Rebel News Podcast - CAUGHT! Liberal cabinet minister LeBlanc took free flights on lobbyist’s corporate jet

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today's show is about Dominique LeBlanc.

00:00:03.560 He is, I wouldn't say rented by the Irving family in New Brunswick.

00:00:08.180 I think he's owned outright by them.

00:00:11.020 And he lives like it. He takes private jets all the time.

00:00:15.700 We have some news about his grift and that of his boss, Justin Trudeau.

00:00:19.980 I mean, how do you spend $142,000 of taxpayers' money on food and drinks in one flight?

00:00:29.800 You heard me right. We'll talk a bit about that.

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00:01:02.200 All right, here's the show.

00:01:04.840 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.

00:01:08.040 Tonight, a liberal cabinet minister is caught taking free flights on a lobbyist's corporate jet.

00:01:14.080 It's July 16th, and this is The Ezra LeVance Show.

00:01:16.920 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:22.640 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:26.720 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:32.580 Oh, the Libranos are back. 1.00

00:01:39.940 They were out of power for a decade under Stephen Harper, and boy, that's a lot of pent-up entitlements.

00:01:46.680 Of course, they're enriching themselves on the taxpayers' expense full tilt.

00:01:50.800 That's bad enough.

00:01:52.480 But they're also erasing any ethical lines about private payoffs they can take from connected lobbies.

00:02:00.660 I think, in a way, that's worse.

00:02:02.620 I mean, when Justin Trudeau hired two Filipino nannies and put them on the government payroll, it was really gross. 1.00

00:02:10.220 I mean, why can't he pay for his own nannies or daycare or whatever like the rest of us do?

00:02:15.020 And not one nanny, by the way, but two. 0.99

00:02:17.820 Like, maybe there's some Hollywood celebrity with a different nanny for each child. 1.00

00:02:23.200 Super gross.

00:02:24.080 I mean, Trudeau's a millionaire trust fund.

00:02:28.460 He's the heir.

00:02:29.340 He inherited all his money.

00:02:30.320 He gets paid lavishly as the prime minister.

00:02:33.620 He has a free house.

00:02:36.420 He can't hire his own babysitter.

00:02:38.820 That is a grifter.

00:02:41.340 I think that's a form of stealing, in a way, but at least we saw it.

00:02:45.560 And at least the only grift was the hundred grand or whatever it's going to cost per year for the two nannies.

00:02:51.120 But what about when Justin Trudeau takes payoffs secretly from corporate lobbyists?

00:03:00.080 Like when he took a free vacation from the Aga Khan, the billionaire who owns a private island in the Bahamas.

00:03:05.720 That vacation was worth at least $200,000.

00:03:08.060 Now that's the Aga Khan's money, obviously.

00:03:12.060 But if he's giving a 200 grand gift to Trudeau.

00:03:16.120 And by the way, Trudeau asked for the freebie.

00:03:18.400 It wasn't offered to him.

00:03:19.440 If you read the Ethics Commissioner's report, Sophie Trudeau, Justin's gold-digging social climber wife, she literally called up the Aga Khan's daughter, Princess Zara, and asked if she could go there and bring her girlfriends.

00:03:35.360 And when the princess said, well, actually, you know, we're not going to be there, Sophie Trudeau said, she said, no problem.

00:03:42.840 They just really want to use the place.

00:03:44.560 So could they go and use the Aga Khan's property, even though the Aga Khan and the princess were not there? 0.70

00:03:50.620 Holy cow, what a low-rent, gross gold-digger Sophie is. 1.00

00:03:56.040 Perfect fit for Justin Trudeau.

00:03:58.960 But the point isn't the 200 grand free vacation.

00:04:01.320 The point isn't how gross a gold-digger Justin and Sophie are, how cheap they are, the kind of grifters they are.

00:04:08.720 The point is, if the Aga Khan and his daughter, Princess Zara, agreed to give the Trudeaus a free $200,000 vacation on their private island, the use of their private staff, the private helicopter to get there, 0.88

00:04:25.440 well, obviously, they were expecting to get something in return much more valuable than 200 grand.

