Friday’s Wrap-Up with Bob: July 25, 2025 (Transcript)

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Hello, it’s Bob Barney for another Friday Wrap-Up, brought to you by theplaintruthtoday.com and theplaintruth.com, and Plain Truth is the one place you go to get it all in one location, that you just click on Your Health Today, or the Message Board, or these podcasts or broadcasts, as I call them. I’m going to start the Friday Wrap-Up a little different this week, because I’m starting it earlier because I’m planning the weekend. Usually we end the Friday Wrap-Up with what’s going to play this weekend, but I’m going to start out by saying tomorrow for the 7-11 a.m. Sabbath-type show, I’m going to have a tribute to my mom, because tomorrow will be five years to the day that she died.

2:02 It was a very sad time. She lived a very good, long life. She lived to be 91 years old. She died about two weeks after her 91st birthday, and she outlived my dad by some 22 years, who died back in 1998 in December, one day after my youngest daughter’s birthday. We were happy. I hate to say this, but we were so happy that he died the following day and not on her birthday. So that will be 7-11 a.m. tomorrow, and it’s a personal thing. If people don’t want to hear that, that’s fine, but I think a lot of people might want to know about how my family looked at my mom’s life and her death, and it was a hard death, and I’ll explain that tomorrow.

3:35 The other thing over the weekend, we’re going to have another short story, a Western short story like we did a few weeks ago. It’s a pretty good one, about 30 minutes long. It’s these Western short stories. My wife has been addicted to them, so I’ve been listening to more than we were actually putting up, but that will be the evening or the Sabbath evening entertainment show that we have every Saturday night, the Sabbath night at 7-11 p.m. The tribute to my mom will be the 7-11 a.m. There is no afternoon show on the Sabbath day, and Sunday we have not did a topic yet.

4:45 There’s a lot of breaking news going on, so I’m waiting to the last minute to figure out what I’m going to put up Sunday to make it timely, but we’re going to get into now, into this week’s headlines and news that everybody’s talking about, and I think one of the things that happened just, I think it was Wednesday, the judge overlooking the Epstein trial case has denied the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi and Donald Trump a request to release the Epstein grand jury files, and I knew that was going to happen, and I told you that was going to happen. There are names there that do not belong to be public, because just because someone is named in a file, Americans will make that person guilty, but that person doesn’t necessarily have to be guilty, and the breaking news Wednesday night, reported again by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed at least by News Nation and a few other news outlets, is Pam Bondi did do a search for any mention of Trump in any of the Epstein files, and she found mentions. She told them that back in May, that his name was there.

5:23 There was no smoking gun, nothing that he did wrong, according to this report, but his name was found amongst the files, and leading many of the Trump detractors saying, maybe he wanted to get this behind him, because like I just said, once your name is linked to Jeffrey Epstein in any way, you’re going to have those people out there making you guilty. Just because Donald Trump is on those files, and he may not be guilty, he may be, but I don’t believe he is, that means a lot of other people are going to be named that not necessarily were raping young girls under age, and guilt by association is one of the ways you can be assassinated politically, not with a bullet, but politically, or even in your business world, by people who just don’t understand court testimony. So I did predict that this was going to happen.

6:45 I also predict that I think that the Epstein files will never be released, or they will be so heavily redacted, you will never know anything. I do believe it’s a cover-up, and I think Donald Trump wants to cover it up, because I think some of the names in there may be not guilty like his, or maybe are guilty, but he realizes that it would shake the ground, the foundation of this country in a time where we don’t need that, and that’s what he’s deciding. If he’s right or wrong, and if this is going to go away, I cannot predict. I’ll tell you that right now. This story has legs, and Trump is finding out that all MAGA people are Trumpites. They are Trumpites as long as he’s staying true to MAGA principles, but when he moves away from them, you’re seeing some of his best supporters starting to question him, and that’s going to be a story I think we’re going to have on a lot of Friday wrap-ups to come for the rest of this year.

