No BS Newshour Episode #404
Nursing Home Holocaust
(0:04) You’ll never guess how many died in Michigan’s nursing homes and you may never know.
Total redaction on nursing home documents.
(3:52) The latest on the Whitmer/Nessel cover-up.
(34:13) Nancy Guthrie Missing. Another elderly woman abused by the media.
(45:29) You heard it here first.
From the Michigan Enjoyer’s Nostradamus file: Trump calls Canada’s bridge bluff.
Make a trade deal or take off, eh?
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TRANSCRIPT:
So we still don’t know who died in Gretchen Whitmer’s nursing homes and how many. Every action we took was based on the best science and the best information available to protect people and to save lives. Remember I paid $3,147.90 to Whitmer’s lawyer, Dana Nessel, to get those public documents, the science and data.
Nessel cashed my check, but still no documents. So I sued and 272 days later, they finally arrived. What concerns people the most is when you have that lack of transparency and that’s certainly what we have in this case.
And guess what we’ve learned? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. 596 pages of redactions.
More redactions than the Epstein files. She’s claiming attorney-client privilege. I paid essentially $5.25 per blank page.
Enormous redactions for some of the most important information that people would want to know. Like the caper with Kornak the embezzler. Allegedly.
Nessel’s covering it up. Stop touching me. What happened to the woman’s money? Stop touching me.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the Loon of Lansing back in 2022 telling a group of nursing home lobbyists to keep the champagne coming. She’s got their backs. And I’m just tired of hearing it regurgitated over and over and over again that terrible things happen at your facilities.
It’s not true. But I said I was going to do everything I could to hold your industry accountable. And as it turned out, I discovered your industry was doing a phenomenal job.
There really wasn’t much accountability to be had. I mean, that’s the truth. Is that the truth? Is it? Then what are you hiding underneath all these redactions? And to be honest, I expected them.
That’s why we’re going to the court. All the way to the Supreme Court, ladies. How many dead? Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man, Charlene LaDove and Karen Dumas.
Hi, Karen Dumas. Hello, Charlene LaDove. I’m glad you could make it.
There she is. I told you. I told you.
She was not in the back in the shed or in the septic tank or on her way to Mexico in a 700 mile radius. Nope. Right there in the flesh.
Mark Nida, the editor, the editor of the Michigan Enjoyer. Welcome in. Thank you.
OK, I want to remind you and everybody else next Tuesday, next Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, the day before Lent at the American Coney Island, downtown Detroit, at the corner of Lafayette, Michigan, in the pie-shaped building, red, white, and blue. Coney Punschke Day. I know.
Save it. Save it. It’s not a sacrilege.
It’s delicious. Punschke, Coney, all the fixings come early while they last. What time does the shop open? Nine.
Nine till they run out. And they always run out. Got it? Got it? Me, I’m trying to lose some weight.
I’ll get the special. All right. Now that we’ve proven that Attorney General, we’ve proven that Attorney General Dana Nessel participated in the cover-up of the abuse of a brain-damaged nursing home resident during COVID.
And Governor Whitmer. That was a subliminal. That was totally.
I don’t play those games. You know, I do. Oh, stop tweeting that.
It got in the brain. Anyway, Governor Gretchen Whitmer. While Whitmer stood idly by, it’s time to address the mammoth scandal.
What about the 130,000 other people in the long-term care facilities who were locked away in the darkness of the pandemic? How many died? And what did they die from? Loneliness? A lot of people claim that. Or was it COVID contracted from the infected people that Whitmer ordered into the nursing homes? I have to set an aside here. How nuts is this? Okay.
You ruin my kid’s life. You ruin everybody’s kid’s life. You lock them in their rooms, unless you could afford private school.
Then they got to go to school. You locked them away. You shut down businesses.
We printed money to keep everybody eating. All in the name of what? Protecting the elderly. So let’s think about this.
Why don’t we take the infected elderly and put them in the same fucking building with the healthy elderly? Okay. How many dead? We never got the answer. And I suspect a massive cover-up is being conducted at the highest level of state government.
Now, some quick background. In August of 2020, the Department of Justice, United States Department of Justice, opened a civil rights investigation into five governors, including Whitmer, who ordered nursing homes to accept people contaminated with COVID. Among other things, the feds demanded Michigan’s nursing home death and infection data, as well as Whitmer’s scientific reasoning for commingling the sick with the healthy.
Whitmer’s team responded about a month later, but the public was never told what Whitmer sent to the DOJ. So I sent a public records request to Whitmer’s lawyer, Dana Nessel, last April. First, Nessel demanded that I pay an outrageous sum of $3,147.80—you can keep the dime—in order to get those documents.
So we paid. More than 200 days went by, and I received nothing. That’s illegal.
Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act clearly states she had 21 days to produce the goods. So I sued. Now, finally, after 272 days, I received a thumb drive from Nessel’s office containing 596 pages of nothing.
