Is Nick Fuentes the future of America First or its Kiss of Death? by Anya Parimpil. She is the wife of Max Blumenthal, the son of Sidney Blumenthal, who is Jewish. She has a direct connection to the Clinton Foundation and the Democratic National Committee. She wrote a hit piece about me tonight titled, "Is Nick a Fag?" and it's very long, so we're going to cover it. And then, if that wasn't enough, we find out about a paid influence operation where gay Jews are being paid to spread lies about me and call me a fag. This is all brand new stuff, and we're talking about it on tonight's show. America First, America First! Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to all the newest episodes of the show and get notified when a new episode is available. Subscribe today using our podcast s hashtag and tag to be notified when we upload new episodes. . Thank you so much for listening and supporting the show! Love ya, bye! - Nicholas J. FuENTE - The Fuentez Team Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Music by PSOVOD and tyops by my main amigo, Evan Handyside is a work of art by my good friend, Andrew Kacz? Please rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, and review us on Anchor.fm/AmericaFirst? and leave us a review on Apple Music by clicking here. Thanks for listening to the show, and share it on your podcast and sharing it on social media! or sharing it with your friends and leaving us a rating and reviewing it on Insta? or whatever you're listening to it! We really appreciate it! Thank you! ? - Nicky, Nicky is a great guy. - Thank you, Nickie, Thank you for being a friend of the America First Podcast? - Kristy, Kristy & Sarah & Sarah, Sarah, Thank You, Sarah and Sarah, Joe & Sarah -- Thank you - Mikayla - - Mikey, Sarah - P.S. - Yvonne, Sarah & Mikey - Sarah, Rachel & Keren, Thanks so much, Joe and Sarah & Rachel - Emily, Sarah, Evan, etc.
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00:03:05.000She's talking all this trash about your boy here.
00:03:08.000And then, if that wasn't enough, we were going to cover that tonight, and then if that wasn't enough, I find out about a paid influence operation.
00:03:18.000Where influencers, specifically gay Jews, are being paid to spread lies about me and call me a fag.
00:04:28.000Big hit piece about me tonight by Anya Parimpil.
00:04:34.000She is the wife of Max Blumenthal, who is Jewish.
00:04:39.000And he is the son of Sidney Blumenthal, who is Jewish.
00:04:44.000Which is fine, if it weren't for all the heresy and blasphemy and going-to-hell aspect of that, who worked for Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
00:04:55.000So direct connection to the Clinton Foundation, just so everybody should know that before we proceed.
00:06:07.000This hit piece drops, and I'm like, what is this, 10,000 words?
00:06:14.000So we'll go through it, and then we'll go over, in case you missed it, this is moments ago, breaking tonight, a friend of mine texted me, called me actually, and I didn't answer, because I was busy, and then they said, yo, you gotta, you know, call me back right now.
00:06:30.000So I called this person back, and they said that, and I don't know what's going on, but they said that there's this new website called, what is it?
00:06:46.000And I guess this is a platform where sponsors and companies can create social media campaigns where it's a platform where they could go on and they use the platform to pay influencers to spread their narrative, to spread their campaign.
00:07:03.000And it's actually questionable how ethical that is because I don't know if anybody even knows about this.
00:07:11.000And if you Google it, nothing comes up.
00:07:15.000If you search up Influenceable, nothing will come up.
00:07:18.000So you have to go to Influenceable.io.
00:07:35.000But apparently all your favorite conservative influencers use this platform where they are paid to share certain political messaging and they don't disclose that.
00:07:47.000Apparently they don't disclose that because
00:07:50.000The person who called me uses it, and he's a good guy.
00:07:56.000I don't think there's anything going on with him.
00:07:59.000He was saying, you know, if I see a thing and I like it, then I'll tweet about it or I'll post about it.
00:08:08.000But he was telling me that a lot of big names are on this.
00:08:11.000He said, you know, if you see any big names attacking you, this is why.
00:08:14.000Apparently all the big names use this and, well, nobody knows about it.
00:08:28.000So clearly, all your favorite content creators on Twitter are being paid
00:08:36.000We don't even know which ones they are, because again, none of this is disclosed, but some, a lot of them, notable ones, are being paid for their content on this platform to spread political messages, to spread specific political campaigns, they call it.
