October 17th, 2025

On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, Sen. Bernie Sanders spent $78,371 on private jet charters between July and September, adding to over $450,000 in similar expenditures in the prior six months, totaling more than half a million dollars this year on luxury air travel. This is supposed to be the man of the people? These Marxists are sickening. Also, Speaker Mike Johnson is calling out the Democrat party for what they are – Marxists and Socialists. They’ll be attending a No Kings rally this weekend but who’s funding this? This is not a bottom-up spontaneous movement. Later, Zohran Mamdani is an Islamist jihadist who represents the terrorist wing of Islamism rather than Muslims. Mamdani won’t condemn Hamas or acknowledge inequalities in places like Qatar. His policies would cause economic shortages and dislocation in NYC. Finally, the Gaza peace deal should not mark the end of the peace process. True, lasting peace requires addressing the root cause: Islamist terrorism, which originates primarily in the Middle East and is funded, promoted, and exported by countries like Qatar through outlets such as Al Jazeera. Arab and Muslim nations need to stop harboring, funding, and appeasing terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, ISIS, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Trump is uniquely qualified to extend the deal’s unity into a bold initiative to unravel, isolate, and eliminate these threats, leveraging relationships with nations that fear terrorists while pressuring others.

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Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. You know, I just saw this. And by the way, how are you, America? Friday, we keep the foot on the gas pedal. I just saw this Washington Free Beacon. Thomas Cat Anarchy. Bernie Sanders reports. $80,000 splurge on private jets as he condemns America’s oligarchic form of science. I’m sick of these Marxist bastards. To attack wealth and yet acquire wealth or favors all the time. I’m really sick of it. Candidate Sanders campaign has spent more than half a million dollars chartering jets this year. Chartering jets all over the place. I flew back to Virginia from Florida with my wife and my mother in law. And as we were getting on the plane. You know who is getting on the plane right in front of us, Mr. Producer. Donald Trump Jr. And the Secret Service. He was sitting in the row 16. We were in row 25. Now, that’s not to say that they don’t have private jets and so forth and so on, but he doesn’t preach Marxism, socialism, either. Now he doesn’t. So to me, this is infuriating this guy, Bernie Sanders using campaign money. He spent more than half a million dollars on chartering jets this year. You know, AOC does the same damn thing. Senator Bernie Sanders campaign spent 78,371 chartering private jets between July and September, according to the Federal Campaign Finance disclosure submitted Wednesday. Just a few hours later. Sanders lamented that the United States is increasingly becoming an oligarchical form of of society. During a CNN town hall meeting. Continues the campaign’s pattern of spending lavishly on private air travel during the six months prior. Friends of Bernie Sanders, all three of them spent more than 450,000 chartering jets. Sanders has been unapologetic about his use of private jets. He scoff when Fox News anchor Bret BAIER asked him about a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting his spending on private jets during an interview in May. You think I’m going to be sitting waiting in line at United, waiting while 30,000 people are waiting, Sanders said. Listen to this guy. Man of the people. Right? Which. That’s what I do. If people are in line, I’m in line. Commercial. It’s called Flying Commercial. It’s the only way to get around. No apologies for that. That’s what campaign travel is about. We’ve done it in the past and we’ll do it in the future. Campaign travel. He’s not running. He may run at some point. He’s flying all over the country. It’s unclear whether Sanders feels the same about his campaign staffers the same day his campaign paid the firm and JET 33,371 in August. For example, Dole also spent 30,629 on commercial airline tickets. Overall during the three month period ending in September, it spent more than $50,000 on commercial airfare from American and all the airlines. So he’s spending tons of money on commercial airfare for staff. He goes private. He’s spending over half a million dollars so far this year. Friends of Bernie Sanders, as it appears, has primarily traded private jets to transport the senator. Two stops along his fighting oligarchic tour. This is sick. A series of political rallies featuring him and Sandy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I thought you’d be on your game with that music, Mr. Producer. All right. The tour bit’s fair enough. The tour began in February, and it’s included 35 stops across the country, including, most recently, a rally in New York with, of course, Zahran Mamdani. Another millionaire, had his wedding in Uganda. A wall and fence around the home, multi-million dollar home. These people are a joke. The revelation also comes as lawmakers remain in a stalemate over the ongoing Democrat led shutdown. We’re going to fight for federal employees, Sanders said when asked about the impact sat down support he supports has had on government workers. So they shut it down, quote unquote. And then they say they’re defending government workers. That’s the way it works. Bernie