Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 105 LIVE: Washington In Scandal – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

In this episode of Firebrand, Rep. Matt Gaetz talks about the latest in the scandal surrounding Joe Biden and his family, and the CIA spying on the 2020 election campaign, and how big tech and big media got involved in the process. Rep. Gaetz also discusses the latest on the Hunter Biden scandal and how the Deep State conspired to make sure that the American people didn t get the information they needed to vote for Joe Biden in the election. Firebrand is a production of the Firebrand Podcast, produced and hosted by Matt Grzegorek and the crew at The Firebrand Project, and features original music by Zapsplat and the Vigilante Crew. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and Subscribe to our new podcast, Firebrand! Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow patriots! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - The Hunter Biden Scandal 4:30 - Who was the real Joe Biden? 6:40 - Did the CIA spy on the 2018 election? 7:15 - Did Big Tech and Big Media colluded with Big Tech to keep us off the air? 8:20 - Is Joe Biden a crook? 9:00 11:00 | The Deep State has the power to spy on us? 12:15 | Who is the most powerful man in America? 15:30 16:30 | The deep state? 17: Is the deep state spying on Joe Biden is a crooper? 18:40 19: What's the problem? 21:40 | Who's going to go to jail? 22:10 | Who will be the next Joe Biden s next? 25:00 // Is Joe's worst enemy? 26:30 // Is the Deep state going to get away from it? 27:00 & 27:50 | Who s going to be the most effective? 29:00 + 30:10 32:10 - Is there any accountability? 35:00 Is there a criminal justice reform? 36:00 Can we trust Joe Biden the only one? 33:00 / 35:20 34:00 @ What s the problem Joe s real? 39:00 Or is there any real chance Joe s a cropper?

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:04:31.000 In battle, Congressman Matt Gapes.

00:04:48.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:04:55.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:04:58.000 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.

00:05:01.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.

00:05:05.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!

00:05:14.000 You are in the right place!

00:05:15.000 This is the movement for you!

00:05:17.000 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:05:19.000 It's like a machine.

00:05:21.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:05:22.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.

00:05:25.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.

00:05:30.000 They aren't really coming for me.

00:05:32.000 They're coming for you.

00:05:34.000 I'm just in the way.

00:05:40.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:05:41.000 We are live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. And Washington is embroiled in scandal today.

00:05:52.000 I've got the latest news from the George Santos indictment, the George Santos press conference.

00:05:58.000 There was a big reveal about the various financial webs that tied the Biden family to corrupt enterprises overseas.

00:06:07.000 Jamie Comer gave a briefing on that.

00:06:09.000 I'll have the latest from Chairman Comer in the House Oversight Committee.

00:06:13.000 We also had a major scandal out of the CIA break, and that's where I would like to begin our discussion right now.

00:06:20.000 The CIA, for quite some time, has been all about controlling the shape of leader selection abroad, right?

00:06:31.000 They have been involved in coups abroad, they have been involved in election interference abroad, and sadly Those capabilities have been brought home to our country.

00:06:45.000 The House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jim Jordan upon which I serve released a report just today that laid out the problems with what the CIA was doing and the nature of their election interference in the 2020 campaign.

00:07:02.000 That's right.

00:07:02.000 I am explicitly asserting as this report does that the CIA was involved in interfering in the 2020 election.

00:07:13.000 One in six of the people who voted for Joe Biden said they would have not done so if they were aware of the corruption erupting out of Hunter Biden's laptop.

00:07:27.000 But you see, the American people didn't get that information in time for the election.

00:07:31.000 Why?

00:07:32.000 Well, because 51 senior national security folks, people who had retired from some of the top positions in the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, NSA, these 51 people signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:07:53.000 And that letter...

00:07:54.000 Was then used by big tech and big media to censor the reporting from the New York Post that laid out those foreign contacts and those foreign connections.

00:08:06.000 So you might ask yourself, why did 51 people put their reputation on the line, their name on the line, their security clearance on the line to sign that which we know today to be false?

00:08:21.000 And the conclusion in this report...

00:08:24.000 Is that they were prodded and triggered to do so by the current Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, who at the time was a senior Biden campaign official.

00:08:34.000 And then they were coerced in at least one circumstance by folks who were at that time working for the CIA. The CIA was working to coerce people to sign a letter that then government and media and tech would all use...

00:08:53.000 To try to stop the American people from seeing something that undeniably would have been dispositive on this election had it impacted the perspective of one in every six voters.

00:09:02.000 Now, how did that coercion occur?