00:08:54.000So I got this call and the guy was telling me about this and he says, yeah, and there was a campaign that just got put up and they're offering money for people to spread this hashtag and this narrative.
00:09:05.000And we're going to go through the PDF.
00:09:07.000It comes with all these different, it comes with a hashtag, it comes with bullet points.
00:09:11.000They say they're going to update it as the campaign goes on.
00:09:44.000I don't know if I said it on the show, but I told it to Hiding, who's out here, my assistant, and I told this to some other people.
00:09:52.000But clearly there is a conspiracy to come after me now.
00:09:57.000And I don't know who's a part of it, and I don't know what the endgame is, and, you know, I don't know any of the details, but I heard that rumor a week ago that Tucker was sniffing around my situation and asking very leading questions to people that I know, and I had heard about this other thing, this SPLC thing that's coming out, and some other things.
00:10:23.000And I had this sense, I had this, because I have a sick sense about these things, I had this sense a week or two ago that there was this conspiracy converging around me, that people are coming to get me.
00:10:37.000And I imagine it has a lot to do with the fact that Ye and I had become friends and we're doing political work, we're doing political activity.
00:10:49.000And this is on the heels of the Mar-a-Lago dinner where I had a dinner with the President of the United States.
00:10:55.000I had dinner with Donald Trump and yay.
00:10:57.000And so I'm sure this is on the heels of all of that.
00:11:00.000That was like the biggest story in the world for a week, week or two, as well as the Infowars thing.
00:11:08.000And so because my profile has risen to these heights and because of now my
00:11:14.000Relative role of influence in this political movement and all these things.
00:11:43.000But shots are being fired, we're getting an idea of what's going on, and I said this on my telegram, never forget that the reason this is happening is because of the things that I say.
00:11:55.000And it's interesting because that's actually what this hit piece is about, that's what the campaign was about on social media.
00:12:01.000It was about saying, no, that's not why you're cancelled!
00:12:04.000You're not cancelled for your activism, you're cancelled for some other thing!
00:12:08.000You're cancelled for some other... actually...
00:12:12.000But make no mistake about it, the reason that a bounty is being put on my head, like literally money is being put up for people to lie about me and to damage my reputation, the reason that hit pieces are being written about me, and this isn't the first, there was a big Mother Jones piece recently, there was a Vice piece recently, and all the press of course, during the Mar-a-Lago, during Infowars,
00:12:38.000The reason why the RNC condemns me, the reason that some cowardly people, contemporaries of mine, are running to try to sidle up next to Turning Point USA with gay talking points, it all is coming down that way because the message that I am pushing is truly the only message that fundamentally challenges the mainstream.
00:13:18.000And I was on the phone with this person who I'm collabing with, and this person said something like, um, oh, well, doesn't every conservative say they're the only true conservative?
00:13:29.000And it's like, yeah, but in this case, it's true with me!
00:13:32.000Because I'm the only one that's saying this message.
00:13:36.000There is nobody else who is touching the things I'm touching.
00:13:40.000There is nobody else that is addressing these things.
00:13:43.000That's why Turning Point USA hosted some big seminar yesterday about the rise of anti-Semitism.
00:13:51.000And that's why Matt Walsh on his show will never talk about the Jews.
00:13:58.000That's why Candace Owens refused to talk to Ye after her boss yanked a leash.
00:14:03.000That's why Alex Jones says it's a shy comms, it's got nothing to do with the Jews.
00:14:07.000That's why these even new guys like John Goyle and Vince Dow say, oh, it's not a Zionist-occupied government, it's a theater-kid-occupied government.
00:14:17.000Oh, even Scott Greer, who I like for that matter, is a friend of mine.
00:15:04.000You actually can't figure it out unless you talk about the ascendant Jewish elite, which is something that happened during and after the war.
00:15:14.000And that is one of the main, one of the biggest things, one of the biggest differences about our society now that was not so a hundred years ago.
00:15:36.000And scholars like Madison Grant were admired.
00:15:40.000And even for that matter, certain other people like Henry Ford or Charles Lindbergh or others were admired.
