Althouse: Rubio reposts what he said last July.

January 3, 2026

Rubio reposts what he said last July.

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101 comments:

FormerLawClerk said...: Somehow, a Jewish lady has taken control of Mexico. Mexico is a narco-terrorist state that has been pushing drugs into the United States for 50 years.

How come we're not bombing her?; 1/3/26, 6:03 AM
Not an oldster. said...: Take drink, Marco

They promised him cuber is next!

Free the world's people
More homeless in the US as the world's dregs replace us

Get packing, Annie
You and meade will never be able to hold that place

Can't you see this is the land of amusement.
Bet you're wetter than he is hard! Loll
Fuckin sell out; 1/3/26, 6:10 AM
Not an oldster. said...: It's all God's plan...
Ammirite?

Once they Taste war, God's people want to control all...

America fell today.
We can't government ourselves.

Don't be a stupid bitch defending this.
The New woman says she promises to move the Jewish embassy to jerusalem... Satan is winning and ppl like you are cheering him, professor althouse. The intellectuals always go first. You don't have enough weapons; 1/3/26, 6:14 AM
Political Junkie said...: FLC - one at a time.; 1/3/26, 6:30 AM
narciso said...: She was elected but wasnt in charge; 1/3/26, 6:31 AM
Saint Croix said...: Somehow, a Jewish lady has taken control of Mexico.

Was FLC an actual law clerk?

Was he clerking at the appellate level?

Was he anti-Semitic when he was a law clerk?

Does he really hate the Jews? Or is he just posing as a Nazi for shits and giggles?

Name your judge!; 1/3/26, 6:32 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Cilia Flores does not look like Michelle Pfeiffer.; 1/3/26, 6:50 AM
narciso said...: Shes the jazzy crockett of venezuela; 1/3/26, 6:57 AM
tim maguire said...: Is it FLC’s position that we should bomb every country with a drug problem? Or just the countries with Jewish presidents?; 1/3/26, 7:03 AM
Rocco said...: Eric the Fruit Bat said...
"Cilia Flores does not look like Michelle Pfeiffer."

Her features remind me a bit of Fred Armisen.; 1/3/26, 7:20 AM
Dave Begley said...: Lesson: Don’t fuck with Trump.; 1/3/26, 7:24 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: Former leftist that I am, I once was well read on U.S. interventions in Latin America. The initial U.S. win is a given. What to do after that is difficult to say.; 1/3/26, 7:30 AM
tcrosse said...: I have read that the success of this mission required the cooperation of the Venezuelan military, who might be expected to determine the incoming regime.; 1/3/26, 7:34 AM
Quayle said...: For those who are skeptical of what Venezuela’s de facto leaders have been doing to warrant this, I would point you to the podcast “Intelligence Matters“ hosted by Michael Morell, and specifically an episode he did on October 31, 2017 with Pedro Bruelli. There are other episodes on Venezuela on the podcast. but the October 31, 2017 episode clearly discusses how Venezuela is led by an organized crime group in the illegitimate position of actually controlling a country.

And for you few relentless, unbridled critics of Donald Trump, here is the point that stands out to me: the podcast host, Michael Morell, the former acting director of the CIA, is, one of the 50 signers of the statement about Hunter Biden‘s laptop. Or in other words, he’s no Donald Trump fan. So their discussions about Venezuela are not … what’s the usual phrase?…far-right propaganda. give a listen. Very informative.; 1/3/26, 7:38 AM
tim maguire said...: tcrosse said...I have read that the success of this mission required the cooperation of the Venezuelan military, who might be expected to determine the incoming regime.

Fortunately, Venezuela has a democratically-elected leader, so “regime change” should be relatively painless.; 1/3/26, 7:46 AM
Larry J said...: “There are other episodes on Venezuela on the podcast. but the October 31, 2017 episode clearly discusses how Venezuela is led by an organized crime group in the illegitimate position of actually controlling a country.”

Oh, just like the Democrat party.; 1/3/26, 7:49 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: So much winning!; 1/3/26, 7:51 AM
tcrosse said...: Just for laughs, I am trying to imagine Trump saying "Pour encourager les autres."; 1/3/26, 7:52 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: Nobody’s said much about this, so I‘ll be the first.

