Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - September 16, 2021


Episode 7: TALIBIDEN – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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Joe Biden tried to get the President of Afghanistan to lie to the world, and it cost 13 Marines their lives. What if a foreign leader asked a president to lie, and then that lie resulted in the death of 13 Americans? What if that leader was Donald Trump, and that lie was the one that caused the deaths of 13 American Marines in Afghanistan? And what if the shoe were on the other foot? What if the lie was a big one, and the president was asking someone to lie for political advantage? And if that lie won't get us out of Afghanistan, what if it was a lie that cost 13 Americans their lives? And if it were a lie, who would be the first to be impeached if it led to the impeachment of a president who asked someone else to lie and then failed to tell the truth about what he knew to be the truth? What would you do if that happened to you, and you were the president of the United States, and Joe Biden was the person tasked with telling the truth to the whole world about it? and it resulted in you losing 13 American lives in Afghanistan and then you did it for political gain what do you do with that lie, you impeach the President and try to impeach President Joe Biden? You do what? You impeach him, right? Do you think he s going to be removed from office? or do you think impeachment is a good idea, or not? Is there any chance for him to be brought forward, and is he going to get a fair chance to answer the questions he was asked by the American people? ? or is he s running for re-election in 2020, and does he deserve to be re-elected in 2020 or not, and re-appeared in 2020? Or does he have a chance to run for a second term, and get a second chance at the next election, and do he deserve a chance at a second run at being re-appointed to the White House? Or is he just a little bit better than he did the job he s supposed to be given the one he s got in the first place? . And what he s actually got? in this episode, I ll tell you what I think of the truth, and why he s not getting any more than that, and what s he s really getting right, and how he s getting the chance to do in this election?

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00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 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.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 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!
00:00:29.000 You are in the right place!
00:00:30.000 This is the movement for you!
00:00:32.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.000 It's like a machine.
00:00:36.000 Matt Gaetz.
00:00:37.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:45.000 They aren't really coming for me.
00:00:47.000 They're coming for you.
00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:50.000 We have a loaded episode today.
00:00:55.000 My exclusive reaction to the indictment of Stephen Alford, the fraud feeser who targeted my family.
00:01:02.000 That's coming up.
00:01:03.000 Also, Firebrand Nation knew what was going to happen in Afghanistan before it happened.
00:01:08.000 In moments, I'll be sharing the latest in Afghanistan and my predictions for the upcoming civil war.
00:01:14.000 But first, during the collapsing Biden presidency, Democrats have been forced into a corner.
00:01:20.000 How can they take the standard that they applied to Trump and hold it up against Biden's blunders and failures?
00:01:27.000 Democrats believe that a president asking someone to lie should trigger impeachment.
00:01:33.000 At least if it's President Trump.
00:01:35.000 Just listen to House Judiciary Democrat David Cicilline.
00:01:38.000 If McGahn does not show up tomorrow before your committee, you say it is time for Democrats to begin an impeachment proceeding.
00:01:46.000 An impeachment increase?
00:01:47.000 Absolutely.
00:01:48.000 We are really left with no other choice.
00:01:50.000 This is a president who, according to the Mueller report, engaged in 10 acts of obstruction of justice, who tried to get witnesses on his staff to lie.
00:01:58.000 Cicilline should apply that same standard to Biden.
00:02:02.000 Joe Biden tried to get the president of Afghanistan to lie.
00:02:06.000 It cost the lives of 13 Marines.
00:02:11.000 Biden lied to the world.
00:02:12.000 He lied to us.
00:02:13.000 He expressly pressured a foreign leader to push his self-serving lie for domestic political gain.
00:02:20.000 Biden knew that the Ghani government was going to fall.
00:02:24.000 Ghani told him as much.
00:02:25.000 But Biden lied.
00:02:26.000 And on a phone call with Ghani, he pressed Ghani to advance that lie for political advantage here in this country for Joe Biden.
00:02:34.000 And 13 American Marines are dead today because Joe Biden couldn't face the truth and he couldn't tell the truth.
00:02:42.000 Biden stood in the way of the truth with deadly consequences.
00:02:46.000 Here is exactly what Joe Biden said to Afghanistan's faux president, Ghani.
00:02:53.000 Quote, There is a need to project a different picture.
00:03:09.000 This was the time to get our people out.
00:03:12.000 Not after Kabul fell.
