Rebel News Podcast - Canada's Media Party fell just as hard for Trump-Russia fake news

00:00:00.000 Hey folks, welcome to the podcast, appreciate you being here.

00:00:03.740 Today I look at the Robert Mueller report on Donald Trump, and I can sum it up in two words,

00:00:09.320 no collusion.

00:00:11.140 I go through some of the details, I read Bill Barr's letter, and I review some of the media

00:00:15.520 madness.

00:00:16.400 I hope you enjoyed it.

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00:00:42.320 Without further to do, here is today's podcast.

00:00:45.380 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.

00:00:48.680 Tonight, after two years of hunting, Robert Mueller's massive investigation into Donald

00:00:53.520 Trump comes up empty.

00:00:55.240 There was no collusion with Russia.

00:00:57.740 It's March 25th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:02.400 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:06.120 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:10.180 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's

00:01:14.580 my bloody right to do so.

00:01:16.040 Hey, let's start with pure glee.

00:01:23.140 Do you want to know what absolute joy and happiness and vindication and relief looks like?

00:01:29.540 Take a look at this man.

00:01:31.260 So after a long look, after a long investigation, after so many people have been so badly hurt,

00:01:44.000 after not looking at the other side, where a lot of bad things happened, a lot of horrible

00:01:53.660 things happened, a lot of very bad things happened for our country, it was just announced there

00:02:01.940 was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, there was no collusion

00:02:08.940 with Russia, there was no obstruction, and none whatsoever, and it was a complete and total 0.94

00:02:19.120 exoneration.

00:02:20.040 It's a shame that our country had to go through this.

00:02:27.040 To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this for, before I even

00:02:32.960 got elected, it began.

00:02:36.580 And it began illegally.

00:02:38.640 And hopefully somebody's going to look at the other side.

00:02:41.880 This was an illegal takedown that failed, and hopefully somebody's going to be looking

00:02:49.940 at the other side.

00:02:51.020 So it's complete exoneration, no collusion, no obstruction.

00:02:57.140 Thank you very much.

00:02:59.680 He's talking about the two-year investigation into the preposterous allegation that he was

00:03:04.640 a Manchurian candidate.

00:03:06.420 You know that old movie?

00:03:07.800 That he was secretly in league with Vladimir Putin.

00:03:10.800 I'm not even kidding.

00:03:11.500 Do you remember the insane cover of Time magazine, blending the White House and the Kremlin?

00:03:17.480 Or this one, also from Time, photoshopping Trump and Putin into one person?

00:03:23.880 Or this one from the Daily News? 0.97

00:03:28.500 Or this one, from the New York Times, saying that Trump has a secret gay fantasy about Vladimir 0.98

00:03:37.140 Putin? 0.98

00:03:37.960 I'm serious.

00:03:38.720 But perhaps nothing was as insane as the New York magazine story alleging, without any evidence,

00:03:47.460 that Donald Trump has actually been a Russian spy going back to Cold War days.

00:03:52.700 That he was a Soviet intelligent asset, a KGB agent going back to 1987.

00:03:59.780 I swear that actually was published, and the author of it, Jonathan Chait, did the media circuit

00:04:07.880 endlessly.

00:04:09.480 Look, it became conventional wisdom.

00:04:11.240 Here, just at random, here's a promo from, here's a selection from CNN.

00:04:16.700 Sunday morning, the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki.

00:04:21.480 Can we trust the president to give us all the facts?

00:04:24.240 And if we can't, how can journalists report on it?

00:04:27.240 Brian and his panel discuss Reliable Sources.

00:04:29.940 There was just one of a thousand little moments like that.

00:04:35.080 It was so ubiquitous, at least a dozen best-selling books on the subject, and yet it was completely

00:04:40.760 100% false.

00:04:44.320 Not a word of it was true.

00:04:47.600 It was exactly like the mainstream media in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

00:04:51.720 They all just knew, they just knew that Hillary Clinton would win.

00:04:55.200 Their polls said so.

00:04:56.660 Their friends said so.

00:04:58.120 I mean, they literally didn't know anyone who would vote for Trump.

00:05:00.780 Yuck! 0.99

00:05:01.660 They're so deplorable, those people. 0.99

00:05:03.860 It was a done deal. 0.78

00:05:05.200 Boy, were they surprised when that didn't go the way they thought it would.

00:05:07.780 Remember the election night shock back in 2016 when Trump won?

00:05:12.360 Sure, it was sadness, as any political party feels when they lose, but in this case, it was

00:05:17.120 mainly complete and utter surprise.

00:05:19.340 They had convinced themselves that Hillary Clinton was a sure thing.

00:05:24.460 They were utterly disillusioned.

00:05:26.680 They didn't know that they had been living in a bubble until that moment.

00:05:49.340 And so they did it again.

00:06:05.120 They did it again immediately after 2016 to psychologically keep it together.

00:06:10.140 Instead of admitting their theory about the whole world was wrong in the light of the facts

00:06:13.800 showing it was wrong, namely the election, they simply threw out the facts they didn't

00:06:18.200 like and kept the theory.

00:06:19.400 The only way Trump could have won, they told themselves, was as a Russian spy who hacked

00:06:27.440 the election, whatever that even meant.

00:06:29.420 And they were so, so certain that Robert Mueller would prove that in his two-year deep dive.

00:06:34.420 I mean, have you seen this?

00:06:35.380 I want to play a full minute of this for you.

00:06:37.880 I'm going to play the whole thing.

00:06:39.580 And you're going to say this is too long.

00:06:40.920 No, it's unbelievable.

00:06:43.160 Look at these people.

00:06:44.520 Look at them.

00:06:45.620 This is a cult.

00:06:46.840 This is delusion.

00:06:48.640 I think these people are probably in the hospital today.

00:06:51.720 Take a look at this.

00:06:52.660 We wish you a Mueller Christmas, we wish you a Mueller Christmas, an impeachment next year.

00:07:12.920 will come to you and your kin indictments for christmas and impeachment next year we

00:07:21.780 wish you a mull franks so we wish you a muller christmas we wish you a muller christmas and

00:07:29.440 impeachment next year indictments will come to you and your kin indictments for christmas

00:07:38.340 an impeachment next year.

