Liberty RoundTable Podcast

Sam Bushman and Curt "The Honeyman" Crosby cover the stories the mainstream press will not touch. An armed bystander stops a school shooter in Bend, Oregon, and even liberal Governor Tina Kotek is forced to praise the hero. Trump blocks the live streaming of the Fort Hood shooter execution. Trump says military leakers should be shot, and Sam breaks down the nuance between transparency and military secrecy. Plus a massive fraud crackdown: the DOJ charges 76 defendants, uncovers $490 million in tax fraud, and the Trump administration recovers nearly $59 billion in stolen money. Three Mexican nationals allegedly pocketed $74 million in Treasury refund...

Sam Bushman and Kurt "The Honeyman" Crosby break down the stories the mainstream press refuses to cover. President Trump's administration revokes 30,000 illegal commercial trucking licenses and shuts down 110 fraudulent driving schools. The Campaign for Liberty demands Congress stop treating taxpayers like an unlimited ATM. The Heritage Foundation pushes a DOGE-style audit for every state. Netflix layoffs reveal a bigger cultural problem. An LA Dodgers player calls out Major League Baseball for running inappropriate ads during playoff games. Plus a wild story about hacked refrigerators in France. Timestamps: 0:00 Show intro with Kurt Crosby 2:16 Trump revokes 30,000 illegal trucking licenses 3:52 Why illegals driving...

Sam Bushman delivers a solo breakdown condemning the Pentagon's plan to live-stream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, calling it a Rome-style spectacle that promotes a culture of death and trivializes justice. He argues violence begets violence and advocates instead for public prayer vigils, reaching out to the lonely and rejected, and following the Prince of Peace. He then pivots to Congress poised to approve a staggering $1.54 trillion defense budget, a 54% increase that nearly doubles the 2024 military budget while the national debt passes $40 trillion, calling it funding the military-industrial complex, not national defense, noting Trump promised...

Sam Bushman, Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company, and Eldon Stahl of the John Birch Society deliver the Honest Money Report with gold at $4,160 and silver at $57 as inflation surges to 3.7%. They break down Bank of America's $1.2 billion fine for money laundering failures while nine major banks secretly shut down conservatives, Christians, and gun businesses from 2020 to 2025 with zero penalties, midterm spending exploding past $10 billion projected to hit $11.6 billion, how every president from Bush to Obama to Trump has doubled the national debt, the world owing $400 trillion to central banks, wartime as the fastest path to losing liberty per James...

Natalie Fermenta, founder and creator of DULSA, joins Sam Bushman and Brent Johnson on the Liberty Roundtable to break down why sugar is destroying America's health and how her botanical sweetener does more than just sweeten your coffee. With concentrated plant extracts, prebiotics, postbiotics, and over 65 trace minerals, DULSA supports gut health, immune function, and cellular hydration all while tasting great. Learn why artificial sweeteners are just as dangerous as sugar, how food companies prioritize profit over people, and how you can take control of your health starting with what you put in your cup. Timestamps: 0:00 Show intro and guest...

Sheriff Richard Mack and Brent Johnson join Sam Bushman on the Liberty Roundtable to discuss how pure trust organizations can protect your property from government overreach. Brent explains the common law principles behind pure trusts, how they make your assets invisible to the statutory world, the stealth LLC strategy for banking, and why even the Rockefellers use these structures. Plus Sheriff Mack shares his new book "Democrat Murder of America," and the crew discusses the threat of communism in America. Timestamps: 0:00 Show intro and welcome 1:41 Sheriff Mack's book "Democrat Murder of America" 2:30 The communist threat and Khrushchev's warning 4:42 What is...

Sam Bushman and Lance Migliaccio of The Big Mig break down the explosive story of Erik Prince's Vectus Global contractors ambushed in the mineral-rich war zone of eastern Congo, leaving 20 dead, including a New Zealand SAS operator and UFC fighter Tim Kennedy, shot three times, with a 17-hour evacuation to Walter Reed. They dig into why the State Department claims no contracts exist, yet Kennedy received military medical care, the Title 10 vs. Title 50 legal questions pointing to possible CIA covert action, how M23 rebels tracked the team's drone signal to locate and ambush them, Israeli advisors training Congolese special forces...

