The Culture War - Tim Pool - September 29, 2026


Jack Smith Testifies, Says Trump BROKE THE LAW, This man Is EVIL

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00:00:28 Jack Smith testifying before Congress, eviscerates Trump in his opening statement, saying that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.
00:00:40 I'm going to play this video for you, but I'm going to get personal with it because I'm inspired.
00:00:45 You see, I'm just a guy on the Internet.
00:00:48 I worked for ABC News.
00:00:51 I worked for Vice.
00:00:51 I was the founding member of Vice News.
00:00:53 And what I have personally witnessed in this administration from Trump's first term into Biden's and now Trump's second term, I have never seen before in my life in this country, the willful disregard for norms and decorum, the willful disregard for the Constitution and the intentional lawfare against anyone who spoke out against people like this, like Jack Smith, who is a deeply evil man.
00:01:23 And I don't say that lightly. I reserve evil for truly those that are the most evil because we can
00:01:29 talk about the banality of evil. But Jack Smith is a deeply evil man in his straight faced lie
00:01:37 to Congress. I'm sorry, I'm going to be very biased on this one because I'm going to tell
00:01:40 you about how I feel, my personal biases and and the like. This man says that Donald Trump
00:01:47 committed crimes, that he sought to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Trump's team did
00:01:53 everything through legal filings. They did everything through filing lawsuits. If there
00:01:59 is a means for a redress of grievances, that is the way you do it. And then, of course, the lie
00:02:06 that Trump incited an insurrection. It's a lie. I mean, look, let's be real. We can interpret what
00:02:13 it means to incite. And a liberal who says, well, you know, Trump's rhetoric on a stolen election
00:02:17 led to people. Sure, sure, sure. If we are talking about the argument that Donald Trump told people,
00:02:24 I want you to go do this thing, that is a lie. For on January 6th, Trump said we're going to
00:02:29 march peacefully. Trump said, go home, respect law enforcement. What did people like Jack Smith do?
00:02:36 What did the Biden administration do? They hunted people down. They raided the wrong homes. They
00:02:44 pulled people out of their beds at gunpoint in front of their children. This man is evil. 1.00
00:02:51 I want to play a statement for you in full. Before we do, my friends, 0.94
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00:03:27 in in the modern influencer era no but i want to i want to tell you how i feel i'm just a guy on
00:03:33 the internet. Okay, I worked for Vice, lobbied them to make Vice News, and was the founding
00:03:40 member. According to the CEO, I had convinced them we can do boots on the ground reporting,
00:03:44 and we did. And it was the fastest growing news organization in history in terms of subscribers,
00:03:49 paying members, all that good stuff. I don't know exactly if they did paying members the way we
00:03:53 would interpret that today. But in terms of like direct sales, I guess, it was nuts. Massive,
00:03:59 like a million in a few months. Tremendous. I went to work for ABC News. And for the life of me,
00:04:04 I can't understand why these people, they're just evil. And maybe it's that evil exists and
00:04:10 balance the universe. But even when I worked at Fusion, I didn't do politics. And these people
00:04:15 insulted me, attacked me, and did everything they could to try and drag me down. And then comes
00:04:21 I start making YouTube videos. And what happens? Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, runs a video claiming
00:04:28 that I, Tim Poole, personally, was inciting people into insurrection on January 6th.
00:04:33 Complete fabrication. The weirdest thing imaginable.
00:04:38 Some university, some liberals, some progressive universities,
00:04:42 are progressive at a university, made a fake report claiming that I was one of the people
00:04:47 at the center of a massive network of white nationalists. And I'm sitting here being like,
00:04:52 I'm voting Democrat. I've ragged on Trump the whole time. Why do these people hate me so much?
00:05:00 And then we got, of course, Merrick Garland coming out and lying and claiming that I,
00:05:05 Betty Johnson and Dave Rubin, had received money to push Russian propaganda. And I can only just
00:05:10 ask myself, why do these people hate me so much? I've never talked to them. I've never done
00:05:18 anything. I've made YouTube videos. I've made podcasts. And I stare in the face at what they
00:05:25 say. And I know this one's about me. I'm making it about me. I don't care. I don't care. This is
00:05:29 an evil man, this Jack Smith. The epitome, these people are just vile. They are like demons that 1.00
00:05:37 seek to destroy. And they don't care. Now they accuse Donald Trump. And Donald Trump's not 0.97
00:05:44 perfect. And Donald Trump has done bad things. But how are we at this point where in Congress
00:05:52 you get a statement like this? I am I'm going to get I'm going to keep the anger up because I know
00:05:57 it's not over. I know it's not over and I know it comes to the territory. But I'm going to say this
00:06:01 again. Who am I? I gave my opinions on news and on YouTube. They could have just banned me. Why
00:06:08 not? Why not just go to YouTube and say, suppress Tim Pool's videos and delete them? Why threaten
00:06:15 me? Why try to get me killed? Why make up fake stories to attack me? Because they use me and
00:06:23 they use people like you as symbols so that they can rally ignorant people who are disinterested 0.84
00:06:28 or cult-like into doing violent things to their ends because they want power. They are demons. 1.00
00:06:34 The demons whisper in their ears.