00:03:14.000 Ghani told Biden, quote, Mr. President, we are facing a full-scale invasion composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10,000 to 15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this.
00:03:30.000 That's what Ghani told him.
00:03:32.000 And had Joe Biden been honest with America, our troops, and the world about the uselessness of the Ghani government, we would have gotten our people out before we lost force protection. 1.00
00:03:43.000 Instead, we pulled out our military on this big lie that Joe Biden knew to be false.
00:03:50.000 That there would be an Afghan government left that was worth a damn. 1.00
00:03:54.000 There never was going to be.
00:03:57.000 Following Secretary of State Blinken's advice not to delegitimize the Afghan government, Biden delegitimized the truth. 0.60
00:04:05.000 The Taliban are barbarians. 0.67
00:04:08.000 Bad hombres, one might say, but like it or not, they were always more legitimate with the people of Afghanistan than the corrupt government we propped up for way too long. 0.96
00:04:18.000 Biden was so politically committed to the big lie, he pressed Ghani to tell it.
00:04:23.000 To falsify reality in the face of the obvious, the Taliban were taking Kabul.
00:04:28.000 Going forward, we must have realistic foreign policy based on the truth.
00:04:33.000 We must put the interests of Americans first.
00:04:37.000 That means being honest, clear-eyed, focused and smart.
00:04:42.000 We must dispense with the fictitious poetry of democracy promotion delivered by counterinsurgency blood-soaked night raids.
00:04:51.000 And what if the shoe were on the other foot?
00:04:54.000 What if Donald Trump asked a foreign leader to knowingly lie?
00:04:59.000 And then that lie resulted in the death of 13 Americans, Marines.
00:05:03.000 If that were Trump, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and Jamie Raskin and Eric Swalwell would be clawing each other's eyes out to be first in line to file impeachment articles.
00:05:13.000 They literally impeached Trump for asking Zelensky to investigate corruption.
00:05:18.000 But listening to Adam Schiff's opening statement to the Senate?
00:05:21.000 You'd think he was the sentinel of honesty itself.
00:05:25.000 Impeach the dishonest, according to Schiff.
00:05:28.000 When he was investigated, he did everything he could to obstruct justice, going so far as to fire the FBI director and try to fire the special counsel, and ask the White House counsel to lie on his behalf.
00:05:42.000 During the same campaign, while telling the country he had no business dealings with Russia, he was continuing to actively pursue the most lucrative deal of his life.
00:05:50.000 Now, they defend Biden for pushing a foreign leader to lie, but they impeach Trump for pushing a foreign leader for the truth.
00:06:00.000 And they have the nerve to call us the insurrectionists.
00:06:05.000 Many global war on terror veterans in my district are asking how we got it so wrong in Afghanistan.
00:06:12.000 How did our national security elite sell a lie for 20 years that we were building something resilient in Afghanistan?
00:06:19.000 The truth?
00:06:21.000 The generals knew they were lying the whole time.
00:06:24.000 They knew Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires.
00:06:28.000 And they were laughing at us as they got crazy rich.
00:06:32.000 They still are.
00:06:33.000 The Washington Post's Isaac Stanley Becker recently published extensive research on how generals who never won anything against the Taliban are the big winners at universities and in corporate America.
00:06:48.000 Many of the generals who lied through their teeth about progress and capability in the Afghan military are now totally cashing in.
00:06:57.000 The LeBron James of optimizing this revolving door between military failure and personal wealth is four-star General Stanley McChrystal.
00:07:07.000 McChrystal had netted tens of millions of dollars serving on corporate boards and consulting after his retirement.
00:07:13.000 He even charged the University of Nebraska $70,000 for a speech.
00:07:19.000 Shocking?
00:07:21.000 Not hardly.
00:07:22.000 This is a feature of the military-industrial complex, not a bug.
00:07:26.000 And the message is clear to this day.
00:07:28.000 If you're a big-time general, just keep making the case that fighting and losing is really winning.
00:07:35.000 And by the time the country catches up, you'll already be cashing in, teaching classes on leadership, like former General Stanley McChrystal.
00:07:44.000 Now McChrystal isn't doing anything out of the ordinary.
00:07:47.000 The military brass to corporate board pipeline is strong.
00:07:50.000 He's just doing it more frequently and to a higher degree than the rest of them.
00:07:54.000 But our own Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, retired from the military and promptly joined...