Sam Bushman and Lance Migliaccio of The Big Mig break down the Ilhan Omar FBI raid that was tipped off 30 minutes early so she could flee, the two-tiered justice system where Roger Stone gets a 3 AM CNN perp walk while Omar gets white-glove treatment, her family's deep connections to the $200 million Feeding Our Future fraud and USAID money through her sister's consulting firm, why this is political theater not real accountability, the escalating cartel war on the southern border with 8,000 US troops and Coast Guard returning fire from Mexico, Sinaloa Cartel sicarios training in Ukraine to gain drone warfare experience...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson unpack Trump's Columbus Day defense and why judging historical figures by today's standards is dishonest. Then they dig into David Pyne's warning that the GOP faces a midterm wipeout thanks to Trump's war on Iran, broken promises to drain the swamp, and betrayal of his anti-war base. Ron Paul's column exposes how Trump's tariffs act as an $800-per-household tax Americans never voted for, imposed without Congress. Plus, Jacob Hornberger documents 235 military killings on the high seas without due process, and Lawrence Vance asks what Marines actually fight for versus what they're told. Key Moments: 0:59...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson break down a major new study showing homeschooled students score 25 to 29 percentile points above the national average, why parental involvement matters more than income or education level, and how home education shaped the Founding Fathers. Plus, Sam pushes back on Trump's rally comments claiming his supporters would applaud anything, compares the rhetoric to Christ's example, and calls out over a billion dollars in undisclosed PAC spending flooding the midterms, including Elon Musk's record contributions. The show closes with news of federal agents searching Rep. Ilhan Omar's home. Key Moments: 2:58 - Homeschooled students score 25-29 percentile...

Sam Bushman delivers a solo reflection on the perilous state of America and the principles that can heal it. He covers the approaching hurricane and why God is the ultimate weatherman, how obeying divine commandments brings protection from both natural and man-made disasters, the God-ordained family as the safest place for children backed by indisputable research, Joseph Smith Jr.'s teaching that correct principles enable self-governance, the botched execution of Krista Pike becoming a national spectacle that mirrors Rome's decline, the doom-and-gloom news culture that profits from blood, why peaceable assembly means following the Prince of Peace, the epidemic of...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley discuss the premiere of a two-hour documentary about Ammon Bundy's persecution over the Baby Cyrus case, the $60 million judgment that drove him into hiding, the murder of LaVoy Finicum captured on drone footage, Ammon's attorney being tased in a courtroom, why government accountability hasn't improved under Trump, the self-inflicted Republican bloodbath coming in the midterms, the stock market at 52,000 being pure funny money inflated by a Federal Reserve that has destroyed 98% of the dollar's purchasing power since 1913, and why only a return to God's principles can restore the blessings of liberty. 0:38 - The continuum...

Sam Bushman and Curt Crosby of Local Honey Man break down Trump's Texas rally for Ken Paxton, where paid protesters disrupted the event and Trump's response raised questions about holding the moral high ground. They unpack the First Amendment distinction between peaceably assembling and disrupting, why Trump should follow the money and prosecute the funders behind rent-a-riot operations, how the Associated Press produced a triple-length video that conveniently hid the protesters' behavior, CNN and Politico suing to keep White House access they never deserved, why modern technology makes the press corps obsolete, and Democrats suing Trump over taxpayer-funded television ads...

Sam Bushman, Curt Crosby of Local Honey Man, and Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company deliver the Honest Money Report with gold at $4,137 and silver at $59 as seven sellers overwhelm one buyer in a struggling economy. They break down the FCC opening the door to AI-voiced political robocalls, the case for abolishing the Federal Reserve and IRS given the 16th Amendment was never ratified, oil manipulation to save Republicans in the midterms, a billion dollars in dark money flooding elections from AI and crypto companies, the new report showing LGBTQ identification in freefall, Heath's powerful testimony about refusing to lie...

Sam Bushman welcomes Brent Johnson of Freedom Bound International and The Voice of Freedom radio show for a deep dive into American sovereignty and what it really means to live free. Brent explains the critical difference between unalienable and inalienable rights, why government can only violate your rights but never take them, how he refused the COVID jab while stranded in the Kingdom of Tonga and created an international incident by standing his ground, how he stopped paying the IRS 30 years ago and they left him alone, his book The American Sovereign, his 10-hour freedom seminars, the difference between what...

Sam Bushman welcomes Brent Johnson of Freedom Bound International and The Voice of Freedom radio show for a wide-ranging discussion on American sovereignty and citizen responsibility. Brent breaks down his show's unique audience-participation segments, including Rants and Raves, Man on the Street interviews, Freedom Follies featuring liberty-focused artists and his original song "Land of the Free," and Point/Counterpoint debates. Sam rants about the January 6 prisoners being released while the government abusers face zero prosecution; they discuss why asking government to fix itself is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse, the Constitution as a whip and chair that...