00:04:30.600 And that's why the ethics commissioner found that Trudeau broke the law, the first sitting prime minister in history, to be convicted of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act.

00:04:38.840 Because you can't take a 200 grand free vacation from a lobbyist who does hundreds of millions of dollars in business with the federal government because that's a bribe, or at least it sure looks like one.

00:04:53.080 And the ethics commissioner said Trudeau lied to her when he claimed he was, oh, long-time personal friends with the Aga Khan and the princess.

00:05:01.100 That was a lie, she said. Trudeau actually hadn't spoken to the Aga Khan in about 30 years other than a quick hello at his dad's funeral.

00:05:08.500 I'm a lot more worried about secret gifts like that than I am about the public grifting, like putting his own nannies on the payroll.

00:05:18.060 And you know that Trudeau had a guilty mind about that billionaire island because of the lengths to which he went to keep the vacation secret,

00:05:24.960 and then the lengths to which he went to lie about it afterwards, which brings me to the news of the day.

00:05:29.360 I read about this news in Black Locks, which is a small independent news website based in Ottawa,

00:05:34.720 one of the few media in this country that's not on the take for Trudeau's bailout.

00:05:39.220 Here's their story.

00:05:41.060 Minister used contractor's jet.

00:05:44.700 Let me read a bit.

00:05:46.720 Intergovernmental affairs minister Dominique LeBlanc used a federal contractor's private plane to attend medical checkups.

00:05:54.000 LeBlanc, in a filing with the Commissioner of Ethics, said he traveled with his wife.

00:05:58.540 A New Brunswick judge aboard a J.D. Irving limited corporate jet.

00:06:04.740 The personal travel was pre-approved by the Commissioner for a medical consultation as per advice from the treating doctor, wrote LeBlanc.

00:06:12.960 I was accompanied by my spouse.

00:06:16.160 LeBlanc's wife is Provincial Court Judge Jolaine Richard of Moncton.

00:06:20.960 The minister last April 26 took medical leave from Cabinet for treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,

00:06:26.740 but is seeking a seventh term as MP for Beaus-Azur, New Brunswick.

00:06:32.040 Must be nice, eh?

00:06:33.480 See, the rest of us have to wait in line for medical care.

00:06:37.100 But not if you're in the elite.

00:06:39.000 Look at Justin Trudeau's wedding party.

00:06:41.480 Look at that, eh?

00:06:42.740 Look at them all.

00:06:43.680 Basically, all of his buddies from school.

00:06:47.300 There's Gerald Butts right next to him.

00:06:48.720 There's Seamus O'Regan at the bottom.

00:06:49.860 They're all grifters.

00:06:51.720 Seamus O'Regan, probably the dumbest cabinet minister other than Miriam Monsef.

00:06:58.140 Gerald Butts, they're all in there.

00:07:01.000 These are the aristocrats, people.

00:07:04.300 And you're a nobody.

00:07:06.340 See, aristocrats don't wait in line for health care in New Brunswick.

00:07:10.980 They go to the front of the line in Montreal, which has better hospitals than New Brunswick does.

00:07:15.540 And they go there by private jet, even if the private jet is furnished by the Irving family,

00:07:20.580 which has countless contracts with the Canadian government, including for, you know, shipbuilding.

00:07:25.220 But, hey, if Trudeau can take a free flight and a free vacation, if he's defiant about that,

00:07:33.780 that sets the precedent, sets the mood, sets the tone for the rest of the people in his wedding party.

00:07:38.160 I mean, his cabinet, right?

00:07:39.280 So why wouldn't Dominic LeBlanc take a free jet flight?

00:07:43.560 What would the cost of that have been had he paid for it himself?

00:07:46.900 $50,000, $100,000?

00:07:48.800 I don't know.

00:07:49.160 But the thing is, Dominic LeBlanc already promised that he wouldn't deal with the Irvings if he were in cabinet. 1.00

00:07:56.020 Get this.

00:07:56.420 Let me quote this.

