On this episode of Firebrand, Rep. Matt Gaetz is joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to talk about election integrity and why the Deep State is out to get him. Also, we talk about the Green New Deal and why we should all be worried about it.
00:01:02.000And specifically, what the hell is going on in the state of Georgia,
00:01:06.000where we seem to see a lot of the bad stuff that we need to cure in all parts of America.
00:01:12.000But first, all the scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C. now is about the Nancy Pelosi effort to pass the socialist build back bankrupt plan in different parts.
00:01:22.000I guess Pelosi said she was passing chunks recently.
00:01:26.000Marjorie, you led the effort to expose this legislation for what it was.
00:01:30.000I think the reason it was hard for some Democrats to back it is because you were making common sense arguments against it.
00:01:36.000Let people know the risk that we still face from this legislation if they're able to break it up and get portions of it into the spending bill.
00:01:44.000Well, thank you for that, Matt. It's very dangerous.
00:01:47.000It's AOC's Green New Deal in full package.
00:01:50.000That's what Build Back Better and Build Back Broke and Destroy Our Country bill is all about.
00:01:55.000But what it will do is it'll make America and all Americans completely relying on China to be able to drive their car.
00:02:02.000Just a simple thing that a freedom that we all enjoy.
00:02:07.000They want to enslave us to China by making all of us forcing us to electric vehicles and that being the only choice we can buy by 2035.
00:02:16.000Well, China's number one in the market and America just doesn't compete.
00:02:20.000So this is this is Nancy Pelosi's effort, Joe Biden's effort to give AOC a gift on the platter.
00:02:26.000You know, their sweet little girl that hopefully they want her to run for president one day.
00:02:31.000So they're trying to give her a win with the Green New Deal.
00:02:33.000And that's what we're going to be fighting against.
00:02:35.000There's nothing sweet in these poison pills that I think are going to be fed through the Congress.
00:02:40.000And one thing I'm concerned about is that you could have Republicans do a lot like what they did on the infrastructure bill, where if they get the right buy off, if they get the right pork spending in their district, if they get the right accommodation for their favorite lobbyist donor, then maybe they will go along with Democrats.
00:02:58.000And here's what it'll sound like. Well, we just don't want the government to shut down.
00:03:02.000We just think the government should stay open.
00:03:04.000And so we've got to do these compromises and deals.
00:03:07.000You and I have taken a strong position, along with our colleague Chip Roy, that we ought to shut this government down if these mandates don't end and if we don't vindicate the freedom of our constituents.
00:03:16.000Talk about that dynamic within the Republican conference where you've got the folks standing ready to fight.
00:03:22.000And then, you know, those who might go along with these spending bills.
00:03:25.000Well, thank you for laying that out. And we do. We have a strong movement going.
00:03:28.000I think we have nearly 50 Republicans that have signed on with Chip Roy's letter saying that we will not vote for the continuing resolution to fund the government if it's going to fund vaccines and they're going to continue these vaccine mandates.
00:03:40.000And the American people are fed up with it. You don't have to be a Republican or a Democrat across America to be sick and tired of covid-19.
00:03:47.000And what's so funny, Matt, is we just saw Nancy Pelosi's China bill, her China first bill that we fought against all week this week, is that it actually had a date in there that covid apparently ends.
00:03:58.000They actually put that in the bill and it was like in twenty twenty five.
00:04:02.000So it was so ridiculous. Oh, here's the other kicker.
00:04:05.000And that one little line, it was unless Joe Biden decides it's over.
00:04:09.000Yeah. So apparently the Democrats can choose when covid ends at any time.
00:04:13.000But the truth be known is I'm totally fine with shutting down the government.
00:04:17.000The government is creating havoc and causing all the problems in Americans lives.
00:04:22.000And look, they're in 30. We're in 30 trillion dollars in debt because of the people here in this town.
00:04:28.000They can't figure out how to do math and create a budget that actually works.
00:04:31.000And so, yes, we're all in for the fight to to do whatever we can.
00:04:36.000Why fund a government? Why do a continuing resolution when these people are just failing Americans every day?
00:04:42.000I'll tell you, voting to shut down the government is hard for me.
00:04:45.000It's hard for me because I have these military bases.
00:04:49.000I have this research mission. I see how many veterans need services.
00:04:54.000But then I look at the way in which our military is targeting service members and military families and pushing wokeism from not from our brave service members, but from these terrible leaders that Joe Biden has selected.
00:05:07.000And I look at the way people to V.A. are at risk of being discriminated against because of gun ownership or because of their vaccine status potentially.
00:05:17.000And so I think you're right when the government operationalizes against the people, the people have to rely on representatives to actually get up and fight their battles for them.
00:05:27.000And, you know, the the fear that we always hear behind closed doors is, well, Republicans always lose shutdowns.
00:05:35.000We always lose shutdowns. And I have a theory on that, that often when we engage in the shutdown strategy, it's for like a myriad of reasons.
00:05:43.000It's like a little bit of Obamacare, a little bit of the border, a little bit spending.
00:05:47.000And that the way to marshal the country behind us is to have like a laser focus on the problems that people are facing.