00:08:00.000 Raytheon's board of directors.
00:08:02.000 And the door revolved again, and now Austin's back approving contracts to Raytheon.
00:08:09.000 Don't you just love when a plan comes together like that?
00:08:13.000 For the sake of career advancement, it seems these generals need a war to fight.
00:08:17.000 And for the sake of their future stock options, it seems these wars can't end soon enough.
00:08:24.000 It only costs the lives of our best.
00:08:28.000 And the only thing more alarming than this corrupt, self-reinforcing system is the fact that anyone wants to employ these generals at all.
00:08:35.000 These generals presided over one of the worst military failures in American history, 20 years of fighting, and nothing to show for it, but an enemy more capable and wealthier than ever before.
00:08:47.000 The Taliban wasn't an expeditionary force in the 90s, but Biden and the woke generals?
00:08:53.000 They may very well turn them into one.
00:08:56.000 In any serious country, these generals would barely rate as game show contestants exemplifying failure.
00:09:02.000 They should have E! True Hollywood stories, not spots on corporate boards bought with the blood of our bravest patriots.
00:09:11.000 It's no wonder these generals lied, not only to the American people, but to President Trump and their own soldiers.
00:09:18.000 They had no choice but to perpetuate an endless losing war for 20 years.
00:09:23.000 Who wants to be the whistleblower?
00:09:25.000 Who wants to be the last guy holding onto the potato at the end, exposing the war and the big lie?
00:09:31.000 Not good for your future career serving on boards for defense contracting companies.
00:09:36.000 Hell, not good for your liberty either.
00:09:39.000 Look at what happened to General Michael Flynn after he questioned the machine and suggested a leaner, more efficient deployment of our intelligence resources.
00:09:47.000 They ruined his life, prosecuted him.
00:09:51.000 You see, a key common trait for all these woke, failing generals is their sheer determination to praise themselves when directly confronted with failure.
00:10:01.000 Here's our most recent example.
00:10:03.000 We have just concluded the largest air evacuation of civilians in American history.
00:10:10.000 It was heroic.
00:10:12.000 It was historic.
00:10:15.000 I'm sure you'll see Lloyd Austin leading a major corporation sometime soon.
00:10:19.000 Hopefully he leads them better than he's led our military as Secretary of Defense.
00:10:24.000 Maybe he'll have a stand-down for white supremacy in his first corporate setting as well. 0.51
00:10:29.000 And General Mark Milley?
00:10:31.000 He will likely be lauded by some institution of higher learning, maybe even a professor, on his favorite subject, critical race theory.
00:10:40.000 I want to understand white rage, and I'm white, and I want to understand it. 0.56
00:10:44.000 So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?
00:10:53.000 What caused that?
00:10:54.000 I want to find that out.
00:10:55.000 I want to maintain an open mind here, and I do want to analyze it.
00:10:58.000 It's important that we understand that.
00:10:59.000 Because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and guardians, they come from the American people.
00:11:03.000 So it is important that the leaders, now and in the future, do understand it.
00:11:09.000 I've read Mao Zedong.
00:11:10.000 I've read Karl Marx.
00:11:12.000 I've read Lenin.
00:11:13.000 That doesn't make me a communist.
00:11:15.000 So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?
00:11:24.000 Taliban v.
00:11:25.000 ISIS. The civil war is coming.
00:11:27.000 The Taliban has secured victory now. 0.93
00:11:30.000 We told you this would happen before it did.
00:11:33.000 But what's next?
00:11:34.000 The Taliban is holding Americans functionally hostage as our own military admits that we are working with the Taliban to fight ISIS-K. Now, the other thing we do is we share versions of this information with the Taliban so that they can actually Do some searching out there for us, and we believe that some attacks have been thwarted by them.
00:11:55.000 Again, we've been doing this for a long.
00:11:57.000 We've been doing this since the 14th.
00:11:58.000 This is an attack that's been carried out.
00:12:01.000 We believe it's possible that others have been thwarted.
00:12:03.000 We cut down the information we give the Taliban.
00:12:06.000 They don't get the full range of information we have, but we give them enough to act in time and space to try to prevent these attacks.
00:12:12.000 Remember, we resourced ISIS by funding any Arab militia that showed up in Syria willing to fight Assad. 0.54
00:12:19.000 American defense contractors do best when Uncle Sam funds and arms all sides of the conflicts in the Middle East.
