Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ EXCLUSIVE： Naming the media who secretly took Trudeau's $61M pre-election pay-off

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Special podcast today, and this one you really do have to see the

00:00:04.740 visuals to get the full impact. I have in my possession a list of the nearly 1,500 journalists

00:00:10.360 who took a secret $61 million payoff from Justin Trudeau right before the election.

00:00:16.240 It was a secret, but now it's not. Go to rebelinvestigates.com and you can see the list

00:00:21.680 for yourself. Here's the podcast, and if you want to go to rebelnewsplus.com, sign up,

00:00:27.080 you can see the video version, too. All right, here's today's show.

00:00:35.260 Tonight, a Rebel News exclusive. I have the names of the news media who secretly took a $61 million

00:00:51.620 pre-election payoff from Justin Trudeau. It's 29 pages long. It's September 13th,

00:00:57.280 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:58.800 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:04.640 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:08.700 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:13.580 right to do so.

00:01:19.380 I have in my hands the list of journalists who secretly took a $61 million pre-election payoff

00:01:25.260 from Justin Trudeau. Trudeau shoveled it out the door to them just before he called the election,

00:01:30.100 and he kept the list a secret until now. You can see the list for yourself at rebelinvestigates.com.

00:01:37.460 Seriously, go there and take a look. The list is 29 pages long. I've printed it off here.

00:01:43.180 If I've counted right, there are 49 names on each page, and it's 29 pages long. By my math,

00:01:49.600 that means there's almost 1,500 news media who took the bribe. It's actually more than that because

00:01:56.480 this doesn't list individual reporters, but rather companies. So you can see that McLean's magazine

00:02:02.300 was given a $313,000 pre-election top-up by Trudeau, one of the largest. They don't list

00:02:09.000 all the individual prostitutes at McLean's. They just name the brothel. Oh, I'm sorry. Is that too

00:02:15.260 rude for you? I apologize. What would you call it instead that's more accurate? A bribe? A payoff?

00:02:22.420 A kickback? An insurance policy? How about a special pre-election gratuity paid to the very

00:02:28.820 journalists who were about to cover Trudeau's election campaign so lovingly? $61 million can

00:02:34.780 ensure that it was loving. I mean, if someone gave you $61 million or even just the $313,000

00:02:40.780 that McLean's got, you'd probably love them or at least fake it. Prostitution is the world's oldest 1.00

00:02:47.160 profession and journalists are not known for their high morals. We didn't hear about these

00:02:52.160 secret payments from any of the nearly 1,500 news media who received them, did we? Think about

00:02:58.220 that for a moment. They had the news. They were in on the news. They were in the middle of it. They

00:03:03.880 didn't dare share the news with you, their readers. They deliberately kept the news a secret

00:03:08.900 from you because it showed that they were in Trudeau's pocket and they didn't want you to know

00:03:12.960 that because they know you already don't trust the media very much and this would make it much,

00:03:17.200 much worse. I mean, taking a government bailout at any time as a disaster for the reputation of

00:03:22.900 the independence of the press, if you have an adjective in front of the word journalist, like

00:03:27.000 government journalist, it just completely changes the meaning of the word. We all know that you can't

00:03:32.500 trust Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster because of that, but now he's injected himself into nearly

00:03:38.380 1,500 other private sector media, if you can even still call them that. I won't call these 1,500

00:03:44.820 companies corporate welfare bums because all that means is they're mooches. Now, of course, they are

00:03:50.260 that. And of course, it is gross giving these mooches $61 million of public money in the middle

00:03:55.920 of a pandemic as if they're a high priority. But it's not just the shocking amount of money Trudeau

00:04:00.920 spends more than a billion dollars a day. It's that he has corrupted the media. It's like what he tried to do

00:04:06.580 when Jody Wilson-Raybould stopped him. He was trying to corrupt the criminal prosecution of

00:04:11.360 his friends at SNC-Lavalin, and she wouldn't let it happen on her watch. 1,500 news media were all

00:04:18.920 too happy to let it happen on their watch. They're part of it. It's an inside job. They took the dough.

00:04:23.420 We only heard about this from one of the few media in Canada who are not on this 29-page list,

00:04:28.960 a small reader-supported news outlet in Ottawa called Black Locks Reporter. They're not cheap to

00:04:34.340 subscribe if I recall. Their annual subscription is about 300 bucks, but it's worth every penny to

00:04:38.840 me. They break all sorts of news, and we have to support them because they're one of the few

00:04:42.600 truth-tellers out there who aren't in Trudeau's pocket. Anyways, here's what Black Locks report

00:04:46.980 last month. Now the subsidies are secret. Heritage Minister Stephen Gilbeau's department refuses to

00:04:53.900 name publishers awarded nearly $61 million in pre-election emergency relief. The grants were to

00:04:59.480 ensure readers receive timely information they require from their government, Gilbeau wrote in

00:05:04.180 a letter to MPs. I love that. If they didn't give $61 million to their friends in the media on the eve of

00:05:10.700 an election, maybe those reporters wouldn't report the news in a timely way. Is that what they're

00:05:15.500 arguing? I don't even get it. I'll read one more line. The letter disclosed unnamed publishers

00:05:21.340 receive $60.8 million as emergency support through an existing Heritage Department program called

00:05:27.680 Aid to Publishers. The grants were in addition to annual subsidies already paid, including proceeds

00:05:33.380 from a $595 million media bailout approved by Parliament in 2018. So this latest payout is on top

00:05:41.480 of the $600 million. They plan to keep the name secret, though, until after the election.

