February 25th, 2025

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the U.S. and Ukraine are finalizing a rare earths mineral deal, which is a brilliant business partnership countering Russia’s interest in Ukraine’s resources, a key motive for Putin’s invasion. This arrangement beats Ukraine joining NATO and surpasses the Marshall Plan, benefiting both nations as an investment—not spending—yielding huge returns for Americans while bolstering national security for the U.S. and Ukraine, and sending a clear message to Russia, China, and others. Also, reform Jewish organizations have united to oppose Mike Huckabee’s confirmation as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Their problem is that Huckabee has strong pro-Israel, pro-American, and pro-Christian stances. These opposing groups are merely left-wing Democratic organizations masquerading as religious ones. Later, Elon Musk has given federal government workers a final warning for not replying to a second email asking what they’ve accomplished. He aims to confirm their identities and ensure they’re actually working, pushing for accountability despite pushback from bureaucrats. Afterward, an ethics watchdog has raised concerns about Sen Sheldon Whitehouse aiding his wife in securing millions for a nonprofit. A criminal investigation into Whitehouse is warranted to assess whether he cast votes to personally benefit himself financially. Finally, a Muslim scholar explains that that the foundation of Israel is rooted in faith and scripture rather than solely in historical or archaeological evidence. The Jewish people have a divine connection to the land.

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I wrote @onejewishstate to make the case for Israeli sovereignty based upon the modern convergence of multiple considerations, including faith, human rights, geopolitics and national security. Here is a Muslim scholar who expresses the religious point as well as anyone.

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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. I hope you’re well out there. Welcome. Man. Oh, Manischewitz, lots going on out there. Ukraine says rare Earths deal with Trump in final stages at Breitbart. Francis Martell. The government of Ukraine confirmed it is in the final stages of an agreement on selling rare earth minerals to America, a deal Donald Trump floated as a way for America to get a return on its investment in supporting Kiev against the Russian invasion. The announcement of the final stages of a deal made by Minister of Justice Stefan Ashar followed comments by President Vladimir Zelensky, which he expressed hesitation about signing off significant rights to Ukraine’s plentiful, rare earth minerals ore and heavily indebted Ukrainians in the future. Zelensky’s remarks. After a turbulent week in which Trump disparaged him as a dictator and implied he should vacate his office, led many in international media to conclude Ukraine would ultimately decline any such agreement. But they insisted on Monday that the deal was not only still happening, but almost complete. You know, ladies and gentlemen, this is why I do what I do. This is why I say the things that I say. I use my platforms on Blayze and on Fox and here behind this microphone, but especially Blaze and Fox. Few days back. I think, in fact, in the case of Fox, it was Saturday, a case of Blazer was before that. I said this is a brilliant move by the president, not about going into Ukraine. This is not about going into Ukraine and and seizing their minerals. And assets. It’s about making a business arrangement. Now, I don’t know what this is going to be, but I hope it’s along the lines that I urged. Then I urged on these various platforms that is the United States and Ukraine go into business. They have what we want and they don’t really know how to get it. They are atop of massive amounts of crucially important, rare earth minerals and metals that we could use. The Russians want them. That’s the real reason why Putin attacked Ukraine. Yes. For geographic purposes, yes. Because he wants to reach into Poland and Romania and the Balkan states. There’s no doubt about it. But he wanted to capture all these rare earth minerals and other incredibly valuable minerals. So does communist China. And that’s why they’re in the Arctic Circle as well, because the Arctic Circle, under that ice, under that tundra, there’s an enormous amount, plentiful, rare minerals. We’re talking about lithium and titanium and on and on and on uranium. So when President Trump said, you know, we want access to that. That got my little. Brain thinking, well, why don’t we have a huge. Investment relationship with Ukraine. They make money, we make money. We get access to these minerals. We can we can mine them. We can excavate, we can develop them. They cannot they simply do not have the ability to do so. And in so doing, it’s better than them joining NAITO if that’s controversial, because we’ll have an American presence in Ukraine. Businessmen, employees, companies, security. And