00:15:48.000And now here we are a hundred years later and we know that doesn't fly and we know why.
00:15:53.000Because there was a transformation of the American elite in the last century.
00:16:00.000And it's part of something that's going on in all of so-called Western civilization.
00:16:05.000It's part of something that has been going on in all of Western civilization, which is Europe and America, and that is the Jewish Enlightenment in the last 200 years.
00:16:15.000It's the emancipation of the Jews and the Jewish Enlightenment, the creation of this idea of Zionism, the infiltration of these institutions by Jews,
00:16:25.000This is something that has just happened in the grand scheme of things relatively recently.
00:16:30.000It's a transformation that's ongoing, and it is a replacement of the Catholic monarchies, the old regime, you know, the old way, from the French Revolution on to this new regime, which is led by people that are not Catholic, not Christian, not monarchists.
00:17:05.000Take one population and replace it with another, and they'll be interchangeable.
00:17:10.000You cannot take one elite class and replace it with another elite class.
00:17:14.000Take one class of Catholics, or one class of English, or Germans, or whatever, and replace it with Jews, and it's the same elite, and you get the same kind of things.
00:17:43.000This is a transformation that happened recently, and that is why we're living in a totally secular, revolutionary, liberal, mercantile society.
00:18:18.000When they're really pressed on it, they offer up this lame reassurance about our closest ally and Judeo-Christian stuff that doesn't even make sense.
00:21:21.000He was going to get a job in the Obama administration, but he was going to get in the Clinton State Department in the Obama administration, but Rahm Emanuel shut it down because Sidney Blumenthal helped come up with the birtherism conspiracy, which actually came from the Clinton, the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008.
00:21:42.000So Sidney Blumenthal, he was also involved in the Steele dossier.
00:21:45.000I mean, he's got his fingerprints everywhere.
00:22:34.000The angle of the article, usually the hit pieces are talking about how, oh, he's a white supremacist, he's a white nationalist, he's a neo-Nazi.
00:22:43.000This article is almost attacking me from the populist right.
00:22:47.000And it's not saying you're a Nazi, it's not saying you're a white supremacist, it's saying you're not who you say you are.
00:22:54.000They're saying you're killing the America First movement.
00:26:56.000Well, I've been banned from at least four different banks.
00:27:00.000Banned from having a personal checking account.
00:27:03.000Like, I had a personal checking account that I was using to pay my bills and order DoorDash and go to McDonald's, and they called me up and banned my personal checking account.
00:27:19.000I think there might be several others that we used for the business side of things.
00:27:23.000Personal and business checking accounts banned from all these banks.
00:27:29.000That's the financial system being weaponized against me.
00:27:33.000I've been put on the, I believe, because they don't tell you, I've been put on the match list, which is a blacklist maintained by Mastercard, which disallows you from processing credit card payments on your website.
00:27:49.000So I can't, as a consequence, I cannot process payments with a credit card on my website or for any of my businesses, for my non-profit, for my several LLCs, or for this platform.
00:28:00.000I cannot take payments using a credit card because the credit card companies have banned me from accepting payments.
00:28:07.000Even still, I'm also banned from many banks that underwrite the credit card processing.
00:28:11.000So there's like, there's layers to it.
00:28:14.000That's a financial system being weaponized against me.
00:28:17.000Federal government's been weaponized against me.
00:29:53.000As you know, big tech are trillion dollar companies, trillion dollar market cap.
00:29:58.000Federal government goes without saying.
00:30:02.000Now, I go on my show and talk about these things and say that, of course, if all these things are happening to me, then that gives me some credibility.
00:30:12.000If I'm a freedom fighter, if I'm a dissident, if I'm a rebel, then all of the powerful institutions cracking down on me and being weaponized in that manner, well, that gives me credibility.
00:31:03.000Now, this is... Now, granted, this is being written by somebody who uses Twitter, processes credit cards for their business, is not under FBI investigation, as far as I know, is not banned from anything.
00:31:16.000And the same is true of her husband, and the same is true of her father-in-law.
00:31:21.000But I'm weaponizing these bad things that have happened to me.
00:31:32.000Far-right agitator, livestreamer Nick Fuentes has urged his followers to rape, kill, and die for him while demanding Jews get the fuck out of America and vowing to piss on your Talmud.
