Antifa is trying to burn down America. Can Trump beat them？ And whose side is Canada on？
Summary
A copycat riot in Montreal, Canada, and a new reporter down embedded with the rioters in Washington, D.C. joins me to talk about the rioting, and my thoughts on what Donald Trump has said about it.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. Today, I take you through some of the riot footage from across America and a
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bizarre copycat riot in Montreal that involved a break-in, a smash-and-grab, a robbery of a
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guitar store in Montreal. It's crazy. I'll tell you my thoughts, and I'll show what Donald Trump
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has said he'll do so far. And then later, I'll interview our new reporter, Anna Slats, who is
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down-embedded with the rioters in Washington, D.C. Hey, before I do, let me invite you to become a
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Tonight, Antifa tried to burn down America, and they nearly succeeded. Can Trump beat them? And
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whose side is Canada on? It's June 1st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
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I'm sure you've seen the shocking footage from across America.
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protests, riots, arson, vicious assaults. Some of it peaceful, much of it not. Much of it committed
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by masked men and women. A strange thing, now that masks have been normalized in public life,
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which they never have been before in the West. It was nominally in reaction to the killing of a
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black man named George Floyd by a white police officer named Derek Chauvin. Chauvin has been fired
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as a cop and charged with a crime. Chauvin's wife, a woman of color, has filed for divorce from him.
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Chauvin had many complaints against him before, none of which obviously took him off the force.
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There are a lot of questions to be answered, but those answers will not likely be found in downtown
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Montreal, where a march in solidarity with Floyd led protesters to, you know, smash through the windows
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in a guitar shop and steal guitars. Because, you know, a Quebec guitar store is the perpetrator of
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a possible murder in Minnesota, and stealing the guitars will set things right for racial justice.
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If you think I'm going too far, well, that's exactly what the kind of thing the media has been saying.
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In fact, they're saying that these riots, often in black neighborhoods with Black Lives Matter signs
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in support of a black victim. The media are actually saying, get this, that it's far-right
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white supremacists. I'm not even kidding. Democrat politicians are saying that. Democrat media is
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saying that, too. There are also right-wing groups that are out there as agents provocateurs just trying
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to make the protesters look bad, and they've been caught on video over and over again. Is that really
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who's doing this? I think the media needs to get their talking points in order. Are these
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protests a necessary expression of democracy, fighting against the man, and thus to be supported?
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That's how most of the media handled it, at least at first. In fact, rich white liberals were not only
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cheering the riots, they were pledging their own money to help arrested rioters make bail. Hang on,
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but are the riots, in fact, from white supremacists? Because if so, then helping them is... But this is so
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confusing. Here's a guy who's confused. Here's Charles Palmer, an NBA journalist, a black man himself,
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literally cheering for the fire. Not just for the people lighting the fire and rioting. Not even for
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George Floyd. He was actually cheering the fire. Like cheering for the virus, really. Cheering for pure
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destruction. Burn it all down, he said. What a photo there, too. Until the rioters started to get a bit
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close to his fancy gated community. Then his tone changed. They just attacked our sister community
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down the street. It's a gated community, and they tried to climb the gates. They had to beat them back,
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then destroyed a Starbucks, and are now in front of my building. Get these animals the F out of my
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neighborhood. Go back to where you live. Whoa, that moved fast. From burn it all down to don't you
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animals burn my fancy house, and worst of all, my fancy Starbucks, you animals. It sounds a bit racist.
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By the way, that burning building, turns out it was a 189-unit affordable housing building for the
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urban poor. Yeah, so that's the left, the media, the leftist media, same thing. Here's an observation
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by Bernard Carrick, the former commissioner of New York Police Department. How could this all be
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organized for the same night? Don't tell me it's all organic. Nothing moves like that unless it's
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pushed. Here's what he said. Is there anyone that truly believes that this was not an organized event?
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How much do you think it would cost for communications and travel and manpower for an event like this?
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Whose money is behind it? Here's what he means. Isn't that good fortune? Isn't that good luck?
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A cache of bricks suitable for throwing through windows that had just been deposited on the street in New York.
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Now, other New Yorkers report that there's no construction nearby, but a truckload of bricks
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was dropped off. That sure is a good coincidence, isn't it? I think there are peaceful protesters who
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are upset about the world, who are upset about being locked in their homes for two months too,
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by the way, who want to go out and do something positive. I think there are people of good faith
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amongst them, but watch this. Watch an agent provocateur approach a group of Black Lives Matter
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protesters, and try to get them to start a riot. Take a look at this.