00:07:58.440 The minister, that's Dominic LeBlanc, in a declaration under the Conflict of Interest Act,

00:08:02.500 said he used the Irving jet for a return flight from Moncton to Montreal on June 13th.

00:08:06.980 The public declaration of travel was disclosed yesterday.

00:08:09.820 LeBlanc has named Irving's CEO as a personal friend.

00:08:13.080 Under a conflict of interest screen in 2016, he pledged to abstain from any matter or issue

00:08:18.000 involving J.D. Irving Ltd. Irving companies that include numerous federally regulated industries.

00:08:24.220 Under a July 12, 2016 agreement with the Commissioner of Ethics,

00:08:27.640 LeBlanc pledged to undertake to recuse myself and inform the Ethics Commissioner within 60 days of any Irving matter.

00:08:34.640 Oh, well, maybe he'll just pay a $50 fine or whatever it is.

00:08:38.440 One last line from the Blacklock story.

00:08:40.200 The Commissioner of Ethics, in a separate decision last September 12,

00:08:44.800 found LeBlanc in breach of the Act over the awarding of a $24 million commercial fishing license

00:08:50.100 to a company managed by his wife's cousin.

00:08:52.840 The lucrative surf clam license given to Five Nations Clam Company was canceled last August 16.

00:08:58.520 Investigators determined LeBlanc and cousin Gilles Theriault privately discussed company business

00:09:03.420 at a Shediac, New Brunswick coffee shop.

00:09:05.960 Oh, got it.

00:09:06.780 So he broke the law then, too.

00:09:08.880 $24 million contract.

00:09:10.500 You see what I mean?

00:09:11.520 To me, that's the bigger risk with the LeBranos. 1.00

00:09:14.920 He's crooked timber, this Dominic LeBlanc, just like his boss. 0.98

00:09:18.100 Look at this story here.

00:09:20.420 Dominic LeBlanc's family, donors,

00:09:23.640 appointed to five of six recent New Brunswick judicial vacancies.

00:09:27.380 I mean, look, putting your nannies on the government payroll is really gross. 0.99

00:09:31.700 But what about literally placing your family in positions of judicial power to rule over the province

00:09:37.420 like it's a personal fiefdom?

00:09:39.380 I mean, there's the job for life aspect of being a judge.

00:09:42.800 There's the huge financial benefit of being a judge.

00:09:45.380 But that's not the biggest problem with this corruption.

00:09:48.220 It's not the cash that's the main point.

00:09:50.660 It's the erosion of the rule of law.

00:09:52.220 It's eroding our democracy.

00:09:53.720 It's turning into a little kingdom.

00:09:55.160 That's the problem here.

00:09:57.780 Justin Trudeau is corrupt.

00:09:59.020 He's so bad he was convicted of breaking the Conflict of Interest Act.

00:10:02.200 And so his senior staff know that's fine.

00:10:04.980 That's how it's done.

00:10:05.760 That's what the boss does. 0.84

00:10:06.820 So they all do it now.

00:10:09.060 We know that crooked Gerald Butts from the wedding picture there,

00:10:12.980 he billed taxpayers $127,000 just to move down the highway to work for Trudeau in Ottawa.

00:10:21.180 $127,000 just to move down the highway.

00:10:23.340 Moving a huge house's contents should be what?

00:10:28.120 Maybe $15,000 max?

00:10:30.900 He spent 10 times that.

00:10:34.220 LeBlanc has been flying on the Irvings corporate jet for decades.

00:10:39.040 Under Jean Chrétien, it was so gross so often.

00:10:41.220 I mean, he'd use it for government business.

00:10:43.580 He'd use it to fly to weddings.

00:10:45.500 He surely racked up millions of dollars in free flights.

00:10:48.420 It was so bad that even Jean Chrétien's ethics commissioner, if you can even believe there

00:10:53.180 was such a thing, was so alarmed that he asked one of LeBlanc's staff to recuse himself from

00:10:57.460 anything to do with the Irvings back then.

