Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: July 17, 2026 (Transcript)

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Hi, Bob Barney with The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. It’s Friday wrap-up, and we’re going to get into some of the things that happened this week, and if we have time, again, we’ll go over what tomorrow’s programming is going to be. So the big news, I guess, right now is you could say it’s either the bombing of Iran again, or last night’s Trump speech about election integrity, trying to get his bill passed through Congress, of the SAVE Act, and the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. This morning, he was met with total ridicule, even trying to claim that the election was stolen.

But I’m going to play something for you in a minute, because anybody that had anything to do with politics, anybody that’s been involved in politics, for the most part, if they’re honest, they will admit how elections have been stolen over many, many years. I am not a big fan of President Trump’s 2.0 election this time around, even though I supported it. So I am not talking about one of these mega idiots that just always think Donald Trump is right, because I don’t, but he’s right about the 2020 election.

Anybody who understands politics, and that was what I went to college for, that’s what my profession was going to be. Anybody who’s studied the history of politics knows that elections have been stolen throughout history, and the Democratic Party has always been, not always, but has been in the 20th century, the party that really perfected stealing elections. Even in 1980, Ronald Reagan made a joke about, if you didn’t believe in the resurrection of the dead, you’d never been in Chicago on election night.

We got that because the 1960 election was stolen by the Kennedy people, by the Democrats, and everyone knew it. It’s part of history. I’m going to play a little YouTube video right now.

It’s an audio for you guys, for everybody else, but I’m going to play a little YouTube thing about election integrity over the years. I think people who are not into history, and into election history, as I spent a long time in my career doing, I think do not know these facts, but let me play this, and then we’ll get back, and I’ll give my take on it. In the immediate aftermath of the 1960 presidential election, when Democrat John F. Kennedy was declared the winner against Republican Richard M. Nixon, incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in disbelief.

Ike had vigorously campaigned for Vice President Nixon, and feared that the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson would forever tarnish his legacy. Throughout the 1960 campaign, he called JFK incompetent compared to Nixon, and labeled LBJ as the most tricky and unreliable politician in Congress. When Eisenhower learned that Nixon had lost, he was devastated, saying- Just a couple of points here.

He was absolutely right about LBJ. LBJ is probably the most corrupt, the most evil president we’ve had in recent memory, who was responsible for the Vietnam War, deaths of many, many American service people, that he never intended to win. It was totally immoral, totally evil, and the man is, like I said, he was probably a murderer.

You can just do your own research. We’ve done it on the Plain Truth in the past, but he was probably even a murderer, and I’m talking about against personal enemies, like the Clintons. But let’s continue with this election fraud history that I’m afraid you’re not going to hear on any other media, especially on TV.

You’re not going to hear this right now, because we want everyone to believe that elections, without being able to prove who you are, without having a- Or some one of these over-the-counter medications for sinuses. You got to show your license to get that. You know what they do, and you realize that also, they record that you bought it in a book for the state to make sure you’re not making drugs, just to buy something if you have a head cold, but you don’t have to show proof that you’re an American citizen to vote.

You do in every other country in the world, but let’s play a little bit more history of election fraud.He felt as though had been hit in the solar plexus with a baseball bat on the morning after theelection. Ike would also say to his son John that all I’ve been trying to do for eight years has gone down the drain.

But by the end of November, as later returns showed a more narrow victory for Kennedy, President Eisenhower started to question the results. Ike called his Attorney General William Rogers to investigate, saying he was disturbed about continuing allegations of fraud in the election. No doubt the president was hearing the murmurs that the Kennedy campaign had rigged the election in key swing states, such as Illinois, where the Democratic nominee won by fewer than 9,000 votes.

On the 24th, the Chicago Tribune declared that it is a good guess that in an honest election, Mr. Nixon would have carried Illinois by 100,000 votes. That was reported in back then when newspapers, and even television news for the most part, told some of the truth. Today we have a media that refuses to tell the plain truth about the 2020 election, about other elections in the past.

I don’t even believe, now when I go back and I look at it, I don’t believe that Barack Obama won his first election, honestly. I think the Democrats stole that from McCain. I do believe he won the 2012 election.