00:05:55.000Why do you think Republicans have always lost, lost shutdowns?
00:05:58.000Well, I don't think that Republicans have reflected the American people.
00:06:01.000That's why they've lost shutdowns. They haven't been brave enough.
00:06:04.000Look at truckers right now. Can we just talk about how awesome truck drivers are?
00:06:09.000I mean, these people send goods all over the country.
00:06:12.000They help us to be able to have stuff on our shelves and stores to buy.
00:06:16.000And they're the bravest people in the country right now.
00:06:19.000They're getting ready. They're planning a convoy to D.C.
00:06:22.000I cannot wait to see it. You know, I'll be all down there high five and truck drivers.
00:06:26.000And but yeah, no truck drivers are the ones that are willing to stand up and say we're shutting this down because it's broken and we're sick of it and we're tired of it.
00:06:35.000And then back to shutting the government down.
00:06:37.000Everyone gets their paycheck eventually anyways.
00:06:39.000When you fund the government, everyone gets their back pay.
00:06:42.000So I don't want to hurt military families.
00:06:51.000I know a lot of military that are fed up with it, too, and they're saying, yeah, shut it down.
00:06:55.000And so it's it's crazy that we've gotten to that point where that what is necessary is a is a real resistance against these institutions that have been turned against so many people.
00:07:06.000And I know to ultimately liberate those interests, we're going to have to retake the majority, lay out a policy vision, bring people to that vision and ultimately have have the ability to execute on that.
00:07:17.000And that really brings us to the main topic of our discussion.
00:08:37.000It would take away our ability to object.
00:08:39.000And the founders that thank God for them created this amazing country.
00:08:44.000They gave us this ability because they wanted members of Congress to be able to say if something goes wrong in state elections, members of Congress can object.
00:08:54.000Not to overturn elections, but to be a last line of defense.
00:09:23.000I think it's a real dangerous path for the Republicans to say, well, we're not going to go all the way with Nancy Pelosi's institutionalizing of fraud, but we'll meet you part of the way with this change to the way electoral votes are counted.
00:09:52.000If they want to say, if they want to virtue signal and say, we're willing to work with our friends across the aisle and all of that garbage and we care about election reform, too, then, yeah, we have serious problems.
00:10:05.000Because here's what we know everyone at home feels like.
00:10:07.000The actual voters are saying, don't work across the aisle with the people that are the architects of a stolen election.
00:10:13.000Do not work across the aisle with that.
00:10:15.000If anything, they want us to stand firm and fight for election integrity.
00:10:19.000Like you said, voter ID do not change amazing processes, processes that are the last line of defense, like our ability to object to electoral college votes that should not have been approved in the first place.
00:10:32.000Like in my state, oh, my goodness, Georgia.
00:10:35.000Well, we're going to get to that because for all the discussion in Washington about these policies, it's so erudite, right?
00:10:42.000But the reality is they're actual people who have to have to really manage and run and pull the levers on our elections.
00:10:49.000And frankly, Marjorie, in Georgia, you've got a lot of people who have not done their job.
00:11:28.000But I want 100% of the people to understand that the process was fair and it was accurately counted.
00:11:33.000What I'd never like to see is our house divided.
00:11:36.000Because as secretary of state, my job is to make sure we have honest and fair elections.
00:11:41.000But also, as a Republican, as a conservative, you know, I'd like to see our side win.
00:11:46.000But at the end of the day, you've got to win fair and honestly.
00:11:49.000So after telling Georgians that this was a fair, honest election, the cleanest election ever, that anyone who, you know, thinks otherwise is just a sore loser.
00:13:07.000Brad Raffensperger can no longer deny that there was voter fraud on a widespread level.
00:13:14.000He can no longer deny that he completely failed as secretary of state.
00:13:18.000He can no longer deny that he lied to everyone in Georgia about his perfectly run election and how everything was accurately voted because people in Georgia, just regular people, have worked their tail off and actually proven that there was voter fraud.
00:13:33.000So now he's saying, oh, because he's on the ballot, by the way, that he's investigating it.
00:13:39.000Brad Raffensperger is going to lose so bad it's not even funny.
00:13:42.000Well, he's just in the nick of time, right?
00:13:44.000I mean, like, I just don't understand the lack of self-awareness to go out and make these broad pronouncements, to criticize people that were asking legitimate questions.
00:14:00.660You know, he's the one they made the deal with Dominion.
00:14:03.640And then also going forward, Brad Raffensperger, it needs to be pointed out, he's the one that made the deal with Stacey Abrams back in the spring of 2020.
00:14:11.960He made a deal with Stacey Abrams, the woman that is now running for governor of our state.
00:14:18.080And that is how we ended up with all of these absentee ballots and all of these drop boxes and all of the problems.
00:14:24.560It was Brad Raffensperger that opened the door for cheating, and he did it holding hands with Stacey Abrams.
00:14:31.300And nobody in Georgia better forget that.
00:14:34.020Well, it's so indicative of the dynamic we see here in Washington, where the Republicans think that if they just concede a little bit more ground each time, that ultimately they'll preserve what they seek to conserve.