00:31:43.000Fuentes has claimed credit for destroying the congressional candidacy of Joe Kent, a Trump ally, national security state critic, while vying to ruin the reputations of America First leaders like Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:31:57.000While claiming he was placed on the U.S.
00:31:59.000government's no-fly list for his political views, Fuentes was in fact added to the list for threatening on video to strangle flight attendants he was removed after a short period.
00:32:13.000Department of Justice seized his bank accounts because of his activism, those accounts were briefly held in a money laundering investigation and have since been returned.
00:32:23.000Capitol Reflecting Pool on January 6, Fuentes urged rioters to break down the barriers and disregard the police.
00:32:30.000Unlike some 900 other participants in the melee who have since been arrested, he has not been questioned over the day's events.
00:32:37.000Fuentes wonders whether or not federal authorities are pursuing him as part of their criminal conspiracy case against Trump.
00:32:44.000Fuentes injected himself into a major New York City rally against vaccine mandates against the wishes of organizers, prompting the media to brand the protest as a white supremacist event.
00:32:54.000Some activists involved in the rally questioned whether Fuentes was controlled opposition.
00:33:01.000And finally, a reclusive French crypto millionaire donated a quarter of a million dollars to Fuentes a day before committing suicide.
00:33:08.000The contribution was first reported by a publication funded by the U.S.
00:33:58.000Obviously you can tell as a human being based on my tone, if you don't have autism, that this is a serious tone and I'm speaking to you in a serious manner.
00:34:07.000I think just about everybody can identify and recognize that.
00:34:11.000But so much has been said about me in the last five years, not about the things that I mean and my actual political program.
00:34:31.000If I say a joke and I say, hey, rape, kill, and die, LOL, and people write and say Nick Fuentes is telling everyone to murder other people and rape women and suicide bomb everything in his name, well, that's a lie.
00:34:48.000That's a lie, because tone and context, of course, matter.
00:34:54.000When somebody's telling a joke, when somebody's saying something that's obviously not to be taken seriously or literally, that's actually part of its meaning.
00:35:04.000Because words don't just have denotations, they have connotations, and also there's nonverbal meaning as well.
00:35:11.000That's actually a big part of communication.
00:35:13.000That should be really simple and easy to understand.
00:35:16.000But for the last five or six years, people say, well, we just can't tell when he's joking and when he's not.
00:35:25.000It's very easy to tell when I'm joking and when I'm not.
00:37:03.000Then he lied about the fact that him and I were in contact, and I had his phone number and talked to him on the phone, and consulted with him about social media.
00:38:14.000I said, are you really going to publish that I was not put on the no-fly list for January 6th because the TSA's official reason is this joke I said on my show?
00:38:25.000And she goes, well, yeah, because that's what they said.
00:38:28.000I said, but you know that that was obviously a pretext, right?
00:39:13.000No, of course it wasn't, because charges were never filed, and I was removed from the no-fly list when they investigated it.
00:39:23.000The reason given that I was put on the no-fly list is a pretext.
00:39:30.000They put me on the no-fly list after January 6th because I was there on January 6th and I didn't trespass there, obviously.
00:39:39.000The reason that this even came to the attention of federal law enforcement is because of media attention about me being at the Capitol, being one of the most vocal supporters of Stop the Steal from the November 3rd election through to January 6th.
00:39:55.000I was in Atlanta, Lansing, Phoenix, Harrisburg, D.C.
00:40:01.000I was there with a megaphone with Alex Jones and Ali.
00:40:06.000And of course, being put on the no-fly list had everything to do with January 6th and nothing to do with a throwaway joke on my show that, doubtless, federal law enforcement is not even watching.
00:40:18.000But was just turned over to them and some partisan hack threw me on the list with this as a pretext.
00:40:24.000The journalist knows that, she admitted as much, but she printed in the publication the stated reason from the government.
00:40:31.000We should believe the stated reason from the government.
00:40:34.000This is the same government that raids Mar-a-Lago, the same government that went to war without a reason in Iraq, that does... The point is they do all these kinds of things.
00:40:44.000But they say, well, we got him for a joke.