00:12:27.000 So the Taliban is here, and we are actually cooperating with them. 1.00
00:12:32.000 So what do they want?
00:12:33.000 Where are we going to go from here?
00:12:36.000 Well, first, they have no shortage of military equipment.
00:12:39.000 The U.S. and the Afghan government, if you could call it that, left them plenty of vehicles, weapons, and gear.
00:12:45.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars worth, no doubt.
00:12:48.000 Safe to say the Taliban are more well-armed, well-equipped, and well-prepared than any terrorist regime in history.
00:12:57.000 And they're going to need it.
00:12:58.000 The Taliban has enemies too.
00:13:00.000 ISIS-K, who we believe is responsible for the attack at the airport that killed Americans, they're already in the country. 0.97
00:13:06.000 And in a strange twist of fate, the Taliban may now be the ones faced with an insurgency.
00:13:12.000 They'll need support and money in one way or another.
00:13:15.000 You can bet they're going to get it.
00:13:17.000 Right now, the U.S. and the international community has frozen Afghanistan's government funds in international banks.
00:13:24.000 The Taliban wants access to this money.
00:13:26.000 They're claiming they are the legitimate successor to the Afghan government.
00:13:30.000 Now, that's, of course, a lot of money from U.S. taxpayers.
00:13:33.000 I bet the Taliban will probably get a hold on a good amount of that money. 0.55
00:13:38.000 I mean, what leverage do we have?
00:13:40.000 There are reports the Taliban are preventing planes with American citizens from leaving the tarmac.
00:13:46.000 Wonder why?
00:13:47.000 It's because they want that money.
00:13:50.000 Now, Lindsey Graham said America should reconstitute resistance to the Taliban and fund the Northern Alliance in Panjshir.
00:13:58.000 First thing we need to do is not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
00:14:03.000 This is a coup d'etat.
00:14:04.000 Boris Johnson said, don't recognize the Taliban.
00:14:07.000 You don't want to recognize a terrorist group who takes land by force.
00:14:11.000 So we have the vice president under the constitution of Afghanistan in Panjshir province.
00:14:16.000 He has a resistance force.
00:14:18.000 We can provide humanitarian aid.
00:14:19.000 We can provide military assistance.
00:14:22.000 This theory of post-loss U.S.-Afghanistan policy was debunked by events within days.
00:14:28.000 Ahmad Massoud, the son of the great Lion of Panjshir and the leader of the National Resistance Front, heir to the Northern Alliance, he fled to France?
00:14:37.000 It was a matter of time anyway.
00:14:39.000 With the support of the Pakistani ISI, the Taliban are stronger than they've ever been.
00:14:45.000 Some are indicating that drones were even being used to bomb Masoud's militia.
00:14:51.000 Those might have come from Pakistan.
00:14:53.000 Now, Pakistan has denied this, but Pakistan also may have chosen to side with the winning team.
00:14:58.000 After all, they have made that decision before, to side with the terrorists.
00:15:05.000 Remember, bin Laden lived in Pakistan for years, without incident and likely with permission. 0.82
00:15:12.000 Regardless of these speed bumps, money won't be a problem for the Taliban for too long.
00:15:17.000 To make things more interesting, the Taliban and the Chinese are getting pretty cozy. 1.00
00:15:21.000 The Taliban are sitting on masses of mineral deposits, and the Chinese are resource-strapped. 0.73
00:15:28.000 So I'm pretty sure the Chinese are going to be making use of all that lithium in Afghanistan. 0.96
00:15:33.000 Minerals in exchange for money, protection, and military training?
00:15:37.000 I'd imagine that is the contour of the deal.
00:15:41.000 Every budding totalitarian regime needs a generous benefactor.
00:15:46.000 We know that from history.
00:15:48.000 The Chinese had the Soviets, and it looks like the Taliban will indeed have the Chinese. 0.99
00:15:53.000 How nice for China.
00:15:54.000 Play the long game.
00:15:56.000 Sit back and watch the globalist American empire destroy itself.
00:16:01.000 Spread ourselves out too thin.
00:16:03.000 And then China just jumps in and takes control. 1.00
00:16:07.000 You almost have to admire them.
00:16:09.000 The Chinese, unlike our weak leadership, they play to win.
00:16:13.000 And with Chinese support and devotion to their cause, my bet is the Taliban will win too. 1.00
00:16:21.000 Our inaugural episode is called Open Gates.