00:14:46.860The reality is you never get that back.
00:14:49.820Brad Raffensperger did not help the people of Georgia by cutting a deal with Stacey Abrams.
00:15:04.700So USA Today, Election Day 2020, Gabriel Sterling says, there's no evidence of any irregularities.
00:15:14.420He continues, and I quote, the biggest thing we've seen is from the president's fertile mind of finding fraud where none exists.
00:15:23.660Let me tell you about President Trump's fertile mind for, here's a little message for Gabe, in my home county, in Floyd County, in the hand recounts, let me just tell you, after he claimed that it was so perfect and there was no irregularities, in little bitty Floyd County, Georgia, we recovered over 3,000 ballots that just magically weren't counted.
00:15:46.220I don't know how, and almost 3,000 of those, less than 3,000, I think it was 2,800, actually were votes for President Trump.
00:15:55.720And that was just in one county in Floyd.
00:15:57.760Imagine Fulton County, DeKalb County, Gwinnett County, and many other counties across Georgia.
00:16:03.620You know, the problem with Gabe is, is he's a contractor, and Gabe got a really special deal and a really nice paycheck from the taxpayers in Georgia that he didn't deserve, and that was because he was friends with the right people at the right time.
00:16:17.380So he stepped out of his government job in the state of Georgia and got to be the private contractor running the election for the state of Georgia under Brad Raffensperger that clearly didn't run anything because he's so clueless.
00:16:29.520But that's what we know about Gabe Sterling in Georgia.
00:16:32.680But we don't even have to go to Floyd County to find problems and irregularities in voting.
00:16:39.960We don't even have to leave Gabe Sterling's house, as it turns out, to find irregular voting.
00:16:48.260Yes, because despite saying there was no evidence of any irregularities, it turns out that there was voter fraud occurring at the residence where Gabe Sterling lived.
00:16:58.920Secretary of State Elections Manager Gabriel Sterling.
00:17:04.780I need to drop off a challenge to an elector.
00:17:06.840Sterling is here at the Fulton County Elections Division to file an election challenge.
00:17:12.040It would have absolutely been illegal voting if this isn't stopped.
00:17:15.660The challenge took place after Sterling got this third-party election flyer at his Sandy Springs home, reminding a voter named Moran Fisha to pick up the absentee ballot she requested,
00:17:28.280and be sure to return it quickly to ensure your vote is counted.
00:17:35.520Moran Fisha had sold her house to Gabriel Sterling in 2018 and moved to Maryland, according to Sterling's election challenge.
00:17:44.000I mean, of all the ironies to come to my house, so I could go look in the system, and sure enough, she had requested the ballot to be sent to Maryland.
00:17:50.720But there's more. Sterling says voting records show Moran Fisha requested and returned an absentee ballot in the November general election.
00:19:07.580Just like the people of Florida deserve better than this.
00:19:09.900When we were the laughingstock, finally, we had a governor, Ron DeSantis, who in his first 10 days went and fired the people that didn't run clean elections.
00:19:17.040One person that might need to be relieved of their duties.
00:19:19.340Ron Pitts, Fulton County Board of County Commissioners.
00:19:22.200Now, when David Perdue sought an inspection of absentee ballots from the 2020 election, an inspection review, I kind of think that sunlight's the best disinfectant.
00:19:33.540Let's everybody turn their cards face up.
00:19:35.500And he lost a Senate seat that we really needed.
00:19:38.260Rob Pitts says, stay the hell out of Fulton County.
00:20:10.960In Florida, if someone's not fulfilling their duties under the Constitution and is behaving like this, they can be removed from the governor.
00:20:17.540By the governor, maybe Brian Kemp ought to look at his powers to remove people that think that a county is a fiefdom of fraud that no one else should be allowed to inspect.
00:20:40.960Director of Registration and Elections in, you guessed it, Fulton County, Georgia.
00:20:46.900Now, in his circumstance, there was actually a nonpartisan state monitor assigned to review their elections operations and described it as like systemic disorganization to the point of purposeful.
00:21:01.360And I think this is where I want you to explain it for viewers.
00:21:04.860There comes a point of being disorganized where it's not an accident, where it's being done on purpose.
00:21:10.160And there were whistleblowers that came forward, Susie Voilers, Bridget Thorne.
00:21:17.580So talk to me about how voters should think about disorganization on purpose to create an ecosystem for fraud.
00:21:24.840Well, Susie Voiles, I know her personally.
00:21:58.840Poll pads were tagged correctly for my poll, but they were programmed for Adams Park Library, which is over 25 miles away.
00:22:07.140This is where we discovered the polls and the machines were connected to the Internet.
00:22:13.520They were programmed just as easily and remotely as perhaps my Apple computer would be programmed from somebody someplace else if I have an issue.
00:22:25.300So, I mean, if you don't have chain of custody.
00:22:27.940How can these people be saying there's not sufficient fraud to impact the result?
00:22:31.400Without chain of custody with these absentee ballots, the entire election should have been thrown out.
00:22:35.620And how is it that this Mr. Barron can have an audit from a nonpartisan, nonpolitical entity showing the disorganization and still keep his job?