Sam Bushman and James Edwards of The Political Cesspool break down the week's most explosive stories: Antifa vandalizing an LGBTQ-owned Portland restaurant because peaceful diners were falsely labeled white supremacists, a Mississippi murder staged as a lynching that the media jumped on before facts emerged showing three Black men killed a Black woman over drugs, Trump calling for journalists to be arrested over rally attendance coverage while his own press secretaries revolve through Fox News, and international correspondent Alex Newman reporting from the UK and France on the Islamic invasion of Europe, the Red-Green-Blue Axis of globalists, communists and Islamists...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson of Campaign for Liberty reflect on a weekend of LDS General Conference where God and family took center stage, and Trump was never mentioned, unpacking talks on finding purpose in adversity, the $758 billion gambling industry corroding character, the lost blessing of stillness in a smartphone world, and Sam's own blindness as a gift from God. Then they pivot to hard politics: Ron Paul predicting a GOP bloodbath for refusing to reclaim war powers, Jacob Hornberger arguing Trump deserves impeachment for waging war without Congress and assassinating suspects without due process, and Judge Napolitano's warning about...

Sam Bushman breaks down the hardest-hitting news the networks refuse to cover: the US military killing 235 people in suspected drug boat strikes without any trial or due process, the withdrawal of bombers from a British base after a terror plot, soldiers questioning care after a Kuwait attack killed six Americans, the Supreme Court opening its term with a massive oil industry climate lawsuit from 60 governments, 378 drone incursions on the southern border with only 11 downed by military lasers, a 12-year-old girl killed in Baltimore crossfire over a parking space, a Marine arrested for murder in Okinawa, Trump's new Federal AI Task...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley tackle the spiritual and technological crisis facing America: a society losing its moral compass as AI becomes a new idol replacing human thought, Trump rebranding artificial intelligence as "super intelligence" to make it more godlike, AI writing dissertations with zero human input, the integration of AI into a surveillance state that would make the KGB envious, digital currency tied to social credit systems, Trump's bromance with Xi Jinping while elevating China on the world stage, the Russian oligarch funding Trump Jr.'s wedding, and the sobering reality that no honorable candidate exists for 2028 because...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley unpack the dangerous talk of a US invasion to overthrow the Cuban regime, with Rubio declaring America is prepared if Trump gives the order and the Army Reserve quietly examining forces for Southern Command. They trace the historical failures from the Bay of Pigs to Iran, warn that intervening in Cuba could trigger China's move on Taiwan, expose the staggering military suicide epidemic claiming more lives than 9/11, and reveal how the Second Amendment's militia clause has been ignored for 130 years while states abandon their constitutional duty to train and equip the people. Linked Timestamps: 0:21...

Sam Bushman and Curt Crosby welcome Pulitzer Prize finalist Darlene McCormick Sanchez of The Epoch Times to break down two explosive investigations: a Texas police department that arrested a woman for posting about water quality on Facebook, jailed her for 23 hours on a felony charge, and was ultimately shut down after 20-plus corruption cases surfaced, and the alarming spread of alpha-gal syndrome from lone star tick bites that leaves victims unable to eat meat, with cases exploding across the United States and calls mounting for tick abatement programs to match mosquito control efforts. Linked Timestamps: 1:17 - Texas police arrest woman...

Sam Bushman, Heath Perkins of Freewater Coin Company, and Curt Crosby of Local Honey Man deliver the Honest Money Report covering gold at $4,168 and silver at $61, why 2% inflation is just slow theft, Trump pulling troops out of Iraq as a rare presidential move worth praising, rural voters losing faith in the economy ahead of the midterms, a federal appeals court questioning Trump's authority to dismantle three federal agencies, New York and California suing to keep failed offshore wind projects alive, scientists suing the NIH over new grant screening, and Trump racing to fill 54 federal judgeships while Congress goes on vacation. ...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack break down the week's most overlooked stories: consumer confidence hitting its lowest point since 2014, wedding costs exploding with New York City averaging $88,000, a Russian oligarch funding Donald Trump Jr.'s multi-million-dollar wedding, a Utah postal worker caught trashing over 300 ballots, CSPOA targeted by identity thieves rerouting donations, the Government Accountability Office blocking Trump from saving $800 million in taxpayer money while Congress stays on vacation, Tina Peters released early from her nine-year prison sentence by Colorado's governor, and Shasta County, California rushing to shred contested ballots as the 22-month retention window expires. Linked Timestamps: 0:17...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack tackle the week's biggest stories: consumer confidence crashing to its lowest level since 2014 with gas prices doubling yet mysteriously no gas lines, why America has a refining problem not an oil problem, new evidence that Biden-era special prosecutor Jack Smith spied on Republican members of Congress in violation of the Constitution, the GOP's pattern of exposing Democrat corruption and then going on vacation instead of prosecuting it, Sheriff Mack's new book The Democrat Murder of America, and a federal judge ordering Texas to air condition its prisons as a constitutional mandate against cruel and...

