The Culture War - Tim Pool - February 05, 2026


Democrats PANIC Over Tulsi 2020 Election Investigation, MADURO WILL CONFESS They Claim

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Fulton County election investigation
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Donald Trump Nicolas Maduro Joe Biden Tulsi Gabbard Pedro Gonzalez Steve Bannon Epstein Tom Lamas Kash Patel Michael Knowles Abraham Lincoln Chuck Schumer Jorge Rivera Rueda Graphene Dream Robert Mueller Ed Krasenstein Tamara Jensen Stephen Miller Sidney Powell Said Gabbard and 12 more
Epstein Files Ignite BILLIONAIRE PANIC, Trump Says MOVE ON, Democrat Donors EXPOSED ASSASSINATION Attempt On Trump Admin Official THWARTED, Civil War 2.0 IS HERE

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In the wake of the Epstein scandal and the release of the Panama Papers, many are asking the question: what is the Trump administration up to? Is it investigating Epstein, or is it investigating something else? And if so, what is that something else, and what is it doing?

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00:00:45.200 People are wondering right now, what is the Trump administration doing?
00:00:50.200 With the Epstein files getting released, we're learning that a lot of really bad people are
00:00:54.200 doing a lot of really bad things.
00:00:55.200 And the question is, where are the arrests?
00:00:57.200 Many people are questioning Dan Bongino.
00:00:59.200 What did you do when you were in the FBI?
00:01:02.200 And it seems on the surface that not a whole lot is happening.
00:01:05.200 To be fair, a lot of groundwork has been done by the FBI.
00:01:08.200 They've arrested a lot of street level criminals and really nasty people, criminal cartels.
00:01:12.200 And the DHS, of course, is arresting these illegal immigrant criminals as well.
00:01:17.200 But people want to know about the corruption.
00:01:19.200 They want to know about the powerful political elites who seem to be getting away with everything.
00:01:24.200 Well, my friends, I bring you now into the deep dive of what may be going on, though we, as just members of the public, can only scratch the surface.
00:01:35.200 It appears there is a plan in place by Donald Trump and his administration to track down some of this corruption.
00:01:43.200 Knowing Donald Trump, of course, it's particularly vain.
00:01:46.200 He's going after the 2020 election, which I think is important.
00:01:50.200 And I think we deserve an investigation and answers.
00:01:53.200 And if Trump is proven wrong, then so be it.
00:01:55.200 But now we're learning that over the past year, there have been efforts to track down information on just what happened in 2020.
00:02:04.200 It may be simple, my friends.
00:02:06.200 It may be that through ballot harvesting efforts and lockdown, Donald Trump was handily defeated by Joe Biden.
00:02:13.200 I don't think that on a normal day, regular people go out and vote for Joe Biden.
00:02:17.200 But when everyone's locked down with nothing to do and you blame Trump for it, it's not that hard to ballot harvest.
00:02:22.200 There are questions about foreign interference.
00:02:25.200 And considering we spent, I don't know what, four years, like the entirety of Trump's first term, entertaining this ludicrous lie about Russian interference, I got no problem saying tit for tat.
00:02:36.200 We're going to investigate Venezuelan interference.
00:02:40.200 Now, I got to be honest, based on the assessment and everything I've seen, I do not believe there is strong evidence that Venezuela was involved.
00:02:47.200 And a lot of these theories that were purported in 2020, I don't believe are likely correct.
00:02:52.200 But I said it before and I'll say it again.
00:02:54.200 I got no problem with an investigation.
00:02:56.200 You want to launch a $35 million investigation into Trump over Russia.
00:02:59.200 I got no problem if you want to send Tulsi Gabbard to Puerto Rico to start looking at voting machines, which is what she is doing. 1.00
00:03:05.200 And now we've got Democrats all in a tizzy calling it a scam.
00:03:11.200 We are getting smears of Tulsi as news emerges that, in fact, over the past year, she seems to be investigating something related to this.
00:03:19.200 And we don't know exactly what.
00:03:20.200 And we're only actually learning now.
00:03:22.200 But we know she's investigating something to do with these elections.
00:03:25.200 She was in Fulton County, Georgia, when they seized these ballots, reportedly.
00:03:29.200 And she was in Puerto Rico for similar reasons.
00:03:31.200 One theory is that with the capture of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, they will force a confession where he will say, yes, Venezuela did interfere.
00:03:40.200 And the Democrats are saying it's a scam.
00:03:43.200 It's a trick.
00:03:44.200 It's not real.
00:03:45.200 But hey, welcome to politics.
00:03:48.200 I don't know exactly what we'll find, but power is power.