Sanders spending enormous sums of money on. Private charter air flights. For the reason he says, You think I’m going to wait with 30,000 other people at the airport? I’m not going to do that. And he won’t wait for health care when you’re standing in line once the government controls that. Ladies and gentlemen, are the food lines. He won’t be in any line. He’s a maduro. He’s a Castro. He’s a G. That’s what he is. He said, his commie. And by the way, that’s not a pejorative. He’s a commie. I mean, how many people went to a Stalinist kibbutz? You really got to work at that. I never even heard of them before. We’re going to get into this debate last night. By the way, we’re being heard on ABC right now. Mr. Bruce, We check that out, please. Okay, let’s let’s check that out. I do understand why they wanted to run the debate, of course, and abandon me as a liar. That’s what I get out of it. A full fledged, full throated lying S.O.B.. It’s what it is. But you know what? I was listening and I don’t always I think it was around 10 a.m.. Speaker Johnson at a press conference and I said to myself, Wow, this guy, he’s hitting it out of the park. He’s absolutely hitting it out of the park. In many ways, he sounded like me were the accurate nomenclature for these people, Marxists and Islamists and all the rest. He was just killing it. And many of you didn’t hear it because you’re at work or you’re doing other things. So I want to play some of this for you. I’ve never played it for you before. It was just fantastic. So we’ll do some now and some after the break. But let’s take a listen. This is Speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference today. Cut to one go. It is so difficult to be a happy warrior when you know that so many millions of American people are suffering, being made to suffer unnecessarily because the Democrats political games, if you’re keeping count at home or on day 17 of the shutdown, the Democrats have now voted for the 11th time to keep the government closed 11 times. Now they refuse to just do their basic job, get the government going again, making sure that federal employees are paid, that our troops are paid. Border Patrol agents, TSA agents, air traffic controllers and everyone else who relies upon the vital services of our federal government. They’re being denied that because Democrats in Congress are playing game. Hmm. 11. Go. Now, tomorrow, the Democrat leaders are going to join for a big party out on the National Mall. They’re going to descend on our capital for their much anticipated so-called No Kings rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description, the Hate America rally. Okay. And I’m not sure how anybody can refute that if you think about what’s going to happen here tomorrow. You’re going to bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the Antifa advocates, anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party. That’s where they’ve gone. And and the Hate America rally is the common theme among all those groups. Listen to the language they use themselves. Many of them don’t like living in America. They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system. They hate our principles. They hate the ideas that we come in to work every day to fight for to preserve the greatest nation in the history of the world. They hate the idea of individual freedom and limited government. They hate the idea of the rule of law. They fight against it all the time. They hate the idea of peace through strength. They they lobby against it all the time. Individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, human dignity, the things that lead to human flourishing. The things that made us the greatest nation in the history of the world. They’re they’re opposed to law enforcement. They’re opposed to military. And their votes show it over and over. That’s the collection of voices that you’ll hear tomorrow, that the Democrats will go out and raise their hands with and cheer with. And some of these people are so blinded by their hatred of President Donald Trump that they can’t find one reason to celebrate America or all that we’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish under this new administration. Hmm. And when we come back, not only hear a little bit more and then I want to tell you who’s funding this, The Democrats. None of this is spontaneous. It’s never spontaneous. It’s like the communist rallies of old. You know, they pay people to show up at events, pay people to riot. None of this is spontaneous. It’s all planned, it’s all plotted. And then the media pretend that it is. We’ll get to the bottom of this. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
A little bit more of our friend, Speaker Mike Johnson, laying out this no King’s day. People are so pathetic. 