00:07:40.900 We wish you a Mueller Christmas.

00:07:43.300 We wish you a Mueller Christmas.

00:07:45.540 We wish you a Mueller Christmas,

00:07:47.880 an impeachment next year.

00:07:50.760 Subpoenas galore

00:07:52.780 for all of Trump's men.

00:07:56.300 And amends for Christmas

00:07:57.920 an impeachment next year.

00:08:00.680 Bring forth the grand juries.

00:08:02.480 Bring forth the grand juries.

00:08:04.560 Now bring forth the grand jury

00:08:06.320 and bring them all year.

00:08:08.840 We know you're in bed with Putin.

00:08:11.940 We know you're in bed with Putin. 0.58

00:08:13.780 We know you're in bed with Putin 0.98

00:08:15.540 because your treason is clear. 0.72

00:08:17.740 Your treason is clear.

00:08:20.200 We wish you a Mueller Christmas.

00:08:22.480 We wish you a Mueller Christmas.

00:08:25.340 We wish you a Mueller Christmas.

00:08:27.180 An impeachment next year.

00:08:33.700 How was that, Natasha?

00:08:34.640 Oh, I'm glad you liked it.

00:08:38.920 So I can't look away from this

00:08:40.680 like a car crashed.

00:08:42.580 I think that is the saddest thing

00:08:44.480 I have ever seen in my life.

00:08:47.940 All right, well, let's get to the news.

00:08:49.220 I don't usually refer to the Washington Post,

00:08:51.840 which is a plaything of the world's richest man,

00:08:53.580 Jeff Bezos,

00:08:54.360 or to the New York Times,

00:08:55.620 which is a plaything of Mexico's richest man,

00:08:57.700 Carlos Slim.

00:08:58.740 But because they do some valuable journalism,

00:09:00.820 it's all colored by the political

00:09:03.280 and personal ambitions of their owners.

00:09:05.320 They don't own those newspapers to make money. 0.85

00:09:09.140 They own them to give those billionaires

00:09:11.820 a seat at the table in American politics.

00:09:13.580 And they both hate Donald Trump

00:09:15.040 for their own reasons.

00:09:15.960 And I generally don't refer to them.

00:09:17.200 But today, let me show you

00:09:18.560 their front pages unironically.

00:09:20.960 Because today, at least,

00:09:22.940 they reported the truth without spin.

00:09:25.760 Here's the New York Times.

00:09:27.220 Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy.

00:09:31.080 Just look at that.

00:09:31.980 It's pretty clear.

00:09:33.600 Not a lot of wiggle room there.

00:09:35.160 And here's the Washington Post.

00:09:36.540 It's even shorter.

00:09:37.560 Mueller finds no conspiracy.

00:09:40.520 Those two liberal newspapers

00:09:41.740 who have been claiming for more than two years

00:09:43.700 that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia

00:09:46.080 to somehow steal the last election.

00:09:48.300 It was a conspiracy theory

00:09:49.400 They never even explained exactly

00:09:50.880 how such a collusion could have happened.

00:09:54.280 They just kept repeating it.

00:09:55.920 And then they got a two-year,

00:09:57.400 $50 million investigation

00:09:58.740 led by Robert Mueller,

00:10:01.840 a longtime Washington insider,

00:10:03.560 king of the swamp, you could say.

00:10:05.240 A lifelong insider,

00:10:06.520 part of the permanent government

00:10:07.420 that stays in place

00:10:08.220 no matter who's elected,

00:10:09.400 Democrat or Republican.

00:10:10.300 Oh, and Mueller had 19 lawyers

00:10:12.380 working for him in his investigation.

00:10:14.060 And all of them were Democrats,

00:10:15.280 not one Republican.

00:10:17.280 And the left loved it.

00:10:18.620 I mean, talk about a small town.

00:10:21.040 Mueller's been friends with the deep state elite

00:10:22.880 literally since he was a boy.

00:10:25.000 Look, here's a picture of Robert Mueller.

00:10:26.660 He's number 12 there on the front row,

00:10:29.240 sitting next to his buddy.

00:10:30.400 Can you recognize the guy right in the middle,

00:10:31.980 number 18?

00:10:33.600 That young man grew up to be John Kerry,

00:10:36.320 the Democrat who ran for president in 2004.

00:10:39.620 He's wearing number 18.

00:10:40.860 That's when they were both teenagers

00:10:42.420 playing hockey.

00:10:44.500 I think that's what they were playing.

00:10:45.440 And here's Robert Mueller

00:10:47.520 with his personal best friend,

00:10:50.760 Bill Barr,

00:10:51.400 who just happens to be Donald Trump's

00:10:53.180 new pick for attorney general.

00:10:54.480 Isn't that cozy?

00:10:55.220 I mean, get ready for impeachment, right?

00:10:56.840 Get ready for prison, right?

00:10:59.600 It feels like the walls are closing in

00:11:02.480 on the White House.

00:11:03.860 It feels as if the walls are closing in here.

00:11:06.860 I think the walls of justice

00:11:08.700 are closing in on President Trump.

00:11:10.820 It does feel like the walls are closing in,

00:11:12.620 I think that the administration at this point

00:11:14.480 can start to see the walls closing in.

00:11:16.680 He feels the walls closing in on him.

00:11:19.140 The walls are closing in on the president right now.

00:11:21.240 That Donald Trump feels the walls closing in.

00:11:24.620 They were pretty sure of it.

00:11:26.280 They were pretty sure he was going to prison.

00:11:28.180 That was the American coverage.

00:11:29.880 But Canadian coverage was even more insane,

00:11:31.700 especially the CBC.

00:11:32.620 Here's Wendy Mesley,

00:11:33.680 just a few weeks ago,

00:11:35.160 interviewing some U.S. crank

00:11:36.980 about how Donald Trump Jr.

00:11:39.020 was probably going to go to prison.

00:11:41.820 And another possible lie by Don Jr.,

00:11:44.020 this time about the negotiations

00:11:45.760 to build that tower with Vladimir Putin's help.

00:11:49.360 Don Jr. has said he knew very little.