Venezuela has been rumored to have been the base for Chinese led interference with U.S. electronic voting machines in the rigged 2020 election.; 1/3/26, 7:52 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: This confirms for me that Trump knows the story and mechanisms of the rigged 2020 election. He also undoubtedly knows that COVID was deliberately released as a psy-op by the CCP in alliance with the CIA to take him down.; 1/3/26, 8:05 AM
KJE said...: If Maduro is now in US custody and the US then leaves…

It will cause significant pressure on the rest of Central and South American leaders to play ball on the drug/China issue or face the same removal.; 1/3/26, 8:05 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Venezuela has been rumored to have been the base for Chinese led interference with U.S. electronic voting machines in the rigged 2020 election.”
Yup.; 1/3/26, 8:05 AM
Eva Marie said...: “This confirms for me that Trump knows the story and mechanisms of the rigged 2020 election.”
It was rendered inoperable in 2024 per Scott Adams. I’m assuming by the techies who joined team Trumo.; 1/3/26, 8:08 AM
Iman said...: Manure-OH! amirite?!?!; 1/3/26, 8:10 AM
Eva Marie said...: oops team Trump - no disrespect meant; 1/3/26, 8:11 AM
Iman said...: Shitbird Shutdown.; 1/3/26, 8:13 AM
Iman said...: Nose Candy King of Caracas Culled!; 1/3/26, 8:15 AM
Iman said...: Weasel Dust Despot Defenestrated; 1/3/26, 8:16 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: We should flood the streets of the USA with meth and fentanyl to cull the undesirables; 1/3/26, 8:17 AM
Kakistocracy said...: When domestic pressures mount — from cost of living to trade policy — history suggests leaders often reach for foreign distraction. Even now, Trump appears no exception.; 1/3/26, 8:19 AM
Aggie said...: ..."It will cause significant pressure on the rest of Central and South American leaders to play ball on the drug/China issue or face the same removal...."

Much of the fairly-elected leadership in Central and South America have, within the past year, been conservative leaders with populist bent. Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Bolivia, and I think, El Salvador. Colombia and Brazil are the exceptions, and I would imagine they are feeling the pressure right about now. A Big Tide has been coming in, in the Americas, and it has been grassroots and politically-driven by their populations. We'll see what comes of it. But Venezuela has a tough road to recovery, with petroleum wealth at the end of it. Don't forget that Guyana, next door, has seen its GDP triple over the past couple of years, and is set to triple again, with the development of deep water oil by Shell and Exxon. Imagine what cycles like this do for a country.; 1/3/26, 8:19 AM
Eva Marie said...: “How come we're not bombing her?”
Because she is cooperating with the US.; 1/3/26, 8:20 AM
john mosby said...: There's no need to rig voting machines when you just print ballots for nonexistent people in the urban centers of swing states. That's how the Dems "won" 2020. The only "machines" that mattered were their party political machines. Explorations of the physical electronic machines were an unneccessary distraction. CC, JSM; 1/3/26, 8:20 AM
Quayle said...: From the podcasts: “ “Well, the first thing that has to happen, and I think you cannot talk about politics in Venezuela if you do not go back to the idea that this is a narco state. We're not dealing with an incompetent government. We're not dealing with an ideology.

We're dealing with a criminal gang. If you start from that, then everything else kind of falls. It is very difficult to deal with politics as usual when you're trying to play by democratic rules when in front of you, you have a criminal gang.

This is why dialogue has failed. When you sit across the table from criminals, and you're only, as the opposition, asking for the Constitution to be upheld, that's all the opposition is asking. The opposition is not even inventing a Constitution.

They're saying, please, uphold the Constitution that you guys pressed on us. It was Chavez's Constitution. Please follow it.

That's all the opposition is asking for. What is the government expecting? Immunity, impunity.

They just want to get away with murder, literally. And that's what's difficult, because this is a complete unmatched table. There is no way that you could reach an agreement.”; 1/3/26, 8:20 AM
Iman said...: Rush, rush no mo Yayo
Buss, buzz, go the ‘copters
Rush, rush, no mo Yayo
Buzz, buzz fuck dat Yayo
No no no no mo Yayo; 1/3/26, 8:23 AM
Eva Marie said...: “When domestic pressures mount — from cost of living to trade policy — history suggests leaders often reach for foreign distraction. Even now, Trump appears no exception.”
Keep on deluding yourself. Makes things so much easier for team Trump.; 1/3/26, 8:23 AM
Eva Marie said...: “There's no need to rig voting machines.”
Tell that to the Chinese.; 1/3/26, 8:29 AM
Kakistocracy said...: 👆Removing Maduro from power with zero civilian casualties—and bringing him to the US to face justice—represents the best possible near-term outcome Trump could have hoped for.