12 go. Republicans, by the way, are the party that fights to maximize your liberty. And we believe, just as our founders did, that every American has been endowed by God himself with inalienable rights. And that includes the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But tomorrow, this rally is not about freedom. It’s about the opposite for many of our Democratic colleagues. Tomorrow is about creating really a spectacle. That’s what they’ve been doing here every day of the shutdown with their little TikTok videos and their publicity stunts. And they’re going to do it in a much larger venue tomorrow. And as the shutdown drags on, it’s become increasingly clear that this spectacle is the reason the Democrats have refused to reopen the government. Mm hmm. And the last cut 13, please go. Is AOC. Does she have both or is in the water here thinking that the president is going to bow down to these demands with every ounce of Christian character that I can muster? Laura, let me just say bless her heart. Okay. This would be comical if it were not so dangerous. You’re looking at the two leaders of the modern Democratic Party. We see all the time. This is not your father’s party. It’s not. These guys are full Marxist. You hear how vapid their ideology is. How empty, what empty suits they are. But they are the leaders of the party. They are dragging the rest of the old guard, the old party leaders around by their nose, and they are subservient to their wishes. I mean, Chuck Schumer has picked a fight over this very simple, clean C.R. to just keep the government funded for 21 additional days till till November 21st, seven more weeks so that we can get the appropriations process done. And the reason he did it is because he is afraid of that voice you just heard on that that stage. He’s afraid that AOC is going to challenge him. There’s a rise of Marxism in the party. It’s happening in New York and their state. And he’s terrified. And that’s why all everybody around the country is feeling such pain right now because of this nonsense. R AOC music. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Help a bartender over a bright bar. Democrat fundraising machine in high gear ahead of a no King’s Day protests. Americans are being bombarded by unsolicited texts and emails, hoping to increase funding to cover expenses related to nationwide protests taking place in more than 100 major cities across the US on Saturday. Tomorrow, especially in Washington, emails and text messages offer links that direct recipients to left wing fundraising websites such as ActBlue Inequality, Media Action Network, dot org and Protecting Voting Doors. One unsolicited text message sent them. Random numbers nationwide reportedly comes directly from former secretary of labor. The former secretary of labor, Robert Rice, the little fella under the Clinton administration. That message reads Robert Reich here. Are you going to attend a No King’s Day event on October 18? Let me know. The message sends users to Action Network dot org in fine print below, an area where recipients can choose to confirm their attendance. A long legal release of liability paragraph is placed that shields several leftwing organizations from liability for injury or death while in attendance of the quote unquote peaceful protests. Mm. One widely distributed unsolicited email directs recipients to a ActBlue website that asks for monetary contributions to, quote, college students and young people, unquote, to the protests by noting donating $25. ActBlue will provide bagels and coffee. I would think they would provide falafels to one busload of protesters. Donations of $35 will cover signs and materials. $50 will fund pizza for another busload. $100 will cover the transportation of 60 students, quote unquote, to a no King’s Day protest. You can see this whole thing. Is it concoction, this whole thing? Breitbart, Texas attended a No King’s Day protest in Austin in June, held at the Texas State Capitol building. During the observation, no college students were seen attending. Pizza parties are receiving bagels and coffee. Some in attendance brought their own helmets, gas masks, shields that would later be used when the protest spilled onto the streets of Austin, as reported by Breitbart, Texas, at the time. Hundreds of so-called no king’s protesters in Austin poured onto the downtown streets, sporting dark clothing, helmets, face covering sounds like Antifa and gas masks, shouting obscenities at police officers who kept the crowds from impeding a busy interstate highway near downtown. For several hours. The no king’s protesters antagonized. The police overturned garbage receptacles and at one point moved police barricades stored in an alley onto a downtown street to block traffic. Several protesters were arrested after a large crowd refused to obey orders to remain out of the streets to disperse. The release of liability included within the fundraising drive is likely a recognition that these No Kings Day events will prove to be as chaotic as some of those carried out in June. Got that, folks. They’re violent. They’re rightists. They’re mostly not students. This is all paid for. Organized people are moved to various locations throughout the country to draw attention and to create big crowds. This is not a bottom up, spontaneous move. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Well, I must call out Hakeem Jeffries, the feckless Democrat leader in the House of Representative. Feckless in every respect. And remember when Mike Lawler, Congressman Michael Lawler, got in his face? I Yes. Hakeem kind of lost. It didn’t really respond. Well, now Hakim is attacking Caroline 11. Caroline Lambert is a young woman. She isn’t even 30 yet. Smart as how quick as how substantive was her? And he’s trashing Caroline Leavitt. Misogynist is what I would say. Mr. Producer, misogynist. He’s very upset with the way she characterized him and the Democrat Party supporting Hamas and violent criminals and so forth and so on. But isn’t a true America. Oh, it’s quite true. Very true. That’s what our party stands for. In fact, I said so, I believe was my monologue on Saturday, Piers, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the feckless Democrat leader, cut 14 go. And then you got Caroline Levitt, who said she’s out of control. And