00:11:51.700 Again, he said it under oath to U.S. lawmakers.

00:11:54.400 And you can go to jail for lying to Congress.

00:11:58.020 Actually, even yesterday,

00:12:00.180 after Mueller had submitted his report,

00:12:02.820 Mesley and her weekly conspiracy theory show

00:12:05.140 on the state broadcaster,

00:12:06.600 led the news with her prediction

00:12:08.480 that Trump was still on the run.

00:12:11.620 It's Mueller time.

00:12:13.600 The Russia report is signed, sealed, and delivered.

00:12:17.020 Will it bring Trump down?

00:12:19.680 Oh, my God.

00:12:21.400 Even yesterday,

00:12:22.460 she was holding out such high hopes.

00:12:24.520 Well, here's Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA,

00:12:26.880 a pro-Trump group.

00:12:27.820 He did some math about the number of stories

00:12:29.420 on Russian collusion just in September,

00:12:32.020 just the last six months.

00:12:33.160 He writes,

00:12:34.900 Washington Post, 1,184.

00:12:36.980 New York Times, 1,156.

00:12:39.080 CNN, 1,965.

00:12:41.120 And look at that.

00:12:42.180 MSNBC, 4,202.

00:12:44.580 These are the number of stories

00:12:45.640 ran on the Mueller investigation

00:12:46.840 since September.

00:12:49.240 On average, 13 stories per day,

00:12:51.580 all about an investigation

00:12:52.740 with no evidence,

00:12:54.240 no grounding in the truth,

00:12:55.280 and no crime.

00:12:57.440 So how bad was it up here?

00:13:00.440 Well, I went to the CBC's search engine

00:13:02.460 on their website,

00:13:03.200 and I typed in three different things

00:13:04.980 just to check.

00:13:05.940 I typed in Mark Norman,

00:13:08.260 and I put the name in quotation marks

00:13:10.020 so it wouldn't give me just any old Mark

00:13:11.740 and any old Norman,

00:13:12.760 but rather that exact phrase.

00:13:13.980 He's the vice admiral of the Navy

00:13:15.760 who's been prosecuted by Trudeau

00:13:17.360 in a clear attempt to punish him

00:13:18.460 for whistleblowing on political interference

00:13:20.680 to build ships.

00:13:21.360 It's an SNC-Lavalland-type interference.

00:13:24.160 We'll have to do a big story on it one day.

00:13:25.580 It's widely considered to be

00:13:27.540 why Scott Bryson left cabinet in disgrace.

00:13:29.660 Huge trial going on.

00:13:31.360 Top flight lawyer, Marie Hennane.

00:13:33.360 I think they're going to win.

00:13:35.280 Anyways, 135 stories on that huge case

00:13:38.620 according to the CBC website.

00:13:40.560 135 stories, that's a lot of stories.

00:13:43.400 And then I typed in Michael Kovrig.

00:13:45.940 You know who he is?

00:13:46.740 Look at that.

00:13:47.080 You see in yellow there,

00:13:47.960 I typed this in the search engine.

00:13:49.080 That's one of the Canadian hostages

00:13:51.020 taken by China back in December

00:13:52.940 to punish Canada

00:13:54.000 over the Huawei extradition matter.

00:13:57.080 145 stories.

00:13:57.960 That's a lot of stories.

00:13:58.940 That's a huge story.

00:14:00.560 But then I typed in

00:14:01.520 Trump-Russian collusion.

00:14:05.120 In quotes,

00:14:06.520 303 stories.

00:14:09.920 More than all their stories

00:14:11.320 about Vice Admiral Mark Norman

00:14:12.660 and all their stories

00:14:13.880 about Michael Kovrig,

00:14:15.180 the hostage, combined.

00:14:18.020 Did they ever love

00:14:19.540 that conspiracy theory

00:14:20.820 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?

00:14:22.840 And I bet Trudeau's office

00:14:24.220 kept encouraging them.

00:14:25.400 He despises Trump

00:14:26.280 on a personal level

00:14:27.040 and he uses the CBC

00:14:28.240 to act out against Trump.

00:14:29.820 But let's come to reality today

00:14:31.760 because it's just like

00:14:33.240 Election Day back in 2016.

00:14:35.380 The fake news

00:14:36.180 was replaced by reality.

00:14:39.360 Here, let me read to you

00:14:40.100 from the four-page summary

00:14:41.220 of the Mueller report

00:14:42.400 that was released

00:14:42.920 by Bill Barr yesterday.

00:14:44.220 The entire report itself

00:14:45.260 has not been fully released

00:14:46.520 because it contains

00:14:47.720 confidential legal matters

00:14:49.280 currently before the courts

00:14:50.580 in some cases

00:14:51.240 that have to be redacted.

00:14:52.440 The memo itself explains why.

00:14:54.760 But let me read you

00:14:55.460 the cold, hard truth

00:14:56.560 as published yesterday.

00:14:59.800 The special counsel

00:15:00.420 and the staff

00:15:00.980 thoroughly investigated

00:15:02.060 allegations that members

00:15:03.320 of the presidential campaign

00:15:04.420 of Donald J. Trump

00:15:05.240 and others associated with it

00:15:06.740 conspired with the Russian government

00:15:08.460 in its efforts to interfere

00:15:09.740 in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

00:15:12.140 or sought to obstruct

00:15:13.320 the related federal investigations.

00:15:15.960 In the report,

00:15:17.880 the special counsel noted

00:15:18.980 that in completing

00:15:20.000 his investigation,

00:15:21.280 get this,

00:15:22.520 he employed 19 lawyers

00:15:25.040 who were assisted

00:15:26.980 by a team of approximately

00:15:28.360 40 FBI agents,

00:15:31.440 intelligence analysts,

00:15:32.900 forensic accountants,

00:15:33.940 and other professional staff.

00:15:35.280 The special counsel

00:15:36.360 issued more than

00:15:37.380 2,800 subpoenas,

00:15:41.240 executed nearly

00:15:41.980 500 search warrants,

00:15:44.420 obtained more than

00:15:44.960 230 orders

00:15:46.160 for communication records,

00:15:47.500 issued almost 50 orders

00:15:48.760 authorizing use

00:15:49.940 of pen registers,

00:15:51.240 made 13 requests

00:15:52.680 to foreign governments

00:15:53.460 for evidence,

00:15:54.340 and interviewed

00:15:55.060 approximately

00:15:56.040 500 witnesses.