00:16:24.000 You can find it on our Rumble channel, and I hope you subscribe.
00:16:28.000 In it, I directly addressed the allegations against me that have been endlessly repeated by the true enemy of the people, the America Last Media.
00:16:37.000 Here's what I said then.
00:16:39.000 A man of mystery connected to the intelligence community named Bob Kent texted my father.
00:16:45.000 He told my dad there were pictures of me with child prostitutes, and for 25 million dollars he could make all my problems go away, as he admits here.
00:16:57.000 Mr. Gates, text message from you.
00:16:59.000 I would like to talk with you immediately about the current federal investigation and the indictment that is about to be filed against your son.
00:17:06.000 I have a plan that can make his future legal and political problems go away.
00:17:11.000 You sent that text message?
00:17:13.000 I did, yes.
00:17:14.000 Why did you put it that way, that there was an indictment about to be filed against his son, and why did you tee up the legal problems?
00:17:27.000 Matt Gaetz was in need of, or if the allegations are true, he's in need of some goodwill from the government.
00:17:32.000 I'm in need of a sponsor to fund the rescue project.
00:17:37.000 He needed money.
00:17:39.000 Tens of millions.
00:17:40.000 And he was pitching hard to my dad that I needed help.
00:17:43.000 The kind of help only he could provide.
00:17:46.000 Some of you might call it an offer you can't refuse.
00:17:51.000 Who is Bob Kent?
00:17:53.000 Where's he even getting this stuff?
00:17:54.000 And who is he working with to shake down my dad on a pile of lies?
00:17:59.000 This man, David McGee, is a former DOJ official.
00:18:04.000 That's interesting.
00:18:06.000 And this man, Stephen Alford, is a con man who's actually been convicted of felonies and served time in federal penitentiary.
00:18:14.000 An intel officer, Kent, a felon, Alford, and a former DOJ official, McGee, team up to shake down a congressman and my family.
00:18:25.000 Five months ago, I laid out the extortion attempt against my family on Tucker Carlson's show.
00:18:31.000 What is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former Department of Justice official.
00:18:37.000 On March 16th, my father got a text message demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away.
00:18:51.000 Our family was so troubled by that, we went to the local FBI. And the FBI and the Department of Justice were so concerned about this attempted extortion of a member of Congress that they asked my dad to wear a wire, which he did with the former Department of Justice official.
00:19:07.000 Tonight I am demanding that the Department of Justice and the FBI release the audio recordings that were made under their supervision and at their direction, which will prove my innocence and that will show that these allegations aren't true.
00:19:23.000 They're merely intended to try to bleed my family out of money.
00:19:26.000 And this former Department of Justice official tomorrow was supposed to be contacted by my father so that specific instructions could be given regarding the wiring of $4.5 million as a down payment on this bribe.
00:19:41.000 I don't think it's a coincidence that tonight, somehow, the New York Times is leaking this information, smearing me.
00:19:49.000 I don't blame you if you thought this all sounded wild, weird, maybe even unbelievable.
00:19:56.000 My friend Tucker Carlson may have even felt the same way.
00:19:59.000 But it's true.
00:20:00.000 Every word I said.
00:20:02.000 Since that episode, Stephen Alford, the con man, has been indicted by the DOJ. That's a good start.
00:20:10.000 I'm glad he was indicted.
00:20:11.000 It destroys the media's narrative that I was the criminal, not the victim.
00:20:16.000 It proves my family wasn't making up a crazy story to distract from scandal.
00:20:21.000 We didn't do that.
00:20:22.000 We wouldn't do that.
00:20:23.000 Our story checks out.
00:20:25.000 But what is clear now is that the DOJ views Project Homecoming, which falsely accuses me and seeks $25 million to make all my problems go away, as the criminal fraud it was.
00:20:39.000 If not, they wouldn't have charged Stephen Alford under criminal fraud statutes for pushing Project Homecoming on my father.
00:20:47.000 But serious questions remain.
00:20:50.000 Statements and documents prove that Alford wasn't acting alone.
00:20:55.000 But he was indicted alone.
00:20:57.000 Bob Kent, the intel guy who is a prior State Department contractor, is the man who literally handed the document that spelled out Project Homecoming to my father.
00:21:08.000 He put it in his hands.
00:21:10.000 Emily Brooks at the Washington Examiner reported it at the time.
00:21:14.000 Here are the documents.
