00:02:02.720it would taste like caucus oh no uh i think he brushed that one a little bit but it was still
00:02:10.460perfect that was funny okay so i just got some kind of a warning i hope i hope youtube's on let
00:02:15.880me check you guys all right so you guys happy earth day um so so much has been going on in
00:02:21.660the news luckily we're not newscasters and we don't have to cover all of it but we did discuss
00:02:28.740a couple things we wanted to talk about especially with having steve here and one is what just went
00:02:35.060down yesterday with the Southern Poverty Law Center, those lovely, lovely people.
00:02:42.880Steve, could you tell us just briefly who they are in general, and then we'll play some clips
00:02:49.060for everybody? Sure. And also just to quickly out of the gate clarify, they're not Southern.
00:02:54.980They're certainly not poor. And all they do is engage in leftist attacks, smear campaigns
00:03:01.400against the right under the guise of supposedly fighting hate.
00:03:06.860And because there's really not that much hate, frankly, in America for them to fight,
00:03:11.700they've been manufacturing hate, but in a way that I think few of us knew
00:03:14.620until these indictments came down yesterday.
00:03:16.560But Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in the 1970s by a guy named Morris Dees,
00:03:21.260who had a ton of charisma, but not many ethics.
00:03:24.120He finally got pushed out of his own organization for very intense corruption.
00:03:28.580But unfortunately, he did build a bit of a behemoth that got a lot of corporate money.
00:03:32.940Most of the biggest corporations in America donate handsomely to the SPLC and have for many years, perhaps some of them not even realizing that they are, in fact, funding a very partisan, very leftist, in some ways Marxist organization that, again, under the guise of fighting hate,
00:03:51.580is actually simply fighting political opponents and trying to get them castigated into a place
00:03:57.920in society and in law and in media where they simply can't be effective. And they've used lies
00:04:03.200and smears forever. And that's been very known. I don't think it was known until yesterday by a lot
00:04:08.760of folks, just the fact that just how pernicious it truly was. And the fact that they were actually
00:04:14.100using this money that they had gotten from donors, again, big corporate donors, a lot of regular
00:04:18.080Americans, too. One thing Morris Dees was very good at was building a fundraising machine based
00:04:23.480on propaganda, that he was supposedly fighting the Ku Klux Klan, and they were around every
00:04:27.540corner in America, and there's one under your bed, and you need to be afraid. And what this
00:04:32.760indictment, which is really just incredible and worth reading, quite frankly, even if you're not
00:04:37.860a legal type, this indictment states is that they have been paying to the tune of millions of
00:04:44.060dollars literally paying people to foment hate, to stage hateful events so that they can then fight
00:04:51.740that very hate that they themselves, the SPLC, financed and concocted and staged. So they are
00:04:58.720setting up an enemy, a boogeyman. They're able to find some derelict people out there, some
00:05:03.920unscrupulous people who want money and who might have some hateful inclinations but don't have
00:05:08.200much reach or power well they pay them to stage events the most significant i think being the
00:05:15.580charlottesville riot the charlottesville uh hoax that emanates from the events the violent effects
00:05:21.260of what happened in charlottesville virginia where there was not a peaceful protest there
00:05:25.400was a violent protest you know that was supposedly organic and staged by right-wing racists in
00:05:33.440Virginia we now know because of this DOJ indictment that in fact the very left-wing SPLC was behind
00:05:41.120staging and financing this event and the primary organizer they have paid according to the
00:05:47.820government they have paid $270,000 so we're not talking about small dollar amounts either
00:05:53.340we're not talking pocket change or meal money we're talking significant money to these people
00:05:58.660to stage events that are not organic. And so that they can set up a boogeyman of the right
00:06:05.280as supposedly racist and of Trump as racist himself and his supporters as racist. And they0.91
00:06:11.420can then be the heroic fighters against this very fake enemy that they themselves have concocted.
00:06:17.360So we all know on here that, you know, Scott, along with all of us, okay, I want to give all
00:06:25.580of us credit. So Scott, with all of us, with Steve Cortez and with Joel Pollack, I mean,
00:06:32.480the fighters, we were out there, we were out there marching to get the truth out about the
00:06:37.760Charlotteville hoax. And it was so disgusting and egregious to know that everybody that was
00:06:46.940talking about it knew they were lying. They all knew they were lying. Every news reporter,
00:06:51.580It was so sickening, Steve, um, just to, because I, I heard what Trump said in real time and I was
00:06:58.260like, Oh, that was a good measured answer because I knew he's talking about the protests on both
00:07:02.480sides. Not the, not the fake now we know KKK situation. Um, and people died and people got
00:07:10.800hurt. And it, I think that hoax was one of the worst things to happen to our country because I
00:07:16.760hate to break it to anybody that doesn't know this, but when I grew up, I got to see where
00:07:23.540I got to watch, let's just say, broadly speaking, racism end. I got to watch our country be like,
00:07:30.880okay, like everybody's equal. And then I got to watch that whole transformation. And it wasn't
00:07:36.580until recent years that racism was systematically brought back. Okay. It never used to be like this.