the president has made abundantly clear today that there’s going to be some kind of a security arrangement for Ukraine. Just have faith. Just have trust. And so this is something that I talked about at some length. This is something that I hope will take place. Because it’s really the best outcome for the United States and Ukraine. And Russia, while really will seriously have to think a thousand times before it invades Ukraine again, especially again with a security infrastructure. I have no idea what’s happening. Hopefully, along those lines, I have to believe it’s something like that. I also have a lot of faith in General Kellogg, Keith Kellogg. I’ve had him on my programs multiple times and he’s very solid on these issues and he understands who the oppressor and the oppressed, quote unquote, are in that. In that war. He understands what’s what. And a nice, clear eyed thinking on that. And I think President Trump is using his dealmaking smarts to try and get this done. So we shall see. And I think Russia’s a little nervous about it because earlier today or or was last night, they said, wait a minute, wait a minute, we have rare earth minerals to we’ll make some deals with the United States. No, they won’t. And they’re not to be trusted in any respect. That’s for sure. Now the wealth is made Ukraine they write a Breitbart an attractive target for China to the Ukrainian government. Prior to Zelenskiy being elected president, became a member of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a debt trap scheme in which China offers poor countries predatory loans for alleged infrastructure projects. They write. Zelinsky has embraced the potential Chinese investment of post-war Ukraine, inviting dictators Xi Jinping to talks and opening Chinese businesses take an interest in reconstruction. But hopefully and I believe we got there first. A major American presence in the Ukrainian mineral industry, they write, will likely have a deterrent effect on Chinese investment. The whole thing would have a deterrent effect on China and Russia and have an enormously positive economic impact on the United States and Ukraine. Again, so much of what they have has not been properly mined and developed. In fact, so much of it hasn’t been mined or developed at all. And we can handle that. We can do that. So the amount of money flowing into the United States, jobs in the United States, jobs in Ukraine by Americans, businesses in Ukraine, Ukraine, which is I just read somewhere that they would need close to 600 billion or more than half a trillion dollars to rebuild that country. Well, this is a way to do it. And as I pointed out on Blaze and Fox and here, this is better than the Marshall Plan. This is better. This is an investment. This is a partnership. In which we make money too, in which we get access to. We want to. But it also is an enormous boost to the Ukrainians. In other words, it’s called capitalism. Am I allowed to use that word today? I don’t know if I am. But I will anyway. Again, we will see. But there seems to be a very positive. Viewer. This was 72 hours ago, 96 hours ago. For the Ukrainians. There was not. And this is one of the reason, at least in my little way, I’ve been encouraging this and encouraging Ukrainians and us make this deal make this deal a business deal, make this deal as the president wants it to be and ensure that both parties make money, ensure that we get the minerals that we need, that we help them exploit that. And it’ll also be a wonderful national security boon to the Ukrainians because China won’t get access to their minerals and neither will Russia. I think this is a big deal depending on how it comes down, depending on how it comes down. It’s only a matter of time. I think they said they could be determined as early as Friday. And so. Again, as they point out in Breitbart, Putin tries to undercut Zelensky by offering us minerals hits. That’s all. A fake phony and a head barb. Francis Martell again. Russian strongman Putin held a meeting on Monday to discuss the development of his country’s rare earth mineral industry, in which he suggested he would welcome American investment in the sector. Both his country and the parts of Ukraine that he has seized. And that timing coincides with President Trump negotiating agreement with Ukraine to develop its rare earths and other critical mineral industries, which the president has now said today. And he said yesterday, we have a potential deal Zelensky’s people have said exactly the same thing and he may wind up in the United States, Zelensky on Friday. While Ukrainian President Zelensky has expressed some hesitation in public to the terms of such an agreement, as government officials announced, they’re almost finished hashing out the details. And both sides said the terms were very constructive for Ukraine and the United States. That’s what I want to hear. That’s what I want to hear. Man, Oh, Manischewitz a lot more. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
