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President Trump: “Someday, I’d like to lose everything for a period of time to see who’s loyal— and you can’t guess it, you can’t predict it. You’d think certain people would be loyal no matter what, and it turns out that they’re not— you have everything going perfectly, and then one day you wake up and the world is coming to an end… You can’t tell who will be loyal. I would have bet my life on certain people— but I love getting even with people— because you see, I’m so loyal to a fault, that when someone is even slightly disloyal, I look upon it as a great act of horror.” rumble.com/v7hwtau-trump-one…

Oh Shyt… “Not Up for Discussion”: Calley Means Discusses what really happened with Glyphosate— Liability Protection and National-Security EO Behind Trump and RFK Jr.’s Backs 🔻 Means presented it as the clearest example of how a small circle around then-Chief of Staff Susie Wiles allegedly subordinated the MAHA agenda to industry interests. Means argued that American children are the “sickest children in the developed world,” citing rising rates of autoimmune conditions, hormone issues, earlier puberty (2–3 years sooner than 50 years ago), pediatric cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. He tied this in part to pesticide and herbicide exposure. On regulation, he said the EPA has not reviewed glyphosate in close to 30 years and currently maintains it does not cause cancer. He claimed a prior review was thrown out after court findings that Bayer “ghost wrote research for the EPA report and bribed EPA officials.” He quoted or paraphrased this as evidence while noting Bayer’s public PR campaign positioning itself as the “pro-science” company attacking RFK Jr. as spreading misinformation. He cited a Tony Fabrizio poll claiming 92% of Republicans want pesticides regulated, and noted that Trump had publicly promised during the RFK endorsement process to investigate pesticides. 🔻 The MAHA Report Fight Means said the first major battle was simply getting the word “glyphosate” into a MAHA report. He described an “almost violent reaction” from industry, with calls to Susie Wiles and others demanding it be removed. He called this the biggest policy battle he had seen up to that point, framing it as the first time the U.S. government was even acknowledging the chemical as a potential issue (though he said the language was ultimately watered down). 🔻 The Executive Order Anecdote: Means detailed a meeting in which Walker Barrett (a Wiles deputy he described as junior but powerful) put a glyphosate-related executive order on the table and told him it was final and “not up for discussion.” Barrett instructed him to inform RFK Jr. (“Bobby”) that the decision was closed and that Kennedy should not call the president. Means said he warned that supporting liability protection or boosting the chemical would be a “political disaster.” According to Means, Susie Wiles then called Kennedy’s office and said, “We’re not discussing this.” The order was announced the next day with no public signing. It invoked the Defense Production Act / national-security framing for elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, bundling a weedkiller with supply-chain language for semiconductors, batteries, radar, and munitions. Means called the national-security rationale “a joke,” saying no military leader he spoke with viewed a lack of glyphosate on U.S. farms as a security issue—the order was “all about farming.” He alleged it was lobbied (including via Ballard Partners, Wiles’ former firm) specifically to send a middle finger to MAHA and Bobby. Full Interview m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMBBOa…