The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 17, 2023


The Durham Report and Our Carousel of Corruption ｜ 5⧸17⧸23


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Length

9 minutes

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150.44554

Word count

1,452

Sentence count

78

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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A report from Special Counsel John D. Durham confirms what anyone with eyes to see already knew: The Justice System in the United States is rotten to its core. The report documents the corruption that rests at the heart of critical federal agencies like the FBI and CIA, and their willingness to interfere in elections by attacking political enemies.

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00:00:30.000 The report from Special Counsel John Durham has now been released,
00:00:33.860 confirming what anyone with eyes to see already knew.
00:00:37.360 The justice system in the United States is rotten to its core.
00:00:41.620 The report documents the corruption that rests at the heart of critical federal agencies like the FBI
00:00:47.620 and their willingness to interfere with elections by attacking political enemies.
00:00:52.640 According to the report, the FBI was fully aware that the Russian collusion narrative
00:00:58.100 was manufactured and advanced by the Hillary Clinton campaign in an attempt to smear the opposing presidential candidate, 0.96
00:01:05.180 Donald Trump.
00:01:06.000 Under the leadership of Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden,
00:01:11.140 the FBI and DOJ actively participated in a conspiracy to surveil a rival political candidate
00:01:17.700 and conduct an investigation that would impact the election.
00:01:20.920 The origin of the Russian collusion narrative was known.
00:01:25.200 The motivation of the parties involved was known.
00:01:28.240 But the FBI pushed on anyway for one obvious reason.
00:01:32.780 They wanted to hurt Donald Trump.
00:01:34.780 The most shocking part of the report should be its conclusion that no major charges are warranted
00:01:41.580 against those who knowingly participated in this wildly corrupt endeavor.
00:01:46.040 But sadly, this isn't shocking at all.
00:01:49.020 Federal law enforcement and the wider American security state have been completely politicized.
00:01:54.860 These agencies are de facto arms of the Democratic Party,
00:01:58.220 and no one expects to be held accountable.
00:01:59.920 Durham's 305-page report shows that the FBI was well aware of the inadequate nature of the information
00:02:07.360 it was using to justify its investigation,
00:02:09.720 and of the fact that the investigation worked to further the Clinton campaign's goal
00:02:14.540 of using the Russian collusion narrative to distract and mislead the public.
00:02:19.760 CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama, Biden, and several top administration officials,
00:02:25.760 including the Attorney General and the FBI Director,
00:02:28.660 as to the origin of the Russian collusion narrative.
00:02:32.340 Despite knowing that this narrative was concocted by the Clinton campaign for their political benefit,
00:02:38.620 or more likely because of that fact,
00:02:40.720 all parties involved chose to move forward without hesitation.
00:02:45.100 Usually, a law enforcement agency seeking to maintain its reputation as a neutral entity
00:02:50.040 would tread rather lightly when considering an investigation
00:02:53.160 that could directly impact the outcome of an election.
00:02:56.060 But in this case, the lack of substantial evidence
00:02:59.800 and the political nature of the narrative's origin
00:03:02.420 didn't seem to warrant even a light tapping of the brakes.
00:03:07.220 Apparently, the FBI only decided to end the investigation
00:03:10.560 because one of their longtime confidential informants
00:03:13.700 made a possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign
00:03:17.980 on behalf of a foreign entity.
00:03:19.760 Far from holding the Obama White House, DOJ, FBI, or CIA accountable
00:03:26.120 for their naked partisanship and intentional election interference,
00:03:30.180 the media dutifully aided in the effort to discredit Trump
00:03:33.540 as if it had been paid handsomely by the Clinton campaign itself.
00:03:37.920 I'm not, of course, suggesting that Hillary Clinton compensated the media for their role
00:03:43.400 because the media was more than happy to do it for free.
00:03:46.240 Outlets like CNN and MSNBC hate America,
00:03:51.420 see conservatives as a roadblock to a glorious social revolution,
00:03:55.580 and despise Trump on a level that can scarcely be put into words.
00:04:00.440 Anchors and pundits leapt into the fray with reckless abandon,
00:04:04.160 consuming and creating increasingly absurd fictions