Nearly all the documents were redacted. Think about that. After years of bombarding the public with a vomit of COVID data, suddenly that data has become a state secret.
What was not redacted was my demand letter, the DOJ’s demand letter, and interestingly enough, the Michigan State Senate subpoena demanding Whitmer’s response to the DOJ, the very same thing I asked for. I can’t find that. I don’t know if they ever got it.
Return the call, Senate. Beyond a few—not on that one. Wait a minute, not on that one.
Wait a minute. Not on that one. Oh, here we go.
There’s a Christina on that one. Here we go. Besides a good morning, Christina, and thanks, Bob, Nessel blacked everything out, hiding under a blanket of attorney-client privilege.
Now, I got a Doberman of an attorney, Phil Ellison, who will take my complaints over the cost, the delay, and the Nixonian redactions all the way to the Michigan Supreme Court if that’s what it takes. We deserve to know what happened to our loved ones. Can I get amen? Amen.
Uh-huh. We deserve better end-of-life care in Michigan, not a cover-up. Now, remember, Whitmer claimed she was making pandemic-era decisions on science and data, and the flopping fish of corporate media swallowed her asininity hook, line, and sinker.
Not me. I sued Whitmer and Nessel in 2021 for that supposed science and data. I won that case just as I will win this one, and I was shocked to learn there was no reliable data.
Remember all that bullshit? Day after day, radio, TV, newspaper, printing shit, didn’t understand any of it. Clusters. How many died in the fucking nursing home? Nursing homes simply made up numbers to make the facilities look better than they were, and Whitmer dutifully printed it and then dutifully defended it.
When I exposed the scandal, it was made-up data. The Michigan House of Representatives ordered a full audit of the nursing home debt. And what did the state general, uh, Auditor General find? That long-term facility death toll was 43% higher than Whitmer was telling the public.
It was as bad as Cuomo’s New York, maybe worse because Cuomo stopped doing it after 40 days, and Whitmer let it go on all through the pandemic. Disregarding the auditor’s report, Nessel delivered the keynote address at the annual convention of the Michigan Nursing Home Lobby. I, I, I kid you not.
Roll it. And I’m just tired of hearing it regurgitated over and over and over again that terrible things happen at your facilities. It’s not true.
But how would she know it’s not true? Nessel refused then, as she does now, to conduct the most cursory investigation. She refutes the auditor’s findings as comparing apples to oranges. Apples to oranges.
Human beings are not apples and oranges. She redacts entire documents. She takes money from the nursing home owners rather than investigating credible allegations that the nursing homes may have funneled COVID profits to subsidiaries while providing extremely poor quality care.
Nessel, who aided and abetted the alleged financial rape and mental abuse of the late Rose Bird, must step aside or be moved aside. And Whitmer, I’m a patient man. Justice is a right, not an option.
Your thoughts, Karen? Well, I was thinking when you were, when you were talking to him, because she did, she duplicated Cuomo’s playbook and he stopped. She didn’t. She didn’t have anybody else to copy.
When you, when you duplicate somebody else’s actions, you know, their agenda with no input from your own, where do you go when they stop? If you’re following somebody and they turn the corner and you don’t know where to go, you’re stuck. So she didn’t have anybody else to copy. And they froze.
I mean, she froze and it went on through the pandemic. And the first lawsuit revealing bullshit and then the audit revealing, oh my God. They never, they never corrected their number.
They rejected it as apples and oranges. The interesting thing, and I wonder what you think about this, is the auditor’s report. He only took data from March of 2020, COVID started, through July of 2021, when he was ordered by the House Oversight Committee.
We don’t even know what happened after that. And I think that’s been the point. I mean, the public has been left in the dark since day one.
And all three of them, the three, what are they? Charlie’s Angels? You’re Charlie’s Angels. I mean, they’ve not been upfront. They’ve not been honest.
And everything has been about their political career. Let’s just cover up. Let’s make it look good.
Let’s make a nice video. Let’s do nothing in terms of public responsibility or accountability. Nothing.
Mark, you’re the editor of the hottest news organization in Michigan. Why the media blackout on this? Well, I mean, I think, for starters, I mean, during the pandemic, I was working at CNN and, you know, everyone was cheerleading Cuomo. Cuomo, if you remember, was doing those daily press conferences.
You know, everyone was talking about, Daddy, Cuomo’s going to save us. I mean, to think about how the Michigan politicians responded, they just saw press adulation and said, let’s do that, I guess. I mean, it really is that simple.
And then, you know, I mean, working at CNN, we had the tracker, the COVID death tracker that every other outlet was relying on every day for, you know, broke it down by state, was getting fed all the CDC data, was getting the local data. So when you have like that as the source of truth, people just started becoming really reliant on, you know, what was actually kind of a second, you know, aggregator of that data instead of like, actually looking at the reporting systems that were in place at the state level to pull that together. And so, you know, it’s a lot of people not asking hard questions about what the data is.