00:16:02.080 So there were 60 people

00:16:03.440 working on this

00:16:04.000 full-time for two years.

00:16:05.120 2,800 subpoenas,

00:16:06.300 500 search warrants,

00:16:07.980 500 witnesses,

00:16:09.520 pen registers,

00:16:10.240 by the way,

00:16:10.600 that's tracking

00:16:11.560 every phone call

00:16:12.220 made or received

00:16:12.740 on a cell phone

00:16:13.320 or other similar

00:16:14.200 communication stuff.

00:16:14.980 500 witnesses,

00:16:16.680 500,

00:16:17.600 and they found nothing.

00:16:21.500 Again, this is just

00:16:22.240 a four-page summary

00:16:23.160 of the findings.

00:16:23.980 Barr says he will

00:16:24.920 likely release more

00:16:25.760 and is still reviewing

00:16:26.660 the full report,

00:16:27.580 and of course,

00:16:28.060 some matters must be redacted,

00:16:29.460 but he quoted this

00:16:30.380 word for word

00:16:31.040 from Mueller's report.

00:16:32.460 He said,

00:16:34.020 as the report states,

00:16:35.400 the investigation

00:16:36.060 did not establish

00:16:37.180 that members

00:16:37.880 of the Trump campaign

00:16:38.880 conspired or coordinated

00:16:40.840 with the Russian government

00:16:42.240 in its election

00:16:43.080 interference activities.

00:16:44.340 Unquote.

00:16:45.300 Nothing.

00:16:46.580 It's just not there.

00:16:48.420 In fact,

00:16:48.800 more than that,

00:16:49.260 the investigation found

00:16:50.200 that Russia did, 0.91

00:16:51.300 in fact,

00:16:51.620 try to hook up

00:16:53.300 with Trump's campaign

00:16:54.100 in some way.

00:16:56.400 But the offers

00:16:57.160 were rejected by Trump

00:16:58.260 or his staff.

00:17:00.360 So they were tested morally

00:17:01.980 and they passed the test.

00:17:03.580 I mean,

00:17:03.740 quote,

00:17:04.440 the special counsel

00:17:05.480 did not find

00:17:06.400 that the Trump campaign

00:17:07.460 or anyone associated

00:17:08.660 with it conspired

00:17:09.400 or coordinated

00:17:09.860 with the Russian government

00:17:10.680 in these efforts,

00:17:11.560 despite multiple offers

00:17:13.820 from Russian-affiliated individuals

00:17:16.040 to assist the Trump campaign.

00:17:18.020 Wow.

00:17:19.980 Hey,

00:17:20.260 do you think Hillary Clinton

00:17:21.160 has ever turned down

00:17:22.440 an offer of help,

00:17:23.780 especially from foreign sources?

00:17:26.820 Well,

00:17:27.180 we know

00:17:27.540 she,

00:17:28.120 in fact,

00:17:28.360 did accept help

00:17:29.300 from foreign sources.

00:17:30.360 Just for example,

00:17:31.240 $25 million

00:17:31.940 from the Saudis,

00:17:34.680 tens of millions

00:17:35.380 of dollars

00:17:35.860 from other entities,

00:17:37.500 from Russia,

00:17:38.340 from the Middle East,

00:17:39.360 from around the world.

00:17:40.400 These are donations

00:17:41.180 to their,

00:17:41.780 quote,

00:17:41.880 family charity,

00:17:43.880 the Clinton Foundation.

00:17:44.960 While Hillary Clinton 0.83

00:17:45.740 was Secretary of State,

00:17:47.100 her family foundation,

00:17:48.760 run by her husband

00:17:49.520 and her daughter,

00:17:50.480 rinsed foreign governments

00:17:51.860 and lobbyists

00:17:52.400 for hundreds

00:17:53.300 of millions of dollars.

00:17:54.900 Trump?

00:17:55.720 He actually said no.

00:17:58.340 In fact,

00:17:59.040 Clinton took money

00:17:59.660 from Russians

00:18:00.420 at precisely

00:18:01.460 the same time

00:18:02.580 she was approving

00:18:03.800 Russia's takeover 0.93

00:18:04.640 of a major uranium company,

00:18:06.660 a strategic acquisition

00:18:07.920 that is surely

00:18:09.140 against America's interests.

00:18:10.140 But hey,

00:18:10.680 it paid well.

00:18:12.080 Here's Bill Clinton

00:18:12.780 yucking it up

00:18:14.080 with Vladimir Putin 0.94

00:18:15.300 right when the deal

00:18:16.360 was going through.

00:18:17.520 He was paid

00:18:18.160 half a million dollars

00:18:19.440 for a single speech

00:18:20.500 in Russia.

00:18:21.340 Do you think

00:18:21.640 they really cared

00:18:22.300 what Bill Clinton said?

00:18:23.420 Or was it just

00:18:24.080 a convenient way

00:18:24.920 to launder

00:18:25.540 a half million dollar

00:18:26.840 gift to him?

00:18:28.720 Oh,

00:18:28.920 and speaking of

00:18:29.420 American foreign policy

00:18:30.540 and collusion

00:18:31.340 with Russia,

00:18:32.060 I don't think

00:18:32.440 we ever did get

00:18:33.160 a proper explanation

00:18:34.040 to what Barack Obama

00:18:35.180 meant by this.

00:18:36.580 Did we?

00:18:36.900 I tell Vladimir.

00:18:50.840 Yeah,

00:18:51.140 what was,

00:18:51.840 was he talking

00:18:53.600 about letting Russia 0.87

00:18:54.900 invade the country

00:18:56.060 of Ukraine,

00:18:56.680 more flexibility?

00:18:57.680 What are you talking

00:18:58.220 about?

00:18:59.260 Oh,

00:18:59.500 who knows?