00:07:45.180So I was like, this is so inorganic, like it all felt so fake. I'm like, what, why are you
00:07:49.740gaslighting us? So, um, I just want to play. I just don't even know where to go first, but let's,
00:07:56.060let's go to, uh, cash Patel laying it out these 11 counts, um, and just kind of hear it for
00:08:02.300ourselves. Cause this is, this is big news. You guys, it's going to have to change all the stats
00:08:07.140on who are the racists, who are the, you know, uh, radicals because obviously they were bought
00:08:14.060and paid for. So let's listen to cash and then we'll jump back on the other side.
00:08:18.660We're here today is to announce what the what the general just told you, the Southern Poverty Law
00:08:23.700Center in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the
00:08:30.820banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here.
00:08:36.240The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertised to raise money to dismantle violent
00:08:42.620extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They used their donor network to raise
00:08:48.140money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty
00:08:55.160Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of
00:09:01.620these very groups. I just want to say that again. They used the fraudulently raised money by lying
00:09:07.700to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership
00:09:13.200of these supposed violent extremist groups.
00:09:17.500The groups, as the general laid out, include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America,
00:09:23.080Unite to Right, National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle
00:09:30.460Club, and the National Socialist Party of America, and also the American Front.
00:09:36.260In at least one of these matters, our investigation revealed that funds were used to facilitate the commission of further state and federal offenses, totaling over $3 million.
00:09:48.720Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center, on top of perpetuating this widespread, decade-long, multi-million-dollar fraud, conducted more criminal activity.
00:10:01.440They attempted to hide their criminal activity from our financial banking network.
00:10:08.900They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions that we rely on as everyday Americans were deceived in believing that money was not coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud.
00:10:27.080This is a serious and egregious violation of a group that purported to dismantle violent extremist groups, but in turn actually only fueled the hatred.
00:10:38.560This is an important case brought by President Trump's administration.
00:10:42.500We're thankful for the president for his leadership and funding of not just the FBI and DOJ, but his commitment to go out there and wipe out fraud and conspiracy and waste and abuse wherever it occurs, including the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:10:55.020Even though this money was made to appear to be coming from legitimate people and legitimate entities,
00:11:02.140we at the FBI, with our great partners at the Department of Justice and in the state of Alabama,
00:11:07.040were able to comb through a decade worth of material, a scheme that took a decade to build,
00:11:12.440so that we were able to follow the money, because money never lies.
00:13:15.100Because I'm saying the lie of the Charlottesville hoax, which, again, was available to any rational person who just wanted to take a look at the full transcript or full video, which he surely knew, or at least people around him certainly knew, who knows cognitively where he was at that point.
00:13:29.160But regardless, he said he claimed as the reason, as the compelling motivation for him to run, to get back into politics, to come out of retirement, to save the nation, was to save America from racism as exemplified by the Charlottesville riots who were Trump supporters and doing the bidding effectively of their leader, Donald Trump.
00:13:51.540Of course, that was based on a clear lie, which we all knew at the time because it was all public information.
00:13:57.660But you're exactly correct. Two things happened.
00:14:00.580First was corporate media was more than willing to take that lie and run with it and amplify it and repeat it again and again.
00:14:08.840The second part, and this is also key, those of us who were doing our best to fight it with the facts, right,
00:14:14.540with the actual videos, the actual transcripts of what Donald Trump said that proved that not only is he not racist,
00:14:20.340But in fact, he explicitly condemned the neo-Nazis. Big tech suppressed our voices, punished our platforms and effectively censored us from our ability to widely get that information out.
00:14:33.660So let me give you a great example that be specific and tangible here. The great Dennis Prager, who's a friend of mine and and somebody who very early on saw how how hateful and malicious this Charlottesville hoax was and how effective it was, unfortunately, against Donald Trump and against our movement.
00:14:52.320he knew that I had been on CNN trying my best to get the truth out amidst a sea of lies on that
00:14:58.800network where I worked at the time about the Charlottesville hoax. So he asked me to do one
00:15:02.820of his PragerU videos, his really well done five minute videos that have a lot of reach.
00:15:07.020And thankfully, we did one. It went mega viral. It got millions and millions of views. It was
00:15:11.800tweeted out by then President Trump in his first term. But YouTube, Google YouTube suppressed the
00:15:19.640video you actually needed to verify yourself to watch it um at one point it was actually it had
00:15:24.740to be age verified also you know as if it was some somehow x-rated or violent or you know whatever
00:15:30.040um and then at one point taken down you know just fully taken down uh from youtube we also could
00:15:35.920not do any ad spending to promote it we couldn't do paid promotion these are for-profit companies
00:15:40.780but they said no not your money not when you're telling the truth about the charlottesville
00:15:44.360fine people hoaxed. I mean, thankfully, the truth largely got out. And I think by now,
00:15:50.140all these years later, almost a decade later from the initial incident, the actual press conference
00:15:54.800on Charlottesville from President Trump, I think the truth is widely known, but it took a long
00:16:00.300time. And it's for those two reasons. It's number one, the legacy media, which was still very
00:16:04.400powerful then. They're a lot less powerful now, thank goodness. But legacy media, CNN, CBS, NBC,
00:16:09.700They were still very powerful in those days, and they refused to tell the truth and, in fact, amplified the lie.
