The Plain Truth Today with Bob Barney | April 7, 2026 (Transcript)

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The PlainTruth Today with Bob Barney April 7 2026 

Hi, this is Bob Barney. This is the, actually the fourth day of Unleavened Bread. It’s also the day after the great rescue of the stranded pilot that was shot down over Iran and President Trump really in a very, very bold way ordered the rescue of that pilot and they pulled off what seems to me to be an amazing feat and something we should be proud of and I’m the first to admit that one thing about Donald Trump, I have to give him some credit, is he’s willing to take risk that so manyother presidents were not willing to do.

And so over the weekend, the pilot of the F-15 and the, what really would be like the bomb and the bombardier type guy. And that’s the one that was missing. He was a high ranking Colonel or a very prominent Colonel, I should say in the Air Force and was shot down 200 miles inside of Iran.

And the rescue plan that was developed by the CIA and our military was quite ingenious and I’m going to play from a recording here what really went on during this rescue mission. So take a listen. The weapons systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines after his F-15E strike Eagle was shot down inside Iran, used all survival and evasion techniques to avoid being captured by Iranian forces closing on him.

The injured airman hid in a mountain crevice behind enemy lines and kept moving to avoid capture by charging Iranian forces. At one point, he scaled to over 7,000 feet above sea level in the rugged terrain to evade capture. When all that he had with him was a pistol, a communication device, and a tracking beacon.

His agonizing wait for being rescued ended when a team of American commandos located him and brought him to safety. All this while, US aircraft kept dropping bombs to clear the area and deter moving Iranian forces. As per local reports, even civilians had joined search efforts afterauthorities announced rewards for the capture of the US airmen.

Two US officials told CNN that the risky rescue operation involved American military and intelligence personnel. The special operations forces carried out the successful rescue mission, even as CIA operatives mounted a deception campaign beforehand to throw off potential Iranian captors. CIA operatives circulated the information inside Iran that both crew members had been recovered to confuse Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members who were frantically themselves looking to capture the downed officer, Navy SEAL.

Team six commandos extracted the ejected US F-15E pilot from Iran, said a New York Times report, though there was no confirmation from the US authorities. Meanwhile, Israel postponed some planned strikes in Iran to ensure a smooth search and rescue operation besides offering intelligence support. The CIA ultimately identified the officer’s exact location and shared the information with the military.

Meanwhile, at a remote airstrip in Iran, two MC-130J special operations transport aircraft had been waiting to take the commandos and the rescued airmen out of the country, but they had been damaged during the operation. The military decided to send in new planes and blew up the damaged ones to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands. We got him, President Trump wrote on social media after spending Saturday monitoring the operation from the White House.

Over the past several hours, the United States military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US history, he said. All through the rescue mission, Trump had been in the West Wing, moving between the Oval Office and its adjacent dining room to receive updates on the officer’s rescue. So that is the how to, what happened there, kind of wrapped up how we rescued this pilot and how the mission went really well.

The aircraft that they blew up also acted as a diversionary as well. So it all worked out quite well.And, um, but there was a sticking point in this and I agree a hundred percent with Donald Trump because when I was watching this, when my wife Saturday, I was upset that they kept saying they rescued one pilot and that another one was still missing.

And I said, why would our government want to tell the Iranians there’s somebody there? I said, either that is a trap that, but I was afraid that that wasn’t a trap for the Iranians and that information was being said that was really wrong. And I was, I was telling Tammy, I just think the, uh, the Trump administration’s wrong releasing that information. Well, then I found out listening to Donald Trump today that, uh, I’m sorry, yesterday that, uh, that simply did not come from the government.

There was a leaker in his administration or within the white house to a reporter for, I believe the New York times that a pilot was still missing and the New York times went with it and every other news station went with it once they did. And Trump’s quite upset about it. And he really should be upset about it because it could have killed the pilot.

On top of that, it could have killed many other people. And that’s what, um, I’m going to play here.Donald Trump’s reaction to this.

And like I said, I agree wholeheartedly with him being so upset and promising that the leaker will go to jail. When you look at the machinery, they took, they took damage. It tells you, first thing I said is these are unbelievable machines.

How they flew back and not even much of a problem, but these two extraordinary rescues, cause it was two. And as you probably know, we didn’t talk about the first one for an hour. And then somebody leaked something, which will hopefully find that leaker.

We’re looking very hard to find that leaker and talked about there’s somebody missing. They basically said that we have one and there’s somebody missing. Well, they didn’t know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information.

So whoever it is, we think we’ll be able to find it out because we’re going to go to the media company that released it. And we’re going to say national security, give it up or go to jail. And we know who, and you know who we’re talking about because some things you can’t do because when they did that, all of a sudden the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life and it also made it much more difficult for the pilots and for the people going in to search for him.

