On this episode of RUMBLE Live streaming on Rumble, we have Texas AG Ken Paxton on the show, we discuss the Epstein scandal, and we talk about the ice walkouts that have been going on across the country.
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00:15:37.000Everything else, I am going to provide the links, references, because this is one of those situations where purveyors of misinformation, they are having a field day.
00:15:50.000So please be careful because when emails are taken out of context, when emails are mixed with notes to self, it's really easy to sell you a lie.
00:16:00.000I think a lot of people are implicated.
00:16:01.000Certainly those who you already know in the Democrat Party, and I think some of the Republican Party, absolutely, as well.
00:16:07.000My opinion is that Donald Trump worked with the authorities, and really the only evidence that we have regarding Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is that he booted him, wasn't a fan of him, and a lot of crazy people have tried to tar and feather him.
00:17:22.000So a lot of you have been told: hey, there's an email from Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates regarding antibiotics that he was supplied with or Epstein supplied to Bill Gates because of Russian prostitutes.
00:17:36.000That may or may not be true, but that's not actually what's in the files.
00:17:39.000So Epstein drafted notes, meaning these weren't sent to Bill Gates.
00:17:44.000And just so you know, I really don't like Bill Gates.
00:17:49.000And what the draft, I should say, not email, was indicating was that Bill Gates maybe got an STD from Russian girls, that he requested antibiotics to surreptitiously give to his wife on beknots to her.
00:20:21.000So Elon has actually been very, yeah, I agree with your take, but Elon has been very vocal about releasing all of the files.
00:20:27.000He also knows this information is in the files, so he knows he's going to have to answer these questions.
00:20:31.000He probably thinks he can just kind of deal with it and be like, no, I was never interested and it was just scheduling.
00:20:35.000So I feel like, yes, a follow-up is warranted, but I feel like a lot of what we see is just people like either on timelines getting it a little wrong, maybe misleading because they don't want to be tied to Jeffrey Epstein and there was a conversation or something like that that happened.
00:20:48.000But he has been pretty consistent on release the files.
00:21:49.000So I do think it's important to, and this is across the board, I do think follow-up questions based on real information, not based on self-notes.
00:21:58.000I don't think it would be fair to ask Bill Gates about a note that Epstein sent to himself.
00:22:01.000I don't think it would be fair to ask President Trump to waste his time addressing a claim that was already pretty much considered to be non-credible.
00:22:09.000But if it's somebody's own words that contradict a matter of record that is provable, I think a good indicator is will these people show up and address it?
00:23:09.000And consistently, some information is deemed to be credible and some information is deemed to not be credible.
00:23:14.000So something that people left out when circulating these allegations, they actually cropped this part that immediately followed the accusations.
00:23:22.000It said complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible.
00:23:25.000Additional research showed three separate incidents involving police which requested mandatory psychiatric evaluation.
00:23:34.000You know, there are people out there, and the police refer to them as serial confessors.
00:23:38.000There are people who get a thrill out of confessing to things like they didn't do.
00:23:42.000That's why sometimes people go, well, he confessed.
00:23:43.000Well, there are a lot of people who confess.
00:23:45.000They will confess, and it's verifiably false, and they'll keep coming back in to go, no, no, no, I did it.
00:23:49.000I committed the rape or I committed the murder.
00:23:52.000This is something that people need to understand.
00:23:53.000And there are people out there who make false accusations all the time.
00:23:58.000This is an anonymous source that was deemed not credible, and there was a record of multiple requests from police for psychiatric evaluations.
00:24:05.000If someone right now who hates you just said, you know what, I'm going to go to the authorities and say that you raped a minor.
00:24:12.000And the police say, oh, well, this person's absolutely insane.
00:24:15.000And you have an alibi where they can go here.
00:24:18.000Here he is on security camera footage at that exact time, not even in the state.
00:24:23.000Do you think it would be fair 5, 10, 15 years from now for that to be a matter of record?
00:24:29.000And people say, well, see, well, why not this?
00:24:48.000I think he meant rescinding my past support for Donald Trump.
00:24:51.000Anyone that was involved in anything to do with that island and what they were doing, I just can't support in any way.