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What? Are you kidding me? You're asking us to flip over the truck?
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No, no, no. We do not instigate. We do not instigate. We do not instigate because it comes back on the block.
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You just asked us to flip over the truck? No, no, no. We do not instigate.
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This man just asked us to flip over the truck with his camera out.
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No, no, no. He just asked us to flip over the truck with his camera out.
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Who are you with? Hold it down. Who are you with?
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Wait, wait. I'm talking about this exact problem right now.
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He's running. We got you on video. Hold it down. If anyone in the crowd is trying to incite violence.
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They ran him off, but who was he? Who was he? Who was this man I showed you the other day,
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dressed from head to toe in black, face mask, umbrella to block cameras, quietly smashing windows
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by himself, building after building, to get the party started in Minnesota? Who was he?
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Antifa is one answer. Their tactic is called black block. They all dress in black from head to toe,
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covering up any identifying marks, covering their faces, covering tattoos. Make it hard for police
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to identify them later. It's a tactic. They're organized. They're pros. They've done it before.
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Speaking of which, look at this from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She's the leading Democrat congresswoman
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protesting safely. Well, that's a helpful idea. Bring snacks and protest signs. That's a good idea.
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But look at some of those. Bring goggles and a mask. Bring nondescript, solid color, layered clothing,
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covering identifying tattoos, heat-resisting gloves. What on earth are you preparing for?
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Look at the bottom there. Don't bring your cell phone without turning off face or touch ID,
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going on airplane mode and disabling data. What are you expecting to happen here, Alexandria?
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So hide your face, dress anonymously, wear heat-resistant gloves. Sir, you don't need that
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to protest. You need that to riot. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is giving advice on how to riot.
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What else is her advice for? This is organized. The agents provocateurs, the BRICS, the riots,
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the instigators. I don't know who's behind it. I know that George Soros has in the past supported
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Antifa. He brags about sponsoring civil unrest around the world, including outright revolutions.
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Why wouldn't he try to do the same in America against his nemesis, Donald Trump? I doubt China
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is involved. No need for China to get involved if so many hardcore left-wingers in America are willing
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to do the heavy work. But here's a video by China's English-language propaganda arm,
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mocking the riots and comparing them to their anti-democracy crackdown of China against Hong Kong.
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The riots in Minneapolis have spread to more than a dozen states. On the Chinese internet,
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netizens cheered. Because the U.S. government and the U.S. Congress supported the riots in Hong Kong,
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Chinese people generally believe that the riots in the U.S. are a retribution for that support.
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To be honest, those kinds of feelings are normal. However, the Chinese government has not shown
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any support for the riots in the U.S. I hope that Americans notice Beijing's restraint.
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We have not tried to kick the U.S. while it's down. Some Americans say that the riots in the U.S.
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are different from Hong Kong's in nature and should not be mixed. There are of course different reasons
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for the riots. But their similarities are overwhelming. They all defy the law, subvert order, and are
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destructive. Burning police stations, blocking roads, smashing shops, and destroying public facilities
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in Minneapolis and other places are exactly the same violence in the Hong Kong demonstrations.
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You can even say Hong Kong sucks, infiltrated the U.S. to carry out this violence.
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Violence in Hong Kong is justified, and violence in the U.S. is unjust. This kind of thinking is intolerable.
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As I write this, Donald Trump has yet to address the nation. I wish he would. It's time that he did.
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He's tweeted a lot about it, including asking governors to get tough, asking governors to call
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on the National Guard. Okay, thanks for the tweets, but we need something grander, something to assuage
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the black community to show that he's sympathetic to their feelings of alienation, something to show
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solidarity with the communities that have suffered from the riots themselves, mainly the black community,
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by the way, like this woman, for example. You and so many others are going through such
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a rough time. How was last night? Scary. I live in the high rise right back here,
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and I see them as they came down Lake Street, but then they turned and started coming over here,
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and I'm sitting up looking out my window. And they went straight to Office Max, the dollar store,
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and every store over here that I go to. I have nowhere to go now. I have no way to get there,
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because the buses aren't running. These people did this for no reason. It's not going to bring
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George back here. George is in a better place than we are. And last night, I'm going to be honest,
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I wish I was where George was, because this is ridiculous. These people are tearing up our livelihoods.