Beats the Libya model for sure.....; 1/3/26, 8:30 AM
Iman said...: “It’s been one year. Trump II is in the process of paradigm-shifting victories on immigration, presidential control over the executive, and the enforcement of the CRA against the many illegalities of the racial reckoning. It has demonstrated willingness to cut higher Ed’s federal lifeline to force institutions to their knees. It’s forced the legal definition of sex back into the law. It is rooting out billions in public support for the institutional leftist machine.

Progress in each of these areas is tangible, I can list cases, firings, funding cuts, and lawsuits, not just rhetoric.

And yet people whine because the world hasn’t been completely and utterly transformed in a mere 360ish days, and there’s still work left to do. What did you expect? 20M deportations overnight? Did it occur to you that that’s a massively difficult logistical feat to organize, and would take some time even if they WEREN’T fighting a recalcitrant system? Did you think there really was a fix everything switch?

Some parts of the “online right” have an even more magical view of governance than the oldhead Washington Generals chattering classes.

In my book, this administration has racked up more critically important wins than any R administration in my political memory, and I think the case can be made it’s the best R administration for the right in 100 years.“

—— Inez Stepman; 1/3/26, 8:31 AM
Eva Marie said...: “The only ‘machines’ that mattered were their party political machines.”
Except, those were intact in 2024. Trump still won.; 1/3/26, 8:32 AM
Peachy said...: X
"This right here is the reason I joined the right.

They hate Trump so much that they end up defending a disgusting brutal communist dictatorship, an elite commissar class that lived like kings while starving millions.

Fuck the left. God bless the USA."; 1/3/26, 8:33 AM
Iman said...: Teaching the leftwing corksoakers how the hog eats the cabbage.; 1/3/26, 8:35 AM
Quayle said...: Kak, the only way you can posit that this is about Trump trying to distract from domestic problems is if you were completely ignorant or uncaring about the plight of the people in Venezuela and the severity of that country’s situation, and the fact that there were no political solutions.; 1/3/26, 8:36 AM
Peachy said...: One more time!
X
"This right here is the reason I joined the right.

They hate Trump so much that they end up defending a disgusting brutal communist dictatorship, an elite commissar class that lived like kings while starving millions.

Fuck the left. God bless the USA.; 1/3/26, 8:36 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Beats the Libya model for sure.....”
Now you’re making sense.; 1/3/26, 8:38 AM
Peachy said...: Kak still obsessed with Bill Clinton in Jeffrey Epstein's hot tub, on his jets, he invited Epstein to his daughter's wedding and to the White house.

A democrat texted Epstein in a hearing regarding "get Trump" - and the Kaka left have nothing to offer. Epstein TOLD HER (d) WHAT TO SAY!; 1/3/26, 8:39 AM
n.n said...: China loses a partner and criminal corporation in its fentanyl trade... because [black] lives matter.; 1/3/26, 8:41 AM
Kakistocracy said...: We arrested, prosecuted, and convicted the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández a convicted smuggling 400 tons of cocaine and Trump recently pardoned him and let him out of prison.; 1/3/26, 8:41 AM
narciso said...: Get better scripts; 1/3/26, 8:43 AM
Beasts of England said...: America, fuck yeah!!

(I just wanted to say that. I haven’t formed an opinion yet, as I wait for Ronald to share the official lefty talking points.); 1/3/26, 8:44 AM
Iman said...: https://x.com/i/status/2007398586246672723; 1/3/26, 8:45 AM
narciso said...: That was back when stone and parker werent state twerps; 1/3/26, 8:46 AM
Eva Marie said...: This is what astounds me: How did the lefties, the deep staters, the Chinese know with 100% certainty (and accuracy) how big a threat Trump was to their agenda in 2016?; 1/3/26, 8:46 AM
Wince said...: Lesson #1: Don't underestimate... the other guy's greed!