It’s just them trying to keep the tickers updated on their websites and on the TVs. And, you know, they’re in the news flow, you know, they’re trying to plan for the 24-hour news cycle. Maybe they didn’t have time to ask good questions or, but, you know, I won’t let them off that easily, but it’s a willing ignorance.
But when the media found out, I don’t know why we’re going back, we’re talking about fucking Cuomo, but let’s bring it, take him, because she copied him, she denies she copied him, and she denies she even knew him. But you had the letter, remember? I had the letter, we had Cuomo on laughing, right? You had the actual letter between them, so you had it in writing, you didn’t have to rely on, you know. So, Cuomo gets caught.
Whoop, like, you start hearing the noise, like, in May or June of 2020. But he gets caught in 2021, and the press gets so pissed off that he made a fool out of them, that they find a reason to take him out, and it’s his boorish behavior. He didn’t rape anybody, nobody says he stuck his tongue in their mouth, he said stuff to me, he might have touched my breast.
They got him. Our media didn’t, we got her. I’m telling you, man, I think that the death toll in the long-term care facilities, they like to play with definitions.
Nursing home is skilled nursing facility with Medicaid and Medicare, it’s rehabilitated. They just said, basically, Whitmer signed it, anywhere old people reside in a group setting, I want them counted. California did it, Michigan did it, we never counted them, we never, and I want to know what’s up with our media.
Like, there’s a lot of people listening, and they want this, and I told you, I’m coming. What did I ask? I asked you something. Am I barking up the wrong tree here? No, I don’t think so, Charlene.
I think if you remember before we went on, I was saying how, and I see it more often, we’ve talked about this over the years, that too many media representatives appear to be seeking validation from the people that they should otherwise be holding accountable, whether they want to be invited to the party, whether they just want to be, I don’t know what it is, but I’ve never seen this type of reaction from, quote unquote, the media for elected officials ever. I’ve never seen it. What’s the value, editor, chief, boss? I mean, people are preserving access.
I mean, Whitmer, especially during her first term, and now she just doesn’t do media apart from self-produced media like Zoran Mamdani, but people who are critical got cut off, and they stopped getting the press releases, and they got blacklisted. I mean, if your email inbox gets worse, and you’re a certain type of political reporter, your reporting suffers, and people are afraid of that. That means that the outcome is not really objective.
Therefore, it is subjective, because if it’s critical, meaning if it’s factual, then you get kicked out. If you have access, and you provide some critical assessment, then you get, so you’re going to go in and not be honest so that you can maintain access. Where does that leave us? Fuck it.
I’m out of there. I’m going with the new kid on the block here. Now, I don’t know why you’re doing this.
It’s not very clicky. Oh, people care about this immensely. I mean, I get emails every day being like, I saw that Charlie’s filing a lawsuit with regards to nursing homes.
Now, is this class action? My mother, my father, they were in a nursing home. They caught COVID, and they passed, and I want some justice. I mean, I always hate to say them like this is sort of a document-related matter, where we’re just gathering information.
We’re not starting a class action lawsuit on behalf of grieving families. But I mean, people are not over this. That’s my view.
Let me ask the young guy. It touched too many people. Hey, Claude, my daughter over there, did COVID fuck you up? Well, yes.
I think it did for everybody. I see it in my classmates. I mean, nobody’s the first person to start a conversation amongst their peers, and a lot of people don’t want to reach out to their professors.
I don’t know. It makes connecting with people difficult. At least you got to college.
So COVID hit, if I remember correctly, you were in eighth grade, going into ninth grade? Yes. Was it the summer of? No, you were just finishing eighth grade? It was March. Yes.
And going in, like probably the top three era of a female life in this country, I would think, right? That’s a big one. Moving on out of the house is another one, and then starting a house with someone new, and having a child, of course, and then burying your mother. That’s probably the five big ones.
And okay, we’ll do it, because we love the person in their fifth epic. Crush them, arresting barbers, and you did this. Law and care people.
Debt maintenance. I mean, everything. I mean, things that didn’t even make sense.
At some point, I understand that we’ve never been through a pandemic in this era, in this lifetime. But at some point, critical thinking logic went in. It didn’t.
Well, and to think that the only people who really came out ahead were people in the same age bracket of the elected officials at the time. Everyone between 35 and 55, they were redoing their pools. They were working from home, margaritas outside at five o’clock, instead of a commute.
And meanwhile, young people, they’re locked out of school. They’re on Twitch, whatever that is. And then old people are locked away, getting a knock on, like the best part of their day is a knock on the window to say, I mean, I did it with my own grandmother.
To think that the best part of your day is seeing someone through a window is like, I mean, it still kind of tugs on your heartstrings. I’m going to tell you, most of my family wasn’t having it. It was one holiday.
I forget which one. One of the ones you all gather, Thanksgiving or something. And there were my mom, big brothers, wives, drinking, smoking.
And I’m like, it’s at our house. And I’m like, so I’m like, I’m going to stand in the garage, open the window. You know what I mean? I want to hear, I just, I didn’t want my mom to get hurt.