By the way, you better believe communist China’s watching what’s going on with Russia and Ukraine. If they believe for one second that Russia could get away with invading Ukraine. That’s going to encourage them and motivate them to attack, of course, Taiwan. I don’t think that’s going to happen in terms of motivation. I think what Trump’s doing and what Keith Kellogg’s doing, I think there’s a lot going on behind the scenes that were unaware of. It’s going to make it quite clear that in the end, Ukraine’s going to be in a much better position. That’s my hope. And I really think a well constructed deal on these minerals. Will make the difference. Just as the Marshall Plan made the difference for much of Europe that the Soviets hadn’t yet conquered to try to take over. I believe this can and would too. But even in a bigger way for Ukraine, Even in a bigger way for Ukraine, I mean, if there’s an American presence, if we’re investing great sums of money and there’s joint ownership or a partnership in what’s under the ground in Ukraine and so forth and so on, then we have a stake there. Just so people understand. I believe this is Donald Trump’s direction. Again, we’re going to find out if it is its genius. Well, I’ve been encouraging you, By the way, I just saw Mr. Producer at Chicago Midway Airport. I don’t know what the hell’s going on. A hero. Southwest commercial pilot. A hero. A hero who made a last minute moot maneuver. So as not to have a collision with a private jet. And the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA put out a statement saying any pilot that doesn’t comply and strictly comply with FAA orders is going to lose their license. That suggests to me that there was a problem with the private pilot. He goes onto the runway, kind of quasi parks there in the Southwest commercial jet. The airline is land is about to land. Mr. Producer. And what does the pilot do with the Southwest Airline? He pulls up the jet fast as he can. Pulls up the jet and avoids the private jet. While these pilots must be on edge, what’s going on? Especially takeoffs and landings and especially landings. Very worrisome. North Korea steals $1.5 billion as it pulls off the world’s biggest ever heist, writes the Telegraph. State backed North Korean hackers have stolen $1.5 billion of cryptocurrency in the largest heist in world history. Agents from Pyongyang were able to breach the systems of Dubai based exchange bybit to steal the digital coin after. According to security analysts, the hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korea cyber criminals in 2020. For a combined one, the rogue state cyber attackers made off with around $1.3 billion in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts. Chainalysis. The 1.5 billion total eclipses the largest known bank theft of all time. Once Saddam Hussein sold $1 billion from the Iraqi central bank out of the Iraq war in 2003. Now the record haul comes as Kim Jong un, North Korea’s supreme leader, The inbred turns to elite units of computer hackers to prop up the communist dictatorship’s failing economy. Channels said the attack served as a stark reminder of the advanced tactics employed by the country’s hackers, as well as its technical skills. North Korean hackers are adept at what is known as social engineering, manipulating people to do what they want in order to pave the way for a heist. In other words, to get them and invest in certain ways and so forth, to load up a particular platform and then steal from it. This can involve developing relationships with targets over email, digital chat, sometimes over a period of months. Cyber security experts believe North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group Lazarus Group are the masterminds behind the latest attack. The group has terrorized Western businesses for more than a decade, with a series of cyber breaches that have caused billions of dollars in losses. Elliptic or Cryptocurrency Analysis Business. Most of us don’t understand this, but just stick with me, said the hacking group is the most sophisticated and well-sourced launderer of crypto assets in existence. This is what these fascists and Marxist regimes focus on technology. Technology because they can’t feed their people. Now the group is believed to be part of North Korea’s intelligence agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau. It has been linked to pass attacks, including the hack of Sony in 2014, when the group leaked private emails from executives in an attempt to block the release of the comedy film The Interview, which lampooned North Korea’s supreme leader. Then take much to lampoon him. The Lazarus Group has also been blamed for a nearly $1 billion heist from Bangladesh Bank in 2016, and that country can ill afford it. And the global WannaCry cyber attack, which knocked hundreds of thousands of computers offline with damaging ransomware, including NHS systems. While North Korea once relied on its elite hacking cadres to conduct espionage and steal trade secrets, increasingly they’ve been employed as a weapon of economic warfare to bolster the coffers of the heavily sanctioned regime. North Korea started using cyber attacks for espionage, stealing, R&D and intellectual property, said Rafi, piling of the security company Secureworks. Subsequently, they’ve they’ve really capitalized on it as a source of revenue. So there you have it. That’s North Korea. And, you know. You figure these regimes will die of economic atrophy. Not like this. Not like this. This is a big problem. North Korea stealing like that. There’s a lot more. And I want to cover it all. And there’s a lot more domestically going on. Big, big stuff. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