00:05:47.980 Well, when we saw that Black Lock story, we immediately filed an access to information request

00:05:52.640 to the government. And to my surprise, the government actually answered us, and they required $30

00:05:57.640 days. That is very rare. Trudeau has sometimes delayed access to information requests by as much

00:06:02.580 as five years when he's really embarrassed about something. So maybe there's someone in the

00:06:07.420 bureaucracy who's as disgusted as we are by this massive bribe, and he wanted the news to get out

00:06:12.420 sooner. So we simply asked for the list, and we got it. And again, why did no one else do that?

00:06:19.140 Well, duh, because nearly 1,500 journalists and news media organization are implicated in it.

00:06:25.660 This is a list of sellouts is what this is. It's a list of compromised media. I'm sorry,

00:06:30.720 it's different. I mean, corporate welfare bums are always discreditable. Bombardier,

00:06:35.580 SNC-Lavalin, all the crooked companies. That's just normal crooked, though. But the people on this

00:06:41.200 list are supposed to be the watchdogs, the guardians, the ones holding the government to

00:06:45.380 account. Them taking a bribe is much worse than some, I don't know, chewing gum factory taking a bribe.

00:06:51.000 And the fact that they started their service to Trudeau immediately, they immediately tailored

00:06:56.300 their coverage by not covering the payoff itself, shows they're fully in the tank for Trudeau.

00:07:02.720 Imagine if Black Locks hadn't broken the story last month. And imagine if we didn't file the

00:07:07.320 access to information request. The other 1,500 news media companies in Canada would simply

00:07:12.600 have hidden it from you. They're colluding, is my point. But really, are you surprised?

00:07:17.640 They've colluded to kick out Rebel News time and again. We had to go to the federal court just last

00:07:21.960 week to get access to the debates. And not only did no journalist support us getting in, other than

00:07:27.020 Candace Malcolm and Andrew Lawton from True North, but when we won in court, most journalists who

00:07:33.720 expressed an opinion actually denounced us. Here's a press release from Trudeau's bailout media in Quebec

00:07:39.380 denouncing Rebel News, saying we should never have been allowed in to the debates. It's in French.

00:07:44.360 To be clear, this is a Quebec union of reporters saying the federal court was wrong to upheld

00:07:50.720 freedom in the press. Now, I can see why they're all on this list. They're all bought and paid for.

00:07:55.780 And so our mere presence embarrasses them. It's why you'll never see any of them asking a real

00:08:01.680 question like this one.

00:08:02.580 Bonjour, M. Trudeau. Alexandre, pour Rebel News. Donc, M. Trudeau, je vais revenir rapidement sur ce qui s'est passé hier.

00:08:09.580 Vous avez déabolisé l'un des rares médias qui ne reçoit pas d'argent du gouvernement.

00:08:15.320 Vous avez exprimé votre opinion en disant que nous propageons la désinformation.

00:08:21.080 Si c'était vrai et si c'était le cas, la Cour fédérale ne nous aurait pas permis d'être ici aujourd'hui.

00:08:26.720 Je suis moi-même scientifique et je me base sur les faits.

00:08:31.380 Ma question est la suivante.

00:08:33.660 L'Israël est l'un des pays les plus vaccinés au monde.

00:08:38.000 Ils sont rendus maintenant à leur quatrième rappel de vaccin.

00:08:41.560 Ils ne considèrent plus que ceux qui ont reçu deux doses de vaccin sont pleinement vaccinés.

00:08:47.700 Ma question est,

00:08:48.560 Plusieurs Canadiens ne désirent pas avoir un rappel de vaccin.

00:08:56.880 Allez-vous leur enlever leurs privilèges reliés au passeport vaccinal?

00:09:04.800 Et aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre?

00:09:10.120 Ou allez-vous encore diaboliser mon média?

00:09:12.600 J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir.

00:09:17.940 Je n'ai plus rien à dire.

00:09:19.800 Ça demande bien qui vous êtes. Merci.

00:09:21.460 Yeah, they hate Alexa and they hate Rebel News because we're not bought off.

00:09:26.700 And by asking real questions like that, we shame them because it shows how easily bought off they are.

00:09:31.740 And I won't go through the whole list.

00:09:33.140 There are 1,500 names, which is perhaps the largest conglomeration of prostitutes outside the website, OnlyFans.

00:09:40.580 I'll mention just a few.

00:09:42.320 I showed you McLean's already.