00:16:17.340But then the second aspect was big tech and the censoring and just really horrific behavior, anti-free speech, anti-American behavior of corporate America in cahoots with big tech and this grand lie.
00:16:32.620And we now know that the lie was fueled by, the lie flowed from an event which was in itself a lie because the event was staged.
00:16:43.060It was financed and paid for by the left so that they could create racism, create an issue where it didn't exist.
00:16:51.220What this proves once again, and this is a phrase that's been repeated a lot, but I think it's worth repeating,
00:16:55.420is that the demand for racism from the left, it far exceeds the actual supply out there in
00:17:02.660American society. And I'm so glad, too, Erica, that you mentioned that for those of us who are
00:17:07.980sort of middle-aged, I'm 54 years old, by the time we were becoming sort of adolescents into
00:17:12.580young adults, racism had largely disappeared from American society, right? So America clearly had
00:17:19.040a serious problem with race. We had the civil rights movement primarily in the 1960s. I think
00:17:24.760the 70s and 80s were largely times of sort of reckoning. And then the 80s into the 90s were
00:17:29.620really times of largely racial harmony. It's not just my opinion. You can see this in some of these
00:17:34.880statistics. For example, approval of interracial marriage, which had been minuscule previous to
00:17:39.700that, became the overwhelming majority in America. No big deal, interracial couples.1.00
00:17:44.820And, you know, there's all kinds of metrics we can use. But the point is, America had become,0.83
00:17:49.020in many ways, post-racial, where young Americans, at least, just didn't even really see race.
00:17:54.560They judge people based on their character. Right. But the left couldn't have that.0.52
00:17:59.640They couldn't have because they need to gin up racism at the vehicle by which they then fight since they can't be persuasive based on their ideas because their ideas are lousy and garbage and Marxist.0.97
00:18:13.400And so they start to create racism where it doesn't exist. And this really, really accelerated in massive ways with the election of Barack Obama.0.94
00:18:22.260What should have been a wonderful moment for racial healing, America electing a black man, a country that once regarded black men as property and could be abused as property, now elected one, chose one to be president of the United States.
00:18:36.080It was actually a great opportunity for real racial reconciliation in this country.
00:18:41.480And instead, what did Barack Obama do?
00:18:43.180He used his platform to, at all times, be as divisive as possible.
00:18:51.280Yes, very much. And then we get into the Trump presidency. And of course, they're shocked, the left is, that Trump won. What's their main tactic against him then? I mean, how did this guy win? They say, well, we're going to call him racist and all of his supporters racist.
00:19:06.400And what did SPLC do with their millions and millions of donor dollars? Some of it coming from regular Americans, most of it coming from big business in this country. What did they do? They said, we are going to finance events. We're going to stage events. We're going to pay for fake hate so that we can then fight it for our own political advantage, for our own donor base, for our own selfish needs.
00:19:31.120And in the case of Charlottesville, think about the consequences. Number one, a young woman died, right? Heather Heyer died in the subsequent riot that we now know was created and concocted. So that's the first immediate dire consequence. But then for the country, the macro consequence for everyone is that it gave rise to this grand lie that Donald Trump praised neo-Nazis, even though the opposite was true.
00:19:57.520And unfortunately, Erica, for a very long time, most of America or at least roughly half of America believed that lie.
00:20:05.600And it was so divisive to not just our politics, but to our entire society.
00:20:11.340And one of the reasons I started picking up on this in 2018 and 2019 when I was working for CNN, I got fired, by the way, for telling the truth about this lie.
00:20:19.260But when I was working for CNN, I saw it every night on the air, you know, in the panels that I was on.
00:20:25.480I saw it just constantly brought up right as the it was the foundational attack upon Trump and his supporters.
00:20:32.280You're bigots. You praise the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. You praise the hateful killers at Charlottesville.
00:20:37.740But then I also just saw it in my personal life talking to people.
00:20:41.720Anytime I would ask what you know, what's your main problem with Donald Trump?
00:20:45.060almost always the very first answer was he praised Nazis in Charlottesville. I mean,
00:20:51.160that just got to be the standard answer. I said, listen, you can have all kinds of reasons to
00:20:54.760dislike Donald Trump. You can have all kinds of reasons to oppose the America first agenda,
00:20:58.620but don't base it on a lie because that's a lie. But unfortunately, that became the go-to,
00:21:04.440almost default excuse to dismiss not just Trump himself. I mean, Trump can handle, of course,
00:21:09.760but Trump and tens of millions of people who rallied to the America first cause.
00:21:15.740And so I said, I'm going to do what I can with my platform to start to fight this.
00:21:18.560So I started to write articles and do the PragerU video.
00:21:21.380And then independently of what I was doing, Joel Pollack was chasing it on his own.
