Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: February 27, 2026 (Transcript)

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 Friday wrap up February 27, 2026

Hi, Bob Barney with the Friday Wrap-Up, and we’re traveling, we’re in Florida actually for thiswrap-up, but we’re doing it from the kitchen of the place we’re staying at, so it might sound a little different. So the stories of the week will go over in this Friday Wrap-Up, and then we always try to get into what’s going to happen at the end of the weekend with tomorrow’s Sabbath show,tomorrow night’s entertainment show, and if we have it in time, which I believe we do, I’ve got to look in my notes, what we’re going to play Sunday. And so the big story of the week, there’s more than one.

The three that I’m thinking about that’s really still the stories of the week, not counting the Sarah Guthrie story, is number one, the Epstein, and now the Clintons being called in to testify, and now there is another accuser claiming when she was a minor, both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump abused her, and I think Trump has played a card that is going to continue working against him. I don’t, at this point, I don’t believe any of the stories against Donald Trump that’s going to come out, but the problem is when you have the Democrat party against you and the Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton people against you, you’re going to find all kinds of witnesses coming out accusing Trump of everything in the world, and it’s going to be as believable as anybody else. So just be aware that sometimes you reap what you sow.

They really played this Epstein thing up big time when they were running for office, and now they are redacting, and this is news if you want to believe it or not, but you can’t deny this. The Justice Department has redacted so much information about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. I don’t believe they did that because of the fact that he’s did anything wrong per se.

I think they’re doing that because there are so many references to Donald Trump because you got to remember one thing when the FBI was investigating this matter before Trump was president under the Obama administration, number one, and then under the Biden administration, they probably sent the FBI in every single nook and cranny and ridiculous person’s claims and recorded it on purpose and filed it away under the Jeffrey Epstein thing on purpose in order to get Donald Trump. We already saw this with the Trump 1.0. When he was running for office in 2015 and 2016, we saw both the media and our government agencies like the FBI and CIA for that matter become unglued trying to nail Donald Trump with bogus made-up charges. We saw that.

He was tried time and time again for bogus made-up charges. You had a woman who claimed he assaulted her in what was it Macy’s or something in 1976. She was a liar and the court sided on her side because the courts were against Donald Trump.

No real court with justice in mind would have ever sided with that case against Donald Trump. So we’ve always had, when it has to do with Donald Trump, we have always had a situation where the lower courts especially, not necessarily the higher courts or the Supreme Court, but the lower courts have always ruled against Donald Trump no matter what, because they just simply do not like him and they are going to use the courts to prosecute him. So when he was bringing up Hillary and Bill Clinton and things like this during the election time in 2024, like what happened to him in 2017 and 2018 before his impeachments, he sometimes seeded his own problems.

He sowed out those seeds and they came back to work against him and I think that’s what’s going to happen here. Be aware, in my humble opinion, the Epstein thing is not going to disappear as Donald Trump and the Republicans wish it would today. The Republicans wanted it out there and they got what they wanted and they really didn’t want it.

It’s like the old saying, when the dog runs after a car, what’s he going to do when he catches the car? Well, this is what happened to Donald Trump, the Republican Party and the Department of Justice. They sat there and they chased a car and they caught it and now they don’t know what to do with it and it’s going to continue to haunt his administration to the end of it. And it may, and it could be all trumped up charges.

It could be all trumped up. That’s a pun I didn’t mean, but it could be all bogus charges against Donald Trump, but it could actually lead when the Democrats take over next year, which I think they could, they’re trying their hardest not to be able to take over with unbelievable anti-American, anti-American people policies that they’re trying to promote. But if they do take over next year, impeachment is coming and the Epstein part of this impeachment is going to be a major part of it.

And so this is going to really backfire against Donald Trump and against the Republicans in general. And you heard that first because I don’t think too many people want to talk about that right now, but it’s bad news. And we’re going to get in right now to the 2026 midterm elections, because I believe the only thing that’s stopping the Democrats from taking both the House and the Senate are the Democrats.