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This is the only place I could go to shop. And now I don't have anywhere to go. I don't have anywhere
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to get there. I know you mentioned, you know, being in your home last night, and you did have some
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folks that were helping, you know, holding the ground. And you see some cleanup right now,
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as well. You know, there are signs of hope, but I can see the frustration still.
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When the National Guard came down 31st, and they realized that they were coming down 31st,
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they tried to run in the building where I live at. And they couldn't get in,
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because there was security there. And I'm glad they were there. Because if they had got in that
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building, there's no telling where they would have head to stay safe and try to mess with us
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inside the building, because we're a handicap. And I'm not trying to use handicap as a crutch,
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but there are certain things I can and cannot do. And for them to do what they did last night was
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just stupid. It was ignorant. Now, now what are you going to do? Where are you going to shop at?
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Half the people probably don't even live in Minnesota.
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But we need a larger statement, that Barack Obama-style mass violence, like America saw during
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Occupy Wall Street, and the series of race riots under his watch. We need a big Trump statement
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that that's not on. That's just not going to happen. We haven't really heard that. Now, we did
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see this. Here's the Attorney General's statement from Friday. With the rioting that is occurring in
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many of our cities around the country, the voices of peaceful and legitimate protests have been
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hijacked by violent radical elements. Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the
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situation to pursue their own separate violent and extremist agenda. All right, I'll skip ahead.
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To identify criminal organizers and instigators, and to coordinate federal resources with our state
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and local partners, federal law enforcement is using our existing network of 56 regional FBI
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joint terrorism task forces. The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups
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in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.
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All right, it's a good idea. Federal police, the FBI, they're not under the control of
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weak mayors, like the laughable mayor of Minneapolis, who ordered his police to surrender to the rioters
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and evacuate their own police headquarters. The danger became necessary, and I made the decision to
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evacuate the dirt precinct. What a laugh. Now, the FBI is tainted deeply by the Obamas, by Jim Comey,
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but hopefully it still responds to real crimes at the behest of its director. So set it to work
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against domestic terrorism. Use those 56 anti-terrorism offices to fight Antifa. Use the weapons of
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counterterrorism, wiretaps, tracing funds, who's getting on planes, etc. These folks are smart and organized,
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as Bernard Carrick says, oh, by the way, Steve Carell and Seth Rogen and the rest of the years,
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best to stop donating to Antifa, just like you should stop donating to ISIS if you're doing that.
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But will America really treat Antifa like a terrorist group like ISIS? Maybe. But if you want to see a
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deep state, you'll see it here. As Anna Slats, our reporter on the ground in Washington, D.C., tells us,
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these rioters in the main are not actually black kids from poor neighborhoods. It's often rich,
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white kids who love to smash things up in different crowds. Yeah, think the sons and daughters of
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radical university professors, the sons and daughters of lawyers and lobbyists and activists.
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You'll see people who are connected to power. I see that Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York,
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his own daughter was arrested in one of these riots. I see two Brooklyn lawyers were arrested,
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too. I don't know if they're Antifa, but my point is there is a wealthy radical set that doesn't live
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in the ghetto, but that is using the problems of the ghetto to destroy society. They're communists.
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They take advantage of grievances for their own purposes. They're active in Montreal,
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hence the guitar thefts. They're active in Toronto, too. Donald Trump says he'll treat Antifa like a
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terrorist group. I hope so, but I'm not actually convinced. But one thing I'm absolutely convinced
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by is that Canada, under Justin Trudeau, will not follow Trump's lead. After all,
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Trudeau relies on Antifa thugs for his agenda, just like Obama did for his. I mean, you don't
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actually believe that those railroad blockades were a natural, organic act, do you? If you do,
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I've got a stack of bricks in Manhattan to sell you. Up next, a special interview with our friend
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Anna Slatz, our new freelance reporter, who's live in Washington.
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And joining us live now from the streets of Washington, D.C., is Rebel News correspondent Anna
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Slatz. Anna, how are you today? I am good. How are you doing, Ezra? Good. Are you staying safe?
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That's my first question. Absolutely. Right now, the protests, which you can see,
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I'm following them here. Very peaceful, led by Black Lives Matter. Nobody's gotten hurt. Nobody's
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gotten into an altercation. They tried to get into the White House through a different route,
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but the police have already blocked that off. So they're moving again towards their original
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destination. Now, this is quite a difference from last night. I saw your video footage,
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arson smashing, people throwing things at cops. What was it like last night? Tell us,
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and was it a different group of people last night? So last night, yeah, there was
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lots of destruction. There was a ton of arson. Trees were being ripped out of the street on the sidewalk
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and being thrown into a massive bonfire they had outside of Lafayette Park, outside the White House.
