Trump Unfiltered: The NEWSMAX Exclusive! — The NEWSMAX Daily (10/16/2026)

[0:04] hello and welcome to your news max daily for friday october 16th 2026 the third of five [0:11] fridays this month if you missed it rob finnerty sat down with president trump i'm going to jump [0:16] right into that but first i need to acknowledge the events that took place yesterday in oregon [0:24] a five-year-old an eight-year-old and an 11-year-old shot and killed in their school [0:33] three families completely shattered destroyed and the family of the teacher killed as well [0:39] the rest of their lives beginning today will not be the same another student and teacher [0:45] are in the hospital our officers entered the building and confirmed the suspect was dead [0:49] they cleared the school to ensure there were no additional threats and then rendered emergency [0:54] aid to the victims the families of the victims have all been notified we have identified the [1:02] suspect as a 16 year old bend resident bend oregon police chief mike kranz the 16 year old shooter [1:08] killed by a brave legal gun carrying civilian who went into the school and took out the shooter [1:16] likely saving other lives this should not be a page two news story as it is today we've grown so [1:24] accustomed to this and almost accepting of it it's like trump iran zelinski ukraine price of beef these [1:33] are all headlines that i received in my various news source emails this morning and then oh yeah three [1:42] kids and a teacher was shot and killed at a school in oregon and thanks to a civilian hero in an open [1:50] carry state i'm not going to make it political i'm just saying thanks to a civilian hero who will [1:57] likely learn more about today it wasn't any worse okay rob finnerty went to the white house yesterday sat [2:05] down with president trump 19 days before the midterm elections democrats have been very vocal about [2:13] saying they want to impeach you for a third time they don't know what they're going to impeach you [2:16] for they have no idea but let's just say november 4th we wake up and they control the house and the [2:21] senate what does that mean for the remaining two years of your presidency well the only thing they [2:24] could impeach me for there's only one thing and that's making our country strong making our country [2:29] rich if you look back 10 years ago china did three trillion dollars we're going to do 22 trillion [2:36] dollars in just 15 months many many times what china did uh compare it to biden in four years he did a [2:44] half a trillion we're going to do in 15 months 22 trillion dollars many many times the only thing they [2:52] can impeach me for is making our country really strong the growth of this country and you'll see that [2:58] and it's already happening yeah it's already happening the growth of our country is is greater [3:03] than it's ever been and if they do let's say they win the house or the senate or both and they go crazy [3:09] for the next two years that could end up helping republicans in 2028 in a very big way um well you [3:16] know by the way it is interesting you know they impeached me twice i won very easily both times and [3:22] there are those that say it helped me as opposed to hurt me uh and i'd be come good at anti-impeachment [3:29] i call it the anti-impeachment movement right but for them to do that is uh it cheapens our country so [3:35] much it's really very terrible and you know and honestly i could have done numbers on hillary clinton [3:41] i could have done numbers and bill clinton i do like bill clinton uh i could have done numbers [3:46] and barack hussein obama still could i still could i could do big numbers if i wanted to [3:50] uh i've turned down going after what do you mean big numbers i'm talking about go after them [3:57] criminally or i could have done something having to do with their reputations destroyed their [4:03] reputations we have a lot of information about hillary we have a lot of information about barack [4:08] hussein obama we have a lot of information on sleepy joe are you going to do anything well i mean [4:14] i guess not probably not but i think if they impeach me uh again maybe a not so subliminal [4:22] message from the president to democrats who have indicated that the iran war or the iran conflict [4:30] could be one of the reasons they would try and impeach trump again let me ask you about nuclear um [4:37] you've stated many times that the iran nuclear program has been totally decimated yeah um if that's [4:43] the case why don't we pull up anchor now declare victory and get out of there well we could but [4:49] if we do that within a year we may have to do it again i want to do it so that but that's okay do [4:54] what you did when you took out the nucleus but you know what i would be more concerned if i'm not [4:59] president and we have some weak ineffective person like we've had for many years as president uh they [5:07] will allow that to go on we want to make it so that they will never have a nuclear weapon because [5:13] if they had it they would use it in my opinion instantaneously no we've knocked them out we've [5:18] knocked out their sites there their nucleus buried under millions of tons of mountain uh now we're [5:25] looking at pickaxe mountain we may have to go there we'll take a shot at that one we'll knock it out [5:29] fast but not troops on the ground no i don't see that i don't see that okay um the ukraine war sir [5:36] is this is a war you could call a forever war it's almost in calendar year we're almost