Lesson #2: Don't get high on your own supply.

"Of course, not everyone follows the rules."; 1/3/26, 8:50 AM
Beasts of England said...: Four months ago, a buddy sent me a text that said the 82nd Airborne was on the ground in Venezuela. I didn’t believe him. Maybe he was right. lol; 1/3/26, 8:52 AM
n.n said...: Just in time for PBS to broadcast the progress of white supremacy or rabid color ideologies under the Diversity umbrella and DEIst cacophony. Trump is a Person of Orange (PoO). Our first Orange president, and NOW... uh, now, [black] lives matter, again.; 1/3/26, 8:55 AM
Eva Marie said...: “America, fuck yeah!!”
Weren’t you the guy who was slamming America a few posts ago.
Talk about fair weather friends.; 1/3/26, 8:55 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’Weren’t you the guy who was slamming America a few posts ago.’

Me? Absolutely not.; 1/3/26, 8:57 AM
Eva Marie said...: My apologies then. I thought you were the guy saying we were the most corrupt nation on earth.; 1/3/26, 9:00 AM
Beasts of England said...: No problem! God, family, country. Our Constitution is the greatest secular document ever composed and I’d give my life for it this morning, if necessary.; 1/3/26, 9:02 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Trump recently pardoned him and let him out of prison.”
Apparently all part of a larger plan.; 1/3/26, 9:03 AM
Hassayamper said...: Four months ago, a buddy sent me a text that said the 82nd Airborne was on the ground in Venezuela. I didn’t believe him. Maybe he was right. lol

No, you were right and he was wrong. The 82nd Airborne doesn't do covert ops. Quite the opposite.; 1/3/26, 9:06 AM
Hassayamper said...: “Trump recently pardoned him and let him out of prison.”
Apparently all part of a larger plan.

You raise an interesting point. I was trying to figure out why Trump had done it. Perhaps this guy had some contacts within the Venezuelan military or government, and made a deal to facilitate what we saw last night.; 1/3/26, 9:08 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’The 82nd Airborne doesn't do covert ops. Quite the opposite.’

I sent him a text a minute ago and haven’t heard back. He’s in the business, so to speak, and maybe I misremembered the unit. Trying to find the old text now. lol; 1/3/26, 9:10 AM
n.n said...: Aside from the binary clause: the People and our Posterity, which gives Progressive cultists the vapors in their selective-child or human rites doctrine, the Constitution is indeed a secular achievement, with a religious national charter of independence.; 1/3/26, 9:10 AM
Eva Marie said...: Also it’s a signal to Maduro. Play your cards right and you’ll be a free man instead of a dead man a decade from now.; 1/3/26, 9:12 AM
Birches said...: This is the first post I saw this morning. Althouse is usually my first visit of the day. I had to quickly scroll through to figure out what happened.

After heading to X for more info, seeing JD Vance's response, I cannot be worried about this starting another war. It should be obvious Trump is not interested in nation building. What's more interesting to me is how many people think this action is devastating to Tucker and Vance than is realistic. Get a new obsession!; 1/3/26, 9:13 AM
Beasts of England said...: Found it: ‘82nd dropped into Venezuela today. 4500 on way to Poland’. He sent that at 1:38 a.m. on Sept. 26.

Will update when he replies…; 1/3/26, 9:16 AM
Eva Marie said...: For Maduro it may have been the safest play to be taken into US custody.; 1/3/26, 9:16 AM
narciso said...: Chances are; 1/3/26, 9:18 AM
FormerLawClerk said...: I think Putin benefits the most here.

Because you know who also has suspended elections and seized control in an undemocratic way?

Seems like Maduro would have saved himself a lot of trouble by simply becoming Hunter Biden's coke dealer.; 1/3/26, 9:20 AM
Rusty said...: Inez.
Exactly. I didn't vote for perfection. I realized early on that Trump wasn't perfect. He wouldn't do everything he promised by day one. He's a former Democrat after all. His accomplishments thus far are amazing.; 1/3/26, 9:25 AM
Birches said...: Kak is actually right on this. It is better than the Libya model. Dem presidents used a CIA "clean hands" model to get regime change. Trump went through the front door. It's better for everyone this way.; 1/3/26, 9:31 AM
Freder Frederson said...: He’s in the business, so to speak, and maybe I misremembered the unit.