00:06:37 There are simple ways to deal with things.
00:06:38 You don't like Tim Pool.
00:06:40 Again, I'm funded by no one.
00:06:42 I did all this largely on my own.
00:06:44 With the help of my team, we've built this up.
00:06:46 And they could have just gone to YouTube and said, no, Tim Pool is too influential.
00:06:50 You need to get rid of him.
00:06:52 And then I'd be gone.
00:06:53 And I'd have no views.
00:06:55 And I'd not be in the political space.
00:06:58 So what did I do?
00:07:00 I just make videos.
00:07:01 My point is this.
00:07:03 when they say they're going after Trump and when Trump's committed these crimes,
00:07:07 I can only relate to the man because me personally, I've done nothing. We tried making
00:07:13 music videos. They block us every step. We try skateboarding. They they bring sledgehammers to
00:07:19 my skate park. These people are are demons. They walk among us. You can't just go out and live your 0.99
00:07:26 life. People do not understand the depth of depravity that currently exists with these
00:07:33 people. I'm going to stop ranting. I'm going to play this. You can hear from Jack Smith,
00:07:37 and we'll talk about it. All right, let's go to Capitol Hill right now. Former special counsel
00:07:41 Jack Smith delivering his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:07:44 ...administration of justice. A prosecutor's decisions must be based on the facts and the law.
00:07:51 The status, power, prominence, or political affiliation of the subject of an investigation
00:07:58 must play no role in the decision to investigate, prosecute, or decline to prosecute.
00:08:06 I approached my role as special counsel following these principles. The special counsel's office
00:08:12 followed Justice Department policy, observed legal requirements, and took actions based on
00:08:19 the facts and the law. I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring
00:08:26 charges against president trump i made those decisions without regard to president trump's
00:08:33 political association activities beliefs or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election
00:08:42 our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that president trump engaged
00:08:48 in serious crimes against our nation if asked whether to prosecute a former president
00:08:54 today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican
00:09:02 or a Democrat. The charges against President Trump were the result of the evidence. Grand
00:09:10 juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in
00:09:17 the indictments they returned. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election,
00:09:23 President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful
00:09:30 transfer of power. After leaving office in January of 2021, President Trump illegally
00:09:37 kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club and repeatedly tried to obstruct
00:09:43 justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. All of that is not true.
00:09:49 I and it's just it's difficult because if you guys watch Tim Kastaira, we've gone through all of the facts as as this was all going on.
00:09:58 This man sits down and just condenses the entire argument and makes it very difficult for us, for for new viewers who come in.
00:10:06 Let me give you the quick breakdown.
00:10:08 Donald Trump had daily briefings.
00:10:10 They were in various boxes among those daily briefings.
00:10:13 Some of the information is classified.
00:10:15 Trump, as the president, doesn't go through every single box.
00:10:18 Let's pause and take a look at New York City.
00:10:21 They accused Trump of civil fraud because in a filing listing his assets to Deutsche
00:10:26 Bank, it said that the Trump penthouse, which is around 10,000 square feet, was 30,000 square
00:10:31 feet.
00:10:31 That's the principal argument.
00:10:33 Now, Donald Trump, as the CEO, isn't doing these filings.
00:10:36 I'm the CEO of Timcast.
00:10:38 Accounting is done by the accounting department and by our contractors.
00:10:42 So Donald Trump isn't directly overseeing his filings.
00:10:45 He's just the boss of the company.
00:10:47 When they presented these asset lists to Deutsche Bank, they included a disclaimer.
00:10:53 Do your due diligence and review all of this to make sure it's correct because we may have
00:10:56 made mistakes.
00:10:57 It happens.
00:10:58 Deutsche Bank said, you're good.
00:10:59 They gave Trump the loan.
