00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:37.000They have a headline here that says, just a matter of time before Trump is indicted.
00:01:42.000Are you seeing those kind of whispers as well?
00:01:45.000I mean, I'm not saying it's fair or it's warranted, but do you think that the MAGA base should brace for a Trump indictment?
00:01:55.000I think I'm seeing and reading everything you are.
00:01:57.000And I think what the DOJ wants to do here is if they fall short of their goal of getting into an actual indictment, they want to dirty him up so much that he just leaves the presidential race now that he's announced.
00:02:10.000And look, being a former federal prosecutor myself at a time when the Department of Justice was, you know, just and fair, comparing it to the DOJ now, they'll indict anyone for anything if it's a political target and they have a justification for it in politics and not necessarily facts in the law.
00:02:28.000And that does terrify me as just an American citizen.
00:02:30.000So I don't have faith in this DOJ to do the right thing.
00:02:34.000That is what the facts and the law demand.
00:02:35.000No, and I'm not saying Trump deserves it, but I'm saying it could still happen because this Department of Justice is so out of control.
00:02:43.000And not to mention, there is the Fulton County story.
00:02:46.000And by the way, so from what I understand, and I want to make sure I get this right, the jury in New York said, okay, well, the Trump organization committed tax fraud, but I think it was they just have to pay a fine, if I'm not mistaken, right?
00:02:59.000Well, that's what happens in tax fraud cases.
00:03:01.000I mean, it's shocking to me that America is now saying they've forgotten how tax fraud cases actually work.
00:03:07.000The big corporations, the fat cat limousine liberals that have all been charged and convicted of tax fraud pay fines.
00:03:13.000And so Trump organization will pay a fine for whatever amount the court determines.
00:03:18.000It's not a criminal liability on President Trump personally or any member of his family.
00:03:52.000Trying to tell me this is worth New York City while they have murders and rapes and arson happening in record numbers.
00:04:00.000I mean, Cash, this is beyond prosecutorial abuse.
00:04:04.000No, it's a two-tier system of justice.
00:04:05.000I mean, go investigate and prosecute the Clinton Global Initiative for tax fraud.
00:04:09.000You know, look at all these other organizations and big banks and committee companies that basically the DOJ goes to and say, hey, pay us a bunch of millions of dollars and the case is over.
00:04:20.000And it's how we resolve these meetings.
00:04:23.000It shows you that they didn't do that for this case because they wanted a political end result and a headline that could prop up in the fake news media to make it sound like something that it's not because they've created this DOJ has created a two-tier system of justice.
00:04:36.000And we are squarely in one lane and the rest of America is in the get-out of jail free lane.
00:04:42.000So I want to talk now about the Twitter story, Let's Play Cut 68.
00:04:48.000Jean-Pierre on whether Biden campaign acknowledged the Twitter suppressing laptop story, PlayCut 68.
00:04:54.000Did anyone from the Biden team communicate to Twitter that this material was from hack or this reporting stemmed from hack materials?
00:05:06.000So I can't speak to decisions made by the campaign from here.
00:05:12.000That is not, it is a political campaign, so I can't speak from that from here to that from here.
00:05:17.000I'm covered by the Hatch Act, and so I'm just not going to comment on the question that you're asking me.
00:05:22.000But what I can say more broadly is, of course, it's up to these companies to make their own decision about the content on their platforms and to ensure content follows their own standards and policies.
00:05:34.000Yeah, no, so now she's covered by the Hatch Act, but when she wants to attack MAGA Republicans from the dais, it's perfectly fine.
00:05:40.000Yeah, the Hatch Act doesn't allow me to comment on this.
00:05:43.000By the way, it's MAGA Republicans that are going to which one is it exactly, Jean-Pierre?
00:05:47.000So, so Cashi, you're in a unique spot, though, to be able to explain this because the same people, behaviors, attitudes, and treachery that gave us the Russia hoax also gave us the 2020 Twitter hoax.
00:06:32.000This guy partnered up with the Democratic law firm Perkins Cooey, who is still Twitter's outside law partner, by the way, just in case you're wondering.
00:06:41.000So they are so embedded with the FBI and for Janine Pierre or whatever her name is to say, oh, I can't comment it on because of the hatch act.
00:06:48.000The hatch act has nothing to do with that.
00:06:50.000She just didn't want to answer the question, which was, of course, Biden officials communicated with Twitter and the FBI in regards to censoring free speech at Twitter when it came to Hunter Biden's laptop, which is why I'm demanding this Congress coming into Republicans subpoena every FBI communication.
00:07:08.000Do you think James Baker didn't communicate with his cronies back at FBI HQ?
00:07:11.000Do you think he didn't talk to Michael Sussman and company at Perkins Cooey, who is Twitter's outside counsel?
00:07:26.000You want a really, really clear free speech?
00:07:28.000You need to learn about Russia Gate and the characters involved and then see how many of them were operating in your hornet's nest at Twitter.
00:07:36.000All roads lead back to Russia Gate because the failure to hold those people accountable for the 2016 crimes, 1516 actually started as early as 15, believe it or not, with Struckstroke Smirk and Lisa Page.
00:07:48.000They're just going to keep on doing it.
00:07:50.000And, you know, the Durham thing was a big swing and a miss.
00:09:32.000We got 17 people fired, including James Baker.
00:09:35.000It looks like I got James Baker fired twice.
00:09:37.000But you're right, the lack of accountability is so frustrating.
00:09:41.000And if people think this one step of firing James Baker is going to save Twitter, Elon Musk has a whole thing coming.
00:09:47.000I can't wait to come back on your show and talk to you about the dozens of FBI agents that were probably embedded with personal relationships with Twitter employees and DOJ and whatnot.
00:10:09.000I don't know how it's going to change, but my goodness, that needs to change.
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00:12:35.000I also want to talk about Truth Social.
00:12:38.000I think that it's not appreciated enough the role that Truth Social is playing in actually making Twitter a more freer platform.
00:12:47.000So Elon knows that if he doesn't miss steps at Twitter, there could be a mass movement away from Twitter back to not just back, but increasing the truth social.
00:12:58.000So competition is a really healthy and good thing.
00:13:00.000So I want to play cut 40, Josh Hawley on Tucker Carlson talking about the collusion of big tech disinformation board.
00:13:50.000These people have not changed, and they're going to keep on running this play of interference of synthetic dossiers and fake stories or the interruption of the only difference between RussiaGate and Twittergate, the only difference that I could really pinpoint is that with RussiaGate, they had to create a fake dossier and then distribute fake information.
00:14:13.000With Twittergate, there was a legitimate laptop that they had to then suppress.
00:14:30.000And look, you know, I'll keep going ahead and doing the work, and my bias is completely out there.
00:14:35.000I'm obviously on the board of Truth Social, so I want more people there.
00:14:38.000But it's like President Trump said, we're not out there to defeat Twitter.
00:14:42.000He's actually called for Elon to do the job of clearing the free speech platform.
00:14:46.000I think one major step in combating the disinformation campaign is to defeat the government's ability to cause censorship, is to defeat big tech, Facebook, and Google and Twitter to prevent them from having these individuals come in and run disinformation campaigns for them, like the Hunter Biden laptop, like the 51 intelligence officials, and then rig it and tie it to a presidential election.
00:15:09.000I think those are powerful measures the private industry can take.
00:15:12.000And I think what Congress can do, and I've talked about this in your show on the path, all budgeting measures start and end in the House of Representatives.
00:15:44.000Where there is this tech guy that's played in the movie, he's actually an Indian tech guy.
00:15:48.000And he's, I don't know if you've seen this movie or not, but he's controlled in the movie by the intelligence agencies, who's actually played by Tommy Lee Jones.
00:15:58.000And there is a fair amount of evidence and speculation that Zuckerberg out of the gate from the very beginning made a deal with the intelligence agencies.
00:16:08.000That the intelligence agency saw that the era of social media is here and we better be able to control these companies.
00:16:14.000That if they are truly unregulated and they're not under our purview, the regime very well might be disrupted and people might actually think for themselves.
00:16:23.000I'm going to think, I think it's the Jason Bourne movie.
00:18:48.000So you may have heard today that the United States released a Britney Griner.
00:18:52.000She plays for what is probably the most irrelevant sports in the United States, women's basketball.
00:18:59.000But she's more notorious for the fact that she took a very vocal stance against America, essentially, during the BLM riots.
00:19:08.000She protested the playing of the national anthem during games.
00:19:11.000This is just someone who's generally unpleasant.
00:19:14.000And she happened to end up in Russian prison earlier this year when she was detained for traveling in the country with cannabis products, which are illegal in Russia.
00:19:26.000Well, Griner was just released as part of a prisoner exchange with a Russian arms dealer who's known as the merchant of death because of how gruesome and vast his weapons dealing enterprise is.
00:19:40.000Now, Paul Whalen, unfortunately, has been in prison since 2018.
00:19:44.000He was detained under basically, Whalen believes that he was detained actually as part of a plot by the Russian government to fabricate a reason for holding an American captive and then using that American to release the arms dealer that the United States just released in order to get Brittany Greiner out of prison in Russia.
00:20:05.000So Paul Whalen has been in prison since 2018.
00:20:08.000He's sentenced to a 16-year prison or prison sentence at a high security facility that's outside of Moscow.
00:20:16.000It's a very grim, grim Russian prison, right?
00:20:19.000And Russian prisons are all grim, so that says something.
00:20:24.000So Paul Whalen has basically been asking for the United States to get him out for a while now.
00:20:30.000But Brittany Greiner didn't seem to have to ask all that much.
00:20:33.000And something else that you should know about Paul Whalen is the fact that he was a U.S. Marine.
00:20:37.000He also worked as a police officer in Michigan.
00:20:40.000He, and most, you know, I think this is actually what counts against him the most, or two things really, is that he's a white man on the other hand.
00:20:49.000And on the one hand, and on the other hand, he expressed support for Donald Trump before and after he was elected.
00:20:57.000So I think that the story of Whalen, when you put it in the context of the fact that the United States just tried really, really hard and successfully freed Brittany Greiner, but continues to ignore Whalen, I mean, that says something about the United States and basically who is rewarded and who is punished in this country.
00:21:18.000You say in your piece, or you allude to it, that race has something to do with this.
00:21:29.000Yeah, I mean, no one cares about, you know, Paul Nicholas Whalen, the white former U.S. Marine, and certainly was a former cop, right?
00:21:37.000So that counts against him too, who's just rotting in a Russian prison.
00:21:41.000And who is, I mean, it's funny because the CIA, not that their word is worth much, but the fact that Paul Whalen was an outspoken Trump supporter makes me believe the CIA when they said, yeah, he's not one of us.
00:21:55.000He wasn't an intelligence asset in Russia.
00:21:58.000The allegations against him by the Russians are fake.
00:22:01.000We think that this was a plot to basically try to use him as leverage in order to release his name as Victor Bout, the arms dealer that was just released today in exchange for Brittany Griner.
00:22:15.000So, I mean, yeah, I think that that's just the kind of sad reality is no one cares about the white American who's rotting in a Russian prison, right?
00:22:25.000But on the other hand, you have this outspoken, very brave female basketball player who wrote in her memoir that she felt very uncomfortable while at Baylor, where she went to school, because the university asked her, basically, she said the university has anti-gay policies.
00:22:47.000And if you actually read the memoir, she doesn't really say what those are.
00:22:50.000And as far as I can guess, it's just that the university asks that people who are not gay profess it from mountaintops, which apparently deeply wounded her, right?
00:23:08.000No, it's just, I guess I'm trying to illustrate is the fact that, like, there is no both Whalen and Greiner, they're basically normal people, right?
00:23:22.000The difference is, is that I think you could, if you put them on a kind of scale, Whalen has done more for this country.