00:09:44.260 The biggest troffers here are, as usual, post-media.

00:09:47.300 By my count, they literally took 48 payments, the most of any company.

00:09:52.260 If you're wondering why your daily newspaper is pro-Trudeau, look no further.

00:09:56.420 If you're wondering why you didn't read about this payoff in your daily newspaper, look no further.

00:10:00.580 They're on the take.

00:10:02.180 There are weird things on the list, too, like TVA.

00:10:04.640 That's a TV station in Quebec.

00:10:06.540 But they've figured out how to game the system.

00:10:08.680 They've set up publications and managed to pocket seven figures from just this payoff round.

00:10:14.620 There's a left-wing union brochure called rabble.ca.

00:10:18.080 It's just a website.

00:10:19.580 I call it a union brochure.

00:10:20.740 Take a look for yourself.

00:10:21.540 It's a forum for big labor unions.

00:10:23.460 Their logos are all over it.

00:10:24.780 There's Unifor, which is running attack ads against the conservatives.

00:10:28.260 That's a journalism union on the left.

00:10:30.160 So, of course, Rabble got a newspaper bailout, even though they don't publish a newspaper.

00:10:34.660 That's a neat trick.

00:10:36.600 There's a left-wing website propped up by the Tides Foundation called the National Observer.

00:10:40.780 Remember, the Tides Foundation is an anti-oil science lobby group founded in San Francisco.

00:10:45.400 They received a quarter million dollars from Trudeau.

00:10:48.200 They're only too happy to do Trudeau's dirty work for them and to attack Trudeau's rivals

00:10:51.760 in dirty ways Trudeau himself likely couldn't get away with.

00:10:55.560 But there are so many news companies, it's a laugh who's getting the money.

00:10:59.240 I mean, you saw Stephen Gilboa's rationale.

00:11:01.300 We need these magazines and newspapers to get the important pandemic news out or whatever he said.

00:11:06.200 Have you ever seen a magazine called Nuvo, N-U-V-O magazine?

00:11:09.200 It's one of those lush luxury magazines, luxury porn, thousand-dollar shoes, million-dollar cars,

00:11:17.340 private jets, all exquisitely photographed, that kind of thing.

00:11:20.160 Not actually a political magazine or a news magazine at all.

00:11:23.820 $261,000 for them.

00:11:25.980 Because nothing says luxury lifestyle like being a beggar for Trudeau's table scraps.

00:11:31.200 How day classé.

00:11:32.040 That's really embarrassing to Nuvo's brand.

00:11:34.780 I see Ming Pao is on there.

00:11:36.700 That's the China-based newspaper that publishes a Canadian edition.

00:11:41.020 You can see Trudeau on their front page.

00:11:44.000 Yeah, they got 16 grants from Trudeau, more than a million bucks in this round alone.

00:11:47.840 You bet they'd sell their front page for that.

00:11:50.260 And Ming Pao is famous for being collaborators with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:11:53.860 They're probably, you know, they'd love pro-Beijing Trudeau anyways.

00:11:57.260 But they're only too happy to take free money from him also.

00:12:00.560 Maybe they thought this would be a secret.

00:12:02.020 Maybe they just don't care.

00:12:02.940 Now, some of it's pitiful.

00:12:05.100 I get this magazine that I happen to have in my office because I'm a member of the tow truck company called the Canadian Automobile Association, the CAA.

00:12:13.740 It's not a news magazine, just so you know.

00:12:16.240 Like Nuvo is just some luxury shopping magazine.

00:12:19.320 The CAA magazine, there's no news in this.

00:12:22.340 It's all just selling the CAA's travel services.

00:12:26.520 They got $400,000.

00:12:28.980 That's just plain corporate welfare.

00:12:30.500 I'm not even going to make the case that the CAA tow truck people are even pro-Trudeau hacks.

00:12:36.660 They're just piggies at the trough getting free money if $61 million is going out the door. 0.99

00:12:41.640 And in secret, why not jump in, snout first? 0.61

00:12:44.040 So they did.

00:12:45.080 I remember the news a few years ago when an adultery website called Ashley Madison had its membership hacked.

00:12:53.300 Thousands of married men who secretly signed up to meet mistresses online.

00:12:59.460 Their names, addresses, and details were hacked and published on the Internet.

00:13:04.740 There were even suicides.

00:13:07.060 People who were so sure their name would be kept a secret were suddenly exposed and were so deeply ashamed in front of their families and communities.

00:13:15.100 Now, look, I'm not for adultery, I'm not for hacking, and I'm definitely not for suicide.

00:13:21.240 It was a terrifying moment for many men who thought that there were secrets.

00:13:25.640 And a reminder, as Luke 12.3 says,

00:13:29.860 Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light.

00:13:34.380 Well, it's not a secret anymore, is it?

00:13:38.280 Go to rebelinvestigates.com and read through the list of nearly 1,500 media organizations who thought they could keep a secret.

00:13:45.900 And indeed, they kept the secret.

00:13:47.780 They did.