00:11:01 Everyone was happy.
00:11:01 Everyone made money.
00:11:02 There was no fraud.
00:11:03 They civilly sued Trump anyway, claiming it was fraud.
00:11:08 So Donald Trump has boxes of various daily briefings.
00:11:11 As he's leaving the White House after his first term, staffers take these boxes and
00:11:16 bring them to Mar-a-Lago. It was widely reported that when they first came to Mar-a-Lago, they were
00:11:23 granted access to whatever they wanted. And Trump's attitude was like, I don't know.
00:11:27 What did they find? Scattered throughout various boxes were daily briefings that had classified
00:11:33 information. Trump says, well, I'm the president. If I take them and I say they're not classified,
00:11:37 they're not classified anymore because the president decides what is or is not classified
00:11:41 fact. They said, nope, nope, you're under arrest. We're going to charge you for it.
00:11:47 The FBI came in, raided his house, collected various pieces of paper from various boxes,
00:11:52 lined them up, put them on the floor, and then added fake cover sheets they made
00:11:56 and took a picture to make it look like there were stacks of documents. Insane.
00:12:03 Joe Biden as vice president is on the record saying he illegally retained classified information
00:12:10 so he could sell a book.
00:12:12 He wanted to make money.
00:12:13 His ghostwriter was nervous
00:12:15 because he said it and it was recorded. 0.87
00:12:18 But they concluded that Joe Biden's a bumbling old man
00:12:21 and they're not going to criminally charge him.
00:12:24 Donald Trump didn't want to give up in 2020.
00:12:28 Well, I mean, that's too bad for Donald Trump.
00:12:30 He lost.
00:12:31 Democrats played a better game. 0.53
00:12:33 It's not about whether you think
00:12:34 an election is supposed to be one way or not.
00:12:36 It matters that when all was said and done,
00:12:38 Biden had the votes.
00:12:39 You can call the votes illegal. You can call whatever you want. Biden took the chair.
00:12:43 Donald Trump filed lawsuits. Alternate electors, as is the standard procedure,
00:12:50 filed paperwork and it was submitted pending litigation. And Jack Smith and his ilk targeted
00:12:56 these people as if they were criminals. These were people that were like county clerks that
00:13:01 were not deeply involved in politics and were like, well, I don't know, I'm supposed to fill
00:13:04 the forms. They wanted to put him in jail. Jenna Ellis, lawyer, drafted a letter requesting
00:13:12 documents and any information. She got charged with two counts of Rico as a spineless coward. 1.00
00:13:20 She cried on TV and pleaded guilty. She shouldn't have because the other individuals who pleaded 0.79
00:13:25 not guilty and refused to give up ultimately had the charges dropped. And they're just state level
00:13:29 because it was all a lie. And this is where we are today. Deeply evil individuals like Jack
00:13:36 Smith. They want to hold on to power for themselves and for their ilk. Why? Well,
00:13:42 Trump nuked USAID. Fantastic. This was a mechanism by which money was funneled to various NGOs and
00:13:48 to the pockets of people in the suburbs of D.C., the ruling class. You have owners. They own you.
00:13:54 These people didn't have to do real work.
00:13:57 They just need to maintain the status quo and extract from all of you.
00:14:02 Trump shut that down.
00:14:04 Now, I'm not going to sit here and pretend I'm happy with the Trump administration.
00:14:06 We had Ed Martin on the other night.
00:14:08 And I'm sitting here wondering why it is people like Jack Smith aren't in prison for malicious
00:14:13 prosecution.
00:14:15 Arrest them.
00:14:15 Just do it.
00:14:16 You have to keep you have to stand up for this country.
00:14:21 And so I'll get personal and we'll go back to a statement.
00:14:23 I'm good personal. So here I am one day minding my own business, skateboarding, and I hear that
00:14:29 the attorney general went on TV and falsely accused me of receiving money from a foreign
00:14:34 government. It's a lie. The indictments of fabrication. It is. One month after the
00:14:40 election, they drop it. We're now a couple of years on and. Story's gone. Today, liberals push
00:14:49 the lie because it empowers them, because they're evil. Even people like Frank Luntz,
00:14:56 the supposed conservative pollster, they don't care that an indictment is not proof.
00:15:02 They don't care that the indictment literally had no proof at all. They don't care that the people
00:15:06 alleged to have committed some kind of crime in the document don't even exist as far as anyone
00:15:10 can tell. You see, Merrick Garland made a fake story up so that he could falsely malign independent
00:15:17 media create an October surprise to try and help Democrats win an election. And I'm pissed off. Why?