00:11:00.480 Yet telling a New Brunswick politician to have nothing to do with the Irvings is like saying,

00:11:04.060 go on Facebook, but don't have anything to do with Mark Zuckerberg.

00:11:06.480 It don't work that way.

00:11:07.360 Which made me laugh when I saw this tweet today from Justin Trudeau.

00:11:12.380 Flying can be expensive and stressful, guys, and you deserve to be treated with respect

00:11:16.840 if your flight is overbooked, delayed, or something happens to your bags, guys.

00:11:20.840 That's why we've implemented clear and fair passenger rights, and they come into effect

00:11:25.440 today, guys.

00:11:27.200 I added the guys part.

00:11:29.940 Hey, when was the last time Justin Trudeau flew commercial?

00:11:33.320 Like flew a regular plane?

00:11:34.320 It can be stressful and expensive.

00:11:36.300 How would he know?

00:11:38.320 I bet he hasn't paid for a flight this century.

00:11:42.240 I bet he hasn't flown commercial this century.

00:11:45.600 It's not just that he takes illegal free flights like he did from the Aga Khan, and that his

00:11:50.360 cabinet takes illegal free flights.

00:11:52.700 It's that when Trudeau himself flies on the private government jet we give him, he spends

00:11:57.460 tens of thousands of dollars per flight on wine, liquor, exotic food.

00:12:04.320 As Sheila Gunn-Reed showed a while back, Trudeau racked up $384,000 in food and booze in just 0.63

00:12:11.400 five flights.

00:12:12.860 Some of those flights he spent more than $140,000.

00:12:16.180 How do you even do it on the food?

00:12:18.740 On the food and drink?

00:12:19.980 How is that possible?

00:12:23.340 Then again, this is the same prime minister who specifically requests specialty vodkas.

00:12:29.460 Specialty vodkas.

00:12:32.320 You know, he doesn't drink normal vodka that mere citizens might drink if they were paying

00:12:36.380 for it themselves.

00:12:37.420 You're paying for him to have some weird elite vodka.

00:12:41.200 I don't even know why.

00:12:43.320 Trudeau was the same moron who, when he went to India last year, he literally brought his

00:12:49.160 own Indian chef with him from Canada because apparently you can't get good Indian food in

00:12:57.440 India and you paid for that too. 0.98

00:13:01.800 There are a hundred reasons why Justin Trudeau is the worst prime minister in a generation.

00:13:05.700 He's stupid.

00:13:06.580 He doesn't know how to govern.

00:13:07.780 He doesn't know how to lead.

00:13:09.280 He doesn't know how to negotiate.

00:13:10.820 He is a disaster at foreign policy.

00:13:12.780 He's a walking international diplomatic incident.

00:13:16.240 But being corrupt, being a labrano, being a grifter, that's got to be one of the most 1.00

00:13:23.340 infuriating, don't you think?

00:13:26.200 Stay with us for more.

00:13:27.160 Will you condemn the Antifa attack in Washington over the weekend?

00:13:45.860 It's easy to condemn terrorism.

00:13:47.340 Will you condemn it?

00:13:47.780 Is it clear?

00:13:51.600 Antifa firebombed a facility in Tacoma over the weekend.

00:13:55.040 It's an ICE facility.

00:13:55.840 Will you condemn them for that?

00:13:59.160 Will you condemn Antifa for the attack in Washington?

00:14:03.000 It's easy to condemn a terrorist attack.

00:14:08.240 We're wondering if you'll condemn the Antifa attack against an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington

00:14:14.260 over the weekend.

00:14:17.420 No?

00:14:18.620 Do you condemn Antifa for their violent actions against American law enforcement?

00:14:23.580 Okay, so now you're getting in the way of me walking.

00:14:25.420 Yes, I'm asking you to please back up.

00:14:27.620 Sir?

00:14:28.340 Do you condemn Antifa?

00:14:29.540 What I'm condemning is a lack of journalistic integrity.

00:14:32.040 You're not respecting my physical space right now.

00:14:34.540 And I'm going to ask you to step away.

00:14:37.380 Antifa didn't respect the integrity of that building.