00:24:59.000Okay, before we get to the next part, what if they were involved with raiding the island?
00:25:04.000What if they were involved with handing over information that led to this person being prosecuted?
00:25:10.000What if they were involved in a way that was combating this island?
00:25:15.000And the only strong evidence that we have as a matter of record that is admissible is that Donald Trump kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump cooperated with authorities.
00:25:27.000So when people just say, I can't, anyone who's involved in any capacity, technically, people were involved with the Nazis if they were killing them.
00:25:44.000Everyone knew better, F that, justice for all.
00:25:49.000Clearly, everyone didn't know better because this guy got away with it for a very long time.
00:25:53.000They started to know better after President Trump cooperated.
00:25:57.000And this doesn't mean that Donald Trump is a saint and it doesn't mean that he's perfect.
00:26:01.000But on this issue, I think anyone using it to turn on him is someone who you don't want in your ranks anyway.
00:26:08.000If there's any proof that Donald Trump was actually involved with this, if there's any actual substantiated proof, I will be the first one to call it out.
00:26:16.000And by the way, same thing with Bill Gates.
00:26:20.000There are very few people I dislike more than Bill Gates.
00:26:23.000But an email that Jeffrey Epstein sent to himself, known liar, is not something I'm going to use to say that Bill Gates is clearly a practicing pedophile.
00:27:35.000Sorry, it's just mudding the waters even further.
00:27:37.000And then you have some people going, like, oh, really?
00:27:39.000Well, what part of this file explains about how he died?
00:27:42.000It's like, guys, you understand there's a difference between this collection of a data dump of files that may exist and an actual investigation into the death of someone.
00:27:53.000All of your speeding tickets, your moving infractions, parking tickets, whatever disputes you've had in the past, that's not the same as a file that may or may not exist.
00:28:02.000Should you choose to sexually traffic somebody?
00:29:03.000But that doesn't mean you can rely on it being red forever, especially when you look at what's going on in the state in some cases, for example, with H-1Bs.
00:29:11.000In some cases, the fabric of the state changing quite a bit.
00:29:15.000And I think that Texas is pretty important because it's certainly not the most conservative state in the union, but it is iconic in that if Texas were to fall, you know, to succumb to the woke virus of the left, if people still use that term, but to leftism, that would be a bad sign for the United States of America.
00:30:20.000Your profile has really risen in the past year, which I can personally attest to because my father-in-law actually went from being a middle school teacher to a four-term state representative making a name for yourself with exchanges in the state house that went viral.
00:30:38.000James Tallarico is one of the top Democrats running for U.S. Senate this year.
00:30:42.000James Tallarico, his faith, his Christian identity is clearly a big part of that.
00:30:47.000And I think when you're talking about him, not just in Texas, but across the country, I think he's speaking to some of those values and some of those principles maybe more effectively than anyone else in the Democratic Party across the country.
00:31:42.000And then this summer, look, he's usually right, but he doesn't always get it right.
00:31:47.000Joe Rogan hinted that Tallarico should run for president, and it could have just been, you know, being friendly to a being polite to a guest.
00:31:55.000All I'm pushing back on is that second step of it's always going to be this way.
00:32:06.000We need someone who's actually a good person.
00:32:09.000Yeah, I don't know if I would go with that.
00:32:11.000And here's why I wouldn't lean toward good person.
00:32:14.000I can't say bad person, but someone who proactively manipulates scripture to use it as a platform and to try and justify a definitively anti-God platform, that is actually worse to me than someone who simply says I'm an atheist.
00:32:31.000So that brings us to why he went viral this week, some comments he made regarding theology, religion, on, I believe, the Rogan podcast, as well as a recent New York Times one, because they're in that space now.
00:32:45.000For the past 50 years in this country, the religious right, a political movement, convinced a lot of Christians in America that the two most important issues were abortion and homosexuality.
00:32:57.000Two issues that aren't really discussed in scripture.
00:33:06.000It's remarkable to me that you have an entire political movement using Christianity to prioritize two issues that Jesus never talked about.
00:33:20.000Second, no one's saying that these are the two most important issues.
00:33:23.000There's a difference between being the most important issues and being closed-handed issues, meaning they are non-starters.