00:03:51.200 And convincing the public of something is really all that matters.
00:03:54.200 In this circumstance, we are seeing the raw exercise of power and the willingness to use it.
00:04:00.200 Well, that's really the question.
00:04:02.200 Is Trump willing to come out and say our voting machines have been compromised by Venezuela?
00:04:07.200 Maduro's confessed and the midterms are now in jeopardy.
00:04:10.200 The perspective of many, many of these people on the left is that Trump will not allow a midterm defeat because that will mean impeachment.
00:04:17.200 And it will mean prison for a lot of other prominent conservative personalities.
00:04:20.200 Steve Bannon said just as much.
00:04:22.200 If Trump really wants to win, it seems it will require a raw exercise of power.
00:04:28.200 But what if it's true?
00:04:30.200 What if Venezuela really did interfere in some way?
00:04:33.200 We entertained Russia.
00:04:34.200 Why not Venezuela?
00:04:35.200 And if Trump does uncover evidence, he can show it.
00:04:38.200 Here's what will happen.
00:04:40.200 The left will just say it's fabricated.
00:04:41.200 They won't believe it anyway.
00:04:42.200 So where does this all go?
00:04:44.200 Your guess is as good as mine.
00:04:46.200 But you know what my guess is going to be?
00:04:48.200 Either way, this story is getting crazy.
00:04:51.200 The deep Venezuela 2020 conspiracy theory is here.
00:04:56.200 Let's dive in, my friends.
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00:05:48.200 Let's start here, and I'm going to do a quick sweep through a bunch of these stories to give
00:05:53.200 you the surface level overview before we dive into the nitty gritty.
00:05:57.200 The Washington Examiner says, Trump says Fulton County FBI raid will determine the true winner
00:06:03.200 of Georgia in 2020.
00:06:05.200 Indeed.
00:06:06.200 Indeed, my friends.
00:06:08.200 Now, going back to November of 2025, Trump hints support for fringe theory that Venezuela
00:06:17.200 rigged the 2020 election.
00:06:19.200 Now, this is fascinating because at the time, we did not know that Maduro was going to be
00:06:24.200 captured, and that in fact, this is already being investigated.
00:06:28.200 When you take a look at this story from the Daily Beast, Tulsi Gabbard's amateur hour voting
00:06:34.200 machine probe exposed.
00:06:37.200 Turns out that she went down to Puerto Rico back in May and was investigating some of these
00:06:41.200 voting machines.
00:06:42.200 As far as we know now, there's no evidence that Venezuela did anything.
00:06:45.200 But we do know that Trump personally sent in the crew to go and capture Nicolas Maduro,
00:06:50.200 and they got him.
00:06:52.200 Interesting indeed.
00:06:53.200 My friends, following this, we learned of the most insane political smear against Tulsi Gabbard,
00:07:00.200 that there was a whistleblower complaint so egregious it must remain classified.
00:07:06.200 That's straight out of the Russia collusion playbook.
00:07:09.200 I'm holding here evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, but it's so sensitive I can't
00:07:13.200 share it with you.
00:07:14.200 That was never any evidence.
00:07:16.200 It was all a lie.
00:07:17.200 And as it turns out, the whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard had no credibility.
00:07:21.200 And so it remains classified.
00:07:23.200 But they're acting like it's something big.
00:07:26.200 This is what's currently going on.
00:07:28.200 With the raid in Fulton County, Georgia, the game is on.
00:07:31.200 Maduro captured.
00:07:32.200 Is this true?
00:07:33.200 Let's deep dive, my friends.
00:07:35.200 Here we go from the examiner.
00:07:37.200 President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the investigation into Fulton County's alleged
00:07:42.200 voter fraud will determine a true winner of the 2020 election in Georgia.
00:07:45.200 There should be nothing wrong with the fact that they went in, got Baltimore a while ago,
00:07:50.200 and they're going to go look at them.
00:07:51.200 And now they're going to find out the true winner of the state.
00:07:54.200 Trump said in an interview with Tom Lamas.
00:07:57.200 Is that how you pronounce his name?
00:07:58.200 Yamas? 0.98
00:07:59.200 The FBI executed a search warrant of the Fulton County election facility,
00:08:02.200 seizing belts and election records tied to the election that named former president
00:08:06.200 Joe Biden the winner.
00:08:07.200 Fulton County has since sued the Trump administration for repossession of the files taken.
00:08:12.200 Trump said he personally is not doing anything in Fulton County,
00:08:16.200 but said the FBI went in because of the cheating that took place in 2020.
00:08:20.200 Now, what I can tell you here is the facts.