00:21:25.440And of course, Scott Adams was using his powerful platform to chase it on his own.
00:21:29.800And eventually, thankfully, the three of us synced up and linked up and formed sort of this trinity of truth tellers
00:21:36.340who said we're going to do whatever we can to cooperate with each other in fighting this lie, you know,
00:21:42.340in our various lanes and help amplify each other. And eventually, eventually the truth did get out.
00:21:49.300But we now learn, again, that the entire fight that I'm talking about, that I was happy and honored to engage in,
00:21:56.400especially with somebody like Scott Adams, that's what brought us together. So I'm thankful for that.
00:22:00.440But the entire ordeal didn't have to happen because it all flowed from a dishonest staged event that the left paid for.
00:22:11.480And that's not just unethical. It's not just immoral. It's illegal. It is illegal.
00:22:16.540A nonprofit cannot take donor money and then pay to stage to stage events of hate and in some cases criminal events inside.
00:22:28.120This is illegal. This is a mafia-like organization. I'm glad to hear that Cash Patel said this
00:22:33.640investigation is ongoing. I hope there's a lot more indictments out there.
00:22:37.660I do too. Thank you. That was so well said. Speaking of Joel, so the account Maze, you guys,
00:22:44.960on X, he put together a video. I just want to show you guys and see if you can spot Joel because,
00:22:52.280yes, he also was shocked about this blatant lie. But this is Biden's campaign. And I always do
00:23:03.220like to point out that I think it was that day when Biden was on stage with like Clooney and
00:23:09.620Obama at the end when he was giving it one last push. Obama pushed it again that time. That was
00:23:14.920just in 2023 or four. So, you know, they never dropped this. So anyway, look out for Joel. Tell
00:23:22.000me when you see him. Close your eyes. Remember what you saw on television. Remember seeing
00:23:26.560those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists coming out of fields with lighted0.76
00:23:31.840torches. And remember what the president said when asked? And you had people, and I'm not talking0.94
00:23:37.020about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.0.97
00:25:53.560And all of the expletives you're saying, I'm with you 100%.
00:25:57.340Owen, don't you just feel like – no, Owen, tell me what you feel like about all this.
00:26:02.320Well, I mean, it's again a mix of emotions. I am angry that this all happened, but I'm also satisfied to see some consequences finally hitting. I think a lot of us have been waiting for some of these types of charges to hit, and I'm hoping there's a lot more. I think this type of thing is much more widespread than just what we heard about today.
00:26:20.820um you know i remember seeing some videos of some white supremacist guy giving a speech and
00:26:27.660they made it seem in the media like it was this very big thing and it was this you know
00:26:32.040sign that racism is back in america and it's growing and then the the camera pans back and
00:26:38.720you see that there's literally like 10 people in the crowd watching it and there's more media
00:26:43.220people filming it than there are people in the audience and that to me was just a stark example
00:26:49.740of where it's like they're making this into this huge thing they're giving it a platform they're
00:26:54.300basically promoting this hateful person that would otherwise just be talking to 10 people and and it
00:27:00.780wouldn't go anywhere and and the media is the one that was doing that and so i think this was part
00:27:05.900of a much larger effort to try and push this kind of hoax and this kind of lie um and i i remember
00:27:12.460this very vividly back to 2016 when that was the conclusion like you said steve that oh the only
00:27:19.020reason trump got elected is because america is racist and that became what they ran on after
00:27:23.980they realized they couldn't do the russia collusion thing um or that that didn't work in the campaign
00:27:29.340they just moved on to racism as the reason why trump got elected and then it just built from
00:27:33.740there and um i'm sure that had a big part to do with the 2020 election and um it seems like a
00:27:42.940a very broad conspiracy to just push this lie and, you know, push back on anyone who says,
00:27:48.580no, Trump's not a racist. I mean, you remember how they made a big deal out of the Central Park
00:27:53.120Five when that was a hoax too. And there were all these other ones that they just would add
00:27:57.040onto the list to say, well, look at all of these things. And they were all lies. They were all
00:28:01.440lies. Trump is not racist. He's probably one of the least racist presidents I've had in a long
00:28:06.240time. And they just pushed this with repetition and, you know, more and more lies to the point
00:28:12.820that they convinced a lot of people that this is what was happening in america and it's been
00:28:17.020divisive it's been harmful to the entire nation um and it's had a massive impact on our culture
00:28:22.460oh i mean the riots like what and and because of this you know you could go on for days about like
00:28:30.920what's snowballed from this when you look at people you know the entitlement now and please
00:28:37.340I'm using this loosely. You guys don't freak out on me, but of black culture now, and, you know,
00:28:43.280just running rampant into businesses and destroying things. And it's like, then if you say something,1.00
00:28:50.360they're like, Oh, you're racist. And it's like, Oh my God, like they did this. They did this,
00:28:55.640you know, like nobody was acting like this before. It's so gross. And then, um, I can't not play this0.72
00:29:01.840you guys, because you'll understand why, but I just want to play one more clip and I just want
00:29:06.740you to see, you know, once again, drive home who the SPLC really is. And let's just look at this
00:29:13.080last clip and then I'll ask Steve to react to this. You're mean, you're anti-women. And speaking1.00
00:29:19.460of that, the Southern Poverty Law Center has now labeled, you're in the club with me, by the way,
00:29:24.520they've labeled Turning Point as a hate group. Yes, it's coming from a hateful group. It's a
00:29:30.320surprise for them so long to get us on. What took you so long? Understand that they're literally
00:29:34.380putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the kkk and next to neo-nazi groups
00:29:40.180and i mean we can laugh this off there's an element to this remember that there was a shooter
00:29:43.820that went to the family research council years ago inspired by the splc list this is them trying to
00:29:49.320make us basically surrender at turning point usa we're going to do the opposite and our students
00:29:53.480are only going to lean and even more but they can't debate us on our ideas they cannot have
00:29:57.220dialogue they cannot actually go on to the merits of why they are right or why we might be wrong
00:30:03.220instead they must smear us with the age-old one-liner that you are a racist or that you are
00:30:07.800a hater and they're finally realizing the power of turning point usa which is why they put us well
00:30:12.100when you're effective you're a threat right so they call me the high priestess of hate right sam
00:30:17.440is that what they call me i'm just congratulations 2008 oh it's old it's so old but again the
00:30:23.260democrats i think they appeal to a certain very whiny man that's that's right it's at the pajama
00:31:20.140So what we need is a young vice chair of our party.
