 I'm Gabe Spiegel. And good afternoon. I'm Stephanie Shaper. Yes, great news. And it is breaking at this very moment as we are learning President Trump making a major announcement regarding the GM plant here in Lordstown. Now the president just tweeted this information. Great news for Ohio. Just spoke to Mary Barra. That's the CEO of General Motors who informed me that subject to a UAW agreement, et cetera. GM will be selling their beautiful Lordstown plant to our course. Essentially the engines, the motor's engines are in the wheels. They're in the wheels. In all four wheels. It's Lordstown, Ohio. They make them in Lordstown, Ohio. You know, Senator Portman, we are, we've been working on this very long and very long. Don't go early, Ron. You ready, Ron? Okay. President Trump continuing to tweet this morning about GM as he urges the automaker to reopen its Lordstown, Ohio plant. This morning tweeting, General Motors and the UAW are going to start talks in September October. Why wait? Start them now. I want jobs to stay in the USA and want Lordstown, Ohio and one of the best economies of our history in our history opened or sold to a company who will open it fast. Car companies are all coming back to the U.S. So is everyone else. We now have the best economy in the world. The envy of all, get that big beautiful plant in Ohio open now. Close the plant in China or Mexico where you invested so heavily pre-Trump, but not in the USA, bring jobs home. Always fun to read the Trump tweets. Guys, Lordstown, Ohio population 3,000. It's in the northeast part of the state, sort of like Cleveland Akron region. And while the unemployment rate over the last, I don't know if you years has improved in Trumbull County, which is where it is in Ohio, it's still one of the most similar to the one in the west. The city of California is building the ticket up there. So elevated and in Lordstown in particular, I mean, this town is built around the GM plant. So obviously a devastating local story, but in the broader picture, you know, this is part of the five North American plants that GM is closing. Americans are choosing SUVs over Sadans. They're just pure economics that are behind this decision as well, which are part of the story. The discussion about the circular nature of some of these policies has Tweet plants open is something you could arguably see from Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, someone else. It's not very capitalistic. Right. But, you know, keep in mind Ohio is a key state for him. It was in the last election. It will be in 2020. He's there today. He was in Youngstown, which is the bigger town, closer to Lordstown, during 2017, saying don't leave. We are going to get these auto plants open and keep these auto jobs. So this is one of his, you know, campaign promises. It's also an example. Welcome back to the channel. I'm Lauren Ficks, and this is the 2022 Lordstown Endurance. Now you may have not heard of Lordstown before, but they originally purchased the Lordstown Ohio plant. They then sold it to Foxconn, who is building the vehicles for them. Now this vehicle is a work truck, so you will see them on the road, but this is a vehicle you could buy yourself. Now the idea is for them to sell it to the fleets, and eventually they'll have six other different models coming out. There will be additional variants coming in the near future. But right now, this is what you're going to be seeing on the road. So start looking for the Lordstown Endurance. We have reviewed other vehicles that are. This is MXUX. Now we're going to, that was a bit of background on Lordstown. By the way, the truck was nominated for Truck of the Year. We're going to come up with that in a minute. This is the Lordstown Motors Mirage. This is by Hindenburg Research, published March 12, 2021. This report crashed Lordstown Stock, along with a pretty decisive move by BlackRock, also moving it into a penny stock after there were negotiations going on to revive the stock price and do the agreement with Foxconn, which was scuttled by Foxconn. We know that. But let's just stop with the history here and just for a minute talk about Hindenburg, because there is new information on this. What Hindenburg said basically was that the orders were all barrages. I'm going to refute that in a second. They mentioned a battery fire, which Lordstown responded to saying, yeah, it was a prototype. We were testing it. That's what prototypes are for. I also said that employees said there is no way they could build a truck. Of course, as you can see from the prior information, the truck did go. It's in production. The production is paused right now. It was nominated for truck of the year. If it were not in production, it could have never got that nomination. The question I have always had is, what is Hindenburg's angle on this? What Hindenburg does is they have nine people working for them. You think it's a big detective agency in a high-rise. It's nine people. One of them is the janitor, that's eight. One of them is the secretary, that's seven. One of them is the receptionist. They got six researchers working there and one of them is the boss. He doesn't do anything. They got five people basically in a boiler room making phone calls, is what Hindenburg does. They recently, and I am not an expert on this, but I'm going to show some video on this from a reporting that's going on in India. The Adani Group was a target, also I believe it's the Adani Group, of Hindenburg. You think to yourself, what the heck are they targeting an Indian company for? Well, there's allegations. I'm just going to say these are allegations. I'm just going to report on this, that this involved a political motive about a candidate who was