00:33:27.000As a Christian, and I will tell you this, this is not me telling you what to think, but if you claim to be a Christian, for example, if you claim to be a Detroit Red Wing, well, you better play for the Red Wings.
00:34:06.000I actually think both of those issues are very important.
00:34:09.000But to focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger, three things we're told to do ad nauseum.
00:34:17.000The church does a great job of that, by the way.
00:34:20.000Doesn't really do this in terms of not in the context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable.
00:34:35.000I mean, go back and read this in Luke.
00:37:34.000Let's just say what we all know to be true.
00:37:37.000The idea of consent as it currently exists, which is really designed to put more landmines down in the area of intersexual dynamics, it's kind of a vibe kill.
00:39:28.000And this sentiment, it reflects America at large, American voters at large.
00:39:32.000There have been recent polls that have come where you see deportation support sometimes as high as, I saw a number yesterday, 63%, whereas opposing it, 30-something percent.
00:39:43.000The only group opposing it as a majority were Democrats, meaning independents supported it as a majority.
00:39:48.000And you'll see fluctuations across the board sometimes if you get down to the method of doing it.
00:39:52.000But Americans understand the economy is important.
00:39:58.000The issue is you cannot force an agenda.
00:40:02.000For example, you can't have Drag Queen Story Hour.
00:40:05.000You cannot put pornography in children's libraries and then say that those requesting it be removed, namely because there was never pornography in public children's libraries, that they're turning it into an issue.
00:40:19.000The left, they love to use the word gaslighting because they're all pop psychologists.
00:41:56.000And you also have students, by the way, it's made its way to Texas, which is generally seen as a reliably red state.
00:42:01.000But, you know, look, kids obviously have the right to make their voices heard, as long as we keep in the back of our mind that kids are very often stupid.
00:44:44.000He said, I'm demanding documents as part of an investigation into Austin ISD for facilitating student protests against lawful immigration enforcement activities.
00:44:54.000And so we are going to bring AG Ken Paxton right here on the show.
00:44:58.000Before that, I want you to, we want to make sure you get settled in, has a mug of coffee.
00:46:40.000It was called McCain Feingle, to get money out of politics.
00:46:43.000Well, it did, but only on the challenger side because they have unlimited to $3,500 for the primary from anyone, which is really hard to raise enough money to put a commercial on TV at that level.
00:47:51.000I do want to ask, so I want to, because you're attorney general in Texas, but you're running for U.S. Senate.
00:47:56.000Let me ask you, this always is something that I'm curious about.
00:47:58.000What is it that you feel you can do or think you can accomplish there that you can't accomplish as effectively with your current job title?
00:48:05.000Because some people would say, that seems like you have more sway.
00:48:09.000So part of it is that I think people, I'm serving my third term.
00:48:41.000And third time was to take on Joe Biden, I assume, 107 times in four years.
00:48:45.000I didn't have the same mission, and I felt like we were really missing out.
00:48:48.000We've had the same senator for 24 years.
00:48:51.000No one's ever run for five terms, not Sam Houston, not John Tower, not LBJ, not Phil Graham.
00:48:56.000And it's so hard to beat these guys because they're so entrenched.
00:49:00.000It's not like a regular incumbent like me.
00:49:03.000They have these fundraising limits that make it so hard.
00:49:05.000And if you don't have name ID in Texas, I felt like I was the only one that could eliminate a guy that had been wasting our time and voting against us and voting against Trump.
00:49:14.000And I was the only person who could actually take him on a win.
00:49:16.000Well, and I want to ask, because we just covered the two most important issues to Texas.
00:49:20.000And it seems to mirror the country at large.
00:49:22.000Immigration, obviously, is one in the economy.
00:49:24.000And the economy in Texas has done pretty well compared to most states.
00:49:40.000Because in doing some research for an investigative piece, finding out that College Station has more H-1B enrollees per worker than any other municipality.
00:49:49.000And I know it's primarily two companies like Cognizant and A ⁇ M. Some of us live in neighborhoods where we feel like strangers in our own neighborhoods.
