Here’s what we do about the allegations against Matt Gaetz



Every single one of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has been followed by immediate wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left, but the award for the most controversial pick goes to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is nominated to the role of attorney general.

Steve Deace, however, is “here for it” — not just for the appointment of Gaetz but for the full panel Trump has chosen to be in his administration and their collective mentality to “[bring] this whole thing down.”

“This is Hulk smash,” says Deace in reference to Trump’s appointees.

However, “this Cabinet appointment of Gaetz is the biggest middle-finger appointment in the history of the U.S. presidency,” he says.

While Steve isn’t sure if Gaetz is “a righteous person,” as “there are serious [sex trafficking] allegations against [him],” he also knows that this DOJ has no qualms about “indicting Republicans or conservatives,” especially the anti-establishment type.

If the allegations against Gaetz, who is undeniably a firebrand, are true, why hasn’t he been indicted already?

Steve says that there are two possibilities here: One, “this Department of Justice knowingly allowed a creeper to sit in a congressional seat for the last few years.” Or two, “they don’t have the goods, and they’re smearing [Gaetz].”

However, Steve says there’s “a way we get clarity.”

“Let’s have a confirmation hearing. … Why don’t we just call witnesses, [Gaetz] calls his, people testify, and let’s find out?” he proposes.

Some may think that a hearing is impossible now that Gaetz has resigned his congressional seat and Congress no longer has jurisdiction over him, but Steve says the investigators can “still release their report.”

“Are you guys just sick of being told stuff but never being shown stuff?” Steve asks in frustration. “I sure as hell am.”

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To our leftist countrymen, we will punish you with SUCCESS



We need a massive policy redirection in the United States of America — and lucky for all of us, Donald Trump has promised to provide just that.

But not everyone is happy about this outcome, and some are even terrified.

“To our leftist countrymen who are despondent at this moment in time over the coming Trumpian reign of terror, I want you to know there is no mercy,” Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show” says.

“Mercy is for the weak. I offer you no words of comfort for your fear, no words to comfort you otherwise. In fact, I think your fear is legitimate, if anything, it’s not pronounced enough. It’s not palpable enough. I think you should prepare yourselves for a looming reckoning,” he warns.


“We will have our vengeance in this life or the next,” he adds.

But what will this vengeance look like?

“We will cut, maybe even slash your taxes, the cost of living, interest rates, and inflation. No mercy for your disobedience. Your borders will be secure. Mercy is for the weak. For all of your coercive tyranny, we will no longer allow unregulated bio-pharmaceutical industries to bombard you with inducing propaganda to take experimental toxins,” Deace explains.

Not only will the economy start to boom, but the food you eat will no longer be poisoned.

“We will no longer force you to try to sound out the words on the back of everything you eat because you cannot pronounce them, let alone count the amount of ingredients on that can. We will go as far as to make you healthier against your own will,” he continues before moving on to the most fearsome police.

“We will deploy brigades of police, fully armed, armed to the teeth in fact, into your cities where you live, and they will begin rounding up, indeed, they will begin rounding up all of the criminals unleashed in your blue cities and imprisoning them before they do you harm,” Deace says.

“We will go to your safe spaces, in the places where your women reside, and the places where your women are vulnerable, and we will take advantage of such situations as conquerors of old have done, and we will cleanse those spaces and impose our masculine patriarchal will in those spaces upon your women by making sure there are no bearded ladies, chicks with Adam's apples, and dudes who belong in a padded cell creeping their spaces. And there will be no exceptions to this,” he adds.

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Targeting citizens for their beliefs: The SHOCKING truth about government weaponization



Weaponization of the government’s power against its opponents and even its own citizens has been steadily growing worse and for a reason.

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is well aware as to why that is.

“To set the foundation for it, you have to go back to Barack Obama assuming office in 2009. So, a Kamala Harris presidency would mean 20 years. That’s an entire government career, a full generation of hiring that has gone across every single agency,” Friend tells Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show.”

