In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress made $4.68 trillion in bailout funding available to the American people via 44 different federal agencies.  A total of approximately $4.3 trillion was ultimately expended.  What government programs ran well?

Did the Covid-aid follow those who had real needs or was the American taxpayer sold out by our elites? How did criminals and fraudsters make off with $400 billion dollars of taxpayer money?  Did our government really send a total of $3.6 billion dollars to 2.2 million dead people? 

Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner for Truth Nation Podcast, Episode 8, where they discuss the waste, fraud, and abuse of the COVID-19 bailouts and how lax policies and controls made criminals rich and left the American people with inflation and higher interest rates. 

In Episode 7 of the Truth Nation Podcast, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner dive into the topic of Privatized Policing.

What is Privatized Policing, and why is it becoming increasingly popular? Did the defund police movement bring us to a place where those with financial means use privatized policing to protect their communities while those with less financial resources are subject to more crime and less protective police services?

Are the very same community leaders who called to de-fund the police now complaining about inequalities in police services caused by a reduction in services in poorer neighborhoods combined with private contract services in higher income neighborhoods?

Does privatized policing take policing control out of the hands of department leadership and put it into the hands of wealthy community members?

Get the truth about Privatized Policing from Truth Nation, Episode 7.

In October 2022, a group of families who lost children to fentanyl sold over Snapchat filed a lawsuit against the company, in Los Angeles County Superior Court. According to the legal filings, several of the plaintiffs had met with Snapchat executives in April of 2021.

During that meeting the plaintiffs allege Snapchat executives told them the company was immunized from civil liability by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. On January 2, 2024, in what may turn out to be one of the most significant legal decisions of the decade, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff ruled the case would go forward.

This is the first time in history a social media company is subject to claims it facilitated illegal and fatal drug sales.

Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner on Episode 6 of the Truth Nation Podcast as they discuss the ruling, the specific allegations in this case, how drugs are sold using the Snapchat platform, and how social media platforms use an outdated Section 230 as a shield to selectively censor and put profits before safety. If you’re the parent of a child under the age 18, this is a must listen!

In this weeks’ episode, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss two of today's most polarizing terms: “The War on Drugs,” and “Harm Reduction.”

Have we tasked law enforcement with making societal changes well beyond their scope? When we say the War on Drugs is a failure, what is the measuring stick?

Have we also fought a losing war on homicides in the United States because the murder rate is higher today than it was 70 years ago?

Has the most successful drug harm reduction strategy currently in use been hidden from the public?

Tune in and get the truth!

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In December 2022, a week before Christmas when few were paying attention, and in the midst of the greatest drug crisis this country has ever known, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States released a memo titled, "Additional Department Policies Regarding Charging, Pleas and Sentencing in Drug Cases." In this memo, he instructed prosecutors to do everything short of lying to avoid charging offenses with a minimum mandatory prison sentence. Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner talk about why Garland circumvented Congress and whether he was honest when asked about it. The conversation evolves into a broader discussion of what happens when the Executive Branch of Government circumvents Congress and makes laws with the stroke of a pen.

Tune into the Truth Nation Podcast.

Whether it’s drug prosecutions, officer involved shootings, traffic stops or the murder case close rate, there has been a growing voice claiming American law enforcement is systemically racist and needs to be, “reimagined.”

Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Chief Bill Bodner look at the studies, breakdown the numbers, and call on their over 60 years of combined law enforcement experience to give a unique insight into law enforcement interactions with the public.

Join Truth Nation for a deep dive into one of the most misunderstood facets of policing today.

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Crime of the Century. The root cause of todays’ fentanyl crisis. Was it corporate greed, naive politicians and government officials who lacked ethics or was it the Mexican drug cartels? Learn who is really to blame for today’s fentanyl crisis.

Did Minneapolis Police Department training and fentanyl play a greater role in the death of George Floyd then we were initially led to believe?

Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and I on the Truth Nation Podcast as we discuss “The Fall of Minneapolis,” a documentary about the death of George Floyd, subsequent civil unrest and the trial of Derek Chauvin.