00:49:59.000So, I mean, it's not something that I've had anything to do with other than we are now investigating companies that we think are defrauding people that are not using it appropriately.
00:50:06.000So we can do that sort of under our consumer protections.
00:50:10.000Like if you're defrauding our people, it doesn't matter how you're doing it.
00:50:12.000I have the opportunity to go in and so we're investigating certain companies, three of them right now.
00:50:16.000And our plan is as we learn more about companies doing this.
00:50:21.000But you're right, because it's being sold one way.
00:50:23.000And I think some of these American jobs that, you know, teachers and science teachers and other jobs could be filled by Americans, it's supposed to be used for very high-level technical people, skilled workers that we can't get that we need.
00:50:39.000There's a senator, Senator Schmidt from Missouri, who's going after these asking questions about this.
00:50:45.000And I think, you know, given the opportunity, when I'm elected, this will be something I will be following up on as well at the federal level.
00:50:52.000So what do you think can be – so nothing can be done on a state level even dealing with these companies?
00:50:57.000No, I'm pursuing those for fraud, for deceptive practices, but I can't stop the program at this level.
00:51:04.000At the next level, at the Senate level, I can have a say in trying to… The program itself.
00:51:09.000So yeah, start asking questions, potentially change the program, at least start calling out and have an ability to actually do something about it.
00:51:16.000Well, because I know, you know, Texas is a red state, and I will tell you the general temperature on Governor Greg Abbott, by the way, is that first off, people are often shocked to find out he's a wheelchair guy.
00:51:26.000They didn't know it because he just, it's not like FDR where he made it his calling.
00:53:02.000So it's a little bit sort of nuanced, but the comptroller of the state, before the legislature meets, within 30 days has to tell us an estimate for the next two years.
00:53:18.000The comptroller underestimates because the last thing you want to do is overestimate the budget because now you're into a two-year cycle and you're stuck, right?
00:53:25.000So on average, the last study I saw, it may have changed a little bit.
00:53:49.000Take 5% of that and give teacher pay raises.
00:53:52.000Because now you've got the teachers who are incentivized to come down and lobby for less spending because the less we spend, the more money goes to teachers and the more money goes to property tax.
00:54:01.000Well, actually, if anything, it would invert the incentive because they would have an incentive right now to keep property taxes because they see.
00:54:07.000That's part of the problem because typically the education establishment fights it because they're like, we're losing on this.
00:54:59.000I think the legislature has a responsibility to step up and stop giving us little tiny tax cuts that by the time they do the appraisal, they're gone.
00:55:09.000It's actually the kind of thing I think that actually factors in when people are leaving these blue states.
00:55:16.000When I have people saying, hey, I'm leaving California or leaving Washington or Oregon, they go, but the property taxes in Texas are rough.
00:55:29.000Most Republican states have lower property taxes than us.
00:55:33.000Can you imagine what wealth we will create if we can stop, because if we can lower property taxes, the value of our homes are going up.
00:55:41.000Because now people have more money to put into their purchase, and we're going to become wealthier if the government would stop stealing our money.
00:55:51.000Well, I think that the home prices need to regulate a little bit.
00:55:54.000And obviously, with illegal immigration being dealt with, deportations, I think also people run into problems in Texas with, this brings us back to the H-1B situation.
00:56:02.000I mean, we've all seen it where you'll have 15 family members living in one house and buying up these houses.
00:56:06.000And then, of course, competing with these giant institutional investors, like there hasn't been enough building, and the market needs to recalibrate.
00:56:14.000The home values have skyrocketed in a way that's not sustainable, where people in the homes are happy, but you have a generation of people who are not able to buy homes now, even close to some of these major municipalities.
00:57:09.000It's going to take time to address the inflation that was created by Biden because that was spending and those trillions of dollars are spent.
00:57:17.000And then the interest rates are unusually high for the situation we're in.
00:57:31.000Have you noticed, because you've been obviously in Texas politics for a while and the Republican Party, the major shift when people talk about how young men are going right is that they're unapologetic.
00:57:41.000It used to be sort of like, well, hey, look, we need to deal with illegal immigration, but I think everyone who wants to come here legally, but now people are going, you know what?
