan been targeted. My colleague Scott Perry in the House, he's been targeted. And because it's Republicans being targeted, they have nothing to say. Democrats need to speak up. Do they want a country where there is free and open debate? Do they want a country that's for the people and of the people? Do they want a country where the law is blind? Or do they want a country where rogue judges and rogue prosecutors are targeting political rivals? This is insane. They need to step up and speak against this. Judge Bolsberg needs to go. There needs to be far more investigations to root out this corruption in the United States government. We can answer any questions anybody has. Yes. Thanks, Senator. Actually, a question for Congressman Donalds. You mentioned the push for impeachment. What do you anticipate this, you know, potential impeachment of Judge Bolsberg looking like in the House? Will this be sort of a privileged resolution that goes to the floor and get a voter? Do you think that would have some committee process hearings, markups, and more of what we saw with the state of Minority under the last Congress? I haven't talked with Congressman Gill in a couple of days, so I'll leave that to him. He can answer that one because he's pushing that resolution. As I understand it, he wants to make sure that it gets to the floor quickly. It might be privileged, but I'll actually leave that one to Congressman Gill. But he's been at this for a while. He has been observing and watching the actions of Judge Bolsberg. This is not something new. He's been actually trying to pursue this for several months. And then when Operation Arctic Frost was made known to everybody, it actually only redoubled his efforts. And so I'm really thankful for his leadership on this issue and the process in the House. I'll leave that to him and Speaker Johnson. But it needs to occur. It needs to occur this year. Let me unadvisedly say something about what the House ought to do here. This impeachment hearing would be extremely important. We bring it over here into the Senate. And we know the Democrats will not vote to convict. We can hold a trial. I'm not sure you do that on the floor of the Senate or just in a committee. But a House impeachment hearing or hearings would be extremely important because the most important thing here is not necessarily the verdict. The most important thing is exposing exactly what happened in a House hearing and Senate hearings would be a really good way of doing that. Jacob Vogel's Florida Politics. The way this was described, your phone number was showing up in other records. When you say that you were targeted, and this is Senator Ripshaw, when you say you were targeted by the DOJ or the executive branch, were they pursuing your records or were they pursuing other records and your phone number just showed up? They pursued my records and they asked for information on text, voicemail, how I paid my bills, all sorts of things like that. And this is the third time. So they tried to shut me up as a business guy. Then they tried to embarrass me with my tax returns. And then this. Let me also clarify. It's not that Senator Scott's telephone number showed up in a bunch of other places. No, his telephone number was on the subpoena. That's how they issued the subpoena. They didn't name him. They just issued a subpoena. I think in his case there were 9 or 10 different phone numbers. We're trying to track down. We got a number of subpoenas yesterday with more phone numbers we're trying to track down. Some of these are already phone numbers that are no longer in service. So it's a little difficult to do that. But again, it was just that the subpoena listed his phone number. It wasn't like his phone number was associated with any kind of wrongdoing whatsoever. Do you believe they were seeking charges or trying to pursue some sort of action against you? We don't know. Again, as this information is coming in, that's what I said, it looks way more, not just a fishing expedition, but literally a dragnet. I think Jack Smith probably ran out of time, but I think he was looking to indict all kinds of people. Again, what they were criminalizing, what they're attempting to criminalize, what they've actually charged Judge Troupas with felony is exactly what JFK did in Hawaii. They had an alternate state of electors. When JFK prevailed in Hawaii, that alternate state of electors was able to vote for him for president. Al Gore's attorneys, stupidly, didn't have alternate state of electors. So when the case went to the Supreme Court, no matter what the merit of his case, there was no alternate state of electors. So everybody learned from that. Certainly Judge Troupas learned about that as an advocate for President Trump in Wisconsin. So he appointed an alternate state of electors. Wisconsin's Attorney General Office said that was totally proper. And now after making that opinion, now the Attorney General of Wisconsin, Josh Krull, is charged Judge Troupas with felonies. Must be put away for life. He's probably run up millions of dollars, or at least a million dollars worth of legal fees. They're just destroying him. The process is the punishment. Again,and that's quite honestly what is chilling, Pambani and Cash Patel's ability to attract people into their departments. Is it worth serving