00:14:39.580 You can give me a card and we can respond.

00:14:41.460 So you're not going to condemn them?

00:14:42.520 This isn't a journalistic ethics thing.

00:14:46.280 I'm asking questions that CNN won't.

00:14:49.040 Will you condemn Antifa?

00:14:50.820 Sir, asking one more time to please scoot over.

00:14:53.180 Well, that's our friend Kian Bexty in the halls of Congress.

00:14:58.420 You know, I suppose it's what they say is true.

00:15:01.140 Immigrants are doing the jobs Americans won't. 1.00

00:15:04.720 I jest, of course.

00:15:05.960 Kian is not an immigrant to the U.S.

00:15:07.740 He's just a visitor, but he's asking more accountability questions, doing more real journalism in the

00:15:14.880 space of one hour in Congress than CNN has done all year, grilling starlet congressmen

00:15:23.380 like Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others with questions that they don't seem

00:15:30.000 to like.

00:15:31.180 And joining us now at Wiseguide from Washington, D.C., is Kian Bexty.

00:15:35.140 Kian, great to see you.

00:15:36.280 Congratulations.

00:15:38.520 Thanks, Ezra.

00:15:39.400 It was a fun couple of days here in Washington.

00:15:42.820 Well, your videos have had more than one million views in the last 24 hours, both on Twitter,

00:15:50.120 on YouTube.

00:15:51.440 I see they've been shared widely by American news sources.

00:15:55.340 It was on Fox News' Tucker Carlson last night, The Daily Wire.

00:15:59.860 And even the Trump war room picked up one of your videos and retweeted it, which got an

00:16:05.340 enormous number of views.

00:16:07.640 And I just keep shaking my head because why is it?

00:16:10.580 I mean, listen, I'm glad we're doing it.

00:16:12.180 I'm glad you're doing it.

00:16:13.580 But I'm surprised that in the entire United States of America, there are no journalists

00:16:20.060 doing that kind of accountability questioning of the left.

00:16:23.600 We see that of leftist journalists to conservatives and Republicans.

00:16:28.540 But I don't know why we don't see that to the stars of the new left like you were doing.

00:16:34.920 Well, I don't know either.

00:16:37.420 And it's pretty apparent.

00:16:38.580 You can see there's definitely the appetite for journalism, this sort of candid interview

00:16:43.460 of politicians.

00:16:44.540 It's something that is rarely seen.

00:16:46.320 Of course, the one congresswoman said it was a lack of journalistic ethics or something

00:16:52.200 along those lines to ask for questions in the hallway.

00:16:55.340 And I'll tell you an interesting story.

00:16:56.840 So I basically waited outside of a committee room where I knew Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 0.78

00:17:02.240 a few other Democrats were going to go to eventually grill Kellyanne Conway. 1.00

00:17:07.420 Kellyanne Conway, of course, snubbed them, as she has every right to do, being a part of 0.99

00:17:13.520 the administration.

00:17:14.240 And so they pretty much adjourned that committee meeting right after they all appeared.

00:17:19.320 So I asked them questions as I came in.

00:17:21.560 They adjourned very quickly.

00:17:23.180 And then the Republicans all left.

00:17:25.860 And of course, I was asking some Republicans questions, too.

00:17:28.260 But I was hanging out by the Democrat door and their staffers poke their heads out and

00:17:33.660 poke their heads out, go back in, poke their heads out, go back in.

00:17:36.540 And then they start sort of filtering out.

00:17:39.160 And everyone except for AOC and Ilhan Omar and Presley, I think, all stayed in the room

00:17:45.660 for like half an hour longer than they were supposed to.

00:17:49.540 In fact, they actually delayed the press conference that everyone was watching yesterday.

00:17:53.460 They delayed it by almost half an hour because they were so scared to leave that room and be

00:17:58.640 asked questions by me.

00:17:59.600 Now, of course, the mainstream media was parked outside the room waiting to ask some questions,

00:18:03.640 too.

00:18:04.060 But after about 20 minutes, they all packed up and left.