I’m not sure whether she’s just demented, ignorant, stone cold liar or all of the above. Oh, wow. Wow. Attacking a young woman. Packing a young woman. Tough guy. Tough guy at 34. At first he was talking about AOC, quite frankly. That to me is a fine description of AOC. Exactly. That’s right. Sandy Cheney was a bartender. She tended bar. That’s what that means. Nothing wrong with that, by the way. That’s just the only thing she ever did. I just want to point that out. Now she wants to run the country. She shouldn’t even run the bar. Go ahead. But the notion that an official White House spokesperson would say that the Democratic Party. Consists of terrorists, violent criminals and undocumented immigrant. This makes no sense. It makes a lot of sense to me. What she’s saying is they support them. They support Hamas as Talib, as Omar, as AOC and Mamdani. Oh, yeah. See, these people are being called out and they don’t like it. No, she’s right. 100% of violent criminals. Of course they do. They oppose deportation. Deportation includes violent criminals and they support source prosecutors who don’t want to prosecute violent criminals, undocumented immigrants. That’s their bread and butter. That’s right. That’s their bread and butter. Undocumented immigrants, a.k.a. illegal aliens, as we used to call them. No, no, no. They’re undocumented immigrants. Undocumented? Oh, okay. Mm hmm. So for now on, you tax frauds out there, You’re just an unknown, documented taxpayer. What do you think of that, Mr. is an undocumented taxpayer. Don’t you dare call me a tax cheat. It’s just undocumented tax payer. That’s what I am. Go ahead. That this is what the American people are getting from the Trump administration in the middle of a shutdown. So they have, they say, all voted to shut it down, quote unquote. He voted for. Now, how do these guys, they get away with it because of the press and because they have absolutely no morals whatsoever. They get up, they’re complaining about a shutdown they voted for. They voted for this and then they’re complaining about it. You federal workers out there, we’re going to miss paychecks but still required to work. You can thank them. They’re the ones who are doing this, and they’re doing it purposely. We don’t have to use Washington logic. We don’t have to use the media logic. We know what the hell is going on here. They figure they’ll get through this with the help of the corrupt media, the Al Jazeera Pravda, American media. I mean, after all, they lied on behalf of Hamas. They’re going to lie on behalf of the Democrats. Not a lot of difference among some of them, I would argue. Bagman, dummy. Go ahead. It’s a speak for themselves. Shut up, you idiot. And he is an idiot. Any. Now this debate last night with me and Damian Cuomo sleep. First of all, the mediator was a complete moron. Complete moron. She didn’t hit him hard. She could have hit him hard. She didn’t want to hit him hard. But here’s mine, dummy. He’s very upset because Cuomo can’t name a single mosque. Can’t name a single man, so he’s disqualified, you see, to be mayor of New York because he can’t name a single mosque in New York. Well, that’s a disqualifier, don’t you think, Mr. Producer? It’s got to be. Catalano. You know, it took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque. He had more than ten years and he couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had. So what? So what? So what? Hmm. Go ahead. What Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality and they want respect. And it took me to get you to even see those Muslims as part of this city. What does this have to do with Muslims here? An Islamist jihadist? There are many Muslims, in fact, many Palestinians who have condemned Hamas. They had a twist. Both your arms out of your sockets until last night. You actually said something negative about Hamas. You don’t represent Muslims. You represent jihadi Islamists. That’s who you are. That’s what you represent. That’s what your daddy is. That’s what your mommy is. That’s exactly right. You embrace the terrorist wing? Of Islamism. You don’t speak for Moslems. Go ahead. Inkley is something that is shameful and is why so many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics. So many New Yorkers have lost faith in this politics. This guy has the ability to use propaganda. And he does it very smoothly because he’s been trained at it. If you’re a Marxist or Islamist or both. You’re trained to do this. And so all the problems in society you can fix. But for Cuomo, you can fix. But for Trump, you can fix. But for capitalism, you can fix. But for this and but for that. That is typical of Marxists, by the way. That is, they preach and promise. The impossible. And compare it. Two reality. And so. My problem is people don’t know how to debate a guy like that. I do know how to debate a guy like this, which is precisely why he has ducked us how many times now, Mr. Producer? Seriously? At least five or six times. He won’t come on this program five or six times. He won’t come on this program. Because he knows I know who he is. I know what he is. I know what he’s saying, and I know how to unraveling. Let’s make one last desperate effort. They get this guy on the program. We’re out all over New York City, all over the state of New York, all over the country for a bigger audience than he’s ever had, ever. Ever. Let’s go to 21. Please go. I’ve said time and again that I recognize Israel’s right to exist. I’ve said that I will not recognize any Jewish state. I said that I will not a Jewish state. If