00:08:22.200 The fact is there are around 300,000 belts in question,
00:08:25.200 because my understanding is they were not properly signature verified.
00:08:29.200 Now the right argues that these should be void, which would make Trump the winner.
00:08:34.200 And the left argues their ballots and votes are votes and every vote should be counted.
00:08:38.200 Well, I suppose the issue then is,
00:08:40.200 do you take the administrative approach or the straightforward human approach?
00:08:45.200 The administrative approach, of course, is,
00:08:47.200 Hey, look, if you broke procedure, sorry, Trump won.
00:08:49.200 The human approach is guys.
00:08:50.200 We understand that these votes were for Joe Biden.
00:08:54.200 So I'm sorry, Trump, you lose, but I got to be honest.
00:08:57.200 The point of security and signature verification is to make sure the votes are all legitimate.
00:09:01.200 And if they can't be proven legitimate, then I don't think they count.
00:09:04.200 They go on to say DNI Tulsi Gabbard was notably in attendance at the raid.
00:09:09.200 Her position typically has no domestic law enforcement authority and overseas intelligence agencies
00:09:13.200 that are not permitted to operate on us soil.
00:09:15.200 Lamas asked why Gabbard was present during the raid.
00:09:18.200 I don't know.
00:09:19.200 Trump said a lot of the cheating comes from it's it's international cheating.
00:09:23.200 What I love about this is that when news broke that Tulsi Gabbard was actually there,
00:09:27.200 the Democrats were like, she's got no reason to be there. 0.98
00:09:29.200 This is a scam.
00:09:30.200 And I'm like, uh, could it be that there's international implications in this?
00:09:35.200 Y'all went Robert Mueller crazy on Trump with Russia.
00:09:38.200 Why would I care if Tulsi Gabbard's there?
00:09:41.200 Why does officials have shared sentiments similar to the president's and said Gabbard has been examining records in the 2020 election?
00:09:47.200 They said she has been looking into claims of foreign interference and weak spots in election infrastructure.
00:09:52.200 In discussing the midterm elections, Lamas asked Trump if he would trust the results if Republicans lose control.
00:09:57.200 And he says, I will if the elections are honest.
00:09:59.200 We just had a great election.
00:10:01.200 Lamas also asked Trump's about Trump's previous mention, a plan to nationalize elections.
00:10:06.200 I didn't say nationalize.
00:10:07.200 I said there are some areas in the country that are extremely corrupt.
00:10:10.200 Indeed, my friends.
00:10:12.200 Well, now Donald Trump has expressed intention or at least desire to take some federal control of elections.
00:10:19.200 He deems corrupt.
00:10:20.200 I think there's a strong probability.
00:10:22.200 Donald Trump makes a move to in some way either accuse the elections in certain areas of being corrupt, maybe Maduro or Venezuela,
00:10:30.200 and then try to assert some kind of federal oversight, which ultimately results in Republicans winning the midterms.
00:10:36.200 It doesn't matter if Trump is correct and the evidence is real.
00:10:39.200 What matters is that neither side will believe the other.
00:10:42.200 If Trump genuinely and legitimately comes out with true evidence proving Venezuela did something wrong,
00:10:48.200 the left will say he fabricated it.
00:10:50.200 That's it.
00:10:51.200 To be honest, if Trump comes out and says, I don't got anything, then the right's going to be pissed off.
00:10:54.200 And they're going to say, well, now we lose, I guess.
00:10:57.200 In the case of Fulton County, PBS News is reporting that they've asked for the return of the document seized by the FBI,
00:11:06.200 which is strange to be completely honest.
00:11:09.200 Guys, listen, obviously I'm going to be biased, but you can call me biased.
00:11:14.200 But let me just say this, and I ask you guys to comment and tell me, seriously, comment below.
00:11:19.200 Let me know what you think.
00:11:21.200 I genuinely find it strange the resistance they're engaging in over this.
00:11:28.200 They should just say, have fun, I guess.
00:11:30.200 Trump lost Crimea river.
00:11:33.200 Why would they be so resistant?
00:11:37.200 Now the argument for the liberals, of course, is going to be that because Trump's going to use this to fabricate evidence.
00:11:42.200 Okay, then say that literally say that in these articles, public officials, I want to see the Democrats come out and say,
00:11:48.200 we don't want the DOJ or the FBI to get access to these documents because they will use them and then fabricate evidence to steal the election.
00:11:56.200 Say it. Otherwise your resistance makes no sense.
00:12:01.200 Well, here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, from democracy docket, you know, it's our liberal friends.
00:12:06.200 They say election deniers think Maduro's capture will expose the plot to steal the 2020 vote.
