The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - June 14, 2022


Episode 52 LIVE： Made In America Coups – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


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Time Magazine's Molly Ball lays out the growing clout of the so-called " MAGA Gang" in Congress, and how it could change the balance of power in the next election. Joe Biden responds to the growing influence of the "firebrand" conservative wing of the Republican Party.

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00:00:01.000 The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.000 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.000 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.000 then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.000 You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.000 It's like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.
00:00:49.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:52.000 If I hear one of my MAGA friends once again talk about debt and deficits, I'm going to be good.
00:01:04.000 Look, this is not your father's Republican Party.
00:01:07.000 This is a different deal. It really is.
00:01:10.000 I've worked with a lot of honorable Republicans, very conservative Republicans over the year when I was a senator.
00:01:15.000 But this is the MAGA gang. This is the MAGA crowd. I really mean it.
00:01:19.000 They have a fundamentally different view of the role of government and who should pay what.
00:01:28.000 The MAGA gang is right here and you are welcome to join.
00:01:32.000 Allow me to extend the invitation.
00:01:34.000 We're broadcasting live from the Longworth House office building in my congressional office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
00:01:41.000 And the MAGA gang that Joe Biden talks about, we are in charge of the Republican Party.
00:01:48.000 That is the thesis in a huge piece just published by Time Magazine this morning.
00:01:54.000 Molly Ball has the byline how the MAGA squad is building power to control the next Congress.
00:02:02.000 The piece features the role of this very show, Firebrand, in driving policy and perception on Capitol Hill.
00:02:09.000 And I'm quoting from the piece now.
00:02:11.000 Torching the news cycle is what Gates and Green love to do.
00:02:15.000 Gates and Green are the ringleaders of the GOP's most hardcore pro-Trump congressional faction.
00:02:22.000 The MAGA squad, as you might call them, is not a formal caucus, but its numbers are growing.
00:02:27.000 There have long been rabble-rousing right-wingers in Congress, but this group makes the Freedom Caucus seem tame.
00:02:35.000 Democrats and many Republicans deride the group as gadflies, irrelevant to the serious business of lawmaking.
00:02:42.000 But in fact, the MAGA squad has been cannily building leverage and clout in the halls of Congress.
00:02:50.000 Now, with the primary season in full swing across the country, they're looking to pad their numbers, recruit like-minded firebrands in red districts, endorsing and campaigning for fellow insurgents in intraparty contests, and even in some cases, campaigning against their own colleagues.
00:03:09.000 The MAGA squad.
00:03:11.000 They're here, they're weird, and pretty soon, they may be in control of the GOP Congress, if they aren't already.
00:03:20.000 It's an interesting piece.
00:03:22.000 You should check it out.
00:03:23.000 It's Time Magazine, so of course, there's going to be stuff there that's editorialized and not particularly true.
00:03:28.000 But nonetheless, I think the central thesis is one that is controlling.
00:03:33.000 We are those who are carrying the torch of the America First policy agenda.
00:03:40.000 And if there's anything that Molly Ball's piece, I think, underserves, it's those very policy objectives, those goals, to ensure that we have focused, effective foreign policy, that we aren't dithering all over the world in forever wars.
00:03:55.000 That we actually have trade and economic nationalism in our country and trade policies that build up the American worker instead of building up the economies of other countries.
00:04:07.000 And we believe in restricted immigration.
00:04:10.000 I wish that would have been more central.
00:04:12.000 But these are the issues that are animating people all over the campaign trail.
00:04:16.000 And that ultimately informs who gets to Congress and what drives the agenda.
00:04:21.000 And it is true, I expect Republicans to be in control, and I'm doing everything I can to make sure that we are worthy of the trust that our constituents place in us.
00:04:32.000 I don't want to win this thing by default.
00:04:34.000 We're going to go over in the show today a number of Joe Biden failures at home, abroad, where he's missing the mark on the economy and the utilization of American force in other countries.
00:04:46.000 But I don't want to just win this election because he is just in this precipitous decline and bringing our country into decline.