00:40:52.000I was put on the list in January, I was removed in November, I wasn't even told I was removed until March the following year, and I remained on the Quad S, which is
00:41:05.000Selective secondary security screening, which is almost as bad as a no-fly list.
00:41:38.000I'm an American that was never charged for any crime.
00:41:45.000Not even accused of committing a crime, and I was denied my civil liberty, my freedom of movement to travel in my own country for no reason.
00:41:53.000And then they said, oh, well, we actually put you on the list for making a joke, which, by the way, is First Amendment protected speech.
00:42:02.000And they didn't even tell me until six months after the fact.
00:42:05.000But this fucking hack is going to go, even though she knows all that, she's going to go and publish and say, Fuentes was in fact added to the list for threatening on video to strangle Flo- for making a fucking First Amendment protected joke.
00:42:19.000If that was a real threat, I would have been charged with the crime.
00:42:23.000Federal aviation is a serious business.
00:42:26.000Incitement is a real federal statute on the book.
00:42:28.000If they were made aware of that video by the activist class, they could have filed charges.
00:43:36.000Other people were put on Quad S. Baked Alaska was put on Quad S. Lowell's was put on Quad S. Other people were put on the Quad S security screening list.
00:43:47.000I was the only one that was put on the no-fly list.
00:44:01.000Department of Justice seized his accounts because of his activism, those accounts were briefly held in a money laundering investigation and have since been returned.
00:44:54.000To answer your two questions, one, the government does not have a timeline for the unfreezing of the funds.
00:45:01.000Two, Mr. Fuentes is currently a subject of investigation due to his placement on the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021.
00:45:09.000I am CC-ing my co-counsels, Risa Burkauer and Elizabeth Alloy, for further correspondence.
00:45:16.000She writes, this is a follow-up, good morning, the government is indeed claiming his frozen assets are tainted.
00:45:22.000As mentioned on our phone call, the civil action slash investigation is against the assets and their involvement in a variety of suspected criminal behavior.
00:45:30.000We should have more updates for you regarding the funds within the next few weeks.
00:45:35.000So let's return to this, and by the way, I told her that I received that email when she called me for comment on Monday or Sunday.
00:45:46.000She writes, while telling his followers the DOJ seized his bank account because of activism, those accounts were held in a money laundering investigation and have since been returned.
00:45:59.000Because here I have correspondence from the U.S.
00:46:01.000Attorney's Office from February 16th, 2021.
00:46:07.000Three weeks after the funds were seized, saying the assets are being investigated due to my placement on the Capitol grounds on January 6th.
00:47:34.000And the ones that were charged who did not have a trespassing charge or did not have a charge for unlawful presence were people that were part of militias.
00:47:44.000Every single one of the defendants was either trespassing or a member of a militia group like the Three Percenters, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers.
00:47:56.000So why was I not questioned or charged like those defendants?
00:48:11.000I'm not part of the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, or the Proud Boys.
00:48:16.000So the question, or rather the statement, seems to insinuate that there is something conspicuous about the fact that I wasn't questioned.
00:48:25.000Or about the fact that I wasn't charged, but unlike every single other defendant, I neither trespassed nor was a member of a militia group.
00:48:35.000However, almost all of my friends were questioned.
00:49:21.000attorneys reached out to my counsel and I was subpoenaed by the House.
00:49:25.000And why I never got charged or why I wasn't questioned in the manner of these other, of the 900 defendants, it's because I didn't do the things that the 900 others did.
00:51:00.000Retain expensive legal counsel for a variety of things.
00:51:03.000It's not enough to demonstrate that I'm a good-faith actor being oppressed.
00:51:06.000Because, well, they took you off the no-fly list.
00:51:09.000Well, they said it was about something else.
00:51:12.000Now in spite of the fact that that's not even, it's not even finished yet, the day that I get charged or the day, you know, God forbid, the day that I get charged or arrested, then they'll still say, oh well, he's still whatever.
00:51:32.000If I somehow by the grace of God survive, I'm able to make money,
00:51:37.000I'm able to put on my show, I'm able to evade, which I would prefer to do, evade a conviction or a charge from the federal government.
00:51:45.000If I somehow survive, well that's evidence of how I'm controlled opposition and a fad.