I do not believe the 2020 election in any way that Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama in 2012. It’s just not possible. And that Joe Biden got more votes than any other candidate in historyin 2020, during COVID, for pity sakes, when you had millions upon millions of mail-in ballots that were dropped, videos of them being dropped in mailboxes.

Just unbelievable. But the news today lies to you. That’s why we do the plain truth.

We don’t lie to you. While Nixon conceded to Kennedy soon after Election Day, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Thurston Morton, refused to do so, claiming fraud. Nixon’s VP pick, Henry Cabot Lodge, also reflected years later that they would have taken Chicago in 1960 if there had been an honest count.

Representative Pat Hillings of California would also tell Nixon after the loss, I believe you would be our president today if the election had not been stolen from us in certain places such as Illinois and Texas. So was there any credible evidence of a stolen election? I am aware of the skepticism this topic may evoke. One could easily dismiss the charges made in 1960 as just another half-baked conspiracy theory perpetuated by sore losers within the Republican Party.

But over the course of American history, there have been a few times when fraud had, in fact, affected the outcome of a major campaign. Examples include the election of 1876, when Republican Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden. Although both sides at the time engaged in illicit activities, the fraudulent vote counting done by Republicans outdid the voter intimidation carried out by Democrats, and Hayes was determined the winner.

A more recent example of a flawed presidential election occurred in 2000, when the conservativealliance Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida, which many now recognize would haveresulted in a victory for Democrat Al Gore over Republican George W. Bush. But while there’s more of a consensus that 1876 and 2000 were stolen, the 1960 presidential election, one of the closest presidential races in American history, still has historians debating whether or not John F.Kennedy won through legitimate or illegitimate means. So the story and everybody who’s everstudied this honestly knows that the 1960 election was absolutely stolen.

Everybody that I’ve ever went to college with, including liberals who would never admit it on TV,would tell you privately that the Democratic machine in Chicago could swing Chicago anydirection it wanted to be. 9,000 votes. I read this morning, I’m going to say this last thing.

I read this morning, reading the Daily Mail, how people were saying it’s impossible to rig elections. It’s just because they’re all decentralized. People who make that claim, and I heard Cuomo do that the other night, just simply does not understand elections and how a president is elected by less than 1% of the population.

For example, in 1960, 9,000 votes made Kennedy president. Out of all the millions that voted, 9,000 votes is what he won by. And that 9,000 votes came from the city of Chicago, where Kennedy was made president by Mayor Daley, Mafia Mayor Daley.

The Mafia wanted Kennedy as president, and they soon did not want him as president. And that’s why they helped the CIA erase him from history. That’s the plain truth about fraudulent elections in 2020.

And 2020 was a stolen election. And that is the plain truth. I’ll be right back after this brief word about theplaintruth.com. Hi, theplaintruth.com is the place to go to, to want to know what’s going on in today’s world and the plain truth about it.

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This is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth. Thank you. And we’re back and we’re going to talk about the war now, which is never going to end.

We kind of started telling you that about four months ago there was a problem in this war. But anyway, to make a long story short, bombing has continued this week and we don’t know how long it’s going to continue. This war has no end in sight.

But anyway, here’s the latest Fox News on the bombing last night. Meanwhile, on a separate note, earlier yesterday, the U.S. carried out more strikes on Iran, targeting Iranian military capabilities, marking the fifth day of attacks. In the meantime, President Trump says Iran has released an American citizen who was banned from leaving the country since 2024 under the Biden administration.

The president took to Truth Social, saying this is a sign of goodwill by Iran. It’s true. This marks the first American released by Iran since 2023.

And so the negotiations, non-negotiations, this is just nonsensical. We talked about this last week. So this is going to be a very short subject today, because as I’m telling you right now, this war should be over with.

This is absolutely what happens when you have an administration like Jimmy Carter’s administration. This reminds me of when we tried to rescue our hostages in Iran in 1979, when everything, I guess it was 1980, when everything just blew up. The helicopters collided with each other in a desert storm and Americans died.

Meanwhile, Ross Perot was able, the same time that the Americans could not free our hostages in Tehran, Ross Perot freed his hostages that were being held in Iran at the same time when he hired mercenaries to do the job. And they did their job accurately. That is what happens when leadership does not plan.

