John Bolton - July 30, 2026


The Invasion Of The Danielle Snatchers - What Happened To Danielle Smith？

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00:00:00.120 After Danielle Smith's news conference with Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday in Red Deer,
00:00:05.440 lots of people are asking, what happened to Danielle Smith?
00:00:09.600 I think I have the answer.
00:00:14.920 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel for 26 a.m. Thursday, July the 30th.
00:00:20.000 I hope you're having a great Thursday. Thank you so much for being here. I do appreciate it.
00:00:25.880 Well, yesterday was an interesting day. People responding to a news conference put on by
00:00:31.920 Danielle Smith in Red Deer with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who happened to be in town.
00:00:36.700 And there's one clip in particular people are absolutely incensed about. People are asking
00:00:41.080 the question, what happened to Danielle Smith? A lot of people have been asking this question
00:00:45.640 over the last month or so, but yesterday it really came to a head. A short clip from Derek
00:00:51.480 Vildebrandt from the Western Standard, one of his responses to what she said on equalization
00:00:57.020 going viral basically amongst conservatives and people in Alberta. What did happen to Danielle
00:01:03.020 Smith? I think I have the answer. I'm going to have that for you in just a moment, and I'm going
00:01:06.680 to show you the offensive clip as well. But what I want to do is start off by showing you some
00:01:11.040 imagery here. Now, here is Danielle Smith yesterday with Mark Carney, and he's been
00:01:17.620 invited to my province, to my future country, Alberta. This is my home. And here she is standing
00:01:24.440 behind a federal government podium with branding of Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on the front
00:01:31.020 of it, which says, Building Alberta Strong. Now, does this remind you of anything? Does it? Because
00:01:37.080 it reminds me of this during the election campaign last year, Canada Strong. Now, Danielle Smith to
00:01:43.260 stand behind this branding from Mark Carney, who is weakening the country, who is weakening Alberta,
00:01:49.660 and who has weakened Alberta. I mean, after all, he's the architect of net zero banking. He is
00:01:57.140 worse than Justin Trudeau. Not my words, somebody else's. I'll play them for you in just a moment.
00:02:03.820 Wait for that. But here she is standing in front of the branding of Mark Carney and the liberal
00:02:08.360 government, not in my house. This party, this man, the people that he supported over the years,
00:02:15.440 including Justin Trudeau, all the MPs in Ottawa have been an absolute catastrophe for my province.
00:02:21.380 And there is Daniel Smith standing behind a podium with his branding on it. It makes me sick
00:02:26.800 to my stomach. Daniel Smith, within the last 18 months, has changed incredibly. What happened
00:02:36.880 to Danielle Smith. More on that in just a moment. But here is the offensive clip
00:02:40.620 from yesterday and my response to this in just a moment.
00:02:46.540 Get rid of that escalator. Let's equalize to the point of need. And then let's take the excess
00:02:52.920 that's in that fund and distribute it back to the provinces on an equal per capita basis.
00:02:56.960 That'll help us with our funding pressures. That's not the Danielle Smith that I remember,
00:03:02.660 the one that I liked. And I'm using the past tense of the word like there, the one who I
00:03:07.700 supported. And I'm using the past tense of support. But I'm going to play you what she
00:03:13.180 actually thought about equalization last summer. Completely different. What has happened to Danielle
00:03:19.780 Smith? Here's Derek Fildebrandt responding to the clip you just saw. What have you done with
00:03:25.960 Danielle Smith? This isn't the Alberta premier that I remember. This isn't the Alberta premier
00:03:32.060 that I remember people elected to put into power a few years ago
00:03:37.400 on a promise of something like the Sovereignty Act.
00:03:41.320 The position of the people and the government of Alberta
00:03:44.600 is not that we should lobby to make a few minor tweaks to equalization
00:03:49.200 to stop a few hundred million dollars of going to Ontario.
00:03:53.860 The people of Alberta voted in a referendum just a few years ago
00:03:58.020 not to tweak equalization, but to abolish it completely, to remove it from the Constitution,
00:04:04.340 to end it, period. That's the position of the people of Alberta. I don't know what you've done
00:04:10.380 with Danielle Smith, but I want the real one back. And what happened after that vote to end
00:04:15.560 equalization? Jason Kenney, who was premier at the time, went hand in hand to ask permission
00:04:21.100 from Ottawa, from the Liberals, from Trudeau, from the provinces to end equalization, 0.98
00:04:27.480 and they basically told him to go have sex with himself, which is basically the way Alberta is 0.99
00:04:32.900 treated on everything. Now, I'm going to tell you what happened to Danielle in just a moment, 0.75
00:04:38.320 but if you haven't seen this clip, here is the vast contrast between what she said yesterday,
00:04:44.200 which has people asking what happened to Danielle, and what she said about equalization
00:04:48.200 about 18 months ago. This is astounding. This is the Danielle we want back.