three years and have your,you know, being targeted in the future by Democrats' lawfare? Again,this is,this is awful. This is sick,what the Democrats are doing. Basically,they want to shut us all up. They want to shut us up and put us in prison. That's what they want to do. Yes. What kind of,can you lay out what kind of timeline you're looking at here? When do you want to get certain information done and when do you want to get answers here? I'm not expert at that. But to me,the number one thing that has to be done is exposure. I think they've been investigating this for quite some time. I think they're dramatically understaffed for the reasons I stated in the department. I think there's a lot of hang-ups in terms of what information they've determined whether it has to be cleared, has to be vetted. They don't have the personnel to do that. So they're going to have to staff up. And that's one of the reasons when I was here in a press conference last week,the Judiciary Committee, I called on the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to do everything they can to help those department staff up. I mean,they know lawyers, they know people. Encourage people to,you know, come and work in the Trump administration. We need you. This is,this is a call to duty. If you're a patriot, and you love this country, and you want to see integrity and credibility restored to the justice department, the FBI, you need to serve. We truly need people to serve in these departments so that we can uncover this, expose it, and prevent it from happening in the future. Let me add to this. What we're witnessing is not politics as usual. This is not. This is a cancer to the very core of the republic. You have a Democrat Party who on purpose, on purpose, have weaponized the judicial process. They have weaponized the Department of Justice against their political rivals. Obviously, the target was President Trump. And so what they did is they expanded the scope on purpose with no evidence, no facts, no plausible, no possibility of fact, and they expanded it on purpose trying to entrap the United States senators for the purpose not of just convictions, but for the purpose of suppressing their ability to represent Republicans in the United States of America. That's insanity. But that's what they did. And listen, Senator Johnson's right. It is hard for people in the legal profession to decide to come into this administration because what's happening in bar associations all across America is that if you decide that you want to come in and work here, or I'll bring up another case that people don't want to talk about, but it's true. You have lawyers in America who were trying to represent January 6th detainees, and they were being blackballed by the legal community. That is a fact. They were being blackballed by the legal community from representing those individuals by Democrat attorneys in the bar associations all across America. This is a cancer to the core of the republic. And that's why Senator Johnson and Senator Scott, they need to have answers immediately. We understand what needs to happen in the Department of Justice, and we respect that process, but the American people need to know clearly and unequivocally that the Democrats don't care about the normal operations and the normal give and take of politics. They don't care about that. What they care about is full political control. And if you don't go along with their agenda, then they're going to find a way to investigate you. And the process, to Senator Johnson's point, the process is the punishment. You have people who've been ground into the dust financially because they didn't go along with the Democrats. It's disgusting. And it's got to stop, and that's why this has to be exposed. Yes? Two parts. First off, you characterize this as a dragnet from the subreddit for my understanding, but mostly for like a four-day period, I believe the 3rd or the 7th of January 2020. That's what I've seen so far online. No, OK. No, the subpoenas we're getting in now are far broader than that. The four-day period was for the initial nine members of Congress that the FBI made us aware of. The subpoenas coming in now are very broad. They're for a much longer period of time. They're for many more records. So that's why I say this is way more than a fishing expedition. It truly is a massive partisan dragnet. They're just trying to scoop it all up. Again, for the purpose of trying to cripple their political opposition. Well, they just want to destroy lives. I mean. They don't care about destroying lives. It's, you know, somebody like Judge Stroup is an honorable man. Probably the best election attorney in Wisconsin. It was great that he was willing to serve the President of the United States. They are literally destroying him. But they don't care. They couldn't care less. And by the way, just remember what they have. They have unlimited resources. So if you're a private citizen, you don't have unlimited resources. So their goal is to destroy you. And financially they're going to destroy you. You don't have the resources to fight the federal government. So if you're in business, you don't go along with them, they'll go after you. If you're a U.S. senator, you don't go along with them. They'll go after you. This has to stop. Like in my case, three