00:04:55.000 I want to have a mandate to actually govern around the ideas and the policies that led to an economic boom for our country and pride around the world.
00:05:06.000 And if that means the MAGA squad has to be the tiller in the water for the Republican caucus, so be it.
00:05:13.000 I'm ready to serve, and I look forward to getting more backup and adding to our growing ranks.
00:05:19.000 So Joe Biden understands that right now the American economy is failing.
00:05:24.000 It's failed on a number of fronts, and he sees how this is a drag on Democrats.
00:05:29.000 The White House knows that Joe Biden has to look at least engaged or informed on some sort of domestic economic agenda.
00:05:39.000 It seems like lately when you see Joe Biden talking, it's about China or about his global trips or about Ukraine and Russia.
00:05:49.000 And the American people rather reasonably are feeling like we're not even a priority to the American president.
00:05:55.000 And so he makes this big trip out to Long Beach, California, the port of Long Beach that I personally observed backed up for miles with an utter failure of the American economy while he was subsidizing people to stay at home and not work.
00:06:11.000 But now he gives this big speech.
00:06:14.000 He's going to lay out the domestic economic Biden agenda.
00:06:17.000 He's going to do the reset.
00:06:19.000 He's going to reclaim the mantle, use the presidential bully pulpit.
00:06:23.000 And the first point he makes is that maybe you're at fault because you don't understand the supply chain enough.
00:06:30.000 Take a listen.
00:06:32.000 When I first started talking about the supply chain when I came here well over a year ago, the American people understand and we wondered supply chain.
00:06:40.000 Well, I mean, that's not a usual part of their jargon every day, but they understand it fully now.
00:06:45.000 They understand it.
00:06:47.000 So wasn't that Joe Biden didn't understand how his policies of printing a ton of money and providing a bunch of stuff for free like that caused inflation.
00:06:59.000 He doesn't get that.
00:07:00.000 He thinks that because you don't understand the supply chain because it wasn't part of your jargon that, you know, this was something that was just unavoidable.
00:07:08.000 Another point when making a major domestic economic speech, of course, any American president would have to spend about half the time blaming.
00:07:20.000 Guess who? Vladimir Putin.
00:07:22.000 That's right. It's the Putin tax that you just didn't know you were paying.
00:07:26.000 Take a listen.
00:07:29.000 But we've never seen anything like Putin's tax on both food and gas.
00:07:35.000 Today's inflation report confirmed what America's already know.
00:07:39.000 Putin's price hike is hitting America hard.
00:07:42.000 I'm doing everything in my power to blunt Putin's price hike and bring down the cost of gas and food.
00:07:48.000 Pass Reeves joining in the conversation on Facebook saying he's a joke.
00:07:55.000 Brandon couldn't fix a sandwich, let alone any of the stuff that he's creating.
00:08:02.000 I had to edit a little bit of that for language, but we don't want the explicit tag.
00:08:07.000 What is the Putin tax?
00:08:10.000 Like, what is he talking about?
00:08:13.000 A lot of these issues relate to supply chains that don't run through Russia.
00:08:17.000 Look around your house.
00:08:19.000 How many times do you see on stuff in your house made in Russia?
00:08:23.000 But of course, the sanctions that Joe Biden championed without any backup plan,
00:08:29.000 without any real understanding how different elements of the economy would be impacted,
00:08:33.000 did impact the price of the food you buy and the energy that you use for your home
00:08:39.000 and the fuel that you put in your car.
00:08:42.000 We covered that when we had, you know, the great episode that looked at the war on America's farmers.
00:08:48.000 We actually went out and talked to folks in Northwest Florida working on those razor thin margins
00:08:54.000 and they wish Joe Biden actually had a plan to deal with Putin.
00:08:57.000 But the Putin plan is a politics plan.
00:09:00.000 So when things go wrong in Joe Biden's economy, when his own Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen says,
00:09:06.000 gosh, I really blew that inflation call.
00:09:08.000 Well, now they reframe that and say it's the Putin tax.
00:09:12.000 But when Joe Biden's not blaming Putin, you know who he's blaming.
00:09:16.000 That's right.
00:09:17.000 MAGA.