00:13:49.300 Were it not for the good work of black locks and then our own access to information researchers,

00:13:52.780 go through the list and realize, and remember, these people are not news media.

00:13:57.080 They do not tell you the whole story.

00:13:58.920 They do not tell you the other side of the story.

00:14:00.820 And when they themselves are part of the story in a disreputable way, they will hide the truth from you.

00:14:06.700 And you know, they almost got away with it.

00:14:10.440 Go read the shameful list at rebelinvestigates.com.

00:14:14.320 And if you think our access to information researcher did a good job, please leave a tip at the tip jar.

00:14:19.620 We spend thousands of dollars a year on research like this.

00:14:23.640 And unlike these 1,500 prostitutes, we'll never take a dime from Trudeau. 0.82

00:14:27.080 Not even in a secret. 0.96

00:14:28.920 Stay with us for more.

00:14:37.400 Welcome back.

00:14:42.260 Well, it's dangerous to criticize George Soros, one of the world's richest men.

00:14:46.980 He has a thin skin, but that's not why he's dangerous.

00:14:50.660 A lot of billionaires have thin skins.

00:14:53.360 It's that George Soros is so pathologically political.

00:14:57.300 And he is an extremist in terms of how far he will go to change the world and bend it to his own vision.

00:15:05.920 He's been accused by those who work with him of having a God complex.

00:15:09.120 And you can understand that when you're quite that rich, you've canceled, you've met every challenge in life other than people will not bend their will to you.

00:15:22.040 There's nothing in commerce or industry or banking or finance he hasn't done.

00:15:26.340 So now he just wants to settle scores and change the world to be in his image.

00:15:34.200 George Soros is by far the largest donor in American politics, perhaps as large as all other donors combined.

00:15:41.780 Let me show you right now one of his websites.

00:15:44.740 This is the Open Society Foundation.

00:15:47.320 They openly boast that they have spent 16.8 billion U.S. dollars, billion, that's 20 billion Canadian, on political projects.

00:16:00.540 That surely is as much as every other donor combined.

00:16:04.380 Now, this is parceled out around the world, 50,000 grants worth.

00:16:09.500 And there's a map on his homepage that shows where he does things in the world.

00:16:16.120 Sometimes they're called color revolutions, where he tries to topple entire governments.

00:16:21.360 Sometimes he actually succeeds.

00:16:23.240 I say you have to be careful because I myself wrote a column about George Soros in the Toronto Sun about a decade ago.

00:16:31.340 It was meticulously researched and footnoted, reviewed by the Sun.

00:16:34.440 But Soros slapped the Toronto Sun with a defamation notice for things that would be publishable in America, but we don't have the First Amendment up here.

00:16:43.000 And the Sun looked at this multi-billionaire and settled immediately.

00:16:46.820 I regret that, but I didn't have the fighting spirit then that I have now.

00:16:51.760 So it is with some—I'm impressed and amazement that someone dares to write an unauthorized biography of Soros.

00:17:00.720 And we join that author now. His name is Matt Palumbo, who comes to us live via Skype from the New York area.

00:17:06.300 The book is called Man Behind the Curtain, Inside the Secret Network of George Soros.

00:17:13.200 And Matt Palumbo joins us now. Matt, great to meet you. Good for you.

00:17:16.200 They served me on.

00:17:19.200 I tell our people, don't engage in conspiracy theories.

00:17:22.140 There's no need for it.

00:17:23.640 The world is crazy enough as it is.

00:17:25.620 And especially in the case of George Soros, he admits to everything.

00:17:30.060 He's got a monstrous ego.

00:17:31.980 I showed you his homepage.

00:17:33.640 There's a whole section dedicated to him.

00:17:37.140 He's not hiding how much money he's spending.

00:17:40.360 He sort of likes to take credit for most things.

00:17:43.460 That's what's so amazing about George Soros.

00:17:45.320 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:17:46.800 There are facts that he brags about that—I don't know if you'd call them a conspiracy, but they're certainly shocking.

00:17:52.020 Yeah, it's almost like conspiracy facts.

00:17:55.580 You know, one of the, I think, most surprising things about researching for the book, which, you know, included reading everything Soros has ever written, was he is very open and transparent about his ego.

00:18:05.260 In fact, the intro quote to the book is Soros saying, I want to be the conscience of the world.

00:18:09.960 That's my goal.

00:18:10.640 And all throughout, you know, the first chapter is sort of just biographical, giving an overview of his life.

00:18:15.680 And he's very open about his ego.

00:18:17.560 He's very open that, you know, even his early activism, which was, you know, toppling communist governments, you know, even right-wingers might look at that and say, well, at least he did something right there.

00:18:26.280 But even then he admits, well, it was mostly self-serving.

00:18:29.680 You know, when state assets are getting privatized, he was able to profit from that.

00:18:32.960 And, you know, even the subtitle of my book is The Secret Network of George Soros.

00:18:37.660 And it's secret in that, you know, no one has put together the, you know, the kind of piece of the puzzle or done the legwork.