00:57:48.000That system's been abused and we need to be very selective.
00:57:52.000And they lean toward close the books until we figure it out.
00:57:55.000And a big part of that in Texas, you have young Republicans, young people looking to vote right, saying, hey, I think it's okay to culturally want Texas to feel like Texas because there are neighborhoods that are unrecognizable and feel like a third world country now.
00:58:09.000And that's because the systems have been abused.
00:58:11.000They've forced Americans out of the labor force.
00:58:13.000And Texas really is one of, if not the worst offender in that with the H-1Bs.
00:58:18.000Look, we look at Europe and what happened there and the overrunning of England and France and Germany and many of these countries have lost their identity.
00:58:30.000There's going to be a completely different cultural bent from there.
00:58:34.000And England's not going to be England.
00:58:36.000So look, there's nothing wrong with people wanting to retain a certain value system and a certain, you know, we're a Judeo-Christian country.
00:58:52.000It really matters that we reflect the values of our founders and we are a constitutional government that was formed with this idea that freedom of religion and this idea that could spread.
00:59:04.000You could promote your faith and you could promote your political views.
00:59:07.000That was very important to the founders.
00:59:09.000Well, even in Texas, I would say this.
00:59:12.000Texas has been obviously pretty, I hate to use the term diverse, but you've had plenty of black Texans, you've had plenty of Hispanic Texans.
00:59:18.000There's been a raging demographic shift, though, to South Asian Indian people like that coming in here, where that is new and it looks very different from the fabric of Texas.
00:59:28.000And culturally, there are neighborhoods where there just are incompatibilities.
00:59:31.000And then you look into these companies, you go, oh, it's really just about replacing Americans for far cheaper.
00:59:35.000And then you have the placement agencies as well, where there are degree mills.
00:59:39.000There are people taking cuts off the top, skimming.
00:59:43.000It's something that I think the Republican Party is really going to have to grapple with because young people who are going to be voting for that party are going to say, yeah, but I also don't want my job sold out to a legal immigrant who's willing to do it cheaper and a company with people in positions of power taking advantage.
01:00:00.000Yeah, look, who, I mean, some of these jobs should be American jobs, and we need to do a better job.
01:00:05.000And that's why I like the fact that there is at least one senator asking the questions of this seems like it's gotten abused where now we're bringing in people to take American jobs at lower pay who are willing to live in a house with 15 people.
01:00:20.000That's all wonderful, I guess, for them, but it's not good for Americans.
01:00:22.000Why do you think Texas has become such a hotbed, though?
01:00:24.000Because really it's places that you would expect like Palo Alto, but you could definitely argue that Texas is worse in many respects.
01:00:31.000And certainly, why do you think Texas is such a hotbed for it?
01:01:05.000And even like really all across the South, whether it's Alabama, Louisiana, people are moving to red states because they have freedom and they have opportunity.
01:01:15.000We issued on this show, I was trying to offer solutions like a six-point plan.
01:01:18.000I always wonder why Republicans haven't done that, something that's really clear as far as if you come here, a remittance tax where you can't be coming here sending the money out.
01:01:25.000Companies need to be penalized if they're replacing an American simply for a lower wage where someone isn't necessarily more qualified.
01:01:31.000I'll tell you the reason young people have been really upset.
01:01:34.000When this came out in Elon Musk and people who they thought were on their side said, we need to uncap H-1Bs.
01:01:39.000And then Vivek, who's been right here in the studio, a very friendly guy, said, yeah, well, there just aren't enough Americans.
01:01:45.000There aren't enough, like, look at our educational systems.
01:03:18.000So then what, an American who's gone through the system in Americas and everything right, just has to pick it right in the middle there, a sweet spot?
01:05:19.000People are like, yeah, it's a red state, but there's always a little bit of funny business that has us go, I don't know if they're one of us.
01:05:25.000I don't know how there's that big of a disconnect between a policy like that from Rick Perry.
01:05:31.000I wouldn't say anywhere near as egregious, but spending a lot of time with people, with conservative voters, right-wing conservative nationalists, whatever term you want to use, and then seeing the representatives, there is a disconnect that people see.
01:05:43.000And that's going to be changing generationally.
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