Donald Trump, by the way, in my opinion, he could be a paid Democrat informer here or a paid Democrat strategist because he’s doing more to save the Democratic party and proving, by the way, that the Democratic policies of the past were the best policies we ever had than any other person that’s ever held a rhino Republican hat. But the Democrats themselves are doing everything they can do to turn American people off. You saw that in the State of the Union address, the longest State of the Union address of all time.

It was boring. CNN poll said 64% of the people who watched it, I don’t believe this, but the poll probably is somewhat true, that said they were encouraged with that speech. I couldn’t watch it because I knew it was going to be that we have $2 gas when we really have $3 gas.

I mean, I heard Steve Scalise say the other morning, well, gas has come down, we no longer have $5 gas. When did we have $5 gas other than California? And it’s still $5 gas in California. Gas was about, the last year Biden was president, it was about $3.10 where I am.

It was about the same in Connecticut. It was about the same in Florida. And it was where a lot of people live.

And right now gasoline prices in Florida is $2.89, gasoline prices in Virginia about $2.91, one place in Virginia I saw $2.79, Connecticut’s about $2.95 to $3. So gas has come down very little. Oil has come down very little.

In fact, the last five weeks, I believe oil has actually raised up in price. That’s our next subject because it’s going up because of this Iran thing. And again, I said back in the spring when we attacked Iran and took out their nuclear facilities that we did not, it was a failed mission.

And all we had was Pete Hegseth and crew sit there and cheerlead how great the president was, how we set Iran back by five years. No, we kept the snake alive and the snake came back to bite again. And it’s gonna, we’re gonna play around in Iran until one of these days Iran’s gonna get a lucky shot out and do a lot of damage because we are not doing what we should have done in the spring when we had Israel’s help and we could have taken that country down and we could have removed the people in power.

Now I’m afraid things could go backwards. I hope I’m wrong. I hope we can remove those religious zealots from power.

I believe the majority of the Iranians would love to see it happen. But again, I think the majority of Iranians right now think that Donald Trump, like Barack Obama, made lines in the sand and he did not intend to really do that much. Granted, he did send the military to do some stuff that Obama did not do.

But at the same time, he didn’t cut off the head of the snake. And that’s gonna come back to haunt us. And so that’s still a big story of the week is when are we gonna strike Iran? It’s probably gonna happen sooner than later because I don’t believe, and I think it’s really evident, that the mullahs in Iran are not trying to do anything to really solve the nuclear crisis that we want them to do away with.

They see that their only chance for survival is to have a nuclear weapon to protect themselves from us. Also, by the way, many of our allies think the same thing now. We have Greenland getting missile defenses to protect themselves from an American attack.

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Thank you. And we’re back for the next round of the Friday wrap-up of what’s going on here.Continuing talking about the midterm elections, there is every signal in the world that theAmerican people are really disgusted with the way things are going.

Right now in Texas, this real lousy congresswoman, Crockett is her last name, no relation to Davy Crockett. She’s a black congresswoman who is absolutely as anti-American and as anti-you and me as there ever has been. She is leading the Republican candidate according to the last poll by 37 points.

Can you believe that? 37 points. And that is two things here. One, I’ve said this for about five years now, and I’ve also said it to my daughter who is living in Texas, in Houston, Texas area, that Texas is no place I would want to live because I have seen Texas going blue for the longest time.

Democrats are getting more and more power in Texas. And that is because you have a governor, a Republican rhino governor in Texas who loves to make all kinds of TV appearances and act tough and act like he’s doing something against this or that, and he’s actually just doing nothing. And so he is doing nothing except helping Democrats replace Republicans in both the state and the Congress.

And I believe now we are going to see a Democratic senator, maybe her, maybe another one. There’s another man running for it. I can’t think of his name right now, who the media is really trying to support.

They think he’s the next Bobby Kennedy type, the old Bobby Kennedy, senior, not junior. But I think it’s very possible we’re going to see a sweep of the Congress if the Democrats don’t do themselves in. And like I said before, this is my opinion.

Donald Trump opens his mouth, he just helps the Democratic party. If I was a Democrat, I’d give Donald Trump all the money in the world to keep going. I would make sure he keeps talking the way he is because he’s helping them, and they are not helping themselves.