times. They stole my tax returns. They went after me because I went after Hillary Clinton. And this. Everybody has to understand they can go after you. At the time, I ran one of the biggest companies in the country, and they went after me. And now I'm a U.S. senator. Wouldn't you think a U.S. senator would never be attacked by the federal government? This is crazy. For the individuals who weren't lawmakers, how long were some of those subpoenas? We'll be making that public. OK. Again,we're trying to identify the numbers now. We're trying to contact people as best we can. But I want to do that in conjunction with Senator Grassley, who's been my partner in all these investigations. So do you expect there will be more information beyond what you guys put together? There's more information we have not yet released. I'm telling you, there will be more to come, so stay tuned. And I'm hoping that if there's more information to come, that Verizon will continue to produce documents. And then hopefully the Justice Department as well. And whistleblowers. And the second part of the question is, you know, obviously, this is with regards to, as you said, the alternate electors. Do you guys, at this point in 2025, believe that the election in 2020 was improperly stolen from President Trump? There were indisputable irregularities in the 2020 election. In Wisconsin, there were a host of them. The lawsuit was a legitimate lawsuit that the Supreme Court in Wisconsin just basically dismissed what they call cloakalashes. And then they looked at the evidence. And that happened time and time again. Everybody said, the courts looked at this and dismissed it. No. The courts basically looked at these cases and dismissed the cases without ever looking at the evidence. So, yeah, there were all kinds of irregularities. We doubled the number of absentee ballots. The Baker-Carter Commission warned us that absentee ballots are probably the greatest potential fraud. And we doubled them during COVID. So, yeah, the irregularities are undeniable. To the extent that it impacted the election, that's what you really can't with a definitive answer say. Real quick. To the point of your question. Yes. And Senator Johnson is right. There were many irregularities in 2020 that have been documented. The courts did not look at the evidence. They dismissed the case as a fact. But let's talk about this in a broader concept. Each one of us has run for political office in America. The candidate, in this instance, President Trump, is allowed to contest the election. That is a legal right of any candidate in America. But the Democrats didn't want that. Let's remember the entire premise of this. You're allowed to contest the results of an election if you're the candidate in that election. That is your legal right and ability to do so. It should be protected. But the Democrats didn't want that. They wanted everybody to move on. They wanted no examination of it. They wanted no ability to question it. And let's take a further step back. And what did they do with the results of the 2020 election? They put in a president of the United States who had no mental capability to do the job. And then lied to the Americans. They lied to you. The press. They lied to you guys. Time and time again. Oh, no. Joe Biden's fine. Everything's okay. You didn't see the man for six months, eight months, ten months. He wasn't holding cabinet meetings. He would come out, have three cards, and when he was done, they would usher him back off stage. It is one of the greatest affronts to our constitutional republic a chief executive who was put into place who did not have the capabilities to do his job. You guys in the press watched it. We watched it here on Capitol Hill. But you want to talk about 2025. There were irregularities. President Trump was well within his rights to question that. And he did, obviously. But that doesn't warrant a massive investigation. That does not warrant Jack Smith, a rogue prosecutor who, by the way, is not the first time Jack Smith has done something like this. Don't talk to a former governor Bob McDonald of Virginia because he did it to Bob McDonald, too. And they turned that guy loose. Judge Boasberg was a part of it. Why? To go after their political rivals. And it might hold now, five years later, to protect the ineptitude and the radicalism of Joe Biden's presidency. We don't even know if he was mentally with us the last two years. We don't know. You have his wife's right hand, Anthony Bernal, pleading the Fifth in House depositions. You have his doctor pleading the Fifth in House depositions. I was present for both of those. He's pleading the Fifth. Does not want to answer the American people to the mental capabilities of President Biden. But when this issue comes up about the weaponization, which did occur of the Department of Justice, going after their political rivals for the purposes of trying to win elections and maintain power, that's your story, not whether President Trump challenged the results of the 2020 election, which, to be blunt, he had every right to do and there were major irregularities in that election. Which my opponent did in 2018 and I went through three recounts. And everybody said that was okay. Yeah, I was there. It was true. Thanks, everybody. I remember the recounts. It was crazy. 謝謝