All right. Trump Revokes Biden Memo Threatening to Withhold Arms from Israel. I saw a buddy, Joel Pollak. Polis has reportedly revoked a policy under Biden to threaten arms sales to Israel if the country does not satisfy critics of its human rights record while battling Palestinian Hamas terrorists in Gaza. The Biden regime generally avoided concluding that Israel was violating human rights standards and has some 20 and other directives held the threat. They were blackmailing Israel. You the do we tell you to do or will withholding arms? And in fact, they did boycott Israel, did withhold a lot of arms. They didn’t even need a pretext to do it. They did it. They were impounding funds. And of course, the Democrats were perfectly happy with that. Trump has rescinded this policy, restored Israeli confidence. Washington Post reported. The White House has repeal the directive which President Biden imposed as his administration struggled to reconcile its support for Israel’s war against Hamas militants. Comes as the Trump administration puts his America First mark on U.S. foreign policy. That is a highly. First of all, nearly illiterate. It’s a long run on sense by number two. Political sense. It. Let me put it in plain English. Biden was blackmailing the Israelis, threatening to withhold arms if they didn’t march in line and do as he demanded. He’s the first president to do so in such a systematic way. Period. And not only that, he did in fact boycott Israel on a number of major arms needs and so forth and so on. A February 21 order from National Security adviser Michael Waltz, a copy of which was obtained by the Post, relays Donald Trump’s decision to immediately rescind Biden’s national security memorandum, and the repeal was also confirmed by several current and former U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision that has not been made public. Critics such as Chris Van Hollen, Chris Van Hollen. Chris Van Hollen is pro the enemy. His wife is a radical pro-Islamist kook, and so is he. And you people in Maryland, not you who listen to this show, but the left wing, the Democrats and many Jews who vote this S.O.B.. Shame on you. He’s part of the enemy within. And I will always use that phrase. And Trump was properly using it to it was good enough for. The likes of Abraham Lincoln. It’s good enough for me. The Enemy Within. Chris Van Hollen is part of the enemy within. And like Talib and the other reprobate. Trump has also lifted Biden’s hold on heavy precision guided bombs, D9 bulldozers and other essential hardware to Israel, by the way. So these reform Jewish organizations come together. And they send a letter. To Congress really intended for Democrats opposing the confirmation. Of Huckabee for ambassador to Israel from the United States. I’ve gotten to know Governor Huckabee. There is no more earnest, moral, thoughtful, pro-American, pro-Israel person you can find. Am I stepson, David. Was appointed by Donald Trump to be chief of staff there. We’re proud of him. Very. We’re proud of Governor Huckabee. Who should have already been. Already been confirmed for his position in Israel. There should have been a hearing called already. He should have been confirmed already. And you see his great problem. Is that his pro-Israel pro-America. Pro Bible and pro Christian can have that. Now these reform Jewish organizations that I have denounced in the past. Are nothing more. Then leftwing Democrat organizations dressed up. As religious institution. That’s right. I said it. Damn it. I used to be part of a reformed synagogue. And they’ve gone off the edge. They’ve gone off the edge. The entire reform Jewish movement. It’s becoming increasingly an embarrassment to Jews. The Jews. Politics. Keep moving to the left. Keep moving to the left. Basically, you have. Mostly secular Jews who joined the reform Jewish movement or the Reconstruction Jewish movement and so forth and so on. You want to really learn about Judaism? I mean, really, you’re not going to learn about it at a reformed synagogue. Hello. I speak the truth. I speak the truth from within. You really want to learn about it? You learn about it at Orthodox Jewish synagogues. You learn about it through Chabad. And there are many sources and platforms and facilities and rabbis and entities. If you’re serious about the Jewish faith and you want to learn a whole lot about it. That’s where you go. If you want to learn a lot about liberal Democrat