All of a sudden they know that there’s somebody out there. They see all these planes coming in. It became a much more difficult operation because a leaker leaked that we have one.

We’ve rescued one, but there’s another one out there that we’re trying to get. So actually the country, Iran, put out a major notice. You all saw it offering a very big award for anybody that captures the pilot.

So in addition to a hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions of people trying to get an award. So when you add that to it, but we have to find that leaker because that’s a sick person. And it is a sick person that you would give up for some kind of a personal gain to have a favor from that reporter or whatever the reason is to give up information that the White House did not want out for very good reasons.

And that’s why I was so upset when I heard and I thought it came from the White House and I thought it was just another in a long stream of mistakes, but it was not a mistake from the White House. It was a leaker and that leaker needs to be found out. And just for those people who think there is some kind of a privilege of a reporter not having to reveal their sources, there is no such law.

It’s been tried many times and many presidents and many times it’s allowed to occur. But if you remember back in the second George Bush days with the second war in the Middle East that he waged, there was a reporter, and I can’t remember her name right now, who reported stuff that the White House did not want out. They threw her, or the judge, threw her in jail for some 60 or 90 days until she was willing to release the name of her informant, and that should happen.

We should not allow the press who has no sense of patriotism at all, and maybe they’re not supposed to have any sense of patriotism, but they would have never done that if Iran leaked that out on something that would weaken Iran, they just wouldn’t do it for any other place, but they do it against their own country. And I hope they do find this leaker, and I hope that the leaker goes to jail. And if the reporter does not release the name at first, that he or she, that person also needs to go to jail.

And I don’t care if it’s three years, they need to go to jail until they release the name of the person that gave them that information, that put that pilot’s life in jeopardy, and all of those SEALs and Army Rangers also in jeopardy. I’ll be right back after this word. Theplaintruth.com is the place to go to every day to see what’s going on in the world, does God have anything to do with it, and how you can prepare yourself, your family, your loved ones of the future events, because the Bible is giving you tomorrow’s news today.

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That’s theplaintruth.com. Please go there every day. And we’re back and we about wrapped up this story about the pilot being rescued, and I’m very proud of what they did. And I’m very happy for the family of that pilot and that Colonel he is.

And I’m very happy that no American died doing this. We all remember, if you’re my age, Jimmy Carter botching, trying to rescue our hostages where the helicopters ran into each other. Many people died and it was a disaster.

Presidents make a difference. Who you have as a president makes a difference. If a president is willing to take chances, but also has a military that has been prepared, and this has nothing to do with Trump and has nothing to do with Pete Hexeth, the military itself over the years have really well trained themselves how to do search and rescue missions.

And this one was pulled off without a hitch. Now, at the same time, Trump always does something to kind of undo the good things that he does. At the same time, we had this ranting message with every swear word in the world, the F and you name it, and then ends that message with praise be Allah.

I remember during the 2024 election, Donald Trump was wondering why so many Christians weren’t going out to vote for him. Well, there’s a reason because many Christians do kind of live by their guidance of God and how they see God and read the Bible. And Donald Trump often acts in a way that most Christians find offensive.

And the praise be to Allah is going to find many Christians down the road being very offensive against what they heard. Another story of the day, and we’ve been talking about this forever. We get back to the economy, the tariffs that have hurt the economy.

Now this war is really hurting the economy. And if we are successful and we destroy the regime in Iran, we get the nuclear material back and things change in Iran, then it’s going to be worth thepain and suffering we’re going through. My problem is I don’t believe it’s going to happen.

I don’t believe Donald Trump had a good plan going in to make it happen. And I think they’re winging it. And that’s very dangerous for America and the American people, the Americaneconomy, and the economy of the world.

And one of the news items that went by the ticker yesterday when I was reading through different channels that I go through to find news, the debt is on its way to 40 trillion. It’s 39 trillion and running up constantly every day. And it’s going to hit 40 trillion, probably in another six or seven months.

And there was an article that’s kind of funny, but 10 years ago in 2016, when Donald Trump was running for president, he said not only was the national debt a disgrace, and by then it was about 16 or 17 or 19, it was $19 trillion. And he said it was a disgrace. And that if he was elected within eight years, he would have the deficit to zero.

He’s doubled it. Between his first administration and COVID, Biden and his worthless spending of our money, and now what he’s doing with this military action and all of the other economic woes upon the country that he’s caused, our debt is now 39 trillion, soon to be 40 trillion. And I don’t see that debt going anywhere.

And that is a noose around the neck of America. And it’s a noose around the neck of Americans and especially those who have money in banks, because our money is becoming worthless. And as we start, which will start happening, printing money to pay off our debts, printing worthless money, then we’re going to see the deficit actually quadruple possibly in the next 25 years, which will be insolvency for America.