00:18:43.320 But a lot of it's just really out there.

00:18:45.280 It's, you know, we can look up his grants.

00:18:46.600 We can look at where the money's going.

00:18:48.260 He himself is very transparent about the goals.

00:18:50.540 So it made the job a lot easier.

00:18:52.740 And, you know, when it comes to conspiracy, you see, that was part of the motivation for the book was, you know, whenever there's some new leftist cause or movement, you always see someone in the comments blaming Soros.

00:19:03.040 Even when he's not behind it.

00:19:04.520 So I just thought, well, you know, why not just document everywhere he actually is?

00:19:08.060 So, you know, there's no need for conspiracies when the guy has spent, you know, as you put up there, 16 billion U.S. dollars.

00:19:13.500 And that's really just the start of it.

00:19:16.660 Another theme of the book, too, is what happens after he's gone.

00:19:19.700 And in just the past few years, I think it was about five years ago, he donated over $30 billion of his wealth to his own foundation, which is twice, you know, roughly twice as much as has been spent throughout his entire lifetime on these clauses.

00:19:31.160 So, you know, one third of his wealth has been depleted towards these sort of clauses.

00:19:35.000 But there's a heck of a lot left to go.

00:19:36.880 And a lot of it will actually be probably be on the grave.

00:19:39.580 Yeah.

00:19:39.700 And his son, Alex Soros, is clearly trying to pick up his father's baton.

00:19:48.180 George Soros, his son, Alex, as you might imagine, is a playboy in so many ways.

00:19:53.480 Fast women, fast cars, living the billionaire lifestyle. 1.00

00:19:56.180 But as he approaches middle age, he's becoming a political gadfly.

00:20:03.220 I mean, he loves traveling the world by private jet and photographing himself with leftist politicians around the world.

00:20:09.500 So he clearly is trying to transform his father's network into his own.

00:20:14.340 I don't know if he has the brains or the killer instinct of his father, but he certainly has his father's ambition and his father's love for power.

00:20:24.520 Do you deal with his son in the book as well?

00:20:28.340 Well, I don't like going into that much detail, but I do kind of list him as one of the people that's going to kind of continue the throne.

00:20:34.520 Now, Soros initially, I think it was maybe a decade or two ago, thought that if he tried to sort of influence him from beyond the grave, it would be difficult because obviously he has no control.

00:20:43.080 Though later in his even later, later years, he's sort of reversed on that and decided it would be worth doing.

00:20:49.420 And one of the things he's done, too, in addition to donating these $30 billion, is he's also targeting universities.

00:20:56.500 And I call it kind of like the infrastructure of society or the infrastructure of ideas.

00:21:00.680 He's just piling money into things that will sort of advance his ideological vision where he doesn't even have to look at it or talk to it or touch it.

00:21:08.460 So he created a network of colleges called the Open Society Foundation University Network.

00:21:13.280 There's a couple dozen colleges all around the world that are all partnered with one another.

00:21:17.500 And all they do is just teach and advance his agenda and do a ton of research to try to support causes he supports.

00:21:25.540 And, of course, 100 percent of the research is going to find a way to support what he wants all the time.

00:21:30.620 Yeah. You know, there's a real problem amongst conservative or freedom-oriented philanthropists.

00:21:37.420 I mean, I don't know if I would call John D. Rockefeller conservative.

00:21:41.740 I think he was a robber baron, but I certainly wouldn't call him leftist progressive or anything like that.

00:21:47.000 These ultra-wealthy barons of the right, when they leave their money to foundations, like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund or the Ford Foundation,

00:21:55.740 if those men could see what their money is being deployed to today, they would spin in their graves.

00:22:03.860 They would have preferred to have set their money in a big pile and burned it.

00:22:08.680 I don't think George Soros has the same problem because, you know, it was John Conquest who said,

00:22:13.000 any organization that's not explicitly conservative over time will wind up leftist.

00:22:18.000 Well, Soros is starting leftist, and I think the risk that his money will be turned around against his donors' intent is zero.

00:22:28.360 Like, I mean, if you're donating into an American university, that's the wokest of the woke.

00:22:32.540 I think he will be able to rest in his grave soundly, knowing that his money will continue to do leftist bidding for decades after he's gone, probably a century.

00:22:42.080 And that's what confused me about the college thing, because I'm going, what, like, is his thesis that a college isn't liberal enough?

00:22:47.840 I mean, obviously, that would be laughable to say.

00:22:50.180 I could only find, too, to your point, one example of his donations backfiring.

00:22:54.780 This is back in the late 80s.

00:22:56.180 He actually funded Victor Orban's law school scholarship.

00:23:00.040 Orban had just founded his current political party, Fidesz.

00:23:03.300 I'm probably pronouncing it wrong.

00:23:04.440 And he was more center-left at the time he got the sponsorship.

00:23:07.500 Of course, later in life, we know, he's now a right-wing nationalist, has effectively expelled Soros from the country.

00:23:13.560 And even Soros' university, Central European University, has been expelled.