If he claims to be "in the business", he is full of shit. He would know better than to share such information with you, even if you have a top secret compartmentalized clearance, you have need to know. And if you do have such a clearance, you should know that you are in deep shit for sharing that on a public blog.; 1/3/26, 9:37 AM
Eva Marie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/3/26, 9:37 AM
Achilles said...: Shouting Thomas said...

Nobody’s said much about this, so I‘ll be the first.

Venezuela has been rumored to have been the base for Chinese led interference with U.S. electronic voting machines in the rigged 2020 election.

I was looking for this too.; 1/3/26, 9:39 AM
Eva Marie said...: Trump is close to fucking perfect. God knew what He was doing that fateful day in Butler.; 1/3/26, 9:39 AM
Achilles said...: FormerLawClerk said...

I think Putin benefits the most here.

Because you know who also has suspended elections and seized control in an undemocratic way?

Seems like Maduro would have saved himself a lot of trouble by simply becoming Hunter Biden's coke dealer.

Most of South and Central America is a proxy war between foreign powers.

Biden installed the marxist ruler of Honduras by throwing the political opposition there in jail on "drug charges." Trump pardoned that guy and the "conservative" party is now in charge of Honduras again.

All Trump has done is entered an America First proxy into these wars.; 1/3/26, 9:43 AM
Freder Frederson said...: you have need to know

Sorry, that should be "you have no need to know".; 1/3/26, 9:46 AM
n.n said...: Trump still needs to confront the Obamacare cartels that have forced a 40 trillion dollar debt with ambiguously progressive health returns.; 1/3/26, 9:48 AM
john mosby said...: Eva M: "“The only ‘machines’ that mattered were their party political machines.” Except, those were intact in 2024. Trump still won."

True, but the electronic machines were also largely intact. Anyone who got too close to them was rapidly and severely prosecuted during the Interregnum.

I think the difference was Trump had a force of legal observers out there, ready to contest any shenanigans. And Musk had X operating as a way for shenanigans to be exposed to public scorn. Also, the Trump rallies in red cities showed that he was ready to deploy his street fighters anywhere, if it came down to that.

That, plus the Left's fatigue at having none of their lawfare work, and exchanging a vegetable for a (word) salad as their front-runner.

So mostly human factors, not so much tech. CC, JSM; 1/3/26, 9:55 AM
john mosby said...: But hey, if the new VZ government publishes records of ChiComs coming there to mess with vote machines, I won't ignore them! CC, JSM; 1/3/26, 9:57 AM
Eva Marie said...: I don’t know if the voting machines were intact in 2024. We would have to hand count all the votes cast in 2020 and that’s not going to happen. .Were the voting machines manipulated in 2020 but not in 2024 because of high tech disruption in 2024? It’s an open question.; 1/3/26, 10:09 AM
Freder Frederson said...: Found it: ‘82nd dropped into Venezuela today. 4500 on way to Poland’. He sent that at 1:38 a.m. on Sept. 26.

I can't wait for the FBI to show up at you and your buddy's doors. Let us know how Federal Prison is, although I doubt they will allow you access to the internet.

And really, do you have any idea how much logistics is required to supply even a battalion (about 1/9 of a full division) in the field. And our supply planes (C-130's and c-17s) are far from stealthy.; 1/3/26, 10:13 AM
bagoh20 said...: "Trump recently pardoned him and let him out of prison."

No curiosity whatsoever as to why he did that?
Possible explanations:
1) Because Trump loves cocaine.
2) Trump wanted to give his critics something to use against him.
3) He's just evil.
4) It's what Hitler would do.; 1/3/26, 10:15 AM
Hassayamper said...: Dem presidents used a CIA "clean hands" model to get regime change. Trump went through the front door. It's better for everyone this way

Obama cared more about what they were saying about him at dinner parties in Islington and the 6me arrondissement than he did about the Libyan people, or the American people for that matter.

Trump is under no such constraint.; 1/3/26, 10:15 AM
Hassayamper said...: I can't wait for the FBI to show up at you and your buddy's doors.

Freder throwing his toys out of the the stroller this morning, how comical.; 1/3/26, 10:17 AM
Achilles said...: Freder Frederson said...