Leadership does not know what they’re doing. Pete Hegseth is a disgrace in the Secretary of Defense role. No, he’s not a Secretary of War.

The official title is still Secretary of Defense. I’m not going to play word games. You know, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico.

It’s not the Gulf of America. It’s just all of these nonsensical terms. It’s like, you know, surrounding the Gulf of California is nothing but Mexico.

But they didn’t change the name to the Gulf of Mexico there, too, or the Gulf of Acapulco, or whatever you want to call it. It’s just this idea that you’re a TV star, or do you want to be a presidential TV star and you want to have an apprentice-type presidency? It’s nonsensical and it’s dangerous in this world. But I won’t go into there.

We’re going to get into the next subject of the week. One of the things we have on The Plain Truths, or one of the sites that you find from The Plain Truth Review, when you go totheplaintruth.com, you have a choice to go to these podcasts. You have a choice to go to themessage board.

But one of the things we have is Your Health Today. And one of the stories this week is the great food poisoning linked to Taco Bell, and it’s linked to their shredded iceberg lettuce. Taco Bell’s shredded iceberg lettuce supplier has been identified as a potential source of contamination of cyclosporasis, I think I pronounced that correct, which has caused an explosive diarrhea epidemic across the entire country.

The Washington Post reported that the California-based supplier, called Taylor Farms, may have a connection to the rise in cases, according to individuals close to the investigation. Now, this company has in the past been linked to many other contamination issues. But when you really look at what this parasite comes from, it comes from manure, feces, most likely human feces.

This is a couple of the things that’s happening in certain things. When you have migrant pickers, maybe without proper sanitation, and they’re going to the bathroom in the fields. It can also happen, by the way, with no-till farming.

One of the things that we talk about on The Plain Truth is about the growing trend of no-tillfarming, where you do not plow the ground anymore. The reason that farmers don’t want to plow the ground is twofold. When you plow the ground, you can get a dust bowl situation.

That’s what happened in the American in 1920s and 30s with the Great Dust Bowl, because once the dirt is turned over and there’s high winds, there’s nothing to hold the dirt from blowing away. And there’s only an inch or two of topsoil, and then you get down to gravel or other material that crops are not going to grow in. And then we had the dust bowl.

So if you didn’t have to plow the ground, you don’t have to worry about losing soil. And that’s a big problem. It’s a big problem in big farms, especially your 1,000 acre farms.

But the other reason they don’t want to plow the ground is it’s extra work. If you can plant over the last year’s crop, you know, you mow down last year’s crop, and you plant over top of it, and you fertilize it, and you weed kill it, and you never have to plow it. You saved a lot of labor.

And most farms today do not have a lot of laborers actually planting the crops. They may have a lot of laborers picking the crops, but the planting is done by just a few people with mechanized tractors and equipment that does the planting. And if you don’t have to plow the field, you save a lot of time, you save a lot of money.

And you save a lot of topsoil. At least that’s their idea. The problem when you do no-till farming is any contamination on top of the ground that’s not buried can end up in your food supply.

For example, if you are, and I know a lot of organic farmers that are at home, and they really don’tknow what they’re doing. And unfortunately, they’re reading people on the web who don’t know what they’re doing, explaining how you can organically no-till farm. So you’re going to put down chicken and cow manure, and you’re going to plant through it, and you’re going to plant your crops that grow up through that manure.

Guess what’s going to happen? You’re going to get E. coli, or this cyclospora parasite. You’re going to get all kinds of disease, because when you use real manure that’s not, you know, pasteurized, like sometimes you can go to the store and buy manure that’s pasteurized. But when you buy real manure, when you use real manure that is full of every kind of parasite, bacteria you know on demand, you have to plow that deep under.

Cow manure, it’s got to be under at least 12, 13 inches. Chicken manure, probably even more, because chicken manure is so powerful and so full of disease. People don’t realize this.

They do a lot of their home gardening, and they sicken a lot of people that they give their garden vegetables to. By the way, we can walk into a commercial right now, because part of the plain truth is your health today. You go there, and you see the latest articles about what God says you should eat, and what God says you should not eat.