00:12:11.200 Indeed they do.
00:12:12.200 I'm going to come back to this because I want to show you what they're saying over on the old TV about Tulsi Gabbard.
00:12:17.200 This is from blue Georgia.
00:12:19.200 This is the Democrat liberal view.
00:12:22.200 Is she through this alleging that there was a that there was foreign interference in Georgia in 2020 and that's why Donald Trump lost?
00:12:35.200 Could they have gotten a warrant regarding foreign interference into Georgia's election from 2020?
00:12:43.200 Well, remember, the director of national security has no domestic law enforcement responsibilities.
00:12:52.200 The whole notion of the national security laws that were put in place after the Watergate break in was to keep foreign and our spy agencies looking foreign, not at our country.
00:13:03.200 If she alleges now after the fact and there's been some wacky theories on the Internet of Italian spy satellites breaking into voting rules that have been totally debunked.
00:13:15.200 But if she says there's some claim of foreign interference, if she has not reported that to the oversight committees, the intelligence committees, she has violated her responsibilities as director of national intelligence.
00:13:28.200 I think this is a scam.
00:13:30.200 I think this is a person who's trying desperately to get back in the good graces of Donald Trump with his obsession.
00:13:36.200 She's not been involved in anything around Venezuela, Iran, NATO, Greenland.
00:13:43.200 It's a scam, he says.
00:13:46.200 One big scam.
00:13:47.200 Aaron Banco reporting, DNI Gabbard led an effort last spring to investigate Puerto Rico's voting machines.
00:13:53.200 A task force which included the FBI was probing possible Venezuelan interference.
00:13:57.200 Her team took a number of voting machines to analyze.
00:14:00.200 This reported by Reuters.
00:14:02.200 I don't know that Reuters will actually let us read this.
00:14:04.200 I guess they're going to.
00:14:05.200 All right, let's break this down.
00:14:07.200 In response to this article, liberals are claiming Trump is going to falsely have Maduro confess in exchange for a pardon.
00:14:15.200 So that way he can assert control over the elections before the midterms.
00:14:19.200 Reuters reported US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico.
00:14:24.200 A team working for President Donald Trump spy chief Tulsi Gabbard last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines.
00:14:30.200 Said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
00:14:34.200 The sources said the goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico.
00:14:41.200 But added the probe did not produce any clear evidence of Venezuelan interference in the US territories elections.
00:14:47.200 Reuters first reported the investigation.
00:14:50.200 Gabbard's office and a statement to Reuters confirmed the May investigation but denied a link to Venezuela.
00:14:55.200 Saying its focus was on vulnerabilities in the island's electronic voting system.
00:14:59.200 Her team took an unspecified number of Puerto Rico's voting machines and additional copies of data from the machines as part of its investigation.
00:15:06.200 A spokesperson for Gabbard's office of the director of national intelligence said.
00:15:10.200 To go back to that statement from our Democrat friend on Katie Tur's show.
00:15:13.200 He says if she knows of a Venezuelan plot or foreign interference, she needs to tell us.
00:15:18.200 Well, maybe she doesn't.
00:15:20.200 And maybe she's just investigating.
00:15:23.200 And that's all.
00:15:24.200 Right?
00:15:25.200 Her office says they're taking voting machines and data with standard practice in forensics analysis.
00:15:29.200 Noting similar voting infrastructure elsewhere in the US, it added.
00:15:32.200 ODNI found extremely concerning cybersecurity and operational deployment practices that pose a significant risk to US elections.
00:15:38.200 Jorge Rivera Rueda, head of Puerto Rico State Election Commission, said he could not comment on any ongoing investigations.
00:15:44.200 Adding, the commission will fully cooperate with any investigative process conducted by the appropriate authorities, whether at the state or federal level.
00:15:51.200 Venezuela's government did not respond to a request for comment.
00:15:54.200 ODNI said some security gaps in voting machines used in Puerto Rico stemmed from their use of vulnerable cellular technology.
00:16:00.200 And that software flaws existed that could give hackers access deep into vital electoral systems.
00:16:06.200 The Puerto Rico operation appeared to be part of an effort by the Trump administration to pursue unproven allegations of voting fraud, the sources said.
00:16:13.200 The preoccupation with voter fraud dates to Trump's reelection loss in 2020 and has not abated, said the sources, who spoke in the condition of anonymity to discuss non-public operations.
00:16:23.200 Democratic leaders in Congress voiced alarm over Reuters' report on the Puerto Rico operation.
00:16:27.200 Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said the Trump administration was violating state and federal laws in the US Constitution by seeking the election records.