00:18:06.820 They didn't want to wait that long.

00:18:08.040 Or maybe they had to get to the press conference.

00:18:09.600 I'm not sure why they left.

00:18:11.260 But I just stayed there.

00:18:12.320 I stayed standing in the corner and I sort of hid a little bit so that they would think

00:18:17.720 that I left.

00:18:18.580 And right when I did that, of course, AOC and Ilhan Omar both left together to get into

00:18:23.680 an SUV, which is when there's that one video of them getting into that SUV when Ilhan Omar

00:18:28.660 starts laughing when I asked her if she will tell Americans, and Antifa in particular, not

00:18:34.840 to be violent towards law enforcement.

00:18:37.160 We'll show a quick clip of that, getting into the SUV and then laughing about your terrorism

00:18:41.800 some questions here.

00:18:42.520 Take a look.

00:18:49.380 Will you tell Americans not to be violent anymore? 0.63

00:18:52.260 Antifa to be exact.

00:18:56.440 Should Antifa stop being violent?

00:19:00.380 Okay, we'll close the door.

00:19:01.980 I can't say I'm surprised that the politicians were hiding from me.

00:19:05.960 We've seen that before.

00:19:07.320 We've seen that in Ottawa.

00:19:08.960 We've seen that in Calgary.

00:19:10.320 Rachel Notley delayed an event by an hour to avoid your questioning.

00:19:15.240 I'll always chuckle over that.

00:19:18.000 But I have to say, I mean, I've been to Washington, D.C. a number of times, including to meet conservative

00:19:22.740 journalists.

00:19:24.040 And aside from Fox News, which is very large and powerful, there's smaller conservative

00:19:29.820 news networks.

00:19:30.460 There's OAN, there's the blaze, which is merged with CRTV.

00:19:35.940 There's the website-based media like the Daily Caller, which has a huge office in Washington.

00:19:45.860 There's just so many conservative journalists, conservative activists.

00:19:50.200 I'm truly boggled by the fact that no one just walks up to these congressmen who are very available,

00:19:57.880 it seems to me, and just puts questions to them.

00:20:00.700 I don't know.

00:20:01.260 I find it unusual that we're doing this from Canada.

00:20:05.320 I love it, of course.

00:20:06.780 I think we're making a difference.

00:20:08.980 And I think we're growing our U.S. viewership.

00:20:12.340 And of course, Canadians care about those things, too.

00:20:15.040 I'm just scratching my head because I thought they had a more robust media culture down there

00:20:19.600 because of their First Amendment.

00:20:20.700 I just, I feel like the conservative media are sleeping down there.

00:20:26.480 Well, I'll tell you my experience that I've had here so far.

00:20:29.920 Compared to Canada, it is far more open.

00:20:33.160 It is much easier to get access to politicians here because the press gallery, if one exists here,

00:20:41.380 doesn't have the same iron fist as the one in Ottawa does because, of course,

00:20:46.020 the invest-Jewish relationship between the prime minister's office and the press gallery in Canada.

00:20:51.580 So in Canada, if you go to Parliament Hill to get in, the security officers will say,

00:20:56.520 what are you doing here?

00:20:57.220 Why do you have a camera?

00:20:58.400 Do you have authorization to be in this building?

00:21:00.580 Whereas you go to Congress and you put your backpack through a metal detector and then, boom,

00:21:05.660 you're standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:21:10.740 So it is much easier to do it, which makes me wonder why there are more people doing it.

00:21:16.540 I can understand why there are less people doing it in Canada because it's a very hard thing to cover the prime minister

00:21:22.060 when the prime minister doesn't want you to cover him.

00:21:24.800 Justin Trudeau has absolute authority over who can and cannot be in press conferences.

00:21:30.120 That's not the same here.

00:21:31.220 So I don't know why the Daily Caller doesn't do this.

00:21:35.840 I mean, they have journalists in D.C.

00:21:37.920 Maybe they think that it's too aggressive.

00:21:41.860 I don't know.

00:21:42.360 I'm not a very aggressive individual.