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You’re not supposed to eat shellfish, or shark meat, or even swordfish. Why? Because God says it’s unclean for you to eat. You can find that in the book of Leviticus, if you want to look it up for yourself.

But there’s all kinds of dietary rules that God, and cleanliness rules that God has in his Bible. And if you read it, or you go to the plain truth, and read what God has to say that we talk about on the pages of Your Health Today, then you will understand what you are, and what you are not supposed to eat. As also, sanitation practices, as well as good health practices of exercise, not gaining weight, trying to control your weight, try to control your food, what kind of food you should be eating, what kind of food you should eat in moderation.

You know, your high sugary foods, not necessarily is a killer if you have a donut once a week. But if you have three donuts a day for the rest of your life, you’re probably going to have diabetes. And that is what Your Health Today brings you.

So this was a perfect time for a live commercial for theplaintruth.com, where you have the message board, you have these podcasts, you have the main page of the Plain Truth, which has very good stories every day, right in front of you. But also up top to the right, you see Your Health Today. You click on that, and there’s usually three or four, sometimes five stories a week.

It’s not every day, but that many stories a week that gets into the latest research for diseases, or the latest research for cures, or the latest research, or the scientific evidence for this or that,whatever, as well as what the Bible says you should eat, what the Bible says you should do to improve your health. And prayer, by the way, is one of those things to improve your health. All of that is found on the pages of theplaintruth.com. Thank you, and we’ll be back to the next story of the week.

I did a broadcast this week about the coming King of the South, and we are witnessing, in my opinion, a president who’s not only making the King of the North, Europe, but also might be helping format the King of the South, which I still believe, and this is not a biblical thing, this is not anything that I could be certain about, but I still believe Saudi Arabia, which hosts the most holiest place in the Islamic religion, which is Mecca, which is in Saudi Arabia, I believe Saudi Arabia is going to be the location of the King of the South. He will be a Saudi Arabian, or I should say an Arabian, and I believe that King will, like the King of the North, will conquer all of the Islamic nations from Morocco all the way to Afghanistan and beyond, and they will form a United States of Islamic Republics, in my opinion, like the United States of Europe is going to form, either under a dictator from either Germany or Italy. 

It could either be either one, but I did an audio call, you can find it on ThePlainTruth.com, the coming King of the South, what if Muslim countries united today? 

Well, that is not the one I did, that is one we put up from YouTube, but I also did one as wellthis week, if you look back, and we talk about that Trump’s policies, which are not good policiesthis time around, is helping make the rest of the world look beyond the United States of America,and now you’re going to start to have regional factions take care of themselves, and that’sprobably going to mean regional dictatorships are going to arise around the world, and it’s a problem, and unfortunately, this presidency, unlike the first President Trump, which I think was a good presidency, he had good advisors, this one here is making one mistake after another, and the world, and you and I, are going to suffer for it.

Another topic we had on the main page of The Plain Truth, is the title of it, if you want to go back and read it, is reprehensible, half of the Democrats in the House vote to defund Israel, and the legacy media does not want to really talk about this too much, because they’re the Communists that the House Democrats are, that really, in the House Democrats right now, Socialism, as they call it, is winning everywhere, it’s really Communism, and every time you hear Social Democrat, it really means Communists, Communism has never worked, Communism breeds death, wars, poverty, and starvation.

 and that will be coming to America, it would be very easy, by the way, in a debate, I’d love to be the moderator of a debate with AOC versus any Republican, and I could set her up so quickly, this is how I would do it, Andrea, you believe that global warming is the most serious threat to the world, and she would say, of course, it’s the most serious threat to the world, the world is facing extinction because of it, and Donald Trump doesn’t do anything about it, and that’s why I’m running for President, then the next question I would ask her, the follow-up, a good questioner knows always about his follow-up question, then you agree with England and Europe that you should put in jail anybody using an air conditioner, she’d be hooked, she’d have a problem, because yes, she believes you should be put in jail if you use an air conditioner.

