Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau’s 'disinformation' czar just served us with a lawsuit threat

00:00:00.120 Hello, my Rebels. I have some bad news today, but I'll tell you what I'm going to do about it.

00:00:05.480 We received a notice of intention to bring a lawsuit against Rebel News and me. Now,

00:00:13.460 you know, that's pretty easy for some crank to write, but this is no crank.

00:00:17.780 This is Trudeau's disinformation commissioner, his top man, designed to smear Trudeau's critics

00:00:26.500 as foreign agents. He has massive funding from Trudeau, and he's got a serious lawyer on his

00:00:32.620 side. I'll take you through the facts of the case, and I'll tell you what we're going to do about it.

00:00:37.380 I hope you can help us. That's ahead. Let me invite you, if you aren't already a subscriber,

00:00:44.220 to join Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of this podcast. I'll show you various things like

00:00:50.420 tweets that this man has written about us saying he wants us to be sued into submission.

00:00:55.200 I'll show you his face. I'll show you proof that he gets funding from Trudeau. I'll show you lots of

00:01:00.640 things that you can only see visually. Look, if you're listening to a podcast, if you're running or

00:01:04.560 on a bus or whatever, I get it. But if you have a chance to see the video version of the show,

00:01:08.920 I recommend it. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. All right, here's today's podcast.

00:01:18.200 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.

00:01:25.200 Tonight, Justin Trudeau's disinformation czar threatens Rebel News and me with a lawsuit.

00:01:35.420 It's September 14th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:38.320 A terrible thing just happened. Rebel News and me personally have just received this legal notice

00:01:59.280 of an intention to bring a lawsuit against us sent by Trudeau's disinformation czar,

00:02:05.940 Jean-Christophe Boucher. He's coming to censor us, to shut us down, just like he publicly warned us

00:02:14.100 would happen. I need your help, please. I just received his legal threat letter this week.

00:02:20.240 They actually wrote it on September 8th, the day the Queen died. These are really classy people.

00:02:26.500 You can read his legal threat letter for yourself at saverebelnews.com. That's a website

00:02:31.640 I've set up to help us fight back. I need your help because Boucher has unlimited resources.

00:02:38.360 He's received massive grants from the Trudeau government that he has used to fund his work

00:02:43.580 to smear Rebel News and other Trudeau critics. He's also a professor at the University of Calgary,

00:02:50.040 my old university, which also has unlimited resources. He's using the University of Calgary's

00:02:56.320 lawyer here. It wouldn't surprise me if they're paying for this attack on us too, to ensure they

00:03:01.780 keep getting more Trudeau grants. But the main thing to know about this Boucher character is that

00:03:07.400 he is Trudeau's censorship point man. He's the man paid to lead Trudeau's campaign against

00:03:13.880 disinformation. He's Trudeau's chief censor, and he has hated Rebel News for a very long time.

00:03:23.520 Here he is in January of last year comparing Rebel News to poison. And here he is a few months later

00:03:31.880 saying Rebel News should be sued so brutally that we have to shut down. That's his goal. That's been

00:03:39.740 his goal for years. Let me quote him. When will we shut down the Rebel for spreading false information?

00:03:47.060 This should be a lawsuit for undermining public safety. He used the word we. I mean, this is a

00:03:53.340 personal vendetta for him. Boucher couldn't be clearer. For years, he wanted to kill

00:03:58.640 Rebel News. He's been saying so in public, which surely helped him get those massive grants from

00:04:04.880 Trudeau's government. And now he's actually doing it. Read his legal threat letter for yourself at

00:04:10.400 SaveRebelNews.com. And if you can, while you're there, please click over to help us fight back.

00:04:16.280 We need help. Boucher doesn't want to debate us. He doesn't believe in debating. He's a Trudeau man.

00:04:23.620 He believes in censoring people, or at least censoring Trudeau's enemies. Here he is during the

00:04:30.580 trucker convoy. Quote, just cut their trucks in little pieces. Dump it on their driveway. 0.80

00:04:37.280 Like Trudeau, he believes in using vaccine mandates to force people to obey. He said,

00:04:45.160 we told you so. Vaccine passport mandate works. Won't surprise you to learn that besides taking 0.97

00:04:52.080 cash from Trudeau, he takes cash from the vaccine companies too. And like any good Trudeau soldier,

00:04:59.340 this week he turned his attacks on Pierre Polyev. Here's what he said.

00:05:04.140 Is it just me or Polyev supporters are coming out in force to harass people online and send insane 1.00

00:05:11.500 emails to university professors? Later he said, if this emboldens some to start harassing people in

00:05:16.960 his name and build a toxic campaign to intimidate others, I think it will be an issue. So who is this

00:05:23.840 guy? And why is he suing Rebel News and me? Why does he hate us so much? Why does he dehumanize his

00:05:30.040 opponents comparing them to poison saying their property should be chopped up? And where is he

00:05:34.900 getting the money from to attack us? Well, here's part of the answer. I mean, I first heard of Boucher a

00:05:41.680 few months ago when he published this bizarre report subject to no academic peer review. It was really

00:05:47.640 weird. It was called Disinformation and Russia-Ukrainian War on Canadian Social Media. But the report