00:21:15.000 So the con man who talked about Project Homecoming gets indicted.
00:21:29.000 That's good.
00:21:30.000 But the intel guy with State Department connections who delivered the actual extortion demand doesn't?
00:21:37.000 Why would they spare the intel guy?
00:21:39.000 Is his indictment forthcoming?
00:21:41.000 It should be.
00:21:42.000 If not, why not?
00:21:43.000 Who or what is being protected?
00:21:46.000 Next week I'm going to cover Kent's foreign government connections.
00:21:49.000 Make sure you have your notifications turned on.
00:21:54.000 So then there's the DOJ guy, David McGee.
00:21:57.000 Kent admitted on national television that he is connected to Alford through McGee.
00:22:04.000 And Kent must really trust McGee because Dave McGee vouching for now indicted Alford was good enough for Kent.
00:22:14.000 That one of the guys who you are working with on this and approaching the gates has a criminal record for being a fraudster.
00:22:24.000 Why would you be associating with somebody like that?
00:22:27.000 So, I was contacted by David McGee in October, and he asked me to meet with somebody, with Stephen Alford, because Alford wanted to help with Levinson and believe that he can get him out.
00:22:42.000 Now, after the rescue attempt fell apart in July, I had no contact with Dave after that.
00:22:47.000 I said, sorry, it didn't work out.
00:22:49.000 We went forward.
00:22:50.000 He wished me, you know, best of luck in my future endeavors.
00:22:52.000 And then when he contacted me in October, he asked me, is it possible to rescue?
00:22:57.000 Is Levinson still alive and is it possible to rescue him?
00:23:00.000 So I went back to the network and I asked a question.
00:23:03.000 And they said, yes, we think he may be alive, but you can't do it the way you did it last time.
00:23:07.000 You have to go from the top down this time.
00:23:10.000 So, and when Dave vouched for Stephen, that was good enough for me.
00:23:14.000 Remember what Alford was indicted for, wire fraud.
00:23:17.000 Here's the news.
00:23:18.000 Alford wasn't going to be accepting the wire for the down payment on the $25 million, not directly at least.
00:23:25.000 That was McGee, the former DOJ official.
00:23:29.000 His Pensacola-based Beggs& Lane Law Firm account was where the money was supposed to go in this project homecoming fraud.
00:23:39.000 Alford wanted cash, actually.
00:23:41.000 Seven figures in a bag.
00:23:43.000 You can't make this stuff up.
00:23:44.000 Not a wire.
00:23:45.000 So how can the guy who was planning to accept the wire in a wire fraud case not be implicated?
00:23:52.000 This does not require imagination or any novel application of the law.
00:23:59.000 David McGee constructed the team.
00:24:01.000 We got that from Kent's admission on Cuomo Primetime.
00:24:05.000 David McGee constructed the fraud.
00:24:08.000 A ruse to make it look like this extortion payoff was actually for legal services of some kind.
00:24:15.000 And David McGee was the one planning to accept the wire.
00:24:20.000 But the wire didn't happen.
00:24:23.000 The New York Times reporter assigned to the Department of Justice reported leaks and lies about me the night of March 30. And that's the night before the planned wire transfer on March 31. What a coincidence!
00:24:39.000 Clearly it wasn't.
00:24:40.000 The leakers to the New York Times knew if their former colleague, David McGee, took that wire on March 31st, the entire orchestrated campaign to destroy me would be seen for what it was, a deep state operation to take out an effective political adversary.
00:24:59.000 And the leaks haven't stopped.
00:25:01.000 Always anonymous, usually citing law enforcement sources.
00:25:06.000 It's a political hit job.
00:25:08.000 We've seen it before.
00:25:09.000 A media operation, and CNN dutifully played their part.
00:25:13.000 The Project Veritas secret recordings caught one of CNN's directors saying they purposefully kept running stories about me to take me out because I'm a problem for the Democrats.
00:25:26.000 You know, this is a big story.
00:25:28.000 A con man getting indicted for trying to extort my family on a pile of lies?
00:25:34.000 But it's a bigger story that two people with strong ties to the federal government are directly linked to the exact same extortion scheme.
00:25:44.000 Kent admitted it on television.
00:25:46.000 He implicated McGee.
00:25:49.000 And McGee admitted it on tapes in possession of the FBI. I look forward to the day when all of America hears the Alford and the McGee tapes.