00:16:34.200 They're trying to intimidate local elected officials, Schumer told MSNOW television on Thursday.
00:16:40.200 What's most alarming here is that the director is that director Gabbard's own team acknowledges there was no evidence of foreign interference, yet they seized voting machines and election data anyway.
00:16:49.200 Now, I love this.
00:16:51.200 There was a video that came out just the other day.
00:16:54.200 It's the prosecutor.
00:16:55.200 I'm sorry.
00:16:56.200 It's the defense attorney questioning an investigator in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:17:00.200 And she says to the man that you solicited evidence from the public without vetting it.
00:17:04.200 And he responds with, yes, because I can't vet it until I receive it.
00:17:09.200 And she's like, right.
00:17:10.200 It's one of those things where it's just like, are you are you trying to make an argument that doesn't make sense because people will believe it?
00:17:16.200 The answer is yes.
00:17:17.200 Tulsi Gabbard, how could she find evidence of foreign interference if she doesn't take the machines to investigate them? 0.97
00:17:24.200 This is the most ridiculous. 0.71
00:17:26.200 Reuters, this is why people don't like journalists, OK? 0.94
00:17:29.200 Because Reuters could easily just point out that the statement made by Democrats makes literally no sense.
00:17:34.200 Tulsi, in her immediate investigation in Puerto Rico, found nothing, took the machines to go check.
00:17:39.200 How do you know if there's foreign interference if you don't take the machines?
00:17:42.200 Hey, there may be evidence in this locker.
00:17:45.200 I'm not going to open it.
00:17:47.200 Huh?
00:17:48.200 Could you imagine if the FBI, it's like they found a box covered in blood at a crime scene, but they took it even though they couldn't verify there was any evidence in it.
00:17:56.200 It's like, well, right.
00:17:57.200 Well, they have to open it.
00:17:58.200 They have to take it and go examine it. 1.00
00:18:01.200 How stupid. 1.00
00:18:02.200 Listen, I don't know exactly what's going on or what Trump's plan is, and I don't even believe his election fraud claims. 1.00
00:18:08.200 My genuine belief, certainly there was some impropriety, but I believe that is a red herring.
00:18:13.200 I believe that what happened in 2020 is that everybody's locked down.
00:18:16.200 Trump is the president.
00:18:17.200 They blame him and Democrats launched a ballot harvesting operation.
00:18:21.200 Now, that being said, I'm open to being proven wrong.
00:18:23.200 And it's entirely possible that I am.
00:18:25.200 But I believe that is the preponderance of evidence that Trump lost to Biden and people say, how could Biden have gotten so many votes because people were locked down and they blamed Trump.
00:18:37.200 Look at the riots.
00:18:38.200 They blamed Trump.
00:18:39.200 Well, my friends, our liberal friends over the Daily Beast are calling it amateur hour.
00:18:44.200 Tulsi Gabbard's amateur hour voting machine probe exposed.
00:18:48.200 Critics say the office of the director of national intelligence is exceeding its authority and expertise.
00:18:52.200 President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence has seized voting machines in Puerto Rico as part of the administration's ongoing effort to find proof of voter fraud.
00:19:00.200 Tulsi Gabbard has apparently made it her mission to advance Trump's personal grievances, including his repeatedly debunked claims the election in 2020 was stolen.
00:19:08.200 Gabbard 44 was on site last week at Kash Patel's FBI rated as Kash Patel's FBI rated an election center outside Atlanta, Georgia, for materials related to Trump's electoral loss.
00:19:18.200 Now her office, ODNI, has confirmed that it also took the extraordinary step of seizing an unspecified number of voting machines in Puerto Rico.
00:19:25.200 You get the point.
00:19:26.200 We read it already.
00:19:27.200 But you got to bring up our friends of the Daily Beast who are going to manipulate and falsely frame it.
00:19:31.200 But oh boy, my friends, here's where the conspiracy gets real juicy.
00:19:36.200 Maduro pardon.
00:19:38.200 The truth behind the viral claim about Donald Trump and the 2020 rigged election.
00:19:42.200 Well, it wouldn't be a wackaloon liberal claim without our good friend Ed Krasenstein, who says breaking.
00:19:47.200 It appears as though Trump may be offering a pardon to Nicolas Maduro in exchange for him making claims that Venezuela helped rig the 2020 US election for Joe Biden.
00:19:56.200 This would do two things for Trump.
00:19:58.200 One, Trump will do anything to try and convince people he really won the 2020 election in which he got clobbered.
00:20:04.200 Two, it could give him cover to call in the military to seize voting machines and or scare people into not voting for the midterms.