00:19:00.440 Maybe we'll get

00:19:01.020 a two-year,

00:19:01.960 50 million dollar,

00:19:03.340 60 staff inquiry

00:19:04.840 into it.

00:19:05.800 Just kidding.

00:19:07.040 But still,

00:19:07.660 the damage was done.

00:19:09.180 Thousands of hours

00:19:10.060 of full-tilt propaganda

00:19:11.060 in the media

00:19:11.620 have soaked

00:19:12.120 into the American people.

00:19:13.200 Trump-Putin

00:19:14.360 Russian collusion

00:19:15.220 Trump-Russian

00:19:16.020 sort of collusion

00:19:16.740 Trump-Russian

00:19:17.620 possible collusion

00:19:18.340 Trump-Russian

00:19:19.120 metal collusion

00:19:20.020 Trump-Russia

00:19:20.740 possible collusion

00:19:21.540 Trump-Russian

00:19:22.360 potentially collusion

00:19:23.100 Trump-Russia

00:19:23.920 possible collusion

00:19:24.760 Trump-Russian

00:19:25.540 possible collusion

00:19:26.300 Trump-Russian

00:19:27.120 Trump-Russian

00:19:27.920 ắn collusion

00:19:28.680 Trump-Russian

00:19:28.840 Russian collusion

00:19:29.540 Trump-Russian

00:19:30.280 possible collusion

00:19:31.140 Russian hack

00:19:31.820 our election.

00:19:32.780 Here comes

00:19:33.480 a big change,

00:19:35.120 because all of a sudden

00:19:35.720 How do you undo two years of fake news like that?

00:19:50.420 Conspiracy theories like that.

00:19:51.900 You know, Alex Jones, the colorful character who runs InfoWars,

00:19:55.080 he was kicked off every single high-tech platform.

00:19:57.320 Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, even LinkedIn, even Apple.

00:20:00.080 He was just kicked off of all of them because he was alleged to be a conspiracy theorist who pushed fake news.

00:20:05.540 Really?

00:20:06.860 Well, his millions of followers seem to like what he said.

00:20:09.600 But if that's the precedent, what did we do with CNN and MSNBC and up here the CBC and the rest of them

00:20:15.640 who pushed two years of fake news breathlessly?

00:20:19.460 Well, the media knows who's to blame now.

00:20:22.020 Trump is.

00:20:22.840 Look at this from Politico.

00:20:24.360 But after the nearly two-year investigation found no collusion or clear obstruction of justice,

00:20:30.480 Trump and his aides showed little interest in healing or national unity.

00:20:35.180 Yeah, man, Trump is so angry.

00:20:37.560 I mean, come on, dude.

00:20:38.600 Just show some interest in healing.

00:20:41.500 Sure, you were lied about for two years.

00:20:44.080 Sure, we called you a spy. 0.99

00:20:45.280 We called you a traitor. 0.70

00:20:46.880 We even retailed gossip from a secret dossier paid for by the Democrats 1.00

00:20:51.240 that claimed Trump was filmed in a Russian hotel with a bunch of prostitutes. 0.72

00:20:56.000 That was literally one of the stories shopped around Washington by the media, 0.80

00:20:59.740 including by James Comey of the FBI.

00:21:01.380 And even the late Senator John McCain did.

00:21:04.900 Fake, fake, fake. 0.96

00:21:06.560 But come on, Donald Trump, stop being so mad. 0.97

00:21:08.880 Start healing.

00:21:10.760 There will be no contrition, no reflection, no postmortem from the media.

00:21:14.560 The media didn't learn from their 2016 debacle where they said Clinton was a shoe-in 1.00

00:21:20.680 and they missed the political earthquake that was happening under their feet.

00:21:24.120 In fact, this was just a continuation of that denial.

00:21:27.320 There will be no reckoning.

00:21:28.840 They'll move on to the next fake news scandal.

00:21:31.280 Their goal is not the truth, but the destruction of Trump.

00:21:33.600 I mean, here's John Brennan, a former CIA boss and now a media pundit, just a few days ago.

00:21:39.760 What makes you believe that he has more indictments?

00:21:43.340 Because he hasn't addressed the issues related to criminal conspiracy as well as any individual.

00:21:50.020 Criminal conspiracy involving the Russian? 0.86

00:21:51.800 The Russians, yes. 0.73

00:21:52.500 Yes, yeah.

00:21:52.820 I think it was very, in terms of American person, U.S. person.

00:21:56.420 That's an area you know something about.

00:21:58.600 That investigation was developing while you were still on the job.

00:22:02.860 Well, it was, in terms of looking at what was going on with the Russians

00:22:06.000 and whether or not U.S. persons were actively collaborating, colluding, cooperating,

00:22:10.420 and involved in a conspiracy with them or not.

00:22:13.160 But also, if there's going to be any member of the Trump family.

00:22:15.620 Did you see enough at that stage to believe that there would now,

00:22:19.400 that that would result in indictments once investigated?

00:22:21.980 I thought at the time that there was going to be individuals

00:22:25.300 who were going to have issues with the Department of Justice.

00:22:31.980 How can someone that bad at predicting the future and gathering intelligence

00:22:36.000 have been the head of the CIA?

00:22:38.880 Imagine what he got wrong on the job.

00:22:40.860 That's the deep state, plus the deep media, plus the Democrats. 0.99

00:22:45.800 All proven to be liars today. 0.93

00:22:48.020 And they're the ones who would censor you because you don't want to consume their lies. 0.78

00:22:51.760 You want alternative news sources.

00:22:53.420 Our Canadian media are just as bad,

00:22:55.060 and they delighted in Mueller's investigation as much as any American did.

00:22:59.000 But for my Canadian viewers, I'd say, look, at least America has checks and balances.

00:23:03.080 It was a costly exercise, this Mueller inquiry.

00:23:06.440 It was abusive.

00:23:07.600 It was unnecessary.

00:23:08.400 But at the end of the day, I guess it worked.

00:23:11.860 The system worked.

00:23:13.740 The rumors were chased down to the source and found fake.

00:23:17.680 And they were reported as such.

00:23:19.860 Along the way, some unrelated crimes were uncovered.

00:23:22.440 Some fraud years ago by a lobbyist.