By that time, they all knew. Loosely didn’t really listen to it. And it’s like, we knew who it was killing.
They knew who it was killing. And let’s just go back. We start with one old woman named Rose Bird in a nursing home where it’s been pointed out.
It’s probable abuse and they covered that up. So what does that mean now? What does that mean? They don’t have any credibility. And this is just more proof.
You’re fucked up. Going to keep going. I got so many more stories to do.
Got piles of it. Promise to publish them? Yeah. Okay.
You can take those with you. So is this like your version of making it rain in a strip club? Making it rain? That’s how you’re throwing it out there. What does that call, Mark? I don’t know what you’re talking about.
You know. What? Oh, you mean a gentleman’s club. No, I mean, what do they call it? Making it rain.
No, it’s something else. I don’t know what club you go to. Okay.
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It’s acidically balanced. It is. Smell it.
I mean, that is nice. You want this? No, I’m good. A little less nice after that.
All right. Listen, get a box of Mando products. You’re going to love them.
Are those gender specific? No, that’s a funny thing. It should be called Womando as well. Or Commando.
Give me a call. You said you were going to get me some more, right? I’m just going to order. I’m going to go to shopmando.com because I like the acidified body wash.
You know when you do the body wash and you put it on and it rinses right off? It’s just, this one is, it’s not sticky or oily. It does. It lathers and you can feel it and it’s just got a nice scent to it.
So, I use them on the show. Mark, do you use it? I do, yeah. Yeah, everybody does.
In the Red Shovel Network. Everybody uses it. Yep.
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Yes. Good stuff. No, I’m going to get it, right? Yeah.
Hook me up. Deodorant wipes, because I don’t like to pay. I know people.
You think I’m paying for one of those punch keys? Do I have to pay? Grace said, hell yeah, you’re going to pay. They sell out. Business has slowed down here.
Don’t believe me. You’re supposed to pay. I don’t like people that expect things free from- Well, then I’m going to pay because I don’t want your, you know, thank you very much.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right over the redaction. 6-6-3-4-7-4-8.
Is this the hole-in-one? It’s a hole-in-one, $50,000 if you hit it. Luke Nowacki, financial wealth management. What is 50 grand after tax? 37,750.
What about state tax? Yeah, I’m throwing both in there. What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying a beer.
It’s income. You’re buying a beer. Eh, we write that off.
Luke Nowacki, financial wealth management. Expense allowance. I threw my pen.
You toss it back? It’s pretty good. I know. Thank God, you know what I mean? It looked like a girly manic.
You can’t be a girly man and wear a man doll, so it’s contradictory. I got nothing against girly men. Some of my best friends, even though I don’t know what that means.
Man’s a man. Have we settled on that yet? I think so. Whatever you call yourself.
But you can’t box. You hear about that guy from Tunisia? Who won the gold medal in the women’s boxing? Finally admitted he was a dude. Come on.
Come on. Be what you want to be, but- Anyone who saw that right hook was like, yeah, that’s probably bad. That jab, too.
Coming from Indiana, man. All right. Before we go on, I got to get some clicks, man.
Let’s click whore here. Click whore? Nancy Guthrie. Thoughts? Wait.
Why isn’t the Enjoyer covering Nancy Guthrie? Everybody else is doing it. Where’s the Michigan angle? There’s always a Michigan angle. We’re not going to write the Justin Verlander’s back.
Everybody knows. Not doing it, huh? What is your mission, bro? What good is it? I work there. I don’t even know the mission.
What is the mission? We’re a digital magazine of lifestyle and politics in Michigan. And our mission is to help revive a sense of what a Michigander is, and to provide accountability from the politicians we elect. You know, what’s interesting is we had him on the show, the Newsman.
X’s Worldwide Newsman was on. And you want to know what he told me? You can get the clicks, but since journalism died, outlets died, that were the monies to be made. What’s not being served is local news.
Like the Detroit News used to have a Livonia Bureau. And now we have a Livonia Bureau. Well, it’s more than Livonia Bureau, but its anchor, its root is in Livonia.
And that would be J. DeLorean Murray, who is hosting a town hall. When? Tomorrow night, seven o’clock at the Bennett Civic Public Library Auditorium. Bennett Civic Center, sorry, Library Auditorium.
He’ll be talking to— A little more lively, please, Mark. Come on, geez. It says the battle for the soul of Livonia.
Yeah, we’ll talk about what that means. And, you know, we’ve heard rumblings that protesters will be coming to express their displeasure with J. Murray, which I say, make my day. I will shake every one of their hands.
And yeah, we’ll have… It’s a conversation with… they’re stealing your idea, Karen. Obviously. It’s okay.
It’s a conversation. I understand. They can’t duplicate it.
But Livonia has soul? You can’t numiscate it. Livonia has soul? Well, we’re going to find out. I mean, I think, you know, the headline of the event is part of the sales pitch.