00:23:28.000He gave years of his life to military service, and then he worked a police officer, worked as a police officer, which is a thankless job, right?
00:23:35.000So, I mean, two normal people, and when you kind of evaluate what they've done with their lives and what they've dedicated their lives to, it just seems to me that Whalen is kind of the one that we should prioritize, right?
00:23:47.000As opposed to the one who says that if you play the national anthem during a basketball game, she's like an overpaid player, too, that she threatened to walk off the court if the national anthem was played.
00:24:00.000And so, I mean, all things considered, what is the argument for prioritizing Brittany Griner over Paul Whalen?
00:24:09.000And the only thing I can come up with is, well, Griner belongs to two basically sacred groups.
00:24:16.000She's a black American and she's a lesbian.
00:24:19.000So it makes her kind of unicorn, right?
00:24:22.000And I'm not, you know, I'm not happy about this.
00:24:25.000This doesn't bring me any joy, but I think it's just illustrative of how kind of stupid and malicious the U.S. empire is that we basically literally prioritize people and their worth based on which victim groups they belong to and how many victim groups they belong to.
00:24:43.000Well, this is an important point, right?
00:24:44.000Because far too often, I think conservatives get convinced, I'm thinking of the right word, hoodwinked, that these diversity, equity, inclusion games are nothing more than a harmful, annoying, like mental exercise on college campuses that have no real world implications, right?
00:25:07.000That some kid had white privilege, you know, talked at him from some professor.
00:25:11.000What you're getting at, Pedro, is now this is international geopolitical policy is that the regime of anti-whiteness, the pro-LGBT machinery, is no longer just people discussing this in a lecture hall or that crazy black professor the other day we showed where she said, we're going to abolish the plague of whiteness.
00:25:36.000I think we still have that clip, Ryan.
00:25:38.000Because that actually plays into this.
00:25:57.000I think the way that we treat people like Paul Whalen and Brittany Grinder follows logically from that belief.
00:26:06.000If you believe in things like affirmative action, if you believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion, then logically you're going to prioritize in something like something that's as high stakes as a prisoner exchange.
00:26:21.000You're going to prioritize the person who you believe has more, to put it, I don't think there's another, there's no better way to put it than basically diversity points, which is exactly what happened here.
00:26:37.000Because again, all things considered, these are two like normal people.
00:26:40.000Neither of them is, you know, that doesn't take away from, you know, the basic human value here, but really they're both kind of just average Americans.
00:26:49.000And yet we very rapidly and aggressively lobbied for Griner to be free.
00:26:58.000Because again, Whalen has been behind bars for a few years now.
00:27:03.000Everything that happened to Griner happened basically in the last year, and she's already free.
00:27:08.000And I'm sure that we can expect another memoir that's going to solve very well.
00:27:13.000So what it's so important for people to recognize, you know, the work we're attempting to do at Turning Point USA and having a lot of success is to push back against this stuff.
00:27:21.000DEI runs the entire American government.
00:27:23.000So when you have these lunatics like this Rutgers professor saying that white people are committed to being villains, don't be shocked that when we do prisoner swaps, this ideology is factored into the calculus.
00:27:36.000I think that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate, right?
00:27:40.000The thing I want to say to you is we got to take these motherfuckers out.
00:27:43.000There is a world beyond even our sojourn on the earth.
00:27:47.000And so whiteness is going to have an end date because it is not, despite what white people think of themselves, they do not defy the laws of eternity, right?
00:27:58.000And that's the thing that white people don't trust us to do because they are so corrupt.
00:28:03.000You know, their thinking is so morally and spiritually bankrupt about power.
00:28:08.000So Pedro, we'll talk about this after the break.
00:28:10.000But when you have, that's a Rutgers professor, a PhD, that is spouting that venom.
00:28:18.000Don't be shocked when the president of the United States then has a private meeting and prioritizes on the hierarchy of decisions, the black lesbian basketball player above the white male.
00:28:34.000And by the way, we want all Americans to come home.