00:09:18.000 Take a listen.
00:09:19.000 If I hear one of my MAGA friends once again talk about debt and deficits, I'm going to be good.
00:09:31.000 Look, this is not your father's Republican Party.
00:09:34.000 This is a different deal.
00:09:36.000 It really is.
00:09:37.000 I've worked with a lot of honorable Republicans, very conservative Republicans over the year when I was a senator.
00:09:42.000 But this is the MAGA gang.
00:09:44.000 This is the MAGA crowd.
00:09:45.000 I really mean it.
00:09:46.000 They have a fundamentally different view of the role of government and who should pay what.
00:09:54.000 Well, under Joe Biden's view of the government, you should just all pay more.
00:09:59.000 Like that's the problem with this argument.
00:10:01.000 It is nonsensical to suggest that the MAGA wing of the Republican Party is trying to shift the burden to low and middle income people.
00:10:11.000 You know how low and middle income people are hurt?
00:10:14.000 Inflation.
00:10:15.000 Because inflation is excessively regressive in the way that it impacts the American economy.
00:10:21.000 Gary on Facebook says their plan is to put us under their control.
00:10:26.000 And in a lot of ways, this failing Biden economy makes the American people more susceptible to that control, to the false promises of socialism that have failed in so many other lands.
00:10:41.000 Maybe we should blame like the America last policies of the establishment for these failures rather than MAGA.
00:10:48.000 You know, the policies that offshored making things that we need in our country.
00:10:53.000 Of course, the elites grifted off of that.
00:10:56.000 They financially benefited off of that globalist system.
00:10:59.000 But it was members of both parties, not MAGA, who led to this offshoring and to a lot of these bad trade policies that mean that the American people are at risk because so much of what we need is made elsewhere.
00:11:15.000 Joe Biden himself said the quiet part out loud in Long Beach.
00:11:19.000 People at home trying to make it, you know, paycheck to paycheck are wondering, like, what in God's name do nine, understand it, nine shipping companies have to do with it?
00:11:31.000 Well, almost everything you're doing, everything from what you're eating to what you're having to drive to what you're, what you need in your home, it relates to supply chains and what's coming from abroad.
00:11:44.000 We are back broadcasting live out of the House office building, room 1721 in Longworth in Washington, D.C.
00:11:55.900 And there you have it, Joe Biden saying, well, gosh, everything that you need is somewhere else.
00:12:01.840 So when things go wrong, that's really tough.
00:12:04.940 And he feels your pain.
00:12:06.560 Look, our vision for economic nationalism ensures that we are more resilient against the fragility of a supply chain that seems to put the American people under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.90
00:12:21.360 Like, who do you think runs all these transit enterprises that have privileges at Chinese ports?
00:12:27.820 Like, you think that you think those are the good folks in China?
00:12:30.560 Those are the people with government connections because government is fused with business in that economic system.
00:12:37.800 And frankly, that's increasingly what the left wants to see in our country.
00:12:42.180 What they don't want to see is American independence, whether it's the stuff we make or the energy we use.
00:12:50.040 Joe Biden doesn't at all understand how the energy economy works and how rising energy prices create compounding inflation at different levels of the economy.
00:13:02.040 What he thinks is that American companies just need to drill more despite the things that Joe Biden himself has said.
00:13:09.940 Take a look.
00:13:10.660 By the way, one thing I want to say about the oil companies, they talk about how we have, they have 9,000 permits to drill.
00:13:21.440 They're not drilling.
00:13:23.380 Why aren't they drilling?
00:13:24.960 Would you close down the oil industry?
00:13:26.280 By the way, I would transition from the oil industry, yes.
00:13:29.200 Oh, that's a big statement.
00:13:30.920 It is a big statement.
00:13:31.900 That's a big statement.
00:13:32.160 Because I would stop.
00:13:33.520 Why would you do that?
00:13:34.420 Because the oil industry pollutes significantly.
00:13:38.360 I see.
00:13:38.660 Here's the deal.
00:13:39.580 That's a big statement.
00:13:40.660 Well, if you let me finish the statement, because it has to be replaced by renewable energy over time.