00:31:22.400Turns out, you know, David Hogg is all over the place,
00:31:25.320talking about how he's going to primary sitting Democrats,
00:31:26.980and he went on The Breakfast Club saying that Jasmine Crockett is one of the most inspiring
00:31:30.940leaders of the Democrat Party. And if their solution to winning men is David Hogg, please
00:31:37.020continue because you're not going to win a national election for quite some time.
00:31:41.140I couldn't cut off Charlie. So although the beginning part was about the Southern Poverty
00:31:46.900Law Center, but I mean, it's just goes to show you, Steve, like that was their plan, like just
00:31:51.440divide, make, you know, what would be strong men weak, you know, make it right. So it was all
00:31:58.020calculated for, for one. Yes. And it went further than just aspersions and smears. It wasn't just
00:32:05.180about trying to damage the reputation. Of course, that's part of it, but thankfully patriotic
00:32:09.200Americans like Laura Ingram and, and the late Charlie there, you can see they wore that scorn
00:32:15.940from the SPLC. They wore it as a badge of honor, right. You know, as well they should.
00:32:19.720But it wasn't just about trying to damage the reputations. It was also the tangible aspect.
00:32:25.260You know, I mentioned before big tech, it was trying to separate them from any of the sort of benefits of powerful American society.
00:32:33.420So what I mean by that, for example, is any kind of corporate support, if they might want that or large philanthropic support.
00:32:38.900But then even more importantly is it gave the excuse once you were tagged as a hate group,
00:32:44.120It gave the excuse that companies like Meta and like Twitter under previous ownership and like Google, YouTube needed to then censor this information, to censor the truth, actually, to get out.
00:32:57.900And I want to make this point, too, because I think it's really important for the audience, is that we're in a better place now, thank goodness, because of Trump's second election.
00:33:05.200We're in a better place regarding tech censorship.
00:33:09.620So Twitter right now is a very free speech zone, but that's only because, frankly, we are counting on the benevolence of its owner, of a single billionaire.
00:33:19.520That's not healthy for American society long term.
00:33:22.560I'm glad it has become a free speech zone, of course, and I'm thankful to Elon Musk for what he has done.
00:33:27.580And right now, Mark Zuckerberg is sort of playing ball with free speech because he's clearly trying in some ways to cozy up with Donald Trump.
00:33:35.140And so Facebook meta is better, still not perfect on these issues of free speech.
00:33:40.720And I would argue that Google YouTube still has a lot of problems regarding the censorship of speech.
00:33:46.860And so my point is, though, we shouldn't have to rely on their goodwill or them having some affinity or needing a favor from the current occupant of the Oval Office.
00:33:54.880I really believe that there needs to be significant legal bases, regulatory oversight of big tech so that the digital public square cannot be censored going forward.
00:34:05.740Because, again, part of why the Charlottesville lie was so effective was not just that it was amplified by corporate media.
00:34:19.360But then secondly, it was that truthful voices were being censored.
00:34:23.760And part of why they were being censored to tie this back into SBLC is because SBLC was considered by these corrupt companies and corrupt organizations was considered to be an arbiter of who is a hate monger and who is not.
00:34:39.560And of course, they were anything but that. They were a criminal enterprise that was using corporate money and donor money to actually create and concoct hateful events and in some cases even crimes so that they could then pretend they were the heroes to fight against it.
00:34:57.160So this is this is communism. This is Marxism at its core.
00:35:02.660Let's be very honest about what this is. And I commend the DOJ.
00:35:06.620By the way, I'm one of the people on the right who has been frustrated so far in this Trump term with the DOJ.