00:51:51.000If they fucking kill me and take me out, if they throw me in jail and throw away the key, or they put a bullet in my head, or they wipe me from the internet, or they bankrupt me, and I'm out of the game, then they say, oh, guess he was legit.
00:52:10.000The day that I die, all these shills are gonna appropriate me.
00:52:14.000I'll become a legend like X Tentacion.
00:52:16.000I'll become a legend like any, like, underground rapper.
00:52:20.000The day that I die, if I die young, mark my words,
00:52:24.000All these people that were afraid to associate with me as I live now, they will try to appropriate my image or my ideas or pretend like they were part of it.
00:52:34.000Because I'll be in the fucking ground, and I'm not still active, and I'm not still alive, and I don't still pose a threat, and I'm not still fighting.
00:52:43.000But every single day until my dying breath,
00:52:47.000People are gonna say, they're either gonna run away from me, or hide their association with me, or they're gonna outright attack me and lie about me.
00:53:43.000Do people say he was a soldier, he was loyal, he did the right thing?
00:53:48.000Unlike Tucker, who never covered it once.
00:53:52.000Unlike many people who didn't show up, or stayed silent, or did the bare minimum, or they couldn't be asked to go to Pennsylvania because they wanted to sit at home and play Spider-Man on the PlayStation 5, I was actually out there spending my own money, which I never fundraised for either, spending tens of thousands of dollars of my own money
00:54:14.000And flying out on my own dime and putting myself up and going out and giving speeches and working hard because that was the right thing to do.
00:54:22.000It was maybe a lost cause, but it was legitimate.
00:54:27.000You all see the consequence now of living in a country where elections are all rigged and nothing's ever going to be done about it, and now we don't have a chance in hell at doing anything.
00:54:37.000We went out there to do the right thing and fight for the dying cause, the lost cause, because if there was even a small chance, it was worth it to go out there and risk life and limb and spend my money doing it.
00:54:50.000Well, other people, they couldn't even use their platform to talk about it or fly out and do anything.
00:54:56.000They were busy, I don't even know, having sex with brown girls or something in Austin, Texas or Dallas or something.
00:55:02.000You know, or they were sitting at home playing video games or whatever.
00:55:06.000I was actually out there and I actually did what I was supposed to do because I wasn't foolish enough to rush in and commit a crime.
00:55:14.000Now they say, oh well, you're a fed or whatever.
00:55:41.000I know they all have a glib attitude about it, and they're like, you know, haha, like, we're gonna make Nick's life hard, we're gonna go and lie about him, we're gonna, like, damage his reputation and all that.
00:55:51.000Like, the reason that I get passionate about it is because it's just wrong.
00:55:56.000And, you know, a lot of people are going to believe this crap, and people keep on lying about it all day long, and then they'll rub their hands together with glee because this is causing me reputational harm.
00:56:08.000But no one will make my case for me, because, you know, that's just how it is.
00:56:20.000Anyway, it goes on, Fuentes injected himself into a major New York City rally against vaccine mandates against the wishes of organizers, prompting the media to brand the protest as a white supremacist event.
00:56:32.000Some activists involved in the rally questioned whether he was controlled opposition.
00:58:02.000Characterizing himself as a Christian reactionary, Fuentes described his vision for the future of American politics, a total purge of government agencies, complete shutdown of the border, constitutional reform to mold the country into a Christian nation.
00:58:16.000Not a violent revolution, nothing illegal.
00:58:19.000I'm a revolutionary in that way, and so that's why when people say, oh, like, you're making the Republicans look bad, it's like, well, fuck the Republicans and their party.
00:58:29.000Indeed, since he first attracted the national spotlight during the 2016 season, Fuentes has functioned like a grenade inside the America First wing of the party.
00:58:39.000Not really, because there was never an America First wing until, like, three years ago, and I kind of started it.
00:58:46.000After appearing seemingly out of nowhere to shadow hip-hop art- Out of- I love- Every time I get national press coverage, they say, he appeared out of nowhere.
00:58:55.000I definitely didn't appear out of nowhere.
00:58:59.000With Ye, and by the way, it's not Kanye West, it's Ye.