7:24 The next news of the week, going back to the economy, people want to just put their head in the sand, and they’re trying to think this economy is booming under Trump, and if you listen to Donald Trump or the White House liar called the press secretary, that you’re going to believe that this is the best economy we’ve ever had since the last time around, if not even better, but the truth is gas is still high. The truth is your food prices are still high. Inflation is still three percent, two and a half, three percent, way over the target two percent that the Fed’s looking for. Core inflation was not up, but real inflation really was, and now we get a report that U.S. home sales fell to the lowest level in nine months. Well, who was president nine months ago? I Trump was running, and his supporters and other Republican politicians were blaming the bad home sales on Biden policies. Well, whose policies are these now? Now, you can make this argument, and I’m going to say this right now, and I’ve made this argument before. The first year, because the budget of this year was really put in place by the Obama people, I should say the Biden people, but they are the Obama people, and so the first year of a president oftentimes a lot of the things that happen economically are already set in stone, and the president gets blamed for things that the president’s policies have nothing to do with. I want to get that out of the way, but I do believe we have not felt the real sting of these tariffs yet, nor have we felt the real sting of these ICE raids deporting farm workers and housemaids and people mowing lawns and things like that, and I think there is still going to be a financial hit to this economy when we do not have the workers that we need, because we deported a lot of the workers that we wanted to work in jobs that would do the jobs that American people just don’t want to do, at least white Americans and black Americans do not want to do, and that we are going to find crops not being picked, we’re going to find factories closing places where they couldn’t get employees, because many of the factory jobs, many of the manufacturing and construction jobs are green card Hispanics, and most of them do have green cards. I read a report that 44 percent are illegal and they don’t have green cards.

9:03 I don’t know if that report is true, but the truth of the matter is these people are not the law breakers that I think the voters really had in mind when they wanted Trump to deport people. They are happy that the border is closed, and the border is closed better than it’s ever been closed, and that’s a good thing, and Trump did the right thing there, but I do not think most Americans thought that the person that was taking care of their garbage, mowing their lawn, picking their food, or for that matter working at a neighborhood factory needed to be deported right away. If you wanted to do something after the fact, I think most Americans thought what was going to be deported was criminals and these terrorists that we know came over the border those four years Biden was president.

10:27 There are 2,000 known watch list terrorists that crossed the border. That is known. Figure five, six times that are unknown, and that you’re looking at maybe 10,000, 15,000 terrorists in this country hiding in sleeper cells, and that was one of the problems with Iran. We’re going to get there in a minute again, but that was one of the problems with Iran when we bombed Iran was these terror cells going to come to life and start doing a lot of damage to American cities and American property and to American citizens, and I still think that could still happen, and speaking of Iran, Iran yesterday I think it was announced that it was going to continue its nuclear program, and it has not been slowed down that much, and they will get a bomb, and they’re talking about getting the bomb sooner than later, and that forced Trump to come out of the dark here and say if they continue trying to do a nuclear weapon, we’re going to have to bomb them again. Well, I wonder why he said that. I thought the snake was dead.

11:58 I predicted on this show when Donald Trump refused to allow Israel to take out the leaders and he refused to allow Israel to continue the war after they bombed those nuke sites that you allowed the snake to live, and if you allow a poisonous viper to live, it will recover and it will come back and bite you hard and kill you with its venom, and that is what Donald Trump did. It was a very, in my opinion, and I said this a month ago now, and I think I’m being proven right, that the snake was not even hardly hit at all, and now there’s more and more reports coming out of Israel and coming out of other CIA-type sources saying that we really did not set them back more than just a few months with this bombing, and that’s a problem, and it’s a problem that’s going to raise its ugly head. Remember the first story of the Plain Truth magazine that I came out with, the plaintruth.com in 2008, in December of 2008, and the first article that I ever wrote was why the Middle East will always be in your future.

12:23 It’ll be in your future for trouble until Christ returns. There will never be peace in the Middle East until Christ returns, and there will be the Middle East in your future after he returns because the center of the universe will be Jerusalem when Jesus Christ himself will sit on the throne, David’s throne, and be King of kings and Lord of lords. That’s going to happen. You can think it’s a fairy tale. You can think it’s not going to happen, but it’s going to happen, and it’s going to happen, so the Middle East is always going to be in your future. Until he returns, it’s going to be bad news, and after he returns, it’s going to be good news. I remember a person said one time, it might have been Garner Ted, I’m not sure, but a person said one time, whenever you hear the pundits say there’s going to be peace in the Middle East, get ready for war because that’s what happens. We had all this claim of victory after this bombing that there was going to be a peace treaty, and Iran was going to surrender, and they were going to come to the peace treaty, and they were going to accept Israel, and they were going to denounce everything, and I said it was not going to happen. Well, who turned out to be right? Our president or this little guy in his basement making these programs that about 200 people listened to.