00:09:05.000 When someone in one of these senior intelligence organizations wants to, following their employment, write a book or a manuscript, they have to get approval of the agency where they worked.

00:09:21.000 They have to get approval to see that no national security information is being released, that it is an appropriate disclosure.

00:09:28.000 And these approvals are typically given so long as there's not a release of information that might be classified, sensitive, or otherwise protected.

00:09:36.000 Well, one of the 51 people told the House Judiciary Committee that he was only going to get his book approved by the CIA if he signed the Hunter Biden letter.

00:09:50.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:09:51.000 Using the power of the most exquisite intelligence agency in the world to coerce someone that if they did not do what they were being told to provide this tool for Biden in the debates, for big tech, for big media to censor, if they did not do that, they could not publish their book.

00:10:11.000 That is the weaponization of government that we are reporting on.

00:10:15.000 The live feed is fired up and there's a lot of folks saying, where's the action?

00:10:21.000 Tired of talk, where's the action?

00:10:23.000 Let me lay out some level setting here for you.

00:10:26.000 The United States Congress has no ability to throw anyone in jail or put handcuffs on folks, issue arrests.

00:10:33.000 That's probably for good reason if you think about it.

00:10:37.000 We have the power, though, to expose and we have to use the power of the subpoena and the power of the purse.

00:10:44.000 I believe that what we are learning about a weaponized government ought to be the principal driver of how we think about every budgetary fight.

00:10:54.000 Every authorization to spend every nickel.

00:10:57.000 Even the debt limit.

00:10:59.000 If this government is weaponized, why would we willy-nilly go raise the debt limit to provide a ton more cash for it to continue to operate in a way that has turned on the people?

00:11:09.000 We shouldn't, but yet we do.

00:11:11.000 And so don't judge House Republicans based on whether or not anyone goes to jail.

00:11:15.000 Why?

00:11:15.000 We can't throw anyone in jail.

00:11:17.000 And oh, by the way, the folks who are at the Department of Justice right now don't really think that they're going to move up in their career if they go after Joe Biden.

00:11:27.000 So...

00:11:28.000 When the appropriations process comes, when the budget is before us, we ought to use the tools that I fought so hard for during the speaker contest, defunding the salaries of these bureaucrats, deep vertical cuts into these agencies, strip them of their authorities and their cash and the veneer that they use to lie.

00:11:49.000 That is the action.

00:11:51.000 That we ought to perform in the House of Representatives and divided government.

00:11:55.000 And no, it probably doesn't give these people the ultimate accountability that they deserve But it sets us on the correct trajectory to save the country and our future and our values.

00:12:08.000 And I care about that even more than I care about any bloodlust or vengeance against any particular individual.

00:12:14.000 I want to set it right.

00:12:15.000 Because if we do not, these corrupt cultures will continue to re-manifest throughout the national security apparatus and the enterprise of government entirely.

00:12:27.000 So there was the other major news today on the debt limit.

00:12:30.000 I want to get to that.

00:12:32.000 President Biden had a press conference where he discussed his desire to have unchecked, continuous spending with no downward pressure, no limitation on the growth of this government and all that it is doing to borrow against the future of our fellow Americans.

00:12:48.000 Take a listen to President Biden.

00:12:52.000 So let me tell you a story about what's going on.

00:12:56.000 There's a very extreme wing in the Republican Party, and the House of Representatives referred to themselves now.

00:13:01.000 I've been calling this for a while, but now they refer to themselves as the MAGA Republicans.

00:13:06.000 And they've taken control of the House.

00:13:08.000 They've taken control.

00:13:09.000 They have a speaker who has his job because he yielded to the quote MAGA element of the party.

00:13:16.000 They're doing, to the best of my knowledge, what no other political party has done in the nation's history.

00:13:22.000 They're literally not holding the economy hostage by threatening to default on our nation's debt that we've already incurred.

00:13:31.000 We've already incurred over the last couple hundred years unless we give in to the threats and demands as to what they think we should be doing with regard to the budget.

00:13:39.000 This would be incredibly damaging.

00:13:44.000 So let's fact check a few of those claims.

00:13:46.000 First of all, Joe Biden is not the first person who started calling me and others MAGA Republicans.

00:13:52.000 We were MAGA Republicans before Joe Biden.

00:13:54.000 I think we give President Trump credit for that, and credit he is most certainly due.

00:13:59.000 Second, he says that McCarthy was only able to assume the speakership because of concessions that he made to us, the MAGA Republicans. 0.57

00:14:07.000 And on that...