if you’re not her, or one of the elites, and her rabid left base would require her to say, yes, such people should be put in jail, but 80% of the people who would vote for her normally, thinking they were socialists, would say, wait a minute, I’m not that socialist, I want my air conditioner, she couldn’t answer that question, she would not be able to answer that question, but you’re not going to hear that if she ever gets into debate, because this media that we have, be it print journalism or TV journalism, they’re all communists, they really think communism is the way to go.

they don’t realize they’re the first that’s going to be lined up and shot when communists ever take over, but anyway, that’s the show for this week, that’s what’s going on, the major points, it’s kind of been a dull week, to be honest, but it’s not dull, 

I guess, if you’re being bombed in Iran, or if you’re being bombed on American bases in the Middle East, but for the most part, that’s the story for the week, and we’re going to get into weekend shows, 

you know, tomorrow is the Sabbath day,

 I always tell people that it’s not Sunday, the Sabbath day is Saturday,

 it’s always been Saturday since the creation of the earth, and it’s still going to be during the millennium when Jesus Christ reigns, you’re going to be told you are to observe the Sabbath day and remember it, and if you don’t, you’re going to be expelled from that kingdom, and that’s not a good thing, Sunday has never been God’s day, it’s the Saturday Sabbath day, so tomorrow morning at 7 11 a.m., we have two shows on the Sabbath day, 7 11 a.m. and 7 11 p.m., 

7 11 a.m., we’re going to play a video, it’s called 10 Biblical Archaeology Discoveries of 2025, one of the news stories that we try to cover all the time on the Plain Truth, and you find it mainly on the message board, to be honest, we put all of it on main page as well, but you can find it all strung together on the message board if you look for it, but one of the things that is never reported on mainstream media, for the most part, is all ofthe archaeology that absolutely every year finds things written about in the Bible that expertsclaim never happened, one of the great examples I like is David and Goliath never happened,there never was this eight-foot giant, and there never was a city of Gath, and there werePhilistines, but that story is unbelievably a lie, it’s just a fable, and then what happens five years ago, not only do they discover the town of Gath they had been looking for, they did believe that might have existed, but they found a home, and in Canaanite, Philistine language, was the sign, home of Goliath, and then the headline is archaeologists have to rethink their views on ancient Palestine, David and Goliath story, 

I mean the Bible proves itself over and over again, and that’s why most mainstream news does not want to mention every year how archaeology continues to prove the Bible, and you’re going to see just 10 discoveries last year, just last year, that absolutely revolutionizes again the accuracy of the Bible, and experts have to admit that it’s true, that’s tomorrow morning at 7 11 a.m. 10 biblical archaeology discoveries of 2025, 

then 7 11 tomorrow night we’re going to have a movie, it’s a full-length movie, but it’s going to be a very entertaining movie, it is called The Wrecking Crew, 

and this is not the Dean Martin spoof of James Bond films, The Wrecking Crew, this is a documentary movie that I think if you are of my age, but even if you love music, you are going to find fascinating, 

and I hope people watch this, because back in the 1960s, unbeknowing to almost everybody, the people who played the music for the famous American bands were not the people you saw in concert. For example, the Monkees sung the songs but never played any of the music that were on their records. There were professional musicians in LA who nicknamed themselves The Wrecking Crew, who was the music behind almost every famous American singing group or individual that you can think of.

The Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, the Stone Ponies really never existed in the studio, neither did the Grassroots, neither did the Youngbloods, all of these groups, the music was played by professional musicians that were second to none. As a matter of fact, the Monkees even admitted that they couldn’t even play the music like their songs when they did live concerts, and the Screaming Girls is what covered up the fact they couldn’t play the music as good as what was on their records. These people were phenomenal, and there was about a dozen of them that they made the music that you know of today, like the introduction to certain songs that you remember today was devised on the cuff by these musicians who knew exactly what the people would want to hear, and they were the best musicians in the land.

It’s called The Wrecking Crew, tomorrow at 7-11 p.m. You will really enjoy it if you like music, but especially if you like that 1960s sound, and you’ll find out where it came from. This is Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today’s Friday wrap-up. Everyone have a safe, beautiful, wonderful weekend,and we’ll be back here Monday.

And until then, this is Bob Barney saying goodbye.