00:59:02.000Blah blah blah, the establishment press spent days inundating the public with his provocative persona, quoting his Hitler-sympathetic tirades—oh, they're tirades?—providing breathless coverage of his outrageous antics both on and offline.
00:59:17.000In unified chorus, corporate hosts blasted Trump for associating with a white nationalist neo-Nazi who represented worst of the worst in American politics.
00:59:28.000Amidst the swell of hysteria over the brief Fuentes-Trump encounter, virtually no journalist bothered to ask obvious questions about the live streamer's trajectory.
01:00:34.000How exactly did a seemingly fringe Gen Z internet phenom, well that's true,
01:00:40.000Managed to embed himself within an A-list artist-trusted inner circle, and from there gain access to the former president just as he launched a fresh run for office.
01:00:48.000If anyone had bothered to account for Fuentes' rapid rise, they would have uncovered a captivating, yet depressingly zoomer-coming saga that illuminates many of modern U.S.
01:01:01.000history's most significant cultural and political moments, from Trump's insurgent presidency to January 6th to Ye's fateful dinner in Florida.
01:01:10.000They would have also discovered that Fuentes' surprise appearance at Mar-a-Lago was consistent with a well-established pattern of contradictory behavior.
01:01:20.000While cultivating a public image akin to an archetypal MAGA villain plucked from the nightmares of Washington's media and political elite, Fuentes has in fact defined his entire career through an exceptional ability to instigate conflict and inflict massive structural damage within the very movement he claims to represent.
01:01:40.000I inflict damage on the... When have I ever claimed to represent Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ronna McDaniel?
01:01:48.000Inflicting massive structural... Do you know what the word structural means?
01:02:12.000I've not caused any damage to the cause of promoting white racial consciousness or a consciousness of Jewish power, awareness of Jewish power.
01:02:20.000I've not caused any damage to the cause of bringing attention to the Israel lobby and its pernicious influence on our foreign policy.
01:02:28.000Everything that I've championed is now burgeoning and bursting at the seams
01:02:35.000In the mainstream political conversation, everything from Hitler, to Holocaust revision, to white genocide, to traditional... All of these things are on the rise!
01:02:47.000All of these things are exploding in relevance!
01:03:27.000Take a look at high-profile mainstream figures like Elijah Schaffer, John Miller, Bryson Gray, among others, who are behind the scenes and don't even want to be acknowledged yet, who were once, you know, self-described California conservatives, or whatever, and are now totally down with the mission.
01:03:49.000You don't think that they were having conversations in the break room?
01:03:52.000You don't think that they talked to the... You don't think
01:03:55.000You don't think that me championing these ideas everywhere all the time, viral, relevant, antagonizing them, in the Gruyper War, in the backrooms, you don't think that that produced a sea change?
01:04:07.000The idea that because Ronna McDaniel's getting called a neo-Nazi because of me has got nothing to do with my movement.
01:04:14.000That's, if anything, that's inflicting structural damage on my enemy, which is the conservative establishment.
01:04:20.000Who has done more damage to the conservative establishment?
01:04:23.000Who has created more problems for them than me?
01:04:26.000That's why they filter Groypers out of Turning Point.
01:04:29.000That's why they filter them out of Daily Wire, Fox News.
01:04:40.000I don't think I ever inflicted any damage on the Groipers by being fucking awesome.
01:04:45.000In short order, Fuentes evolved from a charismatic campus conservative to the commander-in-chief of the Groiper Army, a dedicated band of disaffected youth who found common purpose through the live streamer's underground internet community.
01:04:59.000He now commands his own non-profit, the America First Foundation, which has raked in enough funding to host an annual convention rivaling even the long-established CPAC of the Republican elite.
01:05:12.000If I'm inflicting massive structural damage on my own movement, then how am I able to rake in massive amounts of money and build a huge non-profit and create a conference that rivals CPAC despite being censored and blacklisted?
01:05:26.000That doesn't seem like I'm inflicting structural damage on my own movement.
01:05:30.000If I could do all that, it seems like a pretty obvious contradiction.
01:05:36.000During an October livestream, Fuentes turned up his white supremacist tirades to a new level, demanding, Jews, get out of America.