“Now you have 20 years of ideologies,” he continues, adding, “and that’s how you’re getting things like McDonald's the other day, who had one franchise allow him to do one photo opportunity and then we had an E. coli breakout, CDC all over that one, and then the United States senators accusing them of price gouging and driving the stock share price down.”



Not only did the government jump at the chance to punish McDonald’s for allowing a photo op with a political opponent, but citizens across the country have fallen victim to the FACE Act.

“In the Biden administration, it’s been applied more than any other presidential administration in history,” Friend explains. “92% application towards pro-lifers, not people who were subject to fire bombings at their crisis pregnancy centers.”

“People do not know exactly the powers that are at their fingertips,” Friend continues. “They have the ability to have an assessment from the Patriot Act, which means that they can open up an investigation on any American for an articulable purpose. Don’t need probable cause of a crime.”

Deace is rightfully disturbed.

“In other words, you’re describing investigations in search of crimes. Not criminal investigations, but investigations in search of crimes. That’s what you’re describing,” Deace says.

“Find me a man, and I’ll show you the crime,” Friend agrees.

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Electoral environment bodes well for Republicans — but one nefarious F-word still lurks in the background



The Kamala Harris campaign has two pillars holding it up: “baby killing” and the narrative “[Trump] is literally Hitler.”

“They don’t have anything else to run on,” says Steve Deace.

According to Gallup’s most recent favorability polling, it would seem as if the Democrats’ two pillars are beginning to crumble.

Currently, Trump’s total favorable rating sits at a 50, while Harris’ sits at a 48. However, those numbers are reversed on the unfavorable scale. Harris’ total unfavorable rating is 50, while Trump’s is 48.

While this certainly is a positive sign for Republicans, Steve says we can’t forget about the thing that’s “lurking there in the background.”

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It’s the F-word we all dread: fraud.

Steve points to Maricopa County, Arizona, saying, "'I don't know, guys, it might take us a couple weeks [to count the votes]”’ as an example of a glaring sign of impending fraudulent activity.

“In fairness to them, given how Trump is surging in the polls right now, they don't have any clue how many votes they're going to actually need, so it may take them longer to conjure them up. I'm sorry — to count them. Count. Wrong C-word,” Steve jests.

While Steve is being humorous, "what lingers underneath the surface" is the gnawing fear that Trump will win and still not see the Oval Office — especially considering that there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that that's exactly what happened in the 2020 election.

“Nothing substantive was done about it for the last four years. Lots of people built massive engagement farms, wringing their hands about it. ... Lots of money was raised to stop the stealing from happening,” but “no Krakens were ever released,” he sighs. “The polling is still close enough perceptively that you could justify stealing it if you wanted to try.”

While “the margin of cheating is definitely lower than it was a few weeks ago ... we're not outside of it yet by any means,” warns Steve.

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STOLEN VALOR: Tim Walz allegedly LIED about his military service; abandoned his unit



While some call Tim Walz “Tampon Tim,” others call him a liar and a traitor.

The Minnesota governor has allegedly misrepresented his military service after reportedly abandoning his unit before a deployment to Iraq.

Thomas Behrends went in his place.

“I needed to hit the ground running and take care of the troops — and tell them we were going to war,” Behrends told the New York Post. “For a guy in that position, to quit is cowardice.”

Behrends is a 63-year-old farmer in Brewster, Minnesota, and believes the Democratic vice presidential candidate is a “traitor” for his reported actions.

“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle — not the other way,” the retired command sergeant major said. “He had the opportunity to serve his country, and said ‘Screw you’ to the United States. That’s not who I would pick to run for vice president.”

Walz’s alleged failed leadership in battle has translated well to his failure to lead the state of Minnesota.

“As of August 1 in Minnesota,” Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show” says, “you cannot put a 12-year-old in the front seat of a car, but you can give a 12-year-old gender-reassignment surgery. And I’m not making that up.”

Deace only lives two hours away from Minnesota, but he says the state is “across the dimensional plane.”