00:23:17.200 So that was one example I found of it hilariously blowing up in his face.

00:23:21.120 But, yeah, the other 50,000 grants, of course, nothing like that has happened again.

00:23:25.840 We're talking to Matt Palumbo, who's the author of a new book called Man Behind the Curtain, Inside the Secret Network of George Soros.

00:23:32.420 Again, that word secret, I understand what you're saying.

00:23:34.440 It's not secret.

00:23:35.060 It's all out there.

00:23:35.620 But even I know, for example, I read years ago about Soros' various projects.

00:23:41.040 He had an attorney's general project.

00:23:43.200 He had a secretaries of state project.

00:23:45.380 I'm thinking, what are you talking about?

00:23:46.500 Well, he wanted to put in attorneys general across America and secretaries of state, which is not a word we use up here in Canada.

00:23:53.920 But at the U.S. state level, that's basically the folks in charge of the votes, how you vote.

00:23:59.020 So if you're – am I right on that, Matt?

00:24:00.800 So if you're –

00:24:01.640 Yeah, I actually have a whole chapter called Soros Goes Local, and I'll elaborate in a bit, yeah.

00:24:05.620 So if you're trying to move elections, if you're trying to change criminal law policy, yeah, you can do it at the huge high level.

00:24:13.560 But if you install radical left-wing prosecutors to basically say we're not going to prosecute crimes anymore.

00:24:21.200 If you install radical vote counters who say we don't want any voter ID.

00:24:25.740 You can have mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting.

00:24:30.180 You spend 10 years putting in 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 of these people at local level.

00:24:36.700 Guess what?

00:24:38.120 It all comes together on a key election night.

00:24:41.080 Or, you know, you look at San Francisco and the rest of California, in any big left-wing city, you can see the Soros candidates.

00:24:49.260 He is, like I say, he is larger than either the Republicans or the Democrats in terms of his spend.

00:24:56.620 Like a U.S. presidential election is in the single-digit billions.

00:25:01.120 Soros tends times that already.

00:25:02.640 Go ahead, Matt.

00:25:03.120 Yeah, so actually I think it's probably the longest chapter of the book is called Soros Goes Local.

00:25:07.700 And I think it's obviously the most relevant to an American reader.

00:25:10.360 And I just go through almost like a baseball card for each candidate he's backed.

00:25:14.240 I go through who's the person, how much is Soros given, what's their background.

00:25:18.400 They're almost always unqualified or very little prosecutorial experience.

00:25:23.100 What policies do they advocate on the campaign?

00:25:25.700 Then what policies do they then implement and what resulted?

00:25:28.740 And it's the same story every time.

00:25:29.780 They always campaign on weak on crime policies, and, you know, they put it in social justice-y language or make it like, you know, we just don't want to send people to jail who smoke pot.

00:25:38.040 You know, they freeze it in that language.

00:25:39.660 And, of course, that's not what actually happens.

00:25:41.180 It's across the board will also get enforced.

00:25:43.740 And usually there's double-digit increases in life in crime.

00:25:47.000 You know, the only forms of crime that ever decrease are the things they just stop defining as crime.

00:25:51.420 So it's rigged.

00:25:52.460 And a lot of these—I think his success rate, I found, was in excess of 90 percent in the local races because, you know, you can't do this really much in national races.

00:26:01.520 But in local, you really can just drown someone in cash and pretty much make it enough of what they win.

00:26:05.980 And a lot of these prosecutors have become household names, like Kim Fox, the one who got Jesse Smollett, the former actor, off, was a Soros-backed prosecutor.

00:26:15.400 In San Francisco, you mentioned Chase Abudin, the son of two 60s radicals who was raised by Bill Ayers.

00:26:20.760 And one of his main policies, he effectively legalized shoplifting in San Francisco because, in California, it's just a misdemeanor if you steal less than $900 worth of something, which is actually common in many states.

00:26:32.180 But the difference is he's just not prosecuting misdemeanors of that sort, so it basically makes it legal.

00:26:36.560 And, you know, every few days there's a new viral video in San Francisco of someone robbing, like, a Walgreens or a Target.

00:26:42.240 And then they literally will sell the goods two blocks down the corner because there's no consequences.

00:26:46.240 And then, of course, you know, we kind of know this in New York and in the Giuliani cleanup, that when you enable crimes like that, you bring a certain type of people into an area, and that is going to bubble up and it's going to turn into much, much more violent crime.

00:26:59.980 And, you know, all politics ultimately is local.

00:27:03.060 You know, most governments are federalist, and that's where the most autonomy and control is.

00:27:07.000 So I think that's what people need to be most aware of.

00:27:09.880 You know, like, even if Soros single-handedly got Biden elected, he still has a million other people to answer for.

00:27:15.280 When it's so unlocal and he's gotten them elected, his grip on them is just so much more intense, not like he is in the Biden administration.

00:27:23.040 In fact, I have a whole chapter on that as well.

00:27:24.980 The law and order, I think, is the most dangerous.