00:13:49.360 So Joe Biden says he's going to put the oil and gas industry out of business.
00:13:54.740 He's going to completely replace them.
00:13:57.300 And then he's mad.
00:13:58.280 Why aren't they drilling?
00:13:59.480 He goes to Long Beach and asks the question.
00:14:01.560 He answered the question.
00:14:03.040 You cannot, as a candidate, say that you want to put people out of business.
00:14:06.840 And then when your president and your policies put the country in a jam, become exasperated that they're not willing to make the capital investment.
00:14:14.840 So he's done this.
00:14:16.420 Don't buy into the Putin tax.
00:14:18.680 Don't buy into this notion that all of this is just happening globally and there's nothing that America can do to escape a dim fate.
00:14:26.860 They did this to us.
00:14:28.860 And that's why MAGA exists in Congress to ensure that they're not able to continue to do so.
00:14:34.980 If you give us the power of oversight.
00:14:38.620 One specter of policy where the Biden administration is utterly failing is foreign policy.
00:14:46.540 So let's look at a global perspective.
00:14:48.800 Under this disoriented foreign policy of Joe Biden and the just ghoulish establishment experts that he's assembled,
00:14:55.840 America is pursuing many of the neoconservative interventionist policies abroad that failed our country during the George W. Bush era.
00:15:05.200 And I say that as a Republican.
00:15:07.460 Many of those policies are continuing to fail today under Joe Biden.
00:15:10.880 We spent 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite President Trump's attempt to disentangle America from these foreign failures.
00:15:19.520 But now, Joe Biden has sent our troops right back into the fray,
00:15:24.360 increasing American troop presence in the paradises of Syria, Somalia, and of course, and most notably, Ukraine.
00:15:35.080 And like the $40 billion we sent to Ukraine, we support all these endeavors with your tax dollars.
00:15:43.200 What do we get out of these massive shipments of U.S. materiel and cash and personnel overseas?
00:15:50.780 Nobody really knows.
00:15:52.140 When pressed, most of the regime's apologists just ramble on about protecting democracy abroad
00:15:59.360 or countering some obscure Islamist organization that, like when we destroy it,
00:16:04.660 ultimately fractures into a hundred more different cells.
00:16:08.560 In Syria and Libya and Iraq, we go topple these strong men,
00:16:14.200 and then we plunge their countries into civil war and sectarian violence.
00:16:18.320 You're welcome for all the liberty and freedom.
00:16:21.280 Look at what's happening in Iraq right now.
00:16:23.040 There was a very interesting piece that came out where Muqtad al-Sadr is actually withdrawing many of his political representatives
00:16:34.400 and the people in his political coalition and his party from the parliament in Iraq.
00:16:39.460 Now, do you think Muqtad al-Sadr stopped caring about politics?
00:16:43.600 No, he's given up on the parliamentary political system in Iraq.
00:16:48.320 So, trust me, mark my words, things are about to get a lot worse in Iraq
00:16:53.300 as they fail to be able to use the scaffolding of a fledgling democracy to stop blood from spilling in their streets.
00:17:03.040 The Wall Street Journal recently published a searing critique of U.S. interventionist policies in Africa.
00:17:09.260 In Africa, we, with your money, with your neighbors, train primitive armies from assembled tribes that we call countries. 0.91
00:17:21.180 But, like, are they really?
00:17:23.220 Are these African nations really, like, nation states the way we would think about them?
00:17:28.340 But we go do all these train and equip missions, and seldom does it end well.
00:17:32.160 In Mali and Burkina Faso and Guinea and Sudan, and in many more places, there are armies that we've worked with
00:17:42.180 who have decided that they don't like their civilian governments anymore, and they overthrow them.
00:17:47.920 Sometimes with bloodshed.
00:17:49.860 Sometimes it's a bloodless coup.
00:17:52.020 Often the officers and soldiers we train are engaged in the very animation of that violence and that work.
00:17:59.940 Are there better uses for the U.S. military than, like, training the next generation of African warlords 1.00
00:18:04.680 to become more capable in executing their coup d'etat?