It’s that simple. And on that idea about Americans are not happy what’s going on, that’s why I’m worried about what’s going to happen in Congress in the midterm elections. Americans are leaving the United States in record numbers.

It’s our 250th birthday. And last year, the U.S. experienced something that it hasn’t seen since the Great Depression. More people moved out of this country than moved in.

The Trump administration has hailed the exodus, negative net migration, as a fulfillment of their prophecy. But what’s really happening is many Americans, and I’m talking about American-born Americans, not necessarily even of Hispanic origin, but many Americans who have a lot of money are moving out of this country, and they’re moving into countries that are more tax-friendly to rich people. And there’s going to be not only a brain drain out of America, but there’s going to be a money drain.

Just like states like Florida, which do not tax its people to death, are gaining people from California, from New York, from Connecticut, from Massachusetts and New Jersey. There is a brain and money drain to Florida from these liberal Democrat states to the North and to the West, that just like that, people first moved to Florida, more and more people from these Democrat states are actually moving overseas and taking their money with them. And that could be a problem down the road for us, and it’s again showing you that the American people simply are not happy with what is happening.

They’re just not happy at all. And we are only about, what, six, seven months away from the fall elections, and I don’t see things happening in that time that’s going to make a big deal. Now, a lot of people think that the tax cuts, that new, big, beautiful bill, and I think it was the big, ugly bill, but is going to get enough people’s tax rebates up by 100% in some people.

And I think deductions for businesses and regulations and stuff like that could help the economy grow, but I don’t think, I don’t see prices coming down. I don’t see it coming down in my business, and I don’t see it coming down in the grocery store. I don’t see it coming down with gas.

I do not see the price reductions and stuff that we saw under Trump 1.0 in 2017. 2017, 2018, and 2019, America boomed better than it did under Ronald Reagan. And you know what I think about Ronald Reagan.

He’s a great president and one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the 20th century for America. But it’s just a problem, and we cannot afford the Democrats taking over Congress and the Senate, and especially if they impeach Donald Trump. And what would happen, I don’t think this is a possibility personally, but you always got to think, because a lot of impossible things happen, because remember, with God, all things are possible.

If the Democrats were to take over the House, and now the Majority Leader of the House, or the Speaker of the House, not the Majority Leader, the Speaker of the House is now a Democrat, and it probably would be Jeffries, and the House impeached Trump, and then the Senate would remove him. And if Vance then is put up for impeachment, because he was in cahoots with Donald Trump, and the Senate would remove him, you would have an unelected Democrat President of the United States. Because guess who’s in line for the presidency after the Vice President? It’s the Speaker of the House.

And so I don’t believe it can happen, but I just throw that out there, because like I said, all things are possible when God gets involved. And I don’t think God is very happy with what’s going on. I want to get into one other thing about God not being happy.

If you have not been following along, and the absolute debauchery going on at Mar-a-Lago, they have theme nights that are nothing but satanic. The President of the United States’ own personal club, you can do a very quick news search about the themes of the events that go on at Mar-a-Lago, and they’re all demon-possessed. Anybody who even looks into it can see that the debauchery that’s being portrayed is everything like what Jeff Epstein did.

And this is at Mar-a-Lago, and this is whilst he’s President, whilst he’s selling watches, which he should not be able to do. Made in China, as it was said in Swakbox the other day, they’re the best Swiss, Chinese-made Swiss watches available. Because Donald Trump’s merchandise has never come from America.

Donald Trump’s hats don’t come from America. Donald Trump’s t-shirts don’t come from America. And neither does his watches come from America.

For some guy who wants to put America first, he does it when it comes to his businesses. He doesn’t even invest anymore in the United States property. He’s invested in all properties in Vietnam and Bahrain and UAE and Kuwait and just everywhere all over the world.

He’s putting Trump hotels and resorts, but not in America right now. And it’s just amazing to see the hypocrisy coming out of this White House, that the mega people, if it was Joe Biden doing this, would be demanding impeachment. And if you’re honest with yourself, you know I’m right.