“They’re just completely different. Largely white states, largely rural, but in terms of the culture there, Minnesota is California, and it’s one state over,” Deace says, adding that the Harris-Walz ticket is an extremely frightening one.

“We’re being exposed, and we are being tested. What you have with the Kamala-Walz ticket is everything Barack Obama ever fantasized about and maybe wasn’t willing to say himself; they’re saying it out loud. And they have like none of his charm or popularity while saying it.”

“This will be the biggest worldview difference election I’ve ever voted in,” he adds.


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Why longtime Trump critic Steve Deace just put a Trump sign in his front yard – 'The shooting crystallized something for me.'



Steve Deace has been “one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump on BlazeTV.”

In 2016, he voted for Ted Cruz, and in this year’s primary, he voted for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

However, following the near-assassination of Donald Trump, Steve did something his audience would be shocked by: He “went out and put a yard Trump sign in his lawn.”

What changed?

Steve joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to explain his “new perspective.”

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Jill begins by reading an excerpt from a tweet Deace recently posted:

The reality is for all of his flaws, and for all the things about him and his way of doing things that have both flummoxed and frustrated me, the truth is Trump has done more to fight the darkness seeping into this culture and threatening to overrun it since he came down that escalator in 2016, than The Church has done collectively thus far this century.
There's a reason the darkness is shooting at Donald Trump instead of The Church. The biggest problem America has is most of her pastors are unworthy of being shot at.

“It feels like this is a very different Deace. What’s going on right now?” Jill asks.

“The shooting crystallized something for me,” he says. “When Trump pumped the fist and said ‘fight,’ I frankly thought for the first time in a while that Donald Trump was talking to me — directly to me.”

Steve calls Trump’s call to fight as he was being escorted off stage with blood on his face “one of the most badass moments in American history” and “certainly the most iconic imagery since 9/11.”

“To see [Trump] there with that natural energy — nothing is scripted, nothing is contrived — and that defiance ... trying to resist what’s happening to this once exceptional and great country” is what convinced Steve that he “[needs] to be in this fight.”

“If they’re shooting at the guy, this is clearly where the fight is at,” he tells Jill.

“It was not George W. Bush — Mr. Born Again — who recognized Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel, appointed the justices that overturned Roe v. Wade ... it was Donald Trump that did those things” and “brought more stability than we’ve had in my lifetime in the Middle East.”

“In the end, I want to be where the fight is.”

CONVICTED: What Trump’s campaign MUST start preparing for



Trump might have been found guilty in the hush money trial, but that doesn’t spell the end of his campaign.

Not only did Trump raise more than $50 million after the news of his conviction hit the media, but the Supreme Court is going to rule on the former president’s immunity in the D.C. case.

Steve Deace believes Trump needs to start preparing immediately.

“I’d have my running mate ready to go right after that ruling, no matter how it goes. If they rule against me, then I immediately have this running mate here right now,” Deace explains. “If I’m Trump, and they rule against me, between the appeals in New York and the D.C. case, I’m spending the rest of this year in a courtroom until the election basically.”

“So, I need a running mate who can be essentially the face of the campaign around the country right away. I can’t lose anymore time,” he adds.

Deace believes this person needs to be “someone people like.”

“So I can send them out to the ‘normies’ and make me appear more likable. And then if they rule for me, I just do the exact same thing by pivoting to the campaign right away,” he explains.

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre agrees.

“I think that’s largely right. I mean, ultimately what we’re looking at here is of course unprecedented, and so the strategy needs to be as well,” he says. “But I think when you look at the condition of the country, you look at the average person, most people don’t like Joe Biden. Even people on the left don’t like Joe Biden.”

This is why he’s less worried about the voters and more worried about the voting process.

“I do think that how the votes are going to be cast and the process of the election are probably far more important than the messaging of the election to be honest,” MacIntyre explains.

“I do agree that you probably want to make sure that you have somebody who’s relatively young, relatively competent, well liked. Somebody who can go ahead and take over that position right away. I do like somebody like a J.D. Vance in the slot,” he adds.