at six years of [5:41] this war supposed to be one day millions have died uh by the way uh in ukraine this report today they [5:47] have resumed strikes on russian oil refineries diesel uh is extremely high all over the world [5:54] i thought you asked president zelensky not to do that and zelinski is a not a good guy for us to deal [6:00] with biden gave him hundreds of billions of dollars uh billions and billions of dollars [6:06] have you lost faith in him well i think they're gonna have they're gonna end up with a settlement of [6:10] some kind they're not going to do it with him he doesn't want to settle uh he says he wants to [6:15] settle but he isn't no i'm not a i'm not a big fan of zelinski they've destroyed that country that [6:20] country look it really began with barack hussein obama when they made them give up crimea crimea is [6:28] the most valuable part by far of ukraine you know what i'm talking about the black sea four sides of [6:35] ocean right most beautiful piece of land i'm a real estate developer no sure i know good land yeah they [6:40] gave up crimea but uh where it happened in a little bit more modern time is when uh zelinski went [6:49] to see putin and they had a very bad meeting and as you know putin hates zelinski and zelinski hates [6:58] putin and when you have that kind of hatred it's very hard to get something settled but that's a war [7:05] that should have never started does that end of the election weren't rigged if the u.s election [7:09] would have weren't rigged that would have never happened that war would have never happened that's [7:13] the saddest part but then it was supposed to be a very much you know very quick war right and if you [7:19] remember the tanks going up the highway right into kiev had the general who was obviously not a very [7:24] good general not made a right turn into farmland which was soaked and soaking wet from the heaviest [7:30] rain in 10 years they say he went right up into the mud and it was like quicksand and those tanks so [7:36] they got i guess i don't know if you caught lucky or not lucky frankly because it's been five years [7:41] and ukraine has lost a tremendous you know ukraine has lost so many of its men and russia too but [7:50] russia is a massive country marcia has millions of people to 150 million people does that war end [7:56] before you leave office uh it should end soon i think they actually both would like to see it end [8:02] but i think i find zielinski to be more difficult to deal with than putin okay and of course rob asked [8:08] him about what's been happening this week with minnesota representative ilhan omar i want to ask [8:14] you about ilhan omar uh while we're talking about it's a bad sick person minnesota there's a chance that [8:20] she will be indicted and if that happens she could face jail time or deportation if it comes to that [8:27] would you do anything to stop it well i think she's a crooked person but i'm not involved that's [8:32] a doj look we have a great attorney general todd blanchett's going to be up to them i'm not involved [8:38] in that i read i see it on your show i see it on the news i read about it i think she's a very corrupt [8:44] person i think she hates our country she is a person that truly uh hates our country she comes from a [8:52] one of the worst countries in the world absolutely they have no government they have no [8:57] military they have no police they have nothing and you would let her be deported the amazing thing [9:03] she comes from a country that's nothing no leaders no this all they do is shoot each other all day [9:09] long and rob ships you know somalia they're only good at being a pirate right other than that they're [9:13] not it's a government we don't recognize formally it's a it's no government it's no country it's not [9:17] even a thing right she comes over here uh drives around in fancy cars lives in beautiful houses [9:23] everything else but she comes over here and she starts talking about my constitution i have [9:27] constitutional rights she's throwing the constitution out and telling us how to run america [9:34] personally i've said it many times before she ought to go back to her own country and [9:37] get a little uh help them out she couldn't help anybody anyway she's just a troublemaker [9:42] but i'm not involved in it i think she's very bad for our country you can find more affinity's [9:48] interview with president trump at newsmax tv.com and on the newsmax youtube and rumble pages as [9:54] well next up rob schmidt continued his coverage of representative omar's immigration and fraud [10:01] investigation this week we learned the trump administration's investigation into omar aims [10:05] to strip her of her citizenship and deport her right back to somalia and it's heating up fast rightly so [10:12] there's new loads of information indicating this woman this entire family in fact all the omars should [10:18] have never been allowed into the united states it is a bad family ilhan omar is an islamist communist [10:25] just like her father a stain on the united states she utterly despises this country she ran for office [10:31] to rip it apart that much is very obvious omar has publicly stated she remains devoted to the nation [10:37] that she fled she's just here to siphon off as much money as she can and send it to africa america a [10:44] white christian prosperous nation rescued ilhan as a refugee it was a big mistake and ilhan has spent [10:50] the last 30 years returning the favor by spitting on us calling our attempts to preserve our