politics, left wing ideology, and on and on and on, then you go to most reformed synagogues. Not all, but too damn many. So they’ve come out against Huckabee. Who we should strongly support. Governor Huckabee is a good man. He’ll do a great job. Yes. These people just drive me crazy on the left. On the left. They just drive me crazy. Elon Musk issues final warning to the federal government workers. Who are you and what are you doing? Wow, that’s very offensive. I don’t know. That’s provocative. Who named him King? Who are you and what are you doing? Why are they doing that? Who are you and what do you do? Because they’re trying to figure out if people who are getting paid are actually the people they say they are. And if they are the people they say they are, if they’re actually working for their money. G Well, because it seems to me that any institution of any kind in any form, in any place would want to know who are you and what are you doing right, Mr. Producer? But God forbid, if you raise that question with bureaucrats, God forbid, if you fire any bureaucrats, God forbid, if you cut off the gravy train to any entity, particularly on the left. God forbid you got your federal judges. They never got a binding judge in there who thinks he’s not running the federal budget. That Jack, that all that fraud lied his way through his confirmation hearings. And now he’s there like he’s king. Like his king. Oh, and if you don’t, for the second time you’ve been asked, say who you are and what do you do? You’re going to get fired. Oh, my God, We can’t do that. These are not tough questions. Who are you and what do you do? Who are you and what do you do? Who thought that would be controversial? It’s not controversial. You’re just not allowed to ask. You see. Now anybody in the private sector, if they were to say to you, who are you and what do you do? Anybody can. And should they be happy to say, my name is Ernie Grabowski, Let me tell you what I do. I wash the pots and pans for that restaurant over there. My name is Frank Smith. What do you do? I’m the guy who works on the nuclear codes and so forth and so on. For a federal contractor. For the federal. Okay, great. I think we ought to ask that question of politicians, too. Who are you and what the hell do you do? What do you do up there all the time? I think that’s a fair question. Oh, yes. And there’s more. Our friends at the Free Beacon is a wonderful site, by the way. Washington Free Beacon. Ready for this one. The media are all in on this, too. Red District. Those protests you’ve been reading about this and seeing this on TV where you have these Republican House members and. They have these town hall meetings and they’re loaded with these people protesting. Why are you cutting this? Why are you cutting that? Oh, yeah, all these people protesting, cutting waste, fraud and abuse seems a little bizarre, doesn’t it? It’s been cited as proof of broad mosque backlash. Look at this. Even in Republican even in red states and red district, that people are rising up. They want fraudulent, big, bloated, unaccountable government. They want their taxes passed away. They want massive debt on the shoulders of their children and grandchildren and generations yet born. That’s what the American people excuse me. That’s not what they want. And so the media working with the Democrats, working with dark money, billionaire Democrats. Put together an entire Potemkin village. A piece. A B.S.. In one case, a former Democrat county board candidate. Writes Colin Anderson and self-described political activists helped organize a viral demonstration in Georgia. When angry voters confronted Representative Rich McCormack over Dodge at a town hall held in Georgia’s Republican deep red district, the New York Slimes, now Holocaust denying New York Times Washington compost, and CBS News cited the scene that once seen as proof of emerging bipartisan backlash over efforts to slash government spending. CBS included a quote from one of the protesters organizers Maggie Goldman, describing her only as a McCormick constituent. Goulburn does live in McCormack’s district, though she’s far from the concerned support of the two term Republican, a self-described, quote, Democrat and political activist unquote. Goldman, who did not respond to requests for comment from the Free Beacon, coordinated volunteers for Peabody Jacobs presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, according to her Lincoln. And shortly thereafter, she ran for her local county commission as a Democrat seeking to enact, quote, a more inclusive policy agenda. Goldman has donated exclusively to Democrats and sent Kamala Harris. Who’s that? I forget who that is. Sent her campaign more than 1500 dollars last year, according to campaign finance records. And on her Facebook page, she posted to the national media attention and McCormick Protests receive sharing screenshots of headlines alongside the caption We really were on Fire. And I want to thank CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post here, The Little