14:21 I think I was right. Not trying to be egotistical like Donald Trump, but I think I was right, and I think he was wrong, and he’s going to continue to be wrong because arrogance does not make policy, and it does not change God’s mind and God’s plans. God has made a prediction, and that prediction is going to continue until the end of this age, and that is the plain truth.Another one of the first articles I ever wrote was, you know, watch Europe because Europe is the site of the Holy Roman Empire that’s going to be reunited right before Christ returns to this earth and takes away the anti-crisis crown, throws them into the prison of hell, but watch Europe, and Europe is, I think, fooling everyone. Everyone thinks that Europe is going to kowtow to Donald Trump. They agreed to pay five percent of their GDP towards NATO.I predict, and we’ll see who’s right again. It’s going to be a few years, but maybe quicker. Excuse me.

16:00 I predict that NATO is going to murf into a European army without America in it, and that five percent of their GDP that’s going to go to their military, it’s going to go to their military, and not one led by Donald Trump or any American president or any American general, or there will be no American troops involved. It will be a European army, and a European army is not a good sign. Once again, watch Europe because that’s where the beast comes from. Watch the Middle East because that is where Christ returns, and there will always be wars and rumors of wars in the Middle East, but also you got to watch Europe because that’s the king of the north, that’s the anti-Christ, and it is going to come out of the Holy Roman Empire that’s reborn and repowered under a dictator beast person called the anti-Christ in Revelation of your Bible. We’ll be right back. Hello, Bob Barney for the Plain Truth Today and theplaintruth.com, the places to go to to find out what’s happening in today’s news and what it means to you, your family, and your future, and it also will show you something about the past that you’ve never been taught in school. That’s theplaintruth.com and the Plain Truth Today. Go there every day. Thank you. Hi, it’s Bob Barney again. We’re back with the Friday wrap-up, and I wanted to get over some last-minute headlines that we had on the Plain Truth’s Message Board and other places, but mainly the Plain Truth Message Board yesterday, and I’m not privy to anything we had put up today because it’s too early, but one of the things that I have been saying to my friends, I haven’t said too publicly on air, but I’m going to start saying it now, but I think there is total corruption going on in this administration, and I’m going to explain some of that, but I’m going to first read a headline, and it’s really, American car companies are furious over the Japanese trade deal that Trump made with Japan. America just reached a trade deal with Japan, and U.S. automakers are furious, says the Daily Mail.

17:45 Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced a deal to slash the tariffs on Japanese imports to 15 percent, including vehicles and auto parts. Under the deal, Japanese-built cars will face lower tariffs than U.S. automakers on the parts that they bring in for their vehicles. It’s a major retreat from months of threats to impose punishing 25 percent levy on manufacturers like Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Mazda, Nissan. That change is sparking outrage among U.S. car companies. Representatives for the Detroit Big Three, which are General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, say the lower tariff rate gives their foreign rivals an unfair advantage. Matt Blunt, head of the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents automakers, or the three automakers, called the agreement a bad deal for the U.S. auto industry and its workers. He added the automakers are still analyzing the impacts but criticized the lower tariff rate for Japan, which vehicles basically have no American parts in them at all, and the White House had long billed the tariffs as a tool to revive domestic manufacturing, which we knew was a joke in the beginning, and I told you. And I’m going to give you another story of why I’m saying I’m starting to think about corruption. Not only are we seeing the stock market manipulated by the use and unuse of tariffs, where a friend said to me the other day, do you realize if I just knew what they were going to do, and it was the thing on coin-based currency, even the money I had, if I knew it was going to go down and up on the same day, I could have made two or three hundred thousand. I said, I got news for you. I am sure people in the White House made two or three hundred million. And that is what we’re seeing here. And I think we’re seeing that countries are learning that all they have to do is build a Donald Trump golf course, buy his cryptocurrency or give money to members of his family or business ventures or maybe plain old kickbacks, and they’re not getting the harsh treatment that was promised to them. And I’ll give you an example in my business. Up until Joe Biden took office, under Trump, three isocyanate hardener manufacturers opened up in Texas.