In fact, our own treasury department, and I mentioned this, I think in one of the shows a week or two ago, our own treasury department did admit that United States technically is insolvent. Now, another word for insolvency, when you have 7 trillion in assets and oh, 39 trillion, it’s called bankruptcy. And our own treasury department is talking about a national bankruptcy has really occurred, although they say not to worry about it.

I guess that’s what a lawyer tells you when you go bankrupt, not to worry about it, we’ll just get the debt removed by a court. Well, that’s going to cause problems if America tries that. And yet another issue that I always tell people, you got to watch what’s going on in Europe.

You got to keep your eyes on Europe, especially Italy and Germany, which will be the central powers of the emerging beast of revelation, a revival of the Holy Roman Empire. And it’s going to be truly the enemy of the world, including the enemy that enslaves America after America eventually falls from its heavy weight of not doing the right things, and we just have not done the right things since Ronald Reagan and even Ronald Reagan didn’t do all the right things, the country has continuously gone deeper, deeper in debt, and that is just the end of a nation when that happens. But a new thing happened in Germany that I think should be taken notice here.

German men must now ask for permission to leave the country if they’re between 17 and 45 years old. Why is that? Well, German men of fighting age must ask the army for permission to leave the country for more than three months under new rules on military service. The government has introduced a new military service scheme this year that stops short of conscription, but requires men born between 2008 and onwards to take medical exams, fill out a survey about their fitness for service.

It has emerged that a clause in the law also requires that these men between the ages of 17 and 45 to obtain a permit to leave Germany for longer than three months, Germany is rapidly remobilizing, rearming with plans to expand its conventional army and the threats from Russia and the possible breakup of NATO, thanks to Donald Trump. The purpose of this new rule in Germany is to restrict the movement of men of fighting age in the event of a national crisis, such as war, which may require emergency conscriptions. The rule, male persons who have reached the age of 17 must obtain permission or this is a quote, by the way, from the ministry, they must obtainpermission from responsible career center of the German armed forces.

If they wish to leave the federal Republic of Germany, Germany, I’m sorry, for more than three months. The clause went largely unnoticed until it was spotted by a Frankfurter newspaper.Frankfurter is a city in Germany, which said it would cause uncertainty for millions of men.

German defense officials insisted that in practice, the permits would always be granted during the peacetime, but that’s not what’s going to happen. What you are seeing is the rearmament of Germany and what you’re seeing is the rise of the beast. The plain truth has been telling you this since we started in 2008, that you have to keep your eye on Germany mainly and the Catholic church, because it’s going to be a Holy Roman empire, the end time beast government and things going on around Rome and in the nation of Italy itself, they will be the central powers of this new emerging beast government, which will be called also in the book of Daniel, the King of the North and the King of the South is going to be this huge Islamic nation, probably from Morocco all the way to Afghanistan and beyond, maybe all the way to Iran, ruled by a King of the South, one ruler, despot type ruler, like you think of a Saddam Hussein running the entire Muslim world, and that’s going to be the enemy of the King of the North.

And much of the book of Daniel talks about wars between the King of the North and the King of the South. And in the United States, I’m afraid has very little to do with any of it, because we’re going to be into captivity by that time. I don’t know when this is going to happen, but it seems likeit’s happened quite rapidly.

And unfortunately for me, who was a Donald Trump supporter, it seems like Donald Trump is causing this quicker than any Democrat could cause this. And the breakup of NATO is not in the long run going to be good for the United States and our security here at home when we find out we’re standing alone. I’ll be right back.

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That’s theplaintruth.com, The Plain Truth Today, Your Health Today, and our message board, all at theplaintruth.com. Thank you. And we’re back for the final third of the show, and we’re going totalk about different topics today. I just wanted to get into, this coming Thursday is the seventh and last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when all the yeast was to be removed from everyone’s homes, and Thursday night at sundown, the Feast of Unleavened Bread ends.

That doesn’t show sundown days, just a evening day ending of a certain holiday season, and the next day at morning becomes the Feast of Firstfruits, and the Feast of Firstfruits, we will have a show about it on Friday, for sure. There probably will not be another Friday wrap-up, and on that day, Firstfruits really represents the risen Christ going back to heaven, reclaiming his title as God, sitting at the right hand of the Father with all the power and glory, preparing for an eventual trip back to this earth as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Master of the Universe, and takes control of this world from mankind. The age of man is going to come to an end when Christ returns and sets up the kingdom called the Millennium for a thousand years to show human beings how they can live a sin-free life and find their way into eternal happiness and immortality by living in a kingdom under Christ where the devil, Satan, is done away with for a thousand years, and there is no sin in the world, and people can live a pretty good life, and they will live for many, many years, like in the days of Adam and Eve and afterwards, until the end of the Millennium, when they, if they make it, and they probably mostly will, will be turned into, like the rest of the Christians, into spiritual beings, the sons and daughters of God, the Father and Jesus Christ, and become gods themselves, and reign forever and ever with God, who will make a new heaven and a new earth, and God the Father will also live among all of us, and that is what is symbolized in the Feast of Firstfruits Friday.