You know, the protesters were pretty interested in the title that we had chosen. And, you know, we’ll talk about what it means. So it’s Jay in conversation with who? With Scott Barr, who is former vice president of the city council.
Really smart guy. Has an email newsletter where he informs the public about what happens at every city council meeting. Yeah.
I mean, I think I’m looking forward to the conversation. And we have cool enjoyer beanies for the first hundred people in the door. Jeez.
Hey, Claude, you going? Hey, that sounds great. Do you have a beanie, Charlie? It’s cold out there. You don’t have one? No.
They didn’t give you one? He’s got too good a hair. He can’t wear a hat. Yeah.
Jay’s over there going, are you coming? I go, what time is it? He goes, seven. I go, it’s dark in Livonia at seven. Yeah.
Better be careful. The mean streets. So seven o’clock tomorrow night, Thursday, February, what? 12th.
12th. At the Livonia Bennett Civic Auditorium. It’s right near City Hall at five.
And don’t tell me, five mile and five, five. Wait, what? But don’t tell me. Five mile.
It’s near Bates. Is that Farmington? Five in Farmington. Right there.
Thank you. Wow. Been to Livonia maybe twice in my life.
Come on down. I’m good. Interesting thing about Livonia and Detroit.
At one point, not anymore. Detroit was the largest, percentage wise, largest black city in America. And Livonia was the whitest.
And that Detroit thing we got with all the baggage. And the Wayne County government was run. It was so corrupt.
It was run by Livonia, Ed McNamara, Mike Duggan. And Detroit, Bernard Kilpatrick, et cetera. Wow.
They pulled the wool. They pulled the wool. They ate while causing hate.
And wasn’t Mike Duggan living in Livonia the whole time he was mayor? He was also head of the Young Republicans in Livonia. So all that whole conversation about the flip-flop Democrat. I mean, people don’t want to do their homework.
It was the same page from McNamara’s book when he wanted to run for county exec. And who was the main, you will know, the Karen, queen of the senior boomers? I can’t remember. Who was Kwame Kilpatrick’s mentor? Who advised him, raised money for him? That was Duggan.
Mike Duggan. He came to his, not his, his wedding. Yeah, his funeral.
No, no, no. I didn’t mean it that way. I’m sorry.
But I’m saying he came to his. I mean, people always want to think about all the separation of people, you know, for whatever reason. And Kwame did an interview and said the same thing.
All these people are friends. They know each other. They support each other.
And that goes for local politics, too. What you see in front of a camera or at a meeting has nothing to do with what’s going on behind the scenes. Did white boy Rick go to that wedding? Yep.
Well, I’m not sure. I don’t know if he went to that. He was at your thing.
No, I don’t know. He did? I don’t know. Was he? Yeah, I don’t know.
I didn’t see any pictures. So Duggan helped keep white boy Rick in jail. Let’s, you know, old times be old times.
What a wedding. Gangster’s paradise. What the fuck? Hey, that was Detroit.
These are all people that had their fingers on the pulse of what was happening in the city at the time. I had a finger on my wallet. And you could fit them all into a hotel room at the Motor City Casino.
You know? Okay. So, um, just real quick, you know, clicks, click, click me. Click, click.
Guthrie. I got three knees. Click, click, click, click, click.
Okay. Here’s all I’m going to say about this shit. The last people to see Nancy Guthrie are her daughter, Annie and Tommaso Chione.
Did they drive her home? Yes. Yes, they did. Yeah.
Tommaso did. See, you’re watching all this cable shit. Half of them say they don’t know who dropped her.
They still don’t. And I’m like, wait, I thought I heard. Okay.
So Tommaso dropped her off. And apparently this woman who can’t walk but 50 feet with a cane went in through the garage door. Okay.
I’m the reporter. Here’s what I’m doing. I did a lot of crime reporting, a lot of crime scenes.
How did she? Why would you go? What? Why wouldn’t you walk her into the house? I don’t get it. Okay. So does the garage door work with a clicker? Do you guys know? Or is there a touch pad? I’m not sure.
Okay. You’re a fucking reporter talking to the sheriff. Was it a touch pad? I would say my friends, my colleagues at the press, if you just bear with me, it’s just going to be a little rapid fire.
Was it a garage door opener or keypad? Because I didn’t see no keypad in all the footage I saw. So it must have been a garage door opener. She carried a garage door opener, but not the keys to her front door.
Now we towed the car away. Did you find a garage door opener in there? That’s number one. Tommaso goes away.
Just saying. I’m just saying. I’m not saying it’s Tommaso.
Didn’t this fucking weirdo, right? With his gun holster right at his junk. Yeah. Right? Yeah.
Right at his… That’s not a professional. You know what that is? That’s a liquor store robber. Right? Okay.
And he’s sticking sagebrush over the thing. Why didn’t you just rip the thing off right away? Okay. I did some reporting.