I would be allowed to finish that, I would not recognize any state’s right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race, of religion. I really, really. So there goes the Vatican, right, Mr. British? And what about all these Muslim countries? He doesn’t mention any of them. How come? How come? Israel was founded as a Jewish state. That’s what Zionism is all about. The Holy Land, the birth of the Jewish religion. That’s why he won’t mention that it’s a Jewish state. That’s what it is. The Vatican is a Catholic state. That’s what it is. These Muslim countries are Muslim countries. That’s what they are. He is a haven for Israel and a haven for Jews, except for the Jews that support him. The self-hating, moronic, suicidal Jews, of which there are not many. But to many who support this rabid Jew hater. And that’s the true affordability. Portability is a word. Exactly what economic process will he put in place to ensure affordability? He will have. He will ensure shortages. He will ensure impoverishment. He will ensure economic dislocation. He will ensure that businesses and wealthy people leave. They won’t be available to tax. And so whoever is left and whatever is left is going to have a beatdown. They’re going to have a down. They’re going to pay. And this guy will keep railing against the system. It’s the system, don’t you know? It’s the entrenched billionaires why they take their private flights. Well, they have a marriage with bodyguards and security guards behind a wall in a multimillion dollar mansion in the middle of Uganda. Oh, yeah. Go ahead, please. Clear. And part of that is because I’m an American who believes in the importance of equal rights being enshrined in every single country, whether we’re speaking about Israel or whether we’re speaking about Saudi Arabia, rights enshrined in every single country. This jackass won’t condemn Hamas. Tammy where equal rights enshrined. No offence in any Muslim country. Name one. In any Arab country. Name one. Where are the democracies? In the Middle East? Name one. Carter gave his mother millions of dollars to produce films. Is that the equality he’s talking about? Qatar enslaves foreign workers. He doesn’t mention that. Why not? Why not? Maybe he hasn’t been in any masks lately, certainly not overseas. He’s a fraud. He’s a liar. And as you can see, if I had been there, the punch back would have been unbelievable. Don’t you think, Mr. Producer? I would have had a blast with this guy. He’s not that smart. He’s just not. Go ahead and you can lie all you want. But New York, we have the question. We don’t support one. He’s right. Cuomo’s right. More when I return. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
I saw him under me at the debate last night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s see. Let’s go to cut two Mr. Producer. Go. You were asked if Hamas should lay down its weapons. Key to the peace plan and cease fire. And some say they found your answer confusing. You said, quote, I don’t really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law, and that applies to Hamas and that applies to the Israeli military. So for the voters tuning in tonight, Mr. Mamdani, what do you believe about Hamas and how lasting peace will be achieved? We know it’s a complicated matter, but we’d like you to keep your answer to a minute, if you could. Of course, I believe that they should lay down their arms. I’m proud to be one of the first elected officials. That’s the first one to say first time he said it because his back is against the wall. He’s a liar. The man is a liar. Remember I wrote in my book on power how imams, particularly one so-called scholar in 1965, could do. He said that you should lie. You should lie when you’re in the West, you should lie to the West in order to advance their fundamentalist ideology. That is exactly what Mamdani is doing, because it took him right to this debate to finally say what he said, which means he doesn’t mean it. Go ahead. Who called for a cease fire and calling for a cease fire means ceasing fire. That means all parties have to cease fire and puts always it’s always a relativism. Israel, you see. Ladies and gentlemen, Israel is a democracy. Israel was attacked. Israel’s trying to defend itself. Hamas has murdered Jews constantly. That’s in their mission statement. They’re part of the Muslim Brotherhood. They want to destroy the West in the United States. Israel wants to be left alone. But this time, they didn’t sue for peace or a cease fire. They decided they’re going to take out Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and everybody else that’s trying to murder them. And this this jackass, this this pathetic moron. He keeps drawing a moral equivalency between the state of Israel, democracy and Hamas, a terrorist organization. A terrorist organization That would be like drawing a a moral equivalency between us here in the United States and Al Qaida that attacked us or the Taliban. He’s sympathetic to these movements. He’s sympathetic to them. Caroline Love It is 100% correct. 100% correct. And these individuals are within the Democrat Party. They got the nomination of the Democrat Party. And if he’s elected, he’ll be elected because of the Democrats in New York City. Not the Republicans, not the conservatives. So to look at all this and then pretend otherwise. He’s to commit suicide as a nation. The Democrat Party is all in America. This isn’t the base. This is the Democrat Party. I’ll be right back.

October 17th, 2025

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