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00:12:05.100I get this magazine that I happen to have in my office because I'm a member of the tow truck company called the Canadian Automobile Association, the CAA.
00:12:13.740It's not a news magazine, just so you know.
00:12:16.240Like Nuvo is just some luxury shopping magazine.
00:12:19.320The CAA magazine, there's no news in this.
00:12:22.340It's all just selling the CAA's travel services.
00:13:07.060People who were so sure their name would be kept a secret were suddenly exposed and were so deeply ashamed in front of their families and communities.
00:13:15.100Now, look, I'm not for adultery, I'm not for hacking, and I'm definitely not for suicide.
00:13:21.240It was a terrifying moment for many men who thought that there were secrets.
00:14:42.260Well, it's dangerous to criticize George Soros, one of the world's richest men.
00:14:46.980He has a thin skin, but that's not why he's dangerous.
00:14:50.660A lot of billionaires have thin skins.
00:14:53.360It's that George Soros is so pathologically political.
00:14:57.300And he is an extremist in terms of how far he will go to change the world and bend it to his own vision.
00:15:05.920He's been accused by those who work with him of having a God complex.
00:15:09.120And you can understand that when you're quite that rich, you've canceled, you've met every challenge in life other than people will not bend their will to you.
00:15:22.040There's nothing in commerce or industry or banking or finance he hasn't done.
00:15:26.340So now he just wants to settle scores and change the world to be in his image.
00:15:34.200George Soros is by far the largest donor in American politics, perhaps as large as all other donors combined.
00:15:41.780Let me show you right now one of his websites.
00:16:23.240I say you have to be careful because I myself wrote a column about George Soros in the Toronto Sun about a decade ago.
00:16:31.340It was meticulously researched and footnoted, reviewed by the Sun.
00:16:34.440But Soros slapped the Toronto Sun with a defamation notice for things that would be publishable in America, but we don't have the First Amendment up here.
00:16:43.000And the Sun looked at this multi-billionaire and settled immediately.
00:16:46.820I regret that, but I didn't have the fighting spirit then that I have now.
00:16:51.760So it is with some—I'm impressed and amazement that someone dares to write an unauthorized biography of Soros.
00:17:00.720And we join that author now. His name is Matt Palumbo, who comes to us live via Skype from the New York area.
00:17:06.300The book is called Man Behind the Curtain, Inside the Secret Network of George Soros.
00:17:13.200And Matt Palumbo joins us now. Matt, great to meet you. Good for you.
00:17:46.800There are facts that he brags about that—I don't know if you'd call them a conspiracy, but they're certainly shocking.
00:17:52.020Yeah, it's almost like conspiracy facts.
00:17:55.580You know, one of the, I think, most surprising things about researching for the book, which, you know, included reading everything Soros has ever written, was he is very open and transparent about his ego.
00:18:05.260In fact, the intro quote to the book is Soros saying, I want to be the conscience of the world.
00:18:17.560He's very open that, you know, even his early activism, which was, you know, toppling communist governments, you know, even right-wingers might look at that and say, well, at least he did something right there.
00:18:26.280But even then he admits, well, it was mostly self-serving.
00:18:29.680You know, when state assets are getting privatized, he was able to profit from that.
00:18:32.960And, you know, even the subtitle of my book is The Secret Network of George Soros.
00:18:37.660And it's secret in that, you know, no one has put together the, you know, the kind of piece of the puzzle or done the legwork.
00:18:43.320But a lot of it's just really out there.
00:18:45.280It's, you know, we can look up his grants.
00:18:46.600We can look at where the money's going.
00:18:48.260He himself is very transparent about the goals.
00:18:52.740And, you know, when it comes to conspiracy, you see, that was part of the motivation for the book was, you know, whenever there's some new leftist cause or movement, you always see someone in the comments blaming Soros.
00:19:04.520So I just thought, well, you know, why not just document everywhere he actually is?