16:02 And if you know anything about paint, all polyurethane paint requires two components. That’s why it’s poly and urethane. The resin, which is either an acrylic or a polyester or an enamel resin, is mated with a isocyanate urethane catalyst or hardener. And when the two react, it comes a new product comes out and that is the urethane paint on your car. Well, after Biden drove those three manufacturers out of Texas, there is absolutely no isocyanate hardener being produced in America. And the only places you basically can get it is either China, Korea or Europe. And mainly China has is the big gun here. So the other thing in the paint business is a product called epoxy resin. And epoxy resin is manufactured in America. There are many companies who still manufacture epoxy resin. But the majority of epoxy resin right now is coming out of Korea. As a matter of fact, one of the best epoxies that we ever developed for Tamco is a Korean epoxy, which there is no American epoxy that even compares to it. But here’s the story. There is a tariff on Korea, 25 percent tariff on Korea for isocyanate hardeners, which there is no American counterpart. But there is not a 25 percent tariff from Korea on their epoxies. Now you figure that out. Isocyanate hardener doesn’t need protection. There should not be a tariff on it because there’s no American companies make it. There are many American companies making epoxy. In a matter of fact, they sued the WTO to stop the dumping from Korea of low, cheap epoxy resins three years ago. But Trump exempted the epoxy resin, but not the isocyanate resin. There is something stinking in that whole deal. Going on to the story. U.S.-based automakers say the policy is doing the opposite of what was promised to them, and it’s cutting deep into their profits.

18:59 This week, GM announced a sharp $1.1 billion income decline in the past quarter alone. That’s about $5 billion a year, maybe. The carmaker expects to pay between $4 and $5 billion in tariffs this year. The company that owns American brands such as Jeep, Dodge, Ram and Chrysler said it lost $2.68 billion the first half of this year while paying tariffs. Executives say those costs are hard to avoid even when most of their production happens on American soil. Let me take you through the math, said one person. A 40,000 F-150 is 75 to 80 percent made in America. Ford CEO Jim Farley previously said in an interview with CNN while pointing out that 80 percent of his company’s cars are assembled in the United States, we have to import certain parts not made here. A lot of parts are fashioners, washers, carpet, and like I said, not made in America. We couldn’t buy these if we wanted to in America. Meanwhile, the promised manufacturing boom has yet to materialize. As a matter of fact, GM laid off 5,000 workers in America for six weeks because of these tariffs.

21:01 Only that I know of other than a article that I got off of some obscure website that reported it, I think the plain truth is the only one that told you about it. In May and June, the jobs report showed Americans lost 14,000 manufacturing jobs. Do I need to say more? I’m just telling you right now, it’s about time the people who support Donald Trump, and there was no bigger supporter than Donald Trump than I, but I have eyes and I have a brain, and I see something going wrong here. Just like we saw something wrong with Hunter Biden making all this money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine, and his father was the big guy getting all these big checks, and everybody had a problem with that, but it doesn’t seem like we have a problem that there is obvious, obvious corruption going on here. If you can’t see it, I don’t know what else to tell you. On other matters, similar to the same idea, it turns out that everybody reported the Wall Street Journal report, and I guess it was true, that Pam Bondi did order all of her agents in the Justice Department to go through all the Epstein files that they have, you know, the ones she says they don’t have now, and flag any mention of Donald Trump, which she reported to him in May. Now, the Wall Street Journal is being sued by Donald Trump for another story, but nobody’s really denied this story, and every other news agency has run with it because they’ve seen proof that it’s true from many people working within the Justice Department, and so today she’s supposed to be, you know, explaining why, or I should say yesterday, explaining what was the case here, and she suffered a medical emergency and could not go to the cameras. Hello? Does that sound a little Epstein-ish to you? It does to me. And then there’s another story that came out yesterday, and this was on Drudge, but it’s about the Steve Bannon tapes.