00:29:06.000She's always been very sweet to me, but I'm not going to tolerate losing.
00:29:11.000Failure cannot become the new status quo.
00:29:13.000I had a conversation with somebody who I really respect, and they said, well, the RNC did all these things right and they knocked on all these doors.
00:29:19.000They said, you are conflating activity with results.
00:29:24.000If you do not get the intended result, then there needs to be a management change.
00:29:27.000Pedro, do you think it's time to shake up things at the top of the RNC?
00:29:32.000And I mean, because otherwise, the message is that failure is, not only are we indifferent to failure, we actually seem to reward it.
00:29:43.000People get promoted by falling upwards, in other words.
00:29:47.000That seems to be the story of the Republican Party, right?
00:29:49.000Because, I mean, everyone knows that the GOP is very good at fundraising, in particular on outrage, on issues that the base really cares about, whether it's immigration or crime or whatever.
00:30:00.000But then, and like you said, there's a whole lot of activity, right?
00:30:04.000Obnoxious emails and texts all throughout the day that actually make you stop giving in many cases.
00:30:10.000I mean, that's the irony of this stuff.
00:30:12.000But there's a whole lot of activity, a whole lot of buzzing about it.
00:30:15.000But then, in terms of material returns, like what you get for your time and money and your emotional, emotional investment as well, nothing or very little.
00:30:26.000And I think that if we're not going to start punishing elements of GOP leadership, then again, the message is either you don't care or you actually reward people who are not good at their jobs.
00:30:37.000Who do you think is best equipped to do that?
00:30:41.000Like you, I'm not really a partisan for anyone.
00:30:45.000There's been a lot of talk of someone like Harmit Dylan, I hope I'm pronouncing her first name correctly, filling that gap.
00:30:53.000But the consensus more really seems to be that we need to replace Rana with someone to send a message.
00:31:01.000And I actually don't think that that's a kind of cob-out because, of course, the criticism is that, well, Rana's bad, but the next person could be worse.
00:31:10.000So we should just kind of maintain the status quo.
00:31:12.000You hear that for not just Rana, but other elements of GOP leadership.
00:31:16.000And again, I don't really agree with that.
00:31:18.000If it does get worse, well, then that reflects even worse on the GOP.
00:31:24.000And on the other hand, if we don't do anything, then again, we're just basically acquiescing to a party that is not only disconnected from its base, but also doesn't really actually accomplish anything.
00:31:36.000And you hear this all the time, right?
00:31:38.000Like, well, if we mess with income and geo-leadership, which is bad, things can really get worse a lot faster.
00:31:45.000By my count, in the last like two or three months, the Republican Party has been pushing everything from the federal codification on same-sex marriage to amnesty.
00:31:57.000You know, so it's like it already seems pretty bad.
00:32:00.000Like the GOP is actually already seemingly furious.
00:32:04.000We could get Ukrainian statehood soon.
00:32:10.000We could certainly find some more money.
00:32:11.000Which, in a bizarre way, I would actually say that makes more sense than sending $100 billion unaudited.
00:32:18.000I mean, if we're going to be an empire, we might as well actually be an empire.
00:32:22.000But anyway, I know it's, I'm half kidding when I say that, by the way.
00:32:26.000I'm saying, if you're going to send $100 billion into the breadbasket of Europe, wouldn't it make sense if you also have some skin in the game there?
00:32:33.000It's like we want none of the benefit and all of the cost.
00:32:53.000Pedro, the point is this: one minute remaining, we need to have leader, we need to have a wholesale leadership change in attitude, personnel, and otherwise.
00:33:03.000Because again, the message is that we don't care, that we're fine with the status quo.
00:33:09.000And I think what's even worse than that is actually affirming the status quo and strengthening it and continuing to feed it with our dollars and time and attention.
00:33:17.000And that to me is worse than being indifferent.
00:33:20.000Pedro, excellent commentary as always.
00:33:22.000For the record, I was kidding about Ukrainian statehood, just for the record, for all the trackers out there.