Yeah. February 1st, it was a full winter moon in Tucson. It reached its apex at 12.06 AM.
So what time did she disappear? 1.47? Yeah. 1.47. Yeah. That full moon in the desert, cloudless, lit everything up.
Nobody saw anything. Okay. So anyway, did you guys notice there was no break-in? There’s no break-in.
Did you notice the front door wasn’t… I saw the guy get in the house. Hey, Sheriff, was it a break-in? Because you didn’t even hold the crime scene. We all walked up there and videoed the whole house.
There’s no break-in. It must have been a key. But everybody is seeking emotional response as opposed to presenting the facts.
I watched the Sheriff a couple times, and it reminded me of Mayberry. He’s trying to… We really care. I get the compassion thing, but that’s what most people do.
Nobody’s thinking about all those factors that weigh into how it happened or how it can be solved. It’s just, let me let you know I care. Let me evoke some type of emotion from you.
And no results. No nothing. But clicks.
Absolutely. I mean, this is straight out of an episode of The Morning Show, honestly. Here’s the next bit.
Okay. No forced entry. Okay.
Somehow it’s a 150-pound human being limp. Do you know how hard it is to get it up on your shoulders? Just that alone? Doesn’t matter. It’s a female.
It’s a 150-pound, let’s call it, bag of sand. It’s impossible, almost. Especially if she’s not mobile.
So that’s a lot, what you would consider dead weight. Do you think? Yeah. Hmm.
Okay. So the next day, she doesn’t show up to the… Church. Yeah.
I guess all the girls go around and watch a televised church from New York. Hey, your mom didn’t show up. So they go over, Tommaso and Annie, I think.
We’re not even told exactly who went over. The first person to knock on the… Was the door unlocked? Think about that. No one’s thought about that.
If the door was unlocked, then somebody had a key to get in, in the first place. If the door was locked, somebody had a key. Or did she open it if there’s no forced entry? Or was she never at home? Or was she never inside? Her blood’s there, though.
But it was outside, right? Yeah. It could have been there at nine o’clock. Well, then someone came back, though, at 147? I’m just saying maybe someone who dropped her off.
Maybe… How do you… And I haven’t followed… You know what I’m saying? You see what I’m saying? Yeah. I dropped you off at home. A little something happened on the porch.
Whoa. Back into the car. Called Jimmy with the mask.
Jimmy, go make it look like something. I don’t buy that, though. Why don’t you? Because… I just don’t think if there’s an accident or something happened, I don’t… I mean, you hear that all the time when a husband murders his wife.
They’re like, well, she died, and I just wanted to clean up the scene so nobody gets in trouble. It just doesn’t make logical sense. You would call 911 if something happened.
Because why are you digging a bigger hole? Do I think it’s somebody that knew the family? I do. But I don’t know if it’s someone in the family for $6 million when the sister-in-law or sister is a multimillionaire. If you needed money that bad, you could borrow it.
But usually people in families that have money don’t pass it out that way. So there could be some… Jealousy. Well, I mean, I don’t know.
It could be debts, right? The old lady has a trust. I’m just saying, I mean, it’s not even clear to me that that note is anything. Yeah, true.
You assume they’re connected. Oh, Ken’s got to chime in. You assume they’re connected.
Ken loves a good conspiracy. He loves… Oh, conspiracy, Ken. There he is, Ken.
Phoenix? You said Phoenix? Tuxin? Tuxin. Tuxin. Yes.
When I got smuggled in by the cartel, we had to lay on the border in Bisbee and wait for the truck to come. So we had to lay under like black tarps, like garbage bags. Oh, yeah.
We had to lay in a lot. And then the truck pulled up. And we get in the back, you know, one of those camper hoods, and the window slides open from the front, and they start handing waters back to us.
And the guy handing waters back shaved bald, except for a curly Q on his forehead, like Charlie Brown. And I said, where are we going? Right? ¿Dónde vamos? He said, Tuxin. I was thinking Charles Manson more than Charlie Brown.
Yeah, it wasn’t a swastika. Yeah, I know. I know, but when you start saying the thing on the forehead, that’s… It was weird news.
Freaking weird. So, you know, I’m not… Yeah, I don’t know. I’m just… As a reporter, that’s what I would have asked.
Yeah, they’re very light on details. They’re all just guessing. I think so.
Like, how’d they get in? How’d they get out? There’s no sign of… Were pearls taken? Yeah, was anything stolen? Was there a safe? I mean, you’re walking around for 41 minutes. Why? Yeah, we don’t know. But Charlie, think about what you did to get answers about the issue.
What was her… Samantha Walls? Yeah. And how you literally… So, if there’s not a Charlie LaDuff or a George Hunter in the room, then it just goes to whatever talking points are being delivered, and nobody’s challenging it. Shout out to George Hunter.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, remember Ianna Stanley Jones, the seven-year-old girl that was shot by SWAT? Yeah. And basically, they broke in looking for the murder, which was the young girl’s father participated in it.