23:45 You know, Steve Bannon was trying to make like a 60 Minutes type show back in 2018, not 2019, or something like that, when Jeffrey Epstein was in prison, and he taped 15 hours, 15 hours of his interview with Jeffrey Epstein, which I don’t believe he’s trying to talk about now. He wants to see all these other reports about Epstein released to the public, but he’s not releasing his video, if he has it or not, but according to Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, you remember Donald Trump saying that he’s disassociated himself with Epstein when he was a pedophile and an absolute creep? Well, according to Epstein’s brother, Epstein told Steve Bannon in that video interview in 2018 or 2019, whenever that took place, I’m not familiar with when it took place, that he disassociated with Donald Trump when he realized he was nothing but a crook. So this is just going all over the place. Trump’s denial of releasing these reports, these files, is not going to go away. And there’s blood in the water, and now sharks, and there’s a lot of sharks that don’t like Donald Trump, are going to go after this. And remember one thing, if you want to learn anything about any scandal in Washington, D.C., it’s never what you did that gets you in trouble. It’s the cover up. Because the people, including myself, now I’m going to tell you something right now. I believe in God. This shows about what God has to do with things. But nobody running in politics is a godly person for the most part. They’re not. So when you’re picking somebody in politics, either you decide not to vote at all, which I did for many, many years until I came to the conclusion not voting was the same as voting. But you got to realize whoever you’re voting for is not a godly person. You’re just picking the person that you think can do the job better than the other guy who’s worse. And that’s what I did with Donald Trump in 2016. I remember arguing with my oldest daughter when she thought Donald Trump was going to be able to do all the stuff on the border. And I said, he’s got to go through the courts. It ain’t going to happen. He’s just throwing meat to the dogs out there for support. I turned out to be right.

25:52 Well, the same thing here when it comes to Trump’s problems with women in the past. Now I know, and I told you before in this program, I believe the Stormy Daniels affair was totally made up by her people to try to get her money and stuff from Trump. And that’s why she lost in court and she owes him a lot of money.But there are other people he had affairs with. There is a playmate, can’t remember her name right now. She’s absolutely gorgeous.She’s a very beautiful woman that had an affair with him and everybody knows it. And I personally know a reporter, this goes back many years and I’m not sure if Trump was married at the time or not, a reporter bragging how she made the Donald. And a lot of people did that.And that’s not why I voted for Trump. I understood that Trump was not the Christian man that people are now trying to make him into being. That’s not what I voted for.I voted for a guy that was going to put the economy back on its feet, something that Barack Obama and especially Joe Biden destroyed was our economy, to put the economy back on its feet, to do away with all these stupid regulations and to bring America back to the greatness that it could be with a Ronald Reagan type presidency. And that’s not what we got. We got tariffs and now it looks like we got tariffs that people are exempted from the tariffs when something maybe nefarious is going on.

27:48 I’m sorry if people don’t see this, but it’s the plain truth. That’s what’s happening. And I think this story is not going to go away. It’s going to grow. Not the Epstein story. Other stories of cover-ups are going to continue to grow. Pam Bondi can’t continue to have medical emergencies and not answer questions. She’s a history in my opinion. But when she goes out, a lot of people are going to then fall in line and go out with her. And there’s going to be one person pointing fingers at the other. And we have a mess coming, in my opinion. And the Democrats are going to be saved by people trying to cover up something they should never cover up. Donald Trump shouldn’t have covered up about the Epstein thing, no matter what it is. Because people did not vote for Donald Trump because they thought he was a moral, decent man. They voted for him because he had a track record in 2017, 2018, and 2019 with deregulation of all these business with OSHA and EPA and all this stuff, that our economy grew and boomed. My paint company, my wife and I paint company, boomed in those years. We thought we were getting the same thing. We did not think we had a man that was here for retribution. And that’s what’s going on, going after his enemies, big enemies list, a lot worse than Nixon ever did. Nixon didn’t do half the stuff that’s going on here. And it’s going to not go away. And the more you try to cover it up, the more it’s going to go away. If he came out, let everything get out, you want to know what? Everybody would have moved on because Donald Trump has the Teflon factor unless he’s caught covering up, which is going to happen, in my opinion. The last thing I’m going to say, I only got a minute here.

29:01 I already went over the weekend so I can do this. Do you remember the QAnon shaman? I should say the Indian guy with the horns that was arrested on January 6th and he lost his constitutional rights. He lost the Bill of Rights. He was imprisoned without a trial, without a lawyer, without anything, totally a lawfare against him. And he was pardoned by Donald Trump and was released from prison after he was pardoned by Donald Trump. Even the shaman, Jake Chansley, I think is his name, even he has turned on Trump and said he’s an MF-er and he wouldn’t support him no matter what from now on. I wish him no good luck at all. And he goes on and on and on and absolutely attacks the man that gave him a pardon. Think about that. If you don’t see a problem coming for Donald Trump, I don’t think you’re seeing with your eyes wide open.

Well, that’s the show. Watch our show for the weekend. We’re kind of out of time here. We have the weekend show I explained in the beginning, and we’ll be back here Monday morning with another edition of The Plain Truth Today.

This is Bob Barney, bye bye.