00:23:24.700 Some fraud years ago by a lawyer.

00:23:26.280 But nothing related to Trump's campaign.

00:23:28.180 And nothing related to Russia.

00:23:30.140 You send out 2,800 subpoenas.

00:23:32.220 You interview 500 people.

00:23:33.440 You're going to find something on someone.

00:23:36.680 But nothing on Trump.

00:23:39.400 It was a disaster, but the legal system worked in the end.

00:23:42.240 Hey, do you ever think the Canadian media, who delighted in Mueller's investigation,

00:23:47.780 do you ever think they'd support a Canadian investigation like this?

00:23:51.280 With that kind of staff and budget and power and independence?

00:23:54.240 Do you ever think our media party would support such an investigation into Justin Trudeau

00:23:59.280 and his SNC-Lavalin collusion?

00:24:01.640 Ha, yeah, me neither.

00:24:04.680 Stay with me for more on this with Joel Pollack.

00:24:06.420 I love this country as much as I can love anything.

00:24:23.800 My family, my country, my God.

00:24:25.640 But what they did, it was a false narrative.

00:24:29.760 It was a terrible thing.

00:24:33.540 We can never let this happen to another president again.

00:24:37.020 I can tell you that.

00:24:37.840 I say it very strongly.

00:24:38.840 Very few people I know could have handled it.

00:24:43.120 We can never, ever let this happen to another president again.

00:24:48.540 Thank you all very much.

00:24:49.980 Thank you.

00:24:51.500 Well, that was a gleeful Donald Trump.

00:24:54.800 And joining us now to talk about it is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large

00:24:58.540 with Breitbart.com.

00:24:59.960 Hey, Joel, great to see you again.

00:25:01.760 Good to be with you.

00:25:02.660 Well, I have to say, the president looks a combination of gleeful and relieved.

00:25:09.240 And, you know, frankly, it feels like he won the election again.

00:25:13.560 That's how it feels.

00:25:14.760 That's how it feels to me up here in Canada.

00:25:16.680 Tell me the mood down there in America.

00:25:18.920 And Breitbart, of course, was one of the early believers and supporters in Trump.

00:25:23.800 Give me a sense of things down there in the States.

00:25:27.280 Well, there are, as you might imagine, two reactions.

00:25:30.260 Trump supporters are gleeful, not only because this is the version of reality we always suspected

00:25:37.520 was true, but because it's a total exoneration.

00:25:41.640 The idea that you would have Robert Mueller, who had a staff of Democrats who did not like

00:25:49.920 the president and who had gone after some of the president's associates in a very heavy-handed

00:25:55.920 way, the idea that he would exonerate the Trump campaign of collusion with Russia was

00:26:02.460 something few of us had dared to hope.

00:26:04.240 We didn't believe there was any collusion, but we didn't think that Mueller would give

00:26:07.900 Trump a clean bill of health.

00:26:09.840 Now, he didn't exonerate the president on the question of obstruction, but that's a

00:26:13.780 much more difficult question.

00:26:15.760 And the attorney general and assistant attorney general decided there was not sufficient evidence

00:26:19.460 to pursue that.

00:26:20.260 So, effectively, that is an exoneration.

00:26:22.780 On the other side, you've got the media and the Democrats.

00:26:26.180 And there are two reactions.

00:26:28.160 You have some stunned by the developments.

00:26:33.680 They did not expect this.

00:26:35.160 They're disappointed in the outcome.

00:26:37.220 But they accept it.

00:26:38.920 And they are looking for the next thread to pull on this story almost out of habit.

00:26:45.520 Then you have those who simply refuse to accept reality.

00:26:48.520 And these include members of Congress, some journalists who are still saying they need to see the entire

00:26:54.460 Mueller report, they need to see all the evidence that Mueller obtained.

00:26:58.440 They need to look again at the question of obstruction.

00:27:01.640 This is Chairman Jerry Nadler, who heads the House Judiciary Committee, which is also, by the way,

00:27:05.860 responsible for drafting articles of impeachment and other people like that.

00:27:10.540 So, there's a split among Democrats.

00:27:12.740 I give it another 36 to 48 hours before they pull themselves together and either find a new set of talking points

00:27:18.900 or a new conspiracy theory.

00:27:20.020 But essentially, it's a great day in America.

00:27:23.780 And it is like the president was elected all over again.

00:27:27.020 This is a confirmation that he was elected by the American people.

00:27:29.880 He did not steal the election.

00:27:31.400 The Russians didn't rig the election.

00:27:33.500 That Donald Trump was elected legitimately according to our Constitution.

00:27:38.580 And his election represents the voice of the American people, the genuine political will of the American people.

00:27:44.760 And that, to many on the Democratic side and in the media, is a complete revelation.

00:27:51.220 And I would argue he's been denied the opportunity to govern fully for the last two-plus years.

00:27:58.020 And I don't think he's going to get that time back.

00:28:00.460 But it may help him win a second term, to be honest, because the Democrats, believing this to be true,

00:28:08.480 have gone so far out on a limb in declaring the president illegitimate and making all kinds of other accusations

00:28:14.640 and goading each other to take progressively more and more left-wing positions on various issues.

00:28:19.600 I think they've gone so far out there, it's very hard for the presidential candidates to walk some of these positions back.

00:28:25.560 The smarter ones are going to be the first to do it.

00:28:28.500 But very few of them were standing outside this kind of herd consensus.

00:28:34.940 And it's going to be difficult for them to make the case now that Trump has used the opportunity.

00:28:40.640 If he couldn't govern completely, at least he could seize the middle ground on the issues, which he's done.

00:28:45.020 And the left has taken over the Democratic Party.

00:28:47.500 And that's where most of the presidential candidates on that side now find themselves.

00:28:50.620 So Trump is actually in a very good position right now in 2020.

00:28:54.360 We'll see how things go.

00:28:55.640 And I'm always pessimistic about these things because I think that elections do tend to favor Democrats

00:29:00.760 just by the way they're set up and the way the media work.

00:29:03.400 But for some time, the media are going to be wearing this around their necks.

00:29:07.340 They created this conspiracy theory and treated it like a legitimate news story when there was no evidence whatsoever.