00:35:12.500I don't think there has been enough action. I don't think there have been enough indictments.
00:35:16.800So this is good news, though. Let's give credit where it's due.
00:35:19.400I think lots more to do. But so far, there hasn't been the kind of truth telling and righteous retribution that I think a lot of us are looking for from the Trump DOJ. But having said that, this is certainly a big, big step in the right direction.
00:35:36.740For sure. And Owen, you know, you're talking about ActBlue.
00:35:40.200Yeah, well, I agree. I mean, I think I can envision Scott in this instance saying something like, you know, this is exactly what you thought it was. And I think I would extend that to ActBlue as well with all the things that are going on in terms of investigating them. And I'm really hoping we're about to see some indictments there, too.
00:35:55.520I mean, that situation, you know, they've been doing these things called smurfing where they impersonate people and they make little donations for them to all these various Democrat races and might be five dollars or twenty dollars.
00:36:08.640All these little ones that are, I think, are intentionally designed to go under the radar, not be noticed.
00:36:14.700And now that as soon as the investigation started, then, you know, their entire compliance and regulatory department got either quit or they either quit or they got fired.
00:36:23.100so all their lawyers just scrambled like cockroaches and you know so it's it's pretty
00:36:28.660clear to me what's going on there i think it's exactly what it looks like and i know personally0.61
00:36:33.480that they're doing that because i i looked into it myself because i noticed that my own mother
00:36:38.000is on that list i i looked up her records and there's all sorts of little donations for races
00:36:43.360all over the country not just my state not federal just like nebraska or some random state like that
00:36:49.720where she supposedly gave money to these races.
00:36:53.260And, you know, I asked her, I was like,
00:37:15.280through these foreign donations, most likely,
00:37:18.240but clearly illegitimate donations because there would be no other reason to do it that way.
00:37:22.940Steve. Oh, and I'm so glad that you mentioned that. And, you know, and Erica, you earlier
00:37:26.620mentioned BLM. I think BLM probably has similar criminal problems to the SPLC. And I hope that
00:37:34.720the Trump DOJ is taking a very serious look at what happened, particularly in 2020 with BLM,
00:37:41.020because the SPLC has been really effective over decades and taking in millions of dollars,
00:37:45.520I would guess probably into the hundreds of millions, but certainly at least into the tens of millions.
00:37:49.980BLM, in a very short period of time, in just weeks and months, took in billions and billions of dollars, big, big corporate money.
00:37:58.760Every big corporation in America was tripping over themselves after the George Floyd killing to to give massive amounts of money and prove, you know, their their anti-racist credentials by giving BLM just absolute mountains of money.
00:38:14.120there is significant evidence that a lot of that was at least wasted, that there was at least
00:38:19.320very, very unethical behavior going on. I suspect it goes much deeper and gets much worse than that.
00:38:25.800I suspect there was actual criminal activity going on. Probably a lot of the tactics,
00:38:30.440just like what we see with the SPLC. And I hope and expect that the Trump DOJ is taking a similar
00:38:38.460look there because if they do, I'm confident that we would see real indictments. And if you
00:38:44.020want to talk about consequences, by the way, the consequences for the country of BLM and its0.57
00:38:49.080activities were horrific. I mean, in terms of loss of life, loss of property, division of this
00:38:54.380country, you know, the supposed summer of love, which was one of the worst periods of time in
00:38:59.840recent American history. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that. So, you know, these
00:39:04.420leftist organizations need to be scrutinized in many ways. And Owen, to your point about foreign
00:39:09.540money. One of the great things, I don't think Doge did enough, unfortunately, and I was overall
00:39:15.260disappointed with the lack of big time success from Doge, but dismantling USAID, I think was
00:39:21.900massive. And we're just starting to learn how much supposed foreign aid money was actually funding
00:39:28.120the American left right here at home. So not just getting donor money, getting our money,
00:39:33.760getting taxpayer money, those of us, even those of us on the political right, unknowingly through
00:39:39.200our taxes, we're funding the left wing ecosystem in the United States, a lot of it flowing through
00:39:46.380USAID. So under the guise of, oh, we're feeding starving kids in Africa, when in fact, you're
00:39:51.980actually feeding an NGO in the Washington Beltway, who's then acting in a very partisan way against
00:39:58.320your interest here in the United States and funding your own political opponents. And so I
00:40:04.140also think there's a lot of criminality to be uncovered there. Thankfully, most of that money
00:40:10.200has dried up, but a lot more work to do here. What we're seeing again and again is in so many
00:40:17.200ways, we've been fighting such an unfair battle, such a biased battle, because we on the right
00:40:23.880generally are fighting with ideas and with our own money, with our own money that we go out
00:40:29.840and earn. On the left, they had been fighting largely with corporate money, with with publicly
00:40:36.760traded company money, big business money. And they had been and they've been fighting with
00:40:41.660censorship, lies. And we now know actual staged events, actual false flag staged events that they