00:14:09.000 Joe Biden gets a ding, ding, ding, totally true, accurate rating on that judgment.

00:14:14.000 But it's good for the country.

00:14:15.000 It's not bad for the country that McCarthy had to make concessions on spending in order to secure the speakership.

00:14:21.000 And those very concessions that McCarthy had to make to folks like Chip Roy and Dan Bishop and Scott Perry, good friends of mine, great conservatives, folks who've joined us on Firebrand, those concessions are reflected in the House Freedom Caucus debt limit architecture that the House passed.

00:14:39.000 Now, I didn't think it went far enough for the very reasons that many of you are firing off about on the live stream that we have to stop funding this corrupt government.

00:14:48.000 And even what Joe Biden calls extreme would gaslight up to $49 trillion in debt over the next 10 years, something that Congressman Burchett and I discussed on a previous episode of Firebrand.

00:15:00.000 Final response to President Biden. 1.00

00:15:03.000 What a hypocrite! 0.99

00:15:04.000 When you were a senator, there were times when you refused to vote against raising the debt limit because you said there was not another feature of the deal that reduced spending and the deficits. 0.99

00:15:15.000 When you did vote to raise the debt limit, you often cited the fact that it included something on deficit reduction.

00:15:22.000 But you're not interested in it now, Mr. President, because you are totally captured by By the woke left that actually doesn't mind the borrowing and the inflation, the harm to the US dollar, because they don't think a lot of America in the first place.

00:15:39.000 They actually think that the path to socialism that leads to all of our fellow Americans being poor is the right thing because that will destroy the country and that's their ultimate goal.

00:15:51.000 That's what they think would make the world a more just and more kind place.

00:15:55.000 And Joe Biden is their employee.

00:15:58.000 Joe Biden is just who they allow to wander around in the Rose Garden.

00:16:04.000 I guess in a way, Biden accuses McCarthy of being our captive...

00:16:11.000 But that's just being captive to a theory of economics that is consistent with reality.

00:16:18.000 That you cannot keep printing money and remain the strongest country in the world with government spending that doesn't have any relationship to revenue.

00:16:28.000 And who's Joe Biden captive to?

00:16:31.000 The people who would have no upper limit on spending.

00:16:35.000 Who would leave the American people alone.

00:16:39.000 Abandoned economically and under attack culturally because that's what they've done. 0.94

00:16:46.000 Joe Biden on the debt limit.

00:16:47.000 There'll be a lot more on that for sure.

00:16:50.000 Other big news in Washington, D.C. surrounds Congressman George Santos.

00:16:55.000 Congressman Santos has been indicted by the federal government and I've been asked with some frequency my perspective on that issue and here it is.

00:17:06.000 Senator Menendez faced a 14-count indictment, including eight counts of alleged bribery.

00:17:13.000 He's a Democrat senator from New Jersey, but one hung jury later, after his indictment, he is now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:17:24.000 So like every American, whether you like him or not, whether you believe him or not, whether you think he should be in Congress or not, George Santos is innocent until proven guilty.

00:17:36.000 That's my perspective on the matter.

00:17:38.000 And I think we've got a clip to go to?

00:17:40.000 Ah, yes.

00:17:41.000 This is an interview I actually did while co-hosting for Steve Bannon on War Room.

00:17:46.000 So a big part of this Santos indictment surrounds campaign finance issues.

00:17:51.000 And then derivative offenses alleged as a result of those campaign finance issues.

00:17:57.000 And so when I had the opportunity to ask George Santos about that question directly, I did.

00:18:02.000 Here was that exchange on the War Room.

00:18:06.000 One of the principal critiques I've heard is that a lot of money was donated to your campaign by you.

00:18:12.000 700,000, I believe.

00:18:13.000 Where did it come from?

00:18:14.000 Well, I'll tell you where it didn't come from.

00:18:15.000 It didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma.

00:18:18.000 How about that?

00:18:19.000 Well, that is an answer.

00:18:24.000 So as I understand it now, Congressman Santos' defense will be that he earned this money and that upon earning it was able to invest it in his campaign.

00:18:33.000 He revised and extended those remarks at a truly New York press conference earlier today following his indictment.

00:18:43.000 Take a listen to the congressman.

00:18:46.000 We have an indictment.

00:18:47.000 We have the information that the government wants to come after me on.

00:18:51.000 And I'm going to comply.

00:18:53.000 I've been complying throughout this entire process.

00:18:55.000 I have no desire not to comply at this point.

00:18:58.000 They've been gracious in there.

00:19:00.000 Now I'm going to have to go and fight to defend myself.