00:04:07.240 about Trump's scandalous relationship with the Russian government at every opportunity.
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00:04:38.920 The very idea that the Fourth Estate would hold the formal government accountable
00:04:46.880 really does seem quaint in retrospect.
00:04:50.400 The Russian collusion narrative would continue to haunt Trump throughout his presidency,
00:04:54.640 derailing the administration and making it difficult to advance a significant portion of his agenda.
00:05:00.260 Democrat politicians and the media were able to hijack the term of a duly elected president
00:05:05.580 because the FBI lent credibility to a narrative generated by the Clinton campaign
00:05:10.700 for its own political benefit.
00:05:13.360 Trump advisors like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos
00:05:16.620 had their reputations destroyed while they were portrayed as traitors
00:05:20.420 and forced to spend an egregious amount of time and money
00:05:23.780 in the face of a politically motivated witch hunt.
00:05:27.300 Trump supporters have always felt like they were robbed of a presidency,
00:05:30.760 and they were right.
00:05:32.620 Donald Trump was undermined by the deep state at every step of his presidency,
00:05:37.040 in many cases by people who knew that they were peddling a political narrative
00:05:41.300 with no substantial evidence.
00:05:43.780 While all of this is deeply disturbing,
00:05:46.380 the most concerning aspect of these revelations is how little is expected to come from them.
00:05:51.420 New bombshells drop regularly about the corruption surrounding Hunter Biden,
00:05:56.980 the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, and the Clinton industrial complex,
00:06:01.800 yet nothing ever seems to come of them.
00:06:04.200 Despite open evidence of wrongdoing,
00:06:07.000 deeply disturbing instances of political bias,
00:06:09.980 and brazen violations of the law,
00:06:12.000 no consequences seem to follow for those who operate the progressive administrative state.
00:06:17.400 Many are now asserting that the Durham report is damning
00:06:22.000 and will deeply damage the reputation of the FBI.
00:06:26.140 Jake Tapper of CNN was even forced to admit that the report looked very bad for the agency
00:06:31.940 while mostly exonerating Trump.
00:06:34.680 While the FBI might feign contrition for a moment,
00:06:38.460 it seems very unlikely that any lesson of significance will have been learned.
00:06:42.920 Despite repeated damage to its reputation due to naked political action,
00:06:48.860 the agency hasn't hesitated to arrest pro-lifers,
00:06:51.980 target traditional Catholic masses for surveillance,
00:06:54.860 and threaten parents who protested the indoctrination of their children at school board meetings.
00:06:59.480 The FBI also enthusiastically raided the home of Donald Trump,
00:07:04.500 the primary political opponent of their current boss,
00:07:07.480 right before a midterm election.
00:07:09.140 They did so while alleging that Trump possessed dangerous classified documents
00:07:15.200 possibly pertaining to nuclear secrets.
00:07:19.240 Amazingly, nothing was ever heard about these documents again after the election.
00:07:23.740 Apparently, the real purpose of the raid had already been achieved.
00:07:27.700 Sure, that's some kind of ridiculous banana republic nonsense, 0.92
00:07:31.820 but that's the world you live in now.
00:07:34.120 This is how the country operates.
00:07:35.460 Let's be really frank.
00:07:38.140 The FBI is a dangerously compromised organization
00:07:41.280 which now exists to punish the enemies of the progressive movement.
00:07:45.560 At some level, the left understands that they've expended the credibility
00:07:49.660 of America's institutions and shattered the illusion of neutrality.
00:07:54.460 That's why progressives have focused a lot of energy on purging the military
00:07:58.880 and consolidating their hold on agencies like the FBI, CIA, and IRS.
00:08:04.020 The ability of the left to use soft power and propaganda
00:08:08.320 to reliably engineer their desired electoral outcome is waning,
00:08:12.940 and the shock that someone like Donald Trump was able to make it through
00:08:16.420 the mechanisms of control jolted the deep state into action.
00:08:21.360 Some conservatives have started to notice this very disturbing development
00:08:25.080 and are calling for a complete dismantling of the FBI.
00:08:29.420 Establishment republicans will say that this is hyperbolic,
00:08:32.520 but it's important to understand what's at stake here.
00:08:36.140 The U.S. security apparatus now regularly interferes with elections
00:08:40.760 and does so without shame or hesitation.
00:08:44.520 If the next Republican president doesn't clear out the deep state root and branch,
00:08:50.000 he's likely to be the last Republican to ever have that option.
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