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There was a ton of property destruction, especially of government buildings,
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but a church also was lit on fire. I found this out in a separate location.
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And there were stones being thrown through private businesses. There was,
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I believe, a little bit of looting. And it was a different group of people. Absolutely.
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When the Antifa black law showed up, they, and I caught them on film, they were the ones who were
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perpetrating the majority of the damage. The Black Lives Matter protesters were actually telling them to
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stop and they were not listening. They were hurling bottles at police, you know, beating up police cars,
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things like this. That's just not something that was happening when BLM was controlling the protest.
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So you're distinguishing between peaceful political protests, led in particular by Black Lives Matter,
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and violent professional protesters led by Antifa or Antifa. Is that correct? Is there a distinction?
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I believe there is. I mean, we all have a right to protest. We all have a right
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to dissent against the government. That's democracy, right? Right.
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But these Antifa who came in and it was, it was almost like you could tell the time. It was around
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10 p.m. And suddenly you had all these white kids lighting fires, getting White House lawn equipment on
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fire, throwing things at the police. And you had these black protesters saying, stop it. Don't do that.
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I caught them on video. There were even altercations where the Black Lives Matter protesters were demanding
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people stop throwing things. It was these white Antifa kids that were doing it.
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Now, who do you think these white Antifa kids are? Are they from, you're in Washington, D.C. proper.
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Do you think they came in from out of the city? Are they college kids? Are they just sort of
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professional activists who remain on standby for the shock tactic of the week? Who do you think they are?
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Do you know? Can you detect? Can you identify any of them?
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When they come, they come fully dressed in black and they've got even black
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baklavas on or black masks fully covering their faces.
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You can tell their bite from their hands and from what you can see of their eyes. But
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there have been some reports that they've been coming from out of the community. Yesterday,
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a Black Lives Matter leader stopped early in the day to tell people, don't loot.
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This is our community. This is our kids' future. This is their inheritance. It was a really beautiful
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speech he gave. And he said, don't loot. Don't destroy things. This isn't what we're here for.
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Do you think those protesters, those Antifa or those rioters, I should call them,
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care about the community? And if they don't, it means they're probably not from the community.
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Right. Now, it's incredible. As you're walking through the streets, I see, I saw some boarded up
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windows. I saw last night you tweeted a picture of your own hotel that had boarded up its front door
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and you had to find a way in the back. How are ordinary Washingtonians just hiding in their homes
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today? Or are they out and about? Is business as usual continuing?
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Business as usual is not continuing. And even you can see this building, almost every building that
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I pass is boarded up. And that's new. So last night, the vast majority of these buildings were not
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boarded up. And there have been construction crews working across the clock, I'm sorry,
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around the clock, across the city to board up buildings and board up businesses. So I'm feeling
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that the general sentiment is that there is going to be an escalation of violence. There's an anticipation
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that it's going to get worse. Now, I see a large crowd gathering behind you.
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Yeah. Is this the Black Lives Matter group? This is the peaceful group. Can you tell me,
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do you know who the leader of this group is? Or what is the commonality amongst the people?
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They don't look like they're wearing the Black bloc uniform. They're not head to toe in black.
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Who are these people you're walking with? So these people here, these would be the Black
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Lives Matter, the George Floyd, Justice for George Floyd protesters. They're not wearing any kind of uniform.
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And they're just led by black leaders in the community. There's speakers that sometimes come
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and talk. And that's where that speaker yesterday, he was very powerfully talking about not looting,
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not destroying your own community. So that's who these folks are. This is starting much earlier.
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This crowd here is about the size of the crowd a few hours after the protest started yesterday. So
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already it's much larger today than it was yesterday. Now, we saw images of police, of
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the White House in lockdown. The lights had been turned off. We heard reports that the president had
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actually been removed from his regular office to a safer place in the White House. Do you see any
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secret service or any military or paramilitary forces out? Because of course, you're in the capital
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city. And it's not just the president, it's other executive cabinets, it's congressmen or senators,
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if they're in the city. Are there any special displays of force, given that you're in the capital?