00:27:26.980 The local, I should say.

00:27:28.880 Well, it's very interesting.

00:27:31.020 It's very terrifying.

00:27:31.880 The fact that he will, you know, despite the best medical attention in the world, he is in his mid-80s.

00:27:39.240 And I don't know if he'll go on for it.

00:27:40.520 I wouldn't be surprised if he lives into his 90s.

00:27:42.840 I mean, he'll do what it takes.

00:27:43.720 But his money will live on for more than that.

00:27:49.280 Why wouldn't it last for more than a century?

00:27:50.800 Rockefeller's has.

00:27:52.140 I want to ask you if you know anything about Canada and Soros.

00:27:56.740 I know that very early on, he got his grip into the Trudeau administration.

00:28:04.240 And again, not a conspiracy theory.

00:28:05.980 Here's a photograph of Soros meeting Trudeau almost immediately after Trudeau was elected in 2015.

00:28:16.140 And there's another version of this photograph that has Chrystia Freeland there.

00:28:20.100 Chrystia Freeland wrote about Soros and then was tapped to be his authorized biographer again.

00:28:27.920 She is now the senior cabinet minister in Trudeau's government.

00:28:34.960 She's still on the board of the World Economic Forum, which is one of Soros' favorite hangouts.

00:28:39.980 So Soros' biographer is now the senior cabinet minister in Canada.

00:28:46.600 Soros had an early meeting with Trudeau where they talked about immigration policy and refugee policy.

00:28:54.480 And within months of Trudeau's administration taking office in 2015,

00:29:00.240 they signed a contract with the Open Societies Foundation.

00:29:03.480 Again, all of this is out in the open.

00:29:05.620 None of this is a conspiracy theory.

00:29:06.980 Where they outsourced refugee policy to the New York-based Open Societies Foundation.

00:29:14.140 So that's what I know about George Soros having his tentacles right into the heart of Trudeau's government.

00:29:22.380 Are you aware of anything else that has focused on Canada from George Soros?

00:29:28.420 So unfortunately not.

00:29:29.860 I would say the book is probably 90% U.S. and maybe 10% or so Europe.

00:29:33.920 But that's all entirely plausible.

00:29:36.060 And if it's public information, with this guy it's probably true.

00:29:39.240 You know, there's one area in the book where I just document all leaked documents from the Open Society Foundation,

00:29:44.980 which clearly they don't want us to read.

00:29:47.460 But there was one, and I think this relates to Canada in that if it's happening in Europe, it's happening there probably.

00:29:53.320 There is one dossier of his that's about 300 pages long where it literally lists every single member of European Parliament

00:29:59.980 and which ones they think would be sympathetic to the Open Society Foundation

00:30:03.160 and which ones they think would advance Soros' agenda.

00:30:05.840 And they have their email, their phones, their addresses, like everything you could possibly know in all these people.

00:30:11.220 So if they're doing that for, you know, a body in Europe, I would assume it's true in Canada.

00:30:16.300 And yeah, I mean, he's all the time photographed with people that he's influencing.

00:30:19.820 He's not – he doesn't shy away from it.

00:30:21.120 So yeah, it sounds entirely plausible, and I completely believe you, obviously.

00:30:26.040 Yeah.

00:30:26.640 You know, it's very interesting, the amount of money sloshing around.

00:30:32.660 In a country like the United States, obviously billions of dollars, it's still enormous,

00:30:37.260 but America is the largest political campaign battlefield in the world in terms of money.

00:30:44.420 But in a place like Hungary, it's smaller in terms of population, smaller economy.

00:30:50.300 If a guy drops $100 million to influence a country like that, you could topple a whole government.

00:30:55.140 Oh, yeah.

00:30:55.420 I think that's one of Soros' moves.

00:30:58.160 Obviously, he wants to control America.

00:31:00.000 It's the most important country.

00:31:01.700 But he has interests around the world.

00:31:04.360 He likes his color revolutions, as he calls them.

00:31:06.900 He likes to topple other countries.

00:31:08.100 And it seems to me that a guy who's got tens of billions of dollars, he'd probably spend a billion in Canada

00:31:16.120 because the knock-on effect of the United States would be huge.

00:31:18.820 He would love to have Canada.

00:31:21.380 And – go ahead.

00:31:23.220 I was going to say, you know, Hungary is actually one of the countries that has taken, I think, the most initiative to kick Soros out.

00:31:28.240 Just a few years ago, they invested tens of billions of euros into a campaign called Stop Soros.

00:31:32.920 Just all around Hungary, there was anti-Soros billboards.

00:31:35.600 If you got on a bus, like a public bus, on the floor, they would have photos of Soros for people to walk over.

00:31:42.920 Like, they had an all-out assault on the guy.

00:31:44.920 And it was extremely successful.

00:31:46.120 Most of the public's now against him.

00:31:47.800 And I don't even think he could enter his own, his native country anymore.

00:31:50.400 So, you know, Soros' influence is really only as strong as we let it be.