culture [10:56] disgusting the idea that this is a white nation that needs to be preserved um is a fascinatingly um [11:07] disgusting view because this country is one for the many one for the many she doesn't feel the same [11:15] way about somalia she wants to preserve the heritage of somalia but it's disgusting that we'd want to [11:20] preserve our heritage this is this is just a rich place to be looted by the world and desecrated that's [11:26] what she thinks of the country that rescued her rob also spoke with new york republican gubernatorial [11:31] nominee bruce blakeman about omar and his debate this week with new york's democratic governor kathy [11:37] hochel if you walk into any cvs or walgreens and you want to buy a bottle of shampoo in kathy hochel's [11:45] world you got to ring a buzzer a store clerk has to come out unlock a glass door for you to buy a bottle [11:53] of shampoo in new york state it's because we have a revolving door of criminality cashless bail raise the [11:59] age the halt act it's an amazing what we've conditioned people to get used to to accept [12:08] as quality of life in this country great point there very exciting moment here in new york [12:13] that'll hopefully resonate across other miserably blue states in this country republican bruce blakeman [12:17] there has got a real shot at taking down democrat governor kathy hochel in this state uh blakeman [12:24] dominated this debate this week reminding voters of hopeful support for coddling criminals backing [12:28] policies like cashless bail which has been a disaster releasing repeat offenders back onto [12:32] the streets to terrorize all of us and of course sanctuary policies listen to this i back law [12:39] enforcement and i back the laws of both our federal government our state government you say you spent [12:44] four billion dollars on law enforcement well you spent eight billion dollars on illegal migrants and [12:49] gave them more benefits than new yorkers get double the amount spent on law enforcement was used to just [12:56] bribe illegals to stay here in our state giving them anything they want people that have never [13:00] paid taxes here that don't belong in the country it's amazing eight billion dollars [13:04] hochel signing a bill just this august that prevents law enforcement from cooperating with ice [13:08] the state of new york now ignoring detainers for at least 16 000 criminal illegals many of them [13:15] violent they do not want these people caught and deported by ice a new pull out this week shows [13:20] blakeman down just three points four years after lee zeldin came so close to taking her down [13:24] we're hoping this is the moment bruce blakeman is the nassau county executive and republican running for [13:29] governor and sir it's good to have you back on um you got a great message similar to that of steve [13:33] hilton california we don't have to live like this it can be so much better well you know people are [13:40] getting fed up with these extremist policies that favor criminals over communities that favor [13:47] criminals over victims and kathy hochel is packing the state with illegal migrants giving them free food [13:54] free housing free transportation and a free cell phone rob let me let me put this to you right now [14:01] just imagine you're living in a state you work hard you're a citizen of the state and you lose your [14:07] job you go on unemployment you get less benefits in new york than someone who comes into this state [14:14] illegally from another country claims asylum and gets 81 000 in benefits that's our taxpayer money [14:24] it's insane she's spending 1.6 billion dollars on illegal migrants and you know how much she's [14:31] spending on our military veterans 11 million dollars nothing for a state our size so her priorities are [14:39] completely upside down and that's why we're going to win because people are fed up i can't even believe [14:44] that that we've somehow again been conditioned to accept any of this it's it's surreal that we live [14:50] like this it's amazing i love that you reminded people that you got to ring a bell to get toothpaste at [14:55] a drugstore now because you because you can't have anything out because we just let people steal [14:59] stuff we don't even put them in jail where it's or the or the it's so lax that they get out immediately [15:03] and they just keep doing it again um it's just amazing and she's blatantly lying also blatantly lying [15:09] about new york not being a sanctuary for criminals uh they they are they're ensuring that anybody that [15:15] gets out of jail after committing a crime is illegal alien is able to avoid ice avoid deportation it is [15:20] a sanctuary for criminals and yet she doesn't want you to know that she wants this she wants none of [15:25] this insanity to be known to the voters as they vote she denies all of it well listen there are very [15:33] few media outlets like newsmax who tell the truth i mean i have asked to go on the other media outlets [15:40] uh those that are controlled by far left democrats like cnn and msnbc but they won't let me on because [15:48] they don't want their listeners and their viewers to know the truth nassau county long island commissioner [15:55] and new york republican for governor bruce blakeman on rob schmidt tonight and again the numbers do not [16:03] lie if you want to weed through all the noise and all the mudslinging research the numbers new york [16:11] spending 1.6 billion on illegal immigrants and 11 million for u.s veterans as he said it's insane [16:22] it's embarrassing frankly but the people who won't talk to blakeman they love kathy hochel [16:30] governor hochel and democratic policies were also the topics of discussion on frontline with carl higby [16:37] like they say these things that sound good to their extreme base but when you put them [16:42] in practical terms like i don't know we'll use an example like obamacare the affordable air [16:47] health care act that didn't make health care more affordable at all it made it more expensive [16:51] so when you try to explain these things that they could these crazy policies they come up with [16:56] they're not based in reality and they also look stupid which as a republican i find hilarious [17:03] if it didn't cost me money take one of my favorite people to hate letitia james big tish she got [17:09] wrecked i mean capital r-e-k-d wrecked in her debate with her relatively unknown republican opponent [17:17] i have to look at the facts in the law when i'm attorney general on january 1 i'll do that you [17:21] don't have to look at the facts in the law all you have to do is study what they do it is illegal in [17:25] the state of new york well there you go you don't have to look at the facts in the law gentlemen [17:27] your attorney general i mean look awesome sound however there's like a very very very low chance [17:35] that that woman will actually win because all the republicans have left the state of new [17:38] york because the policies are so bad so when they can't compete with reality like you just saw in [17:43] all those clips and their ideas are floundering and all that other stuff they start fear-mongering [17:49] here is likely the next democrat nominee for president the socialist with a business degree [17:55] from boston aoc first off no it's not it's not it we're just making stuff up look i looked up the [18:14] things that are proposed for restrictions for access to some student loans you would think a [18:20] congresswoman would actually do this type of research it took me about four and a half minutes [18:24] okay here they are she obviously she didn't read any of the department of education's guidance on [18:29] this which states quote the new loan limits will drive down tuition without restricting access to [18:34] workforce pipelines in critical industries like nursing and education the vast majority of students [18:41] are unaffected by the new borrowing limits including 95 percent of students in nursing and education [18:46] programs there are however proposed restrictions to drama and theater arts programs why well because [18:54] according to university magazine they list under the quote poor roi column that's return on investment [19:00] with significant financial risk fine arts and studio arts music performance and gender and cultural studies [19:09] the reason the federal government via your tax dollars should not and doesn't want to subsidize [19:14] these things is because they have an annual starting salary hovering around thirty thousand dollars [19:18] because they're useless and don't help anybody and no one wants to pay for them you can't pay back [19:23] a two hundred thousand dollar loan at a ten percent interest rate with a twenty eight thousand dollar [19:28] salary i know reading is hard aoc but you're a congressman maybe try or have someone read it to you [19:34] make them on a kindle i don't know books on tape carl higby on frontline six o'clock [19:39] eastern a week ago or so you may have seen and heard carl talk passionately as a former navy seal [19:49] about why he was all in on the live stream execution of nadal hassan at fort hood yesterday president [19:57] trump announced on true social that it would not be live streamed after all and breaking president [20:05] trump announcing on true social that the execution of convicted fort hood assassin at nadal hassan [20:10] will no longer be live streamed secretary of war pete hegseth announced the original plan to broadcast [20:16] hassan's death earlier this month well part of the president's remarks on true social read [20:22] i think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the world to [20:26] witness how america deals with terrorists and scum like hassan but many very good and well-meaning [20:31] people would rather not watch him die through streaming or through any other visual device he will die [20:35] as scheduled by firing squad but this event will not be streamed of course they do stream uh you [20:41] know if you look at the terrorist organizations they stream a lot of executions yes they do so [20:46] we're going to discuss this back with us now special guest president of digital at frontline [20:50] strategies mike han and senior counsel at the lawfare project gerard felitti welcome back to the table [20:56] gentlemen uh mike what do you think of this i mean it when when uh secretary award pete hegseth first [21:01] announced we're live streaming this there's kind of mixed mixed emotions people were like you know [21:06] really for it or against it of course president trump finally comes out and says no go there's [21:10] very little i disagree with with the administration on but i think this should definitely be live [21:14] streamed and not only should it be live streamed it should be put behind a paywall and people that [21:18] have to donate the money should go to the victim so i'm all for it i'm kind of sad that they're walking [21:22] it back but uh yeah that is a very clever idea i don't like that right i also noticed that earlier [21:28] this week the uh head of the