00:20:11.200 Well, Ed, you missed a huge opportunity here.
00:20:14.200 It'll do something else as well.
00:20:16.200 It will give Donald Trump general federal pretext for oversight, meaning he can send in federal observers to these voting locations to monitor them.
00:20:27.200 And the argument is going to be that ODNI has evidence of foreign interference and they can push back and they can argue all they want.
00:20:34.200 Trump will likely do it anyway, if that is the case.
00:20:37.200 Now, based on Trump's track record, I'm going to go and say Trump is substantially weaker than these people claim, much too weak to actually do what they're arguing he will do.
00:20:47.900 But they're going to do it anyway.
00:20:50.900 So let me see if we can pull this.
00:20:52.900 Here we go.
00:20:53.900 In response to the story about Tulsi Gabbard leading this Puerto Rico investigation,
00:20:58.900 Pedro Gonzalez says this is a test run for the Trump admin wants to do to the rest of America ahead of the midterms.
00:21:03.900 And Gabbard is just the person to take point because she's so deeply compromised with this whistleblower complaint against her, which is discredited. 0.86
00:21:12.900 I mean, it's ridiculous.
00:21:14.900 Trump's laying the groundwork for trying to steal the next elections in the is the most important story right now.
00:21:19.900 Naturally, conservatives aren't interested at all and are instead gooning over Hollywood casting choices that have hurt their fragile feelings.
00:21:26.900 Now, what I want to stress here is that it is a lie. 0.99
00:21:29.900 The first thing you need to break down in Pedro, you are a manipulative evil man.
00:21:36.900 I believe we've hosted on the show before, but I see this and his statement and what I see is manipulation and I would describe it as evil.
00:21:45.900 Firstly, let's break down his manipulations.
00:21:48.900 He says there's a whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard.
00:21:52.900 OK, the Federalist says a so-called whistleblower filed a complaint against her alleging wrongdoing so sensitive that his details supposedly could not be disclosed.
00:22:00.900 The complaint was reviewed and closed because it lacked credibility.
00:22:03.900 The determination was made by Tamara Johnson, a career official who served as the acting inspecting general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration.
00:22:10.900 That should have been the end of the story.
00:22:12.900 Instead, the secrecy surrounding the complaint has been repackaged as proof that something terrible must have occurred.
00:22:17.900 The absence of evidence is now being marketed as evidence itself.
00:22:20.900 And thus, when you have Pedro Gonzalez using that manipulation that has no credibility or bare minimum, there's nothing to glean from it.
00:22:29.900 I have nothing to say. OK, a complaint was made. It was found not credible.
00:22:33.900 We don't know what's going on. There's nothing there. Why even bring it up except to poison the well?
00:22:37.900 Now he makes the additional point about how Hollywood, I'm sorry, conservatives are gooning over Hollywood casting choices.
00:22:45.900 I actually have a post I made the other day that actually resulted in I think either like me getting blocked by the guy.
00:22:52.900 I think the guy deleted the tweet. Yeah, he deleted the tweet.
00:22:55.900 Let me pull this up for you and show you the manipulations these people engage in.
00:22:58.900 So there was a post that made the same claim because as you can see here, Michael Knowles had discussed Helen of Troy being black in a new casting and he got 60,000 views.
00:23:09.900 They said currently the Epstein files are being released and conservatives are talking about Hollywood because they're trying to cover up for Trump.
00:23:16.900 So I did what any normal sane person would do. I pulled up all Michael knows his YouTube channel. What did I find?
00:23:23.900 In fact, on the exact same day, he did a 50 minute breakdown of the Epstein files to which he got 320,000 views.
00:23:31.900 In fact, the most successful podcast he did that day was discussing Epstein.
00:23:35.900 And then after the fact he did another video, what they do here is they manipulate.
00:23:42.900 They want you to believe that he never actually made the point. 0.85
00:23:46.900 Well, this tweet got deleted because they are liars.
00:23:49.900 It's what they do by all means challenge Trump on what is going on with this Tulsi Gabbard stuff.
00:23:56.900 Apparently she's claimed Trump center out there to investigate.
00:24:00.900 Perhaps that's the case. I don't know.
00:24:02.900 I don't know, but I am looking at all this and I'm trying to weigh this against the political biases.
00:24:06.900 The people who support Trump are largely going to believe that yes, Venezuela did this.
00:24:10.900 They still do. They never stopped.
00:24:12.900 So Trump investigated and say, finally, the truth is coming.
00:24:15.900 I honestly don't know. I lean towards, I don't think so, but it's possible.
00:24:19.900 Now, why then would you need Pedro to craft a tweet where you bring up a whistleblower complaint that has done that has no merit?