00:19:02.000 The reality is, it's a witch hunt.

00:19:05.000 Because it makes no sense that in four months, five months, I'm indicted.

00:19:12.000 You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving.

00:19:17.000 Deposits from nine, nine family members receiving money from foreign, from foreign destinations into their bank accounts.

00:19:25.000 It's been years of exposing.

00:19:27.000 A lot of you here have reported on them and yet no investigation is launched into them.

00:19:33.000 I'm going to fight.

00:19:34.000 I will and I'm just going, I'm getting back to that.

00:19:36.000 I'm going to fight my battle.

00:19:38.000 I'm going to deliver.

00:19:39.000 I'm going to fight the witch and I'm going to take care of clearing my name and I look forward to doing that.

00:19:47.000 That was not a man on defense, George Santos, answering questions at a press conference following, turning himself in, federal charges, largely dealing with campaign finance issues.

00:19:59.000 We will certainly follow up on that and provide information.

00:20:03.000 In this very, very slim Republican majority in the House, every single member is significant.

00:20:09.000 And we're going to follow that story and make sure we get to the bottom of it.

00:20:13.000 JoJo on Getter on the live stream says that it's an interesting coincidence in timing that the Santos indictment seems to happen the same day that Congressman James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, holds a press conference on the information discovered regarding holds a press conference on the information discovered regarding Hunter Biden.

00:20:33.000 Here's the deal.

00:20:34.000 Hunter Biden and his family designed an exquisite system of shell companies and LLCs.

00:20:41.000 They look like businesses on paper, but they don't actually do any business.

00:20:45.000 They're just in the business of moving foreign cash into the accounts of members of the Biden family.

00:20:52.000 We learned today it's over $10 million to members of the Biden family, to brothers, to grandchildren, to children, to their spouses, to their former spouses.

00:21:05.000 Take a listen to Chairman Comer.

00:21:09.000 The committee has reviewed thousands of bank records from individuals and companies affiliated with the Bidens and their associates.

00:21:16.000 It has received these bank records pursuant to four subpoenas I've issued to different banks.

00:21:22.000 These were targeted and specific subpoenas, and each was different based on the information we believed the banks possessed.

00:21:31.000 Every one of those subpoenas returned valuable information that had been unreported and that contributed to this committee's understanding of how the Bidens conducted their businesses.

00:21:42.000 The committee is concerned by the complicated, suspicious network Of over 20 companies, we have identified the Bidens and their associates used to enrich themselves.

00:21:55.000 Most of these companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden's vice presidency.

00:22:02.000 The bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies.

00:22:14.000 Some of that money came from a Chinese company and went to Hunter Biden's company.

00:22:18.000 Other transfers occurred with the help of Rob Walker, who then sent it on to different Biden family members.

00:22:25.000 This is not how lawful businesses operate.

00:22:30.000 Chinese nationals affiliated with the Bidens created limited liability companies in the United States and then in a short period of time transferred their interest to a Chinese company that sent money to the Bidens.

00:22:44.000 This is not normal.

00:22:45.000 Hunter Biden and his associates courted business in countries that correlated directly with Joe Biden's work as vice president.

00:22:56.000 We are back live and Low Pro Kyle says on the live stream, we are in a constitutional crisis on several fronts.

00:23:04.000 I could not agree more and having a compromised first family is no way to run a serious country.

00:23:10.000 We are showing that compromise and what Congressman Comer is unveiling.

00:23:15.000 Very well could end up being the strongest basis for the impeachment of Joe Biden that we've seen just yet.

00:23:21.000 Still a lot of work to do.

00:23:23.000 Still a lot of investigating.

00:23:24.000 But we're going to pull those strings.

00:23:26.000 And my expectation is they're all leading back to Joe.

00:23:31.000 We are in Police Week currently and you would think that would be a bipartisan moment for Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to come together and celebrate police.

00:23:42.000 Congressman Troy Nels is the first of my colleagues that you're about to see in the House Judiciary Committee introduce what I thought would be a pretty non-controversial resolution.

00:23:51.000 A resolution that would simply honor We're good to go.

00:24:12.000 Whether they're for it, whether they're against it, whether they've previously been for it, whether they're for it, but it doesn't really mean defund the police.

00:24:18.000 You're going to love it.

00:24:20.000 I could not resist when my colleague Mike Johnson pointed out that a very prominent Democrat has been leading the fight to defund the police, and she has a prominent role as a House Judiciary Committee member.

00:24:33.000 Take a listen.