Sam Bushman breaks down the week's overlooked stories: National Coffee Day revealing coffee as America's most consumed beverage (surpassing water), Starbucks shuttering 250 stores amid restructuring, Trump flatly contradicting his own ambassador to China over whether arms sales to China were discussed, the impossibility of getting the truth from any administration, and the murky $15 billion Iowa steel plant deal involving an Indian company, a federal bank loan of $770 million for a Minnesota mine, and why the whole arrangement smells like socialism and fascism rather than free enterprise. Timestamps: 0:40 - National Coffee Day: coffee is America's most consumed beverage 5:57 - ChatGPT so...

Sam Bushman breaks down the week's hardest-hitting news the networks refuse to cover: California mandating abortion pills at community colleges while mail-order medication crosses state lines into states that banned it, Trump's fuel economy rollback to shave $1,300 off new car prices and why executive-order ping pong is no way to govern, the top 10 states pouring billions into EV infrastructure, ranchers warning that immigration raids are about to send beef prices soaring, the hidden 2% inflation tax baked into the Federal Reserve system, Walmart's digital shelf labels and the threat of personalized pricing, 760,000 people being pulled from ACA exchanges over fraud claims...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson from Campaign for Liberty unpack the systemic bribery of the welfare-warfare state, Ron Paul's case that both parties have been buying votes for decades, how "national security" became the government's all-purpose permission slip to silence dissent and expand surveillance, the creep toward a pre-crime society, Trump's diesel export ban proposal and why diesel drives the global economy, the Greenland deal and rare earth minerals, and the libertarian case for self-determination and just leaving people alone. Linked Timestamps: 1:32 - Trump bribing voters: Republican-style socialism 2:15 - Ron Paul: all political campaigns are legalized bribery 4:08 - Why incumbent...

Sam Bushman breaks down the week's biggest stories the networks refuse to cover: the murky US-China $30 billion tariff deal, Trump rejecting Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while oil climbs past $108 a barrel, Congress collecting paychecks while on vacation instead of governing, taxpayer money funding Trump campaign ads disguised as public service announcements, Republicans scrambling to defend 39 House races, mortgage rates blowing past 7%, Trump suggesting arms sales to China, the FBI getting hacked by ShinyHunters, and Nvidia positioning itself as the private sector gatekeeper of AI. Linked Timestamps: 1:10 - US and China announce $30 billion in possible tariff cuts 2:43...

A Liberty Roundtable discussion celebrating the 237th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, unpacking why rights come from God, not government, breaking down the California Supreme Court's order forcing Sheriff Chad Bianco to return 650,000 seized ballots and what it means for election fraud investigations, the constitutional case for ex post facto law violations, the national effort to defang sheriffs, and the strange standoff where Trump restored press access but the networks refuse to cover events. Timestamps: 1:12 - The Bill of Rights at 237 years: a hinge point in American history 3:04 - Rights come from God, not government: what the Bill of...

A wide-ranging Liberty Roundtable discussion covering Trump's press corps battle and the media blackout, the Walter Cronkite lesson on free press, the murky Greenland deal, 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs sent to Israel on the taxpayer dime, Trump's "national security" loophole, RFK Jr.'s $4 million book deal controversy, and the path back to America's constitutional foundation. Linked Timestamps: 0:18 - Trump excludes CNN and Politico from the press corps 3:17 - Walter Cronkite and the Tet Offensive: lessons in free press 10:58 - Trump's Greenland deal: what's actually in it? 13:59 - 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs sent to Israel 17:22 - Trump's "national security" secret sauce 20:36 - Following the back...

Sam Bushman and Curt Crosby welcome Nathan Worcester, senior political reporter for The Epoch Times, for a look back at the unprecedented Republican midterm convention in Dallas. They discuss John Fetterman's surprise video appearance, the lack of foreign policy focus despite the Iran war looming over everything, the absence of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and how the House passed a historic number of bills only to see them die in the Senate. They dig into the MAGA fracturing as figures like Thomas Massie, MTG, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Kent increasingly identify as America First rather than MAGA, the Gen...