00:40:50.060created to to impart upon the public a myth that there is some scourge, widespread scourge of
00:40:56.520racism in the country and that Donald Trump and his supporters are part and parcel of that very
00:41:03.000bigotry. So once you start peeling back this onion, there's just so many layers to it. And
00:41:08.160hopefully this is the beginning in this specific case of a lot more indictments out of this Trump
00:41:13.820DOJ because indictments are a really, really powerful tool, of course, for us finding out
00:41:19.100the truth and getting to a place where our politics can be honest again and where we can
00:41:23.140actually argue about ideas and know that we won't be censored and know that we won't be fighting
00:41:29.680against events that have been financed and staged by our opponents. It's starting to look like this
00:41:35.280vast left-wing conspiracy, Steve. Yeah, that's right. I mean, we got the burn bag story too,
00:41:41.100with millions of pages of documents that were hidden and put aside. And now we're going to
00:41:45.720take a year, I guess, to go through it, to even see some of them. But it seems like it crosses
00:41:50.840into the FBI, crosses into the media. We had even Snopes on this Charlottesville hoax that it took
00:41:56.440until 2024 to finally do a fact check and say, well, actually he didn't say that. Oh, I have that
00:42:02.760here. Look at me having that. Yeah. And, but it wasn't until June of 2024 that they came out with
00:42:09.640that. So, you know, it was well after all the benefit that they could have gotten out of that
00:42:14.460was juiced completely. And then they come out and say, oh, well, you know, let's save our credibility
00:42:18.880and just throw that in there at the end and say, look, we did the fact check here too.0.90
00:42:23.880It's ridiculous. And these things are all tied together, right? I don't know if George Floyd
00:42:28.920would have been nearly the scandal it was if these other things hadn't preceded it.
00:42:33.160Oh, it's right in the middle of, well, didn't that kick off? That kicked off BLM. Yeah,
00:42:37.780no, it would not have been, Owen. I agree. And I want to congratulate anybody who's listening to
00:42:42.820this that did not donate to BLM. Congratulations. Honestly, I'm like, not even kidding because
00:42:48.840your gut told you something and you didn't fall for it. And I'm so proud of you, um, because you
00:42:56.340have to really be careful. And, you know, we always say you just can't trust or believe anything.
00:43:00.280If you're going to donate to something, really know what you're donating to. Like I tend to do
00:43:04.840it like directly to somebody, um, you know, or to like something smaller or, you know, just if you,
00:43:11.860if you know someone that needs help, but these big organization, the organizations like these
00:43:16.680big orgs, you got to be really careful and you're not getting reparations for the money you lost
00:43:23.440either. And the other thing I just want to put a point on that was very upsetting to me was all
00:43:31.880of these hoaxes and we knew they were hoaxes. And then to have people that were your friends in real
00:43:38.040life and they were like, oh, Trump's a racist, his supporters are this and that. And you're like,
00:43:43.860is that really what you think of me like you think that you know i i'm racist or i would be
00:43:51.160you know in favor of somebody who is like a nazi sympathizer it just like made no sense so
00:43:58.140they did a great job dividing everybody and never again that particular thing i think was based on
00:44:04.940all these people who wrote these anti-racism books like abraham kendi and the you know d'angelo
00:44:09.580woman where they would essentially redefine racism in a way that basically said if you are white
00:44:15.480you're automatically racist there's nothing you can do about it you're just part of the problem
00:44:20.560and you know for a while a lot of people seem to actually believe that like it was like they0.99
00:44:26.220actually let that go and it was all just a you know trick on their part and so ridiculous and
00:44:32.700racist in itself to say those sorts of things which is basically saying if you if you have0.91
00:44:36.800white skin that makes you racist i mean that is a racist statement yes and and and then they tried
00:44:42.780to redefine racism to say oh well if you're a minority you can't be racist they started saying
00:44:47.060that's prejudice that's a different thing and so they they were trying to just play with words to
00:44:53.080say that all whites are racist and it was just so divisive and so harmful to our country and i really
00:44:59.520hope we're starting to put a nail into this i think we are i'm going to ask everybody to take0.88
00:45:03.440an interstitial sip right now, because I just want to switch gears for the last 15 minutes
00:45:08.280because it is Earth Day. And those of you that know me, you also know that this whole wind turbine
00:45:16.580wind issue is something that is very close to my soul. Scott helped me with this because I live on
00:45:26.080the Jersey shore and they're putting in these turbines in the ocean. And we've had well over
00:45:31.220a hundred humpback whales wash up on the coast, like from New York to, you know, South, like
00:45:38.060through New Jersey, Connecticut also, and then down to, gosh, I forget where it stopped, but
00:45:43.080you know, two whales is a little alarming. Five whales is like, what? Over a hundred. You're just
00:45:50.160like, oh my God. So wind is a problem. And Steve, you, you know, if you could just tell us what's
00:45:56.920happening. And I would like to talk about this in the future also, you guys, because it's bigger
00:46:02.340than you can imagine. But Steve, tell us what you're looking into here. Sure, you bet. So I do
00:46:09.440a lot of documentaries, generally short form documentaries in the 20 minute range or so.