00:19:08.060So, you know, there's no need for conspiracies when the guy has spent, you know, as you put up there, 16 billion U.S. dollars.
00:19:13.500And that's really just the start of it.
00:19:16.660Another theme of the book, too, is what happens after he's gone.
00:19:19.700And in just the past few years, I think it was about five years ago, he donated over $30 billion of his wealth to his own foundation, which is twice, you know, roughly twice as much as has been spent throughout his entire lifetime on these clauses.
00:19:31.160So, you know, one third of his wealth has been depleted towards these sort of clauses.
00:19:35.000But there's a heck of a lot left to go.
00:19:36.880And a lot of it will actually be probably be on the grave.
00:19:39.700And his son, Alex Soros, is clearly trying to pick up his father's baton.
00:19:48.180George Soros, his son, Alex, as you might imagine, is a playboy in so many ways.
00:19:53.480Fast women, fast cars, living the billionaire lifestyle.
00:19:56.180But as he approaches middle age, he's becoming a political gadfly.
00:20:03.220I mean, he loves traveling the world by private jet and photographing himself with leftist politicians around the world.
00:20:09.500So he clearly is trying to transform his father's network into his own.
00:20:14.340I don't know if he has the brains or the killer instinct of his father, but he certainly has his father's ambition and his father's love for power.
00:20:24.520Do you deal with his son in the book as well?
00:20:28.340Well, I don't like going into that much detail, but I do kind of list him as one of the people that's going to kind of continue the throne.
00:20:34.520Now, Soros initially, I think it was maybe a decade or two ago, thought that if he tried to sort of influence him from beyond the grave, it would be difficult because obviously he has no control.
00:20:43.080Though later in his even later, later years, he's sort of reversed on that and decided it would be worth doing.
00:20:49.420And one of the things he's done, too, in addition to donating these $30 billion, is he's also targeting universities.
00:20:56.500And I call it kind of like the infrastructure of society or the infrastructure of ideas.
00:21:00.680He's just piling money into things that will sort of advance his ideological vision where he doesn't even have to look at it or talk to it or touch it.
00:21:08.460So he created a network of colleges called the Open Society Foundation University Network.
00:21:13.280There's a couple dozen colleges all around the world that are all partnered with one another.
00:21:17.500And all they do is just teach and advance his agenda and do a ton of research to try to support causes he supports.
00:21:25.540And, of course, 100 percent of the research is going to find a way to support what he wants all the time.
00:21:30.620Yeah. You know, there's a real problem amongst conservative or freedom-oriented philanthropists.
00:21:37.420I mean, I don't know if I would call John D. Rockefeller conservative.
00:21:41.740I think he was a robber baron, but I certainly wouldn't call him leftist progressive or anything like that.
00:21:47.000These ultra-wealthy barons of the right, when they leave their money to foundations, like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund or the Ford Foundation,
00:21:55.740if those men could see what their money is being deployed to today, they would spin in their graves.
00:22:03.860They would have preferred to have set their money in a big pile and burned it.
00:22:08.680I don't think George Soros has the same problem because, you know, it was John Conquest who said,
00:22:13.000any organization that's not explicitly conservative over time will wind up leftist.
00:22:18.000Well, Soros is starting leftist, and I think the risk that his money will be turned around against his donors' intent is zero.
00:22:28.360Like, I mean, if you're donating into an American university, that's the wokest of the woke.
00:22:32.540I think he will be able to rest in his grave soundly, knowing that his money will continue to do leftist bidding for decades after he's gone, probably a century.
00:22:42.080And that's what confused me about the college thing, because I'm going, what, like, is his thesis that a college isn't liberal enough?
00:22:47.840I mean, obviously, that would be laughable to say.
00:22:50.180I could only find, too, to your point, one example of his donations backfiring.
00:25:29.780They always campaign on weak on crime policies, and, you know, they put it in social justice-y language or make it like, you know, we just don't want to send people to jail who smoke pot.
