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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

A Clear Message of "FAFO!" to Pres Petro of Colombia

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, screw around with Donald Trump and find out what happens.

0:05.4

That's the PC way I can put it for you as we see exactly how Donald Trump is going to play with countries that try to buck the system when it comes to sending illegal immigrants back to foreign nations.

0:19.8

If you wanted a case study and how Donald Trump, well, isn't going to be messed with,

0:25.5

look at exactly what's happened in Colombia.

0:29.2

I'm going to give you the short version of what got us to where we are today.

0:34.4

And then I'm going to explain to you the backstory.

0:37.0

But what first happened was last week there there were a lot of illegal immigrants that were

0:42.3

violent, that were rounded up.

0:44.7

Many of them were from Columbia.

0:47.4

So Donald Trump decided to pack planes with 160 plus violent illegal immigrants, criminals,

0:56.8

to send them back to Columbia.

0:58.3

What happened?

1:01.7

The president of Columbia refused the flights.

1:14.5

And that's what got us into, well, the war of tariffs and words backing up that we're not screwing around. It is very clear now that Donald Trump is playing by a different set of rules. The Colombian president by the

1:20.2

name of Gustavo Pedro has now backed down on his declaration that he would not

1:25.8

accept deportation flights from the United

1:28.2

States of America. He now says not only will he accept the flights and he will actually send

1:34.1

his presidential plane like Air Force One to personally pick up the deported migrants, a U.S.

1:41.8

official has now confirmed. Now, the Colombian president started beating

1:46.9

his chest early on playing a game of chicken with Donald Trump. That was really stupid. He's now

1:52.6

backpedaled after Trump announced that he would impose numerous sanctions, including an emergency

1:58.5

25% tariff on Colombia in response to the president's reversal of his promise

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