00:18:08.400 It's not like this was an impossible outcome to predict.
00:18:11.900 Third world generals, or warlords, they get training, funding, and weapons,
00:18:17.360 and then they decide to seize power.
00:18:20.820 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Milley have admitted
00:18:24.200 that they don't have the ability to assess another military's will to fight.
00:18:31.720 Here's that clip.
00:18:34.360 Secretary Austin, are you capable of assessing whether another has the will to fight?
00:18:44.440 No, we're not, and that's the point that the chairman made earlier.
00:18:47.900 So, they can't gauge the will to fight,
00:18:53.840 and I guess they can't gauge the will of some of these folks we train
00:18:57.440 to, like, not overthrow their civilian leadership as well.
00:19:02.100 Maybe we can't really gauge loyalty.
00:19:05.320 It is really unwise for us to be training future African coup leaders, 1.00
00:19:11.020 sometimes even at West Point.
00:19:12.520 And it's probably more going on than you even know about.
00:19:18.100 Many of the American patriots who spend time away from their families
00:19:21.340 training Africans in Africa are actually my constituents,
00:19:25.780 stationed at Eglin and Hurlburt Air Force bases specifically.
00:19:30.100 Rear Admiral Jamie Sands, commander of U.S. Special Operations in Africa, said,
00:19:35.680 Yeah, I would say that would probably be surprising and disappointing.
00:19:51.700 Is it really surprising anymore, though?
00:19:54.060 But as the Wall Street Journal piece points out,
00:19:56.240 when it happens over and over, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised.
00:20:00.560 If the guy in charge of training African militaries doesn't and can't tell
00:20:06.920 when our African counterparts are planning to overthrow their government,
00:20:10.320 then who can?
00:20:12.100 What a mess.
00:20:14.140 Now, all of this alone is enough cause for concern.
00:20:18.020 But when we have been distracted abroad,
00:20:21.020 training African warlords to be coup-perficient, 0.77
00:20:24.600 trouble is brewing here in our own backyard.
00:20:27.480 Russia and China and Iran are taking serious, provocative steps
00:20:33.580 in our geopolitical neighborhood.
00:20:36.140 We are so busy mowing the grass of the folks down the street
00:20:39.480 that we forgot to pull the weeds in our own backyard.
00:20:42.800 Recently, the Washington Post has reported that Nicaragua
00:20:45.600 has authorized the entry of Russian troops, planes, and ships into its territory
00:20:51.060 for the purpose of training and law enforcement and emergency response.
00:20:55.340 Russia being in the region seems to be the freaking emergency. 0.96
00:20:59.200 You might also remember that President Ortega of Nicaragua
00:21:03.180 spent days as the president of the Marxist Sandinista Junta
00:21:07.760 of the National Reconstruction.
00:21:11.300 But that's not all.
00:21:13.420 Venezuela just signed a 20-year cooperation plan with Iran.
00:21:17.640 The plan includes oil cooperation, petrochemicals, defense,
00:21:22.260 agriculture, tourism, and culture.
00:21:24.120 It even includes the repair of Venezuelan refineries.
00:21:29.980 It seems that our sanctions have actually driven Venezuela
00:21:34.140 right into the hands of our enemies.
00:21:36.540 Do we even have a long-term plan here?
00:21:39.480 Surely strengthening the bonds between our enemies
00:21:41.360 was not top of the list for foreign policy objectives,
00:21:44.740 but it's exactly what we have allowed to have happen
00:21:47.060 in Nicaragua and Venezuela.
00:21:49.180 And the big winners are Russia and Iran.
00:21:51.960 Well, we've got to spend $40 billion in Ukraine to counter Russia.
00:21:58.140 There's more.
00:21:59.600 Reuters has published a great piece about China's domination of South America.
00:22:05.400 Under President Biden's watch, and with the exception of Mexico,
00:22:08.820 our largest trading partner,
00:22:10.540 China has overtaken the United States in Latin America,
00:22:13.460 and the gap is widening every day.