00:29:13.320 You know, I think of some of the big players in the Democratic Party, Tom Steyer, who threw a ton of money behind an impeached Trump campaign and really radicalized the party.

00:29:27.540 That's quite a radical thing to say, to impeach a president.

00:29:30.260 And now that all the bases has fallen away, I have two revelations.

00:29:36.160 One is how empty the Democrat pantry is now that this is gone.

00:29:42.540 I mean, what have they been talking about for two years?

00:29:45.340 You've had a few goofy ideas lately floated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a new Green Deal or whatever.

00:29:51.240 But nothing's meaty, nothing's substantive.

00:29:54.140 I think it's taken up all the energy in the Democrats.

00:29:57.780 But it's also, as you point out, taken up a lot of time and energy from the Republicans, too.

00:30:02.040 Who knows what works they could have done?

00:30:04.620 I was just reading, you know, I mean, the terrible things that are happening in the world that I don't think have had proper American attention.

00:30:13.080 Terrible problems that were not solved because we had a president with one eye on this, you know, being defensive, looking over his shoulder the whole time.

00:30:25.840 I think both sides were hampered, which means America suffered.

00:30:29.780 You know, I think there's a very strong argument to be made that the president was unable to pursue his agenda to the extent he would have liked to have done because of this.

00:30:44.620 I think it probably interfered with his ability to build relations with Russia the way he sought to do.

00:30:52.480 And I think it did weaken America on the world stage a bit.

00:30:55.200 You know, other leaders want to know they're dealing with someone who's not going to disappear.

00:30:59.780 So it did weaken him when it looked as though he might not serve out his full term, which in a couple of instances seemed possible.

00:31:09.540 Not to those of us who never took this seriously, but to the media, to the stock market at times.

00:31:14.840 But look, you have to give the president credit for working through all this.

00:31:17.920 It's not easy to point to any one foreign policy outcome that would have gone differently.

00:31:23.680 And I think he's pursued his agenda regardless.

00:31:25.780 And maybe in some ways, this problem has been a boon for him rather than a burden, because I personally disagree with the president's policy of moving toward better relations with Russia.

00:31:37.540 And maybe given some of the time to consider that relationship more carefully that was afforded by this hoax, he has had a chance to reconsider.

00:31:48.480 He's much more careful now.

00:31:50.020 So maybe there's been some positive spinoffs.

00:31:51.800 Of course, he probably would have arrived at that conclusion eventually, because Russia's interests just don't align with ours on many issues, although they do on other issues.

00:31:58.680 But I think it's to his credit that he worked through this, and he's now come out the other end much stronger.

00:32:05.180 I think he has, to some degree, the honeymoon he was denied back in 2017.

00:32:12.440 He'll have it for about 36 hours, but he'll have a honeymoon.

00:32:14.660 I know you've got to run, Joel, so I have two quick questions for you.

00:32:20.760 After the disconnect between the media party and the pollsters and the pundits and the experts in 2016 and the electorate, there was some introspection.

00:32:30.740 I remember Nate Silver, the prognosticator, said we really have to look about if we're just sampling our own biases and going to our friends.

00:32:41.740 You know, it's like, well, I didn't know anyone who voted for Trump.

00:32:44.800 Well, it's because you're in a bubble.

00:32:46.580 There was a moment of introspection back then.

00:32:49.720 Is there any evidence that the CNNs or the MSNBCs, the New York Times or the Washington Post realized that they have screwed up by getting this so wrong and they bought their own BS?

00:33:01.580 Is there any evidence that there'll be some introspection there or, like you say, they're just going to move on to the next scam?

00:33:08.060 No, I don't think there is.

00:33:09.780 I think there is some infighting you see on the occasional CNN panel where some of the journalists are beginning to question some of the pundits they bring on from the Democratic side who are still struggling to grapple with the reality.

00:33:23.800 But I don't think the media have yet done any self-examination.

00:33:27.380 And the problem after 2016 was there were journalists who were promising them that or promising each other and promising the public that they could bring down the Trump administration.

00:33:36.200 And in a kind of hysteria, it's very difficult to be rational.

00:33:41.740 It's difficult to be the one left behind or left out.

00:33:43.820 So even responsible journalists were caught up in this once it seemed to be a story.

00:33:49.200 Also, the way the media often work, people are competing for traffic, for eyeballs, for subscriptions.

00:33:54.900 And once your competitors are offering a breaking news story that seems exciting and thrilling, it's very hard to stay away from it.

00:34:02.560 And if those competitors are mainstream sources that are widely trusted and seen as credible, then it's very easy to link to those or cover what they're covering and claim that it's OK because CNN covered it or the New York Times covered it or the Washington Post covered it.

00:34:17.360 So in a way, this was like the stock market crash of 2008, where the ratings agencies blessed a number of securities that were really fundamentally unsound.

00:34:28.920 Here we have the credibility of the major mainstream networks creating a false sense of reliability around this story, which is why it all collapsed.

00:34:38.740 I don't think there's any introspection.

00:34:40.040 I think they're on to the next conspiracy theory again by the end of the week.

00:34:42.820 But there ought to be.

00:34:44.320 There really ought to be.

00:34:44.940 You know, it's an amazing analogy how the credit bureau sort of said, hey, everybody, there's no problem.

00:34:49.640 Trust us.

00:34:50.180 We're the trustworthy ones.

00:34:51.540 I got one last question because I know you've got to run.

00:34:53.520 Ann Coulter is someone I follow because I find her interesting and tough.

00:34:58.160 And I know she was an early backer of Trump who has grown skeptical of him because of his slowness on the wall and his statements occasionally that he wants to bring in more immigration.

00:35:10.160 She has tweeted her fear that because this existential threat is now removed from Donald Trump, that he's no longer at genuine risk of impeachment or whatever, that Trump may take his base for granted, the base that was there fighting hard for him every day.

00:35:28.440 And that he might abandon some of those base, pleasing policies like building the wall.

00:35:34.220 She's nervous about this, that Trump might say, oh, I don't need anyone anymore.

00:35:37.560 I'm free now.

00:35:38.240 What would you make of that worry?