00:25:38.040You know, they freeze it in that language.
00:25:39.660And, of course, that's not what actually happens.
00:25:41.180It's across the board will also get enforced.
00:25:43.740And usually there's double-digit increases in life in crime.
00:25:47.000You know, the only forms of crime that ever decrease are the things they just stop defining as crime.
00:25:52.460And a lot of these—I think his success rate, I found, was in excess of 90 percent in the local races because, you know, you can't do this really much in national races.
00:26:01.520But in local, you really can just drown someone in cash and pretty much make it enough of what they win.
00:26:05.980And a lot of these prosecutors have become household names, like Kim Fox, the one who got Jesse Smollett, the former actor, off, was a Soros-backed prosecutor.
00:26:15.400In San Francisco, you mentioned Chase Abudin, the son of two 60s radicals who was raised by Bill Ayers.
00:26:20.760And one of his main policies, he effectively legalized shoplifting in San Francisco because, in California, it's just a misdemeanor if you steal less than $900 worth of something, which is actually common in many states.
00:26:32.180But the difference is he's just not prosecuting misdemeanors of that sort, so it basically makes it legal.
00:26:36.560And, you know, every few days there's a new viral video in San Francisco of someone robbing, like, a Walgreens or a Target.
00:26:42.240And then they literally will sell the goods two blocks down the corner because there's no consequences.
00:26:46.240And then, of course, you know, we kind of know this in New York and in the Giuliani cleanup, that when you enable crimes like that, you bring a certain type of people into an area, and that is going to bubble up and it's going to turn into much, much more violent crime.
00:26:59.980And, you know, all politics ultimately is local.
00:27:03.060You know, most governments are federalist, and that's where the most autonomy and control is.
00:27:07.000So I think that's what people need to be most aware of.
00:27:09.880You know, like, even if Soros single-handedly got Biden elected, he still has a million other people to answer for.
00:27:15.280When it's so unlocal and he's gotten them elected, his grip on them is just so much more intense, not like he is in the Biden administration.
00:27:23.040In fact, I have a whole chapter on that as well.
00:27:24.980The law and order, I think, is the most dangerous.
00:31:47.800And I don't even think he could enter his own, his native country anymore.
00:31:50.400So, you know, Soros' influence is really only as strong as we let it be.
00:31:54.840In fact, in the last chapter, I have a section called The Revolt Against Soros where I just list every other country that has been successful in kicking the guy out.
00:32:01.260And, you know, a lot of conservatives in this country just sort of think, like, well, that's antithetical to our values.
00:32:22.980The book is called Man Behind the Curtain.
00:32:25.040And it's being distributed by Simon & Schuster, which I mentioned because a book of this controversy to be distributed by such a prominent and premium publisher like that is obviously a credit to your accuracy because your book will obviously be denounced.
00:32:39.440I'm, frankly, slightly surprised it's being allowed to be published because it wouldn't shock me if the president of Simon & Schuster got a phone call and an offer he couldn't refuse.
00:32:48.560But it looks like he's going ahead with it.
00:33:14.020Amy writes, maybe with the leaders vaccine video, when they say we're all in this together, they mean screwing the voters.
00:33:20.100Maybe they really are all in this together.
00:33:22.200I see your point, but it's a false impression of unanimity.
00:33:25.720This country is not unanimous or unified in any way.
00:33:28.900In fact, I can't recall a time where it's been this divided, not just Quebec versus, like we've had division in this country before, Quebec separatism, things like that.
00:33:36.780But this is pitting neighbors against each other, customers against shopkeepers, teachers against students.
00:33:45.300It's pitting families against each other.
00:33:48.500And the politicians are whipping it up.
00:33:50.100And they had a false unanimity when they said we're all in this together because they deliberately excluded the one party leader who's against the lockdowns, Maxime Bernier, who, by the way, is ahead of the polls with higher numbers than the bloc or the Green Party.
00:34:03.740Yet he was excluded and they were included.