00:05:55.660 itself was disinformation because it wasn't a neutral or scholarly study. It was funded by

00:06:02.360 Trudeau's Department of National Defense. In fact, that's Boucher's sugar daddy. He calls himself a

00:06:08.940 professor, sure. But he actually runs the Canadian Network on Information and Security funded by the

00:06:15.020 Department of National Defense. He's the guy Trudeau pays to accuse Trudeau's political enemies of

00:06:20.200 spreading foreign disinformation. Let me show you what I mean. I won't take long. Please watch this

00:06:26.440 video to the end because I really do need to ask for your help. But first, I just want to show you

00:06:30.960 why he's threatening to sue us, why he hates us, why he calls us poison that must be destroyed,

00:06:36.820 why he says the truckers should have their trucks cut to pieces, why he hates Pierre Polyev,

00:06:40.800 and why he thinks Trudeau's opponents should be silenced. Like I say, he claimed the report was about

00:06:47.160 Russian disinformation on the internet. He says he studied millions of tweets and made a list of

00:06:52.680 those Twitter accounts that promote Vladimir Putin's agenda. But look at one of the five criteria

00:06:59.420 he says he looked at. And if you did this, you were promoting Russian propaganda. He said that anyone

00:07:06.440 who vocally opposed Justin Trudeau could be flagged by Boucher as a Russian agent. I'm serious. Not

00:07:14.800 exaggerating. Let me quote directly from his study. He said, promoting a specific mistrust of Canada's

00:07:23.240 liberal government, and especially of Prime Minister Trudeau, was enough for Boucher to flag you as a

00:07:29.520 Putin agent. I'm serious. If you don't trust the liberals, especially Boucher's personal hero,

00:07:35.060 Justin Trudeau, Boucher might call you a Russian propagandist. This is not a report about disinformation.

00:07:40.800 This report is disinformation. It's a smear of anyone who criticizes Trudeau. It's not scholarship.

00:07:48.160 It's not science. This junk study was not even peer reviewed. It's bought and paid for propaganda, 0.96

00:07:53.760 in my opinion. If you don't like Trudeau, you're a Russian agent. That's almost as embarrassing as this

00:08:00.560 Trudeau reporter at the CBC. You know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis

00:08:07.460 with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors

00:08:14.540 could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the

00:08:21.560 outset. Yeah, she's not a professor too. That's McCarthyism. Anything they don't like is Russian. 0.50

00:08:29.080 It's embarrassing. It's not journalism. It's not scholarship. In fact, it's defamatory itself.

00:08:33.940 And based on that BS, they made a hate list of the people they accused of being Russian agents.

00:08:40.720 The top one, this is crazy, the top one being Tulsi Gabbard, the former U.S. congresswoman who's

00:08:47.420 in the U.S. Army Reserve. She ran in the Democratic primaries for president. I'm serious. They said

00:08:51.880 she was a Russian propagandist. But look at the other names on the list too. Jack Posobiec is on there.

00:08:58.220 He's a pundit. He used to serve in the U.S. Navy. It's insane to call him a Russian agent. But

00:09:03.820 look, Maxime Bernier is on there too. I'm on there. Some other Canadian pundits and Americans

00:09:09.620 too. How? How am I on there? I'm not a Putin agent. In fact, I wrote two books about how Canada

00:09:16.340 has to produce more ethical oil and gas to displace Russian conflict oil and gas to free Europe.

00:09:24.440 I called it ethical oil versus conflict oil. I was so harsh on Putin. I had a whole chapter on

00:09:30.120 gas problem and why we need to beat them. I was so harsh on Putin. It is not safe for me or my

00:09:35.400 family members to travel to Russia. But like I say, this Boucher, he says you're a Putin stooge 0.59

00:09:42.100 simply for distrusting Trudeau. Wow. Well, considering 68% of Canadians distrusted Trudeau

00:09:48.160 enough in the last election to vote for anyone but him, that's a lot of Russian agents running around.

00:09:53.200 So I did a show a few months back about this Trudeau errand boy after his study came out. And I actually

00:10:01.580 sent him a letter demanding that he correct the errors and smears against me in his report and

00:10:08.320 his talk about it in the media. But instead of correcting his errors, he's suing me in Rebel News

00:10:15.200 for my rebuttal to his smears. He's suing me for my TV show where I tried to rebut him.

00:10:23.580 So let's sum up. A professor who receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding

00:10:30.180 from the Trudeau government to smear Trudeau's opponents as Russian agents, smears us as Russian

00:10:36.180 agents in a non-peer-reviewed junk study designed to titillate and smear. Boucher then does the media

00:10:43.460 circuit going even further than his study does. Step two, this same professor repeatedly attacks

00:10:49.720 Rebel News, comparing us to poison, saying we should be sued into silence. Number three, when I

00:10:56.860 write to him asking him to correct his errors, correct his disinformation, he refuses and instead

00:11:04.960 he serves me with a legal threat letter. This guy couldn't be clearer about his plans. He wants

00:11:13.000 to sue Rebel News to shut us down. He said so. And now he's got a university lawyer and a vault full

00:11:21.800 of cash from Trudeau. He's coming to kill us. My friends, over the past two years, we have helped 1.00