I can't wait for the FBI to show up at you and your buddy's doors. Let us know how Federal Prison is, although I doubt they will allow you access to the internet.

Hillary proved to everyone nobody cares about that sort of thing anymore.; 1/3/26, 10:29 AM
Freder Frederson said...: No curiosity whatsoever as to why he did that?

You forgot the most likely explanation. Trump was bribed to issue the pardon (a normal pardon is going for about a million, I would hope he got at least got 5 for that one).; 1/3/26, 10:38 AM
Freder Frederson said...: Freder throwing his toys out of the the stroller this morning, how comical.

Instead of insulting me, you might want to explain how exactly it would work if the 82nd had been in Venezuela since the end of September.; 1/3/26, 10:42 AM
Hassayamper said...: Instead of insulting me, you might want to explain how exactly it would work if the 82nd had been in Venezuela since the end of September.

As I said to Beasts of England at 9:06, it's ridiculous to imagine the 82nd Airborne conducting covert operations anywhere at any time. If his friend "in the business" told him that, I doubt he's really deep enough in the business to know, and not disclosing any actual classified information at all.; 1/3/26, 10:48 AM
Hassayamper said...: You forgot the most likely explanation. Trump was bribed to issue the pardon (a normal pardon is going for about a million, I would hope he got at least got 5 for that one).

Holy shit, you really have lost your marbles. Rage-induced dementia.

Trump is worth, what, 7 billion now? Even if he could be bribed, which I very much doubt, I don't think he'd do it for a billion dollars, much less a million.; 1/3/26, 10:51 AM
Freder Frederson said...: Even if he could be bribed, which I very much doubt, I don't think he'd do it for a billion dollars, much less a million.

He publicly solicited a bribe from the oil companies.; 1/3/26, 11:03 AM
bagoh20 said...: You need to read the whole sordid story about that pardon and why. If you only get it from lefty sources you will know exactly half of the story. There is more than one non- nefarious reason for Trump's pardon there, but to distil it down. Trump had good reason to think the charges were politically motivated and the trial unfairly biased. True? I don't know, but knowing Trump, it seems more logical than bribery or that he just does stuff to piss you off.; 1/3/26, 11:14 AM
bagoh20 said...: There is also the possibility that Hernández had something useful to Trump's plans in Latin America.; 1/3/26, 11:19 AM
Achilles said...: Freder Frederson said...

No curiosity whatsoever as to why he did that?

You forgot the most likely explanation. Trump was bribed to issue the pardon (a normal pardon is going for about a million, I would hope he got at least got 5 for that one).

Only a stupid person would think that is the most likely explanation though.; 1/3/26, 12:24 PM
Jim Gust said...: Rubio was incredibly impressive in the press conference. He moved into the top position for 2028. He all but said FAFO. That was the key message.; 1/3/26, 12:52 PM
Beasts of England said...: ’I can't wait for the FBI to show up at you and your buddy's doors.’

Hahaha. I’ve held clearances you’ve never heard of, sweetie, and, unlike Hilary, I take the protection of national security data seriously. And he wouldn’t share anything classified, nor would I disseminate such.

But, please notify the FBI. I’ve reported a TS/TK/SAR breach to them before. They’ll probably remember me…; 1/3/26, 2:07 PM
Jim at said...: You can always count on Freder to throw a tantrum when something is done with America's best interests in mind.; 1/3/26, 5:33 PM
Mr. T. said...: PedoFredo said:

"I can't wait for the FBI to show up at you and your buddy's doors. Let us know how Federal Prison is, although I doubt they will allow you access to the internet."

I think the FBI is more interested in your fellow leftist groomer bros' access to the internet. https://www.themainewire.com/2025/11/nations-first-trans-identifying-state-legislator-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-crimes/

I'm actually surprised to be honest that you could be pulled away from your NAMbLA subredditb to bother posting here.; 1/3/26, 9:49 PM
Rusty said...: Freder exclaimed, "He publicly solicited a bribe from the oil companies."

Sure. Now let's have the full quote. in context.

At the press conference today Trump gave the reason why he pardoned what's his name.

Freder. If the FBI shows up on my doorstep it will be because you and your friends SWATed me. Yours will be the first name mentioned.; 1/4/26, 5:28 PM