Sam Bushman hosts the Honest Money Report with Curt Crosby and Heath Perkins from freewatercoinco.com. They break down gold at $4,257 and silver at $63, explaining how the Bank for International Settlements re-categorized gold as a riskless asset over US Treasuries in 2023, triggering an 18-month methodical doubling. They expose JP Morgan controlling 26% of the world's silver with 400 paper contracts for every physical unit, silver's snap from $50 to $120, then a 35% single-day correction, and why the manipulation is finally breaking. Then they cover Trump's meeting with the Chinese president over rare earth minerals and trade, the proposed diesel export ban as prices hit $7...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack break down President Trump's address to the 81st UN General Assembly, where Iran took center stage. Trump gave Tehran a binary choice: cooperate or face oblivion, with a deal likely only after the midterms. They discuss the munitions shortage debate, with Sheriff Mack comparing the current conflict to 20 years in Vietnam and Afghanistan with no ammunition concerns, and Iran deliberately using the war politically against Trump. They cover the first confirmed meeting between US officials Witkoff and Kushner with Iranian counterparts, Iran walking out on Trump's speech, and Trump's focus on the Western Hemisphere...

Sam Bushman and Sheriff Richard Mack break down President Trump's historic 81st UN conference speech, including the Greenland defense agreement with Denmark, Trump's bold declaration that there will be no global tax, and the call to pull out of the UN entirely. They discuss Trump renaming AI to "super intelligence" and pushing full speed ahead, the US weapon deployed in space, and why Congress should have built guardrails years ago. Then Sheriff Mack details his battle against an AI photo radar ticket in Arizona, arguing it violates three constitutional rights, including the right to face your accuser, the Eighth Amendment...

Sam Bushman and Lance Migliaccio from The Big Mig break down Ilhan Omar being confronted on camera by a Lindell TV reporter about allegedly marrying her brother, with Tom Homan confirming a federal investigation but zero prosecutions to show for it. They discuss a chilling new poll showing 59% of Democrats would support a military coup removing Trump and 29% having a positive reaction to his assassination. They detail the FBI's Operation Blackout under Kash Patel that seized $15 billion from organized crypto scam compounds using trafficked slave labor, freed thousands, and saved Americans $500 million in prevented losses. Then they expose the White...

Sam Bushman and Lance Migliaccio from The Big Mig break down a barrage of stories threatening the GOP before the midterms. They cover Ilhan Omar being confronted on camera about allegedly marrying her brother, with JD Vance, Tom Homan, and Stephen Miller all claiming immigration fraud but zero prosecutions to show for it. They blast Trump's plan to launch government TV as a socialist power grab, warn that Polymarket gives Republicans a 90% chance of losing the House, and reveal the FBI's Operation Blackout that seized $15 billion from global scam compounds under Director Kash Patel. Lance proposes a Mar-a-Lago summit to...

Sam Bushman and Lowell Nelson from campaignforliberty.org break down the crippling economic effects of the Iran war eight months in. They detail Saudi oil output dropping to zero after Houthis blew up the east-west bypass pipeline in nine locations, diesel prices hitting $9.99 at stations with no fuel to sell, and US distillate inventories at their lowest level since 1951. They expose Trump's false blame of Ukraine for the diesel crisis when oil prices are clearly indexed to the Iran war, and detail how the refining crisis is structural and global. Then they cover Paul Craig Roberts' warning that we are...

Sam Bushman breaks down a busy week of headlines. He starts with the growing tick bite epidemic causing Alpha Gal syndrome, a meat allergy affecting up to 500,000 Americans, and raises the disturbing question of whether genetically modified insects from Bill Gates could be connected. Then he covers the Justice Department's continued Russiagate conspiracy investigation with zero indictments after six years of Trump, three major news organizations suing the White House over reporter credential bans, Trump holding the record for most lawsuits of any president in history, an ICE shooting in Austin, and a proposed AI emergency hotline with communist China...

Sam Bushman and Dr. Scott Bradley celebrate the 239th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution with a deep dive into the religious foundations of the American founding, the story of Caesar Rodney's heroic ride to break Delaware's tie for independence, and how the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights work together to protect God-given rights. They then shift to the escalating war in the Middle East, with Houthis interdicting Red Sea oil routes, proxy wars spreading, and the House passing a resolution to end the Iran war for the third time while the Senate and President do...