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?
00:04:48.000Matt 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.
00:04:55.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:04:58.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:05:01.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:05:05.000If 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!
00:05:41.000We 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.
00:05:52.000I've got the latest news from the George Santos indictment, the George Santos press conference.
00:05:58.000There was a big reveal about the various financial webs that tied the Biden family to corrupt enterprises overseas.
00:06:09.000I'll have the latest from Chairman Comer in the House Oversight Committee.
00:06:13.000We also had a major scandal out of the CIA break, and that's where I would like to begin our discussion right now.
00:06:20.000The CIA, for quite some time, has been all about controlling the shape of leader selection abroad, right?
00:06:31.000They 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.
00:06:45.000The 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.
00:07:02.000I am explicitly asserting as this report does that the CIA was involved in interfering in the 2020 election.
00:07:13.000One 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.
00:07:27.000But you see, the American people didn't get that information in time for the election.
00:07:32.000Well, 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.
00:07:54.000Was 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.
00:08:06.000So 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?
00:08:24.000Is 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.
00:08:34.000And 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...
00:08:53.000To 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.
00:09:05.000When 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.
00:09:21.000They have to get approval to see that no national security information is being released, that it is an appropriate disclosure.
00:09:28.000And these approvals are typically given so long as there's not a release of information that might be classified, sensitive, or otherwise protected.
00:09:36.000Well, 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.
00:09:51.000Using 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.
00:10:11.000That is the weaponization of government that we are reporting on.
00:10:15.000The live feed is fired up and there's a lot of folks saying, where's the action?
00:10:23.000Let me lay out some level setting here for you.
00:10:26.000The United States Congress has no ability to throw anyone in jail or put handcuffs on folks, issue arrests.
00:10:33.000That's probably for good reason if you think about it.
00:10:37.000We have the power, though, to expose and we have to use the power of the subpoena and the power of the purse.
00:10:44.000I believe that what we are learning about a weaponized government ought to be the principal driver of how we think about every budgetary fight.
00:10:54.000Every authorization to spend every nickel.
00:10:59.000If 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?
00:11:17.000And 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.
00:11:28.000When 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.
00:11:51.000That we ought to perform in the House of Representatives and divided government.
00:11:55.000And 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.
00:12:08.000And I care about that even more than I care about any bloodlust or vengeance against any particular individual.
00:12:15.000Because if we do not, these corrupt cultures will continue to re-manifest throughout the national security apparatus and the enterprise of government entirely.
00:12:27.000So there was the other major news today on the debt limit.
00:12:32.000President 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.
00:13:09.000They have a speaker who has his job because he yielded to the quote MAGA element of the party.
00:13:16.000They're doing, to the best of my knowledge, what no other political party has done in the nation's history.
00:13:22.000They're literally not holding the economy hostage by threatening to default on our nation's debt that we've already incurred.
00:13:31.000We'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.
00:14:15.000It's not bad for the country that McCarthy had to make concessions on spending in order to secure the speakership.
00:14:21.000And 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.
00:14:39.000Now, 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.
00:14:48.000And 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.
00:15:04.000When 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.
00:15:15.000When you did vote to raise the debt limit, you often cited the fact that it included something on deficit reduction.
00:15:22.000But 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.
00:15:39.000They 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.
00:15:51.000That's what they think would make the world a more just and more kind place.
00:15:58.000Joe Biden is just who they allow to wander around in the Rose Garden.
00:16:04.000I guess in a way, Biden accuses McCarthy of being our captive...
00:16:11.000But that's just being captive to a theory of economics that is consistent with reality.
00:16:18.000That you cannot keep printing money and remain the strongest country in the world with government spending that doesn't have any relationship to revenue.
00:16:47.000There'll be a lot more on that for sure.
00:16:50.000Other big news in Washington, D.C. surrounds Congressman George Santos.
00:16:55.000Congressman 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.
00:17:06.000Senator Menendez faced a 14-count indictment, including eight counts of alleged bribery.
00:17:13.000He'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.
00:17:24.000So 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.
00:18:24.000So 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.
00:18:33.000He revised and extended those remarks at a truly New York press conference earlier today following his indictment.
00:19:39.000I'm going to fight the witch and I'm going to take care of clearing my name and I look forward to doing that.
00:19:47.000That 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.
00:19:59.000We will certainly follow up on that and provide information.
00:20:03.000In this very, very slim Republican majority in the House, every single member is significant.
00:20:09.000And we're going to follow that story and make sure we get to the bottom of it.
00:20:13.000JoJo 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.
00:20:34.000Hunter Biden and his family designed an exquisite system of shell companies and LLCs.
00:20:41.000They look like businesses on paper, but they don't actually do any business.
00:20:45.000They're just in the business of moving foreign cash into the accounts of members of the Biden family.
00:20:52.000We 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.
00:21:09.000The committee has reviewed thousands of bank records from individuals and companies affiliated with the Bidens and their associates.
00:21:16.000It has received these bank records pursuant to four subpoenas I've issued to different banks.
00:21:22.000These were targeted and specific subpoenas, and each was different based on the information we believed the banks possessed.
00:21:31.000Every 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.
00:21:42.000The committee is concerned by the complicated, suspicious network Of over 20 companies, we have identified the Bidens and their associates used to enrich themselves.
00:21:55.000Most of these companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden's vice presidency.
00:22:02.000The bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies.
00:22:14.000Some of that money came from a Chinese company and went to Hunter Biden's company.
00:22:18.000Other transfers occurred with the help of Rob Walker, who then sent it on to different Biden family members.
00:22:25.000This is not how lawful businesses operate.
00:22:30.000Chinese 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.
00:23:24.000But we're going to pull those strings.
00:23:26.000And my expectation is they're all leading back to Joe.
00:23:31.000We 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.
00:23:42.000Congressman 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.
00:23:51.000A resolution that would simply honor We're good to go.
00:24:12.000Whether 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.
00:24:20.000I 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.
00:24:37.000Today I offer my support of the resolution recognizing National Police Week.
00:24:42.000My 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.
00:24:54.000The far left has pushed for defunding the police for far too long.
00:24:58.000Ironically, the same folks that have advocated for and voted to slash the police budgets Have armed security surrounding them daily.
00:25:06.000First, 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.
00:25:18.000My 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.
00:25:30.000Let 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.
00:25:35.000I'll just start with the calls from Chairman Jerry Nadler.
00:25:40.000He publicly agreed with reducing the New York Police Department budget, which I think was cut by something like a billion dollars or something.
00:25:48.000He said, quote, there should be substantial cuts to the police budget and a reallocation of those funds to where we need them, unquote.
00:25:57.000Representative 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.
00:26:06.000She tweeted, it's not a slogan, it's a mandate for keeping our people alive.
00:26:37.000Said that it was a mandate to defund the police.
00:26:40.000And 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...
00:27:33.000BruceFur85 on Instagram says, I should shave my head.
00:27:36.000I am not doing that because then who would have the best hair in Congress?
00:27:42.000And Neff2020 says, what does the future hold?
00:27:45.000And 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.
00:28:45.000We just have to ensure that the right policies are enacted because we don't have to reinvent the wheel.
00:28:51.000We know how it was done and I believe we can do it again.
00:28:55.000Thanks so much, everyone, for joining us this evening on Firebrand.
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