00:04:54.760 Alberta, year after year, has $20 to $25 billion that is siphoned out of our system to go to
00:05:02.060 Ottawa so that it can be spent mostly in Quebec, but also in other places that vote liberal. We
00:05:07.560 have been watching this for years, $600 billion in the last 40 or 50 years that have been taken
00:05:14.500 out of this province. You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending
00:05:18.440 if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here? You don't think we'd be able to cut taxes a bit
00:05:23.180 It does 20 to 25 billion dollars stayed here. It is $5,000 per Albertan that every single year
00:05:33.040 gets transferred out of this province for political reasons so that the liberals can
00:05:38.120 continue to spend it in places that vote liberal. That is what is happening in the province and in
00:05:44.100 the country. What happened to that Danielle Smith? She is so mad in that video, she is 0.90
00:05:50.520 over-modulating her microphone. She is spitting fire about equalization. And that wasn't that 0.97
00:05:57.220 long ago, a far cry from what she said yesterday. And I see her standing there in that video
00:06:04.480 yesterday with Mark Carney, a man who has cost Alberta so much, who leads a party that has cost
00:06:10.920 Alberta so much, a government that has cost Alberta so much. And all I could think was she
00:06:16.520 is now Mark Carney's lieutenant. And I started thinking about synonyms, so I wrote them down.
00:06:23.960 She's his pawn, his proxy, his operative, accomplice, puppet, tool, dupe, front, 0.97
00:06:32.940 mouthpiece, and stooge. They're working together, hand in hand, Alberta and the Liberal Government 0.92
00:06:40.720 of Canada, Danielle Smith and Mark Carney, to try to pass along a narrative that everything's
00:06:46.480 just fine in Alberta. We're going to get pipelines, so stay in Canada. And the other
00:06:50.460 thing that I've spoken to people about is, what's she getting out of this?
00:06:56.220 Is she getting paid in some way? I can't say for sure. But folks, the referendum on independence
00:07:02.780 in Alberta is bigger than federal politics. This is bigger than a federal election. We're talking
00:07:08.340 about hundreds of billions of dollars walking away from Canada, and they need Danielle Smith
00:07:14.460 to push their narrative, and so does Mark Carney, to keep us stuck in Canada. Is she being paid off? 0.66
00:07:21.980 Danielle Smith, all the people who are in her hemisphere, who work around her, have all made 1.00
00:07:26.740 a fortune out of politics. And from what I understand, she hasn't made much at all. Maybe
00:07:31.840 this is her time to cash in. Just saying. But she is now the left tenant, the dupe accomplice puppet,
00:07:37.540 mouthpiece proxy stooge of Mark Carney. That's what I saw yesterday. I saw this tweet went out
00:07:45.000 while he was here. The propaganda between Alberta and Ottawa is obvious. They're working together
00:07:50.880 on this. She starts talking about not leaving $10 trillion in the ground, hundreds of thousands of
00:07:58.160 jobs when we build this pipeline. I followed it up with $35 to $43 billion in taxpayers' money to
00:08:06.280 fund it. Anybody ever see the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Have you ever seen the movie?
00:08:12.960 People are replaced with exact duplicates, but they have no conscience, no soul, no empathy.
00:08:18.060 This is our new Danielle Smith. And in that tweet, if you haven't seen this clip,
00:08:24.220 this is what she had to say about taxpayers' dollars paying for pipelines.
00:08:29.020 Having to build another pipeline with government money as being a success, it would be, I think,
00:08:34.220 a failure of the exercise failure of the exercise failure of the exercise failure of the exercise
00:08:38.940 it's incredible it's come to this and the reason she can't find an investor and the reason why we
00:08:45.100 have to use tax dollars to buy this pipeline is because of the guy she was standing with in red
00:08:49.820 deer yesterday and here's the thing you know your first impression of somebody is generally the
00:08:56.860 correct one this is what she had to say about mark carney last year when she was on with candace
00:09:03.180 Malcolm? Mark Carney is no friend of Alberta. He is the architect of the net zero banking policy
00:09:11.740 and alliance, which was designed to stop funding oil and gas projects. It was designed to stop
00:09:18.380 insurance companies from insuring oil and gas projects. The offensive agenda that we have,
00:09:25.500 whether it's emissions caps or net zero electricity rags all generate from from mark carney who's been
00:09:33.500 pushing that agenda for a long period of time so if you think that i would meet um the potential
00:09:39.900 of his leadership with any enthusiasm let me tell you i think i think he'd be even worse than what
00:09:44.940 we see out of out of justin trudeau worse than justin trudeau and all of a sudden she's kissing 0.58
00:09:50.860 Mark Carney's hiney. You know, she thinks she's untouchable. She does. Can't get rid of her in 0.86
00:09:58.400 November when they have an annual general meeting for the United Conservative Party. 1.00
00:10:02.280 She's going to be around here for the vote in 2027 when we have a provincial election.
00:10:07.640 She thinks all of us are scared of Nahed Nenshi and the NDP sneaking through again,
00:10:12.400 so we're going to vote for her. She thinks she's untouchable. I don't know whether that's true.
00:10:17.600 I don't know what can be done.
00:10:18.800 I'm not an expert on politics, but folks, her days are numbered, just like Jason Kenney.
00:10:24.400 We won't put up with the nonsense, but what has happened to Danielle Smith?
00:10:28.340 She's working directly with the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:10:30.920 All of these people are the same.
00:10:32.900 As far as I'm concerned, Pierre Polyev, Mark Carney, Thomas Lukasik, Jason Kenney,
00:10:37.340 they're all working against us, and they're working against Alberta now.
00:10:41.880 What do you think?
00:10:44.000 Let me know what you think in the comments.
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00:10:49.680 I'll see you in the next one.