00:24:27.900 Maybe, maybe not. We don't know.
00:24:29.900 It's nothing to actually bring up. And then why would you bring up that they're concerned over casting choices?
00:24:34.900 When, of course, that is just one small story in the bigger picture, because the goal here is to manipulate people into.
00:24:41.900 Well, we'll put it like this. It's called poisoning the well.
00:24:44.900 So that an individual who is already anti-Trump or maybe uninitiated will see this.
00:24:49.900 And he is giving them reasons to say that Tulsi Gabbard is corrupt, which we don't know is true.
00:24:53.900 And that conservatives don't care about what's going on, which is also not true.
00:24:56.900 Because I tell you this, conservatives, they're going to grift off whatever they can, the same as anybody else.
00:25:00.900 And if they have an opportunity to make a video where they're like, Trump is investigating Venezuela, they're going to do it.
00:25:05.900 There's going to be more beneficial, more favorable to Trump.
00:25:07.900 This is a manipulation intended to trick people who don't know what's going on.
00:25:12.900 The whistleblower complaint against her, which never went anywhere.
00:25:15.900 And no one even knows if it's true.
00:25:17.900 Mind I remind you of the old classic from Huffington Post dating back to 2018.
00:25:24.900 This is an actual tweet from the Huffington Post I'm going to read to you.
00:25:30.900 A tape might exist of Trump doing something in an elevator.
00:25:34.900 Though exactly where that somewhere is and what that something might be, no one in media can say.
00:25:39.900 That's because no one in media seems to have seen the tape or is even confident it exists.
00:25:45.900 Uh huh.
00:25:47.900 Okay.
00:25:48.900 What?
00:25:52.900 Indeed.
00:25:53.900 Indeed.
00:25:54.900 You see, back in the day, this is going, I can't believe how long it's been.
00:25:57.900 You know, 2018 is eight years ago.
00:26:00.900 They ran this psychotic post and story about a smear of nothing.
00:26:06.900 And that's actually the exact same thing they're doing to Tulsi Gabbard right now.
00:26:10.900 There's no actual complaint against her, none that we actually know of.
00:26:13.900 And it was deemed not credible.
00:26:15.900 And they're still acting like it exists.
00:26:17.900 The media was going crazy over the elevator story.
00:26:21.900 There's a tape of Trump somewhere.
00:26:23.900 We got to find it.
00:26:24.900 And they were looking for nothing.
00:26:26.900 That's the weirdest thing imaginable.
00:26:28.900 It's culty, is it not?
00:26:29.900 Patrick continues.
00:26:30.900 I would have written it off as silly that Trump admin might consider getting Maduro to confess
00:26:34.900 to having stolen 2020 election, validating the most bat-ish Sidney Powell conspiracy theories 0.72
00:26:39.900 of election fraud to help Trump justify undermining our elections ahead of the midterms in exchange
00:26:43.900 for leniency.
00:26:44.900 But it is within the realm of possibility now.
00:26:47.900 This is actually how deranged this administration is.
00:26:50.900 And there is no reason to believe that right-wing media would do anything but parrot such claims.
00:26:53.900 Again, Bannon, a convicted felon, has said that losing would mean likely going back to jail.
00:26:59.900 And there's just no way people like him would not be willing to throw everything at frustrating
00:27:03.900 the process of holding them accountable through elections.
00:27:07.900 Well, here's what I can say to this perspective.
00:27:10.900 There is a...
00:27:13.900 There have been historical precedent.
00:27:15.900 There has been the arrest of lawyers, Donald Trump's lawyers,
00:27:18.900 the arrest of the front-runner for the presidency, attempted assassinations all at the same time.
00:27:22.900 Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts for the first time in history
00:27:25.900 that did not have a unanimous underlying crime in New York State.
00:27:29.900 That has never happened before.
00:27:31.900 Typically, what happens is when an individual is convicted under the falsification of business records,
00:27:36.900 the jury unanimously agrees the person was trying to conceal a crime.
00:27:40.900 In this instance, they may agree he was trying to conceal a crime,
00:27:43.900 but they don't know what actually crime that was,
00:27:45.900 which would mean that these charges would actually be a misdemeanor.
00:27:49.900 These things are unprecedented.
00:27:51.900 Unprecedented.
00:27:53.900 And if you want to look at those instances and what you're seeing now,
00:27:56.900 I tell you this.
00:27:57.900 There's no off-ramp.
00:27:58.900 You're at war.
00:27:59.900 Right now, we're in what appears to be some kind of bleeding Kansas period.