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I did see some armored police cars. These were like big black Humvees, matte black Humvees with the,
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they just were decked out, armored to the nines. And I'm seeing more of those today. The police presence
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here today is definitely larger. They've got several major streets in downtown DC blocked off with police
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cars. So I expect to see more of those armored vehicles today as well. Yesterday, I only saw a
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few. And then, you know, all hell broke loose in the night. Tonight, I'm expecting to see way more,
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especially because the National Guard has been activated here. Now, it's hard to make sense of
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this. Because reports in the fog of war, as they say, it's like the first few hours in a terrorist attack
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or a mass shooting. There's so many conflicting reports, shards that may be rumors or false rumors.
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How would you rate how the media in general has reported on these protests and riots? Would you say
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they're doing their best? Would you say they're coming in with ideological blinders? Would you say they're
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trying to cover for for Antifa and downplay it? I've seen claims that it's, quote, white supremacists?
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I mean, that sounds like I'm sorry, I laugh because that sounds laughable to me. You're on the ground.
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Why don't you I mean, how's the media coverage? And is it this strange theory strange to me that these
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are all secret right wingers and white supremacists? Help me make sense of what I'm seeing on CNN and on
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Twitter? Honestly, sometimes you can't make sense of it. I feel like if there are some
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well-meaning journalists who are just trying to report on what's happening, they're calling it
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entirely peaceful, then they are conflating, conflating the Black Lives Matter protesters who
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have been peaceful or the legitimate protesters who are just taking up their democratic right
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to protest and Antifa. And so they're just trying to say, OK, well, these ones were peaceful,
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so I've got to cover for the more violent ones. I don't have to do that. I can see a very clear
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distinction because I'm here. I'm on the ground. I've been on the ground right right inside of it.
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So I've been able to see where the clear political divide here and where the clear ideological divide
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between destroy the community and please do not destroy the community is. So I don't need to do
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these sort of mental gymnastics to justify everything. Not everything can be justified.
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And the Black Lives Matter protesters are putting that very eloquently in telling people not to destroy,
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not to loot, and so on and so forth. I haven't seen any white supremacists. I'll keep my eye out.
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Certainly yesterday there was a boy who was within the crowd and he got pretty ruthlessly attacked.
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He had an American flag that was taken from him. And people were claiming that he was an undercover
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cop. Now, to me, he looked way too young to be like a seasoned police officer who would be put
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undercover. So it's entirely possible they had thought he was, I don't know, they had thought he
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was a white supremacist or something like that, which would only and he could have been. I do not know
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the person. Yeah, I was just filming when this was happening. It was quite dramatic.
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Him getting attacked by multiple people and having his flag stolen. The flag was later burned.
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But, I mean, that would sort of challenge the narrative that they're all white supremacists
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here because they're attacking anybody who they think is a white supremacist.
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Yeah. And frankly, having an American flag in America isn't exactly proof of anything,
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other than perhaps you support in general the system, which I suppose some people here might
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It's sort of interesting, I do have to say, because some of the Black Lives Matter protesters had
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American flags that they were holding and they had, you know, also the American flag done in the style of,
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you know, black solidarity, kind of like the thin blue line where it's like a more colorful version
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of the American flag that's meant to represent something. But they also had American flags.
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So it's really interesting to me that that one from that guy set them off.
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Well, thank you for that observation. Now, one thing I observe is what a gorgeous day it is,
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just gorgeous spring day, beautiful skies. I don't know the weather out there,
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but it looks like a great spring day, almost summer weather. I've got to think that if people
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have been cooped up in their houses and apartments for two months, told they can't go out, told they
00:28:31.560
can't socialize with humans, and this is out and about, that it's actually very compelling for anyone
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to say, I want some exercise. I want to see people. I want to march. If I get into some fisticuffs,
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I could use some physicality in my life. I want to do something. I mean, it seems to me,
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you coop up anyone for two months, they're going to be anxious to get out. And the timing here is just
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a fit for that physical and psychological release. I'm not saying that's all it is.
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I'm saying that it was like dry tinder for this. What do you think of that little hypothesis?
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I would agree, because I definitely think that some of the folks who are just sort of following
00:29:10.600
around the protesters or biking around them and such, they don't have anything to do with the protest.