00:22:16.100 Peru's former ambassador to China, Juan Carlos Gupanye,
00:22:20.240 has admitted to Reuters that China is, quote,
00:22:23.220 the most important commercial, economic, and technological partner with Latin America.
00:22:28.420 With economic dependency comes political reliance and domination.
00:22:33.900 Chinese investment through its Belt and Road Initiative
00:22:37.680 has exposed the endgame for China.
00:22:41.400 Through trade and investment capital and infrastructure projects,
00:22:44.860 China will expand until entire continents are under its control. 0.99
00:22:51.000 And while the United States piddles around in Somalia and Ukraine,
00:22:55.640 China is setting the stage for the creation of puppet regimes 0.87
00:22:59.420 just a few hours from our southern border,
00:23:03.420 a short boat ride away in Venezuela's case.
00:23:06.700 A serious nation would confront the bears and dragons at our doorstep.
00:23:13.420 Instead, Joe Biden would have America
00:23:16.240 treed by the world's chihuahuas.
00:23:20.960 The United States now more than ever
00:23:23.100 desperately needs a new foreign policy
00:23:26.240 aimed at securing our interests at home
00:23:29.040 and protecting our neighbors and allies from Chinese expansionism.
00:23:33.420 This is our neck of the woods,
00:23:34.780 and we can't afford to tolerate another Cold War in South America.
00:23:39.420 Sometimes, modern problems require tested and tried solutions.
00:23:44.700 If we want to win the future,
00:23:47.040 we need a new Monroe Doctrine.
00:23:49.360 It's time to get serious before it's too late.
00:23:51.860 It's time to protect our geopolitical home court.
00:23:55.000 That would be a responsible behavior from a real superpower.
00:24:01.160 But no, instead, on Capitol Hill,
00:24:03.840 we're not focused on combating Russia and China
00:24:06.600 and the Western Hemisphere.
00:24:07.600 We've got the January 6th hearings going on.
00:24:10.460 And let me just provide context here.
00:24:12.640 I don't watch all these hearings.
00:24:14.380 I don't think you should watch all these hearings.
00:24:16.420 They are largely contrived performances,
00:24:20.200 and so I'm not going to break down every allegation made.
00:24:23.080 I think that's what the left and their Republican puppets want.
00:24:27.580 I think they want all of us so focused on, you know,
00:24:30.420 tweezing through their lies and distortions in these hearings
00:24:33.280 that we're not out there actually talking about the real things going on
00:24:36.620 that can impact American quality of life.
00:24:40.980 So in these J6 hearings, there are all these performances,
00:24:43.940 and one thing that just caught me,
00:24:46.360 they are engaged in a process that would never be allowed in a court of law.
00:24:52.240 It's like hearsay on hearsay,
00:24:54.220 and nothing demonstrates that more than when they have hired staff out there,
00:24:59.700 like, performing the narrative of the committee.
00:25:03.040 Take a listen.
00:25:03.580 My name is Marcus Childress,
00:25:07.920 and I'm an investigative counsel for the select committee
00:25:10.420 to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.
00:25:13.960 On December 19th, President Trump tweeted about the January 6th rally
00:25:17.560 and told attendees,
00:25:19.140 be there, we'll be wild.
00:25:21.300 Many of the witnesses that we interviewed
00:25:22.860 were inspired by the president's call
00:25:24.900 and came to D.C. for January 6th.
00:25:27.580 So think about what you're watching there.
00:25:32.240 A hired staff member reading off of a teleprompter
00:25:35.860 in a committee room edited by an ABC producer
00:25:40.160 played on primetime.
00:25:42.280 Like, did they even hire the investigators
00:25:44.520 because of their investigation skills,
00:25:46.740 or did they hire these people, like,
00:25:48.700 based on how well they would read a teleprompter and perform?
00:25:52.480 Like, did you have to try out to be a staffer
00:25:55.900 on the January 6th committee
00:25:57.060 by, like, seeing how good your teleprompter skills were,
00:26:00.280 how good you were on camera,
00:26:01.820 retelling other people's stories?
00:26:04.040 So this wasn't direct evidence.