elected, who was associated with this company. I believe, again, you must do your own research on this, and they are trying to undo that election or tarnish this candidate by publishing this Hindenburg report. This is what the reports from India allege. The reports from India also allege that George Soros participated in all of this and also benefited from it. And George Soros has an international lobbying firm, so on and so forth, a non-GO, non-profit, whatever you want to call it, that is pro-democracy, and there are infurals that he initiated all this because he does not agree with the outcome of the election in India. I'm going to show a video, and by the way, basically what Hindenburg does is they write a report based on their so-called research. Before they publish it, they have subscribers that pay them a subscription fee. They release the report to the subscribers first. So on Lordstown, they wrote the report, published on March 12, March 10, or March 5, all their subscribers got the report. They took all their short positions on Lordstown, and then they published the report, boom, the stock goes down, everybody makes money. Also it's used as a lever for political means, at least that's alleged in India. I have shown the associations here with Trump and the Trump's role in creating Lordstown. I'm going to show statements from Soros who is extremely anti-Trump, and this is not a political channel. I'm not endorsing any candidate. I am simply telling you what the facts are as I have uncovered them. So I'm going to refute the main claim of this report is they had unsubstantiated orders, which the CEO at the time, Steve Burns, never said were orders. This was a market research project to gauge demand for the truck. And I'm going to show information that's going to prove that he was absolutely correcting his figures, Steve Burns was. So please take a look at the rest of the video. We're going to be moving on here to other sections. But this Indian news outlet, one I follow closely, which is prominent in India, is alleging an association between Soros and Hindenburg as well. They have reported that it seems as though in response to their allegations Soros has gone on to form his own Hindenburg research. So it looks like someone could be covering their tracks. But I'm going to present information on all of this as follows. Here, the way that you have characterized your pre-orders or reservations in the past, you called these on CNBC serious orders. Now people would look at this and say, if you have a company that's not putting down a deposit that doesn't have a fleet but basically are collecting letters of interest, are those truly serious orders? Well, no, we've been filled. We've always been very clear, right? These are just what they're intended to be, right? These are non-binding letter intents. They're called pre-orders out in the kind of real world. So always classify them for that, and we have a lot of those pre-orders. I think we have pre-orders directly from fleets. We have pre-orders from people that sell the fleets because that's the way fleets buy. Fleets don't buy like, in general, they don't buy like consumers buy. They buy through intermediaries. And so all we've done is gone out, gauge interest, because you've got a tool for to build something like this in an automated fashion. We're going to build one of these every six minutes. You kind of have to know how to tool, and you've got to know about a year in front of your building. So that's what everybody uses pre-orders for. They are always, by definition, non-binding, no money down, cancelable. I mean, that's just, that's the nature of EV startups trying to... They're not soliciting new fleet customer. You remember, that was a pretty chaotic time. I believe it's a positive development that model year 2024 fleet ordering for some major OEMs will once again be based on a pre-approved allocation volume. And some might disagree with me, and I understand why. Admittedly, many fleets will not get all of the vehicles they need based on past experience with an allocation system, but it's better than being on the wrong side of an unexpected early closure of a fleet order bank. You might want to replay that. Others weren't met last year, and they're going to an allocation program this year for the 2024 model. So in a fleet allocation environment, most OEMs require pre-approval to place orders based on an allocation determined by a fleet's past order volumes. And here's an example of an allocation process for government fleets looking to order the all-new 2023 model Ford Super Duty. So the Ford Super Duty will have a short model year with only a limited number of trucks being produced for each government fleet with a Ford FIN number, a fleet identification number, gets an allocation based on their average Super Duty purchases over the past five years. The actual allocation will be approximately 55 to 60% of whatever that average number is. And it's not uncommon for most OEMs to restrict fleet order allocations for legacy customers. In fact, fleet availability being as tight as it's been for the past two years has found that most OEMs are not soliciting new fleet customers. So when you look at the ordering environment from a historical perspective, the transition to a fleet ordering allocation system has truly been a significant milestone that's never before happened in the history of fleet management. The last time end user demand exceeded production capacity was immediately after the conclusion of World War II. As auto manufacturers stopped for production and switched back to the production of automobiles, end user demand simultaneously spiked. Parallel in this next section is Soros also didn't like the