00:11:29.820 literally thousands of Canadians fight for their freedoms by crowdfunding their legal defenses. But

00:11:36.280 now we are the ones who need illegal defense. I've checked out Boucher's lawyer. He's no dummy. He's

00:11:43.380 going to try to do maximum damage to Rebel News. He'll have unlimited resources. He'll have the

00:11:50.200 backing of the Trudeau government and bizarrely the backing of the University of Calgary who employs

00:11:55.300 Boucher. We don't take any government money at Rebel News and we're not part of a huge organization

00:12:00.920 like a tax-funded university. All we have is our viewers. If you think this Boucher is a bully,

00:12:09.160 funded by another bully named Trudeau, and if you think his threat letter has to be resisted, 0.85

00:12:15.880 and if you think we should lawyer up and defend ourselves, well now is the time.

00:12:21.120 You heard the man. He wants to shut us down. He thinks we're poison. If you want us to live,

00:12:30.320 now is the time to help us. Please go to SavedRebelNews.com. Chip in what you can.

00:12:37.760 And while you're there, sign our petition to the University of Calgary Board of Governors telling

00:12:42.580 them it is outrageous that they would support this bully smearing us and threatening to sue us.

00:12:48.160 Seriously. Does the U of C have so much money that they could spend it on harassing alumni who happen

00:12:55.080 to disagree with Trudeau? Shame on the U of C. Sign our petition at SavedRebelNews.com. But I really do

00:13:01.540 need your help to cover our legal bills. You can do that on the same website, and I promise

00:13:06.700 we will fight like hell against this Trudeau disinformation czar. Not only will we defend

00:13:13.400 ourselves, but we will put his McCarthyite smears on trial too. U of C's governors should be careful

00:13:20.380 about what they wish for. Please go to SavedRebelNews.com, because if Boucher wins,

00:13:26.540 he really will try to kill us.

00:13:33.460 So I'll tell you what's going down. You know who I am. 0.76

00:13:39.580 They told me you were VIP, all connected to the government. 1.00

00:13:45.040 What kind of a moron forgets to pick up his laptop at a repair shop? 1.00

00:13:49.640 You're a Biden. Act like everything he built, life. I just ruined it all. 1.00

00:13:54.860 I want to know everything that's on that laptop that can ruin my erection. 0.98

00:13:58.980 My friends, it's time to party! 0.98

00:14:01.840 I'm an artist.

00:14:12.940 Tell me how I can help you.

00:14:14.580 I don't deserve help.

00:14:16.120 Oh, I'm so sorry.

00:14:17.540 I've been through worse.

00:14:19.100 You're the smartest man I know.

00:14:20.380 Dang, Dad.

00:14:21.040 I just wish I could smack some sense of you.

00:14:25.440 I'll never forget Kory, Bob.

00:14:27.200 He was a bad dude.

00:14:28.640 No joke.

00:14:29.500 Dad, we were talking about suffering.

00:14:33.240 No.

00:14:33.460 I can't seem to find anything but positive stuff on the Bidens.

00:14:37.460 Who's the point, Ben, for the foreign policy in the Obama regime?

00:14:40.180 Joe Biden.

00:14:41.100 So it looks like you need a billion dollars.

00:14:44.440 So the obvious next question is...

00:14:47.240 Where's Hunter?

00:14:48.360 I can remember getting paid some money, but I can't remember what for.

00:14:52.640 Well, my dad says we never discuss my businesses, period. 0.99

00:14:56.600 Or my cunt. 1.00

00:14:58.240 What's happening in there? 1.00

00:14:59.340 Joe's in on it.

00:15:02.020 Kory's over!

00:15:05.980 You had everything, Hunter.

00:15:07.500 And you threw it all away.

00:15:08.600 You hope the laptop will take down everybody with you.

00:15:11.360 Get out! 0.98

00:15:15.580 China's not out of me.

00:15:17.360 They're not bad folks, folks.

00:15:19.860 I love my dad.

00:15:21.140 And I just want to make him proud.

00:15:25.340 I am the one who brings in all the deals.

00:15:28.180 I am the one.

00:15:33.100 Good boy.

00:15:45.700 Unbelievable.

00:15:46.940 Riveting.

00:15:47.820 Incredible.

00:15:49.420 The film, my son, Hunter.

00:15:51.480 Lawrence Fox, the star actor.

00:15:54.060 We've interviewed him before the movie is out.

00:15:56.620 And so we have a very special guest today, the director of the movie.

00:16:02.740 And it's an amazing show.

00:16:05.380 But you'll know the director is an actor as well.

00:16:07.780 He was a Bond villain in License to Kill.

00:16:10.720 He was in hits like Die Hard and The Goonies and CSI.

00:16:14.040 I'm talking about Robert Davi, who joins me live via Skype.

00:16:17.540 Mr. Davi, what a pleasure to have you on the program.

00:16:20.060 And congratulations on this film.

00:16:21.760 Oh, my God, that is exciting.

00:16:24.420 And right on the news, right?

00:16:27.380 Explosive.

00:16:27.960 I'm excited.

00:16:28.980 I'm excited.

00:16:30.040 Tell us what it was like directing this show.