But most people are not honest with themselves. And that’s the problem we have. The other story of the week, and I’ve done this story many times, is about the UFO release that Donald Trump promises that he’s going to release.

And I already have covered this almost since the beginning of The Plain Truth, what is that, 2008, what UFOs really are. And simply, I’ll explain more after the next break here, but simply, UFOs are not aliens. Well, they may be aliens, but they’re not the aliens that people think they are.

There is an explanation in your Bible that tells you what aliens are in UFOs. And it may shock those who don’t really understand that. But I’ll be back after this brief word again about ThePlainTruth.com and The Plain Truth today.

Hi, Bob Barney for The Plain Truth Today and ThePlainTruth.com. Please go there every day to find out what’s happening, what it means for you, your family, and your future. That’s ThePlainTruth.com and ThePlainTruthToday.com. Thank you for listening. And we’re back and we’re going to talk a little bit about UFOs.

UFOs are mentioned if you go to Ezekiel, and we did this in a UFO program I did last week. If you didn’t hear the whole program, I really wish you would go back and listen to it. UFOs basically are two things.

97, probably 99% of the UFOs ever witnessed by anyone in the world are natural phenomena. They’re water vapor gas, car lights in the distance, stars that seem to move, things like that, or airplanes even that people mistaken as a UFO. But there is that one or two, maybe 3% of real UFOs out there that people who know what they’re talking about have seen what they say is spacecraft that can do the impossible things.

And at least so many people believe that means there’s life out there from other planets. Well,there is life out there, my friends. It’s called angels and demons, God and his angels and demonsand Satan and his angels, or there are demons now.

And when you go to Ezekiel chapter one, I did this in this program, you just read the whole chapter, do it in an easy to read Bible, like the living Bible or something like that. And you will see that when he saw Ezekiel, that is the throne of God, what he saw looked like a UFO with flashing lights and gyro reels and carrying a throne. And on that throne was none other than Jesus Christ, because that is the God of the old Testament.

And that is what the UFOs that are not explained are. And the aliens that we’re talking about are not physical creatures from another planet. The aliens are mostly demons that are masquerading and fooling people about UFOs.

Sometimes they’re angels. They’re not God right now. I don’t think he’s visiting the earth because he said he isn’t.

Even Tucker Carlson came to this conclusion, and I’m Joe Rogan here. I’m going to play a little bit of it right now. Level is what? Okay, so if they’re spiritual beings, which I believe they are, like, it’s a binary.

They’re either, you know, if you’re on team good or team bad, you can assign any name to it. You want angels or demons? Are they good or bad? And, and I think some of them are bad. And if the US government knows that or elements, the people within the government know that, then, you know, then they’re serving a bad force.

When you say spiritual, like what, what makes you draw that conclusion that they’re spiritual?What’s the obvious? I mean, spiritual may be the wrong word. Supernatural. You know, they’re beyond nature as we understand it.

I mean, obviously they are. I mean, just chart their physical behavior. It doesn’t, you know, it goes outside of what we understand about physics.

No visible means of propulsion, you know, coming at an indescribable speed, hitting the ocean, continuing at speeds that are impossible under sea. I mean, in other words, if I, if I take a, you know, nine millimeter, seven, six, two by 39 and shoot you at 50 yards underwater in a swimming pool, and it’s even more intense in saltwater because it’s denser, you could catch the bullet if it even makes it to you. Right? So if you have a craft, any object underwater that’s traveling at 500 knots as measured by sonar right there, you’re challenging understanding physics.

Like, what is that? How can that be? So they’ve tracked that. They’ve tracked things going 500 knots under the sea. Yeah, really? Yeah.

Much, much faster than any object could can actually go under under CEO for sure. Oh yeah. So anyway, that’s even Tucker Carlson and anybody I remember first listening to Gartner, Ted Armstrong back in 1977, when he himself experienced a UFO near an airport where he had a private jet that he used to fly around his own private jet.

The worldwide picture. God had a lot of money back then. And like he said, he knows what he saw.

And most pilots all have seen them. They don’t talk about it because they’d probably lose theirlicense, but they know they’re real. And so do not be deceived with what comes out.

UFOs are either demons or angels. They’re not little Martians from another planet. They are not humanoid.

And the idea that we’ve gotten bodies and stuff like that, all fake, fake news. There’s going to be a lot of fake news about UFOs. Do not be deceived, but also understand there are aliens out there.

We call those aliens either angels or demons, and that’s the aliens in UFOs. And before we get into this weekend’s shows that we’re going to cover, I just want to keep an update on the tariff situation. You know, the Supreme court knocked him down.

There’s going to be already, there’s lawsuits being filed by FedEx and other people trying to get their money back. I don’t know where FedEx has standing because they never paid a tariff in their life. I know everything I ever bought that came from overseas that FedEx would deliver.

I paid the tariff. FedEx paid the government that money, but they charged me the tariff. And so it’s my money and not their money to collect.

So that’s going to be an interesting proposition right there. But these tariffs have really is the number one things that has put this economy in the way that it is today. It’s the number one thing keeping Donald Trump from being a 2.0 being like 1.0. The tariffs have destroyed small businesses in America.

There is no doubt about it. The tariffs have done more to destroy mom and pop businesses in America than a Barack Obama, the great business destroyer has, was ever able to do. And that’s the plain truth.

Well, this weekend, we want to get into the Saturday morning show, which is always our religious show because Saturday is the Sabbath day. Again, you know, Texas, I think passed a law that all courts and all schools have to have the 10 commandments posted. So funny because they don’t follow the fourth commandment themselves, though they want the kids to have it posted because the fourth commandment does not say anything about Sunday.

The fourth commandment says a law of God, honor the Sabbath day and keep it holy. And that’s what we do with the plain truth. And we hope you as listeners adopt the Sabbath day because it is the day of God.

It’s the Lord’s day. And the, uh, morning show 7, 11 a.m. morning show is called God’s law. Is it forChristians? And of course, you know, if you listen to this show more than once, uh, God’s law is forChristians.

And it’s an older, uh, Garnert at Armstrong show, not as a young man, but it’s probably about now about 30 years old. And it is very informative about what God’s law is all about how to understand it. And to realize that the Jesus did not abolish the 10 commandments or any of the law upon his death, or the apostles would not still be keeping all of the holidays and all of the Sabbath days and all of the parts of the law that they kept the, uh, 7, 11 p.m. entertainment show for tomorrow night is, uh, called the diary of Dr. Pritchard.

It’s a old radio show. I think from 1952, it’s a suspense. And it’s all I’m going to say about it.

It is a suspense about a doctor. I’ll say this, uh, trying to, or who’s a serial killer. Let’s put it that way.

It’s almost like a Alfred Hitchcock type suspense on radio. And that’s called, and Cedric Hardwick is a very famous, you saw him in the 10 commandments. He played the Pharaoh, uh, Ramses.

And, uh, he’s a very famous actor from the 1940s and fifties. And he plays the lead role as Dr. Pritchard. I listened to that before, and because I listened to it on the radio, on radio classics, I said, this is a perfect show for a Friday entertainment radio show.

So that’s this tomorrow night, 7, 11 p.m. Sunday. Uh, I did look at my notes. We, I didn’t have anything planned.

I did this show a little earlier than Friday, did it Thursday night. And so this will probably show Friday noon time, but we’ll see. Um, but, uh, Sunday will probably again, be a two way by Mark Halperin doing a weekly summary on Friday that he always does.

And it doesn’t, it’s a very good show for the Sabbath. I like that one. I have to admit, I also liked the one that the Philadelphia church of God does.

I know I’m not a flurry fan, but they have a very good news department that gives a weekly wrap up of the news, more biblically oriented. And most of their ideas about who’s who, they know who the nations are. They understand who Germany is, who America is in prophecy, things like that.

And they have a pretty darn good show themselves. So anyway, that’s the Friday wrap up. This is Bob Barney in Florida and doing it.

And we’ll be back Monday with more shows. I’m still going to be in Florida all of next week as well until Monday, Bob Barney saying, thank you for listening. Bye-bye.

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