00:15:24 Because I have no advocate. There is no one defending me. Now, by all means, I know a lot
00:15:30 of you are like, Tim, it's bigger than you. Of course, of course. I'm just telling you how I
00:15:33 feel about what I've gone through. What is my story? I'm a guy who sat in a chair and complained
00:15:38 on the Internet, uploaded videos. I don't work for any organizations. I've not taken money from
00:15:42 any PACs. I've not taken money from any foreign governments. I just think things and feel ways.
00:15:47 And these people, what really bothers me the most is that I supported Democrats.
00:15:53 I made multiple contributions, Democrats in 2020.
00:15:56 And instead of saying, you know, hey, Tim Pool is kind of a liberal guy.
00:15:59 Why don't we talk to him?
00:16:00 They said, no, make him burn, make him suffer because they're evil in their world, in the 0.81
00:16:07 world of the communists. 0.53
00:16:09 You as an individual don't matter and they will make you suffer.
00:16:12 And that's what's terrifying, because if we do not protect the rights of the individual,
00:16:17 then everyone is eventually going to suffer and the system will implode.
00:16:21 Which brings me back to Jack Smith.
00:16:24 He did not go after Donald Trump because Trump did anything wrong, because if that were the
00:16:28 case, he'd have gone after Joe Biden.
00:16:29 Joe Biden was not was not president.
00:16:31 He was vice president.
00:16:32 He had no right to take classified documents.
00:16:36 The president actually does.
00:16:37 And he makes up his fake story.
00:16:39 highly sensitive national security information was held in a bathroom and a ballroom where
00:16:48 events and gatherings took place as with my appearance before the u.s house of representatives
00:16:55 committee on the judiciary i am prepared to answer your questions truthfully i stand by
00:17:01 my testimony before the house of representatives and i will not be silenced by continued threats
00:17:08 of prosecution from the president or others. As I appear before you today, it is my belief
00:17:16 that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime. 0.97
00:17:22 From you, you vile, evil man. Individuals are threatened with criminal prosecution because
00:17:27 they are perceived to have opposed the president. Predetermined outcomes increasingly seem to take
00:17:33 precedence over the Justice Department's long-standing core values and traditions.
00:17:39 History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by
00:17:46 attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January of 2025,
00:17:54 we have witnessed precisely such an effort, including the vilification of the agents,
00:17:59 prosecutors, and staff who worked on my team simply because of their unwavering dedication
00:18:05 to the rule of law. I myself have been threatened with jail by the President of the United States.
00:18:14 However, I remain confident that the rule of law will endure because so many continue to uphold it
00:18:21 faithfully each day. Throughout our legal system, public servants have remained faithful to their
00:18:29 oaths, despite extraordinary pressure to do otherwise. Their example demonstrates
00:18:36 that while fear may be contagious, courage is as well. Thank you for the opportunity to testify
00:18:45 today. I look forward to your questions. Evil. This man is evil. He's lying about everything.
00:18:56 They gave special treatment.
00:18:58 The rule of law is broken.
00:18:59 But you know what?
00:18:59 You know what I got to say?
00:19:00 I got to say this.
00:19:02 I'm happy that Donald Trump went after USAID.
00:19:04 I'm happy that Donald Trump is dismantling a lot of their infrastructure.
00:19:08 These slush funds that we saw funding various NGOs. 0.94
00:19:13 I'm glad it's all happening because these people are evil.
00:19:17 But I will tell you this.
00:19:18 At a certain point, I'm not mad at people like Jack Smith.
00:19:24 Let me explain.
00:19:26 Let's say there's a bear in the woods. The bear is a threat. Is the bear evil? No. The bear is
00:19:33 hungry, but the bear is dangerous and will lash out. Now, for these humans, we understand their
00:19:38 moral intent. We can ascribe evil to their behaviors. But in terms of just speaking
00:19:43 flatly, is someone dangerous? Well, yes, Jack Smith is a very dangerous man because he is
00:19:52 malicious. He is willing to engage in malicious prosecutions to protect a political entity in
00:19:59 the United States. He's evil. These people are evil. And I say this from personal experience 0.97
00:20:05 because if you are to attack the innocent based on their thoughts and opinions to empower yourself,
00:20:12 yet you're evil. If you are to raid the homes of people who are not at January 6th because you
00:20:20 just want to send a message. You're evil. And so I say this, speaking flatly, these people are 0.97
00:20:26 dangerous. And speaking from danger, I will say this. When we have bears in the area, we take
00:20:34 certain precautions. But we also have animal control, local police, and people that we pay
00:20:42 to keep us safe. But let's not talk about the flat bears. Bears are fun, but bears aren't
00:20:50 evil, and we have to take responsibility. Let's talk about bank robbers. Let's say a man robs a
00:20:55 bank. In the process, he kills somebody. Evil. But what happens when the police don't show up
00:21:01 and we're confused? We go to our police and say, hey, we voted for a sheriff.