00:26:06.080 And there's a reason why courts don't allow this type of hearsay,
00:26:09.240 because it's unreliable.
00:26:10.700 It necessarily flows through the biases
00:26:13.720 and the lens of the person telling the story,
00:26:16.280 not the person who actually witnessed direct events
00:26:20.560 or can offer specific evidence
00:26:22.780 regarding a specific allegation.
00:26:24.840 So I just was, like, deeply, deeply struck by that
00:26:29.140 and how weird it was
00:26:30.780 and how obvious it was a contrivance.
00:26:34.320 There's another element of these hearings
00:26:36.460 that just demands a debunking.
00:26:39.380 The obsession with linking Donald Trump
00:26:42.840 to the Proud Boys.
00:26:45.140 Take a listen.
00:26:45.680 We learned that this comment during the presidential debate
00:26:50.340 actually led to an increase in membership from the Proud Boys.
00:26:53.140 Would you say that Proud Boys numbers increased
00:26:56.140 after the stand-back, stand-by comment?
00:26:59.380 Exponentially.
00:27:00.320 I'd say tripled, probably.
00:27:02.920 With the potential for a lot more eventually.
00:27:04.800 So the argument here is that Donald Trump
00:27:10.740 was out there purposefully dog-whistling
00:27:13.000 to the Proud Boys in a presidential debate
00:27:15.160 in order to swell their numbers
00:27:16.820 so that they would have a force
00:27:18.520 that could overtake the Capitol Police and the Capitol
00:27:20.760 and keep Trump in power.
00:27:23.100 Craziness.
00:27:23.820 Like, the predicate for this argument
00:27:26.320 is that Trump somehow had the intent
00:27:28.820 to invoke the Proud Boys by name
00:27:32.480 to help their membership.
00:27:34.480 The problem is, that isn't what happened at all.
00:27:38.080 In fact, it was Chris Wallace
00:27:39.660 in the presidential debate,
00:27:42.460 formerly a famed CNN Plus,
00:27:44.780 who brought up the Proud Boys.
00:27:47.120 I'm not entirely sure Donald Trump
00:27:48.580 knew what the Proud Boys were
00:27:50.240 before this moment
00:27:51.680 where it was brought up by Chris Wallace.
00:27:53.940 Take a listen.
00:27:56.180 Are you willing tonight
00:27:57.800 to condemn white supremacists and militia groups
00:28:01.180 and to say that they need to stand down
00:28:04.920 and not add to the violence
00:28:06.980 in a number of these cities
00:28:08.120 as we saw in Kenosha
00:28:09.580 and as we've seen in Portland?
00:28:11.360 Sure, I'm willing to do that.
00:28:12.120 Are you prepared to specifically...
00:28:12.920 Do it.
00:28:13.500 Well, go ahead, sir.
00:28:14.180 I would say almost everything I see
00:28:16.420 is from the left wing,
00:28:17.840 not from the right wing.
00:28:18.660 So what are you saying...
00:28:20.360 I'm willing to do anything.
00:28:21.880 I want to see peace.
00:28:22.620 Well, then do it, sir.
00:28:23.420 Say it.
00:28:23.920 Do it.
00:28:24.300 Say it.
00:28:25.480 Do you want to call them...
00:28:26.780 What do you want to call them?
00:28:27.600 Give me a name.
00:28:28.200 Give me a name. 0.99
00:28:28.480 White supremacists and... 0.98
00:28:29.180 What would you like me to condemn? 0.99
00:28:30.400 White supremacists and right... 0.93
00:28:31.840 Proud Boys.
00:28:32.920 Stand back and stand by.
00:28:37.780 So you can clearly see there
00:28:39.420 that Chris Wallace is trying to bait Trump
00:28:41.820 and bait the Proud Boys.
00:28:43.720 And it, in fact, was Chris Wallace
00:28:45.340 invoking them
00:28:46.260 that likely led to a rise in their membership.
00:28:48.460 Of course, when an organization gets mentioned
00:28:50.240 on a nationally televised,
00:28:52.780 internationally televised presidential debate,
00:28:55.560 they're going to get more attention.