00:28:02.900 It doesn't always mean that civil war will break out.
00:28:04.900 But if you think that Trump or the Democrats are not willing to do whatever it takes,
00:28:11.900 then I got a bridge to sell you.
00:28:13.900 I agree with Pedro in this regard.
00:28:15.900 Bannon, he went to prison before, and I think he's likely correct. 1.00
00:28:19.900 He says he'll go to prison again.
00:28:21.900 Do you think Steve's going to sit back and just let Democrats win,
00:28:24.900 or will he do everything in his power to try and stop them?
00:28:27.900 Right now, Kalshi has the numbers.
00:28:29.900 The prediction market says the Democratic Party is at a 78% chance to defeat the Republican Party in the midterms.
00:28:37.900 That will be the apocalypse for Trump, his administration, and his efforts.
00:28:41.900 The end result will likely be that immigration efforts will be curtailed.
00:28:45.900 They'll make attempts at pulling funding from ICE, even though they were already funded until September.
00:28:50.900 Once this goes, they're going to pull it.
00:28:52.900 Actually, it might be beyond September.
00:28:53.900 I'm not entirely sure.
00:28:54.900 They're going to impeach.
00:28:56.900 They won't get a conviction, but they will frustrate.
00:29:00.900 That's the phrase, right?
00:29:02.900 Trump's efforts moving forward.
00:29:04.900 Not to mention, they'll form committees.
00:29:07.900 They will subpoena people, and they will seek to put individuals in prison.
00:29:13.900 They'll get bad.
00:29:16.900 Do you think that Trump and his administration are going to accept this?
00:29:20.900 The Trump admin knows full well, and the people who have aligned with him know exactly what's coming for them if they lose power.
00:29:27.900 They sought in the first term.
00:29:29.900 So they have to do whatever it takes to win.
00:29:32.900 So what this could mean?
00:29:34.900 Well, my friends, truth.
00:29:36.900 History is written by the victors.
00:29:38.900 Abraham Lincoln is heralded as a hero despite the fact he did things that were wholly unconstitutional and tyrannical.
00:29:45.900 That's a fact.
00:29:46.900 And I still think he was a good dude.
00:29:47.900 I think he was a bad dude in a lot of ways, but I think he did the right thing, unfortunately.
00:29:51.900 And that is, Abraham Lincoln decided to wield power to the best of his abilities to preserve this nation.
00:29:57.900 And that's the challenge.
00:29:58.900 The challenge is, did Venezuela actually interfere in our elections in 2020?
00:30:05.900 I have no idea.
00:30:07.900 If the DOJ, DHS, the ODNI come out and say, yes, what am I supposed to say to that? 0.98
00:30:15.900 No, you're liars.
00:30:17.900 Sure, it's true.
00:30:18.900 I can say it's a claim asserted.
00:30:20.900 Show me the evidence.
00:30:21.900 But evidence is not proof.
00:30:25.900 Evidence indicates proof puts me on a reasonable doubt.
00:30:28.900 If they come out with proof on a reasonable doubt, what can you say?
00:30:32.900 If Maduro literally confesses, how can you call him a liar?
00:30:35.900 Because you don't trust Donald Trump?
00:30:37.900 Okay.
00:30:38.900 In which case, welcome to the warfare, baby.
00:30:40.900 If Maduro were to come out right now and say, yeah, I did it.
00:30:44.900 The liberals are going to say he's lying and Trump made him do it.
00:30:47.900 In which case, what's the point of even having the evidence?
00:30:50.900 Conservatives are going to say, aha, that proves it.
00:30:53.900 What's the point?
00:30:54.900 No one is going to agree with the other side.
00:30:57.900 In which case, I think it's fairly obvious what this becomes.
00:31:03.900 Civil war?
00:31:05.900 It really just depends on individuals' willingness to wield power.
00:31:08.900 And Democrats likely will.
00:31:11.900 Republicans have not shown a strong, let's just say, likelihood.
00:31:17.900 Or, um, yeah, they've done pretty bad.
00:31:21.900 But Trump is something else.
00:31:23.900 Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Cash Patel.
00:31:28.900 Cash was already the victim of one of these hoaxes.
00:31:30.900 Do you think these people want to sit back and just let Democrats come in
00:31:33.900 and put them in prison and destroy their lives?
00:31:35.900 The answer is no.
00:31:36.900 However, the other question is, do you think they can stop them?
00:31:40.900 Honestly, I have no idea.
00:31:41.900 But my friends, welcome to the political fray.
00:31:44.900 It's not always street battles.
00:31:46.900 Sometimes it's politics.
00:31:47.900 I'm going to wrap it up there.
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