person elected as president of India, prime minister. And again, there was involvement with stocks and again, Hindenburg was initially involved. It's very similar to the Lord's Town case or the OCCRP, falling early acquisitions by Hindenburg research. These dual incidents, within seven months, link back to billionaire philanthropist, George Soros and open society foundations draw criticism as disruptive agents. Soros' latest spotlight is India, with OCCRP alleging Adani Group used opaque Mauritius funds to obscure links with associates. Adani Group claims Soros' linked interest orchestrated these claims. OCCRP, exposing crime globally, lists Soros' open society foundations as donor. Soros' criticisms extend to Modi's policies. In February, he said PM Modi would have to answer questions from foreign investors and parliament on allegations of fraud and stock manipulation at Guatemala's industrial empire. Soros comments on India's prime minister through BGP's response, accusing him of undermining democracy. Where people like him think an election is good, if the person we want to see wins, if the election throws up a different outcome, then we actually will say it's a flawed democracy. If I could only stop at old rich and opinionated, I would put it away. But it's old rich opinionated and dangerous. Soros' presence rickers, linked to both Hindenburg and OCCRP reports on Adani, highlighting his role in international controversies. Chances are, you know this man and know about his shenanigans too. For those who don't, he is George Soros, an American billionaire infamous for meddling in political affairs of other countries. And he is up to it again. A son enemy of the Modi government, right after US-based shot seller Hindenburg, shook the Indian markets with a damning report on Adani Group, and old and feeble Soros appeared in front of cameras and issued a statement, which sounded more like a threat. In fact, according to the enforcement directorate, it found intelligence about potentially violative and concerted selling by specific parties just ahead of the publication of the Hindenburg report. This may lead to credible charges of concerted destabilization of the Indian markets. And Sabi ought to be probing such actions under security's loss. Indian market regulator Sabi had observed suspicious trading after Hindenburg published its report. Four FBI's, one body corporate, and one individual came under its radar. Now the question is, how can Indian government and authorities prevent Soros and his lackeys from doing what he seems determined to? My hope for 2024 is that Trump and Governor DeSantis of Florida will slug it out for the Republican nomination. Trump has turned into a pitiful figure, continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves. DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious. He is likely to be a Republican candidate. This could induce Trump, whose narcissism has turned into a disease to run as a third party candidate. That would lead to a democratic landslide and force the Republican party to reform itself. But perhaps I may be just a little bit biased. President Trump is a con man and the ultimate narcissist who wants the world to revolve around him. When his fantasy of becoming president came true, his narcissism developed epithelogically. So Soros is using the same playbook all over the world. Now we come to Terry Gow, who I believe is behind the cancellation of the contract with Lordstown. Showing his willingness to confront Beijing in news comments about the long-standing one China policy, you recall Trump sparked controversy after taking a call from Taiwan's leader going against usual protocol. Here's what Trump is saying now. I fully understand the one China policy, but I don't know why we have to be bound by one China policy unless we make a deal with China, having to do with other things, including trade. I mean, look, we're being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them. I don't want China dictating to me. And this was a call put into me. I didn't make the call. And it was a call, very short call, saying congratulations, sir, on the victory. It was a very nice call. Well, Trump said he felt not taking the call from Taiwan's leader would have been dismissed. If I sacrifice my personal property, he doesn't want to come to Taiwan. Honhai founder and presidential hopeful Terry Goh is scrambling to explain himself over his remark on Taiwan's sovereignty. He had said, quote, Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, to reporters during a flight to Wisconsin last week. Today, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Tan Ming-Tong publicly condemned Goh's decision to go to Taiwan. He said he would have to go to Taiwan. He said he would have to go to Taiwan. He condemned Goh for the statement saying he was spreading misinformation to the world. Goh says his words were twisted out of context and that the China he referred to was the Republic of China. While giving Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose a tour of the Lordstown Motors plant today, CEO Steve Burns was asked about the Hindenburg research report. There's always haters. I quoted Taylor Swift as somebody the other day, but the Lordstown Motors is for real despite the one research firm as reassuring reporters and onlookers that the Lordstown Motors is for real despite what one research firm has to say. Let's hear what he has to say. I can't speak to the Hindenburg report. I can tell you two things. We are at Betas in 10 days and we are at start of production of the world's first electric pickup truck. I know I said that a lot, but think about the gravity of the world's first electric pickup truck starting right here.