00:16:32.800 Well, first off, thank you for having me on the show.

00:16:35.000 I have a lot of friends of mine in Toronto and Woodbridge, Hamilton, all over Vancouver.

00:16:39.660 And I said, hey, how's this Rebel show?

00:16:42.720 They said, it's terrific.

00:16:44.200 You know, you're great people and Ezra is terrific.

00:16:46.900 So thank you for having me on.

00:16:48.660 And hello to everyone out there in Canada and wherever else you're listening and watching.

00:16:55.020 It was, look, it was enjoyable to direct.

00:16:58.940 I've directed before.

00:16:59.860 I did a film called The Dukes, which won nine awards.

00:17:04.700 So for people to say, well, why is he directing?

00:17:06.800 Well, I did direct before and it had a tremendous response.

00:17:10.260 And then I did a film that I acted in.

00:17:12.800 And then I then kind of went in and repaired it.

00:17:17.000 But this here now is my really second film.

00:17:20.520 And the subject matter, of course, is so riveting to me as it is to most people that want the truth,

00:17:27.200 that want to find out the truth.

00:17:30.120 That's all.

00:17:31.060 They want to find out the truth.

00:17:32.500 And it's a satirical means.

00:17:35.120 I did.

00:17:36.020 It's emotional.

00:17:37.140 It doesn't demonize the addiction of Hunter Biden because many people are suffering by addiction.

00:17:42.580 We know that.

00:17:43.700 I had family members suffering from that.

00:17:46.860 But at the core of it, it's told by the point of view of a 25-year-old left-wing activist,

00:17:56.160 who's an exotic dancer, who meets up with Hunter, has a relationship.

00:18:02.140 And then in the course of that relationship, at first not knowing who he is,

00:18:06.640 finding out that he's the son of Hunter Biden.

00:18:08.720 And then she's curious and starts to research this while they're having their relationship.

00:18:13.040 And now it unfolds through the relationship into the various alleged nefarious dealings

00:18:22.920 that Hunter Biden made on behalf of the big guy, Joe Biden.

00:18:28.700 Now, when we made the film, Esra, there was no New York Times or no one else was admitting to this laptop

00:18:37.480 and a lot of the stuff.

00:18:38.960 Peter Schweitzer had written a book after we started directing the film.

00:18:43.020 No, he wrote the book prior.

00:18:44.480 And then stuff started to come out more and more and more.

00:18:47.560 And even Hunter Biden's own book, Beautiful Things, which I went to and extracted some information from.

00:18:54.080 The script was initially done by Brian Godua.

00:18:56.400 And like you said, the Unreported Society of Philemon Ann and Magda, who recommended me to direct.

00:19:03.240 We filmed it in Serbia.

00:19:05.640 And when I read this initial script, I didn't want to make a conservative film per se with just a hit piece,

00:19:13.720 a one-sided piece.

00:19:15.020 I didn't want to demonize a few things because there was enough red meat for everyone there.

00:19:20.900 I mean, if you want to know the truth, there's enough red meat for everyone there.

00:19:25.480 But what I wanted to do was try to seduce, in some way, people that are in the middle or on the left

00:19:31.880 that refuse, that for whatever viral mental reason, refuse to admit and to see what went down here,

00:19:44.920 that a vice president used his influence peddling through his son and to try to say, oh, it was nothing,

00:19:52.800 and then continue to point the finger at the Trumps for whatever reason.

00:19:58.260 I mean, again, we know the globalist movement that's happening.

00:20:02.500 We know the, I mean, there's so many widespread reasons that's happening in our society

00:20:10.660 and around the world that we're finding out now about.

00:20:16.640 And that's the thing.

00:20:17.980 When the Hunter Biden laptop was first revealed, the New York Post wrote about it.

00:20:24.140 The New York Post is one of the oldest newspapers in America, very famous.

00:20:27.380 And the social media companies all blocked it, banned it.

00:20:30.760 Twitter refused to let the New York Post tweet.

00:20:34.560 It was called fake news.

00:20:36.540 It was called a Russian plot.

00:20:38.000 That got them through the election without having these facts up.

00:20:42.360 But since then, the laptop has been corroborated even by the New York Times,

00:20:47.020 the Washington Post.

00:20:48.120 No one disputes that it's real anymore.

00:20:50.100 They're all saying, well, it's old news or it's unimportant.

00:20:52.440 But that is real.

00:20:53.580 This is a true story.

00:20:55.380 Yes.

00:20:55.720 And they do.

00:20:56.540 You know, it's not a true story except for all the facts, as we say in the beginning.

00:21:00.960 Because, you know, the intimate conversations people may have had,

00:21:05.080 you know, those are dramatized.

00:21:06.320 And some of it, majority using Joe Biden's own words and discussions.

00:21:12.440 But what one must understand, and I think it's imperative, we have a media, a big tech,

00:21:21.940 we have Hollywood, that have suppressed this story and have pushed other ideas like the

00:21:29.240 Russian disinformation of the Steele dossier, which has been proven to be funded by Hillary's campaign.

00:21:36.620 The continued finger pointing of Donald Trump being a Putin sympathizer.

00:21:42.280 If he was such a Putin sympathizer, why did he tell Angela Merkel in Germany, don't build a pipeline?

00:21:52.740 It'll be used as a, you'll be held hostage by Russia, Russian energy. 0.97

00:21:58.580 Why would he do that?

00:22:01.980 And why are they doing a different narrative in the media?

00:22:05.880 And, you know, Joe Biden in 2012 met with Xi Jinping when he was vice president.

00:22:11.240 Xi Jinping and Joe Biden.

00:22:15.280 Okay?

00:22:15.820 China.

00:22:16.780 Hollywood.

00:22:17.860 The conduit to Hollywood.

00:22:19.080 Joe Biden was the point man for Hollywood in terms of getting business over there.

00:22:25.660 So some of the major, major, major, big names, and I won't mention them because I'm already canceled a bit.

00:22:31.600 But if I mention them, it'll be, you know, maybe I have a chance of something.

00:22:36.180 But the idea of him negotiating this deal for Hollywood and them being thankful and saying Hollywood has the, Joe Biden has the full support of Hollywood later on if he runs for president.

00:22:51.460 Do you understand?

00:22:52.700 And then the connections with Hunter, with the Communist Chinese Party in 2019.

00:22:57.740 I mean, it all unfolds in a certain way.

00:23:00.540 And even when Joe Biden said in his own words, China's not the enemy, folks.

00:23:04.340 You know, we have it in the film.

00:23:07.700 His own words.

00:23:08.780 We have.

00:23:09.300 So when is the people, and we need the people to get the film, go to mysonhunter.com and click and get this film because it is a middle finger to the establishment media, to big tech,

00:23:23.120 and in a certain way to the cultural entertainment sector of Hollywood that wants to ignore that this story happened and then denigrate any artistic value to it.

00:23:37.420 It must be hard to do a film like this because, as you say, Hollywood is so uniformly democratic and not just casually.

00:23:47.700 Like, it feels like they're activists or advocates that they see their craft as serving political purposes.

00:23:55.140 What was it like assembling a team?

00:23:57.420 What was it like assembling a crew?

00:23:58.880 Like, we've talked to Phelan McAleer, one of the backers of this movie before, and in other instances, he's had actors quit.

00:24:08.920 He's had crew quit when they discovered, like he was doing a reenactment of, I can't remember exactly what it was, but on the very first night.

00:24:16.740 The lovebirds, the FBI people.

00:24:18.200 That's right, and there were some, you know, Hollywood actors who I don't think were particularly political, but when they saw what the project was about, they stormed out.

00:24:28.840 What was it like?

00:24:29.420 Did you have that problem?

00:24:31.100 I understand some of the filming was done overseas.

00:24:33.640 Maybe that.

00:24:34.140 Most of it.

00:24:34.720 All of it was filmed overseas.

00:24:35.820 So it was in Serbia.

00:24:37.240 In Belgrade.

00:24:38.260 Belgrade.

00:24:38.900 Go ahead.

00:24:39.500 Finish your question.

00:24:40.440 I'm sorry.

00:24:40.740 Well, I was going to say, maybe that helped solve the problem.

00:24:43.800 But even finding the talents, I mean, Lawrence Fox is from the UK.

00:24:49.360 How about the other talent?

00:24:50.620 Were they, are they worried they're going to be blacklisted now?

00:24:54.780 Well, first, I want to say the Serbian crew were spectacular.

00:25:00.140 The set designing, the, you know, and I went extensively with them to design the sets, and the, my, Vladimir Illich, who was the DP, who, that was the first thing I needed to find out from the line producers over in Serbia.

00:25:14.580 The locations and the, and the director of photography to, and they, salt of the earth.

00:25:21.900 There was no political, we were making a film.

00:25:25.460 Now, I don't know, but I heard when I was in Serbia, I was at the hotel, a very nice hotel, a terrific hotel, and they came up to me and they said, hey, guess who was here last month?

00:25:38.080 And I said, who?

00:25:38.700 They said, Hunter Biden was here last month.

00:25:40.420 I said, oh, interesting.

00:25:42.500 But in Serbia, when Donald Trump won the election, there were banners and basically some parades all over Serbia.

00:25:48.920 Now, that's not to say that affected anything and that we didn't talk politics on the set.

00:25:55.260 They were terribly, terribly, beautifully, I should say.

00:25:59.640 We had a great crew and none of that.

00:26:01.940 What you did have, perhaps, were talent that maybe didn't want to be on camera, meaning actors or actresses.

00:26:12.280 But we, we pretty had this cast.

00:26:14.360 I mean, Lawrence Fox was the first choice.

00:26:16.140 And then John James and then the, the, Gina Carano, great Gina Carano, who's been canceled by Hollywood for Mandalorian. 0.99

00:26:28.800 She plays the Secret Service Agency and she has a, she has a great quality.

00:26:32.560 As I said, Lawrence is absolutely brilliant.

00:26:35.460 He's like a young Peter O'Toole, I mean, great actor.

00:26:38.700 And James is, as Joe Biden.

00:26:41.020 But then it was finding the girl.

00:26:42.860 I did have an issue with finding my leading lady because it had to be a specific.

00:26:47.880 I needed somebody that I, I was either going for a young Audrey Hepburn or a young Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone. 0.96

00:26:56.020 And, but, but with the, and I had a great actress, a terrific young actress.

00:27:02.760 And she pulled out at the last minute because she got another film.

00:27:08.760 But I'm sure it was because, you know, and I understand because the film is an iconic series of pictures.

00:27:15.360 So I understand that, that level.

00:27:17.880 But then I found this girl, Emma Goyevic, out of Serbia, who's an absolutely stunning actress, beautiful to look at.

00:27:24.040 And, you know, and there were little minor things like that along the way, probably with casting.

00:27:32.320 A casting director says, well, you know, I can't really, I, I, I remember early on I was, when I got involved with the picture, I sent it to a manager to inquire about some talents.

00:27:43.840 And he was excited at first.

00:27:46.340 And then I sent him the piece and he says, is this a Biden hit piece?

00:27:50.680 I go, no, that's not what it's going to be.

00:27:52.040 But it does expose, he says, you, count me out.

00:27:56.480 So this is what you're going to get from Hollywood.

00:27:58.700 Yeah, I'm not surprised.

00:28:00.060 Now, I understand that a documentary film crew presented itself and said, hey, you're doing a film about my son, Hunter.com.

00:28:10.860 You're doing a film about Hunter Biden.

00:28:12.800 Can we hang out on the set and can we do a documentary?

00:28:16.600 And I understand that later on this so-called documentary crew, and who knows, maybe they will be doing a documentary, that they were actually organized by a lawyer for Hunter Biden.

00:28:29.060 I read that.

00:28:29.980 Is that true?

00:28:31.380 Was there some other camera crew there claiming to be doing a documentary about your film that later turned out to be led by a Hunter Biden lawyer?

00:28:40.880 Yes, film, I like a close set, okay?

00:28:45.760 And film, if you know him, of course, you've interviewed him, Northern Irish guy.

00:28:49.180 So he's very good, you know, has a good sense of humor and, you know, kind of dry personality comes to me and says, sorry, Robert.

00:28:57.800 But we have a film crew here that's going to do a documentary from Hunter Biden.

00:29:03.900 And, you know, they're from South Park.

00:29:05.900 It's good people from South Park.

00:29:07.700 I says, who are they?

00:29:08.520 No, no, the guy's from South.

00:29:09.340 It's good.

00:29:09.660 It's good.

00:29:10.000 We vetted them.

00:29:10.740 They're good people.

00:29:11.960 I says, yeah.

00:29:12.460 I says, well, no, I don't want anybody on the set film.

00:29:14.580 I don't want anyone on the set because if they're doing their own documentary, what are they going to extract from what we're doing?

00:29:21.000 I says, and I want it closed.

00:29:22.240 I don't want them to see.

00:29:23.060 Anyway, so after a little back, he says, no, no, I'll make sure that they, you know, can't use anything and blah, blah, blah.

00:29:29.980 So I tell you, this is good.

00:29:32.280 All right.

00:29:32.720 So the guy comes on the set.

00:29:34.200 Of course, I don't want, I have a, they were very nice.

00:29:39.340 I was very nice.

00:29:40.320 I was very congenial to them, seemingly nice.

00:29:44.220 But I always looked on a, you know, I'm Sicilian, so I have a little suspicious eye.

00:29:48.260 You know what I'm saying?

00:29:50.220 Sicilian always has a little bit. 1.00

00:29:53.060 So I, I, I, and cautious.

00:29:57.720 So, but the actors, of course, after a night's work, are sitting downstairs in the bar, you know what I mean?

00:30:04.100 And they're going to be interviewed.

00:30:04.640 Blowing off steam, you know, riffing a bit, yeah.

00:30:07.460 Riffing and having a few, you know, a few, imbibing in a few little bourbons or something like that.

00:30:11.840 So they have, they'll be able to talk, of course, which I didn't.

00:30:15.140 And then it comes to say, months later, as we're editing the film and finishing it, we'll write and call, film calls.

00:30:23.640 He goes, hey, you know, those lawyers that were there, yeah.

00:30:27.060 He says, that was the lawyer that paid $2 million for Hunter Biden's tax debt.

00:30:32.680 I says, what?

00:30:33.440 He says, yes, it was the lawyer that was, it was, it was, they were, they were infiltrating us in some way.

00:30:38.340 I says, I told you.

00:30:39.760 He says, yeah, you were right.

00:30:40.980 I says, I says, anyway, but, you know, who knows?

00:30:44.340 Well, the film will stand on its own merits, for sure.

00:30:46.820 I mean, maybe they're going to try and say, well, Lawrence Fox is a critic of Hunter Biden.

00:30:50.620 Of course he is.

00:30:51.440 I mean, every, Lawrence Fox is a prolific commentator in Twitter, so it won't be shocking news if Lawrence Fox said something one night that was critical of Hunter Biden.

00:31:00.780 And it's just a little sneaky, and it shows that these, the level of intrigue that the Bidens are involved with, and that they obviously think this movie is, I don't know about a threat, but they're worried about it.

00:31:14.500 They wanted to spy on you making this movie.

00:31:16.600 That's what I take away from the whole thing.

00:31:18.040 Well, judging from the response from critics on the left and the right, and even from critics that haven't seen the film on the left, or people that haven't seen the film on the left, it's astounding to me the goose-stepping that the media is continuing to do on this.

00:31:38.380 Now, when someone said, can you expect us to believe that Hunter Biden went to a homeless camp to get drugs with the money he had?

00:31:48.640 Well, I got that from his own autobiography, Beautiful Things.

00:31:53.240 Wow.

00:31:53.600 So they want to say this.

00:31:55.060 They want to criticize the things that happened.

00:31:58.060 So how can the American people and the Canadian people wake up to this?

00:32:03.440 You know, I don't know if you know, I mean, a guy that I like to listen to in Canada is Conrad Black.

00:32:08.380 I don't know if you know who he, if you've had him on or something.

00:32:11.960 We had him on the show just last week.

00:32:13.720 Oh, really?

00:32:14.180 I mean, that's a guy, when I hear him on American thing, I go, hey, there's hope for Canada.

00:32:19.900 You know, I mean, it's, it's, it's, but I wish people would, would, would, I wish we could get people out there to just really spend the $22.

00:32:31.160 They own the film, go to mysonhunter.com because it's like, we have to, we've acquiesced culture.

00:32:38.800 I don't know how you feel about that in Canada, but we have acquiesced culture to the, to the left.

00:32:44.580 Let me ask you one more question about the movie and its reception.

00:32:47.440 You say some critics, including those who haven't even watched the thing, are skeptical about the content.

00:32:53.340 And as you said earlier, a lot of that content, in fact, came from Hunter's own autobiography, let alone his laptop.

00:32:59.880 Has there been, let me ask you this, has there been more criticism of the film or have they just tried to pretend it doesn't exist?

00:33:06.960 Because that's a, that's another kind of cancel culture.

00:33:10.020 This is an exciting film on the news, real star power as actors and directors.

00:33:17.500 What's been the reaction from, I'd say, normal film critics, not particularly political ones.

00:33:23.100 How is it being received on Rotten Tomatoes?

00:33:25.740 How is it being received on by other reviewers?

00:33:29.100 Have they reviewed it at all?

00:33:30.340 I mean, I suppose even a bad review is better than no review because at least it talks about it.

00:33:35.040 How is it being received?

00:33:36.960 Depending on what side of the fence people are on, we've gotten tremendous reviews from MovieGuide, from, from, what is it, the Epoch Times.

00:33:52.020 Tremendous review.

00:33:52.760 We've gotten great reviews all over the place.

00:33:55.800 And then it comes to something like the left now, Salon, or the Los Angeles Magazine.

00:34:02.680 A woman gave a review who didn't even see, admitted not even to see the film.

00:34:08.340 She didn't even see the film.

00:34:10.260 And we have people like that not even seeing the film.

00:34:13.240 And then on terms of the mainstream media of the left, they've totally ignored it.

00:34:17.500 They've totally ignored a film.

00:34:19.920 If this was about Donald Trump, there would be every interview, every late night talk show, even on the right, would have people on begging them to come on and talk about the show and the film and it's good and it's this and that.

00:34:33.060 But they would be, so, and then you, so, this is the, uh, uh, dishonest.

00:34:40.320 And I don't know how they can be so dishonest.

00:34:42.880 I don't understand the dishonest.

00:34:44.560 Well, they, they see this as a war and they see you as an idea warrior.

00:34:49.400 Well, listen, I'm very excited about it.

00:34:51.400 And I'm excited about the quality of talent that's involved in the storytelling and the budget and the, as you say, being on location.

00:34:58.820 The movie is called My Son Hunter.

00:35:01.200 You can get it at mysonhunter.com.

00:35:04.000 We've been talking with Robert Davi.

00:35:05.640 Amazing filmmaking.

00:35:07.160 I think that not only should we see it because it's a great movie, but I think if filmmakers take the chance and do something dramatic like this, do something that's truly original, I think it behooves all of us to support them.

00:35:21.020 There are so few people in the cultural industries willing to be contrarian, willing to tell the other side of the story culturally that I think, I think we all ought to go to mysonhunter.com because it's a great movie.

00:35:34.340 But because also we want to encourage more of this, Robert, it's been a pleasure to meet you.

00:35:38.960 I've been a fan for a long time.

00:35:40.520 It's sort of fun to meet one of my film heroes.

00:35:44.580 So thank you for not only making the film, but for spending half an hour with us.

00:35:48.720 It was a pleasure, Ezra.

00:35:50.440 Thank you.

00:35:50.960 Anytime and Godspeed.

00:35:53.660 And thank you again so much.

00:35:55.680 Well, it's our pleasure.

00:35:56.660 My friends in Toronto are going to be happy, I know, in Canada.

00:35:59.540 Right on.

00:36:00.100 And around the country, I'm sure.

00:36:01.600 Well, thank you for making all the best.

00:36:02.720 I'll tweet this out.

00:36:03.580 Thank you.

00:36:04.700 Cheers.

00:36:05.400 And that's mysonhunter.com.

00:36:07.880 Stay with us.

00:36:08.500 More ahead.

00:36:13.580 Hey, welcome back.

00:36:14.540 Your letters to me.

00:36:15.580 Who's asking?

00:36:16.700 Says Liz Trust is a World Economic Forum member.

00:36:19.940 She is not what the UK needs.

00:36:21.780 She is not conservative.

00:36:24.000 All right.

00:36:24.300 I did not know that.

00:36:25.180 That's interesting.

00:36:25.820 We'll have to keep an eye on that.

00:36:26.960 I think out of the various choices that were there, I prefer her to Rishi Sunak.

00:36:31.980 But look, they're all compromised in some way.

00:36:36.180 I think time will tell.

00:36:37.860 Maybe that's too easy an answer, but we'll see soon enough.

00:36:40.060 First thing she did was unbanned fracking, which I think is a good thing.

00:36:46.020 Evan Duckett says, not just years, decades, tens of thousands of victims.

00:36:51.960 You're referring to our guest interview yesterday with Samantha Smith.

00:36:54.960 What a horrific story.

00:36:57.100 And I didn't want to press her on her own details.

00:36:59.620 I have read too many stories with too many graphic details of the repeated rape of children.

00:37:05.340 They're children.

00:37:06.000 They're not women. 1.00

00:37:07.240 They're not young women.

00:37:08.000 They are children.

00:37:08.800 They are girls.

00:37:09.860 And it's gone on.

00:37:10.780 It has gone on for decades.

00:37:12.680 Rotherham, the most famous of the cases, but every town across the UK.

00:37:16.980 It is a horrible story.

00:37:18.560 And I salute Samantha for having the courage to talk about it.

00:37:22.580 Well, that's our show for today.

00:37:23.880 And I hope you'll check out our website, SaveRebelNews.com.

00:37:26.540 It's been a while since we've been threatened with a lawsuit like this, but this is a serious one, I think.

00:37:30.920 This guy is a Trudeau man through and through.

00:37:33.700 He's got the funding.

00:37:34.620 He's got the lawyer.

00:37:35.660 And he's coming to get us.

00:37:36.800 I think this is the hill to die on.

00:37:39.860 We have to defend against this.

00:37:41.220 Go to SaveRebelNews.com.

00:37:43.100 That's the show for today.

00:37:43.960 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:37:48.700 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:49.940 You know, I think we have yet to see the full fallout from what I think could be one of the

00:37:53.720 most societal decaying parts of these pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

00:38:01.180 Think about it.

00:38:02.060 What does it mean for our institutions if the moral conscientious objectors, the ones who

00:38:06.820 will not be cowed to emotional manipulation, financial extortion, or peer pressure, are

00:38:12.320 the ones being purged from our workplaces?

00:38:15.600 In the before times, these sorts of people were the ones appointed to positions of management

00:38:21.180 and leadership because of their strong moral compasses.

00:38:25.760 Yet in the times of mandates and lockdowns, they are the ones being fired for those excellent

00:38:32.040 and desirable qualities.

00:38:34.080 I worry about the future of academia, the military, healthcare, police forces, and government

00:38:40.460 agencies when all the people who resisted on conscience, the free thinkers, are gone

00:38:46.380 from leadership positions and the compliant, uncritical, and obedient are the ones left in

00:38:51.640 their places.

00:38:52.320 I think it will be a very long time before we can even measure the extent of these losses

00:38:57.580 for society.

00:38:58.460 And today I can show you what it was like at one federal government agency for those who

00:39:03.500 wanted to retain their bodily autonomy, who chose the hard way because it was the right 0.60

00:39:08.420 way for them.

00:39:09.640 I know, I know, it's hard to feel empathy for a government bureaucrat, but these were

00:39:14.340 the good ones, and now they're gone.

00:39:17.300 And what does that leave in their place?

00:39:20.080 A homogenous, liberal, compliant workplace where no one thinks like you do, completely unreflective

00:39:26.080 of the Canadian population, but a mirror image of the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:39:31.320 You see, we filed for an access to information request with several government agencies about

00:39:37.080 how many and to whom they granted vaccine mandate religious exemptions, if they granted

00:39:43.920 any at all.

00:39:44.980 We did this all through your generous crowdfunded donations to our very special investigations

00:39:49.840 website at rebelinvestigates.com.

00:39:52.640 So thank you to those of you who made this important work possible.

00:39:55.580 Now, we recently received a response back from the Canada Revenue Agency.

00:40:00.060 Yes, the CRA.

00:40:01.940 We asked the CRA for the number of employees who requested a religious exemption from the

00:40:06.820 COVID-19 vaccine, including the total number of requests denied and the total number of religious

00:40:13.240 exemptions that were ultimately granted nationally and provincially and at the Montreal office

00:40:20.360 only 32 people of the 550 who requested an exemption were granted, though the footnotes mention that

00:40:28.600 the numbers don't even include the people who left the agency or were placed on leave or who

00:40:33.920 ultimately gave in and got jabbed.

00:40:35.720 So the stats would actually be even worse than what we're looking at here.

00:40:39.380 550 people in just one government agency were subject to a religious inquisition about their

00:40:46.540 sincerely held religious beliefs at the hands of the state in an allegedly free society and

00:40:52.360 some drone claim to have been able to.

Rebel News Podcast - September 15, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Justin Trudeau’s 'disinformation' czar just served us with a lawsuit threat

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