00:29:16.600
It's just people being out. I would definitely agree that, I mean, you've got people who are
00:29:25.000
kept inside their homes. You're going to get an increasing level of frustration in the same way
00:29:30.200
that we've got an increasing level of mental health issues that are popping up. More depression,
00:29:34.360
more suicides, more suicide attempts, more domestic violence, more addictions. I just read that there
00:29:40.440
were significantly more overdoses, drug overdoses during the COVID lockdown period. So, I mean,
00:29:46.520
it would only make sense that there's also going to be more tension, more political tension,
00:29:50.120
more ideological tension, and that's going to come out at some point, right?
00:29:53.640
Yeah. Well, Anna, I am so grateful for your coverage. Very, very courageous coverage.
00:29:59.080
As I've said to you privately, it's very important to me that you stay safe. And I know you have a lot of
00:30:03.160
street sense and a lot of common sense, but there's no story worth getting injured over,
00:30:08.760
so please do take care of yourself. Where can we find your compilation of videos? I follow you on
00:30:14.040
Twitter, and I would recommend everyone do so. Have we put together a compilation page where we're
00:30:19.640
going to have your various videos for the next few days?
00:30:21.800
Yes. So that's going to be at stopantifa.com. And that is a part of the rebel news, and I'm going to
00:30:31.160
be putting up all of my videos there, my commentary, my compilations, and any write-ups that I have on
00:30:35.720
the things that happened. Last night was just night number one, and everybody here is anticipating an
00:30:40.920
escalation. I'm a pretty serious one. So we're going to see what happens. I'm going to be out here
00:30:44.920
reporting for you guys to let you know what the situation is.
00:30:47.960
Well, thank you for doing that. The website is stopantifa.com. And we are going to ask for people
00:30:54.280
to help chip in because we've covered your flight and hotel and all your expenses. And if there are
00:30:59.800
security requests that you and I have spoken privately about, we're just a text or a phone call away.
00:31:05.880
It's very important your safety to us, but it's also important for us to get
00:31:09.320
the facts from the ground. We're very proud of you, Anna, and we think you've done great reporting already,
00:31:13.560
and we look forward to following the rest of it.
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All right. Thank you very much, Ezra. Have a great day.
00:31:17.960
All right. You too. Thank you. That's Anna Slatz, a new contributor to Rebel News on the ground in
00:31:23.880
Washington, DC. You can see a compilation of her videos at Stop Antifa. I say Stop Antifa. I'm not
00:31:30.040
sure the best way to pronounce it. Stop Antifa.com. And if you want to chip in to help cover her flight and
00:31:35.560
accommodation and other things, you can do so there. Stay with us. More ahead on the Rebel.
00:31:45.240
Hey, welcome back on my monologue Friday about President Trump's executive order on preventing
00:31:52.360
online censorship. Sherry writes, I think it has been painful for Twitter to watch Donald Trump spread
00:31:57.320
his message and accumulate 80 million followers on their platform. He set them up and triggered them
00:32:02.200
with the mail-in vote. Twitter reacted and now they are paying the price. Well, we don't know who's
00:32:07.960
going to win that battle yet, do we? I wouldn't bet against the tech companies.
00:32:13.880
PJ writes, my only question is, what took Donald Trump so long to get here?
00:32:19.560
Yeah, well, to get here, so far he's just made an executive order. Let's see if it
00:32:23.720
is manifested. Let's see if it takes form. He still promised us the wall and he's only built a few
00:32:29.480
percentage of it. Paul writes, whatever Trump's plan is here, I'm betting it's been in the works for
00:32:36.680
some time. It's hard to imagine that he hasn't seen the threat of this coming. Oh, I agree with
00:32:41.080
you. I mean, just a week after Trump won, the shock through Silicon Valley forged their plan. You
00:32:50.120
probably saw the Google Town Hall from literally the Friday after Trump was elected. They were
00:32:58.360
actually in tears. I'm talking about the VP and C-suite executives of Google. They were in tears
00:33:07.480
describing Hillary Clinton's loss. They used the word us and we to describe Hillary Clinton.
00:33:13.880
They've been on a four-year battle ever since. And don't bet against Google, Amazon, Facebook,
00:33:21.720
Facebook, Netflix, I'd throw in there, YouTube, Twitter. You're really going to bet against all
00:33:27.080
those smart, rich people who control everything? I mean, Trump likes an uphill battle, but this is
00:33:33.400
his biggest yet. Well, that's the show for today. How do you like the haircut? I got a black market
00:33:38.600
haircut today and I don't care who knows. All right. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us at
00:33:43.240
Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.