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The Great America Show

Friday Headlines: February 21, 2025

The Great America Show

Fawcett Strategies

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

John Fawcett breaks down the headlines you need to know about, including the recent Senate vote confirming Kash Patel as the new FBI director, and the ongoing debate over the transparency of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawc with this Great America Show, Midday Update for Friday, February 21st.

0:05.0

Happy Friday, folks. We all made it through another week. And President Donald Trump officially in office a month and one day in a hell of a job he's doing.

0:13.8

Cash Patel finally voted on by the Senate as our next director of the FBI. Godspeed to him by a vote of 51 to 49.

0:20.8

Two rightos, Lisa Murkowski from the great

0:23.1

state of Alaska and Susan Collins, the great state of Maine, both need to get their heads

0:28.5

together or get out of the Senate or go caucus with the Democrats. Enough's enough. This is the

0:33.9

MAGA party. We don't need you. Get lost. President Trump announcing plans this week with his

0:40.5

intentions to personally inspect the United States gold reserves housed at Fort Knox.

0:47.3

Now, the interesting part of it all is Fort Knox hasn't been audited or as far as we're concerned

0:52.3

reviewed in nearly 50 years, folks.. So if as I've been saying,

0:56.9

if Senator Bob Menendez has been down there, there's probably no gold left in the safe.

1:02.6

The demand comes as concerns growing over whether the 4,500 tons of U.S. gold supposedly stored

1:08.5

in Fort Knox still exists or if bureaucrats in the

1:11.7

Federal Reserve have been engaging in a financial sleigh of, you know, hand and fist and closed-door

1:17.1

behaviors. The call for transparency gained momentum when conservative news outlet Zerohead sparked

1:22.7

debate on X, saying it would be great if Elon Musk can take a look into Fort Knox. Elon Musk responding

1:28.9

with, he's all in favor of doing a live stream, folks, a live stream from Fort Knox to show the

1:37.6

American people live. If there's gold in the den or if there's absolutely nothing there. So we're

1:43.8

looking forward to it.

1:45.9

Elon Musk always making a great deal and a great show, making it fun for the American people.

1:52.5

I think we're all grateful to have him in the administration.

1:56.9

And Congress finally getting a decent job approval since, well, I guess MAG has taken over.

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