00:28:57.040 More people would take a look at them.
00:28:58.900 But that is not at the feet of Donald Trump,
00:29:01.560 as the committee would have you believe.
00:29:03.400 We are broadcasting live
00:29:04.700 out of the United States Capitol Complex.
00:29:07.780 Tim on Facebook says,
00:29:09.400 the whole purpose of the January 6th committee
00:29:11.820 is to stop President Trump's 2024 run.
00:29:15.580 A lot of people are talking about that.
00:29:18.100 And that very well may be the objective.
00:29:21.300 I think the American people
00:29:22.400 see what's happening with great clarity.
00:29:24.400 We also have some breaking news about Twitter.
00:29:28.280 They hate conservatives.
00:29:29.920 We all know this because of the constant gaslighting
00:29:32.960 that they engage in.
00:29:35.200 So here's some material for your next argument.
00:29:39.100 Look at this screenshot of Twitter employees
00:29:41.660 discussing how they, quote,
00:29:43.820 successfully deplatformed Trump.
00:29:46.340 But banning libs of TikTok
00:29:49.880 may not be in line with their, quote,
00:29:52.520 fiduciary interests.
00:29:54.760 They even admit banning libs of TikTok
00:29:57.380 might erode trust
00:29:58.920 given that users already think
00:30:00.960 that they are irredeemably biased
00:30:02.620 against conservatives.
00:30:04.420 Twitter suffers from the same disease
00:30:05.820 as the federal government.
00:30:07.440 Thousands of people working in
00:30:09.180 the HR wokeism sector.
00:30:12.020 It's a bloated mess.
00:30:14.780 And as we can see,
00:30:16.160 the libs of TikTok,
00:30:16.880 or the Twitter employees,
00:30:18.660 spend their time conspiring
00:30:20.840 to undermine conservatives,
00:30:22.200 probably because they aren't doing
00:30:24.520 anything else particularly helpful
00:30:26.200 to improve the platform.
00:30:28.560 Idle hands may be the devil's workshop.
00:30:32.040 Nevertheless, this is very telling.
00:30:33.820 Libs of TikTok has become
00:30:35.220 public enemy number one to the left.
00:30:38.040 Why is that?
00:30:39.100 Well, for those of you who are
00:30:39.960 unfamiliar with the account,
00:30:41.080 it reposts videos of leftists
00:30:43.060 saying absurd things
00:30:45.120 on their TikTok accounts.
00:30:47.020 That's right.
00:30:47.420 It reposts videos
00:30:48.580 that the leftists
00:30:49.960 are posting themselves.
00:30:51.180 It's literally a mirror.
00:30:53.520 And the account has gained
00:30:54.540 a million followers.
00:30:56.600 So, to recap,
00:30:57.600 one of the most popular
00:30:58.640 and hated accounts on Twitter
00:30:59.800 just reposts videos
00:31:02.260 of liberals being themselves.
00:31:05.700 And it turns out that
00:31:06.620 simply exposing the insanity
00:31:07.860 of your average leftist
00:31:09.120 may be the most effective strategy
00:31:11.060 at winning the culture war.
00:31:13.780 Don't believe us?
00:31:15.040 We'll just take a look
00:31:15.900 at their content
00:31:16.760 conveniently located
00:31:18.200 for your viewing pleasure
00:31:19.240 at Libs of TikTok.
00:31:21.880 Thanks so much, everyone,
00:31:23.020 for joining us.
00:31:23.660 We're going to have
00:31:24.300 a lot of reports
00:31:25.240 coming your way this week
00:31:26.400 as the left continues
00:31:27.460 their advance against freedom.
00:31:29.480 We have major reports
00:31:31.120 on our work
00:31:32.700 to protect the Second Amendment,
00:31:35.060 to oppose the gun control
00:31:36.420 that I think
00:31:37.340 too many Republicans
00:31:38.420 are willing to sign up for.
00:31:39.640 So, we'll have a lot more
00:31:40.480 on that tomorrow.
00:31:41.860 We'll be kicking off
00:31:43.120 around noon Eastern,
00:31:44.040 11 o'clock Central.
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