00:21:45.700 I'm a small stasher and not very intimidating, I like to think.

00:21:49.140 But, of course, these women, these congresswomen that I was interviewing, they weren't happy that I was doing it. 0.59

00:21:58.800 They were probably hoping for more puffball questions like what CNN and MSNBC tend to ask them.

00:22:08.480 Yeah, I mean, I should point out that, I mean, obviously I watch all your work.

00:22:12.400 You work for the rebel.

00:22:13.720 And even your toughest questions, they're just sort of standard questions for journalists on the left from CNN or MSNBC in the States,

00:22:23.920 from the CBC here in Canada, the Toronto Star.

00:22:27.580 So those are standard questions when put to a conservative.

00:22:32.260 I mean, you never shout.

00:22:33.360 You never swear.

00:22:34.180 You never physically touch anyone or block anyone.

00:22:36.740 It's just that you ask questions that are slightly uncomfortable.

00:22:44.060 Although, really, how uncomfortable should it be when you're asking someone to denounce a terrorist group?

00:22:50.380 That should be the opposite of uncomfortable.

00:22:52.220 That is, in a way, a puffball question.

00:22:55.180 Will you disavow Antifa?

00:22:58.000 That actually is a puffball question.

00:22:59.720 The fact that they don't answer it is what makes it cringeworthy and stressful.

00:23:06.740 Yeah, I like what you were telling me yesterday.

00:23:10.860 You were giving me some advice, telling me to ask them to blink twice if they would disavow Antifa because they're silent, right?

00:23:20.460 They don't really have an answer.

00:23:22.520 And I think that it's for a couple of reasons.

00:23:24.540 It's either if they did answer, they would have to lie.

00:23:27.400 Or if they did answer and tell the truth, they would lose a huge part of their activist faith.

00:23:33.320 I mean, who is going through the doors, going to the doors in Minneapolis, knocking on doors, panting on pamphlet for Ilhan Omar?

00:23:42.340 Well, it's not everyday Democrat.

00:23:44.840 It's not centrist Democrat.

00:23:47.200 The overlap, I think, between her activist faith and Antifa is huge.

00:23:52.200 The Venn diagram is basically a circle, I think.

00:23:55.320 So if Ilhan Omar particularly was to denounce Antifa, she would be alienating a huge part of her support base, which has helped her get accepted with everyday Minnesotans outside the First Amendment community.

00:24:13.200 Well, it's very interesting.

00:24:15.020 We're having a little bit of a Skype issue, but I think we got your message.

00:24:18.960 I want to close by showing an interview you did with Ilhan Omar a couple of weeks ago now when news broke that, according to forms and documents she had filed with the Minnesota state government,

00:24:32.020 apparently looks like she illegally married her brother. 1.00

00:24:38.180 I don't think they consummated the marriage.

00:24:40.260 I think it was a sham marriage for legal fraud, for immigration or tax reasons.

00:24:45.700 So I'll show that because, again, what struck me about this video was just how open and available Ilhan Omar was,

00:24:54.440 who's in the news so much, for just literally anyone to walk up to her.

00:24:58.740 And you had her for almost two full minutes. So, Kian, I'll say good luck and goodbye now and keep it up. 1.00

00:25:03.620 And we'll see, of course, on this side of the 49th parallel soon enough because we have 338 MPs we need to hold to account up here, too.

00:25:11.100 But let me close by saying keep up the fight and let me close by showing that video of you and Ilhan Omar a couple of weeks ago.

00:25:18.880 So thanks for your work, Kian.

00:25:21.220 Thanks for having me on, Rick.

00:25:22.120 All right. Here's that video.

00:25:24.340 Ilhan, if I could get a moment of your time, if I could get a moment of your time.

00:25:28.740 Could you tell me why you filed illegal tax returns in 2014 and 2015?

00:25:34.040 And it's which committee?

00:25:37.000 Can you tell me definitively or not, is Ahmad Elsie your brother?

00:25:41.540 For the markup?

00:25:43.060 Yeah.

00:25:43.440 Is he your brother in the middle of the legislative briefing?

