Trump Targets Waste/Fraud, DOJ Investigates Brennan & Comey, & ICE Under Attack

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Monday, President Donald Trump hosted leaders from Mauritania, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Senegal at the White House—announcing that his administration has “closed the USAID group to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.” USAID’s responsibilities will now be carried out by the State Department. 3:15pm- While speaking with the press, President Trump reacted to Senator Jose Padilla’s proposed bill which would prevent ICE agents from wearing masks and concealing their personal identity. There have been several recent attacks on ICE facilities—including one attack in McAllen, Texas involving a man with an assault rifle. 3:20pm- BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Rich will be hosting Fox News contributor Gianno Caldwell for a Politics & Pints event on Thursday, July 31st at 7:30pm at the Zlock Performing Arts Center in Newtown, PA. VIP tickets are on sale now at: 1210wpht.com. 3:30pm- According to a report from Fox News Digital, the Department of Justice is criminally investigating former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey for potential false statements to Congress related to the Trump-Russia probe. 3:45pm- Sen. Dave McCormick—United States Senator from Pennsylvania—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to preview his Energy and Innovation Summit on July 15th. Plus, it has been almost one year since the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, PA, when will we finally learn what happened? Sen. McCormick explains: “Honestly, I’m unsatisfied that we don’t have answers. I don’t understand it.”

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists.
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0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.8	Big show for you.
0:16.7	Great to be back with you.
0:17.5	Hope you had a wonderful July 4th, Independence Day.
0:20.4	Great weekend.
0:22.0	We will have Senator Dave McCormick this hour, and also a big announcement, our next
0:27.9	politics and pints event, which I will announce when I announce it, but it's going to be a big
0:33.4	one, and I'm really, really excited about it. So, but the president took questions a short time ago, and I was watching the back and forth.
0:42.5	You know, we had these ICE agents who were ambushed, and I'm not surprised by this at all,
0:47.1	because the rhetoric from the left is that they're Nazis, they're the Gersapo, this is
0:52.5	Trump's Third Reich.
0:57.0	I mean, have all the heated political conversations you want. I say this all the time.
0:58.0	Have battled out, argue, although I don't think arguing in social media or with your relatives is ever a good idea.
1:04.0	But that's America.
1:06.0	Battle it out, argue it out, passionate, heated, but cut it with the Nazi stuff.
1:13.2	Enough.
1:13.9	Enough with calling Trump Hitler.
1:15.3	He was almost assassinated a year ago.
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