Free Beacon did all the work for you. I want to thank you for outing yourselves as the lying sobeys that you are and always will be and always have been. Across the country, similar protests played out at House GOP town halls and district offices, and there is no groundswell. To support this kind of fraud and. Crookedness. Demonstrations grow, mainstream media coverage. A brewing backlash against the Trump administration as the lower chamber left Washington, D.C., for a week long recess. Well-funded left wing organizations organized, many of them George Soros owe him. Got more on him later. Stick with me. George Soros funded Indivisible and move on with the center of the demonstrations. Both groups launched national mobilization efforts targeting the Trump Moscow agenda, quote unquote. And Trump must come, quote unquote, during the recess period. This George Soros is a. Hemorrhagic bleeding hemorrhagic on the tuchus of society move on, said its members and allies will show up in congressional led town halls and congressional offices around the country targeting House Republicans. House Republicans don’t go weak kneed. This is all a scam whose votes will be crucial in opposing Trump and masks harmful policies, quote unquote invisible issued a mask or US recess toolkit that showed members how to find their local town halls urging them to take the fight to Iran. This is all funded by Soros. Another American hating billionaire’s America. The group’s local organizers heeded the call, launching protests against House Republicans at town halls and district offices that garnered widespread media coverage. Move On targeted the likes of Arizona’s David Schweikert, California’s Ken Calvert, Virginia’s Jenn Cummings. While indivisible, organized protests against Michigan’s Tom Barrett, Wisconsin’s Brian Steel and Scott Fitzgerald among them. Local outlets mentioned individuals roles in the protest when covering them. Urban Milwaukee, for example, wrote that Fitzgerald’s town hall attracted about 100 people, largely organized by an organization called Indivisible. Mostly members of the Washington Post County Democrat Party. But The New York Times and CBS also mention of Fitzgerald Town hall, though neither included individuals involvement. You know what that’s called? New York Times. And CBS. Pravda. Al Jazeera. Censorship. Propaganda. That’s what you do. The Times. After noting that Fitzgerald was asked to defend the administration’s budget proposals as voters demanded to know whether cuts to essential services were coming. Acknowledged that many of the most vocal complaints came from participants who identified themselves as Democrats. The outlet did not disclose that those participants had professional organizing help. You know, they’re probably the same people that have organized the Hitler Youth in our streets, you know, in our colleges and universities. CBC, meanwhile, said Fitzgerald faced pushback on the task force and calls for Congress to subpoena Ms. to testify. It’s so excited. Local news outlets and also reported the Washington County Democrat Party and encouraged people to show up. But again, he didn’t mention the professionals who are involved, the professional Marxists. Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin teased the recessed demonstrations by calling Musk a major weak link in the Trump administration. So this is all sort of communist level type propaganda and organizations to create the impression that there’s some kind of groundswell, a juggernaut against what’s going on. This is what led up to the communist revolution in Cuba. This is what led up to the communist revolution in Russia. This is what led up to Mao and China. And this is now what the Democrats are doing in the United States. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Democrats have a playbook. It’s accused the Republicans of trying to destroy Medicaid and then they say they’re going to shut down the government to save Medicaid. And of course, they will have their propagandists known as the media. They will have their propagandists singing their tune like a bunch of howling hyenas. ABC News One of the mouthpieces Democrats plan to target House Republicans in vulnerable districts by highlighting potential cuts to Medicaid. No cuts to Medicaid. They’re looking at whether if people are actually able to work because Medicaid not all, but mostly goes to providing medical care for people under the poverty level. They want to see if illegal aliens are receiving it. They want to see if if people, including young men who are quite capable of working but won’t work and don’t want to work, are receiving it. Wow, you can’t do that now. And they call that cutting Medicaid. Cutting Medicaid. And so they’re going to accuse the Republicans. Medicaid cuts provide politically perilous. House Republicans is the map memo title. And then they’re going to come to the defense of Medicaid by shutting down the government. That’s their strategy. That’s it. Burn the place down and then blame the Republicans. I’ll be right back.