00:25:45.880 We're going to the...

00:25:46.040 We're going to the...

00:25:47.040 Is he your brother?

00:25:48.020 We're going to which one?

00:25:50.420 It's Foreign Affairs.

00:25:52.200 I'll go with you.

00:25:53.020 Can you tell me definitively, yes or no, is he your brother?

00:25:57.560 And why can't you answer that question?

00:25:59.600 The remarks you gave me earlier...

00:26:01.280 Why did you refer to him as your child's uncle on Instagram?

00:26:05.540 And why did you lie on court documents saying that you hadn't seen him since 2011,

00:26:10.600 when in fact you'd been talking to him all the time on Instagram?

00:26:12.720 Sir, we're not doing ambush interviews.

00:26:14.560 This isn't an ambush.

00:26:15.960 You can send me an email.

00:26:18.420 Why are you so afraid to answer these questions?

00:26:20.620 Thank you.

00:26:22.640 So we have budget and extra...

00:26:24.720 How can anyone take you credibly on the student loan tax file

00:26:32.580 when you were cheating on your taxes in 2014?

00:26:37.220 And how can you call for Donald Trump's tax filings

00:26:41.480 when nobody can trust you on the file at all?

00:26:47.020 And why are you scared to answer the questions?

00:26:50.640 Excuse me.

00:26:51.340 Excuse me.

00:26:52.180 What are you hiding?

00:26:59.200 Trying to find my phone at the moment.

00:27:02.060 So that you can go on Instagram and talk to your brother?

00:27:18.300 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday

00:27:20.100 about Justin Trudeau and China.

00:27:21.880 Carol writes,

00:27:23.580 I heard Trump say that he's working on a deal with China

00:27:27.060 and it will greatly benefit the American farmers.

00:27:29.880 Trudeau can insult him as being racist,

00:27:31.760 but watch out, we'll pay dearly for it.

00:27:34.840 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:27:36.600 I mean, I'm surprised he hasn't relocated

00:27:39.300 the Canadian auto industry en masse

00:27:41.500 to Michigan and Ohio already.

00:27:44.220 But if Trudeau keeps chirping at him,

00:27:46.080 it wouldn't surprise me if he does.

00:27:48.460 Liza writes,

00:27:49.920 Canada had better get smart about China.

00:27:51.960 We need a leader who will push back on the bullying.

00:27:55.300 Justin won't do it.

00:27:56.100 How about Scheer?

00:27:56.940 Will he do it if he gets in?

00:27:58.240 Well, I got to tell you,

00:28:00.960 I haven't seen Andrew Scheer get tough on anyone ever

00:28:03.540 other than two people.

00:28:05.660 Michael Cooper, who spoke up for free speech.

00:28:08.960 And yeah, us here at the Rebel.

00:28:13.200 I haven't actually seen him get tough

00:28:15.580 with anyone or anything else.

00:28:17.640 Have you?

00:28:19.100 On my interview with Joel Pollack,

00:28:20.440 Paul writes,

00:28:20.980 Well, what do you think about Kian 0.94

00:28:32.600 going down there and messing stuff up

00:28:34.740 by asking some very plain-spoken questions?

00:28:36.940 I thought he did a great job.

00:28:38.520 Obviously, we're interested in American things,

00:28:40.280 but the big fight is up here in Canada.

00:28:42.080 And I expect Kian and our other reporters

00:28:44.460 will do a great job up here.

00:28:46.180 But as Kian pointed out,

00:28:47.880 the thing about America is it's more free.

00:28:51.020 Journalists are freer

00:28:52.120 and politicians are expected

00:28:53.640 to answer questions more

00:28:55.260 than they do up here in Canada.

00:28:57.160 Just another way that the First Amendment 0.99

00:28:58.820 is one of America's great strengths

00:29:01.360 and our lack of it

00:29:02.340 is one of our great weaknesses.

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Rebel News Podcast - July 17, 2019

CAUGHT! Liberal cabinet minister LeBlanc took free flights on lobbyist’s corporate jet

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