Remember, Paul writes that Christ is our first fruits, the firstborn of the dead. Yes, Jesus Christ was born again, because if you understand that what it means to be born again, you realize it simply means to be born from the grave, from being mortal to being immortal spirit. The last thing I’m going to get into for the last few minutes here is, even Alex Jones, who is a large Trumpsupporter, and I’m not an Alex Jones fan, I very seldom talk about Alex Jones, but this is an important thing, because if you’ve been reading our message board, you know there’s a lot of people, even doctors, are concerned about the health of Donald Trump, and they’re seeing a different Donald Trump.

We played a, I think we’re gonna do it tomorrow, play something about another person’s rantingand raving about Donald Trump’s mental acuity, and a tearful Jones compared Trump to his late grandfather, who did suffer from dementia and was dead a year before he physically died. Speaking on his own show Tuesday, that was last Tuesday by the way, the host became emotional when he referenced some of the President Trump’s visible health issues. I’m gonna play what he had to say, it’s just a few seconds long, and you can listen for yourself.

Ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure. He does look sick, and he does babble, and you know, sound like the brain’s not doing too hot, and so we just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against the Democrats. So he’s not giving up, and he’s right about one thing, we cannot allow the Democrats to gain control, because this time around, and I’m afraid because of Donald Trump’s policies, honestly, and because some of his deranged behavior this time around in Trump 2.0, I have an awful feeling that the Democrats are not only gonna take the House by a large landslide, but also maybe control the Senate.

There’s impeachment and removal, because I think there’ll be some Republicans willing to do it by then, but I also think in the races for state legislative and governors, you’re gonna see Democrat sweeps and states that will surprise many after the election day. I hope I’m wrong. If this is one prediction that I hope I can have gravel and mud all over my face after the election day, and it does not happen, but it appears to me, and I’ve studied politics now my whole life, it’s what my, it’s really what my university degree in, it’s not in paint chemistry, it’s in politics and diplomacy, but I just, I just think that we’re in trouble, and the American people’s pocketbooks are hurting, it’s always the economy stupid, and we do have problems coming if the Democrats do take control,because in my opinion, if they take control, they will never relinquish control.

Day one, there will be impeachment hearings against Donald Trump, not that maybe some of the things they bring up is not gonna almost cause people to want to impeach Donald Trump, but it’s only for political purposes. They are as evil as Donald Trump could ever imagine to be, and they are as crooked as Donald Trump is probably being right now when it comes to making money off the stock market, off gold, and off oil futures, but the point being is it’s not good for you and I if the people who hate you, and Democrats, if you’re the average of working American, if you fall in that middle class, the Democrats may say they’re the party for you, they hate you, they hate everything you stand for. It’s so funny, the Republicans are running a commercial in Virginia because Virginia Democrats want to change the Constitution that they just put in last time around for one time only to redistrict so that all the seats in Virginia turn from Republican to Democrat.

Ten seats. If that’s not, if that’s not election rigging, I don’t know what is, and that just shows you what they’re going to do nationally if they get power. They’re gonna make it that no one but a Democrat can win congressional seats, Senate seats, and the presidency, and governorships, and you name it down the line.

They are not gonna give up power, and you and I, that could be what puts us into slavery. They will spend us into oblivion, they will bankrupt this country, they will steal your 401ks and your IRAs, they will steal your bank account money, they will take anything away from you, they will probably even take away property. They’re trying to do that in New York City right now, if you pay attention, and we are in a mess because the Democrats will destroy this nation.

Worse than Donald Trump is trying to do, it seems right now. Our only hope is this war gets won, and not a stalemate, but it gets won really quickly. Things turn around and the American people forget very easily once the gas prices come down, food prices start coming down, and these high prices could cause a demand destruction in the economy, forcing that to happen, which really will help the lower middle class and lower people of the United States of prices start coming down, more than any other class of citizen there is.

So hopefully something changes in the next two or three months, or we have some really bad ending of 2026, if things don’t change. Anyway, that’s the show for today. We’ll be back again.

I’ll have a show, like I said, on the last day of Unleavened Bread, talk about a little bit about that, probably in a normal show, and also I’ll probably do a special show on First Fruits, and it’s the 50-day countdown to Pentecost and what that means. This is Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today and ThePlainTruth.com saying thank you for listening, and we’ll be back again tomorrow. Remember, we have three shows a day anyway, Monday through Friday, and just go to the podcast and you’ll see them all.

Until tomorrow, Bob Barney. Bye-bye.