00:35:39.380 Well, I think that's always a worry with any Republican president or Republican appointed judge.

00:35:48.140 The pressure is always on to move to the left.

00:35:50.720 And so one always has to wonder.

00:35:52.540 I don't know that that's a particular risk right now.

00:35:55.220 If anything, the risk was greater when there was a chance he would be impeached because he would try to do a deal with the Democrats to get out of impeachment.

00:36:03.380 So we'll have to see.

00:36:05.760 But he certainly was adamant today.

00:36:09.100 He signed a memorandum verifying that the United States recognized Israel's claim to the Golan Heights.

00:36:15.420 That's hardly a sop to the left.

00:36:17.580 And I think right now he's feeling like it's time to hold some people accountable.

00:36:22.460 So I don't think he's thinking about compromise right now.

00:36:25.280 We'll see further down the road if that happens.

00:36:27.380 It may happen during the course of the reelection campaign.

00:36:30.240 That's fairly typical of reelection campaigns, but we'll see.

00:36:33.380 Yeah, very interesting.

00:36:34.440 Well, Joel, thanks for your time today.

00:36:35.840 And we'll follow your stories on Breitbart.com.

00:36:38.740 All right.

00:36:39.040 Take care down there.

00:36:40.360 Thank you.

00:36:40.720 You too.

00:36:41.080 Cheers.

00:36:41.980 Well, that's Joel Pollack, senior editor at large at Breitbart.com.

00:36:44.800 Joel, of course, covers the president very closely.

00:36:47.240 I have to tell you that I feel a little bit how I felt the night of the election in 2016,

00:36:53.420 that the official opinion, the conventional wisdom was so hostile to Trump.

00:36:59.240 I felt like it was a bit of a miracle, like being shot at and missed.

00:37:03.200 And I feel that exact same way again here.

00:37:06.660 Stay with us.

00:37:07.900 More ahead in a moment.

00:37:08.960 Hey, welcome back.

00:37:20.720 On my monologue Friday about the New Zealand shootings and the following push for censorship,

00:37:25.800 John writes,

00:37:26.260 Yeah, I mean, of course, the Columbine massacre used guns, and that was a huge impetus for cracking

00:37:41.660 down on guns.

00:37:42.460 But did you know that they brought propane tanks with them to the school?

00:37:45.840 They tried to blow them up.

00:37:46.920 Had they been successful, God forbid, would we try to ban propane tanks too?

00:37:52.320 Of course, 9-11 used aircraft.

00:37:55.180 You can't stop a tool.

00:37:57.140 You could stop a person.

00:37:58.500 You can fight an ideology.

00:38:00.720 But in New Zealand, they're just being opportunistic.

00:38:02.820 They're trying to crack down on gun ownership and free speech for exactly their pre-existing

00:38:08.660 reasons.

00:38:09.320 Nothing to do with the terrorist attack.

00:38:12.140 Hansen writes,

00:38:13.500 Does everyone start wearing a cross when Christians are murdered at a church to show their solidarity?

00:38:17.840 No.

00:38:18.400 So why the hijab? 0.99

00:38:20.700 That's a great point.

00:38:21.680 I think it's a form of virtue signaling.

00:38:25.840 The irony is the hijab is a form of submission. 1.00

00:38:30.000 It's a lack of freedom.

00:38:31.180 It's a symbol of the subordinate status of women in a culture. 1.00

00:38:35.140 So for the prime minister of New Zealand and newscasters in New Zealand to do that, it's

00:38:39.500 so untowards.

00:38:41.700 And it shows their deep lack of understanding of what the hijab means.

00:38:46.220 And I understand the desire to be sympathetic to a community that was attacked.

00:38:52.160 But you don't have to pretend not only to be Muslim, but to be a submissive woman in 0.99

00:38:56.820 Islam. 0.75

00:38:57.200 That's bizarre.

00:38:57.780 On my interview with Alessandro Bocchi, Paul writes,

00:39:03.760 The Italy incident was stopped in time.

00:39:05.720 Meanwhile, in Nigeria, 120 Christians have been slaughtered by Muslim terrorists.

00:39:10.560 Yeah, and I noticed Justin Trudeau didn't fly the flag at half-mast or put out a...

00:39:15.320 There was a statement put out, but it was terse and perfunctory by comparison.

00:39:21.420 And he hasn't gone on in a rant trying to demonize his opponents as Trudeau has tried

00:39:27.620 to do and Catherine McKenna has tried to do following the New Zealand shooting.

00:39:32.160 Douglas writes,

00:39:32.800 Well, Douglas, I appreciate the compliment.

00:39:52.800 I think what we do here at the rebel is important because it certainly fills a gap.

00:39:58.380 And once a long time ago, I don't know if you know this, but when I was 29, I think I

00:40:02.200 actually ran for parliament in Calgary Southwest five weeks ago until the by-election, but

00:40:06.840 Stephen Harper needed that riding and I grudgingly stepped aside.

00:40:10.880 You know what?

00:40:11.620 I like to joke, though.

00:40:12.820 If we ever had proportional representation in Canada as fringe parties like the NDP or

00:40:18.480 the Greens like, maybe we'd run a rebel party.

00:40:21.800 Wouldn't that be fun?

00:40:22.940 The candidate list would be me and Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, any rebel reporter.

00:40:27.900 Because under proportional representation, if we got, what, five or 10 percent,

00:40:32.200 of the vote, we would get our list elected.

00:40:34.720 Not in any particular riding, but just in general.

00:40:37.240 Wouldn't that be fun to have the rebel party in parliament?

00:40:42.220 I think we could get 10 percent of the vote.

00:40:44.600 And probably the cutoff would be five percent because the Green Party would vote.

00:40:47.880 I think we could get as many votes as Elizabeth May.

00:40:51.160 Wouldn't that be fun?

00:40:52.220 So a little bit of daydreaming right back at you.

00:40:55.440 Folks, that's our show for today.

00:40:56.940 Until next time, just imagine David Menzies in parliament.

00:40:59.980 Oh, my God.

00:41:01.180 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:41:04.920 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 26, 2019

Canada's Media Party fell just as hard for Trump-Russia fake news

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