And A&E was along with the SWAT team, and then they break the door open and throw a flashbang grenade in there, and the kid ends up dead. And here’s the police story. Because I called the owner of the house, and they let me in.
Okay. They were like, we went in, and the grandmother grabbed the gun. Okay.
I’m gonna go check out the crime scene. The frame of the door is broken in, consistent. Throw the grenade in there, consistent.
Bang. But then you notice, the couch is right next to the door they just hit. Bang.
The kid is sleeping near the door. And the grandma’s on the far end of the couch sleeping. Bang.
The kid jumped up. Oof. Looked like an accident to me.
But to say the woman jumped up off the couch, ran, and seriously? No. So that’s my real-world training. So it just, the police work, the information, the reporting, just doesn’t add up to me.
It’s lacking in this case. Yeah. So I didn’t care at first.
And I’m like, oh my God. Well, and you know that community’s crawling with reporters now, but they’re just standing around in the press pool waiting to be told. You know, they’re not.
That’s what she said, standing around waiting. Yeah. I mean, they’re waiting for the press conference with the camera guys, and then they’ll do their live spots, and then they’ll go back to their hotel.
And you notice most of the reporting that does come out is from local affiliates, because they know people on the ground. They know people in the sheriff’s office in Pima County. They know these people.
They’re sourced. I try to get this information from them, but even that seems to be lacking. Didn’t they say that because she was a heart patient, she had medication, that she probably wouldn’t survive after, what, 48 hours or something? I think that was a tactic, but yeah.
You think so? I mean- She definitely has some kind of medicine. We know she has a pacemaker, because it stopped connecting to her Apple Watch that was left at home. But I think, you know, taking high blood pressure medication, I could go weeks without it.
I would just have high blood pressure. Long term, not good. I know she’s an older woman, but- I don’t get this either.
Like, it wasn’t professional. They left the medicine behind. I’m like, how the fuck would they know she’s taking medicine? Yeah, they wouldn’t know that.
You wouldn’t know. Well, she did a lot of appearances on the Today Show, talking about her high blood pressure medicine. Yeah.
That’s some deep intel. It’s pretty wild. Pack a night bag, baby.
We’re going. 41 minutes. That show’s like four hours long.
It’s pretty hard to dive into the archives with that one. What are you going to do? Okay, there’s that. All right.
Did you notice the bridge story? I did. Go ahead. Man, you know you can silence that, right? Such a rookie.
Mr. President. That means I’m getting a ticket. It’s murder around here.
Forgive the pun. Okay, yeah, so the new Gordie Howe Bridge. Donald Trump.
Yeah, I mean, it might be the old bridge by the time they open it. I mean, who knows what happened? Well, Trump’s saying Canada’s not going to open it. If you don’t make us a trade deal, and if you don’t give us a piece of the bridge, we’re not going to put Border Patrol staff on it, so it can’t open.
Is this going to cost us? We got some video. Yeah. All right, play that.
We just want you to know we were on this. Michigan, enjoy. We should call it Michigan first lawyer.
Always first. And wait, do you see that down there? That’s the new Gordie Howe International Bridge. The latest piece in the big diabolical global game of risk.
And Canada is scamming us. They pay for the bridge, and we get not only the smog, but we get Chinese and German goods being dumped into the U.S. as Canada takes a middleman piece, and we lose the jobs. Just take a look at this map.
Canada’s got two giant ports on the East Coast, one in Halifax and one in Montreal. They’ve got two more giant ports on the West Coast in Vancouver and Prince Rupert. See the red lines going across the continent? Those carry the goods, and then they come to the bridges in Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, and Buffalo.
And wait, what’s that great big red line going right down the middle of America from Chicago to New Orleans, cutting the USA in half? That’s the Canadian National Rail System based in Montreal. I got an idea. How about 100% tariff on that bridge, Mr. President, and maybe that railroad going from New Orleans to Chicago, 100%.
And the weird thing is, the bridge is over budget and behind schedule. And we don’t even need one. Where do you have one? See? The water is beautiful.
The views are amazing. And this is pretty much the most Michigan experience that you can have. The water’s really nasty.
The bridge is a boondoggle. America gets all the smog and none of the money. It’s the most Michigan thing you can do.
For Michigan Enjoyer, under the Mackinac Bridge, I’m Lottie Morehouse. For the Michigan Enjoyer, and on my way to Detroit receiving for a penicillin shot, I’m Charlie LeDuff. All right, you got to get out? Yes, I have to depart.
Okay, thanks for coming. Thank you for having me. See everybody? There she is.
Great seeing you, yes. Here, take this. Take some.
Some for everybody. I’m good, thanks. See you later.
Thank you. You look great. And we match.
Yeah? Yeah. Okay, so the beef is, three quarters of all exports from Canada come here. 25% of Canada’s entire GDP is from trade with the United States.
Our deficit with them is $40 to $60 billion. We want fair trade. Number two, all the Democrat wise guys, Republicans don’t know anything either, but they’re not saying anything.