archdiocese for the military services archbishop timothy broglio [21:34] he issued a statement and he questioned the idea of live streaming this uh saying in part this [21:39] take a look the u.s military generally enjoys a good reputation in the world is there really a value [21:44] to throwing them in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a [21:49] man in a wheelchair to the whole world does this decision reflect the dignity of the human person [21:54] frankly i don't think that this man deserves any dignity whatsoever no um but your thoughts on [22:00] this um because he's lumping the military in with terrorists if it is this is an islamist [22:06] inspired terrorist who committed an act of terrorism which was justified by the government [22:10] as workplace violence this is not someone who deserves the dignity of anything this is someone [22:15] who deserves what he gets which is the death penalty the life steaming it i think might be a bit [22:20] lot for a lot of americans public executions on the other hand we've had a history of those we've [22:24] had them since the founding of this republic we had the last one i think in 1937 it's one thing to [22:29] invite the public and see it it's a different thing to put it on camera but this is something [22:32] that i think it's important for the people to know that when you engage in terrorism and kill [22:36] innocent people this is what happens to you and he has no issue with being killed he could he has [22:42] turned he said yeah he wants to be a martyr yeah he's turned down the opportunity to you know put up any [22:47] kind of a fight against this um this is exactly what he wants mike what do you what do you say to the [22:53] people that that have said that you know is as just brought up that islamic extremists have you [22:58] know recorded uh assassinations before or executions rather you remember they say it makes us like [23:05] them i mean what do you say to that well i'll tell you what a decade ago when isis was beheading [23:09] people running people over with their tanks it didn't really make me want to go to the middle [23:13] east all that much so if we were to live stream an execution of this man maybe it would have [23:17] some people thinking you know what maybe i don't want to go commit terrorism in the united states so [23:21] live stream it put it behind a paywall and give the money to the victims families and the big [23:25] difference here that you're not talking about an innocent person who's being a victim of terrorism [23:28] we're talking about someone who received due process who was tried by a jury who was convicted [23:32] and who was receiving the penalty that's allowed by law and who acknowledges i did this because i [23:37] wanted to kill all these people people that as a doctor you know he had been treating folks on this [23:42] on the uh the base there and one of them was a pregnant woman yeah it's disgusting he said he was [23:47] proud that he did it and he can't wait he can't wait to be a martyr so i don't know make of it what [23:52] you will so there you go and live streaming it especially as a means of making money for the [23:58] victim's family is something that a lot of people have been talking about for a long time when it [24:03] comes to executions long before this one and like a lot of other things if you don't like it you [24:09] don't want to see it simply do not watch it all right let's go back to new york for this former [24:15] venezuelan dictator nicolas maduro and his wife celia yesterday pleading not guilty to new charges [24:22] alleging a state-sponsored system of repression leading to torture prosecutors accused them of a [24:28] range of torture against political opponents and dissidents including but not limited to electric [24:35] shock starvation and isolation sexual violence to name a few again they pleaded not guilty in nevada [24:45] a cop that was paying attention and his dog leading to a massive drug seizure and arrest of an illegal [24:51] immigrant on federal fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking charges after they uncovered more [24:57] than 700 pounds of drugs including 30 pounds of fentanyl valued at more than two million dollars [25:07] this happened on us highway 93 near ash springs nevada a deputy observed the man speeding and then [25:14] his canine alerted him to the truck which triggered the search again finding more than 700 pounds of [25:20] drugs president trump speaking at a campaign event in georgia today where early voting is off and running [25:27] he'll be participating in an rnc event at mar-a-lago in palm beach tonight and then travel to a campaign [25:34] rally in kentucky tomorrow on wall street stocks opened slightly higher this morning oil is down 27 cents at [25:42] 97 70 tesla stock up about three percent after elon musk introduced the car maker's new roadster which [25:51] went up a giant ramp went upside down and then literally flew back down to the ground made with [25:58] high powered fans and thrusters designed by spacex it is of course all over social media for you to check out [26:07] don't forget tomorrow night the big 600 million dollar powerball is up for grabs as well as your [26:12] local state lottery plenty of college football tomorrow which has been incredible plenty of nfl [26:19] action on sunday nhl major league baseball playoffs and nascar is in phoenix as the chase continues [26:28] i'm tony marino enjoy the rest of your friday have a fantastic and safe 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