00:21:07 Why didn't you stop this? And they say, well, you know, I brought in a guy to do it, but
00:21:12 my current AG stopped him. So wait, a guy was about to rob a bank. You had cops saying we're
00:21:21 going to go stop him. But the sheriff said, don't do it and let him rob the bank. Okay. That's where
00:21:25 we're currently at. And so now I direct my anger to the Trump administration. Well, I can certainly
00:21:31 respect the good things they're doing. I can accept marginal gains. I am wondering why it is
00:21:37 Donald Trump will not do anything about it. Why? Instead, we are focused on foreign policy.
00:21:42 We're at war with Iran, where Trump says Iran, Iran, Iran all day, every night while not resolving
00:21:46 any of these issues. OK, I'm happy to accept these people backing the F off. And maybe the reality 0.56
00:21:55 is Trump's attitude is we've dismantled USAID and their funding infrastructure. They've got
00:22:01 no power base anymore, so they can go flail in the wind. Maybe. But it's very demoralizing
00:22:07 when Jack Smith goes before Congress, lies through his teeth, and these people still
00:22:12 rally around these ideas. And Democrats presumably are going to win the midterms. And then what?
00:22:17 Trump could have made moves to stop these people. Bill Pulte tried. He's trying. Where's the action?
00:22:23 These people lied on their mortgage applications. Get them on that. Just arrest them. But they won't.
00:22:29 I can tell you this, my friends. I've been involved in a lot related to foreign affairs
00:22:36 and the hacker community. During the Arab Spring stuff, I had friends who were activists working
00:22:42 in some capacity with information exchange. And let's just say, there are very simple things a
00:22:49 president can do when it comes to politics to win. Why Donald Trump could give a press conference
00:22:55 and say, we are currently investigating and we have found serious crimes, sedition against the
00:23:00 United States. He doesn't. He just posts truths, pissing people off. Yeah, I'm going to tell you
00:23:07 this. I don't know exactly what's going on behind the scenes, OK? It's fair. And so maybe I'm wrong
00:23:12 about everything. But I think my anger is justified. I think many of you have anger as well.
00:23:17 Now, Trump pardoned the J6ers. We're happy about that. So we give him credit for that. 1.00
00:23:21 But many people are frustrated because we've not seen any major moves against the deeply corrupt, powerful government and former officials who seem to have gotten away with everything.
00:23:33 And so they've not led us because when you're when your people are demoralized, it is the job of a leader to say this is what we're doing.
00:23:43 Trust me. Instead, we're at war in Iran and it seems to be no movements. 0.65
00:23:49 And then we get stuff like this from Jack Smith.
00:23:51 I have no confidence anyone is going to come and stop these evil people.
00:23:56 I'm not going to pretend like what happened to me was the worst that ever happened.
00:23:59 It's just bad because I get a lot of death threats.
00:24:02 And they've tried to make it so that I can't do my job because they are evil.
00:24:07 This is a country where we're supposed to express our opinions.
00:24:09 And I'm called a milquetoast fence sitter.
00:24:12 When they are coming after milquetoast people like me.
00:24:16 Yeah, we've got serious problems in this country.
00:24:20 They put out fake reports claiming that I was the most prolific spreader of election
00:24:24 misinformation, despite the fact I said Joe Biden won every step of the way and said Trump
00:24:28 was wrong because I'm the dangerous one, I guess.
00:24:32 OK.
00:24:34 They're evil.
00:24:36 If they are allowed to continue to do evil and there is no lawful accountability.
00:24:41 We lose.
00:24:44 So I say this under the Trump administration, whatever your plan is, lead your people.
00:24:49 convince us something good is happening.
00:24:53 But you look at Dan Bongino and the Epstein files,
00:24:55 they flubbed that.
00:24:56 You look at the Iran war,
00:24:57 the messaging is dead there.
00:24:59 So, I don't know how much confidence I have left.
00:25:04 We'll see.
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