00:46:13.820And one of the more successful ones I've done was exposing the wind scam. And it is absolutely a
00:46:19.900scam. It's called Blown Away. If you'd like to see it, it's on my cortesinvestigates.com website.
00:46:39.180But we did our very best to expose it and why it's a scam.
00:46:43.140And what I started with, though, because I think it's important,
00:46:46.260and I think this is a way you can grab people,
00:46:47.840especially if they're not right-wing or don't consider themselves MAGA or America First.
00:46:52.300What I started with is just how aesthetically unpleasant they are.
00:46:55.840These are just ugly and they're marring some of the most beautiful landscapes in America.
00:47:00.920And that was one of the reasons I went to New Mexico is the New Mexico desert is really just spectacular in so many spots and quite unique.
00:47:08.220You know, a look that you don't find elsewhere in the world, frankly, certainly not in America.
00:47:12.620And a lot of these wonderful desert landscapes have been completely just polluted, the scenery polluted by these windmills.
00:47:20.980And I found them hideous, first of all, just aesthetically from that standpoint.
00:47:24.920Once I started to look into the economics of that, right, found out that they don't work at all in terms of a cost benefit ratio, in terms of the actual energy produced for the cost of building them and maintaining them.
00:47:37.840They don't make any sense. I mean, absolutely none. So on the economic side.
00:47:43.620And then lastly, what I started to learn about is the grave environmental harm done by these windmills on land.
00:47:50.960it's primarily about birds that's most of it so you've got the aesthetics the in the uh the
00:47:56.440economics that don't work and then the the environmental part but the uh the sea-based uh
00:48:02.800windmills unfortunately the turbines in the ocean are far worse as far as the environment goes
00:48:07.720mainly because you have to do such a disruptive build underneath the surface of the water on the
00:48:14.640seabed to maintain these giant windmills a lot of folks who haven't been close to one don't realize
00:48:19.500just how big they are. The ones I was filming next to in New Mexico, 200 feet tall. I mean,
00:48:24.780these are skyscrapers. Every one of them is a skyscraper. And to moor that to the seafloor
00:48:31.480and to make it stationary in a windy area and to last for at least, you know, they hope a couple
00:48:36.760of decades. That's the other thing. They don't last long enough to pay for themselves. And we
00:48:41.060don't know what to do with them, by the way, once they're done. There's nothing environmentally
00:48:44.940sound to do then with this behemoth of plastic and steel and petroleum, by the way, which a lot
00:48:50.860of people don't realize just how much petroleum is necessary to build them, to operate them,
00:48:55.200to transport them, and to lubricate them, all of that. And so I used Landman. A lot of people know
00:49:02.380this very popular series, Landman. There's a rant by Billy Bob Thornton, and I don't think he is by
00:49:08.820any stretch a right winger, but he delivers, his character delivers a rant about how there's
00:49:13.960nothing clean about windmills in that show that went kind of viral and so i use that in my
00:49:19.360documentary as the basis for uh my documentary and i and i go step by step through what he said
00:49:24.760and most of the things he said not all of it but most of what he said um is actually true um in
00:49:30.160terms of his disparaging as an oil man his disparaging of windmills and uh but the reality
00:49:36.260is you know on earth day i think it's a good day for us to be talking about this and to be exposing
00:49:41.100the fraud because billions and billions of dollars of your money, okay, we are funding
00:49:58.660It's only because of massive, massive subsidies from us, from the American taxpayer, for
00:50:05.020supposedly green reasons that a lot of companies and some really connected individuals have
00:50:10.560gotten massively wealthy off of this entire boondoggle. They've gotten wealthy by building
00:50:16.220hideous structures that mar our landscapes and our seascapes that don't provide any real energy
00:50:23.900benefit. One of the biggest reasons is that they don't work economically, by the way, is because
00:50:28.120of the redundancy issue. In other words, they have to be backed up, okay, because the wind doesn't
00:50:33.240always blow. So they have to be backed up. Our power demands are not intermittent with the wind.
00:50:38.900And what are they backed up by in almost every case? Fossil fuels. They're backed up by hydrocarbons.
00:50:43.820So because they need to be fully redundant, there's no cost savings. There's actually no environmental savings either.
00:50:49.160And then, in fact, you know, again, to that third point, they do grave environmental damage in many cases.
00:50:54.820So I think Americans are starting to wake up to this, thankfully.
00:50:58.260But on a day like Earth Day, which has been used as a cudgel to sort of beat people over the head of if you don't believe in our full, ridiculous, fake green agenda,
00:51:07.680you somehow don't like flowers and honeybees and rainbows, right? That has been the narrative for
00:51:14.540far too long. We need to wake up about that. And Earth Day is a great time to do it and say,
00:51:19.200wait a second, a lot of this supposed green agenda, a lot of it is a fraud. And to me,
00:51:24.140the most fraudulent aspect of it, the most fraudulent are the windmills. And they're also,
00:51:29.040to me, again, just the most offensive. We have a beautiful country. Let's not allow these leftists
00:51:34.620to pollute it any longer with these ridiculous windmills that don't work.0.91