00:24:37.000 Today I offer my support of the resolution recognizing National Police Week.

00:24:42.000 My colleagues and I are committed to recognizing the valor, dignity, and integrity of police officers across the nation and express our sincere support for those who defend our communities against criminals and lawlessness.

00:24:54.000 The far left has pushed for defunding the police for far too long.

00:24:58.000 Ironically, the same folks that have advocated for and voted to slash the police budgets Have armed security surrounding them daily.

00:25:06.000 First, I must disagree with Mr. Niels, with whom I agree on the bill, but I must disagree with him when he says that the Democrats seek to defund the police.

00:25:17.000 We do not.

00:25:18.000 My Republican colleagues are using Police Week to promote cheap talking points and largely meaningless legislation designed to distract and divide communities, not make them safer.

00:25:30.000 Let me just give you a sampling of some of their comments because it's been said here that these are quote-unquote cheap talking points.

00:25:35.000 I'll just start with the calls from Chairman Jerry Nadler.

00:25:40.000 He publicly agreed with reducing the New York Police Department budget, which I think was cut by something like a billion dollars or something.

00:25:48.000 He said, quote, there should be substantial cuts to the police budget and a reallocation of those funds to where we need them, unquote.

00:25:57.000 Representative Cori Bush, boy, she has pages and pages of this, but She said, and by the way, she was Vice Chair of the Crime Subcommittee in the last Congress.

00:26:06.000 She tweeted, it's not a slogan, it's a mandate for keeping our people alive.

00:26:11.000 DEFUND THE POLICE, in all caps.

00:26:14.000 Then she said that defunding the police is not the problem, that's the solution, and we have to do that to invest in our communities.

00:26:21.000 I'll keep going because I've got some more time.

00:26:24.000 AOC, Congressman...

00:26:25.000 Will the gentleman yield?

00:26:26.000 I'll have to yield.

00:26:28.000 The gentleman just reflected that The person That House Democrats chose to chair the crime subcommittee.

00:26:36.000 You heard that right.

00:26:37.000 Said that it was a mandate to defund the police.

00:26:40.000 And now, on Police Week, when the majority is seeking to simply pass a resolution honoring the police, we are being accused of taking cheap shots at Democrats when, not any Democrat, literally the person they put in charge of the crime sub...

00:26:59.000 Is that what I'm to understand?

00:27:00.000 That is, indeed.

00:27:01.000 I did indeed say that we should defund the police.

00:27:05.000 What I meant was, and what was done, was that we should reallocate some of the resources to mental health.

00:27:16.000 When you're at risk of a robbery or a battery or a stabbing, you don't need a therapist.

00:27:25.000 You need a cop.

00:27:26.000 The very cops that these Democrats can't quite figure out whether or not they're willing to support or not.

00:27:31.000 It was quite a day.

00:27:33.000 BruceFur85 on Instagram says, I should shave my head.

00:27:36.000 I am not doing that because then who would have the best hair in Congress?

00:27:42.000 And Neff2020 says, what does the future hold?

00:27:45.000 And It may very well be with these things that we're talking about, with a compromised first family, with a border that's open that many of you are deeply concerned about for good reason, with a weaponized government with debt that is out of control, a dollar that is spiraling, that it may get worse before it gets better.

00:28:03.000 But I know one thing.

00:28:05.000 It can turn around quickly.

00:28:07.000 How was a young man coming out of law school looking for professional opportunities when Barack Obama was president?

00:28:14.000 And there was such a sense of national demise.

00:28:20.000 It wasn't the national malaise of the Carter years.

00:28:23.000 We were in a state of demise under Obama.

00:28:26.000 And I saw how quickly an energetic executive, a great leader like President Trump, could turn it around.

00:28:34.000 And we did turn it around.

00:28:35.000 President Trump built a roaring economy in this country, one that lifted up the people who liked him and the people who didn't.

00:28:43.000 That is what the future could hold.

00:28:45.000 We just have to ensure that the right policies are enacted because we don't have to reinvent the wheel.

00:28:51.000 We know how it was done and I believe we can do it again.

00:28:55.000 Thanks so much, everyone, for joining us this evening on Firebrand.

00:28:58.000 As you see, it's different times in the day based on our vote schedule and committee hearings when I'm able to give you the direct update right as it's happening from the United States Congress.

00:29:08.000 If you enjoy learning that information, please make sure you're subscribed with your notifications turned on.

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00:29:19.000 Help us get to 5,000 reviews.

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Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - May 10, 2023

Episode 105 LIVE: Washington In Scandal – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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