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Survey confirms Zoomers' values will end America as we know it



If you’re not worried about the values of up and coming generations, you probably should be.

A recent survey on attitudes about key religious and values statements from Baby Boomers vs. Generation Z shows that Gen Z — and thus America — may be in trouble.

When those participating in the survey were asked whether or not they believed patriotism was “very important,” 76% of Baby Boomers said it was, while only 32% of Gen Zers had the same sentiment.

Belief in God for Gen Z was even less important to them, with only 26% calling it “very important,” while 65% of Baby Boomers voted that it was.

Having children was the least important to Gen Z and Baby Boomers, with only 23% of the former calling it “very important" and 52% of the latter.

While the Baby Boomers’ seem to have better values, Steve Deace believes the stats aren’t promising for either one of the groups.

“That’s a sad stat, frankly,” Steve Deace says. “How belief in God and religion has produced in your generation a 13-point deficit in thinking children are important — I have to question what God do you believe in and what’s your religion?”

“If you think patriotism is more important than having children by 25 points, well, I mean, for goodness' sake, what’s a more patriotic act other than to have children and pass on to them your values and legacies and heritage?” Deace asks again, adding, “The amount of confusion even on the Boomer side here is paramount.”

When asked if they believed America was the best place to live, 66% of Baby Boomers voted yes, while only 33% of Gen Zers voted the same.

“I’m going to tell you right now, these numbers are unrecoverable without great awakening levels of revival. These numbers are unrecoverable. These trend lines will not be altered. We don’t have the power within us to alter these things,” Deace warns.


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Target STILL selling 'total depravity,' transgender clothing in certain markets



When Target decided to begin selling clothing specifically designed for transgender people — and even children — the backlash was understandably swift.

Now, Target is limiting which stores will sell LGBTQ-themed products following the backlash and will no longer be selling Pride apparel for children.

“If I understand Target correctly,” Steve Deace comments, “the company position is that they will only sell total depravity to the markets that want that content, that want to consume total depravity.”

“They’re just market-force capitalist now,” Todd Erzen adds, though Aaron McIntire disagrees with an interesting prediction of his own.

“Target’s going to backtrack on this,” McIntire says. “It’s a two-for-one backtrack special, okay? But while doing the backtracking, Target is going to become the official department store of UFC, and it’s going to be unpatriotic not to buy your toddler, I don’t know, chest binders.”

“That’s what’s going to happen,” he continues.

“Kid Rock will do some sit-down with Joe Rogan, ‘Cut Target a break,’” Deace adds, joking.


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COVID tyrant didn't want the unvaccinated in public, now says vaccines are 'debatable'



As the news finally begins to catch up with the “anti-vaxxers” of 2024, public figures who at one time shamed those unwilling to take the vaccines are now pretending to support them.

In a podcast with Andrew Cuomo, former Commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department Leana Wen did just this. Wen claimed that vaccines, masks, and natural immunity “are actually not controversial, but they’re more debatable.”

“For a long time, it was taboo to bring it up for fear that you might be called an anti-vaxxer, and so I think that public trust has been eroded,” she said.

Not so long ago, Wen was telling Chris Cuomo on CNN a much different story. Cuomo has also now renounced his prior views on COVID and life-saving drugs like ivermectin — claiming he now takes it regularly himself.

“We need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated, that you have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you can’t go out in public,” Wen told Cuomo.

Steve Deace is not only not buying it, but he’s far from amused.

“I want to literally see everybody in those videos just put on trial for their lives,” Deace says. “First of all, is it a good idea to turn a woman whose highest professional accomplishment was overseeing one of the worst serial killers in human history and turning her into a public health expert?”

But why are these public figures suddenly coming forward?

“Because they’re not afraid of that. They can gaslight you because the people have spoken and said, ‘No, we’re not going to hold you accountable.’ So, that’s why we’re getting any of this whatsoever from these people. Any amount false or otherwise contrition, that’s why we’re getting it,” Aaron explains.



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