00:31:54.840 In fact, in the last chapter, I have a section called The Revolt Against Soros where I just list every other country that has been successful in kicking the guy out.

00:32:01.260 And, you know, a lot of conservatives in this country just sort of think, like, well, that's antithetical to our values.

00:32:06.040 But so is Soros.

00:32:07.280 So you kind of have to pick a side there.

00:32:09.120 Yeah.

00:32:09.320 I mean, he will own your country as a toy.

00:32:12.360 You know, he's already got the private jets, the yachts, whatever.

00:32:15.040 What's left to collect but people and countries?

00:32:17.360 He's collected Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau.

00:32:19.960 Who else has he collected?

00:32:21.620 Well, Matt, it's nice to meet you.

00:32:22.980 The book is called Man Behind the Curtain.

00:32:25.040 And it's being distributed by Simon & Schuster, which I mentioned because a book of this controversy to be distributed by such a prominent and premium publisher like that is obviously a credit to your accuracy because your book will obviously be denounced.

00:32:39.440 I'm, frankly, slightly surprised it's being allowed to be published because it wouldn't shock me if the president of Simon & Schuster got a phone call and an offer he couldn't refuse.

00:32:48.560 But it looks like he's going ahead with it.

00:32:50.220 So good luck with that.

00:32:51.560 And I look forward to reading it myself.

00:32:53.760 Thank you.

00:32:54.200 Thanks so much for having me on.

00:32:55.140 And I think you'll enjoy it.

00:32:56.500 All right.

00:32:56.800 There you have Matt Palumbo.

00:32:57.780 The book is called Man Behind the Curtain.

00:32:59.900 Stay with us.

00:33:00.560 More ahead.

00:33:12.560 Hey, welcome back on my show Friday.

00:33:14.020 Amy writes, maybe with the leaders vaccine video, when they say we're all in this together, they mean screwing the voters.

00:33:20.100 Maybe they really are all in this together.

00:33:22.200 I see your point, but it's a false impression of unanimity.

00:33:25.720 This country is not unanimous or unified in any way.

00:33:28.900 In fact, I can't recall a time where it's been this divided, not just Quebec versus, like we've had division in this country before, Quebec separatism, things like that.

00:33:36.780 But this is pitting neighbors against each other, customers against shopkeepers, teachers against students.

00:33:45.300 It's pitting families against each other.

00:33:47.180 This is the worst time.

00:33:48.500 And the politicians are whipping it up.

00:33:50.100 And they had a false unanimity when they said we're all in this together because they deliberately excluded the one party leader who's against the lockdowns, Maxime Bernier, who, by the way, is ahead of the polls with higher numbers than the bloc or the Green Party.

00:34:03.740 Yet he was excluded and they were included.

00:34:06.500 Same way they kept us out.

00:34:08.100 We had to go to federal court to get in.

00:34:10.200 They're trying to fake unanimity.

00:34:12.620 There is great dispute over this.

00:34:14.620 And we're going to take it to court, by the way.

00:34:17.400 Mike writes, just read there are many mail-in ballots in election may not be decided on election night.

00:34:23.060 I haven't studied Canada's election rules carefully.

00:34:25.960 I've been focused on other things.

00:34:27.640 I'm glad we don't use voting machines like they did in the U.S. presidential election.

00:34:32.020 I'm unfamiliar with the rules regarding voter ID or mail-in ballots.

00:34:36.840 I know those are two risky areas.

00:34:39.680 I don't know what's being done to mitigate the risk.

00:34:41.920 So I don't have anything smart to say, but I think you are wise to be on guard because it's not who votes that counts.

00:34:48.820 It's who counts the votes that counts.

00:34:53.520 Virginia writes, the only decent party, in my opinion, is the PPC.

00:34:57.540 Well, I happen to know that there are some good conservative MPs out there, but they are not allowed to say what they feel.

00:35:03.300 You heard Aaron O'Toole.

00:35:05.060 If anyone deviates an inch from the party platform, they'll be thrown out.

00:35:09.540 Except for him, of course.

00:35:10.640 He abandoned the party's firearms stance under a day's pressure from the left-wing media.

00:35:17.060 So I guess he can violate it.

00:35:19.060 But really, what is the point of voting for a conservative MP if he tells you in a whisper, I'm with you?

00:35:24.520 But when it comes time to count, he bends the knee for Aaron O'Toole.

00:35:28.180 And Aaron O'Toole is indistinguishable from Justin Trudeau.

00:35:31.240 Whether it's the carbon tax, open borders, immigration, lockdowns, firearms, vaccine passports.

00:35:39.500 Can you really tell me a difference?

00:35:41.500 I don't know.

00:35:41.960 If you can, you've got better eyes than me.

00:35:44.060 That's our show for today.

00:35:45.280 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at the Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:35:50.080 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:35:51.120 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:09.860 Have a great day.

Rebel News Podcast - September 14, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ EXCLUSIVE： Naming the media who secretly took Trudeau's $61M pre-election pay-off

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript