Rebel News Podcast - Trudeau’s ambassador to China switches sides — and makes China’s case against Trump

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Justin Trudeau's ambassador to China switches sides and starts making China's case

00:00:05.820 against Donald Trump. It's January 23rd, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

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00:00:19.920 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my

00:00:24.520 bloody right to do so.

00:00:31.000 Shocking news, but not surprising, John McCallum, Canada's ambassador to China, has publicly

00:00:37.020 weighed into the legal case to extradite Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese business tycoon who was

00:00:43.080 arrested in Vancouver for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.

00:00:47.720 And McCallum has weighed in on her side, specifically criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump.

00:00:55.180 I'll show you the video in about 30 seconds, but just a quick reminder.

00:00:58.540 Okay, Meng is the CFO, the chief financial officer of Huawei, one of the largest tech

00:01:04.140 companies in China.

00:01:05.060 They make cell phones, amongst other things.

00:01:06.540 They've also been accused by many Western governments of using their phone equipment

00:01:10.380 to spy on people who use that phone equipment, which is why Huawei is banned from installing

00:01:16.580 next-generation 5G phone systems in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, places like that.

00:01:21.260 Meng also happens to be the founder's daughter of the company.

00:01:24.380 So she's rich, she's powerful, she's connected, and she's wanted for various crimes in the 0.98

00:01:29.560 United States.

00:01:30.100 I don't know how the U.S. has jurisdiction over a Chinese citizen doing business in Iran.

00:01:34.680 That's for the courts to decide, I guess.

00:01:36.940 In the meantime, Meng is on bail.

00:01:39.760 So she's in Vancouver, one of the world's most livable cities, which also has a large

00:01:44.740 Chinese community.

00:01:45.480 So although her freedom and perhaps her dignity have been limited, she's still living the high

00:01:50.520 life.

00:01:52.520 Compare that to what China has done in retribution to Canada for making this arrest.

00:01:57.080 China has seized at least 13 Canadian citizens who were in China as obvious retribution.

00:02:03.860 They say as much publicly.

00:02:05.620 They've also taken a Canadian who was convicted of selling drugs there, and I'm not supporting

00:02:09.880 him.

00:02:11.020 They took him.

00:02:11.620 They opened up his case again, retried him again in one single day, and sentenced him

00:02:17.280 to death as opposed to the prison term he had already been received.

00:02:20.600 So that's just plain murdering a guy as retaliation.

00:02:24.780 China has really ramped up their aggression.

00:02:27.660 Their ambassador actually accused this whole thing of being some white supremacist scheme,

00:02:33.140 saying that's what this was about.

00:02:34.460 So at the very least, I would say it behooves us to let the courts deal with Meng and that

00:02:41.320 our diplomatic officers, including our ambassador to China, our foreign minister, our prime

00:02:44.980 minister, ought to be fighting to get the remaining Canadians held hostage in China released.

00:02:49.160 And I'm not a fan of drug dealers, but if a guy was already sentenced to prison and serving

00:02:53.400 that prison sentence, and then you suddenly declare that he's going to be executed, that's

00:02:58.000 something we ought to stop too.

00:02:59.100 You can't let a foreign country literally kill a Canadian as a diplomatic move.

00:03:04.460 But look at this.

00:03:05.460 Look at what our ambassador to China said today at a press conference in Markham, Ontario.

00:03:12.680 But funny enough, a press conference to which no mainstream media were invited, just Chinese 1.00

00:03:17.040 media.

00:03:17.620 Take a look at these apples.

00:03:19.380 I think she has quite good arguments on her side.

00:03:23.760 One, political involvement by comments from Donald Trump in her case.

00:03:29.140 Two, there's an extraterritorial aspect to her case. 1.00

00:03:37.140 And three, there's the issue of Iran sanctions, which are involved in her case, and Canada does 0.85

00:03:44.180 not sign on to these Iran sanctions.

00:03:47.200 So I think she has some strong arguments that she can make before a judge.

00:03:53.860 Really?

00:03:55.060 So you have Justin Trudeau's hand-picked ambassador to China.

00:03:58.720 Former Liberal cabinet minister, by the way.

00:04:00.940 Long-time liberal.

00:04:02.320 So he's not some neutral civil servant, career diplomat.

00:04:05.280 And this was obviously a planned, scripted press conference.

00:04:07.800 And you saw those Chinese-language media that you saw, the little microphone flashes, all Chinese 1.00

00:04:12.620 media, and the one that said CCTV, that's the state broadcaster in China.

00:04:18.000 And he's making China's case.

00:04:19.540 He's making Meng's case.

00:04:21.200 He's weighing in.

00:04:22.320 He says twice in 30 seconds that she has a really good case.

00:04:26.420 And any judge who wants to be elevated to, say, the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal

00:04:30.440 had better please Justin Trudeau's man on this one, wink, wink.

00:04:34.680 Since when do senior politicians tell judges what to do, without even hearing the evidence

00:04:39.920 before the trial, by the way?

00:04:41.340 It's before the trial.

00:04:43.220 But even if the trial had been done, since when does a politician tell the courts what's

00:04:48.140 right and what's wrong?

00:04:48.680 I mean, that's how they do it in China, of course.

00:04:51.260 And come to think of it, that's the kind of waste-no-time-with-democracy style that Justin

00:04:55.620 Trudeau personally admires.

00:04:59.120 There's a level of admiration I actually have for China.

00:05:03.420 Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around

00:05:12.660 on a dime.

00:05:13.180 Here, watch that clip of McCallum just one more time.

00:05:18.080 Really, really listen to what he says.

00:05:19.560 Take a listen.

00:05:19.920 I think she has quite good arguments on her side.

00:05:24.780 One, political involvement by comments from Donald Trump in her case.

00:05:30.900 Two, there's an extraterritorial aspect to her case. 1.00

00:05:37.880 And three, there's the issue of Iran sanctions, which are involved in her case.

00:05:44.400 And Canada does not sign on to these Iran sanctions.

00:05:48.440 So I think she has some strong arguments that she can make before a judge.

00:05:53.220 He specifically says that Donald Trump is wrong, and she's right.

00:06:01.260 Oh, and he disparages Trump's sanctions against Iran, or at least disavows them.

00:06:07.020 John McCallum has not only taken the side of this accused criminal against the United States,

00:06:10.580 and who knows?

00:06:12.080 She might be right.

00:06:13.340 She might be not guilty.

00:06:15.240 But we have the courts, and that's where these things are supposed to be resolved.

00:06:18.060 But no, he has made up his mind, based on whatever political briefing notes he has,

00:06:22.280 that she's right, she has a strong case, she should probably be let go.

00:06:26.060 If you have a strong case, that means you should be let go.

00:06:27.980 And Trump is wrong, wrong on China, wrong on Iran, and he doesn't mind saying so in public,

00:06:33.580 McCallum, for the delight of the Chinese language media.

00:06:36.740 And you saw that mic flash, it's on CCTV.

00:06:39.020 That's state broadcaster.

00:06:42.120 That's some diplomacy, isn't it?

00:06:44.940 Just a few weeks ago, Chrystia Freeland was begging Donald Trump's cabinet for help on this case. 0.78

00:06:51.140 Remember this?

00:06:52.280 The extradition process is a criminal justice process.

00:06:56.780 This is not a tool that should be used for politicized ends.

00:07:00.940 I can't say much about the process, because we have a U.S. judicial process that is underway,

00:07:05.240 an extradition process that is underway.

00:07:06.800 I can say this.

00:07:08.140 The unlawful detention of two Canadian citizens is unacceptable.

00:07:11.320 They ought to be returned.

00:07:13.460 The United States has stood for that, whether they are our citizens or citizens of other countries.

00:07:17.720 We ask all nations of the world to treat other citizens properly, and the detention of these two Canadian citizens in China ought to end.

00:07:25.320 So that's Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State.

00:07:28.700 And Chrystia Freeland was asking for his help because she knows that the Chinese laugh at Trudeau.

00:07:34.360 I think she slowly figured that out.

00:07:37.200 It's taken her a while.

00:07:38.040 A couple years ago, she was actually part of the joke, too.

00:07:41.240 We're quite proud the prime minister has been given a fond nickname in China, which he is called Pudou, which I believe means potato.

00:07:53.280 And he is, I can't say the Chinese, but it's sian, Pudou, little potato, because his father, Pierre Elliott, Pudou, was senior potato.

00:08:03.080 So we feel we are off to a great start.

00:08:07.740 I'm sorry, that is humiliating to our country.

00:08:11.320 Oof.

00:08:13.260 So she's begging Pompeo for help just weeks ago, and then she's bashing Pompeo's boss, saying he's wrong?

00:08:21.280 Gee, I wonder if the U.S. State Department will notice this.

00:08:25.060 I wonder if their embassy in Canada will notice.

00:08:28.300 And do you think this will make them more or less likely to actually help?

00:08:33.080 Maybe if Krista Freeland or John McCallum wear another one of her bizarre T-shirts, bad-mouthing Trump, I don't know. 0.72

00:08:40.920 Just thinking, what would the world's best diplomat do?

00:08:43.900 I note that Markham's ethnic demographics, according to the 2016 census, are 45% Chinese.

00:08:52.120 Almost half the people in Markham are Chinese.

00:08:53.960 Only 22% are old-stock Canadians.

00:08:56.780 So this is probably an election move also, I guess, to shore up the Chinese vote for Justin Trudeau,

00:09:03.300 especially after they just kicked out Karen Wang as their candidate in Burnaby last week. 1.00

00:09:08.760 I don't know.

00:09:09.360 But one thing I do know, John McCallum is not on our side anymore.

00:09:14.260 He's on the side of the Chinese dictatorship.

00:09:16.920 I don't think he ever really was on our side to be candid.

00:09:19.820 But remember when he announced Canada's negotiation strategy for a proposed Canada-China trade deal?

00:09:27.360 Within 24 hours of arriving in China, I was invited to present my credentials to President Xi Jinping.

00:09:34.980 And I conveyed to him a message from our prime minister that can be summarized in three words.

00:09:41.700 More, more, more.

00:09:42.940 Yeah, you don't announce in advance in public that you will give everything to the Chinese side

00:09:54.380 before you even start your negotiations.

00:09:57.320 Unless the Chinese side is your side. 0.99

00:10:00.360 But that's how they roll in the Liberal Party.

00:10:02.600 Let me read to you a headline from 15 years ago.

00:10:05.940 This was originally published in 2004.

00:10:08.640 John McCallum builds links with Chinese conglomerate by Jeffrey York.

00:10:13.940 Less than two months after stepping down as prime minister,

00:10:16.860 John McCallum is moving quickly to forge a relationship with China's wealthiest and most powerful business conglomerate.

00:10:23.180 Making a surprisingly speedy entrance onto the global business stage,

00:10:28.080 Mr. McCallum will arrive in China this weekend with a team of Power Corp executives

00:10:32.780 to meet some of China's most influential business leaders.

00:10:35.700 The Globe and Mail was so excited.

00:10:38.420 They're so proud.

00:10:39.180 They love China.

00:10:40.640 Five weeks after Khrushen stepped down as prime minister, five weeks,

00:10:47.380 he was already a senior lobbyist working with the Chinese government.

00:10:51.700 Do you really think that was only all set up after he left office?

00:10:55.960 You know, Khrushen's son-in-law is a demuree. 0.94

00:11:00.300 He runs the family businesses, that Power Corp they mentioned.

00:11:02.980 And massive billion-dollar investments in China.

00:11:06.440 That's how the liberals roll.

00:11:09.100 Do you doubt that when he retires as Canada's ambassador to China,

00:11:12.500 that John McCallum will immediately get a huge lobbying consulting gig with China, in China, for China?

00:11:20.340 Of course he will.

00:11:22.140 And that video of him at the press conference today was his audition tape.

00:11:27.860 Justin Trudeau was asked about this bizarre statement by McCallum today.

00:11:30.860 Take a look at his answers.

00:11:31.700 Do you agree with your ambassador to China that Ms. Meng has a strong case against extradition?

00:11:38.040 We have always highlighted that Canada is a country of the rule of law,

00:11:42.200 and we will make sure that the rule of law is properly and fully followed.

00:11:47.360 That, of course, includes the opportunity for her to mount a strong defense.

00:11:53.960 That is part of our justice system, and we are going to apply that justice system in its integrity,

00:12:00.880 as all Canadians and, indeed, as people around the world expect us to do as a country.

00:12:06.240 We are a country of the rule of law.

00:12:08.100 We will stay grounded in that at the same time as we advocate and engage in serious efforts

00:12:16.040 to support the Canadians who have been arbitrarily detained in China.

00:12:21.500 So do you agree that she does have a strong case?

00:12:23.780 I think part of the strength of our justice system is people get to mount their own defense,

00:12:31.120 and I know she will do that.

00:12:33.280 We will ensure, as a government and as a country,

00:12:36.640 that all the rules and the independence of our justice system is properly defended and properly supported.

00:12:42.760 Yeah, but that didn't happen, buddy.

00:12:46.500 Your hand-picked ambassador specifically, deliberately, forcefully did weigh into the courts.

00:12:53.300 He ended their independence, and Trudeau didn't disown it.

00:12:56.640 You saw it.

00:12:57.400 He answered twice again in French also.

00:13:00.320 He didn't disown McCallum at all.

00:13:01.800 Why would he?

00:13:02.200 He approved it.

00:13:03.100 He probably wrote it.

00:13:05.040 He knows that China laughs at the little potato.

00:13:08.700 He knows he's too weak to fight,

00:13:10.380 so maybe he'll bow a little bit lower.

00:13:13.380 Maybe he'll make it a little bit clearer.

00:13:15.420 He hates Trump.

00:13:17.500 He loves China.

00:13:20.300 Too bad, really, because an ambassador who is loyal to Canada

00:13:23.120 would probably have used the opportunity to go to bat for our hostages still held in Chinese prisons,

00:13:28.240 not for Chinese Communist Party elites still living the high life in Vancouver.

00:13:34.880 Stay with us for more.

00:13:40.380 Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology?

00:13:55.620 Do you see your own fault in any way?

00:14:00.440 As far as standing there, I had every right to do so.

00:14:06.400 My position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips.

00:14:11.860 I respect him.

00:14:13.060 I'd like to talk to him.

00:14:15.300 I mean, in hindsight, I wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole thing.

00:14:20.580 But I can't say that I'm sorry for listening to him and standing there.

00:14:25.180 A disgraceful question by NBC put to a teenage boy from Kentucky

00:14:30.000 who was waiting around at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,

00:14:33.200 waiting for a bus to take him back to Kentucky from the March for Life

00:14:36.100 when he was accosted first by a gang, and I'm going to call them a gang,

00:14:40.320 of so-called black Israelites, a bizarre sect that shouted racial abuse at the boys.

00:14:48.180 They responded by having upbeat, positive school chants,

00:14:54.220 at which time an Indian activist going by the name Nathan Phillips walked right up to them

00:15:00.060 and started banging a drum inches away from that boy, Nick Sandman's face.

00:15:06.120 Inches away.

00:15:07.240 As you can see, that young boy didn't flinch, was not aggressive, did not raise his hands,

00:15:12.960 did not say a word.

00:15:13.800 He just smiled and he later said, was praying that things would work out right.

00:15:20.260 And the disgrace of NBC saying, will you not apologize?

00:15:25.060 Do you not have anything to say about being at fault?

00:15:29.020 Shows that the media is not done demonizing this boy.

00:15:33.760 Joining us now via Skype from Washington, D.C.

00:15:36.280 is the first reporter to call BS on this official media narrative,

00:15:41.360 of the narrative that Nathan Phillips, the drummer, was somehow the victim,

00:15:44.820 and that this boy who stood silently was somehow the aggressor.

00:15:49.100 I'm talking about our friend Cassandra Fairbanks, a reporter for the Gateway Pundit,

00:15:52.880 who joins us now via Skype.

00:15:54.760 Cassandra, great to see you.

00:15:55.660 And first of all, congratulations.

00:15:57.260 I think you were really the one who first said, this is fake news.

00:16:01.160 This isn't a racist incident by the boy.

00:16:04.100 It's racism against him.

00:16:06.540 Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

00:16:08.620 The first, when this first came out, people were jumping down my throat.

00:16:12.620 They were so angry because I was a little hard on the Native American far left activist.

00:16:19.840 But it turned out I was right and they were wrong.

00:16:23.280 And a lot of them still haven't apologized.

00:16:26.080 Yeah, there were so many elements of fake news in it.

00:16:29.520 I mean, one of the early versions of the video that was circulated, the sound was off.

00:16:34.080 So the allegation that the boys were taunting the man couldn't be instantly disproven.

00:16:40.620 Then a video of the Indian activist saying he was taunted with Build That Wall

00:16:46.840 was proved false when the audio was finally released.

00:16:51.480 And there's one more point.

00:16:52.880 And I think you were the first to report this.

00:16:55.720 That Native American whose real name is not Nathan Phillips, by the way,

00:16:59.360 he is not a Vietnam veteran. 0.59

00:17:00.860 He never served in Vietnam and he's a perpetual liar about it.

00:17:07.320 That's what we call stolen valor.

00:17:10.180 Every single element about this was fake news.

00:17:13.960 How did you know, Cassandra?

00:17:15.740 Everyone else was saying, yikes, it looks real.

00:17:18.740 And I don't want to speak against the tide because I don't want someone to call me racist.

00:17:22.320 How did you know in your bones this whole thing was a hoax?

00:17:26.180 Well, I'm a mom and apparently it seems that a lot of these liberal journalists and celebrities

00:17:33.200 who immediately jumped on bashing these kids have never been around teenage boys.

00:17:38.780 The fact of the matter is, when kids are uncomfortable, they do awkward things.

00:17:45.600 They look awkward and they kind of freeze up.

00:17:48.240 And I've seen this happen in person.

00:17:50.140 Like when an adult confronts a younger child or a teenager, they freeze up.

00:17:55.040 They feel awkward.

00:17:55.920 And that's what happens.

00:17:57.140 And I immediately recognized that.

00:17:59.140 And I was like, he's not being smug.

00:18:00.840 He's uncomfortable.

00:18:02.360 Have you people never been around children?

00:18:04.140 And so I was immediately angry at this man who was confronting and harassing these children

00:18:10.420 and mad at everybody who was blaming the kids.

00:18:14.200 They were victim blaming him.

00:18:15.600 Like, why is an adult man confronting these children?

00:18:18.900 That was my immediate reaction.

00:18:20.560 Yeah.

00:18:20.840 On yesterday's show, I played about four minutes worth of the drumming in his face.

00:18:25.580 I sped it up because just to sit and watch that for four minutes would be too much.

00:18:29.400 We played it in fast forward.

00:18:31.180 It was still excruciating watching this man, 64-year-old man, pound a drum in the face

00:18:38.640 of a, I mean, he's 16, so he's not a child of tender years.

00:18:42.340 I would not have had the patience and self-control to take that kind of physical invasion of space

00:18:48.640 and abuse without comment.

00:18:50.580 I don't have, that child, that 16-year-old boy, and even in that interview with NBC, showed

00:18:55.960 more restraint than I certainly would have, Cassandra.

00:18:59.000 Yeah, these kids are amazing.

00:19:00.220 They're such good kids.

00:19:01.740 Right now, there's a GoFundMe that is raised, I haven't even looked at it today, but last

00:19:05.820 night it was over 30 grand.

00:19:07.480 They want 100% of the money to go to Students for Life.

00:19:11.080 These kids, they were in town protesting on behalf of unborn babies.

00:19:16.160 These are good kids.

00:19:17.940 And as Nick said, he was standing in silent prayer, hoping that by being calm, he would

00:19:22.680 de-escalate the situation.

00:19:24.140 What they did was more adult than how any adult that I know would have handled this at

00:19:29.740 all.

00:19:30.180 I mean, I'm proud of them.

00:19:32.120 I think they're amazing kids.

00:19:33.700 And it's horrifying what's being done to them.

00:19:36.620 I think you're right.

00:19:37.300 And I want to tell you the most disappointing part of this whole thing in my mind.

00:19:41.040 The media, the fake news media, as Donald Trump calls them, they lived down to their

00:19:45.940 expectations.

00:19:47.480 These professional activists, you know, in one case the trickery was exposed, but 48 hours

00:19:53.620 too late to stop the damage.

00:19:54.720 To me, the great disappointment, Cassandra, was the school, the Catholic school, Covenant

00:20:00.780 Catholic in Kentucky, that immediately, without doing any due diligence, without finding the

00:20:07.440 facts, put up a page.

00:20:09.720 When you go to their website, it jumped up at you, a pop-up ad where they condemned these

00:20:17.380 kids, said it tainted their whole trip, and threw them under the bus in such a disloyal

00:20:24.100 way.

00:20:25.840 And this is a Catholic school that was so immoral in my mind. 1.00

00:20:32.140 I was angry at the media, angry at this provocateur, but I was disgusted and furious with their own 0.69

00:20:39.680 school.

00:20:40.440 Tell me a bit about that.

00:20:41.360 I know you've been in touch with some of the parents of the kids.

00:20:43.600 What's the latest on the bad behavior from their Catholic school?

00:20:48.540 Yes, I've been in contact, constant contact, with a couple of the mothers.

00:20:53.880 One of them, especially me and her, hit it off very well.

00:20:56.700 She's super cool.

00:20:58.080 But if you go on Gateway Pundit, I have an interview up that I did with them over the weekend.

00:21:04.320 They are more upset with the bishop and the school than they are with pretty much anything

00:21:10.180 else going on.

00:21:11.120 One of the mothers said to me, these boys have been victimized twice.

00:21:15.820 First, they were victimized, well, three times, because first they were victimized by these

00:21:19.520 protesters who went after them.

00:21:21.080 Then they were victimized by the media.

00:21:23.000 And then they were victimized by their own school in the diocese.

00:21:26.760 And I think she nailed it.

00:21:28.460 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:21:29.460 And now, right now.

00:21:30.180 You know, President Trump, and I'm talking about him again, but he was the proximate,

00:21:36.660 he was what sparked the lighting of the fuse here, because those Make America Great Again

00:21:43.000 hats, that's what set off the media. 1.00

00:21:45.220 Trump has said that he wants to host these kids in the White House.

00:21:50.780 I think that's great, and I think that will help redeem them.

00:21:53.840 And Trump's tweet was actually very positive.

00:21:55.640 We'll put it up on the screen.

00:21:57.220 He says it was very unpleasant, but it might end up in a dream that this might turn, something

00:22:01.560 good might come out of it.

00:22:02.380 I thought Trump was actually very grown up, too, if I can use that phrase.

00:22:06.900 But I see one of your stories, and you've published at least 20 stories in the last three

00:22:10.600 days on this, that the bishop has...

00:22:13.400 Yeah, he's got no sleep.

00:22:14.400 Yeah.

00:22:14.960 Well, listen, let me just read this headline here from one of your latest pieces.

00:22:20.580 Covington Catholic bishop and school administration who threw the kids under the bus, now barring

00:22:26.260 them from speaking to media to defend themselves.

00:22:28.820 I'll just read the first sentence of your story, and then you can tell us a bit more about this,

00:22:32.480 Cassandra.

00:22:33.460 The bishop and school administration of Covington Catholic that immediately threw these kids

00:22:36.860 under the bus without full information has now told students they cannot speak to the

00:22:40.140 media to defend themselves.

00:22:41.680 Neither the diocese or school has apologized to the kids for believing leftist activist

00:22:46.320 Nathan Phillips and the liberal media as they smeared the students, both even apologized on

00:22:51.220 their behalf and have not yet retracted it, even though the original narrative has been

00:22:55.380 thoroughly debunked.

00:22:56.800 So I've spoke to some of the mothers about everything that's been going on, and they've

00:23:02.180 made the great point that these kids have been victimized three times.

00:23:06.840 First, they were victimized by the protesters and the adults who were bullying them in Washington,

00:23:11.340 D.C.

00:23:11.880 Then they were victimized by the media, and then they were victimized by their own school

00:23:15.740 and their bishop in the diocese who threw them under the bus without even getting the

00:23:21.820 full story or attempting to get the full story.

00:23:24.700 And I think that they pretty much nailed it.

00:23:27.300 That sums it up really well.

00:23:29.640 And now these poor kids who have been thrown under the bus by their school, who are supposed 0.99

00:23:33.760 to protect them, can't even go defend themselves.

00:23:37.720 Yeah.

00:23:38.020 I want to show you one last thing, Cassandra, because I think the, you know, I said that

00:23:43.440 the school's reaction was the most disheartening to me.

00:23:46.200 But let me show you a tweet by a new congresswoman from Minnesota, a Democrat, the first Somali Muslim

00:23:53.940 woman in Congress, Ilhan Omar is her name.

00:23:57.280 And here's what she wrote.

00:23:59.220 She said, the boys were protesting a woman's right to choose and yelled, it's not rape if 1.00

00:24:05.440 you enjoy it. 1.00

00:24:06.380 That's a damned lie. 1.00

00:24:07.940 They were taunting five black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants. 1.00

00:24:13.000 That's three damned lies in there. 1.00

00:24:15.400 They weren't taunting the black man. 1.00

00:24:16.840 They didn't surround Phillips and they didn't lead racist chants.

00:24:19.080 Sandman's family hired a right-wing PR firm to write his non-apology.

00:24:24.440 Well, that may be true.

00:24:25.360 And I'm glad he did.

00:24:26.320 It was the first time we heard the truth.

00:24:28.820 After a day of this tweet being up, she finally took it down. 0.67

00:24:31.960 That's absolutely gross, false and defamatory.

00:24:36.720 Does it make sense for these kids or their families to sue anyone for these smears?

00:24:41.660 Or is that just like trying to chase the wind?

00:24:43.920 You can't sue a thousand lying defamers.

00:24:47.400 Oh, I have so much to say about this.

00:24:50.180 When I saw that tweet last night, my blood was on fire.

00:24:53.480 First of all, she is calling these men who, the black Israelites, who were calling these 0.95

00:25:00.360 kids sexist, I mean, homophobic slurs, racist slurs, and calling them future school shooters. 0.84

00:25:08.540 These men were berating these teenagers.

00:25:11.260 And she has the audacity to say that they were taunting them.

00:25:16.740 Are you kidding me?

00:25:18.000 First of all.

00:25:19.340 Second, I hope that Nick's PR guy is right-wing because obviously the left can't be trusted

00:25:25.500 on this issue.

00:25:26.260 They're coming after our children.

00:25:27.420 And then regarding lawsuits, Robert Barnes is representing multiple families.

00:25:35.000 He's in talks with even more families.

00:25:36.500 And they've compiled a huge list of verified accounts, representatives, media outlets, and

00:25:42.060 they are giving them 48 hours notice.

00:25:44.720 So if they don't retract and apologize by Friday, then they're potentially going to be named in

00:25:49.560 the lawsuit next week.

00:25:50.640 And I'm sure that her name is going to be at the top of the list.

00:25:53.760 Well, I am very excited about that.

00:25:55.340 I believe in freedom of speech.

00:25:57.360 But if you say, if you smear a national and international, we're in Canada, obviously,

00:26:03.260 in international news, if you say that a young man had Nazi racist taunts surrounded and bullied

00:26:11.880 and shouted at an Aboriginal man, and if that yields directly death threats to the boy, yeah, 0.87

00:26:18.700 that's pretty much actionable anywhere in the world, including in the home of the First 0.95

00:26:22.800 Amendment.

00:26:23.120 Well, Cassandra, we actually, sorry.

00:26:26.480 Sorry, last word to you, Cassandra.

00:26:28.200 We actually set precedent for this case with my case.

00:26:31.820 I ended up suing a reporter who had accused me of making a white supremacist hand gesture

00:26:36.080 in the White House.

00:26:37.900 We had done the OK sign, which everybody was doing just as a way to show that we support

00:26:41.720 Trump because he does it when he's giving a speech often.

00:26:44.040 And I had sued her, but the judge decided that, well, what she said was illegal libel because

00:26:51.380 you can't accuse people of being racist if they're not.

00:26:55.580 I failed my case because I was a public figure and we couldn't prove actual malice.

00:27:00.580 In the kid's case, because they're not public figures, you do not have to prove actual malice.

00:27:06.620 You only have to prove that they didn't do due diligence and that or that they were sloppy,

00:27:13.660 you know, that they had acted inappropriately.

00:27:16.380 So they have interesting.

00:27:17.840 They're easily going to win this case.

00:27:19.400 And Barnes, the lawyer who's representing the family has actually represented me in this

00:27:23.460 case.

00:27:23.800 So he knows it inside and out.

00:27:25.380 Isn't that interesting?

00:27:26.840 Well, we'll have to keep in touch with him once that deadline passes.

00:27:29.660 Cassandra, we lost the video feed from you via Skype, but we continued our conversation

00:27:33.560 on audio and we showed some of the infuriating clips from that day in Washington.

00:27:38.880 I want to salute you for being the first journalist to push back on this and the best journalist.

00:27:44.780 You have two dozen stories on this and I would encourage all of our readers, if they haven't

00:27:48.720 already, to go to thegatewaypundit.com where you're just on fire on this stuff.

00:27:54.040 And I'm so glad you are.

00:27:54.960 Thanks for taking the time out of today.

00:27:55.380 Thank you so much.

00:27:56.560 All right.

00:27:57.320 There you have it.

00:27:58.160 Our friend Cassandra Fairbanks, I should remind you that she was one of the four independent 0.95

00:28:02.440 journalists that traveled all the way to London to report on Tommy Robinson's trial

00:28:07.220 when he was set free at the Old Bailey.

00:28:09.420 Stay with us.

00:28:10.360 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:28:14.780 Hey, welcome back.

00:28:23.260 On my monologue yesterday, Mark writes, hey, Victoria, I get a climate change charge on

00:28:27.820 my utility bill every month.

00:28:28.980 It's called a sewage treatment charge.

00:28:31.400 Do you?

00:28:32.160 Ah, it's gross.

00:28:35.260 It's so gross to me that I was reading about it.

00:28:38.180 I don't want to gross you out, especially if you're eating or something.

00:28:40.300 I was reading, all they do is like they like have a very like a grill just to strain out

00:28:45.980 like the biggest, grossest items.

00:28:48.840 And the rest of it just goes into the ocean.

00:28:52.700 Oh, that's gross.

00:28:54.300 From the eco leaders of Canada. 0.65

00:28:56.560 No surprise.

00:28:57.240 Well, listen, San Francisco is a toxic dump too.

00:28:59.980 Jerry writes, nice piece on Victoria and the sewage pipeline they love.

00:29:04.740 You forgot to mention the 13 kilometer pipeline from Washington State through Richmond to Vancouver

00:29:09.280 Airport that was approved because Vancouver International couldn't run out of jet fuel.

00:29:12.640 Hey, thank you for the reminder of that.

00:29:14.660 Yeah, they love their jet fuel.

00:29:16.240 They love their oil and gas.

00:29:18.460 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline that exists comes right.

00:29:21.380 Being there, I've seen it with my eyes, comes right out where this old Chevron refinery

00:29:25.000 is.

00:29:25.260 It's been there, I think, since the 40s.

00:29:28.540 And, you know, I'd like to see Vancouver go without gasoline for 12 hours.

00:29:34.440 Let's just start with one day.

00:29:37.300 Can they not use their cars or their planes for one day?

00:29:40.400 Are you kidding me?

00:29:43.460 On my interview with Pardes Saleh, Wendy writes,

00:29:47.100 the left needs to learn that children are off limits when it comes to their grubby politics. 0.77

00:29:50.840 Yeah, I mean, 16 year old, I mean, you saw a clip of the boy today, 16 years old is still

00:29:57.900 a child.

00:29:59.520 The national media not only criticized them, but called for violence against them.

00:30:03.760 And I mean that the media did.

00:30:05.320 First of all, they just called him a Nazi, which is so atrocious.

00:30:09.000 Frankly, when you're calling that kid a Nazi, that's a form of Holocaust revisionism.

00:30:13.440 Because you're saying, oh, Nazis are nothing.

00:30:14.980 Oh, I don't like him. 0.96

00:30:16.080 So he's a Nazi. 0.93

00:30:16.880 So Nazis couldn't have been that bad. 1.00

00:30:18.260 But forget about just the name calling.

00:30:20.580 They called for violence.

00:30:22.880 That's a fact.

00:30:24.580 Well, that's our show for today.

00:30:26.180 What do you think of John McCallum?

00:30:28.100 Holy cow. 0.89

00:30:29.040 And I'm not even going to make a drunk joke because I don't, I think he was stone cold

00:30:33.480 sober.

00:30:34.680 I think he was as sober as, I don't know, a sober person.

00:30:41.040 I think that was a scripted plan press conference with Chinese language media.

00:30:44.760 And you saw the Chinese state broadcaster microphone right in the middle.

00:30:47.720 Well, that is super gross.

00:30:50.920 And I bet you a dollar that Jean Chrétien had his hand in it, too.

00:30:56.420 All right, folks, until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:30:59.540 oh, by the way, let me tease you a little bit.

00:31:01.660 I will have some more news for you about the elections commissioner in Alberta tomorrow.

00:31:07.480 So we'll talk to you then.

00:31:08.420 Until then, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:31:10.820 We'll talk to you then.

Rebel News Podcast - January 24, 2019

Trudeau’s ambassador to China switches sides — and makes China’s case against Trump

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