Yes, it’s a joint deal between Canada and Michigan, but Michigan will get none of the toll receipts until Canada recoups all the money they put in. Since it’s 300% over budget and two years overdue, it’s quite likely with traffic falling that it will never pay for itself. So we get all the smog, when’s Canada going to deal? Do you disagree with this threat now that you’re watching Trump? I think that Trump is good at knowing when he has leverage, and I’m sure that he had some conversations where it might actually… I mean, I think the same thing would have happened had the bridge been on time and he’d been in office.
I mean, he is renegotiating trade deals with all of America’s major trade partners. And of course, this is the great new hope for Canadian exports. And why wouldn’t he take this moment, especially when he can unilaterally decide it just doesn’t happen? To force a new trade deal.
I mean, it’s totally in line with his other policies. The other trade deals don’t work. So like this is what’s his name, Curtis Hertel.
That’s the guy taking slippery money once he leaves the Senate. I mean, Slotkin calls Trump bat shit crazy, and they all got the talking point. And he says, this is a threatening to arbitrarily block the bridge from opening would amount to economic sabotage against Michigan, leading to higher prices, fewer jobs, and greater uncertainty for our state’s auto industry.
How? The bridge has never had a pedestrian cross it. It’s never been part of the economy. As I told you, the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, the tunnel in Detroit, the Peace Bridge in New York Buffalo, the so-called Paradise Bridge.
That’s in Niagara. All the traffic is falling. So the idea that we’re going to starve to death is ridiculous.
And I’ll remind Haley Stevens, who’s running for the United States Senate, that your constituency, your biggest backer, the UAW supports this because it didn’t work for us. Uncertainty in the auto industry? Auto industry moved to the south in the United States and to Mexico. This bridge is important because the NAFTA highway goes from Detroit down to McAllen, down to Matamoros, down to Brownsville.
That’s the corridor. We do hold leverage, and it’s either now or never. I ask you, the great Midwest, because we have people listening in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin and Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York, did this deal work for us? Did it? Our way of life.
So when you say the average householder, the prices on these tariffs are going up $1,000, your wages are growing faster than that. And that which you pay is a tax, and it goes into the federal coffers to pay for this deficit we’re running. It’s not inflation.
It’s a one-time price shock. So, next. Another Michigan enjoyer, original, comes to pass.
Hit it. Let me get your autograph, bro. Signature.
There’s my signature. Can you sign it? Dana Nessel. I think that just Googling some of these individuals who would have seen things pop up.
One Finger Freddy over here was hired by the chief of police and a handful of other candidates to collect signatures for them to get on the ballot. But Freddy and his guys just made the signatures up. Forged them.
Fakes. Freddy, whose real name is Sean Willmuth, is an ex-con from Macomb who got caught pulling the same scam 15 years ago. But it’s bungling Dana Nessel who makes this thing so Michigan.
Nessel didn’t have to Google Freddy’s name. All she had to do was tap the shoulder on the next pillow over. It turns out that a gay rights campaign had hired Freddy and his company back in 2020 and paid him a million dollars to gather signatures.
But the gay rights initiative never made the ballot because nearly 200,000 of those signatures were found to be bogus. And who was the co-chairwoman of the gay rights campaign? Nessel’s wife! On the next pillow over! A proponent of a ballot proposal. I know! What about the gays? You screwed that one up too.
Alright. So Freddy just got convicted. 22 charges including conducting a criminal enterprise.
False pretenses. He faces 20 years in prison. Okay, now the question is why didn’t Dana Nessel charge one finger Freddy over here two years earlier when Freddy defrauded another campaign 200,000 bogus signatures as I just told you for Dana Nessel’s wife? You could have prevented this whole thing.
Why? Because we dug it out that Dana Nessel’s wife had a criminal referral for campaign finance fraud. Maybe they didn’t want anybody looking. But we found it, didn’t we boss? Undoubtedly, yeah.
And what do we now know? Nessel likes to engage in cover-up. She likes to weaponize her power. It’s got to stop.
We’re coming for that too. Protecting friends and prosecuting enemies. Hit me.
Dum da dum dum Dana. Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. You know what they say isn’t that what Chisel went into the Detroit news building that’s now empty and sold including the company itself.
I think Rocket Mortgage is in there now, right? They’re selling buildings too. Did you hear that? I did. Oh.
Comeback City. Come back city. Come back to the way it was.
What’s it, what do we, we got a word for that, Jay, what’s it called? Yeah, fuck it. Let’s hear from XG Service Group and then go out. Well, you know, when it rains, the power goes out.
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Look at that man crack. So busy. He forgot to wear a belt.
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Remember, Livonia tomorrow, 7pm at the Bennett Civic Center. The Battle for the Soul of Livonia with Jay Murray and Scott Barr. That’s right.
I named it. We’ll see you there. See you there.
We’re coming. We’ll see you there.
